Stupid, you are the substitute!

When going out in the afternoon, Chi Qiu thought about it, went upstairs and knocked on Yang Zichu's door.

The other party seemed to have just woken up, and came over with sleepy eyes and opened the door.

Chi Qiu glanced at the back of his hand, which was still wrapped with gauze, "If you want to go to the piano room, you can swipe my student ID card."

It took Yang Zichu several seconds to digest the news, and his eyes lit up immediately, "That's great! Wait for me!"

After 10 minutes, the two went downstairs together.

Chi Qiu glanced under the camphor tree, there was no one there.

Today is a working day, Qin Yan is probably too busy to get out.

"What are you looking at? Let's go." Seeing him not moving for a long time, Yang Zichu came over and patted his shoulder.

Chi Qiu regained his composure and stepped forward.Yang Zichu was originally cheerful, and he hadn't heard a word along the way. When talking about the opportunity for him to learn the violin, he scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly.

"I'm just chasing a boy, also from your conservatory, who plays the violin really well, so I just want to say try to learn a little bit, and find a common topic."

During the conversation, the two had already arrived at their destination, Chi Qiu smiled and went to find his student ID card.

"But I was actually rejected last week..."

Yang Zichu continued.

Just after swiping the card, Chi Qiu's phone vibrated in his bag. It was an unfamiliar number. He motioned for Yangzi Chu to go in first, and then went to the corridor entrance to answer the phone.

There was a very sweet voice on the opposite side, "Hello, this is the Ayer Nursing Home. Are you Mr. Chi Qiu?"

Hearing the word "nursing home", Chi Qiu clenched his phone tightly, and had some guesses in his heart, he settled down, "Yes."

"Ms. Meng Shuang's physical condition is not optimistic. Do you have time to come and have a look?"

Chi Qiu paused for a long time, just the word 'Ms. Meng Shuang' was enough to pin him in place, and even his breathing was painful.

"Hello? Mr. Chi, are you still there?...Hello?"

"Yes," Chi Qiu took a deep breath, "I see."

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Summer rain in City G always comes without warning. Ten minutes before getting off the car, Chi Qiu was still leaning against the car window, in a trance, there were already dense raindrops on the window.

The car turned away from the urban area, and finally drove into a nursing home in the suburbs.

When getting off the bus, the taxi driver kindly gave him an old transparent umbrella to keep him out of the rain.

Chi Qiu thanked him politely, held up his umbrella and got out of the car.

It wasn't raining heavily, but the umbrella was too small, and the legs of my trousers were a little moist after walking two steps.

The sky was hazy, he raised his umbrella, his eyes were on the plaque of the nursing home, his eyes became darker and darker.

After a long time, he finally stepped up. At that time, there was no one else on the road, so he could only walk alone.

After reporting his name at the front desk, the nurse who called before took him inside.

"You said on the phone that she was in a bad condition?"

The nurse probably took care of Qin Shuang all the time. She frowned, feeling a little regretful, "Aunt Meng has been in a bad state of mind, and was diagnosed with stomach cancer just last week."

"……Are you ok?"

The nurse shook her head, "She is unwilling to receive treatment."

Chi Qiu was stunned for a moment, but there was only silence.

"Why did you call me?" Chi Qiu licked his lips, "Where is the first contact?"

The nurse shook her head, "I have contacted, but the phone is always disconnected," she paused, with a rather sad look, "Auntie Meng's ex-husband was visited by someone yesterday, but he left after delivering the things. Auntie's emotional It's very unstable, so I contacted you rashly."

As she spoke, she stopped outside the innermost room in the corridor and pushed open the door.

"Auntie, someone is here to see you."

Chi Qiu paused outside the door for a few seconds before walking in.

The facilities in the room are all complete, if there is no faint smell of disinfectant in the air, he would have thought it was just an accident.

An old man with gray hair was lying on the bed, lying on his side and resting. The loose clothes bulged on her body, making her look even thinner. She was very different from the young, competent and vigorous woman in his memory.

Hearing the movement, the person on the bed opened his eyelids, "Who's here?"

Meng Shuang watched him for a long time before catching a little bit of clues in her memory, "Chi Qiu?"

She recognized the person, and got up on the bed, but after lying down for too long, her legs were already numb. Seeing this, Chi Qiu went over to help her, and put two pillows on her back.

After Meng Shuang sat down firmly, she asked again: "What are you doing here?"

"Of course I came to see you." The nurse smiled and helped her pour the water. "You guys talk first, call me if you need something."

After the nurse left, the room fell silent again.

Chi Qiu pulled away the chair beside the bed, but Yu Guang was attracted by the fruit basket on the bedside table.

Very ordinary fruit, but there are two green awns in the middle.

But he vaguely remembered that Meng Shuang was allergic to mangoes.

Chi Qiu felt a little ridiculous, at this moment, he actually felt compassion for her.

"In three years, you were the first one to come to see me." Meng Shuang looked at him calmly, with a hint of mockery in her eyes, "Do you think I should cry or laugh?"

"Why don't you get treatment."

"I thought you'd miss me so much."

"Indeed."

The room was silent again.

Chi Qiu could even hear the rain hitting the leaves outside.

"...Shiqian... is he back?" Meng Shuang sighed imperceptibly, with a bit of testing in her cloudy eyes.

"As you can see."

"That's right, because of you, he probably won't see me again." Meng Shuang turned her eyes away from him, rolling her eyes again and again, and the sockets of her eyes slowly turned red.

"Because of me?" Chi Qiu repeated this sentence lightly, his eyes were as cold as a sharp knife quenched with cold light, cutting through those rotten memories, "You can really clean yourself up."

"Chi Qiu!" Meng Shuang stopped him, clutching the bed sheet tightly with her hands, staring at him with resentment in her red eyes, she looked a bit heroic back then, "It's your own fate..."

Chi Qiu got up to interrupt her, and leaned over to ring the nurse's bell.

He looked at her at the same level, without any disturbance in his eyes, without smiling, "You take a good rest."

Meng Shuang's body went limp and she sank into the pillow instantly, "Don't come again, I don't want to see anyone."

Chi Qiu said nothing, turned and left.

The rain has not stopped, and it has the meaning of getting bigger and bigger.

He was not in a hurry to leave, he sat in the pavilion in the small garden and waited for a while.

The sycamore leaves were knocked to the ground, which inevitably made people feel sad.

It seemed to be the same season when he first met Meng Shuang.

After his parents died unexpectedly, his mother's childhood friend Uncle Qin took him back home.

Meng Shuang was wearing a purple dress that day, exquisite and elegant, with deep eyebrows and eyes, feminine yet heroic.

At that time, Chi Qiu thought that this was the most beautiful aunt he had ever seen.

But the good-looking aunt doesn't like him, and obscenities such as "illegitimate child", "unrequited love", "wild species" are thrown out one by one.

He just felt numb.

During the quarrel, someone covered his ears.

He looked back, Qin Shiqian cast a concerned look, and he was still talking, obviously forgetting that his ears were covered and he couldn't hear at all.

Chi Qiu didn't say anything, just stared at his beautiful lips and teeth, identifying them bit by bit.

"Don't listen."

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After returning from the nursing home, the sky was getting dark, Chi Qiu walked very slowly, and after reaching the end of the avenue full of camphor trees, he saw Qin Yan who was feeding the cat downstairs in the dormitory.

The suit was thrown aside by him, and a few ham sausages were scattered on the ground. He squatted down, peeled off a sausage and sent it to the cow cat in front of him.The cat was obviously vigilant, sniffed the ham sausage, then looked at him, but didn't dare to say anything.

Chi Qiu had seen this cat before, it was a free-range cat from the school security office.

Under the short street lamp, the shadows of Qin Yan and the cat in front of him overlapped and criss-crossed. His eyes were lowered, and his long eyelashes cast a nice shadow.

The cow cat was still very vigilant, Qin Yan was a little helpless, so he simply put it on the ground and got up to get away from it.

As soon as he raised his head, he met Chi Qiu's eyes. He paused for a moment, and then a smile appeared in his eyes.

Chi Qiu didn't move, he just went there, "Why is your hair wet?"

Chi Qiu backed away, avoiding the hand he reached out to touch his head.

Qin Yan twisted his hand in the void, and took it back.

Chi Qiu looked behind him, and suddenly said: "That's not a stray cat, someone keeps it."

These days, it's rare that Chi Qiu is willing to talk to him, Qin Yan smiled and followed him and said, "Well, then I can't feed him?"

"If you feed it, it will trust you subconsciously, and then develop a good impression of everyone who feeds it." Chi Qiu paused, with rare stubborn eyes, "But, who can guarantee that you will be fed to it in the future?" Are all good people?"

"What's wrong?" Qin Yan keenly noticed that Chi Qiu's mood was not quite right.

Chi Qiu likes to hide his emotions very much, whether it is positive or negative, to him, it always seems to be calm and breezy.

But it was rare for him to suddenly say such negative words just now.

Chi Qiu came back to his senses, realized his gaffe, and left without saying "sorry".

Qin Yan stretched out his hand to hold him, thought for a while, his voice was very low but serious, "Fear in advance is a false proposition, Chi Qiu, the future is unknown, the real sense of reality in front of you is always more important than the false possibility .”

Chi Qiu's eyes froze for a moment, and then returned to normal, humming.

"Do you have time next Friday?" Qin Yan changed the subject, "I want to take Yuanbao for a checkup."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qin Yan added: "It suddenly arrested people yesterday, so don't worry about doing an inspection."

"Let's talk about it." Chi Qiu looked tired, lost a word hastily, and went upstairs.

'Furthermore' such ambiguous words are too ambiguous, but to Qin Yan who has been shut down for several days in a row, it is already a kind of concession.

He didn't say any more, but his eyes kept sticking to Chi Qiu's body.

He didn't know what happened to make Chi Qiu suddenly show such a negative side, but he had a vague premonition that these things were very important to Chi Qiu.

He couldn't restrain the desire to spy in his heart, but he stopped at Chi Qiu's attitude of retreating every time.

Qin Yan tilted his head, the previous milk cat had disappeared, and the ham sausage on the ground was still intact.

He breathed a sigh of relief, quite helpless, and he didn't know what was wrong, the two cats were so wary of him.