Chapter 1 Chapitre1(1/2)
When you can share the silence with someone without talking to them, and not feel embarrassed, at that moment you will understand that you have met the right person.
——The movie "Pulp Novel"
When I first met Chen Yi in the parking lot of S City International Airport, Su Tang completely didn't realize that this was a man living in a silent world.
It was a sunny day in early August. In the evening, the heat was still heavy. Chen Yi was wearing a light blue shirt and gray trousers, leaning against the front of a black SUV, looking at the direction Su Tang was walking towards, giving Su Tang an illusion of selling this car on behalf of others.
The driver Lao Chen who came into the airport lobby to pick up Su Tang was walking to Chen Yi with Su Tang, "Design Su, this is Chen Yi, Mr. Chen."
Su Tang studied civil engineering and had just graduated from a public engineer school in France. Before he could finish his job, Old Chen learned that she planned to find a job in several architectural design companies in S City, so he called her "Su Design" one by one. Su Tang sounded awkward, but he didn't ask him to change his words.
Su Tang smiled brightly, "Hello, Mr. Chen, thank you for picking me up for my grandmother."
Chen Yi smiled and nodded, walked over and opened the car door for Su Tang, and made a gesture of asking for help.
"merci." Su Tang reflexively popped out a French sentence, and before he could even kick, he reacted, stuck out his tongue, and quickly changed his words, "Thank you."
Old Chen, who was helping Su Tang put his luggage at the rear of the car, laughed exaggeratedly as if he had heard some fresh joke, "Su Design, don't you know he is a deaf person?"
Su Tang was stunned, stepped on the pedal with one foot, and looked back at Chen Yi awkwardly. The handsome man with a contour was still smiling like a car model. When he saw Su Tang suddenly looking back at him, he also increased the sugar content in his smile by several plus signs, and shook Su Tang in broad daylight.
After putting off his luggage, Old Chen walked towards the driver's seat, poked out his bald head, and looked at Su Tang with a deliberately enlarged curiosity on his face, "Design Su, did Dr. Zhou tell you?"
Dr. Zhou is Su Tang's grandmother. When he was young, he was a senior nursing home in a private nursing home. He wrote several books on special care and was well-known in this circle. After retirement, he was rehired as a consultant to the nursing home. He lived in the apartment of the nursing home, where all those wearing white coats were called doctors.
Grandma only told her that someone would pick her up at the airport. The person who picked her up was Chen Yi. She was a tall man in her twenties, but she didn't tell her that she was a man who looked so present, and of course she didn't tell her that he was a man who couldn't hear the sound.
"No, no..."
I don’t know if Chen Yijie minded that she took the initiative to talk to him just now. Su Tang sat in the car with a little guilty conscience. Chen Yi followed him in, sat next to Su Tang, and closed the car door casually.
Chen Yi has a very light smell, not a perfume smell, but a smell that makes Su Tang feel very down-to-earth. This smell is very familiar. Su Tang couldn't remember it for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Chen Yi again, but she didn't expect that Chen Yi was also looking at her.
When he met Su Tang's curious look, the car model's face was slightly stunned, as if he realized something, his smile faded, but it did not fade to the point of disappearing.
Old Chen sat in the driver's seat and smiled meaningfully, "Doctor Zhou also said that you two are childhood sweethearts, don't they look like you..."
"Children's Sex?"
Su Tang stared at Chen Yi's clear and angular face. When she was three years old, her parents divorced and each got married. No one wanted her. She grew up with her grandmother since she was a child, studied hard and improved every day. She had never had a decent relationship at the age of 24... Where did such a big beast come out?
"I just said that a girl as outstanding and beautiful as Su Design must have had vision since she was a child, so she would not be able to look down on a deaf person..."
Su Tang suspected that his Chinese level had been severely deteriorated in France for three years, and he didn't understand whether Lao Chen was praising her or damaging her. So Su Tang didn't answer. After thinking about it, he took out his cell phone from his bag, clicked on a new memo, typed a line of words, and handed it to Chen Yi.
——You know my grandmother?
Chen Yi looked at the screen of the phone, then looked at the person holding the phone in front of him, then nodded, took Su Tang's phone, pursed his lips and slowly typed a few sentences under Su Tang's line.
——You can speak, I can understand your lip shape. But my Chinese is not very good, please speak slowly. If you are willing to speak English, I can read it more accurately.
Su Tang was stunned for a moment, and looked at the shiny and bald back of the back of the head next to the driver's seat for a while. Then he realized that when Old Chen said those words with thorns in his smile just now, they were indeed outside Shen Yi's sight. Su Tang found that this was even more unethical than talking bad things behind his back.
Su Tang looked down at what Chen Yi called on the phone again, his brows furrowed and took the phone from him.
——I have almost lost English, can I speak French?
Chen Yi shook his head a little apologetically.
Su Tang pursed her lips.
——Let’s just type. I don’t want Old Chen to hear that you and him don’t seem to be in the same group.
Chen Yi was amused by Su Tang's childish words so that the corners of his mouth were raised.
——My driver is on vacation, he is my stepmother’s driver.
Su Tang raised his eyebrows.
——You are Snow White?
Chen Yi smiled silently, his slender and clean fingers were obviously relaxed, and his typing speed was so fast that Su Tang was dazzled.
——No, I am Cinderella, and my stepmother gave birth to a sister.
Su Tang looked up at Lao Chen's back.
——The white horse that pulled the cart for Cinderella was transformed by rats?
Chen Yi smiled so hard that he showed a row of white teeth.
——Tell me to him that you must get home before twelve o'clock, otherwise the car will be fined.
Su Tang was stunned.
--Why?
——Mouses are not allowed to pull pumpkins on the expressway.
Su Tang's always low laughter was poked by Chen Yi, and laughed out loud, causing Lao Chen to look in the rearview mirror, "Su Design, do you really know him?"
"I know," Su Tang thought about the bald mouse who was trying hard to pull the pumpkin, and he couldn't even press down the corner of his mouth. "I just met."
After being reminded by Old Chen, Su Tang remembered the problem of "childhood sweetheart".
——We met before?
——I have seen you.
Su Tang doesn't know how to beat around the bush.
——Why don’t I remember it?
——That happened twenty years ago.
Su Tang thought about it carefully. Twenty years ago, she was four years old. She only remembered that she was sticking to her grandmother every day, following her butt, and swaying in the nursing home where she worked.
——In Boya Nursing Home?
Chen Yi looked at Su Tang with some surprise and typed quickly.
——You remembered it?
Su Tang stared at Chen Yi for five seconds.
——You have filled out the body donation registration form?
Chen Yi was stunned, nodded, with a serious expression.
——Filled it before going to the United States at the age of eight, donating it whole body.
——Can you donate it to me first?
Chen Yi leaned on the back of the seat, smiling so hard that his body trembled. Su Tang found that he was also very good, a little thin, but it did not affect the overall situation at all.
Old Chen couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror again, "Design Su, no wonder Dr. Zhou always praises you for your good personality. You can chat with deaf people so much!"
Su Tang was a little angry, but Old Chen spoke in a deaf accent. Looking at Chen Yi, he deliberately said it slowly and clearly, "We are talking about a European restaurant. There is a restaurant owner who is quite interesting. There is a sign standing at the door of the store, which says that bald people and dogs are not allowed to enter."
Old Chen choked all the rest of his words back into his stomach.
Looking at Chen Yi with a puzzled look, Su Tang took his cell phone and typed.
——I said too quickly?
Chen Yi shook his head and frowned slightly.
——Your lip shape is very clear, I understand it, but why are bald and dogs not allowed to enter?
Chen Yi's serious look made Su Tang laugh, and he grabbed his cell phone after laughing enough.
——I lied to him, you really believe it!
Chen Yi did not smile like Su Tang, and looked at Su Tang gently, smiling quietly.
Su Tang felt a little embarrassed by his eyes. He coughed a few times and stopped the silly smirk on his face, buried his head and typed a line of words on his phone.
——Do you usually use sign language?
Chen Yi shook his head calmly.
Seeing Su Tang in a daze, Chen Yi smiled and typed on his phone.
——More people who know literacy than those who know sign language.
——What should I do at work?
——Assistant can do sign language translation.
——Where do you live?
——Do it yourself and have enough food and clothing.
Su Tang raised his eyebrows. This person who seemed to have no temper activated the bad factors that had been dormant deep in her cells for a long time.
——What should I do if I call/bed?
Chen Yi shook his hands and almost threw the phone out. His cheeks turned red. He gritted his teeth and forced a line of words.
——Men have to shout?
Su Tang typed indifferently.
——You can get up by yourself if you don’t ask in the morning?
To be continued...