【Steel Refining Flame Steel】How to make the person I like also like me

The night came, and the snow fell.The woods here are lush and the environment is quiet. Looking out of the window must be a quiet and elegant beauty.However, at this moment, the room was full of heat and voices, and the steam was so hot that the glass windows were covered with milky white, blocking the view from the outside, like hot white snow flooding the crowded restaurant.A Chinese girl with curly black hair came towards me carrying a brass pot. Before she got close, white hot air accompanied by a compelling aroma rushed towards her face.Ed was so excited that he stomped his feet regardless of his image. Lin on the opposite side almost jumped up and kissed the girl. He didn't give up until he heard a cough coming from beside him.

"I promise you," Lin stretched out his hand and waved the white smoke in front of him quickly, "After eating this, you will think that everything in Chinatown is shit!"

"I've seen my colleagues order Kung Pao Chicken in Chinatown. It looks very spicy." Roy watched the girl put the pot in the middle of the table with lingering fear. "The chicken is covered with chili peppers."

Hearing this, the Dongfang boy snorted contemptuously, "Mexican bell pepper."

He didn't go on talking, and Roy was more and more confused by turning his head with a self-evident look.The male anchor, who shouldn't be here in any sense, looked down at Edward with a puzzled look, and was quickly answered by Ed with a "don't ask, that's it" expression, and replied "it's okay Son, you just treat them as mentally handicapped" with a kind smile.Then Ed turned his head and continued to watch Gullid engrossed in dismantling Lin's disposable chopsticks with a look of envy, thinking about how it developed to the unimaginable scene in front of him.

The matter originated from a very simple conversation a few minutes ago.

Edward said, "Are you free later?"

Lin said, "No."

Edward said, "May I treat you to dinner?"

Lin said, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who can be easily bought over a meal?"

Edward said, "Yes."

Lin said, "Okay, then when shall we leave?"

However, the above are all the highly simplified content of Edward Eric, who has always advocated simplicity and clarity, based on his own ideal template. The real dialogue is not only much more than the parties wished, but even has an extra participant inexplicably. .

A few minutes earlier, Ed had taken the paper bag and without a word opened the grapefruit juice Roy had brought.He knew that Roy was looking down at him at this moment, his eyes resting on his bird's nest-like head and red ears, Roy didn't speak, he didn't know if it was because he felt that the moment was self-evident, or because he was waiting for love De's answer.The juice was steaming hot, sending bubbling warmth to Edward's frozen fingertips through the carton.What should he do?What should he say?But Ed clenched his lower lip, his face was flushed, and his brain was pale. He knew what he should do immediately, but his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't even poke the straw into the carton accurately. What happened to his always agile brain? I can't even think about it.

Scold him for being so indifferent, why he came here in the snow before his body recovered?

Immediately hugged his neck, turned his head and kissed him like he had imagined countless times in his mind?

Without saying a word, he took his hand into the lounge and locked the door, took off his trousers and had a shot first?

Or hold his hand with a smirk and greet him cordially, and then send him off while drinking grapefruit juice?

Wait, how did he get in here?My mind was in turmoil.

Well, since you can't think about it, let's not think about it for now, he said desperately to himself; wait until he calms down, and then think about how to respond to him, he wants to immediately jump up and shake Roy with his tongue The lips screamed themselves.At this moment, Ed's cell phone rang suddenly: it was an alarm with 5 minutes left before the collision machine started.

Ed felt divine for a moment.

"You go and sit for a while," Ed desperately pushed Roy into the lounge, said to the surprised Roy, and also said to himself, "I'll come back to find you for supper after I finish what I'm doing."

Then he rushed to the laboratory with the grapefruit juice carton in his hand, staggered and almost overturned the documents on the desk, a landslide was imminent, fortunately, Linyan, who was sitting by the side playing 3DS, quickly dropped the game console Hug, with a curse word Ed couldn't understand chanted as a mantra.

"You caused my hot chicken Kestrel to be killed by a bay leaf!" Lin picked up the game console and screamed, "It's too shameful, how can I have the face to continue to survive in this world as a trainer now?"

Ed glanced quickly at his watch: 3 minutes and 52 seconds left.

"Lin," Ed said, "are you free later?"

Lin didn't raise his head, "No time."

Ed twitched his lips, "Can't I treat you to dinner?" Ed rolled his eyes and quickly added, "That Maocai hot pot restaurant downstairs."

This proposal was obviously very tempting. The young man from Dongfang who had just rejected it immediately obviously hesitated, and slowly moved his gaze up from the front of the screen.

"Edward Eric, do you think I'm the kind of person who can be easily bought over a meal?"

"Yeah." Ed replied bluntly.

"But..." Lin said, "Gu Liduo said he would drive me home later?"

Ouch, I was caught off guard by a handful of dog food.Ed stabbed the straw into the drink fiercely, took two sips full of anger, and then made up his mind, "It's okay, you two can come together."

3 minutes 09 seconds.

Lin put down the game console thoughtfully, leaned on the back of the chair and looked around Ed.

"What on earth are you going to do?" he said, "Didn't you run to the hospital as soon as you were free a while ago? Why are you so abnormal today?"

Ed pinched his head to the side and bit the straw anxiously.Then, Yao Lin watched in amazement that Ed's face, which was always either indifferent or arrogant, changed under his nose: the flamboyant Edward, the smart and calm Dr. Eric, fluttering golden eyelashes like a nervous little girl , the tip of the upturned nose vividly glowed red.

It is not so much an emergence as a resurgence.Ed stuck the drink can to his face, his eyes were flying around but he refused to fall on the person opposite.

2 minutes 31 seconds.

"Mastangu is here," Ed ignored Lin's astonished eyes, stared at the grapefruit juice jar and continued, "I don't know what to do with him... just drive him away." Went to the lounge and said to have supper with him later."

Lin was stunned.He froze for a moment, and said quickly, "Go! Isn't it good for you two to go together?"

"But I don't want to be alone with him right now."

"What?" The other party was dumbfounded, "You have been alone with him so many times, and you ran to the hospital every three days..."

"Fuck your mother so many times! Fuck your mother every day!" Ed screamed.

"What a ghost to be reserved all of a sudden now??" Lin concluded without hesitation.

A plume of blue smoke rose from Ed's head, his big eyes were wide open, and burned like golden opals under the laboratory lights, shining like golden opals.

1 minutes 22 seconds.

Then, he spoke slowly.

"Before...to tell the truth...I think, that guy," Edward said vaguely organizing his thoughts, "actually he still regards me as a friend?? That is to say, of course I am... oh shit, me Of course I kind of... like him a little bit, crap. But he doesn't, you know? I do things for him, see him once in a while and stuff... also in the category of 'friends'? He probably always regarded me as a friend ...it's just...a bit of that, but still friends..."

"Then he suddenly came to visit you in the heavy snow, and he obviously brought you your favorite fruit juice from the things in your hand." Lin said, "So you think he seems to be interested in you, but it's a little bit Can't accept it??"

"It's not unacceptable! It's just... I don't know what to do! Are you stupid!"

As Ed said, he bit down on the straw, clamping the vein between his tongue and teeth, grinding nervously.He really didn't know, he didn't know what he really felt about it, and he didn't know how he should answer—he even suspected that his portrait of Roy was just self-indulgence, a result of his long-term efforts in the day and night. The product of the interweaving and mixing of spring dreams.But even so, when he thought of Roy smiling at him with his back to the snow scene just now, he couldn't restrain his imagination.The hand he put on his shoulder, his eyelashes stained with snow, he said because I thought, the gaze he cast on the back of his neck-can you get what you have been longing for all this time?Is it really so close, waiting for you to reach out?

And Lin, who has always been selfish and annoying, seems to have understood something unexpectedly at this moment.He didn't say anything for a long while, but buried his head in stuffing the game console into the bag and zipping it up.Ed didn't look at him, the blond boy was busy suppressing his beating heart.

Lin said, "Okay, then when shall we leave?"

0 minutes 04 seconds.

Hurrying quickly, the experiment finally ended in a perfunctory manner after one and a half hours.Lin ran downstairs to pick up the wild man, while Ed walked to the lounge to call Roy.

Opening the door, I saw Roy wrapping himself in a coat, with a book of math notes on his head, curled up on the side of the sofa near the heater, the soft black fur curled up on the armrest of the sofa and pressed into a black Xiaoquan, like a black sleeping cat, landed on Ed's heart with its soft and sharp paws, tickling him.

Ed approached him hesitantly, and squatted beside him for a long time, counting his thick eyelashes one by one with wide open eyes, imagining the pair of very beautiful eyes after the white fragile eyelids were opened.He shook him gently, obviously wanting to wake him up, but it seemed that he was afraid that the other party would wake up at this moment, a trickling stream flowed from the tip of his heart, and accumulated into a small sweet pond, in the body Slowly ferment and swell.

"Wake up, Roy, I'm here." He said softly, and then realized that this was the first time he had called the other party's name.

Even at supper time, the restaurant is still full of people.The red oil in the pot is bubbling, the brown-pink meat slices and the pale fish balls are dyed a bright orange-red, and the white sesame seeds and green coriander are rolling with the spoon, exuding bursts of mouth-watering flavors. scent.Lin crossed mountains and mountains, and shook hands with Mustangu friendly.

"We should have met before, at the exhibition." Lin said, quickly glanced to the side, and added, "This is my male ticket."

Roy turned his head and asked Ed, "Were you roommates before?"

Ed's face darkened when he thought of this, "Yes, before he and Gullid lived together."

Edward's impression of Guli Duo... Gullid is very complicated. On the one hand, he felt a little scary because of the way the two met for the first time. On the other hand, because of Lin's hasty handling of the move, he still has inexplicable resentment towards Gu Liduo even though he knows that he should have nothing to do with the other party at this time.Even so, Gu Liduo himself seems to have far less complicated thoughts about Ed.Looking at it this way, the opponent's muscles are tight, his figure is not taller than Lin, and his eyebrows and eyes are not as fierce as Edward himself imagined; Lazy, not at all like he had just returned from a wild street fight, or was about to go to the Yiwu Small Commodity Market to collect insurance fees: he put back the disposable chopsticks he had just disassembled for Lin back in his hand , and began to disassemble his own pair.

I don't know if he knew how to use chopsticks, or was taught by someone later.

Thinking of this, Ed felt jealous.I haven't written a word yet, and I'm so ambiguous that no one dares to take a step forward. The squinting eyes of my former roommate have already been trained successfully, and I can't be reconciled when I think about it.

Just when the boy's dissatisfaction was about to come out, the Chinese girl came over again and asked them in a low voice what drink they wanted.Not long after she left, Ed rolled his eyes, as if he had seized an excellent opportunity for revenge.

"Hey Lin," Ed raised his chin towards the girl's back, and said with a smirk on purpose, "I think she likes you a little bit."

"Are you crazy, are you?" Lin reacted quickly, and immediately denied it, but still had a slightly embarrassed expression.

Edward took a look at Gu Liduo's somewhat irritated face, and couldn't help but smile even more, "But every time she talks to you, she always looks very shy."

"So you can still recognize shyness?" Lin poked food out of the frying pan into his own bowl expressionlessly, "Last time, in order to get a discount on the set meal, when BurgerQueen blatantly lied to people that you were my boy ticket, why? Didn't I see you shy?"

The boy didn't expect this, and his face immediately turned red nervously.He was just about to turn his head to see Roy's reaction at the moment, but unexpectedly, he met Gu Liduo's displeased gaze on him, and was suddenly speechless in fright.Oh my goodness, shouldn't it be the enemy of the underworld?Will he be dismembered and sunk in the river?

Who would have thought Mrs. Yazhai's side was extremely calm.Lin calmly filled Gu Li with a large bowl of vegetables, and then said in a comforting tone: "Don't be angry with Dou, he has already taken advantage of someone who unfortunately took a fancy to him, and that's the one sitting next to him."

A hot current rushed to the top of Ed's head, making the boy dizzy for a while.He even forgot to have an outburst about the question of Lin's disrespectful address to him, and his head was full of embarrassment that was surging at the moment.He wanted to open his mouth to refute, but a damned little corner of his heart was jumping with joy against reason, preventing him from pouring out the whitening of the refusal that he should have said now, not to mention the beating heart and boiling blood at the moment It has completely blocked his ability to think and justify.As a result, before the little Jiujiu in his heart could turn around the corner one by one, Gu Liduo seemed to have suddenly realized, and reached out to shake hands with Roy.

And Roy didn't refuse!

He turned back to look at Roy almost pitifully. Roy didn't say anything, but bit his lower lip and kept laughing, throwing himself a small smirk from time to time.Edward was out of his mind, and didn't react until he heard an unexpected sigh from Roy himself.

"We should have met." Roy reached out to shake hands with Edward in front of Edward. "Last year in court."

Ed dropped his fork on the table.

"Grains, grains, have you been sued in court?" The blond boy was dumbfounded. "Because of what? Street fights? Insurance fees?"

"Huh?" The person who was asked raised an eyebrow in disbelief.He frowned and looked at the person sitting beside him, only to see Lin rolling on the seat laughing, his fingers clenched into fists covering his eyes so hard that his knuckles turned white.

Edward felt more and more unreasonable.

"Didn't I tell you?" Lin got up with a smile, and filled himself another bowl tremblingly, "The grains are mostly lawyers."

"lawyer?!"

The five thunderbolts are nothing more than that.Ed was stunned, looked at the two people sitting across from each other in shock, and then turned to look at Roy as if seeking confirmation.This is simply the most incompatible combination of temperament, appearance and profession in the world. Telling him that Roy is actually doing pole dancing in a gay bar to earn extra money under the appearance of an anchor may be a little more acceptable than this. At least Roy didn't look like a serious person.

And Roy seemed to have captured Edward's thoughts for a moment from that horrified glance, biting his lower lip while suppressing a smile, while pinching Edward's wrist slightly under the table.

Ed felt that all the bones in his body were crisp with that pinch, and the voices of the two friends were floating out of consciousness, becoming dispensable and indistinct.

Gullid crossed his arms angrily and looked at Lin, "Why are you talking nonsense outside? Why would anyone think that I charge insurance premiums?"

Lin laughed and started to get up again and scooped a large piece of meat into his bowl, "Ade, Ed, tell me this is my pot?"

"Yes." Before Ed could recover, he felt Lin kicked him from under the table.Just as Ed was about to fight back, he suddenly remembered something again, and the confusion that had just been removed from his face suddenly rose again.

"Mustangu, why are you in court?" Ed picked up the spoon and began to scoop into the pot, while turning his head and asked, "Could it be that you are also a criminal lawyer in private?"

Gu Liduo curled his lips with the fish ball in his mouth, "What do you mean 'also a gangster lawyer'?"

Roy shrugged, "I am the defendant."

The spoon in Ed's hand fell into the copper pot with a snap, splashing the red oil all over the table, and there were exclamations from across the table.Kaede didn't even care about how the two people on the opposite side scolded their mothers.

"What did you do, anchor Mustangu?" Ed felt a battle between heaven and man, "Cheating money and sex? Putting a cuckold on someone? Not paying back the debt?" In case Roy owes someone tens of millions, it stands to reason Do I still have to sacrifice myself for love?

The boy thought that the other party would refute him with a generous smile, but Roy was unexpectedly calm.He glanced at Ed, held up his fork and replied simply,

"Your prejudice against me is very subtle, Dr. Eric." Roy smiled and stuck his fork into the steaming oil pan, "I just got involved in a little trouble because of my work relationship, and my lawyer quickly Just give me an out-of-court mediation."

Ed waited patiently for him to finish.

Roy picked up a bright red fish ball, and Ed knew that he would not be able to hear the next explanation for the time being.

Since the person involved has dismissed it lightly, it should be a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning.But for unknown reasons, a trace of uneasiness fell into Ed's heart just like that, like a pebble thrown into a lake.The stone itself sank into the unfathomable bottom of the lake, so it was difficult to track down, but the ripples that emerged were blurred layer by layer on the water surface. Every leaf on the lake surface had a slight ups and downs. Edward stood in the middle of the water. On the stone, the subtle but vital danger could be smelled almost immediately, which cannot be ignored.

He raised his head and looked around calmly. Gu Liduo was busy wiping the red oil-splattered tabletop with a napkin. Lin covered his mouth full of food with one hand and beckoned the Chinese girl to help provide more tissues, while Luo Yi Ze was looking down at the oil-stained fish balls on the fork carefully. The meal was still going on, but Ed had already tasted nothing.He watched Roy approach the food and smell it, and his face was filled with excitement and panic for a moment, as if he recalled the horror of being thrown down the newspaper yesterday and searching for water all over the ward.Then he didn't seem to feel Edward's gaze on him for a long time, and the softness hidden in the playful gaze towards the young man, he turned his head and smiled at Ed.

"Let me see it." He smiled and blinked, and put the fishball into his mouth in one gulp.

Ed's heart was pounding.

In fact, he knows that the real reason why he is still unwilling to face each other at this point is not only because of the uneasiness and hesitation he feels because of possible love, but because Roy still has very important things in him that he has always been rejected by. Things kept in the dark.Maybe one thing, maybe many; maybe Roy will tell himself slowly in the future, maybe he will keep hiding it—just like he hides other unspeakable secrets in his life.There may be ferocious thorns under the gentle and beautiful surface. The question is whether he has worked so hard to get to this day, whether to stop at the slightest and stop before being hurt, or continue to walk forward fearlessly.Every time I think of this, Ed can't help asking himself, how much does he know about me?Do I really know him?

The meal and wine were half over, but Ed, the host, took the lead and pulled Roy to leave first.This is not because of the subtle thoughts in Ed's heart - no matter how worried Ed himself is, his appetite will not be affected by it. The reason is that the latter, as a newcomer in the spicy food world, cannot After being impacted by too much Chinese spicy food, Ed himself is more and more worried that a little sika deer like Mustangu who eats apples every once in a while sticks out his tongue, blushes, stomps his feet secretly, and yells that it's too spicy. Toothache posture, afraid that he would fall on the dining table and die before he could get back to the hospital.So Ed bought the bill cursingly, and left with Roy.Pushing open the door of the store, I realized that the snow that had been falling for most of the day had stopped at some point.

The distance between the hospital and the research institute is not far, less than half an hour's walk.The secluded street was deserted, only the two rows of footprints left by Roy and Edward on the snow, one large and one small, and the creaking sound of footsteps stepping into the snow.The street lights in the street were half good and half bad, and the yellow lights were faint. Fortunately, the night sky after the snowfall was clear and fresh, and the moon was shining brightly.The boy breathed out white mist, a woolen cap with Piccolo ears tilted on his head, his blond hair was tied in a loosely tied scarf, and his hands, which he forgot to wear gloves, were inserted into his coat and clenched tightly, as if enduring Thinking of something, the temptation to rush out of the chest from time to time.

He cautiously glanced at Roy Mustangu at the side, watching the other party's eyes fall on the woods where the birds stopped in the distance, his profile was clear and peaceful under the moonlight, Ed could smell the disinfectant he brought from the hospital Smell and lingering musk on clothes.Wrapped in a black leather glove, he held the paper bag he brought with him with one hand, and pressed the toothache on his cheek from time to time with the other hand, closing his eyes and sighing slowly.Ed thought, he looked so close, he looked so far away.

Then Roy suddenly took out a can of apple juice from the paper bag.Seeing this, Ed almost burst out laughing, and the haze just now dissipated.

"What are you laughing at?" Roy put on a serious look, "I've never eaten something so spicy in my life, and my wisdom teeth hurt so much, is it wrong to drink some health drinks to restore HP?"

Hearing such words, Ed intended to laugh, but a faint sense of guilt stuck in his throat, forcing him to swallow the hearty laughter back into his stomach.

"Okay, I admit it's a bit spicy." Ed tried hard to erase the worry in his voice, "I was worried that you idiot would get used to being a sika deer in the hospital, and eating a little bit of our human food would be like a mistake. Died suddenly like a giraffe who ate a plastic bag or something... luckily it was just a toothache."

Ed's words became softer and softer, and finally his voice was almost buried in the snow under his feet.Roy turned his head and stared at Ed silently for a moment, then shook his head.

"No," he said with a look of misery on his face, "I can't believe how torture it will be to go to the bathroom tomorrow."

This time, Ed finally lifted his neck and laughed unscrupulously.

The piece of fishbone stuck in the throat slid down with a "boo", fell into the sweet and soft bottom of the stomach and disappeared.Ed felt something warm expand in his heart and spread to every corner of his body, even his bare fingers in his pockets became warm.

"Wisdom teeth?" Ed smiled and watched Roy open the jar of apple juice and said, "I don't want to take the blame for wisdom teeth. That's what should be pulled out."

"It didn't hurt at first." Roy shook his head, "My wisdom teeth didn't grow crooked, and there was no need to pull them out. It hurt because it was too spicy. I just rinsed my mouth and chewed gum for a long time. No relief."

"It's strange to believe you." Ed laughed.

"Do not believe?"

Roy stopped and put the juice can on the side rail, then leaned down in front of Ed.Ed gasped instinctively, and watched as Roy moved his face closer to him, opened his mouth, and the heat from his body was clearly transmitted to his body.The young man stared stiffly at the other party's long eyelashes fluttering in front of his face, his beautiful lips parted in front of his eyes, and the tip of his pink tongue looming behind his teeth. Get out."

What ice and snow, what low temperature is unstoppable, at this moment Edward felt that he could evaporate on the spot in a few minutes.What the other party is going to do is clear at a glance, the purpose of the other party's actions is obvious, the trap is close at hand, but it seems that it is impossible not to jump into it.The desire to get the other person is so strong in an instant, as if if you can't touch it, you might as well die directly.

Ed tried his best to restrain his trembling, and slowly took out his hand from his pocket.

Almost immediately, Roy's leather-gloved phalanges gripped Ed's wrist tightly, almost taking Ed back a step.He raised his eyes and stared at Ed's eyes through his eyelashes. His gray-black eyes were like invisible hands pinching the boy's almost short of breath throat.

The moonlight casts from the night sky of hundreds of miles, and the gray shadows on the eyelashes are reflected on Mustang's dark iris, like the silvery reflection on the surface of a deep pool.And Ed was trapped in the unfathomable pool, submerged in the elusive and elusive reflection, involuntarily and unable to extricate himself.He wanted to slap himself in the face so that he could wake up from his fantasy, but in the end he couldn't move. He could only look at Roy's eyes stupidly, let the other party curl his four fingers, and then put his index finger down. into his mouth.

Although he had made some psychological preparations, Ed still trembled like an electric shock after the real knife and gun. The index finger that Roy bit into his mouth instantly became the only perceivable part of his body, as if everything had changed. Feeling numb and ruthless, but also seems to have become omniscient.

The fingertips slide back little by little along the neat and hard teeth, and the fingertips touch the smooth and soft cheek flesh from time to time, and they will sink between the texture and the teeth after a while; the tip of the tongue is moist and flexible , seeming to flick across the joints, with an unintentional randomness, and it seems that it will sweep up in the next second and wrap around the young white fingers to suck.The soft lips brushed against his knuckles occasionally, casually, but the hot breath he exhaled was real and unquestionable. Roy smiled and slowly pulled out Ed's fingers, his eyes still fixed on Edward's enlarged golden pupils Inside, slowly took out a paper towel to wipe clean for the dumbfounded boy.When Ed came back to his senses, he found that he was already imagining how the other party would give him oral sex.

"Now do you believe it?" Roy stood up straight with a smile, and picked up the apple juice again.

"Letter... what?"

"My wisdom teeth are neat."

Ed's head popped with smoke.

The boy pushed the opponent hard at the top of his lungs, as if this would prevent the opponent from seeing his flushed cheeks.

"Crazy!! Your mother's problem of being punched through the stomach is nothing compared to your brain problem! What disease are you looking for? Go home and wait for death!"

He turned over all the bad words he could find, but Roy didn't seem to be hurt at all.He pulled Ed's shoulders, hummed a little tune and continued walking in the direction just now, but Ed was so angry that he couldn't turn his feet around, so he had to follow him slowly towards the hospital.He listened for a long time before realizing that the ditty the other party was humming was actually "Ode to Joy".

Mom's retarded!I really want to kill him!

"Roy Mustangu," Ed wiped his blushing face fiercely, and said while grinding his teeth, "You're such an indifferent idiot, why can you live happily until today?"

Hearing Ed's gritted teeth, Roy smiled triumphantly, "Because apples are very healthy."

Oh my goodness, does he really believe the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" crap?

Ed said bitterly, "It's unbelievable. There are still people who believe that eating a piece of fruit can live a long life. Are you an old lady who was brainwashed by the peddler selling health care products downstairs in the community?"

Roy took a sip of the juice, made an exaggerated expression of indulging in a dramatic way, and then deliberately made a cynical expression and said, "There are really more and more supporters of skepticism among young people, even 'apples keep people away from illness. 'I don't believe the reason."

"If apples can keep you away from illness," Ed snorted, stretched out his finger to the distance, and then quickly stuffed his hand back into his pocket from the cold wind, "then what is the purpose of where we are going now?"

Hearing this, Roy became even more unconvinced, "Let me stay away from the hospital during this catastrophe? Don't pass such a big responsibility on Apple's head, okay?"

"You should buy No. XA as a ghost like you."

After Ed finished speaking, Roy laughed out loud.Maybe it was because of the quietness of the street, maybe it was because of the emptiness and deepness of the dense forest beside it, maybe it was because of the firmness and cleanness of the frozen snow, the laughter seemed surprisingly loud and clear.In Ed's memory, there were shrill smiles gloating at others' misfortune, wry smiles suppressing sadness, and of course the carefree smirks of countless idiots in the world—but he had never heard such a bright and sincere laughter, And never had a laugh been so contagious as Roy's, making him laugh even harder.

A little brown-gray fox jumped out of the woods on one side, then went straight across the narrow road and jumped into the woods on the other side.Roy slowly raised the juice can to his lips, and said suddenly, "My hometown is Portland."

"Eh?" Ed opened his eyes wide and looked at Roy in surprise.He never thought that Roy would say this to himself, as if this simple introduction had been hidden behind a certain line of defense for a long time, and Ed had always been able to stand outside the line of defense and look inside eagerly. The person who looked around.But Roy had no reason to lie, his voice was so simple and straightforward, as if he was spreading himself out in front of Ed.He heard his hesitant voice, as if he couldn't believe the treasure that was suddenly pushed in front of him.Ed said, "I thought you were from Berkeley?"

Roy smiled slightly.

"Ed," Roy took another sip of juice, "Where is your hometown in Idaho?"

Ed froze for a moment, then slowly looked into the distance, "Lewiston."

He raised his head and breathed out a long wisp of white smoke, which rose straight to the distant sky.Roy said slowly: "Actually, I don't have a lot of memories there, because I left there after my parents passed away, and began to move around in various orphanages and boarding families... and then moved to Berkeley, Settled down there. But before that I remember being born in Oregon, near Portland in the Willamette Valley."

Hearing this, Ed smiled slightly. "No wonder you like apples so much, you idiot."

"It's not that I like it, it's just that you don't like it." Roy smiled, "But it's true there. There are apple groves all over the mountains. Isn't it funny? I stole my mother's car once when I was in college and drove it to where I was in principle. The place where my family was born. The hut there has long been owned by the local government after changing hands several times, and it has become a sightseeing restaurant for tourists to rest. I sat there as a tourist for half a day and ordered a completely unpalatable apple. Pai, but I can't remember living here at all, and I don't even remember what my parents looked like-I am no different from ordinary tourists. But I remember the apple groves around the valley in the back mountain. When I was a child Of course there won’t be as many apple-picking tourists there, but it’s there.”

The wind was blowing from a distance, and the woods were rustling in the ears. Roy's empty can was casually thrown into the trash bin that happened to pass by, making an empty and long knocking sound.Ed was silent for a long time. He once again thought of himself and Al watching the stars on the grain pile, and thought of his mother angrily lifting them off the top and scolding them softly.