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Shen Qi never thought that one day the time spent with Zhou Jingtang would become tormenting.

Zhou Jingtang was sitting on his left, driving the car calmly, when the car in front changed lanes, he frowned displeased.Shen Qi has been paying attention to every subtle expression of his, and after seeing him frown slightly, he can't help but panic in his heart.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, does Zhou Jingtang hate this smell?

Shen Qi thought a lot, and even had the idea of ​​asking him to stop here and let him go down.

Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Yang in the back seat chatted and laughed along the way, and Zhou Jingtang occasionally interjected a few words.He is much older than them and has a wealth of experience. As long as he is willing, it is easy to get along with the two children who have not yet left school. Even Xu Yang, who has always had a bad impression of him, will talk about Big Brother Zhou.

Shen Xi thought, whether it was nine years ago or nine years later, he was not worthy of Zhou Jingtang.

When the car stopped at the gate of Xu's villa, all the surrounding street lights had been turned on, Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Yang got out of the car first and went in, Zhou Jingtang called Shen Qi to stop.

"Qiqi, see you tomorrow," when he said, his eyes fell heavily on Shen Qi's side, and there was a hint of cautiousness in his tone.He asked again, "Are you okay?"

Shen Qi smiled lightly, but without any warmth, he was silent for a long time, and said to him: "Be careful when driving."

That night Shen Qi tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, his sleeping pills were kept by Ruan Changling, he didn't want to go to her late at night, it just made her worry in vain.He didn't fall asleep until midnight, his mind was full of how Zhou Jingtang said he would see you tomorrow.

When he was 17 years old, he had a whimsical attempt to add himself to Zhou Jingtang's future.Zhou Jingtang never knew that there was a boy who wanted to be with him forever when he was crazy like summer.He never told Zhou Jingtang that I like you, but he really wanted to go abroad with him.

When Zhou Jingtang was young, every sentence of seeing you tomorrow made him fall asleep with hope, and his dream was full of him and his boy.It's just that later his teenagers grew up, and they were not teenagers anymore, but he didn't dare to take his see you tomorrow in his heart anymore.

The person he likes is precious, he hopes that he is in the clouds and under the sun, and he thinks that he can also light his way, but everything is impossible. He spent nearly ten years and failed to achieve everything that year. Get out, he's stuck here.

It was already very late when Zhou Jingtang returned home. The street lights in his community were warm yellow, and thousands of houses were brightly lit when he looked up.He sighed involuntarily, for no reason, as he went upstairs.

The part-time worker came here today, and the room was spotless. The clothes I put in the washing machine when I left in the morning were washed and dried, and ironed to perfection.He went into the house to change his shoes, took a bottle of cold beer from the refrigerator, and went to the study to deal with work. There was only the sound of typing in the room.

The phone rang, it was Mu Yalan's call, he hesitated for a while before answering, and Mu Yalan on the other end of the phone gently asked him how he was doing recently.

The phone calls with Mu Yalan these years, the content is almost the same, nothing more than talking about the current situation, basically Mu Yalan is talking, and he is listening.Zhou Jingtang hadn't been home for nearly ten years. If Mu Yalan hadn't insisted, maybe he wouldn't have called these few times in a month.

Mu Yalan talked like a one-man show for more than ten minutes, and realized that Zhou Jingtang was not very interested.She didn't want to disturb her son, but she really missed him very much.

She hesitated and said: "Tangtang, go home, no matter what kind of enmity between father and son, it's almost ten years, it's enough."

Zhou Jingtang said: "There is no deep hatred, I just want to be free."

Mu Yalan on the other end let out a long sigh, suppressed it for a long time, and then started to sob.

"Mom, don't cry," Zhou Jingtang was having a headache, he was never good at coaxing others, and there was nothing he could do when he heard Mu Yalan cry.

"How can I not cry," Mu Yalan said, "My husband and son are like enemies. My son has refused to go home for ten years. How can I not cry?"

Zhou Jingtang said: "Mom, I don't hate my dad, really, he will always be my dad."

"Then...why don't you want to come back?"

Zhou Jingtang leaned weakly on the back of the chair and remained silent for a long time. When Mu Yalan thought that he might not be able to speak anymore, he said lightly: "Mom, I was very disobedient when I was young, right? I loved making trouble when I was young. I am not afraid of the heavens and the earth. After the age of thirteen or fourteen, I became even more lawless. They all said that I was the devil of the world. I thought I was the son of Zhou Yanwu. I could be willful and lawless all my life. They all thought I was still the same me. But what happened later?"

"You want to restrain me for the rest of your life, so why did you ever want me to think that I am the most qualified person in the world to act willfully?"

Zhou Jingtang laughed at himself and said: "I used to think that I was Zhou Yanwu's son, my grandfather, my grandfather, a big shot in Jincheng, and I could live my life according to my own wishes. But what happened later? I just I fell in love with someone, and you just treat me like this? I got something that others don't have, so can't I like someone? "

Mu Yalan broke down crying and shouted: "But he is a man!"

"What does it matter to me whether he is a man or a woman?" Zhou Jingtang said, "I only know that he is Shen Qi."

Mu Yalan on the other side stopped talking.

Zhou Jingtang said: "Do you know what I was thinking on the plane to Australia? I was thinking, since you never thought of giving me the right to choose who to love, why did you ever make me feel free."

"I don't hate my dad, I just feel that being Zhou Yanwu's son has to lose so much," Zhou Jingtang said, "But I didn't choose to be his son. It's just that."

When hanging up Mu Yalan's phone, Zhou Jingtang subconsciously glanced at the clock on the wall. It was eleven o'clock at night.He finished his work and sat in front of the computer smoking a cigarette.

For a moment, he was homesick, and he also wanted to sink.

Just when he suddenly came back to his senses, he realized that he had been away from home for so many years, and that he had been alone all these years.

There's nothing to be sad about. Like Shen Qi, it's probably something that you won't regret or regret after you die.

Zhou Jingtang went to bed late because he didn't have much work the next day and got up late.In the morning, the wind in Jincheng was very strong, and the leaves were blowing to his window. He suddenly thought that today is the beginning of winter.

Winter came late in Jincheng, and the temperature was only a few degrees lower in Lidong. He added a coat and wanted to go out to do some shopping. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan squatting at the door.

"Dead inside?" Ning Zhe revealed his true nature as soon as he stood up, and his words always gave people a feeling of cursing, "I've been knocking on your door for a long time, but you still don't open the door."

Zhou Jingtang glanced at the two of them and asked, "Why don't you ring the doorbell?"

Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan looked at each other, neither of them were willing to admit that they forgot to ring the doorbell.

"Why are you going?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Big purchase."

The purchase of the last person has become the purchase of three big men, and it is difficult for people stuck in the middle of the shelf to pass.When the shopping cart arrived in front of Ning Zhe, it was a size too small, and it needed to bend slightly when pushing it.

"Master's long legs are amazing," Ning Zhe was smug, pushing the shopping cart while winking at the girl on the opposite side of the shelf, without paying attention, he took all kinds of snacks into it.

"Are you not paying the bill, are you?" Zhou Jingtang kicked him on the calf, and took everything back.

Lin Yuan took some beer, and ordered two takeaway orders on the way back. After arriving home, he started drinking.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhou Jingtang suddenly said to them: "I found Shen Qi."

As soon as this remark came out, Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan, who were originally noisy, suddenly became quiet.

The air became quiet, and there was a faint smell of alcohol. Ning Zhe's eyes were already red after drinking for three rounds. He suddenly opened another bottle and took a sip. He said to Zhou Jingtang, "If you find it, that's it."

Lin Yuan smiled, also opened a bottle, filled it up for the three of them, and said: "If we have the chance to meet him, we will say sorry to him. It is not because you like him that we say sorry to him, but We owe him an apology all the time."

"Back then, he really regarded us as friends..." Ning Zhe muttered to himself.

"Actually, we...we were really wrong at that time," Lin Yuan smiled wryly, "What Ning Zhe and I have never forgiven is that he lied to us and didn't tell us the truth. But when I think about it later, how could he know how to lie? Don't lie, he's just a kid."

"Yes, just a child."

Zhou Jingtang looked at them quietly. A large part of what he had been brooding about was that his best brother didn't extend a helping hand to the person he liked back then.In fact, it cannot be said that the original did not forgive, ten years, how can we talk about the original unforgiveness.

Ning Zhe raised his glass suddenly and said, "Let's celebrate our brother finding the child back."

"For Shen Qi."

"For Shen Qi."

Zhou Jingtang was slightly drunk, thinking in a trance, isn't everything he has for so many years just for a Shen Qi?

For Shen Qi.

The day when the construction of the Wetland Resort was started was a day with a relatively suitable temperature in winter. The wind was dry and cold, and the workers of the construction team put on thick clothes.The opening ceremony of Hengyi Group was very grand. Basically, people related to the work of the resort came to the scene, representatives from the city government also came, and reporters from several news agencies came early in the morning, ready to report first-hand news.

Xu Dongcheng also came over as Xu Ye's representative, and after some courtesy with Zhou Jingtang, he chatted with the person in charge of the engineering team.The representative from the municipal government was the younger generation that Mr. Mu had supported before his death. Zhou Jingtang wanted to call him uncle when he saw him, and they were chatting enthusiastically.

Xu Dongcheng also brought Zhong Chenglin with him, and specially introduced him to Zhou Jingtang: "Mr. Zhou, this is the designer of Youjia Studio. He was the one who followed up Motianyun District last year. You are all young and promising. You will have a chance in the future." We can still cooperate."

Zhou Jingtang took a second look at the person Xu Dongcheng recommended, and only felt that Zhong Chenglin was a gentle, white-faced scholar. When he reached out to shake hands with him, he was humble and polite, neither humble nor overbearing. His impression was not bad.

"Hi, Zhou Jingtang," Zhou Jingtang said after introducing himself, "I'm quite impressed with the case in Motianyun District. Mr. Zhong's amateur skills are still very strong."

When Zhong Chenglin heard Zhou Jingtang's name, he felt very familiar. He was silent for a while before he realized that he had accidentally seen Shen Qi's case in Zhang Hao's folder, and this name was mentioned there.

What impressed him the most was Shen Xi kneeling in front of the ancient Buddha devoutly and humblely in the Lingshan Ancient Temple.He knew that Shen Qi liked that person named Zhou Jingtang.

Xu Dongcheng was pulled aside by an acquaintance, Zhong Chenglin couldn't hold back, and asked, "Does Mr. Zhou know Shen Qi?"

Zhou Jingtang smiled, quite surprised, and asked him: "Has Qiqi mentioned me to you? What did he say about me?"

Zhong Chenglin knew that Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang had probably met again. During the days when he was abroad, some things happened that he didn't know.

"No, I guessed it," Zhong Chenglin said.

Zhou Jingtang continued to ask: "Qiqi didn't tell you, how did you know that I would know him? Are you his friend?"

Zhong Chenglin smiled and said flatly, "Well, I'm his friend."

Zhou Jingtang blatantly looked Zhong Chenglin from head to toe, and asked with some confusion: "Qiqi really didn't mention me?"

"No," Zhong Chenglin said.

The groundbreaking ceremony was not a scene suitable for small talk. Before Zhou Jingtang could say a few words to Zhong Chenglin, he was interrupted by people from the city government, and instead chatted with him about other things.

After the groundbreaking ceremony, Xu Dongcheng and Zhong Chenglin left in the same car.In the car, Zhong Chenglin couldn't help asking Xu Dongcheng: "Uncle Xu, that person just now is the one that Qiqi likes, right?"

Xu Dongcheng remained silent and did not answer, Zhong Chenglin knew that he was acquiescing.

Zhong Chenglin didn't speak again, he couldn't say what mood he was in, more of a sigh, he once said that Shen Qi would never meet that person again, just like he would never meet Xiao Nianjia again.

But Shen Qi still met again.

Maybe everything was already doomed, he remembered Zhou Jingtang's vivid eyes when he mentioned Shen Qi, it was very similar to Shen Qi's heartfelt smile when he mentioned Zhou Jingtang in Lingshan Ancient Temple many years ago.

It's all about being different.