Chapter 46: The Full Moon and the Round Mirror
It usually took Ye Zhenzhen half an hour to get home, a journey that would normally take ten minutes.
Traffic jams are unavoidable, but fortunately, the performance target for September was met on the last day. I also gained a friend, Zhongli, which seems to be worth being happy about.
[Sister, the restaurant is very busy. Xiaoyou and I will eat at the restaurant. You go and have something delicious. ]
Ye Mao also thoughtfully gave him a red envelope of 100 yuan. He has really grown up a lot. Society can hone people better than school.
Ye Zhenzhen did not accept it and returned the red envelope to him.
【While you are away, I am going to have a big dinner tonight. 】
Ye Zhenzhen replied to her brother with a smile.
The residential houses are particularly lively today, with neighbors' relatives and friends coming to visit and have dinner together, and the sounds of children playing and fighting can be heard from the corridor from time to time.
After taking a shower, Ye Zhenzhen changed into pajamas and lay lazily on the bed. A men's T-shirt hung on the balcony fluttered in the wind.
She had been suffering from insomnia recently, so she drew the curtains tightly and tried to catch up on some sleep.
She turned on the hypnotic music and emptied her mind, but she tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep.
Probably not tired, so she had no choice but to get up, grab the wooden hairpin on the bedside and tie up her hair.
If you use up more energy, maybe you can fall asleep.
After mopping the floor, she pinched the four corners of the quilt cover and put on new sheets. She walked to the bathroom with the light blue sheets and quilt cover. Just as she soaked the sheets and quilt cover in the basin and opened the bottle of detergent, she shook it for a long time before she found that the bottle was empty.
Ye Zhenzhen changed into casual clothes. There were children playing and fighting in the stairwell. She walked slowly downstairs, sticking to the mottled wall, rubbing her hands with white wall dust.
"Boss, how much is it?"
She stood beside the glass cashier counter carrying a bucket of blue laundry detergent and asked the boss with a smile.
"58!" the boss replied in not very standard Mandarin.
Ye Zhenzhen took out her mobile phone and scanned the code to pay.
"Little girl, doesn't your boyfriend spend the holidays with you?" the boss asked with a smile.
A person like Wen Baijing was too conspicuous to be ignored. It would take some time for anyone who was there that day to forget Ye Zhenzhen's miserable appearance.
Thinking of this, Ye Zhenzhen smiled awkwardly and shook her head at the boss.
"Little girl, look at the people around you." The boss raised his chin to indicate, "Who isn't fighting tooth and nail to stay in Yuncheng? Opportunities don't come along every day."
Almost everyone living nearby looked tired and exhausted. The pressure of life in Jiangnan was lower than that in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but for Ye Zhenzhen, the pressure of life in Jiangnan was very high, and it was hard to catch a breath.
Maybe the boss was just gossiping, but what he said was true.
She understood the boss's kindness, smiled and nodded at him, then walked out of the supermarket carrying the laundry detergent.
The autumn wind blows gently, osmanthus flowers fall down, and golden millet grains cover the concrete ground.
Ye Zhenzhen walked up the stairs, transferred the laundry detergent to her left hand, and looking at the red palm of her right hand, she couldn't help but shook her right hand.
"Hey! Little girl, are you spending the holiday alone today?"
The red-haired neighbor twisted her firm buttocks and quickly followed Ye Zhenzhen.
"Ok!"
"Why don't you come to my house for dinner? I have a lot of relatives and friends here today." The female neighbor said in a cheerful and enthusiastic voice.
Ye Zhenzhen hurriedly shook her head, "No, no..."
"It's okay! Just an extra pair of chopsticks. We cooked a lot of dishes today..." The female neighbor ignored her refusal and kept inviting her.
"Really! Thank you!"
Ye Zhenzhen was used to being alone and not used to overly lively occasions. She didn't like being too close to people, especially strangers she had only met a few times.
She quickened her pace and fled back to the room.
At work, she has to chatter non-stop and greet customers enthusiastically. After get off work, she has a rare moment to be herself, and being alone is a kind of enjoyment for her.
I casually opened a romance novel written by Master Ben and found a sentence in it: We only live in this world for a few short decades, so don't be too hard on ourselves.
Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but laugh. There were too many things that were beyond the control of the people at the bottom of society, and they couldn't live freely.
If you can choose, who doesn't want to live the life as they please?
The phone kept ringing. After hesitating for a moment, I pressed the answer button.
"Go downstairs." Wen Baijing's voice was gentle, yet firm and unquestionable.
Hearing the familiar voice, her heartbeat began to speed up again.
Ye Zhenzhen was puzzled. They hadn't seen each other for a long time, nor had they contacted each other by phone.
She smoothed her hair in front of the mirror and patted her cheeks gently, trying to calm herself down.
Wen Baijing's car was parked on the roadside near the supermarket, and it seemed out of place with the simple and old things around it.
His car undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention. Such a car should not be parked here. The various smells of snacks in the air seemed to be able to drive it away in the next second.
Ye Zhenzhen opened the car door and met his bottomless eyes.
After all, he no longer liked her. Ye Zhenzhen could no longer see the sparkling stars in his eyes.
Ye Zhenzhen's nose was sour and she lowered her head. She froze in place and had no intention of getting in the car.
"boarding."
Wen Baijing took in her disappointment and spoke calmly.
Suddenly he added, "Why? Do you want me to hold you in the car?"
Ye Zhenzhen was startled when she heard this, feeling a little embarrassed. Then, she got in the car.
The two were silent for a few seconds, and Wen Baijing was the first to break the silence.
"How are you doing?"
Ye Zhen Zhen twisted her fingers together and responded weakly, "Yeah."
When she met Wen Baijing's gaze, her heart somehow started to get out of rhythm again.
Ye Zhenzhen pretended to be calm, "Boss Wen, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Have you been losing weight recently?"
Wen Baijing gave an irrelevant reply, with a strange look in his eyes.
Ye Zhenzhen shook her head, then quickly nodded after realizing what was going on.
Wen Baijing didn't say anything else. He unfastened his seat belt, turned sideways, and leaned forward close to her. Ye Zhenzhen was startled and quickly stepped back. Was he going to kiss her in public?
Wen Baijing shifted his center of gravity to the right and reached for the gift box in the back seat.
Seeing that he turned his face away and did not do anything ambiguous, Ye Zhenzhen also turned to the left, intending to see what Wen Baijing was up to.
Wen Baijing got the paper box and was about to turn around and turn his head.
Unexpectedly, their lips touched each other exactly.
Inadvertently, someone threw a small stone into the calm lake. Then, the water rippled, circle after circle, farther and farther, until it covered the entire lake.
The familiar taste goes straight into the heart, bit by bit, slowly filling the empty heart.
She was in a daze, her heartbeat suddenly stretched to its highest point, and the blood in her body began to boil again.
Outside the car window, there was a constant stream of vehicles and noisy and shrill horns.
Ye Zhenzhen came back to her senses, blinked, and raised her hand to push him away.
Wen Baijing stretched out his left hand to hold her head and kissed her madly. The moment their breaths intertwined, Ye Zhenzhen's breathing became short, her limbs became numb, and her head became dizzy.
Ye Zhenzhen struggled to push Wen Baijing away. She took a few deep breaths and tried to suppress her out-of-control heartbeat.
"Ye Zhenzhen, are you being rude to me?"
Wen Baijing pursed his lips and teased deliberately.
"I...I'm just curious about what you are doing?" Ye Zhenzhen swallowed and replied shyly.
"You have to eat hairy crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I'll take some time to send you crabs." Wen Baijing put the Yangcheng Lake hairy crab gift box on the middle armrest and said, "I sent you crabs out of kindness, but you took advantage of me."
Ye Zhenzhen blushed. It was clearly him who held her head down, but she turned the tables on him.
"I don't have any kitchen utensils at home, you can take them back!"
"You should eat hairy crabs while they are fresh, the ice will melt quickly." Wen Baijing sounded a little disappointed, frowning slightly.
"I really don't have any kitchenware at home." Ye Zhenzhen looked embarrassed.
"I can finish my work at ten o'clock." Wen Baijing paused deliberately, "How about we eat hairy crabs together later?"