Buses in the evening rush hour are crowded, office workers lower their heads to play with their mobile phones without saying a word, and students gather in groups of threes and twos to chat on twitter.
The night wind blew through the carriage, dispelling a little of the gloom.
Jiang Qihuai tapped the screen with his fingertips and slid down. Li Shuangjiang was basically talking about something in front of him, and he kept scrolling to the end.
The conversation continues.
Li Shuangjiang and Fu Xiling went back and forth, one was noisy and the other cooperated, and the chat was very smooth.
During the whole process, the third person in this group did not appear.
The last sentence was said by Li Shuangjiang, Fu Xiling didn't reply anymore.
Li Shuangjiang: [My elder brother's boyfriend is also very handsome, and he looks familiar. Does he look like a celebrity?]
Jiang Qihuai's eyes stopped on that sentence for a few seconds, the driver suddenly stepped on the brakes, he pulled the handrail and shook his whole body, and his eyes also left.
The announcement of the arrival of the bus sounded, and Jiang Qihuai got off the bus.
The house where he works as a tutor is in an old villa area. There is no car to go directly to it. It takes about ten minutes to walk.
Jiang Qihuai crossed the crosswalk and walked forward, turned off the WeChat group with his eyes down, clicked on the contact book and slid down slowly, looking for the parents' WeChat.
Fighting makes trouble and falls in love.
She was really reluctant to let go.
Li Shuangjiang finished typing a sentence, and just sent it in the WeChat group, he paused belatedly.
He turned his head and looked at Fu Xiling beside him.
Fu Xiling also looked at him, with a bewildered expression mixed with sudden realization and a little uncertainty on his face.
The two looked at each other and saw the answer on the other's face.
It does look a little familiar.
With the one standing next to him whose head was rubbed.
Li Shuangjiang let out an "ah", realizing that he might have made a mistake.
The sound he made finally caught Ji Fan's attention, the boy turned his head, a little surprised: "This is your friend?"
Tao Zhi grabbed his wrist and threw away his scratching claws: "Yes."
"Can you still make friends? With your broken personality, can you make other friends besides Jiyu?" Ji Fan stretched his head and looked at the two people at the door, "If you are kidnapped, just blink."
Fu Xiling blinked her eyes twice.
"Tao Zhi," Ji Fan pointed at her and turned his head, accused, "You are committing a crime."
Tao Zhi kicked his ass, and said impatiently: "It's not over, get someone's shoes."
Ji Fan rubbed his buttocks and said "Oh", ran over and opened the shoe cabinet, took out two pairs of slippers and put them on the ground: "Hi, I'm Zhizhi's older brother, born 20 minutes later than her."
Fu Xiling said seriously: "Then you should be the younger brother."
"..."
Ji Fan leaned on the shoe cabinet and looked at her with dissatisfaction: "You little girl speaks very unreasonably."
Fu Xiling was at a loss for a moment.
"Don't pay attention to him, he's just a bitch," Tao Zhi grabbed the boy's hair and pushed his head down, "Go and play with yourself, my sister is going to study with her classmates."
Ji Fan walked forward with his head bowed: "What are you studying? Are you going to die to save your 20 points in mathematics?"
Tao Zhi: "Those who scored nine points in the test should stop talking. Have you thought about how to make up for the eleven points that are missing?"
"A school bully needs to have some personality, don't you understand?" Ji Fan spoke eloquently, "You can't follow the crowd, if you ask me to take the 20th exam, I will take the 20th exam, where will the majesty of my school bully go?"
Tao Zhi stroked his hair: "Why are you talking so much? Have you quit smoking?"
"Don't pull it, don't pull it, your hair will be bald! Quit it!"
"What kind of bullshit is that? Do you think I'm blind? Are those cigarette butts in the ashtray on the coffee table smoked by dogs?"
Li Shuangjiang: "..."
Fu Xiling: "..."
The two of them stood silently at the door and watched the chaos in the living room. Li Shuangjiang leaned over his head and whispered: "My elder brother's family environment is really extraordinary. Are there two children in the family like this?"
Fu Xiling shook her head: "I don't know, I am the only child."
The fact that Tao Zhi brought someone other than Song Jiang home was really new, and Aunt Zhang happily went into the kitchen to add a few more dishes.
The two people in the living room finally finished their quarrel, Ji Fan lay back on the sofa and continued playing games, Tao Zhi led Li Shuangjiang and Fu Xiling upstairs into the study.
Li Shuangjiang was very excited, jumping around in the room, pointing to the vase on the display shelf in the corner: "Is this the dot ink koi blue and white porcelain made by Tang Ying during the Qianlong period!"
Tao Zhi: "I found it in the flea market for decoration."
Li Shuangjiang: "Gu Kaizhi's painting! It must be worth eight figures!"
Tao Zhi: "Fake, eight hundred."
Fu Xiling took out the English test paper from his schoolbag: "Stop the eight-digit number, let's take a look at your 80-point English test paper."
Fu Xiling has a serious personality in everything he does. In the experiment, because the students' level is not bad, the teacher lectures very quickly, and the simple grammar is also explained in one sentence. Fu Xiling took out his notebook and drew them bit by bit. .
When Aunt Zhang came upstairs and told them to go down to eat, Ji Fan had already sat down at the dining table.
Li Shuangjiang is acquainted with each other by himself, he can talk about learning with Xueba and chat about ball games with Xueba, and soon became friends with Ji Fan, analyzing several new heroes recently released by League of Legends while gnawing on chicken wings.
After a lively meal, Li Shuangjiang went to play games with Ji Fan, and Fu Xiling dragged Tao Zhi up to memorize an English composition. When he went downstairs, the two teenagers seemed to have established a revolutionary friendship. .
It was not until it was dark outside that Li Shuangjiang reluctantly packed his things and prepared to leave.
Tao Zhi originally wanted to make a phone call to ask Uncle Gu to take them back, but both of them were too embarrassed to bother her any longer and wanted to go by themselves, fearing that they would not find their way, so Tao Zhi went out together.
This villa area has been built for a long time, and the houses are very old. Only a fountain garden in the middle of the community was renovated and rebuilt last year.
In front of the detached house is a row of stacked villas. Tao Zhi took them to take a shortcut and pass through. Li Shuangjiang still couldn't forget his new friend: "By the way, which school did Ji Fan go to? Why didn't he go to school with you?"
Tao Zhi put his hands in his coat pocket: "He just transferred back from another school recently, and he should also come to the experiment. He studied in the attached middle school for half a year."
"I transferred from the attached middle school, isn't that the same school as Brother Huai?" Li Shuangjiang said.
Tao Zhi paused: "That's right."
Li Shuangjiang continued: "Then he and Brother Huai should know each other, neither of them feel like the kind of person who would be unknown in school."
Tao Zhi rolled his eyes: "This old man is an old man. He won the first place in fights and troubles, and he was the last one in the exam. Maybe they don't know each other. The two of them are not on the same path at all."
After she finished speaking, Li Shuangjiang and Fu Xiling turned their heads together and looked at her.
Tao Zhi looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"
"No," Li Shuangjiang said, "I didn't realize for a while whether you were talking about yourself."
Fu Xiling also nodded: "They are indeed siblings."
Tao Zhi: "..."
Tao Zhi sent Li Shuangjiang and Fu Xiling to the bus station, watched them get on the bus, and waved to her in the bus.
As the sky darkened, streamers flickered on the street, and the wind was a bit cold, Tao Zhi jumped up and down twice, pulled his coat tighter, and then turned and walked back.
It’s not particularly late at this moment. Some people who just had dinner came downstairs to eat and walk their dogs. Most of the stores and snack shops were open, and the light from the convenience store at the corner was as bright as day.
Tao Zhi couldn't help but take another look.
Ever since she bumped into Jiang Qihuai when she was out for supper last time, she doesn't know why, when she passes by this kind of convenience store, her eyes always stop for two seconds.
As a result, this time, she really hit him by mistake.
The boy was still wearing a school uniform and carrying a schoolbag. It seemed that he hadn't been home yet. His back was thin and straight, and he could clearly see it through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. He walked around in front of the refrigerator inside, took a box of lunch and went to check out.
While waiting for the boxed lunch to heat up, he stood in front of the cash register, looking down at his phone.
Someone came out of the convenience store, the door ding-dong, opened and closed, Tao Zhi stood on the side of the street, watched the person inside take the lunch box from the cashier, nodded slightly, the little girl at the cashier quickly put the She waved her hand and glanced at him secretly, her face was a little red.
Jiang Qihuai bowed his head, took the boxed lunch, walked to the long table next to the glass window and sat down, and lifted the lid of the boxed lunch while looking at his phone.
He sat there by himself, his shoulders slumped slightly, and he looked a little tired.
Looks like a lonely puppy.
He also ate alone.
Tao Zhi blinked.
Are there any snacks at home
No more.
Well, no more.
When she went out, she casually grabbed Ji Fan's coat hanging at the door and put it on. It was a size too big, and the cold wind blew up the coat and poured it inside, making her shiver.
Tao Zhi shrank his neck and walked into the convenience store.
This convenience store was very big. She walked in from the other side, shuttled between the shelves like a thief, picked up a basket full of snacks in her hand, and finally walked to the refrigerator and took out a few bottles of lemon tea and yogurt.
After paying the bill, she took out a bunch of beneficial bacteria from the bag, took out the straw and poked open a bottle, walked to the table by the window, put a bag of snacks in her hand beside her, and slapped her ass on Jiang Qihuai. Sit down next to me.
Sensing someone approaching beside him, Jiang Qihuai finally moved his eyes away from the phone screen and looked up.
Tao Zhi didn't look at him, but stared straight at a big golden retriever on a pink leash outside the window in front of him, parked in front of the convenience store, happily chasing his tail and drinking with a straw in his mouth. Milk.
Jiang Qihuai raised his eyebrows while pinching his chopsticks, but said nothing.
The golden retriever outside was dragged away by his master, and Tao Zhi said, "Why are you here?"
Jiang Qihuai put down his phone: "I still have to ask you."
"I asked you to come and study together. If you don't come, I will go to the convenience store to eat box lunch alone." A small bottle of Yijunduo, Tao Zhi finished drinking it quickly, pulled out the straw and opened the next bottle with a click, "Okay Interesting, Your Highness."
The jacket the little girl was wearing was obviously not her size, it was too big, the sleeves hung down long, and only a little white fingertips could barely protrude from the cuffs. She pulled the sleeves up with great effort. After pulling, he only showed half of his hand.
Jiang Qihuai remembered the chat history in [Pretty Girls Justice League], and glanced at this gold-red men's baseball jacket.
Like a fancy peacock.
I found someone who broke the aesthetics.
The corners of his lips drooped, he didn't speak, and continued to eat with his chopsticks.
Tao Zhi turned his head to the side, looked at him with his head propped up, and played with the straw in his mouth, his voice was a bit vague: "We only eat at this hour, did you steal the manhole cover?"
"I just finished class."
"Are you still in cram school?" Tao Zhi was a little surprised.
"Tutor."
Tao Zhi reacted and realized that his tutor was not his own tutoring, but he was giving lessons to others.
She didn't ask any more questions, but frowned: "What's the matter with this parent, didn't he let his children have a meal until so late?"
Jiang Qihuai glanced at her.
Although the groundhog was a little noisy, he was unexpectedly well-proportioned.
The last time she ran into him working, and this time too, many things, when she realized that there was a line ahead, she would stop.
"So," Jiang Qihuai put down his chopsticks and asked calmly, "Why are you still here?"
"I don't like eating alone." Tao Zhi looked at him eagerly.
"so?"
"So I will accompany you." Tao Zhi said.
Jiang Qihuai curled his fingers uncontrollably.
He lowered his eyes, with a calm expression: "No, go back and accompany your boyfriend."