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After the phone was charged and turned on, Xue Jin received a call from Ah Sang: "Mr. Xue, the college called me and said that the suspension was revoked, and I can go back to school next week."

Xue Jin didn't expect the school to act so quickly, but it was a good thing anyway, at least the primary problem was solved, and he didn't have to worry about getting involved with Ah Sang any more.

"Then invite you to have a supper to celebrate tomorrow." He smiled and asked Ah Sang what he wanted to eat, "It was agreed last time, but I was too busy and tired and forgot all about it, so I left without telling you It's..."

"It's okay, Lawyer Gu told me that day." Ah Sang said, "I didn't wait long. I just finished my shift when you came down."

Xue Jin was stunned for a moment, then replied after a while: "That's good."

It just so happened that Ah Sang didn't have to be on duty tomorrow night. They made an appointment with the Z lobster that Yang Zixi had been thinking about before.Xue Jin hesitated before calling Gu Zhilin, but finally sent a text message asking if he was free.

"Yes." Gu Zhilin replied concisely.

Xue Jin was very satisfied, the problem was solved without any dialogue, and if there was anything else, he could wait until tomorrow night.With Ah Sang around, he can avoid communicating with Gu Zhilin alone to the greatest extent possible, that is to say, he doesn't need to talk to Gu Zhilin about what happened last night tomorrow night.

All are happy.

But the next day, he realized that was not the case at all.

Although the boss has changed, the crayfish still tastes the same as before. Xue Jin arrived early and ordered crayfish and skewers according to the appetite of the three of them. As a result, Ah Sang was drinking three cups, and the speed of drunkenness made people suspect that he was It's not that he has never drank the wine he made himself, and when he fell headfirst on the table, he almost smashed his head into the crayfish basin.

"Thank you...Xue, Mr. Xue..."

Drunk and dazed, the child opened his eyes wide and barely recognized who was holding him up, and thanked Xue Jin foolishly.

Ganqing said before that "the capacity for alcohol is not bad" is out of humility. Among the people Xue Jin knows, in terms of capacity for alcohol, Ah Sang would be the second most likely no one would dare to consider him number one.

The countdown kind.

Xue Jin was so angry and funny, he couldn't let him sleep on the oily table, so he coaxed him a few times in a good temper, and helped him into his car.

There are no special parking spaces for the food stalls on Xueyuan Road. Everyone basically parks their cars in the public parking spaces on the side of the road and drives away after eating. The traffic police don't care much about this area.Xue Jin's car was parked not far behind them, and he pushed Ah Sang in and opened the window, so he could see clearly while sitting in the shop, and the boss would help to keep an eye on him, so he wasn't worried about safety.

But problems will always appear one after another. After Xue Jin helped Asang into the car, he realized that there were only him and Gu Zhilin left at the table.

He consciously moved to the seat where Ah Sang was sitting just now—diagonal to Gu Zhilin, and farther away—then put on his gloves and lowered his head to peel the shrimp, pretending that he should pay attention to table manners when eating mochi, and ate the crayfish out of nowhere Delicacy of French cuisine.

When Xue Jin was young, he didn’t have a cold for spicy food, but his mother was a person who could eat spicy food and loved it. As long as it was his mother’s turn to cook, it was basically impossible to avoid spicy food. Over time, he was trained by his mother to eat spicy food. For him, Ma Xiao's spiciness is basically pediatrics.But he doesn't like crayfish very much. It's not that he doesn't like the taste, but that he finds it troublesome to peel the shells. He dislikes all shrimp and crabs equally.

But now he has nothing to choose, no matter how difficult it is to peel the shrimp shell, it is not as difficult as chatting with Gu Zhilin - he didn't even think about why he had sex with him the night before yesterday, if the other party brought it up, it would be too embarrassing up.

He lowered his head and peeled the crayfish meticulously. For convenience, he rolled his sleeves to his forearms, exposing a section of his arms.The little beer he drank hadn't made him feel a little drunk, and his skin looked a little less bloody under the fluorescent lamps that only serve as lighting at the food stall, but his lips were dyed red by spicy oil. Xue Jin's already overly delicate facial features are a bit gorgeous.

Because of the strong smell of barbecue, he only wore an ordinary sweater under his coat tonight. He looked younger than usual, and he was not very skilled in sucking the lobster sauce, even a little cute.Gu Zhilin looked at him nonchalantly for a while, then suddenly put the peeled shrimp in the bowl in front of him.

Xue Jin immediately looked up at him, as if frightened by something: "What are you doing?"

His nerves were so tense that Gu Zhilin trembled with fear whenever he made a move, and he didn't realize that his vigilance level on a certain topic was abnormally high, instead he seemed guilty of guilt.

Gu Zhilin was very calm, as if he was just doing an insignificant favor: "You're not very good at doing this, I'll help you."

He is really good at this. A few minutes later, Xue Jin was facing half a bowl of peeled crayfish, and almost forgot what he was afraid of just now.

"How can this thing be peeled so fast?" He couldn't believe it.

"When I was studying, I worked in a restaurant for a while, and I learned from the master." Gu Zhilin took off his gloves, took a can of beer from the ice bucket and opened it, "Shrimp and crab are skilled in peeling, but those who go to learn Not much, and not necessary."

Xue Jin suddenly remembered that Gu Zhilin seemed to be able to cook.

He walked around the kitchen of Gu Zhilin's house twice that day. Not only did the microwave oven show traces of frequent use, but the cooking table and stove were also cleaned up after use. Only the kitchen used by the part-time aunt is completely different.

If the person who said this was Su Yao, he would have just joked about it casually, but the person sitting opposite was Gu Zhilin, so Xue Jin didn't know what to say more appropriately.

In the end, he just smiled, brought over the peeled crayfish and ate them, and then thanked Gu Zhilin.

During this period, Ah Sang was so drunk that he opened the car door to ask for water once. Xue Jin brought him mineral water from the trunk and sat down again. ?”

"You have a good relationship." Gu Zhilin said.

"It's not easy for him to come to me for help with such a personality." Xue Jin told about Ah Sang handing him the card, and couldn't help laughing, "He took out his ID card before he said anything. , begging me to do him a favor, if I didn't know Su Yao so well, I almost thought that I was trying to force him to do something immoral."

He thinks this is very interesting. It is not surprising for a poor student to work part-time. When Xue Jin was in M ​​province, he even met a classmate who was working part-time in a bar, but when he was desperate, he asked someone to help him get his ID card first. Ah Sang was the only one who introduced himself.

In other words, if Ah Sang was not pleasing to the eye and found him interesting, perhaps Xue Jin would not have agreed to do this thankless favor.

Gu Zhilin lowered his eyes thoughtfully, but said nothing.

"What about you, why did you agree to help?" Xue Jin asked, "I just happened to be getting ready to take a break recently, so I've caused trouble for myself. It's not kind to drag you into the water. In fact, you don't need to get involved at all."

If it is said that Xue Jin is looking for things for himself when he is idle, for Gu Zhilin, it is completely thankless to help him. He still does not understand why the other party agreed, and he has always said "Gu Zhilin probably did that day." I didn’t wake up, I promised and it’s hard to go back on my word” as an excuse to prevaricate myself.

But the truth is of course not like that. It would be a lie to say that he didn't want to know, so he still asked.

"Nothing." Gu Zhilin said.

Xue Jin looked up at him, as if he was talking some stupid lie.

But he actually smiled, put the empty soda can on the table, then crossed half of the greasy round table, and whispered in Xue Jin's ear:

"You want to help him, so I will help you."

Xue Jin was stunned.

It's not that he didn't imagine the answer that Gu Zhilin might say, but he didn't expect that what he got in the end would be like this...It sounds a bit out of the blue.

"...Are you kidding me?" He hesitated to put down the chopsticks, his hands couldn't find a place on the table, so he put them on his lap, as if that would make him feel more at ease.

Are you kidding me?He couldn't help urging in his heart, hurry up, so he could laugh in unison, and then pretended he hadn't asked this self-destructive question.

But Gu Zhilin didn't.

He just looked at Xue Jin calmly, and didn't patch up what he said just now.

Xue Jin suddenly didn't know what to say. Based on his understanding of Gu Zhilin, the other party was serious.

At the food stall on Xueyuan Road at the end of November, Gu Zhilin said something to him that sounded like a confession, but he panicked in response, and finally said nothing, and fled away with Ah Sang, who was so drunk that he was unconscious.

Ah Sang is still living in the staff dormitory of Yixin. Xue Jin got out of the car and called someone to help him carry Ah Sang upstairs, and then took a paper towel from the table to wipe off his sweat.

Ah Sang's colleague threw him on the bed, and turned around to ask Xue Jin a few words of concern: "Mr. Xue, are you okay? Why are you sweating in such a cold weather?"

"It's okay." Xue Jin smiled unnaturally, "Ah Sang is drunk, take care of him, I have something to do and I'll leave first."

He went downstairs in a daze and almost tripped on the stairs. Fortunately, his reflexes were good, and he managed to hold on to the wall to stand firm. When he recovered, he remembered that he had left the car keys in Ah Sang's room and went back to get them.

When he drove home, it was already after twelve o'clock, and he had eaten this magical supper for nearly four hours, which is not a long time.He sat down on the sofa in the living room, ignoring the smell of tobacco, wine and barbecue from the food stalls, and lay down like a big character without image.

He didn't turn on the light, the room was pitch black, only a little moonlight from outside the window and the light from the distant TV tower came in, making him very awake amidst the vibrating sound of his mobile phone.

Xue Jin took out his mobile phone from the pocket of the sweater, it was Yang Zixi's number.

"Brother, I have something to do and I have to go home tomorrow morning, so it's convenient for you to take care of Lucas for me..."

Her voice paused abruptly, and realizing that Xue Jin didn't even say "Hello", she asked hesitantly, "Brother?"

Only then did Xue Jin come back to his senses, and said slowly: "Ah, tell me."

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Zixi felt strange, "You, a nocturnal animal, haven't slept yet, have you?"

"It's nothing."

Xue Jin first lied subconsciously, and then felt that there was no need to hide this from Yang Zixi.

So he told the other party about his wonderful adventure at night in a bit of annoyance, and then asked, "Do you think his brain is broken?"

Yang Zixi was silent.

After a while, she seemed to have recovered her lost voice, and said in disbelief, "Gu Zhilin actually confessed his love to you for the first time tonight?"

Xue Jin inexplicably corrected: "It's not a confession, it's just—"

"Wake up Xue Jin, that's a confession." Yang Zixi interrupted him firmly, "With Gu Zhilin's bad character, do you still expect him to kneel down and confess his love to you in the revolving restaurant on the top floor of the TV tower with a rose in his hand?"

That's not true, but it's strange enough to say that in front of leftover crayfish from a roadside food stall.

He didn't say this, Yang Zixi didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and instructed him to take a shower and sleep, and said that he would pack Lucas to the door tomorrow morning, and start a new round of three-day foster care.

"By the way, let me talk to you about your distorted view of feelings. I found that your level of love may not be as good as that of elementary school students."