old age

Ji Kaiyang said that he needs to think again, and Yi Chen will wait for him.

He didn't know when that deadline would be, but it was always a good thing to change the death penalty to life.There is hope ahead, and he can wait, which is lucky for him.

Their relationship has improved a lot compared to the months before they broke up.When they are free, they will meet up, sometimes at a newly discovered restaurant, sometimes watching a movie together.Lovers can do these things, and so can friends.Yi Chen tried his best to keep an appropriate distance, and left voluntarily when it was about the same time, so as not to embarrass Ji Kaiyang.

He began to become patient, willing to let Ji Kaiyang think about their future slowly, waiting for the day when he has nothing to worry about.

That year's Spring Festival, Yi Chen spent the Spring Festival with Chu Jing. After Chu Jing's divorce, she had always been with people around her, but she didn't remarry. On the contrary, Yi Bochuan got married years ago.

Chu Jing had already talked to Yi Bochuan about his relationship with Ji Kaiyang.Yi Bochuan obviously couldn't accept it, but his opinion was not that important to Yi Chen.Yi Chen went to his wedding, and the bride was not Li Nan. Yi Chen saw her slightly bulging belly, and guessed that he would have a younger brother or younger sister soon, so Yi Bochuan would not have the heart to interfere in his life .

On New Year's Eve, they went to visit Zhang Yun's grave.When Chu Jing left the cemetery, she was always in a bad mood, depressed and unhappy.It was already [-] o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived home by plane, and the New Year's Eve dinner that had been ordered at the hotel was also delivered. Chu Jing drank half a bowl of white fungus soup and went back to the bedroom.Yi Chen was sitting at the dining table, slowly drinking the seafood porridge in the bowl, and replying to the New Year text messages by the way.

Before sending blessings like this, I really didn't know that I knew so many people.Before Chu Jing went back to the bedroom, she specifically told him not to send mass messages, and the content didn’t need to be written in a flashy manner, but the address must be in place. Yi Chen sent them one by one, and sent red envelopes to the employees in the work group, and it was almost time to look up again. It's twelve o'clock.

He knocked lightly on Chu Jing's bedroom door, but no one answered, and pushed the door in. Chu Jing still held the tablet in her hand, and was already sleeping against the head of the bed.Yi Chen put the quilt on for her, turned off the lights and exited, went to the balcony to look out, most of the houses in the community were still lit, and the colorful lights and lanterns hanging on the branches below were also flashing non-stop.

I passed by during the day and saw it as old-fashioned, but now I feel that it can add a little Chinese New Year meaning, which is also good.Yi Chen felt cold after blowing the wind for a while, and felt stuffy after staying in the room with the heater for a long time.Then I went in and warmed a glass of milk, then wrapped myself in a blanket and sat on a hanging chair to read a book.

He read the book for a while, then took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Ji Kaiyang. While hesitating, Ji Kaiyang sent a text message instead, "Happy New Year"

Because Ji Kaiyang participated in an exchange activity organized by the school, he went to Japan before the Spring Festival, and it took more than a month to come back. Before leaving, he made a special trip back to N City to sweep Zhang Yun's tomb in advance.

Yi Chen slandered in his heart that there was no address and no punctuation, maybe it was a group post, but he couldn't help pressing the call button.Ji Kaiyang quickly connected, "Hey, haven't you slept yet?"

"Yeah." Yi Chen pulled up the blanket a little, "Are you ready to rest?"

"No, I just went back to the hotel. There is a Spring Festival festival in Chinatown, so I went shopping after dinner at night."

"Is it fun?"

"It's okay. The main reason is that everyone has passed by. It's not good if you don't go. It's nothing special, just dancing dragons and lions to watch fireworks." There was still some noise on the other end of the phone, probably Ji Kaiyang was changing his coat.

"It's quite lively." Yi Chen took a sip of milk, "My mother seems to ban smoking and firecrackers here. I haven't seen it in the past few days, and I don't know if there will be one later..."

No one hung up the phone, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

"It's twelve o'clock." Ji Kaiyang said suddenly while chatting.

Yi Chen looked back at the clock in the living room, it was indeed a new day.

"Is there?" Ji Kaiyang asked.

"What?" Yi Chen asked suspiciously.

"fireworks."

Yi Chen sat up straight and looked outside, the sky was dark.He simply got off the hanging chair and walked to the balcony, "There are no fireworks..."

As he spoke, he gasped in surprise, "There seems to be a Kongming lantern."

"A lot?"

"I saw two." Yi Chen leaned on the railing, watching the bright spots rise and disappear in the distance, "Ji Kaiyang, Happy New Year."

"En." Ji Kaiyang said warmly, "Happy New Year."

They chatted for a while, and when it was getting late, they hung up the phone.

Yi Chen stayed on the balcony and finished reading the remaining few pages of the book, hugging the blanket and planning to go back to the bedroom, when the WeChat alert sounded.

He clicked on it, and it was a video, a very familiar hand, holding a few fireworks sticks, which looked very bright in the dark night.The pyrotechnic stick burns out quickly and the video ends.

Yi Chen adjusted his mood, and made another call, "Where did you get it?"

"Teacher leader, the child is not taken care of at home, so I brought it with me." Ji Kaiyang said, "The little girl bought it on China Street at night, and it was not used up. I just went to borrow some, and I will pick it up tomorrow." I bought it and returned it to her."

"Where are you right now then?"

"A small park next to the hotel. I just asked the waiter, and he said that this can be placed here."

"Oh, are you going back now?"

"En." Ji Kaiyang responded, "I'm walking back."

Yi Chen didn't know what to say at this moment, as if he could have said nothing at first, and simply listened quietly to Ji Kaiyang's footsteps on the phone.

"Are you there?" Yi Chen asked when he heard the sound of the door opening.

"It's time to get to the room." Ji Kaiyang said, "Okay, let's hang up and go to bed early."

His voice was too gentle, Yi Chen nodded unconsciously, only to remember that Ji Kaiyang couldn't see, "I'm going to bed, you should go to bed early too, good night."

"Good night."

On the day Ji Kaiyang came back, Yi Chen happened to go out to interview for a manuscript to be published in the second week, and the two of them were a little busy in the next few days, and it was already two weeks later.

"Have you lost weight?" The two of them met downstairs in Yi Chen's company, and Yi Chen handed Ji Kaiyang a cup of hot cocoa in his hand.

"No, I saw you lose weight." Ji Kaiyang took it over, "Should I go get something from my place first or eat first?"

He brought Yi Chen a set of porcelain when he came back from Japan, but he hasn't given it to him yet.

"Let's eat first, I'm starving to death, lunch is..." Yi Chen stopped, coughed and wanted to bring the topic over.

Ji Kaiyang turned his head to look at him, "Didn't you have lunch?"

There was no way to hide it, so Yi Chen simply admitted, "I forgot about it in time for the manuscript."

"Why are you so busy?" Ji Kaiyang said disapprovingly.

"It's time to publish an article on the official account today. I came to class in the morning and found that there was an article that I missed, so I had to rush." ​​Yi Chen explained.

"Who should have written it?" Snowflakes started to fall in the sky. When Ji Kaiyang went out in the morning, he checked the weather forecast and knew that there would be snow today, so he brought an umbrella in advance and took it out to prop it up.

"A new guy. I recently opened a new official account, and the manpower was a bit insufficient, so I recruited another one." Yi Chen scratched his hair impatiently, "I'm convinced, he actually talked to me today. He said he forgot, but it was too late, so Zhang Qian and I wrote half of it alone, and at least we put together an article and sent it out..."

"Then what are you going to do with this person?" Ji Kaiyang pulled Yi Chen under the umbrella.

"Zhang Qian was so pissed off today that she said she was going to fire him directly."

"Then what do you say?"

"Deduct this month's bonus, and see next month's performance." Yi Chen sneezed, and before Ji Kaiyang frowned, he tightened the scarf very consciously, "It's not his responsibility to pursue it, for example Why didn't anyone ask in advance, how could it be too late to find out...Everyone is not in place. But if there is a next time, I don't dare to keep him. "

"Yeah." Ji Kaiyang nodded, and swept a snowflake off Yi Chen's shoulder, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Yi Chen was furious with the manuscript in the afternoon, and argued with Zhang Qian for a while about the specific punishment.Now that I have talked to Ji Kaiyang, the whole person feels much more relaxed, "Eat fish. There is a steamed fish restaurant over there. Last time I went there, the taste is quite similar to the one in the old city."

While talking, they had already reached the intersection. I don't know if it was because of the snow, and there were not many cars. They finally waited until one was about to get on. Suddenly, a mother and son ran from the side, opened the door from the other side and sat in.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Yi Chen was inexplicably surprised, "We hired you."

"You can hire another car." The woman said, "Master, let's drive. Let's go..."

"Why is it unreasonable?" Yi Chen frowned, and there was nothing wrong with letting the car go, but the other party's behavior was so natural that it still made people feel uncomfortable.

"It was the two young men who recruited first." The driver turned his head, "Where are you going? See if it's on the way, or..."

"We don't carpool," the woman said.

"Hey, damn it, what's your attitude, Auntie?"

His son has been playing with his mobile phone since he got in the car.Yi Chen and Ji Kaiyang are two young men, it's no good if they really have a conflict. The woman saw that Yi Chen was obviously angry, and her momentum was a little weaker, "We have something urgent..."

"Okay, okay." Ji Kaiyang patted Yi Chen's shoulder, "Master, you can take them away, we'll wait for the next one."

The car drove away quickly, and Yi Chen rubbed his hands, "Are all aunts so fierce now? This will be the topic of the next issue."

"There might be something wrong with him." Ji Kaiyang pulled him in.

"What's the matter?" Yi Chen muttered dissatisfied.

"Send the child to tutoring or something? Isn't her son carrying a schoolbag?" Ji Kaiyang looked around, there was a baked sweet potato seller on the street, he went to buy two, tore open the skin and handed it to Yi Chen, "Put your stomach first, don't you mean you're hungry?"

I haven't seen the car coming for a long time, Yichen has finished eating the sweet potatoes, and they are still on the side of the road.

Ji Kaiyang felt a little guilty, "Why don't you stop eating fish today and go directly to my place? There are still vegetables in the refrigerator at home."

Yi Chen ate two sweet potatoes and was not very hungry, so he nodded and agreed.

Ji Kaiyang's place is not far away, and it only takes about twenty minutes to walk there.They turned a corner and suddenly saw a group of people in front of them.

"What's wrong?" There were discussions around.

"I don't know, the car seems to have overturned, the snowy road is too slippery..."

In the middle of the crowd was an overturned taxi, which looked familiar. Yi Chen and Ji Kaiyang glanced at each other without saying a word.

The police car and the ambulance arrived almost at the same time, and it took about ten minutes to rescue the people in the car with a lot of demolition tools.

The pair of mother and child and the driver that Yi Chen and the others met not long ago were sent to the ambulance, and it seemed that a doctor vaguely said that this one was not breathing.

The spectators slowly dispersed, and Ji Kaiyang and Yi Chen also continued to walk back.There are still bloodstains on the snow, waiting for new snowflakes to fall and cover everything.

They were silent all the way, but they did not know when they held hands together.

When he arrived at Ji Kaiyang's house, Yi Chen went to turn on the light, but it didn't turn on after he pressed it twice, "Brother Kaiyang." He suddenly called out.

"Well, I'm here." Ji Kaiyang hugged him in the dark.

Yi Chen trembled a little in his arms, and Ji Kaiyang himself felt sorry for him.

They've just had a brush with death, again.

Even if you have faced the topic of life and death more than once, it still makes you palpitate, how impermanent life is.

Ji Kaiyang remembered the number he saw somewhere, that one hundred and six people die every minute in this world.Some deaths may be predictable in advance, but more occur in a seemingly ordinary moment.

Life is like a post.

We are discussing tomorrow every day, but who can guarantee [-]% tomorrow?Those who want to wait a little longer will never be too late.

Ji Kaiyang feels that his hesitation these days is actually meaningless. He is so clear in his heart that he loves Yichen, and he can only and will only be with him in this life. If this is the case, why waste the only thing that can be completely grasped? What about now?

He was about to speak when Yi Chen spoke, "Ji Kaiyang."

"Ok?"

"I'm begging you, I'll be ashamed again, let's start over, okay? I know I'm not good in every way, and I'll change it. I didn't want to force you, I..."

He was incoherent and couldn't say anything else for a long time, but at this moment, he couldn't bring out his abilities in any way, and there was only one sentence at the end, "I love you."

"For me, there is nothing wrong with you." Ji Kaiyang felt distressed when he heard that, he touched the back of Yi Chen's neck, let him approach him, exchanged a kiss, and then pressed Yi Chen's forehead with a soft voice And solemnly, "I love you too."