Summertime

In fact, as long as Su Xi makes a phone call, the cold war between the two will end as scheduled, and the scene on the Hong Kong Airport Express train will reappear on the streets of Shanghai again, and Xizao will still choose to compromise.

The two reconciled as before, didn't they?

"Reconciliation", yes, "as before", not necessarily.

At the beginning of August, the heart of Xizao is as bad as the hot and dry weather in midsummer. Every day at dusk, when night falls, the cicadas outside the window start to lie on the branches in groups and shout for joy, just like being in a factory all day The roaring and vibrating old-fashioned machines, the noise is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but the clamor never stops until late at night and early in the morning.Xizao has been so irritable that she hasn't slept peacefully for several days, not only because of the cicada outside the window, but also because of the obvious strangeness in her life recently.

Xizao and Su Xi are indeed reconciled, but the subsequent getting along makes Xizao uncomfortable. Zhou Mi's shadow has been mixed in every corner of Xizao's life. Xizao and Su Xi seldom spend time alone. No, but the number of visits to Zhou Mi’s house became more and more, Xi Zao didn’t want to go and had to use the excuse of being busy with work, Zhou Mi’s personal invitation failed and had to ask Su Xi to come down three or two times, Xi Zao had to be unwilling Reluctant to go to the appointment, the three people seem to be enjoying themselves, making Xizao extremely indifferent, but Su Xi didn't do anything, and even her indulgence made Zhou Xiaomi do whatever he wanted, and he even made appointments alone several times a week Xizao went out to eat, in the name of work or in the name of personal, did Su Xi feel that their co-existence was not at all threatening, did she make sure that no matter how ambiguous Zhou Mi was, she would not go out of line, and Xizao was even more Zhou Mi will not be taken away from her.

Perhaps, Su Xi already has the winning ticket in her hands, because it seems that what she has obtained, will obtain, and has not yet obtained cannot escape her palm.

But why did Xizao have an ominous premonition? She felt that the shelf life of their relationship was approaching. Everything in reality was so harmonious, warm, harmonious, seemingly happy, but it made people feel very different.Xizao didn't know why she had such a feeling, but this feeling became more and more intense as time went by, until one night, she realized that she was not worrying unfoundedly.

August NO.14 at ten o'clock in the evening, the phone started to vibrate, it was a call from Zhou Mi, she hesitated for a moment and did not answer, Zhou Mi rarely called her at this time, and she didn't want to go out at this time, so she had to pretend She didn't hear it, but no one on the other end of the phone planned to let her go. The phone twisted her body over and over again, making Xizao flustered, and finally she had to press the answer button.

"Hey."

"Xizao, where are you?"

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be drunk, and the chaotic voice was mixed with the deafening music similar to that in a KTV private room.

"I'm at home, I just got out of the shower, what's the matter?"

Xi Zao couldn't help frowning.

"Can you come out and stay with me?"

Zhou Mi shouted in a confused voice.

"But I've already taken a shower..."

Xizao sighed, she really didn't want to go.

"I'm in a bad mood today, come out and sit with me for a while."

Zhou Mi's voice became even more frustrated, and Xizao suddenly couldn't bear it anymore.

"Where's Su Xi?"

"At home, I told her that I went to a party tonight and didn't want her to worry."

"Okay, I'll go now, you wait."

If you don't go, you have to go, Zhou Mi looks like this, Xizao is afraid that he will pass out in the KTV and spend the night alone, and Zhou Mi's alcohol capacity is not good enough, so he can't let him drive home alone, Su Xi, Xizao again Can't tell her, after much deliberation, Xizao simply packed up and went out.

When we arrived at the private room, it was past eleven o'clock in the evening, and the dark and closed room smelled strongly of alcohol. Xizao looked at the chaotic tea table, and there were fallen empty wine bottles and wet popcorn all over it. , There is still a broken fruit plate, and Zhou Mi is still leaning on the sofa with a drink, staring down his throat and pouring wine.

"Stop drinking!"

Xizao rushed forward and snatched the wine bottle from his hand, and yelled at him.

"You're coming!" Zhou Mi pulled Xizao closer with a red face, and began to talk endlessly. "Do you still remember that when you and I still had dreams, the three of us were outside the school...KTV all night, and then I drank a lot of wine...I said I would sing for you, but in the end...it didn't work out, today Tonight I will... sing, sing for you!"

While yelling, Zhou Xiaomi stretched out his hand and fumbled for the microphone on the coffee table that he didn't know where to put it, Xi Zao quickly reached out his hand to stop it.

"No, no, you're drunk, I'll help you go back."

"No, I'm not...not drunk!"

Zhou Mi broke away from Xizao's hand that wanted to help him, sat on the sofa and rubbed his flushed cheeks, and suddenly fell silent. Now, Xizao had nothing to do, so he had to continue sitting with Zhou Mi.

"Do you know why I drank so much in the first place?"

Zhou Mi laughed, his head was lowered all the time, but his speech became smoother, Xizao thought he was awake.

"Ok?"

"Because Mengshi told me that she liked you that night. I didn't believe it, but she just said that she had a crush on you. How could I not be able to compete with a woman? She just talked back to me and even showed me her WeChat confession." Evidence, I drank when I was too angry, and drank a lot until you came over..."

"Who told you to scare her that you were going to pick her up? The two of you sent me WeChat messages one after another like urging you to die. I thought something happened to you. She doesn't like you, so she can only use me as a shield. Yes, at that time , I still remember that you were standing on the curb and couldn't pull you away, and in the end we couldn't even go back to the dormitory. Mengshi and I had to drag you to the KTV for a night. I didn't expect you to vomit in a mess. You can still lie on the sofa and sleep like a pig, do you know that Meng Shi and I chatted all night and laughed at you?"

Xizao couldn't help pushing Zhou Mi, who looked frustrated, and laughed. She still remembered it, almost ten years ago.

"That's right, the three of us went to watch the sunrise on the beach the next morning. Now that I think about it, it seems like it was yesterday, but how many years have passed."

Zhou Mi's big laugh gradually turned into a wry smile, and he took the wine on the table and continued to drink, this time Zizao didn't stop him.

"At that time, we were still...together, seeing you every day, how wonderful...why back then...didn't know how to cherish it!"

A bottle of wine was quickly finished by Zhou Mi, and he continued to open the next bottle. Xi Zao wanted to stop it, but he retracted his outstretched hand.

"Don't we meet often now, what's the regret?"

Xizao smiled awkwardly, Zhou Mi's words were too directional, she could only be vague.

"Soon, we... me and I won't be seeing each other as often as we do now."

"why?"

Xizao didn't understand the meaning of Zhou Mi's words.

"In October, I applied to work in New York. You know that the company has just established a branch there. By then, there will be fewer opportunities to return to China."

Zhou Xiaomi let out a long sigh, leaned on the sofa with his hands outstretched, and looked disappointed, but the words that were originally vague became calm and clear at this moment.

"Where's Su Xi!"

Xizao was startled, she seemed to have got the answer from Zhou Mi's narration, but she still wanted to confirm it from Zhou Mi.

"I want to take her there with me, I know...she has always been dissatisfied with me, dissatisfied with me because of work...entertaining everywhere, dissatisfied that I have no time to accompany her and children because of work, I always fail to meet her expectations Yes, but only by doing better can I... give her what she wants, and I also want to give Tongtong a better environment, but once... we are all gone, the chances of meeting each other will only increase in the future The less...I can't bear it."

Zhou Mi was downcast and poured wine desperately, one bottle after another, but Xi Zao had no energy to stop it.

"Su Xi, she already knew!"

"Xi is still hesitating, because she said she can't bear you either."

"hesitate……"

Zhou Mi's explanation made Xi Zao feel ironic. Did she always be the fool who kept it in the dark? Su Xi already knew it, why didn't she tell herself!

For the next time, Zhou Mi kept talking, his voice rising and falling, but most of them were drowned out by the soundtrack of golden songs that no one sang in the private room. He seemed to be recalling, recalling those days when they were still in the bar , repeating the old saying, each incident has been narrated countless times, Xizao doesn't know the past that has been repeatedly mentioned, why Zhou Shu will take the trouble to narrate it every time, with great interest, won't he feel bored?Anyway, Xizao is tired of listening to it, and maybe it was a good time for him, but for Xizao, it will never be.

In the private room, another 12 bottles of beer were delivered. Zhou Mi kept drinking and talking, while Xizao just sat next to him and accompanied him quietly. She was not listening to the endless chatter of the people around her, because her mind was no longer in this noisy space, and Zhou Mi suddenly slammed the table to startle, the tacky popular love songs, everything was The atmosphere is smoky, but why Xizao can’t hear anything, it’s like she’s watching an oolong silent play, in which the exaggerated movements, expressions, and mouth shapes are slowed down a little bit. Zao can only feel a kind of deep sorrow, which is caused by only one person.

Su Xi, it's time to give her an answer, an answer that has been in arrears for a long time.

In the past, Xizao felt that the answer was no matter what, since Su Xi hadn't figured it out yet, then don't force others, because, Xizao told herself, what she disliked the most was forcing.

Now, Xizao doesn't care whether the content of the answer is good or bad, she just wants Su Xi to answer in person, as long as Su Xi can make a decision, that's enough, Xizao just wants to understand some things.

At a quarter past one in the morning, as expected, Xizao received a call from Su Xi.

She asked if Mi was with her.

"Well, he was drunk."

Xizao looked at Zhou Mi who was lying unconscious on the sofa, clutched the wrinkled skirt folds on her legs, and replied calmly.

"Then, I'll go and take him home."

"No, I'll take him back. I didn't drink."

In the early hours of the morning, the street was empty, and Xizao helped the rickety Zhou Mi struggling to get out of the KTV. Zhou Mi had already vomited in the toilet several times, and his consciousness had somewhat recovered, but he still slumped his body. Part of the weight was on the person who supported him. It wasn't that he didn't want to get up, but that he was reluctant to get up. The distance that he had never been able to get close was pulled closer at this moment, very close, and became close.

Perhaps this approach is also the last time.

From leaving the KTV to arriving at the parking space, it took Xizao almost 10 minutes for a short distance of tens of meters. When she let go of Zhou Mi panting and lowered her head to take out the car keys from her bag, she leaned against the car Zhou Mi, who was drunk by the window, suddenly pulled her closer.In an instant, she fell into the embrace of a hot man who smelled of alcohol.

"If... If I could have met you a year or two earlier, instead of waiting until graduation, you... would you have accepted me?"

Xizao smiled, and she patted Zhou Mi's sagging shoulders like a buddy, and she pulled back as before, gently, without leaving a trace.

"you're drunk."