Sheng Yao carried a large plastic bag in front and led the way.

He also came to his doorstep and remembered that there was nothing at home, just his own daily necessities. They all came out to buy them again after returning home on the Qingming Festival. He felt embarrassed to take Bai Xiao out of the taxi in advance, bought some snacks and drinks at a convenience store near the community, and bought towels and toothbrushes.

"...As soon as I entered college, my parents were liberated and let themselves go. They were not at home, so they probably went to the countryside to visit my grandmother and grandfather's graves. They were still playing with relatives in the country for a few days, but they haven't come back yet." Sheng Yao explained.

As he said this, the black names on his grandparents' tombstone flashed through his mind. But those names just passed by and never stayed for a second.

Bai Xiao listened quietly, but his eyes looked at Sheng Yao with a strange look.

"Did you... not contact your parents?" Bai Xiao asked hesitantly.

Sheng Yao laughed, "What's the point of contact with this? They are so big, but they're still going out to play together. What's the point of worrying about? They used to be like this. They threw me away from my grandmother and grandpa during the summer vacation. They were so happy to live a two-person world."

Bai Xiao looked at Sheng Yao who was smiling happily, as if he could feel his family happiness, and he also laughed. She sighed softly and looked at Sheng Yao gently, "Are we the only two of us tonight?"

Sheng Yao's smile froze. His whole face turned red and he said to Bai Xiao: "Don't, don't get me wrong, I...I invite you here just to think... Uh, it's when he saw you..."

He was speechless.

The invitation at that time was completely unthinkable by his brain. He just felt that Bai Xiao was too lonely. He wanted to give Bai Xiao warmth, instead of letting her sink into the darkness with the disappearing sunlight.

He wanted to pull Bai Xiao into his own world.

Bai Xiao smiled, blinked his eyes, and walked lightly ahead.

Sheng Yao was stunned and hurriedly followed with a plastic bag, "Did you mean it?"

"Yes." Bai Xiao nodded with a smile, then glanced at Sheng Yao sideways, "Are you angry?"

"Yeah, I'm angry." Sheng Yao deliberately raised his face.

Bai Xiao laughed out loud, then hurriedly restrained himself, and made a plea, "Then don't be angry, okay?"

"I'm considering it." Sheng Yao continued to have a stern face.

"I'll carry the bag for you."

"don't want."

The two had already walked to a residential building. Sheng Yao took out the key and opened the large anti-theft iron door downstairs.

"Then I'll help you pull the door. Mr. Sheng, please." Bai Xiao acted like a waiter, bent down slightly, raised his face again, and looked at Sheng Yao with a flattering look.

Sheng Yao raised his chin reservedly and stepped into the building with the plastic bag.

The iron gate closed, and the voice-controlled lights in the stairs lit up with their footsteps.

Sheng Yao stopped his pretentious expression and turned his head to Bai Xiao and said, "Be gentle. There are many old people in the building. Don't wake them up."

Bai Xiao nodded. She did this before Sheng Yao reminded her. The movement of closing the security door was very light, and now her steps were also light, and she would hardly alarm the voice-controlled light on her head.

The two went upstairs like thieves.

Sheng Yao opened the door and asked Bai Xiao to enter the room.

"You should wear these slippers." Sheng Yao took out a pair of new slippers from the shoe cabinet. All the dust on the plastic packaging stuck to his hands. He pinched the garbage and said apologetically: "The shoes are new, but I have been buying them for a long time. Two years ago, my mother had just learned to buy online shopping. She bought more than a dozen pairs of slippers in one go, and said that she could use them for dinner at home. In the end, it was useless. Only the three of us wore them. Oh, by the way! I remember a pair of white..." He said this and found them in the shoe cabinet again.

But there are only two pairs of new slippers that have not been unpacked in the shoe cabinet, one is the blue velvet slippers that Sheng Yao had just opened, and the other is the black plastic slippers.

"Strange... why are there only two pairs left? They took them to the countryside?" Sheng Yao was a little confused.

"I'll just wear these pairs. They are soft and comfortable." Bai Xiao said.

After hearing this, Sheng Yao no longer had any worries about this matter. He asked Bai Xiao to sit in the living room, take out the snacks and drinks, and then go to the kitchen to boil water.

He was busy entertaining Bai Xiao, but was pulled by Bai Xiao to sit on the sofa.

"You don't have to do anything. You have everything to eat and drink." Bai Xiao said.

Sheng Yao scratched his head, "Well...ah, you have to take out the quilt and pillow." He stood up again, "You can sleep in my room at night. Uh... My room is a bit messy."

He took Bai Xiao to see the bedroom with the open door.

It was a small south-facing room, with a single bed, a large desk, and two large cabinets, namely a bookcase and a wardrobe. On the table were a desktop computer with dust. The books in the bookcase, from elementary school mathematics to foreign novels, and large academic monographs, are all kinds of, like recording a person's growth.

Bai Xiao carefully looked at each title in the bookcase.

"What book do you want to read?" Sheng Yao walked to Bai Xiao and looked at his collection.

When his eyes swept through the books "University Physics" and "Advanced Mathematics", he had a moment of doubt. There were still a few books next to those books...

Without waiting for him to read it one by one, or thinking, Bai Xiao had turned around and stood in front of him, blocking his sight.

Sheng Yao hurriedly looked at Bai Xiao, "I have a lot of things piled up in my room..." He looked helplessly at the cardboard box and storage box beside the bed under the desk, "As soon as I went to college, my parents regarded this as a utility room... Why don't you sleep in my parents' room?"

As he said this, his eyes lit up and he turned around to show Bai Xiao his parents' master bedroom.

The door of the master bedroom is tightly closed.

Sheng Yao walked towards the door step by step.

He held the door handle with his hand, and before he could use force, he saw a white hand resting on the back of his hand. The back of his hand suddenly felt a cool and soft touch.

"You invited me to visit me, just to rush me to bed?" Bai Xiao asked with a funny look.

Sheng Yao looked at Bai Xiao in a daze.

"Let's chat." Bai Xiao pulled Sheng Yao and returned to the sofa, "I also bought so many snacks. Did you buy it for yourself?"

"Of course not." Sheng Yao hurriedly unpacked a pack of potato chips for Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao sat comfortably on the sofa, turned on the TV, and started eating potato chips.

Sheng Yao also leaned on the sofa, secretly looked at Bai Xiao, and reached into the potato chip bag. His hand touched Bai Xiao's hand.

"Hey, I'm playing an old movie!" Bai Xiao pulled out his hand, sat up straight, and his eyes lit up at the TV, "I like her very much..."

She turned her head and excitedly introduced the actress on the screen to Sheng Yao.

Sheng Yao felt that Bai Xiao's voice was like a cheerful music, which made him smile involuntarily.

...

The TV room was always filled with conversations between Sheng Yao and Bai Xiao. They seemed to have endless topics to talk about, and they could always find content that they were interested in. From time to time, they would find the same hobbies and share their special experiences.

Their figures in the camera are blurred. The focus of the picture falls behind the two of them, on the closed bedroom door.

Their conversation seemed to be able to reach the uninhabited room behind them, driving away the silence and calmness in the room. But for another moment, the loneliness in the room overflowed from the crack of the door and spread quietly between them.

The breath seemed like a terrifying monster was closed in the room, breathing against the crack of the door, and it was possible to break out at any time, breaking the beautiful atmosphere between the two.

The doctor's dark blue eyes also lost focus like a TV picture.

He opened his eyes, but seemed to be asleep, motionless, even the faces on his nails returned to a static picture without saying a word.

I don’t know how long it has passed, but there is a trace of light on the TV screen.

The light pierced the deep night, indicating that dawn was approaching. The transformation from darkness to darkness was only in an instant.

The doctor's dark blue eyes also reflected the sunlight. His eyes had a focus again, like a person awakened by the sun. He blinked his eyes, and his sitting posture that had been in full swing all night changed at this time.

He changed his position, leaned against the sofa, squinted his eyes, and looked at the TV screen again.

...

"It's dawn..." Sheng Yao realized it and found that it was bright outside.

He and Bai Xiao all night long, absent-mindedly watched several old movies, mainly chatting.

"Well. It's time for me to go back." Bai Xiao looked at the sky outside the window.

"Hey?" Sheng Yao was surprised, "Are you going back now? I...I still want to take you where to play..."

"It's time for me to go back." Bai Xiao said with a smile, his voice soft, but his tone was firm.

Sheng Yao felt a little regretful, "Then I'll take you back. You... are you going to Changshou Garden today?"

"Yeah, I'm going." Bai Xiao nodded.

"Then let's go there together. Buy a bouquet of flowers in the flower shop here." Sheng Yao planned to say, "Wash your face first, let's go for breakfast. There is a snack shop at the entrance of the community here, with tofu flowers, small greenhouses, and fried rice noodles for breakfast..."

He stood up, moved his muscles and bones, and then worked hard to prepare a toothbrush towel for Bai Xiao.

The two of them finished washing up and went out.

An old lady with a cane stood outside the aisle outside the door. The old lady seemed to be frightened by the suddenly opened door and stood there in a daze.

Sheng Yao glanced at it and immediately smiled, "Aunt Qin, are you going to have breakfast?"

His eyes moved from the old man's face to the crutch in the old man's hand, showing a look of surprise and worry, "Did you get injured in your foot?"

Aunt Qin looked at Sheng Yao in a daze, and then looked at Bai Xiao beside Sheng Yao in a daze.

Bai Xiaochong showed a friendly smile on the other side.

Sheng Yao subconsciously supported Aunt Qin, "I'll help you downstairs. Oh, or I'll buy you breakfast, you can wait at home."

He looked at Bai Xiao and asked Bai Xiao for his opinion.

Bai Xiao smiled unexpectedly, "It's okay, you don't have to worry about me."

Seeing this, Sheng Yao turned around and smiled at Aunt Qin, and was about to send her home.

"No, no need." Aunt Qin said hurriedly, "I...I will walk slowly by myself..."
To be continued...