Ceaseless

Su Xi didn't graduate that year, so naturally no information about his graduation will be kept in the school.He did not receive an invitation letter from Imperial University, but received an email from the monitor of the university.

If it wasn't for him to log in to the long-abandoned old mailbox on a whim.

The content of the email is very simple. The classmates who graduated from the university have taken root in different cities. Now they just take the opportunity of the centennial celebration of their alma mater to launch a party for everyone.

At the end of the email, the squad leader sincerely expressed the hope that he could come.

Su Xi closed the email, and canceled the email account without any hassle.

When I dropped out of school, I changed my mobile phone number because I didn’t want to keep in touch with anyone in my previous social circle, and now I don’t even plan to go to a classmate reunion.The only thing that surprised him was that when he was studying, he had almost no contact with the class monitor, but the other party sent him an invitation email.

Su Xi was slightly surprised, but didn't think much about it.

His new key still hasn't been matched. When he went to the vegetable market a few days ago, he didn't see a key distribution stand next to the grocery store.In the past few days, when the two of them went to work, Zhong Qing hid the keys in the fire hydrant box in the corridor.When Su Xi comes back at night, go to the fire hydrant box to get it.

The next morning, Su Xi woke up early.After he finished his breakfast, he took the key from the shoe cabinet and went out to match the key.When he went downstairs, he caught a glimpse of a silver Audi parked in front of the unit building, and he never turned his eyes away.

The person sitting in the car honked the horn for no reason.

Su Xi turned around after hearing the sound, and saw Nie Jingze, who was in casual clothes, opened the door and got out of the car, stepping on the falling sunlight and walking straight towards him.

Suddenly recalling the scene in the car that night, he was taken aback.It wasn't until the person walked up to him that he came back to his senses, with a faint smile on his face, even omitting the title attached to Huatou, "Looking for love?"

Nie Jingze sized him up for a moment, then said coldly, "I'm looking for you."

Su Xi paused for a while, mistakenly thinking that the other party was coming to return the key, so he stretched out a hand, palm up, and spread it out in front of the other party, "Give it to me."

Nie Jingze glanced over, but frowned, "What for you?"

Su Xi was slightly surprised, and looked carefully at the look on his face that didn't seem to be fake, only then realized that the other party didn't remember.Some thoughts in his heart did not belong, and more of them were laughing and laughing.Finally, he turned his gaze to the silver car behind Nie Jingze.

The car has been replaced, and the key may not be found.

"It's nothing." He shook his head, completely dispelling his thoughts, "Mr. Nie, is there something for me?"

Nie Jingze paused, but did not answer.

Su Xi couldn't tell whether he had forgotten the reason or did it on purpose.He turned slightly, "If there's nothing else, Mr. Nie, please make room for me. I still have something to do."

Nie Jingze's expression darkened when he heard the words, but he still made way for him.

Su Xi left the courtyard and walked towards the vegetable market.When he walked around the roadside corner mirror, he found Nie Jingze not far behind him, and his expression was not clear.

He stepped into the vegetable market, stepped on the muddy water on the ground, and turned his head amidst the thick fishy smell and noisy voices, "If there is nothing wrong, Mr. Nie should go back. You don't want to go to this kind of place. coming."

Nie Jingze sneered and stopped in front of him, "Since you can come, why can't I come?"

Su Xi didn't say any more, lifted his foot to bypass the bloody water flowing on the ground, and walked deep.

Nie Jingze's expression was slightly cold, and after a second, he followed him leisurely.

When passing by a vegetable stand selling bullfrogs, the boss squatted next to the chopping board on the ground to kill the bullfrogs.Blood and water splashed into the air between hands and hands, and landed on Su Xi's shoes.Su Xi looked down at the old and yellowed sneakers on his feet, and didn't pay much attention to them.

Seeing it, Nie Jingze felt uneasy, stepped forward to stop him, took out a tissue from his pocket and threw it into his arms, and said in a deep voice, "Wipe your shoes clean."

"Do you think you can't take it? The vegetable market is such a place." Su Xi was silent for a moment, and returned the tissue to him, "It's not an imported supermarket near your home."

Nie Jingze didn't speak, but opened the package of tissues and took out a piece of paper.When he was about to bend down and squat down, he heard Su Xi say: "What's more, my shoes are worn out and old, and they are not comparable to the shoes on Mr. Nie's feet."

Nie Jingze paused for a moment, as if he had come to his senses, he stuffed Su Xi with the paper, and looked away without checking whether he had polished his shoes or not.

He looked at the pork stall with fatty pork ribs hanging beside him, his eyes were all absent-minded, and there was only one thing in his mind.

What was he thinking just now?He actually wanted to shine Su Xi's shoes.

Nie Jingze closed his eyes to think, and then looked dazed.

He just...probably didn't think about anything.It's just that the dirt on Su Xi's shoes looks a little unsightly.

The key-distributor finally came out of the stall.

Su Xi handed the key in his hand to the master, and looked for the WeChat payment code posted on the booth with his mobile phone.Nie Jingze stood a few steps away, watching the master press the key into the mold taker, and then looked away in disinterest.

Even Nie Jingze felt that his trip was inexplicable.

When I got up in the morning and took a shower, I thought of Su Xi's face when I looked at the plain white tiles.After taking a shower, I came out on a whim, grabbed the car keys from the shoe cabinet, and went to the underground garage.When he parked the car downstairs in the rental house, he only thought that he had changed to a new car, even if Su Shi passed by, he would not recognize him.

It's just that I didn't expect that after meeting someone, my body would be the first to consciously honk the car horn.

Then get out of the car to stop people, and finally find excuses at will.

A couple walked slowly behind them, and they chatted about choosing gifts for their anniversary.The woman counted her wish list with her fingers, but the man was a little perfunctory in his words, and only said that it was so troublesome, it would be better to just give out red envelopes.

The two disagreed and quarreled all the way.

Nie Jingze listened for a while, then raised his eyelids and glanced at Su Xi, "It is true that I have something to do with you." He raised his eyebrows slightly, but his tone was light, "I want to give Zhong Qing a watch. Tell me, what style should I give you?" good?"

Su Xi slowly turned his face, "About this matter, you should ask Zhong Qing himself, not me."

Nie Jingze looked slightly sarcastic, "Of course I didn't want him to know, I wanted to surprise him, so I came to ask you."

Su Xi shook his head, "I don't know what style he likes."

"You don't know, who else would know?" Nie Jingze asked flatly, "I'll pick you up after get off work today. You go to the mall with me and help me pick out a watch for him."

Su Xi took the two keys from the master, "When I got off work, the mall was closed."

Nie Jingze frowned upon hearing this, "You have to work so long every day?"

Su Xi turned around and walked back and forth, with a calm tone: "Of course it can't be compared with Mr. Nie."

Nie Jingze's tone became colder: "What about the rest time?"

Su Xi, who was walking in front, stopped and looked back at him, "Three days off a month."

Nie Jingze didn't speak, but a slight anger suddenly surged in his heart.

The two had nothing to say so far, and walked out of the vegetable market in silence all the way.When he walked around the corner mirror and stood in the empty alleyway, Nie Jingze called him to stop.

"What kind of job are you? Among your colleagues, except for the part-time college students, most of the rest are middle-aged women in their 50s and 24s who are approaching retirement age." He looked cold and his voice was stern, "[-] hours a day you have to work from Work early to late, and only have three days off in a month. Pointless work consumes [-]% of your time, what else can you do with the rest of the time?"

Although Nie Jingze's three or two sentences hit the nail on the head, for some reason, every time he said a sentence, the anger in his heart became more intense, and there was still a slight boredom in it.It seems that the person being said is not Su Xi, but him.

Su Xi's expression was normal, but it seemed more like he had already been numb.He heard his voice fall into the air: "Everyone has their own way of life, not everyone wants to live like you."

"At least I don't need it." He raised his face, "Isn't it better to be plain?"

Looking over his face inch by inch, Nie Jingze finally saw clearly where the biggest change that two years had brought to Su Xi was.It is not the old clothes and trousers that have been washed to white, nor is it the character that is no longer self-willed and flamboyant, but the pair of calm pupils when talking about life.

It's as if a boulder fell into it, but it couldn't startle the slightest splash.

"You probably have misunderstood the ordinary life of ordinary people." Nie Jingze curled his lips coldly, with a hint of irony, "An ordinary life does not mean a numb life."

Su Xi met his condensed gaze, and suddenly remembered the words that the chef next door said to him in the dark alley a few nights ago.He pursed his lips, but said nothing.

Like a stubborn stone rooted on a cliff, the heart in the chest is hard and stubborn.

Still unwilling to let him go easily, Nie Jingze's expression became more and more indifferent, intending to force out the true thoughts in his heart, "Don't you feel uncomfortable when you have fallen from the young master who used to call the wind and rain to the current status as a hot pot restaurant waiter?"

Su Xi remained unmoved: "I have adapted well."

"You are indeed adapting well." Nie Jingze nodded, with a faint smile in his eyes, "But what about your father? He used to pamper and spoil you so much. If you want to study, he will send you to a key university. If you want to fall in love , just give you a boyfriend. He thinks his son should get the best things in the world, but he doesn’t know that now his son is wearing the oldest clothes, living in the most shabby house, working the most A job at the bottom. What do you think your biological father, who is buried underground, would think?"

After he finished speaking, he seemed to be laughed at by his own words, and the corners of his lips curled up in a perfunctory manner.

Su Xi lowered his eyes, his mind went blank.

He thought blankly that what Nie Jingze said was right.Because of this, in the past two years, he visited Su Songqing very rarely.He has hesitated outside the cemetery in the suburbs several times, wandering silently.There was no other reason, it was just that he was timid.

He didn't want Su Songqing to see him like this.His appearance is not even as good as the servants of the Su family two years ago.He didn't even want Su Songqing to know that he, who was coaxed by Su Songqing since he was a child, "Don't be afraid, my baby can do whatever she wants", will now become timid and cowardly.

The temperature in the air seemed to have dropped to freezing point.

Su Xi felt that he probably needed to say something.But when he tried to open his lips, he found that his lips were shaking uncontrollably.The lips and the lower lip collided lightly, making an inaudible sound.

The last time this happened, it was when he was still young, curling his lips and crying in Su Songqing's arms.

He finally realized that he probably wanted to cry a little bit.

Two years later, he thought he was mature enough.Mature enough to cook by oneself, mopping the floor, washing clothes and changing sheets, mature enough to hold back the provocation and cold eyes of others.

This kind of maturity was brought back to its original form by a word that was neither too long nor too short.

However, he is no longer a child.The only man in the world who always treated him as a child is no longer there.

Su Xi closed his mouth tightly, his vision was still clear, and his nose was breathing smoothly.

He didn't cry.

Nie Jingze looked at him, but the tiny boredom in his chest continued to expand.He didn't do anything, neither suppressed nor dispelled, just watched the cloud of emotions grow bigger and bigger.

getting bigger.

Until his entire ventricle was packed to the brim.

Nie Jingze wanted to hug him a little bit.

So he did just that.