The selfish gene

Holding an umbrella, humming a song, climbing up the stairs all the way.The cake box in his hand swayed back and forth with the swing of his arms, the cake inside might have become rotten, but it didn't matter, the birthday party didn't dislike it, and others shouldn't either.

"Let your mother take a good rest. If you need help, just call me. Don't worry about the food stalls. It's the off-season anyway. There's not much business..."

I stopped on the steps and waited for the middle-aged man in the leather jacket to turn around and leave. I tilted the umbrella slightly and pretended to look away without meeting him.

The chunky middle-aged man didn't notice me, and hurried past me with a worn umbrella, turned a corner in the middle of the long steps, and turned into another messy and dirty building.

Before he could look back, Ji Chenfeng's voice rang in his ears.

"... Sang Nian?"

Even without showing his face, he still recognized me by my figure alone.Sure enough, it was related to sleeping.

While turning around, I raised my umbrella and grinned at him: "It's me."

Ji Chenfeng held onto the door frame, with a slightly astonished expression, when I approached him, he asked, "Why did you come here all of a sudden?"

He took my umbrella, closed the door, turned around and put it in the bathroom to drain.

I took off my shoes, took the cake box and put it on the low table for eating.

"It's just fine, I just want to see my aunt."

If the weather is bad outside, it will be very dark inside.The reason for the visitor just now was that the teacups on the table were too late to put away, and a small electric heater was turned on at the side, providing meager heating for this cold and damp room with nothing.But even so, the cold still invaded every inch of his skin, and just sitting down, he couldn't help but want to wrap his coat tightly.

"Is it cold?" Ji Chenfeng stooped to take away the teacup on the low table, and said, "The voltage here is not stable, so you can't use high-power appliances like air conditioners. If you feel cold, put my coat on the on the legs."

I shook my head and said, "Make me a cup of hot tea, I'll just warm my body."

Ji Chenfeng patted my head, turned around and went into the kitchen.

A series of suppressed coughing sounds came from the only bedroom at this time. After a while, the bedroom door was gently opened, and Yan Shanhua came out wearing a cotton coat.

Maybe she heard my voice in the back room, so she was not surprised to see me sitting on the tatami in his house majestically.

Except for a slightly haggard complexion, she seemed to be in good spirits. If Ji Chenfeng hadn't told me personally, I couldn't have imagined that she was a woman who was terminally ill and dying soon.

"Xiao Nian..." She sat down cross-legged across from me, and called me in a hoarse voice, her expression half happy, half sad, "You are here." Said such a meaningless thing.

"I've wanted to see you for a long time, but I've been busy for a while, and I'm finally free today." Of course I have plenty of time, but I just don't want to see her.If Ji Chenfeng could not hear it now, he wouldn't even want to talk to her about this disgusting scene.

"Here is a snack for you." I pushed the cake box on the low table towards her.

"I'm very happy if you come, you don't need to bring anything." Yan Shanhua seemed to be completely unable to tell which were my truth and which were my lies, so he believed it.

When cancer cells transfer to the brain, will the brain also be damaged?Just looking at my expression and thinking about it, you should understand that I can't really come here for her.

"It's not a good thing..." Untied the ribbon tied on the cake box, gently lifted the lid, and the cream cake covered with big red strawberries showed its true face little by little.

Due to my violent transportation, the surface of the cake rubbed against the inner wall of the box, and a lot of cream was scratched off. It doesn't look good from the side, but it looks perfect from the top.

"This is my mother's favorite cake during her lifetime."

In an instant, Yan Shanhua's face was pale, and the eyes staring at the eight-inch small cake were like encountering a beautiful flower that stinks of corpses - how much he liked it before, but now he is so terrified.

"Today..." She trembled her lips, as if she had thought of something, but just said two words, she covered her mouth, turned her back and coughed violently.

Ji Chenfeng came out of the kitchen with a teacup. Seeing Yan Shanhua's appearance, he quickly put down the cup and patted her on the back: "How is it? Do you feel any discomfort? Is your chest tight? Do you want to vomit?"

Yan Shanhua's cough gradually stopped, and he waved his hands to indicate that he was fine.

She looked up at me, then quickly dropped her gaze, probably remembering what day it is today.She changed Mrs. Sang's child, so she already had ghosts in her heart, and now that she was seriously ill, she might also feel that it was karma, so she became more and more afraid of everything related to Mrs. Sang.

"I, I'm a little tired. Chenfeng, please entertain me well. I'm going to the house to rest." She said, struggling to get up, and hurried into the bedroom.

With the sound of closing the door, the electric heater on the side seemed to be frightened, and suddenly went dark with a "snap".Ji Chenfeng and I looked at it at the same time, witnessing its final glory.

Opening the assortment of toolboxes, Ji Chenfeng sat on the tatami with one leg propped up, holding a Phillips screwdriver in his hand, and in front of him was the electric heater that had been dismantled into eight pieces and its various parts removed.

"You can even repair this thing?" Holding the cake on the paper plate, he forked fresh and plump strawberries into his mouth.The sweet and sour juice instantly filled the gaps between the teeth, and it was paired with slightly sweet fresh cream. It was neither too sweet nor too greasy. It was indeed very delicious. No wonder it became Xu Wanyi's favorite.

"My dad taught me when I was young." Ji Chenfeng checked the parts at hand without raising his head, "Before the accident, he worked on the construction site and knew a little about everything. From a very young age, he started Teach me this, and say that after learning, I will be able to take better care of my mother in the future, as if I also know...he can't stay with us for a long time."

The fork paused in the air, staring at the cream cake that I had already eaten to pieces, but I lost my appetite in an instant.

"Your father is very kind."

Ji Chenfeng stopped what he was doing, looked up at the photo wall on the wall, seemed to be caught in a certain memory, and looked at the photo of himself and Ji Wei slightly fascinated: "Yes, he is very good."

Although Ji Chenfeng is not a professional player, but he can't bear to have an excellent teacher. It is not a problem to repair small appliances such as electric heaters. He will reassemble them after three times.As soon as the electricity was plugged in, the orange light came back on after a short while, and the warmth descended on the small area around the low table again.

Ji Chenfeng gave all the cakes that he couldn't eat, and he didn't dislike it at all. He not only ate mine, but also ate his own.

After staying for an hour, the tea was finished and the cake was eaten, so I got up and planned to leave.

"Are you really not going to stay for dinner?" Ji Chenfeng sent me out the door, and then sent me down the long steps.The light rain in the sky has stopped, so neither of us has an umbrella.

"No, I still have something to do at night." The table is too short and too small, the room is too cold and humid, and the electric heater is too hot. In such an environment, I feel that my stomach will not digest if I don't eat.

Slowly walking down the stairs, the tip of the long-handled umbrella knocked on the surface of the stone steps, making regular sounds.

Taking out the cigarette case from his pocket, Ji Chenfeng lit a cigarette and breathed out silently.The smell of tobacco quickly permeated the air, blowing into my nasal cavity along the breeze.

If there was a time when he was most like a person from Fly City, it should be when he smoked.

If he doesn't smoke, he's just a cool handsome guy.But once you put a cigarette in your hand and look at him again, you will have a bad and dangerous aura for no reason.Regardless of his nature, this appearance alone can still bluff people.

"Who did Dr. Ji learn to smoke from? Dad?"

The cigarette he smokes has a cool taste, and it was a brand I liked very much before. Since I quit smoking, I have never seen anyone who smokes it except him.

Once Zheng Jieyuan smoked one out of curiosity, complaining that he seemed to have taken a big mouthful of mint-flavored toothpaste, and never touched it again, which shows that ordinary people do not accept it very much.

"This..." Ji Chenfeng looked at the cigarette in his hand, then turned his head to look at me, and said after a few seconds, "No. I learned it from others."

other people?The term is very ambiguous.Friends are friends, and relatives are relatives. Who are the "others"?

Feeling that his attitude was a little weird, I asked further.

"Who? Someone special?"

He held his cigarette in his mouth, looked away, and let out a vague "um" from his throat.

I stopped for a moment, and I already had the answer in my heart.

Someone special, the man from before?So, do you think of each other every time you smoke?No wonder I still look forward to reuniting with the scumbag, I keep thinking about it, and of course I can't forget it.It's obviously my pet, how can there be someone else's anchor on it?

Looking down at Ji Chenfeng who had already walked down, I quickened my pace to follow, and slapped his shoulder with my palm. While he was looking back, I caught the cigarette in his mouth unexpectedly and snatched it away.

"Today is my birthday." Holding the cigarette, I preemptively said, "Can Dr. Ji quit smoking for me?"

Forget about other men, just think about me.

Ji Chenfeng was slightly taken aback: "Today is your birthday?"

Turning the wet cigarette holder, I deliberately described myself as miserable and pitiful: "My mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to me. I never celebrated my birthday, but today is indeed my birthday. If you nod, it will be my birthday. The first birthday present I received in this life."

Ji Chenfeng finally understood why I brought cakes to his house today. After being surprised, his dark pupils were gradually infected by many complicated emotions and became softer than ever.

After a while, he nodded and said, "I will quit smoking, but this is my promise to you, not a birthday present. You can also ask for something else as a birthday present."

other?I don't lack anything, and I don't have any fanatical hobbies. I asked him for a while, but I really didn't know what I wanted.And I didn't give him his money?If you ask him, what's the difference if I buy it myself?

"Let's owe it first, and I'll ask you for it when I think about it." I said.

While speaking, there was a crisp sound suddenly at the end of the long steps.I just thought the voice was familiar, but before I realized what it was, Ji Chenfeng chased after the sound, his figure was so fast that it even brought a gust of cool wind in front of me.

When I ran down the steps in confusion, I saw Ji Chenfeng firmly pressing a small man on the ground not far away, and I finally remembered why the sound sounded familiar—my car glass was smashed again.

"You fucking let me go!" The messy boy struggled desperately, not only thrashing with all his strength, but also wanted to bite someone.

Like a ferocious wild cat, Ji Chenfeng grabbed the back of his neck, put one arm behind his back, pressed his knee on his thigh, and took a lot of effort to control him.

Seeing that he couldn't break free, the boy began to cry loudly, begging for mercy.

"I'm sorry, I don't dare anymore, let me go, big brother... I, my sister and father are still waiting for me to go back... My father was seriously ill and paralyzed. My mother and others Run away, if I can't go back, my sister will starve to death..."

The boy looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, his hair hadn't been washed for a few days, tangled like weeds, his clothes were too thin to withstand the current temperature, the soles of his sneakers were cracked, and his toes were exposed ——This may be the reason why he didn't run past Ji Chenfeng.

"Call the police."

Startled, I looked at Ji Chenfeng, he didn't show the slightest compassion because of the boy's begging for mercy, his voice was cold and hard, and his side face was covered with frost and snow without any warmth.

"Forget it..." Regardless of whether the boy's words are true or not, he is only so young, and he is afraid that he has not yet reached the age where he can be investigated for criminal responsibility, so what if he smashes a car window and turns to the police station?A lesson, don't you want to let it go?

Ji Chenfeng raised his head, not intending to listen to my opinion, and said word by word in a stern and irrefutable tone: "Call the police!"