A Certain Someone

This world is amazing.In the past, he could only quietly tell Jiang Tian what he liked, and he dared not let others know.Now he can tell many people calmly, but only Jiang Tian can't hear it.

Even though the communication was so developed, they lost contact in the crowd.

At first, Sheng Mingyang was staring at him like a thief, but at that time Sheng Wang was a bit of a broken can, thinking that he couldn't catch it no matter what, so let's just forget it-you put so much effort just because you want to watch am i aloneThen I format it for you to see.

At that time, I was young and my brain was stubborn.It is rare for him to be rebellious, because he can't bear to stab others directly, and he always has the posture of hurting the enemy one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred.In front of Sheng Mingyang, he cleared his account, uninstalled WeChat, and locked the old mobile phone together with the "Oh" and "Health Encyclopedia" in a drawer.

Sheng Wang remembered the moment when the drawer was closed, Sheng Mingyang stood by the table without speaking, with a somewhat disappointed expression.And while his eyes were sore, he felt refreshed.It's like biting the most painful ulcer with the sharpest teeth.

After that, others contacted him either by phone or message.All Jiang Tian's movements had to be conveyed through Sheng Mingyang's mouth, and he said to Sheng Mingyang, "Dad, are you relieved?"

Sheng Mingyang didn't speak.

The Affiliated High School has an alumni association in Beijing. Every year, new students will organize gatherings and dinners before and after enrollment. All previous seniors and seniors will attend if they are free. The juniors and juniors are welcome to Beijing.

The first time Shengwang declined.When he was young, he was always at home in this kind of activities, able to chat with anyone, and he was always holding the cup to drink until he was stupid.Afterwards he was only bored—the endless pleasantries, the formalities, the faux intimacy, all of which were in fact strangers.He doesn't have the energy.

The second time he was dragged by Chili and Gao Tianyang.

Maybe it was born, but in that environment, he automatically switched to the mode like a duck to water.Until Zhao Xi arrived late, he became quiet as if the mute button had been pressed.

Zhao Xi saw him right away, chatted with others and changed places with a smile, sat next to him, took advantage of no one's attention, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Student Sheng Wang, I'm promising, the society has lost contact."

Zhao Xi filled him with a glass of beer and touched him with the glass, milky white foam splashed out.He took a big sip and heard Zhao Xi say, "It's bitter, isn't it?"

He couldn't swallow anymore.

Zhao Xi said that he has always felt a little guilty, fearing that Sheng Wang was led by him and Lin Beiting unintentionally, so he would go on this road.Then he has committed a serious crime, causing people to suffer for no reason.

Sheng Wang said no.

Because Zhao Xi and Lin Beiting were there, and if he hadn't met Jiang Tian, ​​he probably wouldn't have walked this way.At least he couldn't imagine that scene himself.

He asked Zhao Xi how he persuaded the family in the first place.

Zhao Xi was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Lin Zi doesn't have this pressure, as for me...Old Zhao used to be the same, and my bad temper may be inherited from him. At that time, I had a quarrel with Lin Zi, and I also had a quarrel with Lao Zhao. I I went abroad directly. My mother lost her temper with my father when she couldn't see anyone, and it softened a little. Later, when Lao Zhao fell ill, he suddenly looked away. In the past two years, he has nagged Lin Zi no less than me, and he probably regarded him as his own son. Alright."

Sheng Wang was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Boss Xile Zhao had undergone cancer surgery.

"However..." Zhao Xi said, "If I had to do it again, I'd rather torture him for two more years so that he wouldn't get sick. Whose time isn't time?"

People have different joys, sorrows and sorrows in time, no matter how similar they are, the days are their own, and there is nothing to learn from.

Sheng Wang asked Zhao Xi again: "Did you and Brother Lin help him go abroad? He..."

How is he?

Zhao Xi used to hear him say "my brother, my brother, my brother", but he was not used to hearing "he" cut off at the beginning and tail.After being stunned for a moment, he realized that the patchwork family had fallen apart, and the "my brother" was not justified.

Jiang Tian is no longer an elder brother, nor is he a boyfriend. After going around, he became someone Sheng Wang didn't know what to call, and became someone who couldn't be said.

Zhao Xi said that he and Lin Beiting helped settle part of the settlement, mainly because Jiang Tian himself was good enough, and life would not be so sad under the premise of a scholarship.But it's just not that sad.

Sheng Wang asked him again if he still had contact with Jiang Tian, ​​and he said very little.

Because of this short answer, Sheng Wang made a trip back to Jiangsu by accident, dug out his old phone and logged on to WeChat.As soon as I logged in, I received a large number of unread messages.

They have stayed in the gap of time for too long, and there is no meaning of replying.Sheng Wang looked at them one by one, from the beginning to the end, only Jiang Tian's chat box was blank, and there was nothing.

It wasn't until that moment that he realized that he uninstalled WeChat and discarded his phone, not purely out of anger.

He knows Jiang Tian's character, and also knows what the other party's decision to let go means—Jiang Tian left his school, old streets, long alleys, classmates, friends...all the excitement of the world to Shengwang, and he took a cat with him. Be clean.

But Sheng Wang just didn't want to accept this fact.

During that time, he would repeatedly poke into Jiang Tian's information interface.

The other party's nickname is still "Oh", the avatar is still "Team Leader", the cover of the album is the desk under the light and shadow, and the circle of friends stops on the song "Childhood", as if the fleeting time has come to an abrupt end, and there has been no update since then.

On the New Year's Day of senior year, the day when the school girl declined to confess her love, Sheng Wang sat in the stands of the playground until late at night, clutching his mobile phone.He wanted to talk to Jiang Tian like never before, but he didn't know what to say.

The way it ended was too hasty and embarrassing, and both sides were in a mess.As a result, those words that can be said when the brain is hot when I am young, but I can't say it when I grow up.

In fact, it is useless to send it out. The things between them will not disappear for a day, and it will only add to the entanglement and troubles.The word "lotus root broken silk connected" sounds ambiguous and lingering, but it is just running in the opposite direction and insisting on exhaustion. If it is exhausted far enough and long enough, it can be broken peacefully.

He couldn't even say any pleasantries, he couldn't imagine that one day, he and Jiang Tian would greet each other with "Are you busy", "How are you doing", "Come out and get together when you are free", and then sprinkle layers of soil on the youthful love , buried in the past.

On the day he officially graduated from university, he was dragged by Chili and Gao Tianyang, and had a breakup meal with a large group of people.It seems that every class in every school has such a fixed process for breaking up meals, calling the ex-girlfriends of various crushes.Just like April Fool's Day, the steps have been set up early, and if it is not satisfactory, just follow it down.

At first Sheng Wang thought they were a bunch of stupid birds, too childish.Later, those silly birds took turns to toast, and sat on the sofa in the corner of the box for a long time, reaching out and asking Gao Tianyang: "Where is my mobile phone?"

Gao Tianyang was more confused than him: "Did you give me your phone???"

He was at a loss for a moment, "Oh", he took it out of his pocket, entered the top of WeChat seriously, and typed word by word: Are you still there?

Then withdraw.

Enter again: I graduated

Then withdraw.

Then enter: I got two degrees, is it amazing?

……

He posted sentence by sentence, and then retracted sentence by sentence, as focused as revising an academic paper.

After Gao Tianyang finished drinking and fled to that corner, he saw that there was no green bar in the chat interface, only a long row of "You have withdrawn a message".

Then Sheng Wang said "I want to vomit", turned off the screen and rushed into the bathroom.

His withdrawal pile was very long, but he couldn't wait for a question mark.On the contrary, other people's news kept bouncing around, and crowds of people came to wish him a smooth graduation.There are always such people who wish him a happy birthday, a happy holiday, and a safe new year at various points in time.And he couldn't even match the name, so he could only reply with a formulaic thank you, and you too.

After that day, Shengwang never did this kind of thing again.He seems to have packed everything up, and is energetically thrown into his work.He went to a top consulting company with a high threshold. Most of the students admitted to their school that year were masters and Ph.D. He was a rare only seedling.

In the past, Aunt Sun often said that he didn't touch Yangchun water with his fingers, and he didn't know how to put a little oil first when he fried rice, and he didn't know the suffering.After graduating from university, he didn't waste a second, and couldn't wait to throw himself into the suffering of the world.The company has a wide range of customers, from all walks of life. His group focuses on foreign investment, but he is good-looking, can speak, and has strong abilities. He has a good relationship with each group and quickly built up his own network of contacts.

Sheng Mingyang used to always talk about "you are still young", until one day he encountered a hurdle in business and needed to clear up the relationship.In the past, his business was rarely involved in that area, and he really couldn't find a suitable person to match up for a while, and finally went around and went around to his son.

That day, Sheng Wang took advantage of his business trip to ask him to have a meal, and agreed to the matchmaking matter by the way.Only then did Sheng Mingyang suddenly realize that before he knew it, Sheng Wang was no longer that kid who was nestling on the sofa drinking soda and playing games, and he would no longer turn his head away because of his words and get red eyes.

Maybe it's a sudden feeling that I'm getting old, maybe it's because I'm drunk.Sheng Mingyang looked at Sheng Wang poking his mobile phone during the dinner and seemed to be chatting on WeChat, and suddenly asked, "Are you in contact with... you two again?"

Sheng Wang paused, then continued typing, put away his phone and said, "No."

He took a few bites, and added: "It seems that he doesn't use WeChat anymore, don't worry."

At that moment, Sheng Mingyang seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just nodded.In his impression, his son was a bit spoiled and spoiled, he was picky about this and that, when he lost his temper, he looked like an animal cub's hair exploded, and his roots seemed to stand upright, but they were actually soft.

Now it is different.

He belatedly discovered that his son had wrapped himself in a shell, which was hard with burrs, and the seams were tight and a little prickly.The hairy Wangzai on the back of his head has disappeared in time, and he doesn't know where to find it.

But Sheng Wang made a mistake. Jiang Tian didn't deliberately not reply to the message, but lost his phone.

Jiang Ou and old man Ding were arranged by Zhao Xilin Beiting, and a lot of expenses were paid.He doesn't like to owe others, even if he has a good relationship, but he will pay back any money he saves.So even if there is a scholarship, it is not well off.His visa is limited and he cannot do many odd jobs.In order to pay off as soon as possible, he reduced the expenditure to a minimum, and the rented neighborhood was not very safe.

He has been stopped, stolen, and robbed. At first, he planned to endure it, until he lost two mobile phones, and then moved in a hurry.Every time he gets a new phone, he always goes to the cloud disk to grab old videos and photos from the cloud disk as soon as possible, build a private photo album, and keep it carefully, but he rarely clicks into it.

One year at the beginning of December, he followed the professor to a scientific research meeting, and on the return trip he stayed in Sweden for two days for the professor's personal reasons.The winter there is long and hard, and it starts to get dark at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Nearby shops were closed, and the only one with lights on was liquor.The professor invited him to drink some warm blood together.He drank a few cups and then went to the corner, sat in the armchair by the window, watched the sun sinking into the horizon early, suddenly clicked into the phone album, pulled out a video from a long time ago, and dragged the progress bar back and forth .

In the video, a boy in school uniform walked a few steps straight under the streetlight, suddenly turned to look at him, and asked, "Can you get a clear picture?"

Jiang Tian bowed his head and lowered his eyes, his thumb kept wiping the progress bar, dragging back to the starting point every time he put his head down.Obviously sober, but like a stubborn and clumsy drunk.

After chatting with his friend, the professor came over here, glanced at the phone curiously, and asked with a smile, "What are you looking at?"

Jiang Tian turned off the phone screen and said, "It's nothing, my cat."

"Oh." The professor knew that he had a cat and had raised it carefully for a long time.He nodded understandingly: "I've seen the picture, it's beautiful. What's it called? I can't always pronounce the name."

Jiang Tian flicked the phone with his fingers, and his eyes fell on a certain place in the void, as if he was a little lost in thought.He was silent for a few seconds before replying, "Wangzi."

Videos and photos are easy to find, but various accounts tied to mobile phone numbers are extremely troublesome, not to mention some of them still recognize devices.Jiang Tian changed to a new WeChat account, but he didn't add many people, most of them were international students, and most of the chat records were related to school work, with one exception.

It was added on the spur of the moment when he was sitting on the bus in the early morning one day. The contact person of the other party probably had already exploded. He didn't even ask who he was, and fell asleep after a few casual greetings.But like a miser, he stared at the two indiscriminately funny and polite sentences for a long way.

This unknown WeChat seems to have covered him with an invisibility cloak, and he uses this veil to deceive himself and others.He will send a restrained blessing to the other party during the festival, and then pinch at 12:4 on December 0th to say happy birthday to the other party, and then exchange a simple and polite thank you.

He hurried forward in this simple reply, graduated early and directly applied for a Ph. D. It seemed that if he worked harder, the time could be shortened and it would become less difficult.

However, every time he sprints a few steps, he will always be pulled back a little by someone——

Jiang Ou recovered very well in the past two years, and sometimes it would give people an illusion, as if she just had a few days under the concentrated stimulation, and the breath disappeared after that point.

She became gentle and elegant for a time, always smiling when talking to people, not in a hurry.So much so that Jiang Tian thought everything was fine.Until one day, he tried to mention Shengwang, and Jiang Ou seemed to be flicked, and became restless in an instant.It was only then that he discovered that it was not so easy to solve the psychological problems, and he could only rely on time and patience.

During this period, old man Ding went to the hospital several times and had an operation.Getting old is like standing on a tightrope, taking every step carefully, and after passing this hurdle, there will be the next hurdle, which is frightening.

So it's useless for Jiang Tian to run fast, because the shadow moves too slowly.

It took him a long time to let the shadow barely keep up, and then he took a breath.

His mentor is a big cow. At that time, there was a cooperative project on the medical application of nanomaterials and he needed to return to China for a long time.When Jiang Tian saw the partner school, he made an application by accident.It wasn't until he got on the flight back home that he felt a little dizzy on this trip.

The person he wanted to take a look at had already graduated.

The end of the year is always the busiest time. Shengwang has been working continuously for two and a half days. He held a video conference with the client at home while stepping on the schedule abroad. I got a call saying that a dinner was arranged for the evening,

He stretched out his hands from under the covers, grabbed his hair and sat up.Lack of sleep is easy to get angry, and I was already full of anger. When I heard this intrusion, it was a lawsuit on my head: "Which client is so picky about time?"

"A talented person in nanoscience, the original cooperative company had a little contact with us. Later, he transferred to the medical field, and the contact was less. This time he brought a few Ph.D.s to work on a project. You are very familiar with the cooperative school. I don't need to talk about it. It just so happens that our company and your school also have a cooperative development center, and the professor has some personal relationships with Par, anyway, this dinner is settled after one visit and another."

Sheng Wang didn't think it was a coincidence at all, he just felt that if he disturbed his dream, he would be struck by lightning, so he went to the place at night in a low spirit, not so energetic.

That big cow has a fair face, a yellow stomach, and prefers Huaiyang cuisine, so the company has assigned a private room.Daniu said that he brought three doctors with him, but when Sheng Wang entered the door, he saw only two of them, and one seat was always vacant, so he didn't know if it was a human or a ghost.

He stretched his nerves and chatted for a while, then sat down in the chair, and lazily replied a few waves of WeChat with his elbows crossed.During the period, I suddenly heard the word "Jiang" mentioned by the professor and the two doctors opposite, so I raised my head reflexively.

Sheng Wang stared at the other side in a daze for a few seconds, and didn't hear similar words and full names again, and felt that he was simply sick.

There are countless people with the same name and surname in the world, let alone just one surname.But he had to look twice every time, as if the surname was so rare.

After an unknown period of time, the professor answered the phone and said with a smile that he had arrived.

Sheng Wang put down the phone, rubbed his sleepy eyelids for a while, got up and said, "I'll pick it up." He just took a breath to ease his sleepiness.

When he opened the door of the box to go out, Jiang Tian happened to come around the corner.

For a moment their eyes met, and then they couldn't move anymore.

Sheng Wang was stunned for two seconds, his mind went blank.

There were people coming and going around, talking constantly, but the two of them stood in a stiff and silent line, looking at each other in astonishment, their faces were clearly familiar, but they didn't dare to recognize them.Those fleeting years that were once full of collisions, ambiguities and anxiety just rolled by slowly.Hugging and kissing against the tip of the nose is like a previous life.They stood where they were, but were knocked beyond recognition.

Sheng Wang's fingers hanging by his side curled up and then loosened, his throat was dry and tight.He said, "Brother."

……haven't seen you for a long time.