sleep in your heart

In the old and simple bedroom, the white light tube made a "sizzling" sound. Zheng Zhi subconsciously looked up and found that the originally white light tube had turned yellow and both ends had turned black.

You Zeyi also raised his head, and said with some embarrassment: "The light tube may be broken, I have been too lazy to change it."

Zheng Zhi nodded and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it's quite bright."

You Zeyi didn't say a word, there is only one point in his room that deserves to be praised, but this credit is not his, not the room itself, but the aging lamp tube.

"Why didn't you answer my call just now?" Zheng Zhi looked directly at him, as if he wanted to call him out.

You Zeyi's heart was raised, and he was too guilty to look at Zheng Zhi: "I told you, I didn't look at my phone..."

Zheng Zhi looked around the room again: "It's such a big room, even if you don't look at your phone, you can still find it when it rings, right?"

You Zeyi, who was questioned, frowned, he didn't like being pressed like this.

"...I'm sorry, I don't have to force you, but if you don't answer the phone, I will worry."

"Worried?" You Ze looked at him puzzled, "What are you worried about?"

"I'm worried that something happened to you." Zheng Zhi said with a smile.

You Zeyi: "What can happen to me? Such a big person..."

"I'm still worried, are you annoying me?"

Zheng Zhi's words were ambiguous, and You Ze had mixed feelings in his ears.

"No..." You Zeyi unconsciously thought of the spring night between the two of them, always feeling shy.

Zheng Zhi looked at him with a smile, without speaking or making a sound, as if he wanted to take advantage of the excessively dazzling light to see him through from the inside out.

"What do you see me doing?" You Zeyi finally raised his head, his ears were already red as if they had been soaked in fire.

"Good mood."

"what?"

"I mean, I feel good just looking at you." Zheng Zhi sat up straight and stretched, "Have you not eaten yet?"

Sometimes things happen to be embarrassingly coincidental.

Just after Zheng Zhi asked this sentence, You Zeyi's stomach growled.

You Ze frowned angrily and pulled his hair, but Zheng Zhi smiled happily, stood up and said, "Let's have a meal together?"

In fact, Zheng Zhi hoped that You Zeyi could stay at home for dinner, but he glanced at the box of instant noodles that was put aside, and suddenly realized that his idea was unrealistic.

You Ze hesitated for a moment, then raised his head and said to Zheng Zhi, "I'm really sorry, it's a bit unfortunate today, I have an appointment tonight."

"A date?" Zheng Zhi narrowed his eyes and asked suspiciously, "Do you have any other acquaintances here?"

Acquaintance?You Ze thought about it for a while, and found that not only in this city, but no matter where he was, he didn't have any regular contacts, even the aunt who was so kind to him at the beginning, he didn't dare to contact.

"I have friends too." You Zeyi stood up, went to the table and took the key, "You don't understand our circle."

Zheng Zhi smiled softly, nodded, and shrugged indifferently: "Well, I can only make an appointment next time."

When the two went out, You Zeyi locked his bedroom door.

Originally, the built-in lock on the door was broken and was not repaired, and an old-fashioned lock was installed. When locking the door, You Zeyi's hands kept shaking for no reason, and he locked it twice before it was locked.

Zheng Zhi stood behind him and watched without saying anything, just a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The couple in the master bedroom had already finished fighting, and they didn't know what they were doing. The plastic basin dropped during the fight was thrown at the door, and there was also a bag of garbage scattered there, which was annoying to watch.

When going downstairs, Zheng Zhi said, "How much is the rent here?"

"One thousand a month."

"One bedroom?" Zheng Zhi was a little surprised. He didn't expect that such a room and living with so many people would cost 1000 yuan a month.

The place where You Zeyi lives is already on the edge of the city, Zheng knows how he gets to the company every day, he vaguely remembers driving here for almost an hour without traffic jams.

"Well, one bedroom." You Zeyi said, "The prices of different rooms in a house are different. The master bedroom you saw just now costs [-] a month. It has an independent balcony, and the living room is not partitioned. Is there a room, I think the couple living there may have been cheated, there is no air conditioner or window, and they still need [-] yuan a month."

You Zeyi even revealed his satisfaction with his living environment in his words, he didn't know what it was like to hear these words in Zheng Zhi's ears.

"Is it so expensive to rent a house here?" Zheng Zhi asked, "The main reason is that the house is too old."

Not only is the house old, but the furniture inside is also dilapidated. Zheng Zhi suspects that the table you used was handed down from the 80s. Just like this, it costs 1000 yuan a month, which he feels is not worth it.

"It's not bad." You Zeyi said, "The house price has been rising in the past two years, and the rent has also risen. It took me a lot of effort to find a 1000 yuan one."

Zheng Zhi, who was getting an annual salary, couldn't imagine what kind of life You Zeyi had lived in these years. He walked behind him, looked at the thin back and thin shoulders, and suddenly said, "Why don't you move in?" I'll live there."

You Ze, who had just reached out to push the door of the building, was stunned, something in his heart was swelling, and it almost exploded in an instant.

The sensor lights in the corridor went out, and the two were in the dark, with only the sound of breathing around them.

You Zeyi felt his fingers were cold but his palms were sweating. He licked his lips and swallowed, not knowing how to easily reject Zheng Zhi's kindness.

God knows how much he wants to accept, how much he wants to accept all the good things from Zheng Zhi without any scruples, but he can't, he doesn't allow himself to do that.

You Zeyi was strangled to death by the rope twisted by his own moral values.

"Zheng Zhi, I..."

The door of the building opened suddenly, and someone came in from outside.

You Zeyi and passers-by startled each other, and the sensor lights turned on.

My eyes became clear, and the vague hesitation and wavering just now disappeared.

You Ze turned to make way for others, then turned around and said to Zheng Zhi, "Let's go, I'm running out of time."

Zheng Zhi glanced at the time, then reluctantly continued to drive slowly and followed You Zeyi like a psycho.

It had been 45 minutes since the two of them came out of You Ze's house. The guy who kept saying that he had an appointment and was running out of time was walking slowly on the street at this moment.

There is no destination, no appointment, just wandering around aimlessly.

Zheng Zhi couldn't help feeling that he was really smart, and You Zeyi, a fool, was too young to lie to him.

That guy wouldn't lie at all, and Zheng Zhi understood what was going on when he listened to it. However, he didn't want to expose the other party's face, but he also wanted to find out and see what this person was thinking.

Zheng Zhi had a hunch that it would be a long-term battle to get You Zeyi into his house, and he had to be patient and careful enough.

Now You Zeyi is more sensitive than before, he can see the uncertainty in the other party's eyes when talking to him.

In fact, Zheng Zhi has always been looking forward to seeing the confident and optimistic You Zeyi. However, he has suffered too much in the past 20 years. He fears more than he trusts, and rejects more than he accepts. Don't even dare to long for love.

Such a person, once in love, will be more serious than anyone else, but before that, he must first accept this love and the fact that he and another person are inseparable.

Zheng Zhi felt a headache. In the workplace, he can do a job with ease, but when it comes to love, he is actually a novice. For so many years, he has never had a good relationship.

You Zeyi was still walking not far ahead, while Zheng Zhi drove slowly, looking at his back and worrying.

It's also interesting to say that You Zeyi is not vigilant at all, he has been "followed" for so long, and he didn't realize it.

When he passed by the convenience store, he stood at the door and hesitated for a while, and then walked in with strides. Zheng Zhi parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car, hid in the nearby bus stop, and stared at the door of the convenience store.

You Zeyi bought a piece of bread and a box of yogurt, and when he was in the convenience store, he specifically asked the clerk what the current time was, only then did he realize that he had been walking in a daze for so long.

He looked at the door, and after thinking for a while before he figured out where he was, he was a little dumbfounded for a while.

You Zeyi ate while walking. Bread was the cheapest, and yogurt was also the cheapest. He took a bite of the bread, and it was dry and choked. He took a sip of yogurt, and finally he was able to catch his breath.

Continuing to walk along the original route, You Ze glanced at the distance, pedestrians and vehicles hurried by, everyone has a place to go to at night like this, but he doesn't want to go home , but has nowhere to go.

He slowly counted his steps, still in that preoccupied manner, thinking of Zheng Zhi, his heart was sour.

He asked himself, if that incident hadn't happened in college, if he had successfully graduated and found a decent job, and met Zheng Zhi again under such circumstances, would he dare to be with him?

You Zeyi didn't know, because he couldn't imagine himself like that.

As soon as You Ze came out, Zheng Zhi followed. He looked at the shadow of the man stretched by the streetlights, stretched out his hand, and found that he couldn't even hold the shadow.

The phone rang suddenly, Zheng Zhi was startled, and immediately stepped aside, but fortunately, You Zeyi was still ignorant.

The caller was He Ye, Zheng Zhi answered and asked, "Are you back?"

"Yeah," He Ye just got into the car and complained to Zheng Zhi, "You're so kind, you didn't even come to pick me up."

"Is there something wrong with me?" Zheng Zhi looked at You Zeyi from a distance, suddenly thought of something, and said to He Ye, "Let's meet tomorrow."

"... tomorrow? Why?"

"I have something to talk to you." Zheng Zhi stopped, watched You Zeyi turn to the right at the intersection, and did not follow, "I invite you to dinner tomorrow, and I have something important to tell you."