It's really crazy to go to Guangdong.
Jiang Tian switched the app subconsciously, and quickly tapped the screen with his finger. Until the next doormate patted him, covered his mouth and whispered: "I thought I could take a two-day break and start walking around again, this is good, it's a waste."
Jiang Tian came back to his senses. He glanced at the project schedule for several days on the projection, and then saw the flight inquiry information on the screen of his mobile phone. He pinched the bridge of his nose, thinking that he was not far from being crazy.
He closed the app and turned off the screen, and was about to put away the phone 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 shocked when you didn't reply for a long time." Zhao Xi's voice was lazy. He had been on vacation in the past few days and drove two old people to the hot springs in the mountains. The days were quite pleasant. What he said to Sheng Wang was pure nonsense, and Boss Zhao, who was also on the sidelines, pointed at his nose and glared at him: "I thought you were really fighting."
"how is this possible."
"That's good, it's still a little sensible, so I don't even run around without 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 make such a big circle for me to go around and attack? Ask yourself." As someone who has come here, on the one hand, Zhao Xi has a little empathy, but on the other hand, he can't wait to put the two together: "Just tell me an address, I'll go find you. Can he still give it?"
Without waiting for Jiang Tian to speak, Zhao Xi summed up by herself: "Oh yes, 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?"
"Given him extra time, he will think a lot, and if he doesn't figure it out, he will run."
Jiang Tian can fully imagine that kind of scene, just like someone in high school packed himself up and sent him to another class without saying a word.
His cat has inherited this almost perfectly. It is the one who takes the initiative to stretch out his claws to lift the trouser legs, and it is also the one who slips away quickly.
Back then, Jiang Tian could still save a notebook to get people back, but what else does he have now
"Then what to do, catch him in person by surprise? Don't give him a chance to think and run?"
"When he comes back from a business trip, I will wait for him to get off work." Jiang Tian said. There is no other address, and he still knows the company address.
Zhao Xi thought about it and thought it was quite funny, and teased: "Why do I feel like you are catching sparrows."
Jiang Tian didn't want to make fun of him, and said firmly, "Hang up."
"Eh—" Zhao Xi stopped him.
"Anything else?" Jiang Tian stopped walking upstairs.
This time Zhao Xi accepted the joke, considered for a moment and asked, "Then where is your mother..."
"I'm in better shape recently." Otherwise, he wouldn't have returned to China on a whim. After Jiang Tian said this, he frowned quickly and added, "Maybe it's because I heard that Ji Huanyu's health is not good."
"How would you tell her about this?" Zhao Xi told Jiang Tian that Ji Huanyu was in bad health. He thought that Jiang Tian would not mention it if he knew it. After all, this name should be Jiang Ou's biggest minefield.
"I didn't say it, she knew it from someone else." Jiang Tian said.
This surprised him for a while, because Jiang Ou's reaction when he heard the word "Ji Huanyu" was much smaller than he expected, but he was in a state of sullenness in those days, and he had returned to normal before he returned to China. In contrast, her reaction to "Sheng Wang" was a little bigger.
Zhao Xi's voice pulled him back to his senses: "Your mother hasn't fully recovered yet, are you sure you want to chase her back?"
He didn't let Jiang Tian back down, he just saw too many clutches and reunions, and he was afraid that the two younger brothers would end up hastily again.
Jiang Tian was silent for a long time: "I said earlier that I don't owe anyone anything."
His choice was never because of how Jiang Ou was, but how Shengwang was. There are always only two paths in front of you, separate or go down. They tried one of them and it went beyond recognition...
It couldn't be worse.
Jiang Tian remembered Shengwang's taciturn appearance that night, and said after a moment of silence, "It won't be worse than it is now."
Zhao Xi was at a loss for words, and smiled half complicatedly and half emotionally: "Okay, then Lin Zi and I will wait for you two to invite you to dinner."
As a bystander for so many years, he actually wanted to help, and sometimes he wanted to tell Jiang Tianshengwang everything he had experienced and struggled with, so as not to suffer. But those two are not him and Lin Beiting after all, different people have different paths...
Might as well be practical.
Before hanging up the phone, Zhao Xi asked jokingly, "Do you want my brother to tell you how to chase people after breaking up and reuniting?"
Jiang Tian: "You said."
Zhao Xi didn't expect this sultry to actually listen, and immediately got stuck and said calmly: "Talking from experience, it's easy to get angry when you meet a few times, quarrel if you can't get rid of it, fight if you don't understand it Wait... wait, are you an adult?"
"… "
Jiang Tian took off his earphones and hung up the phone directly.
Shengwang people hid in Guangdong, but the days did not stop.
First, Gao Tianyang called from a ghost at 5 in the morning, and dug him out of the bed with a loud voice: "Brother Tim is back, do you know?!"
Sheng Wang has not been able to hear the vibration of his mobile phone since he started working. He sat blankly on the bed for a while, clutching his mobile phone, with one hundred and eight tortures of Gao Tianyang playing out in his mind, then got out of bed and drank half a glass of water and said, "I know."
Gao Tianyang's voice dropped suddenly: "Oh, you know? How did you know? Brother Tim returned to China to contact you?"
"What are you thinking about?" Sheng Wang said, "I met you at dinner."
Gao Tianyang was dumbfounded for a long time, and then 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 say that after so many years of friends, how could he just say no? Later, after thinking about it, I was not angry anymore, I just felt bitter.
That is to say, during that time, he suddenly became enlightened and refused to take the test by himself and went to Beijing. Thinking of it this way, Jiang Tian and Sheng Wang can still count him as half a month old, but Yue Lao himself is still single.
Gao Tianyang cleared his throat and said cautiously, "Then what kind of chili should I ask you, are you still planning?"
Sheng Wang: "… "
You can really pick up topics.
"Why are you asking this?" he said angrily.
Gao Tianyang explained: "That's right, Lao Song came to Beijing on a business trip on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th. We plan to ask the carp if they have time, so we can just gather together. You and Brother Tim... eh?"
Sheng Wang is still in the stage of counseling. He thought about the scene. All the old classmates present knew the bottom line. If he and Jiang Tian can't match the channel and behave awkwardly, it's like taking a walk through the streets, and thinking about it makes him suffocated.
So he hesitated for a moment and said, "Unfortunately, I'm on a business trip in Guangdong. You can call him. I haven't seen you for a long time. Don't count me before nodding."
Gao Tianyang was a little disappointed, and hung up with an "oh".
As a result, Gao Tianyang was sent away, and Zhang Chao was waiting behind.
This gossip pioneer may have been injured in a meeting, so he was very bored and came to tease Shengwang. He stayed in the university for the past two days, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or coincidence, and he met Jiang Tian several times. Even if it was just a chance encounter, he also took pictures.
Sheng Wang had been wrangling with the client all day, and he received a series of bombings just after returning to the hotel at night. WeChat shook seven or eight times, all big pictures.
Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment, then simply sat down on the sofa by the window and watched one by one. In fact, there are photos of Jiang Tian in his mobile phone, which are stored in a private photo album. Because of the obscurity, there are few positive faces. Those like Zhang Chaofa's are rare.
He saved them one by one, and paused for a while until the last one, because there were several girls looking at Jiang Tian in the photo.
This reminded him of the days in the attached middle school. There were often girls who passed by with a smile like this and looked back frequently, while Jiang Tian was always cold and ignorant of the attention of the exchanges.
Zhang Chao said, "You have good eyesight. 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 saw that they were eager to take out their mobile phones.
Zhang Chao: Today's college girls are really lively, chattering, and quite lively
:…
: Aren't you going to a meeting? That's it
: reported
Sheng Wang didn't intend to ignore him at first, but after seeing what he said, he changed his mind inexplicably. I don't know if it was stabbed by the photos or by those "lively" adjectives.
After he finished fighting Zhang Chaoguan, he closed WeChat, took a shower, changed clothes, and replied to a lot of work news, then sat quietly on the sofa for a long time, and sent a message to Gao Tianyang.
He said: I will go back to Beijing on the 3rd, and if the party is on the 4th, I should be able to.
Gao Tianyang: ? ?
However, people's calculations are not as good as heaven's, and Sheng Wang's business trip ended ahead of schedule.
The customer he had to deal with was notoriously troublesome, and it was originally expected to take a week. Who knew that when he met the other party's happy event, and Shengwang could talk, he solved all the content to be negotiated in two and a half days and bought the fastest flight. When he arrived in Beijing, he actually stepped on the tail of the year.
Unfortunately, although he caught up with the New Year's Eve, he couldn't make an appointment with Zhao Xi and Lin Beiting. Because the group received the news, they rush to reserve a seat, and held a celebration banquet through the New Year's dinner. He is the protagonist and can't escape even if he runs.
On this occasion, the protagonist is the one who is being pitted, and Sheng Wang is reluctant to take it. In fact, he had learned a little skill from Zhang Chao, even though he was a five-cup pourer, he could handle most meals. But the company dinner is different, because everyone knows the skills he knows, and it doesn't come in handy at all.
So that night, he really drank a little too much. So much so that when the show was over, he stared at the remaining hops in the glass under the dazzling light, and suddenly he couldn't tell which night was today.
Maybe the decorative tone of the box is a bit similar to the box of the "year" barbecue restaurant, or maybe he just immersed himself in his memories by drinking alcohol recklessly.
He sat for a long time, always feeling that someone should lead him back. Until someone patted his shoulder and asked, "I called a car for you, can you walk steadily?"
He raised his head and saw that the person asking the question was Zhang Chao, and lowered his eyes in disappointment.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Zhang Chao asked him.
Even the voice of the question seemed to be soaked in the foam of the wine, indistinct. Sheng Wang nodded heavily, but didn't move again. After a long time, he grabbed the back of the chair and stood up, dragged Zhang Chao and said a few nonsense.
The wine was too strong, he turned his head and forgot what he said, but he still stood up straight, and at first glance he didn't look like a drunk. He said hello to Zhang Chao and got into the applauded car.
The city is sometimes very strange. It is thousands of miles apart from the south to the north, but it becomes the same at night. Sheng Wang leaned against the car window and looked at the lights of thousands of homes outside, and suddenly remembered the road from the attached middle school to the white horse alley.
He also liked it at that time, leaning against Uncle Chen's back seat, Jiang Tian's mobile phone screen flickered in the corner, and he was dozing off in the lights.
Sheng Wang didn't sleep well, because he was drunk, he couldn't even tell whether he slept or not. All he knew was that when the phone vibrated, he opened his eyes in a conditioned reflex.
The driver's master watched him sit up straight, and explained with a wry smile, "This road is too congested. It wasn't like this yesterday. Today is really in time for the day."
Sheng Wang nodded at him, lowered his eyes and unlocked his phone, and found a WeChat group.
The group was just created two or three minutes ago. Zhang Chao was the one who pulled people. The group name was changed to the xxx project exchange and cooperation group. He briefly exchanged a few words in it and wished a happy New Year's Day in advance.
Sheng Wang's reaction was a little slow 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 have all eaten together before, Jiang Tian's professor, doctoral fellow, and assistant.
He was at a loss for a moment, and finally cut out the details in his dull 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 reconciliation, and he couldn't even find a place to talk.
So Zhang Chao pulled a group and took the lead in saying Happy New Year's Day.
Sheng Wang held the phone and hesitated for a while, and then said Happy New Year's Day. Soon, several people appeared behind him to respond to his words, but he did not wait for Jiang Tian after waiting for a long time.
On the contrary, the first person to respond was very strange. Everyone else had a note name, but he didn't.
Sheng Wang frowned and stared at the WeChat for a while, then suddenly realized something. He clicked on the group members and checked it again. Everyone at the table was there that day. Without Jiang Tian, this was more.
It wasn't until then that he discovered that the person's head also had a cat, but one was sealed in a frame and placed on the desk, and the other was lying beside the photo. Because it was reduced to a small image, it was not so conspicuous.
Sheng Wang's heartbeat suddenly became very fast, and each hit hit extremely hard. He clicked in 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 since a long time ago. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, every festival has it, and not one time has been missed.
The most recent one was more than 20 days ago, at 0:00 on December 4th, every second is not bad.
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 the note on the balcony.
He told Zhang Chao that he didn't know where to start reconciliation, and he didn't even have a chance to say anything.
But he just discovered now that the person he wanted to reconcile actually opened his mouth a long time ago, and he talked for a long time alone.
When Jiang Tian received the call, he had just taken a shower and changed into a loose white jumper and gray cotton trousers. The heating here was strong and his hair dried quickly.
When he saw the caller, he froze for a moment, and immediately clicked to connect.
Before he could speak, Sheng Wang's voice rang out: "Are you in school?"
"Yes." Jiang Tian was blank for a moment and replied subconsciously.
The next second, he heard the wind coming from the other side. He noticed something and asked, "Where are you?"
"I'm walking towards you, but I don't know where you live."
By the time he reacted, Jiang Tian had already changed his shoes and went downstairs.
He hadn't run like this in a long time, the school was too big, some places were brightly lit, others were silent.
There was no one on this road, and occasionally couples passed by with earnest whispers. He glanced at the side glances of a few people, and found the person he was looking for at the corner.
He hunched his shoulders and took a few breaths, then looked up at Sheng Wang. At that moment, it felt like a day back in high school. It's also such a sudden call, and it's also this way across campus. 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, which was still reflected by the distant street lamps.
With a heavy nasal voice, he said in a hoarse voice, "Brother, I've been drinking. Do you still need to pick up your lost property?"
Jiang Tian pursed his lips and breathed slowly, his chest heaving. He raised his hand and wiped the end of Sheng Wang's eyes, then squeezed the other's chin and kissed it.