sunny as rain

To be on the safe side, Youai asked the driver to go home first.

He and Ye Shiyu got into a taxi and slowly followed behind Li Lan's bicycle.

Lingonberry asked curiously: "Isn't it cold to ride a bicycle in winter?"

Ye Shiyu gave him an angry look: "Young master with blueberry flavor, our ordinary children are like this. I also rode a bicycle to and from school a while ago."

Yueju leaned back on the car seat without confidence, his eyes fixed on Li Lan's back.

Ye Shiyu's hand had been holding the doorknob, and it felt a little cold at the moment, and his fingers were red from the cold.

He quietly retracted his hands into his sleeves, clenched his fists, and repeatedly loosened his clenched fists. Finally he warmed up, and secretly sighed comfortably.

Ye Shiyu's arm was tucked inside his coat, Yueju felt it was funny, and joked: "Ye Shiyu, your arm is gone, where did your arm go?"

Ye Shiyu snorted pretending to be stern, but unfortunately there was no majesty, but he seemed to be acting like a baby.

On the darker and darker streets, one house after another wandered backwards like lonely ghosts, and the palms of Velberry's clenched hands were sweaty. This was the first time he really observed this kind of place.

City A has two old building areas that are about to be demolished. One is Dongcheng District where Ye Shiyu lives. Yueju has been there only once, and he hasn't got off the bus yet.

One is the Xicheng District in front of them. They followed Li Lan's bicycle and it was not time to get off.

The streets were empty at first, or maybe it was too late, no one wandering the streets around -10 degrees below zero.

The car turned into a street, and Yueju realized that he was wrong.

There were many food stalls on the side of the road, and a middle-aged woman with short hair pulled a little boy listlessly and passed by.

The boy wanted to eat fried chicken cutlets on the street. The short-haired girl pulled the boy's arm and said in a low voice, "Go home and eat. The food outside is dirty, so you can't eat it casually."

Bilberry unconsciously lowered the window.

All kinds of people at the food stand stared at him from a distance, and a short and fat man in the front left was holding a green beer bottle feebly, already drunk.The three young men in front of them were laughing non-stop because of pornography.

Looking carefully, there was a lame white-haired old man standing on the side of the road, trying to take a dollar from the oily hand of the roadside stall owner.

Huckleberry kept a distance, watching these people, like looking at people in another world full of germs, dirt, poverty, and cheapness through a transparent glass protective cover.

This world is almost separate from my own world.

Ye Shiyu was shivering from a gust of cold wind.

He went over Linganju's shoulder, rolled up the car window, and said in a calm tone: "Welcome to the world of ordinary people, young master."

Yueju looked up at Ye Shiyu, and found that Ye Shiyu's expression was very serious.

Ye Shiyu looked at the roadside stalls outside the window, and said quietly: "When I first came to City A, I should have lived the same life as them, maybe I couldn't even study, thanks to the surroundings, he used his own Dignity, personality, time, youth, everything he can give up, keep me away from this kind of life."

Yueju wanted to say a few words to comfort Ye Shiyu, but opened her mouth soundlessly, but finally lowered her head and gave up.

He couldn't think of anything to comfort others. After all, most people in this world are self-aware. Others may not be able to help. Just keep your mouth shut and don't comment.

Ye Shiyu's voice was so ethereal as if floating from afar: "I always knew that my family was not rich, and I told everyone that my family's conditions were not good, but the surroundings never made me suffer, and he never let me suffer. I feel really poor.”

From Ye Shiyu's tone, Yueju heard a strong piety until death.

It was Ye Shiyu's admiration, gratitude and inseparable dependence on his surroundings.

He was faintly envious.

Ye Shiyu's eyes locked on the faint light from the dim street lamp, and there was a kind of heartbreaking obstinacy and stubbornness inadvertently exuding, as if he was swearing that he must find out why Li Lan targeted him, so as to protect his family.

After almost half an hour, the taxi finally stopped.

Ye Shiyu opened the car door and jumped out of the car impatiently, followed by Huanju.

Before he could stand on his feet, he heard a man yelling in a rough voice: "Li Lan, you finally got out of class, hurry up, hurry up, and send 2 bottles of beer to that table."

You don't need to look, you can tell that this man looks rude, because the tone of his speech is extremely rough, with the philistine and vulgarity of the low-level thugs.

The white plastic table gleamed because it was covered with a thick layer of grease, and the tables and chairs, which had not been wiped clean for a long time, felt sticky and dull to the touch.

Huanju really didn't want to sit on it and eat, and Ye Shiyu didn't have any appetite, so the two hid behind the big tree across the street.

The man was still yelling, with squinting eyes and a big beer belly.

"Li Lan, when the skewer is finished, hurry up and send it to that table, don't be a bitch like a girl."

"Fuck, the movement is so slow, I didn't give you food?"

Ye Shiyu even saw the man kick Li Lan's butt a few times.

Under the flickering street lights, Ye Shiyu opened his eyes wide, tried hard to identify, and finally saw the face of the roadside stall owner clearly.

It was Li Wenchang's son Li Feng.

It looks fatter than before, with big arms and round waist, and the eyes are so fat that there is only a slit left.

Ye Shiyu deeply doubted whether Li Feng could see people clearly with these eyes?

From the looks of it, Li Feng is the owner of this roadside stall.

Ye Shiyu glanced around, and saw a dozen white plastic tables messily arranged downstairs of the residents, and the skewers and beers were full.

Behind the table are rows of dark buildings, standing in the shadows at the moment, blue, green, white, etc., old-fashioned aluminum alloy glass windows of different shades reflect pale light.

Li Lan came out from the store on the first floor behind her, holding a case of beer in her arms with difficulty, and put her dark blue schoolbag by the corner before she could put it away.

It can be seen that he hastily put down his schoolbag after school every day, and then gets busy without warning.

Ye Shiyu took out his mobile phone from his pocket and sent a WeChat message to his surroundings, telling him that he was doing his homework at a classmate's house and would go back later.

The surroundings returned in seconds, and told him to pay attention to safety and take a taxi home early.

Ye Shiyu put the phone back into his pocket, looked up at the lingonberries, and said calmly, "You go back first, I'll wait until they close the stall."

Yueju shook his head and refused, and Ye Shiyu waited silently for them to close the stall.

Ye Shiyu sighed: "It's really cold today."

Lingel laughed at him: "You are too afraid of the cold."

Ye Shiyu smiled in a trance.

The smell of the soil is mixed with the smell of snow, and there is a faint coldness in the smell of the soil.

Ye Shiyu's nose twitched twice, then rubbed her cheeks that were about to freeze, and walked around in place, like a tireless spinning top.

Lingerberry heard two crisp clicks from Ye Shiyu's kneecaps, and said worriedly: "Stop jumping back and forth, it will be colder, it will heat up faster, and it will dissipate heat faster."

Ye Shiyu really didn't move in place, put his hands in his pockets, and repeated silently in his heart, "The heart is dry and naturally hot".

Lingonberry asked curiously, "What are you muttering about?"

Ye Shiyu looked up at him, the thin folds on the eyelids deepened a little, and the lingonberry could see that Ye Shiyu was really afraid of the cold.

Ye Shiyu trembled uncontrollably, his voice trembling: "No...it's nothing...".

Lingonberry bluntly said: "It seems that you are really afraid of the cold, and you can't stand it after only half an hour."

Ye Shiyu said solemnly: "I'm always afraid of the cold."

Lingel hesitated for a moment, then slowly opened his down jacket, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and said to Ye Shiyu in a very convincing tone: "Come here."

Ye Shiyu's lips turned pale, and he said embarrassedly: "No...

no need. "

The lingonberry repeated without refusal: "Come here."

Ye Shiyu hesitated and walked on the same spot, Yueju could only say in a slightly angry tone: "Shut up, come here quickly, do you want to freeze me to death?"

With a confused and dazed face, Ye Shiyu quickly got into the down jacket of Lingonberry.

Bilberry was blown by a gust of cold wind and sweated down his back, as if he was holding a huge snowman in his arms. His whole body was wrapped in cold water and ice, and the chill gradually soaked through his muscles and bones and spread all over his body.

Fortunately, after a few minutes, the body temperature of the two passed to each other, and it was not so cold anymore.

Ye Shiyu was a little guilty, with an unnatural expression, he stiffened in Yueju's arms for a while, and then slowly said: "I'm sorry, you must be quite cold."

Lingerberry said flatly, "It's not cold anymore."

Ye Shiyu's whole figure was wrapped in a layer of warm silk in the cicada chrysalis, and he didn't dare to move easily. Through the thick down jacket and the thin sweater of the lingonberry, he still felt the warmth of the lingonberry's chest.

His face flushed with guilt, and he pretended to be joking lightly: "Fortunately, you are a straight man, otherwise I thought you were taking advantage of me."

Lingerberry's silence made Ye Shiyu even more embarrassed.

Bilberry asked in a breathy dry voice, "Are you? Gay?"

Ye Shiyu didn't want to hide anything, let alone lie with his good friend, so he said softly: "Yes." Then he lowered his head and said a little discouraged: "I'm sorry, I should have told you earlier, if you don't want to be friends with me because of this reason, I can also understand, I knew from a young age that I liked men."

In fact, Ye Shiyu just hated girls when he was a child, but he didn't know that he liked boys.

The first time I was tempted was because I saw the surroundings and was attracted by the beauty of the surroundings.

Until Jiang Yahui took him away from home, he was taken away by a strange man, and in the process of pretending to be unconscious after waking up, he used the light and shadow flowing on his eyelids to piece together a complete scene of men riding together.

At that time, what he was thinking about was the surroundings, and that was the first time he clearly realized that he had desires.

There is not only love between men and men, but also desire/desire.

Lingonberry showed a painful and restrained look on his face: "I don't reject homosexuality, you are my best friend."

Ye Shiyu happily danced in the lingonberry's arms, like a butterfly breaking through the cocoon, slowly opened his arms, and broke free from the lingonberry's down jacket.

Ye Shiyu said excitedly: "Great, you don't hate me. In fact, I wanted to tell you a long time ago. I originally planned to tell you that secret together."

Lingel kept adjusting his breathing, raised his hands on Ye Shiyu's head hesitantly, pressed down gently, and said helplessly, "Be honest, don't move around."

Lingonberry's entire back was leaning against the tree, while Ye Shiyu's back was against his chest. The cloth rubbed against him repeatedly, causing a strange tingling and itching.

Huanberry desperately tilted his head back, trying to distance the two people's perfectly fitted bodies.

Ye Shiyu felt it, and immediately stood there obediently, motionless, and kept nodding his head in apology.

Lingel explained embarrassingly: "Don't move, the clothes will leak in a while."

Ye Shiyu echoed: "Okay, okay, it's really too cold today."

Not far away, there was a loud noise, breaking the awkward atmosphere between the two of them.

Ye Shiyu speculated that Li Feng and Li Lan had already started closing their stalls.