Strangers

Qi Xie boiled a pot of water, washed an apple and peeled it. He couldn't help thinking that after returning from Tujia Village, Ding Li almost said the same thing as Xiao Tao.

horrible.This is their unanimous evaluation.

However, Qi Harmony does not think there is any problem with his behavior.

There was a situation like this before, when he was just admitted to a mental hospital: he thought everything was normal, but even the most trusted people said he was crazy.

Qi Xiong sighed softly, this feeling is really bad.

The water is on.

He poured the diced apples and glutinous rice balls into it together, and the boiling water came down again, calm and turbid.

Thicken the cornstarch, add sugar, put out two bowls and serve on the table.

Xiaotao's eyes were still a little swollen, but she had recovered her emotions, and sat down with a smile.

"I always feel that something is missing, next time I will buy some sweet-scented osmanthus." Qi Xie handed over the spoon.

"Okay." Xiaotao nodded, "I'll go to the supermarket tomorrow."

"If you don't have dried osmanthus, you can also use osmanthus sauce."

Xiao Tao hummed: "You can make this sweet soup much better than me!"

Qi Xie smiled: "I used to be greedy for sweets, and I often cooked and eaten by myself, and it was cooked once I came and went."

"If I had known, I wouldn't have cooked supper that day, and I'd leave it to Dr. Ding—" Xiao Tao closed her mouth in panic as soon as she finished speaking.

"Don't be nervous, I don't have so many tiger tails growing behind me." Qi Xie said calmly.

"Hmm." Xiaotao buried her head in the soup.

"Actually, you are not mistaken." Qi Xie said indifferently, "The relationship between Ding Li and I is indeed extraordinary, but whoever takes a step forward will never take it back."

Xiaotao was taken aback secretly, not daring to express her opinion.

"If we get to that point, it will be of no benefit to me or him. That's why I decided to transfer to the headquarters in Shanghai. The purpose is to stay away from him. During this period of time, I don't want to have too many entanglements with him, no? Because of any conflicts between us, we just hope that each other can calm down and get our lives back on track."

Xiaotao listened carefully, and found that Qi Xie was just stating a fact, neither venting his emotions nor asking for opinions, which made comfort and evaluation superfluous.

After quietly drinking a bowl of soup, she seemed to understand something.

"Mr. Qi." She asked softly, "You like Dr. Ding, right?"

Qi Xie smiled: "At this age, how can we talk about whether we like it or not."

Xiaotao disagreed: "You are only in your early thirties, how can you talk like you are 80 years old, and you can still like others even at 80 years old!"

"Thirty..." Qi Xie slowly said, "Sometimes I suddenly feel that I am already the person I am looking forward to."

While speaking, he coughed a few more times.

Xiaotao tried his forehead again, and it turned out to be a little cold.

Master Xun gave [-] slaps to the matter of breaking the little finger, but he actually favored Qi Xie.

Broken Finger Tie knew that he was in the wrong and did not dare to complain. He should see a doctor and prescribe medicine.However, Qi Xie's body could not recover. Every day when he woke up, his limbs were cold and his body was stiff. Fortunately, he could get better with a little exercise, so he was forced to develop the habit of exercising early.Going for a walk in the nearby park early in the morning, watching a group of old people walking their dogs, playing chess and Tai Chi, chatting occasionally, listening to them discussing vegetable prices and complaining about their children, it seems that I am really old in the evening.

From time to time, he also nodded and shook his head to ask about Ding Li's situation.

Gathering with friends, playing basketball with colleagues, and of course, being courted by a female doctor.

They seemed to have had dinner and watched a movie, and finally Ding Li sent her home.

Then the phone rang.

Qi Xie lowered his voice and let out a hello, but Ding Li really didn't hear it, thinking it was someone else.

The phone was switched from left to right, Qi Xie said, "It's me."

"Are you still in Yunnan?" Ding Li asked.

"In Sichuan." Qi Xie said casually.

"I have something to ask you." Ding Li said.

"Talk." Qi Xie probably already guessed.

It's easy to lie, but it's hard to make a lie. Ding Li easily found out the rabbit's doubts. Fortunately, the swarm plan and the broken cut were not exposed.

Qi Xie thought that if he said too much, he would be lost, so he urged him to hang up the phone.

"I think Gu Youwei is very nice. I want to have a relationship with her on the premise of getting married. What do you think?" Ding Li asked suddenly.

Qi Xie knew what he meant, so he replied in a relaxed tone: "It's good."

"Are you sure?" Ding Li asked again.

"What's uncertain about this, remember to send me a wedding invitation when the time comes."

Ding Li paused, and finally seemed to have made up his mind: "Okay, then you have to come back and be my best man."

Qi Xie smiled: "It's a deal."

"It's a word."

"There is something else here, let's talk later?"

As soon as Qi Xie finished asking, the other person said goodbye.

After slowly hanging up the phone, he couldn't help imagining the scene of Ding Li getting married.

Wearing a neat suit and a red tie, he stood happily on the stage with his beloved, coping with the troubles of bad friends, accepting the blessings of relatives, and facing everything in the rest of his life together.

That's the worst, and the best.

At that moment, he suddenly let go.

The king of Chu left the bow, and the people of Chu got it, so why would they ask for it?It's not bad to be the best man, at least he can hold a few glasses of wine for him, and as a wedding gift... just give him the pair of carp jade.

Thinking about this, Qi Xie found the wooden box from the drawer, then took out the jade pendant, polished the ink and moistened the pen, and inscribed four words on the inside of the box, "Looking forward to growing old together".

If this word comes true, I will be your best friend for life; if you are lonely, I will be with you for the rest of your life.

The days of rain stopped temporarily, and the sky was still very cloudy. When the cold and damp wind blows, it seems to be able to blow the cool air directly into the bones.Fortunately, the air conditioner in the hospital is maintained at [-] degrees all year round, especially in the staff restaurant during lunch breaks. The crowds of diners and the steaming rice and hot soup make people feel warm.

Jiang Yan searched for a long time with the dinner plate, finally found a seat, and quickly called Gu Youwei.

"What's going on, tell me quickly!" She asked excitedly in a low voice as soon as she sat down.

"It's nothing." Gu Youwei smiled and set the tableware, "Just last night when we came out from the concert, he suddenly asked if he could kiss me, I said yes, and then..."

Jiang Yan was dumbfounded: "And then...?"

"It's not like that." Gu Youwei realized that there was a misunderstanding, and explained, "I mean, we got together after that."

"Scared me to death!" Jiang Yan patted her heart, "I said that Ding Li is usually a slow person, how can this kind of thing be done so quickly."

"How slow is he?" Dong Qiankun stepped across the stool and sat across from him, "He and his French girlfriend have known each other for a week and lived together, so you little girls still don't understand men, even vegetarian males Animals, at critical times, eat meat."

As soon as the words were said, Ding Li happened to come back from a meal.

Dong Qiankun immediately pointed to the plate of meat dishes: "Did you see that? Meat eaters."

"What eats meat?" Ding Li picked up the crock pot of soup and put it in front of Gu Youwei.

Gu Youwei thanked softly, and opened the lock box at hand.

"Wow, cookies!" Jiang Yan exclaimed.

"It was baked last night." Gu Youwei placed the box in the middle of the table.

"Weiwei, this is the first day of your relationship, you just spoil him like this!" Jiang Yan gave her a white look.

"It's nothing, let's eat together." Gu Youwei said.

"This is not a portion for everyone to eat together, it is obviously made for him to eat alone!"

Gu Youwei smiled embarrassingly: "The oven at home is too small, it can only bake seven or eight at a time, and I haven't baked it for a long time, the first oven was burnt yesterday."

Jiang Yan grabbed a biscuit: "Next time, just leave those mushy ones to Ding Li, he won't mind."

The party hummed beside him.

"Oh, I've expressed my sincerity so quickly. There are people of the opposite sex but no humanity..." Dong Qiankun held a peanut and said to it, "I think when we were on duty at night, we stole steamed buns from the alcohol oven and baked them. The ones that are blurred are all mine."

Ding Li raised his head while eating: "That has nothing to do with me, it was you who lost in the boxing game."

"How old were we then?" Dong Qiankun asked suddenly.

Ding Li thought for a while: "25."

"This time flies so fast." Dong Qiankun sighed, "I remember when I was young, I asked my parents how old they were, and they said 34 to 34 years old. I wondered what the concept of [-] to [-] was. It's over, I'm already this age."

After the conversation, there was no sound on the table.

"You can't say that." Gu Youwei said, "Szymborska wrote it all. Time can move the stars and seas, but it can't separate lovers. Kind people are always young."

"That's right." Jiang Yan slapped her fiancé across the face, "You old-fashioned, don't express your testimonials here, it will affect people's mood for dinner, Weiwei, let's go to sing at night, a new shop opened on the pedestrian street is doing it recently Activities, 19 yuan can sing until twelve o'clock!"

Dong Qiankun shook his hand: "During the period of passionate love, I was thinking about the world of two people, so we old couples shouldn't put a stick in the middle, huh?"

Ding Li smiled and asked the opposite: "Where do you want to go tonight?"

Gu Youwei pulled back her long hair: "Anything is fine."

Seeing her sweet face, Dong Qiankun imitated her immediately, and asked with a playful smile, "Where do you want to go tonight?"

Jiang Yan glared at him: "Go home!"

However, Ding Li didn't go anywhere that night.

A patient had a sudden emergency and was rescued until midnight before returning alive. When he took off his surgical gown and returned to the duty room, he found Gu Youwei waiting there alone.

"Didn't you go back?" Ding Li was a little surprised, but more moved.

"There's nothing wrong with going back, I've been reading books for now." Gu Youwei asked, "How is the patient?"

"Temporarily out of danger." Ding Li closed the door and walked over, kissing her forehead lightly, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Gu Youwei blinked her eyes, the water was shining brightly.

"Let's go." Ding Li held her hand, and the other party shrank suddenly. He pulled her up and found that her finger was red, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

"It was hot when I brought the baking tray yesterday." Gu Youwei said shyly.

"So careless." Ding Li blamed gently.

"It doesn't matter." Gu Youwei raised her head, "I know you have someone you like in your heart, so I have to work harder to keep you."

There was no coddling or begging in this sentence, she just looked at him with a smile, generous and firm, this kind of look made Ding Li feel emotional, so he stretched out his hand and pulled her into his arms.

After a long time, he whispered, "Can I ask a question."

"You said."

"You are so nice, why haven't you..." Ding Li omitted the following.

Gu Youwei understood: "Do you want to ask me why I haven't been in love and married?"

Ding Li hummed.

Gu Youwei thought for a while: "Simply put, my boyfriend passed away seven years ago, and I swore at that time that I would never marry anyone else."

"What about now?" Ding Li asked.

"Now I've broken my promise." Gu Youwei leaned against his chest.

"You did nothing wrong." Ding Li patted her on the back reassuringly.

"Yes." Gu Youwei said slowly, "I still remember watching "Titanic" with him when I was in school. When Jack sank into the sea, I cried like a fool. The 3D version was released two years ago, I bought a ticket and went to the cinema alone. What made me cry was not the separation of the two, but the photos of old Rose on the bedside at the end of the movie. It turns out that after Jack died, she became an actress, went to She went to Africa, rode a horse on the beach, and learned to fly a plane. Everything she promised to do with Jack was accomplished one by one with her persistence, and she spent a wonderful life because of it. At this moment, I suddenly I feel that there are many things in life that we can't decide, even though we have experienced life and death, we have to let go of the past and move on." Gu Youwei looked up at him, "So I walked forward, and then I met you."

— This can be a sad story.

But there was no trace of self-pity in the tone of her story, but she revealed incomparable strength and bravery. It seemed to be a kind of energy piercing the darkness, lighting up this winter night, and also scorching his chest.

The two left the hospital hand in hand.

He sent him downstairs to her house, and she invited him to come up and sit down, and he readily agreed.Whispering, kissing each other, kissing tenderly, making love with forgetfulness, everything happened so naturally.

☆, nameless monster

Gu Youwei snuggled into his arms, saw the mahogany bead by the moonlight, and played with her fingers twice: "What is this, I think you've been wearing it..."

Ding Li put his arms around her shoulders: "It was a gift from someone else, to ward off evil spirits."

"Hmm..." Gu Youwei murmured sleepily, "I seemed to see a scar on your abdomen just now."

Ding Li smiled: "I was injured before."

She slowly fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Gu Youwei vaguely felt a little cold on her shoulders, only to realize that Ding Li had slept on the other side of the bed at some point.She pulled the quilt over her shoulders, heard a heavy and rapid breathing, and when she looked again, the people around her were frowning tightly.

"Ding Li, Ding Li?" She pushed him.

Ding Li slowly opened his eyes, still in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Gu Youwei asked worriedly, "Did you have a nightmare?"

"En." Ding Li finally came back to his senses and rubbed his forehead.

"The old man said that he had a nightmare, as long as he said it, he'll be fine." Gu Youwei held his arm.

"I'm not a child anymore." Ding Li turned around and put his arms around her, and said, "I just dreamed about a poodle."

Gu Youwei shrank into his arms, and asked jokingly: "Did the poodle turn into a big lion, scaring you like this?"

"No." Ding Li looked out the window at night, "When I was in elementary school, my grandma picked up a poodle, it was white, and it was called Yuanyuan. Every time I went to her house, the dog would walk around in front of my eyes. .I didn’t like it at first, thinking it was dirty and ugly. Later, when I got familiar with it, I started playing with it. I often stole meat and bones from the kitchen for it to eat. One weekend, I called Yuanyuan when I first entered the house, but I didn’t Seeing it wagging its tail and running to meet me, I went to ask grandma, who said Yuanyuan was given to someone else, and I asked where it was sent to, but she refused to tell me at first, and finally told me that Yuanyuan was sent to the countryside.”

"Then did you find it later?" Gu Youwei asked.

"I never saw it again after that." Ding Li hugged her tightly, "When I grew up, when I recalled this incident, I thought Yuanyuan must have died. Grandma was afraid that I would be sad if I found out, so she said it was given away. But sometimes I think, maybe it was really sent to the countryside, living in a big yard every day, chasing little bitches in the field when it’s happy, lying in the nest when it’s lazy, free all day long, and finally died in the In the warm sun."

"You can ask grandma again and you will know its whereabouts." Gu Youwei said.

Ding Li shook his head: "That was all 20 years ago. No matter how long Yuanyuan lived, she would have died. In fact, I didn't think about it very much. If I hadn't just dreamed about it, I would have almost forgotten about it."

"What did you dream about it just now?"

"I dreamed that it was seriously injured by a car, bleeding all over the floor, and lay dying in the middle of the road."

"It won't be like this." Gu Youwei hugged him, "It must have been sent out."

He kissed her forehead in response, and soon fell asleep again, a dreamless night.

In the early morning of the next day, Ding Li and Gu Youwei showed up in the department together without shy away from it. However, Dong Qiankun called to stop them before the shift was handed over, telling them to help find someone quickly.The missing person was a five-year-old patient named Miao Miao. It is said that she was still there when the nurse made the rounds last night, but she disappeared suddenly in the morning.

Several people asked all over the ward, but no one had seen such a little girl.

"Ding Li." Gu Youwei called him from the other side of the corridor.

"Have you found it?" Ding Li ran over.

"Yeah." Gu Youwei pointed to the women's toilet, "She locked herself in the cubicle and refused to come out no matter how coaxed she was."

"Is there anyone else in the bathroom?" Ding Li asked.

"She's the only one." Gu Youwei said.

Ding Li called Jiang Yan to watch the door, and entered the women's toilet with Gu Youwei.

In the last compartment, the door was firmly locked. The two lowered their heads, and through the gap of two or three centimeters between the door panel and the ground, they could faintly see a little foot hidden behind some mops.

"Miao Miao?" Ding Li called out a few times.

There was no answer from inside.

Ding Li looked up: "I'll take a look from above."

Gu Youwei reached out to protect him: "Be careful."

"It's okay." Ding Li grabbed the top of the door and pushed it up, then let go, "She's hiding inside."

"Then what should we do?" Gu Youwei asked.

"I'm going to find a tool to see if I can pry the door open."

"Then I'll wait here."

Ding Li left, Gu Youwei subconsciously lowered her head and looked into the gap, and suddenly saw one eye staring at her!

She took a step back in fright, but stopped immediately, took a deep breath, bent down and looked into that eye.

"Miao Miao, is that you?" she asked.

Eyes blinked.

"If it's you, can you open the door?" She said softly.

The eyes do not move.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, there is no one else here." Gu Youwei took a step closer.

The eyes closed and opened again, and suddenly there were three of them!

Startled, she straightened up.

At this time, some people had already surrounded the door, and Ding Li and Dong Qiankun also came back, and the hammer knocked down the lock twice.

The two removed the door panel, and the light shone in.

Inside squatted a little girl.

"Oh, Miao Miao!" Dong Qiankun wiped his sweat, "You can't play hide-and-seek like this in the future, I see you are making uncle anxious."

"It's okay, good boy." Ding Li pushed aside the mop, reaching out to hug her out.

But Miao Miao hid in the corner: "I won't go out."

"Why?" Ding Li asked.

"Because I'm a mop." Miao Miao said childishly, "The mop should be with the mop."

Ding Li laughed, and coaxed her, "It's morning, and the mops have to come out to clean up."

Miao Miao thought about it carefully, and then was pulled out by Ding Li. Just as Gu Youwei was relieved, she recalled the strange scene just now.

"What's wrong?" Ding Li noticed something strange.

Gu Youwei was taken aback, smiled and shook her head.

"Aren't you uncomfortable?" Ding Li asked with concern.

"No, go get busy, I have to report back to the department."

"Okay, see you at noon then?"

"See you at noon." Gu Youwei smiled.

The whole day's work made her almost forget about it. Even in retrospect, she only felt that she was delusional.

Ding Li and Gu Youwei were both on duty that night, there was no emergency, the two of them just opened the door of their room and it was almost a date, couples in love always have thousands of words, and they chatted until midnight without knowing it.

Suddenly the door rang, and the two separated a little.

"Doctor Ding." A middle-aged female nurse ran in, "There seems to be something wrong with Miao Miao, go and have a look."

"What's the situation?" Ding Li grabbed his stethoscope and started to leave.

"No, no, she is in good health, but her behavior is a bit weird." The nurse said and led them to the ward.

The door of the ward was opened to the end, creating a small triangular space between the corner of the wall, and the little girl in a white hospital gown hid inside.

Ding Li squatted down and looked at her through the crack of the door: "Miao Miao, why don't you go to bed so late?"

The little girl raised her head: "Because I am a water bottle, the water bottle should be closed behind the door."

The nurse was very worried and told Ding Li in a low voice: "She said in the afternoon that she was a shadow and insisted on lying under the hospital bed. Xiao Dong persuaded her for a long time before pulling her out. Do you think this child is bewitched? Our hometown has This is the case when children are bewitched by evil spirits. When they are delirious, they call themselves a fish at one moment and a bird at another.”

Before Ding Li answered, he suddenly heard a scream from outside the corridor!He ran out following the sound, and saw a female patient come out of the toilet in a panic, pointing to a cubicle and yelling that there is a pervert. In desperation, Ding Li rushed in and opened the door Door.

But there was nothing inside.

The female patient walked in with her arms folded, and stretched her head to look: "Where is the person?"

"There's no one inside." Ding Li said.

"How is it possible!" The patient pointed to the compartment, "I was going to the toilet next door just now, and when I looked up, I saw someone staring at me from above!"

"Is it really a person?" Gu Youwei suddenly asked, "Did you see an eye?"

"That's right!" The patient nodded immediately, "There is a flash of light."

Gu Youwei supported her: "Go back and rest first, let's check carefully."

Ding Li felt that something was wrong, and when the patient was sent away, she asked Gu Youwei if she knew anything, she hesitated for a while, and told everything that happened in the morning.

"Could this eye be related to Miaomiao's abnormality?" Ding Li said to himself, "Mops, shadows, water bottles..."

"What do these three things have in common?" Gu Youwei thought.

"It's not what they have in common." Ding Li understood instantly, "It's what those places have in common."

Gu Youwei also noticed something when he said this: "It's a gap, isn't it?"

Ding Li nodded: "Humans can only see the eyes through the gaps, so Miao Miao has been hiding in the toilet cubicle, under the bed, behind the door and other places full of gaps. When we open the door, the gap disappears, and the eyes will disappear Gone."

"What is that thing..." Gu Youwei said in a low voice.

"I don't know." Ding Li said, "But I think it's harmless, otherwise Miao Miao wouldn't have kept getting close to it, and you've seen it so many times, it didn't mean to hurt you."

"But when this kind of thing appears around, I still feel creepy." Gu Youwei hugged her arms.

Ding Li took out his mobile phone: "I'll ask a friend, he must know what's going on."

Gu Youwei watched him dial the number, then hung up again.

"Forget it, he shouldn't be at home." Ding Li said angrily, and put away the phone on his own.

A few days later, as he expected, no one remembered the incident.

Ding Li also made indirect remarks, but Gu Youwei and the female patient completely forgot that they had been watched by one eye, and that thing just disappeared without a sound.Without Qi Xie's answer, Ding Li has no way of knowing what kind of monster it is. ——He didn't know its name, its appearance, or its habits. That eye only briefly appeared in his life, and then disappeared, just like that poodle.

He once heard Qi Xie say that some monsters would die for some inexplicable reasons.

There is a kind of monster that feeds on light, but is afraid of light. They often hide in the dark for too long, and starve to death without knowing it.There is a kind of monster that lives in a person's throat and climbs up through the airflow generated by speaking. If the host is always silent, it will slide down the esophagus little by little, fall into the stomach and drown.There is also a kind of monster that is special to relatives. They will be happy as long as they are seen at a glance. They are often hidden in places that people like to watch, such as a beautiful flower or a beautiful painting. But if no one cares about them for a long time, they will It ended in depression.

What kind of eye is that?

Miao Miao has always been depressed these days, sitting on the hospital bed with her mouth pouted.

"Is Xiao Miaomiao unhappy?" Gu Youwei bent down and asked her.

"It's gone." Miao Miao lowered her head in disappointment.

"What's missing?"

"Little Bean Ding."

"What little Douding? Is it this?" Gu Youwei picked up the doll beside the bed and shook it.

Miao Miao shook her head vigorously: "It's that little Douding! It's round and twinkling!"

Gu Youwei looked around and picked up a flashlight: "Is this it?"

"No!" Miao Miao was about to cry.

"Don't worry." Ding Li patted her on the head, "Uncle will take you to find Xiaodouding, okay?"

Miao Miao nodded while wiping the corners of her eyes.

Ding Li carried her out of the bed, dragged her to the bottom of the bed together: "Is Xiaodouding here?"

Miao Miao looked around the legs of the bed: "Not here."

Ding Li carried her to the back of the door again, and pointed to the narrow gap: "Is there any here?"

Miao Miao closed one eye and looked up, still shaking her head.

Ding Li turned back and said to Gu Youwei: "Otherwise, you can take her to the toilet cubicle to look for it."

"Toilet?" Gu Youwei was confused.

Miao Miao suddenly giggled.

The two saw that she was covering her face with her two small hands, and a pair of bright black eyes appeared between her fingers, round and twinkling.

"Little Douding is here!" Miao Miao grinned a few broken teeth, almost drooling with joy.

Ding Li followed her example and covered his eyes, his broad right hand covering his eyes.

There is nothing between the fingers.

☆, living ghost

After staying at Gu Youwei's residence for a few nights, Ding Li reciprocated politely and invited her to his home as a guest.The time was set on the weekend afternoon, and he started tidying up the room from the morning: mopping the floor, tidying up the sundries, clearing out the ashtray, and stuffing the littered magazines into the cabinet.

Occasionally looking up during the gap, his eyes bumped into the photos on the bookshelf.

He wanted to ignore it, but his right hand involuntarily took it out.The photo frame was covered with a layer of dust. It was a group photo taken by Chen Jing before he went to Shanghai. In the picture, the person did not show much intimacy, but his head was tilted a little in his direction.

Ding Li stretched out his hand to cover Qi Xie's mouth in the photo. He once observed that if you want to know whether a person is smiling, you can't just look at the mouth. Only the eyes are smiling, which is the real smile.

Chen Jing's eyes were indeed smiling, but there was something else. Ding Li stared at it for a long time, but he couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was. Instead, he remembered what Chen Jing said when he was taking pictures. Write back.

After that, he opened the mailbox again and again with great expectation, but he couldn't find a single word.

Thinking of this, Ding Li picked up a rag and wiped the photo frame casually, then threw it into the glove box at his feet.Boom, there was a dull sound, as if a stone had sunk into the bottom of a dark lake.

Then he took out his phone, opened the photo album, and flipped back one by one along the date.It is obvious that Chen Jing doesn't like to take pictures. Most of the photos inside are secretly taken by Ding Li. When he was reading a book, when he was in a daze outside the window, or when he was showing his back... Only once was Chen Jing found out, and he immediately exchanged a sentence "What are you doing, delete it for me."

At that time, Ding Li blinked his eyes and pretended to be stupid. Looking back now, this series of actions was really stupid.

Throwing the phone aside, he pushed Chen Jing's matter out of his mind, and Gu Youwei replaced it in a timely manner: After getting along for a while, Ding Li felt that he and her were very suitable in all aspects. He is a good match, no matter how you look at it, he is a good marriage partner.

Since Ding Li's parents divorced in the early years, both parties felt indebted to him, and even the aunts would take more care of him. As time passed, this kind of care finally extended from study and work to lifelong events.As long as he returns home, he will face all-round lobbying without dead ends, or ask him in a roundabout way if he has a partner, or express his heart to introduce a girl to him, and occasionally accompany his grandma to watch the market news, and he will be educated : Look at how miserable this old bachelor is, no one knows he died at home!

During this period, some people even doubted his sexual orientation.

In the past two years, he had no intention of listening to his aunt whispering in the kitchen: "It seems that the second treasure downstairs has something to do with a man. You think our family Ding Li is not like him."

Then came the uncle's voice: "Er Bao got mixed up with those dubious perverts because he was neglected since he was a child. Can Ding Li compare with him?"

My aunt sighed: "The last time I watched TV, I said that homosexuality is not a mental illness, but a psychological disorder. Those people are born to like men, and they can't control themselves. It's poor..."

Ding Li walked away when he heard this. At that time, he and Chen Jing hadn't experienced those things, so he just thought it was ridiculous to be suspected of being gay.

Now that I remember it, I feel helpless.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like if he really got together with Chen Jing.

Therefore, it may be the most correct choice to stop this unclear relationship now.

What's more, Chen Jing didn't show any special affection for him. In some intimate occasions, he even felt a trace of disgust.For example, when the two were in the same bed, Chen Jing would try to move aside as much as possible, shrinking away as if getting an electric shock if he was slightly touched, and Ding Li felt a little annoyed several times, and he was treated like a hooligan by that guy.

While annoyed at his own wishful thinking, Ding Li planned whether to meet Gu Youwei's parents after a while. If both parties were satisfied, it would be better to settle the marriage as soon as possible, so as to save procrastination and entanglement with Chen Jing.

With that in mind, the door rang.

The opposite was not Gu Youwei, but another woman.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Qi in?" She whispered like a mosquito.

"He moved away." Ding Li said, "Do you have anything to do with him?"

The woman nodded very slowly: "I left something here a few years ago, and now I want to get it back..."

Ding Li looked back at the dazzling array of literary toys in the antique shelf, and asked her which one it was.

"It's not..." the woman said quietly, "It's my fate."

Ding Li felt a chill go down his spine, and looked at the person in front of him again: his cheeks were thin, his lips were as thin as a thread, his forehead was blue, his eyes were sad, and the faded cheongsam was hanging loosely on his body. The female ghost who crawled out.

"Don't be afraid..." The woman looked at him, her voice seemed to echo, "I am not a dead ghost, but a living ghost..."

Ding Li felt that there was no difference: "What is a living ghost?"

"A living ghost is a living person turned into a ghost."

Ding Li didn't know how to digest this sentence, so he asked her to sit down first.

"Thank you..." The woman sat in the chair lightly, soft as if she had no bones.

"Do you want some water?" Ding Li asked.

"Ghosts don't drink water." The woman shook her head.

Ding Li said, "Can you tell me what's going on?"

"Yes..." The woman folded her hands softly on her knees, her gaze lowered on the back of her hands, "A few years ago, I felt lifeless and didn't have the courage to commit suicide, so I asked Mr. Qi to take my life for me. Since then, I have become a living ghost... Mr. Qi said that if I want to come back one day, he will give me my life back, and I will be able to return my life..."

Ding Li nodded and asked her why she suddenly wanted to return to the human world.

"Because I... met someone." The woman raised her eyes.

There was a glimmer of light inside.

"Since I became a living ghost, people have gradually lost sight of me..." The woman slowly said as if recalling, "A living ghost doesn't need to rest, and I don't need a place to live, I don't need to eat or drink, and I don't have to have anything to do with people. Contact... Every day I wander the streets, pass by everyone, no one will pay attention to me, this feeling makes me very comfortable, as if I have disappeared from the world, all the burdens, the pain , no longer exist..."

Ding Li thought that this is really good, next time he can find Qi Xie to try.

"One day I was walking on the street, and suddenly I heard someone behind me asking if I wanted to buy a newspaper. At first I thought he was talking to someone else, but I ignored him, but when I turned around, I found that person sitting in a small shop by the side of the road. I looked straight at me..." The woman clenched her fists in her chest and said in panic, "I was terrified at that time, like a thief who was found stealing, and like a naked person exposed to the public , I was so scared that I ran away... From then on, I dared not approach that place again, as if there was a terrifying beast lurking there, ready to tear me to pieces with its sharp claws at any time... But after a while, I found that this would not work... It's as if you have a secret, which you thought no one in the world would know, but was discovered by that person inadvertently, and you become restless and fearful all day long..."

Ding Li understood very well: "What happened later?"

"Later, I thought, I'd better go find that person and ask... Maybe he didn't see me, it was just my illusion, or maybe he was indifferent to everything and didn't expose my interest... I came to that small shop, Sure enough, he is still there, and he found me at the first sight...We looked at each other for a while, as if confirming something with each other, and then he suddenly smiled.——I don’t know how to describe it, maybe in a living person It seems that this is just commonplace, but at that time I discovered that there is a person who can recognize you at a glance from the vastness of sentient beings, and then smile at you