In the beginning of winter, the air in the north was so dry that Xu Tangcheng even had a nosebleed when he washed his face one morning. This is an old problem. Basically, as soon as this season comes, he can't touch his nose. He took two pieces of paper to block his nose, raised his head and walked out.
"What's the matter with you?" Seeing his unusual posture in the blurred clumps of shoes, he wanted to come over with concern, but he accidentally tripped over the network cable on the ground in the middle, and there was a sound of jingle.
"Be careful, be careful." Xu Tangcheng said repeatedly.
Cheng Xu is highly short-sighted, but refuses to wear glasses for a long time on the grounds that the eyes will deform, and never wear glasses when it is not necessary. Xu Tangcheng also admired him a lot. He could overcome eight times of tripping over various things a day.
"It's okay, the air is too dry."
Cheng Xu said that she was going to a company to do research, so she picked up her schoolbag and went out early. Before he left, Xu Tangcheng threw him a piece of bread for him to eat on the way.
Today, a senior asked him to help guide an undergraduate student's smart team. He said that the junior had made several appointments, but he was too busy these days, so he had no choice but to ask him for help. He changed his clothes and was about to go there when he received a call from his junior. The junior said that they had a dinner party last night, and they may have eaten their stomachs. Now they are all in the hospital for intravenous drips, and asked him if they could do it another day.
Xu Tangcheng naturally agreed, and asked a few more questions with concern. After confirming that they were all right, he ended the call.
The trip was temporarily cancelled. Xu Tangcheng had been working hard for a week for a submitted paper, and now he didn't want to go to the laboratory at all. He listened to the song and cleaned the dormitory, and carefully reattached the dropped network cable. After that, there was really nothing to do, and after thinking about it in his heart, he simply bought a ticket to go home.
He lent the car to someone else on Friday because he thought he would stay at school for two days.
Zhou Hui was surprised when he saw him coming back: "Didn't you say you can't come back? Have you eaten?"
"Eat. I had something to do, but then it was fine again, and I came back."
Zhou Hui greeted him and took the things in his hand: "What are you buying?"
"humidifier."
Zhou Hui frowned upon hearing this, and Xu Tangcheng hurried ahead of her and said, "I know there is one at home. I'll put another one in your house. It's been too dry recently."
Zhou Hui glared at him and scolded him for spending money indiscriminately.
Xu Tangcheng smiled, changed his slippers, looked at the empty room, and asked strangely, "Where are my dad and Tang Xi?"
"I took them to your grandma's house. I just finished cleaning. There is too much dust in the house this season, and the heating is burning. Let alone them, I feel uncomfortable." After speaking, Zhou Hui took Xu Tangchenggang Taking off the jacket, he pinched up one sleeve in disgust, "Ouch, you see your cuff is dirty."
"How could it be?" Xu Tangcheng poured himself a glass of water, "I just washed it for two days."
"Then you definitely didn't rub the cuffs when you washed your clothes last time. This cuff and collar must be rubbed with soap. You can't wash it directly by throwing it in the washing machine. I'll wash it for you later."
Xu Tangcheng drank a large cup to quench his thirst. Hearing the sound of the washing machine spinning, he reluctantly put his hand on Zhou Hui's shoulder, took off the coat that she disliked, and pushed her to the sofa: "That's okay, I'll go back and wash it myself, you can take a break. Well. I'm leaving tomorrow, and you can't even wash it now."
"You can't wash it clean. I washed and heated it for you and it will dry overnight. You are so busy at school, do you forget to wash it yourself..."
After arguing for a long time, Xu Tangcheng still couldn't beat Zhou Hui, so he could only watch her pick up her jacket, take out the things in her pocket, put it on the coffee table, and go to the toilet.
"Oh, by the way, last time your uncle said that he would let you go when you came back. Isn't Yi Kan a senior year in high school, and said he wanted to participate in independent enrollment. I remember you helped the independent enrollment in your school, right? You go. Tell him about it." Zhou Huitan was born with foam on both hands, "Why don't you go over now, it happens that Yizhong is also on holiday today, and Yikan is at home."
"Late later," Xu Tangcheng yawned after getting the humidifier ready, "I'll sleep first, I'm sleepy."
Xu Tangcheng does not belong to the type of person with good energy. He has the habit of taking a nap, even if it is only for a quarter of an hour, he must do so. After a chaotic sleep for a while, he was awakened by the sound of the door closing. This is the case with people who are light sleepers. Even though there is a door behind them, a little sound seems to be infinitely amplified in his ears.
"Brother? Why are you back?" Xu Tangxi looked at the person walking by in his pajamas in surprise. After reacting, he quickly stuffed a bag in his hand into the shoe cabinet.
"I don't want me to come back," Xu Tangcheng asked in a normal manner, pretending not to see her trying to conceal her actions, "Why did you come back by yourself? Where's Dad?"
"Still at grandma's house." Xu Tangxi whispered. She squatted down and changed into slippers, her short hair hanging down, covering half of her face. When she stood up again, her face was already a thin layer of red.
Xu Tangcheng stood in front of her, stared at her face for a few seconds, and suddenly reached out to open the cabinet door. Xu Tangxi quickly pressed the door of the cabinet, and called out in a hurry, "Hey, hey, you can't look at it!"
Xu Tangcheng laughed when she saw her closely guarded appearance. In fact, if you count the days, you can know what she bought, just a little teasing. He complied with the little girl's wishes, kept her mysterious, and stopped paying attention to the paper bag.
After laughing, Xu Tangcheng suddenly found that Xu Tangxi was wearing a down jacket that he had never seen before, pink.
"Bought new clothes?" He gently dragged Xu Tangxi's body and made her turn around, "It's pretty good."
The down jacket is a little longer than the short one, in the shape of the A word, there is a puffy circle at the bottom, and there is a small pink pom-pom on the tip of the hat, which is very cute.
Xu Tangxi glanced at him and hummed hesitantly.
Zhou Hui came out at this time, saw the clothes on Xu Tangxi's body, and immediately asked, "Didn't you go to grandma's house? Did you go shopping?"
Xu Tangxi looked at Zhou Hui and hesitated.
Zhou Hui is also very satisfied with this dress. She has always taken the trouble of cleaning, and likes to buy light-colored clothes for Xu Tangxi to dress her like a little princess.
"It happened that it suddenly became cold after noon today. I also said that you were wearing less clothes. I wanted to send you some clothes, but then I thought that you would not go out of the house, and it would not be cold to take a taxi when I came back, so I didn't go. I went shopping. If you have to buy one, it will be troublesome if you catch a cold."
Xu Tangxi responded with a "hmmm", took off the down jacket and hung it on the hanger, and took off the small white padded jacket inside. She glanced at Xu Tangcheng, did not go back to the house, but walked slowly to the living room to sit. Xu Tangcheng looked at the pink down jacket in front of him, and at Xu Tangxi's expression from time to time pretending he had no intention of glancing here, and determined that there was something strange in it.
Before thinking about it, he suddenly felt that the hanger was a little empty. He took a look at Xu Tangxi's down jacket and padded jacket, and found that the coat that he had hung here had disappeared. Going to look again, sure enough, not only the coat, but also the clothes he wore back had been hung on the heater.
Xu Tangcheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Mom, why did you wash me? What should I wear to go out?"
"Just find another one," Zhou Hui shouted from the kitchen, "I'll wash it for you and you'll save some trouble when you go back."
Xu Tangcheng had no choice, he silently hugged Zhou Hui who had just come out with the fruit bowl, squeezed an apple and put it in his mouth, then went into the room and picked out another dress.
He doesn't have many clothes of his own, and the ones he wears often are kept at school, but he didn't bring any of them back this time. He tossed around in the closet for a long time before putting on clothes that he thought was okay.
Looking in the mirror, Xu Tangcheng laughed. He didn't remember when he bought this white preppy sweater, he didn't wear it much anyway. Then put on a light khaki half-length horn-buttoned coat and light-colored jeans. No matter how you look at it, there is no doubt that you are pretending to be tender. If he had worn it in his freshman year, it would have been more or less the same.
After talking to Zhou Hui, Xu Tangcheng took a bag of garbage and went out.
As soon as he arrived at the door of the building, he felt a gust of cold wind, Xu Tangcheng shivered, and quickly put on his hat.
Strange to say, he threw the rubbish into the trash can, and the black cat who had been ignoring people for ten thousand years came up to his feet. Xu Tangcheng squatted down to look at it, the black cat only shrank its neck and did not retreat. I thought it came to eat because it was hungry, but Xu Tang Cheng looked at it and found that it was not thin at all, but rather fat.
"It's delicious."
Just after muttering such a sentence, Xu Tangcheng heard the sound of bicycle braking. He looked up and saw YiZhe, who he hadn't seen for a long time.
She was only wearing a thin sweatshirt.
"Wear so little, isn't it cold?"
Xu Tangcheng stood up and approached him with a smile.
When he saw him, YiZhe quickly tore off the earphones that were stuck in his ears.
"not cold."
"Young and strong is not such a strong way," Xu Tangcheng looked at his red hands and ears, "I froze my ears when I was a child, but it was uncomfortable, and it is easy to freeze in the winter. If you ride a bike, buy it. Pair of gloves, better wrap your head a bit."
YiZhe listened and nodded.
The two stopped talking, and the black cat made a "meow" at this moment. Yirut got off the car and got on the ladder.
"What did you buy it for?"
The plastic bags in the supermarket were translucent and faint, and Xu Tangcheng recognized that it contained ham sausages.
"Well, it's quite picky. I bought cat food for it before and it doesn't eat it, it just eats this kind of ham." YiZhe said as he opened the bag in his hand. After hurriedly exerting force, the headphone cable has become tangled with the plastic bag at some point. Yi Zhe flexed his red fingers to choose, but he was clumsy and seemed to be clueless, unable to grasp the law of their entanglement.
"I come."
Xu Tangcheng stretched out his hand and took two things away from him.
With just a few light picks, the work of separation is over.
YiZhe took the bag from his hand, squatted down without saying a word, and went to feed the cat.
"Do you want to go out?"
"Well, go to my uncle's house."
The black cat sang happily, and YiZhe didn't know what else to say to Xu Tangcheng who was standing beside him, so he could only pretend to watch the little black thing eat absentmindedly.
A hand stretched out in front of him—forefinger and thumb pinching the white headphone cord wrapped in a regular circle, the remaining three fingers holding it.
Yi Zhe followed this hand to look at Xu Tangcheng. He was still wearing a hat, squatting beside him, also looking at him. It was only afterward that Yi Zhe understood why he thought Xu Tangcheng was exceptionally good-looking today.
He was dressed very differently today, very small. Moreover, the hat of this coat is very large, and it covers half of his forehead, just showing his eyebrows. In this case, the brim of the hat again seems to draw an accent line for the eyes. And when Xu Tangcheng laughed, his eyes were crooked.
"Do you feed him every day?"
Xu Tangcheng spoke suddenly, interrupting YiZhe's observation of his eyes.
"Almost," YiZhe lowered his head, hiding his thoughts, "I'll feed as soon as I come back."
Xu Tang Chengran: "No wonder, he looks so good."
Although YiZhe had been expecting the black cat to eat more for a while, the black cat obviously did not understand his expectations. As usual, the two ham sausages were quickly wiped out by it, and it was still leaning on its back before running away. His head meowed at Yi Zhe, as if he was making a reservation for tomorrow's meal.
After it was finished, Xu Tangcheng also said to leave. YiZhe silently rolled the plastic bag in his hand into a ball and dropped it into a nearby trash can.
Xu Tangcheng had already walked a distance with his pockets in his pockets, and suddenly remembered the matter of self-enrollment.
"Yizhe." He called out.
When he turned around, he realized that YiZhe didn't move at all, but stood there upright and looked at himself.
He didn't know if it was because of the night or the cold wind, but the look in YiZhe's eyes made him remember for many years, so that every time he remembered it later, he eagerly wanted to see this young man laugh.
There is no expectation, or even the meaning of waiting, just a quiet, not noisy or noisy loneliness.
He suddenly thought of the black cat who had been looking at him just now.
"Did you have meal?"
Maybe people and cats have been together for a long time, and they will really look alike.
Xu Tangcheng's words changed the subject, because he suddenly couldn't bear to throw Yi Zhe, who was looking at him like this, into the sinking night.
A few steps away, YiZhe blinked, as if he didn't expect that he would suddenly ask him this.
"Didn't you eat? Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner."
Xu Tangcheng saw a little light in Yi Zhe's eyes, but he was still hesitant.
"Aren't you going to your uncle's house?"
"Anyway, I didn't tell them to go. Just in time for us to have something to eat, I'll go over there."
At that time, smartphones were just beginning to emerge, and they could not find ideas for eating from the app, but could only think of the delicious restaurants in their memory. Xu Tangcheng was afraid that YiZhe would be embarrassed, so he reported a few places that he thought were not bad and let YiZhe choose. He wanted to treat him to a good meal, but he didn't want YiZhe to say, "I want to eat noodles."
"noodle?"
"There's a noodle shop nearby, Master Wang," YiZhe raised his hand and pointed in one direction, "it's on the street that you turn from at the second intersection ahead."
Xu Tangcheng recalled for a while, thinking of this noodle restaurant he used to go to in high school.
"Ah, that house, I haven't been there for a long time, is it still open?"
YiZhe nodded and looked at him seriously.
"Okay," Xu Tangcheng suggested, considering that the restaurant wasn't too close, "I didn't drive back, let's take a taxi."
Yi Zhe had already pushed his bicycle. He came to Xu Tangcheng and hesitated for a moment: "It's not too far, how about I take you?"
Xu Tangcheng's thoughts went off the mark, because he was surprised to find that the corners of Yi Zhe's mouth were raised. Not obvious, but really rising. At that moment, the first thought that appeared in Xu Tangcheng's mind was that it was so easy to make him happy.
"Okay," he didn't say a little cold, and agreed to him indulgently. But seeing his car, Xu Tangcheng smiled and shook his head: "You don't have a back seat."
This time, YiZhe quickly said, "There are beams."
Xu Tangcheng looked forward, dumbfounded. The car beam is clearly inclined.
He raised his head and wanted to objectively explain to YiZhe that such a beam would not sit still. But after meeting the hopeful gaze of the young man, he unexpectedly said with a smile, "Okay".