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Chen Jing has officially started his internship. His work is not difficult, mainly translating short comics with Xu Zhoulun. Xu Zhoulun is very capable, and following her can indeed learn a lot, much more useful than studying in the classroom.
He and Zheng Yu still get along as before, both tacitly not mentioning the impending parting. But even if they don't say it, the fact is there, even if they deliberately pretend not to know anything, the sadness of parting is still invisibly overwhelming, making it hard to breathe.
Chen Jing got off work a little late today, and it was already dark. He suddenly had the idea to walk home, and it just so happened that tomorrow is the weekend and he can rest well.
The two of them walked slowly side by side, and conveniently there was a vendor selling sugar-coated haws nearby. Chen Jing wanted to buy a string, but suddenly a little kid appeared behind him, tugging on his mother's clothes and asking in a childish voice to have some.
Chen Jing looked at the only remaining string of candied haws in the shop window, silently stepped aside, and received a grateful look from the child's mother.
"You feel uncomfortable not sharing with others, don't you, Chen Jing?" Zheng Yu said half-jokingly.
"I actually don't like eating candied haws," said Chen Jing. It's the truth. His little sister loves eating candied haws, and almost every day after work, their uncle would buy a string of them for the two of them.
Chen Jing doesn't like sweet things, but he didn't refuse the daily string of candied haws until his sister reached the age of changing teeth and cried loudly from a toothache. After that, their uncle dared not give her candied haws again.
Chen Jing thought his teeth were fine. He knew his sister couldn't eat, so he sat on the steps at the entrance of the community, waiting for his uncle to finish work. He planned to eat outside before going in, but that day his uncle didn't buy sugar-coated haws, and there were no more sugar-coated haws that he didn't like.
"Don't sit here feeling wronged. I know a store that sells sugar-coated haws, with lots of sesame. Let's go," Zheng Yu raised an eyebrow and said.
"Never mind, I don't really feel like eating anyway." If he hadn't seen it, he wouldn't have remembered.
"As long as you want it, I'll find a way to get it for you." The bustling street made Zheng Yu feel like a total stud when he said this.
Chen Jing couldn't help but chuckle, "Can you not be so edgy?"
Zheng Yu frowned, "Just tell me, are you going or not?"
With Chen Jing's personality, he would refuse.
It's just a string of candied haws, not eating it is no big deal, but it seems like he's just making do with everything, as if nothing is a big deal. He has always lacked the courage to go all out for something, and if it weren't for Zheng Yu telling him, it seems like he wouldn't have realized that he was being unfair to himself.
He smiled at the person in front of him and said, "Let's go."
"Aren't you afraid it's far?"
"Go as far as you like."
The shop was not far, just a ten-minute walk away. The owner was from out of town, very talkative with a soft Jiangnan accent. Chen Jing was praised by the owner and ended up buying an extra bag of sugar-fried chestnuts.
On the way back, Chen Jing and Zheng Yu joked that candied chestnuts and candied haws seem more suitable to eat in winter.
"We'll come back in winter then," Zheng Yu said, and both of them fell silent.
Can they wait until winter?
Chen Jing took a bite of hawthorn and said with a smile, "Sure."
"Um." Zheng Yu stood in the shadow, and Chen Jing couldn't see the affection and reluctance in his eyes.
Chen Jing continued, "I won't mistreat myself in the future. When winter comes, I want to build a snowman, right downstairs from my home, right... right downstairs from my home." Chen Jing was choking up, tears streaming down his face. He wiped them away with his hand, but they wouldn't go away.
Stop, stop, why are you so useless, why cry, no more crying, Zheng Yu will also feel sad.
But the tears seem to be singing against him, and they flow more and more fiercely.
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