Chen Yuncheng wanted to chat with Ning Junyan, but ended up chatting with himself.
Until he turned off the light and lay on the bed in the guest room, Chen Yuncheng still couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He put his hands behind his head and wondered if Ning Junyan had gotten into the horns. Perhaps the experience of being together when they were children was too precious for them, or perhaps the separation was too sudden and unacceptable, so Ning Junyan still couldn't let it go after so many years.
Chen Yuncheng couldn't quite figure it out. The relationship between people was too complicated. Sometimes he couldn't understand what he was thinking. It was too difficult to figure out what kind of mentality Ning Junyan had.
Because he slept too late at night, Chen Yuncheng woke up a little later the next morning than yesterday.
After he changed his clothes and came out of the room, he heard noises from the kitchen and walked over to see Ning Junyan frying eggs.
Ning Junyan wrapped an apron over the sweater, held a spatula in his hand, and stared at the fried egg in the pan with a serious expression, ready to turn it over.
Hearing Chen Yuncheng's footsteps, Ning Junyan turned his head and said to him, "Wait for me."
Chen Yuncheng said softly, "Huh?"
Ning Junyan waited until the eggs were almost fried, turned off the heat, put down the spatula, went to the bathroom with Chen Yuncheng, helped him twist the hot towel and handed it to him, and then went back to the kitchen to continue preparing breakfast.
The breakfast on the table was quite simple. Ning Junyan fried eggs, heated milk, baked a few slices of bread that he bought from the supermarket last night, and added a small plate of jam.
Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan sat down face to face.
Ning Junyan said, "Are you used to eating these?"
Chen Yuncheng nodded.
Ning Junyan said, "If you're not used to it, I can buy you steamed buns, or cook porridge or noodles for you."
Chen Yuncheng said quickly: "I'm used to it, I can eat anything."
Ning Junyan's tone was very gentle, "Then eat instead."
Chen Yuncheng grabbed a piece of bread with his hand and gnawed it, not knowing what to say.
After breakfast, Chen Yuncheng watched Ning Junyan clean up the table, and took the initiative to get up to help him clean up. He insisted on taking the bowl to the kitchen and washed it with gloves.
When he came out, Ning Junyan picked up a key and an access card, put it on the dining table, and said, "This is the key to the house."
"Huh?" Chen Yuncheng didn't reach for it.
Ning Junyan was about to go out. He picked up his jacket and put it on, and said to Chen Yuncheng, "I'm on duty tonight."
Chen Yuncheng suddenly realized that Ning Junyan was a doctor, and he would often work night shifts, which meant that he would live in Ning Junyan's house alone tonight.
"Will it be inconvenient?" Chen Yuncheng asked subconsciously.
Ning Junyan said, "What's the inconvenience?"
The owner was not at home, Chen Yuncheng thought about it, but didn't say it.
Ning Junyan picked up the key on the dining table, grabbed Chen Yuncheng's wrist, put it in his hand, and said, "Take off the gauze to have a look at night, and call me if you think it's still inconvenient."
Chen Yuncheng looked down at his hand, "It should be fine." After speaking, he couldn't help but say, "I call you and you won't come back, right?"
Ning Junyan told him, "You can come to the hospital, it's not far from the hospital."
Chen Yuncheng raised his head and smiled at him, "It'll be fine."
In the morning, Chen Yuncheng went back to the store first, and he made an appointment with the supplier to count the returns.
The supplier drove a van over, and today even the boss came in person. The boss is a middle-aged man. He is sitting in Chen Yuncheng's store smoking a cigarette, chatting with Chen Yuncheng while watching the inventory.
The boss said that if it weren't for Chen Yuncheng's good people, and everyone's business has been refreshing in the past two years, he would not let people drive to pick up the goods.
Chen Yuncheng stood beside a small worker and watched him take notes while taking inventory. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Sun."
Boss Sun waved his hand and asked Chen Yuncheng, "What are your plans in the future?"
Chen Yuncheng shook his head, "I haven't decided yet. Do you have a suitable job to introduce to me?"
Boss Sun seemed to suddenly remember something. He put one arm on the counter and said, "I have a cousin who watches farmhouses at home. He has only one daughter. He wants to find a son-in-law who will come to the house and help him manage the farmhouse business in the future."
Chen Yuncheng looked at him, "Do you think I'm suitable?"
Boss Sun said: "I think you are suitable. You don't think there is anything wrong with the son-in-law. My cousin and niece are not too old. You two get married and have two more children, one with your surname and the other with her surname. I The business of my cousin's farmhouse is also very good, anyway, there is only one daughter, and it will be yours in the future."
Chen Yuncheng smiled and shook his head.
Boss Sun asked him, "Why not? Do you have a girlfriend?"
Chen Yuncheng still shook his head.
Boss Sun said, "That's it. You always want to find a girlfriend to marry. If you go to see my niece, maybe you will be satisfied?"
Chen Yuncheng heard the words and said, "I'm not ready to get married yet."
"What's there to prepare for?" Boss Sun smoked a cigarette to the end. "The farmhouse is waiting for you to check in. What do you need to prepare? Prepare yourself mentally? A man in his 30s should be realistic. actual."
Chen Yuncheng just smiled at him.
After counting the goods, when Boss Sun left with the car, he said to Chen Yuncheng, "I know that you are good looking, and it is normal for you to think more, but at this age, you can really think about it, how can so many Bai Fumei look like a poor boy? ?"
Chen Yuncheng put one hand on the side of the car window and smiled at Boss Sun: "Brother Sun, walk slowly."
Boss Sun said, "Call me when you figure it out."
Chen Yuncheng nodded, "No problem."
He took two steps back and watched the car leave, feeling a little dazed. When Boss Sun mentioned Bai Fumei just now, he instantly thought of Ning Junyan, and then felt embarrassed for his own thoughts, raised his hand and dialed it. Untreated hair.
In the afternoon, Chen Yuncheng also packed up his personal belongings and put them in a suitcase, intending to take them to Ning Junyan's side temporarily and find a suitable place to live later.
When he came out of the store, put the box on the side, turned around and closed the shutter door, he felt like someone was looking at him across the street, he looked back and no one was looking at him, so he locked Go to the subway station.
In the evening, Chen Yuncheng ate very simply, went straight to the hospital for a quick meal, and then planned to visit Zhou Yan's children.
He bought some snacks and milk to bring to Gu Yaojia.
Gu Yaojia's mood had calmed down, she sat on the edge of the hospital bed with Chen Yuncheng, and said, "The doctor said that it is still under observation, and there is no way to be discharged in a short time."
Since Zhou Yan disappeared, Gu Yaojia has been unable to leave the hospital alone. She can only take a bath and wash her hair in the bathroom of the ward with hot water in a basin. It takes a long time to change her clothes, learning from other long-term hospitalized patients. For family members, change and wash underwear directly to dry in the stairwell of the hospital.
A girl who was still so young, this kind of life was too hard for her.
Gu Yaojia looked at Chen Yuncheng and suddenly said, "Brother Cheng, thank you for coming to see me. Today is my twentieth birthday."
Chen Yuncheng was stunned for a moment, "Is it today? Why didn't you tell me earlier, I didn't even buy a gift."
Gu Yaojia smiled, "It's nothing, it's good for you to come and see us."
Chen Yuncheng asked her, "Would you like to go back and have a rest? I'm here today to help you watch the child?"
Gu Yaojia shook her head, "No, I'm used to it." She was silent for a while and asked, "Brother Cheng, do you think I can wait until Zhou Yan comes back?"
"What's wrong?" Chen Yuncheng wondered why she suddenly said such a thing.
Gu Yaojia glanced outside the door, bent down and approached Chen Yuncheng's ear, and said in a low voice, "The police came to me twice today, and the family of the child in the hospital bed in the corridor outside the door came to a man today. I always think he is spying on us. Brother Cheng, how much trouble Zhou Yan has caused, is there anything else you are hiding from me?"
Chen Yuncheng frowned slightly. He glanced at the door subconsciously. From here, he couldn't see the hospital bed in the corridor outside. He said to Gu Yaojia, "It's okay, don't worry too much."
Coming out of the ward, Chen Yuncheng saw the hospital bed next to the door. There was a little girl lying on the bed. Her mother was sitting beside the bed chatting with her, and there was a man beside the bed. It looked like they were a family. But the man and the little girl never communicated, and when they saw Chen Yuncheng come out, they looked up at him.
When Chen Yuncheng was about to reach the elevator door, his phone suddenly rang. He stopped, took the phone out of his jacket pocket, and saw that it was Ning Junyan's call.
At the same time as the phone was connected, the elevator door in front also opened. Because it was an upward elevator, Chen Yuncheng was not in a hurry, but stood there and whispered to Ning Junyan, "Hello?"
Ning Junyan asked him, "Have you eaten yet?"
Chen Yuncheng didn't answer. He saw a man standing in the elevator, wearing a mask and hat covering most of his face, but Chen Yuncheng was too familiar with him. Know that he is Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan also saw Chen Yuncheng. He originally wanted to come out, but he panicked instantly and hurriedly pressed the elevator's close button with his hand.
Chen Yuncheng strode over, and Ning Junyan's voice came over the phone: "Why don't you speak?"
"I'll tell you later," Chen Yuncheng hung up the phone and walked quickly to the front of the elevator, the elevator door was already closed, and the elevator continued to go upstairs.