Restlessness

In the first few days, Gu Yuan would send emoticons to Xu Yue's WeChat every half an hour. Xu Yue didn't say a word, but would also reply with a few playful pictures.Immediately afterward, Gu Yuan's video call will come over immediately, and occasionally he will tell a few short stories, find a few jokes from the webpage to make Xu Yue happy, and jokingly say something like "Obviously the two of us are together Shanghai, but it seems to be in a long-distance relationship”

"Gu Yuan, I... miss you a little bit." Xu Yue interrupted Gu Yuan who was still telling jokes with a forced smile, his eyes turned red instantly, "When will you come back, I want to see you."

The slightly raised corners of Gu Yuan's mouth on the other side of the phone inadvertently twitched a few times, and finally slowly showed a little fatigue.

"Wait..." Gu Yuan picked up the glass on the table and poured down the completely cooled boiled water, "Wait a minute, Xu Yue..."

With Gu Yuan by his side in the past, Xu Yue always felt that the time between the two of them was always counted on a day-to-day basis, but when Gu Yuan was not by his side, everything was upside down day and night, and he turned on the TV in the early morning. Being on the sofa has become a certain habit for Xu Yue.

In the first few days, Xu Yue wanted to read, but the long wait finally made him lose his energy.

Xu Yue looked at the chat records between him and Gu Yuan, and there was a line of simple system text in the 1 cm blank space above the most recent message.He smiled lightly, picked up the slightly rolled post-it note on the table, and finally tore it to pieces.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, there was a light snowfall in Shanghai, and the strong cold air swept across the city, and the traffic on the road became thinner. Xu Yue stood at the window and watched The fine snow slowly scattered in the middle, and his fingertips touched the glass window, and the cold touch made him shiver.

Xu Yue suddenly felt that this winter was really, really cold.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Xu Yue took out the hollowed-out window grille stickers that he had just bought in the afternoon from the white plastic bag, and stuck them outside Gu Yuan's house with a blank expression.The live song and dance scene of the Spring Festival Gala was still beating on the TV, but no laughter could be heard in the whole room. Xu Yue put his index finger around the tab of the soda can on the table blankly, and then yanked it away.

"When did you learn to deceive people..." Xu Yue's eyes fell on his mobile phone, and at a glance, a green dialog box occupied his entire screen, with different lengths, and there was not even a picture in the middle. Turning up a few pages, people who still read panic.

After being silent for a long time, Xu Yue finally turned off the mute state of the TV, and in the peaceful and lively atmosphere, raised his head and slowly closed his eyes.

"fraud……"

The villa area near the sea is also brightly lit. In the living room on the first floor in one corner, there is a TV screen on the off-white wallpaper that was also tuned to the live channel of the Spring Festival Gala. Gao Li tilted his head back lazily Leaning on the soft cushion of the back of the sofa, her face still had the same arrogance for thousands of years, the difference this time was that her hands were hanging on the side of the sofa and she couldn't help trembling, her eyes were fixed on the station. Gu Yuan on the side.

"Ah Yuan, today is New Year's Eve. The whole family should be more joyful. Mom doesn't want to lose her temper with you... If you don't want to watch TV with mom, then go back to your room and have a rest early. Wait until the milk is hot, mom Send it up for you again?" Gao Li put down his crossed leg, his tone was cold and chilling.

Obviously, the temperature of the air conditioner has been adjusted to 25 degrees, but the atmosphere in the entire hall has already dropped to below zero.

It is more piercing than the cold wind blowing in the cold winter.

"Mom, I'm an adult, I should have the right to do what I want to do." Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then continued the second half of the sentence almost in a pleading way, "Mom, what have you asked me to do in the past 18 years?" I just do what I do, you keep saying that it is for my own good, but have you really understood my own thoughts? I am an adult, and I can tell you exactly now that I don’t want to go abroad...as long as I am not allowed to go abroad, what am I going to do? I can promise you all... Is it okay if I beg you? And parents, do you know that my grades in the third year of high school have been ranked in the top 2 of the school—"

"Gu Yuan!" Gao Li stood up abruptly, his chest heaving up and down, and a strong anger finally appeared on his face, "Ah Yuan... I don't care about your grades. Your father let you go to the attached middle school because you were too young at the time, and your father and I would worry about sending you abroad. But now that you are an adult, you can take care of yourself...I have told you about this before , there is no room for negotiation. Also, A Yuan, are you doing this for the boy named Xu Yue on your phone screen?"

Gu Yuan didn't speak any more, he just habitually touched his trouser pocket, but he could only grab it through the cotton cloth.

Gao Li took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand to take Gu Yuan's right hand, "A Yuan, you have to know that mom and dad make decisions only for your own good, so you have to listen to mom, okay? It's been a hard year I only came back once, and stay at home with my parents. If you have a mobile phone, I will return it to you after you think it over, okay?"

"Then if I have to go, what can you do to me?" Gu Yuan suddenly turned his head and met Gao Li's eyes seriously.

"Gu Yuan." Gao Li suddenly smiled, "You are my son, so naturally I won't do anything to you, but that boy, I have a lot of ways... So A Yuan, mother will give you enough time, I just hope you Think about it for yourself, what to do and what not to do..."

Gu Yuan finally couldn't help chuckling a few times, and finally withdrew his cold right hand and went upstairs.

Xu Yue finally packed all his autumn and winter clothes and a few homework books into a black suitcase, and completely moved out of Gu Yuan's community on the afternoon of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Zhou Hui and Li Ranran still sent several video invitations in the group as before, but there was no movement from Gu Yuan after that, the three of them chatted casually on the table with their cameras on, and asked many times When making an appointment, the response they can get has completely become a simple and easy-to-understand look in the eyes, or a muffled response.

"Where did Brother Yuan go? School is about to start, and there is no news. Could it be that I lost my phone when I went home?" Li Ranran still had a pen between his fingers, and he lowered his head After finishing things simply, he finally looked at the screen of his mobile phone, "Xu Yue, have you called Brother Yuan? I sent him a voice message on WeChat before but didn't answer it."

Xu Yue's hand flicked through the magazine paused, but soon turned to the next page, his eyes were on his fingertips.

"Called, but no one answered."

Zhou Hui cleared his throat, "Don't worry, maybe you lost your phone... When school starts, he insists on asking the three of us to have a big meal for a week! No, for two weeks!"

"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat. School is about to start and you still think about other things?" Li Ranran raised his fist, "The papers of all subjects will be doubled by then, okay! I can't write you!"

Xu Yue was amused by Li Ranran's dramatic expression, he put down the magazine in his hand and leaned back slightly, the inferior hard bed board hurt his back, Xu Yue couldn't help frowning.

"Oh, by the way, Xu Yue, why did you suddenly move out of Brother Yuan's house?" Li Ranran took a bite of potato chips and lay back on the bed with her phone in her hand. "Could it be that you had a fight with Brother Yuan? He disappeared while playing. You play run away from home? I'll go, you two really know how to play."

Zhou Hui accidentally agreed with Li Ranran's point of view. Before he finished complaining, Zhou Huijie started a new wave of language bombardment, dancing and gesticulating in front of the mobile phone camera for a long time, like a mediator of a large-scale emotional show.

Xu Yue couldn't listen to it, and all her dissatisfaction finally fell on the dilapidated and impersonal small hotel she was living in now.

"...So, Xu Yue, can you two stop fighting? It's going to be a vacation." Zhou Hui's tone gradually eased, completely losing the momentum of joking just now, "Really, even if you two quarreled over something , I can't just... just keep it cold like this now, right? If you go on like this... I'm afraid, I'm afraid of you..."

"Is it right to break up?" Xu Yue was at a loss for a moment, and finally took a deep breath, "It's very late, I'll hang up first."

Xu Yue pressed the red round button on the phone screen without hesitation, and then clicked into Gu Yuan's dialogue box...

Xu Xu Rusheng: Even if we broke up, there must be a reason, right?

Xu Yue was stunned for two seconds, then long-pressed to withdraw the message, and finally threw the phone on the ground and huddled under the quilt.

Time seems to really speed up people's aging. In just half a month, Xu Yue completely lost the energetic spirit of a young man. His mandible, which was clean and smooth in the past, is now covered with dense cyan beard. Stubble, the two eye sockets have already been plated with a thick layer of dark brown, and the hair is too lazy to take care of it, and it is stuck to the forehead in an extremely messy manner.

This small hotel is at the corner of an alley, and the surrounding area was already in a mess during the day. Xu Yue took a deep breath, went out with his luggage, and under the surprised gazes of Li Ranran and Zhou Hui, he greeted them. wave.

"Xu, Xu Yue??" Li Ranran's eyes widened unconsciously, with an incredulous expression on his face, "What are you doing... You moved out of Brother Yuan's house to pick up trash, right?"

"I'm going, isn't it? The second largest student in the attached middle school, the male god in the eyes of girls, Xu Yue, is this really you?" Zhou Hui sighed slightly, "Dude, I really can't stand it anymore, even if your relationship is not Breaking up with Nao, it's not like this half-dead look, is it? Damn, let's go and find a barber shop first."

Xu Yue didn't say a word, and was dragged by the two of them all the way and thrown into a newly opened barber shop by the side of the road.During the whole process, Xu Yue just looked at the mirror in front of him quietly, no matter what others said close to his ear, Xu Yue didn't listen to a single bit.

After another 10 minutes, Li Ranran pushed open the glass door, glanced back at Xu Yue, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"What's the matter with you? We are good brothers. If there is anything, can you not hold it by yourself?" Li Ranran scratched his neck, shifted his eyes to Xu Yue's face, and finally couldn't help pushing Xu Yue violently "Xu Yue!! Can you fucking be normal!!"

Seeing that Li Ranran's fist was about to land on Xu Yue's left face, Zhou Hui took a big step between them, raised his arms and threw Li Ranran onto the sidewalk next to him.

"Enough! Li Ranran, we are brothers, what are you doing! Can't you just say it, why are you still doing it?!"

"Fuck! I just don't like seeing him like this." Li Ranran's feet slipped and he sat down on the ground, "Zhou Hui, open your fucking eyes and see, a person who was so proud and outstanding in the past has now turned into such a badass Fuck, he doesn't feel sorry for Gu Yuan, but I feel sorry for him!"

Xu Yue's eyelashes trembled slightly, and finally raised his head to look at Li Ranran who was lying on the ground.

"What did you say?"

"I said! Damn Gu Yuan doesn't feel bad, but I do—" Li Ranran stood up slowly with his arms propped up. Before he could finish repeating a sentence, Xu Yue grabbed his collar and dragged him to the front. "Xu Yue? You?"

"What the hell did you just say, say it again." Xu Yue's right hand tightly gripped Li Ranran's neckline, his eyes full of disgust and impatience. "Say it again!"

Zhou Hui was frightened, and quickly pushed Xu Yue back a few steps. It took almost all of his strength to force Xu Yue to let go of his right hand.

"The two of you are fucking endless, and each of you took the wrong medicine, right? Well, what are you going to do, fuck!" Zhou Hui's eyes were red, and he tightly tugged on the two big boys beside him.

After the three of them stood silently for a few seconds at the intersection with people coming and going, Xu Yue lowered his eyes and said "I'm sorry" slowly, then turned around and walked towards the gate of the attached high school.