The water in the faucet won’t come out.

Chen Shi said that the water pipes were frozen, and he was too lazy to heat water for himself, holding a plastic cup with Huang Dan, squatting under the eaves to brush his teeth.

Huang Dan poured a mouthful of warm water into his mouth, and spat into the snow several times, “If you rinse your mouth with cold water, it’s not good for your teeth. Over time, your gums will shrink and your teeth will become loose.”

Chen Shi said while brushing his teeth, “I’m used to it.”

Huang Dan frowned, “This habit needs to be changed, use warm water with me in the future, don’t wait until you are old, your teeth will be broken.”

Chen Shi spat out the toothpaste froth, and he clicked his tongue, “Not fully grown-up yet, and already this much control.”

Huang Dan said, “You like me to control you.”

What the youngster said was resolute and decisive, and he was seriously stating the facts. Chen Shi squatted on the spot and didn’t get up for a long time. He rubbed his teeth and turned back to the house.

Huang Dan was holding a towel, “Come here and wash your face.”

Chen Shi approached carelessly, bent his back, and suddenly blew into the youngster’s neck, and his slightly cold hand also got inside.

Huang Dan shrank his neck, “Cold.”

Chen Shi didn’t take out his hand, but rubbed his fingertips against the warm and smooth back of the youngster’s neck, “From where did you see that?”

Huang Dan understood what he meant, “That’s not important.”

Chen Shi clasped the youngster’s slender waist with his other hand, pulled him forward, and said with a smile, “Young man, you’ve learned to play tricks on me. Ah!”

Huang Dan touched Chen Shi’s chin, which was covered with green residue, and then touched his Adam’s apple.

Chen Shi grabbed the youngster’s hand, and he narrowed his eyes, like a beast that has just grown up, unable to control himself well, desire is already boiling in his eyes, “Don’t you know that men are hungry in the morning?”

Huang Dan said, “There are snacks in the drawer.”

Chen Shi’s forehead twitches, and he leaned closer to grind the youngster’s ears with his teeth, and closed his eyes in aggrieved way, “Pretending to be stupid, it’s always like this, flirting with Gege, don’t care later, why are you so bad?”

Huang Dan，“……”

He put the towel back on the rope, turned around and hugged Chen Shi’s neck, pulled him down a little, and put his lips together.

Chen Shi arched his back, lowered his head, rudely and eagerly wrapped around the youngster, and acted recklessly in his mouth.

Huang Dan swallowed his saliva, and his mouth smelled of mint. He said that he would not give head in the morning, but it was too late, so he put his hands in the water and touched Chen Shi when his hands were not cold.

In Chen Shi’s eyes, this little detail was as sweet as honey.

The youngster likes him very much, and coincidentally, he also likes the youngster, how wonderful.

Chen Shi had never been close to anyone before. Boys with a good relationship are buddies, girls are friends. It’s okay to play and joke, but that’s all. Hug, hold hands, kiss, sleep in the same bed, be patient, curry favor, give, indulge, and so on. The first time was given to the youngster.

Speaking of which, this person was his first love.

The moment a ray of white light appeared suddenly, Chen Shi involuntarily popped that sentence out of his mouth, and wanted to bite his tongue to kill himself after he finished speaking. Did he really say such pure words?

Huang Dan went to get tissue paper to wipe his hands, and poured water from a ladle to wash beside him. He glanced at the reddish ears of the person beside him, “You are also my first love.”

Chen Shi was hard again, he couldn’t see the seriousness of the youngster the most, “Really?”

Huang Dan nodded.

Chen Shi didn’t know what was wrong, so he didn’t control his mouth again, this time he was talking nonsense, and he deserved a beating, “I’ve heard people say that first love can’t bear any delicious fruit, it’s just a taste of astringency, and it will go to the bone. When the taste fades, first love will be lost.”

Huang Dan raised his eyelids, “Don’t say such things in the future, I don’t like to hear them.”

Chen Shi himself regretted it very much. He looked down at the youngster, and said in an uncertain tone, “Are you angry?”

Huang Dan said, “Well, I’m angry.”

Chen Shi discovered something interesting. It was the first time he saw the youngster angry, he didn’t get angry, cursed, hysterical, let alone made trouble for no reason, acted violently, and didn’t have big emotional ups and downs, what a weird person.

Such a strange person, unexpectedly met by himself, and fell in love with him.

Chen Shi pursed his thin lips, as if admitting his mistake, “Then what do you want to do to me? Are you going to punish me for rolling in the snow or kneeling on the washboard?”

Huang Dan said, “Stretch out your hand.”

Chen Shi did as told.

Huang Dan slapped the palm of his hand.

That blow was actually not heavy, but it seemed to hit Chen Shi’s heart, and it hurt a little. He frowned, remembering it for forever.

Chen Shi watched the youngster roll up his sleeves and wash his hands and face. The two exposed arms were white and thin. He touched them and they were slippery. He also saw that there were no hairs. “You really look like a girl.”

Huang Dan squeezed the towel to cover his face, and said in a buzzing voice, “I’m not.”

Chen Shi smirked and pinched him, “I know you’re not.”

Huang Dan was pinched and trembled, he suddenly removed the hot towel from his face, “Did you hear that?”

Chen Shi hummed, “What?”

Huang Dan threw the towel into the washbasin without saying a word, opened the door and ran out.

“What are you making a fuss about?”

Chen Shi smacks the splashed water in front of him. He followed behind the youngster. When he saw the youngster standing at the door of the next room, he raised his eyebrows a little. He stepped over and asked in a low voice, “What are you doing here?”

Huang Dan stared at the door, “There was a shout from inside, I heard it, but there was no response when I knocked on the door.”

Chen Shi put his hand into the gray-white coat pocket, he took a deep breath, and kicked his foot, the sound became louder every time.

The door opened, and Shen Liang’s figure appeared. He looked at Huang Dan and Chen Shi, “Why did you kick my door? Is there something wrong?”

Huang Dan asked without answering, “Are you okay?”

Shen Liang looked puzzled, so, “What can happen to me?”

Huang Dan looked at silently, Shen Liang’s face was pale, his temples and the broken hair on his forehead were wet, he was sweating a lot, and he was panting when he spoke, which couldn’t be concealed, “I heard you shout.”

Shen Liang looked like he had just realized it, “Oh, that, I had a nightmare.”

Huang Dan didn’t expect to hear this, and he remained silent for a while.

It was Chen Shi who was next to him who said, “It’s already this time and still sleeping, can it stop having nightmares?”

“I can’t help it. My quilt was damp. There was no heat in the quilt in the middle of the night. It froze me to death. I only warmed up in the morning.”

Shen Liang yawned and wiped away his physical tears, “I won’t go to the studio in the morning, if the teacher asks, please help me by informing them that I want to copy.”

The door was closed in front of Huang Dan. He looked in, and saw the quilt, clothes, and the messy bed through the narrower g door.

He was slightly stunned, Shen Liang shouted, it was really a nightmare, did he get scared?

Chen Shi took the youngster back to their home, and at the same time as the door closed, his voice sounded warning and reminding, “Zhang Shuran, let me tell you again, everyone has their own destiny, don’t meddle in their business, it’s not good. “

Huang Dan didn’t respond, he asked in his heart, “Mr. Lu, is Chen Shi a human or a ghost?”

System, “You have the answer.”

Huang Dan fell silent.

He indeed, touched, kissed, hugged, shared the same bed every day, bumped into each other when he turned his head and turned his body, at such a close distance, he could feel everything, “Chen Shi has said that sentence to me for the second time.”

System, “Which sentence?”

Huang Dan said, “Everyone has their own destiny.”

System, “Living in this area, it’s not surprising that the awareness is higher.”

Huang Dan said, “Is it as simple as awareness?”

System, “That kind of awareness is not simple at all. Some people don’t understand it after being a ghost, and they are still complaining, trapped in resentment and unable to get out. They only think about revenge and forget to reincarnate.”

Huang Dan fell silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

System said, “Host Huang, do you have a target for this mission?”

Huang Dan said not yet, “I will rush it.”

System, “If you have any questions, you can contact Lu at any time, except for personal matters.”

Huang Dan sighed.

Chen Shi flicked his forehead, “Sigh again, do you know that sighing can affect luck?”

Huang Dan asked, “Really?”

Chen Shi said yes, “There is a saying that when people sigh for three years, negative emotions such as negativity, depression, and downcast will come out, the surrounding magnetic field will change, and the fortune will also change accordingly, going to a bad place. “

Huang Dan thought for a moment, “It sounds like there are one or two points that make sense.”

Chen Shi，“……”

Huang Dan watched as he tidied up the painting tools by the wall, “Is your drawing board old? There are many words and cartoons on it.”

There are Sui Binggetsu, Inuyasha, Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Luffy……. There are quite a few, full body, half body, and human head.

Chen Shi tore off the tape on the drawing board, “The teacher in the studio gave it to me when I was a sophomore in high school, and said it was left by a former student. I didn’t think it was broken, so I used it. I don’t know who left the words on it. It’s ugly to death, but the painting board is okay. It’s barely passable.”

Huang Dan moved closer and looked at Chen Shi’s face while speaking, “I heard Lin Mao tell Xia Wei that you had a car accident on the day of the unified entrance exam last year, passed out and missed the exam.”

Chen Shi put away the pencil and eraser, “Yeah.”

Huang Dan asked, “What car accident?”

Chen Shi said, “Serial car accident.”

Huang Dan was taken aback, “Was it serious?”

Chen Shi said it should be, “You know, I could tremble badly when I heard the car horn. How could I go to the scene of the car accident to take a closer look? At that time, we were at a hotel arranged by the school, which was a little far away from the examination room. Those around it were booked by people from other schools.”

He shrugged, “That day I was standing on the side of the road. Before the tricycle was called, I saw a car accident on the opposite side. I passed out on the spot and woke up in the hospital.”

Huang Dan said, “I haven’t heard of it.”

Chen Shi stood up straight, and pinched the tender cheeks of the youngster, “Car accidents happen every day, and it’s not unusual if you haven’t heard of them. It is said that the number of casualties reported changes, which is very unreliable.”

Huang Dan asked, “Can your mobile phone access the Internet?”

Chen Shi said, “No.”

Huang Dan pinched the space between his brows, temporarily clearing away the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

Not long after, Huang Dan and Chen Shi went out, walking against the wind towards the studio, the biting cold air rushed to the face, like ice knives, and every exposed pore tightened painfully.

The snow in the alley has long been trampled to pieces, and the soil underneath has been turned up. Looking around, it is extremely dirty, without the slightest sense of beauty after snow.

Huang Dan sneezed. The shoes on his feet were old, and the insoles were still big after being padded. He took his hand out of his pocket and rubbed his nose, “Go buy some hot soybean milk.”

Chen Shi agreed, he looked back and forth, and saw that there was no one in the alley, so he took the youngster’s hand and rubbed it, put it in his pocket and held it tightly.

“Comfortable——”

Suddenly there was a shout from behind, Huang Dan quickly took out his hand, causing a supercilious look to appear in Chen Shi’s eyes.

Not only the supercilious look, but Chen Shi’s complexion darkened too.

Zhou Jiaojiao was wearing a black down jacket, which was as long as her calves, and a pair of thick sneakers on her feet. A thick woolen scarf was wrapped around her neck, and earmuffs were caught on her ears, like rice dumplings.

“Have you had breakfast yet?”

“Not enough.”

Huang Dan smelled the smell of smoke, so he sneaked a glance and saw Chen Shi lit a cigarette, smoking lazily, probably angry.

Zhou Jiaojiao also looked over, “Chen Shi, you smoke in the early morning.”

Chen Shi hooked his lips, his eyebrows were sharp and firm, and he pointed out, “Smoke is a good thing. It’s not as naughty as people, who will make you angry and internally hurt at every turn.”

Huang Dan was speechless.

The men and women in the school were all wrapped up tightly, either walking slowly while eating breakfast, or running to the teaching building with their heads down, exhaling steam from their mouths when they spoke, filled with the smell of winter.

Huang Dan and the others went to the studio with warm soybean milk.

It was too cold these days, and a down jacket cost several hundred yuan, while cotton coats were much cheaper. Most people in the studio wore cotton coats, and they would get up and move around after painting for a while.

There are only two or three people who wear big down jackets like Zhou Jiaojiao, and they are all from good families.

Huang Dan pinched the phalanges of his fingers, frozen stiff, and the lines he drew were a bit stiff, “Your dad hasn’t come yet?”

Zhou Jiaojiao bit the straw and drank soy milk, “No, it’s hard for him to come even if he wants to in such heavy snow. Shuran, why do you care about my dad so much?”

Huang Dan said, “I see that you haven’t been drawing well recently, and I think you were better in your father’s presence.”

Zhou Jiaojiao curled her lips, “No way, if my dad was here, I would not only have to paint, but also deal with him. I would be exhausted. Besides, painting is not something that can be done with hard work. I don’t care if I don’t have talent. It’s just a little bit worse than others.”

Huang Dan said, “It’s not that you don’t have talent, it’s that you don’t want to.”

“Whatever.”

Zhou Jiaojiao crossed her legs and smiled happily, “Anyway, my dad won’t come before the New Year, and the money in the card is enough, so I can do whatever I want.”

Huang Dan asked something else, “Can your mobile phone access the Internet?”

Zhou Jiaojiao said no, “The entire studio, except for the teacher, only Xia Wei’s mobile phone can access the Internet. If you want to see something, you can tell me. I will go to the Internet cafe to find it for you.”

Huang Dan thought to himself, Zhou Jiaojiao and Chen Shi, Xia Wei are not from the same place, she is from this city, so don’t know if she is clear, “There was a serial car accident last year, have you heard of it?”

Zhou Jiaojiao shook her head, “I haven’t heard of it. The serial car accident sounds so serious. Many people must have died.”

Huang Dan said nothing.

Zhou Jiaojiao said, “Shuran, do you think driving is more dangerous or walking?”

Huang Dan was confused.

Zhou Jiaojiao scratched the skin on her face, “Let me tell you, walking is more dangerous. Didn’t there be news reports that the driver killed someone and drove away like a normal person?”

Huang Dan said, “That’s a hit-and-run, and the crime is added to the crime.”

Zhou Jiaojiao was still scratching her face, “That is to say, there are still criminals who go unpunished these days, and manpower is limited.”

She stopped scratching and said nothing. She put earphones in her ears and put on a serious painter pose.

Huang Dan searched for Chen Shi’s figure.

Chen Shi was talking to Teacher Liu, talking about painting, he noticed Huang Dan’s gaze, and quickly responded.

In the morning, Huang Dan took the opportunity to ask Shen Liang.

Shen Liang was chatting with a girl from No. 1 Middle School, and he was suddenly interrupted, but he didn’t turn his face away, “What’s wrong?”

After the girl left, Huang Dan asked about the car accident.

Shen Liang didn’t answer, but asked, “Who told you?”

Huang Dan said Chen Shi’s name.

Shen Liang glanced at him, then wiped the useless lines on the paper, “Since it was Chen Shi who told you, then you can ask him, why ask me?”

Huang Dan said, “He’s fainted that time, he doesn’t know.”

Shen Liang has an obvious indifference to this topic, and has an attitude of not having anything to do with himself, “I don’t know either. There are many versions I’ve heard. They don’t repeat the same version, and I’m not sure whether it’s true or not, so I won’t tell you.”

Huang Dan frowned.

This matter was backlogged in his heart.

Maybe it has nothing to do with the task, or it may be key information.

In the evening, Huang Dan and Chen Shi went back to get the toiletries and clean clothes and pants, put them in bags and went out, and went straight to the big bathhouse in the alley.

Men, women and children came in and out at the entrance of the bathhouse, all with a bag on their hands, went in dry, and came out with a wet body.

It was the first time for Huang Dan to come here, and the original owner used the relative’s bathroom when his parents were here and went to have dinner with his relatives, and he didn’t spend money to go to the bathhouse.

The original owner had used the bathroom of a relative’s house twice from coming here until his death. It has a default water heater. He didn’t know how to use it. He can’t adjust the water temperature well. It’s either too hot or too cold. He didn’t wash both times.

Huang Dan didn’t tell Chen Shi that there was a lot of dirt on his body, but should have noticed when the other party scratched his back.

There are two bathhouses, men on the left and women on the right, with a thick curtain hanging outside.

Chen Shi paid for the two of them, and took Huang Dan to enter from the left. As soon as they entered, they saw a room with rows of cabinets against the wall. Some people were undressing and some were putting on clothes. There was no communication, and everyone was busy with their own tasks.

Huang Dan had no curiosity about the bodies of the same sex, he only glanced at the environment and then looked away.

Chen Shi looked at the cabinet and found an empty one, “Put the clothes inside.”

Huang Dan lowered his head and pulled the zipper of his coat, and quickly finished taking it off, “Then I’ll go in first.”

Chen Shi called him to stop, his head still stuck in the collar of the sweater, “What’s the hurry, wait for me.”

Huang Dan then waited on the side.

Chen Shi didn’t keep him waiting for long, and walked while wearing boxers, and said, “Do you know why you are asked to come with me?”

Huang Dan said, “I know.”

Chen Shirao was interested, “Tell me about it.”

Huang Dan said, “If I walk by your side, others will know that I have a companion and I am not alone. Even if they want to bully me, they have to consider you.”

Chen Shi was amused by his words, and rubbed his hair rewardingly, “Yes, you are really smart.”

Huang Dan，“……”

There is mist floating inside, and the vision is blurred. There is no place to take a bath, only a shower, standing under the water pipe and rubbing your arms and legs.

Huang Dan and Chen Shi were lucky, they didn’t wait for a long time, and a seat became vacant, and they were still two, leaning together.

Chen Shi whistled like a hooligan, “Classmate, your back is so white.”

Huang Dan’s eyes swept away, and the abs were very beautiful, and he replied to Chen Shi, “You look the best.”

Chen Shi smiled proudly, “Oh, classmate, you have a good eye.”

Huang Dan told him to bring the soap to himself, “Hurry up and wash it off, or you’ll get the soap when you go back.”

Chen Shi took the soap and handed it over, watching the youngster rub soap on his limbs, chest and back, “Do you want me to help you?”

Huang Dan’s voice was caught in the sound of rushing water, “No need.”

Standing under the water pipe to rinse, Chen Shi raised his eyebrows, “It’s really unnecessary, my service is unique, and it will make your muscles and bones feel comfortable.”

Huang Dan was too lazy to respond.

He glanced at Chen Shi from the corner of his eye. It was probably because he had been doing farm work since he was a child. He had a body full of muscles and flesh, and his skin was also tanned because of the wind and sun all year round. It was very well developed.

It would be better, he was sure.

Huang Dan’s gaze paused inadvertently, and he saw a figure in the mist, which seemed to be Shen Liang.

The figure turned around, and it was really him.

Shen Liang also found Huang Dan, including Chen Shi beside him, but he didn’t approach, but just greeted him from an awkward distance, “You guys wash slowly, I’ll go first.”

Before Huang Dan could speak, he walked out of the bathroom.

Chen Shi secretly scratched the youngster’s waist, “Rub my back.”

Huang Dan came back to his senses, “I didn’t see Shen Liang when I came in, did you see it?”

Chen Shi scratched his scalp, his hands were full of soap, “It’s really sad to see you asking this question, Gege, I always have you in my heart, and others are already a fart.”

Huang Dan twitched his mouth.

He looked at Chen Shi’s shoulders covered with water, his narrow waist, his buttocks, and his raised hand stopped in mid-air. He considered whether to go down or up, and finally chose the latter.

His back was being rubbed, Chen Shi hummed comfortably, “Rub it harder.”

Huang Dan’s fingertips were almost pressed into his flesh, but he didn’t rub the dirt. He only found that his muscles were very strong, “Will it hurt?”

Chen Shi said that it didn’t hurt, and encouraged him, “Rub boldly, use your energy you get from swallowing all the milk.”

Huang Dan said, “Your back is very clean.”

Taking advantage of no one’s attention, Chen Shi tilted his head back and kissed the youngster’s ear, “You don’t understand now, you didn’t rub my back, it was my soul. When you took off your clothes outside, I just want to fuck you, even a minor, I want to do it, tell me, do I need to rub my soul hard?”

“……”

After Huang Dan finished rubbing him, he turned his back.

Chen Shi’s hands were strong and his palms were rough, and Huang Dan’s back was burning from rubbing, and he cried under the water pipe.

Fortunately, there was the sound of splashing water all around, Huang Dan suppressed his crying, the sound was obscured and no one noticed him.

Chen Shi touched the youngster’s wet face, his eyes were gentle, and his voice was also very rude, “Be good, honey, don’t cry, your Gege, I am so hard that I’m about to die.”

“……”

Huang Dan cried for a while, washed the tears off his face, and said to Chen Shi, who was leaning against the wall after shooting the plane, “Let’s go.”

Chen Shi stroked his wet hair, and followed him out lazily.

After taking a bath, Huang Dan’s hands were sore. He originally wanted to go back and copy a human head. When he entered the door to block the cold wind, the laziness crawled up his trousers and ate his brain.

If Huang Dan doesn’t go to the studio to sketch, Chen Shi will definitely stay with him, and won’t go alone.

Accompanied by the company, the two of them entangled in the bed and kissed. Just a kiss on the mouth can taste like candy.

It’s freezing outside, and it’s hot as summer under the covers.

At the end of the evening sketching, Shen Liang went to the toilet and came back. The girl was waiting for him at the door, and handed over something in her hand, “Well, someone asked me to give this to you.”

Shen Liang received it in his hand, “What is this?”

The girl’s face was a little red under the dim light, and her face was full of shyness, “You will know when you go back and look.”

After she said this, she ran down, ran to her mother along the path, and sat on the back of the electric scooter to leave the school from the west gate.

Before reaching the intersection, the girl said, “Mom, I’m a little thirsty and I want to go to the supermarket to buy a bottle of water.”

The middle-aged woman said, “Okay, the toothpaste at home is gone, you can go to the supermarket to buy two boxes.”

The girl came out after buying water and toothpaste, and when she saw her mother holding her bag with her hand still flipping inside, she frowned, feeling unhappy, “Mom, why do you keep flipping through my bag?”

The middle-aged woman asked without answering, “Are you really, don’t you know how to save money to spend? What else to buy if you have water in your bag?”

The girl was taken aback, “No, there is no water in my bag.”

The middle-aged woman handed the bag to her daughter, “What is this if not water?”

The girl looked into the bag, there was really a bottle of water, who stuffed it in, a face appeared in her mind, is it Shen Liang?

He likes me too, right? The girl bit her lip.

The middle-aged woman took the expression on her daughter’s face into her eyes through the street lamp, “You are going to take the college entrance examination next year, so don’t hang out with messy boys, do you hear me?”

The girl subconsciously argued, “He’s not a messy boy.”

The middle-aged woman didn’t hear clearly, “The Academy of Fine Arts is not easy to take the exam. If you spend your time on something that is not in tune, there will be times when you will regret it!”

The girl’s mind was full of that face, she didn’t know where her mind went, and she just hummed perfunctorily.

The next morning, the middle-aged woman made breakfast as usual, then knocked on the door to wake her daughter up, but there was no response from inside.

Normally, if she called twice, her daughter would get up, but today there was no movement at all.

A trace of uneasiness surged in the middle-aged woman’s heart. She went to find the spare key to open the door, and the next moment she let out a terrified scream, “Ah——”

The girl was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling, with a mineral water bottle in her mouth, her belly was bulging high, like a pregnant woman who was about to give birth.