Chapter 42: How could it be possible that

when he heard other people in the dormitory advising them to switch to jogging, his brows relaxed with relief.

"It's good. It's healthier and more environmentally friendly than running. The key is safety."

Qiu Xingci felt that it wasn't worth fighting with people over trivial matters.

He took a mutton skewer and handed it to Wang Zeyu, and said with praise: "I support you in the running competition, come on! I will show him some color tomorrow and let him surrender to your flying running speed."

Wang Zeyu is this person. Qiu Xingci just encouraged him a few words, and he had already begun to imagine the scene after his victory.

"Of course, when I win him, I have to say a few words to him face to face, so that the grandson will admit defeat and never lose his temper again at night and disturb his roommates."

"If you are ambitious, I will take good care of you!"

Wang Zeyu laughed. Then he stood up and said, "Why don't we drink

some wine to strengthen my courage." Qiu Xingci really wanted to give him a slap on the head: "I've already been running tomorrow, why should I drink? Be careful not to get up tomorrow."

"If you really want to drink something, why not drink some drinks or some soup."

Wang Zeyu looked at the refrigerator and found that there was no juice that he particularly wanted to drink in this barbecue restaurant.

He turned around and walked to the cashier and said to the boss: "Boss, please give me a seafood pimple soup for table three."

"Okay, wait a moment, I will ask the chef to make it for you."

The boss responded. , Wang Zeyu walked back.

Qiu Xingci heard his voice and looked up: "I don't like seafood soup, please get me a glass of orange juice."

"The orange juice here is not very tasty." Wang Zeyu reminded him.

Qiu Xingci didn't believe it: "How bad can orange juice be? When you say that, I'm curious."

Originally, he just dealt with it casually, but now he just wants to take a sip.

Regarding Qiu Xingci's choice, Wang Zeyu chose to respect and bless him and gave him a look that said it would be a good journey.

"Since you insist on drinking it, you must drink it all and don't waste it."

"That's for sure. Come on, bring the orange juice."

They enjoyed this meal very happily.

However, the drink was not very pleasant.

The seafood pimple soup ordered by Wang Zeyu was later served, but it tasted very salty and there may have been a little too much seasoning, which covered up the original umami flavor of the seafood ingredients.

The bottle of orange juice that Qiu Xingci drank was a bit bitter.

Qiu Xingci felt that the oranges might not have been peeled or seeded when the juice was squeezed, or other messy things might have been added to them. Anyway, the taste was not very sweet and a bit bitter.

After Qiu Xingci finished his meal, he carried the half bottle of orange juice that he had not finished and walked back. It was already ten o'clock in the evening when he arrived at his residence.

He bit the bullet and drank up the unfinished juice in one gulp before going to bed.

When Qiu Xingci woke up the next morning, he seemed to be able to smell the lingering taste of bitter orange juice in his mouth.

He washed up lazily, went to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and took time to attend morning classes.

When he arrived in the classroom for this class, Qiu Xingci looked left and right and felt something was not right.

He touched his former roommate with his arm and asked, "Where's Lao Wang? Why didn't you see him come to class?"

He thought, this was too positive. Could it be that Wang Zeyu was thinking about today's ninth class so early? What time do you prepare for the sports meeting that officially starts?

The classmate turned around and looked at Qiu Xingci: "Don't you know, Lao Wang was hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis and fever in the middle of the night last night."

Qiu Xingci was shocked: "Ah?"

"What happened to him? Last night I and I He was fine when we had barbecue together. Why did he suddenly develop acute gastroenteritis? "

"The buddy who accompanied him to the ambulance yesterday hasn't come back yet. I don't know the details. You might as well ask him later. ."

Qiu Xingci lowered his head and quickly sent a message to Wang Zeyu to ask him what was going on.

Wang Zeyu was undergoing infusion at this time. He suffered from vomiting and diarrhea last night and was hospitalized for injections in the middle of the night. At this moment, his face was pale and he seemed to have no energy at all.

Seeing Qiu Xingci's message, he replied: "It's okay, it's just that the seafood in the seafood pimple soup I drank yesterday was not very clean, so it gave me a fever."

"I asked why there were so many seasonings in that bowl of soup. It turned out that In order to cover up the smell of spoiled seafood,

Qiu Xingci didn't know what to say. He went out to have a barbecue, but the ingredients were not fresh and he got sick and was hospitalized. "This is too unlucky,"

he sighed, a little for Wang Zeyu. Worried: "You have a fever and are in the hospital. Forget about today's sports meeting. Next time, you can choose a time to compete with others for running."

Wang Zeyu smiled bitterly, "I originally thought so, but the student union cadres who organized the event disagreed. I have to find someone to play for me. If I can't find someone, I have to play."

Qiu Xingci really didn't understand the organization of the student union of this school. He was speechless: "Don't listen to them."

"You are sick, you have to do it. Quit, you are like this, how can you still run?"

Wang Zeyu said with a bitter look on his face: "I think so too, but the student union and our class monitor don't think so, they all have to ask me to find someone to go for me. Completing this running race represents a collective honor and cannot be done without an audience. "

Qiu Xingci was really confused, but later he figured it out.

"The several-hundred-meter race you signed up for won't be too long. If you don't participate, no one will be willing to participate."

Wang Zeyu said, "It's not long, only 1,500 meters."

Qiu Xingci rolled his eyes and chuckled. Typing loudly: "In such a hot weather now, many people don't want to participate in running events. If you sign up for the 800-meter race, some people should be willing to try and participate. After running 1,500 meters, your body will be hot." Khan, you probably can't find anyone else."

Wang Zeyu felt a little disappointed when he saw this analysis.

"What you said makes sense. Forget it, I really can't run away. Now that the matter has come to this, I'd better be prepared to be ridiculed by the monitor and the student union."

"Anyway, it's just two sentences, so it shouldn't be too much. Serious consequences."

Qiu Xingci felt miserable when he saw this news.

He sighed and said helplessly: "No, if you really can't find anyone to help you run, at the last second, I am willing to step in for you and help you run the whole distance."

Wang Zeyu howled excitedly and was about to Sing some hymns of praise: "Brother Qiu, you are my god! I will say -"

"Don't say it yet, listen to me."

Qiu Xingci told him with a cold face, "My running performance has always been good. It's not very good. Just thank God if I can help you finish the race.

I can't guarantee your ranking."

Wang Zeyu was extremely excited. "I'm satisfied if I can help you finish the race. I don't ask for ranking. This guy is low-key, and I like him no matter what the ranking. "

"Wow, Brother Ci, I'm really touched."

"As the saying goes, a friend in need is a friend indeed, Brother Ci, I declare you to be my best friend from now on. Really good brothers.”

Qiu Xingci almost got goosebumps from what he said.

"Don't be so exaggerated, just treat me to watermelon juice next time."

In such a hot weather, he really wanted to eat watermelon and drink watermelon juice.

Regarding Qiu Xingci's words, Wang Zeyu agreed without hesitation, "Okay, brother Ci, as long as you help me finish this sports meeting, I will definitely treat you to drink the watermelon juice with the most ice cubes and the coolest in summer."

Qiu Xingci He smiled at his message.

After class, when everyone went to visit the sports meeting together, Qiu Xingci found the person in charge and told him that he was going to play for Wang Zeyu.

There were no twists and turns, and the other party agreed to the plan.

Because Qiu Xingci didn't exercise much this summer, before taking the field, he looked at the contestants around him who were doing warm-up exercises in the waiting area, and he stretched carefully and turned his ankles and wrists left and right.

Qiu Xingci really hasn't run for a long time.

To be honest, he had no idea about 1,500 meters.

That is to say, during the college entrance examination that year, they repeatedly practiced running 800 meters in order to achieve good results in the college entrance examination.

After entering college, physical education classes were actually not much stricter than those in high school, and they were also very loose.

If the teacher didn't ask, Qiu Xingci would be too lazy to move.

He doesn't like the sweaty, sticky feeling on his body.

This time I really made an exception for my good brother.

In the first lap of 1,500 meters, Qiu Xingci didn’t feel much. Except for being a little slower than others, everything else was fine.

Although he was not ranked first, at least he was not the last. Qiu Xingci was very satisfied with this level.

He originally wanted to keep running at a slow and even pace, but on the second lap, many of the competitors around him started to speed up a little and slowly overtook others.

It was already very difficult for Qiu Xing not to fall behind. Overtaking in corners was unthinkable.

Seeing the players overtaking one after another, Qiu Xingci suddenly felt a little stressed.

Although he told Wang Zeyu in the morning that he could only finish the whole race and there was no guarantee of his ranking.

However, there was no guarantee, and he didn't want to be ranked at the bottom.

"That's too much. Do you think I don't want to lose face?"

Qiu Xingci turned around and saw that there was only the last player behind him who had not overtaken, and he immediately became anxious.

His legs felt as heavy as lead, but Qiu Xingci was really unconvinced.

He gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, strode his legs and ran forward as hard as he could.

It felt like there was a fire burning under the chest, and my throat was dry and cracked. It was really painful.

But strangely, Qiu Xingci didn't want to stop running.

He faced the scorching wind and sprinted forward, surpassing one contestant after another.

When he passed by, he felt the surprised eyes on his side, and Qiu Xingci felt inexplicably happy.

Qiu Xingci didn't count how many people were in front of him and how many people were behind him.

By the time he finished the race, he was so hot that he couldn't breathe.

He couldn't even stand firmly, so he could only hold his knees and slowly adjust his breathing.

The classmate in charge of logistics in the class handed him a dry towel to wipe his sweat, and then handed him a bottle of mineral water.

Qiu Xingci took the water and took a sip. He choked a little and did not dare to continue drinking.

He wiped his sweat with a towel and slowly took a few steps forward, trying to calm down his muscles.

Although he hasn't exercised much for a long time, he still remembers what his physical education teacher said in high school.

"Don't stop or sit down immediately after running. You should walk around slowly to give your heart and muscles time to overreact. This is better for your body."

Qiu Xingci felt that when he sprinted for the last time just now, , the force may be a little too strong.

Now I feel a slight pain in my thigh.

He walked slowly and seriously for a while, then rubbed his legs.

When the final results came out, Qiu Xingci found that he was ranked seventeenth.

This is a relatively mid-range result, not particularly outstanding, but Qiu Xingci is still quite satisfied with this result.

Qiu Xing resigned that day and felt nothing but a little tired.

When he woke up the next morning, Qiu Xingci felt that he could not lift his legs to walk.

Just sitting up and getting out of bed to put on his shoes made him feel pain in his thighs as if they were being torn apart.

"Hiss—"

Qiu Xingci took a breath of air.

He rolled up the legs of his pajama pants and looked at the painful part of his thigh carefully, but couldn't see anything wrong.

But it just feels so painful.

Qiu Xingci recalled his activities yesterday and murmured in confusion: "It's so strange."

"I only ran a step yesterday and didn't bump into anything. Why is it so painful!"

Change clothes and put on some clothes. He bent down to put on his shoes and went out. After walking a few steps, the pain in Qiu Xingci's leg became more and more serious.

That sour and refreshing feeling made him want to cry.

Qiu Xingci finally chose to go to the infirmary before eating breakfast and going to class.

The doctor pressed the area where he felt pain and looked at him very puzzled: "Your muscles here are swollen into hard lumps and so tight. What did you do yesterday?"

Qiu Xingci said: "You didn't do anything, just participated. I ran a race and ran 1,500."

The doctor shook his head and said, "You have an obvious muscle strain. There is no good way to do this. Don't do strenuous exercise. Try to relax your legs during these two days. He said, " Don't walk as much as possible, use ice packs more."

Qiu Xingci asked, "Ah, can't you walk?"

The doctor looked down at him and emphasized, "I'm talking about walking as little as possible, not that you can't walk at all." ?"

Qiu Xingci felt that he understood a little bit.

He nodded.

"Understood."

"Can you give me a certificate of muscle mass tightening? If there are physical education classes or other classes, I can ask for leave."

"Okay." The doctor in the infirmary was quite talkative and dismissed Qiu Xing. I took some medicine to activate blood circulation and reduce swelling, and then wrote him a certificate.

Qiu Xingci used chicken feathers as arrows. That afternoon, he asked for leave and did not go to any classes that were very far away from him and required a lot of stairs.

The muscle strain was really painful. Qiu Xingci thought it was the worst in the morning on the first day. However, in the afternoon, when he took the medicine and gave himself a cold compress and massage, he grimaced in pain and didn't want to talk at all.

On the third day, Qiu Xingci felt that there was nothing wrong with his right leg, but his strained left leg was so painful that he couldn't walk at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that Qiu Xingci wished he could use a cane or make a wheelchair to be pushed around. He did not want to walk with this leg at all.

It really wasn't half as painful.

It hurts when lying down, it hurts when sitting, and it hurts even more when walking. No matter what, it hurts.

The distance between the classrooms of the classes these days is very far. The previous class may be in the Hongyi Building and the next class may be in the office building.

It was very inconvenient for Qiu Xingci to walk towards the classroom with a limp leg. Fortunately, his friend had an electric car and could give him a ride.

Qiu Xingci feels that he has always been handsome, but the way he walks with a limp is really frustrating.

Today, he was not very lucky. On his way out of class, Qiu Xingci was laughed at by the love brain who was talking on the phone in his former dormitory. Although he scolded him back on the spot, he was unhappy and still a little aggrieved.

"I ranked 20th in running at this sports meeting. I can't beat my defeated opponent no matter what. How can I have the nerve to laugh at me!"

Xiao Zhang, a classmate next to Qiu Xingci, nodded in agreement, "He is really a bit outrageous. "

It's so annoying to fight back.

Qiu Xingci lowered the black peaked cap on his head and walked slowly on the way out of school.

When he looked up, he was even more unhappy because he saw Chi Chengye.

I don’t know why this person appears here at this time.

Qiu Xingci sighed, feeling a little upset.

Even though he is not that strong, he doesn't want to lose any face in front of his ex.

Chi Chengye looked unhappy when he saw him looking so embarrassed: "What happened to your leg?"

Qiu Xingci: "What are you looking at?"

they both said in unison.

Then Qiu Xingci's face turned dark. He obviously stopped and stood still the first time he saw his ex-boyfriend, because he was afraid of being frustrated by seeing him walking with a limp like this. Unexpectedly, despite all precautions, this person still saw him.

Qiu Xingci was not happy when he realized that he was exposed to the fact that he was walking with a slight limp.

Chi Chengye walked up to him quickly and asked him again: "What happened to your legs? Why did you walk like that just now?"

"You were injured? When? What happened? Where is the injury? "Have you gone to see a doctor?"

Chi Chengye asked seriously, with each sentence becoming more urgent.

Qiu Xingci felt embarrassed and uncomfortable, and said perfunctorily: "It's nothing, I just strained it accidentally while running.

It's a small problem, it will be fine in two days."

Chi Chengye walked forward two steps and found Qiu Xingci He actually tried to retreat, so he suppressed his temper and controlled his humility. He took a step back first, and

after establishing a social distance, he stood still.

Chi Chengye looked at Qiu Xingci angrily: "Didn't you do warm-up exercises before running?"

Qiu Xingci quietly breathed a sigh of relief, "I did it, but maybe it wasn't done properly."

He thought for a moment, A self-examination: "It's possible that I haven't done much exercise recently, so I got the strain."

"Okay, I have no problem. Tell me about you, why are you here?"

Chi Chengye actually came here on purpose. I took a walk around the area to relax my mind. Although I had the intention of "encountering him by chance", I didn't expect that fate would really favor me and I would actually see Qiu Xingci here.

He looked at Qiu Xingci and did not choose to tell the truth: "I have something to do, and I just happened to pass by."

Qiu Xingci looked at him with a puzzled face, and really couldn't figure out what happened to him to pass by this corner.

"I...I actually want to go to a cake shop nearby and order a birthday cake."

Chi Chengye tentatively asked with expectant eyes: "Will you come to my birthday next month?"

Qiu Xingci hesitated. After a moment, he looked at him and said, "If you send me an invitation, I can reluctantly participate."

After hearing what he said, Chi Chengye's eyes gradually brightened.

However, before he could continue to maintain his happy mood, Qiu Xingci spoke the next second, breaking his dream: "But let's make it clear first."

"A birthday is just a birthday, nothing else."

Chi Chengye heard him say this If you deliberately draw a clear line, the light in your eyes gradually goes out.

After a while, he smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's really what you would say."

He looked deeply at Qiu Xingci. After a few seconds, he seemed to have made some kind of determination, and quickly turned aside Walk.

Qiu Xingci looked at him a little strangely. His fingertips unconsciously tightened the side seam of his pants, wondering if his last words just now were too ruthless.

This person must have left.

It's really strange. He was obviously hoping that this person would leave as soon as possible so that he wouldn't see himself frustrated, but when he actually used words to drive him away, he felt a trace of regret in his heart.

Qiu Xingci sighed and told himself that the choice he just made was right. Since they broke up, they must draw clear boundaries. Being unclear is not good for anyone.

Let's go, let's go.

After a few words of self-comfort, Qiu Xingci continued to limp forward with heavy steps.

Before he reached the east gate of the school, he heard the bright sound of a car bell ringing behind him.

The sound of the car bell got closer and closer, and after Qiu Xing resigned, it rang several times.

Qiu Xingci looked back in confusion and found that Chi Chengye was coming back on a shared electric scooter.

He put on a handsome face and said coolly: "Come up here, I'll take you for a walk."

Qiu Xingci stopped and looked at him with some confusion, not sure what this man was thinking.

Not angry?

What does it mean.

Qiu Xingci's dry throat rolled, and he mustered up the courage to ask tentatively: "Are you going with me?"

Chi Cheng's wild words were shocking: "At least we have been a couple for many days. Even if we are not going along, I can still be ungrateful and cold. " I'm so cold-hearted that I won't send you away."

Qiu Xingci almost couldn't catch his breath. He looked around nervously at the pedestrians who were still a little far away from them, his ears red with shame.

"What nonsense are you talking about? You don't even look at where this place is."

This stinky man is shameless, but he still needs shame.

Chi Chengye really didn't intend to lose face: "With our relationship, there is nothing else that can't be said." From

childhood to adulthood, everyone from friends to lovers has said everything about what should be said and what shouldn't be said.

Qiu Xingci really wanted to find a mask to cover his face, so that he wouldn't feel embarrassed standing next to Chi Chengye and listening to his unbridled words.

"Shut up, please."

Qiu Xingci secretly complained, "I haven't seen you for a while. Have you ever gone to a cheeky training class?"

"Yes, I have." Chi Chengye followed his ridicule. , admitted his shamelessness and didn't take it seriously.

He stared closely at Qiu Xingci's eyes, patted the back seat of the car and said, "Come up."

Qiu Xingci hesitated for a moment, thinking that he still had a long way to go back to his apartment, so he didn't take advantage of it. not taking.

In the end, he held Chi Chengye's shoulders and carefully sat in the back seat of the car.

Qiu Xingci said: "Since you have already sent it, remember to send it to the West."

Chi Chengye chuckled lightly and said without looking back, "No problem."

"But the low-moral navigation routes near the school are not very accurate. You have to explain first where you live in the west."

Qiu Xingci looked at it. His back tilted forward and then slid down slightly along the curve of his waist, landing on his strong male waist.

His hands uncomfortably grabbed the armrest of the back seat of the car, reported the address, and then warned: "Drive slower, the armrest is too low to grasp, and I'm afraid I won't be able to grasp it firmly."

Chi Chengye said lowly. He laughed softly: "Why bother?"

"When you were in the back seat of my car, didn't you often reach out and grab my clothes and put your arms around my waist? Isn't this position neither high nor low, just right?"

Qiu Xing Ci swallowed her throat and turned her head to the side a little uncomfortably.

After a while, he said in a muffled voice: "You also said, that was before."

The past was before, and now is now.

Chi Chengye hinted to him unwillingly: "Hold on."

"There was no difference between the past and now."

Qiu Xingci shook his head: "It's different."

He elaborated on the facts seriously: "We are no longer lovers."

Chi Cheng Ye did not look back or stop.

In the summer evening breeze, his voice was gentle but firm: "Yes, we are not lovers now."

Then he paused and continued: "It's just that you haven't thought about it... maybe my heart for you has not changed yet. ."

Qiu Xingci's breath stopped and he slowly looked up at his broad and strong back.

After a long while, he twitched the corner of his mouth in embarrassment: "How is that possible..."