Yue Xiao was wearing a camouflage uniform and stood by the wall a few meters away, holding a big bag of things in one hand. When he saw him coming out, he grinned at him.
With a sore nose, Wen Ai turned around and left with the book in her arms, tears pouring down on the book.
"Yunyun!" Yue Xiao ran to catch up, saw him crying and didn't say anything, took out a tissue from the bag and wiped his tears.
The students in the corridor all glanced at them intentionally or unintentionally, Wen Ai didn't want to be seen as a monkey, so he dragged Yue Xiao into the balcony where there were few people.
"Why are you here..." Wen Ai didn't cry anymore, and spoke in a nasal voice, "Didn't the troops not let you out?"
Yue Xiao squatted halfway to wipe off the tears on his face: "I'm here to celebrate your twentieth birthday."
Wen Ai blinked her wet eyelashes: "It's not here yet."
"Let's go ahead." Yue Xiao nodded his cute red nose, "I'll treat you to whatever you want to eat."
Wen Ai tilted her head and thought for a while: "Pancake fruit!"
Yue Xiao laughed: "What else?"
Wen Ai: "Youxuan is sold at the school gate!"
"Is it intentional?" Yue Xiao said helplessly, "Tell me something that can be eaten in the shop."
"Hey." Wen Ai smiled at him, "Then get the meat!"
"Okay." Yue Xiao picked up the bag on the ground, "You lead the way."
Wen Ai pulled his arm out of the terrace: "Then hurry up, there are a lot of people going to that Shandong restaurant, and there will definitely be no tables later."
It happened to be lunch time, and when the two rushed to the restaurant, they encountered a table that had just finished paying their bills and was about to leave. The dishes, spoons, and chopsticks were still messily placed on the table. The two stood by and ordered the dishes. The waiter cleared the table and took the menu they wrote to the kitchen.
The two sat down facing each other, Wen Ai looked at Yue Xiao, they hadn't seen each other for a year and a half, Yue Xiao became darker, stronger, handsome and more masculine.
Yue Xiao hooked the corner of his mouth: "What are you looking at?"
"No, no." Wen Ai looked away guiltily, and pointed to the two big bags on the chair next to him to change the subject, "What is that?"
"I'll buy food for you." Yue Xiao allocated two bags respectively, "This bag is a specialty of our army, and this bag is the fruit I just bought in the supermarket outside your school."
Wen Ai laughed at him: "What specialties do you bring? They are all in one province. I have what you have there."
Yue Xiao: "It's different."
Wen Ai got serious: "Hey, take it out and let me see, which one I haven't seen before?"
Yue Xiao looked serious: "The meaning is different."
Wen Ai lowered his head unnaturally: "I can't eat so much."
The waiter brought the dishes to the table, and Yue Xiao helped to arrange the plates: "Then take it back and share some with your roommates."
Wen Ai muttered in a low voice: "I don't give it to others."
"You have the final say." Yue Xiao was secretly happy, and picked a piece of meat for him, "Eat it, the dish you ordered."
"You taste it first." Wen Ai also picked a piece for him: "This restaurant makes fat but not greasy, and it tastes very delicious."
Yue Xiao lowered his head and put the meat into his mouth, nodding in appreciation: "It's delicious."
Wen Ai immediately picked up a big chopstick for him: "Then you eat more, you can't usually eat it in the army."
It's May now, the weather is already hot, and the restaurant is even more stuffy. Halfway through eating, Yue Xiao took off his coat, Wen Ai pointed to the necklace around his neck and asked, "Aren't you not allowed to wear it?"
Yue Xiao touched the little bamboo horse: "I put it on when I came out."
Wen Ai stretched out his hand: "Bring it to me to check, it was agreed before."
Yue Xiao took off the necklace and handed it over. Wen Ai took it in his hand and looked at the front and back several times, then frowned and said, "This is not the original one."
Wen Ai pouted: "Did you get lost?"
Yue Xiao stared at him for a long time, seeing that he was getting more and more aggrieved, he smiled and took out the original necklace from his trouser pocket: "I didn't lose it, it's here."
Wen Ai's eyes lit up, she took it over and looked at it: "En! This one is right!"
Yue Xiao took the necklace back and hung it around his neck: "You wear a new one, give me this one."
Without even thinking about it, Wen Ai can understand why Yue Xiao arranged it like this.
He used to wear the old one, so Yue Xiao took it to wear.
The new one was worn by Yue Xiao before, so I will keep it for him.
After happily eating lunch, Yue Xiao helped Wen Ai carry two big bags of food back to the dormitory. When they entered the dormitory, the dormitory auntie stopped them both: "Student! Yes, it's you two, this one in camouflage uniform is not from our school Right? Outsiders need to register."
Yue Xiao showed his soldier ID, Wen Ai also reported his name and dormitory number, and the auntie of the dormitory made a record on the registration form: "Brother, right? All right, you can go in."
Wen Ai lives on the fourth floor, without Yue Xiao's help, it would be a bit difficult to lift the two heavy bags of Wen Ai.
It was almost time for class now, there was no one in the dormitory, Wen Ai originally planned to take Yue Xiao to Baotu Spring later, but Yue Xiao put down his things and was about to catch the train back to the army.
"Next time." Yue Xiao said regretfully, "I only have one day off this time, and I'll take another two hours of driving later, and it's almost time to return to the team."
"Oh." Wen Ai's little green seedling froze in an instant, "Then when will you come out again?"
"Maybe it will take a while." Yue Xiao hesitated, "After returning to the army, I have to perform a task, and today's leave is also specially approved because of this task."
Upon hearing the word "special approval", Wen Ai immediately grabbed Yue Xiao's clothes nervously: "What mission? Why does it sound dangerous?"
Yue Xiao patted his hand lightly: "It's not dangerous, don't worry."
"Don't put gold on your face, I'm not worried." Wen Ai let go of his hand awkwardly, and couldn't help asking after a while, "Can you still make calls?"
Yue Xiao frowned: "It should not be possible."
"The phone was also disconnected?! What kind of mission is this—" Wen Ai paused, and said discouragedly, "Forget it, pay attention to your own safety."
Wen Ai wanted to send Yue Xiao to the train station, but Yue Xiao refused to let him run back and forth, and only allowed him to send him downstairs in the dormitory.
"Here." Yue Xiao took out a brown paper envelope from his trouser pocket and handed it to Wen Ai.
Wen Ai squeezed the envelope to the middle, and saw a small stack of thin RMB from the opened envelope.
"Why did you give me the money!" Wen Ai stuffed the envelope into Yue Xiao's hand in surprise, "I don't want it."
"Take it." Yue Xiao put the envelope into Wen Ai's coat pocket and zipped it up, "It's not much money, but you can still buy something, you can spend it however you want."
Wen Ai shook his head: "I'm not short of your salary, my parents send me money every month."
Yue Xiao smiled: "It's not the same."
As soon as these words came out, Wen Ai stopped pulling the zipper.
It is not a question of money or not, nor is it a question of more or less, but mainly this kind of heart and this attitude.
Wen Ai: "Then I will accept it."
Yue Xiao laughed contentedly.
The parting is getting closer and closer, and the next reunion is nowhere in sight. The atmosphere between the two begins to become tense, and the air is filled with deep reluctance.
It's already class time, and almost no one passed by downstairs in the dormitory, Yue Xiao looked around, looked down at Wen Ai, and asked cautiously: "Can I... hug you?"
As soon as the words fell, he quickly added: "Just a moment."
Wen Ai was stunned.
Yue Xiao was afraid of being rejected, so before Wen Ai could answer, he hugged him directly.
The hug was light and polite, with gaps between bodies.
Yue Xiao really only hugged him once, and the two of them broke up instantly, so that when Wen Ai just raised his hand to hug him back, he had already backed away.
"take care of yourself."
Yue Xiao didn't dare to stay any longer, turned around and left.
Wen Ai watched his back. He was tall and straight, but he looked so distressed and lonely.
Wen Ai closed his eyes, and said silently in his heart: System, I'm sorry.
"Yue Xiao!"
Hearing Wen Ai's cry, Yue Xiao turned around in surprise, before turning the direction of the soles of his feet, Wen Ai plunged into his arms.
Wen Ai buried his head on Yue Xiao's chest, and wrapped his hands around his waist tightly. Yue Xiao was stunned for a moment by being hit, then suddenly lowered his head and stretched out his hand, hugging him tightly.
The two are inseparably pressed together, can feel each other's body temperature, and can count each other's heartbeats, this is called a hug.
A real hug.
The emotions that had been suppressed in my heart finally gushed out, and the atmosphere was instantly ignited, warm and scorching. But they didn't think it was enough, they kept rubbing each other into their bodies, entwined more and more tightly, and they didn't stop until their chest was almost crushed.
Wen Ai raised her head from Yue Xiao's arms: "I will miss you."
Yue Xiao's eyes were gentle: "Me too, once every minute."
Wen Ai blinked and blinked: "Then to save you from thinking for a few minutes, I'll take you to the school gate."
Yue Xiao laughed: "Okay."
After Yue Xiao left, Wen Ai didn't have the mood to go to class anymore, and went back to the dormitory alone. When he reached the gate of the dormitory building, the dormitory aunt called him again: "Student, you and your brother have a really good relationship."
Wen Ai smiled embarrassedly: "You have seen it all."
"That's right." Auntie the housekeeper said, "Aren't you brothers? Parents are so pleased to be able to do this well."
The corners of Wen Ai's mouth froze. It was impossible for his parents to be pleased with the matter between him and Yue Xiao. In this era, homosexuality is deformed and dirty in the eyes of the public.
Under the warm sunshine in May, Wen Ai's back felt chills. He didn't dare to think about how his parents would react when they knew the truth.