Fall Into Our Passion

Tonglou: Ice Beer

　　At noon that day, Xu Guangji was eating in the cafeteria. There were no fresh dishes but some still soup leftovers. He happened to run into Cai Yingying’s father. Lao Cai used to be the director of the Department of Supervision. Although he was also a loner, he had just been promoted to deputy dean after a successful career. He sat down next to Xu Guangji with his Hello Kitty lunch box and said, "Lao Xu, you didn't go back either?"
　　Xu Guangji buried his head. As he was finishing the rice, he noticed a figure covering his face. He subconsciously glanced at the chicken legs he had marinated yesterday, and silently put the dinner plate in his arms.
　　"You look down on others, as if you don't." Dean Cai opened his lunch box majestically.
　　Xu Guangji glanced silently. "Not really."
　　Dean Cai silently picked up the chopsticks and changed the topic, "I heard from Yingying that Xu Zhi did well in the exam this time, with a score of more than 700."
　　Cai Yingying's mouth was more spicy than the cooking aunt in the cafeteria, Xu Guangji was picking it up Fan: "Not that high."
　　He knew that Xu Guangji had been so low-key in recent years that he wished people would forget his existence. The painful lessons he learned a few years ago forced him to believe in the old lady's feng shui saying. If you are too obedient and high-profile, God will be jealous when he sees you. That's why Qiudie will get into trouble with those unclean things.
　　"I know your old lady is superstitious, but you are a formally educated person." Lao Cai scratched the edge of the lunch box with chopsticks, "You have to celebrate when you should celebrate." "I didn't say I wouldn't celebrate."
Xu Guangji raised his head, adjusted his glasses and said, "Let's wait until the scores are officially announced. Where is your Cai Cai?"
　　"Don't mention it," Dean Cai sighed, silently lowered his head and started to eat. "Her performance is more stable than my blood pressure by one point more. They won’t even give an extra point in the exam, so if she doesn't want to retake it, she’ll probably have to find a junior college to study.”

　　Xu Guangji pinched his chicken leg over distressedly, "You can eat it."
　　Lao Cai pinched it back again. Xu Guangji thought he didn't want it, so he just wanted to say don't be polite to me. Your Cai Cai is really hard to take care of.
　　Dean Cai dipped the sauce on his plate, lowered his head and bit into it without any politeness, and said with satisfaction: "Thank you, your sauce is so delicious. I will ask Cai Cai to dig out a spoonful at your house next time."
　　Xu Guangji: "..."
　　"But there is something," Lao Cai chewed on his chicken legs with relish, and suddenly remembered, "I have to remind you, is your Xu Zhi in love?"
　　Xu Guangji suddenly putting down his chopsticks said, "Who said that?"
　　"Don't get excited first," Lao Cai didn't bother to chew, wiped his mouth and explained immediately, "There was a parent-teacher meeting after the third model, but you didn't go, right? I met a boy in their teacher's office. He was wearing a necklace around his neck. It was the same necklace that Qiudie left for Xu Zhi. But at that time, I saw that Xu Zhi's grades had always been quite stable. I was afraid that if you knew about it, you would be too excited and affect your children. I didn't say anything about it at the time of exam."
　　Xu Guangji stared at him with burning eyes and said nothing.
"Don't look at me like that. The exams are over now, so there's no need for you to get excited. Find a time to have a chat with her. It's really early for love now. In this regard, our Yingying is quite reassuring. She is not as beautiful as your Xu Zhi, but her grades are so bad. Someone needs to fall in love with her." Lao Cai closed the lunch box and said confidently, "I will be the first to take him to our hospital for eye treatment."
　　**
　　Heavy rain washed away the entire city. The sky is brighter after the rain, and the lush leaves glow with an oily green light under the wash of the rain. The cicadas are noisy and carefree one summer after another.
　　Xu Zhi went to discuss Xu's rented house, but he was not there. The door was closed as tightly as Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace. The reviewer who lived next door said that he went back to his hometown in the afternoon and came back in the evening.
　　Xu Zhi slowly walked downstairs and then took stock of the tube building. Almost all high school students live in this building because it is very close to the No. 1 Middle School.
　　City No. 1 Middle School is very introverted. The top students in the high school entrance examination from all counties, cities and even other provinces are rushing here, so there are many students from out of town. Foreign students in their senior year of high school generally like to rent their own apartment, because the lights in the dormitory must be turned off on time at ten o'clock.
　　Its heard that this building was even brightly lit at four or five in the morning in the months before the exam. In this kind of hell-level fighting, it's no wonder that Tan Xu's temper is unstable.
　　Qingyi City is always windy and rainy, and the walls in the corridors are damp and crusty, exuding a musty smell of moisture.
　　Xu Zhi walked to the first floor and faintly heard a few low voices coming from the room -
　　"The results haven't come out yet. I discussed it with your father. We still hope to send you abroad. There is no need to repeat your studies for another year. "
　　"Oh, whatever."
　　The voice was cold, tight, and very magnetic.
　　Xu Zhi subconsciously looked up. The security door was not closed, and a long and sharp reflection passed through the door and fell on the corridor. The facilities of this tube building were old, the pass was dilapidated, and the walls were covered with sewage, but it somehow contrasted with the clean and slender shadow. Something appealing.
　　There were several mosquito stickers covered with dense mosquitoes and flies in the corner, as well as various brands of electric mosquito coils, some of which had not even been used. It was obvious that the owner was picky and not easy to take care of.
　　The woman spoke again: "That girl, you have to make it clear to me after all. You'd better do it as soon as possible -"
　　"Well, I said, you can do whatever you want. Don't say that she's my girlfriend. If she is really my girlfriend, it doesn't matter, you can divide it as you say." It can be said that there is no desire to survive.
The door was ajar, and Xu Zhi saw through the narrow crack in the door a middle-aged woman with an orchid temperament sitting on the sofa in the living room, her face invisible. The woman's voice reminded Xu Zhi of her mother, Ms. Lin Qiudie. Her voice was almost the same, gentle and sharp, and she was also calm when angry. The goose-yellow floral dress she was wearing seemed to be owned by Ms. Lin Qiudie in Xu Zhi's impression.
　　"You're still quibbling!" The lady got a little angry and slammed the teacup on the table. "She's not your girlfriend, so why are you bringing someone to your home? If I can't come, what are you going to do? And look at what you're wearing. What, it’s not that I don’t allow you to fall in love, but there are some things you can’t let me make it impossible to end! The girl’s father is not someone who can be dismissed casually.”
　　He seemed to sneer.
　　"That's not good. You don't have to work hard to find a reason to throw me out of the country."
　　"What kind of attitude do you have! Do you think we care too much? If you are not satisfied with us, you should say, don't talk to me I'm very yin and yang."
　　The owner of the shadow stood at the entrance with his back turned. The man was tall and thin. Taking advantage of his superior figure, he was dressed very casually. He was very... "caught in bed", as if he just grabbed two pieces of clothing and put them on casually in a hurry.
　　The upper body is a wide and wide jersey, and the lower body is still school pants with the No. 1 Middle School logo printed on it. However, his shoulders are broad and straight, and the whole person is just right and well-proportioned. Although he is thin but not thin, the lines are smooth and sharp, and he has a typical standard clothes rack—— A boy of this level.
　　Xu Zhi remembered that Cai Yingying had indeed said that not only the grades of No. 1 Middle School were severely involved, but even the handsome boys were involuntarily involved.
　　Xu Zhi's eyes fell on his school pants with the logo printed on them. Compared to Ruijun's colorful uniforms, the uniforms of No. 1 Middle School have always been so disciplined and upright.
　　But that guy obviously didn't look like a decent person. He was leaning against the shoe cabinet at the door, holding his pocket with one hand. His school uniform jacket hung loosely on his shoulders, and he lazily stepped on a basketball full of signatures with one foot. Despite the crazy bombardment, hr could still calmly order takeout for himself.
　　"What are you ordering again!" The lady obviously knew him well, "Do you only know how to eat all day long?"
　　"You can't even eat?" he said adding fuel to the fire, "Then I'll ask the hospital later, when I was born Didn't you forget to tell me that I'm made of iron?"
　　"Do you have to be so prickly when you talk?"
　　He sighed, "Hey, didn't you know I was a prick on the first day you met me?"
　　"What? Were you born with a knife?"
　　The lady probably felt that she had done something wrong, so she was silent for a moment, then changed the topic, "You stayed with your grandfather at the police station all night last night?"
"Otherwise? The other party refused to keep it private."
　　"Nonsense, that's professionalism. It's just because your grandpa is so stupid that he would be fooled." The lady paused. Seeing that he didn't want to express any opinions to the elders, the topic went back to the topic, "That girl just now, is this your first time to bring her back or have you already-"
　　"Accepted, I said she is not, you just hope she is, I am too lazy to explain." She was extremely impatient.
　　The corridor was quiet, and the cicadas screamed loudly outside the window, trying to cover up all the discordant sounds. The lady's voice finally became gentle -
　　"I don't care about you, you are going abroad soon anyway, let me handle these messy things." Okay. Also, when you called me at the police station last night, I was in a meeting at the station and it didn't end until three in the morning. I didn't know until I received a call from the police in the morning that I didn't intentionally not answer your call." "Well, Understood." He was surprisingly easy to talk to at the moment. He didn't intend to go into details with her, and he didn't bother to ask what happened after three o'clock. He grabbed a piece of hair and slowly stood up from the shoe cabinet like a sloth, "I'm lying down. In a moment."
　　The lady stopped him: "Wait a minute, change your clothes first, and accompany me to Professor Jiang's house."
　　He probably laughed angrily, and his back arched silently.
He  stood up and leaned back again, "You might as well send me to the national team to sign up for the Ironman 18 events."
　　When he said this, Chen Luzhou glanced back at the corridor without knowing why, and his eyes naturally met Xu Zhi's outside the door. But he didn't pay attention at the moment, and quickly turned back, leaning against him with his eyes closed, as if everything was empty, and shamelessly continued to fight against his mother:
　　"Mom, I haven't slept all day, I just give it to you. Being an escort means you have to work three shifts - "
　　"Chen Luzhou! Can you please be more serious for me!"
　　It's true that Xu Zhi has been naughty since she was a child and speaks without restraint. Ms. Lin Qiudie's mantra is also: You Can you be more serious for me?
　　He sighed, "Hey, Mom, don't be angry. I haven't said anything more serious yet. However, I have never disobeyed any of your intentions. In Zhu Yangqi's words, I am more or less. Half a mom's boy, whether you want me to go abroad or repeat my studies, you can do whatever you want. I also promise that I will get your consent when I have a girlfriend in the future. Is that okay? Can I go to bed?"
　　"You really don't know what's good or bad -"
　　The middle-aged woman's voice stopped suddenly because a strange face suddenly appeared in her sight.
　　Xu Zhi probably missed the days of quarreling with her mother too much. Such exchanges of words were quite enjoyable and filled with mixed emotions. Xu Zhi was like a rabbit with erect ears, slowly walking down the steps. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that she is "watching".
　　Exhausted, Chen Luzhou raised his head and let out a long breath, speechless and extremely helpless: "Mom, I'm really sleepy -" Before he finished speaking, he probably saw his mother's eyes deviating from the track of their original exchange of sights, so he frowned. He turned back impatiently.
　　There were flaming clouds rolling in the sky, and the setting sun was like a painting hand. A few strokes reflected the entire narrow corridor warmly and picturesquely.
　　Their eyes suddenly met again. Both pairs of eyes were actually emotionless and extremely cold, just like two glasses of frothing cold beer mixed together in a summer day. No one could tell which one was stronger.
　　This guy's eyebrows and eyes are very smooth, with a strong sense of aloofness. His eyelids and corners of his mouth are very thin. When he doesn't smile, he has a cold air that "is hard to fool."
　　Xu Zhi has a round face, small and delicate facial features, and her appearance is actually very good. The disadvantage is in her eyes. She is calm and sharp. She always has an aloofness, so when she looks at people directly, she will look a bit "unintentional".
　　It would be very embarrassing if being easy to fool and having bad intentions collide. Whoever speaks first will lose.
　　"..."
　　"..."
　　But in fact, Xu Zhi was hesitating in her heart whether to say I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, just hearing your mother's voice and thinking of my dead mother - it doesn't seem right to say this.
Then looking at his eyes, she suddenly remembered what Lao Xu said, people with honest eyes and honest hearts will not be too stupid. I don’t know if this brother is sincere or not, but his eye-catching behavior is real. Anyway, it’s not easy to fool him. His intelligence is written in his eyes.
　　Xu Zhi decided to admit it sincerely and apologize, but before she could open her mouth, she was blocked by a word.
　　"How about we add a WeChat account? Next time you want to hear someone get scolded, buy a ticket from me in advance and I'll give you a seat at the door?" Chen Luzhou pulled off the school uniform jacket from his shoulders and tied it around his waist. He dosen’t know what to cover up, and then he leaned half of his body out, with a sincere expression of "I think about you," "How tiring it is to stand and listen to people being scolded."
"That's right-- I'm sorry."
　　Before Xu Zhi could finish speaking, there was a loud bang sound, and he closed the door with a shocking sound. Evil fire was spread inexplicably, and the wind he brought up was mixed with an unfamiliar breath, and it blew coldly and sharply. A look on her face.
　　In summer, the trees are filled with crimson flowers, and the shadows of the trees are swinging on the ground. In Xu Zhi's ears, there are still faint lingering sounds in the house, mixed with the tireless sound of cicadas, vibrating in that hot and bright June.
　　"What are you talking about?" The lady, like Ms. Lin Qiudie, also has a mouth full of Zhuji, and she will not let him go no matter what, "Is there anyone like you who talks to girls like you? You are so proud of your love, aren't you? Will you get sores on your mouth if you talk nicely?" "I can't tell you, that's it." He walked in with his slippers and replied nonchalantly, "In your eyes, if I talk to a dog, it's just chatting up."
　　"Just pretend, you are the best at deceiving people. I don't care about you. Also, if you want to wear a coat, wear it properly. What are you doing with it tied to your waist? It's just a fool's errand."
　　"As for the knock on the door just now, I had time to find it. I am not wearing underwear. Didn't you see that she was just staring at me?"
　　Xu Zhi:? ? ? ? ? ? ?

　　I watched, can I just die?