Xiangyu

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Teacher Gu's children went home to pay New Year's greetings. The family seemed to meet up and greeted Song Yuqiao in the corridor, waking him up.

Their greetings reminded Song Yuqiao of his parents who were far away in Yuetang.Years ago, Song Yuqiao called his family once, but unfortunately there was no certain time when he would come back, so his parents didn't know that Song Yuqiao had returned to Xijin until now.

After thinking about it, Song Yuqiao didn't call home, not knowing what to ask was secondary, he was only worried that Zhou Meiqi would ask him about Qiao Yusong.Now that the two haven't been able to meet each other, Song Yuqiao can't decide what will happen next, and it seems that he won't be right.

The TV is replaying the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve, which is the beginning part.

Song Yuqiao turned on the TV, and started wandering around the room, looking at the house that looked the same as two years ago, and how surprised it was compared to two years ago, like a game that was very popular in the past—" find difference".

Song Yuqiao was able to find some clues in the messages Qiao Yusong sent him before.

The humidifier in the living room is newly bought, a new model released last year;

The bowl that Song Yuqiao had been using before was a clear water pot, which was accidentally broken by Qiao Yusong one day the year before last. There was a pair of handmade pottery bowls in the cupboard, which Song Yuqiao had never seen before. That bowl is by the same author;

He didn't find the bouquet of winter jasmine flowers that Qiao Yusong bought last year, maybe they were thrown away after they dried up;

There are a few books on the bookshelf in the living room, about geography and travel, which makes him feel that Qiao Yusong wants to go to many places.

The siphon coffee pot at home is new. Song Yuqiao searched through the chat records, but couldn't find the reason for Qiao Yusong to replace it.

He made coffee with the new coffee pot and found that the coffee beans at home had changed.

Before making that phone call to Qiao Yusong, Song Yuqiao thought about what to do with Qiao Yusong in the few days after returning from vacation.He used to arrange these four days full of time, and soon laughed at himself. When he saw Qiao Yusong, these plans might all be overturned, and he only wanted to do what Qiao Yusong wanted to do.

In retrospect, the ridicule seemed even more ironic than it was then.

Because all the arrangements really didn't come true, except on the third day of junior high school, he had to talk to Qiao Yusong about how to break up, and he didn't know how to spend the rest of the time.

What should we do when we break up?

It has been too many years since Song Yuqiao broke up last time.He had forgotten what it was like.This made Song Yuqiao a little scared, worried that in a few years, he would forget what it was like this time.

However, there was one thing that Song Yuqiao remembered very clearly.That's because he and Gu Huizhi often live in each other's house, so they keep some of each other's things in each other's house, and when they want to break up, it's a bit troublesome to deal with.

Now, Song Yuqiao read Qiao Yusong's message again, and then looked at the things in the house. He couldn't help wondering whether Qiao Yusong could take away all the things that belonged to him after spending a few hours.

There were no large cardboard boxes at home. On the morning of the second day of junior high school, Song Yuqiao drove to the unit. After asking the guards, he knew that the test center should be able to find discarded and unprocessed large cardboard boxes.

When he arrived at the test center, Song Yuqiao managed to find a test site where people were working, and finally got five large cardboard boxes. With their help, he put the folded and flattened cardboard boxes into the trunk of the car.

He wanted to collect all Qiao Yusong's things before the people from the moving company came, so that it would be much more convenient for Qiao Yusong to take them away.

However, when he brought these cardboard boxes home, opened the closet, and saw that half of the clothes hanging in it belonged to him, Song Yuqiao suddenly felt depressed.He had difficulty breathing and had to sit down on the corner of the bed.

After a long time, Song Yuqiao thought that he shouldn't put the clothes in the cardboard box that used to hold the test equipment.He ordered two large storage boxes on the year-round e-commerce platform, which could not be delivered the next day, so he had to choose expedited delivery.

By the time the delivery staff of the e-commerce platform delivered the two large storage boxes to the door late at night, Song Yuqiao had already packed [-] to [-]% of the things in the house that belonged to Qiao Yusong except clothes.

He sorted these things into cardboard boxes and found that there were quite a lot.

This made Song Yuqiao puzzled.

Logically speaking, before Qiao Yusong moved in, there was nothing missing at home, so Qiao Yusong bought more and more things at home, and the house should be more and more full.However, when Song Yuqiao came back on New Year's Eve, he didn't feel that way.On the contrary, now that he packed his things into cardboard boxes, the room seemed much empty.

How did that happen?

He just restored the room to the way it was before Qiao Yusong came, why does it look incomplete?Is this what this house is supposed to look like?

When he took Qiao Yusong's clothes out of the closet and put them in the storage box, facing the half-empty closet, he confirmed this even more.

Qiao Yusong bought the pair of clear water burners, and Song Yuqiao judged from the degree of use which one Qiao Yusong usually used.He wrapped the bowl in several layers of kitchen paper and placed it on top of one of the cardboard boxes.

The cardboard box full of sundries seemed unable to accommodate this bowl, so Song Yuqiao took out the Winnie the Pooh plush toy from another cardboard box and put it into the sundry box, letting Winnie the Pooh hold the bowl.

After such a busy trip, before I knew it, the time had passed zero.

In the quiet room, the phone suddenly rang to remind him to sleep, which startled Song Yuqiao.

He picked up the phone, selected one of the countless missed calls in the call log, and dialed it.

It was different from the previous voices, it was the voice of waiting to answer.

Without warning, Song Yuqiao began to panic.He grabbed the hem of his shirt and rubbed it against his heart, but this action was in vain.

Not long after, the phone was connected, and Qiao Yusong's voice sounded very indifferent, just like on the phone that day: "Hello?"

"Hello?" Song Yuqiao's throat tightened a little uncomfortable, "Have you returned to Xijin?"

Qiao Yusong replied briefly: "Yes."

Song Yuqiao frowned, thought for a while, and asked, "When will you come over tomorrow?"

At first there was no sound on the other end of the phone, and then Qiao Yusong took a deep breath, which Song Yuqiao could hear clearly.

But his voice was still indifferent, and he said, "Let's go early in the morning, so we can move things away. Is nine o'clock okay?"

"Okay." Song Yuqiao's mind went blank.

"Okay, see you then." After Qiao Yusong finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

The symptoms of palpitation did not disappear after the phone was hung up, Song Yuqiao scratched his fist, his fingers were cold.

After sitting there for a while, he got up and walked towards the entrance.

After confirming that Qiao Yusong's iris information was still stored in the door lock system, Song Yuqiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Before going to bed, Song Yuqiao felt stuffy all the time, so he had to open the window wide, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

He curled up on the bed, unable to remember how he fell asleep after all.

When he woke up, he found that the situation seemed to have become serious.

Song Yuqiao's head was swollen and painful, and he had no strength in his body.

He managed to get out of bed, and found an ear thermometer in the home medicine box under the coffee table. After testing, he confirmed that he had a high fever.

He squatted on the ground, holding an ear thermometer, and was in a daze without paying attention.

A sudden gust of wind knocked Song Yuqiao down to the ground.

Song Yuqiao staggered up and looked back out the window.

Overnight, the buildings outside the window were completely covered with snow, the goose-feather-like flying snow danced in the air like catkins, and many snowflakes flew into the house, melted into drops of water by the geothermal heat, and gathered into a beach.

Song Yuqiao was fascinated by the flying snow, when he suddenly heard the door open behind him.

He suddenly turned his head and saw Qiao Yusong walking into the room.

Qiao Yusong froze when he saw him sitting on the ground in his pajamas.Almost at the same time, Qiao Yusong felt his heart constricted suddenly, and there was a tight pain.

"You..." Qiao Yusong didn't know what to say, but when he saw the cardboard boxes in the living room, he shivered and his face turned pale.

Song Yuqiao supported the coffee table, stood up with difficulty, closed the window of the living room, went to the bedroom, and closed the window there.

Although he didn't get close, Qiao Yusong could tell that what was in the cardboard box was his own.His breathing was short, and his eye sockets soon became unbearably hot. He could only take deep breaths to stabilize his emotions.

He opened the shoe cabinet nervously, and saw that there were no slippers of his own in it, and his heart sank heavily.

"Aren't you coming in?" Song Yuqiao came out of the bedroom, saw him staring at the open shoe cabinet in a daze, and said, "The slippers are by your feet."

Hearing this, Qiao Yusong was taken aback for a moment, and when he lowered his head, he saw that his slippers were still there.He couldn't laugh or cry immediately, because of his uneasiness just now.

Song Yuqiao packed all his things and seemed to have accepted the proposal to break up.Qiao Yusong felt that he was particularly ridiculous and ridiculous. He obviously proposed to break up. Why was he still so disappointed and sad when he saw these cardboard boxes and items?

On the other hand, Song Yuqiao was surprisingly calm, just like him always.

After Qiao Yusong changed his shoes, he walked into the living room, bypassed the cardboard boxes in the living room, walked to the sofa and sat down.He collected himself, raised his head and was about to speak to Song Yuqiao, but found Song Yuqiao walked into the bathroom.

"Let's talk quickly. I made an appointment with the moving company at 10:30." Qiao Yusong said to his back.

Song Yuqiao came out of the bathroom with a mop and said, "Wait a minute, I'll mop the floor."

Hearing this, Qiao Yusong frowned.

There was a big puddle of water in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony. Qiao Yusong thought of Song Yuqiao closing the window just now, and thought that the snow outside had drifted into the house and the snow particles had melted.With such a big beach, I really don’t know how long the windows have been open.

Song Yuqiao walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows with a mop in his hand, and mopped it back and forth several times.His movements seemed very slow, making Qiao Yusong wonder if he was trying to delay time.Thinking of this, Qiao Yusong's uneasiness reappeared.However, when he looked at those cardboard boxes, his heart sank again.

Seeing Song Yuqiao carry the mop back to the bathroom, Qiao Yusong shouted again: "Can you hurry up? I don't want to waste time."

Song Yuqiao seemed to say yes, but didn't seem to answer.The wind outside the window was loud, and Qiao Yusong was not sure that he heard his voice clearly.

Song Yuqiao also wanted to move faster. He wanted to find antipyretics in the medicine box, but he heard Qiao Yusong's urging, and finally chose to go back to the bedroom and took a sweater to put on his shoulders.

"Drink water?" Song Yuqiao walked to the kitchen.

Qiao Yusong hated Song Yuqiao's calm attitude very much, as if he was the only one who was tortured by the breakup and was physically and mentally haggard.He couldn't help but said: "No drink. Can you sit down quickly, let's talk!"

Hearing this, Song Yuqiao's footsteps paused.He had to go to the sofa and sit on the armchair.The sofa was not particularly soft in Song Yuqiao's impression, but he couldn't control the strength of his body, and when he sat down, he seemed to fall heavily, and his head hurt.

"In the past two days, I've collected your things, but I'm not sure if I have all of them. I put them all in these cardboard boxes." Song Yuqiao's breath was very short, and the sentence was divided into several sections, "Inside, There are two cloth storage boxes for your clothes.

Listening and listening, Qiao Yusong's body gradually became cold.Qiao Yusong could vaguely see a corner of the storage box Song Yuqiao mentioned.

After Song Yuqiao cleaned up, some space seemed to be freed up in the room. Qiao Yusong glanced at the time, and it was not yet 09:30. Breaking up was really a simple matter.He couldn't help but smile wryly.

"We don't seem to have anything to talk about." Qiao Yusong smiled self-deprecatingly, saw Song Yuqiao close the medicine box on the coffee table, and asked, "Is there anything in it that belongs to me?"

Song Yuqiao paused, then continued to put the medicine box under the coffee table, and said, "There shouldn't be any."

"Oh." Qiao Yusong crossed his fingers and clenched tightly, his head blank.

Song Yuqiao looked at his hand and found that he had taken off the ring.

"Where will you live after you move out?" Song Yuqiao asked.

Qiao Yusong was startled by the sudden voice, embarrassed by his gaffe, and replied, "Temporarily live in the dormitory of the base, in Changzhuang."

"It's quite far." Song Yuqiao said, looking back at the big cardboard boxes.

Qiao Yusong gritted his teeth, and said abruptly: "I checked on the Internet, and it doesn't have to be revoked at the notary office where the original guardianship decision was made. Notarization offices across the country can do it. You can also do the revocation after you return to Western City. Just let me know when the time comes."

Even though there was floor heating and even though he was wearing a sweater, Song Yuqiao still felt cold all over.His mouth was dry, probably because of the fever.After listening to Qiao Yusong's words, he nodded and said, "That's what I planned too."

After hearing this, Qiao Yusong's heart skipped a beat, and the calmness on his face completely collapsed.He barely supported a smile, looked into Song Yuqiao's eyes, and said, "Really? You've already thought about it."

Because of dry lips, Song Yuqiao felt that the two lips were stuck together and could not open his mouth.He nodded.

Qiao Yusong's throat hurt very much, and he regretted not asking Song Yuqiao for a glass of water just now.He pursed his lips hard, nodded vigorously, and said, "Okay, pretty good."

Looking at the glistening water in Qiao Yusong's eyes, Song Yuqiao felt more and more cold.His breathing became less smooth, and even though he had lost all strength, he still had to spend what energy he had on controlling his breathing.

I had to take the medicine quickly, Song Yuqiao asked: "Would you like to see if there is anything left to clean up?"

"Song Yuqiao..." Qiao Yusong's heart felt hot, and his body trembled unconsciously.

Facing his red eyes, Song Yuqiao was stunned.

Qiao Yusong finally had no way to force himself to remain calm. He looked at Song Yuqiao who had been so calm from the beginning to the end in pain, and asked, "Did you wait for me to say goodbye?"

Song Yuqiao spent almost all of his energy on adjusting his breathing, and suddenly faced with Qiao Yusong's questioning, his breathing immediately became chaotic.

Like overwhelming momentum, Song Yuqiao immediately began to tremble, and his hot, swollen eyes became moist in an instant.He had to take off his glasses immediately.

Seeing this, Qiao Yusong's throat hurt badly, and he swallowed hard his saliva, which was mixed with the saltiness of tears and the smell of blood.He tried not to cry, and smiled bitterly: "It took you a long time to pack these things, didn't you? Are these cardboard boxes brought back from the work unit? You can still think of going to the work unit to find the cardboard boxes... Song Yuqiao, if you want to break up, Why didn't you tell me earlier? Don't tell me, let me stay here and watch, will you feel better?"

The hands holding the glasses trembled, so Song Yuqiao had to put them back on.He didn't expect Qiao Yusong to think so, wanted to deny it, but couldn't think of what to say after denying it.

"Song Yuqiao, talk!" Qiao Yusong was so anxious that he almost jumped up from the sofa, "Don't you usually have a set of principles?!"

The sudden high-pitched voice hurt Song Yuqiao's tympanic membrane. He had a splitting headache and frowned in pain.Finally, Song Yuqiao felt that he had slowed down, but his strength was running low.

He said weakly: "I never waited for you to say goodbye, let alone want to break up with you."

After hearing that, Qiao Yusong's heart seemed to miss a beat.He took a quick look at the cardboard boxes and asked nervously, "How do you explain these?"

"I..." Song Yuqiao breathed out, but found that there was a lump in his throat.After a long time, he lowered his head in despair and sighed, "I can't find a reason to keep you."

Qiao Yusong forgot to hold back his tears, and when he realized it, tears were already dripping on the back of his hand.

Once the decline starts, it will only intensify. Song Yuqiao gave up persistence, sat weakly, and said: "Last time, you said 'sorry' on the phone. Actually, there is no 'sorry', you have done a good job. I once said However, I can only try it out, if one day you can't stand it anymore and want to leave, I won't force you to stay."

Qiao Yusong listened in a daze, and suddenly remembered that Song Yuqiao had indeed said such a thing.He once said that trying was the only way between them, and now, maybe it's time to admit failure.

"But," Qiao Yusong leaned forward involuntarily, "Song Yuqiao, where is your 'try'? That's right, I proposed to break up, but you quickly cleaned up my things. Where is your attempt? I didn't see it. Why...why didn't you try to 'force' me to stay? Like, like you 'forced' me to accept your quest?"

Qiao Yusong's tears had dried up, and he opened his clear eyes, which were as hot as fire.Facing his gaze, tears suddenly fell from Song Yuqiao's eyes.He hastily took off his glasses and wiped away his tears.

Seeing this, Qiao Yusong shouted even more excitedly: "You know that I still love you!"