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Chapter 32 Loneliness and Tenderness

Human beings can always bear loneliness, but they cannot bear sudden care.

It was only at that evening that Shanwen learned about such a thing.

The woman in front of him smiled and handed him a handkerchief.

"Wipe off your sweat."

"Thank you." Shanwen took the veil shyly and thanked her repeatedly.

The woman lowered her head and smiled, looked at Shanwen whose ears and neck were blushing, and took the initiative to talk: "My name is Susie, and I am the waiter of this store. If you like our coffee in the future, you can come here often."

"Well, good." Shanwen nodded and didn't answer any more.

It was the woman who chatted with him about her affairs without saying a word.Seeing that Shanwen didn't speak much, Susie teased him with a smile.

"Muscular people like you can't imagine how cute you are when you're shy."

Shanwen scratched his head in embarrassment, and said seriously: "I'm a carpenter, and I usually go to the mountains to cut trees by myself. I often carry tree trunks by myself, and I develop muscles after a long time."

"Then your hands must be very skillful."

Susie smiled at Shanwen and Shanwen became dizzy.The woman in front of her was so charming that Shanwen, who was trying to come to this store for the first time, was sweating restlessly.

This was the first time he had talked about himself with a stranger.Growing up in an orphanage, he has a very withdrawn personality. He always doesn't like to play with others, but likes to hide in the corner and make small objects with wood.

Over time, he got used to being alone.Later, as an adult, he moved out of the orphanage and lived in reclusive life.

The work in the wood yard is always very hard, but Shanwen likes such a simple life.Until the month when he injured his finger, he was forced to lose his job and started to wander around, chatting awkwardly with others, trying to find a job that suits him.

"That." Shanwen's words interrupted Susie's laughter, and he raised his head to look at the woman in front of him, "Excuse me, is there any shortage of people here?"

Susie pondered for a moment, then called the boss, who looked Shanwen up and down, but did not give a clear answer: "You leave an address, go back first, once we have news, we will find you. "

Before leaving, Shanwen looked back at Susie, the woman smiled at him and made a cheering gesture to him.At that time, Shanwen felt that he seemed to have a different feeling for this woman.

"She's such an interesting person."

It snowed heavily that night, but Shanwen seemed to be in a good mood.Back at the door of the house, he saw an old newspaper thrown in the corner of the room, and there was a small thing shaking under it.

"This is."

Shanwen took away the newspaper, full of surprises.A panda-colored puppy was looking up at him in fear.Maybe it was fate, maybe it was Shanwen's pity for the little thing being abandoned, he picked up the little guy, wrapped it in his coat, and took it home.

Since then, he has had one more companion, and he doesn't seem so lonely anymore.

Shanwen thought happily, cleaned the little guy inside and out, found an unused cardboard box, and added a thick sofa cushion to make a nest for it.

"We are all abandoned guys, and we are dependent on each other."

The little guy screamed vigorously, and Shanwen's heart was a little touched. He touched the little guy's head and collapsed on the sofa.

"Such a difficult life, thank you for not despising a master like me."

The wind and snow outside are still howling, but this simple hut is extraordinarily warm tonight.

After that, although there was no news about that store, Shanwen went to many places to find a job, and finally settled down in a wooden handicraft store.

But he was in a strange relationship with Susie, and he would still go to that store every now and then.After coming and going, Susie also became familiar with him.

"Will you invite me to your house when I get off work?"

Looking at the smiling Susie in front of him, Shanwen was at a loss when he heard this sentence. He didn't know how he squeezed that good word out of his teeth that day, but nervously drank the ice water in front of him, chewing holding ice cubes in glass.

Although the house was very simple, but Shanwen kept it clean and tidy, very warm.When they opened the door, Jixiang threw himself into Shanwen's arms as usual, but seeing Susie next to her, she frowned calmly.

"Shanwen, I didn't expect you to be such a careful person. Ah, your dog is so cute."

"Fortunately."

Shanwen has never talked much.He put Jixiang down and poured Susie a glass of orange juice.

"I heard you are an orphan?" Susie took a sip of the orange juice and raised her head to ask Shanwen who was petting the dog.

"Yes."

"Were your parents' surname Lin?"

"Well, the dean seems to have said so. What's the matter?"

Shanwen raised her head and glanced at Susie. She hesitated for a long time, said nothing, and stopped talking, just drinking the juice with her head down.

The next day, Susie moved in with all her things, her big smiling face like a blooming rose.Shanwen didn't refuse, he just looked at Susie who was carrying a box outside the door, and couldn't believe his eyes.

"What's wrong? I'm not welcome?"

"No." Shanwen waved his hand and helped her carry things into the room.

Since then, Susie, who has been obedient to Shanwen, once made him think that he was in heaven, until Shanwen came home from get off work that day and saw the strange and cold faces in the room, staring at him up and down.

"This is Shanwen?" The leading man looked at him with a cold face, which made Shanwen feel scared.

"Yeah." Susie nodded, and stood aside obediently.

"How old are you this year?"

Shanwen looked at the cold face of the man in his 50s, feeling displeased.

"Does it matter?"

"You just answer me."

Shanwen watched Susie winking and smiling at him, he walked in and sat down on the sofa and answered casually: "27 years old."

In an instant, the middle-aged man's face was full of anger.He immediately got up and shouted at Susie: "This is not my son at all. He is older than my son. My lady, your salary may be ruined."

"What?" Susie screamed and chased after him, "It's impossible, he has a mole on the palm of his hand, he is an orphan, his biological father is surnamed Lin, and even the birthmark on his thigh can match, how is this possible!"

Shanwen looked at the open door, he suddenly felt dizzy, Susie's words hit his heart heavily, making him breathless.

He rushed into the bedroom and threw out Susie's things one by one. He didn't sit limply on the ground until the whole room was in a mess.Looking at the empty room, Jixiang ran over and rubbed his head against him. For the first time, he cried and laughed.

It turned out that the woman was only doing it for money, and it turned out that the tenderness of the past year was all an illusion.

Shanwen tried his best to forget all this and let himself go back to before Susie appeared, but Susie's every frown and smile kept flashing in front of his eyes, making him reminisce over and over again the short-lived happiness of this year.

All the tenderness is just the arsenic from the resurgence of loneliness, causing Shanwen to fall into hell from that moment on.

(End of this chapter)