In the dark, I can't see the way ahead.
Downstairs in the Internet cafe, the boy promised that she would come to school normally tomorrow. Then he turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Meng Shengnan and asked about the distance to his home. The boy scratched his hair in embarrassment, and said it was five minutes away. When they were far away, Meng Shengnan couldn't help but curled the corners of his mouth, and murmured softly: "I'm pretty good at finding places."
"Your student?"
Chi Zheng walked behind her, followed her gaze and raised his chin.
She froze again.
"Yeah." Then he turned around and smiled.
Chi Zheng glanced at her.
"Didn't you study journalism?"
"It was changed later." She said concisely.
"What are you nervous about?"
She twitched her eyebrows and let out a soft 'ah'.
Chi Zheng smiled.
"nothing."
Meng Shengnan paused and asked, "By the way, you are here—"
"Fix the computer," he said.
"oh."
The distance between the two was a little close, so close that she could smell the strong smell of smoke on his body. Meng Shengnan was a little cautious for a while, and slowly took a small step back without making a sound. Chi Zheng glanced down at his feet, then raised his head to look at her lightly.
"Thank you for the mobile phone." Meng Shengnan remembered.
He smiled lightly.
She was making an excuse to leave when she heard him ask, "Which school?"
"Huakou." You were stunned for a second.
He looked at her: "Let's go, I'll see you off."
"ah?"
Chi Zheng tilted his head slightly in the direction of the motorcycle.
"If you don't dislike it."
Before she could answer, he had already walked over to the parking lot. Meng Shengnan looked at his back and followed him slowly. At night, the wind blew the broken hair around his ears, almost blurring his vision. As she approached, Chi Zheng had already stepped on the motorcycle.
He threw the helmet to her, and Meng Shengnan held it in his arms.
Her feet seemed to be filled with lead, and she didn't move for a long time. Looking up at him again, the man had no expression on his face, just staring at the front, looking seriously as if he was waiting for her to get into the car. Meng Shengnan frowned, and was about to speak when the phone rang.
She glanced at him, and he looked back.
"Phone." He nodded his chin.
Meng Shengnan nodded slightly, then stepped aside and picked it up. It was Qi Qiao.
"Did you find it?"
"Um."
"Where are you now?"
"Going back to school."
"It's so late, hurry up." Qi Qiao worried.
Sorry to keep him waiting, she hung up the phone after saying a few simple words. When he looked up again, Chi Zheng was leaning on the motorcycle, smoking a cigarette with his head down. He smoked a little carelessly, noticed her gaze, and looked up.
"Let's go." He threw the cigarette on the ground and stomped it out.
She walked over, "Don't you wear it?"
"Need not."
The car moved, and so did the wind. Meng Shengnan sat behind him, not knowing where to put his hands, and gently grabbed the car body. He didn't drive slowly on a road that wasn't far or near. Along the way, neither of them made a sound. When he arrived at the school gate, his car hadn't stopped. Perhaps because of inertia, her body suddenly threw herself on his back uncontrollably.
At that moment of touch, she was shocked.
Two hands were already grabbing his gray short sleeves in fright, but the man didn't seem to respond. She retracted her hand embarrassingly, and got out of the car quickly. Chi Zheng turned off the fire and followed suit. Meng Shengnan didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at him for a while, and his eyes fell on his ears.
"Thanks."
He said, "You're welcome."
"Then be careful on the way, I - go in first."
After she finished speaking, she turned to leave.
"Meng Shengnan."
He suddenly called her name in a low voice. At that time, she hadn't taken a step yet, and she was completely stunned on the spot. Facing him sideways, he didn't know what to do.
He approached slowly.
The sound of breathing and the smell of smoke also approached, she slowly raised her eyes, and bumped into his dark eyes.
"I said."
He tilted his head slightly, and his voice fell in her ear. He unzipped the zipper of the bag and stuffed a few pieces of money into it.
Meng Shengnan didn't dare to move.
He stood up again and finished the last half of the sentence.
"If you give money, you will be rewarded."
His tone was neither warm nor hot, neither salty nor light. Then, turn around and ride away in less than a minute. The rumbling sound of the motorcycle starting lingered in her ears after a long distance. Meng Shengnan stood there for a long time, and then slowly walked back by taking advantage of the dim light on the side of the road.
In recent days, the school has been busy.
In the office, the teachers of each class chatted while preparing lessons. (8) The class was self-studying the English test last night, and Meng Shengnan was reviewing the test papers.
"Little Meng."
Teacher Wu, who was in his thirties, looked at her with a smile: "Do you have class in the afternoon?"
Meng Shengnan looked up from the test paper.
"No."
"Let's go out for a walk together."
"I'll go too." Teacher Xiao Lin who was playing with his mobile phone also agreed.
Meng Shengnan laughed, and Teacher Wu looked at Xiao Lin.
"Don't you have a boyfriend?"
Xiao Lin sighed, "He is so busy every day that he doesn't even have time to call me, it's like he doesn't have time."
"Isn't it?" Teacher Wu was surprised.
"Why not." Xiao Lin shook his head with a smile, "Do you know what his colleagues in the institute call him?"
Meng Shengnan asked, "What?"
"Old master."
Those two people: "..."
"How old is he?" Teacher Wu asked.
"Same as me, 25." Xiao Lin looked at Meng Shengnan and said, "By the way, he graduated from your No. 9 Middle School."
"Really." Meng Shengnan said.
Teacher Wu interrupted: "Then what do you like about him?"
Speaking of this, Kobayashi blushed.
"He treats me very well and is a real person."
After hearing this, Meng Shengnan glanced at his phone subconsciously, feeling a little confused. After that, it was eleven or twelve o'clock, and the three of them made an appointment to go shopping in the city. The sun is on fire, and the air conditioner in the clothing store is not enough to dissipate heat. It seems that there will be a timely rain at any time.
Women shopping together, generally speaking, the process is more crazy, the result is more tragic.
In the afternoon, except for Meng Shengnan who bought a brown dress, the two of them were all dressed up from head to toe. She still paid for the fare to go back, it was simple. The taxi was driving back, Xiao Lin and Teacher Wu in the back seat were talking hotly, Meng Shengnan turned his head to look at the row upon row of people outside the window.
A blink of an eye.
I saw that street corner again, the billboard protruding from the shop door that flashed by.
The car passed by quickly, leaving no aftertaste. When we were about to get to school, the rain began to fall, and it seemed to be endless for a long time. The three of them didn't bring an umbrella, and when they returned to the apartment downstairs with their clothes on, they were all drenched in water.
Xiao Lin said with a bitter face, "I should really call and yell at him to bring an umbrella."
Meng Shengnan brushed the wet hair on his forehead and smiled.
Back at the apartment, she quickly took a hot bath and changed her clothes. It was exactly six o'clock. I made some simple meals by myself, and then coded while drinking porridge. The rows of small four numbers in Song typeface on the computer are no longer familiar, and she is writing a story.
The penguin number in the lower right corner of the computer is flashing.
Roommate Li Tao sent a painful expression: I have to stay up late at night to run the news again.
Meng Shengnan: Hard work.
Li Tao immediately replied: How are you, substitute teacher
Meng Shengnan: It is a great honor to cultivate the next generation of the motherland.
Li Tao: ...
A story was written intermittently, and she chatted with Li Tao for a while. Later, when it was over, Li Tao asked her if she would come back to do news.
Meng Shengnan said, let's see.
Back then, I was an intern with my seniors, and I witnessed the fraudulent activities of a Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou chain network technology company. She said she wanted to report, but the senior stopped her. At that time, what ability and background did she have as a small intern? The senior said that after staying in this industry for a long time, she would get used to it. She didn't believe it, the senior sighed, and said that if she didn't want your life, she would go.
She didn't listen and didn't walk out of the newspaper office.
The senior text message came: Son, think more about your family.
After a moment of quiet contemplation, Meng Shengnan closed the computer. Outside the window, the rain was crackling, very heavy. She fell asleep slowly with the sound of rain on her pillow, and was woken up in sweat in the middle of the night by the nightmare. When I woke up early the next morning, my nose was very blocked.
After a rain, the weather turned cooler.
In the office, she was about to use up a box of toilet paper.
"Cold?" Kobayashi asked.
She coughed a few more times and let out a muffled 'hmm'.
"Have you taken any medicine?"
She rubbed her nose, "Well, it doesn't work after two days."
"Let's go to the hospital."
After thinking about it, she felt dizzy and hurt and couldn't sleep well for the past two days. So that afternoon, I took the bus to the nearest First Hospital. The doctor was an old man who took the pulse and said that she had a fever and her stomach was not good. Then, like now. She was sitting on a bench outside the corridor drinking a bottle.
It took three days.
Meng Shengnan was really bored by himself, and wanted to call Qi Qiao over, but no one answered the phone.
"Sheng Nan?"
A woman's voice suddenly reached her ears, and she looked up.
"Teacher Chen?" Meng Shengnan was surprised.
Chen Si smiled and sat beside her.
"We haven't seen each other for a long time."
Meng Shengnan nodded, "Yes."
She couldn't tell if it was because of Chi Zheng that she stopped going.
"what happened?"
"It's okay to have a cold." Meng Shengnan asked, "Are you also here for a doctor?"
Chen Si said: "The doctor asked me to stay for a few more days because I was not in good health. I was discharged today."
"You alone?"
"And Ah Zheng."
Meng Shengnan didn't dare to deny it. When Chen Si said that name, she really trembled.
Chen Sidao: "He went to get the medicine."
It was such a scene again, maybe she saw him behind her as soon as she turned her head. However, in the next second, she heard Chen Si calling his name. Meng Shengnan looked up quickly, a man dressed in black came over with medicine in hand.
Chi Zheng froze for a moment, then looked at her left hand.
"I got sick?"
"Yeah." She was stunned.
He glanced at the tip of her reddish nose.
"cold?"
Meng Shengnan nodded.
Chen Si on the side raised his eyebrows and remained calm.
"What bottle?" he asked.
Meng Shengnan said, "The second bottle."
"How many bottles in total?"
"Two bottles."
Chen Si watched them ask and answer, and suddenly smiled, "Then this is the last bottle, we haven't seen each other for so long, talk more, and let this kid take you back soon."
"No." She blurted out.
Chi Zheng glanced at her.
Meng Shengnan: "I mean, don't bother—"
"No trouble." He cut off her words.
She stopped talking, and Chen Si turned to holding her hand and asking about family matters. Chi Zheng stood leaning against the wall, with his head slightly lowered.
"Alone all the time?" Chen Si asked.
She smiled shyly and nodded.
"That's good." Chen Si murmured.
Meng Shengnan didn't hear clearly, and said 'ah'.
Chen Sixiao pointed at Chi Zheng, and said softly to her, "Did you see him like that?"
Meng Shengnan didn't understand what it meant.
Chen Si said: "There is no way to stand."
She glanced over, and the man looked sideways.
"How did you say it in the past?" Chen Sixiao said, "A bastard playing drums is just playing around."
Meng Shengnan couldn't help laughing.
Chen Si asked her about some recent work and life, and joked with Chi Zheng from time to time. The time to make a hanging bottle suddenly passed quickly. Talking too intently with Chen Si, when she looked up again, the man was not there. She glanced at the end of the corridor again. He was leaning against the side door, smoking a cigarette with his head bowed.
She was about to look away when he looked over.