Non-Human Egg Guide

In the old street where the scenery has never changed, people are selling almost extinct snacks and toys, and old popsicles in foam boxes.Small spinning tops made of plastic, popcorn popped out of old-fashioned machines, whipped candy next to the cotton candy machine, and ice cubes frozen in soda.

These only existed in Yan Xu's memory, but at this moment, those memories suddenly became clear.

It seems that the whole world is changing, but this old street survived more than 20 years ago.

The children were wearing shorts, holding cards and throwing them on the ground, blowing and beating them.

Boys play marbles, girls jump rubber bands and checkered squares.The streets are noisy, most of the houses are dilapidated bungalows, and occasionally there are a few small two- and three-story bungalows, but they are already old, and the stains on the walls are refuting.

This is a forgotten corner of the ever-changing city, and the residents are basically migrant workers, who are the "bottom people" in the traditional sense.Most of them are renters, with no permanent job and no registered permanent residence in the city.

Some are alone, middle-aged men, who come out to work to provide a better life for their wives and children in their hometown.

Some couples come out together, and they want to support their parents and children to live and study.

Yan Xu walked on this old street with his camera on his back. The neighbors greeted each other, and some people secretly looked at Yan Xu who was out of place in this place.

It was originally planned to go to the prison, but because the publishing house could not find a suitable editor for writing, the plan was shelved temporarily, and Yan Xu was asked to find the subject matter by himself.

Yan Xu didn't know what subject to choose, so he could only take the recommendation list given to him by the publishing house and start looking for a scene that would touch him.

Many photographers like to take pictures of people and all kinds of changes in personnel and affairs. Maybe the big boss who took pictures this year will become an ordinary wage earner due to bankruptcy next year.And the ordinary youth who have been filmed this year may become the leader of a new industry next year.

Or the crying face of a lovelorn girl, or a gay man who wanders the streets and is rejected by the mainstream.

People's expressions are the most touching.

Because everyone has such a day, a crying face, a happy face, a lonely face, there is always a face that is the face of the person looking at the photo.

Yan Xu wandered far and wide, but soon, he found a person——this was a woman dressed in dusty clothes, standing on a street corner, negotiating the price with a man wearing a vest covered in sweat and dust, and there was a bad quality on her face. Traces of make-up, sagging breasts without a bra.

From Yan Xu's point of view, this is not a woman who is attractive to the opposite sex. Even if you don't get close, you can still smell the rotten smell on her body.

But Yan Xu's eyes followed her, unable to look away at all.

The man seemed to think her price was too expensive, so he cursed, spit thick phlegm on the ground, and walked away cursing.

The street girl's eyes swept across the street, as if she was looking for her next customer.Then she saw Yan Xu looking at her.

This is a man she has never met. He is clean and looks like a college student, clean and tall.There was no sympathy, no disgust, no contempt in his eyes when he looked at her.It was as if she was one of all ordinary women.

The woman walked towards him involuntarily. She was a little at a loss, and asked as if receiving a guest for the first time: "Handsome guy, are you interested in coming with me?"

Yan Xu thought for a while: "Can we find a place to chat?"

The woman froze for a moment, her expression changed in an instant, just like talking to the man before, her expression was full of superficial temptation, she pulled her collar, revealing most of her white body chest, leaned close to Yan Xu's ear and said, "I'm not cheap."

When the woman spoke, Yan Xu could smell the inferior tobacco in her mouth.

Then the woman led Yan Xu into an alley, which smelled of rotting food, and there were a lot of garbage scattered inside.There are many flies and cockroaches.

And there are several shampoo shops in the alley, and some women in their 40s and [-]s are sitting in them, and some even have children.

These are basically shopkeepers, and their husbands work nearby, so they recruit some young girls or women, in short, women from poor families, who coerce and lure them to work for them.After a long time, they were able to live together peacefully.

The woman led Yan Xu to the inside of the shampoo shop. The shampoo shop looks normal from the outside, but once you enter, you will find that there are many small compartments.After the woman greeted the shopkeeper, she entered the room with only a dilapidated wooden bed.Without talking to Yan Xu, she began to take off her clothes.

"Wait!" Yan Xu shouted, "I'm not here to do this kind of thing!"

The woman turned her head to look at him, her eyes were fixed on Yan Xu's, she took out a cigarette from her bag, and lit it for herself, the small room was suddenly filled with smoke, Yan Xu held his hand The nose coughed twice.

The woman threw the cigarette directly on the ground and stomped it out with her high heels.

"My name is Ayun, everyone calls me that, you should call me that too." Ayun suddenly said, she took off her high heels and stepped on the ground with bare feet, maybe the high heels made her feet uncomfortable, Ayun did not Not caring that Yan Xu was by his side, he began to rub his heels with his hands, "Tell me, why are you looking for me?"

Yan Xu said directly: "I want to take a set of photos with you as the protagonist."

Ayun was stunned: "Take a picture for me?"

"To be precise, it is to shoot your life." Yan Xu's tone was very light, "I'm not here to judge your life, I just record it faithfully, and you can also reject me directly."

"It's very interesting." Ayun smiled, but there was vicissitudes in the smile that did not belong to her age, "Go ahead and make money?"

"Yes." Yan Xu looked at the budget given to him by the publishing house, "I will follow the photo shoot for a month, and I will give you 5000 yuan for this month. If a photo album is released later, I will also share it with you."

Ayun nodded: "It's really a good business that can make a profit without losing money. I can shoot any time in that line."

Yan Xu left the street after negotiating with Ayun, Ayun was not like any woman he knew.He couldn't find anything in common between her and them in Ayun.

"Why are you in a daze?" Huang Zhian asked suddenly.

Yan Xu shook his head: "I'm thinking about the person who accepted my filming request today."

"Male and female?" Huang Zhian brought the cat man to buy clothes. The cat man probably had been taught a lot by Huang Zhian, so he stood obediently by the side without saying a word, looking like a handsome big star.

Yan Xu looked at such a cat boy and thought about Xu Xin again. It was hard to imagine Xu Xin looked like this when he was young.

"Female." Yan Xu didn't say much.

The three of them met in the mall. After Yan Xu came back from the old street by car, he went to the mall to buy clothes for Dandan and Xiaoduner. He ran into Huang Zhian and Maonan who also came out to buy clothes. The three of them went together logically. .

Huang Zhian casually compared the clothes on the cat man, and when he felt that there was no problem, he took it in his hand and prepared to pay.

Perhaps it was because Huang Zhian and Xu Xin were not rich, and the clothes they bought for Catman were very cheap. A pair of short-sleeved clothes cost 30 yuan, and they would be torn after wearing them for a few days.

"Xu Xin has been getting more and more busy at work recently." Huang Zhian complained, "I have to wait until almost twelve o'clock before he comes back after I have finished the meal."

But Huang Zhian quickly said sweetly: "He is working hard for our future. He said he will come back early tonight."

The cat man looked left and right, and soon there were young girls attracted by his appearance, quietly standing aside to take pictures of the cat man, or calling their friends to watch together.

After about half an hour, both Yan Xu and Huang Zhi'an finished shopping for clothes.

Fortunately, just after leaving the shopping mall, the road was green, Huang Zhian told Yan Xu and the cat man to hurry up, and walked on the road first.His eagerness can be seen from his footsteps, and he can't wait to see his lover.

But accidents always happen inadvertently.

When Huang Zhian walked to the middle of the road, the street lights turned red.

A large truck was moving extremely fast. Huang Zhian looked at the front of the car, his legs began to tremble. At that moment, Xu Xin's face appeared in front of Huang Zhian's eyes.He struggled to take his own steps, but his body didn't listen to his brain's command.

Looking at this scene, Yan Xu shouted with difficulty, wanting to rush up and push Huang Zhian away, but obviously, someone was one step faster than him.

The cat man who kept silent all this time rushed forward, perhaps because his body was a cat, and his speed and explosive power were much stronger than that of human Yan Xu, and he was not as frightened as Huang Zhian.With a kick of his legs on the ground, he pushed Huang Zhian out, and he was knocked into the air.

People around quickly surrounded the blood-stained road, and the traffic police also ran over to pull the cordon.The large truck was forced to stop.

Looking at the pool of blood, everyone was astonished, because there was no corpse of the young man they saw just now.

Xu Xin, who was sitting in the office, suddenly trembled. He stood up, opened the window of the office under the strange eyes of all his colleagues, and looked at the sky from a distance.

In the end, Huang Zhi'an and Yan Xu found the white cat's body. The body was on the side of the street 300 meters away from the scene of the car accident. A small white cat with the length of an adult's arm was lying there. The corners of its eyes and mouth were covered with blood. signs of life.

Huang Zhian scolded himself, he scolded himself that he should wait, wait for another red light.Then he picked up the white cat's body with red eyes and held it in his arms. He said to Yan Xu: "This is Xu Xin's soul."

"Yes." Yan Xu's mouth was dry and his voice was hoarse.

"From now on, Xu Xin will not be complete." Huang Zhian had tears in his eyes, "His body, his lifespan, and his soul are all incomplete."

It is precisely because Xu Xin's soul lives in the body of the white cat that he came to save him like this.

Huang Zhian is a monster, of course he knows how important the integrity of the soul is, and the reason why Xu Xin lost part of himself is because he loves him.

The soul does not lie.

A soul with one soul and one soul has no ability to think, and no choice in the popular sense, as if loving Huang Zhian is already Xu Xin's instinct.Regardless of whether he is a complete and independent individual, as long as he has a trace of soul, he will choose to give up himself to save Huang Zhian.

Yan Xu has already forgotten how he and Xiao Huang returned to the community.

All I knew was that Xu Xin, who had been working overtime that day, came back very early. When the two arrived in the corridor, Xu Xin was waiting at their door. Just as Xu Xin opened his arms, Huang Zhian went to hug him.

The two did not speak, but the atmosphere was particularly moving.

Yan Xu quietly opened the door of his house and went back indoors.

Xiao Dun'er is still in the hobby class, Dandan and Jing Qichen are playing outside.This is the first time that Yan Xu has been at home alone for so long.His mind is in a mess now, his mind is like a projector, playing the scene when Huang Zhian was almost hit over and over again.

For a moment, Yan Xu suddenly envied Huang Zhian, even if his lover lost consciousness, he was willing to sacrifice his life to save him, but he himself had never experienced what love is.Invisible and intangible, I can only be aware of it abstractly in film and television dramas and literary works.

Yan Xu kept thinking, knowing that Jing Qichen came back with Dandan, after Jing Qichen greeted Yan Xu and started cooking, Yan Xu asked Jing Qichen in a trance: "Mr. Are you in love?"

Jing Qichen looked at Yan Xu inexplicably, as if he didn't know why he would ask this question suddenly, Jing Qichen shook his head: "No."

Yan Xu was a little surprised, but also a little unbelievable: "How is it possible, Mr. Jing, you are so outstanding and a good person."

Probably Yan Xu issued a good person card too many times, Jing Qichen was a little speechless and could only sigh: "The fate has not come, what can I do?"

"What is fate? How do you know that fate is here?" Yan Xu asked humbly.

As an old bachelor, Jing Qichen himself didn't know what fate was, so he could only make up nonsense: "Probably, I want to be nice to you, and you are also willing to be nice to her. The two of us are happy together without doing anything. We are together every day." I don’t feel tired all together. At a certain moment, my heart beats faster.”

Yan Xu's face suddenly turned red. He felt that this was the case with himself and Mr. Jing.

Although the heartbeat only accelerated once, it was considered a heartbeat. Does that mean... I fell in love with Mr. Jing?

This strange idea made Yan Xu panic suddenly - after all, Mr. Jing is not only good and a good person, but also very capable and knows a lot.And I'm just an ordinary person, and I can only support myself and Dandan by working hard, and now I have to add Xiaodun'er.

He is so ordinary, so ordinary that once he enters the crowd, he is like a stone sinking into the sea.

What's more, Mr. Jing doesn't seem to be a person who can accept the same sex.

So Yan Xu's love affair has not yet begun, and he unilaterally sentenced himself to a broken relationship.

But no matter how many times Yan Xu's thoughts turned, Jing Qichen couldn't feel the slightest bit. He thought that Yan Xu saw someone when he went out today, maybe it was a woman who fit Yan Xu's conception.

Just thinking about it like this made Jing Qichen feel a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't tell what it was like, in short, he was full of anger, but he had no place to vent it.

"Didn't you go to collect materials this afternoon? How did you raise them? Have you found someone you want to photograph?" Jing Qichen asked calmly. He didn't feel the fried eggs in the pan being burnt by him, as if the sense of smell was instant. It's like a malfunction.

Speaking of this, Yan Xu's thoughts were pulled back instantly, and he said to Jing Qichen excitedly: "I found it, I think it can express the theme of this time very well."

"Male or female?" Jing Qichen asked calmly.

Yan Xu said, "Female."

Jing Qichen nodded and stopped talking. What he was thinking about now was - what kind of woman was it that made Yan Xu start thinking about love and fate.

The atmosphere suddenly stagnated, and Yan Xu felt a little embarrassed. He vaguely felt that Mr. Jing was angry, but he didn't understand why he was angry.

"Papa!" Dandan appeared at the right time, jumped into Yan Xu's arms, kissed Yan Xu's cheek, and said with a smile, "Dandan is very good today!"

Yan Xu encouraged and kissed Dandan's forehead, and praised Dandan not at all stingy.

Dandan is growing faster and faster now, and she is about the same age as Xiaoduner just by looking at her appearance.

Yan Xu was a little worried about the faster and faster pumping of Dandan. He always pinched Dandan's hands and feet involuntarily, and asked Dandan if she was feeling well and whether she would feel pain when she slept at night.

"Dandan went to see dolphins, seals, and sharks today!" Dandan excitedly told Yan Xu what she saw today, "The shark's teeth are so sharp! Dolphins are also very cute!"

"It's time to eat." Jing Qichen put the dishes on the plate, and Yan Xu went over to help.

The hands of the two accidentally touched each other, and Yan Xu took his hands back instantly like a frightened bird.

Jing Qichen stood there in a daze, and did not come back to his senses until Yan Xu had already served the dishes on the table.

Xiao Duner had dinner at a friend's house today, and said hello that he would stay at the friend's house for one night.This is Xiao Dun'er's first real good friend, Jiang Yan who had a dispute with him before.

Shi Qiaosheng didn't come recently, probably he either gave up, or encountered something and couldn't move away, but Yan Xu didn't care about it.

"Then I'll go back first." Jing Qichen bid farewell to Yan Xu after eating.

That night Yan Xu went to bed very early, Eggy and Yan Xu slept together.

At three o'clock in the morning, Eggy wanted to pee, he felt that he was already an older child, and he couldn't let Papa get up to accompany him anymore, Eggy was not afraid of the dark at all!

So Eggy put on her little slippers, and carefully closed the bedroom door.

However, the moment he walked into the living room, Eggy suddenly stopped in his tracks as if he had sensed something. His eyes looked in the direction of the water dispenser, and the milky voice that hadn't changed sounded in the darkness: "Yes. Who? Come out?"

No one answered, Eggy was already holding back, and she didn't plan to tangle with this invisible person: "If you don't come out, I'll call Uncle Jing."

The name Jing Qichen seemed to have a different kind of power and purpose, just as Dandan finished speaking, a hunchbacked man appeared next to the water dispenser.

This man is very thin, with a stooped back, and his wicked eyebrows make people feel disgusted at first glance.

He said with a sinister smile, "Little monster, you are quite courageous."

Eggy is not happy: "Why do you say Eggy is a monster! Both Papa and Uncle Jing say Eggy is the cutest baby! You big villain! If you don't leave, I will beat you to death."

These childlike words did not make Lai feel frightened or threatened, but laughed at Dandan's weakness and immaturity. The man's voice was very low, like the voice of a ghost in a horror movie: "I just came here. Killed you and your father, I want to see how you can kill me."

Eggy is very calm, not like a child, nor as innocent and cute as he showed in front of Jing Qichen and Yan Xu, his little index finger pointed at the man: "If you don't leave, I will strike. "

"Hahahaha." The man rushed towards Eggy, his hands turned into sharp claws, his legs also turned into the legs of a beast, and he rushed towards Eggy at an extremely fast speed.

But Eggy didn't hide, he opened his mouth slightly, and when the man's sharp claws were only an inch away from him, he spit out a mouthful of fire.

It wasn't even a fire, it was just a small spark.

But it was just such a spark that fell into the man's sharp claws.This little spark immediately turned into a raging fire, wrapping the man's body in it, and the man yelled frantically: "You are not a phoenix! A phoenix will not have such a fire!"

Eggy was unmoved, he squatted down and looked at the man rolling on the ground trying to put out the flames, half of his face was reflected by the flames, but half of his face was hidden in the darkness, Eggy said softly: "My Fire feeds on demon energy, you can't put it out, I'm not a phoenix in the first place."

The man screamed, and a moment later, the man turned into black ash and fell to the floor.

Eggy went to the toilet to pee.

It was rare for Eggy to sleep with Papa today, he arched into Papa's embrace, Yan Xu felt Eggy getting into the bed, it was quiet at night, the slightest sound could wake Yan Xu up, he hugged Eggy with one hand Dandan, patted Dandan's back lightly and rhythmically.

"Papa." Eggy called softly.

Yan Xu gave a soft "hmm".

Eggy whispered, "Baba, Eggy is of mixed race, right?"

Yan Xu woke up immediately. He looked at Dandan's face - Dandan had a standard oriental appearance, even more standard. Although his eyes were big, they could be seen as red phoenix eyes, and the tip of his nose was taller and straighter than ordinary people. , but not too much, looking left, right, horizontal, vertical, you can't see the appearance of a half-breed.

But Yan Xu didn't dare to say that he was dead. After all, he was a human being, and he gave birth to Dandan by chance, so Dandan should also be counted as a half-breed, right?

"Papa doesn't know either." Yan Xu kissed Qin Dandan's forehead, "But regardless of whether Dandan is a mixed race or not, they are all Papa's treasures."

Eggy nodded half-understood, he asked a little wronged: "Papa, what if Eggy does something bad?"

"What kind of bad thing? If it's really Dandan's mistake, you must tell Papa, and we will apologize to them." Yan Xu naturally thought of the bad things that a child of Dandan's age would do—such as kicking a girl. dress, or break someone's glass.

But Eggy has always been very obedient, so she probably wouldn't do such a thing.

"Then Eggy, have you done something bad?" Yan Xu asked.

Eggy shook her head: "No! Eggy is very obedient!"

Yan Xu patted his balls and said softly, "Then go to sleep."

Looking at Papa's sleeping face, Eggy felt that she was full of strength - Eggy could protect Papa now!