Chapter 86: Want to come back to the South Side for a visit.
Yu Fan is leaning stiffly against the closet, his breathing stopped, petrified along with the three men on the couch looking up at him, all seemingly waiting for a gust of wind to come along and blow them to powder.
Until the sound of Chen Jingshen opening the door to pick up the takeout came from over there.
Zuo Kuan was the first to speak up, "So your breakfast is in the back... it was delivered by mistake. Haha!"
Wang Luan : "Yeah. I'll see what I can do! Let me see the order ah - Youlin District 402, Mr. Chen, Remarks, Delivered to send a message, Do not knock, someone is sleeping ......"
"It must be that pretentious guy next door who wrote the wrong house number!" Zuo Kuan hit his thigh, "Yu Fan is not Chen!"
Wang Luan: "It's just--"
"I'm sorry Mr. Chen! I was in a bit of a hurry when it was almost timeout, and I forgot your note asking me not to knock! I'm really sorry!" On the other end, the takeout boy delivering breakfast nodded at the doorway.
"It's okay." Chen Jingshen said.
The silence around them again, Zhang Xianjing covered his face, hated to smack himself who came here with the two of them.
"What's going on here ......" Wang Luan, feeling awkward, interrupted with a dry smile, "Although Yu Fan doesn't have a girlfriend, it's normal for him to date a few like-minded people! Why do you make it look like Yu Fan is having sex with the school bully? Haha ......"
The last two stiff laughs faded and then stopped as Chen Jingshen walked into the living room.
Yu Fan's neck has a lot of marks but they are small, they can be treated as allergies, mosquito bites, but Chen Jingshen this ......
Chen Jingshen wore a round neck t-shirt, can not block his neck two teeth marks, and from the collarbone to the knot of the throat spot red marks, this kind of traces, either fight with someone, or with someone ......, the object must also be quite fierce kind of.
With a swish and pull, Chen Jingshen took back the paper bag on Wang Luan's lap and the lubrication in his hand, twisted his head and put it on the TV stand. Then he opened the takeout that had just been delivered, took out a bowl of clear white congee in the midst of several searing stares, and said to the motionless man leaning against the closet, "Eat something first."
Yu Fan had a thousand words in his throat, but in the end they only converged into one sentence: "Chen Jingshen, I'll fuck you up."
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This house is not going to last. It's a good thing Wang Luan was prepared before he came.
They came to this trip of course more than just a birthday on the go, Ningcheng Well, the famous tourist city, that have to go around, look at the scenery.
That's why he specifically asked a friend to borrow a car before he came, and the other person had already had the car delivered downstairs in the neighborhood and handed over the keys to him.
But Wang Luan came in a hurry and didn't bring his license, Zuo Kuan drove erratically and lost his points, and Zhang Xianjing didn't study at all.
Chen Jingshen was given the final responsibility of driving the car.
When he came to Ningcheng, Yu Fan naturally took him for a ride. After getting into the car, Chen Jingshen put on his seatbelt and asked the person beside him, "Where are we going?"
The other side of the facial muscles did not even a slight change. Just took out his cell phone and connected the car Bluetooth, not long after the navigation sweet voice came out: "Ready to go, the whole 16 kilometers, about 40 minutes."
There are three people sitting in the back, the two on either side looking out the window, and Wang Luan sitting in the center with his hands between his legs, staring at the road in front of him in self-loathing.
The car is quiet until the second stoplight, when Wang Luan breaks the mood with a clenched toe, "Can I smoke, schoolmarm?"
"Feel free." Chen Jingshen said.
The back two windows slid down, behind the three people coincidentally lit a cigarette, the car suddenly smoke.
"What's your situation now?" Zhang Xianjing couldn't stand it any longer and simply gritted his teeth and asked, "Getting back together?"
The two people next to him stretched their necks in curiosity, and then turned their heads to Zhang Xianjing in shock when they heard the last sentence.
"You knew about this all along, Sister Jing?" Wang Luan was dumbfounded, "What's the meaning of getting back together again???"
Zhang Xianjing frowned and closed his eyes, waving his hand with a cigarette in it, "Think for yourself."
"......"
Wang Luan was completely overwhelmed. With his arms propped up on the two seats in front of him and his head stretched forward, he questioned the two parties in front of him: "You've talked about this before? When? It can't be ...... high school ...... right ......"
"Can you tell?" Chen Jingshen inclined his head to look at the passenger side.
Wang Luan: "?"
Yu Fan, who was staring out the window, sitting in an odd position, his whole body nestled in the passenger seat, didn't say a word, but just raised his hand and sent Chen Jingshen an international gesture of friendship.
That means being able to talk.
Chen Jingshen pressed his finger back and said yes.
"But it's currently divided." Yu Fan picked up indifferently.
"When was it divided?" Chen Jingshen asked.
"Now."
"I didn't promise."
"With your promises? Who the hell are you." Yu Fan drew back his hand, "Fuck off, drive your car and don't look at me."
Wang Luan: ".................."
Wang Luan was struck by a heavy blow and lay back in a daze, leaning against Zuo Kuan, who reacted in the same way.
The conversation between the two, content aside, was almost indistinguishable in tone and reaction from high school.
When was this in high school? He spent every day with Yu Fan, how could he not have gotten the slightest inkling of it - no.
"No wonder." Wang Luan snapped out of it and muttered, "No wonder the school bully skipped his mom's midterm for you, and you went to the trouble of begging Fat Tiger to let him retake the test-"
"I did it for my own fucking sake!" Yu Fan's head snapped around at the unexpected reminder of his embarrassing past.
"I said ......" Zuo Kuan Nahan, "that time we fought with those fools in the billiard hall, I said how come you saw the school bully and chased after him, so it turned out to be the same as Zhu Xu fucking coaxed the object to go ......"
Yu Fan's scalp exploded and he refused to admit it, "I'm crazy to coax--"
Wang Luan: "And that time I asked you guys to go to an indoor amusement park, and you said you wanted to go on a date, and then you both came out of the movie theater cuddling and making out with each other!"
What's with the artistry? Yu Fan is shocked: "No straddling--"
Zuo Kuan: "Oh shit, Wang Luan, do you remember? At the parent-teacher conference, Yu Fan swore on a broomstick that she would marry the school bully!"
Yu Fan: "Laozi married a--"
Wang Luan clapped his hands, "Right, right, right! And the day I got my grades at the end of my sophomore year, the bully said I was going to get married after graduation, right on!"
Yu Fan: "I'm so happy for you--"
Zuo Kuan : "Oh! No wonder you helped the school bully move the chair at the movie that time! Zhu Xu also said he saw you two undressing in the lab building!!!"
Wang Luan: "Holy shit, is this happening? Why the fuck are you guys playing so hard to get? Wait, you guys don't buy strawberries like this at school, do you? That's too much..."
"Prepare to depart, the journey is 4 kilometers and will take approximately 7 minutes." The female voice from the navigation announced icily.
Chen Jingshen held the steering wheel with one hand, "Where is this going?"
"Kill and bury." Yu Fan said.
"Wouldn't it be better to just throw it into the sea." Chen Jingshen coldly said.
"Crowded and troublesome."
The car was finally quiet again.
The congee that Chen Jingshen ordered was said to be breakfast, but in fact the delivery time was already 2:00 p.m. Combined with the awkward time in the house and the drive, it was already close to 4:00 p.m. when they arrived at their destination.
Yu Fan took them to the most famous beach in Ninh City, which is also his most frequent location.
Now until the sunset is the most beautiful time of the beach scenery, the car drove through a stretch of mountains after a clear, a pink and blue sky into the eyes, and the sky connected to the sea like a layer of crystal clear diamonds paved.
It was much more beautiful than the rainy weather when Chen Jingshen was last here.
The people in the back row finally had their attention ripped away. Especially Zuo Kuan, who saw the sea for the first time after more than twenty years of life, a pair of eyes brightened abruptly, and immediately got out of the car to take pictures as soon as it stopped.
The beach was just below the stone steps, and Zuo Kuan excitedly poked his head down: "Damn, Wang Luan, this water is so clear, it's a pity not to drink it, let's go swimming! There are swimming trunks for sale down there!"
Wang Luan didn't even think about it, "No, no, no, I can't bring my stomach out to the public after months of nursing it, so you can drink it yourself."
"I'll buy you a swim and I'll give you a swim trunk! We're going back tomorrow, if we don't swim, we won't get a chance!"
"Don't, I've got plenty of opportunities, and besides who needs a pair of your swim trunks ...... hey don't you yank me!"
The two men pulled and tugged toward the bottom of the steps, Zhang Xianjing lazily ignored them, she did not understand how these men, who were in their twenties, were more childish than in high school.
She took out her cell phone and took a few pictures of the sky, and then picked the best one to send to a friend in WeChat, and after she sent it out, she realized that she had sent a sentence yesterday, "Zuo Kuan, with a mustache, actually become handsome," and the other party has not returned until now.
Huh, what the hell.
Zhang Xianjing tugged at the corner of his mouth in dissatisfaction, and was just about to withdraw it with a great deal of backbone when it buzzed.
[Ke Ting: Looks good.]
Zhang Xianjing: Why didn't you answer me yesterday? Barristers are great, aren't they?
Zhang Xianjing: It's better to go down and shoot, just wait.
Wang Luan was finally dragged into the water, the sea water is cold and exciting, he was cold and let Zuo Kuan slapped a few times on the belly, and now the two men are naked in the sea to kill and fight, the battle is fierce.
Zhang Xianjing, ankles submerged in seawater, holds up her cell phone and snaps left and right, and halfway through tells them both to get the hell out of her shot.
The short, awkward time of coming out finally came to an end, and several people were too accepting to feel any discomfort over their friend's sexual orientation. "My brother's a faggot" was lightly overridden by "Holy shit this water feels good."
Only the person in question was still lying in a beach chair with a murderous look on his face and hadn't said a word since he came down.
Chen Jingshen sat on the edge of his chair, his lips just moving.
Yu Fan: "Shut up."
So Chen Jingshen lowered his eyes and went to touch his fingertips, and the other party viciously drew his hand away again: "Touch again and chop off your fingers."
"I really didn't mean to." Chen Jingshen said, "I didn't think it would get into their hands."
Is that the fucking point?
Yu Fan was just about to kick him away when his cell phone buzzed.
"Hello, Lihai Express! Your insured parcel has been delivered to our Ningcheng Lihai Express station, are you at home now? Is it convenient for us to deliver it there now?"
"Insured package?" Yu Fan frowns, "Mine?"
"Yes, items insured for $250 need to be opened and inspected by you in person before signing for them."
"Sent by mistake, I didn't buy any warranty ......"
"I bought it." Chen Jingshen said, "Birthday present."
Yu Fan takes a moment, discusses a delivery time with the courier and hangs up, asking, "What is it?"
"Shots."
Yu Fan helped Wang Yue to send valuables, know the rules of the price guarantee, 250 yuan price guarantee fee is ......
Yu Fan sat up sharply and tried to get up, but was grabbed by Chen Jingshen, "Where to?"
"Pick up the delivery."
"There's no rush, go back and pick it up on the way."
Yu Fan was so anxious that he forgot to push people, he pinched Chen Jingshen's face: "Chen Jingshen, do you know about lenses and spend so much money on them? Are you being cheated?"
"No. I asked Wang Yue on behalf of that bride, and she said it was one of your recent favorites."
"......"
"Chen Jingshen, why are you prying into my favorites?"
"Because it's your boyfriend."
"Said break up."
"Then because I like you."
"......"
Both of them were handsome, and they were so close together that the people passing by around them couldn't help but take a second look at them.
Yu Fan could even feel the close attention of Zuo Kuan and Wang Lu'an not far away.
Before today, Yu Fan would have let go of his hand and stayed ten people away from Chen Jingshen, but he didn't care now, whatever, whoever the fuck he wanted to see.
Could it be that the inquisitive social death at noon today has sharpened him up?
Yu Fan absentmindedly contemplates Chen Jingshen's face for a moment, and Chen Jingshen suddenly leans over with his head tilted in the right direction.
Yu Fan pinched him with more force, stopping the man in his tracks, suddenly understanding.
Because Chen Jingshen is too candid.
You always have an indifferent face that doesn't care about the world, you don't care about other people's stares, and you never hide your liking for a person of the same sex, either in front of others or yourself. These personalities take shape when you are a student, and become even more reckless as you grow up and mature.
It's normal that it will be affected, right?
Yu Fan looked into his cold and deep eyes and suddenly asked, "Chen Jingshen, how did you come out of the closet?"
Chen Jingshen was silent for a moment, "Not really on purpose."
"Freshman year when someone confessed, I said I had a boyfriend. At first some people thought it was a joke and rejected it more, plus ......" Chen Jingshen paused, "they believed it."
"Plus what?" Yu Fan asked impatiently.
"Got drunk once and called your name."
"......"
Inexplicable emotions surged up and bubbled in the heart. Yu Fan said with a cold face, "Chen Jingshen, you still dare to drink with this amount of alcohol, shame on you."
Thinking about that night, Chen Jingshen blinked.
Not actually drunk, not too drunk.
It's just simply that I want to call you by your name now, it's been a long time.
"Just that one time." Chen Jingshen said.
Yu Fan stared at the bridge of his nose, and after a long time asked vaguely, "What about your ...... home. So many people at school know about it, it won't spread to your family?"
"No need to pass."
Yu Fan froze and snapped her eyes up at him, "What do you mean?"
"I told them that my senior year."
Yu Fan's expression was stunned, and his hands slowly loosened and dropped.
"What do you ...... say."
"Say I like you."
"......"
Yu Fan If I hadn't met his family, I would have thought he came out of this closet with unbelievable ease.
And ......
"Chen Jingshen, are you stupid?" Yu Fan said, "I've thrown you away, why are you still coming out of the closet? What do you mean you like me?"
Chen Jingshen smiled, "Isn't this picking it up?"
"......"
His chest sore again, Yu Fan slumped back into his beach chair with a tense face, and couldn't help but continue, "What happens when you're done?"
Chen Jingshen lowered her eyes for two seconds and reached out to scratch his palm, "It was nothing. Got yelled at and slapped a few times and told to send me overseas."
Fingers tightened, and the lips of the man with the tightly closed eyes quivered, holding his fingers in place.
Chen Jingshen : "I ran away from home after the surveillance was changed to the latest model, got me a psychiatrist, and tried to confiscate my cell phone. Went out on my own to rent a house."
With his hand held tightly, clasped and folded between his fingers, Chen Jingshen could feel his pounding pulse.
Chen Jingshen : "The first suite rented near the seven middle school, small, but enough, did not live a few months on graduation. The second suite in the vicinity of JNU, when there were scholarships, but also participated in a few competitions, rented the third suite we looked at that time in the Internet cafe, did not live long the landlord's side said to use the room, lived back in the school dormitory."
"The third house, the present one. Near the company, good view, enough room for two people, just not fully furnished and rather empty. Want to go and stay for a few days?"
Yu Fan was listening attentively, and it took him a long time to react. He opened his eyes afterward and met Chen Jingshen's eyes stupefiedly.
Chen Jingshen squeezed his fingers.
"Yu Fan," he said, "would you like to come back to South City for a visit."
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Published at: 08/25/2024 08:00