There are traces of the galaxy

"Mom, look at the egg tarts!" Jiang Zhao was having fun in the living room with a dalmatian wearing a small gray waistcoat.

Dai Mengting was smiling and chatting with friends who came to the house. She thought the dog and Jiang Zhao were too noisy, so she said, "Go upstairs and play with your brother."

Dai Yueran was not at home, and no one was playing with Jiang Zhao, so he had no choice but to pick up the dog and go upstairs sullenly.Walking to the door of Li Zhifang, Jiang Zhao slapped the door and shouted: "Brother, come out, mom wants you to play with me!"

Li Zhi had nothing to do in the room anyway, so he reluctantly accompanied Jiang Zhao downstairs to play in the backyard. He doesn't like children, but he likes dogs.Both of them were reluctant at first, but within a few minutes Jiang Zhao was tugging on the dog's leash and giggling.

On a sunny day, the sun was in full bloom, and the lawn was full of sunlight, making people feel hot.Jiang Zhao ran after the dog for a while, covered in sweat, lay down on the grass from exhaustion, and stretched out his arms coquettishly asking Li Zhi to carry him back.

"You are too heavy, go by yourself." Li Zhi was indifferent.

Jiang Zhao was so angry that he rolled on the grass, grass clippings all over his light-colored sweater: "I'm not sinking! I'm very light!"

Li Zhi finally carried him into the house with disgust, and the dog barked behind him.

"Hey, I remember your family used to have a dog, isn't this one?" The female guest looked at the short-legged Dalmatian that was running happily at the door.

"Don't mention it, the dog used to like to bite the sofa and rummaged through the trash can, it was hard to clean up."

"You don't need to clean up if it's difficult," the female guest asked with a smile, "Where is that dog now?"

"Send it away, I feel upset when I see it."

Li Zhi remembered that the dog was bought by Dai Mengting in the past, it was a very expensive breed, when she first bought it, she liked it so much, she held it in her arms all day, and hugged the dog more times than Jiang Zhao.

Jiang Zhao pouted: "My mother is a very fickle woman."

"If you explain again, I will send you away tomorrow." Dai Mengting turned his head and glared at him.

The female guest covered her mouth with her hands and said with a smile, "Your son is right."

Li Zhi pushed Jiang Zhao, who had just gotten off his bald body, and asked him to wash his hands and change his clothes.The two people in the living room continued the conversation just now.This female guest is a painter, and she specially invited Dai Mengting to visit her exhibition. Dai Mengting invested a sum of money in the exhibition. She has a good relationship with the artist. There is a painting given to her by the artist in the corridor on the third floor. Li Zhi doesn’t know how good the painting is, but it seems to be very expensive, and it hasn’t failed to sell after hanging in the gallery for a year.But people don't care, there are many people in Dai Mengting's circle of friends who regard burning money as a hobby.

On the table was a cupcake bought by the artist from a dessert shop. It was exquisitely shaped and sprinkled with a thin layer of chopped nuts. It looked delicious and tempting, but no one moved it.

"Are you eating?" Li Zhi pointed to the cake and asked Jiang Zhao in a low voice who had just washed his hands.

Jiang Zhao shook his head, and replied in a low voice: "It's so unpalatable, I feel like vomiting when I smell it."

"Do you want to eat?" Jiang Zhao looked up at him again.

The two stared at each other, Li Zhi was taken aback, and said coldly, "I don't want to."

Jiang Zhao wrinkled his nose and snorted, "I know what you're thinking, you're also a fickle man."

How to learn a new word and use it indiscriminately.Li Zhi smiled, "What do you think I am thinking?"

"You want to eat cake but you don't say it, and you still want others to think that I want to eat it. You are really a deep-minded person." Jiang Zhaoyan raised his head and looked at him with certainty.

"I..." Li Zhi was speechless for a long time, thinking that what he said seemed to be right, he didn't want to argue with the children, so he had no choice but to say in the end: "Okay, okay, I have deep thoughts."

After the guests left, Li Zhi told Dai Mengting that he was going back to school early.

Dai Mengting didn't frown when he heard this, but just asked: "Why did you go back so early?"

"The thesis is not finished yet."

"Oh," she looked down at her fingernails without any doubts, "Then let's go back and write quickly." She didn't say anything else.

She has always had a big heart and doesn't care about anything. Li Zhi feels free most of the time, and occasionally feels a sense of loss, feeling that Dai Mengting really doesn't take him seriously.

In the evening, Dai Yueran learned that Li Zhi was going back to school early, and said with a bitter face, "Then what about my suitcase..."

After dinner, the two took a walk in the pavilion in the backyard, watching Jiang Zhao gliding along the path not far away on a scooter with shiny wheels.

"Are you a giant baby?" Li Zhi said helplessly, "Let Uncle take you to the boarding gate, tell me before you board the plane, and I will pick you up at the airport."

"Ah, okay." After Dai Yueran finished speaking, he was a little suspicious again, his eyes couldn't stop looking at Li Zhi's face: "Wait, why don't you go back with me? Could it be that you are in love again and want to go back to accompany your daughter?" friend?"

"Why do you care so much about my love life?" Li Zhi pressed her head angrily and with a smile, "Take care of yourself first."

"Isn't it normal to care about you?"

"I've never seen you care about Jiang Yan so much."

"Jiang Yan and I are just superficial brothers and sisters. I don't care what he does," Dai Yueran said strangely, "Besides, his girlfriend changes more frequently than his clothes, so I don't need to care."

"Huh? It's too exaggerated." Li Zhi felt that she was making up Jiang Yan's bad words again, and turned his head to look over, "I've never seen him bring his girlfriend back. How can you be so clear?"

Dai Yueran stared at Jiang Zhao's small figure wandering back and forth on the road, not looking at Li Zhi: "I just know it, I've seen it many times."

"You also said that you don't care about him, isn't that quite caring?" Li Zhi asked with a smile.

Dai Yueran became anxious immediately, and glared at him: "I didn't!"

The car lights flickered in the distance, illuminating the surroundings of the pavilion. Li Zhi saw clearly that it was Jiang Yan's car. The car drove into the underground garage. If Jiang Yan came out from the basement gate, he would pass by here.

Dai Yueran obviously knew it too, she patted the dust on her hands that didn't exist, turned around and prepared to leave, "Brother, I'm going back, just watch Jiang Zhaohua."

Li Zhi shouted directly in Jiang Zhao's direction: "Jiang Zhao, go back."

"I want to play for a while!"

"Then play by yourself, we're leaving."

"I don't!" Jiang Zhao hurriedly got off the scooter, dragged the handlebars and ran towards the pavilion.

"You don't play with me, and no one cares about me..." He pulled Dai Yueran's clothes tightly, pushed the scooter aside, and cried out of grievance, "I'm afraid of the dark."

Dai Yueran squatted down to coax him: "A man should not be afraid of the dark."

This sentence had the opposite effect, Jiang Zhao burst into tears, and while weeping, he still tried to reason: "But I'm not a man, I'm still a child."

Li Zhi's head grew dizzy when he heard that, he didn't understand why there was any reason to cry, "Then you have to learn to grow up by yourself."

"Li Zhi, you are so cold and ruthless," Jiang Zhao said, using words he heard from TV dramas, "I grew up by myself."

Dai Yueran giggled upon hearing this: "Li Zhi, you are so cold and ruthless."

"...I was wrong," Li Zhi bent down to look at Jiang Zhao: "Do you want me to hug you?"

Jiang Zhao immediately clung to him with hands and feet: "Yes!"

"Cry, cry, you never hugged me when I was a child." Dai Yueran walked beside him, dragging Jiang Zhao's scooter.

"Come on," Li Zhi said with a cold expression on his face, "You were fatter than me when you were young, okay, I can't hug you."

"Why don't you say that you are too green?" Dai Yue said angrily, "Fortunately, I succeeded in losing weight!"

"Hey wait a minute, Dai Yueran, did you forget? You still owe me a big goose stew in an iron pot." Li Zhi suddenly remembered this.

Only then did Dai Yueran think of it, and she felt a little guilty, and she continued to promise: "I will definitely treat you to eat during the winter vacation, it will cost you a hundred and eighty meals!"

On the plane early the next morning, when Li Zhi arrived in Tingzhou, he put his luggage at his dormitory and went back to school. The senior sister learned that he had returned to school early and asked him to help process a set of erroneous data.

He casually ordered takeaway at noon, and stayed in the laboratory for another afternoon.

In the evening, it was getting dark outside, and the windows of the laboratory were facing the basketball court in the outer circle of the family courtyard, where retired faculty members and their families would dance the waltz every night.

As soon as the music started, Li Zhi's thoughts were disrupted.The melodious and brisk tune did not relieve his irritability at all, on the contrary it made it worse.He got up and closed the window, but it still didn't help, the sound could come in through the crack of the window.

He turned on the phone, swiped casually, and found that the tutor was on vacation, the senior sister was shopping, the senior brother was spreading dog food, and the classmate just got a pentakill in a game.Li Zhi felt unbalanced in an instant. Why are contemporary scientific researchers like this?

Lin Chaosheng didn't post anything today. Li Zhi clicked on his homepage and found that his post was still on October [-]th.Have you played enough?

Li Zhi thought for a while and posted a Moments: I should be glad that the aunts across from the lab danced waltzes instead of square dances [cover ears]

I quit WeChat and switched to another software to continue to check the news, and my heart became more and more anxious.Many people like to listen to music while doing things, but Li Zhi can't do it. When he concentrates on doing something, no matter how soft or slow-paced the song is, even pure music, it can be classified as noise to his ears.Maybe it's because of not enough concentration.

Li Zhi was anxious while playing with his mobile phone. There were not many entertainment software in his mobile phone. After swiping around, it was really meaningless, and finally returned to WeChat.I found that there were several people commenting on that post.

Senior Sister: Hahahahaha, you've worked hard!I'll be back tomorrow

Senior Brother: Hahahahaha, you've worked hard!I'll be back the day after tomorrow

Classmate: Hahahahaha, it's hard work!I will come back after school

Neat, without morality, without humanity, without the professionalism of scientific researchers who are willing to dedicate their lives to scientific research.

Lin Chaosheng also left a comment below: Are you in school now [cover your ears]

Li Zhi ignored the many comments above, and replied to him alone: ​​Yes, I came back yesterday [cover ears]

He turned off his cell phone, ready to cheer up and read the literature for a while before going back.

After a few minutes, Lin Chaosheng sent a message. Instead of asking why Li Zhi came back early, he asked: Are you free later?

Followed by another one: around eight o'clock

It's [-]:[-], Li Zhi glanced at the row of newly opened documents on the top of the computer desktop, closed them decisively, and replied: I'm free

Lin Chaosheng sent another voice, and Li Zhi clicked on it: "I'm going to school now, and I can get there in about 10 to [-] minutes if there is no traffic jam on the road." The voice is clear and pleasant, and I don't know how many times better than the music outside.

"Let's meet at the east gate." Lin Chaosheng said again.

The east gate was the closest to the laboratory, and it took less than 10 minutes to walk, so Li Zhi killed some time.

Walking outside the east gate of the school, a gust of moist and cool wind blows over, bringing with it a few withered and yellow leaves.There are still two days before I leave school. There are very few people on campus, and there are almost no pedestrians on the road. The surrounding area is very quiet, with occasional vehicles whizzing by.

A black car came from a distance and slowly parked beside him.The car door opened, and Lin Chaosheng got out of the driver's seat with a bag in his hand.He held the rope in one hand, and carefully held the bottom of the bag with the other hand, walking towards Li Zhi.

Lin Chaosheng handed him the bag: "It's for you."

"what?"

"cake."

"Thank you for inviting me to dinner last time," Lin Chaosheng paused, "and pomegranates."

Li Zhi took out the packing box from the bag, and through the transparent PVC paper, he could see a palm-sized sphere in the box. At first glance, he thought it was some kind of decoration. Cupcakes are so much more refined.

The surface of the cake is smooth and delicate, like a mirror, refracting crystal light.The outside is coated with a layer of chocolate, painted in a circle of dark brown and a circle of white interlaced patterns, and there is a planetary ring made of fondant in the middle, which is a small planet.

"Why do you still buy this, you don't have to..."

"I did it myself."

Li Zhi looked at him in surprise: "Really? So powerful."

"It's okay," Lin Chaosheng shrugged, and smiled embarrassedly: "My mother signed up for a baking class in the bakery, and I picked her up from school every day at home, but she saw that I was fine, so she insisted on pulling me to let me Follow along."

"Sounds very interesting," Li Zhi looked down at the planet cake in the box again, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt familiar, "This is Jupiter, right?"

"Yeah, I wanted to paint it in a brighter color to make it look prettier, but when I was doing it I thought of Jupiter and thought you'd like this."

I actually don't like Jupiter that much... Li Zhi can't laugh or cry, but he really likes the little planet in his hand, "Well, this one is also very beautiful."

"As long as you like it," Lin Chaosheng said with a smile: "This one is very difficult to remove from the mold. I tried several times before I could make a finished product."

Li Zhi felt even more flattered, expressed his thanks quickly, and asked, "What is the shell made of? It looks hard."

"White chocolate, the color on top is pigment."

"It can't be cut with a knife, right?"

Lin Chaosheng laughed sullenly: "It must not be cut, you have to use a small wooden hammer to smash the shell first, it's in the bag."

Li Zhi looked into the bag again, besides the knife and fork, there was indeed a small wooden hammer.

"I can make other things. I have learned several cake recipes these days, and I feel that the basic steps are similar. If you want to eat any other cakes, please let me know. I will try to make them." Lin Chaosheng added.

Li Zhi looked at Lin Chaosheng's serious face, and his heart was filled with a strange emotion, as if he originally wanted to eat a small biscuit, but no one told him. As a result, Lin Chaosheng seemed to be able to guess his mind, and not only brought him There is a cart of small biscuits and a cart of delicacies for him to choose.

"By the way, do you have anything else to do tonight?" Lin Chaosheng asked.

Li Zhi replied subconsciously: "No." But a speeding car overshadowed his voice.

Lin Chaosheng heard it, "Would you like to take you for a ride?"

Li Zhi got on the co-pilot and held the bag in his arms.He didn't ask where the car would go, as long as he was with Lin Chaosheng, he felt at ease.

Lin Chaosheng drove very steadily. Li Zhi remembered that he seemed to be only eighteen, not at all like someone who just got his driver's license.The car drove on the viaduct, overlooking the night view of the entire city, the colorful lights dazzled people, Li Zhi only took a look and then turned his head.

At first, he stared straight ahead, but then his eyes wandered and involuntarily fell on Lin Chaosheng's side face.The shadow cast by the light made the lines more and more sharp. It was originally a relatively sharp appearance, so it was not easy to get close to, but perhaps because of his personality, he also had a unique sense of handsomeness.

From the first time Li Zhi met Lin Chaosheng, he felt that Lin Chaosheng's appearance was impeccable, and his temperament was also outstanding. He was completely different from the good-looking boys he often saw in school who depended on his clothes.

Lin Chaosheng noticed that Li Zhi was watching him, so he turned his head and glanced at him, "What's wrong? Motion sickness?"

Li Zhi just came back to his senses, realized that he had been staring at Lin Chaosheng for a long time, and suddenly felt a burst of heat in his face, "No, no."

Lin Chaosheng didn't take it seriously either, and said to him while driving, "I might see my friend later."

"Okay." Li Zhi nodded.

After getting off the viaduct, the car drove straight ahead for a while, then slowed down and entered an above-ground parking lot.The two got out of the car, Li Zhi followed Lin Chaosheng into a nearby alley, he had never been here before.After turning and turning again and again, I finally came to the door of a bar.

The bar is called "Waiting for Berlin" and has an unremarkable exterior.

Li Zhi read in a low voice: "Waiting for Berlin?" He thought of waiting for Godot.

"Berlin is a man's name," Lin Chaosheng explained to him, "I heard it from a friend."

"My friend is here to sing, and there are other bands performing tonight, it will be very lively, so I will take you here for a stroll."

Lin Chaosheng glanced at his phone, "Just in time, it's almost time for her performance."

They went in.

Li Zhi met Lin Chaosheng's friend on stage, who turned out to be a girl.The lights inside are messy, and I can't see what she looks like. She seems to be quite tall, about 1.7 meters, can't she be taller than me?Li Zhi compared secretly, thinking that the girl might be wearing high heels.

"Ji Han! Ji Han!" Several people in the audience shouted her name.

Li Zhi was still guessing which two words it was, Lin Chaosheng leaned into his ear and said, "The season is the season, the cold is the cold."

season cold.On the first day of the new year, it snowed heavily on the day of birth, half a year older than Lin Chaosheng.Her mother and Jiang Zhiyun were good friends, both makeup artists, and the photo studio run by Jiang Zhiyun was jointly opened by the two.

When the prelude sounded, Li Zhi was a little surprised as soon as Ji Han opened her mouth. Her voice is very distinctive, smoky, deep and hoarse, and her singing is particularly eye-catching.

After listening to it for a while, Li Zhi realized that it was a song he had never heard before.

"She wrote it herself." Lin Chaosheng explained in due course.

"Oh, that's pretty cool."

As a result, Li Zhi almost died on the spot after listening to the entire song. The feeling is really indescribable. It can only be said that this song is not in his aesthetic category, and he cannot appreciate it.But everyone else was too high, of course not including Lin Chaosheng, who always looked at the stage with a calm face.

Li Zhi even jumped up and down a couple of times when the whole audience followed suit. He almost wanted to applaud Lin Chaosheng's determination.

Ji Han continued to sing the second song, this time it was quite normal, it was a pop song he had heard before, and the atmosphere in the venue was not as restless as before.

Lin Chaosheng looked around, then leaned over to talk to Li Zhi, his warm breath hit his ear, Li Zhi trembled unconsciously, and goose bumps all over his body.

"Her boyfriend didn't come to pick her up. I'll take her home first, and then I'll take you back to school, okay?"

"Okay." Li Zhi withdrew back.

All right, all right, you can say anything.

Ji Han sang three songs in total. After singing, he threw the guitar down the stage. His eyes wandered, locked on Lin Chaosheng, and he jumped off the stage and walked in his direction.

She looked at Li Zhi.

"This is my friend, Li Zhi."

"This is Ji Han, I'm a kid." Lin Chaosheng introduced to the two of them.

"Who made you a kid? You used to call me sister all the time when you were young." Ji Han laughed.

She is the kind of girl who looks very distinctive, with single eyelids, high cheekbones, and slender eye tails. This kind of appearance is not in line with the public's aesthetics, but it may be praised as a high-end face now.

Lin Chaosheng asked her: "Why didn't your boyfriend come? Are you two fighting again?"

"Divided." Ji Han shrugged.

She still wanted to say something, but a few more people walked onto the stage, and the surroundings cheered again. Such a noisy place is not suitable for chatting.

A burst of intense drumbeats exploded in his ears, and Lin Chaosheng also increased the volume: "Then I will take you back later."

"Okay." Ji Han didn't refuse.

This is a bar street, it's really not safe at night, all kinds of ghosts and snakes show their true colors at night.When he first sang there, Ji Han kept it from his family and Lin Chaosheng.Coming out of the bar in the middle of the night, ready to go home, a man sat down on the main road drunk, and came from a long way away, did nothing else, hugged her calf and cried and yelled, no matter how hard he kicked her, he didn't let go. Han was very frightened, no matter how courageous a girl is, she can't stand this.

Someone passing by came up to help and finally dragged the man away. Later, the passerby became Ji Han's boyfriend.They have been together for almost a year, Lin Chaosheng asked how they met one day, and Ji Han told him the ins and outs.

"Xiao Wei is on duty today, have you seen him?" Ji Han asked again, she looked towards the bar, but she didn't see anyone familiar.

"I didn't see it. I'll look for him. You can listen to music here, or go to a quieter place over there. Don't go far." Lin Chaosheng looked at Li Zhi, and then pointed to the second floor opposite.

"it is good."

Lin Chaosheng turned and left, and the two also went to a quieter second floor.

Seeing doubts on Li Zhi's face, Ji Han explained: "Xiao Wei is his classmate in junior high school. They used to have a good relationship, but later Xiao Wei dropped out of school and couldn't go to work here."

"That's it." Li Zhi finally understood.

"Xiao Wei and the others were quite crazy before, but Lin Chaosheng is more obedient. Although Lin Chaosheng has a good relationship with him, he doesn't fool around with them."

Li Zhi agrees with this point, Lin Chaosheng doesn't look like someone who often hangs around in such places.

Ji Han said again: "But Lin Chaosheng looks too serious, he is the kind of standard good student that people can't find fault with."

"Isn't that good?" Li Zhi asked.

"Okay, that's great," Ji Han said, "So, sometimes I think he's a bit boring."

Nope.Obviously very interesting.Li Zhi didn't understand what the little girls were thinking now.

"I saw them." Ji Han said suddenly.

Li Zhi looked in the direction Ji Han pointed, and saw Lin Chaosheng chatting with a boy in front of the bar.

From here, only Lin Chaosheng's back can be seen, and the boy is facing them, wearing the uniform of a bartender.He looked young, like a teenager, thin, with a pair of bright eyes, reflecting the colorful lights in the bar.

The two seemed to be very close, Lin Chaosheng bent slightly to talk to him, and the boy put his arms around his waist directly.

Did Lin Chaosheng put his arms around his waist?It's too far away to see clearly.

After another two songs, Lin Chaosheng finished chatting with the boy. He turned around and first looked at the place where Li Zhi was standing. He didn't see anyone, so he went up to the second floor again.

And Xiao Wei stayed where he was, watching Lin Chaosheng go upstairs.

Ji Han sighed, and said as soon as he saw him coming up, "You should stay away from Xiao Wei in the future."

"What's wrong?" Lin Chao was puzzled.

"He is gay, you seem to know this?"

"I know, what's the matter," Lin Chaosheng said, "Can't you be friends with gay?"

"Yes, yes," Ji Han said tactfully, "but..."

She hesitated again, frowned and said, "Hey, fuck! Can't you see it yourself? He means something to you." Ji Han looked up at him, "Don't you think so?"

"That can't be, we have known each other for so many years, if there is something, we would have already had something." Lin Chaosheng shook his head with a smile.

Lin Chaosheng changed the subject, "Tell me, what's going on with your boyfriend?"

Ji Han smiled and said: "I understand that most people who engage in art are sick."

Lin Chaosheng also smiled softly, "You are also an artist, why did you scold yourself?"

"Who is engaged in art? I am forced by my livelihood." Ji Han gathered up his loose hair, grabbed it twice casually, and tied a high ponytail with the black rubber band around his wrist.

The three came out of the bar, Lin Chaosheng and Ji Han walked side by side, Li Zhi was on the other side.

Li Zhi looked at them from the corner of his eye, Ji Han flicked the ponytail behind his head, and the shadows on the ground also swayed.However, Li Zhi thought of Xiao Wei who was in the bar just now, it seemed that no matter if he was a man or a woman, as long as he stood with Lin Chaosheng, it would not violate his harmony.

It was late at night outside, the sky was dark blue, and only one Venus in the northwest could be seen clearly, shining far away and alone.The light board outside the bar is an ambiguous pink color, which is blurred on Lin Chaosheng's black hair, making it look blurry and beautiful.

For no reason, Li Zhi's heart suddenly beat very fast.