Don't you say I'm a substitute

33.

The shelf life of rubber gloves is ten years.

The shelf life of the disinfectant is four years.

The shelf life of eye drops is three and a half years.

The shelf life of the hand cream is three years.

The shelf life of throat lozenges is two years.

The shelf life of black tea is one and a half years.

Chocolate has a shelf life of nine months.

Yogurt has a shelf life of 21 days.

The shelf life of bread is three days.

Common sense tells the world that everything should be consumed and used within the shelf life, and once the definite period has passed, it must be discarded.

Zheng Zaochun felt that Lu Haoze had taught him one thing in five years, that is, the so-called love at first sight has a shelf life, and within that period, no matter what he said or did to him, in his eyes he was the beautiful , a shining existence.And he will always be attracted by this light, a heart seems to have wings, flapping and involuntarily flying towards him.At that time, he was sensitive all day long and worried about gains and losses. He would worry all night because of one of his unintentional words, would be extremely happy because of one of his unconscious actions, and would spend the whole day on fireworks because of one of his little hobbies. In the haunted kitchen, because he wanted a son, he would secretly conceal his mildly depressed condition and take risks without hesitation.Because of loving him, he bravely faced his deformed and weird physique, without complaint or regret, because of loving him, he also became cowardly and vulnerable, and finally had no choice but to leave with regret.

Before meeting Lu Haoze, Zheng Zaochun's life was so simple that it could be described as lackluster. He was born in a small county town and spent a few years of carefree life with his parents before graduating from junior high school. However, a car accident took the life of his father Since then, my mother has been depressed all day long, and died of lung cancer within two years.After that, he dropped out of school and went to work in the city. Because he had no academic qualifications or skills, he could only do odd jobs and sell physical strength. Just when he thought that his life was basically fixed in that smoky urban-rural fringe, fate raised his head and made him He saw Lu Haoze.

That day, as usual, he helped wipe the tables in the store and clear away the dishes. When he wiped a table by the window, he raised his head slightly and wiped the sweat from his head with the back of his hand, and unexpectedly met a pair of dark brown eyes. eye.This pair of deep eyes belonged to a tall and strong man with regular features, black eyebrows, high nose bridge, thin lips, and a tall and strong figure. The man was wearing a neat suit and his hair was meticulously combed. His watch and leather shoes were polished brightly, and his whole body was impeccable. Zheng Zaochun felt that the appearance of a man seemed abrupt and strange in this place where ordinary salaried people came and went.

Perhaps it was because the eyes looking at the man were too fierce, the man lowered his head, and suddenly met Zheng Zaochun's eyes.The moment their eyes met, both of them were slightly stunned.Zheng Zaochun was the first to react, as if he was caught stealing something, he quickly turned his eyes away and concentrated on his work.

When he finished wiping the table and straightened up, pretending to glance outside inadvertently, there was no one outside the window.However, before Zheng Zaochun had time to calm down the little disappointment in his heart, he was called by the customer at the cashier to check out.

"Hey, here we come. Let me do the math...the total is 82 yuan. I'll charge you one hundred and find you eighteen. Welcome to visit me next time!"

"Hi, customer, may I ask which table you are at..." Zheng Zaochun finished drawing out the last checkout slip, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw a customer standing behind the counter, and was about to ask him which table he was at for the checkout , looked up and saw a corner of the man's silver-gray suit.

"Oh, I'm not here for dinner. I want to ask, brother, do you know where there is a car repair shop nearby? My car broke down on the road. I can't contact the insurance company at the moment, and my phone is almost out of battery." The man shook the phone in his hand.

"Car repair shop? Well, it seems that this road can't go far until you turn left at the end, and there is a small alley on the right hand side..." Zheng Zaochun's eardrums buzzed with the huge heartbeat.

"Okay, thank you." The man left after finishing speaking, Zheng Zaochun watched his back as he left the restaurant.

It turned out that the car broke down, otherwise how could such an outstanding person appear here, Zheng Zaochun felt sad.

Just when he thought he would never see a man again in this life, the man appeared in front of the store again.

"I'm back again, thank you, I found a place to repair the car, but they said they would have to wait for about half an hour to tow the car for me, and I haven't had lunch yet, what delicious dishes do you have in the store, fried two Come on."

The man picked the table closest to the cashier and said to Zheng Zaochun who was still in a daze while sitting down.

"Hello, brother?" The man shook his hand.

"Ah? Oh! What do you want to eat?" Zheng Zaochun grabbed the menu and walked out of the cash register.He watched as the man received the one-sided plastic greasy menu, frowned slightly, put it on the table unnaturally, and rubbed his fingers quietly.Witnessing this scene, Zheng Zaochun blushed with shame. He must have disliked the bad environment in their store. People like him should go to those high-end restaurants to eat. The small restaurants here really wronged him up...

"What do you recommend?"

"...Fish-flavored shredded pork, tiger-skin green peppers." Just as the man exhausted his patience and turned his gaze back to the menu, Zheng Zaochun slowly ordered two dishes.

The fish-flavored shredded pork is the chef's specialty, and the tiger-skin green peppers are fresh green peppers that were delivered this morning. Zheng Zaochun thought about these two answers.

"Okay, just these two, another bowl of rice, please hurry up, I have to repair the car." The man pushed the menu away with a finger.

"Okay, please wait a moment." Zheng Zaochun wished he could grab the blushing menu and find a crack in the floor.

After going to the back kitchen to place an order, Zheng Zaochun took out a teacup from the disinfection cabinet, thought about it, went to the kitchen, scalded the teacup inside and out with boiling water, and wiped it carefully with a clean dishcloth. , took it in his hand and went to the man's table.

"Please use the tea, the food will be ready soon." Zheng Zaochun stood beside the man pouring tea, he could feel his eyes staring at his hand pouring the tea, and he was suddenly very nervous.

"Okay, don't make it too full." The man reached out his hand to stop Zheng Zaochun when the teacup was filled two-thirds full.

ah!Zheng Zaochun's heart skipped a beat, he touched him!His face was gradually stained with a red cloud.

"Teacher Zheng? Teacher Zheng!" A burst of shouts pulled Zheng Zaochun out of his memories.

"Ok?"

"Mr. Zheng, are you in a daze again? I called you several times!"

"Oh, sorry, what's the matter?"

"Ms. Zhang asked you to go to his office."

"Okay, thank you, I'll go right away..."

At the same time, Lu Haoze was listening to his friends at the police station analyzing the results of the investigation.

"Looking at the record of taking the train, he went to three places and finally arrived in City C, so I think it is very likely that he settled in City C."

Lu Haoze looked at the two documents on the table, one was the record of opening a house, and the other was his travel record by rail and air.

"Are you listening?" On the opposite side, Lu Haoze's dark circles were almost dragging to the ground, his beard was unshaven and he didn't trim it, and he exuded a lethargic aura all over his body.Seeing him like this, my friend was quite helpless. When he said he was looking for someone, he yelled like something, but now he was talking to him about business, but he always looked like God was there.

"Your opening record, he opened it alone today?"

"That should be what's written in the record."

"Is it possible that two people live in one room but only use one ID card?"

"It's unlikely. In all hotels now, every guest staying in must provide a certificate. Without a room card, the elevator cannot enter."

"Oh..." Hearing such an answer, Lu Haoze didn't know how to feel. Maybe he could further guess that Zheng Zaochun opened the room and led Tian Cong in, but another more logical guess became more and more eye-catching. Come to think of it, Zheng Zaochun lived alone in the shop.

"Wait a minute, I'll go out and make a phone call, and I'll be right back." Lu Haoze picked up his phone and got up and went to the corridor.

After finally finding the call records of that day, he found the number and called back. The call was quickly connected, but it was not the person he was looking for.

"Hello?" A boy's voice came from the phone.

"Hello? Is this Tian Cong's phone?" Lu Haoze said.

"That's right, Boss Lu, what do you want from him? He just went to take a shower." There was an obvious sense of comfort in the tone on the other side.

"How do you know it's me..." Lu Haoze was very surprised, a thought flashed through his mind, and it disappeared before he had time to catch it.

"Does the photo look good?" The other party chuckled.

Hearing these words, Lu Haoze's face darkened.

"It's you." He asked coldly.

"you guess?"

"Name."

"Jin Jiajun."

"Why." The other party should know what he is asking.

"My child has reached the rebellious period, so it's hard to manage, so why don't you come and help me?"

"What good will it do you to make Zheng Zaochun and I disagree?"

"Who said I'm going to make you disagree? I just reminded you to watch your own people closely. Wait, did you beat him?" Jin Jiajun asked curiously.

"...No. So that night..." Lu Haoze slid his Adam's apple twice with difficulty.

"Oh, that day! Your kid ran away by himself, and I went back and educated my wicked nephew all night. What? You really beat him? No wonder he ran away and didn't get along with you..."

"Dead uncle, who are you talking to on my phone?!" Suddenly Tian Congzhong's angry roar came from far and near through the receiver.

"Beep beep..." The call was immediately dropped.Well, I just happen to have nothing to ask.

Lu Haoze put down the phone, his heart felt like a boulder was pressing down on him, making him out of breath.The worst guess came true. It really was someone who was behind the scenes with ulterior motives, and he might really have misunderstood Zheng Zaochun.Lu Haoze covered his eyes in despair, why, why didn't he ask what was going on that day, what happened in the hot spring hotel, whether he was forced to take that photo, and how did he end up at two o'clock in the morning? I rushed to the foot of the mountain seven or eight kilometers away from the hot spring hotel...

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-" Lu Haoze's thoughts were interrupted by the vibrating sound of the phone, and he looked down, it was still the same number.

"Hey, it's me, Tian Cong. Don't believe anything that bitch told you just now!" Tian Cong's tone was urgent, and his voice sounded like he was going crazy.

"Oh, good..." Hearing Tian Cong's childish words, Lu Haoze didn't know how to feel, there was always a sense of shame that he would mistake such a person for a rival in love.

"Ahem, let me talk to you about business. You can meet me when you have time. I have a letter that seems to be sent to you by Zheng Zaochun, but I wrote a wrong number in the address and returned it to the school. I don't know about you. when do you have time……"

"I have time now!" Lu Haoze rushed to say.

"Uh, well, then, see you at the coffee shop in front of the school. I'll be here for a while, and I'll contact you when I leave."

"it is good!"

The unexpected news made Lu Haoze both excited and apprehensive, a letter, a letter from Zheng Zaochun.What would he say to him?Will explain why he ran away from home?Will you tell him where he went?Lu Haoze realized that he was going into a daze now, he was so eager to find even a little bit of clues about Zheng Zaochun.

"Lu Haoze! Do you still want to find your people? I still have work to do!" The friend from the police station waited in the room for a long time and no one came back, so he opened the door and came out to ask.

"Ah? Oh... listen to me, go back and continue talking..."

Two hours later, Tian Cong and Lu Haoze sat face to face in the coffee shop.

"Have you found Zheng Zaochun?" Tian Cong asked first.

Lu Haoze shook his head.

"Hey, I was also at fault in this matter. I failed his trust..."

Lu Haoze waited silently for him to continue.

"At the beginning, I just wanted to put on a show. Although I got along well with him on the surface, I actually didn't like his sissy character at all. But after getting along with him slowly, I found that he was very serious no matter how he behaved. He is the kind of person who is very hardworking and positive in everything. This is very attractive to me. It happened that he didn’t like to talk to me at that time... Anyway, I really thought about going with him Okay... You know what happened later, I betrayed our friendship, maybe part of the reason why he dropped out of school and ran away from home is because I felt sorry for him..."

"That day, you guys..." Lu Haoze couldn't wait to hear Tian Cong's next answer.

"No." Tian Cong replied crisply, "When I carried him into the room, my...uncle was already waiting for me... Later, Zheng Zheng stumbled away by himself, I, I had no time to chase... "

With the suspicious blush on Ueda Cong's face, Lu Haoze can almost restore the whole story of that day, but what's the use of talking about it now? !

"Where's my letter?"

"Here." Tian Cong also expressed his pleasure at changing the subject.

"Thank you. I have to leave beforehand. If you have any news about him, please let me know."

"Ah."

Lu Haoze hurried back to the car, took a deep breath, and opened the letter with "unknown address, return to sender" on the face.

No.

It wasn't the letter Zheng Zaochun had left for him inside. There was only a thin piece of paper folded in four inside the envelope. When he opened it, the word "agreement" on the title pierced Lu Haoze's heart.

That's right, this is the agreement that Lu Haoze forced Zheng Zaochun to sign five years ago. In the blank space of the terms, he saw a sentence that he neatly filled in with black pen:

9. Party B voluntarily gives up the child and the compensation, and leaves automatically when the time expires, so this agreement will be terminated from now on.

The author has something to say:

Because I recently picked up my Onmyoji account again... so, emmmmmmm, the update may not be so fast, haha, hahaha... Just kidding...

Next is the process of climbing mountains and wading to chase after your wife. Those who want to see face-slapping can sit down in front of the stage hehehe~~~

Thank you for your support as always, it's the last month of 17, come on!