under the sea

He Zexi suddenly didn't want to pick up trash anymore.

Because he thought of another good way to make money.

At the corner of the street, Hua Zhi stared at He Zexi in front of him with an expression of disbelief, thinking that she had heard wrong, [What?You mean to let me betray my hue? ]

He Zexi: ...You can also say that.

He Zexi thought for a while, and felt that it would be better to be more tactful. He looked down at the flower branches, and He Zexi thought about his words: "It's different from selling your hue. Stand in the square later, listen to my instructions and compare your words." Just two moves."

[impossible! ] Huazhi sat in the glass jar, sneered twice, [What kind of squid do you think I am? ]

He Zexi: "... Isn't it a flame squid?"

[Impossible,] Hua Zhi's face darkened into the bottom of the pot, [Go to yourself, I can't do this kind of thing. ]

He Zexi was silent for a while, raised his eyes to look at the flower branches in the vat, and said quietly: "I'm so hungry..."

Huazhi froze.

[Didn't you eat in the morning? ]

"I'm lying to you, I bought you dried fish." After He Zexi finished speaking, he lifted a small white bag, "Do you want to eat it now?"

[......]

Huazhi raised her head, looked at He Zexi who seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and fell into a painful tangle.

One side is self-esteem, the other side is wife.

Half a minute later, the boss under the sea decided to go to the central square to perform as a performer to raise his wife.

[Let's go...] Huazhi turned her body sideways, her body color was a bit unnatural, [I'll give you money to buy food...]

He Zexi put away the dried fish, "Okay."

……

There were a lot of people in the central square, so He Zexi first found a place with a lot of personal traffic.

There is an exit of an underground passage. On the side of the stairs is a middle-aged short man wearing sunglasses and playing the violin. He put a few small change bills scattered in the violin case on the ground. He threw two coins in the box.

I can't tell what song is being played, but it's very flavorful.

He Zexi stood and listened for a while, then walked to the other side of the stairs where no one was there.

He imitated what the elder brother next to him did, and spread tissue paper on the ground, and then put the flower branches on the ground, letting the flower branches dance.

Hua Zhi's whole body was not well, he leaned against the glass wall, staring at He Zexi with horror.

He Zexi: "I'm so hungry..."

Huazhi turned around straight, and started a stiff dance with a dark face...

Spin, jump... change body color now and then.

Soon, the first steel coin landed on the tissue paper, and He Zexi nodded his thanks, thinking that this was a good start.

More and more people came to watch, Huazhi's face became darker and darker, but she still had to dance.

Looking at the money piled up next to him, Huazhi felt that he was a very responsible man, and He Zexi would not have to be hungry in the next few days.

However, as the crowd of onlookers grew, and when undisguised eyes began to fall on Hua Zhi, Hua Zhi felt ashamed again, and secretly vowed never to do such a thing again.

"Show them love." He Zexi said suddenly.

Huazhi froze all her movements, her body was bright red, she was ashamed and annoyed, she gritted her teeth and said: [He Zexi, don't push yourself too far! ]

"Wow ~ socute." A little cutie who was holding her mother's hand squatted down, looked at the flower branches floating on the water in the small fish tank with wide eyes, her face was pink, she turned her head, excitedly Looking at the hand of the blond woman standing beside her, she asked curiously, "Mom, why doesn't it dance?"

Hua Zhi snorted coldly, began to lose her temper and remained motionless.

"Because it's tired and needs to rest." The mature woman handed her daughter a green bill, motioning for her to put it in front of He Zexi.

The flower branch was unwilling to move anymore, so He Zexi had no choice but to put away the money and apologize to the people standing on the sidelines, and then left with the flower branch.

Not far away, a young boy sitting on a high guardrail with a mobile phone who was originally filming a street artist playing the violin next to him put away his mobile phone.

He used his arm to turn the fashionable companion beside him, handed the mobile phone in front of her, and said in a foreign language with a smile, "Look at this, it's so beautiful and cute."

The companion took the phone, and saw that the angle of view of the violin performance on the screen was gradually moved to the side. In the camera, there was a handsome black-haired young man with lowered eyes and a smile on his face.In front of him was a small glass fish tank, inside which was a beautiful little flame squid that was like a dream.

"Jiang, this is so cute, pass it on to me and let me tweet it." The girl's big eyes were filled with anticipation.

The boy rubbed his sweetheart's head and said dotingly, "Okay."

An unintentional shooting did not cause any uproar. Like many other videos, it sank in the vast deep sea of ​​the Internet, but it accidentally let the person who should see it see this video.

Lin Qiu, Professor He's young male assistant, was lying on the bed, surfing the Internet in boredom.

A video passed in front of him, and he glanced at it casually.

The street artist's violin performance, although very good, didn't interest him too much.

Just as he was about to turn off the video, a fiery red thing suddenly appeared in his field of vision. Lin Qiu couldn't help but exclaimed. This is a wild flame squid that looks flawless in every way.Immediately afterwards, Lin Qiu noticed the owner of the little flame squid.

Lin Qiu was stunned.

He stared at the black-haired young man in the video for more than seven minutes without blinking his eyes. He didn't recover until the end of the video.

The mobile phone in his hand started to play the next video automatically. The deep and magnetic male voice in the video woke Lin Qiu up. Lin Qiu came back to his senses, got up from the bed suddenly, put on his shoes, and ran out the door in a panic.

In the night, while waving for a taxi, he dialed Professor He Yuan's phone number with trembling fingertips.

"Hi, professor..."

"Yes, it's urgent! I have something very important to tell you, and I'm going to see you now."

……

Although he has money, He Zexi's living conditions have not improved much except for food and clothing.

Without a passport, it is impossible to go to a hotel at night. Fortunately, he is not a squeamish person. Although it is a bit miserable, but thinking of the flower branch next to him, he feels that everything is okay.

After coaxing Hua Zhi for several days, he finally saved enough money to go to R City.

Looking at the driver of the pickup truck with the window down, He Zexi continued to negotiate with him.However, before negotiating the price with the black car driver, He Zexi suddenly heard someone calling his name from behind.

"Jersey!"

He Zexi was slightly startled, turned around slowly, and saw the old man with full temples and pale hair walking towards him.

Professor He was wearing a beige sweater, and the breeze blowing in made his slightly long white hair flutter at the temples. Beside him was Lin Qiu, a colleague who had worked side by side.After He Zexi left, he had been promoted to be Professor He's assistant, and became Professor He's right-hand man with another girl who was serious and responsible.

Holding the fish tank in his hands, He Zexi stared blankly at the professor who was getting closer and closer, opened his mouth, but was unable to speak.

professor……

He is still the same as before, except that his hair has turned gray and the wrinkles on his face have become deeper.

"Ba ba!" The driver of the pickup truck behind him honked twice vigorously, reminding He Zexi to leave as soon as he wanted and not to waste his time. He Zexi came back to his senses and shook his head apologetically at him.

The driver cursed in a low voice for being crazy, and then drove the car away in a hurry.

The professor walked up to He Zexi, looked at He Zexi who reappeared in front of his eyes, and even his voice trembled a little, "I have always believed that you are not dead, you really are not dead."

Holding the fish tank in his hand, He Zexi passively accepted Professor He's long-lost hug.

His heart was heavy and complicated.

This is the old man who has raised him for so many years, the person he loves the most...

"It's good when you're back, it's good when you're back..." Professor He repeated this sentence, "It's good that you're back."

Lin Qiu and the female assistant next to them looked at the two quietly without speaking, but they all had expressions of relief on their faces.

The professor's persistence was not in vain in the end.They have been searching in L City for many days, and they almost gave up. Fortunately, nothing went wrong, and He Zexi is really here.

"Professor..." He Zexi looked at the old man in front of him, wanting to say something.

Professor He took off his glasses on the bridge of his nose and wiped away his muddy tears, "It's all right, all is well, let's talk about it when we return to China, let's talk slowly when we return to China..."

After returning to China, Professor He didn't force him to ask about He Zexi's experience these days, just like an ordinary old man who waited at home for a long time and finally welcomed back his wanderer who left home.And helped him push away all the colleagues who heard that he was back recently and wanted to visit He Zexi.

He Zexi knew that the professor hoped that after wandering outside for so long, he could go back and take a good rest for a few days to really relax.

Pushing open the door, He Zexi looked at the home he hadn't seen for a long time, feeling as if he had passed away.

Since he left, this place has been empty, but there is no dust, and it looks like it was cleaned not long ago. It seems that the professor asked someone to clean it not long ago when he knew he came back.

Thinking of this, He Zexi suddenly felt a feeling of guilt. He once thought at the bottom of the sea that the professor would deceive him and hide him, but in fact he...has always treated him so well.

After locking the door, He Zexi put the small fish tank in his hand on the coffee table, then went into the bathroom, drew the curtain of the bathroom, and He Zexi began to pour water into the bathtub.

On the coffee table outside, Huazhi was a little sullen.

He had never seen He Zexi treat anyone so docilely. These days, the old man with a fake smile and wrinkled face melted the indifference that He Zexi had always shown.

Huazhi suddenly realizes that the bad old man who just sent He Zexi home may become her biggest rival in love.

Too careless!

Huazhi's face was dark, and she envisioned Professor He Yuan's face jealously in her mind, until He Zexi picked him up and put him in the big bathtub before recovering.