middle aged

"Back to Japan?" Hearing Matsumoto Teru's question, Mo Fanfan asked subconsciously, as if he had never thought about this question before.

"Don't you plan to go back?" Seeing Mo Pingfan's surprised expression, Matsumoto Hui couldn't help being surprised. If he had already separated from Qi Yunze, what reason did he have for staying in Z City?

"I... really haven't thought about going back to Japan. After all, I signed a two-year exchange agreement with here."

"What's the matter? If you want to go back, the teacher can just tell Dean Zhang here. As for your scientific research projects here, you can continue to do them in Japan. The scientific research environment in Japan can only be better than here. It can't be worse than here."

"But I..."

"Why do you have any hesitation?" Matsumoto Hui immediately asked back. For some reason, a trace of anger rose in his chest. Obviously, this relationship that has ended has nothing to be nostalgic for. In him, an outsider From the point of view, Mo Pingfan's stay here is just to add to the sadness, and he is just making mistakes for himself.Since he knew this junior brother more than ten years ago, if there is anything he is best at emotionally, torturing himself is definitely second to none.

"..." Mo Fanfan didn't know how to answer for a while, but he was very reluctant to let him leave City Z suddenly.

"Brother... I still want to stay here for a while longer. After all, this is the place where I used to live. I am doing well now. I lead students and do experiments every day. I have been in Japan for too long. I really miss my life here.”

"you……"

"Bang bang bang" Before Matsumoto Hui could speak, he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Teacher Mo?" The outsider knocked on the door and shouted Mo Pingfan's name. When Mo Pingfan opened the door, he saw Yan Nan standing at the door holding a thick biochemistry book and a bag of oranges in his hand.

"Teacher? I'm going to take the biochemistry exam tomorrow. I still don't understand a few parts, so I want to ask you." Yan Nan smiled embarrassedly. I don't know if it was because I ran up in a hurry, or because of the hot weather. His forehead and the tip of his nose were covered with fine and dense beads of sweat, his breathing was still a little short, and his calves and toes were walking back and forth nervously.

"Come in, it's hot outside." Mo Pingfan greeted Yan Nan to enter the small apartment. As soon as Yan Nan entered the apartment, he saw Matsumoto Hui sitting on the sofa.At the same time, Matsumoto Teru also slowly stood up from the sofa, sizing up and down the unexpected guest with a pair of cold eyes.

After all, the small apartment only has an area of ​​fifty or sixty square meters, and there were three men in their prime of life standing there at once. The living room, which was obviously a bit empty, is now a bit crowded.

"This is my senior brother when I was studying in Japan, Matsumoto Hui." After closing the door, seeing the two people looking at each other with a strange atmosphere, Mo Fanfan hastily introduced.

Japanese?Yan Nan was taken aback, so should I say hello to him in Japanese?How do you say hello in Japanese?Ya... ya kill the disc?No, Yan Nan's Japanese Enlightenment Course is obviously not very serious, Japanese is not feasible, so I can only speak the international language - "Nicetomeetyou!"

Because he is Mo Pingfan's senior, although he felt awkward in his heart, Yan Nan still bowed at sixty degrees, but this Japanese-style bow and his mutton-flavored Inner Mongolian English are really obvious and extremely funny up.

"Pfft——." Matsumoto Hui couldn't hold back for a moment, and almost laughed out loud. He squeezed his lips hard, trying to suppress his urge to laugh wildly, turned his head to the side and took a few quick deep breaths. He finally adjusted himself The expression on his face, but there is still a playful smile on the corner of his mouth, which can't be suppressed.

"Hello." The mandarin with a perfect accent is even more standard than Yan Nan, who sometimes has a dialect.

"You?" Yan Nan raised his head, never expecting that the "Japanese" in front of him could speak standard Mandarin.

Seeing Yan Nan's stunned eyes and the lips that he forgot to close, Matsumoto Hui couldn't help it anymore. He turned his head to the side, trying not to lose control in front of this silly looking big man.

"He is of Chinese descent, and he can understand Chinese completely. You don't need to speak foreign languages ​​to him." Yan Nan's "nicetomeetyou" really surprised Mo Fanfan.

"But, teacher, why is his surname Matsumoto? Isn't that a Japanese surname?"

"I was adopted by the Japanese, so I took my adoptive father's surname." Obviously, Teru Matsumoto didn't intend to hide anything about his life experience.

"Oh……"

"Little friend, you haven't said your name yet?" Matsumoto Hui pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose, and the eyes under the reflective lenses carefully looked at the person opposite, as if trying to see through What.

"My name is Yan Nan, and I'm Teacher Mo's student."

"Student? Oh~~" Matsumoto Hui glanced at the somewhat old biochemistry book in Yan Nan's hand, and replied as if he had seen through something.

"Well, Teacher Mo, since you have guests here, I'll go first and buy you some oranges. Don't dislike it." It's uncomfortable to be sized up and down like this, let alone the person opposite, hidden The eyes under the glasses frame seem cold and indifferent, but Yan Nan can clearly see the cunning and shrewdness in the corners of the eyes. Just being looked at by him like this, there is a secret that he can see through It feels like, what's more, his seemingly unintentional answer is full of clarity and ambiguity.Yan Nan couldn't stay in this apartment any longer.

"Wait, you have an exam early tomorrow morning, and now you're leaving, what if someone who doesn't pass the exam?" Mo Fanfan stopped Yan Nan, took the orange in his hand, and said, "Brother is not an outsider. We have known each other for more than ten years, please sit down and wait, I will cut some oranges for you to eat, and it will not be too late for you to go back after I finish telling you."

"Teacher, let me cut it, your hand..." Yan Nan took the orange back to her hand again, put the biochemistry book on the coffee table first, and then walked into the kitchen, finding it familiarly. Fruit knife and plate.

"Ordinary, who is this child?" Matsumoto Hui asked

"It's just a student. I took him to experiment, and now the exam is about to come. Occasionally, he will come to ask me questions."

"Hmph..." Matsumoto Hui squinted at Yan Nan cutting fruit in the kitchen, and snorted, seeing that the other party had already brought the fruit, he didn't say anything more.

That night, Hui Matsumoto ate almost all the oranges on the plate. It was almost 09:30 before Yan Nan closed the book and asked the last question.

"Thank you, teacher!"

"It's okay, be more careful during the exam tomorrow, go back quickly, and rest early."

"Teacher, your hand...I want to help you change your medicine. I have been busy preparing for the exam these days, so I haven't come here in time."

"Huh?" Matsumoto Hui, who was leaning on the sofa and reading a book, was about to fall asleep, as if he had heard some important information, and suddenly woke up. It turned out that this kid was changing the medicine for his dear junior brother these days.

"No need, the wound is almost healed. Besides, there is a brother here today, he can change it for me." Mo Pingfan smiled and declined Yan Nan's kindness, even though the child was meticulous and gentle every time he changed the dressing. , but every time he held his injured left hand, Mo Fanfan always felt a kind of ambiguity, ready to come out.In the past few days when he didn't come, although he made do to make trouble for himself every day, his heart was more at ease than that of Yan Nan.

"Oh..." Seeing that the teacher declined his request, Yan Nan's eyes were a little dark, and the corners of his tightly pursed mouth drooped slightly. It was obvious that he was a little disappointed, but this disappointed expression only lasted for a moment. The young man has good facial expression management skills, so he raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Mr. Mo, then I'll go back first. After I finish the exam, I'll report to you in the lab."

"Okay." Mo Pingfan smiled, obviously agreeing to Yan Nan's continued study and experimentation during the summer vacation.

"Teacher Matsumoto, I'm leaving first!" Before leaving, Yan Nan did not forget to greet Matsumoto Hui politely.

"Okay, be careful on the road." Matsumoto stood up from the sofa, nodded slightly at Yan Nan, and still maintained a polite and reserved smile on his face, as if he had just held back his smile at Yan Nan's "nicetomeetyou" The person who was injured internally was not like him.

"Hey~ Xiaofan, is this male student the reason why you don't want to go back to Japan now?" Yan Nan just walked down the stairs, and Matsumoto Hui couldn't wait to ask this question that had been held in his mind all night .

"Yan Nan?" He didn't expect Matsumoto Hui to ask such a question at all. Hearing this, Mo Pingfan couldn't help laughing in surprise: "Brother, you've been joking more and more recently. He's just one of my students. We Apart from the teacher-student relationship, the two have nothing else to do with each other."

"Oh~?" Matsumoto Hui sat on the sofa, picked up the few oranges left on the plate on the tea table with a toothpick, and chewed them carefully in his mouth. This season is not the best time to eat oranges. It must have taken a lot of effort to pick such fresh, juicy, sweet and sour oranges.Ordinary has scalded wounds on his hands. Fruits with cold or hot nature are not suitable for him to eat, that is, he can eat some fruits that are temperate and tempered. This male student looks a little careless on the surface, but it looks Come on, in fact, the mind is very delicate.

Mo Fanfan looked at Matsumoto Hui chewing oranges, his eyes rolled around, he was too familiar with this senior brother, although he looked cool and cold on the surface, but once he wanted to calculate or think about something, he was like this A pair of cats showing the appearance of a fox's tail.

"Brother, what are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." The orange that Matsumoto put into his mouth had already been eaten up by Hui Matsumoto. He put the toothpick in his hand into his mouth, and slowly bit it between his teeth: "This kid likes you." , You can’t see it.” The slender phoenix eyes raised slightly, Matsumoto Hui looked at Mo Pingfan standing in front of him, his tone was calm, but the words he said were full of confidence.