What Comes Around Goes Around

In fact, after returning home from the shopping mall that day, Zong Kai felt a little regretful.He thought he really shouldn't have saved Jiang Ke's number just to improve his previous attitude.Fortunately, he became passive again.

At that time, Jiang Ke asked him if he could leave a cell phone number. For some reason, his first reaction was that he didn't want to follow Jiang Ke's train of thought.It was like a pair of little brothers who had a conflict, one put down his face and begged for reconciliation, but the other couldn't help but feel awkward, full of subtext: You say reconcile, so reconcile?Not!Tell you to mess with me!Don't let you have a long memory!

This kind of mentality seems naive now, but at that time Zong Kai really felt a kind of relief, although when he woke up, he found that he had just lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

He had already forgiven Jiang Ke in his heart, but he didn't want to admit it because of his poor self-esteem.He deleted each other's contact information before, how could Jiang Ke give it to him as soon as he opened his mouth?He didn't give it to him, so he can't be the person who "passively" responds to Jiang Ke now, he can only look at Jiang Ke's mobile phone number, wondering whether to "actively" show that he is actually willing to be friends with him.

He hesitated for many days like this, until an unpleasant phone call tonight.When he picked up the phone casually, Zong Kai was working overtime in front of the computer in the study, and he didn't realize whose call it was until he heard the voice from the other side.

"mom."

"Come over after get off work tomorrow."

Zong Kai often feels that his rebellion in adolescence has been postponed, and it is only at this age that he starts to rebel.As soon as he heard that his mother had decided to arrange the time for him again, his temples swelled up.

"……what's up?"

"Your cousin has returned to China, so it's time to catch up with the wind, right?"

as expected.Taking the wind is a pretense, and Zong Kai knew this routine since he was a child.These lively family gatherings are just a stage for the elders to compare and show off.The hateful thing is to use him as a prop.What is even more hateful than being a prop is that the criterion for judging the quality of this prop is whether "it" has even a little more bright spot than other props in "competing in the same field".

Zong Kai admits that with his family's traditional high demands, people like him are a typical representative of no-prospects. Their academic qualifications are not top-notch, and they don't have the ability to become an official to make a lot of money. It is nothing more than a foil.

In fact, since he went abroad to study in university, Zong Kai has paid less and less attention to these things, or he has become less and less willing to play the role of the poor little boy who always felt useless and embarrassing his parents when he was young.He just simply didn't want to attend such a powerful occasion.

"I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow, I have to work overtime."

But to say that high demands are not without benefits, for example, this kind of official excuse will never work well.The Zongmu paused when she heard the words, "...how about changing the time? Weekend?"

Zong Kai impatiently took off his glasses, pinched his eyebrows, and made up a nonsense without changing his face: "We can't do it on weekends, we have to go on a business trip, so let's get together, don't wait for me, just take it for me."

Mother-in-law sighed and hung up the phone.Zong Kai's mood fell again. He leaned his neck back on the back of the chair and let it go for a while. When he got up again, he vaguely saw a purple cloud on the corner of the table. He didn't recognize the bottle of hyacinth until he put on his glasses again.He brought it home the other day.

Zong Kai stared blankly at some curled petals for a few minutes, then picked up his phone and flipped through the address book, looking for the name "Jiang Ke" by the first letter of the pinyin, but he couldn't find it.He called the name again, still no.His heart was suddenly empty, as if he had lost something, he swiped his fingers a few more times in disbelief, and finally found a name at the top of the address book: Love so and so.

Zong Kai understood in his heart why Jiang Ke kept this name.He re-matched the address book in WeChat, found Jiang Ke's account, and sent the verification request "one meter away" in cooperation.

As soon as the request shows sent, it goes through and a message arrives.A silly self-introduction: I am Jiang Ke.

Zong Kai wanted to laugh a little, and replied: I know.

- I forgot to thank you that day.

It took Jiang Ke a long time to send this sentence, and Zong Kai could feel that he was looking for something to say through the screen.

-no need thank me?

- Don't let me continue to embarrass myself.

-Understandable, for my friend.

- No, no, it's wrong to hit someone, I'm too impulsive.

- was it all right after that?

- It's okay, it's a misunderstanding.

-Um.

Um?Why should uh?Hmm, it's hard to answer!Jiang Ke rolled around on the bed for several times but couldn't come up with any meaningful topics, but he couldn't bear to let it go, so he had to start the awkward chat mode:

- Are you busy with work recently?

-Well enough.

- Do you have to wear formal clothes to work?

-Um.

Huh again?Jiang Ke wanted to hit the wall a little bit, and thought that he could chat all night before, so why is he so embarrassed now?

He was still racking his brains when a message from Zong Kai ended his "pain": Go to bed early, good night.

Jiang Ke can make Jiang Ke grin foolishly just by declaring the end of the chat, because it was sent by Zong Kai on his own initiative.He originally thought that Zong Kai would stop talking to him, but he didn't expect to see Zong Kai say good night to him.

Anyway, since Zong Kai didn't have the heart to keep him away thousands of miles away, it means that everything is possible.Jiang Ke finally made up his mind and replied: Good night.Plus a weeping emoji.

Zong Kai did not reply.He stared at the crying and laughing cartoon villain for a while, then tapped the villain's head a few times with his fingers, and finally changed the note "Love so and so" back to Jiang Ke.

Re-establishing contact with Zong Kai made Jiang Ke happy for the next week, but there were still a handful of broken thoughts: Zong Kai never took the initiative to find him once in so many days.Zong Kai would always answer the topics he had been thinking about, but he just didn't take the initiative to find him.

After a few more days of enduring, Jiang Ke couldn't bear it anymore.He felt that it was useless to wait, and it was useless to ask Zong Kai to propose to meet for a while.On Thursday afternoon, he did not return to the company after running business outside, so he abducted to the place where Zong Kai worked.Of course he didn't dare to go upstairs to find him directly, he just "ambushed" downstairs and wanted to wait for Zong Kai to get off work to see if he could find a chance to have a meal together.

hum... hum...

The phone in his trouser pocket vibrated.

"Hey."

"Where are you?" Qin Ziyang's voice was panting.

"Outside, what's the matter?" Jiang Ke was talking, keeping his eyes on the people coming in and out of the elevator.

"Dinner, didn't we agree?"

Jiang Ke was taken aback, "When will it be agreed?"

"On that day, I said to have dinner together, you say you are free, I am free today."

Jiang Ke was full of helplessness, "Let's forget it for today, I have something to do."

"What's the matter with you?" Qin Ziyang asked, with obvious disbelief in his voice.

Jiang Ke didn't want to explain to him, so he said perfunctorily, "Anyway, there is something to do, let's wait another day."

"What's the matter with you?" Qin Ziyang refused to let him go.

"Is it okay to have dinner with customers? I said you are an old mother, and you don't care about everything." After talking to him for a few words, Jiang Ke hadn't noticed that he had missed an elevator, and he quickly turned his eyes back to the correct one. direction.

"Whether it works? You are starting to open your eyes and talk nonsense. Turn around and I see you."

"Ah?" Jiang Ke turned his face away, just in time to meet Qin Ziyang's playful expression as if he was caught and raped on the spot.

"Why did you come here?" Jiang Ke hung up the phone, only then did he notice that Qin Ziyang was still following Song Henan.When the two got closer, he whispered, "I'm sorry about what happened last time."

"It's okay." Song He Nan smiled generously.

At this time, the elevator door opened again, and a group of off-duty white-collar workers came out.Seeing that Zong Kai was inside, Jiang Ke couldn't care less about Qin Ziyang, and ran over to say hello.

"your get off work is done."

Zong Kai didn't expect to meet Jiang Ke here, he was slightly taken aback before he said, "Why are you here?"

Jiang Ke was about to spit out the lines he had prepared earlier, but was snatched away by Qin Ziyang who followed him: "Are you Zong Kai? He always heard Jiang Ke mentioning you, saying that he was an old classmate and had a good relationship. Let's go, this will touch you." Come on, let's eat together?"

Jiang Ke didn't know for a while whether to praise him for his strength or scold him as a pig teammate. It was his wish to have dinner together, but can he stop talking nonsense and when there is a festival, it will become a relationship?He didn't dare to raise his eyes to see Zong Kai's expression when he heard this.

Zong Kai didn't think much about this, but was a little uncomfortable being stared at by Qin Ziyang, and avoided his sight and said politely: "No, I won't bother you."

His answer was completely in Jiang Ke's expectation.

"Why bother?" Qin Ziyang winked at Jiang Ke, "Don't bother, he's also a light bulb anyway."

Zong Kai didn't turn a corner when he said this, and looked at Jiang Ke with some doubts.

Jiang Ke pointed to Qin Ziyang, then pointed to Song Henan who was standing over at some point, and hinted, "They...um..."

Zong Kai came to his senses, and was about to say "I don't bother you anymore", when Song He Nan said enthusiastically, "Come on together, I have to thank you for what happened last time, otherwise this kid won't let me go." He spoke and pointed to Jiang Ke.

Jiang Ke was originally not happy to be mentioned this, but he just wanted to stay with Zong Kai for a while, thinking that these words might really keep Zong Kai, so he resisted the urge to refute Song Henan.

Zong Kai really didn't want to attend such a party, but he looked at Jiang Ke looking at him expectantly, his eyes were pitiful like an abandoned puppy, and he couldn't bear to say no.

So, the four of them went to the nearby shoppingmall together.

After a meal that was neither embarrassing nor embarrassing, a couple changed places and continued their love, leaving Jiang Ke and Zong Kai relatively speechless for a while.

"How are you going?"

After a moment of silence, Zong Kai spoke first.But almost at the same time as his voice came to Jiang Ke's ears, there was a female voice behind him: "Zong Kai."

Looking back, Jiang Ke felt that the woman seemed familiar. He heard Zong Kai call "Mom", and the memory was connected.He had seen Zong Kai's mother many times during parent-teacher meetings.Except for changing to short hair, this person doesn't seem to have changed significantly, and he doesn't look old at all.

He was hesitating whether he should take the initiative to say hello, but Zongmu spoke first: "This is?"

"My friend." Zong Kai answered immediately.

"Hello." Jiang Ke greeted his mother politely.

Zongmu's nod was very stingy, but her eyes were generously cast on Jiang Ke.Jiang Ke didn't think much, but Zong Kai understood the scrutiny in his mother's eyes at a glance.

"Why are you here?" Zong Kai asked, trying to distract his mother's attention from Jiang Ke with words.

"Oh," the mother-in-law looked away for a while, "make an appointment with your Uncle Xu to talk about something." After speaking, she looked at Jiang Ke again, "Why do I think you look familiar?"

"Mom, I seemed to see Uncle Xu when I came here just now." Zong Kai's ability to lie is more than a star and a half better than when he was a child.

"It's 08:30?" Zongmu raised her wrist and glanced at her watch, "Yo, I'm going to be late if you don't leave, okay, you should be busy." Zongmu didn't care whether Jiang Ke's face was familiar or not, While dialing the phone, he walked away quickly.

When his mother walked away, Zong Kai turned around and said to Jiang Ke, "I'm sorry."

"Ah? What's wrong?" Jiang Ke didn't understand where Zong Kai's apology came from.

"It's nothing." Seeing that he didn't see it, Zong Kai simply didn't want to mention it.

"Just now I saw that my aunt is still so young, she hasn't changed at all." Jiang Ke shook his head and said with emotion.

"How is it possible that you haven't changed?" Zong Kai pushed his glasses, "It's been more than ten years, have you not changed?"

"It's changed! It's changed!" Jiang Ke immediately nodded vigorously as if to prove it, lest Zong Kai didn't see that he was different from before.

Zong Kai startled him, thinking that this was too much, and he wanted to laugh when he was helpless.

"What have you changed? You're still like a child."

Jiang Ke twitched the corner of his mouth, "I can't."

Zong Kai thought that all emotions are written on his face, isn't he a child?But he didn't say it, just shook his head and smiled.

Jiang Ke saw him smiling, and the stone that had been hanging in his heart all night finally fell to the ground.He tilted his head, wanting to freeze Zong Kai's upturned mouth.