Self-cultivation with a plate of tomato scrambled eggs

Chapter 38

When Song Xiaowu heard this sentence, he immediately stared at him intently, as if he was afraid that he would repent in the next moment, and after a while, he turned his face away.

Li Tianqi retracted his leg unnaturally, but Song Xiaowu's breath was still on it, and the other party was still unconscious.He couldn't help clearing his throat, and called out, "Xiao Wu."

"Huh?" Song Xiaowu looked up at him again, and then realized something, got up from his lap, and this time finally had the meaning of laughing through tears.

"Forget it, I'll question you about Xiaofu tonight. Now I'll take you to a world-class prestigious school." Song Xiaowu made an exaggerated gesture of raising his hand.

Since it is a "visit", it seems that the Visitor Reception Center of the University of Illinois must be visited.This is said to be the oldest house in New Haven. The school once used it as an admissions office, but now it has been converted into a school history museum.

After quietly reading the history of the founding of IL University and the introduction of previous outstanding alumni with pictures, the two came out of the room and continued to walk in the direction of the Woose Auditorium.

"I came in halfway, and I didn't have a chance to visit the school history museum when I was enrolled. It was the first thing I saw." Song Xiaowu compared the auditorium in front, and the hall extending in all directions was still in the same style as a medieval monastery. Excited."

"That area is the dormitory building." After walking through the corridor, he realized that it was raining outside again. Song Xiaowu was used to the sunny and sometimes rainy weather here, so Li Tianqi put the hat attached to his clothes on for him. He pulled it down again: "It's not too big, I'll shower with you for a while."

"The restaurant in the dormitory building is open to all students." Song Xiaowu continued his introduction, "I sometimes eat lunch in it, and sometimes I bring bento. Ms. Garcia's Chinese food is pretty good—you can see it in the video I've seen her here."

After looking at the dormitory building, you will pass a vine corridor on the way to the library.Song Xiaowu suddenly remembered the "lunch" with Griff last time, because he thought the whole thing was a bit nonsensical, so he didn't plan to tell Li Tianqi.Touching his nose, he said, "The front is the Belico Library. Daniel said that there are many precious rare books and manuscripts in it, but I, you know, go in and find some children's books, and accumulate vocabulary. It's a bit reckless. Bar?"

"Daniel?" Li Tianqi heard his cheerful tone all the way, and he seemed to be eloquent, but for some reason, he felt a little nameless loneliness from it, and now he finally heard him mention another name, Quickly ask.

"Oh, it's the blond boy who was with me outside the school gate." Song Xiaowu said, and now he remembered that he had left him where he was, and it was really unkind, so he had to boast a few more words, first to make up for it verbally: "A sophomore in the business school, although it may seem out of place, but he is a high-achieving student."

Li Tianqi laughed when he heard this: "Good relationship?"

"Yeah." Song Xiaowu nodded solemnly, "For someone like me who is enthusiastic, kind, and humorous, who wouldn't try to be nice to me?"

Li Tianqi listened to his bragging, and didn't point it out, just smiled and agreed: "That's right." The hand he was holding was almost warm, and he changed the other one to hold it.

Song Xiaowu thought he was being perfunctory, and was about to refute, when he remembered something, he asked, "By the way, how long is your visa?"

"It's due on January [-]th. However, I have already promised to go back to Liangxi's house on New Year's Day, and I have to leave one day earlier."

Enough is enough.Song Xiaowu thought to himself, the two of them are now acting like a child's puppy love, they can still secretly meet outside, and when they want to go back, they have to go back to their respective homes.

Although he was a little bit reluctant, he didn't want Li Tianqi to see it: "Let's go, what's going on is what's going on!"

After visiting all the interesting places in the school, the two found a restaurant casually. After eating, the rain stopped completely, so they went to the surrounding exhibition halls to have a look.Although Song Xiaowu's stay here was not short, because he was exhausted just coping with the courses, and he didn't have a companion, and he never had the leisure time to enter this kind of place. Enthusiasm was very high, he would go to have a look at anything strange, and insisted on pulling Li Tianqi together, Li Tianqi had no choice but to give up his life to accompany the gentleman, let him be happy-as for those frustrating "businesses", we will meet again tomorrow Let's talk.

"It's broken!" Song Xiaowu stopped suddenly, "I forgot to tell the driver that I don't need to pick me up today." He quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed it. As expected, the driver brother said that he had already driven the car out of the garage, so he thought Song Xiaowu called him. The caller was urging him, Song Xiaowu hurriedly explained that he had something to do at night, so he didn't bother to come over.After explaining clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then sneezed hard.

"Yeah? It's the same to sneeze if someone tells you behind your back?" Seeing Li Tianqi looking at him, Song Xiaowu laughed and laughed, and didn't want to say "Ah sneezing" twice before he finished speaking.

"I still have a cold." Li Tianqi pulled him to him, stroked his hair again, and frowned: "I'm wearing thin clothes, and it rained again just now." He regretted that he didn't think well of him.

Song Xiaowu was used to being a hero, and argued strongly: "It's just a sneeze. With my body, how can I catch a cold if I get caught in a little rain?" Unfortunately, the obviously thicker nasal voice was not up to the mark at all.

Li Tianqi didn't listen to his excuses, he clicked on the phone map and looked for a pharmacy.

After buying the medicine, he poured it down with the hot milk that Li Tianqi bought, and secretly pressed the back of his head that was sore. Song Xiaowu was about to continue shopping, but he turned his head and saw Li Tianqi talking about something.

Song Xiaowu picked out his ears, but still couldn't hear clearly.

Naturally, Li Tianqi had seen his abnormality: "Go, go to the hospital."

It just so happened that Song Xiaowu's tinnitus had just passed away, and when he heard the last three words, he refused to say anything: "No, no! It's just a cold, I'll go to the hospital to make an appointment and wait in line, maybe I'll be fine by myself." With Li Tianqi's arm hanging down, he refused to move a step no matter what.

"Xiao Wu." Li Tianqi's tone was threatening.

But Song Xiaowu was unmoved, and Li Tianqi couldn't do anything to him after all.

"I want to go home."

Li Tianqi also knew that Song Xiaowu probably had a slightly more serious cold, but because he was abroad alone, he was lazy to deal with it, let alone take care of himself, and his physical fitness deteriorated.

He sighed, and half dragged Song Xiaowu to the street: "Okay, don't go to the hospital. What's the address of where you live?"

After waiting for a long time, I stopped a taxi.Seeing Song Xiaowu listless, Li Tianqi simply grabbed Song Xiaowu's shoulders and let him half lean in his arms. The two of them got into the car, which inevitably caused the driver to take a few extra glances in the rearview mirror.

When we arrived at the place, because Ms. Garcia learned from the driver that Mr. Xiao Yao would not come back tonight, she packed up and left, so Song Xiaowu had to open the door by herself.

There was no one in the room, no matter how neat and tidy it was, it would only look more empty, but the only thing that was different from usual was that Li Tianqi was beside him at this moment.Song Xiaowu didn't even want to go upstairs because he was uncomfortable, so he nestled into Li Tianqi's arms confidently, and was carried horizontally into the bedroom.

Li Tianqi put the man on the bed, took off his coat and quickly stuffed it into the quilt, adjusted the heating temperature, and arranged the slippers neatly in front of the bed. While finding the thermometer, he felt relieved after the temperature was normal.Seeing Song Xiaowu's eyes turning back and forth following his movements, Li Tianqi directly covered his eyelids with his hands: "Sleep."

Pulling away his hand, seeing that Song Xiaowu really closed his eyes and looked obedient and obedient, Li Tianqi couldn't help laughing silently, then walked out of the bedroom, closed the door and went downstairs.

The drinking water here in Citigroup is directly received from the tap. I also know that Song Xiaowu is the fastest to follow the Romans in this regard.Looking at the refrigerator, there are all kinds of drinks, but there is no mineral water. Li Tianqi shook his head, took out a bottle of Coke, poured it into the milk pot, found a piece of ginger, washed it and shredded it, and added it to the coke Boil together, turn to low heat and cook for a while, turn off the heat and pour it into a thermos cup, wash the pot with your hands, put the things back in place, and the temperature of the coke and ginger here is almost dry.

He went upstairs with the cup, and when he opened the door, he saw Song Xiaowu wrapped himself up tightly in the quilt, already fast asleep.Li Tianqi stepped lightly, walked to the stool by the bed and sat down, carefully put the Coke on the bedside table, and put the lid on it.

Song Xiaowu was in a deep sleep, his forehead and the tip of his nose were sweating, but he didn't notice it. Li Tianqi wiped it for him, and then patted his head habitually, lost in thought.

This time I went back to Hengyang because of Xiaofu. Although I happened to encounter the local official turmoil and suffered a lot of troubles, I also found a little opportunity: Hengyang is mountainous, agriculture cannot develop, and the local youth Most of the middle-aged people go out to work, and foreign investors will not come here, so that there are only five districts and counties under the jurisdiction of Hengyang, of which there are two key poverty alleviation counties in the country-not to mention the benefits of these poverty alleviation policies in the past. They were surrounded by those who were related to those who ate the imperial food.

As for the newly appointed Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, according to Yu Antao, it is widely rumored that he is a graduate of a famous school with roots in Hongmiaozheng. He is young and has a bright future. A new atmosphere is to lay the foundation for future experience.

Although it is impossible to tell the truth from the falsehood, the parents did a few things that won the hearts of the people as soon as they came, and they introduced several economic development policies, trying to get rid of the status of this "national-level poor county" as soon as possible. hat......

"Why don't you turn on the light?" Li Tianqi was engrossed in his thoughts, but he heard Song Xiaowu suddenly ask.Only then did he notice that the sky was getting dark, so he hurriedly got up and turned on the light. Looking back, he saw that Song Xiaowu was in good spirits, and was stretching all over the place.

"Have you slept enough?" Li Tianqi asked with a smile, and patted the back of his foot to make him shrink back under the blanket.

"Yeah." Song Xiaowu dragged his nasal voice, and said again: "What time is it? I want to eat."

"Let me see what else is in the kitchen. There is Coca-Cola boiled ginger in the cup," Li Tianqi pointed to the bedside table, "Try it and don't drink it if it's cold."

"Spicy." Song Xiaowu took a sip, his face wrinkled immediately, "How much ginger did you put in?"

Li Tianqi walked to the door, turned around after hearing the sound, stretched out his finger and gave him a nod: "How many sweets I eat outside, the taste has changed, dare to say."

Song Xiaowu calmed down immediately, finished his coke, put on his shoes, thought for a while, put on his coat again, and prepared to go downstairs to find Li Tianqi.

There was a handful of celery, a small piece of beef tenderloin, half a dozen eggs and a box of small tomatoes in the kitchen. Li Tianqi had just poured the washed rice into the rice cooker when he saw Song Xiaowu crept in from the window facing the door.

Li Tianqi lowered his head and suppressed a smile, and he was only cutting up the small tomato in his hand.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, Song Xiaowu's sneak attack did not arrive. Li Tianqi couldn't hold back, and glanced at the window again.

This time Song Xiaowu also realized that his whereabouts had been exposed long ago, he lowered his head and wiped his eyes, before he walked over and hugged Li Tianqi from behind.

But Li Tianqi was a few centimeters taller than him, Song Xiaowu stood on tiptoe, put his chin on Li Tianqi's shoulder, turned his head and kissed behind his ear.

To fry shredded celery and beef but there is no green onion, Song Xiaowu took an onion and planned to cut it into shreds instead.It's been too long since I've done anything to Da Lizi, and for a moment I forgot to cut onions in water, so I couldn't help but get so red that I couldn't even open my eyes.

Song Xiaowu had no choice but to put down the knife, and endured it with his eyes closed for a long time, and finally he gradually recovered.

"Smudged eyes?" Li Tianqi had just filled out the tomato scrambled eggs, and was about to let him have a taste first, when he saw Song Xiaowu had chopped the onion and was standing there blinking his eyes.

"It's ready." Song Xiaowu handed him the plate, then turned and walked out: "I'll go wash it with water."

He ran to the bathroom, closed the door, turned on the faucet, and watched his sadness gradually revealed in the mirror—at this moment, he no longer tried to hide it, but was ready to cry, but everything in The turbulent emotions in his chest only formed an almost inaudible sob in his throat, and after that, no matter how much Song Xiaowu held a determination to vent it happily, those emotions seemed to have suddenly lost their stamina, and they were stagnant in his heart Li, heavy, helpless.

It's still like this.In the end, he forced a little smile, which made the already thin moisture in the corners of his eyes evaporate more quickly.Song Xiaowu took a handful of water and wiped it on his face, let out a long breath, opened the door while pulling the toilet paper.

Then he saw Li Tianqi standing outside the door.

"I..." Li Tianqi didn't give Song Xiaowu a chance to whitewash the peace again, took the tissue in his hand, pressed the other hand on his shoulder, wiped the water drops on his face carefully, and put it on the The broken hair on the forehead was smoothed out meticulously, and at the same time, the movements were gentle as if treating the most delicate baby.

After finishing this, he took Song Xiaowu's hand and walked slowly downstairs: the table in the dining room was already set up, and the rice cooker and a plate of tomato scrambled eggs were also brought up.

Li Tianqi pulled out the chair, asked Song Xiaowu to sit down, and then returned to the kitchen to fry the dishes that he hadn't had time to cook before. Song Xiaowu went in without knowing it, and followed him in to continue helping. Before reaching out, Li Tianqi said without turning his head: "Go sit down." on."

Song Xiaowu could hear some unusual deterrent force from the command sentence in an ordinary tone, so he had to sit down obediently.

Two dishes, one fresh mushroom soup, although simple, are Song Xiaowu's favorite.When Li Tianqi took off his apron and came over after washing his hands, Song Xiaowu was about to open the rice cooker to serve rice, but Li Tianqi snatched it first.

This meal made Song Xiaowu feel a little guilty.The two have eaten three meals a day together for so many years, although Li Tianqi mostly cooks according to Song Xiaowu's preference, but he doesn't have to put them into bowls one by one at the dinner table, and Song Xiaowu, who is a glutton, doesn't He didn't need to worry about it, a pair of chopsticks shuttled back and forth between the plates, and he never wronged himself.

But this night started with a small bowl of soup before dinner, and Song Xiaowu didn't add all the food in the bowl by himself. He even suspected that Li Tianqi even raised his head when he was grilling the food, otherwise why would it be difficult to add food every time? So just right, don't even give him the right to refuse?

In normal times, Song Xiaowu would definitely not let go of the opportunity, and would have to ask Li Tianqi if he planned to be a good wife and mother, husband and son, but tonight, the atmosphere is always not right, he'd better be aware of current affairs.

After the meal, before Li Tianqi went to wash the dishes, he popped a small plate of chocolate popcorn for Song Xiaowu in the microwave, made a pot of honey grapefruit tea, and asked him to watch TV by himself.

When Song Xiaowu was about to take a bath before going to bed, and was taking off his clothes, when Li Tianqi followed into the bathroom, he finally couldn't help it: "Brother, I was wrong, don't do this..."

"Did I treat you badly before?" Li Tianqi asked.

"Of course..." Song Xiaowu said with a bitter face, "But this is too nasty, isn't it?"

Li Tianqi ignored the words, turned on the nozzle, and pushed him into the water curtain:

“Is it shameful to be alone outside alone?”

"Is it shameful to study hard?"

"Is it shameful to want to go home?"

"Is it shameful to be sad?"

"Is it shameful not to bear it?"

"Why pretend to be happy?"

"Why don't you let yourself cry?"

"I didn't..." Song Xiaowu closed his eyes tightly and was forced into a corner with nowhere to escape. He seemed to be in an absurd and terrifying nightmare. The heat of the doomsday burned him and the torrential rain corroded him. He was naked, and could only struggle indiscriminately to grab the only trustworthy person in front of him. "I'm not allowed to cry... I just feel a little bit, occasionally homesick... It's hard to study! I'm stupid, I have no friends, and I still use my dad's money. How come the older I get, the less promising I become. ..I want to work hard and get ahead on my own. Even if my dad doesn’t accept you, I don’t need to worry about it—but as soon as you come, I want to give up everything. I want to go back with you, even if it’s a little more difficult. Even if we stay together secretly forever...But I don't want to be so useless, and I don't want you to think I'm a fool..."

He was trembling, his speech was confused, and he was held in Li Tianqi's arms in an extremely fragile posture, but his heart began to become clear. He tentatively opened his eyes slowly, and the warm water flowed slowly across his body. There was a bright light above his head, and Li Tianqi's soaked shirt and sweater were tightly wrapped around his body, but he only focused on himself.

Song Xiaowu stretched out his arms with difficulty but persistently, and hugged Li Tianqi instead. Unexpectedly, his feet were too slippery, and he fell on Li Tianqi, and the two fell down together. On the other side's chest, there was a sense of exhaustion and relief: "...don't be ashamed."

Those who love me will love me.

Li Tianqi was pinned down by him for a long time, unable to move, he could only reach out his left hand, which was still free, to touch his head, knowing that he had pushed him too hard just now, and was about to comfort him, but Song Xiaowu used a kind of thoughtful He said in a puzzled tone, "But I still can't cry."

"Crying for you." Li Tianqi couldn't bear it anymore, he bit his ear and said, unable to see that his expression was terribly sinister.

"come."