Sediment rises

At 07:30, Chen Zui went downstairs in a crisp dark gray suit. He stopped at the stairs and turned right to the direction of the restaurant. He had already heard the slight sound of tableware colliding, and turned left to the entrance In the past, he would turn left and change his shoes at the entrance before going to work.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Zui chose to turn right and walk towards the restaurant.

Lin Congxuan was eating breakfast, a bowl of millet porridge, a fried egg, and two custard buns. There was only breakfast for one person on the table.

Chen Zui narrowed his eyes, showing a look of doubt. Although he never ate it, he knew that Lin Congxuan would make his breakfast every day.

"Without mine?"

Lin Congxuan raised his head in a hurry, and when he saw Chen Zui, he lowered his head slightly again, because he was too focused on the breakfast in front of him and he didn't notice Chen Zui just now.

Seeing Lin Congxuan staring blankly with a confused expression on his face, Chen Zui frowned slightly, his face slightly gloomy, and asked coldly, "Without mine?"

Lin Congxuan thought for a while before realizing that Chen Zui was talking about breakfast. He was a little confused and replied, "You usually don't eat."

He didn't mean not to be Chen Zui's part.

Chen Zui raised his eyebrows, it's rare that he got up early today to have breakfast with Lin Congxuan, and offered a tempting little bait to the little carp who had been rebellious yesterday, but the little carp ignored him.

"Are you taking revenge on me?" Chen Zui pulled out a chair and got down.

Lin Congxuan's expression was blank. He couldn't connect the cause and effect of what Chen Zui said, so he didn't understand what it meant.

Chen Zui pointed to the custard buns on the plate, and said, "Because I put Yu Cong's photo in my room, you are angry, so why don't you make me breakfast to retaliate against me?"

Lin Congxuan understood this time. He shook his head and said, "No, I'm in withdrawal and treatment." When he was talking, he always paused from time to time.

Chen Zui was stunned, his mouth opened and before he could speak, his cell phone rang, it was his father's call.

He picked it up: "Dad."

Chen Zhensheng's voice on the other end of the phone was a little hoarse: "I will return to China in a few days." He has been in poor health for the past few years, and he and his wife have been recuperating abroad for the past year.

Chen Zui looked up at Lin Congxuan, and he replied, "I'll pick you up."

Chen Zhensheng: "No need, I will call you when I get home, and you bring Xiaoxuan over for dinner."

Chen Zui hesitated for a moment, said yes, hung up the phone and told Lin Congxuan about it.

Lin Congxuan heard it, and then he calculated in his heart that he had to move in a few days. The time when Uncle Lin returned to China is still uncertain. If he had already moved out on the day he came back, he would not be able to go to our house for dinner with Chen Zui , so he neither nodded nor shook his head.

Lin Congxuan's attitude made Chen feel the most weird. The relationship between Lin Congxuan and his parents has always been closer than that of his own son.

Normally, the corners of his eyes would fly with joy when he heard that he was going to meet Lin Congxuan, but this time he was unusually calm, eating his breakfast intently, chewing slowly like a deer chewing grass blades .

It was getting late, and Chen Zuo set off to the company with the feeling of weightlessness pressing down on his chest.

Along the way, he drove the car mechanically, wondering what Lin Congxuan's phrase "withdrawal treatment" meant, and he didn't suddenly remember it until he entered the company's gate.

When Lin Congxuan was fifteen or sixteen years old, he loved to eat ice cream for a period of time. He had to eat five ice creams a day.

Chen Zui was worried that he would have a stomachache if he ate too much and that he would have tooth decay, so he tried to reason with him.Lin Congxuan probably listened to it, and murmured under the quilt, "We need withdrawal treatment".

It took Chen most a while to figure out what "withdrawal treatment" was from Lin Congxuan.

Autistic patients have a narrow range of interests, and have a paranoid preference for favorite snacks and toys, which can last for tens of minutes or even hours without feeling bored.When Lin Congxuan was a child, he had a paranoid love for lollipops for a while, because continuous sucking could give him a continuous sense of security.Eating too much candy made Lin Congxuan's lips chapped and his mouth sore. His father finally helped him quit lollipops with "withdrawal therapy".

"Withdrawal treatment" is like a smoker quitting smoking, and he quits his dependence on a certain substance in a daily decreasing way.There are different intervention methods for different stereotyped behaviors, and the method of "withdrawal" is only suitable for "obedient" children like Lin Congxuan.

Later, Chen Zui also learned from Father Lin and made a careful plan for Lin Congxuan to help him quit ice cream. He also bought a lot of xylitol that can relieve the "withdrawal reaction" and has a similar taste to ice cream. Lin Cong chose to use it, but Lin Cong was very determined to choose it, so it was useless in the end.

However, Lin Congxuan has not shown an over-reliance on a certain food recently, so what is he going to quit?Does it have anything to do with making me breakfast?

Chen Zui turned on the monitoring software on the computer in the office. On the computer screen, Lin Congxuan was busy in the kitchen. There were flour, eggs, butter and other things on the stove. They should be making cookies. Everything looked the same as before. Doing the same repetitive and monotonous things as before.

At this time, the assistant knocked on the door and came in. Chen Zuo closed the computer and quickly entered the working state.

The life that was slightly off track seems to be back on track again. Chen Zui still leaves early and returns late, but some small things have changed.

On the first day, the cookies that were placed in the entrance and living room every day were gone.

The next day, the champagne roses in the flowerbed were pruned ahead of time.

On the third day, the cat food bowl that was always placed next to the flower garden was placed under a sycamore tree outside the villa, and a cat litter was added.

On the fourth day, the fresh flowers in the vase in the living room were gone.

.........

On the seventh day, Chen Zui arrived home at exactly eight o'clock, which was the time he randomly picked out during the week to have dinner with Lin Congxuan.

When he walked to the dining room, he found that the dining table was empty, and Lin Congxuan stared at a small piece of natural grain on the dining table absently.This scene seemed familiar, and it actually made Chen Zui feel a little chilly. His intuition told him that maybe he should turn around and go upstairs now, but he took off his suit and sat down, calling out, "Lin Congxuan."

Lin Congxuan found Chen Zui who was sitting opposite him after returning from his slack consciousness. He was a little happy, and the corner of his mouth raised into a pure smile, and he asked, "Why are you so early today?"

Chen Zui was taken aback. He lowered his eyes to avoid that pure and flawless smile and did not answer. He asked instead, "Aren't you going to eat dinner?"

Lin Congxuan: "I've eaten."

Chen is the most poor at speaking. In fact, he wanted to ask "Didn't you do my share?" He also wanted to ask "Why haven't you sent a text message these days asking me if I will go home for dinner", but once he asked, he insisted Something seemed about to collapse in an instant like an anthill bursting a dike.

Chen Zui paused and was about to leave, but Lin Congxuan stopped him: "Chen Zui, this is for you."