warm hearts

In Gao Xu's eyes, Ji Xiao has an old-fashioned look in every gesture, which is now often dubbed an "veteran cadre" tone.He was not very good at interacting with this kind of people, because most of them are too boring and rigid, some can't take jokes, and others can't get the jokes you made with him.

However, Ji Xiao is different.First of all, he is good-looking, which is an innate skill no matter whether it is placed in a man or a woman, because no matter whether the personality is interesting or not, as long as he is good-looking, he will first be able to catch the eye.Secondly, although his personality looks dull and he doesn't like to take the initiative to argue with others, but once he gets acquainted, Ji Xiao is actually quite stubborn.This kind of stalk is hidden under his gentle and unobtrusive appearance, which is inseparable from his intelligence and alertness. Sometimes he shows it suddenly, which makes people feel pleasantly surprised.

Of course Gao Xu likes surprises, just like the impression he gave to most people, he is lively and active, and it is rare to retain a youthful heart.But he knows in his heart that his age is already a multiple of that of a teenager, so the meticulous thought and meticulous logic that can be gradually revealed in addition to surprises are the parts that make him more interesting.For example, when he and Ji Xiao really became friends when they met for the first time during the typhoon, he once specifically asked him: "Why do you dare?"

"Why don't you dare?" Ji Xiao was leaning side by side with him on the half-person-high guardrail beside the viaduct, looking at the flickering taillights of motorcycles not far away, his fair and beautiful profile was covered by the streetlights above his head The light outlines a pleasing outline, "I just went to the police station to accompany the little girl to make a statement with you half an hour ago, and regardless of your name, age and social relationship, all your social relations are kept there. In addition to your car, brother, I don't believe that you will be a person who has an eye for money or a person who is interested in sex~"

Probably people like to hear compliments and approval. Although Ji Xiao's words are not compliments at all, the approval is expressed from the heart.Before that, Gao Xu had already had more intersections with Ji Xiao because of Typhoon Tian's chance encounter, but what really brought the distance between the two closer was the one or two simple exchanges.

It's really a bit of fate, originally the two of them were acting as substitute teachers in the Children's Palace occasionally, but this year's summer vacation, the Children's Palace was full of students, so through the recommendation of a friend, both of them became regular teachers of the summer class.This change has no effect on Gao Xu, but for Ji Xiao, whose ideal in life is to teach two semesters a year and spend the rest of his time traveling around the mountains and playing in the house. It's a bit out of the ordinary.

Summer in the city is really hot, from the sweltering heat of the rainy season in June to the sweltering heat of August and even the autumn tiger after autumn. Every morning when you look out of the window, the dazzling light is enough to make you daunting.Ji Xiao didn't say anything, but when he arrived at the classroom every day, he was sweating profusely and his figure was obviously thinner than before, but it was clear to people with discerning eyes.

Gao Xu is also a discerning person, but he didn't say anything, he just straddled the car for a while after class every day, waiting for Ji Xiao to come out of the classroom, and handed him a helmet.

At first, Ji Xiao declined: "I'll go back by myself, how can I ask you to deliver it every day, why don't you still go to the gym?"

Gao Xu always responded by "going along the way anyway". After a long time, the two gradually got acquainted, and Ji Xiao felt that it would be hypocritical to always refuse.

In a blink of an eye, the summer vacation is over, and the substitute work for the Children's Palace is also completed, and Ji Xiao resumes a normal schedule, regular and leisurely.The relationship between him and Gao Xu's colleagues has also come to an end. Although they have already added WeChat to each other, due to the difference in work and rest, they gradually lost contact.

This situation is common in the world, so Ji Xiao didn't care too much about it, just like many friends who haven't been in touch very much, occasionally swiped to Moments before going to bed, and clicked like it.Gao Xu is similar to him, except that the kid looks like a neuropathy, and sometimes a voice will be sent suddenly, usually either the background sound is deafening or the voices are full of people, accompanied by something funny he saw or remembered by chance Things, I can laugh for a long time.

In mid-October, Ji Xiao got an opportunity to study abroad for one and a half to two years.But because the unit doesn't let people go, he has to resign if he wants to go. He has struggled for a long time and still can't make up his mind.

Originally, Ji Xiao wasn't an indecisive person, but when he was in his early thirties, he was used to being lazy and leisurely. Suddenly there was a change that would directly affect the future. It was difficult for anyone to make a change. To make a quick decision.He repeatedly put the pros and cons in his mind many times, but there were always some uncertain factors interfering with him so that he could not make up his mind.

The second encounter with Gao Xu was at that time. One day when school was over early, a large group of students rushed out of the school in a hurry. They didn't see backpacks or bicycles, and they all ran in one direction.

Ji Xiao was not a curious person at first, but the direction the student ran towards was on his way home, so he casually glanced into the crowd.

It was a road show stage at the entrance of a shopping mall, surrounded by three layers of people, and some people held signs of various sizes.Ji Xiao knew that those were star-chasing lights and hand banners, so he understood, thinking that the mall had invited some celebrities to perform on the platform, but he didn't expect that when the music sounded, the person he saw in the group dance was Gao Xu.

Feeling somewhat surprised, he slowed down and looked at the man dancing on the stage to the music from a distance, the corners of his mouth slowly raised, thinking in his heart that he was dancing very handsomely.Unknowingly, I watched one song after another. When the stars were soloing and interacting with each other, Gao Xu suddenly emerged from the crowd and patted him: "Why are you watching here? Forget it , wait for me for a while, two more songs will be over."

This situation actually ruined Ji Xiao's plan. Although he was fine at first, he didn't plan to stay in such a crowded place, especially with many students.And Gao Xu's greeting just now made him unable to leave without saying anything, and there were students who were familiar with him in pairs and squeezed towards him begging——

"Mr. Ji, is that your friend?"

Well, a friend.

"Mr. Ji, you are so amazing that you actually know a celebrity!!!"

emmm, probably not.

"Ah, Mr. Ji, your boyfriend is so handsome, can you get us an autograph?"

... Did you make a mistake?

"Ah, ah, teacher Ji..."

"Hey, the big star is posing for a photo at the back and signing autographs. If you don't go, it will be too late~"

After finally getting out of the crowd, Ji Xiao watched Gao Xu send all the students away with a yell, subconsciously raised his hand to support his forehead, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Your students are so good." Gao Xu turned his head back with a smile, he was still wearing the shirt from the performance just now, the button was unbuttoned to the lower abdomen, and a black backpack was hanging on one shoulder, revealing a large area with a slight movement pecs.

"Aren't you cold like this?" Ji Xiao glanced at him, saw that he shook his head first, and after thinking about it, he found it reasonable, took out a leather jacket from his backpack and put it on, pulled the zipper to the top, and couldn't help but twitch his mouth, "Why do you want me to wait for you?"

"Send you home." Gao Xu said, leading him towards his car, and when he arrived at the place, he took out a helmet from the toolbox and handed it to him, "But I still have a place to go first, If you're not in a hurry, just follow me first, and I'll treat you to dinner after I'm done."

Ji Xiao couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and didn't take the helmet, but just pointed in one direction: "My house is over there, just two steps away."

"Then you should follow me first." Gao Xu glanced in the direction of his finger, forced the helmet into his arms, stepped on the car himself, and kicked the engine.

"Why?" Ji Xiao was still in a stalemate, but he was already thinking in his heart that he was just thinking wildly when he was idle, so let's go.

Gao Xu kicked the driver's seat, tilted his head slightly and looked at Ji Xiao from the rearview mirror, his voice sounded a lot softer than usual: "I miss you, can't I? Treat you to dinner tonight, oh, come up, come up, Don’t blot the ink, brother, I’m in a hurry and it’s almost too late~”

What Ji Xiao didn't expect was that the place Gao Xu took him to was actually a racing track.This is an elevated road section that is closed at night, with a total length of five kilometers, and there are two curves for cycling.When the two of them arrived, the "closed and cleared" sign at the intersection had already been placed, but the surrounding area was very lively.More than a dozen colorful high-speed cars scattered around and blared their motors, and on both sides of the viaduct a little farther away, there were still a few sporadic people who were planting colorful flags.

This kind of noisy Ji Xiao was very uncomfortable, so he frowned subconsciously, got out of the car, and looked at Gao Xu.

Gao Xu misunderstood what he meant, and immediately explained when he saw his expression: "Don't be nervous, it's legal, you see there are police cars parked there at both ends, this is a warm-up exhibition for the participating teams."

"Then what are you doing here?" Ji Xiao was even more puzzled. He raised his eyes and glanced into the distance, then looked down at his car, "Don't tell me that you are also here to compete."

"Yes." Unexpectedly, Gao Xu nodded, took off the backpack hanging on his chest and handed it to Ji Xiao, grinning and showing a mouthful of white teeth, "It's an exhibition game, run a few laps with me, and earn some extra money— —Help me hold it, and wait for me at the finish line over there, a total of eight laps, very quickly.”

Ji Xiao was a little hesitant, took his bag and carried it on his shoulder, but his words diverged elsewhere: "Then you danced just now for extra money?"

"That's right," Gao Xu looked at him with a dazed expression on his face, "Don't you know that my job is to teach dancing in a training school~"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone not far away waved his hand and called Gao Xu's name loudly.Gao Xu quickly responded, put on his helmet and prepared to go.

"Wait a minute." Ji Xiao grabbed him, looked down at his exhaust pipe, squatted down and touched it, and then got up and said to him, "Is there any pre-match inspection here? You let He showed you the exhaust pipe, and I think there might be something wrong with the pipe on the right."

"What's the problem?" Gao Xu immediately paid attention to the words, got out of the car and went to look at the pipe, and then reached out to knock on it, but he didn't seem to see the trick.

"It's hard to say." Ji Xiao shook his head, "I just came all the way, and I think the sound is not right. You'd better find someone to look at it, or keep the speed down, don't exceed 120."

"If it doesn't exceed 120, then there's no crane tail? Well, I'll go find someone to take a look, you wait for me." Gao Xu said, and at the same time he responded to someone's greeting from a distance, so he put on his helmet and turned the car away without further delay. slipped past.

Ji Xiao watched from a distance, and after confirming that Gao Xu had indeed slipped the car to the maintenance team, he was relieved a little, and slowly walked around the crowd towards the key point.There is a lot of people around, and the car lights and street lights are mixed together in a disorderly manner, magnified into countless light spots at the corners of the eyes that have no focus, and are pulled into lines by the wind or some silhouettes that flash past quickly, like the dynamics or Gaussian in P-map software. Vague, inexplicably unreal.

It takes only ten minutes to finish the 180-kilometer race at an average speed of [-] kilometers per hour.Gao Xu was the fourth from last to arrive. As soon as Ji Xiao saw him crossing the line, he immediately walked slowly towards the place beyond the crowd.

When the crowd started to diverge, Ji Xiao watched from a distance as Gao Xu finished paying and slipped the car over. When he took off his helmet, sweat ran down his wet hair, and he remembered that Gao Xu had ended before I was already sweating profusely during the performance there.

I couldn't help but have a question in my heart that kept circling quietly. When they found a restaurant and finished ordering, watching Gao Xu hungry and eating half a bowl of rice, Ji Xiao finally couldn't help asking: "Are you teaching during the day?" ? Returning to the road show after the end, and racing the car at night, do you keep going like this every day, or did you just catch up with it all today?"

"It's all caught up, but it's about the same." Gao Xu replied, "If there is no performance, I will go to the gym to take two private lessons, or my friend's car dealership will go there when there is a lot of work. help."

One sentence made Ji Xiao startled a bit, he pursed his lips, tapped his fingers on the table, and asked: "Isn't it you, do you want to fight like this?"

Gao Xu casually said: "To be young is to work hard, and I'm not young anymore." Then he waved his hand and urged the proprietress to eat.

Ji Xiao didn't say anything more, just lowered his eyelids and stared at the tea in the cup. After a while, he raised his head in the midst of Gao Xu's self-talk, and looked at him again apologetically: "Huh? What? ?you say."

"What am I talking about? You are so bored. You didn't respond to what I said, which made me talk like a crazy person here." Gao Xu muttered and complained, and raised his hand to pinch it. Putting a peanut into his mouth, the expression on his face changed instantly, "Hey, what are you thinking?"

Ji Xiao looked at him, his eyebrows stretched after a long sigh of relief, he spread his arms as if he had let go of a heavy burden, turned sideways slightly, hung one of them on the back of the chair, crossed one of his legs, and put the other on it The knees, the whole person finally showed a state of complete relaxation at this time.

"Before today, I had been thinking about whether I should resign," he said, "but I couldn't make up my mind, until just now..."

"Just now?"

"Yes, just now." He nodded, stared at the teacup on the table for a while, then raised his eyes to Gao Xu, "I have decided, I will resign tomorrow, and then go abroad for further studies, two years...or one year A year and a half—actually, it’s not too long, is it?”