live happily ever after

⑤ memory

Shen Chen was carrying a bag of books, and still held a few books in his hand.Qi Yixuan had no way to go with him, and wanted to bring him the schoolbag home first, but Shen Chen refused to give it, Qi Yixuan had no choice but to look at Shen Chen's small shoulders pressing the schoolbag and feel uncomfortable.Today, the family driver came to pick up the passengers. Mother Qi and Mother Zhou have always been good sisters. They proposed to hold a dinner party at home to celebrate Qi Yixuan and Zhou Xingyang's college entrance examination. They are waiting for their grades to study abroad.

The matter of studying abroad was settled early, Qi Yixuan had no right to decide, and he had no reason to disobey before, if he wanted to get his father's appreciation, he had to follow Qi's father's wishes, but now that Qi Yixuan met Shen Chen, he and The people around Qi Yixuan are different. Shen Chen stays here, and also keeps walking forward, with a slower pace, but Qi Yixuan will soon have to distance himself from him and fly to a strange country, which will definitely speed him up a lot. , I am afraid that when I look back, I don’t know which fork I will encounter and I will never go back.Qi Yixuan also wants to be like others, share the same goal with his best friend, and go to university together.

In the evening, before Shen Chen left, he suddenly hugged him, his tone sounded a little frustrated and sad, Shen Chen said, "I don't want to be separated from you."

Qi Yixuan didn't want to, so when he heard the topic of studying abroad at the dinner table, Qi Yixuan was a little annoyed, picked up the soda on the table, and drank it down.

As soon as it entered the throat, the stomach seemed to be stirred by the soda water, and it immediately boiled.Just like when Shen Chen hugged him, it might be because the weather was too hot, Qi Yixuan's body also heated up, and the residual warmth of the hug still seemed to remain on his body, otherwise, no matter how hard he shook it, he couldn't get rid of that feeling.There is also some vaguely invisible and intangible emotion in my heart, which is constantly pulling my heart.

After the dinner, Qi Yixuan couldn't find Zhou Xingyang, so he went to the rooftop where they used to stay together when they were young, and sure enough, Zhou Xingyang secretly took the wine and sat on the long stone pier, the bottle of wine beside him was already empty.

"One?" Zhou Xingyang saw Qi Yixuan approaching, squinted his eyes and smiled, handed the wine to Qi Yixuan, Qi Yixuan took it and sat down beside him.

Open it and send it directly to your mouth.Although Qi Yixuan is a rich second generation, he has a strict family education and is not a playboy. He has always been well-behaved in school.Even wine was learned after secretly drinking with Zhou Xingyang a few times.

Zhou Xingyang could tell that Qi Yixuan had as much on his mind tonight as he did.

"What's the matter with you? You haven't talked much all night?"

"I've always been like this?"

"Oh, usually Xiao Chen is not by your side occasionally, and I have never seen you like this."

Qi Yixuan pursed his lips, and poured another sip of beer into his mouth.

Zhou Xingyang stared at his face, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it had something to do with Shen Chen, Zhou Xingyang also had something hidden in his heart, so he could see for sure.I thought, could it be that Shen Chen was discovered?

"Having a bad mood?"

"No..." Qi Yixuan raised his head, raised his hand to touch the wine jar with Zhou Xingyang.

"I guess...it has something to do with Xiaochen? Did you quarrel with him?"

"No, we won't fight?"

"Tsk tsk..." Zhou Xingyang stretched his legs, and his long, thin and stylish legs were stretched across his face.Putting his hands behind his back, he smiled and looked at him meaningfully.

"How can you be so confident in Shen Chen..."

Qi Yixuan's eyes were filled with warmth, a gentleness that he didn't realize.

"He won't quarrel..." She was also reluctant to quarrel with him.Shen Chen's face turned red when he was in a hurry, his mouth was slightly pouting and his cheeks were puffed up. He knew that he was angry, but he felt as if he was kissed by someone, as if he was shy.Even getting angry is so vivid, how could Qi Yixuan be willing to get really angry with him?

"Yeah...he really likes you." When Zhou Xingyang said this, he secretly looked at Qi Yixuan's face, seeing that this person was indifferent, he had no choice but to secretly call Qi Yixuan a piece of wood.

Presumably in Qi Yixuan's view, the love between them is the appreciation and love between friends, and it has nothing to do with the love between men and women.

Zhou Xingyang intentionally tried it out, exhausted his language skills in the past few years, said a few euphemistic words, and carefully blew a bubble into the air, but it shattered easily before reaching the height he wanted to see. .

Not interesting.

The moonlight is getting stronger.The wine tank was more than half empty, Zhou Xingyang was already drunk, his face was flushed, he opened his mouth slightly to breathe, and the smell of alcohol came out.

It was the first time he indulged himself like this.People say to drink away their sorrows, but the sorrows have not disappeared much, but the misses have emerged layer by layer.He thought of the cold-faced man in the distance, Chu Lin wasn't cold-hearted, but he wasn't the warm one.Zhou Xingyang felt bitter in his heart, finally accepted himself, and dispelled the depression in his heart for a long time, but found that there were more difficult things waiting for him ahead. This time Zhou Xingyang seemed to have no end in sight, so he could only follow his own heart go down.

"You're drunk, go back."

Zhou Xingyang shook his head, Qi Yixuan could see what he meant, Zhou Xingyang didn't want to leave, so he opened another can of wine.

Qi Yixuan pulled away his hand holding the wine. "You can't drink..."

Zhou Xingyang interrupted him. "Brother, I fell."

"Where did it fall?" Qi Yixuan straightened his body. "Isn't it always your famous saying to get up where you fell?"

Zhou Xingyang laughed twice after hearing this, his mouth was bitter. "I really can't get up this time, if one day..." Zhou Xingyang hiccupped, exhaled a mouthful of alcohol and chattered endlessly. "You can't laugh at me!"

Qi Yixuan sighed when he heard the words, he had already seen that Zhou Xingyang was depressed recently, this would probably be the rhythm of telling the truth after being drunk.

"I won't go to America with you..."

Qi Yixuan sat down again, and was taken aback when he heard this. "What's the meaning?"

"Brother, I am also a person with dreams. You think that I am just like you, obediently wanting to inherit the family business."

Zhou Xingyang laughed, but he didn't expect that the words came out of his own mouth. Although he didn't have any strong desire to inherit the Zhou family before, he couldn't mention any dream that he valued and needed to change.There is a younger sister under him, and she has long thought about throwing the burden on Zhou Ting, so that she can live a free life for a while.

"I want to go to medical school and become a famous doctor!"

"You? Are you crazy? I think you want to be a quack doctor." Qi Yixuan exposed it ruthlessly. Zhou Xingyang usually jumped up and down in school like a monkey. If you turn a blind eye and close your eyes, you can pass the exam.If you become a doctor, you really are not expected to treat patients patiently and meticulously.

Zhou Xingyang paused.Funny, "You guys have no confidence in me..."

Zhou Xingyang lowered his eyes, looking a little lonely. "That's what he said."

"Who?"

"Chu Lin." Zhou Xingyang tilted his head to Qi Yixuan and raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes seemed to be shining with stars.

"You don't know each other yet. I'll go with him. I'll take the test wherever he takes the test."

From now on, people from all over the world will go with him.

"I don't know yet, the two of you have become so good, it's also good, since you have decided, you can have a companion wherever you go."

Qi Yixuan patted Zhou Xingyang on the shoulder, seeing his firm gaze, thinking that his low mood these past few days was related to this matter.

"Did Uncle Zhou agree?"

"He, how can he control me? I go wherever I like."

Qi Yixuan was thoughtful.After sitting for a while, Qi Yixuan helped him to the guest room, but Zhou Xingyang couldn't stop Zhou Xingyang's rambling mouth that smelled of alcohol.

"Daxuan, you, it's just that your brain is not open..." Zhou Xingyang leaned on Qi Yixuan's shoulder, his eyes regained a trace of clarity, and he couldn't help but speak.

"It's good if you go abroad, stay away from Xiaochen."

"What do you mean?" Qi Yixuan stopped and asked him with a frown.Zhou Xingyang's words made him feel the irritability that had been lingering in his throat tonight again.

Zhou Xingyang knew that he had lost his words after drinking.When Qi Yixuan asked him again, he shook his head and did not answer.

Qi Yixuan didn't drink much tonight, but he felt a little drunk after all. When he returned to the room alone, the alcohol started to flare up as soon as the room temperature rose, but he thought more than usual.What Zhou Xingyang said to him tonight and Shen Chen's hug in the evening made him uneasy.

"Yixuan, I don't want to be separated from you..."

"Yeah... how much he likes you..."

"Why are you so nice to Xiaochen?"

"It's good if you go abroad, stay away from Xiaochen."

Qi Yixuan is not stupid.Some things can be seen as dubious if you think about it carefully.

When he passed by the classroom window, he saw the slips of paper dropped by Shen Chen. He knew those slips. One day when Shen Chen went to the office after class, someone passed by the desk and knocked out the books on the desk. Qi Yixuan was a little angry at first. , lowered his body and picked up the book, and the moment he picked it up, a large stack of fragmented papers slid out.Listening to the man's teasing. "Yo, did Shen Chen fall in love early?"

Qi Yixuan glanced at it, and it was clearly a conversation between him and himself on the paper.

Because of what the man said, my heart was weird, and the air that just came to my head was stuck in my chest.

And today, as if he had finally verified something, Qi Yixuan saw Shen Chen smoothing those papers with his own eyes, with a smile on his face, and in Qi Yixuan's eyes, even a slightly obtrusive smile, he put the papers into the compartment of his schoolbag .

What is Shen Chen doing?Why should we cherish and collect these humble things so carefully?

Qi Yixuan had doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to reveal it.But Shen Chen's parting hug made half of Qi Yixuan's body numb uncontrollably.

There is no such feeling in the usual physical touch.

Shen Chen said that he didn't want to be separated, Qi Yixuan thought the same thing at that time, he also didn't want to be separated from Shen Chen, but now it's late at night after drinking, he thinks a lot.It was only then that he realized that what kind of unwillingness it was was the root cause of Qi Yixuan's troubles all night.

They are at the same table for three years in high school, brothers.Even if we separated after the college entrance examination, we still had a good relationship, it was just that we each had a life to find and experience.

But he didn't want to be separated from Shen Chen, he wanted to live in the same city as Shen Chen, and he didn't even want to go to study abroad, which he had already decided on.The unexplainable desire suddenly rushed towards Qi Yixuan like a flood of beasts, and it became more and more intense.

And Shen Chen also suffered from insomnia.He was annoyed by his hug in the evening, because he was impulsive and couldn't restrain his emotions.But he was happy again, and it was rare for him to be impulsive, hugging Qi Yixuan for a while, this time, Shen Chen was stunned.Picking up the schoolbag as if fleeing from a refugee, urging the person who couldn't walk away while being hugged by him to hurry up.So all night, I tossed and turned in the self-reflection of the two worlds of ice and fire, unable to fall asleep.

Qi Yixuan was so dazed, he definitely wouldn't think about it, but what if he was found out?

There are thousands of people who have a crush on each other, but the childishness in their thoughts is the same.Shen Chen had thousands of imaginations, afraid that he would find out, and also afraid that he would not find out.I was troubled until later, when I fell asleep, I even had a smile on my lips.

But he didn't know that Qi Yixuan's heart had been turned upside down.

The days that followed were as usual.The last summer vacation seemed particularly long with the sad atmosphere of graduation, and the melancholy of parting was also brewed and lengthened.Until the day after the results of the college entrance examination were announced, such an atmosphere broke out completely.

Many people in the class cried, and even the teacher smiled and praised people saying blessings, and secretly choked up and wiped away tears while talking.

The head teacher who accompanied them in this class for three years has always been very kind to them. Rather than being a teacher, it is more like a warm-hearted big sister who takes care of and protects them everywhere.

The girl below cried even more fiercely.

Shen Chen sat on his seat, secretly glanced at Qi Yixuan.Seeing the person's expressionless face, his mind was empty, and he couldn't help but glance at it again.At this moment, he was caught right away.

"Why are you peeking at me?"

Shen Chen's heart beat faster. "without…"

Shen Chen hasn't seen him for two days.The day before yesterday they went to the beach with Zhou Xingyang, but Zhou Xingyang ran away after receiving a call on the way. Before leaving, Zhou Xingyang whispered in his ear. "Remember to thank me for giving you the opportunity to be alone."

After hearing these words, Shen Chen's legs became weak, and he hurriedly pushed Zhou Xingyang away.

Indeed, their chances of being alone together are running out, and only this summer vacation is left.

I didn't return that night, so I booked a bed and breakfast by the sea and stayed there for one night.

When I got to the room, I found that the bed in the room was only a double bed. Qi Yixuan didn't say anything, but Shen Chen felt guilty. He went to ask the boss and found out that the rooms here are all double beds. The name of the homestay is Lovers Homestay. I didn't see clearly at first.The boss is a big sister with a child of a few years old, and she added a sentence, what are the two big boys afraid of?

What are you afraid of?

Shen Chen was really scared. It's not like he and Qi Yixuan had the experience of sleeping in the same bed. The last time they went to the mountain to soak in the hot spring, they slept together. It was that time that Shen Chen found out that Qi Yixuan Xuan thought.

The mood is completely different.Thinking about it, it is a kind of beginning and end.

Shen Chen, who had been withdrawn from his memory, hadn't reacted yet, Qi Yixuan pushed him to give up his seat, Qi Yixuan came to the stage and took the small gift of No.2 in the class for the college entrance examination results from the head teacher, unexpectedly, Qi Yixuan took a step forward , gently hugged the head teacher.

Qi Yixuan's stingy expression of emotion on his face, when it's time to say goodbye, no one can move his face.Shen Chen knew that Qi Yixuan's heart was also very soft.

He is warmer than anyone.

Shen Chen opened his mouth slightly, and looked at Qi Yixuan walking back with disbelief. Qi Yixuan thought he was a bit dazed and cute, and couldn't help pinching Shen Chen's round earlobes in front of the whole class.

For a moment, a few girls secretly cried out, not knowing why they were surprised.Rao Qi Yixuan, a straight man with a heart, couldn't hold back anymore.

It was obvious that Qi Yixuan didn't use any force, and the tips of Shen Chen's ears were completely red.For a moment, the temperature around the ears seemed particularly abrupt, burning hot there, and it couldn't fade away, Shen Chen clamped his legs tightly, and rubbed his thighs slightly, enduring it a bit hard.

After the class meeting was over, Shen Chen followed Qi Yixuan, fearing that he would be found strange, so he turned his attention to getting the small gift from the head teacher. Qi Yixuan took one, and Shen Chen also went up to get one from the head teacher later. The notebook also has a keychain with a group photo of the class on it.

The little people are smiling or laughing, and they are frozen in the small amber mirror.

In midsummer, youth is gone forever.