Transfer Students

The caught hen was handed over to the owner to stew. The old man was happily smoking a cigarette, and while talking to Lu Shaohang, he dropped the ash.

"The chicken stewed in a big iron pot in our countryside is guaranteed to taste better than the chickens in the city, and our chickens are free-range chickens since childhood, and we don't eat those messy feed..."

"Then trouble you to help us stew it later," Pei Yu interrupted the uncle's chattering about his farming experience, "I'll come over at noon."

"Sure, you two go play, our village has changed a lot, the road has been repaired, and the small river at the east end has more water..."

The uncle was still nagging, Pei Yu waved his hand, turned around and pulled Lu Shaohang away.

When I went out, I ran into several five or six-year-old children running and playing in the alley. When one of them saw Lu Shaohang, he immediately pointed to his head and called his friends to see what was new.

"Look at the bird feathers on his head hahahahahaha, maybe there are bird droppings—"

Lu Shaohang's expression changed, and he was about to reach out to touch his hair when Pei Yu grabbed his wrist and pulled him behind him.

Pei Yu was tall and big, and his demeanor was already cold and stern. Now that his face was lowered, the deterrent effect was even greater. The laughter of several children stopped abruptly, and they took half a step back timidly.

Pei Yu sideways took off a chicken feather attached to Lu Shaohang's hair, and handed it to the child who burst out laughing first.

The child blinked and blinked twice, but did not dare to reach out.

"Here," Pei Yu handed the chicken feather to him again, "Go home and ask your mother what kind of feather it is."

The child suddenly said "Wow", and ran towards the entrance of the alley exaggeratedly and hastily. In a blink of an eye, several other children followed suit.

A chuckle came from behind: "Why are you scaring other children?"

As soon as Pei Yu turned around, he saw Lu Shaohang standing in the sun, his hair was dyed a light golden brown, and his fair and handsome face was like fine jade porcelain.

Her lips are red and her teeth are white. Although her hair is a bit disheveled, with a chicken feather on top, she doesn't look embarrassed at all, but she is more childish and cute.

Through this appearance, he could vaguely imagine how unrestrained Lu Shaohang was when he was a child playing mischievously in the fields.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Lu Shaohang raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and touched the top of his head again, "Is there anything else?"

Pei Yu shook his head and said, "It's gone."

Lu Shaohang looked at him suspiciously, took out his phone and wanted to use the front camera to take a look, then he saw Pei Yu smiling and stroking his head with his hand, saying, "It's really gone."

"You did it on purpose..." Lu Shaohang made a gesture to hit him, but Pei Yu smiled heartily and stepped back to avoid it.

The two people, who were nearly forty years old together, followed the example of the runny-nosed kids just now, running around in the alley.

When he ran to the entrance of the alley, Lu Shaohang held Pei Yu's shoulder from behind, jumped hard, and jumped onto Pei Yu's back.

Pei Yu took advantage of the situation to support his thigh, and trot forward two steps with his back on his back.

Lu Shaohang giggled twice, and patted Pei Yu's shoulder to get down when he had had enough trouble, but Pei Yu turned him forward and said, "Don't move around, I'm not responsible for the fall."

"Let go, someone..."

Under the big poplar tree not far in front, there were a few grandparents chatting in the sun, and when they saw them coming, they began to discuss which family's children came back from the city for the New Year.

"This is the kid from the Pei family...so tall..."

"The one from college? Hey, he's so handsome."

"..."

They lived in the same village, and they were more or less related. Pei Yu passed by with Lu Shaohang on his back, and politely called "Uncle" and "Aunt", and the discussion stopped immediately, and they answered one by one.

"Why are you still carrying it? Sprained ankle? I have red medicine and..."

"It's okay," Pei Yu said with a smile, "I'll just rub him when I go back, it's not serious."

He walked away quickly with Lu Shaohang on his back, and when he turned to the small road in the east of the village, the person lying on his back was willing to lift his face from the socket of his neck.

On the right is a large poplar forest.

Although in this season, the forest was bare and there was no scenery to speak of, but the bird's nests built between the branches caught Lu Shaohang's attention.

He patted Pei Yu on the shoulder and asked, "Can you climb trees?"

"Ok?"

"I won't teach you."

The chicken catching battle just now completely stimulated Lu Shaohang's playfulness, and his hair was ruined by chicken feathers, so he no longer cared about such things as image.

He jumped off Pei Yu's back twisting left and right, ran along the slope into the weed-covered drainage ditch beside the road without any explanation, and then ran up the woods beyond the ditch neatly with momentum.

Pei Yu watched helplessly as the pair of AJs on his feet turned dusty gray.

"Why are you standing still, come here." Lu Shaohang waved his arm across the two-meter-wide dirt ditch.

Pei Yu didn't take an unusual path like him. He walked 20 meters forward, and there was a path leading to the woods.When he stepped on the thick fallen leaves, Lu Shaohang had already climbed nearly two meters along the tree trunk with his hands and feet.

"...Don't fall, come down quickly." Pei Yu stood guard under the tree with his arms outstretched, staring at Lu Shaohang without blinking.

"It's okay, it'll be enough soon."

Lu Shaohang crossed his legs around the tree trunk and tried to stretch out his hand, but he was still half an arm away from the bird's nest. He kicked his legs again and climbed to a higher place.

With a "click", a small tree branch as thick as a thumb was kicked off, and it spun and landed at Pei Yu's feet, making his eyelids twitch.

He couldn't help becoming serious: "Lu Shaohang..."

"Shh! Don't make noise!"

Lu Shaohang has climbed high enough this time, he straightened his back with a little force, and he can even see a corner of the bird's nest.

He reached out and groped in the bird's nest for a while, the two frowning eyebrows suddenly relaxed, and he whistled under the tree, showing a childish smile.

"two!"

Pei Yu sighed helplessly, and opened his arms a little more: "Come down, slow down."

Lu Shaohang was not in a hurry, and carefully placed the two bird eggs in the pockets on both sides of his jacket as if holding some rare treasures, and then neatly went down the tree.

When his feet were about one meter above the ground, Pei Yu directly stretched his thighs with both hands, and put him on the ground.

Lu Shaohang's cheeks were very rosy, he excitedly took out the two bird eggs from his pocket, and gave one to Pei Yu: "Do you think it will hatch!"

In fact, the chances of birds laying eggs in winter are not high, let alone hatching eggs, which require relatively high temperature conditions.

But facing Lu Shaohang's dark and bright eyes, Pei Yu couldn't give him a disappointing answer.

"Try it."

"Okay, let's see who hatches first." Lu Shaohang put his own one back into his pocket, stomped his foot with a smile, "Actually, I wanted to hatch a bird when I was young, but I never could." success."

"Why?" Pei Yu looked at him with a smile.

"At that time, I hadn't learned how to climb trees." Lu Shaohang kicked the thick fallen leaves under his feet, "One time, he managed to muster up the courage to climb up, and he also touched the bird's eggs, but he got stuck in the tree branch and couldn't get up and down. cry."

Pei Yu laughed: "Then what happened after that?"

Lu Shaohang sighed: "I fell and ate shit, and the egg broke."

Pei Yu rubbed his head, and gave him a thumbs up: "This is your technique for climbing trees now."

"Of course," Lu Shaohang opened his hand with a "snap", "The first thing I did when I learned to fly an umbrella was to learn to climb trees, because I often hang on trees."

Pei Yu laughed again.

The two walked side by side in the woods for a while with their little fingers hooked. The fallen leaves rose and fell under their feet. At the fork back to the main road, Pei Yu pulled back the zipper that Lu Shaohang had untied because he was sweating from climbing trees and back to his neckline. top.

Using a little force with one hand, Lu Shaohang took a step towards his arms.

The toes of the two of them touched the toes of their shoes, Pei Yu leaned slightly, and sucked lightly on his rosy cheek.

With a soft sound of "Bo", Lu Shaohang tilted his head, raised his chin slightly, and with his eyes slightly closed, he searched for Pei Yu's lips, and exchanged a short and gentle kiss with him.

If he hadn't been thinking about the bird's eggs in his pocket, he really wanted to take another walk into the depths of the woods with Pei Yu.

On the way home, Lu Shaohang kept looking up how to incubate eggs on the Internet. Just looking at those harsh conditions made his head hurt.Moreover, Pei Yu's house doesn't have any heating, so it's colder inside the house than outside, which doesn't meet the requirements at all.

Pei Yu found a blanket, folded it together to form a temporary bird's nest, asked Lu Shaohang to put the bird's eggs in, and then went out to light the stove when he heard a crisp "Fuck me", his eyelids twitched , Hurry into the house, and see that the bird egg that was whole a minute ago has been completely broken at this moment.

The culprit squatted aside, trying to reach out his claws to taste the overflowing egg liquid.

"Little boy—!"

This voice scared Xiaoguai out of the ear of the plane, and in a blink of an eye, with a "whoosh", he got under the table and couldn't come out.

Pei Yu suppressed his smile, stepped over the "crime scene" on the ground, and patted Lu Shaohang on the back, "It's such a big deal, is it worth shouting at it?"

Lu Shaohang glared at him angrily.

Before being angered, Pei Yu said: "After lunch, I will accompany you to dig out bird nests in the woods. I don't believe that after digging out all the bird nests, I still can't find two eggs."

Only then did Lu Shaohang burst out laughing.

It just so happened that the stewed chicken uncle called Pei Yu and asked him to come over to serve the dishes in another 10 minutes, so Pei Yu kissed Lu Shaohang's forehead and went out to get their lunch.

After eating and drinking enough, Lu Shaohang forgot all about his great career of hatching eggs.Instead, he squatted in the outer room, discussing with Pei Yu how to light the heater.

When the room finally felt warm, his face was already blackened by the coal, Pei Yu dragged him to the mirror and kept laughing, Lu Shaohang was speechless.

Although he has never been in a relationship, he is also someone who has watched several idol dramas.

Why do people go on dates in amusement parks, movie theaters and claw machines, but when they come to me, they just catch chickens and birds to light coal?

He held Pei Yu's face violently to prevent him from moving left and right, then tiptoed over and rubbed Pei Yu's face without saying a word.

He didn't let out a contented "hum" until he dyed Pei Yu's face into a painted face.

Pei Yu laughed and took him to the yard to wash his face.

The two of them had a childish water fight in the cold winter, and when the sky was getting dark, they looked at the watch and it was 05:30.

It's time for Lu Shaohang to go back to the city.

Pei Yu put on a scarf, hat and gloves for him, wrapped him up tightly, and before sending him out to the car, he kissed Lu Shaohang behind the gate of his house for a long time.

The little boy scrambled up Lu Shaohang's trousers, and "meowed" at him pitifully, as if begging for peace.

Lu Shaohang finally smiled at it, rubbed its round head, and handed it to Pei Yu to hold it.

The straight road continued into the dark evening, and two beams of headlights pierced the darkness, hitting them from a distance, and getting closer, reminding them that it was time to part.

"Remember to report safety," Pei Yu squeezed the hand in the palm of his hand, "Call me anytime."

Lu Shaohang nodded, the light of the bus came from behind Pei Yu, he could barely see Pei Yu's face clearly by squinting his eyes slightly.

"Then... we can only wait until the second year of junior high when we meet next time?"

Pei Yu said with a smile: "Video is also available, we can meet every day."

Lu Shaohang let out an "oh", but was not excited by it.

Pei Yu gently scratched his palm, and said, "It's only five days, soon, you can start counting down with your fingers now."

Only then did Lu Shaohang show a smile.

The car was about a hundred or so meters away. Lu Shaohang opened his arms, hugged Pei Yu tightly, and said, "Then I'm leaving."

"Well," Pei Yu hugged him back, the car had already approached and stopped slowly, he tilted his head slightly and kissed Lu Shaohang's forehead from an angle that the driver couldn't see, "Be careful, let's go."

Lu Shaohang let go, sniffled, and jumped on the bus.

Pei Yu stood on the side of the road, and the boundless night dyed his surroundings into endless blackness. His normally tall and straight figure appeared somewhat indescribably lonely at this moment.

The moment the bus door closed, the scene of Pei Yu holding Xiaoguai in his arms before going out this morning suddenly popped into Lu Shaohang's mind.

"It's good to have it with me on New Year's Eve." - He remembered Pei Yu saying this.

I suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

The bus doors opened and closed, and as the red taillights faded away, the roadside became dark again.

The two standing face to face could only faintly see the smiles in each other's eyes in the dim night.

"I thought about it, I'm alone on New Year's Eve, why don't we just make do and spend it together."

"……it is good."