“Son, send your friend home.”
Bai Luo Yin followed Gu Hai to the doorstep, Gu Hai pushed his bike and waved farewell at Bai Luo Yin, “It’s ok now, you should go inside.”
Bai Luo Yin did not budge, “Where’s your home, is it nearby?”
Gu Hai became worried, “Why? Do you want to come over to my place?”
“No, I just want to send you home.”
Even though those were caring words, Gu Hai did not feel at ease at all.
“I’m a man, why do I need someone to send me home? Hurry, go back inside, it’s getting cold, I’ll get home in ten minutes on my bike.”
Bai Luo Yin was already out of the door, under the street light waving his hand at Gu Hai.
“Come on!”
As if being controlled by an invisible force, Gu Hai followed the order.
The two of them walked on the s.p.a.cious street, on both sides of it, the willow trees’ leaves created small curtains, the branches were being swayed by the wind, and that made yellow leaves fall down to the ground, unknowingly, autumn had already arrived. The autumn in Beijing was very comfortable, after facing with the heat wave of the summer, the cool breeze of autumn was now finally here, the soft gentle breeze brushing by them that was unlike the spring breeze, wherein each rush of wind brought along the chilly cool feeling.
“Did you eat well today?”
It was rare to hear Bai Luo Yin’s voice becoming that soft spoken, perhaps the quiet midnight had made him this gentle, or maybe perhaps he felt a bit repentant; after all, this was the first time Gu Hai stayed for dinner, yet he had to witness such an unpleasant scene.
“I ate very well.”
Gu Hai’s voice was very profound with a tint of honesty in this quiet night, wherein no one could doubt his sincerity.
“My grandpa was just like yours when he was still alive, or more like my grandpa was even worse than yours, he always vomits out his food during meal, after spitting them out, he would take them in to eat again; there was a time when he was paralyzed on bed for a long period of time, that he even did his own business* on the bed, I’ve long been used to it…”
[T/N: “Business” here means to pee and p.o.o.p on bed]
Gu Hai was saying so, yet he was repenting in his heart; in fact, his grandfather was a hero, the greatest hero of the Gu family. Before Gu Hai was born, Grandpa Gu had heroically sacrificed himself for the country, a glorious death; due to his grandfather’s marvelous sacrifice, his father and uncles were able to receive such preferential policy from the government, otherwise, the Gu family would not have such an elite status today.
Bai Luo Yin only smiled and said nothing.
Gu Hai tilted his head to the side to watch Bai Luo Yin, but then he quickly looked away (as if him staring at Bai Luo Yin had never happened). Bai Luo Yin’s expression was unreadable, eyes freely looking straight ahead of him, a quiet Bai Luo Yin is quite charming, an unspeakable temperament that could hardly be described by others. The street light lit up the side of Bai Luo Yin’s face, giving off an blurry entrancing image; if one was to take a longer look at him, it would feel like as if something was tugging and scratching at the side of one’s heart, yet that feeling was very comfortable, so comfortable that one would feel like being indulged in this relaxation.
There was a tint of mesmerizing, no need to concern s.e.xuality, because it was too beautiful, it was so ravishing that Gu Hai had forgotten that there was a big difference in personality between him and the person walking next to him; and a huge gap between their social status*.
[T/N: Actually the original context was: it was so beautiful that you forget about the different between you two and the gap between you – The difference here is their personalities, if you have followed the story from beginning to end, both Bai Luo Yin and Gu Hai do agree that their personalities are so different from each other to the point that they cannot stand each other, hence, the beginning of the story; and the gap that Gu Hai mentioned here is their social status, where one is rich and one is poor; in this context, the author wants to give the feeling that once you like/love someone, all of these differences in personalities and socials status can be meaningless because you will accept everything about them wholeheartedly, in a sense this sentence is VERY EFFING ROMANTIC LOL]
“Why do you write your name in artistic calligraphy?”
A sentence had interrupted Gu Hai’s train of thoughts.
“Ah that, my girlfriend had someone design it for me, and made me learn them. As time goes on, it has become a habit that is hard to change even if I want to.”
Bai Luo Yin casually said, “That’s a bad habit.”
Gu Hai saluted Bai Luo Yin in military standard salutation, “Teacher Bai is right, I’ll try to change it.”
As they both played and joked around with each other, they were already halfway there; Gu Hai felt that he could not directly take Bai Luo Yin to his home; therefore, he took a long route back, so that his secret would not be exposed.
“Oh…”
Hearing Bai Luo Yin burst out in a pleasing surprise, Gu Hai tilted his head to take a look, seeing a huge dog with snow-white fur, strong physique, and mild temper coming out from nowhere. Bai Luo Yin crouched down, petting and touching the dog here and there as excitement spread all over his face.
“This Samoyed is so beautiful.”
Right when he said that, the owner of the dog came rushing to them.
Bai Luo Yin stood up and watched yearningly even after the dog owner and the dog had been out of sight.
“You like dogs?” Gu Hai asked.
Bai Luo Yin only laughed, “Dogs tend to be fond of me, usually even with ferocious ones, when they see me, they calm down.”
Gu Hai’s eyelids twitched a little bit, Why is does it seem like these words are hinting at me?
“If you like it, I will buy you one.”
Bai Luo Yin casually retorted, “You’re poor, how can you afford one?”
“…”
Gu Hai nagged in his heart: Not just a Samoyed, even a Tibetan Mastiff, I can buy it for you.
In fact, living like this, it’s quite useless…
[T/N: Gu Hai means that he is pretending to be a poor is quite an inconvenience, because now he can’t openly buy everything for Bai Luo Yin without exposing his secret]
“Isn’t your house in this neighborhood? How come we haven’t reached it after such a long walk?” Bai Luo Yin began to suspect.
Gu Hai stood up straight and patted Bai Luo Yin’s shoulder, “Pushing the bike like this, obviously it would be slow; I’ll start to riding on it now, you should go back too.”
Bai Luo Yin just walked back home.
Waiting until he was sure that Bai Luo Yin had walked back home, Gu Hai began to ride on his bike.
Bai Luo Yin walked into a dark alley and then looked back, seeing Gu Hai turning a corner and riding back on the road they had just walked past earlier.
As expected…
Bai Luo Yin was really curious wanting to know; therefore, he decided to tail Gu Hai.
Actually, telling Gu Hai that he wants to send him home was just a camouflage, his real purpose was to know where Gu Hai’s house is located, because whenever he brought it up, Gu Hai always acted all secretive or averted the topic. But he had been walking him (Gu Hai) home for more than half an hour, and they still had not reached Gu Hai’s house, Bai Luo Yin decided to let Gu Hai go home by himself, and then would follow him after.
Gu Hai rode the bike home and could sense something was not right, even though the footsteps behind him were very light paces, he could detect the abnormality in them. Even if he did not look back, by listening to the footsteps, he could easily determine the height, weight, and general appearance of the person.
It must be Bai Luo Yin, no one else.
This kid really is something.
Gu Hai squinted his eyes, his pedaling was still at a calm normal pace, not showing any slightest move of tension or guilt.
Soon, Gu Hai had reached his rented place.
Next to this place, there was a one-story single home with a small courtyard.
Gu Hai was in a difficult situation, he really could not enter that rented house, because once he did, Bai Luo Yin would realize that it is a rented house, and all of what he said before would be seen as lies. To keep his perfect impression in Bai Luo Yin’s mind, he decided to take a risk.
The tenants in the house next to his place were an old married couple, they must be asleep by this time. Gu Hai decided to go into this home to avoid Bai Luo Yin’s suspicion, and then he would climb over the wall in between the two houses to get to the other side, and the other side is his house.
Once thought that up, Gu Hai quickly took out a small cable and began to pry the lock, then calmly pushed the bike into the house, closed the door behind him, and then heaved out a sigh of relief.
In a distance, he was not sure whether Bai Luo Yin had left or not.
Yet, he did not plan to go out, luckily the wall in this house was not so high, he directly threw his bike over the wall and onto the yard of his place, and then he himself climbed over the wall.
Finally, he was able to escape this time.
Sunday early morning, Gu Hai pushed his bike out, but the wheel only got to the doorstep of the house and then suddenly being rolled backward.
What happened?
Gu Hai was surprised to see Bai Luo Yin appearing at the doorway of the house next to his place, standing upright, one could easily guess that he (Bai Luo Yin) had been waiting for Gu Hai.
What do I do now?
Do I have to climb over the wall to the other side to go out?
Gu Hai glanced over the wall on the other side, there was an old Uncle watering the garden, how can I jump over?
Sweat covered Gu Hai’s forehead.
Finally, he came up with a plan.
He threw the bike over to the courtyard next door.
It made a “bam” sound.
The old Uncle watering the garden was startled by the sound, he turned around and saw a young man standing up on the wall and on the floor lay a bike.
“Grandpa, my bike got dropped into your yard, can I come to pick it up?”
The Uncle was fuming.
“How did that bike get here? Did you ride on the wall?”
Gu Hai could care less about such things, the “G.o.d” was waiting outside, he pretended to be a r.e.t.a.r.d.
“Alright, I’ll pick it up and then throw it over.”
The Uncle walked over with a concerned look on his face.
“Why do you need to throw it over? Why don’t you just push the bike out to the entrance here?”
Gu Hai turned to the old man grinning like a kid, really satisfied to see how well this man just read his thoughts.
Thus, Gu Hai openly pushed the bike towards the front door and headed out.
The old man stood watching Gu Hai’s back with a worry-filled his expression.
“Such a good-looking kid! Unfortunately, he’s a r.e.t.a.r.d!”
……
Zhou Si Hu looked at his watch, there were 10 more minutes to school.
Li Shuo, sitting in the pa.s.senger seat, was playing on his iPad.
Zhou Si Hu was still feeling sleepy, as he kept on yawning here and there. They spent all of the time over the weekend to entertain Jin Lu Lu, because she could not contact Gu Hai, she turned to the two of them and turned them into her slaves. Until last night, they were able to send this “mistress” back to Tianjin.
The two of them were only able to close their eyes for a bit at the hotel, and now had to get up early to go to school.
Li Shuo heard the yawning sounds next to him, he turned to look at a tiring Si Hu, he could not help but say, “Can you still drive? If not, I’ll take over.”
“We’re almost there, what’s the point of offering now?”
Li Shuo grinned a smile, suddenly his eyes fixated at a figure on the roadside.
“Wait, slow down a bit!”
Zhou Si Hu did not know why and shouted, “If we slow down, we’ll be late.”
“Not right…” Li Shuo stretched his neck backwards, eyes almost popped out of their sockets, “Why do I feel that the person riding the bike back there looks so much like Da Hai?!”
Zhou Si Hu also looked up to his rearview mirror.
“Seriously? It does look like him.”
Li Shuo blinked his eyes, “I think it is him!”
“What do you mean it is?” Zhou Si Hu stepped on the accelerator with a casual look, “You see, that person is very scrubby! How can it be Da Hai? Besides, Da Hai owns several nice cars, why would he ride an old broken bike? You don’t need a brain to think, does Da Hai have that pauper feeling to him?”
Li Shou thought that makes sense, and then heaved out a sigh.
“In the end, where did Da Hai run to?…”