Yuan Yuan prepared a birthday present for Tan Ruikang.
On your birthday, please go to the barbecue restaurant in China Plaza. Lin Xi came over with a smile and said, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time, Dairy brother, you are so famous. You are one of the top ten people of the year in the university town."
Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "Is there such a thing?"
Lin Xi said: "Yes! Didn't the milk tea shop tell you to go back to work? I went to buy a cup of milk tea last time, and many people are asking you."
Yuan Yuan said: "I was called, but I didn't have time to go. The junior is too busy."
Lin Xi smiled and said, "Your brother talks about you every day. Every time I see him, I have to talk about you every three and a half sentences. During the summer vacation, I went to buy milk tea, why didn't you help me?"
Yuan Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Have you been here too?"
Lin Xi said: "Yes, I was wearing braids at the time..."
Yuan Yuan: "Ah! You are the one... "
Lin Xi smiled and said, "You must have forgotten, forget it, remember to give me a discount next time."
Yuan Yuan could not laugh or cry: "Okay."
Tan Ruikang parked the car and got up, sat with Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Yuan said, "The location is wrong, go to the opposite side."
Lin Xi laughed until her stomach hurt, and Tan Ruikang said, "it's okay, just sit like this..."
Yuan Yuan kicked him across the table and said, "Go away!"
Tan Ruikang sat beside Lin Xi in the past, leaned on the table, stretched his hands under the table to tie his shoelaces, and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Lin Xi smiled, but said, "Talk about how Xiaoyuan's birthday is."
Yuan Yuan smiled and didn't speak, Tan Ruikang said, "How can I live without talking?"
"Aren't you here now?" Lin Xi and Yuan Yuan said in unison.
Tan Ruikang shook his head and said, "I can't do anything about you. Now the two of you are riding on my head. Hey! Order food and bring the list."
"Come on, Ma Liu, a birthday present for you." Lin Xi took two paper bags, one for Tan Ruikang and the other for Yuan Yuan, and said, "Xiao Yuan also has one."
Yuan Yuan said: "What is this?"
Tan Ruikang opened the package inside, it was a plaid shirt, Yuan Yuan also had one, the style was exactly the same, Yuan Yuan said: "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, I didn't even prepare a present for you..."
Lin Xi smiled and said, "Hey, don't say that. The first time I saw you two outside Huagong, Xiaoyuan wore this brand of clothes. My cousin also has one. You guys seem to like it. brand."
Tan Ruikang said: "You just pay attention to him."
Lin Xi said: "That's right, Xiaoyuan is too dazzling... Let's order."
Tan Ruikang: "Let's go a little farther."
Yuan Yuan said: "You order."
The three discussed the menu for a while, and finally Lin Xi ordered the dishes. The barbecue that came up was what Yuan Yuan liked to eat. He didn't like mutton.
The banquet was full of fun, Lin Xi likes Yuanyuan very much, and the three-sentence question is always with him.
Yuan Yuan was a little doubtful that she would like her again after returning home after dinner.
During the period Tan Ruikang went to the bathroom, Lin Xi said, "Are you going to fix him today, do you need my cooperation?"
Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "No, but I will rectify him. I will rectify him once every birthday."
After eating, Yuan Yuan took out a box and said, "Brother, this is for you, you should go back first."
Tan Ruikang looked at the box and said far away, "You can open it anytime. It's best to open it later. I'll go back by myself, you guys can go for a walk."
Tan Ruikang said, "No, I'll take you back."
Yuan Yuan said: "No no, you will know when you open the box, I'm leaving."
He walked backwards and said, "You'll open it when I'm gone, remember!"
Tan Ruikang: "I'll take you back!"
Lin Xi said: "You listen to him, stop chasing, and see what it is first."
Far away ran away, Tan Ruikang was confused, opened the box, Lin Xi couldn't help laughing.
Inside was a hotel room card, plus a box of condoms.
Yuan Yuan leaned on the iron pole of the subway, quietly watching the yellow light on the platform.
In the early morning of the next day, Tan Ruikang sent him a text message: [Brother, thank you for your birthday present, but don't do this next time, we haven't gotten to that point yet... She blew all the condoms into balloons to play with.]Yuan turned off his cell phone when he woke up in the morning.
Yuan Yuan started to take his professional courses, these courses Tan Ruikang did not understand, and his major was two directions.
Tan Ruikang is no longer omnipotent, and it is useless to accompany Yuan Yuan to class. The two of them have many and difficult courses in their junior year, and they each do their own experiments.
It is also impossible to tutor him professionally. I can only remind him from time to time not to skip class and remember to listen.
Yuan Yuan can only rely on himself, he studied very hard, he has no talent in communication engineering or even the whole science, and he does not like this course. But you can only try your best to learn, you can't fail.
He doesn't even understand Tan Ruikang's automation. The two of them learn from each other, but every day as long as Tan Ruikang has no class, he will definitely come to Yuanyuan for dinner. If Tan Ruikang has a class at night, Lin Xi will come to look for Yuan Yuan, run to his classroom to sit with him, help him take notes, chat, bring him some small things, and accompany him to eat.
All the students in the class thought that Lin Xi was the girlfriend of Yuan Yuan's school, so Yuan Yuan smiled and introduced to them, "This is my sister."
He could see that Lin Xi was trying hard to find a way to enter his life, but he couldn't stand it. He didn't want to have too much contact with Lin Xi. Lin Xi's enthusiasm and kindness made him almost unable to refuse.
One day in October, he had a cold, but no one said anything. He skipped class and slept in the dormitory for a day. When Lin Xi came to look for him, he found that he was not in class, so he called him and bought some medicine to deliver. , Tan Ruikang also came that night and touched his head to check if he had a fever.
After the cold was over, Yuan Yuan had a cough, so Lin Xi stewed rock candy Sydney in her bedroom and brought it over for him to drink.
Yuan Yuan wanted to die, he didn't know what to do, he couldn't even hate it, he would rather Lin Xi be someone like Shu Yan, or at least have an imaginary enemy.
His love for Tan Ruikang and his hatred of falling in love with him finally turned around and came into his own heart. Suspecting that he would go crazy one day, he decided to change cities after graduation, find a job, and start over.
But before that, Tan Ruikang would still come to him, sometimes with Lin Xi, exactly the same as before, which made Yuan Yuan unable to find even a chance to blame.
"You stay with Lin Xi." Yuan Yuan said, "Don't keep running to me, or it will be unfair to her."
Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "She was in class and asked me to come to you for dinner. They have a lot of classes this semester."
Yuan Yuan said, "I also have a lot of classes."
Tan Ruikang was startled, then said, "Xiaoyuan, aren't you happy?"
Yuan Yuan said: "No, I was scolded by the teacher for the experiment today..."
Tan Ruikang said: "Or ask a senior senior brother to help you?"
Yuan Yuan hurriedly said: "No, look at my experiment book, I did a good job in the experiment, and I was the one who did the best in the class today..."
Tan Ruikang said: "Do the best and still get scolded?"
Yuan Yuan was stunned at first, and then said, "Because I was late for half a class."
Tan Ruikang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "You've been like this since you were a child."
Yuan Yuan still had a cough after he had caught a cold, his face was a little pale, and his hair had grown.
He didn't want to see Tan Ruikang again, he just wanted to tell him forgive me and don't come again. He must find something to refuse Tan Ruikang's concern for him, or he will drive himself crazy.
A few days later, Yuan Yuan said to a cute little girl in the library, "Qingqing, can you do me a favor."
Qingqing: "Ah? How did you know my name?"
Yuan Yuan was silent for a moment, and said, "I want to find someone to pretend to be my girlfriend, okay? Do you mind?"
Qingqing looked at the distance a little strangely, and finally nodded.
She was one year older than Yuan Yuan. A few days later, Yuan Yuan took Qingqing to dinner with Tan Ruikang and Lin Xi. He and Tan Ruikang sat in the front row, while Lin Xi held Qingqing and chatted in the back row. The four of them were talking and laughing. , Yuan Yuan did not say who Qingqing belonged to, nor did Tan Ruikang ask.
After returning, the relationship is considered to be confirmed.
Qingqing took the gift that Lin Xi gave her and said, "What about this?"
Yuan Yuan opened it and took a look, it was two couple scarves.
"Take it." Yuan Yuan said, "My sister-in-law has some thoughts."
"Milk boy." Qingqing said, "Does your brother want you to date?"
Yuan Yuan shook his head and said, "I want my brother to go on a date."
Qingqing's eyebrows wrinkled beautifully, Yuan Yuan smiled and said: "Don't frown, it's easy to get old, no matter if you are happy or not, you have to be happy outside."
He stretched out his fingers to loosen Qingqing's brows, like a polite gentleman, and said, "Good night."
In the following week, every time Tan Ruikang or Lin Xi came to find him for dinner, he brought Qingqing with him.
He slowly started texting Tan Ruikang or Lin Xi, saying that he wanted to accompany Qingqing to class, or go on a date with her, and told them not to come to him at night.
Tan Ruikang finally stopped coming, the distant goal was achieved, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
In November, when the weather turned cold, I sat far away on the side of the road and texted Tan Ruikang: [Brother, I want to spend my birthday with my wife this year.]Tan Ruikang: [Xiaoyuan, you don't want a brother when you fall in love.]
Yuan Yuan took the mobile phone and looked over and over, thinking that it was time to change the mobile phone. After so many years, he still remembered that when Zhao Guogang bought them a mobile phone, Tan Ruikang was moved to tears.
He didn't reply to the text message, Qingqing came out of the classroom and said from a distance, "Here!"
A few girls were booing, Qingqing laughed and drove them away, and came over and said, "Do you want to act today?"
Yuan Yuan said uneasy: "Do they all know that you are in a relationship? It won't prevent you from having a boyfriend, right?"
Qingqing smiled and said, "It's alright, I can't wait for someone to invite me to dinner. I told them that you are the younger brother I recognize, and my sister is not a beautiful woman. No one likes me, let's go."
Yuan Yuan said: "If you want to be with someone, you must tell me, I will invite him to dinner, and then explain to him well, don't hurt you, it will be bad."
Qingqing held the distant hand and said, "It's okay, you think too much. They all treat you as a younger brother and eat the snacks you bought me last time... Are you acting today?"
Yuan Yuan said, "If you don't act, please have a meal."
Yuan Yuan and Qingqing ate in the cafeteria, Qingqing whispered, "Brother Dairy, I want to ask you something."
Yuan Yuan said, "What?"
Qingqing: "You like boys, am I right?"
Distant: "… "
Qingqing smiled and said, "If you don't want to answer, you can leave it alone."
Yuan Yuan nodded and said, "Please help me keep it a secret."
Qingqing said, "It's okay, hey."
She stretched out her hand and touched Yuan Yuan's head as if she didn't know anything. After dinner Yuan Yuan went back to her bedroom and continued to read. His 20th birthday will soon be over.
At ten o'clock, the dormitory building was closed. He was the only one in the dormitory, and Xiaodou with glasses didn't come back. Yuan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Tan Ruikang would not come.
At eleven o'clock, the phone rang, and the name of "Brother" flashed on the phone screen.
Yuan Yuan answered the phone, and Tan Ruikang said, "Brother, where are you?"
Yuan Yuan said, "With my wife, I won't be going back at night."
Tan Ruikang smiled and said, "You lied to me, your wife is in the dormitory, and I just called her dormitory."
Yuan Yuan said: "Well, what if I lied to you?"
Tan Ruikang smiled and said, "Not so good. I want to give you a birthday present, do you want it?"
Yuan Yuan said, "The dormitory is closed, let's do it tomorrow."
He heard his smiling voice in the distance, as if he could see his intoxicating smile.
"Zhao Yuanyuan!" Tan Ruikang's voice became louder, and at the same time it rang downstairs and on the phone: "Come on to the balcony, happy birthday!"
Yuan Yuan was startled, then got up and walked out of the balcony of the dormitory. There was a person standing on the road outside.
"younger brother."
Under the street light, Tan Ruikang is like a romantic magician with a box in the middle of the road.
Tan Ruikang bowed and said softly on the phone:
"You're 20 this year, and you've grown up. Brother, I don't know how long I can stay with you. I hope it's our appointment for the rest of my life. When you're not with your wife, let's accompany you occasionally. My brother always misses you."
The cigarette lit the lead of the fireworks.
A series of fireworks rose to the third floor, blooming magnificently in the night sky, purple, blue, red, orange.
Bright fireworks with changing colors were reflected in the distant pupils, and he was unable to speak for a long time.
One after another fireworks flew up, bursting into brilliant colors, the light and shadow changed, and the flash was bright. Tan Ruikang took this scene and kept it as a souvenir.
Far away watched silently until the end of the twenty fireworks, and the world returned to boundless darkness.
"Let's go." Tan Ruikang's voice was very low, he turned and left with a smile, Lin Xi turned out from under the tree and took his hand. The two held hands, shook affectionately, and left downstairs.
Far away watching them leave, leaning against the wall of the dormitory balcony, he gasped loudly against the dark night, venting his tears silently, as if he wanted to drive something out of his soul, let it go, and never again. Don't come back.
But it was always there, always there, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't drive it out completely.