206. The fourth
After a hasty shower, Zhang Siyi returned to the bedroom to continue working. Now he has occupied Gu Xiao's writing desk dedicated to practicing calligraphy, surrounded by prints of his portfolio and various application materials. Search: \(¨¨¨¨¨) to watch fine literature for free
Zhang Siyi opened QQ and sent the first edition of his portfolio to Su Yuan, leaving a message saying that he only went to bed at three or four in the morning recently. If Su Yuan was not in a hurry to rest, he would have been there before.
About half an hour later, Su Yuan's online reply came. She sent a row of "thumb" emojis, expressing great recognition and appreciation for Zhang Siyi's portfolio: "I didn't expect your progress to be so high. Big, I saw that several designs are very mature, and these are projects that you have personally invested in, which are much more predictable than the portfolios that are specially made for application.”
Zhang Siyi was praised for a bit of confidence, but he still said modestly: "This is the first edition, it's just throwing in what you already have, and the layout isn't very well arranged. I'll re-arrange the order of the works later. , to simplify it."
Su Yuan: "That's just right. I think the order of your PS description can be combined with the presentation of the portfolio."
Zhang Siyi: "Are you saying that you don't put the best works at the top of the portfolio? Instead, they are listed in chronological order?"
Su Yuan: "Yes, typing is troublesome, I will speak to you in my voice."
Along with this sentence, Su Yuan's video call also called. Yes, she was playing a video.
Seeing that the camera light on the front of the note was on, Zhang Siyi realized that there were still people in his room, and the camera image was displayed in the connection. Zhang Siyi hurriedly turned his head and told Gu Xiao, who was leaning on the bed to read, "Don't move or make a sound!"
Gu Xiao was about to turn over the book with a pause: "..."
The video was connected, and Zhang Siyi quickly adjusted the angle so that only his face could be photographed.
Su Yuan's voice came out of the loudspeaker: "Hi~ can you hear it?"
Zhang Siyi was nervous: "Well, I hear you."
Su Yuan didn't notice anything unusual, so she talked to Zhang Siyi about her ideas and suggestions on her own. Zhang Siyi was a little worried about Gu Xiao's existence at first, but after chatting, she immersed herself in the conversation with Su Yuan. Forget about the people behind you.
Unconsciously speaking for an hour, Zhang Siyi, with the help of Su Yuan, has cleared his mind and made key notes.
It was twelve o'clock, and Su Yuan on the other end of the video started to yawn. Zhang Siyi felt sorry, and quickly thanked her to let her go to sleep first.
After closing the video, Zhang Siyi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of Gu Xiao, he turned his head, but saw the other person leaning quietly on the head of the bed, slightly tilted his neck, still holding the book he didn't have time to turn over in his hand, but his eyes were already closed. up.
Zhang Siyi's heart twitched, and he got up and sat down beside the bed. Gu Xiao was awakened by this movement, slowly opened his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Have you chatted?"
"Well." Zhang Siyi frowned slightly, inexplicably distressed, "Go to sleep if you are tired."
Gu Xiao answered without hesitation: "I'll accompany you."
Zhang Siyi leaned over, pressed his shoulders and stuffed it into the quilt: "You've been with me for so many days, I couldn't help me write recommendations two days ago, and now I have to write ps myself, and you can't help me much. ,go to sleep now."
Gu Xiao rarely saw Zhang Siyi's domineering appearance, sighed with a smile, closed the book and said, "Okay then."
Seeing Gu Xiao lying down, Zhang Siyi helped him cover the quilt, and then lowered his head and kissed Gu Xiao's lips guiltily, like a big man pretending to be deep, making Gu Xiao want to laugh.
Gu Xiao touched his face and said, "Okay, let's go and write, come and go to bed early."
Zhang Siyi grabbed Gu Xiao's finger and kissed it again, before turning off the headlight in the bedroom, and went back to the writing desk to turn on the small lamp to continue writing.
Two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning... Zhang Siyi didn't dare to look back, for fear of seeing Gu Xiao in his sleep, he couldn't help rushing over to sleep with him, but the person behind him seemed to be the source of his strength, supporting him to continue his struggle. .
He didn't know, but Gu Xiao didn't sleep peacefully. He woke up several times in the middle of the night and saw Zhang Siyi's back sitting in front of the writing desk.
It wasn't until the sky outside the window turned white that Zhang Siyi stretched, turned his neck, and climbed onto the bed with a tired face.
Seemingly afraid of waking Gu Xiao, Zhang Siyi moved very lightly, and after getting into the bed, he kept a slight distance from Gu Xiao.
In a daze, he felt that Gu Xiao took the initiative to lean over and hug him into his arms, wrapping his warm hands and feet around his body, which was cold from the night, Zhang Siyi was so comfortable that he wanted to sigh, and he wrapped around him uncontrollably.
He felt Gu Xiao kissing his ear temples, and whispered in his ear: "It's almost dawn, staying up so late is really worthless... Do you still want to go to work today?"
Zhang Siyi mumbled half-consciously: "I have to work hard... to catch up with you..."
I don't know if Gu Xiao will say anything after that, because Zhang Siyi quickly fell asleep.
When Zhang Siyi woke up the next morning, he was empty and the sky outside was not as bright as morning. He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it—it was 10:48 in the morning!
Zhang Siyi woke up suddenly, God! Why didn't his alarm go off? Why didn't Gu Xiao call him? He's almost absent from work all morning!
Putting on his clothes in a hurry, Zhang Siyi was about to call Gu Xiao, but saw a few unread messages displayed on the WeChat icon, he clicked to read it, and it was Gu Xiao's message: "Turn off the alarm for you, please After half a day of sick leave, get a good night's sleep."
Zhang Siyi cried and replied to a crying kitten: "I'm awake!"
Gu Xiao immediately replied to the message: "There is porridge in the kitchen, come over after eating some, don't worry. [The little fox touches his head]"
Zhang Siyi wants to cry but has no tears, can he be in a hurry! There is still a week and a half left before the bidding date for the ancient city renovation project, and the tasks at work these days are like a reminder!
After quickly taking two mouthfuls of porridge, Zhang Siyi almost rushed back to the company.
It happened to be the lunch break at noon, and there were not many people in the office. Zhang Siyi was relieved when he saw Gu Xiao coming from the direction of the entrance. Carrying two paper bags in his hand, he walked straight over and put things in front of him, one was two packed Starbucks coffees, and the other was a business lunch bought downstairs.
"Wow! Did you buy it?" Zhang Siyi took out the coffee and drank it first with a look of joy.
Gu Xiao pulled Zhu Hongzhen's chair and sat down, and asked, "Otherwise, who bought it?"
"Didn't the company have free coffee!" Zhang Siyi took a sip with a satisfied expression on his face.
"Didn't you complain to me a few days ago that the company's filter coffee was a bit boring?" Gu Xiao took out the bento, one box per person, gave him a sideways glance while opening the box, and changed the subject to ask, "The personal statement is written in a How's it going? I didn't sleep all night last night."
Listening to Gu Xiao's questioning, Zhang Siyi smiled confidently and said, "Write it!"
Gu Xiao let out a "Huh" and said in disbelief, "So fast?"
Zhang Siyi nodded. After chatting with Su Yuan last night, his thinking was very clear. As soon as he opened the document, he found the feeling after writing a few lines. After that, he couldn't stop thinking about it. 5000 words full English personal statement.
Thinking that writing a 3,000-word academic paper in one semester back then would make him suffer to the death. Besides, he has not used English for a year and a half now. The original Zhang Siyi was still worried about the deterioration of his English ability, and was deeply afraid of writing PS, but he did not expect it. It was so fast that Zhang Siyi felt as if he had failed. Maybe it's because writing a thesis is purely by hard-pressing, but the personal statement is all what he wants to write from his heart, so even language is not a problem.
"But it's only the first draft. I haven't read it myself since I wrote it. I guess I have to revise it." Zhang Siyi said.
While Gu Xiao was happy for him, he also sighed and said, "This time is very special, but it can't be so late in the future."
Zhang Siyi: "Hey, I know!"
After that, it was revised and polished several times, until Su Yuan and Gu Xiao felt that there was no problem after reading it, Zhang Siyi assuredly sealed it in the application materials together with the typesetting portfolio, and sent it out before Christmas. .
The next step is the long waiting time. Whether or not you can receive an offer and receive offers from several schools will have a conclusion before April next year.
Zhang Siyi didn't have the time to struggle with these, because he had to continue to work, and submitting the application was just a worry for him, and half of the burden on his shoulders was temporarily lifted.
During the annual Christmas, due to the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, Haicheng is also immersed in the atmosphere of celebrating foreign festivals. Christmas activities and red and green decorations can be seen everywhere in large and small shopping streets.
For Gu Xiao, this week was also a special day, because many of his classmates went abroad after graduation, and some even stayed abroad to work, including the senior he met at T University.
Christmas is the New Year in the West. Most of these people choose to go back to China to visit relatives and friends at this stage, so Gu Xiao's entertainment has increased.
The 26th was Saturday, and Gu Xiao's old classmates organized a class reunion in Haicheng. As a celebrity in the architecture department of T University, Gu Xiao was naturally a must-invite member of every class reunion.
Zhang Siyi still remembers that on Christmas Day last year, he and his classmates met Gu Xiao at the door of KTV. At that time, Gu Xiao was still lukewarm to him, and he called him "the kid in the company" with detachment. Posing as his girlfriend with his own sister. A year has passed in such a hurry. If time were to go back, Zhang Siyi himself would not believe that he and Gu Xiao would develop like this.
For this year's class reunion, Gu Xiao asked Gu Yao at the dinner table one day in advance: "Yao Yao, I took you to the class reunion last Christmas, and we have a reunion tomorrow, and they asked me to bring you, do you want to go?"
Gu Yao was stunned for a moment, lowered his head in embarrassment, and used chopsticks to pry at the horn of the crab shell to hide his discomfort: "I, I have an appointment with a friend to go shopping tomorrow."
Gu Xiao raised his eyebrows: "What friend did you have an appointment with? Could it be that He Chengtian?"
The crab shell on Gu Yao's hand fell off, and his ears were red...
"Tsk tsk tsk." Gu Xiao shook his head and sighed, "Women's college is not to be left behind."
Gu Yao: "..."
Gu Xiao looked at Zhang Siyi again: "Then come with me."
Zhang Siyi was nibbling on the crab legs, when he heard the words, he was startled: "Ah? Why? In what capacity do I go?"
Gu Xiao: "You can use whatever identity you want."
Zhang Siyi: "... "Fuck! Is Gu Xiao teasing him
Gu Xiao explained: "They all saw the photos posted in my circle of friends before, and asked me to take either my partner or my sister tomorrow, and I must take one."
The crab meat that Zhang Siyi just sucked out almost squirted out: "Then, that shadow photo!? But will they not be very good when they know?"
Gu Xiao: "Don't worry, these people used to be my buddies in my dormitory and the dormitory next door. They are tight-lipped and receptive. They won't talk nonsense. Oh yes, you have already met one."
Zhang Siyi: "Old Jiang?"
Gu Xiao: "Yes, he is the second child of our dormitory. The second child is not a good name, so he is called Lao Jiang. Last year, because he returned to his hometown, he missed the class reunion. This year, he is a host."
Even so, Zhang Siyi was too nervous, but Gu Xiao didn't seem to be worried, and after explaining it, he made up his own mind: "That's it, I'll take care of it tomorrow morning." Then he looked up at Zhang Siyi and said, "Look at the overtime you have been working these days. Both of your dark circles are darker than panda eyes. Go to bed early at night."
Zhang Siyi pouted angrily: "You still dislike my bad image and embarrass you?"
Gu Xiao smiled and snorted: "I'm afraid they will blame me for abusing children."
Zhang Siyi: "…"
A joke is a joke, how dare Zhang Siyi to slack off on this occasion? Regardless of Gu Xiao's face, he also has to take care of his own face.
So that night, Zhang Siyi found his most handsome "equipment" and dressed himself up handsome the next day.
Gu Xiao drove the car, this time it was not KTV, but Lao Jiang's "Guest Arrival".
When he arrived at the place, he heard the noise inside before entering the door. Gu Xiao rang the doorbell, and a rough but loud voice came from inside: "The fourth is here!"
A group of people rushed out of the room to greet Gu Xiao, and saw a handsome and handsome young man behind Gu Xiao, who was pushed in front of them by Gu Xiao with a smile, and said, "Well, I can bring him, he is timid. , don't scare him."
Everyone: "… "
The atmosphere fell into a strange silence, and a group of big men stared at Zhang Siyi, their eyes almost popping out.
Zhang Siyi said embarrassedly, "Uh, how are you?"
Lao Jiang stepped out from behind the crowd, smiled "haha", and took the lead in breaking the deadlock: "It really is him, I saw it when you came over in March!"
The voice that shouted "the fourth is here" also spoke again: "My God..." He slapped himself on the forehead, wanting to cry and laugh, "Who was that, the third guessed you It's gay, I didn't expect it to be real!"
Everyone also showed the expression of being cheated. It was painful, but the tone was full of joy: "Gu Xiao, you are hiding too deeply!"
"my god, i need a quick-acting pill..."
"Hey, don't say it, don't say it, look at the children who are scared to shrink!"
"Come on, come on first, don't block the door..."
Everyone noisily led Gu Xiao and Zhang Siyi into the room, and some people peeked at Zhang Siyi curiously, as if he was a rare animal.
Although it was weird to be watched, Zhang Siyi could feel that their scrutiny was well-intentioned, so he gradually relaxed.
After being seated, Zhang Siyi counted and added himself exactly nine people.
The eight people are Gu Xiao's dormitory and the dormitory opposite them. The student dormitory of T University has a room for four people and a suite for eight people, so these eight people are also equivalent to one room.
Gu Xiao introduced him one by one, except for the boss of his own dormitory, Jiang and the third, all the people in the dormitory opposite are nicknames, what leg hair, eggplant, bean... It's easy to remember, but Gu Xiao's classmates see He was a little old when he got up, and some of them showed signs of gaining weight in middle age, so Zhang Siyi felt a little strange to call him that.
But he thought about it, after all, these people are in their early thirties, how can they be naturally beautiful like Gu Xiao, who is obviously six years older than himself, and the 30th birthday is approaching, but still looks like a twenty-five or six-year-old. lad.
After Gu Xiao introduced his classmates, those people also gossip about Zhang Siyi's information with Gu Xiao—
"You... little boyfriend, what's your name, how old are you?"
"My name is Zhang Siyi, I'm twenty-four."
"Wow! No wonder it's so tender!"
"… "
"Where are you from?"
"It's in the same place as me, high school brother."
"Wow! Gu Xiao, you pervert, didn't you like others at that time!"
Zhang Siyi: "… "o(╯□╰)o
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Almost every time Gu Xiao answered a question, it would cause a sensation among the crowd, embarrassing Zhang Siyi. gd1806102