he is afraid, he pretends

coming-of-age ceremony.

In a trance, Wu Luming seemed to smell the air exclusive to the campus at the end of May.

Mixed with the dry heat of green grass.

The high school he attended had never held a coming-of-age ceremony before. Wu Luming's class was the first one. The new principal used the never-before-seen coming-of-age ceremony as the opening ceremony of the excursion before the college entrance examination, and specially called the parents of all the students in the third year of high school. .

Wen Siyuan was right.

At the coming-of-age ceremony that year, Wu Luming's coming-of-age hat was put on by Wen Siyuan for him.

The sudden ringtone of the mobile phone rang in the quiet living room.

Wu Luming was pulled back to his thoughts, and subconsciously wanted to touch his pocket, but he saw Wen Siyuan answering the phone first.

The voice of the person on the other end of the phone was a bit loud, and he directly spoke the handset mode in the quiet living room to give a hands-free effect.

"Wen Siyuan, have you taken out your clothes to dry?"

Wu Luming was taken aback when he heard the feminine voice full of aura.

Wen Siyuan was quite calm, and said in a normal tone: "Mom, I just got home."

"Hurry up, hurry up, it doesn't matter if lunch is delayed. I have seen the weather forecast over there. The good weather is only two days away, and it will rain for a long time. When it rains, it will be cold immediately. Then you will not be able to find it." It’s such a good opportunity to dry clothes.”

"understood."

Wen Siyuan agreed, chatted with the person on the phone for a few more words, and hung up the phone.

The living room returned to silence.

Wu Luming looked at Wen Siyuan and asked, "Brother Yuan, did you come here to dry clothes?"

Wen Siyuan nodded, put the phone on the coffee table beside him, took the remote control and turned on the air conditioner in the living room: "Every time the season changes, my mother will urge me to take out the clothes I will wear in the next season to dry."

He said and looked out the window: "Today's weather is very good, do you want to sunbathe together? There is enough space on the balcony."

Wu Luming's family does not have the habit of drying clothes in different seasons.

But he still nodded without much hesitation, and then called Wen Siyuan to stop before he was about to go back to the room.

"Wait a minute, Brother Yuan, do you want to go back to school after drying your clothes?"

Wen Siyuan shook his head: "I won't go back today."

Wu Luming laughed instantly, pulled the bag of ingredients aside, sat down on the floor, and began to take out the ingredients in the bag one by one: "Then let's decide what to have for lunch first, is the meal okay?"

Wen Siyuan looked at the increasing variety of ingredients on the ground, as if he remembered the delicious sausage rice last night, so he also learned to sit on the spot, sitting opposite Wu Luming.

The ingredients are arranged in a row, a total of more than a dozen.

Wu Luming propped up one leg, leaned his sleeve on his knee, held his face, and said, "Two meat and one vegetarian, how about it?"

"You know it?" Wen Siyuan's tone was a little surprised.

Wu Luming smiled and nodded: "Sausage rice is even more delicious than yesterday's sausage rice."

As soon as Wen Siyuan heard this, he lowered his head and carefully selected dishes the next second, as if he was participating in an important project.

Finally decided to make potato rib soup, fried small yellow croaker and mushroom stir-fry.

Wu Luming asked Wen Siyuan to pack the clothes first, while he carried the ingredients into the kitchen to do some preparatory work.

When he came out of the kitchen, a pile of clothes and two quilts were already piled up on the small sofa by the balcony.

Wu Luming just moved home, so he didn't bring a few clothes, so he dried his own in less than 5 minutes.

Wen Siyuan's progress was slow, so he went straight to help Wen Siyuan put them on the balcony.

Autumn entered in September, but Wen Siyuan took out all the autumn and winter clothes and piled them on the sofa, so the pile of clothes was almost full of large winter coats and sweaters.

Wu Luming came into contact with Wen Siyuan a few times, all in summer, and he hadn't seen Wen Siyuan's appearance in winter, so when he took Wen Siyuan's sweater coat out to dry, he always had to go through Wen Siyuan's clothes first. look on.

He thought Wen Siyuan wore good-looking clothes, so he put them in a sunny place to dry them, and he didn't think they looked good, so he squeezed them into the corner cruelly.

The clothes were half drying when someone suddenly came to the balcony next door.

Before Wu Luming noticed anyone, he was startled by the voice of the person over there.

"I just guessed that the weather is good these two days, you must come out to dry clothes, you young man, you are so diligent every year, whoever marries you in the future is really lucky!"

Wu Luming looked over and found that the person speaking was a woman in her fifties or sixties with a short wool curly hairstyle that was most popular among middle-aged and elderly women.

The woman was a little plump, and she lost her eyes when she smiled, and she looked at Wen Siyuan with the kindness of "this guy is absolutely popular in the blind date market".

Wu Luming only knew that the boy's family of three lived next to him, and this was the first time he saw a woman, so he was a little unresponsive.

He subconsciously glanced at Wen Siyuan, and was surprised to find that Wen Siyuan's expression was calmer than when he was on the phone with his mother, and he even leisurely said to the loving woman, "Hello. "

The woman seemed even more satisfied, and she even praised her for being a good boy before suddenly noticing Wu Luming standing next to her.

"Oh, Xiao Wen, who is this handsome guy? The young people nowadays are so handsome, hey..." The woman seemed to suddenly remember something, and said quickly, "Did you just buy candy for my grandson? The boy? As soon as my grandson came back, he said that there was a handsome guy who just moved in next to him and offered him a lollipop, and told me not to tell his mother."

Wu Luming was hit, and smiled shyly with his eyes bent: "I just met some children in the supermarket."

Seeing Wu Luming's obedient and docile appearance, the woman instantly regained her spirits, and started chatting with Wu Luming.

So the original two-person clothes-drying activity has become a three-person clothes-drying and two-person chat project.

Wu Luming can talk to anyone, including women.

Perhaps the woman hadn't met such a patient young man who could keep chatting with her for a long time, and she didn't have the slightest intention of going back after drying the clothes. She happily chatted with Wu Luming about her distant niece from the square dance in the community.

During the chat, most of the clothes on the sofa disappeared in an instant.

The winter coats and thick clothes have basically been dried, leaving only a thin layer of unlined clothing underneath.

Wu Luming was dragged by the woman and forced to listen to her distant niece's height, weight, and family background study, and didn't pay attention to her hand for a while. When she casually grabbed a piece of clothing on the sofa, and suddenly a bright red burst into her vision, he Then he stopped abruptly.

And the moment he stopped, Wen Siyuan, who had been working as a silent clothes-drying robot, suddenly approached him, raising his hand as if to take something away from him.

Before I touched it, the woman's laughter rang out first: "Xiao Wen, the quality of your red autumn clothes is really good? After so many years, there is no pilling or loosening."

The woman clapped her hands: "What did I say? The big red autumn clothes are better than ordinary ones. Don't you think so, Xiao Wen?"

Wen Siyuan's hand stopped in mid-air and did not move.

The man did not move, nor did he make a sound in response to the woman.

The woman seemed to be about to say something more, when a "Mom" came from the house over there, she stopped talking instantly: "Oh, my daughter-in-law called me, no, I have to go in first, Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu Wen, let's talk next time!"

Wu Luming smiled at the woman, who immediately left the balcony contentedly.

Without the woman, the balcony fell into a brief silence.

Wu Luming looked at the crimson autumn clothes that were a little loose in his hands, and simply spread them out and shook them.

He shook, and Wen Siyuan moved instantly, raised his hand to hold him down, and said in a low voice, "You don't need to dry this one."

"Why?" Wu Luming asked Wen Siyuan with a smile.

Wen Siyuan was silent for a while: "My mother bought this for me a few years ago in the year of birth."

"Ah, that's it." Wu Luming nodded, and after expressing his understanding, he took another look at the bright red autumn clothes in his hands, which were particularly bright under the sunlight.

"Will you keep warm?" He suddenly asked again.

Wen Siyuan was obviously taken aback. He looked at Wu Luming and saw that Wu Luming's face was indeed a serious questioning expression. He slowly let go of Wu Luming's hand without answering, as if nothing had happened and returned to the room. Continue to dry clothes in place.

A minute or two passed in such a quiet manner, and a very soft "hmm" flashed across the air.

Wu Luming hugged Dahong Qiuyi, a chuckle escaped from his throat.

After a while, he picked up the big red autumn clothes again, shook them, and then found a position with perfect sunlight, and tentatively said: "Then...how about... drying it?"