Bai Lu is cooking.
After agreeing on a treat, Wu Hanwen said something in the cafeteria that he wouldn't let Bai Lu pay for his meal card.
"Don't tell me, I can't afford to lose anyone." Wu Hanwen stuffed a dinner plate into Bai Lu's arms, "You take what you want to eat yourself."
Bai Lu didn't show any kindness to Wu Hanwen, and half-jokingly said with the plate, "The school committee will cost a fortune."
"You look down on people, don't you?"
The canteen's late-night snack was quite rich, but Bai Lu couldn't eat much, so she only took one glutinous rice ball and one pancake.
Wu Hanwen packed a plate full of rice, Bai Lu looked at it and said, "Why do you eat so much?"
"Mental work consumes physical strength." Wu Hanwen didn't eat dinner and was waiting, so he didn't tell Bai Lu.
The cafeteria at night was so quiet that it was almost empty, and the high school seniors who stayed up late sat in twos and threes in every corner.
"What time is the exam tomorrow?" Bai Lu broke the silence.
"Afternoon." Wu Hanwen said.
"Why is it so late?"
Wu Hanwen shrugged, "Who knows, we just listen to their arrangement."
Bai Lu raised her head from the glutinous rice ball bowl, looked at Wu Hanwen quietly, "Are you nervous?"
Wu Hanwen smiled, vaguely hiding his pride.
"Don't be nervous, be sure."
Bai Lu said, "If you really won the first prize, which one will you go to Tsinghua University and Peking University?"
Wu Hanwen was a little embarrassed, "Don't run on me, it doesn't have to be these two. This year's policy has changed, and the universities in Zhejiang and Shanghai may also be there."
Bai Lu nodded, Wu Hanwen stopped the chopsticks in his hand, looked at her, and asked, "What about you? Which university do you want to go to?"
Bai Lu took a bite of the glutinous rice balls.
"Where can I take the exam."
"No goal? There must be, I'm sorry to say."
Bai Lu: "My grades are average, and the college entrance examination is only 600 at most."
"Then there are many choices. Do you want to stay in the north or go to the south?"
Bai Lu took a shallow breath, looked at the slightly cloudy soup in the bowl, and said softly, "I don't know, when the time comes—"
The phone suddenly vibrated.
Today, the mobile phone happened to be placed on the outside of the schoolbag, and Bai Lu immediately felt the shock.
Wu Hanwen was still waiting for her to finish speaking, but Bai Lu lowered her head, "Wait a minute."
He took out his phone and connected without looking at it.
"Where are you?"
It was a low voice again, hoarse and lazy.
Bai Lu's back was bent, her temple hair fell from the headband, covering her cheeks on both sides.
"Drinking again?"
Wu Hanwen stopped holding the food, and continued to eat in silence.
"Drink, how is it?"
"not so good."
"Take care of me..."
"No."
"You come out."
"no."
"come out."
"Really can not… "
Ten meters away from the seat, the aunt who cleaned the cafeteria suddenly yelled in this direction.
"Hurry up and eat, it will be closed later!"
A rough voice suddenly broke out in the quiet environment, and Bai Lu's shoulders shrank subconsciously. When Wu Hanwen saw it, he quickly turned his head and called back to his aunt.
"Immediately, we will finish eating soon!"
There was a pause of several seconds on the phone.
Bai Lu lowered her head and fiddled with the damaged cushion with her fingers.
He asked briefly.
"Who."
"Ok?"
"Who is talking?"
There was another pause of a few seconds, and a sneer came from the phone.
Xu Hui said in a low voice:
"Dishonest woman..."
The phone hangs up.
Bai Lu put the phone back in her schoolbag, raised her eyes, and met Wu Hanwen's eyes, as if he was waiting for her to say something.
Bai Lu didn't want to talk about anything else, so she twirled the spoon in the bowl and ate another glutinous rice ball.
"It's getting late, you go home quickly, don't you have to go to the exam tomorrow?"
Wu Hanwen put down his chopsticks, stretched, and suddenly sat upright.
The summer uniforms for the boys of No. 6 Middle School are white cotton half-sleeve lapel shirts and dark gray trousers. Because it was too hot, Wu Hanwen unbuttoned the first button, and the collar was a little bit off.
"Give me some cheer." Wu Hanwen said, "Be more formal."
Bai Lu also straightened up, "How formal?"
Wu Hanwen snorted, "Just... just watch and tell yourself."
Bai Lu's eyes slowly turned half a circle, and finally looked at Wu Hanwen. Wu Hanwen raised his eyebrows, waiting for her to speak.
"come on."
Wu Hanwen: "It's over?"
"It's over."
Wu Hanwen scratched his ear, "Okay." He laughed out loud as he spoke, and said inexplicably, "I want to work hard..."
midnight.
Xu Hui lay on the sofa.
There were no lights in the room, but it wasn't dark. One of the characteristics of the lower floors near the road is that they can borrow the light of street lamps anytime and anywhere.
The phone on the table kept ringing, but Xu Hui didn't move.
The caller was a friend who was still playing at KTV.
Three hours after he left, the happy people finally found that the birthday star was gone.
The phone keeps ringing until it runs out of power, and then automatically shuts off.
The whole world fell silent.
Xu Hui turned around, frowned, leaned against the sofa, and fell asleep.
He was awakened by a knock on the door.
His fingers were numb and he couldn't open his eyes.
"Ah Hui! I'm Sun Yuhe, are you in there?"
The door was slammed.
"Hi! Are you okay? Hui—?"
Xu Hui slowly got up from the sofa and went to the entrance to open the door.
Sun Yuhe was sweating profusely, panting heavily.
"How not to answer the phone?"
Xu Hui shook his head.
"Think something happened to you, don't scare people like this, okay?"
Xu Hui turned his head and walked into the house.
Sun Yuhe followed behind, watching him sit on the sofa and smoke from the table.
"I came out secretly, and I was almost killed by them when you let me go. Xiaoye yelled to come to you, but I stopped her. This gave me a hard time, take a look..." Sun Yuhe lifted himself up sleeve, and let Xu Hui look at his forearm.
"Hey... Why don't you turn on the lights in this room, it's so dark."
Sun Yuhe looked around, frowned and said, "This room smells too strong of alcohol, please open the windows."
Xu Hui lowered his head and smoked. Sun Yuhe looked at him for a while, sighed, and took out the cigarette as he sat down.
"How about calling Xiaoye over?"
Xu Hui finally said, "No need."
Sun Yuhe: "I said brother, it's your birthday, can you stop being so wormwood? Be happy."
Xu Hui stared at one place in a daze for a long time, and Sun Yuhe lowered his head, only to find a small folder on the table.
"what is this?"
"birthday present."
Sun Yuhe looked at Xu Hui, "Who gave it to you?"
Xu Hui bit his cigarette, and suddenly smiled on his tired face.
Sun Yuhe said: "The girl who shares your birthday with you."
Xu Hui casually glanced at him.
"How could you guess her?"
Sun Yuhe himself didn't know, "Just think about it and make random guesses, is it really her?"
"Ok… "
Sun Yuhe raised his ass and stretched out his hand, "Let me see what you gave me..."
Xu Hui picked up the folder and lifted it to the other side.
Sun Yuhe stared, "Hey? What's going on? Why don't you show me?"
Going to get it again, Xu Hui kicked him back onto the sofa.
Sun Yuhe nodded, "Okay, okay Xu Hui, brother, won't you? I was afraid that you would die suddenly from alcohol poisoning, so I took a taxi and came here in the middle of the night, but you didn't even let me see your birthday present. You can do it. "
Xu Hui snorted, "What's the matter?"
Sun Yuhe raised his chin, "I'm not kidding, what did you give me? It's so thin, it can't be a love letter."
Xu Hui opened the folder and pulled out a piece of paper from it.
A4 paper, sealed in plastic.
Sun Yuhe took it in his hand, and then the orange smoke star looked over.
"Draw?"
In his hand is a sketch, the brushwork is light and the tone is light.
What is painted is a small bush, with disordered leaves, layered on top of each other.
"What do you mean by drawing a black and white tree leaf for your birthday?"
Xu Hui scolded, and explained impatiently, "That's a flower."
"Where did the flowers come from?"
Xu Hui started, pointing casually.
Sun Yuhe squinted his eyes and looked hard, and finally found a small flower in a bush, with two flowers blooming side by side.
"This..." Sun Yuhe wanted to feel something, but the painting was taken away from his hand.
Sun Yuhe turned his words into a smile, and said, "Is there something interesting?"
Xu Hui put the painting back into the folder and said lightly, "What?"
Sun Yuhe crossed his legs, "Don't pretend."
Xu Hui put the file folder on the table and leaned against the sofa. Sun Yuhe said, "If you are interested, go for it. Didn't you say that you are not ugly?"
Xu Hui turned his head, "That's not pretty." Then he remembered something, and added, "It's not pretty, it's not honest..."
Sun Yuhe pointed at Xu Hui, "Look at your hypocrisy!"
Xu Huiyan pinched it and flung it at Sun Yuhe, who turned sideways and dodged it.
"Do you have any photos, show me."
"No."
"Really?"
"..."
Sun Yuhe laughed twice, "What's the relationship between us, how many times have we slept in the same bed? I don't know you yet?"
Xu Hui: "Don't disgust me."
Sun Yuhe hooked his fingers at Xu Hui, and Xu Hui reluctantly took out his phone and dug out the photos.
The photo looks like it was taken secretly.
That day when Bai Lu came here to make honey-soaked lemons, Xu Hui was watching her at the door, and Xiaoye called. When Xu Hui was holding the phone, Bai Lu just turned his head, and he took a photo casually.
At the moment of capturing the photo, Bai Lu looked up at him with her mouth slightly open, her expression a little dazed. A few strands of hair fell on both sides of the cheeks, and large glasses rested on the bridge of the nose.
"It's so small..." Sun Yuhe looked at the photo.
Xu Hui took another cigarette.
"Okay, stop smoking." Sun Yuhe took down the cigarette, "Why do you smoke if you don't want to smoke?"
"Who doesn't want to..."
"It's not ugly, it's just a bit of dirt, and it looks okay. After tidying up and dressing up, I should be able to do it."
Xu Hui shrugged, not caring.
"You like it but you're too embarrassed to chase after it."
Xu Hui looked at him ridiculously, "Who likes it?"
"Then you secretly take pictures of people's houses."
Xu Hui looked aside.
"Do you like it?"
Xu Hui collapsed on the sofa and said in a low voice, "It's not that I like it... it's just..."
Sun Yuhe: "What is it?"
Xu Hui himself couldn't explain clearly, so he was silent for a while, then murmured: "It just happened..."
Not so many reasons, not so many feelings.
It just happened by accident.
"She looks quite ordinary." In the middle of the night, Xu Hui hadn't completely sobered up, and his head was a little dizzy, and he didn't know how to describe it in a daze.
Rubbing his head, Xu Hui's hair was messy, like a bird's nest.
Sun Yuhe listened to his more messy explanation without saying a word.
"I didn't take it seriously at first, but... I just bumped into it. There are many things. There is also a feeling... The feeling is the same. I don't usually have it. It's just a few ideas, and they are all on the right track."
Sun Yuhe couldn't understand his nonsense, but still nodded, "Yeah, you're all right, so do you still want to be disgusted?"
Xu Hui looked over, "When did I say I disliked it?"
"You—" Sun Yuhe breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, okay, you didn't say anything."
Xu Hui lowered his head, looked at his palm, and said in a low voice for a while:
"It's just a bump."
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I don't usually like reading books, and I follow my feelings when coding.
That feels a little more mysterious.
Sometimes noisy, sometimes quiet, sometimes abstinent, sometimes indulgent.
Every experience is a guide, and I follow with as much ease as possible. As for what will follow, I don't know until the end.
When thinking about this article, my heart is very peaceful, I wonder if you can feel it.
If you can get along with me at this time, then we will walk together for two months. If the mood is not on the same frequency, then wait, I always have heat.