Chapter 37:

There is a long snack street outside the south gate of the school. It is busiest after school. Although it is still winter vacation, most of the stalls have resumed business because students return to school early to make up for classes. The storefronts on both sides of the corner are illuminated with brightly colored signboards, and the air is filled with the smell of barbecue mixed with the smell of oil smoke, simmering sauce and fried rice.

Almost every stall was surrounded by students wearing school uniforms. Li Wenyu walked forward with his head lowered. No one paid attention to him in the noise, but the sound of footsteps followed him not far or near.

At the end of the snack street is a folk alley. It was already dusk. A few dogs barked from nowhere. Li Wenyu stopped under a magnolia tree, and the footsteps behind him paused.

"Why are you following me?" Li Wenyu turned around with a calm expression.

Yang Cheng stood under the shadow of the tree, light shone through the gaps between the white magnolia flowers, and fell on his shoulders in dazzling silence. Yang Cheng clenched his hands tightly and said, "I want to see you."

Li Wenyu laughed as if he didn't understand why: "If you don't go home or eat to see me, what do I have to see?" ?"

The two of them were always separated by a distance, and Yang Cheng's voice was very faint, a little ethereal: "I have something to tell you."

The sky is getting late, and even if winter turns to spring, the sun still sets very early. A few dark clouds floated in the dark blue sky, and the last bit of color fell on the flowing river, like pearls that had been silent for a long time.

Li Wenyu sat on the stone steps, the river wind was damp and cold, and the skyscrapers in the distance were gradually swallowed up by the night, leaving only a few blurred corners. He looked at the building across the river, and after a while he turned to look at Yang Cheng: "You just said you had something to say to me, why didn't you say it again?"

Yang Cheng was sitting on the same floor as Li Wenyu not far away. On the stone steps, my hair was messed up by the wind. He didn't seem to know what he was going to say. His expression was stunned for a few seconds before he spoke: "Did you and Pei Xin really meet because your grandma was sick?"

Li Wenyu lowered his head and tugged at the corners of his lips: "No, But it didn't last long."

Yang Cheng lowered his eyes and asked hesitantly, "What's your relationship?"

Li Wenyu raised his hand to block the sound in his ears and smiled lightly: "What do you think? "

This smile can be considered gentle, but for no reason Yang Cheng couldn't bear to look at it. He knew he had the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to ask: "Do you like him?"

Li Wenyu closed his eyes, and the water in front of him, the building opposite, When the lanterns in the distance first came on, they all dissipated instantly. He heard his voice carried in the wind, and said firmly: "Yes, I like him."

But when he touched his hand, it was trembling, and he couldn't stop no matter what. The wind is too cold.

Yang Cheng immediately frowned: "Pei Xin is not a good person. Nothing good will happen if you are with him."

"Really?" Li Wenyu smiled lightly, his eyes were like soft spring water, as if he was concerned about everything. He knew everything, not surprised or angry, "But he's pretty good to me."

Yang Cheng simply couldn't listen anymore. He stepped forward and grabbed his shoulder, trembling his lips to say something, until he met Li Li in the darkness. After hearing Yu's pale face, he realized that he had lost his composure and slowly let go of his hand. He seemed to have made up his mind and said word by word: "I like you. If you are with me, I will definitely treat you well." Yes, really, you can't be worse than him. Li Wenyu, don't like him anymore."

Li Wenyu was so blown by the wind that he could hardly open his eyes, and he blinked slowly before he could see the face of the person in front of him. The young man's facial features are clear and bright, and the edges and corners are still green. His expression at this moment is a bit dejected and childish, but more of a determined spirit.

Li Wenyu suddenly laughed lowly, and then gradually laughed more and more heartily, almost leaning forward and backward: "Yang Cheng, can you stop joking?"

Yang Cheng's expression immediately became serious: "How could I be joking? I am serious. "

Li Wenyu sat up a little straighter, but there was still an uncontrollable smile on his face. This smile made Yang Cheng feel extremely frustrated.

Li Wenyu looked at him and asked lightly: "You said you are serious, do you also like men?"

Yang Cheng looked at him for two seconds, and then nodded slowly and deeply: "I like you."

Li Wen Yu paused, and his eyes were so careless that he didn't know where to wander: "Do your parents know that you are gay?"

It was finally Yang Cheng's turn to remain silent.

The wind was still howling, and the silvery-white lights reflected on the river were sparkling.

Li Wenyu slowly showed a calm and serious look, neither happy nor angry, his eyebrows were naturally gentle and compassionate, but his lips were pursed calmly and solemnly: "Yang Cheng, you have a complete family and a bright future. Pei Xin and I are the same. A person rolling in the mud. A flawless mirror cannot be broken, but the fragments that are already incomplete don't mind becoming more incomplete. Do you understand?"

Yang Cheng looked up at him, his eyes were bright, but he was very hurt and didn't want to believe it. His expression was: "Don't you like me at all?"

Li Wenyu smiled again and patted his shoulder as if to comfort a child: "Didn't I tell you that I like Pei Xin?"

Yang Cheng said Looking away from his face, he said in a deep voice: "I understand."

After a long time of silence, he stood up from the stone steps, bent down and stretched out his hand to Li Wenyu: "Let's go, the wind is so strong, I I saw you were shaking."

Li Wenyu naturally put his hands on him to help him stand up, and said with a smile, "You have very good eyesight. I almost couldn't see your face just now."

Yang Cheng said nothing. Walk side by side towards the bridge. The stairs were winding and winding, and it took them a while before they finally walked up.

Yang Cheng stood above and looked down, and suddenly said: "I wanted to set off fireworks with you here on New Year's Eve, but you didn't come."

Li Wenyu followed his line of sight and looked down, only seeing darkness, but He suddenly remembered the fireworks he saw when he passed the bridge in the car that day. The colors were indeed very beautiful, very beautiful.

"Next time." He said, "If you have time."

*

Pei Xin went to Nanwang Lane after coming out of school. He knew which community and building Li Wenyu's home was in, but he didn't know which floor or house it was on. He walked to the familiar ginkgo tree but didn't go up.

He called Li Wenyu several times on the way, but the phones on the other end were all turned off.

It took him a long time before he saw a middle-aged woman carrying a plastic bag coming in at the door of the community. She hung up the phone with a busy signal irritably and asked, "Hello, auntie, do you know which household Li Wenyu's family lives in?"

The woman looked up and looked up from her phone. Looking at him from top to bottom, I just felt that this man looked dignified and handsome, and he was wearing famous brands, just like the young rich man in TVB. He didn't look like someone the residents of this community could recognize, and his eyes were a little more wary: " "Young man, what are you doing with Li Wenyu? You look strange to me."

Pei Xin suppressed his impatience and smiled faintly: "I am Li Wenyu's classmate, and the teacher asked me to come over and give him something."

The woman's suspicion subsided a little, and she pointed upstairs and said, "The house on the left on the third floor."

Pei Xin thanked her and hurried upstairs a few steps. She stood in the corridor of the third floor and knocked on the door a few times.

The soundproofing effect of this house was not very good. He could hear people arguing inside even when he was standing outside. A man and a woman, both of whom were young, were arguing very fiercely. Pei Xin frowned and glanced around, suspecting that the person just pointed him to the wrong place. He had already checked the background of Li Wenyu's family, and there was no middle-aged man in the family.

He knocked twice more with a sullen face, and then someone finally came and opened the door. The quarrel did not stop, and the face of Grandma Li Wenyu appeared behind the door.

Pei Xin didn't expect an old man to open the door, so he immediately adjusted his expression and smiled slightly: "Hello, grandma, I am Li Wenyu's classmate. I have something to do with him. Is he at home?"

Grandma's face showed a little confusion. , for so many years, Li Wenyu has never had a classmate come to play at home. She immediately wanted to invite someone to come in first, but the quarrel in the living room suddenly stopped.

Li Teng came over and saw Pei Xin standing outside the door. He was surprised and said: "Xiao Pei? Why are you here?"

Pei Xin nodded: "Hello, aunt, I'm here to see Li Wenyu."

Li Teng stepped aside. Pei Xin came in and said, "Xiao Yu is not at home. He checked in at school today and will only come back to live on weekends. Come here, Xiao Pei. It's cold outside. Come in and have a glass of water."

" Boarding?" Pei Xin paused. Li Wenyu didn't mention this to him at all. He slowly clenched his hands and his expression slowly darkened. "Auntie, I won't go in. I have something else to do. Thank you."

After that, he said . He turned around and strode downstairs.

It was already dark outside, and the street lights in the old community were dim. Pei Xin gritted his teeth and kicked the trunk of the ginkgo tree downstairs. The branches swayed barely, but no leaves could fall off.

He was almost certain that Li Wenyu must be with Yang Cheng now.