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Zhong Xiu clicked into Moments, and happened to see a new post from Hao Ai: Countdown to three days.Rubbing hands and expecting.JPG

childish.Zhong Xiu gave him a thumbs up while thinking about it.

Hao Ai's dynamic list is still very long, and Zhong Xiu read it carefully as if he was studying an academic paper, not missing any item.After entering university, Hao Ai's circle of friends continued the previous style, and he posted a few messages almost every day.

Zhong Xiu finished watching all the dynamics of Hao Ai that he had missed over the years. When the dynamics were pulled to the bottom, it was already early in the morning, and it was already time to fall asleep, so he became more awake.

Hao Ai started posting videos online in the first semester of his freshman year, usually twice a month, which is not very frequent, but the advantage is that the updates are stable and of high quality. From the time he made the first video until now, he has only interrupted one update. twice.

Calculated according to the date, the first time he broke up was at the end of the last semester of his junior year, when his grandmother passed away, and it lasted for half a year.The second time was the beginning of the next semester, and there was a break of more than two months.

During the period when the video was cut off, Hao Ai’s circle of friends was still updated, but compared to before, the number of posts was much less, and he didn’t like to express his emotions anymore, only sharing songs.

At that time, Zhong Xiu, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, was busy with scientific research projects and only slept for three hours a day. What about Hao Ai, what happened to him.

Zhong Xiu asked almost all the high school classmates who had contact with Hao Ai, but they didn't find anything.

Zhong Xiu heard that when the senior school was recruiting, Hao Ai was recruited by a well-known local media company, and the salary was very considerable.But he resigned from the company after half a year and went to Nanchuan.

All the news related to Hao Ai, he could only hear from others.

*

One of the things Hao Ai hated the most when he was in college was being forced by the college to listen to lectures and pretend to be a head.But after graduating, he found it interesting to listen to a lecture once in a while.

Half an hour before the lecture started, the small auditorium was already full of people. Professor Zhong's lecture seemed to be very popular.

Hao Ai was secretly glad that he came early and sat in the front seat.Surrounded by the noise of students occupying seats and greeting each other, Hao Ai didn't feel bothered. The root cause was actually the people on stage.

Hao Ai kept his eyes on Zhong Xiu who was talking to the old professor with his head slightly lowered on the podium, thinking, if he was the one who gave lectures when I was in college, I would listen to them every day, even if I skipped class.

The night the two met behind the basketball court, after returning, Zhong Xiu told him in WeChat that he would go to dinner with him after the lecture the day after tomorrow.

So Hao Ai asked him brazenly: "Can I go to the lecture and listen to Professor Zhong?"

Zhong Xiu smiled and said, of course.

Zhong Xiu wore a formal black suit and stood upright.From Hao Ai's perspective, he could only see his side face, with a tall nose bridge and slightly thin lips. There seemed to be no expression on his face.

Hao Ai heard a girl whispering beside her, "Professor Zhong is really handsome."

Another person echoed: "Yes! I am more handsome than in the photo, and so young..."

Hao Ai very much agrees.He looked at Zhong Xiu on the podium, and many adjectives flashed in his mind, mature and stable, elite temperament, gentle scum, abstinence...

stop.

Hao Ai lost his mind after thinking about it, and the picture in front of him gradually overlapped with a certain scene in his memory.

At the end of the second semester of his junior year, Hao Ai overcame the wall and found a video of Zhong Xiu winning the award from the Internet.In the video, Zhong Xiu had a faint look in his eyes, but not overly happy. When he came to the stage to accept the award, he was wearing a suit, personable and calm.

That was the first time Hao Ai saw him wearing a suit, and the beam of light on the awarding platform fell on Zhong Xiu, which was too dazzling.

The video is in English, without subtitles.Hao Ai's English has never been very good. He only passed CET-37 in the last semester of his junior year, but he spent a long time translating the video from beginning to end.From when Zhong Xiu stepped onto the podium to leaving the stage after delivering his acceptance speech, it took five minutes and [-] seconds, and he remembered every frame clearly.

The current Zhong Xiu does not lose his style at that time, and has been polished by time to become more mature and attractive.

It will only make people more admirable.

The lecture lasted for two hours, and after the end, many students went up to ask questions, which dragged on for nearly an hour.

Hao Ai sat in his seat without moving, watching Zhong Xiu answer students' questions calmly.

A tall girl also took a notebook to ask questions, and wrote things down in the notebook from time to time.I don't know what she asked again, Zhong Xiu suddenly pointed to this side, so the girl also looked in Hao Ai's direction, and several people nearby also looked over.Hao Ai felt uncomfortable at the sight, and pulled down his hat to cover his face.

The people in the auditorium finally cleared up.

When Zhong Xiu approached him, Hao Ai smelled the familiar scent of perfume, which was faint, but seemed to be full of enthusiasm, mixed with contradictory feelings, and it was a very peculiar fragrance.

The two of them left the small auditorium, the weather outside was a bit cloudy, the clouds were very low, as if they were about to fall.

"What did you point to me just now?" Hao Ai asked.

Zhong Xiu thought for a moment and said, "That girl wants to invite me to dinner, and I said I have an appointment."

"Really? Are female college students so unreserved?" Hao Ai was dubious.

"A certain male college student who has graduated two years ago is even less reserved."

"..." Hao Ai's face flushed "shua", okay, why don't I stop asking.

When he was about to reach the north gate, Zhong Xiu looked down at his suit and said, "I need to change."

"Go home and change?" Hao Ai asked.The teacher's apartment is not far from here.

"Otherwise?" Zhong Xiu asked back.

"Then I..." Hao Ai looked at him helplessly, and said awkwardly: "Can I go to your house for a while?"

Why are you so cautious?Zhong Xiu sighed inwardly.

"Let's go."

The house Zhong Xiu lives in is the best-sized apartment in the teacher's apartment, with three bedrooms and two living rooms, but the decoration style is simple and almost monotonous.

Hao Ai looked at the shirts and trousers in Zhong Xiu's closet, and was a little confused: "You don't dress so formally when you skate, do you?"

"That won't happen."

The style of clothes in Zhong Xiu's closet is very single, not all of his previous dressing styles are like this. When he was skateboarding, his outfits were also street hip-hop styles, which were very cool.But he hasn't skateboarded for a long time, and the clothes he bought after returning to China are all standard shirts and trousers, which are more in line with the nature of work.

Zhong Xiu has no obsession with dressing style, nor does he say that he must dress cool and trendy, but he still misses Hao Ai's T-shirts with various colors and patterns occasionally.

"Damn..." Hao Ai saw that there were still a few clothes in the closet that hadn't been tagged, and they were all expensive brands.He guessed that when Zhong Xiu bought clothes, he took them casually regardless of the price.

"If you eat barbecue later, don't wear this?" Hao Ai said, "When you go in, you will smell like barbecue."

"Do you still skateboard now?" Zhong Xiu knew that Hao Ai would ask this question, and he should have guessed it when he saw the clothes in this cabinet.

"I want to play, but I don't have much time." Zhong Xiu said.

"Think about it now?" Hao Ai asked.

Zhong Xiu's eyes lit up, and he said, "Yes."

"Then I'll go to my house to get the board," Hao Ai tentatively asked, "Find you another dress?"

"Okay." Zhong Xiu readily agreed.

The two went to the building where Hao Ai lived.

When Zhong Xiu saw the display cabinet on the entrance wall, he didn't hide his surprised expression. The entire wall in front of him was full of skateboards.

"Some were bought by me for collection, and many were given away by cooperative board stores."

"By the way, I don't know if you have watched my video..." Hao Ai paused for a while, and then said, "Forget it, compared with you, it seems that there is nothing worth showing off."

"I've seen it." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai was pleasantly surprised at first, and then a little proud: "I'm good, right?"

"Extremely powerful."

"whee."

Hao Ai chose for a long time, and finally chose a skateboard with less fancy patterns for Zhong Xiu: "This one, I've only skated it once or twice, and it feels really good."

"Row."

Hao Ai brought Zhong Xiu to the bedroom again. He opened the closet, and as expected, there was a closet full of T-shirts: "Choose it yourself."

"This one." Zhong Xiu picked out a T-shirt of the same color as Hao Ai's.

Hao Ai raised his eyebrows.

Zhong Xiu changed clothes in the bedroom, Hao Ai sat on the sofa outside and waited for him.

Zhong Xiu looks good in a suit, and also in a T-shirt.Hao Ai seemed to be unable to see enough, and after walking a few steps, his eyes fell on Zhong Xiu unconsciously.

"Don't look at me, look at the road." Zhong Xiu straightened his head.

How can you look good on the road.Hao Ai pouted and asked, "What do you want to eat?"

"You can choose, I can do both." Zhong Xiu said.

"Why are you still like this..." Hao Ai muttered in a low voice.

"I don't know what to eat around here." Zhong Xiu explained.

Hao Ai chose a self-service barbecue not far from here, in the night market of the University City.

When Hao Ai was holding the skewers, he raised his arm, and Zhong Xiu saw the small tattoo on the inside of his wrist, about the size of a fingernail.In fact, he had noticed it in Hao Ai's video before, but he could only see a blur of color, which flashed across the screen, and he couldn't see the specific pattern clearly.

A fan asked what kind of tattoo it was, but Hao Ai just smiled and changed the subject without answering.

"It smells like barbecue." After leaving the barbecue shop, Hao Ai wrinkled his nose pretending to be disgusted.

"Aren't you too?" Zhong Xiu ruthlessly rubbed his head: "Don't dislike anyone."

"Teacher?" A surprised voice suddenly sounded behind him.

The two turned their heads together and saw Jian Zhao.

Jian Zhao went out to eat with his friends, walking behind the two of them, hearing the voice and looking at the back, he felt that the person in front was very familiar, but the voice was not as dignified and indifferent as usual, but very relaxed and very...gentle.Jian Zhao felt that it was not Zhong Xiu, how could Zhong Xiu be like this.

He tried to call the person in front of him, and seeing Zhong Xiu turn his head, Jian Zhao was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped.

The smile on Zhong Xiu's face hadn't disappeared yet, and he looked completely different from normal.He usually smiles too, but his smile is very short and shallow, giving people a cold and perfunctory feeling, but now it is very different, like a delicate mask suddenly attached to a real soul, and it suddenly comes alive .

And he has never worn such... youthful clothes, and he still holds a skateboard in his hand. He looks very young, no different from the college students around him.Jian Zhao was almost dumbfounded.

Zhong Xiu is not the kind of person who follows the rules. He had a rebellious period in high school, but he has always lived with restraint and self-discipline.Because of meeting Hao Ai, his whole talent has become alive, and he has returned to the original state during the years abroad, but now he seems to be brought back to the deviated track by Hao Ai.

Then continue on this path.

After scribbling greetings to Jian Zhao, Zhong Xiu didn't talk any more and walked forward, because he could see that the people next to him didn't seem very happy.

It was already very dark, the stars could not be seen, and a light rain suddenly fell in the sky. Hao Ai raised his head, feeling the coolness of the raindrops on his face.He said dejectedly: "It's not slippery, it's raining."

"Well, let's go back then." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai nodded sullenly, and the two returned the same way.

When he was about to reach the teacher's apartment, Hao Ai asked without warning; "Zhong Xiu, are you single now?"

Zhong Xiu was stunned, "What's wrong?"

Hao Ai didn't answer him, but repeated it irritably: "Isn't it?"

"Yes." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai stopped suddenly, looked at him with a smile on his face, and said in a carefree tone: "Then can I chase you?"

"..." Zhong Xiu frowned and refused, "No."

"Why?" Hao Ai froze for a moment, then bent his eyes and smiled, "Give me a chance."

Zhong Xiu didn't speak.

"If you don't refuse me, it will be regarded as your agreement." Hao Ai began to play tricks.

"Don't be like this," Zhong Xiu smiled helplessly: "Didn't you not take the initiative to refuse when I was chasing you before? I didn't think you agreed, and I won't bring you such a double standard."

Hao Ai lowered his head in frustration, as if it was a bit too much, and he shouldn't use the joking tone just now to seek reconciliation, there is a problem with his attitude.He was about to apologize, but he heard Zhong Xiu say: "Actually, there is no need to chase."

Hao Ai looked at him again in confusion.

"You also know that I have always...have no principles for you," Zhong Xiu said, "maybe it's the same now."

I really want to hide from you, but when I see you, I can't help but want to get closer.

"But there are some things I haven't figured out yet, can you give me a moment?"

The author says:

#今天ZhongxiuHao Ai reconciled#