——Let’s go together.
For a moment, Meng Yao thought he was hallucinating.
She looked at Xu Yao with a dazed expression, her eyes met with his, and her head was blank for a moment.
Silly, I can't come back to my senses.
In the end, Song Siqi spoke up and rescued her from her sluggish state.
"Oh yes, Xu Yao, you have been here before and know where the canteen is."
Song Siqi's tone was sudden, and she looked at Meng Yao: "Then Meng Yao, will you two go together?"
Meng Yao's thick and curled eyelashes fluttered a few times, and when she regained consciousness she immediately lost the courage to look directly at Xu Yao. She pretended to be calm and lowered her eyes. After a long time, she said "hmm" in the eyes of Song Siqi and Xu Yao.
Her throat was a little tight, and her "um" was extremely soft.
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On the way to the canteen, Xu Yao was walking in front, while Meng Yao was slightly behind, looking at his back from two steps away.
This is the distance that Meng Yao is most accustomed to and most comfortable with.
Where Xu Yao couldn't see him, she could cast her eyes on him unscrupulously.
The sun is shining brightly and the wind is warm.
Perhaps because there was another person following behind him, Xu Yao didn't walk very fast, and even deliberately slowed down his pace.
Meng Yao felt the flow of time. The surroundings were filled with the chatter and laughter of other tourists, mixed with a few shouts of children chasing and playing. Although she was in a busy place, she suddenly and inexplicably felt that the time at this moment became quiet.
This scene is like a slow motion scene in a movie.
The sunlight falling on Xu Yao's body is a warm-colored filter in the movie.
His shadow stretched very long on the ground.
Meng Yao carefully kept a distance from him, not even willing to step on his shadow.
The canteen is not far away, and we arrived not long after walking.
A heavy sunshade was made at the entrance of the canteen. Xu Yao stretched out his hand to lift a corner and turned to the side.
Meng Yao followed him, always lowering his head. When he saw Xu Yao pause, she also stopped and subconsciously raised her head.
Xu Yao stood there, looking at her, tilting his head to signal to her.
It was a very simple and casual movement, but it was particularly seductive when he did it.
Meng Yao was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to realize what his careless action meant. His heart began to beat violently uncontrollably.
Meng Yao's heart was still trembling until she passed by him. There was a sense of panic that I didn't know where to move my arms and legs.
Xu Yao walked in behind him and lowered his hand that was holding the curtain.
They only came here to buy drinks, so after entering the canteen, they went straight to the cooler area.
Xu Yao opened the refrigerator door and took out three cans of Coke.
Meng Yao's eyes stayed on his slender hands.
Xu Yao turned his head, eyes drooping, looked at her, and asked aloud: "What do you want to drink?"
Meng Yao didn't expect that he would suddenly look at her and quickly look away.
There is no air conditioning installed in the canteen, only the fan is making a squeaking noise, which makes people panic.
Meng Yao's eyes were wandering, and it took him a while to calm down. He reached out and took out two bottles of juice from the refrigerator.
The cold bottle was held in her palm, and Meng Yao felt that the heat surrounding her gradually dissipated.
When checking out, the boss lowered his head to scan the drink code and asked casually: "Do you need anything else?"
Xu Yao turned his head and glanced at Meng Yao. Meng Yao noticed it and shook his head towards the boss: "No need."
Xu Yao thought about it for a while, then turned back to the freezer and took out a few bottles of mineral water and handed them to the boss to scan the code.
He whispered: "Drinks will not quench your thirst."
Meng Yao later realized that this was meant for her, and she quickly raised her head and said "Oh" in response.
The drink was very heavy, and after paying the bill, the boss packed it in a plastic bag. Meng Yao stretched out his hand to help share, but Xu Yao let him go.
"I'll get it." Xu Yao put the phone into his pocket.
Meng Yao hesitated and reminded, "It's very heavy."
For some reason, Xu Yao turned his head and glanced at her again after hearing this reminder.
His pupils were originally dark, but when the sunlight shone in from outside the door, his eyes showed a bright color.
He slightly raised the corners of his lips, hummed, and accepted her words, then picked up the bag effortlessly.
Meng Yao was stunned by his smile for a few seconds, feeling a little dazed. When he came back to his senses, the tips of his fair and small ears were covered with a thin layer of red.
She thought her reminder seemed unnecessary.
Xu Yao probably found her reminder a bit funny.
Meng Yao was a little annoyed.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the way back from the canteen was shorter than the way back. Meng Yao looked at the mottled tree shadows on the ground, and then looked up at Xu Yao's back.
There was always a youthful spirit about him.
Meng Yao suddenly felt melancholy in his heart.
She thought that it would be nice if time stayed at this moment. Assuming that this road would never end, the sultry wind would always blow between her and Xu Yao.
And under the bright sunshine, there will always be him and her.
But extravagant hopes will not translate into reality.
The reality is that the hour hand is swinging, the long road has an end, and the sultry wind just passes by her and continues to run forward without any pause.
She and Xu Yao were always two straight, unrelated parallel lines.
Back at the original place, Zheng Hua and Gao Yang had rented a barbecue grill and returned. The chef stood in front of the barbecue grill with a gesture and used a small brush to brush oil on the ingredients. Song Siqi opened a bag of potato chips and gave instructions. Work.
"The firepower doesn't seem to be strong enough." Song Siqi observed for a while and said.
"Have you just started?" Zheng Hua didn't even raise his head to look back at her, "The firepower should be low to avoid burning."
It also makes sense.
Song Siqi didn't comment anymore and looked up to see Xu Yao and Meng Yao.
"You are back."
Song Siqi waved her hand: "Meng Yao, come quickly, there will be barbecue later."
When Zheng Hua heard the voice, he raised his head and took a look while he was busy.
Xu Yao and Meng Yao walked in tandem across a short distance. The sun was too bright and dazzling. Zheng Hua couldn't help but squint his eyes.
Maybe it was because they were dressed simply and casually, or because they had similar temperaments, but Zheng Hua felt that there was an inexplicable sense of harmony between the two of them when they walked together.
Xu Yao put down the cold drink and walked up to Zheng Hua. He lowered his eyes and glanced at the grill: "Bake the chicken wings first?"
Zheng Hua hummed: "I'm hungry and urgently need some meat."
Xu Yao smiled: "Then I guess I'll have to stay hungry, the chicken wings will cook slowly."
Zheng Hua was inexperienced and paused when he heard this: "No way..."
Gao Yang sighed on the side: "I'll just tell you."
"It's okay, it's okay." Zheng Hua made a quick remediation and took a handful of beef skewers from the side, "Grill this. This should cook faster than the chicken wings."
He was looking at the chicken wings on the grill and talking about the beef skewers. He was a little confused, so Xu Yao walked over to help.
Song Siqi saw that she couldn't eat barbecue for the time being, so she took Meng Yao to eat snacks.
Comparing Zheng Hua and Gao Yang, Xu Yao is much more familiar with the cooking. He brushes the meat skewers with oil, turns them over, and sprinkles them with cumin powder.
Zheng Hua followed suit, holding the end of a wooden skewer, turning the chicken wings over and grilling them slowly. He dug out a can of Coke from the plastic bag, opened the lid, thought of something, glanced in the direction of Song Siqi and Meng Yao, walked over to Xu Yao, and whispered in a surprised tone as if he had discovered a new world: "I just thought about it yesterday. By the way, Meng Yao looks pretty good without the glasses that obscure his facial features."
Gao Yang asked: "Song Siqi's friend?"
Zheng Hua said "Yeah", Gao Yang didn't pay much attention and asked based on the impression he had when they met at the supermarket door: "She wears glasses?"
Zheng Hua said: "She wore it when we met before."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Meng Yao, observed for a while and then said, "It might look better with a different hairstyle."
When Gao Yang said this, he also became curious. Just as he was about to turn his head and take a look, Xu Yao suddenly spoke up.
He glanced at Zheng Hua and said, "Are you not thirsty now?"
"I'm thirsty." Zheng Hua replied subconsciously. He raised his head and took a sip of Coke. After being chilled by the soda, the nerve in his brain finally connected. He reacted and said quickly, "I just said it casually. There is no disrespect. What she meant."
Xu Yao ignored him.
Barbecuing is time-consuming. With a large number of people, the ingredients you can grill are limited, and it doesn’t matter how full you are.
Zheng Hua was hot and hungry, so he asked for an intermission and slipped aside to eat snacks.
"Is there anyone who can help you?" He scratched at the tablecloth.
Song Siqi couldn't stand it anymore and threw him a piece of bread.
Zheng Hua got the bread, turned around and shouted to the other two people: "Stop baking, it's too hot, come here and have something to eat."
Gao Yang ran over first, and Xu Yao fiddled with the charcoal fire with a tool, then put a few more foods on the barbecue grill to grill before coming over.
Everyone sat on the floor. Xu Yao picked up a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap and drank a few sips. When he raised his head, his neck showed a nice curve, and his Adam's apple slid slightly as he drank water.
Gao Yang took some bread and turned around to ask him if he wanted to eat. He was probably not hungry. Xu Yao shook his head. He tightened the cap of the mineral water bottle and set it aside. There was a pack of dried mangoes near him. Xu Yao picked it up casually, opened it, took out a piece and bit it between his teeth.
Meng Yao suddenly felt thirsty too.
The temperature is too high.
She felt the heat in the air, her eyes were paying attention to Xu Yao's every move, and her heart was beating fast.
After a long time, she retracted her eyes with restraint and lowered her eyes.
It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when the barbecue ended. Zheng Hua and Gao Yang went to return the barbecue grill. Meng Yao and Song Siqi were packing away the uneaten snacks and sealing the remaining unbaked ingredients in food bags. She turned her head inadvertently and saw Xu Yao bending down and carefully Pick up the trash that fell around you one by one.
Meng Yao was stunned for a moment.
The sun was still very strong at this point, and there was enough light. Xu Yao was in the warm sunshine, and his whole body exuded a sparkling dazzling, clean and bright look.
Meng Yao once again realized how far away he was.
Arrangements for the return trip are the same as when you arrived.
Meng Yao and Song Siqi took a taxi. When reporting their address, Song Siqi asked Meng Yao to report her home address directly.
"Anyway, your route back will pass near my house. I will get off the bus at the roadside and ask the taxi driver to take you back directly, so that you don't have to transfer to another bus, which is too troublesome." Song Siqi said.
She took a lot of photos at the camping base today and wanted to post them to her friends, but she didn't know which ones to choose. She was so confused that she handed her phone to Meng Yao and asked her to make a suggestion.
"This one." Meng Yao slid her fingers on her phone and finally stopped on a selfie of Song Siqi.
In the photo, Song Siqi smiled particularly brightly under the blue sky.
Song Siqi rested her chin on her shoulder and glanced: "This one?"
She hesitated: "Does this look good?"
Meng Yao nodded and said, "It looks good."
It's really beautiful.
A girl full of youthful spirit.
"Okay." Song Siqi said, "I always feel like my smile doesn't look good."
"How could that be?" Meng Yao said, her eyes looking at Song Siqi full of sincerity.
She hoped that Song Siqi could always smile so happily.
When Meng Yao got home, Song Lan hadn't come back from get off work yet.
She smelled of barbecue, so she went into the bathroom to take a shower before Song Lan came back. Then she cooked the rice and waited for Song Lan to come home to cook.
She ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon and was not too hungry. She only ate less than half a bowl for dinner.
The dinner table was very quiet, and she and Song Lan had almost no communication.
After the meal, Meng Yao washed the dishes and returned to the room before he remembered that he sent Song Siqi a WeChat message and asked how much the event cost today. Song Siqi took a while before replying to her: Zheng Hua said there was no need for AA, the three boys were out.
After all, Meng Yao was not familiar with Zheng Hua and the others, so he was embarrassed and did not have their contact information. In the end, he estimated the approximate cost and sent Song Siqi a hundred yuan red envelope.
Her pocket money in WeChat was not small, and Meng Yuanshan would send her a small red envelope from time to time. She had no place to spend money, so she saved it bit by bit.
Song Siqi didn't receive the red envelope. Meng Yao chatted with her for a while and found that she had updated her Moments. He clicked on it and saw that it was the Nine Palaces Picture that they played with this afternoon.
She chose the middle photo as suggested by Meng Yao. The rest were all landscape photos, except for one where she included Meng Yao's side face in the lens.
Other than that, no one else was revealed.
Meng Yao looked at the screen of his mobile phone for a while, and then liked this circle of friends. She logged out of WeChat and clicked into the photo album.
In fact, she also secretly made some commemorative actions for today.
On the way back from the canteen, she took out her phone and turned on the camera.
Because she was afraid of being noticed, she didn't dare to raise her phone high. She followed Xu Yao, realizing that there was a high probability that they would never have a chance to get close to each other again. She selfishly wanted to leave some traces, so she secretly took a picture of Xu Yao facing the ground. Shadow photo.
I was a little panicked when taking pictures, but fortunately it didn't affect the quality of the photos.
Meng Yao stared at this precious photo again and again, classified it into separate categories, and carefully set the secret.
This is the most unique photo for her.
No one but her could understand the meaning.
This is late summer and early autumn of 2018.
It was the intersection between Meng Yao and the boy she liked when she was sixteen.
She followed him, facing the light.
