1999

The wind on the street has been blowing outrageously.Huda took off his helmet, wiped his face with water, and pulled his phone from the jacket pocket.The young man's name flashed in the caller ID, it was the call he had to answer.

Huda turned to face the wall, shrunk his body behind the windshield of an ATM machine in the building next to the street, the whimpering sound became quieter, and he pressed the answer button.

"Where are you?" There was a young man's soft voice on the other end of the phone, and Hu Da knew that he should be sitting in the study room, "It's raining so hard outside, don't run around, hurry back home, okay?"

"Understood." Hu Da laughed, "I just finished work, I'll go back now."

"Really?" The young man asked a little more.

"Really." Huda replied, "I'll pick you up later when the rain subsides. Now you stay at school first. It's better to stay indoors than to come out. Don't go home alone. You're already covered in water, it's okay, you're fine, if you come out to have a blow, be careful not to catch a cold."

"Then will you really go home obediently by yourself? Take care of yourself, have a good rest, and keep your word?"

"Words are what you say." Hearing the young man's words of advice, Hu Da's heart was warm, he held his mobile phone and nodded his head, "I listen to you, I will boil hot water to take a bath, and clean myself up neatly Yes, just lie on the bed and sleep, and wait for our Xiaojiu to study at night, okay?"

Hu Da's last sentence was somewhat teasing. According to Wu Jiusheng's personality in the past, he would probably always mutter twice because of embarrassment, but this time the young man's voice sounded calm and serious.

He only said one word "good".

After hanging up the phone, Wu Jiusheng put down the phone and held it in his hand.After a few minutes, he regained his composure, made up his mind, and took the other's mobile phone from the editor's mobile phone who looked at him curiously.

The two of them had already left their seats in the study room and stood next to the automatic water dispenser near the entrance.The editor also didn't understand why Wu Jiusheng suddenly offered to lend his mobile phone to order dinner for everyone.Obviously, it would be fine to just ask someone to deliver it to the entrance of the study room, but Wu Jiusheng chose to designate a quick printing shop 200 meters away from the entrance of the campus, saying that there are urgent materials that need to be copied, and he will go there later. By the way, I helped everyone bring the dinner back, and at the same time rejected the editor's offer to help me in the past.If it weren't for Wu Jiusheng's habit of being easy to get along with, the editor would have suspected that he had some ulterior motives.

But there is one thing that he still doesn't understand, why Wu Jiusheng's expression becomes so bad in an instant after he holds his mobile phone and sees the status of the corresponding courier on the Flash Delivery platform change to "Order Received".

The editor subconsciously swallowed, and then looked up at the sky, maybe...it's annoying to have to print the exercise booklet in the rain...

He originally wanted to turn around and go back to his seat to get an umbrella for Wu Jiusheng, but when he went to look for that person again, the other person had already pushed open the door of the study room, plunged into the wind and rain, and left without looking back.

When Hu Da took the order, he felt that the address looked familiar. He didn't realize until he turned on the positioning software in his mobile phone. The customer of this flash delivery was less than one stop away from the youth school.Logically speaking, in this kind of weather, the business of the students in the school is also easy to do, and there will be a lot of people ordering takeaway. He could have made a few more orders at once, but if it was the order in that school, Hu Da He hesitated again.After all, the school is only that big, if you accidentally run into a young man and get seen by his classmates, it's always bad.Hu Da thought again and again, although it hurts, he temporarily turned off the background order grabbing function of the food delivery platform.

Let's take this order first. Taking advantage of the bad weather, he can run more, and he can always finish before the young man returns home, so that he can tidy himself up and meet the young man's inspection.

It's just that he didn't expect that the young man who was still thinking about it along the way would stand waiting for him under the stop sign of his destination.

The sky was extremely dark, and the bus platform that Wu Jiusheng used to shelter from the wind could not stop the miserable wind and rain. After such a blow, his thin figure was so weak that Hu Da felt distressed.He wanted to rush forward, took off his coat and put it on Wu Jiusheng's head, but he stood stiffly.The electric scooter was not stable yet, and he didn't even dare to take off the helmet on his face.

Ever since Huda knew the young man in front of him, he had never seen that face with such an ugly expression.

In the strong wind, the young man held his arms tightly against the damp and cold.He had obviously recognized Huda, and he opened and closed his lips and said something from a distance, but Huda didn't hear him.It was only when he got closer that he caught the last half of the question.

"...Why did you lie to me?"

Huda couldn't answer.

He just wanted to work hard to make a little more money, and logically speaking, he didn't do anything wrong, but at this moment, it seemed like there was a ghost in his heart, and he didn't even dare to look at the young man's eyes.

Wu Jiusheng stared blankly at Hu Da's unmoving silence, and couldn't hold back anymore and took a step forward.As soon as the hands that were clamping the sides of the body were released, the heat in the center was quickly blown away. As soon as the young man opened his mouth, he sneezed firmly.

Huda's body was faster than his mind.Before he realized what he was going to do, he took the first step to block the young man, unzipped the jacket, opened the sides, and wrapped the child's wet chest and arms in the rain.

Wrapping him like that was a warm body.Hu Da pressed against Wu Jiusheng, and the water dripping from the edge of the helmet hit the young man's forehead, wet Liu Hai, and stuck to his face.

"It's cold outside..." Hu Da carefully protected the person in front of him, and finally choked out such a sentence.

Wu Jiusheng didn't even know what to do with him.

He pushed Huda twice, and kept turning his head to one side in anger, trying not to block Huda's chest.

"You give me something, and I'll take it back. My classmates are still waiting to eat. You go back with me too. Wipe off the water on your body, stop the order for me, and wait until the rain subsides, and we'll talk when we go home This question." Wu Jiusheng said.

That sounds like a very reasonable arrangement.Standing on the threshold of the university, Wu Jiusheng has learned restraint, learned not to rely solely on quarrels to express emotions, but to at least solve the problem before reasoning.In the past, it was usually Huda who said such words.

But at this moment, Huda froze for a moment, as if he extremely rejected the proposal.

That's why Wu Jiusheng has been feeling that he can't grasp the logic that is wrong recently.He frowned uncontrollably, raised his head and looked straight into Huda's eyes as if urging him.

Huda sighed.

"Hey, you go back first. I'll go to school with you, it's not good."

"What's wrong?" Wu Jiusheng shook his head puzzled.

"Being seen by others has a bad influence."

Here we go again, this again.A long-suppressed, nameless anger suddenly surged up in Wu Jiusheng's chest.He had heard Huda say that too many times.

Yes, he knows, he understands, the influence is not good, the way this society is, it doesn't tolerate people like them at all.Even if they are in love, they cannot walk together in an open and honest manner.When he was in Pingxiang, Wu Jiusheng heard countless words of comfort from Hu Da like that. He suppressed his original youthful vigor, lived with Hu Da cautiously, made love secretly, and did all the things that lovers should do naturally. Sometimes, the first reaction would be to find a place to hide.

He didn't like it, he didn't tell Huda, but he never liked to live and love like that.But at that time, they still had at least one roof of their own, what about now?

Ever since he entered the city, he always felt that there was an invisible wall between the two of them that could not be seen at a glance.He also wanted to talk to and hold hands with Hu Da in public, to get along naturally in front of his classmates, and to introduce him generously, "Look, this is my Uncle Hu."

He endured everything.Why did Huda keep reminding him over and over again?

"What's the point of being seen?" Wu Jiusheng suddenly raised his voice and interrupted Hu Da, "We won't do anything out of the ordinary, just stand together, you go back with me, to avoid the rain, we also need Is that so? In the past, I didn’t listen to you in everything, and followed your instructions. What else do you worry about? Uncle Hu, I like you. We’re going to spend the rest of our lives together. Why are we even being seen? Take a second look, are you afraid of being like this?"

At the end of Wu Jiusheng's speech, his voice began to tremble in the wind and rain.He couldn't tell whether he was more angry or sad.

Yes, he really wanted to know why not.Is it really such a shameful thing to like someone?

Huda seemed to be choking, and at that moment of hesitation, he caught a glimpse of a figure running towards the bus stop a few meters away holding an umbrella.

This time it was almost a subconscious move, Hu Da suddenly let go of the young man in his arms, took a step back, the whole person withdrew from the eaves of the platform, and fell into the rain curtain.

Wu Jiusheng, who was left in place, stood dumbfounded.Huda, who suddenly moved away from him, took away the last trace of heat from his body.And the flustered person in front of him didn't even have time to pull up his open clothes, so he hurriedly pushed the electric car on the side of the road.

"Asheng!" The man who had already run a few meters away and was waving a folded umbrella was trying to call his name, "You forgot to take your umbrella!"

That person was the little editor, and he didn't even look at Huda, he plunged into the platform to shelter from the rain, and kept muttering things like "Why are you rushing so fast, why don't you take out an umbrella in such a heavy rain?" Takeaway, everyone's dinner must be in your hands, and you can't eat it!"

While talking, he kept patting the rainwater on the ends of his hair, and after half a second, he noticed Huda who appeared here without embarrassment.The first reaction is to ask:

"What's wrong, uncle? Did the car turn off? Do you want us to help?"

Huda shook his head quickly.

Wu Jiusheng didn't intend to let him go just like that at all.How could he leave? He hasn't finished what he just said!

"Uncle! We—"

Wu Jiusheng wanted to go forward, but Hu Da had already stepped into the car first.

"This classmate has helped me just now." He started the car, pointed to Wu Jiusheng and said to the editor who felt later, "He is very kind and enthusiastic, and he wanted to take me to your school to shelter from the rain. Isn't there still work to do, so I won't delay your studies, let's go first."

The editor listened in a daze, and kept nodding.

"Oh, okay, we'll take that thing away first, uncle, be careful when it's raining!"

Hu Da nodded, waved to him, left a sentence of "thank you, classmate!", kicked his feet, and rushed down the road on his bicycle.

The editor looked at his back and muttered, "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have paid for delivery. My whole body is wet, so I might as well go to the cafeteria..."

But Wu Jiusheng, who was standing side by side with him, was not as relaxed as he was.

He seemed to have witnessed some unbelievable scene, heard some unbelievable words, fixed, blankly, looking at the direction where the small car disappeared.

The rain kept falling, getting heavier and heavier, and it scraped on his face mercilessly, but Wu Jiusheng couldn't even feel the cold anymore.

He misunderstood, Huda was not afraid that they would draw unnecessary attention from others together.Huda, at all, had no intention of letting anyone know that they knew each other.After entering the city, Huda made up his mind to be a stranger to him in front of other people, and he also stubbornly believed that everything was for his own good.

That was the first time since Wu Jiusheng hated the city in front of him so much.