Ten days you taught me how to fall in love

7. Day [-] & Day [-]

Xerox Eucalyptus has a special anti-edema technique.

He took ice cubes from the freezer and wrapped them in a towel over his eyes so that within 15 minutes his eyeballs, swollen from crying, would go away.

After 15 minutes, he took off the towel, and sure enough, his eyelids were smooth, no different from yesterday morning.

After washing up, he quickly went downstairs to cook breakfast, and after hesitating for two seconds, he still made the fucking portion.

Just 1 minute after the breakfast was served, Zhou Huang went downstairs in a daze.

"...It smells so good." This has almost become Zhou Huang's routine when he goes downstairs every day.

"Eat quickly, I have to get to school early today."

"Oh." Zhou Huang picked up a small soup dumpling and sucked it up.

This camping lasted for two days, and if the time spent on the road was excluded, there would be less than one and a half days left.

Since this activity is mainly based on the students themselves, everyone is eager to try.

The destination is a wetland park, and a part of it is subcontracted to an event company for group building all the year round. This time, Yinghua is cooperating with this company.

When we arrived at the destination, we got our tents in groups of two and set up camp.

Professionals will demonstrate it first, and everyone will do it after they have learned it.

The boys are generally faster and run to help the girls after they finish their part.

Xerox was in a bad mood, and he didn't want to help anyone.

"Then just wait here, I'll be back in a while."

Xerox nodded absently.

The natural scenery made him feel much happier. At this time, everyone gathered in the girls' tent. He walked around alone, and he passed through a plantation forest and came to the lake.

The lake water is a clear brown, like Banlangen with too much water.

There are dead leaves floating on the water, and with the ripples blown by the wind, they hit the mud where the ground meets the lake water.

Why do you want to go ashore?He didn't understand, what's so good about rushing into the mud, it's better to float freely in the water.

In a trance, Xerox seemed to see himself floating in the middle of the lake.

Looking up is the blank sky like a curtain, behind is the cold jelly-like lake water, the wind pushes him to float around, no matter how he floats, he will not touch the shore, and no matter how he floats, he is safe.

"Hey!"

Xerox turned around and saw that it was Zhou Huang.

"how did you find me?"

"Guess. I guess you like Thoreau, don't you?"

Correct.

Xerox replied in his heart.A tear fell from his left eye, falling from the tip of his lashes straight into the dirt, as if he had never had a tear.

From today onwards I won't cry about it anymore.There was a faint thought in his heart, engraved in the creed of being a man like an established fact.

"Let's go."

Zhou Huang took his hand.

The food at noon and evening was prepared by a large number of girls who were eager to try. They made ordinary meals that were far from what they promised, which made it difficult for Zhou Huang, who had a bad appetite these days, to swallow.

He poked at the vegetable leaves in the bowl, thinking that he would be returning to the United States in a few days, and he would have to endure the fucking food again, which made him feel sad.

Wei Ya leaned over to him. The girl had a mouth full of greasy food, and she was obviously very satisfied with her craftsmanship.

"Where's Lan?"

"Don't you care about your brother first?"

The chick grabbed the flesh on the back of his hand and twisted it.

"Aw!" Zhou Huang yelled, taking the opportunity to spill some of the vegetables in the biodegradable lunch box: "He's a little unwell, probably because he didn't sleep well last night."

"Oh," Wei Ya showed an evil smile: "I thought you..."

"To shut up."

"God, doesn't he know?"

"He knows everything he should know, and there is no need to know what he shouldn't know."

"It seems that you have the final say on his business."

Zhou Huang ignored the little girl's sarcasm, he put the rest of the food into his mouth, and threw away the lunch box impatiently.

"Did you bring something?"

"Here, Wendy asked me why I bought this."

"Give it to me now."

"Know it!"

At two o'clock in the morning, when everyone fell into a deep sleep because of exhaustion, two people were still awake.

One was Xerox Eucalyptus, who was in high spirits because he had slept in the convertible all afternoon.

One is Zhou Huang, he couldn't sleep because of the excitement of the next plan.

The two turned their backs to each other, wondering if the other was awake.

"Hi." Zhou Huang called softly.

"What?" Xerox said.

"Are you still awake?"

"You're not awake either."

Zhou Huang got out of the sleeping bag at once, and he patted Xerox's sleeping bag: "Get up, I have a surprise for you!"

"Hey! What are you doing?"

"Quick, quick!"

Xerox was nervous and excited, he hesitated for two seconds but got up resolutely.

The two knelt in the tent, put on their coats, brought flashlights, snacks and blankets, and tiptoed out of the tent.

After finally passing the tent smoothly, Zhou Huang held Xerox's hand as if he was liberated and ran forward.

After running, I arrived at the artificial forest that Xerox Eucalyptus passed through in the morning.

"You, what do you want to do? Jump into the lake?" Xerox panted out of breath.

"Look." Zhou Huang pointed to the two trees not far away.

"Depend on."

Xerox was stunned.

A hammock was hanging between the two trees.

"When did you make it..."

"It does not matter."

Zhou Huang bit the flashlight and handed the snacks to Xerox: "I'll climb up first, and then you pass the things to me." His hammock is hung at a height of 1.8 meters, and he needs to climb a small section of tree to get up.

Xerox felt a little uneasy. In his limited memory, he had never climbed a tree.

"This, is it solid?"

"Don't worry." Zhou Huang grabbed the tree trunk as he said, and soon he rolled into the hammock skillfully.

"Give me something."

Xerox also hugged the tree trunk after handing him the things, and his feet were always unstable.

"Fuck!"

"Don't panic, take your time." Zhou Huang's voice came from above, with a strong persuasive force.Xerox took a deep breath, the cold air at night passed through his trachea to his lungs, which made him wake up a lot.

"Yes, step on it. Hand, hand, reach up."

Xerox tried his best to reach up, and a pair of warm hands grabbed him and pulled him up forcefully.

Inertia made him rush to Zhou Huang, and he shouted happily: "I'm coming up! I'm coming up!"

"Got it idiot, keep your voice down." The person under him said nervously, "Get up, you're going to crush me to death."

Xerox turned over excitedly, and lay side by side with Zhou Huang, the violent shaking of the hammock only made him feel excited.

He pulled up the blanket to wrap the two of them tightly, the young man's long legs were crossed together, and each other's breath was in his breath.

"Want to eat?" Zhou Huang asked.

"Eat later."

Xerox looked up at the sky.

The stars are embedded in the dark night like diamonds, and the moonlight is as gentle as milk.

"Thank you," he whispered, "I love the surprise."

Zhou Huang snorted and opened a pack of marshmallows.

"Do you feel better?"

"much better."

"That's good. You are always patient. I hope you can speak out bravely next time. Whether it's complaints or love, don't always bear it for others alone."

"I'm not kind enough to help others suffer."

"You have." Zhou Huang tilted his head, and the refreshing taste of lemon candy came out of his mouth: "You are a kind person, always think for others, and don't want to embarrass others. But sometimes you have to be brave and think less , Speak your own thoughts. Don’t be afraid, because those who love you will not love you less because of this, and those who don’t understand you will understand you a little more because of this.”

Xerox was silent.His eyes looked down, just in time to see Zhou Huang's bright red lips in the dark night.Now, that beautiful mouth is writhing with anxiety.

"..." He sighed long and said, "You seem to know me very well." There was no sarcasm in his tone, only the powerlessness after being exposed.

"Yes." Zhou Huang said, "Believe it or not, I do understand you."

The sound of the wind scratching the dead leaves became the best lullaby, and the breath of nature was clear and peaceful.Soon, the two fell asleep in an isolated atmosphere.

Morning light woke Xerox Eucalyptus.

He slowly opened his eyes, and Zhou Huang's face was less than one centimeter away from him.

The dew condensed on his thick eyebrows, adding a poetic flavor to his thick and colorful face.

The boy was huddling in his arms, rubbing against the little warmth left.Xerox moved his fingers and found that they were cold and numb.

But he doesn't care.

He looked at Zhou Huang's face carefully like studying a math problem.

It puts him in a good mood.

When the sun hit his face, a small piece of skin itched slightly because of the sudden heat, and his heart also itched.

He moved closer to Zhou Huang's face, wanting to taste the dewdrop.

Suddenly, something sharp pierced his back, followed by a familiar girl's voice from below.

"Damn! Are you going to live on it? Ms. Ethan is angry!"

Zhou Huang shivered, and opened his eyes wearily.

"Who?"

Xerox smiled bitterly at him: "Oops, the teacher is angry."

When they returned to the camp, the distraught Ms. Ethan and Teacher Xu scolded them in turn and punished them not to participate in the rest of the activities until they returned to school. go.

9. The ninth day

Today is the last day of the short-term exchange of students in Branger Private School,

They went back to school yesterday afternoon, exhaustion sweeping over all the children after two days of excitement.Today they are allowed to sleep late in the morning.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the entertainment hall of the faculty cafeteria was decorated with small colored light bulbs, all the tables were removed, the chairs were arranged in a circle, and the stereo made a buzzing sound-the teacher was adjusting the equipment.

Yinghua prepared a farewell party for the students.

By five o'clock, the 60-seat entertainment hall will be filled with balloons and snacks.Everyone gets together, regardless of partners, to share and exchange interesting things, sad things, and embarrassing things these days.

Then the students will add some talents to add to the fun, and the teacher will sing a song or dance a dance-but they will leave soon, leaving time and space for young people.

After a few ballroom dances, these young people will quickly change the piano music to rock, untie their ties, pull up their long skirts, and swing like little lunatics, ending this journey under the colorful spotlights.

"Not yet?"

"1 minutes."

Two minutes later, Wei Ya dragged Zhou Huang out of the bathroom.

Xerox raised his eyebrows and let out a gasp.

"How about it?"

"Perfect."

They flirted with each other as if evaluating a piece of work, and Zhou Huang shook his head uncomfortably: "I think my hair is oily."

"Hey! Don't move! This is hair gel." Wei Ya slapped him on the back.

That's right, his chicken coop hair - full of wild and free chicken coop hair, was forcibly transformed by this blonde chick into the kind of gentleman's hairstyle that the groomsmen usually comb.

Wen Manman walked out of Xerox's room, holding two ties in his hand, one royal blue and one black.

"God, do you have any more earthy ones, these two are too trendy for you."

Wei Ya took a look and laughed: "Lan, is this your father's tie?"

Xerox blushed and grinned.He was embarrassed to admit that it was indeed his father's.

After the two gentlemen finished dressing up, it was the turn of the two ladies.

In order to ensure that her brother would not wear a hoodie to the party, Wei Ya and Wen Manman decided to have a real-life dressing game, and Xerox was forced to participate.

"Don't wear it so thick, black eyeshadow makes you look like a badger."

Zhou Huang kindly advised, but Wei Ya didn't appreciate it at all:

"Turn left, get out!"

Wen Manman added a little cherry blossom-like pink to her lips, and watched Zhou Huang leave from the mirror.

"Huang, dance with me."

Zhou Huang was led by Wei Ya to stand on the dance floor.

His back was straight, like a thriving young poplar facing the morning sun, and his hands were very gentlemanly, one centimeter away from Wei Ya's waist.

This was his second dance, and Xerox sat on the chair and looked at the siblings with soft eyes.Zhou Huang's new look has attracted the attention of the girls. Without the interference of chicken buns and hoodies, his handsome features are fully revealed.Little girls in high heels and long dresses chatted and laughed, secretly watching for an opportunity to get on top of his partner just as he left.

No one asked Xerox to dance. In the past, he would have fled the scene in embarrassment, and found a place where no one was reciting words or playing mobile games.

But now his heart is unexpectedly calm, what do others think of me?I just want to be comfortable like this.

Zhou Huang took Wei Ya and came to Xerox in a twirl. The blond girl was panting thinly, her face flushed.Her partner took Xerox's hand and handed over her sister to him.

"Be brave." Zhou Huang said.

Xerox was dragged into the dance floor by Wei Ya, and he cooperated with this happy bird-like girl a little clumsily, thinking of a big white pigeon in his heart, jumping non-stop.

Be braver.

Zhou Huang's voice echoed in his head, and the brilliant starry sky appeared in front of his eyes, and the diamond-like confidence and brilliant light gave him courage.

He opened his mouth and said, "Wei Ya, I have been writing to you for two years. To be honest, it's strange that I didn't dare to talk to you when I saw you for the first time. It jumped out of my mouth, because, I have always liked you."

They turned around slowly, Wei Ya didn't speak, her eyes were focused and bright, encouraging Xerox to continue talking.

"I have to thank Akira, your brother. He encouraged me to pursue you and taught me how to date girls, even though I messed up everything." He smiled a little embarrassedly when he said this, and Wei Ya shook his hand hand.

"He taught me to be brave and to express myself. His encouragement made me stand here and confess my feelings to you. I have been in love with you for two years, Wei Ya, thank you for listening to my troubles, my complaints, thank you Comfort me and inspire me. Although we haven't had the slightest spark in these ten days, I really regard you as my precious friend. Thank you."

Unknowingly, they stopped dancing, surrounded by young teenagers dancing around them.

Weiya wrapped her white-gloved arms around him and gave him a grateful hug.

"Thank you." The little girl showed an apologetic expression: "Sorry, I lied to you, your pen pal has never been me, but Zhou Huang."

"what?"

Wei Ya shrugged: "Our mother is Chinese, she hopes that Huang can be proficient in Chinese. But you know, you all make foreign pen pals to practice English, and his is no exception, so when you first proposed to me When it was time to teach me Chinese, we exchanged pen pals."

"You mean, our first letter?"

"That's right. Sorry Lan, I don't know why Akira insisted on keeping it from you, so..."

Xerox was speechless.

He remembered that when Zhou Huang came to his house for the first time, he didn't ask where his parents were curiously, he remembered Zhou Huang skillfully connected the handle to the TV, he remembered Zhou Huang jokingly mentioned Thoreau, he remembered Zhou Huang saying that I Do know you, believe it or not.

"Go to him and talk to him." Wei Ya patted him on the shoulder.

"Hiding here?"

Zhou Huang looked up and saw that it was Wen Manman.She was wearing an apricot-colored cheongsam, with two shimmering pearl earrings on her earlobes, like a classical beauty walking out of a painting.

"It's not hiding, it's standing here."

"You look like you're smoking."

Zhou Huang tore off the remaining half of the twizzler from his mouth, and stretched it out in front of Wen Manman jokingly: "Giving you half."

Wen Manman really took it, and she approached Zhou Huang, her cat eyes sparkling: "Dance with me."

"Sorry." Zhou Huang took back the half of candy from her hand.

Wen Manman persevered, and said in a bold tone that is rare for oriental girls: "Dance with me, you can tell, I like you. You are leaving tomorrow, leave me a souvenir."

Zhou Huang was silent for a while, then said, "I have something to tell you, I'm gay."

There was a sound at the end of the narrow corridor.

The two looked up and saw that the Xerox drink had dropped.He stood there stiffly, the drink spilled on his leather shoes, but he didn't care.

10. Day [-]

Zhou Huang finished the last mouthful of porridge in silence, and put the empty bowl on the table.

In the past, he would always say thank you and ask for another bowl.

Xerox looked at his watch. It was 07:30, and they hadn't spoken for twelve hours.At the time of parting, this regret stuck in Xerox's throat like a rough fishbone.

He admitted that he was shocked when he heard Zhou Huang came out.

There was even a shaking in his heart, in order to calm down the stormy trend, he hurriedly fled the scene—maybe it was this that hurt Zhou Huang.

He hasn't said a word to himself since then.

"Are you full?"

Zhou Huang nodded.

Yes, like this, no deadpan plus a little body language plus silence.

Xerox regretted so much, but he couldn't hug Zhou Huang when they parted, which was simply the greatest torment.

The doorbell rang, just like they did the next day.This time Zhou Huang took the lead to pick up his luggage and strode towards the entrance.After the driver sent him to the school, he boarded the bus with other students from Branger Private School, and drove to the airport under the welcome of Yinghua students.

Xerox hurriedly followed, trying to help him with his luggage, but he avoided him.

"Zhou Huang, I—"

The driver interrupted him: "Xiao Shi, hurry up, we're going to be late."

They were sitting in the car, Zhou Huang was wearing that familiar hoodie, looking out the window with his chin resting on his shoulders, their positions seemed to have changed.

"Zhou Huang, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

The boy shook his head, his expression relaxed a little.

"I'm just too surprised, really," Xerox grabbed his right hand, and the other didn't break away. He pursued the victory: "I'm not homophobic, I, I support homosexuality!"

I don't know where this sentence annoyed Zhou Huang, he shook off Xerox's hand and completely ignored him.

The silence continued until Yinghua's school gate, the driver took out Zhou Huang's luggage from the trunk, the teacher urged, and the boy strode forward with the luggage.

Anxiety was burning in Xerox's heart, a fear strangled his heart like a thorn, and cold sweat flowed from his forehead. He realized that if he continued to hesitate, he would lose an incomparably precious treasure.

He rushed over and grabbed Zhou Huang's wrist, forcing him to look at him.

"I know you are my pen pal. I have written letters with you for two years. My feelings for Wei Ya are actually for you. I, me, thank you, me, me," say it quickly, say it Those four words!He roared in his heart, but his mouth seemed to be cursed, unable to make a sound.

Sweat trickled down his cheeks, and a wave of desperation strangled his throat.

Zhou Huang looked at him with gentle eyes.

"Let me teach you one last trick." The boy closed his eyes with a smile, and pressed a feathery kiss on his lips: "Goodbye."

A violent uproar erupted from the bus.

Accompanied by the whistle, Zhou Huang got into the car, but he didn't dare to look back.

Xerox froze in place, his heart was filled with emotion.

As the bus drifted away, he widened his eyes as if he could see further.

After returning home, he went straight into the bedroom where Zhou Huang lived. Zhou Huang opened the window unnecessarily. In order to ventilate, he unexpectedly took away the smell that Xerox was looking forward to.

A piece of paper was blown to the foot of the bed by the wind. Xerox picked it up and saw that it was a watercolor.

The person above is himself, with bright eyes and high spirits.

That day, he and Zhou Huang practiced the so-called flirting skills in the museum together. He was not confident, and even stuttered when he spoke, but in the eyes of this person, he actually looked so good.

11. end

"I want to talk to you."

"Yuan, mom has a meeting soon, we'll talk about it when I come back."

Xerox grabbed Liang Chun's forearm and said word by word: "Talk, now."

Liang Chun frowned and turned his head, shocked in his heart, it turned out that his son had grown into an adult before he knew it.

"your hair……"

"I cut it two days ago." Xerox, who had cut her hair short, looked a little more mature and steady, and also a little more aggressive.

Without the cover of thick bangs, Liang Chun finally saw his son's eyes completely and clearly after many years.

"Okay," she compromised: "I'll inform them to hold the meeting later."

Xerox bought her a cup of tea.

"I know neither you nor Dad want me."

"No!" Liang Chun hastily argued.

"It's okay," Xerox said unhurriedly: "Let's all be honest, I have a very good plan, do you want to hear it..."

The starry sky flashed before his eyes, as if Zhou Huang was by his side.

Zhou Huang is sleeping.

The noise around him gradually increased, and he realized in a haze that school was about to end.

But he can sleep a little longer with peace of mind, because Wei Ya will wake him up then.

"Aw!" Zhou Huang woke up with a scream, and Wei Ya actually pinched him.

Teacher Green, who teaches mathematics, gave him a dissatisfied look, and a person suddenly emerged from under the podium.

"Sorry, my shoelaces are untied." The Oriental smiled.

Green asked, "Where do you want to sit? Clint is nice and Fran has a good sense of humor."

"I want to sit there." He pointed.

"Oh! Dubore? He sleeps in class all night, and he's a slob."

"It's okay, I'll watch him."

Zhou Huang watched Xerox walking towards him step by step, then sat down, and greeted himself.

"long time no see."