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Christmas Eve is on Friday night, just in time for the holiday.Many people in the classroom are discussing where to spend Christmas Eve tonight.

Lu Fayan asked Hao Ai who had just sat down on the seat: "Ai Ai, are you going to play at night?"

Hao Ai lost interest, "No, you go."

"There is a Christmas Eve event in the block square at night."

"Don't go."

In previous years, the Christmas Eve activities in the block square consisted of fully equipped Santa Clauses distributing Santa hats and candies to passers-by. There was also a band performance after dark. I don’t know what will be changed this year.

When Hao Ai walked out of the classroom, he happened to meet Ji Wen walking in from the outside. She was still holding a lot of colorful Ping An fruit wrappers in her hand.

"Squad leader, isn't it forbidden to celebrate the foreign festival? Why are you facing the school?" Hao Ai leaned by the door to make way for her.

Ji Wen rolled his eyes at him, stuffed an apple and a bag of candy into his arms, "Eat your apple!"

Hao Ai went back and put the things on the table again. The beautiful glass candy paper reflected the dazzling light in the sunlight that entered the classroom.

The school stipulates that foreign festivals are not allowed, and if the teacher sees things such as peace fruits, they will confiscate them.Despite this, there was an endless stream of people who came to give gifts to Hao Ai, and Zhong Xiu once again saw how popular Hao Ai was.Most of the people who knew Hao Ai in arts and science classes, competition classes, art classes, and even international classes were girls, and they all came to give him gifts in the name of Christmas, and the threshold of the back door of class six was about to be broken.

"Who sent this?" Hao Ai returned to his seat, and saw the exaggeratedly decorated apple, which was placed on a box of chocolates.

Lu Fayan said: "Beautiful sister."

Hao Ai muttered strangely: "Sister Rao has taken the exaggerated route recently."

Zhong Xiu turned his head and saw Hao Ai's desk was covered with a pile of exquisite gift boxes and apples, and reminded lightly: "In the next class of Lao Zhang, you'd better put away the things on the table. "

It's not that there are no girls who shyly bring apples to Zhong Xiu, but he coldly rejects them all.How come Hao Ai doesn't refuse anyone?Does he know that he has to pay back what he owes to others?Zhong Xiu secretly scolded Hao Ai, and then asked him casually, "Are there any arrangements for tonight?"

Hao Ai is a fun-loving person, and he has many good friends, so he usually doesn't miss this kind of festival.

In the end, he heard Hao Ai say lazily: "No, tonight's activity is to go home and sleep."

From Yangcheng to Zhengchuan, it takes two hours by high-speed train.Before Fang Cheng came, he called Zhong Xiu and asked, "What's so interesting about Zheng Chuan?"

Zhong Xiu was dumbfounded by the question: "I don't know about this either."

"No, you've been in Zhengchuan for half a year, so you haven't even visited the downtown area, have you?"

"Let me ask." In fact, apart from Zhongxiu, a business district, he has basically never been to other places in Zhengchuan City, and he doesn't know any good places to go.

After hanging up the phone, he sent Hao Ai a WeChat message: What fun places are there in downtown Zhengchuan?My friend is coming to play.

Hao Ai reported the names of several shopping malls.

Zhong Xiu: Besides shopping malls?

Hao Ai: It seems that there is no such thing.

Zhong Xiu came here for half a year, and visited all the large and small shopping malls around. Every time he came out to play, he had no other place to go except the business district.

The prosperity of this city relies on the supporting policies in recent years, and the economic development is driven by the surrounding business circles. It has no historical and cultural accumulation that can attract tourists and stimulate consumption.

Hao Ai: When will your friend come?

Zhong Xiu: After eight o'clock in the evening.

Hao Ai asked again: How many people are there?

Zhong Xiuhui: Just me and him.

Hao Ai: Do you mind having one more person?

Zhong Xiu:? ? ?

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Zhong Xiu picked up Fang Cheng at the high-speed rail station. Fang Cheng walked out of the station with a small backpack on his back. When he saw Zhong Xiu in a black coat and a gray wool cap, the two hugged.

"I found someone to go shopping with us, but he is still on the way, and the shopping mall meets." Zhong Xiu said.

He took Fang Cheng to the busiest mall in the city center by subway, and saw Hao Ai wearing a mask in the parking lot outside the mall.

"How did you come?"

"Ride a motorcycle." Hao Ai pointed to the parking lot, where he parked his motorcycle.

"Is it cold, why don't you come by car?"

"It's not cold, it's okay." Hao Ai took off his mask and said, he really likes riding a motorcycle against the cold wind in winter, and he feels happy even when he is shivering from the cold.

Zhong Xiu saw that his nose was a little red from the cold, and the hot breath from his mouth dissipated in the cold air.

There is a big wishing pool outside the shopping mall. There is a steady stream of running water in the pool, and there is no ice in it.

There are many shining coins and bastards in the wishing pool.

Fang Cheng approached and looked in surprise, "Hey, are you alive?"

Zhong Xiu also looked at the motionless bastard in the pool, and said, "Live, it's hibernating."

Fang Cheng didn't believe it, he threw a coin into it with a low hand, and hit the bastard's shell very accurately, but the bastard still didn't move.

Zhong Xiu asked Hao Ai next to him who was concentrating on looking at the bastard, and opened his hand to give him a coin: "Make a wish?"

"Okay." Hao Ai muttered something silently, and then also smashed the bastard's shell with a coin.

"Do you owe me or not?" Zhong Xiu said helplessly.

"Actually, I really want to be the bastard in the wishing pool." Hao Ai said, "Look at how happy they are. They can lie down in the pool for a long time, doing nothing every day, and being woken up by money. And live a hundred years."

"You really have pursuit." Zhong Xiu said with a smile.

Fang Cheng looked at the two of them, and said strangely: "I always feel that you are a little different from before."

Zhong Xiu raised his eyebrows: "What's the difference?"

"I feel like I laugh more than before, don't you?" Fang Cheng looked at Hao Ai again and said, "I can still joke with others."

"What was he like before?" Hao Ai asked curiously, looking back at Wang Ba.

"It's very cold. Not many people in the whole class dare to talk to him. When the first year of high school started, a girl confessed to him. Do you know how he came home?"

"How?" Hao Ai was very interested in Zhong Xiu's past.

"He said, ahem," Fang Cheng imitated Zhong Xiu, and said with a cold face, "Thank you, puppy love is a waste of time, you should study hard."

"This sentence is not so scary, mainly because of his eyes and tone, which makes people want to take a detour when they see it. It is exactly the same as the tone of the dean who told us not to fall in love early."

Hao Ai smiled: "Hahaha, really?"

"Why are you lying to me?"

Hao Ai suddenly turned his face to the side, looked closely at Zhong Xiu, and said, "It's not like that."

Zhong Xiu's face was calm, and he let him look at himself without saying a word.

"Is Zhong Xiu much cuter now?" Hao Ai asked.

Fang Cheng nodded thoughtfully.

Hao Ai said boldly: "It must be influenced by me."

"Yes yes yes." Zhong Xiu said helplessly.

"Oh my god, you two are real," Fang Cheng pretended to cover his eyes and exaggerated, "You're so gay, I suspect..."

Zhong Xiu gave Fang Cheng a warning look, and Fang Cheng subconsciously fell silent.

Hao Ai didn't notice, and said habitually: "Normal operation is normal operation."

Eason Chan's MarryChristmas was displayed in the shopping mall, and there was a festive atmosphere everywhere.

"What's going on tonight?" Fang Cheng asked enthusiastically.

Hao Ai rubbed his hands excitedly: "Eat hot pot."

The three of them went to a hot pot restaurant. Winter is the best season to eat hot pot.

I ordered the mandarin duck pot, and the bottom of the pot was steaming hot, making people's eyes hot.

Hao Ai ordered his favorite hairy tripe and enoki mushroom.

Fang Cheng's favorite food is also these two, and they hate seeing each other too late.

"I was thinking, what's the point of my trip?" Fang Cheng looked at the giant Christmas tree in the shopping mall and thought, "It's better to do two more sets of questions in Yangcheng."

The Christmas Eve activity flow for the three of them is: Watch bastards → eat hot pot → watch the Christmas tree → go back to sleep

It was only after nine o'clock when he came out of the hot pot restaurant, and Hao Ai was about to go home.He usually doesn't play outside too late at night, and grandma will worry if he is alone at home.

"I'm leaving." Out of the shopping mall, Hao Ai bid farewell to the two, and was about to go to the parking lot to drive the motorcycle out.

"Be careful on the road." Zhong Xiu put the woolen hat he took off in the hot pot restaurant on Hao Ai's head.

"Got it, I have to wear a helmet later." Hao Ai touched the hat on his head with a smile.

There is also a distance from the shopping mall to the parking lot. Zhong Xiu patted Hao Ai on the head and said, "It's cold outside now, let's go cycling with it on."

Hao Ai smiled "hehe" and ran to the parking lot, disappearing into the dimly lit night.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at how considerate you are," Fang Cheng said, looking at Hao Ai's receding back, "It must be because of him."

Zhong Xiu smiled and said: "Yes, you can see it, why don't you think he can feel it?"

"Those who don't know, seeing you two are so tired, I thought you were in a relationship."

When Zhong Xiu was in junior high school, he realized that his sexual orientation was different from other boys around him.There have been girls who have confessed to him since he was a child, and he has never had any romantic thoughts, but he has a good impression of boys.

He never had feelings for boys in real life. Later, he accidentally browsed a same-sex website on the Internet, and was dissuaded by the excessive "enthusiasm" of people in the circle. After that, he kept a respectful distance from the so-called circle, and even rejected his own sexuality. .

Only Fang Cheng knows about his sexual orientation. As a good friend, Fang Cheng is very concerned about his emotional life and psychological state. He has never had a different view of him, but has always supported and encouraged him.

"I think he looks quite capable, don't be deceived by your feelings." Fang Cheng looked serious.

Zhong Xiu laughed and said, "He's better than me." He didn't know where Fang Cheng came to his conclusion, did he look at his face?Hao Ai did have a face that attracts others.

"He probably doesn't like men." Zhong Xiu said uncertainly.

Fang Cheng was stunned for a while, then said, "Straightforward."

Zhong Xiu felt a little annoyed, "I don't know."

"Then tell him, or you will never know what he thinks."

"If he wasn't, we might not even be friends."

"Would you not say that you like him first? Just come out of the closet. If he really treats you as a friend, he will definitely not care about it," Fang Cheng said with experience, "unless he is homophobic."

Zhong Xiu asked: "What if he is really homophobic?"

"That would be easier, homophobia is a closet." Fang Cheng shrugged and said.

Zhong Xiu felt that Fang Cheng must often visit gay friend websites, otherwise a straight man wouldn't know so much.

Zhong Xiu teased: "You won't bend too, will you?"

"Get out, you've really changed, you're no longer the former Ah Xiu! I'll tell you straight up!"

The author says:

The two chapters are combined into one chapter, and the number of words is not much (I am a good cook). I saw some people in the comments saying that this article is slow, but in fact, the relationship line between Xiuxiu and Ai Ai is already very clear. Within three chapters There must be a breakthrough, I will post 4!Thanks for the comments and starfish! !Moved