Chapter 37
Chapter 37
The rustling sound of people wearing clothes was clearly transmitted through the microphone of the mobile phone. Even though the screen was turned upside down, the heat on Jiang Yubai's ears had not completely faded away.
Lu Jinyan has completely let go of his guard in front of him recently, as if he no longer thinks he is gay.
He is not afraid at all that he has any other plans for him.
"Get dressed, Xiaobai." Lu Jinyan put on the bathrobe obediently, and then raised the phone in front of him again, "Is it still there?"
"Yes." Jiang Yubai picked up the phone, and using the corner of his eye to make sure that the other party did not show his chest and abdominal muscles, he looked straight at him.
"I was really in a hurry just now." Lu Jinyan raised his hand and stroked his bangs, showing a deep smile, "I didn't mean not to wear clothes."
"Hmm." Jiang Yubai believed his words, and suddenly noticed that he was wearing a bathrobe, and the environment behind him didn't look like a dormitory, so he couldn't help asking curiously, "Aren't you in the dormitory?"
"Yes, I'm staying in a hotel outside." Lu Jinyan stared at his face without blinking, "Isn't today the Eastern District League? It was a bit late after the game, so I didn't go back to the dormitory."
"So that's how it is." Jiang Yubai took two steps back, and sat down on the edge of the bed, "Did you win today's game?"
Lu Jinyan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Guess?"
"Win." Jiang Yubai replied without hesitation. .
"Of course, you cheered me on yesterday, how could I not win?" Lu Jinyan raised his lips and smiled.
Jiang Yubai propped one hand on the bed sheet, leaned back slightly, and said from the bottom of her heart, "Congratulations, Lu Jinyan."
"Thank you, Xiaobai." Lu Jinyan smiled deeper, and suddenly remembered something, and his tone changed subtly, "By the way, we defeated the team from the Sports Academy today."
When the words fell to the ground, he carefully observed the expression on the other side, and at the same time, he was brewing in his heart what he was going to say next.
However, Jiang Yubai's expression didn't fluctuate at all after hearing this, and he just replied: "Then you are really amazing."
What he wanted to say was stuck in his throat, and Lu Jinyan couldn't say it for a while.
But Xiaobai knows that he defeated that scumbag today, but he is still willing to be sincerely happy for him. Does this mean...
The status of the scumbag in Xiaobai's heart is not that important anymore?
Thinking of this, the grim smile on the corners of his lips became smooth again, Lu Jinyan changed the subject and said, "How is your sketching? Is it going well?"
"Successful." Jiang Yubai nodded, "Professor Pei is right, the gift of nature will give us new inspiration."
"That's good." Lu Jinyan gazed tenderly at the phone screen, unknowingly attracted by a drop of water falling from the end of his hair, and slid into the loose collar along the wet trace.
The T-shirt Jiang Yubai is wearing today is too big, maybe he has slimmed it down again, the round neckline reveals most of the exquisitely protruding collarbone, and the little red mole is also fully exposed.
His throat became inexplicably thirsty, but his vision seemed to be firmly glued to his collarbone. Lu Jinyan's voice was astringent: "Xiaobai, dry your hair before going to sleep, or you will have a migraine."
Jiang Yubai raised his hand and touched the end of his hair: "It's been wiped off just now."
"Hey, half-drying won't do." Lu Jinyan forced himself to withdraw his wandering gaze, "Does the hotel have a hair dryer? Remember to dry it before going to bed."
Facing his persistence, Jiang Yubai had no choice but to compromise: "Okay, I'll blow dry later."
Just as Lu Jinyan was about to reply, he heard an unfamiliar male voice from the other side of the screen: "Xiaobai, do you know where the hair dryer is?"
The upward arc of the corner of his mouth turned downward, Lu Jinyan frowned: "Xiaobai, is there someone in your room?"
"It's a classmate who lives in the same room." Jiang Yubai simply explained, then turned to look at Mu Xinyu, "Sorry, I don't know, you can look for it."
"Okay, then I'll look for it myself." Mu Xinyu responded, only then did he notice that he was making a video call, and walked over curiously, "Xiaobai, who are you making a video call with?"
Jiang Yubai hesitated for a moment, but Lu Jinyan's answer came directly from the phone: "Hi, I'm Lu Jinyan, and I'm Xiaobai's...roommate."
"Oh, hello, hello!" Mu Xinyu responded enthusiastically, standing behind Jiang Yubai and greeting the screen, "My name is Mu Xinyu, and I'm Xiaobai's classmate."
After a pause, he suddenly raised his voice: "Lu Jinyan? Are you that Lu Jinyan from the finance department?"
Lu Jinyan kept a polite smile: "Have you heard of me too?"
"You are the most famous person in University A, so why haven't I heard of it?" Mu Xinyu moved closer, unconsciously raising his hand to put on Jiang Yubai's shoulder, "There are several girls in our class who like you!"
With such an ordinary movement, the handsome face on the other side of the screen suddenly sank.
Sensing the weight on his shoulders, Jiang Yubai also reacted, and moved aside reflexively.
The strength used to support disappeared, Mu Xinyu's body tilted, and he almost threw himself on the bed.
"Sorry, I'm not used to physical contact with others." Jiang Yubai turned his face to apologize, and moved his body to the side again.
"It's okay, I didn't pay attention..." Mu Xinyu scratched the back of his head, "Then I'm going to blow dry my hair first, let's chat!"
Jiang Yubai nodded slightly, and when he looked at the phone screen again, the face on the other side seemed to be cloudy and sunny.
"Why did you book a double room for you?" Lu Jinyan returned to normal, and then picky with dissatisfaction, "It's all at your own expense, why are you still so picky?"
"Because the teacher wants us to live together in a homestay." Jiang Yubai smiled, "The room conditions are good, and there is a balcony where you can watch the sunset."
"That's not bad." Lu Jinyan also laughed, and then confirmed, "It's two beds, right?"
Jiang Yubai replied: "Well, two."
"That's good." Lu Jinyan finally felt relieved, and his tone was as gentle as water, "Go to rest early, I must be very tired after climbing the mountain for the past two days."
Jiang Yubai shook his head lightly: "I'm not very tired."
In previous years, he did suffer from sore legs and sore arms when sketching from nature, but I don’t know if it’s because he played basketball with Lu Jinyan recently. His physical fitness is better than before, and he really hasn’t felt particularly tired these two days.
The two talked for a while, and Lu Jinyan seized the last chance to stare at the beautiful eyebrows, with a reluctant tone: "Xiaobai, hang up the phone first."
"Okay." Jiang Yubai responded, "Good night."
Before Lu Jinyan could say "Good night to you too", the video call was hung up neatly.
He sat on a chair in the hotel, staring blankly at the pitch-black phone screen, unable to recover for a long time.
After a while, he raised his left hand, stared deeply at the pattern on his wrist, and finally bent down and kissed the kitten on the cake.
The thin lips are falling on the "white" signature.
On the third day of sketching, the enthusiasm of the students remained undiminished.
It's early autumn, and the vegetation of Xianyun Mountain from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain presents a natural gradient of color, which is so beautiful that one can't help but marvel at the uncanny craftsmanship of nature.
Of course, such a color span is also a big challenge for art students.
After climbing to the top of the mountain in the early morning, Jiang Yubai chose a viewing platform with a good view, and sat on the highest stone steps to look down.
The other students didn't start sketching so early. The girls gathered around to take pictures and chat in twos and threes. Some people pretended to be taking pictures of the scenery. In fact, even Jiang Yubai took pictures together.
He was wearing a white shirt and jeans today. His simple clothes looked extremely handsome because of his thin and tall figure. He sat alone on the high platform and stared into the distance.
Seeing the effect of the pictures taken, the girls couldn't help but gasp in amazement.
"Xiaobai!" Zheng Weiwei walked up the stone steps with her mobile phone, and said to the wind, "I accidentally took a picture of you just now, do you want to send you a copy?"
Jiang Yubai looked down at her: "No, thank you."
"Okay, then I'll keep it for myself!" Seeing that he didn't ask her to delete the photo, Zheng Weiwei happily went back to join her little sisters and continued to take pictures in other places.
Jiang Yubai retracted his gaze, set up the drawing board, and started to color.
He had excellent concentration, and sat on the stone steps of the viewing platform for a whole morning, until a strange voice sounded in his ears.
"How long do you want to occupy the viewing platform by yourself?" Yang Wenjie stood under the steps and asked loudly, dissatisfied.
Jiang Yubai didn't even move his eyelashes, and replied calmly: "The viewing platform is very big, anyone can go up."
"You—" Yang Wenjie was choked by his words, and he simply lifted his foot to the top, wanting to see how his painting was going.
Jiang Yubai didn't pay attention, and let the other party stand beside him and look at his painting.
Yang Wenjie looked at it for a while, felt blocked, and began to find fault: "I heard that Lu Jinyan is homophobic, you don't like him, do you?"
Pausing the paintbrush in his hand, Jiang Yubai subconsciously looked at the other students, and found that no one cared about them, so he turned his face: "Please don't talk nonsense."
"How about it, did I hit it?" Yang Wenjie had a smug expression, as if he had caught his ulterior motive again, "I know that nine out of ten gays in our school like Lu Jinyan, you sure don't Will be that exception."
Jiang Yubai frowned slightly: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"I think Lu Jinyan came to see you off that day. He didn't know you were gay, did he?" Yang Wenjie lowered his voice, "If he knew you were gay and had thoughts about him, guess what would happen?"
Jiang Yubai didn't speak, but looked at him coldly.
The wind was strong at the high place, and Yang Wenjie felt cold behind him, and asked bravely, "Why are you looking at me like that? Isn't what I said the truth?"
"Where you are standing now, there is a cliff behind you." Jiang Yubai raised the green hand holding the pen, and pointed at him from a distance, "Guess, if someone accidentally falls, will there be no bones left?"
His voice was soft and ethereal, but the words he said were creepy.
Yang Wenjie's complexion changed suddenly, he turned around and ran down several stone steps, and when he turned his head again, his tone could be said to be exasperated: "Jiang Yubai! You want to murder people?"
Jiang Yubai remained motionless, looking down at him with indifferent eyes as if looking at an ant.
As if being splashed from head to toe by a basin of cold water, Yang Wenjie's face was pale, and he even shivered uncontrollably.
Crazy, at this moment he finally realized that the person in front of him was a real lunatic at heart.
Sure enough, there is only a thin line between a genius and a lunatic!
"Yang Wenjie!" At this time, monitor Qiu Zixin inadvertently discovered that Yang Wenjie was looking for trouble with Jiang Yubai again, and deliberately raised his voice and shouted, "Yang Wenjie, Professor Pei is looking for you!"
Yang Wenjie was shocked, broke free from the aura that suppressed him, and ran over quickly: "I'm coming!"
With no distracting factors, Jiang Yubai refocused on the drawing board.
During the lunch break, Professor Pei looked around at everyone's drawing boards, briefly commented and gave some guidance, and then explained with Jiang Yubai's sketches as a template.
Usually at this time, Yang Wenjie couldn't help making a disdainful sound, but today he lowered his head without saying a word, and didn't even dare to look in Jiang Yubai's direction.
It seemed that he was afraid that he would rush over and push himself off the cliff.
The sun was setting, and the students who had been painting for a day couldn't sit still. They took out snacks and drinks, chatting while eating.
Jiang Yubai was still sitting on the highest viewing platform, with the endless burning clouds in the sky reflected in his clear eyes.
"Jiang Yubai, do you want some water?" Qiu Zixin walked over and handed him a bottle of mineral water, "I see that you haven't moved much all day, and you haven't replenished water."
In the past, Jiang Yubai always coldly refused such overtures, but now he is used to the friendliness of his roommates, and he took the initiative to walk down the steps and take the mineral water: "Thank you."
Qiu Zixin was flattered, and took out two bags of bear biscuits from her pocket: "I still have biscuits, do you want some?"
Jiang Yubai nodded, took the biscuit and thanked again: "Thank you for the biscuit, do you want to come up to watch the sunset?"
He has nothing else to give to the other party now, so he can only borrow the sunset from Xianyun Mountain as a gift in return.
Qiu Zixin was stunned for a moment, and her tone was a little unbelievable: "You invited me to watch the sunset?"
Jiang Yubai has always been difficult to get close to, even if she is the class monitor except for the necessary homework and activities, she can't talk to him much.
But today, he actually invited himself to watch the sunset?
Jiang Yubai replied, "You don't have to watch it if you don't want to."
"No, no!" Qiu Zixin trotted up the highest stone steps, sat side by side with him on the highest place, looking at the sunset of Xianyun Mountain.
"Wow...it's really beautiful!" Looking at it, Qiu Zixin was immediately speechless by the beauty of the scene in front of her.
After a while, she came back to her senses and took out her mobile phone to take a picture of the sunset: "It's really beautiful, I want to take some pictures and show them to my boyfriend!"
After taking a few pictures, she turned her head and asked, "Jiang Yubai, don't you want to take pictures?"
Jiang Yubai was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously replied, "I don't have a boyfriend."
"Pfft——" Qiu Zixin almost burst out laughing, trying to hold back her smile and replied, "You don't have a boyfriend, so you always have good friends, right? Don't you think it's romantic to share such a beautiful scenery with the most important person? ?”
"Share with..." Jiang Yubai slowly blinked his eyelashes twice, and repeated softly, "The most important person?"
"Yes!" Qiu Zixin urged repeatedly, "Hurry up, hurry up, the sun will sink soon!"
Jiang Yubai came back to his senses, took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, and took a long video of Xianyun Mountain in the setting sun.
After going down the mountain, Jiang Yubai returned to the room, and as soon as he put down his backpack, he received a message from Lu Jinyan.
Lu Jinyan: [Xiaobai, have you returned to the hotel? ]
Jiang Yubai picked up the phone and typed a reply: [Just returned. ]
Lu Jinyan: [Have you had dinner yet?Did your sketching go well today? ]
Jiang Yubai held the phone, thought for a few seconds, and sent the video he took today.
The video was 20 minute and [-] seconds long, and when it was over, Lu Jinyan dialed back the voice call: "Xiaobai, is this the sunset you took?"
"Hmm." Jiang Yubai turned around and leaned against the edge of the table, "Does it look good?"
"It's beautiful! It's very beautiful!" Lu Jinyan's voice sounded full of joy, "I've never seen such a beautiful sunset when I grow up so old."
Jiang Yubai bent his lips unconsciously, and replied softly, "It's just as long as you like it."
"It would be even better if I can take pictures of your face." Lu Jinyan demanded aggressively.
Jiang Yubai was a little puzzled: "Why did you slap my face?"
Lu Jinyan paused for a moment, and said nonsense: "Because only when your face is photographed, can you prove that you have been to this place and seen such a scenery."
Jiang Yubai was thoughtful, and finally agreed: "Then I will pay attention when I shoot tomorrow."
"Really?" Happiness came so suddenly that Lu Jinyan couldn't control the volume for a while.
Jiang Yubai smiled again: "Really."
The next night, Lu Jinyan did receive the video.
The wind was strong on the top of the mountain, and a delicate and beautiful face appeared in the camera amidst the whistling wind.
The slightly long hair was blown a little messy by the wind, and she looked childish and cute. When facing the camera, her eyes were a little at a loss, and finally she stretched out her pink hand and waved beside her ear, as if greeting him.
Lu Jinyan was instantly so cute that his heart, liver, spleen and lungs trembled, and he dragged the progress bar fondly, repeatedly watching the few seconds when his sweetheart appeared.
"Brother Lu, what are you looking at?" Shen Zhao quietly walked behind him and shouted in surprise, "Xiaobai! It's Xiaobai!"
"That's right, Xiaobai sent it to me." Lu Jinyan couldn't suppress the smile on his face, "It was sent to me alone."
"Xiaobai is biased!" Shen Zhao yelled, "How can I only send it to Brother Lu?"
Lu Jinyan glanced at him: "Why not?"
After dismissing the third child, he pressed and held the video, taking screenshots and saving them frame by frame. The more he looked at it, the more he looked like a selfie.
Xiaobai took the initiative to send him a selfie.
Lu Jinyan admired it for a while, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't replied to the message, so he typed quickly: [It's really beautiful, those who don't see it will regret it for life! ]
Jiang Yubai: [Too exaggerated. ]
Lu Jinyan: [Really, I'm a dog to lie to you. ]
Jiang Yubai: […]
Lying on the bed at night, Lu Jinyan tossed and turned, unable to sleep, a bold idea came to his mind.
He coughed tentatively, making sure that everyone else in the dormitory was asleep, and got up lightly and got out of bed.
He stood on the edge of the bed, stroking the sheets on the upper bunk back and forth, but he was still not satisfied, he clenched the rails of the bed with both hands, did a strengthened version of pull-ups, and turned directly onto the upper bunk.
The smell that belonged to Jiang Yubai hit his face, Lu Jinyan lay down slowly, let himself be immersed in the breath that made him intoxicated, and even shamelessly imagined that Xiaobai was lying in his arms...
The sleeping desire was awakened again, Lu Jinyan took a breath, turned sideways and buried his face in the fragrant and soft pillow, sniffing.
He felt like he was acting like a pervert, but he couldn't help himself at all.
No, hold back!
You can't take advantage of Xiaobai's absence and stain his bed sheets...
On the fourth day, Professor Pei arranged for the students to sketch in ancient towns and villages, taking ancient buildings and the cultural landscape in the village as the objects of sketching.
The students dispersed, each looking for a suitable place for sketching, and lived in peace all day.
As a result, in the evening, it rained suddenly.
Jiang Yubai rescued the painting immediately, took off the drawing board and held it in his arms to find a place to shelter from the rain.
"Xiaobai! Here!" Mu Xinyu stood under the eaves of a house not far away and waved to him, "Come here to shelter from the rain!"
Jiang Yubai trotted over to make sure the painting wasn't wet, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"If the painting is wet, it will be wet. Let it dry naturally later." Looking at his face, Mu Xinyu couldn't help stretching out his hand, wanting to wipe the rainwater off his cheek.
Jiang Yubai quickly turned his face away, avoiding his hand: "Drying it will also affect it."
Mu Xinyu's hand froze in mid-air, and finally put it down as if nothing had happened, and joked: "Well, Xiaobai has too high requirements for his works, and it's not something a vulgar fan like me can understand."
Jiang Yubai shook his head slightly: "Don't say that about yourself."
The two stood under the eaves, waiting for the sudden rain to stop.
"Xiaobai, do you know that I really envy you." After a while, Mu Xinyu suddenly said.
"What?" Jiang Yubai looked sideways at him.
"I really like drawing, but sometimes hobbies and talents are not the same thing." For the first time, Mu Xinyu didn't look at him while talking, his eyes fell on the continuous rain curtain, "My parents expect a lot from me. Gao, they hoped that I could become a real painter and paved a lot of roads for me, but I failed them time and time again.”
Jiang Yubai turned to look forward, and whispered back: "You envy me, and I envy you too."
Mu Xinyu was surprised: "What do you envy me?"
"I'm envious that you have parents who support you." Jiang Yubai replied calmly, "I can learn to draw because I went on a hunger strike."
The rain fell on the ground, Mu Xinyu fell into shock, and then turned into inexplicable distress: "Xiaobai, you..."
"It's over, don't need to comfort me." Jiang Yubai seemed to see through his thoughts, "Since you like it, continue painting."
The rain never stopped, but fortunately the squad leader brought an umbrella, and the two returned to the hotel with an umbrella.
Jiang Yubai took a hot bath first, and then sat on the balcony after coming out, quietly looking at the ancient town and village that had been silent in the rain.
He didn't go back to the room until the sky was completely in a coma. He opened WeChat but didn't receive the message as expected.
His fingertips stopped, and Jiang Yubai couldn't help but frowned.
Lu Jinyan didn't send him a message today, did he forget, or something happened?
After a little thought, he decided to send a message first: [I forgot to take a video today. ]
But after waiting for several minutes, there was no reply from the other party.
Jiang Yubai bit her lower lip unconsciously, when there was a knock on the door: "God Jiang, Mu Xinyu! Come out for dinner!"
"Here we come!" Mu Xinyu responded loudly, turning over from the bed, "Let's go Xiaobai, let's go have dinner."
"Okay." Jiang Yubai put the phone in his trouser pocket and went out to have dinner.
After absent-mindedly eating something, he greeted Professor Pei, then left the restaurant and walked to the room alone.
Halfway on the way, the phone close to the thigh suddenly vibrated.
Jiang Yubai took out his mobile phone, glanced at the caller ID, and immediately connected: "Hello."
"Xiaobai." A familiar voice sounded on the other end of the phone, accompanied by a noisy background sound.
Jiang Yubai carefully distinguished it, and it sounded like rain, so he asked, "Is it raining at school too?"
"School isn't down yet." Lu Jinyan laughed, "It's Xianyun Mountain that's raining."
"Ah?" Before Jiang Yubai could react, he asked in a dazed tone, "How do you know it's raining in Xianyun Mountain?"
Lu Jinyan put his lips close to the phone: "Because I'm here."
Jiang Yubai suddenly came back to his senses, turned around and ran towards the door.
"Hey, don't run, walk slowly." Lu Jinyan stood in the heavy rain, looked at the brightly lit homestay and smiled, "Your place is a bit hidden, but I can find it easily."
After 30 seconds, Jiang Yubai stopped and saw the tall figure in the rain at a glance.
Lu Jinyan put down his phone, stepped on the stagnant water on the ground, and walked towards him step by step.
His whole body was drenched by the rain, and the rain from the tail of his jet-black hair soaked his handsome and three-dimensional features, like a marble statue in the dark night.
"You..." Jiang Yubai watched him walk in front of him, still feeling unbelievable, "It's raining so heavily, why are you here?"
"What's the rain?" Lu Jinyan raised his face and looked up at him deeply, "Even if it's a knife, I'll come."
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