[R18] So and so – “Someone” 96, nonsense [English]

Sheng Wang had selfish motives when he chose to switch majors, including the group where he would stay after joining the company.

There was once a popular saying that the distance between any two strangers in the world would not exceed six people.Sheng Wang had imagined more than once that if he received enough external business and his network of relationships covered enough, he and Jiang Tian would meet unexpectedly on some occasion.

Then we can’t blame he for being disconnected. We should say that things are impermanent or destined, and he will be less burdened and worried when he speaks.

Little did he know that when the day actually came, he opened his mouth and forgot to say anything.

He wants to say, “I dreamed of you when I went to sleep this morning.”

Like countless times before, Jiang Tian was wearing a large T-shirt and a blue and white school uniform with the front open and the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He was sitting on the bay window with one leg bent and a white wireless headset plugged in to answer questions.

The sun is too bright outside, the air conditioner is humming, and the temperature in the bedroom is always very low.The person on the window sill turned around and said: Don’t rock the chair when you endorse.

He also dreamed of Jiang Tian lying on the table catching up on his sleep, his left hand still resting on the back of his neck, frowning impatiently when someone woke him up.When walking, I walk leisurely. I go up and down the stairs three steps at a time. After running, I will shed a thin layer of sweat, which is flamboyant and cold.

But Shengwang said nothing in the end, because the boy in the dream had taken off his school uniform and put on an unfamiliar dark coat.he came from afar, covered in dust, and when you look at it from a few meters away, it looks like fog rising early in the winter morning.

It wasn’t until this moment that Sheng Wang realized belatedly that they had been separated for too long.The world is moving forward very fast, and it will not slow down because of two people.Time can change too many things, and even rocks can be ground into sand.

He suddenly felt a little nostalgic.

The box door was pushed open, and a colleague came over and patted Sheng Wang on the shoulder: “Aren’t you picking up someone? Why are you standing here as a log?”

Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment before looking away from Jiang Tian, turning around and asking, “What did you just say?”

Another doctor of the professor poked his head out from inside, laughed “Oh”, waved to Jiang Tian through the crowd and said: “It’s not easy, we are finally here. You have been stuck in traffic for a long time. The professor has been thinking about you for a long time!”

Then several people came out and crowded in between Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian. They were chatting and laughing and surrounded them as they entered.

Sheng Wang returned to his seat as if sleepwalking, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.He was burned so hard that the tip of his tongue hurt, and his suddenly contracted heart slowly relaxed, pumping blood to his limbs, and his numb fingers finally gained warmth and feeling.

Sheng Wang raised his eyes and saw Jiang Tian being pushed to sit next to the professor.He took off his coat, revealing a clean and well-fitting shirt underneath, and answered the professor’s question while unbuttoning the collar.

He seemed to be absent-minded, just nodding or replying simple words. When he unbuttoned his cuffs and folded them, he finally raised his eyes and looked over here. His eyes crossed the round table and the laughter in the room, and landed on Sheng Wang.

The sharp-eyed colleague asked almost immediately: “Hey, I just thought about it. You two don’t know each other, right?”

Everyone at the table stopped talking and looked over with interest, their eyes scanning back and forth between the two of them.

Sheng Wang was stunned for a moment, inexplicably finding this scene ridiculous and a bit funny.When I was in high school, I would never have imagined that one day he and Jiang Tian would be sitting at the same table, at the far ends of the table, and the person next to him would actually say in surprise, “So you know each other.”

He nodded stiffly and heard Jiang Tian say “hmm” at the same time.

“College classmate?”

“No.” Sheng Wang said.

“I remember you weren’t in China when you were in college, right?” Jiang Tian’s classmate just mentioned it casually, but the two people at the table looked at each other and fell into a subtle silence.

For a moment, Sheng Wang hoped that all the extra people around him would disappear.Because all of he’s attention is fixed on the other side of the table, and he has no time to distract himself from dealing with other he.

Fortunately, my colleague Zhang Chao is a talkative person and will not let the conversation go blank for even a second: “You studied in college outside? That’s good. I thought I would be surrounded by the school next door while I was eating. It saved me a comparative verbal battle.”

The people at the table burst into laughter.

Zhang Chao added: “If it’s not a university… then is it a high school?”

Jiang Tian said: “One class.”

The classmate on the right patted him and said: “You have an old classmate here, you didn’t tell me earlier!”

This person’s emotional intelligence was slightly lagging behind, and it was not appropriate to react after he had finished speaking.There are old classmates at the dinner party, but the parties involved are not aware of it, which can only mean one thing – although they are classmates, the relationship is obviously not much better, at least they don’t contact each other often, and maybe they don’t even know what the other party does.

Compared with the straight-forward academics opposite, Shengwanghe and his colleagues are much more harmonious here.Zhang Chao immediately answered the call and complained: “How could we have discussed this earlier? We only received the notice this morning that we will be in charge of food tonight.”

The other people immediately laughed, putting aside the subtle embarrassment.

The rather honest-looking doctor stepped on the thunder once and became cautious. He stopped talking about old classmates and focused on praising other people.From the professor to his classmates, he praised Jiang Tian emphatically: “He is great. He applied for a Ph.D. directly after graduating from undergraduate degree. When we first applied, we were trembling with fear for fear of receiving a rejection letter. There is no need to worry about he. The professor has already set his sights on it, and it is stable. Generally speaking, if there is a staff restriction in any meeting he attends, the professor will call him. We all watch eagerly, but we can’t poison him.”

The professor said that Chinese was tongue-tied, but I had no problem listening.He laughed like Santa Claus and said: “Next time, I promise, next time there is such a meeting, I will definitely invite you to accompany me.”

“It’s long overdue Professor, leave he here, at least the girls will thank you.”

The professor laughed.

…

Shengwang felt like a half-rusted iron nail, clearly buzzing and trembling due to the magnet opposite.I had to take half of my attention to listen carefully to their conversation.

He had never been so serious in class, but now he stretched his ears while listening to the chatter, not daring to miss a word.He picked through the jokes and descriptions, sifting out the parts related to Jiang Tian, ​​and pieced together a small corner of the long years.Some feel proud when they hear it, and some feel sour when they hear it.

Those were the years he missed.

The professor was a quarter Russian and was far more interested in wine than food, especially in the cold season.Zhang Chao and the others were very generous, accompanying the guests who came from afar to exchange cups and cups.

Sheng Wang also drank a lot. Every time he picked up the cup, Jiang Tian would look over the cup and plate.

The ceiling lights of the box are gorgeous and complicated, the light is intertwined, and the refraction between the glasses is sometimes confusing.They sat restrainedly at both ends under such chaotic lights, their eyes tangled.

As soon as the cup was empty, he went to hide on the sofa in the corner of the box.

After having had enough wine and food, everyone went to the bathroom one after another. The private room suddenly became deserted, with only two or three people left at the table still chatting quietly.

Sheng Wang took the warm water on the table and poured himself a glass. Jiang Tian came back from the bathroom early, walked around the round table and walked straight over.

Sheng Wang felt as if his acupoints had been tapped, his shoulders and neck were stiff while holding the cup.When he raised his head to drink water, he could even hear the clicking sounds of his own bones and joints.

The sofa sank slightly, and Jiang Tian sat down next to he. He clasped his fingers and could smell the faint smell of hand sanitizer.Sheng Wang turned his gaze to the side and saw the familiar little mole next to his wrist bone.

When they were most intimate, he grabbed Jiang Tian’s hand and kissed it there, and then he grabbed Jiang Tian’s hand and kissed it back.

Sheng Wang’s eyes flickered and he looked away, and the fingers holding the glass unconsciously turned the mouth of the glass.

He and I had sat together like this before. When he was good, he used Jiang Tian as a pillow, but when he was depressed, he was far apart at both ends.But it’s rarely like this moment, when we talk about whether it’s close or not, and whether it’s far or not, we remain silent on both sides.

In fact, there was a lot that Sheng Wang wanted to say, and every sentence rushed to the tip of his tongue, and then he stepped back before speaking.

Did you receive the nonsense I sent you?

Why never come back?

Do you still feel uncomfortable when you think about the past?

Are you still holding on to your feelings or letting go?

Is there anyone better around you?

Who else will make you laugh?

Have you ever had a moment of excitement?

…

When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he couldn’t understand why people who reunited after a long separation always said indifferent words. At this moment, Sheng Wang realized that it wasn’t that he had nothing to say, but that he didn’t dare to ask.It’s like walking through a dense minefield. If you make the wrong step, you will be blown to pieces…

Rather than chatting.

He looked at the clear water swaying in the cup, turned around and asked Jiang Tian: “Have you told Brother Xi and he when you come back?”

“No time.” Jiang Tian said.

“Are you in a hurry?”

Jiang Tian was silent for a moment and said: “It was decided temporarily.”

It was obviously a boring thing to say, but Sheng Wang’s heart tightened for a while, as if it was being tightened and loosened by an invisible hand, over and over again.

He licked his dry lips, paused for a moment and asked, “How long will you stay in the country?”

“Half a year.”

Sheng Wang wiped the cup with his thumb vigorously and nodded.

He could see Jiang Tian’s face from the corner of his eye, with his eyes lowered as if he was watching his little movements.He slipped his thumb and put it away.Jiang Tian looked at it for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sheng Wang wants to ask him: Have I changed a lot? Is it very different from high school?

But before he opened his mouth, he heard Jiang Tian ask in a low voice: “Do you feel uncomfortable after drinking so much wine?”

Sheng Wang blinked and was quiet for a few seconds before saying, “I practiced secretly, so I didn’t pour three glasses of wine.”

Jiang Tian looked at he, who stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the other person’s eyes: “It’s up to five cups.”

He’s expression at that moment was similar to that of his youth when he opened his screen to show off, but he suddenly raised his head and then immediately retracted it.Jiang Tian opened his mouth, and just as he was about to say something, the box door was pushed open from the outside, and chatter and laughter poured in.The group who went to the bathroom and smoked in the smoking room all came back, took their coats from the rack, and exchanged final greetings.

The atmosphere in the corner of the sofa was instantly broken. The professor called Jiang Tian and talked about something quickly, probably about arrangements for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.Zhang Chao grabbed Sheng Wang and busily arranged cars for a table of people.

Although he didn’t exceed the limit, Sheng Wang felt that he was very drunk. His brain was responding to his rapidly beating heart, and he felt dizzy and unable to reach his destination.Every phone call and arrangement is like a conditioned reflex of the body. The tongue has its own consciousness and automatically speaks the right words.

After he ran back and forth twice before entering the box, he found that the room was empty and only he and Zhang Chao were left.At this time, he felt that he was clumsy and had missed too many words to tell Jiang Tian.

He suddenly remembered that when he first joined Class A, he once went to Xile for lunch and forgot to bring money. Jiang Tian came to redeem he with his mobile phone.When the two returned to the classroom, the practice papers for the lunch break had been handed out for a long time, and he only had 15 minutes left. He hurriedly rushed and still missed a lot.

The moment the paper was taken away, this was the feeling I had now.

Zhang Chao also called a driver for Sheng Wang, and the two of them waited for someone to arrive by the open-air parking lot.He is much older than Shengwang. When Shengwang was an intern, he worked under him, and later became his equal.Many times, he is like a worried big brother, keeping an eye on Shengwang to prevent him from working too hard.

He was opening WeChat and adding people to the communication one by one. He said to Shengwang without raising his head: “I’ll push it to you after I finish adding them.”

Shengwang said absently, “I have it.”

Zhang Chao was stunned: “How many people do you have WeChat accounts?”

Only then did Sheng Wang realize that Jiang Tian was the only one, so he changed his words and said, “I made a mistake. Please push me later.”

“Okay.” Zhang Chao nodded.

After he finished adding it, Shengwang’s phone vibrated several times. They were all business cards pushed over by Zhang Chao, but he didn’t look at them immediately.But I heard Zhang Chao suddenly ask: “You and that Dr. Jiang were high school classmates? Why do I feel so different?”

He’s original intention was to ask if they had any conflicts or festivals, but the words had a different meaning to Sheng Wang’s ears.

The night wind in this season was surprisingly cold, so Shengwang pulled his scarf to cover his mouth and nose.He glanced towards the entrance of the parking lot and said, “It’s more than that.”

“What do you say?” Zhang Chao asked.

Sheng Wang thought for a while and said, “My former boyfriend.”

Zhang Chao was so shocked that a breath of wind caught in his throat: “Oh, fuck…”