Chapter 76

Xia Zhixu is a strange man.

Xu Qichen felt this way from the first time he met him.

Each man sweeps the snow before his own door, and does not care about the frost on others' tiles. In the cold forest made of steel and concrete, this sentence has already become the rule of modern people's life. He knows this very well, so what he can do by himself, he will never trouble others.

Only by becoming an independent individual can we survive well.

However, he still bothered him by accident, which was the most regretful thing for Xu Qichen.

If it wasn't for hypoglycemia and he was the only student on the bus, Xu would not have asked for help in any case.

How could he expect that this time he asked for help, he would have an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Let out light in front of him without fear.

Help him to resolve his embarrassment, help him to occupy a seat, take a bus home with him, ask him to revise his manuscript, and screw the water bottle for him.

This person doesn't feel that it's difficult to approach others, as if he will never feel frustrated.

Because life is so smooth. Xu Qichen's heart suddenly grew out of this dark idea.

Good looking, outstanding achievements, and a happy family are the objects of admiration and pursuit of all people, so to see people like yourself, you will feel particularly pitiful.

Whenever Xia Zhixu smiles and the sun approaches him, Xu Qichen's heart always labels him arbitrarily.

[compassionate guy]

so, when he ran to himself again and paid unconditionally for himself, Xu Qichen finally couldn't suppress his gloomy face.

"You are pitying me."

"Are you doing this because you sympathize with me?"

Seeing his doubts and helplessness, Xu Qichen felt relieved.

Don't care about him because of ridiculous empathy. Empathy is a false proposition.

But when he is playing the non-standard step, step by step towards him.

"No

His eyes were firm and eager.

"Because you are good, you are excellent, that's why I want to be friends with you."

Xu Qichen couldn't deny that he was flustered and didn't understand the reason when he heard this sentence he never expected.

The dead heart began to beat.

Faster and faster.

Turn back!

After hearing the instructor's instructions, he turned back in a hurry, and his body had not recovered from the state just now, so he almost fell down.

He was caught in his arm by his hands behind him.

"I'm serious."

Another blow.

Why is there such a strange person in front of him.

"That's the end of this morning's training! Team up at 2:30 p.m. in this place. If anyone is late, do a frog jump around the playground for me. Understand? "

"Ming! White

"Turn right, start in the first row, step out and follow."

The six row square array turned into a long vertical line, and left the gate of the stadium orderly. Then it was dissolved in place. Xu Qichen carried his thermos cup and walked towards the gate of the school.

His steps were a little faster than usual, and he felt guilty for no reason.

I don't want to be caught by that guy at this time.

"Zhixu! Xia Zhixu! What are you running for? "

"Go home and eat!"

"You're born hungry."

Here comes

Xu Qichen subconsciously wanted to hide, surrounded by people, nowhere to hide.

In the end, he caught me.

"You walk so fast." Xia Zhixu ran hot, took off his hat and fanned his face.

Xu Qichen didn't answer and walked forward in silence.

"Do you hear me?" His tone became a little hesitant What I just said has no other meaning, that is If you don't hear me, I can say it again. "

"No more." Xu Qichen quickly replied, "I heard you."

Xia Zhixu's expression suddenly happy, "really?" He saw the more and more crowded crowd after the dissolution, and went to Xu Qichen's left side, "I swear to you, every word I say comes from my heart."

Strange

What's the oath between two boys.

"Stop it." Xu Qichen lowered his voice.

"Do you want to be friends with me?" Xia Zhixu laughs.

Tough. It's a new label.

My fingers were strangled by the tape of the thermos.

"Go home first."

With these words, he felt as if there was something wrong. After a few steps, he found that the people around him were gone.Looking back, I saw Xia Zhixu stupidly behind.

Did he say something wrong?

Finally, I walked out of the school with the crowd of military training, but all the freshmen were disbanded at this time point, the school gate was full of camouflage, and the bus station was about to explode.

"What to do? It's crowded." Xia Zhixu took a look at Xu Qichen's arm, "let's take a taxi back."

With so many people, is it easy to stop a taxi?

Xu Qichen didn't say it.

Soon he reacts.

It seems that the point is not whether the taxi can be stopped or not, but

Why should I take a taxi home with you.

But this enthusiastic young man didn't pay attention to the core of the problem at all. He ran to the side of the road in front of the bus stop. Several cars were stopped by people in a row, and finally an empty car stopped.

"Where are you going?" The driver rolled down the window.

"Shifu, to friendship road is the gate of the splendid garden."

"Oh, I don't want to go there. I'm going to change shifts later. I'm too lazy to go there."

Xia Zhixu put his hands on the window and said, "no, master, please take me with you. You see, I've been waiting here for a long time before I got your car, and..." He immediately squeezed out a pathetic expression, "a good friend of mine broke his arm in military training today. You see, it's over there!" Xia Zhixu pointed to Xu Qichen not far away.

"He can't get on the bus like this. We can't stop your car easily. You can do good, OK?"

The driver tilted his head and looked at it. There was a boy standing there with his arm hanging. He looked at his watch and sighed, "OK, you can ask him to come here."

"Thank you, master!" Xia Zhixu immediately ran to Xu Qichen, grabbed his arm and went this way. He opened the door for him, forced him in, and sat beside him. "OK, master, let's go."

The driver glanced at them in the rearview mirror and said to himself, "do children work so hard in military training now? How to make it... "

Xia Zhixu immediately grabbed the words, "ah, yes, our instructor is very strict. You don't know. He even punished us for leaping frog around the big playground. Our legs are almost useless."

Xu Qichen looked at him suspiciously. Xia Zhixu turned his head and looked at Xu Qichen with a dry smile. "You, you have to be careful."

Strange.

Along the way, Xia Zhixu was chatting with the driver, and Xu Qichen sat listening closely, feeling that he was really a person with social talent.

This is out of my reach.

The driver stopped at the intersection and said, "do you want to get off here?"

Two people got out of the car, Xia Zhixu took the door, "thank you, you are really a good man!"

"I'll give you the taxi money this afternoon." Xu Qichen cold not Ding mouth, Xia Zhixu subconsciously back: "no, this..."

But his face suddenly changed, "afternoon? Otherwise, give it to me when you go to school in the afternoon. "

Xu Qichen looked at him, "when I went to school?"

"Yes, what time do you leave home? Let's make an appointment to meet at the bus stop. " Xia Zhi, Xu Xiaodao.

"I..."

Xia Zhixu didn't give him time to hesitate, "just 1:50 p.m., OK? We'll have to meet at half past two. "

Xu Qichen's eyes drooped.

He still can't learn to refuse others.

No, I can't refuse the person in front of me.

“…… Well Turn away and turn around the corner.

The people behind him were still saying goodbye to him, even in high spirits.

Xu Qichen can only pretend not to hear, quietly along this not too long street back home.

Go upstairs, take out the key and open the door.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard a lot of noise coming from the kitchen, accompanied by the sound of calling.

"I can't do it on Sunday. I said Chen Chen has a rest on Sunday. I have to stay at home with him No, I told you last time. You don't remember. And I've given you my time on Saturday. You have to go to a friend's wedding on Saturday. "

Xu Qichen silently bent over to change his shoes and put the water bottle in his hand on the tea table in the living room.

"Every time you do this, you always say," it's all my fault. "I didn't say that. I mean you're considerate of me Why is it none of my business? It's my sister's son. It's my child. It's none of my business

He sat on the sofa and took the hat off his head.

"I can't talk to you any more. You can't understand me at all. Stop talking and calm down for a while."

Listening to Shu Ying Hang up, Xu Qichen quickly stood up, took his hat and walked to the porch, pretended to have just got home, stood for a while and then said, "little aunt, I'm back."

Shu Ying answered in the kitchen, "Well! I've come back so early. There are fruits I've cut in the fridge. Take them out and eat them. "Xu Qichen opened the refrigerator, took out the plate of apples that she had cut in a mess and put it on the table.

Shu Ying took two dishes and went to the table to put them down. There was a plate of fried shredded potatoes, and a plate of fried meat with green pepper, which didn't look very delicious.

Xu Qichen went to the kitchen, saw a plate of tomato scrambled eggs, is ready to end, was sent out by Shu Ying, "you little cripple, be honest." Then he took it out by himself.

Shu Ying looks at her "masterpiece" and laughs sheepishly. She spreads her long hair tied up for cooking. "Originally, I was going to order takeout, but I'm afraid that it's not clean outside. Although my cooking is not delicious, it's clean and nutritious at least."

Xu Qichen didn't say a word, just took chopsticks and silently ate a mouthful of eggs.

…… There is also a small egg shell inside.

He pretended to be delicious and swallowed it.

"Is today's military training very hard?" Shu Ying gave him a chopstick is not too hot potato silk, "I still remember a few years ago when I college military training, that tired, every day back to sleep."

"OK, not very tired."

"That's good." Shu Ying had a meal with a smile, "when you have a holiday, I'll take you to the cinema."

Xu Qichen holding chopsticks, poking rice bowl, "no need."

"What's the matter? I don't want to see a movie? Then I'll take you to the bookstore. I saw that the writer you like has published a new book on the Internet two days ago. I was going to order one for you on the Internet, but later I thought if I didn't want to, we could go to the bookstore and buy it, but I didn't have to wait. "

Xu Qichen shook his head, "no need." He glanced at Shu Ying and hesitated, "Auntie, I'll go to the bookstore on my own at the weekend. Go out with uncle he. "

In fact, Xu Qichen didn't want to call that man uncle at all. After all, he was only 26 years old, and he was not very nice. If it wasn't for his aunt's boyfriend, he didn't want to talk to such a person at all.

Shu Ying sighed, "I ah, the more I look at him, the less a good thing." She winked at Xu Qichen, "you say, I'll take this opportunity to kick him, anyway, I'm so beautiful, a lot of people chasing me."

Xu Qichen saw her pluck her hair and shook her head. "Don't pretend to be a bad woman."

"What do you know, you little fellow?" Shu Ying smiles and gives him a chopstick dish. She takes an apple in her hand and eats it. "When you have someone you like in the future, you will know how troublesome it is to fall in love."

Yeah.

Xu Qichen bowed his head and took a bite of rice.

It's impossible to fall in love.

But there are already troublemakers.

After dinner, Shu Ying tidied up the table and listened to Xu Qichen at school. "Are there any beautiful girls in your class?"

Xu Qichen shook his head, went to the sofa and sat down. He took out a copy of kite runner under the coffee table and continued to look at it from the page he didn't finish last time.

"It's not." Shu Ying wiped the table, "what about the pretty boy?"

Xu Qichen's eyes suddenly stopped at a sentence on the page.

[moths go to the fire because they are possessed. Wolves climb mountains to look for the sun. ]

"No." He replied flatly.

Even when listening to the questions, a face appeared in my mind for the first time.

"Well, it's a pity that there are no good-looking boys and girls. How boring it is to learn." Shu Ying shakes her head, cleans up the things, washes her hands, takes the medicine box, goes to the sofa, sits next to Xu Qichen, breaks off his reading face and looks at herself, "but it doesn't matter. Chen Chen Chen in our family is very good-looking, so let's enjoy ourselves."

Xu Qichen had no choice but to glance at her. He had no way for this little aunt who was not serious.

Shu Ying gently opened the gauze on his forehead, and the scars inside were almost healed. She took some medicine and wrapped it up for him again. "Be careful during military training, don't bump. If you leave a little scar, it's too obvious. Now the little girl can see her face."

Xu Qichen didn't say a word and continued to read with his head down.

"Don't you take a nap?"

"I'll go to bed in a minute." Xu Qichen lay on the sofa and put the book under his arm.

Looking at it, the words on the page became more and more blurred, and Xu Qichen's eyelids finally couldn't hold, so he fell asleep on the sofa.

In the dream, the shadow of mom and dad appeared hazily. They took him by the hand and took him to the bookstore and playground. Everything in the dream was colorful, just like the colorful bubbles in the amusement park.

"You're mom and dad's baby."

The dream is so beautiful that he seems to be trapped in a swamp. His body is trapped by the soft deception, constantly sinking, constantly sinking.

"Chen Chen!"

A violent shaking, Xu Qichen opened his eyes in a daze.It's a little aunt who looks like her mother when she was young.

"It's almost two o'clock. Won't you be late for military training this afternoon?"

Just wake up Xu Qichen slowly from the sofa, rubbed his hair, not fully awake.

Two o'clock fast

He frowned at the clock hanging in the living room. It was one fifty-five.

"Ah, you're leaving so soon!" Seeing Xu Qichen who grabs his hat and leaves, Shu Ying feels puzzled. Before she has finished, the guy closes the door and leaves without saying a word.

Xu Qichen's pace was much faster than usual. He went downstairs in a daze and hurried through the street which usually took at least three minutes to walk.

Just a corner, half squinting toward the bus station not far away.

The boy in the white shirt was still sitting on the bench of the bus station. It was also a coincidence that the other side also looked at him.

Looking at the other side stood up, wearing military training uniform, he was tall and straight, like a lush growth of Metasequoia. Black and white pupil like a bright star, but the next second to laugh, into a two curved moon.

Xu Qichen suddenly slowed down, a trace of doubt in his heart.

Why are you in a hurry?

I don't want to break the appointment.

I don't want to be seen as a dishonest person.

I'm a little more determined in my heart, and I'm a lot more natural.

Xu Qichen went to the bus station and looked at Xia Zhixu with a bright smile. He felt a little guilty, "sorry, I..."

"Ah! Here comes the car Xia Zhixu looked at the bus coming, "let's go up."

Xu Qichen looked down at the watch on his wrist.

It's five past two.

He waited for fifteen minutes, but it seemed as if he had just arrived.

The car is empty at noon. Xia Zhixu finds a seat for two and leaves the one inside to Xu Qichen. As soon as Xu Qichen sat down, the boy next to him handed him an ice cream. He raised his eyes and looked at him suspiciously.

"Please eat it." Xia Zhixu said calmly, "I said I would invite you to eat. You usually have to eat sugar. You should like ice cream." He took a wooden spoon out of the bag and handed it to him. "I guess if I invite you to a hamburger or something, you won't come with me, so I'll have to buy you ice cream."

Xu Qichen doesn't want to take it, but Xia Zhixu just keeps taking it and puts it in front of him. It seems impolite not to take it.

He had to take the ice cream, and the box had chocolate on it.

Xu Qichen doesn't like chocolate.

Because chocolate is not completely sweet, always mixed with bitterness, there is a kind of unspeakable subtlety.

"Eat quickly. This is my gift to you." Xia Zhixu also has a box in his hand, but his one is printed with lemon.

Thank you Xu Qichen scooped a spoon into his mouth.

In fact, it didn't help him. This man didn't speak according to his previous manuscript after he came on stage, but he was very enthusiastic.

Although he is not as excited as other students, but

"When you spoke in the morning, which song was the lyric you said?"

Xu Qichen's sudden opening caught Xia Zhixu off guard.

This seems to be the first time that he took the initiative to talk to him, if not the last time he returned the pen.

"Counting stars, I love it. I'll give you a chance to listen to it." Xia Zhixu took a mouthful of ice cream and said sweetly, "the lyrics are well written, right?"

He sang out, "everything that kills me makes me feel alive."

Xu Qichen put his spoon in the ice cream and his ears were hot.

He has a beautiful voice, especially when singing. Is not the same as their own, very firm and clear voice.

"Well." Xu Qichen swallowed the ice cream in his mouth and said, "it's well written."

Those who put me to death will give me life.

Strange.

Xu Qichen looked down at the ice cream in his hand.

It seems that the chocolate taste is also delicious, mixed with a little bitter, making the sweet taste more obvious.

He looked at Xia Zhixu's ice cream and said, "is lemon delicious?"

Xia Zhixu looked at it and said with a smile, "well I like it

The training in the afternoon is much harder than that in the morning. Instructor Yang's requirements are very strict. He trained back and forth for an hour in a positive step, and didn't stop for a minute. Until from the side, everyone's legs can be raised to the same height, the expression on his face is a little gentle.

"Rest in place for ten minutes!"

All of a sudden, everyone's nerves relaxed. One by one, like the chickens out of the cage, they ran to the place where they put the kettle together and sat on the grass to drink and rest.

At this time, Xu Qichen remembered that he was in a hurry to leave at noon and didn't bring a water cup.Forget it. No more.

Turning around, I saw Xia Zhixu sitting on the ground, also looking at himself.

I feel even more embarrassed.

"Well, where are you going?" The boy beside him, who seems to be called Chen Fang, drags an empty space. Xia Zhixu stands up and walks straight towards him.

The whole class just stood with them, and the other side came towards him again. Xu Qichen felt embarrassed and quickly sat down.

"Where's your water glass that's so tight?" Xia Zhixu sat down with his mineral water bottle in his hand.

Xu Qichen replied in a low voice, "I forgot to bring it."

"Oh." Xia Zhixu stood up again, patted the grass on his butt, and ran to the instructor with a smile, "instructor Yang, can I go to the gate of the stadium to buy a bottle of water?"

Instructor Yang glared at him. "You have a bottle in your hand. What else can you buy?"

"One bottle is not enough for me." Xia Zhixu put his hand holding the bottle behind his back, "I love drinking water. I have to drink at least two bottles after every exercise!"

Instructor Yang is still unmoved, "not allowed to leave the delimited range, and then nonsense, running around the playground for me 20 laps!"

Xia Zhixu came back, sat beside Xu Qichen and sighed.

"I'm not thirsty."

Xu Qichen didn't want to trouble him at all, although he was really thirsty now.

Xia Zhixu side head, looked at him, also said not thirsty, lips have a thin layer of skin.

He unscrewed the water bottle he had drunk and handed it to him. "You have a drink. I can't finish it."

Yeah, I just said I had at least two bottles.

Xu Qichen didn't pick up his water bottle and silently looked at the next class not far away who was still training.

"Are you a cleanliness addict? I'll borrow a tissue to wipe the bottle

The man was really ready to get up and borrow a tissue. Xu Qichen grabbed the water bottle in his hand before he stood up.

"Ah..." Xia Zhixu sat down and looked at him with his neck up and mouth slightly open.

The translucent bottle mouth is about three or four centimeters away from his lips.

The young man's less obvious Adam's apple rolled gently.

The clear water fell from the bottle, and the extra uncontrolled water flowed down the corner of his mouth, all the way to his white side neck.

The rolling water drops fall on the skin covered by the neckline, and then disappear.

He handed the water bottle back to Xia Zhixu, said thank you in a low voice, raised his right arm and wiped the water around his mouth.

"No, you're welcome." Xia Zhixu took the water and got up with a strange look. He went back to the place where he was sitting before. He was kicked by the boy with wheat skin and held his shoulder.

Fighting, fighting, friendship between boys.

Xu Qichen frowned, and suddenly he felt something was wrong.

It's all boys. Why do you have to hold it up and drink? It's nothing to drink.

He also looked at Xia Zhixu, who was aiming at him, and the other side obviously turned away.

Probably because this guy is so weird.

Strange and troublesome.

I don't want to be infected by him.