Berry Muffins

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Lu Yuqing patted Tao Lan's head reassuringly, and said, "May I go get you something to eat?"

He wanted to leave after he finished speaking, which was probably just a not very clever excuse, because there was already enough embarrassment between the two of them at this moment.

But he only took a few steps forward before stopping.

Tao Lan rushed over with a small step and hugged him from behind, his arms also vainly wrapped around his waist.

Tao Lan didn't speak, just leaned his head gently on Lu Yuqing's back, his fingers trembling slightly, which also revealed his nervousness and hesitation at the moment.

Lu Yuqing gently grabbed Tao Lan's hand, hesitated for a while and chose to push him away.

He turned his back and said to Tao Lan: "You are still sick, take a good rest."

After saying that, he still left.

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Tao Lan lowered his eyes slightly, and the tears that fell without warning wet the beige carpet under his feet, leaving some uncomfortable traces.

He wiped away his tears with the back of his hand and walked out slowly.

Tao Lan silently returned to the guest room where he lived, wrapped himself in the quilt, and slowly rolled up.

Aunt Chen followed Lu Yuqing's instructions and knocked on the door of Lu Yuqing's room with hot milk and fried eggs, but no one answered inside. When she opened the door and went in, she found that there was no one there.Aunt Chen quickly understood, and went straight to Tao Lan's guest room.

Tao Lan hid in the quilt and wept very softly, but he tried his best to hold back his crying when Aunt Chen called his name.

Aunt Chen followed his wishes and put the food on the desk beside him.

Tao Lan seemed to have suddenly remembered something, lifted the quilt to reveal a small part of his face, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is Brother Lu downstairs?"

Aunt Chen told the truth: "Young master, he just went out, and he didn't say where he was going."

Tao Lan was taken aback when he heard the words, then quickly lowered his head and said hello muffledly.

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It wasn't until the fried eggs and milk became cold that Tao Lan went to eat because he was dizzy from hunger, and because the food was too cold, his stomach couldn't bear it after eating. After the food reacted in his stomach for a while, he finally I couldn't help but go to the bathroom and vomited.

Tao Lan didn't feel comfortable until there was nothing in his stomach. When washing his hands, Tao Lan glanced at himself in the mirror and was almost taken aback.Perhaps because of his illness, his face was very pale and ugly, and his almond eyes, which were originally pleasing, looked a little hollow because of haggardness.

Tao Lan weakly supported the pool of the sink, and vigorously wiped his face.

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When Tao Lan went downstairs to eat at night, he found that Lu Yuqing hadn't come back. He ate some casually, and Lu Mowei at the dinner table seemed surprised by Lu Yuqing's absence, so he naturally asked his parents. .

"Xiaoyu said that he went out with Qi Ling at night." Lu's mother thought for a while before replying, "I guess the two of you are going somewhere to play again."

Lu Mowei glanced at Tao Lan, and there was some affection in her eyes: "Ah, he is so mean, so he just left the sick patient at home alone, and went out to have a good time by himself."

Tao Lan took a sip of the steamed egg in silence, his haggard face looked more fragile because of the silence.

"But Tao Tao, it's really not the right time for you to be sick. Why do you get sick after the New Year's Eve?" Lu Mowei reached out and touched Tao Lan's forehead. Tao Tao was her affectionate nickname for Tao Lan.

Tao Lan tried hard to smile at her, his lips curved a little.

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Lu Yuqing did not come back that night.

Tao Lan also tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep well. The cold that he had been recovering from before was relapsed because of his death, which made Tao Lan feel a little groggy for the remaining few days of vacation.

When he saw Lu Yuqing again, the man's face was as gentle as ever.As if yesterday's absurd confession was just Tao Lan's own nightmare.

But they all understand that when something happens, it happens, and it doesn't just pass by trying to pretend that nothing happened...

Lu Yuqing was still very gentle and treated him very well, just like at the beginning, so good that Tao Lan thought that Lu Yuqing actually liked him a little bit.

But in fact, all of this is just Lu Yuqing's own goodness, not something special to him.So everything is just due to his own misunderstanding and self-indulgence.

Tao Lan was also trying his best to pretend that nothing happened, he was still a cautious idiot who didn't dare to speak too loudly.

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The company where Lu Yuqing practiced had a shorter vacation than Tao Lan's winter vacation.But their return flight booking time will still be earlier.

Tao Lan packed her suitcase, and finally her recurring annoying cold and fever completely recovered.Sister Mowei even went to the airport to see them off. She was not in a hurry to leave. Anyway, the holiday was long, so she would rather stay at home and rest for a few more days.

Tao Lan greeted her obediently.

Lu Mowei patted his head with crooked eyes, she was tall and tall, and with a pair of high heels, her height was almost the same as Tao Lan, so when she made the gesture of stroking his head, she was really very strong up.

"Tao Tao is so good." Lu Mowei said pointedly: "I wish I had a brother who is as good as you."

It is very obvious that he is picking on his brother's thorns.

Lu Yuqing also yelled helplessly after hearing the words: "Sister."

"Okay." Lu Mowei waved her hand at them, "It's time to check the tickets, you guys hurry up, bye~"

Tao Lan said goodbye to her, pushed his luggage and walked forward slowly with his head down.

Lu Yuqing chased after him and wanted to help Tao Lan push away the suitcase in his hand.

Unexpectedly, Tao Lan lightly pressed the position of the handle, shook his head slowly, and said softly: "No need... I can do it by myself, it's not heavy."

He didn't have much luggage, and the boxes were not necessarily full.The thick down jacket is worn on the body anyway.

Lu Yuqing straightened her jaw slightly, but in the end she didn't say anything, but silently agreed with Tao Lan's approach.

He walked behind, looking at Tao Lan's thin back, and the back of his hand pushing the suitcase. He was white and thin, just like him, with an appearance of low presence.

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The plane trip is very short, and it is easy to sleep through the journey even if you catch up on sleep, but Tao Lan still took out the big eye mask in his backpack and squinted for a while.

The two of them didn't say anything along the way.

In the end, I returned to my home in S City after a long journey. The biggest difference between the winter in S City and F City is that it is wet and cold...

This feeling of coldness to the bone is very uncomfortable, but Tao Lan, a native of S City, has long been used to it.

When he walked out of the airport and waited in line for a taxi, Tao Lan accidentally gasped, coughed several times after choking, and his pale face turned a little red.

Lu Yuqing frowned slightly, hesitated for a while, and then patted Tao Lan's back gently.

"Are you okay?"

His voice was a little deep, but his tone was still very gentle, and his voice was still Tao Lan's favorite type.

Tao Lan pressed hard on the lower part of his throat, and shook his head lightly. Fortunately, the coughing gradually stopped.

Seeing that Tao Lan's situation was stabilizing, Lu Yuqing also breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly withdrew his hand.

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After the two returned home, they went back to their bedrooms.The suitcase dragged across the floor and made some noises. Tao Lan turned on the air conditioner in the room, adjusted it to a comfortable temperature, and took off the down jacket on his body.

This small, simple room had once given him the warmest thing.

Tao Lan lowered his eyes slightly to look at the suitcase on the ground, lost in thought for a moment, and didn't move for a long time.

The door of the room was knocked lightly suddenly, and Lu Yuqing turned the doorknob to poke in a little.

"I'll go to the pet store to pick up the beans first. I'll bring you back what you want for dinner."

Sitting on the soft bed, Tao Lan looked up at him in a daze, met Lu Yuqing's eyes, and then quickly turned his eyes to the snow-white wall.

"Whatever... I'm not picky about food."

Lu Yuqing smiled at him and said, "Then I'll bring you your favorite bread."

Tao Lan also nodded upon hearing the words: "Okay."

After Lu Yuqing left, he began to pack his luggage slowly, taking things out of the suitcase one by one, and putting them back into the wardrobe and drawers.

He looked at the clothes in the closet and suddenly felt a little dazed.

The relationship between him and Lu Yuqing seems to have become a little polite and unfamiliar.

Tao Lan couldn't help but wonder if Lu Yuqing was willing to take him in, just like he took Douzi back then.

A moment of sympathy, a moment of pity and pity.

Tao Lan has such a character. Once he got into the horns, he was so stubborn that he even hated himself, but he couldn't get rid of this bad habit.

Tao Lan took out her mobile phone, opened the address book, and found the counselor's phone number saved when the school started.

If you want to apply for accommodation, you should contact the counselor first. It may be better to talk about it in advance before school starts.

But when he really wanted to dial the number, he hesitated again.

He owed Lu Yuqing too much, so much that he would have to repay it for a long time, and now that he found out that the confession was a wrong decision, it would not help.