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It has been more than two hours since Li Bai stayed at the ground floor exit of Terminal T1 of the Capital Airport at three o'clock. A black car driver agreed with him to wait on the side road east of the airport at five o'clock, and he should have arrived by now.He looked at his watch, spit out the sweetened bubble gum on a paper towel, and tried to throw the ball of paper into the trash can marked in four languages ​​two steps away, but failed, so he had to run over to pick it up and throw it away.

He then peeled off a new Bibabu, bit it into his mouth, and chewed it creakingly.

apple flavor.

The air conditioner at the airport was fully turned on, but some hot wind blew from the open door not far behind from time to time. The two temperatures plus the long wait made Li Bai dizzy.But since he set off from Cuiwei before one o'clock, it was inevitable to wait so long.It's very evil, when he thinks of Yang Jian landing at five o'clock, it will be difficult to concentrate on doing other things, the closer the time is, the more exaggerated it will be, so there is no accident in the last two hours, he is destined to spend it like this.

It has been more than a week. According to Li Bai's calculation, it was about ten days and six hours. Yang Jian was not in Beijing, and he only answered one of his calls during the period. You Lili asked about it.He also found out that Yang Jian disappeared this time because he went to Shanghai with his instructor and the team to participate in the final defense of a science and engineering innovation competition. One point is enough for Yang Jian to take her to Beidaihe to play around during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and then buy the motorcycle that he has been looking forward to for a long time when he comes back.

Li Bai firmly said that motorcycles are possible, but Beidaihe will not, because the final exam is too close.

But You Lili smiled and said, let's get closer, your brother is not the kind of nerd who stays in the room and just wants to get the first place in the exam.

Li Bai said, let's make a bet.

He actually wanted to say this: Even if he didn’t study, Yang Jian wouldn’t spend so much time traveling and taking pictures with you, he treats everyone like that.But the words froze on his lips before he could say it, because Li Bai suddenly had doubts at that time—anyone, is it true?Could it be that Yu Lili is special?

Thinking about this is too tiring, and it is also mixed with irritability.He still can't figure it out.

Li Bai squatted down on the spot and sighed with an apple-flavored breath.I don't know how many pills he ate this afternoon. In short, his jaw and masseter muscles are sore, and he still hasn't learned how to blow bubbles.He just recently fell in love with this kind of snack. The first one was given to him by Deng Deng. It was very sweet and like a toy. Li Bai liked it very much. When I stop and try to blow air again, the lung capacity always seems to drop to single digits in an instant, and I can't even push out a small bubble.

It's still fun to try it a few times, but if you try too much, you will be depressed. Li Bai turned his attention away from his mouth, took out his trouser pocket, and took out an ID card.In the photo frame is a young man with paler face than him, dark circles under his eyes, born in 1980, with a loose expression and purple lips, but he called him a very energetic name: Long Zaiyun.

About half an hour ago, Li Bai picked up this certificate while looking for the toilet.

Now he stretched himself, held it away and looked at it into the light, and by this time, the sun had become listless, and he was a little drowsy.

His drowsiness didn't stop until the top of his head lightened, and when he looked up, Yang was wearing a black T-shirt, holding his black peaked cap, and there was a big black box standing by his feet, and there was a stream of people rushing towards the exit behind him. , is a handful of elderly caravans dressed in fancy clothes.

"Where are the other students?" Li Bai pinched his face and asked.

"I went to the underground taxi exit, and I was the only one to pick it up." Yang Jian glanced at the ring bridge outside the glass door, "So you came here—were the two of us going down together to take a taxi?"

"No, of course not!" Li Bai's heartbeat speeded up to a certain level in just one minute, and he could only jump up. He hugged Yang Jian, hooked his neck, and rubbed against his temples, making the corners of his mouth itchy. , smoke, some sweat, and the scent of Safeguard.

"Is it hot?" Yang Jian smiled and tugged at the arms wrapped around his neck, untied himself a little, and put the peaked cap back on Li Bai's head.Li Bai was sticky enough now, he was a lot shorter without tiptoes, and his head was still hanging down. He felt that Yang Jian should be looking at him now, so he didn't want him to see the expression, so he put his ID card away in his trouser pocket, and pulled it again. that box.

After walking a few steps on the road, Yang Jian pulled the suitcase back and exchanged it for Li Bai's own shoulder bag. After asking clearly that he was going to the side road to find the black car he had arranged for, he pressed his phone to ask what happened these days , What to do in a while, he seems to have nothing to say.The two quietly walked out of the shadow of the terminal building. The setting sun and the earth were still emitting heat waves, suffocating people's eyes, nose, and chest. The wheels of the car made a crackling sound on the hot concrete floor.

Li Bai suddenly wanted to spit out the sugar in his mouth.It was tasteless again.

But there was not a single trash can in sight.

"Are you calling You Lili?" he asked.

"Ok?"

"She wants you to tell her she's safe."

"Just send a text message." Yang Jian was still absent-minded.

"A friendly reminder, you have to look at the road when you walk," Li Bai couldn't help it, "you still have to cross an intersection, there are blind people and guide dogs—"

"Guide me." Yang Jian said and really got closer, as it should be, almost touching his shoulders. Li Bai felt his cheeks suddenly became hot, and the blood congestion was too obvious. He dripped sweat, while Saying "I'm not a dog", while pulling Yang Jian's forearm tighter and tighter, he glanced quietly at the phone screen.

The short message was edited quite long, the first four words were "Hello Teacher Xu".

Li Bai heaved a sigh of relief.The surname of the counselor of the 01 class of Peking University School of Physics was Xu, which he remembered clearly.

He dragged Yang Jian all the way to the intersection, and while waiting for the traffic lights, Yang Jian put his phone back in his pocket, sighed and said that he failed to ask for leave and had to report back to school at night.At the same time, he looked down at Li Bai, his eyes were facing each other, and he had a slight smile. When the green light came on, Li Bai realized that he let go of his arm, and moved to the side, and the two of them walked away from each other.

"What are you chewing on?" Yang Jian asked him.

"Bubble gum, but I can't blow bubbles." Li Bai answered honestly.

"Just don't choke." Yang Jian narrowed his eyes, "Have you cut your hair short?"

"Well, I made it the day before yesterday. Beijing has been crazy hot recently, and it's not like Shanghai where it rains every day." Li Bai hurriedly stuffed a piece of Bibabu into Yang Jian's hand, this time it smelled like grapes, "Can you blow it?"

"You know it's raining in Shanghai." Yang Jian just took the candy and put it in the pocket where the mobile phone was.

"I can watch the weather forecast. Every day when the zebra crossing reaches the end, Li Bai blinks. "Brother, you've only been away for ten days. So many things happened."

"for example?"

When Yang Jian asked such a question, Li Bai suddenly couldn't answer.In fact, he just wanted to express that you have been away for a long time.

"For example, my bicycle broke down," he said in a muffled voice, "but I repaired it as you taught me last time, so it can be ridden again."

"Congratulations on your graduation."

"For example, Luo Ping'an and the others came to look for me in the store and said they were going to have a fight with someone on Guijie Street. They wanted you to come over and help but you were gone." Li Bai's voice became lighter, "I said you went out to compete. Those who won the big prize and appeared in the newspaper, they drank the tea in my shop and called you a bastard."

Yang Jian laughed out loud: "Yo, did you scold me back?"

"I said they are bastards, and there are bastards! Otherwise, how can you find bastards to help them fight? It's like crying to your father that you have been bullied." Li Bai also laughed, "Luo Pingan's face was crooked in anger, and said I have no eyesight, so I don’t know what to say, but there is a police station next to our store, as long as I call, the police uncle will come at a walk. They stare at my bearded man, and then run away. Tell me before you run, 'Little bastard, wait for your brother to come back and teach you a lesson!' Admitting that you are a descendant of a tortoise, and calling others a rabbit, do you think he is sick?"

"If I were Luo Ping'an, I would vomit three liters of blood."

"But you are Yang Jian, do you want to teach me a lesson?" Li Bai asked with his head tilted.

"Let me see." Yang Jian suddenly grabbed the back of Li Bai's neck, like picking up a small animal, and pinched it gently, "It's alright."

"Is this a lesson?" Li Bai raised his neck.

"It's a compliment."

"I don't want it," Li Bai grabbed Yang Jian's watch strap, "You have to treat me to a meal, or I can treat you, just let me treat you, if you have to go back to report tonight, then tomorrow, at the south gate of your school The newly opened Halla Mountain, congratulations on winning the grand prize."

But Yang Jian said: "You can cook me a meal the day after tomorrow, I want to eat noodles with fried sauce."

He didn't say "no", but he refused without hesitation. It should be something very important that cannot be delayed, and it is something that he doesn't want to talk about.Li Bai didn't want to look downcast, so he said "Okay" softly, found the trash can and spit out bubble gum. He didn't want to be cold, so he mentioned the ID card he just picked up. Yang Jian asked him why he didn't call the police uncle this time, and Li Bai stared He said angrily, I just don't want to look for it, I'm so stupid that I can lose my ID card, so I can make it up by myself.

Yang Jian was not annoyed, he just pointed to a white Jetta with half-opened doors on the side of the road ahead, "Is this the one?" More than half of the black cars in Beijing are old Jettas.

They put the luggage together and sat in together. After explaining to the driver where to get off, Yang Jian suddenly patted Li Bai on the shoulder.

"Why?" Li Bai put down his legs.

Yang Jian had no expression on his face. He took out the grape-flavored bubble gum at some point, slowly opened it, and slowly put it in his mouth. His actions were solemn.Then, he chewed solemnly for a while, solemnly stared at Li Bai who was holding back his laughter, and without blinking his eyes, he suddenly blew out a lavender bubble, exhaled calmly, and watched it grow round and round.

Soon the bubble burst, and there was a loud "pop" that Li Bai hadn't expected, and it drooped by Yang Jian's lips like a balloon, and Li Bai hugged his stomach in a smile.

"What are you silly about? I'm teaching one-on-one." Although Yang Jian's eyes were bent, the corners of his mouth did not twitch, and he still hadn't done anything wrong.

Li Bai still just smiled, shook his head and said nothing.So cute so cute my brother.He slipped down and almost lay down, raised his eyes to look at Yang Jian, and kept thinking like this.Including later along the way, Yang Jian rubbed the corners of his eyes and sent text messages with one hand, and later, as if only text messages were not enough, when You Lili called, Yang Jian lazily leaned on the car window and listened to the sunset. She said that from time to time, Li Bai continued to say something. Li Bai watched and listened to all this, put his hands under his thighs and tightened the seat cover, still repeating this thought.

It's so cute, no one can match it.

He didn't know if Yu Lili, who was whining and acting like a baby on the other side of the phone, understood this truth.

I previously agreed with Ben to be in charge of looking after the store tonight, so Li Bai could ask for leave until 07:30 pm, but now the time is running out, and Yang Jian was sent back to school before [-]:[-], and Li Bai had nowhere to go, so he went to the store early Back in.

He asked the driver to stop at the foot of an overpass and walked the rest of the way by himself.Far away, seven or eight doors away from Dongfang Barbershop, Li Bai noticed a silver-gray car parked outside the sidewalk in front of the door. There was a man standing on the sidewalk, bending his head into the driver's seat. The window, with his arms lying on the window sill, if you look carefully, you can see that he is trembling or twisting from the spine to the back of the waist.

Li Bai felt that the skirt-like half-sleeves and the shorts that could not completely cover the thighs looked familiar. After thinking about it, it was Dengdeng.

He didn't get too close, standing in front of a barbecue stall a few meters away to buy roasted gluten, and glanced there from time to time.After about five or six minutes, Deng Deng stood up straight, leaned on the roof of the car and said a few more words, giggling even Li Bai could hear clearly, and turned around with a wave. He probably wanted to go back to the store, but before he stepped forward A pause—a hand wearing a watch stretched out from the car window, slapped his buttocks, and wrung his flesh hard.

Li Bai took his four skewers of roasted gluten, and was a little dazed seeing the situation. He even forgot to tell the boss that he didn't want chili.At this moment, the car honked its horn, squeezed past a motorcycle, and then sped away. Deng Deng also turned his head, and his eyes met Li Bai.

"Come here." He waved to Li Bai.

Li Bai packed his change and followed him back to the store.There was still no business, Ah Zhong was reading a magazine on the sofa, and when he saw the two of them coming back, he picked up his bag and got off work, while Deng Dengla Li Bai sat down on another sofa, took him a bunch of roasted gluten, and asked: Saw?"

"Well," Li Bai tightly held the remaining three bamboo sticks. Although he doesn't like spicy food, he didn't want to take them all to treat people to supper. "I won't pass it on to others, so don't worry."

"Haha, it's okay. In fact, many people in the store know about it." Deng Deng squinted his eyes and glanced at Ah Zhong who was walking towards the door. "That guy is the boss. I met last year and gave me a lot of things. It’s pretty good, but they don’t give me money, and they don’t let me choose gifts, as if they just give me what I have.”

Li Bai remembered the slider phone.There is no phone call to find Dengdeng every day, and he rarely sends text messages. Maybe most of the battery is used by him to play Snake.

"Do you live together?" Li Bai asked tactfully.

"Of course not! If I can live in his house, I will thank God and worship the Bodhisattva," Deng Deng kept laughing, "but he definitely doesn't want to. It can be solved in the car in half an hour. What do you want me to do? Businessmen don’t do business at a loss.”

"Solve what?"

"Huh? Just sleep."

Li Bai spent a few seconds thinking about the meaning of "sleep".

"Female?" He felt that he needed to confirm again.

"Are you really stupid or fake stupid, of course you are a man." Deng Deng rolled his eyes, bit off a piece of roasted gluten with the tip of his teeth, and the red chili powder was stained on his swollen lips.

"Then how do you sleep?" Li Bai's scalp was already numb.

Deng Deng showed an unbelievable expression, "I thought you and your brother—"

"Fart!" Li Bai yelled, "My brother has a girlfriend."

"That's why you hate your sister-in-law so much," Deng Deng smiled and stood up, waving the string of roasted gluten in her hand as if dancing, "Oh, I understand, you don't know how to do it right, you don't know that men and men can also Comfortable, I didn’t expect that little white brother is really a bumpkin!” He squatted down by the coffee table again, and wrote a series of URLs crookedly, on the title page of the story meeting that Ah Zhong just turned over, “It’s very simple, I’m on it every day Learn tricks, you will know it at a glance!"

He enthusiastically pressed Li Bai's already stiff shoulders.

Li Bai never liked anyone else.

Regarding the word "like", what he subconsciously thought of was that You Lili likes Yang Jian, and Yang Jian also likes her, so they often stay together, justifiably, carefree, like any loving man and woman, they can kiss, Hugging, holding hands and disappearing into an alley without street lights, leaving everyone behind, because they are a couple.

But now, men can also like men?

Two men in the car, in bed, or something else?

Of course, at his age, it is impossible to have no desires. However, when he solves it by himself, he always feels uncomfortable. When he does it, he is very sad. When he is done, his hands are wet, and he almost wants to cry.Except for some flashing thoughts, at that time he would think of Yang Jian, in the few moments of dizziness when he closed his eyes, he could see the pair of black eyebrows and eyes in the light circle and shadow in front of him, it was an ungraspable feeling. They kept staring at each other, so thick and clear, like ink leaking from a pen.

Of course, I also asked myself the reason. It was because my mind was unclear and I couldn’t control myself. When he felt scared, he had to think about someone, just like he was squatting in the holly bushes waiting for someone to push the branches away to reveal whose face. And besides Yang Jian, no one would pick it up, and there was no one he was waiting for.

Now it seems that this is still the case?

Is it too stupid?

Li Bai stared straight at the torn title page in his hand, sitting on the hair-washing bed covered with a quilt, and began to wonder where there was such a small Internet cafe that he often went to in Nanjing that did not require adult registration.If Deng Deng was bragging and lying—he hoped that Deng Deng was talking nonsense.

At this moment, the phone rang, and two words were displayed on the tap: brother.The signal in the shop was not good, so Li Bai rushed outside without turning on the light. The traffic outside the locked glass door was still busy, and the lights and tree shadows were reflected on the mirror, the ground, and his face. He pressed the switch.

Before her breathing calmed down, "Brother" called out, but it was Yu Lili's voice that came into her ears, "Xiao Bai," she said softly, "I heard from your brother that you want to have a meal together tomorrow?"

"No," Li Bai saw in the mirror, his expression instantly became calm, "We agreed that it will be the day after tomorrow."

"Well, the day after tomorrow is because I don't have time tomorrow. He originally wanted to spend 520 with me. I love you. Few people spend it now. It's more interesting than Valentine's Day." You Lili smiled, "But when I thought about it, bring You can do it too, at six o'clock tomorrow afternoon, I will send you an address later, and you will wait for us there."