Chapter 1 He has a bad temper
[I heard that 108 next door lived in a beautiful man with a bad temper. 】
H City just finished a heavy snow, and a strong wind blew.
The wind hit the face like a knife, and the cold air infiltrated into the pores along the skin texture, making people felt cold all over.
As a southerner, Yan Zhuo had lived in this northern town for more than three years, but in winter, he still couldn't adapt to the climate here.
Wrapping his down jacket tightly, he walked into the Ningkang Sanatorium.
This small nursing home was where he worked and he did volunteer here.
From the winter break of his sophomore year to the present.
The air conditioner was turned on in the hall, and the warmth spread from the soles of his feet to his limbs, and Yan Zhuo, who was about to freeze to death, finally recovered.
He walked to Room 107 and knocked on the door. After a while, the door opened, revealing an old lady with a benevolent face.
She bent over, her hair was gray.
"Bought it back?" she asked.
Yan Zhuo nodded and handed her the thing he was carrying.
Seeing that his lips was frozen, the old lady flattered and said, "Thank you."
Then, she pulled him into the room.
The old lady had bad legs and trembled when she walked. Yan Zhuo followed behind and glanced into the room. Sure enough, she wasn't alone in the room, Aunt Xu from Room 201 and Mrs. Jin from Room 203 were also here.
"is it allright?" Yan Zhuo asked.
He thought he could leave as soon as he delivered.
"Playing mahjong," the old lady said, "three missing one."
This was to temporarily pull Yan Zhuo over as a mahjong partner.
Yan Zhuo asked, "Where's Uncle Qi?"
Uncle Qi and them were dead mahjong friends.
The old lady pursed her lips and said, "I told him not to come, and said that recently he always lost playing mahjong."
He didn't expect the friendship of the elderly to be so fragile, and the boat overturned.
Yan Zhuo refused: "...Grandma Yang, you should find someone else, I-"
Grandma Yang interrupted him, and said with reason: "Since you call me grandma, then you are the grandson, be filial to grandma, What's wrong with playing mahjong with grandma?"
Yan Zhuo: "..." Calling grandma was just a social courtesy.
Yan Zhuo was reluctantly pushed to the mahjong table and began to drive the ducks to the shelves to shuffle the cards.
After a few games, he lost horribly.
"Stop playing," Yan Zhuo said, pushing mahjong, "If I lose again, my forehead will be swollen."
That's right, whoever lost would be knocked out. Despite the fact that the sum of age of the three people at this table was nearly 200, their hands were not weak at all.
Yan Zhuo clapped his hands and was about to stand up when he suddenly heard a "bang" sound next door, and the sound of many heavy objects falling to the ground.
"It's started again."
Aunt Xu, who was present, said that it seemed that she had already seen it.
Yan Zhuo was curious and asked, "What started?"
Some time ago, because he was busy preparing the opening report, he was absent for a while. So he had no idea what happened recently or who moved in next door.
People who had nothing to do mostly like to gossip, and it happened that Yan Zhuo asked again, and then the three of them began to explain to Yan Zhuo word by word.
Their voices were noisy and their speech was incoherent, basically saying what they thought. However, Yan Zhuo still spied some useful information from it.
Two weeks ago, a man moved in next door. According to Grandma Yang, he looked like a talent. But unfortunately, the man was blind, or acquired blindness to be precise. So it may be blamed on others, or it may be unacceptable. He threw a tantrum every few days, didn't make a lot of noise, just smashed things.
Yan Zhuo couldn't help but say, "The dean didn't ask him to lose money?"
"How can you," Aunt Xu said, "he smashed his own things."
Yan Zhuo: "Okay..." That's considered rich and willful.
Aunt Xu added: "He's also a poor man, a good young man who suddenly lost his sight. Who can stand it?."
"That's right!" Mrs. Jin took over and agreed, "He's been here for so many days. No one in the family has seen it, and I don't know what's going on, so I'm not sure—"
She paused and continued, "Isn't it because of the car accident, could it be the whole family be in the car?"
Next, they made another random guess, chatting non-stop.
Hearing that Yan Zhuo was a little upset, he unconsciously frowned.
Grandma Yang saw it and began to warn him: "You should stay away from 108 when you work in the future, and don't provoke others."
"..."
Yan Zhuo was speechless.
He asked, "Do I look like someone who takes the initiative to cause trouble?"
"Stinky boy, I kindly remind you." Grandma Yang said. The kind of person who had money and bad temper, whoever got on it was unlucky.
"Then I thank you."
Yan Zhuo got up and walked out.
"Hey - where are you going? Mahjong isn't over yet!" someone shouted from behind.
Yan Zhuo waved his hand and replied, "Go to work."
As soon as he left, mahjong couldn't be played, and everyone started chatting.
Before Yan Zhuo went out, she could still hear Aunt Xu sigh, "It's going to trouble Nurse Zhang again..."
That's right.
When Yan Zhuo passed 108, the door was open, the room was in a mess, and nurse Zhang was cleaning the garbage.
She was very surprised to see Yan Zhuo, and asked, "Is the university on vacation?"
Yan Zhuo hummed and said meaningfully, "It's hard work."
Nurse Zhang smiled and tilted his head helplessly.
Yan Zhuo followed her movements and looked into the room.
The wind blew away the clouds, the sun shined on the ground, and a man was standing by the window against the light, smoking a cigarette.
It was a tall but slightly thin back. Against the background of the smoke, it only gave birth to a sense of sadness and loneliness.
Yan Zhuo saw a God for a moment.
...
After a while, a warning suddenly popped into his mind, it was Grandma Yang's vicissitudes of life voice——
Stay away from him and don't provoke him.
Yan Zhuo frowned and thought: Forget it, who cares, everyone in the world has their own misfortunes, and it's none of my business.
Thinking so, he couldn't help but look back before leaving.
It was around four o'clock in the afternoon when they met each other again. Because of the geographical location of H City, it was getting dark at that time.
After Yan Zhuo finished his work, he passed by the back garden when he was about to go back to the dormitory. At that time, the artificial lake had been frozen into an ice skating rink, and the bare trees were covered with smog. If someone splashed a handful of water on the ground, he would bet it would freeze into ice in less than a minute.
Therefore, in this extremely cold weather, people who were still outside admiring the scenery either had water in their brains or had holes in their heads.
This was Yan Zhuo's first thought when he saw that person.
Wearing a camel trench coat and jeans, the man sat quietly on the chaise longue, his eyes peering into the distant void.
Obviously nothing could be seen, but it seemed to be looking at the scenery.
Yan Zhuo sucked in the cold red nose and couldn't help but think: Wouldn't it be cold to wear so little?
About five minutes passed, maybe longer.
The man got up. He reached out and took the blind stick leaning against the reclining chair and walked forward step by step. The black stick became the tentacles of a snail in his hand, and he slowly explored in all directions.
Yan Zhuo realized that he had been in this back garden for a long time, just because he saw a strange man! He's spying on someone!
This realization made him not in a good mood, he frowned and turned away.
But before he took two steps, he only heard a "dong" sound and pulled back the pace he was about to leave.
Oops!
Because of the weather, the snow had melted into ice. When the man passed the stone steps with a stick, the soles of his feet slipped and he knelt on the ground.
Yan Zhuo ran over at the fastest speed.
Perhaps because of embarrassment, he remained in a fallen position with his head down and motionless.
Yan Zhuo asked, "Are you alright?" As he said that, he grabbed the opponent's arm, trying to pull him up.
But who knew that the man didn't appreciate it, he brushed away his hand and said, "Go away."
Yan Zhuo was stunned, his head was dazed, he was just kind.
"Are...are you okay?" he asked again.
"It's okay," the man said. The voice was low and slightly hoarse, but it was surprisingly pleasant.
He began to fumble for the crutches that had gone somewhere because of the fall.
At this moment, Yan Zhuo saw his face clearly. It was indeed handsome and pleasing to the eye, but—that face, no matter how you looked at it, made him familiar.
Yan Zhuo asked uncertainly, "Song, Song Yan... Mr. Song?"
Song Yan turned his head in the direction of him, with a puzzled expression on his face.
Yan Zhuo smiled and said, "I know you, I—"
He paused, "I'm a student at the nearby Academy of Fine Arts, I once copied your paintings, and there are pictures of your profile in the album."
Song Yan: "Oh."
He didn't seem touched at all.
"..."
Yan Zhuo gritted his teeth, feeling that the person in front of him was colder than the minus ten degrees. One could freeze people into ice balls.
Since the other party couldn't see it anyway, Yan Zhuo didn't maintain a smile at all, but said in a good voice, "It's cold on the ground, I'll help you up."
Song Yan: "No, you can go, I can do it myself."
He was rejected for no reason . Even the most enthusiastic person couldn't stand it twice. Yan Zhuo nodded, realizing that the person in front of him couldn't see. He said, "Well, be careful, the ground is full of ice and it's very slippery."
After that, he stepped aside.
Song Yan said that he could, and that was true. Although he moved very slowly, he stood up steadily.
Yan Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't know why.
Song Yan walked in the front, Yan Zhuo followed behind.
He recklessly looked at Song Yan's back.
Visually measuring about 185, tall, especially the legs, which were very long. Under the wrapping of jeans, it could make people feel the outline of thin legs.
Yan Zhuo thought: It seems that he is not wearing long pants.
The back garden was not far from the inpatient department, and it took a few minutes to arrive.
After seeing Song Yan entering the hall, he turned around and walked towards the staff dormitory.
After Yan Zhuo returned to the dormitory, he took a stack of picture albums from the cabinet and slowly turned them over.
He searched for a long time, and finally——
"I found it." He said excitedly.
Yan Zhuo opened the first page, the photo on the profile and the face of the man in the back garden just now gradually overlapped in his mind.
It's Song Yan, that's right.
Song Yan was quite famous in the art circle.
He is good at sketching, especially portraits, and his paintings were particularly expressive. When Yan Zhuo was in high school, he often copied his paintings. Their teacher once said that when you copy the master's paintings and reach 60% of your skills, the exam was almost the same.
Yan Zhuo suddenly remembered Song Yan's silent back in the smoke, and couldn't help sighing. For a painter, this kind of unexpected "accident" was the most cruel.
What a pity.
That night, Yan Zhuo had a terrifying dream.
In a dream, he dragged his tired body into a shabby room in a violent snowstorm. The room was pitch-dark and there was no broken stool. Yan Zhuo sat down on the ground angrily, but his butt was still warm... Suddenly there was a "tick tick" sound from a corner behind him, he turned his head and saw a snowman covered in gauze with Song Yan's nose and mouth. melt.
After a few seconds—
Song snowman opened his mouth and asked, "Did you see my eyeballs?"
Yan Zhuo swallowed, "No, no."
"Really?" Song Yan said, opening and closing his mouth. The cold voice made people felt like falling into an ice cellar, "I'm so sad, can you give me your eyeballs..."
This dream was too scary.
It was so scary that the first thing Yan Zhuo did when he woke up was to feel if his eyeballs were still hanging in his eye