Lovely Allergen

Time must not move at a constant speed, at least not in the sense of body.

Le Zhishi, who was doing physics homework during the winter vacation, firmly believed in his own point of view. He didn't know why the whole semester passed in a daze. For this reason, he even tried to find out if there were any scientists doing research in this field, but Lin Rong's phone number Interrupted Le Zhishi's first thesis research work that might have happened in his life.

"Yeah, um," Le Zhishi was on the phone while walking downstairs, "Brother Song Yu is going to a cram school, I'll take him there, I know the place."

Putting down the phone, Lezhi found out the leash and put Marshmallow on it, and took it to the pet clinic for a physical examination.

"By the way, let's make cotton candy, your hair has grown so long recently." It was cold outside, and Le Zhishi was wrapped in a thick white down jacket. From a distance, a person and a dog looked like two balls of cotton candy.

During the winter vacation and weekends, the pet clinic was packed. Le Zhishi saw many cats, dogs, and even chinchillas at one time. He felt very satisfied and stroked them all in his heart.The elder sister who was in the front led two large dogs, one Alaska and one golden retriever.When the golden retriever went to the doctor, Alaska seemed very uncomfortable with the environment here, and behaved very maniacally.

"Excuse me, can you pull the rope for me? He might be scared. I'll give him a hug."

"Oh, okay." Lezhi put down the marshmallow in his arms that had been watching the show obediently, and helped his elder sister grab the leash of Alaska with the other hand. Lezhi felt very novel when pulling a large dog for the first time. Hiromi, who was holding her left hand, couldn't dominate with her right hand at all, as if she had been slipped by a dog.

The hostess squatted down and stroked Alaska's head. After a few minutes, it calmed down a little and stopped making trouble. When she knew it, she was relieved and sighed that the cotton candy was still obedient, so she took out a dog snack from her pocket and prepared to reward it to the dog. Cotton candy, who knows that when he turned his head, he found that the end of the traction rope was empty, and the cotton candy was gone.

Le Zhishi panicked, turned the small pet clinic upside down, and called his name with his favorite snack in his hand, but it didn't help.He ran to the road again and looked around, but there was still no sign of cotton candy.

He circled around there, and his first reaction after getting no results was to call Lin Rong, but Lin Rong seemed to be busy dealing with the purchase of imported ingredients, so he couldn't get in touch at all. Called Song Yu.

Le Zhishi seemed to have found a savior, and the first sentence was almost crying, "Brother Song Yu, the cotton candy is gone."

Song Yu told him to calm down, and after listening to Le Zhi, he recounted the story and thought for a while.

"Look for it separately. I'm going home now. Your side is close to Yang and Qizhe. Go there and try."

Le Zhishi didn't know why Song Yu asked him to go to the restaurant to find cotton candy, but he did it anyway.Before hanging up the phone, he heard Song Yu say.

"Don't worry, you'll find it."

The mood suddenly calmed down a lot, Le Zhishi packed the marshmallow snacks, and took a taxi to Yanghe Qizhe.

The restaurant is closed today.The courtyard door was closed, and there was no one outside.Le Zhishi was very disappointed. He was sweating all over from running, took off the hat of his down jacket, searched around in several alleys near the restaurant, and finally met Song Yu who got out of a taxi at the intersection.

Song Yu was wearing the same style of down jacket as him, both bought by Lin Rong, only one white and one dark gray.Seeing that he was also empty-handed, Le Zhishi couldn't hide the disappointment on his face, and lowered his head apologetically.

"The restaurant doesn't have... sorry, I didn't like it."

This dog was brought back by Song Yu, strictly speaking, it was Song Yu's dog.

Le Zhishi was very sad, and knew that Song Yu must be very worried, so he just ran out of the cram school.

But Song Yu didn't lose his temper as he imagined. He just put the hood on his back again, "The last time I walked it, it also broke free. There is a problem with the leash."

Le Zhishi's sweat on his forehead had been blown dry by the wind, and it was cool.They stood at the intersection for a while, and Song Yu said that he went home and looked along the road in the car, but he did not see it.

Hearing this, Le Zhishi was even more sad.

"Go and have a look." Song Yu walked towards the restaurant.

He followed Song Yu, without any hope in his heart. He didn't feel it when he came out, but now he found that the weather was really cold, and the wind hung on his face like a soft blade, and then penetrated into his neck.

He lowered his head, pulled the zipper higher, and followed Song Yu soullessly.

The alleys are full of wind, and Le Zhishi's mind is full of the scene of cotton candy living alone on the street.The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the cotton candy is so small that I didn't even wear a knitted vest when I went out today.

He began to consider the feasibility of asking for help on Weibo and distributing recruitment leaflets all over the street.

Song Yu's footsteps stopped suddenly, causing Le Zhishi to bump into his back without stopping, "Ah, what's wrong?" He looked forward, and in front of him was the gate of Yang and Qizhe. Grandma, the cotton candy is by her side.

The moment he saw Song Yu and Le Zhishi, Cotton Candy also ran over quickly, and Le Zhishi immediately squatted down and hugged him, his lost and recovered heart was like riding a roller coaster, he buried his face in the cotton candy's fur, " Where did you go, I was scared to death, I have already figured out the layout of the flyer."

Song Yu walked towards the old lady, and saw that she was about 60 years old, wearing a string of pearl necklaces around her neck, and she was very well dressed, even grand.She also stood up, and smoothed the wrinkles on the thin wine-red coat with her leather-gloved hands, showing a kind smile.

"So this is your puppy." She has gray hair and speaks slowly, "Are you also here to eat?"

Le Zhishi hugged the dog and exchanged a glance with Song Yu.Song Yu said to the old man, "You may have misremembered, this place is closed today."

The old lady had a puzzled and half-believing expression on her face, "Really? But I won't remember wrongly, my wife made the reservation today."

Le Zhishi was also puzzled, "It's really closed today, and the boss is not here. Grandma, did you remember wrongly?"

"No..." The old woman always insisted that she was here for the appointment.When Le Zhi saw that she was wearing thin clothes, it was not an option to stand in such a cold weather.He touched Song Yu's arm, "Brother Song Yu, did you bring the key to the restaurant?"

Song Yu nodded, took out the keychain, found the key to the restaurant, and opened the door.

Le Zhi went up to help the old lady, "Come in first, I'll help you look at the reservation form and see what's wrong."

They turned on the heater in the restaurant and let the old lady sit down.Song Yu temporarily boiled a pot of water, and Le Zhishi turned on the computer at the front desk to find out the appointment form. They also often came to the restaurant to help out before, so they knew the process somewhat.

Boiling water is poured into the transparent teapot, and the aroma of black tea is instantly stimulated by the heat.Song Yu brought hot tea to the old lady.

"Thank you."

He returned to Le Zhishi, "Did you find it?"

Le Zhi raised his eyes, shook his head at him, and whispered: "I really have no appointment today." He looked at the old lady, and saw her looking at the door expectantly, as if she was really waiting for someone.Le Zhishi couldn't help asking: "Grandma, it's hard to check here, can you tell me your lover's name? Or the phone number is also fine."

The old lady looked at the two of them and opened her mouth with a smile, but suddenly, she seemed to be stuck, and the smile was gradually replaced by a confused look, "My lover's name..." She frowned, lowered her head in thought, "name……"

Song Yu stared at the old man, feeling something was wrong.

"What day is it today, do you remember?"

"I..." The old man thought for a while, his brows loosened, and his smile appeared again, "November 21st is the silver wedding anniversary of my wife and I. Today, we are here to celebrate the anniversary."

November...but now it's almost New Year's Eve.No wonder I was wearing such thin clothes, I had misremembered the date.

Le Zhi looked at Song Yu again, and said softly, "Brother Song Yu, is she..."

Song Yu nodded, "Well, Alzheimer."

This is troublesome, Le Zhishi thought, this old lady can't remember the date, and she might have gone to the wrong store. Now that she is lost, the family members don't know how anxious they are, but they don't even have their name and contact information.

"Call the police." Song Yu said.

This sentence was not loud, but it was heard by the old lady impartially. She suddenly became emotional, as if she was very resistant, "Call the police? Why do you call the police? I just want to have a meal."

Le Zhishi wanted to explain, "Grandma, you..."

"Can I order first?" The old man looked at them with anticipation in his eyes, "I think my lover may be delayed by something, but he will be back soon."

Le Zhishi looked at her expression and couldn't bear to tell the truth.It's almost time for dinner, he took a breath, "Then what do you want to eat? There are only two of us in the restaurant today, so we may not be able to do much."

The old lady smiled kindly, "It's okay, it's very simple, he likes to eat your pearl balls the most."

"what about others?"

"other……"

Seeing that the old lady was in the confusion of memory again, Le Zhishi had no choice but to write it down for her first, "Then let's take a look first." He ran to check, and there happened to be glutinous rice and meat. The temporary chef was replaced and pushed into the kitchen.

Le Zhishi showed the strength to coax a big cat, beat his back and shoulders, and offered to wear an apron. Although Song Yu looked reluctant, he didn't refuse him in front of grandma in the end.

He came out of the kitchen and saw the old lady looking out the door with a disappointed expression.

"He will come, just wait a moment."

The old lady stared at the serious expression on Le Zhishi's face, and suddenly smiled, "You look better than when you were a child." As she spoke, she glanced towards the kitchen, "So does your brother." After speaking, she added One line, "You used to be like a doll."

Le Zhishi was suddenly stunned.Her memory did have a big problem. When they met at the door, the old lady clearly didn't know them, but now she could recall their childhood.

Did she really come here.

"Do you remember which year you got married?" Le Zhi asked.

The old lady tried very hard to remember, but still shook her head.

"This way..." Le Zhishi did not give up. He searched the time of the silver wedding on the Internet. It was the 25th anniversary of marriage. The old lady looked around 60 years old. If she got married in her 20s, she would come to Yanghe in her 50s Qizhe.About ten years ago...

It almost coincided with the opening time of the store, when both of them were indeed very young.But in the first two years since the store was opened, the management here was not perfect, and there were not many customers. The reservations were all handwritten and recorded in a notebook, and there was no electronic record.

Le Zhishi rummaged around for the keys, and finally found the key to the cabinet where the old reservation books were stored in a drawer at the front desk, and squatted on the ground to take out the dusty books.One book a year, he flipped through carefully, the dust splashed on his face, choking him to cough.

Song Yu came out suddenly and poured himself a glass of water.

"Done?" Le Zhi raised his head, his face flushed from coughing.

"It's steaming." Song Yu asked, "What are you doing?"

"This grandma spent her anniversary at our store back then. I want to look through the reservation records for the first few years when the store opened. Just look at the one on November 11. There are not many customers every day. I should be able to find his wife's contact information. "Speaking of this, Le Zhishi suddenly frowned, "Ah, could it be that after so many years, the number has changed?"

Song Yu shook his head, "Probably not, after all his wife has Alzheimer's disease."

Le Zhishi took a reassurance and wanted to continue, but was sent away by Song Yu, "Go and accompany her."

"You go, I'll look for it." Le Zhi said.

"I do not want to talk."

Hearing this sentence, Lezhishi naturally had to shoulder the foreign work, and talked with the grandmother. She didn't remember anything, but she said my love one by one, and I couldn't tell what it felt like. Lezhishi was a little sad, but not just sad.

"Happy time."

Called by Song Yu, Le Zhi immediately rushed over.

"Call one by one." Song Yu spread out the notebook and handed it over, pointing to the ones circled in red.When Le Zhi sat down, he followed what Song Yu said and called the guests who had made reservations one by one.

"Hello, is this Mr. Wang? Sorry to bother you, do you have any missing family members... I'm sorry, maybe we made a mistake and interrupted."

"Is this Mr. Li? Hello..."

The phone calls were made one after another, and Le Zhishi began to be skeptical about the feasibility of this method. He crossed each of the calls one by one, looked up and saw the old lady was still waiting, and even the cotton candy was brought by her and sat by the French window Before him, wagging his little fluffy tail, he seemed to be waiting for someone.

An hour passed, and Le Zhi counted the hours, "There are only two."

Song Yu nodded. He knew Lezhi still wanted to try, but he didn't stop him, so he stood beside him.

Le Zhishi sorted out his emotions and dialed out the phone again. The phone was in the middle of a call at first, he waited for a while, and finally decided to call the next one first.

The last call was answered very quickly. The voice of the other party sounded very young, but like the previous guests, they did not have any lost family members, nor did they know any patients with Alzheimer's disease.A sense of great disappointment welled up in Le Zhishi's heart. He really wanted to lie down on the front desk table, but he was afraid of soiling his white down jacket, so he leaned his forehead on Song Yu's arm.

Song Yu understood his current mood, raised his hand, and wanted to touch the top of his hair. At this moment, the phone at the front desk rang suddenly, and Le Zhi immediately raised his head to answer the phone.

"Hello."

The person on the other side seemed to be more anxious than him, out of breath, Le Zhishi asked with the last hope, and sure enough, he got the answer he wanted to hear.

"Yes, that's me."

Le Zhi looked up at Song Yu excitedly and smiled, "Okay, then I'll wait for you here, eh!"

Putting down the phone, Le Zhi felt that the voice on the other side was very familiar, but he couldn't answer it all at once.Marshmallow ran over to scratch his leg, picked him up when he knew it, walked slowly around the restaurant, and observed the old lady's expression from the corner of his eye.

The other party seemed to be tireless, still looking forward with anticipation.

When the pearl balls were steamed, the person waiting for the old lady finally arrived.Seeing the man who pushed open the courtyard door through the glass french doors, Le Zhi was taken aback when he realized that it turned out to be a regular customer of their shop, Professor Zhang.

Professor Zhang hurried over, walking fast.When I saw him in Lezhi, he was always very funny and kind, and he had never been so eager and flustered.

"Maine." He pushed the door open and came in, what seemed to be the old lady's name.

Just when Le Zhishi thought the dust had fallen to the ground, and happily stepped over to Song Yu's side, the old lady raised her head and asked suspiciously, "Are you...?"

Song Yu looked at them and lowered his eyes.He had expected this scene before him.Ke Lezhi didn't understand, he frowned, and his expression was even sadder than Professor Zhang.

"Lele, Xiao Yu, I'm really causing you trouble." Instead of persuading the old lady, Professor Zhang first greeted them.Song Yu shook his head, asking him not to care.

Le Zhishi saw Grandpa Zhang open a bag on his shoulders, which contained the short padded clothes, scarves and hats he brought, "You wear so little to go out, what should you do if you are old and sick." He spread the coat to himself His wife put it on, but was rejected by his wife.

"Who are you, I don't know you."

"Grandma, he is your lover." Le Zhishi couldn't help but stepped forward, "Don't you remember him?"

Grandpa Zhang smiled at Lezhi, "It's okay, Lele, I'm used to it." He took out an old photo from the side of the bag, it was their wedding photo when they were young, and the other was their later "Maine, look, we took this photo together. You didn't have a wedding dress at that time, so you weren't happy. You were wearing a white dress."

He recounted the past of the two of them one by one, and patiently restored these memories. The old lady did not resist so much, and listened suspiciously, and gradually became serious, and was willing to let him wear a scarf and hat for herself.

In the end, she seemed to remember, but she kept complaining that Professor Zhang came too late and made her wait.Professor Zhang apologized over and over again, promising that he would not be late for the next appointment.

Grandma's face was full of love, "I bought your favorite pearl balls, let's eat before leaving."

Professor Zhang looked at Le Zhishi and Song Yu, and coaxed her with a smile, "Let's pack up and eat at home, the restaurant is going to be closed."

It was going to be dark in a blink of an eye, and the street lamps in the street were lit one by one.The dim alley was covered with warm yellow light, Le Zhishi and Song Yu stood in front of Yang and Qizhe's courtyard to see off the two old people.

"Fortunately, I have you. Today, a former student asked me for something. After a while, she ran out by herself." Professor Zhang's eyes were a little red, and he held his wife's hand, "Actually, I usually give her Wearing arranged clothes, I usually put my contact information in the jacket pocket, just for fear of such a situation. I don’t know what happened, but my wife actually changed into other clothes by herself.”

Le Zhishi stared at the old lady, thinking of her expectant look.

Is it to celebrate the anniversary with the person I love the most, so I changed my usual clothes and dressed up carefully.

Professor Zhang patted Le Zhishi's arm, looked at Song Yu and said, "It's getting late, you two should go home quickly, don't let your mother worry. I will definitely visit another day, and I must thank you very much."

Song Yu, who had been silent all this time, also said at this time: "Don't worry about it." Le Zhishi leaned against Song Yu, nodded and smiled, "Well, Grandpa Zhang, go back quickly, the pearl balls are going to be completely cold."

Speaking of pearl balls, the old lady complained again, "Yeah, you made me wait for so long. You are late every time we meet, and you didn't have the flowers you said you would send me."

"Oh, I'm not..."

flower?

Le Zhishi suddenly said: "Yes, he brought it." After he finished speaking, he turned around and ran back to the restaurant, and came out again after a while, leaned towards Professor Zhang with his hands behind his back, and secretly handed him the things in his hand.Song Yu glanced at him, but cooperated without saying a word.

Old Professor Zhang stretched out his hand, and there was a well-bloomed narcissus on the slender flower stem.

"Grandpa Zhang prepared this for you."

"It's so beautiful." Although there is only one flower, the old lady's face is filled with happiness that cannot be hidden.She took the flower and held it in her hands cherishingly.After saying goodbye again and again, the two walked away with staggering steps, cuddling each other.

There was a gust of wind, and Le Zhishi shrank his neck from the cold. Looking from a distance, the figures of the two became blurred in the city lights.The tip of his nose felt sore, and he thought it might be from the cold, but the sourness dripped into his heart again.

Standing at the door, in the alley, on a winter night, at the courtyard gate of Yang and Qizhe, and the diffuse circle of light under the street lamps, this scene was very familiar to Song Yu, and he looked at the opposite wall in a daze.

"I don't want to forget you." Le Zhishi said suddenly.

Song Yu turned his face, his eyes were very complicated, as if he was confused, and he seemed to think he had heard something wrong.

A street lamp overhead cast light, covering Le Zhishi's face. His soft brown hair was golden, the tip of his nose and cheeks were red from the cold, and his eyes were so bright.

"Brother Xiaoyu, I don't want to forget you." He looked into Song Yu's eyes.

After being stunned for two seconds, Song Yu turned his face away.

"What nonsense."

Le Zhishi knew that this was a baseless nonsense, so he didn't refute it.Just seeing the old lady made him sad.He has no lover and doesn't understand how it feels to forget his lover.But he tried to substitute himself, imagining what it would be like to forget Uncle Song and Aunt Rong one day.

He even imagined how he felt when he forgot Song Yu.

His heart ached a little, but it seemed to be tightly grasped, and he couldn't let go.

"I will never forget you." Le Zhishi said again.

At the moment before he spoke, Song Yu was also thinking.Which one is more painful, the forgotten person or the forgotten person.Given a choice, which one would he do.

Unable to think of an answer, he took off his scarf and threw it on Le Zhishi.

"You have almost forgotten everything about your childhood."

"I remember a lot, and I forget only a small part. I remember all the important things." Just after he finished speaking, his stomach growled, and it seemed that his previous words were not serious at all.

Song Yu stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets, turned around and walked into the yard, "Eat something."

"Is there anything to eat?" Le Zhi followed quickly in.

"Pearl balls." Song Yu said, "I steamed an extra serving."

"real?!"

As soon as the dining room door was opened, Marshmallow sprinted out, stood up and scratched his leg.Le Zhishi picked him up again and shook him, "Little thing, although you were misbehaving and slipped away by yourself, you did a great job today and allowed us to find the lost grandma, so I won't punish you today. "

"Ow!" Cotton Candy yelled in his arms.

"By the way." Le Zhishi held the marshmallow and asked doubtfully, "Brother, when the marshmallow disappeared, how did you suddenly think that it might be here?"

Song Yu came out from the back kitchen and put the pearl balls warmed by a small fire on the table. He looked up, then lowered his eyes, "I picked up the cotton candy at the entrance of the restaurant."

When Le Zhi looked at Marshmallow, the dog tilted its head at him.

"When? I don't even know."

"When you were in the third grade of elementary school, when you went to Hainan to participate in the winter camp."

Le Zhishi recalled, "Yes, that was the time, when I came back, I saw cotton candy at home." When he asked where this puppy came from, Song Yu only said that he picked it up, but didn't say much.

Song Yu poured a cup of hot water and held the side of the cup, "It was also night when I found him, and it was very cold. It was huddled at the foot of the wall at the entrance of the courtyard. It was a small ball, a little dirty, but its eyes were very bright."

At that time, he didn't realize why he was out of kindness and retrieved a puppy, but he knew that he would be responsible if he retrieved it.

When Lezhi came back from Hainan, seeing the ecstatic expression of the puppy, he hugged him in surprise, and gave Song Yu the answer with those shining eyes.

"So that's how it is. That's great. Cotton candy remembers things and knows where my hometown is." Le Zhishi held the cotton candy and stuffed a pearl ball in one gulp, sticky glutinous rice and elastic meatballs. Eat it together, double the deliciousness.He chewed seriously, his eyes were empty, and he glanced at the front desk messed up by them, looking at the notebooks that recorded the history of this restaurant.

Swallowing it down, he sighed: "That kind of disease is so terrible. I really want to remember it, but I even forget the person I like the most, the appearance, and the name."

When Song Yu stared at Lezhi, under the overhead light of the restaurant, his outline became softer and more ignorant.

He opened his mouth, his voice was still dull and cold, and what he said was realistic.

"Even if you don't have such a disease, memory is not controllable. Not forgetting does not mean that there will be no emotional changes. You may still remember the existence of this person after a long time, but his position in your heart is different. This This ending is more tragic than Alzheimer's passive forgetting."

Relationships are sensitive and fragile.Everyone is walking forward, walking in all directions, we are all ants in a hurry, lost contact in the busy process.That's why Song Yu hates building deep relationships, saving energy and avoiding risks in advance.

"In this world, people really get separated too easily."

go away.

Song Yu's words were a bit esoteric to Le Zhishi, and he seemed to understand half-understood, producing a very vague sadness.He thought of the feeling of losing cotton candy, and thought of grandma standing at the door of Yang and Qizhe waiting for a date, sighing like an adult, and the white mist of exhalation blinded his eyes again.

Seeing him like this, Song Yu actually wanted to laugh a little. He wanted to say eat quickly, don't think about it, but he didn't have time to speak.

"We won't get separated." Le Zhi Shi Fang's eyes focused on him, very determined.

Song Yu looked at him and was silent for a moment, which meant a negative and negative attitude, which was very clear when he knew it, so he said again: "If I get separated, I will definitely try my best to find you."

His expression was so serious, as if what he said was true, it was unquestionable.

"Need not."

Song Yu refused decisively, which made Le Zhishi frustrated.But in the next second, he heard the follow-up again.

"Your sense of direction is too bad." Song Yu sandwiched another ball for him, and looked into his ignorant eyes.

"Just stand there and wait for me."