driftwood

When Chen Xing saw the tall figure from a distance, he thought he had misread it, he thought he should not be so tall.I just finished throwing a wave of people in a fancy style yesterday, and I ran into witnesses when I went out today.It wasn't until Zhou Chen walked in front of him that he came back to his senses, and reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth at Zhou Chen.Zhou Chen stared at Chen Xing for a few seconds and then said lightly: "Is the fever gone?"

Chen Xing nodded: "Okay."

In fact, his head still hurts, and he will still feel dizzy.Zhou Chen didn't ask any more questions, greeted Xu Xin who was walking towards him, and left.

Chen Xing caught a glimpse of the scratch on Zhou Chen's neck, which was very conspicuous on his fair neck.

"Chen Xing." Xu Xin stared at Chen Xing with a dazed face, stretched out his hand and stroked his eyes a few times, "Chen Xing?" Chen Xing still didn't respond, Xu Xin just retracted his hand, and Chen Xing said suddenly: "Chen Xing Soul."

Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you were on fire again."

"It's okay, I'm going home first." Chen Xing turned his head and left, Xu Xin was in a hurry: "Didn't you agree to go back to my house, your house doesn't even have anyone, how can you go back to eat?"

Chen Xing turned his head and smiled at Xu Xin: "I'll go back to get my books and change my school uniform, and I'll just eat something at the gate of the community." Xu Xin stared at him worriedly: "Then you eat lightly, and you have a fever. Not quite yet."

"Got it, she loves to chatter like an old lady." Chen Xing said so, but the corners of his eyes and brows were full of smiles, it's great that there is still such a person in this world who is willing to chatter for him nagging.

After Chen Xing took out the key from the door frame and entered the door, he raised his eyebrows. The situation at home was better than he imagined. There was no trace of a fight in the living room. The main battlefield this time was at Chen Xing's parents' house. bedroom.He went straight to his bedroom, packed up his textbooks for the afternoon, changed into his school uniform, randomly ordered a takeaway with his mobile phone, and then sat on the bed in a daze.

Chen Xing's parents used to be workers of the group. No one expected that this prosperous group in the 80s and 2000s of last century would go downhill after [-], and it would close down quickly within a few years.After Chen Jianping and Han Ya left Chen Xing to Chen Xing's grandmother, they chose to go out to work.It wasn't until Chen Xing entered junior high school and after his grandmother passed away that Chen Jianping and Han Ya came back from Guangzhou in a hurry and saw their son whom they hadn't seen for several years.And Chen Xing's attitude towards them was even more unexpected, the way he looked at them seemed to be looking at two strangers.Knowing that she was in the wrong, Han Ya offered to go home and asked Chen Jianping to slowly move the company from Guangzhou back to the neighboring city.Although Han Ya and Chen Jianping have moved back home, Chen Xing often doesn't even see them face to face for a week.When they meet each other, they always see them arguing. Chen Xing doesn't know why they are arguing, nor is he interested.In his heart, the only person who loves him is his grandmother. As for Han Ya and Chen Jianping, they just gave him life and provided for his expenses. Apart from that, Chen Xing couldn't find this pair of parents who did things for him. every bit of it.

After the takeaway was delivered, Chen Xing realized that all the dishes he ordered were spicy. Chen Xing liked spicy food, but today he was still ill. Remembering Xu Xin’s advice before leaving, Chen Xing stopped after eating a little rice. up.

When Zhou Chen came home after getting the vaccine, Er Gou was already lying on the sofa and fell asleep. Zhou Chen walked slowly to the kitchen. After warming up a cup of milk, he took a book from the bookshelf. As soon as he got back to the sofa, his phone rang Yes, fuck it.Zhou Chen stared at the phone screen, but didn't answer it. The ringing rang for more than [-] seconds and finally stopped.After a few seconds, it rang again. Zhou Chen took a deep breath and lightly pressed the answer button. Yang Qiu's voice over there was flat and without a trace of emotion: "Why did it take you so long to answer the phone?"

Zhou Chen slowly closed his eyes, his slender fingers tapped rhythmically on the sofa, his voice was full of tiredness: "I didn't hear it."

"How long do you plan to stay there, and when will you come back to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination?" Yang Qiu always spoke straight to the point, with a bit of sharpness in his tone, not like a mother, but like a strict boss.

Zhou Chen still had his eyes closed, with no expression of joy or anger on his face: "I told you, I won't take the test."

Hearing Zhou Chen's words, Yang Qiu's voice was a little angry: "Nonsense, how grown-up you are, you don't take the postgraduate entrance examination, and you are a bachelor's degree, so I don't want to save my face. Or you are not as good as me at all. Not your brother, your brother said when he was a child..."

"But he's dead." Zhou Chen opened his eyes, and said a plain sentence, as if he was saying that I ate noodles for lunch today.His hand touched Ergou's back, the soft and warm feeling made him feel at ease.

"Zhou Chen!" The voice in the microphone was harsh and sharp because of anger: "He's your brother, if it weren't for you, would something happen to him, if..."

Zhou Chen hung up the phone directly, leaned on the sofa, and slowly covered his eyes.He was afraid of hearing things from his mother that he didn't want to hear.That's right, if he hadn't let Zhou Chuan go first after evening self-study, if Zhou Chuan hadn't been in such a hurry and had ridden more slowly, if there hadn't been that car running the red light on that road that day, then everything would have been different?

In the end, the elder brother who dreamed of being a policeman, that young life stayed forever on the way home.As for the younger brother, being accused by his family, why did he let his elder brother go first that day.They told the younger brother that it was his dream to be a police officer. They said that the younger brother was also responsible for what happened to his older brother. They said that the younger brother should fulfill his dream for his older brother. Therefore, the younger brother was forced to enter the Public Security University. The older brother was excellent since he was a child. Being a policeman is not a child's heroic dream, it is a man's wish.But my younger brother, he also has a dream, he wants to be an architect, but he has carefully buried a dream for many years, and when he feels that he is close enough to his dream, he has not had time to tell others. However, the family had already planned to let him live in this world for the outstanding elder son, as if the one who was taken away in the car accident was the younger son who was nothing like his elder brother in their eyes.

After school in the afternoon, everyone in the class was still packing their schoolbags with their heads down. Li Man trotted to the door and blocked the classroom door. Biting his lower lip lightly, after hesitating for a long time, he finally mustered up the courage to shout to Chen Xing: "Chen Xing, I like you, can you be my boyfriend?"

"Oh..." Everyone in the class stopped what they were doing, booed with long voices, and looked at Chen Xing with a smile.

When Chen Xing was called out by Li Man, the water glass in his hand fell to the ground with a shake. He sighed and bent down to pick it up. The people in the class booed with increasing enthusiasm: "Promise her, promise her, promise her... "..."

He stood up, looking at Li Man's expectant eyes, he suddenly couldn't bear to refuse, not because he liked her, but simply because he didn't want the girl to be ashamed in front of so many people, and, moreover, Chen Xing thought, Give yourself a chance, he is not sure whether he really likes boys, so it's good to try this way.

So, under the booing of the crowd, Chen Xing nodded slightly. The girl's eyes were full of disbelief, and then she was replaced by joy. She rushed over quickly and hugged Chen Xing's waist.Chen Xing frowned instinctively, and gently pushed Li Man, but did not push away, and the students were watching, so Chen Xing had to hold Li Man stiffly.It wasn't until Chen Xing felt his neck was stiff that he said impatiently: "Have you hugged enough?" Li Man let go of him with some embarrassment, he moved his neck, picked up the book, stuffed it into the schoolbag, zipped it up and turned around just go.

Li Man was anxious behind him: "Chen Xing, where are you going?"

Chen Xing didn't even turn his head, and said lazily, "Go home."

"Aren't you going to send me?"

Chen Xing just felt baffled, he stopped and turned his head: "Why did I send you off?" Li Man's face turned red and then pale after hearing this, she stood silently, Chen Xing thought this person was really interesting Sent her home and asked her why, and now she doesn't speak again.He didn't care, and walked straight out through the back door.

As soon as he stepped out of the classroom door with one foot, Xu Xin, who was squatting at the door, came up with a smile and asked Chen Xing eagerly: "How is it?"

"How about what?"

"You and Li Man."

Chen Xing ignored him, and walked straight to the entrance of the canteen: "Auntie, take a sausage." Chen Xing took a bite of the sausage, and then said vaguely: "That's it, what else can be done, okay, you go back, I went to the police station."

Before Xu Xin had time to speak, Chen Xing had already walked away with the sausage in his mouth.

Zhou Chen didn't know when he fell asleep, it was already 06:30 when he woke up.He went to the bathroom to take a shower, and he was not in the mood to eat. He was not on duty tonight. He washed the police uniform and hung it on the balcony, changed into a set of clothes and went out.

When Zhou Chen arrived at the gate of the police station, he saw Chen Xing squatting at the gate and poking the ground with a branch. He walked up to Chen Xing, but Chen Xing still lowered his head and poked the ground seriously.After Zhou Chen coughed twice, Chen Xing raised his head.

"Let's go."

It was the same room as yesterday, the chair Zhou Chen was still sitting on, and Chen Xing also consciously lifted the stool from behind the door and sat on it.Before Wang Jun arrived, the two of them just sat there staring at each other.After an awkward silence for a long time, Chen Xing slowly said, "Well, where is my student ID card?"

Zhou Chen thought for a while, he seemed to have put it in his coat pocket when he went home that day.

"at my house."

For a moment, Chen Xing felt that everyone he met recently was a national treasure.He was extremely tired: "I have a student ID card, what are you doing with it home?"

Zhou Chen answered quickly: "It's easy."

Chen Xing was choked up by this righteous attitude. After a long time, Zhou Chen slowly said, "Why don't you come to the police station tomorrow to get it?"

Chen Xing laughed angrily: "I don't have the time to visit the police station every day."

Zhou Chen lowered his head and wrote something, with a flat tone: "Either I will send you to school another day. If you are in a hurry, you can come home with me to pick it up later. You choose."

Asking the police to go to the school to give him a student ID card is stupid and high-profile, and the school leaders will interrogate him nervously for a long time after seeing it.

"I'll go get it at your house." Chen Xing felt aggrieved in his heart, why was it so easy to be led by the nose by others.

"Officer Zhou, I'm sorry, I'm late, let's take time." Wang Jun poked his head in from the door with a smile on his face, "Come in." Zhou Chen raised his head and waved to him.

"How much do you want?" Chen Xing turned to look at Wang Jun, who was a little confused: "How much?"

"Money." Chen Xing didn't bother to tell him any more, he squinted his eyes with his hands on his chin, and his eyelashes cast a fan-shaped shadow under his eyes.

Wang Jun was a little trembling: "Is five hundred okay?"

Chen Xing took out his wallet from his schoolbag. He brought some extra money on purpose when he went out today. He thought that Wang Jun would seize the opportunity and extort a large amount of money from him. Unexpectedly, this person asked him for five hundred.He drew five one-hundred and handed them to Wang Jun, stood up, patted his schoolbag, and swung it on his shoulders.

Zhou Chen handed over two forms: "One for each person, and give your fingerprint after filling it out."

After filling out the form, Wang Jun took the money and walked out of the room quickly, for fear that Chen Xing would go back on his word.Zhou Chen looked at his back, and endured so much effort not to let himself laugh.

Chen Xing leaned against the door frame, put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked at Zhou Chen

Zhou Chen lowered his head and put the materials into the drawer, stood up and shook his coat.He was walking towards the door while putting on his coat, and when he stretched out his hand to turn off the light, Chen Xing suddenly asked inexplicably: "How tall are you?"

Chen Xing didn't know how he opened his mouth to say this, he used to think he was not short, but standing in front of Zhou Chen, he suddenly felt that he was shorter than others.

"A little taller than you." Zhou Chen pressed the switch and closed the door, "Let's go."