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The food stalls along the street were set up, and there was a strong smoky smell from the barbecue stalls. Gu Zhi held his nose and pulled Jiang Chu forward, saying as he ran, "I heard that the beef on the barbecue stalls on the street is all rat meat." It’s strung together, so it’s cheap to sell.”

The owner of the barbecue stall had sharp eyes and ears, and cursed at the backs of the two of them: "If you don't eat it, you don't eat it. You are so young, what kind of rumors are you making?"

The leaves of the sycamore tree began to turn yellow and fall, and the corners of Gu Zhi's eyes turned orange red, maybe it was the glimmer of the setting sun reflected in his eyes, his lowered eyes were a little slack, because he was running too fast, he was a little faint faint.

Jiang Chu stared at him without looking sideways.

"Look at me?" Gu Zhi said, "I saw in a report that a reporter went undercover and exposed it. It's disgusting."

As he spoke, he shivered in response to these remarks.

"Then do you know?" Jiang Chu looked up at the KFC sign above his head and said, "All the chickens here have six wings and eight legs?"

Gu Zhi: "..."

"Stop making rumors, they have refuted the rumors, it's fake news."

These words were meant to be spoken, but when he saw Gu Zhi hesitated at the door for a long while without pushing the door in, he thought it was funny that this man said it was fake news, but he hesitated, and his words and deeds were inconsistent.

"Are you still going?" Jiang Chu asked him.

"Go, it's all here..." He said so, but he stood still and didn't move.

Jiang Chu opened the door first, and just after taking a step, he heard the person behind him say, "Forget it, let's go to another house."

He smiled imperceptibly, then turned around and said, "Then change to another one."

In the end, the two of them went to a simple meal next to KFC. Gu Zhi probably still remembered the grudge that KFC failed to eat. He was very picky about the food in this restaurant. He would say that the food was undercooked, and then that there was salt in the food. Put too much.

The waiter at the restaurant was quite happy to see the two handsome guys at first, but he didn't expect to meet such a picky brat. He immediately rolled his eyes, smiled and said sorry, and gave him two chicken legs as an apology.

Gu Zhi saw that the chicken leg was much bigger than ordinary chicken legs, he poked the chicken twice, and asked desperately, "Is your chicken leg the kind that has eight legs?"

The waiter gave him a sullen and speechless look, and walked away.

He didn't move the last two chicken legs. When he returned to the training camp, Gu Zhi was sure that there was something wrong with the chicken legs.

This joke directly affected Gu Zhi's eating problems in the next few days. It wasn't until Gu Zhi frowned at the chicken leg for the nth time that Jiang Chu realized that even if it was a nonsense he just broke up casually, Gu Zhi would not believe it. suspect.

The time of the training camp is neither short nor long, and it is December in a blink of an eye. There was a light snow on the day when the competition was over and back to school. Nanchuan is a city with four distinct seasons. It can be crazy hot in summer and cold in winter. To doubt life.

The day of returning to school happened to be Sunday, Gu Zhi didn't go with the school car, but Gu Zhuowei got there first, he explained the reason to Qian Yi and went back first.

He originally wanted to ask Jiang Chu to go back with him, but Qian Yi refused to let him go, and he didn't think of a valid reason for a while, so he had to go back first.

It wasn't until he got in the car that he realized something was wrong. After asking Gu Zhuowei, he found out that he had been in the training camp for half a month and that Gu Qian had been ill at home for two games.

On the day he came back, Gu Qian's sickness hadn't dissipated, and her continuous coughing could be heard far away from the door. Gu Zhi stood at the door with his schoolbag in a daze.

Perhaps the movement of opening the door attracted the attention of the people inside. Gu Zhi heard the sound of the door lock being unscrewed from the inside. Gu Qianjin pulled on the slippers, gathered the coat on her shoulders and said softly, "I'm back, you're hungry."

The wind from outside poured in through the crack of the door. Even Gu Zhi, who was nearly 1.8 meters tall, couldn't stop it. Gu Zhi didn't see Gu Zhuowei when he turned around. "It's windy outside, go in." Then he pushed Gu Qian's shoulder and walked in.

He was now much taller than Gu Qian, pushing Gu Qian like this gave Gu Qian the illusion that she was being taken care of by her son.

Because she couldn't take medicine casually, her recovery was slow, and her poor appetite caused her to not see each other for half a month. She had lost a lot of weight visible to the naked eye.

Gu Zhi suddenly felt a little sad. Yesterday he was complacent because he hadn't heard Gu Qian's nagging for half a month, bragging in front of Li Mao, but in fact it was Gu Qian who was afraid that he would be distracted and affect his performance. He suddenly felt that I'm a little ashamed.

The surface of the fruit in the fruit plate on the table was still stained with water, and there was an open box next to the sofa, which was full of various snacks. Gu Zhi took a bag of potato chips and leaned on the sofa.

The conditions in the training camp were not very good. Gu Qian had heard that she had been sick intermittently and didn't think she had lost weight. She hadn't seen him for half a month, and she could tell at a glance that Gu Zhi was a size smaller.

Although the temperature of the air conditioner in the living room was quite high, Gu Qian took a blanket from the room and put it on Gu Zhi.

"I'm going to warm you a cup of milk, it must have been frozen along the way." Gu Qian said.

"No, it's not cold in the car." Just as Gu Zhi was about to say that he didn't need to heat the milk, Gu Qian got up and went to the kitchen.

The milk has been heated in the morning and is being kept in the incubator.

"Do you know that there is a saying that a loving mother is a loser?" Gu Zhi yelled into the kitchen, Gu Qian probably didn't hear it, but Gu Zhuowei who came in from the door was stunned for a moment, he smiled, "There is another sentence behind A strict father has no filial son."

Gu Zhi was stunned for a moment.

From a legal point of view, Gu Zhuowei is his father. Gu Zhi opened his mouth to argue, but he found that he had no reason to argue. In the past, Gu Xiao was not strict with him, but now Gu Zhuowei is even stricter with him. There is also a considerable distance from Baier.

Gu Qian came out of the kitchen and handed over the milk. Before the steaming milk touched her mouth, she heard Gu Qian rarely ask if she was sure to win the top three in this competition.

The cup that Gu Zhi brought to his mouth stopped again, he was silent for a while, and then put the cup down again.

Perhaps Gu Zhi's behavior was a bit unexpected. Gu Qian gave a blank laugh, then paused and said, "I'm just asking casually, it doesn't matter what the number is."

When Gu Qian said this, there was a bit of disappointment in her eyes. It wasn't because of Gu Zhi's disappointment about whether she won an award, but because she had to be cautious and helpless even with such an ordinary concern.

She didn't say it clearly, but Gu Zhi understood.

Although due to some special reasons, when his peers were still acting coquettishly with his parents, Gu Zhi was already able to take charge of himself, but this does not mean that he is indifferent to the care of his relatives. Maybe it is because he has not received much "motherly love" since he was a child. Because of this, at this moment, he suddenly felt an indescribable emotion.

The woman in front of her was originally a little fat, and she didn't know when her thin cheekbones became so clear. Because she felt that she could make decisive choices in many things, she self-righteously chose one for Gu Qian to choose on her own. Find a way to balance with Gu Zhuowei, but now it seems that is not the case.

Also, if that was the case, why did Gu Qian take him back to her side?

After a moment of silence, Gu Zhi suddenly said, "I'll come back once a week before the final exam."

Gu Qian was a little dazed, hesitated for a few seconds and slowly typed a question mark, "Huh?"

"You don't know, the school cafeteria is terrible. After staying in the training camp for half a month, I've lost all my shape." He rarely talked to Gu Qian in such a coquettish tone.

Gu Qian was obviously stunned for a moment, and smiled after a while: "That's good, I said earlier that it's better for you to come back once a week. You're afraid of trouble, but in fact, it's not troublesome at all."

Of course, he was not only out of trouble, for the most part of the semester, he had neglected other things due to some reasons that cannot be explained to others. For Jiang Chu, he went home once a week, which meant that the two of them would have fewer meals together on weekends. , less time to do a few papers together, but for Gu Qian, it's a lot more.

It was his idea to go home once a week. Jiang Chu didn't know about it. At first, Jiang Chu heard from his words that Gu Qian was probably in poor health, so he didn't ask much about it for the first two weeks until a certain time. When Tian Gu Zhi accidentally chatted with Xu Jing, he said: "My mother is so skilled, I don't even want to live in school." Only then did Jiang Chu notice something strange.

He does not mean that.

Maybe Jiang Chu's low pressure is too obvious, maybe Gu Zhi has strong insight. In the next few days, he found that Jiang Chu hesitated to speak many times. He asked but the other party didn't answer. He didn't ask the other party every time. Finishing the door.

Until the Friday evening self-study, Jiang Chu didn't brush up the questions in the classroom as usual, and ran out of the classroom in a hurry after answering the phone.

After that, Gu Zhi was a little restless when he was doing the questions. He always felt that Jiang Chu was not quite right. He wanted to follow him out to have a look, but he didn't even see anyone at the door of the classroom. He didn't know that Jiang Chu had gone in. He was stunned. Startled and dejected, he returned to his seat.

Because he was absent-minded, when passing by Xu Jing, he knocked down a stack of books on his desk.

"Eh..." Gu Zhi glanced down at the papers all over the floor, and said with a bit of a headache, "I'll clean it up for you."

Xu Jing waved his hand and said it was okay, and suddenly remembered a certain early autumn afternoon... He subconsciously looked at the other protagonist in the picture at that time, the seat was empty.

"You're out of your mind, and those who don't know think you're broken in love." Xu Jing pretended to be casually joking.

"What nonsense?" Gu Zhi turned his eyes away in a panic, and stammered, "Where is the love to lose?"

......

"Oh...that's all I said." Xu Jing said, "Are you so nervous? Am I right?"

Gu Zhi squatted on the ground to pick up books, his hands trembled, and he stood up after a while: "I'm not nervous, you should do more questions." He said and slapped the paper in his hand on the table.

Xu Jing only thinks that people of this age are more mysterious than ostentatious when they fall in love. Gu Zhi doesn't want to be known, so he can understand.

He hinted at himself like this, then turned his head and pointed to Jiang Chu's seat and asked Gu Zhi: "What about others? I still have a few questions waiting for him."

Gu Zhi glanced at the empty seat next to him, waved helplessly and said, "Bring it here, it happens to be fine, I'll tell you."

"Alright." Xu Jing moved the pen and notebook to Gu Zhi's desk.

Gu Zhi’s habitual examples of lecture topics, calculations, and his draft paper are very detailed, which reminds Xu Jing of Jiang Chu, who is completely opposite to Gu Zhi. When he asked Jiang Chu for advice, Jiang Chu liked to use the "backward method" the most. lecture topic.The so-called "backward push" means that Jiang Chu glanced at the question, and then gave an answer. He never explained the process, and asked the person who asked the question to reverse the process based on the answer. This method is not useful for everyone, at least to Xu Jing's level If you can't push it out, there are very few people who come to ask Jiang Chu again after a long time. After all, they are all in the fast class, and no one wants to humiliate themselves.

However, there are also people who can adapt, such as Gu Zhi, who is very suitable for this method.

Once Xu Jing couldn't bear it anymore and asked him: "Didn't Gu Zhi lose his temper with you when you talked like this?"

Jiang Chu said, "Why did you lose your temper?"

Of course Xu Jing would not tell Jiang Chu that even if you are in a relationship, your teaching method is very embarrassing.After weighing it up, he said, "Gu Zhi really has a good temper."

It seems that since then, Xu Jing discovered that Jiang Chu's way of lecturing has changed, and recently it was even more detailed than Gu Zhi's.So much so that over time, Xu Jing began to get used to Jiang Chu's "idiot" way of explaining.

"You draw an auxiliary line here...and then..." Gu Zhi said here and found Xu Jingzheng looking at him with complicated eyes.

He thought Xu Jing didn't understand: "Don't understand?" Gu Zhi said: "Then let me explain it again."

"No, it's very strange." When Gu Zhi lowered his head and was about to say it a second time, Xu Jing suddenly interrupted him.

Gu Zhi hesitated for a moment and asked him, "What's so strange?"

"It's very strange why a person can change so much in a short period of time."

"What change?" Gu Zhi didn't understand what Xu Jing meant.

"Jiang Chu's speech is better than yours." Xu Jing explained a sentence, then thought for a while symbolically and said, "I am easier to accept."

"..."

Gu Zhi was a little dazed, he frowned and said, "How is it possible, Jiang Chu's "reversed" way of lecturing, I don't know how many people died, how could he explain it more clearly than me."

"You don't know?" Xu Jing said with a little surprise: "The method of inversion has already been shot to death by him."

Seeing Gu Zhi's confused face, he said again: "Forget it, I'll wait for Jiang Chu to come back and ask him directly. By the way, why did he go?"

Gu Zhi followed his gaze and looked over, Jiang Chu hasn't come back yet.

He wanted to go out a few times. The first time he was reminded by his classmates to go to the office to help the teacher copy the test papers. The second time, Su Nuo directly stopped him with a test paper.

Jiang Chu didn't come back until the end of the evening self-study that day. At that time, there was no sound in the classroom, and the noise of his entering the door was a bit loud, which attracted people who went to self-study to turn their heads, of course, Gu Zhi was among them.

He took off his coat and held it in his hand. The collar of the gray sweater was a little dirty, and there were some stains on the hem of the clothes, but he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly with his head down.

He didn't speak, and he didn't answer even the school committee's question in a low voice. Everyone saw that they couldn't see anything, so they went back to their own tracks, reading books, and solving problems.

It wasn't long before the classroom returned to its previous silence.

Gu Zhi turned his head, and it wasn't until Jiang Chu sat down that he realized that there were two small marks on the corners of Jiang Chu's eyes, as if he had been scratched by something, although it was not serious, but if it deviated by a few centimeters, it would hurt his eyes.

Got into a fight?He thought to himself, it's impossible, although Jiang Chu always likes to ignore people, but it seems that he really hasn't seen him fight with anyone. (except for my time)

"Why did you go?" Gu Zhi asked him in a low voice.

"It's okay." Jiang Chu didn't care about the wound at the corner of his eye, and added after a while: "I went to buy a book."

As he spoke, he put the three books in the school uniform on the table, Gu Zhi glanced at the three books suspiciously, thinking, maybe he was beaten by the bookstore owner because he didn't bring any money?

Thinking about it, I think it is impossible, Jiang Chu is not so stupid.

In fact, the call he received before was from Jiang Xuyang. During this time, Zhao Lin was arguing every day to go to the United States to have a baby. Jiang Xuyang was going through the formalities. It's not his turn to have an opinion.

Then the woman didn't know if she had bipolar disorder during pregnancy. She always felt that someone was trying to harm her, and she was suspicious at home every day. Of course, there was nothing at home.

But she found a foreign novel called "Giovanni's Room" from Jiang Chu's room, and a few group photos dropped from the book.

Before she and Jiang Xuyang got married, she had just graduated from university and worked for two years. She didn't do any serious work during college, but she read a lot of books. Naturally, she knew the contents of this book clearly.

She didn't expect that there would be such books in Jiang Chu's room. Her understanding of Jiang Chu was limited to the few times she met him, and she didn't even say a word. She could only rely on subjective imagination from those few brief meetings. She is withdrawn and has a bad temper. I heard from Jiang Xuyang that he doesn't even have any friends.

So she found Jiang Xuyang with "evidence" and said to him, "Your son is gay."

Because of this sentence, she was slapped by Jiang Xuyang.

Jiang Xuyang is a leader at work, so he feels that it is the same in life. Jiang Chu has received slaps before, so for Jiang Xuyang to say something he can't hear, the slap with his hand is a subconscious reaction.

He said: "You fucking fart, go to the hospital if you are sick."

This was Jiang Xuyang's first time doing something to her, and he was even more certain that no matter how much this man didn't like Jiang Chu, it was only himself who didn't like him, and he didn't allow others to say it.

"Look at this for yourself." She didn't pay much attention to that slap, but it was just an inconspicuous red mark. Jiang Xuyang's strike when he was not drinking was serious.

She spread out Giovanni's Room and the photographs on the table.

Jiang Xuyang usually reads books on management and marketing, and he doesn’t dabble in such unpopular foreign novels. Zhao Lin said: “You probably don’t know this book. It tells stories about homosexuality. inner."

Just as Jiang Xuyang was about to speak, she said, "His desk is full of tutoring materials, only this extra-curricular book. If you don't believe me, ask him yourself."

She didn't know where the certainty came from, she felt that Jiang Chu and Jiang Xuyang's bad father-son relationship, if it was true, Jiang Chu would definitely not hide it from Jiang Xuyang.

And the fact was exactly as she expected, when Jiang Chu was confronted with the questioning and calmly said that he was right, Jiang Xuyang punched him without saying a word.That punch went so fast, not only Jiang Chu, but even Zhao Lin didn't expect it.

That fist hit Jiang Chu's head firmly, scratched the corner of Jiang Chu's right eye with Zhao Lin's wedding ring, and cut off the connection between the father and son with some clear pain.

Jiang Xuyang said, "You are as crazy as your mother."

He had expected this day a long time ago, and he was well prepared for this scene to happen, but there was one person who was different, Lu Song was Jiang Chu's last pain point.

Jiang Xuyang never told him about this woman, not even complaining. She had passed away for a long, long time, so long that Jiang Chu couldn't remember her appearance unless he made a conscious effort.

Now his father said in front of him that you are as crazy as your mother, the reason why Jiang Xuyang never mentioned Lu Song was no longer because he hated her, but because he wanted to completely erase her existence.

But Jiang Xuyang forgot, and Jiang Chu.

He said, "You don't have the right to call my mother?"

Jiang Chu's expression was ugly. He was never a person who could suppress his anger, so he immediately gave Jiang Xuyang a solid punch. Jiang Chu was no longer a child. Standing in front of Jiang Xuyang, he was strong enough to match this person in terms of height and aura. contend.

His eyes are too fierce, even Jiang Xuyang, who has been struggling in the business field all year round, can't help but feel his heart tighten. He has seen Lu Song go crazy, and his eyes are different from this young man full of hostility. Same thing.

"What kind of mother can bring up what kind of son." Jiang Xuyang said angrily.

He said one sentence overshadowed one sentence, every sentence hit Jiang Chu's vital point, Jiang Chu clenched his fist, his face turned from cold white to sharp red.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Lin grabbed Jiang Chu's sleeve in surprise, "He is your father, and he said that you are doing it for your own good. If you don't listen, forget it, and fight him."

"Let him go." Jiang Xuyang pointed to Jiang Chu and said, "Make him crazy."

Jiang Chu shook off Zhao Lin's shackles, curled his clenched hands into his palms slightly, and said with lowered eyes, "For your son's sake, you'd better stay away from me, otherwise..."

Otherwise, Jiang Chu didn't say what would happen, but the effect of this sentence was obvious, Zhao Lin immediately let go and stepped back a few steps.

In the long silence, no one spoke.

It was probably Jiang Xuyang's words that made him go crazy, and at a certain moment, he suddenly felt relieved.

There is only one relationship between Jiang Xuyang and him, and that is the sense of responsibility that cannot be erased by blood. He has no feelings for Jiang Xuyang, and Jiang Xuyang has the same for him. The reason why he was brought back at the beginning was only because Jiang Xuyang was at this age , no children yet, Jiang Xuyang paid for him to study, and he will return him with interest in the future. This kind of relationship is endowed by the law. If there is a little more, there are some moral obligations. As for the others, originally It doesn't exist between them.

Now that Jiang Xuyang has a new home and a child, Jiang Chu is not at all sad, he is even secretly happy.

He neither had any extra affection from Jiang Xuyang, nor did he need to give him anything back, it was simple and neat.

Those who are brooding are just complaining for Lu Song, and Lu Song has long since passed away, and took away herself and their past with a fire more than ten years ago.

Jiang Chu's eyes were dull. He glanced at the packed suitcase, looked at the house, and said to Jiang Xuyang in a deep voice, "Is it necessary to take care of me now?"

He couldn't hear much emotion in his voice, but he just said firmly: "You know if I'm crazy. Didn't you have a test?"

When Jiang Chu first came, Jiang Xuyang secretly did a lot of tests, both in formal and irregular institutions, as if to verify the results and make himself feel at ease.

Jiang Chu said: "You don't have to take care of my affairs, you take care of it..." He said and glanced at Zhao Lin who was silently crying and red-eyed.

He might want to say to take care of your own affairs, but he still didn't continue in the middle of the sentence, he looked at the pile of test certificates he had just dug out and said: "You already have a son, don't worry about me. "

At that moment, he felt a great sense of relief. Jiang Xuyang and Zhao Lin were on an evening plane, and their luggage was already lined up in the living room. He saw it when he entered the door. Aunt Zhang had something to do at home and had a day off. It will not be until tomorrow. Back, the big white cat was lying lazily on the steps leading to the second floor. The sudden tug-of-war between father and son did not affect its sweet dreams.

"How do you talk to your dad, he's..."

"You don't have to say it's for my own good. You know in your heart whether he's for my good or yours." Jiang Chu sneered.

This sneer completely made Zhao Lin's tense heart explode.

Jiang Xuyang pinched the root of the mountain wearily, and Zhao Lin suppressed the anger in her heart when she saw this, and muttered: "I have done something embarrassing, but I am justified."

Jiang Chu's face was extremely ugly, and he said, "What I do has nothing to do with you."

He didn't know why he kept saying that it had nothing to do with them, but he still couldn't help explaining a few words, but obviously Jiang Xuyang didn't care, and Zhao Lin didn't care.

Jiang Xuyang said: "I should be really lucky to have more than one son like you."

The tone of his speech was much calmer than before, as if he said it after careful consideration, and it was this sentence that made Jiang Chu stunned for several minutes.

"I didn't expect genes to mutate so much, but I have to admit that a large part of your personality is still like mine, and you won't be influenced by others in everything you do."

Then he saw Jiang Xuyang supporting Zhao Lin and pushing the suitcase out the door.After the two left, there was a dead silence in the room. Jiang Xuyang changed his violent style in the past, and his suddenly cold tone made people unable to recover for a long time.

Memories came uninvited like a flood. He obviously didn't remember any memories of his father in his childhood, but at this moment he suddenly remembered that when he was very young, one winter when his grandmother came to pick him up from school, he met a man who claimed to be His father's man, he was carrying a lot of candies and biscuits that Jiang Chu had never seen before.

He remembered that grandma's eyes were extremely complex at that time, suppressing great anger, probably because she didn't want to curse in front of her grandson, at that time Jiang Chu couldn't understand what was contained in those eyes, he just subconsciously felt disgust from it.

Those candies and biscuits, he turned around and threw them into the trash can.

Then he saw grandma suddenly smiled.

He stood quietly for a while, went upstairs to get some books, and then strode out.

Behind him was the sound of the door closing, and the wind outside was just a little bit cold, as cold as the wind on the day after school in childhood memories.

In the wind, there is the relief of grandma, and the sweetness of the bag of expensive imported candies that he discarded.

And these, like revenge, hit him one after another after countless springs and autumns.