In the golden cage

Berg is in a hot relationship and often goes to his boyfriend's house to spend the night, so he will walk with Ji Shaoting for a while after get off work.But today, it happened that he was going to have dinner with his family, so Ji Shaoting left first, with a song in his ear, walking briskly, thinking about what to have for dinner tonight.

The sun lives long in summer, and it is still daytime in the world at seven o'clock.The long sunshine time makes people's whole mind melt away, and it is inevitable to feel dizzy all day long, so Ji Shaoting didn't notice anything strange behind him.

Although Ji Shaoting lives far away, he can't feel the distance if he is used to walking along the same road. Moreover, he can pass by a Chinese supermarket on the way home, which is very convenient.

After being with Li Chen, his cooking skills have improved a lot, and he fell in love with the cooking process from scratch to all kinds of flavors, so even after leaving Li Chen, he seldom orders take-out and prefers to cook by himself.

It’s just that it’s lonely to eat more or less for one person. Sometimes he cooks too much, so he can only refrigerate it and return it to the pot overnight to stir fry.

Ji Shaoting didn't find Li Chen until he got downstairs. Firstly, it was because Li Chen was really a good student this time, and he was very careful in hiding his tracks. Second, because Ji Shaoting was too familiar with this path, he was so familiar that he lost his vigilance. The sun hadn't set yet, and it was still broad daylight, so he really didn't have the heart to be vigilant.

But Li Chen didn't follow Ji Shaoting to the apartment, he stopped about 30 meters away from his residence, and watched Ji Shaoting disappear into the narrow, long, dark, snake-like stairway, somewhat at a loss.

Li Chen actually didn't know what to do.

Although today's event was not on a whim, he did have no plans for the next thing.He just wanted to at least get Ji Shaoting's address, as if in this way there would be one more connection with Ji Shaoting, and one more point in his hands.

Then what?What else could he do?Could it be possible to go up and ring Ji Shaoting's doorbell and ask him if he still remembers himself.

Li Chen looked up at this not-so-high building, and easily found the floor where Ji Shaoting was.

The one with the flowers on the balcony was drying a white T-shirt from the society that he had washed until it looked old, with a line of environmental protection slogans in English printed on it.Li Chen raised his head and looked at it for a long time, so long that when he lowered his head, his cervical spine was sore.

Li Chen changed to a hotel, which was only two streets away from Ji Shaoting's rented house.

He quickly figured out Ji Shaoting's schedule. On weekdays, he would go out at about nine o'clock, and return home with the ingredients at seven or eight in the evening.Life is quite simple, because Li Chen has brought him enough ups and downs.

Two weeks later, Li Chen approached Ji Shaoting's neighbor and offered her a tempting high price to find another place, but he quietly became Ji Shaoting's new neighbor, and began to spy on Ji Shaoting through the cat's eyes .

On the third day, he found that Ji Shaoting had left a note in English at his door, saying that he knew that the girl had moved away: You are my new neighbor, right?My name is Jonas, nice to meet you.

The font that has nothing to do with elegant, seems to have been expanded from a copybook, lacks personal style, and every word is correct.Just like Ji Shaoting, he is thick and honest, without any heart.

With just one line, Li Chen fell into it.

A flimsy post-it note weighs a thousand catties in the hand, and its edges and corners are all the weight of diamonds and emeralds. Li Chen has no idea what to do with it.

For a moment he even wanted to build a gold frame to frame this note.

Li Chen took a few steps back and fell down on the sofa, pressing Ji Shaoting's note on his heart.

As a result, a steady stream of heat was sent from his heart to the blood vessels and then to his limbs, causing his whole body to be plunged into the flames and burnt up.

When Ji Shaoting got off work that day, he also found a note at the door of his house. It came from the mysterious new neighbor. There was only a short line: Hello Jonas, my name is Anderson.

Ji Shaoting smiled, took out a pen from his shirt pocket, drew a smiling face on the bottom of the note, and pasted it back to the opposite door.

Logically, the conversation was over, but Ji Shaoting received a new message the next day, which was Anderson's slightly clumsy and abrupt self-introduction.He said that he worked the night shift, and it was a pity that the time of their lives was different, and they couldn't meet each other on a daily basis.

Ji Shaoting thought that this person should be easy to get along with, and he was always willing to make friends, so he directly wrote an invitation in the spare part of the note, letting Anderson have time to have afternoon tea on weekends.

He didn't know how complicated Li Chen's mood was when he saw these words.

Of course there is excitement, but at the same time there is also a sharp sourness oozing out: to Ji Shaoting, he is just a new neighbor who has never met, and this new neighbor who has never met can get Ji Shaoting's kindness.

Anyone can be favored by Ji Shaoting, but Li Chen cannot.

When Ji Shaoting went out the next day, he received a reply from Anderson on the door, saying that he was honored to have the opportunity.

They started to talk in this way, a small square note, of course they couldn't talk about any in-depth topics, it was mostly about daily trivial matters, but it was enough for Li Chen to toss and turn over and over again.

After learning that Anderson was also a Chinese, the words on their note papers, like snakes, suddenly turned into squares, becoming a code that only the two of them understood in the whole building.

Every time they had a conversation, there was a day and then a night, which gave Li Chen enough time to think about how to respond to Ji Shaoting with the best words.

His expressive skills were poor, something he only finally admitted to in therapy.He was never willing to express his emotions and thoughts directly, and he lost this ability over time.Often he has one meaning in his heart, but another meaning in his mouth, and there is always a distance between the two.

Wanting to express concern somehow turned into a question.

This kind of communication that only uses words as a carrier makes their back and forth full of meaning and becomes a truly effective communication.

All the notes will be returned to Li Chen in the end, no matter how much space there is on the previous one, he will take out a new one every day.

Ji Shaoting quickly noticed this, but he didn't think much about it. He just thought that Anderson should be very lonely, so he wanted to chat with him like this.

It is also understandable that he is a Chinese who lives alone, and his work is upside down day and night, and his original social circle is very narrow.

Then one morning, when Li Chen went to leave a message for Ji Shaoting who was at the opposite door, he found that Ji Shaoting had put a dark blue cloth bag in front of the door.

The note paper that is usually pasted on the door is now pasted on the cloth bag: HiAnderson, I made some extra meals last night and kept them warm for [-] hours. You should still be warm when you come back from get off work, eat them while they are hot :)