【Taizhong】Fake Orthopedics

My savings are not too much, but the company is in the city center. With my current salary level, it is impossible to rent near the company. Naturally, I can only find a tram line close to the company, which can go directly to the company without changing trains. Apartments nearby.The efficiency of the real estate agency was very high, and all the procedures were completed within three days. I walked into the apartment with a suitcase that was too large for my height.

Thinking about the eyes that Osamu Dazai focused on me before leaving home, I still feel a little shivering down my back.I may have also unknowingly turned into the appearance of the father I hate the most, and I also revealed a trace of cruelty in dealing with people, but people are selfish animals after all. I want to escape from that family. The starting point is also very clear. I'm doing it for my own protection - I'm going to drive myself crazy to stay around him.

When I just moved in, I didn’t have any slippers or anything, so I had to walk into the room wearing socks, go into the bathroom, turn on the faucet, fill the bathtub with cold water, and pick up the remote control on the coffee table to turn the indoor The air conditioner is on.The temperature outside is too high, even if the heart is cold, it is difficult to resist the natural sweating of the skin under the scorching sun, not to mention that I have to carry the suitcase, and it is impossible not to sweat.It’s okay to talk about other places, but the sunburn on the neck has not recovered yet, and the process of sweat slipping from the scalp and dripping into the collar of the back is like slashing vertically with a blunt knife on the skin, making me shiver with pain all the way.Taking a cold shower doesn't make the sunburn hurt more, maybe because the cold temperature paralyzes the nerves, and even though I know it might make the sunburned skin heal more slowly, I still need to throw myself into the cold water to let the intense heat The pain was forced to drop in my perception for a while.

It's also ridiculous. In this brand-new, unfamiliar house that I stepped into for the first time, I actually felt at ease. I fell asleep in the bathtub soaked in cold water, and when I woke up, it was already after seven o'clock in the evening.I put my mobile phone on the sink before I stepped into the bathtub. My mobile phone is not set to automatically lock the screen. It has been shut down because the battery is exhausted at the moment. There is only a little light from the narrow window in the whole bathroom. It illuminates the water surface of the bathtub, which looks like fish scales. The picture is very beautiful, but the air conditioner in the room has been turned on for a long time, and I have been soaking in cold water, so I sneezed in a very ugly way, and the air flow rushed into the water. The fish scales were scattered.

I got up from the water, went out of the bathroom naked, squatted in the porch, opened the suitcase, took out a bath towel, and finally tidied myself up like a human, and then went downstairs to a nearby convenience store to buy some groceries. A few steps away from the store, there is a shop selling handmade wagashi. I bought two boxes of packaged confectionery, and asked the clerk to pack them in gift bags for me—this is a gift for the two families on the left and right of the apartment. The agent said that the walls here are very thin and the sound insulation is not good, so despite the good type of apartment and the whole apartment building is still new, the rent is so cheap.

I rang the doorbell of the neighbor’s house on the right twice, but no one answered the door. I didn’t know whether there was no one living or hadn’t returned home, so I had to ring the doorbell of the neighbor’s house on the left. The sound was like the sound of a child stepping on thick-soled plastic shoes, and the door was opened in a short while. It was really a child, with beautiful long golden curly hair and a delicate appearance like a doll. Following her It's a man with his head upright.

"Alice, why don't you say hello when you see someone?" The man stroked the girl's hair, half blaming, half pampering.But the girl turned her face away, as if she didn't want to accept his responsibility.

I squeezed out a smirk with some embarrassment, handed over the gift bag in my hand, and explained that I just moved here today, and please take care of me in the future.The man said his name was Mori Ogai, but he did not introduce the name of the blond loli who was holding his hand a bit angry, but I have heard him calling her by the name when talking to her just now, probably Alice, and she was wearing the same clothes. I reckoned that the heavy industry lace suit might not be the man's daughter, but I didn't ask any further questions, and returned to my apartment after exchanging a few pleasantries.

There are many coincidences in life, and this may be one of them. I woke up early the next morning and rushed to the company to clock in for work. I just moved to a rented house. I thought it would be time-consuming and troublesome to make lunches, so I naturally preferred to be near the company. I bought a lunch in the bento cart and ate casually to pad my stomach. When I got on the elevator, I found a familiar face in the elevator.I just met last night, the neighbor next door, Mr. Mori.

The elevator during the lunch break is crowded with people, and most of the crowded people are silent. Of course, I can’t break the silence without reading the air. I didn’t raise my head until the elevator reached the first floor and everyone in the elevator came out. He: "Mr. Sen also works here?"

"Yeah, what a coincidence, I work as an engineer in the architectural design office on the 15th floor." Mori Ogai pointed to the upstairs, "It should be your upstairs, I think you are from the 13th floor The one who got on the elevator, I remember that the 13th floor is a communication and electronics company, so they should often have to work overtime?"

"Hmm." I scratched the skin behind my ear, and I don't know if it's because I didn't apply ointment after the sunburn. There is some peeling, and the peeling skin scabs, and new skin is created underneath, and it always hurts during the healing process Itchy again.

Mr. Sen took a look at me and asked me if I was sunburned. He said that he should still have the ointment used for sunburn last year at home. He also got sunburned when he and Alice went to the beach last year. The child had sunburn marks on his body, so he applied the ointment for more than half a month. Afterwards, there was no trace left. It can also relieve itching and pain, which is quite effective.Mr. Sen didn't ask me if I needed it. He said bluntly that if I have to work overtime late, I can just come to him to get it at night. Alice goes to bed early and is not easily woken up, so don't worry about it.

I dodged it, but I was really moved. The pain and itchiness of the sunburn made me not sleep well at night. After I fell asleep, I would unconsciously use my nails to scratch the scabs that had formed——I discovered this morning There were a few dried blood marks on the pillow. I turned my back awkwardly to the mirror and found that I had scratched a piece of the second vertebra. Somewhat strange.It’s impossible to wear a scarf in summer, but silk scarves are okay, but I think it’s too feminine, and I’ve never bought a silk scarf at all, so I can only tie the collar button to the top, and put the slightly longer hair Putting it on and pulling it all over the back is enough to cover up the sunburned areas. Man, it’s okay to leave some scars, I think so.

Mr. Sen was very enthusiastic. I finally thanked him and told him that I would try to get off work early.That being said, the company actually started a new commercial project this week. The project content is extremely cumbersome, and overtime is unavoidable. When I left the company building and took the tram back to the apartment, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. I wondered Most of the little girl in Mr. Mori’s house has already fallen asleep, the doorbell’s sound is harsh, afraid that it will wake her up, so I can only knock on the door in fear, and after two light knocks, Mr. Mori opened the door , Seeing that I was still carrying my briefcase, he asked me if I hadn’t had dinner yet.It is true that I didn’t have dinner, let alone that I was so busy that I forgot, and I didn’t even bother to take a few sips of the coffee I made. When I clocked off work, there was still more than half of the coffee in the cup, which was so cold that it was extremely cold. Poured into the sink in the tea room, he asked, I felt empty in my stomach and a little hungry.

"I made a lot of curry for dinner with Alice, and there is still a lot left, why don't you make do with it." Mr. Sen said this, his voice was relatively low, and when the end of the sentence sank , There is a feeling of rejection.

I ate dinner at his table with a shy face, and said that it was just okay, Gankou’s curry was delicious, if I hadn’t had some sense, I could have emptied his family’s rice pot, and so on After eating, he took the bowl to the sink to wash, and I felt embarrassed and regretful after a while, and asked Mr. Sen if he wanted any drinks. I didn’t have any at home, and I planned to go to the convenience store to buy some. I feel sorry for eating so much curry rice from him.Mori Ogai did not refuse, and mentioned a brand of strawberry milk, which Alice liked to drink, and he also liked the taste after drinking it for a long time.

Mori Ogai was still washing the dishes with his sleeves rolled up. Seeing that I had gone to the entrance to put on my shoes and go out, he poked his head out and said to me, "Then I'll bring the ointment to you when you come back to the apartment after going to the convenience store." You."

Although half an hour later I didn't go to his place to get the ointment at all, and I gave him the strawberry milk I bought by the way, and found that I had been taken care of so much by the man next door, but I forgot to ask for the contact information. I should feel guilty. Regretted again, but at that time I had no extra energy to think about Mr. Mori.

Because there is a more difficult object in front of you.

The convenience store near the apartment is open 24 hours, probably because the night shift makes people feel unmotivated. When entering the door, the clerk sitting behind the cashier said a soulless "Welcome" with his lips closed.I took a shopping basket and went to the freezer to get drinks and drinking water. I took a few more bottles of drinking water and put them in the shopping basket. The shopping basket was heavy to carry. I thought I must prepare some instant noodles and the like The things are in the new home, and I folded to the row of instant food shelves. I squatted down to look at the five-packs and ten-packs of instant noodles at the bottom of the shelf. After looking at them for a long time, I remembered that I didn’t even buy a bowl. Straightening up, I reached for a few boxes of cup noodles from the upper shelf.It seems that I have to buy some necessary kitchen utensils - there is no rush for this matter. After all, after working overtime and leaving the company, most of the shops where I can buy kitchen utensils have closed their business and closed for rest. I can only wait until the weekend to buy.

The shelves of instant food are facing away from the window of the convenience store, and I squatted down just now. Of course, it was impossible to notice what was outside the window. When I finished taking the cup noodles, I raised my head again, and my upper eyelids jumped suddenly.A boy in a high school uniform walked over from the streetlights outside the convenience store step by step, approaching the door of the convenience store, the sensor door of the convenience store opened, and as the cash register clerk said "Welcome" without any anger, Osamu Dazai walked in In the convenience store.

"So you're here, Chuya."

The shopping basket was taken away from my hand by a male high school student. Before checking out, he raised his hand and took a few colorful boxes from the small shelf on the side of the cash register and put them into the shopping basket.The contents of those boxes were dismantled shortly after he followed me back to the apartment room and used on myself and him.

After I was done, I sat on the bed with my legs curled up, and looked at Osamu Dazai who was half of his body illuminated by the warm light of the desk lamp in a daze. Osamu Dazai got up and asked me if I wanted to drink water. I said no, after a while Thinking about it again, I asked him, "Does mother know that you didn't come out so late at home?" I didn't ask my father if he knew, because my father would not go home on weekdays, and he had another room near the hospital. The house is convenient for night shifts, and I live there during working days.

"I told her to hold a study meeting at my classmate's house tonight, and to stay at my classmate's house tonight." Osamu Dazai turned his back, and with a rustling sound, he took strawberry milk from the bag, opened the straw and murmured took two sips.

Repeatedly.Maybe it was just talking about my current behavior. For a while, I even doubted myself. Could it be that I was actually eager to get entangled with him, so I didn’t reject him a second time, and even let Osamu Dazai move into my new office? home?I am afraid and longing at the same time. There is probably no one who is more difficult to understand than me, because I don't even know what I want.Knowing that this is wrong, how can any brother do such a thing, how can brothers do this kind of thing, and commit the same crime again and again, how can I continue to be brothers and sisters with him—even though Dazai Zhizhi and I didn't have any brothers and sisters.

"...she will find out." I trembled uncontrollably.I can't imagine what the consequences would be if this matter were revealed to my father and mother—in fact, I shouldn't be so afraid, but I really didn't expect Osamu Dazai to be so bold and willful, not only disdain to lie, And I don't know how to find out where I rented, and even want to spend the night with me.

What should I do with you.I looked at his blurred back and muttered to myself very softly.

"Brother." I'm not used to this address, but I still called him one by one, "... There will be no next time this happens. I can't continue to make mistakes, and neither can you."

Osamu Dazai ignored my warning, as if ignoring my words, he turned around and looked at me from a distance.Dazai Osamu's eyes are deep, beautiful like jewels in the sunlight, but once the light is dim, they look a little scary.

"Did you fall in love with the neighbor's man at first sight?" he asked.