trapped beast

-A

On the day Qi Yu returned to City A, instead of going home with his parents, he waited at the airport for a while, and Zhou Chengxiu came to pick him up.

"Give me the box."

Qi Yu walked around Zhou Chengxiu with the small box, shook his head, and said with a smile: "No need, I can do it myself." Zhou Chengxiu's hand hung in the air for a while, and then snatched it silently.

Qi Yu drank too much that night, and woke up the next day with a splitting headache, only to realize that he had sent a video to Zhou Chengxiu and chatted for a long time.I don't know what the hell they said, and I was so embarrassed that I wanted to find a crack in the ground.

Before boarding the plane, Qi Yu had a good talk with Yin Hongyu, and only asked him to pick it up. After getting off the plane and calling again, the person who picked up became Zhou Chengxiu, and he was the only one.

The two took the subway back to school.

"Is it fun?" Zhou Chengxiu asked casually, "New York."

"I didn't play much, I went to find friends." After Qi Yu finished speaking, he said, "But it's also my first time going."

Qi Yu lied.

Because of his work, Qi Zhiguo often flies around the world to attend various occasions. He was often taken around when he was a child.He has been to more places than most people, but at a young age, many memories are a little blurred when he grows up.

Zhou Chengxiu's Mandarin is very good.It's even so good, it's as standard as a textbook.In fact, Qi Yu was surrounded by people from all over the world.Few people will deliberately obliterate the accent. It doesn't matter if you say "话" as "fa" and "neng" as "螺". No one is ashamed of their roots.

Zhou Chengxiu was different. He never mentioned his hometown. Qi Yu asked, but only got a rough answer, saying that he was from the south.Therefore, Qi Yu knew the reason why he deliberately avoided the taboo.

"A few days ago, I went to play cards with Yin Hongyu." Zhou Chengxiu said again: "I met someone from the basketball team and asked me to try on the team."

Qi Yu nodded with a smile: "That's good. Have you been there?"

"Not yet, it's next week." Zhou Chengxiu said, "I'm not very good at fighting, but they say I'm tall."

"That's right, you're just a big fool. But basketball is very simple, with good physical fitness, you can do it after practice. I used to be on the school team, but I was accidentally injured and had to sew several stitches. After my mother knew , won’t let me go.” Qi Yu was very annoyed when he talked about this puckered mouth: “When I won the district championship in the end, I could only watch from the sidelines.”

Zhou Chengxiu asked: "The University T team is so good?"

Qi Yu proudly replied: "Of course!"

Ever since they came back from camping, the weird atmosphere that had been permeating between the two of them seemed to slowly dissipate in the natural and familiar chat.

"I wrote half of your homework for you, and there is a little left. If you don't know it, just ask me."

"Okay." Qi Yu said, "How do you know I didn't do my homework?"

In Zhou Chengxiu's expression, the obvious embarrassment faded a little: "I know you can't write with your knees."

"You're right, college bully—" Qi Yu pulled his tone and changed the subject: "I heard you applied for CPA?"

Zhou Chengxiu nodded: "Yin Hongyu told you? He came to the dormitory that day, so I mentioned it by the way."

"Why don't you ask me, what if I want to take the test too?" Qi Yu asked intentionally.

"You..." Zhou Chengxiu was suddenly asked, he hesitated for a while, and said, "It's okay to report now."

Qi Yu couldn't help laughing, "You know me quite well, I won't take the exam until I die!"

Zhou Chengxiu also laughed. Seeing that Qi Yu didn't seem to alienate himself because of that day's events, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Yu was afraid of losing Zhou Chengxiu, not in the sense of a lover, hell, he never got this person as a lover, of course it is impossible to lose.What he was afraid of was that Zhou Chengxiu would not even be a friend.

But on this crowded subway, during ordinary conversations, Qi Yu suddenly discovered that not only himself, Zhou Chengxiu was also afraid of losing him.

People often indulge in erotic desires. In the final analysis, they are just addicted to being needed and needing others.Few people can resist that kind of enrichment, not Zhou Chengxiu, nor Qi Yu.

Qi Yu sat sleepy on the subway, Zhou Chengxiu saw his eyelids drooping, and said in a low voice, "Go to sleep for a while, it will take some time to arrive." Qi Yu was indeed jet-lagged, and his head rested on Zhou Chengxiu's shoulder, Dizzy and peacefully fell asleep.

-B

Zhou Chengxiu has skipped a lot of classes recently.

Fang Yuan Chuan occasionally went to the county to do errands, and it seemed to be an established rule to bring Zhou Chengxiu.Like the cigarette in Fang Yuanchuan's pocket and the tattoo on his hand, Zhou Chengxiu has become a regular person in his life.

Zhou Chengxiu was a little worried. If this continued, they might go in an unknown direction.He was so addicted to this relationship with Fang Yuanchuan that he almost forgot what he really wanted to do.He is going to take college entrance examination, he is going to leave this place, and never come back.

No matter who is here, whether he has nostalgia for anyone, he has already bought the one-way ticket to leave here.

Uncharacteristically, Zhou Chengxiu didn't show up at the factory gate for two or three days.Fang Yuanchuan squatted at the door to watch a few younger brothers loading and unloading the goods, he didn't like it anyway, while smoking, he scolded them bloody.

The younger brother shrank and dared not speak, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the boss was in a bad mood, and no one would hit the gun.

Fang Yuanchuan couldn't let out the suffocation that was suppressed in his heart.

I was going to the county seat in the evening, Zhou Chengxiu had come early in normal times, and now there were more than ten minutes left before the departure time, Zhou Chengxiu finally came at night.

The first sentence that came was: "I can't go with you today."

Fang Yuanchuan wanted to ask why, he was silent for a while, and said: "... Whatever you want."

Zhou Chengxiu hesitated to speak, watched Fang Yuanchuan jump into the car, and drove away without looking back.

Fang Yuanchuan was angry this time, and returned to Tongqian County after half a month.Celebrating his birthday in another place, the younger brother bought him a chocolate cake, he doesn't like sweets, but the other two devoured it, Fang Yuanchuan looked at it in a dispirited way, not in a good mood.

On the day he went back, the apprentice of the car repair shop outside the factory saw him coming back and hurriedly called out to him: "Brother Chuan!"

Fang Yuanchuan asked angrily: "What?"

"Zhou Chengxiu came here two days ago and asked me to give you something." The apprentice went around to the car door and handed the things to Fang Yuanchuan on tiptoe.The latter took it and asked, "When did he come?"

"Two days ago." The apprentice replied, "At first he came every day, but this time you left for a long time, he put down his things and never came again."

Fang Yuanchuan threw the things on the co-pilot casually, stopped the car, and got into the factory to take a shower.

The sound of water splashing from the shower head, with his eyes open or closed, he always thought of the thing on the co-pilot, in the car, locked in the garage.

No one shows up, and they just want to send something away, it's that simple.Fang Yuanchuan gritted his teeth and thought.After taking a shower, he got into bed, lay flat and stared at the tall factory roof in a daze.

...can't sleep.Fang Yuanchuan tossed and turned on the bed, seconds passed like years, no matter what he couldn't get the three words Zhou Chengxiu out of his head. "Damn it." Fang Yuanchuan cursed secretly, got up and put on his clothes again, ran to the garage, took Zhou Chengxiu's things, locked the car door tirelessly, locked the garage, returned to the bed, and then slowly unpacked them.

Zhou Chengxiu bought a white shirt for him.

It's the right size for him, with a subtle waist design, and the brand is the best they can buy here.After removing the label, Fang Yuanchuan didn't know how much it was.

"Chuan," the simple card read: "Happy birthday."

Fang Yuanchuan smiled slightly, he changed his clothes, and found a pair of decent jeans that he was reluctant to wear normally, and put on a whole set.There is no mirror in the factory, Fang Yuanchuan lowered his head and unbuttoned two buttons, revealing the faintly visible collarbone.

He took the coat and the key, the factory door was unlocked, and the wind was blowing as he stepped down. After a while, he arrived at Zhou Chengxiu's house with ease. Zhou Chengxiu's house was empty and the door was wide open. Afraid of meeting Zhou Yun, Fang Yuanchuan slowed down his pace and did not make a sound. , I heard Zhou Chengxiu's voice from inside the house: "I have no money."

"Fart! You have no money, where did you spend the money you worked for these few weeks?" Zhou Yun scolded: "Don't think I don't know where you bastard earned it, and you secretly hid the money!"

"My money, how I earn it, how I spend it, is my own business. I don't eat yours and I don't use yours. This house isn't even your name. Zhou Yun, you can stop in moderation." Zhou Chengxiu's voice was calm It was terrible, like a piece of ice and iron.

Zhou Yun said angrily: "You take out the money, I, I, I can pay you back another day!"

There was a moment of silence in the room, Fang Yuanchuan stood outside the door, neither entering nor retreating.

Zhou Chengxiu came out after a while, carrying a heavy woven bag on his shoulders.He saw Fang Yuanchuan, didn't say a word, then walked out.Fang Yuanchuan followed behind him.

The two walked awkwardly one after the other for a long time before Fang Yuanchuan couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Damn, I'm exhausted! Zhou Chengxiu, stop!"

Zhou Chengxiu obediently stopped.

"Where are you going?" Fang Yuanchuan asked.

"I don't know either." Zhou Chengxiu's eyes were calm and unwavering: "Let's go to a place where there is no Zhou Yun."

Fang Yuanchuan didn't even think about it: "Go to my place."

Zhou Chengxiu suddenly smiled, showing a row of neat and white teeth: "How do you know that I want to go to your place?"

Fang Yuanchuan waved his hand to hit him: "Fuck, you fucking..."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Chengxiu grabbed his wrist with one hand, pulled it in front of him, and looked at him quietly.

After a long time, the ice and snow in his eyes seemed to melt a little, replaced by more tenderness: "You really look good in this way."

Fang Yuanchuan's cheeks turned red.