In the few months since he left, Yu Fan was looking at the train ticket back to Nancheng every day. For 217 yuan, he can see Chen Jingshen again.
There was even one time when he had already bought his ticket and packed his luggage. He told himself that he would just take a look at the railing of the back door and come back immediately after reading it, but he received a call from the hospital as soon as he arrived at the station. The debt collector found their current address, and Yu Kaiming had already been sent to the hospital.
Before the nurse could say a few words, the phone call was snatched by the debtor, and the person over there shouted: "Your father said that your partner is very rich! What! Father's debt is paid by the son, so hurry up and find your partner to borrow money to pay off the debt." !!"
After hanging up the phone, Yu Fan stayed on the platform for a long time, watching the high-speed train coming and going, until a staff member came to him and asked him if something happened.
He shook his head, threw the ticket into the trash can, picked up the bag on the ground, turned and left the station.
It was impossible for Yu Kaiming to repay the debt he owed. Since then, Yu Fan has been dealing with debtors every day, and never thought about going back.
Only occasionally when he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he would still open the software to look at the ticket, thinking that the distance between Nancheng and Ningcheng was only 217 yuan, whether he and Chen Jingshen would accidentally run into each other in a certain corner.
Once he saw a side face that looked very similar to Chen Jingshen, and after a quick glance, he chased him for half a street, only to find that the front face was completely different after catching up.
He was standing in the crowd at that time, and he realized that six years had passed, Chen Jingshen no longer wore a high school uniform, and his facial features had long been worn out by time.
It wasn't until now that I saw it that I realized that nothing had changed.
The single eyelids that always look unhappy, the straight bridge of the nose, the clear and tight jawline, every line is the same as in his memory. It's just that many years have passed, and the man's shoulders have become wider and more stable. The crisp gray suit has aggravated the innate coldness on his body, and the eyes in the viewfinder are clean and unkind.
What the groom said was not unreasonable. Chen Jing looked into the mirror, even if he was just standing in the corner, he still looked like the protagonist of the photo.
The groom waited for a while, and his posture was about to freeze. He was about to ask, but a flash of light flashed in front of his eyes, and the photographer finally pressed the shutter.
Yu Fan had never taken this type of work before, so most of the poses and movements were taught by Wang Yue, and she would ask Yu Fan when she was done, "Do you have any comments?"
The person behind the camera has an opinion almost every time, but the voice seems to be much lower than before: "The groom keeps his head up. Keep his shoulders straight. His expression is relaxed."
Until a certain position, Yu Fan squatted on the ground, staring at the viewfinder for a long time in silence.
Just before Wang Yue couldn't help but want to urge him again, he rolled his throat and said, "The one on the left..."
Chen Jingshen looked at the camera, waiting for him to finish.
"Turn a little to the right."
Chen Jingshen moved.
"It's over, come back. Come back, arm..."
"What are you doing, Fanbao." Wang Yue wondered, "When is this going to happen? Just get started."
"..."
Yu Fan squatted there for a few more seconds before getting up like a marionette. He held the camera in front of his face with one hand, walked to Chen Jingshen, pressed his fingers stiffly on his shoulder, and adjusted the angle.
"Brother Shen, is this the first time you have taken this kind of photo?" Seeing that he was at the mercy of others, the groom couldn't help but smile and said, "Thanks for your hard work."
"It's okay." Chen Jingshen glanced at the head resting beside him, and asked, "How do you move your arms?"
"..."
Yu Fan grabbed his sleeve and moved to the side, said "just don't move" quickly, and immediately turned back to the original position.
Looking up at the viewfinder again, Chen Jingshen's face was paralyzed as usual. He was very tightly blocked just now, and Chen Jingshen probably didn't see his face clearly.
Yu Fan breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help thinking, what would Chen Jingshen's reaction be if he found out
What will you say? Will he be angry because he left without saying goodbye? I will still treat it as if I just met an old classmate, or someone who was stupid in adolescence, exchange a few awkward greetings, and say goodbye decently after this job is over.
These messy thoughts continued until the end of the first half of filming.
The groom stood beside him looking at the photos, boasting as he watched them. Yu Fan was flipping through the photos absent-mindedly, when suddenly a bell rang in front of him.
Yu Fan subconsciously raised his head along with the others, and his heart trembled when he met Chen Jingshen's gaze. He was fixed in place by this gaze, and he raised his arms clumsily and slowly—
But Chen Jingshen just passed over his face. He lifted his mobile phone and said to the groom, "Take a call."
After finishing speaking, Chen Jingshen turned around and walked towards the balcony, leaving behind a crisp back.
The glance was too hasty, and Yu Fan hadn't had time to cover his face with the camera. He held the camera with his hands in front of his chest, in a awkward posture.
Stupid.
After thinking about it so much, he never thought that Chen Jingshen might not recognize him after six years and his hair covered half of his face.
The previous secretiveness was like a joke, Yu Fan's mind was empty, he lowered his head and continued to numbly scroll through the photos in the camera.
As soon as the balcony door was closed, the bridesmaid who said she didn't believe there was a handsome guy among the IT men rushed over: "You have such a handsome friend, why didn't you tell me earlier! Quickly, push his WeChat to me!"
"He's right here, why don't you just ask him for it?" said the groom.
"He seems a little unreasonable, and I don't dare to talk to him."
"Then don't worry, it doesn't look like he just doesn't care about people. We have been in the same dormitory with him for four years, and we only became acquainted with him in the third year." The groom took out his phone and was about to open WeChat when he suddenly remembered something. , "No, why did you add him on WeChat?"
"What do you think? I will sworn brothers with him?" said the bridesmaid, "Of course I want to develop!"
"That's not good, that's not good." The groom put down the phone.
The bride leaned on his shoulder: "What do you mean? Didn't you agree to introduce it to my sister?"
"No, no, I just refuted her statement that IT men don't have handsome guys, and I didn't say that I should introduce Chen Jingshen to her." The groom said hurriedly, "He should have a partner."
Yu Fan slid his finger on the camera button and pressed it empty.
"Yes, yes, no, no, what should it be?" the bride asked doubtfully.
"I used to have it when I was in school, but I don't know about it after graduation." The groom said, "But he has a good relationship with his partner. Isn't our major busy? It takes me a long time to see you once, but He is different, he will find his partner every holiday, so I reckon we should still be together now."
"That's not necessarily true. My predecessor and I were also very tired in college, and we will still be separated after graduation." The bridesmaid discussed, "Well, you give me his contact information, and I will try to ask, and forget it. , if not, I will attack immediately."
"No, no." The groom shook his head.
The bride immediately frowned again, and the groom hurriedly said, "I don't like women!"
The room was quiet.
The bride stared in surprise for a while, and couldn't help poking him with her shoulder: "Are you a fool? This is someone else's privacy, can you say it casually?"
"Isn't that what you guys have been asking all the time..." the groom said, "And it's not private, right? When a girl confessed to him when he first entered the freshman year, he said it directly, and everyone basically knew it."
…
Yu Fan didn't want to hear it anymore, but Wang Yue's studio is so big, he has no other place to go.
After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the balcony door was pushed open, and Chen Jingshen said, "Wait a while, let's deal with something."
"It's okay." said the groom, "shall we continue then?"
Yu Fan picked up the camera and said yes without looking up.
The weather forecast was not very accurate. After shooting the scenes in the studio, the temperature outside remained at 15 or 6 degrees. Fortunately, the rain stopped, so the exterior scenes would not be delayed.
Coming to Ningcheng, the location is naturally the beach again. The groom temporarily rented a six-seater commercial vehicle here, and hired a driver. It was just right for the few of them to sit in it, but they couldn't take the photographer with them.
"It's okay, we have a car, I'll step on the scene, and your car will follow us in a while." Wang Yue came down from the stairs, holding the reflector in her hand and smiling.
She has nothing to do recently, doing assistant work all day long to pass the time.
"Okay, shall we wait for you in the car?" the groom asked.
"no problem."
The door of the studio was opened to allow a group of people in uniforms to go out, and the cold wind poured in without any hindrance.
Yu Fan lowered his head to pack the things he was going to take out. He stuffed the stomach medicine into his bag, and heard Wang Yue shout at the door of the dressing room: "Fan Bao."
Wang Yue held two new men's coats in her hands, which she bought as gifts for her boyfriend before, but before they were given away, the dog man cheated on her. She asked: "You will wear it to work in a while. Which one do you like?"
"No need." Yu Fan said.
Wang Yue clicked her tongue: "You little boy, why are you so disobedient? Quickly, pick one."
"don't want."
Yu Fan looked down at his bag, to make sure he hadn't missed anything, when someone touched his shoulder suddenly. He thought it was Wang Yue again, raised his head with a frown, and when he met Chen Jingshen's eyes, his whole face froze.
The heavy black coat was handed over, and Yu Fan hugged it unconsciously. When he regained consciousness, the other party had already walked out of the studio and closed the door behind him.
Wang Yue had a panoramic view of this scene. She froze for a moment, then quickly understood.
In the past, there were quite a few people who gave Yu Fan things, or invited him to dinner, and borrowing a coat was already a restrained gesture. She is not surprised by this kind of thing, but this time she will be surprised, that is, the man just now is a little more handsome than the previous ones.
Forget it, he's more than handsome.
Wang Yue walked over to Yu Fan, wanting to say let me return the coat for you, so as not to say hurtful things to others later and affect the business. As a result, her words turned around her lips, and she swallowed them back.
I saw Yu Fan stuck there like a log for a long time, and finally made a move.
He unfolded the coat silently, and put it on himself. The large coat covered his whole body inside, and he didn't look so thin anymore.
On the way to the beach, Wang Yue glanced at the people in the passenger seat every time she stopped.
"You guys know each other?" At the third traffic light, she finally couldn't help asking.
"Hmm." The person next to him responded hoarsely.
"friend?"
"High school classmates."
It was only then that Wang Yue remembered that the client this time was from Nancheng just like Yu Fanzhang Wenjing.
"Why didn't I see you say hello before?" She wondered.
Yu Fan has been turning his head to face the window since he got in the car. He buried his mouth in his coat, closed his eyes and smelled the familiar and cold mint fragrance, and felt the throbbing pain in his stomach.
He was silent for a long time, so long that Wang Yue felt that he didn't want to answer or fell asleep.
"I thought he didn't recognize me." Yu Fan said.