reverse trapping

The contract was signed and the dust settled.

Fang Shuo said that he had to pack up his things and move to this neighborhood, and it would take some time before he could come to the studio normally.He heard that Cheng Mu wanted to rent a house, and even proposed the idea of ​​sharing the house with him.

In his memory, Cheng Mu had never rented a house with anyone else.The main reason is that he has a special occupation, he often has to run outside, his work and rest are not stable, and the photographic equipment is relatively expensive. Once a problem occurs in the shared rental, it is difficult to deal with it properly.

If he rents with Fang Shuo, the inconvenience caused by his career will be resolved.But they are partners after all, if the friction brought about by living habits affects their work, the loss outweighs the gain.

Out of these considerations, Cheng Mu only said that he would consider it.

He opened the rental app and continued to look for suitable housing sources.As soon as he entered the app, Cheng Mu received a new push message.

Among the few messages that were pushed, Cheng Mu saw a shared lease announced by Rong Ningcheng at a glance.Among other things, this price is enough to make people's heart beat.

He clicked on the push, and there was only one indoor photo in it.Looking at the three clusters of small flames after the push, Cheng Mu knew that there must be many people watching this house.

"The second bedroom is rented out. There is a long-term tenant in the master bedroom. The rent has been paid. I come back about once a year..."

Reading the explanation on the details page, Cheng Mu was a little shocked.Isn't this just paying the price of a shared lease and gaining the freedom of the entire lease?

Before he could continue watching, the incoming call interface occupied the entire phone screen.

He picks up the phone.

"Mu Ze."

The caller was Fang Shuo. Since signing the contract yesterday, he had changed his name, while Cheng Mu was still a little unaccustomed to it.

Fang Shuo's voice was slightly embarrassed: "The family asked my cousin to take care of me and insisted that I move to his place, so I talked about the shared rent... I'm sorry."

Hearing Fang Shuo's words, Cheng Mu felt a little relieved: "There's nothing to apologize for. It's your freedom to rent or not."

"I'm just afraid that you will think that I have broken my promise."

"It's not that serious." Cheng Mu comforted, "You can tidy up at ease and come to the studio when you're ready. I'll wait for you."

After the call ended, the phone screen returned to the interface of the shared apartment just now.He clicked on the private message and sent a message.

This kind of message usually doesn't reply too quickly, and Cheng Mu was just about to exit the interface to look at other things, when the landlord actually replied to his message.

"I'm still renting. I have to go to work during the day, and there are a lot of people who want to rent a house. If you are interested, please provide your mobile phone number, and I will arrange a time for you to view the house and have an interview."

Cheng Mu exited the chat interface and sent out the phone number only after confirming that the other party was the landlord and not an intermediary.

He watched a lot of other ones, but he always had the feeling that "except Wushan is not a cloud", so he decided to wait until he had seen this suite.

Cheng Mu wanted to go to school today to see if he could "run into" Shen Jinzhi, but unexpectedly received a text message from him.

Shen Jinzhi said that he was going on a business trip and would not be back until after seven o'clock in the evening. He reminded Cheng Mu not to run away, and it would not be too late to deliver the access control card tomorrow.

Knowing that Shen Jinzhi was not at school, Cheng Mu made up his mind and decided to use this time to sort out a feasible plan for his previous ideas.

After taking out two meals a day, Cheng Mu finally finished tidying up.

The time was approaching seven o'clock, which seemed to be the time when Shen Jinzhi said he would come back.

The access control card is always a matter, so if you keep procrastinating, you have to keep thinking about it. Anyway, there is still time now, and it will not be too late after he delivers the access control card before taking the bus back to the rental house.

He took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Shen Jinzhi, asking if it was convenient for him to deliver the card today.

10 minutes passed, the other party still did not reply.

It seems that Shen Jinzhi has not finished his work, so we can only talk about it tomorrow.

He took out two coins from the drawer, locked the door of the studio, and received a call from Shen Jinzhi.

"Sorry, I didn't pay attention to the phone just now. I will arrive at the gate of the community at about 07:30. If it's convenient for you..."

The No. 62 bus going home just stopped in front of Cheng Muze's eyes, and the red taillights reflected in his pupils.

Cheng Mu turned the coin in his hand and said in response, "It's convenient, I'll wait for you."

The bus drove away, while Cheng Mu sighed and stuffed the coins into his trouser pocket.

The coins collided and overlapped, and there was a crisp sound.

According to the current time, if he walks to Rongning City, he should just be able to catch up with the professor to go home.

It was rare to be leisurely, but Cheng Mu deliberately slowed down, feeling the Jinsong City after nightfall.

Everything here is familiar, but the deprived memory deliberately presses on this feeling, pulling away from the real feeling that is within his reach.

Before he knew it, he had arrived at the gate of Rongning City.

It was 2:07 in 30 minutes, and Cheng Mu leaned against the gate and continued to wait.

Suddenly, he heard a rush of footsteps.He raised his head and saw Shen Jinzhi approaching the door.

Different from the meticulous appearance before, Shen Jinzhi's breathing was unsteady, and his hair was also slightly messy, as if he had run over.

The cool evening wind blew, and the faint woody fragrance from his body was introduced into Cheng Muze's nostrils.

Cheng Mu took out the access control card in his pocket and handed it to Shen Jinzhi.

Shen Jinzhi put it in his palm without even looking at it, and thanked him instead.

He raised his hand and handed over an exquisite gift bag: "Sugar, a worthless little thing, given by the organizer. I'll trouble you to make a trip today, please accept this little gift, I'm so at ease."

Cheng Mu did not refuse, and took the gift bag: "Thank you teacher, then I will go back."

"Wait a moment."

Shen Jinzhi's Adam's apple rolled up and down, but he didn't say a word.

After a while, he smiled and said to Cheng Mu, "Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Cheng Mu put away the gift bag and left the gate of Rongning City.

When they got to the bus station, Cheng Mu was a little unsure if he had put the camera in the drying box.

He checked the weather forecast, and the forecast showed that there would be rain in the second half of the night. It seemed that he had to go back.

After returning to the studio, Cheng Mu properly arranged all the cameras and set foot on the way back.

Not far ahead, a couple is walking hand in hand.

Cheng Mu didn't care too much. After all, university is a sacred place for love. It's not unusual to see five or six couples at the same time, let alone a couple.

He continued to walk forward, but the couple in front of him stopped and approached the sidewalk from the middle of the sidewalk.

The girl hugged his boyfriend and kissed his lips.

Her original intention was to say goodbye superficially, but the boy kissed him back, and they became entangled inseparably.

The moment he saw the girl's face clearly, Cheng Muze's legs seemed to be rooted and fixed in place.

He was not mistaken, that girl was Chen Jiao.

At this moment, Cheng Mu felt like a clown mocked by fate, and was ridiculously embarrassed.

The surrounding air suddenly became damp, Cheng Mu looked away, walked in the opposite direction illogically, and fled.

The headlights of the cars on the road passed him arrogantly, and the light disappeared in a flash.

Cheng Mu's mind recalled the first time Chen Jiao attracted his attention.

That was a few months ago, and he was walking through the campus with a camera, trying to test whether he could regain portrait photography.

When passing by a basketball court, a basketball was thrown straight at a girl.

Cheng Mu rushed over without even thinking about it, and blocked the ball for her.The basketball came off his back, leaving a gray mark on his back.

The girl seemed to have something important to do, she only thanked him a few words in a hurry, and then left.

At that moment, Cheng Muze's mind leaked a few memories like tears.

When he came back to his senses, the girl had disappeared.

Later, he often walked around the school in order to meet her.Several times, Cheng Mu remembered some pictures because of some of her actions.

Although he didn't think of anything substantive in those fragmented memories, he firmly believed that Chen Jiao was the person he had been looking for.

But now, it doesn't seem to make any sense.

By the time Cheng Mu came back to his senses, he didn't know how far he had gone.

The sound of vehicles passing by came back to his ears, and Cheng Mu stopped a car dully, slowly spit out the name of the community, and then fell into silence.

He got out of the car, went upstairs, and entered the house in a daze, mechanically and confused.

Bitterness rises from the throat and pours into the mouth.

Cheng Mu opened the drawer, only to find that there was not a single candy left from the candy he bought last time.

He took half a step back, and hit his leg with the gift bag he had brought all the way, reminding Cheng Muze of its existence.

Cheng Mu picked up the bag, unwrapped the ribbon, and took out the candies inside.

The light rain fell outside the window, hitting the glass window thinly, making a low and hoarse rustling sound.

He unwrapped it and took out the candy cubes that were tightly packed inside.The cold moonlight hit the beige wrapping paper, making it pale.

He pushed a piece of sugar into his mouth, and the sweetness slowly overflowed, counteracting the bitterness at the base of his tongue.

Inexplicably, Cheng Mu remembered the scene of Shen Jin handing him candy twice before and after.

He lowered his eyelashes, smiled wryly, looked at the candy wrapper in his hand, moved his lips slightly, and whispered, "Thank you."

Cheng Mu took off his coat, opened the bedroom door without thinking about anything, and lay on his back on the bed.

The bed tonight seemed extraordinarily hard, preventing him from falling asleep.

"Just sleep and you'll be fine." Cheng Mu hypnotized himself, "Just sleep and you'll be fine."

When the moonlight moved gently onto Cheng Muze's eyelids, he had already fallen into a deep dream.

In the dream, Cheng Mu seemed to have returned to the basketball court in college.

At that time, there were several benches under the sycamore tree near the basketball court, and people often sat on them for a rest.

Cheng Mu stood on the basketball court, capturing every scene of sweating profusely with his camera.

The material was almost collected, and he took the camera and left the venue.

Standing in the shadow of the sycamore tree outside the arena, he flipped through the pictures he had just taken one by one, and deleted any unsatisfactory ones.

"Hey!"

While concentrating, Cheng Mu heard an exclamation.When I looked up, I found a basketball flying out of the fence, heading straight for the person flipping through the book under the shade of the tree.

He ran a few steps quickly, grabbed the camera tightly with both hands, and blocked the blow for the man with his body.

"boom."

The sound was not small, and it caught the attention of the readers.The man raised his head and looked at Cheng Muze: "Are you okay?"

The back of Cheng Muze's neck ached, but the words that yelled for pain got stuck in his throat in an instant.

Xia Feng quietly passed between the two, brushing the man's hair, and entangled around him reluctantly.

Cheng Mu was stunned for a few seconds, then said without thinking: "Student, you are so eye-catching."

"Thank you," the man said. "You too."

"I'm not joking, I'm serious."

"Me too."

Cheng Mu touched the back of his head a little dullly, and it took him a while to understand what he meant by "me too".

Cheng Mu took a few steps forward and sat on the other end of the bench: "Student, can I make a friend?"

The man didn't speak, and Cheng Muze continued: "My name is Cheng Muze, and I'm an amateur photographer who is still in college. I want to invite you to be my model."

"I don't like taking pictures very much." He politely refused, "Thank you for what happened just now."

With that said, he closed the book in his hand, turned and left.

"Hey——" Cheng Mu stopped him, "That pain just now really hurt, thank you can't just be a talk."

The man turned around, the sun shone through his shirt, making him look bright: "Then what do you want me to do?"

Cheng Mu smiled brightly and shook the camera in his hand: "Please do me a favor~"