Chapter 64: You're the #1 boyfriend in your grade.
Summer in the South Side is like being suffocated in a steamer basket, and even if a barbecue restaurant has a few big fans whirring above the customers' heads, it still can't expel the dryness in the air.
Yu Fan sat in the middle of it, feeling that a basin of ice water was poured all over his face, and the surroundings suddenly went cold.
Yu Kaiming is back. Yu Kaiming is in the neighborhood. Yu Kaiming is watching him.
Every realization was stimulating Yu Fan's nerves. His shoulders straightened unconsciously, and his eyes looked around vigilantly, never finding that familiar and repulsive face.
Why did you give him something? What did Yu Kaiming see? Did he and Chen Jingshen ...... do anything just now?
Yu Fan didn't realize how hard he was blushing right now.
Chen Jingshen looked at him in silence for a while, and reached out to touch his tense fingertips, but just as soon as they were pressed together, the other party immediately drew back his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
Yu Fan's movements were faster than his mind. He froze for a while, before looking up into Chen Jingshen's eyes.
"...... My hands are greasy." Yu Fan found his voice. His face quickly returned to its normal color, skimming his eyes and asking, "Have you eaten enough?"
"Uh-huh."
"Let's go then." Yu Fan picked up the iron plate that the boss's wife had finally sent over, lifted it to the trash can and flipped it gently, and several strings of chicken wings fell into a black plastic bag with a rustling sound.
Back in the old neighborhood, Yu Fan looked up and saw that the lights were on. The lamp in the living room was old, so it could be used for illumination, but it was bad for the eyes if left on for a long time, and the lingering light gave people a feeling of depression and discomfort.
Walking to the gate of the neighborhood, Chen Jingshen's clothes were tugged on by someone behind him.
"Don't go up there." Yu Fan didn't look at him with her eyes downcast, "Wait for me here, I'll get your paper down."
"Together." Chen Jingshen said.
"Wait as long as you're told."
Yu Fan turned around to leave after saying that. Chen Jingshen reached out to hold him, remembering his reaction earlier he paused for a moment and went up to hold his arm.
"I'll go up with you," said Chen Jingshen, "and wait just outside the door."
Although Yu Fan did not mention his relationship with his family, Chen Jingshen could roughly guess.
Chen Jingshen didn't point it out, but Yu Fan looked straight back at him, "No need, he's scared of him from last time, he doesn't dare to mess with me lately. You wait here, don't go anywhere."
When Yu Fan pushed the door into the house, Yu Kaiming was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone.
Yu Kaiming glanced at him and turned his head back to the TV, saying cheerfully under his breath, "Yeah, just got home. Fuck. I told you to bet with me on that one, but you didn't listen! I told you to bet with me on that one game, but you didn't listen! Now you're blaming me - okay, okay, okay, I'll make you rich next time ......"
Yu Fan didn't even look at him and went straight into his room.
It seems that their pattern of getting along has become fixed. After each fight, Yu Kaiming would leave the house for a short time, giving each of them time to calm down and recover, and then come back and treat each other like air, just as they always did. They wait in silence for the next bomb to go off.
His relationship with Yu Kaiming was like a scar that would never heal, it would scab over, crack, and close up again after a bloody patch. Yu Fan used to choose to ignore it, he gave himself up and waited, waiting for the scar to completely necrotic and die one day.
But he didn't want to rot with the scar now.
Yu Fan's face was expressionless from the moment he exited the grill until he entered the house and went back to his room. But in fact, his heart was beating faster than usual all the way.
It's a good thing Yu Kaiming didn't see anything he couldn't see, or he wouldn't have been so peaceful.
He propped his hand on the table and calmed down for two minutes, and after hiding some things carefully, he grabbed Chen Jingshen s test paper and turned to go downstairs.
Yu Kaiming rested his feet on the coffee table, talking on the phone with an unconcerned face. As soon as the door of the room closed, his eyes immediately turned over and stared at the closed door for a while.
It wasn't until the inquiry came over the phone that he collected his gaze and slowly rose from the couch.
"Yes, my cheap son went out ...... without a fight, I am too lazy to fight with him, the dog thing is really fucking heavy handed, which day the old man is almost killed by him, this month I have to look for that watch to get more money as medical expenses."
Yu Kaiming went to the living room window and looked down. The streetlights in the old neighborhood were dim, and he saw his son walk up to the boy who had been at the barbecue earlier and hand over the roll.
"You also curb your temper, how many less injuries can you get if you talk to him less? Be careful to make your son angry, grow up not to give you old age." The person on the phone said, "It's a rebellious period, so bear with him, he'll be obedient after a few years."
"Am I not good enough for him? I took him to KFC when he was seven years old, and just now ordered two skewers of chicken wings for him and his friend, I don't think it's a rebellion issue, the dog is wild as hell ...... But it does seem to be getting better lately, and I see that he seems to be studying, and he's made a friend that seems to be quite well-behaved."
Yu Kaiming's eyes focused on the tall and skinny boy downstairs, and he was quiet for a moment before continuing, "That friend of his looks pretty rich."
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Downstairs in the old neighborhood, Yu Fan shoved the test papers into Chen Jingshen's hand and told him not to come over for a while.
Chen Jingshen, after making sure he didn't do it upstairs, said, "Go to my house."
"No go."
"Then I'll see you where."
Yu Fan remained silent for a while and stifled a sentence, "I'll see you at the start of school."
"......"
That being said, Yu Fan went home and slept for a while, and after completely pulling herself out of her emotions, the first thing she did when she woke up was to fight back her sleep and search her cell phone for a place where she could take Chen Jingshen.
When he passed on all the movie theaters, amusement parks, ktv arcades, etc., Chen Jingshen's message came through.
[s: I'm downstairs at your house, waking up and coming down.]
Yu Fan narrowed his eyes and stared at the line for a long time, jerking awake! He jumped up from the bed and typed as he changed his clothes.
[-: Didn't I fucking say you weren't allowed to come over!!!]
[-: Wait, I just woke up]
[S: So I didn't go in.]
[s: Bring the rolls.]
Yu Fan had just been dragged into a cab by Chen Jingshen with an extra breakfast in his hand. Sandwiches and milk.
Chen Jingshen said, "Try it, and if you don't like it, then you can take you to eat something else."
Yu Fan unwrapped the bag and took a bite, realizing that Chen Jingshen was still looking at him, he frowned and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Chen Jingshen asks, "Is it good?"
"Make do."
"Oh. I made it myself."
"Hard to eat."
Chen Jingshen turned his face away with a smile.
Yu Fan took another bite of his sandwich, his mind still sleepy and foggy. This was going on a date? At ten in the morning? And what's the point of bringing papers, doing a set of papers after the date?
Chen Jingshen is not incapable of doing such things.
When the car stopped, Yu Fan stood in front of the grand and atmospheric provincial library for two seconds of silence, and turned around to go back to the car.
Chen Jingshen fished the man back, "Where to?"
"Go home and sleep." Yu Fan said with a wooden face, his eyes still a little swollen from sleep underneath his messy hair, "Chen Jingshen, do you think it's appropriate for me to enter a place like this?"
"Why wouldn't it fit?" Chen Jingshen said, "You're in the top 500 of your grade."
"Roll."
Chen Jingshen arm lifted to rub his hair, "You're the number one boyfriend in the grade."
"......"
Ten minutes later, Yu Fan, wearing a black skull short t and two band-aids on her neck to cover her hickey, sat down under the sunlight coming in through the clear glass of the library's study room with a face full of displeasure.
Chen Jingshen picked not many people inside the study room, are two or two companions, sitting on their left and right.
They sat in the last row, Yu Fan flattened out the wrinkled test paper he had stuffed in his pocket, and Chen Jingshen skillfully took a pen from his pencil bag and put it on his paper.
"Do it first, then change to another study room if it's noisy." Chen Jingshen said, "Leave the questions you don't know empty."
Yu Fan looked at the four people besides them and was a bit unresponsive, didn't the library not allow talking? Why is it so noisy?
Soon he knew.
Without sitting for long, the pair of boys and girls on his left had already begun to you touch my hand, and I touch your head, their faces were damn close to each other.
Soon, the pair on the right also made noises, and the conversations were about "Baby, are you hungry or cold?", "Baby, that boy behind you looks so scary", "Baby, don't be afraid, there's a baby here! ".
Yu Fan stared expressionlessly at the test paper, thinking Get lost, I am much more decent than you guys.
One after another, other people came in, and the two couples finally quieted down.
The library was surprisingly quiet, and people like Yu Fan, who weren't quite able to sit still, were in there holding two papers without a word until the cell phone in his pocket vibrated a few times before he drew back.
[Wang Luan: Where are you? Come out to the Internet, we're all at Bad Boys. Let's go to the ktv again tonight, Zuo Kuan and I have thought it over, you will be the one to sing "Lost Love Front Alliance" for Zhu Xu tonight.
Sick? He's not out of love, league my ass.
Yu Fan originally wanted to reply "library", but after typing it out, he felt that these three words really don't fit his temperament. So he pressed delete and re-sent: [Date].
Wang Luan: Damn it, Zhu Xu saw your reply on my computer screen and left his seat to go to the toilet with his face covered!
[-: ......]
Can you blame him?
When Yu Fan turned off his cell phone and looked up again, he realized that the two couples in front of him had left at some point.
Also, what couple can stay up so damn long in the library that they can't talk.
Chen Jingshen has already overdone today s homework and is now flipping through some heavy book. Yu Fan swept him a glance, thinking Dog thief, tomorrow I will definitely not fall for your tricks.
The next moment, Chen Jingshen pinched his thumb in the center of the page, picked up the book with one hand, and suddenly leaned toward him.
Yu Fan lazily rested one hand on the table to turn the pen and said irritably, "What the ......"
The people in front of them were all reading with their backs to them. Heavy books were held up in the air, blocking the faces of both men.
They kissed briefly. Mint scented close and out of the way, Chen Jingshen whispered, "After this one, I'll accompany you to Wang Luan and the others."
Yu Fan's pen-turning motion was still frozen, "How do you know?"
"They said it in the group."
Yu Fan rubbed his nose, and only after a long time did he manage to squeeze out a small "Oh".
-
In late July, the South City officially entered the scorching heat of the three-volt days, and it seemed as if you would melt in the sun if you stayed on the street for a little while longer.
Next semester they would officially be seniors, and their summer vacation this time was severely curtailed to a full 20 days, but the amount of homework the teachers had to do in each subject didn't change as a result.
The class group was buzzing with it, and every day people asked who had finished their papers to borrow and copy them.
Half of the vacation flew by in these questions. On this day, Wang Luan messaged Yu Fan early in the morning, wanting to meet up with him and not hand in his homework.
Yu Fan brushes his teeth and types, telling him he's a few sheets short of being done.
Wang Luan: What the hell? You're a traitor, aren't you?
[Wang Luan: Yu Fan, tell me straight, did you talk to a schoolteacher girlfriend.]
Yu Fan brushes his teeth with a lurch, spitting out the foam before typing.
[-: Fuck off, don't guess.]
He grabbed the paper he hadn't done and was ready to go out to the library. As he passed the TV, he smelled a stench. It was the snail noodles Yu Kaiming had ordered last night, which was already stinking, and a number of empty bottles of wine had been dumped next to it.
Yu Kaiming was sleeping on the sofa, and Yu Fan frowned in disgust, wanting to kick him awake. Just as he walked over, Yu Kaiming's cell phone, which was lying on the table, suddenly lit up with a ding.
Your Alipay friend Yun Shan (臭表子) transferred 5,000 RMB to you, with the message: Fanfan's living expenses in August.
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Published at: 08/03/2024 08:00