soft hedgehog

After three days of convalescence, Liang Yuchen finally stopped having repeated fevers.

As soon as his health improved, he went to buy the largest suitcase, and returned with three or four cardboard boxes and many old newspapers.Comics and textbooks on the bookshelf, clothes in the closet, bedding on the bed, even towels in the bathroom, mouthwash, mugs for drinking water in the living room, all packed together with the past.

His father was surprised when he saw him packing his things for the first time, and asked him where he was going without saying a word. He said that he was busy with his studies and decided to move to school, and he would not come back if there was nothing to do.

Liang Changlei got very angry on the spot, and blamed him for being ignorant, living well and suddenly moving out, which made Hu Aihua worry, thinking that he didn't take good care of something.Liang Yuchen said that he had already discussed it with Hu Aihua, and he would not be careless.

He changed his name back to "Aunt Hu".

Liang Changlei couldn't stop him, and reprimanded: "The bigger you are, the more heartless you are."

Liang Yuchen smiled: "From now on, my heartless son will make you less angry."

In addition to luggage, all his documents were taken away at the same time.Passport, ID card, degree certificate, and even a photocopy of the household registration booklet.

Instead of asking his father to help him, he called a van to carry things by himself, and called Xi Jiacheng when he got to school, asking him to come to the east gate to help.Xi Jiacheng, who rushed over after receiving the call, was still wearing slippers and was barefoot, shivering in the cold wind. When he saw him, he punched him hard.

"Where did you go, boy? There's no news for several days, I thought something happened to you!"

Liang Yuchen said: "We'll talk when we go back, and move things first."

The two borrowed a small cart from the guard room, stacked all the boxes one by one, and walked quickly to the dormitory building.Xi Jiacheng supported the box and asked him: "I heard from your mentor that you are sick, have you recovered?"

"Yeah." Liang Yuchen looked a little tired, "It's all right."

"Actually, you have almost passed the exam, wouldn't it be better to raise it at home?"

"I have something to do with my mentor."

When he arrived at the dormitory, Xi Jiacheng rummaged through his desk. Liang Yuchen asked him what he was looking for, and he said, "Scissors, let you open the box."

"No, I won't open it."

Three cardboard boxes were piled up on the wall. Liang Yuchen opened the suitcase and took out all the documents, and then went out.

Xi Jiacheng shouted from behind: "Do you want to eat in the cafeteria at noon?"

Liang Yuchen walked too quickly and didn't hear him.

—

On the fifth floor of the administration building, he often comes here.

The tutor's surname is Xu, and he is under fifty. Although he is not top-notch in publishing academic papers, he is good at making friends with entrepreneurs. He is quite open-minded and has always regarded him highly.

The door of the office was wide open, and he knocked twice. Professor Xu looked up and saw that it was him, and took off his glasses happily: "It's terrible, when did my big disciple recover from his illness, and he didn't report it to me!"

"Professor Xu," he said hello first, "I just returned to school today."

Asking for something, the attitude is more respectful than before.

The professor's wide desk faces south in the office, with plenty of sunlight, and the tip of the red ink pencil on the desk is shining with silver light.He stood up and straightened his tie, then patted Liang Yuchen on the shoulder: "It's fine. You called me a few days ago and said that you were too sick to get out of bed. I was really worried for a while."

At that time, he was very ill and was exhausted by fever. Naturally, he couldn't get out of bed, so he couldn't work for the tutor.

"I'm sorry, Professor Xu, I fell ill before the public class was finished. I'll rush out this week as soon as possible."

The job he often does for his mentor is to translate books, English to Chinese, which can be signed, so he is willing.The second is the public class, which is more time-consuming and labor-intensive, but in order to maintain the relationship with the instructor, I never shirk it.

Professor Xu waved his hand at him, his watch dazzled: "No need, no need, I have already arranged for others to translate it, and I am proofreading it. You are just recovering from illness, so rest first."

The two went to sit on the leather sofa, and the mentor brought him a bottle of mineral water from the box in the corner.

"You came to me for this?"

Liang Yuchen put his elbows on his knees and held a file bag in both hands.

"Not only for this matter, I have one more thing I want to discuss with you."

Professor Xu sat next to him, with Erlang's legs raised, and a strict black sock was exposed above the leather shoes: "You say."

"I want to go abroad with you."

The next second, his legs suddenly dropped: "What did you say?"

"I want to go abroad with you." Liang Yuchen repeated, "I have brought all the documents, and I can fill out the application form now."

He put the file bag on the tea table.

Professor Xu glanced at the kraft paper bag, and then slowly focused his eyes on his face again: "I proposed to you last time, but you rejected me on the spot."

There is still some dissatisfaction left in the words.

There was a conversation between teachers and students more than a month ago.Professor Xu accepted a long-term job at the Financial Summit Forum, and deliberately asked the school to take a leave of absence. He will not take classes for several months, and will not affect the evaluation of professional titles for the time being.He is paving the way for a career transition, but he also needs an assistant.This assistant must not only be academically competent, but also be trustworthy in terms of morality, and even more obedient.After all, it's just the two of them, flying to more than a dozen countries in half a year, to meet financial and political leaders, and to meet top [-] executives, if they fail in the middle, things may get worse.

He picked and chose, and chose Liang Yuchen, who was low-key and down-to-earth, but he didn't expect Liang Yuchen to decline after hearing it.At that time, he was still quite upset, thinking that he would put such a good opportunity in front of a graduate student who had not yet graduated from a master's degree, but he was flatly rejected.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yuchen came to the door on his own initiative today.

"I've thought about it carefully during this time, and it's beneficial for me to go out with you to gain insights." Liang Yuchen looked down at his crossed knuckles, looking particularly sincere, "Besides, the domestic affairs in our country have been dealt with. As long as It’s fine if I can come back to defend in half a year. Don’t worry, I will do my best outside.”

Professor Xu patted his thigh and said yes loudly.

"That's right. How did I persuade you at that time? The domestic translation market has a low threshold, and the level is uneven. The price can't rise at all. So what if you are at the top? They go to a summit in the EU, Britain and the United States to earn you a month. You bought a house in five years, and you are still saving for a down payment in ten years.”

"Another one, early experience and early transition, if you leave now, you will be much taller than your peers by the time you graduate. At that time, there is no need for me to introduce you. There are a lot of jobs waiting for you as a freecer. "

The words are beautiful, and of course they are true, but the essence is still that he is afraid that he will not go.

Liang Yuchen sat quietly, silent.

A week ago, his plan for the future was that it would be best if he could stay in school to teach. If he couldn’t, he would find a job in Pingcheng. He could be a game translator or a publisher translator. not low.A week later, he was already sitting here talking with his mentor about going abroad, what to bring, what materials to prepare in advance, how to apply for a visa, and go through procedures.

Just like before, he was willing to do anything and go anywhere in order to translate "I love you" from Ji Tong, now he is willing to do anything and go anywhere in order to translate "Forget You" for himself.

Coming out of the professor's office, Liang Yuchen went back to the dormitory, and the first thing he did after sitting down was to make an appointment for an interview with the embassy.Professor Xu found an intermediary for him to go expeditiously, and the business visa only took three days.

Xi Jiacheng came back from the cafeteria after lunch, passed behind him with a smell of oily smoke, accidentally glanced at his computer screen, and said strangely: "Are you going to the embassy for an internship? It's time to prepare for a PhD next semester. Where are you from the United States?" Time for an internship?"

"I won't be studying for a Ph. D." Liang Yuchen said lightly without looking back.

"What?" Xi Jiacheng pulled out the chair and sat beside him and tugged at his arm, "Stop reading? What's the matter?"

"I plan to go abroad with Professor Xu."

He put on his glasses, tapped the keyboard quickly, and carefully filled in every column of blank information. When he filled in his family members, he still felt a slight movement in his heart.

He only filled in his father.

Xi Jiacheng had a harder time accepting it than he did. He hugged his head and yelled in the dormitory, angry at him for not cherishing the hard-won opportunity.Xi Jiacheng himself is not qualified, otherwise Duan Duan would not give up like him.

After shouting, he rode on a chair and asked him, "When are you leaving?"

"The visa will be obtained soon, and the professor and I will take the high-speed train to the neighboring city first."

"Start accompanying the interpreter directly?"

"Ah."

Xi Jiacheng was stunned in the chair, unable to recover for a long time, unable to close his mouth: "So in the last semester, I will live in this room by myself."

—

A few days later, as the winter sun shone through the leaves of the camphor tree, life seemed to be peaceful again.

Professor Xu has a car, which is parked outside the east gate.Xi Jiacheng followed Liang Yuchen from the dormitory to see him off.Walking to the front of the car, Professor Xu leaned against the car door to start a cigarette, and the two of them put away their luggage and walked aside to talk.

"Does your professor smoke too?"

"Decades old smoking gun."

Xi Jiacheng snorted, with a rare seriousness on his face: "I think you should smoke as little as possible, or you will cough all the time. We interpreters must cherish our voices. Remember to contact me when you go abroad, and tell me your phone number."

Liang Yuchen stood under the tree, his figure was much thinner than before the winter, but the smile on his face was still gentle: "Flying all over the world, which country's phone number can I give you?"

Xi Jiacheng hurt him enough: "It's not enough to open an international roaming tour, brother, you are going to make a lot of money and still care about this?"

Still disappointed after the loss, he took out a box of medicine specially bought yesterday from the pocket of his sweatpants and handed it to him: "My buddy sent the Buddha to the west. It's inconvenient to buy stomach medicine abroad. I'll prepare an extra box for you."

Liang Yuchen took it and said in a low voice, "Thank you."

He didn't even care about bringing medicine.

We have been together for more than two years, and we already have a deep classmate friendship with each other.He also had a lot of sentimentality in his heart, but he didn't express it.

Putting away the medicine, he raised his head, and suddenly a familiar figure appeared in his vision.

The hoodie is worn under the coat, the jeans are youthful, and there is a backpack on the back.Dressed like this, Ji Tong got down from the back seat of a taxi and was talking to the driver.

Liang Yuchen's heart clenched in an instant, and the pain pierced his chest like an arrow, the first time he was so hopeless.

Seeing that his expression was different, Xi Jiacheng followed his gaze and said, "Your brother, why don't you call him?"

As he spoke, he raised his right hand.

Liang Yuchen pressed his arm: "Don't shout."

At this moment, Ji Tong turned his head and noticed them, as if he was frozen in an instant, standing in place without moving an inch.

Xi Jiacheng turned to look at him: "What's wrong?"

Liang Yuchen looked away: "It's nothing."

"Your brother seems to have gotten a lot darker. Where did you get it in the winter?" Xi Jiacheng said, "Are you quarreling again?" After speaking, he looked at Ji Tong again, and found that Ji Tong had already turned his back.

—

When Ji Tong came back from the airport, his luggage was still in the trunk of the taxi. Just as he was about to pick it up, he saw Liang Yuchen.

My brother's face is a bit haggard, but his waist and shoulders are straight, and he is wearing a wide suit, and he still looks energetic.

The two just looked at each other for a second.

Ji Tong didn't even dare to see his expression clearly, he only knew that he was afraid that he would come forward to pester him, so he hurriedly turned his eyes away, waiting for the driver to help him with his luggage.From the corner of his eye, Liang Yuchen got into a black SUV next to him, and someone outside the car waved to him, as if saying goodbye.

After getting the luggage, Ji Tong can leave.

Pulling the suitcase and walking to the school gate, he suddenly felt heart palpitations for no reason. He stopped, unable to control his body, and turned his head to look at the road the car left.

This time, no one was waiting for him.The car drove away carrying Liang Yuchen, at first slowly, then quickly.

On such an ordinary afternoon, he ran into someone at the school gate who he had called his brother for nearly three years. He didn't say a word and just watched him leave.

The tree is divided into two branches, each side of the sky.

If he knew that this was the last side, Ji Tong would have taken another look.