Yin Xian never thought that Wang Jiexiang would leave.
All these years, she has always been by his side, circling around him, sticky like a piece of brown sugar.
Yin Xian put all the luggage she left behind for him to handle.
Their work circles did not overlap, and they had no mutual friends. Wang Jiexiang moved out of the apartment and stopped calling and texting him. In the huge city, she blended into the crowd like a drop of water into the ocean, and he lost her news.
A month later, Yin Xian passed by the department store where Wang Jiexiang worked, but she was not at the cosmetics counter.
She mentioned that she has a good colleague named Qianqian, and Yin Xian found the salesperson based on the badge.
Qianqian said to him, "Jiexiang has been resigning for half a month. She has applied for baking school and wants to change to another job."
Yin Xian didn't hear Wang Jiexiang say anything about it.
After breaking up with Yin Xian, Wang Jiexiang found a cheap one-person apartment.
She didn't have to wait until midnight, and her sleep quality didn't improve significantly. The cause of insomnia is anxiety about the future. Before, Yin Xian was the only one in her plan, as long as she stayed with him in the future, nothing else was important.
Returning to being single, Wang Jiexiang carefully considered her future: what kind of life does she want to live
All kinds of fantasies flashed in her mind, and after eliminating all the imaginative images that existed, her thoughts were finally frozen in one picture.
—the old grandma who taught her how to make cakes smiled at her.
Surrounded by the delicious cake aroma every day, I can make delicious cakes, eat delicious cakes, and share this beauty with others.
Wang Jiexiang slapped the bed and sat up in shock: This is the life she wants!
With this impulse, she quit her job in the department store.
She did the math, and her current savings were sufficient. Although she has no idea where to find her dream job, and although she has no foundation in making cakes, Wang Jiexiang somehow feels that she can do it.
After signing up for the baking school, she started learning baking techniques for two months.
Two months later, Wang Jiexiang was able to make all kinds of bread and cakes, becoming a baking graduate with full cooking skills.
After receiving the certificate from the school, she went to a restaurant to celebrate with other classmates who graduated together.
At the end of the party, a male classmate who usually had a good relationship asked Wang Jiexiang for her mobile phone number.
The next day, a male classmate asked her out for coffee, and Wang Jiexiang agreed.
but…
The location of his appointment was rather embarrassing.
The coffee shop opened near the company where Yin Xian worked, and when Wang Jiexiang arrived there, he felt ominous.
After happily drinking coffee with the male classmate, when the two walked out together, she saw Yin Xian's car at the door of the coffee shop.
I don't know if there is anyone in the car, she didn't look carefully, and walked away talking and laughing with the male classmate.
that night.
Wang Jiexiang received a call from Yin Xian.
"..."
She couldn't figure out how there could be someone like him who would call without speaking.
Anyway, they broke up, and she didn't have to bear him.
"If you don't speak, I'll hang up."
Yin Xian suddenly said: "Did you find it so quickly?"
"What?" Wang Jiexiang didn't understand.
"Why did you have a new boyfriend so soon? Did you cheat before?"
She was so angry that she cut off his phone on the spot.
- This man is really rubbish! Break up and slander yourself!
The more extreme ones are behind.
After the phone call, Yin Xian came to her whenever he had anything to do, completely treating her as his nanny.
"Where did you put my blue shirt?"
Wang Jiexiang was angry: "Ask me what to do, you can find it yourself."
There was the rattling of a clothes hanger being flipped over the phone.
"I'm in a hurry to go out, where did you put it?"
She sighed: "Dark blue or light blue?"
"shallow."
Wang Jiexiang recalled: "Have you looked for the shelves where the shirts are hung? Then you open the leftmost wardrobe and look for the middle drawer. If there is no one, it is in the right drawer."
"found it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he hung up the phone neatly without thanking him.
the next day.
While Wang Jiexiang was having dinner, Yin Xian's phone call came.
Connected, there is the sound of cooking.
"Hey, Fatty, I'm cooking."
She hated this ugly nickname, and Wang Jiexiang's voice became louder in an instant.
"You're fat, don't call me if you have nothing to do."
Yin Xian ignored her attitude and continued to say what he wanted to say.
"How do you cook your braised pork? Why is my cooking different from yours?"
"Go to the restaurant and order."
Instead of chatting with him, she just pressed the end call button.
After two seconds, the phone rang again.
Wang Jiexiang put down his chopsticks and yelled at him, "I'll let you go to a restaurant to order."
Yin Xian was not on the same channel as her, so he asked her calmly.
"How much soy sauce do I need?"
"I don't know!" She said in an irritable tone, "How much meat do you have?"
"One catty."
"Then put two tablespoons of soy sauce."
He opened the cabinet to look for kitchen utensils: "What kind of spoon?"
"Ordinary spoon."
Hearing that there was no movement over there, Wang Jiexiang hung up the phone.
Yin Xian turned off the gas stove.
There is a juicer in the cupboard. He stared at it, unable to recover for a long time.
He remembered that she was not used to drinking carrot juice at first, and he racked his brains to find a way to get her to drink it.
Threatened her: If you don't drink, I won't pick you up today.
Reward her: I will give you a kiss after you drink it.
More often than not, Wang Jiexiang would bargain with him, asking him to call her "little darling" all day long before she would drink it.
On the day she moved out of the village in the city, she hugged the juicer and refused to let go.
She said it was the best juicer in the whole world and she said she would never lose it.
Yin Xian frowned.
He picked up his phone again and sent a text message to Wang Jiexiang.
[You have to take the juicer away.]
She didn't reply.
When Yin Xian returned home the next day, the juicer was still on the table in the living room.
He couldn't resist dialing her number.
"Why didn't you come get the juicer? The key is under the rug, don't you know?"
"Yin Xian, you don't need to tell me where your house keys are." Her voice was rational, and her words were heartless: "You bought the juicer, and it was originally yours."
He didn't lose his momentum, he had his reasons.
"You're the one using the juicer, I don't drink carrot juice."
"I don't drink anymore."
After a pause, Wang Jiexiang said, "My night blindness is much better."
It was the calmest conversation they'd had in recent memory. There is no scrambling to hang up first, no rapid speaking, no one is impatient.
After she said that, they all fell silent.
The silence lasted five minutes, or ten minutes.
"I'm done," she said.
The juicer was finally put back in the kitchen cupboard by Yin Xian.
He stopped calling her frequently and returned to his workplace.
One day he drank a little too much and walked home in a shaky footstep.
His mouth was so dry that he took out the key to open the door, thinking about drinking the honey water at home.
The lights in the room were not turned on, and Yin Xian was in a daze for a moment.
Staring at the light from the street lamps that shone through the window panes into the house, he remembered that there was no one in the house.
Close the door and go into the dark room.
Yin Xian walked slowly without turning on the light.
He walked to their room, opened the door, and sat on the edge of the bed, near the side where she used to sleep.
His fingers touched the cold and shriveled quilt, and his thin back bent down little by little.