After coming down from the mountain, Lu Youyuan checked out the room and booked a minibus to return to the old town in the afternoon.

They had only been out for two days on this trip, and they were urged by Shi Zhou to go back to their home in the old city.

When they came, both of them were alone, but when they left, they brought a lot of things, backpacks for mountaineering, and special products bought from the ancient town.

As soon as Shi Zhou got home, he was in a hurry to look at the grass.

Fortunately, it was watered once the day before leaving, and it is still growing strong now.

Lu You originally went to find a window repairer to install new ones on all the glass smashed by Xu Tao, and then cleaned the bedroom inside and out, put on new sheets and quilts, and ensured that there were no remaining glass fragments on the bed .

Thinking that tomorrow is New Year's Eve, he asked Shi Zhou, "What do you want for New Year's Eve dinner?"

Shi Zhou thought for a long time and only said one thing: "Eat your fried egg noodles."

Lu Youyuan laughed: "How can you only eat this during the Chinese New Year?"

Shi Zhou insisted: "I just want to eat this, and do whatever else you like."

Lu Youyuan took a look at the refrigerator that had been stuffed to the brim before, and it was full of chicken, duck and fish: "Then have fried egg noodles tomorrow morning, eat casually at noon, and cook a few dishes in the evening."

Shi Zhou hugged the doll on the sofa and fiddled with it with his head down. He didn't know if he heard his words, but he just held the doll with his chin on it blankly, not knowing what to think.

Lu Youyuan only thought that the other party was out of energy for two days.

After all, they went up and down the mountain purely on their own two legs, and when they came back, they bumped for several hours in the crowded car.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the child pushed open the bedroom door and came out. Lu Youyuan was a light sleeper, and woke up the moment the door was pushed.

The other party hugged the pillow, squatted down and poked the person on the sofa, and said quietly: "I can't sleep."

Lu Youyuan looked at the other person's face close at hand, lifted a corner of his quilt, and wrapped him up: "Isn't it cold to wear so little?"

Shi Zhou let the other party wrap his bare feet in a warm quilt, and he curled up on the edge of the sofa, leaving a place for Lu Youyuan to sleep: "You sleep on yours, can I sit here for a while ?”

Lu Youyuan sighed softly, and put the pillow in Shi Zhou's arms beside him: "Sleep together."

The sofa is not wide enough to hold two people, so Lu Youyuan turned sideways and protected the person in his arms with his right hand to prevent him from falling off.

Shi Zhou felt that the other party's hand patted his back lightly, it was a very weak touch, but it could calm the chaotic heart.

The originally chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down after smelling the fragrance of grass and trees on Lu Youyuan's body.

Shi Zhou originally thought that he would keep his eyes open until dawn, but unexpectedly, after being patted a few times by the other party, he unconsciously closed his eyes and fell asleep.

After opening his eyes the next day, Shi Zhou was already lying on the bed in the bedroom.

He slept without feeling all night, as if he had an unprecedented dream beside the other party, but after waking up, he couldn't remember anything in the dream.

Shi Zhou smelled the sizzling aroma of fried eggs coming from the kitchen, and Lu Youyuan was cooking the fried egg noodles he said he wanted to eat yesterday.

Just as he was about to walk over, there was a knock on the door.

Shi Zhou's heart trembled violently, before he could go to open the door, Lu Youyuan had already come out of the kitchen and took a look through the peephole.

He opened the door: "Why are you here?"

It turned out to be Wan Dong.

Hearing this, the other party was not happy: "Why can't I come, and you won't call me when you go out to play, and I will come here to give you New Year's goods."

He carried a bag of roast duck in his hand, next to boxes of milk and fruit: "I can't finish these in my house, so bring them to the little cutie."

Lu Youyuan looked at the bag of unknown objects in the other party's arms: "What is that?"

Wan Dong took it out: "My mother picked a bag of white mulberries from a large shed in the country. I was afraid that the bag of fruit would be crushed, so I didn't carry it, so I carried it in my arms."

"This stuff is good." He leaned close to Lu Youyuan's ear, mysteriously, "Women eat it to nourish yin and men eat it to nourish yang, mainly because it is good for the kidneys."

Lu Youyuan glanced at Wan Dong lightly.

The other party was afraid of being beaten, so he returned to normal form: "Just kidding, I heard that white mulberry is eaten to improve eyesight, and it is for the little cutie."

Only then did Lu Youyuan take it over: "How much is it?"

"Do we still need money for our relationship? Besides, my mother picked it from my grandma's shed, and it didn't cost money." Wan Dong waved his hand indifferently, "You will work hard in the future and bring your brother to make a lot of money. That's it."

Lu Youyuan glanced at Shi Zhou, paused before saying, "I want to transfer the company..."

Before he could say a word, Wan Dong went over to find Shi Zhou to make a fool of himself: "It's Chinese New Year tonight, cutie, come and wish brother an early year, call me brother and I'll give you the lucky money."

Shi Zhou immediately turned around covering his ears, leaving only the back of his head coldly.

"..."

Lu Youyuan swallowed his unspoken words, and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking noodles for Shi Zhou.

Inevitably, I was yelled at by Wan Dong and rubbed a bowl.

He cooked a bag of dried noodles bought from the street. The noodles are all handmade.

There is only a little salt, vinegar, and light soy sauce in the soup base, and a few drops of sesame oil and chopped green onion are sprinkled on the soup. A handful of green cabbage is boiled in advance and placed next to the fried eggs.

Lu Youyuan's cooking skills are not very good, but he still cooks noodles with ease.

He washed the bag of white mulberry that Wan Dong brought, put it in the juicer and squeezed a cup of concentrated juice, and put it by Shi Zhou's hand.

Shi Zhou and Wan Dong ate with their heads down, neither of them had time to talk.

Lu Youyuan had just eaten his second mouthful of noodles, and Wan Dong had already finished eating the noodle soup. He drank the last mouthful of noodle soup, wiped his mouth and stretched out his hand: "One more bowl!"

"No face."

"I didn't eat breakfast, it's not enough to fit between my teeth."

Wan Dong still couldn't get enough of it, and looked at the noodles left in Shi Zhou's bowl: "Have you finished eating? I'll help you eat some."

Shi Zhou guarded his bowl of noodles vigilantly: "Don't grab mine."

Wan Dong plausibly said: "How could I rob you? Treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. I'm afraid that you won't be able to finish it and waste it!"

With a cold glance from Lu Youyuan's warning eyes, someone became honest in an instant: "I'm going to wash the dishes."

Wan Dong slipped away after washing his own bowls and chopsticks. There are a lot of things to do on New Year's Eve, so it's good to be able to find time to deliver things.

This person came and left quickly, Shi Zhou had only taken a few mouthfuls of that bowl of noodles, and he cherished a bite of the fried egg, which was filled with the essence of the noodle soup base, and the juice exploded in his mouth as soon as he took a bite.

He ate very slowly, mouthful after mouthful, as if he wanted to engrave this taste on the tip of his tongue and firmly remember it in his heart.

Just after finishing a bowl of noodles, there was another knock on the door.

Lu You thought it was Wan Dong who had left and returned, and opened the door directly, but there were two policemen in police uniforms standing outside, a man and a woman, their faces were strange, they didn't look like people from the old city.

The other party got straight to the point and took out his ID: "Hello, we are the imperial capital police, does Shi Zhou live here?"

Shi Zhou shook his hand holding the bowl, and the whole room resounded with the sound of broken ceramics.

The two people outside the door were very polite and did not give Lu Youyuan a way out: "Please let us take him back to the police station to close the case."

Lu Youyuan didn't give in either: "Do I have to go now?"

"I'll go." Shi Zhou came over with a soft but firm voice.

"Then I will accompany you."

The female policeman shook her head: "We are going to the high-level department. The above said that we can only bring relevant people to the scene."

"It's okay, I'll go and have a look, I'm sure everything will be fine with the police here." He raised his head and tugged at the corner of Lu Youyuan's clothes, "I also want to confirm why they are looking for me."

The people who came this time looked more professional and serious than before, with some legal weapons on their waists.

Shi Zhou put on his shoes, and before he left, he tried his best to raise the corners of his lips to the person at the door: "I'm just going to find out the situation, and I'll be back when it's over."

Lu Youyuan watched the other party leave with those people.

Then never came back.

He waited for one day, two days, three days... He searched every police station, but what he got was the news that the other party returned home safely.

"Suddenly" is a very bad word. Everything that is not cherished and caught off guard can be attributed to suddenness.

Suddenly this year passes, suddenly you get it, suddenly you lose it, suddenly someone lives in your life, suddenly you lose someone, as if any change happened suddenly.

After returning from the police station in the center of the imperial city, Lu Youyuan glanced at the lonely wood sorrel on the window.

Life is really full of changes. One second, we were laughing and watering the flowers together at home, watching the sunset side by side on the top of the mountain, and thinking about what to eat on New Year’s Eve together, but the next second we became strangers.

Lu Youyuan couldn't tell what his current emotion was, was it sad or sad?

The house still retains the look it had before Shi Zhou left. He doesn't want to touch the doll on the sofa, the folds on the bed sheet, listen to the MP3 under the pillow, or take the bubble gum hidden under the TV cabinet...

He just felt that he was being slowly swallowed by endless emptiness.

Someone approached by mistake, and then took root in my heart at some point, but now that position has been uprooted, leaving only a little vacancy.

Like a desperate person who has nowhere to go, Lu Youyuan made a wish on four tender green grass leaves.

He thought, if you can really bring luck, bring people back.

The wood sorrel seemed to understand, and shook its slender and weak body with force, but in the next second, it seemed that it couldn't bear such a deep wish.

The leaf finally withered into the soil.

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