Manhattanhenge

Su Hui doesn't like taking medicine very much, especially during the manic period.

He is nostalgic for his enthusiastic and creative self, and every time he obeys his family to take medicine, it is like an extremely difficult withdrawal, with many problems and little determination.

Compared with being at home, going to school has become the only free time. Although the driver always follows him and keeps an eye on him, at least on campus, Su Hui moves freely and doesn't have to worry too much.

Professor Wang, who teaches professional courses, takes good care of him. He not only thinks that he has good grades, but also treats him as an ordinary student, not a special group of people.

After seeing Su Hui for a long time, he specifically asked after class, "Recently, we have an interdisciplinary research topic, and the paper may be submitted to this year's conference, do you want to participate?"

Su Hui was very willing, but he was worried that he would drag the whole group down, but Professor Wang didn't think so.

"Among these few students, you are missing someone with strong English writing ability. Good results are very important, but the article must be well written, and the reviewers are comfortable with it."

After his persuasion, Su Hui agreed.Professor Wang suggested that he and several other students hold an impromptu meeting.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Hui came to the small classroom where the meeting was held as required.The door was half open, he knocked, and wanted to go in by himself, but he didn't expect the door to be pulled open suddenly.

In the next second, he faced Ning Yixiao's face without warning.The other party was obviously also a little surprised, and was stunned for a moment.

"Are you also writing a thesis with Teacher Wang?" Su Hui spoke first, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

Ning Yixiao nodded, "Yes." He also smiled, opened the door, turned sideways, and let Su Hui in.

"This project needs to write statistical tools. Mr. Wang taught us a statistics class. He asked me if I would like to try the cross-project, and I came."

He explained a little bit, but regretted it a bit. He felt that there was no need to say so much, after all, Su Hui didn't ask.

When she turned her head, Ning Yixiao caught a glimpse of the laptop she had placed on the desk. It was bought in a second-hand market before, and the paint on the back panel had also peeled off.I usually don't think much of it, but at this moment it is particularly eye-catching.

Su Hui usually sat alone in the corner in class, and had never been at the same table as anyone, so this time she subconsciously sat down in the row in front of Ning Yixiao.

"So that's how it is. I was called here by Teacher Wang just today." Su Hui turned her head with a smile and looked at Ning Yixiao, "It's hard to cross majors. If I'm asked to do computer things now, I might do something about it." nor."

Originally, it was a good response, but Ning Yixiao looked at his face and said in a strange way, "You don't look like you are studying finance."

He couldn't imagine that Su Hui was like those Wall Street elites, wearing a full suit and tie, walking around the office building, doing work that took money from the pockets of the smartest people.

"Really?" Su Hui's pupils were bright, like the eyes of small animals that are not used to the concrete forest.He moved closer, and whispered to Ning Yixiao, "Actually, I don't like it either."

The distance is very close, and Ning Yixiao can smell the aroma of tropical fruits on Su Hui's body, which is rich and sweet.He clenched his hand on the table and smiled, "Then why do you want to learn this?"

The expression on Su Hui's face was very light, as if it was a matter of course, "Because I can't decide."

Looking at his face, Ning Yixiao was a little dazed.

Suddenly, he remembered that when he was a sophomore in college, a teacher of a certain professional course had a hot temper and often derogated the personality of the students. Few people could stand him.

And the completion of that professional course requires both test paper scores and experimental scores. Compared with real money scores, experimental scores mostly come from the teacher's subjective impression, so not many can pass the test smoothly.

In order to get the desired grade points, Ning Yixiao showed great patience. Almost everyone was forced to retreat by this Professor Lei Ting. After all, no one can bear to belittle for a long time, especially in a place full of heaven's favored children.

But Ning Yixiao can.Facing the harsh voice, he nodded and obeyed, obeying everything, and finally got the score he wanted.

Even the teacher couldn't help saying that Ning Yixiao was the most general and sensible student he had ever met.

He still doesn't know if it's a compliment or not.

While distracted, Professor Wang and another student came in, probably to enliven the atmosphere, they were joking about the two of them.

"It turns out that your relationship is already so close, so it seems that I don't need to help you break the ice."

Seeing Professor Wang's smile, Ning Yixiao felt a little complicated.His eyes focused on the front, first he saw the passion fruit juice in Su Hui's transparent cup, and then he saw his back close at hand.

Like a dream that finally dissipated, Su Hui's back of the neck was no longer bruised, and the earlobe was thin and blood-colored, with a small sunken eye on it.

When he started to wonder when Su Hui got his ears pierced, he suddenly realized that he had thought too far and too much.

The premise of breaking the ice is that the ice needs to be broken.

Ning Yixiao could indeed feel that there was a layer between him and Su Hui.This is very strange. There has never been a similar ice layer in any social relationship he has encountered before. It is so thin that each other seems to be able to touch each other, but at the moment of reaching out, he can clearly feel the danger.

Another new student named Zhang Shuo, also from the Department of Finance, is Professor Wang's favorite student.

Top students like to ask the bottom line. He is very interested in the tools written by Ning Yixiao and himself, so he keeps asking questions. Ning Yixiao tried his best to show patience, but he focused on Su Hui who was talking to Professor Wang. .

When Su Hui spoke, his tone was always very light. Even if he was the leader of the conversation, talking endlessly, he would not feel aggressive. On the contrary, he was always soft and attractive.

"By the way, when I was attending the seminar, I heard about your grandfather. I heard that he has not been in good health recently. How is he doing now?" Professor Wang asked with concern.

Ning Yixiao stared at Su Hui's back, and heard him say softly, "I don't know either."

Unlike others, he must be prepared to say something at this time, saying "it's better, thank you for your concern", but he honestly said he didn't know.

Su Hui smiled and looked up at Professor Wang, "Grandpa is very strong in front of me, even when he is sick. I hope he is fine."

While staring at each other, Professor Wang paused for a moment, then smiled, "Your grandfather is also for you."

Su Hui didn't deny it, "Yes, for my own good."

Neither of them continued. Professor Wang changed the topic in a timely manner and started the group meeting.He output a lot of content, Su Hui was worried that his thoughts were drifting too fast and he couldn't catch them, so he took out his laptop and recorded the tasks proposed by Professor Wang.

To sum it up, I hope he can assist Ning Yixiao to write an English paper, while Zhang Shuo is responsible for collecting enough data.

In the second half of the meeting, Su Hui couldn't sit still, so she tapped her legs lightly with her hand to relieve the symptoms until the end.

"You guys get along well." Professor Wang patted Su Hui on the shoulder and said to him, "Yixiao is a very hard-working child, you should communicate with him more, maybe after this paper is finished, you will also be able to write code .”

Su Hui smiled, but was too lazy to agree in his heart.He doesn't want to learn how to code at all.

But he is very willing to get along with Ning Yixiao.

On the way out, Zhang Shuo was still asking for advice, and Ning Yixiao also answered friendly and positively, explaining the whole way.

Su Hui followed behind the two, two steps away, showing a quietness that didn't match this stage.He really wanted to go out to the school lawn to breathe and lie down.

"I understand when you say that, thank you, Yixiao," Zhang Shuo subconsciously wanted to wrap his arms around Ning Yixiao's shoulders, but his height was a bit reluctant, and he scratched his head again, and said with a smile, "Hey, let's have dinner together. I recently found a very delicious restaurant near the Science and Technology Park, can you eat spicy food?"

Su Hui's thoughts jumped, and he answered questions that had nothing to do with him in his heart - I can't eat spicy food, I really can't eat it, and I need to rinse hot pot three times in plain water.

He wanted to get to the lawn immediately, so he quickened his pace, intending to overtake the two and leave here first.

But at the moment when he was about to succeed, his arm was held.

Turning around, she met Shangning Yixiao's deep eyes.

Then came his very soft voice, "Wait a minute."

Ning Yixiao turned his head and smiled apologetically at Zhang Shuo, "I'm sorry, I might not be able to do it today, but I suddenly remembered that Teacher Wang gave me a document translation task, and now I have to do it with Su Hui."

Zhang Shuo heard this, and immediately showed a clear expression, "There is still work. It's okay, we will have more opportunities in the future, let's get together next time." After he finished speaking, he passed Ning Yixiao and said to Su Hui, "Xiao Hui, you come too."

It was the first time Su Hui heard a classmate of the same major call him that, and he didn't say yes, but just smiled.

"Goodbye." Ning Yixiao looked at his back, the smile on his face restrained a little.

"Why don't you go have dinner with him?" Su Hui looked up at him and asked directly, "Do we have other tasks?"

Ning Yixiao didn't answer directly, and let go of his hand.

"Bring me a drink, forgot?"

He showed Su Hui a different smile than before, as if saying, you promised.

Su Hui stared into his eyes, with a slight smile on his face.He blinked, "I almost forgot, what do you want to drink?"

"Have you brought enough money today?" Ning Yixiao walked outside, speaking with a smile.

Su Hui hummed lightly, "I haven't spent any money today. I was going to buy some tools, but I was called here temporarily. I wonder if it's closed now."

He started talking irrelevant words again, but Ning Yixiao didn't find it strange.

The burning twilight in the sky fell on his face, and even the tiny hairs were light gold. Ning Yixiao looked at Su Hui as he spoke, opening and closing his lips, thinking that he was like a flower.

"By the way, I know a kind of soft drink that tastes good, grapefruit flavor." Su Hui jumped out of the subject again, and led Ning Yixiao to the convenience store, walking briskly.

His neckline was always too large, and his jacket held him, restrained him, and did not play the role of decoration, because he was already very beautiful.

When Su Hui looked into the distance, his eyes were deep, but when he turned his head to look at him, he would reveal immaturity and purity.

Ning realized after a night that he agreed.

Entering the store, Ning Yixiao followed Su Hui, watching him go through a long row of shelves, and walked straight to the freezer, stared at it for a while, took out a bottle of light pink drink from it, and then subconsciously went to get it. Others, take many different drinks.

Immediately afterwards, he stopped his movements as if he had just woken up from a dream, stopped in place, and put all the extra drinks back into the freezer with red ears.

"That's it." Su Hui finally only took the first bottle, turned around, walked briskly to the checkout counter, and took out some banknotes from her bag to pay.

"You try." He tried to unscrew the bottle cap, but the side effects of taking lithium salt still remained, and he couldn't use his hands.

"Let me do it, this kind is not easy to open." Ning Yixiao said that it was difficult to open, but he unscrewed it easily with almost no force.He raised his head and took a big gulp, his Adam's apple rolling up and down.

Sitting side by side on the bench in front of the convenience store, Su Hui tilted his head to look at him, and the evening wind blew the very faint smell of laundry detergent on Ning Yixiao's body onto his face, like the waves of lime mixed with grapefruit.

"It's quite refreshing, not very sweet." Ning Yixiao put down the bottle and gave a very simple evaluation.

"Really?" Su Hui looked at him and said frankly, "Actually, I haven't drunk it."

Ning Yixiao narrowed his eyes subconsciously, "That's not what you said just now."

"Many people have recommended it, and everyone said it's very good." Su Hui leaned on the bench, looked at the children playing ball not far away, and said in a flat tone, "But they don't let me drink, so so far I just listen to it." explain."

"Your grandfather?" Ning Yixiao guessed.

Su Hui hummed, and wrote lightly, "Because I'm not in good health."

"Also, taking too many additives is not healthy."

He heard Ning Yixiao say this sentence following the so-called reasonable logic, just like hearing Professor Wang say "he is also for you".

But the difference is that what Ning Yixiao said seems to have a greater impact on his emotions.

Su Hui was puzzled by this situation, when suddenly, a hand holding a soda bottle stretched out.He raised his eyes and looked at Ning Yixiao.

"But it doesn't matter if you try it once in a while. A dose of this level is equivalent to nothing."

There was no smile on his face, but his voice was gentle.

Su Hui stared at that hand, and after a while, she held the steaming glass bottle.

He tilted his head back and took a big sip, the sweet liquid full of bubbles flowed into his body, driving the heart and bubbling together.

"How is it?" Ning Yixiao asked.

Su Hui accidentally choked, coughed for a long time, calmed down and took a few breaths, her face was flushed, her lips were plump and moist.

He looked at Ning Yixiao, smiled, and didn't comment on the soda.

"You know what? You just talked like coaxing a child."

"Let's talk casually." Ning Yixiao looked at him, "Since you can't even drink freely, they should not allow you to smoke."

Su Hui said naturally, "Of course I smoked secretly."

He leaned his neck back and squinted his eyes in the sunset, "Smoking makes me happier than drinking. Both of these things will be punished if found out, so I would rather do what I want to do even if there is a greater cost."

"Anything in this world has a price anyway."

After finishing speaking, Su Hui opened his eyes with some difficulty, and looked at Ning Yixiao, "What about you? Can you smoke?"

Ning Yixiao didn't say yes or no, just said: "I don't smoke."

Smoking is too wasteful for Ning Yixiao, a waste of money and time.

The most frightening thing is that cigarettes remind him of many unpleasant childhood memories.In the smoky room, what awaited him was either his mother's crying, or a beating and scolding of no severity.

"That's right." Su Hui agreed, "You don't want to learn it. It's not good for your health. Your health is the most important thing. If you smoke too much, your head will hurt."

He looked like he was drunk.Ning Yixiao lowered his head and looked at Su Hui's hand, which had thin metal rings on his index finger and middle finger.

"What about you?" Ning Yixiao asked, "What about your own body?"

Su Hui smiled, "I'm fine, nothing bad will happen." After he finished speaking, he stood up, as if planning to leave.

"I'm going back." Su Hui said, "Thank you for treating me to porridge earlier."

Ning Yixiao also stood up, "I want to go out too, let's go together."

The two walked on the tree-lined road, and the distance was sometimes far and sometimes close.

Su Hui suddenly said, "Is the tool you wrote effective?"

Ning Yixiao has gotten used to his sudden topic change, thought for a while, and replied: "It depends on how you define it. According to the current indicators, the predicted result is still relatively close to the expert's evaluation result. Regardless of After all, these tools are useful, especially when it comes to data collection.”

After listening to his words, Su Hui nodded, and asked a somewhat nonsensical question, "When can we completely replace human beings?"

Ning Yixiao laughed because of his question: "You want to replace it completely? At least I can't do it now."

"I don't want to do this kind of work." Su Hui said to himself, "In a few years, we should completely eliminate this profession."

It's amazing that Ning Yixiao doesn't feel weird about his unconstrained imagination.

"You don't have to do it, as long as you want." Ning Yixiao's tone was different from the past, "The computer can't help you, and neither can I. Only you can decide."

Su Hui stopped talking and remained silent for a long time until they were about to reach the school gate.

When it was time to say goodbye, Su Hui subconsciously searched for the family car with his eyes, and the orange halo of the setting sun blurred his eyes.

where is it?

Suddenly, he heard Ning Yixiao's voice.

"The paper towel you gave me was wet from the rain, and I couldn't read the number on it."

Probably because it was difficult to speak, so Ning Yixiao didn't look at him, just talked to himself, and walked forward, without realizing that Su Hui had stopped.

Before waiting for a response, Ning Yixiao turned his head, but there was no one around him.

Angry?

Turning around, he realized that Su Hui was still standing four or five steps away from him, with his head down.

Before she could speak, Su Hui raised her head and walked towards him a few steps, "Here."

Ning Yixiao took it over, and it was an empty cigarette case that had been torn apart, with two lines of ballpoint writing on it.

"how about this?"

Flocks of birds parked on the school gate flitted across the sky, leaving reflections in Su Hui's clear eyes, "It's the first time I give these to people, I have no experience, it seems that it is really not easy to keep them on paper towels, I'm sorry. "

Ning Yixiao was stunned.

After Su Hui finished speaking, he laughed again, "But the cigarette case doesn't seem to be much better."

"Forget it, there is really no other paper to write on." He moved closer, the car horn honked, and the crowd was crowded.There is only the afterglow of the setting sun between them.

Su Hui's voice was soft and scattered in the wind.

"Just contact me sooner."