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The people at both ends of the phone fell into silence, and the money was deducted every minute and every second on the cross-border phone call, fully explaining to Jiang Chengyue what silence is golden.

After a long time, when Jiang Chengyue almost thought that the signal was disconnected again, Lu Xu seemed to smile, slowed down his words, and said word by word: "I've made progress."

"Progress" is not suitable for the current context, and "promising" may be more appropriate.

But Jiang Chengyue didn't want to remind Lu Xu.

"Don't let me go?" Lu Xu asked again, "I haven't had time to say hello to your mother yet."

Speaking of this, Jiang Chengyue was also having a headache.

"Well, Brother Lu, don't come. I heard from Sister Wang Xue that you have been preparing for this spring and summer show since the beginning of the year. During this period, countless drafts were rejected. Some even made ready-to-wear clothes, but they were rejected at the last minute. Already." Jiang Chengyue leaned against the railing beside the base station, her eyebrows were serious, her amber eyes seemed to be filled with clear springs, "I'm waiting to see Brother Lu, when you come to the stage to call the curtain?"

Lu Xu didn't answer.

But Jiang Chengyue knew that Lu Xu could fully understand the reason.

"My spring and summer show must be a classic." After a while, Lu Xu's cheerful voice sounded, and Jiang Chengyue felt that he was smiling, at least his eyes should be, "Got it, I want to sleep with you too."

"..." No seriousness, Jiang Chengyue cursed.

"Indeed, I changed my mind. Why should I worry about making you cry? If you want to cry but hold back desperately, or cry all the time during sex, I should like it too much." Lu Xu's tone was lazy.

Jiang Chengyue stood next to the base station in a foreign village with a sense of age, held up her mobile phone, and kicked a small flower next to her feet, a little angry, and blushed to the base of her neck.

"Okay." Lu Xu should have expected his reaction, "I won't tease you anymore, it's a foreign country after all, be careful and pay attention to safety. You don't need to rush to tell your mother about us, after this time passes, Let me tell."

Jiang Chengyue was stunned for half a second, then nodded.

It's just that Qu Jing is still chasing him to ask about the dandelion tattoo behind his ear, and he doesn't want to lie about Lu Xu.

But Qu Jing is still in the recovery stage, and he has a lot to say, and he has a mind to weigh whether he should say it or not.

He hung his head, caught in a dilemma.

"Long-distance relationship, little brother?" Jiang Chengyue had just hung up the phone when the fellow came over to talk to him, "Last time I saw a man who, like you, walked for several kilometers just to call his girlfriend. Telephone."

Jiang Chengyue was a little absent-minded: "Well... sort of."

"Is your girlfriend pretty?"

"Beautiful, especially the eyes."

"Hey... I still think you look familiar." The fellow circled half a circle with Jiang Chengyue as the center, "Meng Bo!"

Jiang Chengyue: "...?"

"Jiang Chengyue? Isn't it!" The fellow excitedly said a few words about their first original song "Endless Midsummer" on the spot, "I have African drums there, how about some?"

Jiang Chengyue never dreamed that he flew more than half of the world, and he could still meet the fans of their dream band here.

What Lu Xu said before, asking him to open up his vision, turned out to be fulfilled here.

"Next time..." Jiang Chengyue couldn't match the enthusiasm of the music fans, so he added WeChat, "I've been out for too long, and my family will worry."

I don't know if Qu Jing walked a long way every time she called him.

And because he didn't like to answer the phone, he missed many times.

Qu Jing was really worried. When Jiang Chengyue walked back, she was sitting in the lobby on the first floor waiting for him, pushing a mobile infusion stand beside her.

"Back?" Qu Jing seemed to know where he went from Aunt Qiao.

"Well, I made a call to a nearby base station." Jiang Chengyue said.

Qu Jing is recovering well, and her complexion is much better. Half a hall away, Jiang Chengyue feels that she hasn't been away for a long time.

Seeming to see what he was thinking, Qu Jing said calmly, "It's not always that the signal is bad here, but unfortunately, the base station hasn't had time for maintenance in the few days you've been here."

Jiang Chengyue snorted, not knowing how to respond.

He felt ashamed of Qu Jing, but also ashamed of Lu Xu, the tearing of the two feelings made him feel suffocated.

His midterm exam results came out, and he just received the signal in the afternoon. Except for the German elective, the scores of every course were above 95.

So he found a topic that would never be boring between mother and child, grades.

"The exam was good." Qu Jing's fingertips landed on a spot on Jiang Chengyue's phone screen, and she raised her eyebrows, "But why did you choose German?"

Jiang Chengyue's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly regretted letting Qu Jing see his report card.

His German score starting with 7 is really conspicuous on his transcript.

"German, funny." Funny shit.

"It's also very easy to get credits..." It's strange.

He almost reluctantly praised this evil foreign language.

Qu Jing returned to the ward, leaned against the head of the bed, and looked at him with a half-smile, as if to say "you continue to make up".

For the first time since he came here, he mentioned Lu Xu's name in front of his mother: "Because I want to understand what Lu Xu said."

He made a mistake. It has been a week since he came here, and he hasn't mentioned Lu Xu's name in front of Qu Jing. Qu Jing and Aunt Lu Nian both know that he lives with Lu Xu.

Qu Jing didn't see him many times, but they were blood relatives after all, so how could she not be aware of it.

"After walking so far, who did you call?" Qu Jing asked.

Jiang Chengyue spat out two words: "Lu Xu."

"Your Aunt Qiao's sister's daughter is in the same school as you. They are both freshmen this year, and like you, they are both science students. People say that you are well-known in school, and they tried to add you as friends several times but failed." Qu Jing smiled and said, "At least they are relatives of Aunt Qiao. After you go back, remember to add others."

Jiang Chengyue took a deep breath and said, "You can add friends, but other...impossible."

The air in the room seemed to be evacuated in an instant, the sound disappeared, and the silence was unbearably quiet.

"Yesterday, when I asked you about Dandelion, you were not very happy." Qu Jing sighed, "What's the matter, are you in love? I told you to focus more on your studies. But if you are really in love, as long as the other party can barely catch your eye, I will never stop you."

Jiang Chengyue was silent.

After a pause of two seconds, Qu Jing lowered her condition: "Then... just a girl with a good temper."

Jiang Chengyue was still silent.

"?" Qu Jing found out a somewhat absurd answer from his repeated silence.

"You are……"

"Don't think about it, take a good rest, I'll bring you dinner." Jiang Chengyue stood up, unable to bear it, and was about to run away.

"Stop! You make me think about it, so I can't think about it?" Qu Jing said, "Your wings are hard, aren't you? I asked you to borrow from my best friend's house, but you..."

Qu Jing was so angry that she accidentally rubbed against the wound, frowning in pain.

Jiang Chengyue also panicked and helped her to lie down.

"Lu Xu, he's the same sex as you." She suddenly realized that during the years she had been going back and forth, Jiang Chengyue was no longer the little girl who grabbed her by the hem of her clothes and insisted on her making mapo tofu. child.

"I'm just a child like you, and you actually..."

"Mom, don't be angry. It has nothing to do with Lu Xu. I don't like girls in the first place. If I don't like him, I will like others." Jiang Chengyue said, "I will tell you slowly when you recover."

He went downstairs to get the medical meals, wiped the dishes and put them on the bedside for Qu Jing, then carefully closed the door and went outside.He was absent-minded, and stood outside the door trying to peel a mango for Qu Jing, but accidentally cut his hand with a knife, and the blood on his fingertips dripped onto the mango skin.

A child next to him reached out to grab the mango skin in the trash can and eat it. He quickly stopped him and handed the clean mango to the child. The child stared at him, took it from him hesitantly, and thanked him.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, and felt that his mood was like the peel of a mango that had just been peeled, which contained sweetness, but was actually very astringent.

The medical resources here are limited, and every ward is full of people. Afraid that Qu Jing would see her upset, Jiang Chengyue plugged in headphones and sat on a plastic stool to listen to music. He didn't go to his accompanying bed until Qu Jing fell asleep. rest.

Lu Xu is the only meaning he wants to fight for, but Qu Jing is the only person he doesn't want to argue with, the two contradict each other.

The power went out in the middle of the night, and the hospital activated the backup power supply. Jiang Chengyue woke up from his sleep and went out to ask about the situation. Knowing that it was normal here, he tiptoed to check on his mother's condition. He lost sleepiness and put on a coat. , went outside.

The outlines of all the scenery here are rough and wanton, the night sky seems to be very close to the ground, the highest part of the zenith is dark blue, full of twinkling broken stars, slowly turning to the direction of the horizon, transitioning from light blue to a very light blue The warm orange color, the Milky Way is splashed in it, leaving blank for the tree shadows.

He was holding on to the railing of the platform on the second floor, and the broken hair on his forehead was blown slightly by the wind.

Jiang Chengyue held up his mobile phone and took a short time-lapse photography of star trails.

When there was a signal in the afternoon, he received the messages that Lu Xu had sent him in the past few days, and now he could read them one by one.

The first one that caught my eye came from a day ago——

[kyle]: Know you miss me, but you better go to bed early.

Jiang Chengyue: "..."

[Bamboo shoots]: Brother Lu, don't be shy and give it to those who need it, such as me.

There was a graphic in front of the message that turned around, and finally turned into a red exclamation mark, but it still couldn't be sent.

He looked forward again.

[kyle]: I couldn't sleep, so I took a time-lapse photography of the starry sky for you. My shooting technique can win an award.

Jiang Chengyue couldn't play this video for the time being, but he seemed to see Lu Xu setting up a camera on the window sill of the company headquarters to take a time-lapse of the starry sky.

When he came here, he was a little unaccustomed to the environment, and even his appetite became poor, and he couldn't eat.

At dawn, he still took care of his mother as before, so meticulous that people around him praised him for being sensible, but he just smiled and shook his head.

He is not sensible.

Qu Jing also tolerantly did not force him to talk about that topic again, but often frowned at him with contemplative eyes, hesitated to speak, Jiang Chengyue would voluntarily leave the room at such times, leaving the uncertainty and hesitation behind. for myself.

He wanted to see Lu Xu very much.

Qu Jing was gradually recovering. Two or three days later, he found another noon and went to the base station to call Lu Xu.

It was obvious that the time of separation was not long, but the moment he heard Lu Xu's voice, Jiang Chengyue still felt his nose sore.

"I heard your voice, why do you sound unhappy?" Lu Xu asked strangely.

"It's okay." Jiang Chengyue kept her voice steady, without showing too much emotion, "I'm a bit uncomfortable, and I can't eat."

"Could you be crying secretly behind my back?"

"...No, I'm not a child."

It is impossible for him to break up with Lu Xu, Qu Jing disagrees, so tell her slowly that he is used to having Lu Xu by his side, but he doesn't want to hurt anyone, and he doesn't want Qu Jing to be sad.

Like an ignorant child, he licked honey on the blade, and the pain and sweetness went to the bottom of his heart.