silent sample

Tang Yuan has cleaned up the room next door in the past two days. In order to let the cat have more space to run cool, he kept the door open, but the living room is full of cardboard boxes and storage bags he sorted out.

Tang Yuan opened the door, went in and kicked the one closest to the door inward.

The cardboard was rubbing against the floor, heavy and heavy, and he lacked strength in his feet. He bent down to push, and moved around to clear a way to the sofa.

"Let's sit down." Tang Yuan greeted Song Yichuan while looking for the remote control of the air conditioner. The sky was already sweltering, and after such a big movement, his face was covered with sweat when he turned his head.

Song Yichuan didn't expect such a scene behind the door, "You want to move?"

He looked at this old room with cheap furniture, and he almost guessed it when he went up the stairs behind Tang Yuan. The dark and dilapidated corridor overlapped with the images that kept popping up in his memory, which made him feel Song Yichuan remembered that year, he went to Tang Yuan's house to look for him.

It was a very old house. Behind the rusty iron door was a wooden door painted light blue. A beeping sound can also be heard.

He knocked on the door, but there was no answer. He was unwilling to leave like this, so he stood on the stairs for a long time. Outside the narrow window in the corridor was the gloomy evening sky. After the afterglow faded away, everything around him gradually darkened.

The taste of old things corroded by time is depressed, decadent, and depressed, just like the feeling Tang Yuan gave him in the last few months...

"Yeah." Tang Yuan watched Song Yichuan keep looking at him, he walked over to open the refrigerator, and asked him what he wanted to drink.

Song Yichuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and touched the box with his toes, "It's not because of me."

Tang Yuan was taken aback, "Of course not, how could it be?"

He couldn't tell if Song Yichuan really thought this way or was joking, "The house belongs to the company, and now it's going to be taken back. It just so happens that I also want to move out to live alone."

"Have you found it?"

"Yeah." Tang Yuan brought Song Yichuan a bottle of Coke, remembering that he didn't seem to drink much in the past, afraid he would feel tired, so he poured him another glass of ice water.

When he put it down, he was very close to Song Yichuan because of his bending. Tang Yuan suddenly looked him in the eyes, and deliberately slowed down his speech, "I hid from you looking for those two days."

Song Yichuan paused for a moment with the hand that was holding the bottle. Before he could look back, Tang Yuan straightened up and pulled his neckline twice. It's not good to take a shower when there are people around, but he is so hot that his T-shirt stuck to his back. "Wait for me to go in and rush, 2 minutes."

Song Yichuan got up from the sofa, and replaced the Coke with ice water. The balcony of this house is connected to the living room. He walked to the window, and two bricks on the window sill were lifted, exposing the rough cement underneath, and the night view outside... There is no night view, just the same unit building in the community.

The uncles and aunts downstairs were sitting and chatting, and the noise was loud. Song Yichuan closed the window, and when he turned around, he noticed a litter box in the corner, but when he looked around, he didn't see the cat.

Tang Yuan came out of the wash very quickly, it didn't even take 2 minutes.

"Just now your phone rang." Song Yichuan said.

"Huh?" Tang Yuan came over, picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table, looked at it, and put it down again.

"Don't you need to go back?"

"It's okay." Tang Yuan said, "Would you like something to eat? I'll make you a bowl of noodles?"

He didn't forget to ask for supper, but Song Yichuan didn't say yes or no, Tang Yuan was a little undecided, and he didn't remember whether he still had dried noodles at home, but there were still two packs of instant noodles.

But he can't make many kinds of flavors for inviting people to eat instant noodles at night, and Song Yichuan didn't eat these things when he was studying.

Tang Yuan planned to go and have a look first. He walked towards the kitchen, and the cat jumped out of the bedroom, rushed to his feet, and meowed twice.

Song Yichuan looked over and saw an ordinary raccoon, except for the white belly, the hair color distribution on other parts of the body was very uneven, "You raised it?"

"Ah."

"Do you have a name?"

"Yes, it's called Xiaobai, and I can take it at will."

"Is it white?" Song Yichuan didn't understand, the cat's face was not clean, and there wasn't even a single white hair on it.

"Isn't it?" Tang Yuan turned it over with a smile, "You call it nothing else, but it will respond to you twice if you call it Xiaobai, but this cat is a bit timid, and will hide under the bed when strangers come. "

This will come out should be hungry.

Sure enough, the cat bowl was empty. Tang Yuan was going to solve its dinner problem first. He usually didn’t restrict the cat to eat, and would pour it for him if the bowl was empty. This cat is not considered fat. He is relieved.

After taking a shower, Tang Yuan changed into a T-shirt. When he graduated from college, he caught up with their school’s [-]th anniversary celebration. The commemorative shirt he issued was made of pure cotton and was very easy to wear. He has been wearing it since graduation until now. The collar and cuffs have been washed and deformed, and he has been reluctant to bear it. Change, anyway, they are worn at home, just put on.

But it is indeed a little loose. When pouring cat food, the neckline will slide down when you bend over.

Song Yichuan's eyes fell on his back. Following Tang Yuan's movements, the shoulder blades were raised and lowered under the thin cotton cloth.

A little better than that year, but still skinny.

I just saw the undulating strength of the clenched under the bare skin, and knew that he was not pitifully thin.

Song Yichuan looked away, and at the same time, Tang Yuan pulled down his collar without any trace.

He went to cook the noodles. There were still two bags of dried noodles, both of which were mushroom-flavored. Tang Yuan added eggs and tomatoes, as well as the pork slices he bought earlier.

Only one bowl came out, Tang Yuan put it on the table and pushed towards Song Yichuan.

"You don't want to eat?" Song Yichuan asked.

"There is still in the pot, you eat first." Tang Yuan handed him the chopsticks.

Song Yichuan hesitated for two seconds before answering, Tang Yuan subconsciously moved forward and just touched Song Yichuan's raised hand.

After just a second of contact, Song Yichuan took it back almost immediately, the chopsticks fell on the table, and one of them rolled twice and fell to the ground.

"I'll get you another pair."

"No need." Song Yichuan said and stood up, "I should go."

Then he really picked up the car keys and left, leaving Tang Yuan standing there dumbfounded.

...so I still hate him so much.

Then why do we still have to see each other?

Tang Yuan remembered that time, in that small hotel... Song Yichuan clung to him, talking against his back.

After talking about this door, the two of them never knew each other again.

Tang Yuan couldn't remember how he returned back then.

Lying in bed at night, before going to bed, he was still thinking about what he said at that time.

...Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore.

Definitely not a good thing to say.

Not surprisingly, Tang Yuan didn't sleep well that night, and was woken up several times by Xiao Bai in the middle of the night.

This cat has no other problems, it just likes to squeeze people to sleep, especially likes to sleep on pillows.

When he was young, it took up one-third of Tang Yuan. Tang Yuan didn’t feel much about it. Later, half of one person began to be a little crowded. Later, when the adult male cat lay down there with a normal size, there was almost no place for him, especially this cat didn’t know If you drive it away over and over again, it will come back in the end.

Before raising it, Tang Yuan knew that the cat would run in the middle of the night. He has never slept well. If there is any movement in the room, he will definitely wake up. Unexpectedly, after raising it, the cat has the same routine as him. He sleeps and it sleeps. Wake it up and wake up, and then while he is away during the day, it continues to catch up on sleep.

As a result, after having it, Tang Yuan slept better than before, with his fleshy body pressed against him, and the sound of snoring kept ringing above his head, like sitting in a warm room listening to the wind and rain outside the window, which made him feel strange A sense of peace of mind, sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, the cat will lick him twice as if to comfort him.

Tang Yuan often felt lucky for the decision he made to adopt it. At that time, he had no money. He had just come to this city not long ago, and his salary was not high. After removing utilities and daily expenses, he still had to pay off his student loans. The rest might not be enough for him to catch a bad cold.

There are a lot of stray cats in the community, and people often feed them, and the people who feed them often quarrel with the people who can't sleep because of the noise of the cats.

Tang Yuan never cared about these things until it rained heavily and the kittens came from downstairs, one after another, so miserable that he could hear them clearly even when he lived on the fourth floor.

Tang Yuan opened the window and looked downstairs. It was so dark that he couldn't see anything, but based on the source of the sound, the kitten should be in the grass there, and there were more than one.

He can't keep it.

He can't even take care of himself well, and he doesn't have the extra energy to raise pets.

Maybe the mother cat is nearby and will be back soon.

Stop barking.

Natural selection, cats that can't survive a heavy rain will have difficulty adapting to a wandering life in the future, and will eventually be eliminated due to various reasons.

...Stop barking, is anyone going to check on them?

The lingering screams rang in his ears, Tang Yuan couldn't ignore them at all, he began to feel restless.

But during the half hour he hesitated, the cry gradually weakened.

At that moment, Tang Yuan actually felt relieved, as if he couldn't hear, and the matter was over.

The next second he stood up suddenly, opened the door and walked out.

There were three cats in a litter, and they looked like they were born only a few days ago. This kind of cat was very difficult to feed. When Tang Yuan took them out, one of them was already dead.

He buried the dead one, took the rest back, wiped off the water, and put them in a cardboard box covered with blankets.

He checked all kinds of strategies, ran out to buy goat milk in the middle of the night, and when he came back, another one died.

At that time, my roommate had just graduated like him. Because he was not familiar with him, he hadn’t talked much, but that night he was busy with him. was saved.

Tang Yuan didn't sleep all night, and asked for leave the next day. The cat is really small, with bald hair, and every time his belly falls back when he breathes, he worries about whether he can hold it up again in the next second. Going to see it.

Fortunately, this cat is more competitive in breastfeeding, and with the hope of the whole litter survived, Tang Yuan casually named it Xiaobai.

The day Xiaobai opened his eyes, he and his roommate went out to have a good meal. After getting along during this time, the two got to know each other a lot. Later, when the cat grew up, his roommate paid him a down payment, and he bought a house and moved out. , but often come back to see the cat, Tang Yuan also told him the address when he moved this time.

The one who moved away some time ago was already his fourth roommate, less than three years old, coming in and out, Tang Yuan was tired of dealing with people constantly, and the process of getting used to each other's living habits repeatedly, he was not a good person by nature, It's just four words to say it, it's just forced by life.

The next day Tang Yuan walked to the company, but he didn’t see Song Yichuan for lunch. Feng Tianyu asked about Song Yichuan recharging his card, “How much did you recharge?”

"Three thousand."

"So generous."

Tang Yuan was no more surprised than him when he first saw it.

"But that kid looks quite rich." Feng Tianyu was sour with real emotion, "He is handsome, and if he can enter that kind of institution, he must have a good education. Damn, the gap between people, why? say."

"No need to say." Tang Yuan responded casually. He was worried about how to pay back the money. Even if Song Yichuan kept rubbing his meal card, it was impossible for him to accept the money, or he would get another one himself. Just give it to him.

It's just that when the project is over, Song Yichuan will no longer be around, and the money in the card will not be withdrawn at that time, and it will be wasted in it.

Tang Yuan decided to find a chance to return the money to him.

But in the next few days, until Friday, Song Yichuan did not show up.