On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, all major restaurants and shops are open, and the streets are filled with the smell of the New Year, with Chinese knots and red lanterns on the street lamps, and the sound of firecrackers near and far, reminding people that they are still in the middle of the New Year.

Qin Xiaotian booked a private room at a famous local restaurant in the morning, and prepared a banquet for Yuan Dutian and his family. At noon, when the address was sent to Yuan Dutian, the meeting time was set at 6 o'clock.

At 5 o'clock, Qin Xiaotian dressed up a little, put on a royal blue mid-length down jacket and went out, she had to arrive at the restaurant before the guests arrived and ordered good food. Qin Xiaotian ordered special dishes and snacks such as fish head, bloody duck, glutinous rice pork ribs, stir-fried bacon with quinoa, and rice tofu, and waited for the guests to arrive. Just after six o'clock, Yuan Dutian and his party were introduced into the private room by the waiter. Qin Xiaotian hurriedly stood up and greeted him, with a businesslike smile.

"Teacher Yuan, you're here!" Qin Xiaotian took the initiative to stretch out his hand and shake hands with Yuan Dutian.

"Sorry, I'm late." Yuan Dutian gently shook Qin Xiaotian's hand and apologized.

"It's okay, I've already ordered, and you can serve it when you arrive." Qin Xiaotian nodded to Yuan Dutian's family.

"This is my parents and my cousin." Yuan Dutian introduced his family to Qin Xiaotian one by one.

"Good uncle, good aunt!" Qin Xiaotian took the initiative to shake hands with Yuan Dutian's parents.

"My name is Qin Xiaotian, may I ask the name of the beauty?" Qin Xiaotian asked as he shook hands with Yuan Dutian's cousin.

"Qiu Fengchime." The beauty replied crisply.

"The name sounds good." Qin Xiaotian praised.

"Uncle, aunt, wind chime, and Teacher Yuan, take a seat!" Qin Xiaotian greeted warmly.

"Xiao Qin, I'm really sorry to trouble you so much!" Mother Yuan glanced at Father Yuan and expressed her apologies and thanks to Qin Xiaotian.

"Auntie, where can you come and I can't ask for it. Since I have come, I must do my best to be a landlord, as it should be. Qin Xiaotian responded to the elders as appropriately as possible.

"Xiao Qin, you are welcome to come to our house next time to play!" Yuan's father, who didn't talk much, politely replied to Qin Xiaotian.

"Okay, thank you, uncle, I heard Mr. Yuan say that my hometown is Xuzhou, and I haven't been there yet!" Qin Xiaotian's eyes were like he wanted to take a look.

"Then you should go and see it!" Father Yuan firmed his tone.

"If you have the chance, you must go!" Qin Xiaotian said happily.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve the food, Qin Xiaotian carefully observed Yuan Dutian's parents, his father was about 172 cm tall, and he was not a talkative person when he looked at it, and he felt very dull. The mother looks gentle and polite, and she is also very temperamental, and Yuan Dutian's appearance takes the advantages of the two. The little cousin is a cute and beautiful girl, who talks a lot and thinks very jumpy.

"Uncle and aunt, eat while it's hot! I don't know what flavors you like to eat, so I randomly ordered one of our more representative dishes, you can try it. Qin Xiaotian politely invited Yuan's father and Yuan's mother to move the chopsticks first.

"By the way, uncle and aunt, do you want to drink anything? Wind chimes for you? Qin Xiaotian suddenly realized that he had forgotten to order a drink.

"No, we don't drink much." Mother Yuan was very polite.

"What's there to drink?" Qiu Fengling was unceremoniously.

Mother Yuan glared at Qiu Fengling, and Qiu Fengling stuck out her tongue.

"It's okay, you can drink it if you want. The juice from their purple sweet potato and black rice is very delicious, you can taste it. Qin Xiaotian beckoned and asked the waiter at the door to add a bunch of purple potato black rice juice.

During the banquet, Yuan's father and Yuan's mother praised the taste of the food, Qin Xiaotian and Qiu Fengling had never heard it, they didn't eat, but they didn't listen. The atmosphere at the table was also very cheerful because of the two lively girls.

From the conversation, Qin Xiaotian learned that Yuan's mother was a famous designer, who used to do architectural design, and now mainly does interior design, which sounds quite famous, no wonder she looks very intellectual, beautiful and graceful. Yuan's father is a high school math teacher who is not good at words, Qin Xiaotian thinks that his math class is also boring, and people like her will definitely fall asleep. Yuan Dutian has no other brothers and sisters, the overall family conditions are rich, but he has not been pampered since he was a child, he can study is probably natural, when he was a child, except for Yuan's father who managed his study for a period of time, the rest of the time he relied on himself, since the age of 16 to go out to study alone, he has been out for more than 10 years. Qiu Fengling went to college in Shanghai, and she looked like a young lady but didn't have a young lady. Yuan's father and Yuan's mother also greeted Qin Xiaotian's parents during the meal, so Qin Xiaotian truthfully informed Yuan's father and Yuan's mother about the general situation at home.

In the middle of the meal, Qin Xiaotian excused herself to go to the bathroom and secretly settled the account first, she was worried that Yuan Dutian would not let herself break the bill in the end, and when she saw that the bill was more than 600, for a poor student, the consumption was a bit high.

Before leaving, Yuan Dutian asked the waiter to pay the bill, and after the service looked at it, he told him that he had already settled the bill, and Yuan Dutian looked at Qin Xiaotian with a reproachful face.

"Xiao Qin, you're a student, how can you make you pay?" Yuan Muming was obviously displeased with Yuan Dutian's slow movements.

"It's okay, aunt, you are guests from afar, and I should have done my best to be a landlord. It's a big deal that the next time I go to your place, you can treat me to delicious food again. Qin Xiaotian took a detour of his words, in fact, he wanted to reassure Yuan's mother.

Mother Yuan shook her head helplessly and said, "I'm really sorry, next time you must come to our Xuzhou to play." ”

"Good!" Qin Xiaotian replied without thinking about it.

Coming out of the restaurant, Qin Xiaotian sent Yuan Dutian and his party back to the hotel all the way. Just as she was about to say goodbye to them, Yuan Dutian suddenly asked, "Classmate Qin, are you waiting for something?" If it's okay, can you take me and my cousin around? ”

Qin Xiaotian was taken aback, then quickly calmed down, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, where do you want to go to the wind chimes?" Qin Xiaotian looked at Qiu Fengchi.

Qiu Fengling was thinking about when his cousin would be so good, and offered to take her out for a walk, so he replied casually: "I can do it, where is it fun, hehe." ”

"Then will my uncle and aunt go with you?" Qin Xiaotian consulted the two elders for their opinions.

"We're not going, you young people are going to play!" After Yuan Duan finished speaking, he waved his hand, and told his parents a few more words, preparing to take Qiu Fengling and Qin Xiaotian to go outside.

"Then let's go!" Qin Xiaotian held Qiu Fengchi's arm, Qiu Fengling was taller than Qin Xiaotian, Qin Xiaotian could only look up at her.

Out of the door, Yuan Dutian asked, "Where are you going to take us?" ”

"Do you want to go to the river and see the night view?" Qin Xiaotian asked.

"Okay, what about you?" Yuan Dutian turned his head and asked Qiu Fengchi.

"I'll do it all, I'll let you arrange it." Qiu Fengling's face didn't matter.

The three of them took a taxi to walk on the riverside scenic belt, although it was already spring, the wind by the river was still very strong, and the cold wind blew on the face and felt a little pain. Qin Xiaotian took them up to the free sightseeing tower, on which you can see the night view of most of the city, the lights flickering in the distance, the beautiful scenery along the river below can be seen in the near distance, and there are coin-operated telescopes for visitors to watch. Qiu Fengchi circled around the upper floor of the observation tower and exclaimed, "Look, there are stars!" ”

It turns out that the top of the observation tower is a glass dome, you can look up at the sky, the weather is good today, through the dome to see a few blue stars twinkling in the sky. The three of them looked up at the sky in unison, and when they saw the deep sky, the three of them were silent, all immersed in the endless vast sky, each with different thoughts.

"Let's go, I'll take you to have a drink." Qin Xiaotian proposed.

"Go, I have an appointment." Qiu Fengling suddenly laughed embarrassedly.

"Appointment? Do you know anyone here? Who? Yuan Dutian immediately collapsed his face and looked guarded.

"Brother, two of my college classmates are from here, and I was secretly having fun when you proposed to go out for a walk just now, so I thought I wouldn't have a chance to meet them. If you come out with your aunt, you are not free. I didn't expect to be able to meet them tonight, so I texted them and told them that they asked me to go to a café in the city center for a drink, would you like to go along? ”

"Are your classmates male or female?" Yuan Dutian ignored what Qiu Fengling said and continued to ask.

"A man and a woman." Teacher Qiu Fengling replied.

"Do you have a good relationship?" Yuan Dutian was afraid that something would happen to his cousin, so he wouldn't be able to eat and leave.

"A classmate in a department, usually has a good relationship." Qiu Fengling annoyed his brother to get to the bottom of it.

"Where? We'll send you there. Yuan Dutian was completely commanding.

Qiu Fengling reported the name of the place, afraid that Yuan Dutian would not believe it, and showed the text message to Yuan Dutian.

Originally, Qiu Fengling said that he could just take a taxi, but Yuan Dutian insisted on sending her, so the three of them came to the Mingdian Coffee House in the city center, and saw Qiu Fengling and the two classmates at the door entering, Yuan Dutian was relieved, turned around and asked Qin Xiaotian: "Where are we going now?" ”

"Where do you want to go?" Qin Xiaotian didn't have an idea for a while, the two of them really couldn't find a better option except to sit and drink something or press the road. Suddenly, Qin Xiaotian remembered a place.

"Teacher Yuan, do you want to go to my previous middle school? It's close to here. Qin Xiaotian asked tentatively.

"The school you attended? Yes, it's okay now anyway, so it's better to find a place to hang out when you're idle. Yuan Dutian readily agreed.

"I want to buy a cup of milk tea to drink, teacher, do you want a cup?" They passed by a bubble tea shop, and Qin Xiaotian stopped and asked.

"I don't like milk tea very much, is there anything else?" Yuan Dutian glanced at the price list on the counter.

"He also has honey grapefruit tea, honey oolong tea, green tea, black tea, ginger tea, and juice, what do you want to drink?" Qin Xiaotian picked up the drink on the counter and introduced it, and asked Yuan Dutian while watching.

"I want honey oolong tea." Yuan Dutian said to the clerk.

"I want Earl Grey milk tea." Qin Xiaotian also said to the clerk.

In the gap between waiting for drinks, Qin Xiaotian told Yuan Dutian that she liked to drink milk tea very much, and only drank milk tea with several flavors, such as original, red bean, earl earl, and burnt fairy grass.

"I basically buy 1-2 drinks a week." Qin Xiaotian said.

"Isn't it good for your body to drink too much of this thing?" Yuan Dutian usually doesn't drink these things, and he doesn't know much about them, but he always feels that this is a drink, and drinking too much is not good for his health.

Qin Xiaotian shrugged his shoulders and didn't care: "Whatever, anyway, I just love to drink, it's a big deal to control it." ”

The two of them drank the warm paper cups in their hands, feeling a little more comfortable in their cold stomachs.

"Oops, the door is closed." Qin Xiaotian came to the original school gate and stomped his feet. "Definitely because it's winter vacation and it's a little late, so the doors are closed. Let's go, follow me to the side door. Qin Xiaotian took Yuan Dutian and walked forward for a while, and went around into an alley, the side door led to the faculty dormitory area, and the teaching area could also be reached through the faculty dormitory area.

"Sure enough, it was on. Come, come in! Qin Xiaotian beckoned to Yuan Dutian.

The street lights in the school were a little dim, especially in the dormitory area, after entering the teaching area, Qin Xiaotian began to introduce her alma mater to Yuan Dutian endlessly.

"You see, it's a pond, and there's only a simple fountain in the middle, and it barely sprays water, as if it only sprays a column of water during festivals. In the summer, the center of this pond is full of lotus flowers, which is beautiful, and this pond is quite large, right? Qin Xiaotian asked Yuan Dutian.

Yuan Dutian looked at the dark and gloomy water and nodded. Walk across the covered bridge in the middle of the pond and enter the teaching area. Qin Xiaotian pointed to a large five-story building and said to Yuan Dutian: "This is where I used to take classes, and I have taken classes on both the 3rd and 5th floors. ”

"This is the Science Building, a place to do experiments and then go to information science." Qin Xiaotian continued to point to a 7-story building next to him.

The white street lights on the campus are not bright, probably during the holidays, many street lights are not turned on, only the street lights on the main road.

Qin Xiaotian took Yuan Dutian to the playground and said to himself: "Wow, now it has become a plastic field, and it used to be a gravel floor." ”

"This is where love happens most on campus. The boys were sweating like rain on the court and the field, the girls were watching and cheering, some secretly ran to watch their favorite boys play football and play, and some started their love in middle school. Qin Xiaotian seemed to be immersed in good memories.

"So that's where your love in middle school began?" Yuan Dutian asked her funny.

Qin Xiaotian glanced at him and said, "I haven't been in love at that time, it's just a secret love." ”

"Crush......" Yuan Dutian deliberately lengthened his tone.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, it's really boring." Qin Xiaotian turned his head and was about to leave the playground.

Yuan Dutian just wanted to stop Qin Xiaotian, only to hear her "ah", and saw that she was about to fall forward, Yuan Dutian grabbed her hand from behind and dragged her to the back, but the inertia was too great, and Qin Xiaotian crashed into Yuan Dutian's arms. This collision was actually a little painful, and Qin Xiaotian's face slammed into Yuan Dutian's shoulder.

"It hurts." Qin Xiaotian exclaimed lightly.

"What's wrong, I'll see." Yuan Dutian didn't think much about it at the time, and held Qin Xiaotian's face with both hands to see it clearly through the light of the street lamps outside the playground.

The light was dim, and only a little afterglow was reflected on Qin Xiaotian's face. Looking at each other, Qin Xiaotian realized that Yuan Dutian was holding his face, his face was already red.

Yuan Dutian looked at Qin Xiaotian's face, as if there was nothing injured except for some redness.

"It doesn't seem to hurt anywhere." Yuan Dutian gently turned Qin Xiaotian's face.

Qin Xiaotian didn't dare to come out, so she could only let Yuan Dutian be at the mercy of her face.

Just as Yuan Dutian was about to let go of his hand, he caught a glimpse of Qin Xiaotian's big watery eyes, with white starlight shining in the middle of his eyes, Yuan Dutian's heart trembled slightly, this look was a little similar to her. Yuan Dutian forgot to let go of Qin Xiaotian for a moment.

"Teacher Yuan?" Qin Xiaotian called him gently, for fear of causing Yuan Dutian to have any adverse reactions.

"Oh." Yuan Dutian let go of his hand and said: "You have to take a good look at the road in front of you when you walk, you see, there is obviously a sand pit in front, if you fall, it's nothing, at most it's just covered in sand." ”

Qin Xiaotian was silent, thinking: Who knew that there was a sand pit for the long jump in front, and I hadn't been here for many years.

"Let's go, it's a little dark, do you want me to pull you?" Yuan Dutian stretched out an arm.

"Don't!" Qin Xiaotian walked past him angrily.

Before he could take five steps, Qin Xiaotian was pulled back by Yuan Dutian and leaned against him.

Qin Xiaotian didn't deliberately stop and didn't leave, and Yuan Dutian didn't deliberately want to pull Qin Xiaotian, but he was so unlucky, Qin Xiaotian almost fell into the sand pit after just a few steps out. It's all because Qin Xiaotian has a bad brain, he was angry by Yuan Dutian's words, he went in the wrong direction, he should have turned around and walked towards the outside of the track and field, but he went straight to the sand pit.

Yuan Dutian held Qin Xiaotian with both hands and shook her and yelled, "What's the matter with you? Did Makomi fall into the bunker? Make a mistake once and make it again? ”

Qin Xiaotian's body trembled slightly, half because she was frightened by herself, and half because Yuan Dutian yelled at her to be scared.

Yuan Dutian saw that Qin Xiaotian lowered her head for a long time and didn't speak, thinking that she was crying or uncomfortable, and realized that her tone was too unfriendly just now, which might have scared Qin Xiaotian.

"What's wrong with you? Uncomfortable or scared? Sorry, I was just worried, so it was a little louder. Yuan Dutian didn't know how to comfort Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian still lowered his head.

"I'm sorry!" Yuan Dutian sighed softly and took Qin Xiaotian into his arms. He just didn't know how to comfort Qin Xiaotian, he just wanted to hug her tightly and give her some strength and comfort, but he couldn't tell if this idea was pure or not, in short, he just wanted to hug her gently.

Qin Xiaotian couldn't react at this time, she didn't dare to raise her head, she could only lower her head deeper, but this action made her head bury deeper in Yuan Dutian's arms. Qin Xiaotian didn't dare to make a sound, didn't dare to move, and didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, holding his breath, he could feel the warmth of Yuan Dutian's body.

"Qin Xiaotian!" Yuan Dutian gently pushed Qin Xiaotian away a little, wanting to see her face clearly, but Qin Xiaotian was still afraid to look up, afraid to look at Yuan Dutian's face and eyes.

Yuan Dutian lifted Qin Xiaotian's chin so that she was facing his face. Qin Xiaotian hurriedly wanted to turn his face away, but was quickly stopped by Yuan Dutian.

Yuan Dutian didn't know where the courage came from, he hadn't thought of saying these words to Qin Xiaotian beforehand, especially since he had never thought of saying such things today, but these words naturally popped out of his mouth.

"Qin Xiaotian, you look at me." Yuan Dutian looked directly into Qin Xiaotian's eyes, Qin Xiaotian's eyes were full of puzzlement, fear, and worry, but he saw a trace of expectation in her eyes, although he didn't know if he was right, he could only think so.

"Have you ever thought about calling me Teacher Yuan anymore, but calling me Yuan Dutian or Dusk?"

"What do you mean?" Qin Xiaotian slurred, a little unintelligible.

Yuan Dutian tilted his face, sorted out his emotions and said: "I mean, maybe we can be friends, even more than ordinary friends, we don't have to get along so strictly, just like friends, can't we?" After a pause, Yuan Dutian continued: "I don't like you to call me teacher, it's too distant, I hope we can reduce the sense of distance between us." ”

"Teacher Yuan, do you want to be friends with me?" Qin Xiaotian took a breath and asked.

"So to speak. I also want to expand my circle and scope of life, my life is really boring now, and I don't have any friends in Xiangcheng. Yuan added that what he didn't add was that maybe they could have a further relationship than ordinary friends, and he might have something to look forward to, but he wasn't sure about his feelings yet.

"Well, if the teacher wants to make friends with the students, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and Teacher Yuan must have told me this for some reason, right?" Qin Xiaotian asked.

"Why?" Yuan Dutian asked Qin Xiaotian curiously.

"Like, like me?" After Qin Xiaotian finished speaking, he was afraid that Yuan Dutian would misunderstand, and immediately added: "What I said is that I like a certain trait in me, that is, the kind of trait that is in line with your friend." ”

Yuan Dutian laughed out loud after hearing this, and said, "Yes, it's because you have the traits I like." After speaking, he took Qin Xiaotian's wrist and walked outside.

"Let's go!" Yuan Dutian glanced at Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian didn't understand what was going on at all, so he was pulled out of the track and field by Yuan Dutian.

"Teacher Yuan." Qin Xiaotian pointed to his wrist.

"Don't call me teacher in the future, at least in private, you can call me by my name." Yuan Dutian did not let go of his hand.

"Ahem-" Qin Xiaotian cleared his throat and moistened his throat, thinking about what to call him and how to call him, and it took more than ten seconds before he called out: "Yuan-twilight-day?" ”

"Just call me Twilight." Yuan Dutian's tone is unquestionable.

"Oh, Twilight?" Qin Xiaotian weakly put a question mark on the title.

"Let's call it Twilight." Yuan Dutian let go of his hand.

Qin Xiaotian swallowed his saliva, he didn't know what to say, but he was a little happy in his heart, and he was also a little regretful, regretful: Why didn't he pull me for a while?

"It's too late, I'll take you home first." Yuan Dutian said as he walked.

"Huh? No need, Mr. Yuan...... Ah, no, Twilight, no, I'll just take a taxi back by myself. Qin Xiaotian waved her hand eagerly, she didn't want to cause trouble to Yuan Dutian.

"I'm not at ease." Yuan Dutian continued to walk forward.

These four words made Qin Xiaotian's heart feel like a child eating a rainbow marshmallow, and a kind of sweetness slowly spread in his body. Is he worried about himself? Qin Xiaotian was a little excited.

When he arrived outside the school, Yuan Dutian stretched out his hand and began to stop the car, and Qin Xiaotian's eyes kept secretly looking at him. It's not that he doesn't know, he just pretends not to see it.

Entering the car, Yuan Dutian sat in the co-pilot, and Qin Xiaotian sat in the back seat, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. Yuan Dutian broke the dullness and asked her, "What do you usually like to do?" ”

"I usually read books, I'm in a daze, I like to sing K, I'm a Maiba!" Qin Xiaotian boasted.

"Maiba? I'm not perfect. Yuan Dutian laughed at himself.

"Incomplete pentatonic sound? No way? Didn't you say you learned an instrument as a child? Qin Xiaotian was a little unconvinced.

"There is no direct connection between learning an instrument and incomplete pentatonic sound." Yuan Dutian thought it was funny.

"Does that mean you have a bad voice?"

"Probably, I don't sing much anyway."

"Then do you want to ask you to go to KTV next time?" Qin Xiaotian deliberately provoked him.

"Well, you can think about it." Yuan did not refuse.

"If you practice more, maybe you will be able to complete the five tones." Qin Xiaotian smiled happily.

The two chatted for a while and arrived at the gate of Qin Xiaotian's community, and Qin Xiaotian was about to get out of the car.

"Teacher Yuan, oh, no, twilight, I'm home, thank you!" Qin Xiaotian opened the car door.

"Be careful when you go back, and see if your cousin arrives." Qin Xiaotian came to the outside of the car to say goodbye to Yuan Dutian. I was a little reluctant in my heart, and the scene in the youth idol drama came to mind, what would happen if Yuan Dutian got out of the car now and hugged her and said goodbye to her?

However, Yuan Dutian didn't, he said good night and went straight away. Thanks to Qin Xiaotian's reminder, Yuan Dutian remembered that Qiu Fengling was still playing outside, and he had to pick her up and take her back to the hotel, otherwise he wouldn't be at ease.

After returning to the hotel, Yuan Dutian sent a text message to Qin Xiaotian: I have picked up Qiu Fengchime and returned to the hotel, you have a good rest, you have worked hard today.

It turned out that he was in a hurry to pick up Qiu Fengchi. Qin Xiaotian's heart fell to the ground, and he replied: You should also rest early, and you will have to rush to the road tomorrow, so sleep well.

The next morning, Yuan Dutian and his entourage took a car to Lushan, and when they set off, they called Qin Xiaotian, told her about their next trip, told her not to worry, and asked her when she would return to school, Qin Xiaotian told her that she might return to school in 10 days.

In the last days of this winter vacation, Yuan Dutian and Qin Xiaotian would send text messages from time to time to chat about the current situation, and the relationship between the two seemed to have deepened because of that night on campus.