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The night after the military training ended, Xia Xiaoli returned to Qiao Yu's apartment. She couldn't wait. The National Day holiday started the next day, and he planned to stay here for a few nights.

Qiao Yu has been gone for half a month, the apartment is very tidy, the housekeeping aunt comes to clean it every week, but it is too clean and tidy, and the atmosphere where Qiao Yu once lived is gradually disappearing, Xia Xiaoli looks more and more like a hotel The apartment of the suite feels lost.

The blue bridge they built together a year ago was squatting safely on the bookshelf. Seeing this bridge, many memories of that summer burst out. Xia Xiaoli stretched out a finger and gently stroked the dark blue steel pipe. , cool, like a comfort in the heart.

The person he loves is only temporarily away, and he will come back.

Xia Xiaoli didn't want this house to really become a hotel suite. He needed it to be a little messy, with a little trace of people living here, so he decided to live here by himself when Qiao Yu was away. After making this decision, I feel a little more comfortable.

Thinking of this, he took a shower and went to the supermarket downstairs to buy a bunch of food and drink. After filling up the refrigerator, he finally brought the family back to life.

It's just that he doesn't know how to cook, so he can only order takeaway for dinner. While eating, he thought, he can take advantage of the National Day holiday and move his house like an ant to move slowly here. It's also close to the school, at least three or four days a week. live here.

The bedding in the bedroom was removed by the cleaning aunt, and only a light blue sheet was covered to keep out the dust. Xia Xiaoli uncovered it, and found Qiao Yu's most commonly used dark gray and blue sheet and quilt cover from the cabinet, tossing for a long time It was only because of the mandatory training during the military training that the quilt was covered and the bed sheets were laid flat. Otherwise, he would have grown up so pampered, and he would really not be able to do these tasks.

Like a little worker bee, Xia Xiaoli restored the room to its previous state little by little.

After making the bed, he threw himself face down and buried his face in the soft pillow. Unfortunately, there was no smell at all, only the faint scent of detergent.

Qiao Yu doesn't use perfume, but Xia Xiaoli is obsessed with the smell on his body, it's like a forest in the sun, dry and warm, a smell of grass and trees in late autumn, making people want to hide in it.

Most of the clothes in the closet are still there. Qiao Yu never cared about the clothes when he went to work on the project site, so when he packed his luggage from home, he only brought the necessary things. His clothes were not too much, and the closet was still empty. After a lot of space, Xia Xiaoli still has several clothes left here. He tidied up the cabinets and felt that he could fill up the rest.

Now that part of my heart is empty, I need to fill up my home, here and there.

Although it is said that this is still her boyfriend's house in name, Qiao Yu has never had any secrets or taboos towards him. Except for the "Three Chapters of the Agreement" that was "against his will" at the beginning, Xia Xiaoli has no taboos at Qiao Yu's place. You already have the awareness that this is your own home.

He opened the bedside table itchingly, saying that grown men would always keep such things at home for emergencies, condoms, lubricants, and some unspeakable sex products. Now that her boyfriend is away, Xia Xiaoli can't even blush. All that's left is curiosity.

The two of them were only a short breath away from that last step. If it wasn't for the military training and Qiao Yu leaving as soon as school started, maybe this National Day holiday could be completed naturally. Thinking of this, even though he was alone in the room, he Still in a moment of embarrassment, he buried his face in the quilt.

I really found it for him. The bedside table on the side where Qiao Yu sleeps happened to be within reach of Qiao Yu as he lay down. This will make me feel very different watching my boyfriend prepare it.

Like doing research, he looked at those small things over and over again, looking at the brand, model, and the words on the box, and finally saw that the production date was very close. Xia Xiaoli thought that this should be bought not long ago. In Yu's heart, he should be ready to follow him to the last step.

Just one step away!

Ah, the dissatisfaction in my heart burst instantly, the thirteenth game is true, can't Brother Qiao be allowed to leave after the National Day holiday!

Then he found another thing in the bedside table, a thick stack of papers neatly packed in a transparent bag. Qiao Yu had photographed this stack of report cards for him before, but Xia Xiaoli didn't know it was taken away. So well kept.

Now he spreads it out one by one, from the first more than 200 to the last 25, this is what he collected, a meager spark, trying to make it start a prairie fire and become a world that can lead to Qiao Yu bridge.

It takes a lot of sparks, Xia Xiaoli thought, luckily, the people at the other end will always wait for him.

Before he knew it, it was almost 1 o'clock in the morning. Xia Xiaoli was waiting for this time. It was 6 o'clock in the afternoon in Morocco. He thought that Qiao Yu would have a short rest time. After asking on WeChat, Qiao Yu came back soon , and made a direct video call.

Xia Xiaoli saw her boyfriend whom she hadn't seen in half a month. Qiao Yu was still on the construction site at this time. It was blown away by the wind, but the voices of people around came in from time to time, as if they were saying that the geological conditions in this area are too harsh, and landslides and landslides are prone to occur.

Qiao Yu was wearing construction site engineering uniforms and a hard hat. He held up his mobile phone and showed Xia Xiaoli the surrounding environment. His eyes were covered with dry brownish-yellow. It was a large Gobi Desert, with reddish-brown hills standing in the distance. Although it was already evening, the sun was still very hot, with a slanting, elongated golden light.

Xia Xiaoli somehow remembered the photo she had seen the first time. In the photo, Qiao Yu was also at a sandy and dusty construction site, which was very hot. Now that she remembered that photo, Xia Xiaoli felt that the person in the photo was like a green spring in the desert. .

Recalling that a year ago, she said that the person in the photo was "so old and rustic", Xia Xiaoli found it unbelievable. At that time, she was... so horrible that she had no vision.

No matter what Xia Xiaoli said, Qiao Yu had to raise the phone to his ear to hear clearly. He quickly trotted for a while, returned to the construction vehicle, closed the door, and the video screen became quiet.

Qiao Yu took off his safety helmet, his hair was a little messy, and he didn't bother to tidy it up. He smiled and said to the person in the camera, "You still not sleeping at this late?"

"Waiting for you," Xia Xiaoli lay on the bed, her face looked a little puffy in the camera, like a bun, her slender single eyelid blinked, and said, "I thought you would rest by this time."

"There's still a while, and I'll call it a day when I go back to the engineering management office." Qiao Yu said, looking out the car window, his colleagues were still outside.

"What about you, is the military training over today?" Qiao Yu asked.

"Yeah." Xia Xiaoli nodded, her chin knocked to the ground, she hadn't cut her hair for more than two months since the summer vacation, and now she covered her eyes a bit, and said, "I came to your house as soon as it was over."

"I see."

Xia Xiaoli giggled: "I just live in your house, use your refrigerator, sleep in your bed, hum, who told you to be absent, what is this called, doves occupy magpies' nests."

This little idiom is used so well that Qiao Yu laughed: "What do you want? I don't belong to you. Everyone belongs to you. What's the apartment?"

Xia Xiaoli loves to hear these words, and nodded with a smile on her face: "It's all mine!"

Then his mood dropped slightly, he could see but not touch, it was the first time he had experienced this kind of adult discomfort, "Brother Qiao, do you miss me?" It seemed that he had waited for a whole day and took the time to make this call , just to ask this sentence.

Although I already knew the answer, I just wanted to hear it.

Want to hear the person he loves say that he misses him.

"I think." Qiao Yu said as expected.

Xia Xiaoli pinched the phone, but couldn't get enough of it. "I really want to," Qiao Yu put the phone close to his lips, and said softly, "When I first came here, I couldn't fall asleep every night. I wanted to hug you and kiss you."

In the middle of the night, Xia Xiaoli's face was a little hot. He didn't know that he was just talking through the screen, and he immediately felt it. Qiao Yu said: "If only you were really a cat, I can bring you here together. Every day Put it in my pocket, I can take it with me wherever I go.”

Xia Xiaoli can't wait to do this even more. If he were a cat, he could be inseparable from Qiao Yu, squatting on the podium during class, hiding in his pocket when going to the construction site, and only turning into a human form on the bed at night. , Yun Yu Yu.

It's too late, any topic can trigger infinite reverie, Xia Xiaoli's face is flushed, eyes and lips are glowing with moisture, Qiao Yu sees it in his eyes, he knows Xia Xiaoli too well, this is the harbinger of his affection.

"I miss you too, brother Qiao." Xia Xiaoli's voice has changed a little, it's softer and more waxy, it's completely caught in a special voice at a specific moment.

Qiao Yu couldn't take a single word.

However, the colleagues outside the car also returned to the car one after another, and the video call between the two was interrupted. Afterwards, Xia Xiaoli lay on the bed for a long time and couldn't recover. He gently stroked himself, imagining that it was Qiao Yu's hands, but it didn't work. , It just feels wrong, and in the end I can only roll around in distress, and then fall asleep helplessly.