Promised period

Seeing that Chen Jue was not feeling well, Song Ke quietly followed him into the car, and asked on the way: "How is it? Is it better?"

But Chen Jue didn't speak.

Song Ke turned around, raised her face to stare at his outline, and shivered inexplicably.Later, the upper teeth knocked the lower teeth lightly, and I felt a little ashamed.

Chen Jue drove the car to the side of the road, took off his overcoat, and then took off the dry sweater inside, and finally only wore a thin shirt on his upper body.

"Lift your feet."

Song Ke didn't understand, so: "What are you doing?" Followed his movements to look at his feet, and then said "ah", "Why don't I wear shoes."

"It's up to you."

Half of the sweater is spread on the car mat, and the other half wraps the cold feet, which really makes it much warmer.Although Song Ke didn't refuse, her expression was still a little unnatural: "Is it a brand-name clothes again? You are reckless."

After finishing speaking, intentionally or unintentionally, he turned his face away and looked out the window, without saying anything.Not long after, a silent and deep face appeared on the glass window, and Chen Jue looked at him from behind.Song Ke didn't look back, the corners of her mouth raised unconsciously.

Chen Jue said: "Remember to wear thicker clothes next time you go out."

"Come out in a hurry, besides, you didn't wear a coat when you ran away from home last time."

Chen Jue didn't remember such an unyielding but friendly tone, but he knew it was Song Ke too.Song Ke must have been lively, sunny and positive, delicate and gentle in the past, he knows it better than anyone else.

At the gate of the community, the security guard came out again yawning.Song Ke looked ahead: "Why doesn't the pole not move?" A trace of confusion flashed in front of her eyes.

Chen Jue said: "I forgot to renew."

Then he smiled slowly: "Why don't you forget the way home too."

Chen Jue still wanted to hate him, but he couldn't restrain the pain in his heart, and he couldn't control it.The security guard got closer and closer, and just a second before the car door was knocked, Chen Jue turned sideways and touched his face: "I'll go down and pay, you wait for me in the car."

Because she didn't wear shoes, Song Ke agreed of course.The moment the door was opened, the night wind blew, and a chill ran across his face.He looked at Chen Jue's back for a while, then lowered his head and looked at his feet, thinking vaguely, what a shame, how could he forget such a thing?

After a while, Chen Jue came back, bringing back a receipt by the way.Song Ke picked it up and looked at it: "When did the price increase? It was [-] a month before."

Chen Jue paused before saying, "Everything is going up in price now."

Song Ke turned her face sideways, narrowed her eyes and smiled.

"The young master knows the suffering in the world? The landlord has called you, and the rent is going to increase to four thousand. Seriously, should we live further away? Didn't you always want a small garden? Let's rent in the suburbs." One with a yard, more than 100 square meters, maybe four to five thousand a month."

Chen Jue couldn't look into Song Ke's eyes, so he could only look straight ahead: "It's all right, you decide, I'll transfer the money to you."

"what?"

I don't know which sentence I said is wrong, so I can only keep silent.Song Ke stared at him, staring closely, "You handed in your salary card, where did you get the money from?"

The former self was so useless, he loved Song Ke so much that he had no principles, and he was willing to hand in his salary card obediently.Chen Jue's heart convulsed violently, and he replied with strength: "You don't have to worry about it, I have my own way."

Song Ke took his hand slowly: "You promised me that I would never sell cars again."

Maybe a car is nothing to Chen Jue, but Song Ke always feels that this is too much for him.Ever since the two of them got together, Chen Jue had sacrificed too much, paid too much, and couldn't even deprive him of his last bit of love.

After the car stopped, Chen Jue went around to Song Ke's side: "I'll carry you."

Song Ke said: "Come on, I'll just go by myself, why are you doing this?"

Chen Jue squatted down stubbornly: "Let me carry you on my back."

So Song Ke had no choice but to lie on his back, only to find that his back was completely cold, and his coat was also wet. He must have been caught in the rain while looking for her.Entering the dark corridor, one of the sensor lights above their heads was still broken, and the two of them almost fell.Chen Jue protected Song Ke firmly behind his back, but he didn't make a sound when his knee hurt.

As soon as she got home, Song Ke said, "Let me see."

Chen Jue said it was okay, but he was still dragged to the sofa.When I rolled up the half-wet trouser legs, I saw a large area of ​​blue.With his head down like that, he stared intently at Chen Jue's injured knee, but Chen Jue stared at him, at his pale lips, the tip of his nose and eyelashes.

"Cold?"

He shook his head: "It's okay."

"Come here, let me see your feet."

He was a little cautious: "It's all right."

But Chen Jue still insisted on watching, Song Ke had no choice but to press her lips tightly.His white insteps were covered with dirty water, and the soles of his feet had many small cuts from the stones on the road. They didn't bleed, but they still hurt.

Chen Jue called hot water for him to wash his feet. He thanked him and said, "It's so cold, please fill me with the hot water bottle."

Chen Jue stood there without moving, because he didn't know where to put it.

He raised his head: "Are you too lazy to move?"

Chen Jue let out a "hmm".

"Why are you so lazy." He wiped his feet and stood up, muttering something in his mouth, he found out the hot water bottle and filled it, there are two in total, "Here, here you are."

"You're really getting lazy. You used to cook occasionally when you went home, but now you play games when you're sleeping."

Chen Jue did not refute a word.

Perhaps it was thanks to the hot water bottle that the living room was filled with warmth, and it gradually became drowsy.He found the remote, and there were some late-night channels on the TV.

"Just look at this."

Song Ke curled her legs up on the sofa, leaned against him, and raised her hands forward.

"Look at this, I watched half of this movie last time, and I just finished it today."

In fact, I have watched this movie countless times, "Edward Scissorhands", the tone is extremely sad.But Song Ke liked it very much, he memorized the lines in it fluently, and every time he heard that line——

"If I had never tasted the feeling of warmth, maybe I wouldn't be so cold; if I had never felt the sweetness of love, maybe I wouldn't have been so painful; if I hadn't met the kind Peg, if I had never left my room."

Every time I come here, I always have a sore nose involuntarily, and I don't understand why.

He rested his chin on his left hand, and his forehead was drowsy.Chen Jue hugged him into his arms and let his head rest on his shoulders. The two of them had two hot water bottles, sweating from the warmth.

"Where did you go today?"

Just after asking, there was a kind of strength in his hand.

Song Ke lightly squeezed each of Chen Jue's fingers like counting joints, squinted her eyes, and replied in a troubled manner: "Looking for a cat, where else can I go. I have been looking for it for a long time, and someone called me and said they have seen it. It still hasn't been found."

These words were very common, but after he finished speaking, the corners of his eyes gradually became moist, and he simply closed them.

Chen Jue looked at him sideways: "I'll find it for you tomorrow."

There was no support for his neck at all, and the back of his neck was completely tilted on the chest behind him: "Why did it leave me?"

"Maybe it will come back tomorrow."

He smiled: "Don't comfort me, I know it's impossible."

Maybe he wasn't completely confused.

"It looks a bit like you, have you noticed? Its eyes are also like yours, and it keeps staring at people, which can be scary. I read on the Internet that pets will look like their owners after a long time. Why is it not like me? Those articles on the Internet are all It's scribbled."

Almost out of context.

Chen Jue didn't want to listen any longer, and asked, "Is it cold, I'll turn on the air conditioner."

He shook his head: "Go back to the bedroom and turn it on again, it will save electricity."

The breath is light and shallow, but heartbreaking.

Chen Jue didn't say anything, just hugged him tighter, "Isn't it going to be cold this way?"

He laughed again: "Don't think that I will forgive you in this way."

His voice was like slender tassels, brushing against Chen Jue's warm arms.Chen Jue didn't respond, his throat and eyes were sore and sore, but his eye sockets were scorching hot, and the ice pick was aimed at his chest fiercely, except for the place next to Song Ke, everywhere else was cold.

No matter what tonight, there is no way to hate any more.

Song Ke stopped talking, curled up in her arms quietly like a child, a child dozing off.But Chen Jue felt that his fingers were curled up tightly, and asked him, he hesitated for a long time before saying: "Chen Jue, or let's close the company."

"why?"

"It's too expensive, and it won't last long if it goes on like this."

Chen Jue hugged him, his eyes glowed faintly.

"With me here, your hard work will not be in vain."

But he smiled: "It's because of you that I want to close the company. Sitting in the company like this every day is like going to jail. We haven't traveled for almost two years. Why bother? Besides, there are not many Make money."

After all, it is actually because of money.

Chen Jue pretended to be rich for the first time in his life: "I have money, and I have as much as I want."

He moved, nestled in his arms and smiled: "Mr. Chen is so generous. But I'm stingy, and I don't want to spend any more money from you. Close the company, and I'll find a job. In the future, I'll make money to support my family, and you You don’t need to go out to socialize and drink anymore. You do what you like, and your world is not just me.”

"What about you, what else is in your world?"

He said in a shallow voice, "I don't know either."

After that, there was only breathing for a long time, until Chen Jue suddenly leaned over and kissed his forehead.

He still closed his eyes, but laid his body flat on Chen Jue's lap: "Chen Jue, I miss my dad. It will be my dad's birthday in a while, and he called me and hoped that I would go back."

"I'll take you back."

"What if the company is gone?"

"Your senior brother is here."

He put the hot water bottle on his stomach, "Okay."

"You have a fever." Chen Jue finally said, "Go to the hospital before going back."

"Ah?" He slowly opened his eyes, "Why don't you go, it's too troublesome to go, you have to queue up and register."

"I go with you."

"Then I don't want to go either."

Chen Jue insisted: "There are places where you don't have to queue."

"International Department?"

"Ah."

He said, "I knew it." He added, "There is no need to talk about it."

"why."

Chen Jue frowned, and Song Ke stretched out his hand for him.

"What if I meet your father?"

Chen Jue couldn't remember what happened in the past three years, let alone when Chen Zongyi saw a doctor there, "What happened when I met him."

"I'm afraid you guys will fight." Song Ke joked, her voice was shy, "If I really start fighting, my position will be very embarrassing."

"He's my dad."

"Well, but he won't agree with us."

Chen Jue had difficulty breathing, and his voice sank completely: "With me here, you don't need to worry about these things, take care of your illness."

"It's just a cold."

He closed his eyes again and lay there quietly.

Until the end, Chen Jue also held his hand.It took a long time for his hands to warm up, but his wrists were always cold, and his lips were too white to be bloodless.

"Chen Jue?" He called softly.

"What?" Chen Jue followed his example and squeezed his hand.

He leaned in Chen Jue's arms, closed his eyes, and finally said nothing.

After realizing that he was fast asleep, Chen Jue carried him into the room, made a bed for him, covered him with a quilt, and closed the door behind him.

Going back to the living room to smoke, the sweet smell of tobacco penetrated into the lungs.In the dark and silent living room, there was only a little bit of red, which flickered between the fingers, and Chen Jue's face was shrouded in a hazy white mist.

I couldn't think of any countermeasures, so I could only smoke one cigarette after another until the cigarette case was empty before calling my sister and the hospital.

After arranging tomorrow's affairs, he took off his coat, covered himself with a thin quilt and lay down on the sofa.The two hot water bottles were still warm, but it was too cold at night. He looked outside the balcony, where the faint stars were dotted in the black night sky, motionless from afar.It was as if his nerves had been pulled out of his brain, and his temples on both sides were throbbing with blue veins, and the sinuous tendons were undulating like mountains.His neck was also blue and purple, because he was enduring tremendous pain.

The sunrise is desperately needed right now.

Come a new day soon before you can take Song Ke to see a doctor.But I don't know why, I feel extremely uneasy in my heart, I always feel that something is about to happen, something heart-piercing, and my nerve endings are throbbing.

After an unknown amount of time, the door suddenly creaked——

Song Ke got up.

His expression seemed a little dull, he froze when he passed the living room, and looked at the people on the sofa for a while.

Chen Jue asked: "Why did you wake up?"

He was startled at first, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he finally held back and only poured a glass of water back from the kitchen.

It turned out to be thirsty.

"Good night." Chen Jue said.

He stopped at the door of the room, his back trembling slightly, and he nodded slightly, "Good night."

Chen Jue couldn't fall asleep, and couldn't fall asleep anyway, maybe because the surroundings were too quiet.

Not long after, there was a low noise in the room, which was not obvious.Chen Jue was alert for a moment at first, but after listening carefully for a long time, he didn't hear any more.

I closed my eyes again and squinted for a while, but many blurred pictures appeared in front of my eyes.

In the dream, I heard Song Ke's voice, heard Song Ke groaning in pain, coughing again and again, swallowing something with difficulty.

When I woke up, my phone showed three o'clock in the morning.

Pushing open the bedroom door, the room was surprisingly quiet.Chen Jue finally gave up those useless struggles, took off his shoes and lay down next to Song Ke, hugging her in his arms, the flustered feeling receded like a tide.

"Fell asleep?"

Song Ke's body was limp and warm, but her fingers were already stiff.

Chen Jue leaned over and involuntarily printed his lips on it, originally only wanting to say goodbye.Once Song Ke is cured, they will make a clean break.

As a result, as soon as it touched it, it felt bitter, tasted the smell of medicine, tasted blood, and there was a fine powder on the lips.After intense heart palpitations, he backed away, his voice trembling: "Song Ke?"

no respond.

He rushed to turn on the light.Song Ke lay there as if asleep, but her face was purple and her lips were blue. There were many dismantled aluminum-plastic panels on the ground, and the medicine inside was missing.