embrace the moon

This sleep was very peaceful, without the intrusion of nightmares, and the cool breeze came in through the gaps in the window, making me feel cool and at ease.

The moonlight is gradually fading, and the gloomy darkness of the night has faded away. The sky has not yet brightened, and the world is hazy, and the earth is still unclear.

When the alarm clock rang, Jian Qiao turned over in a daze to turn off the alarm, and then was terrified all over.

Gu Yu was leaning against him, still sleeping peacefully with his eyes closed.

Jian Qiao pulled his head away, only then did he realize that the room was filled with a faint sandalwood fragrance, elegant and refined, lingering, wandering around in the senses, making people feel more and more immersed in it, peaceful and peaceful.

He saw the burnt incense on the bedside table, and only ashes remained in the small ceramic bowl.

There is a postcard under the small bowl, and Jianqiao pulls it out. It is a painting by Monet, with a row of doggerel written on the back:

"Pingqiao Arch Bridge Zhaozhou Bridge is not as good as Jianqiao Bridge."

There is also a very ugly cake painted on the back, and the only candle is crooked, as if it is about to fall down.The flames of the candles were also painted red with a red pen, which made me feel sad.

The descendant of the famous Gu Qianfan even drew a stick figure like a dog chewing on it.

Looking at the doggerel next to it, although Gu Yu's drawing is unsightly, the handwriting is pretty good anyway, and the scribbles do not lose their style...Huh?What the hell is Jian Qiaoqiao?

Jian Qiao picked up a pen and added a sentence in front of Gu Yu's doggerel. In order to express his flattery, he specially wrote the first couplet.The person next to him moved, and Jian Qiao immediately put down his pen and lay back under the covers.

Gu Yu opened his eyes, sat up neatly, and looked back at Jian Qiao sleepily.

"Isn't it cold?" Jian Qiao asked.

Gu Yu nodded: "It's cold." After speaking, he lay back down again, wrapped in the quilt in a daze.

"Thank you," Jian Qiao said, in order to avoid Gu Yu asking him why he was thankful, he quickly added, "Chen Xiang."

"Oh," Gu Yu responded, "You're welcome, just help me get the clothes."

Jian Qiao got up, went to the next room, took the clothes he wanted to change, threw them on the bed, and then lay back down.

"Can you go to the balcony and collect another pair of socks for me?" Gu Yu said again.

Jian Qiao: "Are you making progress?"

Gu Yu had no choice but to give up this appeal.Jian Qiao lifted the quilt and began to change his clothes. Before he took off his pajamas, he looked back at Gu Yu. Gu Yu pulled up the quilt and covered his head in a sensible way.

"Get up quickly," Jian Qiao said, "I will be able to take a nap in another seven hours."

Gu Yu stretched out his head, and waited until Jian Qiao went to wash up before sitting up and getting dressed. When he turned his head, he saw the postcard with a line of words on it——

"Golden treasures, silver treasures, and delicacies are all inferior to Gu Xiaobao."

Gu Yu couldn't help laughing.

Since Jian Qiao lived in Huazhoutang, they went to and from school together almost every day, cycling through the neighborhood, detours and streets, uphill and downhill, and the cool wind always blew their clothes into sails.

They sometimes talk side by side for a while, and when Gu Yu is in a particularly good mood, he will play tricks and show off his superior professional knowledge. Jian Qiao just talks about a lot of famous paintings by famous artists. You can’t understand me for a while. , for a moment I don't understand you.

Sometimes without saying anything, Jian Qiao quietly listened to him humming while riding a bicycle.Gu Yu's playlist has always been a mystery. Sometimes he sings the rock and roll of the last century, sometimes he sings fresh Nordic folk songs, and sometimes he hums a few vicissitudes of Russian folk songs.

When rushing through a downhill road with a speed bump, Gu Yu's beautiful singing voice would tremble non-stop, singing "Liuyang River Goose Goose Goose Goose Goose Goose Goose—" to the effect, Jian Qiao couldn't help laughing wildly.

Gu Yu rode a little towards him and kicked him: "Laugh at me again!"

Jian Qiao stretched his legs and kicked back: "No way?"

"Of course not!" Gu Yu shouted, "I'm Gu Xiaobao who is inferior to gold, silver, and delicacies!"

Not to be outdone, Jianqiao said, "Then I am still inferior to Jianqiao, which is inferior to Pingqiao, Arch Bridge and Zhaozhou Bridge?"

"Jian Qiaoqiao?" Gu Yu called him.

"Get lost," Jian Qiao replied, and shouted louder, "Gu Xiaobao!"

"How many times have I told you not to call me little in front of outsiders..." Gu Yu was stunned as he spoke, he actually said this sentence that he used to read to old man Gu every day so naturally.

"Xiaobao?" Jian Qiao shouted deliberately, "I can't call you Xiaobao, can I? Xiaobao!"

Gu Yu turned the car around and slammed into Jian Qiao.Panicked, Jian Qiao quickly stretched his legs and kicked the ground: "How dare you bump into me?"

"I knocked down the number one bridge in the world," Gu Yu said and hit it again, "The number one bridge in the world..."

Before the words could be heard, Jianqiao began to resist, grabbed Gu Yu's front of the car, and kicked his legs on the front wheel.

Just when the sword was on the verge of breaking out, a small battery car rang the bell cheerfully and ran over.

"What are you two making trouble on the road? Poor boy!"

Gu Yu looked at the leaking wheel of the small battery, and was very unconvinced: "Who are you talking about unlucky children? I will be a father in two years."

Jian Qiao chuckled.

"Still laughing?" Gu Yu glared at him.

"Stop laughing," Jian Qiao said, "Let's go, let's make a child so that you can be a father."

Gu Yu's ears almost burned: "What are you talking about?!"

"Can't go to school," Jian Qiao sighed, "I won't be able to earn money from playing with milk powder anymore."

As soon as he mentioned going to school, Gu Yu immediately returned to his essence of being a top student, and immediately started to ask Jian Qiao to recite vocabulary. Now Jian Qiao regretted it, saying something was not good, and insisted on giving him a chance to embarrass him.

They all came back late during the review, and the weather became colder and colder. Gu Yu wanted to curl up in bed and read a book every day, and now he even had the idea of ​​not even going to morning reading.

"Jian Qiaoqiao," Gu Yu approached him and whispered in the quiet classroom, "Grandpa told me to go back now, I'll go first."

"Huh?" Jian Qiao raised his head, "Aren't you going to eat dinner?"

"Don't eat, grandpa seems to be in a hurry." Gu Yu said and began to pack his schoolbag.

"Don't worry about anything," Jian Qiao also began to tidy up, "I'll be with you."

When the two of them left the school gate, there was a figure standing in the gloomy light. Jian Qiao caught a glimpse of him and immediately stopped in his tracks.

Gu Yu walked a while away only to realize that Jian Qiao was no longer by his side, so he quickly turned his head to see that Jian Qiao was standing with a person facing each other.

He immediately parked his bicycle and strode over, standing directly between the two of them, his temper was not too bad at first, and he suppressed his anger and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, but it has nothing to do with you." Qi Zirui replied.

"Okay," Gu Yu nodded, "Jian Qiao, let's go."

He rode on the bicycle, but Jianqiao didn't move.

"Do you want to fight with him again?" Gu Yu smiled angrily, "I shouldn't care about you, should I?"

Jian Qiao didn't know how to answer.

Qi Zirui looked at Jian Qiao, and did not back down at all: "I have something to ask you."

One wants him to go, the other wants him to stay.

Jian Qiao hesitated for a moment, pushed the bicycle and took a step towards Gu Yu, but at this moment, Gu Yu suddenly turned around and rode away quickly.

Jian Qiao looked at his back, which quickly turned and disappeared from sight, and suddenly stood still and froze in place.

"Can we talk now?" Qi Zirui asked.

Jian Qiao looked away: "Speak."

Qi Zirui lowered his eyes, looked at the ground expressionlessly, and said, "I've dropped out of school."

Jian Qiao suddenly raised his eyes to look at him, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Have you thought it over?"

Qi Zirui nodded.

"Then what are you going to do?" Jian Qiao asked.

"I don't know, every step counts." Qi Zirui replied.

Today's him is different from the usual irritable and fierce Qi Zirui, he is weak when he speaks, as if he has no hope for everything.

He casually mentioned his life and his troubles, which were rarely mentioned to Jian Qiao before.

"I'll give you the oil paintings, the ones I promised you before." Jian Qiao said.

Qi Zirui looked at him with a sneer, and said, "You give quickly now, does it mean that the more downcast I am, the more overflowing your compassion will be?"

Jian Qiao didn't want to argue with him, so he put the key of the small studio rented in the studio into his hand, and then rode out on the bicycle.

Not long after turning the corner, a lot of people gathered at an intersection, most of them were too busy to join in the fun, and the surrounding area had already been cordoned off.Jian Qiao passed by the intersection and turned to take a look into the crowd.

Just this one glance made his heart tighten, and he slammed on the brakes.

A car stopped at the intersection, the front of the car was deformed, a bicycle was reversed in front of the car, and there were some mottled blood beside it.

Jian Qiao suddenly became nervous, isn't that bicycle belonged to Gu Yu?

"Hello, what happened?" Jian Qiao caught a crowd of onlookers and asked.

"The young man rushed out and collided with a turning car." The aunt shook her head and sighed again, "The young man should be from the nearby university. He was injured and was taken away by the ambulance."

Jian Qiao's heart sank instantly, beating like a trapped animal."When?" he asked.

"It was about half an hour ago," said the aunt.

Jian Qiao was completely panicked at this moment, and hurriedly took out her mobile phone to call Gu Yu, the busy beep sounded, one after another, but no one answered.

He called again, but the call still didn't go through.

Beep, recording starts.

The fingertips were retracted, and then there was a gentle sound of reading in the room, clear and light, like a soft conversation.

Gu Yu likes to record his own voice reading, and occasionally listen to it after recording to compare the difference between his own accent and the authentic Russian accent.

Minutes and seconds passed, the track stretched forward, and the sound waves traveled up and down.

With a loud "bang" at the door, the sound wave suddenly reached the mountain peak, followed by anxious gasps one after another.

Gu Yu was taken aback and suddenly turned his head to look.

Because of running too fast, Jian Qiao still hadn't calmed down. In the cold winter, his sweat flowed from his forehead to his chin.He held the phone tightly in his hand, and the screen was still on the dialing interface.

"What are you doing?" Gu Yu asked.

"Why didn't you answer the phone?!" Jian Qiao strode over and grabbed his collar, scaring him.

Gu Yu immediately pushed him away: "Didn't you want to talk to Qi Zirui? Did you remember to find me after talking? Why should I answer? Even if you call eight, nine, ten, I won't answer!"

Jian Qiao took a step closer, his eyes were terribly red, he raised his phone and asked, "Did you block me?"

"Yeah, you've been playing endlessly, of course I'm blocked." Gu Yu said.

"Gu Yu," Jian Qiao pinched his chin suddenly, his expression suddenly became ruthless, and he said word by word, "Why are you so childish."

Gu Yu widened his eyes and was stunned.

——Xiao Bao, why are you so childish?

——If you dare to cry again, I will drive you out like your mother!

—What are you angry about?Is it my fault for leaving you at home?It's not for you that I'm working so hard outside, it's for this family!

——Why didn't your mother take you away with her?Do you feel good if I stay with you? !

——Gu Yu, it has been more than ten years, you are always so stubborn, you only have yourself in your heart, what should we do? !

……

Gu Yu frowned, pushed Jian Qiao's hand away, turned suddenly and rushed into the bathroom, and vomited into the toilet.

He pressed the flush button, and the sound of rushing water drowned out everything.

As soon as the sound of the water stopped, the cries from more than ten years ago were like countless sharp shards of glass, piercing the silence and tearing a bloody wound.

The childish and helpless cries, accompanied by uncontrollable screams, exploded in his mind instantly.

Gu Yu supported the wall, and under the strong physiological reaction, tears flowed out uncontrollably.He crouched down and his arms began to tremble.

Jian Qiao was a little worried, ran in and squatted in front of him, and patted his back lightly.

"What's the matter with you?" he asked.

Gu Yu waved his hands, his voice was low and hoarse, almost inaudible: "It's okay, I might have caught a cold."

Jian Qiao looked into his watery eyes, and all the anger disappeared at once.He sighed softly, and said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I was too impulsive just now, I shouldn't have said you."

Gu Yu shook his head, rubbed his eyes with his sleeve, and stood up on his knees: "It's okay, I shouldn't block you."

"Don't cry," Jian Qiao couldn't bear it, and wiped away the tears still flowing in his eyes with his fingers, "Can I apologize again?"

"I'm crying, how's your physical reaction?" Gu Yu smiled through his tears, walked back to the bedroom, and said, "I haven't asked you why you were crying just now."

"I'm just crying." Jian Qiao also smiled, and followed him back to the desk, "Which eye of yours saw me cry."

"I can see it with both naked eyes and one heavenly eye," Gu Yu sat on the chair and rubbed his belly, "Your eyes were so red just now that it seemed like you were going to kill me."

Jian Qiao scratched his hair and asked softly, "Scared?"

"... A little bit." Gu Yu replied honestly.

"Don't not answer my calls in the future, in case something happens, I will..." Jian Qiao was too embarrassed to continue, stuck here and threw away half of the words, "Got it?"

"I saw a ghost when I knew it," Gu Yu said, "What about reading comprehension? There are still half of the words that need to be guessed."

"I will be very worried." Jian Qiao had no choice but to muster up the courage to speak out in one breath.

Gu Yu smiled, looked down and saw Jian Qiao's cell phone on the table, the screen was still on, and there were more than a dozen missed calls on it, all of which were to Gu Xiaobao.

He felt a little guilty now, and only sighed quietly when the screen went dark.

"What is Master looking for from you?" Jian Qiao asked.

"Just me..." Gu Yu paused, "Tian Yunpei, you know?"

Jian Qiao shook his head: "I don't know."

"My former mother," Gu Yu said, "it's all about those shitty things. Not long before you came back, she and grandpa just went out."

"Well," Jian Qiao leaned over the sofa chair, with the soft cotton cloth pressed against his chest, he reached out and touched his neck, and said cautiously, "Did you... just remember the past?"

Gu Yu paused, then smiled: "No."

Jian Qiao looked at him, Gu Yu also raised his head, leaned on the chair and looked up at him: "I'm really fine."

Jian Qiao didn't ask any more questions, but supported his neck, lowered her head and approached him, and kissed him on the lips.

Gu Yu also kissed him, and suddenly opened his mouth and bit his mouth, blood oozed from the corner of Jian Qiao's mouth, he left immediately, touched it with his finger, leaving a streak of blood on his fingertip.

Jian Qiao was shocked: "I said why didn't you take revenge on me, so you were waiting here?"

"Not only that, Jian Qiaoqiao," Gu Yu touched his nose a little shyly, cleared his throat, gave him a guilty look, and said coyly, "I just... haven't rinsed my mouth yet."

Jian Qiao looked at him and fell silent, with a very complicated expression.

Gu Yu also looked at him seriously.

"Don't blame me, you want to kiss yourself." Gu Yu defended innocently.

Jian Qiao still stared at him seriously.

Both of them burst out laughing suddenly.

Jian Qiao wiped the blood from his finger onto his mouth: "I'll let you taste what is called the present report!"

"Hey crazy!" Gu Yu wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and pouted several times, "You are the most disgusting in the whole Chinese painting circle!"

After Gu Yu finished speaking, he rubbed the back of Jian Qiao's face with the back of his hand. Jian Qiao turned his head away, grabbed his hand, put his other hand on the chair, and leaned closer.

Gu Yu leaned against the back of the chair, the warm breath swirled between the two of them, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, he looked at the face in front of him, put his palms on his shoulders, and then closed his eyes.