go too far

"Mom, you can take care of the living room. I can do the bedroom myself."

Yu Ningyin opened the door and entered the room, only to hear Jiang Yu who was following behind him say this.

"Don't you just let you stay?" Yu Ningyin took out Jiang Yu's slippers from the shoe cabinet, and gave He Lin a new pair, "You just got out of the hospital today, so don't torment yourself and have a good rest."

Jiang Yu recuperated in the hospital for another two months, and the doctor gave permission to leave the hospital.He Lin followed Lin Xin to visit again, and he happened to be free these two days, so he simply took a day off and came early to pick Jiang Yu up with Yu Ningyin to be discharged from the hospital.

"Just take care of something, and it doesn't affect anything." Jiang Yu changed his shoes, took the cardboard box that had been placed in the living room, walked to the room, and said indifferently, "I'll take care of some things myself."

The small house Jiang Yu rented was very simple, with only one bedroom and one living room.From the car accident to now, Yu Ningyin has been exhausted from running to the hospital every day, and occasionally she has to go back to deal with work matters, so that every time she goes back to Jiang Yu's house, it is almost three o'clock in the front door, bathroom, and bedroom, all the way to Jiang Yu's house. After waking up, a kitchen was added to the usual range.

As for when she was in the bedroom, Yu Ningyin has always been a sensible mother, she would not go through Jiang Yu's personal belongings in her spare time, and she didn't even turn over the bedside table.Hearing what he said at this moment, she thought it was a little secret that she was embarrassed to tell her, so she smiled as if there was nothing, and let him go.

"Then take care of it, rest when you are tired, don't hold on."

Instead, she said to He Lin: "Xiao He, you can go and help Xiaoyu take care of the room, and I will take care of the living room."

"It's really unnecessary," Jiang Yu saw that He Lin had already walked towards him, and quickly put his hands on the bedroom doorframe, "I can do it alone."

He Lin stood in front of him, staring at him fixedly, the expression in his eyes was unclear, but Jiang Yu had been stared at for a long time, and his guilty conscience made him swallow unconsciously, and then turned his eyes away.

"Aunt Yu," He Lin turned around in the next second, "I'll help you outside."

Jiang Yu took a deep breath, and before Yu Ningyin could answer, he quickly entered the room and closed the door.

"This kid is really..." Yu Ningyin shook her head helplessly as she looked at the door that was slammed shut.

He Lin took a cardboard box, put it together, and said, "Everyone has some little secrets that they don't want people to see."

"You two know each other well, so I asked you to help me," Yu Ningyin sighed, "Forget it, let's clean up the things on the TV cabinet first."

Fortunately, the scene on the bed could not be seen from the door of the room. The first thing Jiang Yu did after entering the room was to throw the most striking Charmander doll into the box.Afterwards, he opened the desk drawer, and the two love letters were lying brightly in the top drawer, neither of which was added.In addition, there are many small gadgets: the admission ticket for the college entrance examination, a few group photos that I printed out on a whim, and the USB with the hip-hop club performance video and birthday video... He was lucky again that Yu Ningyin was not messed up The person who looked through his things, otherwise, if the contents of this drawer were to be exposed, the pot would explode in the hospital.

Jiang Yu found a small box with a lock, threw all the things into the box, locked it, and placed it at the bottom of the box with Charmander.

After erasing the evidence, Jiang Yu spent about an hour clearing out the rest of the desk, and piled up two full boxes.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk".

Just as Jiang Yu was about to switch to the closet, there was a polite knock on the door.

Jiang Yu glanced at the box, and after confirming that at least he couldn't see the dolls below, he called out, "Come in."

He Lin opened the door and walked in, and saw Jiang Yuchu standing in front of the wardrobe with the door wide open.

"How's it going?"

Jiang Yu let out a "huh", glanced at him and replied, "Let's sort out all the things on the shelf..."

It's just that the clothes in this cabinet made him a little bit at a loss.

Since working, Jiang Yu's closet has only a few pieces of casual clothes, and the rest are almost all shirts, and the most troublesome thing for him is how to clean up the closet without making the shirts wrinkled clothing.

After all, he was really too lazy to iron each piece with an iron afterwards.

He Lin took two steps towards him, quickly scanned the closet, and said, "Let me tidy up for you, you rest for a while."

Jiang Yu was not happy to do it himself, so he said "um", and ran to sit on a chair, leaving the open space for He Lin.

Since it was for packing clothes, He Lin took back from the living room the suitcase that Jiang Yu often used. It was a new one that Yu Ningyin bought for Jiang Yu when he was just in college, and it accompanied him for four years of college life. Speaking of it, it can often be seen in the dormitory.Even two years ago, when He Lin sent Jiang Yu, who was about to leave for Shenzhen, to the airport, the other party also carried this suitcase.

"Why are you still using this box? It's been years." Inadvertently, He Lin asked, just like a casual conversation between old friends.

It's ridiculous to say that they haven't chatted face to face so easily for a long time, let alone private topics.In the late stage of college, each of them was running around for their careers. Most of the meetings were because of class and meeting with mutual friends. After work, the two were separated by more than a thousand kilometers. Except when they went home during the Chinese New Year, they had a regular family dinner every year. There are occasional conversations on the Internet, but those conversations stop at ordinary pleasantries.

Obviously, they could be said to be the people who occupy the most of each other's lives, and they almost have nothing to say, but now, even a simple small talk has become difficult to say.

Jiang Yu leaned back on the back of the chair, suddenly felt as if it was a lifetime ago, and after a moment of daze, he replied: "It's not broken, so I don't bother to buy a new one."

He Lin curled the corners of his mouth silently, and without further ado, he squatted down and opened the box, took out Jiang Yu's clothes one by one from the closet, smoothed out the wrinkles carefully, folded them, rolled them up, and put them in the suitcase.

Jiang Yu followed his movements, his eyes kept going up and down, and suddenly felt that He Lin's appearance from many years ago seemed to be outlined in front of his eyes.

Until the last day before the university report, He Lin learned from his fixed phone every day that the suitcase that the other party was going to bring to school hadn't even been opened, so he hung up the phone and went upstairs without saying a word, and personally helped him out. While arranging the clothes to be taken to school, Jiang Yu was still willfully finding fault, saying that he should not bring this one and that one.

As a result, when going home and back to school a few times later, He Lin would take advantage of the absence of his roommates or parents to volunteer to take on the task of tidying up his clothes.

Thinking about the past, Jiang Yu suddenly laughed out loud, He Lin immediately looked at him, and asked with a smile, "What are you laughing at?"

Jiang Yu consciously lost his composure, squeezed his smile and pursed his lips and murmured: "It's nothing..."

After that, he added another sentence: "Don't take it all in, you have to wear it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

He Lin glanced at him when he heard the words, the corner of his mouth smiled deeper, and said in a long-winded sentence: "Got it, little ancestor."

Hearing this address, Jiang Yu inevitably blushed and buried his face even lower.

He Lin looked back, and took out a shirt from the closet again.

"Why are they all formal clothes? There are so few casual clothes." He asked.

"Anyway, I don't go out much on my days off." Jiang Yu muttered.

"Why?" He Lin stared at him, and paused for a while, "Didn't friends, colleagues... or something else... call you out?"

Regardless of who the "something else" refers to, Jiang Yu just raised his head and gave him a look, saying, "Lazy."

He Lin's eyes were very familiar, and he clearly meant that he asked another nonsense.

"Just be lazy," He Lin blurted out, "I can..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped speaking.

The atmosphere became awkward and unbearable in an instant. It was one thing to talk about the "now", but it was inappropriate to talk about the "past".Jiang Yu turned around first, turned his back to him for a moment, got up and said, "I'll go out and see how Mom is doing."

He opened the door and left the room with strides, and closed it with his backhand again, with a "bang".

He Lin stared at his fleeing back, folded the clothes in his hands, bent down and put them in the box, then suddenly lost his breath and sat down on the bed.

Maybe it was because the atmosphere was too relaxed just now, which made him take off his armor naturally, and some words that had expired were rarely spoken from his mouth without thinking.What "restraint" and "think twice before acting" have been practiced for so many years, but the result is that it is not easy and gradually disintegrated when the two are alone.

He sighed deeply, almost silently.

The closet was gradually emptied, leaving only a few heavy coats and coats, which couldn't be stuffed into the suitcase and were packed separately.

After a while, Jiang Yu knocked on the door again and entered the room, and asked: "My mother is going to buy vegetables, and I will eat at home tonight. Is there anything you want to eat?"

He Lin zipped up the suitcase and replied, "It's nothing, just let Auntie make some."

Jiang Yu nodded in understanding, closed the door and returned to the living room.

After He Lin put the suitcase aside, he went to seal the other two cartons.One of the boxes was neatly filled with books, while the other box had a few scattered books on top stacked in a mess. He Lin tried to close the cardboard box, but the upturned corners of the books blocked him.He shook his head helplessly: "How could it be like this..."

The other box couldn't fit, so he had to take out the books and rearrange them, but found that the things underneath were also piled up in a mess.Based on the principle of not flipping randomly, he didn't take out all the things, but inserted his hand into the gap between the pile of things and the cardboard box, preparing to squeeze them aside. However, when he stretched halfway, His fingertips touched something soft.

For a moment, before he regained consciousness, curiosity prompted him to glance into the box.

With this glance, he happened to see the fiery red tail of the doll, as if it was breathing fire, the fire spread to him all of a sudden.

He had seen this unique tail style before, because it was exactly the same as the one he grabbed from the claw machine for Jiang Yu back then.

Is it the same one?

Jiang Yu... still kept it.

He froze in place, even the hand holding the book was sore, and his half-squatting legs gradually became numb, but he didn't notice it until there was a dull sound of closing the door, and he woke up like a dream. A few books were stuffed into the gaps in the cardboard box, and the cardboard was closed and sealed.

After finishing a series of movements, he wiped his forehead with his hands behind his back, sweating profusely in the air-conditioned room where the cold wind was blowing directly.

Not long after, Yu Ningyin came back, cooked a few home-cooked dishes, and picked some dishes for Jiang Yu. After being told by the other party that she would pick them up, she changed her target to He Lin.

"Xiao He eat more, you have worked hard these two days."

He Lin looked at the pile of vegetables in his bowl, and he couldn't even see the grains of rice. He couldn't laugh or cry, and hurriedly replied: "You can eat what you can. Auntie, you can eat by yourself. If I want to eat, I will pick it up myself."

Hearing this, Yu Ningyin also stopped, and asked again: "Hey, you live in the apartment on weekdays, right?"

"Yes, I will go home occasionally on Friday and Saturday." He Lin replied.

The matter of buying a house was also mentioned during the New Year this year, so now Jiang Yu is listening, not surprised.

It's just that he had thought about it at the time, why He Lin was so anxious to buy a house soon after graduation, could it be that he already had someone to marry?

Thinking about this matter after waking up, combined with the fact that during the few meetings between the two, the social distance between the two parties was restrained and polite, and He Lin's rejection of him gradually became deeply rooted in his heart. Some of the problems I had were also gradually obliterated. After all, the questioning from the previous boyfriends about the reason for the breakup five years ago would only add to the troubles of the current partner.

He is not calm enough, so he will run away when talking about the past.At this time, when the matter of the apartment was mentioned again, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he couldn't help but glanced suspiciously at the other party.

He Lin caught a glimpse of his strange gaze from the corner of his eye, and remained calm, only to hear Yu Ningyin ask again: "Then are you free next weekend? I would like to treat you to a meal. This is not about Xiaoyu this time, it is very troublesome for you, especially It's your mother who always flies all the way to take care of Xiaoyu."

"Aunt Yu, don't be so polite." He Lin smiled and said, "After all, we have been neighbors for so many years, and it is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors."

Yu Ningyin laughed and said "Yes", then said sharply: "Then you are not allowed to refuse, I am not inviting, but an announcement. By the way, I would like to know which day you are free."

He Lin couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only say, "We can do both weekends."

"Okay," Yu Ningyin replied with satisfaction, "Then I'll ask your parents later, and I'll send you a message after I've made a decision."

"it is good."

After eating, clean up the bowls and chopsticks. There are not many things left, so I will pack them up tomorrow.There was only one bed in the bedroom in the whole house, so naturally the patient still had to sleep on it. Fortunately, it was summer, Yu Ningyin made a bed on the floor, and He Lin slept on the sofa.The next day they called for a courier to send the large cardboard box home. The three of them only dragged two boxes the next day. He Lin and Yu Ningyin were determined not to let Jiang Yu do anything, which made Jiang Yu watch Seeing that my hands are empty, I feel very embarrassed.After returning the keys, the three of them took a taxi to the airport.

For two full years, the independent life in a strange city came to an end. Jiang Yu sat on the plane, watching the white clouds drifting outside the window, suddenly filled with emotion.

It was still a biting winter when we left, but this time when we came back, it was actually a scorching summer.