Rust II

Chenjialou, Gannan.

These two familiar names suddenly came out of Xu Xin's mouth. To be honest, Ding Hua was a little surprised.

Because since the other party returned to Xu's house, it seemed that they had naturally cut off contact with the previous personnel.

That's right, after all, the identities are different, and the environment they are in is also very different.

On the other hand, Ding Hua, who was originally born in a reckless family, can still get in touch with old friends and brothers from the past from time to time. He still hangs out in C City, and occasionally meets up for a drink to brag. Send a group of congratulatory text messages during the New Year holidays, like Chen Jialou, who had a very close relationship in the past, but now they are far away, they can also make a phone call to express condolences to each other every one and a half years.

However, this frequency can be maintained at a high level in the first few years of separation. Now, as their respective life circles and social circles have become farther and farther apart, even if they were so good that they could wear the same pair of underpants, it is still difficult I can't help but feel helpless that the desire to talk to each other gradually fades.

To be honest, if it weren't for Xu Xin's thoughtless phone call last night, Ding Hua would have almost forgotten when was the last time he contacted the other party.

Even if he is like this, let alone Xu Xin whose temperament has changed drastically.

What's more, in the past, Ding Hua was the only one who kept nagging and reminiscing about these old people and old things, and Xu Xin didn't see any unnecessary sighs.

So when he heard the three words Chen Jialou from the other party in a daze in the middle of the night last night, after reacting for two seconds, his mind immediately cleared up.But after carefully listening to the complete content of what Xu Xin said, and then thinking about its purpose, I immediately felt that I was too surprised.

Thinking of this, Ding Hua couldn't help but sighed deeply - after all, no matter when.But when it comes to Xiao Lin, even if it's a big deal, his brother's reaction will probably not be normal.

Therefore, if the other party does something unreasonable and confusing, it can only be said to be very normal.

But this time, Ding Hua, who had long been accustomed to Xu Xin's abnormal attitude, still felt a little uneasy, but Ding Hua, who has always been nervous, couldn't answer for a while what was the source of this uneasiness.If he had to say it, he probably felt that his brother seemed to be crazier than before, and at the same time became more elusive.

Rao is as close as he is, and most of the time he is confused about certain actions of the other party.

Just like in the past few days, when he had just returned from City B and saw Xiao Lin who had failed, his brother was still so anxious that he almost lost his calm and rationality, but after the other party recovered from his injury, his attitude immediately changed It's a 180-degree turn, as cold as frost, and it doesn't matter if you don't care about it, but when you turn around, you get hooked up with the eldest lady of the Ma family. I ran into it twice.

After finally being aware of the unusual love between Xu and Lin, Ding Hua, who gradually built up his self-confidence, was stunned again.

what is this?

Is it possible that I really went astray?

Ding Hua has been trapped in this extreme self-doubt for more than ten days, especially today when he gets off work, he once again responded to Xu Xin's request and took him to Ma Yifu to listen to Songge group. At the end of the game, the stock of doubt rose to an unprecedented high.

Hey, is this really schizophrenic or what?Last night, he asked himself to tell Chen Jialou "unwaveringly affectionately" to take good care of his sweetheart who was afraid of falling and melting. Forgot all about it?

And the target is the Ma family, the culprit who caused Xiaolin to leave soon.

So Ding Hua, who had been holding back for ten days, finally couldn't hold it anymore. When the car was about to reach the destination, he parked the car at a fork near the garage, then opened the window, took a deep breath, cleared his throat and asked A question that is buried deep in my heart, but I have been curious about it for a long time:

"Boss."

Xu Xinsheng, who was closing his eyes to rest his mind, slightly opened his eyes.

"Cough...then what, I'll just ask casually, what do you think about Xiaolin...what do you think about...hiss..."

After asking, he quickly glanced to the side, but saw that the person sitting in the co-pilot didn't even respond at all, he just kept his eyelids half-closed in silence, and was facing the front of him motionlessly. Interior decoration.

The atmosphere was suddenly awkward.

Ding Hua couldn't get an answer, so he had no choice but to quiet down. After a while, he couldn't help sighing again, and sighed with emotion as he mulled over the sentence: "Actually... I just asked this question now, It's a bit late."

After a pause, "I still remember that not long after Xiaolin entered the Guolian factory, Chen Jialou told me in private, saying that you treat Xiaolin... differently than others, but at the beginning, I was a big boss. I don’t understand, so I didn’t bother to think about it because of the different method.”

As Ding Hua spoke, he seemed to recall those happy days when the few of them hung out together day and night. He smiled lightly, then turned his head, looked calmly at Xu Xin beside him who was silent, and continued: " But looking back now, it seems that it is really different.”

He stopped talking, and said again: "Brother, to be honest, a large part of the reason why I, Ding Hua, has been willing to follow you since I was a child, to enjoy the blessings together, and to go all over the world without money is because I admire your boldness and your calmness in times of crisis. Even when our hair is not fully grown, you always look like you don’t care when the sky is falling. Tsk, that’s really cool. You don't know how much I adore you, brother, at that time. Really."

Xu Xin listened quietly.

Ding Hua paused for a while, and suddenly the smile on his lips gradually faded, "But only when you are facing someone, your attitude changes."

Ding Hua looked at him and asked: "Do you still remember that once we had a conflict with the yellow dog in the alley behind the No. Follow the reaction..."

Xu Xin also seemed to think of something, and frowned slightly.

Ding Hua saw it, and didn't continue. Instead, he paused, and then continued: "Later, you took care of him... and it was so meticulous that it made people laugh and amazed. You even accompanied the nurse when you went to the toilet. At that time, I wondered whether this was being taken care of by an old woman who was about to enter the earth, or was it being raised by a son who hadn’t grown teeth yet? But I didn’t think much about it, I just thought it was out of love for my brother, but Now that I have come back to it...Brother, I dare not say anything else, but if it was me and Chen Jialou who were injured at that time..." At this point, Ding Hua paused again and asked hesitantly : "You...will you still do this?"

I'm afraid let's not talk about it to this extent. At that time, Lin Ana's injury, which only looked scary but had no effect on farts, made Xu Xin, who was used to seeing storms, pay more attention to him. It was probably very rare.

Ding Hua knew the answer very well, so he stopped talking after asking.

The car was completely silent again.

Xu Xin sat on the passenger seat with heavy eyes, and did not make any movements for a long time, and his inner thoughts were unknown.

After Ding Hua's almost self-talking statement, he really devoted himself to that ridiculous memory.

He remembered that when Lin An first entered the factory, he had threatened the other party in a pretentious manner, locked him in the dormitory, and charged him a protection fee of 50 yuan, which was considered a huge sum at the time. Xu Xin who came back was kicked and scolded and asked to go back.Because of this matter, I was still angry and depressed alone for half a month, until I had a drink together later, and then awkwardly vented the hatred and dissatisfaction in my heart through drinking madness.

Thinking about it now, it turned out that Xu Xin's special treatment of that person had already begun to emerge since then.

Looking back at these past events, Ding Hua couldn't help shaking his head with a bit of self-deprecation.

More and more memories about Lin An gathered in his mind: his obedience, his trembling.

He doesn't swear at people and drink, and he doesn't fight and pick up girls.

He has a habit of lowering his head when speaking, and his voice is always soft and thin.

People around him always laughed at him for being out of place, saying that he blushed at every turn, worse than little girls, and because he did have a fairer and more decent appearance than many girls, when he first entered the factory, he was often bullied by big guys. Er Run didn't look like a man, and even joked that he was a bitch's useless second chair.

But no one, including him, Ding Hua, would have thought that just such a man who wished to walk and fall down with a kick would be forcibly drawn into them by Xu Xin not long after entering the factory. Talk about the big, old and rough group of heroes, and have been sheltered under their own umbrella since then.

From then on, Lin An and Xu Xin, two names with very different styles in terms of personality and behavior, were firmly bound together.

Whatever Lin An does, Xu Xin's gaze will inevitably follow.

If there is anything wrong with Lin An, Xu Xin must be very worried.

Lin Anxi and Xu Xin have almost no possibility of being gloomy, on the contrary, Lin Anyou and Xu Xin rarely have a good face.

At first everyone thought that the so-called inseparable relationship between Xu and Lin was just the latter's attachment to the former.It wasn't until now that Ding Hua suddenly realized that in this attachment, Xu Xin could also be the latter.

But after all, all these ambiguous and unspeakable feelings that exist between the two are just speculations that have never been figured out.

If it wasn't for Lin An's accident in Cuifangyuan not long ago, and at the same time, Ding Hua, who happened to be following Xu Xin, met him again. Ding Hua thought, maybe he would never have the opportunity to be caught by that familiar scene in his life. He woke up suddenly, and then burst into such an incredible, yet seemingly reasonable conjecture.

However, at the next moment, Xu Xin, who had been silent for a long time, ruthlessly crushed this research that had just emerged.

He raised his wrist and glanced at his watch. He seemed to think that the closed compartment was too stuffy, so he pushed down the window and glanced at the sky outside. , and calmly said: "It's getting late, I have an appointment with the Ma family at six o'clock."

After speaking, he turned around and glanced at Ding Hua again, and said, "I'll go first." After a while, he asked casually as if chatting: "After dinner, do you still go back to the company as usual? I heard from Xiao Liu that there is a big order coming in recently." talk."

Ding Hua looked at him speechlessly, rarely did he answer.

After a while, he reluctantly replied: "...Brother, it's off-duty time, let's not talk about work." He leaned towards the other party, wanting to continue the topic just now.

"You tell my brother the truth, what is the relationship between you and Xiao Lin..."

Unexpectedly, Xu Xin interrupted him unexpectedly before he finished speaking.

The other party looked directly at the windshield ahead, and said four words abruptly and calmly: "I have no idea."

"...What?" Ding Hua was taken aback.

Xu Xin turned around and looked at him meaningfully. After a moment of silence, he repeated the words just now more clearly: "I have no idea about him."

Ding Hua opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but stayed for a long time, and did not ask the "why" hovering in his throat.

Xu Xin's tone was too firm, and there was an imperceptible coldness in it, which completely extinguished Ding Hua's enthusiasm and curiosity.

After Xu Xin finished speaking, he silently looked at the resentful expression of the other party for a while, and gradually retracted the sharpness between his brows and eyes, and stretched out his hand to unbuckle the seat belt.

But just as he was about to get out of the car, he stopped for a while, and his hand on the doorknob tightened slightly.

After a few seconds, he let go, and left another sentence lightly: "The Chen family building...don't let him know."

Ding Hua's gaze immediately fell on his slightly sideways figure.

"No need."

The car door was then closed.

Xu Xin's figure quickly disappeared into the afterglow of the setting sun.

Ding Hua watched the outside of the car painted orange-red by the setting sun for a long time, heaved a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart, then looked at the direction Xu Xin was leaving for a long while, shook his head, stepped on the accelerator and turned away.

The discussion about Lin An ended hastily in the beginning of this session, which was not yet officially started.

And I couldn't meet the next time as I wished.

The days that followed seemed to grow wings, flying away amidst countless tedious eating, sleeping, opening and closing eyes.

Xu Xin is getting more and more busy, and the accumulation of accumulation over the years finally broke out this winter. Apart from the local city C and the city B where Xu Guang is located, he has many more places to go than before.Inevitably, the opportunities for Ding Hua and other leaders of the company to meet him became increasingly rare.

Several times Ding Hua seized the time to be alone with the other party, and happened to have just received news about that person from Chen Jialou, so he wanted to take the opportunity to mention it a little bit, but several times the words came to his lips, and again He was silently blocked by the other party's exhaustion and coldness that filled his whole body.

After two or three times like this, Ding Hua, who was still worried about the fruitless discussion two months ago, couldn't help feeling discouraged.

Xu Xin didn't mention it anyway.

And it doesn't seem like much interest.

not to mention……

Ding Hua changed his mind again, and thought of the news that the Xu and Ma families might have good news that had been widely circulated in the company recently, as well as the figure of Ma Jiaqi appearing more and more frequently beside Xu Xin, and he dispelled the idea of ​​unnecessary actions.

So the two text messages on the mobile phone, which were written by Chen Jialou himself and could be called papers, were interrupted by him.

The days went on so busy and boring.

At the beginning of spring next year, the Xu family held a banquet in the old house, and invited the Ma family to have another meal in a grand and low-key manner, the purpose of which was self-evident.

Ding Hua, as Xu Xin's best friend, also happened to go back to his hometown to do business for the company's business, so he was called by Xu's mother who was in a good mood to join him in the banquet.

At the wine table, Mother Xu, who has always been dignified and prudent, smiled until she lost her eyes. She held Ma Jiaqi, who was sitting shyly and timidly beside her, and chatted with two old foxes, Ma Hui and Ma Zhongping, smiling closely.Xu Xin and Xu Guang sat on the other side, with relaxed and happy smiles on their faces.

After all, it was a happy thing. Ding Hua was on the opposite side, although he was a little uneasy about his brother's inexplicable and soon-to-be marriage, but he still smiled and played [-]% of his skill of shining the lotus. , the auspicious words popped out in complete sets, and a large table of people who spoke bluntly were smiling and happy.

Especially Xu's mother, she used to always blame Xu Xinnian's neglect of work when he was young and his later unintentional love and marriage more or less on the group of incomprehensible friends around him, such as Ding Hua, who spends all day doing nothing. It is said that her private life is not very discreet on weekdays, and the most annoying thing is that she doesn't like it, so she doesn't want her good son to have much contact with him.Today, however, there is a lot of improvement, plus he is in a good mood, and his attitude towards him is a bit more cordial than the pretentious kindness in the past.

After Ding Hua finished his beautiful words, the inexplicable displeasure and anxiety that had remained in his heart also vented out.

He was refreshed and sat down again amidst the laughter and laughter. Before leaning over, he habitually and complacently glanced at Xu Xin who was diagonally diagonally, with a little embarrassment in his eyes, as if to say: Hey , Boss, look at how happy you are, brother, I have given you a lot of face, right?

But I didn't expect that the carefree self-satisfaction that had just risen lasted for less than two seconds, and was suddenly shattered by a sudden message on the phone - Ding Hua stared at the concise message sent by Chen Jialou He stared blankly at the words for a long while, then suddenly raised his head to Xu Xin who was raising his cup and smiling at Ma Zhongping.

Lin An suffered from food poisoning and was just sent to the hospital.

On the screen covered by a corner of the napkin, such a sentence was displayed brightly.