stepping into the night

The two of them didn't try to send each other any more messages, but they both agreed that the other would definitely go. They got up and changed into the clothes they were going out, and walked in the direction of each other in the night illuminated by the New Year's fireworks.

They met under the central sculpture of the old little plaza that connected the two blocks, with a vast sky and magnificent fireworks overhead.

"Happy New Year." They looked into each other's smiling eyes, and became each other's No.1 at the first moment of the new year.

"I came out after wearing so little." Lin Jiang took off the gray scarf around her neck and tied it around Ruan Chu's neck without any explanation. There was a burst of white mist, "I was prepared when I came out. I wouldn't be cold without a scarf. Wear it so you don't catch a cold, so you didn't feel well after checking."

He should have just finished washing, and he could smell a faint fragrance of shower gel on his body, like some kind of orchid, which smells so good, Ruan Chu couldn't help but quietly took a deep breath, thanking Lin Jiang with red ears, eyes Reflecting the light of fresh snow, it is exceptionally clear.

When the night became calm again, it was almost two o'clock in the morning, and the two of them had to go home separately.

At that time, Zhou Yue and Ye Xingzhi had just been put down from the card table of the two parties, and initiated a video call in the dormitory group.

Ruan Chu privately wanted to stay with Lin Jiang for a while longer, so he connected the video call in the dormitory after consulting Lin Jiang's opinion with his eyes. Zhao Tong who appeared on the screen was wrapped in a red embroidered quilt, and could vaguely see To the light of the firewood that illuminated half his face.

"Just now Zhou Yue was chatting with Iron Meng 1 from the sports academy." Ye Xingzhi and Zhou Yue sat on the sofa together, and saw Zhou Yue's hand holding the phone into the mirror with him, and opened it first after saying hello. chat topic.

"Holy shit, it won't really happen, right?" Zhao Tong was obviously very interested in his roommate's gossip, and moved closer to the front of the screen.

"It's a fart." Zhou Yue rolled his eyes angrily, and Ye Xingzhi knocked the dirty words out of his mouth before he could make a sound. Then he remembered that the parents were still playing cards in the room, and the reaction was quick and the sound was automatically muted. He lowered his voice and continued, "I will never look for a straight man of steel, even if all the 1s in the world are dead, I won't look for that idiot from the sports academy."

"Looking at your reaction, there is something wrong." Zhao Tong clicked his tongue.

"What happened?" The atmosphere in the dormitory has always been very relaxed and cheerful, and the corners of Ruan Chu's lips couldn't help but smile when he asked seriously.

"Oh, it's not impossible to say." Zhou Yue sighed and organized his words, "The oolong of the wish card before was very embarrassing, and the operation of the student in our class was even more suffocating. I never thought about it. I want to talk about a boyfriend now. Later, when I was taking physical education electives, I met a few times, and found that 'Meng 1' was quite to my liking, so we chatted."

"And then?" Zhao Tong urged Zhou Yue impatiently, "I want to hear the result."

"The result is," Zhou Yue recalled, with an indescribable expression on his face, "I wanted to find some common topics to chat with him, but after talking about shoes and football, there was nothing to talk about. We are both cultural candidates. I am a sports student who has been in junior high school, and I have been exposed to different environments. I consulted the opinions of a few girls with better relationships."

Zhou Yue paused, and the expression on his face was almost distorted for a moment: "When we talked about birthdays, I followed what those girls taught and asked him if he believed in astrology."

"You are all boring, and you talk about constellations." Zhao Tong really showed disgust, but he was very appreciative and asked him, "What did he say?"

"He said he believed in the Communist Party." Zhou Yue said numbly.

Ruan Chu turned his head and looked at Lin Jiang, and couldn't help laughing.

"Fuck," Zhao Tong was stunned for a moment, and then burst out into laughter that scared the children beside him, "Have you felt the warmth of the party's brilliance?"

Rao Ye Xingzhi, who always pays attention to his image and has good qualities, couldn't help starting a new round of ridicule with his fist to his lips.

"Tongtong, your laughter is too loud, I already feel the shock here." Zhou Yue sighed, "Why are you still laughing at me, youngest? Forget it, you are good-looking, I don't care about you."

"And then what?" Zhao Tong finally stopped laughing, and was scolded by the adult inexplicably, and wrapped in a red quilt, he walked towards the edge of the field where no one was around.

"Then he asked me if I wanted to join the party," Zhou Yue couldn't help gnashing his teeth as soon as he thought about it, "he wanted to fight for the quota of activists who joined the party, but he was afraid that his grades would not be enough-I/fuck/fuck , Feeling like he really wants to find a comrade to prepare to join the party? Does that mean I have to make up lessons for him?"

"Yes, this is in line with the core values ​​of socialism," Zhao Tong stretched out a hand from under the quilt, and put his thumb up in front of the screen, "What are you going to do?"

"How else can I plan?" Zhou Yue said in a harsh tone, "I wrote the application for joining the party on the spot, and told him, I won't bring him into the party."

Several people chatted and laughed for almost an hour, and Ruan Chu also made it clear that he and Lin Jiang were watching fireworks outside together.His roommates are quite used to the fact that his relationship with Lin Jiang has become more and more inseparable, not surprised at all, and they greeted Lin Jiang generously and said New Year greetings on the video call.

I don't know who mentioned the time first, and everyone knew that Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang were still freezing outside in the snow, so they stopped talking and ended the call.

"My roommates are all cute." Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang walked side by side in the direction outside the square, and breathed out warm air into the palms of their closed hands.

"Well," Lin Jiang nodded, looking down slightly at Ruan Chu's side face, her eyes fell on his slender eyelashes, and her tone of voice was very gentle when chatting with him, "You too."

"..." Ruan Chu blinked, and buried his face in the scarf embarrassingly, trying to cover his ears that were so hot.

"Does your stomach still hurt these two days?" Lin Jiang changed the subject naturally, "I was still replying to my messages at close to the wee hours of the night before. Was it because of the severe pain at that time?"

"No." Ruan Chu shook his head earnestly. Perhaps the atmosphere with Lin Jiang tonight was so comfortable that he had the courage to say a little thought that he couldn't hide, "Because It was only when I saw the news about you, senior, that I was relieved."

Lin Jiang paused, looking at Ruan Chu's side face with more emotion in his eyes, and his steady heartbeat also fluctuated a few times.

——Maybe... Maybe Ruan Chu's affection for him is the same as his liking for him.

Lin Jiang secretly took a few deep breaths, resisting the urge to confess to Ruan Chu.

He has not yet been admitted to the Guangqi class, nor has he formally obtained the internship qualification of the school he wants to go to, nor has the financial ability to be completely independent. He cannot let Ruan Chu bear these pressures with him. Responsibility is heavy enough.

Have to wait.

When he has enough ability to protect the future of two people.

"You have to eat on time," Lin Jiang said, "I will still supervise you when it's time to eat in the future."

His attitude this time was stronger than usual, but Ruan Chu didn't notice the abnormality at all, the joy of being cared and worried by the person he liked was woven into a lingering sweetness, covering his heart.

On the fourth day of junior high school, Lin Jiang accompanied Ruan Chu to the hospital for a gastroscopy that was scheduled for a week ago. Ruan Chu never complained of pain, but his pale face could tell that he was extremely uncomfortable. Lin Jiang frowned and supported him. He sat slowly on the chair next to him.The dense pain and powerlessness gripped Lin Jiang's heart, so that he couldn't say a word of relief, he just held the paper cup filled with hot water and handed it to Ruan Chu.

——He couldn't even justifiably give Ruan Chu a comforting hug.

"I'm fine." Ruan Chu's face finally turned red, and he looked up at Lin Jiang immediately, and smiled at him, "It's just a little nausea, not very uncomfortable, let's go get the medicine .”

"Okay." Lin Jiang nodded, and accompanied him to pay for the medicine.

A box of omeprazole for 40 yuan is only enough for a week, and a course of treatment takes at least four to six weeks. After that, you have to go to the hospital for another gastroscopy review, which is an additional and not low cost.

Ruan Chu feels sorry for the money he spent on seeing a doctor, but he also knows that what he can do now is to take care of his health as soon as possible, and he can no longer just focus on part-time jobs to make money as before. He can't afford to be sick so many times.

The only thing that made him feel relieved was that the relationship between himself and Lin Jiang seemed to be getting closer unconsciously, so much so that when Liu Yuanyuan came back from vacation to play with Ruan Chu at the tutoring institution, she asked if Ruan Chu had found him. girlfriend.

"Your current state makes me think you're in a relationship." Liu Yuanyuan rested her chin on her fingers, tilted her head and looked at Ruan Chu for a moment.

"Ah? No..." Ruan Chu's eyes drifted to the side unnaturally, but when Lin Jiang looked at him inadvertently, his ears turned red, and he quickly turned his eyes back to chat with Liu Yuanyuan.

Liu Yuanyuan didn't get too entangled with him on this matter, and quickly took out her mobile phone to enthusiastically discuss her idol with Ruan Chu——

It is said that before Ruan Chu helped her draw a Q-version villain picture of idols, when Liu Yuanyuan posted it on Weibo, it was turned over by Xia Shiyu himself. Liu Yuanyuan was so happy that she set the screenshot as her own space and profile card. Background, I can't wait to tell the world that I was flopped by idols.Also because of this, Liu Yuanyuan asked Ruan Chu to eat to repay him whatever she said, but Ruan Chu refused, so she just ordered a cup of milk tea.

During the few days of the Spring Festival, the Ruan family's parents took a day off to take their son and daughter to the mall to buy new clothes. During the time of shopping and talking and laughing together, even though the pockets were shy, the warmth of the family's caring and caring for each other still flowed through it as always.

The winter vacation passed by in a hurry, and the new semester began in a blink of an eye. Everyone in the 611 dormitory brought gifts to each other.The other three people were full of praise when they received the puppet carved with their zodiac signs, which made Ruan Chu very embarrassed.

When everyone finished expressing their thoughts, Ruan Chu took the box containing the seal and the puppet and walked briskly downstairs to Lin Jiang's dormitory building. He couldn't help but look forward to Lin Jiang's reaction when he saw the gift. appearance.

——But when he got to the downstairs of Lin Jiang's dormitory, Ruan Chu suddenly remembered that he didn't know the exact number of Lin Jiang's dormitory.