Pavlov's dog

Suding repair shop is located in a remote place, Fang Wei found it after going around a few times from memory.When the lights came on, it was already night.He parked the car at the door and walked in, but no one greeted him.

The room was chaotic, and several people had set up a simple table to eat.

Someone saw him and greeted him, "What's the matter?"

"Repair the car." Fang Wei searched the circle of people while answering, "The rearview mirror is broken."

Zhou Ruiyun is not here.He is a little lost.

"Okay, Xiao Wang, go and have a look." A middle-aged man said.

"Hey, I haven't finished my meal yet." Xiao Wang stood up reluctantly holding the bowl, and asked Fang Wei, "Do you want this car repaired now?"

The air in the room was not circulating, and there was a mixed smell of food and gasoline. Fang Wei hadn't eaten dinner, and his stomach was so empty that he felt like vomiting.He pressed his stomach with his hands, thinking about leaving the car here and leaving first.

"Then..." He was about to speak when the door next to him opened.Zhou Ruiyun came out from inside.

Fang Wei was dumb for an instant.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Ruiyun went to the bathroom and came out with a cigarette in his hand.

"Someone came to repair the car, just in time for dinner..." Xiao Wang put down his bowl and said impatiently.

"Sit down and eat," Zhou Ruiyun took a puff of cigarette, rolled his eyelids to Fang Wei who was standing aside, "Let me take a look."

"You don't want to eat?" Xiao Wang said.

Only then did Fang Wei notice that there was a pair of vacant bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses on the table, which should belong to Zhou Ruiyun.

"I'm full." Zhou Ruiyun threw the cigarette on the ground, crushed it out with his feet, and asked, "What's wrong with the car?"

Fang Wei felt a stomach cramp, which was a sign of nervousness and excitement.

"The rearview mirror and the door are also slightly scratched." He replied.

Zhou Ruiyun said, "Let's take a look first."

The two of them walked outside one after the other and reached the car.

"I ran into someone?" Zhou Ruiyun checked the damage.

"It was hit by an electric car." Fang Wei replied obediently.

"Nearby?"

"No, the South Second Ring Road." As soon as the words came out, Fang Wei regretted it.

It’s over.

"The Second Ring Road is [-] to [-] kilometers away from here. Are you here to repair it?" Zhou Ruiyun frowned.

Fang Wei bit the tip of her tongue, full of regret, and said, "It just so happened that you were doing this, so I wanted to come to you."

Zhou Ruiyun glanced at Fang Weiyi, which was quite familiar.Fang Wei's heart trembled, Zhou Ruiyun looked over with the same eyes as he used to look at those people when a group of classmates went to his stall to eat with ulterior motives.

Fang Wei secretly wondered if he had said the wrong thing, and would the other party misunderstand that he came here deliberately to find fault or humiliate others with a superior posture?It is no different from those classmates or Liu Chen in the past.

He wanted to explain, but Zhou Ruiyun said: "Your car will probably cost thousands of dollars to repair."

"Ah..." Fang Weiyi didn't react for a while, "Oh, fine."

Zhou Ruiyun put on the gloves and said, "You can pick it up tomorrow, it's quite late today."

Fang Wei didn't want to leave, so she lied and said, "I'm waiting to use the car."

It's over, it's a wrong word again.Fang Wei wanted to cry.

I have traveled thousands of miles to come here to repair the car, and it doesn't look like I am waiting to use the car in a hurry.He was very frustrated, waiting for the imminent knife.However, Zhou Ruiyun didn't expose his lame reason, and drove the car into the repair shop to inspect it intently.

Fang Wei calmed down and sat on the stool.The little girl in the shop poured him a cup of tea, it was not a good tea, and it made his mouth a little bitter, but Fang Wei didn't notice it, and he stared at the shadow of Zhou Ruiyun cast by the light, fascinated.

An employee came to help, talking and laughing with Zhou Ruiyun, Fang Wei listened.Some people were afraid that he would be bored, so they came to talk to him and asked him how the accident happened.

Fang Wei described the scene of the crash. The little Wang from before said, "Then this is the responsibility of the electric car. Why did you let him go?"

"She refuses to lose money, and the commotion will also affect traffic."

Xiao Wang said, "You are too kind."

Fang Wei lowered his eyes and smiled.

But Xiao Wang patted Zhou Ruiyun on the shoulder, and muttered in a low voice: "When you drive this kind of car, you can see that you are a rich person. People are stupid and have a lot of money."

Zhou Ruiyun kept moving his hands and didn't respond, he just said, "Pass me the toolbox."

Xiao Wang left after a while, and Fang Wei sat there bored.Zhou Ruiyun didn't talk to him, as if he didn't know him, he was in a dilemma with a heart that was ready to move and a mouth that wanted to talk.

Finally made up my mind and went to the vending machine to buy two bottles of drinks.

"Drink? I'm sorry to trouble you." Fang Wei held the drink to Zhou Ruiyun's eyes.

Zhou Ruiyun didn't answer and said, "Thank you, you can put it here."

Fang Wei put down his drink, remained silent for a while, and said, "I remember you used to like drinking this."

His tone was normal, but his words seemed to have a hint of "Look, I still remember" to ask for credit.

Zhou Ruiyun paused and said, "I don't like it now."

-tbc-

Don't like it now.

Fang Wei didn't dare to guess whether these words had any deep meaning or just casually.Holding his own drink, he stood behind Zhou Ruiyun on the left, speechless.

Zhou Ruiyun's body was full of indifference, and it seemed that he didn't want to talk to him very much, just like in the past.When he was in high school, Fang Wei often went to the night market secretly by himself. Zhou Ruiyun's mother knew him well, seeing that he was fair and well-behaved, she often chatted with him and asked him to take care of Zhou Ruiyun at school.

"My Ruiyun family doesn't have many friends," Zhou's mother said.

Zhou Ruiyun happened to come to deliver the skewers, and upon hearing the words, he replied, "This is not my friend."

Fang Wei was smiling, but couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, and replied with a strong face: "We are indeed not friends, I just came here because I like the taste of your barbecue, and the sour plum soup made by auntie is also delicious."

Mother Zhou smiled, and patted Zhou Ruiyun's arm: "Look at you, what nonsense you are talking about." Then she said to Fang Wei, "If you like it, I'll bring you another cup of soup."

Mother Zhou had already turned around to get it after she finished speaking. Fang Wei blinked and then wrinkled her face.

——He is afraid of acid.The young master who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth is afraid of acid, suffering and pain.

Seeing his frowning face, Zhou Ruiyun rarely took the initiative to speak: "I don't like to drink and I lie."

Fang Wei bit her lip and said firmly, "I'm not lying, I really like drinking."

They were indeed not friends, not even their names.But after this sentence of you coming and going, the relationship seems to be a little closer.

At least in the future, Zhou Ruiyun will bake an extra chicken wing for Fang Wei, but that's all.In school, Fang Wei occasionally crosses several classes to chat with Zhou Ruiyun, using excuses to borrow test papers or discuss physics problems.But Zhou Ruiyun is not warm to him, and Fang Wei will get impatient if he looks for him frequently, and just ignore him.

Just like now.

Zhou Ruiyun was concentrating on repairing the car, while Fang Wei watched from the side, and they were silent to each other.

The employees of the repair shop left work one after another, and they all said hello to Zhou Ruiyun before leaving.

Fang Wei said, "Did I make you work overtime?"

Zhou Ruiyun replied: "I usually leave late."

Late at night.Seeing that Zhou Ruiyun didn't drink, Fang Wei brought up the previous topic: "You don't like this drink, then let me get you a cup of coffee."

Zhou Ruiyun didn't refuse, Fang Wei was overjoyed again, and ran to the vending machine to get a cup of coffee.

This time Zhou Ruiyun drank it.

The car repair time was long and boring, Fang Wei saw that Zhou Ruiyun didn't want him to bring up the past, so Fang Wei started to talk about the current topic.Zhou Ruiyun was repairing the car, and he pointed to a bunch of tools and asked them one by one. He would ask which one Zhou Ruiyun used.

"What is this?"

Fang Wei knew that he was annoying, but he just couldn't keep his mouth shut, and couldn't help wanting to talk to people.

Zhou Ruiyun's answer was professional, and he was not perfunctory.Although it was a boring topic without nutrition, Fang Wei was happy.He felt that Zhou Ruiyun's voice was nice, deep and magnetic, and he was inevitably tired late at night, so he put on a smoking voice, which sounded real and close to him.

"Where do you live, how do you go back later?" Fang Wei asked after the car was repaired very late, after paying.

"Take the car." Zhou Ruiyun replied.

Fang Wei became alert at this moment, and he fiddled with his mobile phone to check the time: "Is there a bus? The last bus is gone. The subway is also out of service."

"So?" Zhou Ruiyun put away the POS machine and looked directly at him.

Fang Weiyi was a little nervous all of a sudden, feeling like he had been seen through.

"It just troubled you all night, and made you feel a little sorry for missing the last train. I thought I would take you back." Fang Wei said bravely.

Zhou Ruiyun gave him a cold look, turned around and walked inside.

"You..." Fang Wei watched him leave without saying a word, thinking it was a refusal.

Zhou Ruiyun turned his back to him and said, "Wait a minute, I'll change my clothes."

After Fang Wei understood what these words meant, his whole figure was like a flower and plant that had been re-watered with running water, and the drooping branches and leaves stood upright again.

Zhou Ruiyun changed his overalls and put on an ordinary shirt.He was tall, long-legged, and handsome, and when he changed into casual clothes, he looked glamorous.

Fang Wei drove out of the repair shop and asked the person sitting in the co-pilot, "Where do you live?"

Zhou Ruiyun reported an address, and Fang Wei had only been back to China for two or three months, and he didn't know him at all, so he planned to stop and navigate.

When Zhou Ruiyun saw it, he said, "You keep driving, and I'll show you the way."

"Oh, good." Fang Wei quickly responded, he wished Zhou Ruiyun could talk more.

The section near here is the road around the mountain. The last time Xie Heng and Liu Chen raced here, the road is steep and difficult to walk.Fang Wei drove slowly, of course, he didn't want to drive fast either.

Zhou Ruiyun leaned against the back of the chair, pointing the way from time to time.Fearing that the atmosphere would be awkward, Fang Wei closed the car window and turned on the car music, and asked, "Do you have any favorite songs?"

"Just let it go." Zhou Ruiyun said.

The sound of music poured out, Fang Wei held the steering wheel and stared at the road ahead, but his eyes flicked to the side from time to time.

"It's a waste for you to drive this car." Suddenly the other party said.

Fang Wei didn't react, just encountered an obstacle, moved his hands twice, the car turned left and right immediately, and almost hit the guardrail.Zhou Ruiyun leaned over, stabilized the steering wheel, and said in a deep voice, "Look at the road."

Fang Wei was still in shock, and stammered: "Mmmmmm."

Zhou Ruiyun was very close, and his body still smelled of gasoline from the repair shop, but Fang Wei didn't find it unpleasant at the moment.

Seeing that the car was driving smoothly, Zhou Ruiyun sat back down again.

Fang Wei thought about his last sentence and asked, "What did you mean by that just now?"

Zhou Ruiyun: "I wanted to talk about your snail speed, but seeing what you did just now, your skills are not good."

"I rarely drive, and I always drive on the right in foreign countries, so I'm not used to it yet," Fang Wei explained.

"Yes." Zhou Ruiyun agreed.

Fang Wei was silent for a while, and suggested, "Why don't you drive? I'm not familiar with the road here either."

Fang Wei heard the people beside him laugh.Zhou Ruiyun seldom smiled, so he couldn't help turning his head to look. The smile on the other party's face hadn't disappeared. He looked into Fang Wei's eyes and said, "Your car, you can drive."

It's a waste for Fang Wei to drive this car. It doesn't fit his status to drive it by himself, what does it look like.Zhou Ruiyun leaned against the back of the chair and gave a self-deprecating smile, but Fang Wei didn't notice it.

In the end, Zhou Ruiyun didn't send him home. Zhou Ruiyun answered the phone on the way. He heard a man's voice, who seemed to be asking him to go out for a drink. Zhou Ruiyun asked Fang Wei to stop when he entered the urban area.

"I have something to do, thank you." Zhou Ruiyun said before getting out of the car.

Fang Wei couldn't get involved in his personal affairs, so she nodded and said, "Goodbye."

Zhou Ruiyun left, his figure hidden in the night and the traffic.

Fang Wei leaned on the steering wheel while waiting for the red light, and suddenly thought that he forgot to ask Zhou Ruiyun's mobile phone number just now, and next time he will find a reason to go to the repair shop, and remember to ask when the time comes.

The idea was good, but Fang Wei didn't expect that Zhou Ruiyun would be gone the next time he went to the repair shop.People go to the empty building and can't find it everywhere.

There are five working days in a week, and Fang Wei started counting the days from Monday, and when he counted to Friday, he was finally freed from work and went to the repair shop where Zhou Ruiyun worked.

Before he got off work, he went to the company bathroom to toss his hair and clothes. Tan Xiyuan saw it and teased him: "Are you going on a date?"

Fang Wei was embarrassed: "No, go to repair the car."

Tan Xiyuan was taken aback: "Repair the car?"

"There's something wrong with the headlights," Fang Wei said.

Tan Xiyuan said kindly: "I know a repair shop with a fair price and good technology. Would you like me to introduce it?"

"I have a friend who works in the repair shop, so I don't bother Brother Tan." Fang Wei smiled.

He only dared to use the word friend in front of others, but he couldn't say these two words when he was in front of Zhou Ruiyun.

Fang Wei left the company and went to the repair shop relaxed and nervous.Will you go too often?He thought on the road.Reason told him he shouldn't go, and Zhou Ruiyun would suspect him.But I couldn't control my body and drove faster and faster.

However, things backfired, and when we arrived at the place, we found that the door was half closed.Fang Wei got out of the car and walked in. Several people were dismantling things.

"Who are you looking for?" a man in gray asked.

Fang Wei replied, "Come to fix the car."

"The shop is closed, no more repairs." The man said impatiently.

Fang Wei paused: "Then come to the store tomorrow?"

Someone came up from behind and patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "It will not be opened in the future. The boss's son has a medical problem and has gone abroad for treatment. The store is sold, so let's open a restaurant in the future."

"So suddenly..." Fang Wei murmured.

The people next to him are busy, and no one pays attention to him.He stood there like a strange person, and after a while he spoke again: "Hello, can I ask, where are the employees in the repair shop?"

"How do I know." The man in gray clothes who spoke to him earlier spoke in a very angry tone, "If you want to repair the car, go to another shop. I didn't hear that this shop has been sold."

Fang Wei stood there awkwardly, silent for a moment, said thank you, and then walked out the door.

The evening wind on the mountain road was blowing with coolness, and the street lamps cast light.Fang Wei didn't get into the car immediately, he stood by the roadside guardrail for a while, the sky darkened, the fog rose, and the repair shop was behind him, silent.

He couldn't tell how he felt.It seemed that the Zhou Ruiyun he had seen the previous two times was just a dream, and he couldn't tell the truth from reality in a trance.

It was like a false alarm.