Two pots of water

This year's New Year's Day, Jiang Chu spent with Da Ben and the others.

It was Fang Zi who saved a game, and they didn't get together much this year, and every time they wanted to have a meal together, either one of them had something to do or the other wasn't there.

It made Fangzi book the date a week in advance this time. He is a party freak and has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"Aren't you going to see your brother?" Da Ben and Jiang Chu stopped the car at the intersection and waited for Baoli and Chen Linguo, sucking and peeling a roasted sweet potato.

"He's not free, he's going to take his final exam, so he'll be in the library on the phone in the morning." Jiang Chu pushed down half of the car window, "Don't make my car smell like fart."

"What's the matter, I have a long mouth and buttocks, and I can still eat a carload of your fart." Da Ben was stunned, and almost didn't bite down on a bite of sweet potato.

He changed the side and tore the skin again, biting down until his tongue was circling: "Then your brother is really relieved... His heart is scalding. Like Lao Du's nephew, you won't be hurt all year round." Qing province."

"Shouldn't it be on the long mouth?" Jiang Chu smiled.

When Da Ben was chatting with Tan Zui, he liked to compare Du Miaomiao. When Jiang Chu thought about it, it seemed that he hadn't seen Du Miaomiao this year.

The last time it was at the back door of No. 27, Du Miaomiao was crying like a cat.

"How's Du Miaomiao going back to school?" He asked casually.

"Who knows, I'm locked in the school every day." Da Ben waved to the outside of the car, and Baoli and Chen Linguo were walking across the road, arm in arm.

"However, I have re-read it. If he knows something, he should be able to make progress." Da Ben recalled, "I haven't seen him post on Moments for at least half a year. Before that, there were several in a day."

"People may have blocked you." Jiang Chu drove the car forward to meet them, "Will Lao Du bring him to dinner today?"

"Maybe." Da Ben took out his phone and looked at it, "Take it, he asked Fang Zi to book an extra seat."

Old Du did bring someone here.

But it wasn't Du Miaomiao, it was his girlfriend.

"Damn, when did it happen!" Seeing Lao Du taking the girl into the private room, Fang Zi jumped up with a smile, "Come and add a chair for sister-in-law."

"Come here," Baoli patted the table next to Jiang Chu, "sisters sit together."

"What's the rush, I'll let you know two months in advance when I get back to work." Old Du smiled, and sat down with his girlfriend between Jiang Chu and Baoli.

He was still carrying a big paper bag in his hand. Jiang Chu glanced at it and saw that there was a bunch of clothes stuffed inside. After Lao Du sat down, he put it behind the seat against the wall.

"What did you take?" Jiang Chu asked.

"Du Miaomiao's clothes, just went to school to see him, stuffed a bag of clothes for me to take home to wash." Old Du took off his coat and sighed softly, "I don't know anything."

"You two together?" Jiang Chu raised his chin slightly towards his girlfriend, wanting to laugh a bit, "Did Miao Miao show some shame?"

He still remembered that Old Du told him helplessly that Du Miaomiao broke up with Du Miaomiao because of his girlfriend's bad temper.

"Just in time." Old Du seemed like he didn't want to let Du Miaomiao know now, and it's hard to go into details. He drank from the cup and pressed his throat.

"But he's doing okay today," thinking about Du Miaomiao's reaction, Lao Du raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"I was afraid that he would just put his face down and leave like before. He is very good today, and he knows how to call auntie." There was a little relief in his eyes.

"In any case, it's another year older. Repeating studies really tempers people." Jiang Chu nodded.

Lao Du's girlfriend is called Song Jiao, who owns a flower shop, and met Lao Du at the exchange meeting.

After getting along for a meal, Jiang Chu felt that she was a nice person, with a generous appearance and a cheerful personality.

Fang Zidaben and the others liked to joke, they came up and asked lively questions about her and Lao Du, and she could handle all the talking and laughing.

"Hey, I really wanted to get you all together today. I wanted to announce something about myself." After two rounds of drinking, Fang Zi knocked down his glass and stood up, smiling a little embarrassedly.

"I, Chen Linguo and we are together." Before he finished speaking, a group of people started howling.

"Hey, don't yell! Don't yell yet!" Fang Zi and Chen Linguo were almost embarrassed, "Didn't this happen before I got up to speed, and Lao Du stopped me and stole the limelight from me!"

"It would be nice if you played with me in advance. I'll wait for you to finish talking at the door before I come in." Old Du held his glass and touched him.

A group of people were all having fun, and Jiang Chu didn't know if Baoli and Da Ben knew about it, but he was really surprised anyway.

Following him, he smiled from the bottom of his heart: "Is it true?"

In fact, it's almost the same when you think about it. After all, Fang Zi and Chen Linguo are in the same unit and know each other well. It is impossible for Baoli to let go of this good match.

"Could it be fake? I told you about Jiang Chu, it's fine if they don't believe it, it's not for you not to believe it!" Fang Zi put his arms around Chen Linguo and pointed at him.

"What are you talking about!" Chen Linguo raised his hand to cover his mouth and smiled, and twitched the prescription while laughing.

"I bless, sincerely bless." Jiang Chu nodded and made a hand gesture.

"This night, double yolk eggs." Hua Zi laughed for a long time, and couldn't help bursting out a golden sentence.

"Just shut up and drink yours." Da Ben hiccupped laughingly, raised his hand and slapped Jiang Chu on the back, "Don't irritate our only single yellow."

"Yes, let me calm down quickly." Jiang Chu smiled, bit a cigarette and lit it.

When a group of people went to sing after dinner, Jiang Chu was really stunned.

Although he usually only thinks about himself, he never thinks about others.

But the friends around Leng Buding were all in pairs. He was walking on the tail of a group of people, and he could only put his hands in his coat pockets. He still felt a subtle sense of detachment.

He couldn't help but think of Qin Zui.

Not to mention what's going on between him and Qin Zui now, even if they are really "together", they can't tell their relatives and friends frankly like Fang Zi and Lao Du.

Jiang Chu let out a sigh of relief.

Love sounds like a personal relationship, but once it is really private, it can't help making people feel lonely.

He can't see the direction.

When it was almost eleven o'clock, Tan Zui called him.

Jiang Chu didn't continue, he drank a little too much beer and went to the bathroom.

He didn't go in directly after he came back, Daben and Baoli were singing "Two Butterflies" at the top of their voices, out of tune like two moths, blowing their ears.

He lit another cigarette against the wall in the corridor outside the private room, just as Lao Du came out with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Your phone is vibrating." He opened the door to meet Jiang Chu, and pointed to the room.

"Ah." Jiang Chu responded, went in and took it out to have a look, Tan Zui had already missed a call for him.

There was also a WeChat message asking him what he was doing.

Jiang Chu dialed him back, and Tan Zui quickly picked it up: "Brother?"

"The phone wasn't there just now." He walked along the corridor to a place where the voice was quieter, and heard that Qin Zui was also quite lively, not like the movement in the dormitory, "You went out?"

"Come out and have a hot pot." Tan Zui smiled, "You should go with Brother Daben and the others."

"Yes." Hearing his laughing voice, Jiang Chu also held the corners of his mouth with his heart gurgling and steaming.

"Is Chen Linguo here?" Tan Zui asked without hesitation.

"You should call me sister, please call me sister." Jiang Chu knew how narrow-minded he was, so he said "tsk".

Qin was the last to speak.

"Hey," Jiang Chu didn't recruit him, and was so teased that he wanted to laugh, "You can call me sister-in-law, she's married to Fang Zi."

When Tan Zui heard the first half of the sentence "sister-in-law", he almost froze in place and couldn't lift his feet. Kang Che even looked back at him.

When Jiang Chu finished speaking, he was stunned for a moment, almost exactly the same as Jiang Chu's reaction just now, a little bit of a smile: "Really?"

"Yeah, tonight is like the night of getting out of singles," Jiang Chu casually chatted with him, "Old Du also brought his girlfriend over."

"Who?" Tan Zui paused before asking again.

"You haven't seen it before, and it's the first time I've seen it." Jiang Chu thought he was asking who Lao Du's girlfriend is, "We met at some exchange meeting..."

"Uncle Du Miaomiao?" Tan Zui interrupted him.

"Isn't it him, who else could be Du." Jiang Chu said.

Tan Zui responded with an "oh".

"What's the matter?" Jiang Chu didn't know that Lao Du was looking for a girlfriend, how could Tan Zui be more interested in Chen Linguo than Chen Linguo.

"No." Tan Zui paused again on the phone, "We've arrived at the store, let's hang up brother first, don't drink, just play and go back early."

"Okay, don't hang around outside after eating." Jiang Chu told him.

Qin Zui hung up the phone.

Jiang Chu looked at the phone twice, locked the screen, turned and walked back.

Old Du was still smoking beside the chimney, and was also scrolling on his mobile phone. When Jiang Chu walked over, he asked without raising his head, "Your brother?"

"En." Jiang Chu nodded.

"I knew to call you after I went to college," Lao Du flicked the cigarette ash, "Little White-eyed Wolf has a better conscience than I think."

"Take it as if it belonged to your family." Jiang Chu crushed the cigarette butt out.

"I'll be free after a few more months." Lao Du put away his phone and patted Jiang Chu on the shoulder, and the two went back to the private room together.

"Talking so quickly today?" Kang Che walked in front of him, turning around and asking strangely.

"You go up first, and I'll call my friend again." Tan Zui frowned slightly, looking through the names on the phone.

As always, Kang Che didn't ask about him, nodded and followed the big team upstairs.

It didn't take long for Tan Zui to make this phone call. A group of people ordered food, and Kang Che just went to the small cooking table to adjust the dipping sauce when he turned in from the stairs.

Kuncher whistled at him.

"In a bad mood?" He glanced at Tan Zui's expression and handed him a plate.

"No." Tan Zui took it, scanned it casually, and picked up a few slices of watermelon.

Kanche smiled and said nothing.

"Have you talked?" Tan Zui asked suddenly when he was about to go back to the dining table.

"Let's talk about it." Kang Che thought for a while.

"Forget?" Qin Zu raised one eyebrow.

"What kind of expression?" Kang Che laughed again, "I can't tell my own story yet."

"Is that what I think?" Tan Zui looked at him.

"Yes." Kang Che nodded generously, "Man, it's the same as you."

This is their first real confession. In a hot pot restaurant where people come and go, each of them holds a plate of seasonings in his hand.

"Why is it counted?" Tan Zui took two steps before asking again.

"There are so many reasons," Kang Che turned sideways to make way for a waiter pushing a small cart, "It's not like you can get what you want, not everyone can get what they want."

His tone was relaxed, and when he looked at Tan Zui again, his eyes seemed to think he was very interesting: "You are so used to your brother that you can't even count it."