prefer silence

On the morning of New Year's Day, Chen Zheng and I didn't get up until after ten o'clock. After we washed up, we hurried downstairs to the garage to drive.

Not a while after our car moved out of the gate of the community, Chen Zheng stepped on the brakes suddenly and stopped on the side of the road.

I didn't know why, so I looked out the window and saw a person standing under the billboard in front of me.

——It turned out to be You Yu!

He waved to us, while striding over.

Why is You Yu here?

I looked at Chen Zheng, waiting for his explanation.

Chen Zheng said calmly, "That person is a colleague of our law firm. He just waved his hand. I don't know what's the matter. Let me ask."

At this time, You Yu had already walked to the window on my side, so I had no choice but to lower the window.When You Yu saw me, his eyes fluttered over, as if he wasn't surprised at all, he probably didn't remember me long ago.

You Yu bent down and opened the car window, "Lawyer Chen, where are you going? Is it convenient to give me a ride?"

Chen Zheng asked, "Let's go to the gathering center, where are you going?"

You Yu smiled and said, "It's such a coincidence, I'm going there too, planning to buy some new clothes, so I'll trouble you, Lawyer Chen."

After speaking, You Yu nodded to me expressionlessly, opened the back seat door and got into the car.

What a coincidence?I was full of dissatisfaction, and the good mood early in the morning came to an abrupt end.But taking a ride with a colleague is a very logical thing, I can only hold back my displeasure.

It stands to reason that Chen Zheng should introduce Yu Yu to me now, isn't this his colleague?But he didn't, because as soon as he said his name, didn't I know that this person was his legendary ex-boyfriend?

My heart was covered with a shadow, Chen Zheng really wanted to hide it from me...

In the past, when Chen Zheng and I were alone in the car, we usually talked about some jokes and private words, but now that there is an annoying person in the car, these words are not easy to say, so I kept silent.

You Yu discussed some work issues with Chen Zheng from time to time, but I couldn't get in my mouth, and I was so upset that I simply closed my eyes and pretended to sleep.

After a while, the car suddenly became quiet, and I really fell asleep without knowing it.

When I opened my eyes again, I was woken up by Chen Zheng.

"Yuanyuan, your phone is ringing."

I picked up the phone and saw that the caller ID was Aunt Chen. I connected the call: "Hello, Mom, what's the matter?"

Aunt Chen asked Chen Zheng and I what our plans were for today.

I replied to her: "Chen Zheng and I are going to Huijue now, we will go to see a movie in the afternoon, don't worry, we will arrive on time at night."

After hanging up the phone, I confessed to Chen Zheng: "Your mother called, asking where we are going today."

Chen Zheng nodded, and told me again: "We're almost there, you'd better not sleep any more, you'll have insomnia at night."

Chen Zheng's concern for me is always very useful. I regained my energy immediately and began to imagine the good times today.

At Huihui, You Yu finally parted ways with us.I think he is quite sensible, and he didn't have the cheek to go shopping together.

Chen Zheng and I went to have breakfast first, then went straight to the men's clothing section on the second floor, and began to pick out clothes non-stop.

When Chen Zheng is not smiling, he is very bluffing. To use the language of Longba astronomy, he has the aura of a big boss.When he was in college, he kept a cut and won the first-class scholarship next year, but he was always regarded as a bully on campus.When he was a graduate student, he grew his hair long, and gradually he began to look like a social elite.

Chen Zheng looks handsome in anything, but I like the way he wears a stand-up collar coat the most. When winter comes, I buy him coats of various colors, and when I buy them, he wears them, and he never dislikes them.

After we finished shopping for clothes, we went to the home improvement area on the fourth floor.

There are many vases in the home improvement area, row by row, which dazzles me.I couldn't choose, I thought they all looked good, Chen Zheng made a decision, chose a blue glass bottle, and I bought it.

At this time, there was still more than half an hour before the opening of the movie, and we were about to go there when Chen Zheng suddenly received a call.

Without saying a word on the other end of the phone, Chen Zheng's expression changed, "Where are you? I'll take you to the hospital."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Zheng hastily explained the situation to me: You Yu had a severe stomach pain after drinking on an empty stomach, and even vomited blood, he had to send You Yu to the hospital.

He asked me to finish watching the movie first, and he would pick me up after the movie was over.

I was so out of breath that I couldn't care less, so I said with a stiff face, "It's none of our business if he has a stomachache? Doesn't he know how to take a taxi? Or call 120?"

Chen Zheng was very surprised, he looked at me with reproach, as if saying: How can you be so cruel?Why are you so ignorant?

The look in his eyes made me feel like falling into an ice cave, and I turned my head and walked away.

Chen Zheng hurriedly called me from behind: "Yuan Yuan!"

I ignored him and continued walking, expecting him to come after me and coax me a little, then I would agree to go with him, or go with him.

But Chen Zheng never caught up. I turned around and only saw his retreating back. I laughed at myself: Isn't it clear at a glance who is more important in his heart?

I walked down in a daze, and when I got off the escalator, a child rushed past me, knocked me back, and the vase box in my hand flew out, throwing a perfect arc.

My eyes widened in horror, the vase box went beyond the boundary of the escalator and fell straight to the feet of a passerby downstairs.

Seeing that he had gotten into trouble, the child slipped away without a trace.

I hurried down and apologized to the gentleman: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was bumped, and the thing fell out without holding it firmly. Are you okay?"

The man had an angry face at first, but seeing how sincere my apology was, he didn't say anything harsh, he just said: "I'm fine, I'm just scared. Let's see how your things are doing."

I opened the vase box and saw that the vase was torn apart.

This brother was standing next to me, seeing that the falling thing was a vase, he was scared and said: "Fortunately, it didn't hit me, or I would be in the hospital now."

"Yeah." I was also afraid, "Otherwise I would be in trouble now."

We looked at each other and smiled.I offered to buy him a cup of coffee, and he raised his eyebrows, "No, the movie ticket I ordered is about to enter the venue, it seems that I can't drink this cup of coffee."

I hurriedly asked him, "Did you book "The Bollywood Showdown" at [-]:[-] in the afternoon?"

He said yes in surprise, I laughed, and patted him on the shoulder like a good buddy: "Let's go together, I'll watch this too."

After picking up the tickets, we found out that our seats were next to each other again, and most of my bad mood was washed away by this wonderful fate.

He saw that I had taken two tickets and asked me who the other ticket was for.I don't really want to say it, he laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay, if the old one doesn't go, the new one will come."

He didn't notice that I was wearing a wedding ring.

After watching the movie, we added each other's WeChat, and sat at the door chatting for a while.He said that his name was Yu Qingshan, he was an illustrator, he opened a small studio by himself, and barely made ends meet.

I don't really believe his rhetoric of "barely living". How can I have the leisure to go out for entertainment, and how can I wear such an expensive watch?

After Yu Qingshan left, I turned on my phone, and all five missed calls came from Chen Zheng.I thought about it, afraid that he would wait too long, so I called him back.

As soon as the phone call was made, Chen Zheng's apologetic voice came from the microphone.

"Yuanyuan, my colleague has to have an operation. He is a foreigner. He has no other friends when he arrives for the first time. I can't leave first. I have to wait for him to finish the operation. Parents, please help me deal with it first. I may be half a year late." The hour is up."

I didn't expect him to call to say this.

Intellectually, I persuaded myself that You Yu's condition was serious enough to require an operation. If, as Chen Zheng said, You Yu had no other friends to take care of him, then Chen Zheng could not be blamed for helping him.

But emotionally, I can't convince myself, that's You Yu, not an ordinary colleague, Chen Zheng's help, is it out of kindness?Or out of selfishness?

I mechanically said yes, and hung up the phone, not wanting to hear Chen Zheng's grateful nonsense.

The night is approaching, and I am pushed forward by the flow of people like a wandering ghost.The musical fountain was so beautiful that everyone cheered and started taking pictures. I also took out my mobile phone and took a picture, and then posted a circle of friends: "[Applause]/[Fountain picture]"

As soon as I sent it, a like came out, and this like came from Qingshan.

Pressing off the screen, I found a place to sit down and watched the musical fountain show over and over again.