Beyond The Outline

On Xu Sheng's birthday, he had to go to the studio, and Aunt Kang still had classes to attend, so Xu Sheng thought about going to paint a picture, so he set off from home early.

He sent a text message to Xu Yaping: Mom, I'm going out.

Xu Yaping: Be careful on the road. Mom took half a day off today and will be here in the afternoon.

At the same time, there was a message lying on the chat interface, and the time of sending the message was zero.

Boyfriend: Happy birthday.

This year's summer seems to be extremely long. At the end of September, on the autumnal equinox, the temperature is still high.However, the temperature difference between day and night in city A is huge, so Xu Sheng put on a coat when he went out, and he walked through the crowded place and walked out from the station entrance.

Xu Sheng stared at the phone screen for a while, and couldn't help but wonder what Shao Zhan was doing now.

You should be writing a question.

In addition to the simulated papers for the college entrance examination, you also have to practice the competition questions... After the third year of high school, the tasks of the Linjiang competition group became more and more arduous.

Xu Sheng was already very satisfied when he received a happy birthday at zero o'clock. Before asking for a gift, he just said it casually, but if Shao Zhan was here now, he might be more satisfied.

There are only two months left before the joint entrance exam in December, and many students in the studio come to the studio to participate in the intensive training in advance after the first round of review exams in school.

When Xu Sheng arrived, he saw a woman sitting not far from the door to demonstrate to his classmates: "Your interlining, the color is too dirty, when you adjust the color..."

It was windy outside, Xu Sheng was wearing a hat, and the broken hair on his forehead was still messed up by the wind. After he entered the door, he called out "Aunt Kang".

"Come?" said the woman.

Xu Sheng said "Hmm", and the female classmates who were watching Aunt Kang's repainting bent over him and said hello, "Professor Xu."

Xu Sheng: "..."

Aunt Kang raised her eyebrows: "Know? When did you become my teaching assistant? Why don't I know."

Xu Sheng rubbed his nose: "Maybe there is a little misunderstanding."

Xu Sheng would come to the studio to practice painting on weekends, and spent most of the time hiding in a small room with Kang Kai.

Occasionally, he opened the door and went out to answer Shao Zhan's phone call, but the phone didn't ring. There was still a short girl sitting in the empty studio during lunch break. She was worried about the painting, looking like she was going to cry or not.

The girl couldn't keep up with the progress, and the drawing was always unsatisfactory, sitting alone and holding her breath.

She was about to draw back, but she caught a glimpse of a man leaning on the wall beside her. The young man's eyes were raised, and he was smiling a little. He took it a little farther away, and seemed a little careless when he spoke: "Little classmate, try adding more ambient colors when drawing the main subject."

Girl: "Huh?"

Xu Sheng brought the phone closer again, and it seemed that the person opposite said something, so he chuckled and said, "What kind of teasing, you're the only one I've ever teased, don't talk about it, I'll go and change it for someone else." painting."

After Xu Sheng hung up the phone, he motioned for her to get up and make way for her.

When this girl painted the main subject, she used the same color for depth and sensitivity. For the brown ceramic pot, she just used brown and white for the transition, basically without any color.

Xu Sheng painted very slowly, and carefully explained to her how to draw reflections, what the basics of the color wheel are, and how to add ambient color to her for half an hour.

Maybe it was the phrase "little classmate" that made her think that she was a teaching assistant, and she had never seen him come to the studio to study before.

Xu Sheng explained again: "You were not here during the lunch break last time, I helped to change the painting, and..." Xu Sheng took off the hood that covered half of his face and said, "Little classmate, I am not teaching assistant."

The girl was watching Teacher Kang's demonstration, but she couldn't take her eyes off the boy from the moment he entered the door, until he pushed open the compartment door inside, leaned on the door and said a few words to someone before walking in.

The girl said in her heart that she was not a teaching assistant.

It was a pity to think, no wonder I haven't seen him for so many days.

Kang Kai's first reaction when he saw him was to throw a bottle of water over: "You only come to the studio two days a week, can you let go of the girl in our studio, the girl is a nice person, and recently I asked the teaching assistant every day, I thought my mother Really recruited some newcomers."

Xu Sheng took advantage of the opportunity to unscrew the bottle cap, sat down on the easel, stepped on the horizontal bar under the easel and said, "What are you talking about, I don't like women."

Kang Kai said in his heart, it's because you don't like it, if you like it, it's fine.

Xu Sheng had just finished the manuscript, his phone vibrated constantly, and the class group was also very lively.

Hou Jun didn't know where he knew that today was Xu Sheng's birthday, so he organized everyone to send him a blessing in the group.

Hou Jun: Brother Sheng, we don't talk about gifts or non-gifts in our previous friendship. I'll come first, and the future is bright!

Tan Kai: Must pass the Academy of Fine Arts!

Yuan Ziqiang: Kaizi, why did you steal my lines?

Qiu Qiu: Happy birthday, Brother Sheng~ I wish you success in the art exam.

……

All the students in Class [-] knew that Xu Sheng would soon put aside his culture class and go to the studio to participate in a training camp.They didn't know what an art test was before, but now they know it, they just feel that it is a very courageous thing for a person to take another step when everyone is walking the same road.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Yaping got off work, and the studio just ended.

Aunt Kang set up a dining table in the small yard outside the studio, and they sat down and had a simple meal together. The birthday cake was not big. When Xu Sheng made a wish to the candle, many images flashed through Xu Sheng's mind, and finally stopped at On a paper star: Then maybe, this paper star and the person who folded the star.

"It's so big in a blink of an eye." Xu Wanyuan sat back, Xu Yaping sighed.

Aunt Kang smiled at the dining table: "Yes, the first time I saw Xiao Sheng, he was only as high as my shoulder."

The two talked about "training" from this topic, and Aunt Kang said: "I want the two of them to go to another studio for training together. My brother's level may be more suitable for leading them than me."

Aunt Kang also usually takes the trainees, but Xu Sheng and Kang Kai's level is different from that of ordinary students. What they need to learn is not only the standard entrance examination content.The name of the studio she recommended is "Three Primary Colors". This studio is well-known in City A. In the urban area of ​​City A, there is a special dormitory area. It also teaches better than her in terms of "design and modeling".

Xu Sheng listened absent-mindedly, and frequently looked down at the time.

Seeing that the two of them chatted until 8:30, they still had no intention of stopping.

Xu Sheng lowered his head and secretly chatted with Shao Zhan.

-what are you doing.

- Eat and listen to my mother and Aunt Kang chatting.

Tomorrow is Monday, Xu Yaping originally wanted him to get up early and go back to school tomorrow morning, but Xu Sheng couldn't sit still, put away his phone: "Mom, Aunt Kang, I'm going back to school early, there is an in-class quiz on Monday, I didn't bring my book Come back, you have to go back and review."

Xu Yaping got up, although she was surprised, she didn't think much about it: "Going back to school so late?"

"..." Only Kang Kai looked at him with disillusioned eyes.

Kang Kai made a mouth shape: Damn.

Xu Sheng also turned his back slowly, pulled up his hat and said with his mouth: Shut up.

It was getting dark, and the reflection of the street lights was stretched very long. After getting in the car, Xu Sheng sent a message to Shao Zhan: I want to see you.

The other side replied quickly, and there were only three words.

- Come to the intersection.

-?

what intersection.

Xu Sheng turned his mind around for several times, but he couldn't figure out where this intersection appeared out of nowhere, until Shao Zhan immediately sent a picture.

In the photo, the traffic at the crossroad in the middle is sparse, the shop on the other side of the intersection is half-closed, and half of the road signs are exposed in the corner of the photo. He is very familiar with this place, which is the street opposite the studio.

In order to adjust the angle when taking pictures, Shao Zhan held up his mobile phone, and a few of his knuckles were accidentally captured in the photo.

Shao Zhan went out to "buy presents" in the afternoon until this point. Although he couldn't celebrate his birthday together, he still couldn't resist getting here by car—wanted to get off the car and meet him at the intersection.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Xu Sheng thought that the destination of this train was completely opposite to the studio: "...fuck."

Didn't they run in opposite directions?

Xu Sheng didn't bother to explain, so he made a phone call directly.

"Brother, you are awesome," Xu Sheng said, "Guess where I am now?"

Shao Zhan was leaning on the railing beside him, and when he heard the sound of a whistle coming from the opposite side, he had a vague guess: "In the car?"

"It's on the bus back to school," Xu Sheng added, "I still have half an hour to get to school."

It was also rare for Shao Zhan to swear. His tone of swearing was completely different from his usual academic attitude. Xu Sheng could only hear him swearing in two situations, and the other was in bed.

After Xu Sheng finished speaking, he felt that the situation between the two of them was quite interesting, leaning against the car window and asked with a smile: "... Shall I come or you?"

"I'll come over."

Shao Zhan said, "You wait."

When Xu Sheng arrived at the school, Shao Zhan was still more than 20 minutes away from the station.

Sweaty from running back and forth, he went back to the dormitory to take a shower, and then waited for him after seeing that the time was almost up.

Shao Zhan came back over the wall and walked up the stairs. Across the long corridor, he saw the boy squatting at the door of his bedroom. Xu Sheng didn't even bother to brush his hair. He sent a message to Xu Yaping and saw it without raising his eyes. A black shadow covered his face.

There is no need to wear a school uniform on weekends, Shao Zhan wore a white shirt with a tightly buttoned collar: "Get up."

After taking a shower, Xu Sheng put on a loose T-shirt, followed him into the house, and said casually, "What are you doing in the studio?"

Shao Zhan asked back, "What are you doing back to school?"

The answer is self-evident.

After Xu Sheng entered the door, he suddenly remembered the phrase "still young" two months ago.The delay on the road was too long, and the dormitory had already reached the time to turn off the lights. When the door was opened, the furnishings in the room could be barely seen by the light of the sensor light in the corridor. After closing the door, there was only darkness in front of my eyes.

Xu Sheng drank only drinks at the dinner table at night, but the moment the door closed, it was like drinking two jugs of wine.

Relying on the light when he opened the door just now, he roughly remembered where Shao Zhan was, and he stretched out his hand and touched the young man's thin wrist—then he approached him with his whole body, leaning into his ear in the dark without any scruples. Bian: "Brother, why don't you try it?"

"..."

Shao Zhan's kiss was pressed down hard, and because he couldn't see the direction clearly, it landed on the bridge of Xu Sheng's nose, and then gradually went down.

Xu Sheng leaned against the door panel, his back ached.

It took Xu Sheng a while to adapt to the light in the dormitory, bumping into many obstacles along the way, and then he got into bed, the time was turning towards 12 o'clock, he heard Shao Zhan leaning on his ear, and said again: "Birthday hapiness."

Xu Sheng's half-dry hair was attached to the side of his face, it was slightly cool, but it was indescribably hot.

Both of them reacted, but Shao Zhan let him go suddenly. Xu Sheng narrowed his eyes and was about to speak when Shao Zhan reached out and turned on the lamp on the desk.

"Snapped."

His field of vision brightened up instantly, Xu Sheng was still not quite used to it, so he half-closed his eyes: "Fuck, do you still have this habit?"

……

Xu Sheng's voice was already hoarse. After hesitating for two seconds, he said with no bottom line: "It's not impossible to turn on the light."

Shao Zhan didn't answer, he raised his hand, and slowly untied the first shirt button with one hand, followed by the second.Xu Sheng's eyes didn't know whether to fall on his bony fingers, or the young man's collarbone, abdominal muscles...or the black belt extending all the way to his waist.

Xu Sheng admired his boyfriend taking off his shirt with great interest.

It was not until Shao Zhan hung his shirt sideways on the back of the chair beside him that he saw the altered tattoo on the teenager's shoulder blade. The traces were very new and glowing red. At first glance, it was just a tattoo - the original non-mainstream flame And the wings, after a redesign, added a scrawled "S."

Xu Sheng stared blankly.

Shao Zhan didn't say much, but only said four words: "Birthday gift."