Kawakami Mizuki

Yi Linchuan pushed open the door and signaled Ye Ming to go in first.

The main color of the home design of this house is blue, which is inexplicably deserted.The furniture and objects were arranged neatly, because the curtains at the windows were all drawn, which made it look a little depressing.

"Linchuan, are you... afraid of light?" Ye Ming asked with a strange expression.

"No... just getting used to it."

Yi Linchuan pulled open the curtain of the balcony in embarrassment, and then closed it even more embarrassingly.

The balcony...is full of greenery.

It is indeed a piece of greenery.Two or three old porcelain pots were placed in a row, and a dead branch of unknown species could still be vaguely seen stuck in one of the pots.However, the weeds with tenacious vitality grow wildly with the help of the natural rain and dew, climbing to the iron railings and forming a green wall.There was even a low plant that took root and grew in the gap between the two tiles, and a small white flower bloomed among the dark green branches and leaves.

Ye Ming was very surprised: "Where do you hang your clothes?"

Yi Linchuan wished he could find a crack in the ground to get in, his face was already flushed, he lowered his head and said, "There is a small window right above the washing machine, I'm too lazy to go to the balcony, I just hang the clothes on it after washing." It's..."

People can indeed be lazy to a certain extent.

Ye Ming couldn't bear his embarrassment any longer, so he held back a smile and asked him: "Then where should I sleep at night?"

There are three rooms in the house, one bedroom, one study room, and the other is used to store sundries.If I remember correctly, there should be a small folding bed inside, but there should be a lot of dust after such a long time.

So Yi Linchuan thought for a while and asked him: "Otherwise, you can sleep in my bedroom."

"how about you?"

"I'll just sleep on the sofa." Yi Linchuan didn't care about this, he would often lie on the sofa to type, and often fell asleep while typing.According to this trend, the bed in the bedroom may be covered with dust in the near future.

"How can this be done?" Ye Ming said with a straight face, "What if I catch a cold?"

Yi Linchuan just wanted to wave his hand to say it's okay, but was interrupted.

"Why don't we just sleep together tonight?" Ye Ming suggested.

Facing Ye Ming's concerned eyes, Yi Linchuan pursed his lips. Although there was nothing to be pretentious about, the identities of the two of them were embarrassing after all.

"Hey, we have slept together so many times before, this time is not bad." Ye Ming said suddenly.

"What?" Yi Linchuan looked at Ye Ming in shock, "Why don't I have any impression?"

Ye Ming said confidently: "Why not? How many gym classes did you skip in those days, and how many times I slept with you under the tree."

"..." It's an undeniable fact to skip gym class, and it's also true to sleep under a tree together... But what is it called □□!Obviously just spread Ye Ming's coat on the grass, and the two of them lie down on it, okay?

Yi Linchuan was a little puzzled: What about the innocent and honest young man who was willing to be teased back then?

Yi Linchuan walked into the utility room and searched for Ye Ming's toiletries and a change of clothes.Fortunately, he is lazy, and he always buys a lot of things at once and keeps them at home, and now he just needs them.

"Speaking of which, why do you have my phone?"

"Well... guess what?"

"It's Mr. Zhang?" Yi Linchuan has been in and out of the country these years, and he has basically never made a phone call. After excluding the few impossible candidates, the only one who left his number is the call to Mr. Zhang.

"Correct answer, plus ten points." Ye Ming added with a smile, "There is a reward."

"What reward?"

Ye Ming put his hand into his trouser pocket, and when he pulled it out, he held a small box in his hand. When he opened it, it was the hair tie that Yi Linchuan lost that day.

"Hey, is it really okay to use other people's things as rewards?" Yi Linchuan looked at Ye Ming speechlessly, took the hair tie, and stroked the protruding patterns on it, showing that he was very attached.

"Speaking of which, why do you have long hair?" Ye Ming naturally picked up a lock of long hair, which was soft and slightly cool to the touch, with a faint fragrance that was almost inaudible.

Because I am too lazy to cut my hair.

Yi Linchuan said silently in his heart, with a look of pain on his face, he said: "It's very expensive to cut hair, and my family is poor."

Ye Ming listened to his nonsense speechlessly, and said, "I'll pay for it."

"Eh..." Yi Linchuan was in a daze for a moment, remembering that there was someone with long hair on both sides that half covered the end of his eyes, but couldn't hide the romance between his eyebrows and eyes, and looked down at him with a gentle smile.But he just kept his expression still and continued to express his pain, "Shampoo is so expensive, I can't afford it."

Ye Ming just smiled and said, "Then go and shave your head bald."

"..." Yi Linchuan was speechless and could only focus on searching for things.

"..."

"...What?" Yi Linchuan, who was concentrating on searching for things, vaguely sensed what Ye Ming said, but didn't hear clearly, turned around and put the towel in Ye Ming's hand, and asked by the way.

Ye Ming sighed and said nothing.

Yi Linchuan is [-], Ye Ming is [-], the height difference between the two is not far, and the clothes are also suitable.After Yi Linchuan found everything, he asked Ye Ming to take a bath first, while he lay his body on the sofa.

When Ye Ming came out after washing, Yi Linchuan was about to fall asleep.Ye Ming pushed Yi Linchuan who was too sleepy to keep his eyes open, and motioned him to wash.

"Why are you so sleepy? It's not too late, is it?"

Yi Linchuan responded casually: "I went to bed late yesterday."

He fell asleep at dawn and woke up in the afternoon, so he shouldn't have been so sleepy.However, the sleep is too poor, the dreams are many and complicated, and the past is flying like a horse, stirring up countless emotions.

Ye Ming looked at Yi Linchuan walking into the bathroom like a fugue all the way with dumbfounding, and had such a premonition: Yi Linchuan probably fell asleep while taking a bath, right?

This premonition was confirmed an hour later when Ye Ming stood outside the silent bathroom.

"Linchuan?" No one responded, Ye Ming got a little anxious, knocked on the door, and called out: "Linchuan?!"

"Hmm... um?!" There was the sound of sloshing water in the bathroom, "Ahem..."

Yi Linchuan woke up from the bathtub, choking on the water unexpectedly.

When Yi Linchuan finally came out of the bathroom, his wet hair was still dripping with drops of water, and his clothes were wet quickly.Ye Ming, who was standing aside, frowned and asked him, "Why don't you dry your hair?"

Yi Linchuan looked at him blankly.

Ye Ming sighed, took a dry towel from the bathroom, wiped off the water from Yi Linchuan's hair, led Yi Linchuan to the living room, placed him on a chair, and began to carefully rub your hair.

"Is there a hair dryer?"

"No." Yi Linchuan replied wearily, his upper and lower eyelids began to fight.He doesn't like the wind from the hair dryer the most. He always waits for it to dry naturally, and sleeps directly if he can't wait.

The half-wet top stuck to his back, outlining a slightly thin figure, Ye Ming felt a little distressed.

"The clothes are wet, let's change one first." Ye Ming patted Yi Linchuan's shoulder and motioned him to change.

"Yeah." Yi Linchuan answered confusedly, but didn't move. It wasn't until Ye Ming pushed him that he realized it, and went to change into a clean T-shirt as if he was sleepwalking.

Ye Ming continued to rub his hair, the hair was moist and soft in his hands, parted the black hair, revealing the almost pale nape of his neck, with slender lines all the way down, into the back collar.Ye Ming remembered meeting him at the school gate that day, so he asked softly: "I met him at the school gate that day, why do you pretend that you don't know me?"

no answer.

Ye Ming looked down and found that he had fallen asleep with his eyes closed.In such a lonely night, a breeze blows from nowhere.There are only a few stars outside the window, and only summer insects humming in the silence.

Seeing Yi Linchuan's peaceful sleeping face, Ye Ming couldn't help but bend his knees and close his eyes, and put a soft kiss on his lips.

After drying his hair completely, Ye Ming saw that Yi Linchuan was in a deep sleep, and couldn't bear to wake him up.

Ye Ming stretched out his hand through his back, and put the other hand through the bend of his leg. When he was about to pick him up cautiously, the person in his arms struggled suddenly. Ye Ming thought he was awake, so he lowered his head to look at him.Yi Linchuan opened his eyes slightly while half asleep and half awake, saw that it was Ye Ming, rubbed his head in his arms, closed his eyes reassuringly and continued to sleep.

Ye Ming was happy, pinched his cheek with one free hand, and then hugged him to the bed.I thought that hugging a man must be very heavy, and Ye Ming was also prepared in his heart, but unexpectedly, the person in his arms was very light, much lighter than imagined.

Looking at Yi Linchuan's thin, slightly pointed chin and the faint bruises under his eyes, Ye Ming shook his head helplessly.

How have you been all these years?

A night without dreams.

When he was in a drowsy sleep, he suddenly felt that the warm pillow was being pulled away little by little. Yi Linchuan murmured in a daze, and tightened his arms.Yi Linchuan vaguely felt something lightly patted his head, and the warm touch stayed on his forehead for a moment, then pulled away.

When Yi Linchuan woke up, there was nothing around him, the door was half closed, and there was a dead silence in the air.Yi Linchuan had already realized something, but he went out to look around, and finally sat on the sofa.

This season from the end of summer to autumn, the wind has gradually cooled down, and the flowering period has come to an end. Outside the window, sporadic withered petals fell on the window sill, and were quickly blown away by the wind, leaving no trace.

Yi Linchuan smiled slightly, what are you expecting?After all, I can't keep it.

It was around twelve noon when I heard knocking on the door.Yi Linchuan hugged the laptop computer to code as usual, calculated the utility bills for this month, and felt instantly chilled.

Yi Linchuan reluctantly moved to the door, and when he opened the door, he saw Ye Ming standing outside with vegetables in his hands, and behind him was a low-key black suitcase.

Yi Linchuan was stunned.

"What? I just walked for a while and you don't want to open the door for me?" Ye Ming spread his hands, expressing his helplessness.

Only then did Yi Linchuan come to his senses and opened the door, "Didn't you leave?"

"So I'm back again." Ye Ming casually put the suitcase in the corner, and then walked towards the dining table, "Did you have a good meal?"

"Eat." Yi Linchuan replied with a guilty conscience.

Ye Ming walked straight to the dining table, lifted the lid on the rice cooker, and there was a large pot of porridge inside, with cold scrambled eggs beside him, and he couldn't help frowning: "Liar, this porridge is not good at all. Didn't move."

"Uh..." The lie was exposed face to face, and Yi Linchuan couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.If there is no arrangement in the morning, he usually eats breakfast and lunch together.He didn't look at the dining table this morning, so of course he wouldn't notice that there was something extra on the table.

Seeing Yi Linchuan like this, Ye Ming understood instantly, and didn't ask any more questions. He just picked up the pot and walked to the kitchen, and turned around and said to Yi Linchuan, "I'll heat up the porridge, you sit and wait."

After Ye Ming finished heating up the food and added a few side dishes, he saw Yi Linchuan obediently sitting at the dining table, and suddenly felt a little soft-hearted, "Didn't I tell you to eat first?"

"Wait with you."

Ye Ming smiled, "Linchuan, I want to discuss something with you."

Yi Linchuan stopped his chopsticks and waited for him to speak.

"I'm in a hurry to return home, and I can't find a place to stay. Can I stay here with you?"

However, when Ye Ming went back to pick up his luggage, the aunt who had been helping Ye's family look after the ancestral house was very reluctant to repeatedly persuade Ye Ming to stay for a few more days.

Yi Linchuan didn't know about this at all, and only thought that Ye Ming really had no place to live, and said, "Okay, if you don't mind, you can sleep in my bed, and you don't need to buy quilts or anything. There are Two sets of spare keys, don't forget to take them with you when you go out..."

Ye Ming was a little surprised that Yi Linchuan agreed so readily, and his mood suddenly brightened, so he also smiled and said, "You take the key with you when you go out, and I will just take you with you."

Yi Linchuan was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head: "I'm afraid not."

Before Ye Ming asked, Yi Linchuan had already said: "I have to go home."

No wonder he promised so readily.Ye Ming sighed inwardly, but still smiled and said: "I haven't seen your sister for a long time, I just happened to visit her."

The relationship among them is intricate, Yi Linchuan didn't know where to start to answer, he was silent for a while, and just said: "That's actually not my real sister, and the place I want to go back to is not there either."

Ye Ming was slightly surprised, but he just said, "Anyway, I'm relatively free these days, so I can accompany you wherever you go."

Yi Linchuan shook his head and just said, "Things are messy, don't get involved."

Ye Ming guessed in his heart that during his absence, Yi Linchuan must have encountered some things, but he was abroad, and everything was unknown.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Ye Ming's heart.He always thought that Yi Linchuan's parents died, and he lived with her sister since childhood, so he never had other associations with Yi Linchuan's surname, but now that he thought about it, there seemed to be a local family that had been in the business for many years with the Yi surname.

"Linchuan, is your family in business?"

Yi Linchuan glanced at Ye Ming in surprise, he didn't expect him to figure it out so quickly, and nodded.

"Actually, when I return to China this time, I have something important to do." Ye Ming said slowly, "It's related to the Yi family. So no matter what, I'm going to follow you."

"what's up?"

"Some business cooperation."

Hearing this, Yi Linchuan fell silent instead.

He knew that Ye Ming was the eldest son of Ye, the Ye family who had occupied the head of the firm for a long time.The strength of the Ye family is completely higher than that of the Yi family, and most of the Ye family's industries are abroad, so there is no need for the two to cooperate.

Unless the Ye family wants to return to China for development, it is possible to win over local merchants.

But this is just his baseless conjecture.He glanced at Ye Ming. After all, he is an outsider, and it is not suitable to ask about these business matters.

Yi Linchuan finally nodded and agreed, "Then you can go with me tomorrow."

Ye Ming was a little surprised, he thought Yi Linchuan would struggle for a while, but he didn't expect to agree so soon.

"Anyway, you already know that I'm from the Yi family. Even if I don't agree, you can find out the address yourself." Yi Linchuan couldn't help but feel a headache when he thought of the chaotic situation of the Yi family, "But to be honest, if you have nothing Don't go if it's urgent."

The goal has been achieved, Ye Ming didn't say any more, just said: "Eat quickly, or the food will be cold again in a while."

After lunch, Yi Linchuan dug out a spare key from the cabinet and handed it to Ye Ming, "If you feel bored, you can go out for a stroll." Then continue to go to the study to code.

This short article is almost finished, and I don’t think there will be a chance to code after I go to Yi’s house. It would be great if I can finish it within today.Fortunately, the idea of ​​this article has been fully constructed, and he only needs to follow the pre-set direction to end.

But for some reason, I remembered the article "The old friend is there".

The two young and energetic teenagers, because of a chance acquaintance, have been mistaken since then.Until the end, the two diverged in opposite directions, walking a long distance on their own journeys.The boy who left the most decisively at the beginning looked back frequently, but the two never saw each other again throughout their lives.

It was three years ago that I had the idea to write this article.At the beginning, I just wrote this article with an obsessive mentality, and I wanted to give the fictional two people a fulfillment in the text, and let those unfulfilled wishes have a home, and then simply ended in a sentence Live in peace for a long time.But in the chapter that determines the ending, he got stuck.One card lasted for three years, and finally I was discouraged and ended with a badending hastily.

At that time, he thought that this was the doomed ending, but now that he thought about it, there were many things that could be changed.

in case……

Thoughts are getting more and more chaotic.He closed his eyes and concentrated, trying his best to gather up those wandering thoughts and conclude the article in front of him.But I was still in a trance, and in the end I didn't know what kind of ending I wrote, so I scribbled and handed in the manuscript.Then he just sat on the chair blankly, not even thinking about anything.

But when he came back to his senses, he realized that it was already too late.The dim afterglow of the setting sun outside the window was reflected on the corner of the table, and then faded away quickly.The sky is constantly infested with dark blue, and the lavender glow is faintly hidden in the rolling hills in the distance.

It's already this time, I haven't cooked yet...

If he was alone, he would have left without cooking. At most, he would be starving all night, but Ye Ming was here today, so naturally he couldn't let Ye Ming starve with him.

It's too late to cook at this point, and I really can't show my cooking skills, so I just take Ye Ming out to eat.Yi Linchuan made up his mind and pushed the door out of the study, but was immediately surprised by the hot food on the table: fried golden corn kernels, steaming soup... The aroma of the warm food was overflowing, He couldn't help but look back at the study behind him to make sure that he didn't enter the wrong house.

Ye Ming was bringing out crucian carp in milk soup from the kitchen, seeing Yi Linchuan's stupid and cute movements clearly, he couldn't help laughing: "It came out just right, I just finished cooking the last dish."

"You cooked this?" Yi Linchuan walked to the dining table and sat down, looking at Ye Ming suspiciously.

"I lived alone in a foreign country for a while, so I learned how to cook." Ye Ming took the ribs out of the soup and put them on an empty plate aside, then put a piece in for Yi Linchuan, "Do you want to taste it?"

Yi Linchuan took a bite and fell silent.

It's heartbreaking, this is someone else's house living alone...

"Don't like it?" Seeing Yi Linchuan's silence, Ye Ming thought it was not to his liking, touched his nose and said awkwardly: "If you don't like it, let's go out to eat."

"It's delicious, I don't dislike it," Yi Linchuan quickly explained, "I'm just wondering if I can eat with you if I pay 200 yuan a month for food."

Ye Ming felt relieved, and chuckled lightly: "The food fee will be free, just tell me what you want to eat."

"This is what you said, don't go back on your word, breakfast, lunch and dinner must be round." Yi Linchuan really wanted to take out a piece of paper for Ye Ming to sign and mark, for fear that Ye Ming would suddenly go back on his word.

"Well, I don't regret it."

Last night Yi Linchuan was too sleepy and fell asleep directly. Today, the two of them lay side by side on the same bed. Yi Linchuan could not fall asleep and did not dare to turn over. He was afraid of disturbing the people around him, so he just lay stiff on the bed.Hearing the shallow breathing beside him, his thoughts were confused, and he recalled those childhood memories that he and Ye Ming had experienced together.

At that time, Ye Ming was a three-good student with excellent character and learning, and his correct regular script was just like himself.A young man with little experience in the world would occasionally be at a loss, but he was not as polite and alienated as he is now. Even his questioning tone unconsciously brought out a bit of strength, and he could distance himself from others with just a few words.

His thoughts gradually drifted away, and before he completely fell asleep, he seemed to hear a slight sigh.

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Yi Linchuan: So, what is the important thing you said, Ye Ming?

Ye Ming: Come to chase after my daughter-in-law

Yi Linchuan: ...