A ten-year rival in love

The day before the end of the annual vacation, an unexpected guest came to Li Xu's house.

"Gong Xi Fa Cai, Happy New Year."

Shao Lang was leaning on a cane, and was holding a big gift bag in his right hand, which was bright red, matching his face reddened by the wind.

Just like when he met Li Xu for the first time, he looked well-behaved and docile, but the wild beauty that existed in him at that time was gone, only the calmness and depression that could not be shaken remained.

"……Happy New Year."

Li Xu controlled his eyes not to look at Shao Lang's legs, but behind Shao Lang.

"Li Yan didn't come, so I don't want him to follow me. This is the first time I've gone out in the past few months." Shao Lang said, "Brother Xu, don't you plan to let me go in and sit around?"

"Oh." Li Xu took a few steps back, "Stupid, come in."

Shao Lang's movements are not coordinated enough, and he is obviously not very familiar with his prosthetic limb.Li Xu didn't reach out to help him, but poured Shao Lang a cup of fruit tea.

Sitting on the sofa, Shao Lang realized that Xiao Ba was gone, and asked, "Where is Xiao Ba?"

"Before my mother said that the family was short of small living things, I gave her Xiaoba." After Li Xu finished speaking, he realized that he seemed to have a chance to turn around. As long as his mother has his things, his heart will soften after a long time when.

Maybe he should find a way from another aspect.

"Hmm." Shao Lang smiled.

"Why did you come here suddenly? Li Yan let you go out in such a cold day."

Shao Lang: "Brother Xu, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Huh?" Li Xu picked a small stool and sat down, "Are you leaving?"

"Well... I still decided to go back to City B." Shao Lang said, "The company said they would transfer me to an office clerical job."

Li Xu wanted to ask Li Yan what to do, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was not his responsibility, so he stopped: "Seeing you now, I feel more at ease."

Shao Lang hooked the corner of his mouth reluctantly: "Thank you, Brother Xu, I really appreciate you very much."

"Don't say that, in the end I didn't allow... him to confess the crime." Li Xu was silent, "I will find a way in the future, it is impossible to let him go at ease."

"I'll be 25 after the Chinese New Year." Shao Lang paused to change the subject, and smiled wryly, "Suddenly felt that what my uncle said was right. I was too immature before, and now I'm just taking it upon myself."

Li Xu didn't comfort him, one is that he really can't comfort others, and the other is that he agrees with Li Yansheng's words.

Jiu Jiu stretched his waist and came out of the room, meowing delicately.

Li Xu and Shao Lang turned their heads to look at it at the same time, it walked gracefully between the two of them like a king on tour, looking at Shao Lang curiously.

"What a cute cat." Shao Lang finally had a more cheerful look on his face, and stretched out his hand to tease the wine, "This is the puppet that Brother Hui raised?"

"Yes, it's called Jiujiu." Li Xu said, "It likes you a little bit."

Shao Lang spread out his palms and invited, "Come and drink, I'll touch you."

Jiujiu sniffed his fingertips, as if he didn't like the smell of disinfectant on his body, turned his head silently, and meowed.

Unwilling to give up, Shao Lang stroked its chin with his fingers, but it did not avoid it.

"So cute." Shao Lang smiled sincerely, "I also want to raise a cat."

Li Xu always felt that the current atmosphere was a bit weird, as if two best friends were chatting, he tried to find a man's topic: "When will you go back to work?"

"Next week." Shao Lang said, "Actually, I have one more thing to do. I hope to get rid of you and Brother Hui to help me persuade Li Yan to stay in City S."

Li Xu was a little surprised, but not very surprised: "Why?"

"...I don't want the world in his eyes to be so small. It's better for him to stay here." Shao Lang let go of Jiujiu's paw, "And I want to separate from him temporarily, try him, and try myself."

This child has really grown up, but it has also changed from blind self-confidence to timid inferiority complex.Neither extreme is good.

"I will try my best." Li Xu said, "Have a good time, Xiao Lang."

This was the first time he called Shao Lang in such an intimate tone. The latter was a little taken aback, and then smiled: "Thank you Brother Xu."

Lu Hui has been so busy recently that he has not even touched the ground. He has purchased all kinds of decorations every year, and has some miscellaneous interpersonal relationships, as well as preparing for the next day's Valentine's Day event.

Valentine's Day in the bar, what new tricks can there be, it's a group of emotional prodigal sons squandering their youth and love.Lu Hui, the prodigal son who has turned around, is not thinking about this anymore. He always wants to go home to accompany Li Xu, and he doesn't even take the shareholder meeting seriously.

So what, since then the king will not go to court early.

He rushed home in time for dinner, Li Xu was cooking soup in the kitchen, the room was filled with the smell of thick soup, he suddenly felt very happy.

"Are you back?" Li Xu's voice came from the kitchen.

"Well, I'm exhausted, I don't want to go today, let Li Yan and the others take care of it."

Li Xu wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen—his legs were obviously much better, except for occasional itching or tingling. cat mat.

"Shao Lang is here today." Li Xu said.

"Huh?" Lu Hui raised his eyelids, "Can he be discharged from the hospital?"

"They said they would return to City B next week."

Lu Hui frowned: "Oh."

"I want you to help persuade Li Yan to stay in City S, and don't think about your future just because of him."

"I'd do the same thing if he didn't say it." Lu Hui said, "Li Yan is just too boring. The elders are just like the female students, they are full of love and love..."

He realized that he seemed not qualified to say that about Li Yan, so he changed the subject abruptly, "What fish did you cook today?"

"Big-headed fish." Li Xu said, "It was still alive when I bought it, but it turned over in the afternoon, probably scared to death by alcohol."

"Puhaha...hahaha..." Lu Hui felt very cold, but he just wanted to laugh. He lay down on the sofa and stretched out his hand to call Li Xu over.

Li Xu sat beside his lap cooperatively, and the two naturally held each other's hands.

"How do we live tomorrow?" Lu Hui asked, "Watch a movie at home, and then do what you love at home?"

"...I want to go out for a walk." Li Xu said, "It's too boring at home."

Before, he didn't understand why Yin Huishan always wanted to be discharged from the hospital. In the past few months, he really experienced the feeling that he seemed to be a useless person.

"It's cold outside." Lu Hui shook his fingers, and then said, "It's okay to go out for a walk, I'll cover you tightly, and we'll come back after taking a walk."

"Don't you want to take me somewhere?" Li Xu said, "It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, let's choose tomorrow."

"So urgent." Lu Hui laughed, "Have you been thinking about this these days?"

"Could it be the restaurant you took me to?" Li Xu asked.

"No, no, it's a place you are familiar with." Lu Hui said, "I originally planned to take you there in the spring... It's not impossible tomorrow, anyway, I prepared early..."

"Huh?" Li Xu interrupted the second half of his soliloquy, "What?"

"Go tomorrow, just go tomorrow." Lu Hui wrapped his palms around his knees and massaged them gently.

Li Xu is really looking forward to it. In a sense, Lu Hui is his "first love".It is also the first time for him to taste the sweetness of love, and there will be emotions of anticipation or loss.

He originally thought that Lu Hui would take him to some more romantic places, either the French restaurant that needed to be cracked down last time, or some romantic places.

It never occurred to Lu Hui to take him to the high school where they used to go to school together.Standing at the gate of the back street of his alma mater, Li Xu was wrapped up like a rice dumpling welcoming the Dragon Boat Festival, with only a pair of ink-painted eyes exposed.He looked at Lu Hui, who was dressed in a clean suit, and thought that Lu Hui's brain might have been blown out by the wind.

"Is there a school celebration?" Li Xu asked.

"No."

"Which teacher's birthday is today?" Li Xu asked again.

"No."

"Then what did you bring me here for? For the holidays?"

Lu Hui smiled and said, "What's the matter, can't you?"

"...Nothing." As an outstanding alumnus, Li Xu had returned hundreds of times without knowing it.But he really wanted to know the mentality of Lu Hui who brought him here for Valentine's Day.

"Let's go, my wife." Lu Hui took his hand and walked to the snack street inside, "Let's also recall our youth."

S Gao is not a school that only focuses on academic research. It attaches great importance to multiple cultivation and recruits students from all over the world, so there are not only top academics like Li Xu, but also all-around scumbags like Lu Hui.

Xue Ba and Xue Zha ate a bowl of steaming beef noodles at the same table.

The guard at the gate recognized Li Xu, knowing that they were going back to their alma mater for sightseeing, he let them through, and gave them a school brochure with the current school map drawn on it.

Lu Hui felt very moved. It was the first time that he was greeted so warmly by his alma mater, which was in the honor of Li Xu.

It was already afternoon when they went out, and it was getting dark now.They sat on small chairs outside the stadium, leaning against each other and chatting like old men.

"Time flies so fast, more than ten years have passed." Lu Hui said, "The world is impermanent..."

Li Xu: "What do you want to sigh again?"

"Let me tell you about my happy life now. I think I can publish a book that records the love history of the infatuated academic scum chasing the indifferent academic bully. I think it will be a big seller."

"..." Today is still a holiday, Li Xu didn't want to complain about him, so he closed his eyes and didn't speak.

"get out of class is over." Lu Hui said, "It's past five o'clock, and the students are going to have dinner. It's so pitiful, it's only the seventh day of the junior high school, and they are all in class."

"It's only the seventh day of the lunar new year, and we actually come to this place to sit and chat." Li Xu said, "I don't know which one is more pitiful."

Lu Hui smiled and said nothing.

They walked around the school again, Li Xu's legs were getting tired easily now, and they would stop for a while after walking two steps.

The high school has been expanding these years, and the campus is said to have expanded to one or two thousand acres of land, which has already caught up with most colleges and universities.So they turned until it was dark, and finally arrived at the destination that Lu Hui wanted to go to.

This is the grove behind the old teaching area. Compared with the growing campus, it is indeed a "small" grove.

Li Xu has a little impression of this forest. He still remembers that night in the early summer of the third year of high school. Lu Hui called him out alone. He thought that Lu Hui was looking for trouble with him. Later, he was interrupted by the patrolling dean, and the two ran away desperately. .

He seemed to understand why Lu Hui brought him here.

"Go for a walk?" Lu Hui asked with a smile.

The school has been changing, but this forest has not changed much. It is still quiet and secluded, suitable for couples to come and have a tryst.

However, they are probably the only mentally retarded couple who still come to the woods for a tryst in this weather.

After walking for a while, Li Xu just wanted to ask them when they would go out, when Lu Hui suddenly pushed him against the tree trunk.

Plop, plop.Li Xu's heart was pounding, and his body became excited almost reflexively.

"Student Li Xu." Lu Hui didn't lean over to kiss him as he expected, but supported the tree trunk behind him, "Do you know what I asked you to do?"

Li Xu was a little funny. He recalled how Lu Hui was so nervous that he couldn't speak, and suddenly felt that he was cute.

"What are you doing?" Li Xu asked cooperatively, "Are you going to fight?"

"Why do you always think that I want to fight with you, am I just so annoying?" Lu Hui said, "I have something to tell you."

His attitude was too serious, Li Xu became inexplicably nervous, he leaned against the tree and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"I like you." Lu Hui looked into his eyes firmly and said softly, "I love you."

Li Xu wanted to laugh, but he found his eye sockets sore.Lu Hui supported his hand, knelt down on one knee slowly, and made a gesture of proposing marriage. At some point, a ring box appeared on his right hand.

"The old Lu Hui is very timid, impatient, and doesn't know how to love people." Lu Hui said, "But the 30-year-old Lu Hui has become very good. He finally chased his favorite Li Xu, although I missed ten years, but now he is so happy that he is about to die. 30-year-old Lu Hui would like to ask 30-year-old Li Xu, would he like to spend the remaining ten years with this good Lu Hui?"

Li Xu lowered his eyes and looked at Lu Hui.

"30-year-old Li Xu said he would."

Lu Hui smiled contentedly, took out the ring, put it on Li Xu's ring finger like a slow motion playback, and then pressed a soft kiss.

"I'll put it on for you too." Li Xu took another ring and grabbed Lu Hui's hand.

The rings were exchanged.

Li Xu asked, "Is this considered a marriage?"

"This is a marriage proposal." Lu Hui said with a smile, "Do you want a wedding? We can go abroad."

"I don't care about this." Li Xu said, "It's just the difference between two witnesses and many witnesses. You can do whatever you want."

Lu Hui raised his hand to support the back of his head, and the two kissed each other as they wished.

Suddenly a flashlight came in behind him, and the rough baritone asked, "Who's there?"

Both Li Xu and Lu Hui were taken aback, they turned their heads to look at the figure that was getting closer.

"Yo—" Anyway, it has been exposed, and Lu Hui has nothing to fear. He and Li Xu interlocked their fingers, and turned to face the visitor. "Lao Li, why are you still a dean after so many years?"

Old Li was also stunned, he recognized Li Xu's face, and put down his hand holding the flashlight in surprise: "Li——"

"Vice principal." Li Xu smiled, "Hello."

"Li Xu, right?" Old Li looked confused, "Why are you here, who is this?"

Li Xu gave him an introduction.

"This is Lu Hui." He smiled. "It's the student you used to have trouble with, and it's also mine..."

He paused: "Fiance."

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