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Chapter 13. The past: tacit understanding

Wei Yu stayed in the room for a long time after washing the dishes.

In fact, it was not too long, only 27 minutes, which Xu Mingzhao felt was too long.

He leaned on the sofa and played two games in a perfunctory manner. The operation was weird, and he was scolded by his teammates, but he didn't care, he should be scolded.

He threw the phone aside and was about to get up and knock on Wei Yu's door, when Wei Yu just opened the door and came out with a plastic bag in his hand.

Seeing Xu Mingzhao who was standing a little dignified, Wei Yu was taken aback for a moment, then went to the table and put down the bag on his hand, and said to him: "You need to tidy up the tools you need first."

Xu Mingzhao happily ran to the dining table, took out everything from the bag, and Wei Yu went back to his room to get his own tools and drawings.

At the bottom of the bag was a small ticket held down by a steel ruler, and the purchase time on it was at noon today.

Wei Yu sat across from Xu Mingzhao, watching him unpack the new tool.

"Be careful with the penknife blade." Wei Yu took out five paper towels and handed them to Xu Mingzhao, "Wrap this up and wipe off the anti-rust oil on the blade slowly, so as not to scratch your hands."

"Why do you need to wipe it? Aren't you afraid of rust?"

"It's better to wipe it off. The blade wears out quickly and has to be replaced before it rusts, and it's okay to wipe off the oil. Just wipe the blade you're using."

Xu Mingzhao listened curiously to Wei Yu's explanation. In front of him were the same tools as Wei Yu: cutting board, pen knife, steel ruler, scissors, curved tweezers, awl with a log handle, and an oil-based pen.

In the middle of the table are things shared by two people, paper towels, cotton swabs and white glue.

After Xu Mingzhao installed the blade, Wei Yu handed over a pack of cardboard, the completed picture on it was a panda headgear.

"You do this first, it's easier. If you feel bored doing it, you can play games at any time. I'll clean it up."

"How can it be boring, you bought a whole set of tools for me on purpose, I can't waste your kindness."

"Tools...I bought an extra set of tools for spare, you don't have to worry about this."

"You can buy replacement blades for pen knives. If you have a spare, do you need to buy a special handle?" Xu Mingzhao raised the small cylinder with replacement blades and shook it slightly to Weiyu.

"The handle of the knife is easy to break."

"What about the steel ruler? What about the backing board? It's also easy to break?" Xu Mingzhao said as he broke the ruler in his hand.

"Easy to lose."

"Okay." Xu Mingzhao looked at Wei Yu's dodging eyes and shook his head helplessly, "No—frankly—ah—"

But with a smile.

Following Wei Yu's example, Xu Mingzhao carefully cut the drawings with a steel ruler and a pen knife. The edges of all parts are straight lines, which is indeed very simple. Unlike Wei Yu's architectural drawings, he often needs to replace the pen knife with scissors to trim the arcs.

The panda headgear only needs to cut and fold the drawings in order, and paste each adhesive edge according to the corresponding number, and it is completed.

After cutting the two drawings, he folded the paper directly along the folded lines, and the folded lines were neither straight nor neat.

Wei Yu kept his head down and focused on his church model, but he said leisurely: "The cardboard is thick, you have to use an awl to draw the fold line first, so that it can be folded nicely."

Xu Mingzhao tried to draw the line with an awl, and it was really easy to fold.

"The lined side of this headgear must face inward and cannot be exposed. But the crease line is based on the lined side, so the dotted line is a valley fold, which is concave from the front without the line. The dotted line is reversed. You're reversed."

When he said this, Wei Yu just glanced up at the paper in Xu Mingzhao's hand, and immediately lowered his head to stick the tower pillar in his hand.

Xu Mingzhao folded every crease back in reverse, held the paper and shook it at Wei Yu: "Is this so?"

"Ah."

In three hours, Xu Mingzhao made half of the panda headgear.

It was almost ten o'clock, when Wei Yu put away his things, he saw Xu Mingzhao rubbing his eyes with a pen knife. He was afraid that Xu Mingzhao would be frightened by making a noise, so he waited until Xu Mingzhao's hand was put down before speaking.

"Don't rub your eyes with a pen knife, it's dangerous."

"Oh." Xu Mingzhao closed the lid of the penknife firmly.

"Don't knead with empty hands, your hands are full of glue."

Xu Mingzhao looked his hands back and forth, and there was indeed a lot of dried white glue on his fingertips, and after rubbing it lightly, it became a thin film.When he first started pasting models, he always squeezed white glue directly onto the cardboard to save trouble, and the glue overflowing from the pasting edge stained his hands.Later, he followed Wei Yu's example and folded a paper towel in half twice, first squeezed the white glue onto the paper towel, then dipped a cotton swab into the glue and spread it evenly on the paper.

He looked at Wei Yu's hand, and found Wei Yu's nails were very short for the first time.

Despite the short nails, Wei Yu's hands are still beautiful.There are faint blue veins floating on the back of the hand. The fingers are very long with distinct joints. If the nails are longer, they will definitely look more delicate.

"your hands……"

Before Xu Mingzhao finished speaking, Wei Yu noticed his gaze, and immediately clenched his hands into fists on the table, wrapping his thumb inside the other four fingers, and hiding all ten nails without a trace.

"You didn't even get any glue on your hands. It's amazing. I thought these models were for children to play with, but I didn't expect them to be so particular."

Wei Yu's expression told Xu Mingzhao that this was a restricted area that he could not touch, so he had no choice but to change the subject.

"So what if it's played by a child? Can't you have the simple happiness of a child when you grow up?"

In the days that followed, Wei Yu still cooked for Xu Mingzhao, and returned to his room after washing the dishes.He never told Xu Mingzhao in advance whether he would still have time to make models together that day. He didn't want to let Xu Mingzhao down by saying yes in advance and breaking his promise because he didn't do a good job in what he was doing.

He sometimes thought that perhaps Xu Mingzhao would not be disappointed.

But he didn't want to say in advance that he couldn't.Sometimes homework or other things would be finished ahead of time, and there would be a little time for him and Xu Mingzhao to make models. He was a little lucky about his efficiency, and he wanted to stay with Xu Mingzhao, even if it was just for a while.

It is a signal that Wei Yu puts two tools on the dining table, and Xu Mingzhao will put down the game in his hand and run to sit at the dining table, waiting for Wei Yu to give him a new model blueprint.

This unspoken tacit understanding lay between the two, and neither of them took a step forward to break the balance.

It took Xu Mingzhao three days to finish the panda headgear. When it was done, Xu Mingzhao was very excited. He wore it and waited for Wei Yu to look up at him.

Wei Yu flatly praised: "Well done."

Xu Mingzhao's room had no spare space, and the panda headgear was stored on Wei Yu's bookshelf.

Xu Mingzhao will gradually chat with Wei Yu while making models, saying that it is chatting, but in fact most of the time it is Xu Mingzhao's unilateral talk, talking about all kinds of mess.

Wei Yu's response is usually not much, but Xu Mingzhao likes Wei Yu's appropriate alienation from him.

Paradoxically, when he confided, he was longing for attention, but Wei Yu's rational and indifferent "not paying attention" made him very comfortable.

Wei Yu's attitude will not be like other people's, making him feel that he is complaining or showing off.Wei Yu didn't have much desire to talk, and would be eager to cut off the conversation and talk about his own affairs before he finished speaking.Wei Yu will not blindly stand in line with preconceived ideas, blindly catering to his attitude or opinion.Wei Yu would not magnify his unstructured words, trying to analyze the subtext from them.

He often feels that Wei Yu is not listening to him, but he can also hear Wei Yu asking him "and then" after a long pause, his expression is still focused on looking down at the model.

He can also get Wei Yu's reminder when he forgets where to talk.

He will find that Wei Yu remembers even his casual words at many moments, such as when Wei Yu reminds him of the game time of his favorite game team and the release date of the new game.

Occasionally, Wei Yu would let out a long sigh, and would deliberately explain that it was not because he was impatient listening to him, but because he was impatient after making models for a long time.

Most of the time, when he didn't speak, the room was so quiet that there was only the sound of steel rulers falling on the table or tools marking lines. The two sat silently, each busy, and he didn't find it awkward or strange.

The hands of the two holding cotton swabs or paper towels touched each other. At that moment, he felt that time slowed down for a few seconds. Wei Yu looked at his hands and then at his face. His face seemed to be blushing. He It doesn't feel awkward or weird either.

Wei Yu is very good at grasping the distance between the two, and he likes staying with Wei Yu very much.

He fell in love with making paper models, and Weiyu.

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I've been a little busy recently, I'm in a bad mood, I'm not in good health, it's even slower, I'm sorry.

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