Xu Sui handed over the Band-Aid, and Zhou Jingze took it and put it in his pocket, looking at her: "Have you eaten yet?"
"No." Xu Sui was a little dazed, subconsciously said these two words.
Zhou Jingze nodded, his voice hoarse: "Then have something to eat with me."
"Ah, good." Xu Sui responded, and at the same time silently said three sorrys to Hu Qianqian in his heart.
Zhou Jingze walked forward with his pockets in his pockets, and Xu Sui noticed that his little finger was hooked to a white plastic bag, which faintly leaked medicinal wine. Zhou Jingze took a few steps forward, but when he saw that no one was following, he stopped and looked back at her.
Xu Sui immediately followed, she really wanted to ask "is the injury serious", but his air pressure was relatively low tonight, and what position did she ask? Thinking of this, he swallowed the words again.
The two brought them to a dumpling shop. The shop was about to close. The proprietress stood in front of the pot and yawned. Her eyes were red from the steam all night.
"Xiao Zhou, are you here?" The proprietress greeted with a smile.
"Yes, how is business today?" Zhou Jingze asked.
The proprietress rubbed her eyes and said, "Today is pretty good. As it gets colder, more people order takeout, and I'm still a bit busy." Zhou Jingze put one hand in his pocket and said with a smile, "It's hard work."
Zhou Jingze raised his hand and pointed not far away, telling her to sit down. Xu Sui sat down, took out a tissue and wiped the table, then looked over.
Zhou Jingze stood there and said to the proprietress, "Two bowls of dumplings."
After Zhou Jingze finished ordering, he sat across from her, his hands with clear bones gently clasped the tabletop, wondering what he was thinking. He was not a talkative person, and Xu Sui was not very good at talking, so embarrassment spread between the two of them.
The proprietress brought two bowls of steaming dumplings, and then put two tea eggs on a bone plate and delivered them to the table, with a hearty voice: "It's closing time, I'll send it to you."
"Thank you." Zhou Jingze said politely.
A bowl full of dumplings was served in front of Xu Sui. She took a small bottle of seasoning and poured a lot of vinegar into it as if she didn't want money. Seeing this, Zhou Jingze raised his eyebrows: "Can you eat sour like this?"
"Adjust the flavor." Xu Sui explained.
"You can try," Xu Sui said with a smile, "but just add a little."
After all, she is not an ordinary person's way of eating, and the stomach of ordinary people cannot resist it. Zhou Jingze listened to her suggestion and added a little vinegar, and sure enough, his appetite improved a little.
The two sat face to face and ate together. Xu Sui saw that he was in a bad mood, and tried his best to search for the jokes and stalks she had seen on the Internet.
"A few questions for you," Xu Sui looked at him with his eyes open, his tone serious, "Why did the frog lose to the dog in the swimming competition?"
Zhou Jingze:
"Because the frog fouled with breaststroke."
Zhou Jing twitched the corner of his mouth, Xu Sui was not discouraged, and continued to ask: "Why can Xiao Wang whistle leisurely while brushing his dentures?"
Zhou Jingze:
Dimples appeared on Xu Sui's cheeks: "Because he brushed his dentures!"
…
Zhou Jingze finished paying and walked out of the store. The people on the snack street had long since disappeared. He walked forward with his pockets in his pockets. Xu Sui lowered his head and kept thinking, which link went wrong? It's obviously very funny.
Xu Sui thought of something, caught up with Zhou Jingze and patted him on the shoulder: "In this case, I must use my nirvana"
"What?" Zhou Jingze turned around.
Xu Sui was wearing a sweater today, she didn't know when she put on the hat, her arms were tucked into the sleeves, her eyes were wide open, and she pulled her lower eyelids with her fingers to make a face at him.
But her eyes are big and clean, and she is wearing a white sweater, which is not intimidating at all.
The milk is fierce and cute.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Jingze raised his eyebrows.
"You're playing a ghost, doesn't it?" Xu Sui looked blankly.
"What the hell."
"Happy ghost." Xu Sui replied.
Zhou Jingze couldn't help laughing at this answer. His chest trembled and he couldn't hold back his breath. He showed his first real smile tonight, not the one that mechanically moved the corners of his mouth.
Xu Suifou pulled her arms off her clothes, and she seemed to be talking to herself: "You finally laughed."
He is finally happy.
Xu Sui and Zhou Jingze walked quickly back to school, went back to the dormitory and opened the door, 1017 ran out and crawled under her feet. Xu Sui didn't have time to talk to the orange cat, so he apologized to Hu Qianqian who was lying on the bed: "I'm sorry Xixi, I've been delayed."
"It's okay, thanks for your hard work."
After Xu Sui took a shower and went to bed, he took out his mobile phone and found that he had received a text message.
From zjz: [Thank you tonight.]
Xu Sui edited "You're welcome" in the dialog box and thought it was too official, so he deleted it and reposted: [It's okay, are you there yet? "]
The screen of the phone she was holding tightly in her hand turned back on two minutes later, zjz: [Here we are, I just took a shower.]
The corner of Xu Sui's mouth curled up, and he replied cautiously: [Good night then.]
Xu Sui had a good night's sleep. Compared with her good mood, Hu Qianqian's recent mood seems not so good. Sheng Nanzhou called several times, but she ignored them all.
He asked someone to deliver snacks several times but it didn't work, and Hu Qianxi turned them all away.
When Xu Sui and Hu Qianxi went off-campus to buy milk tea together, he tentatively asked her if she was not preparing Yuan Liang Sheng Nanzhou, and the eldest lady replied: [I won’t forgive you even if you beat him to death, he has gone too far this time.]
Sheng Nanzhou usually runs on Hu Qianxi a lot, but this time he knew that he was a bit too much, but Hu Qianxi didn't answer his phone, and he couldn't see anyone, so he begged Zhou Jingze to invite everyone to dinner. Ask Xu Sui to bring Hu Qianqian out and apologize to him face to face.
Zhou Jingze agreed, and kicked him by the way: "Usually I tell you to stop bullying her."
"Yes, Master Zhou, no—uncle, I was wrong." Sheng Nanzhou knelt down.
Sitting on a chair, Zhou Jingze leaned over to grab the phone on the table and sent a message to Xu Sui, teaching her to lie.
When Hu Qianxi heard Xu Sui say that Zhou Jingze had won a flying competition and got a bonus and wanted to treat everyone to dinner, she was dubious: "You're only a freshman, so why not fly!"
"Helicopter flight, he... doesn't he have a private photo?" Xu Sui was at a loss for words for a moment, but he thought of a reason temporarily.
"Okay, Sheng Nanzhou won't come." Hu Qianqian was trimming her fingernails.
Xu Sui followed what Zhou Jingze taught her to tell a lie - she would only believe it if she looked into Xixi's eyes, so she forced herself to look directly at the eldest lady, and said calmly, "No."
Hu Qianxi finally agreed to eat.
On Wednesday evening, Xu Sui and Hu Qianxi came to a European hotel in the city at the address given by Zhou Jingze. As soon as they entered the door, a waiter wearing a red tie greeted them and led them to swipe their cards to take the elevator. The two went all the way to the 23rd floor.
The elevator door opened, and the hand-imported carpet with complicated patterns was spread directly under the feet, and the glazed warm lamp hung in the middle. Xu accompanied Hu Qianqian and walked forward. She looked at the people entering and leaving the surrounding area. Their clothes showed extravagance and elegance.
She suddenly felt in her heart that Zhou Jingze really had a superior family background and an outstanding person, and the gap between her and him was real.
The two came to Room 2309, Hu Qianxi opened the door and went in, and at a glance saw a mousse cake she liked in the middle of the table, and Sheng Nanzhou she wanted to punch.
When Hu Qianqian came to her senses, she subconsciously wanted to wrestle Xu Sui, and shouted, "Okay, Xu Sui, you've learned how to deceive people."
"I—" Xu Sui wanted to hide, and subconsciously ran behind Zhou Jingze.
Zhou Jingze suppressed his eyes, and said coldly: "I taught."
"Okay," Zhou Jingze put his hands in his pockets, then turned his head to look at Xu Sui behind him, "accompany me down to buy a pack of cigarettes."
Zhou Jingze meant to leave space for the two of them. Xu Sui understood and followed him downstairs.
The two came to the convenience store downstairs, and there was a gust of cold wind. Zhou Jingze went in and bought a pack of cigarettes. When he was checking out at the front desk, Xu Sui's stomach growled uncontrollably.
"39.8," said the waiter in an orange vest.
As soon as Zhou Jingze took out the money, he glanced at the slightly red ear tips, and smiled lazily, "Give her some Kanto cooking."
Xu Sui stood there and was about to wave his hand to refuse, Zhou Jingze turned around and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, bit it in his mouth, the receiver made a "snap", and at the same time passed by her, a low voice rang in his ears.
"Order what you want, kid."
Zhou Jingze went out to smoke, and Xu Sui sat at the bar of the convenience store eating oden. She ordered two skewers of meatballs, a bunch of kelp, a piece of ham, and other snacks, and sat there and ate them all.
While eating, he secretly looked at the man smoking a cigarette not far from the glass window.
After Xu Sui finished eating, Zhou Jingze raised his hand to let her out. When Xu Sui walked up to him, he stamped out the cigarette butt in time, and glanced at the time:
"It's almost there, let's go up."
The two took the elevator upstairs again. Coincidentally, there were only the two of them in the elevator. Xu Sui stood a little in front, and Zhou Jingze stood next to him. He was leaning against the wall with his head on it, and his Adam's apple was slowly rolling up and down, inexplicably seductive.
"Do you think they will reconcile?" Xu Sui asked.
The elevator display showed the 11th floor, and when Zhou Jingze was about to answer, there was a "bang", and the elevator shook violently in a vibrating manner.
Immediately afterwards, with a "snap", the elevator lights went out, and the inside was pitch black. The darkness magnifies people's fear and strangeness little by little.
Unexpectedly, they encountered the once-in-ten-thousand-year elevator failure. Xu Sui was a little flustered. She turned her head subconsciously, but she couldn't see where Zhou Jingze was.
"Zhou Jingze?"
Xu Sui only called twice, but after receiving no answer, she tried her best to maintain the panic in her heart, and immediately rang the alarm bell. There was a response from the alarm phone, Xu Sui opened his mouth and found that his voice was trembling:
"Hello, the elevator here is out of order, please send someone over here as soon as possible."
"Hello, can I ask the specific location?" the maintenance staff asked.
"The 11th floor of Building F," Xu Sui tried to keep his voice steady, as if thinking of something, "Come here quickly, please."
After the call, Xu Sui went to the back of the elevator in the dark. She was holding the mobile phone, the signal on the screen was one bar, and the battery was 3. Xu Sui looked at it with the light of the screen.
Finding Zhou Jingze sitting in a corner at some point, he closed his eyes, his eyelashes fluttered, and there was a bean of sweat on his forehead.
Xu Suixin tightened, squatted in front of him, and pushed his arm: "Zhou Jingze."
Zhou Jingze opened his eyes with difficulty, glanced at her, and then went back to lean against the wall again. He felt like a sponge that was constantly being broken and sinking in the sea, powerless and frightened.
He thought of that damp attic, where dark spiders were crawling around, and he felt suffocated, as if his neck was being strangled, and his breath would not be taken away. He struggled to escape and found it all in vain.
Xu Sui squatted aside and saw that Zhou Jingze was out of breath, his chest was heaving violently, his dark eyelashes were wet with sweat on his forehead, and his face was pale.
When she was in the same class as Zhou Jingze in high school, she heard that he was claustrophobic. She thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be true.
Seeing how uncomfortable Zhou Jingze was, a trace of distressed emotions spread from the bottom of his heart, Xu Sui's heart clenched into a ball, not because of the previous love, but because she really wanted to do something to relieve his pain now.
If possible, she would like to bear these pains instead of him.
Xu Sui hesitated, grabbed his wrist lightly, and said, "Don't be afraid."
Zhou Jingze closed his eyes tightly, feeling that he was falling into the boundless darkness, like a container sinking into the deep sea, with the surroundings closed, allowing the sea water to seep in, drowning the throat, mouth, and nose bit by bit.
In the darkness, someone grabbed his wrist, and the warmth came bit by bit, like a feather, like sunshine, he clearly heard a gentle voice repeating over and over again:
"do not be afraid."
Zhou Jingze opened his eyelids with difficulty, a soft cheek appeared in front of his eyes, his face was reflected in his dark and clean pupils, like catching driftwood in the dark.
He followed that hand, reversed, and slowly moved down. The wide palms pressed against each other, as if ironing each other's blood vessels, and the thick calluses rubbed the tender palms, and the palms clasped together in an instant.