salt by salt

I knew Yang Chen a long time ago, even before he became my classmate.

The Xu family used to be extravagant. When I was young, I remember that the family often held dinner parties. It was only in the past two years that the higher authorities restrained themselves.At that time, the Yang family had just transformed into a real estate business, and had a lot of contacts with Mr. Xu in order to stay close to the policy.That's when I met Yang Chen.He was my age and had nicely combed hair in a black suit.At that time, his facial features were outstanding, and he looked stern and arrogant, standing with Xu Yuzhong to accept the praise of the elders.

I asked Xu Yucheng to dig out the eggs in the backyard, and promised that he would wait for me to come down under the tree, but when I slipped down the tree, only the boy in the black suit looked at me quietly.I was also wearing a custom-made suit, but I took off the coat and tied it around my waist with a bird's egg. The shirt was also scratched by branches in several places. It looked like a little monkey. It was probably very bad.

"Don't tell others!" Seeing him turn around to leave, I blurted out anxiously, "Hey, let's talk about you!"

He stopped and turned to look at me, tilting his head: "You will be found if you go out like this."

Even though I had nice clothes for the dinner, no one really paid attention to my presence, or rather they preferred that I didn't show up lest they spoil their good spirits.At that time, I couldn't face this kind of thing calmly, so I said angrily, "Just don't tell me, I have my own way."

He came and folded his arms with interest: "What can you do?"

"Just..." I rolled my eyes randomly, but in fact I just wanted to use my tongue quickly to cover up the embarrassing fact that no one paid attention to me, "Oh, don't worry about it, just keep your mouth shut!"

He shrugged indifferently and wanted to leave, but suddenly remembered something, turned back and approached me, took off his black suit and put it on my shoulder to cover the hole in the shirt: "Here, this is for you."

I froze on the spot, and he took a small bird egg from my hand, showing a somewhat childish smile: "Just treat me as if you traded this for me."

I stared blankly at his movements, and when he was about to walk out of the yard, I remembered to shout: "Hey! What's your name?"

At that time, he was only wearing a white shirt, about the same height as me, and he had the proud air of a boy of that age.He is different from the geniuses I have seen. Both Xu Yucheng and Andre are too precocious. No one is as energetic as him, and the whole person is like a spring branch that twitches wantonly.

"My name is Yang Chen!" He waved to me, holding the bird egg carefully in front of his chest with the other hand, "See you later!"

I still didn't show up for dinner that night because I was covered in dust by an aunt who gave me a hard time and pushed me back to my room and didn't let me eat dinner as punishment for not behaving properly .Familiarly, I dug out the food that I usually store from under the cabinet, tore open a bag of bread and ate it tastelessly, recalling how she was out of breath just now, a little funny.

It's fasting again, but it's okay, the things I store here can be eaten regularly so that they won't go to waste.

I calmly comforted myself in the dim room, but the bread in my mouth tasted salty. When I reached out to touch it, I realized that my face was covered with tears.The black suit was on my lap, and I pressed my face against the soft fabric, breathing in the light scent that seemed to have the temperature of a boy.

When I opened my eyes, I noticed a beautiful brooch on the suit. A round pearl was set in a circle of diamonds, which looked very expensive.I gently kissed the white pearl in the center.

Pearls are pure and immaculate, and I can never become them.

Even if the brooch was expensive enough, it was nothing more than an insignificant bauble to him.Yang Chen has long forgotten me, maybe he never remembered me.I didn’t say more than three sentences with him in high school, probably nothing more than “excuse me” and “sorry”. It wasn’t until he became my deskmate in the third year of high school that my name appeared in his cognition.

I didn't understand why he wanted to sleep with me, but the brooch in the dark room that night suddenly appeared in my mind, so perfect and white that it blinded my eyes, so I agreed to him out of nowhere.

I asked for leave, and Yang Chen took me into the hotel familiarly. He didn't even need to open a room at the front desk, because this hotel was owned by his family.But this saved me a lot of trouble, for example, I didn’t bring my ID card, for example, I was still wearing an ugly and rustic school uniform, and the schoolbag on my back contained tattered notes and papers to be written tonight.

It was my first time, and I was so unfamiliar that I was almost in a hurry. Yang Chen complained, "It's troublesome if I knew it was a place, so I wouldn't have messed with it." , I couldn't get used to it until I lost face on the bed and shed tears.

I don't even know why I cry, just like when I was a child, my heart is obviously peaceful.It's just that those tears couldn't be kept, and fell on the bed sheet drop by drop.We entered backwards, and I heard Yang Chen sigh and pull my arm to put me in front.I hurried to cover my eyes, but he held my wrist and pressed it down.

"No prospect." He clicked his tongue, put his arms around my waist and gave it a hard push, and the tingling pleasure spread all over my body, "Is my technique so bad?"

Fierce and gentle.I did it with him three times that night. Yang Chen didn't wear a condom, and my stomach was already uncomfortable when I cleaned it up, but I still took out my homework and prepared to do it in the hotel.Yang Chen looked at me like a monster, puffed out his cigarette and leaned against the bedside: "Damn, do you still have the strength to do your homework?"

"I want to take an exam in a better school, and the English paper teacher will teach it tomorrow and I haven't done it yet." I endured the discomfort and faint abdominal pain from being overexploited later, "I have to finish it—here If it delays you, I can do it at home..."

"Crazy, are you? Let people go when you're done. Is it so mean to me?" He walked over triumphantly and took a puff of smoke on my face. I looked up at him in the smoke, unmoved, "Still You can hold your breath, why don't you choke?"

I turned my head away and opened the paper: "I know how to smoke, you can't choke me."

"I can't tell, good student." He always likes to wear only a pair of trousers to show off his well-trained upper body, and said lazily, "How about one?"

"No, don't bother me, I'm doing reading comprehension." I was a little annoyed, my thoughts were very loose after sex, and I couldn't concentrate on the topic, "Go to bed first."

Yang Chen fell silent, and when I looked back after finishing this question, he tore off the bed sheet and fell asleep under the quilt as if he was really angry.I smiled helplessly and turned around to continue with the questions.

Later, I thought it would be okay to chat with him all night without thinking about studying.Even if I do well in the exam, the decision of which school to go to is not in my hands.

But I missed that night, and just kept writing down the questions in silence under the lights of the hotel.