Let me live [Quick Transmigration]
Chapter 235 Liberation
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It was only in the afternoon that Lu You remembered that there was already a signal to go online here. He took out his mobile phone and found that he had turned off the network switch at some point.After connecting to the Internet and opening the communication software, I saw a bombardment of unread messages displayed in red numbers.
The news in the classmate group naturally reached the upper limit of 99+, and the rest basically came from Yuan Xiaoxiao.The last message was just over half an hour ago. The question "did your phone fall into the water" was followed by a series of question marks twice as long as this sentence.Lu You thought something was wrong in his heart, he felt as if he would break out in a cold sweat when he forgot to do his homework and was discovered by the teacher.Seeing that Yuan Xiaoxiao's avatar was gray and offline, he first picked the best shot from the photo album overlooking the sea and sent it to him. He dragged to the first message and started looking down from the beginning.
Just after the college entrance examination, Lu You has not yet developed the habit of playing with his mobile phone, and he often forgot to check the news before.Yuan Xiaoxiao complained about this several times, and he didn't expect him to reply in time. If he was not in a hurry, he would send it whenever he saw it. If he was in a hurry, he would call directly.In fact, before the exam, they met in school almost every day, and there was no place where they needed to use their mobile phones.The last conversation between Lu You and her before the internet was disconnected was when Lu You reported that he got off the plane and was going to buy a local phone card. Yuan Xiaoxiao replied with an OK gesture.After that, she asked what the new number was. Lu You was already on the island at that time, and she didn't reply since then.
When the contact was disconnected for a day or two, Yuan Xiaoxiao didn't pay much attention to it. The chat history was full of her talking to herself, so she asked Lu You to take more photos and send them back. He also wished him a happy birthday and took a picture of the pen as a gift. Send it to him to let him "surprise" first.But Lu You still didn't respond, Yuan Xiaoxiao poked him several times to ask about the situation, his tone changed from teasing to complaining, and then he really started to worry.
Ever since Lu You arrived on the island, his mind has been filled with Qi Zhengyun, Qi Zhengyun, Qi Zhengyun, or he just couldn't think of anything; although he was also worried that the inability to send and receive messages would make those who wanted to contact him uneasy, but he never thought about it for a long time I was distracted by other things, and once again left it behind.He turned back to the last one, stared at the long string of question marks for a few seconds, and thought with great guilt: His behavior... can be regarded as a standard "seeing sex and forgetting friends", right?
He has been hiding the fact that he likes Qi Zhengyun and didn't want anyone to know about it. Did he really hide it from Qi Zhengyun... He is very suspicious now, but Yuan Xiaoxiao probably didn't notice it, and it is even more impossible for him to take the initiative to tell his mother .Thinking of Yuan Xiaoxiao's disliked attitude towards Qi Zhengyun, Lu You just felt a headache, and couldn't imagine how she would react if he told Yuan Xiaoxiao "I'm with Qi Zhengyun".
If he confessed again, it was still on his own initiative...
... Lu You suspected that Yuan Xiaoxiao would never believe it.Compared to being so angry at his "betrayal" that he didn't even want to talk to him, she probably felt that Qi Zhengyun not only monopolized his social interaction and controlled his sphere of activities, but now he has progressed to brainwash him...
Just when Lu You was so worried, Yuan Xiaoxiao's profile picture above the chat bar lit up.Just a few seconds after going online, a new message consisting entirely of exclamation points popped out of the chat box.Lu You didn't expect her to be online again so soon, so he bit the bullet and replied with a smile, and started typing to explain why he had been missing for several days.Before finishing writing, Yuan Xiaoxiao sent a call request, and Lu You answered it again.The sound transmission effect of the chat software's built-in call function is average. Lu You heard the girl's voice with a kind of salad noise like an old-fashioned phone, and asked coldly and politely: "Who are you?"
For a moment, Lu You couldn't tell whether she said that deliberately in anger, or if she really thought that someone else had taken the phone and was testing it. "It's me." He said cautiously, and he could still hear the time difference between his own voice and Yuan Xiaoxiao's receiving and replaying, "I'm sorry, I was in a place with a bad signal before, and I haven't been able to connect to the Internet. ..."
Yuan Xiaoxiao was silent for a while.Then she started growling.Lu You hurriedly took out the earphones from the side pocket of the backpack and plugged them in, so as not to disturb others with the external sound. "I'm going to die!" Yuan Xiaoxiao yelled without temperament, "It's been five days! I'm still thinking about whether to call the police and say that you have been trafficked! I wish you a happy birthday and you didn't reply! You are telling the truth Tell me! Did you play with that Qi Zhengyun until you completely forgot about me—"
Lu You wondered why this conversation felt so strange?He felt a little blushing, and he was really guilty about this matter, and he would only keep apologizing when Yuan Xiaoxiao lost his temper.Qi Zhengyun came back with two coconuts, stood behind Lu You and listened for a while, and felt that Lu You was really attracted to the kind of people who had a bit of a control freak potential in their hearts.The girl had always disliked him, most of it was due to the mixed-race crisis instinct, but there must also be some reasons for her jealousy of the fact that Lu You turned to share her life with another person more.
It could be seen that she didn't have any thoughts about Lu You, but that she was used to treating herself as a protector because of her possessive desire, and Qi Zhengyun never cared about her.A little girl who is only in her teens and can only jump when she is so angry... If he is serious about "competing" with her, it will be a bit ridiculous.However, after hearing Lu You seriously apologize to her, explain to her, and promise to bring her a gift when he comes back in that kind of helpless and gentle tone, Qi Zhengyun still felt a strong sense of displeasure from the bottom of his heart.
According to Lu You's character of being more difficult to reject people who are closer to him and afraid of changes, it is estimated that he may not be able to decide to confess when he hesitates after returning from the trip until the start of school.Qi Zhengyun decided to push Lu You one more time, and by the way, to be angry with that little girl who always tried to tarnish his image in Lu You's heart, it would be best if she could just extinguish this giant light bulb that was stuck to Lu You - she was in college. He will be classmates with Lu You for another four years. Qi Zhengyun didn't sabotage this aspect and get her away directly, which is already a good performance of his patience.
He walked up to Lu You and put the coconut with the straw on the table.The back of Lu You's shoulder was touched by Qi Zhengyun, and he looked up at him on the chair, smiling helplessly, thinking that Qi Zhengyun wanted to talk to him, he raised his hand and took off the earphone on his side.When he was wearing it, Qi Zhengyun could actually hear it, but when he took it off, he could hear it more clearly. Yuan Xiaoxiao's voice came from the earpiece, "You have to promise to reply to my message, at least once a day, right? Otherwise I will I don't know if something happened to you." She was saying, "Don't go on without hearing from me for a few days like before..."
From a purely logical point of view, this kind of request for people who travel abroad to report their safety every day is really normal.Lu You's expression was a bit perplexed, probably because he was trying to explain to her that he would lose contact again after returning to the island tomorrow.Qi Zhengyun bent down with one hand propped on the back of the chair, and pressed against Lu You's side face like a big cat that only rubs to leave its scent behind.Lu You didn't realize what Qi Zhengyun was going to do at all. He just thought that he was dissatisfied that the attention he deserved was taken away by the call, and raised his hand to hug his neck soothingly.
——After most of the day, he was no longer as nervous and concerned about these intimate behaviors that would not appear too much in public places as he was at the beginning.
Qi Zhengyun waited until Yuan Xiaoxiao finished speaking. After waiting for a while, he realized that Lu You hadn't responded. After he said "Huh?" in doubt, he opened his mouth slowly. "I guess it can't be done." He said to the radio under the earpiece, "We have to go back to the island tomorrow. The scenery there is very suitable for dating, and the signal is very poor, so don't even think about disturbing us. world."
His voice fell, and the surroundings suddenly fell into a strange silence.Lu You's hand on his neck didn't move, and the girl on the other end of the call didn't make a sound.Even the subtle distracting noises in the background disappeared, as if time had suddenly stopped.
A few seconds later, Lu You showed an expression that seemed to want to laugh, but also seemed to collapse. He took his hand off Qi Zhengyun's neck and blocked it in front of his face, as if he wanted to block a shocked staring gaze that did not exist. .He gave up saying anything to refute or make amends, Qi Zhengyun saw that the tips of his ears were quietly turning red.A few seconds later, Yuan Xiaoxiao's scream came from the receiver.
Qi Zhengyun's scheme succeeded, he smiled in satisfaction, turned his head and kissed Lu You's side face, then straightened up, and considerately threw him alone to his childhood friend who was about to go crazy after being hit by the shock on the other end of the call, holding a My coconut left leisurely.
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Lu You caught off guard and finished coming out in front of Yuan Xiaoxiao. His ears resisted the noise of the propeller of the seaplane, and he was almost killed by the girl's horrific screams.It took almost all of his energy to organize his words to deal with Yuan Xiaoxiao's sad and indignant question of "what did he do to you", and he had to carefully defend Qi Zhengyun without further irritating her .In the end, for some reason, it turned into listening to Yuan Xiaoxiao crying, "Why do you find a boyfriend even as a boy, and I still don't even have a face to see around me"...
Lu You knew that at the party on the day when he got his graduation certificate, there were two boys who confessed to Yuan Xiaoxiao before and after, so he couldn't help but mourn for them for half a second: at any rate, one of them was a class grass, and in the end he was reduced to "can't see his face" evaluation of.He kind of wanted to remind Yuan Xiaoxiao: If the standard of "being able to compare with Qi Zhengyun" is taken as the bottom line, the possibility of finding it is probably not much... But he held back this reminder all the way until the end of the call, and in the end he didn't dare to say it .
After all, Qi Zhengyun is his boyfriend now, whether he suggested that Yuan Xiaoxiao lowered his requirements, or just pointed out that she was taking Qi Zhengyun as a standard, he felt that he would be beaten to death by an angry girl after returning home.
Yuan Xiaoxiao yelled and vented for nearly an hour, and was finally willing to let Lu You go, and promised him before hanging up the call: she would never tell anyone about this matter—including her mother.In fact, Lu You is not very good at dealing with elders. She originally wanted to relay the story as a buffer, but now it's not easy to make a request. I can only ask Yuan Xiaoxiao to test Aunt Zhou's attitude towards this kind of thing.Yuan Xiaoxiao agreed with all her mouth. She seemed to want to say something more, but she didn't say anything after a moment of silence. She just mentioned it again and asked Lu You to take more photos and come back to see.
Ever since she confirmed that Lu You was really dating Qi Zhengyun voluntarily and that she would not regret it in a short time, she never said anything bad about Qi Zhengyun in the later conversations.
Yuan Xiaoxiao is only a few days older than Lu You, but when she was a child, the girl was precocious, and she was used to playing with Lu You and taking care of him. Acting like a big sister, she wanted Lu You to pay attention to her opinion.But at this moment, she probably realized in her heart: the most important position beside them is not reserved for each other.So even though she feels lonely and jealous because her place is vacant, she has to resist the urge to compete for attention and watch the person she's been walking with walk away from her to someone else ...
After Lu You finished the call, looking at the call time displayed on the chat software, he felt the buzzing in his ears was still ringing.He has been busy dealing with Yuan Xiaoxiao's bombardment of various questions, and heard her frantic outburst of emotions, and he didn't have time to be more nervous about the exposure of his relationship.He was worried about Yuan Xiaoxiao's attitude towards homosexuality, and Yuan Xiaoxiao raised his mouth when he complained that he didn't have a peach blossom.Now that the call is over, Lu You puts the hot phone back into his pocket, feeling "Is this over?"
A strange mix of relief and a bit of a sense of loss, similar to the feeling you get after an important exam is over.Lu You picked up the cold coconut on the table, the water droplets on the coconut shell moistened his hot palm, and the sweet coconut juice soothed the dry thirst in his throat after talking non-stop.He sat on the chair for a while, drank half of the coconut juice, and unconsciously took the phone out of his pocket.He clicked on the text message interface, and then clicked on the group identified by that name: the text message sent to him was an unshakable bank notice of remittance to the account on the first of every month, and the text message he sent was in a tone of official business Public holiday wishes and study reports.
Lu You dragged it up for a while, losing patience faster than he expected.He clicked on the input box, staring at the cursor jumping on the leftmost side of the long blank space for a long time.Then he dried his fingertips on a napkin and began typing.
Qi Zhengyun was sitting beside a flower bed made of marble, behind him was an old tree with light yellow thick petaled flowers in full bloom, with luxuriant branches and leaves, casting a cool shadow on him.At this moment, the sun is the strongest and hottest in the afternoon, and there are many fewer tourists on the beach. The people who drive the tour boat on the island take advantage of the aftermath of the submarine volcanic eruption in the morning. The business of visiting near that sea area is quite popular.Qi Zhengyun narrowed his eyes slightly, and the surging waves in the distance reflected the sunlight into his eyes, and a burning feeling lingered in his heart, as if he felt the same as the sea surface exposed to the scorching sun.
Although the excessively exhausted power is slowly recovering, the speed is probably less than one percent of the normal time.There are reasons for his own injury and weakness, as well as other external reasons: the energy reactions floating in the sky and the earth seem to be extremely slow and difficult to absorb, and it feels somewhat similar to that kind of "rust" to him... being swallowed by them and then released Does the energy that comes out lose its vitality just like life?
From seeing the seaweed monster covered in red rust melting in the water until now, Qi Zhengyun has an increasingly ominous premonition.The monster attached to Puza found the rust, and would rather take the risk of revenge to lure him over and get rid of it; from the conversation it had with Lu You, it felt that the rust would still appear More.What Qi Zhengyun thought of at that time was something else: the group of little bats with blood-red eyes and mysterious whereabouts entrenched in the abandoned buildings in the city.
In the world of the previous reincarnations, the ocean was still fine until Lu You’s sophomore year. Either the rust did not appear at all, or it was wiped out in other ways; After Huihui discovered her lair, she destroyed it to vent her anger, and there was no follow-up progress.But this time, he came more than ten years earlier, and the power obtained by devouring monsters was deprived and dissipated when time leaped forward, and now, some things have become different.
Between this world, there seems to be some strange changes taking place...
Qi Zhengyun heard footsteps behind him.He didn't even need to turn his head to know Lu You's posture when he came: his head was slightly lowered, and he used his peripheral vision to determine the route ahead; The interval and intensity of footsteps became irregular.This is Lu You's performance when he is thinking about things while walking.Qi Zhengyun deliberately pretended not to notice, and sat motionless with his back turned to him. Sure enough, when he was only a few steps away, the footsteps disappeared.
——Sounds that are soft enough for human hearing, Qi Zhengyun still has no difficulty in distinguishing them.However, Qi Zhengyun was a little surprised when Lu You crept up the flower bed, stepped on the solid old roots of the trees exposed to the soil to approach him, and then suddenly threw himself on his back: he thought Lu You would only come to take pictures Touch his shoulder.
He still didn't look back, but grabbed Lu You's arm that was wrapped around his neck from behind, and stood up from the marble flower bed.Lu You leaned forward and put most of his weight on Qi Zhengyun's back.The height of the flower bed made up for the difference in height between them, just enough to allow Lu You to easily lie on Qi Zhengyun's shoulders, but Qi Zhengyun immediately started to move forward - Lu You tried to stand on tiptoe, but was still dragged from the flower bed within a few seconds When he got down, he hung on Qi Zhengyun's body like a large backpack and was carried forward for a while. Seeing that Qi Zhengyun was about to walk into the crowd without paying attention, he hurriedly begged for mercy and yelled to stop.
Qi Zhengyun turned around and walked back, returning to the flower bed before putting Lu You down. "It seems that you have a good chat with your friends?" He asked with a smile.Lu You gasped a little, and stared at the man with an innocent expression with round eyes. "Qi Zhengyun!" He yelled suddenly, "You definitely meant to scare her by saying that!"
Lu You raised his foot towards Qi Zhengyun's calf as if to kick him, but Qi Zhengyun tried to avoid it, but two seconds passed, and neither of them really moved.Then Lu You laughed - now the atmosphere of reprimand was gone.Lu You still wanted to hold back his laughter, and tried his best to put on a reproachful expression, but Qi Zhengyun had already wrapped his arms around his shoulders again.
"Don't be angry—what happened just now is my fault. I told you before I asked you if you would like to let others know." He dragged Lu You to sit down with him by the flower bed, his palm all the way from behind Lu You Touched to the shoulder, and finally pinched it lightly, which made Lu You twitch uncontrollably, "She didn't quarrel with you, did she?"
"She wants to quarrel with you." Lu You said angrily, "Take it off, it's so hot."
Qi Zhengyun tightened his arms as if he had never heard of it, and hugged him to his side again.Lu You struggled for a few seconds, and finally leaned against him along with his strength.It was indeed hot: the sun was very strong, and there was no wind. The bodies of the two people exuded heat and were stuck together with short-sleeved thin fabrics. It was so hot that their backs began to sweat.Lu You felt Qi Zhengyun's fingers lightly hooking the edge of his sleeve, and his fingertips touched the skin that should have been covered under the fabric.
"How do you feel now?" Qi Zhengyun asked.
Lu You looked forward through the flowers and trees and the beach, and behind the sparse crowd on the beach hill was the endless blue sea.The sticky feeling brought by sweat made him miss the coolness of the sea water, but his body was lazy and didn't want to move. "...Let's go paragliding tomorrow." After a while, he answered irrelevantly.
The two of them sat under the shade of the tree for more than ten minutes before going back to the museum to finish watching the remaining half of the exhibition.The blue pass stamp on the back of the hand has been rubbed a little blurred, but this blurred color is extremely stubborn. Later, Lu You rubbed it with soap until his skin almost peeled off, and then he completely washed off the thing that reminded him of pork quarantine stamps.At around eight o'clock in the evening, Lu You found out his college entrance examination results.That night they lived in a hotel room where the stars could be seen from the terrace. After being filled with water, the soft bed would undulate with every slight movement. Marks were left on the pale skin around his hip bones.
The next morning, Puza's plane took them back to the island.As a result, the paragliding that Lu You never forgot to play was delayed until the last day before leaving. This time it really has nothing to do with Qi Zhengyun, at least that's what Lu You thinks: because it is not sure what caused the lava to spill out due to the subsidence of the seabed. Whether there is any aftermath of the incident, paragliding, a somewhat dangerous activity, was banned in the next few days.
Lu You proposed to play because after talking with Yuan Xiaoxiao and sending that text message at that time, the feeling of lightness all over his body, as if he could float, will disappear when he actually plays.However, the thrill of gliding from a high place to the sea and the wind blowing directly around you is enough to make you feel comfortable, and your wish has been fulfilled. This trip has no regrets. Alienated rust-red seaweed, and Qi Zhengyun said that he actually doesn't want to see them anymore.
They returned home at the hottest time, and what awaited Lu You was Yuan Xiaoxiao, who had fried hair and needed to be appeased, continuous class reunions and university lectures.Qi Zhengyun is studying for his second master's degree and is preparing to end his studies tomorrow. At the same time, he is doing an internship in a company half an hour's drive away from the school, taking a position that Lu You did not understand what he was going to do after listening to his explanation for a long time.After he came back, he quickly rented the house and asked Lu You to live with him.
On the first day of August, it was rare for Lu You not to go out. He stayed indoors all day reading and playing computer games.Some people's peak level of foreign language in their lives is just before the college entrance examination. Out of interest in translation, Lu You asked Qi Zhengyun to borrow university textbooks to start reading in advance, so as not to waste all his studies in a summer vacation.Qi Zhengyun went over to tease him a few times while he was resting, and found that he was a little absent-minded, as if he was waiting for the result of a very important matter, so he didn't bother him anymore, and took over the tasks of cooking dinner and washing dishes thoughtfully .
When Lu You went to take a shower at night, Qi Zhengyun heard his mobile phone on the table ring, it was a notification tone of a text message.After Lu You came out of washing, he took his mobile phone and sat on the sofa. After Qi Zhengyun finished washing, Lu You still didn't move in the same position.Qi Zhengyun used to sit next to Lu You, and Lu You got used to moving a little closer and leaning against him.
Lu You stepped on the edge of the sofa with bare feet, her ten delicate toes curled up slightly, and the blue veins of blood vessels could be seen on the white and thin instep.Qi Zhengyun stroked his hair, the root of the hair was still a little wet, before he asked, Lu You took the initiative to tell what happened: "My mother returned the money I sent."
Lu You poked the phone screen to light up, and the latest message on the SMS interface was the remittance SMS received not long ago. 2000 yuan is a scholarship given by the high school to the top-ranked students in the college entrance examination.The admission notice has not yet come, and Lu You is not sure whether he sent the money to his mother as a gift or a proof... Or just to try, can he exchange it for even a formulaic compliment or encouragement?After all, Mom hadn't spoken to him since their quarrel in the summer of freshman year of high school—a monthly remittance text message didn't count as talking.
Swipe up, and there are several text messages sent by Lu You in the past, talking about what happened recently, talking about his mood and expectations.It was a desperate attempt to make amends, just as he had tried so hard to hold onto the trajectory of his destiny during the summer of his freshman year of high school.All messages went unanswered.And on the first day of this month... At the beginning of his first month as an adult, the remittance text message that was always very punctual did not come.
Mom just returned the 2000 yuan to him.Lu You could foresee that the remittance text messages would never come again in the future.The broken bridges were not able to be reconnected, but were completely broken into pieces and fell into the abyss.He knew that this time was really the end.
Qi Zhengyun turned sideways, put his arms around Lu You's waist and hugged him into his arms, kissed his forehead softly comfortingly, and then stepped back slightly to see his expression.There was a calm smile on the corner of Lu You's lips. He didn't seem to feel sad. When he was alone on the sofa just now, he was still because he was thinking rather than sad. "I'm fine." He said to Qi Zhengyun, groping for the man's hand who was clearly worried, "I feel... much more relaxed now."
They will torture each other because they still have expectations for each other.The connection in the form of family affection has existed in name only many years ago, and it has been reluctantly maintained by responsibility.Responsibility allows women to raise their children, provide property, put an end to external changes and self-awareness that may endanger stability, it is best for children to be well-behaved and obedient, and stay away from danger. As for future development, there is no need to think about it—if there is no him This will be the life his mother arranges for him in the future.
Fortunately, he broke free early.So, there's no point in trying to continue.Mom must be relieved to finally be able to say goodbye to the painful past.Lu You was really happy for her.Some people will regard blood as an eternal and unbreakable connection, and he is glad that his mother does not think so.Now they are both free.
Just like what he said just now, Lu You felt relaxed.Apart from the relaxation, there is an extremely cold and empty loneliness.Lu You remembered meeting Yuan Xiaoxiao at the party the day before yesterday, and when he inevitably talked about his relationship, the girl had an unnatural smile on her face and the sadness of not being able to hide her success.friend.loved ones.He seemed to be suspended in a silent and dark universe, watching the diamond-like stars around him go farther and farther away.
Surrounded by this kind of loneliness, only the touchable body temperature of another person beside him is the real comfort.Lu You slid down a little, resting his head on Qi Zhengyun's chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat.If the degree of his dependence on this person and this relationship is drawn as a curve from the day we first met, the summer vacation of the first year of high school is a small peak, and this moment is the peak...
Lu You is actually thinking about telling Qi Zhengyun recently that he wants to live in the dormitory for the first two academic years. After all, in the university where he chooses courses and seats, the dormitory is naturally the tightest small group.He wants to try to integrate into the group, interact more actively with others, and for his own future... Wait until he can start an internship in his junior year, and then move out to live with Qi Zhengyun—if they were still together at that time.
But at least for now, Lu You doesn't want to say anything.He stretched out his arms and hugged Qi Zhengyun's waist tightly, feeling the man's hand patting his back gently like coaxing a child.Outside the window was a deep night, and the stars were bright and clear—at least at this moment, he sincerely prayed that this connection would last forever.
It was only in the afternoon that Lu You remembered that there was already a signal to go online here. He took out his mobile phone and found that he had turned off the network switch at some point.After connecting to the Internet and opening the communication software, I saw a bombardment of unread messages displayed in red numbers.
The news in the classmate group naturally reached the upper limit of 99+, and the rest basically came from Yuan Xiaoxiao.The last message was just over half an hour ago. The question "did your phone fall into the water" was followed by a series of question marks twice as long as this sentence.Lu You thought something was wrong in his heart, he felt as if he would break out in a cold sweat when he forgot to do his homework and was discovered by the teacher.Seeing that Yuan Xiaoxiao's avatar was gray and offline, he first picked the best shot from the photo album overlooking the sea and sent it to him. He dragged to the first message and started looking down from the beginning.
Just after the college entrance examination, Lu You has not yet developed the habit of playing with his mobile phone, and he often forgot to check the news before.Yuan Xiaoxiao complained about this several times, and he didn't expect him to reply in time. If he was not in a hurry, he would send it whenever he saw it. If he was in a hurry, he would call directly.In fact, before the exam, they met in school almost every day, and there was no place where they needed to use their mobile phones.The last conversation between Lu You and her before the internet was disconnected was when Lu You reported that he got off the plane and was going to buy a local phone card. Yuan Xiaoxiao replied with an OK gesture.After that, she asked what the new number was. Lu You was already on the island at that time, and she didn't reply since then.
When the contact was disconnected for a day or two, Yuan Xiaoxiao didn't pay much attention to it. The chat history was full of her talking to herself, so she asked Lu You to take more photos and send them back. He also wished him a happy birthday and took a picture of the pen as a gift. Send it to him to let him "surprise" first.But Lu You still didn't respond, Yuan Xiaoxiao poked him several times to ask about the situation, his tone changed from teasing to complaining, and then he really started to worry.
Ever since Lu You arrived on the island, his mind has been filled with Qi Zhengyun, Qi Zhengyun, Qi Zhengyun, or he just couldn't think of anything; although he was also worried that the inability to send and receive messages would make those who wanted to contact him uneasy, but he never thought about it for a long time I was distracted by other things, and once again left it behind.He turned back to the last one, stared at the long string of question marks for a few seconds, and thought with great guilt: His behavior... can be regarded as a standard "seeing sex and forgetting friends", right?
He has been hiding the fact that he likes Qi Zhengyun and didn't want anyone to know about it. Did he really hide it from Qi Zhengyun... He is very suspicious now, but Yuan Xiaoxiao probably didn't notice it, and it is even more impossible for him to take the initiative to tell his mother .Thinking of Yuan Xiaoxiao's disliked attitude towards Qi Zhengyun, Lu You just felt a headache, and couldn't imagine how she would react if he told Yuan Xiaoxiao "I'm with Qi Zhengyun".
If he confessed again, it was still on his own initiative...
... Lu You suspected that Yuan Xiaoxiao would never believe it.Compared to being so angry at his "betrayal" that he didn't even want to talk to him, she probably felt that Qi Zhengyun not only monopolized his social interaction and controlled his sphere of activities, but now he has progressed to brainwash him...
Just when Lu You was so worried, Yuan Xiaoxiao's profile picture above the chat bar lit up.Just a few seconds after going online, a new message consisting entirely of exclamation points popped out of the chat box.Lu You didn't expect her to be online again so soon, so he bit the bullet and replied with a smile, and started typing to explain why he had been missing for several days.Before finishing writing, Yuan Xiaoxiao sent a call request, and Lu You answered it again.The sound transmission effect of the chat software's built-in call function is average. Lu You heard the girl's voice with a kind of salad noise like an old-fashioned phone, and asked coldly and politely: "Who are you?"
For a moment, Lu You couldn't tell whether she said that deliberately in anger, or if she really thought that someone else had taken the phone and was testing it. "It's me." He said cautiously, and he could still hear the time difference between his own voice and Yuan Xiaoxiao's receiving and replaying, "I'm sorry, I was in a place with a bad signal before, and I haven't been able to connect to the Internet. ..."
Yuan Xiaoxiao was silent for a while.Then she started growling.Lu You hurriedly took out the earphones from the side pocket of the backpack and plugged them in, so as not to disturb others with the external sound. "I'm going to die!" Yuan Xiaoxiao yelled without temperament, "It's been five days! I'm still thinking about whether to call the police and say that you have been trafficked! I wish you a happy birthday and you didn't reply! You are telling the truth Tell me! Did you play with that Qi Zhengyun until you completely forgot about me—"
Lu You wondered why this conversation felt so strange?He felt a little blushing, and he was really guilty about this matter, and he would only keep apologizing when Yuan Xiaoxiao lost his temper.Qi Zhengyun came back with two coconuts, stood behind Lu You and listened for a while, and felt that Lu You was really attracted to the kind of people who had a bit of a control freak potential in their hearts.The girl had always disliked him, most of it was due to the mixed-race crisis instinct, but there must also be some reasons for her jealousy of the fact that Lu You turned to share her life with another person more.
It could be seen that she didn't have any thoughts about Lu You, but that she was used to treating herself as a protector because of her possessive desire, and Qi Zhengyun never cared about her.A little girl who is only in her teens and can only jump when she is so angry... If he is serious about "competing" with her, it will be a bit ridiculous.However, after hearing Lu You seriously apologize to her, explain to her, and promise to bring her a gift when he comes back in that kind of helpless and gentle tone, Qi Zhengyun still felt a strong sense of displeasure from the bottom of his heart.
According to Lu You's character of being more difficult to reject people who are closer to him and afraid of changes, it is estimated that he may not be able to decide to confess when he hesitates after returning from the trip until the start of school.Qi Zhengyun decided to push Lu You one more time, and by the way, to be angry with that little girl who always tried to tarnish his image in Lu You's heart, it would be best if she could just extinguish this giant light bulb that was stuck to Lu You - she was in college. He will be classmates with Lu You for another four years. Qi Zhengyun didn't sabotage this aspect and get her away directly, which is already a good performance of his patience.
He walked up to Lu You and put the coconut with the straw on the table.The back of Lu You's shoulder was touched by Qi Zhengyun, and he looked up at him on the chair, smiling helplessly, thinking that Qi Zhengyun wanted to talk to him, he raised his hand and took off the earphone on his side.When he was wearing it, Qi Zhengyun could actually hear it, but when he took it off, he could hear it more clearly. Yuan Xiaoxiao's voice came from the earpiece, "You have to promise to reply to my message, at least once a day, right? Otherwise I will I don't know if something happened to you." She was saying, "Don't go on without hearing from me for a few days like before..."
From a purely logical point of view, this kind of request for people who travel abroad to report their safety every day is really normal.Lu You's expression was a bit perplexed, probably because he was trying to explain to her that he would lose contact again after returning to the island tomorrow.Qi Zhengyun bent down with one hand propped on the back of the chair, and pressed against Lu You's side face like a big cat that only rubs to leave its scent behind.Lu You didn't realize what Qi Zhengyun was going to do at all. He just thought that he was dissatisfied that the attention he deserved was taken away by the call, and raised his hand to hug his neck soothingly.
——After most of the day, he was no longer as nervous and concerned about these intimate behaviors that would not appear too much in public places as he was at the beginning.
Qi Zhengyun waited until Yuan Xiaoxiao finished speaking. After waiting for a while, he realized that Lu You hadn't responded. After he said "Huh?" in doubt, he opened his mouth slowly. "I guess it can't be done." He said to the radio under the earpiece, "We have to go back to the island tomorrow. The scenery there is very suitable for dating, and the signal is very poor, so don't even think about disturbing us. world."
His voice fell, and the surroundings suddenly fell into a strange silence.Lu You's hand on his neck didn't move, and the girl on the other end of the call didn't make a sound.Even the subtle distracting noises in the background disappeared, as if time had suddenly stopped.
A few seconds later, Lu You showed an expression that seemed to want to laugh, but also seemed to collapse. He took his hand off Qi Zhengyun's neck and blocked it in front of his face, as if he wanted to block a shocked staring gaze that did not exist. .He gave up saying anything to refute or make amends, Qi Zhengyun saw that the tips of his ears were quietly turning red.A few seconds later, Yuan Xiaoxiao's scream came from the receiver.
Qi Zhengyun's scheme succeeded, he smiled in satisfaction, turned his head and kissed Lu You's side face, then straightened up, and considerately threw him alone to his childhood friend who was about to go crazy after being hit by the shock on the other end of the call, holding a My coconut left leisurely.
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Lu You caught off guard and finished coming out in front of Yuan Xiaoxiao. His ears resisted the noise of the propeller of the seaplane, and he was almost killed by the girl's horrific screams.It took almost all of his energy to organize his words to deal with Yuan Xiaoxiao's sad and indignant question of "what did he do to you", and he had to carefully defend Qi Zhengyun without further irritating her .In the end, for some reason, it turned into listening to Yuan Xiaoxiao crying, "Why do you find a boyfriend even as a boy, and I still don't even have a face to see around me"...
Lu You knew that at the party on the day when he got his graduation certificate, there were two boys who confessed to Yuan Xiaoxiao before and after, so he couldn't help but mourn for them for half a second: at any rate, one of them was a class grass, and in the end he was reduced to "can't see his face" evaluation of.He kind of wanted to remind Yuan Xiaoxiao: If the standard of "being able to compare with Qi Zhengyun" is taken as the bottom line, the possibility of finding it is probably not much... But he held back this reminder all the way until the end of the call, and in the end he didn't dare to say it .
After all, Qi Zhengyun is his boyfriend now, whether he suggested that Yuan Xiaoxiao lowered his requirements, or just pointed out that she was taking Qi Zhengyun as a standard, he felt that he would be beaten to death by an angry girl after returning home.
Yuan Xiaoxiao yelled and vented for nearly an hour, and was finally willing to let Lu You go, and promised him before hanging up the call: she would never tell anyone about this matter—including her mother.In fact, Lu You is not very good at dealing with elders. She originally wanted to relay the story as a buffer, but now it's not easy to make a request. I can only ask Yuan Xiaoxiao to test Aunt Zhou's attitude towards this kind of thing.Yuan Xiaoxiao agreed with all her mouth. She seemed to want to say something more, but she didn't say anything after a moment of silence. She just mentioned it again and asked Lu You to take more photos and come back to see.
Ever since she confirmed that Lu You was really dating Qi Zhengyun voluntarily and that she would not regret it in a short time, she never said anything bad about Qi Zhengyun in the later conversations.
Yuan Xiaoxiao is only a few days older than Lu You, but when she was a child, the girl was precocious, and she was used to playing with Lu You and taking care of him. Acting like a big sister, she wanted Lu You to pay attention to her opinion.But at this moment, she probably realized in her heart: the most important position beside them is not reserved for each other.So even though she feels lonely and jealous because her place is vacant, she has to resist the urge to compete for attention and watch the person she's been walking with walk away from her to someone else ...
After Lu You finished the call, looking at the call time displayed on the chat software, he felt the buzzing in his ears was still ringing.He has been busy dealing with Yuan Xiaoxiao's bombardment of various questions, and heard her frantic outburst of emotions, and he didn't have time to be more nervous about the exposure of his relationship.He was worried about Yuan Xiaoxiao's attitude towards homosexuality, and Yuan Xiaoxiao raised his mouth when he complained that he didn't have a peach blossom.Now that the call is over, Lu You puts the hot phone back into his pocket, feeling "Is this over?"
A strange mix of relief and a bit of a sense of loss, similar to the feeling you get after an important exam is over.Lu You picked up the cold coconut on the table, the water droplets on the coconut shell moistened his hot palm, and the sweet coconut juice soothed the dry thirst in his throat after talking non-stop.He sat on the chair for a while, drank half of the coconut juice, and unconsciously took the phone out of his pocket.He clicked on the text message interface, and then clicked on the group identified by that name: the text message sent to him was an unshakable bank notice of remittance to the account on the first of every month, and the text message he sent was in a tone of official business Public holiday wishes and study reports.
Lu You dragged it up for a while, losing patience faster than he expected.He clicked on the input box, staring at the cursor jumping on the leftmost side of the long blank space for a long time.Then he dried his fingertips on a napkin and began typing.
Qi Zhengyun was sitting beside a flower bed made of marble, behind him was an old tree with light yellow thick petaled flowers in full bloom, with luxuriant branches and leaves, casting a cool shadow on him.At this moment, the sun is the strongest and hottest in the afternoon, and there are many fewer tourists on the beach. The people who drive the tour boat on the island take advantage of the aftermath of the submarine volcanic eruption in the morning. The business of visiting near that sea area is quite popular.Qi Zhengyun narrowed his eyes slightly, and the surging waves in the distance reflected the sunlight into his eyes, and a burning feeling lingered in his heart, as if he felt the same as the sea surface exposed to the scorching sun.
Although the excessively exhausted power is slowly recovering, the speed is probably less than one percent of the normal time.There are reasons for his own injury and weakness, as well as other external reasons: the energy reactions floating in the sky and the earth seem to be extremely slow and difficult to absorb, and it feels somewhat similar to that kind of "rust" to him... being swallowed by them and then released Does the energy that comes out lose its vitality just like life?
From seeing the seaweed monster covered in red rust melting in the water until now, Qi Zhengyun has an increasingly ominous premonition.The monster attached to Puza found the rust, and would rather take the risk of revenge to lure him over and get rid of it; from the conversation it had with Lu You, it felt that the rust would still appear More.What Qi Zhengyun thought of at that time was something else: the group of little bats with blood-red eyes and mysterious whereabouts entrenched in the abandoned buildings in the city.
In the world of the previous reincarnations, the ocean was still fine until Lu You’s sophomore year. Either the rust did not appear at all, or it was wiped out in other ways; After Huihui discovered her lair, she destroyed it to vent her anger, and there was no follow-up progress.But this time, he came more than ten years earlier, and the power obtained by devouring monsters was deprived and dissipated when time leaped forward, and now, some things have become different.
Between this world, there seems to be some strange changes taking place...
Qi Zhengyun heard footsteps behind him.He didn't even need to turn his head to know Lu You's posture when he came: his head was slightly lowered, and he used his peripheral vision to determine the route ahead; The interval and intensity of footsteps became irregular.This is Lu You's performance when he is thinking about things while walking.Qi Zhengyun deliberately pretended not to notice, and sat motionless with his back turned to him. Sure enough, when he was only a few steps away, the footsteps disappeared.
——Sounds that are soft enough for human hearing, Qi Zhengyun still has no difficulty in distinguishing them.However, Qi Zhengyun was a little surprised when Lu You crept up the flower bed, stepped on the solid old roots of the trees exposed to the soil to approach him, and then suddenly threw himself on his back: he thought Lu You would only come to take pictures Touch his shoulder.
He still didn't look back, but grabbed Lu You's arm that was wrapped around his neck from behind, and stood up from the marble flower bed.Lu You leaned forward and put most of his weight on Qi Zhengyun's back.The height of the flower bed made up for the difference in height between them, just enough to allow Lu You to easily lie on Qi Zhengyun's shoulders, but Qi Zhengyun immediately started to move forward - Lu You tried to stand on tiptoe, but was still dragged from the flower bed within a few seconds When he got down, he hung on Qi Zhengyun's body like a large backpack and was carried forward for a while. Seeing that Qi Zhengyun was about to walk into the crowd without paying attention, he hurriedly begged for mercy and yelled to stop.
Qi Zhengyun turned around and walked back, returning to the flower bed before putting Lu You down. "It seems that you have a good chat with your friends?" He asked with a smile.Lu You gasped a little, and stared at the man with an innocent expression with round eyes. "Qi Zhengyun!" He yelled suddenly, "You definitely meant to scare her by saying that!"
Lu You raised his foot towards Qi Zhengyun's calf as if to kick him, but Qi Zhengyun tried to avoid it, but two seconds passed, and neither of them really moved.Then Lu You laughed - now the atmosphere of reprimand was gone.Lu You still wanted to hold back his laughter, and tried his best to put on a reproachful expression, but Qi Zhengyun had already wrapped his arms around his shoulders again.
"Don't be angry—what happened just now is my fault. I told you before I asked you if you would like to let others know." He dragged Lu You to sit down with him by the flower bed, his palm all the way from behind Lu You Touched to the shoulder, and finally pinched it lightly, which made Lu You twitch uncontrollably, "She didn't quarrel with you, did she?"
"She wants to quarrel with you." Lu You said angrily, "Take it off, it's so hot."
Qi Zhengyun tightened his arms as if he had never heard of it, and hugged him to his side again.Lu You struggled for a few seconds, and finally leaned against him along with his strength.It was indeed hot: the sun was very strong, and there was no wind. The bodies of the two people exuded heat and were stuck together with short-sleeved thin fabrics. It was so hot that their backs began to sweat.Lu You felt Qi Zhengyun's fingers lightly hooking the edge of his sleeve, and his fingertips touched the skin that should have been covered under the fabric.
"How do you feel now?" Qi Zhengyun asked.
Lu You looked forward through the flowers and trees and the beach, and behind the sparse crowd on the beach hill was the endless blue sea.The sticky feeling brought by sweat made him miss the coolness of the sea water, but his body was lazy and didn't want to move. "...Let's go paragliding tomorrow." After a while, he answered irrelevantly.
The two of them sat under the shade of the tree for more than ten minutes before going back to the museum to finish watching the remaining half of the exhibition.The blue pass stamp on the back of the hand has been rubbed a little blurred, but this blurred color is extremely stubborn. Later, Lu You rubbed it with soap until his skin almost peeled off, and then he completely washed off the thing that reminded him of pork quarantine stamps.At around eight o'clock in the evening, Lu You found out his college entrance examination results.That night they lived in a hotel room where the stars could be seen from the terrace. After being filled with water, the soft bed would undulate with every slight movement. Marks were left on the pale skin around his hip bones.
The next morning, Puza's plane took them back to the island.As a result, the paragliding that Lu You never forgot to play was delayed until the last day before leaving. This time it really has nothing to do with Qi Zhengyun, at least that's what Lu You thinks: because it is not sure what caused the lava to spill out due to the subsidence of the seabed. Whether there is any aftermath of the incident, paragliding, a somewhat dangerous activity, was banned in the next few days.
Lu You proposed to play because after talking with Yuan Xiaoxiao and sending that text message at that time, the feeling of lightness all over his body, as if he could float, will disappear when he actually plays.However, the thrill of gliding from a high place to the sea and the wind blowing directly around you is enough to make you feel comfortable, and your wish has been fulfilled. This trip has no regrets. Alienated rust-red seaweed, and Qi Zhengyun said that he actually doesn't want to see them anymore.
They returned home at the hottest time, and what awaited Lu You was Yuan Xiaoxiao, who had fried hair and needed to be appeased, continuous class reunions and university lectures.Qi Zhengyun is studying for his second master's degree and is preparing to end his studies tomorrow. At the same time, he is doing an internship in a company half an hour's drive away from the school, taking a position that Lu You did not understand what he was going to do after listening to his explanation for a long time.After he came back, he quickly rented the house and asked Lu You to live with him.
On the first day of August, it was rare for Lu You not to go out. He stayed indoors all day reading and playing computer games.Some people's peak level of foreign language in their lives is just before the college entrance examination. Out of interest in translation, Lu You asked Qi Zhengyun to borrow university textbooks to start reading in advance, so as not to waste all his studies in a summer vacation.Qi Zhengyun went over to tease him a few times while he was resting, and found that he was a little absent-minded, as if he was waiting for the result of a very important matter, so he didn't bother him anymore, and took over the tasks of cooking dinner and washing dishes thoughtfully .
When Lu You went to take a shower at night, Qi Zhengyun heard his mobile phone on the table ring, it was a notification tone of a text message.After Lu You came out of washing, he took his mobile phone and sat on the sofa. After Qi Zhengyun finished washing, Lu You still didn't move in the same position.Qi Zhengyun used to sit next to Lu You, and Lu You got used to moving a little closer and leaning against him.
Lu You stepped on the edge of the sofa with bare feet, her ten delicate toes curled up slightly, and the blue veins of blood vessels could be seen on the white and thin instep.Qi Zhengyun stroked his hair, the root of the hair was still a little wet, before he asked, Lu You took the initiative to tell what happened: "My mother returned the money I sent."
Lu You poked the phone screen to light up, and the latest message on the SMS interface was the remittance SMS received not long ago. 2000 yuan is a scholarship given by the high school to the top-ranked students in the college entrance examination.The admission notice has not yet come, and Lu You is not sure whether he sent the money to his mother as a gift or a proof... Or just to try, can he exchange it for even a formulaic compliment or encouragement?After all, Mom hadn't spoken to him since their quarrel in the summer of freshman year of high school—a monthly remittance text message didn't count as talking.
Swipe up, and there are several text messages sent by Lu You in the past, talking about what happened recently, talking about his mood and expectations.It was a desperate attempt to make amends, just as he had tried so hard to hold onto the trajectory of his destiny during the summer of his freshman year of high school.All messages went unanswered.And on the first day of this month... At the beginning of his first month as an adult, the remittance text message that was always very punctual did not come.
Mom just returned the 2000 yuan to him.Lu You could foresee that the remittance text messages would never come again in the future.The broken bridges were not able to be reconnected, but were completely broken into pieces and fell into the abyss.He knew that this time was really the end.
Qi Zhengyun turned sideways, put his arms around Lu You's waist and hugged him into his arms, kissed his forehead softly comfortingly, and then stepped back slightly to see his expression.There was a calm smile on the corner of Lu You's lips. He didn't seem to feel sad. When he was alone on the sofa just now, he was still because he was thinking rather than sad. "I'm fine." He said to Qi Zhengyun, groping for the man's hand who was clearly worried, "I feel... much more relaxed now."
They will torture each other because they still have expectations for each other.The connection in the form of family affection has existed in name only many years ago, and it has been reluctantly maintained by responsibility.Responsibility allows women to raise their children, provide property, put an end to external changes and self-awareness that may endanger stability, it is best for children to be well-behaved and obedient, and stay away from danger. As for future development, there is no need to think about it—if there is no him This will be the life his mother arranges for him in the future.
Fortunately, he broke free early.So, there's no point in trying to continue.Mom must be relieved to finally be able to say goodbye to the painful past.Lu You was really happy for her.Some people will regard blood as an eternal and unbreakable connection, and he is glad that his mother does not think so.Now they are both free.
Just like what he said just now, Lu You felt relaxed.Apart from the relaxation, there is an extremely cold and empty loneliness.Lu You remembered meeting Yuan Xiaoxiao at the party the day before yesterday, and when he inevitably talked about his relationship, the girl had an unnatural smile on her face and the sadness of not being able to hide her success.friend.loved ones.He seemed to be suspended in a silent and dark universe, watching the diamond-like stars around him go farther and farther away.
Surrounded by this kind of loneliness, only the touchable body temperature of another person beside him is the real comfort.Lu You slid down a little, resting his head on Qi Zhengyun's chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat.If the degree of his dependence on this person and this relationship is drawn as a curve from the day we first met, the summer vacation of the first year of high school is a small peak, and this moment is the peak...
Lu You is actually thinking about telling Qi Zhengyun recently that he wants to live in the dormitory for the first two academic years. After all, in the university where he chooses courses and seats, the dormitory is naturally the tightest small group.He wants to try to integrate into the group, interact more actively with others, and for his own future... Wait until he can start an internship in his junior year, and then move out to live with Qi Zhengyun—if they were still together at that time.
But at least for now, Lu You doesn't want to say anything.He stretched out his arms and hugged Qi Zhengyun's waist tightly, feeling the man's hand patting his back gently like coaxing a child.Outside the window was a deep night, and the stars were bright and clear—at least at this moment, he sincerely prayed that this connection would last forever.
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