Same crime

It's getting colder, and Erbing seems to be more willing to get close to Gong Yuechao. After a simple dinner, Gong Yuechao is too lazy to prepare lessons. He is lying on the sofa while digesting food and watching TV. Erbing squeezed a space between him and the sofa. , stuffed his fat body into the gap, quietly, let Gong Yuechao smooth its fur, and soon snored.

He and Erbing, one person and one cat, live in harmony. Gong Yuechao is young, but he lives like an old man who is nearly fifty years old. After all, this kind of peaceful time is hard to come by.In fact, he didn't take what was playing on TV to heart, and even dozed off as if infected by Erbing, because he didn't sleep well, and his mind was full of messy dreams.

The sudden ringing of the doorbell woke him up from that dream. His heart was beating violently, as if it was about to come out of his chest. Er Bing was so frightened that his hair blew up, his tail stood up, and he launched a move towards the door. Attacked with a "meow" yell.Gong Yuechao rubbed Erbing's head, Erbing stared at Gong Yuechao as if she could talk, her eyes were full of accusations against the uninvited guest outside the door, she looked very aggrieved. "Okay, okay." Gong Yuechao kissed Erbing's forehead, hugged it in her arms, wondering who it would be at this time, and came to the door with question marks all over her head.

"Who?" he asked, looking out through the peephole.For some reason, Maoyan was covered with a layer of fog. He was in a daze. He saw an unfamiliar young man standing at the door. He thought someone had gone through the wrong door, so he asked again, "Who is it?"

"Mr. Gong, it's me, Qin Zhengzheng..."

Qin Zhengzheng, he must be a student he once taught. This is such a distant name. Gong Yuechao will selectively forget unimportant people or things, and he has no way to match this name with the faces of the students he has taught. up.

He opened the door in doubt, and saw a tall and straight young man appeared in front of him, with short hair and sharp, round eyes under two sword-shaped eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth were slightly tilted, smiling at him... soon , he finally concretized the name Qin Zhengzheng, so many things that happened four years ago that he had deliberately forgotten flooded into his memory at once.

Erbing has always been docile and docile to her relatives. No matter who came, she would be unceremoniously approached to touch her, but for some reason, she became very irritable and impatient when she saw Qin Zhengzheng, "Meow meow meow" Straight to kill him.Gong Yuechao rubbed Erbing's fur, trying to calm it down, but it didn't seem to work. The meat roller even stretched out its front paws to take a step forward, but the distance was too far, and it didn't reach Qin Zhengzheng, so it was obviously more angry Yes, the voice has changed. "Erbing, you mustn't be rude." Gong Yuechao seemed to blame, but in fact he was gently comforting Erbing. He wanted to take back the cat's paw, but was almost scratched by it, so he let it go. Not far away, it arched its waist, showing a fierce face in preparation for war, and was very wary of strangers invading its territory.

Gong Yuechao smiled apologetically at Qin Zhengzheng, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's usually quite obedient, maybe it doesn't know the reason for you. Come in." As he spoke, he took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet and gave him a pair of slippers in his heart. But I was thinking, why is he here?

I don't know what happened to Qin Zhengzheng, but when he entered the room, he tripped over the threshold and threw himself into Gong Yuechao's arms.Fortunately, Gong Yuechao was quick to react, and quickly blocked him with his arms, saying: "Be careful." He helped him stabilize, and saw Qin Zhengzheng blushing, saying sorry, Gong Yuechao said He said it was okay, but he was also a little uncomfortable. The child gave him such a big gift as soon as he entered the door, and he didn't know what was causing the trouble.He bent down to find a pair of slippers for Qin Zhengzheng. After Qin Zhengzheng changed, he stood stiffly, as if Gong Yuechao didn't dare to let him sit down.Gong Yuechao saw that he was taller and stronger than when he was in high school, and he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. ——He has taught several classes of students, and there are quite a few who come back to see him. This sense of accomplishment will appear when seeing any student. I feel that as a teacher, they have matured and become sensible under his teaching.

He said to Qin Zhengzheng, "You can sit wherever you want." Then he poured a cup of warm water for him from the thermos, and said, "Drink the water."

Qin Zhengzheng took the water glass, sat on the sofa with his back straight, looking very well-behaved, far from when he was still in high school, when he arrived at his house, he would stand or sit and relax.He looks grown up and mature, which is fine.

"Mr. Gong, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you okay?" Qin Zhengzheng took a sip of water, holding the water glass, his voice was a little low, as if he was feeling timid in his heart.

"Well, I'm fine." Gong Yuechao took an apple from the coffee table and handed it to him, "Eat fruit..."

"No, there's no need." Qin Zhengzheng refused.

Gong Yuechao didn't take back his hand until he put down the water glass and took the red apple, but he didn't bite it, he just held it in his hand.

I haven't seen him for more than four years. The young high school student has grown up, and he is no longer a rebellious kid who always deliberately contradicts and jokes with him.

"Why did you come here suddenly? Why didn't you call before you came? What if I'm not at home?" Gong Yuechao poured himself a glass of water, and before he could drink, Erbing jumped onto the sofa and squeezed into his arms. Almost knocking over his water glass, he still looked at Qin Zhengzheng vigilantly, as if he was afraid that Qin Zhengzheng would bully him.

Qin Zhengzheng looked at the cat for a while, wanted to touch it, but was a little timid, and finally gave up because he was afraid of being scratched.He said: "Just... I saw someone who seemed to be you this morning, and then I remembered a lot of things in high school, so I wanted to come and see you. After all, I haven't seen you for several years, and I don't know if your phone number is changed. Is it gone?"

"Oh...you saw me? I haven't changed my number." Gong Yuechao thought about his day's itinerary, but he just went to the post office in the morning. Could it be there?So I turned to ask: "Have you graduated from college, have you worked yet?"

Qin Zhengzheng showed an embarrassing expression, "I went to have breakfast in the morning, and I saw a mailer at the gate of the post office. I thought it was you." Qin Zhengzheng took another sip of water, peeked at him cautiously, and continued to answer his question: " I'm working, and I'm going to work in September at the Lixia Public Security Bureau not far from here."

Gong Yuechao was stunned for a moment, he thought he was on guard, but he didn't expect to be seen by Qin Zhengzheng.He pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Oh, I sent a postcard to a friend. Well, so you became a policeman after all? Your dream has come true, congratulations." When he said this, the previous deliberate explanations seemed blunt , as if talking to an outsider.

Gong Yuechao had always disliked the police because of what happened when he was a child. It could even be said that he held a kind of hatred. For several years, he has been struggling with psychological problems, such as fear of bitterness, slight claustrophobia, fear of heights, and being unable to control his emotions when encountering violent phenomena, etc., etc., he himself is unwilling to count them.Back then, helping Qin Zhengzheng was just a matter of trust and loyalty. He didn't have any opinion on Qin Zhengzheng himself. After getting along with him, he felt that he was a very honest young man, but later he heard Qin Zhengzheng say that he wanted to be a policeman. , he had already alienated Qin Zhengzheng in his heart, and when he was successfully admitted to the police academy, he didn't even want to talk to him at all.

Gong Yuechao could understand that because of his estrangement, Qin Zhengzheng hadn't contacted him for several years, and he didn't want to blame him, but he didn't feel any regrets, and even after a long time, he had almost forgotten about this student.Teacher is such a kind of profession. There are probably not many people who welcome and send students to the next class until they retire and get old. Those so-called metaphors of burning candles to illuminate others are indeed justified. What he did It's just about being loyal to your profession.

Hearing his words of congratulations, Qin Zhengzheng smiled shyly, raised his face, and said to him, "Teacher, let me treat you to dinner another day."

"...Why?" Gong Yuechao's inner resistance made him not want to keep in touch with the policeman too often, even the students he had taught were not good enough, and it was not easy to refuse directly, so he just paused and asked.

Maybe Qin Zhengzheng didn't expect him to ask him why, he seemed to understand that adults would refuse directly if he didn't answer, he looked a little stiff, and said in a stammering voice: "Ah...that's why you helped me back then. So many, I, I never had time to say thank you, so, so, I want to thank you." God knows, he has never been so nervous in an interview for the police.

"Oh...that's not necessary." Gong Yuechao blurted out his refusal, and realized that he was not tactful enough, so he added: "This is what a teacher should do, so don't be too polite with me."

Hearing what he said, Qin Zhengzheng's fresh flower wilted immediately, and he became at a loss, thinking how to give himself a step down so that he wouldn't look embarrassed, "Old, teacher, I didn't Other meanings... just..." Qin Zhengzheng tried his best to organize his words to explain something to save his respect.

Gong Yuechao took over the conversation and said, "Thank you for your kindness. I don't have any complaints about you. You are a very good boy with ideals. You can achieve them through your own efforts. I didn't do anything at all. I am ashamed of this meal. Besides, I don’t like the profession of the police very much. I just don’t like it because of my prejudice. It’s the kind that I would resist psychologically, so..." "Please stay away from me." Such words He didn't say.

Qin Zhengzheng was obviously surprised when he heard this. His big round eyes widened even more now. It seemed that he never thought that the career he had dreamed of since he was a child was the one his teacher hated the most, and he even expressed it bluntly. Tell him, so that's when you can alienate him?I knew it earlier... but I didn't know it earlier...

In fact, Qin Zhengzheng apparently lost interest in continuing to chat with him after he rejected the invitation, and found an excuse to leave without saying a few words, and hurriedly took an apple from his home.

The angry Erbing finally calmed down after Qin Zhengzheng left, lying in his arms, squinting his eyes lazily, obviously the demonstration just now consumed too much energy, even the sound of grunting seemed weak.Gong Yuezhao rubbed Erbing's soft fur, lying on the sofa with his arms pillowed on his head and looking at the ceiling. After staring for a long time, his eyes were sore and astringent. A new notification on his phone brought him back to reality from a blank state. On the phone, I found that there was a new friend notification.

"Teacher, hello, I'm Qin Zhengzheng."

Gong Yuechao regretted using his mobile phone number as his WeChat ID. He didn't want to pass it, but felt that he was too impersonal, so he added him as a friend.

"Thank you teacher." Qin Zhengzheng sent a sentence, followed by a cute smile.

Gong Yuechao didn't answer him, continued to lie down, and somehow fell asleep.