Birthday
Zhuang Yi was slightly startled, holding Xun Yuming's shoulders with both hands, and said: "Wait for me a while!"
The clock in the hall showed that it was 5:08, and there was still about an hour and a half before the departure of the domestic flight. Boarding half an hour earlier, there was only one hour of preparation time left. Zhuang Yi ran for a while, and found the dessert shop where he bought sago milk just now, and bought a cake, but unfortunately there was no candle.
He ran to the boarding gate again, and explained to the ground staff in blue uniform for a long time. After a while, the other party asked the supervisor for his opinion, and finally agreed to him: "Okay, but only for five minutes, otherwise there will be trouble."
"No problem, thank you very much!" Zhuang Yi immediately ran out of the hall.
Forty minutes later, Xun Yuming grabbed his schoolbag and saw him coming from the entrance. It was minus six degrees Celsius, but Zhuang Yi was sweating profusely. A few strands of hair from his temples stuck to his face, giving him a different kind of sexy. He changed into a cashmere windbreaker when he checked in the luggage just now. When he walked, the hem of the coat flapped and flicked on his long legs, bringing a chill all over his body.
"Where have you been?" Seeing that he was carrying a box in his hand, Xun Yuming asked, "Did you go shopping for cake?"
Zhuang Yi smiled, and opened the box, which contained a small red velvet cake, "I can't buy a big one temporarily, this one is too small to write on it."
Xun Yuming has almost never eaten a birthday cake. In the past, when his grandfather celebrated his birthday, he would directly cook his favorite dishes. "This one is very good."
When he smiled, his eyes were red and hot.
Zhuang Yi took out a box of matches from his pocket and said, "But there is no candle, you can light a match instead."
"Okay." Xun Yuming didn't feel shabby at all, lit a match, and gestured to the cake held by Zhuang Yi, it was regarded as a candle.
"Hold it yourself," Zhuang Yi handed the cake to his palm, "I'll order one for you too."
Lightly stroked the match on the box, and there was a sound of "chi-", two white lights suddenly lit up outside the floor-to-ceiling window, Zhuang Yi dragged Xun Yuming's chin, let him look ahead, and said softly: "Look."
I saw two streams of warm light gradually lit up on the temporary parking apron, and with the lighting of the navigation lights, the xenon headlights were suddenly turned off, and a faint green mist appeared in the place that was originally blurred under the white light. There was a faint light in the night.
Xun Yuming stepped forward, saw the two lines of writing on the ground, and murmured: "Happy Birthday! Be brave!"
"You..." Xun Yuming's face was flushed, and his hands were trembling uncontrollably. At this moment, he was like a giant shaking a can of carbonated drink vigorously in his hand. When he opened the lid, the hot blood all over his body would spurt to the ceiling like a spring of water.
"I won't sing the birthday song." Zhuang Yi stroked the hair on the top of his head and looked around. There were people coming and going in the hall, and it was silent and empty. "That's too embarrassing. How about I ask everyone to sing for you?" ?”
Xun Yuming grabbed him, his trembling voice was full of excitement: "Don't sing, don't go."
"Then... I have to go?" Zhuang Yi smiled, "The staff and I borrowed the English word on the fluorescent suit, and we have to return it."
"Then go quickly, don't make people wait." Xun Yuming urged him to go quickly, but he couldn't let go in his heart, suddenly remembered something, and chased after him: "Wait a while, do you have any plans for the New Year?"
Zhuang Yi turned his head and said with a smile: "I'm going to watch the Super Bowl, how can I miss the football finals?"
"Oh." Xun Yuming thinks about it too, he has his own family and arrangements, how can he go home with himself without hesitation. "That… "
He paused, put down the cake, reached out and took out a jade pendant from his neck, and put it around his neck on tiptoe, "For you, the one my grandfather gave me to keep me safe before I went abroad is my Christmas present. Good luck to you."
"The Super Bowl is the final of the professional league. I'm not eligible to play, but I accept this gift." Zhuang Yi took out the red apple just now and fed it to his mouth. Xun Yuming took a bite, and Zhuang Yi licked it Where he had bitten, he also took a bite.
"Happy birthday."
The wind was bitter and the snow was fluttering. He waved his hands, raised the collar of his windbreaker, and turned to walk into New York under the night sky.
Looking at his slowly disappearing back, Xun Yuming said to himself: "Happy birthday, little ear."
"Happy birthday!"
Zhuang Yi raised his glass and took a sip of the wine.
On the opposite side of the round table, Haiwan wore a "Happy Birthday" hat, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Dr. Zhuang has already drank it, and I want to drink it too!"
"That's right, have a drink, and give us a drink madness!" Wang Kunlun led a circle of friends to boo.
"No." Chi Gui opened his hand that was trying to touch the wine glass, put his arm around his shoulder and whispered something in his ear.
Haiwan blushed instantly, hid in his arms and secretly laughed, "...you are not allowed to go back on your word at night."
"Hey, let's listen to what you said." Wang Kunlun shouted, "What's going on tonight? What's the program?"
"How can other people's programs take you?"
…
Everyone was joking, and the room was filled with the sour smell of love.
Zhuang Yi looked away, and with a feeling of desolation, he clicked on the dialogue box for Xun Yuming.
"Are you moving tomorrow?"
The demolition is imminent, and he should move to his grandfather's house in the next two days. He must not be able to recover before his body recovers.
Xun Yuming was watching a film, and the person who sent him an email was the anemic young man he met under the grape arbor in the hospital on the day he was reported. After receiving the message, he then replied, "Move tomorrow afternoon."
The recent typhoon has passed through the country, and their side has not been affected much, but it has been raining continuously, and the weather forecast says that the rain will stop tomorrow afternoon.
Zhuang Yi: "I will see you tomorrow."
Afraid that he would not agree to help me, I added another sentence: "I have something to tell you."
After a while, Xun Yuming replied: "Okay."
The corner of Zhuang Yi's mouth twitched slightly, and he smiled unconsciously.
Seeing this, Haiwan grinned and asked, "Doctor Zhuang, are you chatting with Dr. Xun? Are you smiling so happily?"
"Hey, look, I forgot about him!" Wang Kunlun slapped his thigh: "I knew that Dr. Xiao Xun was also called here. It's so lively."
"That's right." Haiwan said, "Doctor Zhuang, why don't you two fall in love yet? How about we help you match up?"
Wang Kunlun is very good at matching people. At the beginning Chigui and Haiwan got together, thanks to his matchmaking with a few friends and doing everything possible to create opportunities. Since being together with Chigui, the beauty in Haiwanwan's heart, it seems that everyone wants to draw a red line, wishing that the whole world can reap love like him.
Zhuang Yi smiled, shook his head and said: "Forget it, he is different from you, I'd better chase after myself."
"Oh." Haiwan blinked his eyes lately, the latter smiled slightly, and he said, "Then you are a fool!"
He also wants to act quickly, but he doesn't know whether he should, whether he can, whether the other party is willing or not. Zhuang Yi pondered for a moment, then sighed. Before leaving, Haiwan called him again: "Doctor Zhuang, come to my house for dinner at the end of the month? I'm free on the day of late return. Prepare something delicious for us."
After he finished speaking, he looked back, and Chigui was standing not far away in black casual clothes. He stretched out his hand slightly, and Haiwan leaned into his arms tacitly. Chigui smiled back, bowed his head and kissed him the sun.
Zhuang Yi couldn't bear to look directly at him, replied "Yes", and hurriedly fled the scene.
At noon the next day, he drove to Xun Yuming's house and brought him lunch by the way. Xun Yuming's things were pitifully small, and a total of three boxes were piled up at the door, so there was no need to call a moving company. Zhuang Yi put the things into the trunk, helped him into the co-pilot, and drove to his grandfather's house with ease.
Xun Yuming didn't say much on the way, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and his mind was a little distracted. Zhuang Yi looked at him from the rearview mirror from time to time, but he didn't notice, he looked out of his mind. The suv drove into the family area of West Bay University, and the surrounding area was still the same as when they came back last time. There was almost no change. Occasionally, a leaf of the camphor tree fell from the roadside and fell on the windshield.
"Park on the side of the road." Xun Yuming pointed to the curb, "It's too narrow inside, so it's not easy to park."
In recent years, more and more people drive. There is no parking lot in the old community, and there is not enough open space. Cars are crowded everywhere. Zhuang Yi stopped the car and helped him pull the suitcase inside, "I forgot to buy a gift for grandpa, so I'm sorry to come in."
Xun Yuming smiled, opened the door and said, "My grandfather is not at home, so you don't have to be embarrassed."
Zhuang Yi followed him in, and the room was still the same as before, the furnishings hadn't changed a bit, but he always felt that something was different, and he couldn't explain why. Xun Yuming opened the door and entered the room, put the suitcase in his bedroom, and said, "Sit down."
"Has grandpa gone out?" Zhuang Yi sat on the spring bed, watching him take out things one by one, and tidy them up by category.
Xun Yuming opened the closet door, put all the clothes in, and said: "Well, he has something to go out."
The incandescent lamp was turned on in the room, and Zhuang Yi glanced inadvertently. There was nothing behind the door he opened, and there were only two blankets in the connected cabinet next to it. The room next door is not too small, it is both a bedroom and a living room, and there are no bookcases, let alone a wardrobe. That is to say, these two wall cabinets are the only place to store clothes in their house.
Zhuang Yi couldn't help being suspicious. Grandpa didn't take away all the clothes of the four seasons when he went out to do errands, right
Xun Yuming threw a rag, wiped the desk, and said, "Come and sit here, I'll spread a bed sheet."
"Let me come." Zhuang Yi was afraid that his wound would hurt from exhaustion, so he took his plaid sheet and gave him the stool, "You rest for a while, the food I brought is at the door, eat first."
Xun Yuming leisurely went to the door to get a lunch box, Zhuang Yi put away the dirty sheets, replaced them with new ones, and dragged them on the floor twice. In the past, when he went abroad to study, his grandfather was the only one at home, but his bedroom was always clean and the bedding was tidy. Now he works in the city, and it is only a quarter of an hour's drive to his grandfather's house. He only came back for dinner during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the house is full of dust.
"You can eat something." Xun Yuming opened the lunch box and said, "Don't mess with it, it's clean enough."
Zhuang Yi went to the bathroom to put a mop, looked up and saw that the wash rack was empty, not even a cup and a toothbrush, and there was no towel to dry his hands after washing. He opened the door and went out, looked in the large bedroom on the left, touched the bed sheet, his hands were ashes.
Xun Yuming lied.
He didn't expose it, since Xun Yuming lied to him, there must be a reason, and he couldn't find out the truth even if he asked. Zhuang Yi had dinner with him, packed the lunch box and asked, "You live here is far away from the hospital, how do you plan to go to work in the future?"
Xun Yuming thought about it and said, "Let's take the subway, or take the bus."
"There is a traffic jam in the morning, and the bus takes half an hour to forty minutes." Zhuang Yidao, "There is no traffic jam in the subway, but it takes a quarter of an hour to walk from the subway station. I even drove to the hospital."
"That can't be helped." Xun Yuming lay on the table, with his head resting on his left arm, and his right index finger traced an old photo under the glass, "I don't have a car, and I don't have time to take the domestic exam. Driver's license, I'll move back after the demolition is over."
In order to take care of these first-class scientific researchers, the country has permanent places in the hospital dormitory, with two rooms and one living room for one person, which is spacious enough. Now it's just a special situation, and I'm temporarily moving back to my grandfather's house.
Zhuang Yi cleared his throat, recalling Haiwan's phrase "slutty" last night, and said, "How about... I'll take you along in the morning?"
The Nanshan villa where he lives is close to the city center, and it takes about ten minutes to go to the hospital, but it is one east and one west to the central campus of West Bay University. times.
Fortunately, Xun Yuming just came back not long ago, the domestic development is too fast, and he has a bad sense of direction by nature, so he can't think of anything tricky, "Will it trouble you?"
Zhuang Yi bent his lips and said: "Even if we broke up, with our relationship, being friends is more than enough, right? Are you polite to me?"
As soon as he uttered these words, Xun Yuming immediately relaxed a lot, and said with a smile: "Well, then I'm not welcome, you can pick me up tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow?" He had only been at home for less than a week.
Xun Yuming yawned and said with a smile: "I'll grow hair after two days of idleness at home, and the patient you introduced to me can't wait any longer. I have to go back quickly, otherwise what should I do if someone else snatches it away."
Zhuang Yi knew that he was a workaholic, so persuasion was useless, so he could only say: "I have been talking to that little patient recently, and their family members are willing to wait for you. Don't worry. If you have to go back, don't work. The queue is too full, how about I tell Old Chen?"
"Don't, don't say it." Xun Yuming hurriedly stopped, "I don't want to be special, otherwise those people who hate me will respect me on the surface and scold me behind their backs."
Zhuang Yi shrugged helplessly, got up and said: "Okay. I'm going back, you sleep for a while."
"I send you."
Xun Yuming insisted on following him to the door of the unit, but Zhuang Yi refused and pushed him into the house, "Don't make me worry, go back quickly."
The threshold of the old-fashioned house was high, and Xun Yuming was wearing slippers, walking backwards, accidentally tripped and hit the purple iron door with a "bang". Zhuang Yi rushed to pull it, the door was halfway open, the weight of two people pressed on it, and immediately hit the white wall, shaking them both.
Xun Yuming watched him rushing forward, and the moment he turned his head, he was face to face with him, but he subconsciously took a breath, opened his mouth, and Zhuang Yi only said in a hurry Half of the word "I".
Two pairs of lips, an impartial kiss.
Zhuang Yi swore to the sky that he never meant that, but the change came suddenly, he almost subconsciously locked the back of Xun Yuming's head, and the next second he didn't know what the world was.
"Well… "
Xun Yuming stared, wanted to push him away but couldn't, in desperation, covered his stomach and let out a "hiss".
Zhuang Yi was startled, and immediately woke up, "Stomach hurts? Does it matter? Is the pain severe?"
"No..." Xun Yuming lowered his head, there was indeed a faint pain in his stomach, it was probably a spasm caused by being too nervous just now, it was not serious.
Zhuang Yi saw that he was frowning, his face turned pale, he hugged him horizontally, and put him on the bed in the bedroom, "Where's the old medicine, have you taken it?"
Xun Yuming pointed to the backpack and said, "I got it inside, but I haven't taken it out yet."
Zhuang Yi found the medicine for him, and brought the water glass to the bed. Seeing him swallow it with a frown, he felt uncomfortable, "I'm sorry, I just..."
"It's okay." Xun Yuming was afraid of embarrassment and self-blame, so he cut in and said, "It's not intentional."
Zhuang Yi paused, looked into his eyes, and said, "Should I say I did it on purpose?"