Tentative

No matter who is missing, time still passes quickly, and the sun rises and the moon sets every day, essentially the same.

Shen Yizhuo still ran between the school and the apartment, and occasionally went to Qisheng's place to drink and chat.A month passed quickly, and Qu Zhe did not come back.He didn't know why he waited—or he couldn't decide whether to count as waiting or not.It's just that after October and November came, Qu Zhe still didn't show up. The apartment was so cold that it made people panic. He turned on the floor heating early to welcome a new round of winter.

Today is the weekend, Shen Yizhuo has nothing else to do, after having dinner at Shen Guyu's at noon, he went back to the apartment, nestled on the sofa and read a book.Alone at home, he seemed desolate and free. He relaxed his legs on the sofa, resting his hands on the armrest of the sofa and reading the book in his hand. Soon it began to rain outside the window, and the raindrops hit the floor-to-ceiling windows. Quite big.He turned his head and looked out of the window. It was a cloudy and rainy day, but it was still dazzlingly bright. The noise of the rain made people bored, and the words on the book became less clear.

In fact, I just can't see it.

Some time ago on the weekend, he was sitting on the sofa reading a book like this, but the posture was not as casual as it is now; on the other side of the couch, Qu Zhe was like his clone, looking at other people in the same posture. Book.In the quiet afternoon, none of them said a word, they read books separately, until Qu Zhe was going to work, they would prepare some afternoon tea for him, and then greeted "I'm going out" before leaving.

Thinking about it carefully, they didn't eat, drink and play much, and they couldn't find a few times when they laughed together.

"Oh." As if he suddenly remembered something, Shen Yizhuo pinned the book on the coffee table irritably, and lost all thoughts of reading.

The phone rang at the right time, just to relieve the boredom at this moment.Shen Yizhuo glanced at the call reminder, it was from Lu Ziming, he answered it without thinking too much: "Hello?"

"What are you doing?" Lu Ziming said calmly, the background sound was a bit noisy, and the sound of mahjong could be faintly heard.

If anything, Lu Ziming should be the friend Shen Yizhuo doesn't want to be in touch with the most.He is Shen Guyu's friend and the only son of a businessman.The two met each other at various dinner tables when they were children. Since arriving in this city, Shen Guyu naturally "hoped" that they would get along more.But after getting along with each other, Lu Ziming's dull personality made Shen Yizhuo very fond of him.He doesn't like people who are too loud, and he tends to dislike people less and less as he gets older.Shen Yizhuo would probably not have paid attention to a noisy type like Qi Sheng if he hadn't met him when he was young.

But the relationship between people is so wonderful. If it is said that he and Lu Ziming knew each other because of their family background, then it is very strange that Lu Ziming knew Qi Sheng.One is a standard rich second generation, and the other is an essential hooligan who has become a businessman through his childhood. But before he met Shen Yizhuo, Lu Ziming and Qi Sheng knew each other. Shen Yizhuo didn't know what the intricate relationship was. Didn't ask either.

"At home, what?"

"Qi Sheng said that today is the birthday of his new girlfriend, let's go get together." Lu Ziming said, "I'm just here to watch them play cards, it's boring, do you want to come over?"

Shen Yizhuo hesitated for a moment: "I'm not coming, I'm not interested in these either."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Qi Sheng seem to have snatched Lu Ziming's mobile phone, and shouted: "Come on, Yizhuo, I have prepared a gift for you, come quickly!"

"...What did your girlfriend give me as a present for my birthday?"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, just come quickly!" Qi Sheng said, "I'll let Xiao Wei pick you up."

"I..." "Beep...beep..."

The phone has been hung up by Qi Sheng.Sitting at home really has nothing to do, and the rain outside is annoying. In this case, it's time to go out to change your mood.Thinking so, he got up from the sofa, took a shower and changed into clean clothes.The timing was right, Xiao Wei's phone call came while he was drying his hair, saying that he was already waiting for him in the parking lot downstairs.

When Xiao Wei started following Qi Sheng, Shen Yizhuo didn't know, anyway, he took into account the roles of the younger brother and the driver, and the car drove well and was very stable.

"Brother Shen!"

"Ah."

He got into the back seat of the car, and Xiao Wei glanced at Shen Yizhuo in the rearview mirror while driving.Shen Yizhuo's face was expressionless, it was hard to figure out how he was feeling today, Xiao Wei turned around with the steering wheel, and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Why haven't you seen that... friend of Brother Shen recently?"

"Friend" of course refers to Qu Zhe.

Shen Yizhuo looked up at the rearview mirror, suddenly felt chest tightness, and wanted to get angry.This glance lasted for a while, and Xiao Wei realized that he had said something wrong, so Shen Yizhuo said: "He's busy, he won't be staying here for a while."

"Oh..." Xiao Wei didn't dare to ask any more questions.

This time the party was not chosen on the outskirts of the city, but in a tea house in the city center.When Shen Yizhuo arrived, Qi Sheng was playing mahjong, and his new girlfriend sat beside him, nodding shyly at him as a greeting.

"My girlfriend is pretty." Shen Yizhuo said softly to Qi Sheng.

The girl's smile became sweeter and sweeter, which disgusted him a little.Qi Sheng fumbled for the cards, and when he heard Shen Yizhuo's voice, he quickly turned his head and said, "Here you are, the last round and the last round, after playing, go to eat."

"It's okay, you hit it first."

Lu Ziming sat up from the sofa resting next to him, and nodded to Shen Yizhuo: "There is a table outside, let's play two shots."

"Row."

He has no interest in gambling or anything like that, so going out to play billiards with Lu Ziming is a pretty good choice.Qi Sheng yelled "All right, all right", and continued to dominate the poker table.

"I heard from my dad that your younger brother got into trouble recently." The two chatted while playing.

Shen Yizhuo pressed his waist and aimed at number three.But there is still Lu Ziming's ball between number three and the white ball, which obviously needs to find an angle to go around to hit it.But Shen Yizhuo didn't change positions. Instead, he hit three goals in that position.

The white ball was hit, made a crisp sound, bounced off the table, just skipped over Lu Ziming's ball, and hit No. [-].

"...What's wrong with him?" Shen Yizhuo asked calmly after hitting the club, as if he didn't care whether No. [-] would enter the hole or not.

With a "gudong", No. [-] fell into the bottom hole.

"He smashed the young master of the Chu family's car." Lu Ziming said, "It was pretty bad."

"why?"

Shen Yizhuo continued to ask while typing.

"I don't know, it seems to be chasing girls?"

"It's so powerful." Shen Yizhuo sarcastically said.Lu Ziming's gossip chatted and then wandered to other things: "Why didn't you bring your... little follower this time?"

"He's gone." Shen Yizhuo said flatly, "He's not my follower either."

"I see."

It would be best for Shen Yizhuo that Shen Yiwei was doing mischief outside.

The Shen family has a big business and two children, who will be in charge in the future is a topic that many people secretly speculate and talk about.But the youngest son, Shen Yiwei, is different from him. One is the son of Mrs. Shen who is now a legitimate son, and the other is the child of his dead ex-wife.

If Shen Yizhuo can't be perfect, everything that originally belonged to him will fall into the hands of others.

Of course Lu Ziming knew his idea, but he didn't see through it.

Soon they ended the game, and the game inside was also declared over. Qi Sheng booked a table in a good hotel, and the group drove there.

Today is Qi Sheng's treat, of course Qi Sheng sits in the main seat, while his new girlfriend sits on the right, the left is vacant, and to the left are Shen Yizhuo and Lu Ziming.

"This place is empty, is there anyone else who wants to come?" Shen Yizhuo said with a smile.Qi Sheng's old friends understood what he meant - could it be that Qi Sheng is going to call his other girlfriends over today for a hug?Who knew that Qi Sheng said mysteriously: "It's for you."

After he finished speaking, he raised his voice toward the door: "You can come in."

All eyes followed his words to the door.The door of the private room was pushed open by a tender and thin hand, and a young man walked in.The boy was very short, about 1.7 meters tall, and lowered his head anxiously. He was wearing clean and simple casual clothes, and looked very familiar.

"Come and sit here." Qi Sheng greeted.

No one present understood what it meant, only Shen Yizhuo stared straight at the young man walking towards him, and finally sat down on his right hand.Lu Ziming didn't understand either, and looked at Qi Sheng with doubts.

Qi Sheng didn't seem to feel everyone's questions, and he didn't intend to explain. He just leaned over, moved closer to Shen Yizhuo in front of the young man, and said, "The first time I saw him, I felt like him, so much like him."

Shen Yizhuo said nothing, his eyes were dark and deep.

The boy raised his head, his appearance was not very outstanding, but it was passable.The main reason is his timid expression, which seems to add a touch to the whole person's temperament, which looks too tame.Of course Shen Yizhuo knew who Qi Sheng was talking about, indeed, the moment this person walked in, he almost thought it was Qu Zhe.

But compared to Qu Zhe now, the boy is more like Qu Zhe four years ago.

Qi Sheng coughed dryly twice, and said to the boy in a deep voice: "This is Young Master Shen, why don't you introduce yourself."

The boy was obviously not very good at talking, and he was very nervous.

Except for Shen Yizhuo and Lu Ziming, most of the other men were the sons of rich businessmen, or businessmen like Qi Sheng, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were gatherings of dude boys.The identities of the women are even more vulgar. If they are not real girlfriends, they are some unknown young models, and it is impossible to get acquainted with them.

"Shen, Young Master Shen..." The young man timidly said, "I, I...my name is Cong Yun."

Shen Yizhuo kept his face expressionless - but in fact, in front of others, he was either smiling or unhappy.Qi Sheng looked at him, and it took him a long time to feel that he had done too much, and then Shen Yizhuo said, "Hello, my name is Shen Yizhuo."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his eyes, picked up the cigarette on the table and put it into his mouth.

Cong Yun acted as if he knew the identities of these people well, so he quickly picked up the lighter and lit it for him.Shen Yizhuo didn't refuse, Qi Sheng whispered: "This kid is only sixteen, he's out to make a living, if you like it, keep it."

"This is really a 'surprise'." Shen Yizhuo said.

"Come, come." There was a lot of food on the table, Qi Sheng shouted at everyone, raised the cup in his hand and said, "Today is my family's Qianqian's birthday, first I wish her a happy birthday!"

"Happy birthday!"

Shen Yizhuo smiled, didn't look at Cong Yun more, and quickly blended into the environment, toasted and drank with everyone, gossiping.