to imply

In reality, more than 80 people in the group, not to mention using him as a blessing tool in front of Fang Zhi so openly, would shrink into quails when they saw Fang Zhi, wishing to hide as far away as possible.

But now through the screen of the mobile phone, Fang Zhi's deterrent power has been greatly weakened, so that someone quietly stretched out a tentative little foot.

[Li Xiao]: Boss Fang, the rematch of this mathematics competition is said to be very difficult. I am afraid that I will not be able to write a single word in the examination room. Can you recommend some tutoring materials for me to help me temporarily?

Xu Xie knew Li Xiao: "This is the monitor of the tenth class. His academic performance is quite good, but he is very nervous before the exam. When he is nervous, he likes to ask for information and tutorial books everywhere. He said that it can bring him a sense of security. .”

Sure enough, someone below immediately made fun of him.

[Zheng Gengyang]: Sure, Xiao Squirrel, you don’t miss any of Mr. Fang’s cheats.

[Li Xiao]: shy.jpg

[Zheng Gengyang]: Courage is commendable.jpg

Fang Zhi thought for a while and replied to Li Xiao.

[Fang Zhi]: I use quite a lot of tutoring materials, but I basically pick questions in it, not all of them.If you really need it, I can make a copy for you. Don't buy those tutorial books on the market.

Li Xiao didn't have much hope to get Fang Zhi's recommendation. After all, Fang Zhi's coldness was famous in the whole grade.

Received such an unexpected reply, Li Xiao was immediately flattered, and his typing hands began to tremble slightly.

[Li Xiao]: Thank you thank you!That's my trouble!

[Li Xiao]: Bow at ninety degrees.jpg

The other people in the group were also shocked, especially Zheng Gengyang, who just teased Li Xiao. It wasn't that embarrassing, but Fang Zhi was surprisingly polite.

[Zheng Gengyang]: That being the case... Boss Fang, post the information in the group and share it with everyone.

[Fang Zhi]: Well, fine.

[Fang Zhi]: Give me some time, it will probably be sorted out at noon tomorrow.

[Zheng Gengyang]: The boss is awesome.jpg

Fang Zhi's fierce and cold image was shattered in a few words, mixed and reshaped, and after several transformations, he became a serious, polite and gentle person.

Xu Xie was on the side, watching Fang Zhi bend slightly, his eyebrows stretched, and seriously type and reply to what everyone in the group said to him, feeling that the love in his heart began to grow crazily.

The appearance of the boy he likes, clean and soft, is more beautiful than the twilight outside the window.

As the sky darkened, Yu You came back with a milk ball in his arms.

"Hey, I'm exhausted. It's good to take this little fat cat for a walk." Panting, Yu You handed the milk ball to Fang Zhi who came to open the door, and supported the shoe cabinet at the entrance to change his slippers.

Fang Zhi turned around and put the milk ball into its cat's claw nest, then picked up the broom that he had prepared early in the morning and handed it to Yu You: "It's just right, I have a three-piece cleaning set here, after you exercise, you can clean up the work by the way." Let's do it."

Yu You: "???" My ears heard something incredible?

Standing behind Fang Zhi, Xu Xie turned her head silently, ignoring the help-seeking eyes from her brother.

After the housework was done, Fang Zhi let go of a serious worry, and turned around to continue discussing with Xu Xie about sorting out math materials.

Fang Zhi took out more than a dozen tutorial books and test papers and stacked them on the coffee table, and Xu Xie picked one out and quickly flipped through it. There were only a few scattered questions with written answers.

Xu Xie flipped through a few more books, and Fang Zhi was amazed at Fang Zhi's slightly rich way of studying.

Fang Zhi was looking for the question collection he had sorted out before on his laptop. From the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Xu Xie holding his tutorial book and shaking his head slightly, explaining his waste with a little embarrassment: "Most of this book and test paper They are all basic questions, and there is a high probability of repeating the questions, which are really interesting, but there are too few questions with connotations, so I bought more to make up the amount.”

Xu Xie laughed at his "combining the amount" and said to himself how stupid it sounds.

"Here, these..." Fang Zhi clicked on a file in the computer folder, and turned the screen to show Xu Xie, "It's a contest question I found online during my winter vacation... Then let's look through the tutorial to see if there are any. There is nothing to add, maybe it won’t be until noon tomorrow, and it should be almost done tomorrow morning.”

Xu Xie scanned the document from the top to the end. The layout is very clear, and there are many types of questions. There are basically no major problems, that is——

"Is your answer analysis written too concisely?" Xu Xie glanced down, and saw that the answers to several questions only wrote a formula, and even worse, only a number.

Fang Zhi frowned: "I can understand."

Xu Xie was helpless: "Others can't understand."

Fang Zhi began to dislike him: "They are all participants in the competition, so they shouldn't be so weak."

Xu Xie couldn't laugh or cry: "So proud, Fang Xiaozhi."

After all, it was for other people to use. Fang Zhi finally wrote down the idea and process of solving the problem with Xu Xie's persuasion and sharing help.

It took a lot of energy and time to do this. When Xu Xie rubbed his sore neck and straightened up, ready to rest for a while before continuing, he was surprised to find that it was already 09:30.

When Xu Xie went out, she thought that she would be back soon, so she didn't tell Xie Wen, who knew that if she was delayed, it would be so late.

His mobile phone was turned to silent when he was just sorting out the data. Now he thought of Xie Wen and took out his mobile phone to look again. Sure enough, he saw more than ten missed calls from Xie Wen.

Xu Xie sighed, and the two images of Xie Wen screaming hysterically and crying silently flashed in his mind alternately, silently reminding him of what he was about to face.

He didn't dare to call back, for fear that Xie Wen's madness would reach Fang Zhi's ears even if he couldn't hold down the receiver.

He sent a message telling Xie Wen that he would go back immediately, then ignored the call that was chasing after him in the next second, and stuffed the phone into his pocket.He tried his best to ignore the sudden surge of anxiety and exhaustion, patted Fang Zhi who was still sorting out the topic, and twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw the other person's gaze turn: "It's late, I have to go home first."

"Ah..." Fang Zhi stared blankly at the time, "Let me call a taxi for you."

"It's okay, no need." Xu Xie shook Yu You who was already asleep holding the milk ball next to him: "It's time to go."

Fang Zhi didn't know how to see off the guests, and after standing up with Xu Xie, he stood aside in a daze to watch him put on his coat.

"... What time is it... Damn!" Yu You woke up in a daze, and after seeing the time clearly, he shook himself awake, "I even made an appointment with someone to play games at the Internet cafe at ten o'clock, hurry up!"

"Okay, then let's go first." Xu Xie waited for Yu You to pack up, and bid farewell to Fang Zhi who was still stunned by the sofa.

Fang Zhi felt a little weird.

Xu Xie is still the same Xu Xie, gentle and kind, but Fang Zhi doesn't know why, and feels that his current temperament is not revealed naturally as usual, but is... forced to put on.

Obviously, it wasn't like this when I sorted out the materials with him before.

"Wait a minute." Fang Zhi pursed his lips, not sure where the sudden astringency in his heart came from, and subconsciously stopped Xu Xie's movement of changing shoes.

"what happened?"

Xu Xie smiled when he asked this question, but Fang Zhi could hear that his smile was so powerless that it sounded like a sigh in his ears.

"...I forgot my clothes." Fang Zhi went to the bathroom and brought out a bag of dirty clothes, and handed it to Yu You, "Clothes."

"Look at my memory, why don't you say that I still can't remember it." Yu You slapped his forehead and took the bag, "Thank you! Then we... let's go?"

Fang Zhi's eyes fell on Xu Xie's face - this person caught his gaze and silently frowned.

as usual.

Fang Zhi really couldn't hold back the illusory thoughts in his heart, and couldn't keep grabbing people to observe hard, so he looked at Xu Xie for three seconds and then took the lead to look away: "Well, I'll play again when I have time. "

"Okay." Xu Xie agreed.

After leaving Fang Zhi's house and stepping into the elevator, the curve of Xu Xie's mouth instantly receded, and his back, which had been tense, immediately collapsed.He leaned weakly against the car wall, the stainless steel surface vaguely reflected his tired eyes.

His acting skills are not good, Xu Xie guessed that Fang Zhi probably didn't hide his negative emotions that were about to explode.

But he has burdens in front of the boy he likes.

He held on, making sure that wherever Fang Zhi could see him, he appeared in the most pleasing appearance.

The Internet cafe Yu You was going to was not on the same road as Xu Xie's house, so the two hailed cars and went to different destinations.

Xu Xie urged all the way, urging the bald driver brother with flower tattoos to feel helpless and irritable: "Little brother, it's not that I won't give you speed, what can I do about the speed limit on this road? And we have bad luck this way." , When you come across a string of red lights, it starts and stops, no matter how fast it is, it can’t be much faster.”

Xu Xie also knew that she was in a difficult situation, and after apologizing repeatedly, she stared indifferently at the mobile phone on her lap. The caller ID of Xie Wen was displayed on the screen.

Xu Xie didn't pick up the phone until it automatically hung up without any operation, and the screen jumped back to the phone desktop, and then clicked on an album called "He Huan" in the gallery.

Inside is a family photo.

This is the only family portrait of their family of three.

Xu Xie remembered the origin of this photo.

Four years ago, on September [-]st, when his junior high school started, Xu Likai just got a new mobile phone, so he asked passers-by to help take this photo on the grounds of celebrating my son officially becoming a junior high school student and consecrating the new mobile phone .

The background of the photo is the gleaming golden gate of his junior high school. A family of three stood at the gate. The man smiled and showed his big white teeth, the sun was bright; A scissors hand, looking shy.

Although the three of them did not make any intimate movements, harmony and happiness lingered silently but warmly.

However, in just a few years, accidents happened and things changed.

The picture on the photo was broken into pieces, some were lost, some were deteriorated, and no matter how hard one tried to piece together the tattered pile, they still couldn’t piece together the best appearance at the beginning.

Xu Xie took a light breath, relaxed his back and leaned on the back of the seat, and lowered his eyelids tiredly and weakly.

After 15 minutes, the car parked smoothly downstairs in the community.

Xu Xie opened her eyes, and found that the driver had parked the car in a parking space on the side of the road, opened the window and lit a cigarette, as if he didn't want to leave for a while.

"Hey, little brother, I think you are still a high school student?" The driver saw that he opened his eyes, and instead of rushing him out of the car, he chatted with him instead.

"Ah."

Xu Xie closed his eyes and rested his mind all the way, his anxiety reached the limit but he calmed down.Xie Wen's series of fatal calls did not continue, and he was not in a hurry to go up and squeeze his last bit of energy to coax people.

"Is he urging me in a hurry because he is afraid of being scolded for coming home late?" The driver stretched out his hand out of the window, shaking the cigarette ash, "I'm quite obedient... I wasn't so obedient when I was your age. Then At that time, I always didn’t like to go home, and I often stayed out all night, and felt that even if I wandered around in the street blowing cold wind all night, it would be more comfortable than lying in bed at home.”

Hearing what he said, Xu Xie felt bitter.

Before Xu's father passed away, he was also like this. He didn't like to go home, and he did such stupid things as blowing cold wind on the street and wandering around all night.

This changed after Father Xu passed away.I can't tell if it's because there are still traces of Xu's father's life at home, or because of Xie Wen's excessive desire for control and physical and mental conditions that can't be separated from others.

"... At that time, I was rebellious and did my own way. My parents felt that they were challenging my self-esteem when they said something harsh to my ears." The driver's words came to Xu Xie's ears with the night wind, with a cool feeling, "I don't Knowing what kind of arrogance and stubbornness you had at that time, you had to make a noise, and if you couldn't get enough of it, you would do it."

"It's okay to do it, the fists and feet stick to the flesh, and I know to hold back a little so as not to hurt too much."

"But I didn't know that at the time. I just knew that I was full of anger, and it would be uncomfortable if I didn't vent it. My eyes were red, and I didn't care about anything. I grabbed something around me and threw it at people."

"It turned out to be that chair, which was usually placed there for a foothold. I was asked to copy it by hand, and it hit my dad's leg directly."

"After that, his leg became the root of the problem. When he was young, he ran two kilometers without panting. Because of this, he recently broke his lumbar spine and lay on the hospital bed all day long screaming in pain."

Except for the first puff of the cigarette he lit, most of the remaining half was held between his fingers and let it burn out.The smoke was misty, entangled with his trembling voice, and all blended into the night.

"Hey, look at me. I've been annoyed by this recently. When I see students your age, I can't help but think of myself as a jerk at that time, so I talk a little too much." After a few minutes of silence in the car, the driver spoke again. Speaking, the tone has returned to the original relaxed tone, "I'm sorry for wasting your time. Go up, or your parents will have to scold you."

"Ah."

Xu Xie opened the car door, then shrank back before leaving, and said in a low voice, "Everything will be fine."

Everything will be fine, whether it is the broken and bumpy present, or the uncertain future.