Temporary cohabitation

Chapter 10 I said chapter counts.

After finishing the housework in the morning, the afternoon is spent on work.Afraid that Ren Mingyao would have to use the computer at night, Cheng Shi had to compress his daily working hours into a few hours in the afternoon. Jump repeatedly.

At this time, Cheng Xiaojun's obedience and quietness helped a lot.When he was working in the study, the kid always sat quietly on the sofa chair next to the bookshelf to take a nap or play with his own—as long as he occupied both hands, he could play with an orange all afternoon, which made him so Zhou's work efficiency is unprecedentedly high.

A week passed, and that evening he received a call from the landlord, saying that the water had receded and he was told to go back and tidy up his room.The shops on the first floor were completely flooded, but it was okay for him to live on the third floor. At most, it was a little damp from the rain, so he could clean up and move on without delay.

Cheng Shi thanked him, turned off the computer after the phone call, put away the digital tablet, and tidied up the whole study by the way.

Ren Mingyao's bookshelves are full, but most of them are new books, and they are basically gifts from his screenwriters and writer friends.Others didn't even have time to open the plastic packaging, so they were put on the bookshelf first.

The bookshelf is a beautiful mahogany color. In addition to the upper display cabinet, there is a row of drawers underneath.Cheng Shi only cleaned the floor and bookshelves in the previous few cleanings. He glanced at it today and thought that if it was left unopened for too long, there would be a musty smell. It would be good to open it to dry, so he pulled it out.

The orange sunset passed through the window.The long drawer was pulled open, and the inside was empty, only an old cardboard box was placed on the side, and "x10" was written on the upward side with an oil-based pen, and the smooth handwriting reflected the light in the setting sun.

Cheng Shi was stunned.The box was not sealed, and he seemed to be tempted. He removed the cardboard on the top and saw the colorful cover on the top. It was a cartoon with a very old style.

He is very familiar with this cartoon.Pick it up and put it aside, there are two or three volumes at the bottom, a whole box, all of which are comics that he has read with his own hands.

He has been fond of reading comics since he was in junior high school, and as long as he can save [-] cents, he can't wait to go to a second-hand bookstore to buy a copy.But it is impossible for the family to allow him to secretly save money to buy comic books. If he wants to but dare not take them home, he can only ask Ren Mingyao to keep them.

In fact, most of them were bought by Ren Mingyao.Ren Mingyao's family conditions are very good. Because his parents divorced and it was inconvenient to talk to anyone, he went back to his grandfather's house. He usually gets three pocket money, which is enough.When they bought it, they said they would read it together, but he knew that Ren Mingyao didn't like reading comics that much, and he was more interested in helping his friends secretly.

After he left home in the third year of high school, he never thought of these comic books, but Ren Mingyao kept them until now, and even brought them here after he bought a new house.

Cheng Shi put back the manga, closed the box and pushed the drawer in.

That night when Ren Mingyao came back for dinner, he didn't mention it, but silently added an extra poached egg to the bottom of the chicken noodle bowl.

Cheng Xiaojun went to bed early as usual.Children sleep a lot and can sleep more than ten hours a day.Cheng Shi lay beside him and didn't dare to play with his mobile phone, so he simply got up and went out, and gently closed the door.

The lights were still on in the living room, and the TV was replaced by a projection screen. Ren Mingyao was lying on the sofa watching a movie as if he had no bones, his long legs took up the three-seater sofa, and his ankles were still dangling.

There was no sound from the movie at all.From the corner of his eye, he saw Cheng Shi walking out of the room. He didn't react too much, he just bent one leg, symbolically freeing up a seat that could barely accommodate one person.

He didn't expect Cheng Shi to sit down - he probably just came out for a drink of water or something.These days, except when eating, Cheng Shi rarely walked out of the bedroom door, and said everything at the dinner table, and basically didn't see each other the rest of the time, and lived their own lives.

But Cheng Shi really walked towards him, and sat down in the seat he reserved for one person, sitting with his knees together in a good manner, "I haven't thanked you enough for being willing to take us in at such a critical time."

Suddenly came such a sentence.Ren Mingyao raised his eyebrows, "When you grow up, you are so polite."

"Hey...you're only half a year older than me, okay?"

Cheng Shi smiled and said, "Why are you talking to me in such an elder tone?"

"That's not about taking them in. Everyone takes what they need."

"Well, I have something to tell you."

Cheng Shi paused for a moment before speaking, "Can I stay here until... May? Because, I have a time deposit, and I can't use it until May."

His idea is very simple, Ren Mingyao has already transferred 2000 yuan to him, so he must at least finish this month's housework before he can leave.

In fact, even if Ren Mingyao didn't show up, he planned to find another place to live after getting the deposit.Afterwards, Cheng Xiaojun grew bigger and bigger, and needed more and more things, which could not be accommodated in a single room.

I originally planned to leave after staying for this month.But watching him watching a movie on the sofa alone, somehow he blurted out that it was May.Cheng Shi thought, it would be good to leave again in May, when the money is abundant, he can just find a good house and move there, and there is no need to go back and forth.

When he came back to his senses, Ren Mingyao said reservedly, "Yes."

He was inexplicably relieved, "Thank you, Boss Ren."

"...Aren't you going to sleep with Cheng Xiaojun?"

"fine."

Cheng Xiaojun has adapted to the environment here, and he doesn't wake up very often at night.Cheng Shi said, "I'll stay with you for a while. What are you looking at?"

"I don't know. I've forgotten the title."

Ren Mingyao retracted his feet, sat up cross-legged, and rubbed the back of his head sleepily, "The plot is a bit boring."

It was a movie for him to use for inspiration. Jiang Lele strongly recommended it. He said it was very classic and touching. After watching it for half an hour, he just thought it was old-fashioned.

"The background of the story is on the high school campus, and the filming location is quite similar to our school, and the school uniform is also similar." Ren Mingyao yawned and touched the teacup, "Probably the same in the whole country."

After dinner, Cheng Shi made him fruit tea and warmed it with a small ceramic stove.He poured a glass and stretched out his arms to pass it over. Cheng Shi waved his hand, "No need."

"Tsk," Ren Mingyao said, "I hate you."

He was watching a movie alone, and there was only one cup on the small coffee table. "Yeah, I haven't had a sip yet."

Cheng Shi looked at the projection screen in embarrassment, still waved his hands, and changed the subject, "No, I don't really want to drink sweets at night...you go on, what did you see?"

Ren Mingyao stared at him for two seconds, then put the fruit tea back on the coffee table, "Forgot."

"..."

"My mind has been wandering."

Mainly because he is not interested in the plot.Cheng Shi nodded, and asked after a while, "Then do you have any habit of drawing videos? I also study storyboards when I draw comics... Occasionally, I also learn by drawing pictures."

"Me? Don't play it the first time, just watch it." Ren Mingyao said casually, "Take yourself as an audience first, and don't rush to analyze it. It's not too late to study the skills after the second and third times. "

Cheng Shi showed a dazed expression, and turned to look at him with a smile: "So that's the case, thank you Teacher Ren for your guidance."

"..."

It's normal for others to call you "Teacher Ren", whether you're being polite or joking, but why does he call it "Teacher Ren" with a bit of...

Can't tell.Ren Mingyao cleared his throat uncomfortably, his voice tensed, "Watch your movie."

"Oh."

Cheng Zhi concentrated on watching the movie.

He quite likes watching this kind of campus theme, and he has also painted the youthful stories of young people's hearts, and the atmosphere is bright and breezy.But today this movie is realistic, so it is a little heavy.

One of the protagonists is a thin boy, gentle and weak, who is always teased by his classmates for looking like a little girl.

Ren Mingyao was thoughtful, "He looks a bit like you when you were in junior high school."

"..."

Cheng Shi muttered dissatisfiedly, "What a resemblance."

But he knew that Ren Mingyao was right.He looked like a girl when he was a child, especially when his body hadn't started to develop much in junior high school. He and another female classmate voted to play Snow White in a stage play on New Year's Day in the class. He got two more votes, which is outrageous.

Later, when I went to high school, I got better when I grew taller.

He still remembered that Ren Mingyao didn't vote for him at that time.

"Aren't you very annoyed that people say you look like a girl?"

Ren Mingyao said, "But the cross-dressing performance is indeed more interesting. I even took pictures and kept them in the computer folder. Do you want to watch it?"

"..."

Cheng Shi: "I don't want to."

Ren Mingyao was dragged to be the host of that party, so he managed to escape the casting of the stage play.And because he was able to stand very close to the stage, the angle of the photos he took was also the clearest. After the party, he selflessly shared all the photos with his classmates, leading to the fact that his history of women's clothing blackmail may still be circulated in the world. among those people.

It was too shameful just to think about it, and he hoped that he would never meet his classmates again in his life.

As for the culprit, he glanced at Ren Mingyao with displeasure.

If you have already encountered it, there is no other way.

Halfway through the movie, Ren Mingyao continued to watch with great interest.

He was planning to go back to his room with his fruit tea to play with his mobile phone, but after Cheng Shi came out, the movie suddenly became interesting.

Looking at it further, Cheng Shi's mood sank more and more.

The little protagonist's experience is indeed very similar to his.Perhaps the experience of encountering campus bullying is similar, and he has personally experienced a considerable part of the plots that appear in the movie.

Even the movie has added a beautified review filter, in reality what they said is not so nice.Boyfriend, sissy, and dirtier words are all there.It's not that he can't accept others saying that he looks like a girl, after all, part of it is stating the facts.But the word "sissy" humiliates him and women at the same time, with [-]% malice, it only exists for bullying.

After many years, seeing this kind of poor kid who doesn't understand anything and only bullies the weak and fears the tough, Cheng Shi wanted to pull them out of the movie and beat them up.

At the end of the plot, the protagonist stands on the edge of the roof, his thin body crumbling in the wind, and accuses the teachers and students who are watching from downstairs.Those faces that are used to in daily life all looked hideous.

None of those people stood up for him when he was being bullied.

"You are all murderers!"

After the young man finished speaking bitterly, he jumped off the roof without hesitation.

Cheng Shi closed his eyes subconsciously, feeling empty like he was riding a roller coaster.

Although the boy in the movie was caught by the life-saving air cushion downstairs and his life was not in danger, the powerlessness of weightlessness at that moment still made him feel a certain kind of desolation, as if he had danced with him.

The ending is a traditional reunion style. The heroine stepped forward and exposed everything. Teachers and classmates apologized to him one after another and opened their hearts, so a young soul was saved.

When the subtitles came up, Ren Mingyao smiled inexplicably.

Sounds derogatory.Cheng Shi originally wanted to say, "I also think the ending is too fake", but he didn't expect him to laugh at another point, "In order to appear profound, do we have to add the sentence 'all are murderers'?"

Ren Mingyao said, "That classmate is too unlucky."

He has seen too many arguments that "you are all murderers" and "onlookers are accomplices". He is already mentally fatigued and tired of watching, "If you can't even resist yourself, why do you blame others for not helping him? Of course others want to To protect yourself, just like him. It can be said to be cowardly, indifferent, but not guilty."

Cheng Shi turned his head to look at him in shock, as if looking at a villain without sympathy.

Ren Mingyao didn't take it seriously, and even continued to explain the plot, "Before it was his turn, that group of people bullied more than one student. Did he ever stand up for others when he saw irrelevant people being bullied? Like him Is that what you expect from others?"

"So why do you expect others to do it for you when you can't even do it yourself." After he finished speaking, he looked at Cheng Shi, "Don't you think so?"

Only then did Ren Mingyao realize that he sat up to make up half of the sofa, but Cheng Shi never moved closer to him, and was still sitting on the corner at the beginning.

"……No."

Cheng Shi withdrew his gaze, shook his head, got up and said in a low voice, "I'm going to sleep first."

**

Cheng Zhi was not very happy.Ren Mingyao could see it.

But he has always been a non-argumentative character from the beginning, and he will not say why when he is unhappy, and he has no chance to quarrel.

Ren Mingyao couldn't figure out whether the problem was with the movie or with his own film reviews.

After he finished speaking, he also asked Cheng Shi if he had any objections.Cheng Shi said "no", so it shouldn't be a problem with film critics.

Movie...too tragic?Too heavy?too dark?

The actor is not good-looking?

Shouldn't he mention that Cheng Shi was teased for looking like a girl when he was in school?

Why exactly.After Cheng Shi returned to the bedroom, he stared at the closed door and thought until late at night, and then went back to the bedroom to open his eyes until early morning.

It's not worth arguing about such a trivial matter, and I'll ask again after dawn.

He set the alarm clock, planned for the first time to get up and have breakfast, and solve the matter in the first ray of sunshine in the morning.Unexpectedly, his body still succumbed to the biological clock, he didn't hear the alarm clock at all, and it was almost noon when he woke up.

It's not a big problem, Cheng Shi is always at home anyway.

Ren Mingyao followed his habit, lying down and waking up for a while before getting up to wash up. The moment he walked out of the bedroom, he smelled the familiar smell of food in recent days, and felt that it was nothing serious.business as usual.

But when he walked to the table, he felt something was wrong.

Lunch is on.

People are gone.

According to past habits, Cheng Shi would sit at the table and take care of Cheng Xiaojun to eat nutritious meals for children.Today, only the three dishes and one soup on the dinner table still exist as usual, and the plates are turned upside down to keep warm.

Ren Mingyao squinted his eyes, turned around to lie on his side and knocked on the door, and the door opened with a little effort—it wasn't closed at all, and he walked in a hurry.

"... Cheng Zhi?"

He entered the room in a strange way.

The room is pretty much the same.Cheng Shi didn't have much stuff, and he didn't live for a long time. He spread the sheets and quilts, as if he had never been here.

Ren Mingyao walked around the room, but he couldn't see any personal belongings.There was only one set of pajamas hanging in the closet - the one he found for Cheng Shi.

Didn't even say hello again.

Walk cleanly.

Ren Mingyao stood in the empty room for a while, then walked out of the bedroom silently, and sat on the sofa to calm down.

The fruit tea on the small coffee table was from last night, and it was already cold.He picked up the cup and drank it down, feeling a dull pain in his stomach.

The living room is transparent from north to south, the curtains on one side are drawn tightly, but the sunlight comes in from the balcony on the other side, just hitting him.So half of his body was bathed in warmth, and half of his body was so cold that he was about to lose consciousness.

Which step went wrong, it will become like this.

He thought about this question eight years ago, but no one gave him an answer.The only person who could answer him reappeared eight years later to throw the same question in his face again.

The alarm clock that day seemed to have set the wrong time, and it only sounded in the evening.

When the sound of the door lock sounded, it took Ren Mingyao a few seconds to react, then he stood up abruptly and strode to the door.

Cheng Shi dragged his luggage with difficulty, and just as he opened the door, he almost stuck to him head-on. He was so scared that he took a half step back to stabilize his figure, "...what's wrong?"

Ren Mingyao looked at him without saying a word.

Cheng Xiaojun fell asleep on the taxi back.He was holding the child in one hand, and with the other hand he was dragging a large, heavy suitcase with a travel bag stacked on top of it, which was bulging.

"Where have you been?"

"Moving, I have some things packed and shipped tomorrow."

Bring a little more by yourself, and the cost of moving in the same city can be saved.Cheng Zhi said helplessly, "Let me in first, I can't hold it anymore."

Ren Mingyao stepped aside.

Cheng Shi ignored him for the time being, and put his luggage at the door. He went to settle the child down first, and then gently closed the door and exited the room, only to see him pushing the box over quietly.

"Is there anything you can do for me?" Cheng Shi asked tentatively.When he opened the door, his expression was a little anxious, "I can't find something? Why didn't you call me?"

"..."

forget.

"The one who pressed the note for you before I left is under the plate." Cheng Shi glanced at the dining table, "Have you not eaten yet?"

"..."

I really didn't eat it.

"I got up late and I'm not hungry yet."

Ren Mingyao struggled to find his expressive function, hesitant to speak.

"I thought you……"

For a moment, Cheng Shi seemed to understand what he was nervous about, and couldn't help laughing, "I said I would stay until May. I mean what I say."

The author has something to say:

Teacher Ren before returning x10: The tea is cold, and so am I

After x10 came back: Live, live this life for me (Super loud

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