Orange storm

When getting in the car, Fang Jie kept thinking where Jiang Zhijin would take him, Yun Qi?The other party said it so mysteriously, it should be impossible.

That is a secret base or something, a place that only I know, when I am in a bad mood, I go there alone, isolated from the world...

Fang Jie knew that Jiang Zhijin could see that he was in a bad mood, it was obvious.

So Jiang Zhijin drove the car directly to the shopping mall in the city center, and when he took Fang Jie up to the sixth floor, Fang Jie had a big psychological gap.

The sixth floor is a huge video game city. The lights of various machines are bright and colorful, jumping non-stop, and the music sounds from the machines are intertwined, making it very noisy.After all, it was Saturday, so there was a lot of people inside, mostly students and couples.

Fang Jie hesitated at the door, and Jiang Zhijin next to him glanced at him: "Have you been to the video game city before?"

"...been there." Fang Jie replied.He watched Jiang Zhijin walk up to the machine and scan the QR code to pay. After a few seconds, a large pile of game coins fell out of the currency exchange machine and fell into the small basket for receiving coins.

"I thought Xueba didn't play video games." Jiang Zhijin said.

"..." Fang Jie nodded: "Yes, Xueba usually doesn't eat or sleep, and spends 24 hours of 25 hours a day doing homework."

Jiang Zhijin laughed for a while before saying: "Then what do you play?"

"Shooting machine." Fang Jie thought for a while and answered.

Jiang Zhijin stared at Fang Jie and suddenly smiled.He smiled brightly, as if he couldn't help but cleared his throat after a while, and said, "Be civilized, student Fang Jie."

Fang Jie reacted immediately, and was speechless for a moment, feeling that the person in front of him really deserves a beating.

"...Shots, baskets, shots." Fang Jie answered word by word.

"Oh." Jiang Zhijin nodded, with a smile on his face, "Then play this first."

There are five shooting machines in the video game city, and there are not many people.There are only three or four stations in front of which there are people.Fang Jie tried the ball, it is very light and not easy to feel, but it is only a game machine after all, so you can't be too demanding.

Jiang Zhijin poured a box of coins to Fang Jie, watched the other party shoot for a while, and then threw three to the machine next to him. The shooting machine rang, and the lights flickered.

Fang Jie started first, and when the 3 minutes were up, the machine stopped automatically, and the scorer showed that he had scored a total of 272 points.

He glanced at the score, then turned to look at Jiang Zhijin.

Jiang Zhijin voted after him. Before the time came, Fang Jie glanced at the score, and it temporarily showed 170.

bang.Scored one, 172 points.

Another one was scored, 174 points.

176, 178, 180...Fang Jie stared at the scorer for a while, then slowly moved his eyes away and landed on Jiang Zhijin.

Jiang Zhijin's shooting posture is very casual. He stands on the spot without bending his body and knees. He may be afraid of soiling his clothes. The sleeves of his gray sweater are pulled up to his wrists. Li cast.

Even so, his hit rate is still very high, one goal counts two points, and at the end of 3 minutes, Jiang Zhijin scored 266.

Jiang Zhijin moved his wrist and turned his head to meet Fang Jie's gaze.

He raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why, want to compare?"

Fang Jie didn't have this idea at first, but when Jiang Zhijin mentioned it, he suddenly became a little interested.

"How to compare?"

"At the same time, let's see who makes the most shots."

"Okay." Fang Jie replied. "Is there any benefit in winning?"

"Speaking of conscience, I still bought the game currency."

"Afraid of losing." Fang Jie asked.

"... Tsk," Jiang Zhijin looked at Fang Jie, and couldn't help laughing, "Have you ever found yourself in need of a beating sometimes?"

"Found it." Fang Jie picked up three game coins and shook them at Jiang Zhijin.

"So play?"

Jiang Zhijin also picked up three coins and put them into the machine one by one. "Whoever loses, clean up."

Fang Jie didn't speak, and picked up the ball.

The two adjacent shooting machines played music almost at the same time. Jiang Zhijin and Fang Jie picked up the ball at the same time and started shooting.

The bang of the basketball hitting the rim is mixed with the music, one after another, it sounds very lively.Jiang Zhijin is still very casual, with two minds, shooting the ball while looking at Fang Jie beside him from the corner of his eye.

Fang Jie had no expression on his face, but his eyes were focused, and the corners of his lips were slightly pursed. It could be seen that he was very serious. He shot the ball very quickly and accurately, and almost no shots were missed.Because of the profile of the face, the sharp jaw line and the obvious Adam's apple line on the neck are exposed, the hair seems to be a little longer, and the whole person looks a bit sharp.

The 17-year-old is unyielding and youthful.

Jiang Zhijin smiled and looked away.

Fang Jie didn't notice Jiang Zhijin's actions, and all his attention was focused on the shooting machine in front of him. When the time came, he stopped, and the scoreboard showed 280.

He immediately turned his head to look to the side, Jiang Zhijin's machine also stopped, and the scoreboard showed 270 points.

Jiang Zhijin also saw it, and lightly threw the basketball in his hand into the machine, and said with a smile, "It's pretty amazing."

Fang Jie exhaled slowly, suddenly feeling quite refreshed.

Although he had to shoot for 3 minutes without a break, and had to maintain his accuracy and speed, his hands were already a little sore, but because of this venting, most of the irritability and uneasiness caused by Fang Chenglin's sudden arrival suddenly disappeared.The point is, winning Jiang Zhijin made him very happy.

Maybe it's because this person always calls himself Fang Xiaojie, Fang Jie's classmate, and an underage high school student... Now that he suddenly overwhelmed the other party in a certain matter, he felt a little elated—even though he was just playing the shooting machine.

Jiang Zhijin looked down, and there were still more than half of the game coins.

"Play with others." Jiang Zhijin said, "The kind where I can crush you technically, dare you?"

"What?" Fang Jie asked.

Grab the doll.

Jiang Zhijin's game of "crushing Fang Jie technically" is to catch dolls.

Probably in order to cater to the market, the biggest area in this video game city is the doll catching area. Fang Jie stood between a group of middle school students, little girls, and lovers and stared at Jiang Zhijin, without speaking for a while.

Looking at each other, Jiang Zhijin spoke first: "What expression do you have?"

"No", there are quite a lot of people around, Fang Jie lowered his voice and asked: "Do you have to play catch dolls?"

"What's wrong with grabbing dolls, do you know why I brought you here?"

Jiang Zhijin looked at Fang Jie and twitched his mouth: "I have been to every video game city in Shaojiang, and this is the place where I have the highest success rate in catching dolls."

"...Then you have a spirit of exploration."

Jiang Zhijin didn't say anything, just found a claw machine and put two coins in it.As soon as the music sounded, the claw machine started.

Fang Jie couldn't tell that Jiang Zhijin had any special movements, he just moved the joystick twice and finally pressed the button.The inner paw wobbled down, grabbed a stuffed dog, then rose again, moved to the position of the exit, and let go—

Damn, it's a little powerful.

Fang Jie watched as Jiang Zhijin squatted down, took out the stuffed dog from the baffle, and handed it to himself.

"Take it."

Next, Fang Jie watched Jiang Zhijin’s infinite cycle of coin-tossing—grabbing dolls—taking dolls—changing machines and then inserting coins. Almost every time, two coins were used to catch one, and the most was only caught twice. , spent four coins.There were already people around to watch them operate, mixed with exclamations and discussions, and finally developed to the point where every time Jiang Zhijin grabbed a doll, passers-by started to applaud automatically.

Fang Jie developed from being speechless at the beginning to being shocked and speechless. In a trance, he felt like he was following Jiang Zhijin to kill the Quartet—even though he killed the claw machine in the video game city.

When he finally grabbed a Mickey Mouse, Jiang Zhijin held it in his hand and shook it at the onlookers.

"Thank you everyone, the last one is out of coins."

The crowd dispersed with a smile, and a boy yelled, "Awesome."

Jiang Zhijin looked at Fang Jie: "A cow?"

"Bull." Fang Jie replied sincerely. "It's amazing that the boss hasn't dragged you into the black yet."

"That's why I don't come here often. I'm afraid that they will remember my appearance and take pictures and post them on the door." Jiang Zhijin smiled and handed Mickey Mouse to Fang Jie, "How many?"

One.

Jiang Zhijin held a total of 33 dolls.Fang Jie couldn't hold it anymore, so he could only hook the rope on the doll's head, but even so, it was quite spectacular to walk among the crowd.Jiang Zhijin gestured to the service desk.

"Go get a bigger one."

30 small dolls can be exchanged for one big doll, and the two gave them all 33. There are quite a lot of big dolls at the counter. Fang Jie looked at Jiang Zhijin: "Which one?"

Jiang Zhijin said, "Whatever, pick the one you like."

In the end, Fang Jie chose a bulging green dinosaur puppet, because it was soft and comfortable to the touch.

It was already six o'clock when we left the video game city, Jiang Zhijin asked Fang Jie, "What do you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine." Fang Jie glanced at the billboard at the top of the stairs, "Hotpot."

Haidilao is upstairs in the video game center, and the two of them didn't bother to go to other places, so they went upstairs to get a number, and happened to meet the vacant table for two.

After being led to the seat along the way, the two ordered two pot bottoms and a lot of dishes, mostly meat.The waiter next to him bent down and listened patiently, and then brought lemonade to the two of them.

After the other party finally walked away for a while, Fang Jie breathed a sigh of relief.

"As for it?" Jiang Zhijin on the opposite side couldn't help laughing.

"It's so enthusiastic." Fang Jie took a sip of water, and he put the dinosaur beside him. When he carried it in just now, he attracted some people's attention, and the waiter even praised him sincerely, "It's so cute."

Jiang Zhijin said: "Later, I will tell the waiter that you passed the first grade exam, so I will bring you here to celebrate, maybe they will hold hands and sing next to you."

"Then you will definitely be beaten by me." Fang Jie replied.

Jiang Zhijin was overjoyed, and after a while he said, "I'm so proud of you, talking to elders like this."

Fang Jie also laughed: "Are you like an elder?"

"Then what do I look like?" Jiang Zhijin asked back.

What does Jiang Zhijin look like?

Temporary guardians, elders, uncles... Fang Jie thought for a while, and waited until the waiters had started serving dishes, then looked at Jiang Zhijin in the mist rising from the hot pot, and replied, "Friends."

This positioning is actually not very accurate, Fang Jie thought.Because Jiang Zhijin seems to be a little different from Fa Xiaoqixiang and Xu Hang at the same table. They get along day and night, live in the same room, there is a little distance and they seem to be a little close, friends.

After Jiang Zhijin listened, he smiled at Fang Jie on the opposite side.

"Okay, let's eat."

It was dark early in late autumn. After dinner, the two of them went to the supermarket to buy something, and when they drove home, it was completely dark.Jiang Zhijin went to take a shower first, and Fang Jie took the initiative to put the snacks he bought and the next day's dishes into the kitchen.

When Fang Jie came out of the shower, Jiang Zhijin leaned on the sofa in the living room and watched a movie with a can of beer in front of him.Fang Jie asked, "Aren't you going to Yunqi?"

"I won't go tonight. Tired, too lazy to run."

Fang Jie nodded, and said again: "Thank you, come and help me with the parent-teacher meeting."

"Not at all." Jiang Zhijin glanced at him, and finally said: "Actually, your dad really wants to help you hold a parent-teacher meeting."

Fang Jie stopped wiping his hair.Jiang Zhijin picked up the beer can and took a sip before continuing.

"He said he hasn't seen you for a long time, and he looks...very sincere. But I don't know if you'd like to let him go, so I didn't agree, if it's not appropriate—"

"No." Fang Jie interrupted, "Very good, thank you."

Jiang Zhijin nodded, but did not continue.Just patted the sofa, "Would you like to sit down?"

Fang Jie actually planned to take a shower and do two sets of questions, English and Chemistry, because he felt that these two subjects did not meet his psychological expectations this time.But at this moment he hesitated, and walked over to sit next to Jiang Zhijin.

Only the wall lamp was turned on in the living room, and a foreign movie, which seemed to be in Russian, was playing on the TV. Jiang Zhijin took a sip of beer and cleared his throat.

"Where's your doll?"

"...the bedroom." Fang Jie didn't expect Jiang Zhijin to ask this suddenly, "I put it in just now."

"Oh." Jiang Zhijin nodded, the beer in his hand was just taken out of the refrigerator, and it was a little cold in his hand.

"I don't know what to talk about with your parents. In my mind, as long as I don't do something serious or dangerous, fight, skip class, fall in love or something—"

Fang Jie couldn't help interrupting him: "Is falling in love a serious matter?"

"...I'll just make an analogy." Jiang Zhijin sighed, "Don't interrupt me."

Fang Jie smiled and stopped talking.Jiang Zhijin continued: "Anyway, you can do it yourself. I think many things are your private affairs. I don't need to think about whether to tell anyone. After all, Fang Jie is going to die soon, and he doesn't need others to make decisions for him. "

Fang Jie listened very seriously, turned his head to look at Jiang Zhijin for a long time, finally looked away, bowed his head and smiled.

Maybe it was because it was the first time someone had discussed respect with him face to face, or because Fang Chenglin's arrival today made him suddenly have a little desire to confide in him.

In the background sound of the movie, Fang Jie spoke slowly.

"I changed schools because of my dad."