born to ashes

"I didn't come to participate if I knew the problem was so difficult. Is it not self-inflicted humiliation?"

A banner with the words "The Ninth Yunzhu Cup Classical Poetry Grand Prix" was hung outside the school auditorium. The students who came out of it all looked dignified, and eight of the nine clamored that the questions were too difficult.

"That's right. I thought Mr. Wei wouldn't give questions on the rhythm and grammar of ancient Chinese. I thought I could find a loophole." The boy wearing glasses complained to the students next to him as he walked out.

"What's the matter, Master Qiao, seeing how calm you are, I'm afraid you have a plan in mind..." It was Qiao Wang's stinky roommate who spoke. Pressing his head with a loud noise, he didn't know how to tear his face, he acted in an intimate scene, and spoke in a strange way.

Qiao Wang raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay."

I don't want to say a word.

Zhou Budu knew how much he was, so he didn't even need to participate. He was leaning against the door of the toilet facing the auditorium and waiting for Qiao Wang. He yelled: "Stinky feet, it looks like you don't look good, what's the matter, the question is difficult."

Smelly Feet gave him a confident smile, "The question is difficult, but it doesn't bother me."

"You know, you still smile with confidence when you're clearly desperate," Zhou Budu said with a smile without giving him face, "I'm so sorry."

Smellyfoot is usually keen to maintain a superficial peace with everyone, even though he is angry, he can't say anything harsh for a while.Before he could think of something to relieve the embarrassment, Zhou Budu dragged Qiao Wang away.

Wei Linze stayed in the auditorium and slowly sorted out the papers. He also glanced at Qiao Wang's papers by the way. He glanced roughly at the end and found no mistakes. Wei Linze's little abacus began to crackle. He could grade Qiao Wang's papers first. Come out, and the rest can be shared with Qiao Wang.

During the competition, Professor Li walked around the examination room, took a look at the paper, patted him on the shoulder, and nodded with satisfaction, "It's true that you can be ruthless."

Wei Linze replied: "Thank you, thank you."

Although the auditorium is large, only one door was opened. In addition to the difficulty of the questions, no one left in the middle. The students were all stuck and squeezed out of the small door after handing in the papers. The time of evacuation alone made Wei Linze roughly I read several test papers carefully.

After all the students had left, he carried the test papers and walked out through the narrow door.

Before he crossed the threshold, he was blocked by a hand.

Josh put his hand on the door frame, and gave Wei Linze a "door knock". Wei Linze was in a dilemma, looking at the person who had admitted the wrong person two days ago, he could only smile helplessly, and repeated: "I I really don't know you."

"I don't know..." Josh took a step forward, "Then let's get to know each other."

Most of Josh's usual attire is exaggerated and outrageous, and he is not stingy at all where he should show it. He does whatever he wants to do boldly. Sometimes he has to unbutton a few more buttons when he finally puts on a shirt.Later, after living in Wei Linze’s house, he basically stayed out of the door and went to the vegetable market with a shopping bag at most. At that time, the dress was another extreme. He only wanted to be simple and comfortable, and he was with several uncles who bought vegetables. Can hit the shirt.

This time he was dressed in an unusually formal way. Although the seductive look still ran out through the shirt buttoned at the base of the neck, no matter how you look at it, you can feel that there is a cynical second-hand under the clothes that cost a lot of money. Shizu is not common in school, but it is not out of place.

The clothes made Josh look slick, but the tie hurt his neck. He took a step back and bowed to Wei Linze at a serious ninety degrees.

"Before I got to know you, I want to apologize for the old things you may have forgotten. I'm sorry I was wrong, really wrong."

He said.

"Hello, Mr. Wei, my name is Josh, JOSH, my Chinese name is Josh." Josh spoke quickly, and he seemed to realize it after saying the name. He cleared his throat, and after adjusting, he continued: "I I like to draw. I have done a lot of jobs. I am proud of twisting steel bars on the construction site. I am very strong and in good health. I am currently unemployed. I plan to work in the catering industry in the future. My last job was in Shengshi. The sex industry..."

After he finished speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief, only a little nervous, the string in his heart moved for a moment, he secretly glanced at Wei Linze, his face was expressionless, he raised his eyebrows, and continued: " I don’t have a house, a car, savings, a local account, and I’m temporarily single. The disadvantage is that I’m lazy, but the advantage is that I can cook. To mention a little bit, I cook and it’s delicious.”

Wei Linze stretched out his hand to Josh after listening, "Hi, I'm Wei Linze."

He shook it back with a smile, and was about to make an inch when he heard a voice from the other side of the corridor call out, "Teacher Wei."

The moment Josh turned his head to look at it, if a long shot could be given, it would be very dramatic. Two people with exactly the same facial features met for the first time and looked at each other's face without any psychological preparation. How shocking it was, maybe only Wei Linze who was on the scene could feel it.

Both Qin Ruxu and Josh knew that there was such a person, but they had never met each other. Josh had only glanced at him from a distance. At this time, they met in the corridor surrounded by walls in the teaching building. It really can be included in the "Lifetime" series up.Qin Ruxu was wearing a white shirt, the sleeves were loosely rolled up, and the collar was unbuttoned twice. He should have just come out of the research room, with a stack of materials in his hand, looking at ease, unlike this teaching building. There is a sense of unity.

Josh felt uncomfortable for a moment.

"Teacher Qin." Wei Linze broke the embarrassment and replied, "Professor Jiang finally let you go?"

"Yeah, I finally escaped from Professor Jiang's hands."

Wei Linze's original intention was to adjust the atmosphere, but Josh saw the familiarity of the two of them, and they both had such a gentle and polite temperament, which made him extremely uncomfortable. This kind of mood should be jealousy.

Qin Ruxu walked up to them, like a bunch of sunshine, and asked with a smile, "You must be Josh, right?"

"You know each other?" Wei Linze asked.

Just as Qin Ruxu was about to say that he knew each other, Josh rushed to the front and said a word, without giving any face, "I'm not familiar with you."

He simply ignored Qin Ruxu, tried his best to suppress his fleeing mentality, and said to Wei Linze as calmly as possible: "Excuse me, let's talk slowly later."

He glanced at Qin Ruxu, and swallowed the trivial joke of "the future will last forever".

After going back and thinking about it, he was very dissatisfied with his performance in front of Qin Ruxu, but he had to admit that he was out of shape the moment he saw Qin Ruxu, and wanted to get away from him quickly.

The feeling that there is a person with an identical face shaking in front of him is really irritating.

Josh doesn't particularly dislike Qin Ruxu, but first Wei Wenqu, and then Wei Linze seem to get along well with him, the key is how to look and match.Although he knew that Qin Ruxu was a straight man, he was still annoying.

He bought several bags of vegetables from the vegetable market and brought them to Zhang Zhihe's small clinic.After the joyful period when he just came back, Zhang Zhihe quickly entered the boredom period, and he was very unwelcome to Josh, an unexpected guest.He leaned lazily on the recliner, glanced at the dishes in Josh's hand, "What's the matter, conscience found out and came to cook for me?"

"Did you fucking wake up? This will be taken upstairs later."

Zhang Zhihe clicked his lips, showing disdain, "You think I'm a stranger, and your cooking is not delicious..."

Before he finished speaking, his phone rang, he glanced at the screen, and then shook Josh as if to show off, "See, the exclusive delivery guy, what I need most right now is food, why don't you cool off?" Just wait and go."

Josh cursed, shook his hands and left, looking at Zhang Zhihe's "sweet, deserted, miserable and miserable" appearance, he became angry.On the contrary, Zhang Zhihe and the delivery boy were sweet and sweet, which made him even more miserable.But in the final analysis, it still depends on himself, how chic and decisive he was to escape at the beginning, and how regretful he is now.

Resignedly, he climbed to the fourth floor and knocked on the door.

Wei Linze opened the door, facing a big smiling face, "Hi, Mr. Wei, I'm visiting your house."

"You..." Wei Linze didn't let him in, but blocked the door and said, "How do you know where my family lives?"

"Then why don't you know? I used to be your neighbor."

"Impossible. The residents of this building are basically teachers from our school, and I know them all."

"Then you said 'basic' all the time, and I'm the 'not basic'—it's not good to block me out." Josh shook the two plastic bags in his hand.

Wei Linze reluctantly invited him into the room. Josh was not polite at all, and put the dishes on the cabinet at the door familiarly. Looking at his original slippers, he smiled and changed them.

He looked around at home, and the stick figure of "Family Portrait" was still firmly taped next to the light switch, and the footprints of Er Gazi on it took up half of the country.

Josh didn't stop smiling from the moment he entered the door. Wei Linze poured a glass of water for Josh who was walking around. He took it and asked casually, "Why is there a bed in the study? Who used to live in it?" here?"

Wei Linze replied without changing his face: "This house belongs to my teacher, and the furniture inside is all left by his old man, so I didn't make a big move."

Josh raised his eyes and nodded, his forehead wrinkled.

"I came here uninvited today, I'm not very embarrassed, so I'll cook you a meal." Josh pretended to be polite to Wei Linze.

Wei Linze also pretended to decline, "How bad this is."

But in fact, Wei Linze has always been vague about the question of "food", and has no intention of resolutely refusing it.

Josh entered the kitchen, and pretended to be a showman again. After a while, "Mr. Wei, where do you store your peppercorns?" After a while, "Mr. Wei, do you have bean paste at home?"

He used to use these things before, how could Wei Linze know where to store them? He couldn't even tell what was in the bottles and jars, so he went to the kitchen to search for them, and in the end it was Josh who left them in front of him. He took it out of the cabinet, and then smiled with feigned surprise, "Why does it feel like I know your family better than you?"

The way he said "you" in a pinched tone is really embarrassing.

Wei Linze ate a table of his favorite dishes, miraculously did not give a word of praise, and just ate hard, but he had Han Huai's demeanor of not eating for nothing.

Josh bit the tip of his chopsticks, watched Wei Linze pick up two chopstick fish, and suddenly said, "Can you get me a box of milk?"

Wei Linze's chair slipped slightly on the floor, but stopped immediately, then he raised his head and said, "Sorry, I don't have any milk at home."

"Oh." Josh nodded, without breaking the table for him, pretending that when he took the eggs from the refrigerator just now, he didn't see several rows of various milks neatly arranged in the refrigerator.

After that day, Josh frequently appeared in front of Wei Linze to show his presence, bought groceries and went to his house as a guest from time to time, ran to the teaching building every day, waited for a chance encounter at the door of the linguistics teaching and research room, and said "what a coincidence" ".

The first time was a coincidence, but it would be too dishonest to say it was a coincidence for three consecutive days!

The teaching and research room is full of linguistics teachers who are doing research projects, and there are some students who come to help. Josh is honestly waiting for Wei Linze at the door. From time to time, he will order lemon tea and cakes to warm up the busy people in the house. After coming down, I got acquainted with a whole room of people, and they all came to ask if the last sentence was Teacher Qin's twin brother.

Josh smiled and shook his head, saying that he was Wei Linze's friend.

Wei Linze is not the main force in the teaching and research section, and most of the time he still does his own job in literature in an orderly manner. After taking classes and instructing the students in the ancient literature teaching and research section, he goes to linguistics. Just wait and block him on the linguistic side.

When I go early, I will play with my mobile phone outside the door for a while. Sometimes the students I know are there, and I will let him in for a while.

It was still early when he strolled over to wait for Wei Linze. From a distance, he saw Qin Ruxu staying inside flipping through the materials from the door. Apart from him, there were only two students left, and the other teachers hadn't come yet. Josh really didn't want to meet Qin Ruxu, and was about to walk back, when a student pointed outside, "It's him, Mr. Qin, he came in yesterday."

Josh looked back strangely, Qin Ruxu sank his face a little, "That's right, yesterday the teaching and research office lost a piece of Lu silk script, this silk script is very important for this study of the six languages, and it is also very valuable Cultural relics, so..."

"Yesterday, he was an unrelated person who came in. Su Xiaoxiao insisted on letting him in. I have already said that the materials here are very important. Don't let outsiders in." A student crossed his arms and said coldly behind him. It was Qiao Look at that annoying roommate with "stinky feet".

Josh raised his eyebrows, "I just sat at the door, what's the matter, are you planning to rely on me?"

Qin Ruxu was more polite than those two students, but he pointed at Josh both inside and outside the words, "It's not that we are targeting you, it's just that you came in yesterday, and today the silk book is gone, and everyone who comes in and out here It's an insider, and you are an irrelevant person, and we must ask you."

It is a must to ask, this is obviously almost pointing his nose to make him hand over the silk book.

"He must have taken it." Smellyfoot said a little impatiently, eager to put this matter away from himself, he was on duty yesterday, and if Josh couldn't bear the responsibility, the responsibility would have to fall on him.Thinking of this, the lemons I once drank don't count.

"According to what you said, I must have a motive. I'm not your colleague, so the silk book is useless to me..."

"Teacher Wei."

Another student suddenly shouted.

Josh glanced back and lamented that the fate was bad. After seeing Wei Linze, he suddenly felt aggrieved. He just argued articulately, but now he doesn't want to say a word.

"What's wrong?" Wei Linze asked.

"Teacher, I lost a Lubo book yesterday." Smellyfoot looked like a first-grade elementary school student complaining, "Your friend came here yesterday, so..."

Wei Linze turned his head and glanced at Josh, Josh made up his mind, as long as he asked, he would walk away.

Qin Ruxu sat on a chair and tidied up the papers on the table without raising his head.

Wei Linze only glanced at Josh before turning his head, and said softly, "Where's the evidence?"

The stinky feet were stunned, and Wei Linze repeated: "What about the evidence? As far as I know, there should be a camera. Why bother with things that can be concluded after checking it? Of course, first of all, I want to apologize, I shouldn't privately Bring friends to work, but you can't make false accusations without proof. Mr. Qin, you have always been in charge of the six languages. I'm sorry to cause you trouble, but I hope you will take useful measures to find the silk script as soon as possible. "

Qin Ruxu pursed his lips and smiled.

Wei Linze grabbed Josh's wrist and turned around to leave. After leaving the teaching building, Wei Linze said, "Aren't you stupid? If you encounter this situation again, just leave and let them find a lawyer to talk to you. You don't owe anyone anything." !"

Josh was still a little dazed, "Do you believe me?"

Wei Linze's footsteps paused, "Believe it or not, I have to face you, otherwise who else can support you."

"Wei Wei." Josh lowered his head and said softly suddenly.

"Ok?"

Josh paused, and then changed into his usual sloppy tone, "You have the bottom line, you are not a good teacher of socialism who talks about five things and four beauties, you, then I want to kill and set fire and you still help me throw the body away! "

"I'm a person. I don't really have any sense of right and wrong. Everything is centered on myself. Let's not talk about today's incident. It seems that the students are shirking their responsibilities. Even if you really took it, I will definitely go to you."

This is probably the legendary protection, Josh thought.

"Who told me to be your father?" Wei Linze added, "Parents all over the world are biased."

"Father, father, you are my fucking father." Josh gritted his teeth and said viciously, "I am still my own. If you have children, how do you spoil them? Then the news will be all about your family." bad boy."

"So I am destined not to get married and not have children."

After saying this, they fell into silence again, and walked home at a leisurely pace. They had a lot to say, but they didn't know where to start.

"You..." The two spoke at the same time.

Wei Linze was stunned for a while, then smiled, and instead of giving way to Josh, he continued, "When did you find out I was pretending?"

Josh twitched his lips, "I'm not stupid. I knew Qin Ruxu when I saw him. I'm so similar to him. If you really don't know me, you have to ask us what the relationship is. You can pretend, that You look dazed."

Wei Linze couldn't help laughing, "I'm sorry, I was really angry at first, I didn't know which string was wrong, so I just pretended not to know you. I didn't intend to really lie to you, but I thought it was fun. Just put it on."

"Fun!" Josh was so angry that his stomach hurt, "Fun?"

"Who knew you were so stupid. Later, you cooked for me every day with such a good attitude. I thought I would not lose money if I played for a few more days. I wanted to tell you after you apologized to me that day. Who I know you met Qin..."

Before Wei Linze finished speaking, Josh interrupted him, "Don't mention Qin to me, you should."

"'Qin' provoked you, so you can't mention celery?" Wei Linze said.

"I don't like celery, it's so unpalatable!" Josh waved his hand in disgust.

"Yes," Wei Linze smiled until he lost his eyesight, "I don't like celery either."