like love

Chapter 6

This sentence made Zhou Weixia's neck turn red, and his heart beat even more violently.He and Ye Xingzhi looked at each other for a few seconds, and whispered, "Then can I go to the studio to find you tomorrow?"

"Okay." Ye Xingzhi also answered him in a very soft voice, "I thought you didn't like coming to the studio."

But Zhou Weixia's eyes clearly wrote the reason, revealing a little deep meaning of love for the house and Wu.He didn't say it, and Ye Xingzhi didn't ask, but it was another kind of unspeakable tacit understanding.

Suddenly there was the sound of fine raindrops falling from the balcony, the French windows leading to the balcony were not closed tightly, and a moist wind blew in.The heat on Zhou Weixia's face seemed to be dissipated by the wind, and he stood up and closed the French windows tightly, "It's raining."

He ran to the locker at the door to find an umbrella, turned around and handed it to Ye Xingzhi, saying, "Go back quickly."

Ye Xingzhi went to rub the hair of the man who was half a head shorter than him, Zhou Weixia didn't dodge, followed him with red ears, and walked to the stairs.

"See you tomorrow." Ye Xingzhi opened the umbrella, walked into the rain, turned his head and said goodbye to him with a smile in the lingering rain.

I don't know if it's Zhou Weixia's delusion or it's true, this sentence is said very gently, with the warm yellow light and the not so cold rain, there is a sweetness full of expectations.Zhou Weixia went upstairs, watched Ye Xingzhi walk into the school slowly, and did not look away until the figure disappeared.

City B always had to rain a few times before summer, and this night the rain didn't stop all night, and the next morning there was some sunshine.Zhou Weixia went to the library for self-study in the morning as usual, went home for a lunch break at noon, and planned to find someone in the afternoon.He made a very simple sandwich in the small kitchen of the apartment, and while eating, he sent Ye Xingzhi a WeChat message, asking if he was busy.

Ye Xingzhi replied a little late, and only said that he would come over anytime.Zhou Weixia exited the WeChat interface, and saw a new email alert in the mailbox.

It was sent by his father, and the content was very brief, saying that he would come back to visit the grave with him on Monday.

Zhou Weixia glanced at the date, and it was indeed the time for them to visit their mother's grave every year.After eating the sandwich in his mouth, he responded to an email with the same simplicity.Just after clicking send, Shen Yunman called again.Zhou Weixia's father spends more than half a year rotating around several studios in the north, rarely coming to City B.They don't know the place well and don't know how to drive, so she drives them to visit the grave every year.

"Remember to ask for leave from the school first." Shen Yunman said, "Otherwise, you will go home and stay at home on weekend nights?"

"Okay." Zhou Weixia agreed, and then stopped Shen Yunman from saying that he was coming to pick him up, "I'll just take a taxi and go back. Sis, you should be busy."

"Okay." Shen Yunman knew that the younger brother didn't like to trouble others, so he hung up the phone after a few more instructions.

At three or four in the afternoon, Zhou Weixia took a taxi to the studio.The driver master was reluctant to send it into the narrow alley, and only said that it would be fine at the intersection.He got out of the car, and confidently walked a long circle in several alleys but couldn't find a place. In the end, Ye Xingzhi came out and took him across the street.

Zhou Weixia's mobile phone displays a navigation interface, and his ability to recognize maps is also excellent, but he can't match the map with the real scene.Ye Xingzhi teased, "Don't you remember where you've been?"

"I haven't walked by myself before." Zhou Weixia defended himself.He saw that Ye Xingzhi was wearing a hemp apron with some paint on it, which looked a little funny, and he was about to laugh at him, when suddenly an SUV sped past in the alley, filling the alley and honking its horn behind them.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Ye Xingzhi grabbed his wrist and brought him up the steps by the side of the road.

The car drove past slowly, and rolled up a few leaves on the ground that were knocked down by the wind and rain last night.Zhou Weixia lowered his head and secretly looked at Ye Xingzhi's hand around his wrist. There was a subtle warmth from his skin, which deepened the sense of reality.

No wonder lovers who are passionately in love like to hold hands, hug and kiss.The desire to get close and touch is like an instinct imprinted in human bones, an inertia to confirm love and self-existence.

Ye Xingzhi didn't let go of him all the way, and he almost walked into the studio before he withdrew his hand as if waking up from a dream.

They didn't speak. When they walked into the yard, it was Mr. Su who was watering the flowers who spoke first, "Xiao Zhou? Are you alone? Why are you free today?"

Subconsciously, Zhou Weixia put his hands behind his back, gently stroked the warm skin on his wrist, and replied, "Come to find a friend."

"Then I don't care about you." The other party stood up straight, carried the kettle with a smile, turned around and walked to the backyard, "Your father will come back some other day, remember to ask him to come to my place for tea."

"Understood." Zhou Weixia raised his voice slightly and typed, and while speaking, he tugged at the corner of Ye Xingzhi's clothes, "Is there anything else you need to do? May I help you?"

"No need." In the morning, a group of students were drawing in the studio, and Ye Xingzhi followed suit with sketching exercises. After finishing at noon, until now, things were almost packed. "Sit down for a while, I'll be fine soon."

"So you're not busy?" Zhou Weixia glanced quietly into the studio, as if he was afraid that someone would get a share of the pie.Seeing that no one was there, he took out the paper box containing the cake from his backpack with confidence, "I bought it."

It was a cake sprinkled with blue and a little yellow chocolate chips, with a lemon slice for decoration.Zhou Weixia found a table with few paintings and pushed the cake to Ye Xingzhi, "Try it."

The two hid at the small wooden table in the corner of the courtyard by the window, eating secretly like thieves.Ye Xingzhi couldn't help thinking of the days when he was learning to paint every day in high school, but Ye Hui's grocery store was not well managed at that time, and it was very difficult for him to provide for him. Most of the food he ate was cheap and rough buns.

Right now, the taste of this piece is very sweet, because it has a bit of lemon juice, it doesn't seem too greasy.Ye Xingzhi took two bites, put down his fork, and left the rest for the person who was looking at him with his face up. "It's delicious, is that lemon chocolate mousse?"

"Yeah." Zhou Weixia took a fork and scratched it, and suddenly showed a cute expression asking for praise, blinked and said, "The first time I ate it, I joked with Brother Gu that this cake could be called Xingyueye."

Ye Xingzhi was stunned for a second, then reacted, and laughed, "The color tone is a bit similar to that of Van Gogh."

Zhou Weixia pursed his lips and smiled, with a little bit of melted chocolate on the corner of his mouth.He doesn't have much experience in sharing the details of his life with others, but when he expresses to Ye Xingzhi awkwardly, the tip of his nose is sweating with excitement and embarrassment.

Ye Xingzhi took a tissue, gently brushed the corner of his lips, and forced himself to explain, "It's stained."

"Oh." Zhou Weixia didn't know why, and casually wiped his lower lip that was soaked in sweets, which was a little red and smelled of cream, "Is there any more?"

"It's gone." Ye Xingzhi's Adam's apple rolled, he looked away, stood up and said that he was going to finish the last few things.

Before the words fell, people hurried into the studio.

After waiting for a long time, he came out, took off his apron, picked up Zhou Weixia's half-worn backpack on the chair and said, "Let's go, I told Teacher Su."

Zhou Weixia waved his empty hands behind him, and happened to remember that he was going back to Shen's house for a night stay tomorrow night, so he asked for a leave of absence first, "I can't come to the team meeting tomorrow night, I have something at home, I have to go back and stay for two days .”

Ye Xingzhi said yes first, and asked him after walking two steps, "What happened?"

Zhou Weixia held his breath for a few seconds, as if he was hesitating to make an excuse, or tell him the real reason.

Ye Xingzhi always advances and retreats properly, allowing people to see him through a piece of glass, symmetrical to each other, and gradually getting closer to each other fairly.Zhou Weixia didn't know whether what he saw through the glass was a real reflection or an illusion.The only thing he was sure of was that he wanted to be closer.

Get closer.