Out of place

When Xiang Xi returned to the hut, Liu Yuanping was squatting at the door next door smoking a cigarette, when he saw him coming up, he immediately stood up: "Hey, you're back."

There was no light in the corridor, and Cheng Boyan sent Xiang Xi back. The two of them didn't speak during the journey. Xiang Xi was thinking about Cheng Boyan's last few words, and he was in a daze. Suddenly, he was startled by his sound.

"Fuck," he took two steps back, "Why are you outside?"

"I quarreled and got kicked out." Liu Yuanping laughed.

"Are you two still arguing?" Xiang Xi hesitated, and opened the door, "Come here for a while?"

Liu Yuanping entered his room and handed him a cigarette: "Hey, I'll be able to go in in about half an hour."

"How long have you been at the door?" Xiang Xi lit up with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Two and a half hours." Liu Yuanping sat down on the foot of the bed against the wall. "Usually about three hours."

"It seems that you two are usually so good that you have to sit on top of each other in class." Xiang Xi put the camera bag next to the pillow, and stuffed the backpack into the cabinet, "How can you still quarrel?"

"The better you are, the more noisy you are, the more familiar you are, the more noisy you are." Liu Yuanping held a cigarette with a penetrating expression on his face.

Xiang Xi didn't speak. He felt that this sentence made sense, but not entirely. He felt that he and Cheng Boyan were quite familiar, but they had never quarreled...

Of course, a person like Cheng Boyan can't quarrel if he wants to. If he is touched, he will call the police without saying a word, and he can't even quarrel. Let alone quarreling with Cheng Boyan, Cheng Boyan hasn't contacted him for a few days. He was worried that he would lose this friend in the future.

Thinking of Cheng Boyan, he remembered those words again.

Just do the same as before.

What was it like before?

What's going on now...

"Huh?" Liu Yuanping saw the camera bag next to the pillow, "Did you get a camera?"

"...Well, I borrowed it from a friend." Xiang Xi brought the camera over.

"Let me see?" Liu Yuanping asked.

"Look." Xiang Xi smiled.

Liu Yuanping seemed to know a lot about cameras, and raised his eyebrows when he took out the camera: "60d, this camera is good, your friend is very generous, if I want a 60d, I won't borrow it from anyone."

"Is it expensive?" Xiang Xi tried to ask.

"The single camera is several thousand." Liu Yuanping looked into the camera bag again, "This dual-lens kit costs [-] anyway."

"Damn!" Xiang Xi was a little surprised, and quickly took the camera from his hand, "Stop playing!"

Liu Yuanping laughed: "You really... don't you know how much this machine costs?"

"I don't know, but I think it's very high-end." Xiang Xi really didn't expect Cheng Boyan to borrow such an expensive camera for him to "play with", "If I knew it was so expensive, I would definitely not take it."

"It's very good. You'll know the difference after playing. You won't be willing to touch those card machines in the future," Liu Yuanping said with a smile.

Xiang Xi wants to say that I have never even played a card machine.

The door next door was opened, and a bag of garbage was thrown from the house to the door.

"Hey, I'm going back." Liu Yuanping jumped off the bed and patted Xiang Xi's shoulder, "Someday I will take this camera for me and Zhao Tong to take a blockbuster movie."

"...Okay." Xiang Xi doesn't have much confidence, now he knows nothing about this camera except how to turn it on and how to press the shutter, and there are blockbuster movies.

Liu Yuanping closed the door, and Xiang Xi went to close his own door.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed facing the camera, he thought of Cheng Boyan's words again, but after thinking for a while, his attention was all on the camera.

Such a great camera!How many lenses are there!It's almost catching up with Fang Yin's cannon barrel!

Taking pictures with such a camera is too embarrassing to press the shutter if you don’t study hard!

I don’t want to think about Cheng Boyan’s words, it’s the same as before, anyway, I can’t figure it out...

What are all these buttons for?

Xiang Xi took out the instruction manual given by Cheng Boyan, lay down on the bed, looked at the camera one by one, then took a few pictures with the camera at the walls, cabinets, lamps, etc., and tried to change another What is the difference between the photos taken by the lens and compared with the photos taken.

The phone was ringing, Xiang Xi carefully put the camera in his hand on the bed, and then took out the phone, it was Fang Yin.

He just remembered that he hadn't told Fang Yin that he didn't want to shoot anymore, so he answered the phone with some embarrassment.

"Xiao Zhan?" Fang Yin's voice came over.

"I forgot to call you." Xiang Xi leaned against the wall, "I've seen all the photos on your blog..."

"Any thoughts?" Fang Yin asked?

"Yes, a lot." Xiang Xi thought for a while, "There are too many, so... I don't want to take pictures."

Fang Yin was silent for a while before saying: "I also felt that you would say that when I asked you to watch it."

"Sorry, if you want to refund the money or something..." Xiang Xi subconsciously raised his hand and opened the cabinet door, and found his backpack.

"No, no, no, you don't need to withdraw, it won't happen," Fang Yin smiled, "If you don't want to take pictures, then...don't take pictures, but I will keep the photos, you don't mind."

"Why keep it?" Xiang Xi asked.

"After all, it's been a long time of hard work. If one day you have a new idea, or...if I want to change the angle, maybe I can choose the right one?" Fang Yin said, "Your sense of camera is so good, Maybe we will have a chance to cooperate in the future.”

"Then you can keep it," Xiang Xi smiled, "No matter what, I still have to thank you, you rented my house."

"It's not much money, and it's not that I've gained nothing, although it's really regrettable, very regrettable," Fang Yin said with a smile, "You can come to me again if you have anything to do in the future, I will help if I can .”

"Hey, yes! Yes, yes, there is now," Xiang Xi said quickly, throwing himself on the bed and lying in front of the camera, "Let me ask you, tell me, how does the aperture work?"

"Aperture?" Fang Yin was stunned.

"Just the aperture on the camera, how do you adjust it? What is it used for?" Xiang Xi asked.

"This few words may not be clear. Aperture is something that controls the size of the aperture of the lens and adjusts the amount of light entering. For example, if you want to capture the depth of field, you usually use a large aperture..." Fang Yin tried to explain to him.

"I don't understand, what is depth of field?" Xiang Xi was a little confused.

"Depth of field, let's put it this way, when you look at a photo, you can see the layers, from near to far. The near is clear, and the far is blurred. This is the depth of field." Fang Yin said.

"Oh, I seem to understand, can you tell me about the aperture?" Xiang Xi pulled the camera.

"The larger the aperture, the brighter the picture, and the smaller the aperture, the darker the picture," Fang Yin used the simplest description, "Cooperate with the shutter speed, take a few more shots and you will know. If you really want to learn, you can come to my work when you are free." Shi Lai... why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"My friend gave me a camera to play with. I'm thinking about it." Xiang Xi smiled.

"Why don't you play with a card first, and go directly to the SLR?" Fang Yin said with a smile, "Is it Dr. Cheng?"

Xiang Xi paused: "Do you know Dr. Cheng?"

"Ah," Fang Yin also paused, "He..."

"He looked for you? Did he look for you?" Xiang Xi sat up and chased after him.

"You don't know?" Fang Yin was a little surprised, and quickly explained, "Well, I ran into it, in the hospital...I ran into it when I went to the hospital."

"Did he ask me to see the photos?" Xiang Xi didn't expect Cheng Boyan to have contact with Fang Yin.

"He didn't say it directly, but we... chatted for a while," Fang Yin thought for a while, "He looks at the problem from the perspective of a friend, and I look at it from the perspective of cooperation. I think his words make sense."

"Understood." Xiang Xi said softly.

"I don't know that he didn't tell you, but you are quite a friend," Fang Yin said, "Don't mind if he didn't tell you."

"I don't mind." Xiang Xi said.

Yes, he doesn't mind, what can he mind?

Cheng Boyan had quietly looked for Fang Yin, and he knew what Cheng Boyan might guess, but he didn't expect that he not only guessed it, but also did it quietly.

If someone is willing to help you like this, what's the point?

If you really want to mind, you can only mind that you don't have the ability to do the same thing for Cheng Boyan.

After hanging up the phone, Xiang Xi stared at the camera in a daze for a long time.

How can He De He can.

Cheng Boyan can do so much for you.

He picked up the camera, turned over to face the lights on the roof, adjusted the aperture and shutter, and took a few pictures.

see the light.

Cheng Boyan was running on the treadmill with the earphones plugged into his earphones. He was sweating all over. He hadn't run for a long time. It's rare that he got off work on time today, and he didn't have anything to do.

After running for almost an hour, he got off the treadmill and played with dumbbells for a while.

In the past week, Xiangxi called every day to report his experience in playing with the camera, and told him what he didn't understand. He checked it online and printed it out. Xiangxi came over to pick it up on weekends.

After that day, Xiang Xi basically returned to his normal state, he no longer looked away when he saw him, and his awkwardness in speaking and doing things finally disappeared.

This relieved him.

He felt that he was too impulsive that day, just like Lin He said, he gnawed on it before he figured out anything.

However, according to Xiang Xi's attitude towards Tan Xiaokang, he was ready to smash Xiang Xi with his chair immediately after eating, but Xiang Xi just ran away.

Running like a monkey.

He didn't want to scare Xiang Xi anymore, Xiang Xi probably wouldn't refuse what he wanted to do now, he was very clear about his position in Xiang Xi's heart.

But it was precisely because of this that he didn't intend to push forward.

No matter what he does, it is his habit to clearly understand it, including what he is thinking, why, impulse or liking, he has to confirm one by one.

On the weekend, Xiang Xi came over early in the morning, and Cheng Boyan was still sleeping with his head covered on the bed. He rang the doorbell one after another outside the door.

Cheng Boyan got up and went to open the door. Xiang Xi was carrying a bag and a bag of noodles and vegetables in his hand: "Morning! I learned how to cook noodles from Zhao Tong yesterday, so I'll make you some breakfast."

"Who is Zhao Tong?" Cheng Boyan let him into the room and yawned.

"Liu Yuanping's girlfriend," Xiang Xi changed his shoes and ran into the kitchen with noodles, and then ran out to rub his hands with disinfectant, "Students from the school next door."

"What kind of noodles are you cooking?" Cheng Boyan smiled.

"Green peppers, tomatoes, eggs and stewed noodles," Xiang Xi said proudly, and walked towards the study, "Is the change of pants here?"

"En." Cheng Boyan responded, seeing that Xiang Xi pulled down his trousers before entering the study, and took them off while jumping in, he quickly turned his face away.

"Are you still sleeping?" Xiang Xi changed his pants and came out, Cheng Boyan had already returned to the bedroom with the door ajar.

"Is it still possible to fall asleep?" Cheng Boyan said inside.

"Then I'm cooking the noodles, you need to add..." Xiang Xi pushed the door open, and before he finished asking, he saw Cheng Boyan who was standing by the bed and ready to change. Underpants, he froze by the door for a long time before he opened his mouth and finished asking the question, "How many eggs?"

"Two," Cheng Boyan pulled up his underwear and glanced at him, "How much do you have?"

"Damn it!" Xiang Xi came back to his senses, closed the door, stood outside and shouted, "I have eight! They make noise when they walk!"

"jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..." Cheng Boyan continued to sing.

Xiang Xi didn't listen to what he was singing, but strode into the kitchen.

These few days he managed to calm down a little, and he didn't feel particularly awkward when he saw Cheng Boyan, but now he suddenly looked at Cheng Boyan's whole body, and suddenly he was a little dazed again.

Cheng Boyan saw him twice.

Now he gets it back again.

Cheng Boyan's figure is quite good, his muscles are strong but well-proportioned and slender...

What the hell is your uncle thinking about!

"I'll just add an egg," Cheng Boyan came out of the bedroom, already put on his clothes, "don't break it."

"You have to change your underwear when you wake up in the morning?" Xiang Xi really couldn't understand Cheng Boyan's habits.

"What? I don't think you haven't changed a piece of work clothes for half a month." Cheng Boyan smiled and went into the bathroom.

"Already changed it!" Xiang Xi was a little unconvinced, "I didn't change it because I didn't have to..."

"There are free-range eggs in the refrigerator." Cheng Boyan brushed his teeth and walked out again, "I don't know if it's true or not, so you can try some."

"Yeah." Xiang Xi nodded, opened the refrigerator and took out some eggs.

Cheng Boyan had no hope for Xiang Xi to cook noodles, but after washing, he still leaned against the kitchen door and watched Xiang Xi busy.

"Don't visit. If you are like this, I get nervous easily. If I get nervous, I will definitely mess up the pot." Xiang Xi turned around and said while sipping noodles.

"Yeah." Cheng Boyan turned around and went back to the living room, sat down in front of the computer, picked up the previously printed things about taking pictures, and looked at them. He had changed the content that was too professional on it into simple and straightforward language. If Xiang Xi could If you recognize the words clearly, you should be able to understand them.

When two bowls of stewed noodles with green peppers, tomatoes and eggs came out, Cheng Boyan knew from Xiang Xi's expression that the noodles were smashed as usual.

"I don't know if there are some missing steps. It tastes different from what Zhao Tong cooks." Xiang Xi put the noodles in front of him and said with a frown.

"It smells good." Cheng Boyan mixed the noodles.

"I knew you had to praise me," Xiang Xile said, "I don't know if it's a lack of taste or a lack of heart."

"Cannibal has a short mouth." Cheng Boyan smiled.

Cheng Boyan took the bowl to wash after eating the bowl of noodles that he didn't know what to taste after. When he came out, Xiang Xi was sitting in front of the computer with his camera and fiddling with it.

"Teach me how to put the camera on the computer first," Xiang Xi looked at him, "I took a few pictures, but I don't know what it looks like on the computer."

"Well, did you bring the data cable?" Cheng Boyan stood next to him, "It's the same as using a USB flash drive, and it's the same when you use your mobile phone to download songs."

"Really?" Xiang Xi plugged in the data cable, "I thought this kind of high-end product needs advanced operation."

He first created a folder on the computer according to Cheng Boyan's instructions.

"Give this folder a name, and all your photos will be put here in the future." Cheng Boyan said.

Xiang Xi felt that it was quite difficult to name the folder. He didn't want to be too ordinary, and he couldn't think of a level.

Immediately after speaking, he wanted to slap himself, and he yelled in a low voice: "Hey! I'm crazy..."

"That's fine," Cheng Boyan said with a serious face, "but to prevent confusion, you have to call it Xiao Pian Pian No. [-]."

"Small, small, small..." Xiang Xi patted the keyboard, "It's called a photo! I can't even type complicated words!"

"Little Xixi's little piece." Cheng Boyan said.

"Hey, can you be a bit serious as a doctor who saves lives and heals the wounded?" Xiang Xi turned to look at him.

Cheng Boyan didn't speak, but smiled for a long time, pointed to the screen and said, "Xiang Xi's photo, please type, can you type?"

"Yes, just slow down," Xiang Xi stared down at the keyboard, and didn't bother to talk to Cheng Boyan anymore, "I used to type a word or two occasionally when I was playing games."

"What words are you typing?" Cheng Boyan asked.

"If you say it, you will catch the words drawn in the car window." Xiang Xi said.

He plays games with Mantou, and he doesn't communicate much with other players. When he needs to type, except for joining the team, he just swears at people. Fuck, you uncle, he can type words like idiot proficiently. up...

Xiangxi's photo.

He stamped the words with two index fingers.

Then according to Cheng Boyan's command, the photos in the camera were saved together in this folder.

"You can classify these photos into sub-categories, which are easier to find, by time, by content, or by satisfaction and dissatisfaction." Cheng Boyan said.

"That's so troublesome, just throw it in." Xiang Xi never thought of doing one thing so meticulously, only a doctor like Cheng Boyan would be so careful.

"Let's talk about it then," Cheng Boyan took the mouse from his hand and clicked on the photo, "I'll look at the photo first."

The first photo is all white.

"Oh, this was shot against a light, I forgot to delete it," Xiang Xi felt a little embarrassed, "I deleted all the other ones that weren't shot well."

Cheng Boyan didn't speak, and clicked the next one.

When this photo appeared on the screen, Cheng Boyan stopped his finger that wanted to click the next one.

The picture shows the window, which is very old and not very clean, and there are broken curtains on both sides that are not very visible.

The sunlight that slanted in from the curtains was divided into several pieces by the railings on the windows, and fell on the poorly cleaned floor.

The composition is not good, the toilet door can be seen in the corners, the dusty table, the foot of the bed with trousers thrown, and the water-stained wall can be seen, but the bright golden sunlight in the middle is still very eye-catching.

"This one is really good." Cheng Boyan said.

"I think so too." Xiang Xi was nervously waiting for Cheng Boyan's comment, and immediately laughed when he heard this, with complacency in his voice, "But I've taken about fifty times, and it took several days. In the afternoon, the dilapidated house was exposed to the west sun, and I rushed back to the cat bed every day after work to take pictures for a while, and this picture was taken during my break that afternoon, and the sun was particularly strong.”

"Just cut around here." Cheng Boyan drew a circle with his finger on the screen.

"How to cut it?" Xiang Xi looked at him, "When I first took pictures, I was careful not to take pictures of the side, but then I forgot."

"Let me help you," Cheng Boyan looked at the photo, "Does this one have a name?"

"Name?" Xiang Xi leaned back in the chair and thought for a while, then said with a smile, "I woke up in the afternoon, opened my eyes, and I saw light...is this a name?"

"...I still know what to ask, that's all." Cheng Boyan nodded and opened the next photo.

This picture was probably taken by standing under the tree with the camera up. The leaves are very dense and all dark. The light shines through the gaps between the leaves, and a star shines out.

"This one is called...the leaves are still gray after the rainstorm, but I can see the light," Xiang Xi flicked his fingers on the table, "how is it?"

"Okay," Cheng Boyan said, "It's great."

The next few photos were taken at dusk, probably after get off work. They were all light spots, the light spots on the wall, the light spots on the ground, and the light spots on Xiang Xi's own legs.

"Don't look at this one." Xiang Xi poked Cheng Boyan's hand holding the mouse in embarrassment, "I want to take a picture of the scar on my leg."

"I have a scar on my leg, but I can see the light?" Cheng Boyan asked with a smile.

"No," Xiang Xi said, "From that day on, I saw light."

Cheng Boyan didn't speak, and raised his hand to scratch the top of his head.

Xiang Xi's hair is quite stiff, and the short hair stands stubbornly on his head. When he grabbed it, it felt a little prickly in the palm of his hand, just like him.

"What about petting the puppy?" Xiang Xi smiled, "There will be more later, the blockbuster film I made for Liu Yuanping and Zhao Tong... It's not a blockbuster either, it's a practice, a preview of a blockbuster."

"Let me see." Cheng Boyan clicked on the next one.

The next few pictures are all at night, and the characters are the young couple. There is a picture of the girl standing in the door, and the boy standing outside the door, holding the girl's hand. This piece of Xiang Xi's handling is actually very good. The dirty and messy corridors are all hidden in the darkness. The door with lights and the smiling girl inside the door look very warm.

"Hold your hand, and I will be able to see the light." Xiang Xi looked at it happily, "They both like this one very much, and asked me to give it to them."

"Put it in a USB flash drive and give it to them." Cheng Boyan opened the drawer and took out a useless USB flash drive.

"Well," Xiang Xi was very happy, "Hey, I really can't see anything on the camera, but when I put it on the computer and zoom in, I think it's not bad!"

"It's very good. I didn't expect you to learn so quickly." Cheng Boyan said, he really didn't expect it.

"It's not fast anymore. You don't know how many pictures I took. I take them with me at work. I take pictures when I'm resting, and I also take pictures after work. I fully charge it every day. I delete hundreds of times more than these... Dozens of times ...Anyway, there are so many bad shots."

"Take this back and have a look, it should be helpful," Cheng Boyan took the information on the table to him, "If you don't know the words, just ask me."

"So much," Xiang Xi turned his head down, "Maybe I can understand one-tenth of it, I think I can't catch up with the words, I just finished going to the supermarket with Mom... God is reading that storybook in English, Grimm's Fairy Tales."

"Tired?" Cheng Boyan asked.

"I'm sure I'm lying to you if I say I'm not tired," Xiang Xi looked at the information, "I haven't learned so much since I grew up. I'm tired and bored and I dare not stop."

"Thank you." Cheng Boyan gently pinched the back of his neck twice.

"Comfortable," Xiang Xi turned his head, "Did you rub the mud?"

"No." Cheng Boyan smiled and squeezed a few more times.

Xiang Xi didn't speak, but tilted his head, followed the movements of his hands, narrowed one eye with enjoyment, and sighed comfortably.