After the shooting, a group of people let out a sigh of relief, shook hands and thanked each other, saying "Thanks for your hard work". Wu Fan is responsible for sending the doctors out.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the setting sun slanted and shot directly at a corner of the base wall, showing a thin orange color. Xu Sui packed his things and followed them out.
"Xu Sui." Zhou Jingze called her abruptly.
Xu Sui stopped and looked back at him. Zhou Jingze raised his hand and tugged on the tie, a part of his throat was exposed, Leng Jun looked at her with a loose expression on his face:
"Hair ring."
This person has always spoken in a lazy and concise manner, Xu Sui immediately understood that he was asking her to return the hair ring to him. Xu Sui pursed his lips:
"Didn't you say you picked it up on the road? I use it and it's mine."
After Xu Sui finished speaking, he turned his head and left. Zhou Jingze stepped forward with his long legs and stood in front of her. He lowered his head and locked her dark eyes tightly:
"Yiyi, that's mine."
Xu Sui didn't understand why he was so obsessed with an unusual hair tie, she was about to speak when a voice interrupted them. A student pilot ran over panting and wiped the sweat off his forehead:
"Instructor Zhou, it's not good, a student has an accident!"
Taking advantage of Zhou Jingze's distraction to deal with things, Xu Sui ran away.
When Zhou Jingze finished handling the matter, the base had already resumed intense training, and there was no shadow of a doctor, only Dalong stayed in the office to look at the photos he took.
Zhou Jingze took out two cans of carbonated drinks from the refrigerator, and threw a bottle to Dalong. He sat down heavily, and clasped the ring with his index finger. With a "squeak", bubbles came out.
He took a sip and asked, "Are you picking photos?"
"I don't want to be the best at what the leader ordered me to do." Dalong said in a bureaucratic tone.
Zhou Jingze put down his drink and raised his palm: "Let me see."
Dalong handed him the camera, and Zhou Jingze took it, his eyelashes drooping, and his thumb kept pressing the play button, looking at them one by one.
When I saw a group photo, my eyes stopped: "You pass this photo to me."
Dalong took it over and saw that it was the group photo of the doctors just now. He made an OK gesture and turned on the bluetooth to transmit it to Zhou Jingze's phone.
"Instructor Zhou, what do you want the photo for?" Dalong was a little puzzled.
Zhou Jingze clicked "Accept", stared at the group photo in front of him, clicked to capture with his thumb, and captured Xu Suijing's smiling photo, as if talking to himself, he snorted:
"I don't have to ask for compensation."
On the way back, Xu Sui had the foresight to buy a pack of Huamei at the base convenience store. The car drove all the way along the Hui Ring Road, and the sunset on the opposite side of the mountain had completely sunk, leaving only a little residual afterglow.
Her colleague Han Mei happened to be sitting next to her. She pushed Xu Sui's arm and asked, "Hey, Doctor Xu, what's your relationship with that captain?"
"I-"
"When I took the photo just now, I was standing next to you. I felt that something was wrong with you two, and there was an atmosphere that I couldn't describe," Han Mei said clearly, "Don't worry about what you two say, it doesn't matter. You can't fool me, a married woman."
Xu Sui touched Huamei on the right cheek with the tip of his tongue, Huamei rolled to the other side, his cheeks were sore: "Ex-boyfriend."
"Let me just say, I said he looks at you differently, which brings entanglement and desire." Han Mei watched too much at eight o'clock, and this kind of proper name came out of her mouth.
Xu Sui twitched the corner of his mouth and didn't answer. Seeing that she didn't want to continue talking, Han Mei turned to watch her TV series. The car drove forward slowly, she looked out the window, and after a while, she raised her hand and pulled off the hair tie tied behind her head.
She held the hair tie and stared at it for a while. This hair tie was a little old, and the beige satin had a shell-like luster in the sun.
If I remember correctly, this is her hair tie. It should be that Xu Sui left behind at his house when the two were together.
It's been five or six years, what to do with it.
Xu Sui turned his head and looked out the window. The rows of trees outside the car window quickly moved back, his thoughts were in a daze, and he only thought he had a habit of collecting old things.
—
Xu Sui thought that going to the AVIC flight training base to teach and cooperate with the publicity, the matter was over. Unexpectedly, the deputy director came to the door again and asked her to go to the base once a week to teach the pilot students for a total of two months.
"Director, I really can't leave, why don't you find someone else?" Xu Sui declined.
The deputy director put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "I go to lie down every Friday afternoon, or you can arrange it according to your time. Silly boy, I am here to lighten your burden, so that you don't have to do all the work yourself. It’s good for young people to go out and take classes.”
Xu Suiyou couldn't tell, and his tone was helpless: "I still don't really want to—"
"That's it." The deputy director waved his hand, signaling her to stop talking.
Xu Sui had no choice but to bite the bullet and took on this task. That's how people are, the more you want to escape, the more you meet something. Xu Sui finally added Zhou Jingze's WeChat.
After all, he is the instructor and the person in charge of the base. If something happens, Xu Sui wants to communicate with him as soon as possible.
After adding Zhou Jingze's WeChat account, he didn't take the initiative to harass her, but just lay quietly in her list. After work on Friday, Xu Sui and his colleagues had dinner together, and they didn't get home until after ten o'clock in the evening.
After washing at home, Xu Sui lay down in bed with a warm-colored lamp on the bedside. She lay on her side and habitually checked Moments before going to bed. Suddenly, she saw Zhou Jingze post a dynamic video with a word: worry.
Xu Sui clicked to open it, and it turned out to be 1017, which was lying on a white table. In the video, Zhou Jingze teased it with a cat teaser and did not move.
It lay there limply, its whole body was very tired, its eyes were slack, and it had no strength.
Xu Sui noticed that it had lost one of its teeth, and the orange fur around its lips and nose had also turned white. Zhou Jingze kept stroking it with his hands, and 1017 lay there with his eyes closed.
1017 has really become an old cat.
It was rare for Zhou Jingze to post a message, and many people were blown out. Xu Sui looked at them one by one, and his heart gradually became uncomfortable.
Hu Xixi: [1017 is so pitiful, woo woo woo, when I come back from the African savannah, it will be the first one I visit!]
Return Z: [Oh]
Da Liu: [It’s so pitiful, after I finish the flight, I will buy 1017 the canned cat food that it used to love most, the most expensive.]
Z replied: [No, it can't eat now.]
Xu Sui was concerned about the situation of 1017, and asked: [Is it sick?]
Zhou Jingze replied quickly: [Well, I am old, and I have a heart problem.]
Li Yang also appeared in the comments and said: [Oh, you also have cats. My friend has a blue and white cat. It is so cute. It seems that I gave birth to a cub recently. Do you want to give you one, just for your cat? .]
Xu Sui's original sad mood was suddenly diluted, and Zhou Jingze didn't reply to him. If the other party was an acquaintance, he would definitely reply with the word "stupid".
She still can't accept the fact that 1017 became sick, and she always thinks about it in her heart, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Suddenly, the screen of the phone on the bedside table lit up.
Xu Sui took out his mobile phone and turned on the screen. It was Zhou Jingze who replied with a message: [Video?]
In the next second, he added another sentence: [Look at the cat.]
Xu Sui thought for a while, and typed out a word: [Okay.]
The other party sent a video request, Xu Sui clicked to accept, Zhou Jingze's jaw flicked past, and then 1017 appeared in front of the camera, facing Xu Sui sideways, staring blankly straight ahead.
"1017, who do you see?"
A voice sounded from the video off-screen, and a hand with prominent bones and veins touched the back of its neck, signaling 1017 to look towards the camera.
1017 reluctantly turned back, seeing Xu Sui staring blankly in the camera for a second, Xu Sui called it tentatively: "1017."
The old cat was awakened by a familiar voice, and 1017 made a "meow", like a huge mournful cry from the chest cavity. The originally slack pupils were illuminated, and they kept clawing at the ipad with their paws, yelling at the screen.
It always remembers her.
Xu Sui had a sore nose and almost shed tears. At the beginning, she was too decisive to leave. In order to break up with Zhou Jingze, she didn't even want 1017.
In fact, it has always been her who is cruel.
When I saw it in the abandoned back garden of the school, it was still such a small one. The little meow meowed at her, and when I saw her, I would lick her palm from time to time.
Xu Suihe 1017 made a video for half an hour, and finally it couldn't hold on, and fell asleep on the table with drooping eyelids. After the cat fell asleep, Xu Sui also hung up the video.
The next day, when Xu Sui woke up, the sun just shone on the head of the bed. She got up and threw the clothes in the laundry basket into the washing machine, and cleaned the house inside and out.
Xu Suijin pulled on his slippers and walked to the balcony, and took a watering can to water the rows of succulents and some green plants on the balcony. While pouring, her mobile phone made a "ding" sound, indicating that a WeChat message came in.
Xu Sui put the watering can aside and clicked on WeChat. It was a message from Zhou Jingze.
Z: [I will take 1017 to see a doctor in the afternoon, do you want to go with me?]
She wanted to see 1017 because it was very old after all.
Xu Sui typed in the dialog box and then deleted it, but the phone kept showing that the other party was typing. Zhou Jingze seemed to have seen her hesitation, and his tone was lazy:
[In broad daylight, you don't think I'll do anything to you in broad daylight, do you? To do is also at night.]
The other party is typing: [Just watching cats.]
Xu Sui finally replied: [Okay, I will also bring anti-wolf spray.]
Zhou Jingze returned six points: […]
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Jingze appeared at the door of Xu Sui's house on time. With the car window half down, he saw Xu Sui at a glance, raised his head and honked the horn.
In the distance, Xu Sui was wearing a smoky blue shirt dress, revealing a section of fair and shiny calf, the striped silk scarf tied the hair behind his head, light makeup, thin eyebrows and red lips, with a charming temperament.
When Xu Sui opened the car door, a faint fragrance wafted in. Zhou Jingze stared at her blankly for a moment, his throat dried up.
"Where's the cat?" Xu Sui frowned when he saw that he was lost in thought.
Zhou Jingze coughed lightly, and raised his chin at her: "In the pet bag."
Seeing this, Xu Sui took the cat out of the bag and carried it to the back seat of the car. 1017 Lying on Xu Sui's lap wasn't used to it at first, but then I don't know if I recognized Xu Sui, and licked her palm hard, and I became more lively.
Zhou Jingze started the car, and during the whole process, since Xu Sui picked up the cat, he has been teasing and playing with it, treating him like air, as if forgetting his existence.
They didn't look at each other the whole time.
He, Zhou Jingze, also had a day of being ignored.
Not long after playing, 1017 fell asleep after a while because of his age. Xu Sui hugged it, and after the cat fell asleep, he realized that the car was eerily quiet.
An awkward atmosphere spread in the air.
Xu Sui found out that Zhou Jingze was still driving this big G, and it seemed that he should have repaired the car. She said before that it was a procedure, but no one came to her, and Zhou Jingze didn't take this to settle accounts with her.
I'm sorry to think about it.
Xu Sui thought about how much he would pay, and asked, "How much did you spend on repairing that car—"
Zhou Jingze drove the car, slowly holding out a number.
Xu Sui immediately fell silent. Zhou Jingze put his sharp fingers on the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and turned left. He spoke again in a loose and unruly tone:
"Tsk, repairing the car has overdrawn all the money I've saved to marry a wife."
"It's like indirectly losing a wife."
It's not right for Xu Sui to answer, and it's not right if he doesn't answer. After thinking for a long time, he said sincerely: "How about I introduce you to a girlfriend?"
As soon as the words fell, Zhou Jingze stepped on the accelerator suddenly, and the tires quickly rubbed against the ground. With a "beep -", the car made a sharp emergency brake sound, which was very ear-piercing.
Xu Sui was impacted by inertia and knocked the cat's head on the front seat. 1017 was so scared that he almost jumped off.
The car stopped, Xu Sui rubbed his head and looked out, he had already arrived at the pet hospital. She raised her hand to open the door, only to find that Zhou Jingze had locked the door and remained motionless.
Zhou Jingze picked up the cigarette case from the center console, took out a cigarette, and bit it in his mouth. He lowered his head and lit the cigarette. The orange-red fireworks went out, and a mouthful of gray smoke came out from his thin lips, exuding low air pressure all over his body.
Xu Sui hugged the cat and said, "Open the door."
With a "beep", the car lock was unlocked, Xu Sui reached out to open the door, she got down, and when she was about to close the car door, Zhou Jingze didn't look at her, and looked straight ahead, smoking a cigarette, with a gloomy face, and bit the rear groove Teeth, smiled: "Xu Sui, you are really good."
Introduce girlfriend to ex-boyfriend, she is the only one.
There was silence in response to Zhou Jingze, and Xu Sui closed the car door with a "bang".
Zhou Jingze got out of the car after smoking a cigarette. The two went up the steps side by side. Zhou Jingze opened the glass door to let her in first, and the front desk staff came to welcome her immediately: "Hello, do you have an appointment?"
"Yes." Zhou Jingze responded.
"Please provide the appointment number." The staff said.
Zhou Jingze took out his mobile phone and whispered a series of numbers. The staff entered the phone number in front of the computer, checked the appointment information, and said, "Ah, these two are the parents of 1017, please go straight and turn right to the second floor. The doctor is inside."
After speaking, the staff handed over a number plate.
Xu Sui explained subconsciously: "I'm not—"
"Go in, it will be late later." Zhou Jingze took the number plate, glanced to the left, and interrupted her.
A nurse came out to lead them upstairs, Xu Sui had no choice but to hold back his explanation and followed behind.
Xu Sui walked into the pet doctor's office with 1017 in his arms. The doctor first checked the cat's heart and other physical conditions, and then gave it an infusion.
When the needle was on the nape of the cat's neck, it screamed and struggled continuously, obviously resisting the injection. Xu Sui had no choice but to comfort it in a gentle voice: "Good boy."
"Does it hurt, 1017, I'll blow it up for you later."
Zhou Jingze raised his eyes and looked over, just in time to see Xu Sui's quiet side face, with hair falling down on his forehead, speaking softly. My heart suddenly tugged.
It was a scene he hadn't seen in a long time.
1017 gradually relaxed under her comfort, and was extremely obedient in Xu Sui's arms. After the infusion, Xu Sui carefully asked 1017 about the dietary precautions and how to take good care of it.
The doctor touched 1017's head and said, "It's like this when a cat is old. It suffers a lot. You should accompany it."
Zhou Jingze came over, stretched out a finger to tease its beard, and said, "Yes."
The nurse wiped 1017's feet and some dirty places on his face with wet paper towels, and talked to them while cleaning up: "You are 1017's parents, right? It's great that you look so compatible, otherwise this cat I won't be raised by you for so long... "
Xu Sui knew it was impolite to interrupt someone, but she still couldn't hear it, so she interrupted: "We are not boyfriend and girlfriend, this cat was raised by him alone."
The nurse paused, with a look of embarrassment on her face. Zhou Jingze looked at her steadfastly. Xu Sui ignored the eyes that fell on him, and smiled at the nurse with a soft voice: "We can't delay the two of us from finding a partner."
This is the first time, after the reunion, Xu Sui officially expressed his attitude, frank and straightforward.
It is also drawing the boundaries between the two.
Only then did the nurse feel the undercurrent between the two of them. She looked awkwardly at the tall and tall man beside her. Zhou Jingze put his hands in his trouser pockets, his eyelashes drooped to cover up his emotions, and he smiled casually:
"Listen to her."
After treating the cat, the two walked out. Zhou Jingze pointed to the bench next to the corridor, and a magnetic voice sounded: "Sit for a while, I'll smoke two cigarettes."
Xu Sui nodded and sat down with the cat in his arms. She raised her eyes and saw Zhou Jingze walking to the smoking area in the corridor and standing at the window smoking. His back looked stern and silent, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
He smoked a little fiercely, one after another, with a sharp profile, like a piece of ice that had been cut completely. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, Zhou Jingze bowed his waist slightly, was choked, and coughed violently.
Zhou Jingze raised his hand to close the window, the sound of the wind stopped, the cigarette butt pressed against the lid of the stainless steel trash bin, and with a "sigh", it was burnt completely black.
He turned around and walked towards Xu Sui, came to her, and said, "Let's go."
When the two walked out of the hospital, it was already dark, the aisles were bustling, and the lights were on. Zhou Jingze glanced at the time and asked, "Want to have a meal?"
"No, I still have materials to go back and sort out." Xu Sui shook his head.
Zhou Jingze twitched the corners of his mouth, but did not speak. Anyone could tell that this was Xu Sui's excuse. He didn't say anything more, took out the car key from his trouser pocket, and raised his chin:
"Walk."
This time Xu Sui sat in the passenger seat, because she got out of the car first, 1017 had to stay beside him so that Zhou Jingze could watch it.
The car moved forward smoothly, Zhou Jingze didn't take the initiative to talk to him again, he put his hands on the steering wheel and stared straight ahead in silence, Xu Sui didn't know what to say, he was speechless all the way. Later, she felt bored, so she raised her hand and turned on the music.
Finally broke the silence.
After driving for about forty minutes, the car arrived at Xu Sui's house. She let out a long breath, finally arrived, the atmosphere in the car was too depressing.
Xu Sui unbuckled his seat belt and said, "I'll go back first, and you should rest earlier."
"Xu Sui." Zhou Jingze called her suddenly.
"Huh?" Xu Sui was unfastening his seat belt, looking up at him, his clear eyes were full of doubts.
Zhou Jingze was playing with a silver lighter in his hand. With a "snap" from the lighter box, the flame shot up, and the black mole on the tiger's mouth was ascetic and seductive.
The fire was flickering, and he lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
The stereo in the car was turned up loud, and Stefanie Sun sang:
"Self-esteem often drags people down and turns love into twists and turns."
With a "snap", the flame went out, and he put the lighter back on the center console. Car after car whizzed by around, the taillights of the cars flickering, flickering, on and off.
Zhou Jingze's face was half sunk in the shadows, and the car was completely dark. Xu Sui couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could not help coughing. Because he had smoked a few cigarettes before, his voice was hoarse when he spoke. , twitched the corners of his mouth, closed his eyes, as if compromising:
"I miss you for a long time."
Xu Sui was stunned, his black eyelashes trembling, leaned back on the back of the chair, and looked at the one-way street opposite the window. The cars drove one after another, and then disappeared into the night, as if they never looked back.
With such a proud personality, Zhou Jingze actually said that he missed her one day after the reunion. Is it true? After all, when they were together, her love for him was sincere and wholehearted, and the doting in his eyes was also true.
Xu Sui looked ahead and asked him: "Do you remember that in the game we bet on, I bet on someone at random, and in the end he won against Neymar, who is always number one."
Zhou Jingze remembered, he lost and finally changed the personalized signature of Moments to dashes, his voice was hoarse: "Remember."
Xu Sui turned his head and looked at him: "I won on the 16th. I said a word at that time, where there is a will, there is a way."
"Where there is a will, there is a way, but not love."