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Duan Zhuo had a very fulfilling life during this vacation. Under Tao Xincheng’s recommendation, he went to a coffee shop to do a part-time job, which was billed by the hour. He was busy in the afternoon and closed at night. less money.

Together with the previous deposit, it was enough for him to buy a better laptop.He used to think that it didn’t matter whether he bought a computer or not when he was in high school, but now the situation is different. Without a computer, it’s inconvenient to even do homework and take notes. He doesn’t want to ask Jiang Sui and Cheng Ziyao to borrow it every time.

In the evening, the sun had not completely set, and the twilight was faint. He sat at the desk and swiped his mobile phone, wondering whether to buy a new one or a second-hand one.

The door of the dormitory was pushed open suddenly, which startled him.

"Long time no see baby! Do you miss me?"

Jiang Sui was carrying several bags in his hand, making a lot of noise.

Duan Zhuo was made uncomfortable by the sound of "baby", and remembered the night when his heartbeat stalled, and he didn't know why Jiang Sui never wanted to call him by his name properly.

"Miss you?" He twitched the corner of his mouth, acting nonchalantly, "I think you're thinking too much."

Of course, there are in fact.When he saw someone picking up a can of peach-flavored yogurt to check out at the supermarket, he suddenly remembered that Jiang Sui also drank a can every day;

When he peeled the egg and found it was a double-yolk egg, he would think of Jiang Suiyong's envious voice and say, wow, then you will have good luck today.

When he suddenly smelled a light fragrance of men's perfume on the road, he would compare it with the one Jiang carried, and the answer he got was often that the one Jiang carried was fresher and smelled better.

When night falls and the room is so quiet that only the sound of his own breathing can be heard, he will think of Jiang Sui's hand always passing through the guardrail between the beds, tickling him, saying: Come here, I will give you Look at a funny picture.

Jiang Sui's presence is too strong, and his breath and voice are everywhere.

"Tsk tsk, look at you, you have no interest at all. Fortunately, I thought of you and brought you a gift."

Jiang Sui's hair is a little shorter, and the hair on his forehead only covers half of the headband, revealing a few English words, and his brows are full of youthful spirit, even though his face is slumped, his brows are tightly frowned, pretending to be angry , The facial features are also pleasing.

Duan Zhuo looked down and saw a big black shopping bag.Duan Zhuo recognized the logo of that sports brand, Zhang Sinan bought him clothes of this brand when he was a child.It's not a luxury product, but the price is very expensive among the peers, anyway, it's not a brand he would consider buying now.

Jiang took out a black shoebox from the paper bag, with a look of impatience: "See if it's the color you like."

Duan Zhuo stood up and suddenly ran out of words.

This gift is precious to him, according to common sense, he should not accept it, but for some reason, when Jiang Sui handed the shoe box to him, he still raised his hand to catch it.

"Why... why did you suddenly think of buying shoes for me?"

"Didn't you say that size 46 shoes are not easy to buy? I happened to see them when I was shopping the other day, and I thought you might like them, so I bought them." Jiang Sui took off the layer of Sydney paper wrapped around the shoes, and lifted the shoes Check back and forth, put on the shoes and bring them back, "The clerk said that the size of this shoe is a little too big, you can try it first, if it doesn't fit, I'll go to a nearby store to see if I can change a pair."

Duan Zhuo can't remember when he told Jiang Sui that shoes are not easy to buy, and he may have mentioned something casually when talking about some topic, I don't know how Jiang Sui remembered it.

He picked up the other shoe and found the ends of the laces.

The way Jiang Sui wears the shoelaces is very special, instead of crossing upwards, the shoelaces pass through the shoe holes. Duan Zhuo watched his fingertips twist and turn, and the shoelaces became parallel lines.

Eh?

Duan Zhuo was in a hurry and didn't keep up with the progress, Jiang Sui glanced at him, held his fingertips, led him to pass through the shoe holes, and laughed at his clumsiness.

This action made Duan Zhuo shake his head, remembering that the day the package was stolen, Jiang Sui also held his fingers to enter a string of numbers on the keyboard.

He sneaked a glance at the pair of tea-brown pupils, and then slid along the bridge of his nose to his lips.

Jiang Sui's mouth opened and closed, talking about how to tie shoelaces to look good. Duan Zhuo was not very interested, but he couldn't bear to interrupt, letting Jiang Sui's voice twist and turn around his ears.

"Look, isn't it different if you tie it this way?" Jiang Sui raised his eyebrows and put the worn shoes on the ground.

Duan Zhuo glanced at the pair on Jiang Sui's feet, the binding method is exactly the same.

Jiang Sui also quickly realized this, and changed his words: "I can guarantee that no one in the whole school will be like you except me."

Isn't that... a couple buckle?

Thoughts that shouldn't have popped up in his head, as if his neck was touched by an iced drink in summer, Duan Zhuo jerked violently, pinching his palm with his nails.

"Try it quickly." Jiang Sui urged in a low voice.

The newly unpacked shoes smelled of glue, Duan Zhuo spread out the pear paper that Jiang Sui had thrown aside, put it under his feet, got up and stepped on it firmly.

The saying "you get what you pay for" has been confirmed at this moment, and this pair is more comfortable than any pair on the shoe cabinet.The fabric on the soles of its feet is soft and very elastic, and the size is a little bit too big, but it is just right for Duan Zhuo.

Jiang Sui tilted his head, inspected and commented with the eyes of a sculptor, and then grabbed his arm, asking him to take two steps.

Duan Zhuo still stepped on the two pieces of paper, walked around slowly and said, "It's very comfortable."

"Is the size just right?" Jiang Sui raised his eyes and asked.

"Just right."

Jiang Sui didn't seem to believe what he said, so he squatted down, poked the toe and heel of the shoe with his fingers, and after confirming that it was really suitable, he said: "The clerk actually told me that it was too big, but luckily I didn't listen to her. Buy 45, otherwise you won’t be able to wear it.”

Duan Zhuo's toes hidden in his shoes turned up happily.

In fact, what the clerk said was true. These shoes are indeed a bit larger than the normal size 46. The reason why they are more comfortable to wear is because his feet are 46. It is difficult to buy a size larger than this on the market. He has been wearing 46.

With this pair, you don't have to worry about not being able to wear thick socks in winter.

"Then do you like this color?" Jiang Sui said, "Actually, there are many colors to choose from. I bought this pair after seeing you before. I thought you might like this gray-blue color, so I bought this pair..."

Listening to him keep adding the details of the purchase, Duan Zhuo knew that he especially hoped to hear a "like".

Duan Zhuo looked down at the new shoes on his feet, whether it was the style or the color, he couldn't be more satisfied, and it was the first real surprise he received in his life.

It's not a birthday, it's not a holiday, there are no prerequisites.

I just bought it because I saw it and thought of you and thought you would like it.

But inevitably, Duan Zhuo thought of Cheng Ziyao, and wondered if Cheng Ziyao was interested in this matter, if he acted pleasantly surprised and happy, would it be considered an affair with Jiang Sui?

Struggling with this contradictory emotion, he couldn't say anything against Jiang Sui's enthusiastic and expectant gaze.

He nodded and said, "Of course I do."

"It's fine if you like it." Jiang Sui grinned, found a pair of nail clippers and cut off the tag, got up and said, "You can wear these shoes to participate in the sports meeting in a few days."

Duan Zhuo looked down at the two bows that Jiang Sui tied for him, reluctant to take them off, and sat back on the chair.

"But I signed up for swimming, so I don't need to wear shoes."

"Oh, it doesn't matter." Jiang Sui still admired the shoes, "Anyway, there will be opportunities to wear them in the future." After a while, he seemed to come out of another world contentedly, raised his head and asked: "What is your report?" A few hundred meters away?"

"100, 1500 and [-] meters."

Jiang Sui repeated these two items in a low voice, and glanced up, as if he wanted to engrave these two numbers in his mind.

Duan Zhuo asked: "Then what did you report?"

Jiang Suiguanzi: "I said you want to watch my game?"

Duan Zhuo raised his eyebrows, moved his eyes to the other side, and put on a casual look: "It depends on the situation. If there is really nothing to see, I will think about it."

Jiang Sui, on the other hand, is like a kid who is not very good at reading comprehension questions. He only grasped Duan Zhuo's intention to watch the competition, explained the competition items and time thoroughly with a smile in his eyes, and told: "You When you come to the ice rink, you must remember to wear a thicker coat, it will be fine for a while, and you will catch cold easily if you stay for a long time."

"Oh."

Inexplicably, an agreement was reached in this way.

Duan Zhuo has a bad habit when he is sitting. He likes to fold his legs and put them under the chair. I soon realized that I had new shoes on my feet, and immediately spread my legs apart, and sat in the most standard posture taught by the kindergarten teacher.

Jiang Sui glanced at his mobile phone screen and asked, "Want to buy a computer?"

"Yeah." Duan Zhuo had never bought a computer before, and he didn't know much about the configuration, so he told Jiang Follower his psychological price and requirements, "Do you have any recommendations?"

"Yes," Jiang Sui raised his foot and hooked the chair, dragged it to Duan Zhuo's side, sat down, and opened Station B, "I saved some reviews before, so I can take a look."

The mobile phone was held by Jiang Sui, the screen size was not big, Duan Zhuo had to move over to see the subtitles clearly.

In the center of the video is a SF express box. There is no one in the picture, only a man's narration, talking about the model to be unpacked.

As they got closer, their arms collided inadvertently. Duan Zhuo shifted his attention to his elbows. Jiang Sui's tanned skin during military training turned back, two degrees whiter than him. The scars are also very conspicuous.He silently moved the arm that was stuck together a little bit to the side, about a centimeter away.

He raised his eyes sneakily, Jiang Sui was still reading the test carefully, and didn't notice his little tricks.

"I think you should just buy a tablet. It's easy to carry, and it can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. Hey, I still have a pen for you. You can use it to take notes."

"Then you don't need it?"

"No, my dad bought it for me, and I've used it a total of three times." Jiang Sui smiled, "You know, I don't like to attend lectures."

"You still have a smile, if I were your father, I would break your leg right now."

"I treat you so well, are you willing?"

When Jiang Sui said this, his elbow moved again, and Duan Zhuo didn't know whether it was intentional or not, but their arms were stuck together again.This time he didn't dodge, and clearly felt the heat radiating from Jiang Sui's skin.

The video was very short, and ended in just over two minutes. Jiang Sui clicked on another brand’s review, but this time his posture changed. He was holding the phone with his left arm on the table, and the other hand propped up his thigh. , leaning slightly towards Duan Zhuo's side.

The UP host of this video did not add subtitles, and the voice was a little low, so Duan Zhuo had to lean over to Jiang Sui's side, squinting his eyes, trying to figure out what the people in the video were talking about.

A faint smell of traditional Chinese medicine penetrated into the nostrils, as if there was nothing there, Duan Zhuo thought for a long time before he remembered that he had smelled a similar smell on the head teacher, it seemed to treat muscle soreness.

Duan Zhuo didn't have the time to listen to the next analysis of the master up, so he turned his head and asked, "Is there something wrong with you?"

Jiang Sui was taken aback, then raised his eyes: "No."

Duan Zhuo stretched his neck, smelled the back of Jiang Sui's neck, and went down his back to confirm that the bitter smell of traditional Chinese medicine wafted from Jiang Sui's back.

"Oh," Jiang Sui straightened his back and stroked the tailbone. "I posted it yesterday morning. Is the smell still so strong?"

"A little bit, you can smell it when you get close." Duan Zhuo sat upright again, and asked with concern, "Did you strain while exercising?"

Jiang Sui shook his head: "No, this is an old problem."

"Old problem?" Duan Zhuo was worried and curious, looking at his back, "how did you do it?"

"One year in the competition, I was hit by someone and fell on the ice, and then I felt pain from time to time."

When he said this, Jiang Sui spoke calmly and even smiled, but in fact his heart was far from as calm as he appeared.

At the end of the second half of the second year of high school, he represented the national team in the short track speed skating World Cup Shanghai Station, the men's 500m and 5000m relay competitions.

After several rounds of group knockout rounds, he squeezed into the final of the 500-meter event, and he faced two South Korean players and a Russian player.

When the starter sounded, he grabbed the first position in the inner lane and led the slide for four laps. He could clearly feel that the people behind him were very close to him, almost touching his back, but none of them surpassed him.

Entering the corner of the last lap, seeing that the champion was within reach, he suddenly felt his ankle being pulled by something—at that time, he never thought that it would be a hand of a Korean team member.

He raised his foot, but the strength of holding his ankle increased, his foot slipped, and before he could react, another person bumped from his left hand.

Everyone was gliding at the speed of sprinting. The speed and weight pushed the impact force to the limit. It was like a steel plate suddenly hitting his body.

He heard the sound of the wind passing by his ears, the stunned screams of the audience, the referee's whistle, and the ice skates tearing apart his speed skating suit like a beast.He was pushed and rolled in a circle, and rushed out from the innermost circle of the track.

Amidst the chaotic screams, a circle of protective pads around the edge of the track was thrown into the air by him, and then fell suddenly, hitting his leg.

The shouts from the field were exaggerated, and his ears were buzzing. When he recovered from the huge shock, he realized that there was blood on the ice, slowly oozing down.

Coaches, team leaders, and photographers swarmed in, stepping on the bloody water, and everyone surrounded him, shouting something.

He turned his head and saw An Junxian's bloody skates on his feet and his own arm. His speed skating suit was cut by the skates, and blood flowed out onto the ice.

He saw the color of human bones, and at that moment there was only one thought in his mind—it was over, he might die.

The coach pressed his wound tightly and called his name. He felt very painful at first, and the pain spread all over his body, and then he became numb and dizzy. His lungs became a leaky balloon, and he needed to breathe every time With a lot of strength, the whole person soon completely lost consciousness.

After a series of operations, he went to check the race records at that time. On the last lap, An Junxian purposefully held his ankle and brought him down, causing a Russian player behind to stall and bump into him. The three of them skated together. off track.

The South Korean player who has been at the end "picked up" a champion.

And Jiang Sui's fall not only lost the gold medal, but also almost lost his life.

Ankle sprain, intracranial hemorrhage, concussion, muscle rupture... The most important thing is a spinal fracture. The doctor said that if the fracture is even a little bit off, it will damage the nerves and paralyze the lower body.

If he had known Duan Zhuo earlier, Jiang Sui would have described the incident in detail, but now he no longer has the desire to confide.Because he told many people, in exchange for advice like "Don't participate in such dangerous games in the future, your body is important", even his family members.

He knew that everyone was thinking about his body, but that wasn't what he wanted to hear.

Hearing Jiang Suichang sigh, Duan Zhuo was concerned: "What's wrong? Does it hurt?"

Jiang Sui was lying on the table, swiping the mobile phone with one index finger, but he looked obviously absent-minded: "It hurts, it hurts every day." He said and glanced at Duan Zhuo: "Would you like to rub it for me? "

When he spoke, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and the end of his voice was raised up mischievously. For a moment, Duan Zhuo couldn't tell whether the pain was real or not, so he sat without moving, and asked instead, "Why didn't you ask Cheng Ziyao to rub it for you?"

"He doesn't want to." Jiang Sui rarely complained, "He would rather play games when he has time."

Duan Zhuo whispered "Oh", not knowing what to say.

A ray of light came in from outside the window, light golden, light and delicate, just falling on the bridge of Jiang Sui's nose, his eyelashes trembling slightly, pointing to the screen and said: "I think you should choose this one, if it depends on performance, this one The best deal... Well, don't buy it yet, I'll help you go to my relatives and ask, maybe it will be cheaper than online."

Duan Zhuo propped his cheeks, his eyes fell on his curled eyelashes: "Then I will trouble you, I will treat you to dinner with the money saved."

Jiang Sui laughed immediately, showing a small row of teeth: "I want to eat pickled fish from Fat Sister's."

"it is good."

"I still want to eat the bone pot on the second floor of the West Canteen."

"it is good."

A trace of suspicion flashed in Jiang Sui's eyes: "Is the beef hot pot also available?"

"sure."

Duan Zhuo's thigh was bumped several times by his knee, only to realize that Jiang Sui's arms were dangling, his legs were also dangling, his eyes were already crooked with a smile, like a child's expression when he heard that he was going on a spring outing.

Thinking back to what he said just now, Duan Zhuo really felt very strange, why would Cheng Ziyao not want to rub Jiang Sui's back?It was so easy to make him happy.

Even if Cheng Ziyao didn't know that Jiang Sui often secretly covered him with quilts in the middle of the night, had eaten breakfast bought by Jiang Sui, and ridden on the beam of Jiang Sui's mountain bike, how could he think playing games was more important?

If it were him enjoying such care, let alone rubbing his back, he would do whatever he wanted.

He just sat with his body tilted for a while, Jiang Sui's psoas muscles couldn't take it anymore, he moved his buttocks, changed his sitting position, held his mobile phone in both hands, and contacted relatives at home to ask Duan Zhuo about the price of the tablet.

Relatives sent offers.

Jiang Suihui: My buddy wants to buy it, so it’s cheaper for you.

Duan Zhuo saw everything in his eyes, but what he was thinking about in his mind was not about the computer. He clenched his fist with his half-raised hand, and then let it go, thinking about whether this would be considered ambiguous and destroying other people's feelings, but he didn't care about Jiang. It doesn't mean that, it's normal to help me click to express my gratitude, right?

After struggling for a long time, he still boldly reached out to Jiang Sui's back, as if what he wanted to caress was not a person's back but a tiger's buttocks.

The video on Jiang Sui's phone suddenly paused, and a voice call popped up. Seeing that the note showed "orange", Duan Zhuo immediately retracted his hand and squeezed his thigh pretendingly.

Jiang Sui turned on the loudspeaker, and Cheng Ziyao's voice came out of the speaker, saying that the temperature of the air conditioner in the Internet cafe was too low, and asked Jiang Sui to help deliver a coat.

Jiang Sui refused at first, but Cheng Ziyao begged a few times in a coquettish tone, and Duan Zhuo saw the corners of Jiang Sui's mouth curved, and asked, "Is it still the same place?"

"Yeah," Cheng Ziyao said, "Come here and I'll treat you to milk tea."

Jiang Sui put the phone on the table for Duan Zhuo to continue watching, then took a coat from the closet and went out.

Duan Zhuo picked up the phone and held the place Jiang Sui had held for a long time just now, the metal edge of the phone still had a little warmth.

The UP master complained about a computer with exaggerated tone and movements. Duan Zhuo stared at his opening and closing mouth, unable to listen to a word.

What Jiang Sui took away just now was not Cheng Ziyao's clothes, but Jiang Sui's own.

Obviously talking about Cheng Ziyao's fault, Cheng Ziyao ran faster than the track and field team whenever something happened.