desolate

After leaving the gallery, Zhou Ze went back to the hotel in Pei Ye's car.Along the way, the scenery outside the window constantly switches between receding and static states.

I don't know if it is because of this that it makes him feel unreal.

He really came back to this man again.

Pei Ye focused on driving, and occasionally turned his head to talk to him, which was basically a conversation between you asking and answering, but no matter what he answered, Pei Ye listened very carefully.

"Is this all your luggage?"

Pei also pointed to the suitcase on the ground. Except for a few changes of clothes and a small bag of daily necessities for travel, there seemed to be nothing extra.

Zhou Ze squatted on the ground and closed the suitcase.

He said: "There are still some unnecessary ones, which are all left abroad, and my mother should look at them and dispose of them."

Pei Ye hummed: "Then if you need anything, call me and I'll go buy it with you."

Zhou Ze hurriedly said: "But I don't know your number, Mr. Pei, how can I contact you? Do you want to inform your assistant? Do you need an appointment?"

Pei Ye couldn't help but laugh, took out his mobile phone, found his number and dialed it.

The phone buzzed in his coat pocket.

Zhou Ze took it out suspiciously: "You have my phone number...why didn't you call me before?"

"Uh……"

Of course, Pei Ye was embarrassed to say that because he was timid, he made up a lie: "I only found out yesterday, and it was too late, so I didn't call you."

"is it?"

"Then what if..."

Zhou Ze suddenly straightened his face with both hands, watching his pupils shrink slightly under his gaze.

In the end, the bad-hearted person achieved his goal, and his tone changed suddenly, as if he was joking.

"I thought you didn't want to contact me."

Pei Ye's house is very close to the company's new address. It is a two-bedroom rental with a good location, so the rent is not cheap.

In fact, he is currently fully capable of paying the down payment of a house, and then repaying the loan every month. According to others, he has a home first.But instead of listening to his friends' advice, he bought a car first.

"wait."

After parking the car in the underground garage, Pei did not leave immediately, but moved out a cardboard box from the trunk.

Zhou Ze asked, "What is this?"

"I saw it when I was on a business trip last time. I wanted to buy it for you and keep it in the car." Pei also took him into the elevator and pressed the floor. "You will know when you get up."

Pei Ye's house is on the twentieth floor, and he chose a high floor. It may be enough to live in a cramped single room. Later, when he has more money, he will always rent a house with a wide view.

Only when he overlooks the city, he will not feel that he is light and light.

What he likes most about this house is the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, which happen to face the distant river view.It's just that he just moved here not long ago, and the house is still a little empty.

Pei Ye took Zhou Ze around the house, then pointed to the guest room and the master bedroom and asked, "Where do you want to live?"

Zhou Ze pointed to the guest room as a matter of course.

Pei also felt slightly regretful: "But there is only one quilt in my house."

"Pretend, continue to pretend."

Zhou Ze stared at the empty bed frame in the guest room. Suddenly, he turned around and opened the closet next to him. As expected, there was a brand new three-piece bed set inside.

Pei was also speechless.

Zhou Ze glanced at him lightly, said nothing, then dragged his suitcase back to the master bedroom.

Pei Ye snickered in his heart, and hurriedly followed: "Let me help you..."

"I'll do it myself." Zhou Ze familiarized himself with the environment while tidying up.

This should be the most human room in the house.

Pei Ye didn't have many clothes, half of the wardrobe was filled, and there were some accessories, which were neatly put together.So it was very easy for Zhou Ze to clean up.

After Zhou Ze returned to the living room, he glanced at the floor-to-ceiling windows from the corner of his eye, and subconsciously chose to stay away.

"Cho, come and have a look." Pei Ye greeted him just as he was about to unpack the cardboard box.

"What is this?" Zhou Ze walked behind him.

"The record player, when I was passing by, I heard it playing a song. It was very nice, and I thought you might be interested, although it is not much different from a mobile phone or stereo." Pei also found the one given by the boss in the box. Two records, handed him, "How about it, do you like it?"

Zhou Ze was amused by his reason for consumption, and felt a little moved after a while.

He stroked the picture on the album cover and asked, "You didn't think about it when you bought it, what if I don't know how to play it?"

"I……"

Pei was indeed questioned.

He really didn't think about it.

"Forget it, let me see if there is an instruction manual."

Zhou Ze sat cross-legged on the ground and began to study. Pei also had nothing to do, so he just watched from the side.

This record player looks like a product of the last century, but it is well preserved. Obviously its owner should cherish it very much, and I don't know how Pei persuaded the boss to sell it.

After a while, the record player finally played its original function.A slightly distorted sound comes out.

Pei couldn't help rubbing his head: "Why do you know everything?"

Zhou Ze raised his face slightly, with an imperceptible smugness in his eyes, and snorted softly.But as soon as he showed this look, he froze for a while, belatedly not used to it.

But Pei Ye still looked at him with a smile.

Zhou Ze propped his palms behind his back, and his body, which had been tense intentionally or unintentionally, suddenly relaxed at this moment.

The music and atmosphere were just right, and they naturally talked about their lives in the past few years.

Except for Su Ya who deliberately avoided it.

Pei Ye first talked about himself. He had been to several cities after leaving Pingjiang, but it was only as a leisure trip. here.

Then he saw the other party smiled regretfully.It may be a pity that he didn't know that the person waiting at that time was not in Seoul.

But Pei also felt the same, because in the end he still waited.Later, he took advantage of the situation and asked about that strange Edinburgh.

Zhou Ze said that he doesn't like it very much because the weather is always cold and the streets are complicated and easy to get lost. The only advantage is the beautiful scenery.

When he first moved there, he met an interesting old priest in the church next to his home, so he spent the first two years at home and the church most often, until later he went to school and met a few foreign students.Although he doesn't attend these gatherings very often, he stays alone most of the time.

While talking, Zhou Ze asked Pei Ye back, asking him why he started a business.

Pei Ye actually couldn't remember the specific thoughts, so he said that he was doing it for money.At the beginning, although the slogan was loud, it was always a loss at the beginning.

In order not to make the topic heavy, he deliberately talked about the house he and Andy shared.One New Year's Day, the rental house had no water supply, and the two sold water heaters door-to-door in order to earn extra money. For some reason, they were very lucky that day, and they met a customer and bought dozens of them in one go.The two were so happy that they took the money to eat a western meal the next day, but they didn't consider that a steak wouldn't be enough to feed a grown man, so they turned around and ate two bowls of Lanzhou ramen downstairs. At that time, I thought it was delicious, but I didn't expect to eat it all of a sudden. Until now, whenever he and Hua Tsai smell the smell of Lanzhou ramen, they feel disgusted.

Zhou Zele collapsed on the sofa in disbelief.

They chatted until the evening, and the record player accompanied them to work tirelessly. When the body realized that they were hungry, the two of them had perfectly missed their meal.

Pei also had to get into the kitchen to cook quick-frozen dumplings.

But a certain young master didn't seem to be satisfied.

Zhou Ze leaned on the chair, stretched wearily, his eyes sparkled: "Today is the festival, do you just eat dumplings?"

Pei also carried the apron and asked patiently: "Then what do you want to eat?"

"Let's cook a hot pot." Zhou Ze said, "Call some friends over."

He seemed to have a whim, without any logic, and he didn't even think about whether there were enough ingredients in the house or whether his friends could come, he just felt that he should do it at this time.

And Pei probably understood something.

"...Okay, then I'll order a takeaway to deliver food. For friends...I'll ask them if they're free."

He acted quickly and took out his mobile phone as he spoke.

But Zhou Ze stood up suddenly: "Don't order takeaway." He picked up his coat, "Let's go downstairs to buy together, I remember there is a supermarket downstairs."

"Now?"

"Yes, let's go."

Zhou Ze dragged him to the entrance.

The deep winter in Seoul is bitingly cold and wet, and it has snowed these two days, and it will be colder than usual when the snow melts.Zhou Ze was wrapped in a bulging cotton padded jacket, and his body temperature was warm in the air-conditioned room, but he froze as soon as he went out.

He is afraid of the cold, but fortunately with Pei Ye, his whole body is like a heater.

Go out from the underground garage and walk a few hundred meters to see a supermarket that is still open.

The two held hands like other couples, pushing the shopping cart and staying in front of each shelf. Occasionally, they had different opinions because of the selection of products, but most of the cases ended with Pei Ye's compromise.

When they returned home with two big bags of food, Wang Yihua, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, was almost terrified of boredom.

Seeing someone coming, Wang Yihua's first reaction was to open his mouth and yell: "Pei, you called me here to freeze me to death..."

After cursing a few words, he suddenly realized that the handsome guy in front of him didn't seem to be the one he scolded.

So Wang Yihua shut his mouth consciously, and then saw the other party shake the shopping bag in his hand shyly: "Sorry, we went out to buy ingredients, I didn't expect you to be so fast."

Wang Yihua said with his tongue tied that it was all right while recalling the relationship between the two.On the phone before, Pei Ye only said that they had a meal together during the holidays, and he wondered why the dog suddenly had a human nature and remembered himself, but he didn't expect that he was just asking him to see the resurgence of old love.So he spat at the other party in his heart again and again.

Pei didn't know what was going on in his heart, and he didn't feel any guilt about causing the other party to be frozen in the cold winter. After saying hello, he let him do what he wanted.

There is no technical content in cooking hot pot, it is nothing more than time-consuming preparation of ingredients.Pei also worked in the kitchen as a matter of course, while Wang Yihua and Zhou Ze sat in the living room with the cheek to wait for feeding.

The TV on the wall was just a decoration, and the two of them sat awkwardly, so Wang Yihua picked a topic and started chatting with Zhou Ze.

First I asked how they met, and then they talked about when they were in No. [-] Middle School.

Wang Yihua said: "I haven't studied for a long time, and I envy you who are good at studying."

Zhou Ze looked towards the kitchen: "He seems to have said that too."

"It's normal. Who wouldn't want to go to a university and sit in an office, but our place is backward, and people like us have already come out to work." Wang Yihua kowtowed, "But Pei Ye is quite clever, because he is unlucky."

When he said this, Pei Ye just came out with a pot and heard the second half of the sentence.

"I think I'm lucky." He smiled at Zhou Ze while talking.

"Alas!"

Wang Yihua shook off the goosebumps all over the place, then waved him away.

New hatred and old hatred, so he deliberately mentioned Gao Yuan in retaliation.

"Let me tell you secretly, Pei Ye is a very coquettish dog. He coaxes the little girl in our company into a dizzy every day. When talking about business, the other side still wants him to be his son-in-law. Fortunately, he signed the contract early."

Zhou Ze frowned cooperatively: "Well, no wonder I saw a woman giving him Buddhist beads that day."

Wang Yihua fanned the flames: "He can seduce girls. I don't know who said he believes in Buddhism. Our company's financial manager read Buddhist scriptures in front of him for half a month."

Zhou Ze was taken aback: "Believe in Buddhism?"

"Because he used to wear a bracelet, and he used to hold the hand plate every day. Once he left the company before a business trip, and he had to turn back when he got on the expressway. I thought it was an antique. When I asked, he said it was a souvenir from the temple. The master consecrated the light—wasn’t he deceived?”

Zhou Ze laughed heavily.

"...was cheated."

The wind and snow outside have picked up again, and it seems that this time in the new year, I can finally achieve "Happy New Year".