Qinghong

"Xiao Ke, what are you doing?" A tall and thin boy came over and snorted to shake Xiao Ke's hair, "Work hard!"

"Oh." Xiao Ke lowered his head and whispered, "This is my teacher."

I looked at the boy with some familiarity. The boy looked at me and said in surprise, "Teacher Zou?"

"Ah, hello." I have taught too many classes, and I can't remember who he is at the moment, "Are you...?"

"I'm a student in Class [-], Grade [-] of Xinchuan University. My name is Tang Zihao." The boy introduced himself, "I took your class when I was a sophomore."

"Are you here to start a business?" I asked.

Tang Zihao smiled embarrassedly: "I like ice cream, so I just bought an ice cream truck and opened it on holidays."

"Very good, benefiting the masses." I said.

"Come, Teacher Zou, have a cone." Tang Zihao enthusiastically handed me a cone.

"Thank you." I took the cone and handed it to Ning Hong, "Xiao Ke will trouble you to take care of it."

"No trouble, my junior is very good." Tang Zihao said, raised his hand and patted Xiao Ke's shoulder, "Don't worry."

Xiao Ke glanced at me cautiously with squinted eyes, seeing me looking at him, the corners of his lips curved to reveal his bright white front teeth.

There was a wave of people pouring out of the subway station, and two girls walked towards the ice cream truck. I said, "Okay, you are busy, I won't bother you."

"Goodbye, teacher." Xiao Ke waved vigorously, like a fine electric fan.

I suppressed a smile: "Goodbye."

Ning Hongan followed me quietly, throwing the finished cones into the trash can.

"Why didn't you speak all of a sudden?" I asked with my head tilted.

"There's nothing to say." Ning Hong said, he stared at me for a while and said, "The sunset is so beautiful."

"Yes." I walked towards the sunset, and the shadow dragged long behind us. When I turned my head, Ning Hong stood behind me and stepped on the shadow, "Are you childish?"

"What do you know?" Ning Hong said, "If you step on someone's shadow, it means..."

He whispered a phrase I didn't catch: "What?"

"It's nothing." He stood up straight and walked to me, with a correct expression, "Just treat me as childish."

We walked forward slowly, enjoying the rare sunset glow.

When I was a child, my grandmother told Ning Hong that the shadow carries a person's soul, and stepping on the shadow represents absolute monopoly.Grandma left early, and Ning Hong couldn't remember her old face clearly, but he kept this sentence firmly in his heart.

Ning Hong remembered the two meetings he had with Zou Lansheng in Ning Qing's place. Zou Lansheng was a gentle and considerate person who spoke softly and cared for the person he liked.Ning Hong was a little envious, even jealous that Ning Qing had such a good friend.Even if the "good friend" has other plans and Ning Qing has no blessings to enjoy, he can't take advantage of others.Ning Hong naturally inherited his brother's "good friend", trying in vain to inherit Zou Lansheng's love for Ning Qing.

Ning Hong's thoughts are pathological possessiveness, twisted longing and a little budding liking.He looked at Zou Lansheng's pupils, which reflected the bright and colorful afterglow of the sunset, like a crackling and burning mountain fire, "The sunset is so beautiful." He said.

Zou Lansheng nodded in agreement: "Yes."

Ning Hong deliberately took a slow step, stepped on Zou Lansheng's shadow, lowered his head, his broken hair covered the momentary gloomy eyes, and the viper yawned, showing its sharp fangs.

At the door of the house, Ning Hong took out the key to open the door, and I stretched out my hand: "Give me back the key."

"Here." Ning Hong readily handed over the keys, "Anyway, I have allocated seven or eight keys."

I pretended I didn't hear, put the key in my pocket, and stepped into the entrance.The white cat with different pupils sat on the sofa, stretched its neck to look at me, and called out coquettishly with a drawn out voice: "Meow——"

I changed my shoes, walked to the sofa and rubbed the white cat's head, and looked around the living room. The bottles and jars on the coffee table and TV cabinet were completely in place. The cat is very careful and well-behaved when it is alone at home.

"Iwan." Ning Qing hugged the white cat affectionately, "Miss me?"

The white cat pushed his face in disgust, and looked at me begging for help: "Meow——"

I shrugged: "He is your food and clothing parent, I can't save you."

"Hey, Daddy's little baby." Ning Hong rubbed the cat's head in disgust, "No one will save you even if your throat is broken."

"...Be normal." I said.

As soon as Ning Hong raised his head, the cat turned around and quickly jumped down and ran away, squatting on the balcony to comb its hair.

After flying for two hours, I was tired and didn't want to cook, and I wasn't too hungry, so I rubbed my eyes: "I saw the cat, do you have anything else to do?"

"Are you sleepy?" Ning Hong asked.

"Yeah." I nodded, "Sleepy." I was sleepy and my mind was a mess, barely processing a simple message.

Ning Hong took my wrist: "Sleep if you are sleepy, I will see you fall asleep before leaving."

I was too lazy to resist, and followed his lead into the bedroom. There was no one else in the room, and I didn't need to care about other people's eyes.I fell into the soft pillow, the comfortable touch sucked away 80.00% of my brain cells, and the remaining 20.00% prompted me to say: "Go out and close the door."

"I know." Ning Hong tucked the corner of the quilt for me, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know who I am?"

"Shut up." I turned my back on him impatiently and soon fell into a deep sleep.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when I woke up, the screen of the phone next to the pillow was on, I touched the phone, Ning Hong's WeChat [Ning Hong: I left you a steamed bun, it's in the refrigerator, wake up and heat it up. 】

[Zou Lansheng: I just woke up. 】

[Ning Hong: I'm eating barbecue outside, should I come out for a drink? 】

[Zou Lansheng: I eat steamed buns. 】

[Ning Hong: Come on, Xiaolongbao can be eaten tomorrow. 】

I sat up and stretched my waist, [Zou Lansheng: No, I will go to work tomorrow. 】

[Ning Hong: ...Okay. 】

Seeing that he agreed, I just considered this matter to be the end of the discussion, watched TV for a while after eating the steamed buns, washed my face and went to bed.

The days passed by, and in a blink of an eye, it was the graduation season again.

I took eight undergraduates from the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Science with me. Repeated revisions of papers, plagiarism checks, defenses, resume revisions, and job recommendations filled my life, which made me lose my mind about Ning Qing and Ning Hong.

A month has passed, and I managed to find a quiet corner to sit on the stairs and smoke a cigarette.Two slender fingers pinched away my cigarette, I raised my head, Ning Hong put the cigarette in his mouth, took a puff, narrowed his eyes in enjoyment and exhaled the white mist: "Teacher Zou, I haven't seen you for a month, don't you miss me? "

"No." I stretched out my hand, "Give me back the cigarette."

"Stingy." He bent over and leaned over, nose to nose, exhaled, white smoke rushed into my face, before I got angry, he kissed me first, the little brown mole under his left eye was alluring and seductive, "I miss you gone."

"What the hell..." I pushed him away, "What are you crazy about?" I was so frightened by his actions that my heart pounded. Ning Hong and Ning Qing had similar faces, and the sudden kiss made me kiss Ning Qing's delusion, guilty conscience mixed with anger, the thoughts in my mind were twisted into a mess.

He walked to my left, turned around, did not sit down, seemed afraid that I would beat him, walked back to me, and reached out to grab my wrist.I felt his fingers trembling slightly, his fingertips were cool, and he clasped my palm firmly, and asked, "How do you feel?"

"How about what?" I asked angrily.

"Just," he paused, "I just kiss you, I feel very comfortable."

My state is rather mysterious, light and airy, happy like a thief, like a shot of hallucinogens, I clearly know why I am excited, because I deceived myself that I touched Ning Qing.

I kissed Ning Hong, I was very happy because I took him as Ning Qing.

Doing this is a very dangerous thing, I have to stick to my bottom line, Ning Hong is Ning Hong, Ning Qing is Ning Qing.Even if they look alike, I can't do anything to confuse them again.

"Don't do this in the future." I pulled my wrist from Ning Hong's palm and wiped my lips, "I don't like it."

Ning Hong lowered his head in frustration: "Oh."

I stood up, glanced at the shadow that flickered by the corner of the wall, and didn't pay attention to who it was, and said to Ning Hong, "Where did you go a while ago?"

"France, Spain, Italy." Ning Hong said, "and the United States."

"Sure." I said, "Global Traveler."

"I need it for work. I usually stay home." Ning Hong said, "Are you going on vacation during the summer vacation?"

I thought about it, Ning Qing had made an appointment with me to go to Kanas Lake in the northwest this summer vacation, but by some strange coincidence, the words "not going" on my lips were replaced with "I want to go to Kanas."

"Okay, I'll go too." Ning Hong cheered, "When are you on vacation?"

"We'll be busy for half a month." I said.

"I'm in charge of the round-trip ticket." Ning Hong patted his chest.

"I'll pay for room and board." I said, "I'll transfer the money to you later."

"Okay, okay." Ning Hong nodded.

"Oh, that's right." I suddenly remembered something, "It's not just half a month, but I have to be busy for three weeks." Before Xia Xianxian took a week off, I wanted to stay and make up lessons for her.

"It's okay, I can wait." Ning Hong said.

"We're leaving, what about the cat?" I asked.

"Foster to Dr. Cai." Ning Hong said.

I squinted at him: "Are you worried about Dr. Cai again at this time?"

He shrank his shoulders, couldn't find words to refute me, and simply kept silent.

Standing at the door of the office building, looking through the window, the senior students waiting for the teacher to guide the thesis lined up at the door of the office. I pinched the bridge of my nose with a big head: "You go back, I will work overtime tonight."

"Give me the key, I'll go and see the cat." Ning Hong stretched out his hand.

I took out the house key and handed it to him: "The freeze-drying at home is gone, you pass by Dr. Cai's shop and go in and buy two packs."

"Got it." Ning Hong waved his hand, turned and left.

I watched his back getting smaller and smaller, and when I turned around, Xiao Ke stood behind me with a dazed expression, and I asked, "Xiao Ke, what can I do for you?"

"I..." Xiao Ke bit his lip, "I'll pay back the money."

"Oh, don't worry." I said, "You can pay me back if you are more relaxed, don't live too tight."

"Well, I think so too, so I can only pay you back after school starts." Xiao Ke said.

I smelled the smell on my sleeve, but I didn't smell the smoke, so I walked into the office building: "Is there anything else?"

"Teacher Zou." Xiao Ke asked, "Do you have a date?"

"No, why do you ask this?" I looked at Xiao Ke.

The light in Xiao Ke's eyes flickered: "I'm curious, just ask."