The day ended in silence, and Yi Zhe sent Xu Tangcheng to the door of the laboratory, and he only said one sentence when he parted: "Call me if you feel uncomfortable."
Xu Tangcheng watched him turn and walk towards the other end of the corridor, but after all, he couldn't find the right words to say.
When Yu returned to the laboratory, he had recovered and returned to his usual polite appearance. A group of people in the laboratory did not know the inside story and were concerned about his body. Some people also asked a few words about the previous situation of the fight, which was equivalent to taking some things and leaving, and a few people who had not dispersed were still whispering about the events of that day. Xu Tangcheng sat aside, his ears were forced to catch some words, but he felt that he could hear the annoyance through the earphones.
He took the water cup, got up and went outside to fetch water, but he didn't think about it. Just when he got to the water dispenser, he suddenly received a text message from Yu Eu.
Smartphones are not good at this. Every word of the news is directly tiled on the desktop, and there is no chance to choose not to read it.
"Come to the stairwell, YiZhe is here."
The water dispenser hummed, and Xu Tangcheng stared at the yellow indicator light and was stunned. For some reason, he suddenly thought of that unsmooth afternoon, the back of YiZhe leaving with his back stretched.
The door to the stairwell was dark red and all wood, with no small windows, so Xu Tangcheng had no way of knowing what was inside through a door. He put his hand on the handrail, hesitated for a moment, then retracted it, turned into the elevator, and pressed up three floors.
The building where their laboratory is located is very tall, and everyone chooses the elevator as a matter of course, and the stairwell is rarely visited. Pushing the door open, the smell of dust smothered by the poor air circulation came to me. Going down the stairs above the third floor, Xu Tangcheng was always close to the wall, and he tried his best not to make a sound. The conversation between the two people below was not enthusiastic. He walked down two floors, and the corridor remained silent. Until suddenly, he heard a very familiar, "I'm sorry."
The footsteps stopped suddenly, Xu Tangcheng clenched the water glass in his hand, took two steps, and looked down from the railing.
Looking down, YiZhe lowered his head again, so that Xu Tangcheng could only see the top of his black head and the back exposed by bending over. He just glanced back and stepped back, then leaned against the wall without making a sound, listening to YiZhe's slow apology. In just a few minutes, Xu Tangcheng felt like it was a long time. He resisted the urge to pour the water from the water glass on the eucalyptus twice, and recalled many times that he had changed in the near future. The performance of few words in the day.
He suddenly realized that when YiZhe was making decisions that he thought was important, he must have kept his mouth shut—he used to decide to like him, and now he decided to let go of his self-esteem too.
Xu Tangcheng is no longer in the middle school age, but sometimes he doubts that if he is kind, he will have a higher probability of being maliciously hit. People who have done something wrong do not feel that they are wrong. Although they are shameless, they live at ease, while the victim, because he does not want to implicate the people around him or let himself become an equally vicious person, can only make all the encounters. Classified as a lesson to bear alone. After all, people with conscience have weaknesses, and weaknesses can provide the greatest comfort to themselves, but they are also the most painful parts when they are injured.
Back in the lab, most of the people had already gone out for dinner. The computer screen displayed a set of algorithm procedures that Xu Tangcheng had recently figured out. He watched it for a while, put his hand on the keyboard, and continued typing two lines.
Yu An quickly pushed open the door and entered, Xu Tangcheng didn't look up, but he could also feel that he was walking towards him.
"Tang Cheng."
Xu Tangcheng didn't hear it, but clicked the mouse to minimize the edit page.
Yu An smiled: "You don't have to guard me. I heard the door pushing upstairs just now, but I never heard any footsteps. It's you."
Xu Tangcheng raised his head this time and asked expressionlessly, "What?"
Yu An stopped talking, stared at his eyes for a while, suddenly pulled the stool next to him, and sat beside Xu Tangcheng. He said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "It's up to you to know if it's you."
Perhaps it was because Yu An was too close to him, and Xu Tangcheng experienced a creepy feeling for the first time outside of watching a horror movie - it was obvious that there was no peculiar smell in the laboratory, and even a school girl had just made a jar of good-smelling incense. Here, Xu Tangcheng suddenly felt sick.
"Actually, you were right at the beginning, I want your data or something, it's useless." A USB flash drive was placed on the table, Yu Eu pressed it and pushed it towards Xu Tangcheng, "And this thing is yours. If you want to prove that this is yours, there is no way out. Academic falsification and plagiarism are such a sin, I know. Unless I am stupid, I will really put this thing into my thesis and give you a handle. "
The last student who stayed in the lab also went out, and for a while, only the two of them were left in the empty room.
"And you have to trust me, Tang Cheng, no matter what, I won't hurt you." Yu An raised the corner of his mouth, "I heard from your teacher that you have a good offer, how could I be because of YiZhe, it's true You can't graduate on time."
It was the first time Xu Tangcheng heard such high-sounding words, and he felt a sense of absurdity that opened his eyes. He nodded calmly and asked, "So what?"
"So?" Yu An seemed surprised, "You and I both understand things, but he doesn't understand. Do you think I should call him innocent or stupid? And look, how long does it take? Now, he came to apologize to me. You have been working so hard for so long. I see that you are tired and thin. It is really hard to ask him to apologize. I could not understand before, his inexplicable self-esteem How important is it, now it seems that maybe his position is no less than yours?"
"So, you went around in such a big circle just to compare whether he thinks me is more important or self-esteem is more important?"
"Not all." Yu An raised his eyebrows, "It's just a small thing, you'll find out later..."
"Yu An." While shutting down the computer, Xu Tangcheng spoke lightly, interrupting Yu An's annoying self-talk with every word.
"Um?"
"I have a classmate who is studying medicine. It just so happened that he was an intern in the Sixth Academy of Peking University. Although it doesn't matter what you become in the future, for the sake of us staying in a laboratory for a few years, if you need to, I can get in touch with you. Listen to me, there is nothing shameful about having this kind of disease, you must go to the doctor, and don't delay, otherwise you may not know what will happen in the future. "
This is the first time Xu Tangcheng has spoken sarcasm in front of a person. He is rarely vicious, and after being vicious, he just feels refreshed, and can't wait to add a few more swear words. After realizing where the Sixth Academy of Peking University was, Yu An's face sank instantly: "Do you think I'm not looking for trouble?"
"You have nothing to do with me. I hope you think about it. There are so many people with strong self-esteem, why are you eyeing us. I can probably guess some, but you must never admit it, and don't When I say it, I feel that I will lose my life."
After Xu Tangcheng finished speaking, he got up and left, without taking the USB flash drive or taking a sip of the still-drinking water.
Out of the building, he found a shady corner and lit a cigarette. After smoking the cigarette, he was unconscious, and Xu Tangcheng didn't have time to taste the taste. He pinched the cigarette butt to extinguish the spark on the trash can, and took another one from the cigarette case. It wasn't until it got dark that he threw away the empty cigarette case, took out his mobile phone, and called YiZhe.
But unexpectedly, there was no answer on that end, and after a long enough ring, the call was automatically cut off.
Xu Tang was established for a moment and edited a message: "I'm going home first."
But when he was about to send it, Xu Tangcheng suddenly remembered that Yi Zhe told him that he would go out with the teacher for the test tonight, and he would not be back until the early morning. So he deleted word by word again, and finally said, "It's okay, I forgot that you said we won't have dinner together today."
He walked home, and the evening wind seemed to have been trying to soothe his emotions, wrapping in the fragrance of fruit, gently and slowly. It's a pity that Xu Tangcheng lived up to nature's good intentions. When he arrived at the gate of the community, he still felt that the sullenness accumulated in the time of half a pack of cigarettes could not be dissipated. Fortunately, the brain knows life better than the mood. It thinks of the empty refrigerator at home, so he orders Xu Tangcheng to buy a few apples from the fruit shop beside the gate.
When the boss saw the acquaintance, he immediately pointed to the two baskets beside him: "These two are only served in the morning, they are delicious."
Xu Tangcheng smiled and picked up a few from each of the two baskets. When it comes to eating apples, Xu Tangcheng and Yizhe have very different tastes. Yizhe only eats crispy apples, and Xu Tangcheng only eats noodles, so they always buy two kinds of apples, usually five in total, with two sides and three crisps.
When they got home, YiZhe's text message came back.
"Just talking to someone from this company. Have you eaten yet?"
Xu Tangcheng's stomach groaned at the right time, making him feel even more guilty. He didn't answer what he asked, and replied to Yi Zhe: "I'm going home."
As usual, YiZhe stubbornly asked, "Didn't you eat?"
"I didn't eat..."
After Xu Tangcheng finished sending it, he thought for a while, and then added: "I'm not hungry, I bought an apple, and I'll eat an apple later."
YiZhe quickly denied his arrangement: "No, you have to eat. Will you go to the lab later? If you don't, I'll order takeout for you."
Xu Tangcheng knew that when he went out for the test, he actually had very little free time. Afraid of causing trouble for him, he quickly said that he would order takeout immediately. But Yizhe obviously didn't trust him, and he quickly sent him a screenshot of the takeaway order, which is a porridge shop they usually like to go to.
Before Xu Tangcheng could reply, Yi Zhe followed up with another message, telling him that the end time for his side would be around three o'clock in the morning, let him sleep by himself, and he would go back tomorrow morning.
Xu Tangcheng frowned, remembering the last time YiZhe went out for a test, and when he came back, he was afraid of disturbing his sleep, so he just delayed going home until seven o'clock in the morning.
"Just come back when you're done, don't go to the lab and lie down."
YiZhe didn't reply any more, probably after ordering takeout for him, he was dragged to work.
His little boyfriend never took money as money, so when Xu Tangcheng received the takeaway, he realized that the screenshot the person just sent him was half of the menu. I don't know what he thinks. Whose family order buns for one person, and order two flavors, it takes two drawers. Pigs don't bring them like this. He stared at the half-table dishes for a long time, and finally couldn't eat them anymore. After taking a bath, he cooled the dishes and porridge, and stuffed them all into the refrigerator for the person who had a big appetite.
Wiping his hair, Xu Tangcheng picked up the phone with his other hand and entered the bedroom.
I thought that after dawdling for so long, there must be some echoes from YiZhe, but I didn't think that the desktop of the mobile phone was still very clean, except that the time number jumped very lively to ten o'clock, and there was no change compared to just now. , cold and uninteresting.
Xu Tangcheng threw the phone on the bed, rubbed his hair vigorously with both hands, and then went to the bedside table near the window to find the hairdryer.
He is usually attentive, but when dealing with his own affairs, he often saves when he can. So he turned on the hot air at the maximum setting, and ruffled his hair, wanting to dry it quickly and go to bed quickly. His eyes slipped inadvertently, and the unfamiliar things he glimpsed made Xu Tangcheng dazed by the noise of the hair dryer, until the hot air made his scalp hurt because his hands had not moved for a long time. In a hurry, I turned off the hair dryer.
The curtains in the bedroom were changed.
If it doesn't look like this when you wake up in the morning, it should be replaced today.
According to Xu Tangcheng's aesthetics, this curtain is really ugly. The surface is bright silver-gray, and the pattern on it is still a bit tacky with big red roses. He picked up a corner of the curtain with one hand and touched the fabric, but found that the fabric was thick enough, and the inner layer seemed to be coated. Xu Tangcheng got closer to identify it carefully, but he didn't see what kind of coating it was, but he thought it looked very powerful.
There is a small table lamp on the bedside table, the pink Hello Kitty, which was given to them when they bought bedding and held activities in the shopping mall. Xu Tang put the table lamp on the bedside table forcibly under the principle of not wasteful and thrifty. When it was just put up, YiZhe protested once, saying that it was too cute and his temperament was too discordant, so he couldn't let it go. Xu Tangcheng looked at him at the time, then looked at the pink cat, and the next second he took his hand and pressed it on the cat's head, then turned his head and asked the staring man, "Can you go down this time? "
Xu Tangcheng turned on the small table lamp and held it behind the curtain, close to the thick fabric.
Sure enough, there was no light at all.
As if it wasn't enough, Xu Tangcheng turned off the lights in the room, wrapped the lamp with curtains in total darkness, and tried again.
Really can't see the light at all.
He flicked the switch again and again, as if he had acquired a favorite toy when he was a child. He couldn't help thinking about how YiZhe chose the curtains and studied the degree of shading with a serious face. After thinking about it, he couldn't hold back and laughed.
What nature can't do, YiZhe can do.
The table that cared about the excess dinner just now played half of the role. Now that he saw the curtain, Xu Tangcheng's suffocation was completely dissipated. Usually before the lunch break, he would feel irritable because he wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep, but now, he suddenly began to look forward to tomorrow's noon.
Perhaps it was because the mood fell together today, and the ups and downs were severe. After Xu Tangcheng lay down, he wanted to fall asleep quickly, but he was watching movies uncontrollably in his mind. For a while it was the depressing scene in the stairwell, which surfaced over and over again, making him feel distressed, and for a while it was the curtains that were full of windows that were not good-looking. Someone seemed to know that he was not feeling well, and kept feeding him candy.
He wrapped the quilt tightly and rolled over to the side where YiZhe was sleeping.
I thought it would be a little more stable, but I didn't expect to change sides, and my thoughts became more violent. Among the many thoughts of reflection or regret, something that can be verified now suddenly appeared. Xu Tangcheng suddenly opened his eyes, stretched his arms, and stood up.
He turned on the light in the bedroom, began to rummage through the cabinets and drawers, and finally found a large pile of objects under the bed.
Xu Tangcheng squatted down, stretched out his arms and pulled the clump out, and as expected, he found that in addition to the old curtains that had been replaced, there was a set that he had never seen before. The shading of this set is obviously not as good as the one hanging now. Xu Tangcheng stretched a small piece and looked at the lamp above his head. Although there was no light leakage, the whole cloth still had some brightness.
Let’s just say, how could this prodigal personality buy something satisfactory at one time.
He folded the two sets of curtains and laid them neatly on the ground before going to wash his hands again and get on the bed.
The bad things he didn't want to be seen by him would be regarded as not seen, but the good things, he would show them without authorization.
At two o'clock in the morning, YiZhe, who had just come out of the control room, received a text message. He looked at the content and then checked the time, and his eyebrows immediately curled a few folds.
"Can't sleep, wait for you to come back."
The senior who was talking to him was startled by his suddenly solemn expression, thinking it was something important, and asked a question.
"It's okay," YiZhe shook his head, lowered his head and replied to a message before asking, "How long will it be over?"
"When Lao Song is finished, let's test it again." The senior looked at the time, "It depends on whether Lao Song does not go well."
YiZhe immediately turned around and walked back: "I'm going to help with proofreading."