squirrel

The squirrel woke up on Gao Liyuan's bed.

Last night, he went crazy with drinking for a long time. Gao Liyuan half-dragged and half-carried him back to the living room.Gao Liyuan was so tormented by him that he lost his temper. When the squirrel launched another round of offensive, he held him down funny and angry: "Enough. It's so dirty, I don't want to wash it first."

Although the tone was harsh, considering that the squirrel was still drunk, Gao Liyuan still didn't feel at ease throwing him into the bathroom alone, and followed him in.In fact, the squirrel was even more drunk when he was drunk, and he walked so long today, taking a hot bath would not faint.But since Gao Liyuan followed in, he naturally lived up to everyone's expectations and made a fool of himself, getting Gao Liyuan completely drenched.

A T-shirt on Gao Liyuan's upper body was soaked in water, and it clinged to his body, outlining the tight muscles underneath.In fact, it was not the first time I saw the squirrel, but I don't know if it was because of drunkenness or a change of mentality, his mouth felt a little dry.

The squirrel leaned on the tiles on the wall in a daze, letting the overhead shower pour down hot water continuously, making the whole bathroom steamy.Gao Liyuan thought he was dizzy, so he hurried over and touched his forehead: "Ming Yue?"

—He really didn’t call him a squirrel anymore.

The squirrel felt complacent for no reason, but his nose was sore and swollen, as if he had a conflict with his eyes, and he had to squeeze out a few tears.He had already lost enough face tonight, so he was not willing to lose face again, he immediately hugged Gao Liyuan, raised his head slightly and kissed him.

Gao Liyuan was taken aback by his move, but he didn't refuse, and accepted the kiss cautiously.The bodies of the two people were pressed together only through a layer of wet clothes, trembling at the same frequency, as if they had become a common whole.

It's not that the squirrel hasn't kissed the two girlfriends he has dated before, and even went further.But only this time, when his lips were pressed against Gao Liyuan's, a thought came to him in his heart: this person is his own from now on.

——Then, he fell down in a daze.

I only remember that Gao Liyuan called his name several times in his ear, and then opened the bathroom door, allowing his hypoxic brain to take a few breaths of outside air.When I woke up again, it was already dawn in the east, and the already thin skylight was filtered by the curtains, and I could only barely outline the outline of Gao Liyuan's face who was less than half a meter away from me.I don't know how to startle the other party, Gao Liyuan quickly opened his eyes, smiled and asked softly "how did you wake up", and then stretched out his hand to cover his eyes.

"Sleep a little longer."

So when he woke up again, it was already daylight, and of course Gao Liyuan got up early.The squirrel rolled up and saw its own horrible face directly in the full-length mirror mounted on the large cabinet.

He was terrified by this overly horrifying face, and when he regained consciousness, he finally recalled one by one the events after drinking in front of Qian Lao Er and the others yesterday—this time, it was finally not as if there was another layer of fog behind him. Instead, it clearly appeared in my mind.

I'm also dizzy at the wrong time...

But at this moment, thinking about it didn't help. The squirrel pushed open the bedroom door and wandered around, only to realize that Gao Liyuan had probably gone out to buy groceries.On the table was the breakfast left for him, a bowl of light vegetable porridge.

The squirrel drank the porridge in two gulps, like Hu Hansan who had just returned, with his hands behind his back, he walked around the whole room for a while.Of course, the quilt on the bed in the hut has been put away long ago, and the novels I bought before are still piled up on the bedside table.There is still ice cream in the refrigerator in the living room, probably left over from that time - Gao Liyuan has never liked this.

A book was thrown on the sofa, the middle page was folded, probably just saw it there.The squirrel glanced at the cover and felt that one head and two were bigger, but when he flipped through the content and saw the underlines and annotations inside, he was no longer as shocked as usual.

It happened that Gao Liyuan opened the door and came back with two bags full of vegetables and a whole fish. "It's really hot," he said with a smile, and there was no sign of complaining about the weather in his tone. "Do you have fish soup at noon or at night?"

Squirrel didn't bother to think about the meal, but only waved the book in his hand: "Are you going to invest?"

"No, I just plan to start a small business with someone."

Squirrel was taken aback for a long time before asking in a daze, "You don't want to be a teacher anymore?"

Although he never said it out loud, he still envied Gao Liyuan's job in his heart.In my opinion, having a job that doesn't require waking up early, studying, or being ordered around is like a dream, but Gao Liyuan actually wants to start a business?

Gao Liyuan smiled, and said: "If you only want to be a teacher, of course I want to."

The squirrel only understood the general meaning of the words, so he nodded sloppily and followed Gao Liyuan to the kitchen to choose vegetables.He frantically picked up half a pot of cabbage, but suddenly when Gao Liyuan got up, he said without a word: "I want to go to a vocational high school."

"Finally figured it out?"

Hearing what he said, Gao Liyuan was a little surprised at first, but it turned into surprise in an instant.As if he was worried that the squirrel would repent, he quickly stopped what he was doing, sat down on the bench again, and said to the squirrel face to face: "But it's already August...you have to take the senior high school entrance examination. In one year, you can make up all your homework. Tomorrow, I will find someone to borrow a junior high school textbook for you. You have learned it once, so you can read it yourself, and if you don’t know it, just ask me.”

"It's not just mathematics, my Chinese, English, physics and chemistry are also taught by my physical education teacher." Squirrel couldn't help but said, lowered his eyes to think about Gao Liyuan's words, and nodded, "I see. There's also tuition fees... ..."

This time Gao Liyuan answered quickly: "I have the tuition."

"I don't want your money!" Squirrel blurted out without thinking, but after he finished speaking, he was afraid that Gao Liyuan would make a mistake, so he quickly explained, "I'm not——you still want to do business. I will figure out the money myself Yes." He observed Gao Liyuan's expression, and quickly continued, "Really, I'll go back to Songning tomorrow."

He hadn't planned this matter very clearly before, but once it started now, he suddenly felt that everything would go very smoothly—isn't it just picking up the books and studying for a vocational high school?A year's work is enough to review it again.Gao Liyuan can still learn some new things, so what is he afraid of.It's just that the tuition fee is estimated to take a bit of effort, but as long as I ask for an IOU, and I'll make it a few times, it should be fine.

Nothing can stop him - nothing can stop him.

Gao Liyuan laughed.

"I understand what you mean." He said, "Okay, I'll go with you tomorrow."

The two of them set off early the next morning, and there were only three bus trips a day from the city to Songning County. Although the road had been refurbished in the past two years, it still took five hours.In summer, the carriage is stuffy, and the carriage is full of people who come to the city to buy goods or go back to their hometown to visit relatives, and all kinds of woven bags are stuffed in the aisles.

Gao Liyuan let the squirrel sit by the window.He was much more careful, and brought some mineral water and bread for the road, and even motion sickness medicine.Squirrel originally didn't want Gao Liyuan to accompany him on this trip, but when the bus started amidst the pungent gasoline smell, he was not at all worried about the upcoming journey and the next things.

Squirrel didn't know how many times he fell asleep on the road, bumping his head back and forth against Gao Liyuan and the car window, and it still hurt when he got out of the car.The two of them had lunch next to the Songning Bus Station. Gao Liyuan handed him the ribs in the bowl and asked, "I'll wait for you right here?"

"Row."

Squirrel's father is the youngest in the family, and the two elder sisters complained to them because they dropped out of school to support their younger brother. After the death of Squirrel's grandparents, they no longer wanted to take care of Squirrel's family affairs.Squirrel thought twice about the next words under the scorching sun, then took out the money, gritted his teeth and went to the canteen to buy a pack of cigarettes—this was originally what Gao Liyuan wanted to buy for him, but Squirrel stopped him.

He ran to the aunt's house first, but unexpectedly knocked on the door, and the second aunt's family was also there.Seeing the squirrel, the second aunt just casually said "I'm back" and ignored it. After all, the eldest aunt is the owner, so she went to the kitchen to get the bowls and chopsticks: "Let's eat first."

"I have already eaten."

He shook his head, sat aside, and waited in an awkward silence for them to finish their meal before saying the request for a loan.Although it was said that after the death of his mother, Squirrel took turns eating at the house of the two aunts, but even children could clearly feel the obvious unwelcome attitude of the other party. After all these years, it was the first time for Squirrel to discuss matters with them.

The second aunt sneered after hearing what he said: "Borrow money to study in a vocational high school? You take out the admission letter first... We are all staying in this country, who knows where you will go with the money."

"I said I'll read it next year." Squirrel gritted his teeth, resisted the urge to talk back, and told them all the steps he and Gao Liyuan had sorted out in detail.After listening to him, the aunt's expression relaxed a lot, but she still asked him: "Xiaoyue, tell us honestly, do you really want to study?"

"Yes."

He nodded, paused, and continued, "I don't want to mess around like this anymore."

The squirrel found Gao Liyuan in the corner of the rest area of ​​the passenger station.

Probably to save electricity, all the ceiling fans in the rest area were turned off, and only one floor fan was turned on in the corner, facing a staff member who was dozing off on a chair.Gao Liyuan sat in the row behind the man, sharing some cool breeze from leftovers, and asked when he saw him, "How is it?"

"It's almost here, but my aunt said that she will only lend me the tuition fee, and let me do the rest by myself."

Other expenses are trivial. In fact, Squirrel's heart has already fallen to the ground, but he frowned after being exposed to the sun all the way.Gao Liyuan seemed to have misunderstood him, and quickly comforted him, "It's okay, I'm still here."

"I know, I know, you are the big money."

They even had time to catch the last train back, wandering all the way back to the city.It was getting dark, Gao Liyuan jumped out of the car first, and was blown by the heat wave formed by the exhaust, couldn't help fanning vigorously with his hand: "It's hot!"

The squirrel showed a smiling face behind him: "That's not it."

And behind them, the sunset is thick.