[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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When Lu Zhiang and Yan Mo went to the supermarket, Gu Qiaochu returned to his home.He opened the door and looked at the messy things on the ground, only to feel his headache getting worse.He went to the bedroom drawer to take the usual painkillers and took them, and sat on the edge of the bed for a long while without moving.After the headache subsided a little, he called the housekeeper to come and clean up the house in the afternoon.

Compared with Lu Zhiang's family, he really doesn't care much about his own family.After negotiating with him, others were solely responsible for the renovation of this house. He thought everything through clearly. He would return to China sooner or later, and Japan was only a temporary place to stay.As for what he and Lu Zhiang will do after returning to China, it can only be a matter of taking one step at a time.

With nothing to do, he opened his notebook and browsed the messy news on the Internet.He was looking at the general situation of the earthquake when Yu Lai sent a video invitation.

"Give you a surprise?"

Gu Qiaochu didn't know where Yu Lai was, he only saw a large area of ​​trees behind Yu Lai and buildings he hadn't seen before, and the red and gray path stretched far away.He listened to Yu Lai's words, propped his chin with one hand and raised his eyes with a smile, "You were expelled?"

"What a surprise!" Yu Lai yelled at him with a smile and cursing, and suddenly turned sideways to reveal the person behind him, "I reckon you miss little sister Li Xia a lot?"

What a surprise.

Gu Qiaochu looked at the little girl in a pea green T-shirt and overalls and greeted himself with a faint smile, guessing that the two of them were on the campus of the Academy of Fine Arts.He pursed his lips and smiled, and said like a sigh, "Li Xia has grown up."

Yu Laixiao's stomach hurts, he pointed at him and laughed, "You raised Lixia as a daughter, right?"

The little girl covered her lips and giggled, she said a lot of things, such as Fu Xiaosi established a studio, such as they helped meet and solve the problem of the contract, such as Cheng Qiqi participated in the competition and the results were good.She hasn't seen Gu Qiaochu for a long time, and only occasionally chats on QQ, but nothing seems to have changed.She danced and told Gu Qiaochu about a bunch of unexpected and surprising things that happened recently, and finally accidentally knocked over the Coke on the stone table.

Gu Qiaochu was in a better mood for a rare moment. He looked at the little girl with a smile and cried, "Oh, that's bad!", and then hurriedly took out a tissue from his bag to clean up the mess.He thinks that Lixia, who can handle so many things now, has really grown up, but if he has done a great thing to tell himself, it is like expecting praise, and it is still the same as it was a long time ago.

Just like when she was in junior high school in Shi County, Gu Qiaochu spent weekends to tutor her in English, which she was least good at among all the subjects.In the end, she got 89 points at the end of the semester, and when the results came out, she smiled and went to Gu Qiao's junior class to find him with the report card in her hand.

In Gu Qiaochu's eyes, he felt a little regretful. It would be the best if Lixia could get one more score in the test.After all, 89 points and [-] points give people different intuitive feelings.But he looked at the little girl's bright eyes, as if he had put the most beautiful sunshine in Shi County in his eyes, and he couldn't bear to talk about the problems caused by that one-point gap.

At that time, he would rub the little girl's hair, look at her satisfied face with her head tilted up slightly and her nose wrinkled, and said with a smile, "Li Xia is really amazing."

But now Gu Qiaochu won't praise her and say "Li Xia is really amazing", he will only say "Li Xia has really grown up".Because this is not something worthy of praise for him, it is the same regret as the 89 points that year.

He thought for a long time, but he didn't tell Li Xia what was in his heart.He couldn't say something like "live yourself" to Lixia.Because if Lixia felt happy to be a behind-the-scenes worker for Fu Xiaosi, then her choice should be right.

Everyone has their own way of life. At that time, Gu Qiaochu also felt that they were still young and they had infinite possibilities, so even if they made some decisions that they would regret in the future and wasted time on repeated trials, it would be a waste of money. it does not matter.

Until a long time later, young people in their teens and 20s began to call themselves "old", and the non-mainstream post-zero began to call themselves "old aunts", but Gu Qiaochu really felt that his mentality was changing like never before. aged.He also finally understood that the wasted time that was not cherished in the past, if it is gone, it is really gone.

After the video, Gu Qiaochu turned off his laptop. After he got up and turned on the TV, he wanted to go to the kitchen to cook some instant noodles.As soon as he opened the cabinet to get out the instant noodle pot, he felt the floor under his feet start to shake.The pots and bowls in the cabinet above his head slammed on the ground, and he bumped into the kitchen table without standing still.He frowned and held on to the edge of the pool without moving, realizing that the shock this time was much stronger than the night before.

But he didn't run out in a hurry. Instead, he kicked away the broken porcelain pieces scattered around his feet, and sat down calmly.

The 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Tokyo was felt strongly, many people were injured, and houses and buildings were extensively damaged.

The earthquake stopped, and the information broadcast on the TV was transmitted from the living room to the kitchen. Gu Qiaochu stood up holding the cabinet at hand.He heard the reporters at the scene record the loud cries, went to the French window of the balcony and opened the curtains, and it was gray outside.

Lu Zhiang and Yan Mo followed the crowd from the supermarket to a nearby small square. He grabbed Yan Mo's arm, looked in the direction where they lived, and finally told Yan Mo, "No, I can't worry about Ah Chu. You and Everyone stay here and wait for the situation to improve before leaving. This place is safe, don't worry!"

After speaking, he ran home, Yan Mo stamped his feet angrily behind him, but he didn't pay attention.At that time, all he could think about was Gu Qiaochu. He knew Gu Qiaochu's character well, but he could almost imagine that that person might be too lazy to run downstairs to hide.But today's tremor was obviously different from the previous day. Lu Zhiang saw a tall shelf fall down and broke a Japanese man's arm.

He pressed the password and walked into the house, and saw Gu Qiaochu standing by the window turning back when he heard the noise.He took a few deep breaths, but instead of feeling relaxed, he felt a little dizzy.He scolded who the hell said that deep breathing works, walked up to Gu Qiaochu, blinked and asked, "Are you okay?"

When Gu Qiao first saw him running, his face turned red. He took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it over. He narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Better than you."

"Success, that's good." After hearing this, Lu Zhiang relaxed, and the effect was much better than taking a deep breath.Even though he listened to the words like this, he still looked him up and down, until finally he really didn't see any problem.He looked at Gu Qiaochu's eyes full of himself, and suddenly covered his mouth with one hand and coughed a few times, cleared his throat and said, "Why don't you move to live with me?"

Gu Qiaochu pursed his lips and said nothing, he looked at Lu Zhiang and scratched his hair in embarrassment and added, "No, I just think it's more convenient for you to live with me, and I can cook for you, right? "I'm quite worried about you living here alone."

He couldn't continue, and finally clasped Gu Qiaochu's wrist angrily and muttered, as if aggrieved, "You said you didn't know how to go and hide."

Gu Qiaochu thought about it, he didn't know whether he should explain to Lu Zhiang that the reason he didn't escape was because he felt that the time he ran downstairs must be longer than the time of the earthquake.

In the end, he didn't explain, just nodded in response, "Okay."

Soon they ushered in their first winter in Japan.

When Lu Zhiang felt the chill was not so obvious, Gu Qiaochu had already prepared a thin long woolen coat.He often wears glasses and sits on the sofa reading a book, and the wide hem of his clothes is folded on his lap.

Lu Zhiang likes to take pictures as before.Not long after they got together, Gu Qiaochu bought him a digital camera and replaced the previous film machine.

Speaking of which, when Lu Zhiang received the camera, he was a little moved. It was the second time Gu Qiaochu gave him a gift, the first time was the guard.Holding the camera, he smiled at Gu Qiaochu and narrowed his eyes, "Hey, you bought this for me with money from your part-time job, right... Shouldn't the first salary or something have such a commemorative meaning?"

Gu Qiaochu is a typical straight man in terms of personality and emotional intelligence. He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at Lu Zhiang who was inexplicably excited, "I have money, why should I go to work to earn this?"

The smile on Lu Zhiang's face froze, he looked at the serious Gu Qiaochu with a headache, and suddenly asked, "You haven't been in love before me, have you?"

Gu Qiaochu didn't know what Lu Zhiang meant by asking this question, but he still nodded honestly.

"Sure enough, relying on ability alone." Lu Zhiang smacked his lips and sighed.He smiled and looked at Gu Qiaochu's silently pursed lips, and suddenly took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose and put them on himself while he was not paying attention, "Speaking of which, why have you been wearing glasses recently? Isn't it handsome... you have degrees on the left?"

His eyes were sore from the prescription glasses on the left. Lu Zhiang frowned and took off his glasses. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Qiaochu, "Is the prescription on your two sides too different? Why are your eyes so tight? Make it like this?"

Gu Qiaochu blinked unnaturally, his left eye soon began to feel dry after taking off his glasses.He stretched out his hand to grab Lu Zhiang's arm to take back the glasses, but whoever wanted to stretch out his hand just waved it, but didn't grab anything.Under Lu Zhiang's more and more weird gaze, he slowly put his hands on his knees, "Give me back the glasses."

"No, Gu Qiaochu..." Lu Zhiang hadn't called him by name for a long time. At this time, the smile on his face gradually receded. Looking at the obviously unnatural Gu Qiaochu, his voice fell silent when he spoke. Shaking uncontrollably, "It would be an exaggeration to say that you are short-sighted."

Getting closer, Lu Zhiang blinked, only to find that the pupil of Gu Qiaochu's left eye was no longer the warm brown pupil it was before, and that eye was covered by bits of grayish white.He unconsciously stretched out his hand to trace that eye, and his eyes gradually filled with hot mist, "Is there something you didn't tell me..."