Song Song

It was still in the dog days, and the weather showed no signs of cooling down. Like a colorful tropical fish, Lin Xiaosong shuttled around the city all day, went to the vegetable market, and took his daughter to a nearby eye hospital.

After the optometry examination, Lele has a slight astigmatism, but fortunately, it does not affect vision. The doctor said that no special treatment is needed, just watch less TV in the future.

Only then did he feel relieved.

Chu Yi specially called in the afternoon to ask when he would arrive.

At that time, Lin Xiaosong was making milk and red bean ice for the child in the kitchen. He tilted his head and clamped the phone between his neck, saying that he had already been there.

"Why don't you tell me you're here?"

"It's not just your hospital, I went to another hospital."

Chu Yi smiled shortly: "Come to us for an inspection next time, and help my husband create some benefits."

Lin Xiaosong put down the phone directly.

In the long summer afternoon, Lin Xiaosong took a nap amidst the chirping of cicadas. When he woke up, the sky would be dark, and Lele was still curled up next to him, snoring.He was afraid that the girl would sleep too much and make a fuss at night, so he reached out and patted her awake.

Lele rubbed her eyes in confusion, shouting that she was hungry.

Lin Xiaosong got out of bed and went to the kitchen to make two bowls of cold noodles. The ready-made noodles were boiled in a wok, then mixed with shredded cucumber and seasonings.He used to do this job for a while, except for getting up early and going to bed late, he earned a lot of money.

After eating dinner and taking a shower, and wearing a tank top and shorts, which looked cool, Lin Xiaosong browsed through the recruitment information one by one with the tablet in his hand.

Lele didn't know where she learned the Dafa of knocking on the back. She put her father behind her and knocked. Her embroidered fists didn't have any strength, and she kept asking, "Are you comfortable?"

Lin Xiaosong only knew what it means to "raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while", so he responded to her at the right time and gave her some encouragement: "It's comfortable, move to the left."

There was a knock on the door, and Lele caught it immediately. She was so happy that she put away her little fists, jumped out of bed and ran outside, "It must be uncle."

Lin Xiaosong did not forget to remind: "Ask who it is before opening the door."

The little girl tried her best: "I know."

After a while, Lele opened the door with a "bang" and led Chu Yi in, carrying a bag of desserts bought by a man in her hand, which she always thinks about every day.

"Uncle bought something for me again." The little girl licked her lips happily.

She took out snacks from the bag, placed them on the bed, counted them, there were three, and gave one to Lin Xiaosong on her own initiative, "Dad, this is for you."

Lin Xiaosong ignored her, raised his head and asked the man, "Why are you here?"

Chu Yi said: "I'll sleep with you today, and tomorrow morning we'll go directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau."

Lin Xiaosong put down the tablet and sat upright, "Are you going in the morning?"

Chu Yi closed the door with his backhand, and said concisely: "I only took half a day off, and I have to go to another place for a meeting in the afternoon."

"There's only one room on my side, where do you sleep?"

"You sleep in the room with the girl, and I sleep in the living room."

"My living room doesn't have air conditioning."

Chu Yi glanced at him with a smile: "Then how about I squeeze with you?"

Lin Xiaosong picked up the tablet and continued to browse the web silently.

Chu Yi left him silent, and changed the subject: "How much is your Wi-Fi, I want to write something."

Lin Xiaosong thought for a while and said: "XXXXXXXX"

Chu Yi opened the door and walked out. After a glance at the whole space, the sundries were piled up densely and compactly, leaving no space for office work.

The man could only push the coffee table forward, the tall man sat down on the floor, opened the notebook, threw a pack of cigarettes on the table, looked around, and found a Coke can that was cut off in the middle and contained There are some one-yuan coins, with post-it notes on them, and three neat characters of "Fat Cai Pot" written on it.

Chu Yi smiled, took the jar, got up and walked to the door of the bedroom, held it in his hand and asked Lin Xiaosong, "Can you lend me this as an ashtray?"

Lin Xiaosong said nonchalantly, "You dumped the money and put it in the drawer."

"I really used it."

"take it."

Chu Yi didn't joke with him much, time is too tight, the plane flies to Qingzhou tomorrow afternoon, there is an academic conference there, he is one of the keynote speakers, the PPT is done before, there are a few pages of data that need to be updated, it is estimated tonight To be busy until midnight.

He sat down, lit a cigarette and bit the side of his mouth to refresh himself.

After ten o'clock, Lin Xiaosong coaxed the child to sleep, went to the bathroom alone, rubbed and washed his clothes, without shoes on, and went to the balcony with a plastic basin in his arms. On the floor, smoking a cigarette, typing on the keyboard with a focused expression.

There are already a dozen cigarette butts piled up in the can. It is a habit of men. They like to smoke while writing. Lin Xiaosong has seen it for a long time.

Lin Xiaosong put down the plastic basin, looked up at the clothes drying pole, lowered his head again, bent over and took out a short sleeve, shook his shoulders a few times, and was about to put it on the clothes hanger and hang it up.

The man appeared behind him unexpectedly, and almost posted it, but when he opened his mouth, his voice was very serious, with no other meaning, "Is it enough?"

"It's enough." Lin Xiaosong didn't look back.

"Put it here, I'll come."

Lin Xiaosong smelled the faint smell of tobacco and the faint smell of sweat on the man's body. He thought it was because the living room was too hot. He felt a little awkward and said, "No need, I'll do it myself."

Chu Yi pushed him aside, took the short sleeve from his hand, "Go to the room and stay, I can't calm down because you keep jumping around here."

Lin Xiaosong felt that there was a brazier on his back, and the deep heat was scorching so hot that there was nowhere to hide. He slowly turned his toes and ran away.

Only then did the man notice the little thing's feet, a pair of bare feet, leaving a series of footprints on the floor.

The room became quiet again, Lin Xiaosong went back to the bedroom and dug out a small fan, which was brought over from the house before, plugged it in and tried it, except that the wind was a bit loud, but it basically worked.

Holding the base in one hand and the head of the fan in the other, he went to the living room to find a place to put it, and finally placed it next to the laptop. He pulled out a plug-in board and plugged it in, and the cool breeze spun it up.

Chu Yi came in after drying his clothes, glanced at the creaking fan, and asked him, "Where do you put that basin for you?"

Lin Xiaosong didn't look at him: "Just put it on the balcony."

Chu Yi didn't say anything, walked to the edge of the sofa and continued to sit, typed a few words, and then looked up: "If you have nothing to do, go and look through the almanac, pick a date and let's hold the wedding."

Lin Xiaosong resisted instinctively: "It's enough to get the certificate, but forget about the wedding."

"It's not a second marriage, why are you sneaking around." Chu Yi regretted it after finishing speaking, pursed his thin lips, and wanted to open his mouth to explain, but Lin Xiaosong opened his mouth first: "I'm not a second marriage either."

Before he could react to the meaning of this sentence, Chu Yi got up and pulled him over, pushed him down on the sofa and sat down, looked at Lin Xiaosong from top to bottom, his eyes were solemn, not frivolous at all, "I didn't understand."

Lin Xiaosong lowered his gaze: "It's also my first time getting married."

Chu Yi leaned over, took a sip on his lips, and twitched the corners of his mouth: "Then we have to deal with it more carefully."

"Whatever you want, as long as you don't make me pay for it."

Chu Yi smiled, stretched out his hand and tapped Lin Xiaosong's forehead, "Little money fan, if you haven't married yet, does this count?"

Lin Xiaosong turned his eyes away, looking unhappy, his head sometimes couldn't tell what was serious and what was jokes, and he often misunderstood, mistaking bad people for good people, and thinking good people were bad.

"I didn't plot against you, and I haven't plotted against you before." Lin Xiaosong said with deep meaning.

Chu Yi withdrew the strength in his hands, slowly straightened up, and pulled Lin Xiaosong to stand up, "Go back to the room and turn on the air conditioner, it's too hot outside."

Lin Xiaosong kept silent, brushed away the man's hand, and was about to leave when he was pulled back by the person behind him.

Chu Yi sized him up for a while, then tapped the little mole on the tip of his nose, "From now on, the family's financial power will be handed over to my wife, and it will be enough for me to give me 1000 yuan pocket money every month."

"You manage your money yourself, I don't want it." Lin Xiaosong refused straight away, "Go ahead, I'm going to sleep."

Chu Yi sighed and let go of his hand.

Lin Xiaosong was lying on the bed, thinking about things over and over again, he just couldn't believe it, how could he live more and more cheaply, cheap bones, cheap embryos, there was no hardness in his body.

Bah, it deserves it!

He clicked on WeChat, kept scrolling down, and finally stopped on a man's selfie profile picture, and poked in.

The conversation is still stuck five years ago, "How are you doing in Shenzhen, how is your business doing recently?"

Lin Xiaosong exited silently, pressed and held for one second, and selected "Delete this chat".

His life is like this, he was born involuntarily, and no one has ever taken him seriously. In 20 years, when Lele gets married, he will save enough "gold, silver and jewels" and let her choose a husband. First of all, you have to choose someone who is good to his daughter, and then consider whether you like him or not.

With this thought, Lin Xiaosong came back to life in an instant—Xiaoqiang who couldn't be beaten to death, was here to disgust people.

He plugged in his earphones, opened an episode of the funny variety show cached on his phone, and laughed innocently in the dark.

After midnight, Lin Xiaosong got off the bed and went to the bathroom. The light in the living room was still on. He went around, and Chu Yi sat on the sofa with a cigarette between his hands and looked at him.

"Have you finished your things?" Lin Xiaosong asked.

"It's almost there, soon." Chu Yi patted the seat beside him, "Come and sit."

Lin Xiaosong walked over, and before his butt touched the sofa, he was hugged and sat on his lap.

In the middle of the night, there was a wind blowing outside, making it a little cooler.Chu Yi slanted an arm, leaned over and extinguished half of the cigarette in his hand, sniffing the soft fragrance Wenyu in his arms, and said in a hoarse voice: "Come home with me some time to have a meal, my mother hasn't officially saw you."

Lin Xiaosong was silent and didn't speak for a while.

Chu Yi stared into his eyes, and before he could see something, he suddenly overturned all his previous plans, "Forget it, I won't see her anymore, she is quite good at nagging, and sometimes I bother her too."

Lin Xiaosong twisted the hem of his shorts, but still didn't say a word, his eyes seemed to be dehydrated and dry.He remembered Zhou Yue's words, this man owed him this.

Lin Xiaosong was having a hard time opening his mouth. After deliberating for a while, he said, "You said you were going to buy me a house. When are we going to see it?"

Chu Yi wished he could ask for a lot of little things, as long as he could afford them, "How is this week, I'll be back on Saturday night."

"Okay."

Chu Yi stroked his bangs for him, wiped off a thin layer of sweat, "Why are you so afraid of the heat?"

Lin Xiaosong ducked aside, "Where will we live after we get married?"

Chu Yi said: "You can live in my side. There are two rooms on my side. Let's talk about it when the child is older."

Lin Xiaosong hummed lightly.

Chu Yi touched his phone and looked at it. It was almost 12:30, "It's getting late, go to sleep, I'll go downstairs to buy breakfast tomorrow."