Comparable species

That day Shen Mingxiang stood an arm's length away from Xia Shishen, and handed over the kraft paper bag in her hand with a smile.

"I don't have much strength to move things just now." Her eyes were bent into the shape of crescent moons, "You help me carry it, and I will tell you about Qi Yan."

Xia Shishen's brows and eyes looked cold, like someone standing on a high place looking down on all living beings.The girl's wrist looks slender and soft, but it's not as white as Qi Yan's. It's so white that the bluish-purple blood vessels that faintly protrude from the inside of the arm look vulnerable and beautiful.

But he still stretched out his hand and took the bag in Shen Mingxiang's hand. The bag was light and weightless.

Shen Mingxiang smiled happily, she moved closer, the scent of white flowers lingering at the tip of her nose was sweet and greasy.For some reason, Xia Shishen suddenly thought of Qi Yan.They were hiding in the storage room that day, and he could smell Qi Yan's body, like cucumber-flavored sparkling water, bubbling in the sweltering air.

"That night I treat you to dinner? The shop is opened by a friend, I promise..."

Shen Mingxiang wanted to promise that there would be no paparazzi, but Xia Shishen wasn't listening. He suddenly turned his head, frowned and looked around.

"what happened?"

Xia Shishen didn't speak, he opened the car door with his bag and sat on it.Xia Shishen leaned back, staring sideways at the mottled light and shadow on the ground outside the window, carefully thinking about whether the shutter sound he heard just now was an illusion.

Until everyone got in the car, Xia Shishen reached out and turned off the music on the radio, the box in the trunk shook and made a sound, Xia Shishen's hoarse voice was mixed in.

"Speak."

Shen Mingxiang turned around and asked curiously, "What's the relationship between Qi Yan and you?"

Xia Shishen didn't answer, and the atmosphere became a little strange for a moment. Lu Weiyang turned his head from the front seat and said, "The hostile relationship. He wrote a lot of information about Brother Shen before. Doesn't he also understand the enemy?"

Xia Shishen didn't say yes or no, Shen Mingxiang nodded dubiously.

For the next hour, Xia Shishen listened to Shen Mingxiang say a lot about Qi Yan.

For example, he is like an invisible person in the class, and sometimes the class teacher will forget him when he is called.Another example is that every time the men's 1000-meter test in physical education class, Qi Yan is always the last one, his cheeks are flushed when he runs, and his too long bangs are wet in strands.

"That was the first time I saw Qi Yan's face clearly." Shen Mingxiang looked up, as if recalling.

"Actually, he's pretty good-looking."

"I know." Xia Shishen leaned his head against the car window, his voice was abrupt and gentle in the quiet car.

"In fact, everyone in our class knew Qi Yan." Chen Ling glanced sideways at the navigation, "Just the school fundraiser was held three times, and it snowed every time."

"He was standing on the flag-raising platform holding the donation box, and we stood below, listening to the principal talk about his poor family, why his father was burned to death, and his mother ran away. After speaking, we went up one by one and stuffed the money into the box. .”

There seemed to be a car accident at the intersection, and the cars on the road were jammed together. Chen Ling simply turned off the fire and took his hands off the steering wheel.

"Every time a person went up, he bent down to say thank you, and after the whole show, he just bowed. A few senior girls wanted to see what he looked like, so they went up to donate money several times, and even his face was stunned. Didn't see it!"

"But later, everyone watched enough of him." Shen Mingxiang sighed, "TV stations come to interview every three days, and they stand at the gate of the school, and the flashing lights make people blind."

Shen Mingxiang said that because of his father, Qi Yan became a firefighting hero, and instantly changed from a transparent person to the spokesperson of the school.The headmaster didn't care about his studies, so he wrote a manuscript for him and accepted interviews from social news all day long.Once, he took people from the TV station to Qi Yan's house to deliver fruit and milk to the old lady at home.

"However, there are new social news every day. After a long time, the matter of Qi Yan's father has been almost forgotten, and the principal doesn't remember Qi Yan."

Xia Shishen ignored the mournful Lu Weiyang, and decided to cancel the dinner with the investor at night.

He was sitting on the carpet in the living room, the dim light above his head fell on the glass coffee table, refracting blurry and cloudy light.Xia Shi stared deeply at the laptop in front of him, with his fingers resting on the keyboard, it took a long time before he typed out a few words.

Press Enter, there are about 30 pages of relevant entries, Xia Shishen clicked on one at random.

[The man rushed into the fire and rescued 7 people, but his own bones were gone]

Qi Zhiqiang is an ordinary worker delivering yogurt. One day after delivering the milk, he went downstairs and found thick smoke on the roof. He died in the fire with another male resident.

Xia Shishen turned down a few pages, and the mouse hovering on the screen stopped in front of a screenshot of the video.

The boy's black hair was combed neatly, he was wearing a bright blue school uniform, and the red scarf on his chest was dazzling red.

"May I ask what you want to say about your father's heroic act of self-sacrifice?"

As if he had previewed it countless times, the boy's pale lips parted slightly, and his voice was crisp and clear: "I am proud of having such a father."

He answered all the following questions flawlessly, and the principal standing behind him showed a gratified smile.After the interview with him, it was the turn of the school principal. The principal looked sad, "We are also very sad that such an accident happened to Qi Yan's family, so we have prepared to raise funds, and I will treat him like my own child... "

Maybe it was because the principal's voice was too neutral, Xia Shishen frowned and clicked on the mute.The video was too far away, and the people on the screen seemed to be mosaiced, so that Qi Yan who turned around and walked to the corner was a bit inconspicuous.

His shoulders were thin, and a small bone protruding from his shoulders made the loose school uniform even more unfit, and the fisted hands hanging on both sides gradually loosened.Xia Shishen felt as if something had slipped from Qi Yan's palm, but there was nothing.

The phone on the table buzzed, Xia Shi glanced deeply at the screen, and pressed the connect button.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late..."

Xia Shishen paused the video and picked up his phone, "Mr. Qian, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing serious." Qian Youwei sneered twice, because of the silence, his saliva sound was particularly loud.

"That's right, Qi Yan, he just called me and said he didn't want to do it anymore..."

There was only the man's slight breathing on the other end of the phone, Qian Youwei was uncertain, so he let out a hello into the microphone.

"Whoever doesn't want to work in your company can quit." Xia Shishen's voice was cold, and Qian Youwei's heart hung in his throat.

"That's definitely not..." Qian Youwei said. "But aren't you planning to buy shares? I always have to ask the shareholders for their opinions."

Xia Shishen pinched the mouse with his slender fingers, and he adjusted the video progress bar to the very beginning. The boy's immature face reappeared on the screen, and it was the one that Xia Shishen couldn't help but look at again.

"No."

Xia Shishen pressed the video play button.

"That's my opinion."