sunk into the earth

There is a glass door open at the entrance of the bathroom, and a rusty iron chain hangs on one handle.Zhang Chen, mixed with the sound of Cheng who couldn't stand still or walk straight for no reason, pushed the chain aside with difficulty and walked in.

At this time, he still remembered his conscience, took out two yuan from his pocket and threw it on the empty cash register wooden table, and helped Cheng Sheng into the corner of the changing clothes.

Cheng Sheng leaned on Zhang Chen's arm in a daze, and walked with him all the way. The bright red signposts on Mudan Lane seemed to be engraved into his brain, and he couldn't get rid of them at all. In the state, he followed Zhang Chen into the bathroom and walked through the dressing room. He didn't realize where he was until he was stripped naked and the street hall in front of him turned into rows of semi-rusty shower heads.

Fortunately, the bathhouse was pitch-black, and neither of them could see the other's body clearly. Cheng Sheng felt a strange sense of security in the pure darkness, and even forgot to adjust the water temperature, so he turned on the faucet.

Who knew that cold water was pouring down on his head, Cheng Sheng was unprepared, and was hit by the huge water pressure from the shower head, screaming: "Why is it ice water?"

"They turn off the hot water valve before they leave work."

"Then what should we do? Let's take a cold shower?"

"I'll turn on the light switch and have a look."

Cheng Sheng trembled when he heard that the light switch was going to be turned on. He was afraid and looking forward to it. He grabbed a half-rusty shower pipe with one hand to relieve his tension. He just realized what was going on with his previous mood. It is necessary to be honest with each other under the lamp, blushing with shame.

A few months before the holiday, Cheng Sheng heard a curious incident, which was told by Qin Xiao. A very decent boy in their school was accidentally seen going to Xinjiekou after dark Hanlin spring bath.Anyone who knows a little about comrades, who doesn't know the famous Han Linchun?It is said that in addition to the traditional bathing pool, there is a small dark room at the end, which is convenient for people who look at each other to move further.

Cheng Sheng told Qin Xiao to shut up quickly when he heard half of it, thinking about some disgusting thing in his heart, but he never thought that he also had that tendency.

He leaned against the rough wall behind the shower in a daze, unable to figure it out, struggling to pray in his heart, praying for the main gate not to be opened one second, and expecting the light to turn on the next second.

Zhang Chen doesn't have so many whimsical thoughts. In the north, it's normal for a few boys to play like a waste and then flock to the big bathhouse. The number of same-sex nudes that everyone has seen is not the same as the number of parts on the Foxconn assembly line. Up and down, two boys taking a bath together is nothing, Zhang Chen was very calm, went to open the main switch and twist the valve, Cheng Sheng was caught off guard by the sudden flashing lights above his head before he could figure out what he wanted.

The originally dark bathroom was completely brightened with a click.Both of them were naked, and they were completely honest with each other.

Cheng Sheng hurriedly pulled out a towel from the side, covering his key parts as much as possible.It was rare for him to pretend to be half-dumb, and he didn't say a word for a long time. He just turned on the shower silently and immersed his whole body in the gradually warming water.

Zhang Chen was still fiddling with the valve. Seeing that Cheng Sheng had already boiled the water, he turned to him and asked, "Hot water? I just turned on the hot water valve."

Cheng Sheng said "um" and stopped talking, just like Zhang Chen usually does.

Zhang Chen knew something was wrong with him, he was sleepwalking from the moment he walked through Peony Alley, as if his soul had been sucked away.Zhang Chen has an almost intuitive sensitivity to the changes in people's emotions. He can see it clearly in his eyes, but he doesn't care, as if he has never experienced it. He returned to his place as usual, next to the shower next to Cheng Sheng. The water is on the head.

They used to rely on Cheng Sheng to invigorate the atmosphere, but now neither of them spoke, only the sound of water hitting the skin of the body and the ground heavily.

The sound of running water reminded Cheng Sheng of his drum kit. Hearing the sound of running water pattering to the ground, he felt that they were very similar to drumbeats. When they sounded, it made him blush and heartbeat.

He picked up a piece of soap from the shelf, soaked it in water, and rubbed it on his body. When he rubbed it on his chest, he realized that the scent was very familiar. Isn't this the smell of Zhang Chen's body? When he thought about it, goose bumps almost immediately appeared all over his body. , he and Zhang Chen smell exactly the same at this time, what is the difference between this and body to body?Cheng Sheng didn't dare to think about it anymore, fearing that he would make a fool of himself in the bathhouse, he recited a few words of Amitabha silently in his heart, and didn't know whether it would work or not, anyway, he recited it nonsense and rubbed it on his body with a bath towel.

Zhang Chen next to him glanced at him, and suddenly said, "Didn't you ask me to rub your back?"

It was only then that Cheng Sheng remembered what he said out of nowhere in Peony Lane, he hesitated, turned around and handed him the bath towel.

When he turned his head, he happened to catch a glimpse of Shen's face. Water kept flowing down his cheeks. He lowered his eyes and his eyelashes were wet with water. Cheng Sheng looked at it for a few seconds and then turned his head, but he couldn't bear it Zhu Zhu glanced sideways again, this time his eyes fell on the neck and collarbone, Cheng Sheng continued to sweep down, and when he swept to his chest, he suddenly staggered and knocked on the water pipe behind him as if he had been pricked by a needle.

Zhang Chen held a bath towel in his hand, looked at him inexplicably, and only said, "Get down, let's hurry up."

Cheng Sheng leaned on the wall, exposing the back, and there was an English sentence tattooed under his shoulder blades, why? love invisible. Zhang Chen looked at the black and white characters, trying to recall the meaning of the last word. He only knew that there was something behind Cheng Sheng. The messy tattoo was a bit disgusting, but now that I see it clearly, I feel that this tattoo is not too inconsistent with Cheng Sheng. Everyone else tattoos a sentence, and he tattoos a question. If you look at it again, it is the question he will ask.

Zhang Chen only glanced at the English sentence, then lifted Cheng Sheng's shoulder, and put his hand on it. He started gently and rubbed slowly along the shoulder, but Cheng Sheng didn't know where Zhang Chen's hand fell. He was about to tremble slightly, as if being tickled by someone, but he didn't have the joy of wanting to laugh out loud when he was tickling.

Not only could Cheng Sheng not be able to laugh, he even wanted to cry, his legs were limp, and clusters of electric currents were running around in his body. He only felt that his body was not his own, nor was his mind, and his heart was sour and resentful. He had never So embarrassing.

The shower head next to him was not closed tightly, and the water kept dripping down. The noise made made Cheng Sheng feel a little bit safe, but this hard-won sense of security didn't last for a while, and he felt that something was wrong with him.

Zhang Chen moved the hand attached to his shoulder down to facilitate the movement of his other hand, but when he moved to Cheng Sheng's waist and just put his fingers on his waist, the people underneath suddenly shook his hand in panic. Opening his hand, the other hand quickly unscrewed the cold water.

Seeing his violent reaction, Zhang Chen thought he was going to jump up like a grasshopper, but unexpectedly he quickly squatted down with his legs between his legs.

Cheng Sheng squatted on the old tiled floor of the bathhouse, pouring cold water on his hair and back, his thighs squeezed inwards in an extremely forceful posture, and his upper body pressed to his thighs as much as possible. To conceal the distress between the legs.

He curled up into a ball and soaked in the cold water for almost 5 minutes. The more he thought about it, the more wronged he became. How could he become like those men who went to gay bathhouses in Beijing overnight?The look of him gossiping at him with a little hippie smile appeared in his mind again, remembering how he told how the male classmate sneaked to that place alone, and how he led a man out of it to sneak into another nearby garden to flirt.

Suddenly, the cold water on his body turned into warm water, and Cheng Sheng turned his head in surprise, only to find that Zhang Chen had just adjusted the water temperature, squatted down next to him, and said nothing.

Cheng Sheng couldn't figure out whether he had noticed it, and didn't dare to look him in the eyes, but just lowered his head silently, not half as lively and unrestrained as he was usually.

The two of them were squatting side by side, the water in the shower was left on, and the water pressure was so strong that it hit their backs like cannonballs and hurt, but neither of them offered to get up and turn them off.

"What's the tattoo on your back?" Zhang Chen asked him suddenly.

Cheng Sheng was taken aback. He didn't seem to expect Zhang Chen to ask this question. He still squatted down and answered him slowly: "Why? love invisible."

"Your English is very good, like a foreigner."

This made Cheng Sheng relax a little, and answered him like he used to talk about his own family affairs: "Maybe because I learned it early, my mother insisted on teaching me since I was a child. I was only two or three years old at that time, and my father was young. She didn’t want me to learn a foreign language so early, but my mother said that she couldn’t understand a lot of books in a foreign language, so I had to learn it, so I started learning it.”

Zhang Chen said "Oh" and asked again: "Are the people there good at foreign languages?"

Cheng Sheng didn't know how to answer. He felt that this was a matter of course. It was a strange thing that he did not learn well. How could anyone still learn poorly in that environment every day?But he still said: "It's okay, sometimes I need to read some books without Chinese translation. By the way, I can also learn a second foreign language, French and Spanish in school. I heard that South America has been very popular in recent years. Many people They all went to learn Spanish."

Zhang Chen looked straight ahead, facing a row of old shower heads that were the same as theirs. Looking at the row of rusty metal pipes, he nodded and asked, "What did you learn?"

This time, Cheng Sheng felt that he had completely calmed down, and the thing that was propped between his legs slowly returned to calm. He was a little relieved, and then answered him: "Computer, but I am only a freshman now, and I only learn some very important things. Basic things, communication theory and circuit analysis, but I already know how to write small programs, which is self-taught.”

Zhang Chen asked again: "Did you study for a year in the morning?"

"Yes." Cheng Sheng was shocked. Zhang Chen seemed to know a lot about himself, much more than he expected.Zhang Chen's observation skills are too keen, Cheng Sheng thought a little desperately, he probably already found out why he was acting like that just now, but he didn't have any overreaction, but the calmer Cheng Sheng became, the more frightened Cheng Sheng was, he thought for a long time before he could Whispering his scalp, he said vaguely: "Did you know? There are many cultures and openness now."

Zhang Chen suddenly glanced sideways at him, with indescribable emotions in his pupils, but there was no disturbance on his face, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Cheng Sheng didn't know where to start, and stammered, "I mean in all aspects, the relationship between the sexes has been opened up a lot, and sibling love is very popular now, women can be with women, and men can be with men, you see Have you ever been to Farewell My Concubine..."

The more he talked, the more he felt that his direction was very obvious, and he was almost about to say that sentence. I might also mean that a little bit. I only found out today. You don’t hate me, right? This sentence stuck in Cheng Sheng’s throat , almost burst out, but there was something desperately blocking it from coming out.

Zhang Chen replied seriously to his unclear words, "Yes, my neighbor rented a DVD and watched it with me."

He paused for a long time, and then said: "But the ending is not very good, it seems that people in the vortex of the times will become lunatics."

Cheng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said optimistically, "It won't happen now. It's been [-], and we are about to enter the new century. In the new century, we can achieve comprehensive prosperity."

Zhang Chen suddenly smiled slightly, and asked softly, "Really?"

Cheng Sheng didn't know what to say. He felt that getting along with Zhang Chen was like a war. He was sweating after a few words, and he had to ponder over the meaning of each sentence several times before answering. He was obviously a top student in a top university and could speak English well. Being a native speaker, but unable to understand the Chinese spoken by Zhang Chen, he never seems to know what this person is thinking.

After a while, Zhang Chen stood up, and this time he purposely covered his waist with a towel.Cheng Sheng was keenly aware of this, and he was finally sure that Zhang Chen must know the reason for his virtue just now.

Cheng Sheng followed him and stood up. His body was calmer than his mind. It didn't matter whether he was wrapped in a towel or not. He made a few last dashes and then turned off the shower switch, watching Zhang Chen go to turn off the main switch and the hot water valve. turn off.

There was a clicking sound of the main gate closing, and darkness returned to the house.

The two fumbled in the dark to change their clothes.Cheng Sheng wore the clothes that Zhang Chen had brought, and they were a little bigger on him, but it wasn't obvious. Cheng Sheng boldly put his head up to smell it through the darkness, and took a long time to put it on himself.

Suddenly, there was a voice in the darkness.

"You are the one."

Cheng Sheng had just put on clothes one size bigger than himself, his body was empty, and the wind in the corridor kept blowing in, he shivered, and cold sweat broke out almost instantly.

Cheng Sheng probably didn't know how obvious he was these days, otherwise he wouldn't have tried to fool people by pretending to be crazy.

"What? Which? Hahaha."

Just after he finished speaking, the person next to him spoke again, "Farewell My Concubine, Cheng Dieyi."