Tang Rou sat on the floor next to the shelf and watched Yu Qing skillfully lock the glass door and fasten the top safety gate. Then she walked to the cashier, looked for the safety button under the counter, and pressed it.
The metal anti-breakdown door slowly lowered.
After doing all this, he raised his head and met Tang Rou's curious eyes, his face slowly turned red.
He raised his hand, put it to his lips, and coughed.
Tang Rou asked curiously, "Do you work here?"
Yu Qing shook his head.
He was singing in the bar next to him, and she obviously saw him.
Have you forgotten?
Thinking of the strange clothes I wore when singing in residence, the embarrassment filled the air again.
She asked again, "Then why are you so proficient in this process?"
Yu Qing was forced to pull away from the state of self-loathing, took a deep breath, and whispered, "There are often such trainings in the city. After a long time, you will remember them."
Seeing her confused look, he explained, "Because every time it rains, it will enter a state of emergency, so many emergency trainings have been organized in the city, and the safety doors of all stores are in fixed positions."
This is also the reason why disasters occur frequently in cities on the earth, but there are still living people.
After this sentence ended, the atmosphere between the two of them entered a brief stasis.
Yu Qing wanted to talk to her.
He quietly clenched his hands, not noticing that the unhealed wound was bleeding again, racking his brains to think of topics to break the silence.
Are you from outside?
Tang Rou nodded.
Yu Qing asked again, "Then... pay attention to safety. There is a free day every month. The so-called free day is..."
"I know." She interrupted softly, "You can kill people on Free Day, right?"
Such a terrible and cruel fact, she said it in an extremely calm tone, made Yu Qing a little at a loss.
The other party didn't seem to take it seriously. His warm eyes looked down and fell on his neck, and he seemed to pause for a moment.
Yu Qing didn't react for a moment, but soon realized that she saw the ambiguous red mark on her neck.
His whole body froze, the blood on his face faded, and he became as pale as paper. He raised his hands and grabbed his clothes and hat to cover his neck.
But some things are always like this, the more you panic, the worse it gets.
The soft rabbit ears hanging between the black hair just slipped out from the hood and were exposed to the other party's sight.
What's even worse is that it moved because of nervousness.
It's alive.
Yu Qing had never been more collapsed than now, exposing all his deformities and pathologies in the direct line of sight of the other party.
From the corner of his eye, he noticed that her eyes were wide open, whether it was curiosity or nausea.
He shrank back like a wounded rabbit, trying to hide himself.
It was so deformed that Yu Qing covered her face with her hood in despair, feeling embarrassed and inferior.
He is a product used by people to vent their desires.
It's a toy.
"Sorry, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
She spoke, her voice sounding calm and without any unnecessary emotion.
Yu Qing didn't even dare to listen to his next words.
"Excuse me, are you in a bad mood now? You smell very similar to someone I know."
"……What?"
Yu Qing stopped retreating.
"I don't mean any harm, but he also smells like you now. I don't know what happened to him. How do you feel now?"
She started saying strange things again.
But Yu Qing's despair eased, and she didn't ask her ears, nor did she cast a flirtatious look at the ambiguous kiss marks on her neck.
Yu Qing slowly let go of his hand and raised his eyes to look over.
The other party looked calm and nothing unusual.
"I smell...?"
After a moment of silence, he sniffed his clothes, thinking it was the smell of tobacco and alcohol left in the bar that had choked her.
But when I smell it like this, there is no smell on my body. Instead, it smells like the men's perfume left by the priest.
Yu Qing frowned, never wanting to take off his coat more than now.
The metal door blocked the view outside the glass window. A low roar came from outside, and something was moving slowly, walking through the rain, leaving behind heavy footsteps.
I don’t know how long it took, but the rain gradually became lighter.
Those heavy footsteps gradually disappeared.
After a while, it became completely quiet.
Tang Rou walked to the explosion-proof door and listened.
"The sound of rain seems to have stopped."
Yu Qing was stunned and said subconsciously, "Just wait a little longer."
The other party looked over.
He added guiltily, "It may not be safe outside."
Tang Rou inhaled slowly, discerning his breath.
While she was observing him, Yu Qing was also quietly observing her.
It's really weird, I've been sniffing something softly.
Does he really have a strange smell?
Yu Qing stepped back uneasily, but heard her say softly, "The rain outside has stopped, I think I have to go out."
After saying that, without waiting for Yu Qing's reaction, he walked to the counter, followed his steps to find the safety button, pressed it, and the rolling shutter door lifted up with a sound.
"Please wait!"
Yu Qing subconsciously called her.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that if he didn't call her now, he might never see her again in his life.
Why didn't he meet her when everyone was watching her, standing under the spotlight when it was hard to get a single vote?
If it were him at that time, he would definitely sing the most touching love song to her on the bright stage.
Instead of this, facing her with a dirty and dirty skin, a voice damaged by smoke, and a body that has been wasted.
Yu Qing grabbed the edge of his pants, his fingers clenched so hard that it hurt.
Force yourself to think of something to say to her, don't be silent, and in the end just say, "Thank you for today."
"Um?"
"That piece of paper." He blushed again, "Just now at the bar, you gave me a piece of paper."
"It's just a piece of paper." She smiled.
Soft, like the uncontrollable night breeze.
The rain stopped.
Tang Rou looked at the time and wanted to leave again.
Like Cinderella, who is stepping on glass slippers, she has to leave before twelve o'clock, and disappears like the pumpkin carriage.
Yu Qing called her to stop again, but he hesitated and couldn't speak.
"I……"
"Is something wrong?" Tang Rou said softly, interrupting him.
She didn't have much time, so she coaxed Yue to count another thousand before she came out, but how could sea creatures count?
If he doesn't go back soon, he might run out and something big would happen.
The big boy next to him froze, then blushed and said quickly, "Can I...sing you a song?"
His eyes dodge, "I sing...they say my singing is pretty good."
"I know, I listened to your songs when I was in college."
Tang Rou smiled and said, "You have been to our school before and were the finale guest of the campus tour."
The only difference is that Tang Rou couldn't squeeze in because there were too many people.
At that time, his fans were almost everywhere. Yu Qing's face appeared on huge advertisements in the city, on the screensavers of boys and girls' mobile phones, and everywhere with commercial value and advertising.
In every concert, there are girls screaming crazily, and many male fans waving flags and cheering desperately.
Tang Rou, with her small body, really couldn't squeeze in.
It's just that she's not chasing stars either.
But such an understatement set off a storm in Yu Qing's heart.
It turns out that she has seen herself?
Yu Qing's heart was high. For some reason, he had a strange feeling of surviving a disaster, as if a person who had fallen into the sea and was on the verge of drowning finally breathed oxygen.
It turns out that she has seen herself, her former self.
She has listened to his songs, which means that she has seen her own appearance under the spotlight, which is not the deformed and distorted appearance she has now. She has seen her clean and complete self back then.
And, it can still be recognized now.
Yu Qing's eyes turned red.
He was in a strange mood and became very strange.
I couldn't help but ask her, "Which school are you from?"
Tang Rou said, "Institute of Marine Science."
"Ah, that's right there."
He remembered that school. There were many people in it. It was an institution of higher learning. After graduation, everyone would be a researcher in the field of ocean research, which is the most popular profession now.
He felt again that he was not worthy of her.
But if you want her to listen to herself singing, the words have already been spoken, even if she sings a cappella, she still has to sing.
He blushed, like a young boy talking to a girl for the first time, and sang one of his favorite songs in a low and hoarse voice.
The other party listened quietly.
After finishing the song, he was so nervous that he was sweating, but the sound he sang made him very frustrated.
This voice has been ruined a long time ago and is not as good as he used to be, one tenth of it.
The quiet convenience store burst into applause.
"It sounds great, thank you."
The young woman looked up, her eyes full of smiles.
"Sound good to hear."
Yu Qing's mood brightened instantly.
"But I don't have much time. I'll see you next time." She raised her hand and looked at her watch and said warmly, "Thank you for your song."
After saying that, he was not given any time to react.
The thin figure disappeared into the humid night wind.