Attempted first love

On the return boat, there were five or six fishing friends with fishing rods on their backs, chatting together on the deck. The wind was strong and their voices were so loud that they could be heard in the cabin.

As soon as he boarded the boat, the dizziness of the earth-shaking dizziness seemed to have formed a memory, and swept over again like a tide. Before it happened, Xia Yan urgently needed to divert his attention, and wanted to go to the deck to listen to them.

With her hands clasped, Lu Zhouyu answered a phone call when she boarded the boat. It seemed to be related to work, and she has been calling until now.They were sitting in a corner of the cabin, surrounded by only a few people, all looking down at their phones.Lu Zhouyu held Xia Yan with one hand, placed it on his knee, and occasionally rubbed his thumb against his tiger's mouth.

"I'll go over and blow some wind." Xia Yan pointed at the nail plate, leaned close to his ear and whispered, just as he heard the voice on the phone, out of politeness, he got up subconsciously to avoid it, but still recognized a few English words.

His heart skipped a beat, and he heard Lu Zhouyu reply in Chinese, "Ask again, I remember it's in the museum." After answering, he turned his head to look at Xia Yan, then at the group of people on the deck, and let go of his hands. Said: "Come back quickly if you get seasick."

"Okay." Xia Yan walked over crookedly, the wind was strong on the deck, his hair was all blown up, and he leaned against the railing against the wind.

The group of fishing friends are saying: "After the typhoon, there will be big fish biting the hook."

Someone asked: "What is this statement?"

"Such a passing typhoon will only bring short-term rainfall. Once the typhoon is gone, the weather will be good again, which is suitable for fishing."

The person who asked the question was aroused, and immediately decided to get off the boat and go fishing with them.

Xia Yan has no interest in this kind of static sports, but he was forced to go to fish farms with Ji Qilin a few times, so he learned a little common sense, and quickly chatted with them.

Among the fishing friends was a hale and hearty old man who kept greeting Xia Yan and praised him many times in his words for being so young that he was able to settle down to fish.

At the beginning, Xia Yan also said that he had fished with the teacher a few times. Later, he heard him repeatedly talking about his granddaughter, who is 25 years old and beautiful.

While pretending not to understand, he chatted with the old man, and at the same time couldn't help laughing - a few years ago he took his grandma out on a trip, and when he saw a girl of the right age, she also liked to chat with them like this, boasting about herself openly and secretly Grandson, finally match up two people to get to know each other, "Let's make friends".

Being so distracted, he didn't feel seasick until he landed. Before getting off the boat, the old man finally made his intention clear and asked, "Do you have a partner? If not, I will introduce my granddaughter to you."

He also said, "Young man, let's make more friends."

Xia Yan smiled and said: "Yes." Ignoring the old man's flashing expression of regret, he shook hands with him to say goodbye.

Just as he was about to turn around, he felt a hard object poke on his back, just as the hull of the boat collided with the soft tires on the dock. Hitting him, he didn't withdraw his hand even after being seen, the bottle mouth was still facing Xia Yan, shaking up and down, as if he was just handing over a bottle of water, hitting his waist just right.

"Go," he said.

Xia Yan took the water bottle, and got off the boat with him one after the other, and when he was far away from the group of people who went fishing, he said in a serious manner: "Just now that grandpa wanted to introduce a girlfriend to me."

"Really?" The pedal was a little far from the shore, Lu Zhouyu stepped over it first, then stretched out his hand to Xia Yan, and asked, "Are you seasick?"

Xia Yan shook his head, didn't help him, and jumped onto the shore with one step.

"What did you say?" After walking a certain distance, Lu Zhouyu asked again.

"Oh." Xia Yan originally thought he didn't care about this episode, so he paused before saying, "I told him that I have a girlfriend."

Hearing this, Lu Zhouyu raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Who, why don't I know."

"You." Xia Yan put Lu Zhouyu's shoulders on Lu Zhouyu's shoulders, with most of his body weight on him, and said in a drawn out voice, "Didn't you say - 'Come and fall in love with your boyfriend'."

Lu Zhouyu smiled again, didn't say anything else, took Xia Yan's hand on his shoulder, and half dragged and walked towards the parking lot.

There were not many people on the shore, and the weather had not completely cleared. Pedestrians came and went in a hurry, fearing that another storm would trap them. It was only the two of them, like middle school students playing slapstick, who walked to the parking lot for a long time.

The group of fishing friends I met on the boat had already driven away, "There is a fishing spot nearby," Xia Yan said, "They said they can catch a lot of ornamental fish."

"Want to go?"

"Forget it today," Xia Yan got up from his back, and took the initiative to open the door of the driver's cab, "I'll open it when I get back."

Lu Zhouyu had no objection, put all the things in his hand into the back seat, got in the co-pilot, called up the navigation back to Xia Yan's house, and said, "I didn't know you like fishing."

"I don't like it, but I really want to raise another fish. My fish tank is too big, and it seems a bit lonely to only have one."

"Can fish be lonely too?"

"I'm talking nonsense," Xia Yan started the car, "Just buy another one. Fishing is a waste of time."

"Don't buy it, I'll give you one."

"Really?"

"What breed do you want?"

"It's all right," Xia Yan thought of the name of the swaying red goldfish in Lu Zhouyu's work before, he couldn't remember the name, but it didn't matter anymore, "I like whatever you give me."

On the way back, Xia Yan proposed to have a meal together at noon, but Lu Zhouyu said that before noon, he would bring the draft to Mr. Shen Ru to see and finalize the project list.

"Are you going together?" Lu Zhouyu asked, "Assistant?"

"No," Xia Yan shook his head hastily, "Did you guys have lunch together after the meeting?"

"It should be. There is still a group meeting in the afternoon. I don't know when it will end."

"Then get busy first." After entering the urban area, the speed of the car slowed down significantly. Xia Yan drove a little carelessly. In fact, he himself was burdened with a lot of work, "I also have to go home and make a watch."

The car was parked downstairs, and the two of them unfastened their seat belts and got out of the car at the same time. It seemed that the urban area was not affected by the typhoon at all, and the sweet-scented osmanthus was still blooming lively and fragrant.During this period of time, the community is full of people, old people shopping for vegetables, children playing, and some of them even greeted Xia Yan and called him "Hello, brother".

They couldn't do anything, but they just said "goodbye" and were unwilling. Lu Zhouyu walked around outside the driver's seat and looked at his watch.

Xia Yan only hesitated for a second before saying, "Goodbye."

"I've been living in a family home recently," Lu Zhouyu said at the same time, "You know where the key is."

"Oh," he did know, so it meant... "Then I'll find you when I'm done."

"Ah."

Lu Zhouyu sat in the driver's seat, lowered the window and waved to him, then turned around and left. Xia Yan stood there for a while, and saw that the rear of the car turned and disappeared.He didn't know the location of their meeting, it might be very close, or it might be far away, he was always busy, even on the island, he kept calling.

Xia Yan also remembered that in the phone call he overheard, there were a few English words that he couldn't hear clearly at the time, but it didn't hinder the coherence to understand the meaning. It probably said, "Can't I look for it when you come back?"

Where to go back is self-explanatory.

At that moment, the sense of crisis as if facing a great enemy still exists, but the intensity has been diluted by half, and it is hard to say why.

When I stepped into the unit door, I met Xiaopang pulling Kitty downstairs for exercise. Xiaopang said mysteriously, "Brother Tiantian, are you going on a date?"

"Ok?"

"I've seen it all. That car came to pick you up and take you off."

"Did you see the people in the car?" Xia Yan took the leash from him, and Kitty sniffed around Xia Yan's legs.

"No." Xiaopang was rather regretful, "Is your girlfriend good-looking?"

Xia Yan thought for a while, "It's pretty pretty."

"No wonder," Xiaopang patted Kitty's head, "You don't bring this single dog with you when you go on a date."

"Who did you learn this from?" Xia Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he patted his head and asked, "Want to eat ice cream?"

"miss you!"

"Let's go," Xia Yan led one person and one dog outside, and urged, "Don't tell your grandma."

"I know!"

After that day, Xia Yan went to Lu Zhouyu's house a few times, but he was not there the first time he went, and he said on WeChat, "The key is still in the door frame, you can open the door and go in first." Xia Yan stood in front of the iron gate and did it for a long time. Mental construction, like a thief, hook out the key with your finger, and just sit in the living room properly after entering the door.

Later, the frequency gradually increased, because Lu Zhouyu's business trip was approaching, first he had to visit the neighboring province, and then went to the island to choose a site again, the schedule was full, and it was very rare to meet each other, so Xia Yan brought the work directly to his home.

The two often sit on both ends of the sofa, each doing their own thing, staying in silence for an entire afternoon.When I have a break, I turn on the TV, watch a movie casually, or choose some slow-paced variety shows, although I always get sleepy the more I watch, and finally collapse on the sofa.

When drawing the draft, Lu Zhouyu would ask Xia Yan for his opinion, and in the subsequent draft, he also included the swing and clay elements that he mentioned, which gave Xia Yan a sense of satisfaction that this was their joint creation.

During the period, Jiang Yan was discharged from the hospital smoothly and took Kitty back. Lu Zhouyu and Xia Yan went to see him and Jiang Wan together, but no one mentioned the two of them being together.

It may be that the location is wrong—the hospital, no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like a place to confess your love; it may also be that the timing is wrong—Jiang Wan has not recovered yet, so it is not appropriate to be overly emotional.

After walking out of the hospital, Xia Yan went to Moments where Xiao Jiang successfully proposed to Miao Miao.

How could it be eight years, last time we were together for four years and seven months, Xia Yan thought to himself, and then gave him a thumbs up.

The week when Lu Zhouyu was going on a business trip to a neighboring province, Saturday happened to be Xia Yan's birthday. He didn't specifically mention it, and he wasn't sure if Lu Zhouyu knew about it. After all, he almost forgot about it—if Shen Qi hadn't invited him again Go to arty.

On Monday, under the recommendation of Ji Qilin, Xia Yan went to visit the technical teacher of the VR exhibition, and received a WeChat message from Lu Zhouyu when they had lunch together: Boarding the plane, come back on Saturday.

When I saw the message, half an hour had passed, and I called to tell me that the phone had been shut down. Xia Yan deleted, edited, and finally replied: OK.

Ji Qilin mentioned the birthday matter from the side, "Is there no other arrangement on Saturday? Come to eat at noon."

In previous years, he often ate at his house. Xia Yan wiped his hands with a wet paper towel, and then polished the phone screen, "Thank you teacher, I have arrangements."

"What arrangement?" Ji Qilin was quite surprised, and said earnestly: "Isn't there nothing serious about it recently, let's take a rest after your birthday, and save yourself from saying that I'm oppressing you."

"It's business," Xia Yan looked at the screen, couldn't help laughing, and said, "I'm going on a date."