Fanservice Paradox

At the end of the tour of the Guangzhou market, Xingtu hired a famous local restaurant to hold a huge celebration banquet, and all the staff participated.

The concert, which took half a year of preparation, finally met with fans, and the results were even better than expected.At the end, many backstage staff cried. Even Cheng Qiang, who has been playing the role of an old father, felt sour when he heard their self-introduction, as if they had returned to the first day of their debut.

"First of all, congratulations on the success of our first EGO tour!" Cheng Qiang, standing in the middle of the restaurant hall, held a microphone and said a lot with emotion.

Fang Juexia was standing on the side chatting with Jiang Miao, turned around and saw the champagne on the table, so he picked it up and looked at the brand, but Ling Yi saw it, "Juexia, show me!"

So Fang Juexia handed the champagne to Ling Yi.Ling Yi was very excited, "I've never opened champagne before, and they won't let me open it."

"Me neither." Fang Juexia said truthfully.

Pei Tingsong brought a glass of lemon soda and walked over to Fang Juexia, "Drink more water." With a glance, he saw Ling Yi tinkering with champagne, "What are you doing?"

"How can this be sprayed out all at once?" Ling Yi fell into doubt.

"Shake it a few times and it's over." Pei Tingsong said casually, but he didn't expect Ling Yi to shake it to death, exhausting all his strength.

"Everyone has worked hard! Today everyone is well..."

boom--

The cork was pushed open, and the champagne spewed out violently, with bubbles and white foam all sprayed on Cheng Qiang, the manager who was speaking.Seeing this scene, Fang Juexia almost spit out all her lemonade.

Pei Tingsong was stunned for a second, then laughed until he squatted down, hugging Fang Juexia's leg.

Cheng Qiang, stunned by the spray, turned to look at Ling Yi who was still holding the bottom of the champagne bottle on his belly, "What the hell are you doing?"

Ling Yi put the champagne bottle on the ground in embarrassment, and wanted to escape the crime scene sideways like a little crab, but was grabbed by Lu Yuan and He Ziyan and held back, "You still want to run?"

"You are quite powerful, and you aimed directly at Brother Qiang."

"Oh, I didn't expect to spray like this..."

"Hahahahaha!"

"Okay, okay, let's play by ourselves!" Cheng Qiang couldn't hold back his laughter.

Everyone ate, drank, and chatted. The entire first floor of the restaurant was full of Star Map people. It was more like a party than a celebration banquet. The lights were gorgeous, and everyone drank and chatted, relaxing with the music.Although the atmosphere was good, it was difficult for Fang Juexia himself to handle this kind of gathering with a large number of people, let alone he had other plans.When the restaurant music played "Night Tour", he leaned into Pei Tingsong's ear.

"Let's sneak away."

Romantics certainly wouldn't say no to a great elopement.

It was already 12:30 in the morning when I ran out of the restaurant, but the night in Guangzhou would not go out until very late. The diffuse heat wave was the same as the fireworks on the road, and there was no exit to disappear.Two people wearing masks and hats got into a taxi that stopped at random, leaving a carnival and driving to a bigger carnival belonging to the city.

The driver was a middle-aged man in his 50s and [-]s. He was very enthusiastic. As soon as he got in the car, he asked in Mandarin with a distinct accent from Guangdong and Guangxi, "Come to Guangzhou?"

Fang Juexia smiled and replied in Cantonese, "No, I am from Guangzhou." After speaking, he gave his address.

The driver was a little surprised, looked at Pei Tingsong in the rearview mirror, and changed from awkward Mandarin to Cantonese, "Is this handsome guy too?"

"He's not, he's accompanying me home."

"Ah, let me just say, he is so tall. I saw you two standing on the side of the road at a glance. You are beautiful and tall." The driver also joked, "Those who don't know think they are celebrities."

Actually it really is.

Pei Tingsong didn't quite understand, so he moved closer and asked Fang Juexia what he said.Fang Juexia smiled, "Praise you are tall and handsome, you can become a star."

"Brother Driver, you have great potential as a scout." Pei Tingsong joked.

"Hahahaha, isn't it? Guangzhou is very interesting, and there are a lot of delicious food..."

Listening to their chat, Fang Juexia felt very at ease.He looked out of the car window, the glass reflected the neon colors, passing by like a kaleidoscope over a concert.

Passing through the bustling commercial street, the lights outside gradually became less bright, and the darkness of the night gradually returned. When entering the old city, Fang Juexia really felt like going home.

Say goodbye to enthusiastic drivers, open the doors, and re-soak them in the heat.

The streets here are much quieter. Some facades have been closed with gray iron shutters, and the rest are all kinds of snack bars and nightclubs. The cells with the strongest vitality in the future city.

"Where is this?" Pei Tingsong wanted to hold hands, but held back, and wrapped his arms around his shoulders the next best thing.

"The back door of my high school." Fang Juexia pointed to the shade of a tree behind a wall, "Did you see it over there? That's my high school."

"Really?" Pei Tingsong stopped and looked over, "I want to go in."

Fang Juexia smiled and took his hand away from her body, turned to face him, and took two steps back, "That's no good, I'm a good student, and I don't know how to climb over walls."

His smiling eyes were too good-looking, Pei Tingsong grabbed his wrist, "You already have the consciousness of climbing over the wall in your mind, and you still say you are a good student?"

"That's why you led me to the wrong place." Fang Juexia shook the wrist that was caught by him, escaped, turned his back to him and walked in front.

Wearing a crisp and clean white T-shirt, he walked on the streets of the old city full of Lingnan style. There are square stone slabs embedded on the road, which are huge mosaic art belonging to the city.The canopy of the banyan tree extends to the sky above the road, and the colorful plaques and neon signs unscrupulously diffuse halos in the night, but they cannot affect the back of Hua Fang Juexia.He is always clean and always white.

This time Pei Tingsong didn't stand side by side with him like before, but a few steps behind, walking slowly, looking at Fang Juexia's thin back.

The person in front of him gradually changed his appearance, getting shorter and thinner, like a willow that has been stripped, his clothes changed from a white T-shirt to a school uniform, his walking posture remained the same, and every step was straight.

At that time, he should be the boy in many girls' dreams.

Pei Tingsong unconsciously smiled, as if he had been like this before, accompanying Fang Juexia on the way home from studying next night.

As we walked, the people in front turned their heads, and the fantasy returned to reality.Come on, he urged.

"En." Pei Tingsong walked up quickly and stood beside Fang Juexia.

Fang Juexia led him across one street, then into another, and finally stopped under a small shop. The brightly lit plaque read "Chen Po Chang Noodle Shop" in big characters.This row of small buildings along the street is also very special. When you go upstairs and downstairs, you can look up and see that the upstairs windows are open and there are many flowers and plants. You can smell the fragrance of jasmine when you stand below.

"I used to come here to eat after school." There was no one else in the store, Fang Juexia took him in by the arm, "It's always easy to get hungry when I go to school."

The boss has changed, no longer the kind mother-in-law Fang Juexia was when he was young, but a middle-aged woman, maybe her daughter, "Come and eat sugar water."

Fang Juexia answered her with a smile, went over to order some food, and then came back and sat beside Pei Tingsong.

Pei Tingsong looked up at him, "This building is very special."

There is no air-conditioning in the store, and the fan on the ceiling is whistling, blowing away the almost semi-solidified humid air and spinning out a transparent heat swirl.

Hearing what he said, Fang Juexia was a little surprised, but Pei Tingsong has always been a person who is good at observing the world.

"This is a Cantonese-style arcade," Fang Juexia poured him a glass of water. "The earliest history... probably dates back to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It was built by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time."

Pei Tingsong nodded, and looked at the arcade across the street through the gate, "I like this kind of building, it's a living history book. And these trees are different from those in other cities..." He tried to find one A suitable adjective is "very free, a feeling of extending and growing comfortably."

"These are banyan trees, many of which are over a hundred years old. There used to be more than now, but later they were cut down less and less, and turned into high-rise buildings." Fang Juexia looked outside, a little dazed, "Guangzhou used to grow in banyan forests. City."

This sentence is very interesting.According to Fang Juexia, the city is suddenly full of green vitality.

The boss came over with two bowls of sugar water and put them on the table, smiling very kindly, "Eat two bowls of sugar water first."

A bowl of sweet potato syrup and a bowl of sugarcane horseshoe syrup.The two ate differently. Although Pei Tingsong didn't like sweets, this syrup was surprisingly sweet. Drinking it cool would moisten the hot internal organs and dispel half of the heat.

Fang Juexia loves to eat, and every time he takes a sip, he feels like he is back in his childhood.

Pei Tingsong looked at him, and thought he was cute when he was eating, so he said without thinking, "You are a child who grew up in sugar water."

Thinking about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with this sentence.So Fang Juexia did not refute.

The boss brought up two freshly baked rice rolls, one with fresh shrimp and one with beef, both of which were topped with soft-boiled eggs.The translucent powder skin is as thin as a cicada's wings, and the color of the beef and shrimp inside and the golden color of the egg liquid are all revealed, and it is still shaking slightly after being placed on the table.

"Try it and see if it's different from Beijing's."

Pei Tingsong picked up a chopstick, the noodles were so slippery that he couldn't hold them, and finally took a bite with a spoon. The noodles were smooth and tough, the beef was soft and tender, the Cantonese soy sauce was mixed with sweetness, it was tender and smooth, it was indeed delicious.

"It's so good, it's much better than what I ate when I was a child."

Fang Juexia laughed, "You are really easy to feed, young master, that's how you like rice rolls worth 11 yuan."

Pei Tingsong said solemnly, "Value is relative. If you sit here and eat with me, 11 yuan rice rolls can also be awarded three Michelin stars."

Everything is relative.

The rice rolls at that time were also delicious, but it seemed that this time when I brought Pei Tingsong back, it became even more delicious.

Two people are better than one.

With their stomachs full, they left the shop.Fang Juexia took Pei Tingsong away, obviously he was the one who couldn't see.

The street lights were dim in the early morning, Pei Tingsong was afraid that he would fall if he lost his vision, and wanted to help him, but Fang Juexia refused.

Only when he walks on this old street that he has stepped on countless times when he was young, he will show some habits, such as leaning against the wall when walking, always subconsciously supporting the wall with his hands, and such as every step is almost equidistant. , step on, the soles will rub against the ground for a little while.

As he walked, he stopped, touched the wall, and said in a doubtful tone, "There was a gap here before, has it been filled?"

Pei Tingsong suddenly felt sad.

It turns out that Fang Juexia in the past has used all senses except vision to remember the way home.The smell of the road, the chirping of insects on the banyan tree, the gaps in the wall, the shape of the floor tiles, which one will be loose or warped.It was these feelings that brought him home.

"Can I hold you?" Pei Tingsong asked softly.

Fang Juexia glanced at him sideways. Although he couldn't see clearly, he still smiled, "Yes, there is no one now."

He carefully held Fang Juexia's hand. Through the humid air, everything was deformed in the heat, and time and space were also distorted. It seemed that at this moment, Pei Tingsong was holding the 16-year-old Fang Juexia, who was going home alone in the dark. would be afraid of him.

"You are so brave." Pei Tingsong is a person who is not stingy with praise, especially Fang Juexia.

Fang Juexia smiled and said nothing.Under the moonlight, they walked hand in hand through the long street, soaking in the waves of cicadas singing one after another.Getting closer and closer to home, Fang Juexia suddenly said, "It feels like it's going to rain."

"Really? How do you know?"

"It's just a hunch." Fang Juexia said, "My hunches are often accurate."

So they quickened their pace and entered an old community full of shade from a certain entrance on the street. There were few street lights inside, but Fang Juexia still had the memory in his mind.Finally he stopped under a huge banyan tree whose shadow was darker than the night.

"You live in a tree?" Pei Tingsong joked.

Fang Juexia told him to shut up as before, raised his hand to stick to the bark, followed the rough texture upwards, and groped to a tree hole with a bowl-sized mouth, and stretched his thin white hand in, as if he was looking for something.

"Do you want me to help?" Pei Tingsong asked.

"Found it." Fang Juexia's face was full of surprise, "It's still there, it's been ten years."

"What?" Pei Tingsong leaned over, under the moonlight, Fang Juexia's palm was spread out, and on it was a round walnut.

"You hid a walnut for ten years?"

Hearing Pei Tingsong's unbelievable tone, Fang Juexia burst into laughter. He tried his best to separate the walnut shell, took out a rolled note from inside, and handed it to Pei Tingsong.

"I remember this was one day when I was beaten by Fang Ping. I was very sad and scared, so I wrote this down and hid it in a tree hole downstairs." Fang Juexia smiled, "I was afraid of being discovered, so I used walnuts The shell was hidden and glued together, I didn't expect that no one would find out after such a long time." His tone seemed to say, I am very smart.

Carefully unfolding the note, facing the moonlight, Pei Tingsong saw what was written on it.

[I can't become a bad person, I want to stand on the stage, I can't fall down. ]

Through these words, Pei Tingsong suddenly saw him at that time.

He also finally understood why Fang Juexia suggested that at the end of the concert, everyone should write about themselves ten years later.

Fang Juexia raised his face, his eyes glowed, "The me I was ten years ago, I gave it to you."

Holding the note, Pei Tingsong hugged him in his arms, and kissed his forehead under the dark tree.

"Thank you."

Thank you for growing up so strong that you can meet me who was so long late.

The rain came as soon as he said it, and Fang Juexia's premonition was not wrong at all, but he did not expect the rain to be so heavy, it diluted the sticky air in an instant, and the smell of mud surged.Pei Tingsong's first reaction was to hide the note, and they, who were about to escape, laughed tacitly and ran in the dark.

Ever since he was with Pei Tingsong, Fang Juexia had imagined many situations of taking him home, but the plan couldn't keep up with the changes.He didn't expect them to go home in such a mess.

The mother who had already rested got up in the middle of the night and opened the door for him, looking at the two drenched children with sleepy eyes, it was very funny, "Why are you so good at picking time?"

After calling them in, Fang's mother suddenly felt relieved and urged them to take a hot bath.Fang Juexia asked Pei Tingsong to go first, took a towel and went into the kitchen, standing next to her mother who was making ginger tea.

"Grandpa is asleep?"

"Well, I was waiting for you to come back. I fell asleep watching TV and didn't enter the house. When I received a call saying that you were having a celebration banquet, I went in by myself." Mother Fang put ginger slices into the soup pot, stirred, "If I knew you were here, I would be very happy tomorrow morning."

Thinking of the scene on stage, Fang Juexia asked, "Xiao Pei asked you to go? You didn't tell me."

"Yes, he made a special trip to the hospital to convince your grandfather. I was worried at first, but I didn't expect them to be able to talk. Xiao Pei told him that you actually miss him very much and hope that he can appear in the concert. Actually Ah, your grandpa wants to go too. Neither of you can hold back, but Xiao Pei dares to say anything. After he left, your grandpa secretly told me that you have such a good teammate. , he is relieved." After finishing speaking, Fang's mother added, "I think so too."

Fang Juexia wiped the water from her hair, took off the towel, held it tightly with her hands.

"Actually..." He rolled his Adam's apple, "Mom, he's not just my teammate."

Mother Fang stopped stirring the ginger tea, and the vortex in the pot was still spinning.She didn't look at Fang Juexia, she was unexpectedly calm, "What do you mean?"

"I love him very much, and so does he." Fang Juexia tried to describe their relationship with the most precise expression, "We are lovers."

His heart was beating uneasily, and cicadas were screaming in his head, saying that he was sloppy, that he should not announce his unstable relationship in front of his mother.Love is fragile, mother knows best.

"Actually, I can see it." Fang's mother reached out and picked up two yellow rock sugar from the jar and threw it into the pot, her tone was calm, "I guessed about your relationship. Xiao Pei cares too much about you, not like an ordinary friend .And the way he looks at you, the way you look at him, you can't deceive anyone."

Too.There is no way to hide liking, especially in front of mother.

"I don't want to lie to you."

Fang's mother turned off the fire, turned to look at him, "Juexia, I thought you were not an impulsive child, after all, you have seen..." She choked up, "Look at my mother, she is so devoted to a relationship, is it true?" Very unwise."

"It's not impulsiveness." Fang Juexia defended her love, "That's right, it's because of everything I've seen since I was a child that I was very resistant to falling in love before him. I even decided that I would never have any true love in my life."

Hearing Fang Juexia's words, Fang's mother was full of guilt. This was the last thing she wanted to see, but there was no way, her failed love and marriage had subtly changed this child, making him reticent, making him alienated.

"If it wasn't for Pei Tingsong, I might never be able to change it for the rest of my life."

Mother Fang sighed silently, "I'm not opposed, I'm just afraid that you will be hurt." After saying this, she felt that she had become the father of the past, standing on the opposite side because she was afraid of her children being hurt. struggle.At the beginning, why didn't she think that she had met true love, but she failed, and her defeat was completely bloody.So she couldn't help but say, "Have you ever thought that this might be a wrong decision."

After taking a shower, Pei Tingsong came out of the bathroom, called Fang Juexia's name softly, and heard a conversation in the kitchen, so he approached, ready to ask him to take a bath.

"Then I'm going to be wrong again."

Hearing this sentence, his footsteps stopped.

Fang Juexia's eyes were very stubborn, but every sentence he said was logical, "Because I lived in a failure case, I always felt that I would not succeed. But after meeting him, I don't want to live like that anymore. Even if we didn’t end well in the end and it was wrong, I will try again. Wait ten years, 20 years, looking back today, at least Fang Juexia followed her heart and made a choice without hesitation at that time.”

There were tears in his eyes that he refused to shed.

"Even if it's wrong, it's still right."

She looked at her son standing in front of her, as if seeing her for the first time.Very strange, but no longer the Fang Juexia who is so stubborn in pursuit of the right that he is not like an ordinary child.

From his face, she finally saw her shadow back then.

Mother Fang didn't speak, she turned around, took a spoon and poured ginger tea into a bowl, it was bright yellow, and rippled under the kitchen light.

"Take it out and let Xiao Pei drink it while it's hot, so as not to catch a cold. It's hard to catch a cold in summer."

"mom……"

"Then let's try." Fang's mother solemnly handed ginger tea to him, and smiled with tears in her eyes.

"You're luckier than mom, you can't be wrong."