Contention

The typhoon is approaching recently, and the whole old city is shrouded in a stormy atmosphere.

The sky is gloomy, with occasional gusts of wind.Lu Min leaned against the balcony, his slightly long hair was tied into a small braid, and there was some paint on his face.

When one stroke falls, the fog rises in Jiangcheng, hazy and far away.Glancing at the niece beside him who was absent-mindedly playing with paint, he smiled:

"Look at what you did. If you keep adjusting it, I'm going to finish playing with my pearl white."

Lu Yuexi sat on the high chair, didn't stop, still mixed the paint in the painting tray with the small brush in his hand, after the mixed colors were mixed, it became a uniform messy gray.

She thought for a while, then suddenly stopped and asked, "Uncle, what do you think a 19-year-old girl would want?"

"That depends on what she likes."

"But I gave her something she likes, but she said, I don't understand her." Lu Yuexi frowned slightly confused, and sighed, "I thought she would be happy, but unexpectedly, she looks a little angry."

Her narration was thoughtless, not like complaining or asking for solutions, just like talking to herself.

Lu Min, on the other hand, seemed to understand everything, listening quietly, and patiently described and painted the city in the rain.

"... 19 years old, too young." Unexplained emotion, with a bit of loss, "People in this age group do things in a weird way, and they still join some protection associations. I don't know what she wants to do in the future."

Lu Min smiled: "Don't always look at it with the eyes of an adult. When I said I wanted to draw, your grandpa still laughed at me as a child and ignorant, just kidding."

"..."

"You ask her, but she refuses to tell, so just watch slowly." He turned his head, his eyes tolerant, "Don't always feel young and naive, if she wants to do something, she will naturally do it. If you meet If you are in trouble, go and help."

"...If she is willing to ask for help, of course I'd be happy to pave the way for her." Lu Yuexi shook her head, and got up to wash her hands at the sink on the balcony, finally letting go of the appalling plate of paint, "It's just that I'm too stubborn. Even if I lower my head, she won't take a second look."

Lu Min didn't take it seriously, and put the brush into a bowl filled with clean water and washed it: "If you think about what your feelings for her are, then the road ahead won't be too difficult, as long as she has no one else in her heart, everything will be fine." .”

Lu Yuexi was silent for a moment, and smiled wryly: "I'm afraid of being bitten by a snake once and afraid of well ropes for ten years. Her appearance of not getting in, looks like she has disregarded the world and has no mood for love."

"How could it be?" The two sides looked at each other, and Lu Min smiled narrowly, "Isn't Miss Lu the fastest at learning deceptive tricks?"

"What's coaxing?" Just as he was talking, Yun Yi pushed open the door and entered, holding two glasses of pomegranate juice in his hand, "Whispering."

He was dressed simply at home, with loose short sleeves and slacks. He was a thin boy, and he had grown a lot these days.

Lu Min didn't care about the makeup on his hands, put his arms around his waist, and said with a smile, "You young people are not easy to coax."

Lu Yue regretted seeing him coming, and lowered his eyes lightly: "Uncle, I'm leaving."

Lu Min asked, "Aren't you going to stay for a meal?"

"I have something to do." Lu Yuexi stepped out of the balcony and walked to the living room.

Her bag was hanging on the coat rack, and when she was about to take it off, Yun Yi followed and handed her the pomegranate juice:

"In such a hurry? There is always time to drink a glass of pomegranate juice."

Lu Yuexi looked at him quietly for a moment, but didn't answer: "If you don't like it, forget it."

Now when pomegranates are mentioned, she can't help but think of the scene of He Ying taking care of the potted pomegranates in the last month before his death.

After taking the bag, Yun Yi stopped her again: "Sister Lu, you've been running around all the time, what's wrong?"

Lu Yuexi said lightly, "Busy."

"About the company?" Yun Yi smiled, "I see you are always so busy, if only someone could help you."

Lu Yuexi frowned, and finally took a look at him.But after all, I didn't want to say too much, I had to save some face for Lu Min, and was about to open the door to leave, when a hand stretched out to help her open the door of the apartment.

Yun Yi half leaned over and said softly, "This door is hard to open. You have to unlock the lock here first, then hold the door handle and press it down hard."

The neckline of the boy's jacket was wide, and he leaned over like this, casually showing half of his shoulders.

Lu Yue took a glance at it coolly, but saw that there were two welts left on the white and thin shoulders, which looked like they had just been made, and the flesh was red and swollen, very sentimental.

She looked at it for a moment, then turned her head blankly: "Thank you."

"Lu Shiniao" in the cage was chattering all morning long.Lu Yuexi was busy with work, so he poked its head with his fingertips and asked the servant to feed it later.

It has been raining recently, and the cage of "Lu Shiniao" is hanging in her bedroom.

Take a look at today's itinerary, it's full.Passing the intersection of Shuanglong Road, Lu Yuexi felt something and opened his eyes.

Not far away, several traffic policemen had just intercepted the next illegally modified vehicle and were on duty to communicate.

The shadows are full of people, and the mist and rain are rampant.Lu Yuexi searched intently, and finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw a familiar figure.

It is fortunate that the other party can still work normally.

Assistant Wen noticed the delicate atmosphere, and was about to drive over when Lu Yuexi suddenly said, "Let's take a detour."

Assistant Kanwen was stunned, and she repeated patiently: "Detour."

According to her, she will not be seen in this life.Even if we saw each other on the road, there was no reason to pass by.

Even if he thinks about it in the future, Lu Yuexi's nostalgia has always been only the girl who stood under the locust tree and looked at her faintly in the evening after school.

Back and forth on the wine table, most of the people were drunk.Lu Yuexi didn't drink much, and no one dared to persuade her to drink.She listened to the people chatting and laughing at the banquet, and slowly lit a slender Su cigarette.

She has quit smoking for most of the time recently, only on occasions like this, when she smells of alcohol, cigarettes are unavoidable.

In the middle, a boss talked about the ecological park under construction in the west of the city. It was a new project approved by the government, with the theme of "green technology".

Someone asked Lu Yuexi if she had any ideas, she just smiled, and the boss paid attention.

After the dinner, the guests dispersed, and he approached him, saying that he wanted to cooperate with Huiyan.He provided technology, Huiyan provided funds for raw materials, etc., and they went to apply for the ecological park project and build a factory there.

Lu Yuexi said to let her think about it, and dismissed the boss with a few words.

It's not that there is no technical language, what kind of expert machine can't be attracted, what's the point of cooperating with others like this?

Moreover, someone from the ecological park had already made a report and analyzed it, and the disadvantages outweighed the advantages.The surrounding infrastructure conditions are not good, it is depressed and deserted, and I heard that there are not many subsidies from the top, so Huiyan can't afford to pick on this raw bone.

Lu Yuexi returned home and changed her clothes. When she went downstairs, her brother came back from school and was sitting on the sofa playing with a tablet.

She didn't see her father left or right, she was a little strange, Lu Heng didn't go to the company today, where did he go?He called the servant and asked, "Em, where's my dad? Did he go out to play?"

The servant didn't know, so he just said, "It seems that there is something wrong."

"Father is going to see Auntie Fang!" Lu Zimo interrupted suddenly.

"Huh?" Her father only tells this child about these things in secret now, and he is not afraid of teaching the child badly. "Going on a date?"

"No, Aunt Fang is sick."

"Get ill?"

"Well, Dad is in the city hospital." Lu Zimo shook his calf, "I left at noon, call me and tell me to come back later in the evening."

Lu Yuexi thought for a moment, then asked, "Which hospital do you know?"

"Second doctor attached."

Lu Yuexi drove there, but it rained suddenly on the way.The typhoon landed in these two days, and the heavy rain always came as soon as it was said.

When I arrived at the hospital, my trousers were wet.She called Aunt Fang and found the ward after asking about the situation.

The woman is lying on the hospital bed and is hanging salt water.There is a bag of soup dumplings and a fruit basket on the bedside table.Her father was away, so she presumably went shopping.

"What's going on here? Why are you hospitalized suddenly?" She patted the rain off her body and sat down at a random place.She went to the hospital so often this year, she was almost immune to the smell in the hospital.

Aunt Fang just sighed: "I have a stomach problem, I have an old problem, it doesn't matter."

There was a medical record on the bedside. Lu Yuexi picked it up and looked at it. The condition was not bad, but he had to stay in the hospital for two days to get rid of the inflammation: "Have you notified Feiniao yet?"

Aunt Fang said: "She's busy, so don't tell her. Last time she attended a lecture, I called her, and from her tone, she was quite busy."

"How can it be like this, I have to let her come back to see you." Lu Yuexi had other thoughts, "If it doesn't work, just ask for leave, and don't come back for two months during the summer vacation?"

Aunt Fang thought about it, and then called Zou Feiniao.Lu Yuexi listened casually at the side, but the voice on the other side was quiet, so she couldn't hear anything.

In the middle of the talk, Aunt Fang suddenly comforted me in a warm voice: "It's all right, I've got someone to take care of me, it doesn't matter if I can't come, don't worry."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuexi glanced at her: "What's wrong?"

Aunt Fang was very helpless: "Typhoon days, air tickets and train tickets can't be booked. Feiniao can't come back even if he wants to."

"What's so difficult about it?" Lu Yuexi smiled, "I'll just drive her back."

"That's too troublesome, no need, I don't have any serious illness, so I can't do it."

"What's the trouble?" Lu Yuexi raised his eyebrows.Come and go for at least a day.Zou Feiniao was in the same car with her all day, wishing for nothing.

"This child Feiniao is so filial. You got sick and you were hospitalized." She said, tucked the quilt for Aunt Fang, and said earnestly, "You can't make her worry about you, can you?"

Aunt Fang agreed, and Zou Feiniao naturally had no reason to refuse.In the eyes of their elders, they are still sisters who have a good relationship. If they are divided, they will definitely be preached.

Lu Yuexi called the driver at home and drove her to Xiamen.After so many days, they finally got in touch.

I don't know how many highways I have traveled and how many bridges I have crossed.Outside the window, cities passed by one after another, and finally arrived in Xiamen.

When approaching Zou Feiniao's internship company, Lu Yuexi felt inexplicably hot.

It seems that the most romantic thing in the world is just that.She crossed mountains and rivers, crossed thousands of miles, and faced the wind and rain of typhoon days, just to bring her sweetheart home.

After passing a traffic light intersection, I saw a long and tall figure standing under the glass canopy of a high-rise building waiting from a distance.The wind is blowing and the rain is rushing, the streets are long and the buildings are thin.The man was wearing a printed shirt with mid-sleeves, and a pair of high-top, thick-soled Martin boots under black work-style trousers.

Lu Yuexi asked the driver to park the car at the entrance of the company, and turned to look at Zou Feiniao.

Her ponytail was tied high, and under the lenses were dark clear eyes, staring expressionlessly at the raindrops falling from the glass canopy.

Seeing the car stop, she came back to her senses, opened the umbrella, and picked up the suitcase beside her.

The driver wanted to come down to help, but Zou Feiniao moved quickly. He put the suitcase in the trunk, drove in, and closed the door.The whole process takes less than 2 minutes.

She didn't sit in the back seat, but Lu Yuexi sat behind.She sat directly in the passenger seat and wiped the rain stains off her body with the paper in her pocket.

Lu Yuexi said, "Why are you sitting there? I have something to tell you."

Zou Feiniao didn't turn his head back, his tone was cold: "It's not necessary."

"...you're disgusting with me." There was a driver, but Lu Yuexi was not annoyed, and only said in a very forgiving tone, "Then I'll drive, Uncle Chen, replace me."

The driver was suddenly embarrassed, and went to persuade Zou Feiniao: "Little girl, why don't you sit in the back, Miss Lu wants to talk to you, she came here specially for you, it's not easy.

Lu Yuexi was sure that someone else would not dare to make trouble in Zou Feiniao's face, so he just waited patiently.After a moment of silence, Zou Feiniao really got out of the car and walked towards the back seat without holding his umbrella.

In a split second, it was raining heavily outside, and half of her sleeves were still wet.

Lu Yue regretted seeing her face turned slightly pale from the rain, sighed, and took the dry towel from the car to wipe her off: "What's the trouble, wouldn't it be better to sit in the back at first?"

Zou Feiniao blocked it with his hand, and looked up at her: "Do you think I'm having trouble with you?"

"..."

"I don't answer your calls, I don't reply to your messages, and I don't contact you." She said slowly, her voice was very soft, but serious, "Do you think I'm just fighting with you?"

Lu Yuexi was speechless for a moment.Zou Feiniao didn't wait for her to respond, he lowered his head and took off his glasses.

A lot of her body was wet, but she couldn't wipe it off, so she just didn't care. After cleaning her glasses, she took out five big bills from her pocket and handed them to the other party.

Lu Yuexi glanced at the money in her hand and frowned: "You think I care about this?"

"You don't care, I care." Seeing that she didn't answer, Zou Feiniao leaned over and stuffed the money into her trouser pocket.

When the girl leaned forward, although the rain had washed away, the smell on her body was still clear.The aroma of sea salt and ambrette seeds is clean, moist and sweet.

It's a pity that it passed by in a flash. After a while, Zou Feiniao sat by the car window again, leaning there and fiddled with his mobile phone, as if answering a message.

Those belly drafts that had been typed dozens of times in my heart suddenly became useless.They sit together, but they are like two mutes.

The car had already started, and the rain outside the window was messy, and the scenery was obscured so that it was hard to see clearly.

After a long silence, about ten minutes, Lu Yuexi finally said something vaguely: "I was wrong at that time."

"..."

"I shouldn't hurt you like that, and treat you like someone else." The wheels squeaked by, and music was playing in the car to keep you refreshed. Lu Yuexi spoke very softly, just at the volume that Zou Feiniao could hear at a distance, " But there are some things that really shouldn't be taken too seriously, if it wasn't for Ye Huai, I wouldn't have noticed you at first."

Zou Feiniao didn't respond, he was absent-minded, but he didn't continue to play with the phone, and just stared out the window.

"...But after thinking about it for so many days, I think you should be different." Lu Yuexi paused as she said this, as if deliberating, after hesitating for a long time, she asked, "Did you do anything for so long? Miss me? Or, during the time we separated, did you miss me?"

The car music is still playing, it is the first pure music, passionate and powerful, with a clear rhythm.After crossing a bridge hundreds of meters long, there is a tunnel ahead.

After driving in, it was dark for a moment, and for a moment, the wall lamps in the tunnel were dim, as if the day had turned into dusk.

Zou Feiniao never spoke, Lu Yuexi quietly waited for her to respond, while listening to the tune, the tone became more and more excited and sharp.At the moment of exiting the tunnel, the music suddenly died down and became low and soothing.

The rain was pouring down the window, against the gloomy daylight, Zou Feiniao finally spoke, his tone could not be called cold, but a little tired: "You want to know what I was thinking during that time?"

"...if you will."

She smiled, and turned her head to look at her: "During that time, when I opened and closed my eyes, it was always that locust tree."