silver sea

"What is this?" Gu Qi picked up the white box and shook it, frowning, "Do you have a cold?"

Qiu Sheng huddled in the lazy sofa, wearing earphones, and didn't hear what he said.

Gu Qi carefully read the instructions on the medicine box, took out a version of the research ingredients, compared the aluminum plate text and the carton, and after confirming that it was the original cold medicine, he let down his heart for a short time.He put the medicine box back on the coffee table, and continued to help Qiu Sheng pack things in the living room.

The place where he works is very close to Qiu Sheng's residence, and Gu Qi will come and have a look during his lunch break when he is free.

Qiu Sheng is not a person who is very good at taking care of himself, at most he will not die of starvation, but he has too many things that need the help of others, so Gu Qi takes this role without complaint.

"Tomorrow's weekend, I want to say that you have been working hard recently, let me make up for you." Gu Qi knocked on the table, saw Qiu Sheng remove half of the earphones cooperatively, and continued, "Cucian carp soup is not good. eat?"

"eat."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gu Qi who was tidying up the pile of waste paper in the drawer, and stood up lightly.

Qiu Sheng walked quietly, slipped to the door against the wall, and casually pulled out a pair of socks to wear.Before Gu Qi raised his head, he pressed the door lock guiltily and was about to turn it down——

"Where are you going?" Gu Qi seemed to have eyes behind her back.

Qiu Sheng paused, and said confidently: "You don't care."

His words were rebellious, halfway through he was ready to escape.As soon as the voice fell, Gu Qi was stunned for a second. Qiu Sheng didn't give Gu Qi any room to ask any more questions. Before he could tie his shoelaces, he closed the door with a "bang" and ran to the elevator room. As expected, he heard the door crash open and close. the sound of.

With the joy of sneaking away, he stuck his back on the metal wall of the elevator and laughed. When his phone vibrated, Gu Qi gritted his teeth and sent him a message: "Then where did the big sun go?!"

"Buy milk tea." Qiu Sheng replied.

Gu Qi:? ? ?

Gu Qi: When did you learn to drink milk tea? !

Gu Qi: You can't drink milk tea! !

The tone was full of that of an old father who found that the bear child was learning bad things in places he didn't know. Qiu Sheng snorted and replied, "Then I can't drink yet", and then ignored Gu Qi.

After that heavy rain, Donghe City seemed to have entered summer again, and the temperature was close to the dog days.

The closed subway and bus air conditioners had to be turned on again under people's protests. People who were wearing autumn coats a few days ago changed back to short-sleeved shorts.The cicadas that were lucky enough to survive all climbed the high branches and sang in the sun wave after wave. They were puzzled and excited, probably thinking that the second summer had already come.

Qiu Sheng hasn't had lunch yet, but he has no appetite when the weather is hot, it doesn't matter whether he eats or not.

The Flower Park is always crowded with people on weekends, Qiu Sheng walked around the parents with children familiarly, and walked under the dark green parasol.He came at an untimely time. There were quite a few students around the white folding tables and chairs, dressed in everything from middle school to college, holding shopping receipts in twos and threes, chatting while waiting for milk tea.

There were so many students and they were young, so Qiu Sheng couldn't compete with them for territory, so he had to stand a little further away under the shade of a tree.

He made complete preparations today and waited for the rabbit.

At the counter, Wen Youxia ignorantly shook the milk tea with his back to the customer.

He bought cold medicine for Qiu Sheng the day before, but they didn't say a word until after get off work and Qiu Sheng left.

Appeared here for the third day in a row, the first time was drenched in the rain and did not know what to say, the second time I sat for a whole day like a neurotic, and today I hesitated to walk around the shop.Wen Youxia didn't take it seriously, but the other two milk tea shop assistants had already noticed Qiu Sheng, whispered to each other for a while, and finally decided to ask him.

"Brother Xia." She turned her head after ordering, and asked in a low voice, "That person is here again, looking for you?"

Wen Youxia said "hmm", opened the sealing machine, put the prepared milk tea in, packed it, pasted it on the list and handed it to the deliveryman, and continued with the next order.

Ponytail asked: "Do you know each other?"

Wen Youxia didn't answer right away, another short-haired girl—the one who picked him up with an umbrella on a rainy day—smiled and said, "I must know you, brother Xia secretly followed him to the gate of the park before coming back."

"Hey?! Is there such a thing?"

"Looks like you went to the bathroom."

"Then how did you know?"

"I saw him go after him, right, brother Xiao Xia?"

Wen Youxia: "..."

Ponytail laughed: "But I think that person looks familiar, but I just can't remember where I saw it."

"You are familiar with the handsome guy, right?"

They started arguing about the criteria for judging a handsome guy, Wen Youxia took advantage of the situation without saying a word, avoided the opportunity of being questioned, finished all the orders in hand, and rang the bell for someone to pick it up.Although the girls were chatting gossip, they didn't delay things anyway. After not being so busy, Wen Youxia took out a water glass from under the cabinet and took a sip, then said, "Can I be lazy?"

The girls got used to it a long time ago, and waved their hands generously after listening: "Go, we're busy!"

Wen Youxia said thank you, opened the door and got out of the container.

Qiu Sheng didn't order today, but stood under a tree to hide from the sun, which is too harsh for autumn, wearing earphones, his eyes staring straight.When Xia Xia came out, Qiu Sheng's eyes lit up, and he suddenly became energetic.

He met Wen Youxia, and the two of them accidentally stood together at the smoking spot in the commercial street, looking as if they had nothing to do and chatting together.

"Are you off work?" Qiu Sheng asked.

"No."

Instead of answering it, it would be better to describe it as just a vague nasal sound, Wen Youxia took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from his trouser pocket.He glanced at Qiu Sheng, and the posture of holding the cigarette with his ring finger and middle finger was the same as before, which made Qiu Sheng regain a little bit of reality in his memory, and his tense knees relaxed a little.

Wen Youxia smoked quietly, he smoked very fast, and he would burn out in a short while.

The noise-cancelling earphones were hung around the neck, and the sound of Qiu passed across the screen of the phone. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a long piece of soot falling, and suddenly said, "When you left, you didn't terminate the contract with Taiguo."

Taiguo, the brokerage company they signed with at the time.

"Huh?" Wen Youxia didn't expect him to say this, and the ending sound raised suspiciously.

"So there was still a one-and-a-half-year contract at that time. It's fine if you can't find anyone before, but now if you let them know that you are in that video, they will definitely come to you and ask for liquidated damages." Qiu Sheng squeezed the earphone anxiously, twirling his fingers Outer helix.

Wen Youxia was even more astonished.

Seeing such an expression on that otherworldly face, Qiu Sheng thought it was funny but also a little bit regretful, as if Wen Youxia fell into the mortal world and started to worry about life and money—even though Wen Youxia It used to be annoying to complain about money for everything, but then the tone was so light and joking that his distress always seemed fake.

Qiu Sheng waited for a while, but he didn't express his opinion, he just said by himself: "Your contract is still with me, do you want to show you how much liquidated damages are? Four years have passed, and interest has to be increased."

The cigarette butts were pressed into the upper layer of the trash can and crushed, Wen Youxia asked, "How much?"

"20." Qiu Sheng said, "at least."

It's not like he's talking nonsense.

When signing the contract with Taiguo, Yinshan was just a young band who had just emerged from the underground bar, but the contract treatment was not much different from the seniors in the same company.They released their first album less than half a year after they signed the contract, which sold well for newcomers, and two songs are very popular in the circle.

A few years ago, the overall development of the band was not very good. Everyone huddled together to keep warm, and there was no sense of competition.

They signed up by chance.

At that time, thanks to the fact that Tai Guo had just changed his boss, he was said to be a fan of bands, and signed several young bands in one go, hoping to make some achievements.The boss is optimistic about Yinshan, but the most successful of those bands is Woken.

Xu Ran, the lead singer of Woken, is a very business-minded person.Other bands were still cautious and didn't want to cater to the mainstream, but he wrote pop and rock songs carelessly, and received a lot of scolding in the circle.The result is that after releasing several hit OSTs in a row, Woken's popularity skyrocketed, and now it has become the most successful band in China.

Because of Woken and Xu Ran, some of the music choices of the public today tend to be bands, and many business cooperations have also found the rock circle that was not very "mainstream" in the past.

With Woken Zhuyu in front, Taiguo followed and started to take Joe.Now that any band wants to sign a contract, the terms cannot be compared with those of the past.To some extent, Qiu Sheng and the others took advantage of their old contract.

He didn't know how to explain these things to Wen Youxia, so he put it in a euphemistic way: "If you sign now and then leave, the liquidated damages will be at least one more zero."

"I know." Wen Youxia frowned, and they could briefly reconcile when talking about money, "So?"

"Liu Wangyu, do you remember? Sister Wang."

"Ah."

Qiu Sheng thought, only when he faced Wen Youxia could he restrain his temper and be persuasive, he was really amiable.

"I tried to mention your contract before, and she said that this matter can be big or small, as long as you go back and finish the album and performance that were agreed at the time, and then pay the liquidated damages, it will be over."

Wen Youxia was still pinching the butt of the cigarette he had just finished smoking, rubbing his thumb against the edge of the filter.

"If you're lucky, if you earn enough money, you don't even have to pay liquidated damages." Qiu Sheng said, "The choice is yours."

But he laid out the conditions, Wen Youxia would know how to choose if he was not stupid.

Qiu Sheng thought about it all night, and found Wen Youxia's contract and this landmine that might explode at any time in a pile of waste paper.Although it's not as serious as it said, it's never a good feeling to have a handle in someone else's hands. Seeing Wen Youxia's expression, Qiu Sheng became more certain. He didn't remember it at all.

Funny is funny, Qiu Sheng can understand Wen Youxia very well.

After all, they were young, ambitious, and talked about true love and freedom all day long. Who cares what terms are written in black and white in the contract.

Even Qiu Sheng, after Wen Youxia left, began to study how much he would have to pay if he left again.

Later, I found out that I couldn't afford it for the time being, so I pinched my nose and cooperated with Liu Wangyu until now.

So it doesn't matter what Wen Youxia thinks of Qiu Sheng after talking about it, even if it's a blatant coercion, as long as it can achieve the effect, he will admit it.

"How about it?"

Wen Youxia was noncommittal and threw away the cigarette butt, but Qiu Sheng felt that he should have begun to waver.

So he looked down at the time: "You think about it, I will come tomorrow."

"come here?"

"correct."

The tone is soft but the expression is clearly, "How?"

Wen Youxia was speechless for a while, then asked abruptly, "Have you recovered from the cold?"

"Is it nice to hear?" Qiu Sheng was a little impatient, he was very annoyed to hear Youxia, the fake dumb, rambling on, and said in a low voice, "I'm so fucking busy, I still have debts and I have to go back to work If you want to talk about something, hurry up—"

"cell phone."

What do you mean?

Qiu Sheng didn't have time to chew on the deep meaning of these two words, fearing that he would repent, so he handed the mobile phone he was holding to Wen Youxia.He was half a head shorter than Wen Youxia, and he raised his eyes slightly when he took half a step forward to look at him, the angle was so ambiguous that it caused people to misunderstand.

Wen Youxia entered a series of numbers on the dial screen and returned to him: "Contact me tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Qiu Sheng said quickly.

Wen Youxia nodded, and the curvature of the cold lips seemed to soften a bit, as if adding a little imperceptible smile, but Qiu Sheng turned around and left without seeing him clearly.

The sun was shining brightly, and Qiu Sheng's heart, like stagnant water, suddenly ached.

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Happy April, see you tomorrow too?