REMIX

He took the cigarette from my hand and bit it in his mouth.

My heart skipped a beat.

However, this gave me a chance to hide my embarrassment. In order to avoid the possibility of eye contact, I just lowered my head and wiped my face indiscriminately. It was a bit unbelievable that something expressing sadness could flow out of my eyes so directly.

Then came the embarrassment of being blue out of blue.

All kinds of embarrassment.

The point is that he was so close to me that I had to notice his eyes.

Although it sounds a bit inappropriate, I thought of the word brows and eyes with spring.Especially the look of his drooping eyelids, even without saying a word, there is a charming and affectionate taste.

This person should be quite attractive.

My every move is under such a pair of eyes, and it feels unnatural to be controlled by the eyes, so I don't know how to behave is normal.

"All right?"

he ask me.

"……Um."

I agreed very eagerly, for fear that he would make use of the topic to say something else.

But he turned to the side and took a puff of cigarette, his action was completely opposite to mine, he was free and easy, and he said in a casual tone, "I won't tell others either."

I was even more embarrassed - he even remembered the last time we met, in the bar where there were only the two of us, and he asked me to keep it a secret for him.

The sound of someone opening the door of the bar not far away made my shoulders tremble, and when I turned my head, I smelled the men's perfume entwined with tobacco on his body.

I'm new to this tempered scent, but it smells great.

People are always impressed by characters who are different, and he was special to me.

And I never expected that he would remember me.

Just this little bit of joy wiped away all the grievances in me, and I didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a while.

The cigarette was smoked to the end.He suddenly called me, "Xiaxi."

I clenched my teeth so tightly that my jaw was a little numb, and it took me a long time to struggle to say, "Hey."

"Do you have anything to say?"

"No." I denied without thinking.

"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows, "Is your house okay?"

"not too good……"

The conversation that gradually unfolded effectively relieved my overly nervous emotions, or maybe because he was just a stranger who had met a few times, I didn't have to take responsibility for the negative emotions I was dispelling, so I simply said it in one go, "The living room downstairs is blown out, it's not safe, my mother and I can only live in the grocery store now."

He nodded slowly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Actually, I can help you, because I'm also—"

Before I finished listening, I uttered the longest string of "no, no, no, no" in my life, and his hand that pinched the cigarette paused, "Why?"

"I can't owe you any more favors. I don't even know who you are." This time I spoke very fluently, even if my words were a little duplicity.

I still wanted to get a little involved with him.truth.

Otherwise, the fate depends entirely on chance encounters, and it would be a pity not to see him next time.

"Really?" He asked me again.

I still firmly and hypocritically refused.

"How about this."

He seems to have thought of a good compromise.

"How are you studying?"

I was a little confused by this turning point, "Generally."

"If you can get an average score of [-] at the end of this semester," he said, "the landlord brother will be rewarded."

Maybe it was because I showed too much doubt and confusion on my face, he gritted his lower lip with his teeth, his expression was full of ulterior motives no matter how you look at it.

But I still believe it.

"What did you reward me for?"

"I'll tell you when the time comes." He pointed to his feet and signaled, "You usually have winter vacation ten days before the Chinese New Year. Come to the bar and wait for me on the day you get your report card."

"That's it," I finally said out what I had kept in my heart from beginning to end, "What do I want to give you in exchange?"

He crushed the cigarette butt between his fingers, stepped down the steps in two steps, and waved his back to me.

"I've always only given."

It was late when I went back.

When I walked to the door of the house, I found that I still had the smell of cigarettes on my body. It was the first time in my life that I did something bad without telling Xia Jie. , hair blowing.

I just didn't expect that there was a public toilet at the upper air outlet.

……

When I got home, she insisted on catching me and asking if I had fallen into the latrine, and refused to let me sleep without taking a shower twice.

There is no solar energy in the temporary bathroom outside the bungalow, and it still feels windy after closing the door tightly. After washing, I wrapped myself tightly in the quilt, and went through what happened today in my mind like a montage, and then my head swelled Dazed and drowsy.

The next day I was literally a whole new person.

Memorizing texts during big breaks, writing papers in self-study classes, and not sleeping in math class are all unprecedented.

For my enthusiasm for learning that suddenly broke out overnight, Li Qianlan only summed it up with the phrase "take the wrong medicine", which is really superficial.

Of course, my hard work with absolute purpose and utilitarian nature is not so simple. It should be said that it is only in this way that I can force myself, which is actually a very sad thing.

But so what.

If he cashes in, I'm lucky, if he doesn't, I'm not at a loss.This is a bet that is fundamentally inclined to me, and winning or losing is secondary.

I am interested in what he will give me.

And I can still see him.

That's what matters.

Fast forward to the end of the year.

The house that Xia Jie was interested in was booked in advance due to a delay, and we just lived in a grocery store in Thirty Ping for almost two months.

However, she found a job she wanted, a barista in a coffee shop, and she needed professional training for a month before taking up the job. During this time, she was studying while contacting people to talk about renting out the shop. She still left early and returned late every day, but her mood was better than before. much better.

I spent all my available time in the first two weeks of the final exam. Finding Qiao Xinxin to make up lessons was more profitable than eating, and I wished I could go to the bathroom while holding the back of my book...

Exams went well, Christmas is coming.

The Chinese New Year was early this year, and the day we went to school to get the notice was also the day when the winter vacation officially started, which happened to be Christmas Eve.

Before I could share the joy of success with my unscrupulous boss, He Gu, who had met the requirements in all subjects, he mercilessly grabbed me and sent me to run errands.Business is good during the holiday season, but it is too busy.

So when he came in through the door, slapping the snow off his shoulders, I almost forgot I was waiting for someone.