CH 45

Ye Zhou carried the big and small bags back to dormitory.

Usually, sitting in his seat, he’s always able to see Shang Jin’s figure with a turn of his head. Now, he was a bit unaccustomed to the completely empty space.

Ye Zhou took out the kitten and put it together with the rabbit doll.

“Worthy of being brother and sister.” They were both pink and putting them together also had a little brother and sister semblance. He laughed and took the new clothes to the sink, soaking them in detergent water.

When the water was drained, he heard the sound of a phone. Ye Zhou turned off the faucet to carefully identified it. Making sure that the dorm was quiet, he shook his head and turned on the faucet again.

After hanging the clothes to dry, it seemed like he heard the ringing of his mobile phone again. Three steps merged into two, he had just opened the backpack zipper when the phone pressed at the bottom rang and vibrated.

Looking at the contact on the screen, he was a bit distracted.

“You can actually answer the phone! Frightened me to death. I thought you weren’t there!” A very lively voice came through the receiver. “I wanted to surprise you on May Day, but who knew that you’d give me a fright first?”

“Shang Ming??” Ye Zhou was pleasantly surprised. “You came over?”

“Isn’t it? Come pick me up! I’m just in front of your school.”

“Right away!” Ye Zhou and Shang Ming had the best relationship when they were in high school. But because Shang Ming overall grades weren’t good, tending to overemphasize some subjects over others, his overall grade wasn’t too good and the Ye parents didn’t like him. Ye Zhou didn’t mind his parents nagging his ears off, and still went on his own way. It wasn’t easy to meet Shang Ming after attending university. He’d originally offered to meet up once during winter vacation, but who knew that Shang Ming would go on a trip and he wasn’t able to meet up with him. He didn’t expect that this time, Shang Ming would actually run over to A City.

Worried that Shang Ming had brought more things, Ye Zhou rode the little pedicab toward the gate of A University.

Shang Ming stood in front of the gate and took pictures of the gaudy and outlandish little pedicab he saw from afar. It was as if he’d immediately been injected with chicken blood.

“Haha, this magical car must be photographed and sent to my circle of friends.” As a person who loved making friends, Shang Ming would always take out his mobile phone when he sees some novel things. But unfortunately, this little pedicab was a little far away and the picture wasn’t too clear…

Close…

Closer…

After Shang Ming took several successive photos, the pedicab that he’d dubbed outlandish stopped in front of him. The door opened and he saw a familiar handsome face.

“Ho…ly…shit!”

As the car had already become a famous car, Ye Zhou riding it wouldn’t consider it as anything different. Seeing Shang Ming still with an unclear expression, he said, “What are you staring at? You didn’t bring any luggage?”

“No…” Shang Ming circled around the car and still couldn’t believe that his good friend had actually degenerated into driving a pedicab. “Don’t have a car, then can’t we properly ride a bike? If I hadn’t come here this time, I wouldn’t have known where your aesthetic had deviated to.”

Ye Zhou smiled insincerely and said, “Believe it or not, dare to speak malicious words about this car on A Uni, the whole school would raise money to do you in.”

Shang Ming was completely stupefied.

Ye Zhou pointed to the backseat and said, “Quickly get in. The average person can’t sit even if they want to sit.”

Shang Ming was extremely reluctant as he got into the rear compartment and incessantly muttered, “People from major universities are really unconventional enough.”

Originally thinking that sitting in this kind of car, he would be taken as a monkey on display, but he didn’t expect that all along the way, there were indeed many people paying attention, but no one showed a ridiculing or mocking smile.

Shang Ming sighed, “So abnormal, the institution for higher learning is really tolerant.”

“Hurry up and come out.” Ye Zhou locked the car and looked at his backpack again. “You didn’t bring clothes.”

“Why should I bring clothes when visiting my brother?” Shang Ming seized his shoulders and said, “I can just wear yours, so I brought some change of underwear.”

Ye Zhou disdainfully said, “You really don’t see yourself as an outsider.”

Shang Ming wasn’t the least bit ashamed, said, “We’re the best of friends.”

On the fourth floor, Ye Zhou opened the dorm door.

“Similar to our dorm.” Shang Ming circled around the dorm and saw a neat table and said with certainty, “This is yours, right?”

“Wrong, this is mine.” Ye Zhou hurriedly left in the morning and he’d left the book he’d been reading on the table, while he’d just helped to tidy up Shang Jin’s desk yesterday. Today when Shang Jin left, he didn’t touch it at all, so comparing the two, Shang Jin’s table was cleaner.

Shang Ming stood in the middle, glanced at Shang Jin’s desk and glanced at Ye Zhou’s desk, and doubted, “But he’s got the same technique as you.”

You don’t say! It’s because he’s the one who tidied it up. Of course, Ye Zhou also didn’t think of saying more. If Shang Ming knew his situation, he’d get gossipy. If he said that he’d helped Shang Jin arrange it, Shang Ming would definitely get to the heart of the matter. He changed the topic and asked, “Did you eat at noon?”

“Yeah.” Shang Ming wasn’t tired from taking the train at all. In high spirits, he looked here and looked there. “You’re still raising flowers in the dorm. How are you raising them? The leaf is all broken but still don’t hurry to pick it. Leaving it is a waste of soil nutrients.” Saying this, he reached out his hand to “help”.

“Stopー” Ye Zhou quickly grabbed his hand. Don’t look at this as only half a leaf. Not only did Shang Jin not plan to remove it, but he was also ready to buy a large pot to supply more soil and also apply fertilizer from time to time. “This is my roommate’s stuff. How many leaves are in the flowerpot and how many millimeters the leaves grew are all clearly recorded. Not mentioning that you touch the most conspicuous leaf, even if you pulled the weeds from the flowerpot, he’d be able to find out when he comes back.”

Shang Ming embarrassingly withdrew his hand. “That’s too scary. Still recording it is so much trouble.”

Isn’t it? Obviously, Shang Jin hated trouble the most. Every morning, he took pains to record the strawberry seedling progress and calculate the day it would flower and bear fruit.

Could it be because he wanted to eat strawberries?

Ye Zhou hesitated whether to buy some strawberries before Shang Jin returned to school tomorrow.

After a short rest in the dorm, Shang Ming proposed to visit A Uni, and Ye Zhou rode the pedicab and acted as a guide for the day.

“Good schools aren’t the same, having such a large area in such a good location.” Shang Ming saw a good view and took out his phone to take photos and record a little video. “Where is it like us? If we want to go downtown, we have to take the school bus and walk for half an hour.”

“I made so many notes for you at that time. If you’d reviewed them well, wouldn’t you have been able to get into the same university as me?”

“What a joke. My third year in high school, that semester when I went through your devil cramming and raised my score by fifty points, it had already taken my little life. Want to be in the same school as you? It’d be a bit faster if I dream.”

The two people met a lot of students on the road. Although Ye Zhou didn’t know many of them, but it was no match for other people knowing him. Seeing Ye Zhou together with a stranger, one after the other, they vigilantly asked, “Zhou, your friend?”

Ye Zhou smiled and replied, “Yeah, high school friend. He came to play over the holiday.”

“What about Shang Jin?”

“Went home.”

For some reason, Ye Zhou always felt that everyone was looking at him like he was a cheating wife.

Shang Ming couldn’t make head or tail of it and said, “Why do people look at me with hostility? Do you have good relations with people or not?”

“It’s an illusion.” Ye Zhou comforted, “You don’t know them, so why should they be hostile to you?”

“That’s true.”

After eating dinner, Ye Zhou went to the supermarket to help Shang Ming buy toiletries and took him back to the dormitory.

No one else was in the dorm today, so the sleeping arrangement was easy.

Originally, Ye Zhou wanted Shang Ming to sleep in his own bed and he would sleep in Shang Jin’s bed. As a result, when he intended to send a message to Shang Jin, he felt something was wrong, and finally turned to Wen Renxu’s bed next to his.

“Why don’t we sleep together? I think your bed is quite wide. It’s 1.2 meters.”

Ye Zhou gave him a cold stare. “Even if it’s wide, it can’t accommodate two big men. I don’t want to fall out of bed at night.”

“Then, we can sleep and chat together before going to bed.”

Ye Zhou supported his forehead. This good friend of his, don’t look at his lively outer appearance, he had a particularly annoying habit of liking to hold things when he sleeps, even claiming that he can’t sleep without holding something. One time in high school, he had a sleepover at Shang Ming’s home and discovered that he had two body pillows on his bed. This time, he came suddenly. If Ye Zhou had known earlier, he’d definitely have bought him a big long pillow.

And there was one more point. Ye Zhou said with his arms crossed, “I really have no interest in girls.”

“What do I have to worry about? If you like me, you would have liked me long ago and wouldn’t have waited until now. And I’m perfectly straight. Even if you look better, you’re still a man and I still like fragrant and soft girls.” Mentioning this, Shang Ming felt deeply helpless. “Why can’t I, who want a girlfriend, get a girlfriend, while you, with such qualifications, actually aren’t attracted to girls. Such a waste. Your entire body, up and down, is superior!”

This wasn’t the first time Shang Ming had said this, so Ye Zhou directly ignored him. After showering, he reluctantly squeezed in with Shang Ming on his upper bunk.

“Do you have a love interest now?” The topic brought up by his friend was nothing more than love, especially for Ye Zhou who was so outstanding. Even if he liked men, it shouldn’t be too too hard for him to find one.

Ye Zhou vaguely said, “Things hasn’t taken shape yet, it’s hard to say.”

Shang Ming’s eyes shone and he gossiped, “Then there is? What does he look like?”

Ye Zhou took out his cell phone and looked for Tang Dongdong’s photos in his album. He hadn’t found it yet when he suddenly saw that Shang Jin had sent him a WeChat.

Shang Jin sent a photo of Shang Youyou sitting on the bed and smiling happily while holding all the dolls they’d grabbed. Ye Zhou smiled unconsciously.

Shang Ming glanced at the screen and then at Ye Zhou’s expression. He said earnestly, “Zhou, although I’m glad that you changed to liking girls, but you can’t commit a crime.”

Ye Zhou rolled his eyes twice. He didn’t sleep at noon and, now that it was eleven o’clock, he could hardly keep his eyes open, while Shang Ming was still chattering on without end as if he’d been injected with chicken blood. Ye Zhou still blinked his eyes and responded at first, but after ten minutes, Ye Zhou fell deeply asleep with his back leaning against the wall.

Shang Ming didn’t hear a response for half a day. When he turned around, he saw Ye Zhou’s peacefully sleeping countenance. He yawned and lay down on his side, also starting to feel sleepy.

In the morning, Shang Jin came back with the clothes he’d bought yesterday, took the key and opened the dorm door. He habitually glanced towards Ye Zhou’s bed, and his face immediately darkened.

Why was there a strange man sleeping on Ye Zhou’s bed and also holding him??