The night was getting dark, and the mountain was very cold, Zhou Chen didn't let me look at the stars anymore, so he drove me into the tent.
"The stars are always in the sky, let's see tomorrow." He said.
"Is tomorrow still mine?" I asked.
"Forever yours."
Before going to bed, I thought I might be able to avoid taking medicine today, but I saw Zhou Chen spread out a single folding bed, and then took out a small square medicine box from the box next to the bed, pretending not to see my depressed expression, Pour the pills into the palm of your hand and spread them out in front of me.
"Doctor..." I tried to beg for mercy.
He was stern and unselfish: "No."
"Oh."
Just after drinking a glass of water, I really couldn't take the medicine, so I sat cross-legged on the carpet and ate one by one from his palm, trying to numb myself that it was sugar.
Unexpectedly, as I was eating, when a certain grain entered my mouth, the sweet and sour strawberry flavor suddenly melted on the tip of my tongue—I didn’t remember that I had a medicine with this taste.
To make sure, I licked it carefully again, only to be sure that it was a real candy.
I looked up to ask Zhou Chen, but he smiled secretly and said, "I think if you add a few grains of sugar in it, will it make you think that taking medicine is cuter?"
Deep in my heart I thought so, but I was ashamed to admit it.
"I'm not a three-year-old."
"Yes, when you wake up tomorrow, you will be twenty-three years old."
That's what he said, but his tone always made me feel that what he really wanted to say was "you are three years old".
Finally finished taking the medicine, Zhou Chen asked me to go to bed. I looked at an ordinary-sized single bed in front of me and hesitated, "What about you..."
"I have a sleeping bag," he said logically.
I observed it, and there is really no room for the second bed here, but is it not good for me to sleep on the bed and let him sleep on the floor...
"I can sleep in my sleeping bag too..."
"Patients must be self-conscious and obedient." He refused me.
"Or you come up and squeeze..."
After saying this, I felt that my head was squeezed.
"No, I, I mean..."
Zhou Chen gave me a complicated look, then regained his composure, and said, "It's okay."
After finishing speaking, without giving me a chance to regret it, I lay down and patted the place beside me: "Come on."
It was hard for me to get off the tiger, and finally, after some psychological struggle, I climbed up slowly.
The bed is a single bed, but the quilt is double. I always feel that something is not right.
The next second, before I could figure it out, Zhou Chen pulled me into his arms and covered me, "It's time to sleep."
With such a small bed, I might fall if I turned over. I didn't dare to move, and buried myself in his chest to pretend to be calm.
I hope he doesn't hear my unnaturally fast heartbeat.
I thought it was difficult to fall asleep in such a posture, but in the end I fell asleep unknowingly, and even slept soundly, dreamless all night.
When I woke up in the morning, the first thing I saw was Zhou Chen's Adam's apple and chin. I blushed a little and heard him say: "Morning, Xiaoyu. Happy birthday."
"Morning... thank you."
The air outside was cold, so Zhou Chen wrapped me in a thin blanket without saying a word before letting me out. He is usually very talkative, but he is very uncompromising in these matters.
The altitude of Huangshan Mountain is not high, and the mountain ladder is also built gently. It is much easier to go down the mountain than to go up the mountain. I walked in front, and he said behind me that I was like a fluttering butterfly.
"Then I'll attack you first." I turned my head and flew towards him with open arms.
He easily caught me, lifted me up around my waist like a child, carried me on his shoulders, and said, "The stairs are dangerous, don't make trouble."
"You let me down, you let me down..."
I don't understand, I'm an adult anyway, how he always plays with me like a weightless rag doll.
The two of us walked down the mountain like this. When I went back, I found that the whole house had been changed, with flowers, ribbons and balloons everywhere. It seems that Zhou Chen took me out to play, and everyone stayed at home all night.
As soon as we entered the door, along with "Happy Birthday" one after another, Zhou Chen and I were sprayed with shiny ribbons all over our heads.
The first time so many people celebrated my birthday, I was both happy and a little overwhelmed.
What was even more unexpected was that Wen Yan and Xu Xingze also came.
"Xiao Xiao, happy birthday."
Wen Yan looked meaningfully at Zhou Chen and then at me, revealing a mysterious and gratifying smile.
"Xiaoyu!" Xu Xingze also rushed over.
I was ready to be staggered by him, but he stopped the car, hugged me lightly, and said, "Happy birthday!"
I was a little confused by their enthusiasm, I went in in a daze, and was crowded to sit on the sofa and unwrap the presents in a daze.
Everyone was noisy, everyone had a smile on their faces, the kitchen was busy, and people came in and out from time to time. I was infected by this festive atmosphere and gradually became happy.
Zhou Chen went to the kitchen to see how the lunch was being prepared. Xu Xingze pulled me and chattered about how busy and tired he was preparing for his first solo exhibition recently.
After Xu Xingze finished speaking, I found that Wen Yan had disappeared at some point. I looked around and saw that he seemed to be on the phone in the yard.
I went out to find Wen Yan, and he just hung up the phone and was about to go back. From his expression, I seemed to guess who it was over there.
He smiled awkwardly: "Qi Shu asked me to bring a happy birthday, I don't think you may need it."
I was noncommittal, but after thinking about it, I still couldn't help asking: "Senior, are you... not going to start over?"
"Me and Qi Shu?" Wen Yan opened his eyes slightly, "How is that possible?"
"It's unlucky for him to like him, and it's even more unlucky for him to like him. You're just as stupid as you are."
"But I know he has always had you in his heart these years..."
"So what," Wen Yan smiled, "He's just used to missing things he's lost."
"Don't think too much." He stroked my hair, "The two of us were destined to be different from the beginning, and it has nothing to do with you to get to this point."
He tied up his hair today, looking young and chic.
"For me, freedom is more important than anything else. I can live without anyone, but I cannot lose my freedom," he said.
I understood what Wen Yan meant.
There is no freedom to speak of with Qi Shu.
Thinking about myself, I would probably put love before freedom.
Even though I have suffered so much for this word, I am still willing to keep my yearning and longing for it.
"Xiao Xiao, you are different from me." Wen Yan said again, "You deserve to be liked, cherished, and loved. So go live your new life and don't look back."
After so many years, he is still like the senior next door, who said to me on a sunny afternoon, "You are so nice, someone will love you very much".
I went into the room with Wen Yan, and when I met Zhou Chen coming out of the kitchen, I saw us and asked casually, "What are you whispering about?"
"Tell me why you didn't go to make up lessons for Xiao Xiao by yourself at that time." Wen Yan answered with a smile first, "If you had gone, there might not be the years in between."
I haven't realized what this sentence means, but Zhou Chen's face suddenly turned red and then pale, and he stumbled a little: "You, did you tell him?"
"You didn't tell him?!" Wen Yan was also surprised.
"Tell what?" I was even more confused.
The three of them looked at each other, and in the end Wen Yan's expression became more and more broken under Zhou Chen's gaze, probably because he realized that he had said something wrong, and asked me tentatively: "Xiao Xiao, do you remember when we first met, I There is another person in front of you... "
There is one more person
I was so dizzy doing the questions that I didn't notice at all.
My expression answered Wen Yan's question for me, and he sighed: "I went with Brother Shen that day, he was the one who first noticed that you couldn't solve the problems, so he asked me to help you, and he was the one who told you later I'll make up lessons for you. I thought you knew each other, but he said he didn't know each other and didn't let me mention his name... "
The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, and finally he turned to Zhou Chen: "Am I talking too much?"
Zhou Chen's expression was uncertain, "You've finished talking."
I froze in place, unable to digest these few words.
Zhou Shen and I met six years ago
He even helped me indirectly
Why didn't you tell me again
…
"What the hell is going on..." My eyes switched back and forth between the two of them.
"It's nothing." Zhou Chen put his arms around my shoulders, "It's just that you've worked hard in your studies, and you just have a lot of free time, so I'll help others by the way."
Turning his head, he saw Wen Yan's expression of "what are you kidding?", but it seemed that for some reason he didn't dare to refute.
"Go and see your cake."
Zhou Chen wouldn't let me see him again, and forcibly took me away from the living room.
What else do I want to ask, the sister chef has already pushed the cake out.
"Sir..." I grabbed Zhou Chen's clothes.
He stopped, bent down and looked at me: "I will tell you slowly another day. Okay?"
His eyes are like a gentle deep sea, I am easily bewitched.
"it is good… "
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Today's playlist: "The Years Are Like a Song"
[When the world is not perfect, I can find you far away in the song of the years]