Happy birthday, I wish you always chic and innocent, as always.
Xiao Ke looked at the short, one-sentence email on the screen, and then looked at the word "Lin An" at the inscription, but he couldn't tell how he felt. He took a sip of freshly brewed coffee, slightly burning his mouth. He put down the cup and exhaled, put his hand on the keyboard, and typed a reply—
Thanks.
After typing only one word, Xiao Ke clicked send. Not much to say, it is not his style to say too much, and there is really no need to say much about the relationship between them.
Ex-lover, ex-lover, this relationship is awkward here.
Xiao Ke glanced at the time. It was around 8:50 and 9:00. The apartment he lived in was facing the street, and the floor was not high. The street lights outside were dazzling at this time.
The news has been flashing in the work group. One of the experiments he recently followed has come to an end. The whole team is in a state of excitement, waiting for the final data. It is really too long. .
Someone in the group asked him: Teacher Xiao, are you the last person to leave tonight? Is the lab locked? My phone is there.
Xiao Ke replied: It's locked, do you want to get it
The other party said: Well, I want to go get it, are you at home? Is it convenient for me to go to your place to get the key
Xiao Ke said: "Wait for me at the north gate, I just happened to be going out, drop by." I'll be there in about fifteen minutes.
Immediately there was a lot of kneeling and crying expressions on the screen, Xiao Ke smiled and turned off the computer.
He was wearing a lambskin jacket, and for the first time on his body, there was still a sheepskin odor on his clothes. The black trousers outline the shape of the legs beautifully, and a small ankle is exposed at the bottom. No matter what angle you look at, this person is seductive. The only regret is that there is a scar on the ankle joint, which is light white and raised, which is a bit inconsistent, but it also adds a touch of sexiness.
When Xiao Ke was scratching his hair in front of the mirror, he thought to himself: This body is really a bit showy.
He changed his clothes and scratched his hair, and before going out, he picked up a black mask and put it on. This dress was so different from his usual work appearance that he was facing each other, and his colleagues in the same group could not recognize him.
Xiao Ke stretched out his hand to take off his mask and laughed: "Good evening, boy."
"Hey my mother, you scared me!" The colleague took a small step to the side first, then slowly came over before laughing, glaring and said, "I really didn't recognize it, this hairstyle is different from usual, I didn't even look at it. think about you."
"What is it like?" Xiao Ke handed him the key, "You can carry the key, and give it to me tomorrow."
"Okay," the other party was still smiling, looking at him and said, "I'm usually pretty handsome, but it's still within the normal range. It's really cool today. What are you going to do wearing this?"
Xiao Ke laughed: "Usually, it's not the mainstream today. It's almost the same anyway."
"I'm just bothering you rich people and talking nonsense." The colleague pointed at him and waved his hand: "Don't delay your work, hurry up and go on a date, do whatever you want, don't worry, I will definitely keep it. A secret, I won't tell anyone that you are like this... that kind of thing."
Xiao Ke asked, "What is it?"
The colleague lifted his eyelids and smiled: "Do you want me to be so direct? What kind of things you don't know in your heart, Xiao Shuai, just show off."
Xiao Ke laughed and said a few more words to his colleague. The car he called arrived. Colleagues waved to him and ran to the laboratory building.
Xiao Ke got into the car, and the driver asked, "Is it Chunfeng Road?"
Xiao Ke said "um".
After that, no one spoke in the car. The driver glanced at him from the rearview mirror. Xiao Ke kept his head down and looked at the phone. Later, he took out the mask from his pocket and put it on his face.
He is a teacher. He asks students to look at him during class. He is the center of attention in many classrooms, and it is necessary to communicate with students by sight every day. But it's very strange, in fact, he doesn't like people looking at him when he takes off his work clothes.
The sight of others wouldn't make him uncomfortable, but it was always uncomfortable, to the extent that he wanted to frown.
No wonder the driver looked at him, Chunfeng Road was a bar street, and Xiao Ke's location was still Su Chi, which would be a mess even on Chunfeng Road. Drivers who often wander in this area know that people who go there to play should not be very normal.
Girls are especially like men, boys are especially like women, this is the most common, and there are all kinds of strange flowers, which are like a gathering place for strange flowers.
The driver couldn't hold back later, looked at the rearview mirror and asked, "Did you put on perfume? It's quite fragrant."
"Sprayed." Xiao Ke said.
The driver asked again: "Are you a student of X University? How old are you?"
The scrutiny and exploration in the driver's line of sight are still quite obvious. Xiao Ke smiled lightly behind the mask: "How old do you think I am?"
"Big three or four?" The driver glanced at him again, "I can't tell."
Xiao Ke said "Yeah", and when he was about to get there, he picked up his mobile phone, nodded and said, "You say yes."
Xiao Ke is very familiar with the place "Su Chi". He first came here when he was in his early twenties, and it has been almost ten years since he was thirty years old today. However, he did not come for a while, so that after walking through the long corridor, when he found that the interior decoration had been changed, he was still a little dazed, thinking that he had entered the wrong door.
"Who the hell is this?" Not far from the door, someone was leaning against a pillar to look at his mobile phone. When he looked up, he saw him hurried over. He stared at Xiao Ke's exposed eyes for a long time, holding his mobile phone. His hand nodded Xiao Ke, "Am I dazzled?"
"You can spend it if you say it's spent," Xiao Ke swept away his hand, put it in his pocket, and asked, "Redecorated?"
"It doesn't work if you don't pretend. This business is the most darn trendy. The decoration is outdated and you can't compete with others."
The person who spoke was the boss here, surnamed Su, so everyone called him Su Chi. In fact, he definitely doesn't call him this name. Once he drank too much and said his name was too dirty to say, and it was not as good as Su Chi. At that time, he was only in his thirties, and he looked handsome and romantic, so he didn't feel too uncomfortable to give himself such a name. Later, after forty, he would look shabby with this name, and his style did not match. Xiao Ke and the others called him Lao Su.
He looked behind Xiao Ke and asked, "Did you come by yourself? Or did Xiao Lin park outside?"
Xiao Ke took off the mask and wrapped it around his fingers, smiled and said, "It's early."
Lao Su raised his eyebrows exaggeratedly and looked at him: "Just kidding? Or is it for real?"
Xiao Ke raised his eyes and said, "It's been over a year, do you think it's true?"
Lao Su opened his mouth and didn't say anything, and a person with such a lively brain couldn't think of anything to say, and finally he could only smile: "I said why you haven't come over for more than a year, and you are afraid of being hurt by the situation? Come on, brother, it's fate to separate and combine, and it's fate when it's gone, don't worry about it."
Xiao Ke nodded: "I really don't care."
"That's fine, then you can play well, come here to have some fun if you have nothing to do, you'll be happy if you're single, don't you think?" Lao Su had other things, so he left after talking to Xiao Ke for a while. .
Xiao Ke found a small round table for the two of them not far from the bar. On the stage, the singers roared and sang a hundred years of rock and roll. It was really too long. Listening to the music, Xiao Ke felt that his head was about to explode.
The waiter came over and asked him what wine he wanted, Xiao Ke said, "Just beer, dark beer."
"Okay, how many bottles do you want?"
"Two bottles."
The waiter continued to ask, "Is there anything else you need?"
Xiao Ke shook his head and said, "No, there is a low price for those occupying the table, right? You can come on as you like."
Xiao Ke didn't listen to what the waiter said afterward. The singer shouted too hard, and it was a bit hard to listen carefully to what people said. Xiao Ke was too lazy to listen.
In the end, when the waiter placed a table full of nuts and squid with a fruit plate, Xiao Ke was a little speechless and said, "You can just have a glass of expensive wine, you are too sincere."
The waiter bent down and said something Xiao Ke still didn't understand. He waved his hand and let him go down.
In fact, Xiao Ke didn't come to drink at all that day, he just wanted two bottles of dark beer, and he had to make another plan. I don't know if I want to say goodbye to the past or simply nostalgic, but standing alone at such a table looks very stupid, Xiao Ke frowned and was a little upset, and all other emotions were gone, he just felt a little embarrassed.
Later, Xiao Ke drank both bottles of dark beer while nibbling on pistachios and pine nuts. Then I asked for a dozen more, and only two bottles were left.
After drinking a little high, I started to live in my mind the small movies from when I was with Lin An. At that time, Lin An was in the Design Institute, he was a graduate student, and the two of them often came over to drink. Lin An was a good drinker, but he liked to pretend to be drunk and said something he wanted to say. Alcohol.
Xiao Ke shook his head. It was the first time he had come since he separated from Lin An. It's probably the last time I've come here. I'm drinking here alone, no matter how I look at it, it's full of stupid sadness, so sad—
"Is there no table?"
Just in time for the music break, a voice came from the side, his voice was a little hoarse, a very deep male voice.
The waiter asked, "How many are you?"
The man said, "Myself."
The waiter looked around and was a little apologetic: "It seems that the small table is really gone, why don't you just sit down for a while."
Xiao Ke's eyes were facing the man's hand. He squinted, his fingers were long, but his hand was not small. He raised his head and glanced, the light was too dark and Xiao Ke couldn't see his face clearly.
Xiao Ke was really drunk, his mind was confused, and he was not sober.
That's why the man grabbed someone's hand when he was about to leave, raised his eyes and said, "Dude, put together a table."