Tentative

It seemed to be the same as before, Shen Yizhuo seemed to know the answer Qu Zhe didn't respond to.He didn't say any more, just said "Let's go" softly, and then walked forward.Qu Zhe saw his back, and clearly couldn't see the details clearly in the night, but he could still imagine every detail of him.After hesitating for a few seconds, he followed Shen Yizhuo, trying to maintain the same pace as him.

Shen Yizhuo seemed to be sure that he would follow, and he walked in a certain direction without looking back.

They walked on a six-lane boulevard, one behind the other, on the sidewalk.There are very few passers-by at this time, only traffic passing by from time to time.They passed one street lamp after another, Qu Zhe kept his head down from the beginning to the end, he saw Shen Yizhuo's shadow lengthen and shorten, repeating this cycle - it was like four years ago, when they were walking by the river.It's just that Shen Yizhuo would chat with him at that time, but now there is only silence.

As the two were walking, Shen Yizhuo suddenly remembered something and stopped.Qu Zhe kept looking at him, and then stopped. The distance between the two of them was kept out of reach. Shen Yizhuo turned around and said, "Actually, you can refuse, but you never refuse."

Qu Zhe dared not look him in the eyes.

Everything is as Shen Yizhuo expected, even after so long, Qu Zhe still can't forget him.As long as he opened his mouth, Qu Zhe would refuse nothing.

He looked at Qu Zhe's low-browed and obedient expression, and felt his mood improved.

Shen Yizhuo approached him until they were almost hugging each other, then pinched his chin and forced him to raise his head.Under the dim light, Qu Zhe's eyes were the same as he remembered, his slender eyelashes were slightly curled, completely covered by his drooping eyelids.When did he take off his glasses, Shen Yizhuo had no way of knowing.

He seemed to be whispering, his voice was extremely soft, he looked at him and said: "If you don't refuse now, there will be no chance to refuse in the future."

"Don't you have anything to say to me?" He asked patiently.

Qu Zhe opened his mouth, his throat was dry and uncomfortably dry, and he said in a strong nasal voice, "I...are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Shen Yizhuo replied immediately.

Why did Shen Yizhuo go out late at night, and where he was going to take him next, he had no idea.Shen Yizhuo let go of his hand, took out the vibrating mobile phone from his pocket, and answered Qu Zhe without hesitation, a man's voice came from inside: "When will you come over, I'll be waiting for you."

"If you can't get a taxi, come and pick it up." Shen Yizhuo said.

"Okay, okay, young master Shen..."

After the phone hung up, Shen Yizhuo put away his phone and waited by the side of the road with Qu Zhe.He talked to Qu Zhe while smoking a cigarette: "When did you come here?"

"……half year ago."

"Where do you go to school?"

"...I didn't go to school."

"Oh, like this."

Shen Yizhuo spoke in a neither light nor heavy tone, as if he was just reminiscing about the past with ordinary classmates.Qu Zhe looked at his toes anxiously, always feeling that the progress he thought he had made in the past few years was useless in front of Shen Yizhuo.He became that cowardly and timid Qu Zhe again.

"Rent a house by yourself?"

"Live..." Qu Zhe hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Live with a friend."

"friend?"

"Um……"

"Jiang Yuzhao?"

Caught off guard by Shen Yizhuo's words, Qu Zhe raised his head in a panic and waved his hands indiscriminately: "No, no...it's a friend I just met."

Soon an SUV stopped in front of them, interrupting their conversation.Shen Yizhuo reminded softly: "I have an appointment tonight, you come with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, the co-pilot's window rolled down: "Brother Shen."

"Why did you come here, Lu Ziming and Qi Sheng drank?"

"Brother Lu and Brother Qi are both drunk, so it's inconvenient to drive, let me come pick you up."

In the simple conversation, Qu Zhe couldn't figure out anything, but the name Qi Sheng, he still remembered the little gangster who used to invite Shen Yizhuo to the billiard room, but he didn't expect to still have contact with Shen Yizhuo now.Shen Yizhuo opened the door, turned around and said, "Get in the car."

"well……"

When they got into the car, the driver in front talked to Shen Yizhuo flatteringly, but Shen Yizhuo didn't pay any attention to it. After saying a few words, the man obediently shut his mouth.

In the small enclosed space, Shen Yizhuo felt even more oppressive. Qu Zhe pressed against the car door tightly, leaving a large space between Shen Yizhuo, as if he was afraid of touching him.

This intention was also quickly noticed by Shen Yizhuo, and he chuckled lightly, his tone full of disdain: "Are you afraid of me?"

"……No."

Shen Yizhuo looked at him meaningfully and said nothing.

In the quiet and eerie atmosphere inside the car, the car drove towards the outskirts of the city and stopped in front of a beautiful villa.Shen Yizhuo stood in front of the door and reminded: "You don't have to be too cautious."

"……OK."

If Qu Zhe is a friend brought by Shen Yizhuo, his appearance is more like a servant of Shen Yizhuo's family.Qu Zhe followed him into the house, and there was a commotion among men and women in the hall of the villa, some were playing cards, some were drinking.It is estimated that there are cooks busy in the kitchen, and food is constantly being delivered to the hall.

Qi Sheng's eyes were sharp, and he saw Shen Yizhuo coming in at once, got up from the sofa quickly, waved his hands and said, "Yizhuo Yizhuo! Why are you so slow, I'm just waiting for you!"

As soon as he spoke, the people next to him made room for Shen Yizhuo to come over.

"It's not easy to call a car at night." Shen Yizhuo said, "Happy birthday."

"Hi, thank you." Qi Sheng picked up the beer bottle from the table and handed it over, "Come and drink."

Shen Yizhuo smiled and then handed it back to Qu Zhe, and said, "I brought someone here, don't you mind."

"What do you mind!" Qi Sheng said, looking at Qu Zhe.He felt familiar at a glance, but he couldn't remember where he saw it, "...This, this is?"

"Brother Sheng." Qu Zhe nodded and said hello, "I met you a few years ago."

If he was talking to someone other than Shen Yizhuo, Qu Zhe would no longer have the problem of stuttering.After all, he didn't stutter, but he was too nervous and cowardly, so he couldn't speak fluently.After several years of hard work, he has long since lost this obstacle.But when facing Shen Yizhuo, he was still so nervous that he couldn't hold himself back.

There was a lot of noise nearby, and Qi Sheng spoke loudly: "You are that... that... Yizhuo's follower!" He said excitedly, "Isn't it? Oh, you look pretty good without your glasses!"

Qu Zhe didn't speak, but Shen Yizhuo smiled with satisfaction, "You have a good memory."

"That's right, he's the only one you brought with you..." "Come drink." Shen Yizhuo picked up another bottle of wine, touched Qi Sheng in a hurry, and then turned around to compare with Qu Zhe. He gurgled into the bottle and drank it all down, "This is considered a penalty for being late."

"Ha ha……"

Qu Zhe also obediently took two sips, and the taste of the wine no longer made him feel bad.Then Shen Yizhuo greeted the people around him, and chatted and drank with Qi Sheng and Lu Ziming whom he had mentioned before.Qu Zhe was left alone, no one cared about him.But he felt good, except for Shen Yizhuo, everyone around him could be regarded as strangers. He really didn't have a personality that would get acquainted with strangers, but he was more comfortable listening to them talking.

In the past four years, Shen Yizhuo has changed a lot.

Both the smell on his body and the cigarettes he smoked had changed.

Even though they hadn't seen each other for four years, Qu Zhe didn't feel that Shen Yizhuo was so far away—when he watched him quietly, he even felt that they were actually very close.But during the time when he realized the loss, all the habits he learned were completely different, and it took four years to finally reveal the heavy essence.

Four years is enough for a person to completely change. Shen Yizhuo has changed, and Qu Zhe has also changed.

Holding the wine bottle and listening, he could tell that Qi Sheng had only recently come to this city to do business, and he seemed to have a big business.As for Lu Ziming, he seems to be a family friend with Shen Yizhuo, I don't know if it's because he drank too much alcohol or because of his nature, he is a person who doesn't talk much.

Everyone came and talked and drank, and finally someone turned their attention to Qu Zhe.Greeted and drank with the women they knew well, and finally said: "Shen Yizhuo, is this your friend?"

"Well, what?"

"It's rare, you still bring people over to play." The woman smiled.

Shen Yizhuo looked at Qu Zhe, then at her: "It's just a coincidence."

As today's protagonist, Qi Sheng was so drunk, he hiccupped and said, "That's Yizhuo's little follower, and he's been with him for many years."

Qu Zhe didn't speak, his face was a little hot.

Just putting his and Shen Yizhuo's names together made him feel warm.

The topic quickly left Qu Zhe again. Lu Ziming felt a little bored while drinking Yuemo, and suddenly pointed to the billiard table in the next hall, and said to Shen Yizhuo, "Come to play two shots?"

Shen Yizhuo looked at the billiard table, as if he was in a good mood, and smiled brighter than usual: "...Want to gamble?"

"I can do it." Lu Ziming said, took out a car key from his pocket, put his finger in the buckle and turned it around, "The newly bought car, I will give it to you if you win."

"I'm just about to buy a car, are you giving it to me specially?"

"I'll give it to you if you win." Lu Ziming also laughed, looking confident.

Qu Zhe felt a faint bitterness in his heart.After not seeing him for so long, the gap between Shen Yizhuo and him became even bigger.When he was running around for a living, because he had no skills, he could only work in a small shop to make ends meet, but Shen Yizhuo was able to give away 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of things while talking and joking with his friends.This gap is an invisible gap, not just blocking them, but Shen Yizhuo is at the top, he is at the bottom of the deep ditch where the sun cannot be seen.

The two got up after agreeing, Qu Zhe sat there not knowing whether to follow, but Shen Yizhuo whispered something in his ear when he got up: "Come here together."

"well……"

The billiard table in the side hall is very different from the previous billiard room.This table was brand new, with a row of shadowless lights on top, and someone turned it on immediately after the three of them passed by.Although there is no uniform uniform, Qu Zhe can still tell that someone is acting as a waiter.

Qu Zhe stood aside, watching the beautiful girl set up the ball for them, and then brought fruit and wine and put them on the small table beside him before leaving.He planned to sit and watch on the small sofa next to him, but Shen Yizhuo picked up the club, rubbed the head of the club with chocolate powder, and said to Qu Zhe, "Can you still play billiards?"

Qu Zhe shook his head: "Not very likely..."

"Then watch." Shen Yizhuoyuemo felt uncomfortable with something in his pocket, so he took out his cell phone and cigarettes, and threw them on Qu Zhe, "Put them away for me."

"Good, good."

It's been a long time since I've seen him, but Shen Yizhuo's attitude is as natural as if he just left for a short vacation.As in the past, only Qu Zhe was uncomfortable.

He watched Shen Yizhuo lower his body and hit a beautiful kick-off. The colored balls on the table scattered instantly, hit the edge of the table and bounced to another direction, but he was thinking about other things in his mind.In fact, in the past few years, Qu Zhe has always wanted to say something to Shen Yizhuo in his heart, but when he really saw it, he couldn't say it.Distraught, Qu Zhe lit a cigarette, but his eyes were fixed on Shen Yizhuo's face.