Rebirth Aftec Death

coffee

This silent phone call lasted for nearly three hours. I was frying a sandwich for Li Chishu when his voice rang through my Bluetooth headset again.

"Shen Baoshan?" He probed, as if he was not sure if it was really me who disturbed him at three in the morning last night.

"Good morning, Li Chishu." I said, "You can sleep for another 20 minutes. You don't need to go to the cafeteria to buy breakfast today. I'll bring it to you."

"No." His first reaction to any sudden benefit was to refuse, "I'll just eat in the cafeteria."

"But I've already bought it--" I dragged out my voice, turned the toast in the pot over, put it on the plate, put eggs and bacon on it, and sprinkled chopped cabbage while it was still greasy, "If you don't eat it, you'll have to throw it away."

He sighed softly on the other side: "Okay."

When I was about to hang up the phone, he said again: "Thank you."

"Yeah." I accepted his thanks, "See you at school."

Shen Baoshan, who was seriously at this age, didn't know how to tinker with these things. The pinnacle of his cooking skills was to cook a bowl of barely passable vegetarian noodles. Now I can shuttle freely in the kitchen, which is also a skill I have honed in the past.

In the first few years after graduation, Li Chishu was busy with work and almost always ordered takeout. Later, when he stayed at home to recuperate, he didn't have the energy to cook for himself, and he hated the food outside. He couldn't eat a few bites of the food I brought back from any expensive restaurant. So from then on, I started to learn to cook by myself, and Li Chishu accepted my cooking skills no matter how good or bad, and ate as much as I gave him, leaving no drop. It's just that I have too little free time, and no matter how much I improve my skills, he can't eat it often.

I have been learning to help him love the person named Li Chishu. I was a little unfamiliar in my last life. If I move forward a little in this life, I may be able to catch up with his withering speed if I work hard.

I failed many times in latte art. Before leaving, I was determined to try it one last time, but the finished product did not fall apart. It was not as professional as the professional one, but it was acceptable. I planned to let Li Chishu take a look at it and ask him to drink it immediately.

Coincidentally, this coffee cup just happened to have a matching tray that could hold the base. I carefully held the cup of coffee and protected it all the way. Before the morning self-study, I quietly hid at the back door of Li Chishu's class to watch him.

When Li Chishu was absorbed in doing the questions, he liked to pinch his earlobe with his left hand, but this morning he was obviously distracted. After doing it for a while, he quickly looked up at the door.

He was waiting for me.

I patted the person sitting in the last row: "Please find Li Chishu."

The other person turned his head and said: "Li Chishu!" Then he pointed at me with the tip of the pen.

A light flashed across Li Chishu's eyes that was not easy to detect but I still noticed it. I waved at him and he quickly got up and came out.

There was a large balcony with a depth of nearly four meters outside the classroom. Many students would gather there to eat before class. There were not many people at this time. I pulled Li Chishu aside and placed the breakfast one by one on the tile wall.

The sandwich was still hot. I wrapped it with greaseproof paper before leaving so that Li Chishu could eat it directly.

He must be hungry. He lowered his head and took a bite. His eyes lit up. Then he studied what I put in the toast.

I said, "Bacon, eggs, cauliflower, and the toast was fried in butter."

He chewed it carefully: "Calories..."

I added, "It's similar to Chinese cabbage, but a little crisper."

"Did you buy it?" he asked, "Is it expensive?"

"Not expensive, the cost is at most one dollar and fifty cents." I lied with my eyes open.

Li Chishu asked again, "Where did you buy it?"

I said, "I made it myself."

He paused in biting the toast, then nodded, and didn't say anything, nor did he look up at me. He ate very seriously, leaving only a section of his clean white neck and fluffy hair on top for me to see.

Li Chishu wore school uniforms every day. He wore summer uniforms when it was hot, and a winter uniform when it was cold. The collar and cuffs of his clothes were always clean, and he had the most gentle and refreshing soap fragrance on his body.

I asked him, "Li Chishu, do you still get up early and take a shower every morning?"

He shook his head, his mouth full of the breakfast I made, and said vaguely, "I haven't taken a shower in the morning. I don't have time."

I took out a folded tissue from my pocket to wipe the corners of his mouth that were stained with bread crumbs, and he didn't dodge.

"Eat slowly." I opened the box of coffee carelessly, "So you take a shower at night?"

He didn't bother to talk and stuffed the last mouthful into his mouth: "Yeah."

Li Chishu in his twenties was not like this. Since I lived with him, he has always been used to getting up early in the morning and going into the bathroom on an empty stomach to wash for more than half an hour. I told him countless times but he never listened. At first, he said that it was because he was too tired from work and had the energy to clean up carefully in the morning, so that he could take a shower and go to bed at night. Later, it was because Li Chishu, who was shrouded in the night, had almost no action to do anything. He always liked to hide in the quilt early after running out of his battery in broad daylight.

"After taking a shower at night, wash the school uniform at the same time." Little Li Chishu, who seems to be growing vigorously at the moment, is explaining to me, "Blow it overnight and it will be dry, so you can wear it clean the next day."

"So that's how it is." I turned my face away and took out the cup of coffee that was cooled to the perfect temperature, "Try it."

This time, Li Chishu didn't wait for me to introduce it, but asked himself: "Is this latte art?"

I put my hands back in my pockets and raised my chin slightly: "From the hands of Chef Shen Baoshan."

He whispered "thank you", picked up the cup and took a sip, and soon frowned, realizing that I was watching, and forced himself to relax his expression.

"How is it?" I asked while holding back a smile.

"Hmm..."

According to his personality, he would never hesitate to give a compliment if there was anything worth praising, but Li Chishu was a man who would not lie. He was silent for a moment, and because he really couldn't think of any compromise words, he could only lower his voice, trying to make me hear: "Bitter."

The next second, he immediately made up for it: "...but the latte art is very beautiful."

"Coffee is bitter." I told him, "If you don't want to drink it, don't drink it. When you want to drink it, tell me...not only coffee, but other things too."

Just as I was about to reach out to take the cup from his hand, Li Chishu's eyes swept across a place behind me. The next moment, he suddenly raised his head and poured the coffee in the cup into his mouth in one gulp, drinking it clean.

He swallowed the coffee with a little difficulty, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to me: "Thank you."

Li Chishu had said "thank you" to me three times early in the morning.

I was about to speak when he pointed behind me and said, "Your class teacher has entered the classroom. You can go back."

The two balconies of my class and Li Chishu's class are on the left and right sides of the corner of the corridor, like two adjacent sides of a quadrilateral. Standing on the balcony, people from the two classes can look at each other from a distance.

I glanced back, but I didn't really care.

He said, "I'll wash the cup later and return it to you during the break."

I wanted to say "no", but then I thought about it and realized that I could see him during the break, so I agreed, "Okay."

"You can go back." Li Chishu still held the cup upright, "I... I'll go in too." Although he said so, Li Chishu's legs didn't move at all, as if he wanted to see me into the class.

I couldn't help it and pinched his ear: "Then I'll leave."

He was obviously stunned, his eyes seemed to dilate at that moment, and in the blink of an eye, his ears and neck quickly turned red, and he stuttered and said: "Ah... um."

I pretended not to see it, turned around and walked away, twisting my fingertips that still retained the warmth of his earlobe.

Li Chishu, this is just the beginning.

Facts have proved that people can't pretend, and God will beat you back to your original form once you pretend.

How cool I was when I was pretending to be cool in front of Li Chishu, and how embarrassed I was when I almost fell off the chair when I dozed off in class.

The ten-minute break was not enough for me to sleep, and I finally made it to the end of the third class, and Li Chishu came to deliver a cup. I took the cup back to my desk, and then went back to Li Chishu, and poured it on him in front of many people at the door of the class.

He lowered his voice so low that only I could hear it, and there was a look of surprise in his voice: "Shen Baoshan..."

I grabbed Li Chishu's hand that tried to push me away, and my chin was still firmly on his shoulder: "Li Chishu, I'm really sleepy."

In fact, this posture is not so unusual among ordinary male classmates. Li Chishu found that no one around him looked at him, so he stopped resisting and just waited for me to lean on him for a long time before asking: "Then, what should I do?"

I couldn't help laughing out loud, and stood up and looked at him: "Li Chishu, do you know anything else to say besides this sentence and "thank you"? "

He didn't expect me to ask him back like this, maybe he also found it funny when he recalled it, so he lowered his head and smiled, and didn't answer.

I pushed away the broken hair on his forehead that blocked his eyes: "You accompany me to the playground to sit for a while."

"Well... OK." He thought for a while, "Wait for me to go back."

Li Chishu went back to the class to get a biology book and went to the playground with me.

It doesn't matter, I just want to sleep comfortably next to him.

So when he sat on the lawn and opened a book, I rested my head on his legs. I felt uneasy, so I hugged his knees with my arms to prevent him from not being by my side when I woke up - although it was just a psychological effect.

Li Chishu started pushing me again.

"Shen Baoshan," he pushed my shoulder like he was tickling me, looking around, afraid of being noticed, "Don't hug me like this..."

I quickly took off my coat and covered my head with it, feeling sleepy: "If you cover my head well, people will think it's your girlfriend."

He sighed, completely helpless, and muttered above my head: "Whose girlfriend is so big..."

I was amused by his words when I was about to fall asleep. Suddenly I remembered something, groped for the pocket of my school uniform, took out the eye drops I bought last night and raised them up: "If your eyes are dry, put two drops in, and rest for a while."

After a few seconds he took it from me: "Did you buy it?"

"No, someone gave it to me as a gift."

"Who gave it to me?"

"..."

"Shen Baoshan?"

"..."

"..."

——

September 24th, sunny

I overslept today, and there were only flower rolls and steamed buns in the cafeteria. There was no porridge, and I forgot to bring a water cup, so it was choking to eat on the road.

I did homework in the classroom all day, but didn't see Shen Baoshan.

——

September 24, sunny.

Shen Baoshan brought me a breakfast that he made himself. It was a big one. Although I felt a little full when I ate it in the morning, I didn’t feel hungry until noon. The bacon was very fragrant and tasted different from the meat I had eaten before. The fried eggs were also delicious. It was my first time eating cauliflower. Shen Baoshan said that the taste was similar to Chinese cabbage, but I thought it was also delicious. Shen Baoshan seemed to be a person who was very good at choosing food.

I also drank latte art. It was originally bitter, but it smelled very fragrant. It was also made by Shen Baoshan. Shen Baoshan is very good, better than me and many people. He also has good grades and can do many things that I can’t do. Although I can cook, it’s not as delicious as his.

The eye drops he brought are also very useful, better than the one I bought when I was in junior high school. I don’t know which drugstore will give away such good eye drops.

I really thank Shen Baoshan.

If he can’t sleep next time, he can also call me.