[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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The day before the press conference, Gu Qiaochu received a complaining call from Lu Zhiang, saying that they were being sabotaged when they were arranging the venue.He sat in the office and comforted himself patiently, not saying that he had just been cueed to a meeting by the senior management.

Hua Shang had already decided to terminate his endorsement cooperation with Fu Xiaosi, and he couldn't say that now.

He reached out to turn on the computer on the desk, but after turning it on, he forgot what he wanted to do.Realizing that his recent state is not good, maybe it is too much trouble, or maybe he is finally under pressure. At that time, he was still thinking that after tomorrow's first meeting, he might apply for a vacation.

Summer is here, and Japan will hold a grand firework festival again.

He suddenly wanted to go there again and experience the feeling of sitting on the side of the road in a bathrobe and clogs watching the fireworks bloom.

At night, he sent a message to Lu Zhiang, "Shall we go on vacation together after tomorrow, the firework festival is about to start."

After a busy day, Lu Zhiang went home to wash and fell asleep.The mobile phone was next to his pillow, and the notification light flickered a few times, and it went dark without waking up the sleeping person.

The next day Lu Zhiang got up early in the morning, he picked up his phone and glanced at Gu Qiaochu's message, then pursed his lips and smiled slightly.But he didn't reply to this news, he thought that he could tell Gu Qiaochu face to face in the backstage of the starting meeting later.

Ok.

He thought that this day was a day for Fu Xiaosi to stand up and prove himself, they would go to the celebration banquet together after the first meeting, and at night he could sleep soundly with Gu Qiaochu in his arms.

Until Ding Yiyang stood on the platform opposite Fu Xiaosi.

On the way there, Gu Qiaochu was still discussing with Yu Lai where to have dinner at night. He wanted to take advantage of this time to gather all the people who came out of No. [-] Middle School to gather together, so that everyone can develop together in Shanghai and take care of each other.

Yu Lai conveniently showed the assistant the way to let people park the car in an open space, then glanced back at Gu Qiaochu's solemn warning, "Be careful yourself today, it's not like school if something goes wrong here."

It's really not like that, who would brazenly fight in school.

When I met and scolded "cnm" and rushed forward, it was like the prelude to all tragedies.

Gu Qiaochu looked back at Lu Zhiang, before he could run over, he was pushed back a few steps by the rush of people, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose were also pushed and dropped.The blurred vision made him frown uncomfortably, half-closed his eyes and watched Lu Zhiang being pushed against the table, he seemed to explode suddenly.

Yu Lai watched helplessly as Gu Qiaochu tried to push the person in front of him away, until Lu Zhiang stood up unsteadily, took a bottle of wine and smashed it on the table.He heard Gu Qiaochu call out "Lu Zhiang", but Lu Zhiang didn't seem to stop at all.

Lu Zhiang was stunned, he didn't know how Gu Qiaochu rushed over to stop him, but the rationality that disappeared when he saw Fu Xiaosi being abused and trampled seemed to come back at this moment .The warm and sticky touch in the palm of his hand and the somewhat cold hand on his shoulder reminded him how Gu Qiaochu stopped him.

They have embraced in this position countless times, but at this moment Gu Qiaochu's head was resting on his shoulders weakly, and he heard Gu Qiaochu say in a hoarse voice, "Zhiang, don't be afraid."

The blood foam landed on his neck while breathing, but it quickly lost its temperature and even became cold.

The surroundings seemed to have quieted down, but he clearly saw Yan Mo who was kneeling on the ground crying hoarsely, and those restless people took out their mobile phones and pointed them at them.

Yu Lai quickly took off his coat and put it in front of Gu Qiaochu. He pulled Gu Qiaochu over with shaking hands, and the blood-stained wine bottle fell to pieces on the ground.

When the guard rushed over, Gu Qiaochu's red eyes seemed to wake him up suddenly, and he suddenly grabbed Yu Lai's wrist firmly, "Yu Lai, you stay here, no one can take you with you except Jiajie." He goes."

Lu Zhiang thought he would never forget this day, he heard Yan Mo yelling at him, "Zhiang! Run!"

"Fuck you!" Yu Lai yelled back with his eyes wide open, he gritted his teeth and asked his assistant to call an ambulance to take Gu Qiaochu to the hospital, and finally told her not to let anyone take pictures of Gu Qiaochu's wounds.

Gu Qiaochu's meaning couldn't be more obvious, he can't let people lock Lu Zhiang in.

But Yu Lai took a look around the environment for a week. Apart from the monitoring of several corners of the venue and the witnesses present, even the videos they took and posted on the Internet and Moments were extremely unfavorable to Lu Zhiang.Even if he covered the wound in time so that Gu Qiaochu could insist that he was not injured or that it was just an accident when he made the statement, but when he checked it, it was full of loopholes.

What's more, even if the victim Gu Qiaochu gave up the appeal for the wounding incident in a public place, the local court's Public Security Bureau is very likely to file a public prosecution and sentence Lu Zhiang to prison.

Gu Qiaochu woke up slowly after the anesthesia for the operation wore off. It was the brightest summer in Shanghai, but the ward was drawn with heavy curtains.He squinted his eyes and saw his mother sitting on the sofa, half-sitting up with the hand that didn't hang on the water. When he opened his mouth, his dry voice sounded like paper was being torn, "Mom."

"Wake up... The doctor said that the internal organs are not injured, just take care of it for a while." The video of the woman who enjoyed a lot of fame in the legal field stopped her phone, and the screen was stuck just when her son was bleeding from his mouth.She tidied up her emotions, and slowly walked to the edge of the hospital bed, "You have been smart since you were a child, and we also said that it is good for you to do what you like, because we all believe that you have a sense of proportion."

"However, should you tell us about the matter between you and Ang, so that we can make preparations. Or tell me, if I know that your choice is wrong, should I still support you as before? decision."

"...how do you know it's wrong."

"Then tell me! If you're right! How did you become like this all these years?"

"But...Mom, there's no right or wrong in this kind of thing." Gu Qiaochu's eyes were red, but he smiled slightly with his lips pursed.

"Grandma heard that you were injured... fainted, and your dad has rushed back."

Yu Lai sat opposite Liu Jiajie at the police station for half an afternoon and did not wait for the news of Gu Qiaochu. He frowned and looked at his watch repeatedly, then looked back at Lu Zhiang who was handcuffed with a numb face, went out to call After asking, I found out that Gu Qiaochu had rushed back to Asakawa.

"Help me, I have to go back." Yu Lai reached out and patted Liu Jiajie's shoulder, but someone grabbed his arm.

"Hurry up and think of a way, I won't be able to hold this for long. Remember to tell me if you have a letter from Qiaochu."

Gu Qiaochu never shed a tear from the beginning to the end, but when he walked into the ward and knelt in front of the old man's bed, he saw the gray-haired old man tremblingly raised his hand and said intermittently, " Good grandson...does it hurt..."

At that moment, he couldn't bear it anymore, and tears fell to the ground.He held his grandma's hand and pressed it to his face, saying repeatedly, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt...it doesn't hurt at all."

"That child is not good..." The old man looked at his only grandson in this life, and only vaguely felt that his wife would be furious if he was still there. "We don't want him anymore, Ah Chu, we don't want him anymore..."

At that time, Gu Qiaochu suddenly realized that it was time for him to separate from Lu Zhiang completely.

On the way here, his mother told him that as long as he has nothing to do with Lu Zhiang in the future, she can keep the case from becoming a public prosecution.If the case does not turn into a public prosecution, and he will appeal at that time, the matter will be considered over.

Originally he was still struggling, he really didn't want to do any harm to Lu Zhiang.But when his mother asked him how he became like this in the past few years, he was so sad that he couldn't answer.What's more, now that grandma is sick in bed because of him, he doesn't want the family to cause any trouble because of him.

On the day when Lu Zhiang came out, only Gu Qiaochu picked him up. Gu Qiaochu greeted everyone first, and when it was time, he drove to the door by himself and waited for Lu Zhiang to come out.

His abdomen was still wrapped with gauze, his eyes were black and black after he hadn't rested for a few days, and his throat was very dry when he opened his mouth to speak, "Let's take you home."

Lu Zhiang didn't respond, he just sat on the co-pilot.He tilted his head and looked out the window, listening to the sound of Gu Qiaochu starting the car, and never looked back.

He thought he should apologize, or ask Gu Qiaochu if he still wants to go to the fireworks festival with him, or at least, he should ask if it hurts.

But he couldn't say a word, as if from that day on, he really bid farewell to his past self.

It was a gap that clearly didn't exist but he could clearly feel it, whether it was Fu Xiaosi's decline or his own transformation.He knew that from the day when Gu Qiaochu fell in front of him, he finally drew a line with the past.

He returned home to wash up, and when his hair was half dry, he opened the bathroom door and came out, only to see Gu Qiaochu fell asleep on the sofa.

Gu Qiaochu proposed to go out for a meal, but Lu Zhiang refused.He hugged Gu Qiaochu, and the tears from the corners of his eyes fell on Gu Qiaochu's hair, "If we don't go out, we'll stay at home."

He cooked the dinner alone, Gu Qiaochu leaned on the kitchen door and watched him pursing his lips and smiling."It will get better and better in the future," he said.

Lu Zhiang paused for a moment, didn't speak, just nodded silently.

Then they really never communicated again, when Gu Qiaochu was sitting on the carpet reading a book late at night, Lu Zhiang rubbed his hair and lay down beside him.

In the early morning Lu Zhiang woke up leisurely, he blinked his eyes and knew that he was the only one left in this room.He sat by the window and smoked a cigarette until dawn, he went to wash up, changed his clothes and went to work.

"and after?"

"Then he left and never came back."

I don't know how long it took, Lu Zhiang ran into Lixia who had disappeared for a long time in the cafe.They chatted that afternoon about the man who helped and took care of them on the way of their growth, and Lu Zhiang was finally able to talk about that day with a smile on his lips.

Li Xia suddenly felt that when Lu Zhiang pursed his lips and smiled, he looked very much like Gu Qiaochu.