Tiandi Baiju

Chapter 9 The Past

Zhou Luoyang seldom went to observe Du Jing specially. After dinner, they always went step by step, put on headphones to do their homework, and then read a book, watched a movie or surfed the Internet after finishing.Zhou Luoyang rarely paid attention to what Du Jing was doing.The dormitory in Tingpu Building is a standard double room, unlike a four-person room where the desk and the bed are separated.

The bed is in front of the window, and beside it are independent wardrobes, lockers, and bookshelves.The desks are back to back, and they can't see each other most of the time, and they don't bother to look.

It was night and everything was normal. At eleven o'clock, Zhou Luoyang glanced at Du Jing through the full-length mirror, and found that Du Jing was sitting quietly, staring at a can in a daze. Zhou Luoyang was a little worried by that sight.

"Sleep?" Zhou Luoyang got up to wash up, so Du Jing turned off the headlights, leaving only a desk lamp.

At [-]:[-], Zhou Luoyang lay on the bed, turned around twice, and was very quiet on the bed.Zhou Luoyang checked his phone and thought that Du Jing probably suffered from depression.He has never been in contact with patients with depression, and he didn't know how to get along with him for a while.

He continues to take the medicine, and takes it on time every day, so nothing will happen, right?

At twelve o'clock, Zhou Luoyang let out a sigh of relief, suspecting that Du Jing might not have fallen asleep again.After all, insomnia was mentioned on his Weibo account.That is to say, the night he thought Du Jing fell asleep was actually not the case. Only Zhou Luoyang slept well. Du Jing just kept his eyes open all night until dawn, and he had to be careful not to make any noise, lest he wake him up.

"Du Jing?" Zhou Luoyang whispered.

It took several seconds for Du Jing to reply: "Yes."

Zhou Luoyang asked, "Are you asleep?"

Du Jing replied: "Not yet, why didn't you sleep?"

Zhou Luoyang could hear Du Jing's voice, and he was indeed still awake.

He also suffered from insomnia, which was quite painful, exhausting and unable to sleep.

"I drank two cups of coffee in the afternoon," Zhou Luoyang said, "It's over now."

"When did you drink it?"

"When you went to class, I bought you a cup. I forgot that you had a drink, so I drank it myself."

"Then what should we do now?" Du Jing asked.

"What do you think?" Zhou Luoyang didn't actually drink coffee, but he decided to accompany Du Jing for a while, otherwise Du Jing would be too uncomfortable to lie down until dawn.

Du Jing's answer was as usual: "I don't know, what do you want to do?"

Du Jing turned over. Under the moonlight, Zhou Luoyang saw that Du Jing's eyes were bright. He wanted to say, "Let's chat?" 10 or [-] minutes, and they never had time to chat before falling asleep.

But Zhou Luoyang was afraid that Du Jing didn't want to share too much and said the wrong thing.

"Can I turn on the light?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Du Jing turned on the bedside lamp, Zhou Luoyang also turned on the light, and the light returned to the dormitory. Under the two lights in the middle of the night, the warm feeling covered them like a gentle blanket.

Zhou Luoyang changed his mind and said, "I want to read for a while, if it disturbs you..."

"No," Du Jing said lightly, "I want to read too."

Zhou Luoyang took an unfinished novel, took out the bookmark, and glanced at Du Jing, who lay on the bed with a professional book and read it.As soon as the light was turned on, it was as if he had been liberated from a dark prison. Du Jing's expression seemed to have changed significantly, and he was much more relaxed.

"Are you studying by yourself?" Zhou Luoyang asked, but his mind was not on the book.

Du Jing hummed, and Zhou Luoyang craned his neck to take a look, and said, "You've almost finished the preparatory content."

Du Jing replied: "I have nothing to do, and I will be free if I finish my studies early."

Zhou Luoyang lingered in his mind. He wanted to say, "What are you going to do when you are free?" However, thinking of Du Jing's Weibo, after weighing it for a while, he joked, "If you graduated early, wouldn't you just leave?"

Du Jing was silent for a while, then raised his head from the book and glanced at Zhou Luoyang, as if he was considering a request.

"You can also apply for early graduation." Du Jing said, "Want to compete with me? Who will finish first?"

Zhou Luoyang laughed at himself and said, "I'm not as smart as you. Let's work hard, and after graduation, shall we take the postgraduate entrance examination together?"

Zhou Luoyang just continued Du Jing's topic unconsciously, but Du Jing said: "Okay, after two years of undergraduate study, we will take the postgraduate entrance examination together."

Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, I will die of exhaustion.

The university they attended is a well-known national key, and it is said that it can be ranked in the top three—although there are only two in the TOP2 in China and countless in the TOP3, just like there are only seven of the Seven Wonders and countless in the Eighth.Therefore, there are many high-IQ students in the school think that reading is a waste of time, and there are a lot of successful cases in which they hurriedly finish reading to realize the value of life.

Du Jing is very smart, Zhou Luoyang knows it, he can remember all the content after reading the book once, and it's accurate.Is this with the depression gene?

Zhou Luoyang checked online in the afternoon to confirm Du Jing's situation, but found that Du Jing's behavior was quite different from the description of the disease.

Zhou Luoyang yawned. He was already very sleepy, but he held on, dimmed the desk lamp a little, and started playing with his phone.Du Jing quickly noticed it and asked, "Sleepy?"

"Leave me alone," Zhou Luoyang immediately stopped Du Jing, and said, "I want to try to sleep with a night light on, maybe I can fall asleep."

At Zhou Luoyang's request, Du Jing's lamp remained on, and Zhou Luoyang said, "I slept soundly after I fell asleep, so you can't wake me up."

"Found it." Du Jing replied.

Zhou Luoyang laughed, turned over and faced inward, his eyelids were very heavy, and he fell asleep not long after.And Du Jing still turned on his desk lamp for the whole night.

When Zhou Luoyang woke up at ten o'clock the next morning, he found that Du Jing seemed to have fallen asleep successfully, and he didn't post on Weibo this morning.So starting from that night, Zhou Luoyang took the initiative to change his schedule for Du Jing.Originally, he didn't like to sleep with the light on at home, and he was very sensitive to sound, but he could bear to leave a light for Du Jing at night, anyway, he got used to it.

A few days later, Zhou Luoyang saw Du Jing's Weibo again:

【It’s boring, it’s boring to do anything, the truth of life is absurd, as Camus said, we are all trapped in a cage of meaninglessness. 】

"I don't want to go," Zhou Luoyang said to Du Jing, "I decided to skip class today."

Du Jing was taking medicine after getting up early. After swallowing the medicine, he asked, "Where are you going? Sleeping in the dormitory?"

Zhou Luoyang said: "A pig? I just woke up and fell asleep again. I want to go out for a stroll, do you want to go? If you don't want to go, please call my name."

Du Jing hesitated, and Zhou Luoyang grasped his thoughts accurately - he was judging whether he intended to ask him to help with the roll call, or whether he wanted to invite him to go out together.

"Let's go, skip class and go out to play." Zhou Luoyang pushed the boat along the way. He always felt that Du Jing needed to go to relax, "There are many places you haven't been to yet."

"Let's go." Du Jing changed his clothes, grabbed a sports bag, and left the school with Zhou Luoyang.

The weather in Hangzhou was very bad that day. An autumn torrential rain was brewing, but it was hidden and the air was still. Everyone by the West Lake had obvious worried expressions on their faces, for fear that the water from the sky would suddenly splash down. I became a drowned rat.

Zhou Luoyang brought Du Jing to Liulang Wenying for lunch. There were mostly young couples around, and it seemed a bit strange for the two boys to sit and drink Longjing tea.

It would be great if Du Jing was a great beauty, Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, even if I skip class every day, I would be willing.

Du Jing seemed to be very at ease, Zhou Luoyang could tell from his demeanor, because he looked at the tourists, and the tourists also looked at him, when the tourists noticed Du Jing, he didn't turn his head away, and showed embarrassment to the scar on the bridge of his nose Frankly.

"I'll pay the bill." Du Jing said, "It's going to rain, let's go to another place. Is there any other place you want to go?"

Zhou Luoyang shook his head. In fact, it was completely random to go out today. He wanted to say, "No, go back to the dormitory?" But suddenly he remembered Du Jing's conversation mode, and asked, "I don't have any, what about you?"

"I want to go to a place," Du Jing replied, "Let's go."

Du Jing settled the bill and went to the museum with Zhou Luoyang. There happened to be a special exhibition of Egypt. When visiting the exhibition, Zhou Luoyang thought it was good to ask that question, otherwise Du Jing would definitely reserve his opinion and go back to school with him.

After shopping around, the rain finally fell. Thunder and lightning flashed in front of the museum, and the torrential rain poured down. Hundreds of tourists crowded outside the gate, all calling cars with their mobile phones. Zhou Luoyang and Du Jing were temporarily trapped. Dark as night.

"I forgot to collect my clothes," Zhou Luoyang remembered, "What should I do?"

Du Jing said: "Don't worry about it, go to the front and come back after dinner."

"Hey!" Zhou Luoyang shouted, but Du Jing strode into the rain, Zhou Luoyang had to run out, and ran two blocks behind him. Seeing Zhou Luoyang hiding under a tree, Du Jing turned around and said : "Be careful of thunder!" He turned around again, took Zhou Luoyang's hand, and led him to run to the open space.

It was the first time for Zhou Luoyang to hold hands with a boy. Du Jing's hand was soaked with rain, but the temperature of his palm was still scorching hot.After running to the place, the two of them drenched in hot pot and started to eat hot pot. The cold air made Zhou Luoyang think that he might catch a cold when he went back.

Du Jing's hair was half wet and covered his eyebrows, like a dazed Gu Mu. When he sat across from Zhou Luoyang and lowered his head to check the menu, Zhou Luoyang suddenly burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?" Du Jing asked.

"It's nothing," Zhou Luoyang said, "You look so handsome."

Du Jing lifted his fingers to brush away the hair that hung over his thick eyebrows. Zhou Luoyang had never had any opinion on men's appearance, but at this moment he suddenly discovered Du Jing's masculine and gloomy handsome features. Scar, Du Jing is definitely a god-level appearance in the department.

"I'm disfigured," Du Jing said, "I don't look good. You are handsome. When will you get a girlfriend?"

Zhou Luoyang took the menu and began to tick off what he wanted to eat, and replied: "It is because you are disfigured that you look handsome. There is a kind of incomplete beauty, like Venus with a broken arm. Without a wound, you are too handsome, cold and too tall It’s unattainable. Now it’s approachable.”

Du Jing said, "You are this kind of person."

"Me?" Zhou Luoyang said in disbelief, "I'm cold? Are you kidding me?"

"You are very polite and popular," Du Jing said, "very enthusiastic and considerate. Everyone likes you, but no one can get your sincerity."

Zhou Luoyang was suddenly hit by Du Jing, so he could only laugh at himself.

"Because I was educated since I was a child," Zhou Luoyang said, "I hope to be recognized by the people around me, and I hope to be a good boy liked by everyone."

Du Jing nodded and declined to comment.After Zhou Luoyang finished ordering, he said, "But I've learned something from you. Don't care what other people think. Your own feelings are the most important thing."

"That's right." Du Jing replied seriously.

The rain was still falling, and no car could be called anywhere. Both of them were drenched that day. Zhou Luoyang was covered in water, even his underwear was soaked. After thinking about it, he would definitely catch a cold when he went back this time.

But there was something more troublesome than a cold waiting for them ahead - when they returned to the dormitory, the window at the head of Du Jing's bed was blown open by the wind, and the rain poured in from the window crazily. The pads were also soaked.

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

Du Jing: "This window has always been like this. It has been unable to close tightly since the typhoon."

The window was a bit leaky. Zhou Luoyang called someone to repair it several times. After filling out the form and handing it in, the efficiency of the teachers was impressive. Du Jing tried a few times to fix it, but because it was made of stainless steel, he still couldn't close it firmly.

Zhou Luoyang sneezed and went to take a shower first.Du Jing blocked the window cracks to prevent water from seeping in, and began to think of ways to clean up the aftermath.

"Are you going to open a room at night?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

Du Jing was at a loss. When Zhou Luoyang came out of the bathroom, he saw him turn the mattress back and forth twice, and none of the sides could sleep, and the sheets and pillows were all wet.It can't be sent directly to dry, so it has to be washed thoroughly tomorrow.

Du Jing: "It doesn't matter, I'll take a shower first."

Zhou Luoyang put the mattress upright next to the desk and let it drip to dry naturally. When Du Jing came out after drying his hair, Zhou Luoyang was already lying on the bed and put a pillow on Du Jing.

"Let's sleep together these few days," Zhou Luoyang said, "The bed is a bit small, don't blame me for kicking you up in the middle of the night."

Du Jing sat by the bed, was silent for a moment, and said, "You sleep in it, I'm afraid I'll squeeze you down."

Zhou Luoyang then moved inward a little. He ran a lot of places today. He was so sleepy that he didn't have the energy to stay up late with Du Jing. He said, "I'm going to sleep first. If you want to read, then..."

But Du Jing turned off the desk lamp and said, "Go to sleep, I'm sleepy too."

Zhou Luoyang didn't sleep very comfortably that night. Since he was young, this was the first time he slept in the same bed with someone since he could remember.Maybe Du Jing is too.

When Zhou Luoyang woke up the next morning, the rain was still falling, the downstairs was already flooded, the water of Fengquan Lake overflowed, and koi fish were swimming everywhere.

Zhou Luoyang asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Very good." Du Jing was washing up, and replied, "How about you?"

Zhou Luoyang hummed sleepily, took out his phone, and a thought flashed in his mind, and he glanced at Du Jing's Weibo account.Du Jing posted two Weibo posts today:

[Since I entered school, I have slept until dawn for the first time.Is it the reason to sleep with him? 】

There is another one at the bottom, which was posted at 25:[-]. At that time, Du Jing just woke up and shared the contents of the museum’s Egyptian special exhibition. He also wrote detailed comments on several exhibits and recorded all the contents of the audio guide. There was almost nothing missing. Character.

The sharing text is: [People are always born with disabilities. 】

After Zhou Luoyang washed up, the two stood on the balcony and looked downstairs. Many students rolled up their trousers, held umbrellas, and caught fish with plastic bags.

"I don't want to go to class anymore, why don't I skip class today?" Zhou Luoyang said to Du Jing.

Du Jing replied: "Today is Saturday, and there are no classes. First, send the pillows, sheets, and quilts to be washed. Wherever you want to go, I will accompany you."

So Zhou Luoyang and Du Jing went out to hang out again. Du Jing's mattress was still not dry that night, and the two of them squeezed into Zhou Luoyang's bed and slept for another night, followed by the third and fourth nights until Tuesday ...Zhou Luoyang discovered that Du Jing hardly ever suffered from insomnia when he slept with him at night.

Later he asked Du Jing about this question, and Du Jing himself didn't know why. It stands to reason that insomniacs are more likely to be affected by each other when they sleep with others, but with Du Jing, it's completely reversed.

So is his illness cured?Zhou Luoyang was still thinking naively, but found that Du Jing was still taking medicine.

But at least he won't be bothered by persistent insomnia for a short time, which is a good thing.

It's like the day we meet again after three years apart.

Twenty-four hours ago, Du Jing was in the warehouse, lying on a spring bed that didn't even have a mattress. As long as he was by Zhou Luoyang's side, he would fall asleep quickly.After a thrilling night, he came to Zhou Luoyang's house, and not long after he lay in bed, he fell into a deep sleep.

Zhou Luoyang had many bizarre dreams. He dreamed about many people and things when he was still studying. He dreamed that Du Jing was standing on the balcony and wanted to jump down. He suddenly woke up, only to find that Du Jing was still sleeping beside him.

Zhou Luoyang sat up, opened his eyes wide, and let out a sigh of relief.

Du Jing turned over, half of his body was almost tilted to the bed, Zhou Luoyang got off the bed lightly, and looked at his phone: at four o'clock in the evening, they slept for eight hours.

Du Jing also woke up.

"Sorry, I forgot," Zhou Luoyang said, "I shouldn't get up, I want you to sleep longer."

It was like this in the past, after Zhou Luoyang woke up, Du Jing could continue to sleep, as long as Zhou Luoyang was still lying on the bed.But as soon as he leaves, Du Jing will wake up soon.

"Being able to fall asleep is already the greatest happiness." Du Jing said, "How long have I been asleep?"

Du Jing touched the phone, looked at it, and immediately looked at Zhou Luoyang.

"It's past twelve o'clock."

In the afternoon of September 24th, it was past twelve noon. [-] hours back in time with no repeats.

"Thank goodness," Zhou Luoyang also remembered, "we were not trapped on the same day."

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