Glass Butterfly

I went to the hospital to get the medicine and took it internally and externally on time. It took two days for the high fever to subside.

Tang Tu woke up with a chill in his chest, and found that his pajamas were rolled up and his body was exposed to the air.Ruan Youqing was examining his skin carefully, the lying silkworms under his eyes were slightly blue.There was a shadow shaking in front of the window, and he fixed his eyes and saw that it was a white butterfly.

The sunlight pierced through the thin wings and flew at a certain angle, and the textured shadow happened to fall on Ruan Youqing's peaceful side face.

The man didn't notice that he had opened his eyes, and the way he looked at his abdomen was as focused as he usually looks at the glass solution. Tang Tu vaguely remembered the chickenpox, looked down at his body, and couldn't help gasping for breath. Frowning, unsightly blisters appeared on the smooth skin in the past. Although there were only a few sporadic ones, they were enough to be annoying for a person who didn't even have acne in adolescence.

"Are you awake?" Ruan Youqing noticed his strange movement, reached out and touched his forehead, took the thermometer beside the bed to disinfect, and then moved close to his face, almost touching his lips with the intention of kissing, Tang Tu hurriedly She turned her head to avoid it: "I didn't brush my teeth..."

Ruan Youqing was taken aback: "Tang Tu? Are you awake?"

"Didn't you just ask?"

"I mean, you're awake...then open your mouth." He stuffed the thermometer over, "press it with your tongue, I'll get a glass of water, and it's time to take the medicine."

Tang Tu tried to sit up, but there seemed to be nothing serious other than muscle soreness.He lifted up his sleeves and checked his arms, one on the left and three on the right... There were five or six on the chest and abdomen just now, but there seemed to be none on the legs, and he couldn't see the back... Tsk... so disgusting...

"Take medicine." Ruan Youqing handed him the water glass, and took out the beeping thermometer in his mouth. Tang Tu hurriedly put down his sleeves to cover those ugly chickenpox.

"I've seen it all..." Ruan Youqing glanced at the number that jumped out on the thermometer, sanitized it and put it aside, then opened his sleeve again and held up his weak arm, "Does it look like dew on the petals? "

In fact, Tang Tu didn't dare to look directly at the chickenpox just now, and subconsciously felt ugly.Hearing what he said, I couldn't bear the curiosity to look carefully at the red bean-sized blister in the center of the forearm. The carmine circle around the edge sets off the transparent bubble, which seems to be a bit like dewdrops. Thanks to this person Figured it out.

"It seems that your immunity is not good enough, you didn't take much... Except for what you saw, there is only one on the hairline and five or six on the back..." Ruan Youqing typed with difficulty concealing his sleepiness. Yawning, hugging him tearfully, leaning his head on his shoulder: "You haven't eaten for the past two days, I made porridge, can you drink it?"

Tang Tu stretched out his hand to stroke his hair: "Why are you so sleepy, didn't you sleep well?"

"Take the medicine five times a day. You also need to take your body temperature." Ruan Youqing's hair is soft, but there is a lot of it. It feels like the coat of the fox terrier of his neighbor's house when he was a child, smooth and thick.

The hand that Tang Tu was stroking his hair paused for a moment. He had been feeling drowsy for the past two days and he didn't have much memory, but when he thought of Ruan Youqing kissing him with a thermometer just now, a few blurry images floated in his mind. : "Well, how did you take my temperature and take medicine for me?"

"The temperature in the mouth is more accurate, put it under the tongue." Ruan Youqing straightened up and tapped his lips with a finger as if to blame: "You don't want to open your mouth when you are asleep, unless I kiss you."

...He spoke seriously, but Tang Tu felt his cheeks burn when he heard it...

"You are awake now, you must hold back desperately, don't scratch randomly, or you will really leave scars." Ruan Youqing reminded him.

"It's so itchy somewhere." Tang Tu smiled.

After the fever subsided, the chickenpox gradually improved.Tang Tu is an adult, and Ruan Youqing doesn't have to watch over him day and night.But he was still worried, and told him repeatedly before going out, "Don't scratch..."

"Go and do your work. Cheng Mo is already waiting for me." Tang Tu pushed him out, as if he didn't take it seriously.

Ruan Youqing returned to the studio, picked up the semi-finished product that had been delayed for a few days, and stayed in front of the kiln for several hours until the phone reminded him that Tang Tu should take medicine.He dialed the phone back, and Tang Tu showed him the empty package of the pills he had just eaten: "Ruan Youqing, please concentrate and leave me alone." The voice sounded extremely serious, and he hung up the call after speaking, he held back the word oh I didn't have time to say it on my lips.

"It's such an unfortunate coincidence..." Kawai had a sad face, and he ran to him to care about the progress between work, and sighed while looking at the unformed works, "It's just this time that you take turns to get sick, can you make it in time?"

He nodded without hesitation, counting the time in his mind, he must make it in time no matter what.Although Tang Tu didn't make it clear after waking up, Ruan Youqing felt that he was blaming himself, as if he blamed himself for being sick and making trouble at this time.In fact, I didn't have a strong desire to participate in this year's Kanazawa Award. Good works don't care about these honors.It can be seen that Tang Tu was depressed because of this, and Ruan Youqing developed a rare sense of responsibility and competitiveness.Not only to catch up, but at least to be shortlisted for the Outstanding Work Award.

Before leaving, he put the fired part into the Xu Leng Furnace and hurried back.On the way, I stopped at an izakaya and ordered some protein-supplementing dishes. The Kyoto-grilled silver cod and miso chicken salad were light and nutritious, and they were best served with porridge.

Tang Tu was standing by the window talking with a bluetooth headset, holding a piece of orange with the inner peel peeled off in his hand.The two ice-clear silk butterflies that had successfully hatched just a few days ago ignored the full juice sacs he held in his hands and danced on their own. The man held his arms for a long time, curled his mouth angrily and gave up feeding, leaving the pulp on the leaves.Then he saw Tang Tu subconsciously raised one hand while talking, grabbed the sleeve of the other arm, and rubbed it vigorously...

Tsk, I still couldn't bear it.

Ruan Youqing stepped forward quickly, pushed away the restless hand, rolled up the sleeve over there to check the chickenpox that had begun to scab.Fortunately, it's just that the surrounding skin is red, and the edge of a new scab is slightly raised.

Tang Tu hung up the phone: "Why are you holding me?"

"Don't scratch it." Ruan Youqing showed him the precarious scab, "It will leave a scar."

"Did you scratch me?" Tang Tu raised his eyebrows, looked at the brown dot with distaste, and immediately looked away, as if unwilling to accept the slightest ugliness of himself.He pulled out his arm and didn't want Ruan Youqing to see it.

"It will be very itchy for a few days, but you have to hold back." Ruan Youqing accompanied him to eat, "Don't keep your hands empty, you can hold other things."

"You talk too much." Tang Tu complained to him while eating the cold cod.

"do not like?"

"I like it." Tang Tu said, "If you don't say anything, I have to try to guess what you're thinking, and sometimes it's easy to misunderstand you..."

"En." Ruan Youqing nodded.

He stayed a little late in the studio the next day, and when he returned home, Ruan Youqing had even more headaches.Tang Tu listened to his suggestion, holding a pen tightly in his hand.It's just that he gave the pen another purpose - scratching.Ruan Youqing saw that he turned his right hand behind his back and was repeatedly scratching his back with the end of the cap of the pen through his clothes.

"Tang Tu..." He quickly walked over to grab the pen, lifted his clothes and found red marks all over his back, but fortunately there were no scabs.

It was even more outrageous when sleeping. Tang Tu didn't sleep soundly. He couldn't help scratching his skin everywhere when he was half asleep and half awake. He was no better than a child... Ruan Youqing felt burnt out for the first time.

"Don't catch me anymore..." I don't know if he didn't sleep well for several days, he got angry for no reason.

Tang Tu sighed heavily, and opened his eyes: "...how could it be so itchy..." Apparently the other party was also annoyed by this.

Ruan Youqing stared at those hands that had nowhere to rest, and suddenly felt that it seemed a good way for her grandfather to tie his hands to the bed when she was a child.He walked quickly to the closet, took out a blue silk tie from the well-matched suit, and tied his hands together.He wrapped the tie thickly and thinly around the position below the wrist bone, leaving a finger room to tie a firm knot, which neither affected the blood circulation nor could it be easily loosened.Of course he knew that silk ties were expensive, and such a tie would leave wrinkles, and Tang Tu would most likely throw it away based on Tang Tu's temperament.But compared to scratching the skin, this is already the best choice.

"That's good." He patted his tied wrists, "Go to sleep."

Tang Tu looked at him dumbfounded, but didn't raise any objection: "Good night."

They lay back under the quilt again, listening to each other's breathing quietly, but they didn't fall asleep as they wished.

Probably because it was too itchy, Tang Tu tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.Ruan Youqing also tossed and turned like spreading pancakes, feeling sleepy and irritable.A few days ago when she was weak, Tang Tu was still able to fall asleep obediently. Now that her strength has recovered, she also rests a lot during the day. It is hard to sleep because her skin is so itchy.

He simply turned over and hugged the man tightly in his arms, but the man actually twisted on his chest and rubbed his back.Ruan Youqing wrapped his arms around his ribs and tried to fix this restless body. The two struggled like this, and neither of them got any advantage. The cloth and quilt rubbed against each other, and there was a panting of trying to break free in the quiet room from time to time.

"Aren't you sleepy..." Ruan Youqing lost all drowsiness after being rubbed against him, and simply rolled over and leaned on Tang Tu's shoulders, "Did you sleep too long these days?" Since it was so itchy that he couldn't fall asleep, Then he can only do something that can both distract him and consume his energy.He lowered his head to pry open Tang Tu's teeth, kissed deeply, the tip of his tongue licked the roof, almost reaching the root of the other's tongue, tightly blocking the other's airway.

The feeling of suffocation made Tang Tu feel a little dazed, but he took advantage of the gap and said, "Hmm...help me untie...I want to hug you."

Ruan Youqing also felt that the wrists resting on the two chests were in the way, but he didn't let go of them as he wanted, and directly pulled the tie to put the two arms around his neck: "Don't take them off."

*They are almost millimeter by millimeter close, like two people from meeting to now, probing, repeating, moving away and approaching again, Ruan Youqing patiently and gently broke his curse of pain.

Tang Tu breathed a sigh of relief, tears welled up suddenly, but not only because of the slowly spreading pain, he let go of Ruan Youqing's arm, which was tightly grasped, wiped the precarious tears hanging from the man's eye sockets, choked up Ask: "Why are you crying..."

Ruan Youqing didn't answer him, but kissed him with red eyes.

After the people under him stopped trembling, he slowly withdrew from Tang Tu's body, and half-dragged and half-embraced the almost unconscious person into the bathtub.Ruan Youqing knew that he must be in pain, but he never said a word of pain from the beginning to the end.

After adjusting the water temperature of the shower, after cleaning, he dried his skin with a soft towel. Tang Tu fell into a deep sleep as soon as he touched the pillow, as if the uncontrollable itching before did not exist.

The first experience seemed to open a skylight for the senses. Ruan Youqing was still excited, the engine in his heart was running at overload, and the emotion reverberating in his chest was something he had never experienced before.He put on his clothes and went out alone, exhaled a long breath, and watched the white mist drift towards the deep sky.

No, it seems that the sky is not so deep anymore, and there are more stars than before, and the light is extremely dazzling.

He returned to the studio alone and continued his unfinished work. The transparent glass embryo gave birth to a new life in the quiet night, and they danced around free thoughts.

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finally~