Chapter 49 (2/2)
”Old Xie, you can't escape,” He Zhao said ”The icing has to be smeared”
Then Liu Cunhao and the others watched the two fist-happy big bros of their class start fighting again
Only this tirabbed a fistful of icing and dropped it on He Zhao's head ”You fucking—it's fun, is it, is this fun?”
Although everyone called Xu Qingqing Qing-ge, she was a girl after all, and although she was on the offensive, no one attacked her When she grew tired, she stopped to rest, then pulled out her phone and sroup photo? I'll count three, two, one, and everyone yell eggplant”
He Zhao was naturally perfor on his face and in his hair, he still hooked an arplant! Old Xie, look at the camera”
Xie Yu clearly didn't want to cooperate ”Look,didn't worry about whether they were ready She was ready, anyway, and hit the camera button with a click
The class rep had turned seventeen
Everyone's face was a mess, especially Liu Cunhao's; only his eyes were still showing
And in the last roo boys, one in black, one in white
Xu Qingqing suddenly thought, How nice
After reading so many YA novels, she felt that her daily life wasn't very exciting, and was very ordinary and unspecial—all she did orry about the exa homework—but this was very nice
After they finished dinner and destroyed the cake, Xie Yu pulled out several napkins to clean his face and found that he couldn't wipe the stickiness away
He Zhao suggested he go to the washroom to wash it off Worried that the bathrooh the back door
”You went too hard” He Zhao put his head under the tap and washed ”Where else?”
Xie Yu washed up quickly—he only had a little on his face and nose—then started lanced sideways and said, ”Back of neck”
He Zhao lowered his head and put a hand behind his neck to check ”Here?”
”No,” Xie Yu said ”Lower”
He Zhao fu His back was getting sore fro, ”You're kidding, right?”
Xie Yu reached out—his hands were still wet and the feeling of his hands on He Zhao's neck was chilly ”Here”
He Zhao: ”……”
Liu Cunhao and the others couldn't get clean with napkins, either, and ended up following the He Zhao and Xie Yu in the bathrooe expressions on their faces, he asked curiously, ”What are you doing?”
Xie Yu said nothing He let someone else use the sink and walked out of the bathroo fro on his eyelashes He wiped his face with one hand ”Nothing Then… I'm done You all wash up”
Liu Cunhao didn't think toohad rushed over to take the two empty spots and he said with pain, ”The two of you… can you treat the birthday boy a little nicer?”
Luo Wenqiang shook his head, laughing as he stuck his head even further under the sink—and out of the streain front of therong ”You all aren't… drunk, are you?”
They had agreed to sing karaoke, but now that several drunkards had appeared ading carry the gy ”Old Xie and I will take care of this one Take theht back to school”
Wan Da's steps obbly and when he heard 'back to school,' he bid the class rep fareith his last shred of conscious thought ”Hao, Hao-zi, happy birthday”
Liu Cunhao was having a tough ti up ”Thank you Let's do that, then… da their drinks?”
”If he were just a lightweight, that would be fine,” Xie Yu said ”But he was even boasting sodrunk”
He Zhao said, ”These two don't know their true abilities”
They had still called for bottle after bottle of beer
Yelling about how this little bit of beer is nothing, I don't feel anything, I'et drunk even after a thousand cups! Cooodness Wan Da wasn't that awful a drunk and stopped dancing and ot into the car, he fell asleep
”Sir, we're going to Erzhong”
”Erzhong, huh? You're a hardworking one” The driver checked the route and then focused on driving
Silence the whole way
He Zhao was quite good at holding his alcohol, but today he was drinking with Liu Cunhao so he drank a little more Now that he had calmed down he felt war up, too
He turned to theto get some air and saw that his little friend had fallen asleep by his side
Xie Yu's hand was just next to his The hand which had touched his neck, still dripping water The hand he had grasped on the first day of school as he asked Xie Yu about the black nail polish
The night whistled by outside the
He Zhao felt that the feelings he had been pushi+ng down all day, brought out by these insignificant little details, were now all pouring out
As Shen Jie said, about to explode
Xie Yu had a headache and the bu of the car made it worse He shut his eyes to rest, but his rasp his hand
But this tiether
The boy's fingers were long and solid and got in the way He Zhao held it carefully, as if trying not to jolt hi not to use too much force And his hand ar to Xie Yu alongside the rhythm of his heartbeat
Xie Yu felt himself start to burn up, too
Translation notes:
[1] The three ingredients can be varied, but usually involve chicken, pork, and seafood