no longer ordinary friends

After eleven o'clock in the evening, Zhou Bingcheng, who had only eaten all night, pushed open the door of Zhou Zhicheng's room. He leaned against the door frame and raised his chin casually: "Supper?"

Zhou Zhicheng grabbed a small puppet on the table and threw it at him: "If you don't knock on the door and come in, you're finished!"

"I'll treat you to a barbecue." Zhou Bingcheng said, seeing that Zhou Zhicheng ignored him, he continued to grind, "It's rare for your brother to come back and have a drink with your brother."

"You don't go to work, I have to go to work tomorrow." Zhou Zhicheng retracted his gaze and continued to stare at the document on the computer screen.

Zhou Bingcheng still stood there, looking at her with sad eyes motionless, as if he wanted to get drunk to relieve his worries.

"Are you grounded? Out of work? Or have you committed a crime and need a lawyer?"

"Can't you hope that your brother will be better?"

She sighed for a long time: "Let's go."

A smile burst into Zhou Bingcheng's eyes, he put his arms around her shoulders, and said, "Go to Fat Brother's barbecue stand, I asked Fat Brother to reserve a seat for us."

"You pay."

"Understood, can my brother let you pay? My brother earns your money a month for a year. It's hard to make money as a lawyer in our county..." Before he could finish speaking, she was elbowed in the stomach.

Zhou Zhicheng said unhappily: "If you think you have too much money, you can send money to my bank."

"That won't work, I want to keep it and marry a wife."

……

The nights in the north and the south are different. At about ten o'clock in the north city, many stores are slowly closing down. However, the center of the county town of Nanri County has only begun to become lively, with a lot of people, bright lights, and colorful neon lights flickering , earthy rock music occupied most of the block, and the owners of various stalls were shouting to attract customers.

Fat brother saw Zhou Bingcheng, patted his pregnant belly like a pregnant woman, and hugged him full: "You haven't come back for a long time, boy, sit down, I'll give you a big discount tonight!"

He slipped a menu for them.

Just as he was talking, Jiang Xianghuai also came, apparently Zhou Bingcheng called him.

Jiang Xianghuai sat on the other side of Zhou Zhicheng, and she smiled politely at him.

Fat Brother said "Hey", he knew Zhou Zhicheng from the beginning, and the people who came to eat barbecue with Zhou Zhicheng these years were basically familiar faces in the county town, but this person, he was a little familiar, a little unfamiliar, the one he was familiar with was this The person who wipes the tables and chairs pretends to be.

He looked at Jiang Xianghuai and asked, "Have you eaten with Chengcheng before?"

As soon as these words came out, the three of them were stunned.

Zhou Bingcheng raised his eyebrows: "How is it possible? He hasn't been here for many years, and there are three of us. My sister was still a high school student at that time."

Fat Brother patted his bald head, "hissed": "Did I remember wrongly, how could I still remember that he came here alone?"

Zhou Zhicheng didn't say anything. When Jiang Xianghuai ran back from Berkeley, she did bring him to the Fat Brother's barbecue stand. As for being alone, she didn't know.

Zhou Bingcheng came here tonight to get drunk and relieve his worries. He ate some roast lamb to pad his stomach, and then asked the boss to order some fried dumplings. He has a strange habit. He eats dumplings with tomato sauce. This is the way of eating, probably due to heredity, the frightening thing is that Jiang Li also got this bad habit at some point.

Zhou Bingcheng took good care of his health, and only started to drink when he was full. He drank one beer after another, and no one drank with him.Zhou Zhicheng didn't drink much at first, and he had to work tomorrow, so he stopped drinking, while Jiang Xianghuai had quit drinking, and he criticized him for not being loyal enough.

When he was drunk, he started talking nonsense: "Chengcheng, does she have a boyfriend? Last, last time I went to the law firm to look for her, and I always saw her with a man, who The man seems to be her boss or partner. Jiang Xianghuai, how much money do you make a year, is it more than me? How amazing!"

Jiang Xianghuai ignored the drunk.

Zhou Bingcheng looked back at Zhou Zhicheng again, frowned in doubt: "Why didn't you stay in Beicheng before? Didn't you always imagine that you shuttled in the high-rise buildings in the city center, went in and out of Mindy, even if you squeezed the subway to go to work, the soy milk was squeezed by people?" It exploded, the high heels are crowded out, do you want to stay in Beicheng noblely?"

Zhou Zhicheng: "..."

He jerked his head up, drank a whole glass of beer, opened his dark eyes, and said, "I have to make it clear to her."

"You said she has a boyfriend." Zhou Zhicheng reminded calmly.

"Yes." Zhou Bingcheng admitted honestly.

"Then you want to be a mistress." Zhou Zhicheng raised his eyebrows slightly, "Are you moral?"

"No! She's a wife, and I'm going to poach her away." He put down his rhetoric, turned his head and became dazed again, "But, I don't have any money."

He rummaged up and down on himself for a long time, not knowing what he was looking for.

Jiang Xianghuai was silent, and helped him rummage through his pocket, took out a card, and shook it in front of his eyes. Zhou Bingcheng followed the bank card with his eyes and smiled: "Yes, this is it."

Then, he took out his mobile phone, turned on the speakerphone, and made a call.

What time is it, people may have gone to bed early, Zhou Zhicheng frowned, and before he could stop it, there was the sound of keyboard tapping and a woman's cool voice: "Zhou Bingcheng, what's wrong?"

Zhou Zhicheng frowned.

Zhou Bingcheng said sincerely: "I will give you my salary card and all the money. When I retire, I will still fly airplanes for many years, and there will still be a lot of money in it. My house, no, the house at home is My sister's, but the unit has divided rooms..."

"You're drunk, aren't you?" The woman over there was quiet for a while, then sighed helplessly.

"Ah."

"Then what do you want?"

"I want to be with you." Zhou Bingcheng still remembers that as soon as she mentioned getting married, she would turn her face, "I'll give you money."

She laughed angrily: "You want to keep me?"

When the man was drunk, only his lower body could think: "It's okay, it seems a little exciting."

"roll."

Seeing that she was about to hang up the phone, Zhou Bingcheng knew that she was angry even if he was not clear-headed, so he said quickly: "Then why don't you take care of me, I'm cheap." He looked at Zhou Zhicheng and asked for help in a daze, "Sister, How much do you think I can sell it for?"

Zhou Zhicheng: "..."

She reluctantly took the phone, cleared her throat, and said calmly: "Li Li, it's me, Zhou Bingcheng is drunk."

Jiang Li was silent for a while, then said, "I know."

……

Jiang Xianghuai and Zhou Zhicheng sent the drunk home together. On the way, neither of them spoke. When they were approaching Zhou's courtyard, Jiang Xianghuai said, "Chengcheng, I'm sorry."

Zhou Zhicheng glanced at him with a natural expression and looked very friendly: "It's okay, you can help my brother into his room first, keep your voice down, grandpa and grandma are already asleep."

After she finished speaking, she didn't look at him again, just as the phone was vibrating again, she walked to the corner, swiped her finger across the screen, and she picked it up: "Li Li."

Jiang Li exhaled softly: "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Zhou Zhicheng smiled lightly, and a smile flashed across his eyes: "No, because it's not surprising that you are together."

"why?"

"You like my brother. I'm your good friend. Even if you don't tell me, of course I know."

"So, during the Chinese New Year, you knew I liked it, so you asked your brother to come to me?"

Zhou Zhicheng didn't deny it, but just asked: "So, did you really get together after that time?"

Jiang Li hesitated, his voice was very soft and full of worries: "Chengcheng, you know my mother is very unreasonable..."

"Can your mother beat my grandma?"

It seems impossible.

Zhou Zhicheng looked at the night, bent the corners of his lips, and said in a relaxed voice: "My grandma gets angry, a few people can bear it, she said that I am her favorite person, but on the eve of my college entrance examination, she can talk to me Because of trivial matters, I was noisy until four o'clock in the morning, and the next day I went to the Chinese test with red and swollen eyes, but fortunately there were no major problems in the college entrance examination."

Jiang Li chuckled: "Chengcheng, in fact, I have always admired your self-regulation ability. You always have the courage to try, turn the tide, and break the boat. Whether it was the college entrance examination that year, or you decided to change your future plans and go back to your hometown to work. It all ends well, but my life is a mess."

"Lawyer Jiang, your career achievements can be ranked high in our class." Zhou Zhicheng reminded her, "You are already in Beicheng, and your mother's hand cannot reach there. Think about your own thoughts, your likes and your dreams."

"My dream is to marry a rich man and climb very high."

"Then my brother is out of business, and my family's conditions are like this." After Zhou Zhicheng finished speaking, both of them laughed.

Jiang Li asked: "What about you, how are you and Jiang Xianghuai doing? Did something happen to him five years ago?"

Zhou Zhicheng lowered his eyes, and the smile in his eyes faded a lot: "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

"Do you still blame him?"

Zhou Zhicheng didn't say anything else, hung up the phone, she turned around, and saw Jiang Xianghuai standing under the dim light bulb in the middle of the yard, he walked over, the light disappeared from his face, turned behind him, he The outline of his body became blurred, the light shone, and his expression was even more difficult to see clearly.

He lowered his eyes and looked at her, his Adam's apple moved slightly: "Chengcheng."

"What? What do you want to say?" She asked softly, and at the same time moved closer to him, raised her head, revealing her beautiful neckline, the fragrance of her body floated between the two of them, in such a hot night in a small seaside town, "Xiang Huai."

Jiang Xianghuai's heart skipped a beat, his mind fluttered, the words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat, and she suddenly called him that.

Zhou Zhicheng still smiled with his eyes bent, but the smile was shallow.

She thought, of course she blamed him. How can someone do something wrong without paying the price?