under the filth

"Ding--"

With the sound of the lifter of the toaster, a rich milky smell filled the air, mixed with the smell of fried eggs and bacon, slowly drifting from the kitchen into the bedroom.

Tang Cen curled up the quilt on the bed, and the smell of food penetrated into his nostrils through the gaps in the quilt, slowly waking him up from his sleep.Tang Cen had already woken up once before when Eisen got up, but he liked to stay in bed and didn't need to go to work. He squinted his eyes and watched Eisen close his eyes and continue to sleep after getting up.

Counting from the day after waking up, two full weeks have passed.A lot of things happened in the past two weeks. He started to take medicine, quit smoking and drinking, passed the adaptation period of changing the medicine, and his life began to develop in a better direction, and he slowly returned to the right track.

But for the past two weeks, Tang Cen didn't feel real, not only because of the side effects of the medicine, but also because life was too peaceful, so peaceful that it could even be called happiness, which made him lose the real sense of being alive.

He used to rely on constant reminders of pain to realize that he was still alive, but now he was suddenly wrapped in soft and sweet cotton candy, and his brain could not even normally receive messages from the outside world.

Every morning when waking up from sleep, Tang Cen would always fall into a short period of trance and confusion. He wasn't sure whether what he experienced yesterday was a dream or reality.But the weight of the arms around his waist and the even and long breathing beside him gave Tang Cen the answer.

It's not a dream, it's the life he really has now.

Originally, Tang Cen wanted Aisen to go back to work, but Aisen was worried about leaving him at home alone, so he took a long vacation.Eisen stayed by Tang Cen's side every day, always paying attention to his condition, controlling the amount of medicine he took, taking him out to relax, and even taking care of all the housework again, which naturally included breakfast every morning.

Tang Cen couldn't get up, so Eisen prepared breakfast and waited for him.

Tang Cen was not very clear-headed when he was sleepy and was awakened by Eisen in this way. He was hungry and sleepy.He sat on the bed with the quilt in his arms and stayed there for 2 minutes, until the aroma wafting in from the outside became stronger and stronger, and he kicked off the quilt and got out of bed to wash.

Turning on the faucet, Tang Cen took a handful of water and patted it on his face. The slightly cool liquid slid over his skin, flowing down his chin, and at the same time washed away the sleepiness he had just woken up from.

After washing his face, Tang Cen took off the towel on the stand and wiped the water droplets on his face in front of the mirror.It turned out that the mirror with irregular cobweb cracks had been replaced three days ago, and the brand new mirror in front of him was intact, with no overlapping faces, only Tang Cen's gentle and lazy face in the mirror .

Hanging the towel back to its original position, Tang Cen walked out of the bathroom. When he walked to the aisle connecting the living room and the dining room, Tang Cen almost stepped on the sweeping robot that was moving slowly on the ground.

Since Eisen officially moved in to live with him, the two went to the mall several times and bought a lot of odds and ends, and this robot vacuum was one of them.When it was delivered yesterday afternoon, Eisen squatted on the ground and studied it for a long time before he learned how to use it, but Tang Cen was not used to having such a little guy at home, and he only realized it several times when he walked in front of him and almost stepped on it .

Tang Cen walked to the dining table after the sweeping robot passed in front of him and got under the sofa.He glanced at the toaster in the kitchen that had stopped operating, then at the steaming and fragrant sandwiches on the plate, and asked in confusion, "Where is the toaster?"

Tang Cen remembered that when he was shopping two days ago, he fell in love with a mint green toaster, but Eisen, who was willing to pay for the lazy sofa when he bought it, didn't agree.

There are more and more things at home, and the two lazy sofas take up a lot of space. When Tang Cen came home, he saw that the kitchen counter was full of small appliances. refused to buy.

Tang Cen doesn't quite remember the exact cause and effect, but he only remembers that he didn't buy what he liked, and on the way home he secretly scolded Eisen for being "stingy".

"Bring it from the opposite side." Eisen came over with two glasses of milk, and put one of them in front of Tang Cen, "I told you before when you wanted to buy it, did you forget?"

Tang Cen picked up the milk and took a sip before putting it down, with a small white mark on the corner of his mouth.After licking the milk left on his lips, he whispered back, "No."

In fact, Tang Cen didn't remember Aisen saying this at all, but he didn't want Aisen to know that he was secretly angry with him, so he simply lied.And if he said he forgot, Eisen might not say anything, but he always felt uncomfortable.

As soon as he started taking the medicine, Tang Cen's poor memory and concentration began to decline rapidly again. Many times what Eisen had just said, he turned his head and forgot. Sometimes when Eisen mentioned something again, he didn't even think about it. Remember Eisen said this before.

This completely affected Tang Cen's normal life. In the end, he had to carry his mobile phone with him all the time, and use a memo to record what Eisen said and what he agreed to do.

In addition to these, Tang Cen also wrote a lot of precautions to remind himself what not to do, or what to pay special attention to.

Occasionally, when he suddenly remembered something, he would immediately put down what he was doing, turn on the phone, write the matter into the memo, and continue with the unfinished business after setting the reminder.

Tang Cen knew that he was prone to thinking wildly, and knew that his emotions might get out of control at any time, and he would be affected by any slight change in the outside world.Although Eisen said he would help him, Tang Cen didn't want to rely on him for everything, and tried his best to do some things he could do by himself.

This time, because Eisen controlled the dosage of his medicine, Tang Cen did not have any other symptoms, and his condition was more stable than ever before, so stable that they all had the illusion that Tang Cen was not sick.In addition to the two old problems of memory loss and lethargy that seriously affected Tang Cen's life, Eisen even felt that Tang Cen had fully recovered.

However, that was just an illusion on the surface. As soon as they communicated, Tang Cen's forgetfulness was immediately exposed.

"Are you going to work tomorrow?" Tang Cen scooped out a spoonful of strawberry jam and evenly spread it on the freshly baked toast.He took a bite out of a small piece and tasted it. He thought it was not sweet enough, so he dug a large spoonful and spread it on it. The thick layer of rose-red jam wrapped on the toast looked cloyingly sweet.

There are still five or six bottles of this cloyingly sweet jam in the kitchen locker, all bought by Tang Cen when he was shopping in the mall.

Because of mild inertial vomiting caused by long-term medication, when Tang Cen took the medicine, the pills were often stuck in his throat, and the slightly bitter taste of the medicine could not dissipate for a long time, so it was a fierce battle for Tang Cen every time he took the medicine.

Tang Cen's taste is actually exactly the same as that of a child. He likes sweets and hates taking medicine, but once when he was a child, he had a quarrel and was scolded by Tang Songyuan, so he never dared to do it again.Later when he was studying abroad, in order to maintain the so-called image, he has been very restrained, and he can only be satisfied by drinking afternoon tea.

Ever since he found out that Aisen was pampering him in this aspect, Tang Cen would occasionally take the opportunity to lose his temper when he had a craving for sweets.When he refused to take medicine, Eisen would bargain with him with all kinds of sweets like coaxing a child to take medicine.In the worst case, Eisen lost an entire cheesecake, which he still hasn't returned.

"No, didn't you mean to buy clothes tomorrow?" Eisen pinched the tip of Tang Cen's nose lightly, and said with a helpless smile, "Confused."

Eisen knew that there were a lot of things recorded in Tang Cen's mobile phone memo. Although he hadn't read the specific content in it, he must have written down this matter, but he just woke up and didn't have time to read it.

Eisen didn't hide from Tang Cen about taking a long vacation, but he didn't tell him the specific deadline either.Although Aisen felt safe by his side, Tang Cen remembered that he had never had such a long vacation when he was working before, and began to wonder if something happened to Aisen's work.

"You won't... get fired, right?" Thinking that Eisen might lose his job, Tang Cen suddenly lost the mood to have breakfast. He panicked, afraid that things would really turn out as he thought.

"How dare they." Eisen picked up the spatula inserted in the jam jar, shook the handle of the spatula back and forth, and said nonchalantly: "I'm here on a business trip, and the branch company has no right to dismiss people from the head office. And after all, this is still my family's property, so I have to ask my elder brother first to fire me."

Mentioning the devil who squeezed free labor, Eisen was filled with emotion.Although he was always asked to fly around the world, other than not letting him resign, other things were very negotiable. Besides, if his elder brother hadn't decided to throw him to France temporarily, he probably wouldn't be able to catch up with Tang Cen in his life.

From this point of view alone, Eisen is still very grateful to his elder brother for giving him this opportunity, but it is impossible for him to go to the company and projects every day.

"I'm done working on this section for the time being, just leave it to the people here. I'll go back and have a look at the next stage after a while." Eisen dug out a little jam and spread it thinly on the toast, leaving it at hand The phone vibrated several times, bit off the crispy corner of the toast, and said vaguely: "There is an email communication process every day, there will be no major problems."

It was the first time Tang Cen heard Aisen mention his family. Although it was just a simple name, Tang Cen could hear some sense of pride from Aisen's tone.He didn't know what Eisen's family was like, but Eisen must have been loved by them all the time.

"So willful." Having said that, Tang Cen still envied Eisen that he could do whatever he wanted in his company with the favor of his family.Their family backgrounds used to be almost the same, but their circumstances were very different.

No matter whether he was an intern in Tang Songyuan's company before, or later came to Su Yuqing's as the leader of a small department, Tang Cen did not dare to rely on such a shallow relationship to do whatever he wanted.He gets along with people carefully, walking on thin ice every step, afraid that the mistakes he makes will disappoint his elders.

Occasionally, Tang Cen would hear rumors that the young master was airborne, and there would always be a wave of gossip among the company's employees.Tang Cen never participated in such discussions, but while discussing, those good-for-nothings even flattered him, saying that he was young and promising, humble and capable.

Those good-for-nothings wanted to please him, but they didn't know that Tang Cen really wanted to experience what it was like to be "bossed around".

But he didn't dare, he would feel guilty even ordering Eisen to make snacks, so how could he learn how the second generation ancestor bullied others.

Seeing Tang Cen suddenly start to lose his mind, Eisen put down the toast in his hand and refilled the empty glass in front of him with milk.

"Let's go for a walk after dinner. There are still a few ingredients missing for making cheesecake." Eisen said while observing Tang Cen calmly. Seeing that his expression was normal, he continued: "Tonight Well, you can eat when you come back from shopping tomorrow.”

Hearing "Cheesecake", Tang Cen's left eyelid twitched, and his fingers resting on his knees circled on the raised joints.

He hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.