44. Yesterday reappeared
Did Yuan Ben carefully preserve the bookmark of a simplified version of Xu Douxiao's elaborate classic painting? It depends on what the criteria for "careful preservation" are. From his point of view, anything that is not used by people is meaningless, and no matter how valuable it is, it must be used to reflect its value. So he took the twelve bookmarks at his disposal, and even he didn't know which book he was sandwiching them in.
The good side of this practice is to reduce the "sacredness" of the gift, if he has a suspicious and easily worried partner, at least he will not fall to the point of Xu Douxiao such passive, the bad side, because there is no centralized preservation, the random drop of gifts is often unguardable, and it is easy to fall into sentimentality because of sudden memories.
No matter how different Yuan Ben's way of handling gifts is from Xu Douxiao, their attitude towards promises is the same, the way of a gentleman, words must be believed, and deeds must be fruitful.
Since he agreed to Xu Douxiao's wishes, the requirements and practical effects were so broad, so he would naturally accompany him all day.
Even if he watched a nostalgic movie all night the night before, and did a marathon of "Brokeback Mountain", "The King's Man", "Farewell My Concubine", and "Beautiful Boy's Love", drawing strength from the tribulations and sorrows extracted from the high degree of art, he has always believed that the most important role of other people's suffering is to enable himself to cherish the moment's happiness.
After all, those things are really miserable, and what I have experienced is nothing.
With this kind of pessimistic or optimistic mood, he slept for two hours before dawn, and after waking up, he carefully brushed his teeth, washed his face and shaved his beard, hesitated for a long time, and finally did not use the mask provided by the hotel.
In the early hours of the morning, Xu Douxiao sent an electronic file, detailing his wishes, including time, place, mode of getting along, etc., listed in detail, from the style of dressing, to the way to deal with emergencies, and he even simulated several scenes, the content is complete, the logic is clear, and it is not at all obvious that he is asking for the realization of a casual gift seven or eight years ago, but like signing a project worth millions.
What Xu Douxiao wants is a date in college, limited to the junior year.
In order to meet the requirements of the young master, Yuan Ben found a trendy brand at the bottom of the box from his small luggage, and specially ironed it and hung it up, God knows that he has been alternating between Chinese business casual and dead otaku for the past two years, Wang Xiaoxiao, who has been a wife and mother, has long relaxed the devil's control over his clothing style, and only casually helped him match the clothes worn by two classes during the change of seasons, and let all kinds of T-shirts grow wildly in his wardrobe.
The suit stuffed in the box is, in a sense, his youth totem, although he can't wear it, but he must have it, what if when will he use it?
For example, right now, it's used to pretend to be a 20-year-old self.
"It's kind of weird." Yuan Ben scratched his hair in the mirror, looked left and right, and always felt a little out of place, like wearing someone else's clothes by mistake, "Something is missing." β
Thinking about it, he thought of glasses, he always wore a pair of gray contact lenses in the second stage of middle school, because of the deep color of the pupils, it would emit a blue glow in the light, and his facial features were deep and cold, and he was often mistaken for mixed race.
Although he felt a little silly with colored pupils at his age, in order to fulfill his promise, he still found an optical store and replaced it with a pair. Passing by the art market, he saw several stalls with cocktail rings and ear clips that he used to carry, and hesitated for a moment, but decided to leave as if he hadn't seen them.
When he returned to the hotel, Xu Douxiao was already sitting in the lobby waiting for him. The wide shirt swayed all over his body, and his forehead hung softly, and there was a gentle and pure beauty, and he saw himself, and his round eyes flashed with joy.
Yuan Ben's heart suddenly pounded uncontrollably, the kind of jump after running 10,000 meters, accompanied by a dry throat, difficulty breathing and slight tinnitus.
"You're not going to run in the morning, are you?" Xu Douxiao came over and quipped. "It's a violation to get up so early."
"I don't have to be prepared." Yuan Ben looked at his watch, "It won't officially start until nine o'clock, and there is still one minute." β
"You're justified."
Xu Douxiao and Yuan Ben stopped talking, and the two looked at the world time in the lobby side by side, counting the seconds to see it complete the last lap.
As soon as the second hand passed 12, Yuan Ben immediately touched Xu Douxiao with his elbow: "Eh, I said, you look so good in this body." β
"That's it." Xu Douxiao raised his eyebrows, "I don't know what you like?" β
Xu Douxiao perfectly restored his 20-year-old self, gentle, clean, and likable intelligence. He wrapped himself in Yuan Ben's favorite shirt and showed his favorite smile.
Yuan Ben knew that he was finished, and his determination to go through the motions was wiped out under Xu Douxiao's smug smile. He felt that Xu Douxiao was very bad, and actually used this method to seduce him and destroy his already weak will, and he felt that Xu Douxiao was very smart, and used this way to give each other a reason to indulge, in a virtual shell, they are not their current selves, but a brief reappearance of yesterday.
"Where are we going?" Yuan Ben used all his perseverance to tell himself that this was an illusory day trip, so he restrained the urge to kiss him, he swallowed his saliva, and handed over the initiative to Xu Douxiao, "I will listen to your arrangements today." β
"Let's just take a stroll, I saw an art market on the street when I came here just now."
The so-called art bazaars in the country are similar, when Yuan Ben and Xu Douxiao went out to play, once bought a pair of earrings from handmade artists as a gift to Wang Xiaoxiao, he for the uniqueness and buyers repeatedly confirmed that the country is unique, and so on thousands of miles back to school, Wang Xiaoxiao took out the same shape and the same craftsmanship of the ring and necklace, from the motherland art market the first to make a set. After this battle, Yuan Ben lost trust in the art market.
However, he is only twenty years old now, and he has not been hurt by sales tactics, so he can turn around with curiosity.
He turned around the stalls, bought a few hand-painted postcards with great interest, wrote a few words on the spot, filled in the address, and prepared to buy two stamps and send them away. Xu Douxiao was interested in silversmith jewelry, and picked up a few cocktail rings with unique shapes and placed them in front of him and beckoned Yuan Ben to come and try them.
"What? Do you want to buy it for me? β
"That's right." Xu Douxiao put the rings on his hand one by one, and compared them seriously, "It's all good, it's wrapped." β
"Is it so generous?" Yuan Ben hugged him happily, "Thank you, boss." β
"What else do you like? It's all covered. Xu Douxiao waved his hand, and picked a pair of ear clips for him to buckle, and Yuan Ben's delicate skin that had been plain for a long time turned red all of a sudden.
"It hurts, it hurts." Yuan Ben covered his ears and coquettishly, "Murder!" β
"Why are you so squeamish?" Xu Douxiao pulled his hand away, although his tone was disgusted, his movements were gentle, and he leaned into his ear and blew gently.
Yuan Ben felt the heat in his ears, and his face blushed uncontrollably, from his face to his neck.
"It doesn't hurt so much." He never thought that he would be provoked by Xu Douxiao in public, and he was a little embarrassed to push him, "Okay, okay." β
"What's wrong? You're shy. Xu Douxiao tilted his head to look at him, "It's not like you, Driver Yuan." β
Teacher Yuan collapsed, of course I was shy, I used to be able to tease you casually with a reasonable relationship, but now I can't, although there is a contract, but public order and good customs are there, Ning Jun also sent him an idea about his heart this morning, how could he be at ease to provoke his fiancΓ©.
"Don't push me." Yuan Ben gritted his teeth, "I'm not a good person. β
"I don't see that." Xu Douxiao touched his reddened ears, whether the heat was due to pain or shame, "You are the most regular." β
Playing hooliganism, the person who talks about the rules loses first, this is still Yuan's own physical strength handed over to Xu Douxiao, and after many years, he was returned by someone, how uncomfortable it is, how uncomfortable it is, he turned his head and didn't look at him: "It's okay if I lose, it's okay to invite you to dinner at noon." β
Xu Douxiao accepted it when he saw it, and he didn't dare to force people to be ruthless, the so-called please enter the urn, but also pay attention to the routine, it is best to boil the frog in warm water, and the fire will be fierce when it comes up, and no matter how stupid the frog is, it will jump out of the pot.
"Then I'll order something expensive at noon, don't feel distressed."
"I'm not Gu Yue."
They thought they were in a foreign country, and they acted a lot of indulgence, and no one knew each other anyway, but they didn't know that such tall and handsome people were outstanding everywhere, and their words and deeds were ambiguous, which had already attracted the attention of many little girls. The art bazaars close to the university town are a haven for young people, who are half sellers and half buyers. Among these many young students, one of them happened to know them, and she didn't know them, but she had seen all the city-level and photos of them from freshman year to graduation, and I am afraid that she remembered the bits and pieces of the two more clearly than they did.
This person is Tong Ling's sister, she was ordered by her sister to thoroughly investigate the campus story of the two, and she was also trembling by the two of them.
Moe is cute, but ah, they shouldn't seem to be like this.
Before becoming a rotten girl, my sister was first of all a woman full of a sense of justice, and she took out her mobile phone and recorded a small video for more than two minutes, not only took a video, but also took a series of small photos, thanks to the almighty network, and sent it to her sister in a package.
What about handsome guys, and what about cuteness?