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Xu Xie contacted the person who helped him find a part-time job before, and when everything was settled, it was already 11:30.

In half an hour, he will officially arrive.

Xu Xie lay on his back on the bed, staring at the gray shadows of the bookshelf parts that he moved to the corner under the dim light.

Before Xu Likai passed away, his birthday would never be as deserted as it is now.

At least not without a happy birthday.

Xu Xie turned over melancholy, and suddenly felt something pinching her waist.

It was the photo album that Fang Zhi gave him.

He took out the photo album from his pocket, and when he saw the cover, he wanted to laugh a little.A smile flashed across his eyes, and then turned into shock the moment he opened it.

The first one is a photo of Father Xu when he was young.

In my impression, this photo was damp and covered the bottom of the box when Father Xu was alive, and then disappeared.

Now that this photo is presented in front of my eyes, the face that was already somewhat blurred in my memory suddenly became clear.

The young man in the photo is still in his 20s, wearing a smoke gray suit, sitting on the edge of a flower bed with his legs crossed, and looking at the camera with his big white teeth showing.

Flipping back, the protagonist of the photo has not changed, but the age is getting older as the page is turned, until the last photo, Xu Xie saw her own face.

I don't know when Fang Zhi took the photo. It was a side face in the sun.The skin is illuminated almost transparently, and the angle of the corner of the mouth is open and wanton.

In the lower right corner of the photo, there are several large characters written with a black marker pen, the handwriting is familiar to Xu Xie, and it belongs to Fang Zhi——

Stay hot and happy forever.

On the first day back to school after the holiday, Fang Zhi had not had time to put down his schoolbag when he was summoned into the office by Li Bihuai.

"Don't think that if you run away, it's nothing to do with you." Li Bihuai took a stack of test papers in front of Fang Zhi, "May [-]st is a holiday, one paper per day, a total of three papers. I don't care about the rest, reading comprehension and composition Do it honestly for me, and I will check it when I comment on it."

After Fang Zhi came out of the office after accepting the criticism, he ran into Yan Qing head-on.

"Hey! Brother Fang! I was just looking for you."

Influenced by Jiang An, this little girl calls people not by her name, but whenever she has something to do, she calls out "Brother Fang, Brother Fang".

Brother Fang was helpless: "What's wrong?"

"The third year of high school is about to graduate, and we are going to start counting the number of people living in the school again. Lao Du asked me to ask you, do you want to continue living?" Xu Dai dropped out of school, and what should have been in charge of the class leader fell to the deputy class leader Yan. Sunny head.

It has been more than a week since the day of Gu Yu, and Fang Zhi has completely calmed down.

What's more, there are some things... He wants to confirm it when he gets in close contact.

So he nodded: "I want to live in...or the original dormitory?"

"Well... it should be, after all, you lived on campus before."

Because of the "should", Fang Zhi decided to move back to the dormitory tonight.

So Xu Xie came back to 314 after the evening self-study, and when she looked up, she saw Fang Zhi who was sitting at the desk, chasing the test papers.

Xu Xie couldn't believe it, she went back and looked at the dormitory number, and after confirming that she had gone the right way, she called out uncertainly: "Fang Zhi?"

"What?" Fang Zhi turned to look at Xu Xie, still holding the pen in his hand, "Tell me something quickly, don't let me lose my train of thought."

"Doing English again? I can teach you."

"No, write a composition."

Xu Xie was holding back something to say, but when he heard that he was going to write a composition, he didn't dare to disturb him anymore. He unloaded his schoolbag, took a change of clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Fang Zhi stopped writing just before the sound of rushing water stopped.

A moment later, Xu Xie came out of the bathroom wiping her hair.

Humid and hot air flashed past behind, and in the next second, Xu Xie sat down beside Fang Zhi.

From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Fang Zhi's well-written test paper, and asked him, "Is it finished?"

"Ah."

"Okay, then I'll make a video."

Having said that, Xu Xie still didn't stay in the dormitory to disturb Fang Zhi, he went to the balcony just before the video was connected, and gently closed the glass door of the balcony.

Not long after the evening self-study get out of class ended, there was still the sound of laughter and running in the corridor, but the dormitory with only two people suddenly fell into silence.

Fang Zhi's eyes fell on the young man on the balcony.

Xu Xie leaned against the wall, one arm was stretched out holding the phone facing him, the other arm was lazily resting on the railing, the corners of his mouth had the usual small arc, and occasionally he seemed to hear the person on the other side of the video saying What, the arc will increase slightly.

Fang Zhi stared at it for a while, then blinked lightly, and looked away.

He heard it.

The girl's voice is crisp and cheerful even through the screen.

It is rare for Fang Zhi to feel irritable in the subject of mathematics.

The pen twirled between his fingers for more than ten minutes, but he didn't write a word on the test paper.

Xu Xie was still playing video on the balcony.

The young man changed his posture and leaned on the railing. From Fang Zhi's perspective, he could only see a thin figure from his back.

...more irritable.

Affected by this mood, 2 minutes later, Mr. Fang dropped his pen angrily.

He was just curious, nothing else.

Fang Zhi was thinking this in his heart, as he sneaked to the balcony door, he quietly stretched out his hand to the doorknob.

Halfway through, the boy on the balcony suddenly turned around without warning.

Fang Zhi: "..."

Hold.

The fingers in mid-air curled up nervously under Xu Xie's slightly puzzled eyes.

After curling up, Fang Zhi realized how guilty his actions were.So half a second later, he stretched out his hand again, and pushed open the balcony door with an upright expression: "It's stuffy inside, which affects thinking. I'll come out to blow some air."

At the beginning of May, it was cold in spring, and Fang Zhi was wearing short-sleeved shorts. As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he was so cold that he wanted to shrink back due to the sudden drop in temperature.

But he was shameless, and his footsteps only paused for a second, and then he walked to Xu Xie's side resolutely.

Xu Xie watched Fang Zhi walk to her side, then looked down at the coat she was wearing, and asked him seriously, "Isn't it cold?"

"It's not cold." The shameless young man folded his arms on the railing, looked far away at the rows of sycamore trees with new leaves on the sycamore avenue, and asked pretending not to care, "Who are you fighting with?" What about the video? I didn't bother you, did I?"

"That's a good question. I just talked about you with Kiki."

Fang Zhi's heart tightened, and then slowly relaxed after he saw clearly the little girl who was only eleven or twelve years old on the phone screen.

The little girl has a lively personality, and when Xu Xie called her Qiqi, she became very anxious, and explained very quickly: "I told you not to call me by my nickname, okay? Wang Ziran, you can't remember Is it? Wang, Zi, Ran!"

"Yes, yes, Wang Ziran, Wang Ziran, dear classmate Wang, do you want to see who this person is?"

While Xu Xie turned the phone to Fang Zhi, she explained in a low voice, "I'm a little girl who works as a part-time tutor. She saw your photo and clamored to see you."

The amount of information contained in this sentence is a bit large, but before Fang Zhi had time to think about it, the little girl over there shouted.

"Wow! Are you Mr. Xu's roommate? You are so handsome! Oh my god, you are too white! Is this the legendary so white that it shines?"

Fang Zhi's experience in dealing with little girls was limited to Li Zhihe, but unfortunately Wang Ziran and Li Zhihe were obviously not on the same page, once he opened his mouth, he never stopped, Fang Zhi didn't find a chance to intervene.

So for the next 10 minutes, Wang Ziran praised Fang Zhi and Xu Xie alone, talked about her campus life, and then stared at Fang Zhi to force him to agree to go to her house with Xu Xie next time, and Fang Zhi got After reluctantly agreeing, he hung up the phone happily and contentedly.

Xu Xie looked at Fang Zhi's helpless and aggrieved expression throughout the whole process, holding back her laughter and making her stomach ache: "She really talks a lot. Last time I went to her home to help her with her homework, I spent half the time listening to her talking about homeless people in school. cat."

"It's pretty good." Fang Zhi picked up his words, "When did you start working part-time?"

"Just two days ago, during the holiday." Xu Xie said, "You know the situation at my house."

"Ang..." Fang Zhi dragged his voice back hesitantly, thinking that Xu Xie should not be allowed to pay for meals in the future.

Talking about this topic is destined to be heavy, Fang Zhi didn't intend to ask any more questions after answering, and started another topic: "The little girl just said you showed her my photo, where did you come from?"

"It was taken on the school's honor wall." Xu Xie said while clicking on the photo album and flipping to the photo for Fang Zhi to see.

The ID photo on the screen was taken by Fang Zhigao when he just started school. The teenager in it has drooping eyebrows and eyes, and the corners of his mouth are drooping, looking very fierce.

It's kind of ugly, to be honest.

However, what attracted Fang Zhi was not his appearance a year and a half ago, but the shooting time displayed in the lower right corner of the photo.

March [-]nd last year.

May I ask, under what circumstances would a same-sex friend take a photo of himself and put it in a photo album for more than a year?

Apart from ugly photos and having special feelings for this person, Fang Zhi couldn't think of a third situation.

The heart beat suddenly.

A gust of wind came from nowhere, and the doors and windows trembled. Immediately there were inexplicable booing and applause from the boys downstairs.

But at this moment, Fang Zhi's attention was all on Xu Xie.

The clothes on the boy's body were rumpled by the wind, and his hair was messed up, covering his delicate eyebrows and eyes scatteredly.

So the moist lips under this are much more eye-catching.

Lips opened and closed, I don't know if it was because of the strong wind or something else, Fang Zhi didn't hear what Xu Xie said, but after a while, he seemed to say something, and the other party paused for a while. White Fang laughed.

This time Fang Zhi heard it clearly.

Xu Xie smiled and said, "It's not ugly, it's a beautiful photo."

Fang Zhi came back to his senses in panic, and his memory quickly went backwards, before he remembered what he asked.

He asked, do you think this picture of me is ugly?

And Xu Xie replied, not ugly.

Not ugly, not ugly, not ugly...

Depend on.

There was an inexplicably familiar heat behind his ears.

Fang Zhi hastily withdrew his gaze from Xu Xie's body, responded to Xu Xie's words with guilt and panic, opened the balcony door and walked back indoors.

Xu Xie followed closely behind, closing the door to block the gradually raging wind.

After staying outside for a long time, as soon as he entered the room, Fang Zhi caught off guard and sneezed.

"Don't catch a cold." As soon as Xu Xie heard the voice, she poured a cup of hot water for Fang Zhi and handed it over, "Drink some hot water to relax."

Fang Zhi took the water, and used the hot air to cover up the redness on his face.

Xu Xie didn't notice, watched Fang Zhi sip a whole cup before asking what she wanted to ask: "Where did you get those photos in the album you gave me?"

After drinking a cup of hot water, Fang Zhi's face returned to normal. He put down the water cup and answered Xu Xie's question: "Brother Lin found it for me when I went to Zhuxi to help with the decoration."

"Then... where's the last one of mine?"

At this time, Fang Zhi couldn't find a reason to explain his erratic circumstances at that time.

At that time, Xu Xie was playing on the court, and his gestures and gestures were full of enthusiasm and vigor unique to teenagers. It could not be said to be bewitching or attractive. In short, when Fang Zhi came back to his senses, the frozen photos had already been saved in the phone album.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhi put down the water glass in a panic, turned his head to look at the desk, avoiding Xu Xie's sight: "Forgot, I just printed it out and put it in when I found it in the photo album."

"Oh..." Seeing Fang Zhi avoiding talking about it, Xu Xie thought of teasing him, "Did you see that I was handsome and secretly took pictures?"

The howling wind outside did not know when it stopped. After Xu Xie's words fell, only the shallow breathing of the two of them remained in the room.

Xu Xie saw Fang Zhi's hand gripping the water glass again, gradually tightening it so that the knuckles of the fingers and the veins on the back of the hand were clearly visible.

Like annoyed.

But just when he was about to make jokes to get rid of the sentence just now, Fang Zhi turned his head, stared at him seriously, and admitted generously: "Yes."

Xu Xie was stunned by the unexpected reaction.

It seemed like a long time passed, and it seemed that it was just a moment, when Xu Xie heard his hoarse voice scattered in the air: "Do you like it?"

Fang Zhi once again got an affirmative answer.

then……

Then Xu Xie ran away.

Only the thin-skinned Fang Zhi has ever escaped, but this is the first time for Mr. Xu to escape.

It was time to turn off the lights, and Xu Xie couldn't run far, so he went down to the first floor by himself and hid in the duty room.

The dormitory uncle surprised him: "What are you doing at night?"

"Master, let me stay for a while." Xu Xie pulled up a chair and sat down, "I will go up when I calm down."

"Why calm down? Can't you calm down with the cold wind blowing?"

"...Master, take a break."

The old housekeeper curled his lips in disdain: "You young people are just unruly, and you get angry when there is something trivial... I don't think you should calm down now, wash up and sleep quickly, and wake up tomorrow if you have anything to do. Come and calm down!"

Xu Xie: "..."

After being pushed and dragged out of the duty room by the uncle, Xu Xie gradually realized how stupid he was.

Just because of a plausible like, there was chaos.

Just kidding, can Fang Xiaozhen have the consciousness of "liking someone"?

Just photos.

Photos, that's all.Not Xu Xie.

Brother Xu took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly. After completing the psychological training, he stepped up the steps and slowly moved back to 314.