Birthday
Yu Rui stared blankly at the light blue box in Xie Li's hand, a little surprised: No wonder he always felt that he forgot something today, it turned out that he forgot his birthday.
First, he met the disgusting employer who did something to him in the part-time interview, and then he was in debt... Today, such a frustrating and desperate day, it turned out to be his birthday.
Yu Li probably prepared a gift for him, no wonder she was secretive when he knocked on the door at noon...
In addition to Yu Li, in the first sixteen years of Yu Rui's life, it seemed that it was the first time that he had received a birthday present from another person.
Yu Rui shook his head.
"How do you know today is my birthday?"
Naturally, Xie Li couldn't betray Yu Li, who obediently sold all of Yu Rui's information to him outside Dingshui Elementary School that day.
He smiled, "I'll give it a shot."
Yu Rui hesitated, "I can't…"
"It's just a birthday present. If you feel bad about it, you can return it to me when it's my birthday next month." Xie Li said.
"Your birthday next month?"
"Yeah." Xie Li replied, "And as the one who gave the gift first, I should have a privilege."
"?"
"When the time comes for my birthday present, I will make a request, and the gift you send must meet my request."
Yu Rui: "..."
Seeing Yu Rui's distrustful gaze, Xie Li laughed, "I haven't said anything yet, why do you look like you want to call the police?"
"… "
Yu Rui looked down and saw that the corner of the box on which Xie Li was lying was still stained with blood. Yu Rui hesitated for a while, but he reached out and took it from Xie Li.
"Open it and take a look." Xie Li said, "I've been picking it for a long time."
"… What is it?"
"Well, an engagement ring?"
"!"
Yu Rui shook his hand and almost threw the box away.
Xie Li couldn't help laughing, "Just kidding, see for yourself."
Yu Rui glanced at him blankly, and then lowered his head with lingering fear and opened the light blue box.
Inside lay a pair of silver-white ornaments, in the shape of square buttons, with two small diamonds in the corners.
Yu Rui observed for a few seconds and asked uncertainly, "This is... a cufflink?"
"Well, it seems that you like wearing shirts very much. You will need them sooner or later."
Yu Rui hesitated, "Cufflinks are only used for French shirts, I shouldn't use them."
"Then I will give you a shirt next year."
Yu Rui frowned when he heard the words, he raised his eyes to look at Xie Li, but he stopped talking.
Xie Li raised his eyebrows, "What do you want to say? Don't you like it?"
"...No." Yu Rui sighed silently, and he took the box back into his backpack, "I like it very much, thank you. Now I'll take you to the hospital."
Yu Rui turned on his mobile phone and walked in front. The boy's back is thin, and sharp silhouette lines are cut by the light of the mobile phone.
Xie Li narrowed his eyes slightly, watched silently for two seconds, and followed with his long legs.
—
Yu Rui sent Xie Li to a nearby small hospital to take a film, and finally felt relieved after making sure that no bones were injured.
It's just that apart from the sap on the shoulders, they were trapped in the crowd before, and Xie Li received a lot of "care" because of the taboo of his skills, and he had more or less blood and injuries.
After the doctor in the emergency department glanced at them several times with the eyes of the bad boy, he sighed and prescribed medicine for bruises and injuries, and asked them to find a nurse to go to the emergency bed next door to apply the medicine.
After Xie Li came in, he sat on the emergency bed, pulled Yu Rui back, who was going out to find the nurse, and handed over the medicine and cotton pads he just got, "Since the nurse doesn't have time, you can wipe it for me."
Yu Rui was stunned for a moment, Xie Li had already turned around and lifted up the clothes on his upper body with one hand.
After this attack, bruised blood crisscrossed his shoulders and back, and the blood left by the stick on the right looked particularly hideous.
Yu Rui's pupils tightened slightly, and the hand holding the cotton wool carefully dipped the potion on the wound.
Xie Li noticed something and turned around, "You..."
As soon as the words came out, Yu Rui's hands trembled.
After being stiff for two seconds, he raised his eyes hastily, "What did you just say?"
"..." Xie Li didn't answer, and stared at him with narrowed eyes.
Yu Rui hesitated, "I'm too hard, did I hurt you?"
Xie Li laughed when he heard the words, "I just wanted to tell you that you don't have to take care of your sister, I'm not so squeamish."
"But the injury is serious."
"Can this be considered an injury?" Xie Li sneered and turned back. "Squad leader, if you are so afraid of pain, it will be difficult for me to do it in the future."
"… "
Yu Rui didn't understand Xie Li's words. In fact, his mind was not on the conversation at all. It was difficult for Yu Rui to look away from those wounds, and his self-blame and apology made his brows furrow more and more tightly.
The medicine was almost finished here, so the nurse took time to come over. Seeing the two of them and listening to Yu Rui's introduction, the nurse, who looked to be in her thirties or forties, glanced at them with emotion.
"You're young, don't do this kind of thing again. In the end, it's just a little skin injury, and you're the luckiest. How many fights have I seen broken bones? Not to mention back injuries— If you hurt the spine at the middle point, you may be paralyzed, and if you point further up, the blood in the head will be directly life-threatening!"
The nurse's words successfully made Yu Rui absent-minded and low-spirited most of the way out of the hospital.
The two stopped at the door of the hospital, Xie Li moved his stiff right hand, and when he glanced sideways, he was facing Yu Rui's expressionless but worried face.
Xie Li paused and smiled, "I'll go to your house for dinner tonight?"
Yu Rui frowned and nodded after being silent for two seconds.
"it is good."
"… "
Seeing Yu Rui turn around to pick up the bicycle that was pushed earlier, Xie Li's smile sank.
Looking at Yu Rui's back, he couldn't help frowning.
When it was mostly dark, Yu Rui and Xie Li went downstairs to Yu Rui's house.
Yu Rui locked the bicycle in the basement and walked up the old stairs.
The sensor light on the first floor was probably broken. Only the only three or two lights outside the building came in, vaguely depicting the figure of the man. Xie Li was standing in the corridor on the first floor, leaning against the wall with his head half lowered. motionless.
Yu Rui felt nervous when he remembered the nurse's words.
He unconsciously accelerated his pace and stepped forward, and at the same time called the man's name in a low voice, "Xie Li?"
"… "
The air was quiet, and no answer was heard.
Yu Rui hurriedly raised his hand to pull Xie Li, "Xie Li, you—"
The wrist he lifted to the air was suddenly grasped.
Yu Rui stiffened.
But I only heard someone laugh hoarsely in the darkness beside my ears, "Squad leader, you are really strange today."
"You..." Yu Rui seemed to let out a sigh of relief, "Are you all right?"
"What can I do?"
"You just didn't move, I thought you—"
"Think I'm dead?" Xie Li laughed and raised his eyes, "Why are you so worried about me today?"
"… "
Yu Rui had completely recovered his mind at this time, and his first reaction was to withdraw his hand. It's just that he froze again at the thought of how many injuries he didn't know yet.
After a few seconds of stalemate, Yu Rui said, "Since it's all right, let's go up."
"Tsk."
Xie Li saw that Yu Rui didn't struggle, but the smile on his face sank. He grabbed Yu Rui's wrist and slowly pulled the person towards him.
Yu Rui just froze, but did not struggle.
In the dark, breathing was getting closer and closer, and the mood in Xie Li's eyes became gloomy.
He suddenly remembered what he said to Kan Qing at the Internet cafe that day.
[He doesn't like to owe favors.]
[If I repay this debt for him, then I say that he will not refuse if he wants to go to him.]
"... You really don't refuse?" Xie Li suddenly asked in a hoarse voice when he reached a very close point. There was some kind of annoyance in his voice that he didn't even know about.
Yu Rui still froze, "Reject something."
"Would you do the same for someone else?"
"Xie Li, what are you talking about—"
Xie Li suddenly pulled hard on his hand, Yu Rui was caught off guard and was pushed against the wall by Xie Li.
Yu Rui almost instinctively wanted to resist, but he stopped his movements abruptly in the next second. He gritted his teeth slightly and looked up at Xie Li.
In the dark, the eyes that were close at hand were extraordinarily bright, with a calm and gloomy mood.
Yu Rui heard Xie Li's voice lowered to the lowest level and asked him, "Today I was injured because of you, so you feel sorry? You dare not refuse or struggle with anything I do?"
Yu Rui didn't speak.
Xie Li laughed angrily and approached him closer, "Then which step do I take so that you can't help resisting?"
Yu Rui was silent.
After a while, he lifted his eyes and looked at Xie Li as cold as water.
But what Xie Li saw was not cold, not cold, just hooking. It was so itchy that hundreds of insects and ants in his heart were biting, and it was so unbearably itchy that it drove people crazy.
At a certain point, he finally seemed to be unable to bear it any longer - Xie Li closed his dark eyes and slowly approached.
As if about to kiss, he lowered his eyes and looked at Yu Rui's cold, slightly pursed lips. When he got to the nearest distance, he stopped in front of Yu Rui's lips, and his tongue stuck out slightly—
Yu Rui's eyebrows twitched, and the clenched hands that were hanging on his side without restraint finally slowly loosened.
Yu Rui closed his eyes.
The air is quiet.
For a while, nothing happened.
Yu Rui opened his eyes blankly and heard a hoarse laugh in the dark ear.
In the corridor, which was barely visible in the dim light, Xie Li had already retreated a few centimeters away.
The man supported the wall above Yu Rui's head with one hand and leaned over to smile. The dark eyes are full of suppressed and hideous desires—
"Do you know how awkward your expression is now, squad leader."