The selfish gene

Make an appointment with Gu Ying in a Japanese grocery store with a good environment.In the box, I took out the engagement ring that Sang Zhengbai gave me.

She looked at it for a while and took it in her hand: "My parents also asked about it a few days ago. It seems that they have communicated in private." With a sigh, she put the ring box back on the table and slowly pushed it back to me. side.

"What are you going to do?" I asked.

Gu Ying tapped the table with her fingertips in turn, thought for a moment and said, "What do you think about getting engaged first, and canceling the engagement after a year or so?"

"It's up to you to propose at that time, and it's up to you to regret the marriage." In this way, Sang Zhengbai can't blame me, and I can use the unhealed emotional injury as an excuse to refuse the blind date he may arrange for me in the future.

Gu Ying nodded: "OK, that's it."

After the matter was finalized, she didn't ask for my ring, saying that it was of great significance after all, representing the unswerving love between my parents until death, she could not desecrate it, and hoped that I could give it to someone who really deserved it in the future.

Someone who is really worth it?

Ji Chenfeng's figure flashed in his mind. Strictly speaking, he should be the real heir to the rings. I'm just an impostor, a cunning thief.

"Then find a time to choose a ring together." Putting the red ring box in my pocket, I suggested.

When Gu Ying heard this, a sarcastic smile appeared on her face, she raised her drink cup and saluted me: "Thanks for your hard work."

Silently touching her cup lightly, I drank the slightly astringent tea soup in the cup without saying a word.

I drove to Ji Chenfeng's house, I didn't want to climb the stairs, and I was afraid that the car window would be smashed again, so I called Ji Chenfeng to come down.

With my hands in my coat pockets and my back against the car door, I patiently waited for his arrival on the side of the road.The exhaled air turned into white mist in an instant, and the weather was getting colder and colder. I don't know if it will snow this year.

Look up at the tangle of wires above the City of the Flies, and the sliced ​​sky.The moon is gone, the stars are dim, and tomorrow is another bad day.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, I turned my eyes to the top of the steps, Ji Chenfeng stepped out of the dark night, and walked into the weak streetlight that was better than nothing.In an instant, it seemed that even the dark path was brightened by him.

There is a kind of person who doesn't need to work hard to show his existence, but just stops there casually to catch everyone's attention.There was some sourness in my heart, which could not be said to be jealousy or envy.If he hadn't been replaced, he should have done better than me.

"Why don't you wait in the car?" Ji Chenfeng walked towards me slowly, while talking, stretched out his big warm palm to press against the side of my face.

So warm.

It had been numb for a long time, and I didn't feel anything, but once he touched it, and compared it, I realized that I was so cold.

"I want to see you sooner." Pulling off his hand and gently tugging, I leaned towards him and hugged him beside the car.

"What's wrong?" Ji Chenfeng was keenly aware of my strange emotions.

"I just feel...a little tired." I buried my face in his neck and said sullenly.

The cold air dilutes Ji Chenfeng's breath, and he has to smell it very hard to smell a faint scent of soap.I used to think the smell was cheap and vulgar, but now that I'm used to it, I can smell some front, middle and back notes.

Just like now, he should have just taken a shower, leaned close to his skin, and even smelled something like sunlight...

"Did you just finish the party?"

With my eyes slightly closed, I lazily dragged out a long "um", leaning on him and refusing to get up.

"Sang Nian, on your body..." With his arms pulled back little by little, Ji Chenfeng only spoke halfway before being interrupted by my loud bowel sounds.

I opened my eyes suddenly, cursed secretly and pressed my stomach, not daring to look up at Ji Chenfeng's expression.

I don't care much about Japanese food, and Gu Ying and Gu Ying are not in a relationship where we can sit and have a happy meal. After we talked about cooperation, we went our separate ways after two quick bites. In addition, we ate a box of quinoa salad at noon , It is inevitable to be hungry now.

"Hungry?" Ji Chenfeng backed away a little.

I lowered my head, my face was a little hot: "I didn't eat much at night, it's okay, I just go back and order takeaway."

Anyway, now that he has moved, he is not far from Ji Chenfeng's place, and it takes only ten minutes to drive back.

"That will take a long time." Ji Chenfeng took my hand, looked around, and finally chose a direction and said, "There is a noodle restaurant nearby, it should still be open, go eat that."

The noodle restaurant opened in the city of flies, you don't need to think about it, you know it's the kind of fly restaurant.The chef throws the noodles into the pot empty-handed, cooks the noodles while talking loudly, and then adds various indistinct toppings when they are cooked, and inserts his thumb into the noodle soup to serve.I'm already starting to feel uncomfortable without eating, so I might as well go back and eat instant noodles.

But before I declined, Ji Chenfeng had already pulled me along the path.

The wind cut his face and made his head hurt. He held my hand and stuffed it into his coat pocket, staring intently at the road under his feet, slowly trudging on the slightly sloping slope.

I followed behind him step by step, always about a step away from him, staring at his broad shoulders, red earlobes from the cold, and the white breath from between his lips and teeth, and unconsciously swallowed the words of refusal.

"Taotie Noodle House" has a big name, but the actual space is very small.There are only five seats when you open the door, and they are all in front of the board, and there is not even a decent table.The environment is not dirty, but messy.

There is no menu in the store, and everything is marked on the blackboard that you can see directly in front of you.Because the spicy pork noodles are marked with "signature", I ordered spicy pork noodles.The coat hangs on the wall at the back, and there is a small TV in the store, which is playing a TV series of an unknown year.

There was only an old couple in the store, who looked to be in their sixties or seventies, their hair was gray and their backs were no longer straight.

"Xiao Ji, I haven't seen you for a long time." The old lady served hot tea with a kind face, she seemed to be familiar with Ji Chenfeng and Yan Shanhua, "How is your mother recently? I heard that she is seriously ill, are you okay? "

Ji Chenfeng shook his head, didn't say much, just told them that the situation was under control and there was no need to worry for now.

"Just keep it under control. Your mother is suffering too much. A woman has to take care of her paralyzed husband and such a young child. Although there are many people suffering here, there are really not many people like her who persist in suffering like her." She is like a Bai Xiaosheng in the fly city, nothing can escape her eyes and ears, "Not to mention the ones who are far away, but the ones who are nearby, Cheng Tao's mother, after taking care of him for a year, she can't do it anymore, she ran away with others, and she didn't care anymore Live my husband and children..."

In the eyes of outsiders, Yan Shanhua is tenacious and hardworking, never abandons her husband, and raises her children well. She can almost be awarded the "Top Ten Glorious Women in Fly City" medal.No one knows how dirty her heart is hidden under her glamorous and great appearance, and no one suspects that the child she raised so hard is not her child.

If Cheng Tao's mother should be condemned, she should be tied to the thorns, wailing in pain, being spurned by thousands of people, and paying off the debt she made.

"Okay, don't talk about it all, bring me the bowl." The old man couldn't listen to his wife's gossip, and interrupted rudely, "Talk to people every day, you are too full, right? ?”

The old woman curled her lips, muttered something, and turned around to get the bowl from the cupboard.

After a while, the face came.I don't know if it's so full of ingredients, or because I was brought by Ji Chenfeng. When a bowl of noodles came, half of the bowl was full of ingredients, and a marinated egg was specially added.

Ji Chenfeng broke the chopsticks and handed them to me: "The noodles at my mother-in-law's house are rolled out by myself every morning, which is different from those made by machines. Try it."

Under the eager gaze of the three pairs of eyes, I took my first mouthful of noodles.

The noodles are chewy, the noodle soup is delicious, and the spicy meat is neither salty nor bland, which goes well with the noodles.After the first mouthful, the empty stomach tasted the sweetness, and became more and more hungry. The chopsticks never stopped, and after a while, he picked up the noodle bowl, Gululu even drank the soup.

"Let me just say my noodles are delicious." The old woman smiled happily, "Xiao Ji, I will bring your friends here often."

With a smile on his face, Ji Chenfeng took a tissue in his hand, and was about to press it against my lips. When he met my astonished eyes, he stopped all of a sudden, as if he remembered that this was outside, we just " friend".

"Thank you..." I naturally took the tissue from his hand and wiped my mouth.

After leaving the Taotie noodle restaurant, we walked slowly back to the parking lot.When parting, each turned around, he walked up the steps, and I walked to the driver's seat.

"Sang Nian..."

Across the car, I looked up at Ji Chenfeng. With his hands in his pockets, he stood under the oppressive and winding steps across the road, looking at me with complicated eyes.

"You won't lie to me, will you?"

The muscles controlling the hand suddenly contracted, causing the fingers holding the car door to twitch unreasonably.

I lowered my hand, relaxed my fingers, and grasped it tightly again. Across the car, I raised the corners of my lips at Ji Chenfeng: "Of course. Why do you ask this suddenly?"

He looked at me silently for a while, then finally shook his head.

"It's nothing."

Although it felt somewhat weird, but he didn't dare to just ask him if he knew something, so he drove away anxiously under his watch.

On Saturday, I made an appointment with Gu Ying to choose a ring in a gold shop. By the way, I also changed the size of Sang Zhengbai's pair of rings - the female ring was too small to fit on a man's finger.

"I'm going on a date with my boyfriend later, so just pick one?" Gu Ying looked at the box of rings in front of her at the sales side, ordered a pair of plain silver rings and said, "This is it, it's similar to yours." .”

I raised my head and took a sip of the mineral water handed over by the salesman. I glanced casually and nodded, "Okay."

After paying the money, Gu Ying took one of the rings and left. While waiting for the other pair of rings, I accidentally received a call from A Yao.

She usually doesn't call me if there is nothing important. She feels strange in her heart, but she still presses the answer button.

"Boss, haven't you read the report I sent you recently?" A Yao seemed to be on the road, and could faintly hear the sound of the car horn.

"I'm too busy, I don't have time to read it, what's the matter?" Ji Chenfeng hangs around me all day, and will tell me wherever I go, what report do I need to read?

"Just... You'd better take a look. Although you don't need to record anything about you, I think it's necessary to tell you about this person."

Telling her not to hang up, I jumped out of the call interface, clicked on the mailbox, found the latest observation report and quickly read it.

"Do you still remember Ji Chenfeng's first love? I only found out not long ago that he returned to China. Not only did he change his name and identity, but he also rented a large office in a commercial building in the city center and became a little famous. psychiatrist."

[At 12 noon, Ji Chenfeng and Zhou Jiyu have dinner. 】

Under the concise text, there are two photos attached, which were taken through the glass of the restaurant.I don't know what kind of camera Ayao uses, but it is so clear that even the lemon slices in the water glass on the table can be clearly seen.

Ji Chenfeng and Zhou Jiyu were sitting by the floor-to-ceiling windows, talking about something, the atmosphere was harmonious, the sun was shining brightly, one was gentle and intellectual, the other handsome, like a well-matched couple.

"...Zhou Jiyu?" I heard my voice say Zhou Jiyu's name gloomyly.

"Yes, it's him." A Yao pouted, and said, "Boss, I have an immature guess for jumping out of the identity of a private detective, I think...he might want to turn around and poach your corner .”

Asking me if I would lie to him, is it because I have ghosts in my heart?I am busy here, but he is not idle on the other side.Why, wandering around, you still think the first lollipop tastes better, don’t you?If it wasn't for the 50 yuan, wouldn't it have been a long time ago to reconnect with the first love?

"Where is Ji Chenfeng now?" He asked through gritted teeth.

The date of the meal was a few days ago, so many days, he didn't tell me anything.He ate with other men without telling me, he ate with the man before without telling me... Damn, do you do anything else besides eating?

"At home, ahem, Zhou Jiyu just left." A Yao added, "Maybe he came to see Yan Shanhua, I see he bought a lot of fruit..."

With a loud bang, the phone hit the wall and instantly fell apart, and all the annoying sounds disappeared immediately.I was panting heavily, and there was only one thought in my mind—he let Zhou Jiyu into the house, and he really still missed him.