Qinghong

The evening dew at the homestay was heavy and chilly. The two quilts prepared by the owner were useless. I huddled under the quilts and tucked in the gaps, but they couldn’t stop the cold air from penetrating into the quilts.My hands and feet were cold, how could I sleep like this, I sat up, opened the suitcase, took out a long-sleeved jacket and covered it with the quilt, trying to keep out the cold air.

"Teacher Zou." Ning Hong stood behind me with his quilt in his arms and slippers on, and said pitifully, "I'm so cold, let's squeeze together."

I hesitated in my heart, Ning Hong had a lot of crooked ideas, and sleeping under the quilt with him would be like inviting wolves into the room, but it was too cold, and it seemed unreasonable to refuse his proposal.Before I could come to a conclusion, Ning Hong simply sat down under my quilt, spread his quilt on my quilt, and lifted a corner of the quilt gracefully: "Okay, come in."

"...You moved so fast, you just asked me what I was doing." I sat under the quilt, and the effect of the two layers of quilt was remarkable, coupled with Ning Hong's body temperature, it quickly warmed my palm.

"I'm afraid I'll freeze you." Ning Hong said, wearing cotton long-sleeved pajamas, he held my hands and put them on his waist, "Your hands are so cold, I'll help you warm them up."

His waist and abdomen muscles were tense, and his skin was delicate. My warm palm was pressed against his hot waist, and I only felt burning pain in my fingertips. I retracted my hand unnaturally: "No need."

Ning Hong seemed to be born lacking in shyness. He reached into my clothes and said, "Then teacher, help me warm up."

"..." I lay flat and closed my eyes, pretending to be dead, ignoring his excessive words and deeds.

The bed was shaking, Ning Hong came over bit by bit, lying on his side with his head resting on my shoulder, breathing quietly.

I listened to his breathing, and said abruptly, "Do you know what liking is?"

"I have been in love before." Ning Hong said, "I participated in the Arbor Day in high school. I carried a bucket of water and helped a girl to water the tree hole that she had dug. After we met, we often walked together after school. I bring breakfast, I treat her to a drink, and we do homework together in self-study class."

"And then?" I asked.

"I like her very much, and it's very comfortable to get along with her, so I confessed to her, but later," Ning Hong frowned, "after we got together, she behaved differently from before. She was suspicious and jealous, and I was not allowed to talk to other people. Classmates talk."

"I don't think this is good, so we broke up." Ning Hong said, "After the college entrance examination, we have no contact."

"You think this is liking?" I asked.

"This is a form of liking." Ning Hong said, "I don't blame her." He had never experienced crazy liking, and he was curious, "What about you? Was it like this when you liked my brother?"

"Maybe it's because I haven't made a formal confession, so I don't dare to be too blatant." I said, "But I will be jealous in my heart, I will over-analyze and compare back and forth, and I will suddenly get angry."

"Do you know what the biggest problem between you and my brother is?" Ning Hong turned over, put his arms next to my shoulders, and said seriously, "If you don't face the problem directly, if you don't talk about it, if my brother doesn't talk about it, it will be a problem." Sorry."

Ning Hong was right, I had a crush on Ning Qing and wanted to be nice to him, but I didn't dare to make it too obvious, so I looked forward and back and worried a lot.Ning Qing didn't leave me because Ning Qing had a good temper.But this is the real love, the sweet and sour mood is hidden in the other party's every move and every word.My ideal love is a waltz of tacit understanding, you advance and I retreat, with ease, tacit understanding.

"Ning Hong, you don't actually like me." I said, "You just enjoy the comfort of being with me."

Ning Hong's expression was slightly stagnant, his eyes widened, he stared at me blankly for a long while, and said stumbledly: "I, you, don't talk nonsense."

"Tell me, why did you stalk me for a few days at first, and then appeared in front of me?" As I spoke, I became angry, "You are observing me, evaluating whether I am the character you want, and you can't tolerate it." Easy to approach, easy to capture, you take me as your emotional sustenance, you use me."

After the analysis, my heart suddenly relaxed, and the guilt that had lasted for many days found an outlet. I regarded Ning Hong as Ning Qing, and Ning Hong regarded me as an imaginary partner, and we were even.

Nobody owes anyone.

If this is the case, why should I dig into the horns, my mood suddenly brightened, I pretended to be angry on the surface, but in fact my heart was extremely calm.

"I..." Ning Hong tried to defend himself, but I raised my hand to cut off his words: "Go to sleep, I'm sleepy."

Ning Hong closed his mouth unwillingly, I took the initiative to put my arms around his waist, and kissed him on the forehead: "That's it, it's good."

I found comfort from Ning Hong's and Ning Qing's similar faces, and Ning Hong found a haven of rest through my kisses and hugs.We are two owls with different thoughts, embracing each other to keep warm in the dark midnight, and flying apart at dawn.

"You use me."

Facing Zou Lansheng's accusation, Ning Hong suddenly felt aggrieved. Even though Zou Lansheng guessed his intentions at all points, Ning Hong was still subtly sad.

Why did Zou Lansheng say with certainty that he didn't like him?

Like an apple that was carefully cared for and polished, it fell to the ground and rolled for a long time without anyone picking it up. Ning Hong had nowhere to express his sourness. Zou Lansheng interrupted his explanation and said that it was very good.

Where is it?Ning Hong was lying on his side, his eyes fixed on Zou Lansheng's profile, thinking whether his anger was caused by his anger at being easily exposed by Zou Lansheng or a subconscious defense that was misinterpreted and speculated.

He stared at Zou Lansheng for a long time, until the other party closed his eyes and fell asleep, he moved to Zou Lansheng's neck and sucked out a red mark, like an exclusive mark.Ning Hong hugged Zou Lansheng's arm and fell asleep with his cheek against the skin of his arm.

Early in the morning, I was woken up by Ning Hong. He unconsciously got into my arms. It must be because the room is too cold. There should be no gaps in the cold, otherwise the cold wind that got in would blow people to the core. cold.I prepared myself for a while, sat up and quickly changed into a T-shirt and coat, and went to the bathroom with my toiletries.

When I tidied myself up, Ning Hong walked in yawning, with a pile of hair raised on his forehead, like a silly little devil.While he was brushing his teeth, I dipped my fingers in a little water and smoothed the hair on his forehead. With a mouthful of foam in his mouth, Ning Hong said vaguely, "Kiss Wo."

I looked at him in embarrassment: "You wash your face first."

Ning Hong spat out the toothpaste foam, washed his face like a fish, wiped it off with a towel, and leaned over to me, "Are you in a good mood today?"

"Yeah." I'm in a good mood, and the confusion and entanglement that lasted for half a month disappeared. Since Ning Hong and I get what we need, I can treat Ning Hong better without any psychological burden.This is undoubtedly an unhealthy state of mind, but I am too tired and urgently need someone to fill the gap in my life.

Ning Hong frowned, watched me for a while, then let go of his arms: "Let's go, have breakfast."

A small square table was set up in the farmyard, and Ning Hong and I sat opposite each other. On the table were two bowls of milk, a plate of egg pancakes and a plate of pickles.In the morning, the temperature was cold and the unknown birds were standing on the branches and chirping. I rolled up the pickles with an egg pancake. After breakfast, we left Hemu and drove to Burqin to stay overnight, and then returned to Urumqi.

Halfway through the short seven-day journey, I took a bite of the egg pancake, tore off a corner and tore it into pieces and put it on the table.After a while, a dusty sparrow flew around the crumbs of the omelet, carefully picked up a piece and ran away.I watched the sparrows fly into the dense canopy, and I was quite amused.

After breakfast, we set off to Burqin. Ning Hong drove silently along the way, and I was happy and quiet.After a three-hour drive to Wucai Beach, we parked the car, and Ning Hong walked ahead with his bags on his back. We refused the shuttle bus and walked towards the Irtysh River.

The reason why the colorful beach is called colorful beach is that the rocks on both sides of the river bank have different weathering resistance, plus there are minerals, forming red, green, purple, yellow, and white colors that are interlaced and staggered.The bare riverbanks are barely vegetated, and the colors of the oxidized metals resemble a meandering rainbow.

I turned around, and Ning Hong said, "Mr. Zou, sit on that rock."

Stone?I turned around and saw a huge raised stone by the river. I slapped off the floating ash on the stone and sat down, looking at Ning Hong wonderingly.He raised his mobile phone to take a picture of me, and stretched out his right hand to signal me to look at the other side of the river.

I did as I said, and after taking the photo, he put away his phone and walked over, and I asked, "Aren't you going to show me?"

"No." Ning Hong said, "What if you read it and delete it for me?"

"...Why should I delete it." I said.

Ning Hong took out his phone, set the photo as a screen saver, then turned off the phone and turned it on again, showing me the unlock screen: "Look."

I glanced at the photo, and it was okay. Ning Hong's photography skills are good, and he probably practiced it.

During the four months from March to July, Ning Hong thought he had a general understanding of Zou Lansheng's character, but today, he couldn't understand Zou Lansheng's reaction.

Zou Lansheng was very relaxed, and even felt an inexplicable happiness. Ning Hong had an intuition that Zou Lansheng's happiness was related to him, but not so much related to him.He stared at Zou Lansheng, his back was hairy, and he swallowed all the daily teasing words that were circling in his stomach.

Mathematics professor, this title alone means a perverted killer with high IQ, Ning Hong thought, looking at Zou Lansheng's gentle and kind eyebrows, a dialogue bubble popped up in his heart [Death under a peony flower is also romantic].

Ning Hong was amused by himself, standing in the distance and watching Zou Lansheng walking by the Irtysh River, the clear blue sky, the magnificent colorful beach, the clear and clean river water, like a flowing oil painting.Ning Hong took out his mobile phone, guided Zou Lansheng to sit on the rock, and took a picture of this scene. He let out a breath and thought contentedly that he could be regarded as a man with a partner.