After buying the things, she took a taxi to Mengji barbecue with two bags of gifts.

Today they are closed, the roller shutter door is open, but the windows on the second floor can see people walking.

You Xuezhen secretly walked to the eaves diagonally opposite, looked up, and after a while, the figure opened the white curtains, letting the daylight in.

Seeing Meng Shilong appear at the other end of the window, You Xuezhen subconsciously shrank her neck and quickly lowered her head. After a while, he carefully lifted it again, Meng Shilong did not notice her, he stood by the window, holding the mirror to the sunlight to arrange his hair.

You Xuezhen couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, thinking, okay, I don't care about dressing up on the surface, but I still stink behind my back.

She stood for about ten minutes as if she were enjoying a mime, until the phone in her pocket vibrate. The upstairs window sent her a message saying he was ready to leave to pick her up.

You Xuezhen looked at the second floor, although she couldn't see her expression clearly from a distance, but his every movement was so clear, leaning against the window and staring at her phone, she found that she had been staring until she returned.

It's really like a waiting little fox, it's not even too much to pace in the cave, so he lies next to his phone, thinking that he can stare at the return letter with two eyes.

The gesture is too cute, You Xuezhen wants to watch it for a while, and is she curious if he has been waiting for her news all the time? Deliberately dragged it and didn't return.

He stared intently for a moment, then grabbed his phone and strode away, leaving only the curtains swaying slightly under the rolled air.

He came down.

The brain received this signal, and You Xuezhen realized that she should go forward to the corner of the alley, otherwise she would be exposed.

She hurriedly escaped from the peeping place, and took advantage of Meng Shilong's efforts to open the roller shutter door from the inside, turned her head upside down, and pretended that she had just come.

Meng Shilong, who opened the roller shutter door, saw her walking slowly from a distance, and his expression was slightly stunned.

“…… Why did you arrive so early? ”

"I bought my stuff earlier than planned, so I came over early."

"You still bought something?"

"Of course, you can't come empty-handed for the New Year!" You Xuezhen raised the two bags in her hand, "This bag is for grandma, and this bag is for your father." ”

Meng Shilong didn't shirk when he accepted her gift at first, happily accepted the gift, and then blinked at her.

"Don't you have mine?"

"Yes, but you have to tell me what you want first, or I'm afraid you won't like it."

"How could you not like it?"

"How could it not...... The perfume I gave you is proof of that. You haven't sprayed yet, have you? ”

Meng Shilong was speechless, unable to deny the fact that he had indeed not sprayed.

He changed the subject and said, "Come in first." ”

You Xuezhen walked into the store, the stairs leading to the second floor were in the back kitchen, she followed Meng Shilong and walked up, and asked a little nervously, "Are your father and grandmother here?" ”

"Lao Dou was just taken by Grandma to cut his hair, saying that he was ugly." Meng Shilong said with a smile, "They should wait a while before they come back." ”

You Xuezhen suddenly said: "It turns out that your father doesn't like to cut his hair......"

Meng Shilong was speechless again, and whispered for a while: "Well, in fact, I have to add another one to be carried over in previous years." ”

You Xuezhen laughed so hard that her shoulders trembled.

When I finally went up the second floor, I saw the living room, which was a corridor in front of it and a room with an open door at the end.

He pointed to the place, "That's my room." ”

Unlike the room where he occasionally stayed for a few nights in the Hong Kong Island Apartment, You Xuezhen thought that it was a place where he would sleep every day, and a strange voyeurism came to him, but he shamefully dismissed the idea of going in and visiting, and sat down on the sofa in the living room.

"I'll just sit here."

"Good. Want to drink Mandarin Duck Milk Tea? ”

"Eh, is there one?"

"I cooked it before you came, it should be almost ready."

He put the bag on the coffee table, and ran downstairs as he spoke, the small living room echoing with the sound of footsteps. She sat on the sofa stiffly and didn't dare to move around, but continued to observe the place with her eyes.

She had noticed the shrine near the balcony from a glance, on which hung a black and white photograph of a woman, with short shoulder-length hair, smiling, her lips curled almost exactly like Meng Shilong's smile.

You Xuezhen saw her on the cable car photo of Taiping Mountain, Meng Shilong's mother.

The shrine was kept very clean, the camellia inserted was freshly replaced, none of the fruits were rotten, and there was a tape of Teresa Teng next to it, "He Rijun Will Come Again".

You Xuezhen felt that it was rude to look at her like this, and hurriedly stood in front of the shrine and bowed.

When Meng Shilong came back with milk tea, he saw such a picture.

You Xuezhen turned her head sideways when she heard the footsteps, and said with annoyance, "I should bring some more fruit." ”

He looked slightly stunned, and joked with a soft expression: "Why don't you make one more bowl for her when you wait a while?" ”

You Xuezhen took it seriously, clapped her hands and said, "Good idea." ”

He casually pulled out a list on the coffee table, spread it under the cup and put it on the coffee table: "Let's drink milk tea first." ”

You Xuezhen sat down again, but looked at the milk tea, and her brows tightened slightly.

"Does this matter?"

She pointed to the paper under the cup, the black letters "Photography Exhibition Registration Form" were wet at the bottom of the cup, worried that this was something important that he accidentally took by mistake.

Meng Shilong's gaze followed there, and he was slightly embarrassed to turn the paper around and let her continue to pad.

"It doesn't matter, the store where I bought the camera left an email address, and they sent it."

"Really......?"

You Xuezhen was not fooled by him, turned the paper back again, scanned it, and realized that it was a photography exhibition solicitation for newcomers, and there was no restriction on the qualifications of those who signed up. It's not a one-off race, but it's a good opportunity for newcomers.

"Why don't you give it a try?"

Meng Shilong shook his head hesitantly: "No, my photography skills will definitely fail, it's not too necessary." ”

You Xuezhen frowned: "But...... You're obviously interested in printing out this list, right? ”

He smiled, and this time replied quickly: "It's okay. ”

"What do you mean it's okay?"

"My interest."

The tone was not half aggrieved, and he said it extremely calmly.

In her third year of high school, her mother fell ill and spent too much money on the family, and she sold her house on Hong Kong Island but still couldn't save her, and she owed some foreign debts. Lao Dou got up early at three o'clock every night to make a bento for someone to pay off the money, but said that he was not tired at all.

On a rare weekend when both of them were empty, he took him to a suburban park to fish, and at dusk he took out an extra lunch from the fishing box and stuffed it into his hand, saying that this one secretly added an extra egg, and he had to eat well and eat well in good health in order to study well.

Lao Dou handed over the bento, and the white hair on his sideburns did not match his age.

Lao Dou probably didn't like to cut his hair since then, and he joked that he probably wouldn't be able to grow black hair once he cut it.

He thought, then he will accompany him without cutting, and it would be good to be a messy father and son.

Eating the poached eggs in the bento in silence, the fishing rod in Lao Dou's hand still did not move. He didn't completely swallow the egg white, and said to Lao Dou vaguely, I know that you are sad to stay on Hong Kong Island, it is better for us to find a cheaper city to open a store, Hong Kong Island is too expensive, and every inch of land is expensive.

Lao Dou didn't want to refute him, no matter how cheap it was, it would cost a lot of money.

He said lightly, I don't want to go to college anymore, and I don't have a major I want to study, so I can use the money I saved for me.

Lao Dou was naturally furious.

He lowered his face and swallowed his throat several times, but he still couldn't help wiping his eyes, and the tears that hadn't been shed all these days dripped into the bento.

In the end, he said, so that you don't have to get up at three o'clock in the middle of the night to make a bento, I don't want you to be tired too.

"I can't afford to lose you again."

After Lao Dou heard this, his palms trembled.

Not a single fish was underwater, but the buoys in the water kept shaking. The setting sun illuminated Lao Dou's eyes and the water surface red.

He didn't know if Lao Dou saw through him lying, anyway, in the end, he didn't reveal to anyone that he wanted to apply for geology. Anyway, he didn't think it was bad to replace the rocks in his hand with a spatula.

Except today, he told the second person for the first time, and he told her and Pan, with no regrets and a relaxed demeanor. Like a natural surfer, gently accepting the fluctuations that fate had placed on him, he could have surfaced, but was hit by the waves, so he simply folded himself into a wave board and held up the people he cared about. As for himself, he doesn't care.

But that's not good.

You Xuezhen clearly felt that her chest was contracting, and all the regrets and grievances he had deliberately suppressed ran to her.

The wall of the cup of milk tea burned her palm, she hesitated, but still said: "Don't do this again." ”

“…… What? ”

"Don't always be the one who ends up putting vegetables in the hot pot." You Xuezhen pushed the milk tea he only poured a cup of to him, "Occasionally be the first person to put down chopsticks." Favorite food, favorite things...... If you like it, you have to fight for it and try it, right? ”

Meng Shilong looked at her steadily, and the mist of milk tea floated up silently, blurring a certain turbulent emotion in his eyes.

He gripped his palm as if holding an impulse, but his gaze was still open to her face.

"That'...... Is it okay to start with the person you like first? ”

He seemed to be asking himself, but those eyes were looking at her so bluntly.

At this time, Meng Shilong and gentleness were not at all touched, so she didn't dare to look at him, her heart was like a ball being slapped to the ground, and it continued to bounce far away, so far away...... It was so far away that she felt as if she couldn't pick it up again.

Chapter 45

You Xuezhen said intermittently: "Let's start with what you like first...... yes, why don't I send you a shot? ”

Meng Shilong shook his head: "I'm joking with you, you don't have to give me a New Year's gift." Don't you still have to save money to run a radio station? ”

You Xuezhen didn't follow: "To be fair, Grandma and your father and I have bought gifts, so you have to have them too." ”

He sighed slightly, a little bit right, he already knew the importance of the word fairness to her, and compromised and said: "Then thank you boss, but don't send the camera, it's too expensive." ”

"That'...... What else could you want? ”

"Actually, I don't really want anything, as long as you give it to me, I will like it."

"Liar." The topic came back to her, and she brought up the perfume with a grit, "You didn't spray the perfume." Of course – I'm not saying you need to wear perfume, absolutely not that means! ”

On the contrary, she felt that the smell of oil smoke that sometimes stained his body was very good after a long time, like the aroma of hot food smelled on the street on a winter night, which made people feel very warm.

After hearing her "accusation", Meng Shilong suddenly got up and hurried into the room, and when he came out again, there was one more thing - the bottle of Panhelligan's fox perfume, and even the packaging was intact.