Shen Yiyou made a temporary trip to the capital to visit a cutting-edge artist who has risen to fame in recent years.
The other party has been in contact with Shen Yiyou for a long time, but he has never met him. Shen Yiyou knew that he was just transiting from the capital this time, and after staying for one night, he tried to make an invitation, but the other party readily agreed, and the two met in a certain coffee shop in the urban area.
Shen Yiyou wanted to invite the other party's installation to participate in the exhibition. After meeting, the two chatted happily, but until the end, the other party did not give Shen Yiyou a definite answer.
After sending the other party to the car, Shen Yiyou walked on the road alone for a while.
The summer heat in August is very heavy, and the mosquitoes flying in the halo of the street lamps are like sparks rising from the glowing charcoal cakes. The road is too hot for people to stand for a long time.
Shen Yiyou is afraid of the cold as well as the heat, but he somehow doesn't want to take a taxi or go to the hotel, he just wants to go for a walk alone.
The co-curator Robbins sent him a message, asking him how the discussion went. Shen Yiyou thought about it and replied, "He hasn't decided."
He turned a corner, waited for the traffic light to turn from red to green with a few middle school students, and then walked a short distance, and suddenly saw the round marble fountain pool and the grand entrance of the villa complex across the road.
Shen Yiyou felt a little familiar, and looked at it for a while, and was suddenly surprised that this was the place where his parents lived.
It was a place where he hadn't lived for a long time and didn't have many feelings, but he used to come here often.
Shen Yiyou always went in and out by car, and never carefully observed the nearby scenery, so he didn't recognize it for a while.
From birth, Shen Yiyou was taken care of by his grandmother and spent time in the south. At the age of seven, he came to the capital to attend elementary school and lived in the dormitory of his mother's school.
Parents are very busy and don't have much time to take care of him. They don't see anyone for three days, but at the same time they require him to be excellent.
Shen Yiyou did not have a happy childhood, nor did he experience a rebellious period. Looking back at his school days, the most surviving memory is traveling through the city with the company of the nanny who often rotates, going to different schools or teachers' homes, learning different things and taking different exams. try.
Before the high school went to England, the decoration of the villa was completed, and when Shen Yiyou was away, his grandmother came. Grandma planned to live for a while before returning to the south, but died in a car accident while going out for a walk.
Shen Yiyou hurried back from London, walked into this villa that was unfamiliar to him, in the magnificent hall where the sofa and coffee table were removed, he saw the person in white filial robe sitting next to his grandmother's ice coffin with a blank expression Mother.
Before she died, grandma grabbed the nurse's hand and said that she could only enter the funeral home when Yiyu arrived, so everyone was waiting for him.
"You are finally here," his mother said to him, "Go and kowtow first."
That day was as hot as today, Shen Yiyou put on white linen clothes, knelt down in front of the coffin and kowtowed. He didn't cry at that time. One night after going back to school, Shen Yiyou lay on the bed, clutching the purse his grandmother gave him, and shed tears in a daze.
Grandma left, and he was left alone. Shen Yiyou thought when she was crying.
But when he thought about it again, he was actually the only one left.
During the three years of his relationship with Li Shu, he had moments when he thought he was being loved.
When Li Shu knocked on the door of Shen Yiyou's hotel apartment with a luggage bag in the morning, and Shen Yiyou learned that he had come from San Francisco, Shen Yiyou fancied that she was loved.
When they kissed and made love for the first time, Li Shu hugged Shen Yiyou tightly from behind, Shen Yiyou thought that he had found a lover, and Li Shu would make him no longer lonely.
They will always, always be in love and always be together.
Shen Yiyou made a failed attempt and tasted a lot of hardships that he had never tasted before. After giving up the struggle of getting what he wanted, he began to work hard to correct himself and live a more normal life without Li Shu.
He stood opposite the neighborhood for a while, thinking of his grandmother's naive wish for him and his mother to build a closer relationship, he forced himself to take out his phone and send a text message to his mother.
He wrote to his mother, "I'm on a business trip to the capital today, and I'm going back to City S tomorrow."
After waiting for ten minutes, he didn't receive a reply. An empty taxi happened to pass by him, and he waved to stop it.
There was some traffic jam on the way back to the hotel. Shen Yiyou was thinking about Li Shu asking him to find another purse in his mind. After calculating his August schedule for a long time, he felt that he could spare three days by putting together things together, so he sent Li Shu a received a text message and asked, "When will it be convenient for me to find my purse?"
Because Li Shu should have an inconvenient time for Shen Yiyou to appear now.
Thinking of Li Shu and his new relationship now, Shen Yiyou didn't seem so uncomfortable anymore.
Maybe it's because no matter how hard he accepts it, he can't change the result, and the fact that Li Shu is willing to compromise for others.
The car stopped at the entrance of the hotel, Shen Yiyou just got out of the car, the phone rang, and Li Shu called him.
Shen Yiyou picked it up, Li Shu asked him: "When do you want to come?"
"When it's convenient for you," Shen Yiyou said while walking in, "I'm not sure yet."
When hearing Li Shu's voice, Shen Yiyou suddenly felt that he might be completely relieved. Because although the bitterness is still there, it seems that there is only bitterness left, and there is no longer irrepressible bitterness and boundless jealousy.
Shen Yiyou didn't wait for Li Shu to speak, and joked with him again: "But I can only stay for one day at most, I may have to stay at your house all night."
Li Shu was silent for a while, and said, "You might not be able to find that house all night."
Shen Yiyou's heart sank, and she wanted to ask him "what should I do?", but felt that Li Shu had no obligation to advise him, and reminding him to look for it before selling the house was already an extra privilege.
He walked to the elevator absent-mindedly, raised his hand and pressed it up, and heard Li Shu say, "Are you sure you can only stay for one day?"
Shen Yiyou froze for a moment, always felt that something was wrong, the voice in the phone seemed to have a strange accent. He thought for a few seconds, then turned around slowly, and found a man in a white T-shirt wearing a wireless headset, with a mobile phone in his hand facing away from him, as if he was also waiting for the elevator.
The man was wearing a smart watch, and the strap was a gift from him.
"Turn back." Shen Yiyou couldn't tell whether he was speaking to the phone or to the person whose back was to him.
The man in the white T-shirt seemed to be taken aback, and turned around.
When their eyes met, Shen Yiyou felt a slight but unignorable pain.
Li Shu's T-shirt, Shen Yiyou saw him wear it several times, his pants and shoes are also old, his hair is a little shorter, maybe he just got a haircut, and the frame was changed, but it's not much different from before, it's all simple Unfashionable black frame.
Li Shu was much calmer than Shen Yiyou, slowly took off an earphone, lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Yiyou quietly, after a few seconds, he asked, "Are you here on a business trip?"
Before Shen Yiyou could answer, the elevator's up indicator light flickered, and the door opened. Li Shu took a step forward, blocking the door with his hand, and looked back at Shen Yiyou: "Let's go upstairs first."
Shen Yiyou walked in and stood in the corner, Li Shu stood politely on the other side of the elevator, the two could not be farther apart. But Li Shu is very tall, and he used to stand not so far from Shen Yiyou, so Shen Yiyou couldn't ignore his existence.
Li Shu swiped his card and pressed his floor, and asked Shen Yiyou, "Which floor are you on?"
Shen Yiyou couldn't remember clearly, so he took out the room card and looked at the buttons, and then said: "Same as you."
Li Shu didn't look at him anymore, Shen Yiyou lowered his head, staring at Li Shu's wrist still wearing the watch strap he gave him, thinking in his heart, Li Shu is really not particular.
It seems that whatever is given to him, he will use it immediately and become a part of his daily life, and he will not change it until it breaks.
In fact, you may not even remember where it came from.