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At night, the wind was strong, Shen Xi opened the window, and when the wind was blowing in the room, he became more awake.

After losing control that day, he thought about ending his life completely. He was exhausted from living, physically and mentally exhausted, and wanted to end it all.

He was leaning against the window, and when he looked back, he saw the gardenias sent by Xu Xiaoxiao's little girl on the desk. He had grown them for a long time but hadn't bloomed.The moment seemed to be extended infinitely, and he suddenly wanted to continue living.

The little girl said that the white gardenias bloomed very beautifully, and he wanted to see what kind of scenery it was.

Shen Qi returned to Liuchengli, and met Zhou Jingtang at the gate of Liuchengli.

Zhou Jingtang called him later, but he never got through. He called Xu Dongcheng, but the other party never talked about Shen Qi with him.He really had no choice but to come to Liucheng and wait for a rabbit, waiting for more than half a month.

Fortunately, he still waited until Shen Qi. When he saw him, his first reaction was to ask why he couldn't get through the phone, but when someone saw him, he subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away.

Zhou Jingtang laughed angrily, relying on his long legs to block people in a few steps, he asked him, "What are you running for? Don't you know that I was the sprint champion in high school?"

"Forgot," Shen Qi said.

"Then tell me what you ran for."

Shen Qi really didn't want to run, but he didn't expect to see Zhou Jingtang, his body reacted before his brain, and he was blocked when he recovered.

"Why can't I get through the phone?" Zhou Jingtang asked him.

Shen Qi's eyes dodged and he didn't dare to look at him, but he stared at the other person's shoes but felt aggrieved. He said sullenly: "Didn't you get through on the phone back then? Why didn't you explain to me first."

Zhou Jingtang was stunned, he was stunned for a while, and he thought for a long time before explaining to him seriously: "At that time my grandfather passed away, I was a little busy and a little messy, just... just... I didn't receive it."

Shen Qi didn't expect that he would really explain, but it doesn't make sense after so many years."I lost my phone," he said.

Zhou Jingtang looked at him, his eyes were dark, he suddenly put his hands on his shoulders, felt him visibly trembling, and said to him with a tone of voice: "Shen Muxi, look up at me, I think I'm the same as high school There was no difference back then, what do you think?"

Shen Qi took a step back, and after getting rid of the hand on his shoulder, he dared to raise his head slowly, and he finally saw Zhou Jingtang clearly.

He remembered that when they met last time, Zhou Jingtang's hair seemed to be combed back, giving him the appearance of a seasoned elite.Today, he let his hair down and covered his eyebrows. He looked much younger, like a young man in his early twenties.

Shen Xi nodded stiffly, and said, "Well, there's no difference."

"Fart," Zhou Jingtang couldn't hold back a swear word. After saying it, he looked away regretfully, and then said, "It's no different. You didn't recognize me at the beginning last time."

"I recognize it," Shen Qi said with his head down, "I recognize you, we are all old classmates, so it's not impossible to recognize you."

"you……"

Shen Qi interrupted him suddenly: "I still have some things to deal with in the restaurant, I'd better work first, let's... chat another day."

Shen Qi left without waiting for him to open his mouth. He really wanted to walk faster, but he was afraid that if he walked too fast, he would see that his feet were weird, so he had no choice but to walk slowly, which was very painful.

Zhou Jingtang followed Shen Qi all the time, and followed him into Liucheng.Shen Qi was about to go up to the third floor, when Zhou Jingtang suddenly said, "Since you are an old classmate, how about treating your old classmate to dinner?"

Shen Qi didn't look back, but said to the waiter next to him, "This gentleman is free of charge."

Zhou Jingtang wanted to say a few more words to Shen Qi, but the waiter next to him came and stood in front of him and said, "Sir, do you want a private room or a lobby?"

"Lobby," when Zhou Jingtang looked over again, Shen Qi had already gone upstairs, he sighed, and sat down on the diagonally opposite the billiard table on the second floor.

"Just a couple of light dishes," Zhou Jingtang said.

He looked up from this position, and he could see Shen Qi walking into the office from the guardrail on the third floor.

It took more than half an hour from serving the food to eating, Zhou Jingtang didn't pay attention to the food at all, he kept looking at the third floor, his neck was sore and Shen Qi didn't show up again.

Zhou Jingtang chatted with the waiter, and said with a smile, "Do you know that your boss has another name?"

"Shen Muxi."

The waiter said, "I don't believe it."

"He himself said that he was called Shen Muxi," Zhou Jingtang said, "The wood of the trees is the west of the east, west, and west."

"He's just as stubborn as he was in high school," Zhou Jingtang said, "Do you think this kind of person should spend more time with handsome and good-tempered people like me? Why doesn't he understand that at all?" ? Why don’t you come down when you go up?”

The waiter was very busy and didn't want to listen to his nonsense, so he stopped him when he wanted to leave.Zhou Jingtang asked again: "What delicious and interesting things are hidden on the third floor of your restaurant?"

"No," said the waiter.

"Come down without him?"

The waiter couldn't take it anymore, and hurriedly left with the plate. She went up to the third floor, ran to Shen Qi's office, and complained, "Boss, who is that old classmate of yours? Even the food can't stop him from talking."

"Has he left?" Shen Qi asked.

The waiter said: "I was almost done eating when I came up, so I should go."

Shen Qi breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the office, looked down and saw a lot of people around the pool table on the second floor.Standing tall, he saw Zhou Jingtang in the crowd at a glance.

Zhou Jingtang stooped over and hit the hole with one shot. His movements were flowing like clouds and flowing water. Amid the applause and cheers of the people around him, he stood up, turned around, supported the pool table, and saw Shen Qi at a glance.

He smiled and waved at him, blinking his eyes playfully.

Zhou Jingtang smiled and said to the onlookers: "No more fights, I have to chat with my old classmates."

He looked up at him, frankly, with a loud voice: "Shen Muxi, come down for me."

Shen Qi was stunned for a long time, his heart stopped beating when he saw Zhou Jingtang's smile, it wasn't until Zhou Jingtang's voice brought him back to his senses that he came back to his senses and heard his heart beating like thunder.

His heart seemed to be saying, look, he beckoned, you still want to approach him.

He turned around and went down the stairs. Halfway through the walk, he suddenly felt a dull pain in his calf.His leg injury has a poor prognosis and has been throbbing through the years until rainy days.This kind of pain was not obvious, nor was it unbearable, but it reminded him that there had been nine years between him and Zhou Jingtang, and he couldn't walk through the distance of these nine years.

Shen Qi walked up to Zhou Jingtang.

Zhou Jingtang said with a smile on his face, "Is it a rule in your shop that a hole-in-one is free?"

Shen Qi nodded.

"Then I did it just now," Zhou Jingtang said, "so my meal was waived based on my strength, and you still owe me a meal."

"..." Shen Qi was speechless.

"I'll eat it tomorrow," Zhou Jingtang said.

Shen Qi was helpless, looking at him, he felt that his language organization ability was weakened.

Zhou Jingtang didn't stay any longer, he had enough food and drink, and left contentedly.

Shen Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was always nervous and terrified in front of Zhou Jingtang.He thought that he would treat Zhou Jingtang to another meal tomorrow, and they would be cleared up in the future, and there would be no more interaction.

The next day, Zhou Jingtang came in time for the meal, and ordered a few special Liucheng dishes. While waiting for the dishes, he chatted with the waiter at the table, and talked about how he became friends with the owner of this restaurant when he was studying in Liucheng. .

Shen Qi appeared after he had finished eating and drinking, and said to him: "I've taken this order, is it okay this time?"

"No," Zhou Jingtang smiled slyly, "If I have the strength, I won't order again."

He got up while talking, went to the pool table and took the stick, turned his head and said to Shen Qi with a smile: "Let you see what it means to fight for the front."

A hole in one, clean and tidy.

Zhou Jingtang put down the pole, smiled and said to Shen Qi: "I also avoided this meal with my strength, and the meal you owed me is still there."

Shen Qi was dumbfounded the whole time, he didn't expect Zhou Jingtang to come again, he looked at the pool table and felt that he had dug a hole for himself.

When Zhou Jingtang left, he smiled and said to him: "I'll come back tomorrow, Shen Muxi."

Shen Qi looked at him, he didn't understand Zhou Jingtang's meaning, the best ending between him and him was the two parties, but Zhou Jingtang got involved in this way.

He thought that maybe Zhou Jingtang still wanted to make him a friend, maybe because he thought highly of him, maybe because he felt pity for him.

However, he didn't dare to get close to him.

Shen Qi arranged for people to move the two pool tables that afternoon, and set up two dining tables where the pool tables were.

The next morning, Xu Xiaoxiao came to work with him, saw that the pool table was gone, and asked him, "Brother, why don't you want the pool table?"

"I don't want it anymore," Shen Qi said.

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't ask any more questions, she helped the waiters to deliver the food, and when she was busy until noon, she saw Zhou Jingtang.

Surprised, she walked over to him and asked, "Mr. Zhou, why did you come here to eat?"

Zhou Jingtang asked back: "Is it not possible?"

Xu Xiaoxiao smiled awkwardly and stopped talking.

Zhou Jingtang walked up to the second floor with ease, and found that the pool table had disappeared.He was dressed very casually, with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the wooden pillar and smiling, this was indeed Shen Muxi's style.

Xu Xiaoxiao followed him upstairs, holding the menu and asking him, "What would Mr. Zhou want to eat?"

"Whatever," Zhou Jingtang said.

Xu Xiaoxiao's goodwill towards Zhou Jingtang was already running out, and it was even more gone after hearing the phrase "casual".She suddenly found that this man is so difficult to serve!

"It's not casual here," Xu Xiaoxiao said.

Zhou Jingtang looked up at her and found that the little girl was a bit stingy. He put on a smile, ticked two off the menu, passed them to the waiter next to him, and said to Xu Xiaoxiao, "Come on, sit down, let's chat."

Xu Xiaoxiao really sat down, she was full of questions about Shen Qi and wanted to ask Zhou Jingtang.

"You and my brother are high school classmates?"

"Yes," Zhou Jingtang asked her, "Shen Muxi is your brother?"

Xu Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes at him, and corrected him: "Shen Qi, Mu Xi, Xi, thank you."

"Okay, I get it, Mu Xi," Zhou Jingtang asked, "How could he be your real brother?"

Xu Xiaoxiao said: "Of course it's my own brother, with the same father and mother."

Zhou Jingtang felt strange and asked, "Where's Aunt Shen? Do you know Aunt Shen? Her name...is like Shen Qingzhu."

Xu Xiaoxiao's complexion suddenly turned ugly. Everyone in the Xu family hated Shen Qingzhu to the bone, and they felt bad when they heard her name.Xu Xiaoxiao didn't want to reveal Shen Qi's privacy, and said, "I can only tell you that she is not my brother's mother, but my mother."

Zhou Jingtang had been to Tangqin Town back then, and he knew that Shen Qingzhu had passed away, but he didn't know that Shen Qingzhu was not Shen Qi's own mother.He didn't know how many things Shen Qi had experienced during the years he left.

"It's time for me to ask you," Xu Xiaoxiao said, "Have you ever bullied my brother before?"

"No," Zhou Jingtang said.

"Really?" Xu Xiaoxiao asked again.

Zhou Jingtang thought about it carefully, and said, "Except for kicking his stool occasionally."

Xu Xiaoxiao looked at him, thinking that Shen Qi once liked Zhou Jingtang, she found it incredible.But seeing Zhou Jingtang like this, he didn't know.

Everyone around Shen Qi knew that Shen Qi liked Zhou Jingtang, but Zhou Jingtang didn't know.

Everyone around Zhou Jingtang knew that Zhou Jingtang liked Shen Qi, but Shen Qi couldn't believe it.

When Shen Xi went downstairs, he saw Zhou Jingtang and Xu Xiaoxiao chatting vigorously. When Zhou Jingtang faced the little girl, his temper improved a lot, and the hostility between his brows subsided a lot.

After Shen Qi approached, both of them stopped talking.Shen Qi looked at Zhou Jingtang, and said to him: "I invite you for today's meal, is it okay this time?"

"Okay," Zhou Jingtang said with a smile, "I will pay for it myself when I come back tomorrow. Really, it's like who can't afford it."

Shen Xi clenched his fists, he stared at Zhou Jingtang, a long-lost thought of wanting to beat him spontaneously emerged from his heart.

"Sit down and have something to eat together?" Zhou Jingtang asked.

The food was already served, Xu Xiaoxiao was sitting and moving her chopsticks, when she heard this, she raised her head and glanced at Shen Qi.Shen Qi sighed and sat beside her.

"It's good to have a meal between old classmates to bond with each other," Zhou Jingtang put food in the bowl for him, and said to himself, "Don't you think so?"

"We've only been classmates for two years," Shen Qi couldn't help but said.

"Shen Muxi, I found that there is something wrong with your thinking," Zhou Jingtang said, "Is the relationship between classmates measured by the length of time? They are compatible, and the length of time is the same."

Shen Qi was silent and didn't want to speak, he really couldn't control his desire to refute him, so he couldn't help asking: "Do you think we get along well?"

Zhou Jingtang smiled: "I don't know who I fed my popsicles in those years."

Shen Qi was silent for another period of time, he lowered his head and whispered, "Why do you talk so much?"

Zhou Jingtang was furious.

He talks a lot?

He hasn't bothered to say anything all these years.

But what to do, the person he likes cares more about words than he does.