straight to heaven

When Pei Yan came to knock on the door, I was standing at the door as if I was being punished.

The door opened, and the cold wind scattered the warmth in the room, leaving a hole in my heart.

"Is it Mr. Pei?" The security guard picked up a freshly lit cigarette, and puffed away as if he didn't think it was lively enough: "Take your friend back quickly. I saw him wandering around the door for a while, and so did you young people." There is a lot of anger, and even the twelfth lunar month and winter don’t know how cold it is.”

After hearing what he said, I felt embarrassed, just hugged my arms tightly, looked at the person outside the door, and didn't answer.

Pei Yanlai's hair was a bit disheveled, and he was dressed casually. He was wearing a black tracksuit and a flight jacket with a cashmere collar, as if he had just gotten out of bed, and looked a little hasty.

He is already tall, coupled with frequent targeted training, his shoulders are straight and his legs are long, tall and sexy.

I have never seen him dressed so casually, he is loose and somewhat youthful, which made me look at him a few more times.

Pei Yanlai met my gaze, dragged me out of the door with a quick tug, and went back to the security guard and said, "I took him away, sorry for your trouble, happy New Year's Eve."

He has surprisingly strong hands.

No matter what I say, I am also a man with a height of 1.8 meters, but when he pulled me casually, I lost my center of gravity and fell behind him in two staggered steps, tightly covered.

A little embarrassing, but okay.

As soon as the door of the security room was closed, he grabbed the hood of my down jacket and led me out a few steps. Then he let go and looked at me sideways.

"What are you doing here?" His tone was lukewarm, and he couldn't hear anything bad, but he couldn't hear any other emotions.

I couldn't figure out what he meant for a while, so I just said, "I just want to come to wish you a New Year."

Pei Yanlai stopped in her tracks and twitched the corners of her mouth: "Now that the worship is over, can you go back?"

I thought it was not good, so I quickly changed my words: "Wait, let me come to give gifts to the head office... to give gifts."

As soon as I said it, I regretted it.Whoever gives a boxing gift on New Year's Eve, either has a brain problem or is idle.

Pei Yanlai seemed to be amused by my nonsense, and hummed lightly with a half-smile.

"Okay, give me a gift." He stretched out his hand from his pocket, his palm and fingertips were a little red due to the low temperature: "Bring it here."

...Why doesn't this person play his cards according to the routine?After all, I have been frozen at the door for so long. When I was in Huqin, did you deliberately dismiss me?

A real man can bend and stretch.

As soon as I grabbed Pei Yanlai's hand, my heart swelled, and I was so angry that I dragged him and ran away without saying a word.

No matter how quick Pei Yanlai reacted, he was stunned by my surprise attack. He didn't let go of his hand all the way, and just let me drag him until he ran downstairs to his house.

Lingcheng is a first-tier city, and the population will drop sharply at the end of each year, and the popularity of high-end communities like Pei Yanlai's is even thinner.The cold wind gushed into my nose, and when I stopped, I couldn't help coughing twice, and I always felt that the nasal mucosa would be irritated and ooze blood.

There is no wind in the corridor, but the light seems to be broken, so I can only use the street lamp outside to illuminate it.

I let go of Pei Yanlai's hand and wiped the frozen tip of my nose, lest I run too fast and my nose would freeze up.

"Pei Yan is here." I was afraid that he would fly back as soon as I let go, so I hurriedly stopped him: "Don't rush me away, I really have something to give you."

As I said that, I reached for the zipper of the down jacket.

Pei Yanlai took a look at me, put her hands back into her pockets, and said suddenly, "You saw Gao Wenfu at the Spring Festival Gala."

His tone was light, as if he had already guessed why I was here.

I didn't speak very clearly, but I guessed that Gao Wenfu was his mother's name.I stopped my movements, and after considering it, I still said the truth: "Yes."

He closed his eyes, lack of energy, lazily, and his voice was low: "She gave birth to me, I will pay back the debt, it's a fair deal. That's all."

The implication is that I'm meddling again.

He didn't bother to lie to me, it was the truth, I could tell.

The topic is sensitive, so I dare not continue.Unzipping the zipper of the down jacket, I took out the thermal bag that I had been covering in my arms.

"I have so many dumplings that I can't eat them alone, so I want to ask you to go with me."

Pei Yanlai didn't speak, he just looked at me, his eyes were not fierce, but he always felt as if he wanted to peel off my skin.After a short silence, he stretched out his hand, then stopped and retracted.

I was uneasy and didn't understand what this meant.

"Forget it." Pei Yanlai turned around and stepped upstairs: "Come up."

"what?"

I am silly.Send a box of dumplings and you can enter the house. How can there be such a good thing in the world?

He didn't stop walking, I was stunned for two seconds, and quickly followed.

But at the door, after Pei Yanlai touched his pocket, his eyelashes moved slightly.The light in the corridor was bleak, and he looked at me with a cold but vivid look.

Can't tell what those emotions are, I've never seen them in his eyes before.

At this moment, the thread between me and Pei Yanlai seemed to be pulled by some invisible pulling force, the distance became not so close, but not as far as before.

My heart is beating a little too fast——

Then Pei Yan said, "I didn't bring the key."

"..."

Snapped.

Immediately had a heart attack.

Probably because my hesitant expression was too obvious, Pei Yanlai gave me a cool look.

"I took medicine to sleep, just woke up, not so sober." He laughed, terribly cold, "Blame me."

The following two words are bitten very hard.

When I heard this, my heart beat like a drum.

Disturbing people's dreams, cutting off people's backs.This year may have really messed up my scourge.

"I'm sorry." That said, but I will not send him a message in advance, otherwise the plan will die in all likelihood. I still have this self-knowledge, but next time I dare to ask: "Why don't you... go to my house?"

Let me explain one more thing: "I also live alone."

Pei Yanlai leaned half of her body on the door panel, looking a little tired.He glanced at the phone, took the thermal bag from me, walked to the first and a half floors, and put it aside: "Tomorrow morning at six o'clock for cleaning."

This is rejection.I am not surprised.

There are still nearly seven hours until six o'clock tomorrow morning.I followed him down a few steps, and he took out a pack of toilet paper from his pocket, took out a few and spread them on the stairs.

"What should we do now?"

"Wait."

"Wait?"

With one long leg, he sat on the laid paper, leaving room for one person on the left side: "Eat the ceremony."

I wanted to bear it, but I couldn't help laughing, and quickly covered it with a cough.I rubbed my nose and nestled beside him: "... I ran too fast and accidentally choked."

I wanted to cover it up, but Pei Yanlai didn't care what I said.I stared at him motionlessly, greedily like a wolf that has been hungry for half a year.

He never cared about me, never cared about how I looked at him, he opened the thermal bag, took out the tableware and two full thermal boxes.

"Which one?" he asked.

I just stared at him and said casually, "It's all the same, it's the same."

Pei Yanlai casually handed me the box below.

I took it and asked him: "Turkish beef, is it taboo?"

He swallowed a dumpling that was thrown away: "Don't pick."

I saw that there were still a few dumplings in his box that had been squeezed out of shape along the way, and I looked at the ones in my hand, leaned over and nudged him lightly: "Change it? Your appearance is not very good."

Pei Yanlai obviously heard it, but pretended not to hear it, picked up a broken piece, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it.

"..."

What can I do?

I can't do anything with him.

The almost inaudible chewing sound was in my ears, and I kept looking at him.

It's not the same as the usual gentle skin to deal with others.He was relaxed, with the half-asleep lethargy and contentment of a big cat.There is warmth in the breath, which is more vivid than any other moment.

"What are you laughing at?" Pei Yanlai asked me suddenly.

He eats very fast, and in less than 10 minutes, more than half of the box has been emptied.

I was taken aback: "Did I laugh?"

He looked at me and said nothing.

Having said that, I suddenly remembered that there was still a task to be done.

"It's a sleep aid. I tried water, and it's still helpful." I took out the sachet from the outer pocket of the down jacket and handed it over: "Here."

Pei Yanlai had just stuffed a mouthful of dumplings when she saw the sachet and turned her head slightly.He bit down subconsciously, but his brows frowned as if he had been bitten by something.

He covered his mouth, turned his head, and turned around a few seconds later, with three one-yuan coins lying in his palm.

He and I stared at the three dollars together, the coins were still covered with oily flakes of meat stuffing, and neither of us spoke for a moment.

The corridor is so silent, I don’t know if I’m hallucinating from embarrassment, the high-end apartment with such a good sound insulation can still faintly hear the neighbors downstairs eating the New Year’s Eve dinner.A bit noisy.

I can only give a dry explanation: "This, this is a feudal superstition, a family tradition."

If it wasn't for him eating slowly, he would either be stuck to death or be sent to gastric lavage tonight.

Pei Yanlai didn't say a word.

"Sorry, I forgot to remind you." I was wronged, and my breath became shorter: "But I have sterilized the coins."

As I said that, I stretched out my hand, trying to get these three unlucky things back.

In the end, Pei Yanlai didn't give it.He put it in his pocket.

I don't really want to rob him, I just feel ashamed.Since he was willing to ask for it, I followed suit and gave him the sachet: "Good things come in pairs."

He glanced at me with light eyes, and then quickly moved away.

After eating the dumplings, I have made up my mind to stay here until tomorrow morning.

The temperature in the corridor is not high, but Pei Yanlai and I are young and have enough firepower, so it is not a big problem to rest for a few hours.

I was half leaning against the tiled wall, full of food and drink, not daring to think about silver desires, only drowsy.

"Why three?" Pei Yanlai asked suddenly.

I was so sleepy that I forced myself to open my eyes again.

Pei Yanlai was leaning against the railing on the other side, eyes closed, not knowing what to think.The moonlight outside the window quietly poured in, outlining his bones deeply and beautifully.

I heard the heartbeat very clearly, but my mind was struggling because of the difficulty.

"……what?"

He straightened his legs and put the heels of his shoes on the ground: "Coins. Why three."

"You're asking this...it's a long story." I yawned, and my eyelids clung to disappointment: "My father was violent at home. My mother was afraid of being beaten, so she ran away."

"Ten years ago during the Spring Festival, my mother got a new wife and came back to file for a divorce. She wrapped three coins in the dumpling for the New Year's Eve dinner and said that if I could eat the first bite, she would take me away."

Pei Yanlai guessed the ending of the story: "You are lucky."

I closed my eyes, and my voice was cohesive: "...It's just that one time, it's my fate."

He was noncommittal.

Silence and sleepiness engulfed me again.After a few seconds, or maybe a few minutes, at any rate, in the few breaths I was about to fall into sleep, there was a piercing whistling in my ears, and then something exploded high on the ground.

It's fireworks.I was confused.

No one cares about the choking gunpowder smoke, the man-made romance steals all the limelight, and the whistling is cut off by the sound of explosions.The night sky at zero o'clock will probably be burned by the light of this thing.It's hard to see the pattern, but you can guess it's wild.

There was an echo in the corridor, and any movement was amplified. After several loud noises, I finally woke up.

The watch beeped.

It's zero o'clock, the new year.

I squinted and looked out through the small window.Before the light had time to be caught by my eyes, I heard Pei Yanlai's New Year's greetings amidst the roar.

"Lin Xiaoshan." He said, "You have oil on your mouth, wipe it off."