Zhou Jingze's question without a subject is easy to be misunderstood. Xu Sui's heart was pounding, his mind went blank, and he was in a daze:
"ah?"
Zhou Jingze saw that Xu Sui's ears were flushed, and thought she was embarrassed, so he raised his eyebrows: "It's really popular."
It turned out that the subject wasn't him, it was just an ordinary question, Xu Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a sense of loss at the same time. Xu Sui regained his energy and whispered: "No."
When Xu Sui returned to the dormitory at night, when the door opened, Hu Qianxi rushed forward before 1017, shook her arm, and asked:
"How about it?"
Xu Sui pushed her hand away, drank a few sips of water, and under the attention of Hu Qianxi's eager eyes, said slowly:
"It's not that bad. I just had a normal meal, and your uncle treats me as a friend."
Disappointment welled up on Hu Qianxi's face: "My intuition has always been accurate, but this time I was really wrong."
Xu Sui didn't respond to her. He pulled out his chair and was browsing the contents of the book while doing his homework, but he couldn't concentrate. Hu Qianxi lay on the quilt, suddenly opened her mouth, and asked tentatively:
"Then you... do you like Zhou Jingze?"
When Xu Sui heard these words, the tip of the red pen made heavy strokes on the white page, and she calmed down: "How do you know?"
"The eyes, the way you look at him, and Sui Sui, I found that you look very good. You are a little cold in your bones, but you blush easily in front of him." Hu Xixi said.
Xu Sui thought he had hidden well enough, but unexpectedly he was still spotted.
Where can I hide when I like a person.
Hu Qianxi was one of her few friends, and... there was someone she could listen to, she felt relieved, after all, it was too hard to have a crush on someone. Finally Xu Sui nodded: "Yes, then you—"
"Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret." Hu Qianxi made a motion of tape to seal her mouth.
The two were chatting, Liang Shuang hurriedly came back with supper, she shook the fast food box in her hand at Xu Sui: "Suibao, when I went to the cafeteria for supper, I saw your favorite coriander filling Dumplings, I packed a copy for you."
"Wow, thank you." Xu Sui accepted the box happily.
Although Xu Sui's secret love for Zhou Jingze was known, but nothing changed, because this semester is coming to an end, and everyone is preparing non-stop to review for the exam.
At the University of Medical Sciences, no matter how early Xu Sui woke up, the library would always be occupied. She even wondered if these people lived in the library. Occasionally, Xu Sui picked up the leak, and he could barely sit in the corridor.
But the wind in the corridor was so strong and cold that Xu Sui couldn't stand it after sitting down once.
Hu Qianxi watched Xu Sui come back with a pale face from the cold, with a distressed expression on her face: "Don't go, let's go to a cafe outside the school to review. I know there is a cat cafe with a comfortable environment and many cute cat cafes. cat."
"Okay." Xu Sui nodded.
When cats were mentioned, 1017 lay on Hu Xixi's lap, sticking to her body like a hairball, squinting dissatisfiedly, "Meow—"
"Yo," Hu Qianxi squatted down and pinched 1017's face, then raised her head and said to Xu Sui, "Why don't we take it there, it's too stuffy."
Before Xu Sui could speak, 1017 immediately rolled down from Hu Qianxi's body, like a plump orange, arching to her feet, obviously a master of adapting to the wind.
"Alright." Xu Sui let go.
She knelt down and hugged Fat Ju in her arms. She was going home during the winter vacation, and her mother was allergic to cat fur. What should I do
When the two of them went out, the sky began to snow again. It was very light, like transparent feathers, and everything they looked at was covered in silver, like entering the Milky Way world.
They came to the cat cafe that Hu Xixi mentioned, opened the door, and it was almost full of college students.
Everyone sits together, orders a cup of coffee, can review all afternoon, and can play with the cat on the bar when tired.
Fortunately, there were still a few vacant tables. Hu Qianxi went to the front desk to order coffee, and Xu Sui sat in the corner, taking 1017 out of his schoolbag.
She thought that 1017 was going to play, but she didn't expect that just as Xu Sui turned on the computer, the kitten jumped up along the foot of the table, with its chubby palms on both sides like pockets, and squinted its eyes to doze off after finding a comfortable position.
How can there be such a lazy cat, Xu Sui laughed.
After everything was done, Xu Sui devoted himself to the review, and before he knew it, most of the coffee in hand had disappeared. Three hours passed like this, and Xu Sui was a little tired after sitting at the desk for a long time. She raised her hand and rubbed her stiff neck, and glanced aside inadvertently.
My heart skipped a beat, where's the cat? !
Xu Sui put his hand on the table and looked under the table, but there was no sign of 1017, nor did he look around. Xu Sui said anxiously: "Xixi, the cat is gone?"
"Ah?" Hu Qianxi looked around subconsciously and comforted her, "Don't worry, it should still be in the cat cafe, let's look for it separately."
Xu Sui nodded, she didn't care about the thin skin after losing the cat, she bent over and whispered 1017's name. When Xu Sui was looking for the cat, he accidentally bumped into a girl's book at the next table, and the book and pen fell to the ground.
Xu Sui picked up the book and pen, and apologized repeatedly: "Sorry, I'm looking for an orange cat, have you seen it?"
The girl took the book and replied: "I saw it just now, it seems to have gone to the window."
After Xu Suidao thanked her, she walked towards the southwest direction near the window, bent over, and whispered "meow—" trying to lure it out. Finally, she saw 1017 sitting on a boy's lap with its belly turned over. How pleasant.
"Meow—1017, come here quickly." Xu Suimao yelled in a low voice.
As a result, when he raised his eyes, Xu Sui bumped into a pair of dark and deep eyes, his eyes moved upwards, his face was handsome, he held the cat in one hand, and propped his arm on the table with one arm, he was turning his pen with each other.
At this moment, he was looking at her with a half-smile.
This person is not Zhou Jingze, who else
He was stroking the cat, when he heard a soft "meow", he lowered his head and squinted at her, which seemed to be looking down. Xu Sui was wearing a white sweater, with a bun on his head, and looked up at her with clean eyes. He squatted on the ground, like crawling under his feet, making people's throat itchy.
Zhou Jingze raised his eyebrows: "Your cat?"
"Yes, mine." Xu Sui stood up.
Zhou Jingze touched his left cheek with the tip of his tongue, and said in a lazy and ruffian tone, "Mine."
At this moment, seeing that 1017 was leaning toward Zhou Jingze, he took advantage of the momentum to embrace it, and gently stroked her cat with his bony hands. Xu Sui suddenly became envious of the cat, and at the same time cursed the white-eyed cat in his heart.
"Your?" Xu Sui's eyes were puzzled, his tone paused, and his attitude was firm, "But it's my cat."
Sheng Nanzhou, who was sitting opposite to review, couldn't understand Zhou Jingze teasing a little girl like this, so he explained: "This cat is 'Hi', the one that Jingze lost three months ago."
Xu Sui didn't turn the corner for a moment, meaning that the cat she picked up was the one Zhou Jingze lost? Hu Qianxi, who rushed over from behind, happened to hear this conversation, and pointed out something:
"Stop arguing, it's your cat."
Hearing the word "you", Xu Sui's eyelashes trembled and he didn't speak. Hu Qianxi pulled out her chair and sat down, continuing to talk: "Are you also here to review?"
"That's right, the library is too fucking crowded," Sheng Nanzhou replied, "But coming here, Young Master Zhou is too attractive to girls. He sat here, and several regular girls came and asked him to WeChat."
"Tsk," Hu Qianxi sighed, pointing at the cat, "but uncle, I didn't expect it to be hello."
"Well," Zhou Jingze lazily responded, raising his eyes to look at Xu Sui, "You have raised it well and gained a lot of weight."
When I first picked it up, the orange cat was still very thin. I didn't expect that after three months of absence, Xu Sui made it as fat as a ball. Zhou Jingze's voice was deep and filled with a smug smile:
"Don't worry, you have the final say."
Xu Suisong breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Zhou Jingze holding the cat, she plucked up the courage to say, "I can't take it home during the winter vacation. Can you help raise it?"
Just as Zhou Jingze was about to speak, a tall girl with a beautiful face came over. When she came over, the end of her long curly hair brushed Xu Sui's face inadvertently.
Amid the scent of drowning, Xu Sui heard the girl say generously: "Hello, can I get to know you? I also have a cat at home, a purebred, Porami cat. They can play together."
The girl stood in front of Zhou Jingze generously, while Xu Sui sat aside and lowered her eyelashes, pretending to be relaxed and folding a thousand origami cranes. She had obviously folded paper countless times, but now she couldn't fold it well. The black lacquered eyelashes drooped like a struggle, they were pulled apart and refolded along the creases.
Zhou Jingze leaned back on the chair, with one long leg propped on the ground, his eyes stayed on her for less than a second before turning away, his tone was playful and arrogant:
"No, my cat is wild and will bite."
The meaning of rejection was clear, the girl was disappointed, she shrugged her shoulders and had to leave. Xu Sui felt his heart fall heavily from the sky.
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At the end of January, the final exam ended successfully. On the day of leaving school, Xu Sui packed his things and showed up at Zhou Jingze's house with a suitcase and a cat.
Master Kui screamed excitedly when he saw Xu Sui, and wagged his tail and walked around her. Some time ago, when I was rehearsing and practicing at Zhou Jingze's house, Xu Sui would often bring beef jerky and toys over and play with him. It's not surprising that Master Kui would behave like this.
Seeing its obsequiousness, Zhou Jingze gave it a virtual kick, and pointed at it: "Don't forget who the hell is following you every day to pick up shit."
Master Kui let out a groan, and could only reluctantly put down his wagging tail, not daring to flatter any more.
Zhou Jingze shifted his gaze to Xu Sushou, and saw that she even brought the cat litter, and found it funny:
"Xu Sui, I raised it before, and those things haven't been thrown away yet."
The implication was that she was too worried, Xu Sui was a little embarrassed, Zhou Jingze let her in, and specially boiled a pot of water, while he took out a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator to drink.
"1017 is a bit squeamish, it is allergic to pollen, you...be careful." Xu Sui warned.
"Okay." Zhou Jingze agreed.
He raised his head and took a sip of ice water, water flowed down the corner of his lips and dripped onto his Adam's apple, with a sharp curve, looking cold and sexy. Xu Sui was embarrassed to read any further, so he lowered his head and played with the cat.
"Go back today?" Zhou Jingze saw the suitcase at her feet.
"where is your house?"
Xu Sui replied with a smile: "Jiangnan, an ancient town called Liying, it is very beautiful, you can come and play if you have a chance."
Zhou Jingze nodded, tightened the cap of the bottle, put the water on the table, and said casually: "In the south, it's quite far from the north of Beijing. How did you think of traveling so far to go to university?"
Of course it's because of you.
Xu Sui looked at him and almost blurted out this sentence, but finally changed her words: "I transferred here because of high school, I'm used to it, and besides, I like snow days."
The two chatted for a while, Xu Sui told Zhou Jingze to take care of 1017's precautions, and was startled when he saw the time at last: "Please take care of 1017, I have to go to the high-speed rail station."
Xu Sui hurriedly got up, pulled the suitcase and walked out. Suddenly, a deep voice called her. Xu Sui turned around and found that Zhou Jingze had changed his clothes at some point. He had a black jacket and military boots.
Looking up, a bunch of keys were hooked on his slender fingertips: "I'll see you off."
"Thanks."
It was snowing again, Zhou Jingze drove Xu Sui all the way to the high-speed rail station. The heater in the car was fully turned on, and Xu Sui sat in the co-pilot; two clouds were steamed out of his fair cheeks.
She looked at the white snow outside the window and asked, "What do you usually do on vacation?"
Zhou Jingze drove the car with a reckless tone: "Skiing, bungee jumping, racing, whatever is exciting."
"But aren't these dangerous?"
"Because I don't care. I have no one to care about and I can only squander my time. Thinking about dying on Sunset Boulevard one day is worth it." Zhou Jingze said half truth and half lie.
On the one hand, he is a real person living in this world, and it is normal for him to die alone without being even remembered.
After all, that's what his mother was like.
Zhou Jingze was driving the car with his knuckle-clear hands resting on the steering wheel, when suddenly Xu Sui's voice came from beside him:
"Sunrise is no worse than sunset, just wait." Xu Sui said seriously.
Zhou Jingze was stunned, and smiled slowly when he heard the words: "Okay."
"After all, it's a big taboo for you to say these things in front of a prospective doctor." Xu Sui joked.
After driving for nearly an hour, they finally arrived at the high-speed rail station. There were a lot of people coming and going at the high-speed rail station, and the red font on the display in the hall showed that the high-speed rail that Xu Sui took was about to be checked.
Before saying goodbye, remembering that she would not see Zhou Jingze for a whole winter vacation, Xu Sui felt empty. She raised her eyelashes and said cautiously, "Can I see... the cat during the winter vacation?"
"Okay, I'll send you photos and videos then." Zhou Jingze's tone was loose.
In the hall, there was a sweet video of the staff letting the passengers enter the station to check the tickets. Xu Sui waved to him, then turned and walked towards the entrance.
"Xu Sui." Zhou Jingze called her.
Xu Sui stood in the crowd and looked back. Zhou Jingze was some distance away from her. He was wearing a black coat with snow particles on his shoulders, and the crowd passing behind him was automatically blurred.
One is a boy with a loose expression and outstanding temperament, and the other has ignorant eyes. The eyes of the two collided in mid-air, like an automatic fixed-focus photo.
Zhou Jingze was smoking a cigarette with one hand, speaking lazily. There is a little curvature on the thin lips:
"Mr. Xu, see you next year."
Xu Sui smiled, watching Zhou Jingze slowly, the smile on his lips widened.
OK, see you next year.