"I can tell you the time and change it to the afternoon and evening," Ding Zhuxin said on the phone, "but this afternoon, come over and talk to them first, three photography, in charge of different units."
"Well, do I know other photography?" Gu Fei leaned against the window with a cigarette in his mouth, looking at Gu Miao who was painting on the coffee table.
She has been painting since she came home after dinner, and she has drawn a lot of green bunnies.
However, according to what Xu Xingzhi said, he had already found a cat with simple strokes and drew one for Gu Miao. She could draw it in four strokes at most. If she wanted to draw a fat sheep, she could learn to draw, but so far, Gu has Miao still painted her green rabbit.
"I probably don't know each other, but it doesn't affect them, and I don't cooperate with them," Ding Zhuxin said. "You can do this job well, and you can introduce the big job later."
"Thank you." Gu Fei said.
"Don't tell me this," Ding Zhuxin smiled, "Also, if you lack equipment, tell me, and I'll help you find someone to borrow it."
"I'm not an equipment guy," Gu Fei said, "I have enough for now, I didn't buy more lenses."
"You have no money." Ding Zhuxin said directly.
"I don't spend any money on it," Gu Fei said. "There are many places to spend money."
"Da Fei," Ding Zhu's heart stopped, "I still said that, if you need help, just tell me, I can't help anything else, and I'll be fine if I need money urgently."
"You've already helped me a lot," Gu Fei said, "really."
"Has Jiang Cheng returned from the winter vacation?" Ding Zhuxin asked, "Old customers who have used him before still want to find him, does he have time?"
"I guess... there's no time left," Gu Fei said. "He has classmates and friends come to play together, and the winter vacation is short."
"That's fine, I'll talk about it later when I have a chance," Ding Zhuxin said, "You will remember to meet someone first in the past."
"En." After hanging up the phone, Gu Fei turned around, leaning his elbows on the windowsill and looking out.
He was actually quite tired today. If it weren't for the fact that this job was not only rich in money, but also helped with big jobs in the future, he really didn't want to go out again.
After chatting with Xu Xingzhi for more than two hours in the morning, he felt very tired.
Not for talking too much.
But because when introducing Gu Miao's situation to Xu Xingzhi, he opened up too many memories that had been sealed by him for many years.
These are all he tried not to think too much.
I have to say that Xu Xingzhi is a very powerful person. Every question he asks can be directly asked at the most sensitive point, making him have to speak.
And he had to speak, because it was related to Gu Miao.
There were many things and many ideas that Gu Fei had never told anyone about. His friends didn’t know about it, and neither did Jiang Cheng.
And such a tiring process... He puffed out a puff of smoke, watching the smoke dissipate in the wind before it even took a shape, he turned around and pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the table, and closed the window.
He actually didn't resist such a process, maybe it was for Gu Miao, maybe it was for Jiang Cheng, maybe it was because Xu Xingzhi seemed reliable.
"There is something wrong with the way you get along with Gu Miao," Xu Xingzhi said, "You gave her a hint with your actions and reactions that she is your center, you exist around her, you have spent so many years Time has told her that all her brother's dedication to her is deserved and will not disappear, once she has formed such a cognition, any change will make her collapse."
Gu Fei looked at Gu Miao lying on the table and sighed softly.
Although Xu Xingzhi's words made him a little dazed, but thinking about it carefully, from the moment Gu Miao refused to speak, his life seemed to have changed completely.
He has been digesting what Xu Xingzhi said, which he had never thought of before.
What he wanted to do was to protect Gu Miao from being hurt any more. She couldn't express it, so he would try to understand that there was only a brother in her world, so he would be the only one.
But Gu Miao is different from a child who was born with autism. The root of her problem is her childhood trauma. In many cases, she can perceive emotions, but she cannot concentrate, and there is no one to guide her to use the correct method. Communicate and communicate…
"And you meet her needs when she expresses it in the wrong way, so change and progress must start with you."
Gu Fei rubbed his face, glanced at the time, he was going to go out right now, to meet with others, to find out what to shoot and ideas.
"Er Miao," Gu Fei squatted beside Gu Miao, "Brother is going out now."
Gu Miao glanced at him and nodded.
"Nod when I understand." Gu Fei said.
Gu Miao nodded again.
"Brother Li Yan will come to accompany you later," Gu Fei said. "If you want to go out to skateboard, go with him."
Gu Miao nodded.
Gu Fei took the piece of paper he had drawn a cat on before, drew a row of cats on it, and put it in front of Gu Miao: "Brother drew it."
"Sheep." Gu Miao said softly.
When Gu Fei wanted to say it was a cat, he realized that she was calling Fat Sheep's name, so he smiled, "Fat Sheep."
Gu Miao looked at him.
"Its name is Fat Sheep." Gu Fei said.
Gu Miao continued to look at him, and after a long while, he said again: "Sheep."
Sheep is a sheep, at least she remembered half the name of the fat sheep.
After leaving the house, he took out his mobile phone and felt that he should call Jiang Cheng. After all, Jiang Cheng came back for Gu Miao, and Xu Xingzhi chatted with him for another morning. This time, he should definitely contact him. He is not there if arranged.
But he also felt that after the phone call, all the reasons in his heart would become excuses.
After hesitating for about five minutes, he walked from home to the intersection, but he still dialed Jiang Cheng's number.
When he pressed the dial, he found that this action would reveal the unfamiliar in the familiar.
It seemed that there was an illusion that Jiang Cheng had not called Jiang Cheng for many years.
"Hello?" Jiang Cheng answered the phone.
"Me." Gu Fei said.
"En." Jiang Cheng responded, his voice hoarse again.
"What's the matter with your throat?" Gu Fei couldn't help it.
"It's time for my voice change." Jiang Cheng said.
"...Oh," Gu Fei was stunned, "Then you are a little late."
"Ah." Jiang Cheng responded.
After being silent for a while, Gu Fei heard Jiang Cheng's laughter, and this familiar feeling of wanting to smirk together uncontrollably rolled up.
He followed Jiang Cheng foolishly for a long time.
"That," Gu Fei finally stopped laughing, "I just wanted to tell you, didn't I take on a job, and now I want to go over to meet them... Do I still need to communicate with Ermiao this afternoon?"
"Well, it just so happens that Xu Xingzhi wants to contact her alone," Jiang Cheng said, "Do you mind?"
"I don't mind," Gu Fei said, "Li Yan will come over in the afternoon. If you want to go somewhere, you can ask Li Yan to take her there."
"Okay." Jiang Cheng responded.
"En." Gu Fei also responded.
Then the two fell silent at the same time.
The relaxed feeling brought by the smirk lasted only three sentences before returning to the dullness.
After hanging up, he stood on the side of the road for a long time.
This made him very unbearable. Compared to the feeling that he would never see Jiang Cheng again before, this kind of person is now here, in the place where they once lived together, but he couldn't feel the feeling that he couldn't touch him. , making him even more breathless.
But if Jiang Cheng left now, he might just suffocate.
Xu Xingzhi wanted to stay with Gu Miao for a while to see how she would react in the absence of Gu Fei.
"She should be with Gu Fei's friend now," Jiang Cheng said, "Let me make a phone call?"
"Well," Xu Xingzhi nodded, "Is there any place to play near you?"
"I... don't seem to know. I usually see children playing at the gym equipment, grabbing equipment from old men and old ladies," Jiang Cheng thought about it, "Why don't I ask Li Yan, he is familiar with this piece."
"Okay," Xu Xingzhi said, "the place with other children is better."
Jiang Cheng dialed Li Yan's number.
"Yes, go to your classmate's biscuits... No, go past the pie shop, there is a small stadium, and there are many slides and other things that children like to play. I can take her there now," Li Yan said. "It's just outdoors. It's okay to have the sun at the moment. When the sun goes out later, the children will all go back."
"Let's go over now and have a look. If there are no children, we will change places." Jiang Cheng said.
When he went out, Xu Xingzhi pulled on the scarf: "Don't Gu Fei usually take her to play in those playgrounds in the mall? What kind of ocean ball or something."
"She wants to skateboard when she has flat ground, and she wants to do it even when she enters a restaurant," Jiang Cheng said. "Gu Fei rarely takes her indoors to play. If she can't skateboard, she gets angry and screams."
"Well." Xu Xingzhi nodded.
"You two can go around," Jiang Cheng looked at Pan Zhi and Zhao Jin, "There is a food court over there."
"Don't bully me," Zhao Jin said, "I'm losing weight."
"It's boring for me to go alone," Pan Zhi spread his hands, "Let's be assistants."
After a few people got into Xu Xingzhi's car, Li Yan took Gu Miao to the place and sent Jiang Cheng a location. Jiang Cheng, as a road idiot, didn't even look at it, so he set up the navigation: "It doesn't seem to be far? "
"Yeah, how close, just a finger's distance." Pan Zhi glanced at the map.
"Huh?" Jiang Cheng looked at him.
"I don't want to talk to you idiots," Pan Zhi sighed. "This place is still in the past at Wang Xu's pie shop. You always have an idea of the distance, right?"
"Oh," Jiang Cheng said, "Senior, let's drive."
The car drove all the way, every glance was familiar, but because of the state of mind, it became wrapped in a trance of strangeness.
Jiang Cheng didn't look out of the car window anymore, he just stared at the air-conditioning vent.
It wasn't until the navigation hinted to the place that he raised his eyes and looked out.
"Is that Gu Miao?" Xu Xingzhi pointed to the front.
A fiery red shadow jumped down from the top of the steps ahead, landed on the ground, and rushed out quickly.
"Yes, I don't think there is another little girl with this level of skateboarding in this area." Jiang Cheng said.
"Her skill... If she can cultivate it in the future," Zhao Jin said as he got out of the car, "it should be quite developed."
Jiang Cheng jumped out of the car and whistled towards the other side.
Gu Miao turned her head, looked here for a while, and rushed over on her skateboard.
First, he raised his hand several meters away, snapped his fingers and thumbed to say hello to Jiang Cheng, then made an emergency stop and stood in front of Xu Xingzhi.
"Looking for a fat sheep?" Zhao Jin whispered.
"Well," Xu Xingzhi crouched down, "Hello, Ermiao."
Gu Miao looked at him.
"Brother Xu, do you still remember?" Jiang Cheng said, "Er Miao said hello to Brother Xu."
Gu Miao looked at Xu Xingzhi and bowed to him after a while.
When Li Yan walked over from a distance, Jiang Cheng almost didn't recognize him, he was wrapped like a cotton ball, and his face was covered with a mask.
"This is Li Yan, Gu Fei's friend," he introduced Zhao Jin and Xu Xingzhi, then looked at Li Yan, "My classmate's sister, Zhao Jin, this is Xu Xingzhi's senior."
"Listen to Gu Fei," Li Yan pulled down his mask, "It's hard work."
"It's not hard," Xu Xingzhi smiled, "Gu Miao is very cute."
"Did she go to play?" Jiang Cheng saw four or five children playing on the other side of the slide.
"She will play when no one is playing," Li Yan said. "She won't go when someone is playing. She didn't play with her classmates when she was at school."
After saying these words, several people stood there for a while.
Jiang Cheng felt that he was a little embarrassed looking at Li Yan now.
"Let's go," Xu Xingzhi said, "let's take a look first."
"Okay." Jiang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and hurried over there.
Li Yan was right. After they passed by together, Gu Miao first stepped on a skateboard and played beside her for a while. She saw a swing was empty before she stood up.
Gu Miao's motor function seems to be very developed, he can swing in a few swings, and it is very high.
But when a little boy came to see her play, she stopped quickly, jumped off the swing and walked away.
The little boy was about five or six years old, and he had been watching her skateboard before, and now he saw her playing on the swing, and he has been following her since then.
Xu Xingzhi took out his mobile phone and started recording a video to Gu Miao.
"Has she ever had friends of the same age?" He looked at Li Yan.
"No, she's been a loner since the day I met her," Li Yan said. "She doesn't talk, doesn't care about people, and is isolated at school."
"Well." Xu Xingzhi nodded.
After recording some videos, Xu Xingzhi put away his mobile phone. Gu Miao turned a blind eye to the little boy behind her, and slid aimlessly back and forth on her skateboard.
"When she usually goes out to skateboard by herself," Xu Xingzhi asked, "is that so?"
"Well," Li Yan said, "there is a fixed route, swish flying, no one pays any attention, just soaring around in circles."
Jiang Cheng sat on the side and looked at Gu Miao silently.
This little girl galloping in the cold wind.
I don't know if she can feel the changes that are quietly taking place around her, the new friends brought by her brother, the fat sheep...
"Actually, she has a lot of ideas, I feel," Li Yan tilted his head and sneezed twice, "Fuck!"
Xu Xingzhi glanced at him and smiled.
"Don't laugh," Li Yan said, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have brought her here. She's playing with her on the street over there, and I'll just stay in the cat shop."
"I'm sorry, it's been hard work." Xu Xingzhi said.
"... You're welcome." Li Yan said.
"Continue." Xu Xingzhi said.
"Continue what?" Li Yan looked at him, "You're welcome, you're welcome, no..."
"Half of what you said before sneezing, continue with that." Xu Xingzhi said.
"Oh, my brain is a bit frozen," Li Yan clicked, "I mean, I've known Gu Miao for a long time, but she likes Jiang Cheng more, I don't know why."
"Really?" Xu Xingzhi smiled.
"The first time Jiang Cheng picked her up, she followed Jiang Cheng and left," Li Yan said, "If this person is a personal trafficker, they'll sell it. It doesn't take much trouble."
Jiang Cheng smiled and said nothing.
Xu Xingzhi will be here for almost a week this time. The time is actually quite tight. He needs to observe, communicate with her within the range that Gu Miao can tolerate and accept.
"Thank you." Jiang Cheng could only keep repeating.
"I will write a detailed method of behavior correction for Gu Fei before I leave," Xu Xingzhi said, "I have to go back and think about the specific treatment plan."
"En," Jiang Cheng nodded, "Senior, give me some peace of mind."
Xu Xingzhi glanced at him: "Gu Miao's situation is not as serious as you think, as long as Gu Fei can cooperate, because Gu Miao will have many reactions during this process, if he is distressed, it will affect the effect... Also, before I As I said, Gu Miao missed the best stage of treatment, and it is impossible to return to the level of a normal child."
"I see." Jiang Cheng said, Xu Xingzhi's answer was enough for him and Gu Fei.
A few days passed by so quickly, Jiang Cheng didn't even feel much, and Gu Miao was so busy in his mind.
But when Xu Xingzhi and Zhao Jin were about to leave, he slowly recovered.
From the day he came back, the contact between him and Gu Fei was all because of Gu Miao. They called, they met, and it was all about Gu Miao. But after Xu Xingzhi left, he and Gu Fei established a relationship because of Gu Miao. connection will be broken.
This made him a little uneasy.
These days, he often falls into memory, and any word, a person, or a scene will quickly pull him into the memory.
Bit by bit, he never thought that his memory would be so good, so many details, those details he thought he didn't remember at all, were all in his mind.
And these details allowed him to be certain little by little, whether it was his feelings for Gu Fei or Gu Fei's feelings for him, it was more difficult to let go than he imagined.
"If you have any questions, you can call me," Xu Xingzhi looked at Gu Fei, "I will contact you if I have any progress. You must stick to the training methods I wrote to you. She made a noise and became angry. You must also persevere, if you relax once, the first ten efforts will be in vain."
"Well," Gu Fei said, "Thank you."
"And..." Xu Xingzhi took two steps to the side, and Gu Fei followed.
Jiang Cheng knew that what Xu Xingzhi was talking about should be Gu Fei's own problem, so he looked at Gu Fei's back from the corner of his eye.
Gu Fei's question.
In fact, it is the real problem between the two of them.
After Xu Xingzhi and Zhao Jin drove the car away, they stood there and didn't move, looking at the direction the car was leaving in a trance.
This scene looks rather reluctant.
"Give me the key," Pan Zhi stretched out his hand, "I'll go upstairs first."
Jiang Cheng took out the key and gave it to him.
After Pan Zhi turned around and left, he and Gu Fei continued to stand there.
"That," Gu Fei finally said, "I want to... buy a cat for Er Miao."
"Huh?" Jiang Cheng looked at him.
"She likes fat sheep very much," Gu Fei said, "I think she has always been relaxed with small animals, so... I want to buy her a cat."
"Ah," Jiang Cheng nodded, "Okay."
Gu Fei was silent for a while: "Do you... have time? Let's go together."
"Ah," Jiang Cheng finally realized what Gu Fei meant, "Okay."
"Then I'll call you tomorrow?" Gu Fei said.
"En." Jiang Cheng responded.
"Also," Gu Fei bit his lip, "It's about to be... New Year's Eve."
"There are four days left," Jiang Cheng smiled, "Pan Zhi only talked to me today."
"How about you two..." Gu Fei said very hard, "Come to my house for dinner, it's lively."
Jiang Cheng looked at Gu Fei, and after a while he said, "Okay."
"Then I'll go back first," Gu Fei said, "You... rest, it's been too hard these days."
"It's okay." Jiang Cheng smiled.
After Gu Fei turned around, Jiang Cheng didn't move, he just stood there and looked at his back.
This time, Gu Fei didn't look back, just walked quickly along the road, as if he was about to run away.
Jiang Cheng had never seen such a flustered Gu Fei before.
After watching Gu Fei turn the corner, he turned around and entered the corridor, lit a cigarette, and slowly walked upstairs.
For Gu Fei who told him "Forget it", whether it was to buy a cat together or to talk about the New Year together, it was a very difficult matter.
But it was his two invitations that were so difficult that he seemed to be unable to speak in the next second, and the panic he had never felt when he turned to leave, that made Jiang Cheng suddenly see hope.
real hope.
Let's make up.
Jiang Cheng knew that if he said these words now, Gu Fei would definitely agree.
But as much as he wanted to say it, he wouldn't say it anyway, he couldn't let the two of them go back into the cycle of the past.
He had to wait for Gu Fei to say these words.
Let's make up.
He said this sentence, and Gu Fei said it, the meaning is completely different.