Stringy Wind in the Ear - Chap 80 END
The unintentional kiss on the court once again made Li Xun and Song Yang a hot topic.
Everyone in the team was busy packing their luggage. The assistant coach was the first to notice it, followed by Yu Shenwei.
The text of the Weibo post that went viral was just one line: #The men’s archery team kissed after winning the championship# The expressions of the teammates were so wonderful, hahahaha!
Yu Shenwei was the first to notice the trending search and clicked on the photo with a certain hunch.
The first one is a screenshot of the live broadcast of Li Xun kissing Song Yang on the forehead, with him standing behind him with a shocked look on his face. The blogger actually circled his exaggerated and ugly expression with a red line.
Then they were on the podium. Li Xun and Song Yang were whispering to each other. He stood there in a daze, like a giant cactus, and was circled out again.
The number of likes in the hot comment section has exceeded 10,000.
——Aaaaaaaaah! There is a sequel to “The Domineering Archery Athlete and His Sweet Little Wife”!!!
——If you tell me with that look that they are fine, I will eat shit live on air.
——I have been following them for a long time. From being unknown to being the best in the world, this couple is so sweet that it makes me dizzy! Although I am not sure if it is true or not, I hope they will be fine forever.
——Hahahaha, Yu Shenwei’s expression is so funny! [Gay man is next to me.jpg]
——Teammate: [The clown is actually me.jpg]
Yu Shenwei was both angry and amused, and reposted the post with a comment: It is clearly a movie about three people, but I still cannot have a name.
Song Yang packed up his bow and arrows and got in the car, ready to go back to the hotel to rest. Yu Shenwei turned around, leaned on the back of the chair and asked, “Did you see that you two are on the hot search again?”
Song Yang said: “The coach told me, but I haven’t watched it yet.”
Yu Shenwei asked again: “Why don’t you watch it?”
Song Yang had already experienced social death once, and said helplessly: “I dare not watch.”
A few minutes later, Li Xun also got in the car. Yu Shenwei asked him the same question. Li Xun closed the car door and replied frankly: “I saw it. It was taken very well. I saved several pictures.”
Song Yang’s eyes lit up: “Let me see, let me see.”
Li Xun’s fingertips slid across the screen, and Song Yang said in surprise, “You changed the wallpaper.”
The photo was saved from the official media Weibo. He and Li Xun were making a little heart shape with their hands facing the camera.
Song Yang grinned: “I want this one too, send it to me!”
After resting for a night in the hotel, they boarded the return flight early the next morning.
After the game there was a short break. Song Yang and Yu Shenwei took this opportunity to go back to school to take the exams, and Li Xun also flew to Nancheng with them.
The plane landed at around five in the evening, and Song Jingshan and Li Huiying had been waiting in the airport reception hall for nearly two hours.
Song Jingshan carried Li Chuzhi, who was too tired to stand, on his shoulders and looked down at the time: “If I had known the plane was going to be delayed, I would have eaten outside before coming. The parking fee will be doubled again.”
Li Huiying: “Are you asking me for pocket money in disguise?”
Song Jingshan pulled Li Chuzhi’s arm in a roundabout way: “Baby, do you want to buy some delicious food?”
“Yeah.” Li Chuzhi nodded cooperatively. When he looked up, he saw two familiar figures and was overjoyed. “Brother! Uncle!”
Song Yang ran over like a large dog, and the suitcase’s wheels rolled quickly. He had hardly left home since he was a child, and this closed training for more than half a year gave him a deep understanding of the word “reunion”.
“I missed you guys so much!” Song Yang hugged each of his family members and kissed Li Chuzhi on the cheek. “Little girl, why did you come back so soon? Have you finished your final exams?”
Li Huiying said: “I just came back two days ago. Their school has early exams and the second half of the year starts early.”
“That’s great.” Song Yang pinched Li Chuzhi’s face enviously, “Have you grown taller?”
“Yes.” Li Chuzhi raised his feet confidently, “I will be as tall as you soon.”
Song Yang laughed.
There was a bit of traffic on the road during the evening rush hour, and it took more than an hour for the car to enter the Yuqing community.
Li Guotao was sitting in the yard playing with the dog. When he heard the noise of the engine, he stretched his neck.
Dinner in the summer is basically eaten in the yard. There are several stacks of cold dishes on the round stone table, and the bowls, chopsticks and placemats are neatly arranged, with several bottles of wine and drinks in the middle.
Seeing people getting off the car, he walked over to them on crutches and said, “Our champion is back!”
Song Yang’s scalp tingled: “Uncle! Please don’t call me like that, it’s embarrassing, I didn’t perform well.”
“That’s also winning the championship.”
I haven’t been home for a long time, and the yard has changed a lot. Many star-shaped lights are wrapped around the osmanthus tree, and the dog’s peeing kennel has been changed from a simple rectangle to a wooden hut, which looks very warm.
There were several bunches of light green grapes hanging on the grape rack in the yard. They were round and looked a bit like Japan’s Qingwang. Song Yang picked one, wiped it and put it in his mouth. The tip of his tongue was stimulated, so he spit it out, then picked another one with evil intentions and fed it to Li Xun’s mouth.
Li Xun was replying to his coach’s message and opened his mouth to continue. The whole family was expecting his reaction. The next second, Li Xun lived up to expectations and swallowed hard with a “hiss”. He frowned and said, “It’s sour.”
The whole family burst into laughter, and the sound of shutter clicks rang in their ears again. Li Xun then realized that he had been fooled by Song Yang.
“You’ve become so bold.” He pinched Song Yang’s side hard. Song Yang twisted his body to break free and jumped towards the bathroom. Li Xun strode after him.
In a place where no one was around, Song Yang suddenly hooked Li Xun’s neck, jumped hard, and hung like a koala, then pecked Li Xun’s lips twice like a dragonfly skimming the water: “Hey, are you still sore now?”
Li Xun held up his legs with one hand and turned around, with Song Yang’s back against the bathroom door.
Their foreheads and noses touched together, with the corners of their mouths curved. Li Xun tilted his head slightly, closed his eyes and kissed her, receiving a skilled response. Song Yang raised his legs and hooked them around Li Xun’s waist.
There was a crack in the bathroom window, and the wind blew in, blowing away the fatigue of the whole day.
“It shouldn’t take that long to take a shower!” Song Jingshan’s voice came from outside, and then the door handle was turned open. “What are you two doing? You’re taking so long.”
Song Yang pursed his swollen lips, shook his wet hands, and said, “I just went to the toilet!”
Song Jingshan looked at Li Xun in shock: “You just accompanied him to the toilet?”
“I…” Li Xun gritted his teeth and nodded “hmm”.
“Not smoking?”
“good.”
“It tastes quite strong. Come out and eat quickly. The soup is getting cold.”
Song Jingshan and Li Guotao prepared dinner together. Taking the athletes’ dietary restrictions into consideration, there were ten dishes and two soups in total, most of which were seafood and vegetarian, and there was also a large pot of crayfish with thirteen spices.
Song Jingshan refilled the drinks for the kids: “Thank you for your hard work. This battle was not easy. I feel that you two have lost weight. Eat more to replenish your body.”
Li Xun took it with both hands: “Thank you, uncle.”
Li Guotao asked: “Since you won the championship this time, will you be able to participate in the Olympics next year?”
Li Xun said: “Not necessarily. We have obtained the quota for the Olympic trials, but we still have to compete with dozens of athletes selected from the National Games and the Championships, and then we will select three to form a team.”
“Is that so… Does that mean I won’t be able to go home for another half a year?” Li Huiying asked.
Li Xun replied: “For the Olympics, it should be more than half a year. After the trials, we will directly enter the preparation period, and we can take a break after the Olympics.”
Although Li Huiying was worried and reluctant, she did not try to stop him.
As the dusk gradually darkened, Song Jingshan turned on all the lights in the courtyard and raised his glass: “No matter what, I wish you good results!”
“Thanks!–”
The evening breeze blew, and the glasses collided with each other, making a crisp sound.
“Oh, by the way,” Song Jingshan asked, “Are you staying at home with Xiao Yang tonight?”
Li Xun hadn’t thought about this question yet, and looked at Song Yang: “When do you plan to go back to school? I’ll take you there.”
Li Huiying rushed to say, “It’s rare for you to go home, so stay at home tonight. I’ve dried my quilts for you, so you can squeeze in at night.”
Li Xun raised the corner of his mouth slightly and replied very restrainedly: “That’s fine.” Under the stone table, his hand moved from Song Yang’s knee to the base of his leg.
After dinner, Li Chuzhi was taken by Li Huiying to dance square dance, while Song Yang and Li Xun took Pee Pee for a walk.
The heat from the day had not yet dissipated and the air was stuffy. Song Yang felt a little thirsty, so he went into a convenience store.
He stood in front of a half-man-high freezer, picking at the ice chips on the glass with his fingertips, and asked Li Xun: “Do you still remember the first time we met as kids, when you knocked over my ice cream cone?”
“I have some impression.” Li Xun laughed and gestured at his hips. “You were probably about this size back then.”
“Am I that short?”
“Roughly the same.”·
Childhood memories are not very reliable. Song Yang could not quite remember their conversation at that time, but he remembered one key point: “Later, you were called away by your coach, and I still didn’t get to eat the ice cream.”
Li Xun rested his chin on his shoulder: “So am I not here to make it up to you?”
Song Yang felt numb all over due to the hot air, and turned his head to peck him on the tip of his ear.
Song Yang picked a hawthorn flavored popsicle and ate it while walking, his lips moistened, he looked up at him while peeing, drooling all the way.
Before they knew it, they had reached the wetland park they used to go to. There were still not many people there, and the weeds were more lush than two years ago, some of them were almost half a person tall. It seemed that someone had also used this place as a base, with hammocks tied between the trees and a plaid tablecloth on the ground that had not been taken away.
Song Yang was led by Pee and trotted to the dock where they often trained.
Li Xun also quickened his pace to catch up: “We just had a meal, run slower.”
Song Yang held the dog leash with both hands and tried to brake: “Pee-Pee is too fat, I can hardly hold it.”
Li Xun ran over and held her hand: “Let me do it.”
Song Yang pushed open the wooden door of the ticket office and shouted happily as if he had found a treasure: “The thing is still there!”
They always thought that they would come again tomorrow. Even if they didn’t come tomorrow, there would be the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. They were too lazy to take away worthless things like light strings, so they just left them in the ticket house at the pier.
Song Yang tried to press the switch, but the battery was dead and the light string wouldn’t light up. He frowned and muttered, “It’s not lighting up. It might be damp.”
Li Xun took out the battery, found a stone and knocked it gently a few times, then put it back in place. The light string then illuminated the room.
Song Yang gave him a thumbs up.
They tied the string of lights around the fence of the dock, found some old newspapers to pad them, sat on the ground, and Pee lay on the ground like a toad, looking up at them from time to time.
Not long after, Song Yang lazily collapsed on Li Xun’s legs.
He watched Li Xun pluck a dogtail grass from the ground, wrap it around his finger a few times, and then pluck off the dogtail part to make it into a loose ring.
“Is this the wedding ring for me?” Song Yang stretched out his hand and motioned for him to put it on.
“Well,” Li Xun took off the grass ring and held it in his hand, “Do you believe that I can make it disappear?”
Song Yang’s eyes sparkled: “I believe it!”
Li Xun said: “You have to say you don’t believe it and create a sense of conflict, so that my magic will be more interesting.”
Song Yang chuckled: “Then I won’t believe it unless you show it to me.”
Li Xun blew into his fist twice, and like a magician, he gently brushed the back of his hand with his other hand: “Now it’s gone.”
“It’s a lie.”
Song Yang really didn’t believe it this time. He opened his little finger and didn’t see the grass ring, but saw a circle of silver. When he opened Li Xun’s ring finger and saw the shiny thing in his hand, he stood up suddenly and shouted in surprise: “When did you buy the ring!”
Li Xun spread out his hot and wet palms. The platinum wedding rings had been warmed in his trouser pocket for a day and had taken on his body temperature.
Both rings are classic basic styles, without any patterns, except for a string of numbers engraved on the inner ring. Li Xun explained: “This is the day we first met, and that’s when I remember you.”
Song Yang’s eyelashes flickered in the light. Li Xun tilted his head and asked uncertainly, “Do you like this style?”
Song Yang turned around and threw herself into his arms, with a hint of tears in her joy: “I like you. You always have a way to make me love you a little more.”
A smile climbed up to the corners of Li Xun’s eyes, and he smoothed Song Yang’s hair.
Under the soft and warm light and in the faint fragrance of flowers, they solemnly completed the ceremony of exchanging rings.
Song Yang raised his hand and admired the narrow ring under the light. He could feel that Li Xun was also running towards him desperately, showing his unique tenderness, and his heart was filled a little more.
The evening breeze blew up Song Yang’s hair on his forehead, bringing a little comfortable coolness, and also blew his T-shirt up.
He watched Li Xun open NetEase Cloud Music and select a song from his favorites.
The melody was very familiar and he knew it was a Hong Kong group right away, but he couldn’t remember the name.
“What’s this song called?”
Li Xun was surprised for a moment: “Haven’t you heard of Beyond?”
“Ah!” Song Yang suddenly realized, “I know this group, but I haven’t listened to many of their songs. I just remember one song called “Red Sun.”
“Good fellow.” Li Xun said with a smile, “Hacken Lee will be so angry if he hears this.”
Song Yang: “Who is Hacken Lee? Isn’t he from Beyond?”
“…” Li Xun sighed helplessly. These differences in cognition always reminded him that the kid next to him was a generation younger than him.
However, Song Yang was keen to bridge every generation gap between him and Li Xun. He first searched for Beyond and Hacken Lee on Baidu, and then asked, “Can you sing Cantonese songs?”
Li Xun pinched two fingers and said, “A little bit.”
“Then teach me!”
Li Xun thought for a moment and said, “Let me sing Leslie Cheung’s “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.”
“Good!” Song Yang clapped his hands out of respect, and even Pee joined in the fun.
Li Xun turned on the background music, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Song Yang knew that his words “a little bit” were meant to be modest.
Li Xun is a good singer and has a sexy smoky voice. The melody is low and slow, and his voice is in tune, as gentle as the night wind.
Their eyes met, Song Yang leaned on his shoulder, and hugged his waist unsatisfiedly, even his hanging calves swayed gently to the rhythm, and their backs formed a picture under the starry sky.
Autumn would be wonderful if you were still here.
Even though the autumn wind is cool, it is still beautiful.
You in late autumn fill my dreams.
Like falling leaves, tapping on my window.
Winter would be nice if you were here.
No matter how gray the sky is, we will also light up…
The author has something to say:
They will spend the rest of their lives together. They also wish you all the best. Thank you very much for your tolerance and encouragement during the serialization period. If you are interested, you can click on my avatar to follow this author. See you in the next book.
