Even so, I still like you

It was past six o'clock in the evening, which happened to be the time to get off work. Jingshi Road was full of traffic. It was already quite cold in November. Zhang Yuhang let out a breath of white air and couldn't help but lift the scarf up to his chin.

He is tall, and when he walks on the street, he basically looks at the heads of passers-by. When he passed by an uncle with a briefcase under his arm, he couldn't help thinking silently in his heart, the fourth Mediterranean Sea.

A few classmates who had dinner together in front were laughing and joking, and didn't even see a bicycle coming in front of them. Zhang Yuhang couldn't help frowning, and stretched out his hand to push the girl on the far left to the right: "There is a car."

The girl looked back at him with a smile, said something to her companion, and then walked forward side by side with him: "Hanghang, I heard that your insurance post was robbed by someone surnamed Li?"

The girl's name is Jiang Yun. She is the former president of the student union of their college. She has just left her job for a year and is now continuing her graduate studies at their school. The two have planned many activities together. Zhang Yuhang has long been used to her sweet address. What's more, she never called her senior sister again after freshman year.

Zhang Yuhang put his hands in his coat pocket: "You are not well-informed enough."

Seeing him like this, Jiang Yun knew that he was fine, and said with a sigh of relief: "Hey, I think you will pass the exam easily, and the senior sister will continue to protect you when the time comes."

"I won't take the exam." Zhang Yuhang said directly.

"...What do you mean?" Jiang Yun was taken aback, her voice was a little high, "Didn't you say you want to study for a master's degree?"

"Well," Zhang Yuhang didn't expect her reaction to be so big, "I'm going to take Y University."

The new major of Y University has a long history, and the faculty is better than their school, but the number of students recruited each year is too small. Compared with the school, it needs to work harder and stand on tiptoe, so the students of their college are generally Apply for this school.

"Why?" Jiang Yun frowned, "Are you angry about the security research? It's not worth it!"

In other words, she actually knew Zhang Yuhang's temper.

When he was a sophomore in college, he was helping the external relations department to get sponsors. One of the PRs backtracked, saying that as long as the students downloaded his software, they would have to enter their ID card information in the end. Zhang Yuhang turned his face on the spot. Absolutely, I didn't expect Zhang Yuhang to get a bigger sponsor a few days later.

She was quite surprised, and asked how it was done, Zhang Yuhang said lightly while drinking the soda water offered by his junior: "Let's find their competitors."

"No..." Before Zhang Yuhang finished speaking, he suddenly stopped and his eyes fell on the bench across the street.

In such a cold day, no one would be so stupid as to sit on an iron chair with cold buttocks, but he was still curled up on it, with his head down, his whole face was covered by slightly long hair, only a red nose tip was exposed , people are almost swallowed by shadows.

Zhang Yuhang squinted again uncertainly, Jiang Yun was a little strange, and pulled his arm, "What's wrong?"

"Let's go first." The countdown to the green light started, Zhang Yuhang turned around and ran across the road, "I'll pass in a while."

Jiang Yun shouted to him from behind in surprise, Zhang Yuhang didn't look back, crossed the road with two long legs, stopped in front of the iron chair and said "Hello".

The man turned a deaf ear and remained motionless, with his forehead on his knees, as if dead.

Zhang Yuhang called him: "Apply for the tung tree to shine."

It has been less than half a month since I heard this voice last time, Shen Tongguang bluntly raised his head a little bit, his whole body was like a dream, and his voice was light and ethereal: "Why are you here?"

"I still want to ask you," Zhang Yuhang raised his eyebrows, "Is there something wrong, you came here to blow air in the cold?"

Shen Tongguang hummed for granted, "The floor heating is too hot, it's too hot."

Zhang Yuhang: "..."

The two were relatively silent. After a while, Shen Tongguang took the initiative to speak. He lowered his head and said quickly that you are not going back to school so late, are you going to drink again?If you are young and don't work hard, the boss is sad, what should you do? Don't stand still here, brother is here to cool off and prepare to go back.

Zhang Yuhang ignored him.

He suddenly found two hairpins on Shen Tongguang's head.It was the first time he met, and it was said that this kind of person was either very smart or had a bad temper.Which is Shen Tongguang?It can't be the first type, because even lies are so clumsy.

Zhang Yuhang simply squatted down, looked at his face from bottom to top under the dim light of the street lamp, couldn't help but let out a sigh, and said in a flat tone, "Brother—you were beaten so badly."

Shen Tongguang has been refusing to raise his face all this time, but now that he was stared at thoroughly, he immediately felt a little embarrassed, and covered it up with his hands helplessly: "I beat him too, this is a mutual beating!"

After covering it for a while, he felt boring again. Anyway, he will be seen sooner or later, which is already very embarrassing.Thinking of this, Shen Tongguang was discouraged, and simply put his hands down, revealing a bruised and bruised face, thinking that he still had to read the almanac when he went out in the future.

He said sullenly: "Don't ask me who called me, and don't ask me why, I won't tell you."

Zhang Yuhang said, "I didn't want to ask." After speaking, he stood up: "Go home, have you eaten yet?"

Shen Tongguang shook his head, a gust of squeaky north wind blew by, and he suddenly felt his whole face ache from the cold and heat.

"Then you..." Zhang Yuhang had a headache, he really didn't know how such a big man could live like this, "Order a takeaway, take a taxi back? Don't forget to apply the medicine."

Shen Tongguang was as wilted as an eggplant, and he lowered his head listlessly, and said, "Yes."

"I still have a party, so I'm leaving first."

"Bye-Bye."

Seeing that he had no intention of leaving, Zhang Yuhang felt that he was being benevolent, so he put his hands into his coat and returned the same way.

Shen Tongguang lowered his head, staring blankly at his clean sneakers turning around and stepping out of sight step by step, as if he had completely cut off his only connection with the world.

The place where my friend continued to sing K had to cross the road and continue walking for a while, turn left, Zhang Yuhang glanced back as he walked, deliberately stopped behind the wall when he turned the corner, and waited for Shen Tongguang to follow behind two steps before he poked his head and said : "What are you doing?"

Shen Tongguang was so frightened that he jumped up like a spring and jumped back suddenly.

"You, what are you doing!" He held his beating heart with one hand and yelled falsely, "I still want to ask you what are you doing!"

"Me?" Zhang Yuhang pointed to himself, "Get rid of the violence, catch the stalkers."

"The thief shouted to catch the thief." Shen Tongguang lacked momentum and said something, and turned his head awkwardly, "I just have no medicine at home, and I don't know what to buy."

Zhang Yuhang looked at his ears and nose that were red from the cold, and really wanted to laugh: "Then?"

Shen Tongguang glanced at him resentfully, then suddenly licked the stinging part of his lips, and said softly, "Forget it, pretend I didn't say anything."

He turned around and left, and Zhang Yuhang ran after him easily with his long legs, looking at him with a smile on his lips: "I'll tell you if you beg me."

Shen Tongguang didn't want to talk to him: "Go away."

"I can give you medicine, and make another meal by the way. Do you want to eat hot pot? Hot bone broth and butter, more tender beef and mutton, shrimp slippery and shiitake mushrooms, gluten balls and cheese rice cakes, and I will make it for you Try the special sauce." Seeing that Shen Tongguang was about to speak, Zhang Yuhang added with a half-smile, "If you say it again, get the hell out of here and I'll just leave without looking back."

"Huh? You have a deep misunderstanding of me. How could I say such vulgar words? We are not close to each other, and our brothers are not as close as you and me!" Shen Tongguang hugged his arm, smiling and saying goodbye Pi said shamelessly, "Just please, please, please."

Zhang Yuhang looked down at his arm, but didn't push it away.He subconsciously felt that Shen Tongguang's expression just now was too lonely.

It was very cold at night in the Northeast. The two took a taxi home and went shopping at the convenience store and pharmacy in front of the community. Of course, Shen Tongguang paid for it. The name is that no matter how poor you are, you can’t be poor, and you can’t be poor if you are poor. Bitter child, my brother invites you to eat meat.

When he came out of the store, Shen Tongguang said with emotion: "You seem to be very good at picking things."

"Isn't this a basic life skill?" Zhang Yuhang picked out the two heaviest big bags, and handed him the one that only contained vegetables, "My mother taught me, she is even better."

Shen Tongguang shrugged, and said in a spineless and generous way: "I won't."

Zhang Yuhang glanced at him: "Like mutton rolls, you should choose fat and thin, the texture distribution is not very uniform, and the color should not be too bright. I will show you when I go back to the pot and cook it. Bad mutton rolls will foam a lot. .”

"Oh, no wonder..." Shen Tongguang stopped talking to himself.

After returning home, Zhang Yuhang went to the bathroom to wash his hands, Shen Tongguang slipped into his soft and old short-sleeved shorts, turned the hot pot out and plugged it in, and sat on the ground with the medicine he bought just now to study.

Zhang Yuhang came out and asked him, "Is the water boiling?"

"……forget."

Zhang Yuhang was not surprised at all. Looking around the messy living room, he naturally and skillfully picked up the kettle to boil water, and when he came back, he picked up a bag of cotton balls and opened it, sitting cross-legged to help him apply the medicine.

In front of Shen Tongguang's forehead were some broken hairs that covered his eyes. Zhang Yuhang pushed them all away for him. The light was dark and he couldn't see too clearly. Now Zhang Yuhang could see how badly he was beaten and his eye sockets were swollen under the bright light. The corners of the mouth were broken, and the cheeks were bruised and swollen, but the straight bridge of the nose survived safely without breaking.

Zhang Yuhang expressed his feelings: "How much hatred does this person have against you?"

"It's nothing." Shen Tongguang lowered his eyes and said slowly while playing with his fingers, "I borrowed usury and didn't pay it back. He said he would kill me with a knife next time."

Zhang Yuhang frowned and didn't speak for a while.

Shen Tongguang looked up at him, couldn't help but burst out laughing, his two red phoenix eyes bent into beautiful crescents: "Oh, I lied to you! Do you really believe it? Cut me with a knife to make sweet and sour meat slices? Now a society ruled by law understands I don’t understand, it’s broadcast every day on TV, to fight crime and eradicate evil, special struggle——ouch!”

With a blank expression on his face, Zhang Yuhang pressed a cotton ball soaked in red syrup on his face: "Boring."

Shen Tongguang was in so much pain that he almost didn't jump up. Fortunately, Zhang Yuhang hit him hard, and soon he relaxed his strength and greeted other places in large swaths.

The iodine smeared on his face and it was cool, Shen Tongguang couldn't help but let out a sigh and leaned back, only then did he feel as if his whole body was about to fall apart, especially the spine and hip joints creaked.

He knew that it was bad for him to be like this, almost a bit dependent, but tonight was too miserable, and he urgently needed to draw some warmth from other humans, even if it was temporary.

"Zhang Yuhang," Shen Tongguang suddenly opened his eyes and whispered, "You are so kind."

His eyes were a bit out of focus. For a man, his slender eyelashes cast a fan-shaped shallow shadow on his eyelids. Zhang Yuhang stared uncontrollably for a few seconds before saying "oh".

The water gurgled and boiled, and when he threw away the cotton ball to get the bottom of the pot, Shen Tongguang murmured behind him in a voice that only he could hear: "Because I look sad, right?"

The author says:

Shen Tongguang: Oh, I really don't want to be like this, you have to be reserved, do you understand?But who can refuse to eat a delicious hot pot in winter (′▽｀)