Cappuccino Rhapsody

When Lin Xieyang entered the door, she subconsciously pressed the light in the living room, but she didn't expect that the light that had been broken for nearly half a month would turn back on. She was stunned for a moment, and when she saw Ling Jiangyuan sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, she pinched her nose: " Have you fixed the light?"

Ling Jiangyuan didn't look back, and said "hmm" and said, "It's just been repaired."

"It's been broken for half a month and hasn't been repaired, why did it suddenly get fixed?" Lin Xieyang gave him a disgusted look, "Why did you start smoking again, didn't you quit?"

Ling Jiangyuan smiled: "Occasionally, I have a mouth addiction."

Lin Xieyang handed the things to him: "All the things you asked me to buy are here. Shall I go back first?"

Ling Jiangyuan said goodbye.

The things were on the coffee table, but he didn't touch them.When Lin Xieyang went out, he said, "Turn off the light for me."

"Weird." Lin Xieyang turned off the lights and the door after finishing his evaluation.

The room was plunged into darkness again, and it took Ling Jiangyuan's eyes some time to adapt before he could see things in the darkness dimly enough.

Although still very dark.

But in the past half a month, he has adapted very well.

He didn't know why he suddenly repaired the lamp, probably because he met someone who happened to be afraid of the dark.

He never thought that he would meet the other party again.He knew that Qi Xu went to City B, but he never thought that Qi Xu returned to City S again.

Ling Jiangyuan smoked a whole cigarette in the dark, got up and poured a glass of water and drank it all, then put down the glass and went to the bedroom to sleep.But he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep for a long time, so he turned on the desk lamp and got up to write in his diary.The diary is very old, and the cover is even a little faded. On one of the pages, there is his name written by Qi Xu, and a small heart drawn.

Ling Jiangyuan rubbed it for a long time before turning to the back and writing a short diary.

2019.07.09 sunny

The lamp that had been broken for a long time was repaired, and I started smoking again after quitting for a long time.

People who thought they would never see them again, still saw them.

Qi Xu regretted it a bit afterwards, he shouldn't have flashed his hole cards impulsively, and went up to kiss people for no reason, otherwise everyone would think he was playing a hooligan.

But Ling Jiangyuan's subsequent performance also made Qi Xu feel that kissing or not kissing may not make any difference to Ling Jiangyuan.

The two of them still kept in touch because of Fang Ziyun's song, and even added each other's WeChat.It was as if nothing happened that day, there was no kiss, let alone Ling Jiangyuan's "I'm divorced".

These four short words, like "I'm getting married" at the beginning, set off a storm in Qi Xu's heart.

In the past few years, Qi Xu even thought that when he saw Ling Jiangyuan again, he might see Ling Jiangyuan and Bai Ying's child again, but he didn't expect to see these four words.He should be happy, someone abandoned him to pursue happiness and got divorced, but in fact, the moment he heard it, Qi Xu couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

Qi Xu hasn’t used QQ in 2011 for many years. Wechat gives people more sense of privacy and distance. His circle of friends never sends any messages about himself, and his life seems to be empty.

Qi Xu stared at Ling Jiangyuan's account for a long time, and he clicked in to take a look out of curiosity.

Ling Jiangyuan's circle of friends is also very simple, some foreign scenery, not even accompanying text.Today's Qi Xu has no mutual friends with him, and he can't even see whether there are comments or likes.

Watching is equivalent to not watching.

Qi Xu withdrew and blocked Ling Jiangyuan's circle of friends.

The next day, he went to find Ling Jiangyuan on time as if nothing happened.

The two had originally met in a coffee shop, but they lacked privacy. After chatting, Ling Jiangyuan suggested, "Or you can come to my house."

Qi Xu twitched the corner of his mouth inexplicably at the other end of the phone, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "What do you want to do?"

"what?"

Ling Jiangyuan didn't understand what he meant.

Qi Xu suddenly became a little irritable: "It's nothing. Just send me the address again, and I'll take a taxi directly."

Qi Xu followed the navigation to the entrance of the community, got out of the car and was about to call Ling Jiangyuan, when he saw Ling Jiangyuan standing in front of the breakfast stall not far away, buying food, he was wearing sportswear, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, Obviously just finished exercising.Ling Jiangyuan took out a square scarf to wipe off the sweat on his forehead, turned his head slightly, and met Qi Xu's gaze.

He beckoned: "Here."

Qi Xu greeted him expressionlessly.

"Have you eaten?" Ling Jiangyuan asked him, "Do you want some?"

"No need." Qi Xu said strangely, "Thank you."

Ling Jiangyuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled lightly, and when he looked back at the pancakes that were being spread, he lost his mind for a moment.He pursed his lips back to him: "You're welcome."

Seems like they're really just friends.

Just friends who have done countless intimate things.

Qi Xu noticed that the light in the living room had been repaired, but he didn't think about it, but said: "You don't need to turn on the light in broad daylight."

"It must be brighter, and you are afraid of the dark." Ling Jiangyuan found a pair of shoes from the shoe cabinet and put them on the ground, "This is the pair you wore yesterday."

Qi Xu put on his shoes casually, and casually replied to Ling Jiangyuan's previous sentence: "How long ago did that happen, I'll forget it if you don't tell me."

Seeing Ling Jiangyuan's movements froze for a moment, Qi Xu felt an indescribable pleasure of revenge. He was like a child who was robbed of his beloved toy. Nobody gets involved.

Ling Jiangyuan let out an "ah", stood up straight, and asked, "Are you not afraid of the dark or ghosts now?"

Qi Xu twitched the corners of his mouth lazily: "It's not a child anymore."

"That's true." Ling Jiangyuan responded very decently this time, "People in their 20s should have changed a lot of naive ideas."

Qi Xu suddenly became a little impatient, put one hand in his pocket, looked around for a week, and asked, "Where are you doing it?"

"Don't worry." Ling Jiangyuan opened the refrigerator, "Sit down for a while. What do you want to drink?"

"Plain water is fine." Qi Xu said, "I'm busy with a lot of things, so I don't have time to spend here."

Ling Jiangyuan poured a glass of warm water. Although the air conditioner was turned on in the room, drinking warm water in the summer would inevitably make people frown slightly. Qi Xu sat impatiently on the sofa, and gently tapped the sofa pillow beside him with his fingers, which was as soft as ever. make any noise.

He just sat like this for a while, watching Ling Jiangyuan flying around the room like a butterfly, and finally took out a guitar: "Can I listen to the tune you changed yesterday?"

"Yeah." Qi Xu lowered his eyes, "I don't need the guitar."

He specially recorded a section last night, then took out his phone and clicked to play it.

Ling Jiangyuan lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Just 3 minutes of pure music seems as long as a century.

After the music ended, the room fell silent, the cicadas chirping outside the room was so loud that one's brain hurts, and Qi Xu rarely spoke.

After a long, long time, Ling Jiangyuan asked hesitantly: "...Why didn't the song come out at the beginning?"

It took a long time for Qi Xu to realize what Ling Jiangyuan's question meant.

Qi Xu suddenly laughed, raised his head, looked at Ling Jiangyuan meaningfully, raised his eyebrows slightly: "You still care about this?"

Ling Jiangyuan's hand holding the hem of his clothes was slightly tightened. He seemed a little nervous, so he took a sip from the water glass, squeezed the body of the glass tightly with his fingers, and his fingertips trembled slightly. He said, "Of course I would care. I didn't Said there was a good chance?"

"The opportunity is pretty good." Qi Xu said lightly, "But isn't there a drum kit missing? Is a band without a drum kit still a band?"

"Don't you know?" Ling Jiangyuan looked at him, something flickered in his dark pupils.

Qi Xu leaned back, and said calmly: "I didn't get into university that year, and I was [-] to [-] points away from the undergraduate course, and then I took another year of tutoring, and I never contacted Kabu during that year. Chino."

Ling Jiangyuan stared at the water in the glass in a daze.

"Didn't you say that?" Qi Xu narrowed his eyes and showed a very faint smile, "You must take control of your own life."

Ling Jiangyuan smiled: "I thought that when I came back, you guys were already more popular than grass bands in cappuccino in China."

"You also said that's just what you thought." Qi Xu turned off the screen of his phone and took it back, "There's no need to talk about the old relationship, I'm not interested. Let's talk about work."

For a long time afterwards, because of Fang Ziyun's relationship, Qi Xu always ran towards Ling Jiangyuan.He was bumped into by Qi Roujun once, and he teased him with a smirk in the video: "You kid always goes to Lin Xieyang's place recently, did you have your heart moved this time?"

Lin Xieyang and Ling Jiangyuan live across the street, how could Mr. Qi Rou know about this.

Of course Qi Xu wouldn't be so stupid as to throw himself into the trap, but just muddled and perfunctory.

It's not a lie, Qi Xu can often see Lin Xieyang at Ling Jiangyuan's home, and he can't even figure out the relationship between the two of them.

Anyway, it's right to be very intimate.

Lin Xieyang helped Ling Jiangyuan cook the soup, answered the phone, and beckoned to Ling Jiangyuan to go out.

Qi Xu sat on the sofa and watched the whole scene, and suddenly blurted out without thinking: "Are you new?"

Ling Jiangyuan was stunned for a moment to react, and said with an exaggerated smile: "Qi Xu, you always seem to like to associate girls with me."

"I didn't get involved in the relationship." Qi Xu said, "I saw it."

Ling Jiangyuan put his hands together and patted lightly: "Then should I applaud you? But unfortunately, you guessed wrong."

Qi Xu squinted his eyes, and looked back at the printing paper on the coffee table.

Eight years have passed, and there is no such thing as a pile of rubbish draft paper. Now is the digital age, and everything can be solved with a computer.

Qi Xu would no longer be as sloppy as before, throwing things all over the floor.

Lin Xieyang came back after a few minutes, holding a large bouquet of roses, after changing his shoes and walking a few steps inside, Ling Jiangyuan coughed.

His face was flushed from suffocation, and he began to rub his nose with his hands, but Lin Xieyang continued to walk in.

Qi Xu scolded himself inwardly, before his brain had time to think, his body had already reacted first to block Lin Xieyang.Lin Xieyang's eyes lit up, and he handed the rose forward, but Qi Xu snatched it away.

Qi Xu lowered his voice and said, "Don't you know what he likes before chasing Ling Jiangyuan?"

The joy on Lin Xieyang's face froze for a moment, and then he was deeply confused: "What?"

Qi Xu thought that the other party didn't know what he meant by this sentence, so he kindly explained it to prevent Lin Xieyang from stepping on thunder in the future: "He is allergic to pollen."

"Ah." Lin Xieyang reacted, "brother, are you allergic to pollen? I said why your house has only green plants and no flowers... sorry, I don't know."

Qi Xu directly threw the rose towards the door, and said in a flat tone, "I will take it away when I go downstairs later."

"No need." Ling Jiangyuan looked at Lin Xieyang apologetically, "It's quite expensive. Thank you Xieyang. You can pick it up for me, get a water bottle and put it in the window. I'll be much better with ventilation."

Lin Xieyang was a little embarrassed: "But this flower is me..."

"trouble."

Qi Xu picked up the flowers on the ground with a blank expression, and stuffed them into Lin Xieyang's arms.

Lin Xieyang seemed to be caught in a dilemma, he looked at Qi Xu and Ling Jiangyuan.

Ling Jiangyuan smiled and said, "Thank you for the flowers, Xieyang."

Lin Xieyang went to the open kitchen to find a water bottle.

Qi Xu looked at him, suddenly feeling irritable, so he changed his shoes with a serious face: "I'll go first."

"I'll see you off." Ling Jiangyuan followed immediately, "Xiongyang help me look at the house."

Lin Xieyang's lofty "good" came from the kitchen.

Two people stood in the elevator, one on the left, one on the right, with enough room between them for two more people.

Neither of them took the initiative to move in the other's direction.

It wasn't until the elevator sounded "ding" that Qi Xu strode out, and Ling Jiangyuan quickly followed.

Finally, Qi Xu couldn't help but glanced at him sideways, and said, "You really haven't changed at all before."

Ling Jiangyuan didn't know what Qi Xu was referring to, so he didn't answer.

After walking a certain distance, Ling Jiangyuan was still following him, and Qi Xu felt inexplicably irritated, so he asked directly, "What exactly do you want to do?"

Ling Jiangyuan pursed his lips, seemed a little nervous, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I..."

"Speak straight."

"I think," Ling Jiangyuan said, "reform a band."

Ling Jiangyuan waited for Qi Xu's answer for a long time, and even thought about many possible reactions that Qi Xu might have.

But the only thing he didn't expect was that after looking at him for a long time, Qi Xu suddenly smiled, that kind of smile full of sarcasm, with a light tone: "Are you kidding me?"

Ling Jiangyuan took a step forward, and stood closer to Qi Xu: "I'm serious."

"What's the use of you telling me this?" The smile between Qi Xu's eyebrows instantly cooled down, and his whole body became cold, "I'm not an indispensable member of the cappuccino band. Lyricists and composers You can change it at any time, and you can even do it yourself.”

"Xiao Xu."

The moment Qi Xu heard this title, the long-suppressed anger in Qi Xu's heart surged up instead, setting off a turbulent sea.

Ling Jiangyuan continued without realizing it: "I hope...you can help me."

"Ha," Qi Xu laughed shortly, "Do you think I'll help you?"

"You can."

Qi Xu didn't know where Ling Jiangyuan got such confidence, "Why?"

Ling Jiangyuan looked at Qi Xu for a long time: "Because, this is your dream."

Hearing this sentence at first, Qi Xu's calm face seemed to be broken, and he laughed coldly, he looked at Ling Jiangyuan, and said in amazement: "Ling Jiangyuan, I really didn't expect you to have face Say something like that."

Ling Jiangyuan pursed his lips.

"It's a pity," Qi Xu shrugged, "If it was Qi Xu eight years ago, you would indeed be able to persuade him. But now, I am already past the age of the second year of middle school."