I answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Xiaotao, I'm Xinyan."

Hearing that it was her voice, my floating heart instantly calmed down a lot.

I asked suspiciously, "Xinyan, where are you?" ”

"I'm at home, and you haven't replied to a lot of messages on WeChat, so I can only call you."

"Oh, my phone is broken, and this old man can't get on WeChat, so I didn't see it."

I explained to her, a strange ripple in my heart.

"I, I want to find you tomorrow."

She speaks very quietly, and if she doesn't listen carefully, she may be ignored.

"Okay, then come here."

I started to get excited, and I looked at the taxi driver with a fluttering eyebrow.

"Where are you going, young man?"

The driver turned his head and asked me in a flat tone.

"Uh, to 32nd Street, Xinxing Road."

I hurriedly told the driver my address.

The car roared away, and I said into the phone again, "Xinyan, what time are you coming tomorrow?" ”

"Not sure, I'll drive over by myself."

"Okay, I got it."

The taxi stopped at the gate of the yard, I paid and walked into the yard, glanced at the time, it was already more than eleven o'clock at noon, I just wanted to go to the vegetable market to buy some food, but I didn't expect to encounter this thing, now I am hungry with my chest and back.

Brush the pot and wash the dishes, steam the rice in the rice cooker, turn on the gas stove, boil the oil, stir-fry the pork, fry until it is medium-cooked, cut the pre-washed green pepper into sections, throw it into the pot, stir-fry quickly, in the huge small courtyard, the fragrance of the vegetables is overflowing, stimulating my taste nerves.

I swallowed a little, cut the tomatoes into pieces on the cutting board, cracked the eggs into a bowl, sprinkled in some chopped green onions and spices, and stirred with chopsticks.

In about 20 minutes, two delicate home-cooked stir-fry dishes came out of the pot, I brushed the wok, cut a handful of Thai pepper segments, poured oil into the pot, squeezed in the bean paste after frying, stir-fried for a while, poured the Thai pepper segments on the board into the pot, and added half a spoonful of water to prevent the pot from sticking.

After a while, the fragrant chili sauce was also out of the pot, and I washed a pot of greens, radish, coriander, rattan artemisia, cucumbers, etc. by the sink to dip the sauce and eat.

It took about half an hour from the preparation of a meal to the serving, I took out my mobile phone, found Zhang Xueyao's number, and dialed it.

"Hey, Wang Tao."

There was a haggard, hoarse voice in her voice.

"I haven't eaten, it's time for lunch."

With my phone between my shoulders, I walked over to the rice cooker and filled it with a bowl of rice.

"I didn't eat it."

She had a heavy nasal voice, as if she had a cold.

"Come on, I didn't eat it, I just made two dishes."

"Uh, okay."

As soon as I hung up, I began to gobble up, and for the first time, I felt that the food I cooked was not so unpalatable.

About twenty minutes, Zhang Xueyao's car stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and she stepped out of the car, her face was a little pale, she looked sluggish, and her bleak cheeks were tired and tired.

I gave her a bowl of rice, looked at her and said, "What's wrong?" Are you sick, your face is so ugly. ”

She picked up the bowl, picked up her chopsticks, took a tomato and put it in her mouth, and chewed tastelessly.

"I added several shifts in a row, just in time for the eldest aunt, and I was so uncomfortable that I was going to die."

She took a bite of rice, added a piece of Thai pepper to the sauce bowl, and threw it in her mouth.

"Hmm, it's spicy."

I hurriedly handed her a glass of water, smiled and said, "Drink some water, eat some dipping pickles." ”

I looked at her, I haven't seen her for a few days, she seems to have lost a lot of weight, and Zhang Xueyao, who was alive and well before, is like two people.

"My parents are arranging a blind date for me again."

She said casually, grabbing a red radish from the vegetable pot, throwing it into her mouth and chewing it.

"Am I not pretending to be your boyfriend? They forgot about me? ”

"I told them that we broke up, they will naturally help me find my next home, just invited you to my house at the beginning, just to deal with my father who doesn't eat oil and salt, since you went, he has been urging me to see your parents, but I can't fake it, at least I can't trouble you again and again, so I told him that we broke up, but it also made him break up this thought."

Zhang Xueyao poured the cold white water in the cup into the bowl and stirred it back and forth with chopsticks.

I looked at her preoccupied look and asked distressedly, "Then what are your plans next?" ”

"I don't have any plans, just go with the flow, in case I can meet the boy I like on a blind date."

She was a little absent-minded, and even her eyes became dull.

"If you don't want to be satisfied, you can not go on a blind date."

I stood up, went to the rice cooker, and served another bowl of rice.

"What is my dad like, you've seen it, he talks at home like a high-ranking emperor, do I dare to disobey."

Zhang Xueyao glanced at me and pulled the green peppers on the plate.

After I sat down, I looked at her somewhat lost expression, as if she had been touched by something.

"Or, me, I'm helping you once?"

I asked tentatively, observing her expression.

"Forget it, I can't act for them forever, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, take a step at a time, by the way, have you been out of the stall in the past two days."

She eliminated the rice from the bowl and placed her chopsticks on the side of the bowl.

"I came out yesterday and tired me like a dog, but I also earned a lot, something happened last night, and I was delayed today."

I poured the vegetable soup with scrambled eggs with tomatoes over the rice and gulped it down.

"What's wrong?"

She took out a tissue, wiped her mouth, and took out a small mirror for makeup, and sorted out her messy bangs.

"It's not a big deal, why don't you eat some?"

"If you don't eat it, you can lose weight."

"You've lost weight like a lightning bolt, and you're still losing weight?"

"Cut, you will never understand a girl's thoughts, thinness is not the goal, the main thing is to maintain body shape and figure, even if I work overtime every day, I don't forget to go to the gym every day for half an hour."

She gave me a blank look, a look of disdain.

After seeing Zhang Xueyao off, I locked the basement door, walked two streets, came to a public bath, took a hot bath, and the feeling of soreness in my body was relieved a lot.

Back in the yard, sleepiness hit, because I didn't sleep all night at the police station last night, now I am so sleepy that I am dizzy and unable to keep up my spirits.

I collapsed on the bed, and without taking off my shoes, I fell asleep.

I don't know when it rained outside, the raindrops hit the eaves of the door, making a loud noise, blowing a gust of wind from time to time, and the laurel trees in the courtyard swayed with the wind, rattling.

In my dream, I saw Professor Liu again, and she looked at me with a smile on her face, not at all scary.

She took me to Downtown, New York, in this neighborhood west of Fifth Avenue, which is called Downtown West Village, in Greenwich Village, New York, which is interspersed with three of New York's most famous universities, New York University, Parsons School of Design, and Fashion School of Design.

The FIT School of Fashion Design, located on Seventh Avenue, is slightly less prestigious than Parsons, but it is still one of the top universities in the United States for cultivating talents in the fashion industry, and New York University in the West Village is a prestigious university with a focus on the humanities.

Its subjects such as law, business, medicine, and drama can be compared with Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League school in Uptown.

"Your attention, please".

Professor Liu stood on the podium, a large trapezoidal classroom, full of students who came to pay their respects, and I sat in it, Professor Liu holding a whip in his hand and looking down with a serious expression, like a statue of Liberty that symbolizes the American spirit.

I looked at her with excitement on my face, and my excitement was beyond words, I didn't even graduate from high school, and I was really lucky to be able to sit in the classroom of New York University and listen to Professor Liu's lectures.

I lowered my head and sorted out my textbook, and when I looked up, everything around me turned into a static dead thing, Professor Liu's eyes stared blankly ahead, and the air in the classroom seemed to stop flowing.

I tried to shout, but there was no sound in this space, and I was so frightened that I pushed open the door of the classroom, and the horror before me made me retreat once more, this classroom was built on the edge of a cliff, and I would fall into the abyss and fall to pieces if I took one more step.

I looked back at the movement in the classroom, and suddenly, everyone in the classroom was steaming all over their bodies, and it disappeared little by little, slowly turning into a transparent color, and finally completely into air.

The spacious classroom began to shake violently, the desks, chairs and benches collided together, making a screeching sound, I fell to the ground, my head hit the corner of the table, blood flowed sideways, and the classroom finally twisted into the shape of a tomb, the stone walls were blue, eerie, and there was a sarcophagus in front of me, the coffin door was ajar, and there were wisps of blue light floating out from within, which stimulated my strong curiosity.

I walked over, only to see a python the size of a water tank suddenly emerge from the coffin, it opened its bloody mouth and bit me directly on the neck, I turned sideways and dodged.

The python crawled out, the core of its mouth rattling, its huge waist squirming on the ground, ready to launch a second round of attacks.

I was in a cold sweat, terrified, stunned in place, my legs and feet no longer obeyed, I could only sit and wait for death.

The python rushed at me again, this time tripping me to the ground, and then wringing me into its cold, biting snake skin, and the force of it enveloped me tightly, and the feeling of terror annihilated my silent cry.

I woke up and found myself lying under the bed, the damp and cold cement floor against my back, no wonder there was a feeling of coldness, I got up, sat on the bed, wiped the cold sweat on my forehead with a towel, picked up my phone and looked at the time, at 9:30 in the evening, since I had slept for eight or nine hours, I remember that when I came out of the bathhouse, it was only one o'clock in the afternoon.

I lit a cigarette and walked out of the basement, greeted by the damp and crisp air, and the rain had stopped, except for the rain that had fallen from the eaves, dripping on the stone steps, making a ticking sound.

The moon is bright and the stars are thin, the sky is clear, I wiped the rain on the bench with a dry rag, sat down with a cigarette in my mouth, and thought, if Xue Xinyan comes over tomorrow, I will have to delay the stall for a day, okay, I haven't seen her for a long time, why don't I go out of the stall twice, I scratched my hair, and planned to go back to the basement to continue to make up for sleep, at this time, the car lights were lit at the gate of the courtyard, and two or three seconds later, a black car stopped.