The long river and the starry sky in the night are connected together, like a black snake with glittering scales, following its inherent trajectory in the wilderness, writhing and swimming towards the mysterious space-time interface. The silhouettes of the empty street parks, promenades and pavilions are obscured by the lush summer vegetation, which is even more silent in the early hours of the morning. Quite occasionally, a tired car whizzed by, and the sound of the engine could not break through the silence, but was drowned in the air.

On the geometrically wordless "click" clock, the minute hand moves as the second hand passes quickly, and the hour hand points heavily and irreversibly to a specific time. There was no light in the room, and the cloudy light formed by various reasons outside invaded from the balcony wantonly, and the strip shadow of the anti-theft window was faithfully projected on the face of the person in front of the window. Tang Jianyu stood silently towards the distant artificial river, half of his face hidden in the backlight, his eyes flickering. He was holding his phone, and even at three o'clock in the morning, new messages kept popping up on the screen.

"I just heard about you, are you okay?" "Professor Tang, we would love to know the ...... of the incident" "Mr. Tang, the deleted data you want to recover requires the authorization of the operator." "Mr. Tang, Mr. Qiu's office said that I didn't receive the email, can you help me take a look?" "Please show the evidence, an old professor who has achieved lifetime honors should not bear unsubstantiated accusations!" All kinds of people, all kinds of positions, all kinds of languages that Tang Jianyu can recognize......

"Calling ......" Tang Jianyu still unbuttoned his mobile phone, skimming over the new news one by one, and none of them here are fresh reactions since the outbreak of the incident. Or delete or save, he quickly processed the information, the light in his eyes changed, and there was no sadness or joy on his face. Finally, his eyes stopped in the chat software, Shi Jiaojiao's familiar avatar, which was a photo taken by a mobile phone, the original was a watercolor painting with bright colors and simple composition, with a blue-purple iris on a white background.

Tang Jianyu recognized that this was a gift from the proprietress of the milk tea shop in the town to Shi Jiaojiao before returning to her hometown in the northwest, and she still handed it over to her. At that time, he was struggling between himself and marriage, and his understanding of the feelings in his heart was still in a period of ignorance, so he could not refuse the bubble tea shop owner to hand over the painting to him, nor did he have the courage to meet Shi Jiaojiao. So the painting was hidden by him in the bedroom of the apartment, or Shi Jiaojiao asked for it herself, and they already had each other at that time.

The sense of security brought by the concept of "possession" has achieved a warm position in Tang Jianyu's overtired heart. He couldn't help but close his eyes, recalling the feeling of holding Shi Jiaojiao, like hugging the whole world. The world is not just about research, papers, and teaching positions...... Until this moment, the brain, which had been clogged with accusations of plagiarism in papers, finally called up other information, like a fresh wind blowing into a blocked dead end.

There are only three consecutive messages from Shi Jiaojiao in the dialog box, two or three hours apart: "I'm in the city, and the phone is empty!" "Suffix a cute smiley face;" The female boss has become a female bodhisattva, I'm on vacation! I rushed back to the latest bus, and the phone was empty! "It's still that smiling face; Recently, three hours ago, "Wow, I just remembered that I didn't report safety, I slept, and remember to call me when I'm busy." Still added a smiley face......

Tang Jianyu's thumb rubbed a few times on the screen, his eyes drooped with a smile on the corner of his lips, his fingertips jumped quickly, and he wrote, "Just arrived in town, don't be angry, I promise to sleep immediately!" "Sent it out quickly. The message was successfully sent, Tang Jianyu turned around and walked into the living room, put his mobile phone on the dining table, and walked briskly towards the bathroom. The air in the room, which had been still for a long time, came alive, forming a lively wind that passed through the open balcony.

What's in the air? It's reassuring. Like a pair of the gentlest hands, holding a handful of the most suitable water, the heart is carefully placed.

The biological clock that has been cultivated over the years confronts this breath against Tang Jianyu, one calling him to wake up, and the other just wants him to make up for sleep. This kind of pulling is manifested by the rapid movement of Tang Jianyu's eyeballs under his eyelids. Seeing that he was about to wake up, a soft touch fell on the lively eyelids, and the owner of the body immediately obediently fell into a deep sleep again.

The coolness of the night gradually dissipated in the process of the rising sun, and the temperature in the closed bedroom became higher and higher, and Tang Jianyu could be said to be awakened by the heat. The unusual situation of going to bed late and waking up late prevented him from waking up immediately, and he looked at the closed door stupidly, and reacted for a long time before he opened his mouth and scratched his messy hair in disbelief.

As soon as you smell the air in the living room, you can compare it to how turbid the air is in the bedroom after a night of breathing. Tang Jianyu stood by the door and blinked, for the first time in a long time, he wanted to shed tears very unproductively. He grinned and blinked, finally controlling the emotions that were about to overflow his heart, and looked at the kitchen with a gentle gaze. In the kitchen at this moment, the window is a clear blue sky, and by the stove, Shi Jiaojiao is wearing an apron, turning around between the sink and the cutting board.

It's a busy morning, with a simple breakfast and a rush to prepare lunch. The green vegetables with slender petioles are more brittle and tender after being carefully removed by the "chef" who is not good at the technique but is willing to "grind foreign workers", and the knife "clicks". The fresh ingredients made Shi Jiaojiao immerse herself, and she didn't notice that Tang Jianyu had woken up at all, until she raised her hand to take the second handful of vegetables, and a pair of arms were wrapped around her waist.

"Up?" Shi Jiaojiao smiled slightly, stopped the movement in her hand, but did not change her posture. When she was frightened, her back straightened and relaxed softly, Tang Jianyu felt it vividly, and felt even more pitiful and cute. He mumbled a "hmm" and only tightened his arms. He hunched his body in order to accommodate the woman's height, and buried his face deep in her neck socket, because the woman who had been busy sweating slightly, and the touch of her skin was particularly warm.

Shi Jiaojiao had already adapted to this intimacy, continued to cut the vegetables, and let the man hug him for a while before whispering: "There is food on the table, you pad your stomach first, and lunch will be fine for a while." "Well, don't." Tang Jianyu greedily breathed in the fragrance that seemed to be absent from Shi Jiaojiao's hair, and said angrily, "I want to hold you." "Okay, then hold it." Shi Jiaojiao raised her hand and smiled, "But I'm going to go over and get the plate now." ”

"Go get it." Tang Jianyu didn't let go, didn't even raise his head, moved to the other side of the pool with Shi Jiaojiao in his arms, waited for Shi Jiaojiao to take the empty plate, and then hugged her and buried her head, and walked back to the cutting board together. Tang Jianyu stuck to Shi Jiaojiao's body like a twisted candy, without the slightest disguise, and this childish behavior aroused Shi Jiaojiao's tenderness for him. With her unwet hand, she tried to touch the man's hair, and said softly, "I'm here, I'm not afraid." ”

Tang Jianyu didn't speak, just embedded his thin chin in her deep shoulder socket and pressed hard.