Natural disaster? Man-made disaster? On the fourth day after He Jinxing forcibly moved in and shared a bed with Gou An, at eight o'clock in the morning, Jiang Yuan called Gou An.
A pale arm stretched out from under the quilt and scratched around the bedside randomly. When it didn't catch anything, it simply gave up, got goose bumps from the cold, and quickly shrunk back into the quilt...
He grabbed the quilt impatiently, huddled in, and his head disappeared into the quilt.
Gou An was sleeping in a daze. He leaned his cold arms towards the only source of heat in the quilt, hugged a strong arm, and forcefully wrapped it around his waist.
The woman took advantage of the situation and burrowed into the man's arms like a caterpillar.
He buried his whole face in the crook of neck with that familiar scent.
——I completely forgot who was crying, pushing, punching and kicking me last night, telling me to get out as far away as possible.
He Jinxing has always been a light sleeper, and it was hard for him not to wake up when she was burrowing around like this. When he opened his eyes, he found that there was another person in his arms. It was the person who wanted to be eight hundred meters away from him before going to bed last night, and wanted to put an extra pillow between them...
The pillow was actually put there.
But he was kicked under the bed in the middle of the night.
He Jinxing woke up, stretched out his long arm to grab Gou An's cell phone that was placed beside him, lifted the quilt to dig out the person who was crying and making dissatisfied sounds, and stuffed the phone into her hand.
The cold metal made Gou An shiver and he became a little more sober.
Hiding in the quilt, she opened her hazy eyes and looked at the incoming call reminder. Seeing that the caller was "Jiang Yuan", she yawned loudly and answered the phone.
Just as she said "Hello" in a sleepy voice, she felt a large hand reaching out to her. The thinly calloused fingers were inserted into her hair and stroked her hair from time to time.
It didn't have any smell of desire, but it woke her up from her sleepiness.
Maybe it was because she had gone too far every night in the past few days, so that now when she was awake, she couldn't help but shiver just by being touched by a man's fingers.
Jiang Yuan asked her to look at WeChat, and she sent her a lot of photos of the aurora.
Gou An switched WeChat while on a call and took a look. He slowly responded, "What time is it over there?"
"It's about three in the morning. My dad and I just got back to the hotel after joining a one-day tour to chase the northern lights." You can't just see the northern lights whenever you want. Today was the day when the northern lights exploded. Jiang Yuan's voice was filled with satisfaction and joy. "I'll bring you next year."
Gou An responded with a "hmm" sound over here. The man gently rolled up a strand of her hair with his fingers, then came over and sniffed it. She had just washed her hair last night, and there was still the residual scent of shampoo on her hair.
Like a canine, his warm breath fell on his forehead. Gou An pushed him away and said, "Mom, when will you come back?"
The daughter was as clingy as ever. Jiang Yuan smiled on the other end of the phone and asked her if she was scared of staying at home alone.
He Jinxing also heard this question. He lowered his head and exchanged glances with the person in his arms who just happened to be looking up... The latter raised the corner of his lips sarcastically and thought, no, it's precisely because the two of them are staying at home that they are afraid.
She is about to suffer from kidney deficiency.
Every day when I woke up, my legs felt as weak as noodles. This happened every day for four days in a row.
Who can handle this? I'm really going to be squeezed dry.
"Anyway, come back soon."
Gou An yawned, and Jiang Yuan asked her what time she would get up to go to the research institute, and reminded her to bring an umbrella because a typhoon was about to land and it would rain in Jiangcheng in the afternoon.
Gou An subconsciously looked towards the window, and the person who was quietly eavesdropping on her phone call beside her reached out and lifted a corner of the curtain.
"It's already raining," Gou An said. "It must be freezing outside."
It's quite warm in the bed.
After hanging up the phone, it was already half past eight, which was still a little late for He Jinxing to go to work. Lying in her fragrant bed, the man seemed to have no intention of getting up at all——
Gou An could only kick his knee to signal him to leave.
"You are so ruthless." He Jinxing finally let go of her hair, "Get lost."
The big stove beside him suddenly withdrew, Gou An retracted his head into the quilt, and sniffed the smell of his body that still remained in the quilt...
Half a minute later, he came out with a red face, rolled to the side where He Jinxing had just lay, and continued to close his eyes to rest.
The water in the bathroom sounded for a while, and the person who came out opened a cabinet with familiarity. That wardrobe used to belong to Gou An alone, but now there were several oversized shirts and casual clothes hanging in it.
After changing into clean clothes, Secretary Liu called to urge him to do so. He Jinxing buttoned the last button of his shirt and prepared to go out.
Turning back to look at the person wrapped in a quilt and falling asleep again on the bed, I took over the spot where he had just lain to rub against the remaining warmth he had left behind...
His fair face was rosy from sleep. Amid Secretary Liu's desperate screams, he took a few steps back and squatted beside the bed.
Gou An was awakened by the warm and moist scent of lemon on his nose. He raised his hand to scratch his nose and opened his eyes.
She saw a handsome face squatting at the head of the bed. She shivered with fear, and the latter's eyes slightly curved - Mr. He, who always caused bloodshed and killed people decisively outside this room, left his driver and secretary hanging downstairs early in the morning, and squatted at the head of the bed, watching the little girl sleep for three minutes.
He waited patiently for her to wake up, reached out to turn her dazed face, and kissed her on the cheek.
Then I turned around, went out, and went to work.
The typhoon is approaching and heavy rain is pouring.
In the tube-shaped building in Zhaipu District, the dirt splashed by rain once again blackened the base of the walls, which were already filthy and covered with patina.
The frail girl curled up on the cold bed, hugging her knees and listening to the cold rain hitting the old glass window. The water in the kettle not far away made a shrill scream as it boiled.
"Wanwan, I'm sorry... Zhou Yanji and the others, your brothers from my family, were so angry when they found out that I rented a house for you—"
"You can go home and stay for a while, or I have money here so you can rent another place and move back when they are no longer angry."
"Wanwan, Dad knows you've been wronged. Don't worry, one day—"
Lu Wan raised her hands and covered her ears, as if to block out the man's useless promises, and also as if she didn't want to hear the noise of raindrops falling.
The phone vibrates, and the message pushed in is just a reminder that a large typhoon is about to land and citizens are asked to take precautions.
Lu Wan picked up his phone and took a look. He was silent for a few seconds, then he clicked on the campus forum as if to torture himself.
Habitually ignoring the posts on the front page that mocked "Lu Wan didn't know where to go from now on", Lu Wan was grateful for the first time that it was winter vacation and she didn't have to go to school to face those classmates with different faces...
To be honest, it has been four days since the incident, and she has not responded to any of the sarcasm or ridicule, or even any messages expressing concern, whether true or false.
Lu Wan noticed that another post floating on the homepage had also built a tall building.
The title is [It is said that Gou An’s marriage is a cold one among the rich and powerful. If you imagine that they are not having a good life, come and take a look].
At the beginning of this thread, everyone was still observing the affairs of Gou An and He Jinxing, but as if to completely overturn this statement, from the day of posting, the author would update some details from time to time -
[The director answered the phone. Mr. He, who was very busy, took time out to call him and asked if he could not go to collect seawater on rainy days. The director was silent for two seconds and asked: Then will you go?
Ah, although, maybe you don’t get my joke, it’s really funny to see the director unable to bear it anymore but still trying to remain polite and sarcastic, hahahahahahahaha! 】
[Mr. He called to ask the director what he had eaten in the cafeteria at noon. Note that he asked what the employees had eaten, not what the director had eaten:)]
[The director scolded Mr. He and told him to move his computer to the institute to work if he was bored. Mr. He said he was allergic to fish wtmxs! ]
[I'm here. I'm a bit busy today. I just finished a meeting where the director, who looked three years older, received another call. Because the phone was connected to the computer, we all heard the king of Jiangcheng asking on the other end of the phone: I forgot to ask, do you provide interns with five social insurances and one housing fund? I used all my life's skills to hold back my laughter. Sorry. Failed.
After Mr. He retires, can he set up a stall at the street corner and perform crosstalk? I want to listen.
I witnessed with my own eyes the director coldly blocked Mr. He's phone number and set it as a harassment call hhhhhhhhhh My colleague next to me said: Don't block it, you haven't seen enough of the fun.
Because the conference room was too quiet, it was heard, and now my colleague is under the table. 】
From the initial doubts and wait-and-see attitude, the post went off track later, with everyone gushing over the beautiful love stories of rich people...
Perhaps because he saw that many people were willing to read it, the poster updated the post frequently and put it on the homepage, making Lu Wan's post seem even more ridiculous.
Today the poster updated again, this time with a photo.
In the photo, little Gou An, wearing a white turtleneck sweater, pouted and shook a grass-green raincoat with a look of resentment on her face. The words "Jiangcheng Marine Biological Research Institute" were written on it. Next to her were seawater sampling tools and a pair of rain boots.
The little girl, who has not yet been baptized by the winter rain outside, still looks fluffy. Without any makeup, her skin is still fair and pink.
[1201L: You wear a lot in winter, right?]
【1202L: ……………………LS you, 1200L I understand you, what you want to say is the atmosphere of "she has enough food and drink every day".】
[1203L: Hold my face, 1202 brother, you understand me——1200L. ]
[1211L: I understand. It's the kind of delicate, radiant look.]
[1212L: I don’t get enough sleep, but I’m nourished by something else, so I look pretty good.]
【1213L: Your driving postures are really weird. 】
[I learned to raise fish in class and then went to raise fish after graduation: Miss Gou drove her family’s Bentley to work every day, and then drove her neighbor’s Maybach home after get off work… Damn, the workers shed tears of hatred.]
[1230L: Next door, is it the one next door to He Jinxing? He picks her up from get off work every day and goes home together? Although He's company and the research institute are not far away, they are in two directions from He's house? ]
[1231L: Upstairs, we have to go home together even if we are going in different directions, kswl! ]
【1232L: 1, unprecedented kswl! 】
[1240L: Look up at the title of this post. Some people may be so angry that their teeth will break.]
When Lu Wan saw 1240L, he closed the forum with a blank expression.
On WeChat, probably because he had received the information before the typhoon came, Zhou Chu transferred 20,000 yuan to Lu Wan and told her not to live in the tube-shaped building but to get a room in a hotel in the city.
Zhou Chu complained in a text message that it was outrageous that there were typhoons in winter. The last time such a thing happened was probably several years ago. The astronomical phenomena were weird and made people feel uneasy.
Lu Wan took the money, but she was too lazy to discuss with her father who had only been educated for a few years that the cause of typhoons had nothing to do with the seasons. She just said in a bright girlish tone -
【Wanwan: God is going to be upset, thank you dad! 】
The uncomfortable feeling of wanting to vomit came up again.
I got out of bed, opened the refrigerator, and found that there was not much stock left in it, only two packets of instant noodles.
She got out of bed, put on her down jacket and raincoat, put away her cell phone, and went out in the heavy rain, preparing to go to the larger supermarket outside the tube building to stock up some supplies.
When I went out, I met a neighbor who had the same idea as me. She was a middle-aged woman in her fifties. She had a strong smell of heavy oil on her body, probably because she had been serving dishes in restaurants for a long time. She was holding a tattered umbrella that was completely useless on such a rainy day, and her bangs were wet.
Looks a bit greasy.
She smiled at Lu Wan, "The eggs at the Happy Supermarket next door are on sale today. I'm going to stock up some for my son before the typhoon comes. He's going to take the college entrance exam and needs more nutrition... Hey, the news of the eggs being on sale is fresh and hot. It's just been released and they may be gone in a while - you should hurry up and grab some too."
Lu Wan looked at her wrinkled smile, his eyes swept across the cuffs of her red cotton jacket that had been worn and blackened, and he reluctantly raised the corners of his lips and said, "Okay."
Without saying much, Lu Wan walked out of the living area of the tube building side by side with the aunt. However, he did not go to the small supermarket. Instead, he turned around and entered the large chain supermarket fifteen meters away under the aunt's blank gaze.
Carrying some minced meat, vegetables, noodles, rice and other staple foods, Lu Wan met an unexpected person at the entrance of the supermarket.
The white words "Jiangcheng Marine Biology Research Institute" on the green raincoat were somewhat dazzling. She stood under the eaves with her back to Lu Wan to avoid the rain.
Even though she was wearing a raincoat, the heavy rain made her face a little wet. Her long eyelashes were covered with water droplets and her hair stuck to her face in a mess.
At this moment, she was video chatting with others on her mobile phone in this state.
"I can't do it anymore. I'm hiding from the rain. Oh my god, it's like a basin of God's foot washing water is pouring down from the sky onto my head."
She kept complaining.
On the other side of the phone, a man in a suit and tie sitting in the office was looking at the computer, with the phone probably placed on the side. Hearing the words, he chuckled softly, and it was a very pleasant laugh.
Perhaps because he heard Gou An's complaints so vividly, he turned around and looked at the person in the video: "Yeah, it's really embarrassing, a drowned dog."
"You are the one who has fallen into the water." The little girl wiped the dirt off her face nonchalantly. "I decided to go back if it rains so heavily this afternoon. I held Chen Jinli's only fish fry and told him that if he chased me out on a rainy day again, I would bring his fish fry to the beach for a large-scale "Storm Rebirth: Raising and Releasing Fish" activity."
"Chen Jinli will kill you."
"He won't do that while you're here."
"Can you please turn around and go to the supermarket behind you to buy a pack of tissues to wipe your face? I'm not sure if I want to sacrifice my life for someone with this appearance."
"He Jinxing, you just said a few days ago that you would love me no matter what I become."
"Really? Don't believe it."
“…”
"You didn't believe it at the time anyway."
The two of them chatted away, even though they had nothing of substance to discuss, but it seemed like they always had endless topics to talk about.
Occasionally, the person on the other end of the phone would read a file quietly for a few minutes, and then talk to the person on this side after reading it... This went on and on, Gou An hid from the rain under the eaves for twenty minutes, and Lu Wan watched from behind for twenty minutes.
After a while, although the sky became darker and the rain became lighter, Gou An breathed a sigh of relief, hung up the video with He Jinxing, and stepped back into the rain.
Not far away, a man in a red cotton-padded jacket was staggering towards this side carrying two plates of eggs. He probably didn't buy some necessities in the small supermarket and had to come to the big supermarket.
She was halfway there when her slippers slipped and she fell out.
Gou An, who was passing by her, tripped and fell, and the ground was covered with broken eggs. The man in the green raincoat lay on the ground for a long time and couldn't get up.
The aunt who had spoken to Lu Wan earlier was frightened. She got up from the ground and came over to ask, "Little girl, are you okay?"... In fact, Gou An was fine. She just worked too hard in the past few days and her hands and feet were weak. At this moment, she fell to the ground, her whole body was so sore that she felt like she was about to fall apart.
Lying on the wet ground as if scaring others, she gritted her teeth and climbed up, mumbling "I'm fine". The man stretched out his cold hand with dirty nails to grab her. Lu Wan thought she would go crazy, but she didn't seem to care at all.
She stood up straight and rubbed her waist, then bent down to help the aunt pick up a few intact eggs and put them back on the plate.
After apologizing repeatedly, the aunt thanked me again and again, saying, "Little girl, you are such a good person."
As the aunt, whose name Lu Wan couldn't remember, praised Gou An, she seemed to have suddenly lost her way, as if everything around her was rapidly retreating...
Space is distorted.
Element extraction.
The original world seemed to be eroded by some terrible virus, and the unreal feeling swallowed up everything.
Not far away, the sky suddenly brightened. After the lightning, a loud thunder exploded in the sky as if it was going to split the sky apart.
Lu Wan returned to the tube-shaped building in a daze. After going upstairs, he found a person standing at his door.
There was a black umbrella at his feet, but strangely, not a single drop of rain got on his body, as if this person appeared out of thin air.
He put one hand in his pocket and with the other hand held a piece of paper the size of a business card and was stuffing it into the crack of Lu Wan's door.
Hearing the sound of someone coming up the stairs, he turned his head, and the moment he met Lu Wan's eyes, he smiled with his eyes curved -
For no reason, Lu Wan thought of He Jinxing who smiled at her in Gou An’s video.
The person in front of me really looks like He Jinxing, especially when he smiles.
He raised his hand and fiddled with his naturally curly hair, looking a little embarrassed. The corners of his lips curled up: "You came back so soon. I thought you would need some time in such heavy rain."
Lu Wan and He Yuan were not familiar with each other. Every time he appeared, his eyes almost never lingered on her.
Not knowing what he wanted to do, Lu Wan spoke, his voice as hoarse as a snake spitting out its tongue: "What's wrong with you?"
He Yuan bent down to pick up his umbrella, walked down a few steps, handed her the piece of paper that he was going to stuff into the crack of her door, then patted her on the shoulder and left.
Lu Wan was very familiar with the handwriting on the piece of paper, but this time, it no longer told her that there was not enough time.
[Natural disaster? Man-made disaster? The building is about to collapse, you have to seize an opportunity to survive. ]
(End of this chapter)