Morbid Addiction

Chen Yuncheng didn't bring a change of clothes, and simply took a shower and came out of the bathroom wearing the clothes he wore during the day, but the temperature in the room was around 20 degrees, so he didn't wear a sweater, and only wore autumn clothes underneath.

He came back and sat by the bed, Ning Junyan took the medicine and rubbed it on his sprained foot.

Chen Yuncheng quickly said, "I'll do it myself."

Ning Junyan squatted in front of him, just looked up at him silently, didn't say anything, and naturally didn't give him the medicine in his hand.

The bruises are in the form of ointment, and Ning Junyan squeezed some into the palm of his hand before saying, "Pull up your trousers."

Chen Yuncheng was still wearing long jeans, and he pulled up the trousers so that his ankles were completely exposed.

Ning Junyan spread the ointment on the palms of both hands, and wrapped Chen Yuncheng's ankles with warm hands at the same time.

At that moment, Chen Yuncheng could feel the temperature of his palm was really high, the sticky ointment seemed to melt instantly, stuck to his skin and penetrated into the pores.

There was no superfluous expression on Ning Junyan's face. He pressed his hands against Chen Yuncheng's ankles and did not move for a short time. After a while, he gradually rubbed the ointment away with very gentle force.

Chen Yuncheng felt a little pain, but it wasn't very painful, because Ning Junyan's strength was well controlled, and the ointment was too slippery after it was applied, as if a layer of oil had been applied to the feet. It was slightly cool at first, and then became hot again.

Ning Junyan just rubbed him gently for four or five minutes. When he let go, he held his ankle and put his foot on the side of the bed, and then stood up from the side of the bed.

Chen Yuncheng put one foot on the ground in a slipper, and stepped on the edge of the bed with the other foot. Unconsciously, he leaned back slightly, and raised his head to look at Ning Junyan.

Ning Junyan had ointment all over his hands, he glanced at Chen Yuncheng and said, "Your face is very red."

Chen Yuncheng suddenly felt his cheeks burn.

Ning Junyan walked towards the bathroom, and said as he walked, "Open the window later, the room may be too stuffy."

Chen Yuncheng said: "Okay." Then he lay on his back on the bed and took a deep breath.

That night, they opened the window a slit, and the heating effect in the room was not so obvious, and the temperature was slightly lower, which made people feel more comfortable to sleep on.

Chen Yuncheng felt that he slept too much during the day, so he began to suffer from insomnia at night, and he lay in bed without falling asleep for a long time.

On the bed next to him, Ning Junyan didn't make a sound at all, and Chen Yuncheng didn't know if he was asleep.Thinking about it, they haven't slept in the same room for many years. They have slept in the same bed for four years, why do they feel so strange now?

Chen Yuncheng had a lot of things on his mind, they piled up and made him think for a long time in a strange hotel room, and he gradually fell asleep late at night.

The next morning, Chen Yuncheng woke up when the sky was slightly bright. He checked the time with his mobile phone, it was almost eight o'clock in the morning.

He stuffed the phone back under the pillow, and turned to look at the bed next door. Ning Junyan was still in a peaceful sleeping position, with his eyes closed as if he hadn't woken up.

Chen Yuncheng lifted the quilt and got out of bed. The moment he stepped on the ground, he felt pain in his left ankle, but it didn't look as swollen as badly as last night.

He originally wanted to go to the bathroom, but when he looked at Ning Junyan on the opposite bed, he suddenly felt that from this angle, when he was sleeping with his eyes closed, he was very similar to when he was a child.At that time they all slept together, sometimes when Chen Yuncheng woke up and Ning Junyan faced each other, the distance was very close, so close that he could feel Ning Junyan's breathing, but neither of them disliked each other.

At that moment, Chen Yuncheng found some childhood warmth from his memory. He squatted down beside Ning Junyan's bed, turned his head to look at his sleeping face, couldn't help smiling, and called him softly: " Words?"

Ning Junyan didn't respond.

Chen Yuncheng felt a little funny, stood up and was about to leave, when suddenly the person on the bed stretched out his hand and grabbed his wrist forcefully.He lowered his head and saw Ning Junyan lying on the bed, looking at him with his eyes open.

"What did you call me just now?" Ning Junyan asked him.

Chen Yuncheng said: "Yanyan?" After finishing speaking, he quickly explained, "I just suddenly remembered that I didn't know your name at that time, and I always called you by that."

"Well," Ning Junyan said, "call again."

Chen Yuncheng looked at him without opening his mouth.

Ning Junyan was very persistent, "Call again."

Chen Yuncheng whispered uncertainly, "Yanyan?"

Ning Junyan said: "Well, I'm here." Then he let go of Chen Yuncheng's hand, and pulled up the quilt to cover half of his face.

They ate breakfast directly at the hotel.

Regardless of whether Zhou Yan and his parents could be found today, Chen Yuncheng did not intend to stay any longer, so he checked out of the room directly after breakfast, and the two of them drove out of the hotel.

It was almost ten o'clock in the morning when we returned to the community where Zhou Yan's parents lived. Chen Yuncheng went upstairs with a sprained foot and knocked on the door. There was still no response from the house, so he and Ning Junyan came out of the community again.

A few chairs were placed outside the gatekeeper's room in the community. Chen Yuncheng talked to the gatekeeper and asked him if he could sit for a while.

The uncle nodded generously.

Chen Yuncheng immediately said to Ning Junyan: "Sit down for a while."

Ning Junyan sat down on a chair, while Chen Yuncheng stood by the window of the guard's room, chatting with the guard.

He said they were waiting for the Ms. Li they were looking for yesterday.

The doorman propped his head on one hand, leaned on the table by the window, and said, "At first I thought you were some kind of debt collector."

Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, "Do I look like a debt collector?"

The doorman said: "There is no rule on what a debt collector must look like. It's hard to say whether you look like it. Anyway, I don't think the young man with you looks like it."

Chen Yuncheng glanced at Ning Junyan when he heard the words, and said with a slight smile, "He really doesn't look like him, he's a doctor."

The doorman clapped his hands, "Right, I just said that he is so good-looking, what can he do to collect debts, he can be a celebrity. It's also good to be a doctor, doctors make money."

Chen Yuncheng joked with him: "Then you think I'm not good enough?"

The uncle said: "I didn't say, you look good too, but you don't have his temperament."

"What temperament?" Chen Yuncheng asked.

The uncle thought for a while and said, "I can't say."

Chen Yuncheng understood what the doorman meant. He himself was used to everything when he was a child, lonely and poor. He grew up at the bottom of society, so he naturally didn't have the temperament of Ning Junyan.Regardless of whether he has a good-looking face or not, he looks like a gangster in the eyes of others, and they will treat him as a debt collector on this occasion.

He was a little lost in thought.

At this time, the uncle patted him on the shoulder, pointed to a woman who was walking along the street with a travel bag, and said, "That's the Sister Li you are looking for."

Chen Yuncheng raised his head and saw that the woman was about 50 to [-] years old, wearing a floral long down jacket, with ear-level short hair curled up in small curls. Looking from a distance, she could indeed find some traces of Zhou Yan's resemblance on her face.

"Wait for me," Chen Yuncheng said to Ning Junyan, walked towards the woman, stopped in front of her, and said as gently as possible: "Hello, auntie, my name is Chen Yuncheng, and I belong to Zhou Yan." friend."

The woman suddenly opened her eyes wide.The woman's surname was Li, and her name was Li Yanping. She was indeed Zhou Yan's mother.

She was very wary of the appearance of Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan, and kept repeating: "Zhou Yan hasn't come back for a long time."

Ning Junyan stood by and did not speak, Chen Yuncheng said to her patiently: "Have you not been in touch?"

Li Yanping shook her head, "He ran away in his teens. If there is any contact, he didn't even call back."

Chen Yuncheng said, "Has he come back to look for you recently?"

"No, no," Li Yanping carried her bag and wanted to bypass them and continue walking towards the community, as if she didn't want to continue the conversation.

Chen Yuncheng said to her: "Do you know he has a child? That child is currently in the hospital, I think he may come back to ask you for help."

Li Yanping stopped and subconsciously said, "I don't have money either."

Chen Yuncheng suddenly felt sad. He looked at Li Yanping and didn't speak for a while.

Ning Junyan silently looked at Chen Yuncheng's profile, and then said to Li Yanping: "I don't need you to take money, I just want to know if he has come back to look for you. I know you are not at home recently, you can ask Zhou Yan's father Have you not seen him?"

Li Yanping showed a troubled expression.

Chen Yuncheng said: "If we ask, we will leave immediately."

Only then did Li Yanping say: "He should be at home now, come with me."