blazing fire

"That's Huang Menghui insisting on—"

Cheng Zhuo turned his head abruptly, and stopped talking in the middle of speaking.

As if the pause button had been pressed, his whole body stopped for two seconds before he nodded nervously and said to himself: "OK, fine, it's all excuses, I shouldn't make excuses, I know..."

Yuan Yu frowned, he felt something was wrong with Cheng Zhuo's appearance: "You..."

Cheng Zhuo took a deep breath, stopped his meaningless chatter, covered his eyes with his hands, and rubbed his temples.After a while, he raised his head and said calmly, "Let's go."

"...Okay." Yuan Yu still followed behind him, but this time he kept looking at him.

The low-key black car has been parked at the door of "Night" for a while, Cheng Zhuo walked over to open the door, and waited for Yuan Yu to come over.

Yuan Yu got into the back seat.Cheng Zhuo then got into the car: "Where are you going?"

Yuan Yu reported the name of the road.

Cheng Zhuo didn't respond, but the driver let out an "ah".

Cheng Zhuo: "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing." The driver looked at the rearview mirror, as if he was a little curious about Yuan Yu.

That place is not too far away, if there is no traffic jam, the drive will take about 10 minutes.

It was only after Cheng Zhuo got out of the car that he understood what the driver’s reaction meant—it was clear that the main road a few steps away was brightly lit, but the alley in front of him was so dark that it seemed that there was no end to it, and there was a mysterious smell all around. , You can also see the sewage flowing out of the suspected garbage in the corner.

The environment was so bad that he didn't know how to describe it, the corners of Cheng Zhuo's mouth twitched, and he looked towards Yuan Yu.

Yuan Yu walked past him calmly, and when he reached the entrance of the alley, he turned around and looked at him: "Didn't you have to follow, and you dare not leave?"

"You live in... a place like this?"

"Well," Yuan Yu nodded, "If you can't stand it, go back, I'm going home. Thank you for sending me back."

He left after he finished speaking, Cheng Zhuo gritted his teeth and chased after him: "Wait—"

It's all here, how could he really let Yuan Yu go back alone.

Enduring the strange smell around him, Cheng Zhuo took out his mobile phone from his pocket and turned on the flashlight.

Not only at the entrance of the alley, but also on both sides of the entire alley, garbage was piled up, and strangely colored sewage dripped all over the floor.Fortunately, Cheng Zhuo's delicate problem has been corrected a few years ago, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to step into this alley.

Yuan Yu's legs in front fell within the lighting range, just as straight as before. Cheng Zhuo looked at it, and his gaze fell from the ground to Yuan Yu's legs.

That day, Yuan Yu took him back to the Internet cafe to find the things he left behind, and when he walked to the corner of the stairs and looked back at him, Cheng Zhuo first noticed these two legs.

Very beautiful and entangled legs.Cheng Zhuo suddenly smiled silently, feeling that the dirty environment is not so unbearable anymore, and it is always good to be happy that some things have not changed after years.

Yuan Yu walked all the way forward, turned a corner at the end, turned into a deeper and darker alley, walked halfway, and climbed an iron staircase built on the outside of the cement brick wall.Cheng Zhuo's flashlight shined on it, and he saw that the surface of the iron staircase was so rusty that the original blue color could hardly be seen, and the whole staircase creaked in the night wind, making it sound like it was about to collapse.

This staircase leads to the second and third floors. Yuan Yu went all the way to the top before walking into a narrow corridor.

The structure of the corridor is half-enclosed, and the narrow alley below can be seen. There is a whole row of doors in the corridor. Yuan Yu walked to one of the doors and stopped, took out the key to open the door.

"The place is a bit small," he said in a calm voice without turning his head, "If you think it's crowded, just take a look and go back."

"..."

Cheng Zhuo always felt that Yuan Yu seemed to dislike him, but he still followed in with a stern face.

It is indeed very narrow. There is only room for a bed and a table in the room, and there is not even a toilet. Once two big men stand at the foot of the bed, it is almost impossible to turn around in the room.

Yuan Yuquan pretended that there was no other person in the room, rolled up his trousers and sat on the edge of the bed, pulled a small foldable bed table and spread it out, and opened the food he had packed back.

It was a fast food meal, with meat and vegetables, although it was simple, it was delicious in color and flavor. Yuan Yu removed the plastic seal of the disposable chopsticks and started to eat it.

Cheng Zhuo looked down at him for a while, then relaxed his body and leaned against the wall.

He didn't have time to eat today, and his stomach hurts a little right now.

In fact, when he just returned to China, he didn't expect to meet Yuan Yu immediately, but when he did, he felt indescribably happy.

Yuan Yu's eyelashes are quite long, and she is serious in her work. She looks very cute when she looks down and eats seriously.At this moment, the small rental house felt a little more warm out of thin air. Cheng Zhuo used the cover of the suit in his hand to press on his abdomen twice, and stared at him motionlessly.

Yuan Yu ate very quickly, and soon began to tidy up the lunch boxes and tables.The garbage was to be taken down and thrown away when he went out tomorrow morning. He walked past Cheng Zhuo, opened the door and put it by the door, and then closed the door to come in.

After walking back and forth, he finally glanced at Cheng Zhuo's face - Cheng Zhuo's gaze was very focused, even gentle, but the sweat on his forehead was always clearly visible.

Yuan Yu was stunned, and looked at him twice more: "Are you hot?"

Cheng Zhuo was a little dizzy, he blinked his eyes before he came back to his senses, and wiped his forehead with his hand.

He didn't take back the sweat that he ran out of looking for Yuan Yu just now, but now he is sweating even more.Stomach pain and hypoglycemia, just cold sweat, Cheng Zhuo is very familiar with his state, he twirled the sweat beads with his fingers, and smiled casually: "I sweat easily now, it's okay."

Yuan Yu blinked and said seriously: "That may be because your body is too weak. I told you before that you should pay attention to exercise."

"Well," Cheng Zhuo smiled, "Understood."

"I'm not joking with you." Yuan Yu knew that he didn't listen, but he didn't bother to say more, walked to the bedside, took a tissue from the small cabinet, and gave him, "Wipe it."

Cheng Zhuo's fingers trembled a little, and he pulled out the tissue twice before he pulled it out.

Yuan Yu: "?"

He looked at Cheng Zhuo for a while, only felt that this person was still so white, taller, and looked thinner than before, but everything else was normal.He didn't figure out the reason why Cheng Zhuo's hands were shaking, and it seemed that the back was not shaking anymore, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Although Yuan Yu has also grown a little taller in the past few years, she never crossed the 180 line. I didn't expect Cheng Zhuo to grow so much taller.

He sat back on the bed, looked up at Cheng Zhuo, felt a little sore on the back of his neck, so he stood up again: "Speak."

"What?" Cheng Zhuo didn't react.

"Didn't you say you wanted to explain what happened just now?" Seeing that he hadn't wiped off the sweat from his forehead after wiping for a long time, Yuan Yu couldn't see it, so he reached out and took out a piece of paper and pressed it on his forehead, "Tell me, I listen."

"Oh, that..."

Cheng Zhuo couldn't recover from Yuan Yu's sudden closeness. It took him a long time to remember where to start, "Today is Huang Menghui's birthday, and he insists on ordering a few girls to drink with him. I can't refute his face. But I really do I'm not interested in them. Just now, when you came in, they wanted to test whether I was..." Cheng Zhuo paused, and found it difficult to say this to Yuan Yu, "ED, that's why I made a fuss to let those two girls touch me."

...?

The amount of information in these words is a bit large, Yuan Yu blinked.

Of course Cheng Zhuo doesn't have this problem, he knows it all too well: "Why do they think so?"

"Because I told them that I was diagnosed with frigidity a few years ago, they may think that I am covering up for myself?" Cheng Zhuo smiled.

Yuan Yu was stunned: "You shouldn't have frigidity either?"

Even desire/demand is heavy, ever.

"Now there is." Cheng Zhuo said very lightly, as if he didn't care about it at all.

Yuan Yu didn't like him so much, bit the soft flesh in his mouth: "What's wrong, have you seen a doctor?"

"I don't know," Cheng Zhuo put the tissue aside, "The doctor said it was a psychological reason, let me maintain a good living habit, don't put too much pressure on myself, and I will get better gradually-I think this is nonsense, modern people How can there be a good living habit?"

"..." Yuan Yu was silent, "I think my living habits are quite good."

The implication is that Cheng Zhuo is doing too much on his own.

Of course Cheng Zhuo knew what he was doing, and when he heard this sentence, he laughed inexplicably: "That's right, of course our Xiaoyu..."

His mind was still a little dizzy, and he felt something wrong as soon as he spoke, so he quickly bit the tip of his tongue.

So when people don't eat, they really can't talk too much, and if they talk too much, they will make mistakes.

In order to get rid of this weird embarrassment, he changed the subject bluntly: "——Can you believe me? I really didn't have anything to do with those women."

"I don't believe it," Yuan Yu looked at him and laughed, "I don't mind."

Cheng Zhuo: "..."

Yuan Yu lowered his eyes and continued, "I don't care if you're with women or men, right?"

"Am I qualified to control you? I don't."

Cheng Zhuo frowned: "Yuan Yu..."

"I've finished listening to the explanation. If you have nothing else to do, you should go back." Yuan Yu said, "Your driver is still waiting for you."

"Yuan, Yu," his apparent alienation made Cheng Zhuo anxious. In all fairness, he felt that although he was at fault, he was not guilty enough to die. He shouldn't be reduced to the point where he couldn't even be a "friend" for peaceful dialogue with Yuan Yu. So I couldn't help raising my voice, "Is that why you don't want to see me?"

Yuan Yu let out a "hmm" and looked up at him with a calm expression on his face.

"I have been waiting for you in Yanghuai for three years, and I didn't come out to work until two years ago." He said, "Three years may not be very long, but maybe my expectations are too much. Very bad. Fortunately, now I can live without thinking about you, I think since you never want to go back to see me, then it doesn't matter if we... don't see each other again, right?"

His voice was still clear and cold, just like when he was in the box.

Cheng Zhuo was dragged into the deafening music and psychedelic lights again for a while, his stomach that had been empty all day suddenly felt a burning pain, and cold sweat seemed to break out again.He listened to such a long passage in a daze, and only heard the word "part-time job" in his mind. He frowned and grabbed Yuan Yu's arm: "Part-time job? You didn't go to school?"

"Gone out of high school. Oh yeah, I gotta give you your money back..."

As Yuan Yu spoke, he wanted to get his cell phone, but Cheng Zhuo firmly held him back.

"Huh?" Yuan Yu turned around, a little dazed, "Let go, I'm going to use my mobile phone to transfer money to you."

"I don't need you to pay back the money." Cheng Zhuo stared at him, sweating profusely, "Why don't you continue studying?"

"I'll keep reading, I've saved enough money."

"Why do you want to save money? Didn't I give you money?" Cheng Zhuo's ears were buzzing, "You don't even want to spend my money because I didn't go back?"

"I didn't think so." Yuan Yu pursed his lower lip, "What's wrong with you? You don't seem to be looking well."

"You don't think so but you do! Otherwise why wouldn't you study?!"

After Cheng Zhuo yelled, he suddenly leaned back and curled up in pain.Yuan Yu watched helplessly as he couldn't stand and slowly slid to the ground, his heart jumped suddenly: "Cheng Zhuo?" He stretched out his hand to support him, "Are you important?"

Cheng Zhuo shook his head, closed his eyes and panted.

His condition was really bad, not to mention the sweat on his head, and even his lips were a little pale.Yuan Yu wasn't sure what to do, so he moved him to the bed with his arm.

He has great strength, it is not too difficult to move Cheng Zhuo.It was only after he got his hands that he realized that Cheng Zhuo seemed to be much thinner than before. The man's skeleton propped up the wide shirt, but the clothes were completely empty under the clothes, as if the skeleton was only covered with a layer of skin.

Yuan Yu frowned, looking at him worried: "Why are you so thin?"

He has a coworker who for a while only ate half a bowl of rice every day in order to catch up with a girl, euphemistically calling it "lose weight for love", wouldn't Cheng Zhuo also...?

Thinking of this, Yuan Yu felt a little blocked.It's fine to chase girls, why is this man still tossing himself?

"I don't absorb well, and I won't gain weight if I eat it." Cheng Zhuo leaned against the head of the bed, opened his eyes, and closed them again after a while, "I ordered the meat sauce noodles you sent today, and I didn't have time Eat, it should be due to hypoglycemia. I'll be fine after lying down for a while, it's fine."

"I can't even stand still, what's the matter?" Yuan Yu muttered, and stood up, "If you haven't eaten, you won't say it early..."

The sound of his footsteps receding, Cheng Zhuo suddenly panicked.He hasn't eaten for too long today, and he has already developed symptoms of temporary blindness, and he can't see anything at the moment.

The feeling of catching someone blind but being unable to keep him made him frightened for a moment, Cheng Zhuo turned over and got out of bed, trying to chase him back: "Yuan Yu, don't go—"

The sound of the door opening and closing sounded at this moment, Yuan Yu should have gone out, Cheng Zhuo was top-heavy, his legs slipped and fell to the ground when he got out of bed.

It wasn't until this moment that a blurry light appeared in his pitch-black field of vision, and his vision slowly recovered. Cheng Zhuo saw a familiar object roll out of the quilt that he had torn off in half.

A big red neck pillow embroidered with a tribal logo.

Five years later, it looks like new, the surface down has neither faded nor is it fluffy, and it looks well protected by its new owner.

Cheng Zhuo suddenly froze.

After all these years, it would be a joy to see something old retaining its former appearance.

I don't care about dizziness anymore.

He was in a daze for a while, then took out his mobile phone and called the driver.

"You get off work first," he said, "I'm not going back tonight."

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Who gave you permission to stay overnight, rascal