if you are still there

Xiao Liangwen ran away after rebelling, and Ding Xu couldn't catch anyone for several days, and half a month passed by the time he saw him again.When Xiao Liangwen sent another message, he didn't really want to reply, but that day was January [-]st, and Xiao Liangwen's birthday was approaching, so after thinking about it, he replied.

Xiao Liangwen didn't expect Ding Xu to reply so quickly, and he was still trying to chat with Ding Xu about Xiaohu, trying to start from the younger side.He sent several messages, and Ding Xu replied with a sentence: There is a performance at school tonight, I can leave early, will you come?

Xiao Liangwen immediately replied: Come on.

Ding Xu sent him the address and time, put down his phone, and began to concentrate on cleaning the trumpet in his hand and reading the music score.

During this time, the school has been preparing for the New Year's Eve party. Each class prepared a program. Ding Xu's class prepared an ensemble of musical instruments. Twenty students of similar height were selected, and everyone was assigned the same musical instrument.The teacher specifically said that there are prizes for winning this performance.

As for what kind of prize it was, Zhang Yang, Ding Xu's deskmate, told him that it was a bonus given out last year, and the amount seemed to be quite large.

Ding Xu is poor and white now, so he is quite interested in this reward.

When performing in the evening, I went to the auditorium. Several schools jointly performed, and many parents and leaders were invited. It was quite grand.Ding Xu and his class are at the front of the class. Both boys and girls are wearing uniform Chinese tunic suits, and each has a Western musical instrument in their hands. Ding Xu and his teacher is a young man who is new to work. He is more nervous than them and keeps walking around there. Walking around, one by one, adjusting the folds of everyone's white shirts and small blazers.

"Don't be nervous, just do as usual, thousands of thousands, don't be nervous!"

A few students immediately raised their hands with mournful faces and said that they wanted to go to the toilet. The teacher hurriedly took them there, sweating on their foreheads.

Ding Xu hid in a corner and practiced his fingering. He hadn't touched this for many years, and now performing with a group of junior high school students always felt a little unreal.

Zhang Yang also contacted the instrument there, accidentally missed a note, looked around embarrassedly, and dared not touch it again.When he looked up, he happened to see Ding Xu, so he pointed to his thin-rimmed glasses with a smile, then pointed to Ding Xu, and said, "Didn't you wear glasses today?"

Ding Xu shook his head and said, "I'm not used to it." He doesn't have a high degree of prescription, and usually doesn't wear it much unless necessary.

Zhang Yang didn't say much, he was still nervous watching it, so he took the time to read the score again.

Ding Xu withdrew his gaze, he felt the same kind of smell from this person, but the well water does not violate the river water, the other party did not come to provoke him, and he would not be troublesome, treating him as an ordinary classmate.

After the previous chorus and peacock dance performance, the students below were very enthusiastic and applauded very enthusiastically. It was Ding Xu's turn to perform next.

Ding Xu lined up to go up to the stage. He was standing in the third row to the left. He was not very conspicuous, but there happened to be a light on the top of his head, which made his facial features more prominent. If you glance over, you can always see him first.Behind him is a girl with a ponytail and a drum, who is a bit taller than him. In such a comparison, Ding Xugeng's handsome face is even more gender-neutral, and it is beautiful with a bit of delicacy.

The teacher clenched his fists behind the curtain, thinking that he was right in not putting red cheeks on these children, color is justice!

Ding Xu’s class practice time is short, but there are a few of them are Western instruments from elementary school, the few standing in the front row play well, and the ones who don’t know it in the back just make up for it and make mouth gestures. The overall performance is still very neat uniform.

After the performance, Ding Xu didn't wait for the final evaluation, and said to the students next to him, "I don't feel well in my stomach, go to the bathroom first, please tell the teacher for me, don't wait for me."

The classmate agreed repeatedly, and said again: "May I help you get the trumpet?"

Ding Xu lifted the musical instrument case, and said vaguely: "No, I can carry it, so let's go first."

This time, without waiting for the other party to say anything, he squeezed out of the crowd and slipped away from the backstage.

Ding Xu went out from the back door of the auditorium, and when he walked into the yard, he couldn't help tightening his coat, and took out his cell phone tremblingly to make a call. As soon as he played a number, he felt a lightness in his hand, and the instrument The box was carried over.

"The performance was pretty good just now. Are you tired? I'll help you carry it." Xiao Liangwen helped him carry the things, put his other hand on his shoulder and hugged him, then turned to look at him, "It's cold outside ,where do you want to go?"

Ding Xu originally wanted to find a place by the river, but now he was blown by the cold wind, his brain ached from the cold, and he shivered, "Go, go back to my house!"

Xiao Liangwen agreed and took him to the outside of the auditorium. There was a row of motorcycles parked there. Xiao Liangwen quickly found one, opened it with a key and pushed it out.

Ding Xu looked at him suspiciously, then at the car, "Where did you get the keys?"

Xiao Liangwen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he showed him the key and said, "Xu Gong gave it to him. He is a jade carving master invited by Boss Hu. He went home to visit relatives during the holidays, so he left the car for me."

Ding Xu was still skeptical, Xiao Liangwen put the helmet on for him, and when he came up, he told him, "Hold on tight."

Ding Xu is afraid of heights, and he also has a natural resistance to this kind of unsteady and fast motorcycle. As soon as Xiao Liangwen opened his mouth to speak, he subconsciously hugged Xiao Liangwen's waist, lying on his back with his heartbeat Quickly, an important question suddenly occurred to me: "Do you have a driving license!!"

There was a strong wind in his ears, and the noise from the motorcycle. Xiao Liangwen could only feel the heat from Ding Xu and the heartbeat that could pierce through his clothes. For some reason, he also accelerated with the heartbeat, his ears slowed Slowly turn red.Hearing Ding Xu ask him, he asked again: "What did you say—"

"I asked you if you got your driver's license!!"

"Hold tight!"

"...!"

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When he got to the small courtyard, Ding Xu got off the motorcycle and his legs were so weak. He took off his helmet and trembled with anger when he said the first sentence: "Xiao Liangwen, you drive without a license..."

Xiao Liangwen touched his cheek with his hand, and said with a smile, "It's still quite hot, not frozen."

Ding Xu patted his hand away, he was worried all the way, almost sweating all over his body!And Xiao Liangwen's hands are hotter than his, so I'm ashamed to talk about him.

Xiao Liangwen parked the car in the yard, followed Ding Xu in, saw that the room was completely dark, and said, "Grandpa Ding is not at home?"

Ding Xu hummed, and his face was not very good when he opened the door, "He is on a business trip, returning to Beijing to give a report, and he will come back in two days."

Ding Xu changed his clothes, got up and went to the kitchen, Xiaohu came out from some corner, and rubbed against Ding Xu's calf, purring.It hasn't seen anyone for a day, and it's clingy time right now, Ding Xu almost tripped over it when he was walking, Xiao Liangwen went over and hugged it by the neck to his knee, poked the tip of the little thing's nose, Said: "Don't make trouble."

Ding Xu washed his hands and began to chop vegetables. He raised his head and asked Xiao Liangwen, "Have you eaten yet?"

Xiao Liangwen hugged the little tiger and played with it, without raising his head, he said, "Eat."

The man who cut the vegetables over there paused for a moment, said oh, and said, "Then eat some more with me. I didn't eat anything tonight, so I'm a little hungry."

Xiao Liangwen's age is at the time when his stomach has seven meals a day, and he can digest everything quickly. When he heard Ding Xu's words, he nodded and said, "Okay."

Ding Xu doesn't cook too much. Cooking is more like an experiment, and he likes to be tidy. He does a little cleaning, and he brings out a pot of noodles after being busy for a long time.

The noodles are longxu noodles, with large braised pork ribs on top. The meat is crispy and the soup is fragrant.

This is the second time Xiao Liangwen ate the noodles that Ding Xu cooked for him. The first time was when they first met. Ding Xu brought him back and cooked a bowl of noodles with the ingredients in the refrigerator. I ate it once, but this time it was more formal, like a specially made pasta meal.

Ding Xu placed two pairs of chopsticks, glanced at Xiao Liangwen, and said, "Don't look at me when you're eating."

Xiao Liangwen was a little embarrassed. He was distracted by watching Ding Xu just now, and hurriedly lowered his head to eat.The cold wind is blowing outside, it is very comfortable to have a warm house, and someone will come out to eat with a bowl of noodles. Xiao Liangwen eats happily, eating more than Ding Xu, such a big portion He almost ate all the dragon beard noodles by himself.

He looked at the bowls and chopsticks, and felt a little embarrassed, "Ding Xu, do you still eat, or I..."

Ding Xu only moved his chopsticks a little, but didn't eat much. He shook his head when he heard him say that, and said, "No, just sit still when you're full."

"Let me help you wash the dishes..."

"Take a step, I will ask you to recite 20 English words tonight."

Xiao Liangwen stood there and didn't dare to move. This was the homework assigned by Mr. Ding. He told him to study more with Ding Xu, so Ding Xu chose his weakest foreign language to teach.Basically, he was abused unilaterally. Ding Xu was not a gentle and patient teacher. He couldn’t pronounce correctly a few times, and Ding Xu would pinch his mouth with his fingers, or even knock his teeth to say something that his tongue should resist. it's here……

Xiao Liangwen felt ashamed and panicked, the place where Ding Xu's fingers touched always became hot, and even his ears turned red.

After Xiao Liangwen sat on the sofa for a while, Ding Xu cleaned up.He came over to sit down with the musical instrument case, opened it and took out the trumpet, took a deep breath, and said, "Let me play a song for you."

Xiao Liangwen's eyes lit up, he sat up straight, and said, "Okay. Is it the one you played in class today?"

Ding Xu didn't say a word, took out the trumpet and began to play slowly, the tune of the song was gentle and melodious, it wasn't any piece of music that the class performed on stage, it was gentler than that one.

Looking at him, Xiao Liangwen felt that under the light, Ding Xu's face seemed to be coated with a layer of warm color, and the fine hairs on his face could be seen clearly. When the eyelashes drooped down, they cast a dense layer of shadow, and his cheeks looked very bulging. The cute, serious expression is prettier than ever, no, prettier than anyone he's seen.

After Ding Xu finished playing the song, he looked up at him and said, "Xiao Liangwen, happy birthday."

Xiao Liangwen stood there in a daze for a long time, then suddenly stood up, looked over to the kitchen, pointed to the trumpet that Ding Xu was still holding in his hand, and stammered: "Ding Xu, this, these... are for me. ?”

Ding Xu nodded and said, "That's right, it's your birthday after 12 o'clock. I asked Sister Zijun before. Do you remember correctly?"

Xiao Liangwen's ears were red and hot, and he grinned, "No, that's right." He sat down and pestered Ding Xu again: "What's the name of that song just now? It's really nice."

Ding Xu's face became hot, and he said: "You don't care about what to do, as long as it sounds good."

"But Ding Xu..."

"Nothing but!"

Ding Xu glared at him, Xiao Liangwen was taken aback, it wasn't Ding Xu's angry look, but Ding Xu's flushed face was the first time seeing him, almost as if he was shy.

Ding Xu got up and said without turning his head: "It's too late, it's not safe for you to go back on the way, so stay here for one night."

Xiao Liangwen nodded in agreement, with a smile on his lips, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Many years later, every time Xiao Liangwen celebrated his birthday, he would pester Ding Xu to hum this song to him. After listening to it several times, he memorized the score and found its name. It was called "For My Love" people".

The author has something to say:

Ten years later:

Ding Xu: Actually, I'm not very good at the trumpet, and I might be more comfortable with the piano, cough.

Xiao Liangwen: Actually, I want to hear more...

Ding Xu: What?

Xiao Liangwen: I want to hear you tell me what this piece is called.

Ding Xu (angry): ... I don't know! !