rest of life

Leaving the supermarket, Tong Yao wanted to buy a cup of milk tea and take it to dinner.

When they turned around, there was a shop selling drinks and desserts at the door.Standing in front of the counter was a tall and thin young boy, who looked like a part-time student, younger than Tong Yao.

"Miss, what do you need?"

Tong Yao quickly finished ordering, and he asked if he wanted a small cake.

Tong Yao shook her head, "No need."

The clerk tried hard to sell and said, "If you don't want to look at these small cakes, they are very fresh, and they are still on sale. They are beautiful and delicious, especially suitable for taking pictures."

"No," Tong Yao smiled, and said to Gu Qingyun beside her, "I used to display these things when I was working in a coffee shop, so it's not unusual."

"You did it too?" The clerk couldn't help but smiled, and his tone became much closer, "Then you should know how important it is!"

Tong Yao thought that she was also ordered to sell too many cakes.

After being amused for a while, he turned cold, "But I still don't want to buy it."

Seeing this, he didn't say anything further, and asked Gu Qingyun next to him with a smile, "Ma'am, do you need anything?"

Tong Yao: "Pfft..."

She didn't know why she wanted to laugh so much, maybe it was the clerk's suddenly more polite tone, or the respectful address from "Miss Sister" to "Ms."

Gu Qingyun: "..."

She said politely, "I don't order."

Immediately, he took Tong Yao who was lying on her shoulder with a smile, and asked helplessly, "Is there anything funny?"

He raised his lips again and said with a half-smile, "Are you laughing enough?"

"That's enough," Tong Yao suddenly felt that she was asking if she had lived enough, and hurriedly hooked her fingers, and then held her hand, interlocking her fingers, "I have a weird smile..."

I got the milk tea soon and was about to go in for dinner.

Tong Yao suddenly caught a glimpse of a little dirt dog running towards him along the glass outside the store, a bit like the one she saw on the way back to the community before, and said, "Wait..."

I chased after him.

After feeding the little native dog that day, Tong Yao would pay close attention to her surroundings when walking on the road during the day, to see if she could meet it again.

It's a pity that she probably has no fate with that puppy, and she never saw it again.

Tong Yao quickly removed a ham sausage she just bought from the supermarket, and approached it with small steps, trying not to scare it, "Are you hungry?" She threw the sausage between her and the dog.

The puppy hesitated, and soon came up to eat the sausage.

Tong Yao looked at it closely.

"It's not the one you posted in Moments before." Gu Qingyun also came over to observe with her, and the two of them were next to each other. "It has a little white hair on its head. It shouldn't be dyed. It's quite special." .”

"Well," Tong Yao was a little disappointed, "it's definitely not the same one. This place is a bit far from where I used to live, so it wouldn't be such a coincidence to wander here, and after such a long time, the puppy won't be still so small."

"Maybe it's brothers and sisters," Gu Qingyun saw that she couldn't take his eyes off, "Do you want to have a dog?"

"..." Tong Yao immediately shifted her eyes to look at her. She definitely wanted to keep her in her heart, but she was afraid that she didn't like dogs but she was worried about herself before agreeing, "Just...just..."

Can't say anything like that.

And because of the little dirt dog that she had never met before, it was even more difficult for Tong Yao to say no to the one in front of her.

Gu Qingyun saw clearly the tangled hesitation on her face, squatted down, and tried to touch the puppy that was eating.

It may be that her movements are very light, even if she is eating, the puppy has no reaction.

"..."

One sausage was eaten quickly.

It was picked up by Gu Qingyun, and immediately sat in the crook of his arms and was hugged.

Gu Qingyun stared at this well-behaved puppy who didn't look like a stray dog ​​at all, and said to Tong Yao, "Let's go, since it has eaten something, it has to follow us back."

"Don't you think it's dirty?"

Tong Yao couldn't say anything else for a while.

When she was a child, when she saw stray dogs on the side of the road, she always wanted to touch them. Jiang Junwen next to her would knock off her hand, drag her back, and said fiercely, "Don't touch them!"Just stand a little farther away and look, stray dogs are dirty.

"It's quite dirty," Gu Qingyun saw the dirt that fell on the dark clothes in an instant, and said with a chuckle, "It's okay, just wash the clothes."

Turning around, he said as he walked, "Take me to the pet hospital for a bath and an examination."

Tong Yao hurriedly followed.

My heart was beating so fast I could barely speak.

Any fool can see that Gu Qingyun took the stray dog ​​in his arms and brought it home purely because she liked it.

"..."

Get in the car.

The puppy sat on Tong Yao's lap instead.

Gu Qingyun sighed suddenly, "I forgot something."

Tong Yao immediately became nervous, "What's the matter?"

Gu Qingyun turned his face, turned sideways to help her fasten her seat belt, and looked at her with a smile, "Aren't you hungry now?"

...that's right.

The two of them haven't even had dinner yet.

Gu Qingyun drove the car and went out first.

"Just navigate to a pet hospital, or do you know a better hospital?"

"Wait a minute, I'll ask my friends," Tong Yao hurriedly took out her phone, flipped through the list, and said casually, "My friend who runs a bar has eight big dogs at home..."

Gu Qingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked nonchalantly, "Is that the bar you used to go to? So it was opened by a friend."

"Well, Jiang Junwen always laughs at me as a free drinker..."

The words suddenly stopped.

Tong Yao chuckled and said weakly: "After we met, I never went there again."

This is true.

Tong Yao used to be relatively free and lonely, so she would go to that bar every week.

Later, a one-night stand happened, which was quite shocking for me, coupled with the fact that I was busy with work after joining the job, and was entangled by an annoying leader... Tong Yao had a certain shadow on the bar.

It's not a negative emotion, it's just that when I saw it, I hoped to avoid it as much as possible, clenching my tail and running for my life.

Gu Qingyun smiled, noncommittal.

"..."

Tong Yao quickly asked about a better pet hospital and a recommended doctor.

It happened not far from here.

The two of them took the little dog to the hospital, named Dr. Lin Cunxi, and quickly performed a simple examination.All inspections indicated that the pup was in good health.

Tong Yao happily hugged it on her lap, ran down its hair, and thought of a name for it all the way home.

Just before I got home, I packed a burger and fries for dinner.

—

After feeding the puppy.

Tong Yao squatted down to name it.

The puppy didn't cooperate at all, and didn't respond to anything it barked.

Tong Yao couldn't help complaining, "Hey, it's so difficult to give it a baby name."

Suddenly, when the word "baby" was said, the little dog finally had a little reaction.

"So you want to be a baby?" Tong Yao couldn't help pointing at it excitedly, "Then call it a baby? OK?"

She was asking the dog's own opinion.

Unexpectedly, Gu Qingyun shook his head, looked at Tong Yao with a smile, and interrupted solemnly, "No, I already have one baby at home."

"Who's there?" Tong Yao was delighted, and reached out to stop her waist and said, "You are a big baby, and it is a little baby, okay?"

Gu Qingyun glanced at her, "No."

"Then you take it, you take it!"

"Forget it..." Gu Qingyun squatted down and looked at the little dog, and asked casually, "Is it okay?"

The little dog wagged its tail happily, lowered its head, and rubbed the back of her slippers flatteringly.

Gu Qingyun smiled with satisfaction, "That's all right."

"Damn..." Tong Yao stared dumbfounded at this little dog who can watch people order food, "I just teased you for a long time and you ignored me, and when she spoke, you wagged your tail? Call the dog to lick it!"

"..."

—

into the night.

Tong Yao fell into a drowsy sleep, and could feel that she was dreaming.I dreamed of meeting my parents in the supermarket in the evening.

The supermarket is just a back and side view.

In the dream, the picture was infinitely magnified and delayed, and then zoomed in again... She could see that her father's already a little Mediterranean hair was even more bald, his face was much older, and her mother was also showing an old look.

Tong Yao didn't know what happened.

I vaguely feel that I seem to have made a mistake.

The expressions of my parents are sometimes serious and tense, and sometimes sad and disappointed. The voices of many relatives and acquaintances around me can be heard in my ears:

"She is a villain, it's all her fault! It's all her fault, separate them quickly!"

"Our Tong Yao is a good child. She has been very obedient since she was a child...Isn't she? Isn't she! You talk!"

Tong Yao seemed to be crying in her dream.

She struggled to wake up, stretched out her hand from under the quilt to test the corners of her eyes, there was a trace of wetness.

The blackout curtains were drawn meticulously, and the entire room was pitch-black without any light.It was silent.Tong Yao's heart shrank a little. She didn't know how long she had slept, but it felt like it was only a short while.

It should be early now.

She made a sound uncertainly, and tried to call Gu Qingyun, "Honey, are you asleep..."

The ending is a little hoarse.

"Huh?" Gu Qingyun responded.

"Sister," Tong Yao snuggled into Gu Qingyun's arms, with some grievances and panic in her heart, murmured, "I just had a nightmare."

"Are you scared?" Gu Qingyun spoke slowly, so that he was a little confused, and quickly got up and turned on the small lamp beside the bed, his eyes fell on her face, "Do you want some water?"

Tong Yao gave a "hmm".

Facing the light, she narrowed her eyes uncomfortably.

Gu Qingyun reached for the glass from the head of the bed, and conveniently stuffed a pillow to prop her up a little higher.

Then just hold the cup like this and give her water to drink.The voice became clearer, "Drink slowly."

"..."

Tong Yao seemed to have lost her arms and legs, lying on her side, and was served by her to drink water in small sips.

After drinking, I couldn't help being a little happy, "My wife, why are you so virtuous, why didn't you see such signs at all before."

"Is it virtuous?" Gu Qingyun took out a piece of paper and helped her wipe off the water stains on her lips. Hearing this, he smiled helplessly, "...It doesn't count."

"Why doesn't it count?"

"I should take care of you."

"Why should it be?" Tong Yao was amused by her serious statement that she should have said. She laughed secretly for a long time, and then asked deliberately, "Did you owe me in your previous life?"

"Still asking why?"

Gu Qingyun poked her forehead lightly with his fingers, his eyes were bent, and the corners of his lips smiled teasingly, "Maybe it's because your brain is not very good, so I should take care of it."

Tong Yao: "..."

Isn't it good to listen to sweet words? I still have to ask.

"Sister Smelly," Tong Yao pouted, and pulled the quilt to cover her face, "I'm asleep!"

Gu Qingyun turned and turned off the desk lamp.

Seeing that she is still covering the quilt, there is no need to laugh, "How do you sleep with the quilt covered like this?"

Pushing her slightly scattered hair behind her ears, she smiled, "What did you dream about just now?"

While asking, he stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, stroked her back gently with his hands, and said comfortingly, "Do you still remember now?"

"I dreamed about my parents..." Tong Yao paused.

Not knowing whether to continue talking, and also not knowing what to say, he pouted his lips and got into her arms without saying a word, enjoying the tenderness in silence.

"..."

Tong Yao has been reluctant to talk about family matters.

She only vaguely mentioned that she had a bad relationship with her parents.

Gu Qingyun waited for a while, seeing that she still had no intention of saying anything.

He didn't speak any more.

Hands caressed her back, like smoothing her hair again and again.Tong Yao snuggled up to her, feeling so comfortable that she couldn't open her eyes soon, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and her mind returned to sleep.

Gu Qingyun lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, and kissed Tong Yao's hair lightly.

The facial features are blurred in the darkness.

After a while, she said in a soft and gentle tone, "My child, you can do whatever you want, don't leave me."