waste heat

At the end of the billiards game in the evening, everyone gathered together for a meal.

Cheng Yan came late because he had a lot of things to do. People from the Taiwan Association contacted him. He still had a few interviews after the game. The winner and the loser had to do it, but Cheng Yan rejected the others and only accepted. One, succinctly answered their questions, such as how long have you been playing, how you feel after defeating your opponent, and the next step in your development.

Cheng Yan answered in a very official way.

Because he told everyone that he was going to have dinner, Cheng Yan was already late, and came here in a hurry. He couldn't refuse this meal, just like what Qu Tao and the others said, he was not happy being kept secret, so Cheng Yan invited them to this meal , it is impolite to be late.

"I'm sorry, they are going to do an interview..." Cheng Yan rushed to the agreed place, the table was empty, no food was ordered, and several people were waiting for him.

"Don't say sorry, you are a big shot now, we can't afford it." Qu Tao said with a smile.

Guan Di also cheered and said, "That's right, don't discount our lives."

Cheng Yan knew that they were all joking, so he laughed, walked over and said, "Why haven't you ordered yet?"

"Wait for you." Zhang Teng shook his legs, "Hurry up, I'm hungry."

Cheng Yan agreed, took the menu from the waiter, spread it on the table, and asked everyone what they wanted to eat. After waiting for so long, everyone's stomachs were already growling, and they all said duck blood and goose intestines, etc., Cheng Yan Yan sketched one by one, and when everyone was discussing eagerly, he noticed that one person had not spoken.

"Master Bai, what are you eating?" Cheng Yan turned his head and asked Zhao Yibai who remained silent.

Zhao Yibai took his hand off the table and said flatly, "Whatever, just order from them."

Cheng Yan frowned and asked: "Don't you want to eat? Do you want spicy lobster?" This is Zhao Yibai's favorite dish.

"Anything is fine," he said.

Cheng Yan blinked, the feeling between him and Zhao Yibai was too deep, one look could tell something was wrong, even though Zhao Yibai later added that he was not very hungry, Cheng Yan still felt that he had something on his mind.

But they are all adults, and it is not suitable to talk about their concerns in public, so Cheng Yan didn't ask.

After the food was served, a group of people poured wine and served food. The atmosphere was so good, Zhang Teng talked about the protagonist of the game, "Cheng Yan, you are so good at playing billiards, why didn't you say it earlier, if it wasn't for Qu Tao I heard, are you planning to participate today by yourself?"

Cheng Yan's wine glass was full, and he couldn't escape the fate of being drunk. He was out of touch with this matter, and he didn't tell a few friends that the wine should be punished. He let others refill his glass, " I don't know if you are interested, but the key point is that I didn't know how far I could go at first, thinking that I would be eliminated in the preliminary round."

"You are too ignorant of this. You have become the number one in the province. This is too Versailles."

"No, there are many semi-professional players who have been trained to participate in the competition. I definitely can't compare with others. I didn't expect to win... It will go so smoothly. I am very lucky." Cheng Yan is not unaware, He is confident in billiards, but he is not blindly confident. He is participating in a provincial competition, and he is destined to encounter many powerful opponents. He does not know how to end his smooth record, and the result is a bit different from what he thought.

"It's really amazing, I don't have anything to say," Guan Di said, "Is it because there are not many people playing billiards? Billiards is not so popular in our country. I usually watch videos of professional billiards." , are basically middle-aged players, and snooker is too complicated, I can’t understand it, so I haven’t paid much attention to it.”

"A lot of people are like this," Cheng Yan said: "The regular billiards game is very boring, the audience can't speak loudly, and it's not like the basketball game where the audience is full, it's relatively low-key, you also saw it today, The whole place is pretty boring.”

There is only the voice of the referee, and the contestants will not have any voice. They just play with poles and make decisions in their hearts. It is not as good as basketball dunks or three-pointers, which can make the audience on the sidelines enthusiastic.

"Indeed, except for a few of us, the rest of the audience is like my dad's age, and I haven't seen many young people." Qu Tao propped his chin and said, "It's not that this project is not popular, it can only be said that the main force is not young. On people, not enough to poke young people, as you said, it's a bit boring."

"My parents don't know," Cheng Yan smiled: "Is this enough for you to feel balanced?"

"Balance, pick up your wine glass," Qu Tao said, "We won't be able to balance if we don't drink you down today."

This statement was unanimously agreed by other people, so everyone put a lot of effort into drinking Cheng Yan, but in the end Cheng Yan didn't fall down, but a few who couldn't drink enough fell down, and some waved their hands begging to let go, Some lie on the table to slow down the momentum of alcohol.

The dinner was very late, and Guan Di fell asleep lying on the table.

Cheng Yan and Zhao Yibai, who didn't drink too much, sat still.

Qu Tao went out and vomited.

The scene on the table was tragic, the food on the table was already cold, Cheng Yan picked up the wine glass, refilled the empty glass, held it up, and said to Zhao Yibai: "I will punish myself for this glass."

Zhao Yibai turned to look at him, in a bad mood, but he still raised his cup and touched Cheng Yan.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you on purpose." Cheng Yan guessed the reason for Zhao Yibai's unhappiness, and said sincerely: "I really don't know how far I can go, and I don't want to make trouble for everyone if I don't have certain things. Got it..."

"Is it convincing?" Zhao Yibai covered the wine glass on the table, "You have already entered the provincial competition, such a big event, such a great honor, is it still not sure?"

After Cheng Yan finished a glass of wine, he felt wronged, pursed his lips, put down his glass, lowered his head and said, "I just want to make things come to an end, if I don't win this time, I don't plan to mention it to you. Unexpectedly... it went smoother than I imagined."

Zhao Yibai didn't mean to embarrass him on purpose, he made fun of him a few words, looked at him silently, and saw the guilt on Cheng Yan's face, so he stopped enough, smiled reluctantly, and sighed: " I'm not unhappy about it."

Cheng Yan raised his head, cautiously: "That's it?"

Zhao Yibai took out a cigarette and signaled to Cheng Yan that Cheng Yan didn't intend to ruin anyone's good mood tonight, he could do whatever he wanted, and with Cheng Yan's consent, Zhao Yibai lit a cigarette, and slowly in the private room White smoke floated up.

"It's because of myself," Zhao Yibai sniffed, his tone was low, "I just feel a sense of crisis after seeing your current achievements."

The sense of crisis does not only arise in love, but also in friendship. A good friend of yours for many years, from childhood to adulthood, a deep friendship, this relationship is not lower than the concentration of love, it is almost about to transform into the depth of family affection, and such How can a person not be afraid of ending a relationship?

Cheng Yan was slightly stunned, with a dazed look on his face.

Zhao Yibai continued: "You are studying very seriously now, you have made great progress, and you have reached an unimaginable height in playing billiards. I can understand why you work so hard. I also admire your current efforts. You can go well. Higher and farther, I am happy for you, really, I wish you well more than anyone else, but I will be afraid, Cheng Yan, I am afraid that you are too tall, I really can’t catch up with you, I am afraid that you will really become A very strong character, you meet a lot of new people, you find me too mediocre, you don't want to hang out with me, of course, I know it's normal, I shouldn't blame you, but I just can't take it you know ?”

He doesn't expect Cheng Yan to understand his psychology, and he can't tell others about his worries. Others will think that he is too hypocritical as a gentleman, and they will not understand his emotions anyway. With today's dinner and atmosphere, Zhao Yi Bai Cai dared to mention that his friendship with Cheng Yan is a special case and a minority in this fast food era.

Now people always feel that everything can be given up. Modern people are pessimistic about Buddhism. They say that if there are fewer people, everyone will live the same life. Can't make such a smart decision.

It's like Zhao Yibai let Cheng Yan go wherever he wants, and don't contact him if he doesn't contact him, whatever he wants, he can go his own way in the future, he can't do it.

Cheng Yan listened to his worries and found that he was worried about this kind of thing. After a moment of silence, he poured wine, Cheng Yan felt like his father for the first time: "You don't want to blame me, but I want to blame you , Zhao Yibai."

Zhao Yibai turned the cigarette in his hand and gave him his gaze.

Cheng Yan looked directly into his eyes, with complaints in his eyes, "I've known you for so long, why do you think of me as this kind of person? I don't think I have achieved much, and it's the same now, Maybe you think that I have already succeeded in entering the provincial competition, but I just think this is a path. I want to know where my strength is and how far I can go through the competition. That's all. What a big deal, I don't even understand what you say, I think you are too mediocre, to me, you are like my own brother, for so many years, you have taken care of me everywhere, taken me with you, I rely on Why despise you?"

The heaviness in Zhao Yibai's eyes dissipated a little, and he fixed his eyes on Cheng Yan's upright facial features.

"Let me use an analogy. What I do now is for my own future, but half of my motivation is because of Song Yu. Song Yu is very important to me. I like him very much, so I hope I can rival him. When standing next to him, I won’t hear the words like “Cheng Yan is worthy of Song Yu except for his face”. I am a realist, Song Yu is very good, I don’t think I have been aimless like this all the time. , people who don’t have their own opinions and are muddle-headed all day will be liked by him for a lifetime, but,” Cheng Yan paused, staring at Zhao Yibai with burning eyes: “If Song Yu says that he doesn’t like you, I’m not allowed to associate with you. In other words, even though I like him very much, I will not be with him. "

Zhao Yibai's pupils were slightly moved.

"I'm not trying to please you, I'm telling the truth," Cheng Yan said anxiously, "Because you are like a family member to me, and I have always regarded you as my own brother, and my mother often said that you are my brother." In this way, if you can get along, let me be with you forever, so I never think there is any reason for the two of us to part ways, as long as you are willing, we will definitely be iron buddies for the rest of our lives."

Zhao Yibai was moved by the sincerity in Cheng Yan's eyes, but the two of them were so familiar that they couldn't carry on with any nasty words, Zhao Yibai raised his eyebrows and said, "Really?"

"Fake." Cheng Yan picked up the wine and knew that he had listened, and immediately changed his face.

Zhao Yibai let out a low laugh, rubbed his fingers over the wine glass and said, "Maybe I was thinking too much."

"It was you who were thinking too much," Cheng Yan said, "I really don't know why you have such thoughts."

"I don't know, I was scared by your efforts," Zhao Yibai raised his glass, "I'll punish myself with a glass."

He shouldn't be swayed, no matter how the times change, what kind of words are popular, he shouldn't doubt Cheng Yan who grew up with him since he was a child, he should know Cheng Yan better than anyone else, he looks naive and sloppy, In fact, love and righteousness are important.

He is sincere enough to use Song Yu as an example. Zhao Yibai knows how important Song Yu is to Cheng Yan, and he is very moved when he hears that he is tied with Song Yu and seems to surpass Song Yu. After so many years Did not disappoint.

The two people have a deep relationship, so they don't need to talk too much, and they can understand each other when they express important things.

Zhao Yibai's mood improved a lot.

"By the way," Zhao Yibai mentioned: "Did Song Yu not come for such a big competition?"

He hasn't seen Song Yu for a long time. Zhao Yibai has never seen this person since he graduated from Song Yu. He could still see him because of Cheng Yan before, but now he has no chance.

Cheng Yan explained: "He is also very busy recently, there is a competition, and the time has hit."

"Where does he develop? CBA?"

"No, he's training in a basketball club now, he's more professional, and he's also on a show."

"What show, I'll search it." Zhao Yibai took out his phone.

"Should still be filming, what is it called Passerby King?" Cheng Yan didn't know very well, everyone was very busy, this was the busiest period of time, and the information he had grasped was not so accurate.

"Both of you want to develop in the entertainment industry? He is on the show, and you are on the sports channel."

"No way," Cheng Yan said, "No."

Zhao Yibai put down his phone and reminded: "But be careful, if Song Yu thinks about it, it must be possible. With his face, he has beaten a lot of celebrities in the entertainment industry. Don't let him become popular too easily."

"Indeed, I'll hack him tomorrow." Cheng Yan covered the wine glass on the table, causing Zhao Yibai to laugh mercilessly.

Later, Cheng Yan went to pay the bill, called a car, and sent the drunk ones back first. He and Zhao Yibai walked under the street lights, feeling like they hadn't seen for a long time.

The warm wind blows comfortably on the streets of the city, the shadows on the sidewalk overlap, and the sound of insects is less. This warm and short summer is coming to an end.

"The reality is really slapped in the face," Zhao Yibai said, "At first I thought you and Song Yu couldn't get together, but now... tsk tsk."

Cheng Yan smiled slightly. Not only did he slap Zhao Yibai in the face, but he also slapped himself in the face. All the flags he set up for Song Yu's indifference fell down. The moment Song Yu appeared in front of him, he just lose.

After drinking, the breeze blowing, and the lights of the city flooded people with emotions, Zhao Yibai said: "You will get better and better."

"Thank you." Cheng Yan said solemnly.

"I'm just confused, I don't have a clue about my future, and I don't have anyone I like in school. I don't have such a passionate youth like you."

"We'll all be fine." A leaf fell from his shoulder, and Cheng Yan gently took it off, praying.

It's not that his youth is passionate, it's that he likes a passionate person, he brought him passionate youth, if Song Yu doesn't respond to him, or doesn't care about him, his youth, like most of them, is full of disappointment of secret love His youth must be like that, he is very lucky and satisfied.

"I hope so," Zhao Yibai turned and said, "I'll tell you a secret."

"Ah."

"After the college entrance examination next year, Zhang Zihao will confess his love to Li Xiaoxiao."

This topic instantly aroused Cheng Yan's interest, "Did he say it himself?"

"Well, he doesn't want to disturb Li Xiaoxiao now, so he decided to say it after the college entrance examination."

"It's a good thing."

"Yes, I just don't know if the result will be a good thing." Zhao Yibai looked at Cheng Yan, "Not everyone is you and Song Yu."

Being in a heart-to-heart relationship makes others think it is impossible, but they are still involved. Thinking about it makes them nervous, and thinking about it makes their hearts tremble. But whoever is more decisive and ruthless, they are not what they are today.

Later, Cheng Yan and Zhao Yibai talked about many things, from the past to the future, from himself to the people around him, he smelled the strongest smell, which was honesty and sincerity. With admiration.

In the third year of high school, Cheng Yan didn’t have many memories, because the daily life was too repetitive and boring, he was buried in the deep sea of ​​questions, his heart hung with the countdown of the college entrance examination, he became more nervous every day, and more and more nervous every day. One day of fear, just because when the last day comes, he can live up to his youth, loneliness, and hard work.

Can rush into Song Yu's arms and say, look, I caught up with you.