Fake Slackers

Xie Yu's first reaction was to say "no", but the word "no" lingered on his lips for a long time.

Zhou Dalei asked this question too seriously.

I have known him for so many years, and I always see him with a playful smile on his face and a big heart, and the number of times he gets serious is only a handful.Except for the toy he liked when he was a child being snatched away, the closest thing was when Damei left. He drank several bottles of wine, sat at the entrance of the alley, and asked him drunkenly, "Will Damei come back?"

Whether you will come back or not is not sure, everyone has their own way to go.

Xie Yu looked at him, sighed secretly, and said, "I'll be back."

During the winter vacation, Zhou Dalei poked him whenever he had something to do, and even picked him to do the quizzes. He would often say in the middle of the night: Are you asleep? Thank you, boss. What are you doing?

- No, play games.

-what game?

Xie Yu didn't take it seriously at first, but now that he thinks about it, he realizes that nothing is quite right.

The faint thoughts in Zhou Dalei's heart kept coming up, he took a few steps forward, and suppressed all the expressions on his face: "Speak, you..."

Zhou Dalei couldn't continue - because Xie Yu was silent for a while, then interrupted:

"it's me."

Xie Yu asked again: "How do you know?"

These words made Zhou Dalei's anger directly rushed to the top of his head, the feeling of being deceived was too strong, for a moment he forgot to think about 'why did his boss Xie do this':

"How do I know - don't you know what you are doing? I have copied your homework for so many years, and the words you wrote, no matter if you write fast or slow, or if you write badly or not, even if you change it I can recognize writing with my left hand!"

"..."

Xie Yu really didn't expect that he would be defeated by this.

"I've been brothers with you for so many years, and you lied to me like this?" Zhou Dalei scolded, and Xie Yu dragged his collar to the corner, "I asked you for the first time how your grades fell like this, how did you tell me, What do you say that there are people outside the world and there is a sky outside the sky, life is full of ups and downs, dare to fart with me here!"

Zhou Dalei said something, but he was still very angry.

Xie Yu let him scold him and didn't answer back. It can be said that he had the best temper ever: "Have you scolded enough? Let's continue scolding if you don't have enough."

Zhou Dalei took out a pack of cigarettes, hid in the corner and smoked one, Xie Yu checked the time, and was about to go back, Zhou Dalei stretched out his hand to pull him, and asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking, don't go, squat down, we Have a good chat."

"Squat, you won't be able to catch the bus if you don't walk."

"Then let's talk as we walk," Zhou Dalei immediately compromised, "walk slowly."

Zhou Dalei imagined many reasons, but he did not expect this to be the case.

The latest bus was at nine o'clock. While waiting for the bus, Xie Yu finished his speech in a few words, and Zhou Dalei swears a few times after listening to it, but he doesn't know what to say except the swear words: "The shit with the surname Zhong... ..."

He was angry with Xie Yu at the beginning, but when he was done, he couldn't help being angry for Xie Yu.

Zhou Dalei was so angry that his hand holding the cigarette was shaking, and his mind was full of 'fuck'.

Xie Yu kicked him to prevent him from showing off a section of black water street master-level national curse skills in the street: "Okay, the car is coming, don't hang around here, go back and rest. Hurry up and get out."

The bus approached slowly from the other end, and the light came straight.

Xie Yu got into the car, walked in two steps, and walked back to the door before the car door was closed. He hooked the railing on the side of the door with one hand, and leaned out half of his body: "If you don't want to die, don't talk nonsense. I'm serious. You'd better figure out a way to keep your mouth shut—"

Zhou Dalei also wanted to stop him, but he went back and tossed and turned, and didn't fall asleep for a long time.

Lei's mother got up at night, went to the living room to drink water, and was scared to death by her son who was still sitting on the sofa in the dark.

Zhou Dalei sat on the sofa for a long time, couldn't hold back to flip through the phone's address book, and pointed to Aunt Lan's column, his mind was very confused, and he decided to forget it after thinking about it, but his hands shook, and he accidentally dialed: "..."

The winter vacation was only one month in total, and Xie Yu basically didn't touch a single word of the pile of winter vacation homework that was handed out. He signed his name on it and never opened it again.

In the past few days, Ms. Gu has intentionally or unintentionally asked him about tutoring: "Think about what you did this winter vacation."

Xie Yu went downstairs to get water: "I'm not feeling well, I ate well and slept well."

Gu Xuelan: "Don't change the subject, what do you want to do if this continues, do you think I won't force you now, you just—"

Xie Yu didn't really want to hire a tutor at the beginning, mainly because he felt that controlling his grades at school was already annoying enough, and if he hired a tutor, he needed to control more things, and it was easier to show his flaws.

Ms. Gu said a lot, but he still said the same thing: "Mom, I know it myself."

After he finished speaking, the retrospective lady didn't mock him angrily like before, 'what kind of numbers do you have'.

Gu Xuelan sat on the sofa with the remote control in hand.

There was a clichéd series on the TV screen, and the sound surrounded her ears, but Gu Xuelan's expression was not affected at all. Her face was sullen, and there was a bit of doubt and inquiry in her eyes.

Gu Xuelan recalled that inexplicable phone call last night.

After moving away from Heishui Street, the pace of life is completely different from before, and the relationship with Xu Yanmei and the others has gradually become estranged. Apart from sending blessing text messages during the New Year and holidays, there is almost no other communication.

Zhou Dalei talked incoherently on the phone, saying that he had accidentally made a wrong call, and calling her Aunt Lan again, hesitant to speak.She was woken up in the middle of the night, and she was a little dizzy. She didn't quite understand what he was saying, so she reached out and turned on a small light, sat up and asked, "What's wrong, Dalei?"

Zhou Dalei said: "Aunt Lan, have you ever thought about thanking the boss for his grades..."

Gu Xuelan heard the word 'achievement' clearly, and the child suddenly changed the topic, babbled nonsense, and finally said; "The moon is really full tonight."

Gu Xuelan: "..."

"Seeing such a bright moonlight, I thought of Aunt Lan."

Gu Xuelan has grown older in the past few years, no matter how well maintained she is, the fine lines have already crept into the corners of her eyes, and there are a few troublesome things hidden, and she was disturbed by the phone call and kept awake for a long time.

She tossed and turned, and the last image that came to her mind before falling asleep was the certificates that Xie Yu threw on the table when she was young.

What award?

She was too busy back then, juggling several jobs.

"What do you count, tell me," Gu Xuelan asked him calmly, "...what counts do you have in mind."

After Gu Xuelan finished speaking, she didn't know why she was suspicious, guessing that it was probably because she didn't sleep well in the past few nights.She raised her hand and rubbed the center of her brows, then waved her hand and said, "Okay, go up, don't stand in the way."

Holding the glass, Xie Yu went upstairs and sat in front of the computer for a long time. He didn't listen to the grammar and sentence patterns that the foreign language professor was talking about in the video.

"Kid, what are you doing?"

After receiving He Zhao's call, Xie Yu came back to his senses, lowered his head and drank a couple of sips of water, and answered vaguely.

He Zhaogang got off the taxi, stood at the window to pay, and casually stuffed the change into his pocket: "Drink milk?"

"Drink water."

When He Zhao heard that the children were not drinking milk, he thought it was a pity.

"Can you think of something else? Your thinking is very dangerous." Xie Yu put down the water glass, glanced at the date in the lower right corner of the computer screen, and remembered that He Chao's date with someone was this weekend, and asked again, "I met someone gone?"

"No, I just got out of the car."

He Zhao found the place he had made an appointment with—actually, he didn't need to look for it at all. The three of them used to come to this shop when they were in junior high school, and it was a small noodle shop near the school.

The impression is a very small shop, small and old.The walls are covered with oily black from the oily smoke.

When I was in junior high school, I didn’t have much pocket money, and when school was over, I was so hungry that I often gave you two yuan and I gave three yuan, and several people pooled together to buy a bowl of noodles to pad their stomachs.

"The proprietress still remembers me and gave me a side dish." He Zhao picked an empty seat and sat down, propping his elbows on the table while talking, "I'll bring you next time."

When He Zhao spoke, his tone was very normal, but Xie Yu felt for no reason that this fool's mind should be in a mess right now.

He Zhao was really at a loss for what to do.

The noodle restaurant has been redecorated at some point, and there are familiar dishes on the menu, as well as new additions in the past few years. After He Zhao finished speaking, he stared at the three words 'spicy sauce noodles' on the menu for a while, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked up. Glanced out the window.

Xie Yu didn't say much, just said that if you need anything, remember to call him.

Xie Yu was barefoot, curled up in the large computer chair, and added another sentence before hanging up the phone: "No smoking."

He Zhao said, "Okay."

Xie Yu finished watching the teaching video with little distraction. Before going to bed, she glanced at her mobile phone. The news in the class was constantly being checked. Xu Qingqing wanted to watch ghost movies, but she didn't dare to watch it alone, so she looked for someone to watch with her in the class , In the end, the painting style of the class group became a piece of "Ah!!!!".

There was no movement at all on He Zhao's side.He thought about it, and canceled the mute setting before going to sleep.

It was almost twelve o'clock when he received a call from He Zhao.

This has to be put to the past, Xie Yu's approach is definitely to refuse to accept the one-stop service of blackmailing and throwing mobile phones.

He guessed that He Zhao should have arrived home, but when he picked it up, he heard a few faint sounds of cars from the opposite side: "Where are you?"

He Zhao didn't answer.

After Xie Yu asked for the third time, when he almost lost his patience, He Zhao opened his mouth to call out his name.

He Zhao's words were a little drunk, and it sounded irrational, but when he pronounced his name, he was very serious, and the sound of the words was tender.

"Thank you Yu."

He Zhao called out several times in a row.Low and hoarse, with complex emotions, mixed with the surrounding noises.

"Brother," Xie Yu didn't feel sleepy at all, he got up, the air conditioner had already been turned off, and the coolness crept in through the thin fabric, "Have you been drinking?"

He Zhao squatted by the side of the street, buried his face in his palms, and wanted to call him to tell him he was safe, but when he heard Xie Yu's voice, he was so drunk that he couldn't help... wanted to scream he.

He Zhao originally thought that this matter would not be so easy to pass.

In the end, I really stood up, walked forward, and walked to it, and found that it was not as difficult as I imagined.

When they met, Er Lei came up and punched him directly, and asked him after punching, "Is it alright, are you feeling at ease?"

That punch wasn't just for fun, he exhausted almost all his strength, and He Zhao was stunned for a second. He leaned his back against the wall, then wiped the corners of his mouth, and tasted a bit of blood in his mouth.

Fang Xiaolei has not changed much from before, he is a little fatter, and his dressing style is also more mature. Compared with his peers, he is not so student-like.

——"The previous things, forget it."

——"Brother Chao, last time you came to me, I also said it wasn't your fault. Now I want to make a correction. I don't blame you. I want to tell you in person."

Er Lei's words kept ringing in his ears.

An indescribable weight was accumulated in his chest, but as he breathed, everything seemed to become lighter again.

This feeling of losing center of gravity passed in a flash.

He Zhao looked at the traffic on the street in front of him. The headlights pierced through the night, making his eyes ache.

"No," He Zhao said a word, but stopped again. He blinked, his eyes were slightly red, "I just drank a little."

You're bloody tongue-tied and you drink a little.

Xie Yu got a little annoyed, and asked while putting on his clothes, "Where are you now?"

He Zhao was still near the school.

A few hours ago, the three of them met and didn't talk much, but the wine was blowing bottle after bottle.

Lei Jun drank the most.

Lei Jun was not involved in the incident back then, and Er Lei was in a hurry, so he couldn't ask about many things, so he could only think about the worst.He grabbed He Zhao's collar and punched him, pinning him to the ground until the school almost called an ambulance: "Did you do it, shirk responsibility—"

He Zhao didn't explain and didn't fight back, even selfishly hoping that he would hit him harder.

Be tougher.

After that, Lei Jun didn't go to school anymore, but went directly to the technical secondary school. Anyway, it doesn't make any difference whether he prepares for the exam or not.I also don't want to know anything about this "old friend".

We will meet again in a small restaurant near Dianji.

Lei Jun was only annoyed, and forgot to think about why this person was in the No. [-] Middle School. After returning home, he asked someone to investigate, and found that not only the school, but even the grade was not right.

Not only was she dropped one level, but she was still studying in the most common high school in City A.

Er Lei was not very good at drinking, but he has also practiced at various banquets in the past few years, and killed a bottle in a few strokes: "I was busy and forgot, running around in other places... You and brother Chao have not been together in the past few years. met?"

"I've touched it." He Zhao drank furiously. He leaned back and put the empty wine bottle in his hand on the table. "A few months ago, we had a conversation."

Lei Jun: "God damn communication, fist and fist also count as communication?"

"..."

At the end of the drink, the three of them seemed to have returned to the previous days in a trance.

Xie Yu wrote down the location, worried that He Chao would drink alone and hang around in the middle of the night, so he took a coat and put it on, and when he went out and got in the car, he realized that he forgot to bring his mobile phone.

He walked too quickly, threw his phone on the bed while putting on his coat, and went straight out the door after putting on.

He Zhao squatted on the side of the street for a while, and his alcoholism subsided a bit.

There were not many people coming and going on the street. A group came out of the restaurant opposite, whistling and hanging shoulders after drinking too much. They didn't look very old, and there were a few girls in that group.

Even though it was already dark, but with the street lights on, they could still see the situation on the other side of the street clearly. They pushed each other for a while: "Hey, hey, look at the one on the other side."

Although the boy is squatting, he should be quite tall. The zipper of his coat is unzipped. Although he can't see his face clearly with his head down, he feels that this person's figure and temperament are extremely outstanding.

He Zhao never expected to meet a salesman in the middle of the night.It's all over.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the few people in front of him. Before he could say the words "do not scan the QR code", he was pulled by the collar of his collar and roughly pulled up.

"He has a date."

Xie Yu's complexion was not very good, and his brows and eyes were full of irritability. Seeing that they were still in a daze, he reiterated: "He has a partner."