suddenly tired

Chapter 12 Apricot Garden-9

Ji Sumian's lunch box is a blind box at the reception, and surprises with hidden items can often be opened.In spring there can be pickled fresh, toon head fried snail slices, in summer, okra shrimp balls, cold melon and beef tenderloin, in autumn, I don’t know where Zhong Lei got the powdered lotus root, and cooked a pot of ribs, in winter it is Fragrant braised mutton and sausage with winter bamboo shoots.After spending four seasons like this, Ji Sumian was surprised to find that the uniform he received when he joined the job a year ago had short pants.

When he was about to get off work, he sent a WeChat message to Zhong Lei:

Su Mian: Brother Lei, are you here?

ZL: In the parking lot.

Su Mian: I seem to have grown a little taller. The trousers have become cropped trousers. Haha, this style of formal wear is popular this year.

ZL: Yes, after raising pigs for more than a year, it is time to sell them.

Ji Sumian imagined a lazy and mocking face on the other side of the phone, and secretly smiled, and was seen by Zhou Jing who was on the morning shift with him: "Look at your peachy love eyes!"

"No way!" Ji Sumian put away his phone and was about to leave when he was stopped.

"Hey Su Mian, can you let your little uncle take me for a ride? I'm in a hurry to catch the high-speed train, just let me drop off at any subway station I pass by, please!"

"no problem."

"Jingjing, do you still go to Shanghai every month?" Ji Sumian asked in the car.

"Yeah, he comes back once a month and I go there once a month. Long-distance relationships can't be helped. It's not like you. The dishes in the bento box don't bring the same dishes for half a month. Hey, your girlfriend's family runs a restaurant, right? ?”

Ji Sumian took a sneak peek at Zhong Lei. The latter looked calmly ahead and continued driving as if he hadn't heard it. He faltered and said, "Uh...not really. That...sends you to the World Trade Center in front Can I take the subway?"

"Okay, thank you little uncle, thank you Su Mian!"

"Little uncle...Girlfriend..." Zhong Lei chewed on these harsh words, I have worked so hard to cook the dishes for so long, and you claim that your girlfriend did it? !He sighed secretly in his heart.

At this time, a reminder of an appointment form popped up on the phone. When going to the airport, his usual habit is to check the time and route first, and then consider whether to accept the order.Zhong Lei always evades in this way, he can’t tell what he is escaping from, but it’s right to evade before he encounters a problem, but today, he just raised his hand and clicked to confirm, and then looked at the itinerary, [-]:[-], from Nanshan He didn't even look at Ji Sumian, and said, "You can go back by yourself after class. I'll go to the airport and I won't be back at night."

Ji Sumian agreed to come down, tilted his head and looked at him from the bottom up: "Brother Lei, what unhappy things happened to you today?"

"Ah."

"what happened?"

"tired."

"Then don't go to the airport, go home and rest."

"Get out of the car, I'm leaving."

——It's unhappy, capitalized unhappy, it's impossible... Ji Sumian curled her lips, said "then you pay attention to safety", then obediently got out of the car, turned around and walked into the classroom with the corners of her mouth raised.

That night, Ji Sumian met Lao Fang again at the alley where he was about to go home. After living for so long, he still felt that this person was strange: "Uncle Fang, you haven't rested yet?"

Handing him a long umbrella, Lao Fang said, "Your uncle's umbrella, take it home, it's repaired."

"Oh, well, how much, did he give you any money?"

Lao Fang waved his hands, stood up with difficulty on his knees, but instead of going back to his home, he followed him.Ji Sumian was puzzled: "Uncle Fang, do you... still have something to do?"

"Go and see my June Lan."

——Just looking at the flowers?

The neighbors here are people that Ji Sumian has never been in contact with before, and they are all working hard for their livelihoods. The village in the city has its own mess and chaos. Under the tall buildings, they are invisible dust and have no time to care about life. The details and meaning are working mechanically every day, seemingly tirelessly, but it is only "seemingly".But Lao Fang does not belong to this category. He has inconvenient legs and feet, and time will involuntarily slow down around him. He is engaged in handicrafts that have been almost eliminated by the times. He repairs shoes, umbrellas, and repairs. In exchange for new daily necessities, Ji Sumian didn't know if this small stall could support himself, but he could grow flowers and raise small fish from the pond. These seemed to be another scene that did not belong to the village in the city. This uncle is full of contradictions that he doesn't understand.

After watering the flowers, Lao Fang told him: "I'm leaving, you lock the door."

Ji Sumian nodded, "Lock the door", isn't that what his brother Lei often said.

And it is.

Lao Fang sent Zhong Lei a Wechat message, as if he was dead: He is home.

ZL: Good.

On May 5th, Zhong Lei's cell phone began to ding ding dong dong nonstop from early in the morning. It was a weekend, and when he went out, Ji Sumian hadn't woken up yet, but not long after he left, he received a message.

Su Mian: Brother Lei is training the school for fire inspections today. There is no class, so he won't come to pick me up in the afternoon.

Su Mian: Sister Xiaoyu said to come to play with me, I'll go buy some food, you must go home to eat at night, I will cook by myself!

ZL: No, you can eat.

Su Mian: You have been cooking for me for so long, and you haven't tasted my cooking. Come back, you won't be disappointed.

ZL: Well, around seven o'clock.

It’s not that Ji Sumian doesn’t know how to cook, it’s just that his cooking is not so amazing. His cooking standard is cooked and non-toxic, but it’s really not enough to cook a birthday meal for Zhong Lei. It’s useless to invite Zhao Xinyu. It cannot be inherited.

Zhong Lei said he got home around seven o'clock, but actually came back at six o'clock. When he entered the door, he met the two of them mopping the kitchen floor. The floor was colorful and beautiful, but it was also a headache.

"Okay, I knew it was like this. You two go out." Zhong Lei leaned against the door frame, frowning together.

Zhao Xinyu asked softly: "Hey, is the eldest brother angry? I was really careless. I knocked over as soon as I turned around."

"I originally wanted to make a cake for him, but now it's over, and I can't buy it temporarily." Ji Sumian was very annoyed, "You said you can't touch anything."

"Is it my fault? This kitchen is too small."

"The house is so small, how big can the kitchen be!"

"You are still addicted at such a young age, when will you go back?"

"I'm not going back, I just like living here."

"Look at how promising you are!"

Ji Sumian poked his head over to see that Zhong Lei was busy in the kitchen and didn't notice him, and said quietly: "You really don't know who he is? The lead singer of the popular rock and earth band a few years ago."

"Rock soil? Didn't it disband? The lead singer is very handsome, how could it be him, do you want to see an ophthalmologist?"

"Cut! Forget it if you don't believe it, it's his birthday today, you can check it out."

Zhao Xinyu was dubious, took out his mobile phone and checked: "I really haven't paid attention to their gossip news. The homosexual who cheated on the marriage was said on the Internet and was beaten and disfigured. Is it really him?"

"Things on the Internet are not true."

"how do you know?"

"Didn't I chat with him from time to time? When the accident happened, I sent him a private message on Weibo, and he replied. He said it wasn't true, and he had other secrets, and then he never replied to me again. He won't lie Mine, I believe him."

"Then why didn't you clarify?"

"I don't know. Anyway, since then, he hasn't replied to anything I posted, but Weibo hasn't been logged off. I don't know if he has seen it."

"Oh. Well, you can believe it if you want, but I don't think he has a good temper."

"Hehe, let me tell you in secret, this man is hard-spoken and soft-hearted. He often helps me tidy up my suit in the morning, just like that—" He straightened his face and imitated Zhong Lei's tone, "Hey, do you have any disabilities in your arms? Can't you touch the back of your neck? Or do you just like to abuse your collar, has a messy beauty that has been ravaged?"

"Hahahahaha!" Zhao Xinyu burst into laughter, "It's too bad!"

"Well, that's it." Ji Sumian also smiled.Helping him straighten his collar in the morning seems to be a secret tacit understanding between them, and sometimes he even deliberately leaves this action to Zhong Lei, and he never tires of it.

When Zhong Lei came out to serve the dishes, what he saw were the two people who were head to head, whispering, laughing and collapsed on the mattress, their expressions became more rigid.

Zhao Xinyu brought a bottle of Luzhou Laojiao, which was obviously taken from his own tavern.Zhong Lei originally wanted to go to the airport after dinner, but the wine was not bad, and he was not in a good mood, so he also drank a few glasses.After drinking, Zhao Xinyu talked a lot, and she asked, "Hey, do you know how to operate for benign prostatic hyperplasia?"

The two men with this organ looked at each other in embarrassment.

"It is to take a resectoscope, insert it from the urethral opening, and cut off the hyperplasia. The surgery I had the day before yesterday was nothing to do with me, and the doctor could handle it by himself, but I didn't know what went wrong. He did it. I stopped doing it, looked at me and said, hey, come and help me."

After Zhao Xinyu said this, he looked up at the two of them.Ji Sumian hissed and gasped: "Where did he ask you to help?"

"I thought so too. I stood there not daring to move, and asked this question weakly."

Ji Sumian wanted to laugh but was embarrassed, so he took a peek at Zhong Lei, who was holding a wine glass, and the white wine was shaken by him like a red wine tasting.

"Why don't you say that the urologist is well-informed, he despised me and said, what are you thinking, come and hold the resectoscope!"

"Haha."

Zhong Lei didn't speak much all night, and now he asked a question: "Is anesthesia required for this operation?"

"Of course!"

"Oh, that's okay, I got goose bumps when I heard you describe the operation process."

This is a careless, heartless and kind of funny girl, which is very suitable for that child.Zhong Lei was in a gloomy mood, but he had to admit it.

After dinner, Ji Sumian and Zhao Xinyu wash the dishes, and Zhong Lei goes out to smoke.Old Fang didn't know when he walked over slowly, "Are you not going to the airport today?"

"Drink, don't go out."

"Drinking? You haven't had a drink for a long time."

"Today is my birthday."

"Oh. It's time for a drink or two."

It was very dark outside, the street lights were dim, and the two of them chatted one after another.

"A visitor at home?"

"Ji Sumian's friend."

"girlfriend?"

"It should be. You are so young. You don't know that the two people in the room are like lollipops and chewing gum falling in love. They are sticky and greasy, and they are so sticky!"

Lao Fang was amused by this metaphor, and looked at Zhong Lei: "Jealous? Missing a woman?"

"No."

"Then... miss a man?"

Zhong Lei angrily put out the cigarette: "Why are you so annoying, go home and sleep!"

Lao Fang stood up with a smile: "You, you are fierce and soft inside."

"roll!"

Being easily seen through, Zhong Lei became angry from embarrassment.

He received a lot of blessing messages today, some were automatically sent by the system, and some were from old people he knew, all from the past that he didn't want to look back on.Ji Sumian didn't know that it was his birthday, maybe it was just a rare day off and he wanted to cook a meal on a whim, but he didn't work out the result yet, and in the end he made it by himself.He drank the wine in a hurry, as if eager to let the alcohol bring some vain happiness, but looking at the shadowy couple in the window, the happiness quickly evaporated into the air, Zhong Lei frowned, lowered his eyes, Lighted the last cigarette in the box.

"So, why do you like him?" Zhao Xinyu still couldn't understand Ji Sumian's thoughts.

"I used to think of him as a male god who could not be touched, but now I live with him every day. He takes me to and from get off work, prepares lunch for me, and helps me turn over my collar... Oh, I don’t know, I always It feels like a beautiful dream that I can't wake up from, and of course it's best never to wake up."

"Then did you tell him that you knew he was Ke Wen?"

"No, I dare not."

"why?"

"Once he called a former colleague on the phone, and I heard him say that he is living a comfortable life now, there is no need to think about the past, and he doesn't want to write and sing songs anymore. Those lyrics always remind him that he has failed for a while. I dare not let him know about my feelings and life, I am afraid that after he knows, he will never want to see me again..."

Zhao Xinyu looked at him and shook his head and sighed: "You are finished Ji Sumian, you have fallen."