Through the contact with Apple's assistant, Xu Tingsheng found Apple by the West Lake in the early morning.
Xu Tingsheng followed him to observe for a while, and what he saw was a state of loneliness and numbness, his movements were slow, and his footsteps were always dragging. When the men who borrowed umbrellas stepped forward, as long as they persisted a little, they would see Apple's overreacting , as if the other party came to hurt her.
Xu Tingsheng held up an umbrella for her by the West Lake.
Then, he waved to the umbrella owner who was still in the distance with a perplexed expression. "Thank you buddy, I won't be polite, anyway, you have a car." Xu Tingsheng shook the umbrella in his hand and shouted.
The man raised his hand helplessly, telling Xu Tingsheng to get out of here.
Apple finally lifted his face from Xu Tingsheng's arms.
"What's wrong? He's..." she asked.
"The new Lei Feng under the Lei Feng Pagoda, he is a good man. Because you hug me, I won an umbrella." Xu Tingsheng twisted Apple's sunken cheeks, smiled and said: "Let me take a good look, how thin you are. ? Is the company asking to lose weight?"
Apple touched his face, rested his head on Xu Tingsheng's chest, smiled awkwardly and shook his head.
"No matter what the reason for losing weight, I think it still looks good. Let's get back fat, shall we?"
Xu Tingsheng didn't intend to immediately explain what he knew about Apple's situation. If warmth and companionship are the best treatment, since he is willing to do it, then everything else can be done slowly and let her accept it.
Apple nodded vigorously with tears on his cheeks.
"I eat more," she said.
"Okay, then let's make up for breakfast now."
Xu Tingsheng handed the umbrella to Apple, turned around and arched his back.
Apple hesitantly took the umbrella and said, "Huh?"
Xu Tingsheng patted his back and said, "Let me see how much lighter you have become."
Apple slowly put his hand on Xu Tingsheng's shoulder.
"Jump up, like before."
"Ah good."
Apple used to be her favorite way of messing around with Xu Tingsheng, but now Apple is no longer used to it, she carefully jumped onto Xu Tingsheng's back. Xu Tingsheng said, "Let's go."
"Um."
"Apple, don't be afraid, I will carry you to a brightly lit place."
In the past, Xu Tingsheng carried Apple back from the dim embankment to the brightly lit street. Now, he wanted to carry her out of the swamp of the dark night, so that her heart would be free and bright again.
After breakfast, Xu Tingsheng walked around the streets with Apple all morning, but the relationship between the two of them still didn't feel like the original feeling, and Apple still maintained a state of being cautious in everything.
"What time are you going to rehearse in the afternoon?" Xu Tingsheng asked Apple after deliberately choosing a crowded and lively fast food restaurant for lunch.
"About three o'clock, we have to wait for other singers to finish first." Apple said.
"Then why don't you go back to the hotel and sleep for a while? I think you are very tired. What if you can't sing well at night? It's the first time I bought a ticket to listen to the scene. If I don't perform well, will you refund my ticket?"
Apple shook his head vigorously, showing a look of fear.
"Then, you go to sleep in my room, the hotel where I live is nearby. I'll watch over you, you sleep for a while."
In the room, Xu Tingsheng covered Apple with a thin quilt, and sat on the single sofa beside him to watch.
"Xu Tingsheng, do you think I'm sick? Like what my assistant said... Are you just pitying me?"
Apple lay on his side, leaning on the pillow and told Xu Tingsheng that haggard and quiet Apple actually had another kind of beauty, but it was not what Xu Tingsheng wanted to see and appreciate.
"No, we used to be like that. Did you forget when we were good? I just want to go back to the way it was before. Can you go back with me?" Xu Tingsheng replied.
"Well," Apple nodded, "you won't push me away?"
"Not anymore."
"But I always feel that something is wrong, why did you suddenly..."
"Actually, it's always been the same, it's just that now there's a decision."
Apple thought for a while and said, "Then, what about her? The person in your heart, she is called Xiang Ning, right?"
When Apple mentioned Xiang Ning, Xu Tingsheng pretended to draw the curtain, turned his back, and said, "She will have her own life."
"Is she all right?"
"It's okay." Xu Tingsheng thought of Xiang Ning and recalled the time he had spent together in this life, "Her feelings for me now should not have any element of love, so... it's okay."
"By the way, I heard that you took a leave of absence from school. Then, after tonight's performance, you should explain to your family, and then go back to Yanzhou with me to stay for a while..."
Xu Tingsheng originally wanted to say "Let me take care of you", but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and said with a smile: "You can help me, such as washing clothes, cooking, and some things about the education platform.
Then just calm down and think about what you plan to do in the future, such as whether you want to sing, or go back to school early, or travel, in short, do whatever you want to do to make you happy. "
Apple finally laughed and said, "Can I just keep doing your laundry and cooking for you? Nothing else."
Seeing the familiar smile, Xu Tingsheng calmed down a little when he heard her joking tone, and joked, "That won't work, you still have to work. Some things on the platform are actually very simple. You can learn it after a while. I'll send it to you." Salary... If I don't work, I only have 10 pocket money per day.
And, in fact, Yanzhou has many of your friends, including us, Fang Cheng, Yu Qing, and the others, by the way, and your spies... You won't be bored. "
"Yeah," Apple said, "Xu Tingsheng."
"Um?"
"I am really happy."
"That's good, you go to sleep for a while. Don't worry, I'll just sit here."
If it was the old Apple, she would definitely say, "Come here, let's sleep together". But now she just faced Xu Tingsheng's direction and closed her eyes obediently.
When Xu Tingsheng looked at her sunken cheeks, trembling eyelashes, and brows that frown together from time to time, he would feel distressed.
Maybe because Xu Tingsheng could really make her feel at ease and at ease, Apple finally fell asleep, and Xu Tingsheng sat on the sofa bored... There are some things that he dare not think about right now.
However, the phone vibrated and it was the old number.
Although I already knew the new number that Xu Tingsheng uses now in Yanzhou, I don't know whether it was negligence or habit, every time Xiang Ning contacted Xu Tingsheng, whether it was a phone call or a text message, it was still the old number. The number that said to her, "Whenever you need me, call me and I'll come."
"Uncle, where do you think I am?"
"I can't guess."
"Hey, I'm in West Lake City, and my cousin will take me to see Sister Apple's performance tonight. Many people are saying that this may be Sister Apple's last performance. They say, it's all about reincarnation, but it's actually you, yes ?"
"Probably."
"Are you still friends? Will you come to see me? How about you come? I'll give you a gift in advance when I come."
So, Xiang Ning will come to see this performance, so many people, will he meet? Xu Tingsheng thought about it, and didn't plan to tell her that he was there at this state, even if she didn't care, but Xu Tingsheng himself did.
"I'm too busy to come," he said.
"Okay, I'll give you the gift when I get back."
"Um."
Xu Tingsheng hesitated for a while and said, "Xiang Ning, do you think uncle is going to have a relationship?"
Xiang Ning replied after a while: "In love? Who is Uncle with?"
Xu Tingsheng: "For example, just an ordinary classmate, a girl anyway."
This time, Xu Tingsheng waited for quite a while for Xiang Ning's reply, two consecutive lines:
"What about Xiang Ning? Don't you like her? What if she comes back to you?"
"So, no way."
Xiao Xiang Ning said, no way.
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Apple woke up, and before leaving, she said, "Did I really ask you on stage at night? Where are you sitting?"
"I'm right in front of you, on the sixth row. I bought a ticket from a scalper. You can see me." Xu Tingsheng said.
"Then how do you answer?"
"I'll raise my hand." Xu Tingsheng raised his arms and made a heart shape with his fingers above his head.
"Yeah." Apple nodded happily.
There was such a heart once, and Xu Tingsheng ran with it, passing the entire stands of the stadium. At that time Apple said that she would coax herself, this heart...is for her. This time, the heart is really for her.