Wintering

It was past twelve o'clock when Chen Yue returned home. When he was playing love games with the eldest lady, he took the time to send Mo Dong a text message saying that he would not be back until later.Mo Dong replied with a hmm.

He thought Mo Dong was already asleep when he got home, so he opened the door very quietly.

Unexpectedly, when he entered the room, he saw that the light in the living room was not turned on. In the darkness, Mo Dong was lying on the sofa with his computer in his arms. His face reflected the white light from the computer screen. When he heard the movement, he looked towards Chen Yue.

"You haven't slept yet?" Usually at this point, Mo Dong would go back to his room to rest.

"There is still some work to be done." Mo Dong replied to him like this, looked at him for a while, and suddenly asked, "Have you changed your clothes?"

"Oh, went rock climbing with friends and got sweaty."

"Yeah." Mo Dong turned his attention back to the computer again, and the sound of rapid keyboard tapping began to resound in the living room.

Chen Yue wanted to take a shower before going to bed, so he collected his clothes on the balcony first, but the drying rack on the balcony was empty, so he turned his gaze back to the sofa in the living room.

Sure enough, there was a stack of clothes folded by category, neatly placed next to Mo Dong.

"Mo Dong, I'll do these things in the future." Chen Yue was quite embarrassed, Mo Dong did the rice, Mo Dong did the cleaning, and Mo Dong folded the clothes.

"Smoothly." Mo Dong stared at the computer and replied quickly, his hands moving non-stop.

Chen Yue wanted to take his clothes and leave, but suddenly there was a small sound from the Brazilian wood behind the sofa.

He went around and saw a small white ball moving under the dark green shadow, and made a few gurgling sounds after being hugged, as if complaining.Chen Yue teased it: "Whose kid hasn't slept so late?"

The sound of typing the code stopped, Mo Dong looked at the screen, turned his back to Chen Yue, and said: "It won't sleep until you come back, and you will... still be in the future." He stopped talking before he finished speaking, as if The phrase "come back early" is very difficult to say.

Chen Yue hugged the cat, and suddenly the white hair that was pulled off his shoulder this morning felt very funny, so he told Mo Dong about it.

"I'm sorry." Mo Dong's voice weakened, like a child who has been reprimanded for doing something wrong, his tone revealing obvious anxiety.

Only then did Chen Yue realize that he thought he was blaming him.

He came and sat down next to Mo Dong. As soon as he approached, Mo Dong trembled almost imperceptibly, and carefully opened the distance, but the sofa is so big, the distance between the two is still very close, so close, Mo Dong You can even smell the strange perfume on Chen Yue's body.

It was a smell he had never smelled before.

It's like leather mixed with aged resin, and there is a smoky texture of mint on the face.

Mo Dong was sure at that moment that this unruly fragrance came from a lady.

Fingers hanging above the keyboard, like a person hanging from the edge of a cliff by a rope, the slightest wind and grass, the thread will be disconnected.

Chen Yue didn't know anything about what he was thinking at this time, but thanked him in a relaxed and happy tone for taking care of him all the time and the new friend he met today.

A sports-loving, slightly crafty, maverick girl.

Chen Yue said that she has a very interesting soul, and also said that she would introduce her to him another day.

Mo Dong felt as if his brain had been taken out alive and randomly thrown into the aqueous solution of formalin. The broken nerve endings were corroded little by little by the colorless and transparent liquid, causing numbness from the pain.

Characters on the grotesque screen began to twist, stretch, and deform, turning into monsters with teeth and claws, making mocking screams.

His hearing began to fail, and Chen Yue's voice seemed to come from far away for a while, and for a while it seemed to be talking loudly against his eardrums. He had a splitting headache, and he suddenly stood up and walked back to the room without saying a word He couldn't even hear Chen Yue calling him behind his back.

After closing the door, without turning on the light, his whole body was drained of bones, and he just sat on the ground along the door.

The windows in the room were not closed, and the gray curtains kept swaying with the night wind, leaving a ghostly shadow on the ground under the bleak moonlight.He looked at his room with that little light, the white walls, black bed, gray wardrobe, monotonous and boring, making people bored after a long time, just like him.

He understood what Chen Yue meant.

"I'm such a lousy roommate." - You're about to find a new roommate.

"You are so kind to me, I don't even know how to repay you." - I don't want to owe you anything.

"I've never met such an interesting person, it's like a fire." - You are so boring.

……

These days, he was careful to please, but in the end it all became a joke.

The cell phone in his pocket was vibrating, he took it out numbly, it was a text message from his boss.

"How are you thinking about the transfer?"

He stared at it for a while, then replied "OK".

***

Chen Yue felt strange, why did Mo Dong suddenly look like a lost soul, and asked him to ignore him.

Maybe it's too tired.

He didn't think too much, picked up Dudu and coaxed him for a while before sending him to the cat's litter.

Today, under Jiang Xia's coercion and lure, I accompanied her to the mall for a day and watched a horror movie, exhausted both physically and mentally.

"And you, just pretend to be my boyfriend for a week, and when I escape for a while and Abbey comes to China to pick me up, your mission will be completed."

"At that time, I will tell Jiang Yanzhou that our personalities are not suitable, but you are a good person."

Jiang Xia poses for an intimate pose, snaps a photo with the camera, and sends the group photo to Moments (only family members can see it), and she is persuasive and seductive to Chen Yue with a blunt smile.

It was the first time for Chen Yue to be held in the palm of his hand like this, but he was not angry, but found it interesting, and asked her: "Have you never met someone who is tempted by you because you have been single for so long?"

"Of course." Jiang Xia squinted at him, as if he asked a stupid question, "Abbey, my love, is a very cute girl."

"Girl?" Chen Yue didn't expect Jiang Xia to have a girlfriend, "Lover? Would you like to get married?"

"No, Abbey and I are going to be in love for life. Once married, love will be chained,"

Jiang Xia raised her arm, and the name "Abbey" was impressively tattooed on her smooth skin, which was her lover's name.

"We don't need secular affirmation, it's a proof of our love."

When Jiang Xia talked about her lover, it was as if she had changed. The icy tone she spoke to Chen Yue just now made a 180° change, as sweet as dripping honey.

"She was the one who chased me first. At that time, I didn't know that I liked her. After rejecting her, I ran alone on the ship bound for Malaysia. When I saw the full moon on the sea, I subconsciously wanted to take a picture and send it to her. At that moment I knew it, I was done."

Chen Yue felt a little confused, "Is this the feeling of liking someone?"

Jiang Xia glanced at him playfully, "When you want to say goodbye to the person you love," she stretched out her index finger and pointed at his heart, "It will hurt here." She pointed down, Move to the left abdomen, "Here, it hurts too."

***

Chen Yue lay on the bed, thinking about Jiang Xia's words, he felt a little ridiculous, unless his heart and stomach were sick, how could it be possible, just leaving alone hurts?

He couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

Set the alarm clock, close your eyes and go to sleep.

A gust of night wind blew over, carrying the breath of damp oak moss, slightly itchy, and he opened his eyes.

His body was warm, and there was a dark orange wall in front of him. He felt as if he was being hugged by someone. When he looked up, it was Mo Dong.He was looking down at him quietly, with a sad look in his eyes that he had never seen before.

Chen Yue didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his posture with Mo Dong, he looked at Mo Dong's drooping eyelashes, and asked softly: "Mo Dong, what's wrong with you?"

Mo Dong said, "I'm leaving."

Chen Yue heard himself shouting, but Mo Dong didn't seem to hear it.He watched him grow a pair of pure white wings, and countless white pigeons flew in, pulling him away from Mo Dong with their sharp beaks. He waved his funny hands vigorously, calling Mo Dong's name over and over again.

Mo Dong stood on the window sill, looking back at him.

Chen Yue heard himself screaming sharply: "Stay, I beg you! Don't go!"

Mo Dong looked at him suspiciously: "You made me go."

Before Chen Yue could refute him, Mo Dong disappeared from sight like a puff of smoke.

The whole house began to collapse.

The dream disappeared and he was awakened.

The pain that was about to tear his heart seemed to be still there, reminding him of the nightmare just now in his pulsating pulse like a blunt knife piercing his bones.

He felt a little headache and wanted to go to the balcony to blow some wind to wake him up.

When I came to the living room, the glass door of the balcony was open, and there was a person sitting there.

The moonlight illuminates his front half, while the back half is hidden in the blue-black shadow.Night Breeze wandered through his empty gray pajamas, a little orange-red spark held between his fingertips was extinguished, like an eye about to go out.

A black cloud drifted over, barely covering the moon, and the light became increasingly dimmer.

The figure of that person was floating, as if the next second, it would disappear like in a dream.

"Mo Dong!" He called eagerly.

As soon as the man moved, he turned his head around, his eyes full of blankness.Under his gaze, Chen Yue gradually calmed down, walked quickly to his side, and sat down like him, "Why haven't you slept so late? Are you insomnia?"

Mo Dong lowered his head, did not answer him, just looked at the cigarette in his hand, the wisps of faint white smoke curled up from bottom to top, kissing his pale face and thin eyelids.

Looking at him like this, Chen Yue felt very uncomfortable, as if in a dream, as if he was far away from him.

"Chen Yue," Mo Dong said suddenly, but he didn't look at him, but glanced at the endless sky.

"Huh?" Chen Yue was a little nervous, the kind of nervousness that made it hard to breathe.

"I've got a job transfer, and I'm going to City C in two days." He paused, and finally said, "Maybe, I won't be back in the future."