At eight o'clock in the morning, Fu Shizheng got up first and went to the bathroom to wash up.
While brushing her teeth, Xia Yunian also came in rubbing her eyes, leaning against the door and waiting for him, her eyes still sleepy.
Fu Shizheng's casual eyes fell on Xia Yunian's pajamas, and two buttons were unbuttoned, and there was a bright red hickey on the side of the collarbone, which was left by him last night.
Xia Yunian noticed that he was looking at her, so she stood up straight and pulled up her pajamas: "What are you looking at?"
Fu Shizheng spit out the foam in his mouth, washed his face, and suddenly took a step forward.
Xia Yunian pressed his back against the wall, Fu Shizheng approached him and lowered his voice, "Let go."
Xia Yunian let go of her hand, her neckline loosened, Fu Shicheng lowered her head, touched the hickey with her lips, and took another bite.
Xia Yunian moaned, and Fu Shicheng's kiss rubbed up his neck all the way, finally biting his lower lip.
"I haven't brushed my teeth yet..." Xia Yunian reminded vaguely.
Fu Shicheng's rebellious tongue took the opportunity to press in.
When Xia Yu read to wash up, Fu Shizheng went back to the room first, leaned against the desk and played with his mobile phone, wanting to go outside to the living room together after Xia Yu finished reading.
Looking casually, he noticed the IELTS vocabulary set in the corner of the table, and Fu Shizheng took it over.
The bookmark was inserted in a quarter of the book. He picked up the bookmark and flipped it over. On the back was a detailed schedule written in familiar fonts.
How many words to recite every day, how long to recite the first time, how long to recite the second and third times, when to start doing mock questions and real test sets, all are clearly arranged.
There was a whole set of reference materials for the IELTS test under the glossary. Fu Shizheng didn't turn it over again. He was silent for a moment and put the book back as it was.
After breakfast at home, Xia Yunian took Fu Shicheng out and said to take him outside to have a look.
When leaving, Xia's mother reminded them: "Today is the new year, don't play outside all the time, remember to come back for dinner at night."
After leaving the house, Fu Shicheng asked Xia Yunian, "Where are we going?"
Xia Yunian asked him back: "Senior, where do you want to go?"
Fu Shicheng said indifferently, "Whatever you want."
Xia Yunian: "Then let's walk around."
They took a tour bus around the city, and Xia Yunian acted as a tour guide along the way, introducing Fu Shicheng to the city where he grew up.
Fu Shicheng listened carefully, raising his phone to take a few photos from time to time.
"It's really not too cold here in winter."
Fu Shicheng said.
He was wearing a sweater and down jacket when he came yesterday, but today he has taken off the sweater inside, leaving only a shirt inside the down jacket.
Xia Yunian: "Yes, this year's temperature is lower than usual. In some years, you don't even need to wear down jackets in winter."
Fu Shicheng nodded: "Very good."
Before noon, they went to the campus of Jingda University. It was Fu Shicheng who proposed it on his own initiative. When the bus passed by the school gate, he and Xia Yunian suggested to go in and have a look.
There are very few people in the school during the winter vacation and Chinese New Year. The school is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment is quiet, and the scenery is not bad.
They slowed down and walked aimlessly, and Fu Shicheng occasionally took a photo.
Xia Yunian asked him: "Why do you want to come here to see?"
Fu Shicheng: "Look at the university you originally wanted to go to."
Xia Yunian: "Huh?"
Fu Shicheng took another photo of the boulevard ahead, and asked him casually, "What do you plan to do when you come back to Jingshi after graduation?"
Unexpectedly, he would mention this suddenly, Xia Yunian hesitated and said: "Maybe I can enter a design institute, or I might take an examination for a position in a government department... I also want to go abroad to study as a graduate student first."
After he finished speaking, he became quiet. This was the first time he told Fu Shicheng that he also wanted to go abroad, but he didn't explicitly say that he was going with Fu Shicheng.
Fu Shicheng didn't answer the call and continued to take pictures.
Xia Yunian looked at him silently.
After a while, Fu Shicheng put away his mobile phone, stopped in his tracks, turned around and asked Xia Yunian, "Are you going to England too?"
Xia Yunian: "...I didn't think about it."
Fu Shicheng: "I saw the IELTS vocabulary collection and reference materials on your desk in the morning. Are you going to take the exam?"
Xia Yunian was a little embarrassed by being exposed, and didn't know what to say.
After a while of silence, Fu Shicheng suddenly laughed, and Xia Yunian raised her eyes in doubt: "What are you laughing at?"
Fu Shicheng looked at him: "Xia Yu Nian."
Xia Yunian: "What?"
Fu Shicheng: "You're dishonest again."
Xia Yunian subconsciously denied it: "I didn't."
Fu Shicheng: "Then watch me speak."
The four eyes met, and Xia Yunian was quickly stared at by him and surrendered: "Well, I admit, you said before that you wanted to go to England, and I also want to go with you."
Fu Shicheng deliberately teased him: "Don't want your boyfriend anymore? Are you really going to dump him and me?"
Xia Yu read helplessly: "Senior, can you be more serious?"
Fu Shicheng suppressed the teasing smile in his eyes, looked at the person in front of him, and asked seriously: "When did you think of going to England with me?"
Xia Yunian: "After you said it last time."
Fu Shicheng: "Really want to go?"
Xia Yunian nodded: "It's okay to go abroad to study for a few years, and I also want to go out to see and see, but I will definitely have to come back in the end."
Fu Shicheng: "Why don't you ask me about my future plans?"
Xia Yu was puzzled: "Didn't you say that you might not come back after that?"
Fu Shicheng reminded him: "Maybe."
Xia Yunian: "... Then what are your plans for the future?"
Fu Shicheng: "Going abroad for further study is an idea I have had for a long time, so I will definitely go abroad to study for a Ph. The scientific research strength in my professional direction is not bad.”
Xia Yu understood it: "Do you want to work in Jingda University in the future?"
Fu Shicheng: "Well, it's good to stay in college and work."
Xia Yunian opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word.
Fu Shicheng was willing to go abroad two years later for him, and he was willing to come to Jingshi last for him, so in the long run, he had already planned it.
He is really serious about their future.
Xia Yunian: "Why didn't you say earlier..."
Fu Shicheng laughed and said: "I have been thinking about how to persuade you to dump your boyfriend and go abroad with me for a few more years. Since you have this idea yourself, then I don't need to waste my words."
Xia Yunian felt that Fu Shizheng was becoming more and more unscrupulous, and the feeling of fullness in his heart made him want to hug him hard, but unfortunately they were in public at the moment, so they could only hold back temporarily.
After calming down, Xia Yunian said, "Don't force me to dump my boyfriend. You and him exist at the same time and there is no contradiction."
Fu Shicheng: "Little liar."
Xia Yunian was not guilty at all: "You are too."
Fu Shicheng took his hand, squeezed it hard, and didn't let go.
Continuing to walk forward, Fu Shicheng lowered his voice, turned his head to Xia Yunian's ear and asked, "I'm not sure about my future plans, but how dare you just tattoo my name on your body?"
Xia Yunian: "How do you know it's your name?"
Fu Shicheng: "Isn't it?"
Xia Yunian smiled: "If you want to get a tattoo, you can get one. What you decide has nothing to do with my tattoo."
Fu Shicheng: "No? Your tattoo will last forever, even if it is washed off, it will leave traces."
Xia Yunian shook her head: "It is impossible to completely wipe away the traces of the past, but I don't think there will be that day."
Fu Shicheng's voice was even lower: "So confident in me?"
Xia Yunian: "I have confidence in myself."
Fu Shicheng didn't say any more, and kissed his temple hair.
They had a light meal at a restaurant near Jingda at noon, and went to the beach in the afternoon.
Xia Yunian did not take Fu Shicheng to places with many tourists, but to the beach where he used to play when he was a child.
"When I was young, my mother often took me here to play. There used to be a pier in this area, which was very lively, but it was abandoned later, and gradually no one came here. When I was in high school, I sometimes came here alone to sketch."
Xia Yunian dragged Fu Shicheng to step on the soft sand, talking while walking.
"Anything fun?" Fu Shicheng asked.
Xia Yunian: "There are a lot of them. The sunrise and sunset at the beach are beautiful, and the starry sky at night is also very beautiful. You can often pick up some beautiful conch, starfish, and shells. Oh, yes, I was still on the beach here when I was young. Picked up a drift bottle."
Fu Shicheng's expression moved slightly: "The drifting bottle?"
Xia Yunian: "It's a mineral water bottle. When I picked it up, I thought it was trash thrown into the sea by some wicked person. When I saw the bottle was washed ashore by the waves, I went to pick it up and wanted to throw it into the trash can. Then I found a piece of paper inside. note."
Fu Shicheng: "Really? What did you write?"
Xia Yu thought about it, and said: "I was only five years old at that time, and I didn't know a few words. I just remembered that the words on it were ugly and crooked, like a child's writing. Let my mother read it to me. My mother said that it said 'no one wants me', and I told my mother at the time that the child who wrote this must be very poor."
Hearing what he said, Fu Shicheng had a slightly weird expression on his face. Xia Yunian didn't notice it, and sighed lightly: "I don't know what happened to the kid who wrote this after so many years."
The seaside wind was a bit strong, and for a long time I didn't hear Fu Shicheng's voice, only the sound of the wind, Xia Yunian turned her head to look at him.
Fu Shizheng narrowed his eyes slightly, as if immersed in some memory, the emotion in his eyes gradually faded away when Xia Yu read out to call him, and said calmly, "I threw the bottle you picked up."
Xia Yunian was stunned.
He looked at Fu Shicheng in disbelief: "You threw it?"
Fu Shicheng nodded: "I threw it, I threw it down by the river, I didn't expect it to float here."
At that time, he was only a little over seven years old, his parents had just divorced, his mother had gone abroad, and his father brought his stepmother and stepbrother into the house. From then on, they were a happy family, and he was just a superfluous one.
A seven-year-old child is still far from being indifferent or uncomfortable, but he has no one to talk to, so he wrote such a note and put it in a mineral water bottle, in the river where his mother used to take him camping to watch the stars Dropped by the beach.
But he didn't expect that after crossing more than a thousand kilometers, from river waves to sea waves, the most obscure and embarrassing mood of his childhood was still discovered by another person.
Xia Yunian picked up his bottle. If this is fate, isn't the fate between him and Xia Yunian also destined
Xia Yunian stared at Fu Shicheng in a daze, unable to speak for a while.
Fu Shicheng raised his hand and pressed the corners of his eyes that were reddened by the wind: "Thank you."
Xia Yunian: "Thank you for what?"
Fu Shicheng: "Thank you for picking it up."
When the sunset was approaching, they walked back along the coastline. Xia Yu read a word without saying a word, and clasped fingers with Fu Shi.
Walk on the seaside highway, and then take the bus for three stops. This is the most lively sea market here.
Xia's mother just called and asked them to buy some seafood to take home and add more vegetables in the evening.
Xia Yunian squatted on the ground and carefully picked sea crabs. Fu Shicheng couldn't help, but squatted with him, chatting nonchalantly: "Don't you have to have a party with relatives at home on New Year's Eve?"
Xia Yunian said casually: "No, I will go to my uncle's house to have a New Year's Eve dinner after the New Year's Eve."
Fu Shicheng: "Then there are only you and mother in the family at this time of year?"
He called "Mom" directly, but Xia Yunian didn't correct him, saying, "From now on, there will be three of us."
Fu Shizheng bent his lips.
Xia Yunian picked a big and fat sea crab and was very satisfied. He handed it to the stall owner for weighing, and said to Fu Shicheng, "You will have a good night."
He went on to pick fish and shrimp.
Fu Shizheng followed, took the packaged seafood, and consciously carried it in his hand.
It was 5:30 when they got home, and they helped Xia's mother together, and they didn't have this small New Year's Eve dinner until almost 7:00.
After pouring three glasses of Coke, Mama Xia toasted to wish them a higher level of study: "Also, I wish you all the best."
Xia Yunian and Fu Shizheng toasted together and smiled at each other.
Returning to the room after dinner, Fu Shicheng went to wash up, Xia Yunian rummaged through the box to find things, and when Fu Shicheng came back, he finally found what he was looking for from a rusty piggy bank.
The note written by Fu Shicheng that he picked up when he was a child.
Xia Yunian unfolded the yellowed note under the desk lamp, and sighed: "Fortunately, I don't have the habit of throwing things casually. Some small things I saved when I was young are all in this piggy bank, and I brought them with me when I moved. The note is still there."
The pencil writing on the note is still clear, but the strokes are childish, which is very different from Fu Shicheng's sharp strokes now.
Xia Yunian looked at it for a while, then raised her head and asked Fu Shicheng who was leaning on the table: "You really wrote this?"
Fu Shicheng nodded.
Xia Yunian couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, but it was a pity that more than ten years had passed, and he could no longer travel through time and space to return to the river beach back then, to hug Fu Shi who wrote this with a sad heart.琤.
Taking a pencil from the pen holder on the table, Xia Yunian wrote a reply under the note.
"I want you."
Fu Shizheng looked at the three words he had written down seriously, and was silent for a moment, then stretched out his hand to pull Xia Yunian up.
Xia Yunian was pulled into his arms by his waist, and he tapped his heart: "Is the senior very touched?"
Fu Shicheng grabbed his hand and looked at him quietly.
Xia Yunian moved closer, took the initiative to kiss the corner of Fu Shicheng's lips, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you say yesterday that if I hadn't gone to Jiangcheng to study, we would be strangers, but now I don't think so. I didn't go, and I will definitely meet you."
Fu Shicheng didn't say a word and hugged him tightly.