light adaptation

In late August, the third year of high school has started. Recently, the meteorological station has been broadcasting news of the typhoon landing, and the weather has cooled down a lot.

Bi Qiannian had a very happy time these days, happier than the previous few days, and was still in class every other day. Recently, he met several classmates in the bookstore, and they would come to buy reference books before school started.Ning Zhanmei invited him to watch movies at home a few times, and he would come to the store to sit around if he had nothing to do, and it wasn't too noisy. He would also help out by reciting vocabulary words or playing with his mobile phone in the corner.Bi Qiannian was used to him wandering around all the time.

The proprietress asked Bi Qiannian in secret once again, "Why does this young man come to the store all the time? He doesn't buy books much... Did he like a girl in our store?"

Like Bi Qiannian, there are a few other high school girls who are on summer shift. They are quiet and lovable.

Bi Qiannian smiled, "He didn't tell me, maybe he's just bored?"

"The temperature has only cooled down in the past few days in autumn! Come here when you have nothing to do in the hot weather, and don't do anything..." The proprietress frowned and thought that Bi Qiannian didn't understand, "Isn't it different to stay at home when you are bored? book."

Seeing the earnest look of the proprietress, Bi Qiannian also felt a little doubtful, and believed it a little bit, Ning Zhanmei couldn't really like a girl in the shop, right?Tingting also asked Bi Qiannian for Ning Zhanmei's contact information, and she returned it to her at that time...

He wasn't sure, if such a thing really happened, why didn't Ning Zhanmei tell him?There are so many secrets that I share with him, and chasing a girl is nothing, he has a taste for it.

The conjecture that Ning Zhanmei may have fallen in love with a certain girl also made him unhappy, it was not obvious, just like the subtle possessive desire he did not want to give other students Ning Zhanmei's contact information, it only existed subtly.

That day Ning Zhanmei nearly brought several boxes of tapes wrapped in light green into the bookstore.

"Are you here? I thought you wouldn't be here today." Bi Qiannian saw him and greeted him. It was already eleven o'clock, and Ning Zhanmei would come to the store around nine o'clock if he wanted to come.

"I went shopping, I was delayed for a while." He replied, looking at the time, it was approaching the lunch break, and there were not many customers in the shop, so he just divided up the pastries he bought at this time.

Ning Zhanmei went to the proprietress, "Auntie, I've bothered you for a while, I bought you something to eat." Handing over a few boxes of pastries, the proprietress said, "Did Qian Nian speak ill of me? I don't really dislike you for coming to the shop." Lie! You are more of our guests."

He smiled, "It's nothing, it's just an interruption, I've occupied the seat for so long, you can take it."

"Then thank you."

He distributed a few boxes of pastries to several other shop assistants in the store. Bi Qiannian took a special look at Tingting, and she took it as a thank you. After seeing the pastries, she blushed for a while.

Bi Qiannian glanced at the package of pastries again, seeing that the box was red bean cakes, his suspicion of Ning Zhan's eyebrows chasing others became heavier in his heart.

Ning Zhanmei bought the whole store after sending out a circle. Qingqing Pastry is a local pastry brand chained in Shuiyun City. The pastries they make are very delicious, crispy and soft, with the right amount of sweetness, neither bland nor greasy.The price is naturally much higher than ordinary pastries. Bi Qiannian likes to eat them very much, but usually he is not willing to buy them.

Bi Qiannian took a chair opposite Ning Zhanmei's usual seat and sat down, with a serious expression on his face, ready to ask Ning Zhanmei what's going on, does anyone really like him?

After Ning Zhanmei sent a circle, he gave him the only iced mung bean cake, "No."

Bi Qiannian was attracted by the cyan pastry, "Is there an ice pack?"

"Specially ask the clerk for it, otherwise it won't be iced. Didn't you say that the iced one tastes better?" Ning Zhanmei replied, "Try it?"

He picked it up and ate it, and when he bit into it, a piece of pastry collapsed easily, and it immediately turned into a fine powder in his mouth. The sweetness of the mung bean diffused, and it was a bit refreshing.

Bi Qiannian squinted his eyes happily. It was so delicious. He originally planned to buy a box to reward himself with his salary, but now his wish seemed to have come true ahead of schedule.

Seeing that Ning Zhanmei didn't have anything to eat, he even fed him some. When he retracted his finger, Ning Zhanmei's teeth bit it lightly, making it a little itchy.

"Do you know why Tingting is blushing?" Bi Qiannian thought about the business.

"I'm so good-looking." Ning Zhanmei replied indifferently, this is nothing unusual.

Bi Qiannian thought he was pretending, "Do you still remember what flavor you gave her? It was red bean flavored, and it was named Nanguo in Qingqing, and the red bean was born Nanguo Nanguo."

"Then?" Ning Zhanmei asked him.

"Plus the name of Qingqing shop sounds like asking for a kiss. We give red bean cakes from Qingqing shop to opposite sexes here, which is almost like giving chocolates on Valentine's Day. It's a confession!" Bi Qiannian was angry, and a little confused, and agreed Looking at Ning Zhanmei's out-of-condition look, is there no such meaning?

Ning Zhanmei looked educated, thinking to himself that Shuiyun City is really cultured and romantic, and he didn't know what Bi Qiannian was anxious about, he looked funny.

"So that's it. Do you think I gave you mung beans instead of red beans? Okay, remember, I'll buy you red beans next time." He looked at him jokingly.

Bi Qiannian blushed, "Get lost!"

Then asked him in a low voice, "Do you... like her?"

"Who?" Ning Zhanmei didn't understand.

"Tingting, you gave her red bean-flavored pastries, and you come to our bookstore all the time..." Bi Qiannian felt that this was the case, "She even asked me for your contact information, and you two have become friends Bar?"

"Increased." Ning Zhanmei replied, Bi Qiannian really had such an expression on his face, he was helpless, he knew that this person was stupid as hell, he couldn't see that others liked him, he thought he was missing a muscle, but it turned out that the muscle was not missing, It was the wrong direction.

"No, what are you thinking?" Ning Zhanmei looked at him helplessly, "I bought Qingqing's pastry because you mentioned it a few days ago, otherwise I wouldn't know that Shuiyun has this characteristic, what other red bean cakes are there?" If it’s a confession, I don’t even know.”

"Then why do you come to the bookstore all the time? It's nice to stay at home in hot weather." Bi Qiannian repeated what the proprietress said, "You don't read much in the bookstore."

"..." Ning Zhanmei didn't know how to explain to him, "Anyway, I don't like Tingting."

"What about Xiao Jiu? Or Xiao Ru?"

"I don't like them, I don't like them." Ning Zhanmei was going to make him faint, "Who told you that I like them?"

Bi Qiannian's face flushed a little, he is not good at gossip or asking about this kind of privacy, "Look, I can tell."

I can thank you, I like you so obviously, Xu Yun can tell in one afternoon, he is sharp, you are not so dull as a party, right?After so long, I feel that I like a girl who hasn't said a few words?Ning Zhan felt pain in his eyebrows.

Bi Qiannian had a faint intuition that this topic could not be pursued further, but there was a force that prompted him to ask, and he felt an indescribable uneasiness and secretive expectation...Expectation?He couldn't tell.

Seeing Ning Zhan's ugly face, he apologized in a panic, "I'm sorry, I asked too much."

Ning Zhanmei sighed, knowing in his heart what Bi Qiannian was probably thinking, maybe his friend has a girl he likes, so if he didn't tell him, of course he would feel uncomfortable.So are you a little bit reluctant?

"No, what are you asking?" Ning Zhanmei fed him a mung bean cake, and couldn't help but stare at Bi Qiannian's lips and tongue as he spoke.

"There's nothing I can't tell you, but I really don't like her, who among them." Ning Zhanmei said, seeing Bi Qiannian's pink tongue rolling the green pastry into his mouth, he was stunned for a moment, "...but I There are indeed people I like."

Bi Qiannian looked at him in surprise, and swallowed a piece of mung bean cake that was not fully chewed.

"The situation is a bit special," Ning Zhan smiled at him, "I'll tell you slowly, okay?"

Like swallowing a sour jujube.

At night, Bi Qiannian kept thinking about what Ning Zhanmei said. There is someone he likes, someone he likes, and Ning Zhanmei has someone he likes.

when?who?Special situation?What kind of special law?

He started with the girl Ning Zhanmei met in the basketball game, plus the group of people who played werewolf last time, and a few people from the bookstore who were rejected...and also counted the ones who asked him to ask for his contact information.

Bi Qiannian thought angrily, how could there be twenty or so of them casually?

The few who howled under his dynamics were listed as key targets by him-among them were Ning Zhanmei, Brother Ning, and it was all because he asked the mandarin ducks to learn from "Brother Ning" at the flower and bird market that time.

Has Ning Zhanmei started pursuing her?Then why do you still hang out in the bookstore every day, or just find yourself watching movies?

The situation is special... Bi Qiannian had a guess, but he didn't dare to think about that special train of thought.

Special... Could it be that he likes boys?

How many suspects should there be!

Bi Qiannian didn't bother to care about his inappropriate words, he fell on the bed, cursed Ning and raised his eyebrows with sloppy eyes, the cabbage that had been so hard to raise was about to fall in love with others in a blink of an eye, he was a little melancholy, and also a little bit of reconciliation that was hard to detect.

He and Ning Zhanmei have known each other for more than a month. He thinks that they already know each other very well, and they have exchanged deep-seated insecurities and weaknesses. If they have a lover, they will be more familiar with each other, right?

But he seems to have given everything to Ning Zhanmei, he has already played all the chips, does Ning Zhanmei have more?To win a more intimate relationship.For the first time, he felt that the two of them were so far apart.

Bi Qiannian knew that he was biased in thinking this way, Xu Yun and Tong Zhi grew up with him, and even knew him better than Ning Zhanmei, but he didn't feel it was unfair, and he didn't worry that they would have a lover and alienate him.Ning Zhanmei is special.

That person whom he likes suddenly appeared made him feel dangerous, maybe Ning Zhanmei did have more unknowns, maybe it was a secret, maybe it was a unique intimacy, and these would belong to another person, he There is no bargaining chip to win Ning Zhanmei back.

Bi Qiannian couldn't wait to feel jealous.

He immediately realized how disgusting the idea of ​​using his years of suffering as a bargaining chip in exchange for intimacy was a contempt and irony for the tears he had shed for it.Is their friendship based on mutual sympathy?

Bi Qiannian calmed down and thought, this is not the case.Ning Zhanmei said that they got to know each other well in a short time because they are very good people.He got out of his biased thoughts and immediately asked back.

How nice should that person be?

He has to have something special to make you admire.

A more distant confusion covered him, liking another person, Ning Zhanmei fell in love with another person, can this be changed?It seems difficult.So what do you like about her or him?

Bi Qiannian suddenly felt that he might never be able to win Ning Zhanmei back. If he had to compare this to a game, he had already handed over everything, and that person had all the characteristics that he did not possess. It is said to be unique, so there is a certainty that Ning Zhanmei will like him.

He lost to the mysterious love and the bleak fact that he was not that person, like a kind of fate.Bi Qiannian stared blankly at the ceiling, not knowing why he had to compare himself with that person, he couldn't help it.

Will Ning Zhanmei take the person he likes to watch a movie at home?Or feed him mung bean cake?Or will he send him home drunk?And to know and accept all his unknowable and vulnerable tears?

He kept making guesses, comparing everything Ning Zhanmei had done to himself, as if he could win with these things, he was like a despicable thief, occupying the tenderness Ning Zhanmei had given him that no one could take away. .Resolutely resist, never surrender.

Will he also suicidally dissect himself to the person he likes, Ning Zhanmei, will you?

Bi Qiannian had an extremely absurd idea, Ning raised his eyebrows, you were hugging me at that time, how could you like someone other than me?

He was shuddering, apprehensive, terrified, and irrepressibly obsessed with it.

Where is the boundary between friendship and love?

Bi Qiannian was not clear, as if the direction from the beginning was completely messed up.

Did he cross the line?

He was overwhelmed by his uncontrollable possessiveness and jealousy.

But what does crossing the line matter?

He suddenly calmed down.

The typhoon is coming.