Ordinary Mints

[Cold on the outside, delicate and aggressive on the inside vs. Hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, straightforward and sincere] Campus literary cookie Reunion he When the second year of high school begins, there is an "uninvited guest" in front of the desk of Xie Jixing, the top grader in the grade - Mu Yuye, who is forced to be supported by the Academic Affairs Office. When they first met, he was holding the "Mathematics Competition Question Book" and was about to start the "Study Master Style Tuition", but he saw Mu Yuye squatting on the floor of the activity room, instructing his classmates to unpack the newly arrived class plants, poking his crooked neck with his dirt-stained fingers. Pothos: "Xie Xueba, can you help me take a look? This leaf always falls to one side, can it be straightened using the principles of physics?" Xie Jixing stared at the ridiculously crooked pot of Pothos, holding the competition book tightly with his fingertips: "First take out last week's math paper." Originally thought it was a step-by-step tutorial, Mu Yuye could always turn "study" into "life": on Wednesday's tutoring day, he dragged Xie Jixing to the stray cat rescue point at the school gate, holding up a 5 kilogram bag of cat food and asked "How long can this bag last if I feed 100 grams a day?"; At the campus culture festival, Xie Jixing prepared a "mathematical puzzle" "Theme Exhibition", but Mu Yuye took him to the "Creative Market" and asked him to write a customized post-it note saying "May you be like the image of a monotonic increasing function, reaching a high point every step of the way". All the money he earned was donated to the aid station. He also took a picture of Xie Jixing's profile writing with his head down and posted it on WeChat Moments: "The romance of a top student needs a formula to be interesting." Xie Jixing's life began to change quietly: next to the competition book, there was a notebook full of "feeding amounts for stray cats". In addition to function images on the draft paper for evening self-study, there was also a kitten drawn by Mu Yuye with a pen in its mouth. During the safety drill, he tripped and scratched his hand due to a stray cat. When Mu Yuye rushed over, his eyes were red, and the way he was wrapping gauze in a hurry was more painful than him. , But he cursed fiercely, "Why are you so stupid, you don't know how to stay away from cats?"; When they made an appointment to go to the library on the weekend, Mu Yuye took him to the suburban used book market. He squatted in front of a stall and pulled out a book called "Funny Mathematical Stories" and handed it to him: "It's more interesting than your competition book. It teaches how to calculate the lottery winning rate. If you learn it, you might be able to earn money for cat food for the rescue station." He once thought that his world only consisted of formulas, theorems and competition rankings, but under the guidance of Mu Yuye, he squatted next to the cat's nest and counted cat food for the first time, sold "mathematical puzzle blind boxes" for the first time at the bazaar, and was sprayed with pen water for the first time during evening self-study. When taking notes, he was not angry but followed the other person to draw a kitten next to the ink mark; Mu Yuye was also quietly approaching his world: he recorded the "quadratic function" taught by Xie Jixing as the popular solution of "little flower's bowl". After improving by more than 30 points in the monthly exam, he wrote in the class diary He wrote, "Thank you Xie Jixing for breaking down complex questions into 'how many steps does it take to walk', which is a hundred times easier to understand than textbooks."; When he was pulling the rope to rush back during the tug-of-war competition at the Winter Games, he saw Xie Jixing standing by the finish line, holding a piece of paper with "Best Effort Angle" written all over it in his hand. The moment he won the competition, he rushed over and hugged someone. He blushed and let go when his classmates were teasing him. However, on the way home at night, he suddenly held Xie Jixing's hand: "They were teasing, but I really want to hold you." When the wind on the rooftop carried the coolness of March, Mu Yuye held a cat-shaped keychain to stop Xie Jixing, his fingertips trembling: "From the day you squatted next to the cat's nest and helped me count the cat's food, I wanted to feed the cat, do questions together, and spend the days together with you. Have a fun time. Xie Jixing, I like you, not as a friend." Xie Jixing looked at the enthusiasm in his eyes and suddenly smiled - it turned out that his heartbeat had been out of rhythm since the first time Mu Yuye dragged him to the rescue station. He took the keychain and hung it on his schoolbag, and the coolness of the mint spread in his mouth: "Me too." Their passionate love is hidden in countless details: Xie Jixing would insert a small "daily question" slip into Mu Yuye's textbook, with the three-flowered cat they often fed on the back; Mu Yuye would help Xie Jixing organize the competition notes during class and write in the blank space "Come on, my "A top student"; I went to the rescue station on the weekend, one registered the adoption information, and the other groomed the cat and checked the body. The aunt at the rescue station smiled and said, "You two work together, and you have a better understanding than the old partners." The two blushed and did not refute, but secretly held each other's hands tighter. On the day after the college entrance examination, they found a copy of "Introduction to Animal Medicine" at the second-hand book market. Mu Yuye held up the book and said excitedly, "I will learn this in the future to help more stray cats." However, they did not notice the gaze of Mu Yuye's mother not far away. That night, Mu Yuye's cell phone was locked in the drawer, and her mother said with red eyes, "You are not suitable." When checking the results, Xie Jixing was admitted to the city's A University, but he heard from his classmates that Mu Yuye was forced by his family to fill in the business administration major from other places; at the high school graduation ceremony, the two of them exchanged graduation books with each other separated. Mu Yuye secretly slipped him a note with two interlocking hands drawn on it, which said "Wait for me, I will be back." When saying goodbye at the train station, Mu Yuye held open the window and thrust the book "Introduction to Animal Medicine" and a ring with the word "night" engraved on it to him: "Keep this for me, I will definitely come back to get it." During the days of separation, Xie Jixing took the old book and the ring with him. After being admitted to A University as a mathematics major, he immediately joined the stray animal protection society. He used the "feeding amount algorithm" that the two had pondered in high school and combined it with mathematical models to create a "rescue station material optimization plan" to reduce cat food waste by 30%. Club members said that he was "like carrying an invisible partner." He did not explain, but just printed out the plan and placed it next to the cat doll given by Mu Yuye. At the rescue station, he met a stray cat that was only bone-thin and named it "Waiting Night". He fed it with medicine and groomed it every day after school, and told it "Wait a little longer, and he will come back." When Mu Yuye was re-study abroad, he hid "Introduction to Animal Medicine" at the very back of the textbook. He used a flashlight to take notes at night, and copied the knowledge points on "Treatment of Stray Cat Skin Diseases" in a small notebook, thinking "it can be used when he rescues cats with Xie Jixing in the future"; fill in the On the day of volunteering, while his parents were not paying attention, he secretly changed his first choice to the veterinary medicine major of University B in the city. When he got the admission notice, he spread his volunteer certificate and notes in front of his parents: "I like this major, and I also like Xie Jiixing. I will not give up." Five years later, on the first day when Mu Yuye returned to the city, he went to the old locust tree where he had been in high school - the cat nest there was still there, and the orange cat was sleeping in it, with a bag of dried fish from a familiar brand next to it. When there were footsteps behind him, he turned around and ran into Xie Jixing's eyes. The other person was wearing a beige coat and holding a bag of cat food in his hand. His hair was longer than in high school, but his eyes were still familiar to him. "You... Are back?" Xie Jixing's voice was trembling, and the cat food bag in his hand almost fell to the ground. Mu Yuye nodded and took out the yellowed "Introduction to Animal Medicine" from his backpack. The pages of the book contained the ring that Xie Jixing had given him, as well as a newly engraved ring with the word "star": "The book is not lost, I have all your things with me." He handed over the ring with the word "star", and when his fingertips touched Xie Jixing's hand, both of them paused. The orange cat rubbed their trouser legs and stood up, while the leaves of the old locust tree fell on their shoulders. Mu Yuye looked at Xie Jixing, with eyes full of enthusiasm just like when he confessed on the rooftop: "Xie Jixing, I didn't keep you waiting for too long, right?" Xie Jixing put the ring on his hand, then raised his own ring with the word "Ye", and let the two rings touch together lightly, making a thin sound: "I'll be waiting for you soon." Those thoughts hidden in cat food, incorrect question papers, and old books, those five years of waiting and persistence, finally found a home under the old locust tree - they were still the same teenagers who knew how to calculate the feeding amount for stray cats and turned their studies into life, but this time, they would never be separated again. Where is the pride of heaven, where is the earth-shattering love. Thousands of words have turned into an ordinary mint candy. Mission: Love is gender-neutral, inspiring and free