Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光) - Chapter 37

Title: Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光)
Author: Zhou Gangan
Translation credit: Jia

Chapter 37

Gu Weiyi’s father was unable to come to see him off, but he acted as if nothing had occurred, and he had expected. However, his mother was not as calm as he did. She was calling his husband all the way to the airport and scolding, making the taxi driver and Mo dumbfounded.

 

Mo looked at Gu Weiyi for several times to convey that, ‘Look, I'm really gentle to you ordinarily.’

 

Gu Weiyi pushed her head, ‘Do you remember the password of the game? I'll take you to beat monsters when I’m free.’

 

Before Mo had time to protest, Wang Shuhong cried out unhappily, ‘Speak well, don’t push, making my daughter-in-law silly, you compensate me for one?’

 

Gu Weiyi looked at his mother contemptuously. His mother had been in such a hopeless state since last night's meal cooked by Situ Mo. Fortunately, he didn't find her a daughter-in-law of a cook, otherwise her mother would act as cows and horses for her daughter-in-law.

 

He leaned over Situ Mo’s ear and whispered, ‘Silly daughter-in-law.’

 

Mo blushed to avoid the airflow coming from his speech, crashing into the car window. Because of his mother's presence, Mo dared not greet his ancestors. She could only rub her head in tears and gaze at him accusatively. He reached over to help her rub, but she hummed and turned her head.

 

Wang Shuhong smiled through the rearview mirror to see the interaction between the two children. After one night's adjustment, her mentality of ‘son was robbed’ had been adjusted. Mo was a lovely girl, besides her son looked so happy. She has kept him for more than twenty years and had never seen him laugh so much. Fortunately, his emotional world was not destroyed by that accident a few years ago.

 

The farewell scene was as calm as death.

 

Gu Weiyi said, ‘Mom, I'm leaving.’

 

His mother said, ‘Be careful when you are out.’

 

He said, ‘Okay, take care of yourselves.’ Then he turned to Mo and said, ‘Situ Mo, don't forget what you promised me before.’

 

Situ Mo said, ‘Okay.’

 

He said, ‘Don't you have anything else to tell me?’

 

she said, ‘No.’

 

Then he went to the security check. Later, Mo took a taxi home with Aunt Wang. Along the way, aunt told her about Gu Weiyi’s childhood misfortunes. She listened to them all the time, but always feeling that her soul was out of the way.

 

When she got home, Aunt Wang took the things and left, saying she was going back for a meeting. Leaving Mo alone facing the empty house, so sad that she could twist out the lemon juice.

 

The cup he used was still on the windowsill, and it smelled faint tea. He loved to put his teacup on the windowsill. Every time she saw it, she would say something. He would always pretend to run and hold it in his hand. As soon as she walked away, he would put it down again. The science magazine he often read was left on the sofa and table. Every time he was waiting for dinner, he liked to sit at the table with his legs crossed. When she's in a good mood, she'll let him go, when she's in a bad mood, she would be cold-faced, and he'll go into the kitchen to help her. There's his toothbrush towel shaver in the bathroom, and once she needed it urgently, temporarily took his shaver to shave her armpits, this big brother, who was a clean freak almost killed her...

 

Little drops of life together for nearly half a year had already penetrated into the marrow, and after he left, her bones burst out in a sudden high tide, clamoring to submerge her quickly. She couldn't live with memories every day in such an environment, so she made a decision which would make Gu Weiyi angry - to move into the company dormitory.

 

The Personnel Department did a good job at last. On the third day, the dormitory was divided. Mo asked several strong men to help her move the commonly used things into the dormitory.

 

When Mo came out of the gate of the community, it was raining. She looked at the sky a little helplessly, and the thin lines fell intermittently. Several of which fell into her eyes, making her sad.

 

Gu Weiyi, come home quickly.

 

Mo’s company dormitory was a two-bedroom apartment. She and one of the company's summer interns have separate rooms, sharing the hall and bathroom. Her new roommate, Shen Wenwen, was said to be a high-level relative who came to experience society during the summer vacation. After several days of contact, Mo felt that Wen was very good, obedient and timid.

 

What Mo didn't expect was that living in the company dormitory was a turning point in her work. She was inexplicably transferred to the Creative Department and started working overtime day and night. When she dragged herself back to the dormitory, she was too tired to turn on the computer. There were so many messages on her mobile phone that she didn't return to Gu Weiyi. She had a lot of words to tell him. She told him that she hated the woman who painted lipstick red in the Creative Department; she met many famous and unknown stars; she wrote an advertisement copy that was adopted; she wanted to save money and go to America to see him... A lot of words, but in his gentle and hoarse voice, she just said that today's overtime, she was very tired. Gu Weiyi never complained about anything. He talked on the phone all the time and she didn't have to answer. She just listened quietly with her eyes closed. He was such a speechless person, but he could talk to her for more than an hour: the pickle fish he ate in Chinatown wasn't as delicious as downstairs; a black professor asked him if he wanted to study his doctorate when he was doing experiment today; Swedes in his dormitory always brought back different girlfriends...

 

One night after working overtime, Mo lay in bed feeling unable to move. She stared at the ceiling and asked herself why she made herself so tired. She picked up her phone from under her pillow and called Gu Weiyi. The phone was quickly answered.

 

He had left for a month and three days, but she still didn’t know how to calculate the time difference between the United States and China. She always called him immediately she wanted to, and never asked him what time it was there. It's a little self-willed of her selfishness. Fortunately, he always tolerated it.

 

‘Hello?’ Gu Weiyi’s voice was a bit noisy, with a simple English sentence, ‘Would you buy me a drink?’

 

Mo was a little discontented, silent and let him ask for several times before she quietly asked, ‘Where are you?’

 

‘Pub. Sorry, I'm talking to my girlfriend.’ His voice was cold enough.

 

Suddenly Mo was in a better mood. She put away her quiet tone and said with a little coquettish, ‘I am tired today and I can't move at all in bed. When I lie in bed, I suddenly feel that my hands and feet can't move. I'm a little scared.’

 

For a while Mo could only hear the thumping music, and then suddenly, miraculously quieted down, Gu Weiyi's voice came, ‘I asked you not to work overtime, but you didn’t listen, leave at home to rest tomorrow.’

 

Mo automatically ignored the second half of his sentence, ‘ I was not voluntary. I couldn’t refuse when the boss asked me to do.’

 

‘You? You must have volunteered to stay and work overtime, and who sent you home?’

 

‘Uh, brother Tie.’ She lied guiltily. In fact, there was only one street between the company and the dormitory. She usually went back by herself, and the point was that she hadn’t told him that she had moved to the dormitory yet.

 

‘Take leave at home tomorrow. Nothing will happen if you take a day off. Just say you're sick.’ He went back to his original words.

 

‘Well, I'm so sleepy. I'm going to sleep.’ Mo began to cheat.

 

‘Can't you just listen once?’

 

‘I'm going to sleep now, I’ll listen to you next time.’ In order to stop Gu Weiyi’s words, Mo quickly hung up the phone and shut down the phone.

 

Gu Weiyi stared at the phone in his palm indignantly. It took him a while to put it away indignantly. She must have shut down! He stayed by the wall for a while, took out his phone and sent a text message to his roommate, then went straight back to his dormitory.

 

Back in his dormitory, he boiled a pot of water and brewed tea. The cup in his hand was the blue fat cat that was popular all over the world. He said it was Duo the A dream, but Situ Mo always insisted on calling it ‘Robot Cat Xiao Dingdang’. Yes, this is Situ Mo’s cup. She didn’t use it very often. Her house was full of all kinds of cups she bought. She had a hobby of collecting cups, and the hobby of forcing people to use the cups she bought. One day she tidied up the cabinet and found out the cup. After thinking for a long time, she didn't know why she had bought such a naive cup, so she put it on Gu Weiyi’s computer desk and said it was for him. But at home he always used his own cup to drink tea. The night before he went abroad, he made a terrible mess and put Situ Mo’s cup in his suitcase. Alex had always laughed at him when he first came, saying he was Mommy's little boy. Later when Alex took a girlfriend back to his dormitory. The girl filled the glass with water. Without saying a word, he took the glass out of her hand, took the alcohol from the laboratory, sterilized it, and boiled it in the kitchen in front of them. A good feature of them was that no matter how weird your behavior was, they can accept and respect it. From then on, when Alex took his girlfriend home, he would always stress to them that his roommate was a freak. Don't touch his things.

 

He finished the tea in one breath, and Situ Mo always liked to drink it like this, which was really an act of spoiling the tea. Tea needs to be tasted slowly and quietly before it can leave a fragrance on the lips and teeth. But he hadn’t been able to taste tea well since he came to America. Alas, the quieter the moment was, the more he misses her, scratching his heart and lungs.

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