Best Friends

Lu Xun didn't think he would actually get sick.

But these days, the temperature difference between day and night is very big, plus he kept studying hard for several days, and after studying half a day, he accidentally fell asleep, and he hadn't been sick for several years, he was gloriously sick.

Lu Xun realized he wasn't feeling well in the middle of the night, and for the first time he woke up in the middle of the night with a headache, a splitting headache, and even the air he breathed was hot.

The room was dark at night, and Lu Xun braced himself to sit up, turn on the light, and go to the living room to pour himself a glass of water.

A cup of warm water went down, but the thirst in his throat was not relieved at all.

Lu Xun seldom gets sick and has a fever, and the last time he had a fever was in middle school. The last time he had a fever was in junior high school. It wasn't as bad as this one, and he recovered on his own with medication, which he didn't tell anyone about.

In a trance, Lu Xun remembers the past.

The last time he'd gotten a cold or fever this bad was when he was a kid living at his grandfather's house.

He wanted to ask his grandparents to stay with him, but he was lectured by his grandpa, who said that a real man should not be so delicate. Not to mention a small illness and fever, even if it is bleeding and sweating, you should not change your face and silently bear it, this is a real man.

And he wants to be taken care of and kept company when he's a little sick, which is just spoiled and unmanly, and people will laugh at him when they find out.

That time too, he took his own medication and lay quietly until he recovered.

Lu Xun pinched his brow and went back into his room to pick up his cell phone.

He hadn't bought fever-reducing medication before, and had to look for takeout software to get a runner to help him buy some fever-reducing medication.

Open the takeaway software to find the function of buying medicine, clicked in Lu Xun froze.

He had only ever used takeout software to buy food during the day here before as well, and was completely surprised that this small city didn't have a pharmacy open twenty-four hours a day!

...... What to do then?

Lu Xun felt his head hurt even more when his cool cell phone was covered by his hot palm.

Fingers slid irritably across the phone screen, the takeout app flipped up to show programs that weren't closed in the background, and Lu Xun saw the address book.

Tapping in faster than he realized, Lu Xun saw the name of the person he'd put at the top of the list.

Two simple words, but linked to that person, it is easy to give a reliable and reassuring power.

Lu Xun glanced at the time in the upper right corner of his cell phone.

3:12 AM.

It's late at night when the vast majority of people are asleep, not to mention good students who follow the rules.

Lu Xun scratched out this background program, went to get another glass of water, and lay down on his bed and covered himself up.

Although he had saved Ye Yao's phone number as his first contact, he didn't really think that he would need to call Ye Yao if he was in trouble, he just didn't have any other important friends' phone numbers to save, so he thought it would be convenient to set Ye Yao as his first contact, so that he could call Ye Yao when he was free to go to a basketball game or to eat with him.

Who wants to call someone to take care of ...... him at 3 a.m. He's not that pampered.

Lu Xun tried to fall asleep, but the headache really kept him awake, so he picked up his cell phone again, his feverish head had trouble functioning, and he just distracted himself by tapping on various software.

He tapped on some social media program; he didn't talk to people often, so the first person at the top was Ye Yao, a recent addition.

There was nothing in the chat box, just the empty sentence, [I passed your friend request, now we can start chatting.]

Lu Xun's head was getting hotter and hotter, and whatever he was thinking was a few beats slower. He looked at Ye Yao's phrase over there that the system automatically said [You can start chatting now], and subconsciously punched a few 1's in the chat box and sent it as a reply.

After doing so Lu Xun then reacted and hastily raised his hand to withdraw the string of numbers.

His digits withdrew, but as his message disappeared, another new string of bubbles appeared.

The bubble was succinct: [What's going on?

With this speed of reply, Lu Xun felt like he was dreaming, he confirmed the authenticity of the message again and typed incredulously, [You're still up at this hour, are you studying?

Ye Yao sat up from the bed, there was nothing else to do today, he would have gone to bed a long time ago. Only that he had previously set special attention for Lu Xun, and when Lu Xun sent a message, he would have a reminder sound similar to that of a small alarm clock.

The reason for setting special attention was simple, he had thought about it later and felt that Lu Xun, who seemed to be a very strong person, would not be very likely to call him after encountering trouble that was not fatal. On the contrary, it is possible that because he could not sleep after encountering the matter, under the tense spirit, he pretended to be fine and sent him a few messages to ease the tense spirit.

He'd seen several of these types when he'd taken care of parents in the hospital.

You don't have to worry about Lu Xun disturbing him during the day, because Lu Xun is still quite a cold person, not really fond of talking, and even less willing to send messages.

Ye Yao for reply: [Yes, still studying, secretly studying to roll others, why are you not sleeping too?

There was no reply for a while, and he wondered if he was shocked by his reply. After a while, Ye Yao finally saw two new messages.

[...... There's no need to spell it out so hard, it's not the same to get up in the morning and study.]

[I'm too lazy to go to school tomorrow, so help me ask the teacher for a vacation and say I'm not feeling well and won't be going.]

It seems perfectly normal for a schoolyard bully to not want to go to school so he makes excuses.

But staying up past 3:00 because I didn't want to go to school, people who normally wouldn't touch social apps much. And chatting with him in the middle of the night is weird.

Ye Yao frowned slightly: [Where do you feel sick, have you gone to the hospital yet, do you have any medicine at home?

After a few more moments, Lu Xun replied: [I'm not sick, so what medicine should I take.]

Ye Yao was not convinced, he remembered that Lu Xun had been coughing for a few days, and the coughing symptom did not lessen with the passage of time, on the contrary, it was getting more and more serious.

Ye Yao thought about a few things in tandem, and immediately came up with a cause and effect.

A person is vulnerable when he is sick, even if he seems invulnerable on a regular basis.

And it's really dangerous to get sick, so try not to put it off if you can.

Ye Yao modifies the wording: [Yes, there's definitely no major illness, but I see you've been coughing for the past few days, and I have cold medicine at home, so I'll get you some cold medicine?

[You can't always get the right one on a takeaway platform on your own, and it's worse to take the wrong one.]

[Give me your home address, I'll go out ten minutes early for school tomorrow, go give you a drug delivery, and then go to school to give you a leave of absence by the way, how's that?]

After a while, Lu Xun's avatar kept showing that he was typing, writing and stopping, probably doing some kind of mental game.

Ye Yao didn't rush, watching Lu Xun type for about ten minutes before sending over an address.

Ye Yao got up and got dressed.

*

Lu Xun puts his cell phone down and exhales a rolling breath.

Delaying Ye Yao for ten minutes ...... shouldn't count as him not being independent enough, and Ye Yao wouldn't laugh at him.

Ye Yao also has to deliver his medication. It's the first time he's ever been delivered by a friend.

It felt a bit strange, Lu Xun tapped on Ye Yao's avatar a few times repeatedly, tapping in and out, his eyes finally resting on those lines of dialog.

With those words, his head didn't seem to hurt so much, and Lu Xun let go of his cell phone, unable to control himself as he began to think again.

Will Ye Yao come over tomorrow and realize he doesn't sound right and say how he looks tall but is actually weak and really not man enough?

Ye Yao, who is so unpretentious, must really dislike this kind of friend.

Or he'll tell Ye Yao not to send it.

Lu Xun lying in bed tossing and turning half a day, no mute cell phone suddenly rang.

Lu Xun picked up his cell phone and saw a new message: [Are you asleep, if you're still awake, get up and open the door for me? I think about the last exam physics was deducted three points, the mood is bad can not sleep, out to take a walk by the way in advance to send you medicine. If you are asleep, I put the medicine at your door, remember to come and get it when you wake up.

Lu Xun sat up violently from the bed, incredulously reading this small paragraph over and over again two or three times, and then looked in the direction of the doorway.

The door was closed tightly, so of course he couldn t see anything. Lu Xun s high fevered mind was a mess, and many inexplicable thoughts came pouring out.

Lu Xun could not think carefully, he hurriedly got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom to open the door.

Outside the door stood the figure he had grown to know so well over the course of time, and instead of annoyance or impatience, Ye Yao's face flashed a smile as it always did when he saw him.

Lu Xun, whose throat was already dry and now somehow even drier, asked in a muffled voice, "You really couldn't sleep most of the night because you didn't do well on the test?"

"Yeah, why else are you still awake and feverishly studying, here's the medicine I brought for you from home." Ye Yao stretched out a hand and handed a bag in front of Lu Xun.

Lu Xun subconsciously reached out to pick it up, and the amplitude of his reach was so large that it immediately touched Ye Yao's hand.

With a body temperature much higher than normal, Lu Xun pulled his hand back again, slightly nervous.

Ye Yao wouldn't laugh at him for being weak and delicate, would he?

In the middle of Lu Xun's line of sight, Ye Yao slowly raised an eyebrow, "Looking so energetic with such a high fever, impressive, worthy of being our new school bully."

...... Ye Yao praised him for being awesome.

"Average." Lu Xun The corners of his mouth quirked up slightly.

"Well," Ye Yao said softly, "there's cold medicine and fever-reducing pills in that bag, you should take them both later and see if you'll feel better tomorrow. Fever can't be delayed, it's dangerous."

Lu Xun didn't say anything, he pursed his lips and nodded in silence.

He looks at Ye Yao's figure, but instead of turning away immediately, Ye Yao picks up the bag in his other hand.

"Stopped by to get you breakfast for tomorrow, if you're too sick and lazy to go downstairs to get takeout, just eat this." Ye Yao added.

Lu Xun was giddy and took the breakfast again, feeling the undivided attention.

So that's what happens when you get sick with a fever here.

He'll want to keep the fever going next time.

The tall school bully hung his head slightly and gave a rare thank you, "...... Trouble."

Ye Yao smiled, "What is this, if one day I play ball knocked my head, may still have to trouble you to carry me to the infirmary ...... Forget it, you do not like to contact with male, do not let you carry, can help some other."

"Who says I can't carry it?" Lu Xun muffled.

Considering that Lu Xun had said that he would never share a room with anyone, Ye Yao finally left after some exhortations. As Lu Xun watched Ye Yao's shadow disappear, a thought couldn't be restrained from rising in his heart.

He wants to be best friends with Ye Yao.

Even if the king of heaven came can not change their relationship, this friend once when, it has to be a lifetime.