Smells

Chapter 10

When he came to the door of the house, Xiao Chen suddenly realized something, and stopped at the door.

"What's wrong?" Yu Ying asked from behind.

Xiao Chen turned around and said, "Wait a minute, the room is a bit messy, I'll clean it up, wait for me for 3 minutes."

Yu Ying smiled: "What's the matter, I'm not here for inspection, are you still afraid that I'll dislike you?"

Xiao Chen was really afraid that Yu Ying would dislike him. Although the phrase "women are those who please themselves" is not appropriate here, it can basically describe Xiao Chen's mental state at the moment.

Showing the bad side of life to the sweetheart, people are afraid of this kind of thing at any age, Xiao Chen feels like a young boy who is just in love, eager to cover up his messy life.

"You wait for a while." Xiao Chen's voice was a little heavy, with a little anxiety in his tone.

Yu Ying smiled and said "um", "Okay."

Xiao Chen opened the door and entered the house, but shut Yu Ying out.In fact, there is nothing special to clean up in the house. Although he usually lives a rough life, it may be caused by an occupational disease. He has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, and everything is placed neatly everywhere.

In addition to a pile of eaten vacuum cans and instant noodle boxes on the coffee table, there are also cigarette butts in the ashtray.

Xiao Chen tidied up hastily and put the garbage into the garbage bag.

When Xiao Chen opened the door again, Yu Ying was looking down at the phone, he raised his head, his eyes sparkling: "Okay?"

Xiao Chen panted lightly: "Okay."

Yu Ying jokingly said: "Seeing you were so nervous just now, I thought you were afraid of being discovered by me."

"I live alone now." Xiao Chen said.

"Now?" Yu Ying accurately grasped the key information in the words, he turned his head, and when he looked down, he saw many women's shoes in the shoe cabinet.

"I was divorced." Xiao Chen didn't want to hide it at all, "I lived with my ex-wife before."

Yu Ying was slightly stunned, and nodded: "That's it."

Xiao Chen's eyes flicked across his face, trying to capture some emotion, but unfortunately found nothing.

I don't know what he is thinking at all. Although this person has clear eyes, it is difficult to perceive his emotions.

"Sit down wherever you want." Xiao Chen said, "What do you want to drink?"

"Mineral water will do."

Xiao Chen opened the refrigerator, looked at the big empty ice box, and sighed secretly: Fortunately, it was only mineral water, and he didn't have anything else.

Xiao Chen seldom worked in the living room. When Yu Ying got up to go to the bathroom, he caught a glimpse of the blueprints and architectural models in his studio. He asked, "Are you an architect?"

"Well. I don't know anything else. I need to build a house. Find me."

Yu Ying laughed: "Okay, remember to give me a discount then."

Yu Ying walked into the bathroom, where the traces of another person's existence were heavier and more obvious.Toothbrushes, cups, and towels are for two people. Through these daily necessities, Yu Ying seems to be able to get a glimpse of Xiao Chen's life before the divorce.

Many doubts arose in his mind, and he was full of doubts and urgently needed an outlet.

Yu Ying turned on the faucet and rinsed her hands, staring at her fingertips, trying not to pay attention to the women's accessories that filled the room.

Xiao Chen was sitting on the sofa, looking in the direction of the bathroom from time to time.

long time.

The things that Xiang Lin left behind must have been thoroughly seen by that person.

It was because he was too lazy to clean up, and had been waiting for Xiang Lin to deal with her things by herself.

Ask, why not ask?

Xiao Chen frowned slightly, but he hoped that the person would be more curious, throw away the so-called educated demeanor, and dig into his privacy.

Yu Ying came out of the bathroom and sat down beside Xiao Chen.

The atmosphere is actually a bit embarrassing, because the reason for looking for it this time is a bit far-fetched. Isn't it a better choice to find a flower art teacher directly to help with flower art courses?

Even Yu Ying felt a little uncomfortable, holding the mineral water bottle with both hands and didn't know how to speak.

"Actually, I only listened to the superficial about the flower art class," Yu Ying said, "I can't tell you much."

Xiao Chen said "hmm": "Then talk about something else."

Yu Ying thinks she is a talkative person, but at the moment it is like a gramophone with a cassette, the sound is stuck in her throat and cannot come out.

Xiao Chen's condition was not very good either, he sighed in his heart, his social phobia faintly flared up, he tensed up, and suddenly stood up.

Yu Ying was startled by him and looked up at him.

"I'm going to smoke a cigarette." Xiao Chen took out the cigarette case from his pocket and walked to the balcony.

Yu Ying exhaled lightly, and began to look at the room while relaxing.

It's different from what he imagined. The architect's house he imagined should be full of creativity and art, full of architectural models, or blueprints flying all over the sky.But this place is like an ordinary person's residence, simple and clean, if there are no dazzling women's products, this place will definitely look like a model house.

There is a framed photo on the TV cabinet, which is a photo of Xiao Chen and a boy. In the photo, Xiao Chen should be young, with an immature and green face.

"Brother, do you have a younger brother?" Yu Ying turned to ask Xiao Chen.

"Huh?" Xiao Chen turned his head and saw Yu Ying pointing at the person in the photo, "Well, it's my cousin, my aunt's son."

Xiao Chen just stood by the window, with a cigarette between two fingers, and lightly puffed at the night. His eyes were slightly squinted, his eyes were not focused, and he was looking at a certain place absently.

His physique is not strong, but he is very tall, standing there slightly sideways, giving people a sense of loneliness isolated from everything.

This feeling came suddenly, without any warning.

Yu Ying wondered if he was in a bad mood.

"Brother Chen." Yu Ying silently walked behind Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen bit his cigarette and turned his head, his facial features were covered by the lingering smoke.

"Can you give me one?" Yu Ying asked him for a cigarette.

Xiao Chen took out one from the cigarette case and handed it to him. Just as he was about to take the lighter, someone grabbed his arm, and then he leaned forward, and the sparkling cigarette butt touched the one in Yu Ying's mouth.

Sparks flickered, Yu Ying bit the cigarette and inhaled lightly: "Thank you."

Xiao Chen swallowed involuntarily.

When this man was smoking a cigarette, the ruffian energy was revealed again, matching with the small scar at the end of his eye, it was vividly revealed.

"What's wrong with you?" Yu Ying looked at him and asked softly, "I feel that you are in a bad mood."

"It's nothing, I just thought of my brother." Xiao Chen looked out the window, was silent for a few seconds, and said softly, "He died when he was very young."

Probably at Jiang Yan's age, Xiao Chen couldn't help but think of him when he saw Jiang Yan in "Bu Yu".

"Sick?"

"Well, bone cancer."

"You... live with your aunt and the others?"

"Well, my parents died very early."

How did he die? ——Yu Ying didn't have the heart to ask.

"I lived with my brother for five years and he passed away when he was 16."

Xiao Chen remembered that he was in his third year of high school at that time, and the last period of Qin Chu's life was spent every day in the hospital. Xiao Chen didn't dare to go to the hospital, so he was sent away in this place surrounded by white walls. His parents, now they want to watch his brother leave, which is too cruel for him.

"I dare not go to the hospital with my aunt during the day, and sometimes I go to see him alone at night. In fact, I don't want him to know, but he can find me every time." Turned red, "He told me that he was in pain, that he didn't want to die so early, and that he couldn't provide for his parents after he died."

A cigarette was burnt out, and sparks burned Xiao Chen's index finger. He shook his hands, extinguished the cigarette and threw it into the trash can: "I think people are too fragile, and life and death are very simple."

"Yeah, life and death are really simple." Yu Ying replied, muttering, "It's just a thought."

"Another one?" Xiao Chen shook out a cigarette and handed it to Yu Ying, who took it and bit it into his mouth.

Xiao Chen lit the lighter, Yu Ying leaned over slightly, and lit the cigarette on the flame, the sparks reflected his eyes brightly.

"It doesn't matter." Yu Ying took a puff of cigarette, her voice was as calm as ever: "He must have a good life over there."

Xiao Chen hummed: "I've always felt that way."

After that, the two of them didn't talk anymore, they smoked quietly, the window was filled with smoke, intertwined with the vast night outside the window.

After a long silence, Xiao Chen suddenly said, "I like men."

Yu Ying paused with her hand holding the cigarette, and looked sideways at him.

The emotions in his eyes were complicated and unclear, and Xiao Chen couldn't distinguish his inner activities at the moment.

The topic changed so quickly that Xiao Chen couldn't even react after he said it.He just wanted to say it, and that's it.

Divorced status is really easy to misunderstand. Xiao Chen doesn't want Yu Ying to mistakenly think that he likes women, and the atmosphere at this moment is really easy for people to let go of their guard and reveal all their secrets.

Yu Ying hummed: "I guessed it."

Xiao Chen guessed that he should have seen it, but he was still a little surprised.

Yu Ying turned her head and glanced at him: "So, marriage is...?"

"It's not a cheating marriage." Xiao Chen said immediately.

Yu Ying lowered her head and smiled: "I know. Are you married?"

"That's right." Xiao Chen held a cigarette between his fingers, and the smoke he exhaled was round and round, neat and beautiful, "Her grandfather wanted to see her get married before he left, so we went to get a certificate for the sake of the old man."

"Will you be a little irresponsible to yourself?" Yu Ying's tone was light.

"At that time, it didn't matter." Xiao Chen said.

"now what?"

Xiao Chen replied, "There should be something to it."

If he could have foreseen the present, he might not have stamped the certificate with Xiang Lin so casually. After all, if he really pursued Yu Ying, the experience of divorce would be a dark history, which would hinder him.

Yu Ying didn't say a word, just smoked.

His arms were leaning against the window sill, his tense muscles were dormant under the shirt, wrapped in a sexy look that was about to come out.

The masculinity of this man is very strong. Although he looks gentle, he has a strong body and is taller than Xiao Chen. When he is not smiling, his thin lips are tightly pursed, and the scars at the end of his eyes are tense along with the muscle lines of his face. There was a sense of solemnity for no reason.

Xiao Chen felt that he was sexy even when he was not smiling, so he was fascinated, so he asked directly: "Are you single?"

Yu Ying was taken aback, nodded and said, "Well, single."

Xiao Chen also hummed, but didn't say anything more.Without talking about business, Xiao Chen felt that he had almost exposed himself, so he almost asked Yu Ying, "Do you like men, and should you consider dating".

Yu Ying is a smart person, Xiao Chen guessed that he must have sensed something, but he didn't say anything.His well-timed silence actually left enough room for the two of them. Some things, if you ask them too clearly, if you break them up and put them on the bright side, you will not know how to end them.

At this moment, pretending to be deaf and dumb is the most appropriate choice.