This winter vacation was so different than usual. Sitting in Xu Tangcheng's car, looking at the empty highway, YiZhe was still surrounded by an unreal feeling.
In the morning, Xu Tangcheng knocked on the door and said to go to the movies together. Yizhe thought it was just at their small movie theater, but he didn't want to go downstairs. Xu Tangcheng told him, "The movie viewing experience there is not very good. Let's go there. Look in Beijing, I bought an afternoon ticket, and now go there, have lunch there, and come back after watching the movie."
"Huh?" YiZhe was surprised.
"Yes, let my brother invite you to a big meal. Brother Yizhe, you can order whatever you want. Don't be merciless."
Xu Tangxi was jumping up and down in a pink down jacket, but right away, Xu Tangcheng held his shoulders by the side: "Don't keep jumping."
My home is so close to Beijing, but Yi Zhe has never been to Beijing.
The car was driving at a high speed, and there was a humming noise in YiZhe's ear. He looked out the window and saw only the railings that kept passing by, and the occasional car.
"Did we still go to that house last time?" Xu Tangxi asked.
"Do you still want to go shopping?" Beside him, Xu Tangcheng glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "If you want to buy something, go to the last one, and if you don't want to, I will take you to a newly opened one near my school. I went to see it once, the seats are very comfortable, and the sound is better than the last one."
When he got into the car just now, Xu Tangxi didn't want to be the front seat, so the one sitting next to Xu Tangcheng at the moment was Yi Zhe.
After Xu Tangcheng finished speaking, he turned his head and asked for his opinion: "Which one do you want to go to?"
"I also can."
Having said that, YiZhe was nervously waiting for Xu Tangxi's answer. For him, the words "my school" have already determined his true choice.
"Then go for a new one."
YiZhe's clasped hands loosened, and the corners of his mouth curved secretly.
The car drove into the city, and there were more and more high-rise buildings. YiZhe tilted his head to look at the name of each building he passed by, and felt that the appearance of Beijing was completely in line with his imagination.
The car stopped in front of a Yunnan restaurant, Xu Tangcheng put Yi Zhe and Xu Tangxi at the door, and found a parking space by himself. After getting out of the car, Xu Tangxi looked around and pointed to the side: "Brother Yizhe, look, next to me is my brother's school."
YiZhe followed her fingertips, and across the road, saw several buildings on the other side of the fence, some high and some scattered.
He didn't look back, but one hand had already opened the door for Xu Tangxi.
Before entering the door, Xu Tangxi asked him, "Hey, Brother Yizhe, which university are you going to study for?"
"I haven't made up my mind yet." YiZhe looked at her, then looked at the campus in front of him.
Today is the eighth day, the first day of the working day, but there are still so many people in the restaurant. Under the leadership of the waiter, they turned around and arrived at a booth.
The utensils used by the previous guests have not been cleaned up. The waiter handed them the menu first, sorry to ask them to wait for a while. There were constant people coming and going in the restaurant, YiZhe stood on Xu Tangxi's left side, separating her in a more secluded corner.
After a few pages of the menu, Xu Tangcheng came over. The waiter also tidied up the table, and the three of them took their seats. Xu Tangcheng took out a few more pieces of paper and wiped the table.
"Brother, I want to eat the mushrooms from last time, why can't I find them?"
Xu Tangcheng stretched out a hand, turned the menu back a few pages, bent his index finger and pointed: "Here."
Their seats were by the window, Xu Tangcheng looked up to ask Yi Zhe what he wanted to eat, but saw that he had been looking out the window.
"Yizhe?" Xu Tangcheng called to him, "Let's see what you want to eat."
"I can," YiZhe said quickly, "you order, I can't order."
"Don't," Xu Tangcheng put the menu upright, page by page, and turned it to show him, "This chicken wing is good, and this shrimp ball is also good, you can pick and choose."
"I really can eat anything, Brother Tang Cheng, just order whichever you find delicious."
Listening to their words, Xu Tangxi said jokingly, "Brother Yizhe, you should choose the more expensive ones."
YiZhe smiled at her, moved his body, and looked a little restless.
After ordering a few dishes, he finally said, "I'll go to the toilet, you order."
Under Xu Tangcheng's gaze, he got up, and just walked out of his seat, he suddenly leaned over to Xu Tangcheng's side, bent down and said to him, "I...it might be a little long."
His voice was so small that only Xu Tangcheng could hear it. Xu Tangcheng suddenly smiled and waved at him: "I see, let's go."
YiZhe left in a hurry, Xu Tangcheng turned to look at his back, the smile on his face never fell.
YiZhe ran out of the 100-meter sprint speed. When fighting before, he never felt so excited. When the waiter standing at the door of the restaurant saw that he didn't want to know, he was so frightened that he quickly walked away.
Along the way, the crowds that were standing and waiting passed by, and the birds parked on the bare branches were startled. Yi Che strode onto the overpass with white air. When he ran across the bridge, he glanced down. During the violent running, the vehicles under the bridge became blurred shadows.
When he finally arrived at the gate of the school, he stopped panting and looked up at the big letters on the gate.
Someone was taking pictures, someone was going in and out with a normal look. There was even the voice of the tour guide behind it, which came through the loudspeaker: "Here is the A..."
Here is the A.
It is Xu Tangcheng's school.
Running too hard made a faint pain in his chest, and the pain felt, everything was real.
Back at the restaurant, there were already three drinks on the table.
Xu Tangcheng saw that he was a little out of breath, and wondered, how could he still be so out of breath when he went to the toilet? Thinking back to the cold air he had brought when he passed by him just now, he probed his head and asked hesitantly, "Where did you go to the toilet?"
Yi Zhe was trying his best to hold back his excessively violent breathing. Hearing this question, he hurriedly took a deep breath.
"It's right there." He raised his finger in one direction, cleared his dry throat, and pretended to be calm, "There's a lot of people in line."
Xu Tangcheng looked back and felt even more strange.
"But..." He turned back, pointing in the opposite direction to Yizu, "The toilet is over there."
YiZhe was stunned for a while.
"Oh yes," YiZhe stammered "I" a few times, "I'm luna."
Clumsy and low-level, he didn't even have a brain, so he threw out such an excuse. After he finished speaking, he had the urge to bite his tongue and commit suicide.
Who wouldn't find a way to go to a toilet in a restaurant
Sure enough, the two people on the other side were stunned.
Xu Tangxi was the first to laugh. Although she immediately felt rude and hurriedly turned back, it was obviously unsuccessful. She covered her mouth and held back her smile: "Brother Yizhe, it turns out that you are more stupid than me. Then I can rest assured. I am afraid that I will not be able to find the way that day, and you will think I am stupid."
YiZhe was speechless, pulled the corner of his mouth at her embarrassedly, lowered his head and held the cup closest to him.
"Hey, wait," Xu Tangcheng hadn't finished laughing, but still took the time to say a word to him. He pushed the cup that was close to him towards him, and said with his eyes bent, "Look which of these two cups do you want, pomegranate and mango."
"Just this cup."
Where can I still choose the taste, YiZhe threw out such a sentence, and hurriedly poured half of his drink. The cool liquid settled down on his stomach, and he barely calmed down.
The movie I watched that day was "Yangtze River No. 7". But in fact, what you look at doesn't seem to be very important.
Yi Zhe didn't have a deep impression on the content of the movie. After the whole scene, what kept flashing in his mind was the school gate of University A, the teaching buildings, the paths, and the things he saw. Those statues. Occasionally, he would turn his head quietly and look across Xu Tangxi to the man who was watching the movie seriously. The cinema seemed to have a magic power, and the light in front of him changed, but he seemed to be watching a movie of his own. It was a silent video. In it, Xu Tangcheng was the only protagonist. He was riding a bicycle, walking, carrying a schoolbag and holding a textbook. He has seen thousands of his actions, all of which are clearly just his own imagination, but they are so real that he has seen them with his own eyes, and has seen how he lives in such a campus.
Until the last frame of the video, he saw Xu Tangcheng sitting on the bed in the dormitory, taking off his shirt...
The light on the big screen flickered, and as the light shifted, YiZhe felt like he was floating in the air, with nowhere to turn. The darkness made his soul finally detach from his body, and what his soul perceives is not a full movie theater, but a softness.
His rational consciousness told him that he should stop in this scene, but another crazy voice yelled at him, tempting him, and asked him if he didn't want to continue watching
He was flustered and couldn't make a choice, but Xu Tangcheng in the video still stopped. Sitting on the bed, he suddenly looked at the camera and looked at him.
The movie is over and the lights are on.
YiZhe broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.
That shot was like he was peeping into his eyes. At the moment when Xu Tangcheng saw it, all his despicable and dirty thoughts were cut open under the scorching sun.
Heart beating like thunder.
The strong light pierced his eyes, stepping on the soft carpet, and he experienced a long daze.
What was he doing just now? Why did he run frantically to see his school
Xu Tangcheng and Xu Tangxi walked in front, YiZhe looked at his back, his breathing was messy. He was clearly aware of his abnormality, and the absurdity just now made him understand with trepidation what kind of mentality he was approaching that person with.
He slowed down and wanted to distance himself from him. It seemed that only in this way could he have space to get some much-needed oxygen.
However, Xu Tangcheng in front seemed to sense that he was left behind, suddenly stopped and turned to look at him.
"Why so slow?"
Xu Tangcheng smiled at him, and when he came over, he walked side by side with him.
Turning around, it was dark again at the exit of the auditorium. He and Xu Tangcheng were too close, a child squeezed past him, Xu Tangcheng avoided him and leaned towards Yizhe.
The body collided, and the whole line collapsed.
YiZhe closed his eyes in despair.
If his approach is dangerous, so be it. Just don't let him know.