[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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Someone opened a 24-hour bookstore in Asakawa called [Carved Time].

I heard that the store manager was a graduate of Asakawa No. [-] Middle School and a famous figure. Many students of Asakawa No. [-] Middle School always wanted to go and have a look.

It's a pity that the store manager employs three shifts of staff, but he rarely shows up in the store.

As the new editor of the school newspaper, Li Wenwen's first plan was to interview the legendary senior.

She spent her spare time squatting in the sculpture time for about a week, and finally when she opened the glass door on Sunday afternoon, she found the young man sitting behind the bar.

The man was only wearing a clean and simple white shirt and black trousers, and his handsome face could not be concealed by his large gold-rimmed glasses.He was sitting crookedly with his head propped on one arm, and with the other hand he was slowly flipping through the documents in front of him.

Li Wenwen sneaked a few glances, trying to find a table that was relatively close to sit down, but found that the tables and chairs near the door that everyone usually avoided were almost occupied.

Girls wearing the uniforms of Asakawa No. [-] Middle School or cool summer clothes were sitting at the table with books in their hands, but they obviously didn't care about drinking, and they sneaked glances at the young man from time to time.

Li Wenwen had no choice but to find a seat in the back. She ordered a glass of lemonade, and finally held the glass and stopped the clerk. She pouted in the direction of the bar, "Is that your boss?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" The clerk responded indiscriminately, and was about to leave.

Li Wenwen didn't let go, she winked and acted cutely, "Can you tell him for me? Just say that the school newspaper of Qianchuan No. [-] Middle School wants to interview him."

"Okay, okay..." The clerk nodded, and walked towards the bar as he said.

Li Wenwen opened her eyes wide and looked through the gap between the bookshelves.

The clerk leaned over and said something to the man, and then the man raised his head and looked over, met Li Wenwen's gaze, nodded to her, put down the document and stood up.

He got up and walked over, holding a mug in his hand, with four fingers inserted through the holes in the ear, holding the pure black body of the mug, with his thumb on the rim of the mug.

Until the young man stood in front of her, Li Wenwen finally realized that she was too engrossed in watching.Fortunately, the overly blunt gaze did not make the young man feel uncomfortable. Instead, he smiled lightly and stretched out a hand to her, "Hello, Gu Qiaochu."

Only then did Li Wenwen come to her senses, she stood up in a panic, her movements were too big, and she accidentally knocked down the wooden chair behind her.She didn't have time to rejoice that this was the last table so as not to bump into anyone, so she hurriedly shook half of the young man's hand lightly, "Hello, senior, I'm Li Wenwen."

The vibration of the smile was transmitted to Li Wenwen's hand along the cool fingertips, she raised her eyes in embarrassment, and saw Gu Qiao's smiling eyebrows and eyes, very gentle.

He put the cup on the table, stepped forward to lift up the chair, and then explained, "I didn't mean to laugh at you... I just think you are very like a friend of mine, and you are so reckless."

Li Wenwen made up her mind, put her hair behind her ears and pinned it, sat down and took a sip of the cold and sweet lemonade.Although she knew that Gu Qiaochu had already learned about her intentions from the clerk, she still explained again.

After Gu Qiaochu listened patiently, he habitually put his hand on the mug again and nodded, "Okay."

"Then from..." Li Wenwen paused, she really didn't know what to call Gu Qiaochu.

Calling people by first and last names is always too unfamiliar, and calling Qiaochu directly seems too intimate, she thinks about it, and then speaks again.

"Let's start with the friend Gu Xuechang just remembered. Is he also a student of Asakawa No. [-] Middle School?"

"Yes, it's a junior from my class named Lixia..."

Li Wenwen sat quietly on the seat, listening to Gu Qiaochu's clean and clear voice, starting from Lixia, whom she had never met, telling the story of Qianchuan No. [-] Middle School ten years ago.

Gu Qiaochu spoke at a slow pace, even when he talked about something funny, most of the time he just pursed his lips and gave a shallow smile, and only occasionally when he talked about his friends from the past, he laughed softly.

He took a sip of the coffee in the mug from time to time, and as he exhaled, the bitterness and sweetness of the coffee permeated the air.

Li Wenwen, however, felt more and more strange the more she listened, she bit the straw and struggled for a while before asking, "The Lu Zhiang you mentioned...is a man?"

Gu Qiaochu paused, then pursed his lips and smiled again.He relaxed and leaned on the armrest of the chair, and asked someone to refill the coffee, "Look, my story is not suitable for sharing."

Li Wenwen finally understood, the previous fog and awkwardness seemed to be unraveled in an instant.She nodded, and wanted to say something more, when she suddenly saw a young man in a T-shirt and sweatpants hastily opened the door and walked straight towards here.

She recognized that it was the person who frequented the shop like herself a few days ago, and it seemed that he came to look for Gu Qiaochu as well.But she didn't remind people to come, it seemed that she was taking revenge on Gu Qiaochu for letting her new project go in vain, and for spending so much time staying on site.

The man hurriedly walked to Gu Qiaochu's side, frowned and glanced at the girl opposite, lowered his voice and complained, "You didn't tell me when you came back!"

"Did you put me in your eyes?"

Li Wenwen was a little surprised that someone said such a thing, and before she had time to express her curiosity, Gu Qiaochu replied with a smile, "I'm looking at you."

"Don't yell at me!" The visitor stared, but it was a pity that a tear mole in the corner of his eye made it more enchanting, not sharp at all, "If I don't come to you, you won't come to me, will you?"

"How could it be..." Gu Qiaochu smiled again, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Wenwen's chin propped up and looking very vigorously. After all, she didn't want to be seen as a play, so she could only drag the visitor's arm to the back. Go to the lounge, walk away for two steps, turn around and say to Li Wenwen politely, "I can only talk so much, let's talk again when we have a chance."

Li Wenwen blinked her eyes, she watched the two people enter the lounge, but when she closed the door, she seemed to hear Gu Qiaochu's voice softened, "Zhiang..."

She woke up suddenly, feeling as if she knew some secret.At the end, he remembered that Gu Qiaochu said in his soft and clean voice a while ago, "Lu Zhiang, back then there were a lot of little fans..."

That voice strangely coincided with the vague [Zhi Ang] just now. Looking at the closed door of the lounge, she remembered what kind of gentle and polite young man Gu Qiaochu was through the conversation. Amidst the scent, the smiles on the clean and handsome faces of the two when they tugged were all in front of my eyes.

It seems that this is the best.

She sighed softly, then got up and left the bookstore.

The row of seats near the window was full of young girls, and they blushed and sighed how handsome the person who just came in was, and how pleasing it was for the two of them to stand together.

Someone added, "Don't you think the boss's smile is very doting?"

So it aroused a large group of echoes.

At that time, rotten culture became popular, and girls in their teens and 20s loved beautiful things, and they thought it was normal and accepted for men to be together with men.

If, if Gu Qiaochu knew...

He would probably sigh, "It would be great if it was like this back then..."

He was only 27 years old, but he had experienced too much, and he finally transformed from the high-spirited boy who had just stepped into the gate of Asakawa No. [-] Middle School and vowed to make Asakawa No. [-] Middle School remember him into a mature and stable man.

But it seems that the more charming and calm he transforms, the more helpless he is to Lu Zhiang.

Just like now.

Lu Zhiang hugged him tightly and did not let go, his chin was stuck on the neck, making him unable to turn his head back.I only heard Lu Zhiang muttering in a hoarse voice, "I've been waiting for you for a long time..."

The grievance and bitterness of one sentence made Gu Qiaochu, who originally wanted to laugh, suddenly softened his heart.He raised his hand and smoothed Lu Zhiang's hair, and he slowed down for a while, until the apex of his heart was no longer so painful that he could hardly speak, and then he said, "I know...I know..."

Gu Qiaochu didn't publicize it much, but everyone who cares knows that this bookstore is opened by him, such as Lu Zhiang.

In just a few days, every time Lu Zhiang came to stay, he would leave a small note for him.At the beginning, you can still say harsh words, such as [If you don’t come to me, don’t even think that I will come to you! ] But later, all the grievances and heartaches of the pure brain were confided on paper.

At first, Gu Qiaochu giggled when he saw it, he thought to himself, why are you here if you don’t come to me?Don't say it's for reading.

But later, he couldn't help but look red-eyed.

Those notes were neatly pressed by him into a silver square velvet gift box, and a sterling silver ring was pressed on the paper, which was not in good condition, and even oxidized a little.

But he is a nostalgic person, he is reluctant to throw away any old objects, and puts all of them in his storage room.Occasionally he opened the door to look for something, and when he saw a layer of dust on it, he felt a little regretful, thinking that throwing it away would be better than letting the dust fall in front of his eyes to scare him off.

So I woke up early the next morning, carrying a few big boxes and driving to find a quiet place to bury in the suburbs.But after driving around for a long time, I felt that there were too many things, and it was too much effort to bury them, and I was reluctant to throw them away.

In the end, I had to drive the car and drag things back.

In fact, it's just that the box is big. If you really want to pour it into the pit and bury it, it won't be troublesome.

After going back and forth like this, he didn't bother to toss about, and let those things fall to ashes in his own house, and never touched them again.

And Lu Zhiang, Lu Zhiang is the only old object in Gu Qiaochu's heart that hasn't fallen into ashes.

He was in his heart, if he had been like this for several years, he should have sunk.

But Gu Qiaochu refused, he insisted on digging out the person, dusting off the dust from time to time, making himself so uncomfortable that he couldn't eat or sleep well.

Finally, when he was 27 years old, he couldn't stand being bullied anymore, and his heart ached when he thought about that guy, so he finally decided to treat himself better.

So he came back.