A beach barbecue for four people, divided into two sides to sit.
Wang Yue and she ate seriously, occasionally turning their heads to look at the other side curiously.
"You're an unrepentant bastard!"
"Um."
"You heartless bastard!"
"Yeah." Yu Fan picked up a tissue and handed it to her: "Wipe."
Zhang Xianjing was obviously angry, but she wanted to shed tears inexplicably as she spoke, she took the paper and wiped her eyes carefully: "Did you know that when you left, every time we After passing the garbage dump, Wang Luan and Zuo Kuan insisted on going in to take a look, because every time I come out, I smell bad!"
"..."
After speaking, they were silent for a while, and they looked at each other for a few seconds, agreeing in their hearts that Wang Lu'an and Zuo Kuan are idiots.
Zhang Wenjing scolded for a while, then recovered. They used to talk about Yu Fan with emotion. At first, everyone said that they hadn’t seen each other for such a long time. Even if they met one day, they would definitely be unfamiliar and unfamiliar. After a long time, they basically tacitly agreed that they would never see each other again.
She felt the same way, but she didn't expect that when she saw Yu Fan for the first time, the memories of those two years in high school attacked her brain fiercely, and she rushed over without thinking.
She had changed, and Yu Fan seemed to have changed as well. But amazingly, after a few years, she thinks they are still friends.
"They also said that if they saw you, they would beat you up and leave without saying a word to you."
"Let's talk about it after they can fight." Yu Fan leaned back in his chair and said lazily.
Zhang Xianjing wanted to laugh and cry: "So you studied in Ningcheng in your third year of high school and university? What does Sister Wang say that you just graduated this year?"
"I stopped for a year in the middle to study in the third year of high school."
"When you..."
"Family matters." Yu Fan understated it.
"Then if you drop out of school, you drop out of school. Why delete our friends? The group also quit. What, if you drop out of school, you don't want to associate with us?"
Yu Fan suddenly remembered that on the eve of the move, some men came to ask Yu Kaiming, they agreed to pay back the money today, why did it take so long? Do you want to run away after packing your luggage?
Only then did he know that Yu Kaiming had borrowed several thousand yuan in loans, which turned into 20,000 yuan. Before Yu Kaiming could log in, they turned to Yu Kaiming's mobile phone and called all the contacts they could find in the mobile phone. After that, no friend was willing to borrow Yu Kaiming's money to pay off the debt, so they turned around and tried to grab his mobile phone.
He beat people away at that time, wiped his nosebleeds and deleted contacts one by one, even logged out of WeChat.
He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while, and could only say, "It wasn't intentional."
Sensing keenly that he didn't want to continue this topic, Zhang Wenjing paused, and whispered "Forget it".
Yu Fan: "How have they been these past few years? How about you?" This is the question I've wanted to ask since we met.
"Very good." Zhang Wenjing lit a women's cigarette, "Unexpectedly, I also mixed up a second book, but in the end I didn't get a professional counterpart job. I can't help it. It's so beautiful. After posting a few videos, it became popular. Became an Internet celebrity. Wang Luan joined his father's company after graduation. There is a small boss. Zuo Kuan is doing car maintenance. Big law firm, Chen Jingshen..."
Suddenly hearing this name, Yu Fan's heart twitched, and he subconsciously stopped breathing.
Zhang Wenjing said it was easy to say, biting the cigarette for a while, not knowing whether to stop or continue.
Until the person on the opposite side said lightly: "What about him?"
Zhang Wenjing then continued: "Actually, I don't know the specifics. He didn't like to talk in the group, let alone after he changed classes. I haven't chatted with him for several years... Later we It’s all from what Wu Si said. He recommended Jiang University, which seems to be the Department of Computer Science? Wu Si said that it’s the most difficult major to get into, and it’s full of talented people, and then... I don’t know.”
Yu Fan looked at a certain place with no expression on her face, listened carefully to each word, and then answered her words indifferently and naturally at the moment her words fell: "Oh, not bad."
"You haven't been in touch since you broke up?"
After asking this question, there was no answer. Zhang Xianjing turned her head and exhaled a puff of smoke. Turning her head inexplicably, she saw Yu Fan's expression was stiff, and she looked at herself blankly in shock.
"What are you talking about... What breakup?" After a long while, Yu Fan squeezed out a sentence, pretending to be stupid and pretending to be stunned, "Don't use words indiscriminately."
"Stop acting, Chen Jingshen personally admits that you are together." Zhang Wenjing immediately said, "Don't worry, I have kept my mouth shut for the past few years, and no one has said anything about it."
"..."
Chen Jingshen said it himself...
How do you say it? What did you say
Yu Fan gritted his teeth and then let go. After repeated several times, he said, "No."
I don't know if it means not being together or not being in touch.
That's all. Zhang Wenjing took out her mobile phone, knocked and asked, "But I was really shocked when I saw it just now. Why do you have such long hair? You are so handsome."
"Too lazy to cut." Yu Fan looked down at her fingers flying on the screen, "What are you doing?"
"Tell me about finding you—"
Before she finished speaking, Zhang Wenjing's cell phone was taken away when her hands were empty.
"Why?" Zhang Xianjing said in a daze, "Can't you say that? You want to break up with them?"
"No," Yu Fan moved faster than his brain. He glanced at the line of "My mother caught Yu Fan" just typed out by Zhang Wenjing, and said, "After a while, I have been busy recently and have no time to talk to them." fight."
"..."
Zhang Wenjing: "I'm sorry, I can't help it, unless you tie me up, or if you throw away or smash my mobile phone, I will go to an Internet cafe to log on to my QQ that has been useless for five years, give me that 429 QQ friends announced the news."
Yu Fan looked up at her, his indifferent eyes ready to move.
Zhang Wenjing: "... now the country is very powerful in cracking down on gangsters, you know that?"
Yu Fan glanced at the number of people in the group, except for him. He deleted the words in the dialog box: "Forget it, it's up to you, but don't say it in the group."
Zhang Wenjing came to her senses: "Don't tell Chen Jingshen either, right? Got it, understand, we broke up after all."
"..."
"How's the chat going?" On the other side, Wang Yue, who didn't hear anything clearly, couldn't hold back and walked over, "The roasted meat for you is cold."
"The chat is over." Yu Fan returned the phone, pulled up the chair and got up, "You guys eat, I'll fix the picture."
Three girls gathered, and two of them were Internet celebrities who needed to post pictures for business. Almost all of this beach barbecue was taking pictures. Yu Fan got out of the car with a box of ingredients in the afternoon, and returned with another box of ingredients in the evening, and the weight didn't seem to have lost much.
Zhang Wenjing drank some wine, pulled Yu Fan's collar and added WeChat again.
In the end, Wang Yue was responsible for sending everyone home. The topic between them was difficult for Yu Fan to intervene, so he simply turned his head to look at the flickering street lights outside the window, until the topic in the car gradually came to him.
Based on Wang Yuefa's small sentence "What was he like when he was in school", Zhang Wenjing answered each sentence—
"When he was in high school, he never looked at people directly. He was so dragged to death... He fought with people every day, and every Monday he could be seen reading self-criticism on the rostrum."
"Why doesn't the teacher care? Take care, of course, but he can't. He's not afraid of boiling water."
"Wow, none of the three schools next to us dared to mess with him..."
"But how do I remember that when he repeated the exam, his grades were okay, and he didn't pass the college entrance examination later?" Wang Yue couldn't help but also asked.
"Oh, because in the second year of high school, there was a very powerful student bully..." Sensing the killing eyes of the people around her, Zhang Xianjing slowly closed her mouth.
When he got home, Yu Fan was exhausted.
He unlocked the door, closed the door, and then did nothing.
He stood still in the dark entrance, staring at something absently.
He hadn't heard Chen Jingshen's name for a long, long time.
When he first left Nancheng, he actually listened to it every day. Every time Yu Kaiming came back from drinking, he would yell "I want to go back and find Chen Jingshen's mother", "What is Chen Jingshen's phone number", "Are you stupid? Chen Jingshen is also gay without you, since they are all men, Why can't you."
Then the two got into a fight, Yu Kaiming settled down for a while, and then clamored to go back to Nancheng, the cycle repeated for a few months before finally being clean.
Later he discovered that even though Yu Kaiming was no longer whispering in his ear, as long as he thought of Chen Jingshen, he would still trigger a series of physiological reactions, including chest tightness, headache, stomach pain, and difficulty in breathing.
Yu Fan stood in the dark for half an hour before finally turning on the light in the room, clutching his stomach and going upstairs.
Zhang Wenjing has always been honest, she said she couldn't help but she couldn't help it. That night, Yu Fan received a friend request.
[Wang Luan applied to add you as a WeChat friend, additional message: none]
He was having a stomachache at the time, and he didn't bother to care about how much resentment was contained in the word "no", so he passed it with his eyes closed.
It seems that Zhang Wenjing only told Wang Lu'an about him, and did not receive any other friend requests after that, and Wang Lu'an hasn't spoken to him since adding him.
Yu Fan seldom took the initiative to chat with people, otherwise he would not have been in Ningcheng for six years. Only Wang Yue and the landlord contacted him most frequently, and the rest were clients.
What's more, since we haven't seen each other for so long, he doesn't know what to say.
So a week after he became a friend, the dialogue between him and Wang Luan still remained at the phrase "We are friends, let's start chatting now".
Until this day, Yu Fan stayed up all night to clean up the work at hand, and when he woke up, he received more than 30 voice messages on his mobile phone.
One minute at a time.
He was on vacation today, lay on the bed and squinted for a while, and then slowly stretched out his fingers to click on the first one—
"Yu Fan, you fucking..." Cut off, next one.
"I'm unlucky to know you..." the next line.
"I'm more friends with a dog than with you..." Next.
…
After about twenty-five, Wang Lu'an's passionate insults finally stopped, and Yu Fan blinked and began to listen to every word.
"How are you doing? I heard that you are in Ningcheng, why the fuck have you traveled so far."
"Do you have a conscience? You left without saying a word back then, and now you add back as a friend and still don't admit your mistake to me. Is there anyone like you who is a brother?"
"I've been looking for you for the past few years, and I searched for your news on Baidu, but I couldn't find anything. I thought you were dead. I planned to build a grave for you if I couldn't find you in two years. Your last effort."
Yu Fan stared at the ceiling, answering in his heart while listening.
That's how it goes.
ungrateful.
Well, for a while I thought I was dead too.
After listening to everything, Yu Fan picked up the phone and pressed the voice button: "Did you buy the luxury car your father promised you?"
There was silence for a while.
"I bought it, I took a test, can he buy it for me? I drove to Zuo Kuan's repair shop several times..." Wang Lu'an choked up, and couldn't help cursing at the end , "Damn you, I miss you to death."
The two didn't call, they just kept talking. It's been too long since I've spoken, and the voice can give the other party a little time to think about what to say, which is good.
Yu Fan didn't like to be idle, so he got up and made a cup of coffee, chatted with Wang Lu'an casually, and confirmed the shooting with his next client.
His next client was coming to Ningcheng for a wedding. He said that it was a rare occasion for his friends to gather together, and he wanted to take advantage of the day before the wedding wearing a formal dress and taking a group of special lively wedding photos with the groomsmen and bridesmaids.
Taking wedding photos requires the photographer to have certain communication skills. Yu Fan has never taken it before, let alone the best man and bridesmaid this time, so he pushed it without thinking.
Only a few days later, the other party contacted again, and the price doubled.
Yu Fan negotiated a style with the other party, made an appointment, and clicked on the voice message Wang Luan sent a minute ago: "In order to let you know your own mistakes, I shared "The Best Lost Friend" in Moments seven times, even Xueba gave me likes, you just don't fart!"
Yu Fan was in a daze at the voice.
Wang Luan said "Xueba", and suddenly seemed to drag him back to the high school classroom. He was scratching his hair to solve the problem, while the person next to him lowered his eyes and held a pen, stretched out his hand, and simply left the calculation process on his draft paper.
Occasionally, when he looked at it and straightened it out, he would grab the other person's wrist and prevent him from writing further.
Yu Fan held up the phone and pressed the voice button: "Chen Jingshen—"
Swipe up to cancel.
"he… "
Swipe up to cancel.
"After you graduate..."
Swipe up to cancel.
Yu Fan was so tangled up that he was a little irritable, and even inexplicably wanted to slap himself. He grabbed a handful of hair, and the anxiety that disappeared for two years went back and forth, and finally accidentally sent a blank voice over.
Grass.
Just as Yu Fan was about to withdraw, the doorbell rang suddenly.
Receiving a palm-sized package from the courier, Yu Fan frowned, making sure that he hadn't bought anything these days, and turned it over to look at the sender—Zhang Wenjing.
"..."
Yu Fan picked up a knife and opened it, revealing a note and a small black box inside.
Others read the note first and then the box, but Yu Fan doesn't. He pushed open the box with one hand, and saw a crumpled transparent sealed bag.
There is a white button inside.
Yu Fan paused, and immediately recognized that it was a school uniform button. School uniform buttons are the same all over the world, but he just thinks this one looks familiar.
Several times when he couldn't face the owner of the button, he would rest his forehead on the other's broad shoulders and stare at it unconsciously for a long time.
"When Chen Jingshen graduated from high school, the things that Chen Jingshen put in your drawer. I thought that sooner or later they would be taken away, so I took them back. Anyway, they are your buttons. You can decide whether to keep them or throw them away."
Yu Fan was casual and rude when unpacking the package, but now his hand is hanging in the air, he hesitates even to touch it.
He stood there, looking down at the button, unconsciously thinking about the school uniform he had touched many times, and the appearance of Chen Jingshen when he put the button in.
Until the phone buzzed again.
"Why didn't you reply? Are you busy?" Wang Lu'an said.
Finally, the finger fell down, and carefully stuck to the button through the thin plastic bag.
"How is Chen Jingshen now?" Yu Fan heard himself asking into the phone.
"Are you still in touch?"
"... How is he doing?"
Ning Cheng finally caught up with the end of November to cool down. In a city near the sea, when the weather cools down, the wind blows and rains. When Wang Yue arrived at the studio, her hair that was just clipped this morning had already been messed up again.
Wang Yue managed to save her own bangs from behind, looked at the person who was already sitting in the studio editing the film, and said in a daze, "You're wearing this today?"
In the ten-degree weather, Yu Fan was wearing a thin black long t-shirt, stared at the computer and replied, "Yes."
The temperature in this city dropped unreasonably, and the temperature dropped by half overnight. He didn't realize it until he left the apartment, and he didn't bother to go back to get it.
"But didn't you go out to take wedding photos today?" Wang Yue said, "The guests haven't come yet, go back and get a coat."
"No, anyway, they shoot in the studio first in the morning. After reading the weather forecast, the temperature will heat up at noon."
"..."
"Create it while you're young, and don't regret it when you're old." Wang Yue found a thin silver chain on Yu Fan's neck, and said casually, "Pull out the chain pendant, it won't look good in it." .”
"Don't worry about young people," Yu Fan said.
"..."
The invited guests arrived on time. It was agreed that six people would shoot together, three women and three men, but now only five came.
"There is still a best man on the way, please wait a little longer, he came from another place and said he will be here soon." The groom said.
Yu Fan nodded, not paying much attention.
The dress and make-up are all in the responsibility of the other party. The bride brought several sets of dresses, all of which looked very expensive. She and a few little sisters were putting on makeup, and the whole studio was full of their laughter.
"Don't be so sad," the bride put her arms around a little sister beside her, "I'll throw you the bouquet tomorrow, so that you can meet your soul mate right away!"
"Hey, forget it, after being scumbag once, everyone looks like a scumbag to me now."
"What's the matter, love is cut off at any age. How about I ask my husband to introduce you to a few?"
"No, how can there be any handsome IT guy? They are all plaid shirts and Mediterranean..." the bridesmaid suddenly felt a slip of the tongue as she spoke, and immediately added, "Of course your husband is excluded!"
"Hey! You're discriminatory by profession." The groom immediately said, "Wait, you'll meet a handsome IT man in no time."
"real or fake?"
"Really, the great master of our department used to share the dormitory with us. He is no longer called a department grass, at least he must be a school grass." The groom touched his other brother, "He is so awesome. Back then Every time the two of us take some exams, we have to put some food and drink on his table, commonly known as worshiping the Great God."
The bridesmaid exclaimed: "...even if you both want to worship him, how powerful is he... Now he works in a big factory like you? Or did he go abroad for further study?"
"No way. He was robbed by various big companies before he graduated. It was really a bloodbath... In the end, he didn't choose any of them. He went to a new Internet company in Nancheng and invested in technology. It took a while. Over the years, it has developed like riding a rocket.”
After Yu Fan checked the equipment, he replied to Wang Lu'an's news in silence.
The other one didn't show up for a long time. The bride decided to take a few photos of the woman alone. After half an hour, there was still no one.
The groom called back and said: "I asked, it will take a while, why don't you take a picture of us first, he is too handsome, we don't want to play with him."
The best man immediately said with a smile: "No problem! I'll set you off!"
Yu Fan half-kneeled on the ground, with the camera facing upwards, just as he was about to press the shutter at a good angle, the door of the studio was suddenly pushed open. The wind chime that Wang Yue hung up shook weakly twice.
The groom looked up and said with a smile, "Here we come!"
"Sorry, it's raining and traffic jam."
The deep and indifferent voice hit Yu Fan hard on the head like a heavy hammer.
"It's okay." The groom glanced at Yu Fan and said, "Wait a minute, brother, he will change his clothes right away."
Yu Fan opened his mouth to respond, but made no sound.
He kept the original movement, but his head was lowered a little, and his hair and the camera almost blocked his entire face.
Yu Fan seemed to have been punched, his mind went blank, and his breathing slowed and stopped. He knelt there stiffly for a long time, but he didn't have the strength to think about it. His legs didn't seem to be his own. He was so slow that the groom called him twice before he held up the camera and raised his head again.
He stared closely at the new man in the viewfinder, his fingers holding the camera were white.
Those familiar eyebrows looked over indifferently, and met his gaze in the viewfinder.
Yu Fan tried his best several times but couldn't press the shutter button. Even though his whole body was so cold that he couldn't feel it, the picture in front of him was shaking.
stop shaking.
stop shaking...