The substitute is actually a scum attacking himself

Guan Cheng stood at the entrance of the gymnasium and finished making a phone call, then turned around and met Xie Xingzhou who just came out of the gymnasium.

He went up to meet him and said, "Xie Xingzhou, Brother Mu said he would be back in the afternoon. He is the team leader. You still need his approval to resign."

Xie Xingzhou smiled, "No, Coach Kong has already agreed."

After all, he staggered and walked down the long steps of the gymnasium.

Guan Cheng turned around after him, called him urgently, and asked, "Is it because of Brother Mu?"

Xie Xingzhou stopped in his tracks and didn't look back.

Guan Cheng also said: "Even if there is a conflict with Brother Mu, the brothers in the team really like you. Everyone feels it is a pity that you resigned, especially Zhao Lin. I don't even know that he is not in the team today. How should I talk to him?"

Xie Xingzhou turned to look at Guan Cheng, and insisted: "I like everyone too, but I have more important things to do, I'm sorry."

Xie Xingzhou's back was resolute, he walked down the steps step by step, Guan Cheng couldn't help but panic and said: "Don't blame me for talking too much, but Brother Mu wants to save face and can't say it, he has actually put Su Ruan down slowly, if it's because Su Ruan, you don't have to worry about it, after all, you've liked Brother Mu for so long, don't you feel it's a pity?"

"It's not because of him." Xie Xingzhou turned his head and said calmly, "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

"Ugh……"

All that needs to be said has been said, even if Guan Cheng feels helpless, he can't find anything to persuade Xie Xingzhou.He shook his head, watching Xie Xingzhou's back gradually drifting away.

Xie Xingzhou came out of the gymnasium and went to the main school gate through the Nanyuan playground.

Under the shade of the trees at the school gate, Yu Tangtang was looking forward to it, when he saw Xie Xingzhou approaching, he put his feet on his feet and waved to him cheerfully: "Beautiful brother, here!"

Xie Xingzhou walked over and handed him the milk tea he bought on the way.

Yu Tangtang took it, plugged in a straw and drank happily, and led Xie Xingzhou towards home, "Beautiful brother, why don't you come to my house to play? My brother decorated the house beautifully!"

"Okay." Xie Xingzhou nodded with a smile and followed him.

The two stopped at the door of Tangtang and Duan Jize's rental house. Xie Xingzhou looked up and down at the familiar decorations around while Tangtang took the key to open the door.

Duan Jize's newly rented house is actually above the one he rented out before, but he has moved away now-what an irony.

"Please come in!" Yu Tangtang opened the door and let Xie Xingzhou in.

The rental house is not big, the living room is also small, and there are many cardboard boxes neatly piled up at the entrance, containing the raw materials for making drinks.

But the room is small but clean and tidy, which is pleasing to the eye.

Xie Xingzhou couldn't help sizing him up carefully, as if he wanted to know more about Duan Jize's life in these years.

"How is it? My house is beautiful!" Yu Tangtang said proudly, pushing Xie Xingzhou to the living room to sit down.

Being so close to Duan Jize's life, Xie Xingzhou was a little nervous, and gave a soft "hmm".

Yu Tangtang didn't notice anything strange about him, so he went to the kitchen to make a cup of scented tea for Xie Xingzhou.

He handed the teacup to Xie Xingzhou and said, "This is scented tea made by my brother himself, please try it!"

Xie Xingzhou was slightly stunned, took the teacup carefully, and lowered his head to take a sip.

When the familiar and sweet scent of flowers hit his nostrils, his eyes turned red almost instantly, and he lowered his head and did not put down his teacup for a long time.

Only then did Yu Tangtang ask strangely: "Beautiful brother, what's wrong with you?"

"No." Xie Xingzhou forced himself to calm down, and said, "The taste of this tea is very similar to the one I drank before, and it reminds me of some past events."

"Ah?" Yu Tangtang pursed his mouth, "Brother said it was his exclusive secret recipe, hum, he lied to me..."

"Tangtang." Just as Yu Tangtang finished speaking, Duan Jize's voice came from the door.

Xie Xingzhou suddenly stood up from the sofa, staring blankly at the person at the door.

Duan Jize was still dressed like that, with his hat and mask on tightly.

He didn't see Xie Xingzhou at first, and when he got home, he was about to take off the mask, and put his hands behind his ears, but found that there was another person in the house, so he put it down again.

Duan Jize walked towards the living room.

Seeing him walking towards him, Xie Xingzhou squeezed his palms tightly to suppress the excitement in his heart and prevent himself from yelling "Brother".

"Brother, this is the handsome brother who lost the carving knife, now he is my friend, I will bring him to play at home!" Yu Tangtang happily introduced to Duan Jize.

Duan Jize nodded to Xie Xingzhou: "Hello."

"Hello." Xie Xingzhou held his breath slightly, and answered Duan Jize, staring at Duan Jize with burning eyes.

"Tangtang, come with me to the kitchen and bring some cakes to your friend." Duan Jize looked at Yu Tangtang, said "wait a moment" to Xie Xingzhou, and walked towards the kitchen.

Yu Tangtang let out an "oh" and followed him bouncingly.

Xie Xingzhou had no choice but to sit on the sofa and wait, his eyes fell on a pot of flowers on the dining table by the door.It was a pot of Clivia, Duan Jize's favorite flower.

It turned out that my brother's preferences have not changed for so many years, Xie Xingzhou's heart moved, and he couldn't help walking towards the pot of Clivia.

The dining table is very close to the kitchen, and the sound insulation in the kitchen is not good, so the voices of Duan Jize and Yu Tangtang's conversation came out, and fell into the ears of Xie Xingzhou who was standing by the dining table——

Duan Jize's tone was not blame, but more like a helpless reminder. He said, "Tangtang, forgot what I told you before? Don't take anyone home casually."

Yu Tangtang retorted: "But the handsome brother is not a bad person!"

Duan Jize sighed and asked him, "Do you like him very much?"

"I like it." Yu Tangtang said in a low voice, "I have no friends, he is the first one."

"Tangtang." Duan Jize said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I'm not trying to prevent you from making friends, it's just that something happened back then, and before I remember it, I'm afraid I'll hurt you."

"No, I saw a photo of my beautiful brother in the garden of the top ten students of Luo University. He is very good. He is a student of Luo University. That's right, he's not the bad guys from before." Yu Tangtang said, "I used to be ignorant, That's why I was cheated, and I won't do it again in the future."

When Yu Tangtang picked up Duan Jize that year, not only did he have burns on his body, but also a blunt trauma to the back of his head, obviously from being beaten.

At that time, Yu Tangtang's grandmother had just passed away, and Yu Tangtang had just become an orphan. Because he wanted someone to accompany him so much, he carried Duan Jize from the deep mountains to the small clinic in the town alone.

But grandma didn't leave much money for Yu Tangtang, and he could only save Duan Jize's life by spending all the money, but there was nothing he could do about the injury on Duan Jize's face.

Duan Jize lost his memory after waking up. Yu Tangtang wanted Duan Jize to stay with him too much, so he became selfish and didn't immediately call the police to find his family for Duan Jize.

Later, when he often saw Duan Jize in a daze, he came to his senses and felt that what he had done was wrong, so he asked around to find out where there was a fire and if anyone was missing without telling Duan Jize.

And it was at that time that he met a liar and cheated him of the rest of his money.

……

"It's okay, Tangtang, don't blame yourself." Duan Jize touched the top of Yu Tangtang's head.

Yu Tangtang's eyes turned red, and he asked Duan Jize: "Brother, do you blame me for lying to you and not letting you ask the police for help? Now that technology is so advanced, if you go to the police, you will be able to find your family immediately."

"I don't blame you. Brother said it. Whether you can remember it or find it all depends on fate. No matter what, brother will not abandon you..."

Duan Jize comforted Yu Tangtang, but before he finished speaking, he felt a dull pain in his temple. He supported the cabinet beside him and was forced to bend down.

"Brother, what's wrong with you, you have a headache again?"

When Duan Ji Ze thinks about the past these years, he will feel a splitting headache, so Yu Tangtang hastily supported him nervously.

Xie Xingzhou outside the door heard this, almost pushed open the door and rushed in to see how Duan Jize was doing.

It turns out that my brother lost his memory, so I can't remember him...

Xie Xingzhou clenched his palms tightly and forced himself to calm down—while he was distressed by Duan Jize's loss of memory, he also learned from the conversation between the two that Yu Tangtang had been deceived, so Duan Jize would not trust him easily.

So he can't be reckless, he has to slowly let Duan Jize relax his vigilance towards him.

Xie Xingzhou stood at the door of the kitchen to calm himself down, and before the two came out, he returned to the sofa and sat down as if nothing had happened.

After a while, Duan Jize came out with some small cakes and placed them in front of Xie Xingzhou.

"Thank you." Xie Xingzhou took the initiative to talk to him.

The corners of Duan Jizelu's eyes curled up: "You're welcome, Tangtang has no friends. Thank you very much for your willingness to be friends with him."

"He is very cute." Xie Xingzhou said.

Yu Tangtang ate the cake, looked at the two of them separately, and said happily, "Thank you pretty brother!"

Xie Xingzhou also laughed, and then tentatively said to Duan Jize: "I mistook you that day, I'm sorry. I...can I ask you for a favor?"

"What's the matter?" Duan Jize asked.

Xie Xingzhou: "I want to work part-time at Yipin Bookstore."

Duan Jize hesitated when he heard the words, and Yu Tangtang said, "There is already a clerk in the store. Our budget is limited, and we can't recruit a second clerk for the time being. Are you also short of work, pretty brother?"

"I don't need a salary." Xie Xingzhou said eagerly, "I just want to go to the store to read books. Your store has a lot of books that I haven't found before."

He looked straight at Duan Jize: "Is it okay?"

"You can come and see it anytime you want, without helping you with the work." Duan Jize suggested.

Yu Tangtang also said: "That's right, you can read any book in the store!"

Xie Xingzhou thought for a while, and added: "My mentor assigned the task of observing portraits. I work part-time in the store and can observe many customers. I really need this job."

"Is that so..." Yu Tangtang looked at Duan Jize in confusion, and said, "Brother, agree, I've helped the pretty brother, and I can play with the pretty brother every day!"

Duan Jize thought for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, but you are not a regular employee, so you don't have to come every day, just come when you need it."

"Thank you!"

Xie Xingzhou's gaze was both nervous and enthusiastic, as if there was some extremely strong emotion in it.

Duan Jize nodded.

He only looked into Xie Xingzhou's eyes for a second, then hurriedly looked away, not daring to look again.

Xie Xingzhou played with Yu Tangtang for a while in the afternoon and taught him some sketches before leaving.

When he came out of the rental house, he met the previous landlord.

The landlord was an elderly aunt, she greeted Xie Xingzhou cordially, and Xie Xingzhou casually asked how the room she had checked out was now.

While talking with the landlord's aunt, Xie Xingzhou's mobile phone kept vibrating.

He had no choice but to say goodbye to the landlord's aunt in a hurry, and walked out of the community to check his mobile phone.

It's Jiang Muye.

Xie Xingzhou froze for a moment, then picked up the phone.

Jiang Muye asked him impatiently, "Why didn't you answer the phone, where are you?"

Before Xie Xingzhou could speak, Jiang Muye said again: "At school? I'll pick you up, wait for me at the South Gate..."

Xie Xingzhou interrupted him, and said helplessly, "Jiang Muye, I will be back."

After he finished speaking, there was no movement for a long time. After a while, Jiang Muye's deep voice came out: "I'll be right back."

"Ah."

Xie Xingzhou hung up the phone.

A busy tone came from the other end of the phone, Xie Xingzhou hung up the phone first.

Jiang Muye couldn't help feeling irritable. He grabbed a handful of hair and stood up from the sofa.

He had a bad premonition in his heart, but he couldn't tell what it was, he just walked around the living room in agitation.

It wasn't until the fabric rubbed against the swollen tattoo on his lower abdomen that he felt a pain, and he realized that he was too busy today and forgot to apply medicine to the tattoo.

Jiang Muye took the medicine, went to the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the living room, took off a little of his pants, revealing a smooth and beautiful waist, and lowered his head to apply medicine to the tattoo.

As soon as the medicine was finished, there was a sound from the door lock, and Xie Xingzhou came back.

Jiang Muye didn't have time to pull up his trousers, but he didn't care, he was exposed outside, looking at Xie Xingzhou.

Xie Xingzhou's eyes fell on the swollen tattoo on Jiang Muye's lower abdomen, but he only took one look, then hurriedly looked away, and whispered, "Why is the tattoo here?"

"The tattoos in other places are too uncreative. Since you want to get tattooed, you should get tattooed in a special place." Jiang Muye raised his eyebrows and smiled, and walked towards Xie Xingzhou, "Isn't it pretty?"

"It's pretty." Xie Xingzhou lowered his eyes and didn't look at him at all.

Jiang Muye frowned, and snorted softly: "Perfunctory me?"

Xie Xingzhou didn't speak.

Jiang Muye clicked his tongue and said, "Forget it, the swelling doesn't show much now, let's wait until the swelling subsides."

"En." Xie Xingzhou nodded, turned and walked towards the studio.

Jiang Muye stopped him and asked, "Why did you resign from the team?"

Xie Xingzhou was slightly stiff, and after a while he said calmly: "I'm tired, I want to do something else."

"Change what?"

"The book bar in front of the school, there are books I've always wanted to read."

Jiang Muye didn't seem to believe it, pinched his chin to make him look up: "Is it because of this?"

Jiang Muye pinched him in pain, Xie Xingzhou broke free.

He raised his eyelids and looked lightly at the person in front of him, and asked, "What do you think?"

Xie Xingzhou's eyes were cold and distant, Jiang Muye rarely saw him like this, so he was momentarily stunned.

He finally knew what the strange feeling Xie Xingzhou had been giving him since yesterday was just like this, neither loud nor loud, but frighteningly cold.

He thought Xie Xingzhou was sick last night, so what happened today?

Maybe it's really tired?

Jiang Muye didn't want to think about it, but pulled Xie Xingzhou into his arms forcefully in his own way.

He hugged Xie Xingzhou tightly from behind, and said in a hoarse voice, "Forget it, change now that you're tired, and do what you like."

things I like...

Xie Xingzhou was stunned for a while, before turning around and smiling at Jiang Muye.

When he laughed, the indifference and alienation in his eyes disappeared, and Jiang Muye couldn't help being dazed.

"Okay, then you accompany me." Xie Xingzhou suddenly changed his mood, grabbed Jiang Muye's wrist, and led him into the studio.

Jiang Muye was still stunned by the smile just now, but being dragged by Xie Xingzhou, he couldn't help but stumbled a step.

Xie Xingzhou brought Jiang Muye into the studio and asked him to sit opposite the carving table.

"Don't move." Xie Xingzhou pressed his shoulder.

Jiang Muye smiled and said, "You want me to be your model?"

Xie Xingzhou gave a faint "um" and said again: "Don't move."

Jiang Muye was not very obedient, he dragged Xie Xingzhou and asked maliciously: "No reward?"

Xie Xingzhou looked at Jiang Muye, hesitated for a few seconds, then lowered his head and stuck out the tip of his tongue to kiss Jiang Muye's lips.

It is Xie Xingzhou's habit of kissing him to stick out the tip of his tongue first.

Jiang Muye moved his head and held the back of Xie Xingzhou's head to deepen the kiss, but Xie Xingzhou backed away.

"Don't move." Xie Xingzhou said the third time.

"Okay, got it." Jiang Muye laughed and stopped moving.

Xie Xingzhou sat back on the carving table, lifted the cloth covering the mahogany, carefully traced the few semi-finished products left, and then lowered his head to start carving.

He occasionally looked up at Jiang Muye, but most of the time he dropped the knife based on his memory.

Jiang Muye was a model for someone for the first time, and he was extremely patient, insisting on not moving for an hour or two.

But Xie Xingzhou didn't seem to want to stop, he kept leaning on the desk, engraving attentively and seriously.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Muye felt his arms start to ache. He wanted to remind Xie Xingzhou to rest for a while, but seeing that Xie Xingzhou was so serious, he dismissed the idea.

So only when Xie Xingzhou occasionally stopped to clean up sawdust, Jiang Muye could move his arms a little to relieve the soreness.

The two spent the night in the studio like this.

The morning sun came in through the curtains of the studio, Xie Xingzhou finally stopped the carving knife and finished carving all the rest.

Jiang Muye was finally liberated, he walked over from the opponent's stool, and hugged Xie Xingzhou with his eyes half closed.

He rested his chin on Xie Xingzhou's shoulder and yawned, "I'm so sleepy."

Xie Xingzhou ignored him and concentrated on cleaning the sawdust on the countertop.

Jiang Muye took a look at the finished product.

It's not like him, but more like Xie Xingzhou's sketch that he didn't draw well.

At first he thought he was too sleepy to see clearly, but after he looked carefully for a while, he frowned and asked Xie Xingzhou, "Why is it still not the same?"

"I think it's very similar." Xie Xingzhou said in a low voice.

Jiang Muye watched Xie Xingzhou engrave this work for a long time. Although he didn't show much expectation, he subconsciously cared about it.

The result was not satisfactory, Jiang Muye felt that it was a pity and he was a little unhappy.

He pinched Xie Xingzhou's chin and wanted to kiss him, "Hmph, forget it this time, let me let you go, and if you don't care next time, I will punish you to carve another one."

Xie Xingzhou smiled faintly.

He turned away from Jiang Muye's kiss and said, "I met my previous landlord yesterday."

"And then?" Jiang Muye asked casually, still chasing his lips and wanting to kiss him.

Xie Xingzhou turned his head, let Jiang Muye bite his lips lightly, and then pushed Jiang Muye's shoulder to push him away.

He looked into Jiang Muye's eyes seriously, and said, "I want to move back, let's break up, Jiang Muye."

The author has something to say:

My friends, a friendly reminder, I didn’t say that Xingzhou and Brother Duan were in a relationship before. They and Meng Siyi are childhood sweethearts who grew up together.

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