Favor

When Yao Xu arrived at Ni Xingqiao's company, he didn't dodge deliberately, and went to the tea room with a bucket on his shoulders.

When Ni Xingqiao came early in the morning, he ran to ask the front desk when to change the water. The front desk told him that the water delivery person would come this morning, so he stayed in the tea room.Ni Xingqiao played tricks.

When Yao Xu came, he was talking and laughing happily with his colleagues in the tea room, which surprised all the colleagues.

Everyone knows that Ni Xingqiao has a kind face, but he usually cherishes his words like gold, and doesn't get involved in anything other than work. What others say to him, he just smiles at most.There is a sense of distance with people, and you can never get close.

Unexpectedly, this morning he took the initiative to chat with every colleague who came for tea, indirect water, or coffee, talking about the endless snowfall and the freezing cold.

Ni Xingqiao's abnormality made everyone feel strange, but there were also colleagues who were good at talking, and they quickly chatted with him.

Ni Xingqiao pretended to be relaxed and chatted with the other party about some unnutritious topics. When Yao Xu came in carrying a bucket, he saw him smiling and calm.

Yao Xu didn't look at him directly, but just sneaked a few glances out of the corner of his eye.While changing the water, he couldn't help but pay attention to the conversation between the two.Colleagues said that the team building will be held next week, and everyone hasn't discussed where to go.Ni Xingqiao had never participated in team building before, and every time he found excuses to shirk.

But this time, he purposely told Yao Xu, full of anticipation.Yao Xu changed the water expressionlessly, turned and left the tea room.Ni Xingqiao looked at the direction Yao Xu left and said nothing.After Yao Xu left, Ni Xingqiao smiled, mocking himself in his heart how could such a little trick make him happy for a long time

That night, Ni Xingqiao had a long phone call with Lin Yuzhou and talked a lot, but he got bored and went to the bar to drink at night.

A somewhat remote bar, with no one on weekday nights.Ni Xingqiao has always had a very poor capacity for alcohol, and he became dizzy after only a few drinks.He was actually betting on himself.

He was almost drunk, paid and left, only to find that it was snowing again.

This place is too remote, and I can't get a taxi for half a day.Ni Xingqiao gave up waiting here and walked unsteadily to the main road in the distance.The snowflakes fell down rustlingly, which soon made his hair white.Ni Xingqiao was dizzy, his feet were weak, and he felt cold, so his nose started running.After walking for a while, he couldn't move anymore. He stood against the wall and started to slide down after a while.Why don't you have a car?

Ni Xingqiao sighed, feeling that he was out of luck.

At this moment, he seemed to see the dirty van in a daze. The car was parked on the side of the road, and a familiar person got off the driver's seat.Ni Xingqiao smiled with hazy eyes, and muttered, "We won another round."

After muttering, he sneezed.

In fact, Yao Xu has been with him for a long time, and has been following him since he got off work.Ni Xingqiao came to drink alone, stumbled and walked in the snow alone, Yao Xu couldn't stand it any longer, and came to Ni Xingqiao's side.

At this time, Ni Xingqiao was almost broken, and he couldn't react when he saw the person in front of him.

Yao Xu held his face and took out a tissue to wipe his nose.Ni Xingqiao looked confused and asked who he was.

Yao Xu didn't speak, but got up suddenly, carried him on his shoulders, and brought him back to the car.

Ni Xingqiao's head was a little congested, uncomfortable, and struggling.

When being stuffed into the car, Ni Xingqiao complained, "Now that I know it, where the hell were you when I was bullied?" Yao Xu looked at him sadly, and silently replied sorry in his heart.

Ni Xingqiao, who was completely drunk, lay on the back seat of the van and fell asleep. Yao Xu drove the car, first took him back to his home, then hesitated, turned around and left, and opened a room for him in the express hotel near Ni Xingqiao's company. .

In the middle of the night, Ni Xingqiao vomited faintly, and Yao Xu took care of it carefully, until it was almost dawn the next morning before leaving quietly.Ni Xingqiao slept until almost ten o'clock, so he was completely late for work.He sat up abruptly, completely unable to recall how he got here.

The clothes on his body were gone, and they looked like they had been washed.

Ni Xingqiao cursed, and felt that he must have been harmed by someone.

He intended to call the police, but called the front desk first.Ni Xingqiao was shaking when he called the front desk. Apart from the headache after the hangover, he had no other abnormalities in his body, but he always felt that something happened.

I asked who opened the room at the front desk, and the front desk said lazily, "Mr. Qiao opened it. By the way, your breakfast has been delivered. Come down and pick it up."

After all, it was just a not-so-respectable fast hotel, and the front desk didn't even bother to talk to him.

But Ni Xingqiao was very glad that the front desk didn't do anything, otherwise, even if he wanted to break his head, he wouldn't be able to remember that it was Yao Xu, that is, Qiao Ling, who sent him here last night.

Ni Xingqiao put on his clothes and went downstairs, took his breakfast, hugged him, and smiled like a fool.

Ni Xingqiao went to work in the afternoon and was so busy that he didn't realize it until night. Why hasn't Yao Xu apologized to him? He sulked at home and called Lin Yuzhou to complain.

Lin Yuzhou said, "He just can't do it, you just follow me." "Get out." Ni Xingqiao said to him, "Is Teacher Lu not at home?" Lin Yuzhou couldn't help laughing, "I'm taking a bath."

Ni Xingqiao was very clear about what to do after taking a shower. He didn't want to hear Lin Yuzhou showing affection to him, so he hung up the phone quickly.

This evening, he watched half the movie alone at home, and then flipped through the diary he wrote when he was in school.

And Yao Xu came downstairs to Ni Xingqiao's house after get off work, and sat in the corridor of the other's house all night.

After a whole night of tossing, Yao Xu asked for leave and couldn't go to work.

He went home to catch up on his sleep, simply made himself something to eat, and lay in bed for a day in a daze.

In the evening, the funeral home called again.

"Don't look for me." Yao Xu said, "You contact their other family members." He took care of it when he was alive, and he has done his best, but now he really doesn't want to do it anymore.

Yao Xu planned to go out to get some air, so he casually ate some noodles at a small roadside shop, and then wandered aimlessly.

I accidentally saw a row of shared bicycles. It was very cold and almost no one wanted to ride them, but Yao Xu took out the gloves in the down jacket issued by the water delivery station, scanned the QR code and got on the bike.

He didn't know where this pair of gloves came from. It suddenly appeared in the van two days ago. It may have been put by the boss. He has been wearing it for the past two days.

He was riding the bike with gloves on to relax slowly, and when he reached a certain corner, on a whim, he turned to the direction he hadn't gone for a long time.After Ni Xingqiao returned to Ancheng, Yao Xu also returned.

He found that he was really being pulled by an invisible thread, and the other end of the thread was held in Ni Xingqiao's hand—even though the other party never knew it.He rode to Ancheng No. [-] Middle School, and stopped outside the school gate to look around for a while.Those high school students wearing thick coats, and the trees buried in snow in winter.

He and Ni Xingqiao also spent a beautiful and chaotic adolescence here. Although everything changed later, the memories are gratifying after all. "Why"

Yao Xu heard the voice, looked back, and was surprised to find that it was the elder sister of the shop manager of the "favorite" dessert shop.

She doesn't seem to have changed much from a few years ago, she should be in her early thirties, but she still looks beautiful with bright eyes and white teeth.very nice.

When Yao Xu looked at her, he felt that time has not wasted everything. "Yao Xu!" The store manager's sister recognized him, she was so surprised that she felt incredible.

Yao Xu didn't expect that she could recognize him easily, and just as he was about to say something, he heard the other party say, "Stand still, please don't move until I come back"

She turned around and ran away.Yao Xu stood there in a daze, not knowing why.

The store manager’s sister ran back to Favor, she hadn’t been this excited for a long time.

She ran to the back room, opened the cabinet, and took out a large suitcase.

She hugged this big and heavy box and rushed to the gate of Ancheng No. [-] Middle School, afraid that if she was a little slow, Yao Xu would leave.Fortunately, when she went back, Yao Xu was still there. "It's time to wait for you." The store manager's sister handed him the boxes in her hand, "They have been waiting for you for many years."

Yao Xu looked at the straw box and asked her, "What is this?" "A letter from that child." The sister of the store manager said, "Have you met?" The child.

You don't need to think about it to know it's Ni Xingqiao.

Yao Xu's eyes fell on the straw box, and she heard her say, "Didn't you exchange letters through me at the beginning, but he has already taken all the letters you left here, but he is still writing to you." you."

Yao Xu quietly listened to the store manager's sister telling him about these letters.

"After he goes to college, there will still be letters, some from him, and some in your name." The shop manager said, "Actually, I recognize his handwriting, from the handwriting on the envelope. It can be seen that he wrote everything by himself." Yao Xu frowned.

"After all, I am an outsider. He told me some things between you, but he didn't know much about it." She said, "I just thought that these letters should be handed over to you. He must also hope that you can received."

When Yao Xu reached out to pick up the box, he found himself trembling.

He felt a tightness in his chest and couldn't speak.

"You have changed a lot." The shop manager said, "Are you free, sister treats you to Shuangpi Nai?"

Yao Xu hugged the box in his arms and looked up at her. "Let's go." The store manager's sister said, "I have a new product." Yao Xu didn't move for a long time, the store manager's sister smiled helplessly, came over and took him by the arm and dragged him into the store.It's cold outside, but Favor looks like spring.

Yao Xu hasn't been here for a long time, or since he left that year, he hasn't been here again.

Many times I followed Ni Xingqiao from a distance, knowing that he had come to the store, but at that time he didn't want to be discovered by the other party, so he could only watch from afar.Now that I entered the store, I found that this place is exactly the same as before. Except for the change of flowers on the table, nothing else has changed.He looked at the seat that they used to like best, and saw his 17-year-old self and Ni Xingqiao in a daze.

Ni Xingqiao, who is full of natural curly hair, will be angry like a puffer fish because Cao Jun said a few words to him, and will be happy like a butterfly because he passed the exam.

Joy, anger, sorrow and joy are staged one by one.

Suddenly, he understood why he couldn't easily revisit the old places. "Sit!" The store manager's sister brought a whole plate of desserts and two freshly made drinks.

Yao Xu deliberately avoided the previous seat and wanted to go to another place, but was pulled back by the store manager's sister.

"What are you afraid of?" said the sister of the store manager, "Why do you deliberately avoid it?" Yao Xu insisted that he didn't have any, and sat in the seat he used to sit in.

The sister of the store manager said, "Do you remember what you said to me here before?" Yao Xu looked at her.

"You said that you would be together forever." The store manager's sister smiled, "I said it back then, and it really is something only young children would say."

Yao Xu now understands the meaning of what she said back then.Only children who have not seen a cruel life will say forever lightly.There are too many things in a person's life that they cannot bear but have to bear. Many times, their own path cannot be controlled by themselves.The store manager's sister said, "He comes here often." Yao Xu looked down at the desserts. "Just sit here in a daze."

She looked at Yao Xu, "Same as you now." "I can't go back."

"Oh, so sure." The store manager's sister said with a smile, "It's just like saying that we will be together forever, very hasty." Yao Xu chuckled helplessly, "Really."

"No emotion anymore." She took out the drink and put it in front of Yao Xu. "I killed him."

The store manager's sister looked at him meaningfully, then took a sip of her drink and said, "Okay, then I will introduce my brother to him. I have always suspected that my brother is gay." Yao Xu looked up at her vigilantly.

The store manager's sister laughed loudly, "You are really screwy." After she finished laughing, she started to eat first.

"You guys are really interesting, but you're young anyway, let's make a fuss." She suddenly thought of something, "By the way, what are you doing now?" Yao Xu pointed to the words printed on the chest of his coat, which said deliver water The name of the station. "Is it fun"

Yao Xu smiled, "What's fun? Make money to eat." "Then do you want to change the way to make money to eat?" She said, "I'm recruiting apprentices."

She turned over the stand on the table, which advertised apprenticeships. "I've been recruiting for almost a year, but no one cares about me." She said, "I want to recruit someone and pass on my skills to him, and then this store... I will not open."

"Why?" Yao Xu frowned.

For him and Ni Xingqiao, "favor" has an extraordinary meaning. If it is not opened, their youth seems to have really come to an end. "I'm going to study abroad." The store manager's sister said with a smile, "I always wanted to study abroad, go to the best culinary school, but I didn't have the money. I finally saved enough tuition and living expenses over the years, and I plan to give it a try." .” Yao Xu looked at her, and suddenly understood why she didn’t seem to have changed much.

People with dreams in their hearts will not be wasted by time.

He thought of Ni Xingqiao, it was not time that wasted Ni Xingqiao, but him.