legal cohabitation

It was the rush hour for get off work and school, and there were quite a lot of people in the supermarket. Lu Qian waited for He Peng at the entrance of the supermarket, and he went to detour to find a parking space.

To be honest, Lu Qian never thought that He Peng would accompany him to the supermarket to buy snacks for tomorrow's social practice activities. Such behavior was a bit too intimate in his consciousness, and even his parents hadn't brought him here a few times.

He blew the cold wind on the side of the road for a while, but He Peng hadn't come yet, so he simply went into the supermarket and bought 20 yuan of sugar-fried chestnuts at the door.

Lu Qian squeezed chestnuts to dry his hands.

While thinking about something in a trance, it is obvious that He Peng accompanied him to the supermarket with a different feeling from Yu Ci and the others.

And the image of He Peng sitting beside his bed that night, feeding him noodles and candies has never been shaken off.

Fuck, that's crazy!

Lu Qian frowned, turned around and saw He Peng pushing the door open and coming in.

"Let's go." He Peng patted his head.

"Snacks are on the second floor." Lu Qian called He Peng who was walking forward.

He Peng doesn't come to the supermarket very often, and even if he does, he rarely buys snacks.

He walked to the escalator, and was stopped by Lu Qian just as he was about to take the shopping basket.

"Take the cart." Lu Qian bit a chestnut and lifted his chin towards the cart.

"It's okay, I'll carry it." He Peng didn't bother to get the cart again.

Lu Qian looked at him: "Pushing a cart is fun, that's it."

He Peng: "..."

What Lu Qian said was naive, but his attitude was like that of a boss, and he completely regarded the real boss as his younger brother.

He Peng resignedly turned around to get the cart, and walked to Lu Qian's side: "Well, I can't see that you are still so childish."

Lu Qian peeled the chestnuts very skillfully and authoritatively. He threw the whole chestnut into his mouth and said casually: "Yeah, I'm very naive, I still want to sit on the cart and let you push me away Woolen cloth."

"That won't work, you are too big." He Peng laughed, "The cart to go to the furniture store in the future can be used, that is big."

Lu Qian ate two more, finally remembered He Peng, handed the bag over and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

He Peng shook his head, so Lu Qian continued to eat alone with peace of mind.

After a while, he replied: "There is no chance to go to the furniture city."

"That's true." He Peng glanced at him, "You can go when you're married."

Lu Qian stopped peeling the chestnuts, and then calmly mocked: "I'm married and I still need to go buy furniture with you?"

After a pause, he added: "Besides, you should get married earlier than me."

He Peng smiled and said nothing.

Lu Qian carried a few bags of potato chips and threw them into the cart, and He Peng pushed the cart behind him, watching him throw them in like sweeping goods.

Then he took out a few of the chocolates he threw in and put them back.

Lu Qian found out after going back and forth like this a few times, turned his head and glared at him: "What are you doing!"

"Eating too much sugar will cause tooth decay." He Peng meticulously put another box of chocolates in the cart back.

Lu Qian pulled a bag, picked out a few packets of biscuits in the weighing area, and said concisely: "You said, dopamine."

"It depends on what you do after the toothache." He Peng said.

Lu Qian laughed, blinked at him, and said lazily, "You want me to try the second method?"

He Peng propped his hands on the handle of the cart, looked at Lu Qian with a half-smile, and slapped him on the back without pain.

"Asshole stuff."

Lu Qian is a typical child who loves to eat but not snacks, and he filled the cart half full in a short while.

He clapped his hands: "Okay, that's all."

The two went down the escalator from the corner to the first floor to pay, and when they passed the dairy area, He Peng carried a box of pure milk and put it in the cart.

"Hey, take it easy, don't crush my potato chips." Lu Qian shouted, and piled up the snacks at the bottom, leaving a place for the milk crate.

"Why are you keeping healthy like this?" Lu Qian stared at the ice cream freezer beside him.

"I bought it for you. On the day I picked you up for the first time last time, I bought the whole carton of milk for you to drink."

"Ah." Lu Qian responded lightly, as if so.

He doesn't particularly like drinking milk, but compared to plain water, milk tastes better.

He finally couldn't hold back, opened the freezer and took out a box of Haagen-Dazs.

"It's such a cold day." He Peng said.

"It's okay." Lu Qian, who believes that hot-blooded youth should not be afraid of the cold, directly opened the ice cream cover.

The Haagen-Dazs cashier is separate from the supermarket cashier. He threw a cart full of snacks to He Peng, walked to the counter on the other side, and swipe the QR code to pay while eating.

Eating ice cream in winter is a challenge after all. Lu Qian ate it very slowly, and only dared to swallow it when it was half melted in his mouth.

He Peng carried two large bags of snacks and put them in the trunk. As soon as he got in the car, he saw Lu Qian turn the air conditioner to the maximum.

"I know it's freezing."

Lu Qian was so cold that his teeth chattered, and he squinted at him: "Well, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you."

"Then you still eat?" He Peng didn't care about his sarcasm at all.

"Saving food is a traditional Chinese virtue," Lu Qian said.

"Oh." He Peng rubbed his nose and supported the steering wheel with one hand, happily.

As a result, Lu Qian was still very cold after eating. Not only that, but the fingers holding the ice cream box were almost frozen into five popsicles.

He stretched out his hand to the air outlet of the air conditioner, and spread his five fingers: "Fuck, it's not hot at all."

He Peng glanced at him, and suddenly held Lu Qian's cold fingertips.

His hands were warm and dry, Lu Qian was taken aback for a moment, as the body temperature of his skin was transferred, he suddenly felt a little burning in his palms, and he could no longer feel the cold.

He and He Peng's body touched a lot, but only this time, some indescribable strangeness rippled in his heart. The warm touch pressed down his heart inch by inch, like a bird about to break out of the bone. butterfly.

Just three seconds seemed like a long time.

He Peng looked at the road ahead and said, "Your hands are too cold, and you don't feel anything when blowing hot air."

"what…"

Lu Qian shrank his neck and noticed that He Peng wanted to retract his hand, so he moved his fingers skillfully to wrap around his little finger.

He Peng tilted his head, looked at him sideways, held his breath calmly, his eyes were dark.

No matter how familiar the two of them were before, Lu Qian's actions...was somewhat ambiguous, and some kind of little thought deep in his heart was about to move.

The culprit sleeps with his eyes closed, except for the fluttering eyelashes that burned a hole in the boy's secret thoughts, revealing some silent lingering.

He Peng pursed his lower lip, not showing it off, but the hand that he stretched out very simply at first was now in a dilemma.

Fortunately, a phone call saved this embarrassing situation.

He Peng lightly knocked on the back of Lu Qian's hand with his index finger: "If you don't let go, answer the phone for me."

Only then did Lu Qian relax, but he still lightly scratched his palm.

He Peng thought he was overthinking, but he saw Lu Qian rubbing his nose with his index finger and coughing to cover up.

He picks up the phone.

"Hello, Mom?" He Peng said into the phone.

Lu Qian turned to look at him.

"I'm with Lu Qian...yes, I mentioned it to you before, he's living with me now...just eat, and Lu Qian has to do his homework when he goes back."

Lu Qian's eyes widened in surprise: "I don't do my homework?"

He Peng pursed his lips, and looked at him a bit annoyed, the other side of the phone obviously heard it, He Peng sighed: "Okay, I'll take him here."

He hangs up.

Lu Qian found it funny seeing him deflated. He laughed alone for a while and asked, "Why don't you want to go back? Find a reasonable reason."

The relationship between the two families is very close. Although they are not blood relatives, Lu Qian has a better relationship with He Peng's parents than with other relatives, so it doesn't matter if he goes back to He's house for dinner.

He Peng squeezed the space between his brows: "You'll know why I don't want to go back when it's over."

He Peng's parents retired early half a year ago and moved to a villa area away from the city center. They are no longer neighbors of Lu Qian's family.

He also hasn't seen He Peng's parents for half a year.

***

When getting out of the car, He Peng also specifically told him: "Don't get nervous for a while."

Lu Qian was inexplicable: "What kind of nerve can I get?"

He Peng smiled and said nothing.

Lu Qian didn't know why He Peng didn't want to go back until he got to the dinner table.

He put his head down and took two mouthfuls of rice, which was tasteless.

Mother He was still chattering there.

"Look at you, you have graduated from your senior year, and you haven't found a girlfriend yet."

"Your aunt knows a little girl who also graduated from a prestigious university. Mom showed her your photo. She is very satisfied with you."

……

Lu Qian choked up inexplicably when he heard "Famous University" and looked up at He Peng.

It was found that he was eating with a blank face, and he was peeling shrimp without hearing what was going on outside the window.

Lu Qian was a little suffocated, and suddenly remembered He Peng's words "don't get nervous for a while" before entering the door, and he was suddenly taken aback.

Why did He Peng say such a sentence? ?

Lu Qian was stunned, even panicked.

Could it be that He Peng knew about the feelings in my heart that I didn't even think about? ? ?

His head was a little hot, and he took a sip of fruit juice to boost his courage.

Under the table, he stretched out his leg and rubbed He Peng's calf.

He Peng paused for a while with the chopsticks, and finally had a reaction.

He didn't look at Lu Qian, he didn't even seem to notice the touch between his legs, he just raised his head and said, "I don't think about finding a girlfriend right now."