"Qixi," Sister Hui looked at her, "Let me ask you a question, if someone gives you tens of millions to make a film, will you say that I don't want to give you millions?" ”

Qixi pursed his lips and shook his head: "No." ”

"So it's boring to think about this, let's film well, don't make a moth, be worthy of other people's works, and do the charity that should be done."

After speaking, Sister Hui asked tentatively, "Qixi, why did you suddenly ask this question?" What about Teacher Ji? ”

Qixi's eyelashes moved slightly, and without saying a word, he picked up the brush and continued to paint.

Seeing her like this, Sister Hui vaguely understood in her heart, didn't say anything, got up and told Xiao Xiao to let her stay alone.

The two of them walked out together.

Qixi painted for a few minutes, occasionally putting down the brush, looking at her and not knowing what she was drawing in a daze.

After a while, her eyes moved, she took out her mobile phone and clicked on the button, and her fingers inertly pulled down, clicking on someone's name.

looked at the two pieces of information and was in a daze for a while.

She has read these two sentences several times in three days.

"I'm sorry."

The next one was sent late at night.

"I'm going on a business trip for a while, and my return date is uncertain."

A good business trip?

Isn't it on vacation?

Remembering what he said, he didn't have time at any time.

Well! So it should be a real business trip.

Qixi sighed, picked up the paintbrush and continued to paint.

In the early morning of City C, the sky was still gray and did not light up.

Ji Fan took off his anti-static suit, took out his mobile phone from the safe, pressed it, and turned it off automatically when the power was out.

He stood down, then put on his coat and walked out, Lao Lei walked in, "Ji Fan, wait a minute, let's go together." ”

After Lao Lei changed his clothes, the two walked to the guest house next to the measurement and control center together.

November in City C is already very cold, and the early morning is even more cold, and the sky and the earth are dark and silent, only the faint street lights illuminate the road under your feet.

Blown by the wind, Lao Lei shrunk his neck, looked at Ji Fan, and teased: "I went out to wave for a month, but my profession was not wasted." ”

"The credit is the people's TT&C center," Ji Fan still had the data hovering in his mind, "The life of the spacecraft has still been affected." ”

"At the beginning, we designed the life of three years together, and now it is overdue service, and the cause of this failure is not in the overall design," Lao Lei yawned and shook his head vigorously, "This spaceship is the first model you participated in the design, and it is also the first time we have cooperated." ”

"Hmm."

"If you succeed, do you really want to take it to other spaces?"

Ji Fan smiled, "It's boring to sit alone." ”

Old Lei pondered his words for a moment, "What do you mean?" Do you want to bring a friend?"

Ji Fan skipped the topic and looked at his tired eyes, "You go back to rest early, right?" ”

Lao Lei nodded, suddenly smiled, and asked, "The first time I saw you, what do you think I'm thinking?" ”

"I want to ......" Ji Fan smiled, "Why is this person so handsome." ”

"It's shameless," Lao Lei scolded with a smile, "How to say it, it's true, the first time I saw you, I thought, yo, he's good, I've got a façade, but it's only been half a month, and you gave me an overall optimization plan, I thought to myself, this is simply a good match for talent and appearance." ”

Ji Fan was helpless, "Pay attention to the words, don't embarrass us engineering students." ”

Lao Lei smiled and said coldly: "Then why don't we talk about something else?" ”

"Why don't you go back to accompany your wife?

"It's still early, and going back will wake up my wife," he paused, "I want to talk to you about money." ”

Ji Fan's footsteps slowed, "The teacher told you?" ”

"Well, but it's not a teacher, it's Mr. Liu who called me and asked me to knock on the side," Lao Lei said and suddenly thought, "I think about what difficulties you have?" Actually, it's your home, right? ”

He suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, I remember, you answered a phone call a month ago, speaking in dialect, and that call should have come from your home, and then the next day I saw that something was wrong with you." ”

Ji Fan was silent for a moment before he spoke: "It's okay at home, it's because I'm distracted."

"That's good," Lao Lei breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't ask again, "I didn't expect you to really go to investment banking, it really makes me a little curious, investment banking is really so profitable?" Is there really a million just graduated? ”

"Look at people and opportunities, someone can earn before the financial crisis, and the year I graduated belongs to the financial crisis has passed, so it will be good if I do investment banking."

Ji Fan took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Lei.

Lao Lei took it and said: "Back then, if I went to Google, it would be a high salary, not to mention Google, it would be good to go to NASA, but if I am not a foreigner, I will probably never be able to contact the core technology, and once there is a result, it is not theirs, I don't have a human perspective."

"Do you know why I never kept you? Because I never thought you'd go. I've always felt that you and I are the same person, in my wife's words, four words, out of place. This spaceship is a plan that we designed, demonstrated, and proposed together. I don't think you can bear it, and I bet people that if you leave, I'll treat them to a meal. ”

Ji Fan looked down at the cigarette in his hand intently, "Then you can also invite me to eat." ”

Lao Lei glanced at him, "I have a question, no one can say for sure about the failure of this spaceship, we solved it in three days this time, but it takes a few months, if it is really a few months, can the investment bank wait for you?" Or do you just leave without saying this? ”

Ji Fan didn't answer, he lit a cigarette, and the faint flame was extinguished in a flash.

Seeing this, Lao Lei did not continue the topic just now.

He smoked quickly, and in a few minutes he pulled out his cigarette case and lit another one.

Ji Fan frowned: "Smoking less is not good for your health." ”

"Isn't this staying up late to refresh yourself, when you go home in a while, your sister-in-law will have to worry when she sees me listless," Lao Lei remembered one thing, "By the way, I almost forgot, your sister-in-law has a junior sister who wants to introduce to you." ”

Lao Lei's tone was a little sour, "People took a look at the photo of me and you, and asked if I had a girlfriend, being handsome is taking advantage, I chased your sister-in-law back then, but it took a lot of effort!" ”

Ji Fan took a puff of cigarette and said, "Help me refuse." ”

"Rejected without thinking about it? I've seen it once, and it's beautiful, why don't you see it first?. ”

"No need."

Seeing that he was unmoved, Lao Lei also stopped.

After a while, Ji Fan spoke by himself, "Recently, I met a ......."

There was a pause.

Hearing this, Lao Lei's spirit was shocked, "Girl? ”

"Well, it's quite clever, it's just a little skinny......"

"Okay," Lao Lei was interested, "I just met on vacation?" ”

"No, high school classmates."

"High school classmates? Why are you talking about it now? ”

He added: "I'm not talking. ”

"What, people don't like you? Not really. ”

Ji Fan didn't speak, but his eyes were bright.

Lao Lei immediately understood, "You can do it, it's really not old." ”

The two of them were smoking and talking, Gradually, a glimmer of light appeared in the distant sky, but the stars above their heads had not yet disappeared, and they were still shining.

The universe is vast, and there are hundreds of millions of stars, and there is one that he and his colleagues have worked hard to make before.

Lao Lei's question, if this mission takes a month or even a few months, will he leave?

He didn't answer, and Lao Lei didn't ask, because they knew in their hearts that he wouldn't.

I can't help but think of a sentence.

I am you, how can you bear to waste me, the truth of love is more precious than imaginary dreams.

But this dream is indeed true, and it is the deepest part of his heart.

His current blood boiling all comes from this dream of his, when the blood is hot, how can he withdraw and leave.

But Ji Fan couldn't help but ask himself again in his heart, did he really want to give up?

He hadn't thought about it for a while, he thought he was firm, but after a few days and nights, there was a little wavering.

Maybe he should think again.

There should be a way.

The last trace of smoke dissipated in front of his eyes, and suddenly a pair of eyes as bright as stars flashed in his mind, and the owner of those eyes was probably sleeping carefree in a sweet dream.

A trace of softness appeared in his heart in an instant, dispelling the chill on his body, his eyebrows stretched a little, and he turned around to remind Lao Lei: "It's dawn, take the car back!" ”

Lao Lei didn't answer, he stood there with a cigarette in his finger and didn't move.

Ji Fan looked at his side face, and his heart jumped suddenly, "Old Lei?"

The thin man's eyes blinked, but he still didn't move, and the next moment, the whole person fell to the ground as if it had collapsed.

On this day, Sister Hui came to Sister Qixi again, and when she saw Qixi's sketches in the past few days, she sighed with some emotion, "More than a month ago, you were still a little white, and now you are really an expert, if you don't know that this painting was painted by you, I really thought it was painted by a professional painter, your skills, the competition should be sure, right?" ”

Qixi said: "No matter how good the technology is, you may lose, and if you are not good, you may win." A month ago I vowed to win the competition, and now I suddenly understand that technology is uncontrollable and there is no such thing as a guaranteed win. The pros will lose, and of course I will lose, as long as I show my best self. ”

Sister Hui didn't expect her to have such a mentality, this time the teacher is not here, why is she stable when she looks at her?

Sister Hui stayed for a while and left.

Qixi flipped out the date in her phone.

It's already December 1st.

Ji Fan disappeared for ten full days.

Now, though, she doesn't really need him either.

Every day, I still draw alone, and my skills still improve.

It's just that there is one less person to accompany her to watch her drawings and help her with technical analysis.

Qixi doesn't seem to be in the mood to paint today, so she clicked on WeChat and wanted to talk to Qiqi.

Then the new friend has a friend verification somewhere.

She clicked in and saw that it was Ji Fan.

She forgot to add him on WeChat.

She is not a hypocritical person, so she immediately passed.

Just passed, a voice came from the other end.

Qixi did not hesitate and answered directly.

However, Ji Fan on the other side did not speak.

Qixi suddenly felt a burst of anger.

What is it to speak without speaking?