Exclusive Memory Chapter 10 Part 2

 Mu Chenghe was originally a very good person to get along with, and his temper was also unusually good, sometimes cunning and slippery, sometimes quiet and docile.

He didn't attend classes or travel during the holidays, so he wandered between the institute and his home. I was embarrassed to eat and drink at his house, so I tried to buy vegetables and go home as much as possible. He occasionally goes to the supermarket to buy some ingredients himself.

At first he made me the red wine chicken wings, I thought he was a gourmet expert.

Unexpectedly, that was definitely a misunderstanding. If he cooks by himself, the meat dish is fried shredded pork with shredded cabbage, and the vegetarian dish is boiled cabbage with cabbage soup. If you want to change the taste, it is fried pork slices with cabbage, sweet and sour cabbage, if you don’t drink soup, then pickled cabbage. Of course, if he still wants to change something, with his IQ, he can completely replace all the cabbage inside with lettuce or cucumber, and do the same.

In the first few days after I moved here, after eating several meals in a row, I suddenly realized that I still had something beyond genius in my daily life .

I cook and he does the dishes. I mop the floor and he mops the furniture. The clothes are washed separately, and the sheets and quilts are handed over to the washing machine.

It was originally so harmonious and friendly. But I don't want to come back from the beach, it's a bit weird. I don't know if it was after he kissed me, or after his mood swings in the car. In short, in the next few days, this person rarely appeared in my field of vision. He started to get up early and stay late, and prepared one reason after another for him not to come back for dinner in advance, all of which were high-sounding.

"I have an illusion." Bai Lin said on the phone.

"What illusion?"

"It seems that you two are married, and now he is having an affair outside, and you have become an empty boudoir."

"Pooh--"

"Wait until you find any smell of powder, perfume, lipstick marks or house receipts, it will be conclusive evidence."

"Xiaobai...don't make sarcastic remarks."

"Speaking of which," Bai Lin changed the subject, "did you become a stand-in, that's why he kissed you?" 

"What can I be a stand-in?" As soon as I asked, I understood, "You said that the kind of TV acting, the novel is written that the heroine and the male protagonist's former lover look alike, so he kissed me as someone else?"

"That's right, that's right." Bai Lin said excitedly, "Xiaotong, you are indeed my bosom friend, you understand what I mean very well."

I didn't continue talking to her, and after a little silence, I slowly said: "Xiaobai, I don't want to live here anymore."

Bai Lin also became serious now, and after thinking about it, she said, "I think it would be okay."

Originally, I didn't want to take this step, just casually asked her opinion, but after getting her approval, I really cared. What is the name of that sentence, there is no master here, there is a place for the master.

To put it more elegantly, the green hills do not change and the green waters flow forever. Mu Chenghe, we will meet later.

It was past ten o'clock when he got home at night, and I was watching TV.

"I have something to tell you." I turned down the volume of the program.

"What?" He responded casually.

"I found a job."

"Where?"

"The second-level college of the Normal University?"

"Teacher?"

"Well, it's not a formal formation, they just don't have counselors. I want to give it a try. ”

"Will you have class?"

"I will teach public English for freshmen and sophomores."

"That's good, don't lose the major you have studied for four years."

There is a trace of bitterness in my heart. This kind of dialogue seems to bring us back to the original point, he is the teacher and I am the student.

So, I said, "Teacher Mu..."

Hearing this address, his lake-like eyes flickered for a moment.

I haven't called him that for a long time, and I can avoid it, but I don't know what to change. Of course, I didn't dare to say the word "Mu Chenghe" in front of him, so I had no choice but to say it was all yours. I felt awkward at first, but I got used to it later. At this moment, his eyes lightly touched a certain chord in my heart, which made the speech I had agreed with Bai Lin just now more difficult.

He looked at me, waiting for my next words.

"Their campus is far away from here. The teacher in the personnel department said that he can move a bed for me in the single dormitory building for a few days, and I can't trouble you for a long time, so—"

His eyes stared at me, mixed with something that people couldn't catch. I didn't dare to look directly at him anymore, turned my eyes to the ground, and squeezed out the most difficult sentence.

I said, "So, I want to move out these days."

I don't know what he's thinking at the moment, and I can't see his expression. His silence even made me start to reflect on whether I said it too quietly and he didn't hear it.

The TV was still working, and after the news, the weather forecast started again. The host said: "Affected by plateau fluctuations and typhoon warm and humid air flow, starting tomorrow night, there will be more thunderstorms or showers in our city, and the rainfall distribution will be uneven. The rain will be heavy in some places, and there will be heavy to heavy rain."

Because of his silence, the weak sound of the TV was very abrupt in this room.

Suddenly, he moved, his body changed position, and he asked, "Aren't you used to it?"

"It's okay, I just think it's troublesome for you."

"There's no trouble."

Originally, I prepared a lot of reasons, but I didn't expect him to block my words with three straightforward words. He had never talked to me like this before, even throwing a tantrum like a child. So, I suddenly became aphasic, and I couldn't say anything anymore.

Seeing that the room was going to be silent again, he suddenly stood up and said , "I'll take you there tomorrow after I finish my work at hand. You can't move things by yourself." After saying that, he went straight to his room, I was left sitting alone in the living room.

He is more straightforward than I expected. Basically, it can be understood that I can disappear immediately...

The next day, I woke up early to pack my things. I have always been considered a relatively neat person, I don't have many gadgets, and I can get it done in two or three strokes. I could have left here, but since he said he would send me off, I had no choice but to wait for him to come back.

The weather was extremely hot, and I didn't want to go out, so I just went online and watched TV to pass the time. I didn't know that there was no one in the afternoon. I thought that what he said yesterday was "the day after tomorrow", maybe he didn't mean today.

I thought about it, took out my pajamas and toothbrush, and waited for tomorrow.

When it was almost time for dinner, he called and said that he had an appointment with someone and would not go home for dinner. I thought he would hang up the phone, but he didn't expect him to say: "I have something to do here, I'm going back late, it's going to rain later, I'll see you off tomorrow."

I said, "Yeah. It's okay"

I made some noodles for dinner alone, and then the security guards of the property knocked on the door from door to door, informing everyone that there will be heavy rain at night, and they should clean up the sundries on the window sills and balconies, so as not to blow it down and hit people.

On the balcony floor were two orchids, which were originally one, but later sprouted and were planted in two pots. This thing has always been Mu Chenghe's treasure. After it got dark, it really started to blow. Hurriedly looking for a gap between the doors and windows, pouring into the house, blowing the two pots of gentlemen outside to shake, and the chandelier in the living room also rattled.

I sat in front of the glass and watched the acacia tree outside shaking, and the dust, sand, and leaves were all rolled up. Suddenly the sky was also dyed dark gray. When encountering this kind of weather before, Song Qiqi would occasionally recite that poem in the dormitory. It sounds like she is very educated. Compared with me, she is a person of a different level.

I propped my chin up and racked my brains until I recalled something like: "When the stream cloud first rises, the sun sinks into the pavilion, and the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind fills the building."

After lightning and thunder, downpours followed.

The thoughts instilled in me since I was a child made me afraid to turn on the TV or surf the Internet, for fear that these electrical appliances would be damaged by lightning. Alone in a panic, I leaned on the sofa and read a book. Suddenly there was a thunder and a "boom", which shocked me. Then thunder and lightning came one after another, each stronger than the last. I moved my butt, just in case, I decided to stay away from the doors and windows, lest innocent people be hurt. Then, continue reading.

Not long after, Mu Chenghe came back.

I was quite surprised when I saw him appear. For one, he returned home much earlier than usual. Second, it is rare for someone to calmly drive home in such a thunderstorm, risking confrontation with nature. Third, he does look a little, uh... embarrassed now.

He was holding an umbrella and panting heavily, obviously he was running home. His whole body was soaked except for his hair, which was a little dry, and his clothes and shoes. Wherever he stood, there was a pool of water.

"You are too brave." I said, "You still dare to wander on the street in such a heavy rain."

"I rushed back after meeting people." He said flatly.

"Do you need help?"

He took the towel I handed over and said kindly, "It's okay."

"Hurry up and change your clothes."

"I'm going to take a shower first," he said.

"Taking a shower? You can be struck by lightning even in the shower. When I was a child, I watched the news, and there was a girl who was struck by lightning while taking a shower. It seems that phone calls cannot be made either."

Saying that, Grandpa Tiangong also "clicked" very cooperatively, and then thundered.

He couldn't help laughing, "You are afraid of thunder." He used a declarative tone.

"No...ah." I denied it bluntly, "I'm not afraid."

"What you said last time, you said that you have a relative—" In order to prove that I am stubborn, he was probably going to repeat that incident.

"Okay, okay. I admit it." Instant surrender.

As the story goes, that person is also considered a relative of mine. In the countryside, basically everyone in a village can be a relative. At that time, I was in the first grade of elementary school, and I was left unattended during the summer vacation, so I was sent to my grandmother's house in the countryside. It happened to be going to the market that day, and there was a thunderstorm on the way back. My grandmother led me to hide in a store of an acquaintance for a while. Summer rain comes and goes quickly. When it cleared up, I heard that someone in front had been struck to death by lightning. We saw the scene on the way home. That place happened to be a mouthful. Because it was far away from the market, there were only a few nearby families around, the body was still there, and the clothes had turned to ashes. On a hot day, no one brought extra clothes to cover her up. Grandma couldn't bear it, so she put my little flower umbrella next to the corpse to cover her.

This scene is particularly deep in my mind.

Last time in the car, I vaguely told this story to Mu Chenghe . He didn't respond either. I thought he wasn't listening at all.

At this moment, Mu Chenghe's cell phone rang.

"Well." He picked it up and said, "I saw you were busy, so I left first. I'm home, it's all right."

"The last time I went to City B was in the middle of the night and left early in the morning, so I didn't go to see my grandfather."

"I have a measure."

He hung up the phone and gave me a look.

It's not that I'm going to eavesdrop on his phone, it's that I'm so close that I can't help it if I don't listen.

"It's my mother." He said, "I went to see her in the evening."

"Oh." I responded casually at first, but then suddenly realized the weight of this title, and immediately regretted why I didn't sneak away in time this afternoon. Now his mother came, and suddenly seeing her precious son "living together" with someone, I don't know if it would be very scary.

"She's here to inspect the work and will only stay for two days. She never comes to my place." Mu Chenghe explained.

It’s okay if he didn’t explain, but it made me feel even more like we were living together secretly. Feeling embarrassed, I found an excuse to go to the kitchen to pour some water.

After he took a bath, my body was really sticky and uncomfortable, so I also found clothes to take a bath. But I didn't want to wash halfway, and the power went out.

After I fell into darkness all of a sudden, the rain outside the window roared and the unkempt water field flowed.

"Xue Tong?" Mu Chenghe knocked on the toilet door.

"Hey."

"The whole yard is out. Maybe it will come later."

"Oh." I hurriedly washed off the bubbles on my body.

"Don't panic, wash slowly, the water won't stop for a while." He paused, and then said, "Are you not afraid? I'll stay here and call me if you need anything."

"Okay."

The last sentence soaked my heart in a basin of sweet and greasy honey water, slowly relaxing it.

In fact, I am not too afraid of the dark, and I am not very afraid of thunder. Even if you are afraid, you have to pretend to be contemptuous. But when there is a person who is worth relying on to take care of me quietly, I feel that it is such a comfortable thing to be weak and timid. Heart, started being greedy again.

"You..." I said hesitantly, "Don't go away."

"Okay, I'm not leaving." There seemed to be a smile in the words.

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