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This meal of boiled fish was not eaten in the end.

Cheng Liao turned around and went inside to get a dry towel to wipe his feet. Lin Yuanye stood in the basin and waited. When he saw the other party stepping out the door with a towel, he reached out to pick it up.

The towel did not fall into his palm, Cheng Liao took the towel and sat down in front of the bench, raised his eyelids and signaled him, "Raise your left foot."

Seeing this, Lin Yuanye raised his eyebrows slightly, but he did not refuse his help, and lifted his left foot out of the water as he said.Cheng Liao picked up the clear water at his feet, poured it over his instep covered with white foam, then stretched out a wide palm, and completely held his left foot in his palm.

The slightly rough and thin calluses in the palm of the man rubbed gently against the soft soles of his feet, making his soles itchy.Lin Yuanye couldn't help moving his feet against his palms, his white and round toes pressed against his knuckles, and curled up unconsciously.

"Don't move." The fingers grasping the sides of his feet tightened slightly, and the towel in Cheng Liao's hand covered the back of his feet.

Lin Yuanye remained obedient and did not move any more. Following the man's voice in the air, he lowered his eyes and looked at his held foot.

The towel quickly wrapped his toes, and Cheng Liao gently rubbed his curled toes through the soft and dry towel.The itching quickly spread from the soles of the feet to the toes, and Lin Yuanye couldn't help lifting his feet to struggle gently.

He kicked the towel onto the man's knee, Cheng Liao raised his hand to grab his struggling ankle in mid-air, lowered his voice and asked slowly, "What are you moving?"

"Itchy." Lin Yuanye looked at him and replied with a slight smile on his brows and corners of his eyes.

Cheng Liao didn't speak, his eyes followed the line of his raised calf, silently extending to the shorts above his knee.The boxer shorts worn outside were already loose and bulky, but Lin Yuanye was raising his legs again at this time.

His eyes easily slipped in against the wide trousers, and he took in all the scenery in his trousers. The man raised his eyebrows slightly, and reminded him unhurriedly, "I've already seen you." Empty."

Lin Yuanye reacted belatedly, and gently broke free from the shackles on his ankles. His raised left leg slightly bent, and stepped directly on the man's knee.

Stepping on the opponent's knee and rolling it back and forth twice, as a punishment for Cheng Liao's behavior just now, Lin Yuanye grinned and put his left foot back into the slipper, then raised his right right towards him bluntly. foot.

As usual, rinse off the white foam on his feet first, Cheng Liao grabbed his right foot and put it on his knee, carefully wiped off the water drops on his feet.Lin Yuanye's fair-skinned feet stepped on the man's wheat-colored knees, forming a sharp color contrast in his sight.

When Cheng Liao turned his head and threw the towel into the basin for washing, Lin Yuanye did not take away the foot that was on his knee, but lowered his toes and slowly squeezed in against his inner thigh.

When the tip of his toe touched the leg of Cheng Liao's shorts, Lin Yuanye stopped in a measured manner, and turned his toes up to rub against the edge of the man's loose trousers.

Cheng Liao quickly turned around, raised his palm to hold down his restless toes, and said in a calm voice, "Are your toes flexible?"

Lin Yuanye laughed, but did not answer his words.

Cheng Liao stretched out his hand and pulled him in front of him, and a low voice sounded from his ear with an indecipherable meaning: "Then it can't be wasted."

Lin Yuanye didn't understand the meaning of his words.

It wasn't until more than ten minutes later, when he hung his long bare legs around the man's waist, was pushed out on the bed by the man, and hooked the elastic band around the waist of the man's trousers with his toes, that he finally understood like never before. thorough.

Anyway, the day off that Cheng Liao asked for was not wasted.Lin Yuanye slept until nightfall and didn't get up. The fatigue and soreness that was heavier than last night swept through every nerve in his body.

When the boiled fish was finally served on the table, it had turned into a light-tasting steamed fish.Lin Yuanye slowly got up from the bed, walked slowly to the table and sat down.

Cheng Liao was sitting at the table picking the thorns of the fish, and when he heard him pull out the chair and sit down, he naturally pushed the bowl of fish in front of him.

Lin Yuanye picked up the tender fish and put it in his mouth, then raised his head and asked him, "How much do you charge for a day off?"

"One day's wages." The other party replied not too concerned.

Lin Yuanye frowned with a bit of heartache, and asked casually, "Have you considered changing jobs?"

"Why?" Cheng Liao asked him with straight eyes.

"It's too hard to go to work every day, and there are no holidays." Lin Yuanye answered truthfully with his chin propped up.

"Don't you like it?" Without answering his words, the other party suddenly asked such a nonsense.

Lin Yuanye froze in confusion, "What?"

"Don't you like this job?" Cheng Liao repeated without changing his expression.

When Lin Yuanye heard the words, there was obvious surprise in his eyes.Before he met Cheng Liao, men were doing this job.His personal preferences in choosing a job should have nothing to do with Cheng Liao changing jobs.

Before he had time to ask the doubts in his heart, the old-fashioned doorbell outside the yard rang first.Cheng Liao put down his chopsticks and got up to open the door. Lin Yuanye sat in front of the table without moving. When his eyes casually fell to the sky in front of him, his thoughts swam uncontrollably to the bottom of his heart, the depths of his long-buried memories.

In those years I have experienced in the past, there are not many memories linked to places like construction sites.The only memory node that can be traced back to the source is probably the love that he didn't have time to start in college.

He also had an ambiguous partner in school, but before the two broke through the window to confirm the relationship, he quickly cut off all contact and communication with the other party because of the bottom line that could not be touched in principle.

But not long after the incident happened, Yang Jinnian heard from others that his relationship was not going well, and offered to introduce him to a boyfriend.

Although several years had passed, he could still recall clearly at this moment that it was probably a gloomy afternoon when thunderstorms were approaching.Lin Yuanye parked the car on the side of the road next to the construction site, sat in the car and blacked out the frequently dialed numbers on his mobile phone.

And Yang Jinnian's phone call followed closely behind the number he had blocked, and he dialed seamlessly, without giving anyone any chance to breathe.

Lin Yuanye's heart was no different from the dull and thick dark clouds in the sky, so gloomy that it seemed that water could be wrung out at any time.And it was in such a depressed and depressed mood that he let out a deep breath and connected the call from Yang Jinnian.

At that time, Yang Jinnian had already graduated and returned to China. The other party seemed to want to comfort him on the phone, but Lin Yuanye didn't have the extra patience to listen. He interrupted him straightforwardly: "If you have something to say, just say it. If there is nothing else, I will hang up first."

Only then did Yang Jinnian hastily end his talk about him, fearing that he would run out of patience and hang up the phone without saying hello, so he hurriedly stopped him and said, "I have something to do."

Lin Yuanye asked, "What's the matter?"

Yang Jinnian stopped hemming and hawing, and said bluntly that he wanted to introduce him to a boyfriend.

Lin Yuanye didn't know whether it was a ghost or something else. Hearing what the other party said on the phone, he didn't reject it immediately, but asked in a strange way: "Is it domestic or foreign?"

These words were heard in Yang Jinnian's ears, and he didn't pay much attention to them.After all, during the years when I went abroad to study, I did make a lot of friends abroad.

He carefully pondered for a moment between the two answers, and finally, relying on his understanding of Lin Yuanye for so many years, he chose the less error-prone answer for safety reasons: "Domestic."

Lin Yuanye let out a flat tone, and stopped talking.

Probably vaguely aware of the lack of interest in his tone, without giving him any chance to say no, Yang Jinnian poured the other party's situation into his ears like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

What could be called an extreme coincidence was that every word Yang Jinnian uttered reminded him more or less of the person he had cut off contact with recently.

The boredom and depression that he had nowhere to vent after he blocked his number was transferred to Yang Jinnian by the 20-year-old.

Until today, several years later, Lin Yuanye still clearly remembers what he said: "If you deliberately want to make me happy, there is no need to do so."

Lin Yuanye turned his head and looked out of the car window absently, with mixed emotions of indifference and sullenness in his eyes.His eyes flicked to the young worker on the side of the road outside the window. Amid the bursts of thunder that exploded in his ears, he spoke without any emotion: "Even if I am looking for someone who works on the construction site, I would not look for such a worker. Boy friend."

"At least people who work on construction sites also have the advantage of being in good shape," Lin Yuanye forced himself to curl the corners of his lips as if to convince himself that what he blurted out was not out of anger, and chuckled casually and playfully. , "Isn't it?"