Fork in the road

Yu Xian lay distracted for a while, and he didn't hear anyone coming back for a long time. He couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply turned on his phone and clicked into Moments to check.

The top one belonged to Bai Xiaoyuan, Yu Xian noticed the time, it was past twelve o'clock.

Where did Bai Xiaoyuan get the confidence to tell him to go to bed early? !

Yu Xian continued to read the content, and Bai Xiaoyuan only sent one sentence: There are still five cans of beer at home. I checked the expiration date and it will expire tomorrow.There are a few comments from classmates below, all of which are advising him to drink quickly and not waste it. Yu Xian silently gave Bai Xiaoyuan a thumbs up.

After scrolling through a few posts, Yu Xian suddenly received a message from Bai Xiaoyuan.First, I sent a few question marks, and then asked him: Haven't slept so late?

Yu Xian: My parents quarreled, I slammed the door and woke up.

Bai Xiaoyuan: Ah, then hurry up and go back to sleep, while you still feel sleepy_(:зゝ∠)_

Yu Xian felt it for a while, but he didn't find the slightest drowsiness in himself, so he replied: I'm fully awake, I can't fall asleep.

Instead of a text message in reply, he got an invitation to a voice call.

Yu Xian touched the earphone strap from the pillow, and then pressed to answer, the voice from the other side was very clear: "Are Auntie and Uncle still at home?"

"It's gone, just now they said 'slam the door out', and they all went out one after the other."

Bai Xiaoyuan's voice was a little surprised: "I thought it wasn't the door that fell, or it was inside the house..."

Yu Xian didn't really want to talk about this, so he changed the subject and asked, "Why didn't you sleep so late?"

"After drinking five cans of beer, my stomach was full of water. When I lay down, I felt like there was a boat floating in my stomach."

"You really drank it all..."

"Anyway, it's a holiday tomorrow." Bai Xiaoyuan replied with a smile, "If it's not possible, it's okay to stay overnight."

"So relaxed... have you finished your homework?" Yu Xian teased intentionally.

"The only difference is Chinese and English. After drinking, I was so excited that I wrote my homework as soon as my brain froze."

"After drinking five cans, can you still guarantee the correct rate?" Yu Xian doubted, "You should read what you wrote when you wake up tomorrow."

"Don't doubt my drinking capacity, it's only five cans, not five bottles." Bai Xiaoyuan said with a smile, "Besides, even if it's five bottles, I won't be so drunk that I can't do my homework." There was a little complacency in his tone, Laugh hehe.

"Then you are amazing." Yu Xian boasted smoothly.

"Brother will take you to drink in the future, you must have never drank in bars?"

Yu Xian really didn't drink much, at most he drank a glass or two at a class reunion, and he didn't know how much he could drink.Hearing Bai Xiaoyuan's words, he lay on the bed and said, "You can drink, who is who?"

"I'm from February and you're from March, what do you think?" Bai Xiaoyuan laughed.

"Children who go to school in the morning, you are a year younger than me." Maybe it was because the room was too quiet and the atmosphere was very peaceful, Yu Xian listened to Bai Xiaoyuan's words, the bad mood when he was woken up before gradually receded, Yu Xian When answering, the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, "I don't know who it was when I was a child, brother Yu Xian yelled, and followed others."

Bai Xiaoyuan answered in a soft voice on purpose: "Brother Xianyu, you were still taller than me at that time."

Yu Xian thinks that Bai Xiaoyuan's current state may have something to do with his drinking—but it's not necessarily true, after all, Bai Xiaoyuan has always spoken in such an inexplicably off-line style.

"Well, speaking of height, don't you think the two of us are about the same now?"

Bai Xiaoyuan's answer was a little uncertain: "...Is there any? Don't make a fool of me, student Xianyu."

"You are at most 1.8, definitely not [-] meters, I am now [-]."

"A distance of two centimeters is an insurmountable gap."

"Wait and see, it's not like I'm not growing tall anymore."

Bai Xiaoyuan retorted rather naively: "I will grow faster than you!"

Yu Xian couldn't help laughing again, and muttered in a low voice, "So beer has stamina", and when Bai Xiaoyuan on the opposite side asked him what he said just now, he replied with a smile: "I said, yes, Well, you are right, you will be able to grow to two meters in the future."

Bai Xiaoyuan wasn't drunk, he just drank a lot and stayed up late at night, his heart was still a little confused, he spoke faster than his heart, a bit out of his mind.Hearing Yu Xian's inexplicable connivance, Bai Xiaoyuan felt a little strange, and said dryly, "Salted fish, are you still asleep..."

"Why am I chatting with you here before I woke up? I still want to ask you if you drank too much." Yu Xian complained, "What's your situation now, lying on the bed?"

Bai Xiaoyuan gave an honest "hmm".

"Then let's talk until whoever gets sleepy first." Yu Xian paused for a moment, then continued talking to himself, "Shouldn't we talk until dawn..."

While chatting about the topic, he turned to the school. Yu Xian just wanted to complain about the class teacher as a department representative, when he heard the sound of the anti-theft door, followed by the footsteps of two people.Yu Xian looked at the time, it was 03:30.

Yu Xian calmed down, until he heard his parents entered the master bedroom next door and closed the door, he said to Bai Xiaoyuan on the other end of the phone: "My parents are back."

After saying this, the person on the other side didn't respond immediately. After a while, Yu Xian heard Bai Xiaoyuan's vague "hmm".

Yu Xian called softly: "Yuan'er?" After waiting for a while, Bai Xiaoyuan never answered.Yu Xian listened to the silence in the earphones, which seemed to be no different from the silent state when he was alone in the room before. After all, he could not hear Bai Xiaoyuan's breathing, but Yu Xian seemed to still hear the silence coming from this earphone. felt peace in.

Yu Xian hung his finger on the hang up button and hesitated for a moment, but finally he didn't hang up the call, and closed his eyes with the earphones on.

When Bai Xiaoyuan woke up the next day, his back was sore and his head was heavy.He touched the phone to see what time he fell asleep, but was surprised to find that the voice call between himself and Yu Xian hadn't been hung up yet!He thought back to last night, no, this morning's conversation, he should have fallen asleep while chatting, so he didn't have time to hang up, did Yu Xian also fall asleep at the same time?

Bai Xiaoyuan thought this was quite interesting, and hung up the call with a smile, seeing that it was time for lunch, he slowly got up and took a shower.

But Bai Xiaoyuan didn't think this matter would be over, why did Yu Xian get up in the middle of the night yesterday?That's because the parents quarreled and slammed the door.Bai Xiaoyuan reheated the leftovers from last night to fill his stomach, then took out his mobile phone and asked Yu Xian if it was convenient for him to go to do his homework.Although Yu Xian said before the holiday that he would not go out during the holiday, Bai Xiaoyuan could go there anytime he wanted, but after what happened before, Bai Xiaoyuan felt that it would be better for him to ask in advance.

After getting Yu Xian's affirmative answer, Bai Xiaoyuan packed his schoolbag and went out immediately.

Bai Xiaoyuan thought he would see the tense atmosphere of Yu Xian's parents, but he didn't expect to find that he was the only one in Yu Xian's house after arriving at his house.It seems that Yu Xian got up later than him, because Yu Xian was having lunch when Bai Xiaoyuan arrived.

Bai Xiaoyuan sat across from Yu Xian, thought for a moment, and asked resolutely, "Are uncle and aunt reconciled today?"

"When I got up, there was no one at home." So there was no way to tell Hu Yue what I planned to tell Hu Yue at noon today.

"Is that so..."

After dinner, the two sat opposite each other in their old positions and did their homework.

Bai Xiaoyuan took out a paper and held it up in front of Yu Xian, and said with a bit of pride in his tone: "I wrote this after drinking last night, there is no problem at all!"

Yu Xian looked at the words that were about to fly up—well, even though they were still pretty—he said dumbly: "I don't quite understand what your standard for 'no problem' is, as long as you don't spit it out on the test paper? "

"No, the standard is as long as I can understand it." Bai Xiaoyuan pouted, "If I can drink until I vomit by myself, isn't it too cowardly?"

"You drink well?"

"I don't know too well, I only drank eight bottles at most."

Yu Xian's expression was obviously a little shocked: "Then...were you drunk at that time?"

Bai Xiaoyuan thought about it for a while, and replied: "I'm not drunk, I'm just a little dizzy." After finishing speaking, he put away the papers he had written, and found out the homework he hadn't done yet, "Come on, let's do our homework now. , don’t worry about the amount of alcohol, I will take you to drink in the future, ah.”

In the past, Yu Xian definitely wouldn't go on talking with Bai Xiaoyuan about the title "Brother", but now he suddenly finds it interesting, so he gets serious with Bai Xiaoyuan: "Student Xiao Yuan, you are considered a friend when you are not drinking. Don't know your age?"

Bai Xiaoyuan smiled, "Well, you are brother, brother salted fish." After laughing, he frowned and thought for a while, "Why does it sound so similar to a salted fish seller... a salted fish tycoon, um, amazing."

Salted fish tycoon Yu Xian looked at Bai Xiaoyuan speechlessly, and finally said: "Do your homework."

In order to avoid the situation of being blocked at the door last time, Bai Xiaoyuan didn't dare to stay until night. After all, during the holiday, he didn't know when Yu Xian's parents would come back.Before leaving, when Bai Xiaoyuan was arranging things, he took out a small plastic box from his schoolbag and handed it to Yu Xian.

Yu Xian took it over and asked, "For me?" and glanced at it, it was a pair of earplugs.

"That's right." Bai Xiaoyuan felt that it was not good to be smiling at this time, so he nodded solemnly, "The sound insulation effect sold by the school is not good. I think it has good reviews on the Internet. You can try it."

Yu Xian was still looking at the pair of earplugs, Bai Xiaoyuan added: "If it doesn't work, tell me, and I'll leave a bad review."

Yu Xian smiled, "Thank you."

Bai Xiaoyuan didn't go to Yu Xian's house for the next two days.The dance class took up two and a half days, and Bai Xiaoyuan communicated with Bai Xinhong on the second day of the holiday, and told her everything that happened before, which also took a lot of time. Shangbai Xiaoyuan felt that it would be a bit embarrassing if he went to Yu Xian's house at this time and happened to encounter the scene of a quarrel.

After calling Bai Xinhong, Bai Xiaoyuan silently hoped that the phone call would really help.My old mother said that Aunt Hu often contacted her, and recently told her about the quarrel. I hope that she, who is not very experienced in marriage, can help Aunt Hu.Whether it's a reconciliation or a clean break, Bai Xiaoyuan thinks it's better than the current situation.

There is one point where Bai Xiaoyuan is a little hesitant: I don't know if Yu Xian thinks that he is meddling in his own business.If he was the only one who comforted Yu Xian, it would be fine, but he told others what Yu Xian told him, and this "other", that is, his own mother, could communicate directly with Yu Xian's mother.Bai Xiaoyuan was very worried that Yu Xian would mind.

...Just, don't tell Yu Xian yet, we'll talk about it later.The tangled Bai Xiaoyuan secretly decided.