The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year. After midnight, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers could be heard from all directions. It was particularly lively and dense. The noise that was originally sparse now became overwhelming.
Zhou Ze blew on his nails. The noise outside had little to do with him. He had no home. Although he now had a "home" in name, he didn't want to go back.
Many people have had an idea when they are alive, which is what they would do if they could be reborn.
The passionate words are powerful and bold, and the marquis of that time is regarded as dirt.
But when you really come back from hell, you will suddenly realize that your previous pursuits, thoughts, and aspirations are just like the teacher asking in kindergarten: What do you want to do when you grow up
Then the children answered together: scientist, doctor, astronaut, soldier...
Dreams are always full.
The reality is not that bleak, but a person's enthusiasm is destined to be limited.
Sometimes, I can breathe, hear sounds, sit here and waste some time.
Perhaps this is what it means to truly live in peace and tranquility.
Xu Qinglang still slept in the store tonight, and Zhou Ze heard the sound of him closing the store door.
He said he had more than twenty houses, but Zhou Ze knew that his parents were in the store.
A family should be neat and tidy.
This year's Chinese New Year is naturally more important.
It started to rain outside, and moisture began to seep in, making people feel a little depressed.
Zhou Ze's cell phone rang. It was his wife calling.
"Hello." Zhou Ze answered the phone.
"Are you asleep?" Dr. Lin asked.
Zhou Ze thought this question was stupid.
Who will answer your call if I fall asleep
Could it be a dead person... Oh no, is it a dead ghost
No, there seems to be something wrong.
Zhou Ze leaned back slightly in his chair, and in his mind he saw Dr. Lin poking his chest with his finger and calling him, "You damned bastard..."
To be honest, this is the first time I feel something so dazzling.
Maybe it's because I'm too bored, or maybe I'm just idle.
Zhou Ze found that his thoughts were somewhat scattered.
I think a lot.
"No." Zhou Ze replied.
"Squeak..."
Doctor Lin pushed open the shop door and walked in. She was holding a red umbrella, wearing leather pants and a white sweater, with her hair draped over her shoulders.
Zhou Ze forgot to put down the phone for a moment.
This woman,
It’s really beautiful.
Especially her temperament, which always gives you a feeling that life would be just like the first time you met her, and in an instant, it pierces a man's heart.
"Are you afraid that I'll be lonely?" Zhou Ze stood up and poured a glass of water for Dr. Lin.
She is the hostess here.
Um,
To be precise, the money that Xu Le used to open this bookstore came from her family.
Dr. Lin took the water, shook his head and said nothing.
The two people are husband and wife, but in fact, they are like the most familiar strangers, in a more awkward position than best friends.
It is difficult to go further;
It's even harder to take a step back.
"Let's go out for a walk." Zhou Ze felt that the room was a bit stuffy, and he couldn't possibly invite Dr. Lin to his sleeping place on the second floor.
Even if Dr. Lin took the wrong medicine today and intended to feed the tiger with his own body, when he saw his freezer on the second floor, he would probably immediately dial the number of a familiar mental hospital and send himself in for transformation.
"It's raining." said Dr. Lin.
"Xiaoyu, it's okay." Zhou Ze waved his hand, relaxed.
… … …
“Hua La La La…”
The rain was coming down hard, and very heavily.
Zhou Ze, who hadn't even taken an umbrella before and was thinking of experiencing the precious spring rain, was almost soaked. Doctor Lin was still holding an umbrella and standing beside him. Zhou Ze rejected his suggestion to share an umbrella with him.
You have to pretend to be cool, even if it means crying.
Zhou Ze shivered after patting his wet hair. He was not afraid of the cold. In fact, he was quite resistant to cold. But the woman next to him was still shivering slightly even though she was holding an umbrella and was not getting wet.
The bus stop can block most of the rain.
But the cold wind this night is still unbridled.
Petty bourgeoisie,
Men and women coexist,
Wet body on rainy night,
The beauty is still pitiful,
This should have been a good opportunity for both parties to cultivate feelings, a good chance, and it was even possible that an accidental discharge of the gun and the mistake made in the flower field could lead to a hit in the end, but the two were speechless.
Zhou Ze lit a cigarette and Dr. Lin stood beside him.
One wants to escape, the other resists, so naturally they can't get along.
A forced melon, both the melon and the vine will feel awkward.
Zhou Ze felt a little resentful towards Xu Le in his heart. If that coward had forced himself on Xu Le after marriage, nothing would have happened now. Even if Dr. Lin thought she was a married woman or was pregnant with a child, she would probably be extremely beautiful and could even get some extra points.
If I were to do that, I would be able to go with the flow, and there would be no need to be in such a dilemma now.
Of course, this kind of complaint was unfair to Xu Le. If Zhou Ze had forced himself on her that night, would Dr. Lin have fought back and yelled "molestation"? And then called the police to take Zhou Ze to the police station? And charged him with rape
The rain is still falling,
Zhou Ze threw the cigarette butt on the ground.
"Did you drive here?"
"Take a taxi." Dr. Lin replied.
"I'll take you back."
"Um."
There is no need to dwell on how this seemingly silly and innocent act of walking on the street on a rainy night on New Year's Eve began.
At least, the two of them felt that it was most appropriate to end it at this time.
Zhou Ze and Dr. Lin hailed an online taxi and got in together.
A quarter of an hour later, they arrived. Zhou Ze got out of the car with Dr. Lin. The owner paid the bill and drove away.
Home was just upstairs, but Zhou Ze and Dr. Lin did not choose to go up directly.
This scene is a bit like a junior high school couple returning to the girl’s home at night, and then it’s time to say goodbye, but they are still lingering and loving each other.
But the atmosphere at this moment is not as strong as that of the green junior high school students. It is like a broth without salt and MSG. It has no taste when eaten, but it would be a pity to throw it away.
"Aren't you going up?" asked Dr. Lin.
"No, let's talk about it later. Our business will be settled soon."
Doctor Lin understood Zhou Ze's implication and said, "I'm sorry."
Zhou Ze smiled, then reached out his hand, intending to pat Dr. Lin on the shoulder, but after putting his hand on it, he suddenly felt impulsive and hugged the other person towards him.
Dr. Lin's body stiffened for a moment, but he did not resist.
The two of them got a little closer, but it wasn't a particularly intimate move. Compared to the status connection between the two, it could be said to be quite awkward.
She smelled very good. I don't know what kind of shower gel she used when she took a bath, but it smelled very good.
"I've always been curious about one thing. Is there someone else in your heart?" Zhou Ze added, "That someone else can refer to a man or a woman."
"Yes." Dr. Lin answered honestly and even without hesitation.
Before, her husband had always been timid, which made her feel bad.
Now, her husband seems to have become a different person, and she has been able to let go of some of her burdens.
"Oh." Zhou Ze responded and glanced up slightly, trying to see if there was any specific protective color appearing above his head.
Still a little lost,
There is no love.
I can't say I like it much.
Even the familiarity is barely there,
But no matter what, she was his woman in name, and in the end, he still got cheated on.
Well, as long as you are a man,
No,
As long as it is public,
It would probably not be a pleasant experience to encounter such a thing.
"I'm sorry." This was the second time he said sorry.
Zhou Ze loosened his hand and the two slowly separated.
"Saying sorry would be too formal." Zhou Ze sat down on the stone pillar next to him. The rain had subsided and there was still a small eaves here.
"I will give you another sum of money, and you can open another bookstore." After Dr. Lin finished speaking, he said, "I'm sorry."
Zhou Ze originally wanted to wave his hand magnanimously and say: I don’t want the money.
But think about your own freezer, think about your future life,
Zhou Ze suddenly felt that it was hard to say this.
just in case,
just in case,
What if this woman takes it seriously and thinks that giving her money is an insult to her, and then she really doesn't give me compensation
"Let's talk again in a few days." Zhou Ze shrugged. "How's that guy?"
"He is very handsome, in my opinion," Dr. Lin replied.
It's a man.
stamp,
Another knife,
If you are a woman, you can accept it better...
Zhou Ze felt that the intensity of photosynthesis above his head seemed to be stronger.
"There is no chance, right?" Zhou Ze asked a very stupid question, and regretted it right after he asked it, but he still comforted himself, I am asking this to poor Xu Le.
You have occupied someone's body, and now his wife is cheating on you. You have to help ask her why, right
Well, that's it.
"There is no chance." Doctor Lin answered quickly and confidently.
This woman is also a surgeon, and her speaking style is very straightforward, just like holding a scalpel, every stroke hits the key part without any hesitation.
Otherwise, it is the patient who suffers more, and the same seems to be true emotionally.
"Alright, alright. We can't compete. It's okay. We can all live our own lives. You can go back and deal with your parents well." Zhou Ze was a little annoyed.
Dr. Lin nodded, turned and walked into the corridor.
Zhou Ze stood up and prepared to take a taxi to leave, but at this moment, a strange phone call came in:
"Hello."
"Sir, I've got my car back."
"So smart?" Zhou Ze was a little surprised. He recognized that it was the voice of the previous driver.
"You left a bag in the back seat. I'll bring it back to you."
"Oh, thank you."
The car drove to the downstairs of the residential complex again, and the driver handed a women's bag out of the car window.
"Please order."
"good."
Zhou Ze didn't hesitate to open Dr. Lin's bag, which contained a mobile phone, a wallet, a data charging cable, and several packs of tissues.
Taking out his wallet, Zhou Ze was stunned when he opened it.
His eyes were fixed on the place where the photos were stored in the wallet.
There is a photo there.
The woman in the photo looked very young, even... immature, wearing an ill-fitting white coat.
As for the man on the girl's right, Zhou Ze felt a strange sense of familiarity.
I was stunned for a while.
Zhou Zecai recognized it.
Isn't this yourself
This is a cropped photo. It should be a group photo, but it was cropped into a photo of two people.
"Is there anything you need?" the driver urged.
"It's okay, thank you Master, you can go now."
The driver drove away.
Zhou Ze continued to hold the wallet and looked at it. He didn't even think about calling Dr. Lin to ask him to come down and get the bag.
Some memories that were not forgotten but not taken seriously began to emerge.
I vaguely remember,
Five or six years ago, I seemed to have led a group of students who were assigned to internship by the school. There was a girl whose surname seemed to be Lin, and she looked similar to the girl in the photo.
Girls change a lot when they grow up.
Zhou Ze showed a smile.
Dr. Lin was also so cute back then, but who would have thought that she would grow up to be so pretty five or six years later. I really didn't notice this girl's potential at all.
Moreover, at that time, I was very perfunctory about the hospital's request for me to supervise interns, and I simply used these students as "medical dogs" around me.
Zhou Ze shook the wallet in his hand.
"Damn it, you deserved it for being single even though you're almost thirty."
Surprisingly, this time, it wasn't Xu Le who was scolded.
He was scolding himself.
"Eye,
You are really blind..."
Zhou Ze opened his hands and stretched lazily.
Wearing a green hat on yourself,
It's still me.
Early morning after the rain, New Year's Day,
hey-hey,
Look up at the sky.
He patted his chest solemnly.
Zhou Ze paused.
Very seriously:
"Xu Le, you are really my good brother!
I will take care of your wife and children myself, so don’t worry about it.”