The summer vacation of the third year of high school was long enough. When Ding Xuerun took Lou Xun home, Ding Zhaowen gave him a warm welcome and entertained him warmly—he liked Ding Xuerun's little classmate who was about to have a tall door frame.
After cooking a sumptuous home-cooked meal, Ding Zhaowen asked Lou Xuan at the dinner table, "Where do you live at night?"
"I don't know, Uncle Ding, I haven't decided yet."
"Don't stay in a hotel, Runrun's room is big, just live with him!"
Lou Xuan's face almost died of laughter: "Okay, okay!"
"Both of you are studying in Beijing. The two universities are quite close. We will take care of each other when the time comes. If you have nothing to do, come out for a meal. Don't break contact."
"Of course!" Lou Xuan almost said, it's impossible to break up, they live together and sleep in the same bed.
After the meal, Lou Xuan secretly planned with Ding Xuerun in his room: "You see your dad likes me so much, if I boo you in front of him, would he still like me?"
Ding Xuerun shook her head.
"Then will he hit me?"
Ding Xuerun still shook his head: "He doesn't beat people, he just drives you away."
"That's still..." Lou Xuan scratched his head, a little helpless. His father originally said that he would make a special trip to Guilin these two days to bring some gifts to meet his in-laws, but Lou Xuan didn't dare to let him come.
"Let's keep it a secret."
There was a knock on the door, and Ding Zhaowen's voice came through the door: "I came in?"
Lou Xuan quickly let go of Ding Xuerun's arm, stood up and opened the door.
Ding Zhaowen came in with a fruit plate and two glasses of water: "Xiaolou, uncle didn't disturb your chat, did he?"
Lou Xuan shook his head: "No, Uncle Ding." He felt that Ding Zhaowen was too polite and polite, so he could call him Xiaolou as his son.
Ding Zhaowen smiled and took a photo album from the bookshelf: "This is the photo of Runrun from childhood to adulthood, look through it."
The photo album was big and thick, and Lou Xuan happily took it: "Thank you, Uncle Ding, I'll take my time."
Lou Xuan turned to the first page, and the color photos were well protected by plastic packaging. The first one was a family portrait, with a woman holding a child.
Ding Zhaowen explained: "This is when Runrun was just born, and this is his mother."
Lou Xuan sighed: "Mom is so beautiful."
"This is an artistic photo we took him to a photo studio when he was just one month old." He pointed to a baby photo.
Lou Xuan quickly took out his mobile phone to take pictures, couldn't help laughing, and touched Ding Xuerun on the shoulder: "Why are you still eating your toes?"
The baby in the photo is holding its own toes and gnawing in its mouth. The baby is still gender-neutral, and has big black and white eyes.
Ding Xuerun explained: "At that time, I was too young to understand anything."
Ding Zhaowen turned another page, and Lou Xuan saw Ding Xuerun grow up day by day from the photo album, and suddenly had an illusion in his heart that he had participated in his previous life.
After flipping through a few pages of a photo album, Ding Zhaowen went out: "Don't sleep too late."
As soon as he went out, Lou Xuan's tense demeanor relaxed, holding the photo album and looking at it with relish, flipping through it while commenting: "Baby, is this you? What dress are you wearing..."
Ding Xuerun leaned over to take a look, and said: "The elementary school rehearsal, the teacher who lacked a role let me take the role."
Putting on women's clothes, seven or eight-year-old Ding Xuerun has pink face and peach cheeks, wearing a wig and white socks, she looks very beautiful, she is completely a little girl.
Lou Xuan's heart skipped a beat: "Do you still have women's clothing at home?"
"Do you want to wear it? If you want to wear it, I can buy it for you."
Lou Xuan's eyes flickered: "... I'm not, I want to see... you wear it."
Ding Xuerun didn't have that habit, but he didn't completely reject Lou Xuan, he just bypassed the topic and turned the album back a page.
Lou Xuan found out from the photos that Ding Xuerun started wearing glasses.
"Are you short-sighted in junior high?"
"Well, I studied too hard at that time, and my vision gradually became blurred."
The following photos became less and less. When Lou Xuan saw a piece of paper certificate in the photo album, he finally understood why the photo album was so thick and there were so many certificates in it.
Each one tells Lou Xuan that Ding Xuerun has been so outstanding since he was a child.
After reading the photo album, when Ding Xuerun went out to take a shower, he saw that the light in Ding Zhaowen's room had been turned off.
Although Lou Xuan really wanted to be with him, he was still afraid of being seen by his parents when he was at Ding Xuerun's house. After Ding Xuerun returned to the room and fell asleep, Lou Xuan went to the bathroom again.
The two turned off the light and lay on the bed, Lou Xuan still didn't feel sleepy at all.
Ding Xuerun's bed was 1.5 meters wide, and Ding Zhaowen prepared two summer quilts for them. The original intention was to let them cover them separately, after all, it was summer. As a result, Lou Xuan abandoned the quilt that Ding Zhaowen specially prepared for him, and slept with Ding Xuerun under the quilt.
He has a sweaty physique, hugging Ding Xuerun to keep him warm, a layer of sweat broke out in a short while.
Lou Xuan rustled and took off the pajamas she had just put on under the quilt.
Ding Xuerun opened his eyes: "Why haven't you slept yet?"
"Isn't it because you can't sleep..." He didn't dare to speak loudly, and lowered his voice, as if whispering, "I thought you were asleep."
After speaking, Lou Xuan hugged her again. Ding Xuerun turned over in his arms, from facing away to facing him.
Lou Xun asked: "That photo of yours is just a baby photo, the one that gnaws your toes, can you still gnaw it now?"
"I don't know." Ding Xuerun sighed, and wanted to laugh, and said softly, "Who is free to chew their toes?"
"I just want to eat."
Ding Xuerun looked at him with big eyes, showing the look of looking at a fool.
Lou Xuan added: "Eat you, Runrun, I want to lick your whole body."
The fragrance of the shower gel on Ding Xuerun's body sweetly spread to Lou Xuan's nose. He sniffed lightly: "You said that if I planted strawberries for you, would your dad know that they were sucked out? Would he believe it if he said it was bitten by mosquitoes?"
"I won't believe it." Ding Xuerun felt a little hot, and pushed the quilt away a little, Lou Xuan turned over and arched against Ding Xuerun's chest, and got into his pajamas without saying a word, with the tip of her nose rubbing against his skin, he Lou Xuan was attracted by the smell on his body.
Ding Xuerun's pajamas rolled up to his neck, he trembled slightly, and put his palm lightly on the top of Lou Xuan's head: "...don't make too much noise, don't wake my dad up."
Lou Xuan became even more cautious, and kissed very gently, not daring to make any noise.
When having breakfast the next day, Ding Zhaowen suddenly said with a newspaper in his hand, "I don't know if there are wild cats in the community. I heard cats meowing faintly last night."
Ding Xuerun stopped drinking the soy milk.
"Strange," he looked puzzled, "it doesn't look like a cat."
Lou Xuan didn't understand anything, and foolishly echoed: "I seem to have heard a cat meowing too!" In fact, Lou Xuan didn't hear anything when he just made out last night.
Ding Zhaowen nodded: "Yes, I'll wait to see if there are any stray cats, and buy some cat food."
He told Ding Xuerun, "You can take Xiaolou out on a bamboo raft on the Li River."
Ding Xuerun took Lou Xuan out to play, and when the two got into a taxi, Ding Xuerun asked him, "Did you really hear the cat meowing last night?"
"did not hear it."
"Then why do you say you heard it?"
Lou Xuan looked at him innocently: "To keep your father from being cold."
Ding Xuerun also looked at him: "Lou Xuan... do you really think what my dad heard was a meowing cat?"
"if not?"
"… never mind."