(The storyline is fictitious, the official must not sit in the opposite seat, the similarity is purely a coincidence)

The streets of Oxford, whether George Street or Queen Street, have a strong flavor that can only be found in small European towns. Especially when you look along the main road called High Street towards Corn Market Street, the sky is clear, the sky is blue, and there are large white clouds......

Harry walked out of the Chinese restaurant called "Yan Village" on George Street, walked down the road, and walked towards the quiet place to live with a packed lunch box. Even when Harry was walking with his lunch box, for some reason it felt like he was carrying some books and handouts, and he walked in stride, one at a time, each step almost the same length.

The distance is not close, after walking for more than 20 minutes, he saw the small house where Jing Hao lived in the distance, entered the yard, walked to the door, rang the doorbell, the Swedish roommate who had just come in opened the door to Harry, and said hello, Harry asked which room it was, and he pointed.

Harry went upstairs and knocked on the door, opened the door quietly, and was surprised to see that it was Harry, and invited him in: "Why did you come to our house?" ”

But Jing Hao immediately said, "My room is too small, it's too messy, or, let's go downstairs to the restaurant for tea and sit down for a while." ”

Harry said, "It's all right, don't mind. I'm here to bring you this meal, and you've only eaten a little bit and left. I, I'm sorry. ”

Jing Hao said: "Yes, I'm sorry, you don't have to be sorry. It's not all because I heard them say those things, it's that I don't want to eat, I seem to be a little sick, not feeling well, and I have a fever that looks like it. ”

Harry said, "Oh, I see. Then take your temperature. ”

Jing Hao prevaricated and said, "You don't need to measure the temperature, it doesn't matter." We don't have a thermometer here, Mr. Chen used to have everything, but now that he's gone, I don't have it myself. ”

Harry got serious, he thought about it, stretched out his left hand, held it, and asked, "Can I?" Try it by hand, instead of a thermometer. ”

Harry is a left-hander, usually holding a pen in his left hand and using a knife and fork in reverse when eating, but he is used to holding a mouse with his right hand.

Jing Hao was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer Harry. She knew that it wasn't really to the point of fever, but it was a little uncomfortable. I ran out to play for a few days in a row, I was a little tired, I didn't have much energy, and when I came back, I met those two who were talking nonsense, and I was not in a good mood.

Jing Hao said weakly: "Don't try, I think it's just a little hot." It should be nothing. ”

But Harry insisted that he try the insurance policy and if he was sure he had a fever, he would have to find a way to cool it down as soon as possible. Although Jing Hao's heart was weak, he had no choice but to nod.

Harry gently placed his palm on his forehead, put it for a moment, and nodded, "Oh, I judge, it should be a little more than the average heat." ”

Jing Hao prevaricated and said: "It doesn't matter, then you, let's go back and rest early, I'll take some medicine and go to sleep, and I'll probably get up tomorrow." I'll take these meals downstairs and put them in the fridge, just in time to take you out the door. ”

Harry said, "You have medicine, don't you?" If not, I can go to the pharmacy and buy it. ”

Jing Hao nodded and said, "I have some spare medicine here." Don't bother. ”

Harry said, "Then I'll put it in the refrigerator for you, don't go downstairs, take your medicine, take a shower and sleep now." ”

Jing Hao didn't say anything polite and said, "Okay, then I won't go downstairs to see you off, thank you for coming over to deliver food to me." ”

Harry went downstairs to put food in the kitchen. Jing Hao turned around and lay down, wanting to wait for Harry to leave before getting up and going to the bathroom to wash up.

A few minutes later, there was another knock on the door, and he got up to open the door, and was surprised: it was still Harry!

Jing Hao said, "You, you are still here." I thought you were gone. ”

Harry said, "I, that, just thought, I can cool you down, if you don't mind." ”

Jing Hao said: "Cool down? You're cooling me down? ”

Harry said: "Yes, physical cooling. You can use a cool towel, or rub alcohol. ”

"Rubbing alcohol"? Jing Hao was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't have alcohol, our Mr. Chen, he used to have everything, he had a small medicine box, but now that he is gone, everything is gone." I think I'd better take medicine, soak a few more packets of bitter sweet powder or cold granules and drink them in a while, and I'll sleep right away, don't worry, you can go back. ”

Harry said, "Crying dry powder? What are those things? ”

Jing Hao said: "The powder is our Chinese's medicine, I brought it from China, and it is very effective in treating colds." ”

Harry raised his left hand and shook it, saying, "But you don't have a cold now, you have a fever!" It's a little hot! My palm still has memories of your temperature. ”

Harry is completely foreigner and speaks Chinese, just like Chinese speak English, using whatever words come to his mouth. But some of his words are flattering, like modern poetry.

Jing Hao waved his hand and said, "No need, my temperature won't be too high, even if it's hot, it's just a little bit, it's okay." Besides, the cooling you talked about, one is that I don't have alcohol, and the other I don't have, and there is no suitable person to wipe it for me! ”

Harry said, "Don't you have any girls in your roommates?" ”

Jing Hao shook his head and said, "They are all gone, and now the two students from Sweden who just moved in are boys." ”

Harry said, "Uh——, that, if you don't mind, I can wipe it for you, okay?"

Jing Hao was stunned again: "You? But I'm going to take off my clothes? ”

Harry rolled up his sleeves and said, "It doesn't matter, you can put on the front of your clothes and show your back." Otherwise, it's not good for you to have a high temperature, I felt that you were a little hot just now. Now it's not possible to go to a nearby hospital to see a doctor, and even if you go to the emergency room, they will have to wait for at least five hours. Now in the evening, soon it will be night, the most likely to have a high fever at night, when you are alone, the temperature is really too high, it will be troublesome, it is better to cool down now......"

Jing Hao hurriedly said: "That, actually, I don't have a fever to such a high temperature, no need, I really don't have to waste your time......"

Harry waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I have time now, it's better for you to get rid of the fever quickly." Then he went out.

Jing Hao guessed that he had probably gone out to buy alcohol, turned to the window to look, and sure enough, Harry headed for a nearby supermarket. Jing Hao was in a hurry, pacing back and forth in the small room. This Harry is too enthusiastic today, because of the embarrassing things he encountered one after another, which made him feel wronged, so he wanted to do more to comfort her? But can he really be allowed to rub alcohol?

She tried it herself, why is her forehead really hot? It was just a bit of a headache just now.

Harry went to a nearby supermarket pharmacy to buy a few pills and improvised medical supplies – alcohol, cotton wool, cotton swabs and a British vitamin C effervescent tablet – and returned with him.

He made vitamin C effervescent tablets for Jing Hao to drink, and then asked her to "show your back and legs, I'll rub it for you, if you don't mind." ”

Now that the medicine and alcohol have been bought, it is better to push it back. She thought about it, how can she "show only her back and legs"? Jing Hao said: "Oh, then, please go to the restaurant downstairs and wait for me for three or four minutes, I have changed my clothes and please come back, okay?" ”

Harry nodded, happily going downstairs to wait.

Jing Hao opened the double-door white oak wardrobe in his room, pulled out a large bathrobe, put it on backwards, put denim shorts on his legs, and looked at himself from the mirror: the upper body and back were exposed, and the legs were exposed, which was basically okay, which was as strict as asking the male technician to dress for a massage when I went to the SPA.

Harry rubbed the alcohol very gently, Jing Hao was actually very nervous, and kept his arms tightly at his sides, for fear of something inappropriate.

Harry had been rubbing it very lightly, very lightly, and he looked at the still shoulder blades, rubbing them gently, gently, gently, and as he rubbed them, he looked at the two little wing-like bones—they really, really, so much like a pair of little wings.

He gently brushed one of the "little wings", from the low to the highest, then from the high to the low, and then from the low to the high, and then slid down, and then the groove in the middle of the spine was stilled......

Harry had seen the groove, and the gentle slope that had risen up her waist to connect to her hips, and was now being blocked by the denim shorts.

Jing Hao could feel that it was always a soft cotton wool soaked in alcohol sliding on his back and touching his skin, and Harry's fingers didn't seem to exist, this cotton, sometimes weird and itchy......

Jinghao's breathing was quiet, and Harry's breathing was so light that Jinghao could barely hear a little of his panting. Harry didn't want to behave inappropriately, even in small details.

Jinghao didn't know what Harry was thinking, and Harry didn't know what Jinghao was thinking. Nothing happened, nothing happened, even the gasps of the two people had been held tightly in their mouths. It was always a soft cotton wool soaked in alcohol touching the stillness of the skin, and Harry's fingers were completely non-existent.

Jing Hao was so comfortable that she was almost asleep, and she couldn't see behind her: Harry seemed to think deeply, and then, taking a deep breath, his head gradually, gradually lowered, his nose almost touching the pair of small wings on Jinghao's spine, and about to touch the top of the right wing...... He must have suddenly made up his mind to kiss her gently on the back, just once.

At this moment, Jinghao's mobile phone rang. Someone sent a WeChat video invitation.

Harry attempted, raised his head, turned around and helped Jing Hao take the phone from the desk, Jing Hao's bathrobe was reversed, and it was inconvenient to get up quickly, so Harry helped her tie the bathrobe backwards.

It's Jing Hao's mother, Jing Hao converted the video application into an audio call. Because she was lying on her stomach and it was inconvenient to hold her phone, she pressed the speakerphone, and as soon as her mother spoke, she seemed to be very angry. I only heard my mother say: "Chen Dongliang is so annoying! I didn't pay attention to it, and I dared to mess around! You have to make it clear to him no matter what, and from now on you will be completely cut in two! I think he took off the skin of his painting this time! ”

Jing Hao said, "What's the matter, Mom?" It's the middle of the night there, why are you so angry? Did he go to your school to make trouble? Aren't you all on vacation? ”

Mom said, "Go to school? He dares! He's running home! Irritating! Your father and I gave him a big red envelope, he ran to the beach last time and threw the money into the sea, yesterday afternoon he went crazy and ran to our house, threw me on the coffee table, I was so angry that I felt uncomfortable, my stomach hurt, and my gall hurt...... You said he didn't want it, just send it back, it was originally our money! Why bother with this stack of brand-new bills? It's crazy, jumping up and down, out of the foreign appearance! ”

Jing Hao immediately knew that it was Chen Dongliang who said, the big red envelope that subsidized the fuel cost, so he said to his mother: "You guys, you shouldn't have 'put your hot face on the cold cheek' in the first place, how could you still think of wrapping a big red envelope of 10,000 yuan for others, it must be your idea!" ”

Mom was angry: "What are you talking about, this is what you learned from studying abroad?" He wasn't your boyfriend then! Besides, how good a child he used to be, since he dated some indiscreet people, especially the female boss and that Lei Xiaoming, he has simply changed a person! ”

Jing Hao asked her mother, "Ray?" Ray what? Who is it? How come I've never heard of this man? ”

Mom said, "Oh, don't ask, it's all a bunch of people!" You don't care who it is. ”

Jing Hao said: "Okay, Mom, I said something wrong!" Don't be angry, I didn't understand it just now, then the money in his red envelope has been thrown into the sea, why did he throw it back to you? ”

Mother said: "The detective said that there was an uncle who kindly fished them up one by one, and every piece of money was crumpled, and he soaked in the salty water in the sea!" ”

Jing Hao said: "Okay, don't be angry! Don't pull him down, it's also your money, it's better to give it back to you. But I don't understand why he tosses these bills over and over again, and I'll talk to him later......"

Mom said, "What else are you talking to him about?" I'm just calling to tell you that I'm going to ignore him in the future! This man is terrible! Villain one! ”

Jing Hao asked: "I really don't understand, why does he have to get along with this bag of banknotes?" One time it will be thrown into the sea, and the next time it will be thrown at you? ”

Mom said, "How do I know, I don't understand, I see that his brain is broken!" Your dad analyzed that it was because he needed an excuse to come to the door to make trouble, and he probably didn't have any other reason to come to see us. I don't think he had a reason, he just deliberately came to the door to be angry with us, especially me, because I was looking for someone to check on him. ”

Jing Hao said: "Okay, it doesn't matter now, he is angry with you, don't be angry." ”

Jinghao's mother said, "You say, how good are your father and I to him?" He actually came to such a hand! What a villain! ”

Jing Hao lay on his stomach, after a long time, a little uncomfortable, and said: "Mom, I'll call you again tomorrow, now, I, I'm a little busy now......"

Mom asked, "What are you busy with right now?" ”

Jing Hao said casually: "I'm here, I'm doing my homework." ”

Mom asked, "Didn't you turn in all your papers?" How can there be homework? ”

Jing Hao hurriedly explained: "Oh, that, I said it wrong, it's not an assignment, it's a thesis, I'm not applying for a doctorate, people have to hand in a few papers that I have completed before, and I am revising the previous assignments......"

Mom believed it and said, "I have another thing to do with you, which is to tell you seriously, don't take applying for a doctorate seriously, you go out to play more, travel, while you are young, walk more, and see the world more!" Otherwise, when I come back later, I won't have a lot of time and such a good opportunity! At this time, Jinghao's father snatched the phone and wanted to say a few words to Jinghao.

Dad deliberately walked to the balcony with his mobile phone, and she couldn't hear it when he was far away from his mother, so he said: "It's quiet, your mother asked Chen Dongliang to make it a little bad lately." ”

Jing Hao was startled when she heard this: "Huh? What's wrong with him? ”

Dad said: "He came to toss a meal, and your mother was angry enough, and then, in the middle of the night, your mother got up and went to the kitchen to pour water and drink, saying that she saw a mouse running all over the ground, and was so scared that she yelled, our house is the Dingjia Pavilion on the fifth floor, and I have lived here for almost ten years, upstairs and downstairs, all the neighbors' houses, there have never been mice, your mother said, I suspect that Chen Dongliang secretly stuffed it into the kitchen when he came to throw money!" ”

Jing Hao said, "Huh? No way! Where did he get a live rat out! ”

Dad said, "Who knows, the point is that the rat hasn't been caught until now!" Professional rat catching companies have been invited! ”

Jing Hao said: "Really? As for you? ”

Dad said, "Then your mother said she saw a mouse, but I didn't see it, but if she didn't catch one, she wouldn't be able to sleep!" Forget it, don't talk about it so much, telling you will also add to your troubles. ”

Jing Hao hurriedly said, "I'm fine, Dad, you tell me!" ”

Dad said: "Oh, anyway, you people have indeed not experienced any setbacks, especially that Chen Dongliang, who has always been pampered, cared for, and paved the way at home, this is a little bit of an incident, you see him like this!" What a fool's errand! It's not like words! No responsibility at all! What is that little, he won't be done tossing it! ”

Jing Hao said: "That's okay, Dad, you comfort and comfort my mother more." ”

Dad said: "Okay, your mother seems to have come out of menopause again, very anxious, yesterday she was going to WeChat video with you, I said not in a hurry, today I see her fidgeting, very irritable, sweaty, now it's more than eleven o'clock, she doesn't sleep, I have to look for you, I didn't stop her......"

Jing Hao said: "Menopause? How many more times do you have to make trouble? ”

Dad said: "We don't know much about those professional things, maybe we didn't finish it completely at that time, anyway, this stimulation, even frightened, emotional instability, is likely to have a problem, I feel very similar to menopause, anxious and irritable." Last night, she said that she was going to England to find you immediately. I can't press it, I can't wait to leave with the box immediately! ”

Jing Hao said: "Hehe, that's good, let her come, come and relax." ”

Dad said: "You child, she is obviously unstable, and she is still going to relax, she said, 'I want to watch you'!" ”

Jing Hao said: "Hehe, come and 'look at me'? What are you watching me do? I'm fine! ”

Dad said, "Isn't that what I mean, inexplicable." Chen Dongliang threw off the money and left, she saw the mouse in the middle of the night, and she always suspected that the mouse had gotten into the bedroom, and she didn't sleep all night. ”

Jing Hao said: "Hehe, you guys are too tossed. ”

Dad said: "I have to go to the city to hold an important cultural work symposium the next day, and I can't drink three cups of coffee before I go out, and my head is dizzy and swollen all day......

Jing Hao said: "You also pay more attention to your body, Dad." ”

Dad: "I don't care, the main thing is that your mother doesn't really have a problem." As for the rats, I'm afraid there isn't one at all, it's her hallucinations. She began to wonder about anything other than rats, what the hell are you going to do in England for an extra month or two, and who are you with...... Say you're with a British guy! Whoever says with a nose and an eye says that you have already been deceived, so I have to 'look at you' immediately! ”

Because it was hands-free, Jing Hao glanced back at Harry, for fear that Harry would understand what his father said on the phone, but fortunately, his parents spoke quickly, and Harry didn't seem to understand. She hurriedly said: "Okay Dad, I know everything, let's talk about it tomorrow, and I'll talk to you on WeChat video or voice tomorrow." ”

When the call was finally over, Harry helped put the phone back on his desk.

Jinghao's arm was a little numb and sore, and although Harry carefully helped her tie the yukata backwards, her back was still a little cold, and she sneezed a few times.

She asked Harry, "Are you alright?" Do I still need to rub alcohol? Don't use it, right? ”

Harry said, "It needs to be wiped a little longer. ”

She carefully pressed her arms flat against her sides, and Harry picked up the cotton wool again......

Harry rubbed it and suddenly asked, "You just talked to your mother, what do you mean by 'love sticking to the top of the beam'?" ”

Jing Hao's back fell together and laughed. Harry hurriedly said: "Don't laugh, I'm sorry, I may be mistaken, it's ridiculous to say nonsense, I'm sorry, don't laugh, okay, lie down, continue to cool down......"

Jing Hao corrected him and said: "Now it is lying on its stomach, its head down is 'lying down', and its head is 'lying down'......

After saying that, she sneezed five or six times in a row.

When I woke up the next day, I felt dizzy, I touched it, it was not good, it was okay not to cool down yesterday, but it was even worse, and now my head is much hotter than yesterday. If Harry didn't feel wrong yesterday, then yesterday was a slight fever, and today is the official fever!

She got up and rummaged through the cabinets, looking for the antipyretic medicine she had brought from China, and it seemed that it was not good to just eat "bitter and sweet powder" and "cold granules". But I searched and searched, but I couldn't find a fever reducer. Jing Hao curled up into the summer cool quilt on the bed again, remembering where he had stuffed the medicine.

Harry called Jing Hao at nine o'clock and asked if she was feeling better.

Jing Hao said: "Thank you for calling, I feel hotter, I really have a fever, my head is dizzy, it wasn't so hot yesterday, I plan to continue sleeping after taking medicine." ”

Harry said, "Don't you have to go to the hospital? ”

Jing Hao said: "I don't go, the hospital here is too slow, I went once, and waited for more than an hour to see the doctor." ”

Harry said: "Yes, colds and fevers and so on, most of the people here are solved at home, so you can rest more." ”

I rested for a day, and the next day I still had a fever, but it was better. Harry brought a bouquet of flowers to see her, and as soon as she entered the door and sat down, Jinghao's father sent Jinghao another WeChat voice chat invitation, but fortunately, the two hung up after chatting a few words.

Harry raised an eyebrow and asked Jing Hao in surprise, "Do your parents contact you like this every day?" Do you have to ask a lot of things about your life every day? ”

Jing Hao said: "It's not every day, it's just sometimes." But lately they've been looking for me, several times a day. ”

Harry said, "They're interested in your life, aren't they? ”

Jing was so amused, thinking to herself how fresh Harry had said! Our Chinese parents, one counts as one, which one is not very interested in their children's lives?

Jing Hao said: "I should say that I care, I care about my life, hehe, isn't your mother interested in your life?" ”

Harry shrugged: "My mother and I, when we meet, we talk about our lives, and we talk about them on the phone. However, we generally don't make too many phone calls to disturb or even interfere with each other's lives. ”

Jing Hao looked at Harry sideways, thinking to herself, what would her mother think if she heard Harry's words? She'd definitely think Harry was too egotistical, even selfish!

Jing Hao said: "Oh, Chinese parents, you may think that caring for each other should not be regarded as disturbing each other, right? ”

Harry said: "However, no matter how close we are, we are all independent individuals. Independent people have their own independent lives. ”

Jing Hao suddenly remembered what Mrs. Chen, Li Ruoshi, and Zhang Yiyun had said, "Except for the wind, even the queen can't enter and leave my castle at will"...... And what Mr. Chen said, "Ghosts are hard to get along with." "They are all right, British people like Harry have many different ideas about life and the personal world than the vast majority of Chinese.

Jing looked at Harry, the expression on Harry's face was always calm and innocent.

Jing Hao said: "Yes, this is also a real problem. Many Chinese are interested in other people's lives, not just parents and children. It's almost a culture! ”

Harry shrugged, grinned on his thick lips and toothache, and asked, "What about you?" Are you also very interested in your parents' lives? ”

Jing Hao said: "Me? I'm average, their lives are quite colorful, and I don't have to worry about them. ”

Harry nodded and said, "Oh, that's fine. ”

Jing Hao said: "As for me, I am actually quite annoyed by others like this, asking you every day and caring about your life, but there is no way." As for my parents, they are also a little worried because they know that Mr. Chen and they are gone, and I am left here alone. Originally, they weren't like that, and they weren't too verbose. ”

Harry shrugged his shoulders again and said, "Worried about what?" But don't forget, you're twenty-nine years old! ”

Jing Hao said: "Yes, but, because they are 29, they are more concerned!" Almost everything about me! Moreover, they think that this is the way it should be, and that they have the right to care about everything about me, including all things in life. ”

Harry shrugged his shoulders again and asked, "Why don't they focus more on their lives?" ”

Jing Hao continued: "No way, Chinese parents are really like this, when you get married, they will still care about whether you have children, and when you have children, they care about everything about your children, almost like this, hehe......"

Harry grinned again, shrugging his shoulders, his expression and body movements honestly reflecting his thoughts at the moment—incomprehensible.

Another day, when I got up, I shook my head gently from side to side, and it was obvious that I felt that I was finally getting better.