Attempted first love

Xiao Jiang's name is Jiang Mingliang. He has just graduated and has a lively personality and a good temper. He is very popular with the team members.

"Jiang Mingliang." Xia Yan stood at the door of the kitchen with a kettle in his hand and called him by his name, gritted his teeth, "Come in and pour water for me."

Xiao Jiang was closing the umbrella at the door, when he heard the voice, he raised his head, saw the person in front of him in a daze, and then said, "Hello."

"Hello." Lu Zhouyu said in the usual tone.

"I'm sorry... I thought it was Brother Yan." After Xiao Jiang finished speaking, he suddenly realized: "Ah, you were the one that day, Mr. Lu, right?"

Lu Zhouyu narrowed his eyes and smiled, saying yes, he greeted again, "Hello, Teacher Lu." Then he walked into the room.

Walking inside, he asked, "Who is Teacher Ji talking about, brother Yan..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Yan handed him the kettle, then shoved him into the kitchen, and added to cover it up: "The cup is in the upper cabinet, you can look for it."

"Oh." Xiao Jiang replied.

Xia Yan followed behind him, wanting to escape into the kitchen for a short while, while holding the doorknob, like a ghost, he turned his head and took a look.

"Xia Yan." Lu Zhouyu suddenly called out his name, and it was no longer Teacher Xia.

"Huh?" Xia Yan was slightly taken aback, and when he realized that he had something to say, he closed the kitchen door with his backhand and shut Xiao Jiang inside.

Lu Zhouyu took two steps forward, leaned against the wall very unceremoniously, raised his finger and pointed out the window, and could vaguely see the art museum in the distance, standing in the rain curtain, looking a little precarious.

"If you want to resign, you have to finish this project," he said, "Didn't you say that you can help me realize it all?"

There was a frivolous smile in the tone, like a teasing sentence, which cleverly resolved the embarrassment caused by Xiao Jiang's words.But I don't know if it's because of the rain, Xia Yan felt that the room was gloomy and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

Xia Yan was silent for a few seconds, then smiled at him: "Of course, what I promised you will definitely come true."

He gripped the doorknob again and pushed the door open. Xiao Jiang was groping around in the cabinet on the top floor on tiptoe.

"Besides, he was joking, don't mind." After speaking, Xia Yan walked into the kitchen and closed the door.

"Brother Yan, why is there only a red wine glass on it?" Xiao Jiang asked him, turning his face.

"That's because I misremembered." Xia Yan walked over and opened the drawer, "The cup is here."

"It's been a while since you've been in the kitchen." Xiao Jiang complained, skillfully taking out a can of white tea from the locker.

While making tea, he peeked at Xia Yan sideways. After the second cup was brewed, he finally couldn't help asking: "Brother Yan, are you going to resign?"

Xia Yan was leaning against the cupboard and lost his mind, when he raised his eyes and saw Xiao Jiang's troubled face, he almost laughed out loud: "That's not the case."

"Then why did Mr. Ji say that you were going to resign, and that it was because..."

"I'm lying to you, it's raining so hard, I'm afraid you won't want to come to work, so I made up a reason."

"Scare me!" Xiao Jiang exhaled heavily, "I was worried all the way, almost speeding."

Xiao Jiang easily believed Xia Yan's words and continued to make tea.

When he opened the door and went out, Lu Zhouyu was leaning on the window sill and looking out. The rain and fog seemed to be scattered through the glass, blurring his face.

Xia Yan paused, stood where he was, and unconsciously recalled their dormitory on the mountain. When Lu Zhouyu smoked, he would lean against the window as he does now. The smoke would be carried away by the wind, and would occasionally pass by. his face.

"Brother Yan, do you have any fruit at home? Treat Teacher Lu." Xiao Jiang interrupted his memory behind him.

"Look in the refrigerator."

"There is nothing in the refrigerator except hawthorn," Xiao Jiang lowered his voice, "I'll go buy some."

"Hawthorn is fine, I washed it." Xia Yan walked back and brought out the plate of hawthorn.

"How do you treat guests? It's so sour." Xiao Jiang muttered behind him.

"Customers love to eat this."

When he went out again, Lu Zhouyu was already sitting in a corner of the sofa like a guest, and when he saw the hawthorn on the coffee table, he frowned, "Thank you."

With Xiao Jiang present, the atmosphere was quite lively. They chatted about trivial topics and waited for the rain to stop together.

Between topics, Xiao Jiang received a call.

He took the phone away, turned around and asked Xia Yan: "The whole city has suspended work and school in the afternoon, and Miao Miao will leave get out of class early, can we let her come over and play together?"

Miao Miao is Xiao Jiang's girlfriend and Xia Yan's junior sister in the same major. They have met several times.

"Come on," Xia Yan said while looking out the window, "It's raining too much, why don't you pick her up."

After getting the answer, Xiao Jiang said a few more words to the phone, and finally kissed the air.After hanging up the phone, he said embarrassedly: "No need to answer, she was doing social research in the afternoon, so she happened to be nearby."

Ten minutes later, Miao Miao arrived.

The ends of her hair were wet from the rain, Xiao Jiang borrowed a clean towel from Xia Yan, and wiped her hair clumsily.

Miao Miao is very talkative like Xiao Jiang, and the small living room is even more lively.

Miao Miao will go to Qishan Mountain to sketch next month, she is not willing to live on the mountain, so she asked Xia Yan: "Brother Yan, did your previous courses also have this?"

"No," Xia Yan said, "but I went to other mountains a long time ago."

Miao Miao immediately asked many related matters.

Xia Yan told her one by one, and finally said: "Others are fine, but be careful when buying drinks."

Miao Miao gave a pause to the hand holding the Coke can: "What's wrong?"

"Be careful with Lei Bi, Wan Shi Cola or something." Xia Yan said, "There are more counterfeit goods in the mountains."

His words jumped out of his mouth naturally without thinking.Like memorizing ancient poems when I was a child, the language memory formed after repeated recitation.

After finishing speaking, Xiao Jiang and Miao Miao laughed together, but Xia Yan froze suddenly, turning his head to look at Lu Zhouyu who was beside him.Lu Zhouyu held a hawthorn in his hand and looked at him for a while.

One second, two seconds, Xia Yan suddenly remembered the beginning of the first time he felt that he could get along with Lu Zhouyu friendly.

It was the fifth day of the training camp, and the air conditioner was broken.

Before dinner, Xia Yan was alone in front of the dormitory window to blow some air, after a while, Lu Zhouyu came back, the two of them greeted each other lightly, and stopped talking.

Maybe it was because of the heat, Lu Zhouyu also went to the window to blow some air, Xia Yan kindly set aside half of the window for him.

The evening breeze was light, and the leaves occasionally brushed against the side of his face, which was very pleasant. Xia Yan couldn't help but said, "It would be great if there was a bottle of iced Coke."

"Yes, I have."

"Where?"

Lu Zhouyu pushed aside the branches and leaves outside the window and pointed to him: "There is a small supermarket over there, do you see it?"

Xia Yan approached him, and saw half of a colorful signboard from the gap between the leaves, "I see it."

He hurriedly turned around and ran out: "I'll go buy it!"

"Be careful when you buy it." Lu Zhouyu's voice came lazily from behind, "Don't buy Lei Bi, everything can be happy."

"……what?"

"In the mountains, there are more counterfeit goods."

Pausing in his footsteps, Xia Yan couldn't help turning his head and asking, "Is it good?"

Lu Zhouyu thought for a while and said, "It tastes like traditional Chinese medicine and syrup."

After he finished speaking, the two looked at each other, couldn't help laughing together, and then went back to their own business.

Although the first impression was not friendly, from that day on, Xia Yan inexplicably no longer resisted being alone with Lu Zhouyu, and even felt that he was a good person who was suitable to be a friend.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan exhaled from the bottom of his heart.Like a student who was called by the teacher to solve a problem on the blackboard, after standing stiffly for a long time, he finally solved the answer with a relaxed smile.

The smile stopped when he looked at Lu Zhouyu again.

He had no expression on his face, as if he had never had this memory they had together, and even slightly puzzled, asking Xia Yan why he solved a chemical equation inappropriately under the big math problem.

Xiao Jiang and Miao Miao still huddled together, whispering sweet words, Xia Yan picked up the empty cup on the table, "I'll boil some more water."

When he entered the kitchen and was about to close the door, Xiao Jiang squeezed in and said loudly, "Brother Yan, let me make tea for you."

Xia Yan didn't stop him, went to the pool to fetch water, Xiao Jiang leaned aside, and suddenly said: "I see."

"Know what?" Xia Yan asked indifferently.

"I know everything."

"speak politely."

"That day, when Teacher Ji was drunk, I went to pick him up. He pointed at you and Teacher Lu and said," Xiao Jiang paused hesitantly, "I told you two not to mess around. I heard it all."

Xia Yan turned to look at him, but didn't speak.

Xiao Jiang continued to reason: "Mr. Ji said today that you are resigning because of a man. Is it because of him?"

Xia Yan turned on the power, leaned against the cabinet with his arms crossed, and continued to remain silent.

Xiao Jiang continued to work hard: "When I came to your house today, I felt that something was wrong. You never let your partner come to the house, and you still huddled on the sofa, flirting with each other, and you still..."

Xia Yan couldn't help interrupting him: "Isn't it because of you that you squeezed on the sofa? You have to sit three people on one sofa."

"It's not important, what's important is that you still know that he likes to eat hawthorns!" Xiao Jiang threw out the key evidence, and said firmly: "Did you guys have better times before, old feelings rekindled?!"

Xia Yan was speechless for a moment, patted Xiao Jiang on the shoulder, pointed to the door: "Go out."

"Isn't it?" Xiao Jiang paused, "So you betrayed your appearance to lure him into agreeing to participate in the exhibition?"

The more he said, the more outrageous he was, with a heartbroken look, trying to save the older man who had lost his footing.

"Jiang Mingliang."

Xia Yan glanced at the hot water pot, and placed his palm on the spout, vainly catching a handful of water vapor, and wet his palm.

Before Xiao Jiang spoke again, he said, "I have known him for a long time, ten years? About the same."

Xiao Jiang suddenly said: "I just said..."

Xia Yan interrupted him: "How long have you known Miao Miao?"

"For more than seven years, I have known her since high school."

"Same high school?"

"University is the same."

"How long have you been together?"

"Four years and seven months."

"How long was the longest separation?"

"One...month? One year she went abroad during the summer vacation, and we didn't meet each other."

Xia Yan let out a "hmm", suddenly wanted to smoke, and remembered that the only box of fruit-flavored cigarettes at home had been thrown away, so he could only lower his eyes to stare at the rolling mist, which was getting thicker and thicker.

After a while, I continued to say to Xiao Jiang: "I have known him for ten years. It is not a high school, nor a university. We have only been together for a month and a week. Except for his name, it can be said that he knows nothing."

The water boiled, Xia Yan turned off the power.

Finally said: "Don't guess."