long life

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Zhou Jing drank a few more drinks at the engagement banquet of his college classmates, and when he walked out of the hotel gate, he felt a little unsteady.

Li Shengrui drove to pick him up, so he naturally had to drive him back. As for Zhou Jing's mood, Li Shengrui also knew in his heart.

Having been his college classmate and good friend for many years, Li Shengrui has always been aware of what happened to Zhou Jing, except for the breakup with his long-distance girlfriend, and Zhou Jing's parents' lawsuit and divorce.

Leaving aside other trivial matters, every time Li Shengrui saw Zhou Jing recently, he couldn't help worrying that he would get bored.

Because of this, Li Shengrui could only find ways to invite Zhou Jing to participate in various social activities together, so that he could be relieved from his lost emotions as soon as possible.

Just after the car drove out of the hotel, Zhou Jing's cell phone vibrated several times. He fumbled to slide the green button away, and managed to cheer up after answering the call.

"Hello mom?"

"Well, I didn't drink too much, Sheng Rui drove me off."

After answering the call, Zhou Jing sank all over the seat.

"Auntie, how is she?" Li Shengrui held the steering wheel with one hand, and skillfully fumbled for the cigarette case in his jacket pocket with the other.

"It's still the same as before, I will miss everything." Zhou Jing pretended to be relaxed, and cast his eyes out of the window to see the neon lights on the street, "In a few days it will be the National Day holiday, so I can spend more time with her when I go home. "

Li Shengrui halfway opened the window, with a cigarette between his fingers, "Where is Zhao Mengxin... Has she contacted you since?"

Zhou Jing hummed, with a calm and gentle tone, "Looking at her recent updates, it seems that she has found a new love partner."

Li Shengrui chuckled twice and bit the filter with his teeth, "It's quite fast."

Zhou Jing gave him a blank look, and deliberately put aside the topic, "Smoking while driving, aren't you afraid of being fined?"

Li Shengrui stubbed out the cigarette butt he had just lit and threw it into the ashtray beside him, and the smell of the smoke dissipated a lot in an instant, "When I was alone, this ashtray was never empty at all. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't put it down now." There are three."

Zhou Jing tilted her head and couldn't help but rolled her eyes, "Let's leave your coquettish remarks to the next generation."

After he said that, both of them couldn't help smiling.

Li Shengrui stopped the car and waited for the traffic lights at the intersection. At this moment, the phone beeped several times. He looked down and didn't respond.

Zhou Jing thought of the blind date he mentioned to himself before, and joked: "You have had so many blind dates, there must be one or two that you think are suitable?"

"Not yet, I'd rather be single than settle down." Li Shengrui tapped the steering wheel with his fingers and laughed dryly, "I suspect that my mother is crazy about wanting me to get married. She introduced me to you last time." That girl is only nineteen, and she hasn't graduated from college yet."

"It's not very good."

Li Shengrui asked: "Where is it good?"

Zhou Jing smiled slightly, "Old cows eat tender grass, and you are the one who gets the most out of it."

"Cut~ If you like it, I'll introduce it to you immediately." Li Shengrui smiled, "To be honest, Lao Zhou, do you have any plans to fall in love recently?"

Zhou Jing didn't answer immediately, and the car behind him honked to urge him, so Li Shengrui had to put down the handbrake and drive across the intersection first.

"This matter can't be forced." Mentioning this kind of topic, Zhou Jing will only feel tired all over, and simply look out of the car window, "Just take Zhao Mengxin's words, people like me are both boring and incapable It is difficult for a person who pleases people to have a stable relationship."

Li Shengrui shook his head, looked sideways at him, "In my opinion, Lao Zhou, you are not boring, you just need a suitable person to make up for it."

Zhou Jing was silent for another moment, and laughed lowly, "It's easy to say something, but meeting the right person is harder than reaching the sky."

"It's really difficult." Li Shengrui grinned, and joked unscrupulously: "Otherwise, we can make do with it, and my mother is urging me to be in a hurry. Why don't we go and get a certificate silently, and then quietly surprise everyone."

Zhou Jing glanced at him, and said earnestly: "I think your mother not only stopped urging you to find a woman, but maybe even broke your legs."

Li Shengrui clicked his tongue, feeling the same way, "It doesn't matter whether you can find a woman or not, but you must break your legs."

When the car arrived at the door of the apartment building, Li Shengrui did not forget to tell Zhou Jing while he was unbuttoning his seat belt, "Old Zhou, you must go to the hospital for a check-up during this holiday. Let Auntie know, what if something happens?"

"Well, I got it, Boss Li." Zhou Jing leaned against the car door and smiled.

Li Shengrui curled his lips, "Well, don't blame me, a small company that has just started, how can you be called a boss."

"The future head office." Zhou Jing warned when closing the car door: "Don't smoke while driving on the road, pay attention to safety."

After returning to the room, the hour hand points to [-]:[-] in the evening. For the noisy city, the night is not too deep.

Zhou Jing opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of lemon soda, then slumped on a chair.

As soon as there was a sense of slack in his body, the drunkenness of just now followed closely, like a sense of powerlessness gradually permeated his limbs and bones, numbness was accompanied by tired sobriety.

Not only Li Shengrui, but many college classmates who met him said that he had changed, and everyone had different opinions. Zhou Jing also felt that he had indeed changed, gradually losing the edges and corners of life.

Since graduating and starting work, except for frequent contact with Li Shengrui, he has hardly made any friends, and gradually no longer likes the entertainment he likes, and now he wants to be alone besides work every day.

On the one hand, I long to be alone, but also want to be accompanied by someone. I feel noisy when it is busy, and feel empty inside when it is cold.

I always feel that there is something missing compared to before.

Before the end of the holiday, Zhou Jing decided to go to the hospital for a physical examination. After all, the body is the capital, and I really don't want to worry others.

The waiting room was full of people waiting, and there were hardly any empty seats. Zhou Jing waited for a long time, and finally found a seat.

After sitting down for a few seconds, Li Shengrui over there dialed the phone as if he was stepping on it. Zhou Jing swiped the answer button, and a busy voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hey Xiao Zhao, print out two copies of this contract and use it in the afternoon. Hey Lao Zhou, did the inspection result come out? How is it?"

"How can it be so fast." Zhou Jing looked up at the time on the electronic screen, "If you are busy, do it first, and I will send you a message after the test results come out."

"Actually, there's nothing to be busy about. I just have a meeting with my partner in the afternoon."

Li Shengrui paused for a few seconds on the other end of the phone, and then continued: "Yesterday, that boy from Song Dynasty called me and said that he would organize a class reunion in a while."

"Really, it's pretty good." Zhou Jing replied a little carelessly. For some reason, when he thought of that kind of messy gathering, he felt a little inexplicable headache.

Li Shengrui continued to chatter, "Hey, old Zhou, I think the two of us can go there, maybe there are some single girls at the party who can be flirted with, the best way to solve the broken relationship is to have another relationship..."

"Yu Xiu! Over here!"

Suddenly a shout sounded from the second floor, which also attracted Zhou Jing's attention.

Hearing that the name was called Yu Xiu, Zhou Jing subconsciously looked towards the shout, but there were too many people walking around, so he didn't see anything.

Maybe I heard it wrong. Anyway, there are hundreds if not dozens of people with the same name in this city, even if they have different names.

Thinking of Yu Xiu, it is true that I haven't seen him for a long time.

A familiar face appeared in Zhou Jing's mind. When he moved two years ago, there was a neighbor's child named Yu Xiu, who was six years younger than him and liked to be by his side since he was a child.

But it's a pity that we couldn't meet each other before parting, and this year, he should be a student of a certain university.

"Mr. Zhou Jing on the [-]th please wait outside the department of the [-]th..."

Zhou Jing was in a daze for a moment, his name had been called twice on the screen broadcast, and the call with Li Shengrui had not been hung up yet.

"Old Zhou, why are you in a daze?" Li Shengrui called several times on the phone before Zhou Jing responded.

"I'm sorry Sheng Rui, we'll talk when we have time." Zhou Jing hurriedly hung up the phone with him, got up and walked quickly to the department.

The attending doctor only said that there was nothing serious, but further blood tests were needed.

There are a lot of windows for blood tests, so Zhou Jing specially picked a group with fewer people to go to the back.

The nurse seemed to be very gentle, but it was not the case when the needle was inserted. Although Zhou Jing had taken precautions in advance, when it was his turn, he still couldn't help frowning in pain.

"The result came out at about eleven o'clock, and I turned around and took the certificate to get it from the machine."

"Thank you." Zhou Jing pressed the wound with a cotton swab and stood up from the chair. Maybe he got up hastily. He suddenly felt a whirlwind. He couldn't stand still and staggered back a few steps. Fortunately, someone behind him supported him in time. .

"Are... are you okay?" The man held his shoulders, his voice was hoarse and gentle, surprisingly familiar.

Zhou Jing immediately reacted and stood up straight, and said to the man, "I'm really sorry, I felt dizzy just now..."

"Brother?" The man suddenly raised his voice, his voice full of surprise, "Brother Zhou Jing, it's really you!"

Knowing the name and calling her brother, there has always been only... Zhou Jing was taken aback for a moment, and looked up at the man standing in front of him carefully.

Wearing a simple gray sportswear, he is handsome and refined, and time has only brought him a more composed demeanor.

Two years can change a person's personality and preferences, but what is not easy to change is appearance, just like when Zhou Jing saw the older Yu Xiu when he was young.

At this glance, it seems to have seen all these years.

"Yu Xiu." Zhou Jing also felt overjoyed, and excitedly held his hand affectionately, "It really is you, Yu Xiu. Since I left that day, we haven't seen each other for two years."

"Well, two years, three months and fifteen days." Yu Xiu blurted out, which made Zhou Jing startled.

Two years, three months and [-] days, to put it quickly, in the end, time passed quickly, but I didn't expect Yu Xiu to remember it so clearly.

"Hey, do you want to draw blood for the one in front?"

The people in the queue behind were dissatisfied with the urging, Yu Xiu turned around and apologized, and hurriedly passed the blood sample in his hand to the nurse, "The blood sample collected by the gastroenterology department upstairs, please send it to the laboratory together."

After handing it over, he gave up his position to the people in line behind him, and then he kindly embraced Zhou Jing's shoulder and walked back, not forgetting to ask, "Brother, no matter how small the wound is, you have to hold it down for a while."

Zhou Jing raised his head and smiled, and said, "I know Yu Xiuxiu."

Yu Xiu was startled suddenly, and the hand on Zhou Jing's shoulder tightened unconsciously.

The name Yu Xiuxiu is only called by Zhou Jing. The two have been together since childhood, and it seems to be exclusive to him after a long time.

"Brother, why did you come to the hospital alone? Are you not feeling well?" After Yu Xiu recalled briefly, he frowned and looked at his bloody arm.

"It's okay, maybe it's just a little hypoglycemia, just pay attention in the future." Zhou Jing smiled slightly, feeling much happier than before.

"Yeah." Yu Xiu responded and didn't say anything more.

"What about you?" Zhou Jing looked him up and down, with concern in his eyes, "I just heard you talk about gastroenterology, what's wrong with your digestion?"

Yu Xiu shook his head, and replied: "I'm fine, it's my dormitory classmate, he ate and drank himself and caused slight food poisoning, but I still have to thank him for his dedication."

"Thank you? Dedication?" Zhou Jing stopped and looked at him with a little amusement.

"That's not what it means." Yu Xiu shook his head lightly, "Of course my classmate's illness is a very serious matter, but if I don't come to the hospital today, I might miss a lot."

Zhou Jing couldn't help laughing, "It's really lucky, I didn't expect you to come to this city to study at university."

Yu Xiu hummed, as if he still had something to say, but in the end he just lowered his head and smiled.

"I was thinking..." He raised his head for a long time, his deep and beautiful eyes narrowed, "What kind of gravitational force is it that allows me to find you again among so many people?"