An Accident in Broad Daylight

That night, Yi Zhe didn't eat, and after turning off the computer, he just lay on the bed like nothing.The daylight faded, the sky darkened, and light gradually disappeared from sight.In addition, his roommates have already returned home, and the room is very empty. In this way, it seems that he has more space for thinking, and he can finally spread out all the things one by one, and put them in In front of you, you don't need to sneak around to ponder.

The current situation seems to be bad, but not the worst.At least Xu Tangcheng didn't clearly draw a line with him.It's just that Yi Zhe felt somewhat regretful, thinking maybe it was too late for him to figure it out.If he had restrained his emotions earlier, there would not be such an embarrassing situation between the two of them.

He was so engrossed in thinking that he didn't even hear Zheng Yikun push the door in and call him.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that he didn't respond, Zheng Yikun turned on the light and walked over, patted the edge of his bed, "Let's go, let's play billiards."

billiards.

After a brief trance, Yi Zhe got used to the bright light, turned his head sideways, and looked at Zheng Yikun's face, but his eyes were always blocked by another blurred face.

You can't touch it, you can't move it.

I'm afraid I've been thinking too much these two days, and I'm bewildered.In other words, Xu Tangcheng's shadow is really everywhere, and anything can be related to him here.

It seems that there is a sour feeling oozing from the bone marrow, but after it is integrated into the blood, it can feel a subtle sweetness.Yi Zhe blinked, thinking that this was also very good.

"You..." Zheng Yikun and him looked at each other for a while, then raised their eyebrows, "I'm broken in love."

After being stunned for two seconds, Yi Zhe suddenly sat up, crossed his legs and looked at the person standing by the bed.

Zheng Yikun saw his vigilant look, lowered his head and smiled: "Why are you nervous, I'm not making fun of you."

Yi Zhe didn't speak, but kept staring at him for a few seconds before looking away.

"You..." Zheng Yikun put his hand on the railing beside the bed, raised his finger and pointed a few times before saying, "It's actually quite simple."

Meeting Yi Zhe's unfriendly gaze, he raised the corner of his mouth indifferently.Then leaning on the step to bed, he took a cigarette out of his pocket.

Yi Zhe immediately stated calmly: "Smoking is not allowed in the dormitory, you have to go out to smoke."

"Yes," Zheng Yikun put away the lighter, but did not put the cigarette away. He played with it between his fingers, and then said, "Then let me guess your story. You don't need to express your opinion. If what I say is useful, You just listen. If you think it’s all farting, just squeak, and I’ll just roll off, okay?”

After sizing him up for a while, Yi Zhe acquiesced.

This is the first time he has talked about those secret emotions with people.Although if Zheng Yikun was taken out and told that he was from University A, they would definitely not believe him.But one thing Yi Zhe can be sure of is that Zheng Yikun lives a very self-centered life and will never take other people's affairs seriously. In other words, as long as he leaves this door later, Zheng Yikun will not say a word about what he said today. I won't even mention it.

"In your state, it's definitely a crush, right?"

Zheng Yikun suddenly threw out such a sentence with certainty, and Yi Zhe could only stare at him in silence.

"With your personality and your emotional history that is definitely blank at first glance. If you are in a relationship, you can't be in this state," Zheng Yikun finished explaining, then turned his head to think about it, and added, " I reckon you have to grin to your temple every day."

Yi Zhe didn't like that he was making such inconspicuous jokes when he was talking about this serious and somewhat heavy issue. He glanced at Zheng Yikun and felt that he would not say anything useful today.Turning around, lying down again without hope: "Give me a look."

"Believe it or not, you absolutely have to be like this. I dare not say anything about grades, it just depends on the person. I bet no one in University A is more ruthless than me. You can see that kind of stubbornness."

Yi Zhe couldn't help but glared at him. How come his obsessive emotions for so many years have become so obsessed with him now.

"Okay, okay, it's not hard-hearted, it's okay to be affectionate, right? But in my opinion, it's all the same." Zheng Yikun has a good temper, and he keeps laughing, "Why do I say you are simple, hard-hearted is one aspect, On the other hand, you don't really think that your secret love is just your business, do you?"

Although Yi Zhe thought that he didn't fully understand the question, his heart sank for some reason.Maybe it was because Zheng Yikun's question pierced his once lucky heart, or maybe it was a premonition that what Zheng Yikun said next was what he was going to say seriously today.

"Brother, let me tell you, don't believe in any secret love. Unless you really have a crush on him from a long distance away, and you can't see him at all, otherwise, as long as you two know each other and are connected, it is impossible He will know sooner or later about a person's affairs. For example, if someone has a crush on me, I can tell at a glance. "

Of course Yi Zhe didn't want to discuss with him whether anyone would have a crush on him, he has been stubbornly denying Zheng Yikun's words from his heart until now.If someone other than Xu Tangcheng had a crush on him, he probably wouldn't notice it in his life.

"I see you like this. I guess you were just broken recently, and the other party doesn't have any attitude." Zheng Yikun reached in through the gap in the railing and patted Yi Zhe's arm, "Innocent little virgin, I must remind you, don't be stubborn , This kind of situation is the most common. In fact, it is also the best solution. If you don’t take the initiative to tell him, and pretend to be a fool with him, no one will chase you and say, 'Hey, I found that you like me, I warn you Don't like me'. The two pretended to each other, turned a blind eye, and it passed."

Contrary to the previous silence, after Zheng Yikun finished speaking the words of the world, Yi Zhe turned over, looked at Zheng Yikun, and asked, "What do you mean by passing?"

Zheng Yikun thought about it for a while, and summed up all his talents and learning: "Playing stupid to each other, not mentioning these bad things, at least we are still good friends on the surface."

Yi Zhe naturally didn't follow Zheng Yikun to play billiards. After Zheng Yikun left, he lay down again and continued to stare at the ceiling in a daze.The phone was next to the pillow, and when he was so hungry, he finally picked up the phone as if he had made up his mind.

Just before he hesitated and pressed the call button, the screen lit up first.It was still the name that was flashing.

In a second, Yi Zhe had already propped himself up with one arm, and at the same time connected the phone with the other hand.

"Brother Tang Cheng." He froze, staring at the corner of the opposite table, tense, concentrating all his attention.

Xu Tangcheng responded and asked, "Are you busy?"

"No."

The corners of the table are peeling off a little. I don’t know if the quality of the table bought by A is not good, or because my roommate has to think about the corners of the table every day when writing code.

"I want to ask when you will go home. If there is nothing to do in school, how about leaving tomorrow?" Xu Tangcheng paused and explained, "I planned to go the day after tomorrow, but my classmates asked me for something the day after tomorrow, so I thought about having dinner tomorrow night Let's go."

"Okay." Yi Zhe agreed.

Feeling that the words are thin, I want to say something, but I have nothing to say.

"okay."

Over there, Xu Tangcheng repeated a sentence redundantly, and suddenly fell silent.

The two of them had never made a phone call like this before, and it seemed that everyone was being careful, so that even normal communication was restricted.Even the question "Are you busy or have you eaten?" Yi Zhe was too guilty to ask.Even though they can hear each other's breathing, they are actually separated by thousands of rivers and mountains that cannot be crossed.

This embarrassment was beginning to embarrass him, Xu Tangcheng spoke again.

"That's it?"

Yi Zhe clenched his fists and replied, "Yes."

When the phone was disconnected, Yi Zhe pulled his short hair irritably and buried his head.He also thought of what Zheng Yikun said just now—pretending to be okay with each other, not mentioning these bad things, at least they are still good friends on the surface.

According to Yi Zhe's previous habit, if it was a dinner party, he would order it by stepping on it.But this time, he arrived at the restaurant a full 20 minutes earlier than agreed.

Lu Ming ordered a nearby Xinjiang restaurant that has become very popular recently. The lobby is a bit narrow. Although they booked a seat for nine people, there are only small square tables in the hall.The waiter put two tables together and placed seven chairs—four on each long side, and one on the short side like a patriarch's seat.

Subconsciously, Yi Zhe sat in the last seat.

This seat faces the door with its back, and when the door is pushed open from time to time, the cold wind blows in, and the voices are heard, Yi Zhe can't help but look back.It's just that most of the time, before he fully turned his head, he had already judged that Xu Tangcheng was not among the people.

After waiting like this for a few minutes, the waiter standing on the side kept looking at him, perhaps thinking that he was in a hurry, and even brought the menu and asked him if he wanted to order first.Yi Zhe shook his head, feeling that the yellow lights in the store made him uneasy.After the waiter walked away, he got up and changed to the direction facing the door.

Lu Ming and the others came very quickly. After seeing the layout of the seats, several freshmen booed and asked Lu Ming, the minister, to sit in the middle.Lu Ming smacked his lips and joked with them in a well-balanced tone, saying that the two seniors are coming, how can he sit in the middle.

Yu Yu occasionally appeared in various activities of the student union. He was very good at talking, and he was always admired by the current minister and president. Basically, everyone in the student union knew him.But Xu Tangcheng didn't like to go to the student union, at least Yi Zhe had never seen him appear.

When Lu Ming said this, some people naturally wondered who the other senior was.After boasting Xu Tangcheng, Lu Ming specifically mentioned the most important point for them: "Aside from other things, he earned the reputation of the University A campus singer contest. When he was a minister, he absolutely So far, it is the most powerful class among all Beijing universities, and it was popular on the school's internal website at the time, how many schools use his class as a model."

Lu Ming shook his head: "But a template is a template, and it's unattainable, and we can't do that now."

A junior student wondered: "What can't be done?"

"You don't understand," Lu Ming glanced at him, turned the chopsticks in his hand, and knocked on the table twice, "Don't think that if you get enough sponsorship and invite enough guests, you can hold a singer contest well. Singing also requires musical literacy. How to determine the rules of each round, how to ensure fairness while making the rhythm of the competition comfortable, and let the contestants sing more sparks with the audience's feelings. Spend your time..."

Yi Zhe had never experienced these things, and he had never heard Xu Tangcheng mention them.When he became an excellent person in college, he was still living in that small town, messing around.

Such a group of people from the Ministry of Literature and Art gathered together, and of course they couldn't be cold during the waiting time, and it was common for several topics to be discussed at the same time.Yi Zhe drank cups of barley tea and listened to them talking about one serious or funny point after another. If he came across something related to Xu Tangcheng, he would turn the porcelain cup with both hands to watch the light circle on it change, and hang down. Close your eyes and listen for a while.

Xu Tangcheng never came, and Yi Zhe was thinking why Lu Ming wouldn't call him, so Yu Yu walked in.He was pushed into the special "parent seat", smiled helplessly, and said that Xu Tangcheng was still at the teacher's place, and he would arrive later, so he let them eat first.

This news made Yi Zhe feel a little discouraged, but it seemed that he was lucky enough to get rid of some anxiety and he was temporarily relieved.

The dishes had already been ordered before, and soon, several dishes were served.The hot air is blowing, giving people a real sense of life.

Everyone said that the taste of this restaurant is good. Although it is Xinjiang cuisine, it is actually a little improved, which is more special than usual.Yi Zhe didn't know whether it was delicious or not.He didn't move his chopsticks much, and the plate was kept clean until Xu Tangcheng opened the door and came in, only to pick up two peanuts and a piece of potato.

Yi Zhe was the first to notice that Xu Tangcheng came in, but it was Lu Ming who called out first.

Yi Zhe watched him enter the door without making a sound, and walked this way, only feeling that he was walking step by step, just stepping on the beat of his heartbeat.

The light that made him feel uneasy just now seemed to have more magical power, which made him feel an illusory feeling of separation between his mind and body.

"Senior, sit here, sit here."

There was another seat beside Lu Ming, and another seat beside Yi Zhe.For the first time, Xu Tangcheng's thinking short-circuited on this kind of issue.

Yi Zhe probably thought that he would not be noticed by staring at him in the eyes of everyone, but in fact, ever since Xu Tangcheng entered the door, he had already felt this too special gaze.He didn't dare to confront him, so he responded to Lu Ming who kept calling him from the beginning to the end.

It was also this avoidance that made him choose the position next to Lu Ming under the close gaze of those eyes.

Yi Zhe sat diagonally across from him. After sitting down, Xu Tangcheng raised his head while answering the questions of the people next to him. Also tonight, he met his eyes for the first time.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.

It was also this glance that no one else noticed that made Xu Tangcheng realize that he had irreparably hurt him.

Yi Zhe just sat there and stared at him blankly.

There was no sadness, no disappointment, no grievance, just blankly, as if completely unable to react to what just happened.

He sat on the edge, with an empty seat next to him, which seemed to separate him from everyone else.