When the two finally separated, the snowstorm outside had stopped, and the air conditioner had also entered the set sleep state.
It was as if the whole world had stopped all the noise because of their kiss.
In the dark and narrow room, there was only the sound of their unsteady breathing.
The cold and hard floor made Zhang Man feel stiff and uncomfortable even through the blanket. If he slept here for one night, he would definitely get sick tomorrow.
"Hey, Li Wei, sleep with me, okay?"
Zhang Man grabbed the young man's jacket, put his head on his chest, and asked softly. As soon as she spoke, even she herself was startled.
- Her voice was much softer than usual, with some intimate coquettishness and close dependence.
The teenager leaned against the wall lazily, hugged her, shook his head, and a helpless smile in his voice: "Manman, sleep with you, I will open my eyes until dawn."
In fact, even if he slept on the ground, perhaps tonight, he would have to sleepless all night to calm his fiery heartbeat.
"I won't bother you, can't I be far away from you?"
Zhang Man was afraid that he would not agree, and immediately added, "I'm going to sleep with you anyway! If you don't sleep in the bed, I'll sleep with you on the floor."
I have to sleep with him...
After hearing her words, the boy laughed uncontrollably, and the slight vibration in his chest spread to her body through her skin against his.
Zhang Man became angry, raised his hand and pinched his arm: "Don't think about it, I just meant to sleep together, not referring to anything else."
The teenager coughed, with unspeakable joy in his voice: "Well, I didn't want to be crooked."
In the end, he couldn't resist her insistence and lay on the bed with her. The two were covered with the same quilt and slept on either side of the bed without disturbing each other. Zhang Man folded the blanket and placed it between the two of them, with a three-eighth line.
Prevent yourself from wanting to hug him to sleep.
"Good night, Manman."
The teenager raised his hand, turned off the only light in the room, and heard her breathing gradually become regular and smooth.
He opened his eyes and gradually adjusted to the darkness that struck him in an instant.
The darkness and silence that permeated his body were the same familiar ones, and he was used to them, because they came uninvited every night, day after day, year after year.
His eyes were clearly open, but he couldn't see anything, and the slight sense of powerlessness in his heart swept again.
However, in the next second, a warm little hand stretched out from the end of the 38th line and gropingly held his hand.
"Li Wei, I... I can't sleep, can we chat?"
"Um."
The boy curled the corners of his lips, closed his eyes, and gently squeezed the palm of her hand.
He thought that from now on, he would have a way to resist the darkness.
"What did my mother tell you just now?"
Zhang Man turned over and faced him, still curious.
The boy was quiet for a while, and after a while he replied calmly: "She said she knew a lot of people in society... If I do anything to you, she will let someone break my leg."
Zhang Man sucked in a breath of cold air. He didn't expect that Zhang Huifang's words were so ruthless, and then she couldn't help but feel a little funny. She was bragging. How could she know anyone in the society
She thought about the kiss just now.
"Then you still..."
The young man smiled playfully: "And... what?"
"… nothing."
The thin-skinned problem strikes again.
Zhang Man began to change the subject and asked cautiously, "Li Wei, has your mother contacted you recently?"
The teenager answered without hesitation this time, with a relaxed tone: "No, we haven't been in touch for a while. I've been very busy recently, and I guess Janet has lived a full life."
"Then... what about that friend of yours? The friend who discussed issues with you when I went to your house last time."
"You mean Nick? He also has his own business recently. He hasn't come to see me for a long time. What's wrong?"
"nothing."
Zhang Man didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would notice something, but listening to his reply, those delusions had not occurred for a long time.
Her restless heart relaxed a little.
It seemed that her previous inference was valid. After he was with her, his life was enriched, and the frequency of the disease was much reduced. She felt sweet in her heart. If this goes on, maybe the frequency of his disease will become lower and lower until he no longer has the disease.
When he no longer has delusional symptoms, she will choose whether to tell him or not.
By then, this incident should hit him a lot less, right
Zhang Man gradually fell into a deep sleep while thinking.
…
The biological clock caused by self-study every morning made Zhang Man open his eyes early in the morning.
Because the curtains were drawn last night, and the winter night was very long, the room was still dark when she opened her eyes, making it impossible to tell what time it was.
For a moment, Zhang Man thought it was her home in N city. On her own bed, she slowly turned over, but in the next second, she met her eyes.
The owner of those eyes was only two fingers away from her, and her breath could be heard.
The young man's face was in the dim room, so he couldn't see it very clearly, but when those eyes looked at her, it seemed like thousands of lights were lit up. He leaned over gently and kissed the corner of her lips. .
"Manman, good morning."
The soft and warm touch awakened Zhang Man's confusion in an instant. Her face flushed red, and she couldn't hold her breath.
He was so close to her that his breath brushed the pores on her face, making her itchy.
Zhang Man's memory began to recover, and his hands tightened on the quilt.
They slept together last night...
But she clearly remembered that she put a folded blanket in the middle as a thirty-eighth thread
Zhang Man tried to recall, yes, there was such a blanket at first, but later, she seemed to go over the blanket to hold his hand, and then... She looked at where she was lying now.
Well, it was her who crossed the line, and she was already lying on the other side of the line.
Zhang Man angrily stretched his arms around the boy beside him, and buried his head in his shoulder.
Since it's all out of bounds, it's no big deal for a hug in the morning.
Zhang Man began to regret it again, knowing that she would cross the line when she fell asleep, so she hugged him to sleep last night.
The boy's body is very refreshing, there is no sticky feeling at all, and his body is warm, his chest is hot, much warmer than hers, and on a low-temperature morning in winter, it is no different from a warm stove.
Zhang Man arched comfortably in his arms.
Her voice was still a little hoarse, and she couldn't open her mouth open all night, muttering softly.
"what time is it now?"
The young man's body trembled slightly when she hugged him. He was silent for a while before answering, his voice was surprisingly dry and dry, not the same as usual: "It's very early, it's past five o'clock in the morning, you can sleep a little longer, I just watched it, the snow has stopped, I should be able to go back today ."
Zhang Man was surprised that it was only after five o'clock, yet he got up so early.
"Li Wei, did you fall asleep last night?"
"Well, I slept well."
- In fact, he didn't fall asleep at all. He was in the dark, with his eyes open, watching her all night.
He sensed that her sleeping position was not very good, and from time to time he would stretch out the hand of the quilt, and he also heard a word or two of her sleepy babble from time to time.
He was simply reluctant to fall asleep, he wanted to hear her every breath, in the boundless darkness, to give him a real and incomparable feeling of being alive.
It's not that I didn't have sleeplessness until dawn, most of the time it was because some derivations were not clear, and I thought about it for a night.
But never like today.
My heart was so surging that it was hard to fall asleep, and I was worried that after I fell asleep, I opened my eyes and found that it was just a dream.
- He thought, he was afraid that he was in love with this girl.
Perhaps the boy's embrace was warmer than the quilt, Zhang Man's sleepiness surged again, and she planned to take a nap: "I want to hold you and sleep for a while, okay?"
"Um… "
The boy restrained and kissed her heart, reached out and patted her back, and said in a hoarse voice, "Go to sleep, I'll call you later."
Sixteen or seventeen year olds are the most energetic.
In fact, lying on the bed and being hugged so tightly by her, especially in the morning, he felt very uncomfortable, it was really restless and unbearable.
But this torment was completely defeated by the nightmare feet that hugged her.
…
When Zhang Man opened his eyes again, it was already bright. She was embarrassed to find herself hanging tightly around the boy like an octopus, with one leg draped around his waist.
She quickly took off her messy thigh and raised her face to look at him.
The boy closed his eyes and breathed quietly, as if sleeping.
The morning light showed a pink color through the tulle curtains embroidered with gaudy flowers, and hit half of his face with impunity. The light and shadow effect makes his face look well-defined, smooth browbones, stopped nose bridge... Every good-looking person has an excellent bone appearance.
She was fascinated, but found that the boy suddenly opened his eyes.
"Wake up? I just checked. There are buses going back to N city at noon and at night. Manman, when do you want to go back?"
"Noon, my mother should be waiting for me at home."
"Well... Manman, then we should get up, there are still two and a half hours before the departure."
…
After cleaning up briefly, they checked out and went downstairs for breakfast. Before checking out, the old man made a special trip to the room last night to check the contents on the bedside table.
The heavy snow in the sky stopped last night, and now it is a vast expanse of white. Z City after the blizzard is extraordinarily quiet, like the city of ice and snow in the animation, with silver-white streets, thick snow covers on the roofs of old houses, and sections of wires wrapped in ice and snow in the sky...
Everything calmly greets this gentle world.
The blizzard seems to have passed.
…
After a few hours' drive, they returned to N City.
Unlike City Z, City N is still snowing heavily at the moment. In the vast snow, the road was covered with thick ice, and every step was slippery, but Zhang Man was not worried at all—because the boy in front of her had been holding her hand.
There were very few pedestrians on the street. The two walked from the station to the downstairs of the unit, and only met a few people—one of them was a gray-haired grandmother who was holding a child of a few years old, coaxing her to sleep while hunching her back. Cover her from the wind and snow.
In the wind and snow, there is a different kind of warmth.
Zhang Man looked at them and sighed for a while, but for a moment she felt a little strange-the two seemed to be familiar to her.
But after the two walked into the building next door, she still didn't think of it.
Maybe I saw it in the community before I felt familiar.
Zhang Man shook his head, stopped thinking about it, took the boy's hand, and rambled: "Li Wei, I'm here, you can go back, remember to eat the cake when you go back, I'll let the people in the cake shop change it to deliver it to your house today. ."
"What do you call me?"
The boy was a little annoyed by her unconsciousness.
"-Boy friend."
Zhang Man lowered his head slightly, rubbed his forehead against his chest, and jumped out word by word.
"Boyfriend, I'm going up."
"Well, Manman, let's go."
He released her and pinched her face.
Zhang Man turned back and went upstairs three steps at a time. When he reached the second floor, his heart was still pounding. She was lying at the window on the second floor, leaned over and looked down, and found that the boy was still standing downstairs, looking up at her.
He was standing beside the green belt under the unit door, with a large flake of snow behind him. The evergreen shrubs in the community were now covered with gloomy white snow. The boy was dressed in gray and wore a black baseball cap. He had a warm smile on his clean face.
Snow fell on him, and she noticed that as he looked up, a playful snowflake fell on the tip of his nose.
Zhang Man's heartbeat became more and more disordered. She waved at him eagerly, ran down the stairs quickly, ran to his side, and grabbed his sleeve.
- The feeling of being in love is really amazing.
In her previous life and later, she was dragged by Chen Feier to the cinema to watch a youth literary film. The heroine in it stood at the corner of the stairs. When she was about to leave the hero, she stepped back step by step and said, "I I'm one step away from you, I'm two steps away from you..."
She still remembered that when she saw this, she couldn't help but complained to Chen Feier: "It's not that we will never see each other again, so why bother."
But when it was her turn, she realized that it was not that she missed because she couldn't see her, but that she had already started to miss before they were separated.
People who are in love are always so strange, they will meet again until the next day, but they can't bear to part each other.
She took the boy's arm, leaned in gently, and kissed his left cheek.
After Zhang Man kissed, he was a little embarrassed to look at him and lowered his head: "This time... I really went up?"
The boy's voice had a pleasant smile, he turned to hug her, and replied in a low voice: "Well, go up quickly."
In the vast snow, a young man in cold gray and black stood in the snow, staring at a certain window above the floor, and did not leave for a long time.
…
When Zhang Man returned home with a bright face, he realized that something was wrong.
Zhang Huifang was leaning against the corner of the dining table with her arms folded, looking at her calmly.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Zhang Man, I just saw it from the window. Your love affair is very hot."
She said, grinding her teeth a little. Even if the boy looks handsome, she looks good, but this feeling is still a little subtle.
After all, it was a Chinese cabbage that she had raised for sixteen or seven years.
Besides, no matter how handsome a pig is, it is also a pig.
Zhang Man was embarrassed when he heard the words.
Misstep, she should have expected, the unit door can be clearly seen under the living room window. She pretended to squat down to loosen her shoelaces, ignoring her.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Huifang continued to hit the nail on the head and gave no time for buffering: "Tell me, did you sleep last night? I let it go. If that kid really hits you, I'll break his leg."
Zhang Man was speechless: "Mom, what are you talking about, he is still a minor."
She realized that she had slipped her tongue: "You are so impure, we are all still underage, how can we do that kind of thing."
After she said it confidently, she suddenly thought of the lingering kisses one after another last night, and she felt a little guilty.
Not doing nothing.
She coughed to cover it up: "Well, not anyway... cough cough."
Seeing her like this, Zhang Huifang probably guessed seven or eight in her heart. Sitting on the sofa, she was quite earnest and earnest: "Zhang Man, I have always advocated that I have been to this village without this store, so don't miss it when you encounter a good one. , I still have to remind you that girls must protect themselves, there is no problem in falling in love, but before you reach adulthood, you must not break through the last line of defense."
"But don't be like your mother and me..."
Zhang Man's nerves jumped, and she actually brought up her past.
But Zhang Huifang obviously realized it, and quickly changed the subject: "Manman, yesterday, your Uncle Xu... proposed to me."
Zhang Man was a little surprised: "So fast?"
It had been less than a month since the two of them were together again, and she thought that the two would have to get along for half a year anyway.
"Well, Manman, I haven't... promised, I want to ask your opinion."
Speaking of her own affairs, Zhang Huifang was not so straightforward. She walked to the sofa and sat down, holding a new scarf-style woolen fabric in her hand.
"Mom, you don't have to worry about me, you can do it as you see fit. Do you think you are happy with Uncle Xu?"
Zhang Huifang began to gag again, waving her hand pretending to be indifferent: "I'm at this age, what happiness is not happy, I just think he's okay, can make do with live together."
Zhang Man didn't let her pass easily this time, and sat down beside her with a serious expression: "Don't say that there are some things, if you don't say anything, just nod your head. I'll ask again, are you with him? Are you happy together?"
Zhang Huifang was startled, put down the messy woven scarf in her hand, and nodded her head almost invisible for a long time.
Zhang Man breathed a sigh of relief: "Then marry, Mom, I'll be your bridesmaid then."
As long as she feels happy.
Zhang Man thought about the past that she had just said and didn't talk about. She thought that it might have something to do with her biological father.
She originally wanted to ask a few more questions, but she swallowed the words.
If Zhang Huifang didn't want to say it, it would be useless to ask her. It was like that in her previous life. She didn't know who her biological father was until she was in her thirties.
Everyone has the deepest, unspeakable pain in their hearts. In life, many things are not necessarily to be relieved, perhaps buried deep in the heart, no longer recalling, it is not a good choice.
…
The violent snowstorm continued until midnight.
That night, Zhang Man suddenly woke up from her dream. She knew where the familiar feeling came from when she saw the old grandmother today.
In the past life in their community, during this time, a very terrible thing happened. The child of a family in the next unit was taken away by traffickers.
It was the grandmother who took her granddaughter out to buy groceries, put her granddaughter in the stroller, and was carried away without paying attention.
Zhang Man couldn't remember the specific time and place, but only vaguely remembered that it seemed to be in the winter of this year.
Why is it still impressive after so many years
Because the old grandmother was hit hard after that, she dangled around the gate of the community with pictures of her children every day, and asked if anyone had seen their family.
At that time, N City TV also reported the incident.
Zhang Man remembers that after she transferred to H City, she heard Zhang Huifang mention this. I heard that the gang of human traffickers fell behind, but the granddaughter of the grandmother fell ill and died in the middle of the business after several years of business.
Truly a tragedy.
Zhang Man remembered this, and suddenly couldn't fall asleep. At least today she saw the old grandmother. The child in her arms should be the child who was abducted and sold in a previous life.
…
Early the next morning, Zhang Man was waiting downstairs at the next door.
This happened this winter, and she still remembers the heart-wrenching cries downstairs on the day that family lost their child, and the white background at that time.
It's winter, that is, not far from now, maybe today or tomorrow.
Zhang Man didn't know the house number of the old grandmother's house, so he could only wait. Fortunately, the snow had stopped outside, and it wasn't too cold.
About an hour later, Zhang Man waited for a familiar figure.
The old grandmother came out hunched over with a reusable bag in her hand, probably going to the vegetable market outside the community to buy vegetables.
Zhang Man had already thought of his words, stopped her, and smiled sweetly: "Hello, grandma, I'm a student volunteer in our community. During this time, there have been several cases of missing children in N city, and human traffickers are rampant. I hope everyone Families with children should pay attention, and be sure to look after their own children!"
The old grandmother was stunned for a while, and replied with a long smile: "Thank you, little classmate, I must be optimistic about my family. These kidnappers are not human, and they are hundreds of times worse than the worst evil spirits!"
Zhang Man was not at ease, and asked again: "Grandma, you must pay attention, it is this winter, you must be careful. Be careful not to put her on the stroller alone, it is easy to be carried away."
"Well, I will, little classmate. It's such a cold day, thank you for your hard work! I must be optimistic about my baby all the time, don't worry, nothing will go wrong."
Zhang Man was relieved.
She thought that she not only hoped that the people she loved would be safe, but since she knew that some tragedies would happen, she must try her best to stop them.
Children are unique to every family, and no family can withstand such a big blow.