It was 8:10 when Zhou Jingze checked Li Yang's post, and he happened to be drinking coconut chicken soup at his grandfather's house.
He was holding the handle of the spoon, skimming the oil slowly while looking at his phone.
"You boy! How many times have I told you not to play with your phone." Grandpa threw a plastic spoon over without any hesitation.
Grandma put the seasoning bottle on the table, and when she saw her grandson being beaten, she immediately felt distressed, and scolded: "You still have the nerve to beat him, because you always like to read newspapers when you eat by yourself."
Grandpa looked resentful and dared not speak any more.
With a loose smile on the corners of Zhou Jingze's lips, he slid his thumb on the phone screen, watching the dynamics of Moments like a horse on horseback, when his eyes suddenly stopped, and Li Yang sent a group photo.
Xu Sui was on the far side, probably eating something, when someone shouted, she raised her head. The tomato in her hand had just been brought to her mouth, her cheeks were puffed up, and there was a trace of bewilderment in her quiet eyes.
Grandpa was still talking over there, and coughed twice quite seriously: "You boy, you have always been very stubborn and never told your family anything. Do you need my help for your violation of discipline and grounding?"
"Grandpa," Zhou Jingze put down the spoon and stood up, "I will drink the soup with you another day, I have to leave beforehand."
Zhou Jingze picked up his mobile phone, picked up the coat that was on the back of the chair, and was about to leave. Grandpa was so angry that he said, "You didn't go home for ten days and half a month. Now that you finally come back, there is no reason to leave temporarily. It's a big deal?"
"Well, it's a big deal." Zhou Jingze said with a smile.
He walked to the entrance, and Song Ma hurriedly brought over the cigarettes and lighters that he left behind. Zhou Jingze took them and remembered what Grandpa said:
"You're all retired, so it's time for others to gossip. And isn't this matter under investigation? If you really intervene, I won't be able to tell."
Besides, he also has his pride.
While waiting for Zhou Jingze to come over, the women at the party were either spraying perfume on their wrists and necks, or applying lipstick in front of the mirror.
Liang Shuang and her new boyfriend went to the swimming pool to play, while Xu Sui was eating the fruit in front of him seriously, and played chess with a man sitting next to him.
Xu Sui played chess seriously, and her style of chess was the same as her own, slow and steady, and started off with a flying game.
When it was her turn to go, Xu Sui rested his chin and thought about where to go next, when he caught a glimpse of a figure walking in out of the corner of his eye.
He was wearing a black flight jacket, his hands hung down in the seams of his trousers, his wrist bones protruded. From the moment he took his seat, the atmosphere began to change suddenly.
The small thoughts of several women on the court were very obvious. Some of them lent him a drink to talk to him, while others blatantly changed their seats. Zhou Jingze sat on the sofa on her side, a seat away from her.
Because someone came to change seats, it was a little crowded, so Xu Sui moved back a bit, and moved the chessboard back together. Xu Sui's expression remained unchanged. She took a sip of wine and pushed the chess piece forward.
Decided to go on horseback.
Some people chatted with Zhou Jingze one after another, but he was very calm, and he couldn't pry anything out when asked, and he would answer you but it could be seen that it was perfunctory.
It looked like he wasn't interested in any of the women present.
Smart people know how to start with hobbies. Bai Jiajia rested her chin on her hand, tapped her cheek with her index finger, and asked, "Do you like watching football games?"
While drinking, Zhou Jingze turned his eyes away, but still said, "It's not bad."
Bai Jiajia, who was sitting across from her, raised her eyebrows, automatically interpreting these two words as liking. It's okay if you don't say you're dead.
There were more stories about Baijia, but Zhou Jingze still had no emotion on his face. He kept a certain distance from her, drank his own wine, and looked casually to the left.
When Xu Sui was playing chess, he inadvertently smiled at his opponent. The man was immediately stunned, and he was delayed for a second.
Throughout the whole process, she didn't even glance at Zhou Jingze, she was indifferent and calm.
This scene was fully visible to the man's eyes, Zhou Jingze's long and slender hands rested on the glass, tightened, his face was gloomy, as if he was about to crush the glass. The woman next to her was so intent on catching Zhou Jingze that she didn't notice the change of expression on his face, and asked, "Hey, what are you looking at?"
"Of course I'm watching—" Zhou Jingze drank the wine in his hand and put it on the table, as if he was stamping, his Adam's apple rolled slowly, "My man."
Three words, almost blowing up the scene.
They were all curious about which woman it was. Zhou Jingze had just shown a lack of interest and indolence, so quickly, he was interested in a certain woman present
Sitting in the center, Li Yang died of anger, seeing the people he finally invited were surrounded by a group of women, yet he couldn't speak a few words, it was really painful and he couldn't express it.
In the middle of the chess game, Xu Sui applied for an intermission to go to the toilet. She washed her hands and found that her lip makeup was a little messy, so she took out lipstick from her wallet and traced it in the mirror.
She was seriously mending, when a group of women came into the bathroom, they saw Xu Sui in the room, greeted with a smile, and started chatting like no one else was there.
"Damn it, when he said the word 'my people' just now, I was going to be killed by his voice. "
"Curious, who is he talking about? I glanced to the left when he said it."
"Jiajia, it's not yours, is it? On the left, if you're not facing it, it's you?" The companion asked in surprise.
Bai Jiajia smiled, but said nothing. The companion poked her arm and asked, "How do you know he likes watching football games?"
"The jacket he was wearing, with a little badge pinned to the collar, happened to be the team my brother was talking about a lot."
Bai Jiajia tilted her head and brushed her long hair, a little sweet perfume permeated the tip of Xu Sui's nose.
The one who changed the earrings in the mirror said: "It could be me, I feel like he is looking at me, it's time to kick that bitch boyfriend."
…
Xu Sui went out after finishing his lipstick, and the discussions behind him gradually became quieter and then disappeared. Xu Sui went back to continue playing chess, and the group of women came back one after another and sat down on their seats, looking a little more excited than before.
Xu Sui didn't care at all how he would respond to how others hooked up with Zhou Jingze. Except after he had just entered the arena and glanced at it, his attention was all on the chessboard.
She likes to lay out the overall situation slowly, put a long line to catch big fish, and finally surround her opponents to death. The player who played chess with her was a gentle-looking man. At this moment, he spread his arms and was about to admit defeat.
An oppressive figure descended, holding a game of chess with clear and distinct hands, killing the sergeant with a single move, Xu Sui's bottom line was fully exposed.
Zhou Jingze suddenly approached, causing most of the people present to turn their eyes over, making Xu Sui who was sitting in the corner suddenly the focus.
Xu Sui raised his eyes and bumped into Zhou Jingze's. He was looking at her with his eyelids lifted, and said slowly, "This is called piercing the heart."
Her heart flinched.
The man wearing glasses didn't feel the undercurrent between the two, so he gave a thumbs up and asked Zhou Jingze for advice: "It's amazing, Xu Sui, who plays chess so steadily, will soon lose to you."
Zhou Jingze smiled very lightly, and threw a thunderbolt in front of everyone, saying, "Because I taught it."
The air stopped flowing, and the people present looked at each other. In just a few minutes, they experienced the emotions of admiration, admiration, and finally loss of love, which can be described as climaxes and ups and downs.
Fuck, it turns out that the "my person" he just said refers to Xu Sui. It turns out that the two were entangled, and even had a deep lingering relationship. Thinking of this, Bai Jiajia couldn't help feeling a little sour.
Xu Sui's expression was calm, and he looked at the game in front of him seriously. There was nothing he could do. He moved a word to the left, and the scene was reversed. It was a draw, but she didn't lose.
She spoke slowly, in a moderate voice, but everyone present could hear:
"I didn't just learn chess from one person."
Zhou Jingze's lower jaw line collapsed, and the originally loose smile in his eyes stopped, and his eyes fell on her, looking at her.
She didn't even look at him.
At this time, with a "snap", the lights went out, and someone came out pushing a five-tier luxury cake. Li Yang finally became the center, he stood up, shook the red wine in his hand, and sighed: "It's really my birthday, I'm still a little sad."
"What's sad, the older you are, the more handsome you are." Someone laughed.
The people outside the swimming pool had already changed their clothes and came in, they also stood up, clapped their hands and sang happy birthday to Li Yang. With a "bang", the champagne spouted bubbles, and ribbons and gold fragments fell down one after another.
After singing and cutting the birthday cake, who knows who pressed the light on the wall, the traffic lights shot out, and the heavy metal music exploded in my ears.
A group of people were screaming and making trouble, some were dancing, some were playing games and drinking.
The party has only just begun.
After Xu Sui drank a little wine, he went outside to watch the night scene and breathe. She leaned against the glass window in a daze, and Liang Shuang came over and patted her on the shoulder.
"I finally remembered your friend." Xu Sui turned his head to see the person coming and said with a smile.
Liang Shuang was so embarrassed that she stuck out her tongue: "Hey, I don't know if I don't talk about it, but I found out that my brother is so clingy."
"Satisfy you." Xu Sui pinched her face.
"Tsk, those girls inside are too greedy for Zhou Jingze, they want to take off their clothes in front of him." Liang Shuang threw a wink at her, and said in a teasing tone, "Hey, what are you and Zhou Jingze doing? Huh? Li Yang is so sad, I heard what Li Yang said when he hit you with a straight ball just now, he is not trying to provoke you again, what are you thinking now? "
Xu Sui shook his head and smiled: "I have no idea."
"Success," Liang Shuang walked in with his arms around her shoulders, and said, "It's windy outside, go in and play games."
Xu Sui nodded and went in with Liang Shuang. Since Xu Sui came in, Zhou Jingze had been looking at her and only had her eyes on her, which caused a slight change in the atmosphere.
"Hey, what are you playing?" Liang Shuang pulled Xu Sui to sit down.
Someone replied: "The confession game is also called truth or dare, do you play it?"
Xu Sui nodded, Liang Shuang sat on the side, took Tan Wei's hand, and said, "Let's play, but you can take it easy, my boyfriend is here."
Everyone laughed, Xu Sui bent down, picked up an apple on the table, and bit it slowly. In the first game, the wine bottle stopped in front of Bai Jiajia after spinning more than ten times.
The man who asked the question happened to be Bai Jiajia's suitor. He blushed and asked an ambiguous question:
"Is there anyone or anything you've fallen in love with lately?"
Bai Jiajiako tapped the table with her red nails, and without looking at Zhou Jingze, she answered with a smile: "Yes."
"Manchester United."
The atmosphere suddenly heated up, and someone took a breath, and couldn't help admiring Bai Jiajia's skillful move.
The others secretly sighed: Lost, lost, really can't play with her little bitch.
It's a pity that the person concerned was smoking a cigarette indifferently, and didn't give any response.
Bai Jiajia has always been proactive, chasing after the house, turned the bottle to Zhou Jingze for the second time, Bai Jiajia looked excited, she held her chin, her face was like a peach blossom, and asked:
"I like Manchester United too, why do you like it?"
Good guy, not only announced in disguise that this is the person she likes, but also showed that the two of them still have something in common. With one move, Bai Jiajia blocked the roads of several people present.
Zhou Jingze reached out to flick the cigarette ash, and said slowly: "To be honest, I am a fan of Neymar, who plays for the Brazilian national football team, but my ex-girlfriend won a bet against his opponent and fell in love with Manchester United—
"So I followed suit."
This answer represented Zhou Jingze's refusal. He took the initiative to turn the wine bottle and started the next round of the game. Bai Jiajia was left with a look of despair.
At the beginning of the second round, the wine bottle spun a few times and stopped in front of Liang Shuang. They were not polite at all, and directly asked Liang Shuang and Tan Wei to perform a live kiss.
Liang Shuang was not shy at all, the two interlocked their fingers, and they had a French kiss directly, which made everyone screaming. It made Tan Wei blushed and said: "Although I am not popular, few people know me, but sisters, please don't take pictures."
"I've already taken a sneak shot." Xu Sui stuffed the little tomato into his mouth with a smile.
"You're going to die." Liang Shuang made a gesture to hit her.
Xu Sui didn't eat much all night. After sweeping the fruit in front of him, he took another piece of cake and ate it seriously. When the wine bottle turned to her with a bang, everyone looked at her. stupid.
After reacting, Xu Sui put down the cake, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and said with a smile, "Let's be honest."
The other party didn't know Xu Sui very well, but Zhou Jingze's previous statement made people think that there must be a relationship between the two of them, and it was not clear whether it was in the past tense or the present tense, so they had to use the card of truth-telling questions.
The other party drew a card, and she read the question seriously: "After your first love, how many relationships have you had in total?"
Bai Jiajia helped explain: "If you don't have one, just say no."
It was obviously a very well-behaved question, but Zhou Jingze seemed to have finally come across a topic of interest, slowly rolled his eyelids, looked directly at her, and was waiting for her to answer.
Xu Sui took a mouthful of tongue blue, the mouth was very hot, turned the glass in his hand, and saw a woman with dark eyes but always smiling, she said openly:
"Two terms."
As soon as the words were finished, the air froze, and the person sitting next to Zhou Jingze suddenly felt that the air pressure was very low and penetrating.
Zhou Jingze's dark pupils locked her tightly, and the emotion in his eyes was like a beast about to break free, ready to drown her at any moment.
And Xu Sui didn't look at him.
In other words, after these years of separation, Xu Sui has been living forward, working hard, and seriously falling in love. She can live without him in her world.
This link was quickly revealed, and the game continued, Zhou Jingze drank one cup after another, the light moved to another place, his face was half sunk in the shadows.
Although he couldn't see his expression, the people around him felt that he was in a bad mood.
The wine bottle slammed, like the gears of fate turning slowly, turning to stop in front of Zhou Jingze. Someone watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, and asked, "It's the same as Xu Sui's question just now, how is it? How many relationships have you had in total?"
Except for Xu Sui, Liang Shuang was the only person who knew Zhou Jingze the best here. She would not let him go if she asked a dude such a bad question. Liang Shuang picked up the downed wine bottle and put it in front of him, looked at him with a smile, and said in a mocking tone:
"No, change the prefix. In the past five or six years, how many relationships has Young Master Zhou had?"
The smoke between Zhou Jingze's fingers was scarlet, and the pile of ash fell down, burning his palm. He picked up the wine in front of him, raised his head and drank it down, his voice became hoarse as soon as he spoke, and he lowered his head and pulled the corner of his mouth:
"Not at all."