Cleanliness

Time flies, and it is the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

This year, Xiao Tong got rid of the glitz and shadow of yesterday, and guarded her own small shop in a little-known place. , She has never felt it under the lens and spotlight.

Shangrong’s winter is colder than Jiang Yu’s. The first snow of this winter fell in front of us, and it fell intermittently until today. The outside of the house is covered with snow, but the indoor heating is fully turned on, and it’s as good as March in Yangchun. Warm and cozy.

In winter, the days are short and the dawn is late, and Xiao Tong’s opening of the store has been delayed a lot. She got up early in the morning, washed up and opened the store. She sat lazily in the store with a cup of hot milk and looked at the snow outside. Half of her bones were weakened, and she collapsed in the thick and soft rocking chair, just wanting to be so crooked, unable to get up the energy to work.

"Master, are you awake? It's just right, come and have breakfast, it's just out of the pan, and it's hot." Chen Hui is a young man, very energetic, and he woke up early. When he got up, he cleaned the shop first. Before Tong came down, he went to the store next door to buy breakfast.

As soon as Chen Hui opened the door, the air-conditioning outside the house went straight in. Xiao Tong was afraid of the cold, so she quickly wrapped up a blanket. When Chen Hui closed the door again and the room warmed up, she wore velvet slippers and followed Chen Hui slowly. up the restaurant.

Originally, the entire first floor was a facade, but later Chen Hui said that the two of them ate breakfast, lunch and dinner on the first floor, so it would be better to organize a small restaurant, which would be more convenient for eating. After thinking about it carefully, Xiao Tong felt that Chen Hui said It made sense, so I changed the layout of the store, separated a small space in the back, put a square table, and counted it as a restaurant.The two of them didn't have to squeeze together a small workbench and eat with their heads touching each other.

Winter consumes a lot of energy, drinking porridge in the morning can’t sustain a day’s work, so Xiao Tong also eats porridge with steamed buns, she can’t eat a whole, so usually one steamed bun is cut in half, Xiao Tong eats half, Chen Hui ate one and a half.

The porridge this morning tasted different from the usual one. Chen Hui had just opened the lid, and Xiao Tong hadn't tasted it yet, so he could smell it, "Didn't you buy it next door earlier today?"

"I bought it next door." Chen Hui gave Xiao Tong the porridge with green vegetables and lean meat, and the porridge with preserved egg and lean meat. Chewed up, "But the beautiful female boss next door is not here today, and their staff brought me breakfast." Chen Hui took a sip of the porridge, "Hey, the beautiful female boss is not here, and her customers have lost a lot. Mostly."

"Is it so exaggerated?" Xiao Tong scolded with a smile, "You spend all your time on these crooked ways. I think you should put in more effort in sewing to be serious. How long has it been? crooked."

"Oh, my master, I really worked hard, okay? I'm just a little clumsy, please give me more time, and say such spoiling things early in the morning, alas, I don't have any appetite for dinner."

Xiao Tong smiled and said, "I see you didn't miss a bite."

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but the porridge is still the same, but today's porridge is not as delicious as usual. After eating half a bowl, Xiao Tong couldn't eat any more. He put down the bowl and waited for Chen Hui to finish eating. shop.

No one wants to go out in the winter, and the business in Xiao Tong's store is much quieter. After Chen Hui cleaned the store, he ran to the back to practice his sewing skills with the leftover cloth heads and old clothes, while Xiao Tong took advantage of his spare time. I counted the new batch of goods that came in two days ago, and went to the back after counting to instruct Chen Hui on the operation.

It gets dark early in winter, and Xiao Tong closes the store at four o'clock in the afternoon. Today is Chen Hui's birthday. When Chen Hui first arrived, Xiao Tong registered her ID card. Anhui smiled nonchalantly, "There's nothing I like, Master, if you really want to celebrate with me, why don't we cook a few hard dishes and have a good meal, it's lively and affordable."

"That's fine, what do you want to eat?"

"Really?" Chen Hui didn't expect that Xiao Tong would really care about celebrating her birthday. He was so happy and excited that he couldn't see his eyes from laughing, "Then I want to eat pork knuckle in sauce, sweet and sour fish, braised in soy sauce Meat……"

Chen Hui talked about seven or eight dishes in a row, all of which were thick and oily. Xiao Tongguang felt tired and flustered after hearing her talk, "Wait, can you finish all these dishes?"

"Ah? How much?" Chen Hui thought for a while, and it seemed a little too much, "Then let's go to the first three items, pork belly in sauce, sweet and sour fish, and braised pork."

"Okay, then let's close early and have an early dinner. You can also bring some food to have a good meal with your grandma in the evening. You haven't been back for more than two months. She must miss you too."

"Oh, master, you don't know. If I don't go back, I feel sorry for her old man, but as soon as I go back, she keeps nagging me. I'm so annoyed. I really want to plug my ears with two balls of cotton."

"Just be content with it. There are still people who are willing to nudge you. I want to be nagged, but I don't have this chance."

"Master, you are coaxing me, what's good about being nagged about."

Xiao Tong didn't argue with her, just smiled, seeing that Chen Hui's line was about to go astray again, he reminded her a few words.

Other people's experience is someone else's after all, even if Xiao Tong tells Chen Hui how to cherish it now, Chen Hui may not listen to it, only after experiencing and losing, Chen Hui can experience that feeling, or regret or sadness, he has to experience it by himself Once you know what it is.

In the afternoon, when Xiao Tong was pouring marinade into the pot to make sauced elbows, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

"Chen Hui, go and open the door, I have my hand here."

"Okay!" Chen Weiqing was halfway through washing, shook the water off his hands, and hopped to open the door, and was startled when he opened the door.

Chen Hui did know the person who came, she was the beautiful female owner of the early shop next door, but she looked a bit scary, with disheveled hair, pale face, chapped lips, and pajamas on her body, she looked like a female ghost at first glance, Chen Hui was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly, "You you you...who are you looking for?"

Yu Qinghan leaned against the door frame, gasping for breath, "Is there any anti-fever medicine? Lend me two."

"Are you sick?" As soon as the words came out, Chen Hui scolded herself secretly. Isn't this nonsense? Look at this man's listless look, and he came to borrow anti-fever medicine again, isn't it just sick?

"Who is it?" Xiao Tong put her elbows in the pot, covered the pot and turned on the fire, and finally freed her hands. She thought some guests had come to the house, so she ran to the door wearing an apron to look, and was stunned when she saw Yu Qinghan son.

"I've caught a cold." Yu Qinghan looked at her sickly, and forced a smile, "Is there any antipyretic? Lend me two pills."

"Yes." Xiao Tong nodded, turned around and went to the drawer of the TV cabinet in the living room to get the medicine box. After searching for a while, he found all the antipyretics, anti-inflammatory medicines, cold medicines, and thermometers, put them in a sealed bag and gave them to Yu Qinghan , "You take it all."

"Hey, I knew you couldn't bear to see me get sick." Yu Qinghan was so sick that he didn't even have the strength to stand up, but he still didn't forget his humble mouth, and he wanted to say this to make Xiao Tong look bad, she took it Xiao Tong held the sealed bag of medicine in his hand, but he didn't hurry to leave, he sniffed, "What are you doing that smells so fragrant?"

"You are sick and your nose is still so good?" Chen Hui was startled, "My master gave me the stewed elbow. Today is my birthday, and my master specially made it for me!"

Chen Hui's tone was full of pride, and he didn't notice the flash of loneliness in Yu Qinghan's eyes. Yu Qinghan covered his mouth and coughed suppressedly, and then laughed, "Really? Then I wish you a happy birthday." , don't delay you, I'll go back and lie down for a while, my head hurts."

"Hey..." Seeing her like this, Chen Hui couldn't bear it, and called her back, "Have you eaten yet? Why don't you eat with us?" After speaking, she was afraid that Xiao Tong would blame herself for making her own decisions, so she looked back Xiao Tong took a look.

Yu Qinghan also looked at Xiao Tong, lowered his head and coughed lightly, still smiled, and waved his hand to refuse, "Forget it, you guys...take it slowly, thank you for this medicine."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Chen Hui to invite again, she turned around and left.

Looking at her back, Chen Hui suddenly realized, "No wonder I didn't see her when I went shopping this morning. It turned out that she was ill, and she seemed to be seriously ill. Master, tell me..." Chen Hui turned to look for Xiao Xiao. Tong, who knows that Xiao Tong has already gone back to the kitchen.

Chen Hui is a stupid person, and she can see that there is a problem between Xiao Tong and Yu Qinghan, but it seems that Yu Qinghan still cares about Xiao Tong, but she doesn't know why Xiao Tong is so indifferent to Yu Qinghan.

In the end it was the master's own business, Chen Hui didn't want to ask more, so she left it behind and continued to help her master prepare dinner.

The climate in Shangrong is changeable. Yu Qinghan just came here and didn't get used to it. The night before, he felt a little pain in his eyes. He didn't pay attention to it. He thought it was because he was too tired these days and didn't have a good rest. My whole body was cold, my hands and feet were sore and numb, and I couldn't exert any strength from my whole body.

If Yu Qinghan was in Jiang Yu, she could still call a doctor to come and take a look, but now she is in Shangrong, and the only person she knows is Xiao Tong, and now she is suddenly ill, and no one can pour water if she wants to drink a cup.

Yu Qinghan lay dizzy on the bed, her head hurt and her body was very cold, so she still didn't forget to call to explain what happened in the store, and after hanging up the phone, she secretly fantasized about whether Xiao Tong found out that she didn't go to the store today Here, guessing that you are sick, will you come and see yourself?

Later, it was proved that this was nothing more than self-deception. Now Xiao Tong thought it unnecessary to even look at her, so how could he care about why she didn't go to the store?Yu Qinghan thought, it's rare for him to stop dangling in front of her one day, maybe she won't be too happy if she is happy.

She just thought about it in the afternoon, she didn't eat or drink for a day, and she recovered some strength in the evening, so she asked Xiao Tong to borrow some medicine.

Hey, anyway, it's better than it used to be.Yu Qinghan thought bitterly, at least Xiao Tong saw that he had a cold, and prepared several medicines for himself, this is progress!Thinking of this, Yu Qinghan's heart vibrated, and even his steps became a little lighter.

Yu Qinghan returned to her residence, and unexpectedly found a guest.

"Aran? Why are you here?"

"Why, you're not welcome?" Chang Linran leaned against the door with her arms crossed, raised her eyebrows to look at her, and saw her pale lips, so she quickly stepped forward to help her, "What's the matter? Why is it so hot? No, I'll see you off." You go to the hospital."

"No need." Yu Qinghan pushed her hand away, took out the key to open the door, "I just have a cold, take the medicine and sleep and it will be fine."

"Your head is so hot that you can spread eggs, you call this 'a little cold'?" Chang Linran was so angry that he couldn't help laughing, and followed Yu Qinghan into the room, "Heh, your house is as good as the doghouse. It’s almost the same. Hey, I’m wondering, didn’t you have a cleanliness before? How could you tolerate yourself living in this kind of garbage dump?”

"It's enough to be able to live. What's the point of being poor?" Yu Qinghan was dizzy and weak, not in the mood to pay attention to Chang Linran's teasing, poured himself a glass of warm water, took a few pills of each medicine from Xiao Tong, covered her Sweating on the quilt.

It's really strange that these words came out of Yu Qinghan's mouth. Yu Qinghan used to have a bad habit of being poor and fastidious. Chang Linran remembered that he used to make fun of her with this sentence. After so many years of making fun of her, she didn't change it. , now it's good, no one is sarcasm, she changed it on her own consciousness.But the change was so thorough that it went from one extreme to the other.

"Why are you here?" Yu Qinghan asked again.

"I just got busy with the case some time ago, and I'm going to take a long vacation for myself and go to the south to spend the winter or something. Didn't this remind me that I still have an old friend, and I flew around to see you on purpose. I didn't expect you to be a dog. Biting Lu Dongbin is so ungrateful."

"Hurry up, I'm not in the mood to be poor with you now."

"Okay, okay, I'm not poor anymore, let's be serious." Chang Linran coughed and found that he didn't seem to have anything serious to say, so he asked, "Then what, are you hungry? Let me get you something to eat? "

Yu Qinghan and Chang Linran have been together for more than [-] years, and she has never heard that Chang Linran can cook, but she hasn't eaten for a day, and she is really hungry now, "There is nothing in the refrigerator, it seems that there is still There is a handful of noodles, you can get some as you like."

"Okay." Chang Linran took out his phone and opened the takeaway app, "What kind of noodles do you want? Pork bone ramen? Chicken soup noodles? Beef noodles? Seafood noodles?"

"..." Yu Qinghan thought that he really looked up to her, "Call me a bowl of porridge, and two side dishes by the way."

"Okay." Chang Linran ordered what Yu Qinghan said, added a few more things he wanted to eat, asked for the address, and placed an order.

While waiting for the takeaway, Chang Linran found a chair in the pile of clothes and sat down beside Yu Qinghan's bed, "At that time, I heard from your brother that you came back to Shangrong again, and thought you had already taken Xiao Tong chased him back, and he is living with Meimei, I didn’t expect you to follow Xiao Tong’s ass and pretend to be a grandson, look at you now, let your former lovers see it, and they won’t laugh at you to death.”

Yu Qinghan sniffed, "What are you pretending to be a grandson, I am the real grandson in front of her now, as long as I can chase Xiao Tong back, let alone pretending to be a grandson, I will admit to pretending to be a bastard."

"You have the awareness now, why did you go? I didn't say you, Yu Qinghan, you are cheap. Think about how you treated Xiao Tong in the past? Xiao Tong has a good temper and can bear it. You have to change it If it's me, you've already broken two bones, how can you still dance in front of me?"

"I want her to break two of my bones. I'm afraid she will dirty her hands if she beats me now."

Chang Linran and Yu Qinghan grew up wearing a pair of trousers for friendship, and they are used to Yu Qinghan being domineering and defiant, when did she ever see her like this?Feeling surprised for a moment, "No, Yu Qinghan, are you really playing?"

"It's not just for fun, it's for real. Anyway, I've been guarding Xiao Tong all my life. I'll go wherever she goes. The things I did in the past are not as good as I admit. Now I have to blame for this. She can forgive me." I'm happy, I don't care if she doesn't forgive me, as long as I can still see her in front of me, I'm content."

"Tsk tsk, it really doesn't seem like you can say that."

"Otherwise, what else can it do?" Yu Qinghan smiled wryly, "If I could let it go, I would have let it go long ago."

"As an afterthought, I knew you were going to have a big fall with Xiao Tong."

"I knew you didn't remind me."

"I've reminded you several times, do you listen?" Chang Linran smiled sarcastically, "If you, Yu Qinghan, listened to people's persuasion, why did you get into this field now, Yu Qinghan, you are used to it smoothly, there is a Big brother escorts you, who do you think you have seen since you were a child? Only after this stumble will you know that the world does not revolve around you alone."

"Yeah, I know now." Yu Qinghan sighed, "But this stumble really hurts..."

"A little pain is good, a little pain is a long memory."

"..."

After that, the two of them didn't talk anymore, the takeaway was delivered, Yu Qinghan half-lyed on the bed and finished eating silently, Chang Linran poured a cup of warm water for her to rinse her mouth, and called the housekeeper to clean up Yu Qinghan's kennel-like house .

Yu Qinghan took the medicine and slept all night, sweating all over, the next morning the fever subsided, and he woke up, Chang Linran was also ready to leave.

"I'll see you off?" Yu Qinghan said.

"Okay, I want you to be polite here with me. When you catch a cold and get sick again, your brother still has to come to see me with a knife? You can sleep well at home."

Not long after Chang Linran left, Yu Qinghan also got up, cleaned herself up, and gave her back the medicine Xiao Tong gave her.

Xiao Tong knew that Yu Qinghan was ill, but she didn't say a word of greetings all night, she could do this, to be honest, Yu Qinghan had already given up.

Just like what she said to Chang Linran herself, now Yu Qinghan no longer expects Xiao Tong to forgive or not, being able to be by Xiao Tong's side, knowing that Xiao Tong is living well, Yu Qinghan is already content.

When Yu Qinghan went to Xiao Tong's shop, only Chen Hui was there, Yu Qinghan asked: "Where's your master?"

"What about taking a nap, do you have something to do with her?"

"It's nothing serious, just return the medicine to her, and say thank you to her by the way, as long as she's resting, forget it, and I'll come back in the afternoon."

"She has been sleeping for more than half an hour, and she will come down in a few minutes. You can wait a while, so as not to run again later, it is very troublesome in cold weather."

Yu Qinghan thought about it, and waited in the store.

"What are you doing?" Yu Qinghan asked Chen Hui.

Chen Hui said, "Read a book."

"What book do you read?"

Chen Hui held up her book: "Introduction to the Basics of Clothing Sampling."

"Study hard, your master is very powerful, you can't embarrass her."

When she said this, Chen Hui got excited, and stopped reading the book, leaned closer to Yu Qinghan and asked gossipingly, "Hey, do you have some unknown story with my master?"

"..." Yu Qinghan glanced at her lightly, "Kids don't meddle in adults' affairs."

"Who is a child? I'm seventeen! I'll be an adult next year!" Chen Hui is most annoyed by others making stories about her age, "Tell me, are you afraid that I will find out that you are gay? Don't worry, I Very enlightened! I will never have any opinion of you! Besides, my master is such a good person, it is normal for you to like her, as the saying goes, a fair lady..."

"Shut up." Yu Qinghan was so annoyed by Chen Hui that his mind was buzzing, "You are so young, why are you like Tang Seng?"

"I don't care about you..." Chen Hui muttered, "Tell me the truth, do you like my master?"

Chen Hui stretched her neck and waited to hear the gossip, but Xiao Tong had already finished her afternoon nap and went downstairs, "Chen Hui, you are lazy again."

What is the scariest thing in the world?It's just that you gossip about your boss, and your boss just overheard it.

Chen Hui's back felt cold, and he found a reason to slip away with a dry smile.

Xiao Tong yawned and went downstairs, and asked Yu Qinghan, "What's the matter?"

"Ah." Yu Qinghan replied, "Thank you for the medicine, it's very effective."

Xiao Tong looked at the bag Yu Qinghan handed over, but didn't take it, "You keep it."

"Ok?"

"Don't get me wrong." Xiao Tong smiled lightly, "I'm not used to using things that others have used. I'll throw away these medicines when you return them. It's better to give them to you so as not to waste them."

Yu Qinghan's heart felt sore, her mouth was slightly bitter, and she gave a seemingly innocent smile, "Then...thank you very much."

"Ah."

Xiao Tong thought that Yu Qinghan would leave after talking about this matter, but she didn't expect that she had been standing still, there must be other things, in order to let this person get out early, Xiao Tong asked again: "Is there anything else?"

"Yes." Yu Qinghan faltered, "That's right, well, Chinese New Year is coming soon, I want to ask if you have any plans? If you go back to Jiang Yu, we can be a companion."

Xiao Tong said: "No need."

"Why? Do you have other plans?"

Xiao Tong didn't answer, just looked at Yu Qinghan and smiled, there was no emotion in the smile.

Yu Qinghan knew that she was out of line again, "Sorry."

"Miss Yu, please go back if you have nothing to do."

"Okay... your medicine, thanks again."

Looking at Yu Qinghan's back, Xiao Tong thought, Yu Qinghan has really changed.

But what does this have to do with Xiao Tong?

The author has something to say: March Totem, a woman destined to enter a small dark room.