Summertime

"How did you come!"

After the awards ceremony, Xizao walked into the crowd and looked for the familiar figure. Xizao knew that Gu Xia must be waiting for her, and soon she found the person standing by the seat near the aisle.

"I heard that CouCi's work won an award, so come and have a look."

Gu Xia explained with a smile, then covered her mouth and coughed a few times.

"Didn't I tell you not to use it? I haven't recovered from the cold yet. I'm running around. When will I get better?"

Xizao couldn't help but blame, Gu Xia's face was still sick, and with the exhaustion of the journey, he looked even more tired and haggard.

"It's almost better, I just want to come here to celebrate with you."

"You dragged your sick body just to come and celebrate for me!"

This kind of reason is a little unbelievable, because no one has ever done this for herself. Such rewards and generous gifts are too heavy. Xizao can't afford it. Rather than saying that she can't bear it, she feels more confused. Recently, Xizao couldn't understand what Gu Xia was thinking and doing more and more, because even if they had a good relationship for many years, there was no need for Gu Xia to be so kind to her, which seemed to be too much.

"Anyway, there's nothing wrong with Shanghai, so I'm here."

Gu Xia's words were understated, as if she didn't take such an unusual behavior seriously, the heavy feeling in Xi Zao's heart was reduced a lot because of Gu Xia's words, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart for some reason .

"I heard from Liang Wen that they have already found a good place to stay overnight, let's go there tonight."

"Huh?" Xi Zao was distracted, and it took several seconds for Gu Xia to realize what she said, "Oh, yes, they found a good place, but..."

Xizao suddenly realized something, and suddenly the blankness on her face changed into apology and embarrassment.

"It's just...it's just that I booked a boat ticket to Macau tonight, and I have to leave later. When I got busy today, I forgot to tell them this in advance. Go with them tonight, I have to Tell Liang Wen to let him take good care of you, is your cold okay, don't drink too much!"

The more Xizao spoke, the more anxious she became. Before she finished speaking, she wanted to turn around and look for Liang Wen.

Gu Xia's sudden appearance gave her a complete surprise, but she didn't come at the right time. She had already bought two boat tickets, and she was going to take Moyou to Macau for an overnight stay. She didn't have time to spend time with Gu Xia today or tomorrow. But now Gu Xia is still sick, and she is worried about leaving Gu Xia alone in Hong Kong. The only way now is to let Liang Wen and the others take good care of Gu Xia during her absence. A little hasty, but Xi Zao can only do this, she wants to hurry over now, Liang Wen is more careful than Jin Zhihua, and now she has to explain to him what should be instructed in detail, she has no way to accompany Gu Xia, so she can only made up for it in other ways.

However, when Xizao hurriedly turned around to go to find Liang Wen, Gu Xia behind him suddenly asked a question, which made Xizao stunned, and she couldn't help turning around.

"Yes, are you going with Su Xi?"

Gu Xia didn't know when she lowered her head and raised it again when she said these words. Xi Zao couldn't see anything unusual on her face. Gu Xia just smiled faintly, but her low voice was different from that at this moment. Xi Zao felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out what was weird.

"No."

Xizao looked around for a moment, pointed to Moyou who was chatting with Liang Wen and the others not far away, and continued to explain, "My friend came to visit me from Japan. I am busy with the exhibition these days, so I don't have much time to accompany her. After the exhibition, I took her to Macau for a walk, and she returned to China on Sunday, so I want to spend more time with her these days."

Xizao didn't know why she had to explain so much, maybe she just wanted to make Gu Xia happy.

"Well, don't worry about having fun with your friends, don't worry about me."

Gu Xia stretched out her hand to stroke Xizao's hair that was hanging down her shoulders, and the corners of her mouth that were slightly raised on her face showed a soft curve.

The exhibition ended as scheduled, Xizao, Moyou and Gu Xia bid farewell and left first.In the exhibition hall at five o'clock, the previous prosperous and gorgeous scene has come to an end. It is already dusk outside, the setting sun is shining, and the indoor light is gradually dimming. Only a few staff members are still walking around in the empty hall. Under the light and shadow, in several booths around, three or two workers turned on a few bright lights and started unloading work. The sound of heavy objects hitting the ground, the sound of cartons being dragged, and the sound of mechanical equipment running Collision, reverberation, propagation in the space, the echo is empty and powerless, Liang Wen and Jin Zhihua are simply tidying up in the exhibition area of ​​CouCi, and they decide to find some workers and come here to dismantle the booth at noon tomorrow.And Gu Xia stood in the exhibition hall where the crowd had dispersed, looking at the entrance and exit of the exhibition hall, unable to regain consciousness for a long time.

Xizao and the woman named Moyou, their backs were already invisible, there was no one passing by at the exit, there were no traces of walking, Gu Xia didn't know what he was looking at.

There was nothing to look at, but just now she was not careful, and she had a lot of things in her heart.

Gu Xia fell into deep thoughts, she felt that she was thinking wildly, but was she really thinking wildly?

Gu Xia has always known that Xizao seldom takes the initiative to get close to others, she thought that Xizao is not used to intimacy, because Xizao never takes the initiative to hold her hand, even though their relationship is already so close and familiar.

However, just now when she saw Xi Zao stretched out her hand to hold the woman's hand easily, the two talked happily, and then disappeared at the corner of the hall exit.At that moment, what appeared in her mind was the image of Xizao and Su Xi. That time, the image she met in the department store, but this time, the place was different, the time was different, and one of the characters was replaced by someone else, but The content is surprisingly similar, almost overlapping.

At this time, Gu Xia really realized that Xi Zao, he had never really understood her from the beginning, never.

The back view of Xizao and Moyou's ten fingers holding each other has been going on. From Friday to Saturday night, Gu Xia's mind was like a long clip in a movie. She didn't pay much attention to the details of those backs. It's just that some other things stretched out from the backs of those two people, and Gu Xia fell into a frozen thought. About Xizao, Su Xi, and the woman named Moyou, she wanted to figure out what was going on. She thought she could see the inextricable connections, but everything looked like a mess, Gu Xia couldn't sort it out, and kept cutting it, and finally got herself trapped.

"Sister Xia? Sister Xia!"

After Jin Zhihua finished his last sip of iced milk tea, the ice cubes crunched in his mouth. He ordered a table of refreshments, and most of them were eaten by him and Liang Wen. Gu Xia said he had no appetite, and Jin Zhihua thought it was hers. She was still ill, so she tried her best to pick some light food, but she didn't finish the thick bowl of plum vegetable pork rib porridge in front of her. Spoon.It's almost time to sit and digest food. He and Liang Wen glanced at each other and decided to wake Gu Xia up.

"Ok?"

"It's almost nine o'clock in the evening, it's time to go back."

Liang Wen looked at Gu Xia who raised her head, she didn't seem to have recovered, so she scratched her head and reminded embarrassingly.

"Is it almost nine o'clock?" Gu Xia subconsciously looked down at the watch on her wrist. She frowned, picked up the bag beside her, and was about to get up. She then said, "Go back to the hotel first, I'll go Buy something from a nearby dessert shop and go back later."

"Bring supper home?" Jin Zhihua asked.

"No, didn't Xizao come back? She likes to eat the durian millefeuille from that store, so I want to take it back for her along the way." Gu Xia explained.

"Then let's accompany you." Liang Wen hastily added.

"No need, you two have been busy all afternoon dismantling the booth today, go back early and rest, you can play all day tomorrow."

"Sister Xia is really kind to Xizao."

As usual, Jin Zhiwen liked to interrupt with laughter, but Gu Xia smiled and didn't speak.

Gu Xia remembered that the dessert shop was located in the middle of a small street among the many forked roads in Carnarvon Road. It seemed to be diagonally opposite Yuan Kee Tea Restaurant. She had only been there twice, the first time was a few years ago A friend in Hong Kong took her there on a business trip, and she took Xizao the second time. At that time, the two lost their way in the forest of neon signs on the streets of Hong Kong. Gu Xia still had a clear idea The two hesitated at the red light intersection in the narrow street, dumbfounding, and finally when they were about to give up, Gu Xia finally found the small shop where the willows and flowers were hidden.That time, on the night before midnight, the two of them ate four mille-feuilles regardless of the high calorie content of supper. Before leaving, they packed and took away a box of jujubes.

Xizao loves the durian millefeuille of that family. She said that next time the two of them go to Hong Kong, Gu Xia must take her to eat there again. Gu Xia still remembers Xizao's wish, but that small shop does It’s hard to find. The colorful streets and alleys of Hong Kong are full of billboards of various colors, narrow red light intersections, and dense buildings. Every place looks familiar, and the house buried in it Gu Xia doesn't know if she can still find the small shop this time.

At 22:[-] in the evening, near the hotel on the corner of Salisbury Road, there are fewer vehicles passing through the streets during the day, and the surroundings have become quiet under the night. A few tourists returning from the direction of Victoria Harbor on the road are chatting and laughing Stop by the huge fountain pool at the entrance of the hotel, raise your scissors hands, and pose casually.In a certain room on the eleventh floor of the hotel, the flickering light of the TV set was extraordinarily dazzling in the dark room. The woman picked up the remote control beside the bed and turned the volume of the blaring TV to the lowest level. The long hair in the front was casually brushed behind her back, and she stretched out her tired hand to untie the Bra that had been bound for a day. The temperature of the air conditioner was very low, and the cold wind blew on her naked skin, and many small bumps appeared on her smooth arms. The body is no longer as dry and hot as before. The woman wanted to pick up the air conditioner on the table to increase the temperature in the room, but at this moment a knock on the door interrupted her action. The woman turned her head and looked out the window. It was pitch black, and the lights in the distance were also blurred. The woman was a little puzzled, she didn't know who else would visit so late, she hurriedly put on the thin pajamas on the bed, and went to open the door.