Attempted first love

After learning that Lu Zhouyu was ill and dying, Xiao Jiang temporarily changed the dinner at the bar to a barbecue on the beach, and asked Xia Yan to help him invite him again.

At that time, the two had just walked out of the hospital, Xia Yan didn't know how to refuse, so he simply handed the phone to Lu Zhouyu who was beside him.

After a few conversations, Lu Zhouyu twirled the pink paper flower in his hand, and nodded in agreement.

So the three met at six o'clock in the afternoon.

In the evening, the tide receded gradually, and the sea level was like an undulating and swaying line, dyed orange-gold by the setting sun.

This beach has just been developed and has not yet formed the scale of a commercial scenic spot, so there are not many stalls.As night fell, dots of signboards lit up on the shallows.

Haicheng is known as the city that never sleeps. I am used to seeing the neon lights in the urban area that are as bright as day, but these faint lights make people feel a kind of comfort back to nature.

Pets are allowed in the open-air stalls. When Xia Yan brought Kitty over, Xiao Jiang's eyes lit up, "Brother Yan, when did you get a dog?"

"My brother's." Xia Yan replied to him, and added slyly: "But I will take care of it for the time being."

He knows that Xiao Jiang's lifelong wish is to have a dog of his own, but his mother didn't allow it when he was a child, and his girlfriend is allergic to dog hair when he grows up, so he is destined to regret it for life.

Xiao Jiang sighed heavily, and the two brothers climbed onto Xia Yan's shoulders, "Brother, whoever we are with, what's yours is mine."

Xia Yan couldn't help laughing, handed him the leash, and turned to choose dishes.

The booth is a self-service barbecue, and each table is equipped with an oven, and you can bake it yourself after choosing the dishes.Xia Yan didn't eat lunch, his stomach has been empty for a long time, and he lacked appetite for everything, so he picked and picked, and finally took a handful of vegetarian dishes.

When he returned to his seat, Kitty was lying dog-legged on Lu Zhouyu's lap. It had begun to take on the shape of an adult dog, stood up to chest height, and wagged its tail rapidly.

Lu Zhouyu changed into a light gray sweater and jeans, no longer wearing a formal suit when shooting, and looked much more casual.He stretched out his left hand to Kitty, training it: "Come on, shake hands."

Kitty rested her paw on his palm, her ears fluttering, waiting for a compliment.

Xiao Jiang, who was abandoned by the dog, slapped the table aside and said in retaliation: "This dog's breed is Alaska pig, right? It's so fat."

Although Xia Yan often ridiculed it for being fat, he couldn't tolerate outsiders' slander, and retorted: "We are still young, just baby fat."

"Right, puppy?" He walked over and patted the dog's head, and Kitty turned to lick his wrist.

"Look," Xiao Jiang said while biting the straw in the soda bottle, "What a loving family."

It was just a joke, but his heart beat violently. Xia Yan blinked, and subconsciously backed away, trying to distance himself, but his wrist was suddenly caught.

"Sticks." Lu Zhouyu said lightly, leaving his palms away from the skin, and holding down the bamboo sticks in his hand.

"Ah." Xia Yan quickly let go of his hand.

"That's all?" Lu Zhouyu asked as he put the dishes he took on the baking tray.

"Not too hungry." He replied, sitting back in his seat and taking a few sips of iced Coke.

The charcoal fire is strong, and the food is cooked quickly.While eating and chatting, the three of them didn't have many topics in common, so it was inevitable that they would fall into work.

First they clinked glasses to celebrate Xiao Jiang's smooth transition to full-time employment, then Xia Yan asked him about his next plans.

In Ji Qilin's team, becoming a full-time employee means being able to participate in project planning and have a certain right to speak, instead of just being a coolie like during the internship.

"Teacher Ji assigned me a task." Xiao Jiang couldn't help but ordered a bottle of beer, took a sip and said, "It's starting next week, so I'm a little excited."

Xia Yan couldn't help recalling that the first project he participated in planning was a small-scale exhibition with the theme of first snow.

Before that, he didn't really love this job, he just found it interesting.It was not until I participated in the whole process that I felt for the first time the wonderful feeling of mutual penetration and integration between art and individuals.

Even though the exhibition was not a success because of its small scale, it was not announced, and even the relevant information could not be found on the Internet, Xia Yan still couldn't forget it.

Of course, there are also regrets. At that time, I specially reserved two tickets for my parents, but they were unable to attend as scheduled because they were going to give academic lectures in colleges and universities.

After eating a few bunches of broccoli, Xia Yan put down the stick, held up the Coke and clinked glasses with Xiao Jiang, encouraging him.After drinking it, I still felt unsatisfactory, so I asked for a bottle of beer by licking my lower lip.

After raising his head and taking a few sips, a few more pieces of roasted beef appeared on the plate.

Xiao Jiang was holding the wine bottle, bent down trying to re-establish a friendly relationship with Kitty, Xia Yan twisted a bamboo stick and turned his head to look at Lu Zhouyu.

His cuffs were rolled up to his forearms, and he fidgeted with the vegetables on the baking tray. The adhesive tape on the back of his hand was still there after pouring water.Noticing Xia Yan's gaze, he swept over with the end of his eyes and asked, "Don't you eat beef?"

"Eat," Xia Yan held the bamboo stick in front of him, the aroma of the barbecue entered his nostrils, he bit into his mouth, and said, "Thank you."

"Do you want to eat mutton?" Lu Zhouyu propped his chin with one hand and looked at him.

Xia Yan nodded, and the mutton skewers were put on his plate.

"squid?"

"Thank you."

"shrimp?"

Lu Zhouyu handed out the dishes on the baking tray one by one, Xia Yan thought of his tone when he said "shake hands" and "sit down" to Kitty, so he couldn't help but say: "...I'll do it myself." Picking up two skewers of shrimp Then he asked again: "Have you stopped eating?"

Lu Zhouyu said "hmm" and handed him disposable gloves for peeling shrimp.

He didn't stop until the ingredients were basically distributed.The charcoal fire was still burning, making people's cheeks hot.

At the end of the meal, Xiao Jiang took out two tickets for the VR exhibition, "I was planning to go to see it with Miao Miao, but this week is a rare holiday, let's go to other provinces to have fun, Brother Yan, do you want to go and see it?" ?”

The title of the exhibition was "Looking Back". Xia Yan thought it sounded familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that it was an exhibition about family affection shared by Ji Qilin in Moments.

Xia Yan didn't answer the call, maybe because he just recalled how his parents released his pigeons, so he didn't really want to go to see it, and the VR exhibition didn't belong to his professional category.

Xiao Jiang is still trying to sell: "This exhibition is not open to the public, and the time is very short, only two days, don't waste tickets!"

While hesitating, an arm stretched out from the side.

"Give it to me," Lu Zhouyu reached out to take it, and said to him, "Thank you."

Near nine o'clock, the three got up to check out.Xiao Jiang was going to pick up Miao Miao, and after saying goodbye to the two, he reluctantly rubbed against Kitty before riding away on the bike.

Walking out of the night market area, the beach became empty, Xia Yan let go of the leash, and urged Kitty to go for a run to lose weight.It ran a few steps, and came back with the rope in its mouth. It seemed that it was afraid that Xia Yan would scold it, so it offered the rope to Lu Zhouyu.

Xia Yan laughed out loud, "Don't go home, go with him."

Lu Zhouyu also laughed and patted Kitty on the head.

After eating a lot, neither of them was in a hurry to go home, so they walked slowly along the shallows.The noisy sound of the barbecue stalls was left far behind, and the sea was surprisingly calm, like a huge, endless dark glass under the moonlight.

Stepping on the wet and soft sand, there was a sound of sand rubbing.Xia Yan squinted his eyes, ran two steps forward, and picked up a flat stone.

"Competition?" He tilted his head toward the sea, not waiting for the opponent to fight, his body tilted, and his elbow suddenly exerted force. The stone broke the calm sea surface, tapped four ripples, and then fell into the sea.

"Four, you come." Xia Yan turned around, found another stone, picked it up and threw it forward.

Lu Zhouyu raised his hand to catch it, weighed it in the palm of his hand, stepped forward in two steps, and threw it without warning with a bow.The movement was fast, and before the eyes could catch the picture, they could only hear a row of clear voices, also four times.

Tie.

He straightened up and rolled up the cuffs that had been shaken off by the movement. Xia Yan noticed his movement and asked in surprise, "Why do you use your left hand?"

Lu Zhouyu raised his right arm and shook it towards him. The medical tape on the back of his hand looked pale in the moonlight, "This hand can't use force."

"Wait for me to practice." Xia Yan picked up another stone and said to him, "I will also compare with you with my left hand, it is fair and just."

"Okay." Lu Zhouyu smiled, crossed his arms, and stood aside to watch him practice.

Kitty didn't understand what the two of them were playing with, but he was happy and relaxed without having to walk, and quietly lay down on a rock, with his chin resting on his two front paws.

Xia Yan threw it again and again, constantly adjusting the angle and posture, but each time, the stone sank straight to the bottom of the sea.

"Why is your left hand so strong?" He asked discouragedly.

"You need to use skill to float in the water, and pay attention to the angle between the stone and the water surface." Lu Zhouyu shook his wrist and hung in the air to demonstrate to him, "Don't use brute force."

"Try again." He threw the stone he picked up to Xia Yan, "If you hit two, you win."

The force was not right, Xia Yan's wrist began to ache, he turned back and forth, and refused to admit defeat: "Don't put water on me."

"I was left-handed when I was young," Lu Zhouyu spread out his palms towards him, "I'm very skilled in using my left hand, so it's not considered as water."

Xia Yan looked down half-believingly, everything was hazy under the moonlight, and he couldn't see clearly.He stretched out his index finger and stroked lightly across the palm of Lu Zhouyu's left hand, only feeling a dry and hot touch.

"Here," Lu Zhouyu suddenly stretched out two fingers, pinched his index finger, guided it to the joint of the middle finger of his left hand, and stroked it, "Did you feel the cocoon left by Huahua?"

After he finished speaking, he let go of Xia Yan, and retracted his hands to his side.

Xia Yan nodded in a daze, curled up with his fingers hanging in mid-air, and quickly threw up the stone in his hand with a normal expression, and walked back to the seaside.

the last time.

He meditated in his heart, calculated the angle at which the stone entered the water, leaned his body backwards, exerted all his strength with his arms, and the stone flew out of his palm.

Like hitting glass, it makes a crisp trio.

"Three times!" Xia Yan jumped and turned around, the smile on the corner of his mouth widened, and he raised his voice, "I won!"

Lu Zhouyu smiled at him and said, "Congratulations."

Kitty also yelled "Wow" in response to the occasion, and a gust of wind was blowing up at this time, blowing its hair up, like a giant hedgehog.

"Is there any reward for winning?" Xia Yan raised his hand to smooth its fur, half-jokingly.

"What do you want?" Lu Zhouyu asked.

The originally glass-like sea surface was blown by the wind and began to glisten and flow, and the waves surged up one after another, as if they were breathing, sighing out clusters of cold sea water breath.

Xia Yan led the dog, his thoughts were racing, and finally he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Didn't Xiao Jiang take two tickets, how about you invite me to go to the exhibition together?"

Lu Zhouyu was noncommittal, Xia Yan was a little at a loss, he felt that his voice was also swallowed by the sea, sinking into the bottom of the sea like a stone, and he couldn't get a reply.

In the silence, the two of them and the dog were about to walk out of the beach. The urban area not far away was brightly lit. From a distance, it felt like a mirage.

Just like getting along tonight.

A small toy vendor on the side of the road accidentally slapped a ball when he was attracting customers. Kitty saw this and rushed over to pick it up.

In a daze, Xia Yan didn't hold the rope tightly. Xia Yan was worried that the big dog would scare the children, so he hurried to catch up, and wrapped his body around Kitty's head tightly, "Don't make trouble, let's go, go home."

After the vendor retrieved the ball, he let go of his hand and stood up, hearing the sound of unhurried footsteps behind him.

Turning around, a ticket was handed to him.

Xia Yan opened his mouth, couldn't find his own voice due to an accident, and responded dryly: "...huh?"

"I would like to admit defeat." Lu Zhouyu looked at him, and casually invited: "Shall we go see together?"