let me look at you

Chapter 7 Life is Stillness
You see, lions and tigers are always moving, they can live for decades at most, but turtles shrink back and forth, they can live for 1 years.This disease gave me an epiphany, life lies in...

Han Shu had a bad cold.Zhu Xiaobei felt deeply guilty for the fact that he ran away that day, so he specially called him to invite him to dinner to express his apology, and only then did he detect it from his thick nasal voice.

At that time, Han Shu had already taken sick leave for a day at home, Zhu Xiaobei saw that he had no intention of coming out, so he had a conscience and proposed to visit his residence at the risk of being infected.Han Shu coughed for a while, but did not refuse her kindness.

The place where Han Shu lived was very close to where he worked. Although Zhu Xiaobei had never been there, she had heard of the real estate that was enthusiastically sought after by the bourgeois sentimentalists.Xiaobei thinks this place fits Han Shu's aesthetic taste very well, and he can't wait to carve a narcissus in his hair.If it were her, she wouldn't use this price to buy a place like a pigeon cage in a prime location. With this money, she might as well buy a piece of land in the countryside, raise vicious dogs, and raise slaves.

Taking the elevator up to the top floor, Zhu Xiaobei heard Han Shu's light cough from an open door without looking for it.She murmured in her heart: "This guy doesn't even close the door." She yelled loudly, "Han Shu, I'm going in."

She pushed open the door, and Han Shu had already walked to the door. He was dressed in homely clothes and was still too tidy, but the tip of his nose was slightly red, and there were many bloodshot eyes in his usually smiling eyes, and his eye sockets were slightly sunken. clear.

"Here we come. Sorry, there are people at home, so I didn't go down to pick you up." Han Shu smiled and invited Zhu Xiaobei into the room.

As Zhu Xiaobei walked in, she looked around curiously at this place that she had planned to visit, but never came to.

"Small, the taste is not so-so, but you are a bachelor who lives so carefully, it's a bit too much." She reached out and touched an incomprehensible ornament on the entrance cabinet.

"Don't tell me, I personally picked everything here. What I see is the most important thing. I've wanted to invite you to sit down for a long time. I haven't had a chance. If you take the initiative to come to see me today, you still have a chance to see me." Conscience." Han Shu joked with a hoarse voice.

Zhu Xiaobei heard the sound of someone walking in the room, so she poked her head out of curiosity, and it turned out that someone was installing the curtains, so she asked curiously: "Hey, I only heard you say that you would change the bed sheets that day, but you didn't say that the curtains were also installed." Change it. Does this thing need to be changed so frequently? There are still many people in Africa who have no clothes to wear."

Han Shu brought her something to drink: "Don't say these things are useless, didn't you come to visit the sick? Did you come up empty-handed? Don't count on you for the good soup to heal the sick, there must be a bouquet of flowers."

Zhu Xiaobei waved his hand: "I'm not afraid that there are too many little sisters visiting you, and the flowers are all piled up in the toilet, so it's not the icing on the cake. I just brought a heart and came here enthusiastically."

Han Shu pretended to be disgusted, but he was still amused by Zhu Xiaobei: "Don't tell me, people who want to send flowers can be piled up in a pile, and they can take an adult ladder to hang down from the top floor to the first floor. I don't care about others." Let her come home."

"Honour, honor." Zhu Xiaobei couldn't sit still, stood up again and looked around, "tsk tsk" in his mouth, "...this coffee table is good... Oh, you also have this set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I was on XX Road that time I also saw it, it’s too expensive, I’m not willing to buy it... My mother, I like this matryoshka too..."

The small things in Han Shu's house are many but not messy, they are all childish gadgets, Zhu Xiaobei didn't expect him to be keen on collecting them with a childlike innocence, and happily looked at them one by one.But to be honest, Han Shu tends to give people the feeling that he is especially attractive to girls, but although he lives in a refined place, there is really no trace of a woman's life.

Han Shu was obviously refreshed to find someone with similar interests, and he didn't know whether it was due to illness or other reasons. His depressed mood dissipated a lot, so he dragged Zhu Xiaobei to see his other "babies" ".

"Look at this, it's the one on hand. I only have two of the QOO dolls that Coca-Cola launched last year. I found them on the Internet. They're not worth much, but I just think they're fun... The bronze doll from World of Warcraft next to it is said to be only released in China. I bought 64 of them, and I managed to get them. The price of this 007 toy car has risen a lot..."

Seeing Zhu Xiaobei lovingly picking up a teddy bear and fiddling with its limbs, he said, "This is the year I just started working. My unit sent me to Hong Kong for inspection, and the people in my company went crazy for watches and perfumes." , I brought this back. They are the ones who don't know the goods. Did you see that the buttons on this teddy bear's clothes are black. Only the earlier versions will look like this. The tags on its ears indicate It was made in Oxfordshire, and there are about 5 pieces in the world, which cost me more than half a month's salary at the time."

"It's quite interesting, haha, Han Shu, you must not have grown up mentally, but you don't even like Barbie dolls." Zhu Xiaobei said, waving the bear.

Han Shu laughed: "What are you talking about, I just think these are fun, don't treat me as a psychopath. I also think this teddy bear is quite feminine. Since you like it, I will give it to you. I have saved it For many years, you have to treat it well."

"I don't have the guts to win people's love, haha, but it doesn't seem right for me to be polite to you, thank you." Zhu Xiaobei was holding the bear in his arms, and glanced sharply at the cabinet behind the bear There was also a long and narrow box inside, so he asked curiously: "Han Shu, what other treasures are you hiding? Don't hurry up and offer them, or these treasures will be so lonely."

When Han Shu saw the box, he was obviously taken aback.

"It's inconvenient, forget it, let me just talk about it." Zhu Xiaobei said contentedly while holding her new teddy bear.

Han Shu said: "I even forgot what was in it. Some boxes I brought over when I moved house, and some things I don't need, haven't been unpacked until now."

"Aren't you like a rich man with a lot of money, who doesn't even know how many boxes of gold there are? Maybe there is something good in it. Would you like me to unveil its 'mysterious veil' for you? Of course, I mean if you don't If you object." When Zhu Xiaobei said this, his eyes were on Han Shu, but his hand had already touched the edge of the paper box.

Seeing that she was about to move, Han Shu threatened, "Maybe there is evidence of my sleepwalking killing."

Zhu Xiaobei disagreed: "Grandma, I love this one."

While talking, Zhu Xiaobei took apart the cardboard box that was simply wrapped with sealing tape. When he opened the box, Zhu Xiaobei deliberately looked at Han Shu's expression. His surprise and surprise were not fake.

Inside the box is an old badminton racket, the strings are still well preserved, but the handle is strangely wrapped with a long circle of white tape, which is covered with names signed in various colors of ink, and the edge of the tape has been slightly rolled When it gets up, the color is also slightly yellow, and it looks like it has aged.

Like Han Shu, Zhu Xiaobei is very keen on badminton, so he is also a person who knows the goods.She grabbed the racket and looked around: "Wow, old Kenneth's racket is not less than ten years old. I think back then, our national players took a shot with each hand. When I first started learning badminton in junior high school, I always fantasized about myself. Holding this too, how majestic it is on the court. However, my mother is so stingy, I know she will never buy it for me. Let me just say that you had a happy childhood."

Perhaps anyone who sees his old things will add a lot of emotion, Han Shu also followed Zhu Xiaobei's words and said in a daze: "Yes, this is the biggest gift that the old man gave back then. Now Kenneth is dead, You can hardly find it in the market." He seemed to want to touch the strings on the beat lightly like Zhu Xiaobei, but for some reason, his fingertips were about to touch them, and he retracted them.

Zhu Xiaobei carefully studied the signature on the handle, and it seemed that they were some messages from his classmates back then: "It seems that you were pretty cool back then."

"Fuck you, I'm pretty cool now." Han Shu pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, "Put it back, it's just an old racket, there's nothing to see, it's probably hidden here, or we should dispose of it long ago gone."

"Don't say it lightly. This is my student's dream. It's very meaningful. Han Shu, if not, I'll give it back to you. You can give me this racket. Anyway, you don't take it seriously. Now this one is here. You can’t buy it outside.”

Zhu Xiaobei put the teddy bear on the table involuntarily, and happily held the racket in his hand and gesticulated.

"Han Shu, how about this look?"

"No, no!"

Han Shu's fierce reaction stunned Zhu Xiaobei for a few seconds.He quickly realized his gaffe, laughed remedially, and said hoarsely: "I'm sorry, Xiaobei. I thought about it, there are some signatures of my old classmates on the racket, I should probably keep it... ...I have a friend who still has several Kenneth rackets in his hand. Otherwise, I will definitely get you one, which is definitely better than mine...The nesting doll just now, if you like it, you can also take it with the bear Go back, I don't seem to have sent you anything yet."

Zhu Xiaobei came to his senses, and elbowed Han Shu knowingly and righteously: "Are you kidding, I really thought I was going to steal your baby, why are you talking about that? Here, put it back, and keep it well."

Han Shu took the racket, smiled apologetically, and put it back into the original paper box. Zhu Xiaobei had already torn off the sealing tape on the paper box. The bottom end of the unsealed box fell out, skimmed the edge of the display case, and landed on the dark blue carpet.

Zhu Xiaobei hurriedly reached out to grab it, but it was barely enough, she knelt down to pick it up, and said, "My god, it's a good thing it didn't hit the hard floor, what a pity it broke. .”

She felt distressed, but she knew that due to the soft cushioning of the carpet, the racket would never be damaged, so when she held the racket in her hand again, she noticed fine scratches on the edge of the strings and the handle When it was scratched, I couldn't help being taken aback. I checked it again and again, only to find that those scratches and scratches seemed to be some years old, and it couldn't be caused by the drop to the ground just now, so I breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Xiaobei thought to himself, he didn't notice just now that the other parts of this racket are so well preserved, Han Shu is obviously a person who cherishes things, and he doesn't know how a good racket can get such a scar.

"Here, Han Shu...Han Shu? I picked it up, but you don't want it? There are scars on the racket. Could it be that you were a young and Dangerous boy when you were young, and the racket is used to hit people?"

Han Shu smiled, but he was a little absent-minded. It is not good to take too much cold medicine, and there seemed to be some voices that should not exist in his ears.

"Go, go pick it up for me."

"Okay, as long as you want, ten thousand times is fine."

……

"Han Shu?"

"Oh, thank you."

The racket was dusty and returned to its place, and the young boy who installed the curtains in the room also came out.Zhu Xiaobei noticed that the installation worker was also wearing a familiar orange uniform and vest. It seemed that it was just over a week before Han Shu visited the fabric shop again.

The little worker looked like a boy who came to work in the city from the countryside. He packed up his tools, walked up to Han Shu, rubbed his hands, and said to Han Shu, "Sir, it's like this. I've already given the curtains Hello, it is installed. This is indeed the one you picked up in the store yesterday. We will not make a mistake. Really, we will not deceive you. Also, our store manager is not responsible for the installation, so she Generally, I don’t go to the customer’s home for service, and she may not be in the store every day. I’ll go back and tell her about your previous comments. The store will contact you if there is any problem. I’m only responsible for the installation. No, sorry."

Zhu Xiaobei glanced at Han Shu, Han Shu seemed to be choked by a breath in his throat which was already sensitive due to a cold, and he coughed violently on his side, and even the base of his ears were flushed.After finally slowing down, he said to the little worker: "I see, you can go back, thank you."

After Xiaogong left, Zhu Xiaobei poked his head in from the bedroom door to look at the newly installed curtains. The glossy and textured fabric with abstract lines matched the overall style of the room just right.Zhu Xiaobei was a little puzzled: "I don't think there is any problem."

Han Shu was a little uncomfortable: "I just felt that what I saw yesterday was a bit different, so I asked the child casually."

Zhu Xiaobei's expression was exaggerated: "You are really good at it. Didn't I hear that you went to the hospital to get an IV drip yesterday? You still didn't forget to pick out the curtains. I admire you."

Han Shu pulled her back to the side of the sofa: "Don't talk about that, you are so kind, you came to see me, and you haven't even had a sip of water. I can't cook a big meal today, why don't we go downstairs to eat later, I know there is a good place, and it will definitely not infect you."

Zhu Xiaobei smiled and said: "I think so too, but there are still some things to be done in the school laboratory tonight, and the department will be willing to squeeze me into a human skin. I'm not saying that this meal is just forgot, Remember first, invite me to have a good meal next time. I'm leaving."

Han Shu showed a disappointed expression, and sent Zhu Xiaobei to the door.

"Be careful when you go back, don't catch a cold like me."

"I have a cold? I haven't seen a doctor for ten years, and I'm as strong as a cow. On the contrary, you, I don't understand, you are also a person who exercises regularly, why are you so careless, a small cold put you Make it like this."

"Haven't you heard that the more people who exercise regularly, the more likely they are to get sick? You see, lions and tigers are always exercising. They can live for decades at most, but turtles can live for 1 years. This disease gave me an epiphany, life lies in..."

"Life lies in stillness, life lies in shrinking."

Zhu Xiaobei said the last sentence with Han Shu almost in unison.

Han Shu rubbed his face with his knuckles in bewilderment, "Is that why we are so connected?"

"Forget it. It's just that I also heard this point of view from a friend, because it's too 'unique', so I always remember it. Who did you hear it from? It seems that there are more than one person with such a personality."

Han Shu paused for a moment, then shrugged: "It's been too long, I don't remember."

(End of this chapter)