The weather got a little cooler after eight o'clock in the evening. Yu Fei came back from home. As soon as he entered Xie Lan's house, he saw that it was Wang Gou's seat in the car. Neither Wang Gou nor Dai You cared.
"Where are they?" Yu Fei casually put the barbecue he bought on the table.
Che Ziming immediately untied the bag and said, "I'm going out to buy some Coke. Come back soon."
Yu Fei uttered an "oh" and slumped down on Dai You's chair, sighing, "I have to rush back home after taking a short nap. It's too hard."
"Young Master, this is your first time living on campus. You should thank the provincial training camp for giving you the opportunity to experience the suffering of the people." Che Ziming said as he unpacked a handful of skewers and handed them to Dou Sheng.
Dou Sheng picked through the tin foil bag and handed a non-spicy one to Xie Lan, "Beef."
Xie Lan was singing the chorus in a low voice, "You eat it."
"It won't be tender soon."
Dou Sheng said as he passed the meat to his mouth. He bit a few pieces of meat. Dou Sheng carefully pulled the skewer back and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Xie Lan nodded, "Okay."
Yu Fei slumped over on the chair with Dai You lying on his back, watching all this helplessly.
"I say," he said half dead, "Are there any cameras around here? Are you recording a video?"
Dou Sheng wanted to pick another bunch to feed his boyfriend, but stopped when he heard that. "No, isn't this normal?"
Xie Lan's hand holding the pen stiffened before he continued writing.
He and Dou Sheng were getting closer and closer, and both of them gradually lost their sense of degree. For example, when he put it to his mouth, it was too natural, so natural that he forgot to restrain himself. Although he could be justified, he felt guilty when it was pointed out.
Xie Lan was just wondering whether he should apply the patch again when he suddenly heard Yu Fei exclaim.
Che Ziming put a skewer of roasted lamb loin to his mouth, lowered his eyebrows and said tactfully: "Herring, open your mouth."
Yu Fei sat up in shock, kicked his feet, and stepped back two meters with the stool, "Are you sick?"
"Ah?" Che Ming looked innocent. "What happened to my good friend? Open your mouth quickly. I'll help you replenish your kidneys."
In Xie Lan's lifetime, he first saw Yu Fei open his eyes completely.
He snatched the roasted lamb kidney from Che Ming's hand and said, "No need for you, I can eat it myself!"
"No." Che Ziming stubbornly avoided his hand, "I want to feed you."
Xie Lan frowned at Che Ziming: You’ve performed it before.
Che Ziming was greatly encouraged, "Am I not your best brother?"
"… It was before, but it wasn't until you cured your mental illness." Yu Fei pushed him away irritably, "Eat your food, I'm going to wash my hands."
He went out speechlessly. When the footsteps faded away, the flattery on Che Ming's face disappeared and he collapsed.
"I worked so hard." Che Ziming took a big bite of the roasted lamb kidney.
Dou Sheng said tactfully: "Besides working hard, you can be more natural."
Che Ziming said coldly, "That's enough. You guys have too high a standard for actors. Who the hell can do it?"
On the other side of the corridor, Yu Fei came out after washing his hands and ran into Dai Youwanggou who came with a bottle of Coke.
"The barbecue is here." Yu Fei said weakly, "Let's eat."
Wang Gou handed him a can of iced cola and asked, "What's wrong? You seem to be more unhappy today?"
"No." Yu Fei pouted and opened the Coke, sighing, "I'm just disgusted."
He thought about it carefully for a while, "The root cause is Douzi, who is a bit naughty and leads everyone astray. I think Xie Lan and his car are not very normal now."
Upon hearing this, Dai You and Wang Gou looked at each other subtly and were speechless.
Yu Fei took two sips of Coke and suddenly hissed, "Don't you think Douzi calls me boyfriend too often?"
"It's okay." Dai You said calmly, "It's normal to have fun. My brother Wang Gouping also likes to play."
Yu Fei was stunned, "What are you playing?"
Dai You remained silent and glanced at Wang Gou.
Wang Gou chuckled, hugged his arm and shook it vigorously, "Brother."
Yu Fei: “?”
"Brother Latte." Wang Gou pouted, "How about buying an ice cream for the little country dog?"
Yu Fei: “!”
Dai You subconsciously stretched his neck forward as if he wanted to vomit, but he soon calmed down and asked lovingly, "What flavor do you want to eat, little dog?"
"Stay away from me, you two." Yu Fei covered his chest and walked away. "I don't want to eat anymore. You guys eat first."
Xie Lan was in the room perfecting the chorus of his fan song. When he looked up, he saw only Dai You and Wang Gou-yi coming. He asked casually, "Have you seen Yu Fei?"
Dai You took a skewer of skewers and said, "It's a little hot, so he went to sleep in the house."
Upon hearing this, Dou Sheng looked at Che Ziming meaningfully.
Look at the good things you have done.
Che Ziming was stunned for a moment, feeling a little guilty, "Well, I'll share some food with you and make sure Yu Fei is okay."
"Okay." Dai You said calmly, "We almost had dinner, so there's no need to leave too much. You can bring some more for him."
It was past midnight and everyone in the dormitory was asleep. Xie Lan finished reading a competition question on his phone, then reached over the railing and tapped on Dou Sheng's pillow.
This was the agreed upon restrained strategy. Knocking on the pillow meant goodnight, replacing the goodnight kiss of the past.
Dou Sheng also tapped the pillow, put away his phone, and turned over to sleep.
for a long time.
Wang Gou turned over unconsciously in his sleep, and a few seconds later, Dai You also turned over.
They pulled up the quilt to cover each other tacitly and communicated secretly.
-Gouzi Wangwang: Why have they stopped their activities recently
-Latte Coffee: I want to ask too
-Gouzi Wangwang: Did they have a fight
- Latte: White coffee looks normal, but it’s hard to say
-Gouzi Wangwang: Did we do something wrong and get discovered
-Latte: No. Bean will come to talk to us if he finds out. He won’t play dumb.
-Dog Wangwang: That means they had a quarrel. Xie Lan has a bad temper, maybe the beans made him unhappy.
- Latte: Yeah, maybe
On that humid summer night, Xie Lan was sleeping in a neither deep nor light sleep. He vaguely heard his two roommates talking and then sighing.
-Gouzi Wangwang: I’m so worried. It’s been going on for several days. I wonder if Xie Lan is going to break up with Douzi.
-Latte Coffee: Come on, Bean is my brother, I have never suffered such injustice. Wipe tears.gif
-Latte Coffee: Alas, but we can only pray for them and not intervene...
-Gouzi Wangwang: Yes, we can only pray.
The next morning, Xie Lan went to Dou Sheng to buy breakfast in the cafeteria. He tagged everyone in the group one by one asking what they wanted to eat, but when he tagged Wang Gou, he was stunned.
I thought I was dazzled.
-Afternoon Grape Ice: What's wrong with your name? I beg you to stay together forever.
Wang Gou replied quickly: My second cousin and his wife have some emotional conflicts, it’s okay, just bring me two meat buns.
Dou Sheng flipped through the group chat and pointed casually: I have seen people using WeChat usernames to pray for their family members. We should go to the temple. My mother said that the small temple in the north has very good incense and is very effective. You can pray for anything, and it is not far from the school.
-Be together forever and never leave each other. Please: ... It makes sense.
Entering the late July, the high temperatures come one after another, as if there will never be an end. Even running out to buy water during class breaks can get your neck sunburned. Every day is hot for a day or two.
The classrooms were air-conditioned and had fans, and Ma delivered green bean smoothies every afternoon, but more and more people still couldn't handle it.
In addition to the high temperature, the provincial training was becoming increasingly cruel. Both coaches were quiet but very tough. The high temperature made the students sleepy. Every afternoon, they had to do a quick review. If they got stuck, they had to stand for 20 minutes. The whole class took turns to do it three or four times in the afternoon, and Xie Lan had to get up once or twice.
Others were complaining bitterly, but he was in good shape. Standing for a while was just enough to refresh himself. The important thing was to maintain his condition and to ensure that he did enough questions.
Maybe it was because the amount of questions was too large, and he had digested Ma's special skills well, and was able to basically figure out several roundabout routines. The complicated questions in previous years were no more than those types, and after more than half a month of targeted training, his problem-solving speed gradually improved.
On Sunday afternoon of the second week, Coach Kang gave them an extra test. Xie Lan opened the paper and finished the first fill-in-the-blank question in two minutes. He was about to move on quickly when he suddenly felt something was wrong.
The sight is all the way to the other side—
In the rectangular coordinate system x0y, circle a and the parabola y2=4x have exactly one common point, and circle a is tangent to the x-axis at the focus f of the parabola. Find the radius of circle a.
What kind of magical question is this
He was stunned for a while, then flipped back.
They are all questions that can be answered in human language.
Xie Lan picked up the brown paper bag in confusion and confirmed that it was his own name written on it.
Normal paper!!
Dou Sheng moved his elbow beside him and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you? You seem so excited all of a sudden."
"It's okay, it's okay." Xie Lan suppressed his inner ecstasy, grabbed the calculation paper and wrote quickly, "I will answer the questions, and I will finish them today."
Dou Sheng didn't know the truth, so he just hummed and said, "Come on."
After handing in the papers, school was over. Before leaving, Coach Kang sent the results of last night's daily test to the provincial training group and also sent the standard answers so that everyone could see for themselves.
In the daily test last night, Xie Lan's ranking rose to 28th. He finished eleven and a half out of fifteen questions. His improvement in speed was not huge, but he got all the questions right.
Li Yuening came over after looking at the results and smiled at him, "So steady, always going forward."
Li Yuening has been competing with Dai You for the third place recently. They are not as good as Dou Sheng and Geng Rui, but the competition between them is very close. In the past two daily tests, Li Yuening has done better than Dai You, and he is also in a much more relaxed state when speaking.
Xie Lan savored the long-lost enjoyable exam experience, and just nodded casually, "Slowly improve to the preliminaries level."
"Hmm?" Li Yuening was stunned for a moment, then said, "You are also quite amazing. If the league this year is more focused on functions, you might be able to become a god."
The phone vibrated, and a text message came immediately.
- Did you enjoy today's test? I see that your pace is pretty good, and the purpose of the extra training has been achieved. I will start to relieve your stress.
Li Yuening was just complaining about the pressure of doing exercises recently. Xie Lan made some "hmm" and "ah" sounds, and immediately replied: But I haven't finished all the papers. Yesterday was my best time, and I only finished eleven questions.
Ma: It is enough to read the complex questions and read them correctly. Don’t pursue to finish the test. In the official competition, you will not go around every question. You have not read the questions wrong in the recent daily tests.
Xie Lan put down his phone and thought about it.
It's true. In the last few days, I was able to answer all the questions correctly as long as I had time to answer them, without any mistakes.
The hard times are finally coming to an end.
Xie Lan breathed a sigh of relief and felt much better.
I was quite busy this Sunday afternoon. Firstly, I had to adjust the demo of Jianqi's fan song, and secondly, I had to dub the video of Dou Sheng.
During the provincial training, Dou Sheng had no time to organize the huge library of materials for the pretend boyfriend vlog. In order to fill the gap, he secretly went to do a challenge in the middle of the night two days ago. The challenge was to sit on the ground in front of the security guard post to eat supper, without saying a word, and asked Xie Lan to do the dubbing for him in the later stage.
Just then, Dai You and Wang Gou were in the dormitory. Dou Sheng finished editing the film, and with a squinting look, he handed the notebook to Xie Lan, leaned down and kissed him on the head, "Thank you for your hard work, boyfriend."
Xie Lan glanced at the dark and windy scene on the screen and asked, "Are you sure any combination is fine?"
"Sure." Dou Sheng said, "It'll be fine in one take. It's okay if there's a slip of the tongue. Just make a silly video. Make it something they like to watch."
“…” Too dedicated.
Xie Lan sighed, pulled the radio out from a pile of batteries and hard drives, and connected it to the computer. "Then don't make any noise."
"Um."
The opening was ridiculous. Dou Sheng sat cross-legged on the concrete floor at the school gate, his back against the security post, and his ceiling was the window of the security post.
In front of him was a small stool, on which lay a box of fried chicken, a bowl of ramen, and an unopened can of Coke.
Xie Lan clicked the progress bar back a few times with an indifferent face, confirming that this was just a pure eating video for no reason, and then scrolled to the beginning.
He turned on the radio.
"Hello everyone, I'm Xie Lan, and today I'll be playing the role of Douzi for you."
"Ah, my spoken English has improved by leaps and bounds since I came to China. I used to have difficulty listening and reading, but now I can do silent simultaneous interpretation for others."
"Then let's start now."
For the first ten seconds or so, Dou Sheng was making exaggerated gestures and lip movements in front of the camera, but there was no sound.
Xie Lan sighed, leaned back in his chair, and imitated Dou Sheng's usual rhetoric.
"Hello everyone, I am the most handsome man in the world that you have been waiting for for a long time. I am here. Today, I will do a small challenge."
As he said this, Dou Sheng, who was looking at the screen, happened to pinch his index finger and thumb, making a "small" movement, which happened to coincide with his words.
"The content of this challenge is, ah, confusing human behavior: the security guard's mind wandering in the void. Yeah, that's right, I don't care what Dou Sheng wants to name it, anyway, I want to name it this. What we are going to eat today is fried chicken, yeah~" Xie Lan looked at a guy making a scissors hand gesture on the screen, and used the coldest tone with the most cheerful sound: "Here, dang dang! Coke, ramen, hehehe, you can't imagine it, right? It's the spicy ramen that Xie Lan dislikes the most."
"This fried chicken is so crispy, listen to the sound of me biting it... oh, you can't hear it, he didn't record it at all... well, it's okay, just watch him perform."
In the mirror, Dou Sheng was concentrating on eating fried chicken. The tip of the security guard's head was faintly visible behind the glass of the security booth. He was sleeping soundly with his hat on.
Xie Lan sighed and changed his voice to his own, "Do you think he feels uncomfortable sitting like this? It's been so hot in school recently, and the floor is hot when you go out at night."
"Oh, he's about to speak. What's he saying? Look at how fast I eat, right? I swallow the ramen without chewing. What a good throat. Well, that's probably it. What do you mean? Well... I guess what he's saying is, it's a good thing I didn't tell Xie Lan about my actions today, otherwise Xie Lan would beat me to death and I wouldn't be able to fly with the sword..."
Dou Sheng couldn't help but interrupted: "Excuse me, I can't fly a sword under any circumstances..."
"Shut up, are you recording it or am I the one recording it?" Xie Lan interrupted him unhappily.
Dou Sheng immediately shrank back, "Please continue."
Xie Lan snorted, leaned closer to the microphone and continued, "That voice just now was not me. It might be a stray cat passing by in the video. Please ignore it."
Dou Sheng beside him sighed, and couldn't help but groan softly.
The video lasted seven or eight minutes, with Xie Lan making complaints and talking nonsense, and he finally finished dubbing it. But when he listened to it, he found that he had recorded a lot of Dou Sheng's movements.
Apart from that interjection, whenever he imitated Dou Sheng's tone and said "Classmate Xie Lan", Dou Sheng would sigh regretfully beside him.
Xie Lan took off his headphones and said, "I said, classmate Xie Lan, isn't that right?"
"No." Dou Sheng shook his head, "Now is the stage where we are recording the pretend boyfriend challenge. When I introduce you, I will definitely say my boyfriend Xie Lan."
Xie Lan: “…”
I can't say thank you enough.
“Add another sentence.” Dou Sheng stood behind him, bent down, put his arm around him, and replugged the radio.
His voice sounded serious through the headphones.
"Dear audience, this is Douzi from the post-production department. I noticed that Xie Lan's imitation of my introduction of himself was incorrect. Let's give him a chance to do it again."
Xie Lan frowned, "We agreed that I can do whatever I want."
"Don't make mistakes in addressing others." Dou Sheng said in a serious tone, and put the microphone close to his mouth. "Hurry up, I need to submit an article urgently."
Xie Lan: “…”
The blue indicator light on the radio flashed, but he remained unmoved. After a few seconds of silent confrontation, Dou Sheng suddenly leaned over and kissed the side of his neck.
"!"
Even though he held his breath to avoid making any sound, the hot and itchy feeling made Xie Lan's hair stand on end.
The indicator light kept flashing for a long time, and Xie Lan finally admitted defeat.
He cleared his throat, leaned closer to the receiver, and whispered in a voice imitating Dou Sheng's: "Hello everyone, the person doing the voiceover for today's video is my boyfriend Xie Lan."
After he finished speaking, his whole body felt uncomfortable, and the area behind his ears began to heat up. Xie Lan put his hand on Dou Sheng's shoulder, silently pushed him away, and glared at him fiercely.
Dou Sheng then said with satisfaction: "Okay, I'll take it."
Whatever you do.
Xie Lan was speechless. After he moved the computer away, he wanted to export his demo to listen to it, but he opened the software for a long time without going to the next step.
The last sentence he had recorded just now lingered in his mind.
"Is this okay?" he couldn't help asking, "Listen carefully to see if the radio is picking up any other sounds."
Dou Sheng was flipping through his high-fidelity headphones. "I know, it shouldn't be. I'll check it a few more times."
Xie Lan hummed.
Dou Sheng added some post-production to the video, clicking the mouse occasionally. After a while, he suddenly asked, "What do you think would be the reaction of these viewers if they really knew that we were a couple?"
Xie Lan was a little confused, "I don't know, what do you think?"
Dou Sheng said calmly, "I won't admit it publicly, but I will give them something to capture little by little. It would be best if everyone knows it but no one asks about it. It would be ideal if China can achieve this balance."
Xie Lan nodded and was about to say something else when he suddenly heard footsteps outside and the voice of Dai Youwang Gou.
The door was pushed open and Wang Gou came in, holding a paper bag in his hand. Dai You followed behind him, carrying two plastic bags of supermarket goods.
Dou Sheng glanced at it and asked, "How long does it take to go to the supermarket?"
"I went somewhere else for a walk." Wang Gou answered, and then said to him with a beaming face: "I, Dai You, ate some delicious milk-flavored steamed buns today! I saved one for you, Xie Lan, to try."
As he spoke, he took out a paper box from the paper bag. In the box was a snow-white steamed bun with a smear of red on the surface of the bun, as if it was smeared with red food coloring using a finger.
Wang Gou opened a pair of disposable chopsticks and handed them to Dou Sheng, "Try it."
“What is this?” Dou Sheng frowned. The toy was hitting him in the face, so he just took a bite and smacked his lips. “It doesn’t taste like milk, just big white steamed buns. That’s it. Delicious?”
Dai You wiped the sweat off his face and neck with a towel and said, "We queued up to buy it for the entire afternoon."
Dou Sheng said bluntly: "Maybe you guys are tired and hungry after waiting in line, so you think it's delicious. This is internet celebrity marketing."
He got up and went to the toilet. As soon as he left, Wang Gouqie picked up a bit of steamed bun and brought it to Xie Lan's mouth with great interest.
Xie Lan hesitated, "I don't really want to eat."
It's a bit confusing to bite the bun with nothing.
"Try it, please. I, Dai You, almost fell to my knees after waiting in line." Wang Gou's eyes were eager. "Please, just take a bite."
"… "
All right.
Xie Lan opened his mouth helplessly and took a bite from the other side.
"How is it?" Wang Gou asked, "Do you feel magical?"
“…” Dou Sheng was right, this was just an ordinary steamed bun.
Xie Lan tasted it carefully and swallowed it in silence. When he looked in the mirror, he found that there was red pigment on his lips. He rubbed it with his fingertips for a long time but failed to remove it. He had to get up and wash it.
When King Dai You passed by them, he sensed a strange smell from both of them.
It's a bit like Zhao Wenying's sandalwood-scented shower gel, which Dou Sheng complained was too primitive and nunnery-like, so he only used it that once.
"You two should take a shower." Xie Lan stood at the door and said tactfully, "You are sweaty, take a shower to refresh yourself."
"Okay, okay." Wang Gou nodded repeatedly and raised his eyebrows at Dai You.
Dai You curled the corners of his mouth silently.
After Xie Lan finished washing up, he went to see that the two of them had already packed their things. The supermarket bags had been thrown away, and the shampoo that Dou Sheng brought was placed on their table.
The paper bag and box containing the steamed buns disappeared. They were not thrown into the dormitory trash can. I don't know what happened to the half a dozen steamed buns. Anyway, they are gone.
Xie Lan didn't take it too seriously. He changed his pants and went out to eat with Dou Sheng. On the way, he kept tagging everyone in the group asking if they wanted to bring some snacks.
After tagging Wang Gou, Xie Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
"I guess his second cousin and his second cousin's wife are fine."
“Hmm?” Dou Sheng was interacting with fans on Weibo and raised his eyes nonchalantly, “What?”
Xie Lan raised his phone and shook it at him, "Gouzi's nickname has been changed."
The dog became prosperous.
There are two laughing emoticons at the back, which look very cunning.