drink moonlight alone

After Zhou Qingyan finished class, he dawdled in the office to prepare the textbooks for tomorrow. He looked up from the computer and felt his neck sore, only to realize that the sky had already set afterglow.

"Vice Zhou, you are just on your first day at work, don't stress too much, take it easy."

Along with the knock on the door, the person who came in was Associate Professor Song who left early due to personal reasons and came to take over work with him.She is a woman who still has charm even at an old age. She returned from overseas and reads poetry and books, and she speaks with a foreign accent. He said to Zhou Qingyan.

Zhou Qingyan shook her head, stood up, and smiled: "Too relaxed becomes lazy."

"I heard that you were a serious person when you were an undergraduate and graduate student in California, and now it seems that you are indeed so." Associate Professor Song handed the stack of documents to Zhou Qingyan and shook his hand as if relieved, "It's a good thing , After all, you are young, and although you are capable, there will always be people who question you in the Jianghu."

"Thank you, Deputy Song, for reminding me, but you are not afraid of the shadow when you are upright."

"You are such an amazing kid." Associate Professor Song shook his head helplessly and admiringly, "So do you have a girlfriend?"

Zhou Qingyan didn't know how her mind could jump to a topic that was out of reach, she was stunned for a while, and then said with a sneer: "No, I don't plan to talk about it."

"Although it is said that you are standing at thirty, it is a long way home. It is better to settle it early." Associate Professor Song glanced at him disapprovingly, and because the relationship is not too close, it is not easy to preach, so he stopped naturally Stop talking.

"It's nothing, you're right." Zhou Qingyan smiled sanctimoniously, but she couldn't help but glance at her watch from the corner of her eye. Seeing that the hour hand on the top had already pointed to [-]:[-], she was startled, "I'm sorry, Deputy Song, I still I have something to do, get off work first?"

It has been more than 25 minutes since the appointment with Zhou Weiyue, Zhou Qingyan was still packing up things in a panic between talking, and almost knocked down the succulent potted plant standing by the table.Associate Professor Song saw that he was really in a hurry, so he didn't say anything, waved his hand and let him go.

They made an appointment to meet at the school gate, and when Zhou Qingyan trot to the school gate panting heavily, she leaned on her knees and bent her waist to pant, but looked around but did not see Zhou Weiyue.Feeling strange, as soon as Zhou Qingyan took out her mobile phone to make a call to ask, Zhou Qingyan heard a childish exclamation not far from the street. Following the sound, Zhou Weiyue was holding a snow-white Persian cat. A little girl passed it in her arms.

Zhou Weiyue lowered her body to talk to the girl, but she hugged the cat tightly, smiling and dancing at Zhou Weiyue, not knowing what to say, and turned around and walked back and forth after a while.After she left, Zhou Weiyue straightened up, put one hand on her waist, and waved her hand at the little girl who had gone away.

Then he raised his head, looking across the road and the endless stream of vehicles, to the eyes full of his own figure.

Zhou Qingyan was stunned for a moment, then smiled at him belatedly, and after a while, the other party crossed the road and came to him.

"Hi." Zhou Qingyan hesitated, "Have you been waiting for a long time? Sorry, I was delayed."

Zhou Weiyue shook her head nonchalantly: "It's okay, just for a while."

"What were you doing just now?" Zhou Qingyan said "Oh", and walked towards the house with someone in his arms, as if asking casually.

"The little girl's cat climbed up the tree and couldn't come down anymore. I lured it with snacks for a while and ignored me." Zhou Weiyue put her hands in her trouser pockets, and walked very slowly, just as slowly as Zhou Qing. "Finally I got angry and borrowed a net bag from the fruit seller next door to catch it."

"I haven't seen a Persian cat with such a temper, it almost scratched my face with its paw."

Zhou Qingyan listened to Zhou Weiyue's vivid narration and laughed "haha" for a long time. Seeing that there was no sound or figure beside him, he turned his head in a daze, only to find that Zhou Weiyue had stopped and was standing there. far away.Against the last ray of sunset that fell from the corner of the eye, the shadow under his feet was stretched so long that the end of the shadow was hidden in the shadow of Zhou Qingyan, and they were stuck together and could not be separated.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Qingyan lowered his eyelashes and asked.

"It's nothing."

I don't know if it's the wind howling in the evening, or the noise of spring, but Zhou Qingyan seems to hear Zhou Weiyue's hidden sigh between the words.

"I just remembered that when we came home from school together, I always asked you to wait for me."

In Zhou Qingyan’s memory of the fleeting high school days, it’s not so much that he can’t remember clearly, it’s better to say that he has lost the courage to recall the past. When he noticed, the winding branches had already firmly taken root in every part of his heart and blood vessels.

After entering high school, Zhou Weiyue was no longer that short little Douding who was malnourished. Even if she was still used to following Zhou Qingyan, it still couldn't conceal his sharpness and hostility that had grown sharply with age.At that time, Zhou Weiyue was very beautiful, her grades were among the best, she was the dream lover of her seniors, and she was a leader in the eyes of teachers and parents.

Later, he was elected as the head of the club as a matter of course, and he was busy with various affairs every day, from handing over with the teacher to making jokes with the members of the club. Rise at sunset.

Zhou Qingyan doesn't like group activities, so he has never actively participated in extracurricular activities and the like.But he would always be in the small dilapidated cafe across the street from the school, flipping through the poetry collection that he had read thousands of times and still not getting tired of reading it, waiting for Zhou Weiyue to finish the trivial things in the club, and then complaining about homely gossip together, and walking in the afterglow together. , go home side by side.

"I don't know if that coffee shop is still there." Zhou Qingyan laughed softly upon hearing this.

Zhou Weiyue said firmly, "It's still there."

"Although it has been renovated a few years ago, the boss has also changed to take over."

"That's it." Zhou Qingyan said "Oh", "It's as good as it is."

It’s good that the coffee shop and you are still there.