On that night in the summer of 2012, the moon was sparse. The earth was silent, and the wind shook the trees. Everything was sleeping, and breathing gradually became clearer.
"How do you know my phone number?"
she asked softly.
Chi Zheng smiled lowly, "You forgot what I do."
She was slightly startled, and heard him ask again.
"Do you have time tomorrow?"
Meng Shengnan was silent for a while, "What's the matter?"
Chi Zheng made a 'huh' sound.
"What's the matter?"
Chi Zheng smiled, "I want to treat you to a meal."
"Have a meal?"
"Um."
Meng Shengnan moved his lips, hearing the man over there joking.
"You helped me wash my clothes, so you have to ask me no matter what."
There was a 'hum' in her head, and it took a long time to make a sound.
"No, I'm just idle at that time."
Chi Zheng smiled, "I know."
There was a twinkle in her eyes.
"After all, we both know each other so well."
At that time, he was half leaning against the window, looking sideways out of the window. The word 'familiar' was accentuated slightly, and that simple sentence made her blush. Meng Shengnan gripped the quilt on the bed tightly, staring at him, "If nothing's wrong—"
"have."
He casually threw a word to her.
"Huh?" She froze for a while.
Chi Zheng lit a cigarette and threw the lighter on the table.
"It's nothing, just chat."
Meng Shengnan blinked.
"oh."
Chi Zheng exhaled a smoke ring, "What are you thinking about now?"
"Nothing." She said obediently.
Chi Zheng smiled, "What is nothing?"
Meng Shengnan: "..."
He stopped teasing her, Meng Shengnan was scratching his cheek when he suddenly heard him call her name. It seems that there is a little difference, low and deep, and it seems to be whispering. The corner of her mouth moved slightly, and then she heard him speak.
"Remember correctly, you were born in 1988?"
She accidentally mentioned it.
"how do you know?"
Chi Zheng thought of the introduction of the magazine column and paused for a moment.
"Guess."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" she asked.
Chi Zheng took a puff of cigarette, "Looking for something to talk about."
Meng Shengnan felt like laughing for some reason, and felt relaxed.
"What about you?" she asked too.
His faint 'huh? 'Sounded.
"How old are you?"
"How old do you think I am?"
His voice was a little sloppy, mixed with a faint smile.
Meng Shengnan lowered her voice: "How would I know?"
"Is it."
Meng Shengnan pursed his lips, but Chi Zheng didn't ask further questions. She didn't know when it was windy outside the window, she raised her eyes to look out. Both of them were quiet for a while, and she could hear his deep smoking. After a while, Chi Zheng said, "It's getting late, go to sleep."
"Hmm." She said softly.
Just about to hang up, he called her.
"Are you going back to school tomorrow afternoon?"
"Um."
"Then I'll come pick you up at noon."
"Need not-"
Chi Zheng said, "Ms. Chen wants you to sit with her."
Meng Shengnan didn't refuse again, and said 'oh'.
"I'll call you then," he said.
After the call ended, the phone screen was still on. She stared blankly for a long time, and slowly saved the number in her phone before lying down again. Perhaps it was this feeling, his voice still seemed to be lingering in her ears. She turned off the light and fell asleep.
When I woke up again, the sky was not yet bright.
She felt that the phone call last night was like a phantom, and she went to check the phone while still in a daze. Seeing his name: Chi Zheng (chi zheng) lying first in the list of contacts, I suddenly laughed.
The sun pierces the sky and awakens the earth.
After washing up, she went downstairs, and accompanied Sheng Dian to work in the kitchen. The sun was rising, and Meng Jin took Xiao Hang for a walk outside, just in time for breakfast when he came back. The little boy drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and asked her, "Sister, where shall we go to play today?"
Meng Shengnan said, "Next time, sister has something to do at noon."
"what's up?"
Xiaohang asked with a wrinkled face, and Meng Jinshengdian also looked over.
She thought for a while, "I'm going to visit my sister's teacher, will it work next time?"
"Okay." The little boy sighed.
Sheng Dian asked, "You, Teacher Chen?"
She nods.
"Are you okay?"
"It's okay, just go around."
At eleven o'clock, she was stacking blocks with Meng Hang in the living room. The little boy has a lot of playfulness, and after a while he yells and wants to watch TV again. She pressed the channel to the children's channel. Just as she put down the remote control, the phone on the coffee table rang.
Meng Hang looked at it seriously, and she leaned over to pick it up.
"I'm at the alley of your house." Chi Zheng said.
Meng Shengnan: "Now?"
In the yard, Shengdian was enjoying the shade under the tree, sitting and chatting with Aunt Kang next door. She kissed Meng Hang, took her bag and went out. Later, Aunt Kang smiled and told Sheng Dian that the female college was not accepted, and a small wind blew up outside the alley. Meng Shengnan looked out along the alleyway, the motorcycle was parked by the side of the road, but he was nowhere to be seen.
It was hot at noon, and there were no people in the alley.
She walked all the way to the alley, halfway through her eyes, she saw him squatting by the side of the road. He lowered his head slightly and held a cigarette in his hand. She looked at his back, broad and majestic. The mind that was still a little nervous just now calmed down, she called softly.
"Chi Zheng."
Hearing the sound, the man took another deep breath. Then he threw it on the ground and stamped it out with his feet, then stood up and turned around.
"Let's go." He looked at her.
She followed him into the car, and Chi Zheng turned his head.
"Build the road ahead, hold on to me."
Meng Shengnan didn't speak, and gently tugged at the corners of his clothes with both hands. Chi Zheng looked ahead and bent the corners of his mouth. The streets are wide and flat. When he got there, he stopped the car. She followed and asked suspiciously, "Why didn't I see any bad roads?"
Chi Zheng pulled out the car key and glanced at her.
"That must be my memory."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
In the room, Chen Si was already waiting. As soon as they arrived, they asked Mama Yang to prepare dishes, and the two of them were left in the living room. She wanted to go over to help, but was pushed out by Chen Si. It was only with hindsight that I understood the woman's mind, and I didn't know what to say while sitting on the sofa.
"Go up and have a look?"
Chi Zheng asked her, raising his chin towards the second floor.
"I?"
She pointed to herself.
Chi Zheng smiled, "Otherwise?"
"Will it be inconvenient?"
"What's the inconvenience?"
Chi Zheng raised his eyes and stared at her.
Meng Shengnan avoided his gaze, "But after a while Teacher Chen called for dinner—"
"It's fine if you don't come down again."
Meng Shengnan blinked.
"Isn't your shop busy?"
Chi Zheng looked at her playfully.
"Meng Shengnan?"
She said 'ah'.
"Are you afraid of what I will do to you?"
Meng Shengnan: "..."
In the end, I followed him upstairs, and there was only one house on the second floor. Spacious, simple, with a washroom. As soon as she walked in, he closed the door behind his back. Meng Shengnan's heart tightened for a moment, and he stood there at a loss. His voice sounded low behind him.
"Sit anywhere."
"fine."
Her hanging right hand was buttoning the corner of her clothes, and Chi Zheng looked up. The woman in front of her was wearing white short-sleeved cropped pants with a tense expression. Chi Zheng curled his lips and walked to the table in front of the window. Slowly opened the drawer, pretending to ask casually: "What kind of books do you usually read?"
Meng Shengnan glanced at his profile.
"There's nothing I like in particular, just look at it casually."
Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows, "Really."
"Um."
Chi Zheng took out the book from the drawer and looked back at her.
"Have you read this book?"
Meng Shengnan's heart trembled.
"I used to be in high school, and someone gave me a book." Chi Zheng slowly walked towards her with the book, his voice was very low, "It's interesting to say, but I don't know who she is or what she looks like. I just know that she It's called Shu Yuan."
He paused after speaking, his eyes locked on her.
"Later, I saw several articles with the same signature in the magazine, and I don't know if it was her."
Meng Shengnan froze.
"I heard from my mother what composition competition you participated in."
Chi Zheng deliberately paused again.
"This Shu Yuan, do you know him?"
Looking at the meditation book in his hand, Meng Shengnan couldn't speak for a while. His eyes were focused, and she couldn't avoid him. There was a moment when I suddenly felt very sad, as if many things were going to blow my mind all at once.
"Sorry, I don't know." She said slowly.
Chi Zheng said, "Really."
Meng Shengnan said, "Yes."
His eyes were complicated, Meng Shengnan lowered his head and raised it again, "I'll go down and see Mr. Chen."
After speaking, he withdrew and left.
Chi Zheng didn't stop her, he watched her open the door and go downstairs. The moment the woman's back disappeared, his shoulders suddenly drooped. Then he leaned his back against the door, smoking cigarettes in silence, one after another. After a while, he went downstairs. Chen Si sat on the sofa in the living room with a cold face.
"Where is she?"
Chen Si's voice was serious: "What did you do to Sheng Nan?"
Chi Zheng frowned: "What's wrong?"
Yang Ma just came out of the kitchen and sighed.
"It looks like she's crying, her eyes are strangely red."
Chi Zheng frowned even more, and raked his hair irritably. Chen Si blamed him for leaving Meng Shengnan in anger, and drove him back to the store without letting him eat. Just at that moment, he had a call, took the job and left. It was three or four in the afternoon when I finished my work, so I went straight back to the store.
It looks like it's going to rain outside.
At that time, Meng Shengnan had already taken a shower for almost an hour and came out in a nightgown. The windows were ajar, and the wind blew in from the seventh floor. Her mind became clearer a lot, and she sat on the window sill and stared out in a daze. After a while, raindrops slowly floated up and splashed on the window.
It was really embarrassing just now.
She sighed and looked at the rain, his words have not yet been digested. I don't know if he has already seen the clues, the rain is not stopping, rushing. She became annoyed again, why did she suddenly run away impulsively at that moment
Outside the shops in the urban area, the rain fell into curtains.
The man was leaning against the door, constantly playing with his mobile phone, smoking a cigarette. Shi Jin glanced at him while staring at the game on the computer. After more than half an hour, the man was still the same, Shi Jin couldn't help it: "I said, what's the matter with you?"
Chi Zheng didn't respond, his black eyes stared at the rain outside the door.
"It's not for that girl, is it?"
Chi Zheng glanced at Shi Jin lightly.
"Yo, it's true." Shi Jin laughed.
Chi Zheng: "Are you free?"
Shi Jin's hippie smiley face.
"My buddy really admires that woman now, and that's all it takes to make you lose your mind."
Chi Zheng took a drag on his cigarette.
"Hurry up if you want to go." Shi Jin laughed.
Chi Zheng: "You fucking know shit."
"Hey." Shi Jin became more energetic, "Did you be rejected?"
Chi Zheng stared coldly.
Shi Jin shrugged his shoulders, "This is not like you. I think you were an expert at coaxing women back then."
Chi Zheng sneered.
After a while, he said, "She's different."
"Tsk tsk."
Shi Jin shook his head and sighed for a while.
Chi Zheng: "Are you not sick?"
"You are sick, lovesick." Shi Jin defined it in one word.
Chi Zheng: "Fuck."
Shi Jin asked, "Did something happen to him?"
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and Chi Zheng finished his cigarette. He touched his chin irritably, and her dodging eyes appeared in his mind again. He narrowed his eyes, flipped through the phone contacts in boredom, and then quit.
"I think I made her cry," he said slowly.