A Certain Someone

It is really crazy to take a taxi to Guangdong.

Jiang Tian switched apps subconsciously, and tapped the screen with his fingers.Until the colleague next to him patted him, covered his mouth and whispered: "I thought I could take a break for two days and walk around before starting, but now it's good, it's a waste of time."

Only then did Jiang Tian come back to his senses.He glanced at the project schedule for several days on the projection, and then saw the flight information on the screen of his mobile phone, pinched the bridge of his nose, and thought that he was not far from going crazy.

He closed the app and turned off the screen, and was about to put his phone away when he received a call from Zhao Xi.

"I'll take a call." He greeted the professor, grabbed the phone and left the seminar room.

"Brother Xi."

"Oh, I was surprised to see you didn't reply for a long time." Zhao Xi's voice was lazy. He had been on vacation for the past few days, and he drove the two old ones to the mountain to soak in the hot springs. The days were quite pleasant.What he said to Sheng Wang was pure nonsense, and Boss Zhao, who was listening, pointed his nose and stared at him a few times: "I thought you were really good at it."

"how is this possible."

"That's good, I'm still a little sensible, so I won't run around without even having a hotel name." Zhao Xi said.

"..."

Jiang Tian, ​​who almost did this, was tactically silent for a few seconds.

Zhao Xi added: "I'm a little puzzled when it comes to this."

"what?"

"Why do you go around in such a big circle and let me go around? Ask yourself." Zhao Xi, as someone who has experienced it, on the one hand, has a little bit of empathy, but on the other hand, he can't wait to put the two together: "Just tell me the address, I'll go find you. Can he still give it?"

Before Jiang Tian could speak, Zhao Xi concluded on his own: "Oh yes, I forgot, you are boring."

Jiang Tian: "..."

"No." He was silent for a moment, and his tone became a little headache: "He can run."

Zhao Xi: "Huh?"

"Give him extra time and he will think a lot, and if he doesn't think through, he will run away."

Jiang Tian could completely imagine that scene, like someone in high school who packed him up and sent him to another class without saying a word.

His cat has inherited this almost perfectly. It was the one who stretched out its paws to lift the trouser legs, and it was also the one who slipped away quickly after the lift.

At the beginning, Jiang Tian could still save a notebook to catch people back, but what else does he have in his hand now?

"Then what should we do, catch him in person by surprise? Don't give him a chance to think and run?"

"He came back from a business trip, I'll wait for him to get off work." Jiang Tian said.There is no other address, but he still knows the company address.

Zhao Xi thought it was quite funny, and joked, "Why do I feel like you are catching a sparrow."

Jiang Tian didn't want to make fun of him, so he said stiffly, "It's over."

"Hey—" Zhao Xi stopped her.

"Is there anything else?" Jiang Tian stopped walking upstairs.

This time Zhao Xi accepted the joke, and asked after a moment of deliberation: "Then your mother..."

"I'm in better shape recently." Otherwise, he wouldn't return to China on impulse.After Jiang Tian said this, he frowned quickly, and added: "Maybe I heard that Ji Huanyu's health is also failing."

"You actually told her about this?" Zhao Xi told Jiang Tian about Ji Huanyu's poor health. He thought that Jiang Tian would not mention it if he knew about it. After all, this name should be Jiang Ou's biggest minefield.

"I didn't say, she knew it from someone else." Jiang Tian said.

This surprised him for a while, because Jiang Ou's reaction to the word "Ji Huanyu" was much smaller than he expected, but he was mentally weak for a few days, and he had returned to normal before he returned to China.In comparison, her reaction to "Shengwang" was a little bigger.

Zhao Xi's voice brought him back to his senses: "Your mother hasn't fully recovered yet, are you sure you want to chase her back?"

He didn't want Jiang Tian to retreat, he just saw too many separations and reunions, and he was afraid that the two younger brothers would end hastily again.

Jiang Tian was silent for a long time: "I said earlier that I don't owe anyone."

His choice has never been because of Jiang Ou, but Shengwang.There are always only two roads in front of you, separate or go on.They tried one of them and it went beyond recognition...

It couldn't be worse.

Jiang Tian recalled Sheng Wang's reticence that night, and said quietly for a moment, "Anyway, it won't be worse than it is now."

Zhao Xi was speechless, and smiled half complicatedly and half emotionally: "Okay, then Lin Zi and I will wait for you two to treat us to dinner."

He has been watching as a bystander for so many years, but he really wants to help. Sometimes he can't wait to tell Jiang Tian Shengwang everything he has experienced and tangled, so as not to suffer.But those two are not him and Lin Beiting after all, different people have different paths...

It's better to have something practical.

Before hanging up the phone, Zhao Xi jokingly asked, "Do you want my brother to tell you how to chase after a breakup and reunion?"

Jiang Tian: "Tell me."

Zhao Xi didn't expect that this mensao really planned to listen, so he got stuck immediately, and said calmly: "Talking from experience, if you meet a few times, you will easily get angry, if you can't get rid of it, you will quarrel, if you don't understand the quarrel, you will fight, and you will fight." Wait... wait, are you an adult?"

"..."

Jiang Tian took off his earphones and hung up the phone directly.

Sheng Wangren hid in Guangdong, but his days did not stop.

First, Gao Tianyang called two hundred and fifty ghosts at 5 o'clock in the morning, and dug him out of the bed with a bang: "Brother Tim is back, do you know?!"

Sheng Wang couldn't hear the phone vibrate since he started working, he would wake up whenever he heard it, and all drowsiness was disturbed.He sat on the bed blankly for a while holding his mobile phone, and played out Gao Tianyang's [-] tortures in his mind. Then he got out of bed, drank half a glass of water and said, "I know."

Gao Tianyang's voice suddenly dropped: "Oh, you know? How did you know? Brother Tim contacted you when he returned home?"

"What are you thinking about?" Sheng Wang said, "I just happened to meet while eating."

Gao Tianyang was dumbfounded for a long time, and said, "Fuck, this is okay?"

In fact, when Jiang Tian left, Gao Tianyang was very unhappy for a while, even a little angry.He wanted to talk about friends for so many years, how could they just break up?Later, after thinking about it, I lost my temper and felt bitter.

It was during that time that he suddenly became enlightened, rejected the self-enrollment exam and went to Beijing.Thinking about it this way, Jiang Tian and Sheng Wang can still count him half a month old, but Yue Lao is still single.

Gao Tianyang cleared his throat, and said cautiously: "Then let me ask you about the pepper, are you still planning?"

Sheng Wang: "..."

You can really pick a topic.

"Why do you ask this?" He said angrily.

Gao Tianyang explained: "That's how it is. Lao Song came to Beijing on business trips on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th. We're going to ask Li Yu if they have time, so we might as well get together. You and Brother Tim...huh?"

Sheng Wang is still in the cowardly stage, he thought about that scene, all the people present were old classmates who knew everything.If he and Jiang Tian don't get on the channel and behave awkwardly, it's like parading around the street stripped naked, and it's suffocating to think about it.

So he hesitated for a moment, and said: "That's unfortunate, I'm on a business trip in Guangdong, please call him up, it's been a long time since I've seen you. Don't count me in the nod."

Gao Tianyang was a little disappointed, and hung up after saying "Oh".

In the end, Gao Tianyang was dismissed, and Zhang Chao was waiting behind.

The pioneer of gossip may have been hurt by the meeting, so he came to amuse Shengwang when he was bored.He stayed in the university for the past two days, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or a coincidence, but he ran into Jiang Tian several times.Just a chance encounter, he even took pictures.

Sheng Wang spent the whole day arguing with the client, and received a series of bombings from him as soon as he returned to the hotel at night.WeChat vibrated seven or eight times, and it was full of big pictures.

Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment, then simply sat down on the sofa by the window and looked at one by one.In fact, there are photos of Jiang Tian in his mobile phone, which are sealed in a private album. They are either sneak shots taken while sleeping, or the shadows of the two side by side.Because of its obscurity, there are few positive faces.Those like Zhang Chaofa's are rare.

He saved them one by one, and he paused for a moment when he saved the last one, because there were several girls in the photos looking at Jiang Tian.

This reminded him of the days in the attached middle school, and there were often girls passing by laughing like this, looking back frequently, but Jiang Tian was always indifferent, turning a deaf ear to the attention of the contacts.

Zhang Chao said: You have a good eye. In just a few minutes, at least two groups of girls ran to talk to him.

Zhang Chao: There are still people who want a number, I see they are eager to take out their mobile phones

Zhang Chao: The little girl in college is really lively, chattering, and lively

? :...

? : Aren't you going to a meeting, just this?

? : Reported

Sheng Wang originally didn't intend to talk to him, but seeing what he said, he inexplicably changed his mind.I don't know if I was pricked by the photo or by those "lively" adjectives.

After beating Zhang Chaoguan, he closed WeChat, took a shower, changed his clothes, and replied to a lot of work news, then sat on the sofa for a long time, and sent Gao Tianyang a message by accident.

He said: I will go back to Beijing on the 3rd, and if the party is scheduled on the 4th, I should be fine.

Gao Tianyang:? ? ?

However, people are not as good as heaven, and Sheng Wang's business trip ended early.

The client he had to deal with was notoriously troublesome, and it was expected to take a week. Unexpectedly, when the other party had a happy event, and Sheng Wang could talk, he resolved all the negotiable content in two and a half days, and bought the fastest flight When he arrived in Beijing, he actually stepped on the end of the year.

Unfortunately, although he caught up with the timing of the New Year's Eve, he couldn't make an appointment with Zhao Xi and Lin Beiting.Because the group received the news and booked the seat, and used the New Year's Eve dinner to hold a celebration banquet, he was the protagonist, and he couldn't escape.

In this kind of situation, the protagonist is the one to be cheated, and Sheng Wang is reluctant to take the role.In fact, he had learned a little technique from Zhang Chao. He was obviously a five-cup drinker, but he was able to handle most of the dinners.But the company dinner is different, because the skills he knows are known to everyone, and they are not useful at all.

So this night, he really drank a little too much.So much so that at the end of the show, he stared at the remaining hops in the cup under the dazzling light, and suddenly he couldn't tell what night it was.

Maybe the decoration tone of that box is a bit similar to the box in the "back then" barbecue restaurant, or maybe he just immerses himself in his memories wantonly with the strength of alcohol.

He sat there for a long time, always feeling that someone should come and lead him back.Until he was patted on the shoulder and asked: "I called a car for you, are you walking steadily?"

He raised his head and saw that the person who was asking the question was Zhang Chao, and lowered his eyes in disappointment.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Zhang Chao asked him.

Even the questioning voice seemed to be soaked in wine foam, indistinct.Sheng Wang nodded his head heavily, and did not move again.It took a long time before he stood up grabbing the back of the chair, dragged Zhang Chao and said some nonsense.

The alcohol was too strong, he turned his head and forgot what he said, but he stood up straight, and he didn't look like a drunkard at first glance.He greeted Zhang Chao and got into the cheering car.

Cities are sometimes very strange. Even though they are separated by thousands of miles from the south to the north, they look the same at night.Sheng Wang leaned against the car window, looked at the lights of Wanjia outside, and suddenly remembered the road from the middle school to Baima Lane.

He also liked it at that time, leaning against Uncle Chen's back seat, Jiang Tian's mobile phone screen flickered in and out of his corner of the eye, and he dozed off in the light.

Sheng Wang didn't fall asleep, and because of the drunkenness, he couldn't even tell whether he was asleep or not.He only knew that when the phone vibrated, he opened his eyes reflexively.

Seeing him sitting up straight, the driver explained with a wry smile, "This road is too congested. It wasn't like this yesterday. Today is really in time."

Sheng Wang gave him a general nod, lowered his eyes to unlock the phone, and found that there was an extra WeChat group.

The group was just created two or three minutes ago, and Zhang Chao was the one who pulled people in. The name of the group was changed to the xxx project exchange and cooperation group. He exchanged a few words in it, wished a happy New Year's Day in advance, and several people took the initiative to answer the conversation.

Sheng Wang was a little slow to react at the moment, staring at the group name for a long time before realizing that it was a project that Jiang Tian participated in.And those bubbling people in the group all had dinner together before, Jiang Tian's professor, fellow doctor, and assistant.

He was at a loss for a moment, and finally picked out the details in his blunted memory.When he left the restaurant, he dragged Zhang Chao and said that he wanted to reconcile, but he didn't know where to start, and he couldn't even find a place to talk.

So Zhang Chao pulled a group and took the lead to say Happy New Year's Day.

Sheng Wang held the phone and hesitated for a moment, and then said Happy New Year's Day.Soon, a few more people appeared from behind, responding to his words, but he didn't wait for Jiang Tian after waiting for a long time.

It's strange that the first person to respond, everyone else has a note name, but he doesn't.

Sheng Wang frowned and stared at the WeChat for a while, then suddenly realized something.He clicked on the group members to check it again. Everyone at the banquet was there that day, Jiang Tian was missing, and this was more.

It wasn't until this moment that he realized that the person's head portrait actually had a cat, but one was sealed in a photo frame and placed on the desk, and the other was lying next to the photo, which was not so conspicuous because it was shrunk to a small size.

Sheng Wang's heartbeat suddenly became very fast, and every beat was extremely heavy.He clicked along the avatar and found that he had already added the other party.He clicked into the chat box again, and found that it was not blank, but similar words were neatly arranged.

This person has been sending him messages for a long time, from the beginning to the end of the year, every festival, and never missed a single one.

The most recent one was more than 20 days ago, at zero o'clock on December 12th, every minute and every second.

He said: happy birthday.

Sheng Wang stared at the screen, not daring to raise his head or blink his eyes, just like when he received that note on the balcony.

He told Zhang Chao that he didn't know where to start the reconciliation, and he didn't even have the occasion to say anything.

But only now did he realize that the person he wanted to reconcile with had actually spoken very early on, and had been talking alone for a long time.

When Jiang Tian received the call, he had just taken a shower and changed into a loose white pullover and gray cotton trousers. The heating here is very strong, and his hair dries quickly.

He froze for a moment when he saw the caller, and immediately connected.

Before he could speak, Sheng Wang's voice sounded: "Are you at school?"

"Yes." Jiang Tian was blank for a moment, and subconsciously replied.

In the next second, he heard the wind from the other party. He noticed something and asked, "Where are you?"

"I'm walking towards you, but I don't know which room you live in."

By the time he realized it, Jiang Tian had already changed his shoes and went downstairs.

He hadn't been running like this for a long time. The school was too big, some places were brightly lit, and some places were silent.

There are no people on this road, and occasionally couples pass by with earnest whispers.He passed by the sideways glances of the scattered people, and found the person he was looking for at the corner.

He arched his shoulders and took a few breaths, then looked up at Sheng Wang.At that moment, it seemed to return to a certain day in the second year of high school.It was also such a sudden phone call, and it also passed through the campus like this.He stopped in front of the boy he liked and said, "I'm here now."

This time, before Jiang Tian had time to speak, the grown-up boy opened his mouth.There was a thin layer of water vapor in his eyes, still illuminated by the distant street lamps.

With a strong nasal voice, he said hoarsely, "Brother, I've been drinking. Do you still need to claim the lost property?"

Jiang Tian pursed his lips and breathed slowly, his chest heaving.He raised his hand to wipe the corners of Shengwang's eyes, then pinched his chin and kissed him.