Absinthe

The plan couldn't keep up with the changes. On the night of arriving in Zhengchuan, Hao Ai received a notice that he was going to participate in a New Year's event held by the video platform.

The company headquarters of his resident video platform is in Nanchuan. This is one of the reasons why Hao Ai wanted to come to Nanchuan to develop.

"This is an activity I promised last winter vacation, I just remembered it, and I didn't think of it at that time..." Hao Ai kicked his legs, sat on the big bed in the hotel, held his mobile phone, and replied to the message while using his spare time. Just sneaking a glance at Zhong Xiu, he still seemed to have no expression on his face, but Hao Ai felt that he must be unhappy, so he subconsciously fell silent while talking.

"Then I'll go back with you tomorrow." Zhong Xiu looked at him.

"You can stay here for a few more days. You haven't been back for a long time, so you can just go shopping." After Hao Ai replied to the message, he continued to hold his phone and pretended that he hadn't finished replying. He didn't dare to look at Zhong Xiu. Zhongzhong moved to the new campus. Many very tall buildings were built in the original place. It has been built for several years and has not been completed yet. I heard that it will become a landmark building in the future, and the shopping mall I used to go to has also been demolished. To build a bigger…”

The high school has moved to a new campus, and the dilapidated motorcycle has been turned into a car, a few new skateboards have been replaced, and many dreams related to the past have been made.Everything around me is changing, but it seems like nothing has changed.

"You're not here, what's the point of me going to see it alone," Zhong Xiu said flatly, "I'll go later, it won't be a while."

"But I broke my promise again." Hao Ai threw the phone aside, covered his face with the pillow in frustration, and fell on the bed with his face up.

"It's okay, we'll go when you have time, it doesn't matter how long we wait." Zhong Xiu bent down and removed the pillow covering his face.

"In front of you, I seem to have always been a person who does not keep promises." Hao Ai looked at him, and his mood suddenly became very depressed.

"No." Zhong Xiu said.

"You know? I was very serious when I said I was chasing you," Hao Ai said, "I'm not joking."

"Well, I know." Zhong Xiu said.

Of course he knew that he could touch and feel the sincerity hidden under Hao Ai's indifferent surface.

"Last year, I thought about it. If you don't come back in another year, then I will go to you." Hao Ai rolled over and lay down in a different position. If we are together, I will chase you, and if I catch up, I can get married abroad by the way."

"After you came back, I actually struggled. If you agreed to get back together with me, but your mother still didn't agree..." Hao Ai paused, and continued, "Then what should I do."

"Then what should we do?" Zhong Xiu approached, pressing him down and asking.

"I used to think that all roads were impassable, and the sky was about to fall," Hao Ai shook his head and said, "Actually, I blamed me for being too stupid at that time. I didn't think of a good solution, and I would just run away from things."

"I don't blame you," Zhong Xiu said, "I said before that I don't want you to feel guilty because you took the initiative to break up. It wasn't your fault in the first place, and..."

"I never blamed you." Zhong Xiu said in a low voice.

"Although it was not possible before, but now I can tell you that if they disagree and you are willing, then I will take you to elope," Hao Ai smiled again, "I haven't made much progress in these years, but at least I I have the ability to love whoever I want to love.”

In fact, I have not hesitated for a long time. The back then was because of love, and the firmness now is also because of love.

*

Not only Hao Ai was busy alone, Zhong Xiu also started to get busy as soon as he returned to school.

In addition to the established scientific research projects, he also has to teach the students of the H University College of Chemistry.A colleague in the laboratory was going abroad for a two-week inspection, and asked him to help with one week's class. There were only two classes in total, and he agreed.

He told Hao Ai, and Hao Ai quietly ran to the classroom and sat in the last row to listen to his lecture.

In addition to Zhong Xiu's excellent professional quality, his lectures are also very clear. His cool voice and occasional cold humor make the overall atmosphere of the class very active.

This was beyond Hao Ai's expectation. He thought Zhong Xiu's class would be rather boring, after all, inorganic chemistry was a holy book for him.

After class, the students who asked questions surrounded the podium.Hao Ai saw that there were too many people, so he didn't move forward.

"Mr. Zhong, I'm here to ask questions too," Hao Ai came to the front row after seeing the people finally finished walking, "After listening to a class, I began to doubt my IQ again."

"What question do you want to ask?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"Do you want to have dinner together?" Hao Ai asked him with a smile on his brows, leaning against the podium.

"Sure, what do you want to eat?" Zhong Xiu packed up the things on the desk and walked out of the classroom with him.

Hao Ai suddenly possessed a playful spirit: "How can you casually agree to eat with students? You have a boyfriend!"

"It's okay, there won't be any more," Zhong Xiu said with a serious face, "Don't worry, I won't tell my boyfriend." He turned his face to look at Hao Ai seriously.

"..." Hao Ai clenched his fist, making a gesture to hit him, "I don't think you have ever been beaten by your boyfriend."

"Are you going to eat out today?" Zhong Xiu smiled.

"Let's go to your house to eat." Hao Ai pinched Zhong Xiu's arm and said, "It's been a long time since my house has been fired, and I've been made lazy by you, but it's embarrassing to come to your place every day to grab a meal. of."

But there was no embarrassment on his face.

When Zhong Xiu heard him say "your house, my house", he felt a little annoyed, why didn't this person have the slightest intention to move here to live with him?

"Ah, I want to drink bastard soup." Hao Ai stretched his waist, and said.

"Are you willing?" Zhong Xiu asked lightly.

He remembered that Ning Yue had mentioned before that Hao Ai used to bother him a lot because of this bastard, and consulted a lot of others, so it should be taken seriously.

"Why don't you give up? Wang Ba Tang is nourishing and healthy," Hao Ai retorted, and then whispered, "It's also a strong yang."

"..." Zhong Xiu turned to look at him again.

"Actually, bastard soup is really delicious." Hao Ai continued without fear of death.

"Then go to the vegetable market tomorrow and buy one to make soup?" Zhong Xiu asked seriously.

"Hahaha I'm kidding! I don't need that."

"..." Zhong Xiu looked at him helplessly, and said, "Let's buy another pet turtle to keep, and find a companion for yours."

"Then why don't you buy some fish by the way?" Hao Ai suggested, but then vetoed it himself: "Forget it, forget it, I'm afraid I'll kill the fish."

"I can raise it for you, but I have to buy another aquarium for home." Zhong Xiu paused and said, "If we can also have a home." The meaning of this sentence is obvious.

Hao Ai still didn't understand what he meant, so he just replied casually: "It's ok, as long as you don't die."

"So, do you want to move here and live with me?" Zhong Xiu lost his composure when he said this. Did Hao Ai really not understand or pretended not to understand?

Hao Ai was stunned for a moment, and finally understood, he said in a long voice, "Oh—so you wanted to say this."

Seeing that Zhong Xiu didn't speak, he guessed again: "No wonder I thought you had a weird expression that night."

"Is it strange?" Zhong Xiu was dubious, and he didn't make it obvious.

"How do you know which night I'm talking about? Hahaha it sure is! I knew you'd been thinking about this for a long time."

Zhong Xiu smiled helplessly: "I found that you have been pushing your nose and face a little lately."

"Wow, Professor Zhong, can you speak? This is called being arrogant, okay?" Hao Ai looked up at him.

Zhong Xiu: "..."

What can I do?There is no other way but to pet.

Seeing that Zhong Xiu didn't speak, Hao Ai stopped teasing him, but asked for his opinion: "Then I'll move after I finish participating in the competition tomorrow, okay?"

"But I have a lot of things. I have to move a cabinet of skateboards, and that super-big aquarium."

"It's okay, I'll move it for you." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai is going to participate in an invitational tournament jointly organized by the local sports bureau and the Skateboard Association. He will attend as a guest and there will be a live broadcast on the day.

The location was set at the skateboard park, and most of the people present were skaters and video bloggers who were familiar with Hao Ai or who had dealt with Hao Ai. In addition, there were also some half-baked Internet celebrities who used "skateboard" as a gimmick to record videos.

This time Zhong Xiu went with him.

"Coke," Hao Ai had just arrived at the gate of the skate park. Before he entered, someone came to greet him, "Bring your friend over to play?"

It was a skater I met at a small competition.

Hao Ai hugged Zhong Xiu, and said shamelessly, "This is my wife."

"The gender is not right." The skater said with a smile, but he didn't take it seriously.

The three of them walked inside together.

"What's the name of this handsome guy?" the skater asked again.

"Just call him Chacha." Hao Ai answered for him.

"Chacha?" The skater asked in surprise, "Isn't this... the big guy in your live broadcast room?"

He is also a frequent visitor to Hao Ai's live broadcast room, and he knows that there is such a person as xx.

"Yes, the biggest benefactor of Ice Coke." Hao Ai said with a smile.

"Then I have evidence to suspect that the two of you are really having an affair." The skater joked.

"Don't get me wrong, it's just a simple nurturing relationship..." Hao Ai hadn't finished his tricks when he realized that Zhong Xiu on the side hadn't followed.

Someone blocked his way.

"You go first!" Hao Ai saw a strange woman in a beautiful short skirt standing next to Zhong Xiu, so he waved his hand to let the fellow skaters go first.

The person who struck up a conversation with Zhong Xiu was a small Internet celebrity. She stood in front of Zhong Xiu with a bright smile: "Handsome guy, can I add a WeChat?"

Zhong Xiu glanced at Hao Ai, seeing that he still had an indifferent expression.

Just pretend.Zhong Xiu was about to decline, but when he saw Hao Ai coming over, he raised the corner of his mouth and said, "It's not impossible to add WeChat."

Zhong Xiu looked at him with a little surprise.

Hao Ai gave Zhong Xiu a look, smiled and said to the Internet celebrity: "But he has a partner, if you want to chase him, you have to queue up."

"Sorry, the family is strictly controlled, so it's not convenient to add." Zhong Xiu clearly refused.

The little Internet celebrity had no choice but to leave in resentment.

"This person is too ignorant, didn't you see me standing next to you?" Hao Ai looked at the back of the little internet celebrity and said dissatisfied.

The competition started, and after the opening speech, the host introduced the guests.Start here and start live streaming online.

When the host introduced Hao Ai, the real-time barrage in the live broadcast was even more heated than before.

Hao Ai was wearing a sapphire blue hooded sweater. The hat was pulled up to cover his hair. He greeted the audience. With the hat on, the whole person looks cool and cold.

[I finally saw Coke's face in the live broadcast, in my lifetime! 】

[Coke cool gai character set does not collapse]

[One person asks for Coke to make a dressing video]

【Ten People's Blood Book】

The audience also discovered that in this live broadcast, there was a strange handsome man who was almost inseparable from Hao Ai.

Zhong Xiu's outfit today is also a loose and comfortable street style, with a baggy denim jacket, a colorful T-shirt, and a black fisherman's hat for concave shape.

[Is there a friend of Coke next to him? 】

[Woooooooo so handsome! 】

[I can do it again! 】

"Coke, can you introduce the friend who came with you?" The host enlivened the atmosphere.

"We have known each other for many years. We used to play board games together. We have a good relationship," Hao Ai said with a smile, "It's not ordinary friends."

Then the barrage boiled again.

[Not ordinary friends?Better than ordinary friends, best friends? 】

[maybe boyfriend]

【? ? ? 】

【Is that what I think? 】

"It's a family member." After Hao Ai said this, he didn't explain any more.

After finishing the opening process, Hao Ai and Zhong Xiu went to the rest area first.

"I'm going to find someone to get something, you wait here for a while." Hao Ai said.

"Row."

Hao Aihu sighed again, and said worriedly: "Forget it, you'd better stay with me, I'm afraid you will be asked for WeChat again."

"Yeah." Hao Ai just smiled and nodded.

Hao Ai called someone with his mobile phone, confirmed the location, and took Zhong Xiu over.

The man was sitting in the corner of the rest area with a battered skateboard next to him, and he was obviously a skater too.

"Here you are." The skater stood up when he saw Hao Ai approaching, bent down and took out a long cardboard box from the side of the seat. The shape of the cardboard box should be a skateboard inside.

"Thank you, I'll treat you to dinner another day."

"Need not."

Hao Ai didn't say anything else, just nodded and smiled at him, and then returned to their original positions with Zhong Xiu.

"He is quite autistic and doesn't like to talk to people, but he is very nice, just like you before." Hao Ai said.

"... When did I become like this?" Zhong Xiu was speechless.

"You bought a new board?" Zhong Xiu asked again.

"Yes, couple board." Hao Ai unpacked the carton, took out a new board and handed it to him.

"Exactly the same as yours?" Zhong Xiu took it and asked, this skateboard is indeed the same as the one Hao Ai uses now.

"That's right, but the assembly parts are all according to your habits, otherwise how can it be called a couple board," Hao Ai said.Then turn his board over and let him see the graffiti on the board. "But custom graffiti is different."

In addition to the original pattern, a line of black cursive letters was written on the upper corner of the board with inkjet paint: aizhong

"What do you mean?" Zhong Xiu had already seen it, but still asked him.

"...I love the meaning of China."

Zhong Xiu:?

"Look at yours again." Hao Ai said again.

So Zhong Xiu also turned over the skateboard in his hand.

There is also a line of letters in the upper right corner: zhongai

"How? I said it's a couple's, right?"

"Well, it's worthy of the name." Zhong Xiu said.

Although there is a touch of rustic in the foreign style, but this is not important.

Hao Ai asked Zhong Xiu to rest in the rest area, and went to the competition area by himself.

On the field, Hao Ai made a few classic moves and left the stage. The protagonist of this invitational competition is not him, but a professional skater. As a non-professional skater who is relatively popular on the Internet, he was invited to come and walk the stage , to increase the ratings.

It was evening when the game ended.At dinner time, before they came, they decided to eat hot pot tonight. I heard that there is a newly opened hot pot restaurant nearby, and the taste is amazing.

They came by bus, but found that there was no direct bus to the hot pot restaurant, so Hao Ai picked up a shared electric car at the gate of the park.

"There are no more motorcycles, so let's make do with it." Hao Ai said with a smile.

"It's pretty good. Can you stretch your legs?"

This kind of two-wheeled tram is really too small, Zhong Xiu suspects that they don't even have a place to stretch their legs.

"Yeah, trust me, I used to ride a lot."

Hao Ai drove the small tram timidly, and took Zhong Xiu, who was also unable to stretch his arms and legs, to dinner. He put the skateboards of the two of them vertically on the shelf in front of the car, where the skateboards just fit.

"I've ranked the number on the Internet, and we still have more than 40 numbers ahead." Hao Ai said against the wind.

Zhong Xiu put his arms around his waist and said, "How long do we have to wait..."

"At least an hour, why don't we find a place first, and you try the new board?" Hao Ai asked.

"Row."

There were too many people in the square and it was too chaotic. Hao Ai seldom played board here for fear of bumping into people.Although he is confident in his skills, he still can't avoid the sudden appearance of children and adults who hang their heads down and play with their mobile phones without looking at the road.

However, in recent years, there are more and more bowl pools for people to skateboard, and there is no need to look for venues everywhere like before.

The two went to the bowl pool under the high-rise shopping mall where the hot pot restaurant is located.

"Today is reserved." Hao Ai said with a smile.

The venue was empty, no one was there.

"I want to try your board." Hao Ai said.

He has an inexplicable obsession with new boards, and when he sees a new board, he can't help but step on it to try it out, not to mention that this board is still Zhongxiu, so of course he has to let him step on it.

"Okay, then I'll watch you play first, I didn't watch enough just now." Zhong Xiu put down Hao Ai's skateboard, turned it over and sat on it.

"...Okay, then I'll go warm up first." Hao Ai scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

He threw Zhong Xiu's skateboard on the ground, jumped lightly, stood on it, and then slid forward.

Slide across slopes and bowls, jump down on the steps, land again, and finally come to the high platform.

Hao Ai stood on the high platform and gave Zhong Xiu a flamboyant smile, then shouted: "I jumped!"

This height is not difficult for him.

"Let's jump." Zhong Xiu said.

So in the next second, Hao Ai jumped off from a high place with a skateboard. In Zhong Xiu's eyes, this scene was like a slow motion in an empty space, rewinding and replaying it over and over again.

Between heaven and earth, only the person in the camera is left.

Zhong Xiu seemed to see that youth in high spirits again, stepping on a skateboard, with the wind under his feet, coming from a distance, like a bird passing low in mid-air, and would fly to his embrace in the next second.

Many years have passed, and the appearance of the young man when we first met him is still engraved in my heart, and then it gradually overlaps with the present.Every time Zhong Xiu thought of this picture, his heart would be extremely soft.

But he was always thinking that it would be great if he could meet earlier.

How many times in my life have I seen it for the first time, I only hate that it was too late.

-over

The author has something to say: Chapter 99, the main text is over, 99 is a good number, let's stop here.From spring to autumn, I finally finished writing. Although this story has many shortcomings, I like it very much.I am really grateful to the friends who have worked hard to follow the article and comment on it. You have given me a lot of motivation, thank you for your encouragement and tolerance!If you are destined, see you next time, I will continue to work hard (ˊ?ˋ*) There are still a few episodes in the future, I hope I can finish it soon. (It took two days to finish writing this chapter, everyone has been waiting for a long time, thank you thank you!!!)