summer rot

"Meow-"

Zhou Xiangxing turned his head and found several sneaky kittens.

Since Li Zhi left, there have been more stray cats downstairs again.

Two of them were cows and one was solid black.They are still very small, their eyes are half-opened, and even the sound they make is a small, sweet meow.Seeing Zhou Xiangxing turn his head, he was not afraid, but moved closer.One of them staggered, slid to a place not far from his feet, raised its head, and looked at him with eyes exclusive to small animals.

Seeing those amber eyes, Zhou Xiangxing smiled and knelt down.

"He never looked for you again?" On the phone, Jiang Mengyuan's tone was relieved.

Zhou Xiangxing changed his hand to hold the phone, and touched the little black cat's ear with his right hand. The soft fur rubbed against his palm, making the corner of his mouth relax a little: "Isn't this good?"

"It's pretty good." Jiang Mengyuan admitted subconsciously, but paused for a while, and said again: "This is not like him."

When we are together, we are very clingy, but when we break up suddenly, we can be so chic.

abnormal.

She couldn't help using her brain: "Then Li Zhi is probably a liar, right? He first developed a relationship with you, and then took the opportunity to eat and drink your food. When he found that he couldn't cheat more money, he just left." The more she thought about it, the more she said. Makes sense: "Did you lend him money? Did he pay it back?"

The black cat sat down obediently, and found that the human's hand was not moving, so it meowed lightly, and stretched its head over.

"As a cat, why do you look like a dog?" Zhou Xiangxing couldn't help but laugh.

He scratched the kitten's chin and stood up: "There is no property dispute. It's not like a liar. Except for me inviting him to live in my house, he rarely asks me for things."

even--

Zhou Xiangxing paused.

After he returned home on the day of the breakup, he felt unwelcome for a long time.Thinking of breaking up, he couldn't take the luggage that Li Zhi should take, so he entered the ex-boyfriend's bedroom.

He has always been a reserved and restrained person. Before he formally crossed a certain red line, he warned himself not to pry into his boyfriend's privacy, and he would not go in and out of Li Zhi's bedroom frequently.

So after opening the door, for a moment, he wanted to run.

The room is completely different from before.There is some strange wallpaper pasted on the walls and windows, it is messy and has no pattern, like a pencil smearing black on white paper, it is not beautiful at all.There are also some old things on the bed and table on the ground, shoes and clothes are scattered on the bed, paper and pens are randomly placed on the chair, and there are a few small boxes on the window sill, containing some strange unknown powder, off-white, like the ashes of something, It smelled a bit rotten, not heavy, so he didn't notice it immediately.

Like a dump.

But other than that, this room is different from the usual dump-style room, revealing a kind of weirdness.

When Zhou Xiangxing walked in, he lowered his steps subconsciously.He turned on the light with a snap, closed the curtains, and took some things away from the bed, but a certain sense of disobedience still persisted.

As he continued to tidy up calmly, he observed the traces—thus, he finally found it.

Human clutter comes from frequent use and little tidying.

But not this room.Here, things on the bed are messy, but the bed itself is clean. There are no traces of use on the newly changed sheets and quilt covers. There is even a thin layer of dust on the table, and the trash can is also clean - like a licked clean plate.

"Does he like to pick up trash?" Jiang Mengyuan was shocked: "Is he very poor?"

Zhou Xiangxing said calmly, "No, those are all my things."

After he finished speaking, both of them fell silent.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xiangxing's hand to pack things slowly hesitated.

He looked at the pen lying quietly in his hand - this was one of the first prizes of his composition competition when he was in elementary school.

At that time, he had won numerous awards, and he had already been taught by his family what it means to "not be shocked by honor or disgrace", so he quickly forgot about this uncharacteristic pen.If it weren't for the words "XX Primary School [-]nd Composition Competition" engraved on the red pen holder with a sense of age, he might not be able to find it now.

He looked at the pair of old black leather shoes on the bed again—these were the first pair of leather shoes when he entered work, they were still rough and cheap, and they were not the most suitable size for him, but such beauty and fine workmanship were already The greatest sense of ceremony he could set up for himself at that time.It was not until one day that he finally realized that wearing ill-fitting leather shoes to work was tantamount to self-harm, so he put the shoes in the deepest part of the shoe cabinet.

Then I just threw it away when I moved.

And clothes—his junior high school uniform.

Books—the martial arts novels he had pursued.

Writing brushes - his hobby in high school.

Hanging Ornament - It used to be a trap on the roadside.

Pillow - he just threw it last week.

There are also items such as half-used erasers, full draft paper, gel pens without caps, empty Coke cups, half-applied hand cream, withered branches, etc. Zhou Xiangxing took one of them The primary school student unscrewed the barrel of the pen, and sure enough, he found the word "star" written in a circle inside.

Time span from elementary school to the present.

...Have you lost so many things recently?

Zhou Xiangxing didn't dare to think of another terrible possibility.

I don't want to pack up my belongings anymore, it's really scary to see these things at night.He planned to go back and find a cleaner to help, and reached out to touch the weird wallpaper on the wall, planning to dig out this kind of thing that could easily scare others before talking about it.

As a result, the fingertips felt uneven to the touch, not as smooth as a whole large sheet of paper.

He leaned over to look carefully, and suddenly found a pair of eyes in it.

Following the fixed eyes, he saw the face, limbs, body, and another little figure covering this little figure, and another little figure—in this room, densely packed on the wall, all It's his picture.

Recalling this, he felt the goosebumps of that night across time and space, and once again gave him an arm.

Walking on the way to work, although I wake up early due to insomnia, it is not the time to stroll casually.Taking the phone back with his right hand, Zhou Xiangxing continued to walk forward.The little black cat behind him refused to give up trying to keep up with him, so he had no choice but to turn around and wave his hand, making a gesture of repelling it.

The little black cat stood still.

Well behaved, more suitable for family raising.

Such thoughts flashed in my mind.

"I'm a little scared now too." Zhou Xiangxing sighed.

After Jiang Mengyuan was silent, she concluded, "Fortunately, you broke up."

Her extremely clever mind began to work rapidly again: "Such a person definitely has some brain problems. You must pay attention to safety recently. Maybe one day he will hold a knife and stand at the door and tell you to die together."

"Not always."

Zhou Xiangxing smiled wryly, thinking, if Li Zhi wanted to die in love with him, he would probably swallow him alive without using a knife, without even thinking about disposing of the body.He said: "If one day I suddenly disappeared—"

"Bah, bah, bah." Jiang Mengyuan immediately interrupted him: "My, my, I shouldn't say such unlucky words. It's just that I broke up with a psychopath. Beautiful men are crawling all over the ground. Who wants to die for love? set."

Getting closer and closer to the subway station, the crowd began to squeeze. Zhou Xiangxing tried his best to keep walking, not to be swept away by the big wave, but after all, it was inconvenient to hold the right arm of the mobile phone. who.

He subconsciously tilted his head,

Short fiery red hair, a flamboyant pretty face, and cool tattoos on his neck—Zhou Xiangxing couldn't help but think of what his friend said just now—beautiful men are crawling all over the floor.

But now he has no time to care about who is beautiful, he wants to know whether he can still live to work and retire.

"Sorry." Zhou Xiangxing nodded hastily in apology.

It was supposed to be a chance encounter, but the next second after the apology, he felt a tightness in his wrist.

Looking back, it was the handsome guy who was pulling him just now.

"Be careful not to fall." The red-haired man said, "Where are you going, do you want me to take you there?"

Zhou Xiangxing smiled, he doesn't look so weak, does he?Just when he wanted to politely refuse, he raised his head, but bumped into the pure black calm eyes of the other party.

Zhou Xiangxing: "..."

The other party blinked and looked at him suspiciously.

"go?"