The Stand-in Refuses to Become a Regular

In front of the candlelight in the floor-to-ceiling windows, Xue Yingshuang said: "When I was a child, a guest brought sashimi to the house and asked me to adjust the dipping sauce. I didn't know what wasabi was, so I ran to ask him. He told me that mustard is green. , the smell is strange, very pungent, and like mud. Later, I ground the coriander into a puree, and he ate it too. Now that I think about it, he probably doesn’t know what mustard is.”

Xing Yun imagined Xue Yingshuang's childhood appearance in his mind, and he must be a weird child.

He waited for Xue Yingshuang to continue, but Xue Yingshuang just put the soy sauce dish aside, stood up and said, "I'll go and pour you some more soy sauce, you can just eat it."

When Xue Yingshuang came back after pouring the soy sauce, he didn't say anything, just ate.

His eyes were clear, and he ate very seriously, it didn't seem like he was making a start, waiting for someone to question him with his appetite.It is clear that the explanation is over, and I don't want to talk about it.

But Xing Yun wanted to hear it. He wanted to know what Xue Yingshuang was like when he was a child and why he dropped out of school.

Xing Yun: "You didn't tell me that you read A in the past."

Xue Yingshuang: "I haven't graduated yet."

Xing Yun: "It's a very good school, why did you drop out after passing the exam?"

Xue Yingshuang: "There's nothing to say, I can't read on, so I'm leaving."

Xing Yun: "You tell me."

Xue Yingshuang looked at the salmon and said seriously, "Forget about the boring stuff."

People in the world always have the desire to confide in their pain, just like Xing Yun, when he hurt his foot, he had to let Xue Yingshuang take a look, and let Xue Yingshuang know that he was wronged.

But Xue Yingshuang is different. He is not interested in complaining, nor does he like to sell misery.

But Xing Yun wanted to know too much, and Xing Yun also fully grasped Xue Yingshuang's habits.

Xing Yun looked at Xue Yingshuang, and tapped the floor with his slender fingers: "Three times the overtime pay."

Xue Yingshuang put down his chopsticks in a second: "This starts with my birth..."

It was an ordinary story.

Boys and girls get married, young couples are idle, pig friends learn to gamble as soon as they are tempted.

Gambling is something like winning small money and losing big money. The two of them tasted the sweetness a few times, thinking that their lives were overturned, but before the overturn was over, people fell first. Mahjong, Texas Hold'em, horse racing, gambling...you can gamble I touched everything, and in the end I had no money at all, but my debts grew more and more.

"So why am I called this name? It's not because I have any expectations for me, it's just a chance to win a lottery." Xue Yingshuang said, "Because what they want is to win money, and it's not just that one person wins, but two people must win. .”

However, although the two couples are not promising, Xue Yingshuang is very capable and can earn money at a young age.

Xing Yun had some bad associations when he heard this, and asked, "So what is the guest you mentioned just now?"

"The gamblers who come to my house like to gather at my house." After Xue Yingshuang finished speaking, seeing Xing Yun's subtle expression, he suddenly understood what he was thinking, and said, "Don't worry, my parents didn't let me go out to pick up customers to make money , they still have a bit of conscience.”

Xing Yun breathed a sigh of relief, but Xue Yingshuang immediately added: "However, I became the first person in my family to sell my body, and I am less promising than my parents."

Xing Yun froze, and looked deeply at Xue Yingshuang, but Xue Yingshuang didn't care.Xing Yun changed the topic: "So you learned to cook by yourself?"

Xue Yingshuang nodded: "The gamblers gather at home for a whole day. How do they eat? They ask me to buy it with money. They also want to gamble and drink. In fact, they don't care what they eat, so I just buy the cheapest box lunch." Give it to them and keep the rest. Then one day, I thought to myself, why am I giving this money to others? Why don’t I cook for myself and sell it to them?”

Xing Yun still remembered the last time he asked Xue Yingshuang why he was so good at cooking, Xue Yingshuang just smiled and didn't answer, only now did he know there was such a story behind it.

Xing Yun asked: "How old were you at that time?"

Xue Yingshuang: "Eight years old."

Xue Yingshuang was eight years old that year, with short legs, and he could barely touch the stove by stepping on a small bench, and had to stand on tiptoe to see what was inside the pot.

He can't lift the pot, and he can't even hold the spatula steadily, so he loves to cook noodles, at least he doesn't have to hold the spatula all the time.

"In the beginning, I made box lunches, and everyone ate the same." Xue Yingshuang said, "Later, they found out that I made them, and they started ordering food. Just tell me what they want, and let me cook it."

"And how do you know how to cook?"

"If you get beaten a few times, you will be boiled."

If he couldn't cook well, he would be beaten. After a few times, Xue Yingshuang could cook a satisfactory taste. At the age of nine, he could even cook a New Year's Eve dinner by himself.

Xing Yun couldn't help frowning: "They hit you?"

Xue Yingshuang's eyes were sly: "When they hit me, I spit into the rice. And I'm not stupid. When I grow up, I can run faster than anyone else, and they can't hit me anymore."

"But I didn't cook anymore, because they always have to pay on credit, so I don't want to cook for them." Xue Yingshuang said this and looked at Xing Yun with a smile in his eyes, "So you are now Shuangshuang Restaurant after it reopens. The only guest."

"Boss cooks delicious food." Xing Yun said.

"Of course." Xue Yingshuang said.

"and after?"

"Later, they were admitted to high school, but their debts became more and more day by day. I was the only one in our family who could make money, so I dropped out of school to pay off my debts."

When talking about cooking just now, Xue Yingshuang still spoke in detail and vividly, but here, he only talked about it in a few words.

Xing Yun was displeased: "The debts owed by your parents do not need to be repaid by you as far as the law is concerned."

Xue Yingshuang looked out of the dark window with a calm expression: "I know. But some were borrowed from relatives and friends, and some were borrowed from local gangsters. The money must be repaid, and some... borrowed in my name. "

"At least finish high school."

"Those people blocked me at the school gate, called my classmates, and made trouble in our class," Xue Yingshuang raised his voice unconsciously, "I'm the class monitor, how can I affect my classmates' study?"

Xue Yingshuang looked at the rainstorm outside the window, and his breath was unsteady.

But after a while, he turned his head to look at Xing Yun, and his tone has returned to his usual relaxed tone; "But I am not very smart. I entered the school at a low level, and my grades are not very good. It is not a big disadvantage to drop out. What's more, I started to take the self-examination. Now, isn't this connected again?"

Obviously Xue Yingshuang's tone was smiling, but Xing Yun felt uncomfortable hearing it.

Xing Yun couldn't imagine how much effort Xue Yingshuang had to spend in such an environment to be admitted to a school like A.He is still the class monitor, let alone the teacher trusts him, the classmates must also like him.

But in the end the ending was to drop out of school.

"Your parents didn't say anything?" Xing Yun finally asked.

"I didn't say anything." Xue Yingshuang said, "Because I found out that they had hanged themselves when I got home."

In silence, the candle shed wax tears quietly.

Xue Yingshuang looked at the clock, it was an hour, and overtime pay was due.

He picked up the chopsticks again, and said to Xing Yun, "So it's a boring story, nothing interesting. Come and eat, do you want some soup?"

Xing Yun sat there quietly, still digesting what Xue Yingshuang said.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Xue Yingshuang got up to make soup by himself.I don't know when the power outage will end. Xue Yingshuang didn't find it annoying when there was a rare sense of silence during the power outage, but felt that the workers who had to rush to repair it in the wind and rain were very hard.

When the soup was done, Xue Yingshuang brought the soup back to the French window.

After nightfall, the temperature became even lower, and Xing Yun stretched out his hand to hold Xue Yingshuang into his arms.Xue Yingshuang couldn't resist the heat from a heater, and the two just hugged and drank soup together.

Xue Yingshuang: "Thank you for speaking for me in front of Teacher Fang today."

Xing Yun was proud of hearing this, and thought that this little double might love me even more.

Xing Yun said: "If you were a few years older, maybe the two of us could meet at school."

Xue Yingshuang: "If this is the case, I will be the first to deal with you and Mr. Bai and become your CP fan."

Xing Yun chuckled and didn't answer, but said: "If we meet, I can take you to play. Speaking of which, I was going to take you out yesterday."

"Where?"

"Go to the hot spring." Xing Yun gritted his teeth, "But you ran away."

Xue Yingshuang now understood why Xing Yun was so mad. Xing Yun didn't say anything before, he must have wanted to surprise him, but he didn't expect to find out that he wasn't there until it was about to happen.

As soon as he imagined Xing Yun's astonished and frantic appearance, Xue Yingshuang couldn't help laughing, and then he really laughed out loud.

"Still laughing? Laugh again and deduct money."

"Hahaha I stopped laughing hahaha."

Xing Yun was so angry that he grabbed and squeezed him, and tickled Xue Yingshuang: "Deduct your money! Deduct your money!"

Xue Yingshuang held back his laughter, but he couldn't resist Xing Yun's attack, and finally let out a series of pig moans.

After a while, the two had enough quarrel.

Xing Yun hugged Xue Yingshuang, and the two of them looked at the rain outside the window together.

In the silence, Xing Yun suddenly said: "Actually, I was not very good in high school, so I might not be able to play with you."

Xue Yingshuang listened quietly.

"In the saddest time, I sometimes imagine that there is actually another parallel world." Xue Yingshuang in Xing Yun's arms moved slightly, and Xing Yun continued, "I imagine that I am very happy in that parallel world." , is different from me in this world. As long as I think about it, I feel much better."

After Xing Yun finished speaking, he lowered his head, and saw Xue Yingshuang raised his head and opened his eyes wide, looking at him in disbelief: "I think so too!"

Xue Yingshuang has imagined another self in the parallel world more than once.

In that parallel world, his family was not well off, but his parents loved and supported him.

He doesn't have to wear work clothes to work in the factory every day. He wears school uniforms and goes to school with his schoolbag every day to study with his classmates.

He doesn't have to work in three shifts. In that world, when he comes home from school every day, he can talk to his parents and talk about what happened in school today...

Xue Yingshuang stretched out his hand and gestured towards the night: "I will imagine a line branching out from my world, all the way to the other end of the universe, and that end is me in the parallel world."

Xing Yun smiled: "I think so too."

Xue Yingshuang: "I don't have to be so good in that world."

Xing Yun: "As long as I'm better than me in this world, that's enough."

Xue Yingshuang: "Just thinking about it makes me very satisfied."

Xing Yun: "I feel like there is another me who is happy for me."

Xue Yingshuang: "That's it."

It never occurred to them that there are other people who have the same fantasy as themselves.

They are like two lonely souls in the endless night, walking alone in the silent night for thousands of years.

Until this day, they met.

They couldn't believe that they weren't the only ones in the universe that never saw the light of day.

It turned out that they were never alone in the dark night.

The two maintained the posture of embracing and staring at each other. At that moment, as long as Xing Yun lowered his head a little more, or Xue Yingshuang raised his head a little more, the two could touch each other's lips.

Xing Yun warned Xue Yingshuang that kissing is something only two people in love can do. Xue Yingshuang is not allowed to exceed the rules, let alone delusional.Xue Yingshuang himself was not interested in this, so even when they were most intimate, the two never kissed.

But at this moment, both of them were touched by coincidence.

As long as there is a little more, whoever takes the initiative can do it first.

The candle was extinguished at some point, and in the darkness, it seemed that someone had moved.

Suddenly, the room was brightly lit—the electricity came.

The whole kitchen was lit up, and the floor-to-ceiling windows instantly reflected the picture of the two embracing each other, and the rainstorm outside could no longer be seen.

The two almost kissed each other, but when the light came on, they separated immediately.

Xue Yingshuang stood up: "Anything else to eat?"

Xing Yun also stood up: "Noodle soup."

The world turns again, and the two souls meet, intersect, and continue on their own paths.