Attempted first love

In the evening, Xiao Li, the guard, called Xia Yan, saying that the access control system of the art museum had resumed normal operation, and he could visit the site at any time.

It was still raining, and there was shallow water on the road, so a group of four had to drive there.

When they arrived at the underground garage, Lu Zhouyu was left behind at the back whether it was intentional or not. It was not until Xiao Jiang and Miao Miao squeezed into the back seat that he opened the passenger door and sat in silently.

Five minutes later, the car stopped in front of the art museum, and Xiao Li was already waiting on the promenade, welcoming them in very warmly.

"Several teachers may need to hurry up." Xiao Li walked in front and turned on the ceiling lights in the art gallery one by one. "This day, the power will be cut off after a while."

Xiao Jiang was close to him, so he hurriedly said, "Don't be crowed."

All the way into the innermost exhibition hall in the museum, the original finale exhibits have been demolished, and the entire exhibition hall is empty.

The windows with pointed arches on one side of the wall just framed a crescent moon in the sky, and the rain-moistened sky was like a piece of dark blue silk with a good feel, on which the moonlight shone coldly.

With the cooperation of four people, the surveying and framing work were quickly completed.It was dinner time when we left the art gallery.

Xia Yan turned on the windshield wipers, skillfully drove the car onto the road, and said to the others in the car through the rearview mirror: "Let's have a meal together."

Xiao Jiang and Miao Miao immediately responded positively, and drove forward for a while. Xia Yan tilted his head, still looking ahead, and asked Lu Zhouyu, "What about you? Is there anything else going on in a while?"

The two were so close that I could even feel the frequency of his breathing out of the corner of my eye.

Xia Yan didn't know if Lu Zhouyu was thinking, or silently refusing.After looking at the road ahead and making sure there were no other cars, he turned to look at Lu Zhouyu, waiting for his answer.

"Look at the road," Lu Zhouyu said immediately, "I'm fine, just drive slowly."

There are very few restaurants around the art museum. Due to the heavy rain, many stores closed down, and finally only one western restaurant with a certain style was found.

After being seated, Xiao Jiang opened the group buying software very frugally, and bought a set meal for four at a low price of [-]%.

Xia Yan watched him show the QR code to the waiter amusedly, "You know how to live."

"Sustainable development, the consumption concept of our contemporary young people has changed, unlike you." Xiao Jiang handed the menu to the waiter and said to them: "It's not much money, I'll treat this meal."

Xia Yan smiled, turned to look at Lu Zhouyu, "We don't want to be extravagant and wasteful."

While Xiao Jiang and Miao Miao were going to the bathroom, he beckoned the waiter and ordered a bottle of red wine extravagantly.

Lu Zhouyu let out an indistinct smile from the side, as if laughing at what he had just said.

"You can't really let the kid spend money alone." Xia Yan said.

"One more bottle," Lu Zhouyu said to the waiter, "I'll pay for it."

Xiao Jiang thought that there were two extra bottles of red wine in the package, and immediately filled four glasses.

"I'm driving." Xia Yan leaned back on the chair, pushed his cup aside, "You guys drink."

Miao Miao couldn't drink much either, so she tasted half a cup lightly.

Xiao Jiang had no choice but to take Lu Zhouyu with him, insisting on drinking beer at a food stall, and he started talking nonsense.

"Ms. Lu, I heard Brother Yan said that you have known each other for ten years."

Lu Zhouyu was lowering his head to cut an olive on the plate. Hearing this, he first turned his head to look at Xia Yan, then raised his head and smiled at Xiao Jiang, "Yes."

"Then I should call you brother," Xiao Jiang held up his glass and raised it. "It's too unfamiliar to call you teacher all the time."

Hearing this sentence, Xia Yan's hand holding the knife and fork paused, but Lu Zhouyu's expression was normal. His wine glass was already empty, so he picked up the glass that Xia Yan didn't drink, and clinked glasses with Xiao Jiang.

After drinking the second cup, Xia Yan tugged his sleeve, Lu Zhouyu turned his head a little slowly, Xia Yan was not sure about his drinking capacity, and whispered: "Xiao Jiang's drinking capacity is average, don't let him drink anymore. "

After the meal, Miao Miao was lucky enough to call a car, Xia Yan carried Xiao Jiang and stuffed him into the back seat. After saying goodbye, the taxi drove away.

When Xia Yan returned to the entrance of the restaurant, Lu Zhouyu was leaning back slightly, smoking a cigarette against the rough granite exterior wall of the restaurant, and a row of ambient lights aimed at the signboard enveloped him from top to bottom.

The light was very soft, just like the smoke from his mouth, he raised his head amidst the misty light and smoke, his eyes fell on Xia Yan.

Xia Yan walked towards him, and when the distance was getting closer, he felt that Lu Zhouyu was watching the rain falling between them. The raindrops fell too fast, so his eyes couldn't focus, and his eyes were empty.

It wasn't until he walked in front of him that Xia Yan realized that he might be a little drunk.Seeing him approaching, Lu Zhouyu stood up straight, shook slightly, and waved to him, "I'm leaving."

Xia Yan held back his smile, nodded, and asked again: "How are you going?"

Lu Zhouyu snuffed out the half of the cigarette left in his hand, threw it into the trash can beside him, walked two steps past Xia Yan, and said, "Take a taxi."

"It's not easy to take a taxi here." Xia Yan walked over and stood beside him.

"Then wait."

"What if we can't wait?"

Lu Zhouyu turned to look at him, with a rare dull look on his face, as if he was thinking about this problem, and said after a few seconds: "Wait forever and you will always get it."

While speaking, his breath, still wrapped in smoke, brushed against Xia Yan's ears.

Xia Yan took out the key and pressed it, "I'll see you off."

Lu Zhouyu looked at the rain curtain and didn't speak for a long time. When Xia Yan thought he was going to refuse again, he asked, "Why?"

"If you can't get a taxi, I can't leave you here."

Lu Zhouyu suddenly laughed when he heard the words, and said, "Okay."

Along the way, it was windy and windy, and there were occasional lightning flashes, tearing the sky into irregular pieces, and the ordinary car immediately drove with the momentum of Noah's Ark.

There was very little traffic on the road, Xia Yan was not driving too slowly, pressing the speed limit tightly.

The sound of wind and rain squeezed in from the unclosed window, mixed with the faint smell of tobacco, nicotine slipped into the body and stirred the nerves.

After waiting for the red light, Lu Zhouyu said, "Find a place to put me down later."

The hotel he stayed in was in the city center, passing through many business districts, and after a short drive, he entered the urban area, so it was very convenient to take a taxi.

"Give it all away," Xia Yan said, "It's not too bad."

After driving forward for a while, Xia Yan held the steering wheel tightly, and called his name: "Lu Zhouyu."

"Ok?"

"Do you remember the bet you said it would rain a few days ago?"

Xia Yan turned his head and glanced at him, and saw Lu Zhouyu leaning back on the back of the chair, probably because of the stamina of the red wine, he closed his eyes, but he still responded in a hoarse voice, "Remember."

"It should be counted as my victory."

Lu Zhouyu chuckled, "Forget it, what's the bet?"

He asked in a casual and relaxed tone, as if he didn't mind at all, probably thinking that Xia Yan would not make excessive demands.

When they were on the mountain ten years ago, they often made some boring bets, such as whether the teacher would wear a plaid shirt or a striped T-shirt today, how long would it take for the newly bought eraser to be lost, whether Xia Yan would be able to reach the flowering one when he jumped up? twigs and more.

The bet is usually a "you're lucky".

Xia Yan always lost at that time, so he reluctantly said many words to Lu Zhouyu, "You are amazing".

As he thought about it, he couldn't help laughing, but fortunately, there was the sound of wind and rain to cover it.

"I haven't thought about it yet, I'll tell you when I think about it."

After driving all the way to the hotel entrance, Lu Zhouyu didn't speak anymore, the car stopped on the side of the road, Xia Yan turned his head to look, his head was tilted to one side, and he was already asleep.

The breath is even and long, and there is a touch of wine in the breath.

Taking advantage of the dim light cast by the street lamps, Xia Yan crossed the center console and got close to him for a look.

He closed his eyes, so he no longer showed the gaze that made Xia Yan feel at a loss.Even the eyelashes drooped slightly as if soaked in wine, fluttering with breathing, casting a thin layer of shadow under the eyes.

The last time Xia Yan observed him from such a close distance was in the sketching class in the studio. Because the model was absent, the two of them had to draw on each other.

At that time, Xia Yan pulled a stool and sat very close to him, Lu Zhouyu said, "You can't get so close to me."

"why?"

Lu Zhouyu looked at him and said: "When painting facial features, you have to look at it from the whole. You can't see the whole from such a close distance."

"I know, three courtyards and five eyes, but I just can't draw well."

After speaking, Xia Yan stood up abruptly, and before Lu Zhouyu could react, he drew a pencil on his face horizontally.

"Let me measure it," Xia Yan said, "Obviously I feel that everything has been painted, and the combination is wrong."

He was still chewing fudge when he spoke, and the faint smell of fruit candy filled the air.

Lu Zhouyu doesn't eat sugar, and he can't accurately distinguish the taste of industrial saccharin through smell, so he wrinkled his nose.

"I know, other people either have too small eyes or too thick lips, so it's easy to draw because of their obvious features." Xia Yan was measuring, while sighing, "It's because you look too standard that I can't draw well. "

"It's my fault." Lu Zhouyu couldn't help laughing at that time.

Xia Yan kept looking down at him, the wind outside the window blew up Lu Zhouyu's hair, and the ends of the hair brushed Xia Yan's chin, the side of his face, and the corners of his mouth.

Itchy, he couldn't help biting his lips.

When he said those words to Xiao Jiang, he was not angry or self-pitying. The current environment and Lu Zhouyu's cold eyes like glass marbles somehow prompted him to say that.

The one month and one week we spent together, in the 27 years of life, was so barren that there was only a thin piece, as fragile as a cicada's wing.

Getting too close, Xia Yan's breath brushed against Lu Zhouyu's face, but he was lying there unconsciously, his breathing seemed weak in the sound of wind and rain outside the window.

Xia Yan suddenly panicked, always felt that what was lying here was a shadow made by wind and rain, and watered by memories to become a real person.

He was almost trembling, and pressed his fingertips to Lu Zhouyu's neck. Under the dry skin, the winding arteries were hot and beating vigorously.

Only then did he heave a sigh of relief, and then laughed at himself secretly—you must be a fool to study art, how could you have such a ridiculous idea?

Immediately, another even more absurd idea popped up, untimely rooted in that thin memory, a little inattentive, it spread out branches and leaves towering desire.

He involuntarily slowed down his breathing, and when he got closer, he smelled a faint smell of smoke, alcohol, and a little bit of hawthorn.From this, I couldn't help thinking that when the first kiss happened, I seemed to drink wine made from hawthorn, and my whole body felt light.

Same as now.

In fact, he didn't know anything about Lu Zhouyu except his name, at least he remembered that his lips were soft.

Xia Yan took his hand away from his neck, bent his index finger, and lightly pressed his knuckles against his lower lip, rubbing against his lower lip for confirmation.

Just as he was about to get up, Lu Zhouyu frowned, his eyelashes fluttered up and down, and then he opened his eyes.

Before Xia Yan could see his expression clearly, a cool hand pinched the back of his neck, pressing down hard like a wild animal hunting.

Lips collided unexpectedly.

For a while, no one moved.

Xia Yan thought of the record about Noah's Ark in Genesis, the fountains of the vast abyss were all cracked, the windows of the sky were wide open, and heavy rain fell on the ground for forty days and nights.

Noah led all living beings to hide in the ark. After the rain stopped and the flood subsided, everyone walked out of the ark to look for the rainbow and never came back.

Xia Yan pulled out the hand that was pinched between his body, which had nowhere to rest, and pressed it on Lu Zhouyu's shoulder, holding his good quality shirt. Before the rain stopped, he deepened the kiss.

After a long time, Lu Zhouyu let go of the hand that was tied behind his neck and turned his head.

Xia Yan retreated back to his seat, before his breathing calmed down, he heard him ask in a quiet voice: "Is this the bet you want?"