Temporary cohabitation

When Cheng Shi came back to his senses, he even pinched the socks in his hands.He didn't know when it was picked off by him, and he quickly snatched it back, "I'll do it myself...just do it myself."

Ren Mingyao let go of his hand, looked at his ankle, and said unexpectedly, "Did you have an operation?"

He didn't have the scar in high school.The flesh-pink, which is darker than the surrounding area, is raised unevenly, which looks like a mark left by a healing seam after surgery.

Cheng Xiaojun pointed to his calf again and said, "It hurts."

"It's okay baby, I'll make milk powder for you later." Cheng Shi covered the ugly scar with a hot towel, curled up his legs embarrassingly, trying to hide it.Only the side of the mouth said indifferently, "Well, I had a fracture again later. The operation was very good, and it happened to be able to flatten the bone that didn't grow the previous time and grow again..."

"Why does it still hurt when it grows up?"

"It should be my own problem. The physique is not good."

It has become a habit to feel pain and soreness when it comes to rainy days. After a long time, he almost feels that he is born like this, and he doesn't bother to think that a hot towel will make him feel better, just bear it and let it go.

He was very worried that Ren Mingyao would continue to ask and find out the reason for his fracture that night.Fortunately, Ren Mingyao turned back to the topic lightly, "Why do you want to come to Minghai to play? You didn't tell me in advance."

"I just thought of it suddenly." Cheng Shi explained, "Because Guan Guan is also here. She suggested me to come and play before."

"Just because of her?"

"By the way... come to see you too."

This is not a particularly sensational word, but he said it with embarrassment and raised his head.

Just like Ren Mingyao was interested in the albums on his Weibo, he was indeed a little curious about Ren Mingyao's working environment, thinking of taking a look at it when he went home.

But it's definitely not a shame to be dragged into the crew hotel directly.

You can't hide without looking up.Seeing his ears turn red little by little, Ren Mingyao finally felt a little better.

Since living together until now, Cheng Shi's attitude towards him has always been in a state of being able to withdraw and leave at any time. Even after listening to him say those late words, there is no obvious change.

Cheng Shi didn't care about his past regrets, nor did he care about his present life.Taking the third year of high school as a watershed, it firmly cut off all the possibilities of the two getting involved again.

He was expecting Cheng Shi to intervene in his life and make the world turn upside down.Even if you can't make three phone calls a day like him, at least a little attention is a good thing.

Even if it's just by the way.

After a while, Ren Mingyao reached out to touch his feet.Cheng Shi was distracted, startled, the hot towel covering his ankle flew out of his hand, and almost threw it in his face.

"..."

Cheng Shi dryly apologized, "I'm sorry, I did it on purpose."

"..."

"No, it's not."

"Okay." Ren Mingyao got up and went to the bathroom to warm up the gradually cooling towel and cover his ankles again.The originally pale skin was steamed pink.

Cheng Xiaojun was carried into his arms again, like a soothing doll.Ren Mingyao glanced at the suitcase and asked him, "How do you wash the milk powder? Don't get up while sitting down."

Cheng Shi just shook his body, but he pushed him back to his original position with a word, "First... boil hot water. I also brought a small electric kettle, which is in the suitcase."

He probably knew the process, and he had done it more than once when he met Cheng Shi at home.

It's just that most of the children's things are delicate and troublesome. Under Cheng Shi's on-site guidance, he patiently came up little by little.

No one would have imagined that the screenwriter Ren, who was still arguing with the director during the day, would have to heat the baby's baby bottle by himself when he returned to the hotel at night.

After Cheng Xiaojun drank the milk before going to bed, he asked downstairs for a warm water bag to be delivered to the room, and put it under the bed for Cheng Shi, "Is this okay? What's wrong?"

He didn't know that Cheng Shi neglected to take care of himself at home.Cheng Xiaojun would be put on a pillow to help digestion even while lying down and drinking milk. It stands to reason that a person like Cheng Shi who knows how to maintain health and is patient at first glance should take care of his sequelae meticulously.He has never seen how to take care of it, and he knows that he is not meticulous enough, so he can only try to make it as comfortable as possible based on his understanding.

It is inconvenient to go out, so the responsibility of taking care of the big and small should naturally be borne by him.

Cheng Shi should be taken care of by him, instead of being entrusted by that little kid who promised everything.

He thought he wasn't doing enough.Cheng Shi was already more than satisfied, "That's fine. It's much better."

It's warm.It doesn't hurt at all.

**

The standard room has two beds.Ren Mingyao put them on the bed where he slept, and then went to clean up the scattered clothes and sundries on the other bed that was originally vacant.

Outside the window it was raining constantly.Cheng Xiaojun fell asleep soon, and Cheng Shi slept in the afternoon, and he was still very energetic at the moment, calling Zhong Yu in a low voice.

Zhong Yu spent a few days leisurely outside, but felt bored instead. Hearing that he was in Minghai, he pondered, "Why don't I just go and play with you."

"Okay."

"Did you just arrive today? Did you see Mingyao?"

"Yeah...Mingyao is here too."

Ren Mingyao was called upon as soon as he lay down on the bed, "Who?"

Cheng Shi answered distractedly, "Little fish."

Accompanied by the sound of rain at night, the phone call was endless.In fact, most of them were irrelevant topics. Knowing that Ren Mingyao was next to him, Zhong Yu didn't talk about what he shouldn't, so they talked for a long time.

He always thought that he would be hated by Zhong Yu, because before he left, he gave up on himself and revealed his identity as a "rival in love" to her.Thinking of how long she had been talking with her love rival, she should feel embarrassed and find him hypocritical and disgusting.

But the girl is much more free and easy than he thought.He was too narrow-minded to think that way.

Now that they are connected again, except for the first few days when they were awkward, the two quickly entered the "girlfriend" mode again.Recently, his main role is to listen to Zhong Yu complain about Song Ziyang's "that idiot has a stick", because he has known him for several years and is very familiar with it, and the material for complaining is endless. Let's listen to the next chapter to break it down."

Cheng Shi listened to it with a smile, and the moment he hung up the phone, the sound of the night rain became louder, making the room extraordinarily quiet.

He thought that Ren Mingyao had fallen asleep early, but he didn't expect that he was still looking at him with his head propped up on the bed next to him, "You never called my name in front of my face."

"……Um."

Not being able to speak out is one aspect.But in fact, the people who live with him every day don't need to be addressed at all, and he hasn't even been called the monitor a few times.

It's because they are too close.It's really worrying, but I can't help but be happy.

Cheng Shi shrank into the bed, rubbed his toes on the gradually cooling hot water bottle, and simply hooked it up and hugged him in his arms.

Ren Mingyao saw his quilt undulating, "I'll fill you with a new one?"

"No, it's too hot. I'll sleep right away."

Actually not sleepy at all.Cheng Shi backhanded the sleeping Cheng Xiaojun and tucked the quilt. Hearing the sound of rain outside the window that always made his heart palpitate, he felt strangely at ease in this strange city.

He could hear Ren Mingyao turning over.Adjusting today's work schedule often means a busier schedule tomorrow.This person is obviously still busy with work, and he didn't take the time to rest just after work, so he insisted on wasting two hours back and forth, taking him to stay by his side.There was nothing he could do to help, and extra effort had to be taken to take care of him.

Will this make Ren Mingyao feel more at ease?

In his memory, his squad leader was always reliable and stable, and he still had enough energy to take care of him.Now it's more like a person who needs companionship.

There was sleepiness in Ren Mingyao's voice, and he asked him as if chatting, "Who accompanied you in the operation?"

"My aunt." Cheng Shi replied.

"Auntie?"

"It's my mother's sister."

"She picked you up?"

"Well, she was nice to me. And gave me a job."

Cheng Shi hesitated for a while, "I only found out a few days ago that they all said that I was adopted by a rich woman."

"Did you... think of me that way too?"

Ren Mingyao was confused and almost fell asleep, but when he heard this, he closed his eyes and laughed.

"What is that kind of rumor? You don't know how many possibilities I have thought about."

Never underestimate a screenwriter's imagination.

He didn't know that Grandma Cheng Shi deliberately concealed Cheng Shi's whereabouts from everyone in order to protect her grandson from being found by interested people.All I know is that a ten-year-old boy disappeared suddenly, and even his family members were missing, so he was deceived, trafficked, smuggled to a foreign country to work as a coolie, or simply lost his footing somewhere and his bones were hard to find.

Anything could happen, he thought of anything.In contrast, "follow women to enjoy happiness" is already a very good possibility.

Cheng Shi listened to his endless list of items one by one, as if he was telling a story, the more bizarre it became, angrily and funny, "Are you surprised to see that I'm still alive?"

"I'm looking for you." Ren Mingyao's voice became lower and lower, intermittently.

"I've been looking for you for a long time. But why... I just never thought that you would stay in Maohua. Why... Why is it always raining this year?"

He seemed bewildered.Cheng Shi had no choice but to pick up the last sentence and said, "It's a good thing to have a lot of rain in spring. Rain on the vernal equinox is a good year."

"A lot of rain...isn't that a good thing."

Ren Mingyao was indeed tired, and he felt sleepy as soon as he lay down on the bed.As if he hadn't been separated from the day's work, when he was about to fall asleep, frame by frame flashed through his mind. The scenes changed, and the protagonists changed from the young leading actors of the crew to the younger Cheng Shi and himself.

The environment they lived in when they were young was never tolerant and easy.Even if we were together early, after all, when he was young, everything he had at that time was given by his parents and elders, and he did not have the ability to cope with the pressure from all parties.

How will we work together, how will we arrange our life after graduation, no matter how well we plan, it will be childish empty talk to adults, and it cannot be a reason to indulge in puppy love.In reality, the young couples he has seen and heard about are not unsteady or enthusiastic, but most of them are forced to end regretfully because of the intolerable environment.

But now he has the ability to afford life.He didn't want Cheng Shi's life to be always cloudy and rainy.

"Cheng Zhi."

With a dazed sound, Cheng Shi wasn't sure if he was talking in his sleep, but he still tried to respond, "Well, what's wrong?"

"Don't go." Ren Mingyao muttered vaguely.

He knew that he was different from Cheng Shi.

He could see that Cheng Shi could enjoy a life alone and live in an orderly manner.But he can't.

There is only half of himself in him.This half of him studies hard and works hard, but he doesn't think about why he works so hard.He didn't dare to think about it, for fear that he would find that his life was empty and frighteningly empty except for work.I am afraid to find that I am only alive when I am working. The so-called life has no other meaning except for the sham sense of accomplishment when I complete the work.

Now Cheng Shi came back with his other half.Stay solidly by his side.

Even work becomes less important.No matter how boring the time is, it becomes at ease.

He didn't care much about how Cheng Shi would respond to his reckless confession, or when he had the courage to answer.He can wait, as long as Cheng Shi doesn't go with others, don't go to places he doesn't know.As long as Cheng Shi stays by his side, he can wait for the rest of his life.

He even thought immorally that he should be grateful for the sudden rain disaster, which gave him a seemingly legitimate opportunity to appear in front of Cheng Shi and say "Follow me".

It's what I wanted to say many years ago.

He was not worried that Cheng Shi would not be able to live independently.

His thoughts are more selfish.

don't go.

Don't follow others.

Come with me.

Just follow me.

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I was in a hurry to write yesterday

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