[Journey to the West] The male protagonist is under a lot of pressure

"correct."

When Bai Yu came back from the laboratory, the two sat at the dining table, and Chai Xi said casually while opening the lid of the plastic container containing preserved egg and lean meat porridge.

"I forgot to tell you something just now," she scooped up a spoonful of preserved egg and lean meat porridge. It was just that she didn't eat for a morning, but she felt like she hadn't eaten meat for hundreds of years, "Then after you left, something happened."

Bai Yu left for a little more than an hour, and the result of tossing and tossing for a long time was that Chai Xi just felt a little sleepy and was about to squat for a while, when he heard the doorbell ring again, and when he opened the door, he saw his friend standing outside with a plastic bag in one hand.

"what's up?"

The other party's tone sounded a little careless, but Chai Xi knew that she had always been like this. From her subtle movements, it could be seen that she was actually listening carefully.

"I seemed to see a hallucination at the door this morning..." She hesitated, "Just before I called you this morning, I heard the doorbell ring, and then came out and saw a monkey."

Bai Yu: "..."

She almost knocked over the bowl.

"Huh?" Bai Yu looked like "there is no 300 taels of silver here", pushed the bowl to the middle of the table so that she wouldn't overturn it when she got excited, and said nonchalantly, "What monkey?"

... Is that monkey your family? You are so excited.

"how could I know."

Chai Xi squinted his eyes again and looked Bai Yu up and down. The other party's behavior was too suspicious: "So I just used it to tell you, but I didn't expect you to seem to know."

"No, I don't know." Bai Yu's face was innocent, "How could I know that someone downstairs in your house secretly kept monkeys and didn't dare to let other people find out in order to avoid being fined by the apartment administrator?"

Chai Xi: "...Really?"

She looked at the other person in disbelief and made a "shh" gesture, and deliberately lowered her voice—even if it was just the two of them in this living room, the sound insulation of the walls is so good that unless they sing karaoke loudly, there is no need to worry about others To the extent of hearing what happened in the room——said to her mysteriously: "When I went downstairs that day, I happened to meet his house closing the door, and saw him hugging a little monkey."

"Ah?" Chai Xi has completely believed what his friend said, "Isn't it illegal to keep monkeys privately?"

"Yeah, it's indeed illegal, and I asked him that too." The other party took another sip of the porridge with bitter vegetables and lean meat, "He showed me the license, but well, keeping monkeys in the apartment—even if there is only one It’s just—it’s too cruel to the monkeys. So I told him to send the monkeys back to his relative’s farm as soon as possible, but it seems that he hasn’t done so today.”

Chai Xi nodded half-understood, she felt that she had overlooked something that was inconsistent with what Bai Yu said, and Bai Yu's behavior was also a bit inexplicable, but right now she couldn't figure out what was wrong , simply let it go first.

"The second thing," she said in a tone of confusion and disbelief, "this morning, I saw that the senior—the one I dated when I was a freshman—contacted me again on Penguin .”

"Oh……"

Compared to just now, Bai Yu's performance was much more flat, she didn't need much effort to remember his name: "That guy Gao Yangnan?"

Chai Xi nodded, and she carefully tasted the porridge one bite at a time. For some reason, the usual food has become a supreme delicacy for her.Before she knew it, the bowl was almost empty. Normally, she would have no appetite at all when she was sick, but today she wanted to eat inexplicably—and it was all meat.She scraped the bowl wall with a spoon again, and then said: "I saw him explain to me that he suddenly broke up with me because he became lucky since dating me."

Bai Yu: "Uh-cough cough cough!"

She was obviously choking on the porridge with bitter vegetables and lean meat that she had just imported, and she seemed to regret the action of drinking the porridge just now.Chai Xi quickly stood up and patted her on the back. After a while, Bai Yu's breathing gradually became smoother, but her expression did not become more natural.

"He..." Bai Yu's face was strange, "It's been so long, why is he explaining this to you?"

"How do I know." Chai Xi sat back on his chair across the street, re-covered the plastic bowl and put it back in the bag, intending to throw it into the trash can later, "He passed the same bowl I added before I came here. The group contacted me, and I didn’t want to talk to him when I saw him explaining these things, and I didn’t read the next words, so I quit the group directly.”

Bai Yu seemed relieved.

"It's not that I want to stop you, it's really—"

Her words were interrupted by the sudden ringing of the doorbell.

Chai Xi and Bai Yu stared at each other blankly, then Bai Yu, who was closer to the door, stood up and walked over, lying on the cat's eye and taking a look.She maintained that posture for a long time, so that Chai Xi, who was sick, wanted to stand up to see what was outside the door.At this moment, Bai Yu turned around with an ugly smile like never before: "No one, let's continue talking about his contacting you."

...then hell if no one is there.

After contacting what my friend said before, Chai Xi felt that he probably guessed the identity of the person outside the door.

"I know you guys quarreled," she said in pain, leaning on the table with her elbows and her forehead with her hand, "but you should open the door for him, or the door of my house will be demolished."

Although it is a bit exaggerated to say so, but... Chai Xi, who has witnessed many accidents, feels that this possibility is not impossible.

After hearing her words, Bai Yu nodded in agreement, and she sighed: "Forget it, since he's here, I won't bother you anymore."

Then, she walked back to the dining table, covered her bowl of porridge with bitter vegetables and lean meat, and put it back in the plastic bag as well.Strangely, although no one opened the door for anyone outside, the doorbell didn't ring again, as if he knew what Bai Yu was doing.Chai Xi wondered why she thought this way, and then heard Bai Yu say: "You should feel better now?"

Chai Xi nodded. She did feel that the temperature had dropped a bit compared to the most uncomfortable time in the morning, but it was still not much better.

"You should rest for two days and you'll be fine." Although she is not a doctor, Bai Yu said in a convincing tone, "I will ask for leave for you tomorrow, so don't go out and wander around before Tuesday."

The date that Bai Yu deliberately emphasized made Chai Xi even more confused.

"Tuesday?"

"That's right, Tuesday." Chai Xi always felt that Bai Yu's smile was a bit meaningful, "Try not to go out until then, the temperature has dropped drastically these few days, it will warm up on Tuesday, so let's have a good rest at home."

"Oh, by the way," she said before opening the door, "Sleep more, don't stay up late like before, I wish you a sweet dream."

Chai Xi murmured and repeated Bai Yu's words thoughtfully, and found that his friend was so strange today.The door was closed at the same time as Bai Yu walked out, she was able to see the man standing by the door in time, Chai Xi couldn't hear what they were talking about, only the voice - and the voice gradually faded away, presumably Bai Yu dragged him away.

what happened?

Thinking of this, she threw the plastic bag into the trash can in the kitchen, and she took away Bai Yu's unfinished portion by herself. Friends always have a mysterious love for bitter vegetable and lean meat porridge.

She was just about to take a nap on the bed again, and just set the phone to silent when she saw a caller ID from an unfamiliar number on the screen.Chai Xi pressed the connect button, put the phone to her ear, and heard a voice that was not familiar to her, but she could recognize it immediately.

"Hi," the voice was inexplicably nervous, "Hello, it's me."

He didn't even say his name, as if he believed that Chai Xi could recognize his voice directly.

Although it was true, this kind of trust always made Chai Xi a little uncomfortable.

"What's wrong with you today?" Chai Xi said in a bad tone, "I want to contact me all of a sudden, I don't want to hear what happened to you back then—"

"No."

He hurriedly interrupted Chai Xi: "I guess you may have seen my news, but you must not have read it—in fact, I want to ask you out, and there are some things I want to tell you no matter what, really That's all."

Chai Xi frowned, but she wanted to refuse the invitation no matter what.

"I—I heard from your classmate that you need a certain material for your homework in class," he added, "I happen to have that material, and I can bring it to you when the time comes."

"No, thank you for your kindness." Chai Xi flatly rejected him, "I can finish my own things, so you don't need to bother."

She thought about it, and felt that with the character of the other party, no matter how much she refused, she might not let it go, so she sighed and said, "If you insist on meeting, it's not impossible. Let me talk about it first, I won't Agree to any request you have, and don't pester me again after that time."

There was silence on the phone for a while before the "OK" rang.

"Then... when do you have time?"

She has time now.

However, Chaixi remembered what Bai Yu said before leaving.

"Tuesday," she said, "Tuesday at two o'clock in the afternoon, the coffee shop at the north gate of the school."

After the other party answered, Chai Xi hung up the phone, and she put the phone on the pillow next to her, and then closed her eyes.Contrary to her imagination, this time, she did not toss and turn, and a heavy sleepiness pressed over her.

She had a dream.