Xie Duo said: "For breakfast, he made wontons himself, and then he drank a cup of Pu'er tea in my office, but I have eaten and drunk both of these things before, and they are fine."
Yang Yu was thinking hard when Shen Antu spoke up, his voice hoarse: "I drank the remaining tea before going home this morning. It was cold."
"That's acute gastroenteritis caused by a cold stomach. Fever is also a normal symptom. But it's good news that you're not vomiting anymore. I'll have someone send some medicine over. Take it and sleep for a night, and you should be fine tomorrow." Yang Yu said as he left the bedroom to make a phone call.
After Yang Yu left, Xie Duo fed Shen Antu some warm water. He looked at Shen Antu's pale face, his frown never relaxed for a moment.
After drinking the water, Shen Antu fell back into Xie Duo's arms, closed his eyes and whispered, "I want to lie down."
Xie Duo: "Wait a moment, Aunt Zhao will heat up the porridge soon, eat some before going to sleep."
Shen Antu stopped talking.
The room was well heated, but Xie Duo was still afraid that Shen Antu would be cold, so he put a cotton coat on him and warmed his stomach with his palms.
"hot."
Shen Antu pushed Xie Duo's hand away.
Not long after, Aunt Zhao brought in the millet porridge. Shen Antu had an injury on his hand, so Xie Duo didn't let him do it himself. He personally fed him one spoonful at a time until he finished the whole bowl of porridge.
When Aunt Zhao came to collect the dishes, she felt very guilty when she saw Shen Antu's expression: "How do you feel, Mr. Shen? Do you want to eat more?"
Shen Antu shook his head, and Xie Duo said for him: "His stomach is very weak now, so use less first and eat when he's hungry later."
Aunt Zhao responded, told Xie Duo that dinner was ready, and then left.
Xie Duo waited for Yang Yu to bring the medicine, gave it to Shen Antu, and then left the bedroom.
It was almost eleven o'clock when Xie Duo finished his work for the day, washed up and returned to the bedroom. When he went to bed, Shen Antu's eyes were wide open. He didn't know whether he woke up or was woken up by himself.
"Why don't you sleep anymore? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Xie Duo lay beside him, lying on his side facing him.
"No, I'm much better now." Shen Antu stared at Xie Duo's facial features in the dark, "I just slept too much in the afternoon, and now I can't sleep at all."
Xie Duo asked again: "What do you want to do now? Do you want to watch a movie? I'll accompany you."
Shen Antu turned over and faced Xie Duo with his back: "Tell me how we got together. You seemed to have said before that you were the one who pursued me?"
"Um."
Xie Duo once again dug out the past events from his memory, broke them up, threw away the parts he didn't like, and added in the new modified fragments.
"We were in the same class in our freshman year of high school and our grades were about the same, so we were always compared to each other."
But because of his status as an illegitimate child, Shen Antu was not popular in school. Plus, he liked to be alone at that time, so he had almost no friends.
Xie Duo never took the initiative to talk to him, not because he looked down on his background, but because there was no need.
At that time, Xie Duo was the only son of the Xie family. He was surrounded by countless halos the moment he was born. He was the best in terms of academic background and appearance. He didn't need to bow his head when talking to anyone. In his eyes, Shen Antu was just a little special, that's all.
"I wanted to ask you for help with math problems. You were reluctant at first, but you got used to it later. Then we went to participate in the physics competition together..."
The organizer of the competition arranged accommodation for the candidates at that time. Xie Duo and Shen Antu were arranged to live in the same dormitory because they were both students of Z Middle School. However, Xie Duo's family had a house nearby, so he chose to live outside and missed the opportunity to sleep with Shen Antu.
"We lived together, took exams during the day and studied at night. We won first and second prizes together, and the school held a commendation ceremony."
The commendation meeting was only for internal commendation of participating students. Since Shen Antu was not popular, no one informed him of the meeting time. It was Xie Duo who helped him bring the certificate back. Shen Antu thanked him, and Xie Duo walked away indifferently.
"I brought you the certificate and invited you out for dinner to celebrate. You agreed, and we became friends, playing ball and studying together."
In the second year of high school, Shen Antu was divided into arts and science classes. Although Shen Antu was good at science, he insisted on choosing arts. From then on, he and Xie Duo parted ways. Xie Duo could only occasionally see him sketching by the pond behind the teaching building from the window.
"I confessed my feelings to you before we were divided into different classes, and we were together naturally until you decided to go abroad in your senior year of high school."
Shen Antu left very suddenly and quietly. Xie Duo remembered it very clearly. That day was the 100-day oath-taking ceremony for senior high school students. Xie Duo and Shen Antu were supposed to give speeches on stage as representatives of the arts and science departments, but later Xie Duo discovered that the speaker for the arts class was replaced by a girl.
Later he heard that Shen Antu had gone abroad.
Everyone speculated that if Shen Antu had not left at that time, he and Xie Duo would have won the top prizes in both liberal arts and science in City Z.
Xie Duo tried hard to recall the last time he saw Shen Antu in high school. It was during lunch break on Monday. They were both buying water in the school supermarket. Xie Duo forgot to bring change and only had a hundred-yuan bill on him. The cashier was unable to make the change, so Shen Antu paid for him.
In the following seven years, Xie Duo never saw Shen Antu again.
"We quarreled for a while, but decided to be together, so we started a long-distance relationship. When I was in college, I could use mobile phones, so we often video chatted and sent things to each other. When you returned to China, we officially lived together..."