Rebirth Delay

When he arrived at school the next day, Xu Ze felt something was wrong.Because the whole class was looking at him secretly, with curiosity, envy, and sarcasm in their eyes.

Before he had time to speak, Zhao Mulin yelled at him with red eyes, "Xu Ze! It's fine if you don't want to accept me, why did you post my letter on the blackboard! Now everyone knows that I like you, I'm just a big joke, are you satisfied?!"

Xu Ze grasped a few key pieces of information from these words, looked at the strange girl in front of him, and calmed down, "Calm down and listen to me."

His eyes were too calm, dark black pupils sliding between milky and white, unexpectedly calm, scanning the surrounding boys and girls who were about to move, Xu Ze looked at Zhao Mulin firmly, "First, I don't know you, there is no need to hurt you. Second, I didn’t receive any letters. Third, I was the first one to leave yesterday, so I didn’t have time to post the letter on the blackboard.”

His overly calm appearance made everyone look at each other, and couldn't help but believe Xu Ze's words.Not to mention the first two, but the last point, Xu Ze was the first to leave school every day, and they all knew it.Brother Xu Ze came to pick him up every day, and they used to make jokes about Xu Ze because of this.

Xu Ze stretched his long legs, walked towards his seat casually, and put his schoolbag on the desk.Seeing that Zhao Mulin followed, she still had an angry and unwilling face, so she added a few more words, "If you have something to do, you can tell me in person, there is no need to write a letter."

"But..." Zhao Mulin's eyes were red again.

"Okay," Xu Ze interrupted her, "Did you stuff the letter in my desk? In the book?"

Zhao Mulin shook her head, and subconsciously turned her head to look for Du Yunjie.

Du Yunjie's eyebrows were burned, his face was flushed, he pointed at Xu Ze and cursed, "Xu Ze, don't deny it! Yesterday, when I handed out the papers, I obviously stuffed the letter into your pocket! I clearly saw you reading the letter when class was over!"

Xu Ze turned his head and opened his mouth with a faint smile, "Stupid."

Turning around, he looked up at the delicate girl with ponytail, "What's your name?"

"Zhao Mulin." Zhao Mulin was still crying.

"Well," Xu Ze smiled reassuringly, "I remember it. But this letter has never been in my hands. Whoever accepted your letter will do it."

Du Yunjie shouted at the top of his voice, "Xu Ze, don't accuse me of false accusations. I gave it to you, but you still ask me whose letter it is from. I said you can find out after reading it! Don't deny it!"

Xu Ze ignored him and continued to look at Zhao Mulin, "It's just that he likes you just because you say you like me. Do you understand how a girl wants you to send me a letter?"

Looking at Xu Ze's gentle eyes, Zhao Mulin suddenly understood why she was also infatuated with this boy, but no one in the first and second classes of junior high school had ever confessed to him.The closer you are, the farther you feel this person is.

Unlike people of the same age, even if things related to love are not their own business, they can't help gossiping, blushing and heartbeating.Rather like an elder, like an outsider, organized and clear, neither happy nor angry.

Du Yunjie could refute everything, but in Zhao Mulin's eyes, he couldn't refute Xu Ze's love.

He likes Zhao Mulin, and he has been watching Zhao Mulin for nearly two years before he knew how to like him.

But at this moment, Zhao Mulin's expression became decadent, and she stood in front of Xu Ze with a glimmer of expectation, "Then you know now, can you accept me?"

All the boys and girls in the classroom held their breath.

"Zhao Mulin, Xu Ze, Du Yunjie, come with me to the office!" Outside the door, Cao Yan had already stood there at some point, with an ugly expression on his face.

Although Zhao Mulin was not in her class, she, the head teacher, still had to take responsibility for the involvement of two boys in her class.

Cao Yan walked far ahead, Xu Ze followed behind, Du Yunjie and Zhao Mulin followed with their heads down.

Zhao Mulin clenched her fists, as if mustering up her courage, "Du Yunjie."

Du Yunjie raised his head and met Zhao Mulin's bright red eyes, his eyes couldn't help but dodge.

The inexplicable panic and strong guilt prompted him to bite the root of his back teeth, and then he closed his eyes fiercely, "Zhao Mulin, I'm sorry. I'm just...I'm just jealous of Xu Ze. I...hate him too, always looking superior What's the point of smiling, even though you don't want to talk?"

Zhao Mulin's expression became solemn and determined, "Du Yunjie, the person I like won't take out the letter and stick it on the wall, even if the confession letter wasn't written for him."

Regardless of Du Yunjie's momentary gloomy gaze, Zhao Mulin looked at Xu Ze in front of her from afar, "Maybe, you don't like me...but..."

Things were taken care of quickly.

Du Yunjie was dismissed and his parents were notified.Zhao Mulin was warned and punished once, which will be canceled depending on her performance.Although Xu Ze is innocent, he still wants to invite his parents to have a cup of tea.

It was the first time Shi Yan sat in the office next to Cao Yan.

Cao Yan poured a glass of water and said, "Brother Xu Ze, I invited you here this time to emphasize to you that middle school students cannot fall in love early. Your family is very special. You are not very old and you are a boy. Children, so I might not talk much about it. But at this time, the children are not physically mature, and their psychology is naturally still in the process of growing up, so what they say they like is actually a vague affection..."

Shi Yan didn't pay much attention to it, and when he first heard that Cao Yan was looking for him because of a love letter, he was a little frightened.Later, when he heard that a boy named Du Yunjie intercepted the letter secretly, Shi Yan was happy.

Good thing, wouldn't this help him strangle a first love at the budding stage?

But it's not good to hurt Xu Ze, if Cao Yan hadn't scolded Du Yunjie face to face, Shi Yan would probably be planning to put a sack on Du Yunjie in some alley.

Coming out of the office, Shi Yan and Xu Ze were chatting about what to eat for dinner, it seemed that neither of them took this love letter to heart.

**

The windows were all closed, and the fan was still on. The whole room was warm and glowing with a dazzling yellow light.Shi Yan added a few scoops of hot water into the big tub, stared at Xu Ze's back and swallowed.

This is the same way of bathing in previous years, Xu Ze sat in the long big basin, and Shi Yan was beside him to add water for him.

When he was a child, Shi Yan just thought that Xu Ze, who was pink and tender after being smoked by hot water, was very cute, and even with a set of soft things underneath, he looked exquisite and compact.The length of the big basin was enough for Xu Ze to lie in it, with his head resting on the edge of the basin, and his two white arms floated on both sides of his body, paddling slowly.

Every time Shi Yan wiped something small between his legs, Xu Ze couldn't help being shy, covering his hands with his hands and hiding away, his body shrunk into a ball.Then it slowly unfolded under Shi Yan's eyes, closing his eyes as if afraid, and letting Shi Yan scrub.

What used to be a habit is now a blessing.

Xu Ze sat down with his legs stretched out, which was the length of the entire basin, so in order not to throw the water out, he had to sit in the basin with his legs bent. A bare back.

Shi Yan tested the temperature of the water, and poured a spoonful of warm water on Xu Ze's body.The water slid over the white skin, condensed into drops, and slowly slid to the solid ribs on both sides, or along the spine, all the way down, and rolled into the water that was printed with red light by the big basin.

The thin fine hair fell down along the water, but it shone with a strange white light in the golden light, which caused Shi Yan to peek down involuntarily.

Xu Ze stretched out one leg, bowed his waist, and let the water from Shi Yan's water scoop pour over his back which had become slightly cool in the air.His head rests on his knees, and the heels of his bent legs almost touch the roots of his thighs. This posture almost perfectly shows his excellent figure and flexibility.

Shi Yan swallowed hard, looked away slightly, and turned around in his mind, only one thought, to hug the bed, this, that.

But the reality is, Shi Yan said dryly, "Xiao Ze, how are you getting along with your classmates at school?"

"Well," Xu Ze suddenly turned around and smiled, "Brother, I'm waiting for you to ask."

"Ask what?" Shi Yan hesitated.

"About the love letter," Xu Ze blurted out, then said briskly after a pause, "Brother, don't you want to ask?"

Shi Yan wrapped a bath towel around Xu Ze who stood up, and pushed Xu Ze to get under the quilt quickly.I went out with the big basin in my arms, dumped the water, and cleaned it up for a while before entering the house.

Xu Ze was wrapped in the quilt, only one head was exposed, and his two eyes followed him.

When Shi Yan got under the covers, Xu Ze covered his side to keep it warm, but his feet and legs were still very cold.Shi Yan clamped Xu Ze's legs and feet as he did when he was a child, and then said quietly, "Some things always go both ways. Brother promises you not to find women, and you also promise Brother not to talk about girlfriends."

Xu Ze grunted, and the soft hair that fell on his cheeks during the day was pushed to the top of his head like an onion.

Shi Yan looked at his nose, took a tissue from the bedside table, pinched it on Xu Ze's nose, Xu Ze blew hard, and the tissue was stained with blood.Shi Yan frowned, "I'm on fire, so be careful. I'll fry a plate of bitter gourd tomorrow, and you have to eat some."

Xu Ze lay on Shi Yan's body, took out a tissue himself, and wiped his nose again. There was still a smear of blood on the tissue, and he was not reconciled or happy, "I'm cooking pear water, I don't want to eat bitter melon .”

"Pear water cures coughs, and bitter melon relieves fire." Shi Yan put his arms around his waist, took the paper in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket, "It's getting colder and colder, take out your winter clothes this Sunday , dry it before wearing it."

Xu Ze bit Shi Yan's collar and hummed, "Brother, you're just like the old grandma, so talkative."

Shi Yan touched the top of his head, "Brother used to be alone in the hut for months and months without talking, just looking at the roof like this, waiting for the hunger to be unbearable, and then going out to dig through the trash."

"Later, when you were by my brother's side, my brother became bothersome and troublesome." There was a slight smile in Shi Yan's eyes.

Xu Ze pressed Shi Yan's Adam's apple with his hand. When Shi Yan spoke, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and Xu Ze's fingers moved accordingly.Then he pressed that finger on his own neck, only a little protruding, "Brother, I don't seem to have an Adam's apple yet."

He took Shi Yan's hand and touched it.

Shi Yan followed Xu Ze's neck to the back of his head, and the faint smell of soap wafted over after taking a bath. The color in his eyes involuntarily darkened, and his voice was muffled, "It will grow."

The heads of the two of them were touching again as they did when they were children.

The eyes are too close, and the other person's face is already a bit blurred, but the feeling in his mind is getting clearer.

Rubbing the back of his neck with his slightly rough palm, Xu Ze couldn't help but tremble. The thin callus on his palm brushed past his earlobe, like a wind chime meeting a sudden gust of wind.The wind was not strong, maybe it was just blowing in through the crack of the door, but the wind chime still made a crisp crashing sound.

Clean and ethereal.

For a moment, Xu Ze had the urge to close his eyes.