Nanke Yifu Chapter 32
byLiving in the Wind and Staying in the Rain (4)
The phone vibrated twice in his pocket, and Feng Su unlocked the screen. It was Lin Yuyou who messaged him back, asking him what was wrong with the call just now.The person woke up and didn’t recognize the puppy. In fact, nothing happened, but Feng Su decided to let Lin Yuyou scold him.
Feng Su: “Your Xiao Xi brought me back to pick up someone.”
Lin Yuyou: “?”
Feng Su: “Human beings, living and moving, are in my shop now. Come home with me at night. Don’t worry, they are voluntary, adults, not child abductors.”
Lin Yuyou: “???”
“Did you finally get bitten by a puppy and forget to take the rabies vaccine?” Although this sentence makes no sense, it well expresses Lin Yuyou’s shock at the moment.
“I know you want to say that I have lost my mind, and I think so myself.” Feng Su said, “If something really happened, you would at least come and collect my body, right?”
Lin Yuyou: “If I can still find all your bodies.”
As soon as Feng Su put down his cell phone, Lin Yuyou called directly.
“Seriously, what’s going on?” The woman’s voice came out of the receiver, a little distorted, and the unserious energy she usually had when chatting was also lost.
“When I took Xiao Xi for a walk in the morning, I met a man sitting on the roadside. Your Xiao Xi went over to lick him, and then…” Halfway through the sentence, Feng Su felt that it was too troublesome to say this, so he changed it to a concise version, “In short, he was not in the right mood. I accidentally let him go. He knows me, and Xiao Xi seems to know him too. Anyway, I brought him back.”
“Let’s talk about this first, stop for a moment, and then say I’m afraid I won’t be able to stroke it smoothly.” Lin Yuyou interrupted him and said, “So you know that person? Xiao Xi also knows him? Did you pick up an acquaintance? Then are you here to scare me?”
“How can there be so many acquaintances?” Feng Su sighed and said, “He knows me, I don’t know him, and Xiao Xi probably doesn’t know her either. Anyway, he doesn’t know Xiao Xi.”
“He knows you but you don’t know him?” Lin Yuyou repeated.
“Yes.” Feng Su said, “I know what I’m about to say is outrageous, but I hope you don’t treat me as a delusional person.”
Lin Yuyou: “Okay, I will treat you as a mental patient.”
Feng Su: “To put it simply, he said I was the person in his dream.”
“Dream?” Lin Yuyou reacted unusually quickly this time, “Is that person abnormal?”
“Yeah.” Feng Su said, “And the me in his dream seems to be quite similar to me. At least the face, voice, and personality should be exactly the same. Anyway, the two sentences he described are quite similar.”
“So, you picked up someone who knew you but didn’t know you at all and went back… Well, up to this point I can understand that your barren curiosity suddenly caused trouble, and you used up all the money you usually saved at once.” Lin Yuyou said, “Then what’s next? He should wake up, and then you know why he knows you, and what happens after that? Why did you abduct him home?”
“What does it mean to be kidnapped by me? Even if there is a victim in this story in the end, the victim will definitely be me.” Feng Su frowned slightly anxiously and said, “I also want to know why.”
He put the earphones on one side and leaned against the side, slowly, while walking, sorting out the items that needed to be prepared, and making a list on his phone.
“He has a fever, he doesn’t have any documents with him, and he has no place to go.” Feng Su said, “I know that he is a healthy adult and will not let himself die outside. I also know that he can call the police directly. I also know that it is common sense for a three-year-old child not to bring strangers home casually. You don’t need to scold me.”
“I thought that all your sympathy was only for small animals.” Lin Yuyou said in an exaggerated way, “I didn’t expect that there are people standing on top of furry animals. I was a little curious. What a unique charm this has.”
“It’s quite unique.” Feng Su said, “Don’t laugh at me. I always feel like I know him, but I can’t remember him.”
Lin Yuyou: “You didn’t fall in love at first sight, did you?”
Feng Su: “Tsk.”
The soul of gossip was instantly ignited, and Lin Yuyou asked like a barrage: “Male or female? What type? Are you good-looking? What image do you have in other people’s dreams? Do people like you?”
Feng Su: “I’d better hang up. It’s better to talk to Xiao Xi than to talk to you.”
“You? Confide?” Lin Yuyou sneered, “You have never done such an outrageous thing and want to find someone to scold you, right? Or the kind who won’t change even after scolding you.”
Feng Su didn’t refute, since he wouldn’t change the truth after scolding him.
“Okay, I’ll try my best to pick up Xiao Xi as soon as possible to see what kind of fairy can charm you so frigid that you can’t find her.” Someone seemed to be calling her on the other end of the phone. Lin Yuyou joked and planned to hang up.
“You won’t persuade me?” Feng Su said before she pressed the hang-up button, “If something happens to me, who will give your Xiao Xi a bath? The little white dog will turn into a little gray dog again.”
“You’ve always done things in a measured way, and you won’t do anything that can really get you involved.” Lin Yuyou said, “Besides, what’s the point of my advising you besides wasting your spit? You’re going to hit the south wall and die without looking back.”
After hanging up the phone, Feng Su let out a sigh of relief.
Lin Yuyou said that he has always been measured. Indeed, he is not a person who likes to meddle in other people’s business. He will never do anything that seems to have no benefits but only risks. But this time, he may have really lost his mind.
After confirming that nothing was missing, Feng Su put away his cell phone and pushed open the heavy glass door.
“Click”, the door of the lounge closed again, and Yan Laixi sat back on the bed. He just heard someone outside and went out to explain that the shopkeeper was temporarily absent.
The message prompt popped up again, and the note he set for the sender was still two words, but this time it was not Chi Fu.
Qiuye: “Are you okay? Where are you now? Chi Fu said you didn’t bring anything with you. Can I go find you?”
“I’m fine, no need to come over.” Yan Laixi typed back, “I have a place to live, don’t worry.”
“Chi Fu asked me if you were here with me. I told him that I was here first, so that he wouldn’t have to look for you everywhere and you would have to hide.” Qiuye asked, “What’s wrong? Tell me?”
“It’s nothing.” Yan Laixi thought for a while, then raised his finger, pretending to be relaxed, “Even if I’m broken up, I don’t plan to get back together.”
“Okay.” Qiuye said cooperatively, “I’ll treat you to dinner another day to celebrate. If the old one doesn’t go, the new one won’t come.”
Yan Laixi: “The first time we have dinner together is to celebrate my broken love?”
“The first time we met, I almost fainted on the roadside.” Qiuye said, suddenly becoming serious, “Don’t lie to me, where are you now? Are you really okay?”
“It’s really okay. I just had a fever due to the cold wind. I’ve already taken medicine. It’s absolutely true.” Yan Laixi answered “Are you okay?”, but did not answer “Where”, but asked, “Do you remember Feng Su? I told you about that person in the dream.”
“Remember.” Qiuye said, “The prototype of the protagonist of your novel.”
“If Feng Su actually exists in reality, then tell me, how can I tell whether I am dreaming or not?”
After the message was sent, there was no new movement in the dialog box. Probably because the question was too baffling, Qiuye didn’t know how to reply.
Just when he was about to apologize and end the conversation that couldn’t go on, a new message popped up at the bottom.
“Although I think this is incredible, you have met Feng Su, right? Are you at his place now?”
Yan Laixi raised his hand and was about to reply when the second message came.
“You’re not dreaming right now.”
The raised fingers froze in the air, and then slowly fell back to the original place.
“I have never experienced your dream, so I can’t prove anything to you, but I can tell you with certainty, Nanke, you are not dreaming.”
“Abnormality is illogical and unreasonable. It can allow two souls to share the same body, and it can make Chi Fu forget only you. So it’s not impossible for someone in reality to appear in your dream, isn’t it?”
“As for how to distinguish, why should we distinguish? Are you afraid of waking up? Afraid of losing again?”
“Then it’s better to think on the bright side.”
There was a pause on the other side for a while before the next message came.
“For example, when I woke up and found that Chi Fu had not forgotten you at all.”
Five seconds later, probably because he felt that Yan Laixi had seen it and really didn’t want this sentence to stay in his dialog box, Qiuye withdrew the message.
“Anyway, at least I can assure you that in reality, you will never lose me.”
Yan Laixi knew that these were the most comforting words that Qiuye had racked his brains to come up with. The cute young man with a baby face was probably on the other side of the screen, scratching his head and not knowing what to do next. He suddenly felt a warm current welling up in his heart.I imagined that the other person was cute, so I couldn’t help but slightly raise the corners of my lips and curl my eyelids. All my thoughts were scattered at this moment, but the response I gave Qiuye only turned into three words: “Thank you”.
Yan Laixi put down his cell phone and was about to go out to see if there was anything he could do to help. He could still do tasks such as cleaning up, although he could only sweep the floor and wipe the tables. After all, he didn’t know what things Feng Su still needed.
As soon as he found the broom, his cell phone rang. Yan Laixi had to put the broom down again and go back to answer the phone.
He was previously worried that Feng Su would not receive his call, so he turned on the ringtone. At this time, he naturally thought that the call was from Feng Su, but his eyes were all milky white.
It was a video call from Qiuye, but the camera was facing the ceiling.
He didn’t pick up immediately, but waited for three seconds and still didn’t hang up. He probably made the wrong call by accident, right?
You know, this person was unwilling to send even a voice message before. He would rather risk hitting a tree and type while walking. Now that a video call suddenly came, Yan Laixi was a little surprised and a little confused.Thinking that they had already met each other, it was just a video call, so there was nothing wrong with it. He followed the other person’s example and hid outside the camera, only shining on the ceiling, and clicked to connect.
“Delete all the chat history just now, turn on screen sharing with me, and I’ll watch you delete it!” The camera was still facing the ceiling, and the clear voice of a boy sounded, with a slightly commanding tone. Qiuye rarely talked to people like this, even with Yan Laixi, a good friend for many years, he seemed really embarrassed now.
“Why?” Yan Laixi asked knowingly, but still hiding outside the camera.
“It’s so disgusting, please delete it quickly!” He said, changing his coquettish tone again, “Please delete it, delete it, delete it.”
“What’s so gross?” Yan Laixi suddenly thought of teasing children and said, “I’m so moved that I want to take a screenshot and save it in the photo album.”
“I know you are joking, stop teasing me and delete it.”
The tone of the person opposite was a bit pleading. Suddenly, another male voice intervened, seeming to sigh slightly and said, “If you don’t want to appear on camera, just turn off the camera. Is it convenient to chat without the camera?”
“Isn’t this for sharing the screen?” Qiuye said.
“The shared screen can be turned on even if the camera is turned off, and it can be turned on even if you are making voice calls.” The red-haired young man showed his face on the screen, greeted Yan Laixi with a smile, then pointed at the screen and said to Qiuye, “Just click this.”
The flash of red exited the screen, and then the camera was turned off. Qiuye even tried to teach Yan Laixi how to turn off the camera.
Fortunately, he had thought there was some other reason before, but it turned out that this little otaku hadn’t developed all the functions of the chat software yet.
At the request of the other party, Yan Laixi deleted the chat history, and the two chatted on the phone for a while. Qiuye asked about his location, his situation, and whether he wanted to go find them.
Yan Laixi answered one by one and rejected the other party’s invitation.
It would cause trouble for them, and he also wanted to stay with Feng Su.
Qiuye was obviously worried. He almost wanted to find out all the eighteen generations of Fengsu’s ancestors who suddenly appeared in reality from Yan Laixi’s mouth. He even wanted to come over in person for a while, but Yan Laixi promised to report to him at any time, so he gave up the idea temporarily.
Before hanging up the phone, Qiuye hesitated as if he wanted to say something else. Yan Laixi knew that he was still worried about himself and wanted to comfort himself, but he was stupid and didn’t know what to say.
He said thank you to Qiuye, said it didn’t matter to him, and even joked that he had just kicked out his old love and found a new one immediately, but Qiuye couldn’t laugh, and he couldn’t laugh either.
In the end, Qiuye just said that when he settles down, he should remember to tell him his new address and go to play with him.
From the beginning to the end, he never asked Yan Laixi what he planned to do since all the documents were missing.It is not impossible to reissue it, but it will be very troublesome, and Yan Laixi should not be able to spare so much energy now.As for going back to get it… Qiuye knew that Yan Laixi not only didn’t want to see Chi Fu now, but probably didn’t even want to see the home full of shared memories.
Besides, Yan Laixi might delay it on purpose to resolve the document issue later so that he can stay with Feng Su longer.
Although this Feng Su didn’t recognize him, at least, this Feng Su would not forget him every day.
When Feng Su came back, Yan Laixi had just swept the floor and was packing up the broom and dustpan. When he saw someone coming back, he subconsciously pretended to have done nothing.
It’s strange. At this time, ordinary people would naturally complete the next action, or wait for the other person’s gratitude or praise. Otherwise, they would be worried about whether they would offend someone if they touched something without permission. But what Yan Laixi was worried about was that he was afraid that the other person would think that he did it to him on purpose.
He acted as if nothing had happened, but in reality the nail of his thumb had already been covered and quietly closed on the inside of the second knuckle of his middle finger.
Fortunately, Feng Su just thanked him casually and asked him if there was anything he felt uncomfortable about.
He didn’t say that you were still sick and just rested and didn’t need to help with the work. He didn’t pay too much attention to this matter and thanked him for it. By accident, he hit that weird spot that made Yan Laixi feel at ease.
Feng Su handed the things in his hand to Yan Laixi and motioned for him to take them into the house. He took down the sign saying business was closed, took off his coat, and followed him in.
He brought the food back and put it on the small table in the lounge. Probably considering that Yan Laixi was still having a fever, it was light and easy to digest food.
In response, Yan Laixi breathed a sigh of relief.
Two different kinds of porridge, egg custard, steamed pumpkin, steamed fish belly, a small wonton and a stir-fried green leafy vegetable.At least it doesn’t make him sick to his stomach just looking at it, and half of it is stuff he ate.
Normally it’s fine, but if he were forced to swallow something he didn’t want to eat now, he might spit it out in one bite.
The lid of the lunch box with a layer of water vapor condensed on the inside was opened. Feng Su placed the pumpkin, vegetables and fish in the middle, and pushed the egg custard to the Yan Laixi side.The patient said before that he had no appetite, and he didn’t know what the other person’s taste was like, so he thought that he could just have a light meal together, and buy a few more things so that others could choose from.
He asked Yan Laixi: “Do you like salty or sweet food?”
Yan Laixi didn’t realize what he was asking and said, “It must be salty.”
A very useful question. If you ask Yan Laixi directly if he wants pumpkin porridge or shredded chicken porridge, even if he doesn’t drink pumpkin porridge, he will say both are fine.
Feng Su brought the wontons and porridge to Yan Laixi, put the spoon in his hand, and said, “The stomach cannot be empty all the time. If you still have no appetite, eat less.”
Yan Laixi nodded obediently, thought for a while, and picked up the small bowl of egg custard.
Although there was only one copy, Feng Su put it on his side, so it should be for him, right?
He was afraid that he would vomit it out in the middle of eating. Egg custard was undoubtedly the best food on the table to swallow and the kindest food to him.
Feng Su sat across from him, watching Yan Laixi holding a small bowl in one hand and scooping up a bit of yellow, pudding-like egg custard with a spoon in the other hand. He slowly brought it to his mouth, blew it patiently, then opened his mouth and sipped it into his mouth, thinking to himself, what a gentle person.
He originally thought that eating, something like watching cats and dogs eat, could bring joy to humans. He didn’t expect that there were humans who could do this. This was the first time he had seen people eating so beautifully.