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In mid-July, I was asked by my boss, Ning Qi, to attend the Alzheimer's Disease Association International Conference. A few days before my departure, I happened to give a leave of absence to my soon-to-be-married assistant Lin Ran, and I went to work on the last day of her work before her wedding leave. The store went to buy her a red envelope with a sense of ritual, and then knocked on her desktop when she got off work and said to drive her for a while, and then gave her the red envelope in the car.

After she took the red envelope and thanked me, she asked me who I would take with me at work, and asked me very distressed if it would be inconvenient.

During the peak hours of get off work, the car is basically blocked and unable to move. I move a few minutes. I usually stagger the peak hours when I get off work. I stay at the company for an extra half hour or an hour before returning home from work. Lin Ran came out ahead of time by wrapping a wedding red envelope.I laughed when I heard Lin Ran say: "It's really inconvenient, that young man is careless at work, and he doesn't even bother to write a report."

Lin Ran laughed and didn't say too much.

Lin Ran is very careful in handling things and is very measured. I really like her life and work attitude, but whenever she asks for leave, I have to find someone to replace her job, which is a bit distressing for me.

My car slowly moved a few steps in the traffic, and Lin Ran said again: "Otherwise, I'll fly over to help you after the wedding." After she finished speaking, she turned to look at me with a playful expression, "Who For being such a good boss."

The speed of the car in front finally picked up, and I stepped on the gas pedal: "No, I don't want to do such a wicked thing, you just get married and spend your honeymoon well, we'll wait for you to come back."

Lin Ran replied with a smile.

The congested road ahead finally cleared up. My car speeded up and overtook two cars in a row. Lin Ran said again: "I won't plan to have a child within three years." After she finished speaking, she laughed, "I I feel like I'm still a kid."

I glanced at her and replied casually, "Let it be."

Lin Ran said, "Okay, Brother Li, please put me down at the subway station ahead, lest you have to turn around, I'll be home in a few subway stops."

I hummed and pulled the car over. Lin Ran unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car. He stood in front of the car door and said goodbye to me with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Li."

I glanced at her and wished her very sincerely: "Happy wedding."

She smiled at me and waved to me. I closed the window and started the car. I turned around at the intersection ahead and drove back in the direction of my home.

I really wish Lin Ran happiness from the bottom of my heart, but things at work are very complicated, once you leave, someone must fill your vacancy.

This is beyond doubt. I don’t have any opinion on women, and I think they are great in themselves. They will indeed suffer losses in the same competitive environment as men, and they need to put in more effort than men.

I respect women and I respect Lin Ran, but that doesn't stop me from worrying about my assistant getting married and taking maternity leave, and the months-long leave derailed her from her job.

**

I went home after seeing Lin Ran off. I arrived home about 10 minutes later than usual. Qiushui was wearing a white T-shirt with a cartoon head on it and stood at the door of my house with his back against the wall. Since the kitten was brought back by me last week After we got home, Qiushui would come to my house every night after I got off work. He would only stay for about ten minutes, squatting in front of the cat to tease the cat the whole time, and sometimes he would bring some cat toys that he didn’t know where he came from. Mimi Mimi" cried, say goodbye to me after having fun with the cat and say come back tomorrow.

This time, I probably didn’t get a response when I knocked on the door, so I stood at the door and waited. I think he really likes small animals very much, and it’s not troublesome to run to my house every day.

When I opened the door, I asked him casually, "Have you eaten yet?"

Usually he would say he ate it, but this time he said, "I didn't eat it."

I raised my hand and looked at my watch, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.I don’t have much appetite at night, and I usually don’t eat much at night, so I usually don’t feel hungry when I get home from work at [-] o’clock. I have seen Qiushui’s appetite. Although he is very thin, his appetite is amazing. I feel that he will always eat on time. people.

"Why haven't you eaten so late?" I asked him.

Qiu Shui followed me to change my shoes, and while calling out "Mimi" to the kitten who trotted over, he said, "I tried new products in the store this afternoon. I drank a lot of water, and my stomach felt water shaking when I walked."

"Then is the water in your stomach shaken clean now?" I laughed.

Qiu Shui squatted and picked up the cat that was rubbing against his feet. He raised the cat with one hand and looked at the cat's eyes. He looked at the cat with no expression on his face: "Mimi, do you miss my brother?" ?”

I was delighted to hear this: "You've become it's brother so soon?"

Qiu Shui didn't reply, he carried the cat barefoot to the cat's litter, put the cat into the litter, sat on the floor looking down at the cat, and rubbed the cat's face with his fingers.

I went into the kitchen to wash my hands, and when I came out, one person and one cat were still interacting friendly on the ground, like two cats.

While wiping my hands, I asked Qiu Shui, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

He turned his head and glanced at me, and suddenly took on an anti-customer attitude: "Shall I cook noodles for you?"

It made me stunned for a moment, and I asked him curiously: "Instant noodles?"

He glanced at me: "Do you only have instant noodles at home?"

His rebuttal made me laugh, and I spread my hands at him: "There are any noodles, you can cook any noodles you want."

Qiu Shui touched the cat's head, clapped his hands and stood up from the ground. I pointed to the refrigerator: "It's all in there, you can look at it yourself?"

He hummed through his nose.

I sighed slowly, and couldn't hold back my teasing: "You promise you didn't want to poison me, right, Qiu Shui?"

Qiu Shui opened the refrigerator, and the voice came into my ears slowly from behind the refrigerator door: "You are so long-winded——"

**

Cooking noodles can be simple or complicated, but it is obvious that Qiushui cooks noodles in the former. He cooked two bowls of noodles very simply, and he also nested a poached egg that was not in a good shape. I went to the kitchen to serve the noodles. He was sprinkling scallions on his face, and turned to look at me after sprinkling.

I was like: "Great."

I saw Qiu Shui secretly rolled his eyes at me.

I accepted such a Qiushui who was easier to get along with very simply and strangely. I always felt that this was more like the little liar who tricked me into my mobile phone when we first met.

This is more real, and of course stronger.

Although Qiushui's cooking skills are mediocre, there will be no problem eating noodles. He wanted to get up and clean up the dishes, but I stopped him: "Later."

Qiu Shui sat back on the chair again, and the kitten was spinning around at his feet. Qiu Shui looked down under the table, then couldn't help but picked up the kitten and put it on his lap.

I said, "I'm going on a business trip the day after tomorrow, and it will take more than half a month."

Qiu Shui frowned, and said slowly and hesitantly, "Huh?"

I stretched out my fingers and stroked the cat on his lap: "I'll give you the home password, you can take care of it when you have time, and I'll give you an access card at the entrance of the community."

Qiu Shui let out a slow oh.

I laughed: "But you are very familiar with the security guard at the gate of our community, you can be let in every time."

Qiu Shui said: "I only know one, and when he's not around, I always come in with others."

I'm still amused: "Oh, you've worked hard."

Qiu Shui reached out and gently grabbed the cat's paw, shaking it like shaking hands with it.

I saw a reminder: "Its claws are just not long, don't shake it."

Qiu Shui stretched out two fingers to pinch the cat's paw, and said to me, "It's the other paw that was injured."

I hummed, and looked down at the cat, holding Qiushui's two fingers with its two paws, standing on Qiushui's lap, staring at Qiushui with round eyes.

I lowered my eyes to look at the cat: "Qiu Shui, take your things and sleep in the guest room. You can help me clean up at ordinary times. If you don't have anything to do, cook noodles or something and pay rent. You can raise your own cat."

Qiu Shui looked up at me.

Me: "What? Don't you want to?"

Qiu Shui hesitated for a moment.

I added: "I don't feel relieved about you as a minor."

I heard Qiu Shui whisper: "I'll be there soon."

This made me a little hard to answer, so I pretended I didn't hear it and asked, "What?"

Then Qiu Shui said, "Okay."

**

After a long time, I explained to Qiushui that Qiushui picked up the cat and adopted the cat, so I picked up Qiushui and "adopted" Qiushui.

When he squatted in front of the cat's nest with the cat, I always had the illusion that he and the cat were two homeless little animals.

After thinking about it, this illusion may be quite wonderful.Many things in the world may start from illusions.

For example, Qiushui's illusion about me, and my illusion about him and the cat.

Qiu Shui was 25 and six at the time, and his daily life was very fresh. He had endless things to share with me.

When the cat jumped onto the bed, he reached out and patted the edge of the bed: "Mimi, come to brother."

The cat jumped to his chest with light steps and let him stroke it. I looked at it and complained: "You will wake up from nightmares one night."

Qiu Shui moved it from his chest to the position between me and communicated with the cat pointing at me: "Dad is a bad guy, don't listen to his nonsense."

I sat by the bed and listened to the music: "Seniority is messed up, do you want to call me uncle or dad?"

Qiu Shui hugged the cat and wanted to turn around and ignore me, but the cat's character does not allow it to be manipulated by humans at will. After meowing, it jumped back to the ground from the bed with a kick of its legs, and walked out of the room wagging its tail.

There was a red mark on the back of Qiu Shui's hand before the cat kicked it. The cat's nails are trimmed regularly so there is no bleeding, but a red mark hurts to look at. Before I clicked out, Qiu Shui touched the back of his hand , complaining in a low voice: "Little heartless."

I listened to him complaining and imitated: "Little heartless."

Lying on the bed, he raised his hand and passed it in front of my eyes, and said without any emotion as usual: "Father, it hurts."

I let out a slow oh, and blew on his hand very cooperatively, and he withdrew his hand and put it back under the quilt: "I picked it up, and I fed it every day when it was a few months old." Cat food shovels cat feces, and it’s the first time I come to play with it during school holidays, and it even bullies me.”

I laughed out loud at the above sentence.

If you find him and adopt him, then I will find you and "adopt" you.This adoption is not considered an adoption in the traditional sense, but it was just casually stated in order to be symmetrical with the above sentence. After all, Qiushui University worked part-time during the work-study period, several days a week, in order to repay the money I lent him. .

Of course I don’t mind giving him money to spend. After all, money is more pure for me. Qiushui is more stubborn. The monthly salary is transferred to me regularly, and I have to save money and give me gifts during the holidays. .

One year he even gave me a new mobile phone. When he gave it to me, he told me that my mobile phone was still an old model, so he decided to buy a new one for me. The new mobile phone was a big expense for him. I was a little dazed when I got the things in my hands, and after I was dazed, I hugged him to my body and laughed: "Oh, my little darling, why are you so cute."

Qiu Shui's ears turned red when he heard the words, and he almost gritted his teeth and replied, "Don't talk like that."

I immediately hummed twice to say no more.

At that time, Qiu Shui was still a little boy, he would blush, be shy, and be embarrassed to tell me to shut up. After a few years, when he heard me say that I picked him up, he would stare at me without changing his face.

Then he countered me by saying——

"Li Cu, you made a mistake, I picked you up."

on a bridge.