A box of light gray blue

As the sun sets, the view from the top of the mountain has long been shrouded in dark blue shadows.The two gloomy apartment buildings in front of me only had a few small lights on, like ghosts waiting for the night to go out.

Everyone's fantasies about accommodation suddenly fell from heaven to hell, and it was unacceptable for a while.

Xu Yan dragged his luggage and got out of the car in a daze, and was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.

"This is too much." This time even Lu Jingnan couldn't help crying, "Even if we live here, we shouldn't let us see the resort hotel at the bottom of the mountain..."

Xu Chang's eyebrows twitched, but when he turned around, he saw Fu Zhongzhou very calmly helping Brother Sheng move the paint box, as if he had expected it a long time ago.

"... You also lived in this place last year?" He leaned over and helped to remove all the dirty paint boxes.

Fu Zhongzhou sniffed, and glanced at the two shabby old buildings, "It's a little...better."

Their class was the first group to arrive, and everyone was in a mess in the mountain wind for a while, and other buses drove up behind them.

Brother Sheng greeted everyone to come and claim the painting materials, "Hurry up and get your things and go to the dormitory! We're in the way!"

No matter how unacceptable it is, this fact cannot be changed.A group of students dejectedly pushed the heavy painting tools, and walked with difficulty into the shabby building.Xu Chang didn't know the way a little bit, so after tidying up his painting tools, he stood aside and waited for Fu Zhongzhou.

He stood on the open space of the parking lot and looked around. The sketch apartment building on the high place was facing a small restaurant.On both sides of the cement road extending down the mountain, there are various small hotels, supermarkets, and bars.The environment here is not good, the garbage is thrown in the corner surrounded by red bricks on the side of the road, the smell is exposed in the air, attracting many flies and bugs.The sewage left over from cooking in the restaurant is also randomly poured into the ditches and flows down the mountain.

These are just the unreal appearances at dusk, Xu Chang can't imagine what this small mountain village looks like in the daytime.

This undercurrent of filth and poverty made him a little uncomfortable.

"You really like to be in a daze," Fu Zhongzhou came over at some point, with a cart in his hand and a bag of snacks on the suitcase, which should be given by Teacher Lu.

Xu Chang sighed, thinking that it was good to have Fu Zhongzhou by his side, otherwise he wouldn't know how he would spend this week.

The two went upstairs with their luggage.

The scene inside the building is similar to the outside, the dim lights can barely illuminate the stairs under your feet, and there is a damp sweat smell in the corridor.

The cart can only be walked on flat ground, and cannot go upstairs at all.Xu Chang and Fu Zhongzhou ran back and forth several times, and worked together to get their luggage up.

"Fortunately, it's on the second floor," Xu Chang felt that his waist was about to break, so he rested for a while while leaning on the railing. "If I go up a few more floors, I really can't stand it."

Fu Zhongzhou wiped the sweat from his forehead and showed a not-so-serious smile. "If you can't hold it anymore, will you take me to a five-star hotel down the mountain to open a VIP suite?"

"It can be considered." Xu Yu really thought about it, but he was afraid of being taught a lesson by Brother Sheng, so he had to think about it and give up.

The two slowly pulled the cart and boxes to the door of the dormitory.Their dormitory is at the end of the second floor. Fortunately, the windows are slightly better ventilated than other dormitories.

But it's not much better.When Xu Yan pulled his luggage into the dormitory, he froze on the spot.

He never knew that such a small space could accommodate ten people.

Qin Ping, who arrived earlier than the two of them, was about to pass out on the spot. He thought he was the least picky about accommodation, and he could fall asleep just by touching the bed. He didn't expect to be completely defeated by this small dormitory in the end.

"Can this really live in people!"

He shouted angrily at the old peeling ceiling: "My own living room is only about this size!"

The entrance to the dormitory is a relatively large bathroom. Two groups of bunk beds are placed on the right, the other two groups are placed on the opposite side, and the remaining group is barely squeezed next to the window facing the door.No matter how you look at it, it is a ten-person room that was forcibly changed from an eight-person room.

Xu Yu was still standing at the door, when he heard Peng Peng's voice behind him: "I suggest ten of us go down the mountain and book a suite..."

Ten of them arrived one after another, and each of them stood at the door cursing for a long time before coming in.

Xu Chang and Fu Zhongzhou chose the upper and lower bunks on the inner side, next to them were Lu Jingnan and Mo Qinghua.Mo Qinghua's three roommates all slept on the side near the door, so Qin Ping picked a lower bunk near the door and went to buy painting materials.The worst ones were Peng Peng and Xiang Yong. Their seats were near the window, and the wooden bed probably suffered too much wind and rain, so the top board of the bed collapsed.

Fu Zhongzhou was on the lower bunk, and glanced enviously at Peng Peng and Xiang Yong who were forced to sleep in the same bed.

Xu Yan poked his head out from above: "You better not hope that half of the bed will collapse when I sleep."

Although everyone complained, they could only make their beds while complaining.The quilts prepared here all had an unpleasant musty smell, Xu Wei and Fu Zhongzhou couldn't bear it a bit, so they folded the quilts and threw them at the end of the bed.

The car for the repeating class was still on the way, Ye Zhize looked very excited, and excitedly posted messages in the repeating group.

【Ye Zhize: How is it? Brother Zhou is here yet? 】

Fu Zhongzhou raised his phone and took a short video and sent it to him.

[Fu Zhongzhou: Wait for Uncle Ye to experience the sufferings of the world. 】

I don't know if I was busy or didn't see it, there was no more movement over there.

"Ah! What's going on!" Mo Qinghua's crew-cut roommate suddenly yelled.He took out a dirty sock from under the pillow with distorted facial features, covered his mouth and threw it on the ground.

Seeing that he found a sock on the bed, everyone quickly turned over and tidied their own bed again.Xu Yan pinched his nose the whole time, shook the bed seriously, and after confirming that there was nothing strange, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and climbed down from the upper bunk exhaustedly.

He made a gesture to fall on Fu Zhongzhou's bed, but Fu Zhongzhou stopped him with a sound.

"Don't lie down!"

Xu Chang was taken aback by his stern tone, and turned around to see that this man was even more particular than himself, lifting the quilt and spraying toilet water on the bed.

"...Why don't you just let it go," Xu Chang couldn't help sneezing when he smelled the strong scent of toilet water, "Spraying this can't get rid of the musty smell."

Fu Zhongzhou frowned, and his lips were drawn into a line, as if as long as he relaxed his expression a little, the dust would be sucked into his lungs.

"It's coming soon, just wait."

He took the wet wipes out of his bag again and wiped down the bedposts and escalators.After doing all this, he seemed to think it wasn't clean enough, so he piled the pillows to the end of the bed, shook the sheets vigorously several times, and finally sat back on the bed in a comfortable mood.

Xu Chang: "As expected of my birthday in August."

Fu Zhongzhou was still immersed in the struggle against the dust and musty smell, "What?"

"It's okay, I said you love cleanliness." Xu Yan sat down with his arms around his shoulders, and stretched his sore waist, "Good thing, I like cleanliness."

The two cleaned up and tidied up, but Fu Zhongzhou still found it dirty, so he went to a small shop outside to buy a new set of sheets for the bed.For this matter, Xu Chang even joked that he was a princess.

The condition of the apartment is poor. Fortunately, three meals a day are included.The two went to the restaurant on the first floor to have a casual dinner and planned to go out for a walk.

There is a small gazebo in front of the apartment building.Xu Chang stood in the pavilion and took a deep breath.Before the life of sketching began, he felt that he could not go on.

"Tell me, why on earth did we come here to suffer?" He glanced at Fu Zhongzhou, and found that the person next to him took out a pack of cigarettes at some point.

Fu Zhongzhou took one out of the cigarette case, held it between his fingers and shook it in front of him, as if asking for his permission.

Xu Chang didn't make a sound, reached out and asked him for one.

"Relax your mind, Xu Wei." Fu Zhongzhou took out the beautiful lighter from his bag, and lit it "bass" in the dark, "Actually, it's very fun to come out to sketch," he took a breath, and leaned in front of Xu Wei, with a dark voice Dumb and sweet, "I promise, at least if you're with me, you won't feel like you're suffering."

"I know." Xu Yan grabbed his wrist.He sat on a chair in the middle of the gazebo and pulled the man into his lap.

There are also some annoying cicadas in early September.During this time, everyone was resting in the dormitory or eating in the cafeteria. No one came to this invisible place.

Fu Zhongzhou did not resist.He sat sideways on Xu Yu's lap and lit the cigarette in Xu Yu's hand with his own.

"Just two puffs," he took another puff, and extinguished the one in his hand, "otherwise I'll always feel like I'm spoiling you."

"I still think I've spoiled you," Xu Yu smiled wryly and took a puff, "A good girl just put her eyes on me instead of chasing her."

The dark night can always affect many emotions.The two smoked in silence for a while, and Fu Zhongzhou got off his lap and sat on a stone bench beside him.

"There are some things that you really can't think too much about," he lay on the stone table, looking at Xu Wei with a pair of round eyes between his arms, "Xu Wei, I'm very worried about your state."

Xu Yan was a little puzzled, "I don't think I'm the one who failed in the monthly exam, right?"

"It's not the same thing," Fu Zhongzhou supported his head, "I do...have some problems, but I think you are not in a good state right now."

He changed the subject, "Did you know that every year, many people get sick or commit suicide because of the pressure of training camps."

Xu Yan stopped holding the cigarette.

"I've already experienced this kind of life for a year," Fu Zhongzhou reached out and touched the back of his neck, and Xu Wei could even feel the calluses on his knuckles. "I don't want you to be tortured by this fierce, even vicious competition."

His voice was mixed with Zi'er's screaming cicadas, disturbing people's mind.Xu Wei vaguely felt that Fu Zhongzhou was recalling something bad, but that feeling was as difficult to capture as the drifting shreds of tobacco.He hesitated for a while, and could only grab his hand and kiss him comfortingly.

"Don't worry, I won't."