Mi Lier went downstairs first, Cheng Ke erased the unsightly picture on the sand painting table, but fortunately his left hand was not proficient and his paintings were a bit abstract, if this is the right hand...
He went to the bathroom on the third floor to wash his face, sorted out his emotions, and went downstairs.
Mi Li'er brought the new front desk Huihui to talk to the guests almost, leaving only a few details that he needs to confirm.
After Cheng Ke confirmed, the guest paid the advance payment and left. He sat at the table and listened to Mi Li'er and Huihui finalizing some things to prepare, and then began to discuss the winemaking.
"Are we going to make wine?" Cheng Ke asked.
"Brother Xu said that you can get some, a small amount, and the guests who come to cook can send some, what kind of beer, fruit wine, and wine are they brewed by themselves," Mi Lier said, "It's very interesting, we can also let customers brew their own products if they want. They leave it here and drink when they come."
"Well." Cheng Ke nodded.
After listening in silence for a while, Mi Lier would not know, mainly Huihui came to operate it, and I heard that her hobby was winemaking.
"That," Cheng Ke hesitated for a few seconds, then said, "Huihui."
"What's the matter, Brother Cheng?" Huihui looked at him.
"Have you... made strawberry wine?" Cheng Ke asked.
"I've brewed it, I've used almost all the ingredients that can be used for brewing," Huihui turned to discuss with Mi Li'er, "Then add a strawberry bar."
"Can you teach me?" Cheng Ke said, "I want to... try."
"Do you want to play or drink," Huihui said. "If you want to drink, I can brew it for you, or you have to buy a bottle yourself, which is quite troublesome."
"I'm going to give it away." Cheng Ke said.
For some bastard who doesn't know when he'll be back.
On the eighth day of Jiang Yuduo's escape, he wanted to torture him in various poses.
Cheng Ke squatted on the ground and looked at the things in front of him face to face with Miao.
A basket of strawberries, a bag of rock sugar, a wine bottle, a wine bottle, and several packs of wine yeast.
He just bought the strawberries and rock candy from the supermarket, the yeast was given to him by Huihui, and the wine bottle was purchased online. After brewing, the bottle used to hold the wine was obtained by Xu Ding from a friend who was playing with glass. It was very simple. Clear circle shape.
Now that everything is ready, we can start making.
"Wash the strawberries, remove the stems, and dry them," Cheng Ke looked at the preparation method Huihui wrote to him on his phone, "I've never done any of these other than learning how to cook instant noodles and eggs now, and I'm still making wine. Such an advanced job."
He picked up a strawberry, squeezed one, and handed it to Meow's mouth: "Do you want to eat it?"
Meow leaned over and smelled it for a long time, then stretched out her paws and supported the strawberry to start chewing, she was quite engaged, her eyes were squinted, and her chin hair was full of juice.
"Do cats still eat strawberries?" Cheng Ke was a little surprised, "Does your brother know you're so greedy?"
Meow ignored him and continued chewing.
But Cheng Ke has no interest in talking anymore. Talking alone and talking to a cat about its owner makes him feel very lonely, especially the cat doesn't give a response and only cares about eating.
He wants to be like a cat. You are here, and you are not there. When you come back, I will wrap my tail around your ankles. If you don't come back, I will eat the strawberries that others gave me.
It took a long time for the strawberries to be washed and dried. His left hand was inflexible, so he had to go to the stem after washing it... Can he be poisoned if he eats it with the stem! In the end, every strawberry stalk was bitten off with his teeth.
Cheng Ke put the bitten strawberries into the wine bottle according to the production method that he had already memorized. Ten pounds of strawberries and two pounds of sugar were all poured into it. The yeast was activated with warm sugar and boiled water...
Then there's the crushed strawberries.
He put on gloves and pinched in the bottle.
There was a small clearing outside the kitchen window, where the three-and-a-half-year-old rode a little car around in circles, not knowing what to say.
Cheng Ke was a little taken aback.
He doesn't like children very much, but at the age of three and a half, he is quite cute and not annoying, mainly because... Jiang Yuduo often mentions this child.
So the three-and-a-half-year-old was in a sense connected with Jiang Yuduo.
After the strawberries were all crushed and soaked, Cheng Ke put the bottle next to the radiator, and it was done.
The next thing to do is to wait.
Wait until the strawberry wine is ready.
Wait for the guy who drank the strawberry wine to come back.
The sun was shining brightly, Jiang Yuduo was sitting on the chair by the window, his eyes were a little hard to open.
"How's it going?" Sister Luo sat across from the small table.
"It's fine," Jiang Yuduo said, "sleeping is quite normal, and I fell asleep yesterday without taking medicine."
"This is the song you want to listen to," Sister Luo put an MP3 on the table. "I've saved it all. I'll change it for you when I get tired of listening to it."
"Well." Jiang Yuduo nodded, took it over and plugged in his headphones to listen.
"I didn't buy you cigarettes. I'll bring them to you next time you come," Sister Luo said with a smile, "Did Dr. Li tell you to smoke less?"
"Well," Jiang Yuduo stretched out four fingers, "I promised him, four a day."
"Can you hold on?" Sister Luo asked.
"Yes," Jiang Yuduo said, "it's not a big deal... Would you accompany me to the yard?"
"Okay." Sister Luo stood up.
Walking into the yard, Jiang Yuduo obviously felt relieved.
A hospital, no matter what kind of hospital, even a hospital like this one that is very unlike a hospital, will make him afraid.
He never thought that one day he would take the initiative to ask to live in.
It wasn't until yesterday that he could barely fall asleep without medication, and he even spent the first two nights sitting at the angle of the bed.
Dr. Li talked to him about his fear of the hospital.
There are a lot of things he doesn't want to think about, and he clearly remembers this part that has been forcibly erased and can't remember again, he has to face it.
He chose to be hospitalized, chose to open the wound, chose to tell himself that this is a memory that will accompany him all his life, and he has to bear the pain that will not stop every second now.
On the night after the chat, he alternated between waking and hallucinations all night, unable to distinguish between dream and reality.
The picture was so real that it became difficult for him to breathe.
He was lying in the bright room, with cluttered noises and swaying figures, he turned his head with difficulty, and could see the other bed through the undrawn curtains.
lots of blood.
Dr. Li told him that it was a policeman.
He no longer remembered that person's face, what he looked like, how tall he was, whether he was fat or thin, what his name was, or even the voice when he shouted "Jiang Yuduo run quickly".
But he remembered the blood, the temperature that protected his body.
And the elongated "di-".
He clearly felt the irresistible, little by little lives lost because of him.
The bright lights, the lingering smell of disinfectant, the swaying figures in the white eyes, the sound of the "drip" of the instrument, all of these are linked to death because of him, and become the only one contact.
He was afraid of these, and even more afraid of the next such person.
Later in the days, those who became familiar with him day by day, left and disappeared one by one, and never appeared again, made him uneasy and scared.
When Cheng Ke began to become an inherent part of his life, he became nervous, and another "disappearance" seemed inevitable, and when he realized that he might make Cheng Ke really "disappear", this unease reached its peak.
Cheng Ke who has left him is safe and will not disappear, but Cheng Ke who has left him will also have nowhere to follow.
"Recently," Jiang Yuduo and Sister Luo walked slowly along the path in the yard, he lit a cigarette, counted the number for himself, the third one today, "Cheng Ke... Have you contacted you? "
"No," Sister Luo said. "After calling him that day, he didn't contact me again."
"Did you tell him?" Jiang Yuduo asked.
"Tell him what?" Sister Luo patted him lightly on the back. "Tell him where you are? Or tell him I can't tell you about you?"
"Can't say." Jiang Yuduo said.
"Tell him." Sister Luo nodded.
When Jiang Yuduo heard this sentence, he was suddenly disappointed, but after a pause, he breathed a sigh of relief: "So he wants to find me... I don't know where to look, right?"
"Yes," Sister Luo smiled, "he was very worried about you, so when I said I couldn't tell him, he was a little upset."
Jiang Yuduo twitched the corners of his mouth.
"I... don't want him to see it," he frowned, "and I don't want him to know how I... treated me."
"Yeah." Sister Luo nodded.
"He only knows that I have mental problems," Jiang Yuduo bit his lip, "but seeing that I live in a mental hospital, it still feels different."
"It's not as serious as you think." Sister Luo smiled.
"I don't want him to have such an intuitive feeling," Jiang Yuduo said softly, "it will scare him away."
"He may not have intuitive feelings," Sister Luo said. "You can't hide it all the time, right?"
"You said," Jiang Yuduo turned his head, "when I go back, will he... have left?"
"Why do you think so?" Sister Luo asked.
"I told him to leave if he couldn't wait," Jiang Yuduo frowned, looking down at the small stones on the road, one by one, the first one he saw, he couldn't find it in the blink of an eye. "He's a eldest young master, he's always been kind... He's been very nice to me, but this kind of thing... "
"Xiao Jiang," Sister Luo stopped, "he told me something before, and let me tell you when the time is right."
"What?" Jiang Yuduo stared at her eagerly.
"Xiao Cheng said he's not going anywhere." Sister Luo said.
"He's not going anywhere." Jiang Yuduo repeated softly.
"Yeah." Sister Luo nodded.
Jiang Yuduo didn't speak for a long time, and he kept repeating this sentence in his mind. He could imagine Cheng Ke's expression and tone when he said this sentence.
"I'm not going anywhere."
If it wasn't for Sister Luo, he might have said, "I'm not going anywhere."
Jiang Yuduo smiled.
This was the first time he wanted to laugh after he ran away quietly, he didn't tug at the corners of his mouth, didn't squeeze a smile, and when he thought of Cheng Ke's tone, he smiled so naturally and subconsciously.
But tears also slid down.
He turned his head quickly, and quickly wiped his eyes with his hands.
When tears are not needed, he can recover his emotions in seconds.
This kind of skill derived from pain, he also has a lot, just like pain itself, embedded in his life.
When he turned back, he knew that he had no tears, but he still couldn't hold back the words.
"I miss him very much." Jiang Yuduo said softly, "I miss him very much."
"I know, I know," Sister Luo said softly, "do you want me to tell him this?"
"No," Jiang Yuduo raised his eyes and refused very succinctly, "I don't want him to feel sorry for me, and I don't want him to feel sorry for me."
"Okay." Sister Luo nodded.
On the 20th day of Jiang Yuduo's escape, he wanted to use shameless tools on him.
Cheng Ke was sitting in the small room on the third floor, facing the window. There were a lot of guests today. There was a sand painting performance in the afternoon, and the third floor might be full by then.
He held the notebook and poked his left hand on the keyboard. After poking for a long time, he remembered that he now has a right hand.
Habit is really a magical thing. Just putting a plaster on it can actually make him forget the existence of his right hand.
In this way, he glanced at the calendar, and it was no wonder that he couldn't adapt to the loneliness of not having Jiang Yuduo by his side no matter what.
Maybe the wait wasn't long enough.
After reading Huihui's summary this month, he added his own comments after several improvement ideas, then closed the summary and opened another document.
Here is a list of mental hospitals across the country, their names, addresses, and general conditions.
Sister Luo couldn't tell him where Jiang Yuduo was, which actually meant that Jiang Yuduo was not with her, and that Jiang Yuduo made such a decision, he would definitely not simply find Sister Luo again, and Luo Yuduo was not with her. Sister also said that Jiang Yuduo had received a lot of treatment before, so that he was able to cope with many treatments.
Cheng Ke felt that Jiang Yuduo must have had the experience of being hospitalized, and this time, he chose to return to the hospital.
So his goal actually only needs to be in the city where Sister Luo is located. After Jiang Yuduo was rescued, he was the only one who stayed there, and there were also quite good hospitals in the area.
The reason why he still lists all the hospitals that can be found one by one is just to pass the time.
He needs to do something related to Jiang Yuduo in his free time and when he is emotionally disturbed.
The strawberry wine was almost fermented, and Huihui told him that it would be ready to drink after a while, but it would taste even better after two months.
He also went to dinner with Chen Qing twice, and took Miao to take a bath twice.
He also plans to collect rent with Chen Qing next week.
He needs to keep in touch with Jiang Yuduo, and let Jiang Yuduo appear in his life, his traces, his breath.
Jiang Yuduo was afraid that he would leave.
I am especially afraid that you will leave before I am well.
You can't wait to go.
It's ok.
And what Jiang Yuduo was afraid of, he was also afraid of.
He has grown up so much that he has never had such feelings for anyone.
The time and the depth have exceeded his own understanding of himself.
The interest in Jiang Yuduo stems from his specialness, from his character, from his magical thinking, and even from Quan Guo's body when he opens the door...
But after that.
Jiang Yuduo has no doubts about his seriousness, what he is afraid of is change.
Time is cruel to Jiang Yuduo.
Uneasy for him.
With the current him, he can't imagine that he will leave and disappear, but he is also afraid of time.
He was afraid that one day when Jiang Yu took it back, he would not be here.
For the first time, he had such great expectations and panic about his feelings, so he needed all traces of Jiang Yuduo's existence.
Even if he always felt that Chen Qing, a big IQ tax evader, would make him feel friendly.
"Why not," Chen Qing, who took him to collect rent for the third time, made a decision, "You can come and collect the rent next month."
"Huh?" Cheng Ke was stunned.
"You look like you are planning to continue the unfinished business of the third brother," Chen Qing said, "You have answered three calls when you came out this time. There are a lot of things in the store, and you still run away. Come here and collect rent with me."
Cheng Ke was a little embarrassed. If Chen Qing didn't say it, he didn't notice that he had already collected two months' rent.
"Collect a rent to pay back your career," he sighed, "Are your career requirements a little low?"
"Don't be stubborn," Chen Qing looked at him, "Just say whether you will take it or not."
"Yes." Cheng Ke said.
"That's incredible, in fact, I found that your rent collection is better than the third brother's collection," Chen Qing said, "Third brother watch it, it's Heng, you all know that he is the boss of this film, you look at it, If you can't figure it out, you might be involved in the underworld, which is very scary."
"...Do I look so scary?" Cheng Ke was stunned.
"It's much more terrifying than this," Chen Qing said. "Since the incident with Zhang Daqi, the brothers have all been convinced of you. If you have something to do now, I will follow you with a word."
"I'd better not dig the corner of the third brother." Cheng Ke said.
"It's not the same thing," Chen Qing waved his hand, sighed after thinking about it, "Fuck, he still has no news?"
"Well, no." Cheng Ke leaned against the wall next to him, feeling a little depressed.
For three months, Jiang Yuduo has not heard anything, and Sister Luo has not called him.
"It's coming to the third brother's birthday, Children's Day, you know?" Chen Qing said.
"I know." Cheng Ke said.
"He hasn't returned yet," Chen Qing thought for a while, "Let's celebrate his birthday?"
"...isn't it a bit silly?" Cheng Ke was stunned.
"What's so stupid," Chen Qing snorted, "then the groom can't come and the bride can hold the wedding herself!"
Cheng Ke choked and coughed for a while: "Don't worry, I plan to... just wait."
Jiang Yuduo didn't remember how many days he ran away, but in a few months, his birthday was approaching, and he wanted to work from early morning to midnight.
The strawberry wine is already very fragrant, clear red, and when placed in the sun, it will reflect swaying pale red ripples on the white wall.
Cheng Ke put the wine back in the refrigerator, took out his mobile phone and called Xu Ding.
"I'm going on a business trip for a few days," he glanced at the calendar, "to visit other themed restaurants."
"Where to?" Xu Ding asked.
"...Several places," Cheng Ke cleared his throat and randomly reported a few place names, "about a week."
Xu Ding was silent for a while and then smiled: "Okay, what about the store..."
"You don't need to worry about it, just these few days, I'll let Huihui keep an eye on her, she's quite capable." Cheng Ke said.
"That's fine," Xu Ding said, "I wish you... a smooth inspection."