Chapter 45: The Past Covered by Smile
Unconsciously, it has been more than two years since I came to Hangzhou, and I have gradually adapted to the comfortable life of this misty town.
Yuan Meng and Liu Ziyang finally graduated and applied for the same university. The two still maintain the confusing and unconfirmable ignorant relationship, looking like a boss and secretary, neither ambiguous nor order.
In a word, the story about them may be when we get together and taste them when we are middle-aged or older, just like a collection of selected and simple jokes, and all kinds of unexpected chemical reactions produced by the two fools meeting together.
Ye Yichen and I seem to be the same. There is not too much ambiguity. When I first arrived in Hangzhou, I have been living like a young grandma in the residence arranged by Ye Yichen every day eating, sleeping and watching the scenery.
And he no longer likes me, but tries to integrate into my life and tries to satisfy and adapt me to everything here, including himself.
Although I still occasionally get angry because I don't like the way he speaks, he always accommodates me.
"Wow..." Mi Xiu suddenly ran out of the room and bit my trouser legs for a while.
"What's the matter, are you hungry?" I picked up Mi Xiu from the ground to communicate with him.
"Matcha Mousse." The store has begun to have guests, and this is the peak time of the noon passenger flow.
But the cry in my arms keeps screaming. It has never been like this before, and I don't know what's wrong with it. I had to send Ye Yichen to receive guests. I followed Mi Xiu to see what had happened. He was so anxious to drag me into the room.
"Ye Yichen, I want matcha mousse over there. You can get it. I'm going back to my room."
"Well, you go."
After I stabilized in Hangzhou, I opened a cake shop with the help of Ye Yichen. First of all, because I am also a greedy cat, I can't walk when I see desserts. Secondly, I can't always eat and drink his house here for nothing. Even if he says anything on the surface, I still feel sorry.
Although he paid for the money to open a shop, and he has also helped me work for free for a long time, I will definitely return it to him after I earn money, at least I have always thought so.
I was dragged all the way to the backyard of the store, which is also the house I live in. In order to facilitate the store, I moved once. Previously, I lived in a rental house near the West Lake, where the scenery was beautiful and I could easily have a panoramic view of the mountains and rivers. It is very suitable for me to go out to play in the mountains and rivers every day when I have nothing to do. .
But after I decided to support myself, after several turns, I finally found this place and quickly rented this single-door house for business and suitable for living. Although this store is not in the city center, there are many residential areas and office buildings nearby, so I feel that the business is not good. Wrong.
This room is not too large, and the structure without stairs is simple and applicable, which is exactly what I need.
"Mi Xiu, where on earth are you taking me?" I followed it all the way, and it seemed to know that my transfer speed was relatively slow, so it waited for me.
I came to the balcony where things were stored, and the door was slightly open, and there was a groaning sound inside. After Mi Xiu came to the door, he suddenly became quiet. He hid behind the door and motionless, as if he was asking me to open the door and rush in.
At this time, I was also a little scared. First, Mi Xiu dragged me here abnormally, and then there was an irregular groaning sound in the door. I began to worry about whether it was a thief at home.
I turned around and wanted to call Ye Yichen to come over, but as soon as I was about to leave, Mi Xiu bit my trouser leg and tried hard to pull me back.
Well, I have always thought that this small balcony has always been a place where I store food and some sugar flour. Which stupid thief would come to steal these things, so I dared to rush over and open the door!
At the moment of opening the door, a small white thing rolled down from a height, and then lay on the ground awkwardly looking at me and Mi Xiu, who was gloating beside him, and then hurriedly got up and shouted twice and fled.
Next to him, Mixiu seemed to be smiling, sitting happily next to me wagging his little tail, complacently.
I looked at the sausage scratched and eaten by small claws at the highest point of the balcony, and thought of the scene I saw when I opened the door, and I slowly understood.
Mi Xiu, a little bad guy, turned out that Laxiu didn't know how to climb up the window sill to eat the sausage I stored, but Mi Xiu, a fool, couldn't climb up, so he dragged me over to expose his own sister's crime.
Mi Xiu, a little guy, is really annoying and funny. I took down the sausages that had just been nibbled by Laxiu, and then divided them into the same amount and put them in their small bowls, so as to avoid internal conflicts because of delicious food.
After closing the door of the balcony, I came to the living room with a small bowl of repair. As I expected, it curled up in the gap between the water dispenser and the wall. I don't know why, every time it makes a mistake, it likes to hide there. It seems that it has developed a good habit of squatting in the corner of the wall and planting mushrooms since childhood.
I put the bowl under the table:
"La Xiu, you can't do this next time, you know? After the mushrooms are planted, I will come out to eat by myself, otherwise I can't control it if it is robbed by Mi Xiu. I know that they can understand everything I say.
I went back to the store. Because it took too much time, Ye Yichen had been pushed alone during the peak period. At this time, he was sweating and busy with the cake chef about the next batch of cakes to be put on the shelves. Our cakes were all made, so except for several displays at the front desk, they basically didn't do it every day. There will be leftovers.
The food trust crisis has spread in society. I can't say that I have suffered from it and I am very careful about the things I enter. Therefore, the reputation of the cake shop has been well established by me in the past six months, and the passenger flow is also very stable and increasing.
At 7 p.m., close the door on time as usual, clean up the store, go home for dinner, and then go to MSN to chat with Yuan Meng and go to bed, like this every day.
There is no winter in the south. Even in the cold winter, the temperature in Hangzhou is extremely comfortable, a bit like when summer is just coming in the north. It is a little hot at noon, and the morning and evening are comfortable and pleasant.
After experiencing the furnace-like summer, I especially cherish this rare coolness. When I am at home, I am particularly afraid of the heat, like a snow doll. As long as the temperature rises a little, I can't wait to change clothes.
" Luo Lin, my father will come back next week. Are you going to see him?" Ye Yichen pushed me to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for dinner.
"Go and meet me. I've been eating and drinking here for so long. Out of courtesy, I have to greet you."
"Actually, it doesn't matter how long you want to rub it."
"Then I will continue to eat and drink with you. In fact, I'm getting more and more used to it. If I suddenly ask me to go back one day, maybe I will still think Beijing is too cold." I joked.
"You don't have to go back. It's not good to take your mother here when your father retires."
"Stop talking, I'm kidding."
"I'm serious."
He suddenly loosened his wheelchair and came to me and squatted down to look at me: "Can you give me a chance to take care of you for a lifetime when I graduate? Let go of your heart. Since you are willing to come to Hangzhou with me, it means that you believe me.
He looked at me with a serious and persistent expression.
"If you have been here with me for a year without any relatives, you should know that I am a person who can do what I say. I don't want anything. As long as you nod your head now, I will have enough courage to continue to walk with you, even farther than you think.
At night, his beautiful face is full of sincerity. I know how much courage he needs to summon up to say this. I also know that if I agree at this moment, he will definitely stay by my side for the rest of his life as he said.
"No." I answered him almost without thinking.
"Why?"
"You know why."
"If I have to ask you, will you leave me like hiding from him?"
I was asked by his question. I don't know how to answer it correctly. Do you want me to hide or not? He always tries me when he has something to say.
Is it difficult to answer? Forget it if it's difficult. What do you want to eat tonight? He is like this again. Every time I was asked where he was, he quickly pulled the topic away and stopped talking to me.
I don't know if he is deliberately enduring himself or what he wants. I don't like it. It's better to make it clear at once.
"Are you tolerant?"
"Let's make some small steamed buns tomorrow. I want to eat them."
"In fact, you don't have to do this. Just say what you want to say. Don't make me feel that you are facing me angrily. You don't owe me. You have the right to do what you want to do and say what you want to say."
At the door of the supermarket, my voice became louder and louder with the ups and downs of my emotions. People around me looked at us intentionally or unintentionally. They probably felt that we were quarreling.
"You think too much. Can I be afraid of this place?" With that, he smiled at me, patted my head, completely ignored my roar, and continued to enter the supermarket.
"You can buy whatever you want to eat. I'll just stay here by myself."
So I stayed alone at the cashier to wait. I subconsciously touched the head he had just patted.
"Different feeling, why did he pat me on the head instead of..." I said to myself, and then my hand naturally touched the necklace that had never been taken off.
"Do you miss him?" Suddenly, Ye Yichen was as silent as an old cat. I don't know when he stood beside him. I didn't notice it at all.
I was shocked and quickly took my hand off my neck. I was not afraid that he would see or think more, but I didn't like to be peeped at my heart.
"What did you buy?"
I pretended to be stupid. In my impression, I didn't seem to tell him where the necklace came from. He is not a fool. I know he probably guessed who it was, but I don't think it's my own secret. There is no need to say anything like him.
"I will buy whatever you can." He pointed to the tomatoes in the plastic bag and said with a smile.
Yes, we have the same ability, that is, we can jump away from the topic we don't want to talk about.
When I got home, I made him my signature dish, scrambled eggs with tomatoes. In my impression, it seems that everyone who can't cook is very close to eggs. Although I don't like eggs very much, I haven't been able to dislike my craft.
The night was very quiet. He just buried his head in food and stopped talking as usual. After dinner, I returned to the school dormitory after washing the dishes as usual. I have never spent the night with me. Everything seemed as natural as usual but with some touch-and-moment emotions.