Chapter 5
The sunlight was like a layer of gold powder, lightly falling around the clothing store on the commercial street opposite the school.
The delicate girlish dresses in the window are full of dreamy pink.
Almost every girl of my age would stop and go in for a look.
He just watched from outside the door. If he happened to meet the gaze of a pair of eyes inside, he would sneeze, turn his head away embarrassedly, and leave quickly.
Lin Shenyuan has a secret that he is too embarrassed to tell.
He doesn't like Transformers, but dolls. He doesn't like cool colors like black, silver, yellow and green, but likes sky blue, light pink and soft purple. He doesn't like formal and serious suits, but likes curvaceous evening gowns decorated with floral patterns.
But all this will be buried under lies.
Even though his skin was as pale as a night ghost, he wasn't tall, his body was extremely thin, and his voice was as soft as a mosquito's, he was still taught to be a man. He should walk with a heroic air, speak with a bold voice, and be a man of integrity.
Ironically, these very characteristics often lead him to be subjected to malicious criticism: effeminate, androgynous, weird.
Is this really fair? He's just being himself.
Staring at the window in a daze, he sighed and was about to leave.
"Lin Shenyuan!"
The heroic shout scared Lin Shenshen so much that he almost jumped up.
He looked back warily.
A tall and strong boy stood a few meters away from him, holding a basketball in his arms, a few drops of sweat dripping from the ends of his eyebrows and hair, and was smiling at him enthusiastically.
No matter how you look at it, this smile makes people feel that it has bad intentions.
Wei Mo said, "It really is you. Why are you still here? Why don't you go home?"
"Ah, I'm leaving now. I'm leaving now." Lin Shenyuan clutched the strap of his schoolbag and left in a hurry, fearing that if he stayed for another second he would be asked questions he couldn't answer.
So indifferent...
You can tell at first glance that he is a good student.
Wei Mo shook his head, sighed pretentiously, then trotted briskly on his way home with the basketball in his arms.
The weather was hot and He Xi was sweating a lot. The first thing he did when he got home was to take a shower.
There was almost no light in the room, so she walked into the bathroom in the dark without turning on the light.
The shower and wash area were separated by a curtain, and she didn't want to turn on the light. She didn't want to see her own emaciated body.
After taking a shower and drying my hair, I was so hungry that I felt pain.
But he didn't want to eat the food, so he took out a few bottles of vitamins from under the table and stuffed them into his mouth to chew.
It was dark, and the lights in the windows of the building opposite came on one after another. Pots and pans clattered, and the aroma of rice spiced with chili peppers filled the air.
He Xi walked to the window, pushed it open, and while chewing vitamins, he sniffed like a glutton.
It smells so good! Why is it so good, so good...
It smells so good that I feel like stealing food after being smelled for so long!
She paced back and forth by the window with her hands behind her back, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
This aroma, like a Pandora's gift, unleashed He Xi's long-suppressed appetite. Suddenly, she felt a strong pang of hunger. She wanted to run 50 meters straight downstairs to buy barbecue, braised chicken, and muffins from the bakery 20 kilometers away in the city center, and then stuff them all into her stomach.
But reason tells me that it is futile and wishful thinking, so don’t even think about it.
She turned and rushed to the table, poured a glass of water, and gulped it down. It was no use. She poured another glass and drank it while smelling the delicious food.
Still no use.
He Xi couldn't stand it any longer, so he put down the quilt, picked up his coat, and went out and downstairs with his hair loose.
In the evening, a few people gathered downstairs, and the air was filled with the atmosphere of fireworks.
The yellow light of the barbecue stall leads to heaven,
He Xi rubbed his eyes. The distance was several hundred meters, but he walked as if he were walking on thin ice and was extremely hesitant.
"It's so delicious!" The boy standing at the barbecue stall ate three skewers in one breath and sighed with satisfaction, "Sister, give me another twenty skewers of roasted pork belly!"
"Okay~"
He Xi touched his pocket and took a step forward.
Smoke was everywhere and the fat from the skewers was sizzling on the grill pan. It seemed as if you could see the fat soaking into the grill.
He Xi took a step forward and touched his pocket.
Following the aroma, He Xi walked a few steps to the barbecue stall. He looked at the skewers displayed in the freezer and the skilled grilling lady.
Starving like a starving ghost!
She pointed at the counter with her left hand, reached into her pocket with her right hand, and prepared to...
And then I was caught off guard and a skewer was inserted? !
She looked at the greasy skewer in her hand, confused.
The boy who handed the skewer to him chewed the skewer, turned his head away and said vaguely: "This is quite delicious, you try it."
…
The aroma of cumin and chili filled his nose. He Xi hesitated for a moment and then took a big bite.
Chew it, chew it, and swallow it in no time.
But just as the empty body was filled with food, an emotion called guilt and remorse inexplicably surged into my heart.
Memories of past weight loss rebound flashed through my mind quickly.
The uncontrolled numbers on the scale, the belly with layers of fat, and the face that is gradually becoming round and swollen.
Countless times, I broke down in tears late at night, and resolutely shouted: "I either lose weight or die!"
The time when I couldn’t pay the rent and the landlord came to my house every day to ask for rent and ask about it.
The images and sounds were like a hammer constantly hitting her fragile nerves...
My throat was choked and I felt so uncomfortable that I couldn't cry, but I felt like vomiting.
nausea.
"vomit!"
The night breeze brings tranquility, and times like this are especially beautiful.
Bai Shu swallowed the last bite of the kebab and looked at the sky boredly. Suddenly, the unusual movement behind him caught his attention.
A familiar figure covered his mouth and quickly ran to the trash can, retching continuously.
Isn’t this the girl who couldn’t afford to eat just now?
That's not right. Bai Shu looked again, his face wrinkled in confusion, and he felt inexplicably angry.
He and Xi.
If I had known it was her, I wouldn’t have wasted the kebab.
snort.
He turned to leave, but heard the person not far away still retching.
Unable to spit out anything, she put her fingers in her mouth to dig out the vomit.
It feels like I want to vomit out all my internal organs.
His brows unconsciously frowned, and he happened to see a child walking aimlessly with a toy gun. Bai Shu asked the child to run errands to the convenience store to buy some water.
"Two for the water, and the remaining three are yours." Bai Shu pointed in He Xi's direction, "Just give it to her."
"Okay, sir!"
The child stood at attention, saluted him, and ran towards the convenience store like a running drill.
He Xi took the buffalo drink and when he had almost finished it, he started vomiting again.
Bai Shu's gaze gradually became complicated.
He thought she was ill.
Another round of vomiting, and this time it seemed that he had finally vomited everything out.
She held her stomach and fell to the ground weakly, her coughing sound mixed with sobs.
Looking up at the sky, the moonlight shone on her face, and crystal tears sparkled in her empty eyes.
But no tears were shed.
He thought she was really ill.
Bai Shu lowered his head, turned and left without saying a word.
The bright sunshine slants down on the quiet street.
Wei Mo took the bus to the city gymnasium to play basketball with his good friend Bai Shu.
There seemed to be few passengers on the bus in the morning.
Besides him, there was only one person sitting by the window at the back.
Wei Mo didn't like sitting, so he just held the rocking ring on the car.
A girl with long hair, dressed like the kind of delicate doll his little sister usually liked to play with.
But he was very quiet, with his head down, glancing out the window from time to time, and not playing with his phone.
But she didn't look at him.
This was not the first time he had met her on the bus at this departure time.
Wearing wigs of different colors, contact lenses of exaggerated colors, and long skirts with different shapes but equally gorgeous.
On her feet were a pair of super thick-soled, chunky-heeled shoes.
It's like a bright and colorful light in this plain little town.
Wei Mo was a little bored and a little curious, and secretly glanced at the other person a few more times.
She has a pointed chin, a straight nose on her small face, drooping eyelids, curled eyelashes, and an upward curve that looks like a butterfly quietly lying on her eyes.
A little pretty.
The other party looked back curiously.
Wei Mo turned his head away, touched his head, and whistled out the window.
After a while, he secretly turned his head and found that the other person had lowered his head even lower.
The people in their seats sat there like chickens.
It's inexplicably funny.
What a coward.
The sound of the ball hitting the ground echoed in the quiet gymnasium, and Wei Mo jumped up and scored the last ball.
"YES! We win!"
He cheered and looked at Bai Shu with a cocky look on his face: "Just say that I am the only one who is defeated on the court! I want to ask you if you accept it or not, hehe."
Bai Shu had lost so many times that he was used to it, but he still said, "Shut up."
"Just shut up." Wei Mo snorted, and went to wash his face shoulder to shoulder with Bai Shu.
As he walked, he looked at the time: "It's four o'clock. What are we eating later?"
"casual."
"Chow mein?"
"I'm tired of eating it."
"Um...what about fried rice?"
“There are too few dishes.”
Those who say they are casual are not casual at all.
Wei Mo rolled his eyes in his heart, and suddenly an idea came to him, "I haven't eaten skewers for a long time. Let's go eat skewers!"
"No!" Bai Shu refused without thinking.
The good-tempered Wei Mo's fur exploded, and the groundhog screamed, "Then what do you want to eat? Tell me!!!"
"casual."
Ahhh! Wei Mo pulled his hair and rolled his eyes. These two maddening words again!
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