When Chen Yuncheng woke up the next morning, he saw that Ning Junyan hadn't gotten up yet. He rarely saw Ning Junyan sleeping late, thinking that he drank too much last night.
He went out to buy breakfast for Ning Junyan and came back. He sat alone at the dining table for a while, thinking that he would not know how to face Ning Junyan later, so he just packed up and went out early.
Coincidentally, when Chen Yuncheng was going out, the couple who was looking at the shop that day called him, expressing their agreement to his rental conditions and willingness to rent the shop.
It took Chen Yuncheng a morning to handle the subletting of the shop, because he was only subletting, and he had to contact the landlord of the shop to sign a sublease contract.
Busy until noon, Chen Yuncheng finally got back the one-year rent he paid in advance.
After he received the money, he planned to transfer it to Ning Junyan to repay the debt together with the money he had previously returned. He sent a message to Ning Junyan asking for his account information, but Ning Junyan didn't say anything, and sent it to him quickly.
Chen Yuncheng stood on the side of the road and took a last look at the small shop where he lived and operated for two years. When he was about to turn to leave, he saw the little girl who was stealing at the intersection looking at him not far away.
"Come here," Chen Yuncheng bent down and waved to the little girl.
The little girl looked at him vigilantly, but came over obediently.
"Is your store closed?" Before Chen Yuncheng could speak, the little girl asked him first.
Chen Yuncheng said, "Yes, there will be no bread to sell to you in the future."
The expression on the little girl's face was a little indifferent, and when she heard Chen Yuncheng's words, she only made a faint "Oh".
Chen Yuncheng asked her, "What's your name?"
The little girl did not answer.
Chen Yuncheng asked patiently, "Do you have any family? Who asked you to come out and steal?"
Hearing the words, the little girl immediately took two steps back.
Chen Yuncheng said, "Don't be nervous, I just want to ask, is the person who asked you to steal something from your family?"
The little girl still didn't answer him.
Chen Yuncheng had no choice, so he took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to her.
The little girl looked at it for a long time and did not answer.
Chen Yuncheng put the money in her hand and whispered to her, "You secretly take it and use it secretly, buy yourself something to eat when you are hungry, don't tell others, you know?"
The little girl looked down at the money in her hand.
Chen Yuncheng added: "I know you are afraid so you dare not tell me, but if those people force you to come out and steal, you can go and tell the police." After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed to the intersection, "Look at the one who wears a hat and wears yellow. The man in the vest, he's a policeman."
The little girl followed him and turned to look.
Chen Yuncheng was referring to a traffic policeman who was directing traffic at the intersection.
"Don't be afraid, the police catch the bad guy, and no one can hurt you," Chen Yuncheng touched her head, just like she was touching her childhood.
The little girl took the money and turned away.
Chen Yuncheng looked at her thin back, sighed after a long time, took out her mobile phone and called Guan Anlin.
Guan Anlin recently found a job in a car repair shop. When Chen Yuncheng called him, he was busy and asked Chen Yuncheng to come over for lunch.
Chen Yuncheng went to the car repair shop where Guan Anlin worked and asked where Guan Anlin, a small worker at the door who was cleaning the car, was. The worker pointed to a black car inside.
Under the car lay a man working, only one pair of legs sticking out from under the car.
Chen Yuncheng walked over and kicked the leg that stretched out from under the car, and soon saw Guan Anlin slipping out from the bottom of the car, holding a wrench full of oil in his hand.
Guan Anlin was wearing the orange-yellow work uniform of a car repair shop, with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at Chen Yuncheng and said, "Two minutes." Then he got in again.
Chen Yuncheng finally waited for nearly fifteen minutes. Guan Anlin took off his uniform jacket and put on his own black cotton-padded jacket with orange work pants underneath, and went to lunch nearby with Chen Yuncheng.
Guan Anlin's hair was a bit longer than when he was first released from prison, but it was still short, and he could see his blue scalp.
Chen Yuncheng looked at his hair and suddenly remembered that he had been thinking about cutting his hair for a long time. He thought that if he cut short hair like Guan Anlin, Ning Junyan would not be able to grab his hair and kiss him like last night. .
Guan Anlin handed him the bowl and chopsticks and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"
Chen Yuncheng shook his head, "How is your work?"
"That's it," Guan Anlin said. "Otherwise, if you go to take out, you can't starve to death."
Chen Yuncheng asked, "What about the Chinese New Year? What are your plans?"
Guan Anlin stared at the table in a daze. He ordered three dishes. Now is the best time for business at noon. Not a single dish was brought up to them. He said, "I have ten days off, and I want to go home."
Unlike Chen Yuncheng, Guan Anlin has a family. He has parents in his home village and a sister who is in high school.
"I have a friend who opened a shop in the new trading market in the north of the city, and he wholesales tobacco, alcohol and beverages. He asked me to help him manage the shop. Are you interested, come back after the new year and do it with me?" Chen Yuncheng asked .
Guan Anlin looked at him, "Look at the store?"
Chen Yuncheng said: "It may be necessary to deliver goods to customers. The specific work arrangement can be discussed."
Guan Anlin did not answer.
Chen Yuncheng said: "No hurry, anyway, the store over there is not well decorated, you can go back for the New Year and think about it slowly."
The dishes they ordered finally came. The two of them sat on the side of the road with a small square table with two dishes and a bowl of soup on it.
Guan Anlin asked the boss to make rice directly.
Holding his rice bowl, he asked Chen Yuncheng, "I told you to come and live with me before, but you didn't plan to come?"
Chen Yuncheng gave a vague "um", "It's alright to live with a friend now."
"What is your friend doing?" Guan Anlin asked.
Chen Yuncheng replied, "Doctor."
Guan Anlin said: "The doctor is so rich now? Did you receive a lot of red envelopes?"
Chen Yuncheng looked up at him, "His family already has money, so don't be hostile to him."
Guan Anlin snorted disdainfully, "How could you know that kind of doctor whose family already has money? I haven't heard you mention it before."
Chen Yuncheng hesitated for a moment and said, "He is the same as Zhou Yan."
Guan Anlin didn't understand, and asked strangely, "What is the same as Zhou Yan?"
Chen Yuncheng said, "How I know Zhou Yan is how I know him."
Guan Anlin was stunned for a while. He heard Chen Yuncheng briefly talk about his childhood experiences. He didn't expect that other than Zhou Yan, other people would experience the same thing as Chen Yuncheng. He subconsciously asked, "Are you kidnapped?"
Chen Yuncheng nodded.
Guan Anlin didn't say anything else. He scooped a spoonful of chicken rice sprouts into the bowl, used chopsticks to make peace, and lowered his head to grab the rice. ."
"What's different?" Chen Yuncheng asked him.
Guan Anlin said: "It's different in your heart, just like Zhou Yan, it's always more important to you."
Chen Yuncheng didn't answer him.
After eating half a bowl of soup, Chen Yuncheng felt a little hot and unbuttoned a few buttons on his neckline.
Guan Anlin put down the bowl and stared at his neck in a daze.
Chen Yuncheng didn't notice it at first until Guan Anlin asked him, "Have you made a girlfriend?"
"What?" Chen Yuncheng was inexplicable.
Guan Anlin pointed at his neck.
Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and touched his neck, but he still didn't understand what Guan Anlin meant.
Guan Anlin said impatiently, "It wasn't a woman gnawing on your neck, could it be a mosquito? Are there still mosquitoes in these two days?"
Chen Yuncheng suddenly remembered Ning Junyan's deep kiss on his neck last night, his face flushed red, and he was at a loss to pull up his collar to cover it, but felt it was too unnatural.
Guan Anlin said, "Why are you blushing? If you have a girlfriend, you will have a girlfriend. You are about the same age."
"No," Chen Yuncheng denied without thinking.
Guan Anlin asked him, "What is that? Are you going to prostitute?"
Chen Yuncheng couldn't explain it to him, he could only say, "No."
Guan Anlin did not continue to ask questions. He took a sip of the soup from the bowl, disliked it a little indifferent, put the bowl down, and said, "I originally wanted to introduce my sister to you."
Chen Yuncheng said, "Are you crazy? How old is your sister!"
Guan Anlin's mood seemed to be a little depressed, "Yeah, it would be better if my sister was older."
After lunch, Guan Anlin rushed to pay the money.
When they separated, Guan Anlin asked Chen Yuncheng, "What are your plans for the New Year?" He knew that Chen Yuncheng had no family.
Chen Yuncheng said, "Let's see."
Guan Anlin asked him, "Would you like to go back to my hometown with me?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Meet my sister."
"Get out of your ass," Chen Yuncheng scolded, "If you don't go, go back yourself."
Guan Anlin was not angry, he waved at him, "I will contact you before I leave."
Chen Yuncheng replied: "Okay, you work hard."
The two separated at the intersection. Guan Anlin wore a strange outfit and walked slowly towards the repairing car.
Chen Yuncheng stood by the roadside for a while and decided to get a haircut.
He found a small barber shop on the side of the road. It only cost fifteen yuan to wash, cut, and blow. He said to the barber: "Cut it short."
The barber asked him, "How short?"
Chen Yuncheng remembered how short Guan Anlin could see his scalp, and said, "It's just as short as the length that your fingers can't grasp."
The barber glanced at him in the mirror, and asked curiously, "Are you afraid of getting your hair pulled in a fight?"
Chen Yuncheng said silently in his heart: I was afraid of being kissed by someone pulling my hair. But he looked in the mirror, smiled and nodded at the barber, "Yeah."
It was only after three o'clock in the afternoon after the haircut. Chen Yuncheng had been wandering outside for almost a day. He really had nowhere to go, so he took the subway back.
After he entered the door, he saw that there was no one in the living room, so he lightly walked to the door of Ning Junyan's room. Seeing that the door was hidden, he stretched out his hand and pushed open a slit to sneak a look inside. , and the sheets seem to have been changed.
"Find me?"
When Chen Yuncheng was about to turn around, a voice suddenly came from behind him. He was so frightened that he leaned against the wall, his heart beat violently, and then he saw Ning Junyan behind him.
Ning Junyan was wearing a white sweater and light brown casual trousers, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, looking quiet and relaxed. He put the coffee to his lips, took a sip, and kept staring at Chen Yuncheng.
Chen Yuncheng said, "What are you doing?"
Ning Junyan's eyes fell on the top of his head, "Have you cut your hair?"
When Chen Yuncheng heard the words, he raised his hand and touched it. The short hair that was tied to the hand was a soft scalp. He said "um", "Didn't you say it should be cut?"
Ning Junyan said blankly, "Well, it's very sexy."
Chen Yuncheng froze when he touched his hair.
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Ning Junyan: Why is my wife sexy