summer and roses

"Here." Lin Zhan lifted the lid of a box of chocolates and put it in front of Mucha, "Do you want to eat?"

"Given by someone else? Let the squad leader know that I will kill you." Mucha teased with a smile, took a piece casually, glanced at the packaging, and immediately felt a little dazed when she saw it, not wanting what she just said casually to come true .

This box of chocolates has a flashy packaging, and the brand logo is very conspicuous. Mucha saw it somewhere in his memory. It seems to be a gift list summarized from the Internet. The title is "Top 10 Gifts for Girlfriend" or something... I don't know if it tastes good or not. , but it is said that the production is exquisite, with careful thought everywhere.

He paused, and seeing Lin Zhan holding the box to present treasures to You Yi, he couldn't help but said, "Who gave it to you?"

Lin Zhan turned his head in bewilderment: "Xie Zeyuan."

Mucha: "Huh?"

A lot of vulgar plots flashed through my mind, rivals turned into lovers, acquaintances without fighting, falling in love and killing each other, reunion after a broken mirror... Mu Xia patted the back of his head, only feeling that he was thinking a little too much, suppressed his excitement, and pretended to be calm He asked eagerly, "Why did he give you this? It looks like he's trying to please girls."

"Ghost knows." Lin Zhan put the chocolates on his desk casually, "We each have a box of apples, and said that his relatives brought them back from abroad. If you don't like this, take it and share it with you."

Before Mu Xia could speak, You Yi poked his head from the bed: "What brand, it's quite delicious."

Seeing that he liked it, Lin Zhan turned back the same way and handed over the box: "If you like it, just take two more—don't give me face, it's a pity to throw this away after a while in hot weather."

"Don't go." You Yi grunted, and spoke vaguely with chocolate in his mouth, "It's too sweet."

I don't know what he was referring to.

After the evening self-study get out of class, the boys' dormitory was full of turmoil, and the hallway came from time to time to slapstick and the dormitory supervisor's harsh words.On the ceiling of the dormitory, the electric fan was whining, almost shaking the head and body, and it finally relieved the heat for a while.

Mucha came back from the shower and was still slowly eating the half piece of chocolate. He looked up and silently handed over the piece he had put on the pillow.You Yi said thank you Brother Xia, lying on the bed, reached out and rubbed his dripping hair, threw down a towel, and wiped it all over.

Because of the improper posture, this movement has no strength at all, Mu Xia held down his wrist bone, grabbed the towel and wiped it by himself, and asked You Yi to take his hand back.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Lin Zhan packing up his textbooks, and Mu Xia casually asked, "Where are you going?"

"Study on the roof." He said, after a long time of choosing between mathematics and English, he finally chose the vocabulary book. "The final exam is coming soon. This year is the unified test. I will use the same set of questions as other schools... I don't want to lose to him."

Didn't name the target but said nothing, Mu Xia understood: "Xie Zeyuan is also a liberal arts?"

Lin Zhan didn't speak, he gathered his books into a ball, turned his head and left, as if he was afraid that there would be no place for him later.You Yi mumbled, "I don't really understand you Xueba" and I don't know if he heard it.

The night breeze was blowing, Mucha got out of bed and drew the curtains, stood in the middle of the dormitory and stretched, looked up at You Yi: "Is the statistical test really that important?"

"There is a parents' meeting for the market rankings, and it is the last test before the third year of high school. The teacher takes it very seriously." You Yi flipped through an exercise book, his face was covered with dizziness, and he said in a low voice, "My parents I’m coming back from the summer vacation, so I have to study hard this time, or I’ll be locked up.”

Mucha smacked her teeth, suddenly felt that she was the one who didn't work hard.

Having known each other for more than half a year, although his understanding of You Cruise is not to the point where he can guess what the other party is thinking by moving his finger, it cannot be said to be very limited.He knew that this kid was actually not that open-minded, and he would fall into self-distraction if he didn't pay attention. When he didn't speak, his heart might turn eighteen corners of the mountain road. To some extent, he was very similar to himself.

Lao Wang, who teaches mathematics, likes to make fun of You Yi, saying that all his motivation comes from the pressure of his parents. He is a purely expressive player. If his parents are not at home, he loses his motivation to study.You Yi couldn't refute this, he didn't like class at all.

The second year of high school is an awkward time. Occasionally, I feel that there are more than 300 days before graduation, which is very early. Occasionally, I am so nervous that the teacher beats the side drum, as if the college entrance examination will be taken the next day.

Generally speaking, most people don't want to rush to enter the university, and most of the time they are worried about the current municipal survey.

Mucha is different. For him, entering the summer vacation means starting a training camp.Li Yan mentioned it once before, Yuanye Studio now has a dozen students, most of whom are foreign language and talent-educating students, and the summer course must be held. She didn't say that the play is compulsory, but Mu Xia dared not not go.

For students like them who decided to take the art test from the very beginning, the college entrance examination came much earlier than cultural students.The exams and school recruitment began intermittently in December, and the dust settled temporarily until around March of the following year.Afterwards, I have to devote myself to cultural courses, and I dare not relax for a moment until the end of the college entrance examination.

There was also a more difficult winter vacation in the middle, traveling all over the country, just to get into a good school.

Thinking of this, Mucha suddenly felt a lot of pressure.He sat on the edge of the bed, raised his hand and knocked on the upper bunk: "Hello."

"Huh?" The cruising voice came from under the book like a big sleepy cat.

"Last time, Sister Yan said that the training camp will start a week after the exam, and you have to get the report card for me... But it doesn't matter if you get it or not, it's basically the top few, the bottom one." Mu Xia said at the end A little smile.

Youyou is not unfamiliar with the term "training", but his understanding is still at the level of "a large group of people locked in a room to draw Da Vinci's eggs".Hearing this, he nodded, and finally he thought that Mucha couldn't see, and said, "Okay, I will go to comfort you during your training camp."

Mucha: "What kind of condolences?"

You Yi: "It depends on what you want."

Mucha: "Then I want the physical one."

He was so annoyed that this person said nothing in harmony and spoke a yellow accent, but he was so serious in life, You You didn't need to look to guess Mucha's expression, so he couldn't bear it and threw the exercise book into the lower bunk bed - but the blind cat met a dead mouse, Just hit the head.

Mucha: "Hey! Do you know how painful this is!"

The tone was angry and innocent, as if this was a sudden disaster.When You Yi was told by him, he was so happy that he collapsed into the quilt, dragged the pillow and pressed it to his face, but couldn't hide his hearty laughter.

The moonlight of the campus in summer night is submerged in the flowing clouds, looming, and the sound of insects comes from the grass in every corner, sometimes weak and sometimes sharp, whispering, like a concert of little ones.The flags and drums finally died down in the corridor, and the dormitory teacher urged to turn off the lights, and the messy footsteps also lightened.

With a "pop", the bedroom returned to darkness, and Mu Xia stepped on the ground with bare feet.The heat of the summer night has subsided slightly, and the coolness of the terrazzo surges up from the soles of the feet.

He let his mind go blank for a while, forgot what he wanted to do, and opened the door of the dormitory after a while, so as not to wake up the sleeping people when Lin Zhan and Xu Wenke came back without the key, and went to the desk by the window to drink some water .

After finishing this series of actions, Mucha felt that it was time for him to sleep, and was walking back to the bed, when a whisper-like voice came from the upper bunk: "Do you want to sleep together?"

Like a bewitching spell, Mucha was obsessed by a ghost at that moment, and he couldn't even say "the weather is almost thirty degrees" or "you're out of your mind" in his mind.

By the time he realized it, he was already sitting on the edge of the cruising bed, with his legs hanging outside.Mu Xia thought for a while, then resolutely lifted the blanket and lay down with him—what would Lin Zhan and the others think when they came back, no one had time to worry about it, You You covered his arms when he was lying down, and embraced Mu Xia Xia's waist.

He kissed and cruised in response, the two of them shrank together indiscriminately, the quilt covered their bodies in a mess, and a corner was lifted from time to time, in the dark, they could only vaguely see the overlapping legs, and heard the suppressed panting.

The nervousness that his roommate would come back at any time stimulated Mu Xia's nerves, he went blank for a moment, and then colorful flashes flashed in his mind for a full ten seconds, and when he recovered, he felt his legs were wet.Mucha tentatively touched it, raised his eyes in the darkness and noticed You Yi's narrow expression, stood up and pulled a piece of paper from the bedside.

"It's so fast, I haven't even used my strength yet... Ah!" You Yi glanced at his lower body pointingly, kicked angrily, almost couldn't hold back his pain, and glared angrily, "Don't let anyone say it!"

"Bah, you're going to be bad." Mucha couldn't hold back, the dormitory bed was too small, and it wasn't really the dead of night, not to mention that the other party started the fire first, he, a young man with a fresh blood, hurriedly disarmed, didn't he? Is it normal?

But he didn't have the face to say these words, so he could only pull You You over and gnawed hard on his neck.

You You pushed him: "Leave a mark, you forgot how Brother Qian hinted?"

Mucha bit a piece of flesh and sucked until he saw a dark hickey: "I don't care about him—he went to sleep, sweating all over."

"Go Pikachu." You Yi said, "I'll wipe it too."

The dormitory was quiet again, except for a strange atmosphere in the air, it was completely unaware that the two of them had messed around.Mucha lay on the bed tossing and turning, his "is this good or not" right and wrong is worthless to discuss, the forbidden fruit is tasted at the beginning of adolescence, even if they haven't really had a relationship and carved each other's marks, it is already satisfying .

But what about after satiation?Emptiness and bewilderment came one after another, and Mucha was at a loss for a while.

From time to time, there was a slight snoring sound from the upper bunk. With his eyes open, he heard Lin Zhan open the door, and his footsteps quietly climbed onto the bed.Then there was the cricket, until... the birds chirped, and the east turned white.

Mucha fell asleep.

Such occasional insomnia continued until before the unified test. Mucha was not in a good state, and fell asleep halfway through her English listening, and was woken up by the invigilator 15 minutes before handing in the paper.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes and wrote the composition, then filled in ABCD randomly, and then got down on the ground again.

Probably the invigilator didn't understand why the class [-] students were reduced to the bottom of the examination room, and their attitude was still so unreasonable. They reminded them once or twice, but they didn't care at all. Mucha.

In such an atmosphere, Mucha inexplicably ushered in the summer vacation of the second year of high school.

Things at home went from being entangled in late winter to midsummer, and the parents tacitly started a cold war, and they were cool with each other.Mu Xia was not sure if this would be a good ending, so he could only keep silent, relying on no one to ask, he went to live in You Yi's house carelessly.

As a result, the good times didn't last long. Youyi's parents couldn't eat and live when they returned to the country, and he had to start training.

"Do you include room and board?" Mucha packed up the drawing materials, and threw the pencil with the length of her little finger into the trash can indifferently, "When the time comes, I will draw here, or can I sketch outdoors?"

"Outdoor sketching is a relaxation. You really should be able to go out and paint a small pavilion every day. Thank you for giving us a small courtyard to paint, Xiao Xia!" Nian——said with a smile, and helped Mucha grab a handful of draft paper.

Mucha pouted regretfully: "Okay."

Among the students in the same class, he spent the longest time in Yuan Ye Studio. Mu Xia knew that he was looking for You Yi to open the back door, and he never said it. After all, Li Yan always praised him for his talent, and Yuan didn't say anything, and he didn't smell bad when he met him. Face.If things go on like this, Mucha has become much more presumptuous, occasionally being scolded but still smiling, there is no one else but him.

"Remember to report on time tomorrow, at 08:30 in the morning." Li Yan reminded them, "If you are late, please everyone have afternoon tea."

"That can't be me." Guan Yunji said, gave Mucha a meaningful look, as if turning over an old account silently, "At that time, I would like to have an English-style three-tiered afternoon tea from the light food shop next door."

Mucha's scalp was numb: "Sister, let me go, the family is far away."

Guan Yunji: "Haha, then you should get up early!"

The others were reminded by her of the fact that Mucha would be late every morning and evening rush hour—the subway was temporarily closed outside the studio—smiled along with Guan Yunji, and even Yuan, who usually had a serious face, couldn't help smiling.

Mucha put the bag on her shoulder: "I can't tell you, slip away!"

He pushed the door open, and his eyes couldn't help falling on the flower stand in the yard.Li Yan's roses seem to bloom later than other places, until the gardenias are all in bloom, and then a few buds are faintly revealed.He asked the reason, but Li Yan didn't know it himself, so he blamed Qiangwei: "Maybe it's more self-willed, flowers also have personalities."

At that time, Mucha thought, Hua Neng's personality was probably not taken care of well.

When he came here in the afternoon, the sun was shining, and the buds of the roses were all over the branches. When the sun was infinitely good, all the flowers bloomed like a gorgeous midsummer in a single thought.

With the evening mist, the roses are all red, delicate and charming.

When he saw this flower stand for the first time, he asked Li Yan, full of uncertainty and new love, "What color is it?" At that time, Li Yan said casually: "Xiao Yi made a bet with Teacher Yuan, It must be red."

He stood blankly in the courtyard, Guan Yunji and the others chatted from behind him, from Tiannan to Haibei.

Mucha wiped his face, he couldn't say why he was excited, maybe it was because of the flowers, maybe it was because of the warm colors, maybe it was because of the cruising, but the only thing he could be sure of was not because of this moment of dusk.

The courtyard door was pushed open with a "squeak". Before Mucha recovered, a familiar figure flashed in.He looked around, and without calling anyone, he said pleasantly, "Hey, the flowers are blooming!"

Hearing the sound, Li Yan opened the curtain and came out, and said with a smile, "Why are you here again?"

"Come pick me up!" You Yi said, shaking the key of the battery car in his hand at her, "Take our family, Xia Xia, to have a good meal, and you're going to finish school by the time—by the way, my bet with Teacher Yuan Do you still count?"

"It's time to call brother-in-law, Mr. Yuan." Yuan Ye came out behind Li Yan, and added unwillingly, "I will get the certificate this year!"

You Yi: "Wow, congratulations, if you want to change your mouth, you must first give me the change fee."

Yuan also heard about the relationship between him and Mucha. People who have returned from studying abroad are also engaged in art, so they have no prejudice against this. Their eyes wandered around between the two: "What do you want to eat, I will Treat me, Mucha, together."

You Yi happily shouted: "Brother-in-law!"

When the wind picked up, the roses swayed slightly with the wind, and there was a fragrance in the air.The other students left one after another, and You You followed Li Yan into the house, saying they wanted to get some fruit.

He was left alone in the yard again, Mucha took two steps forward, and picked the most blooming flower.

The fingers are stained with juice, which is different from the fragrance of flowers, and the taste of stems and leaves is slightly bitter.Mucha sniffed, and he pulled the outermost petals and held them in his hands. The petals of the double-petal rose were small. Mucha lowered his head and held them between his lips and teeth, and slowly chewed a few mouthfuls like tasting something delicious. .

It smells sweet and rich, but it is sour on the tip of the tongue.

"The flower of first love... at least it's mine." Mucha thought, just as Youyou came out from inside, he waved at the other party, hesitated a little after Youyou approached, and pinned the flower with one petal missing to his neckline.

The crayfish they ate that day was the first time the four of them ate together, and they didn't pay much attention to their image.

The red shells were piled up on the table, and Mucha suddenly asked: "Sister Yan, were most of them still indoors during our training camp?"

"That's right." Li Yan said, Yuan Ye put a peeled crayfish in the bowl, "Anyway, I'm still life sketching, pots and pans can be painted, the harder the better, watch first, and finally write the question Writing silently, and occasionally sketching in the garden outside... Didn’t I talk about everything in class today, and you didn’t listen.”

Mucha turned a deaf ear to her well-intentioned criticism, knowing that Li Yan was not really angry: "Then I want to apply to bring a family."

You Yi: "What?"

Li Yan smiled and said nothing, Mu Xia turned to You Yi and said: "Tomorrow morning at 08:30, bring your "Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation" to do it, don't be late."

The lobster shop was bustling with people, and the slicker almost patted Mucha's head with his hands full of oil.