Yunli opened the box and found a pair of ice blue crystal earrings. She picked them up, took a look at them, and said in surprise, "I seem to be here to celebrate your birthday."
Then, she took out the earrings, solemnly made a gesture on Fu Shize's earlobe and said, "It's your birthday, this gift should be given to you." Fu Shize didn't have pierced ears, so obviously she couldn't wear them for him.
Fu Shize was helpless: "My gifts are all yours."
Yunli followed suit: "My gifts are all yours too."
Few words the drunkard said could be believed, but Fu Shize still smiled after hearing Yunli's words. He took the earrings from Yun Li's hand and asked, "Can you sit still?"
Yunli nodded.
He lifted the hair from the side of her ear, her ear was red and hot, and Fu Shi pinched her earlobe.
It was the first time for him to put earrings on a girl, and he was not skilled at it. He always felt that the delicate skin of the earlobes was extremely fragile.
Fu Shize's movements were cautious. He stared at it intently for a long time and put it on nervously for a while. Finally, the earrings finally hung on her ears and stopped moving.
Yunli was quiet. Even after wearing it, she still obeyed his words and remained motionless.
"I only ordered a cake for you." Yunli seemed to wake up, "I didn't give you a gift."
She repeated it again in disbelief: "I didn't get you a gift."
"Didn't you send yourself back?" Fu Shize responded to her words. Yunli blinked and asked, "Do you like it?"
"Um."
There was a knock on the door, probably someone delivering a cake. Fu Shize was about to get it, but Yunli grabbed his collar tightly and continued to ask along with what he just said: "-Do you like me?"
He couldn't move with this movement.
Fu Shi laughed and tried to pry her fingers apart one by one. After prying one off, she stubbornly pushed back the previous one. After futile efforts, he gave up and leaned on the sofa.
"Well, I like you."
Yunli murmured: "I like you too."
Fu Shize: "I know."
Yunli didn't let go of Fu Chize until he fell asleep. After holding her to her chest, Fu Shize noticed that her collar had been torn open by her.
She scratched out several red marks on her collarbone.
This room used to be occupied by my grandparents and no one had lived in it for many years.
The house that should have been empty was filled with her presence.
Fu Shi left a small lamp on and helped her take off her makeup and jewelry.
Yunli turned over and took off the quilt, while Fu Shi tucked the quilt in for her. There were no traces of drinking on her face, and her curled eyelashes cleverly covered her upper eyelids. He touched her eye sockets and asked, "Can I have a birthday present?"
Yunli frowned and turned her face towards him.
The moist lips seemed to be calling him, and Fu Shi came closer and said to himself: "Just treat it as your consent."
…
It was the early morning of the next day when I saw the cake in person.
Yunli woke up in a daze, with a dull pain in her head. She recalled what happened last night, and the memory ended with sleeping in his arms.
No way, I came all the way to celebrate his birthday, but ended up not even blowing out any birthday candles.
Thinking of Fu Shize sitting alone on the sofa, he lit two candles and glanced at the sleeping person next to him - Yunli felt guilty in her heart. She shouldn't have drank because she was in a bad mood. Those two glasses of wine.
When I opened the refrigerator, the cake was not complete and was cut into two pieces.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
It was probably his birthday, Fu Shize would never deliberately disguise the cake like this.
"Did you sleep well?" Fu Shize walked to her side and took out milk and eggs from the refrigerator.
He woke up for a while, the buttons of his pajamas were loosened a few times, and the red marks on his collarbone could be seen.
Yunli couldn't believe her eyes.
"Well, it's pretty good." She replied to his question in a polite manner, and asked him hesitantly: "Did I do that on your collarbone?"
Fu Shize: "Don't remember?"
“…”
"Let me ask a question," Yunli said with difficulty: "How did you do it?"
Fu Shi put the hot milk in front of her and said casually: "Maybe it's bitten."
“…”
Yunli continued to search in her memory to see how far the two of them had progressed. She had a vague impression that after she fell asleep, the tip of her tongue was struggling with something. She stretched out her arms to resist, and then her arms fell into the soft sheets and couldn't move at all.
She was still confused, but Fu Shi said indifferently: "It doesn't matter."
This matter was beyond the scope of Yunli's cognition, so she blurted out: "That's good." She was afraid of getting into trouble.
Fu Shi laughed.
Yunli thought the matter was over, but when Fu Shize was frying eggs, he suddenly looked back at her and said, "It hurts a little."
“…”
After kissing her lips until they hurt, Yun Li was let go. She glanced at her phone while eating breakfast and saw the message Yunye sent last night: [Wish my brother-in-law a happy birthday for me.]
Yunli: [Received.]
Yunye: [Twelve hours have passed. Yunli, what did you do last night?]
Yunli: [Date^^]
Yun Ye: [Hehe]
Yun Ye: [Friendly reminder: Dad said he was going to Nanwu to deliver a quilt to you. The time is unknown.]
Yunli: [Fuck]
After taking a sip of milk to calm down her shock, Yunli was so frightened by the news that her hair stood on end. The winter is almost over, and it's not too late to come to Nanwu to examine the future son-in-law.
After breakfast, the two drove to a nearby supermarket to make purchases.
Yunli looked at a bunch of common daily necessities in the shopping cart, such as toothbrushes, cups, slippers, etc. She bought two copies. Logically speaking, she could just buy her share, and asked doubtfully: "Didn't you have them at home before?"
Fu Shi then counted: "Couple's slippers, couple's cups, couple's pajamas..."
Seeing her stunned expression, he lowered his eyes and asked, "Is there a problem?"
He pushed the car forward, and Yunli smiled slowly, followed him, and held his arm tightly.
"Let's buy some fast food." Yunli walked to the freezer section, "You can buy more dumplings and cook them quickly."
Fu Shize rarely ate quick-frozen food and asked doubtfully: "Don't you usually make it yourself?"
"Isn't it you who cooks now?" Yunli said sincerely, "I want to reduce your burden."
As soon as the two of them moved in together, the matter seemed to be a done deal.
Sounding a bit cheeky, Yunli added: "If you are tired from cooking, I can make you frozen dumplings."
“…”
Fu Shize said calmly: "'The latest news about Xianyun Didajiang: Video "Make porridge for your boyfriend - How to make crab and shrimp casserole porridge"'"
"Huaishan pork ribs porridge, beef and egg porridge, scallops and shrimp porridge, black bean brown rice porridge..." Fu Shi read out several names in the series from memory, tilted his head and asked her: "I seem to be your boyfriend ?”
Yunli twitched the corners of her lips: "It's you..."
Fu Shi smiled expressionlessly: "I don't remember eating it."
“…”
Yunli consciously walked to the grain and oil section, threw a few bags of brown rice and oats into the shopping cart, and then walked to the dry goods section and threw a few bags of dried seafood.
After visiting the supermarket, Fu Shize changed his clothes and went to work.
Nanjing University of Technology had not yet started school, so Yunli talked to Fang Yuning and returned to the company early.
The internship at EAW has been completed for three months, and Yunli has been doing odd jobs most of the time.
The intern's job is not fixed. She has helped in many departments and has a rough understanding of the company's business.
She planned to leave her job in April. Before then, Yunli took the initiative to apply with Fang Yuning to be in charge of spring recruitment.
This is a job that Yunli could never take the initiative to apply for or do well in the past. Perhaps because she was eager to change her personality recently, Yunli wanted to try it for the first time.
Except for commuting to get off work together, Yunli and Fu Shize's daily lives are ordinary.
Occasionally she would think of Yun Yongchang's coming to Nanwu.
Not receiving the exact news yet, Yunli hypnotized herself as if nothing had happened.
"Teacher Xianyun." He Jiameng took annual leave and came to say hello to Yunli after returning to the company, "Colleagues said you have changed a lot recently?"
"Ah?" Yunli looked up from the document, "What changed?"
"I prefer talking and laughing." He Jiameng said with a smile, "I didn't expect that when I fell in love with that cold person, Teacher Xianyun would actually like to laugh more. Is it infected?"
Yunli smiled: "Maybe he was infected."
The two of them didn't chat for long before they got off work. Yunli packed up her things and went to the door to wait for Fu Shize.
Today is Valentine's Day, and Yunli and Fu Shize have made an appointment to shoot a drone video together. The theme is about the development history of classic drones, and Fu Shize will draft and dub the copy for her.
After finding the drone in his collection, Yunli borrowed the space in front of his bookshelf to record its appearance.
Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a black leather photo album in the cabinet. She took it out and flipped through it.
It's a previous photo of Fu Shize.
Since his infancy, there has been a boy with him in many photos, probably the baby mentioned earlier.
The two of them had similar smiles, with obvious creases on their double eyelids. In one picture, they were holding their schoolbags and leading Fu Shize to the door of Jiangnanyuan.
Fu Shize looks like he is only four or five years old.
Yunli squatted there, flipping through the pages, when Fu Shize came in and asked her: "Drone..."
His words stopped abruptly.
"I accidentally opened this photo album just now, and I saw a lot of photos of you when you were a child." Yunli stood up and wanted to hand the album to him.
Fu Shize took a look, closed the photo album, and asked her, "Are you taking a video now?"
He put the photo album on the bedside.
Yun Li clicked her head uneasily, and it took her a while to react, "Oh, okay."
Yunli followed him outside, set up the camera and recorded some outdoor drone scenes. While operating the camera, Yunli looked up at him silently.
His expression was indifferent, and the blue sky was reflected in his eyes.
The man in the black coat overlapped with the boy wearing the Unique uniform.
And clearly separated.
Before they got together, Fu Shi was like a rose in the wilderness, alone and alone, and she was the same, watching from a distance.
The scene in the camera was frozen several times. His movements were very small, and only the drone shuttled through the air.
Yunli thought of the night when they were camping, the reflective lake surface, and the lonely figure. She was clearly close enough to be able to tell his body temperature, but there was still an inevitable sense of alienation.
"Lili."
Yunli came back to her senses, and Fu Shize was looking at her. The drone had returned to his hand.
"It's done, let's go eat." Yun Li said uncomfortably, and Fu Shize hummed and packed the camera for her.
In mid-February, when the temperature was still three degrees below zero, Fu Shi put a scarf on Yunli, took her hand and put it in his pocket.
His palms felt a little cold, and soon they warmed up. After arriving outside, the cold wind was biting her bones, and Yunli's skin was so cold that she lost consciousness. Only the little heat from her palms could be felt.
She finally felt better after being bored all day.
Fu Shi made a reservation in advance for a Western restaurant in the commercial capital near Jiangnanyuan.