South of Chutian

After that day, Tang Heng deleted Li Yuechi's cell phone number, stopped participating in his uncle's project, and never saw Li Yuechi again.Life suddenly returned to the state before he met Li Yuechi - for some reason, Tang Heng felt that it was a long time ago, so long that he felt strange.

Entering August, there is still a whole month left in the summer vacation, and the summer in Wuhan seems to have no end.Tang Heng took the TOEFL test once, and his score was enough for him to apply to all the ideal schools. His plan to study abroad was a further step forward.After that, he was completely free, the weather was too hot, he only went out in the evening, either to rehearse, to perform, or to sit in a livehouse or bar with Jiang Yaanyun and listen to music.

Tang Heng met Tian Xiaoqin several times. He didn't know how Li Yuechi explained it to her. In short, when the two met, Tian Xiaoqin never asked questions like "Why don't you come to visit?" It was so gentle and gentle, as if nothing happened.

Perhaps for her, nothing really "happened".Perhaps the same is true for Li Yuechi.

On a summer night in early August, the three of them ate with Tian Xiaoqin again. It was still a food stall: crayfish, hot dry noodles, fried sixties, and a plate of barbecue.All four of them were sweating profusely, half because of the heat and half because of the spiciness.The drink on the table was finished, An Yun volunteered to buy a new one, Jiang Ya said hypocritically: "How can girls go to this kind of thing, I will do it!" But her buttocks were firmly stuck to the chair, motionless .

An Yun was always extraordinarily diligent in front of Tian Xiaoqin, so she cooperated and said, "Let me go, what do you want to drink?"

"I want Coke!" Jiang Ya said, "It's ice!"

An Yun faintly rolled her eyes, her tone was very gentle: "What about Xiaoqin?"

"Iced black tea is fine," Tian Xiaoqin said warmly, "Thank you for your hard work."

"What about you, Tang Heng?"

"Sprite."

"Tang Heng, you betrayed!" Jiang Ya stared angrily, "Didn't you drink Coke with me before!"

"Coke kills sperm," An Yun said coolly, "You better take it easy."

Jiang Ya didn't react for a while: "Ah? Really?"

Tang Heng said, "It's nothing, I just had enough Coke."

Tang Heng was not a talkative person, now he is more silent than before.An Yun went to buy drinks, only Jiang Ya and Tian Xiaoqin were left chatting on the table.

Jiang Ya murmured, "Brother An, why is he acting weird every day?"

Tian Xiaoqin looked at him with a crooked smile: "Actually, I've wanted to ask for a long time..."

"what?"

"Why is it called An Yun 'Ange'?"

"Ah, is she a year older than me? I'm on the same level as Tang Heng."

"Then why is 'Brother'..."

"Hey, it's a long story," Jiang Ya grabbed a stick of roasted butter, "When the three of us met, Tang Heng and Brother An were planning to form a band and recruit a bass player, so I went."

"Hey, don't you play drums?"

"I wanted to try my luck at the time. Maybe they recruited drummers too?" Jiang Ya smiled naively, "I went, and then Brother An said, if you don't recruit drummers, she will play drums. I owed a word at that time." , I’ve never seen a girl who can play drums well, Brother An is in a hurry, and he wants to compete solo with me, I will do it if I say so, Brother An said, whoever loses will bow and apologize to the other party and call him brother.”

Tian Xiaoqin laughed loudly: "Why are you so childish."

"It's really awesome," Jiang Ya also laughed, "After I lost, I apologized to her, and my brother called me too... Later, the three of us formed a band. Brother An asked me to play drums, and she switched to bass .”

"You guys are so kind," Tian Xiaoqin said enviously, "All my friends have graduated."

"You mean your undergraduate friend?"

Tian Xiaoqin nodded: "That's right, one went home to be a teacher, the other went to work in Shenzhen, and only I stayed in Wuhan."

Jiang Ya immediately said: "Then you can play with us from now on. Brother An always tells us about you. And your classmate, what is Li..."

"Li Yuechi?"

"Yes, that buddy is also good," Jiang Ya said boldly, "I will celebrate my birthday later, let him come with me!"

Tang Heng lowered his eyes to listen to their chat, but did not strike up a conversation.

Tian Xiaoqin said: "Okay, but Li Yuechi is also very busy recently..."

"What is he busy with?" An Yun came back with a drink, "Is it still Teacher Tang's project?"

"No, our visit is over, and Yuechi has withdrawn from the project team."

"Huh?" An Yun cast a nonchalant glance at Tang Heng, "Why?"

"He said he had other things to do, so he went to ask Teacher Tang for leave."

"Then you're the only one doing it now?"

"My two masters from the School of Economics and I are now mainly dealing with data, and they are quite good at it."

"Well," An Yun distributed drinks to everyone, "He's from the School of Economics, that's true."

Holding the cold Sprite, Tang Heng said flatly, "Isn't Li Yuechi also processing data?"

"Yes, but he said he wasn't free," Tian Xiaoqin looked a little puzzled, "Actually, it's a pity to quit now."

Tang Heng didn't say anything more.

After eating, the three of them sent Tian Xiaoqin home first, and then went to Jiang Ya's house.They originally planned to sit in "Long Love" for a while, but there were a few muffled thunders in the night sky, and it was probably going to rain again.Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Ya turned on the projector, the raindrops fell on the glass.

What they watched was Wong Kar Wai's "Blueberry Night", one after another in slow motion, and the tone was very boring.Less than halfway through the movie, Jiang Ya fell asleep on the sofa.The rain outside the window was a little lighter, but it was still pattering, which made Tang Heng a little upset.

Jiang Ya started snoring, An Yun turned down the volume, and suddenly asked, "How are you and Li Yuechi?"

Tang Heng stared at Nora Jones' face on the screen, and whispered, "What's the matter?"

"That's right, you two... broke up?"

"I wasn't familiar with it at all."

An Yun snorted softly, but said nothing.After a while, when the speakers played a jazz interlude, An Yun said, "You'd better not get involved with him."

"why?"

"Not all the way."

"Oh."

"Really...Look at him, isn't he tired? We can't help you much, just don't make trouble."

Tang Heng turned to look at An Yun: "What do you mean?"

An Yun shrugged: "Anyway, you don't care about his business."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"I..." An Yun sighed softly, "Forget it, you will know when the time comes."

Because of An Yun's words, Tang Heng had some psychological preparations, but he still didn't expect that "the time" would come so soon - two days later, Tang Heng was called to the office by Professor Tang.

When he arrived, there were already two boys sitting in the office. One was tall and thin, wearing glasses, with a gentle appearance; the other was much shorter, also wearing glasses, and had a conspicuous mole on his forehead.The thin and tall one is called Pan Peng, and the one with the mole is called Zhang Baiyuan. They are master students in the Department of Economics and Management who joined the project team later.

"Tang Heng, just follow your two brothers to do data, ah," Professor Tang said with a smile, "If you don't know how to ask them more."

"It's us who want to invite teacher apprentices," Zhang Baiyuan pursed his lips, and said modestly, "We don't understand a lot of knowledge about sociology."

"Study alone and have no friends, you young people can chat well, so you don't need me to nag," Professor Tang turned around, and took out a paper bag from the cabinet, "Bai Yuan, please help me pass this to Dean Zhang, this time It was "Crossing the Lingding Ocean" that I promised to write for him last time, haha."

"No problem," Zhang Baiyuan said in a pleasant tone, "Then can you inscribe me too? I'll bring a book next time."

"Of course," Professor Tang said with a smile, "Anyway, I'm making a fool of myself everywhere."

While listening to their greetings, Tang Heng wondered who "Dean Zhang" was - but after much deliberation, there was no result.After all, the surname Zhang is too common.

After they finished speaking, the two master students went back first.

Only Professor Tang and Tang Heng were left in the office, and Tang Heng asked, "Which Dean Zhang?"

"Zhang Jianlong has just been transferred to the School of Economics," Professor Tang said, "That Zhang Baiyuan is his son."

"Why do they come to our project from the School of Economics?"

"We do it for others! This project will be placed under the name of Dean Zhang."

Tang Heng was silent for a moment: "So you kicked Li Yuechi out?"

"You brat!" Professor Tang slapped the table and feigned anger, "Who do you think your uncle is?"

"Then why did he quit?"

"Why do you ask me, you ask him!"

"Is he the one who wants to retire?"

"Isn't it?" Professor Tang said helplessly, "I really don't know what you children are thinking, what a great opportunity, if you don't want it, then you don't want it."