three feet away

When she went out from the toilet, Xu Nuo had already sorted out her emotions. When she walked through the passage from the toilet to the front hall and returned to her seat by the window, her peripheral vision keenly caught the little shadow of the little girl just now.

The child was sitting on the baby chair next to the hot pot table opposite to where they ate, and was obediently holding a spoon and stuffing complementary food into his mouth with a bib around him.Xu Nuo didn't want to pay attention, but couldn't help but glance around the table where a middle-aged couple and a young and steady man were sitting, but Yan Ruyi wasn't there.The man lowered his head, promising that he couldn't see his face clearly, but he could only perceive him as a whole. He didn't look like an ordinary person, also, Yan Ruyi's face was at her current height, ordinary people in front of her, maybe Really feel inferior.

The hotpot restaurant was buzzing with people, Xu Nuo felt dizzy and tinnitus all the time after she vomited, she felt that she must be drunk, she only felt the buzzing in her ears, but she couldn't hear what those people were bustling with and having fun, there was something under her feet He staggered back to their table, and when he was about to sit down, he glanced over there again, and saw that the young man was wiping the mouth of the little girl who was babbling with her head tilted and waving her hands at him, while the middle-aged couple, They both looked at the father and daughter with loving faces.

Xu Nuo was moved by the harmonious scene in front of her, and her heart ached. She took a breath, picked up the empty glass in her hand, looked at it, and put it down again. She didn't feel like she drank much before, but after she vomited, the alcohol began to pick up. Feeling dizzy more and more severe, the lingering heat in the store made her feel so stuffy, so she stood up with the table on her back and said to Zhang Qing, "I seem to be a little drunk, I want to go back."

Zhang Qing looked at his watch, and agreed with his tongue: "Well, Xiao Huang has an early flight tomorrow, so it's better to go back and rest early." After finishing speaking, he shared the remaining beer in the bottle with Xu Nuo and his own glass. On the other hand, he blindfolded and clinked glasses to himself: "Well, cheers. Welcome back, I promise. Four years, don't tell me, I still miss you."

Xu Nuo lowered her head halfway, picked up the wine glass at hand, looked at the pale yellow liquid in the glass, an imperceptible wry smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and looked back at the happy family over there again, she shook her head, raised her hand towards Zhang Qing shook the wine glass lightly, and then drank the wine in one gulp. When she was done, she put down the wine glass and put the back of her hand on her hot forehead, pretending to be awkward: "It feels good to have someone waiting."

Sitting aside, Huang Siying looked at Xu Nuo thoughtfully, then beckoned to the waiter, and said while paying the bill, "Xu Xu, would you like a cup of hot tea to sober up?"

"No need." Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows and smiled, shook his head, and said, "Thank you."

"Then you wait here for a while, I'll go to pay the bill." Huang Siying pursed her lips, said nothing more, took the wallet from her bag and prepared to follow the waiter to pay the bill, and poured half a cup of tea for Zhang Qing when she got up Passed it over and said: "Drink something hot." After that, I walked to the cashier.

Zhang Qing nodded with a doggy smile, his obsessed eyes fell on Huang Siying, and she didn't look away until she reached the cashier, turned to face Xu Nuo and hiccupped, then smiled embarrassedly : "Do you think, my wife is so pretty? I can't get tired of seeing her. Hee hee..."

Xu Nuo looked at Zhang Qing's bewildered expression of smiling while gesticulating, put his right hand under his chin, and smiled desolately: "Little Z, I envy you."

"Envy...me?" Zhang Qing's eyes widened, he took two toothpicks from the toothpick box beside him with trembling hands, handed one to Xu Nuo, straightened his tongue with difficulty, squinted his eyes and shook his head : "Why do you envy me? I have no money, no power, no power, and my income from work is mediocre. Even this face is not as good as yours. Tell me, envy... what do you envy me?"

After hearing the words, Xu Nuo was silent for a moment, lowered his head and played with the toothpick in his hand and smiled, without speaking.Zhang Qing waited for a long time but didn't get an answer. He drooped his head and started muttering some incomprehensible words to himself.

When Huang Siying came back after paying the bill and saw such a scene, she reached out and rubbed her short hair helplessly, picked up their bags and helped her stand up: "Are you still willing to promise?"

"I'm fine," Xu Nuo nodded, "I just went to the toilet and vomited a little, and I'm better now. I'm just a little dizzy."

"Then go out, I'll take you home first." Huang Siying received an affirmative answer, and helped Zhang Qing to go out.

Xu Nuo shook his head, rubbed his temples, followed the two of them out of the hotpot restaurant with frivolous steps, and stood under the street lamp by the side of the road waiting for the rental.

After Zhang Qing got drunk, he became uncharacteristically silent, half hanging on Huang Siying's arm like a koala, and although he didn't talk much, he smiled wickedly with a bright expression.Huang Siying was a little embarrassed. From the moment she knew Xu Nuo, she felt that Xu Nuo was too restrained and silent. Later, because of Zhou Qingming, there were more intersections, but her understanding of Xu Nuo still stopped on the surface of dull words and few words. Up to now, Xu Nuo has come back from abroad and hasn't seen her for several years. Although she looks a lot more cheerful and gentle, but for some reason, she still feels that Xu Nuo's temperament is too dull, as if she is full of worries, so when Zhang Qing hooked her waist And when she habitually wanted to poke her neck and make some intimate movements, she was a little embarrassed, but later seeing that Xu Nuo kept looking normal, with a smile on her lips, she let go a little bit, only because Zhang Qing's actions were too ambiguous and not suitable for When he behaved on the street, he would reach out and grab Zhang Qing's hand and whisper a warning.

Xu Nuo stood by the side, seeing the small movements of the two of them in her eyes, full of sadness and envy, she unconsciously took a deep breath, leaned against the lamp post behind her, turned her head slightly, and looked secretly at the shop. Looking at the place where the little girl was sitting, the scene of the child smiling in the arms of the man was still dazzling. Yan Ruyi was still not there, she thought, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment of meeting again, so she put down her family and child in advance and left.

Xu Nuo raised his head and glanced at the street lights, feeling a little dazzled.

The taxi stopped by the side of the road, promised to help Huang Siying put Zhang Qing in the car, and then refused to get in the car with them, she wanted to walk alone, let the wind blow, and also get rid of the long-lasting heat in the corners of her eyes.

Seeing her insistence, Huang Siying saw that her consciousness was quite clear, so she wouldn't be completely dizzy like Zhang Qing when she got up together, so she didn't say much, told her to be safe, and asked the master to drive away.

When the taxi drove out of the intersection, Xu Nuo turned around, took a deep look at the hot pot restaurant, turned and walked towards the intersection.

The coolness of the autumn night was heavy, and the wine that he drank turned into hot air, was blown away by the wind and evaporated, taking away the temperature of his body, Xu Nuo began to feel a little cold.

She tightened her coat and walked unhurriedly towards the direction of her apartment building. She didn't know how far ahead she had to stop and wait for how many traffic lights, and she didn't know how long it would take to walk back. After leaving the alley of the hot pot restaurant, her mind suddenly became blurred as if being blown into a cloud of mist. She couldn't see anything clearly, but only remembered the rhythm and tone of the muffled mother.That little girl named Yiyi, although her chubby baby face is immature, it has already highlighted Yan Ruyi's excellent genes to the extreme, with grape eyes and cherry mouth, the small mouth looks like a mother , People can't help but want to hug and kiss.

Yan Ruyi is excellent, from the inside to the outside, it makes people obsessed, but is this crazy obsession really right?

The red light at the crossroads was on, promising to stop with the night-time crowds around her. She stared ahead, seeing the eye-catching red lights in front of the sidewalk and the crossing traffic, and her heart felt cold. It suddenly occurred to her that maybe some people are like a car at this intersection, meeting it at this intersection, and facing it at the same intersection.

Yan Ruyi had written a heavy and brilliant stroke in her youthful memory. She yearned for that kind of beauty, but in the end, time could only push her forward.She had already turned her back to her at a certain intersection six years ago, and those splendid youths had long since come to an end. What she grasped, perhaps, was not love, but a kind of love. perverted obsession...

Yan Ruyi has a family, a husband, and a child, and the Yan Ruyi she has is just a shadow that is getting more and more distant in her memory... that's all...

"Shadow?" Xu Nuo lowered his brows, looked at his toes, and smiled lostly: "Heh...a shadow..."

The young man standing beside Xu Nuo who was also waiting for the streetlight heard her speak and glanced sideways at her, his inquisitive eyes lingering on her face for a moment.Xu Nuo felt the gaze from her side, and she glanced sideways at that person. When her eyes collided with his, the man turned his head and whistled at the air flow, Xu Nuo turned his head, and walked to the side. He moved half a step, exhaled hot air with a sweet taste like maltose after beer fermentation, and then the moment the indicator light turned green, he started to move with the crowd.

Although it was late at night, the 1-minute indicator light in the busiest part of the city center still blocked a lot of people. I promised to stand in the middle of the crowd and move forward at a moderate speed. I just reached the indicator light on the opposite side of the street. Next, a harsh motor vehicle brake sound was heard.Her somewhat chaotic consciousness came back, and she instinctively turned her head to look at the place where the sound came from, only to see a black shadow sticking to less than [-] centimeters behind her, and before she could react, that shadow had already galloped past behind her. The motorcycle collided and flew into the air, spun in the air, and then fell heavily three meters away. Along with the person flying up, there was also a broken mobile phone that fell to the ground.

This sudden car accident made Xu Nuo's consciousness, which was still slightly drunk, instantly become extremely sober. The crowd burst into an uproar and formed a group. The ruffian young man lay motionless on the ground, his crooked posture made people feel horrified, a puddle of liquid slipped out silently and quickly from the place where his head was resting under the street lamp, soaking the man's body, He also wet the cell phone that fell on the ground next to him.Under the light and shadow, the color is a little blurry, but Xu Nuo knows that it is blood.

"The motorcycle crashed into the isolation zone. Must have been drinking and driving a speeding car."

"It looks like it won't work."

"It's a thief, who was bumped into stealing a mobile phone."

"Call the ambulance immediately."

Xu Nuo looked at the puddle of liquid on the ground and felt dizzy for a while. She couldn't hear what the person next to her ears said, and there was a huge noise in her ears like the ground cracking and landslides, which made her almost unable to open her eyes. She stepped back again and again. After taking two steps, the people behind realized that something was wrong and hurriedly backed away for fear of causing trouble, she fell and sat on the side of the flower table by the road.

A kind old lady next to him came up to help Xu Nuo, pointed to the mobile phone on the ground and said to her: "Little girl, that is your mobile phone, right? He was touching your bag just now, and he was hit when he touched it. "

"Yes, I saw it too."

Someone started to agree, promised to wait for half a minute, and waited until the noise in his mind was quiet, then endured the nausea in his stomach, reached into his backpack, and the phone was gone.

She took a deep breath, walked forward a few steps, looked at her cell phone soaked in blood, hesitated for a moment, and just bent down, she saw the person under her move, and the bloody hand crawled On the ground, as if she wanted to stand up, she was startled, and before she had time to shout out, she just felt her stomach churn, and she turned around and rushed out of the crowd and vomited on the isolation belt.

The figure around her was trembling, and Xu Nuo was half lying on the ground. After vomiting, she felt much better, but her body was weak and she was sweating all over. She was still a little dizzy, and the dangling shadow under her body made her feel even more uncomfortable. She wanted to leave , but her mobile phone is still there, she needs to get it back, there are important things that cannot be lost.

She took a breath and wanted to stand up vigorously, but out of the corner of her eye, a pair of feet wearing flat casual boots appeared beside the flower table. She stared at those feet for a few seconds, and then, the tough nerves in her brain seemed to be suddenly blown away. It was as if people were picky, she just felt her nose sore, and the tears came out uncontrollably.

"Come, get up."

When those hands were stretched out in front of him, Xu Nuo raised his hands and wiped his face, sobbed away, and stood up with his legs propped up.Walking crookedly, he wanted to go back to the person lying on the ground to pick up the phone.

"No, promise, the phone is broken."

The hand was pulled from behind, and Xu Nuo struggled hard. After vomiting, she was a little weak and couldn't break free. She raised her left hand to wipe the tears on her face, and continued to walk forward with all her strength, muttering Say, "My phone, my phone..."

"It's broken, promise, don't want it, can you buy it again?" The voice of the person behind him began to choke: "No, as long as you are fine..."

"My phone..." Dazed, Xu Nuo still tried to shake off the shackles on his hands: "I want my phone, take it to wash it, and repair it."

"It can't be repaired, it's still stained with blood..."

The sentence that it can't be repaired completely stimulated Xu Nuo's nerves. She turned her head angrily, her eyes widened and she broke down and roared at the person who was pulling her behind: "Why do you say it can't be repaired?! Do you know what's inside? How important it is to me! Who told you to follow me, who agreed to allow you to follow me? What are you now? What are you?!"

The hand that was held was finally released after the roar, and Xu Nuo sneered at the woman standing in front of him who was ashen with dizzy eyes and sneered, then turned around and bent down, and picked up the towel on the ground without hesitation. The sticky feeling of the mobile phone after the blood solidified in the cold wind made her sick. She took off her coat, wiped the mobile phone vigorously, and after pressing the power switch several times in vain, she turned and walked out of the crowd. Then, in the eyes of everyone, Throw the coat into the trash can next to it.