When giving Li Shu his number, Shen Yiyou didn't think that he would have any deep development with Li Shu.
From January to April, they met many times on and off. Shen Yiyou didn't dislike Li Shu at all, and even had some affection for him who didn't know where. Sometimes he looked forward to the date next week, sometimes he didn't.
But Li Shu didn't seem to have any further desires, and Shen Yiyou couldn't imagine how they would fall in love.
At the beginning of May, Shen Yiyou went to the capital for a three-day business trip to win a client with high hopes for cooperation.
He stayed from Wednesday to Friday, and the client's company had to go through the entire urban area to get to his house. It was not too late to talk about the plan. It was too inconvenient to live at home, so Shen Yiyou planned to go home early on Tuesday and stay one night. Bring some presents for my parents and stay at a hotel next to my client's company for the next two nights.
But I didn't expect that on the night of returning home, my parents would hold my heart in the study for more than two hours.
His father was sweating profusely and was always greedy for coolness. The air conditioner in the study was turned on very low. Shen Yiyou had a sore throat from the cold. He had a premonition that he was about to get sick, so he drank cold medicine and fell asleep all night.
Opening his eyes the next morning, Shen Yiyou felt very cold, and the sour smell was rising from his bones. He went downstairs to measure the temperature, and it was thirty-eight degrees seven. But he made an appointment with the client at ten o'clock, and he didn't dare to be late, so he took antipyretics and painkillers, and hurried out the door.
Perhaps it was because he was in a bad state with a fever, and the communication with the client was not as smooth as expected, and the visit ended much earlier than he expected, and he left the client's company before one o'clock in the afternoon. He bought medicine at a pharmacy by the side of the road, went back to the hotel room to take it, and lay in bed thinking about work. The effect of the medicine made him feel sleepy, but it still couldn't make him fall asleep.
While half asleep and half awake, he received a call from Li Shu.
Li Shu said something on the other end, Shen Yiyou didn't hear clearly, so he sat up a little bit, he didn't have the strength to speak, so he asked Li Shu softly: "What did you say?"
"I don't have time to come on weekends." Li Shu said.
Shen Yiyou thought dully for a while, only to remember that Li Shu originally made an appointment with him to meet on Saturday. He grabbed the quilt, and the bitter pain came out of his fast-stopping brain.
"Oh," Shen Yiyou said to Li Shu, "OK."
Li Shu didn't speak, but he didn't hang up the phone, neither did Shen Yiyou. The two of them were silent for more than half a minute, and Shen Yiyou couldn't help but said to Li Shu, "I wanted you not to come, too."
He sat up straight, reached for the glass water glass on the bedside table and took a sip. The warm water poured from the medicine just now was already completely cold, and the water dripped down the throat icily, Shen Yiyou coughed a few times, and put the cup back.
Li Shu called his name on the other end and asked him, "Are you feeling well?"
Shen Yiyou lay back on the bed, did not answer Li Shu's question, said "I'm going to sleep", and hung up the phone.
Within a few seconds, Li Shu dialed again.
Shen Yiyou looked at Li Shu's name, paused for a while, and still picked it up.
"Are you uncomfortable?" Li Shu asked again, but Shen Yiyou couldn't tell whether Li Shu cared about him, so he gave a soft "hmm".
Li Shu paused, and asked him, "Are you at home?"
"The hotel," Shen Yiyou said, "I've taken the medicine and I'm very sleepy, I'm fine and I'll die."
Li Shu said, "Don't hang up yet," but didn't say why he didn't hang up.
After a while, he asked Shen Yiyou again: "Are you alone in the hotel now?"
Shen Yi's hands were getting tired, his eyes were almost closed, and he said to Li Shu, "Why are you asking so many questions, and you won't come here."
In fact, Shen Yiyou doesn't like being alone at all.
He thought that he was the kind of person who moaned without illness. Even as far back as he could remember, he had never received any warm and caring care, never had careful care and company, and still secretly longed for care in his heart.
But Shen Yiyou's luck is not good, no matter how many friends he has, no matter how lively the fun is, he always seems to have no one to accompany him when he is unhappy.
Li Shu seemed to like Shen Yiyou very much, and always wanted to meet him, but it didn't work.
He still doesn't come.
Before Li Shu on the other side hung up the phone, Shen Yiyou closed his eyes and called his name. Maybe a sick person is very fragile. Even when Li Shu said that he was there, Shen Yiyou felt sad.
Li Shu asked him "what's the matter".
"Li Shu," Shen Yiyou curled up under the quilt, and said to Li Shu drowsily, "Can you come and accompany me now."
Li Shu was silent for a while, then he said, "Okay."
When Shen Yiyou woke up again, it was already half past six in the morning.
His headache was gone, his temperature was taken, and the fever subsided, but his throat still felt a little uncomfortable, and his steps were sluggish.
His mouth was very dry, and he got out of bed and wanted to boil a pot of water to drink. He had just poured the water into the pot when he heard a light knock on the door.
Shen Yiyou suspected that he was hallucinating, and then thought that he seemed to have answered Li Shu's call, and he lost control of his emotions and begged Li Shu to come and accompany him, so he pressed the water button, went to check with his mobile phone, and found that Li Shu had indeed called him twice, It was two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door again, Shen Yiyou walked over and opened the door hesitantly, Li Shu stood outside the door with a luggage bag, looking at Shen Yiyou.
Behind him is the hotel atrium, and the bright skylight seeps through the glass roof, making the dark gray carpet under his feet look softer. The circular corridor in front of Shen Yiyou was empty except for Li Shu. It was dark and still in the morning.
Shen Yiyou asked him: "How did you come up, why did you knock on the door so lightly."
"I've made a reservation," Li Shu said, "I originally planned that if you were sleeping, I would go back to my room first."
Shen Yiyou opened the door a little more to let Li Shu in.
Li Shu helped him hold the door, and Shen Yiyou entered the room.
The water boiled, Shen Yiyou turned around and asked Li Shu if he wanted some tea.
"I drink water." Li Shu came over, took a bottle of water for himself, turned away to take a sip, and asked Shen Yiyou, "What's wrong with you?"
"I had a fever yesterday, but it has subsided," Shen Yiyou said, "Why are you here at this time?"
"It was too late to apply for the route, so I bought a ticket, but the ticket for the nearest direct flight was sold out, and I made a transfer," Li Shu said.
Shen Yiyou was stunned for a while before asking: "Where did you come from?"
Li Shu said "San Francisco".
Li Shu still looks like he usually does, with ordinary clothes and a small luggage bag, as if his home is in a city near the capital, he just came over to see Shen Yiyou, he is tall and reliable.
Shen Yiyou looked at him for a while before asking him: "Then where do you usually work?"
Li Shu gave Shen Yiyou the same answer, he suddenly raised his hand, called Shen Yiyou's name, then pointed at the center of Shen Yiyou's eyebrows from the air, and said, "Don't frown."
Li Shu stood about two meters away from Shen Yiyou, and he spoke in a very serious and serious manner, as if he made such a fuss for Shen Yiyou, often going back and forth between San Francisco and S City, simply because he wanted to maintain friendship with Shen Yiyou.
Shen Yiyou stared into his eyes, smiled at him, and took another step closer. Li Shu seemed a little embarrassed, but he didn't back away.
"Li Shu," Shen Yiyou called him, "Why don't you touch me all the time, you don't have physical barriers, right?"
As he spoke, he reached out and touched Li Shu's hand lightly.
Li Shu didn't move, but his standing posture was a little stiff. He looked at Shen Yiyou, and after a while he denied it: "No."
"It's fine if you don't have one," Shen Yiyou said, "Don't move."
Shen Yiyou moved closer to Li Shu, raised his hand to pull Li Shu's coat, raised his face and kissed Li Shu's chin, and left quickly.
The smell on Li Shu's body was very clean, warm and safe. There were some stubbles on his chin, and the room was dimly lit, so it couldn't be seen from the outside, and the kiss was a little rough.
"Kissing your face but not kissing should not infect you with a cold." Shen Yiyou said softly.
Li Shu looked at Shen Yiyou in silence for a while, then raised his hand and touched Shen Yiyou's face lightly. His hand was also very warm, as strong and dry as Shen Yiyou's memory. He seemed to be touching something fragile. His index finger and The pulp of the middle finger slid from Shen Yiyou's cheek to his chin, and lightly clasped with the joints of the thumb and index finger. "It may not be contagious." Li Shu lobbied Shen Yi.
Shen Yiyou's heartbeat became very fast, looking at Li Shu, he moved closer and wanted to kiss him, but Shen Yiyou was a little reckless, and brushed his cheek against Li Shu's glasses. Li Shu grabbed Shen Yiyou's arm and pulled Shen Yiyou away a little bit. He looked at Shen Yiyou, which made Shen Yiyou a little flustered. Many thoughts flashed through his head, but Li Shu just took off his glasses before bowing his head. He pressed Shen Yiyou's lips.
Shen Yiyou remembered that Li Shu didn't seem to know how to kiss at that time, but he learned it very quickly.
He clasped Shen Yiyou's waist and hugged Shen Yiyou tightly, beside the soft big bed covered with white sheets in the hotel, he was as simple and pure as a middle school student falling in love, and as secret and solemn as an unblessed couple holding a private life-long ceremony .