Chapter 85

From that day on, Xia Zhixu did not go to the fifth floor to find Xu Qichen.

Awakened from that beautiful dream, he sat on the bed sweating for a long time. He couldn't believe that he might be crazy to have such fantasies about his friends.

This is the biggest disaster he has encountered in 16 years.

Even when he went home, he tried to keep a certain distance from Xu Qichen, just to prevent him from discovering his own thoughts.

If Xu Qichen knew, would he feel sick? He was so simple, so gentle.

If you think too much about such things, Xia Zhixu will even have nightmares at night. The content of the dream is nothing more than being discovered by others and despised by all. But he didn't care about other people's opinions. He only cared about Xu Qichen.

If he knows, is he willing to make friends with himself?

I'm sure not.

"Hey, do you want to play basketball in this PE class?"

Chen Fang and Xia Zhixu went down the stairs side by side. Xia Zhixu said, "fight."

"You are so strange recently," Chen Fang looked at his face sideways. "What are you thinking all day long? I'm sorry. I'll have a holiday in a few days. "

Xia Zhixu shook his head, "nothing."

Two people went to the playground, Chen Fang saw a large group of girls, this just remember, "today's class 4 also on physical education."

Class 4 is like a thorn in Xia Zhixu's heart. After struggling for a long time, he couldn't help looking up and looking for the familiar figure. Finally, he was found in the team of class 4 who was gathering. The strong sunlight made his eyes squint, and he was withered by the sun. He was so lovely.

Xia Zhixu takes his eyes back in a hurry.

Damn it. It's really killing.

After meeting with his class, he ran around the playground for two times. After listening to the P.E. teacher's words, he dissolved in place. There were many boys in class 13. When class 13 ended, they all gathered around Xia Zhixu to discuss how to play basketball team. But Xia Zhixu's heart was not in the basketball in front of him. He had already flown to another class not far away. He only said with a smile, "all right OK, you decide. "

The state is too bad, how to cast all can't enter, this also calculate, muddleheaded Xia Zhixu also accidentally bumped into the basketball stand, elbow rubbed off a piece of skin, hot.

The mood is irritable. If you fight any more, you'll make a fire. Xia Zhixu retreated and walked to an empty court with the rest of his basketball in his arms. "You play. I don't feel good today. Practice pitching."

A man is facing the box and tossing back and forth.

The more you throw, the more confused you are.

"I haven't been wandering around on the fifth floor recently. I miss you so much ~"

just hearing this sound, Xia Zhixu's eyes are turning to the sky. Just as he wants to lay up, he is covered by Xia Xiqing.

"I said you've been so bad lately that even I can cover your hat." Xia Xiqing smiles and throws the ball back to Xia Zhixu's arms.

"What are you doing in our class?" Xia Zhixu patted the ball on the ground without raising his head.

"Ah ~" Xia Xiqing stretched his waist, "Xiao Chen was denounced by others. Of course, I have to avoid it, otherwise I have no eyesight."

Xia Zhixu's hand pauses and raises his head. Xia Xiqing takes a big step to the side, and two figures appear in the empty line of sight.

Standing on the edge of the football field, Xu Qichen and a petite girl in front of him.

"We Chen Chen are good-looking and talented. It's no surprise that we will be liked." Xia Xiqing raised his hand to cover the sun in front of him and looked at the two people over there, "don't say, he's a good match. A boy like him should be a cute girl."

I know that Xia Xiqing is a man who is afraid of chaos in the world.

I know he let himself see this on purpose.

Xia Zhixu just can't control his emotions.

He tilted his head, grabbed the basketball with one hand and lifted it up.

He threw it in the direction of the two men.

A thump. The basketball plummeted to a position less than half a meter away from two feet, and then bounced up high. The girl was startled by the loud noise and the sudden basketball, and subconsciously hid behind Xu Qichen.

"I'll go..." Xia Xiqing was stunned at first, and then laughed, "you are more terrible than I imagined." He reached out and patted him on the shoulder. "Hold back, or you'll be finished."

"Not everyone is as indifferent as I am, Xia Zhixu."

After instigating, Xia Xiqing slowly left the scene of the crime.

Xu Qichen along the direction of basketball, saw Xia Zhixu, he and the girl behind him opened some distance, softly said, "are you ok?"

"No, it's just a surprise."

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Xu Qichen looked up and saw Xia Zhixu running over with a bright smile. His tone was full of apologies. "I'm sorry, I just played ball and accidentally got rid of it. Are you ok?"When the girl saw Xia Zhixu, she was surprised and happy. Suddenly, she was concerned by the grass. She was a little hesitant. "I didn't meet her, but I was scared..."

"That's great. I'm scared too. If I hit someone, I'll be terrified." Xia Zhi Xu breathed a sigh of relief, and his sight finally fell on Xu Qichen, "what about you?"

Xu Qichen stared into his eyes, trying to see something from them.

"I'm fine."

Xia Zhixu laughed, picked up the basketball on the ground and put it under his arm. His tone was clear. "Well, I'll treat you to drink. I'll take it as an apology, OK?"

No girl would refuse his invitation.

Xu Qichen, standing on the right, was dazed by the sun. From the football field to the empty canteen, Xu Qichen did not speak all the way, but listened to the voices of two people around him in silence.

They like people, and claimed to like their own people, a warm conversation.

Three people sat on the empty seat of the dining room. Xia Zhixu bought three cups of milk tea, one for each. He sat next to Xu Qichen wisely and asked Xu Qichen to face the girl.

But Xu Qichen only feels restrained. He doesn't want to sit face to face with the advertised object, and he doesn't want to have another Xia Zhixu in such a scene.

"What were you talking about on the football field?" Xia Zhixu asked with a straw and a smile.

See the girl is surprised to look up at him, and then faltering, can not say a complete word.

Xia Zhixu pretended not to know and guessed: "it can't be a confession." He put his arms on the table, deliberately closer to the girl, carefully staring at her face, "so Xu Qichen likes a girl like you."

"No, it's not..." The girl's ears were red, embarrassed, "I told him..."

"Oh, I'm wrong." He had a sudden look on his face.

To tell the truth, Xia Zhixu doesn't know why he is so mean now.

But he just wanted to make everyone uncomfortable, not just himself.

"I think you are very worthy," Xia Zhixu deliberately took Xu Qichen's arm. "You don't see that he doesn't usually speak, but he is actually a very good person."

"I I know... "

You know what? You know what

Xia Zhixu bowed his head and laughed.

He hated himself for the ill will that flowed up for no reason.

Xu Qichen felt that he was flustered, maybe because he was at a loss to be advertised, maybe because of the sudden basketball, or maybe because he misunderstood Xia Zhixu. In a word, he didn't want to stay here.

"I'm not feeling well. Go to the infirmary." With that, he stood up and walked out of the dining hall without even taking the milk tea.

Girls are obviously confused, but Xu Qichen was originally a very deep hidden person, she never understood.

Xia Zhixu said with a smile, "it seems that I have disturbed you. I'm really sorry." Then he picked up the basketball on the ground, holding his own milk tea cup in the other hand, "you drink slowly, I'll go first." He showed a friendly smile to the girl, "I wish you success."

Then he left, too.

Xu Qichen was walking in front of him, and the dazzling sunlight was about to melt him. Across the distance of five or six meters, Xia Zhixu walked behind, holding a milk tea and slowly sucking it.

He thought that Xu Qichen was just looking for an excuse to get away, but he was a little worried. If he was really uncomfortable, he could not help following him.

I didn't expect that he actually went to the infirmary.

There was no one in the infirmary. Xu Qichen went to the clinic and put some daily disinfection tools and drugs on the table. He picked up a medicine bottle and looked at the label on it.

Xia Zhixu, who hesitated for a long time, finally came in.

"Sit over there." Xu Qichen said without raising his head.

Xia Zhixu didn't think much about it. He sat obediently on the white hospital bed next to him, with his long legs outstretched, his feet clamped on the basketball, and his eyes fixed on Xu Qichen.

When there were only two of them left, he hid the dark side and became the sun shining towards him.

Xu Qichen went to the water dispenser and took a glass of water. Then he went to Xia Zhixu and sat down. He grabbed his arm, poured cold water on his elbow and washed the wound for him. Then he took an alcohol cotton ball and gently rubbed the wound.

"Are you here to help me with my wounds?" Without thinking, Xia Zhixu regretted that he should not be so rash.

Xu Qichen did not speak. He lowered his head and carefully disinfected him. Then he changed a cotton ball and rubbed it with some iodophor.

He can't say that he saw him hit the ball rack when he was still being advertised.

Seeing that Xu Qichen didn't speak, Xia Zhixu was also a little embarrassed, so he had to change the topic, "you are so powerful, as skilled as a doctor."

"When I was injured, I used to clean my wounds."He finally answered, but what he said made Xia Zhi and Xu feel more distressed. The man in front of him coincided with the one who was black and blue when he first met.

Xu Qichen accepted him at the most difficult time and regarded him as a friend.

But he had a hard idea.

"Why are you avoiding me recently?" Xu Qichen spoke.

"I didn't..."

"You have."

Every time he was so determined. Xia Zhixu wanted to talk and stopped, "didn't you come to me?"

Xu Qichen's hand faltered. He didn't go to him, just because he never took the initiative, once the initiative, so unfamiliar he will show it.

"So why don't you come to me?" Xu Qichen turned the topic around again. He looked up at Xia Zhixu, "didn't you say I was your friend?"

The word "friend" is like the gate of his life.

"Yes..." The wound was irritated to some pain. Xia Zhixu lowered his head, dodged Xu Qichen's sight, and pulled back his arm from his hand. His voice was stuffy. "It's my fault. I'm not in the right state recently. I won't be like this in the future."

It's better to treat him as well as before. It's also good to continue to be friends. At least I can see him every day and feel better.

It's just that we have to cheat him.

"Let's go." Xu Qichen stood up.

"You don't like that girl, do you?" Xia Zhixu asked at the back.

Xu Qichen shook his head.

Xia Zhixu caught up with the basketball and stammered, "what kind of girl do you like?"

"I don't like anyone."

"Oh..."

Finally, it's a holiday. Chen Fang is taken by his parents to travel abroad. Xia Zhixu originally thought he could have a quiet holiday. Unexpectedly, Xia's mother signed him up for an Olympiad Mathematics tutorial class, which made him have no time to play. The funniest thing is the reason why she signed up for the class.

"Ah, the teacher of this cram school is my mother's good friend. When you take part in the Mathematical Olympiad next year and win the prize, she will take you to publicize it. It's so good that you can help my mother ~"

Xia Zhixu goes to the cram school with her bag on her back every day, and occasionally sends a message to Xu Qichen to chat.

All kinds of holiday arrangements planned before were soaked in all kinds of accidents. After all, the biggest accident was that he fell in love with his friends for no reason.

From the cram school, Xia Zhixu's mobile phone rings. When he takes it out, it turns out that it's Xia Xiqing. He hangs up decisively. The other party calls again. There's no way. Xia Zhixu has to get through.

"Hello..."

"Good afternoon, Xiao Zhixu. Is there anything unhappy during the recent holiday? Say it to please my little uncle? "

"If you have nothing serious to say, I'll hang up."

"No, we haven't seen each other for days. Don't you miss me at all?"

"Three, two..."

The voice on the other end of the phone finally calmed down. "Today is the death day of Xu Qichen's parents. You won't forget it."

Xia Zhixu was in the same place, and the pedestrians on the road were very noisy, which made his mind blank.

"Or You don't know? "

Yeah, he didn't know. He never asked because he was afraid of stirring up Xu Qichen's sad story.

Xia Zhixu asked in a low voice, "are you lying to me? How do you know? "

"I'm not like you. If I want to know something, I'll ask." Xia Xiqing, who is on the other end of the phone, is still sitting in front of the drawing board. He can only clamp the phone with his shoulder. "I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you. I've told your little uncle what to say and what not to say. You can do the rest by yourself and hang up."

Xia Zhixu hangs up and looks at the busy street.

Is it on this day that he lost everything?

Xu Qichen, who just came back from the cemetery, went upstairs alone. Before his aunt came home, he opened the refrigerator and took out two tomatoes.

Suddenly he heard someone calling his name outside the window. Xu Qichen went to the window and looked down.

See the panting Xia Zhixu.

This fool, why did he come here without considering whether he was at home or not?

He thought of something and felt out his cell phone.

Ah, there's no electricity. No wonder it came straight here.

Xu Qichen put the tomato on the table, quickly changed his shoes and went downstairs.

"Why are you here? What can I do for you

Xia Zhixu grabs Xu Qichen's wrist and drags him forward. He walks out of the community and arrives at the bus stop.

"Where are you going? I haven't said hello to my aunt yet... "

Xia Zhixu took out his mobile phone and handed it to him. "You can make a phone call. You must go home before 9 o'clock." Then he was dragged onto a bus. After sitting side by side, Xia Zhixu took out two lollipops from his pocket and gave one to Xu Qichen. Xu Qichen took it with a smile, tore open the package and put it in his mouth. He did not ask Xia Zhixu where to take him, Xia Zhixu did not say, two people just sit quietly.The bus route is longer than he thought. I don't know how long I've been sitting. Xia Zhixu feels that his shoulder is sinking. Looking at it, Xu Qichen falls asleep.

His mouth always opens slightly when he is asleep, and the lollipop he holds seems to be falling out. Xia Zhixu reached over and gently took out the lollipop in his mouth.

Mellow candy involves ambiguous crystal silk thread, but also pulled Xia Zhixu's heart.

Xu Qichen's head moved. He was so scared that he thought he was awake. Unexpectedly, Xu Qichen just rubbed and found a more comfortable position, breathing steadily.

The whole body of perception seems to be condensed in this small shoulder, Xia Zhixu dare not move, all taut tightly, for fear of waking him.

And the bright lollipop in his hand is like the fruit that Eve was lured to eat by the snake in the Bible.

It's tempting.

Xu Qichen was finally awakened by Xia Zhixu.

When he got out of the car, he was still a little confused. With the summer breeze on his face, he realized that Xia Zhixu had brought him to the river.

"I'll take you to the wind." Xia Zhixu originally wanted to pull his arm, but finally gave up. He handed Xu Qichen the lollipop in his hand. "You fell asleep, I helped you take it out." Xu Qichen Lengleng took the sugar, hesitated for a while and put it into his mouth, cool, very sweet.

Xia Zhixu led him to the bridge. "It's nice to see the sunset here. My grandfather's family lives nearby. When I was a child, he often led me around." He supported the railings by the bridge with both hands. "He told me that if there was anything unhappy, just tell the Yangtze River. As soon as the wind blows, it's all gone."

This bridge is very long, across the Yangtze River, the warm red sunset was crushed, sprinkled on the river, sparkling, very beautiful. Xu Qichen leaned his back against the railings of the bridge. After a while, he said, "who told you that?"

Xia Zhixu knows that he asked about the date of death.

"Whoever you told me is who told me."

He seems to blame himself for what he said. Xu Qichen thinks so. But he never asked, how can he say it, as if to win sympathy.

"Didn't you sleep well last night? You fell asleep as soon as you got on the bus."

Xu Qichen nodded, and the warm river breeze roared past his ears. He didn't sleep all night last night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he felt that he was back to that day. There was a fragmented crash in his ear and a bright red in his vision.

"Think of me as the air. I'm not here." Xia Zhixu chuckled, "if you have any unhappiness, just tell the Yangtze River that the lighter ones will disperse when blown by the wind, and the heavier ones will sink to the bottom of the river, and will never bother you again."

To be honest, Xu Qichen turned around and lay on the railing like him.

His voice is very light, as if it would be blown away by the wind.

“…… How are you doing? "

"I miss you so much."

Xia Zhixu's heart pulled up, he even father and mother these words can't say.

I felt that there was a cry in his voice, but when I looked at him, he didn't cry. His lips pressed tightly, as if he couldn't say more.

Xia Zhixu couldn't help holding out his hand and gently touched the soft back of his head.

"They miss you, too."

"They want you to be happy every day."

Xu Qichen lowered his head and buried it in his arms. Xia Zhixu's palm was warm, as if it had some strange healing power, which made his painful and manic heart gradually calm down in the gentle touch.

He raised his head slightly and showed a pair of eyes from the bend of his arm, looking at the setting sun not far away, which was gradually sinking like his mind.

"If only my heart could really be like a house, empty some furniture when I feel crowded, clean up when I feel dirty, throw out the garbage, and take a little time to take on a new look."

His voice was stuffy, and he laughed gently, "but it's impossible. It's not a house, it's a rotten tree root inhabited by all kinds of germs. I can't get rid of those bad emotions that corrode me. I can only let it rot a little."

"Then pull him out and bask in the sun."

Xu Qichen looked at him, the other side showed two tiger teeth, smile sincerely and brilliant.

Xia Zhixu took back his hand, lying on the railing, "in fact, if the heart is really a small house..."

Xu Qichen turned his face and looked at him suspiciously.

Xia Zhixu shook his head, "nothing."

If so.

I want to live in your little house and clean it for you every day.

As for remuneration

Just give me a smile every day.

Two people don't know how long they have been standing on the sidewalk on the bridge. The river wind makes their hearts full and the sugar in their mouths has already melted away.

Behind suddenly passed a couple of lovers, the boy seems to be a bit loose, the tone is full of complaints."Why do you have to pull me here? This bridge is too long to walk."

"This is the first bridge across the Yangtze River in history. Haven't you heard that legend? If two people walk across the Yangtze River Bridge together, they can stay together forever. "

"That's a lie to a little girl like you."

Two people clamorously walked over and left behind a so-called legend, which made Xia Zhixu and Xu Qichen feel uncomfortable.

"Let's go back the same way later." Xia Zhixu spoke awkwardly.

Xu Qichen was silent for a while and looked up at the half way he had not finished.

"Here we are. Let's go." He added, "if it's a friend, this legend should also apply."

Be two friends who will never be separated.

Tiger teeth grinding the inner wall of the mouth, vaguely uncomfortable.

"It should be."

Then they stood up straight and went to the other end of the bridge.

Xia Zhixu looked at the surging river under the bridge and the opposite bank, which was not getting closer and closer. "I like that poem very much."

"A bridge Flying North and south, a natural moat becoming a thoroughfare?"

"Well."

"It's very powerful." Xu Qichen affirmed.

Xia Zhixu walked silently, but he didn't think about the momentum and the scenery in front of him.

He just thought, will the impassable natural moat in his heart become a thoroughfare one day?

I couldn't help but smile.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Oh, nothing."

It's good to have a dream to do.