No.70 days

The winter in Shanghai is colder than that in Chongqing.

Wang Ru went back to his hometown, and posted on Moments in different ways every day: bacon, roasted white, steamed pork with flour, cold Zhe Ergen... This situation is like planning to change careers after the New Year.On New Year's Eve, Chen Yimang couldn't bear to block her.

It was also on New Year's Eve that Chen Yimang received a call from Shao Wu. The noisy voices on his side made Chen Yimang's side even more dead silent.Shao Wu said loudly: "Happy Chinese New Year! Yimang!"

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year——Your side is very lively."

"At my second aunt's house," Shao Wu said with a smile, "there are many children."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yimang heard someone call "Xiao Shao", mixed with the noise of children playing, it was not very clear.

"Xiao Shao," then the voice became closer, and after a pause, "You talk first." Probably did not expect Shao Wu to be on the phone.

"Your... straight man?" Chen Yimang asked.

"Well, he came to my house for dinner at noon today, and I will go to his house to eat in the evening."

"Good."

"Hey," Shao Wu laughed twice, "How about you, have you made any progress?"

"I just made an appointment with one yesterday, and he told me swearingly that he is 0.5, and the house is ready, and he said that he has been under a lot of work pressure recently, and he can't be hard." Chen Yimang scolded with a smile, "Damn it, I'm an idiot."

Shao Wu laughed out loud, and when he finished laughing, he lowered his voice and asked, "Aren't you coming back this year?"

Chen Yimang thought, here we go again.

"No reply," he had no choice but to say, "Work will start on the second day of junior high school." Of course it was false.

"Oh...well then," Shao Wu froze for a moment, "We'll wait for you to come back and get together."

"Speak when you have time."

Chen Yimang could block Wang Ru's circle of friends, but he couldn't refuse Shao Wu's call.I don't know when, similar conversations seem to have become a fixed process when they talk. Shao Wu asked, have you been back to Chongqing recently?He made up all kinds of reasons for denial.

As hell, on New Year's Eve, the boy he dated in Inner Mongolia posted on Moments.

He recognized the place immediately.Jiefangbei.

The boy said: Hello, Chongqing.

Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing——What’s so good that these people go there every day?The winter is cold and humid and the summer is hot. Everyone speaks Chongqing dialect loudly, as if they were born without the chord of "speak softly".

Although Sichuan food is indeed delicious, since he became a model, he has stopped eating irritating food.

So one by one, why do they always call him back to Chongqing intentionally or unintentionally?What are you doing back home?The family is long gone, and as for friends, there is only Shao Wu, but Shao Wu and that straight man obviously don't need him.He has nothing in Chongqing, just like he has in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, and any corner of the earth.

At noon, Chen Yimang cooked a bag of frozen glutinous rice balls.After eating, he began to take a nap, and when he woke up, it was already dark.

It was quiet in the room, and it was also quiet outside the window on the 15th floor. For him, the family reunion on New Year's Eve was no different from any night when he woke up late.

He took out his phone, it was already past nine o'clock, and he actually slept for nearly ten hours.

He didn't want to watch all kinds of lively reunions on WeChat, and he didn't want to browse Weibo to watch them complain about the Spring Festival Gala. He squinted his eyes for a moment, and Chen Yimang clicked on QQ.There are not many friends in his QQ, and they were all added from the gay group a few years ago. At this time, no one will contact him.

I got up and ate the glutinous rice balls left over at noon. I was really hungry, so I couldn't wait to heat them up.He suffered from gastritis once last year, and then every time he ate something cold, he would have mild or severe stomach pains.

This time too, fortunately it's not serious.Chen Yimang sat back on the bed clutching his stomach, and saw the notification light on the upper right of the phone screen blinking.

It was the netizen who sent the message: Then, why didn't you contact him?

Chen Yimang thought that this person was gossip-worthy, and he never forgot to ask him about the crap on New Year's Eve.

He replied: I also had contact later. After I went to college, I chatted with him occasionally on the Internet.

After a while, the other party asked: Then...?

then.

Then he gradually understood that he was not worthy of Shi Rui.When he was crushed by Peng Fucai, who was older than his father, and when he went with a strange man in the bar, he gradually understood this matter.But he thinks it doesn't matter if they don't match up, at least they can maintain a distant relationship, occasionally greeting a few words on the Internet.

Then, it was his senior year.

Peng Fucai was in a good mood at noon that day, so he took him to a friend's dinner.These rich old men often play games, playing mahjong or golf, and each of them is accompanied by young and beautiful boys and girls.

It was just an ordinary dinner, and he sat beside Peng Fucai, serving wine and food for his boss like the other girls.He's used to these things for a long time, and he doesn't feel ashamed to do them.

Until the meal is halfway through.Without warning, the door of the box was pushed open.

"Yo," the man sitting opposite laughed, "Young master is here!"

"What's wrong, young master? I asked him to toast the elders," another man said. "I'm retiring next year, and I'm counting on you to help him."

Chen Yimang turned his head and saw Shi Rui.

At that moment he thought nothing of it.

He didn't even feel puzzled - how did Shi Rui appear here?

He didn't feel puzzled, because he was never qualified to know who would appear at the dinner.It is enough for him to serve Peng Fucai well.

He looked at Shi Rui, and Shi Rui looked at him.Shi Rui lost some weight and looked taller. He was wearing a shirt and trousers, neat and neat.

"Chen Lei," Shi Rui called his name, "Why do you..."

Everyone looked at each other.

"Ah," Chen Yimang stood up, "Teacher."

"Hey, tell me, is this fate!" Shi Rui had already taken his seat, and his father laughed while holding his glass, "I don't even know which high school he taught at that time... It's such a coincidence that he taught Xiao Chen. Already!"

"That's right," Peng Fu said with a smile, "Xiao Chen, go to toast your teacher."

"……it is good."

Chen Yimang picked up his wine glass, got up and walked towards Shi Rui.Until this time, he was still blank, only looking at Shi Rui, and saw that he was also holding up the wine glass, no longer as gentle as in memory, and just smiled dignifiedly: "I am no longer Xiao Chen's teacher, I am worthy of it." ’ he said softly.

"Mr. Shi," Chen Yimang didn't know what to say, he paused for a few seconds, and could only say, "Thank you." Then he raised his head and drank a whole glass of white wine.He often drinks alcohol and has long been used to it, but he still feels that the wine this time is extraordinarily spicy.

Shi Rui didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and took a sip of the wine in his glass.

Chen Yimang sat back, dazed.

The next pleasantries had nothing to do with him, Shi Rui toasted several elders one by one, and Chen Yimang heard them chatting about business matters, only then did he know that Shi Rui had followed his father to run the company after he resigned.His father plans to retire next year and hand over the family business to Shi Rui.

Oh, it turns out that Teacher Shi is the standard rich second generation.

At school, he was still pretending in front of him.

After toasting, Shi Rui left the table early, saying that there was still a meeting in the afternoon.When he left, he said goodbye to everyone gracefully, but unfortunately Chen Yimang was not included.To be precise, it does not include all the third and fourth goddaughters and godsons.Chen Yimang could only look at him, didn't say anything, didn't do anything, he could only look at him.

Then he thought, is this the retribution of lying?He had already admitted that he was not good enough for Teacher Shi, but he didn't expect that it was not enough, as if the heavens had eyes and told him to expose himself naked in front of Teacher Shi. He was not a rich second generation, he didn't have parents who were busy with work, and he hadn't been abused by his family. Doting, expensive clothes and shoes are sold in exchange for ass.

Shi Rui knew about it.

On that late spring day with clear skies, he almost jumped into the Jialing River.But when he was standing by the river, he remembered the story that Shi Rui told them. There was a scholar named Qian Qianyi in the Ming Dynasty. When the Qing army went south, he and his wife planned to throw themselves into the lake. Water, again, the lake is too cold, forget it.

Just live like this.

He also survived, but he no longer had the face to stay in Chongqing.On the day he left Chongqing, it turned out that Peng Fucai's little star had sent him off, the sister who taught him how to spend money.My sister said, Shi Rui, he is well-known in their rich second-generation circles, he came out after graduating from college, severed ties with his family, and later forced his parents to accept his sexuality... Chen Yimang didn't know her Why did she say this to him? Did she see it?

But my sister didn't say anything else, she just told him softly to take care of herself when she arrived in Shanghai.

It seemed that she knew at that time that he would not return to Chongqing again.