I followed Ye Xing to the apartment he rented. It was a six-story slab building. It looked a bit old. We walked into the corridor. The light in the corridor was very dark. Through the dim light, we could see that the ground was still there.
The old-fashioned cement floor and the paint on the stair handrails were peeling off. Ye Xing lived on the fourth floor. When he got to the third floor, the voice-activated light was broken. Ye Xing, who was walking in front, turned around and said to me: "Be careful."
Then he stretched out his hand to me and said, "Give me your hand."
I obediently handed my hand to him, and he held my hand very gently, walking through the dark stairs on the third floor, and then came to the door of the apartment he rented.
He opened the door with the key, and I asked casually: "Is your roommate a boy or a girl?"
Ye Xing looked back at me and asked me with a smile in his eyes: "What do you think?"
I laughed awkwardly, and Ye Xing also laughed. He explained softly: "It's a man, he's my college classmate."
I said "Oh" softly, and at this time he had already opened the door, turned on the light in the living room, and then made a "please" gesture to me.
I slowly walked into this small living room. Looking at the layout, this house is not large, probably no more than eighty square meters, but it is very clean and tidy. The floor, curtains, and sofa covers are all wiped clean.
The colors are very fresh, and there are some flowers and plants dotted around the corners of the house.
Looking at these scenes, I couldn't help but said to myself: "Hey, is it really rare for two boys to live in such a clean house?"
Ye Xing smiled and said softly: "My classmate has mysophobia, and I also love to be clean. Plus we don't have any messy friends, so the hygiene situation is pretty good."
As he spoke, he pointed to the sofa and said, "Sister Man, sit down."
Look, his name for me has changed now. Originally he called me Aunt Man, but now he calls me Sister.
I felt a little embarrassed on my face, but considering that we were all like that, it seemed okay for him to call me that, so I smiled, took off my coat, put it on the armrest of the sofa, and then sat down on the sofa.
Ye Xing went to the kitchen to make coffee. Within a moment, he came out with two cups of steaming coffee, handed one cup to me and said, "It's such a cold day, drink some hot coffee to warm yourself up."
I smiled and said "thank you" and took the coffee cup from his hand.
He sat down next to me and we drank coffee and chatted.
I asked Ye Xing: "When will your roommate come back?"
Ye Xing looked at me, smiled, and replied: "He won't come back tonight. His family lives in T City, a few hundred miles away from here. He went home and will not come back until the day after tomorrow."
I said "Oh" softly, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while. Then I changed the topic and asked Ye Xing about his future development after graduation, and he said that he might become a teacher in an art school.
As we were chatting, it seemed that there was no more topic. At this time, Ye Xing turned his head and looked at me and said to me: "Sister Man, your sweater suits you very well and is very beautiful."
I subconsciously looked down at the sweater I was wearing. It was an ivory sweater with a unique neckline. I bought it when I went to the mall with my bestie that day. At that time, I thought, I don’t have any new clothes for the Chinese New Year this year.
Let’s buy a sweater first, so I bought it.
I looked at the sweater on my body, smiled and murmured: "You think it looks good too? I fell in love with it at first sight."
Ye Xing looked at me with a smile, his eyes full of meaning, and he made a pun, saying: "You have always had good eyesight."