cloud 25

"I've sent the location," Sui Gaiyu stood at the back door of the restaurant in the mist of smoke and smoke, with the kitchen waste bin next to her legs, and there was everything in it, and there was a stench. She looked sideways at the long narrow alley and remained silent for a long time. Until the cigarette in his hand was about to burn out and burned to his index finger, "Hiss... my daughter-in-law, can you come to me?"

"You are waiting for me."

Sui Gaiyu gave a faint "hmm" when she heard the female boss calling her again, she pursed her lips, and finally hung up the phone.

At the end of March, Duan Yaya asked for leave to go to City Z to find Sui Gaiyu.

Sui Gaiyu works as a waiter in a restaurant in a small county town of Z City. She is very cheerful and can talk. As long as she wants to deal with someone, she can handle it. The female boss in the store is coaxed into confusion of.

"You wait for me here for a while, and I will take you to where I live when I get off work."

Duan Yaya thought that Sui Gaiyu would pick her up, but Sui Gaiyu didn't pick her up, she found it herself, and Sui Gaiyu asked her to sit at the counter with a suitcase and wait for her to get off work.

The cashier was also a girl, there were a lot of people at the meal time, the girl was too busy, so Duan Yaya helped her count the money.

"Are you Gaiyu's friend?" The little girl was only sixteen or seventeen, and her voice was very sweet, "Gaiyu's friends are all old and powerful."

Duan Yaya opened her mouth and looked at the little girl, "...and... Has anyone else come to look for her?"

"That's right, a handsome man came to see her last week." The little girl blushed while talking, "He is very kind to Gaiyu."

Duan Yaya hesitated to speak, looked up from the counter to look at Sui Gaiyu who was hurrying to and fro in the shop.

At ten o'clock in the evening, there was almost no one in the shop, and there was still a table of old men who had been drinking. After a day, the small restaurant smelled of alcohol and tobacco. nose.

Sui Gaiyu served them another plate of peanuts and called it a day, greeted the boss and went to the counter to help Duan Yaya with her luggage.

"Come on, go home."

Even though Yu Gai rented a house in the outskirts of the city, and there was no bus at ten o'clock, she rode the second-hand electric car Duan Yaya bought when she first arrived to go home.

The night in the north at the end of March was also rustling and cold. The wind blew people's faces like knives. Sui Gaiyu gave the helmet to Duan Yaya, and Duan Yaya put his arms around Sui Gaiyu's waist and pulled her unbuttoned coat down. Tightly, sticking to her back, weeping hopelessly.

The thing that made her cry is still to come. The rental house looks like a dangerous building from the outside. She lives on the tenth floor without an elevator and breaks her leg. It has one bedroom and two living rooms, and no kitchen.

"Are you hungry? I'll go downstairs and buy you roasted sweet potatoes." Sui Gaiyu's face was purple from the cold, and his eyes narrowed into crescents when he smiled.

"I won't eat, so don't go out."

Sui Gaiyu took off his coat and hung it behind the door, turned around and saw Duan Yaya sitting on the sofa crying.

"What's the matter? What's the matter? Daughter-in-law...why are you crying again?"

"Shut up! I don't want to talk to you right now..."

"Okay." Sui Gaiyu half-kneeled on the sofa holding the paper box, yawning and handing the paper to Duan Yaya who was crying.

Sui Gaiyu boiled a kettle of water for Duan Yaya to make instant noodles for. When the water boiled, Duan Yaya stopped crying.

"Don't cry about catching a cold." She blew on the hot water in the cup and handed it to Duan Yaya after feeling that it was not too hot, "Drink the hot water."

"Sui Gaiyu, what do you think?"

"..."

Duan Yaya looked around, the rented house that had been in disrepair was like a broken square box, the ceiling fan on the roof was intertwined with old dust and cobwebs, hanging in mid-air without moving, "You resigned to live like this?"

"..."

"What do you think? Tell me about it?"

"I, I think it's fine."

There are at least [-] households in the community where she lives, originally from outsiders, staying in empty nests, stealing children, picking up pickpockets, and sitting on the table with wine... Duan Yaya's "that kind of life" has been lived for more than ten years.

"The family is waiting for you to go back."

Duan Yaya has never been cruel to the Yan Luo she provoked, and she couldn't say what was ugly, so she could only persuade her patiently and kindly, "Come back with me, okay?"

Sui Gaiyu was biting Pi Pi's mouth again.

"...the noodles are almost soaked."

The person on the sofa rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling fan speechlessly.

Duan Yaya wanted to stay, and there was only one bedroom in the house. Even though it was raining, she didn't want Duan Yaya to be cold, so she turned on the heater for the first time.

It can be said that the hair on the iron cock is plucked.

"You don't usually turn on the heating?" Duan Yaya kicked the woman who was picking up the phone on the bed, and asked her to help pack the suitcase, "Did you hear me?"

"I heard you! Duan Yaya, you are more annoying than my mother."

"Ah."

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the rain was still boiling, and her feet could not be warmed under the blanket. Duan Yaya put her feet between her legs to warm them, as if they were warmed by ice lumps.

"Sui Gaiyu, I only took three days off."

"If you stay here for another day, go back. Look at my situation, I can't take you to play, and I really don't have any money."

"You asked me to come and you still don't go back with me? Are you dead or not?"

"You came by yourself..."

"Look at how cowardly you are."

"..."

"Do you have any friends here?" Duan Yaya thought for a whole night, and finally couldn't help asking what the girl at the counter told her, "I heard that a man came to you last week, are you okay?" You are very nice, who is it? Have you talked about friends?"

"Is it Sui Chengfei? It's just my third brother. What's wrong? Are you upset?" Sui Gaiyu put down his phone, and looked at Duan Yaya's fair side face in the dark in shock, "What do you think?!"

After one o'clock, Duan Yaya couldn't bear it any longer, so she urged Sui Gaiyu to sleep.

"Go to sleep, I will face you, I will not disturb your sleep."

"Why don't you sleep? Are you watching the live broadcast again? You don't have money to take me to play, can you give the host money?"

Sui Gaiyu wore earphones and remained indifferent.

Duan Yaya looked at Sui Gaiyu and ignored her. Looking at her back, Duan Yaya felt angry for no reason, grabbed the earphones and stuffed them in her ears. It wasn't the voice of the female anchor.

Diamond Sutra?

"Gaiyu?" Duan Yaya patted Sui Gaiyu's shoulder lightly, and called her softly.

The light on the phone screen also went out, and the darkness was filled with the Diamond Sutra transmitted from the earphones to the eardrums.

"Duan Yaya."

"I have no home."

Sui Gaiyu's hoarse voice broke Duan Yaya's heart.

When Duan Yaya woke up the next day, Sui Gaiyu was no longer around, she took out her mobile phone to call Sui Gaiyu, and there was a vibration under her pillow.

"Daughter-in-law, I'm back."

Sui Gai Yutong blushed and sniffed, and opened the bathroom door to show Duan Yaya the breakfast she had bought.

"Daughter-in-law, do you drink soybean juice?"

"Drink it yourself, it's so hard to drink."

Sui Gai Yu pouted, put the fried dough sticks on a plate, and went back to the bedroom to look for her phone.

"Daughter-in-law? You called me."

"What's wrong? No way?"

"Why are you so unpopular?"

"Hehe, you are the most likable."

"Brush your teeth and stop talking to me."

"Are you on leave?"

"Well, I'll take you to the countryside."

"Why are you going to the country?"

"You will know when you go."

Sui Gaiyu didn't look at her probing eyes, bowed his head to eat and didn't speak.

Sui Gaiyu's electric car is second-hand, and so is the battery. The battery is very low, and it is impossible to drive two people for dozens of miles.

The two of them took the urban-rural bus, which cost seven yuan each, although Gaiyu was very picky, it was still paid by Duan Yaya.

"Do you still have friends in this county town?"

Sui Gaiyu smiled and said nothing.

"Your third brother hasn't left yet? Is he in the country?"

Sui Gaiyu smiled and said nothing.

"My day/you."

Sui Gaiyu smiled and said nothing.

Sui Gaiyu was restless when she was on the bus, and she started talking to people in various ways. She was gifted in languages, and after coming here for almost a month, she learned the local dialect a lot, and communication was completely barrier-free.

She was asking about a village.

When getting off the bus, the elders and sisters sitting together smiled and waved goodbye to Sui Gaiyu. Duan Yaya watched Sui Gaiyu's bus drive almost 100 meters and was still waving, holding her arm with a sullen face. just go ahead.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?"

"It's all right."

The place where we arrived at the station was a small clinic, and there was a river opposite. Walk along the river, and after walking for about 5 minutes, you will see a quite large village with a temple at the head of the village.

"Gaiyu, are you here to worship Buddha?"

The temples in the village are usually so small. There is a concrete incense stand in front of the temple, which is filled with incense sticks.

"Aren't you going to Shaolin Temple to worship Buddha?"

"I've asked about it, this special spirit," Sui Gaiyu raised his trousers and knelt on the futon in front of the Buddha statue, "I'll confess to the Bodhisattva for you."

Sui Gaiyu knelt in the temple for more than an hour, and Duan Yaya squatted by the river playing with her mobile phone. It was quite cold outside, but she felt that she was impious and embarrassed to offend the Bodhisattva.

This is the first time she has seen Sui Gaiyu being so serious, others don't know that she doesn't know, Gaiyu looks like a very stubborn person, but in fact he is not a serious person at all, he thinks about everything.On the contrary, she herself, who looks quiet and gentle on the outside, is knowledgeable and has no temper, but in fact she is very annoying.

Duan Yaya was wondering why Sui Gaiyu hadn't knelt enough when she heard Sui Gaiyu calling her from the temple.

"What's wrong? Why did you call me?"

"Oh... my daughter-in-law, help me, my legs are dying..."

On the car back to the city, Duan Yaya asked Sui Gai what the spiritual method was at the temple in Yu Village.

Sui Gaiyu also heard from the female owner of the restaurant that there was a woman in that village who had three sons in a row. When she was middle-aged and wanted a daughter, she went to a big temple in another place to ask for it. I picked up a baby girl in my own field at the head of the village. In order to thank the Bodhisattva for her care, I hurriedly built a temple in the place where my daughter was born and invited the Bodhisattva to worship.

Sui Gaiyu spoke happily, but Duan Yaya was confused when he heard it.

"Dare...that is the Temple of Songzi Guanyin? Then what's the use of worshiping it? You want to reproduce asexually?"

"..."

The sharp-tongued Sui Gaiyu suddenly got stuck.

"By the way, what did you ask the Bodhisattva? Let your parents remarry?"

Sui Gai Yu gave her a blank look, but didn't reply.

People only think of asking gods and Buddhas for help when they are suffering.

What Sui Gaiyu begged for, she dared not tell Duan Yaya.

Whether the Bodhisattva is willing to save her or not, she doesn't know.

In the evening, there was a gust of evil wind in the community. Duan Yaya sat on the bed, frowning, listening to the sound of "Hula, Hula, Hula" from the bedroom window, and clutched the sheets under her hands tightly.

"Daughter-in-law, do you have dirty clothes to wash?"

Sui Gaiyu's hands were still wet, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Duan Yaya packing the suitcase, the narrow smile on his face froze instantly.

"Are you... leaving tomorrow?"

"Ah."

"Then, then I will send you off tomorrow."

"Don't send it off. I'll leave at four in the morning. You're still at work tomorrow, so get some sleep."

Duan Yaya looked at her frozen red hand, hesitated to speak, took her hand and warmed it in his palm, "Gaiyu, you really don't want to go back with me?"

Sui Gaiyu curled up her feverish fingers, her pursed lips trembling slightly, "Yaya—"

Duan Yaya's cell phone on the table vibrated violently, and the moment she saw the caller ID clearly, Sui Gaiyu broke away from the warm palm wrapping her, "Your call."

The moment Sui Gaiyu closed the door, Duan Yaya called softly, "Hello, Guo Yuan."

She didn't leave either, she just listened outside, leaning back against the door panel, rubbing her cold hands and covering her dry eyes.

In the middle of the night, in a hazy dream, Sui Gaiyu seemed to hear Duan Yaya asking herself again, "Gaiyu, will you follow me back?"

In the dream, she was wearing her high school uniform, the one she wore with long hair a long time ago, obedient bangs sticking to her forehead, her whole body was white and gentle, and she was holding Sui Gaiyu's school uniform sleeves in the corridor outside the office.

"Chai Yu, come back with me."

Sui Gaiyu was woken up by the alarm clock at 05:30, she usually wakes up very quickly, opened her eyes, lay on the bed and stared at the roof for more than half an hour before she came back to her senses.

She reached out to touch Duan Yaya's suitcase under the bed, and it was gone.

She remembered last night's dream again.

"Chai Yu, come back with me."

Duan Yaya, can you stop asking me if I want to go back with you?

You take me away.

Where are you going, where am I going.

good or not?

Sui Gaiyu knocked on the bed board, sighed and closed her eyes.