Only one step away

Ever since I heard from Sunan that day, Fan Jie mentioned that the Christmas ball is a ball with a special meaning, Li Yuan has been thinking about it all the time.Although he really wanted to call Fan Jie directly, these days, Fan Jie basically practiced dancing with him every day, so he thought it would be more appropriate to ask him face to face.

On this day, Li Yuan arrived at the dance classroom very early in order to wait for Fan Jie before Sunan came.He intuitively thought that Sunan should avoid talking about the dance.

Seeing that it was the usual time for Fan Jie to appear, but still did not see the eldest lady, Li Yuan seemed a little anxious.After restless for ten minutes, he called Fan Jie.

"Li Yuan!?" Fan Jie on the other end of the phone was obviously very surprised to receive Li Yuan's call, "Why did you call..."

"Well, aren't you coming to the dance class today?" Li Yuan asked on the phone.

"Ah!" Fan Jie yelled on the phone, "Last night I sent a WeChat message to Sunan saying that I couldn't come today because of something, and I asked him to tell you, but he didn't tell you!?"

Li Yuan was taken aback for a moment, he has been living with Sunan for the past few days, since Sunan received Fan Jie's WeChat, there is no reason for him not to tell himself?

"No...he said it before, but I forgot." Li Yuan tidied up his emotions, and replied pretending to be normal.

"Well, although I'm asking Sunan, I think I should mention it to you. I may not have much time to come to the dance classroom these days, because I am the host of the dance, so I have a lot of things to do."

"Then about the dancing..."

"Well, this matter, you don't need to be so nervous, it's just an ordinary dance." Fan Jie laughed on the other end of the phone, "And I think our dances have cooperated very well, but I I will definitely find time to let us dance again the day before the dance."

Hearing Fan Jie mentioned the ball, Li Yuan couldn't help asking: "Miss Fan, I don't quite understand about the Christmas ball."

"Huh? About what?"

"I heard this is an important dance for you?"

"Ah..." Fan Jie hesitated on the other end of the phone, and after a long while, she said, "It should be possible to say that..."

"May I know why? Because since it's such an important dance, I'm honored to be invited to be your dance partner. If I don't know, it would be too rude."

"Li Yuan..." Fan Jie sighed a long time on the other end of the phone, "I can't tell you now, but you will find out on the day of the dance."

"Miss Fan!" Fan Jie's answer did not satisfy Li Yuan, but Fan Jie didn't give him any chance to ask, but hung up the phone hastily, and then no matter how Li Yuan dialed her, she didn't answer.

Just when Li Yuan was in a state of desperation, Sunan stood behind him and patted his shoulder lightly: "Li Yuan, what's wrong with you?"

Li Yuan looked at the phone anxiously, and replied, "Miss Fan doesn't answer the phone."

Sunan gave him a meaningful look and said, "Miss Fan notified me via WeChat last night that she would not be able to come today, but you went to bed early last night, so I didn't tell you."

Li Yuan looked up at him and said, "You didn't tell me about it this morning."

"Because there are still some problems with your dance steps. Although Miss Fan won't come, I will still guide you." Regarding his questioning, Sunan didn't show anything wrong, but said it calmly. own plan.

Realizing that there was something wrong with his words, Li Yuan hastily explained: "I didn't mean to blame you."

"I know." Sunan smiled, "You don't need to explain this to me."

Although Sunan said so, with a usual smile on his face, Li Yuan always felt that there was something stuck in his throat, and it hurt so badly that he couldn't speak.

"Want to dance with me?" Sunan stood in front of him and looked at him with a smile.

At this time, Li Yuan suddenly remembered that since the incident with Fan Jie was exposed, it seemed that he hadn't danced alone with Sunan for a long time.Seeing Sunan's smiling face, he suddenly understood something - Sunan might have deliberately concealed that Fan Jie was going elsewhere today just to dance alone with him.

Looking at Sunan's fair and handsome face, Li Yuan suddenly felt distressed.Obviously, in the beginning, it was a natural and common thing for two people to dance together, but now it has become something that can only be achieved by carefully playing tricks.

Under the all-too-familiar dance classroom and music background, Li Yuan and Sunan dance together to the tango that Sunan arranged for Li Yuan and Fan Jie.

Perhaps because of becoming a part of the dance, Li Yuan discovered something that he hadn't noticed when he was a spectator—Su Nan's expression seemed to have never been more sad than it is now. During the dance, it quietly flowed out, gradually infecting the whole body, and PorUna Cabeza seemed to be the best footnote of his sad mood.

When the whole song is finished, although the music has stopped long ago, Li Yuan always feels that the familiar melody is still echoing in his mind, as if it will never stop, and the dance steps that used to dance under his feet have also become The pictures kept reappearing in my mind, becoming an indelible imprint.

Sunan panted slightly, and said, "You are doing very well today."

"Really?" Li Yuan answered his words, but he still felt that compared to dancing with Fan Jie, he felt that dancing with Sunan seemed to be smoother and more suitable.

"Yes. It is already good enough to be a teacher. Your dance with Fan Jie will definitely attract everyone's attention." Sunan said, smiling at him, "As far as I am concerned, I am already There is nothing more to teach you. But when I was learning to dance in Buenos Aires, my tango dance teacher told me that although tango has footwork, only when you dance with your heart can you dance the best dance. A good dance, and life, should be like tango, only by following your own heart can you have real freedom."

Li Yuan frowned tightly listening to his words, he always felt that there was something in Sunan's words.After a while, Li Yuan opened his mouth to ask Sunan, but was interrupted by the ringing of Sunan's phone.

Sunan answered the phone outside the door of the dance classroom. Li Yuan didn't know what was on the phone, but only knew that Sunan's expression seemed hesitant.

The call lasted for a long time, Sunan finally hung up the phone and went back to the classroom, Li Yuan pretended to be casual and asked, "Who is calling?"

"Do you still remember the partner I met in the dance classroom last time?" Sunan asked.

"Wang Liu?"

"Well. There was an international dance competition recently, and she asked me if I would like to sign up."

"Oh." Li Yuan responded, but he didn't know how to continue the next sentence - because he had never heard Sunan talk about his work and career - after a long while, he continued to ask, "Do you want to go?"

Sunan froze for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't want to go."

"why?"

"Because it's too far away." Sunan said, standing up and stretching, "It's in Estonia."

Estonia?Li Yuan quickly searched his mind for his impression of this country, but he was full of disappointment.

Sunan smiled and took out his mobile phone, and then searched out the entry of Estonia to show him: "Estonia is located on the east coast of the Baltic Sea, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland, bordering on the Gulf of Riga in the southwest, bordering Latvia and Russia on the south and east respectively, in August 1991 On the 8th, when the former Soviet Union disintegrated, it officially declared independence."

"The Baltic Sea..." Li Yuan read this geographical term, and suddenly remembered a book that Feng Zhenglin read to himself in the library when he was in college, "You and I are like the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. And eternal life cannot be merged..."

Sunan heard him read this sentence, suddenly fell silent, then he took back his phone and said: "That's because the density of sea water is different. As a result, the sea water in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea cannot mix immediately after meeting, so two layers of salty and fresh water will be formed. , there is a clear demarcation on the surface.”

Li Yuan looked at him in surprise: "Where did you hear such professional theoretical knowledge?"

"... Su Bei told me. He used to like this kind of messy knowledge."

Li Yuan looked at Sunan and asked seriously: "Do you want to go to the Baltic Sea? Do you want to see the intersection of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea?"

"I really wanted to go before." Sunan said, put his arm on Li Yuan's shoulder, and then put his face close to him, "However, now I don't want to go..."

"why?"

Li Yuan didn't wait for Sunan's answer, because what he was waiting for was Sunan's kiss, and this was more heartwarming than those verbal responses.

After the kiss was over, Sunan looked at Li Yuan and said, "Shall we go shopping?"

"Shopping?" Li Yuan was a little surprised by his proposal.

"Well, it's almost the holidays. Let's go out and see if we can buy some gifts for Nuan Nuan. Recently, she's been calling for Christmas gifts on the phone."

Hearing Sunan talk about that little girl Nuannuan, Li Yuan suddenly felt that he should buy something for her. Of course, this is not flattery, this is a formal reciprocity. The girl established a tall and stalwart image in her heart, so that she could leave a strong mark in her family relationship with Sunan.

Of course, there is the most important Sunan.

When going out to the business district, Li Yuan carefully looked at the man next to him. He realized that he and Sunan seemed to have never done what ordinary lovers do since they established a relationship, shopping, shopping, See a movie.

I am really an unqualified lover, so I have to double the compensation today!Li Yuan swore secretly in his heart.

On Christmas Eve, dolls and colorful balls are hung everywhere in the shopping malls, snowflakes and Santa Claus are sprayed on the doors and windows, and the streets are full of Christmas songs.

"I haven't gone out for a few days to go shopping. I really don't know how busy it is now?" Sunan looked at the strong festive atmosphere in the shopping mall, and sighed in admiration.

"What do you want to buy for Nuan Nuan?" Li Yuan stood beside him and asked casually, his eyes were indeed looking around for what could catch his eyes.

Sunan tilted his head and thought for a long time, then shook his head: "I have no idea, why don't you just take a look around?"

Li Yuan quickly sorted out the things that girls around five years old like in his mind, and finally settled on dolls. Nuan Nuan likes dolls, and his favorite is pandas, so it should be no problem to start with this. .

Seeing Sunan casually wandering into a decoration store, Li Yuan quickly took out his mobile phone, and found the nearest doll merchants based on the location of the mobile phone, and then decisively locked on the largest store in one of the stores. Then he pretended to be nonchalant and followed Sunan into the store.

This store has a small front, but the items inside are surprisingly exquisite. They are not hair accessories for women, but accessories for men, such as shirt straps, shoulder straps, ties, Cufflinks and stuff like that.

The clerk was a kind little brother, with sweet dimples on his cheeks when he smiled, when he saw Li Yuan coming in, he approached him very warmly and said, "May I ask what you need?"

Li Yuan looked around the store, then pointed to Sunan who was concentrating on something in front of the counter, and said, "I'm looking for my friend."

"Then I won't bother you." The younger brother smiled apologetically, and stepped aside.

Hearing Li Yuan's voice, Sunan greeted him and said, "Come and see this."

Li Yuan approached him, and saw that what Sunan was talking about was a pair of ruby ​​cufflinks in the display cabinet, shining brightly and moistly under the light.

"Sir, you have really good eyesight." The little brother with sweet dimples came forward and took out the pair of cufflinks, "This is a pair of European antique cufflinks. It’s rare to see something like this.”

Li Yuan took a closer look, and found that the pair of cufflinks were oval, with pure gold carved edges, a high-quality ruby ​​in the middle, and a strange pattern on the back.

"I heard that this is the family emblem of the previous owner." The little brother explained with a smile on the side.

"It seems that it is really a second-hand item?"

Li Yuan put the pair of cufflinks back into the box while talking, but he didn't expect Sunan to pick up the cufflinks and look at them for a while, before directly asking, "How do you sell these cufflinks?"

"The selling price of this pair of cufflinks is 1W5. If you apply for our membership card now, sir, you can enjoy a [-]% discount." The younger brother didn't seem surprised by Sunan's directness, but introduced the products in the store with ease. Various promotional activities, "If you add the Christmas discount we are doing recently, you can buy it at a very good price."

"Forget it, just wrap it up for me like this. I don't need any membership card." As Sunan said, he took out his credit card and handed it to the clerk brother. The speed was so fast that Li Yuan didn't have time to enjoy what his boyfriend should have. payment function.

Seeing the clerk skillfully swiping his card for Sunan and wrapping his things up, Li Yuan looked at Sunan with a slightly complaining look when he left the store: "If you like this thing, you can Let me buy it? Why did you pay for it yourself?"

Sunan looked at the paper bag in his hand, didn't answer, just took his hand with a smile.

Li Yuan looked down at the hand that was holding him, but he accidentally noticed some fine white things floating down from his feet, and disappeared before reaching the ground.

"Businesses nowadays really like to make this kind of gimmick of fake Christmas snowflakes." Li Yuan complained, but he didn't expect the exclamation of pedestrians around him. He raised his head, and the fine snowflakes fell from the sky, falling on his own face.

Li Yuan looked back at Sunan, and Sunan was also looking up at the snow, the snowflakes were falling in his hair and on his shoulders, his eyes were staring at the objects that were still spinning in the air The snowflakes were shining and shining, and occasionally one fell on the tip of his nose. He wrinkled his nose slightly, then reached out and touched the tip of his nose, expressing a little dissatisfaction.

Li Yuan's chest was filled with more intense emotions than usual, he really wanted to keep Sunan at this moment, and then kissed him, telling him how much he loved him.

However, in the end, he restrained his inner impulse, just clenched Sunan's hand more tightly, and then beside Sunan, he sighed and said, "What a beautiful snow."

Sunan noticed that he was holding his hand hard, listened to what he said, and then responded: "Yes, it is indeed a beautiful snow. It has not been so suitable for many years."

The snow began to gradually thicken. Li Yuan and Sunan walked across the street holding hands, their deep and shallow footprints were printed on the road, side by side, very close, as if there was no distance at all.

Li Yuan found the ideal gift in the doll shop he was looking for. It was a panda doll that was half the height of a person in Christmas attire. When he went out with this doll in his arms, Li Yuan had already thought of Nuan Nuan, who he adored. It's just that on the way back to the garage, he had to endure the strange stares of others - after all, it's a bit too weird for a tall man to hold a big doll.

In the elevator, there are all kinds of product advertisements that are suitable for the occasion, one of which is a wedding advertisement, which is the theme of pure white wedding in snowy weather.

"Interested?" Sunan stood beside him and asked him.

Li Yuan smiled and didn't answer, just said: "Will this advertisement attract customers? Wearing a wedding dress and taking wedding photos in winter?"

"Don't underestimate the endurance of girls for the sake of beauty." Sunan laughed as he said, "In the past, Xiyao endured not going out for supper with me and Su Bei for several years in order to lose weight."

"What about the end?" Li Yuan asked him with a smile.

"In the end, I was seduced by Su Bei and I with grilled skewers, and then said that the meat skewers are really delicious, and I want to order twenty more skewers." Sunan said and laughed, "I really should show you how she was at that time." The expression is too cute."

Li Yuan also smiled, and looked at Sunan tenderly. He looked at Sunan who was smiling happily, but he made up his mind about what kind of gift he would give to Sunan.