lightly cooked

According to the company's regulations, taxis can only be reimbursed after ten o'clock in the evening, so this time is the peak off-duty time.

Xu Shuyuan waited on the side of the street for a long time, and his mobile phone was always waiting for a ticket, but he was still unable to call a car.In such cold weather, his face was tense.

A black car drove up in front of him, stopped, and the windows were lowered.

"Xu Shuyuan."

Fu Jia tried to call him.

Maybe because it was on the right, the first thing I heard was not him, but the expectant mother next to me.She raised her arm to touch Xu Shuyuan, then pointed this way.

Their eyes collided in the air, and Xu Shuyuan's expression became condensed in an instant.Fu Jia felt a little embarrassed, and realized that he was making fun of himself, but he got out of the car and walked towards them.

It was only when he got closer that she was still holding his arm.

"Xu Shuyuan, what a coincidence." Fu Jia's voice was hoarse, only the corners of his mouth were raised stubbornly, "Just got off work?"

"Coincident?" Xu Shuyuan turned his face away and said suddenly, "Don't you come here every day?"

Fu Jia was startled.

How does he know?

Just as he didn't know how to answer, the woman next to him asked him in a low voice: "Shuyuan, your friend?"

She looked a little older than him, with a pair of almond-shaped eyes on her thin cheeks, her demeanor was docile and modest, but her skin was really not delicate, and shallow wrinkles appeared prematurely at the corners of her eyes.

Xu Shuyuan hummed, but didn't say much.

Seeing that he didn't intend to introduce himself, Fu Jia concealed his panic and frustration: "Are you waiting for the bus? Or I'll show you off for a while."

As he spoke, he gestured behind him.

The woman gave him a friendly smile.

"You guys have to wait for a long time like this. Pregnant women can't stand all the time." Fu Jia also smiled at her, "Let me see you off."

Probably because she felt sorry for her tired from standing, Xu Shuyuan didn't object this time.After getting in the car, the two of them sat in the back, Fu Jia sat in the co-pilot, and they could see their movements from the rearview mirror.

As soon as the woman sat firmly, Xu Shuyuan helped her fasten her seat belt, and asked her in a low voice if she was cold.She shook her head and laughed: "Don't be nervous, I'm already wrapped in a brown bag, how can I be cold, I'm hot." Shuyuan asked again: "Do you want to open the window when it's hot?"

Raising her eyes to meet Fu Jia's dazed gaze, the woman smiled shyly, as if to let outsiders see the joke, "No, no, no, please sit down for me."

Fu Jia lowered her head to buckle the seat belt, but her hands didn't listen to her commands, and it took a while to buckle it up.There is an unknown fire in my heart, and I really don't know who to send it to.

When turning a corner, I almost ran into a food delivery man, the car body slammed forward, and the rear row screamed.The driver hurriedly stopped the car to apologize, and Xu Shuyuan immediately asked in a low voice: "Are you okay?" The woman patted her chest to let her breath out, but her face turned pale: "It's okay..."

Fu Jia couldn't help reprimanding: "Why are you driving, be careful."

The driver was obedient and didn't dare to make a sound, even the woman's shoulders trembled slightly.

The car restarted, and Fu Jia turned his head away irritably, but saw Xu Shuyuan's frowning and disgusted eyes in the rearview mirror.

His expression seemed to say, Fu Jia, you are still so hopeless.

Fu Jia tightly closed her eyes and did not speak for a long time.

No matter how late it was, the city was always congested. The cars stopped and went, and it didn't take long for the woman to hold her chest and feel like vomiting.Xu Shuyuan skillfully dug out the plastic bag and wet wipes from her bag, and slowly patted her on the back while letting her hold the bag.

It took a while for the woman to recover, and kept apologizing in a low voice.

Fu Jia said it was okay, and she asked Shuyuan to lower the window halfway to get some fresh air.Shuyuan was very kind to her, he took off his coat and put it on for her, and he was willing to listen to anything she had to say.

Maybe it was the cold wind blowing in, it was blowing so hard that Fu Jia felt that his hands and feet were about to lose consciousness.

Recalling the past, he said: "Xu Shuyuan, it's so cold today."

Xu Shuyuan replied to him: "Wear more."

What kind of answer is this? Do you need to say it?The more frustrated he was, the more troublesome he was. He found a lot of thesis topics for Xu Shuyuan to think about the outline, and asked him to complete them within a very short time limit.

Xu Shuyuan soon fell ill.

Hearing that he was coughing non-stop, Fu Jia asked what happened, he said that he queued up early in the morning to take up a seat in the library, and it was freezing.Fu Jia felt very distressed, but the words were not forgiving: "You also told me to wear more, I don't know how to wear more..."

Putting down the phone, I quietly bought cold medicine and mailed it to him, and then waited, waited, and waited for two full days before I received a message: "Thank you Jiajia."

Following him, Fu Jia also started coughing, which was infected by a classmate in the same class.He told Xu Shuyuan about this, emphatically explaining how uncomfortable he was, coughing so much that he couldn't sleep well, Xu Shuyuan didn't say anything.

That evening, he went to feed the rabbits.

The rabbit was not a real rabbit, it was a stray cat adopted by the two of them off-campus. It was gray and white, fat and silly, and he picked the name randomly.

There is a pot of water left by Xu Shuyuan in the rabbit's cardboard box.The pot should be a gift from toothpaste, and the writing on the pot has faded.

He looked at it in distaste for a long time before struggling to take it back. He refused to taste it after tasting a little, and asked Xu Shuyuan: "Why did you leave me a broken pot, the water in it is still rotten."

Xu Shuyuan was studying by himself, and replied to him at eleven o'clock in the evening: "I didn't buy rock sugar, I cooked it with loquat leaves, and my grandfather used it to cure my cough when I was young."

"Where did you get the loquat leaves?"

"It was picked outside."

Fu Jia was in high spirits, because he felt that Xu Shuyuan cared about him, but he didn't care about him.Later, I didn't finish drinking the water, so I poured it all after taking two sips.

As he recalled these, there was silence in the carriage.Xu Shuyuan leaned on the car seat and closed his eyes to rest, while the woman was slowly stroking his belly with a very gentle expression.

Fu Jia inhaled silently, pulled the corners of her mouth with cheek muscles stiff, and called to the rearview mirror, "Xu Shuyuan."

Xu Shuyuan opened his eyes.

"Tell me your mobile phone number, I'll save it."

The street lamps slanted his face, and his outline was stiff.He stared fixedly at Fu Jia, but didn't make a sound, just staring.

Fu Jia clutched the seat belt tightly with both hands, almost pulling it off, Xu Shuyuan was merciful: "It hasn't changed."

"what?"

"The number is still the same as before." He said lightly, and turned his face out of the window after speaking, staring at the busy traffic outside, "If you tried to call, you should know."

He always has this kind of ability, which can make Fu Jia feel ashamed.

When we got near the community, the road was already narrow, and there were many private cars parked on the side of the road.

Xu Shuyuan said: "Let's send it here, we will go in by ourselves."

"Okay." Fu Jia shrugged, showing a flawed smile.

Xu Shuyuan got out of the car and went around to the right to open the door for the woman.Fu Jia didn't intend to go down at first, but the woman said: "Shuyuan, do you really not want to invite your friend over to your house?"

He was stunned for a moment, and seeing Xu Shuyuan walking towards him, he quickly opened the door and got out of the car.If Shuyuan invited him, he would be willing to sit there, he thought.

"How much should I pay you?"

"what?"

He raised his head in astonishment, only to see Xu Shuyuan raised his eyes: "Didn't you take the car?"

"No... This is my family's car. He is my father's driver. He happened to pick me up on the way."

Two or three seconds later, Xu Shuyuan laughed at himself: "I see."

Fu Jia pretended not to understand his implication, and asked casually, "Xu Shuyuan, why didn't you buy a car?"

"Not enough money." Simple and clear answer.

Fu Jia seemed to have something blocked in his throat, and he didn't understand why he kept poking at his sore spot: "I'm sorry, I..."

Xu Shuyuan couldn't bear to listen anymore, and left with the woman.

Seeing their backs drifting away and about to disappear around the corner, Fu Jia couldn't restrain the urge in her heart to catch up.

"Xu Shuyuan!"

The person in front stops.

"I have a few words I want to say to you, can you give me a few minutes."

"Shuyuan, I'll wait for you at home first, you can talk slowly." The woman left first.

The driver also slowly reversed the car.

Xu Shuyuan stood by the side of the road.His eyes moved from the car to Fu Jia's face, and his eyes were deeper than before. He looked at Fu Jia blankly and did not speak.

"The original book."

Fu Jia looked down at the shadow on the ground: "How long have you been married, why didn't you invite me to the wedding?"

Xu Shuyuan frowned inadvertently.

Suspecting that he didn't hear, Fu Jia raised her head to stare at him, but seeing that he was also looking at her, she couldn't help lowering her head again.

"Who told you I was married?"

Fu Jia was startled: "Then she is..."

"You stopped me just to ask this?" Xu Shuyuan turned away and looked away, with a very distant expression.

Only then did Fu Jia think of business.

He took out the business card from his coat and handed it over: "This is a doctor my dad helped to contact. It is said that he is an authority on ear, nose and throat. Take time to meet him."

Xu Shuyuan didn't answer immediately, just looked at the business card.

Afraid that he would not accept it, Fu Jia simply stuffed the business card into his hand, touching the veins on his wrist with her fingertips.Xu Shuyuan looked down at his hand, but Fu Jia withdrew it awkwardly.

"Just call the number above."

He didn't refuse again, just hummed lightly.

Fu Jia breathed a sigh of relief, the mood of boredom all night finally subsided.He raised his head and wanted to say something, but then remembered about his ear, and silently switched to the left side.

"Shuyuan—"

As soon as he started, he was interrupted: "Stay away."

Xu Shuyuan took his right hand out of his trousers, bent his fingers slightly, and made a driving movement: "I'm not completely deaf, I can hear."

Fu Jia's smile froze for a moment, and then slowly moved back a small step.Immediately afterwards, I felt like my throat was stuck, and I had to work hard to continue.

"Seeing... Seeing that you have settled down in Linjiang makes me feel relieved. Now that I have my own house and a family, it will get better and better in the future. Don't be afraid."

afraid?

He was afraid of falling into the same trap again.

Xu Shuyuan withdrew his hand: "Thank you for your concern, but you flatter me too much."

Fu Jia was taken aback.

"Do you think that everyone is like you, and they can get what they want?" The gate of the community in the distance looked even more dilapidated in the cold wind, and he turned his face to the side, "The house is shared with others. I just returned it last year. Pay off your student loans."

Fu Jia opened his mouth, his heart ached.

"Then how do you get married?"

"Do you really want me to get married?" Xu Shuyuan asked calmly.

"No, that's not what I meant!" Fu Jia denied it instinctively, but after denying it, she felt suspicious, so she had no choice but to overthrow it incoherently.

"Of course, I certainly hope that you can get married. Starting a family is a lifelong event. I am just worried about your financial situation. After all, your hearing is now... Besides, it will be better to live in your own house if you have children. Of course, I am not talking about renting a house. No, what I mean is... If you need money, I can lend you, treat it as compensation to you, treat it, treat it as my apology to you, and even if you want to buy a car, I can—"

"No, that's my sister."

Xu Shuyuan interrupted: "Thank you for your kindness, and thank you for reminding me."

remind?

Fu Jia looked at him in bewilderment, unable to react for a while, "I...what do I remind you?"

Xu Shuyuan looked directly into Fu Jia's eyes, his eyes were indifferent but sharp: "Remind me to stay away from you. Because as long as you want, you can humiliate me anytime and anywhere, just like just now."

The whirling of leaves became very clear in this way.

Fu Jia kept watching, watching helplessly as he walked halfway, stopped by the trash can, and threw away the business card.