my kind of person

The author has something to say: The two still have a long way to go~

Xiao Yi followed Xie Zixin through the rain under an umbrella, and came to an old residential area. The roads in the residential area have been trampled by residents for decades, and there is little repair. The road surface in many places has cracked. When it rains, there is mud everywhere.

Xie Zixin had an arm injury, so Xiao Yi held up the umbrella and tried to move the umbrella towards him as much as possible.It was raining heavily, and when the two of them entered the residential building, half of their trousers were basically wet from the splashing rain.

Xiao Yi let out a sigh of relief, and then carefully looked around.

It is indeed a very old residential building, with the style of collective households in the 90s and [-]s.The corridor is very narrow, full of debris such as cardboard and waste furniture, and the floor is full of wall dust.As soon as it rained, the corridor seemed damp, filled with a special smell of old items getting wet.

This is a place completely different from Xiao Yi's living environment. It is old and lonely, but it has a rare tranquility.

Xiao Yi followed Xie Zixin to the third floor. The door was an ordinary wooden door with no decorations, no New Year pictures, no Spring Festival couplets, and only a lonely house number hanging on it.

Xie Zixin put the umbrella in the corridor, opened the door, and helped Xiao Yi find a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet. Xiao Yi took off the wet sneakers outside the house, looked at his trousers and clothes dripping with muddy water, felt a little She looked at Xie Zixin in embarrassment.

Xie Zixin: "It's okay, come in, just wait a bit later."

The house is not big, with two bedrooms and one living room of about [-] square meters. There is no decoration style. They are all ordinary furniture placed together, but they are very tidy and the colors are light. There are several pots of succulents on the small window sills. .

Seeing those fleshy faces on the window sill, Xiao Yi immediately recognized that they were Xie Zixin's WeChat avatar.

He looked around the house, Xie Zixin could keep the whole house in order if he lived alone, but he even didn't bother to tidy up his own room occasionally.

Xiao Yi: "Can I take a shower here? You can lend me some clothes and trousers, and I'll return them to you after washing them another day."

Xie Zixin nodded and asked Xiao Yi to wash first, and he would help him find clothes later.

Xiao Yi went into the bathroom, washed his head briefly, and took a shower. Just after washing, Xie Zixin knocked lightly on the bathroom door from outside, saying that the clothes were put on the stool outside the door for him.

Xiao Yi: "Okay, thank you."

Xiao Yi opened the bathroom door and heard the sound of mopping the floor from the direction of the living room, probably Xie Zixin went to do housework.A low plastic stool was placed outside the bathroom door, and a black T-shirt and a pair of dark blue slacks were stacked on it.

Xiao Yi came in with his clothes and changed into them. The trousers seemed to be one-size-fits-all uniforms issued by some voluntary activity, with community service slogans printed on them. They were loose enough, and there was nothing wrong with him except that they were a little short.But this jacket probably belonged to Xie Zixin himself, Xiao Yi felt tight wearing it, Xie Zixin was indeed thinner, and it was normal that the clothes didn't fit well.

Xiao Yi simply took it off and came out in his pants.He took the clothes and walked to the living room, and saw Xie Zixin bending over and mopping the floor.

Xiao Yi said displeased: "It's been said that your arm is injured, why are you still mopping the floor? Just let me mop it, I was the one who made it dirty."

Xie Zixin turned around and saw Xiao Yi standing behind him with his upper body naked. Xiao Yi played basketball all the year round and was taller. The muscle texture on his body was obviously much more obvious than that of boys of their age. He was wearing a pair of cropped pants Also turned into cropped trousers.

Xie Zixin looked away in a little embarrassment, the skin behind the ear felt hot like an electric shock: "Does the clothes not fit?"

Xiao Yi: "It's a little small, do you have a bigger one?"

Xie Zixin put down the mop, walked into the bedroom, took out a very loose T-shirt, and said: "My dad left it, I wear it as pajamas, it was just washed yesterday, if you don't mind, you can wear it first."

The t-shirt is a solid color, so it won't be impossible to wear it out. Xiao Yi said he didn't mind, so he took it over and put it on, and the shoulders and chest would not feel tight.

Xiao Yi tucked his clothes into his trousers, Xie Zixin gave him a clean plastic bag, and he put the dirty clothes and wet socks he had changed into. Anyway, his shoes were also wet, so he went back in barefoot in his sneakers after a while.

Xiao Yi then helped Xie Zixin mop the floor. After finishing all this, the rain outside seemed to be a little less.Xie Zixin said that Xiao Yi can wait at his house, the rain should stop after a while, and it will be more convenient to leave at that time.

It was approaching six o'clock, and it was not yet dark, but the sky was gray because of the rain.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room of Xie Zixin's house, Xiao Yi touched the sofa cushions under his hands. The cushions were all piled with cotton, and they had become inelastic after too long.Most of the items in this home are dated, but it doesn't feel shabby.

The electric kettle in the kitchen is boiling water, and the sound of gurgling water fills the old little home with the taste of life.Xie Zixin was busy in the kitchen, as if he was about to wash the vegetables and make dinner.

Xiao Yi is a person who basically doesn't know how to cook. It takes him a long time to chop a green onion for him. Most boys his age are also like this. It is already amazing to be able to fry an egg and cook a noodle. Therefore, seeing him and himself It is a very novel experience for people who are about the same age to cook with ease.

Xiao Yi quietly moved to the door of the kitchen, watched Xie Zixin cooking for a while, and asked, "Do you usually cook by yourself?"

"Ah."

Xie Zixin answered while skillfully adding rice to the rice cooker. He looked back at Xiao Yi and finally asked, "Do you want to stay for dinner? There are only simple dishes."

This may be just a matter of politeness, and it is not really hoped that he will stay, but Xiao Yi looked at the small dining table covered with a khaki checkered tablecloth, and actually had the idea of ​​staying for dinner in his heart, Xiao Yi Yi tentatively replied: "Can you...?"

Xie Zixin nodded, and added a few more spoonfuls of rice to the rice cooker.

Xiao Yi sent a message to Xiao Yuqi saying that he would not go home for dinner, put down his phone, and felt that it was not appropriate for him to sit here and wait for dinner, so he walked into the kitchen, touched the back of his head and asked if there was anything he could help.

Xie Zixin: "No need."

"But your hand..."

"It's okay." Xie Zixin said, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

Xiao Yi pursed his lips, but thought silently in his heart, in fact, after he left, Xie Zixin would still live alone, no one would help him mop the floor, no one would help him cook, and he would still have to do it himself with injuries.

Since Xie Zixin said no, then Xiao Yi had better wait outside, lest taking up space in the kitchen would be a disservice to him.

Soon, the smell of home-cooked food came from the kitchen. Xie Zixin brought a plate of garlic cabbage and green pepper fried meat, filled two bowls of rice, and took mushroom sauce and chili sauce from the cabinet and placed them on the dining table. Said it was time to eat.

Two people, one meat and one vegetarian, add some flavor-enhancing sauces, homely and simple.Xiao Yi sat down at the table, and the tempting aroma wafted from the white porcelain plate in front of him. Although Xiao Yi had eaten these two home-cooked dishes many times, they seemed to have a different taste when Xie Zixin was here.

Xiao Yi tasted the fried pork with green peppers, and the heat was just right, and it was a delicacy that can only be made by those who often cook with their hands.

Xie Zixin looked at him nervously. Although he had eaten it many times and knew that the taste would not be bad, this was his first time cooking for others, let alone Xiao Yi.

Without waiting for Xie Zixin to say anything, Xiao Yi said, "It's delicious."

Xie Zixin felt relieved, and his expression softened involuntarily.

Looking at Xie Zixin's expression, Xiao Yi gradually felt that the delicious food in his mouth seemed to have some other flavors, which made him feel a bit inexplicable aftertaste.

He ate quietly with his head down. After a while, the bowl of rice was exhausted. One bowl of rice was not enough for Xiao Yi, but he was just eating for nothing, so he was too embarrassed to add a second bowl with a shy face.

Probably seeing Xiao Yi's embarrassment, Xie Zixin stood up and stretched out his hand to Xiao Yi: "There is still food."

"No, I..."

Xiao Yi originally wanted to say that he didn't need to add more food, but after thinking about it, Xie Zixin's dishes are delicious, and he must eat more. People who cook should like to see people who eat because the dishes are more delicious eat something?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yi turned around and said, "I'll do it myself."

Xiao Yi got up and went to the kitchen, wanting to add another bowl for himself, but he opened the rice cooker and found that there was only one more bowl left.

Xiao Yi turned around: "Aren't you going to eat?"

Xie Zixin: "One bowl is enough for me."

Xiao Yi frowned, thinking that one bowl would not be enough, and Xie Zixin was already quite thin, if he ate so little, wouldn't he never grow taller?It's a shame that he didn't think about his own share at all, and the extra stuff was for Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi felt uncomfortable, so he scooped all the rice left in the rice cooker into his own bowl, and when he came out, he put half of it into Xie Zixin's bowl.

Xie Zixin looked up in surprise: "I'm enough."

"Where is this enough? And your bowl is not big." Xiao Yi said, "The food is so delicious, why don't you save yourself and eat two more bowls?"

"..." Xie Zixin paused, "But you are not enough."

Why do you have to care about him?Xie Zixin is still a student like him, even younger than him, why must he be put in front of him?

The emotion that had been stuck in Xiao Yi's heart since he was in the hospital yesterday was finally magnified infinitely at this moment.

Xiao Yi is not a person who has something to say in his heart, but in the past two days, too many complicated emotions have been circling in his heart, and he can't understand it no matter what.He used to only need to think about how to solve this problem and how to memorize that piece of knowledge, but no one told him how to find a suitable balance between the dull guilt and intolerance.

Xiao Yi had too much prejudice against Xie Zixin before, and now Xie Zixin was injured for saving his sister, these accumulated guilt, weaving in his heart like spider webs all the time, became an increasingly impenetrable wall.

The better Xie Zixin treats him, the stronger the guilt in Xiao Yi's heart. He not only feels unfair about Xie Zixin's current situation, but also feels unbearable that he cannot respond equally to his vague and unspeakable feelings.

But why him?Xiao Yi didn't understand, what was so special about him to Xie Zixin?

In the long silence, they seemed to have something on their minds.

Finally, Xiao Yi spoke first, his voice was a little hoarse, but he gave an ultimatum abruptly to the unprepared Xie Zixin.

"Xie Zixin," Xiao Yi said, "Do you like me?"