growing up

"Brother Chao, go and test the temperature on the kang." Gu Yuan raised his head and looked up at Ling Chao and said.

Ling Chao entered the room and touched the kang, feeling that the inner part was getting warmer, so he went to the back and talked to Gu Yuan.

The fire was kindled, Gu Yuan added coal, went to wash his hands, and went into the house to lay the kang.

The water stains on the cement pavement dries quickly, and the kang is not very hot yet, but it can be cleaned up first.Grandma left a lot of quilts here, and the kang at home was so big that neither of them took up half of the seats.

Ling Chao knew how to do this job, but Gu Yuan didn't let him do it, so he sorted it out in three or two strokes.

After doing all this, Gu Yuan broke out in a sweat.He took off his coat and put it on the quilt, took water out of the bag, gave Ling Chao a bottle, and opened another bottle to drink.

"Do you want to go out for a drive again?" Gu Yuan asked after drinking water and resting for a while.

"Ah..." Ling Chao hesitated when he thought of his numb body when he just came here.

"I won't take the road just now." Gu Yuan smiled and said, "From the other side, there is a river not far away, and the road over there is pretty good."

Two people can't just sit here, there is no computer, no internet, and even the mobile phone signal is not particularly good.Now staying alone in such a space with Gu Yuan, Ling Chao will always feel a little embarrassed.

"Let's go." Ling Chao jumped off and said, "But I don't want to wear a hat either."

Although the weather was quite cold now, he couldn't accept the fact that he was the only one being protected.Since Gu Yuan can blow the wind, he also wants to be with him.

Gu Yuan's smile didn't stop, but deepened a little, and even laughed out loud.He quickly lowered his head and coughed with his hand on his mouth.

"It's so funny." Ling Chao liked to see Gu Yuan smiling.He usually has no expression on his face, and when he sees him smiling, he will be happy too.It's just that now Gu Yuan is obviously laughing at him.

"Brother Chao." Gu Yuan looked up at him, the smile in his eyes undiminished: "I sometimes feel that you are actually quite naive."

"Is there?" Ling Chao blinked his eyes and asked.

"Let's go." Gu Yuan didn't continue talking, and walked out first.

This time the road was really easy to walk. Coming out of Gu Yuan’s house, the potholed road was only a few tens of meters away before turning to a flat road. After turning a few curves, Ling Chao saw A long embankment.

The slope on the embankment was quite steep, and the motorcycle rushed up.

This time, as soon as Ling Chao got into the car, he hugged Gu Yuan naturally. When Gu Yuan leaned forward, his face was pressed against his back.

It was warm, with the smell of washing powder on Gu Yuan's clothes.

After Gu Yuan rushed onto the embankment, he made a sharp turn, and the car stopped steadily on the embankment.There is a sandy beach under the long embankment that can't be seen at a glance. The flowing river is wide and calm, and there are people fishing in the distance.

"Let's go for a ride, the wind feels really cool." Ling Chao whispered in Gu Yuan's ear.

Gu Yuan didn't speak, his hand turned the accelerator, and the car flew out.

The speed was unprecedented, Ling Chao felt that his eyes could hardly be opened, and the wind was whistling in his ears. He hugged Gu Yuan and experienced the excitement brought by this speed together with him.

There is no one on the embankment now, only the two of them are speeding on a motorcycle.Gu Yuan's driving skills were really good, and he didn't shake at all when the road was flat.

At this moment, Ling Chao really wished that time could stop here, he sat behind Gu Yuan, hugged him, although it was cold, but his heart was hot.

Ling Chao looked over from the side of Gu Yuan's head, and he could still see Gu Yuan's round ears and his small hole with nothing on.

It felt like half an hour had passed before Gu Yuan stopped, and the dike ahead was still invisible.

There are many trees planted on both sides of the embankment, and the scenery is particularly beautiful under the afterglow of the setting sun.

Gu Yuan propped up the big frame of the car, and then sat sideways on the car, Ling Chao leaned beside him.The two faced the side of the river, and they couldn't see the river clearly from the woods.

"I liked this embankment very much when I was a child. At that time, there were not as many trees planted here as now, but the grass was very thick." Gu Yuan said, looking ahead.

Thinking of what I knew about Gu Yuan's childhood, there were no friends to play with him, most of them were only him, at most Gu Qingqing would be by his side.

Ling Chao couldn't help rubbing his hair.Don't know what to say.

The two of them just sat or leaned on the motorcycle quietly, looking into the distance, without speaking for a long time.

There is a rustling sound when the wind blows through the woods.

The air here is particularly good, with the smell of mud, trees and river water, even if you stay quietly, you are very comfortable.

"It's getting late, let's go back!" Gu Yuan looked at the time and said to Ling Chao.

"Okay." Ling Chao nodded.

On the way back, Gu Yuan rode a lot slower. The sun had completely set and the temperature on the ground had dropped a lot. Both of them packed their clothes up, but it was still very cold when they rode.

When he returned to the old house, Gu Yuan's hands were red from the cold.Ling Chao felt a little distressed, but Gu Yuan acted like nothing happened, and went to work in the kitchen again.

For dinner, Gu Yuan cooked two bowls of stewed noodles with the vegetables and noodles he brought. The taste made by firewood was a bit different from what he usually eats, and it was even more fragrant.I don't know if it's because of the wind blowing for a long time, but now Ling Chao feels very satisfied when eating hot noodles.

Gu Yuan boiled a pot of hot water, and the two of them simply washed up, added coal to the kang, and then went back to the house to get on the kang.

The heating in the quilt was full, and actually there was no need to burn the kang this day, but because Ling Chao wanted to try it, Gu Yuan helped him realize it.

Gu Yuan rummaged through the closet for a long time and found two old sports pants, which were already too short for him, let alone Ling Chao.It's just that both of them only wore a pair of jeans, so they couldn't take them all off.

Ling Chao was wearing Gu Yuan's trousers, the cuffs almost reached his knees, which looked a little funny.

"When did you wear these pants? They can be worn as shorts for me." Ling Chao asked as he tried his best to pull the tight pants.

"Probably when I was just in junior high school." Gu Yuan looked at Ling Chao's legs, his pants were not only short, but also small.Those half-length swimming trunks stuck to Ling Chao's body: "If you're not used to it, just take it off. Anyway, it's just the two of us here."

In the end, Ling Chao still didn't take it off. The thought of staying with Gu Yuan in just a pair of underwear made him feel hot.Finally jumped on the bed and put the quilt on the lap

The first class has always had a lot of homework on weekends, and I did some last night and didn't finish it.Now that the two of them are not sleepy, and it's early, Gu Yuan set up the table on the kang, and the two of them sat there one by one and started to do their homework.

This feeling is similar to when I was in school, but a little different.In the current space, there are only two people, Ling Chao and Gu Yuan, and the only sound that can be heard around them is their writing.

Both of them are very serious students in their studies, so in the process of writing their homework, they are almost immersed in their own work, and there is no discussion.

When Ling Chao finished writing and raised his head, Gu Yuan was still working on the last physics paper.

His expression was very focused, he drew a circuit diagram on the straw paper, and checked a large piece in a short while.

Ling Chao leaned against the wall, not bothering to pack his things, just looking at Gu Yuan like this.

During this period of time, the two spent more and more time together, and the more contact they got, the deeper Ling Chao's liking for him became. In the past 17 years, no one has ever been able to walk into his heart like this.He knew that he was completely trapped now, even if he couldn't tell Gu Yuan, it would be good to just get along like this.

Until he finished writing and raised his head to meet Ling Chao's eyes, Ling Chao didn't turn his mind back.

"Sleepy?" Gu Yuan looked at Ling Chao for a long time before asking.

Hearing the voice Ling Chao woke up, he stretched himself, put away his homework on the desktop, and then said to Gu Yuan, "No." But he couldn't say anything anymore.

Gu Yuan took out his phone and checked the time, it was almost twelve o'clock.He put away his things, and put the small table on the other side where there was no quilt, and was about to go down to have a look and add some charcoal.

"Where are you going?" Ling Chao asked him.

"Add more charcoal to sleep." Gu Yuan said while putting on his shoes.

"No, it's quite warm." Ling Chao said.

"Then do you want to eat something?" Gu Yuan asked again.

"Don't eat." Ling Chao's voice sounded a little tired, and he said after a while: "I'm going to the bathroom." He also walked over to the kang.

Gu Yuan took the flashlight and followed Ling Chao out, leaving the room, suddenly a gust of cold air hit his face, Ling Chao couldn't help shivering, it wasn't actually a very cold day, but he left the hot bed and came outside all of a sudden, Still can't help but feel a little unbearable.

When they both finished returning to the bed, Ling Chao quickly got into the quilt: "The bed is still comfortable!"

Gu Yuan said with a smile: "This is where to go, it's still far away from the cold weather."

"Yeah, when it snows, I guess I don't want to go out." After going to bed, his body warmed up, and Ling Chao felt a little tired.

Gu Yuan took off his coat and lay beside him. This was not the first time that they shared the same bed, but when he saw Gu Yuan lying down, Ling Chao, who had been sitting all this time, suddenly felt a little at a loss.

"Aren't you sleeping yet?" Gu Yuan turned to look at Ling Chao and asked.

"Oh! Go to sleep." Ling Chao sighed, took off his coat and put it inside, and lay down.

The quilt is a cotton quilt made at home, which is very large and warm.They were covered with a quilt, the pillows were next to each other, and the distance between them was very close, so close that Ling Chao could feel the warmth from Gu Yuan's body.

After Gu Yuan finished asking, he turned back and lay down on his back. Feeling that Ling Chao had also fallen asleep, he asked, "Turn off the lights?"

"Shut it up." Ling Chao said.

Gu Yuan pressed the switch, and the room suddenly became very dark. Ling Chao lay on his side on the pillow facing Gu Yuan's direction.In the darkness, he couldn't see Gu Yuan's appearance clearly, but there was only a faint shadow beside him.

There was a distance of thirty to forty centimeters between the two of them. Gu Yuan was breathing lightly and made no sound. Ling Chao lay there like this, with nothing but his own heartbeat around him.

After a while, he still couldn't fall asleep. Gu Yuan hadn't moved since he lay down, and he didn't know if he fell asleep.

"Gu Yuan." Ling Chao called out in a low voice, he didn't expect Gu Yuan to be still awake, but he suddenly wanted to call his name.

"Huh?" I didn't expect Gu Yuan to have heard it, but he still didn't move, and replied in the dark.

Ling Chao didn't know what to say.

Before Ling Chao could speak again, Gu Yuan moved and turned sideways. The two lay facing each other. Because of the movement, the distance was shortened a lot. Ling Chao seemed to be able to feel the hot air exhaled from Gu Yuan's nose.One after another, he was hit on the face and neck.

Like a feather sweeping across the skin, numb, itchy.

Want to retreat, but do not give up.

"What's wrong?" Gu Yuan asked him.

His voice after not speaking for a long time was hoarse and full of magnetism. Ling Chao only felt like a burst of electricity passing through his whole body, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

"Have you ever liked someone?" Ling Chao didn't know how to ask this sentence, and it was too late to regret after realizing what he said.