Before the rainwater accumulated, Sang Lu rushed back to Yile Community.
She brought enough vegetables and meat for her parents to last a few days, and also brought a box of plasters for her father. Her father had arthritis, and his legs would ache badly on rainy days.
In the living room, the TV was playing a news report.
"This is an urgent notice of the heavy rain weather issued by the Jing City Meteorological Observatory. Our city is experiencing the heaviest rainfall in the past five years. It is estimated that the cumulative precipitation in most areas will reach... Please pay attention to safety when going out, avoid waterlogged roads, check the household circuits, and make preparations for prevention and response -"
Boom -
A loud thunderclap.
It drowned out the voice of the news anchor.
Lin Yueyin nervously stroked her chest:
"My goodness, such heavy rain. It seems like the sky is going to break."
Then, with a look of both blame and concern, she glanced at her daughter who was drying her hair with a dry towel and murmured, "Lulu, why did you come here specially? It's raining so heavily. How are you going to get back later? It's so unsafe."
Sang Lu wiped her head: "I'm not going back today. I'll stay at home. I've already told Feng Yan."
"Okay, okay. That's the best," Lin Yueyin's eyes lit up. She looked around and then rushed to the bedroom, "I'll go find you some clean clothes to change into. You go take a shower first."
"Okay." Sang Lu responded softly.
After her mother left the living room, Sang Lu slowly turned her head and glanced in the direction of the balcony.
Outside the window, the rain was pouring down and showed no sign of letting up.
The flowers and plants her father had planted had been rescued and placed in the living room.
On the open - air balcony, there was a pool of water. No matter how many times they mopped it up, more water would accumulate, so they simply let it be and planned to deal with it after the rain stopped.
She took out her phone and subconsciously opened the chat dialog box with Feng Yan.
She typed: [Did you get home safely?]
Before she could press the send button, a new message popped up on the screen -
[Feng: Did you arrive?]
Sang Lu deleted what she had just typed.
She re - edited the message: [I'm here. How about you? Did you get home safely?]
The other side replied quickly: [Yes, I'm at home.]
Sang Lu let out a sigh of relief.
She remembered the scene when Doctor Ji came to the house last time.
In the treatment audio that Doctor Ji played for Feng Yan at that time, the sound effect at the beginning was just like the pouring rain today.
She was worried that if Feng Yan was stuck on the road and couldn't get back to Qinghe Bay and encountered such heavy rain, he might, like that day, painfully beat his own head.
Seeing that he said he was at home, she felt much more at ease.
At this time, the phone vibrated again.
[Feng: Go to bed early.]
Sang Lu's lips curved into a smile. She typed: [Okk~ You too.]
She rummaged through the emojis and found a cute one to send.
[Sang Lu: Puppy rolling good - night.ipg]
[Feng: Good night]
...
Sang Lu hadn't stayed at home for a long time.
At night, sleeping alone in the bed for the first time in a long time, she unexpectedly couldn't fall asleep.
At two o'clock in the morning, the rain outside still hadn't stopped.
She tossed and turned in bed like a pancake.
It seemed that this rain wouldn't stop anytime soon.
Fortunately, it was Saturday tomorrow, a day off.
Otherwise, she really didn't know how she would go to work in the rain.
Would Feng Yan go to the company tomorrow?
A thought flashed through her mind.
The moment the thought popped up, she was startled by herself.
Why did she suddenly think of Feng Yan?
Was it because she had seen him every day recently and was too familiar with him?
Sang Lu turned over.
She turned off the desk lamp.
She adjusted her posture to a more suitable one for sleeping.
Go to sleep!
If she didn't sleep, she would have dark circles under her eyes tomorrow.
She reminded herself in her heart.
She casually grabbed the big doll beside her, put her arm across it, and hugged it to sleep.
Just a few seconds after closing her eyes.
Suddenly, she opened them wide in the darkness.
She pressed down on the arm that was holding the doll and then lifted it up.
It was as if she was testing some kind of feeling.
She strangely thought that when Feng Yan put his arm around her waist at night, did it feel like the action she just did when grabbing the doll.
She suddenly shook her head vigorously.
Why did she think of Feng Yan again?
What was wrong with her today?
Strange thoughts kept popping up one after another.
Was it because of the meaningful look Yu Xiaoke gave her in the morning?
Or Yu Xiaoke's comment about Feng Yan being a "hen - pecked husband"?
Or Xie Sinan's words "Will Manager Feng be jealous"?
Or maybe none of these, just her own wild imagination?
When she took a shower just now, she used the shower gel at home.
It was the basic model of Safeguard, with a pure white and delicate fragrance.
When she was a child, when she didn't have the awareness to choose her own skin - care and hair - care products, she used whatever her mother bought.
The smell of Safeguard soap accompanied almost her entire childhood.
As she grew older and became a young girl.
The Safeguard soap at home was replaced with Safeguard shower gel.
It was still the same smell.
All three members of the family used this one.
As soon as she smelled it, it reminded her of the days when she lived at home.
Junior high school, high school.
The young girl she used to be.
When she was a young girl, Sang Lu had secretly had a crush on a top - student boy in the next class.
It was a short - lived and trendy kind of crush.
Seeing that many female classmates said the top - student was handsome and had good grades, she also followed her good friends. When she saw the top - student playing basketball, she would take a few more glances.
Thinking about it carefully when she grew up, it actually couldn't be counted as a real crush. It was just joining in the fun.
But she clearly remembered herself at that stage.
At that time, she always liked to lie in bed listening to CDs. All the songs in her earphones were about the little lovesick feelings of youth.
She fantasized about the romantic scenes in idol dramas and novels. Wrapping herself in the quilt, with the smell of Safeguard filling her nose, she blushed and smiled secretly under the quilt.
At this moment.
She was sleeping in the sheets with lace trim from her teenage years.
The familiar smell lingered around her nose.
Her thoughts seemed to be pulled back to that age.
She closed her eyes.
Wrapped herself in the quilt.
For some reason, all she could think about was that ice - cold - faced man.
Sang Lu, who had been working in the workplace for a few years and was able to hold her own in her career, was lying in bed on this noisy rainy night, with a heart full of feelings she couldn't even tell where they came from. It took her a long time to fall asleep.
Her emotions accumulated little by little in the long night.
Just like the water on the balcony that would quickly gather no matter how many times it was mopped up.
