stepping into the night

"My goodness!!!!"

The first ray of morning light was pierced by Zhou Yue's terrified screams, which directly frightened the other three people in 611 to sit up from their sleep.

"Zhou Yue, have you run into a ghost?" Ye Xingzhi asked Zhou Yue in an unsuspecting tone when he was woken up with the strongest breath.

"Did you hit me yesterday?" Zhou Yue lifted the curtain, lifted up his pajama pants, and showed his bruised knees for the other roommates to see.

Ruan Chu's bed was opposite him, and he could see the bruises on his legs most clearly, so he was really shocked, and tried to recall what happened last night: "But we came back after dinner yesterday .”

"That's because you insisted on getting drunk and looking for someone to dance with. Zhao Tong and I couldn't stop it. Who knew that you didn't even see such a big stone pile on the road, so you tripped yourself abruptly." Ye Xingzhi Can't help but give him a blank look.

"But it's really fucking painful." Zhou Yue tentatively touched it with his fingertips, sucked in a big breath of pain, drew the curtain again and began to change clothes, "We have to fly back today. The two-day family annual meeting, my aunt will be very worried when she sees it."

"...Don't let my mother see it, can't you?" Ye Xingzhi is well aware of his virtues, and also knows that his mother treats Zhou Yue more than his own son because of the good relationship between the two families. Heart.

"Do you still have to take off your clothes for inspection when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year?" Zhao Tong asked puzzled.

"That's not true," Zhou Yue choked, "but I also scratched the skin on my fucking hands."

"Send a snapshot photo to Moments, let Meng 1 of the sports school see it, don't let down the wishes of our classmates." Zhao Tong thought of something, happily gave him bad ideas, and deliberately imitated Zhou Yue's original wish shyly with his throat The words on the card, "Is there a 1?"

"Fuck." When Zhou Yue climbed down the ladder, he grabbed a pillow beside the bed and threw it at Zhao Tong, "Tong Tong, you weren't so cheap when I first met you, why can't I treat you to the old man?" How about sharing some of Yao's warmth and consideration with other roommates?"

"Do you also want to be looked at by Zhao Tong like a son?" Ye Xingzhi walked towards the balcony with a toothbrush in his mouth.

Ruan Chu didn't join in their crosstalk-style quarrel, and went to the balcony to wash up with a wash cup with his sleepy hair, and listened to their conversation quietly and obediently during the period, which once again aroused Zhao Tong's old father mentality.

A few people deliberately stayed an extra day at school so that they could relax and go out to play for a day. After breakfast, they returned to the dormitory and began to pack their things.

Zhao Tong and Ruan Chu are from the local area. They only need to put away the sheets and quilts and put them in the closet to avoid dust, clean up the desk, and bring some necessities to go home. But Ye Xingzhi and Zhou Yue are from other provinces. The two of them booked a flight at [-]:[-] p.m., so they had to pack up their luggage before [-]:[-] p.m. and arrive at the airport two hours in advance to check in and check in the luggage.

At noon, Ruan Chu and Zhao Tong accompanied Ye Xingzhi and Zhou Yue in the cafeteria before carrying their schoolbags and preparing to leave. Ruan Chu also met Lin Jiang at the school gate, and it happened that the car they were in was also passing by. After saying goodbye to his roommate, Ruan Chu got on the bus together.

When Ruan Chu saw Lin Jiang, he couldn't help recalling what happened last night when he fell asleep in the car and leaned on Lin Jiang's shoulder. This made him a little shy, but he was reluctant to distance himself from Lin Jiang , sat quietly next to Lin Jiang, chatting with him from time to time.

Both of them have now made clear their feelings for each other, but neither of them dares to take a step forward to express it.Like all young people who are caught in a secret crush, they can't help but want to get closer to the person they want, but they worry about their gains and losses and worry that their feelings will be too obvious to make the other person retreat.

"Senior, do you have any other arrangements for the winter vacation?" Ruan Chu thought for a while, and racked his brains to find a very common question, but he regretted it as soon as he asked, worried that this question would be too boring, and worried I would ask about topics that Lin Jiang didn't like.

"Should be able to work part-time." Hearing his question, Lin Jiang leaned slightly towards Ruan Chu's direction, "But after the next semester, I have to consider the issue of internship and research."

"Oh." Ruan Chu hurriedly responded, but when he turned his head to look out the window, his eyes fell on Lin Jiang's face reflected in the window.

"What about you?" Lin Jiang asked him softly.

"I should be about the same." Ruan Chu blinked.

Lin Jiang nodded slightly, and didn't ask any more questions.

Both of them were hesitant to talk, and seemed to want to find some common topics to chat with each other, but because of the nervousness of being alone, they both worried about whether their topics would arouse the other's disgust, which led to Ruan Chu When Lin Jiang got off the bus a few stops earlier, the two of them didn't have time to chat.

"I'm here." Ruan Chu looked out the window, and then mustered up the courage to turn his head to look at Lin Jiang. When he met Lin Jiang's gaze, his heart still couldn't help beating a few times, which made him want to blush a little, but He still insisted on saying goodbye to Lin Jiang, "See you senior."

Lin Jiang opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something to him, but after a few seconds of hesitation, she only nodded slightly, and showed a soft smile to Ruan Chu: "Goodbye, you can call me if you need anything during the winter vacation."

Ruan Chu blinked, bent his eyes and nodded: "Okay."

But just after Ruan Chu got out of the car, the two of them felt a little regretful at the same time, frustrated that they couldn't find a suitable topic to chat with each other for a few more words.

Ruan Chu couldn't help but look back on the bus, but unexpectedly met Lin Jiang's gaze who was looking at him through the window, which made his heart beat a few more times after he had calmed down, a certain kind of throbbing His emotions spread uncontrollably from his heart, which made him unable to restrain his expectations hidden under the soft surface.

——Lin Jiang...does she also have a little bit of the same affection she has for him?

When Ruan Chu returned home, his parents hadn't come back from work, and his younger sister, Ruan Yun, was still at school. He put his schoolbag back in the locker next to the tatami in the living room, and went out with some change to buy vegetables at the nearest vegetable market. It was around five o'clock. When I have a lot of time, I start preparing meals.

Some rice worms have grown in the rice box at home, and her parents are busy with work and have no time to deal with them. Ruan Yun is afraid of insects. Chu Chu couldn't bear to see her trying to hold back her fear, so Ruan Chu silently took over the housework.

Now he goes to school for a semester, and no one picks the rice worms in the box, so a lot has accumulated.

Ruan Chu first made two cups of rice in the rice cooker, washed it several times with water to sieve out the worms and some impurities in the rice, put it back into the rice cooker and started cooking, then dragged the rice box out, washed his hands and left. Carefully pick out the rice worms in the box and throw them into a garbage bag filled with a layer of water.

It was almost 05:30 when he finished everything. Ruan Yun didn't go to school for evening self-study. After school at 45:[-], it was almost [-]:[-] when he got home.

When Ruan Yun was chatting with other students during the class break, she knew that all universities would have winter vacations one after another during this period. Although she didn't know when Ruan Chu would return from vacation, the joy of seeing her brother soon made her feel happy when she was approaching. The state at the end of the semester was very good, and I was admitted to the top five in several final simulation tests, and was praised by teachers of various subjects.

My father has to work in the factory, and my mother has to work as a waiter in the store. It is close to twelve o'clock before returning home from work, but they will prepare the dinner dishes when they get up in the morning and make breakfast for Ruan Yun. When I get up and have breakfast, I put the cold food in the refrigerator, and eat it warm when I come home from school at night.

Since Ruan Chu went to university, Ruan Yun has become used to the loneliness of being alone at home. When she opened the door and smelled the smell of food wafting from the kitchen, she was still a little dazed. Her first reaction was that her mother came back from work early. , and then denied this idea - she saw her brother's shoes on the shoe rack in the entrance.

Ruan Yun closed the door, put on her slippers, and threw her schoolbag on the sofa. She couldn't help but hopped and ran to the kitchen. Sure enough, she saw Ruan Chu, who was cooking in her mother's apron, in the kitchen.

The elder brother seems to have grown a little taller again, and his hair has grown a little, and he's also lost weight.

Ruan Yun suppressed the excitement in her heart that she wanted to rush towards Ruan Chu, but followed Ruan Chu's side step by step, her tone was obviously upbeat: "Brother! Are you on vacation?"

"Yeah." From the sound of Ruan Yun's door opening, Ruan Chu knew that it was his sister who came back from school, but he had to pick the right time to pour the chopped vegetables into the pot and stir fry while the oil in the pot was hot, so he had no time to turn around. Greeting Ruan Yun who came back from school.He nodded, although Xin Ran's emotion was not as obvious as Ruan Yun's, but there was a gentle smile on the corner of his lips.

"Wait a little longer, just cook another pot of soup," Ruan Chu said, "Go and wash your hands, it's time to eat—what soup do you want?"

"Well, it's all right!" Ruan Yun happily bounced on the spot a few times, turned on the faucet in the sink and washed her hands, then took the dishes that Ruan Chu had already filled to the dining table next to the wine cabinet in the living room outside, and then I opened the rice cooker in the heat preservation state, took the chopsticks and put the food for two people out.

Ruan Chu was worried that Ruan Yun would be hungry after being tired from school, so he made a relatively simple tomato and egg soup.

"Mom and Dad still come back from get off work very late at night?" Ruan Chu didn't feel hungry, and chatted with her while picking up vegetables with serving chopsticks and putting them in Ruan Yun's bowl.

"Yeah." Ruan Yun nodded, held her chopsticks and thought for a while, and before Ruan Chu could ask, she took the initiative to tell him the time and meal arrangements at home.

Ruan Chu frowned slightly when he heard this, and felt more and more that he should find a job earlier to reduce the burden on the family, but he pursed his lips, and only nodded to show that he knew: "Xiaoyun, you are about to take the final exam, right? "

"Yeah." Mentioning this, Ruan Yun's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help sharing her good results in the mock exam with Ruan Chu.

"Our little Yun has always been so good." Ruan Chu looked at her seriously with his eyes bent, and patiently listened to the interesting things in school that Ruan Yun shared with him, during which time he didn't forget to pick up some food for her to remind her to eat.

After the two brothers and sisters finished eating, Ruan Chu didn't ask Ruan Yun to wash the dishes, but asked her to finish her homework early and rest. After cleaning the house again, she put the food in the refrigerator and waited for her parents to come back at night for extra meals.

After Ruan Chu was busy with his work, he saw the message Lin Jiang sent him a few hours ago. Ruan Chu only left a small lamp in the living room, sitting cross-legged on the sofa to read the unread messages accumulated on his phone .

[Lin]: Are you home yet?

[Lin]: Let me know when you arrive.

Ruan Chu felt sweetness in his heart, and hurriedly typed to reply Lin Jiang.

[Chu Ji]: I'm sorry, senior!I didn't have time to check my phone messages when I got home

[Chuji]: I'm already home!And you?

[Lin]: Well, it's getting late, let's go to bed earlier.Good night.

[Chu Ji]: Good night.

Obviously they were going home by car together at noon, Ruan Chu couldn't help but miss Lin Jiang a little bit, he read and read the news that Lin Jiang sent him, and the arc of his lips couldn't be suppressed no matter what.

Lin Ran hadn't gotten off work yet, and Lin Jiang had finished washing and was sitting in an empty room. The room assigned by the unit was not big, and the sound insulation was average. Occasionally, people next door could hear the sound of beating and scolding children, but this was all isolated In Lin Jiang's ear.

He repeatedly looked at the "good night" that Ruan Chu sent him, as if savoring some delicacy, he was reluctant to dim the light on the screen for a long time.

The moonlight in the winter night lightly spilled into the house through the clean windows, silently connecting two rooms with warm yellow lights in the quiet night.