A Certain Someone

When he chose to change majors, including the group that stayed after joining the company, Sheng Wang had selfish motives.

There was once a popular saying that the distance between any two strangers in the world would not exceed six people.Sheng Wang had imagined more than once that if he received enough foreign business and his relationship network covered enough, would he and Jiang Tian meet unexpectedly on a certain occasion.

Then you can't blame them for being disconnected. It should be said that things are impermanent or predestined, and he will have less burden and worry when he speaks.

Little did he know that when this day actually came, he kept his mouth shut.

He wanted to say "I dreamed about you when I was asleep this morning".

Like countless times before, Jiang Tian was wearing a loose T-shirt, blue and white school uniform with the front open, sleeves rolled up to the elbow, sitting on the bay window with one leg bent, stuffed with a white wireless earphone to read the questions.

The sun is too bright outside, the air conditioner is humming, and the temperature in the bedroom is always very low.The person on the window sill turned his head and said: Don't rock your chair while reciting.

He also dreamed that Jiang Tian was lying on the table to catch up on sleep, with his left hand still resting on the back of his neck, frowning impatiently when someone woke him up.When I walk, I take it easy, but when I go up and down the stairs, I take three steps at a time. After running, I will sweat a thin layer, and I am flamboyant and indifferent.

But Sheng Wang didn't say anything in the end, because the boy in the dream had already taken off his school uniform and put on an unfamiliar dark coat.He came from afar, covered with wind and dust, and when viewed from a distance of several meters, it looked like fog rising in the early morning of winter.

It wasn't until this moment that Sheng Wang realized belatedly that they had been separated for too long.The world is moving forward quickly, and it will not slow down because of some two people.There are so many things that time can change, even rocks can be ground into sand.

He suddenly felt a little bit of nostalgia.

The door of the box was pushed open, and a colleague came over and patted Sheng Wang on the shoulder: "Aren't you picking up someone? Why are you erecting it here as a log?"

Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment before he looked away from Jiang Tian, ​​turned around and asked, "What did you just say?"

Another doctor of the professor poked his head out from inside, laughed "Oh", and waved to Jiang Tian through the people, "It's not easy, it's finally here, you've been stuck in traffic for a long time. The professor has been talking about you for a long time!"

Then several people rushed out, filling the gap between Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian, ​​surrounded them chatting and laughing, and entered the door.

Shengwang returned to his seat as if sleepwalking, picked up his cup and took a sip of tea.He was so scalded that the tip of his tongue hurt, and his contracted heart slowly let go, pumping blood to his limbs and bones, and his numb fingers finally had warmth and feeling.

Sheng Wang raised his eyes and saw Jiang Tian being pushed to sit next to the professor.He took off his overcoat, revealing the clean and well-fitting shirt inside, and while unbuttoning the collar, he responded to the professor's question.

He also seemed to be absent-minded, just nodding or answering simple words. When he unbuttoned his cuffs and folded them up, he finally raised his eyes and looked this way. His eyes crossed the round table and the laughter in the room, and fell on Sheng Wang.

The colleague had sharp eyes and asked almost immediately: "Hey, I just figured it out. You two don't know each other, do you?"

Everyone at the table stopped talking and looked over with great interest, their eyes scanning back and forth between the two.

Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment, inexplicably feeling that this scene was ridiculously absurd.When I was in high school, I must have killed myself, but I never thought that one day he and Jiang Tian would sit at the same table, and they would be at the farthest end, and the person next to him would say in surprise, "So you know each other."

He nodded stiffly, and at the same time heard Jiang Tian's "hmm".

"College classmate?"

"No." Sheng Wang said.

"I remember you haven't been in China since your university?" Jiang Tian's classmate just mentioned it casually, but the two people on the table looked at each other and fell silent subtly at the same time.

For a moment, Sheng Wang wished that all the unnecessary people around him would disappear.Because all his attention was nailed to the opposite side of the table, and he had no time to distract himself from other things.

Fortunately, my colleague Zhang Chao is a talkative person, and he will not let the chat go blank for even a second: "The whole university is outside? That's good, I thought I was surrounded by the school next door after eating. Save It's a comparison war of words for me."

A table of people burst into laughter.

Zhang Chao said again: "If it's not a university...is it a high school?"

Jiang Tian said, "One class."

The colleague on the right hand patted him and said, "You have an old classmate here, so why didn't you tell me earlier!"

This person's emotional intelligence is a little behind, and it's not appropriate to react after finishing speaking.There was an old classmate at the dinner, but the person involved didn't know about it, so it could only explain one thing - although they were classmates, the relationship was obviously not that good, at least they didn't communicate often, and maybe they didn't even know what the other party was doing.

Compared with the straightforward academics on the opposite side, Shengwang and the others are much more harmonious.Zhang Chao immediately answered and complained, "How early can we talk about this? We only received the notice this morning that we will be in charge of dinner tonight."

The others laughed immediately, exposing the subtle embarrassment.

The rather honest-looking doctor stepped on a thunder once and became cautious, stopped talking about his classmates' old acquaintances, and concentrated on praising others.From the professor's praise to his fellow students, he then emphasized Jiang Tian: "He is amazing. He applied for a Ph. Come on, be steady. Generally, if there is a limit on the number of people attending a meeting, the professor will call him in. We are all watching helplessly, and we can’t poison.”

The professor speaks Chinese with a tongue-tied tongue, but there is no problem listening.He laughed like a Santa Claus, and said: "Next time, I promise, the next time there is such a meeting, I will definitely invite you to go with me."

"It's overdue, Professor, keep him, at least the girls will thank you."

The professor laughed.

……

Sheng Wang felt like a half-rusted iron nail, humming and trembling obviously disturbed by the magnet opposite.You have to devote half of your attention to listening carefully to their conversation.

He had never been so serious in class, but now he stretched his ears while listening to the small talk, not daring to miss a word.He picks and chooses among those jokes and descriptions, selects the parts related to Jiang Tian, ​​and piece together a small corner of the long years.Some are proud, some are sour.

Those were the years he missed.

This professor has a quarter of Russian blood, and his interest in wine is far greater than other food, especially in the cold season.Zhang Chao and the others were massive again, accompanying the guests who came from afar to exchange cups.

Sheng Wang also drank a lot, every time he picked up the cup, Jiang Tian would look over the cup and plate.

The ceiling lights of the box are gorgeous and complicated, and the light is intertwined, coupled with the refraction between the glass cups, sometimes it will get lost.They sat restrainedly at both ends under such chaotic lights, their eyes intertwined.

As soon as the cup was emptied, he hid on the sofa in a corner of the box.

Drinking and eating well, everyone went to the bathroom one after another, and the box suddenly became deserted, only two or three people left at the table were still chatting quietly.

Sheng Wang poured himself a cup of warm water on the table, Jiang Tian came back from the bathroom early, walked around the round table and walked straight over.

Sheng Wang seemed to have been acupunctured, his shoulders and neck were stiff while holding the cup.When he raised his head to drink water, he could even hear the crackling of his bones and joints.

The sofa sank slightly, and Jiang Tian sat down beside him, fingers intertwined, and could smell the faint smell of hand sanitizer.Sheng Wang turned his gaze to the side, and saw the familiar little mole on the wrist bone.

When he was the most intimate ever, he grabbed Jiang Tian's hand and kissed it there, but the other party held him back and kissed him back.

With a flick of his eyes, Sheng Wang retracted his gaze, and unconsciously turned the mouth of the glass with his fingers.

They used to sit together like this before, when he was good, he used Jiang Tian as a pillow, and when he was depressed, they were far apart.But it is rarely like this moment, talking about whether it is close or not, and whether it is far or not, the two sides are silent.

In fact, Sheng Wang wanted to say a lot, every sentence rushed to the tip of his tongue, and then retreated before opening his mouth.

Did you get the gibberish I sent you?

Why never come back?

Do you still feel uncomfortable when you think about it?

Is it brooding or letting go?

Has there been someone better around you?

Who else will make fun of it?

Have you ever had a momentary heartbeat?

……

When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he couldn't understand why people who reunited after a long time would always say innocuous words. Only at this moment did Sheng Wang understand that it wasn't that he had nothing to say, but that he didn't dare to ask.It's like going through a dense minefield, if you don't know if you make a mistake, you will be blown to pieces...

It's better to say hello.

He looked at the swaying clear water in the glass, turned his head and asked Jiang Tian: "Did you tell Brother Xi and the others when you came back?"

"I didn't have time." Jiang Tian said.

"In a hurry?"

Jiang Tian was silent for a moment and said, "It's a temporary decision."

Obviously the words couldn't be more boring, but Sheng Wang's heart tightened one after another, as if being tightened and loosened by an invisible hand, over and over again.

He licked his dry lips, and asked after a moment of silence, "How long will you stay in China?"

"Half a year."

Sheng Wang wiped the cup with his thumb vigorously, and nodded his head.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Jiang Tian's face, his lowered eyes seemed to be watching his little movements.He slid his thumb and put it away.Jiang Tian looked at it for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sheng Wang wanted to ask him if I had changed a lot, a lot different from high school?

But before he could speak, he heard Jiang Tian ask in a low voice: "Drinking so much wine, is it uncomfortable?"

Sheng Wang blinked, was quiet for a few seconds, and said, "I practiced secretly, it's not like I poured three cups."

Jiang Tian looked at him, and he slapped him in front of the other's eyes: "It's up to five cups."

His expression at that moment had the shadow of showing off when he was a teenager, but he suddenly raised his head, and then retracted immediately.Jiang Tian opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when the door of the box was pushed open, and chatter and laughter poured in.Those who went to the bathroom, and those who went to smoke in the smoking room all returned, took their coats from the rack, and made the last pleasantries.

The atmosphere in the corner of the sofa was broken in an instant, the professor called Jiang Tian, ​​and spoke quickly about something, probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.Zhang Chao raised his hopes and hurriedly arranged cars for a table of people.

Obviously not overdose, but Sheng Wang felt that he was very drunk, his brain was responding to his beating heart, and he felt dizzy and unrealized.Every phone call and arrangement is like a conditioned reflex of the body. The tongue has its own consciousness and automatically speaks appropriate words.

After he ran back and forth twice before entering the box, he found that the room was empty, leaving only himself and Zhang Chao.At this time, he felt that he was clumsy in speech and tongue, and he missed too many words without telling Jiang Tian.

He suddenly remembered that when he first joined Class A, he went to Xile for lunch and forgot to bring money, and Jiang Tian came to redeem him with his mobile phone.When the two returned to the classroom, the practice papers for the lunch break had been handed out for a long time, and he only had 15 minutes left, so he still missed a lot without doing it in a hurry.

The moment the test paper was taken away was the feeling I had now.

Zhang Chao also called Sheng Wang's driver, and the two waited for someone to come by the open-air parking lot.He is much older than Sheng Wang, and Sheng Wang followed him when he was an intern, and later became equal.Most of the time, he is like a worried big brother, keeping an eye on Sheng Wang to prevent him from getting overworked.

He was opening WeChat to add people to the newsletter one by one, and said to Shengwang without looking up, "I'll push it for you after adding them later."

Sheng Wang was absent-minded, and said, "I have."

Zhang Chao was taken aback: "How many people do you have WeChat?"

It was only then that Sheng Wang realized that Jiang Tian was the only one, and changed his words: "I made a mistake, push it for me later."

"Okay." Zhang Chao nodded.

After he finished adding, Sheng Wang's phone vibrated a few times, it was full of business cards pushed by Zhang Chao, he didn't look at it right away.Instead, I heard Zhang Chao suddenly ask: "You and that Dr. Jiang are high school classmates? Why do I feel more than that?"

He originally wanted to ask if they had any conflicts or festivals, but Shengwang's words had a different meaning in Sheng Wang's ears.

The night wind of this season was surprisingly cold, Sheng Wang pulled the scarf to cover his mouth and nose.He glanced towards the entrance of the parking lot and said, "It's more than that."

"How to say?" Zhang Chao asked.

Sheng Wang thought for a while and said, "My ex-boyfriend."

Zhang Chao was so startled that he choked on the wind in his throat: "Oh, fuck..."