You Miao's heart, which had been hanging for most of the night, finally let go. He huddled beside Zhao Chao, leaned his head on his shoulder and dozed off. Zhao Chao's body was not very strong. Although he was taller than You Miao, he looked like a pampered young man, but for some reason, he felt a sense of security.
It seemed that relying on him, this dark and damp cabin was safe.
There was a voice outside, very close, You Miao woke up immediately, and when he looked up, he found Zhao Chao looking down at him.
"What's wrong?" You Miao was a little nervous, his eyebrows were still frowning: "Is there food?"
You Miao's hands and feet were tied, and he couldn't wipe his face when he woke up, so he had to put his face in front of Zhao Chao's neck and wiped it with his collar.
Zhao Chao whispered: "You are very beautiful, do you look like your mother or your father?"
"My mother."
You Miao smiled, with red lips and white teeth. When he was in the capital, he and Li Yan and others were all dressed in brocade and jade belts. The young man was unrestrained and rode horses. Almost everyone who saw him said that he was handsome, except for his father. His father always said disdainfully: An embroidered pillow, with straw bags inside.
The door was opened. It was clear outside. The light shone in. You Miao and Zhao Chao squinted their eyes. A tall Hu man walked in from outside and threw the bread and snowballs on the ground. You Miao was thinking about how to eat it, but he saw the man walking towards him and picking up his collar.
You Miao shouted, but Zhao Chao shouted, "Don't bully him!"
The man said a bunch of nonsense, and You Miao couldn't understand it. But Zhao Chao struggled to get up, hit the Hu man with his head, and bit his wrist. The Hu man immediately abandoned You Miao, threw him aside, and held Zhao Chao's hair and banged his head against the wall!
There were two bangs, and You Miao shouted, "Let him go!"
"Zhao Chao! Zhao Chao——!"
"Don't... don't talk." Zhao Chao was hit and made a series of dull sounds. The Hu man was enraged by Zhao Chao and dragged him out. You Miao cried and shouted, "Zhao Chao! Zhao Chao!"
The door was slammed shut, and the loud cracking sound of a whip came from outside. You Miao realized that Zhao Chao had offered himself to be beaten in order to protect him, a stranger! His face was full of tears, and he knelt on the ground and trembled constantly, sobbing, "Zhao Chao... Zhao Chao..."
You Miao stuck his head on the ground, sobbing and crying. Zhao Chao groaned in pain outside, but the Hu people laughed wantonly.
After waiting for an unknown period of time, the door opened again, and Zhao Chao fell in with blood all over his head, motionless like a dead dog. You Miao lost his voice and said, "Zhao Chao!" Zhao Chao rolled
on the ground, struggled to roll to the wall, and said with his dying breath, "I'm fine... Don't be afraid."
Zhao Chao's face was covered with snow foam, his left eye was swollen, and there was blood at the corner of his mouth. He leaned in You Miao's arms. You Miao suppressed his tears and trembled all over. Zhao Chao buried his head in You Miao, and gradually calmed down after a burst of rapid breathing.
"Go eat..." Zhao Chao whispered.
You Miao stopped crying, leaned over, came back with the bread in his mouth, and bit the snowballs thrown on the ground.
Zhao Chao: "Give me some water..."
You Miao chewed the snowball in his mouth, and after it melted, he lowered his head and fed it into Zhao Chao's mouth with his lips. Zhao Chao's Adam's apple moved, and You Miao ate some more bread, chewed it, and fed it to Zhao Chao.
You Miao's face was slightly red. It's not like he had never kissed a man before, but at this moment, when he was feeding Zhao Chao, his heart was beating extremely violently. In this dim room, it seemed as if they were trusting each other with their lives.
"Why did you save me?" You Miao said.
Zhao Chao said disapprovingly: "You look so handsome, I can't bear to see you get beaten, I'm kind to you, what's wrong?"
You Miao immediately laughed and said: "I will repay you."
Zhao Chao: "I'll give you a nicer one as a reward."
You Miao lowered his head and fell to the ground, biting a piece of bread and chewing it, thinking that if he could meet this guy in the capital, he would definitely be with him every day, and no one like Li Yanping would treat him as well as Zhao Chao. The tenderness and delicacy of a young man is the most touching. After what happened with Li Zhifeng, You Miao couldn't help but be excited.
When You Miao was feeding Zhao Chao again, Zhao Chao's tongue came over and fed him something. You Miao bit the thing and felt it was very hard. He held it in his mouth and licked it with his tongue, and licked a little blood, like an irregular pearl.
You Miao: "?"
Zhao Chao: "Brother gave it to you, hahaha."
You Miao said vaguely: "What is it?"
You Miao spit out the thing and let it fall on the lapel. In the light, it can be seen that it is a broken molar. He immediately understood that it was the one that Zhao Chao had just dropped when he was beaten.
"Throw it away." Zhao Chao said casually.
You Miao's eyes were a little red, and he picked it up again, leaned sideways to move his collar a little, and let it fall into his inner pocket. The two teenagers just snuggled together in the dark room.
The room was getting colder and colder. Zhao Chao leaned half of his body in You Miao's arms and sang a song in a hoarse voice.
"The world is vast... My heart is chirping, this life is endless, there is nothing else to ask for... I can't get it, I can't give it up..."
You Miao had heard this song, and his thoughts were instantly pulled back to the distant Jiangbei.
You Miao: "Those who know me say that I am worried... Those who don't know me, what do I want..."
Zhao Chao said tiredly: "You also know this song?"
"My mother taught me when I was a child." You Miao said absentmindedly.
There was a hole in the roof above his head, and there was a full moon in the night sky, and the moonlight just happened to fall from the broken hole.