hold peck

Five years later.

The end of May is summer, the sun is blazing, and the air smells of orange soda.

Of course, this air is limited to the area outside the disinfectant water enclosure of the hospital consultation room.

"Wow--"

An earth-shattering howl of a milk baby came out of nowhere, and the intern who hadn't had time to hold the drill trembled in fright, and began to doubt whether he had actually studied obstetrics and gynecology in the past few years.

"You cry before you start drilling! You can be a bit promising!"

The one who hated the iron but not the steel was the mother who stood by the shadowless lamp and accompanied the child the whole time. The child who had just squeezed two tears was lying on the treatment chair with her mouth tightly shut, with a heartbroken look of grievance.

Be careful, it makes people's hearts melt.

Both the trainee and the mother couldn't bear it, one was at a loss, the other was still struggling, and the three were embarrassed, and another white coat suddenly came out from the next door.

A blue medical mask covered most of his face, leaving a pair of jet-black and moist dark eyes under his broken hair. He said a calm and calm formula for saving lives from outside the cubicle: "Fang Ze, the teacher calls you, here's to you." me."

The trainee calmly breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the person gratefully, then got up and left happily like a fairy.

Brother Fang is the only child, and the child he has been with the most for more than 20 years is himself. He has grown up to this age, but he still doesn't know how to deal with these little devils with angelic faces. To rescue in time.

The classmate's surname is Xu, with a single name and one peck. He is special and easy to remember. He studies well, looks good, and the most rare thing is his temper.

Seeing that Xu Peck once again coaxed his mouth like a child on insurance to open his mouth obediently with a few words, and in an understatement, he picked up three decayed teeth and the child couldn't hold back his tears. Fang Fang's trainee suddenly felt a little bit sour with envy.

"Brother, is this the baby tooth that grew up with me?"

The mother went to pay the fee, and the little boy followed Xu Peck, touching the three small teeth in the transparent sealed bag, and suddenly felt sad and wanted to cry again.

Xu Peck squatted in front of him, his eyes slightly bent, and his voice was very gentle: "Well. They don't grow as fast as you, so I changed a way to accompany you."

The little boy sniffed, put the deciduous teeth into his arms, and said solemnly: "Then I will definitely protect them!"

Xu Peck nodded, with a serious expression, not a single bit of perfunctory: "Okay, come on."

There were few people at noon, and the consulting room was empty after the children and their mother left. Xu Peck took off his gloves to disinfect, and Fang Zeyi waited at the door for him to eat together. Looking at the delicate and good-looking facial features of his classmates after taking off their masks, he became more emotional.

"Hey, peck, how do you manage to coax those kids every time?"

Don't talk about your looks!They are all wearing masks. Could it be that two people can make such a big difference just by looking at a pair of eyes!

Trainee Xu thought for a while, and avoided the correct answer reasonably: "I am not the only child."

Trainee Fang breathed a sigh of relief, and chattered: "Oh! This is common, so are you an older brother or a younger brother at home?"

Seeing how he is able to coax the children with ease, it seems that he should be the elder brother.

But...Fang Ze suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard from his classmates before that Xu Peck, the classmate in the next class, had an older brother who had a very good relationship and would come to school to pick him up when he was on vacation.

It's Banhua, that's right.

"All."

Fang Ze didn't react: "Huh?"

Xu Peck looked at the foam in his hand, and suddenly smiled lightly.

He said: "I have a younger brother, and I have an older brother."

The younger brother didn't know what he was doing at the moment, but the elder brother was sitting in a very similar environment to him just now, holding a coil machine to engrave "serve the country with loyalty" on people's backs.

It wasn't Yue Fei who was engraved, and He Zhi wasn't Yue Fei's mother.

The guest is a foreign friend who loves Chinese culture. He is about to return home, and he really wants to leave a good memory of the foreign land with him, so he chose carefully for three days and three nights at Meituan Ai Bi Bi Jing, and finally left very blind Entered the black tattoo workshop of Zhengxing Building.

The proprietress Supor’s No. 17 absenteeism for no reason this year, the acting store manager He Zhi was lying in the lounge drowsy, and the new apprentice knocked on the door, saying that someone called the master to move the needle.

Master is a busy person. The head of the family is still in school but busier than him. After finally taking the summer vacation, he was immediately packed by his brother and taken to Nordic skiing to escape the summer heat. He only came back yesterday.

Xingsu’s employees have come and gone in the past few years, except He Zhi and Supor who have always stayed in the same place. The old ones leave and the new ones arrive. "Jianghu" and "Hurry".

Supor changed his temper the year before last, and went out to have fun with his homeboy boyfriend. When they came back, both of them wore wedding rings on their ring fingers, and there was a marriage letter read in church in their bag.

Since then, this pot has been a dishonest pot, and he absented from work all day long to go out to visit the mountains and rivers, and it lasted ten days and a half months.

The miser no longer guards his hearth, and the spare pot left behind is also lazy.The store is no longer crowded with people like it used to be, but somehow it seems to be more popular. Every time the appointment is open, the rest of the seats are always sold out in a second, making it like a celebrity concert.

Apart from He Zhi, there are only two full-time tattoo artists currently stationed in the store, and the remaining seven or eight are freelancers. Apart from using the name of Xing Su to solicit some business, most of them come here to learn from the master.

There are two masters, one is 25 this year, and his name is in a mess in Yancheng, and the other one was invited back after the previous one met on the street two years ago. It is said that he is his senior brother who has been lost for many years. True or false.

And He Zhibucai is exactly that famous flower who is twenty-five years old.

"Where's Ni Shu?"

He Zhi was still sleepy, with his arms resting on his eyelids, and his voice was a little hoarse.

The little apprentice was a little scared of him, and whispered at the door: "Brother Ni said he's off work."

He Zhi twitched the corner of his mouth mockingly: "My senior brother said how many days does he have off work?"

The little apprentice's head was almost buried in the wall: "...half, half a month."

Since the junior brother ran out to play without even saying hello, the senior brother responded with an eye for an eye and an eye for an eye.

Small belly chicken intestines.

He Zhi clicked his tongue lightly and sat up.

"Whether the customer is a man or a woman, what kind of tattoo do you want?"

The little apprentice led him downstairs, parroting his tongue as he walked: "Male, foreigner, gentle and polite, he said he wanted four Chinese tattoos."

He Zhi yawned: "Speak human."

The little apprentice stood upright on the stairs: "He wants to serve the country with a tattoo on his back!"

He Zhi: "..."

These four Chinese characters are simple, and the pattern is also simple. Before the customer comes, he designs and prints it himself, and the construction can start immediately.

He Zhi sat on the sofa and looked at Microsoft Yahei on the white paper. After a long silence, he met the bright green eyes of his blond buddy: "You, sure?"

The buddy nodded earnestly, patted his chest again, and replied sonorously in the eight-point authentic Yancheng dialect: "Definitely and definitely!"

……Fine.

He Zhi couldn't help raising his eyebrows, took a piece of paper and took a photo while the guests were getting ready, and sent it to the kid on the top of WeChat in a serious manner.

"Time goes by and the sea changes. I am no longer the He Zhi I was back then."

There was no beginning or end of it, and it was accompanied by the big characters of "serving the country with loyalty". Fortunately, those who are familiar with him can see what He Zhi is moaning about at a glance.

Xu Peck was eating claypot rice with Fang Ze at the entrance of the hospital. When the news popped up, Xiao Fang accidentally caught a glimpse of "Brother Zhi" in the note, and couldn't help sighing: "You and your brother have such a good relationship."

Xu Peck was editing the reply to He Zhi, said "um", and then put down the phone and replied softly after the sending was successful: "It's very good."

The taciturn boy in the past was able to grow into the beautiful and generous appearance he is today. All these subtle changes accumulated over the years are all due to He Zhi's love and tenderness for him.

Fang Ze admired for a while, remembering Xu's Ding Xingwang, and a younger brother, and was a little curious: "Then what about your younger brother? It seems that you have never heard of him."

younger brother.

Xu pecked at his chopsticks and remained silent for a while.

During the first two years after leaving Yancheng, Xu Si would occasionally write to him.

Liang Yan took him to a big city on the southern coast and passed the entrance test for a key high school.

There was no grade skipping this time. Xu Si took a leave of absence from school and transferred to another school all these years. After going around and going around, he finally returned to the freshman year of high school that was suitable for his age and started from scratch.

He no longer misses classes, and his classmates are rare to get along with.

The new deskmate is a quiet girl, not like someone who is noisy, she comes over after class and chats to share the masterpiece of youth pain that he read with great interest in the last math class.

After contacting him on and off for two years, Xu Si suddenly stopped sending letters one day.

The letters he sent by himself fell like stones in the sea, and Xu Si never gave him a new communication method after changing the number.

In the 5G era, Xu Peck completely lost the way to find his brother when the letter lost contact.

He had been in low spirits for a few days, and when He Zhi was so distressed that he rushed to the doctor and was about to take him to the police, Liang Yan, who hadn't contacted him for a long time, sent him a message.

"Xiao Si is fine, we are fine, don't disturb his life in the future."

The letter was from Xu Si, so it's none of his business.He Zhi was not happy, but Xu Peck grabbed his fingertip that was about to take the phone, and shook his head lightly.

Xu Si has grown up, and Liang Yan no longer controls him morbidly like in the past. Today's words are probably from Xu Si's own thoughts.

Yancheng is the home of Xu Peck and He Zhi. Even if it is muddy and rainy, it is still an inseparable past and future.

But for Xu Si, the past was never a good one.

He has a new life, and as a part of the past, Xu Peck can and should be cut off.

Thinking of the end of the last letter, Xu Si's long-lost sentence "goodbye, brother" after his usual journal entry - Xu Peck felt sore in his heart when he read it at the time, but in fact he had already had a premonition of Xu Si's words at that time. You are saying goodbye to yourself.

Goodbye, Xiaocai.

"Xu Peck?"

A hand shook exaggeratedly in front of his eyes. When Xu Peck came back to his senses, a smile was already on his lips naturally: "He is studying in the south, and his grades are very good."

After only a few sentences, seeing that he was not in high spirits, Fang immediately winked and changed the subject: "By the way, are you going to the party in the yard tonight?"

Last month, the old director of the Municipal People's Hospital retired and was succeeded by his former student. He has always had a high reputation in the hospital, and he deserves it.

It's a pity that the dean is busy with his affairs, and it took a month or so before he took the handover to spare time. He invited all the people of the hospital to have a dinner together at the Crescent Hotel tonight, to connect and connect with each other.

The two undergraduate trainees are optional, they can go or not, but seeing Fang Ze's anticipation, he has probably been envious of Xinyue's luxurious buffet for a long time.

Thinking of He Zhi's heavy work of "serving the country with loyalty and loyalty", Xu Peck wanted to refuse, but he didn't expect that he was so busy with business today, and another text message came with a "ding".

Lin Xiaobai: "Brother Peck, I want to ask Brother Zhi to have dinner tonight, but he refuses."

The reason for He Zhi's refusal is very simple, one is Xu Peck, and the other is to bother him.

But Xiaobai has been focusing on the key points he wants for decades, and immediately begged Xu Peck to come here after being rejected.

Guan Guan's birthday is coming soon, and her boyfriend is secretly preparing a surprise for her.

Xiao Bai not only asked He Zhi for help, but also was afraid that Guan Guan's best friend would leak the secret to her, so he had to do this trick every year, but it has almost become a routine for the four of them to keep secret.

This side agreed to Lin Xiaobai, Xu Peck raised his head and looked at Fang Zhe with sincerity again.

Xinyue is a long-established hotel in Yancheng. Xu Peck came here as a waiter during his freshman year as a work-study program.

The hourly wages are high, and the benefits are good.It's a pity that within two days, the guest surnamed He who heard the news came and called him out. He molested the little staff like a dude and ordered a large table of dishes, and then he packed up the dishes with soup and Xu Peck in a hooligan way and took them home.

Ordered so much that two people ate leftovers for three days.

Thinking back to the day before Xu Peck returned to school, he swore to the sky expressionlessly that it was impossible to work part-time. He Zhi smiled nostalgicly, holding his face.

Lin Xiaobai was talking about his perfect plan, when he saw He Zhi's absent-minded appearance, he immediately dissatisfied and said, "What? Your wife will abandon you today, please share some spare time with others, okay?" good!"

He Zhi plunged his knife into the steak on the plate, and from the corner of his eye, he slashed at Xiao Bai's head like a big knife.

Lin Xiaobai shrank his neck from an inexplicable chill, and continued to talk about the generous gift he prepared for his girlfriend's 22nd birthday, pretending nothing happened.

From the details of the venue layout to every time node, Lin Xiaobai is fully responsible, and will never pretend to be someone else.

Like many years in the past, Xiaobai, who has done everything by himself in every detail, just wants to get an affirmation and a word of appreciation from the boss this time.

But He Zhi didn't bother to talk to him, and spent the whole night perfunctory, looking at his watch frequently with drooping eyelids.

As soon as the clock pointed to nine o'clock, He Zhi immediately raised his hand to beckon the waiter: "Hi, pay the bill."

Before Lin Xiaobai soup was finished, the opposite side had already stood up. He didn't sit or stand. He got up and chased downstairs. The car that He Zhi called 10 minutes ago had already stopped downstairs. As soon as he showed up, he was dragged by the collar Tossed in the backseat of a black Volkswagen.

"Good night. Bye bye."

Lin Xiaobai was shocked and left by car, it happened to be [-]:[-].

He Zhi took a few steps back with his pocket in his pocket, looked up at the light behind the French windows on the third floor, his cold eyes gradually softened.

"I'm done."

Xu Peck accidentally drank some wine tonight, felt a little dizzy, and estimated that he would lose consciousness in 10 minutes, so he stood in the elevator and hurriedly edited a message to He Zhi and sent it successfully.

The elevator stopped on the first floor, and his vision became more and more blurred. With the support of his classmates, Xu Peck walked out of the bright hall like stepping on cotton. He was in a daze, but he saw the straight figure waiting for him at a glance.

The figure came towards him, but he stopped still. One second, Fang Ze seemed to hear Fang Ze's words, "Brother Xu Peck!", and the next second, his legs and feet suddenly weakened, and he fell into the visitor's body weakly and bonelessly. embrace.

whose doom looks like a river

doom of the river looks like me

The coffee shop on the first floor played the boy's low-pitched dream, and He Zhi's cell phone was still holding a faint breathing light in his hand. If he tapped it on at this moment, Fang Ze could clearly see the vulgar scene between the two at noon. dialogue.

——Time goes by and the sea changes. I am no longer the He Zhi I was back then.

——But I'm still the Xu Peck who fell in love with He Zhi.

But I am still the He Zhi who will always fall in love with Xu Peck.