until the last minute

On the day when Li Qing submitted the opening report, he received the plush doll of Kumamon, which was several days late.He returned to the dormitory with the courier box on his shoulders. While all his roommates were in the library to catch up with the papers, he unpacked the courier. Facing the high-quality plush dolls with fine workmanship, he suddenly didn't know where to start.

A full set of miniature camera equipment is ready, just waiting for him to install it.

Li Qing sat in front of the desk. There were pocket knives, scissors and a sewing box on the desk. He looked at the pile of tools with a gloomy expression.

After six o'clock in the evening, guessing that the roommates would come back soon, Li Qing stuffed the plush doll back into the delivery box and sealed it with tape.After finishing, he took the mobile phone lunch box and was about to go to the cafeteria to get a meal. Just as he stepped out of the dormitory, Zhou Yin's figure happened to appear in sight.

He seemed to be talking on the phone, with a smile on his face, and he didn't pay any attention to the people coming and going around him.

Li Qing stepped up and followed behind.He thought Zhou Yin would find him after walking a few more steps. Although he didn't think about what to say when they met, following Zhou Yin was almost subconscious.

It was lunch time, and all kinds of faces in the school walked in different directions, and the school road extending in all directions was like a huge chessboard.Li Qing followed for a while, the left front was the cafeteria he was going to, and then went forward to the school gate.Without hesitation, he went straight forward and continued to follow Zhou Yin.

This time he followed more covertly, deliberately slowing down his pace, keeping a distance that was neither too far nor too close, where he would neither lose track nor be discovered.

Zhou Yin didn’t live in the house, and his home was not far from the school—this was told to him accidentally by a classmate who claimed to be in the same club with Zhou Yin that day, but the exact address was not clear.Li Qing decided to take the most direct method, as long as he followed Zhou Yin, he would know where he would go and whom he would meet. Is the person he had a happy chat with on the phone the one he wanted to meet?

Outside the school gate was the bus terminal, Li Qing walked out of the school gate a few steps slower than Zhou Yin, and witnessed Zhou Yin get on a fast-departing bus.So he got on another bus with a similar route, and the stops after the starting station were the same. If Zhou Yin wanted to go home, he probably would not exceed the range of these stops.

The two cars set off at the same time, Li Qing took a seat by the window and watched closely Zhou Yin in the car ahead.The bus drove out of the platform slowly, passed the administrative service center, the People's Park, and the next two stops were the pedestrian street and the residential area. Li Qing guessed that Zhou Yin would get off at the stop of the residential area, but he took an extra stop. Get off at the Bug Market Station.

Li Qing followed closely behind and got out of the car.Zhou Yin walked into the flower, bird, fish and insect market, his steps were obviously a little brisk.He passed the colorful fish tank, squatted down to watch the colorful tropical fish, passed through the colorful flower stalls, and was attracted by the patchwork succulent potted plants at the entrance of the store.

Li Qing watched from a distance, Zhou Yin was making gestures with the owner of the flower stall, and then took out his mobile phone to scan the QR code.After Zhou Yin found his next target and ran to the antique shop in front, Li Qing slowly followed.Passing by the flower stall, the stall owner who was trimming the flowers suddenly waved to him, "Come in!"

"You called me?" Li Qing pointed to himself, the stall owner nodded, and handed him a bundle of blue and white staggered stars, "Take it, that handsome guy just gave it to you."

"Give it to me?" Li Qing took it half-believingly, and the stall owner let out a hearty laugh, "It's you, that pretty guy just said that when he leaves, a stupid handsome guy will follow him, isn't it you? ?”

Li Qing was stunned for a moment, Zhou Yin had indeed found him, he shook his head helplessly, turned around decisively and left.

A clear voice suddenly sounded from behind, "You accepted my flowers, shouldn't you treat me to a meal?"

"Is it appropriate to follow here from school without saying hello?"

Li Qing paused for a moment, Zhou Yin's footsteps were getting closer and closer, one hand grabbed the corner of his clothes, tugging hard like a child coquettishly.

Zhou Yin softened his tone, with imperceptible begging and anger, "Do you want to see me or not? Why follow me if you don't want to see me? Why leave now if you want to see me?"

Li Qing turned his head, glanced at Zhou Yin, and smiled slightly: "Would you believe me when I said I was passing by?"

"Believe me," Zhou Yin raised his chin, "Since it's such a coincidence, why don't you treat me to a meal, anyway, you brought the lunch box too."

A few minutes later, they were sitting in a small shop called Chaoshan Original Soup Noodle King. Zhou Yin was still studying the menu on the table. Li Qing beckoned to order two signature pig offal soup noodles. After ordering, he asked the person sitting opposite Zhou Yin: "Is there anything not to eat? What about minced green onion, ginger and garlic?"

Zhou Yin pursed his lips and asked in a low voice: "I don't like to eat offal, can I pick it out for you later?"

Li Qing didn't respond, so he got up and went to the counter to order some Jing Beef Tendon Pills, and took out a few paper towels to wipe the greasy tabletop, focusing on the place Zhou Yin was facing.He threw away the paper towel, poured two cups of tea back familiarly, and warned: "Be careful of burning."

Zhou Yin held the disposable paper cup with both hands. The tea had probably been steeped many times, the color of the tea soup was very light, and the steam was curling.He took a sip and said after a while: "Do you often come here to eat?"

"I worked part-time here in my freshman year. There used to be a computer mall behind the Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market, but it's been demolished now."

"Part-time job in Computer City?"

"Yes, helping people look after shops and repairing computers," Li Qing changed the subject abruptly, "Of course the most important thing is to stick film."

Zhou Yin said with a smile: "Now? Are you still working part-time?"

"I did, I did my homework, except for my graduation thesis," Li Qing sighed, "I haven't even finished my own."

Zhou Yin blinked.

Through the rising heat, Li Qing stared at Zhou Yin's face that hadn't changed much from before.Those more than 1000 days seemed to have not existed, as if he was still lying next to him yesterday, and he was the only one in his smiling eyes.Even though there were more tears later, those eyes were still looking at him vigorously.

Recalling the past made Li Qing's heart skip a beat. He looked away, picked up the paper cup and drank the hot tea, stood up and said, "It's been too long, I'll go and remind you."

Two bowls of pork miscellaneous soup powder and a serving of clean beef tendon balls were brought up. Li Qing took apart the disposable chopsticks, carefully scraped off the wooden thorns on them, and handed them to Zhou Yin.Zhou Yin took it over, and put all the pork liver, pig heart, and pig intestines into his bowl. Li Qing couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay, eat as much as you want."

"I don't want it." Zhou Yin wrinkled his nose.

Li Qing pushed the individually ordered beef tendon balls to his bowl and said, "I didn't even know you didn't eat these before."

"Because we haven't been together for a long time," Zhou Yin picked up a chopstick of rice noodles, and smiled vaguely, "We don't eat together every day."

Hearing this, Li Qing also laughed. At that time, the most things they did were talking in the same quilt, saying some ambiguous words, testing whether the other party liked it or not, and doing things beyond the scope of friends under the guise of friends. Hugging and kissing, exploring each other's bodies.

Occasionally, they would be jealous and angry and quarrel, but soon after the quarrel, they reconciled, and hugged and licked their wounds again, as if they had never quarreled.

At that time he actually stubbornly thought that Zhou Yin didn't like him.

After seeing how Zhou Yin treats people he doesn't like, he realizes that Zhou Yin treats him differently.That may not be called love, it doesn't matter what it is, he only makes sure that Zhou Yin is always willing to face his touch, his kiss, and his aggression, and maybe he is also willing.

Love or not, Li Qing doesn't want to delve into it any further, he just wants to keep people by his side, no matter which way.

"What are you thinking?" Zhou Yin brought back his thoughts, then put a piece of pork liver that was missed just now into his bowl, and muttered, "It's unpalatable."

Li Qing picked it up and ate it, finishing the pork offal that Zhou Yin called over in the bowl at a fast speed.

Zhou Yin blinked and begged, "Can you take me to eat something else next time?"

"Tell me first what else is not to eat?"

Zhou Yin rested his chin with one hand, and said expectantly: "Can I say it all?"

Li Qing nodded.

"Don't eat mutton, don't eat bullfrogs, don't eat seafood, don't eat pig blood and duck blood, don't eat raw, cold, spicy, heavy oil and heavy salt," Zhou Yin said in one breath, and seeing Li Qing's teasing expression, he curled his lips, "I still have to listen ?"

Li Qing smiled and said: "I know, you don't eat this or that."

"You can cook for me." Zhou Yin looked up at Li Qing who was standing up, and made a request with confidence.Li Qing laughed a few times, went to the counter to check out, and didn't say yes or no.

When they left, Li Qing didn’t forget to take the bunch of baby’s breath away. They went to the bus stop and waited for the bus. After scanning all the lines on the stop sign, Li Qing asked Zhou Yin beside him: “You live at the previous stop, right? ? The car you got off at the Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market on purpose?"

Zhou Yin turned his face and smiled at him, and glanced down at the colorful bunch of gypsophila stars, "I really want to buy flowers, and I can just give them to you, isn't that good?"

"Okay, you live in the neighborhood of the previous station, right?" Li Qing asked calmly.

Zhou Yin nodded.

"Living with your mother?"

"Yes, her mental state is much better," Zhou Yin paused, "but I want to move out."

"Are you sure you want to move? When do you plan to move?"

"Recently, I've been looking for a house."

The sky is getting darker, the neon lights on the opposite side of the road are gradually lighting up, and the puddles of water on the ground reflect the passing car lights.A bus that arrived at the stop ran over the puddle, and Li Qing quickly pulled Zhou Yin in, avoiding the splashing water.

Zhou Yin turned around and bumped into Li Qing's arms, with his hands on Li Qing's shoulders, looking at Li Qing from bottom to top.

Li Qing's Adam's apple twitched, and he noticed that Zhou Yin's complexion was blushing, not the blush from being drunk that night, but more like the kind of rouge that picked up the last sunset glow from the sky.

Zhou Yin lowered his eyes and kept his voice low. He carefully tested Li Qing, "Are you going back to school? Can you not go back tonight? We haven't seen each other for a long time."

——It was an invitation that both of them knew well, Zhou Yin didn't blink, his slender eyelashes trembled uneasily, and his tense fingertips revealed his nervousness.Li Qing watched in silence for a while, then he let go of Zhou Yin and politely declined: "No, I have to go back and write my thesis."

Zhou Yin glanced at Li Qing in astonishment, he didn't expect to be rejected, his eyes flickered, his watery pupils reflected Li Qing's determination.

Another bus arrived at the stop, taking away most of the people waiting for the bus, leaving them to confront each other in front of the glowing light box on the bus platform.

"I just want to talk to you, I don't have any other intentions." Zhou Yin's face was embarrassed, and he argued aggrievedly.

Li Qing whispered in Zhou Yin's ear: "Don't pretend, I know what you want to do, and you should also know what we will do together. Listen to Zhou Yin, stop playing silly tricks, those tricks can be saved , I don't just want to sleep with you."

"What do you want?" Zhou Yin's voice was slightly cold.

"You'll find out later."

Zhou Yinsu grabbed Li Qing's hand, the blood on his face faded, he asked almost pleadingly: "Don't you miss me?"

"I want to miss you like crazy, but is it useful?"

"But I'm back now."

"You are back, so I want to be grateful to Dade, accept you regardless of the past, and wait for you to disappear completely next time?"

"No, there won't be a next time."

Li Qing was always gentle, honest and polite, but today he tore off the mask of hypocrisy, mercilessly fired cold arrows, and vented more than 1000 days and nights of disappointment and resentment.

He touched Zhou Yin's cheek, which was the intimate and gentle caress of a lover, but his voice was unprecedentedly cold, "I don't believe you, Zhou Yin, I can't believe you anymore."

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I will rework this chapter when I have time