Chapter 8: Jealousy
Zhong Qing knocked on the car window, and Ji Mingchen leaned over and opened the co-pilot's door.
"Where are we going?" Zhong Qing sat in and took the initiative to ask.
"Huiyuan Building." Ji Mingchen turned the car around and drove on the main road.
Zhong Qing seemed to take a long time to pull this name out of her memory, and sighed: "How many meals we ate there at that time! Is Xu Ye tired of eating potato bread? I also have to go to Huiyuan Building to eat. ”
There is a Huiyuan Building known as a century-old shop at 100 meters on the left side of Ningzhong, although the name is antique, but the decoration of the hotel is very modern, the dishes inside are very rich, and the price is not expensive, so it is very popular with the students of Ningzhong Middle School.
At the beginning, as soon as there was a long vacation, Ji Mingchen and Zhong Qing would gather here with a few friends.
A Huiyuan Building evoked a lot of Ji Mingchen's thoughts, "I haven't been there since I graduated, but he can still remember it." ”
"I went there once the year before last, and the food was good, but the business was not as good as before."
"Nowadays, children love to eat fast food, and the Chinese restaurant next to the school naturally has no business."
Zhong Qing looked out the car window, the neon lights flashed in all colors, and suddenly remembered the cheesy color of the light sign in Huiyuan Building many years ago, "At that time, me and you, Tong Tong, Xu Ye and Xiao Long, the five of us always gathered there." ”
"Most of the time it's for copying homework."
"I remember one time, on the last night before the start of the third year of high school, we opened a private room, and as soon as we finished eating, we began to pass homework to each other, and when we copied mathematics, Tong Tong and Xiao Long almost fought for your homework book, and later I saw that the time couldn't catch up, and the English multiple-choice questions were directly written blindly." Zhong Qing laughed out loud as she spoke, and Ji Mingchen was also amused.
"You have a good memory."
Zhong Qing hesitated, "You don't even remember?" ”
"I remember, but I don't know as well as you do." Ji Mingchen paused for a moment and continued: "It's only been ten years since I left, and some things have almost been forgotten."
"Maybe you don't think it's important, so you don't bother to remember."
"It's not that it's not important, it's that it's been too long." Ji Mingchen didn't say anything when he saw it, and explained: "Like me and Xu Ye, I originally thought we would be brothers for life, after graduating from high school and going to college, the relationship has always been very good, and after he went abroad, I also graduated and looked for a job, I was too busy to chat, and slowly became estranged, sometimes I want to contact him, I can't find a reason and I don't want to spend that effort, if he doesn't come back to inform me this time, I may not have been in touch with him for two years."
Zhong Qing sighed, "After you moved, the one I looked for the most was Xu Ye, it turns out that the two of you are also-" Zhong Qing thought for a long time, and came up with a very literary word, "Rival time".
Ji Mingchen nodded and sighed.
"It's also fun, I thought I would have a good relationship with him, but the phone call was the same as it was at the beginning."
After a long time, the relationship may fade, but the feeling is still there, and a greeting and a gesture can pull two people back to the previous atmosphere.
Zhong Qing was very touched at first, but the more she listened, the more angry she became.
"Then we've all had two meals, why can't we be the same as we were at the beginning?"
Ji Mingchen braked sharply and almost ran a red light.
When Zhong Qing came back to her senses, she found that Ji Mingchen's hand was stretched out in front of her chest to prevent her from being hit forward by the inertia of being braked. It was only a second or two just now, and he still remembered to protect her!
The picture of nine years ago flashed in Zhong Qing's mind, and at the last moment, Ji Mingchen instinctively fell to the ground under Zhong Qing's body.
Zhong Qing was afraid for a while, and the ghost envoy took Ji Mingchen's hand and shook it, and apologized carefully.
"I was wrong, I'm never going to mess with you while you're driving again!"
Ji Mingchen felt that he was really depressed, and he made a fool of himself in front of Zhong Qing, and as a result, Zhong Qing was gagged. The hand was tightly held by Zhong Qing, and he didn't want to take it back for the time being, Zhong Qing used to rub his thumb in his palm, and the soft touch was still in his memory, but suddenly he was a little indulged in it again, just thinking that time would stop, and this road would never end.
Ji Mingchen cleared his throat and said, "You admit your mistake too quickly!"
Zhong Qing laughed, "Sister Qian also said that I can't do anything, but I have a good attitude and admit my mistakes faster than anyone else." ”
"Sister Qian?"
"Oh, it's just a lawyer in my class, he's a nice guy." Zhong Qing suddenly remembered that Wu Qianqian had introduced herself to the object today.
"By the way, Sister Qian is also very good to me, and she introduced me to a boyfriend today, saying that she chose the best high-quality man for me."
"How good?" Ji Mingchen's voice was muffled.
"I heard that he is tall and handsome, looks like Lin Feng, and his family is rich......" Zhong Qing observed Ji Mingchen's reaction while talking nonsense.
Ji Mingchen's side face was tense, probably because he was trying to close his lips and teeth, and then he wanted to take out the hand that was in Zhong Qing's palm.
Zhong Qing deliberately quipped: "Huh? What are you doing? ”
Ji Mingchen didn't speak, staring ahead and driving.
"I saw his photo, and I like it, do you want to see it?"
"Don't."
"Why?"
"When driving, safety comes first." Ji Mingchen leaked these words out of his mouth with a serious face, and he couldn't hide the loss in his eyes.
When he drove to an intersection, Ji Mingchen stopped and waited for the red light, and Zhong Qing reminded him, "Well, it's safe now, just take a second to take a look, I won't delay you." ”
"Don't you want to know what kind of boy I like best?"
Before Ji Mingchen's "no" was exported, Zhong Qing sent the mobile phone to him.
The picture on the mobile phone shows 18-year-old Ji Mingchen, sitting on the viewing table of the football field in a school uniform, with his back to the sun, feeling like all the lights are behind him.