The next morning, the trainees gathered by the roadside in the village. The white practice clothes worn yesterday are not resistant to dirt, and everyone has changed into the black jackets provided by the brand sponsors.
The program team planned to invite all the children to hold a party in the school at night, and the trainees were divided into two groups to act separately. The first group is responsible for going to the school to teach the children, and the second group is responsible for going to the county to purchase party preparation materials.
The teaching group is divided into two groups, one group is cultural class teachers and the other is art class teachers. Lin Ye didn't go to college, so she took the initiative to go to the art group. He turned around during the registration interval and saw Jiang Lian and Ming Rang going to the cultural class group.
The principal led the trainees who taught the children to the school on foot, and the rest of the trainees followed the village chief to leave the village for the county in an open-air truck. The staff of the program group and the camera teacher were also divided into two groups, and they followed two groups of trainees with different tasks.
There are two hundred children of legal school age in the village, and the principal temporarily divides the children into two big classes. In the morning, the first class has a cultural class in the classroom, the second class has an art class in the playground, and the two classes exchange each other in the afternoon.
Lin Ye took over twenty children on the playground, taught them to sing and dance, and arranged evening shows for them. Although those children have poor foundations, their enthusiasm is extremely high.
When it was lunch time, he still grabbed Lin Ye's hand to prevent him from leaving. In the end, Wen Mian, who came out of the teaching building after class, rescued him from the crowd of children.
In the afternoon, I was busy leading a new group of children to rehearse the program. Lin Ye didn't finish his day's work and tasks until the sun was about to set on the western mountain.
Everyone hurried back to the village to finish dinner, and there was still an hour before the party time. The children quietly rehearsed the party program in the open space in front of the village, and the trainees carried the things brought back by the purchasing team to the school to decorate the party venue.
The venue for the party is the largest classroom in the school. The trainees moved the desks and chairs away and prepared to decorate the classroom.
Lin Ye sat on the desk and blew up the balloon, his chest rose and fell slightly as he inhaled and exhaled, and poked a finger on his swollen cheek, Lin Ye suddenly lost his temper, and the balloon that was about to form in his hand flattened back.
Holding the flat balloon, he turned his head and followed the retracted finger to see Jiang Lian's face with his head on one hand and his lips raised.
Lin Ye lowered his head and took out a bag of unpacked balloons and threw it to him.
Jiang Lian didn't move, but reached out to grab the half-packed balloon on his lap, and glanced at him, "I'll blow this."
Lin Ye nodded indifferently, took back the bag of balloons she had thrown from Jiang Lian's arms, and handed the unblown balloons to her mouth again, opening her lips to catch air.
But his lips were empty, and the balloon in his hand was intercepted by Jiang Lian halfway. Lin Ye pursed her lips lightly, and looked up at him with a puzzled expression.
Jiang Lian raised the balloon held between his fingertips, and smiled casually, "Since you gave me that bag, I should blow this one too."
The other party suppressed the smile on the corners of his lips, and put the mouth of the balloon bitten by Lin Ye into his lips without changing his expression.
Lin Ye's heart twitched slightly, he wanted to speak but stopped for a few seconds, and finally said nothing.
Before the balloons were blown, the two were called to hang ribbons and lanterns because of their height. Lin Ye stepped on a chair and stood on the desk, bent down to take the ribbons in the hands of others, and pasted them on the wall with tape. Jiang Lian stood on the desk next to him, wrapping the ropes to hang colored lights.
It was a bit difficult to take care of fixing and sticking the tape with both hands. Lin Ye turned her head and said to her back: "Which one of you is free? Come and help."
The others were so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground, Qiu Yi, who was arranging the ribbons with his back to him, took the time to answer, "Then wait for me."
Jiang Lian cut off his words: "No need."
As soon as the voice fell to the ground, the person who spoke directly stepped forward and stepped from the desk beside him to the desk where Lin Ye was standing. The desks are all made of solid wood, and there is no problem carrying the weight of two grown men.
It's just that the desk of the single-person desk is very narrow. Lin Ye was not sure if the other party had a place to stay, so she moved forward subconsciously, trying to make room for Jiang Lian behind her.
However, there was not much space left in front of the toes. He stepped on the edge of the desk, and two-thirds of the soles of his shoes were hanging outside the desk. The upper body was unable to maintain balance due to the trend of inertia, and suddenly tilted out of the desk. An arm wrapped around his waist brought him back.
Lin Ye's body froze without a trace as her back hit her chest with a familiar breath. If it was before he and Jiang Lian ended their relationship, he still hadn't thought it through at that time, and he would probably have gotten used to it and leaned in the other's arms as a matter of course. However, at this moment, he didn't know how to react.
There are deep worries in my heart that I worry that the other party will find out my thoughts, there are also shallow hints of pretending that nothing happened and let it be, and there are selfish thoughts that are greedy for the other party's shoulders and arms and do not want to move.
Various ideas with different positions have been torn apart in each other's hearts.
Jiang Lian, however, didn't seem to notice their overly intimate posture. He withdrew his arm from his waist, then raised it over his shoulder, and held down the ribbon on the wall for him, "Tear off the tape."
Being dragged back to reality by the voice of the other party, Lin Ye came back to his senses, suppressed the messy thoughts in his heart that were still stalemate, and lowered his head to touch the tape and scissors in his coat pocket.
When the tape and scissors were pulled out of the pocket by his hand, something else caught between the two was also dragged out. Seeing that the thing was about to fall, Jiang Lian helped him up. Lin Ye switched the tape and scissors to his left hand, covered the dropped things with his right hand and put them back in his pocket.
Jiang Lian didn't see what that thing looked like, and could only tell by the touch between his fingers that it was a small transparent plastic sealing bag.
He didn't pay too much attention to it, and raised his eyes to Lin Ye who lowered his head and tore off the tape in front of him. He lowered his head, pushed his short nails along the tape inch by inch, carefully looking for the break of the tape.
The slender neck behind the head bends slightly in a semicircle, leaving a small gap between the neck and the back collar of the jacket. Looking down from the neckline, you can still see a small piece of fair skin on Lin Ye's back.
No more can be seen.
Jiang Lian looked back, called his name in Lin Ye's ear, and asked if he was alright.
But he didn't know that since Jiang Lian was observing the back of his neck just now, Lin Ye had been vaguely aware of it because of the strong gaze of the other party, and unconsciously shifted all his attention to his back, and the whole person became Sensitive torment and absent minded.
At this moment, Jiang Lian's abrupt utterance caused Lin Ye, who was a little guilty, to flick his shoulders, as if trying to cover up something, he turned his head extremely quickly to answer.
It's just that he forgot how close he was to Jiang Lian right now, and his heart beat too fast, and when he turned his head, his left cheek bumped against Jiang Lian's lips unexpectedly.
He quickly turned his face away, and the abnormally fast heartbeat rate increased in a straight line.
There were even grotesque heckling sounds from other people.
For a moment, he was so nervous that sweat appeared on his forehead, his throat was dry and tight, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat. Lin Ye concentrated on looking at the place where the sound came from.
Only then did he realize that the voice was not coaxing him or Jiang Lian. The trainees in the classroom are all standing around the opposite table with their backs to them, and even the camera of the teacher is always facing away from them.
It turned out that he and Jiang Lian were not the only ones stepping on the same table to paste the ribbons, but the two on the opposite desk seemed to get too close when passing things, causing their noses to bump into each other, and they were also attacked by other people. I saw it.
The trainees who watched the excitement whistled and booed, and the two steel straight men involved jumped off the desk as if they were facing an enemy, rubbing the goosebumps on their arms up and down unbearably, and stomping back and forth with toothache all over their faces , as if he would not give up until he shook off the goosebumps all over his body.
It caused the straight men present to burst into laughter, and even broke their expression management in front of the camera lens.
An hour later, the party classroom was finally set up.
The walls are covered with colorful and dreamy ribbons and lanterns, and colorful balloons are tied in every corner of the classroom. The desks and chairs have been pushed to the sides, and the tables are full of beautiful and delicate cakes and snacks. Relaxed and cheerful music flowed from the speakers on the podium.
The children, who had never participated in such a large and lively party, entered nervously holding cute handmade invitations.
Wen Mian and Ming Rang are the hosts of the party. The two sang together and had a perfect understanding. Speech is even more humorous, and a few words can make everyone present laugh.
The children performed the singing and dancing programs rehearsed during the day at the party, and the two hosts occasionally named the trainees to perform their talents without warning.
During the transition period of the show, there are also various interactive game sessions between children and trainees. The number of trainees is small, and everyone has a chance to participate in the game.
Lin Ye was picked up by Ming Rang and Wen Mian in the game of grabbing the stool.
Jiang Lian had just returned from the last round of the game, and stood with his arms folded at the entrance of the narrow passage to make way for him.
Lin Ye put down the snacks in his hand and stood up. The transparent seal bag in the coat pocket was tilted more than half from the edge of the pocket as he stood up.
Unknowingly, he looked down and saw Jiang Lian's stool lying in the aisle blocking the way, and bent down to move the stool under the desk.
When he straightened up again, the thin zip bag had completely fallen out of his pocket, and fell to the ground without a sound.
Not realizing that he had dropped something, Lin Ye walked straight over the transparent storage bag on the ground, walked out of the seating area and walked towards the playing field in the center of the classroom.
After the game started, Jiang Lian leaned against the wall and watched for a while in the shadows before walking back to his seat. He bent down to take out the stool that Lin Ye had taken in, and when he sat down, he caught a glimpse of something lying on the ground, embedded in the dark color of the floor, which seemed particularly abrupt.
Jiang Lian paused for a moment, and then recognized that what fell was the transparent storage bag that Lin Ye kept in his pocket at dusk.
He leaned over to pick up the small ziplock bag, spread it flat in his palm, looked down at the faint colored light on the wall behind him, and found a dried flower petal inside.
The shape of the petals is very complete, and it can be seen that it is a pink flower. It is not like any variety of flowers in the countryside here, but rather like the cherry blossoms planted in the base on the island.
Jiang Lian poured the petal into the palm of his hand, and took a closer look. He remembered that he went to the office building to find Lin Ye a few days ago. I plucked a cherry blossom petal from my hair.
It's just a petal, there are many more in the cherry blossom forest. There are even better-looking ones with more complete flower shapes and fuller colors, and you can take as many pieces as you want. Why did Lin Ye want to dry and store this petal, and even carry it with her.
Holding the dried petals with her fingertips, Jiang Lian narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.
After a while, he raised his eyebrows and smiled faintly.
If you talk about Jiang Lian himself, no matter when people mention him, they will not associate him with the word "stupid", and instead of saying he is stupid, they will praise or admire him for being smart, smart and very good at it. People with brains. Even Jiang Lian himself has always thought so.
But now regarding Lin Ye, Jiang Lian had no choice but to scold herself for being stupid while pinching the petals. It was obviously a simple matter, but because he was in the mountains, he was blinded by a leaf and couldn't see the whole picture of the whole mountain.
If he could realize Lin Ye's thoughts and emotions hidden in his heart earlier, then he would not have to take the detours he has taken these days, and he would not have to stay where he was to waste these days because of many concerns. And when the word "concern" came to mind, Jiang Lian himself was slightly taken aback.
He didn't know how many years he hadn't seen this word in himself. Before Lin Ye broke into his life, he didn't even know what worry was. He never does things without any worries, and he doesn't need any worries.
But now he would worry about it. Lin Ye didn't love him, didn't like him, and didn't even feel good about him.
Jiang Lian finally realized that he might like Lin Ye even more than he thought.
When Lin Ye came back from the game, he saw the petals that should have been kept in his pocket, but Jiang Lian placed them in the most prominent position on the table. His steps faltered without a trace, and two seconds later he walked over and sat down without changing his expression, reached out and took the sealed bag by the table and put it in his pocket.
Jiang Lian turned to him, and said in a neutral tone, "I picked it up on the ground."
Lin Ye thanked him without deliberately turning his head to look at Jiang Lian.
The other party didn't intend to end the conversation, and asked bluntly, "Is the petal the one that stuck to my hair in the woods a few days ago?"
Lin Ye didn't intend to admit it.
There are tens of thousands of cherry blossoms in the world, and their petals are all similar. Even if he opened his eyes and told nonsense, Jiang Lian couldn't find any mistakes or abnormalities in what he said.
Lin Ye raised her head, looked straight at Jiang Lian frankly, and denied without any hesitation: "No."
Jiang Lian nodded calmly, and didn't ask any more detailed questions. The conversation suddenly changed: "The night after the performance, do you still remember the incident when you were drunk by Qiu Yi in the cafeteria?"
"I don't remember." Unexpectedly, after a moment of stunned by his question, Lin Ye showed a slightly cautious expression, "Did something happen?"
The other party's fingers curled up and down on the table and tapped twice, looking at him with dark and deep eyes, "You were too drunk to walk that night, and I carried you all the way back."
"Really?" The cautiousness on Lin Ye's face turned into astonishment, "Thank you."
One arm rested on the edge of the table, and the other arm stretched out naturally, hooking Lin Ye's neck intimately but not too much. Jiang Lian stopped beside his face and said in a deep voice, "I have a question to ask you."
At this time, the game session on the field was over, Wen Mian stood alone in the middle of the classroom and sang love songs to the music accompaniment, everyone was immersed in his emotional voice and singing, no one noticed Lin Ye and Jiang Lian's side.
Letting himself relax, Lin Ye said to him: "You ask."
Jiang Lian asked, "Why did you kiss me?"
Even though he had already made all the preparations and foreshadowing in his heart, Lin Ye still caught off guard and opened his eyes wide. He opened his lips, wanting to ask what the other person meant, but found that the tip of his tongue was stiff and slightly numb, and he could no longer pronounce any syllables.
"The night you were drunk, the night I carried you back," Jiang Lian's eyes were locked on his face, the corners of his lips curved into a smile that was not a smile, and he opened his eyes and said nonsense without changing his expression, "Why do you want to kiss him?" my lips?"
This question was like a thunder in a spring night, and it exploded in his ears.
Lin Ye looked at Jiang Lian with a gloomy expression, but she was like a speechless dumb, unable to answer for a long time.
He believed in Jiang Lian's words.
The self that people show when they are drunk is often the truest self. Kissing Jiang Lian's lips after he was drunk was not something he couldn't do. But why can't Jiang Lian just turn a blind eye, but insist on asking for an explanation and speech from him.
He subconsciously thought that Jiang Lian had discovered his secret, so he wanted to make a complete break with him.
The two days spent with Jiang Lian in the countryside were like mirages and mirrors, about to vanish before his eyes.
Lin Ye fell into a long silence.
Jiang Lian didn't even give him a chance to escape, the pressure on his neck suddenly increased, Jiang Lian's deep and powerful voice fell into his ears clearly: "Look at me, tell me, why?"
Why else? The answer was clearly in front of him, but Jiang Lian still insisted on hearing his own confession. Lin Ye suppressed the embarrassment in his eyes, and suddenly raised his head in the voice of the other party. The moment his gaze collided with Jiang Lian's gaze on his face, Lin Ye's words that had slipped to his lips suddenly froze.
Jiang Lian's pupils were dark and beautiful. Like a deep black sea that can't be reached to the bottom, it can swallow him completely and cleanly at any time. However, the other party's eyes are a bit different at this moment, it is still the deep sea, but the sea is no longer as deep and calm as before.
He can clearly see the undulating waves on the sea, like the bow on a cello that is pulled slowly, or like the murmur of a mermaid in a Nordic fairy tale. Heartstrings.
Lin Ye suddenly regained consciousness, and suddenly realized that it was not some illusory ocean wave, but the emotional fluctuation in Jiang Lian's eyes.
He subconsciously looked at each other.
Jiang Lian had already let go of him and stood up. Before leaving, he said to him, "I'll give you time, you should think about it carefully, and then tell me after you've thought about it."
Lin Ye thought about it carefully, he only thought about one thing.
Just the day before, Jiang Lian blocked the camera that was thrown at him for him, and he also stopped the suddenly falling bookshelf for Jiang Lian.
What he did was not much different from what Jiang Lian did.
And he would do this purely out of his feelings for Jiang Lian.
So, what is Jiang Lian's reason for doing this
No one can do the substitution of the formula.
Lin Ye quickly figured it out, even more clearly than ever before.
He stood up abruptly from his seat, and with the sound of a steady and powerful heartbeat in his ears, he looked up and looked around the entire classroom, quickly searching for Jiang Lian's figure.
Jiang Lian stood at the opposite desk and lowered his head to talk to Qiu Yi.
Lin Ye went out from the narrow aisle behind the desk, trying to find Jiang Lian through the playground in the center of the classroom.
Jiang Lian raised his eyes as if aware of it, and when he caught a glimpse of him walking across the classroom, he also scribbled to end the conversation with Qiu Yi, and walked towards Lin Ye.
The children in the center of the venue were immersed in the joy of the megaphone game, and few people turned their attention to Lin Ye and Jiang Lian.
It was suddenly dark in the classroom.
The children's laughter and laughter stopped abruptly, and the ears fell into dead silence without warning, and the five fingers could not be seen in the field of vision. Everyone sitting in the classroom can only perceive their own existence. Two seconds later, everyone finally came to their senses. There were panicked and bewildered footsteps in the classroom, as well as the sounds of trainees asking each other.
Ming Rang and Wen Mian comforted everyone in the dark, followed the principal out of the classroom in the dark, went to the corridor to check the electrical system, and said to the group of children in the classroom before leaving: "Don't run around, so as not to trip over the desks and chairs and hurt you!" , if you are afraid, you can chat loudly with each other, so you won't be afraid anymore."
The old door of the classroom was opened, and then quickly closed. The principal left with Ming Rang and Wen Mian, and the camera teacher who took the mobile phone to illuminate them went out together.
Standing in the dark, Lin Ye was short of breath.
The moonlight could not come in the classroom, the trainees did not have mobile phones, the children sat obediently and did not move, and talked to their partners at the loudest voice in the dark, and the trainees who sat bored slowly joined them.
Lin Ye groped in the dark and walked towards the location where Jiang Lian was standing in his memory.
On the way, he was stopped by someone reaching out his hand.
He was impatient and impatient, intending to push the other party away and move forward.
The man held his wrist tightly, pulled him into his arms, and kissed his lips heavily in the dark.
Lin Ye relaxed instantly, grabbed the clothes on Jiang Lian's chest with her fingertips, and kissed it back without any hesitation.
It was a silent but intense kiss.
They stood majestically in the center of the crowd, but no one noticed their behavior.
Jiang Lian didn't ask him why, and Lin Ye didn't explain why to him.
The answer is already self-evident, and it even seems extremely redundant in this long and short kiss.
When the classroom door was pushed open again, Lin Ye and Jiang Lian's lips and teeth parted instantly.
The headmaster's voice sounded from the door: "It seems that the circuit was burnt due to excessive power consumption. I brought a few candles from the school warehouse. I can only light candles tonight."
The sound of busy footsteps walked through the whole classroom, and everyone began to help light the candles.
After a while, candles were rekindled in the classroom.
Standing in the center of the classroom, Lin Ye looked up and found that Jiang Lian had returned to the place where he was before the power outage.
He gently moved his overstretched fingertips, and felt that he was holding something in his palm. Lin Ye slowly spread out her five fingers, and suddenly saw a familiar yet unfamiliar button lying in her palm.
Said to be familiar, the same button is also on his coat. Saying it was a stranger, there were no shortage of buttons on his coat.
Lin Ye held the button that was stained with the temperature of her palm, and subconsciously looked at Jiang Lian's body opposite.
Sure enough, a button fell off the other party's jacket, and he ripped it off with his hands.
Lin Ye raised her eyes intently, and patiently counted the buttons on Jiang Lian's clothes, only to find that the second button on the jacket was missing. He remembered those inconspicuous stories about the second button on TV when he was a child. It is said that the second button is the button closest to the heart, and if you get the second button, you can get the sincerity of the owner of the button.
Lin Ye's eyes moved slightly, and she looked at Jiang Lian silently.
Aware of his long gaze, Jiang Lian raised his eyes and looked back.
Lin Ye paused slightly.
Away from the walking figures, in the flickering bright candlelight, he brought the button in his hand to his lips, and dropped a kiss on the button with his downcast eyes.
The author has something to say: Lin Ye: The buttons are of poor quality. Country Love Story (Part 2) is over, and I have to convince myself of the number of words in two chapters.