Alley

Shu Yi is sick.

After the showdown with Xiang Yu that day, he took a bath.He fell asleep in the bathtub, and woke up in the middle of the night with tears on his face in the cold water.

He dreamed of Xiang Yu again, the Xiang Yu he met when he was a child, and the Xiang Yu after the reunion.

Countless Xiang Yu stood in his dream, looking at him with expressionless faces.They opened their mouths and said the same sentence:

"Yiyi, I can't live without you."

Shu Yi developed a high fever, took sick leave, and refused all colleagues' visits on the grounds of virus infection.

Shu Yi fluctuated in the high temperature, and sometimes he felt as if he was in a cloud, and when he stepped on the cloud, he felt like he was stepping on cotton, and fell to the ground in an instant, causing pain all over his body.

He had many dreams, many of which contained Xiang Yu.

He was so hot that he was dazed, and he wondered blankly, when is it now, is it the year Xiang Yu appeared.

The picture of goodbye Xiang Yu reappeared in my mind. He quietly appeared in the place where Xiang Yu worked. It was a small company. Xiang Yu was sitting in a cubicle not far from the door. It is a meticulous expression when working.

He still ran away.

At that time, Xiang Yu had just met Shu Yi, and he naively thought that the two of them could go far together.

A few months later, he drove the car and looked at Xiang Yu at the entrance of the alley from a distance.

It seemed to be coated with a layer of gray, and the whole person aged many years overnight.Xiang Yu stood by the construction site at the entrance of the alley every day, looking at the old alley without moving.

Every time Shu Yi smoked a cigarette, he looked at Yu quietly.After one cigarette was burned out, he raised the car window, stepped on the gas pedal, and left without looking back.

Then, one day, it started to rain again, which was annoying.

I don't know why, seeing Xiang Yu standing alone in the rain, looking up at the sky, his heart hurts like being pricked by a needle.

He thought, it's raining and he doesn't have an umbrella.

That's all, he held up a big black umbrella to cover the sky above Xiang Yu's head.

In the past 20 years, countless reunion scenes have been imagined, and they are all light and floating.He just smiled, "Long time no see, Xiang Yu."

That day, they kissed and had sex in Xiang Yu's apartment.

Xiang Yu's apartment is much smaller than he imagined when he was a child. This [-]-square-meter small house is a place he thought he would never be able to reach.

About 500 meters, he walked for 20 years.

He opened himself obediently on the bed, pretending that he was still the extremely expectant and shy boy he once was.This is indeed his first time, although he has fantasized about it countless times.

He casually told Xiang Yu that these years were nothing more than exams, graduation, study, and work.

It seemed that he had never experienced those heart-piercing pains.

The mask I wear will shatter sooner or later.Finally one day, he broke up with Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu is always gentle, talking to him gently, kissing him gently, and even agreeing to his request to break up gently.

Except for the mouth thing that got a little out of control that last night...

When Shu Yi woke up again, Duan Yiping was sitting beside his bed, trying to insert the thermometer into his armpit.

"Brother."

When I opened my mouth, I realized that my voice was very hoarse.

Duan Yiping's face paled slightly, but his words were still tinged with thorns.

"The fever is so bad, why don't you find someone to take care of it? Where's your ex-boyfriend?"

Shu Yi just smiled and shook his head without explaining.

After 3 minutes, the temperature of the thermometer came out, 38 degrees, the temperature has dropped from the previous few days.

"I'm not a child anymore. I woke up these two days and woke up to boil hot water to drink, and I also used ice packs in the refrigerator to physically cool down."

Duan Yiping sighed, and didn't argue with Shu Yi anymore.

Anyway, later...

Duan Yiping said tentatively, "Xiao Yi, there is a job transfer opportunity at the Beijing General Hospital. There is a shortage of people there. Dr. Lin and Dr. Xu are also in the project, which is a very good opportunity." .Are you... interested?"

Shu Yi was still burning, his cheeks were flushed, and he was panting uncomfortably.

"Brother, are you going to be transferred to Beijing?"

Duan Yiping's breathing stopped for a moment, and the thoughts buried in his heart were clearly spoken out like this.

Unexpectedly, Shu Yi laughed.

"It's that national key project. I've heard of that project, and I'm quite interested. If there is a chance, please brother recommend it to me."

In the next few months, whenever Xiang Yu came to the research institute, Shu Yi always left with excuses, or stayed in the laboratory to prevent the opportunity to meet Xiang Yu.

It's just that due to work reasons, Xiang Yu has obtained a long-term temporary pass in the institute. Except that he has no authority in confidential areas, he can enter and exit freely at ordinary times.

So several times Shu Yi accidentally saw Xiang Yu's tall and lonely figure standing in the office downstairs, so he could only go back to the office with a dark face, even if he was hungry and didn't eat, he didn't want to meet Xiang Yu head-on.

He didn't know what he was running from.

He understood how excessive and bad what he said that night, Xiang Yu was not at fault at all, he was the one who blamed the trick of fate on Xiang Yu.

But... all this is meaningless.He has decided to leave, leaving the place where he has lived for 35 years, maybe in City B, he can start again.

On Saturday, there was basically no one in the office building, only a few researchers rushing to report.Shu Yi worked overtime habitually, looking at the data alone in the office.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Shu Yi rubbed his temples and felt a little headache, so he decided to go downstairs for dinner.The elevator opened, and he saw Xiang Yu at the door without any surprise.

Shu Yi frowned, taking advantage of Xiang Yu's angle that he couldn't see him, he quickly closed the elevator and returned to the office.

He opened the drawer, took out the big sugar bowl in the drawer, picked out a milk candy and stuffed it into his mouth.

The setting sun comes in from the window, and the early winter evening always comes quickly. In the distance of the sky, there is a beautiful fire cloud. The golden light and red light are mixed together, as if God overturned the palette, and the colorful clouds fell on the canvas of the sky. Ink marks.

In the past few months, Shu Yi has hardly had a break. The transfer to Beijing has been finalized a few days beforehand. Recently, he is busy sorting out the progress of the handover test.A few juniors in the group were both envious and reluctant, and took them to eat the agreed-upon roast duck after get off work last night. During the dinner, a few young people excitedly talked about singing, but it was already two o'clock in the morning when they finally returned to the dormitory.

The air conditioner in the office was on, Shu Yi squinted his eyes with sugar in his mouth, and felt a little sleepy, so he lay down on the table and planned to take a nap so that he could wait until Xiang Yu left.