Seventeen-year-old Yuan Rui confessed his love to Meng Lai three times. The first time was the day before the final of the basketball grade. In the game, Meng Lai, who lost alone in the game, slapped him hard with a dark face. His stomach and legs were weak after pulling all night, and he rolled his eyes and fainted from the slap.
When he woke up, he was already in the infirmary, and the sweaty Meng Lai scolded him beside him: "Are you stupid? Why didn't you ask for leave when you were sick? Why are you standing by the court basking in the sun!"
Afterwards, Meng Lai acted as if nothing had happened, treating him as he had been treated before. Yuan Rui thought about it, and felt that he must not be sincere enough in his confession, so that Meng Lai didn't take his liking for him seriously at all.
The second confession happened before the summer vacation. Yuan Rui racked his brains to write an emotional love letter, and secretly put it in the notebook on Meng Lai's desk during the exercise between classes, and then shy and nervous Waiting for Meng Lai's response, he waited from morning to noon, and then from noon to afternoon. The last class was the class meeting. Classmates, on the last day before the holiday, the atmosphere was very lively, and everyone was chatting in a lively manner, when everyone suddenly became quiet.
Yuan Rui was still out of the situation, and his deskmate pointed to one of the several materials on the table. He glanced at it strangely, and when he saw the words "Dear Meng Lai" written by himself, he was immediately stunned.
Meng Lai, who was standing on the podium preparing for the class meeting, was also dumbfounded.
There was a clatter of cicadas outside the window, but there was no sound in the classroom.
After the class meeting, the summer vacation was over. Yuan Rui had to take care of his sick mother. Some classmates asked him to play, but he declined all of them. What to say, I had to pretend to ask how to do my homework, but Meng Lai actually gave him a serious lecture on the topic, without mentioning the love letter.
Meng Lai didn't want to mention it, and Yuan Rui didn't dare to mention it either.
He regrets having written the love letter and regrets not having seen the book clearly. Meng must have been so embarrassed that he did not beat him up for being well. He now talks physics to him.
This can be regarded as a tactful refusal.
Meng Lai is very popular with girls, and he also likes to tease girls, so he should be a straight man.
Yuan Rui had just started secretly liking him, and never thought of confessing to him. It was Suo Yue who told him "there are no straight men in the world". Thinking about it now, he is too funny, why should he trust a primary school student? No matter how smart she is and how much she reads, Suo Yue is only in the fifth grade.
He thought about it for a long time, and decided that he would continue to secretly like Meng Lai in the future, and never say anything about it or show it. If a classmate asked about the love letter, he would just say it was a prank, and hope that Meng Lai would not hate him. .
After the long summer vacation, Meng Lai is still the class leader of the top student surrounded by everyone. He is still an introverted little transparent with medium grades. The second year of high school is tense, and there is no basketball game anymore. Their seats are far away, as if they are on both sides of the Milky Way. There is no intersection and no communication.
In a physical education class three weeks after the start of school, after the teacher had finished warming up, everyone was free to exercise. A classmate called Yuan Rui to play basketball. He refused, and ran to play football with another group of boys. His teammates said he was tall and had long arms, so they sent him to be the goalkeeper that no one wanted to be. fat man.
He guarded the gate for a long time, but the football didn't come over once. He simply sat down cross-legged on the lawn, and after a while he started to play again.
The happiest thing recently is that my mother's condition has improved, and she can go home to rest without being hospitalized. In a few days, the monthly exam will be due. This time, try to do better in the exam. Mom will be happy, and Uncle Suo will also be happy. He will be happy. He is very kind to his mother and takes good care of him. He is a very nice person. Do you want to call him Dad instead
"Yuan Rui!"
He turned his head when he heard someone calling him.
Standing on the runway, Meng Lai waved at him and asked him, "Do you want soda?"
His heart beat a little fast, and he paused for a few seconds before saying, "No drink, thank you."
Meng Lai stood there without moving.
Yuan Rui thought he didn't hear clearly, so he said loudly, "I don't drink."
Meng Lai strode towards him.
Without even thinking about it, Yuan Rui hurriedly stood up, waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Don't drink, don't drink, really."
Meng Lai walked up to him, put his arm around his shoulder and said, "Come with me."
Yuan Rui took a few steps to react, grabbed the goal post and said, "I still have to keep the goal!"
Meng Lai still put his hand on his shoulder, and said impatiently: "They played too badly, they couldn't score the goal at all, and they don't need to defend. Don't hold the goal and let go."
When they played together in the past, Meng Lai went to the canteen to buy soft drinks for everyone to drink, and often took Yuan Rui as a follower to help carry the bags. Yuan Rui was very happy every time. But now he didn't want to go with Meng at all, and said: "I really don't want to drink soda, or I can treat you to it, but I can only treat you alone, and I only have five yuan."
Meng Lai frowned, smiled a little, and said, "Okay, please invite me, let's go, let's go shopping together."
However, Yuan Rui was still holding on to the pillar of the door frame, and with the other hand, he took out five yuan from the pocket of his school uniform, handed it over and said, "Here, you can buy it yourself, and I will guard the door."
Meng Lai: "..."
Yuan Rui's neck hurt from being caught by Meng Lai's arm, and he was dragged away while struggling "I don't want to go, I want to guard the gate".
A football flew over from a distance behind it, hit the goal post with a "boom" and was bounced off, making it really impossible to get in.
Buying soda at the canteen, Yuan Rui gave the money to the boss and said, "A bottle of soda."
"Don't be so stingy," Meng Lai said, "I'll treat you to a drink."
Yuan Rui neatly folded the remaining two yuan and five dollars back into his pocket, and said in a low voice, "I'm not stingy, I've had enough."
Meng looked at him with disappointment in his eyes.
Coming out of the canteen, Yuan Rui said: "I'm going back to guard the gate, you go back after drinking, otherwise they will be jealous, and you have to invite them again."
Meng Lai replied in a not-so-good tone: "I'd love to invite you, but they haven't had enough."
Yuan Rui: "..."
He realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that, I just once drank too much at once, I really drank enough, it wasn't that I drank enough, I didn't say you were bad , No, it doesn’t matter whether you are good or not, you are good, no, anyway, I can’t drink this soda now, it’s because you bought me too much... It’s not that you bought too much, it’s because I drank too much gone."
Meng Lai: "...what the hell are you talking about?"
Yuan Rui: "..."
He was about to cry, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
Meng came to see him, thinking about something, changed the bottle of soda to hold it in the other hand, and said, "I'll go back after drinking it, and you're not allowed to go... They all saw that you came with me, so you have to go back." Let's go back together."
Yuan Rui thought to himself, what logic? !
Meng Lai said: "Go to the small garden, there is no one there, or some teacher will see us and think we are absent from class."
Yuan Rui thought again, it was supposed to be absent from class, isn't it absent from PE class
But his legs didn't listen to his brain at all, and he couldn't help but follow Meng Lai.
It was autumn, and the wisteria bloomed just right, hanging down from the gaps in the shelf, like a string of purple wind chimes hanging.
Yuan Rui looked up for a long time, Meng Lai asked him: "Do you like flowers?"
"My mom likes it," he said.
Meng Lai was standing beside him, also looking up at the flowers.
I can vaguely hear which class in the teaching building is reading the English text aloud.
The thin school uniforms of the two were blown up a little bit by the wind, and a few flowers fell from the flower stand. The green life swaying on the grass blown by the wind was soft and lush.
Meng Lai licked his lower lip and said, "I want to..."
"Hurry up and drink soda," Yuan Rui urged, "Everyone is still waiting for me to go back and guard the gate."
Meng Lai paused, exhaled a little discouraged, and said, "Don't you want to be alone with me?"
Yuan Rui thought to himself, why wouldn't he want to, it's simply too much!
Meng Lai said, "Why haven't you spoken a word to me since school started for so long?"
Yuan Rui's heart shook, and he stammered: "My seat is too far away from you."
Meng Lai said: "You sat like this last semester, and you always came around from the back of the classroom to find me. Why can't you do it this semester?"
Yuan Rui stammered even more, and said: "Because, because of studying, studying is too intense, and I don't have time to take such a long detour."
Meng Lai: "..."
He suddenly said, "Isn't it because of that love letter? I thought it was because of that."
Yuan Rui pretended to be stupid and said, "What love letter? I have never written a love letter."
Meng Lai clicked his tongue and said, "He said he would always dream of me, but now he says he never wrote about it."
Yuan Rui blushed instantly, and argued strongly: "I didn't dream about it! I wrote it for fun."
Meng Lai: "... Is it fun?"
Yuan Rui was terrified, Meng Lai was a little serious, he had never been so serious before, he must still be concerned about the fact that the whole class had read the love letter last time, speaking of it, he was only silently criticizing, and he hadn't done it well at all. I apologize to Meng Lai.
"I'm sorry," he felt that he should take responsibility for his mistakes, so he simply stopped hiding his ears and said sincerely, "I was too flustered, and I didn't see clearly that there were materials for the class meeting in that book, which made you stand in front of everyone. It's all my fault, I'm sorry."
He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Meng Lai, only to hear Meng say, "Don't apologize to me, I just want to ask you, don't you have to be responsible after you finish writing the love letter?" Or ask me a physics question, do you think that if you pretend to be fine, you're really fine?"
Yuan Rui pursed his lips and whispered, "Then how can you forgive me?"
Meng Lai asked back: "How are you going to make me forgive you?"
Yuan Rui was a little embarrassed, and said for a while: "I won't bother you anymore, I won't write you love letters, I won't call you, I won't ask you physics questions, I won't tell others that I liked you, absolutely I won't embarrass you again, I promise."
Meng Lai frowned and said, "Is it the past tense to have liked? Don't you like me now?"
Yuan Rui looked up at him, looked down again, looked up again, lowered his head again, repeated several times, the circles of his eyes were a little red.
Meng Lai: "... don't look, talk."
Yuan Rui lowered his head and whispered, "Is it okay to like you secretly? I really won't tell anyone."
Meng Lai opened his mouth and closed it again, and said after a while, "Don't you tell me?"
Yuan Rui raised his head in surprise, his black eyes were watery.
Meng Lai looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't tell others, but tell me, otherwise you won't be allowed to like it."
Yuan Rui: "..."
Meng Lai unscrewed the cap of the soda bottle, gulped it down, and threw the bottle behind him.
Yuan Rui's eyes followed the parabola of the bottle up and down, and said, "It's going to be thrown into the trash can."
Meng Lai ignored him and just stared at him. Maybe it was because he drank the soda too quickly, or because of other reasons, his chest heaved a little violently.
Yuan Rui noticed something was different, but he didn't know what was different.
Meng Lai took half a step towards him.
too close! He was busy shrinking back.
Meng Lai's right hand quickly stretched out, wrapping around his waist, preventing him from retreating.
This intimate and ambiguous behavior made the two teenagers a little stunned.
Yuan Rui asked in a daze: "You, what are you doing?"
Meng Lai quickly laughed and said, "Didn't you say in your love letter that you always dreamed of me? What did you dream of?"
Yuan Rui: "..."
Meng Lai moved closer again, and said softly, "Is that the case?"
Yuan Rui suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Meng Lai's lips pressed against his.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and petals fell from the flower stand above the head.
Yuan Rui didn't ask what other people's first kiss was like. His first kiss was just touching his lips. Before he could do anything, he was caught by the director of the teaching department.
Looking at the director's expression, it was obvious that he was more frightened than he was. He only said half a sentence "what are you doing" and then it was like being hit by a sunflower acupuncture.
Meng Lai pushed Yuan Rui and said, "Run, he doesn't necessarily know you."
Yuan Rui refused, he had already kissed her before, so of course there would be embarrassment.
Meng Lai frowned and said, "He also knows my mother, so he won't embarrass me, you go."
Yuan Rui ran away from the other side, ran back to the playground and sat under the goalpost again, thinking to himself, nepotism is getting better! When two people kiss, why does only one need to run away? what! Kiss! My goodness!
After so many years, he can still recall that he was rolling happily in the goal, and the little fat goalkeeper on the opposite side just looked at him, and he was hit by a football head-on and hit the street.
It was only after so many years that he realized that being caught by the director of the teaching department at that time was not completely unaffected. The nepotism is really remarkable, and the director told Meng Lai his mother in a blink of an eye.
But at this moment, Meng Lai's mother told him on the phone: "Meng Lai is sincere to you. He later found out that I lied to him, so he wanted to get you back. I applied to a school in Australia and wanted to find you. After he passed by, I asked among the local Chinese students and found out that you only studied for an undergraduate degree and then became a model. You may have gone to the United States or Europe. No People know exactly where you are."
Yuan Rui: "..." During the few years he went to study, he was very introverted at the beginning because of the loss of his mother and leaving his hometown. His spoken English was not good, his grades were not good, and he was not very gregarious. , stayed in Sydney for four years, and did not make any friends.
Yang Ludao: "At that time, he cut off contact with me and had no source of income. He couldn't find you all over the world. He could only settle down and study while working part-time. He tried every means to save money to buy cheap air tickets and go to places where you might be. Looking for you."
"Why don't you just go to his house and ask? His father, his sister, there is no one in his house," Zheng Qiuyang snorted coldly, and asked questioningly, "I really want to find him, but how could I not find him?"
Meng Lai said in a flat tone: "How do I ask? Say hello to uncle and sister. Am I the one who had a puppy love with Yuan Rui at that time, which attracted my mother to come to the house and indirectly killed Yuan Rui's mother?"
Zheng Qiuyang: "..."
Meng Lai said: "Actually, when I was looking for him, I also knew that there would be no more results for us. I just didn't want to be reconciled. I just wanted to ask him face to face..."
He didn't say what he wanted to ask, and Zheng Qiuyang didn't ask either.
"Four years ago, I got my degree and went back to China. I finally got news about him. He was participating in a supermodel competition in North America. I rushed there. When I got there, I was just announcing the ranking. His appearance has not changed at all, emotions are all on his face, the top twelve entered the final, he won the thirteenth place, everyone left, and he stood there in a daze. I watched him for a long time, thinking that he was I was sad and wanted to comfort him, but he suddenly laughed again, thinking of something happy, picked a red rose from the bouquet next to him, took the flower and left." Meng Lai smiled , said, "I followed him and saw that he gave the flower to an Asian male model who had been eliminated. Later, I found out that it was the object of his unrequited love at the time, and it was a straight man."
Zheng Qiuyang asked abruptly, "Is there any smoke?"
Meng Lai took out the cigarettes and wanted to throw the whole pack over, but Zheng Qiuyang said, "Just one."
Meng Lai took out one and threw it to him, took out one and lit it himself, and threw the lighter over.
Zheng Qiuyang only lit it, held the cigarette between his fingers, and said, "You found out that he didn't wait for you, and he was still a big carrot, so you gave up on him?"
Meng Lai asked back, "Do you think he's playing tricks?"
Zheng Qiuyang didn't answer, just said: "Unless I die, he will never change his mind."