sleepless tonight

Chapter 14 Milk Fragrance
I was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

"Did you buy the binoculars just because you wanted to see Yu Lu in a vest?" Tang Wan asked me.

"How is it possible? I don't feel that way about Yu Lu at all. Even if she takes off her clothes, I won't have the slightest reaction." I denied it.

"You still want to see her naked?" Logan looked at me.

"I'm just making a metaphor." I sneered, and reached for the old bed sheet Logan mentioned, "Give it to me."

Logan twisted her shoulders: "I'm not that delicate, I can lift it."

"But it's not appropriate, don't you see that everyone passing by is looking at you?" I said.

"What's inappropriate?" Logan asked.

I sighed, glanced at Logan, feeling a little sad in my heart, just like this night, the chill in the desertedness poured into my heart directly, giving me the urge to escape.

"You are a top student at Tsinghua University. You work in the business machine street. You are dressed as a white-collar worker with an outstanding temperament, but you are carrying an old bed sheet. Don't you think this style of painting is a bit out of place?" I said, "The thing you are carrying should be It's the purse."

I stretched out my hand again: "Give it to me."

"Don't touch me." Logan moved a little more violently this time, pulling a distance away from me, "I can carry whatever I want, you don't care."

Logan's face was a little gloomy, as if she was complaining about something, she was very emotional, and there was a trace of hatred in her eyes when she looked at me.

This made me a little dazed, thinking that I was wrong.

"I won't take it anymore, come over a little bit, there are cars over there, be careful." I comforted Logan.

Logan no longer walked side by side with me, but walked a step behind me.

Eight years ago, when we were in high school, Tang Wan and I used to walk like this. We walked from school to the supermarket in the city center. It took four stops and it took more than 20 minutes. We walked around the supermarket for nearly an hour, and finally bought her a Wrap marshmallows and a cup of bubble tea.

Then take the last bus and go back to school before the school gate closes.

The bus was empty, and she and I sat in the last two seats, she was leaning against the window, and I was beside her.

She is smiling.

But now, the smile is gone.

"I'm here." The road has no end, but the journey has an end. I stood at the gate of the community and said to Tang Wan, "I live here."

"En." Logan glanced at the neighborhood, and then fell silent.

I waited for a while, but Logan still lowered her head, as if thinking about something, holding the old bed sheet in her hand, holding it tightly.

"Would you like to sit down for a while?" I said.

Tang Wan raised her head: "I'll go up, aren't you afraid that your wife will misunderstand you?"

I fell silent, and Tong Wangjun separated from me. Naturally, I wasn't worried that she might misunderstand, but at this time I didn't want to bring up the matter of divorce either.

"We're just classmates, she's not that stingy." I said, avoiding divorce.

I don't know why I don't want to mention divorce in front of Logan, maybe I feel ashamed.

"It seems that you have found a good wife, so congratulations." Logan gave me the old bed sheet in her hand, "If it were me, I wouldn't rest assured that you are with another woman."

"That's why I married Tong Wangjun, not you." I said with a smile, thinking that this answer was quite humorous.

But I didn't want Logan's face to turn cold all of a sudden, and she stared at me resentfully.

"What's wrong?" I panicked, did I say the wrong thing, "I was just joking."

"Can marriage be joked about? Is this how you approach marriage?" Tang Wan reprimanded me, "You are such a scumbag, I feel really sad for your wife."

Logan lost her temper.

She never swears, only when she is in a hurry, she will say the word scum.

Back in high school, I took advantage of the cover of night to hold Logan's hand and even made a gesture to hug her. She said these two words to me and threw the pearl milk tea I bought for her directly into the trash can.

It was also at that time that I felt that Logan didn't like me and just regarded me as a friend of the opposite sex.

"Let me hail a taxi for you." I didn't mention this topic again, at this moment, I think Logan doesn't want to see me anymore.

"I have hands and feet, so I don't need you to stop me." Logan turned her head and left.

She didn't stop the car at the gate of the community, but went back along the way we had come.

I looked at her back, and I was a little worried. In this kind of night, if she is not accompanied by others, will something happen to her?
I wanted to follow her and watch her get into the car, but I turned around and left.

Chen Ke at home is still waiting for me to go back and cook.

"Dad, why are you back now?" Chen Ke was doing homework alone, when he heard the noise, he ran to my side, "Wow, Dad, are you shopping for vegetables again? It smells so good, is it beef?"

"Well, beef, green pepper beef." I put Xiao Le down, "Take your sister to play for a while, and I'll wash the dishes and cook for you."

"I've already washed it." Chen Ke said, and then pulled Chen Le aside to play.

When I got to the kitchen, looking at the clean and neatly arranged dishes, Chen Ke was teaching Xiao Le how to count outside, and I couldn't help feeling guilty.

I ate and drank outside, poor Chen Ke waited at home for so long.

After sweeping to the packaged meals, my guilt became more intense, and it gathered in my chest, making me breathless.

A meal cost 1000 yuan, which is enough to buy two cans of high-end imported milk powder for Xiao Le, and two good sets of clothes for Chen Ke. If it is for grocery shopping, it is enough for my father and daughter to eat for a month.

My heart hurts.

He heated up the food and brought it out.

"A Ke, you eat first." I set the table and chopsticks for Chen Ke.

"Okay." Chen Ke nodded, and ran to wash his hands, "Father is so kind, I bought beef specially for me to eat, and I will tell my mother when she comes."

I'm a little ashamed.

"Xiao Le, that's your sister's homework book, don't tear it up." I caught sight of Chen Le grabbing the homework book and babbling vigorously. I ran over in a hurry, picked up Chen Le, and snatched it from her hand. exercise book.

Chen Ke ran over with a bowl in his hand: "My homework book was broken, so I finished my homework."

"It's okay, you eat first, and I'll glue you on later." I comforted Chen Ke.

Chen Ke muttered and sat at the dining table, his eyes still reading through the torn homework.

"Look, you did a good job. You tore up your sister's homework, and your hands are still moving?" I patted Chen Le's little hand and went out.

Chen Le's mouth shrank.

"Wow..." In an instant, Chen Le cried.

"Oh... oh..." I hurriedly hugged Chen Le in my arms and patted the back, "Don't cry, Xiao Le is good, Dad just scared you. Isn't it just a homework book, tear it up if you want, We are here to help your sister reduce the burden, it is a good deed, right?"

Chen Le was still crying, I knocked on the door of the woman next door while shaking my steps slightly.

"What's wrong?" The woman opened the door, glanced at me, and then saw Chen Le, "Why did you make her cry?"

"She tore up Ake's homework, and I frightened her, and that's it." I smiled wryly, "You haven't eaten yet, I packed and ordered food, if you don't mind, come here together Let's eat."

"Hold her for me, you are too, she is a child, she can't speak, what can she understand?" The woman gave me a sideways glance, slapped her chin, and wanted to hug Chen Le.

"She doesn't necessarily want you," I said.

During the meal, Chen Le cried in Yu Lu's arms, and then she leaned on me and refused to get off.

"Come on, sister give me a hug." The woman clapped her hands again and said to Xiao Le.

I smiled: "You are too good at acting tender, you are all people with children, how did you become an older sister?"

The woman gave me a blank look: "Who told you that I have a child?"

I've seen this woman, but she still doesn't admit it. Could it be that she is a woman raised by a second generation who doesn't want to be known?

Thinking of this, I consciously didn't say any more.

Chen Le in his arms turned his head, glanced at the woman, and leaned towards her.

This is what it means to be hugged by a woman.

I was surprised, glanced at the woman's chest wrapped in a thin knitted sweater, could it be that Xiao Le was willing to be hugged by a woman because she smelled the fragrance of milk?

(End of this chapter)