After connecting the wrong bluetooth headset

Another year of magnolia blooming.

The large gray suit didn't seem to fit very well, and the hem and trouser legs were rattling by the wind of city B. The man was carrying the suitcase. Not far from the train station entrance, he saw a familiar figure, making three steps and two steps at a time. step in front of each other.

"It's not that I don't know the way, I can go back by bus."

"I haven't seen you in half a year. Is it appropriate for a senior brother not to come to pick up the wind and wash away the dust?"

"Thank you, Zheng Yang."

"I'll see you after I say thank you. Are there many people in the car? Go back to take a shower and rest later, and go back to school tomorrow."

This pair of senior brothers is Yu Zhengyang and Xie Chaofan.

Xie Chaofan has traveled all over the towns and cities in the Northwest in the past six months. He has lost weight and leaned a lot. His white skin, which was originally due to not going out for a long time, has sunburn marks behind his ears and neck.

"You are a big man, you haven't talked about friends yet, and you don't know how to match yourself." Yu Zhengyang noticed Xie Chaofan's red skin, and took the suitcase in Xie Chaofan's hand, "Come on, let's take a rickshaw."

City B has developed over the years, and there are many yellow vans in the streets and alleys. Ordinary people can't afford it, and only people with good conditions are willing to pay for it.Yu Zhengyang himself is relatively frugal, but right now he can't wrong his friend. He saw a car on the side of the road and told the driver his destination, ready to go home.

Yu Zhengyang left the seat by the window to Xie Chaofan. In half a year, City B has changed from orange-red autumn to spring, and many people on the road came out on bicycles for outings.

Sitting by the window, Xie Chaofan was not in the mood to look at the scenery outside the window. Some rough hands kept fiddling with the zipper of the suitcase, and after some hesitation, he finally said: "Zhengyang, I brought you something."

"what?"

Xie Chaofan paused. As a bachelor of science, his eloquence was not as good as Yu Zhengyang's, and he didn't know how to give the gift he had brought back all the way.

"I'll give it to you when I get home. I have something to do by the way." Xie Chaofan lowered his head, the belly script on the train was useless, not to mention that there was an outsider, the driver, on the train.

Yu Zhengyang was used to this junior's roundabout way of speaking, and since Xie Chaofan didn't want to say it, he was about to say: "Come to my house for lunch, I have something to tell you too."

"kindness."

Xie Chaofan looked forward to it all the way. Yu Zhengyang, who usually never speaks obliquely, did not let go after his repeated questioning. I don't know what surprise it will be.

Could it be something he had been looking forward to for more than ten years?

The two of them, who went back to Beijing to go to university from the countryside, and now stay in school to teach, are also valued by the school, have a bright future, and have never talked about marriage.

For this reason, the political commissar called the two of them to the office for many interviews. Both of them said that they were devoted to academics, and they were so busy that they couldn't bear to delay the little girl any longer.

But Xie Chaofan has a secret in his heart. He has endured it for ten years. This time he went to the northwest, saw the vast yellow land, met the wise lama, and he has made up his mind to tell Yu Zhengyang.

Although in the past, he had said half-jokingly that the two old bachelors could only rely on each other in their later years, Yu Zhengyang never denied it.

He has always believed that hard work will pay off, and Hong Kong is about to return to the motherland. Combined with the clues all the time, these small expectations of his may really come true.

With this expectation, Xie Chaofan was in a much better mood, and he walked home from the alleyway of the dormitory at every step.

Yu Zhengyang noticed it and joked, "Your business trip is worth it, everyone is refreshed."

"It's been a long time since I saw you..." Xie Chaofan changed the subject abruptly in the middle of his sentence, "I want to eat the food you cooked. We didn't buy food. What do we eat when we go back?"

Yu Zhengyang looked back at him inscrutablely: "It's okay, someone bought it."

Xie Chaofan nodded, and made a rough guess. It is rare for Yu Zhengyang, who has practiced himself, to ask students to help with errands.

Their dormitories are next to each other. Recently, there was news from the school that teachers who got married would be assigned a house to live in.Logically, these two bachelors would not be able to get their turn, but the headmaster pleaded with their qualifications and age, and finally asked for two places for them.

"At that time, we will still live in the opposite door." Thinking of this, Xie Chaofan emphasized again.

"That's natural."

Yu Zhengyang picked up Xie Chaofan on leave today, and there are not many colleagues in the dormitory.Passing through the narrow aisle, Xie Chaofan vaguely heard the sound of cooking.

Several dormitories share a kitchen, but the teachers in the school are subsidized by meal tickets. Most of them eat in the cafeteria. I don’t know who is still cooking.

When he got closer, Xie Chaofan saw a girl in a white shirt and a red dress with two long braids, hurriedly holding a plate to serve vegetables.

"Where is the little girl..." He said casually, and suddenly noticed that the apron on the girl's chest looked very familiar.

Yu Zhengyang who was beside him moved faster than him, and stepped forward to take the iron pot that the girl couldn't even lift: "Tell you to wait until I come back to make it."

"I just want to learn how to cook!"

The two argued for a long time, but Xie Chaofan seemed to be nailed in place and could not move.

Yu Zhengyang realized that Xie Chaofan was still there, so he prepared the dishes at hand and introduced the girls around him: "Chaofan, she is my student, Guo Yuanyuan."

"Are you Professor Xie, right? I'm Guo Yuanyuan from Class 95 of Statistics Class 3. I often hear Professor Yu mentioning you."

A catch-up lunch suddenly changed its taste.

At least according to Xie Chaofan, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

He put the suitcase back to his dormitory first, and ate the food that was really not comparable to Yu Zhengyang's cooking skills, but he wanted to put on a kind expression on the surface.He saw the unsmiling Yu Zhengyang being amused by Guo Yuanyuan, and seeing Yu Zhengyang pouring tea for Guo Yuanyuan besides urging him to eat, his mood was very complicated.

Guo Yuanyuan had class in the afternoon and left after eating.

It's nothing more than hoping to fall from heaven to hell.

Xie Chaofan picked up the bowls and chopsticks in frustration, and wanted to get away while sending them to the sink, but Yu Zhengyang seemed to see his intentions, and opened a bottle of Lao Baigan.

"Leaving in such a hurry, don't you have something to say? What about the things you brought me?" He was much taller, and Xie Chaofan couldn't move his feet with a light tug.

"It's not a big deal..." Xie Chaofan didn't start.

"You man, then I'll talk about mine." Unlike Xie Chaofan, Yu Zhengyang is in a better mood, and now is the time when he is proud, "The female student just now..."

"Why didn't you mention her to me?"

Xie Chaofan still had a glimmer of hope. Even though he himself felt that he had no chance, he still couldn't help but want to comfort himself—Guo Yuanyuan might just be a student that his senior admired more.

"I didn't expect this to happen. She is a good girl. I can see her in almost every class. She has helped me a lot in the past six months. Before I knew it..."

half a year.

Now that the matter is over, what else can Xie Chaofan say?He smothered Lao Baigan who was on the table, and slapped Yu Zhengyang on the shoulder: "You are the one. You agreed to be a bachelor, but you have blossomed."

"When you should be a bachelor, you should be naked. If you meet a suitable one, you can't control it well. You should also look at it."

When you are single, you praise the ease, but when you have a partner, you will feel pity when you see a single fish. Professor Yu can't help but fall into the cliché.Xie Chaofan didn't want to stay in this sad place any longer, his throat was sore from the burnt spirits, so he waved goodbye and said he would go back to the dormitory to rest.

"Zhengyang, please help me take a leave of absence tomorrow." Xie Chaofan turned his head and glanced at his senior brother who had been with him for ten years.

"Okay, I'll talk about it this afternoon."

"Ah... there's something else I said." He thought for a long time, "This is why I came back this time. Academician Zhong said that he wanted to give me an opportunity to go abroad for exchange, and I... I'm going to agree."

"So suddenly?"

"It's not sudden, it's just that I didn't say it before, just like your business."

Although Xie Chaofan was prepared to refuse at first, even though it took more than three years to complete the formalities, it was finally completed before the wedding of Yu Zhengyang and the graduated Guo Yuanyuan. The relationship has been unilaterally alienated a lot.

Like escaping a disaster, he left the city that made him worry about it, and traveled across the ocean with his notebook, the gift that had never been sent, and the line of poems written on the manuscript paper.

At that time, Xie Chaofan never imagined that in just three years, he would return to China just because his senior brother said "I want you to be Yu Zhou's teacher", and he never thought that the opportunities he gave up over and over again would give him the rest of his academic career. What a hindrance he brought, let alone his secret, never told anyone that he wanted to keep the secret for a lifetime, and Yu Zhou would see the clue.

30 years later.

In spring, the magnolia flowers on the side of the street bloomed again, parked on the top of the car under the tree, and dropped a thick layer of petals overnight.

The door to the courtyard opened, and two tall men came out. The tall man in a suit in front handed the key to the casually dressed man.

"Don't stay up late for half a month when I'm away, I will check the guard at noon."

"I try my best."

"Look at your dark circles, it's almost down to your chin. If you don't know, I thought you were working in a rainstorm. I'm the store manager."

"You still have the nerve to talk about my dark circles?! I don't know who it is, but they know that they have to get up early the next day to see Teacher Xie, and they toss me until four o'clock."

"If you hadn't played games until after twelve o'clock, we wouldn't have quarreled, and if you didn't quarrel, you wouldn't come to admit your mistakes, and I wouldn't..."

"I seduced you as the co-author, right? Mr. Yu?"

"..." Yu Zhou heard Gong Yaoyao call himself Mr. Yu, and finally remembered what happened today.

It has been five years since they graduated. He went from a planning intern to a full-time regular in Rainstorm. One year later, he had an idea and another colleague participated in the initial planning proposal of the game, to the approved creation team, game design code modeling, In terms of operation and promotion, Yu Zhou has already transitioned from game planning to management work. In the last week, he will also go to the headquarters to participate in the spring conference on behalf of the new star team of the Rainstorm China Department.

Fortunately, the time of this business trip was after Dao Xie's death day.

Three years ago, Director Xie still hadn't survived the serious illness, so he bid farewell to the world forever.He lived in a square house during his life, and was confined in a small box after his death. In the end, Xie Chaofan only left a letter, neither to his senior brother nor his distant cousin, but Leave his last concern to Yu Zhou to take care of.

It was an old suitcase. When Yu Zhou picked it up, he could feel that there were not many things in it. Of course, he would not open it. Instead, he followed Xie Chaofan's last wish and let the suitcase leave the world just like Director Xie.

Together with this box, there is also a secret that Xie Chaofan has kept all his life.

A secret that no one knows except him.