Stop loss

Qin Ge was lucky. He stopped a taxi as soon as he left Nanyang Street. He sat in the back seat and reported the address of the small villa. After the car drove for a few minutes, raindrops fell on the window, and the rain tended to become heavier. .

Qin Ge couldn't help worrying about Qi Miaomiao. Her mother took the driver's license test more than ten years ago, but since she returned to Tanzhou, she never touched the steering wheel again. The tool is still the bus.Qin Ge asked her why she didn't buy a car by herself, so that commuting to and from get off work would be more convenient. Qi Miaomiao said that she had dreamed more than once that she was driving, but the steering wheel and brakes failed.

This dream was so real that Qi Miaomiao also developed a subtle fear of driving in real life, fearing that she would become a road killer.She also often works overtime for herself. Weekends and holidays are the busiest times for the Youth Palace. With such a heavy rain today, she must not be home yet.

Qin Ge called Qi Miaomiao, and indeed there were children's loud and clear voices on the opposite side.Qi Miaomiao changed to a quieter place and asked her son, "What's the matter?"

"I happened to be in a taxi. I'll pick you up now." Qin Ge looked out the window washed by the rain.Qi Miaomiao takes the bus during the day, and usually chooses to take a taxi home at night, and the heavier the rain, the fewer and fewer taxis on the road.

But Qi Miaomiao declined his son's kindness, and was a little anxious: "Don't come over, don't come over, it's raining and traffic jams on the road, I still have a lot of children waiting for their parents."

Qin Ge frowned slightly. He was not a good-tempered person in the first place, but now he was a little impatient: "Do you, a director who is about to be promoted to deputy palace chief, have to worry about such trivial matters as picking up and dropping off children?"

"What you said..." Qi Miaomiao said in a serious manner, "Nothing related to children is trivial."

"Then I—" Qin Ge almost blurted out "Then I'm not your child", but he suddenly realized that he was indeed not a child anymore.

But her mother said to him in a coaxing tone: "Son, be good, you go to bed when you get home, you don't have to wait for mother."

After finishing speaking, Qin Ge heard Qi Miaomiao's immature and sweet "Mother Qi" from Qi Miaomiao's side, and Qi Miaomiao let out a long "eh", as if it was really her child.

Qin Ge hung up the phone, his brows stretched, but his face was not happy at all.

It was not the first time he heard the children in the Youth Palace call Qi Miaomiao like this, nor was it the first time he heard Qi Miaomiao show affection and love to these children. It must be unexpected that Director Qi, who is meticulous about other people's children, rarely spends time and energy on his own son.

Qin Ge looked at the rain-coated car window again, his eyebrows and eyes were vaguely reflected on it.Lu Chong's worries were not groundless, he did have a face almost identical to Qin Siyuan's.

oh.Thinking of Uncle Lu, Qin Ge realized that the phone call just now was unnecessary. No matter how long his mother stayed in the Youth Palace, Lu Chong would be obliged to drive to pick him up.

This made Qin Ge's heart suddenly empty, and then what came to his mind was the unique sense of loneliness at this age.He didn't say a word, and the driver who heard the call asked, "Do you want to change the destination?"

"No need." Qin Ge paused and said, "Just stop here."

The driver slowed down, turned his head to look at the young man in the back seat suspiciously, Qin Ge pointed to the Starbucks not far ahead, and said, "That's right there."

The driver parked the car as close as possible, and Qin Ge still walked a few steps after getting out of the car, but he didn't get wet, and he was decent when he entered the coffee shop.

He casually ordered a drink, sat in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor, and absorbed the negativity of not wanting to go home—if he went back now, he would have to turn on and off the lights from the entrance to his room on the second floor by himself, and start all over again. In the end there is only one person.

He is no longer a child, and what this darkness brings to him is no longer the expectation of treasure hunting, but only coldness and unfamiliarity.

Except for the rain, he can no longer see people coming and going from the window.No one would go out for a stroll in such bad weather, and he was the only customer left in the cafe.

Then he thought of Chen Qiye.

Until this moment, he didn't think of Chen Qiye.Although Chen Xiye just confessed to him an hour or two ago.

Chen Qiye is not the first person to confess to Qin Ge, and there will be others in the future, so Chen Qiye will not be the last one to refuse.

From this point of view, apart from being the same gender as himself, Chen Qiye is not outstanding among those who are either openly or secretly in love with Qin Ge.He said the phrase "I like you" without any burden, and it was no different from "I like chocolate" naturally.

Qin Ge actually had some sympathy for Chen Xiye. The closed learning environment for many years made Chen Qiye unable to distinguish that there are more than one likings in this world, those for relatives, friends, and lovers, so Qin Ge didn't have any over-reactions. Say no with a tone like "I don't like sweets."

And if Chen Wang hadn't appeared by the window, Qin Ge might have considered it since Chen Xiye himself didn't have any sense of taboo. He just doesn't like sweets, not that he hates sweets.

This possibility made Qin Ge very surprised, and his brows were slightly frowned, feeling unbelievable.

It's not about the possibility itself, but that he can imagine this possibility so clearly.He thought he would feel some kind of guilt, and he turned the rim of the white paper cup thoughtfully, his eyes fell on the green mermaid logo——

The mermaid with two tails smiled, as if singing.He stared at the stripes on the logo, vaguely remembering his mother's childhood companionship.

She used to care and love herself so much, telling herself bedtime stories, there are sea monsters and sailors in the picture book-it is said that there is a sea monster named Siren in the depths of the sea, and she has a charming singing voice, which attracts passing sailors to change The fairway, sailing towards him without hesitation.

After listening to the story, Xiao Qin Ge asked Qi Miaomiao: "Mom, are you a siren?"

Qi Miaomiao never corrected the child's unrestrained and childish speech, but guided him to ask: "Why do you say that?"

"Because other children in the kindergarten said that mother is very beautiful," Xiao Qin Ge said solemnly, "and you said that our hometown has mountains and seas, and you might be a mermaid who came ashore with the waves."

"It's really possible," Qi Miaomiao followed Xiao Qin Ge's words with a certain kind of innocent confidence, "That's why Dad loves Mom so much."

Thinking of the ending in the storybook, Xiao Qin Ge's big eyes were filled with confusion: "Then dad is a sailor, dad... is mom's prey?" But this doesn't fit the disparity in physique between the two. Messy, "Mom... is Dad's prey?"

"Stupid boy..." Qi Miaomiao smiled, Xiao Qin Ge understood what she said at the end, but she didn't.

"No one is anyone's prey." Qi Miaomiao said, "Both father and mother love each other, and father and mother are equal."

Qin Ge remembered that Qi Miaomiao slept with him that night.Before those postcards sent from Russia aroused Qi Miaomiao's suspicion, Qin Ge, as the crystallization of her love with Qin Siyuan, was undoubtedly deeply loved by her.

Even though he was alone at the moment, and even the teller came to tell him that he was about to close, he was not only unaccompanied, but also about to be homeless.

He nodded at the teller, and declined the umbrella handed over by him, as if he lived nearby and didn't need help, walking into the rain screen alone.

Then he suddenly found himself enjoying the feeling of raindrops falling on his skin. This kind of real contact made him feel a certain existence again, so that morality was no longer blinded by selfish desires.

Even though he was really lonely, wanted to be loved so much, and was so eager to have unscrupulous thoughts, he still held the paper cup in his hand and threw it into the trash can. The mermaid logo on it was submerged in the darkness, just like Qin Ge's back disappeared into the This was a gentle rainy night for him.

And Chen Qiye jumped down from the stairs to make a noise, and the sensor lights in the corridor that had been in disrepair for a long time were able to light up.He said several "sorry" softly and hastily that no one heard to express his apology for making noise at this time, but he accidentally took out Qin Ge's diary when he took out the keys just now, the little The notebook rolled down the stairs in the dark, and if there was no light, he would never have been able to find where the notebook was lost.