Mindful

Qiao Yuanlin sat on the bedside and took medicine, which was different from taking other medicines. He held a small handful in his palm, and swallowed all the bitter and big medicines in one gulp.

He took a shower and changed his clothes, his face was still a little pale, but his eyes seemed to be washed with water, clear and refreshing, and there were two endless smiles in his eyes.

Liang Cheng annoyed him by staring at him, and said, "Don't look at me."

Qiao Yuanlin turned his head to look at the window sill, paying attention to Liang Cheng's every move from the corner of his eye. After unlocking the files, he rushed to the side of the desk to watch Liang Cheng fill out the form.

"You really said yes?" he asked.

Liang Cheng has been asked more than 30 times since he dragged Qiao Yuanlin out of the small warehouse, saying: "If you ask again, I will fold this piece of paper into an airplane and throw it through the window."

Qiao Yuanlin pursed her lips, stopped talking and just smiled.

Liang Cheng filled in the basic information, such as name, age, hometown, etc., filled in the education background, hung the tip of the pen empty for a few seconds, and wrote the word "high school".

Qiao Yuanlin began to say again: "Although basically only undergraduates are recruited, I checked the information over the years and found that I once recruited a high school student. The principle is to select the best. If you get No.1 in the next exam, you will be fine."

Liang Cheng asked: "Do you know that I can take the first place?"

"Of course." Qiao Yuanlin subconsciously said.

Liang Cheng himself didn't have much confidence, he hadn't taken the exam for a long time, and he was still inspecting the goods and haggling with the customer yesterday.Since Qiao Yuanlin likes to make his own decisions, he said: "If I fail the exam, don't ask Duan Sicun to go through the back door."

Qiao Yuanlin didn't dare anymore, this time he almost broke his friendship.He took out a glue stick from the pen holder, and said obediently, "I'll help you paste the photos."

Liang Cheng found a photo without a hat. In the photo, he has a short cut head, which makes his facial features stand out sharply. His expression is serious and tense, and his eyes staring at the camera are somewhat gloomy.

Qiao Yuanlin looked at it for a long time, and asked curiously, "When was this photo taken, and you were in a bad mood?"

Liang Cheng said, "Forgot."

It was already the last day to submit the form, and the deadline was in the afternoon. Liang Cheng rode a motorcycle and drove Qiao Yuanlin to Dezhong Middle School.It is closed on Sunday, and there are only a few offices left on duty in the school.

As a high-priced private middle school, Dexin covers a huge area. There are signposts on each path, and there are free hand-drawn maps designed by students in the school.

Qiao Yuanlin took one for Liang Cheng, passed the laboratory building, and said impatiently: "The experimental class is held here, and the first floor is full of biological specimens."

The teaching building, the library, the auditorium, he introduced every place, but he didn't mention the sports center, because he hasn't been there yet.

The air conditioner was turned on in the office building as usual, Liang Cheng followed Qiao Yuanlin two steps behind.He didn't know why he agreed to this matter, short-term impulse, or soft-hearted, anyway, he couldn't find a good reason.

Qiao Yuanlin turned her head and smiled at him, her delicate and clever face revealed a foolish air.

Are you that happy?Liang Cheng thought expressionlessly, stretched out his palm to cover Qiao Yuanlin's head, twisted it back, and let him watch the way.

Qiao Yuanlin looked back again and said, "Here we are."

They stopped outside an office, the door was ajar, Liang Cheng scanned the three words "Duan Sicun" plated on the nameplate, and lightly clenched his hands on his trousers.

Qiao Yuanlin knocked on the door: "Teacher Duan?"

It said, "Come in."

Duan Sicun sat quietly on the single sofa, facing the door, took off his watch and put it on the coffee table where he could see it with a glance down.The door opened, he looked over Qiao Yuanlin's shoulder, and got up without restraint.

Qiao Yuanlin was happier than usual, and said, "Mr. Duan, let's hand in the form. Isn't there a deadline?"

"No, no." Duan Sicun, who never said a word of nonsense, repeated twice, "Sit first...how did you get here?"

This question was like being a guest at a relative's house, Qiao Yuanlin stepped aside sharply, and replied, "Brother Liang Cheng pulled me here on a motorcycle."

Liang Cheng walked in, put the archives on the coffee table under Duan Sicun's gaze, straightened up, and asked Qiao Yuanlin without warning: "Does your school have a small supermarket?"

Qiao Yuanlin said, "Yes, what's the matter?"

"I'm thirsty." Liang Cheng said, "Help me run errands and buy a bottle of mineral water."

He didn't say he was thirsty all the way, and there was a water dispenser in the office. Qiao Yuanlin was silent for a while, and agreed, "Okay, I want to drink a bottle of juice too."

The former teacher and student were left in the office. Duan Sicun took off his glasses and looked at Liang Cheng. He raised his hand and pressed Liang Cheng's shoulder firmly.

Liang Cheng finally looked directly at him, and said after a long absence: "Teacher Duan."

Duan Sicun nodded, hugged Liang Cheng's back for a brief hug, and said, "The last time I saw him, I was about the same height as me, but now I am half a head taller."

They sat down, and Duan Sicun asked, "How have you been over the past year?"

Liang Cheng put his arms on his knees, clasped his fingers, arched his back slightly, and said, "It doesn't matter if it's good or not."

Duan Sicun sighed regretfully, and said: "Let's not talk about the past. But what a coincidence, the child you saved back then was Qiao Yuanlin?"

Liang Cheng: "Yes."

"How did we meet later?"

Liang Cheng said, "I rent at his house."

"So that's how it is." Duan Sicun stroked the files, "Last time I didn't have a chance to talk at the station, I've always missed you, and I wanted you to come when I saw the information about the recruitment of teaching assistants."

Liang Cheng asked in a declarative tone: "Do you think I'm suitable?"

"Of course." Duan Sicun said without hesitation, "but this job is temporary. You do it for a year or so, get used to the campus again, and continue to study in the future. The right way is. I have some connections in several universities, you— —”

Liang Cheng interrupted him, and said calmly: "I don't need others to interfere with my affairs."

Duan Sicun didn't go any further. He went to his desk to get a copy of teaching assistant assessment materials. At the same time, he remembered some distant things and asked, "Do you still have the course materials I gave you?"

"Keep it." Having memorized it over and over again, Liang Cheng refused to open the document, "You knew that I knew Qiao Yuanlin?"

Not long after Duan Sicun came to Dexin, Qiao Yuanlin took a photo of the materials and asked him for advice. Although Liang Cheng's handwriting was avoided, he vaguely felt that he personally photocopied the materials for Liang Cheng.

After that, Duan Sicun pretended to mention Liang Cheng unintentionally in front of Qiao Yuanlin, but he was very careful and kept pointing to the end every time.

Duan Sicun smiled restrainedly, and said, "I came over in the morning, and have been sitting in the office waiting for you."

Liang Cheng asked: "Are you sure I will come?"

"No." Duan Sicun said, "I'm betting."

Liang Cheng rolled up the materials into a tube, stuck it in the mouth of the tiger and held it tightly: "I didn't come here because of your recommendation."

Duan Sicun was not surprised and said, "I know."

The crumpled file was once brought home by Qiao Yuanlin holding it on his chest excitedly, threw it away roughly, and left it on the bedside to pick it up and put it down repeatedly.

Liang Cheng looked away from the crease, looked at Duan Sicun, and said, "Teacher Duan, I have one condition."

Duan Sicun said: "I will try my best to satisfy you."

Liang Cheng said: "I don't think it's interesting to use teenage children."

Duan Sicun's smile faded, he had browsed the recommended page, but he knew that Liang Cheng would not agree to his recommendation.It happened that Qiao Yuanlin begged him, so he took a gamble and let Qiao Yuanlin's hard work and emotion sway Liang Cheng.

And Liang Cheng understood early in the morning, so he called Qiao Yuanlin "idiot" during the quarrel.

His condition is not to set an example.

But "idiots" are sometimes very clever, Liang Cheng came out of the office, walked half a circle along the glass fence of the patio, and found Qiao Yuanlin who was drinking juice on a bench.

"My mineral water?" he asked.

"Do you really want to drink?" Qiao Yuanlin said with a smile, "Didn't you just want to drive me away, I didn't buy it."

Liang Cheng said speechlessly: "Forget it, let's go."

Leaving the school, Liang Cheng stepped on the motorcycle and didn't start it immediately. The phone received seven or eight long voice messages, all from the fourth child. He picked the shortest one and clicked on it.

Qiao Yuanlin leaned over Liang Cheng's shoulder and listened, but he didn't realize that Liang Cheng's nape was already exposed when his hair rubbed against it.

The fourth child said: "Come on, this curry hot pot is good, it's so fucking ecstasy with parsley!"

Hearing this, Liang Cheng lost his appetite, and was about to go home, when he suddenly thought that Qiao Yuanlin was going to "go", the suitcase was also packed, and now things are over.

He turned around and asked, "Where are you going?"

Qiao Yuanlin let out an "ah", mistakenly thinking that Liang Cheng was going to find a friend and wanted to leave him behind, and said, "I'm very hungry now, I want to eat hot pot."

Liang Cheng said, "He's playing tricks again, right?"

Qiao Yuanlin pretended to be stupid and said, "Have you ever eaten curry? I heard it's quite delicious."

Liang Cheng: "Who did you listen to?"

Qiao Yuanlin replied, "Fourth brother, I just heard it."

Half an hour later, Liang Cheng returned to the hot pot restaurant in the commercial center. The motorcycle swung its tail and stopped on the open space outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the booth.

Ying Xiaoqiong and the fourth child stared at the same time, and the fourth child shouted: "Waiter, add another tableware!"

At this time, Qiao Yuanlin poked half of his head out from behind Liang Cheng.Ying Xiaoqiong said: "You are blind, add two more sets."

It was the second time the four sat together after being taken away by the police car.Qiao Yuanlin was a little cautious, especially when the fourth child was sitting across from him. He hadn't forgotten how ferociously the other party jumped out of the window to catch him.

Yellow curry soup was rolling in the pot, Liang Cheng asked, "Is there any other pot?"

"No." Ying Xiaoqiong said, "As long as there is a spicy pot, this store will not be sold."

Qiao Yuanlin had already put down his chopsticks, picked up a piece of chicken thigh, mixed all kinds of small ingredients into a dipping plate, and ate it on his own.

The fourth child said, "Really decide to sell this store?"

Ying Xiaoqiong took a sip of beer and said, "I want to buy."

"Although the conditions of the food stalls are a bit poor, it's nice to have a small night breeze." The fourth child said reluctantly, "And our prices are affordable. The rent here is so high, can it work?"

Liang Cheng said: "It's not called a food stall here."

"That's right." Ying Xiaoqiong said, "The food stalls will continue to operate as usual, and here we have to take a high-end approach and set up a seafood joint!"

The fourth child became interested: "Then you have to keep a close watch on the purchases, and I can't do it without me."

"You're awesome." Ying Xiaoqiong rolled his eyes at him, "You should pay back the debt you just received first, and it will be enough for you to buy Louis Vuitton."

The fourth child said: "It's just me, it's boring, Liang Cheng, let's be a partner."

Qiao Yuanlin felt that he couldn't fit into Liang Cheng's "circle of friends" and was silent and invisible. At this moment, he raised his head from the bowl, his lips were glossy, but his eyes were not as bright as his eyes. He interrupted abruptly and sonorously, "Liang Cheng don't go."

Fourth child: "Why?"

Qiao Yuanlin: "There is no reason."

Fourth child: "Why is there no reason?"

"You're so annoying." Qiao Yuanlin pointed at the pot with the tip of her chopsticks, "Why is the coriander used for seasoning in the pot? You can't even pick it up, so of course I'm ecstasy."

The fourth child told him that he was stupid to ask, and stammered: "Yes, it's interesting, let's chat with brothers, don't meddle with you little brat."

Qiao Yuanlin whispered: "Anyway, he won't go."

"Are you his spokesperson?" The fourth child was amused, and asked again, "Liang Cheng, do you want to do it?"

The tableware was clean, Liang Cheng only drank half a cup of tea, his eyes flicked to the side, Qiao Yuanlin's firmness was slowly disappearing, that appearance gradually coincided with when he shouted "Why can't I".

Liang Cheng replied: "I'm not free."

Qiao Yuanlin calmed down indescribably. He was so worried that Liang Cheng would cancel his job as a teaching assistant, but luckily he didn't.Does that mean that Liang Cheng chose him between him and his friends?

Are they part of the way?

Qiao Yuanlin was the only one who was full after the whole hot pot meal, and when he finished eating, he stood on the sidewalk.Jinbei Bread started first, and the fourth child was in charge of driving without drinking.

The car window was down, Ying Xiaoqiong hooked her fingers in the passenger seat and said, "Student Xiao Qiao, come here."

Qiao Yuanlin walked over, and was hugged by Ying Xiaoqiong's neck and said a few words, the smell of alcohol lingered in his ears for a long time, he suppressed his breath and watched the car drive away.

Liang Cheng pushed the motorcycle over and snapped his fingers.

Qiao Yuanlin regained consciousness, stepped on the fine spots of light under the tree, stopped on the other side, and turned the car key audibly.

He took out the safety knot and said: "You can tie a dead knot, I will never untie it again."

The author has something to say: Fourth child: Happy New Year's Day, I am very wronged.