Two pots of water

The two days of Qin Gaokao's exam were basically the most regular two days in Jiang Chu's life in the past five years that Jiang Chu could recall.

In the morning, he set the alarm clock to get up to buy food, and stared at Tan Zui before he finished eating and sent him to the examination room.

When Qin Zui came out after the exam, he had already guarded outside the exam room in advance.

The only thing that made Tan feel ridiculous that he had nothing to say was that he ate noodles at noon for two consecutive days during the college entrance examination.

Or he made it himself.

"Bring the water to a boil, it's better to be boiled than uncooked." Jiang Chu solemnly reminded at the kitchen door with arms folded.

"Not at all." Tan Zui wanted to laugh as he stirred the noodles.

"I've done a solid job, anyway, it's only two meals." Jiang Chu was also very helpless, "There's a brother who can't cook, so you can do it like this."

"Then where am I going?" Tan Zui asked.

"I can still starve to death at home after you leave." Jiang Chu laughed, "I spent more than 20 years before you came, and I just waited for you to come and order."

Tan Zui smiled, he opened the drawer to get two bowls, and he could still think of Jiang Chu's appearance of being so tired of noodles every day.

"When the exam is over tomorrow, brother will take you to have a big meal." Jiang Chu went over to help him carry the bowl.

"Not tomorrow." Qin thought for a moment.

"Huh?" Jiang Chu looked at him, "Are there any arrangements?"

"The class is going to have a party." Tan Zui asked Jiang Chu to get the chopsticks, and brought over the bowl of hot soup by himself.

"Okay." Jiang Chu nodded, "Then you go and have fun, we are not in a hurry, we will eat the same any day."

After four and a half days plus two meals of vegetarian noodle soup, Tan Zui's two-day college entrance examination was carried out steadily, and Jiang Chu put down the biggest stone in his heart this year.

He didn't even ask Tan Zui how he did in the exam.

In the last scene, he leaned against the car door and waited at the school gate. When Tan Zui came out of the examination room and saw him, he smiled.

This is steady.

Jiang Chu smiled and whistled at him.

"Is there no need for me to pick you up tonight?" He took Tan Zui's test admission bag and threw it into the car. "If you don't stay overnight, you'll have to be crazy for the rest of the night."

"See how they arrange it." Tan Zui swiped his phone and tapped a few times, "I'll try to come back as soon as possible."

"If you come back sooner or later, I'm sure I'm already asleep, and I won't wait for you." Jiang Chu smiled, "Just go and have fun, and you can come back tomorrow."

Tan Zui raised his eyelids to look at him, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Is Gao Xia going?" Jiang Chu asked again.

"Yeah." Tan Zui glanced at his phone, it was the address Gao Xia sent.

"Send me his phone number." Jiang Chu opened the door and got in the car, "Don't look back, your phone is out of battery, I can't contact you anymore."

The atmosphere at the end of the college entrance examination every year is the most intuitive.

The sun was just right, and the sky was still bright. The bustling students were crying and laughing, and even the traffic jam was full of vigor.

Jiang Chu sent Tan Zui to the place they had agreed upon, and took out his mobile phone to send money to Tan Zui.

"I'll give you some pocket money." He clicked on Tan Zuo's profile picture.

"No need." Tan Zui pressed his phone down, "I'm enough."

Jiang Chu was avoiding Tan Zui's hand and wanted to talk when Jiang Liantian's phone call came on the screen.

"Dad?" He squeezed Tan Zui's fingers, signaling him to wait a while.

"Has Qin Zui finished the exam?" Jiang Liantian's voice was always high.

"Just finished the exam, what's the matter?" Jiang Chu felt his palms being pinched.

He glanced at Tan Zui, who was sitting peacefully leaning against the passenger seat, pinching each of his fingers.

Just outside the window was the golden sunlight, hitting his side face with a high nose bridge, his eyes were narrowed and he nodded slightly, looking at the special model indifferently.

Jiang Chu let out a "tsk" in his heart.

This face is really uplifting.

Although he looked at Tan Zui every day and didn't feel that he had changed significantly, compared to the day he first came here, Tan Zui definitely grew up completely.

"It's okay, after the exam, let's have a meal together as a family." Jiang Liantian's voice pulled him back from his thoughts, "Celebrate."

"Not today, there is a party in Qin Zui's class today." Jiang Chu waved his hand out, but didn't take it out.

"Then tomorrow..." Jiang Liantian lowered his voice halfway through speaking.

He should have whispered something to Tan Shuman, and then said on the phone: "Then you and Tan are the best, just these two days, I just happen to be free."

"I know..." Jiang Chu was simply replicating Jiang Liantian's stagnation just now.

It's just that Jiang Liantian wanted to discuss with Tan Shuman.

And he was held by Qin Zui.

It's not clasping the clasp, but the clasp between the fingers rubbing against each other, and the palms fitting together.

Jiang Chu could almost feel his palm prints from the rubbing of his palms.

"Understood." Jiang Chu cleared his throat, and slapped Tan Zui with his hand back.

Tan Zui smiled, tilted his head and leaned against the car window, and looked at him with half-closed eyes and a smile.

After Jiang Chu hung up the phone, he glanced at the time and asked Tan Zui, "Did you hear that? Come out for a meal in these two days."

Qin made a "hmm" sound.

"Are you still leaving?" Jiang Chu threw the phone into the back of the car.

"Oh, no more transfers?" Tan Zui asked.

"Fuck!" Jiang Chu was annoyed, and pushed the door of the co-pilot open with his arms, "Hurry up, I'm going to eat too."

Tan Zui couldn't help laughing, and raised his arms to hug Jiang Chu before getting out of the car.

Seeing Tan Zui walk into the store, Jiang Chu was about to drive home when his mother called.

"You have discussed it with my dad," Jiang Chu answered with a smile, "Either you don't make a call, or take turns when you make a call."

"Your dad just hit?" Mom asked.

"Ah." Jiang Chu responded, "Ask Tan Zui if he has finished the exam, and go to his place for dinner in the next two days."

"I just wanted to ask how the test was going," my mother laughed "sneaky", "there is no sign of the notification letter, so your dad will eat it."

My mother had to habitually mock Jiang Liantian's words and deeds first. Jiang Chu smiled and said, "It should be okay. It should be no problem to go to the school he wants to go to."

"Where does he want to test?" Mom asked.

"I want to study medicine," Jiang Chu said, "choose from the best schools."

The most impressive medical universities popped into his mind, and the closest one would take an hour by train.

"Then this kid is not bad." Mom was a little surprised, "Father doesn't care if Mom doesn't ask, he knows how to make progress."

"Didn't you just ask?" Jiang Chu raised an arm and stretched his waist. "When you graduate, let him take care of you."

"I don't want it." Mom said "Yo", "I have such a ready-made eldest son, how can I worry about retirement?"

"Don't worry." Jiang Chu smiled.

"That's right. It's been two years since I took care of their son. Hurry up and work on yourself when he goes to school tomorrow. How old are you? If you don't want to get married now, you should at least bring me a decent girlfriend. People keep asking me." Sorry to mention..." Mom said a lot.

Hearing the word "girlfriend", Jiang Chu's original relaxed state was replaced by a bit of suppressed daze.

He didn't listen to what his mother said later, and when he hung up the phone, he remembered that his mother asked him to go home to eat crabs next week.

Are the crabs delicious this month?

Tan Zui leaned back in the driver's seat and did not move. He lit a cigarette for himself, and stared at the passing traffic outside the window for a while, his mind was full of miscellaneous thoughts.

Fang Zi wanted to hold a game two days ago, and a group of people haven't gathered to chat for a while.

Because Jiang Chu had to watch Qin Gaokao, it was moved to the weekend.

After Jiang Chu was bored with the cigarette, he called Fang Zi and asked him to call someone out for a barbecue.

"Do you think it's appropriate for me to tell her today?" Gao Xia and Qin Zui leaned on the railing of the balcony of the private room, holding a beer bottle in their hands like a chicken's neck.

He wanted to confess to Lu Yao today, but now he was a little nervous.

"Let's talk." Tan Zui smiled when he saw him like this, "It's just a matter of one sentence."

"Of course you are light! It's not you who opened your mouth." Gao Xia bumped his arm sideways, "She even chased you, fuck."

"Hey." Tan was the most lazy to answer his words, sighed lightly, and raised his wrist to take a sip of beer.

"Actually, I can feel that she should also be interested in me," Gao Xia scratched her hair, "It's just what I think, I definitely can't go to the same school as her, it's very annoying."

"What's bothering you?" Tan Zui asked.

"It's a different place." Gao Xia's mouth twitched helplessly, "Tell her now, it is definitely possible to succeed. But what about after that? The summer vacation will last for two months, and they will go to school in September... Listen I said that a few different places can talk for a long time."

Tan understands Gao Xia's thinking best.

Lu Yao's grades are not in the same range as his, and she has been hanging around in the second line. Even if she performs supernormally, she will definitely not be able to squeeze into the same school as Gao Xia.

The school is second, so Gao Xia is worried about this distance.

Seeing that Qin didn't speak at all, Gao Xia gave him a slap with his arm again: "Hey, should I change you?"

"What am I?" Qin Zui asked.

"If you want to be with someone, can you not care about it?" Gao Xia glared at him.

Tan Zui stared at him for two seconds, and couldn't help laughing: "I didn't know you were so rational before."

“揍你啊，”高夏也没憋住笑，“我一向只在劝别人谈恋爱的时候当冲动派。”

Whether it is rational or impulsive, neither is easy for Jiang Chu.

Qin most couldn't answer Gao Xia's question.

If the distance between him and Jiang Chu was only the distance, Qin Zui would be able to laugh in the examination room.

Before, Qin Zui regarded the college entrance examination as a major node of his goal, at least to get rid of his identity as a high school student, and he was just qualified to say goodbye to Jiang Chu.

Now he has finished the exam, but it is impossible for Jiang Chu's orientation to change because of the college entrance exam.

For Qin Zui, it was the most inevitable step in his growth, but for Jiang Chu, it was just from the 8th to the 9th of June.

"Ask yourself, don't ask me." Tan Zui flicked a small piece of soot that fell on the railing just now.

"You can't get along to the end!" Gao Xia worried to death.

"If you really care, no one can persuade you." Tan Zui didn't know whether he was telling Gao Xia or summarizing Jiang Chu and him, "No one can stop me if I really like it."

Jiang Chu fell asleep when he got home at night, and slept until 03:30 in the middle of the night, when he was awakened by a rustling movement, as if Zhou Teng was running around and convulsed.

In fact, it can't be called noisy. Normally, he wouldn't hear it when he was asleep.

Today, I don't know if it's because I have something in my heart, I'm sleepless, I'm tired of dreaming one after another, and I can still hear the voices from the outside world burrowing into my ears.

And the desire to urinate wakes up along with the ears.

Jiang Chu frowned and got up to pee.

Going out of the bedroom, I saw someone coming out of the bathroom head-on.

"... Fuck." Jiang Chu was so frightened that he said something.

If it weren't for the fact that his mind was too sluggish right now, he probably wouldn't be able to urinate out of his arms.

In the darkest moment, Tan turned around to see many people, and he was also taken aback before he realized it.

"Woke you up?" he asked softly.

"No, why did you come back in the middle of the night?" Jiang Chu pushed him away to pee.

Qin Zui had just taken a shower, the bathroom was filled with water vapor and the refreshing smell of shower gel.

"I'll be back when I'm sleepy." Tan didn't go back to the room, Jiang Chu took his arm and smelled it against his temple when he went out after washing his hands.

"Have you been drinking?" Tan Zui's voice was still soft.

With the heat and refreshing skin breath coming directly, the wonderful oppressive feeling went from the center of Jiang Chu's brows to the back of his head, and the hair follicles of every strand of hair were tightening.

"Ah." Jiang Chu responded, turned his head away quickly and walked into the house, patted Tan Zui's side indiscriminately, "I had dinner with Fang Zi and the others at night. If you are sleepy, go to bed quickly."

Tan Zui didn't speak, and followed him to the door of the bedroom.

"Huh?" Jiang Chu looked back at him warily.

"Sleep with you." Tan Zui hugged him from behind, and directly arched Jiang Chu's neck like a fool, "Just today, brother."