middle of the road

Chiyu and the others went this time to a quality development club built on the mountainside with a recreational nature. On the first day they arrived at noon, after eating, Huang Ming suggested that everyone take a group photo in front of the open space by the lake as a memory This time, everyone was here except Cheng Yang.

There are boys in the class who play on the computer, saying that it’s okay to be short of a person, and the big deal is to send someone to P later.

"Then leave a vacant seat." Huang Ming waved his hand, signaling Li Rujiang to go to the next station.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chi Yu took a step to the left with a sullen face, and Huang Ming watched from behind the camera, "That's fine, just let it go, don't move."

He stood in the line, and a group of people laughed and posed in various weird poses. With a "click", all the vivid and inanimate things were frozen on a small photo.

During free time in the afternoon, Chi Yu and a few boys in his class were queuing up for the go-kart. Paying to get in, he took out something from his backpack and stuffed it into his hand.

"What?" Chi Yu asked.

"Birthday gift." Fu Jin stood against the railing and looked at him, "You won't forget your reaction, right?"

"No." Just yesterday he was still brooding over this day, today even if he thinks about skipping over it again, he can't just forget it, he took the tightly packed gift in his hand, "What is it? "

"You'll know if you take it apart and have a look." Fu Jin said.

Chi Yu looked at him, "It can't be a pack of snacks."

Fu Jin smiled and punched him, "What are you thinking, I still wrapped up the snacks, if I gave them to you in the car yesterday, it's over."

Chi Yu smiled, the thinness that was pinched in his hand really couldn't be eaten.

He was frightened by Ou Cao's madness in delivering snacks everywhere.

He opened it from both sides and found that it was a limited edition game disc that he had been looking for for a long time. "Where did you get it? It shouldn't be easy to find, right?"

"You think I've been fooling around for so many years. There are many ways. It's not easy to have a disc." Fu Jin waved his hand, "Take it, just go to your house some other day and let me play two games. The phones are all taken away, and now I have nowhere to touch my hands."

Chi Yu couldn't believe that this was said by a person who thought he had a lot of ways a second ago, he smiled and put the disc in his bag, "Thank you."

"Thank you." Fu Jin turned around and sighed, "Your is easy to handle. Cheng Yang's birthday is two days away, and I really don't know what to give him." @无限好文，全在晋江文学城

Chi Yu froze his zippered hands, "When?"

"Just next Monday, um... the day after tomorrow." Fu Jin said, "I didn't expect you two to be so close."

It's not that he didn't expect it, it's that Chi Yu didn't think about it at all.

He also looked at Cheng Yang's ID card, and the date was swept away from his eyes. He didn't realize that it was a month away from him, and it was only two days away.

"Whose birthday?" Tang Xiaowei came back from a game and just heard them talking. He looked at the pile of wrapping paper in Chi Yu's hand, "Do you want to eat fish?"

"Yeah." Chi Yu straightened up and said with a smile, "Call a few more people tonight and find a five-star hotel. I'll treat you."

"Wow." Tang Xiaowei whistled, "Okay, it comes with a star, I haven't even eaten a three-star one yet."

"Why don't we start with Samsung's first?" Chi Yu said.

"Don't, don't." Tang Xiaowei held him back, "You can do whatever you want, I don't mind skipping a grade."

Fu Jin said that he should stop queuing and ask the people here if there are any hotels nearby. The school stipulates that they are not allowed to go out at night, so they have to find a way to get a few cars.

Chi Yu followed the two of them, and took out his phone to have a look. Of course, he didn't expect to see Cheng Yang's phone number on the screen. He was wondering if he should make a call. He didn't know if Fu Jin's news was accurate. Exactly, if it was really only two days away, why didn't he have any impression at the time?

I rubbed my fingers back and forth on the keys a few times, and finally put the phone back. Forget it, let's talk about it when I see someone on Monday.

In the evening, Chi Yu went to the staff to book two cars, called Tang Xiaowei, Li Rujiang, and a few good boys behind him, and sneaked downstairs after Huang Ming checked the room and counted the number of people.

When Fu Jin saw Jiang Mingyang sitting on the co-pilot, he didn't react for a moment. After seeing clearly that it was him, he pulled Chi Yu over, "Fuck, why are you still calling him?"

Chi Yu gave him a nonchalant look, "They are all from our class. If the teacher finds out, I have to find you a cover."

"I still need him to cover?" Fu Jin was very dissatisfied, and he knew what they were thinking. He said that the cover was for the sake of sounding good. To put it bluntly, this trick was used to buy people's hearts. Will it be checked?

Unless it really hits the point of bad luck.

Although Fu Jin was a bit awkward, he also knew that this was a solution. The key point was that Jiang Mingyang followed. With his style, he didn't get rid of them after he found out.

After Tang Xiaowei got in the car, he greeted Jiang Mingyang and chatted happily. Oh, yes, they used to go to the same school, and he wanted to talk about Tang Wanjinyou, how could he be able to chat with anyone .

Fu Jin was embarrassed to make another face, after all, he was Chi Yu's treat, he could call whoever he wanted, maybe it wasn't his idea alone.

Fu Jin got into the car and sat in the last row by the door, the farthest from Jiang. He remembered the grudge, so he would have nothing to say to him.

The group ate and quarreled until after ten o'clock. It rained two days ago, and there were a couple of sections of the mountain road that were difficult to walk. The people from the club urged them to go back early, for fear of danger if they were late.

When the car arrived at the gate, everyone got off. Fu Jin and Jiang Mingyang's dormitory was on the east side, and they were not in the same place as Chi Yu, so they separated at the fork in the road.

In the evening, each of them drank some beer, and Fu Jin drank a little too much, and his walking steps were unsteady, but he was still awake, and he felt quite comfortable being blown by the cool breeze at night in April.

He didn't walk with Jiang Mingyang, he walked in front alone, took two steps and stopped to look down at the flowers and then up at the stars. When he was tired, he leaned against the wall to rest for a while to catch his breath. During this period, Jiang Mingyang followed him all the time. Fu Jin didn't look back, and Jiang Mingyang didn't make a sound when he walked, but he knew he was behind him.

It's a pity he doesn't want to talk, and he doesn't want to hear him talk.

After walking for a while, he sat down on a chair by the side of the road, and saw Jiang Mingyang standing less than one meter away from him with their coats in his hand.

He narrowed his eyes and turned his head away.

Isn't it quite interesting, doesn't he know how to keep a safe distance, then why do you want to interfere with him and accuse him, all of this is not his choice, it's not what he wants to do, if he can return to a normal person, why wouldn't he want to .

Annoying, annoying to death, he doesn't want to think about anything now, he just wants to sit here, and it's best for no one to bother him.

Fu Jin sat there until after twelve o'clock, and Jiang Mingyang didn't say a word other than throwing him his coat for him to put on. He didn't leave, and he didn't urge him to leave. When he fell asleep, he sighed, went over to put one of his arms around him, and half hugged him up.

Fu Jin leaned his head on his shoulder and murmured a few times in his ear. Jiang Mingyang stopped in the corridor and listened carefully, only to hear what he said, "Stop staring at me." After finishing speaking He also added pitifully in a begging tone, "Please."

Jiang Mingyang's hands on his waist tightened, watching his face flushed from alcohol, before he realized what it was for, he suddenly lowered his head, and lightly touched Fu Jin's elongated neck. Take a bite.

Chi Yu returned to the room, there were two missed calls on his mobile phone, both from Chi Haidong, he was hesitating whether to call back, when the phone rang again, he went out to answer it.

"Xiaoyu, are you asleep?" Chi Haidong's voice sounded a little fuzzy, and the background sound seemed to be the noisy wind.

"not yet."

"Which building do you live in?"

Chi Yu: "..."

Chi Yu thought that the most he could do was to call him to say happy birthday to him, but he didn't expect that he would come here specially for this purpose. For a moment, he had some indescribable emotions. He glanced downstairs, knowing that no one was downstairs, so it was just a coincidence Now, it’s impossible to see clearly in such darkness, “Where are you now?”

Chi Haidong said that it was at the door, and Chi Yu told him to follow the signs to the cafeteria, the only place where the lights were still on at this time.

He put on his clothes and went downstairs, and waited in the cafeteria for a while, when Chi Haidong found him, holding a box of cakes with a slightly deformed appearance in his hand, and his clothes and trousers were covered with mud.

"The road outside is too slippery, I accidentally fell down, it's okay." Seeing him staring at his trousers, Chi Haidong smiled, and cleaned the mud under his feet on the carpet outside.

Chi Yu took the cake from him, "Did you come here alone?"

"Your Uncle Li sent me here." Chi Haidong said, "I didn't expect the car to get stuck in the mud as soon as I got in. He asked someone to fix it."

Chi Yu's throat felt a little itchy, he coughed, and didn't know what to say, so he found a seat near the door and sat down.

Chi Haidong looked at the time, "Fortunately, it's not twelve o'clock yet. I've been busy for the past two days, so I could have come here earlier so that I won't delay your rest."

"...not bad for this day." Chi Yu said.

"How can it be the same day as my birthday?" Chi Haidong smiled, "Can it be sooner or later, after that, you won't be at this age."

Hearing what he said, Chi Yu was a little embarrassed. He found that he couldn't do what Chi Haidong did, pretending that there was still some warmth between father and son. The strap on the cake box can be eaten and left as quickly as possible.

It was the limit of his patience that he could come down. After all, with this kind of weather and this kind of road conditions, Chi Haidong came over the mountains, he really couldn't do it and just keep him out like this.

The inside of the cake was also deformed without accident, and the most basic elegance of the cake was beyond the reach. Chi Haidong stuck a candle in it, "It should still be edible, let's be a little bit more interesting."

Chi Yu looked at his hand, and found that it was also covered with dried mud, and a place was broken.

Chi Haidong withdrew his hand and asked him to do it himself. Chi Yu took the candles. There were eighteen candles in total. When he bowed his head and counted, Chi Haidong put his hand on top of his head. .

The sound of skin and flesh colliding was particularly crisp, and there seemed to be an echo in the empty cafeteria hall at night.

Chi Haidong was still not annoyed, with the previous smile on his face without solving the case, he sighed: "I didn't expect to grow up so soon, I, as a father, was caught off guard. I still remember when you were just born. when……"

"Lighter." Chi Yu interrupted him, not wanting to reminisce about the past with him.

Chi Haidong fumbled in his left and right pockets, took out one and handed it to him. Chi Yu ignited one by one, and blew it out the next second.

"Don't you want to make a wish?" Chi Haidong asked.

Chi Yu shook his head, sat down and took a plate and cut a piece, "Go back early, the weather forecast says it will rain in the middle of the night."

"I really need to go back early." Chi Haidong looked outside, "I have a meeting tomorrow morning, but this journey will be hard for you, Uncle Li."

Chi Yu lowered his head and began to eat the cake. In fact, he couldn't eat it anymore. He went out to buy one in the evening and found a place to buy one. After sharing with the group, there was still more than half left. With the little wine he drank, his stomach was already swollen full.

The two of them sat opposite each other and finished eating silently, just like what Chi Haidong said formally means that this birthday is considered to be celebrated with him, and in his opinion, Chi Yu can sit opposite him without making a fuss. After eating half a piece of cake with him, he was already very satisfied.

"Go back to sleep early after eating." Chi Haidong stood up, "I'll go see if your Uncle Li is well, and then go straight away."

"Yeah." Chi Yu nodded, watching him walk towards the door, and when his back was about to disappear into the darkness, he stopped him and stuffed a bottle of water into his hand, "Let's have a shower." He looked at the piece Scratch said.

Chi Haidong turned around in surprise, before Chi Yu could take his hand back, he quickly caught it, and when he looked over again, the smile in his eyes was a little stronger than before.

Chi Yu didn't look at him again, turned around and went back to clean up. There was a small wrapped gift box next to the cake. I don't know when Chi Haidong put it there. He opened it and found it was a car key. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

The holiday ended in the afternoon of the next day, and they returned the same way. Chi Yu felt a little tired that day, and went to bed early when he went back. He went to school early the next morning, and he put down his face, and was going to go out to buy some gifts during the evening self-study. I sent them to their home, but Cheng Yang didn't come to school that day.

At the end of the afternoon class, he couldn't hold back, and called his family, wanting to ask him why this time, even if his grandpa's Qi Qi is already over.

No one answered the phone, usually even if he wasn't here at this time, Cheng Ying and Cheng Le would be there, Chi Yu felt a little strange, so he called Huang Ming and asked if Cheng Yang asked him for leave.

Huang Ming went to study in the province that day and was not at school. He was also a little surprised when he heard that Cheng Yang didn't come to class, so he asked Chi Yu to go to his house and tell him what happened.

Chi Yu first went to Cheng Yang's part-time job, and asked the front desk that he hadn't been here for several days, maybe he asked for leave.

The person who insisted on coming after being injured like that at the beginning asked for several days off?

This abnormality made him suddenly feel ominous.

After coming out, Chi Yu took a taxi directly to his house, stood downstairs, looked at the room on the second floor without any light, his first reaction would not be that his bastard uncle had come and robbed everyone, right?

He rushed up and found that the doors and windows were locked. Looking inside, he saw that the room was neatly arranged, and it didn't look like there were signs of vandalism.

Chi Yu stood at the door and waited for a while, remembering the Aunt Qiu downstairs that Cheng Ying and Cheng Le had mentioned, decided to go down and ask first, just as he was about to leave, footsteps came from the stairs, and then Cheng Yang's figure appeared In his sight. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

There was only a slight pause in his footsteps, and Cheng Yang continued to walk forward, as if he was not surprised by his appearance.

"Where have you been?" Chi Yu stepped in front of him, running back and forth for a few empty trips, which made him a little unable to control his temper, and his voice unconsciously took on a questioning tone, "Why?" asked for leave?!"

Cheng Yang glanced at him without saying a word, walked around him to the door, and took out the key from his pocket.

This attitude made Chi Yu even more upset. He didn't contact him for two or three days, and he didn't say a word. Now that he finally came here shamelessly, he actually gave him a face. He felt anxious and grabbed his arm. Pulled back hard, "I'm asking you something, where have you been so late?"

Cheng Yang was unprepared, he staggered when he dragged him, and directly bumped into the balcony behind.

Chi Yu felt that he didn't need much strength, but the heavy sound and the way Cheng Yang couldn't recover for a long time made him a little uncertain.

He wondered if he was pretending, because when he backed out, he didn't use any strength to resist at all. This shouldn't be a subconscious reaction of a person. He didn't let go of his hand, and then grabbed him again, trying to pull him towards himself Pull it over again.

This time Cheng Yang used a little force to break free from him, but instead of punching him like Chi Yu thought, he slowly stood up straight, looked at him, and asked, "Are you hungry?"

"……what?"

Cheng Yang took a deep breath, "Let me cook a bowl of noodles for you."

That tone made Chi Yu a little unbelievable, as if nothing had happened, no quarrel, no abnormality, no worry, and likewise, no honesty.

He looked at him, trying to see some flaws on his face through the faint light downstairs, but there was nothing, Cheng Yang was a hundred times calmer than he thought.

In contrast, he who couldn't restrain his emotional turmoil felt more and more like a self-talking idiot. He took two steps back, turned and walked downstairs.