Sword walking

──If you know who I was...

1. first encounter

Standing under the shade of a tree against the scorching August sun, Su Muqiu looked at the future students who were running around sparsely on the playground.A group of people all have pale faces, their limbs are not moving, and their figures are shaky, looking like a large zombie movie.

While wiping his sweat with his hand, Su Muqiu commented in his heart rather unkindly.

The playground is so big, but there are only one or two shaded places. The few students who took the lead to finish the prescribed laps and rest like him all crowded under the tree, paralyzed there, unable to move, causing the tree to be full of sweaty smell. It's sand and soil.Su Muqiu moved half a step to the side indiscriminately, occasionally receiving envious looks from those who were still suffering on the playground, and just smiled lightly.

Student A, who was paralyzed by the side, complained: "Fuck, I really don't want to come to this fucking military training... I should skip it."

"Fortunately, you didn't." Student B pushed up his glasses, which were constantly slipping down due to sweat: "The regulations are very clear: military training is a compulsory course for undergraduates, and the training results will be recorded in the student's grade book, and will be included in the student's file along with the professional completion results. .”

"A small achievement, I'm afraid he won't make it." The former curled his lips disapprovingly, and squinted at Su Muqiu on the playground, "Hey, you think so too, don't you?"

Su Muqiu tilted his head, and said calmly, "I want to apply for a scholarship."

"Cut, grades, I only look at this..."

The man with glasses shook his head: "The last sentence is that those who fail the military training or do not participate without reason will not be allowed to graduate..."

Student C who was watching shouted: "What, it means that if I don't come, I will definitely not be able to graduate before I formally enroll?!"

His screams attracted attention, and the instructor walked over with a straight face, yelled at them for yelling and screaming, and so on. , why not run a few more laps next time.

A few students sighed, got up in disgrace, and moved to the playground half dead. The background sound was the instructor's scolding: "Look at the student next to him, why don't you learn from him, even taking breaks so seriously..."

A few people looked back, and saw Su Muqiu's military posture was upright at some point, standing as straight as a javelin, his eyes were like torches, piercing, in a word, he looked like a ready-to-go-military dog, motherfucker like a dog kind!You were leaning on the tree trunk and chatting just now!

Su Muqiu, who survived the disaster, enjoyed the shade of the tree all by himself under the eyes of everyone's resentment, but within a few minutes of enjoying it, he was stopped by a female teacher who hurried over.

"Student, I'm sorry, can I trouble you to buy a cold drink?" The female teacher said, "There is a teacher in the computer institute who has a heatstroke, and we can't leave. You send it to him. He should be in the white building over there." Rest nearby..."

"Heat stroke? I think he slipped away, Lao Ye..." The male teacher who was almost dried out in the sun muttered.

The female teacher gave him a gouging look, took the change and handed it to Su Muqiu: "Then I'll leave it to you."

Su Muqiu nodded, took the money to find the beverage machine, put in coins, buttons, the machine didn't know what was wrong, and with a bang, two cans fell out.Thinking to himself that he was lucky today, Su Muqiu wondered whether he should buy a lottery ticket, a can of cold drink in each hand, and walked briskly towards the building.

He arrived at the place the female teacher said according to the instructions, but looked around for a while, but he didn't see any teacher who was suffering from heat stroke, only the big yellow dog lying outside and sticking out its tongue listlessly.

Speaking of which, the person with heat stroke was a teacher from the computer academy... In other words, there is a high possibility of contact in the future.Su Muqiu thought that he must leave a good impression on the other party, while walking around the building a few times, looking for the target person.

However, during the summer vacation, except for the freshmen who participated in the military training in advance, there was no one on campus. Su Muqiu searched for a while, and finally saw a figure in the shade behind the building without the sun.Several benches were placed here, and a person sat on one of them. He quickly walked over with a drink, but after getting closer, Su Muqiu realized that he had found the wrong place.

The other party was wearing a crumpled short-sleeved T-shirt and trousers. The thin fabric absorbed sweat and stuck to the body, showing a thin figure. The long overlapping legs looked good—even if the feet were worn out. shoe.And his hands, elbows and the back of his head are laid leisurely on the back of the chair, and a book is covered on his face, which is completely in the posture of a lazy afternoon nap.

Su Muqiu looked carefully, and found a cigarette butt with silvery white soot protruding from the corner of the page. Well, it's fine for this guy to be lazy, and he covers the book to cover himself from smoking, isn't he afraid of the book burning?

"Sorry, senior..." Su Muqiu asked, "Excuse me, did you see a teacher? He's from the computer academy. He's resting nearby due to heatstroke. I'll bring him a drink."

"I didn't see it..." The other party's answer came from under the book muffled, and he was biting a cigarette, his voice was indistinct, and his tone was lazy.

I don't even know I didn't see it, how can you see it with the book covered.Su Muqiu slandered.

Along the way, the cold drink had been turned off early, dripping with drops of water, and sooner or later the cold drink would turn into a hot drink. He was thinking about what to do next, when he heard the senior say very familiarly: "You are from the School of Engineering and Economics. newcomer?"

"..." Su Muqiu twitched his eyes, who is the newcomer in Ji Yuan? !

"A cold drink?"

"……Correct."

"It's so hot, you can just drink it, it's okay."

"Okay." Su Muqiu was not pretentious, sat down on the other side of the bench and started to drink. As for the extra can, he put it directly at the hand of the senior: "There is an extra can, here you are."

"Oh, thank you." The other party waved his hand.

Thanks for what?If he drank it, he was an accomplice, and if something happened, he would presume that the senior instructed him. Su Muqiu shrugged in his heart, and noticed that the other party's hand, which was originally slumped on the back of the chair, was placed on the abdomen, and made a small movement that he didn't know whether it was grasping or rubbing.

The cool wind blows gently, which makes the sweat and heat from the sun disappear a lot. Su Muqiu can't help squinting his eyes while drinking a drink, immersed in the afternoon atmosphere.

As soon as it quieted down, the rustling sound of the breeze blowing through the treetops became more and more clear. However, listening carefully, it was mixed with inconspicuous fierce scolding, with a female-specific sharpness.Su Muqiu reflexively turned his head and looked towards the source of the sound. Behind the cool chair, there was a window a few steps away with the curtains tightly closed, and the noise came from there.

"Is there any club behind?"

"Ok?"

"I heard the voices of several people, and they seem very excited..." Su Muqiu glanced at the book covered on the other party's face, on the cover was written Hamlet, "Are you rehearsing? The senior is also a club member?"

The other party laughed softly, the pages of the book trembled, and the piece of soot finally fell, leaving a little mark on the cool chair.

"No." The other party smiled slightly, "This building is the School of Computer Science."

"what?"

The former said unhurriedly: "The back is the meeting room. The voices you heard were real quarrels, and some parents came to protest."

"People often come to protest? What are they protesting?" Su Muqiu was not very curious, but continued the topic.

"It's more frequent this year, about seven or eight times! As for the protest... Isn't it just like that? It's the same thing after all, is it annoying?" The other party said very hateful words, but his tone was It's bland, "And, they're looking for troublemakers, not in it."

"The client isn't inside?" Su Muqiu was taken aback.

"Hmm. How are you looking forward to college life?"

Su Muqiu wasn't sure if this was a sarcasm, and didn't want to answer, so he changed the subject without a trace: "The senior knows so much information, is it from the Department of Computer Science? Do you mind getting acquainted?"

The other party smiled: "Huh? Freshman asking for cover?"

Su Muqiu's tone was just right: "Yes! In the future, I will rely on the seniors to help and guide the younger generations."

"Okay." The person spread out on the chair adjusted his sitting posture, and at the same time reached out to lift the book on his face, "But I'm not the senior of the computer department, I'm..."

His slender and white fingertips were just on the spine of the book, and the two of them heard the sharp assembly whistle from the direction of the playground.Su Muqiu suddenly remembered that he was still in the military training, quickly got up and threw the jar, left a word to talk to next time and hurried back to gather.

After he left, the people on the bench removed the books that covered their faces, revealing a young face with deep dark eyes.

He looked at the freshman's hurried back, smiled casually, and extinguished the cigarette butt burning to the filter.He reached out and rummaged through his trouser pockets for a long time. Keys, certificates and other items fell on the bench. After finally taking out the cigarette case, the man neatly shook a cigarette and put it in the corner of his mouth, but accidentally knocked it down and dropped it. Drinks on hand.

He pressed his stomach in silence for a moment, and finally just exhaled lightly, without lighting it, he opened the juice can that was warmed by the heat and took a sip.

The fruit juice full of artificial flavors is overly sweet and greasy, leaving an astringent thirst between the lips and teeth.

He closed his eyes, resumed his movements before being disturbed by the new students, and half-lyed on the bench listening to the voices in the conference room.

"...What happened to my son! Contradicting the teacher?! That's because he humiliated my son! My son handed in his homework on time, but what did he say?! Failed?!"

"...Teacher?! What kind of teacher is he...he came in through the back door!"

"...Ye Xiu, that person is not qualified to stay here!"

The man's calm expression did not change at all, and the teacher's card that fell on the side clearly read "Ye Xiu".

2. Professor Zhang, Director Feng

It was only when the woman covered in jewels and heavy make-up grabbed the teacup and threw it on the ground, smashing the things, that Professor Zhang slowly came back to his senses.

"Do you know who I am?!"

The woman was screaming, and she had been screaming for over an hour.

"I know." Professor Zhang nodded calmly, before the director interrupted him in panic, "Monster Parent."

The senior management of the school who was standing next to the woman with a smiling face turned green all of a sudden, and Director Feng of the Computer Academy almost fainted.

But the person concerned frowned suspiciously: "Blind... what?"

"MonsterParent, also known as HelicopterParent in country A, means..."

"Oh, Professor Zhang has drank foreign ink, and he likes to talk about a few new words on weekdays." Director Feng quickly stopped the conversation, dragged Professor Zhang into a corner, and made nonsense with a smile on his face, "What does he mean? ...Parents who care about their children, education, growth, relationships, environment, everything about their children should be taken care of! Haha, hahaha... Don't you think so?"

Director Feng's behavior was really disgraceful. Professor Zhang's clothes were torn crookedly, but he didn't say anything, because the two were standing close to each other. He felt the latter's hands trembling, his breathing was short of breath, and he refused any stimulation otherwise. About to go into shock.

"Really." The lady looked suspicious. She glanced at the high school seniors standing beside her and a middle-aged man with his hands behind his back. professor.

Her back was turned so she didn't see it, but Professor Zhang and Director Feng who were directly in front of them could see clearly. The man was obviously relieved that he didn't need to explain, and he took the time to straighten his cuffs.

Director Feng muttered in his heart, asking and asking, should let him explain, he would like to hear what this old colleague has to say.

Answer honestly, tell the school board lady "Professor Zhang said you are a naughty woman", or trick this bullying woman "What Professor Zhang said is what Director Feng explained"?

"Anyway, I want that person named Ye Xiu to get out of this school!" the woman screamed.

Professor Zhang frowned and looked towards the school representative.

The school quickly spoke: "We will definitely investigate, but if he has no problems..."

"You all answered like this last time, last time, perfunctory me?!"

Director Feng hurriedly smoothed things over: "Ms. Yao, don't worry, if Ye Xiu has any negligence in his duty, we will not tolerate it..."

The senior management of the school nodded again and again, feeling tricky to wipe off their sweat.

One side is the board members who have spent a lot of money on the school, and the other side is well-known scholars and senior professors who have won honorary titles. It is not good to offend either side.

As for Ye Xiu...

He is indeed a rare young genius, but ever since Professor Zhang, who was still the director of the School of Computer Science at the time, stood alone and left him in the school with no qualifications and background, and even directly mentioned the position of professor, the school committee and directors have been at odds. Making trouble every three days, almost blacking out the school.

In this matter, Director Feng, who took over the position of Professor Zhang, felt sympathetic.

Director Feng knows a lot about his colleague Lao Zhang.

Professor Zhang is a research-oriented scholar through and through, ignoring factional struggles, power, and interests in colleges, and has been doing research for decades.Especially after becoming interested in the field of mathematics in recent years, he has fallen headlong. He is not at the school all day long, and went to some famous schools in Biecheng as a visiting professor.

It is precisely because his colleague is a person who is obsessed with research and does not care about others. When the school compromised with the board of directors and proposed "keep Ye Xiu's offer and let him accumulate enough qualifications to come back", Professor Zhang would be straightforward enough to say "why Wasting his time" vetoed it on the spot, and even gave all his classes to Ye Xiu, who just graduated, to show his attitude with actions──It may be that he has long wanted to completely switch to the field of mathematics, and now he has finally waited for the opportunity, Director Feng muttered to himself .

However, this Ye Xiu was also something to worry about.

Thinking of him, Director Feng felt shortness of breath and chest pain.

What was the last time he was protested?Ye Xiu has been protested so many times, Director Feng was surprised that he couldn't remember it!

He was in a trance, and Ms. Yao gave him the answer while yelling: "...what happened to my son?! I asked him in a good voice like now why he failed my son, but he actually humiliated me , Curse my son..."

Everyone was puzzled, what kind of voice and anger are you...

"Didn't we discuss this matter when you came here before..." The school representative tried to soften the atmosphere.

Ms. Yao stomped her feet angrily: "I didn't accept it!"

She was the only one who didn't accept it.

The situation at that time was that Ms. Yao blocked Ye Xiu who was alone in the school, and indiscriminately scolded him in the street, pointed at his nose, and asked why her precious son failed the exam.

According to the impressions of the students watching, Ye Xiu responded to Ms. Yao's ugly words of shrew swearing at the street with a caring sentence: "Your son's homework is not good, it's too watery, is there a child at home who is playing graffiti on his homework? Yes, he has been sleeping in class, which looks like a sign of narcolepsy, if you have had a brain injury recently, you should take him for a checkup."

Within 24 hours, this passage became a hot post on the campus forum, and it is still often mentioned by students today.

Ms. Yao's petite heart can definitely be classified as a bully in school, and she is an idiot, so I don't know how much my parents have spent to study in this university.There were quite a few students who had deep grievances against her son, and Ye Xiu's quick and straightforward response, the applause was enthusiastic at the time. Anyway, Director Feng, who rushed to the scene to mediate after the incident, was very tired and felt that he could no longer love him.

And Ye Xiu just stood quietly aside with a smile that couldn't tell whether it was mocking or not.

Unlike Professor Zhang, Director Feng is a smooth and smooth person with long sleeves and a good dancer. He may not be as academically accomplished as the former, but he handles interpersonal relationships well, so he was hand-picked by the school to replace Professor Zhang.

He had met Ye Xiu a long time ago, who had caused several disputes this year. The other party was a smart man who could see many things clearly. In fact, as long as Ye Xiu was willing to violate his conscience, he would be fine if he didn't let the students pass the exam. Well, this person wants to remain the same, leaving a lot of things for others to criticize.

Director Feng glanced at his old colleague standing aside.

As he expected, Professor Zhang looked impatient and looked down at his watch frequently.

Not only Director Feng, but Professor Li opposite also noticed his colleague's movements and smiled slowly.

"Sorry, I forgot..." Professor Li smiled apologetically, "Old Zhang, do you have a mathematics seminar to attend in City G today? Is it too late? I remember that meeting was very important!"

He subtly emphasized the word "important", provoking Ms. Yao's sensitive nerves: "Important?! Does it mean that my son's affairs are not important? Is the time I wasted not important?"

Professor Zhang: "Can I trouble you to get to the point directly."

This answer drove Ms. Yao into a frenzy: "The point is that you are abusing your privilege and opening the back door for your own students! You don't teach him, let him take advantage of others, look at him, is he worthy of teaching here?! What is your school's standard? So low? I sent my son here to be educated, not to..."

Ms. Yao's unscrupulous words made the representatives of the school look bad. In recent years, public opinion has been particularly displeased with the abuse of privileges. If this person goes out and yells at the media, the higher authorities will find out that even if nothing happens, the school's reputation will be ruined in half.

In this tense atmosphere, there was suddenly a crisp knocking sound.

knock knock.

knock knock.

The unhurried knocking sound continued. Everyone looked at the door and found that the sound was not coming from outside the door. They were puzzled for a while, and Professor Zhang, who was listening attentively, said, "It's the window."

"The window?" Director Feng opened the curtains, the sky outside the window was clear, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, but there was nothing else.Confused, he unscrewed the window lock and pushed the window open. Just as he was about to take a look, he saw a figure standing up from under the window sill, slapping the grass off his body leisurely, leaning against the window frame and smiling inwardly.

"Hi, good afternoon everyone, are you discussing my business?" Ye Xiu smiled.

Director Feng was dumbfounded: "Ye...Ye Ye...Ye Xiu? Why are you here?! Shouldn't you accompany the freshmen to go to military training in other places..."

Ye Xiu hummed: "There was a problem with the bus, so it was temporarily changed to the school. I just said how could I be included as a team teacher, Director Feng, so you deliberately dismissed me? My heart aches."

"You—" Ms. Yao trembled with anger when she saw Ye Xiu's face clearly.

The window sill was not high, so Ye Xiu pushed the troubled Director Feng in. After making room, he leaned on the window sill, rolled into the meeting room with a whoosh sound, and stood directly opposite Ms. Yao a few steps away.

"Long time no see, Mrs. Yao." Ye Xiu smiled, "Why didn't you notify me when you came?"

The school is about to collapse, what is this familiar tone?Didn't you see that their school manager was going to faint?God bless this Xiaoye, don't say anything that further ignites the flames of war!

Unlike the fearful school officials, although Director Feng had complicated emotions, he was not worried that Ye Xiu would deliberately say something stinging. This person was still aware of current affairs.It's just that even if it wasn't intentional, what he said was still annoying enough...

He asked, "Is it the same questions as before?"

You still have self-knowledge!Then you are still making trouble with me!

"Since it's my problem, why don't you come to me directly? It's not good to waste other people's time, isn't it?"

"This is also a helpless move... We accompanied Ms. Yao to discuss with you before, but there was no result, so I hope that the misunderstanding can be resolved through Professor Zhang..." Professor Li said.

The implication was that no matter how much they blamed Ye Xiu, he wouldn't hurt him, so they took Professor Zhang directly and hoped that the latter would discipline him.

Ye Xiu nodded: "That's it! Then I'm here, let's discuss it openly, what kind of misunderstanding?"

Ms. Yao's gunfire hit Ye Xiu all of a sudden, and he responded with ease, standing leisurely with arms folded. Professor Zhang and Director Feng were immediately forgotten in the corner, and no one would notice if they walked out on the spot.

This is the effect he wants.

However, amidst the woman's sharp yelling, colleagues' round-the-clock make-up, and the school's trying to appease, Ye Xiu still heard Professor Zhang's voice clearly—he made a phone call: "Sorry, I'm late, please cancel my attendance. Yes...I'm sorry too."

The meaningless dispute was not over until evening.

The woman left angrily, followed by Professor Li, and the school went out to appease her. Everyone had their own business, and the meeting ended soon.

Ye Xiu pursed his lips and apologized to Professor Zhang in a low voice.The latter patted him on the shoulder and said flatly: "Xiaoye, keep your original intention and don't be affected by external objects."

Leaving this sentence, he stepped out the door and left.

Director Feng glanced at Ye Xiu tangled up, hurriedly followed Professor Zhang, and asked in a low voice, "Old Zhang, their previous proposal was not unreasonable, young people should hone their skills, and let him start as a teaching assistant." , with qualifications, it is reasonable for us to offer him a professorship... Or go outside for a few years, do you remember how many companies are scrambling to get him, why bother to keep him here and feel sulking... He will definitely become the first Two Bill Gates..."

"In this field, his talent is indeed one in a million, and he can achieve great achievements in whatever he does." Professor Zhang's calm voice gradually faded away and melted into the air, "...but that will affect at most one generation. Education, Only education can pass on the light and make a nation progress and a country prosper. Here, he can illuminate more people and find out the buried talents."

Director Feng: "..." These words are beautiful, but somehow they sound familiar.

Ye Xiu stood leaning against the wall for a while. After a long time, he let out a long breath. He took out the cigarette case from his trouser pocket, slipped to the back door, looked at the sky full of stars in the summer night sky, and quietly exhaled white smoke. .

When he was lighting a second cigarette, he heard two familiar voices, the man and woman who had left earlier turned back and discussed something in a low voice.The corner where Ye Xiu was located was hidden and downwind, so the two of them didn't notice it.

"Thank you very much for your assistance today." Professor Li said in a personable tone.

"Ms. Li, are you sure that Ye Xiu is really capable of competing with you? What's the plan?" Ms. Yao questioned.

"As I mentioned to you before, it is the plan of the National Information Center." Professor Li said, "This plan was released directly from above. It is the first time that the concept of a new structure is solicited from outside. The evaluation period is one year..."

Ms. Yao interrupted him: "I still remember that the materials for the final stage will be submitted next month, and then the results will be released to confirm the winners, right? You can cooperate with the information center or something."

"This is a personal identity and a country..." The latter held back impatiently.

"I don't understand these things. I just want to know why you, a professor with more than ten years of experience, are so nervous about a junior?" Ms. Yao was puzzled, "Are you sure that Ye Xiu is among the five people who entered the final review? He sees It doesn't sound that great."

"He didn't have that name before." Professor Li was silent, and when he spoke again, his tone was eccentric, "...do you know 'Ye Qiu'?"

Of course, Ms. Yao didn't know who the name of this lousy street was: "Anyway, without him, you can win that plan, right?"

Professor Li nodded confidently: "It doesn't matter if you can kick him out of school, as long as it can distract him during this period..."

"Over there at the information center, I have someone I know, and I will ask him to help you with a few compliments. As for my son..."

"Your son is talented. After I win the project, I will definitely need an assistant. I hope to invite him to participate and assist me in my work... His name will be submitted as the first assister. It is expected that your son's talent will be noticed. !"

Ms. Yao was satisfied: "By the way, will that so-and-so Zhang cause trouble?"

"Don't worry, Ye Xiu's pretending to be noble is in the same line as his teacher, and there is no one behind them." Professor Li regained his composure, "If Lao Zhang hadn't insisted on keeping Ye Xiu, he would have nothing to do with him this time, so he might be happy Why don't you go to some math club! It's getting dark, I'll take you back."

The two left side by side, and Ye Xiu extinguished his third cigarette in the shadow of the back door.

After that, Ms. Yao came to protest several times one after another.

In addition to those with other purposes like hers, many blind parents of students were also incited. They listened to the rumors that "it is not Professor Zhang who teaches their children at all, but an idiot who walked through the back door" and protested to the school, hoping to replace them. Ye Xiu.

They send their children to be gilded, of course they hope that when they say "the teacher is so-and-so", others will be amazed and convinced, but Ye Xiu?Who is that?A name you've never heard of, a guy with no real material?

As for Ms. Yao, the most difficult one among them, she chose to go directly to Professor Zhang, even forcing him to leave the research at hand and come from another place in a hurry, but Professor Zhang never told Ye Xiu these things.

Director Feng, in order to prevent Ye Xiu from adding fuel to the flames of anger, used all kinds of weird reasons to dismiss the latter from time to time.

What they didn't know was that Ye Xiu never stopped listening to the whole scene.

3. Su Mucheng, under the umbrella of three people

The 19-year-old boy put his hands on his waist, stared at the little girl sitting on the high chair at the bar, and carefully instructed: "If a stranger gives you something, you can't take it, no matter what you eat, drink, play, you know? "

know, know.The girl nods.

"You have to do your homework carefully, write down anything you don't understand and ask me at night, understand?"

understand.The girl plays with the hem of the skirt.

"You can't cause trouble for Aunt Chen. She is very tired taking care of a cafe by herself. Be obedient, understand?"

understand, understand.The girl held back a yawn.

"Mucheng, are you listening to your brother?"

"Yes." Su Mucheng raised her hand and said, "Brother, I'm already 14 years old..."

"What's wrong with being 14? Is 14 too old? A 14-year-old is still running around the streets with a snot in his nose."

But brother, you were already earning money to support the two of us when you were 14 years old. Isn’t 14 too young?

"Su Mucheng!"

Su Mucheng tilted her head: "Brother, are you tanned?"

"Really?" Her brother squeezed his arms and face, looking at his own arms, "Maybe it's related to military training, I've been in the sun for a few days... Anyway, I have a physique that can't be tanned, so it will come back soon ...Also, don't change the subject."

Su Mucheng stuck out her tongue, jumped off the chair before the other party spoke, and hid directly behind the woman who came out of the kitchen when she heard their voices.

Once facing others, the young man's frowning expression immediately turned into a spring breeze, with a comfortable and gentle smile hanging on his face, he nodded to the other party: "Aunt Chen, I will trouble you to take care of Mucheng today too..."

"Xiao Cheng is very sensible, Xiao Su, you don't have to worry so much." Aunt Chen smiled, "Is it time for you to work soon?"

Su Muqiu looked down at his watch, his expression changed, he hurriedly bid farewell and rushed out the door, the bell on the door rang crisply.

Aunt Chen and Su Mucheng looked at each other and smiled, the former lowered his head to wipe the bar, the girl obediently picked up a pen, and wrote the homework assigned by the school on the table.

However, within a minute, the brisk tinkle sounded again, and Su Mucheng pursed her mouth. She wanted to ask her elder brother what else she wanted to explain, but when she turned around, she saw another person.

A young man wore a sports coat that hadn't been washed for an unknown period of time, stepped on slippers, and walked into the cafe with the appearance of a vagrant. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the door with a puzzled expression, and kept rubbing his left shoulder.

"Ye Xiu!" Su Mucheng waved.

Ye Xiu responded with a smile, sat down in his old seat and put down the notebook he brought.

Su Mucheng stood on tiptoe, took out a glass from the cupboard, filled it with water, and put the glass and the menu in Ye Xiu's hands in a dignified manner: "What do you want today?"

Ye Xiu opened the menu: "Black..."

Before he finished speaking, the girl had already turned her head to order from the proprietress: "Aunt Chen, as always, black coffee, no sugar, no milk... so bitter."

Ye Xiu was helpless.

"It would be great if you came earlier, maybe I could introduce you to my brother." Su Mucheng propped her chin, "My brother just left... You missed it again."

"Oh...Qiu Musu?"

"Yes!"

Ye Xiu subconsciously rubbed his shoulders: "I was hit by someone outside the door just now. That guy said sorry and rode away on his bicycle. I think his speed exceeded [-] per hour! Is that your brother?"

"Hmm...sounds very similar!" Su Mucheng asked seriously, "Is he handsome?"

"I don't know, he only left me a handsome back." Ye Xiu spread his hands, suddenly remembered something, fished out a handful of candy from his pocket, and put it in Su Mucheng's palm.

"How can there be candy?"

"My idiot brother brought them before. I don't want to eat these, so give them to you."

"Is it Ye Qiu?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Yes. Do you remember him?"

The girl looked at the colorful candies in her hand, and the delicate wrapping paper shone brightly in the afternoon sun.She remembered the few instructions her brother Qian confessed to Wan: Don't take things from strangers.

She asked, "Ye Xiu, am I a stranger to you?"

"No way! I know your name is Su Mucheng. You are 14 years old. You like to listen to radio dramas. You have a serious but nagging older brother who is responsible for supporting the family." Ye Xiu paused for a moment, then added, "I just added one more. Very handsome."

Su Mucheng laughed and counted with her fingers: "I also know, your name is Ye Xiu, you are 23 years old, you became a university teacher a year ago, and you have a younger brother named Ye Qiu who can buy candies—yes, and you are twins." , you showed me the photos."

She pressed her lips: "However, you forgot to say that I was the one who dragged you to start playing online games. One Autumn Leaf and Lord Grim are both named by me."

"Right. Like us, we are acquaintances." Ye Xiu gestured between himself and Su Mucheng, "Your brother and I are strangers."

The girl nodded approvingly and stuffed the candy into her schoolbag.

"By the way, Ye Xiu, my brother has been admitted to your school!" Su Mucheng shook her foot, "Will you become my brother's teacher?"

Ye Xiu laughed, "How could it be such a coincidence."

They chatted for a while, Su Mucheng helped to bring the coffee, Ye Xiu took a sip, opened the notebook and called up the programming software, wrote a string of characters that Su Mucheng could not understand in the window, and wrote Full of concentration, there are tiny rays of light flickering deep in the lazy black eyes.

Being with Ye Xiu like this, I always feel very motivated. Su Mucheng also took the homework book and moved to the seat next to him. One big and one small were doing their homework with serious faces. Aunt Chen behind the bar happened to see, He laughed again.

Su Mucheng's homework was relatively simple, and she finished it quickly. She reviewed what she learned in class today, and after asking Ye Xiu's permission, she picked up his mobile phone to play.

For the convenience of contact, Su Muqiu provided Su Mucheng with a mobile phone, but it was a rather old model, not to mention surfing the Internet, even the screen was black and white.After returning home, because there was only one computer at home, and Su Muqiu needed to do programming, she didn’t have much time to play with the computer. At this time, she opened the forum and found that there were many new dramas to listen to, and there were several people whose names she didn’t recognize. Rookie CV.

But she still opened a drama post that was published half a year ago with very few replies.

It was a radio play called "A Thousand Machines".

The reason why Su Mucheng has been in the online matching circle is because of her brother Su Muqiu.

Su Muqiu is very busy, running around every day to work in various places. When he doesn't need to make money, he immerses himself in reading and learning programming by himself.The only thing in his life that can be regarded as entertainment is probably listening to radio dramas occasionally.

At first, in the first year of high school, Su Muqiu owed a favor due to certain circumstances, and was later dragged by that senior to the radio club to help with inventory and moving equipment. Only the U disk was given to him to go back and listen to, so the Su family brothers and sisters knew the term "net match".

But he only listened to dramas occasionally, and didn't really go deep into this circle.On the contrary, it was Xiao Mucheng. She felt that her brother's voice was so beautiful, it was a pity that it didn't match the drama.

It wasn't until the end of his sophomore year that the club's equipment was replaced. The senior who had asked him for help found that he was interested, and gave him the old professional equipment at a price that was almost free. Su Muqiu had a brain twitch and nodded. .

"After all, this broken computer can't run games, so it can only do this." Facing Su Mucheng's smiling face, the brother of the Su family said stiffly.

Su Mucheng took a nickname for her elder brother, Qiu Musu──It was originally Qiu Mu