suddenly tired

The days far away from the land were so beautiful that they didn’t even want to go ashore. They had no choice but to disembark to go shopping because they were entrusted by Zhao Xinyu to buy cosmetics. Ji Sumian looked at several pages of shopping lists and said to Zhong Lei: “Buying so much, she Is it going to take five or six years?"

"That's not true. Skin care products also have a shelf life. This may be the amount of one of their departments."

Ji Sumian put the essence into the basket while counting: "19 bottles, she is going to open a cosmetics counter in the tavern."

Zhong Lei went to get a few bottles of health care products and handed them to Ji Sumian: "Liver protector, bring your godfather and Lao Fang, these two old men will drink two cups if they are free."

"Brother Lei, do you need to buy some for your parents?"

"No." Zhong Lei reluctantly raised the corner of his mouth, "If you need it, you can buy it online, my dad...he doesn't talk to me much."

"Brother Lei, wait a little longer..."

"Well, I'm fine. Buy it quickly, the time is limited, I saw in the guide that there is a store that does a good job of Matsuba crab—"

Before he finished speaking, Ji Sumian had already bowed his head to look for the next item.

Three days later, they returned to the port with a box full of trophies. Their dreams were about to wake up. Ji Sumian was obviously reluctant to part with him: "Brother Lei, I'm so happy to be on vacation. Compared with this, going to work is too painful."

"But people want to live."

"I know that too, but I'm just a little reluctant. The life on the boat is so good that I can sleep with you every day until I wake up naturally."

"You can pull it off. There is a time difference of two or three hours between your natural waking up and mine. I am woken up by you every day. It is so difficult to fall asleep again. Let's go to work. It is easier to accept that life forces you to get up early. "

"Speaking of which, I don't know what's going on with Xingyuan's project. I'm going to have a look tomorrow."

After meeting with Tang Rui and the engineering supervisor, Ji Sumian went to Xingyuan on the afternoon of his first day at work. This place is no longer what it was in the original ecology a few months ago. In order not to damage the environment of the reservoir, they dug another pond next to it. , The wasteland has been planted with trees, and the workers are planting landscape flowers on the southern slope of the mountain. When Ji Sumian passed by, he met several neighbors from Xingyuan Village and greeted him.

Tang Rui asked, "Did you really live here?"

"Yes, I moved to the urban area after living here for more than a year. Mr. Tang, do you think our rent is much?"

"This place is a bit far away, one or two thousand?"

"Hahaha, a one-room apartment with a loft, three hundred a month!"

"Is there still such a cheap price now? It would cost three thousand in a not-so-good part of the city."

"A girl in our house committed suicide before, so it has been unable to rent out."

Tang Rui was dumbfounded: "...What a ruthless person! No wonder you work so hard. Hey, aren't you a classmate of the boss's son? You shouldn't be."

"My, well, it's hard to describe how my family is going. But now I'm a man who has conquered the sea!" Ji Sumian laughed, "Boss Tang, shall we go to the sports field again?"

Tang Rui looked at his back and smiled too.This child obviously has endured hardships and is able to endure hardships, but he still looks so optimistic that he is almost childlike. He doesn't know where he has such a strong heart, like a tree with great resilience.

"Brother Lei, I went to the apricot garden today. It's really different every day when I start work!" Ji Sumian shared with Zhong Lei as soon as he got in the car after get off work.

"You treat this project as your son, and you can't wait to visit it when you come back."

"Of course, it started from the planning, isn't it just like my son, they found me a project assistant position, and I can be in charge with the project manager. Hey, guess who I met on the construction site?"

"You used to live in Xingyuan?"

"That's right, quite a few of them, I didn't know them well before, but Xiao Chen's wife works in the cafeteria, so I chatted with her for a while."

"Yeah, that's pretty good."

"Yes, she said that after the project is over, she will also arrange to work in the resort together, so that it is close to home."

"Hmm." Mentioning Xiao Chen's family, Zhong Lei suddenly asked, "Do you want a house of your own?"

"Buying a house It's not such an easy thing." Ji Sumian said so, but of course he wanted to.

Most international students are not unfamiliar with the matter of moving, but Ji Sumian seems to have encountered some strange encounters. He has been tossing about "where to live" since he left home.When he first arrived in Los Angeles, he changed three host families in a row, and it was not until the fourth home that he settled down a little bit. He lived in more than a year, and they moved to another state with their family due to job changes, so Ji Sumian packed his luggage again, and the whole In high school, he moved five times. When he went to university and applied for a dormitory, he thought he would be able to settle down, but because his roommate had too much nightlife, he couldn’t adjust and had to rent a house by himself. When renting a house, he encountered a landlord who broke the contract. The landlord who sold the house, and a house crowded with seven or eight students... so that when Ji Sumian left the United States, he only had one suitcase of luggage because of too many moves.

He has a love-hate relationship with the house, he is eager, timid and afraid of losing it. The description is exaggerated. It is the same as love, except that love cannot be bought with money, but houses can be bought, but money is the biggest problem.

"Brother Lei, we are not yet able to afford a house. Wait for me. I will take an undergraduate degree first, and then do a good job in this project. I will try to see if I can get a project manager's certificate. Wait for me two Three years, okay?"

Zhong Lei wanted to laugh, but Ji Sumian was too serious about making money to support his family, and he couldn't bear it: "Actually, I have a little money. When I was singing, I gave some to my mother. She bought a house in the county. Later, I She never went back, so she sold it, so the down payment is no problem, buying a two-bedroom house is not too big, and the monthly loan repayment can afford it.”

"Two rooms? Why do you need two rooms? Don't you live with me?"

"What are you thinking about? You must have a study room. You spend your time reading and working in bed every day, and—" Zhong Lei glanced at him, and said narrowly, "You are not efficient in studying in bed. You are distracted."

"Hey, you are turning things upside down! Didn't you do it first?"

"Why don't you tease me to move you..."

After arguing for a while, Ji Sumian was silent. He thought of the many yesterdays with Zhong Lei, the days when he left early and returned late, and even stayed at the airport overnight. He couldn't help being sad.

"Brother Lei, let's not buy it first, and wait, I don't want you to work so hard."

"Well, listen to you."

Ji Sumian has a skin condition that is envied by Zhao Xinyu. After being exposed to the sun, it only turns slightly red, and it recovers the next day without turning black. After running around for two or three months in a row, her face is still white and tender. It's just that the thin layer of muscle that was previously hidden under the skin gradually emerged, and the person became stronger. When he was running towards Zhong Lei before, it was hanging on him, but now he can stagger him.

"Brother Lei, have you been waiting for a long time?"

"It's okay, don't you work overtime tomorrow?"

"No, I'm going to sleep till the end of my life tomorrow."

"Come on, the chickens get up later than you. We won't go home today and take you to camp."

"Camping? Going to the mountains?"

"No, go to the bottom of the sea."

The car drove from the downstairs of Junwei to the aquarium. Zhong Lei put the tent, sleeping bag and toiletries in the trunk, and took them out. When they entered the gate, many children and parents had already arrived. They send schedules of events.

Ji Sumian flipped through the trifold in his hand, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Lei, is this... a parent-child activity?"

"Uh... Actually, I don't know. I heard it on the radio, and I signed up without thinking too much about it. I didn't say that I had to bring my children."

"How awkward it is for us to do this."

"Be calm, everyone paid the same money, it's okay!"

——It’s really not the same. The activities of the Wonderful Night in the Aquarium are obviously prepared for children, science classes, interactive games, and even dinner is hamburger, fries and pizza.

"Brother Lei, this menu is too unscientific, there is no fish in the restaurant of the aquarium!"

"Hush—keep your voice down!" Zhong Lei pretended to be mysterious, "Don't let that shark over your head hear you."

They didn't participate in the activities arranged by the aquarium, and the two of them sneaked out to hang out by themselves. Compared with all kinds of fish swimming around, Ji Sumian preferred the polar aquarium, and even wanted to sleep in the aisle between penguins and polar bears. Zhong Lei sternly rejected him on the grounds that the sleeping bag was too thin and would freeze to death.

They stood on both sides of the jellyfish and looked at each other, illuminated by the ever-changing lights, and the passage of time seemed to become the rhythm of their swimming.

Zhong Lei said: "Looking at this thing is so hypnotic."

Ji Sumian didn't respond to his words, but instead asked, "Brother Lei, do you think this is a cold jellyfish?"

"...When we passed the fish just now, have you been wondering which one is tastier?"

"No, those fish are just good-looking. I thought about it when I was looking at the shrimp and crab."

Ten o'clock is the normal bedtime for children. The two adults felt a little early. They were lying down and getting sleepy. Ji Sumian regretted not sleeping next to the jellyfish.He seldom comes to the aquarium, and sleeping here is a novel experience, he is almost as excited as a child.An inexplicable throbbing exists in the faintly lighted tent, in the clasped hands, and in the sound of fish swimming through the gurgling water, "What should I do, brother Lei, I can't sleep."

"Have you heard that the kid in the tent next door has started talking in his sleep?"

"Yeah." Ji Sumian covered her mouth and chuckled, "Someone kept looking at me while eating, maybe I think I'm a little old for a child."

"A parent tentatively asked me if I came with you."

"Ah? What do you say? You can't tell the truth, it's not good to be a kid!"

"I said my nephew was born with mental problems, and they all sympathized with me."

"You..." Ji Sumian secretly hammered him in the sleeping bag.

"Don't, don't, don't, don't make trouble, disturb others." Zhong Lei grabbed his two hands, held them on his chest, leaned closer, and put his forehead against his forehead, and said softly, "Two years ago today, I was at the airport. Meet you."

"Ah? Yes!"

"forget?"

"I... didn't deliberately remember."

"Well, don't remember, you were not happy at that time."

"But I met you. I took care of what you wanted to eat at the airport, and you gave it to me. I couldn't see it on my face at the time, but my heart was beating like crazy. You can understand suddenly seeing an idol who has disappeared for a long time What's your mood?"

"No, but I know how I felt when you left the house."

Ji Sumian was speechless for a while, his nose was sore, he broke free from his hand, held Zhong Lei's face and kissed gently, his heart was noisy, but at this moment he could only hold back, kissing affectionately but quietly.

Zhong Lei responded obsessively, as if measuring his affection inch by inch with the tip of his tongue.Today, two years later, he only feels lucky. Fortunately, he was soft-hearted at the time and took him away from the airport. Since then, he has found a missing piece of his seemingly tough but fragile life.

If it wasn't for the lack of light, Ji Sumian's flushed face would have been discovered, and he felt dizzy or intoxicated like lack of oxygen.

"Brother, don't, don't kiss." Ji Sumian pushed him away, the waves in his heart were about to burst.

Zhong Lei was as calm as possible, and wiped the corner of his mouth with his finger: "Well, go to sleep."

Time and Zhong Lei's arms weave a net, hide him in his arms, hide him in this tent, and fall asleep in secret joy.