I quietly watch you play

"Looks like our driving lessons are about to get underway," Zhou Wei reluctantly sat on the back seat of the bicycle, clutching the hem of Jiang Xiaoqi's waist, the wind brushed against his temples, but it wasn't cold, and Jiang Xiaoqi blocked most of it .

Uncle Jiang looked strong but not burly, and when he was really blocking him like this, he seemed to be covered by a solid wall.Jiang Xiaoqi's shoulders are broad, and when he pedals hard, the muscles of his back and thighs alternately tense and stretch left and right, giving him a sense of strength, like driving a powerful engine.

This kind of well-proportioned and flexible musculoskeletal muscles that have been exercised in life all the year round is different from those trained in Zhou Lei's gym, and it is easy to touch.

Zhou Wei felt his hands were freezing, so he slipped his hands into the pockets of Jiang Xiaoqi's down jacket, and found a bunch of keys on the left, and a flat square cardboard box on the right.

The pockets of his clothes are wide, and the outside is covered with down, while the inside is only a layer of interlining, from which the warm body temperature leaks out.

Low energy consumption, no pollution, and a built-in hand warmer function, this car is not too bad.

"Uncle, has my birthday present arrived?" It's almost December, and it's time for Global Shopping to arrive.

Zhou Wei didn't have any hope, but wanted to tease him.

"That's what you touch." Jiang Xiaoqi's voice came from his chest, like a string with enhanced resonance.

Eh?It's a bit of a surprise, and a little more fun than receiving presents on your birthday.

Zhou Wei reached out and took out the box, just about to open it, Jiang Xiaoqi made a sharp turn into the alley, so frightened that Zhou Wei quickly closed his hands and hugged his waist tightly.

The traffic jam in the evening rush hour on Friday was serious, and it got worse at the end of the year. The distance from Yingtai to Danda was actually a bit far for a bicycle, but Jiang Xiaoqi did not take the usual route and took him through a few A small street that hasn't been passed by for 20 years, is faster than the cars on the main road that are blocked into a parking lot.

Those small streets and alleys look old and shabby, like another space in the bustling city. The low and depressing houses are stretched in a row, and a canvas canopy is pulled out to form a small food stall. Strange-smelling food was frying, and a yellow halo was seen in the dusty panes.

Zhou Wei was taken briskly by the car, as if encountering an unfamiliar scenery, and soon returned to the bustling sea of ​​cars, rivers and lights.

He was thinking about that gift in his heart, and always wanted to find a chance to take it apart to have a look, but he was also afraid that it would be thrown away by Jiang Xiaoqi without warning.

"What is it?"

"Guess!" Jiang Xiaoqi turned his head and said loudly amidst the sound of rear-end horns.

Zhou Wei has opened too many presents, look at the size of the box: "Is it a watch?"

Jiang Xiaoqi didn't make a sound, his guess was too accurate, and he completely lost the fun of surprising people.

Zhou Wei's interest remained undiminished, and she finally opened the nested outer box and held a simple watch in her palm.

It was an electronic watch with a white translucent plastic case, with rounded edges and corners. The LCD screen on the surface showed the time at that time: 05:21pm. The strap was made of silicone material of the same color, which was soft and tough in the hand.

Zhou Wei wore it around the wrist bone on his left wrist. The strap only had three buttonholes, and he used the middle one just right.

"Thank you Brother Seven, I like it!"

Jiang Xiaoqi laughed in the wind unconsciously, he thought that Zhou Wei would not appreciate the three-nothing product he gave, rich people regard wrist watches as a status symbol, did not expect him to take them apart and put them on in person , and raised his arms to the side of his face as if showing off.

Jiang Xiaoqi has already moved into the community, and stopped downstairs with his long legs, turned his head: "I did it myself."

A kitchen on the first floor was lit, and the light fell on one side of Jiang Xiaoqi's cheek, making his facial features more three-dimensional, with deep brows and eyes, and there seemed to be some unknown emotion hidden in the invisible depths of those eyes.

Zhou Wei half-opened his mouth in surprise, and then a smile appeared after a while: "That's amazing, I'll still do this."

Jiang Xiaoqi pushed the cart and locked it into the carport, acquiescing that Zhou Wei would go upstairs with him, he should want to see the kitten sent by Sanhua.

"I bought the accessories off-the-shelf. Some sizes are hard to find, so I wasted a little time. Tomorrow... I can use it to wake you up when I go to school on Monday."

He actually wanted to say, next year on your birthday, my gift will not be late again, but for some reason he couldn’t say such a statement similar to a promise.

"A sharp weapon," Zhou Wei said in a disappointed tone, but soon returned to joy: "That's not bad, it's the first time I've received a handmade gift!" "What other functions do you have besides the alarm clock?"

"You can locate, set up electronic fences, do not disturb in class, monitor the ambient sound..." Jiang Xiaoqi opened the door, talking nonsense.

Zhou Wei rolled his eyes: "Then why don't you just give me a children's phone watch?!"

"Then it's not easy for me to make an alarm clock from multiple disciplines. What else do you want, Conan's sleepy needle?"

"You can have it," Zhou Wei took off his shoes and entered the door, and jumped over when he heard the kitten's meowing tenderly.Jiang Xiaoqi threw his slippers at him: "Put it on!"

Sitting next to the box, Zhou Wei held out the kitten and rubbed his face: "Did Jiang Daddy cook for you? Are you having a good day today? Nope, little..."

He stuck the shell, turned around and asked Jiang Xiaoqi: "What's its name?"

"How do I know its name?" Jiang Xiaoqi looked puzzled, rolled up his sleeves and went into the kitchen to cook.

"Then let me come up with a name...let's call it...Xiaoqi! Qizi!"

Jiang Xiaoqi leaned out from the kitchen and glared at him with a kitchen knife.

Zhou Wei laughed so hard that he rolled to the ground: "It's not Jiang Xiaoqi's filial piety, it's Xiaoqi...it might be Sanhua's youngest child, ranking seventh, so..."

"So that female cat is the Queen Mother? Did she come down to earth to give you the Seven Fairies?"

Hahahaha, Zhou Wei curled up on the floor and hugged the kitten: "You want to call me a cowboy?"

Jiang Xiaoqi's brows twitched: "That's Zhinu, the seven fairies' husband is Dong Yong... Didn't you hear fairy tales when you were young?"

Asked this sentence, Jiang Xiaoqi suddenly regretted, Zhou Wei's mother left early, maybe no one really told him these things. "What do you want to eat? Can you eat noodles?"

Zhou Wei didn't know what to think of, still laughing: "Okay——"

The young man smiled with blushing eyes, and his eyes flickered like the most beautiful and charming peony trembling on a branch. Was it the stray kitten or an unexpected gift that made him so happy?

Looking at the white foam rising from the pot, Jiang Xiaoqi felt a boiling emotion. He leaned his back on the cold tiles and closed his eyes tightly.

This meal was not eaten on the table. The two of them held noodle bowls, each of them surrounded the cat's nest with a ball of cushions, and the little milk cat in the nest made squeaky noises like a mouse, trying to figure out by scratching the wall of the box. It also seems to like weekends very much.

"Why didn't you take it back to raise?" Jiang Xiaoqi asked knowingly, he knew that there was dark cruelty flowing in his blood, forcing himself and others to face the truth and cowardice.

Zhou Wei scalded the hot noodles and licked her cheeks: "I'm not at home, at Gaogan Building, Huang Zhizi is always away when recording programs... Don't you want it?"

His eyes showed the grievance of being rejected again, like a stray animal shut out of the door.

"I can raise it." Jiang Xiaoqi answered too quickly, as if he didn't even think about it: "But maybe I'm not very good at raising it, can you help?"

According to Jiang Xiaoqi's attitude in the morning, Zhou Wei prepared [-] reasons to persuade him, but he succeeded with just one temptation, Zhou Wei didn't react for a while.

After thinking about it, he reached out and scratched Xiao Qi's chin: "Congratulations, you have a family."

He spoke lightly.

"I used to raise a cat," Zhou Wei said, "Grandpa didn't like it, he thought I was a loser... Then the cat died and was drowned, and the body was thrown by the lake..."

When he said this, he suppressed all his emotions, his eyes were silent, no sadness could be seen, and he could even swallow a mouthful of noodles hastily between words.

Jiang Xiaoqi stopped his chopsticks: "Do you think Mr. Zhou did it?"

"The cat was brought back to me by my mother, because I said that I wanted to raise a kitten. Xiao Lei also often teased it. Some time ago, a stray cat came to the garden, and Xiao Lei even fed it with biscuits. I Dad... he doesn't care about anything."

Jiang Xiaoqi understood, except for his grandfather, no one else had a motive for committing the crime. "Have you asked him? There is no evidence to doubt a person is unfair and creates unnecessary divide."

"I asked, but he said no." Confusion appeared in Zhou Wei's eyes, he was not a stubborn fool, he didn't doubt others, especially his family.

"So you're not sure, right? I don't think Mr. Zhou will lie to you. He has always restrained you with sharp swords and guns. If you don't let you learn painting, you will be suppressed in various ways. If you don't let you keep cats, you should also Just send it away—"

Zhou Wei covered her face: "I just think that if Xiaoguai hadn't met me, it might not have ended like this."

"In the past, Pei Qin always said that Xiaoguai must have saved the Milky Way in his previous life to be in my hands. I took it as a treasure, and said that even he was jealous of Xiaoguai. Heh... It seems that others envy me for being born in Zhou's family ..."

"It was also raised from such a small size. It was so ugly when I first got it home. I have never seen such a small life. I thought it would not be able to support it. I didn't dare to sleep too much for a week. I always got up and looked at it. Just rest assured."

"It has been with me for five years..."

"So, I won't keep cats anymore." The young man lowered his slender neck, bent his knees and buried his head in his arms.

Jiang Xiaoqi's raised hand hesitated for a moment, then lightly landed on the back of Zhou Wei's neck, and then squeezed it hard: "I said, I can raise it."

Most of the time, others can't see Zhou Wei's true emotions, all his thoughts are hidden in those eyes that seem to be smiling but not smiling, giving people a kind of lazy indifference.

In fact, he couldn't let go of his partner who was killed, and he couldn't let go of his smothered dream.

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The cold night was blocked out by the glass windows. In this warm space, Jiang Xiaoqi occupied one side of the table to change drawings, and Zhou Wei occupied the other side to do simulation problems.

Encountered those who couldn’t, Zhou Wei rolled the wheelchair to Jiang Xiaoqi’s side and asked him to explain.

If Jiang Xiaoqi finds that Zhou Wei has gone out to drink water and go to the toilet for too long, he will get up and catch him from the cat nest and continue to study the questions.

As soon as he raised his eyes, he could see the electronic watch on the young man's wrist that he had never taken off.

At midnight, Zhou Wei stretched his waist, like some kind of hibernating animal showing its original shape, grabbed the phone and called the group: "Drive your car over here."

Jiang Xiaoqi raised his eyes and looked at him with the eyes of "what are you?"

"Role change!" Zhou Wei snapped his fingers: "Disciple, hurry up and practice driving with me!"

He made a gesture of berating Fang Qiu: "The night sky outside is yours—"