After Lu Chu's parents passed away, their house was left unused, and they only cleaned it occasionally.
Lu Chu still lives in his original room.
"No one has lived in this room for a long time," Lu Chu said to the man, "I'll clean it up in a while, and you can stay for one night first."
"I sleep on the sofa."
Lu Chu turned his ear to the direction of the man's voice, covered his dull eyes with lowered eyelashes, shook his head and said with a smile, "How about that? You are a guest, so I invited you in."
The man didn't speak. Many times, Lu Chu felt that he was much quieter than Carrot.
Lu Chu broke the silence and said with a smile: "Of course, if you don't mind, you can also share a room with me."
"You are very unguarded." The two of them were so strangers that they didn't even remember each other's names.
Lu Chu shook his head with a smile, fumbled to open the closet, took out a quilt from it, and said, "If you want to do anything to me, I have no room to resist. Since you are allowed in, why bother?" , Let there be a wall between you and me. If it’s just for psychological comfort, I shouldn’t have talked to you in the first place, should I?”
The man has never met someone like Lu Chu, who has no desires, no desires, no fear, but lives a good life.
"I watched you secretly for many days."
Lu Chu was surprised, he didn't expect a man to admit that he was following him so directly, he couldn't help but wondered: "Huh?"
The man's words seemed to be unfinished, and he had nothing to say, but he didn't say anything after that, but took the quilt in Lu Chu's hand, turned around and went to the living room. Putting the quilt on the sofa casually, he said to Lu Chu who followed him, "Rest."
Then he lay down.
Lu Chu froze in place, and said after a while: "Good night, if you feel cold at night, remember to tell me."
"Um."
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The next day, Lu Chu got up very early, and he got out of bed lightly, only to find that the man had already woken up.
Lu Chudao: "It's so early." He still doesn't know what to call a man, it's really strange to call him "7".
"Ah, you too."
Lu Chu made breakfast, the two of them ate some, and the man went out. Lu Chu didn't ask him what he was going to do, but went back to his room.
His job is an online psychological counselor.
This profession is very peculiar, and it fits his situation very well. He has been sensitive to emotions since he was a child, and he is also very good at how to calm and clear other people's emotions. This ability is like his blindness, innate. After several studies and examinations, he won the qualification certificate of an online psychological counselor.
Although this town is not big, it is not so small that everyone can know Lu Chu. The fact that he was blind was known to many people, and most people were curious about it, but more of it was regarded as an anecdote, and it passed away after the amazed conversation, and life continued on.
He doesn't mind being treated as a heretic by others.
This job is undoubtedly very suitable for him. It was introduced to him by an elderly gentleman downstairs in the community.
The content of the work is very simple for Lu Chu. He only needs to log in to the corresponding website at the designated time and wait for people with psychological and emotional problems to call for consultation. On weekdays, most of the consultations are about various emotional problems such as "I don't pass the exam and I feel hopeless in life", "Does my boyfriend not love me anymore", "I suspect my husband has another woman", etc. Today, I guess is also like this.
Lu Chu sits in front of the computer, and when no one comes in for consultation, he will do some manual work according to his feeling—either carving or making models. In the days when he can't see it, touching the world makes him feel extremely at ease.
"Drip—You have a counselor looking for help."
Lu Chu put down the sailboat model in his hand, touched the keyboard skillfully, and pressed the Enter key.
"Hi, hello."
"Hi, hello, is this a counselor?"
Lu Chu's voice was extremely gentle, which made people feel extremely at ease. He said softly, "Well, I am."
"That's right, I have encountered some things recently, and I feel very depressed..."
…
After Lu Chu's morning working hours ended, the strange man still didn't come back.
Even so, he still made lunch for two, and of course he didn't forget the radish meal. It's really been a long time since I felt this way. He is obviously a taciturn and strange man, but he actually gave himself the illusion that someone is with him.
Later, when the man came back, Lu Chu helped him heat up the meal.
Every time the two were relatively silent, Lu Chu always wanted to say something. He suddenly remembered that the man was not a local, and he didn't bring any luggage, so he probably lacked a lot of daily necessities, so he asked, "Do you need anything?"
The man said: "No need."
Lu Chu chuckled: "I think you may need some clothes, or you won't have time to change them."
The man was silent for a moment, and then said: "Trouble."
There was no work schedule for Lu Chu in the afternoon, so he took the radish and went out with the man.
The clothing store that Lu Chu often goes to is not far from the neighborhood where he lives. The boss there is already very familiar with him. When he saw him from a long distance, he shouted, "Xiao Lu, do you want to buy clothes?"
Luobo was also very familiar with the boss, and when he heard his call, he yelled twice before Lu Chu.
Lu Chu smiled and said, "Take my cousin to see."
The boss asked in surprise, "Cousin?"
"Well, distant cousin, not a local."
"Not a local?" The boss seemed to be interested, "I have never seen a foreigner in all these years hahaha, our town is remote, surrounded by mountains, basically self-sufficient, and rarely see other places Come here!"
The geographical location of the town is one of the reasons for their leisurely life. Apart from the tower, although there are no other tall buildings in the city center, it is still very lively and prosperous. People in the city can see that the suburbs in the distance are surrounded by high mountains. There should be mountains on the other side of the mountain. No one thought about leaving the city. Everyone seemed to have made an agreement. No one would go to the mountains.
The boss was full of enthusiasm, but the man really didn't talk much. After a few words, the boss turned around and asked Lu Chu what kind of clothes he was going to buy.
Lu Chu felt that the man was not unwilling to talk, but that he hadn't talked to anyone for a long time, so he didn't know what to say.
He asked the man's size, and asked the boss to try on a few. During the men's fitting process, Lu Chu heard the clerk keep praising him as a hanger who looks good in everything and looks good. Lu Chu didn't pay much attention to the man's appearance, he couldn't see whether he was ugly or beautiful. As for admiration, he only thought it was a professional habit of shop assistants. Everyone said he looked good-looking, and he had been praised like this countless times.
After choosing the clothes, Lu Chu chatted with the boss for a while, and the two went home.
Because of work, Lu Chu met some people who had consulted him about relationship issues, and one of them was a high school girl. Everyone in Lu Chu's address book has a different ringtone reminder. He just sat on the sofa, smoothed the fur of the radish, and was about to cook when he received a call from this girl.
Thinking that the girl had encountered difficulties in life again, he pressed the answer button, and asked in a soft voice habitually: "Hey, what's the matter..."
Before Lu Chu finished speaking, he heard the sudden collapse and cried out: "Mr. Lu... um... is it Mr. Lu?! Help me! Help me! I don't know what's wrong with me, Suddenly it was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything! I’m the only one in the house, and now I’m really in a mess, I’m so scared, am I terminally ill? I just couldn’t even get out of the house when I was groping, and now I’m hurting so much It hurts... please... please help me!"
After hearing her hurried words, Lu Chu frowned. This... what does it mean
"Don't worry," Lu Chu's voice became gentler, soothing her softly, "Listen to me, take it easy now, don't panic, tell me what happened, can you?"
"I... I don't know either," a choked voice came from over there, "Sudden... suddenly I couldn't see anything, just like the sky turned dark all of a sudden, can people still see? I never I have never heard of it, I must have some terminal illness... What should I do?"
Lu Chu was silent for a moment when he heard the words, and then slowly said: "People can be invisible."
He used to be the only one who knew what it was like.
"Doctor Lu, what did you say, Doctor Lu?"
"I say… "
Lu Chu just said two words, and then he heard crying again: "Doctor Lu, are you still there, Doctor Lu...why can't I hear anything?"
This time Lu Chu was even more surprised, he hurriedly comforted the girl: "Listen to me, don't be in a hurry—"
"I can't hear anything! Can't hear! I broke the glass, why is there no sound? I have the TV on, why is it also muted... The world is so quiet - so quiet, why?!"
"Drip-drip-"
The phone over there was suddenly hung up, leaving Lu Chu stunned in place, unable to react to what happened, and could only hold the phone in his hand.
At this time, the man came over.
"It's already started."