Xia Chang

Winter in the north is a heavy flag bulging in the wind.

For the competition, Liu Xiaobai did not have enough confidence. The first second he stood outside the airport, the tip of his nose was sore from the cold. Zhang Nian was dragging his only suitcase, and was holding up his mobile phone to talk to the taxi driver.

The wind ruffled the hair on their foreheads.

It has been a long time since Zhang Nian's birthday. After that, the two of them ignored Liu Xiaobai's blurred and messy memories after being drunk. Zhang Nian became less and less like himself, just like at this time, he After finishing the call, he leaned over and asked with a smile, "Is it cold?"

"It's not cold." Liu Xiaobai pursed his purple lips, and his teeth were chattering after he finished speaking.

Zhang Nian suddenly reached up and rubbed Liu Xiaobai's smooth hair with his cold right hand. He rarely wore glasses outside, and he was a little cautious after being impulsive, and suddenly avoided Liu Xiaobai's confused gaze.

Looking at the distance and laughing.

Liu Xiaobai's face was full of displeasure, and he said, "You are more and more fond of laughing at me."

"No, no." Zhang Nian waved his hands and walked to the side of the road.

Liu Xiaobai followed behind him. The two of them were fully prepared, so they were not thinly dressed, and the air was very dry. The temperature rose in the nasal cavity, and Liu Xiaobai suddenly sneezed.

The street scene of an unfamiliar city dodged past the car window, Liu Xiaobai suddenly held his breath, for a moment he mistakenly felt that he had escaped from his original life and was about to fall into boundless freedom.

How free is it?Even Zhang Nian can be by his side.

Liu Xiaobai turned his neck mechanically, leaving only a narrow line of sight on Zhang Nian, who peeked at him.

Zhang Nian approached him with his mobile phone in hand, showed him a funny picture on the Internet, and said, "It's great to come out, I was strangled to death in my third year of high school."

"You never talk like that."

"You rarely talk like that."

Liu Xiaobai gritted his teeth, and he fought back by pinching Zhang Nian's arm. He said, "Don't compete anymore, okay, let's go back, okay?"

"No, no, no, okay, I was wrong..." Zhang Nian didn't seem to be begging for mercy in a humble way, he suddenly seemed very well-behaved, and his tone of voice was softer than before; he huddled in the chair in the back of the car Go up, looking at Liu Xiaobai with sincere eyes.

The driver wore a white shirt and black tie and never spoke.

For children in the south, wearing gloves is also a luxurious sense of ritual. The two went to see the widest river in the city, and the wind cut their pale cheeks.

It was almost dusk, and the sky was still a heavy gray. Zhang Nian was holding candied haws that were frozen hard, and the two of them walked along the lit alley.

On both sides of the alley is the gradually noisy night market.

Liu Xiaobai's teeth hit the straw of the hot milk tea. He raised his eyes and looked at the messy wires in the air not far away, took a deep breath, and said, "I suddenly don't want to go back, isn't it strange?"

"Do you like the north? You can go to a university in the north in the future and stay here forever," Zhang Nian said with a thick white mist, and with his other hand in the pocket of his long padded jacket, he handed the candied haws to Liu Xiaobai's eyes , asked him, "Would you like a bite?"

Liu Xiaobai opened his mouth and bit down a big one. His cheeks were so swollen that he couldn't speak for a while. After a few seconds, he said vaguely: "It's so hard, so hard to bite."

"It's not hard to bite." After finishing speaking, Zhang Nian also bit one down. The two puffed up half their faces, looked at each other, and laughed behind the mist of breath.

The eyebrows and eyes of each other are familiar, and the habitual expressions and movements are also familiar. Liu Xiaobai held the still hot milk tea, raised his hand, and covered his face with the cup.

"What is the goal of the college entrance examination?" Zhang Nian asked him.

Liu Xiaobai was silent for a few seconds, he stuffed the empty cup and paper bag into the trash can by the side of the road, then rubbed his cold cheeks with his palm, and said, "If you get a good grade in the exam, let everything else go by chance... What about you? "

"Maybe going abroad."

"Is it possible—to stay for her?"

"Yes, but he doesn't like me."

Zhang Nian lowered his head and looked at the light gray bricks under his feet. His hair was in the wind, and had a softer arc than usual. He curled his lips, didn't explain anything, and didn't seem to expect anything.

Liu Xiaobai followed him and sighed.

The sky is getting darker, from gray to black, and the cold at night can penetrate the skin, making the blood vessels start to constrict.

Sneaking in from a busy schedule to a strange place, this time the physical competition turned into a virtual vacation time for the two of them. The sky seemed to be very heavy, and black, soft residue was about to fall.

The room is warm, and the warm current wraps people around, forming a temporarily safe and comfortable cocoon beyond the cold. After a whole day of running around, Liu Xiaobai quickly fell asleep. He quietly occupied one side of the bed, very slowly. breathing.

Zhang Nian stretched out his hand carefully, and his knuckles touched Liu Xiaobai's shoulder in pajamas.

Feeling more and more itchy in his heart, Zhang Nian approached him after hesitation, and the two of them were covered by the wide quilt on the big bed, so they could easily approach and touch.

Zhang Nian imagined many ways to hug, his respiratory tract was numb, with an itch from his heart, and finally surged in his throat, and he began to have a dull pain; it was also a kind of rich and sweet swelling pain, in fact, many times Here, extreme liking will turn into the most direct and pure desire to touch.

Zhang Nian pretended to be asleep.

Just like that, he approached the person around him with his eyes closed, and then leaned his forehead on Liu Xiaobai's shoulder. During this process, the other person's body temperature began to linger around Zhang Nian's mouth and nose. hand caught.

Liu Xiaobai suddenly turned around in his dream, and unconsciously, the two snuggled into a close and restrained posture, Zhang Nian's heart itched even more, and he took two deep breaths.

Pretending to be asleep does give people courage.

It was very late, and Zhang Nian still didn't fall asleep. He was a brave man, but he flinched from the rapidly growing affection. He never worried about the world. From the beginning to the end, he was only worried about himself.

Worried about the expression of disgust or shock that may appear on Liu Xiaobai's face.

Zhang Nian didn't make a sound. He opened his eyes in the dark and mouthed a sentence: Would you believe it?

After one o'clock in the morning, the screen of the charging mobile phone next to the bed suddenly lit up. Zhang Nian took it to look at it, and found that it was a boring advertisement push.

He stared at Liu Xiaobai's sleeping face with the help of the light from the cell phone. Zhang Nian bit his lower lip lightly. He put the cell phone on the pillow and approached Liu Xiaobai himself, covering his face in the shadow. .

The fire burned from the heart into the stomach, the brain, and burned to the fingertips... It was a painful burning sensation, which made people impulsive and cowardly.

To be bored, but also happy.

Like chewing a lot of soft candies, like putting cream on the tip of the tongue, like warm water in winter, warming people from head to toe, and then, breathing and laughing, hiding in the white mist.

The phone's screen went off.