Tropical Highway

Summer vacation is coming soon, and Zhai Lan doesn't go to take the final exam, so she moves back from school early to her home in the city.

After You Zhen learned about his current situation, he helped him put up the old house in the west of the city with an intermediary.There is no need to worry about renting a house in the school district. Soon a family of junior high school students found an intermediary and said they wanted to rent for three years first, and the price was much higher than Zhai Lan imagined—at least they don’t have to worry about tuition fees anymore.

It took another whole day to remove the things from the old house, but You Zhen was still with him.

Not much to say, all the decisions are left to Zhai Lan, but whether it is a house or moving, or other things, You Zhen is always by his side, chatting with him about some troubles.Without direct support, Zhai Lan is more at ease than ever.

After the birthday, what kind of affection fermented quickly and quietly between them, it was hard to say, and they knew it well, but they didn't want to easily destroy the tacit understanding during the ambiguous period.

Tenzin's final exam scores improved significantly. After Yangjin's parent-teacher meeting, it was a "holiday" that afternoon.If Zhai Lan was a girl, she would have hugged and kissed wildly on the spot, her excitement was beyond words, saying that Tenzin was specially praised by the teacher, and she even got an unprecedented high score in the math test.

Zhai Lan and You Rongyan, he doesn't like being a teacher very much, but this kind of time will always be full of a sense of accomplishment.

Summer make-up classes, and most of the meals were solved with You Zhen.

Classes for senior one students usually take place in the morning, and after lunch, Zhai Lan goes to You Zhen's house upstairs in "Holiday". Good home cooking for two.

He took a nap at You Zhen's house, went to "holidays" to daze, and wandered around various small shops on Fangcao Road with his classmates.

If it wasn't for the self-torture in the dead of night, Zhai Lan would rarely think of the pain of a year ago.He felt that his father should hope that he had a better life. Sometimes he would dream of him, but it was not as sad as he imagined.

In July, the bright midsummer spreads all over the world.

In the "Holiday" seat by the floor-to-ceiling windows, Zhai Lan absently stirred the honeydew melon parfait in front of him, and peeked at You Zhen at the bar at a fixed frequency of once every half a minute.

Coffee has reached the last step and is latte art.

You Zhen has practiced the new style of latte art for several days, but his talent in this field is obviously not as good as making desserts. He has failed continuously and his face is getting more and more gloomy.Since he is an optimist most of the time, You Zhen's sorrow doesn't seem very heavy, Zhai Lan watched him lean down, and after a while he straightened up relieved.

Ah, it worked.

As he had imagined, You Zhen quickly walked towards their table with a wooden tray, put the white porcelain cup by the boy's hand, and said in a light voice, "This is the latte you ordered."

After saying that, at an angle that the other party could not see, You Zhen blinked slightly at Zhai Lan, and turned the porcelain cup showing off.

The head of a cat with milk froth is floating on the surface of the coffee.

Zhai Lan turned his head, speechless at this childish showing off, but couldn't help laughing.

"Ah, that's right, Zhai Lan." On the opposite side, Yue Chao took a picture of the cat's latte art with his mobile phone, "Is it raining that day, and after finishing Dan's supplementary lessons, who will pick him up later?"

Yue Chao had just returned to Rong from Shanghai for the summer vacation. He was happy for Zhai Lan when he learned that he had a new job.He was also a top student at the time, watching Tenzin's class from the sidelines, and within a few days he became acquainted with the children and became a free tutor.

After class, Tenzin usually took the bus home by himself. It happened that there was a thunderstorm two days ago. Baima Yangjin brought him an umbrella, but Yue Chao bumped into him. He held back for a long time, and finally found a chance to ask.

"That's his sister." Zhai Lan said, digging up fruit with a spoon to eat, "What's wrong?"

The friend showed a shy face, and after a while of shyness, he lowered his voice: "Just, you are a little familiar with his family. I want to know that sister, does she...have a boyfriend now?"

Zhai Lan:?

His eyes suddenly became sharp, and Zhai Lan asked vigilantly, "What are you doing?"

Yue Chao: "It seems to me, that, for my sister, it's kind of... love at first sight."

Zhai Lan: "..."

Unexpectedly, Yue Chao's peach blossoms would bloom so quickly, Zhai Lan was caught off guard, drank water, and almost choked to death.After coughing for a long time, he finally calmed down after attracting the attention of other people in the store.

"As for it!" Yue Chao blushed.

Zhai Lan waved his hand and didn't say much: "It was quite sudden."

Yue Chao: "Love doesn't make sense."

"That's the truth, but..." Zhai Lan thought for a moment in embarrassment before saying, "It's true that Sister Yang Jin doesn't have a boyfriend now, but she has a high opinion of men, so you probably can't."

Yue Chao's young boy's heart was almost broken: "Why?!"

After eating with You Zhen for more than a month, it sounds like there are a lot of leftovers, which came in handy at this time.

Zhai Lan looked at Yue Chao meaningfully, scrutinized him from top to bottom, and said slowly: "Because Sister Yang Jin likes the type that can give her a sense of security, first of all, she has to be big. .”

Yue Chao: "..."

Yue Chao turned his grief and anger into appetite, munched on the cake, and said, "I'll start working out tomorrow!"

This "love at first sight" tastes like a boy falling in love with a mysterious and mature sister. It is like the opening of a certain literary movie. With the summer, after the humid rain in Chengdu, the emotional trend becomes more and more obscure.

But it turns out that the young people's emotions are not long-lasting, or maybe the pain of fitness has overcome the temptation to fall in love with a beautiful sister.In short, Yue Chao didn't last too long. About a week later, Zhai Lan saw him and a girl "officially announced" in Moments.

Zhai Lan didn't comment on Yue Chao's decision, but later remembered it during the chat, so she casually told You Zhen about it.

As closing time approached, You Zhen was used to Zhai Lan always staying in the store until night, washing the cups by himself, and commented: "It's normal. I like it and I like it, but suddenly I don't like it."

"I think he just wants to fall in love, and he doesn't care who he is with." Zhai Lan said, feeling a little bit aggrieved for Baima Yangjin.

You Zhen smiled: "It's also possible."

Zhai Lan was puzzled: "Why?"

"Because some people just want to have a companion to pass the time with, it doesn't matter how much they like it." You Zhen put all the glasses back in place and took off the apron, "But I think love is blind, be serious, treat yourself and others All responsible."

Seeing him walk out of the bar, Zhai Lan handed over the leash to signal You Zhen to kidnap the boss quickly.

Did not forget to tease him: "So that's why you don't fall in love?"

After being silent for a long time, You Zhen nodded: "That's right."

"What about later?"

"There will be in the future." You Zhen touched the boss's hairy head and hugged it.

Those two words made Zhai Lan inexplicably light, but he was also a little sour.

He can't wait to tell You Zhen that he likes him, but every time he is blocked by the other party's hints and understatement.You Zhen said that he didn't want to fall in love, and said "there will be", but never once did he directly feel that You Zhen wanted to be with him, even for so many moments, Zhai Lan felt that they had a good understanding.

Ambiguity can torture people the most.

For a while, I threw my heart into the high-altitude clouds, holding it lightly, as if enjoying the most beautiful dream on the top of the world;

"Oh." Zhai Lan responded slowly, followed by upstream and asked him uncertainly, "Do you usually confess first?"

You Zhen turned his head to the side, looking at his expression with some doubts.

"I never confessed to anyone."

Boss You stuck his head out of his arms, grinned at Zhai Lan, and let out a motherly "meow".

"Let's go." You Zhen called him, "The light is off, wait for me at the door for a few minutes... I will send you back after letting the cat go."

Zhai Lan really wanted to say "no", but he sniffed and agreed.Follow You Zhen out of the door, after waiting downstairs for a while, You Zhen comes out on his bicycle and lets Zhai Lan get on the bike.

Already quite used to sitting, Zhai Lan didn't turn sideways today, but straddled him in an uncomfortable posture.

It was bumpy at the beginning, but gradually stabilized after sliding for a while, Zhai Lan spread his fingers to catch the wind, then gripped the metal seat of the bicycle, chatting with You Zhen without saying a word.

"Actually, I can ride the little yellow bike by myself," Zhai Lan said.

"too late."

"You came back late too—"

"That's different." You Zhen's voice was broken because of riding a bicycle, "I always feel that I don't feel at ease when you go home by yourself, subway, bus... riding a bicycle, all of them."

Zhai Lan wanted to laugh: "What danger will there be?"

After a while of silence, You Zhen didn't seem to want to continue the topic: "Are you interested in watching the band rehearse?"

"Ok?"

"I rented a practice room." When You Zhen mentioned the band, he couldn't help being excited, "Didn't you tell me last time that if you want to write a song, you have to keep writing. I did have some inspiration recently, so I simply conceived it... Jin made an appointment, Jiang Fang is on vacation these few days, and Teacher Song is also on summer vacation, planning to rehearse."

"Wow!" Zhai Lan was very pleasantly surprised when he received the invitation, "Can I go? What time?"

You Zhen said: "You have free time."

Before he had time to chew on the deep meaning of the words, the bicycle suddenly turned sharply and braked suddenly as if drifting.Zhai Lan's doubts turned into a single syllable with a rising ending: "Ah!—"

He subconsciously hugged You Zhen's waist.

After recovering, he didn't really want to let go, so he pretended to be stupid, and Zhai Lan didn't say anything.

He couldn't see that You Zhen rolled his eyes at that moment.

A string of crisp car bells reverberates, the streets are lush with camphor trees, and the occasional lights in the buildings are like a dim moon, rippling softly.