Overtone

It was already past five o'clock in the evening when Qi Ye went downstairs.

Yang Dong called him just now, saying that he got lost in the farmer's market when he was buying fish, and he couldn't get around with the navigation, so he had to wait.

"Today is not good luck." Qi Ye leaned back on the sofa in the living room, and looked at Xiao Cheng who was following downstairs, "You shouldn't expect them to go fishing."

"Where are Amy and Bella?" Xiao Cheng asked.

Qi Ye replied: "I'm going to pick them up. It's a shame that the elders have to be picked up by two girls."

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng smiled. He went to the kitchen bar and poured two glasses of lemonade, and handed them to Qi Ye: "There are few fish in the pond here. If you want to fish, you have to go to Anshan."

"Anshan?" Qi Ye grasped the point, "Where is this?"

Seeing his expression, Xiao Cheng smiled: "Haven't you been there?"

"No." Qi Ye said, "To be honest, I haven't visited the suburbs here. I've been rushing to make a lot of money these past few years, so I don't have time to go out and play."

This is said as if he is a white-collar worker who sits in the office at 997 a week, but in fact it can be summed up in one word, lazy.

"Anshan is good, you can go later." Xiao Cheng leaned against the window and lit a cigarette.

Qi Ye hugged the little bear doll on the sofa, and looked at him sideways: "Professor Xiao, have you been there?"

"Yeah." Xiao Cheng nodded and shook the cigarette ash, "I went there earlier, I don't know how it's going now."

"So that's the case, then I'll go and have a look next time."

Qi Ye struggled for a while, but still didn't say the words "go together next time". Even though Xiao Cheng said last time that we would go to Tokyo together, that was what he told him. If he said this again now, he would always It feels weird and I don't know why.

"When I was young, there were a lot of fish in the pond in front of our house, and I liked to splash around in it." Qi Ye changed the subject, "There are also loaches. When you get tired of catching fish at night, you can watch the stars, which is very romantic. "

When Xiao Cheng heard the words, he smiled: "Romantic?"

"At an ignorant age, I took the boys in the neighborhood to go together, and went to see the stars together. At that time, I thought it was too romantic." Qi Ye recalled, as if thinking of something, he suddenly laughed out loud, "In the end Fortunately, he fell into the pond in order to fetch pebbles for me, and I wanted to pull them out, and in the end we both became drowned..."

Xiao Cheng just laughed, and then smoked quietly. For some reason, he suddenly paused, as if he had captured some information, and his expression was weird for a moment.

Then, he took another sip.

Qi Ye didn't know if he was talking nonsense again, but just as he was about to speak, his cell phone rang.

He glanced at the phone screen and let out a "hey".

"What's the matter?" Xiao Cheng pressed his cigarette and asked.

"Zhou Qun said that he just received it, and it will take another hour." Qi Ye said, "This is too absurd for them, they may have gone fishing on Mars."

Xiao Cheng was amused by Qi Ye's words.

"Are you hungry? There are quick-frozen dumplings in the refrigerator." He looked at Qi Ye and said, "It's said to be on Mars, maybe we have to go to Venus and come back."

Qi Ye was overjoyed to hear that, what he said before was absolutely right, Xiao Cheng was really funny when he joked, without any sense of distance.

"I'm going to make dumplings, Boss Xiao, just rest." Seeing Xiao Cheng walking towards the kitchen, Qi Ye hurriedly followed, but how should I put it, I guessed the ending when I said this sentence.

——He is indeed in charge of the spoon in name, but the dumplings are still cooked by Professor Xiao.

When a plate of dumplings came out of the pan and was placed on the table in the living room, Qi Ye felt a deep sense of hunger.He opened a can of beer and handed another can to Xiao Cheng.

"Tonight's first meal." Qi Ye said, and lightly clinked glasses with Xiao Cheng.

There are no bright lights in the living room, only two side lights and a dim porch light are on. Not to mention, it's rare to have this kind of atmosphere, it's like a candlelight dinner.

It’s just that there are no candle roses and steaks here, and some are just a plate of dumplings, but that’s enough. A candlelight dinner depends on the person. It doesn’t matter what you eat, as long as you create an atmosphere.

When he was almost done eating, Qi Ye leaned back on the sofa and squinted at Xiao Cheng, as if he was a little alcoholic.

"I'll clean up." Xiao Cheng said, and was about to pick up the plate when Qi Ye pulled his arm.

"No hurry." Qi Ye smiled mysteriously, probably because of the excitement of drinking beer, he took out some board games and card games from the cardboard box beside him, and smiled at Xiao Cheng foolishly: "Yes Don't you want to learn how to play cards?"

When he said this at the time, Qi Ye didn't have any idea. After all, there are only a handful of cards that two people can play, and Xiao Cheng has never touched it.However, although he is a rookie, it should be more than enough to teach another rookie.

And it was indeed like this at the beginning, Qi Ye won several decks in a row.

He was complacent, and after seeing the suits of the cards that Xiao Cheng threw on the table, he realized one thing - it wasn't that his skills were bad, but that he gave way intentionally and quietly released the water.

"Professor Xiao, you underestimate me." Qi Ye was smoking a cigarette, and his expression was no different from that of an uncle playing mahjong in the shade under the bungalow. "Let's show our real skills and play well."

Xiao Cheng just smiled: "I didn't turn on the water."

All right, let him say what he says.

In the future, if you describe what it means to talk nonsense with your eyes open, there is no doubt that it is like Professor Xiao.

"Then whoever wins will be punished with a cup." Qi Ye made a ruthless move, then turned his head towards the box of beer behind him, and smiled wickedly, "How is it?"

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng was still smiling, shuffling the cards without speaking.But Qi Ye looked at his posture of re-dealing the cards, and thought he should be serious this time.

Actually, it's not that Qi Ye has no chance of winning at all. He raised soldiers for a thousand days and used them for a while. Although he lost a lot in the card game with Zhou Qun before, he has accumulated a lot of experience, and taking out one of them should be enough.

However, after maintaining this mentality for the next few games, Qi Ye realized that he had made a conceptual mistake.

——It is the stupid bird who flies first, not the rookie.

What's more, for a stupid and rookie like him, he died before he took off.

"Professor Xiao." Qi Ye threw the lost cards on the table and frowned suspiciously, "Have you really never learned it?"

"No." Xiao Cheng drank a glass very consciously, and began to shuffle the cards neatly.

"No, you must have learned it before." Qi Ye hugged the doll and muttered, "This is even better than Zhou Qun."

Xiao Cheng didn't answer him, so he let Qi Ye talk. When he shuffled the cards and wanted to deal again, Qi Ye suddenly stopped him: "Forget it, I won't play."

"What are you playing then?"

"I think it's just this." Qi Ye raised his eyebrows, and took out a drinking lottery bucket, "Truth or dare?"

This lottery was brought by Zhou Qun at that time, saying that Qi Ye must choose a lottery to confide in Professor Xiao.I didn't expect it to come in handy to relieve boredom now.

And maybe, Professor Xiao can reveal some secrets.

In this way, the opportunity is indeed rare.

"Two wooden sticks, one red and one blue." Qi Ye asked Xiao Cheng to draw the sticks, but he didn't even look at them, just put them under the palm of his hand.He leaned into Xiao Cheng's ear and said, "Professor Xiao, guess what it is?"

"What do you think?" Xiao Cheng turned his head to the side, looked at Qi Ye and slightly curled his lips, "Ask."

"Guess one." Qi Ye laughed uncontrollably, staring into his eyes and said, "I'll punish myself with a drink if I guess correctly."

Not to mention, Xiao Cheng's eyes are beautiful, and it seems that he can sink into them after looking at them for a long time.

Xiao Cheng didn't speak, his palm suddenly covered Qi Ye's hand, the thin callus could give people a warm sense of security.

At the bottom, there is a lottery that no one knows the content of.

And upwards, it was their skin-to-skin contact, which inexplicably sparked a prairie fire.

At this time, Qi Ye saw his strong and beautiful masseter muscles move, and seemed to be very interested in the content of the sign, or in other words, seemed to be looking forward to something.

There is nothing wrong with the saying that the fun of adults lies in the unknown and betting.

— especially when the alcohol is slightly on the head.

"Open." Xiao Cheng said in a low voice.

"Farewell, Professor Xiao, let's make a choice first." Qi Ye smiled, and pulled back the two wooden sticks vigorously, and saw Xiao Cheng also approaching sideways.

After being dazed for a few seconds, Qi Ye finally came to his senses.

They really have to lean together, after all, the current posture is "sitting together".

Qi Ye admitted that he used words indiscriminately again, but Professor Xiao is so charming, it is reasonable to make people want to commit a crime.

"You choose first, and give me the other one." Xiao Cheng said, and when he approached, Qi Ye asked about the faint scent of perfume again.

It's strange that the lonely drift that was still there in the afternoon is gone now.

For some reason, Qi Ye now has an indescribable feeling. If he had to say it, such lighting and such an atmosphere would create a dangerous illusion, which is a human instinct derived from nature.

At this moment, the clock beside him "clicked", pointing to seven thirty in the evening.

Qi Ye glanced at the time: "Then I'll come first, look at my wooden stick."

As he spoke, he took out a red check from under his palm, with the content side still facing the table, and handed it to Xiao Cheng.

Xiao Cheng took the stick with his slender fingers, lowered his eyes and raised his lips slightly.

"A big adventure." His voice was low and sweet, "I'll punish myself with a drink."

Qi Ye stretched his neck and squinted his eyes to see that these four words were indeed engraved on it.

How should I put it, the state of mind when the content was revealed just now was quite contradictory, it seemed a little fortunate, but more of a loss, after all, the game was just a thrill.

Also, self-punishment can come at any time.

But the opportunity to confide in the heart is rare.

"Leaving you alone." Qi Ye smashed his empty beer glass on the table, his eyes fell on the pressed blue sign, "Do you think it's a big adventure or the truth?"

Xiao Cheng raised his eyebrows slightly.After a while, he said, "You decide."

Qi Ye was delighted as soon as he heard it, and he could change the content of the wooden stick by himself as a co-author.

In line with the Qi-style philosophy of honesty first, he picked up the wooden stick with the end painted blue, and shook it at Xiao Cheng: "Open?"

Xiao Cheng smiled: "Open."

Peeling off the film on the wooden stick, Qi Ye saw a sentence written on it.

Generally speaking, if you have a thick skin, the truth is much more exciting than the big risk, and vice versa.

In the dim light, only a few words could be discerned, and it was only after Qi Ye took a photo with his lit phone that he could see what was written.

At this time, Xiao Cheng looked at Qi Ye and narrowed his eyes.

His thumb subconsciously stroked the Bulgari ring that he had never changed when he first met, thinking that he was waiting for something, or indeed looking forward to something.

Normally, everyone would be a little nervous at this moment, but Xiao Cheng was not like that at all. His expression was so relaxed that people would have the illusion that he could confess everything.

On the contrary, Qi Ye who saw this sentence clearly tensed up inexplicably.

After putting down the blue lottery, Qi Ye raised his head and met Xiao Cheng's eyes.

The distance between them was so close that the tips of their noses almost collided, and they could even feel each other's slightly rapid breathing.

"The truth." Qi Ye's voice became hoarse for some reason. He swallowed, then looked at Xiao Cheng, and asked word by word, "Professor Xiao, do you... have a date?"

The author says:

Right in front of you.