half blind

At eight o'clock, the dinner party was almost over, Chen Lou left the table early, Yin Ling took Jia Hao and ran over to chat with Zhang Qing, and when they finally let him go, Zhang Qing breathed a sigh of relief and left. Stand up on the chair.

"Go back?" Duanmurou also stood up, "Do you want me to see you?"

"Sister Rou." Zhou Nanchen also stood up, "It's okay, you go back, nothing will happen to me if we are with him."

"But..." Duanmurou still glanced at Zhang Qing worriedly.

"Cold knowledge popularization time." Zhang Qing drank the remaining half cup of tea, "Zhang Qing is 24 years old this year, and he is already an adult."

Duanmurou laughed and shook his head, "Okay, then I don't care about it, you two should be careful on the road, and work will start at seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

Zhang Qing turned back and gave her an OK gesture.

After leaving the restaurant, Zhang Qing took a deep breath greedily and stretched his arms.He had already drank too much wine, his head was swollen, and staying indoors made him feel chest tightness and headache.

"Go back directly, or do you want to take a walk?" Zhou Nanchen asked.

"Let's go." Zhang Qing sighed and pressed his temple, "I have a headache."

"Your drinking capacity hasn't changed much over the years." Zhou Nanchen chuckled.

"Is there a change?" Zhang Qing stared at him, and poked two fingers under Zhou Nanchen's nose, "I drank two fucking glasses, two white glasses, and I haven't poured them yet! If this was before..."

"Just drink it and stick it out, right?" Zhou Nanchen interjected.

Zhang Qing nodded heavily, but because of too much nodding, he staggered a bit.

Zhou Nanchen quickly helped him up, "Take it easy, I don't think you are far away from pouting now."

Zhang Qing glared at Zhou Nanchen, and couldn't help laughing again, probably because of the strength of alcohol, the laugh couldn't stop, and gradually changed from a low laugh to a very unrefined laugh all the way.

"Can you do it?" Zhou Nanchen said helplessly, and patted him on the back, "Are you so drunk now?"

"No, don't get me wrong, I don't usually drink like this." Zhang Qing tried hard to put on a serious expression, "The main thing is that I drank 'pout' today."

After speaking, there was a series of unscrupulous laughter.

"Hey." Zhou Nanchen couldn't help laughing even being led by him, "Laugh, laugh, walk to the side, I'm afraid you will recruit paparazzi like this."

Zhang Qing coughed several times, finally stopped, and let out a long breath, "My stomach hurts from laughing. I would really like to have a paparazzi filming me. No one knows when this little crew is on."

After Zhang Qing finished speaking, he took a few deep breaths, and finally suppressed his laughter, "You drink quite well, I haven't seen you drink much before."

"I was studying at that time." Zhou Nanchen sighed, "It's not like you. I don't know how to drink and go out to fool around all day long."

Zhang Qing suddenly stopped and stared at him, "Brother, do you know which school I graduated from?"

Zhou Nanchen smiled, "Chinese opera."

"I can get into the Chinese opera by fooling around." Zhang Qing said very dissatisfied, "I worked very hard in my third year of high school. I went from morning to night all day..."

Halfway through Zhang Qing's speech, the topic came to an abrupt end.

senior year.

A year without Zhou Nanchen.

Because this name disappeared in the summer vacation of the second year of high school, and disappeared in his youth.Because some idiot who still doesn't know who it was ran to complain to the teacher, and the teacher mercilessly notified his parents. Zhang Qing was locked up at home by his parents without even seeing Zhou Nanchen for the last time.

Then he ran away from home and never came back.

In the third year of high school, all the teachers were worried that his relationship with his family would affect his study status, but his grades improved by more than ten places compared with the second year of high school. Mom's most shameless "art school".

He became the most shameless "actor" of his parents.

Don't you look down on me?Isn't it shameless?

Then I will become the most shameless person for you and show you.

"What about you?" Zhang Qing turned to look at Zhou Nanchen.

"Me what?" Zhou Nanchen asked.

"What happened to you later?" Zhang Qing kicked the pebbles on the side of the road, "You can find my affairs by searching the Internet. But I don't know anything about yours, isn't it a bit unfair? ?”

"There's nothing to talk about about me." Zhou Nanchen smiled.

"I want to hear it." Zhang Qing looked at him.

"I transferred to Anshi in my third year of high school." Zhou Nanchen said, "I went to Anshi University in college and studied finance."

Facing Shang Zhangqing's confused look, Zhou Nanchen added, "That's the only undergraduate school in Anshi, the second one."

Anshi is very close to Liancheng, where they are filming now, and they are both small third-tier cities in the south.

Zhang Qing was taken aback, and blurted out, "Your grades were much better than mine in the second year of high school, why—"

"Later, I became playful and ran out all day to fool around." Zhou Nanchen said seriously.

Zhou Nanchen's joke at this time not only did not make Zhang Qing laugh, but was a little annoyed, "I'm serious, you..."

"I haven't dropped out of school, so why are you in a hurry." Zhou Nanchen said helplessly, "I'm an undergraduate."

Zhang Qing had no choice but to keep her mouth shut, but her heart was still restless.

Based on what he knew about Zhou Nanchen, it was surprising that he only got into a second school.Zhou Nanchen has always been solid and steady in his studies, which was praised by all the teachers in turn.In the third year of high school, even Zhang Qing, who was half a bottle full of dangling people, put in more effort to get into the Chinese opera, Zhou Nanchen had to get a 985 no matter what.

Or, it's not that he failed the exam, but...

Zhang Qing didn't dare to think too much, the vague guess made him a little breathless.He could feel that Zhou Nanchen still had a lot to say about the past.

"Does your head still hurt?" As Zhang Qing expected, Zhou Nanchen changed the subject.

"It's okay, better."

"Why don't I take you to eat ice cream, maybe you will feel better." Zhou Nanchen suggested.

"Ice cream? Is there any ice cream around here?" Zhang Qing looked around subconsciously, but he couldn't see anything farther away.

"Yes, there is a small shop at the end of this road. It's delicious. I'll take you there."

Zhang Qing could only see the storefront and sign when he walked to the door of the store. This store has a very vulgar name called "Falling in Love with Your Beauty", and there is a circle of blinding neon signs standing upright. If Zhou Nanchen hadn't pulled him, he would never have walked into this kind of shop.

Zhou Nanchen saw through his thoughts, and specially emphasized, "It's really delicious."

Zhang Qing had no choice but to follow in.

It was probably late, and there was no one in the shop.However, Zhou Nanchen chose to go up to the second floor and sat by a small window.Zhang Qing followed him and sat opposite him, and at a glance, he found that the wall was covered with colorful post-it notes.

"What would you two gentlemen want?" After a while, a sweet and lovely girl came to order with a notebook.

"Have a 'Peach Love', a 'Pink Summer'."

As soon as Zhou Nanchen finished reporting his name, Zhang Qing almost choked on his saliva with a "poof".

"Okay, wait a moment." The little girl left after remembering her name.

"This name..." Zhang Qing lowered his head and was still laughing, "I think it's indecent for us two big men to come into this store."

"Is the word indecent used in this way?" Zhou Nanchen said helplessly, "Besides, it's delicious. Why bother so much?"

"Yes yes yes." Zhang Qing still had a smile in his eyes, and his eyes moved to the post-it notes all over the wall, "The main customers of this store are students."

"Well, there is a middle school near here, and it seems that the business is pretty good."

"How did you find out here?"

"Once I took a private order, and I took wedding photos in the film and television city. I came in to find a quiet indoor space when I was doing makeup. Later, I found out that the ice cream tastes good here. Later, whenever I passed by, I came in to buy a cone. What." Zhou Nanchen said, "However, there are not many cases of eating in a restaurant like this."

Zhang Qing didn't speak, but stared at the stickers on the wall, most of which were confession words written by students.

——Jiang x, I like you!

——The college entrance examination is over, and I have one last question to test you: Do you like me?

——Zhu xx, I want to walk with you all the way.

——I don't like men, I just like you.

For some reason, the last sentence suddenly touched a secret part of Zhang Qing's heart.He quickly looked back, just at this time their ice cream was also served.

Peach Love is three ice cream balls topped with peach sauce, and Pink Summer is strawberry fruit smoothie topped with a layer of ice cream. It looks good, but the ingredients are very ordinary.

"It's just a few ice cream balls, it's so expensive." Zhang Qing frowned, "It's even more expensive to use such a literary name."

Zhou Nanchen couldn't help laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"Can you tell me how much your monthly income is?" Zhou Nanchen looked at Zhang Qing seriously, "Do you have 1000 yuan?"

"What do you mean?" Zhang Qing immediately slapped Zhou Nanchen, "It doesn't matter how much my monthly income is, I think it's expensive!"

"Try it." Zhou Nanchen pushed the "Pink Summer" towards Zhang Qing, "Try it before saying this."

Zhang Qing had no choice but to pick up the small plastic spoon next to him, scooped up a spoonful of ice cream and put it into his mouth. The milky aroma permeated the ice cream, and it was indeed much more delicious than he imagined.

"Hey, I thought it was just an ordinary ice cream ball." Zhang Qing took another bite, "It's really delicious."

"I won't bring you here if it doesn't taste good." Zhou Nanchen couldn't help laughing, resting his chin on his hands and watching Zhang Qing eat, "Is it worth it this time?"

"It's not worth it." Zhang Qing said immediately, "For me, it's still three ice cream balls, but it's just three delicious ice cream balls."

Zhou Nanchen smiled.

"However, I feel much better after eating." Zhang Qing let out a long sigh of relief, "It seems to have suppressed the alcohol a bit."

"How are the preparations for tomorrow's play?" Zhou Nanchen started poking around in his portion of ice cream with a small spoon.

"It's time for me to ask you that. Actors must not have as many preparations as your logistics department." Zhang Qing said with a smile.

"I mean... Are you nervous?" Zhou Nanchen asked.

"It's okay." Zhang Qing lowered his head, stared at the ice cream for a few seconds, nodded as if evaluating himself, and said, "It's okay, I'm not as nervous as I imagined, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Zhou Nanchen was just about to ask a few more questions, but Zhang Qing raised his head and changed the topic to another direction, "Ah, actually, I've always wanted to ask you...that is, why do you stop painting?"

Zhou Nanchen smiled, "Make-up is also very interesting. It's different from painting, and it's quite a sense of accomplishment."

"Oh, that's right." Zhang Qing thought for a while, "I see some great makeup artists on the Internet who put on makeup and change faces."

"I have to get there early to prepare for the start of work tomorrow. If you want to sleep more, you can ask your agent to come and pick you up later."

"I'll go with you." Zhang Qing said without hesitation.

"Don't you want to trouble her?"

"A little bit." Zhang Qing smiled, "I think she has already worried enough about my situation. I saw her with dark circles on the set today."

"Thinking too much. Maybe people are worrying about other things."

"Get out." Zhang Qing smiled.

It was only when the ice cream was almost finished that Zhang Qing realized that Zhou Nanchen deftly changed the subject and didn't answer the question "Why don't you paint anymore?" at all.

When paying the bill, Zhang Qing insisted on a treat, but Zhou Nanchen pushed back and forth with him twice but failed, so he gave up.

"Don't you say it's expensive? I think you look like the kind of face-saving person who is so distressed that he bleeds and insists on slapping his face to make himself fat." Zhou Nanchen laughed.

"You blocked two drinks for me anyway, and you were so blunt, Director Li almost thought you were going to fight him." Zhang Qing laughed while talking, "It's worth two glasses of ice cream anyway."

"These two glasses of ice cream don't add up to 40 yuan, so it's more expensive than two glasses of wine." Zhou Nanchen said.

"If you see a good deal, I'll take it, and if you give me some sunshine, it will be bright." Zhang Qing took out his mobile phone and stood to pay.

"It's 38 yuan in total." The cashier was still the same little girl, and when she saw the two of them walking side by side, she showed a sweet smile.

Zhang cleaned the code, turned the phone over and showed it to the little girl.The little girl still looked at them with a smile, and when Zhang Qing was wondering if there was something on her face, the little girl spoke.

"Welcome to visit next time, I wish you two a long time!"

Zhang Qing was stunned, Zhou Nanchen was also obviously stunned for a moment, and then embarrassment gushed out like a spring.

Zhang Qing felt that this scene was a bit ridiculous.

If they were just two straight dudes, it would have been nice to deny it immediately after the embarrassment, but they weren't.

Are they lovers?Of course not.

Then what is the relationship between him and Zhou Nanchen?Not friends, not lovers, now they can only be regarded as old classmates and colleagues.

But would normal colleagues walk side by side in such an intimate way, with their limbs not exceeding half a meter?

Just when Zhang Qing was at a loss, Zhou Nanchen spoke.

"Thank you." He looked up and smiled at the little girl, "Your ice cream is delicious."

When they walked out of the store, Zhang Qing still hadn't recovered a bit.

"Go back?" Zhang Qing didn't fully recover until Zhou Nanchen spoke.

"okay."

Zhou Nanchen stopped a taxi, Zhang Qing was still thinking about it, but he started to feel sleepy after getting in the car, and then fell asleep.

But he didn't sleep deeply, and he woke up when Zhou Nanchen called him the first time.

"arrive."

"Oh, good." Zhang Qing rubbed his eyes.

Before opening the door, Zhang Qing heard cat meowing from the room, mixed with the sound of scratching the door.

"You little bastard." Zhou Nanchen sighed while taking the key to open the door, "I hope you don't grab toilet paper all over the floor for me today."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Yes." Zhou Nanchen said, "One time when I came home, the toilet paper was all over the floor, and this little bastard was sitting in the middle of the toilet paper, looking at me with innocent eyes."

Zhang Qing imagined that scene for a while, and couldn't help laughing.

As soon as the door was opened, Van Gogh rushed out like lightning, crawled along Zhou Nanchen's trousers three times, five times and two times, and climbed onto his shoulder, meowing.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Qing suddenly relaxed, and an inexplicable warmth surged up in his heart, as if...

It's like coming home.