For a long time, Song Qingyou remained silent.
Fu Wenzhou's eyes darkened inch by inch, then he glanced at the rearview mirror: "Who can remember things from when we were kids? Don't ask about these things again..."
“I forgot.” Song Qingyou suddenly interrupted Fu Wenzhou.
Fu Wenzhou paused, his forced smile becoming somewhat stiff. "It's alright, forgetting is forgetting. As long as you remember now, that's fine."
Gu Bai and Xu Zezhan exchanged a glance and quickly said, "Hey, it's normal to have a bad memory, right, Xu Zezhan?"
Xu Zezhan looked down at the arm that kept poking him and slowly shook his head.
I started to reflect on why I fell for such an idiot.
The atmosphere inside the car became somewhat tense. Gu Bai regretted his decision and gave a dry laugh: "So, what are we having for dinner tonight?"
The topic shift was too abrupt, and no one in the car paid him any attention.
Song Qingyou peeled an orange, broke off a piece, and fed it to Fu Wenzhou. "Is it sour?"
Fu Wenzhou tasted it carefully and said, "It's not sour, it's sweet."
Gu Bai, sitting in the back seat, scratched his head, took out two cigarettes, handed one to Xu Zezhan, and then checked his pockets and realized he didn't have a lighter.
He gestured to Xu Zezhan with his eyes, and Xu Zezhan shook his head to indicate that he hadn't brought any either.
Gu Bai had no choice but to ask Fu Wenzhou, "Did you bring a lighter?"
Fu Wenzhou naturally brought a fire to start the night, but he said coldly, "If you dare to smoke in the car, get out."
Gu Bai was speechless: "I'll smoke it with the window open. Your wife is sitting in the front row and can't smell it."
Fu Wenzhou's voice was languid, but his tone left no room for refusal: "No."
He said no, so Gu Bai could only silently put the cigarette back in his hand.
Not wanting to spoil the fun, Song Qingyou said, "You can smoke, it's fine."
Fu Wenzhou frowned, but he always listened to her, so he didn't say no.
Gu Bai didn't take out the cigarette again, and chuckled, "I just suddenly had a craving for a cigarette, but I don't feel like smoking anymore now."
Xu Zezhan scoffed: "Idiot."
The voice wasn't quiet, and Gu Bai heard it clearly, immediately turning hostile: "Who are you calling an idiot?"
“You,” Xu Zezhan said calmly.
Gu Bai pointed at him angrily: "If you call me stupid again, I'll lock my room from now on, and you can't..."
His words came to an abrupt halt, and it was too late when he realized what he had said in a moment of passion.
Song Qingyou's eyes gleamed with gossip: "You two sleep together at night? And you even brought two tents?"
"No, we weren't together." Gu Bai immediately denied it: "It was him. He always sneaks into my room while I'm asleep. I don't want to sleep with him at all."
Song Qingyou asked suspiciously, "Why didn't you lock the door?"
Gu Bai: "...I forgot."
"Oh~" Song Qingyou's gaze swept over the two of them, and she dragged out the last word.
Gu Bai panicked: "We didn't sleep together, we were just in the same bed, nothing happened, Song Qingyou, please don't overthink it. Although Xu Zezhan is gay, I'm not. I can't even feel aroused by him, you..."
"Ahem!" Song Qingyou glanced at Xu Zezhan, who was silent behind her, and interrupted softly, "Gu Bai, I heard you've been here before?"
Gu Bai finally remembered that Xu Zezhan was right next to him. He felt a little guilty for no reason, but he comforted himself that he was not wrong at all. He glanced at Xu Zezhan out of the corner of his eye and saw that he had no expression before he said, "Once, they said there would be a meteor shower, so we dragged Fu Wenzhou along. But there was nothing that night. There was no meteor shower, not even a star. It rained heavily that night, which made us brave the rain to go down the mountain overnight."
"That's because you were unlucky."
"Absolutely."
Song Qingyou smiled and didn't say anything more.
The drive was quite long. Fu Wenzhou stopped at a gas station to fill up the tank, and then it took another hour to reach the foot of the mountain.
The group ate a meal and took a nap at a farmhouse restaurant at the foot of the mountain before finally preparing to drive up the mountain at 5 p.m.
The owner of the farmhouse was a friend of Fu Wenzhou, so he naturally knew Gu Bai and Xu Zezhan. Seeing them getting ready to get into the car, he couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to climb the mountain? Are you driving up?"
Gu Bai waved his hand: "Why suffer like that? Our purpose is to watch the meteor shower, not to climb mountains."
"Meteor shower?" The shopkeeper was taken aback. Although the weather forecast said there would be no rain tonight, he hadn't heard of any meteor showers in the area recently.
Song Qingyou also felt that it didn't look like there would be a meteor shower that day, but she naturally believed Fu Wenzhou when he said there was.
—Anyway, it doesn't matter. She just wanted to experience a different life with him.
Fu Wenzhou's lips curled into a smile: "Let's go."
The boss waved to them: "This mountain road is difficult to drive on, so please drive slowly."
Fu Wenzhou gave an OK sign, stepped on the gas, and the car shot off like an arrow, disappearing from the boss's sight in the blink of an eye.
He drove very steadily, and even on mountain roads, Song Qingyou didn't feel any bumps.
She actually hoped they could drive faster and not waste time on the journey.
Moreover—she really enjoys the feeling of racing, and once she recovers, she's determined to try all the thrilling rides.
This has been Song Qingyou's dream since she was a child.
When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Xu Zezhan said he wanted to get out of the car and climb the mountain himself.
Upon hearing this, Fu Wenzhou stopped the car without saying a word and let Xu Zezhan get out.
“It would take at least two hours to walk from here to the top of the mountain. Xu Zezhan, are you crazy?” Gu Bai said coldly.
Xu Zezhan lit a cigarette and held it in his hand, then said to Fu Wenzhou, "You go first."
Gu Bai, his face dark, tried to get out of the car, his hand on the door handle but before he could open it, Xu Zezhan coldly interrupted him: "You go with them, I prefer to go hiking alone at night."
Gu Bai: "..."
He felt a little uneasy. Could it be that Xu Zezhan was angry because of what he had said in the car earlier?
"Are you angry?" Gu Bai asked.
Xu Zezhan: "No, I just haven't climbed mountains in a long time, and I suddenly felt like climbing one."
"Then I'll go with you..."
"Wenzhou, drive."
Fu Wenzhou, who was happy to watch the show, clicked his tongue upon hearing this, and drove off without giving Gu Bai a chance to get out of the car, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Xu Zezhan watched the black SUV drive further and further away until it completely disappeared from sight, the smile on his lips gradually fading.
His face was as still as a deep pool.
He stood there for a long time, then took a deep drag on his cigarette.
He needed some alone time to think things through between him and Gu Bai.
This matter is urgent and must be resolved as soon as possible; otherwise, the longer it is delayed, the more troublesome it will become.
Xu Zezhan jogged along, letting the cool breeze blow into his clothes.
He thought, why not take a gamble?
One last gamble.
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