Promised period

The room seemed to be silent all of a sudden, the raindrops on the glass and the wind in the window cracks, everything became very clear.Song Ke suddenly panicked, and smiled at a loss: "Stop looking, everyone is so busy."

Chen Jue didn't seem to hear clearly: "Huh?"

I had no choice but to repeat in a concentrated voice: "I said it's gone."

Only then did Chen Jue say "Oh" slowly: "Alright." After a pause, he added, "Then after you move out, we will never see each other again."

The cat curled up in the corner behind the door and dozed off, it was late.Song Ke held the doorknob with her hand, didn't turn on the light, and couldn't see clearly in her heart: "Thank you for Xiaojiu's matter, I will definitely repay your favor when I have a chance."

In fact, we know each other well, and there is no chance.

But Chen Jue also said: "Okay." After finishing speaking, there was no more sound.

Song Ke breathed a sigh of relief.

"Song Ke—"

He raised his heart again: "Huh?"

"The phone is in the living room. The original program can still be used, but I gave it a new name. Don't think I'm boring after reading it."

Song Ke didn't know how to respond appropriately, so she still said "um".

He smiled: "In the future, if you need me, just ask, I will be there."

Song Ke could only smile: "Okay."

"It's getting late, you should rest."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Song Ke to respond, as if he knew that Song Ke would not respond, there was a sound of closing the door after a burst of slow footsteps.

Song Ke stood there for a long time, until the rain gradually stopped before going out with her numb legs.The living room was pitch black, it should be Chen Jue who turned off the light.Without squinting, he went to the bathroom to turn on the water.

I want to give Xiaojiu a bath, it is too dirty.

After storing a basin of warm water, Xiao Jiu stood on both feet in the water and stretched his neck, his hair shaking violently.He didn't run away, just scrubbed it without saying a word.Looking down, I saw my own reflection on the water, saw my wet front, and thought of what Chen Jue had said to him for so long, and I didn't have time to change my clothes...

There was a burst in my heart, and I suddenly felt that I had no strength, and finally stopped.

I regret that I didn't speak more harshly, and regret that I didn't show more distaste for Chen Jue. If I can't let go again and again, I will definitely harm others and myself in the future.

That night he put Xiao Jiu in his room to sleep.

Of course I woke up very late the next day, but there was nothing unusual when I got up, except that my eyes were a little swollen, and I didn't know whether to praise my tenacious vitality or whether staying up late had become a habit.

After rushing to the company to go to work, Cheng Yi'an also yawned continuously during the meeting.After work, the two went to lunch together, one holding the thickened hot American style and the other holding the thermos cup tightly, and they didn't bother to say a word for a long time.

As a result, I ran into a colleague on the road and got a kind reminder: "I don't know what happened to the cafeteria. There are so many people at the moment. Do you two want to order takeaway with us?"

Thinking that the takeaways are all heated up in cooking bags, Cheng Yi'an refused to give in to anything.There was no other way, Song Ke had no choice but to take him to eat that Ahui Claypot, it was... it was a chance.

It had just rained heavily the day before, and there were small potholes on the road surface. In many places, if you accidentally stepped in, you would get a foot of water.The two walked over with one foot deep and one shallow foot. Fortunately, they saw a small shop open from a long distance away.

I picked a table with a leeward wind and sat down, the air was full of tangy fragrance, and the boss's yelling with Cantonese accent could be heard from time to time.Soon the casserole was on the table, and the cover was lifted with a hand wrapped in a rag. The crystal clear bacon and green vegetables were neatly stacked on the white rice, and a golden and translucent egg was knocked in the middle. appetite.

Cheng Yi'an was satisfied after eating and sighed: "How come you think of bringing me here to such a nice place, it's so embarrassing."

"The door was closed a while ago." Song Ke lowered her head and mixed the food well, "I haven't been here for a long time either."

"Oh, so who was it with before?"

Originally, it was just a casual question, but Song Ke didn't expect to say anything, and turned around to pour water.Cheng Yian understood, and sighed at the rice: "I should really thank Chen Jue, if he doesn't leave, I still won't be able to eat this claypot rice today. Claypot rice, claypot rice, you and I are not meant to be together, it's all because Chen Juechan."

Song Ke almost spit out a sip of water, looking for a tissue, dumbfounded: "Brother, stop teasing me, please, let's eat."

After a while, Cheng Yi'an couldn't hold back, put down the spoon and said earnestly: "I heard that you will leave work early tomorrow, have a date? Not with Chen Jue. Let me tell you, you can't be half-hearted, let alone stick to two boats , since you have already talked to that surnamed Qin—"

"Stop, stop." He made a stop gesture, "Don't test me, I have nothing to do with Chen Jue, I will take Xiao Jiu to deworm tomorrow night."

It took Cheng Yi'an a while to react, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Have you found Xiao Jiu?"

"Well, I just picked it up last night."

"Where and how did you find it?"

I couldn't find the right time to speak all morning, so I started in a mess at this moment: "Chen Jue helped me find it."

In fact, he also guessed many details.For example, Chen Jue must have changed the phone number on the cat hunting notice. The first time he knocked on his door last night was to tell him what clue someone called.

Cheng Yi'an was stunned for a while, and then said: "Okay, amazing, Chen Jue, he can find it after losing it for so long, it seems that it is better to have money, and money can make ghosts turn the clock, don't you think so. But Anyway, just look for it, just look for it, and I will bring canned food to Xiaojiu another day."

You can hear the deliberate ease in the words.Song Ke fell silent, and said after a long time, "I don't know how to thank him, I don't want to owe him anything."

He has been thinking about this from last night to today, not knowing whether to thank him or not, how to thank him.

Cheng Yi'an seemed to have some ideas, but he remained silent until he walked back, and did not tell Song Ke that Chen Jue wanted to return to Ruiyan.

It is better for others not to interfere in many things.

The next night, Song Ke got off work early and took Xiao Jiu to a nearby pet hospital. She was given injections, deworming, and grooming. She was busy until after nine o'clock.

It was rainy on the way home, and he walked slowly with an umbrella.Fortunately, Xiao Jiu is still a good boy, maybe he suffered a lot outside, so he won't make trouble with him since he came back.

He was planning to move in his mind, but he didn't notice two luxury cars passing by one after another.It wasn't until I went upstairs that I saw many messy wet shoe prints on the gate of the house next door, and I felt a little strange in my heart.

When I got home and settled Xiaojiu, my stomach was already growling with hunger.As a result, the door was knocked before the leftovers from the previous day were finished.

He ran out to open the door, naturally wondering if it was Chen Jue, so he asked, "Who?"

Who knew it was Chen Nian.

Her voice is very recognizable, but I don't know why it sounds a little tired at the moment: "It's me, Chen Nian, please open the door."

Long time no see, Chen Nian is still dressed in that intellectual and gentle manner, it looks like he came here directly after work.But her expression lacked a little clarity, and she even looked a little weak.

She forced a smile at Song Ke: "I thought you would come back very late."

"What's up?"

She shook her head: "It's okay, I just brought you those supplements before. Since you are at home, I'll go down and get them. It's in the trunk of my car."

Thinking that it was inconvenient for her to wear high heels, Song Ke took an umbrella and went downstairs with her.

"Why are you here today, to see Chen Jue?"

"Ah."

I don't know if it's been a long time since I saw some relatives. She was carrying a small handbag in her hand, her jaw was slightly retracted, and she didn't look at Song Ke.

Song Ke took the initiative to exchange greetings: "Have you eaten yet?"

She nodded slightly: "I have eaten."

"What to eat?"

"Porridge."

The answers were very short, as if there was something on his mind.

"Just eat porridge?" Song Ke smiled, "You are thin enough, don't just focus on being slim."

She also smiled, but stopped talking.

Later, when she walked to a parking space not far away, her car was parked behind a black SUV.Open the trunk, there are seven or eight bags, large and small.

"So much, you managed to get it all by yourself."

She bent down to pick it up, her long hair hanging loosely to her shoulders: "Most of them are for you, and some are for brother."

As always, good things come in one go.Song Ke didn't look at it carefully, but she also knew that the price must be high, so she joked with her when she walked back: "Don't spend money on it in the future, I don't know if I will eat these until the year of the monkey, what if I get a nosebleed?" ?”

But she stepped on the water slowly and walked forward without making a sound.

It was somewhat awkward for the two of them to hold an umbrella, even though Song Ke tried to tilt the umbrella towards her as much as possible, she still got a little rain in the end.

After arriving home, Song Ke asked, "Would you like to sit down for a while, and I'll get you a towel."

She didn't sit, but stood under the lamp in the living room: "I'm not busy, I'm leaving now, I have a business trip tomorrow morning, and I have to rush back to pack my luggage at night."

Song Ke was surprised, since she had to leave early in the morning, why would she make a special trip tonight.

"Where are you going this time?"

"Canada, you won't be back until a week later."

"Then be careful on the road." He said, "Remember to check the weather in Canada now, don't catch a cold when you get there, and it's not convenient to go to the hospital."

She took a moment to say, "Okay."

After sending her to the door, Song Ke asked her when the door was closed: "What happened?"

She lowered her head: "It's really okay."

Song Ke looked at her quietly.She was stared downcast, and after a long time, she took out a key from her bag: "Can you keep the spare key of my brother's house for me temporarily?"

Song Ke asked: "What are you doing?"

She immediately explained: "Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask you to help keep it for a few days. I think I am far away from abroad, and you can take care of each other in case something happens these few days."

Song Ke's voice was flat: "I will take care of him, there are too many people who care about him."

Chen Nian was slightly taken aback, looked up at him in astonishment, and after a while he let go of the tight corners of his mouth: "You're right...he has always had a lot of friends, and anyone is willing to associate with him because he is rich." After a pause He then said, "Keep the key, he has a little fever these two days, if you are free, you can go and see him, it doesn't matter if you are not free."

The words were very calm, as if they were just chatting casually, without any purpose.

But Song Ke really didn't expect that Chen Jue was sick.

Standing in the stairwell, with the cool night wind blowing down his neck, he suddenly remembered that the SUV downstairs hadn't moved for two days.

He knew that Chen Jue got sick because of him.

After hesitating until eleven o'clock, he followed his heart and knocked on the door, but the result was as expected——

No one should.

It's so late, a sick person is not at home, where can he go?Most of them went to eat, drink and have fun.

Song Ke felt that she was worrying for nothing.Standing between the two doors, holding the mobile phone and standing quietly until the voice-activated light dimmed, the elevator behind him made a slight noise.

Looking back, I saw the red number jumping up from "1".

He didn't know what he was thinking, but he had an intuition that Chen Jue must be back, so he went home and closed the door without thinking.

Almost at the same moment, a ding sound was heard, and someone came out with a low cough.The footsteps got closer and clearer, and finally seemed to stop at the door of Song Ke's house, but he didn't knock on the door as he thought.

After about a minute or two of silence, the door next door rang.After a while, Song Ke went to open the door and found two big and deep kraft paper bags at the door.

The plastic food boxes inside are neatly arranged.The meals in the box are all matched and semi-finished. You only need to fry or steam them yourself.

Song Ke couldn't turn her head around, and didn't wake up until she saw the words on the note, oh, Chen Jue bought it.

"The shelf life is seven days, remember to freeze it if you can't finish it."

Chen Jue's handwriting was still so untidy, and the ink was soaked by the rain and turned into a fuzzy ball.

After thinking and thinking, I finally decided to send it back to Chen Jue.Carrying the heavy bag to knock on the door, no one answered after knocking for several minutes, and no one answered the phone.

Song Ke couldn't help feeling a little worried.

After all, Chen Jue was sick, and anything could happen when he was alone at home.He turned around and took the key.The moment he pushed the door open, he was startled, because everything in front of him was so familiar, he couldn't tell whether it was imagination or reality in a trance.

Why is this place so similar to my previous home?

My palms were sweating because I was holding the keys so tightly.The door of the house that was not closed in time was behind him, and the night wind blew in from the outside, blowing on his neck, causing goose bumps layer by layer.

The picture that I thought would never come back suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, like a movie.The furniture that the two of them picked together, the beds they saved to buy, and the curtains they made in the wholesale market, all of them are still the same as before, even more like the house he rented.

He felt slightly dizzy, stuck in the porch like an idiot, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

This is not an illusion, but like an illusion, it is all false and cannot be taken seriously.The corners of the key hurt his palm, and his throat rolled: "Chen Jue?"

The living room was lit, but there was no one in sight.

He put down his things and walked straight to the bedroom, but there was no one in the bedroom.Only the group photo next to the bed reminded him that this was indeed Chen Jue's home.

It was taken by them in the Bamboo Sculpture Exhibition Hall, with sparse and dense bamboo fences, clear sunlight, and the figures of the two young people are as tall and straight as bamboo.

That was the best time.

Just looking at it like this, suddenly there was a blur of footsteps behind him.Turning around, I saw Chen Jue coming out of the bathroom.The light was very dim, and he was not close. Song Ke couldn't see his appearance clearly, but felt that he was tall and a dark shadow.

The first thing he saw was the kraft paper bag in the living room, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he saw Song Ke.

"Song Ke? Why are you here?"

Song Ke struggled to pull out of the trance, said "Oh", and raised her chin towards the paper bag: "Come and return this."

Chen Jue was still holding the towel in his hand, and asked Song Ke to sit down after a while, and asked while walking to the bedroom, "Did I forget to pull out the key again?"

He is used to combination locks. He used to always forget the key on the door, and no matter how much he scolded him, he couldn't change it.

Listening to the coughing in the bedroom and the sound of opening and closing the cabinet door, Song Ke remained silent until Chen Jue came out and took her hand out of the coat pocket.

Chen Jue changed into a sweater and slacks, his face became even more flushed, and the tips of his hair were half wet.He went into the kitchen and asked Song Ke what he wanted to drink. Song Ke said, "Hot water is fine."

As a result, his house didn't even have hot water, so he could only boil it now.He took out a pot of hot milk, poured a large bottle of mineral water into it, turned on the gas stove and waited for the water to boil.Through the door, he was still coughing in a low voice, and he couldn't stop it.

Song Ke couldn't bear it, got up and walked over: "Forget it, I won't drink, I'll go back."

"It's alright if you don't even drink water when you come here, just sit down and it will be cooked in no time."

He turned to look at Song Ke. For some unknown reason, he didn't mention the food box, nor did he ask why Song Ke didn't take it. Instead, he said quietly, "The house is in chaos, so take care of it."

He spoke lightly, but his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and he refused to look away for a long time.After a long time, Song Ke reminded softly: "The water is coming out."

Only then did he suddenly come back to his senses, and hurriedly turned off the fire.

He has always been inactive like this, and has never made any progress.He found two glasses and was about to pour boiling hot water into them immediately. Song Ke hurriedly stopped him: "Pour in a little bit first, the glasses will crack if poured too quickly."

He tilted his head and coughed oppressively, his back was trembling, and his side cheek muscles were tense. While coughing, he murmured with difficulty: "It seems that I really can't live without you."

Song Ke didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"Nothing," he said, "I'm making you laugh."