[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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Gu Qiaochu stood under the big tree at the entrance of the street, with his hands in his trouser pockets, looked up at the moon hanging in the air, took a step back, and then took a step back, and finally turned his gaze back against the rugged tree trunk.

At that time, there was no smog or dust in the north, and the air was still fresh, with the coolness of winter and the smell of fireworks on New Year’s Eve, which was inhaled by Gu Qiaochu into his lungs bit by bit. Finally, a cloud of white mist spewed out from the pale thin lips.

When he heard the sound of steady steps, he didn't even bother to turn his head to look.

He remembered how a young man got used to the existence of one more person little by little, how he got used to the occasional physical contact, how he got used to turning his head, and he could see that fair and handsome face With a sunny smile on his face.

"Auntie asked me to come and find you." Lu Zhiang blinked and stopped in front of Gu Qiaochu, he looked straight into Gu Qiaochu's light brown eyes and smiled, "She said she was afraid that you would get lost .”

"Heh." Gu Qiaochu smiled helplessly with one corner of his lips raised.

He stood up straight and took two steps, but he didn't hear Lu Zhiang's voice coming up, he frowned and looked back in confusion, "What are you doing? Let's go."

"Ah? Ah!" Lu Zhiang was stunned for a moment, then stepped up on his heels, trotted two steps to follow, patted Gu Qiaochu's elbow, and trotted away, "Let's go, let's go."

Gu Qiaochu walked behind and entered the yard, he closed the door, and when he turned around, he saw that Lu Zhiang was already mingling with his relatives and sitting around the fire.

The pure white boy didn't know what he said, but there was a good-looking smile on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, which made all the elders laugh out loud.

Xiao Yu watched Gu Qiaochu enter the door, and beckoned him to go, "Ah Chu!"

Gu Qiaochu froze in place for a few seconds before walking over with a gentle smile.I greeted the elders and said that I was too busy and tired during the day, so I went upstairs to rest first.

Xiao Yu naturally knew the hard work during the day, she nodded, and patted Lu Zhiang's shoulder by the way, "Then Zhiang also go up with Ah Chu to rest!"

"What do you mean?" Gu Qiaochu frowned, he glanced at Lu Zhiang, who was obviously fidgeting, and looked at his mother who smiled and squinted his eyes indifferently.

"Ah, there are many relatives at home today, and there are not enough guest rooms." Xiao Yu smiled embarrassedly at Gu Qiaochu, "So Ah Chu should squeeze with Zhiang."

Gu Qiaochu pursed his lips and did not speak, until Lu Zhiang felt that the silence was a bit tormented, then he nodded, "Okay."

Lu Zhiang followed Gu Qiaochu into the room with a low eyebrow and pleasing eyes all the way. He stood at the door and watched Gu Qiaochu take the slippers and bathrobe from the closet with a cold look and hand them over, "It's new, you should be able to wear it."

Looking at Gu Qiaochu's expressionless face, he felt that it was still a bit abrupt.He thought that a person like Gu Qiaochu would not want someone to invade his personal space.

Hesitating like this, he suddenly grabbed Gu Qiaochu's arm, and said sullenly, "If you're not happy, I'd better go to Lixia's house to squeeze with Fu Xiaosi."

Gu Qiaochu raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Zhiang's low-browed and aggrieved look, suddenly a little smile appeared between the corners of his eyes and brows, he resisted the urge to pick the boy's snarling hair, turned around And parted the hand on the arm, "It's so late, don't bother. Go to rest early after washing up."

Lu Zhiang nodded obediently on the surface, waited for Gu Qiaochu to come out of the shower, turned around and went into the bathroom, and then made a fist with one hand and made a signature move of victory.

He didn't expect that Gu Qiaochu would be so considerate and prepared a floor for him.

"You seem disappointed?" Gu Qiaochu raised his brows and smiled inexplicably. He looked at Lu Zhiang standing at the door of the bathroom with a wooden face, "No one can sleep in my bed except me."

"...Oh." He didn't deny that he was very disappointed. Although the other party's words contained obvious sarcasm and ridicule, Lu Zhiang was rare. He didn't jump or fight for his human rights. On the floor, "Thank you."

Those black eyes were full of sincerity and kindness, and Gu Qiaochu's brows twitched.It is undeniable that the rare and docile Lu Zhiang made him feel a little boring, but he was really tired during the day, and he didn't want to make any more noise, so he turned off the light and lay down.

After a long time, the New Year's Eve fireworks started to be set off outside, but Lu Zhiang still didn't fall asleep.With his big bright eyes open, he reached out and patted Gu Qiaochu's bed, "Gu Qiaochu? Are you asleep?"

"If I turn over every three minutes, will you fall asleep?" Gu Qiaochu was out of spirits, and his words were full of thorns.He closed his eyes and didn't bother to open them, only feeling very tired.

"...the floor is too hard." Lu Zhiang muttered in a low voice with some grievances.

Gu Qiaochu didn't respond, until Lu Zhiang thought that he finally couldn't resist and fell asleep, there was another rustling sound on the bed.He propped himself up, and by the light of the fireworks and the moon, he watched Gu Qiaochu move aside.

"If you keep tumbling on the bed, I'll make you stop tumbling." Gu Qiaochu said viciously with his eyes wide open, obviously sleepy.

"Okay, okay!" Lu Zhiang jumped up overjoyed, hugged the pillow and fell asleep next to Gu Qiaochu.

But after a while, Lu Zhiang sadly found that he still couldn't sleep, and he had promised Gu Qiaochu that he didn't dare to move casually anymore.But he couldn't take it anymore, until his legs became stiff, and he tentatively said in a low voice, "Gu Qiaochu? Have you slept~ Have you slept~ If you haven't slept, let's chat~"

Gu Qiaochu opened his eyes weakly, he took several deep breaths repeatedly, until his rationality defeated the urge to suffocate Lu Zhiang, he stretched out his hand and turned on a dim bedside lamp.

"What are you talking about?"

Lu Zhiang turned sideways, looked at Gu Qiaochu's side face that was too soft under the light, hesitated for a while, and then said, "That coin of yours during the day..."

"What's wrong with the coin?" Gu Qiaochu turned his head a little strangely, but when his line of sight met the other's line of sight, he vaguely felt something was wrong.

Too serious.

Lu Zhiang looked at Gu Qiaochu and turned his head away as if fleeing, he blinked, and there was no casual smile in his eyes, "Do you have a girl you like, I thought you are a good student who only knows how to study."

He didn't know why he brought up the subject, or more accurately, why he cared so much about the coin.

Gu Qiaochu blinked lightly, "No."

"then you……"

"I threw it in casually." He cut off Lu Zhiang's words with a wooden face, "I didn't think about anything, I just threw it casually."

"So don't take it too seriously."

You don't care too much, and I don't care too much.

A few days after the Lantern Festival, Gu Qiaochu packed his luggage and brought Lixia back to school.

The school life soon got on the right track, with classes repeated every day, regular student council meetings, rehearsals with Lu Zhiang on weekends.

Strange to say, after the night of New Year's Eve, the two of them tacitly never mentioned that coin again.Although Lu Zhiang still cared about it very much, Gu Qiaochu even put it in the middle of the wallet, but neither of them mentioned it again.

But Gu Qiaochu will never go to eat with Lu Zhiang after the rehearsal.

At first Lu Zhiang would still insist, until Gu Qiaochu even lied about going to the gym with Yu Lai, he realized how much Gu Qiaochu didn't want to stay with him for a while.

Anyone who knew Yu Lai in this school basically knew that Yu Lai hated the gym as much as the high school gangsters hated Gu Qiaochu.

That was the news that Lu Zhiang occasionally heard from girls in other classes.

It is said that when Gu Qiaochu first entered the school, he was attracted by the presidium of the student union and wanted to train him to be the next president of the student union.As a result, Gu Qiaochu was too lazy to bother, and had to prepare for going abroad in the future, so he just wanted to hang around in the student union.

As a result, when I was on duty one morning, I remembered that the high-ranking gangster was hated.

It so happened that one day his cousin drove to the school to pick him up to go shopping in the city. He was spotted by a group of gangsters, and it spread to the ears of his classmates. It became Gu Qiaochu's compensatory dating just because of his good looks.

Gu Qiaochu didn't pay much attention to it at first, and when chatting with Yu Lai about this topic, he joked that he was grateful for those people's affirmation of his appearance.

In the end, no one expected that the incident would become a big deal, and it would reach the teacher's ears, and it turned out that a member of the student union in the first grade was taken care of.

When Gu Qiaochu was called to talk for the first time, he was still a little dazed. When he got angry and left the dean's office, he almost smashed the bench when he entered the gangster class.

"What are you doing! What are you guys doing!" Yu Lai rushed forward with a few people from the dormitory, he blocked Gu Qiaochu by the waist, turned his head and shouted at the gangsters, "They all want to be expelled, don't they!"

"Hey! This little boy not only hooks up with women, but also the men in the same dormitory!"

Yu Lai's face froze, he turned his head and patted Gu Qiaochu's shoulder, shook his head, took the stool and swung it over.

"I* your mother!"

That was the thing that Gu Qiaochu felt most sorry for Yu Lai later on, and it was also the reason why he decided to always be brothers with Yu Lai.

Because Yu Lai was worried that the stain on his file would be detrimental to going abroad, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold his breath and do something impulsive, so the always gentle person lost his temper at that time.

But since then, the two groups have never met each other peacefully.

It wasn't until a year later that the warning was lifted, and Gu Qiaochu suddenly ran for the vice president of the student union.He sat in the office for a long time with his badge.

It wasn't until Yu Lai approached him that he smiled again with a blank face, "If they graduate successfully, I'll be considered the loser."

Yu Lai was stunned for a moment, then smiled when he realized it, and shouted that if he wins the election, he must treat him to dinner.

He didn't seem to care much on the surface, but in his heart he was secretly glad that such an unkind and somewhat vengeful Gu Qiaochu was his friend.