[Bottle Evil] Four Seasons

Chapter7

"Do not believe."

Wu Xie regretted it as soon as he said it.Don't believe me?Of course I believe it, I believe that I fell in love with Zhang Qiling at first sight and the love will become deeper with time.

What about Zhang Qiling?Why is he asking himself this question?Is it what I think it is, or is there someone else I like, such as the man with sunglasses?

Wu Xiehuo is so old, and he has never been passionate about matters of principle.What's more, Xiao Song and Dr. Lin are a lesson learned from the past. They both fell in love at first sight, and they didn't end up in this scene in the end.

All the way back to Jiangsu from Hangzhou, Wu Xie was basically in a fugue state.

The closer you get, the more scared you become.Maybe it's not that I don't have confidence in my feelings, nor in his attitude, but I'm always worried that this kind of me is not worthy of that perfect him, and I'm always worried that the reality is too cruel to be avoided.

After getting out of the car and returning to the temporary living area on the construction site, Wu Xie took a deep breath and decided to put this aside.The most urgent task is the last six months, the last arduous project.

He basically spent the hottest period of this year with Zhang Qiling. However, he suddenly returned to the life of a migrant worker in early September, and his stomach still couldn't bear it.After contacting the contractor, he finalized the details of the project with the real estate agent. These workers must deliver the work on time according to the instructions of their superiors. Wu Xie has no time to think about recuperation.

Fortunately, the workers he got acquainted with at an early age have always taken good care of him, and would take the initiative to take on Wu Xie's hard work. Wu Xie is very grateful to these hard-working, kind and honest people.

They are all from the countryside and have different accents.When they got together, they struggled to deal with the cruel society in their own incomprehensible Mandarin. The only thing that remained unchanged was their warm hearts.

Even though the country is developing and the society is progressing now, the situation of the social group of migrant workers is still difficult.Perhaps in some places, some brick-moving workers have a monthly salary of [-], and the monthly salary of migrant workers exceeds the city average, but is that not a minority?There are more poor country people who support their poor families with meager income.

Wu Xie was able to truly understand it only after experiencing it personally.

The same person, the same flesh and blood, suffering and pain, how strong willpower is needed to survive such bleak years without a so-called bright future and a so-called good life?

No wonder Zhang Ailing said that what is long is suffering, and what is short is life.

Only by experiencing the situation personally can we understand the endless bitterness in the short cross.

Wu Xie's last project before their contract expired was the construction of this commercial building.

He grew up in Hangzhou, and his relatives and friends are basically from Zhejiang, so he has no acquaintances in Jiangsu, and he rented his apartment back then.In order to facilitate travel, Wu Xie bought a small e-Donkey before the official start of work, and went back and forth between home and the real estate every day, half an hour to four to ten minutes one way.

Whenever I am exhausted physically and mentally from being so busy, and think that I will soon forget the past, I will always think of Zhang Qiling inexplicably.He didn't think about him all the time, and even didn't think about him for a while, but at a certain inadvertent moment, he just thought of him and couldn't get rid of it.Never deliberately remembered, never easily forgotten.

This is a very wonderful experience, sour but not astringent, soft but not sweet, as if there is always a breath held in the chest cavity, and a little exhalation from time to time, but it cannot be completely.

Two months later, the first batch of top-capped properties opened for sale, and after four connections and one leveling, the sales center located directly in front of this area slowly became lively.

Wu Xie never expected to meet Zhang Qiling again here.Dressed in a formal suit, black suit, and white shirt, standing in one place is a scene of its own.

Are you here for business?

Zhang Qiling is very rich, it's not difficult to find out, you must know that Wu Xie took over the interior design of his house, and the wages for the easy completion are considered a small sum of money.Besides, there are only two roads away from the city center, so it goes without saying that everyone knows how high the real estate prices are.

Wu Xie peeked silently for a while, then looked away, and Zhang Qiling looked over in the next second, even stopping his steps.

Wu Xie met that gaze, and a sentence echoed in his mind.

"Do you believe in love at first sight?"

There is no doubt that Zhang Qiling is looking at himself.But Wu Xie couldn't do it knowing he couldn't do it. After a moment of hesitation, he closed his eyes tightly and turned his head away.

The next day, Wu Xie got up early, went out with dark circles under her eyes, and went to a newly opened restaurant not far from her residence for breakfast.

This shop mainly sells porridge. Not long after it opened, the business has been good, and the porridge it makes is very suitable for his taste.Wu Xie usually wakes up early and stays late, so the time to come to this store is when it is relatively free.

The waiter brought a set meal of preserved egg and lean pork porridge to the table, and a person sat opposite him.

"What would you like to order?"

"as same as him."

Wu Xie paused when she scooped up the porridge, and looked at Zhang Qiling in surprise.

"How do you..."

"The hotel I booked is near here, I'm here for breakfast."

"Oh."

Wu Xie lowered his head, finished his porridge, and ate half of a deep-fried dough stick. As usual, he packed the soy milk and took it to the construction site to drink.A hand reached out, took the remaining half of the fried dough stick, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"You can't waste food."

"……Um"

On the third day and the fourth day, Zhang Qiling entered the store just as Wu Xie's front foot entered, and they had breakfast together.The two rarely communicated in language, but the waiter could already know what meal to serve as soon as he saw them.

"Today is also two sets of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, right? It will be delivered in a while!"

For lunch, Wu Xie had boxed lunches with all the workers, and Zhang Qiling didn't go out of his way to invite him to dinner, but just met each other by chance.

Ever since Zhang Qiling asked Wu Xie to have supper the next night, but Wu Xie refused because he was "too tired to walk", Zhang Qiling took the initiative to pick up and drop off, because he was afraid that something would happen if Wu Xie was too tired to go back at night.

Wu Xie was more taboo about things like car accidents than Zhang Qiling, so he agreed after a little refusal.

Of course he knew what Zhang Qiling meant, and he could vaguely guess why he appeared in Jiangsu.I was shaken in my heart, otherwise I wouldn't go to the porridge shop every day, but these are not enough reasons to really change him.Wait, wait...

When having breakfast on the fifth day, the two changed their set meals.After Wu Xie took the first bite, she hurriedly told Zhang Qiling not to eat it.

"This porridge is a bit spicy. You don't like spicy food in the first place, and now you're on an empty stomach. You'd better eat another."

Zhang Qiling looked at Wu Xie holding his hand, stared at his face and said, "Do you care about me?"

"Don't think too much, we are friends, this little thing should be done."

"I can't see you off today, I have a ticket to go back at ten o'clock tonight."

"Well, it's smooth sailing."

"Do you know there is a small park not far to the left of this store?"

Wu Xie nodded.

"At seven o'clock tonight, I'll wait for you there."

At seven o'clock in the evening, Wu Xie drove home directly from the construction site, and lay down on the bed after taking a shower.

I didn't meet Zhang Qiling all day today.

Of course he guessed that there were human factors involved in those "passing by", but he still took a trace of luck, at least not every time on purpose, right?

Now we finally have an answer.It's true that every time, every time, it's intentional, it's a deliberate coincidence by that person.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Wu Xie turned off the lights and prepared to go to bed.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Wu Xie stared at the hands on the alarm clock in a daze.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Wu Xie got up from the bed, grabbed a coat, and rode a small electric donkey towards the small park.

It's actually a bit cold at night, and my mind is also in a state of emptying.This area is just an ordinary residential area, and there are no cars on the main road.

Thinking of meeting Zhang Qiling for the first time, meeting again for the first time, kissing good night for the first time, sleeping in each other's arms for the first time, kissing for the first time... I also remembered the phone call with my parents last month.

He obviously rejected it several times invisibly, he clearly said he didn't believe it, he clearly...

When he received a video call from his parents after a long absence that day, he suddenly made up his mind.After exchanging pleasantries and heart-to-heart talks, Wu Xie looked at the couple smiling gently on the other side of the screen, cleared his throat, and said seriously:

"Mom and Dad, I fell in love with someone...and...it is very likely that I will like him alone in this life. He is a man..."

"His name is Zhang Qiling."

Wu Xie has always done things after thinking.Coming out of the closet is a big deal, even if he made it clear about his sexuality at the beginning, even if his parents didn't mind Xiao Song being gay, even if he fell in love with Zhang Qiling, he didn't bite himself to death that he was gay and came out in a hurry.

He came out to his family not because he was in a rush, not because he finally confirmed his sexual orientation, and not because he didn't want them to urge him to find a partner or go on a blind date.

Instead, he clearly realized in his heart that Wu Xie fell in love with Zhang Qiling, and he was deeply trapped in it and couldn't extricate himself, and in this life, he might be the only one he loved.

After a month, the cold wind was blowing, and now he was extremely sober.The current him is burdened with memories and many chores, and he is still unable to respond to Zhang Qiling's feelings. He needs time.

Although Wu Xie couldn't explain why, she firmly believed that Zhang Qiling would wait for her.

He drove all the way to the porridge shop, and when he got out of the car, he realized that he was still wearing the translucent white undershirt and the old-fashioned underpants on the floor.

The small park is very quiet, and the street lamps with cute shapes cast warm light, trying to dispel the cold.

nobody.

He finally panicked, his steps became faster and faster, his eye sockets were hot from the wind, and he went round and round the park, but there was no one there.

It wasn't until this time that Wu Xie really realized that Zhang Qiling would no longer wait for him where he was before, and even came back to look for him.Those tenderness that are peeling cocoons have come to an end.

The air surrounded him like a scourge, oppressing him endlessly.Wu Xie squatted down slowly, with her head buried between her knees, and liquid flowing freely on her face whether it was sweat or tears.

"It's over."

After these two words popped up in his mind, Wu Xie was no longer as stupid as he was the first time to hit the table and dodge his waist.He silently walked to the center of the small park, and picked up what he found earlier, the piece of paper fixed in a small box on the ground and the recording pen next to it.

"Wu Xie:

If what I did before caused you trouble, I apologize to you, and I won't do this again in the future, don't worry.

I admit that I was careful from the beginning.I finally found you, and I really don’t want to miss you again, so I deliberately invited you to do interior design, let you live in my house, and tried every means to keep you; I followed you to Jiangsu, intentionally created a chance encounter, and specially opened that porridge shop ...

……

All to keep you by my side. "

You brought me the first piece of warm spring, the first piece of hot summer, the first piece of cool autumn and the first piece of cold winter.You walked through my four seasons, but refused to leave a trace.If I give you my sincerity, are you willing to stay and go through the next round?

Picking up the recording pen, Wu Xie suddenly lost the courage to press the play button.He thinks he is very serious about his relationship, but in front of Zhang Qiling, these seriousness seems to suddenly become childish and shameless.

I thought it was just in case, but the big deal is that I will die alone.I only hope that there will be a long-lasting relationship, so that it will last for a long time.It happened to be love at first sight again, but the goodbye was the same as the first time we saw each other. I was full of love but didn't know how to express it, so I had to dodge and dodge, pretend to be stupid again.

I always use the excuse that impulsiveness is difficult to last, but I forget where it is impulsive and where it is not long-lasting.As early as the second meeting, I already understood.

two years.

Well, that's him.

recording:

【Wu Xie, maybe I can't understand your past pain, maybe I can never replace the person in your heart.But I hope you know that there is such a person who likes you very much, is willing to give you all the best, and is willing to be considerate and take care of you for the rest of his life.

Would you like to give such a person a chance to let him into your world, would you like to try to accept him?

I will treat you well. 】

……

[Wu Xie, I like you, very much, from the first sight. 】

"Damn... If you want to confess, at least don't leave in a hurry..." Wu Xie muttered hoarsely, "Who told you that the person in my heart is not you?"

Opening the small box, a ring lay quietly inside, reflecting the silver light.

As the weather got colder, Wu Xie's stomach pain became more and more severe, and finally fell ill.The other workers said that they would work together with him, and let him go back and heal his illness first.Wu Xie could only go back to Zhejiang halfway, and went straight to the city's first hospital.

"Tell you not to pay attention to diet and rest!" Old doctor Xu gave Wu Xie a hard slap on the buttocks after checking him up, "I'll be in the hospital this week for proper recuperation."

Wu Xie just wanted to say that it wouldn't take a week, at most two or three days, but Xu Lao glared at him and swallowed it back.

"OK."

"Don't be reluctant, it's not good here when you're young, it's not good there, and you'll have to suffer when you get older."

Wu Xie obediently followed behind, received medicine and patient clothes in the familiar way of Gastroenterology Department, and followed the nurse to her bed.

For a week... Lying in the hospital in a panic, he gnaws on fruit when he has nothing to do, or chats with the person in the next bed, occasionally calculates his savings, and considers the matter of inviting other workers to have a meal after work.

Under Xu Lao's strong supervision and Wu Xie's active cooperation, Wu Xie was already relaxed after four days, Xu Lao no longer forcibly restricted his work and rest, and the mobile phone that was taken away because of "radiation" was also returned. hand.

Wu Xie just wanted to click on Weibo to see if there was anything new, when he received a call displayed as "Zhang Qiling". Sir? Your friend got into a car accident and has been sent to the city's No. [-] hospital, and his mobile phone was dropped at the scene, please come here immediately if it's convenient, and if you know them, please tell us the information, okay?"

"Ah? Good good!"

Car accident, car accident, car accident, car accident... The scene that flashed through his mind made Wu Xie's face turn pale, and he put on his shoes tremblingly and rushed downstairs.

After asking the front desk for a long time, but still did not find out that there was a patient named "Zhang Qiling", Wu Xie became more and more anxious, biting his lower lip, at a loss for what to do.

"Just now, is there really no such person?"

"Sorry, not really."

Wu Xie was in a hurry, and when he couldn't breathe well, he passed out and coughed violently.Leng Buding stretched out a hand behind his back, giving him moderate force and comfort, Wu Xie turned his head quickly.

"You...they said they don't have your name...are you seriously injured? I'm scared to death by you, do you know..."

Zhang Qiling glanced at Wu Xie's eyes that were as red as rabbits and the hospital gown he was wearing, and said calmly, "The co-pilot I was sitting in had a broken right hand. It's not a big problem...you're worried."

Only then did Wu Xie feel relieved, "Does your hand hurt? Remember to drink some bone soup for tonic."

"Okay. Are you in the hospital?"

"It's an old problem. It was the old doctor Xu you saw that time who insisted on me staying. It's not that serious."

Wu Xie originally wanted to say something, but following Zhang Qiling's gaze, the man in sunglasses was outside the door, as if he was waiting for him.

"Pay attention to your body, I still have something to do, let's go and solve it first."

"Well, wait! This is for you." Wu Xie took out a small box from his pocket, and it was the one given to him by Zhang Qiling, "Hurry up and be careful."

Zhang Qiling paused when he saw the shape of the box, and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but Wu Xie had forced the box into his hand.After a while, he held the box with his lips pursed, and left without looking back.

Slowly walking back to the ward, Wu Xie lay silently on the bed and closed his eyes.

so awkward……

postscript

In the spring of the next year, all the projects on Wu Xie's construction site were completed, and Dad Song's contract expired. Wu Xie successfully got back his full salary and handed it over to the Song family in the name of Xiao Song.

Xiao Song's mobile phone has been kept by Wu Xie, and every year and festivals, he will imitate Xiao Song's tone and send a text message to Song's mother.After he went back, he told Mother Song about the wages, told them to pay attention to their health, and then turned off the phone.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief and bought a high-speed rail ticket back to Hangzhou when everything in Jiangsu was settled and the rented house was returned.The reason why he didn't go back directly was because he still had a place he wanted to go before going back.

This winter is not easy for Zhang Qiling.One of the ulna bones in his arm was broken, and although he didn't say anything, the effect of the cooling weather on his arm was obvious.The company specially approved paid vacations, but many technical problems would still come to him to solve, so they decided not to take vacations for a week.

Not to mention being a blind man, the whole company can find that Zhang Qiling's mood is in a low pressure, and the reason is unknown, everyone is frightened.

The blind man had no choice but to walk into Zhang Qiling's office one day half a month later.

"The talk with your little boyfriend broke down?"

In exchange for Zhang Qiling's faint look.

"Isn't it just a lovelorn? It's the same as what. Didn't you see that the whole company is scared by you and can't take care of themselves? What's going on, tell me."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Qiling shook his head, "No need, don't worry."

"Okay, it's best if you can adjust yourself. But let me tell you, you're still not aggressive enough. If you want to get in, don't just do what brothers do. Raw rice and cooked rice are the most reliable."

He didn't wait for Wu Xie that day, and everything probably came to an end at that time. He originally had such an idea.

Maybe Wu Xie will have such a period of adaptation, adapting to the loneliness that the powerful sense of existence he worked so hard to create suddenly fails, and then he will gradually fade out of his life.

However, the only contact in the phone's address book is "Wu Xie", a mere two words covering the entire world.It was precisely because of this that I was lucky enough to meet Wu Xie in the hospital. Wu Xie lost weight again, but the way he looked at himself was so misleading.

Then it's better to misunderstand it.

After the blind man left, Zhang Qiling took out the small box on the first drawer and slowly opened it, only to find that it was not the one he specially ordered.

It is a circle bigger, and the color and style are almost exactly the same as the one I bought, including the words engraved on the inner circle.

There is also a small note in the crevice of the embedded sponge: "Waitforme."

I couldn't help but jump for joy, especially when I saw "Ido" in the small corner after flipping it over.

Almost misunderstood, almost missed again...

Zhang Qiling can fully imagine Wu Xie's shyness when he took the ring he gave to the jewelry store to ask for the same style, and his red earlobes and cheeks when he wrote those two sentences.

Getting along with him is like playing a roller coaster, it is too bumpy, and it seems that there is a danger of overturning if you are not careful, leaving a scarlet patch of skin and flesh.Zhang Qiling raised the corners of his mouth, but fortunately, the ending was unexpectedly beautiful.

The thoughts at this moment erupted suddenly, clearer and stronger than the countless days and nights in the past.

Wu Xie's ticket purchase information for returning to Hangzhou has long been recorded in his calendar. Now it seems that this is not unnecessary but just right.

It's been several months without any contact, and it's winter, which Wu Xie dislikes the most.

There is still a considerable difference in winter between the south and the north.No matter how cold it is in the north, it is only dry and cold. It is absolutely no problem to wear a thick padded jacket with air-conditioning and floor heating; but it is different in the south. No amount of thick clothes can resist the chill that wants to penetrate into the bones of the person. Crazy.

Therefore, Wu Xie, who was of average physique, unfortunately caught a cold and had a fever.He was born in the early spring, and his illness had to last until the vernal equinox to heal.

Wu Xie rubbed his nose, which was still slightly uncomfortable, and got on the bus. The station he was going to was a certain distance away, so he leaned against the window and took a nap for a while.

I thought that Zhang Qiling would be very happy to receive the "gift in return", but the expression at that time was clearly unwilling.It was only later that Wu Xie remembered that he didn't need to pack it, and still used the ring in the original box.

In case Zhang Qiling thought that he had rejected the gift, he threw it away without opening it in a fit of anger... That ring is not cheap. Besides, Wu Xie searched hard for the jewelry store in the city before finding the original one and asking for it. The same workmanship and lettering, no matter how you think about it, it's a pity!

However, calling and asking about this kind of thing is something he would never do.Originally, I was the one who was stupid first, if I can't explain it, I will be in big trouble...

Because the university didn't have much communication with other students except Xiao Song, the only contacts in Wu Xie's phone were his parents and Xiao Song.Zhang Qiling's was originally there, but he deleted it later to avoid some impulsiveness.

After all, it has been a "recent contact" for a while, and if you delete the number, you will just memorize it... Thinking wildly, I slowly fell asleep.

"Passengers, please pay attention, Qingfengyuan has arrived, please get off through the back door."

Wu Xie, who had just woken up, blinked, and habitually stroked his left ring finger with his right hand—a movement he had just developed these days. He hurriedly followed the other passengers and jumped out of the car last.

Wu Xie left the platform, stood under the shade of a camphor tree by the roadside and looked towards the opposite road.

Compared with three years ago, this community has not changed much, except that there is no row of migrant workers sitting on the ground, and there is no excavator.

As if feeling the line of sight, he turned his head slightly and looked under the opposite tree——

After a moment of astonishment, it seemed so natural again.

A bright smile that is quite familiar in the depths of memory.

Zhang Qiling was looking back under the tree.

The four eyes met, and the two of them stretched out their left hands and waved towards each other almost at the same time. When the light fell, two silver rays of light shone.

The author has something to say:

Do you believe in love at first sight?

In fact, I don't believe it, but I like to write stories about love at first sight.The love from the beginning to the end, the deeper liking, and the love brewed in the end, how beautiful it is.