Ceaseless

In the next few days, Nie Jingze noticed that Su Xi was more or less absent-minded when he was in front of him.He hung all the clothes brought by Su Xi in his closet, and asked someone to send over many clothes of the same style and different sizes from the clothes he usually wears.

Nie Jingze knew about Su Xi finding a new job in a private coffee shop.Regarding this job at first, Su Xi waited at home for two full days but did not wait for a call.I thought it was probably not up to the requirements, but I didn’t want to, but I received a call from the owner at noon two days later. The other party apologized to him embarrassedly on the phone, saying that he forgot to call.

After hanging up the phone, Su Xi went out to the coffee shop.

In the past, Su Xi only knew about drinking coffee and eating desserts, but he knew nothing about making coffee and desserts.Over the past few days, Nie Jingze thought that the new job was very difficult when he saw him wandering off several times.

Until the morning before Singles' Day, Su Xi got up early to go to work.When the alarm clock rang, he got up from Nie Jingze's arms, got out of bed barefoot, and opened the closet by the wall to change clothes.

Nie Jingze, who noticed the movement beside him, also sat up from the bed, "I ordered a birthday cake." He reported the name of a hotel, "The pastry chef in that hotel has never changed, I remember you used to like to eat His desserts."

What Nie Jingze was talking about was the incident when Su Xi personally ran down to the dormitory to deliver desserts to him.

With his back turned to Su Shi who took the clothes from the closet, he didn't react much, as if he had already forgotten all about what he said.

Seeing that the other party was about to take the old clothes off the hanger and wear them, Nie Jingze called out to him: "You don't want to wear the new clothes I bought for you, but you want to hang them in the closet as a collection?"

Su Xi paused, turned around and smiled at him, "I almost forgot." After speaking, he put back the old coat he was already holding, and took out another dark coat from the closet.

Su Xi faced him as he changed into his overcoat and matching trousers. Nie Jingze glanced over, but couldn't help frowning slightly.Not to mention a small part of the trouser legs, even the clothes are a bit too big in terms of shoulder width, and Su Xi's height and frame seem to be unable to support it.

He was very confident in the size he sent, and he didn't believe that the clothes picker would make such an obvious mistake.Nie Jingze raised his chin slightly to signal him, "The clothes seem a little big, come here."

Su Xi walked to the bed with a normal expression, not paying too much attention to the size of the clothes, "Sometimes I go to buy clothes by myself, and if I don't try them on in advance, I will buy the wrong size."

Nie Jingze reached out his hand to touch his clothes, raised his eyes a little funny and asked, "You can't tell the difference between new clothes and old clothes?"

Su Xi looked at him puzzled, "What?"

Nie Jingze withdrew his hand, his eyes fell on his face with a half-smile, "You took the wrong clothes, this one is mine."

Suddenly recollecting it, Su Xi blinked embarrassedly, "I didn't pay attention."

"New clothes are all hung with tags." Nie Jingze explained quietly, his eyes were a little thoughtful, "When you picked up the clothes, what were you thinking about?"

Su Xi glanced at him, raised his hand to his lips and yawned, and replied uncertainly: "Probably, he hasn't fully woken up yet."

Nie Jingze had an expression of disbelief, squinted his eyes and looked at him for a moment, reached out and grabbed the collar of his coat, pulled him into his arms, wrapped his arms around him through his coat, and lowered his head. Rubbing lightly over his chin, "Could it be that I let you sit in my arms and move last night?"

Su Xi's ears were burning hot, but he still stretched out his hand to push him away. While getting up to find his clothes in the closet, he said in a muffled voice without looking back: "If you are late for work, you will be deducted from full attendance."

Nie Jingze didn't say anything, just watched him change his clothes without saying a word.

Su Xi tore off the labels on the new clothes and trousers with his bare hands, changed into the set of clothes and trousers, and went to the bathroom to rinse his mouth and face without stopping.

Nie Jingze's eyes fell directly on the floor in front of the bathroom door, and then slowly frowned.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, he picked up his coat and left the company early under the angry eyes of his assistant, turned around and drove to the coffee shop where Su Xi worked.

Before the white-collar workers got off work, there were some customers scattered in the store, and most of them were passers-by who opened the door to pack cakes and desserts when they passed by the store.Su Xi stood at another table with his back to him, ordering a few college students. The owner, who was sitting idle at the empty table, raised his hand and patted the old clerk sitting opposite him, signaling him not to be lazy, and gave Su Xi for no reason. increase workload.

The old clerk walked up to Nie Jingze's desk with the catalog in his arms. Before he could speak, the man in front of him waved his hands indifferently, pointing his chin in the direction of Suxi Station, "He will replace him."

The old clerk turned around, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands helplessly towards the owner, walked to Su Xi to take over his work, and whispered to him, "Go to the table behind."

Su Xi followed the voice of the other party and looked behind him. Nie Jingze sat on the seat facing him with one hand resting on his head, staring at him without blinking, with a faint smile on his lips.

Su Xi's eyes were slightly bent, and soon returned to normal, and he walked forward and handed the catalog in his hand to the other party.

Nie Jingze took it and flipped through two pages casually, then raised his eyes to look at him, "A cup of Americano and a cup of cappuccino."

Su Xi paused after hearing the words, then looked back at him, "Have you made an appointment?"

"Probably." After thinking for a second, Nie Jingze said abruptly, "Is your boss here?"

Su Xi looked slightly surprised, "He is here."

Nie Jingze looked at the young man who was leisurely sitting in the store playing with his mobile phone, and asked in a casual tone, "Does the store provide escort service?"

The shop owner looked over in surprise, his eyes turned over to Su Xi and Nie Jingze's faces, showing an expression of interest, "Customers are God, and we will try our best to satisfy customers' requests in the store. But," he said, Turning around, I looked at Su Xi again, "My store is also very open-minded. The first thing to do with this kind of service is to see the clerk's own wishes."

Su Xi was slightly taken aback, but didn't say anything, turned around and walked towards the back kitchen.

The old clerk stopped in front of the shop owner, and lowered his voice with a puzzled face: "It seems that I am really old and decrepit. Young and good-looking people like Xiaosu are different."

The shopkeeper slapped him on the back and cursed in a low voice: "Don't say that you eat rice from my shop every day."

The old clerk was even more puzzled, "Why?"

The owner of the shop became more and more resentful of iron and steel, and while getting up and walking towards the back kitchen, he said: "Everyone eats the same rice, why is your boss so smart and you are so stupid?"

The old clerk followed behind the other party with a downcast face, daring to speak out.

The owner personally made desserts for another table of guests, and the old clerk stayed in the kitchen to help him.Su Xi came out to deliver coffee, first to the table in the university room, and finally to Nie Jingze's table.He put down two cups of coffee facing each other, and was about to turn around and leave.

But Nie Jingze stopped him: "The remaining cup of coffee is for you."

He hesitated for a second, remembering the lazy but gentle face of the shop owner, and finally sat down opposite Nie Jingze, staring at the steaming coffee in front of him in a daze, "I never knew before that there are some places where you can relax like this when you go to work. "

Nie Jingze didn't answer, as if recalling something, he added two cubes of sugar to his coffee.

Su Xi was stunned for a moment, then silently raised his head to look at him.

Nie Jingze raised his eyebrows slightly, "I remember you like this kind of sweetness."

The emotion in Su Xi's eyes dropped instantly.

Seeing his expression, Nie Jingze didn't have any clues in his mind, he could only subconsciously frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Su Xi's lips moved slightly.After a while, he still just shook his head calmly, "It's nothing." After stirring the coffee casually with a spoon, he held the coffee cup to his lips.

Nie Jingze reached out to hold his wrist, his dark eyes were fixed on his face, "You don't like it?"

Su Xi didn't speak.

Nie Jingze spoke again, but in a slightly affirmative tone: "You don't like it."

He took the cup of coffee from Su Xi and put the cup back on the table, "I don't know what concerns you have. But," Nie Jingze raised his eyes and looked straight at him with bottomless eyes, "You don't like you have to tell me."

"I think my memory is not bad." As if recalling something bad, he curled his lips slightly coldly, "The day I broke up with you in the coffee shop two years ago, I saw you add two dollars to your coffee. Tang, I have remembered it until now. If there is anything you don’t like in the future, you tell me, and I will never forget it.”

The stereo played soothing English lyric songs in a loop. Several college students were immersed in playing Werewolf on their mobile phones. The owner and another old clerk were still in the kitchen.

Su Xi withdrew his gaze, stared down at his blurred reflection in the coffee, and frowned slightly.After a long time, he slowly raised his head, and said softly, "Now I can't eat any spicy food anymore."

Nie Jingze's expression froze, as if he hadn't expected it.

Su Xi raised his eyes and looked at him without hesitation, "I can eat as many chili peppers as you, and I can only use towels in the shower, and I won't be depressed if I can't eat sweets. I work in a hot pot restaurant I have to get up early every day, and occasionally do things like wash dishes and vegetables. I can cook by myself, and I also go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and there will be no misidentification of cabbage and lettuce.”

He hesitated for a second, but still said, "Probably compared with the me in your memory, the me now and the me in the past are really far apart. But, you always regard me as the one in the past who didn't know the hardships of life. I don’t know how to treat people who don’t know what to do. I’m not even sure, what you see in your eyes, what you think in your heart.” He paused slightly, and peeled off the thoughts buried in his heart in front of the other party’s eyes, “Which me is it?”

Nie Jingze fell silent suddenly, with an unpredictable expression on his face.

Still unable to see any emotional change from the other party's face, Su Xi became more and more restless.He couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, is it not a good time to open up his true thoughts.Or, in fact, he had a problem with his verbal expression, which messed up the matter.

In any case, he couldn't help feeling a little depressed.The thought of temporarily avoiding Nie Jingze intensified, and he stood up with his hands on the table.

The chair under him rubbed against the ground as he moved, as if sensing his intentions, Nie Jingze who was opposite him suddenly raised his head and reached out to clasp his arm, his face slightly tense, "Sit down. .”

Su Xi didn't struggle, but he didn't sit down either.

A look of resentment gradually emerged in the other party's eyes, and his voice sank involuntarily: "Sit down."

Su Xi finally sat down.

As if he was afraid that he would have the idea of ​​leaving again, Nie Jingze never let go of the hand that grabbed him. The other party frowned, and said solemnly, "I'm sorry."

Anyone who hears a conversation starting with these four characters will be unable to control the association to a not-so-good ending.

Su Xi's fingertips moved slightly, and his heart gradually sank to the bottom of the valley.

Sure enough, he thought, he screwed up.

"I don't know you think so." Nie Jingze glanced at him, and his brows tightened. The words that were lingering on his lips hesitantly, seemed to have taken off the shackles on his back, and he became free from any obstacles. Shackles, "I probably never told you when I fell in love with you."

Su Xi involuntarily raised his eyes and looked straight at him.

"I don't really remember the exact time." He lifted his lips, "but it must have been before we broke up."

"The original intention of getting close to you was really to want to be miserable. How miserable you are. It's just that when I found out that your life is not as good as before, I didn't feel as good as I imagined." As if in deep thought, Nie Jingze slowly Said, "A few days ago at your home where you lived for two years, I was still thinking, it would be great if I could have discovered my feelings earlier. At that time, I defined it as 'just returned to China'."

"After that, I occasionally thought, what if it was earlier? For example—" He narrowed his eyes, "For example, before I went abroad, for example, before we broke up."

"You have the same temperament as before. From the perspective of the family, it's because your father loves you so much." Nie Jingze slightly bent his fingertips, tapped a few times on the table subconsciously, and locked him with deep eyes. , "Maybe I used the wrong method. But I just hope that in front of me, you can return to the carefree appearance that you didn't need to know about the hardships of life and the daily necessities."

Nie Jingze said every word, as if he wanted to spread his whole heart in front of his eyes, "I love you, not your character. Only the part of the past and the present part of the character can be pieced together to form a better one." I love you." He paused slightly, his voice low and stable, "You have become better than before, and your life is much harder than when you were in a good family. I just hope that you can maintain your current appearance, but Don't suffer as much as you do now."

Although the timing is wrong, the place is wrong.

The college students playing Werewolf are still laughing and playing with each other, the soothing lyrical English songs have jumped to the playful and cheerful Internet hits, and the two in the kitchen will come out at any time.

But Su Xi still clearly heard that the other party used the word "love".

Seemingly eager, he explained the matter of drinking coffee indefinitely, "In the past, when I drank such sweet coffee, it was probably as sweet as adding another piece of sugar. On the day we broke up, I added two pieces of sugar just because "He paused for a second, subconsciously lowered his voice, "The breakup is already bitter enough, I think, I probably need another piece of sugar to relieve the remaining bitterness in my heart."

"Compared with the previous life, the life in the first two years was more bitter." Su Xi looked at him seriously, the pupils were gentle and peaceful, "But, I don't think the life now is bitter at all." He said He laughed silently, "Now, I can probably drink a whole cup of Americano without sugar in one go."

His voice stopped abruptly, and he didn't say the rest.

Nie Jingze understood immediately.

—Because life has become very sweet.

——Probably, a cup of cappuccino with the strongest milk flavor and ten pieces of sugar can't match the sweetness of the cup.