Morbid Addiction

When Chen Yuncheng woke up the next morning, he saw that Ning Junyan hadn't woken up yet. He rarely saw Ning Junyan sleeping in. He probably drank too much last night.

He went out to buy breakfast for Ning Junyan and came back. He sat alone at the dining table for a while, thinking that he didn't know how to face Ning Junyan later, so he packed up early and went out.

It also happened to be a coincidence that when Chen Yuncheng went out, the couple who looked after the shop called him that day, expressing their agreement with his rent terms and willing to rent the shop.

It took Chen Yuncheng a whole morning to handle the subletting of the shop, because he only sublets it, and he has to contact the landlord of the shop to sign the subletting contract.

After being busy until noon, Chen Yuncheng finally got back the one-year rent he had paid in advance.

After he received the money, he planned to transfer it to Ning Junyan to repay the debt together with the payment for the returned goods.He sent a message to Ning Junyan asking for his account information, but Ning Junyan didn't say anything, and quickly sent it to him.

Standing by the side of the road, Chen Yuncheng took a last look at the small shop he had lived in and operated for two years. When he was about to turn around and leave, he saw the little girl who was stealing at the intersection looking at him not far away.

"Come here," Chen Yuncheng bent down and waved to the little girl.

The little girl looked at him warily, but walked over obediently.

"Is your shop closed?" Before Chen Yuncheng could speak, the little girl asked him first.

Chen Yuncheng said: "Yes, there will be no more bread for you in the future."

The expression on the little girl's face was a bit indifferent, and when she heard Chen Yuncheng's words, she just let out a faint "oh".

Chen Yuncheng asked her: "What's your name?"

The little girl didn't answer.

Chen Yuncheng asked patiently again: "Do you have any family members? Who asked you to come out and steal things?"

Hearing this, the little girl immediately took two steps back.

Chen Yuncheng said: "Don't be nervous, I just want to ask, is the person who asked you to steal something from your family?"

The little girl still didn't answer him.

Chen Yuncheng had no choice but took out 100 yuan from his pocket and handed it to her.

The little girl looked at it for a long time and didn't answer it.

Chen Yuncheng put the money in her hand, and whispered to her: "You take it secretly and use it secretly, buy something for yourself when you are hungry, don't tell others, you understand?"

The little girl looked down at the money in her hand.

Chen Yuncheng added: "I know you are scared so you dare not tell me, but if those people force you out to steal things, you can go and tell the police." After he finished speaking, he raised his finger to the intersection, "Look at the man in the hat and yellow The man with the vest, he's the police."

The little girl followed him and turned to look over.

Chen Yuncheng was referring to a traffic policeman who was directing traffic at the intersection.

"Don't be afraid, if the police catch the bad guys, no one will be able to hurt you," Chen Yuncheng patted her head, like he was stroking himself when he was a child.

The little girl turned and left with the money.

Chen Yuncheng looked at her thin back, sighed after a long time, took out his mobile phone and called Guan Anlin.

Guan Anlin recently found a job in a car repair shop. When Chen Yuncheng called him, he was busy and asked Chen Yuncheng to have lunch together.

Chen Yuncheng went to the car repair shop where Guan Anlin worked, and asked a small worker at the door who was cleaning the car where Guan Anlin was, and the worker pointed to a black car inside.

A man was lying under the car at work, with only one pair of legs protruding from under the car.

Chen Yuncheng walked over and kicked the leg protruding from under the car, and soon saw Guan Anlin slipping out from the bottom of the car, holding a wrench soaked in engine oil in his hand.

Guan Anlin was wearing an orange work uniform of a car repair shop, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He glanced at Chen Yuncheng and said, "Two minutes." Then he got in again.

Chen Yuncheng finally waited for nearly 15 minutes. Guan Anlin took off his uniform jacket and changed into his own black padded jacket with orange work pants. He and Chen Yuncheng went to have lunch nearby.

Guan Anlin's hair has grown a bit compared to when he was just released from prison, but it is still short, and his blue scalp can be seen.

Chen Yuncheng looked at his hair, and suddenly remembered that he had been thinking about cutting his hair for a long time. He thought that if he cut Guan Anlin's short hair, Ning Junyan would not be able to grab his hair and kiss him forcefully like last night .

Guan Anlin handed him the bowl and chopsticks, and asked him, "Why are you in a daze?"

Chen Yuncheng shook his head, "How is your work?"

"That's it," Guan Anlin said, "Otherwise, I'll deliver food, I won't starve to death."

Chen Yuncheng asked, "How about Chinese New Year? What are your plans?"

Guan Anlin stared at the table in a daze. He ordered three dishes. Now is the best time for business at noon, and none of the dishes were served to them. He said, "I have ten days off and I want to go home."

Unlike Chen Yuncheng, Guan Anlin has a family. He has parents in his hometown in the countryside and a younger sister who is in high school.

"I have a friend who opened a store in the new commercial market in the north of the city. He wholesales tobacco, alcohol and beverages. He asked me to manage the store for him. Are you interested in doing it with me when you come back after the New Year?" Chen Yuncheng asked. .

Guan Anlin looked at him, "Looking at the store?"

Chen Yuncheng said: "It may be necessary to deliver goods to customers. The specific work arrangement can be discussed."

Guan Anlin didn't answer.

Chen Yuncheng said: "There's no rush, the store over there hasn't been renovated anyway, you can go back and think about it slowly during the Chinese New Year."

The dishes they ordered finally came, and the two of them sat on the side of the road at a small square table with two dishes and a bowl of soup on it.

Guan Anlin asked the boss to make rice directly.

Holding his job bowl, he asked Chen Yuncheng: "I told you to come and live with me earlier, but you didn't intend to come?"

Chen Yuncheng gave a vague "um", "It's okay to live with a friend now."

"What does your friend do?" Guan Anlin asked.

Chen Yuncheng answered him: "Doctor."

Guan Anlin said: "Doctors are so rich now? Have they received a lot of red envelopes?"

Chen Yuncheng looked up at him, "His family already has money, so don't be hostile to him."

Guan Anlin snorted disdainfully, "How do you know that kind of doctor who already has money at home? I haven't heard you mention it before."

Chen Yuncheng hesitated and said, "He is the same as Zhou Yan."

Guan Anlin didn't understand, and asked strangely, "What's the same as Zhou Yan?"

Chen Yuncheng said: "How I know Zhou Yan is how I know him."

Guan Anlin was stunned for a moment. He heard Chen Yuncheng briefly talk about his childhood experience, but he didn't expect that besides Zhou Yan, there would be other people who had experienced the same thing as Chen Yuncheng. He subconsciously asked, "Are you kidnapped?"

Chen Yuncheng nodded.

Guan Anlin didn't say anything more. He scooped a spoonful of chicken and rice sprouts into the bowl, mixed them with chopsticks, lowered his head and took a big bite of the rice. After a while, he said reluctantly: "So it's still different from us people. .”

"What's the difference?" Chen Yuncheng asked him.

Guan Anlin said: "It's different in your heart, just like Zhou Yan, it's always more important to you."

Chen Yuncheng didn't answer his words.

After eating and drinking half a bowl of soup, Chen Yuncheng felt a little hot, so he unbuttoned a few buttons on his neckline.

Guan Anlin put down the bowl and stared at his neck in a daze.

Chen Yuncheng didn't notice it at first, until Guan Anlin first asked him: "Have you got a girlfriend?"

"What?" Chen Yuncheng was puzzled.

Guan Anlin pointed to his neck.

Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and touched his neck, but he still didn't understand what Guan Anlin meant.

Guan Anlin said impatiently: "Your neck was not eaten by a woman, could it be eaten by a mosquito? Are there still mosquitoes these two days?"

Chen Yuncheng suddenly remembered Ning Junyan's deep kiss on his neck last night, his face blushed, he was at a loss and wanted to pull up his collar to cover it, but felt that it was too unnatural.

Guan Anlin said: "Why are you blushing? If you have a girlfriend, you will have a girlfriend. You are about the same age."

"No," Chen Yuncheng denied without thinking.

Guan Anlin asked him: "What is that? Are you going whoring?"

Chen Yuncheng had no way to explain to him, so he could only say: "No."

Guan Anlin didn't continue to question, he took a sip of the soup from the bowl, put down the bowl and said, "I wanted to introduce my sister to you."

Chen Yuncheng said: "Are you crazy? How old is your sister!"

Guan Anlin seemed a little depressed, "Yeah, it would be nice if my sister was older."

After lunch, Guan Anlin rushed to pay the money.

When they parted, Guan Anlin asked Chen Yuncheng: "What are your plans for the New Year?" He knew that Chen Yuncheng had no family.

Chen Yuncheng said, "Let's see it again."

Guan Anlin asked him, "Do you want to go back to my hometown with me?"

"What are you going to do?"

"Meet my sister."

"Fuck you," Chen Yuncheng scolded, "No, go back by yourself."

Guan Anlin was not angry, and waved at him, "I will contact you before I leave."

Chen Yuncheng replied: "Okay, you work hard."

The two separated at the intersection, Guan Anlin was wearing a strange outfit, and walked slowly towards the car repair.

Chen Yuncheng stood by the side of the road for a while, and decided to get a haircut.

He found a small barber shop on the side of the road. It only cost 15 yuan to wash, cut and blow dry. He told the barber, "Cut it shorter."

The barber asked him, "How short?"

Chen Yuncheng recalled that Guan Anlin could see the shortness of the scalp, and said, "Short, the length that fingers can't hold."

The barber glanced at him in the mirror and asked curiously, "Are you afraid that someone will pull your hair out in a fight?"

Chen Yuncheng said silently in his heart: he is afraid of being kissed by someone pulling his hair.But he looked in the mirror, smiled and nodded to the barber, "Yes."

It was only after three o'clock in the afternoon after the haircut. Chen Yuncheng wandered outside for almost a day. There was really nowhere to go, so he took the subway back.

After he entered, he saw that there was no one in the living room, so he walked lightly to the door of Ning Junyan's room. Seeing that the door was ajar, he stretched out his hand and opened a crack to peek inside. , and the sheets seem to have been changed.

"Find me?"

When Chen Yuncheng was about to turn around, a voice suddenly came from behind him. He was so frightened that he leaned against the wall, his heart beating violently, and then he saw Ning Junyan behind him.

Ning Junyan was wearing a white sweater and light brown casual trousers, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, looking quiet and relaxed.He put the coffee to his lips, took a sip, and kept staring at Chen Yuncheng.

Chen Yuncheng said, "What are you doing?"

Ning Junyan's eyes fell on the top of his head, "Did you cut your hair?"

Hearing this, Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and touched it. Under the prickly short hair was soft scalp. He said "um", "Didn't you say it should be cut?"

Ning Junyan said blankly: "Well, it's very sexy."

Chen Yuncheng froze when he touched his hair.

The author says:

Ning Junyan: My wife is always sexy