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It was just dawn, and Xie Jingnian's preset alarm hadn't rung, but he was woken up by a knock on the door.

He caught sight of a strange man in the blink of an eye, giving him the illusion of deja vu for a moment.

He was wearing a well-tailored dark blue suit, his hair combed back carefully, and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses.

It was the first time Xie Jingnian saw such a gentle person.

The man was also stunned when he saw him. He took a few steps back and looked at the floor and the house number again. After confirming that he had gone the right way, he came back and greeted Xie Jingnian with a smile: "Hi, I'm Zhou Yanhang. Look for Brother Xiu, he's in ?"

"Ah, hello. He doesn't seem to be here." After Xie Jingnian finished speaking, seeing that the man had no intention of leaving, he also stood at the door without moving.

The deadlocked atmosphere was a bit embarrassing.Zhou Yanhang pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked, "Is it convenient for me to go in and wait for him?"

After all, this is Chen Xi's house, and a stranger suddenly visited, Xie Jingnian didn't know what to do for a while.

Zhou Yanhang didn't make it difficult for him, he immediately made a phone call, but he didn't know who to call, but it wasn't Chen Xi anyway.

"Brother, Brother Jiu's family has a child, do you know him?"

"Where did you get a younger brother?" Zhou Yanhang was puzzled, and handed the phone to Xie Jingnian.

"Hey, brother, let him go in and sit for a while!" Zhou Yantong's noise was loud, and he could hear a little shouting from a vegetable vendor, "I'm at the vegetable market with Chen Xi, and I'll be back soon."

"it is good."

Xie Jingnian returned the phone to Zhou Yanhang, and the two entered the door, sitting on the sofa in the living room and staring at each other.

It was Zhou Yanhang who broke the silence first, and then put on a gentle smile: "You don't look old, you should still be studying, right?"

"En." Xie Jingnian nodded.

"Let me guess. High school?"

"Ah."

Zhou Yanhang seemed to have given up on chatting with him, and then he didn't say a word, and began to look at his phone with his head down.

Xie Jingnian also felt that this was very embarrassing, so he said, "I'm going to wash up."

"Okay." Zhou Yanhang immediately raised his head and smiled back at him.

Previously, Xie Jingnian didn't understand why he thought Zhou Yanhang was very familiar, until he finished washing his face and looked up to see himself in the mirror - Zhou Yantong told him that he had a younger brother who looked like him, probably not in a polite way.

Because they are really alike.Especially the eyebrows and nose.

After Xie Jingnian took a while to wash up, Chen Yu and Zhou Yantong came back with two bags full of vegetables.

Chen Xi put the dishes in the refrigerator with a cigarette in his mouth, and talked to Zhou Yanhang casually: "Why are you here so early, didn't you ask you to come here at six o'clock?"

"Xiao Hang is in a hurry, and wants to eat your meal earlier, isn't he?" Zhou Yan said.

Zhou Yanhang put down his phone, and walked over to help: "Yes. It's been a long time since I ate the meal made by brother Xiu."

Rotten brother.

Zhou Yanhang's words were always full of intimacy, which Xie Jingnian couldn't ignore, and his chest felt tight when he heard it.

Silently went back to the room to change clothes, the voices of the three talking and laughing reached Xie Jingnian's ears through the door.

He felt aggrieved for no reason, and the next second secretly spurned his hypocrisy.Chen Xi has never belonged to him alone, not now, and maybe not in the future.

He is not greedy at all.All the memories between them are just from last night.

"Are you ready, brother?" Zhou Yantong didn't knock on the door, but stood outside and shouted, "It's time to eat!"

Wearing school uniform, Xie Jingnian sat down in the restaurant, and it was the first time he ate with so many people.

Breakfast is very simple pumpkin porridge and cold salad.Zhou Yantong gave Xie Jingnian a chopstick of potato shreds, and told him: "Eat more, you will grow your body."

Chen Kui was talking to Zhou Yanhang, and when he saw it, he picked out a carrot from Xie Jingnian and ate it himself.

Facing the strange eyes of the two Zhou brothers, Chen Xi smiled without explaining.

Chen Kui's home is not too far from the school, not as exaggerated as the suburbs, and there is a direct bus, it only takes half an hour to get there.

The No. [-] Middle School has always had classes in the morning, arranged for the examination room during the lunch break, and took the exam in the afternoon.

Chen Hanlin came over during the lunch break and discussed with Xie Jingnian the secret code for cheating.Finally draw the conclusion of the gesture.

"Can this work, Mr. Xie, it's too obvious, what's wrong with being found out?" Chen Hanlin is a veteran who has a lot of cheating experience, and immediately retorted, "Shall we prepare another planB?"

"It's fine. You can do whatever you want." Xie Jingnian was still a rookie, and couldn't think of any tricks other than the old-fashioned methods.

"In this way, make your hand gestures more concealed. If you find out, you can fool it. Those teachers will definitely believe you." Chen Hanlin said, "Then let's change the trick. You borrow an eraser from me, write the answer and return it to me. If you are found out again, you will... ..."

In just 10 minutes, Chen Hanlin arranged several plan Bs, all of which were tricks that Xie Jingnian had never thought of.

Even Xie Jingnian, cheating in the examination room is unavoidably nervous, and his palms are already sweaty as soon as the papers are handed out.

He didn't know how clumsy he was in stroking his hair and gesturing. Fortunately, the invigilator didn't suspect him at all.In one afternoon, two consecutive exams were passed safely.

"Boss Xie is amazing!" Chen Hanlin directly gave a whole box of unopened cigarettes this time, and made up the whole amount on the basis of the 250 yuan agreed before, "We will continue to benefit from each other in the future."

After receiving 300 yuan, Xie Jingnian, who had done something wrong, was not happy at all.Even now, ten minutes after the exam, his hands are still shaking badly.

He locked the door in the compartment, opened the box of cigarettes, which was a bit of a luxury for him, took out one and inserted it backwards.

I heard others say that this is called wishing smoke, and it will only work if you smoke it at the end.

Xie Jingnian was convinced, and in the messy toilet cubicle, he gave all the piety in his heart to Chen Xie.

According to the school's practice, school is over immediately after the exam, and there is no late self-study.

Xie Jingnian was unable to enter the unit door when he reached the corridor, and then he remembered that Chen Xi hadn't given him the key yet.Knocking on the door was fruitless, and because he didn't bring his mobile phone for the exam, he could only sit on the steps and wait for Chen Xi to come back.

After waiting for a long time, he came back to his senses, ran to the small shop downstairs and borrowed the phone from the boss, and dialed the number he had already known by heart.

"Brother Yu, I'm out of school and can't get in."

After hearing this, Chen Xi didn't react a bit: "So early?"

"Well. The school has taken exams in the past two days, and there is no late self-study."

Chen Xi asked him to find a nearby shop to sit for a while, and pick him up when he was done with the work at hand.

Generally speaking, when Chen Xi said "for a while", it meant a while, and he never procrastinated. He was probably on his way back now.

Xie Jingnian didn't walk around, just sat on the bench outside this small shop, so that Chen Xi could see him at a glance when he came back.

The humming of the locomotive could be heard from a long distance away, but when Xie Jingnian saw Chen Xi clearly, there was a buzzing in his head as well.

He saw a woman in a suspender dress sitting in Chen Shi's back seat.

Still hugging his waist.