Wintering

Mo Dong slightly turned on the faucet under the kitchen sink, letting the water drop by drop into the bucket containing the fish. He squatted down and watched quietly for a while, until the fish that sank to the bottom had a gray-black tail. After bouncing up and down, he stood up and walked out of the kitchen.

"It weighs six or seven catties, and it almost broke my rod." Du Guo happily reproduced the scene of fishing at that time in the living room, "It was finally pulled up, and I was about to open the fish guard and throw it in. Who would have thought Oh shit, a snake head jumped out suddenly, good guy! And spit at me! I was almost stupid, a friend next to me was quick and quick, and kicked the fish guard into the water. Fished all night The fish just disappeared."

Chen Yue was sitting there listening to him, when he saw Mo Dong coming from the corner of his eye, he stood up.

Du Guo, that is, Mo Dong's roommate, also turned around and asked with a smile: "Brother Xiaodong, is the fish still alive?"

Mo Dong nodded and sat next to Chen Yue.After finally listening to him finish speaking, Chen Yue caught him drinking water and asked, "It's getting late, Mo Dong and I are planning to go out for breakfast, will you come too?"

Chen Yue thought he would follow, but unexpectedly, he rolled his eyes, wandered between him and Mo Dong for a while, and waved his hands, "No, no, I've stayed up all night and I'm sleepy. You go. "

Mo Dong put the bowl of wontons in the refrigerator, took the key and went out with Chen Yue.

There are many breakfast shops downstairs in Mo Dong's apartment. Today is Saturday, young people don't get up so early, only the elderly line up to buy breakfast.

"What do you want to eat?" Chen Yue asked him.

"It will be all right."

Chen Yue glanced at him helplessly, and pulled him to find a place with few people to sit down.

"Boss, here are two bowls of preserved egg and lean pork porridge, two boiled eggs, and two cups of soy milk."

"Okay!" The proprietress in an apron replied to him out of her busy schedule.

People around are chatting, talking about their disobedient grandchildren and the rising price of lean meat, trivial and ordinary things.

"Where do you eat on weekdays?" Chen Yue took down two pairs of disposable chopsticks from the bamboo tube on the dining table, and handed a pair to Mo Dong.

"There is a bakery near the company." Mo Dong looked down at the chopsticks in his hand.

"What about noon and evening?"

"The company has a staff restaurant..."

Chen Yue looked at him, smiled, stretched out his hand to grab Mo Dong's hand, put it flat on the table, and compared it with the bamboo chopsticks in the other hand, "Look, what's the difference?"

Mo Dong wanted to withdraw his hand, but Chen Yue refused.

His hand was as thin as a flower branch that lacked nutrition, and the light blue blood vessels on the wrist extended upwards, sinking into the porcelain white skin.Chen Yue stroked it lightly with his thumb, and said in a low voice, "You're always like this, you don't take yourself seriously. Do you know how worried I am?"

Mo Dong couldn't help but said: "Don't be like this, don't, always say such strange things."

Chen Yue raised his head, "Do you think what I said before was a joke?"

In the eyes of Mo Dong, those words that wish to take out their own heart are just a few light jokes?

"I'm serious." He said word for word.

"Don't worry," Mo Dong looked at him, "I won't do stupid things anymore."

Chen Yue recalled, "Do you think that what I said to you last night was just out of pity?"

Mo Dong turned his head away, "You said this before."

"I..." Chen Yue felt a powerless sense of frustration.

Mo Dong was quiet for a while, then continued, "Thank you for coming to visit me in City C after such a long journey, I'm really fine."

Please don't give me hope anymore, you have no idea what a despicable person I am.

Chen Yue asked him, "Did I disturb you when I came to City C?"

"No," Mo Dong repeated, "No. I just hope not to waste your time. If you have time, spend more on your girlfriend."

"I told you she's not my girlfriend, don't you believe me?"

"There will always be," Mo Dong murmured, "You always like girls."

Chen Yue took a deep breath, nodded, calmly took out an object from his pocket, and put it gently in Mo Dong's palm, "If you insist on thinking like this, I don't know how to use words to make you understand. Do you remember this?"

Mo Dong felt a chill in the palm of his hand, and a jade Guanyin statue inlaid with a gold background lay quietly there.

He opened his eyes wide, looked up at Chen Yue suddenly, and his breathing became short of breath.

This Avalokitesvara, as he remembered, was broken and lost in that small town.

Now it has been repaired and perfected, and even the slight cracks have been carefully reinforced with gold painting techniques, and it is completely impossible to see that it was completely broken before.

"Does it look good? I hired an old master to fix it for a long time."

Mo Dong's breathing gradually calmed down, he nodded, "It's very beautiful.", and returned Jade Guanyin to him.

"What's the matter, don't you like it?"

"I'm sorry, before." Mo Dong turned his face away, looking at the busy street, "I took your things privately."

"I lost it myself, and if I find it, it's yours." Chen Yue smiled, "I forgot to return it to you in the hospital last time, you won't be angry with me, Mo Dong?"

"This is yours." Mo Dong stubbornly repeated.

Chen Yue nodded helplessly, "Okay, okay, it's mine. But I'm giving it to you now, it's yours."

Mo Dong was silent for a moment, "What do you mean?"

Chen Yue chuckled, stretched out his hand to grab his hand, and wrapped it gently, "It's a token of love."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Dong stood up suddenly, and the chair rubbed against the ground, making a squeak.This movement attracted the curious attention of the people around.

"I," Mo Dong looked nervously at the people around him, eyes dodging, "I'm going to the bathroom." After saying that, he walked into the room with a slightly messy pace.

Chen Yue sat there alone, quietly looking at the wooden table in front of him.

A yellow dog ran over with its tongue dangling, wagging its tail eagerly under each guest's table, begging for food, but got nothing, and even got kicked.

The yellow dog walked out of the store dejectedly, and when passing by Chen Yue's table, he lowered his head and walked around. Chen Yue greeted it with an egg in his hand, and it looked back at him shyly, probably remembering being kicked. The pain in that foot made him hesitate or leave.

Chen Yue has been watching its back disappear into the street.

The porridge was served quickly, the soft and sticky rice was cooked just right, the preserved eggs and lean meat were cut into appropriate sizes, and some chopped green onions were sprinkled on top.

When Mo Dong came out, Chen Yue picked up the chopped green onion from one of the bowls of porridge and pushed it in front of Mo Dong, "You don't like chopped green onion, I picked it out for you, try it, it shouldn't be hot anymore."

Mo Dong looked calm, completely free from the gaffe just now.He lowered his head, picked up the white porcelain spoon, and sipped the porridge like some kind of small animal, his drooping eyelashes trembling slightly.

Chen Yue felt very sad, he didn't know what to do, so Mo Dong was willing to believe his feelings for him.But no matter what, he won't give up.

After the two finished their breakfast, Mo Dong had to go back to work overtime.

"Go back to downtown A." After Mo Dong sent the message to his boss, he said to Chen Yue who was beside him, "You also saw that I can't entertain you recently."

Chen Yue became childish, "If I don't leave, I will stay here."

Mo Dong had no choice but to take him back to the apartment.

Mo Dong was typing codes in the study, while Chen Yue stood in front of the bookshelf, looked at the wall full of books, and asked, "Are these books belonged to your roommate?"

"No... it was left by the previous head of the household."

"Hmm. What kind of books does Mo Dong like to read?" Chen Yue became curious about this question for the first time.

"...There is nothing I like." Mo Dong was silent for a while, and continued typing on the keyboard.

"Oh." Indeed, a man of science, like Mo Dong, who is quiet and introverted, works with computers all day long, and probably reads books about programming language design and the like.

Chen Yue lingered for a while, and found that there were a lot of miscellaneous books here, including prose, novels and poems, both ancient and modern, both at home and abroad.There are even several colorful picture books of fairy tales in the corner.He picked a travel book at random and sat on the window sill to read it.

There are many illustrations in the travel notes, including gorgeous endless river sunsets, blue and white arctic glaciers, mountains and beaches, bonfires and starry sky.

Let's go with Mo Dong sometime.

Chen Yue just wanted to ask Mo Dong to look at the pictures, but when he saw him staring at the computer intently, he swallowed the words again, his whole heart began to feel sore and swollen for no reason.

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Today is New Year's Eve!I wish all the little cuties a prosperous year of the tiger!Happy Chinese New Year!