born to ashes

Wei Linze didn't show any obvious intolerance to the mobilizing agent, but he was a little sluggish and couldn't get up. He had to have the needle for five days. During these five days, Josh was worried every day, and had to make sure every time. Is there any problem with this mobilization agent? After tossing and tossing until the end, he is almost half a doctor.

The day before the operation, Lu Chen still did not show up.

Cheng Jiezhi, who had never been very talkative, lifted his spirits, sat up leaning on the pillow, and yelled about fighting the landlord.

Josh and Wei Linze sat beside the hospital bed, thinking about the cards in their hands.Wei Linze doesn't like to play cards very much, he just happens to be a Doudizhu, and he just knows the rules. This card is basically Josh and Cheng Jiezhi eager to play.

"Pair two!" Josh threw the cards on the quilt aggressively.

"No." Cheng Jiezhi said lazily.

Wei Linze also shook his head.

"Six seven□□ ten check circles." Josh arranged another pile of cards, "Don't you?"

"Wait." The old god Cheng Jiezhi stopped on the ground, looking at the cards in his hand slowly.

Josh waited uncomfortably, "You can't get out, Moji."

"I don't know if I can play or not, the patient's brain is also slow—" Cheng Jiezhi dragged out his tone, even looking lazy at the cards, "No."

Wei Linze pursed his mouth and smiled, slowly drawing the card out, "seven □□ ten hooks K."

Josh smiled and asked Wei Linze calmly, "Is the king with you?"

"Not necessarily." Wei Linze looked like an old fox.

Josh hesitated for a while, and said, "No."

"Don't... don't regret it." Wei Linze spoke slowly, and the speed of playing cards was not slow at all, "Three for one, three for four."

Josh shook his head and said no, Wei Linze and Cheng Jiezhi exchanged glances, Cheng Jiezhi lazily threw out four cards one by one.

Three six with one three.

Josh shook his head, "No."

Cheng Jiezhi yawned, drew a sheet and threw it on the quilt in slow motion.

Josh yelled "Five!" and slammed a four of clubs on the bed, causing the poker to flip over and face up.

Wei Linze followed suit with a ten, "I said, why are you being so aggressive when you play a four?"

"Playing cards is all about momentum!" Josh smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up.

Cheng Jiezhi threw a two, "You play cards here." He pointed to his temple.

Josh curled his lips, "No."

"Pair." Cheng Jiezhi continued to throw cards. He glanced at the cards in Josh's hand, and seeing that he hadn't moved, he continued to play and checked.

"Right!" Josh still maintained his momentum.

Cheng Jiezhi lowered his eyelids and said softly, "Wang Zha."

After finishing speaking, he slowly drew out the two kings, and then threw another "four", leaving no cards in his hand.

Josh flashed the last remaining two, cursed, and started counting cards.

After the new round of card draw was over, Josh took the landlord card and muttered to count his own cards, "If you want me to say that Feng Shui is really a metaphysics, why is my position always the landlord?"

Cheng Jiezhi changed the position of the cards in his hand, "My card is not very good, but if you don't want it, it's not impossible to give the landlord to me."

"My cards this time are really bad. I'm suitable for playing..." Wei Linze raised his eyes as he spoke, swallowing the word "assistant".

Cheng Jiezhi followed his gaze towards the door, and Josh also turned his head.

Standing at the door, Lu Chen couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling, his chin was covered with green stubble.

Josh gave Lu Chen a sideways glance, turned around and threw a three on the quilt, and shouted: "Three!"

He drew the attention of everyone in the room to him.

Cheng Jiezhi followed the card of five as if reflexively.

As soon as the card landed on the quilt, Wei Linze stood up and dragged Josh out. Josh struggled twice but couldn't get away, and was dragged out of the hospital by Wei Linze.

"Why do you always have trouble with Lu Chen?" Wei Linze taught him as he walked, "Is it reasonable for you to be picky about his own affairs?"

"I can't understand their group of people." Josh rolled his eyes, "The privileged class is annoying."

But isn't that what society is like now?

Seeking truth from facts is still above money and power, snobbery.

Because there is no way to resist, so I can only bother.

The next afternoon, Wei Linze received a call from his mobile phone.

However, at that time, a group of people were waiting in full force in the operating room, and no one noticed the call.

It was already the second day after Wei Linze's anesthetic passed.

Josh sat nervously on the edge of the hospital bed waiting for him to wake up. He was in a deep sleep. This sleep was full of dreams. He dreamed that he was distracted listening to English in the college entrance examination room. After finishing the English composition, he lost count. The little red flags on the short sleeves of the students in front are dizzying.

After the dream is over, I feel refreshed.

Josh watched his eyelids move, and before he had time to open them, he asked softly, "Do you want some water?"

Just as Wei Linze was about to nod, he continued to ask, "Do you feel uncomfortable? Are you tired? Does it hurt?"

For a moment, Wei Linze didn't know whether to nod or shake his head.

He pressed down Josh's waving hand and said softly, "It's okay, I'm fine."

Josh was still not completely relaxed, pulling him to ask questions.

Wei Linze cleared his throat and asked, "Cheng Jiezhi..."

"Still in surgery..." Josh drooped his eyelids.

The two fell silent strangely, and were finally startled by the ringtone of Wei Linze's cell phone, which drove away the depressed atmosphere.

Wei Linze looked at "Jiang Wenwen" displayed on the screen, and answered the phone.

"Teacher, didn't you forget that there is class today." Jiang Wenwen's tone was a little impatient.

Wei Linze didn't know how to explain this to her, so he could only falter and say: "Didn't I ask for leave... Shouldn't there be a substitute teacher?"

Jiang Wenwen gave a "huh" at the other end, and then smiled, "Teacher, you don't have to fool me, I know everything——Did Dean Zhou not notify you yet?"

Wei Linze glanced at Josh, and asked in a low voice, "Did someone call me during this time?"

"One called Dean Zhou," Josh said while peeling an orange, "I called several times, but I didn't answer."

Wei Linze nodded and continued talking to Jiang Wenwen, "What do you know?" He asked lazily.

"I know everything." Jiang Wenwen smiled slyly, "And the follow-up may be a little bit more than you know."

Wei Linze laughed, "Student Jiang, your teacher, what did I tell you earlier? I'm not emotionally intelligent enough. I can't understand anything when I make a slight turn. What's more, your turn is Mariana University. Trench."

"Hey..." Jiang Wenwen let out a long sigh over there. Wei Linze's indifferent look is annoying, but in the end he is quite charming. This is like a literati temperament emanating from the inside out. It's just lip service or superficial effort, "Teacher, your matter has been settled, and you can come back to class as usual at any time."

Wei Linze didn't speak, but pondered for a while, what do you mean by "settlement"?To settle this statement proves that someone has to intervene in this matter. The problem is that this is not something that dares to publicize it. The academy has not given an official statement so far. To say "settled", it has to be settled internally .

But he has never liked to walk around interpersonal relationships. If he can talk in the school, no one will have a reason to help him.

Seeing that there was no sound from him for a long time, Jiang Wenwen could only take the initiative to say: "Teacher, do you know how I solved the magazine issue last time?"

Wei Linze followed suit and asked, "What?"

"Teacher, what's our principal's last name?" Jiang Wenwen chuckled, before Wei Linze could speak, she continued, "What's my last name?"

"Jiang." Wei Linze answered this question seriously.

Wei Linze didn't understand what was going on until he hung up the phone, and he couldn't help sighing "privileged class" again.

Jiang Wenwen must seriously say on the phone: "You are a good teacher, you should not be deprived of the right to teach because of your private life, and the school should not interfere with the private affairs of the faculty and staff. You, but you are right."

"It didn't make sense in the first place." Jiang Wenwen's last words were quite arrogant, but Wei Linze's reaction to this was a little flat, which made her not very satisfied.

Cheng Jiezhi's surgery was considered a success, and Zhang Zhihe needed long-term cooperation in the follow-up treatment, but these things can be left to Lu Chen to worry about. Josh got upset when he saw Lu Chen, and hurriedly took Wei Linze back to Zhucheng.

Wei Linze rested for a few days, and he was still the lively and frisky teacher. The intolerance complications that he was worried about before were all gone. Wei Linze smiled and said to Josh: "I told you earlier, I'm lucky."

Josh pouted and ignored him.

Later on the phone with Dean Zhou, he still used the same cover-up rhetoric. Fortunately, he didn't stop talking at the beginning. He greeted Wei Linze in a high-sounding manner, saying that he should go back to school after introspection, and what to do in the future, but definitely Be aware of the impact in front of your students.

Wei Linze forcefully pulled out his good qualities, and agreed in a good voice, and even agreed to the unreasonable request to go to class immediately.

Hearing that Josh puffed his cheeks in displeasure.

Wei Linze hung up the phone and laughed at him, "Is the water running in our house?"

"What?" Josh didn't understand what he meant for a moment.

He pointed at Josh's nostrils and smiled: "Isn't it all smoking, the water is boiling."

"You're the only fucking nostril smoking!" Josh slapped his hand away.

Wei Linze and Josh's life is enjoyable but nothing special. Josh occasionally feels unsteady, and always feels that Wei Linze, the best in the world, shouldn't be cheap.

Ever since their ambiguous confession, they haven’t said anything clearly, they’ve been together for some reason, and their lives haven’t changed much from before. It's the feeling of living like this until the end of time.

Josh was unsteady, but he never dared to open up and ask, because he was afraid that Wei Linze would say something he didn't dare to listen to.

Only by holding Wei Linze in his arms and biting his collarbone, shoulders, and neck, and grinding his bones finely with his teeth, leaving countless marks on his body, can he relieve the fear in his heart.

What is he afraid of?

But the most fundamental thing is that he is afraid of himself, that this is not good, that is not good, he is not worthy of Wei Linze, he is a drag on Wei Linze.

She was never afraid that Wei Linze didn't have enough affection for him.

Because these things don't need to be said at all, and it's useless to say more, Wei Linze has already mixed his feelings into their small life little by little. Looking carefully, they are pampered carefully everywhere.

When he bit the back of Wei Linze's neck again, Wei Linze suddenly rubbed his long hair, and whispered into his ear, "What are you afraid of?"

For a split second, Josh felt like tears were coming out of his eyes.

Such a sentence is enough to drive away all uneasiness.

Such a good Wei Linze.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Wei Linze's voice seemed to come from the other side of the world, full of bewitching meaning, as long as he heard it, he was willing to surrender for the rest of his life.

The tasks at school seemed endless, and when one was gone, another came.

Speaking of the collective teaching and research tasks of the ancient literature teaching and research section, since Wei Linze started teaching, this was the first large-scale project. The teachers in the teaching and research section were used to being loose, so they seemed a little flustered when they got nervous.In the past few years, compared with the teachers in the Linguistics Department who hardly stopped working on projects one after another, they can be said to be so relaxed that their flesh collapsed a lot.

Wei Linze was the main force this time, not as relaxed as when he participated in the linguistics project before, but it was really a grand occasion when Mr. Pan and his wife downstairs were away from home during the summer vacation.Leaving early and returning late, I often don't even have time to eat.

He thought he was busy enough, but it seemed that Josh was much busier than him.

At night, I finally managed to look up and go home from a pile of dizzying materials. After turning on the light, Josh still hadn't come home.

I couldn't help but whisper in my heart, why did he go?

Wei Linze really doesn't have the habit of interfering with others, but Josh is always like this, he is always worried.Teacher Wei, who is both virtuous and artistic, suddenly realized a truth that he had been stuck in a corner when he was in his twilight years: worrying about the one you love is not interference.

Wei Linze first praised his comprehension ability in his heart, then took out the phone and pressed a few times, intending to send a cordial greeting to classmate Josh who came back late.

Before he could press the send button, the phone rang, and the caller ID: Bald Joe.

He answered the phone with a smile.

It was so chaotic that I couldn't hear clearly, Josh seemed to take a few steps to the side, the surrounding was quieter, and he said to the phone, "Wei Wei, let's go on a date!"

"Where are you?" Wei Linze asked.

Josh chuckled, "Go downstairs quickly, I've found a driver for you."

As soon as this sentence was finished, two car horns rang downstairs.

Wei Linze looked down from the window, the street lamps were dimly shining on the car, like Zheng Fei's car.

Zheng Fei pretended to be dumb the whole time and didn't say anything. Wei Linze asked him where he was going, but he didn't speak. Wei Linze asked him what Josh was doing these days, but he didn't speak. Instead, he choked out a sentence, "I'm just a driver today. .”

Wei Linze couldn't laugh or cry when he said this.

Zheng Fei glanced at the time on the car and stepped on the accelerator. Wei Linze was strangled by the seat belt and then bumped back into the seat. Zheng Fei smiled embarrassedly: "Well, time is running out, let's drive a little faster point."

Wei Linze glanced at the dial, is this speed slightly?

Not long after, he parked the car in front of a business building not far from the school.

After Zheng Fei completed the task, he turned around and left without hesitation, leaving a trail of exhaust gas with a beeping sound at the rear of the car.

In the middle of the night, the whole building was dark, and he looked around, but he didn't see anyone. "Josh?" he called tentatively, but no one answered.

Phone screen display: 11:58

When looking down at the phone, Wei Linze's eyes were suddenly covered by someone. He grabbed the wrists of those hands, and the person behind him deliberately said in a rough voice, "Please guess who I am?"

"I think..." Wei Linze laughed in all his words, "Why does this voice sound so much like my wife's?"

"No! Guess again!" The voice became a lot rougher.

"It looks more and more like my wife." Wei Linze smiled even more happily.

"Fart! It's your husband!" Josh still didn't let go.

"My little boyfriend—" Wei Linze hooked his arm and pulled it down.

Josh was extremely obsessed with covering his eyes, and he would not let go no matter what. He leaned against Wei Linze's ear and counted softly: "Five, four, three, two..."

"One." While counting to one, he let go of his hands covering his eyes.

"Happy birthday," he said, "my dear."

Wei Linze opened his eyes. The commercial building, which had been pitch-black just now, suddenly turned on the lights. His eyes, which had been covered for a long time, saw the light blurry, and the small circles of light clearly formed a heart shape.

The lighted windows form a heart shape.

"Hey," Wei Linze grinned with his teeth bared, the two people's shiny teeth complemented each other in the darkness under the flickering lights, "You are really... quite creative."

"Don't you just want to say vulgar, although it's a bit vulgar, but... vulgar is vulgar." Josh tilted his head on Wei Linze's shoulder, "Mutter softly, I love you."

To be honest, because he has been busy sorting out project materials for the past few days, Wei Linze's life has long passed, and his concept of time is day and night, and he doesn't even remember his birthday. "I know, and, so do I," he said.

"Is this what you've been doing these days?"

"Of course...not," Josh waved at him with a smile, and led him downstairs, "I even spent money to buy a building."

Wei Linze didn't know if he was joking, and didn't know how to react.

"I told you earlier that I want to support you," Josh twirled the key ring in his hand, "How can I support you just sitting and eating?"

Wei Linze gestured with his hands, "Buy a building to support me?"

"The hotel, to be precise, I took over this hotel." Josh swayed and led Wei Linze into the elevator, "Actually, we had planned for a long time before and wanted to do catering, but we have been procrastinating. We are still in Haicheng At that time, I suddenly changed my decision to open a hotel, and after I came back, I implemented the plan without any delay.”

In fact, this decision was made by Wei Linze's words at the time - I want to have a safe and stable home.

Therefore, he has been procrastinating for several months without mentioning the plan on the agenda, and it has been completed intensively in these ten days.

The elevator stopped at the top floor. Josh walked out of the elevator quickly, facing him and knelt on one knee. Behind the wide open door, the furnishings were almost the same as the house he lives in now. Josh tilted his head and said with a smile: "The top floor It's not open, it's our house, use it as an employment, stay with me for the rest of your life, Wei Linze."

"Use a building as a betrothal gift?" Wei Linze walked out of the elevator with a smile.

"No," Josh grinned, "the bride price is, I'll give you a home."

(Finish)

2017.8.26

22:18

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I'm a little busy these days, so I'm late.