Boiling point

It was [-]:[-] when He Xin came out of Huayue Hotel. Winter nights always come so early. At this time, the sky was completely dark. It hadn’t snowed when he came here, but now there are a few scattered pieces, more like It's a small piece of ice, and the water vapor forms frost on the glass. It looks beautiful, and there are a few excited children shouting "It's snowing!"

He Xin extinguished half of the cigarette on the corner of her lips, and subconsciously wanted to touch the mask from her pocket. As soon as she put it on, she saw a person carrying a bag of vinegar at the bus stop sign not far away, turning her head to look at the entrance of Huayue guy.

Li Yanqi?

He Xin didn't care about the shock, and took two steps forward, thinking that this person has been wandering around Huayue all day after disappearing, how excited is he?

"Brother Ta." He coughed, stood behind the other party and stared at him deeply, "We haven't seen each other for a day."

There was a bit of displeasure in the words, Li Yanqi was probably in a trance at the moment, when He Xin suddenly yelled, almost spilling the whole bag of vinegar, he quickly dragged it with his hands, and looked up at the other party.

"Have you been a thief for a day?" He Xin continued to stare at him, "So unintimidated?"

Li Yanqi was not originally a person who was easily startled, but now he is almost like a thief. Before going out, he only planned to buy a bottle of vinegar at the small shop, but he didn’t expect the small shop to close early because of the snow. He walked all the way, I don’t know Why did he wander near Huayue, when He Xin called him to stop him, his first reaction was to feel guilty, and his second reaction was to look him up and down.

He Xin was wearing a black sweater, a baseball jacket, no scarf, and a black mask with half hanging on the ears and half hanging down. It looked quite casual, not well-dressed.

Li Yanqi was not so depressed immediately, but after a quick glance, he found that He Xin was holding a basketball in his hand. It seemed to be a birthday present from Feng Binrui. It was beautifully packaged in a mesh bag. His favorite team signature.Although Li Yanqi has never bought it before, he also knows that this brand is very expensive, and the basketball with the team's signature on it is even more valuable, even if you have money, you can't buy it.

His heart, which had just been suspended in the air, fell to the ground with a slap. Li Yanqi squeezed his vinegar tightly, feeling a little melancholy out of thin air.

"What are you doing outside all day today?" He Xin asked worriedly seeing him obviously out of shape, "What happened?"

"It's all right."

He Xin took a look at him, suppressed his voice and said, "Since it's fine, why haven't you been home all day? I'm like a fucking idiot..."

"Have you been waiting for my birthday?" Li Yanqi asked softly.

"Ah?" He Xin was stunned, then glanced at him, "Ah, what's the matter?"

Li Yanqi felt that he had to explain, otherwise they might have to fight before they could talk properly.

"I'm going to prepare a birthday present for you."

He Xin's expression softened a little, "What a gift to do this for a long time?"

Li Yanqi smiled, "It's not that big, compared to the basketball in your hand, it's as light as a feather."

Although his tone was very calm, He Xin still caught a hint of displeasure in it. He weighed the basketball in his hand and sighed helplessly, "Feng Binrui gave it to me. I'm embarrassed to return it."

Li Yanqi walked side by side with him, hummed, and pretended to ask unintentionally for a moment, "Why are you so embarrassing?"

Why?Thinking of this, He Xin felt very fucked up.

An hour ago, he thought that Feng Binrui had suffered a major blow, so he hurried to Huayue, but he turned out to be in good shape, dressed more brightly than usual, as soon as He Xin came, he pulled him over for a drink, and chatted with his friends one by one. Introduced him.

Except for a few girls in Feng Binrui's class, He Xin didn't know anyone else, and didn't want to. He just wanted to find some time to sneak away, but Feng Binrui didn't talk about business all the time, and just dragged him to eat and drink. , but he was still thinking about Li Yanqi's birthday meal, so he pretended to move his chopsticks. After more than ten minutes, he was really bored. He just stood up and wanted to say happy birthday to Feng Binrui, but he left. He called to the cubicle in the box and said he had something for him.

Then He Xin received a signed basketball from his favorite team. This was something to be happy about, but what Feng Binrui said next made him almost feel that the way he got in was wrong.

"It seems too deliberate to go back." He Xin looked at Li Yanqi, a trace of struggle flashed in his eyes, but soon he gave a tentative smile.

"Because he said he liked me."

Li Yanqi paused, raised his eyes when he heard the words, turned his face to look at him, didn't speak, and didn't look very surprised.

How weird the scene was, He Xin didn't want to recall it anymore.

Feng Binrui blushed, lowered his head and hesitated for a long time, then handed the basketball to him, smiled awkwardly at him and said, "I'm looking for you today, I really have something to talk about."

"Say it." At that time, He Xin's reflex arc was still running around outside, her tone was very relaxed, which prompted the young man to go one step further.

Feng Binrui first recalled the friendship they didn't know each other a few months ago, and then talked about his twisted personality and acquired defects caused by his growth environment, so that he admired his chicness and willfulness very much. The last sentence summed up Chen Words: Maybe you will be scared if you say it, but I still want to say... I have never liked anyone, I don’t know if this counts as liking, if it counts, then I might like you.

For a moment, He Xin thought that something was wrong with her ears, and she misheard, but the other party said it again seriously, and finally added politely, "I just want to be brave on my birthday, and I don't expect you to be successful." Respond, I just want to give myself an explanation, don't be troubled by it, it's much easier for me to say it, then... can we still get along like before?"

Feng Binrui went out after talking to himself for a while, leaving He Xin alone to calm down.

He really wanted to break Feng Binrui's head and ask, is it so easy to like someone?What does he like about him?Apart from being handsome, he doesn't seem to have anything intrinsically worthy of liking, but people are visual animals, and maybe being handsome is enough to take advantage of all the advantages.

What is this all about?

He Xin scratched her hair, a little stupefied by this sudden confession, so she took a cigarette and thought about it, they are now at the age when a lot of flowers bloom in the spring breeze, and a little fanning can ignite a large cluster of love flames , many people in the class are in love, some are with their own class, some are between other classes, even sister Liao has found a girlfriend, and she shows up around him and Li Yanqi all day long, but He Xin thinks that she is Not yet, you don’t need to spend half of your time trying to please your girlfriend, or sacrifice your precious time to go shopping and buy clothes with others.

Now he just wants to spend time with Li Yanqi every day, do homework together, go to and from class together, take the little milk foam out for a big meal on weekends, occasionally bicker to adjust his emotions, vent the depression of life, and find something to do To fill the emptiness in his heart, there are only 24 hours a day, and he has no time to find a girlfriend at all.

It is enough for him to have Li Yanqi.

Thinking of this, He Xin couldn't help feeling dazed, so what's the difference between him looking for a girlfriend like this?

It's just that the object has been changed to Li Yanqi.

He turned on the lighter, raised his hand and took a puff of a cigarette, and began to recall whether he and Wu Rui had always been so inseparable, wanting to stick together all the time?

No, although Wu Rui is his best friend, many times he would rather be alone.

Feng Binrui's words just now dug a hole in his little-known little thoughts that were sealed in his heart, and the light came in. The confusion and depression of the past few days slowly cleared away, and a certain thought was as hard as a heavy blow. He scratched his heart fiercely.

Does he... like Li Yanqi?

Is it not mutual admiration, brotherly love, admiration or admiration, is it love?

He Xin lowered his hands, put them on his knees, and clenched his fists tightly.

If you like someone and a boy likes another boy, will he be gay?

gay?

He Xin froze in place, he had never thought that this word would have an intersection with him before.

It was snowing heavily, Li Yanqi opened the umbrella, pulled the opponent's head over and smoothed his hair, and dusted off a few flakes of snow.

Only then did He Xin recover from the previous memories, looked at him for a while and asked, "Why aren't you surprised at all?"

Li Yanqi raised his eyes, "I've already seen it."

"What?" He Xin raised her voice, "You know Feng Binrui treats me?"

"Hmm." Li Yanqi let out an intriguing sigh, "You are too slow."

This time, He Xin didn't refute. She took the umbrella from him, pulled Li Yanqi's clothes and pulled him to her left. The shoulders of the two of them were tightly pressed together, and they rubbed their coats with rustling sounds. , the two of them leaned on each other and walked for a while before He Xin said, "Actually, he just worships me. It's not that simple to like someone."

Li Yanqi remained silent for a while and turned to look at him, "Do you know what liking is?"

This question was too advanced, and He Xin felt that he might not be able to explain it clearly.

At this time the car came, Li Yanqi pulled him up, sat on the back seat by the window, then pulled off the scarf, and sighed softly.

"I don't understand." Li Yanqi answered the question for him, "What is the definition of liking, what is the feeling of liking, everyone's experience is different, but whether you understand it or not is two different things, so You can't deny that Feng Binrui likes you."

He Xin looked at him a little funny, "I didn't deny that he likes me."

Li Yanqi said, "But you deny the fact that someone will like you, liking you is different from liking you, you don't believe that you are worthy of being liked."

He Xin was at a loss for words for a while, turned her head to look out of the window with the basketball plug in her hand, and smiled lightly after a long time, "So you regret that I didn't accept Feng Binrui's liking?"

"I want you to know..." Li Yanqi leaned back and sighed, "Feng Binrui will never be the only one who likes you in the future, you have to be prepared. "

He Xin turned to look at him, her throat felt itchy, just as he was about to say something, Li Yanqi interrupted him, "Get out of the car, let's go home for our birthday."

Feng Binrui made such a fuss, which made He Xin completely forget that he had to celebrate his birthday with Li Yanqi and Xiao Naipao tonight. He looked at his watch a little bit unwillingly, "There are less than five hours left for my great birthday." He Xin pointed at him, "You pay."

Li Yanqi glanced at Li An who was lying on the window and waving to them, and smiled, "If you pay, you will pay."

He Xin coveted the cake in the refrigerator more than eating a big meal. When Li Yanqi was away, he lifted the lid and looked at it many times in the afternoon, staring at the "Happy Birthday Lemon Extract" drawn on the cake with lemon jam. Seven words are very satisfying.

Judging from the font, there is no doubt that it was written by Li Yanqi, and the crooked heart next to it should be drawn by the soul painter Li An. He Xin closed the refrigerator, touched her stomach and sighed.

"Brother, let's build a snowman first." Li An pulled He Xin's clothes and said, "I really want to play."

At this moment, the snow hasn't fallen very much, and the ground hasn't piled up. Li Yanqi is afraid that Li An will catch a cold, so he wraps him in three layers inside and outside three layers into a silkworm baby. He Xin scoops up some snow from the car and trees. , let Li An play together, the little guy hasn't seen snow for several years, and ran around excitedly, Li Yanqi opened the window to take a look while cooking fish.

These two people squatted on the ground to insert tree branches as arms for the snowman. The mini version of the three people was He Xin who was wearing a mask, him who was wearing a scarf, and Li An who was holding his hands up.

"Does it look good?" Li An stood up and jumped twice.

"Is your brother missing a hand?" He Xin hugged him in front of his lap, "It's a pity that we have caught all the snow around."

Li An tilted his head and said, "Then I'll pick another branch."

"Yeah." Seeing the little guy running away, He Xin shouted, "Be careful, don't fall."

Not long after, the three snowmen with missing arms and broken legs appeared perfectly. Li An's face was flushed with cold, and he squatted in front of them and waved to He Xin, "What pose do I want to pose!"

He Xin said, "You are cute no matter what."

Li An grinned, revealing two canine teeth.

After taking the photo, Li An jumped into He Xin's arms, opened his hands to show He Xin the snowflakes in his palms, "Brother, look, the snow of the six-pointed star! Even the snowflakes are wishing you a happy birthday!"

He Xin smiled and picked him up and swung him around, "Yeah, why am I so awesome."

Li Yanqi heard the sound of the pressure cooker, and realized that he was so fascinated by these two performances that he forgot to turn off the fire.

He Xin looked so happy that he couldn't help but keep the corners of his mouth raised.

It's so good, the snow is vast outside, and the house is warm and harmonious.

The meal was not too extravagant. Li Yanqi cooked some home-cooked dishes and a hot pot, but it was enough for three people to eat. Originally, they wanted to ask Uncle Zhao to come over, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one was there. It is estimated that I went to the next door to chat again.

"I'll cook some more beef for you?" Li Yanqi took out the quick-frozen beef from the refrigerator and said to the greedy Li An, "But you can't eat more, your stomach will feel uncomfortable later."

Li An blinked and nodded obediently, "Just eat a little." He gestured with his hand, "A little bit."

He Xin took a sip of lemonade and said, "Your brother is really stingy."

Li Yanqi gave him a sideways look, and took away all the dishes around him.

"Hey, you abuse the birthday star like this." He Xin exchanged a look of hatred with Li An, and Li Yanqi suddenly felt ominous.

Facts have proved that there is nothing good about these two eager to try their hands.

After dinner, Li Yanqi said that he would take Li An to take a bath. Just now he was covered with hot pot ingredients, and his obsessive-compulsive disorder couldn't bear it. He Xin was sitting in the living room by herself, smoking a cigarette to diffuse the smell. , Suddenly the light went out.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you." Li An's voice came out cheerfully, and Li Yanqi was fishing in troubled waters in the first few sentences, only humming twice, and at the end of singing, he walked in front of him holding the cake, He smiled and said, "Happy birthday."

Then Li An turned on the light. Facing his expression of "surprised or surprised", He Xin widened her eyes cooperatively and applauded him, "What a surprise!"

Li An hugged his thigh, looked up and smiled.

"Blow out the candles." Li Yanqi put the cake on the table and pushed him, "Wait a minute, why don't you make a wish first?"

He Xin puffed up her mouth and was about to blow it, only then did she remember that in the birthday program, making a wish is before blowing out the candles.

Seeing that he was a little confused, Li An kindly pointed out, "Make three wishes, say one, rest assured of two, and then blow them all out with one breath, and the wishes will come true."

He Xin looked at him and smiled, turned her head to face the cake, and closed her eyes.

When he opened his eyes, he found that Li Yanqi was still closed, his eyelashes moved twice, and he stood there very quietly, like a painting. He Xin felt a little itchy in his heart, and his voice became inexplicably hoarse when he spoke, "The first Three wishes, I hope Little Milk Foam stays healthy and stays with us all the time."

Li An sighed, "Brother! You have to promise yourself something about it!"

"You have something to do with me." He Xin said, "If it's okay, then I'll go home now."

Li An couldn't pick up the quarrel for a while, and hid in his brother's arms and hummed, "Brother Lemon Jing, you are a bit of a rascal."

"It's more than a little." Li Yanqi smiled.

As soon as he finished speaking, the two people next to him looked at each other with tacit understanding, Li An hugged Li Yanqi's thigh, and He Xin quickly wiped the cream on his face.

"Fuck." Li Yanqi was stunned for a moment, and found that He Xin was holding up half of the cake, wanting to put the whole cake on his face, so he quickly grabbed his hand and held him in place.

"It's shameful to waste it, young man." Li Yanqi wiped it more and more dirty, and simply gave up. He put his fingertips to his mouth, stuck out his tongue and licked it, "It's so sweet."

He Xin's legs were made weak by his unintentional action, and he supported the table with his hands and stopped moving.

Li Yanqi looked back at him, a layer of light shone on his face, He Xin couldn't hold back and took two steps forward, at this moment Li An shouted while holding the baby box, "Brother, brother! This is me!" Here's your birthday present!"

He Xin had no choice but to brake the car abruptly, and squatted down to take the small box.

Li Yanqi was also very curious, and leaned his head to look at it, but was pushed away by Li An, covering his face, "Brother, you can't look at it."

He Xin laughed, "Yo, brother Ta, you've been rejected by your brother."

Li Yanqi showed a sad expression, Li An shook his head like a rattle, but his expression was resolute, and he just refused to show it to him.

"Baby doesn't love brother anymore." Li Yanqi sighed and turned around to clean up the mess on the table.

"I love love love love love love love my brother." Li An chased after him to explain, pulling on his thigh and not relaxing. He Xin opened it and glanced at it. It was a painting of a little prince holding a sword. He also wrote a lot of words, but he closed it without looking carefully, walked over and hugged Li An's forehead and kissed, "The painting is really good, thank you."

Li An laughed shyly, and said in a low voice, "Don't show me the next letter."

"Brother heard it." Li Yanqi lifted him up, "I'll throw you away tonight."

He Xin smiled and watched the two of them quarreling for a while, then helped Li Yanqi clean up the messy house, and cleaned up half of the cake. lock up.

There was still an hour before the end of his birthday. When he came back, Li Yanqi had already coaxed Li An to sleep. He Xin walked into their room and saw a few dough puppies on the table.

He picked it up and took a few glances, "For me?"

Li Yanqi nodded, "I can only take it out while he is asleep, otherwise I will definitely be jealous."

He Xin patted the puppy's head and said, "I'll hide it in the closet later."

Li Yanqi hummed, "Does it look like you?"

He Xin said, "I think you must have misunderstood me."

Li Yanqi smiled lightly, pointed to the door, and the two of them walked out slowly and sat in the living room. Li Yanqi arrived one step later than him, took out a bag from behind and handed it to him, "Birthday Gift."

There was more than one gift in the bag, and He Xin received the gifts very quickly, feeling like he was in a hurry.

He was actually very curious about what Li Yanqi would give him, because he couldn't guess, and he was looking forward to it.

There were indeed three, the first being a pair of black and white checked mittens.

The second piece is a small house made of felt.

The third is a marathon running memorabilia of a small person holding a trophy.

Holding the bag, He Xin was speechless for a moment.

After he finished organizing his words, Li Yanqi had already sat across from him, half lying on his stomach and looking up at him.

"That souvenir?" He Xin took a deep breath, "It's a souvenir from my running in the third year of junior high school. Why do you have it?"

Li Yanqi pointed to the desktop, "The marathon held by this company is very famous. They came to Nanxi a while ago, so I secretly registered my name. It happened to be the competition today, so you haven't seen me all day."

He Xin asked in a daze, "Did you run a marathon today?"

"Yeah." Li Yanqi said, "But the weather is bad, so it took a long time."

He Xin stared at the souvenir for a long time before raising her head, "Did you run first?"

Li Yanqi said with a smile, "I tied for the first place, and I almost couldn't get it. Later, I exchanged the medal for this commemorative doll."

It was only then that He Xin remembered that the other party was walking a little slowly today. He heard from Li An that his brother might have fallen somewhere and was limping when he came back at night.

He Xin immediately put down the things, squatted down and opened the opponent's trousers.

"What kind of surprise attack?" Li Yanqi was startled, and leaned back.

He Xin stared at the punctured wound on his knee for a while, and suddenly there was a ripple in his heart, a little sore, a little soft and a little numb.

"I don't have much money." Li Yanqi's deep voice sounded in his ears, "I can't afford a high-end gift like Feng Binrui, and I can't invite you to Huayue for a buffet. This may be within my ability. The best thing I can give you."

"When you had a fever, you talked to me all afternoon about your unfulfilled birthday wish when you were a child. The children in the seven-year-old class all had scarves woven by their mothers, but you didn't. Because the time is too short, I can only make do with it." I knitted a pair of gloves for you, which were quite warm, and it was just right for you to start the car. At the age of 12, you wanted a handicraft house. This was your homework in the labor class. You didn’t hand it in at that time, and you were given a failing grade. You won No.15 in the marathon at the age of 1, but your only souvenir was broken by your mother, so you are very sad."

He Xin was shocked, not only shocked that she would tell Li Yanqi these things when she was sick, but also shocked that the other party would make up for all the gifts he lost because of his words.

In this world, there are people who are willing to rack their brains, rack their brains, and silently sacrifice their time to prepare for your trivial little wish. Even family members may not be able to do this.

He used to feel that Wu Rui was very stupid when he received gifts. He didn't understand why there was anything to be happy about such ordinary things, but now he understands, this feeling can't be described, as if every cell in his body is screaming, Crying that my mother did not live in vain.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Li Yanqi said poorly, "Do you want to do radio gymnastics with your flying eagle posture?"

He Xin raised her head and just stared at him, her eyes were very straightforward, which made people feel a little irritable.

Li Yanqi turned his face away and coughed lightly, He Xin suddenly walked around the chair, bent down to hug him, buried his face in his neck and did not move.

Li Yanqi reckoned that the other party was moved, and thought that such a cool face had grown pale, and no one would believe that he was one of the number one people who should not be messed with.

"Happy birthday." Li Yanqi whispered into his ear, "There's only one minute left, and I'm the last one to wish you a happy birthday."

He Xin still didn't make a sound, Li Yanqi thought he was falling asleep while hugging him, but just as he was about to push him, he found a string of wet water droplets across his neck.

This is... crying?

Li Yanqi couldn't believe his eyes, but he couldn't raise his head, because He Xin pushed him back all the time.

"It's almost suffocating." He tugged on the other party's collar, and turned his head to see what happened.

He Xin didn't give him a chance, propped the chair on her knees, and hugged him tightly.

"I pretended I didn't see you crying." Li Yanqi's breathing became hot in his ear, he sighed and said, "Let go of me, aren't you tired from holding on like this?"

"Not tired." He Xin unexpectedly answered two words and fell silent again.

But my neck was about to break, and Li Yanqi stared at him helplessly, feeling that He Xin was just like Li An at the moment. "Do I have to sing you a song to coax you?"

He Xin said with a muffled voice, "Laughing fart, haven't you ever cried? What's wrong with the birthday star? Cry as long as you want. If you don't cry, you're a dog."

"Stupid." Li Yanqi laughed even louder.

He Xin got up from him, pinched his chin and turned his face back to look at her. Li Yanqi was still smiling. He Xin stared at him silently for five seconds, and finally bowed her head and kissed him on the lips.