Open hours

Chapter 21

Ning Jue's house is on the top floor of Building No. [-]. The house is small, clean and bright.It's just that this house is too simple in terms of decoration style and furnishing, and it lacks a little bit of life.

This is the case with the career of a celebrity. There are not a few days in a year when you can stay at home safely.

There is a huge floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, and the sun shines in from the window and sprinkles on the bookshelf in front of the window.Books and DVDs of all colors fill this bookshelf to the brim.

The top shelf of the bookshelf caught He Dingxi's attention. Nuoda's shelf was full of medals and trophies, and there were a few photos mixed with the trophies, large and small.

In the photo, Ning Jue looked only in his teens. He was standing on the podium with a big smile, holding a huge trophy in his hand.

"AGF Asian Formula Open...champion." He Dingxi read the words on the medal, turned around and asked Ning Jue, "How old were you at that time?"

"I can't remember." Ning Jue had just come out of the kitchen, just in time to hear He Dingxi's question, so he replied, "I'm 14 or 15."

He Dingxi was a little surprised by Ning Jue's answer. He pointed to the trophy on the cabinet and asked, "I didn't expect you to have such good results before. Why didn't you continue racing?"

Judging from Ning Jue's past achievements, if he sticks to the professional route, he should have achieved good results by now.

"How can being a professional driver make money faster than being a star?" Ning Jue didn't have any tea at home. He opened the refrigerator, picked out a bottle of sparkling water from a pile of colorful bottles, and threw it to He Dingxi: "Besides, playing racing is too expensive. .”

He Dingxi could see that Ning Jue didn't want to talk more about it.He unscrewed the bottle and took a sip, sat down in front of the sofa, and changed the subject casually: "Are you from City S?"

Ning Jue also brought a bottle of sparkling water, sat next to He Dingxi, and said to him, "No, but I have lived here for a long time."

"Aren't your parents here?" He Dingxi asked.

Ning Jue simply dismissed the two words: "No."

At this time, He Dingxi suddenly felt something playing with his trouser legs. He looked down and saw a black and white kitten looking up at him curiously.

Looking at this graceful and luxurious figure, it is undoubtedly the cat on Ning Jue's WeChat profile picture.It's just that only half of its hind limbs remain under its bulging belly.

"This is…"

He Dingxi leaned over and hugged the cat into his arms, the kitten was also gone, nestled comfortably on He Dingxi's body and narrowed his eyes.

Ning Jue stretched out his hand and scratched the cat's chin, smiled and teased the cat and said, "Brother Mimi, I met your Uncle He again today, are you happy?"

Brother Mimi let out a contented grunt in his throat, expressing his response.

He Dingxi finally recognized the fat middle-aged cat, and he asked in surprise, "Did you bring it back?"

Ning Jue asked without raising his head, "Otherwise?"

It turned out that this was the kitten that Ning Jue and He Dingxi rescued on the side of the road, and He Dingxi visited it several times in the hospital afterwards.The last time he went there, the doctor told him that the cat had been adopted, but he didn't expect that the adopter was Ning Jue.

In the end, the little cat still didn't get used to the small wheelchair Ning Jue prepared for it, but learned to crawl forward with its two forelimbs.

"That's right, you guys have professional ethics." He Dingxi thought for a moment, and thought of a wording that he thought was appropriate: "Kill and bury."

Ning Jue stretched out his hand to hug the kitten back into his arms, and cursed with a smile, "Get out."

The two chatted for a while, and Ning Jue also learned a lot about He Dingxi during the conversation.Just when Ning Jue was thinking about whether to stay with He Dingxi for dinner, He Dingxi answered the phone and asked to leave.

Ning Jue and Mimi squatted at the window, watching He Dingxi's car drive out of the community.He stared intently at the black SUV merging into the traffic in the distance, and said to Brother Mimi: "You said..."

The cat was squatting beside Ning Jue, impatient for a long time.It looked up at Ning Jue, and meowed twice.

Ning Jue withdrew his gaze, poked Brother Mimi's Yuanyuan's head with his hand, and said with a smile, "Silly thing, I won't understand even if I tell you."

***

Xie Sizhao danced like a butterfly on the dance floor for half the night, sweating profusely.When he staggered up the stairs to the second floor of the bar, he had already stuffed several small cards with phone numbers in his pocket.

Xie Sizhao pushed open a glass door with a mixed-race boy in his arms. Inside the door was a small box that was not open to the public.The boy was planning to have something further with Xie Sizhao, but he caught a glimpse of He Dingxi in the middle of the sofa and glanced at him indifferently.

The glass door closed behind him, and the loud music became much quieter in an instant.

Seeing Xie Sizhao entering the door disheveled, He Dingxi patted the waists of the two girls who were snuggling beside him, and said, "Come on, sober up our boss first."

Xie Sizhao put his arms around a girl, and sat down on the sofa opposite He Dingxi.He said indifferently: "What boss, you are our big boss now."

Seeing this, the mixed-race boy quickly and cleverly handed He Dingxi a cigarette. Xie Sizhao reached out to stop him, pointed to the "Do Not Smoking" sign on the wall that was incompatible with the atmosphere of the bar, and said, "Don't, we big stars are the least I like the smell of smoke."

Xie Sizhao and He Dingxi grew up naked together. Although this person looks slick, he is a real rich second generation.

What is so rich that it is rich and princely is used to describe their family.

He Dingxi became famous early, and has been shooting in the studio since he was a child. He has few true friends.Today coincides with the opening of Xie Sizhao's fourth bar, and He Dingxi specially came to join him.

Xie Sizhao's father would be pissed to death by this useless son eight times a day. Seeing that the unfilial son hadn't come back to inherit the family business, the old man decided to start from the source and tightly control his funds.

Xie Sizhao was short of cash, so He Dingxi became one of the main investors behind this bar brand.Not only that, the film and television media company that the two invested together is also ready.

Xie Sizhao asked someone to open the partition connecting the first floor, and the loud music poured in, and the small box instantly became lively.Xie Sizhao served He Dingximan a glass of red wine, and asked casually, "You and Lu Yiqing broke up? I heard that she was too sad and went away."

He Dingxi glanced at Xie Sizhao, and said, "Where did you hear such a mess?"

He Dingxi and Lu Yiqing first met in Xie Sizhao's bar.There was no beginning between them, let alone an end, but he lazily explained so much to Xie Sizhao.

Xie Sizhao drank some wine tonight and seemed to talk a lot.I saw him staring at He Dingxi, and asked earnestly: "Old He, let me ask you, what do you like? Have you ever thought about living with someone for a long time? Don't say that you will be with him all your life." Hanged on Xiao Keran's tree, I don't think you are sincere to her..."

"Xie San, you are laughing at fifty steps." He Dingxi loosened the button on his shirt that was tied to the neckline, and suddenly thought of another possibility.He teased Xie Sizhao and said, "Or do you have someone in your heart? Why did you suddenly start saying these things in such a good way? It seems so innocent."

Xie Sizhao curled his lips, and said angrily: "Tell you that you don't understand, you heartless thing."

He Dingxi lowered his head and took a sip of his wine, and said no more.In the ups and downs of Vanity Fair, avoid heart and soul, avoid true feelings.

The bar opened today, and Xie Sizhao invited many friends.Every once in a while, groups of people come in with wine to congratulate.Xie Sizhao was crazy alone, and it didn't take much effort to stir up the atmosphere in the box.

Leaving aside He Dingxi's professional status, just talking about his appearance, he is a piece of cake in this feasting environment.Xie Sizhao stepped forward to block many men and women who were eager to try, but occasionally there were a few courageous fish who slipped through the net and continued to pester He Dingxi, but He Dingxi dismissed them with a few words.

He Dingxi was not having a good time tonight. He leaned against the railing with his wine glass in his hand, absent-mindedly watching the group of demons dancing on the dance floor on the first floor.

At this time, a female voice sounded behind He Dingxi: "He Dingxi, have a drink?"

He Dingxi turned his head lazily, he wanted to find an excuse to shirk it, but before he could say anything, he unexpectedly met a pair of eyes.

These are a pair of clear and cold eyes, with sharp corners and slender tails, carrying a familiar coldness.Although these eyes were on the face of a girl with short hair at the moment, it made He Dingxi think of someone for no reason.

He Dingxi interrupted his thoughts, clinked glasses with the girl with a smile, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.

After a glass of wine, the girl asked: "Can I sign my name? My mother is your fan."

He Dingxi took the pen and paper from the girl's hand, and asked casually, "Next, are you going to say that you grew up watching my TV series?"

"I don't want to watch it." The girl curled her lips and said disdainfully, "A bunch of bad Mary Su movies."

The short-haired girl chatted with He Dingxi for a few more days, and then was greeted by the sisters who went downstairs.After the girl left, Xie Sizhao rubbed up again like a boneless one.

"Who is that girl?" He Dingxi asked.

Xie Sizhao narrowed his eyes and stared at the girls on the dance floor for a while, and said, "Ding Qi, you don't even know the popular fried chicken? The model who just returned to China a month ago walked in more than 30 shows at London Fashion Week this year."

He Dingxi nodded when he heard the words, and then turned his eyes away.

Xie Sizhao led a group of people to mess around all night, until two o'clock in the morning, he didn't intend to leave.He Dingxi still had an announcement to catch up after dawn, so he drank the last sip of wine in his glass, got up and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, He Dingxi went to the bathroom, and just as he came out of the bathroom to wash his face, he was hit by someone.

In bars, it is common for drunkards to make trouble, lose their temper after drinking, or simply take advantage of drunkenness. He Dingxi subconsciously wanted to push people away.But as soon as he lowered his head, he saw those familiar eyes again.

The eyes are slightly squinted at this moment, with a sly smile in them.In those clear pupils, there is a tacit understanding that adults can understand.

He Dingxi smiled lightly, grabbed Ding Qi's waist tightly, and took a step back.This sudden change caused the two of them to lose their center of gravity, and they stumbled and fell into a compartment together.

The wooden door was locked behind him, and He Dingxi leaned against the door panel, allowing the girl to grope up and down on him wantonly.

He drank a lot tonight, and now he smelled a little drunk.Under the cover of drunkenness, he finally saw clearly that his heart and eyes were full of these eyes at the moment.

He looked at Ding Qi affectionately, but he didn't know where his eyes fell.

At this time, the crisp sound of the belt buckle brought him back to his senses, and He Dingxi instantly saw the person in front of him clearly.He grabbed Ding Qi's hand abruptly and helped her up.

For a moment he felt a little dispirited.

Did I take the wrong medicine, He Dingxi thought to himself looking at Ding Qi who was puzzled.

"It's inconvenient tonight, I'm really sorry." He Dingxi held Ding Qi's face, lowered his head slightly, and gently pecked her eyelid: "Let's meet again next time."

The author says:

Xiao Wu and Xiao He's survival time.

1: The reason why He Dingxi notices Ding Qi is because her eyes resemble Ning Jue.

2: There is no next time, He Dingxi's career as a straight man is over.