to imply

The moment the idea sprouted, Xu Xie couldn't wait to call Fang Zhi when the light was still illuminating half of Fang Zhi's face: "Fang Zhi!"

Catching the eyes of the young boy looking over, Xu Xie quickly walked across the zebra crossing after the light drifted away, and grabbed the young boy's slender wrist.

Fang Zhi startled him so much that his voice was not as smooth as usual, but rather sharp: "What are you doing?"

The car blew its horn and drove away.The lights faded, and the figures of the two disappeared into the darkness at the same time.

Breathing intertwined, heartbeat beating.

No one answered Fang Zhi's "What are you doing?", and the ending sound drifted away with the night wind early on.There was no one around, the two stood facing each other in silence, Fang Zhi swallowed, feeling nervous for no reason in the silent atmosphere.

All senses were put to the most sensitive level in the dark, Fang Zhi felt the hot fingertips touching the skin of his wrist, and the sound of breathing was messy and heavy so close to him.

He let this weird atmosphere burn his mouth dry, and then he spoke with a slightly hoarse voice: "...What are you doing?"

Someone Xu on the opposite side moved his fingers slightly, and said leisurely: "...Come here to pick you up."

When he moved, his fingertips just brushed against the skin on the inside of Fang Zhi's wrist, and the fine itching made him withdraw his hand reflexively.

The ambiguity floating in the air suddenly shattered.

The warmth in his hand was suddenly withdrawn, Xu Xie didn't react, and kept holding it in the void.

After being frozen for a few seconds, he stroked the back of his ear belatedly, dropped his hand to his side, and said in embarrassment: "There are too many people at this point, I'm afraid you can't find a place when you come here... let's go. "

After a while, the young boy's muffled voice sounded very close to him: "...um."

The night market was crowded with people, almost the moment they stepped into this area, the two were squeezed close together by the crowd around them, colliding and rubbing against each other.

Fang Zhi didn't like an overly lively atmosphere in the first place, coupled with being annoyed by the crowd at the moment, he subconsciously frowned.

When Xu Xie turned his head, he saw the word "Chuan" between the eyebrows of the young boy beside him.

A sense of irritability that is about to come out.

Mr. Xu, who originally wanted the young boy to come out and relax, regrets it very much now.

The barbecue stall where they had dinner was set up by Zhou Lesheng, and it was in the southwest corner of the night market, which meant that they had to squeeze through a sea of ​​people to get there.

Brother Xu decisively abandoned his brothers without much thought, and chose to coax the little boy first.

He lightly bumped Xia Zhi's shoulder, raised his eyebrows and asked him, "Shall we eat somewhere else?"

Fang Zhi had no objection to the fact that the barbecue that had been agreed upon had been turned into something else. After leaving the night market, he followed Xu Xie into a narrow alley, and walked around for about five or six minutes, before seeing a small restaurant. .

This restaurant is probably the kind of fly restaurant hidden in the market. Although the decoration looks simple and the sanitary conditions are not good, it is very popular. The whole small store is overcrowded, and there are even many people queuing outside the store. .

Fang Zhi raised his eyes to look at the signboard with yellow letters on a red background, and unexpectedly saw two words that did not match the atmosphere of the entire restaurant - Zhuxi.

"This is the restaurant opened by Lao Zhou's grandparents." Xu Xie saw his doubts, "Lao Zhou chose the name of the restaurant. He was just in junior high school at the time, and he liked to read that kind of literary poetry anthology. When he heard that his grandparents wanted to choose The name of the restaurant includes a bunch of "Zhou's Snacks" and "Old Zhou Restaurant", and I hid in my room thinking for several days before I came up with such a name."

Fang Zhi casually thought about the picture of the five-year-old and three-year-old youth flipping through the collection of literary and artistic poetry with a cigarette in his mouth, and made himself tremble.

Thinking of what happened before, Xu Xie laughed aloud, then dragged Fang Zhi to the restaurant.

Fang Zhi was caught off guard, and he staggered a bit, showing hesitation: "There are so many people, let's go now?"

"I'm a VIP, and I have an exclusive private room." Xu Xie tilted her head and winked at him, speaking with pride, "I'll introduce you to your grandparents, and you can also enter the private room when you come in the future."

Fang Zhi carefully looked at the size of the store, and was skeptical of the private rooms he was talking about.

"grandparents!"

There was a curtain between the front hall and the back kitchen of the small restaurant. Fang Zhi followed Xu Xie through the crowded front hall, watching him raise the curtain and poke his head into the back kitchen, shouting loudly.

"Hey! Why is Xiaoxie here? Didn't you say that a few of you went to Ah Cheng's barbecue stand to have barbecue together?"

Inside, the hearty voice of the old grandfather sounded with a smile.

"I went to pick up a friend. When I went back, there were too many people to squeeze in, so I brought my friend here."

"Friend? Are you a classmate?"

Accompanied by a friendly voice of inquiry, a gray-haired grandmother came out of the back kitchen wiping her hands on her apron, squinting her eyes at Fang Zhi.

Fang Zhi had zero experience in getting along with the elderly, so he felt awkward and nervous when he was stared at by that stare, so he nodded stiffly and said hello: "Grandma is good."

"Hey, okay. Is it Xiaoxie's classmate?" Grandma Zhou agreed with a smile, "You look really good-looking."

"That little girl should be praised for her beauty, and the young man should be praised for being handsome."

As soon as the words fell, Grandpa Zhou lifted the curtain with a plate of beef, and said something when passing by Grandma Zhou.

The old lady stomped her feet childishly, and said coquettishly: "Narrow! Now boys can also praise their good looks!"

"Yes, yes, it looks good." Grandpa Zhou's tone was full of helplessness and indulgence, and when he came back, he stroked Grandma Zhou's head, "Stop standing at the door chatting, come and help me."

Grandma Zhou pushed his hand away fiercely, saw him open the door curtain and walked into the back kitchen with a smile on her face, stared at his back and muttered in a low voice, "What would you do if I didn't help you?"

Then she turned her face back and explained to Xu Xie with a smile: "Then grandma has to go to work first. Xiaoxie, take your classmate to sit upstairs, and tell grandma what you want to eat when you come down later."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xu Xie to agree, she responded "Come here" to Grandpa Zhou's voice calling her.

Next to the back kitchen, there is a narrow path similar to a corridor. After passing through it and turning to the right, you can see the vague shadow of a staircase.

This place is located in the innermost part of the Zhuxi Store, the light from the front hall can't reach here, and there are no light sources around, so the whole space is in darkness, and it's even gloomy and cold when you walk in.

"Your VIP private room... the geography is quite hellish." Fang Zhi rubbed the goosebumps that suddenly appeared on his arms, and blurted out a sentence.

Xu Xie didn't respond to his complaints, but reached out and pressed the switch on the wall.

"Snapped!"

In an instant, warm lights flooded in from all directions, instantly illuminating Fang Zhi's eyes.

"Hold……"

The space that was still dim just now was instantly filled with orange lights. The momentary shock made Fang Zhi speechless. He looked back and forth between the star lights on the wall and the stairs embedded with LED lights several times before murmuring. Spit out an exclamation.

"It was just renovated for my birthday last year." Recalling the joyful things, Xu Xie's voice also rose slightly with his mood, "A few people made this place fancy without telling me...well, I know I like pandas , and made a panda with a lamp."

Fang Zhi followed the direction of Xu Xie's finger, and saw a door at the end of the stairs with colorful lights.

"..."

The warm wind changed to the nightclub style, so weird that Fang Zhi couldn't accept it. He immediately turned his head and asked Xu Xie sincerely: "Are your friends dying of aesthetics?"

"...To tell you the truth, in fact, the first moment I saw this, this was the question that was on my mind."

At that time, Xu Xie stared at the door that had been transformed beyond recognition at the risk of being blinded by the red, orange, yellow and green lights, under the guidance of everyone's expectant eyes, and stared at the changed angle for several minutes before he could vaguely see the outline of a panda.

It's not his fault. The panda that a few people spelled out in Picasso style can be seen to be the result of Mr. Xu burning all his artistic cells.

Fang Zhi's art appreciation ability is obviously not enough to support him to appreciate Picasso's painting style.He looked at the wind gate of the nightclub for a long time, but he couldn't see anything except counting how many colors the colored lights could change.

"Let's go, go inside." Xu Xie said as he walked forward to open the door, turned on the light switch in the room, and then took out a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet and placed them at the door. The place where things are kept has been transformed by us into what it is now. It is said to be a private room, but in fact, no one except us usually comes here...Here, you put on my slippers first."

"Oh..." Fang Zhi put on Xu Xie's panda slippers, probed hesitantly at the door and looked into the room for a while, and stepped on the gray plush carpet in the room after making sure that his eyes were not too harsh.

The room is not big, and the decoration is so simple that you can see it at a glance: there is a large round table in the center, with magazines and snacks scattered on it; several bean bag lazy sofas scattered around the room, each with pillows and Dolls; a huge glass case against the wall, with photographs on display.

The whole space looks messy and cozy.

It can be seen that this room is actually quite private.There were just five sofas, each with their own slippers, and with Fang Zhi's [-] eyesight, he could clearly see that the photos displayed in the glass cabinet were all group photos of Xu Xie and Yu You.

Unlike a private room, it looks like a secret base belonging to them.

Fang Zhi hesitantly retreated to the door, leaning himself on the door frame, looking at Xu Xie who was leaning on the shoe cabinet by the door and sending messages.

Brother Xu abandoned his brother, and is pleading guilty in the group, accepting education and criticism.

[Brother Xu]: I was wrong, I was really wrong, I shouldn’t have just run away without saying a word, I’m begging for this meal, please scold me.

[Yu]: [Browny eyes] Lao Zhou wants you to invite him to his stall?

[Brother Lin]: Why do you want to go back to your hometown tomorrow? We agreed to have a good get-together today. What's the matter with you?Just elope with Fang Zhi?

Mr. Xu, who was full of evil intentions, was shocked by the word "elope" and his eyes twitched. At the same time, he was a little distracted, and replied "um" in a fluttering manner.

After a few seconds, Yu You sent a ten-second voice message.

Xu Xie clicked on it. The first eight seconds were full of noise, and the last two seconds were Yu You's sonorous and forceful voice: "How shameless!"

In the process of getting along with Fang Zhi day after day, Xu Xie, who didn't know what his face was for a long time, let out a muffled laugh, replied "each other, each other" and then checked the news in the group, holding the shoe cabinet and started change shoes.

Fang Zhi, who had been hanging on the door frame for several minutes, watched Xu Xie change shoes, put them on, and raise his eyes——

Then he shivered violently.

Xu Xie: "Cough cough cough... why are you hanging on the door? It scared me to death."

Fang Zhi didn't expect that he would scare people, so he waited for Xu Xie to recover before he said, "Is it not good for me to go in? You here..."

It's pretty personal.

He was afraid that Xu Xie would bring him here privately, which was obviously a base for several people, and other people would be dissatisfied if they found out.

"It doesn't matter, they know that I brought you here." Xu Xie said, "It doesn't mean that only us can come here. If you want to come in the future, you can come. I will prepare a pair of slippers for you here."

"Ok?"

Fang Zhi didn't expect Xu Xie to say "bring you a pair of slippers", and he was a little at a loss for a while.

"Hmm, what, I went in, it's still a bit cold in the corridor." Xu Xie didn't say anything more, and drove Fang Zhi into the room, followed by him to close the door, and turned on the air conditioner.

"sit."

Xu Xie bent down and took out an empty sofa, motioning for Fang Zhi to sit down.

The young boy standing next to him didn't move, as if he hadn't heard his words, Xu Xie raised his eyes suspiciously, and found that Fang Zhi was staring at something.

He followed Fang Zhi's gaze, and in a blink of an eye, he saw a whole row of photos that he wanted to destroy the most.

Xu Xie: "..."

The entire row of photos was put up by Zhou Lecheng on the pretext of reminiscing about his youth, and they are all part of the group photos of the five of them from the time they met to the present.

Xu Xie, a young high school student, has nothing to recall. When the photos are displayed one by one, he only feels that this is a public execution of his past in the second year of middle school. Every photo shows his former self as if laughing at him: Hahaha, look at how dick you are.

It's just... shameful.

But shame is shame, and he didn't stop Zhou Lecheng from showing these photos openly. After all, those who could see the photos were all looking at each other, and even more shameful things were known to each other.

Only now did Xu Xie realize how self-righteous his thoughts were at the time.

He reaped the consequences, looked at Fang Zhi with despair in his eyes, holding back his laughter until his whole body trembled, and said empathetically, "Laugh if you want to."

Someone from Fang immediately burst into a shocking laugh.

"Goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose..."

He probably didn't expect his laughter to become like this, and he cursed when he laughed until he lost his mind.

Seeing him laughing wildly, Xu Xie pointed helplessly and amusedly at the yellow-haired self in the photo: "This hairstyle was popular back then...don't laugh...poof..."

Fang Zhi's goose smile was too demonic, Xu Xie couldn't help it for a while, and then started laughing too.

The two of you looked like I wanted to laugh, and I thought you wanted to laugh too, but they couldn't stop laughing until they collapsed on the sofa in convulsions.

"Cough..." After laughing, Xu Xie lost face a little, "You can take a look for yourself, I'll go down and get something to eat."

After speaking in a hurry, he fled in despair.