Too much

Shen Zeming and Cai Wei walked into the western restaurant together, and the waiter immediately came over to guide them to choose a seat.

In line with the principle of women first, Shen Zeming asked Cai Wei to choose first. She chose a seat by the window and asked Shen Zeming for his opinion.

Shen Zeming nodded and motioned for the waiter to lead them to a seat.Coincidentally, Qi Jingchen and the others were sitting at the next table.

This western restaurant is a mix of Chinese and Western. There is a Chinese-style screen between the two tables, and the figures are blurred on the screen, giving it a vague and hazy feeling.

Shen Zeming sat up straight, looked over the screen, and saw half of the back of Qi Jingchen's head, and Zhou Xiao's mother and son sitting opposite him.

The woman's red lips are winking, her well-cared-for big waves are loosely tied behind her head with a rubber band, and her frown and smile show the charm of a mature woman.

It's a good match with Qi Jingchen.He looked away, bent his back, and his nails dug into his palms, feeling a little painful.

The waiter brought the menu, and Cai Wei pushed it to him after ordering.Shen Zeming had no appetite, flipped through it twice, and pointed to two dishes casually.

They came at a staggered time for dinner, only Qi Jingchen's table and them, except for the melodious piano music, the whole restaurant was too quiet.

Qi Jingchen kept talking on the other end, his voice was neither loud nor soft, and it happened to fall into Shen Zeming's ears.He heard Zhou Xiao calling Qi Jingchen's little daddy, chatting with them about what happened at school.

When it came to the part where Shen Zeming took away his mobile phone, Zhou Xiao's voice was obviously wronged and angry, he said: "Mom, dad! Don't look at Shen Zeming who looks cold and talkative, his eyes are sharp! Fuck him During class, I looked down at the time and was caught by him!"

"It's so annoying, why do you say he has so many things?"

I don't know what happened, but Zhou Xiao yelled in pain, and then Zhou Huixin scolded him: "Little bastard, I haven't settled this matter with you yet. Teacher Ren is for your own good, don't talk nonsense, and I will beat you ah."

"Teacher Shen is good-looking and has strong professional ability. He doesn't learn from other classes to torment our parents. If you meet him as your class teacher, Zhou Xiao, you can be content."

"Yes." Qi Jingchen echoed, "Mr. Shen is not bad."

Shen Zeming licked his lips, his heart beat inexplicably faster, and then Qi Jingchen chuckled, and said, "But that's it, there are many better teachers than him, Zhou Xiao is right."

"That's right!" Zhou Xiao shouted, "My little dad is right!"

Qi Jingchen didn't say anything after finishing this sentence, Zhou Xiao complained to his mother intermittently about how hard school life is, Shen Zeming didn't continue listening, and turned to look at Cai Wei.

He didn't talk much, Cai Wei was almost the one talking during the ten minutes we met, and Shen Zeming felt guilty when he thought about the past.He was about to speak when Cai Wei smiled and raised her phone to shake at him, "You can accompany me to get a haircut later, it's on the lower floor."

"Okay." Shen Zeming responded.

The waiter pushed the dining car to serve the food, and went to Qi Jingchen's table first, and Zhou Xiao got up to help serve the food. After a while, Shen Zeming heard him gasp, his expression was stiff, and he stammered: "Mr. Shen, you, you too. Have a meal……"

Shen Zeming raised his eyes and nodded, "It's a coincidence."

Zhou Huixin stood up with astonishment in her eyes, but she quickly adjusted her expression and said with a smile: "It's really a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet Teacher Shen here."

Out of etiquette, Shen Zeming also got up, his eyes stayed on Qi Jingchen for a second, and he looked at Zhou Huixin: "Hello, Zhou Xiao's mother."

Zhou Huixin raised her lips and smiled, pushed the terrified Zhou Xiao to come over, and said in the tone parents used to face the teacher: "We, Zhou Xiao, have caused trouble for Teacher Shen. Zhou Xiao's care."

"No need." Shen Zeming lowered his eyes, staring closely at Zhou Huixin's ring finger, which had a silver ring.

After a while, he looked up at Zhou Huixin, and refused, "Zhou Xiao is my student, don't bother."

Shen Zeming's eyes fell on Qi Jingchen again, his eyes were full of meaning, "This is Zhou Xiao's—" At this time, Qi Jingchen suddenly got up and turned to Shen Zeming, raised his glasses with one hand, and said, "Mr. Shen, we meet again. gone."

Gauze was attached to the side of his neck, his lips were very pale, his eyes were black and blue, and the chains of his glasses hung down on both sides, making him look sickly pale.

Shen Zeming was stunned for a moment, Qi Jingchen touched the gauze on the side of his neck with his index finger, raised the corner of his lips, and gave him a pointed look, "I laughed, I was bitten by a mad dog by the side of the road when I went home last night."

"Really?" Shen Zeming looked away, "A mad dog has to pick someone even when he's crazy, Mr. Qi is very lucky."

Sensing the weird atmosphere between the two, Zhou Huixin hurried out to smooth things over, "Jingchen and Mr. Shen know each other?"

Qi Jingchen raised his eyebrows lightly, "Yes, Teacher Shen is my high school classmate."

"Why didn't I hear you say that?" Zhou Hui blamed her heart, it was the kind of intimacy between family members or lovers.

"It's not necessary." Qi Jingchen looked at Shen Zeming, with a smile on his lips, but he said to Zhou Huixin, "Back then, Teacher Shen called me disgusting, so I asked the head teacher to change my seat."

After a pause, he suddenly laughed, as if thinking of something interesting, "Mr. Shen even got into a fight with me in the office."

"It's not good for Zhou Xiao to talk about this kind of relationship."

Zhou Hui was stunned, her lips moved a few times, and she didn't know how to answer the words.Zhou Xiao, on the other hand, opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Damn it! Dad, you, you and Teacher Shen still have such a relationship."

Qi Jingchen was noncommittal, his eyes wandered between Shen Zeming and Cai Wei for a moment, and his face suddenly sank: "Let's eat, our family, it's not good to disturb Mr. Shen's appointment."

"That's right." Zhou Hui agreed, "Then Teacher Shen will eat first, and we won't bother you."

The three went back to sit down, but Shen Zeming's eyes were still glued to Qi Jingchen's body, Qi Jingchen's words "one family" echoed in his ears, until Cai Wei called him.

"You are a high school teacher now." Cai Wei was a little surprised, but this curiosity did not lie in exploring the past of Shen Zeming and Qi Jingchen, but in Shen Zeming's current situation, "I thought you...you would keep studying and stay in the research institute Work."

Shen Zeming didn't come to the class reunion in these years, and Cai Wei occasionally heard a few words from her classmates.

Among them was a male classmate who was in the same university as Shen Zeming. I heard from him that Shen Zeming had good grades in college and got the only place in this major from a non-research school.

It's just that for some unknown reason, Shen Zeming gave up on the afternoon when he submitted the materials for release on parole, and returned to City H after graduation.

When the male classmate talked about this incident, his tone was very regretful, and even Cai Wei felt it was a pity.

"Yeah." Shen Zeming lowered his eyes, the sunlight hit his face, casting a shadow, showing a bit lonely, "There is nothing wrong with being a teacher, and you won't be too tired if you have winter and summer vacations."

He said this to Cai Wei, just like he had tried to convince himself countless times.

"That's right, the teacher's treatment and benefits are good." Cai Wei's expression froze slightly, perhaps realizing that she had said something wrong, while picking up the small bowl of soup in Shen Zeming's hand, she changed the subject unskillfully, "Try this It's a creamy mushroom soup, my colleagues and I have eaten it in other restaurants, and it tastes very good."

Shen Zeming took it over, "Thank you."

I don't know if he knows the reason why Shen Zeming is sitting next door, but Zhou Xiao has never spoken again, even if he does, his voice is very low.

Across the screen, one could only hear Zhou Huixin's scolding voice telling Zhou Xiao not to be picky eaters, and Qi Jingchen's care for Zhou Huixin occasionally serving vegetables and soup.

Shen Zeming completely lost his appetite. He finished his last sip of soup, told Cai Wei, got up with his cigarette case and went to the toilet.

Dim light poured down from the crystal-studded ceiling, and the rose-scented incense burning in the bathroom was a bit pungent. Shen Zeming leaned halfway against the wall, took out his lighter and lit a cigarette.

The smell of smoke and incense were mixed together, he half closed his eyes, and the lingering smoke escaped from his lips.

Because of Shen Zelin's body, Song Lan forbade Shen Zeming to smoke and drink.

He only learned to smoke in college. At that time, there were four boys in a dormitory, and three of them were addicted to cigarettes.But in front of Song Lan, he still didn't dare.

Half a quarter of an hour later, there were five more cigarette butts in the trash can under the sink. When Shen Zeming was lighting the sixth cigarette, someone pushed open the bathroom door.

Perhaps the smell of the smoke was pungent, the man covered his lips and coughed twice, Shen Zeming felt a little guilty, and was about to take out the cigarette he was biting into his mouth to put out, when he heard the man say, "Why is Mr. Shen hiding here smoking alone?" ?”

Shen Zeming turned his head and met Qi Jingchen's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. The azure blue pupils were even more profound under the dim yellow light.

The sound of splashing water rang in his ears, Shen Zeming was stunned for a moment, and saw Qi Jingchen walked to the sink, bowed his back slightly, rolled up his cuffs, and turned on the faucet to wash his hands.

Qi Jingchen's hands are beautiful, with slender finger bones and well-defined joints.His complexion was cold and fair, but his joints were slightly pink, and the water flowed over the base of his fingers, and the light pink faded away.

He concentrated on washing, rubbing each one slowly, as if he just wanted to wash his hands.Finally, he turned off the water, took out a piece of paper and wiped it slowly.

White balls of paper were thrown into a trash can full of cigarette butts.In the mirror, Qi Jingchen raised the corners of his lips, fixed his eyes on Shen Zeming, and said in a soft and low voice, "I'm a psychiatrist. If Mr. Shen has anything on your mind, you can tell me."

Shen Zeming didn't make a sound, his eyes stayed on the wound on the side of Qi Jingchen's neck for a long time, and then turned to the water-stained silver ring on the ring finger of Qi Jingchen's left hand.

"The wound, she bandaged it for you?"

Shen Zeming raised his chin, rarely showing a bit of anger.He looked at Qi Jingchen with a calm expression, but a torrential rain was brewing in his eyes.

The half-burned smoke was caught in his fingertips, and the misty white smoke rose slowly.Qi Jingchen raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly, and said with a smile: "Of course, my wife can do everything."

"That's it." Shen Zeming stubbed out the cigarette, with a frivolous smile on his face.

He grabbed the tie on Qi Jingchen's chest, stepped forward slowly, the second his body was close to Qi Jingchen, he hooked Qi Jingchen's neck fiercely, and kissed him.