Ji Xincheng was concentrating on lunch, and when Song Qi's name popped up on her phone, she was stunned.

"If you don't answer the phone, what are you looking at!"

Zhou Yan happened to enter her room, and when she saw her staring at the phone in a daze, she poked her head out and asked in confusion.

Ji Xincheng smiled at her and suddenly picked up the phone.

"Song Qi?"

"It's me, Xincheng."

His mobile phone number still hasn't changed, this is the first thought that flashed in Ji Xincheng's mind.

His voice came from years to come, giving people a sense of being out of this world.

Putting down the chopsticks, Ji Xincheng drank saliva first, then cleared his throat before saying, "You, are you okay?" Song Qi, where are you now? ”

"I'm still in Dragon City, and now I'm a lingering lecturer at our school."

As if he knew that she would ask this, and had prepared the answer for a long time, he said it flatly.

Ji Xincheng bit his lip, he didn't know what to say first for a while, he had too many things to say, and he couldn't get a word out of it.

In the silence, Song Qi opened his mouth first and said, "Xincheng, do you know that Ah Xuan is back?" ”

“…… I know, did she contact you? ”

"Well, ask me to meet later, and say that you want to know about the things of the year, Xincheng, what happened to you back then......"

Ji Xincheng's expression changed slightly, and he said to Song Qi: "Song Qi, if Ah Xuan asks about the things back then, don't speak for me!" ”

"Why? Did she misunderstand you? ”

"Tang Tang and I lay in the hospital for several days, and I don't know how long Ah Xuan waited for us at the scene of the accident...... She should hate me, Song Qi, please don't help me intercede. ”

Song Qi had a bad premonition in his heart and asked, "Did something happen to Ah Xuan?" ”

“……”

Ji Xincheng endured the great pain in his heart, and was silent for a while before saying to Song Qi: "Let's meet another day and talk about it in detail, in short, you must not help me speak, even if you do me a great favor, okay?" ”

"Xincheng, I always want to know why."

Maybe it's because he became a teacher, but his tone sounds much deeper than in the past, and it can't be ignored.

"Ah Xuan hates me very much now, all these years, she may have been supporting me through her hatred, if suddenly she no longer has a reason to do this, I don't know what will happen to her next, I can't take this risk Song Qi! She hated me, and it didn't really hurt me, I might as well just let her hate it all the time, besides, it was really because of me that I had an accident and made things worse......"

She put her fist to her lip and bit the dent in the knuckle of her finger.

Song Qi was silent for a long time, but in the end, he was still not persuaded by Ji Xincheng.

"Xin Cheng, I won't lie to Ah Xuan, I will tell the truth."

……

Song Qi was dressed in cotton and linen plain pants and shirts, silver-rimmed glasses, and his skin was whiter than that of ordinary boys, which made him look younger.

Shang Xuan entered the café and recognized Song Qi at first sight, but she didn't immediately walk over, but looked at him silently for a while in the position behind him.

She couldn't say exactly what they were looking at, maybe it was their memories, she thought.

"Song Qi."

When Shang Xuan finally came to the opposite side of Song Qi and greeted him, the man who was still very calm looking out the window suddenly looked back, as if he was frozen.

"Ah Xuan."

Shang Xuan was dressed in a light-colored casual suit, white cloth shoes, and her hair was tied into a low ponytail at the back of her head, she was a little thinner than in the past, just a little, but it gave Song Qi a sense of rebirth, and the Shang Xuan in front of her did not seem to be the same as the person in her memory.

He fixed his gaze on her face, but he seemed to be looking at his own boiling heart and past.

"What do you two drink?"

If it hadn't been for the waiter's timely interruption of the star-gaze, maybe they would have been able to stand like this forever.

"Sit down."

Shang Xuan glanced at the waiter, obviously, she seemed more calm among the two people, perhaps because of her experience over the years, she was indeed better at disguise than Song Qi.

Song Qi came back to his senses under Shang Xuan's reminder, sat down again, and listened to Shang Xuan and the waiter opposite:

"I want a cup of white water, he wants a cup of green tea."

"Okay, please wait."

The waiter retreated, and Shang Xuan said to Song Qi: "I'm sorry, I didn't find a teahouse nearby, this café also sells tea, it may not be better than a teahouse, you will just take it." ”

She spoke calmly, as if they were ordinary friends who had never been in touch.

Song Qi reminded himself inwardly to control his emotions and take a deep breath to calm himself down.

"It's okay, I can do it all."

Both of them saw the waiter coming from afar, and their eyes fell on the waiter, and when they saw her leave after putting down the white water, their eyes unconsciously met in mid-air, and after a while, they turned away.

"You're a teacher?"

Shang Xuan asked lightly.

"Yes, after graduating from graduate school, I didn't know what to do, so I continued to stay in school with my supervisor."

"You have such a good personality, you are very suitable to be a teacher."

Song Qi raised his eyes to look at Shang Xuan, but Shang Xuan lowered his gaze from him, as if he was avoiding something.

"Ah Xuan, what's wrong with your face?"

He asked this as lightly as he could, the question he wanted to ask at first sight.

Shang Xuan was a little surprised, she deliberately put on makeup when she went out today, and she had tried her best to hide it more than before, and he could still see it.

Brushing the half of the bangs uncomfortably, he said casually:

"A little scar, it doesn't matter."

Song Qi didn't let go of her, and asked tightly: "Is it related to the accident back then?" ”

Shang Xuan originally wanted to ask about that incident again, but he didn't expect him to mention it first, so he also relaxed and asked Song Qidao:

"Do you remember that accident?"

"Why don't you remember!"

He suddenly became excited, which surprised Shang Xuan a little.

But at this time, the waiter came over and put down a cup of tea in front of Song Qi, and the person he was supposed to thank here couldn't turn his head away because he couldn't turn around in an instant, and looked out the window.

Shang Xuan thanked him and the waiter for him, and looked at his resolute side face in the interval.

Song Qi has lost weight and looks more calm, compared with the youth and vigor of the past, today's Song Qi will probably make people feel more at ease.

"Song Qi, I heard that you went to the hospital to find me?"

He turned his head, the thoughts surging in his eyes seemed to calm down, looked at Shang Xuan, and nodded.

"Can you tell me about the situation?"

"Can I know where you've been before you know that?"

The pain in his eyes, I am afraid that he can't hide it even if he tries his best, Shang Xuan is a little unbearable, and bows his head and drinks saliva.

"I was rescued by a kind Samaritan passing by the day after the accident, and after that, I lived in a nursing home for a long time, and then I accidentally got a job I wanted, so I didn't go back to school."

She talked lightly about the tormented years, and no one could see the painful expression on her face.

Song Qi stared at her for a long time before asking, "Is that really the case?" ”

"Of course."

Shang Xuan, who rarely wears makeup, added a little blush, which made her complexion look much better, and even her slightly cold smile warmed up.

Song Qi couldn't take his eyes off it, and listened to her say seriously: "Look at me now, don't I sit in front of you?" ”

It was hard for him to imagine what Ji Xincheng said, saying that Shang Xuan had supported himself with hatred for Ji Xincheng until now, and Shang Xuan in front of him didn't look like a person who lived with hatred.

No matter what, Song Qi believed that what he saw with his eyes, at least Shang Xuan was safe and sound at the moment, as long as she lived well, there was nothing that could not be solved, he thought.

"On the day the three of you drove out to play, I was in the laboratory, and I didn't know until the evening that there was a heavy rainstorm in Longcheng once in decades, and the news of flash flood warnings had been broadcast in the news, I was very worried, but I called your mobile phone, and I didn't answer.

"I know that Xin Cheng and Tang Tang may not, but if you see my miss, no matter where you are, you will definitely call me back the next day, I will wait until noon the next day, there is still no news, and then call your mobile phone, it will be turned off and unreachable.

"I went to find Ji Xinran, she didn't know where you went, she only said that she borrowed the family's car, and I asked her to help confirm your location,...... She refused, saying that you might have had too much fun somewhere.

"But I know it's not like that, you're the calmest of the three, and if you really go somewhere and don't come back for the night, you'll definitely tell me in advance, but you didn't that time. So I went to the police at around 2 p.m. that day, but the police told me that I could not file a case on the grounds that I was not a relative.

"I had no choice, so I had to find an acquaintance who works in the bureau and leave a photo for him to keep an eye on me."

Song Qi didn't actually finish speaking, but Shang Xuan couldn't help but blurt out at this time and interrupted him: "The acquaintance in the bureau you are talking about, is it Wu Ming?" ”

Song Qi had a slight swallowing movement, if it was in the past, he would be afraid of Shang Xuan's eyes at this moment, but now that many years have passed, he is no longer the young man who is powerless to protect her, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

Nodding, "The only thing I could think of at the time was him." ”

"You're crazy!"

This rebuke was owed by Shang Xuan to Song Qi back then, but Song Qi didn't wait for it back then, after many years, Song Qi thought about it, and only felt the sadness of the passage of time.

"Ah Xuan, I can't help it."

- When I couldn't find you, I was already crazy!

"You can't go and can't go to him, you forgot? He's the one who turned your whole family into ......"

Reason made her stop talking in time, pursed her lips, and turned her head to the side, but it was not difficult to see her anger, after so many years, she still grabbed what she had in her hand when she was angry.

Looking at Shang Xuan's ten fingers tightly pinched to the white knuckles on the transparent water cup, Song Qi only felt like a fish in his throat.

He didn't know what state she was in now, married? Or do you have a boyfriend? He didn't dare to ask, as if he didn't know as if he didn't exist.

"I haven't forgotten, Ah Xuan, it's just that the situation was special at the time, and I can put other things aside first."

Hearing that his tone was already ebbing, Shang Xuan felt a little too excited, and took a sip of water before relieving his expression.

"Did he say yes when you asked him? Didn't give you any conditions? ”

"Naturally, there are conditions, he always asked me to be an informant for him back then, because he was in a hurry, I agreed, but then it seems that I didn't help him do those things, because I left Dragon City after that, and he couldn't find me."

When he said this, the sad look he had always had seemed to be different, it was the pity and sigh that people had for their weak selves in the past after they were strong enough, and the painful experience at the beginning now seems to be about a precious experience.

Shang Xuan looked at Song Qi's eyes, and really realized that this man was no longer the powerless teenager who ran away with him in the past, he had grown into what he wanted, and he was somewhat relieved.

"I saw the news later, and your family's case was rehabilitated, but I still think that the punishment for people like Wu Ming is too light."

"No matter how they are punished, my family will not come back, so when the media asked me if I was going to pursue it, I said that I had gotten what I wanted, and as for them, it was a matter of the law."

Song Qi talked about this matter very blandly, and it was about the real past in his heart.

"What's more, he did help me in your affairs back then."

"He helped you find out where we are?"

"Well, after Ji Xincheng and them were hospitalized, the hospital couldn't contact their families, so they reported to the police."