Ye Lanqiu looked outside and was stunned.
The newly built asphalt road, the one-way street and electronic eyes criticized by surrounding residents, the ICBC's regular facade, and the rather unreliable security guard squatting under the security booth.
The scenery on the opposite side is so familiar that it reminds me of it many times in my midnight dreams.
Watching the car drive into the community, she looked at the blue brick corridor in front of her: "Why did you bring me here?"
She moved from here seven days ago.
"How does it feel to revisit your old place?" Lin Yue parked the car, opened the door and walked out: "Don't be in a daze."
Without waiting for Ye Lanqiu to answer, he took her hand and entered the unit door, went straight to the third floor, came to the room where she used to live, took out the key and poked it into the keyhole, then turned it open with a click, holding the handle and gently Give it a gentle push.
"Come in."
Ye Lanqiu walked into the room hesitantly.
On the coffee table were the Nestlé mugs that came as a gift when buying coffee, the white pillows neatly arranged on the sofa, the bead curtains and light gauze curtains that separated the living room and the bedroom, and the flowers in the vase were all as they were before she left.
She opened the wardrobe and found clothes from different seasons in spring, summer, autumn and winter, including her favorite equipment shirts and slightly exaggerated Gucci jackets. She still remembered eating with a frown in order to buy this piece of clothing that could make a scene at the company's annual meeting. I’ve been eating instant noodles for more than a month.
Nothing has changed, even the smell floating in the air is exactly the same as in memory.
"How do you have the key to this room?"
On the day she left here, she clearly sent the keys to the landlord.
Lin Yue said with a smile: "Because I rented it."
Ye Lanqiu looked at him blankly: "You rented it?"
"Yes, I think the house is quite nice." Lin Yue walked to the sofa and sat down: "Picked up the pear in the fruit plate and took a bite."
Ye Lanqiu walked to the bedside table and stared at the peonies in the vase. She remembered that she emptied the vase when she left, but the flowers inside were very fresh now.
She walked to the bathroom again and saw a combination of Pantene shampoo and conditioner on the shelf, with newly bought towels and neatly folded bath towels underneath.
"When did you..."
She walked back to the bedside and sat down, looking at the man sitting on the sofa on the other side of the bead curtain with his back to her.
"When did you rent this house? Do you remember that I asked you for leave two days ago?"
"You...can you please stop being so nice to me?"
She spoke in a very low voice, so low that it felt like it was stuck in her throat and she couldn't pry it out. She was not stupid, how could she not understand who Lin Yue rented this house for.
But... looking at the familiar layout and everything that made her feel at ease, does she really have a chance to live here?
"Don't worry, now Liu Quanfu has become a street rat that everyone yells at, and no one will care about you not giving up your seat to him." Lin Yue leaned on the backrest and said, "Staying in a hotel is not as comfortable as at home."
"hiss……"
She twitched her sore and tight nose, rubbed her still-red eyes with both hands, walked to the opposite side of him and said, "Don't think that if you do this, I will agree to be your girlfriend."
Lin Yue said: "Don't get me wrong, I just don't think the money is worth it. You, a prodigal woman, stay in a hotel every day. How much will it cost this month?"
"Lin Yue!"
Ye Lanqiu felt that he was getting more and more helpless against him. What he did before could move people to tears, but what he said next could make you dumbfounded.
Lin Yue held the crystal pear that was chewed beyond recognition and said with a serious face: "You look really good when you are angry."
Ye Lanqiu said another sentence to him in a messy manner, and subconsciously hid to the side, combing the hair on his temples with his hands to hide his inner embarrassment.
"how……"
He was about to tease her again, but at this moment, Ye Lanqiu suddenly ran inside, pushed open the bathroom door, and lay down beside the toilet in embarrassment, retching.
Lin Yue's face suddenly turned ugly, and he quickly chased after her and slapped her back with his hand.
After almost half a minute, Ye Lanqiu's condition stabilized. She turned to look at him and smiled: "I'm fine."
"What's going on?" Lin Yue said with a worried look.
"Maybe I ate too much sashimi and had gastrointestinal discomfort."
"Then I'll buy you some medicine, in case it worsens into gastroenteritis." Lin Yue turned and walked outside.
Ye Lanqiu didn't say anything to stop him. After he left, she ran to the living room, found the medicine the doctor prescribed for her from the bag left on the sofa, poured two pills in her mouth, and then picked up the cup on the coffee table to drink. He took a sip of water, raised his head and drank it, and slowly retreated to the front of the sofa. He hugged his knees with his hands and curled up, his thin body trembling slightly.
Lin Yue went to the drugstore downstairs and bought a box of montmorillonite powder. He did not return immediately. He lit a cigarette against the wall on the right side of the unit door and smoked it. The two old ladies passing by looked at each other as they walked, not knowing whether they recognized each other. It turned out that he was the young man who had been rumored in the past two days who dared to confront the old man. I was still curious about what happened to him and why he was standing there smoking alone.
Five minutes later, he threw away the cigarette butt and returned to the third floor, knocking on the door outside.
Quickly, Ye Lanqiu opened the door.
"Is it feeling better? I bought montmorillonite powder. The people at the pharmacy said it works quickly."
He put the medicine on the table, and just as he turned his head, he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance of shampoo, and fell into a person's arms.
Ye Lanqiu hugged his back tightly and leaned her face on his shoulder.
Lin Yue's subconsciously raised arm quickly lowered it, without saying anything, he just gently held her waist.
Neither of them spoke.
This silence lasted for six or seven minutes. As the last ray of sunlight moved outside the window, Ye Lanqiu said softly: "You smoked again."
"Um."
"You have to avoid me every time."
"Because smoking is harmful to health."
“Knowing that smoking is harmful to health, I still smoke.”
"I can't control it."
"I'm hungry, let's go eat."
"What do you want to eat"
“Dumplings stuffed with cuttlefish.”
"good."
…
Two hours later.
Chen Ruoxi's house.
Yang Shoucheng was sitting at the round table in the living room without turning on the light. Half of his face was immersed in darkness, and half of his face was illuminated by the light of the screen.
The TV picture kept flashing, but no sound came out.
After a while, with a soft click, the door opened from the outside, and Chen Ruoxi walked into the room carrying a shoulder bag.
Yang Shoucheng looked at his girlfriend who was changing her shoes and said expressionlessly: "Yang Jiaqi is gone."
"oh."
"Took away all her stuff."
"Really?" She threw her bag on the sofa, walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, took out a can of beer, pulled off the tab and took two sips into her mouth.
Yang Shoucheng turned around and said, "Don't you want to explain a few words to me?"
Chen Ruoxi asked, "Explain what?"
"Why are you doing this to her?"
"Then have you asked her why she did this to me?"
"How old is she? How could she know that Tang Xiaohua was trying to frame you? You have lived with her under the same roof for almost a year. Don't you know what kind of person she is?"
"People change." Chen Ruoxi said, "If I don't fight back, I will be fired, and you won't even have a place to live."
Yang Shoucheng roared: "So you sold Yang Jiaqi and published her name Chen Ruoxi on the TV station's website. What you did is really amazing."
Chen Ruoxi walked to the round table and sat down: "It is Director Lu's intention to announce her name, so that the employees of the TV station can take a warning and prevent similar things from happening again."
Yang Shoucheng said: "You media people, in order to make big news, you even use the people around you. Do you know that this is very vulgar and very despicable?"
"Yang Shoucheng, if I were the one who was fired today, would you also say that your cousin is vulgar and despicable? I'm afraid she is still young and doesn't know how sinister people are." Chen Ruoxi took another swig of beer and put the can on the table. Last lick.
"Chen Ruoxi, I think you are narrow-minded. At home, Yang Jiaqi is your servant, and at work, she is your follower. Now that she is about to become a full-time employee, she is still working in the "Ninghu Online" column Team, you can’t accept this, so just get rid of her because of the kickback.”
"Yang Shoucheng, what do you mean, are you also complaining about yourself?"
"Isn't it?" Yang Shoucheng glared angrily. Chen Ruoxi was the eldest sister in this family and she ordered them around at will.
"I've lived with you for three years, taking care of your food, drinking, living, and sleeping with you. In the end, I'm not as close as your cousin." She pinched the can and made dents: "Yang Shoucheng, I'm tired. I don’t want to argue with you anymore all day long.”
After saying this, she threw the can into the trash can, turned around and walked into the bedroom, opened her laptop, and wanted to see the data of the article she posted in the afternoon. Little did she know that a bubble popped up in the lower right corner of the tray, reminding her that she had received it. New mail.
When he clicked on the fifth anonymous email and took a look, his expression suddenly changed.
Good guy, this kind of thing actually happens.
It was really big news, big news. From her perspective as a reporter, once it was exposed, the sensation would definitely be much greater than the news that the second secretary of the chairman of Situo Group retaliated against the reporter who reported the Ye Lanqiu incident.
but……
Chen Ruoxi thought seriously for a moment, then gritted her teeth and found a self-media person in the group who was particularly bad at it, and sent him the attachment of the anonymous email.
