Overtone

The day I saw Xiao Cheng was already New Year's Eve.

The streetscape of the city always changes quickly. Last week it was still Christmas lights, but now, it is already full of small red lanterns.

How should I put it, Qi Ye felt that they were very similar to the Beipiao clan. Every year, different people came to this besieged city to work hard. After experiencing the change of day and night, more people stayed and more people left.

Maybe before I leave my mark, I will leave this city again.

Thinking of this, Qi Ye lit another cigarette at the stairs.

Since growing that rose, he went to the corridor to smoke it, and the windows in the room have never been opened again, for fear of freezing.

Just then, the phone in his pocket rang.

It's Xiao Cheng's news.

Qi Ye quickly twirled his cigarette, holding the screen in both hands, and while going upstairs, he watched the flight information sent by Xiao Cheng, and couldn't help laughing again.

After staring at it for a few seconds, he typed a few words on the screen.

-Qi Ye: Professor Xiao, you are too careless.

-Xiao Cheng: What's wrong?

-Qi Ye: Anyway, put your personal information in a code, so you won't be afraid that I will send it out, and then sell it to the paparazzi to make money.

- Xiao Cheng: It's okay, no need to code.

For some reason, Qi Ye couldn't stop laughing by himself through the screen.

It is said that this is a typical manifestation of liking. I used to be stubborn and refused to believe it. Now that I think about it, it is quite reasonable.

In fact, Qi Ye doesn't care whether there are traces of their lives left in this city, but the memories do stay here, and no one can delete them.

Whether it is this place, or any item, or time, it will become their witness.

He looked at the rose on the windowsill.

In this snow season, which should not belong to it, it bloomed for several days.

To be honest, when he brought it back that day, the petals were a little wilted, and he was so scared that he quickly contacted the store and asked them to help raise it for another two days, and send the light blue rose over later.

Calculated in this way, the flowers will be delivered the moment he gets off the plane to school.

Not to mention, giving gifts is getting more and more nervous every time.

The restaurant I made an appointment tonight is a Spanish restaurant in the downtown area. When I was choosing a set meal with Xiao Cheng, this was the only restaurant that could be reserved half a month in advance.Qi Ye didn't even think about it at the time, so he called and booked a seat by the window.

At that time, he didn't hesitate much, but he didn't expect that a lot of things happened in the past half month, even the idea of ​​giving up being a deserter had been experienced.

Just as I was bending over to drag out a box full of clothes, the phone rang again.

Qi Ye craned his neck to take a look.

He was a little impatient at first, thinking that Zhou Qun had nothing to ask him for a drink again, but after seeing the caller's information clearly, he quickly answered the call.

Sure enough, the moment the call was dialed, he heard a voice almost roaring.

"Stinky boy, what have you been doing lately? You don't want to give us a single call, do you?" It was his father, Qi Guoqiang, who called.

"Dad, calm down."

"Calm down, your mother is talking about you every day, just waiting for you to come back, now all the anger is on my head, what do you think..."

He has a good relationship with his parents, a kind of brotherly relationship. When he just graduated, he would go out and play cards with his neighbors when he returned home. Then he would come back in the middle of the night and kneel on the washboard to be criticized.

Listening to his father's nagging on the other end of the phone, Qi Ye said "hmm" several times, and said, "Then come back and apologize."

"In the future?" I could hear Qi Guoqiang's displeasure in his tone, "You haven't come back for more than a year, and you're still in the future?"

"Then..." Qi Ye thought for a while, but couldn't find a way to have both.

How should I put it, his usual work schedule is quite embarrassing, not to mention that he doesn't rest on holidays, the key is that he was in a low mood and didn't go to work much the previous week, so he can't spare this working hour for a while.

"Son." Qi Guoqiang's tone softened, "Mom and Dad miss you."

As soon as these words came out, Qi Ye felt a little uncomfortable. He glanced at the calendar and said softly after a few seconds: "Okay, then I will come back during the Spring Festival."

"Really?"

"Really, I won't lie to you."

Not only is it true, when the time comes, not only will they have to go home, but they will also have to tell them that they have a partner, a young man.

In fact, Qi Ye's parents are relatively open-minded in this matter. They were still in college before, and they accidentally talked about this topic of sexuality after dinner. Although mother did not support or object, they finally reached a consensus.

As long as the two of you are doing well, you can live together and be happy, that's enough.

Thinking about it now, he was quite moved.

After hanging up the phone, Qi Ye struggled for a while.

He thought about matching it with the style of the restaurant at night, but he was not satisfied at all. Seeing himself in the mirror dressed strangely, Qi Ye finally decided to order something everyday.

Generally speaking, he only wears jackets and down jackets in winter, and this time it was the same. He chose a white down jacket with a red sweater and a metal sweater chain inside, and finally matched it with jeans and Martin boots.

It doesn't look casual, it's a trendy guy.

It happened to be the evening rush hour when the crowds poured out of the subway station.There were crowds of people on the road, and it happened to be snowing again. Everyone looked in a hurry, and it was obvious that they wanted to go home urgently.

On the other hand, Qi Ye was alone, walking slowly on the road rather out of company. He and Xiao Cheng made an appointment at 06:30, which was a bit early now.

Seeing the brightly dotted sycamore trees, he looked up at the cloudy sky with snow falling.

It's been a long time since I've seen a star, he thought.

The Spanish restaurant is located in the best part of the downtown area, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a night view on the tenth floor. It is also a holy place where many couples come to fall in love.

When Qi Ye arrived at the restaurant, Xiao Cheng had already arrived.

He was wearing a black windbreaker, although he still had the same temperament, he still had a dusty look.

In fact, it is true that whoever is on a business trip for a week can hardly do what Professor Xiao does when he comes back, and still have the energy to come here.

"I've been waiting for a long time." Qi Ye patted the snowdrops on his body, and said while taking off his down buttocks, "I didn't expect the snow to be quite heavy."

"It's okay." Xiao Cheng took Qi Ye's coat and gently put it on the seat next to him, "I just arrived too."

Qi Ye nodded, looked around, and suddenly found a piano and a music stand not far away.

"The environment here is really nice." He said, "Why is there a piano?"

"I heard that there is a reception every night." Xiao Cheng pushed forward the co-authored menu, "All the types that can be ordered are on it."

Qi Ye became interested as soon as he heard it.

He flipped through the black-covered menu in front of him and looked at it for a while.When I was about to order a cocktail, a line of small words under the menu aroused my interest.

"What to drink?" Xiao Cheng asked.

"The wine is pretty dull." Qi Ye closed the menu and said intentionally, "It's much worse than our bar, so don't order it."

When Xiao Cheng heard this, he nodded and asked the waiter to take it away without even looking at the menu.

Actually, what Qi Ye said today was just to Xiao Cheng.After all, he had come to the conclusion very early on that alcohol is not important, the key depends on the person.

It's just that today, God seems to have given him a chance, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Taking advantage of the moment when Xiao Cheng went to the bathroom, Qi Ye snapped his fingers, blocked it with his hand and talked to the waiter.

"It's pretty good here." After Xiao Cheng came back, Qi Ye suddenly became a little nervous, and kept talking about a topic over and over again, "It's a place I never came to before."

"It's all good."

"what?"

Xiao Cheng glanced at him and smiled: "I said, every meal I ate with you was very good."

Qi Ye's face suddenly became hot.

If you want to say that the rank is high, the person sitting in front of you is the real boss, but he didn't think too much about whether he was serious or joking around, because the tension overwhelmed everything at this moment, and his head was dizzy of.

At this time, he wanted to use alcohol to help him.

Not to mention, other people's drinking is just for fun, but his impression of alcohol is like that of martial arts novels, used for courage.

"What are you thinking about?"

"It's not a big deal." Qi Ye looked at Xiao Cheng and said, "I just suddenly remembered that you came to the bar after that performance."

Xiao Cheng smiled: "When we met for the first time?"

"Yeah." Qi Ye said, "It's amazing when you think about it, as if you were doomed. In fact, I was going to ask for leave that day because I wanted to buy guitar accessories, but I didn't expect to stay for no reason. about you."

This is really not a lie.

That day, he really planned to change the guitar pick, and asked Zhou Qun to ask the piano store.It's just that the opportunity to go to the piano store in the end was replaced by buying rosin.

Everything is like fate, they will meet that night, and he will definitely chat about "guitarist and violinist".

Two glasses of Tequila Sunrise.

The witness who first met that night was being gently placed on the table by the waiter.

Qi Ye's heart beat suddenly a little faster.

The energy of alcohol was too late to come up, he stared at those gentle eyes that reached the end of his eyes, as if he was doing some psychological construction.After a while, he said with a faint smile, "Professor Xiao, happy New Year's Day."

As soon as the words fell, the quietly arranged music sounded at this time——

"The rest of my life in the future/Dong Xue is you/Chunhua is you/Xia Yu is also you..." The singer in the orchestra pit sang slowly, as if to slow down the time.

To be honest, no one doesn't want this, including Qi Ye.

Those people and things that are hidden in the corner and passing by slowly, when I want to look back, I find that time has taken everything away and disappeared.

So this time, Qi Ye couldn't have any regrets.Whether it's good for him or Xiao Cheng, don't wait until the wind, frost, rain and snow, Huang Liang's dream, to think about looking for the shadow of the past.

"I made a wish just now." Qi Ye said suddenly, "A wish that I really want to come true."

Xiao Cheng smiled when he heard it: "What did you promise?"

Qi Ye looked into his eyes, took a deep breath, and said seriously: "I hope... every year and every moment in the future, I can be by your side and say happy holidays to you."

The author says:

The lyrics are quoted in the article: "The rest of my life in the future / Dongxue is you / Chunhua is you / Xia Yu is also you..." - "The rest of my life"