An Accident in Broad Daylight

"I know." Xu Tangcheng said.

He also couldn't tell why he believed that, but when he found out that Yi Zhe was turned off, the first thing he thought of was that the phone was out of battery, not that the owner of the phone took the initiative to cut off contact with the outside world out of some bad mood.He looked Yi Zhe up and down, and made sure that his current condition couldn't be worse. The thin school uniform pants were sticking to his legs, and his chest was also wet, fully showing the outline of his body.Frowning, he raised his head to blame, but Xu Tangcheng found that there seemed to be something different in the gaze that looked over.

Guilt, anxiety, both, but not complete.

The momentary guess and hesitation made him not say anything.

"I walked through the small door when I came out... sorry."

"Sorry for what?" Seeing his annoyance, Xu Tangcheng said with a smile, "I didn't contact you in advance, and it's normal to miss it."

Yi Zhe was stepping out of the car. Hearing this, he pursed his lips and bowed his head, and quickly pinched the brake twice.

The rain seemed to be increasing. Xu Tangcheng heard a creaking and tugging sound behind him. Looking back, he found that the school gate had been closed.

"Come on, let's put your bicycle on the opposite side first."

Opposite the school was a square. Xu Tangcheng remembered that there used to be a 24-hour paid parking lot. He looked across the road and asked Yi Zhe, "Is it still possible to park overnight?"

"Yes." Yi Zhe nodded and followed him forward, while Xu Tangcheng slightly raised his hand to hold the umbrella above their heads.

In fact, he still had another umbrella in his hand, but Yi Zhe wanted to push the cart, so he didn't give it away.

Some of the stagnant water at the school gate had leaked away, and there were one car after another on the road, with their lights shining brightly, piercing the rain curtain.When crossing the road, Yi Zhe glanced sideways inadvertently, and suddenly saw that half of Xu Tangcheng's shoulders were wet, and then looked up, only to find that the umbrella above his head had been tilted towards his side.

Raindrops rolled down the umbrella leaf and shattered to the ground.

"Let me fight." He held his hand above the handle of the umbrella and connected with Xu Tangcheng's.

"It's inconvenient for you to push the cart."

Yi Zhe exerted strength in his hand, and directly moved the umbrella into his hand.

"convenient."

Before that, no matter how sudden and heavy the rain was, he had never held an umbrella with others.When turning the umbrella to the other side to cover the other person's entire body, Yi Zhe suddenly felt a little complacent and satisfied, probably similar to secretly moving the strawberries on the strawberry cake to the other person's plate , or sneak out the last bottle of ice water at the canteen in the hot summer.

Insignificant, secretly happy.

Back in the car, Xu Tangcheng discovered that there was a missed call from Zhou Hui. He called back and told her that he would be home soon, and asked her to cook a pot of ginger soup to dispel the cold.

"Brother Yi Zhe, are you back home again?" Xu Tangqi turned around and asked in surprise.

Yi Zhe was drying his hair with a dry and soft towel, when he heard this question, he nodded his head in response: "Yes."

"Just ask my mother to call and come over."

Xu Tangqi's puzzled voice was precisely Xu Tangcheng's puzzled voice.After learning the ins and outs of the situation from Zhou Hui's mouth, he was a little puzzled, why Yi Zhe was so awkward, a problem that could be solved with a phone call, why did he go back and forth in such a heavy rain.

Looking in the rearview mirror at Yi Zhe who had messed up his hair, he couldn't help nagging: "What a fool, we're home, what are you doing back here? What do you do if you catch a cold after a night of showering?" , the college entrance examination is coming soon, if something goes wrong with your body, it will have a huge impact."

"It's fine." Whether intentionally or not, Yi Zhe avoided the first part of the sentence, and only replied, "I'm in good health, and I don't have a cold."

"If you are in good health, I can't help you toss like this. I don't care if you 'think' you will catch a cold. When you go back later, you go home and take a hot shower, and then I will bring you ginger soup. My mother said to drink ginger at night. The soup is not very good, but 'the lesser of two evils', I think you should have a bowl." After speaking, he turned to Xu Tangqi, "You too, hurry up and take a shower when you get back."

"Oh." Xu Tangqi agreed.

"No, it's too troublesome..."

In the middle of speaking, he was glanced at.

"Oh, good." Yi Zhe changed his words.

Turning to the left, Xu Tangcheng drove the car on the road.

This hot bath gave Yi Zhe the fastest speed in his history, completely ignoring Xu Tangcheng's order to take a longer shower.And after taking a shower, while waiting for Xu Tangcheng to come, he quickly cleaned up the living room again—throwing the littered clothes into other rooms, the coffee table was too dirty, so he found a wet towel to wipe it again, and the scattered clothes on the floor With melon seed shells, sweep away...

After finishing everything, he felt that he still needed ginger soup, and he was already sweating a little.Even Xu Tangcheng was stunned when he came in and saw him: "Why did you take a bath so that your face was flushed?"

He put the ginger soup on the tea table, walked up to Yi Zhe, and touched his forehead: "You don't have a fever, do you?"

Then I touched my own with the other hand. Compared with the two, it seemed to be okay.

Yi Zhe drooped his eyelids and rubbed his hands behind his back without making a sound.

The ginger soup was served in a round glass lunch box. When the lid was opened, hot air came out immediately.Xu Tangcheng pushed the lunch box in front of Yi Zhe and told him, "Be careful of it being hot."

After taking a sip, he frowned uncontrollably.

"taste not good?"

Too much ginger.

But the words came out, but it was: "It's a little hot."

The mouth does not match the heart, the first step to please people.

Xu Tangcheng smiled: "Didn't I tell you that it was hot, you blow it off."

As a result, the soup in the bowl became watery, and scattered around in circles.

Xu Tangcheng casually picked up a book on the coffee table, which was an exercise book for English reading comprehension.He leaned his arms on his legs, flipped through a few pages, and found that the entire book had been finished, and there were traces of corrections in red handwriting on the pages, as well as notes on some unfamiliar words, and the structure of long sentences analyze.

A collection of reading comprehension exercises would not naturally appear on the coffee table in his living room.Yi Zhe secretly glanced at the people around him from the corner of his eye, and restlessly tapped on the glass wall with his fingers holding the lunch box.

Xu Tangcheng didn't notice his small movements. After watching for a while, he casually asked, "How are you doing? The exam is about ten days away."

"It's okay," the fingers stopped, and Yi Zhe breathed out again, imitating Xu Tangcheng, leaning his arms on his legs. "The last few mock exams have been pretty stable, top five in the grade."

In fact, it is the top four, to be modest.

"Excellent." Surprise flashed in Xu Tangcheng's eyes, and he turned his body to ask with great interest, "Is there a target school? There is a wide range of choices, so you can choose carefully."

"School……"

Yi Zhe muttered something, and Xu Tangcheng thought he meant that he hadn't thought it through yet, so he joked, "Otherwise, you should consider A University. The teachers are strong, the style of study is good, the campus is beautiful, and you can be my junior."

After finishing speaking, Xu Tangcheng himself began to laugh at his self-promotion.Yi Zhe, who was on the side, was beating his heart, and the skin on his face gradually began to lose control, being pulled by Xu Tangcheng's emotions.He smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, and turned the lunch box in the other direction with his hands.

A completely meaningless movement exposed the tension in his heart.After that, pretending to be casual, he said: "Okay."

Xu Tangcheng still laughed after hearing this: "Really?"

"Well," Yi Zhe looked up this time, looking at him under the bright light.He boldly asked: "Can I be your apprentice?"

The beginning of this conversation was because of a joke made by Xu Tangcheng, and at the end, he still only regarded it as a joke, so he said yes with a smile, and said with a smile that he would cover him in the future.But he didn't know that for him, every word Yi Zhe said was always very serious.

One evening self-study in the last few days before the exam, Yi Zhe was called out by the head teacher. When he arrived at the office, he realized that the content of the conversation was "individual students' psychological stability before the exam."

"Yi Zhe, your grades in the third year of high school have really improved a lot. To be honest, I didn't expect this. I knew you were smart before, but I couldn't take it back when I talked about you for a long time. Now you're wondering. , I know that I have learned it, and I am very happy."

Lao Du's words were sincere, and it was rare for Yi Zhe to listen carefully.He admitted that he had indeed caused a lot of misfortunes in the past, and he was not kicked out of this experimental class because of Old Du.Speaking of the demerit that time, he was standing in the vice principal's office and saw Lao Du humbly talking to him.

"Actually, I'm not worried about you in the college entrance examination. I think you have a good mental quality and are not timid at all in the exam room. So as long as you stay steady, trust me, you'll be fine in any university."

Hearing Lao Du's words, Yi Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, which he didn't even expect.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "Really?"

"Ah?" Lao Du didn't expect him to answer him, and he was a little stunned for a while.

Yi Zhe repeated again: "Is there no problem with any university?"

"Really," Old Du Li immediately slapped his thigh and said loudly.After carefully smacking the voice, he tasted something deeper, "Why, do you have a goal in mind?"

Yi Zhe lowered his head, and the index fingers and thumbs of his two hands faced each other respectively, forming a quadrilateral frame, which just framed a cross-shaped seam on the ground.

"I'm taking the A major."

It's not that I want to take the exam, nor that I want to take the exam, but I take the exam.

Take the A major, communication engineering.

He doesn't know what other people are like, but as the college entrance examination approaches, this goal has almost filled his whole heart, to the extent that he can't wait.I can't wait to go to that campus, I can't wait to go in and out of the same teaching building with him, I can't wait, I can't wait to meet him in the cafeteria when I'm hungry.

After telling Lao Du, "I'm going to take the A university entrance examination", he felt relieved and had a vague expectation.The secret that has been suppressed for so long will finally be revealed to the world openly, and the little thoughts that have sprouted will finally have something to rely on.

He was so excited that he lost sleep the night before the college entrance examination. He tossed and turned on the bed with his eyes open. Ancient poems to memorize, English composition templates, Chinese reading comprehension questions and answer points appeared alternately in his head... Xu Tangcheng flashed by occasionally.After tossing and tossing for a long time, I counted two hundred sheep, but still couldn't fall asleep.

It's okay for the examinee to suffer from insomnia, but a few walls away, someone who has been far away from the college entrance examination for many years, is tossing and turning on the bed.

Xu Tangcheng has been seriously debating whether he should pick up Yi Zhe these two days. He wants to send him off, but then he thinks that people say that the college entrance examination must pay attention to normality. , He also felt uneasy, others would be picked up by others, and Yi Zhe would ride a bicycle back and forth on a hot day, maybe he wouldn't be able to eat well.

After struggling for a long time, there was no result. The most obvious consequence was to completely get rid of that poor drowsiness.He couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply raised his feet, sat up straight, and ran to the window to smoke a cigarette.

In the end, Xu Tangcheng still didn't send Yi Zhe off. When Yi Zhe woke up in the morning, there were two messages on his phone, both of which were a simple "Come on".

He replied "You too" to Zhao Weifan, and when it was Xu Tangcheng's turn, he was stunned for a while, and only replied "um".

After exiting the SMS interface and putting the phone in his pocket, he still felt unwilling after all.

I dug it out again and saved a draft box.

Two days, in fact, passed quickly.Before returning to Beijing, Xu Tangcheng stood downstairs and smoked a few cigarettes in a row. He was not addicted to cigarettes, but he was always anxious when waiting. If he didn't pay attention, he would burn too much.

I also saw a few candidates who came back one after another. From their mouths, Xu Tangcheng vaguely heard such words as "mathematics is so difficult" and "English is very easy". Equally excited or frustrated.He pursed his lips, squeezed out the smoke from his mouth, and wondered uneasily in his heart how Yi Zhe did in the exam.

No matter what you think, it should be the one who said "the question is so simple", right?

He kept circling around and waiting, looking in the direction of the gate countless times, and it was almost seven o'clock before he finally saw the person who was riding back slowly.He still had earplugs in his ears, and the wheels of the car did not go in a straight line, but made "S"-shaped bends on the small road.

Xu Tangcheng tilted his head, stood still, and waited for him to come.

The sun was still bright and warm at seven o'clock. Yi Zhe was holding a transparent document bag in one hand. The traces of the struggle are still clear.

Standing still, without making a sound.It wasn't until the two were close enough that the rut entered Xu Tangcheng's shadow that Yi Zhe finally raised his head.

Under the tense mood, Xu Tangcheng couldn't even tell exactly what kind of light he flashed, he only saw him stop, and the corner of his mouth curled up towards him.

It's a relaxed expression.

Xu Tangcheng took a deep breath.

"Haven't you returned to Beijing yet?" Yi Zhe asked without restraining the smile on his face.

Probably because he was in a good mood, he didn't get out of the car, but kept riding slowly as if playing around, circling Xu Tangcheng in circles.

"Wait for you." Xu Tangcheng wanted to take another puff of the cigarette, and raised his hand, but found that the cigarette had changed shape, and the cigarette butt was curled up in a small arc, like a vague check mark.

Seems like a good sign.

"Your college entrance examination, I was nervous for two days." He looked up at the sky and said with a sigh.

Yi Zhe was still circling around him, the circle was getting smaller and smaller, but he was always the center of the circle.

"So happy." Xu Tangcheng shook his head left and right, looking for him, "You did very well in the exam?"

"Excellent."

Yi Zhe smirked at him, and he continued to let him turn.

After turning around for an unknown number of times, Xu Tangcheng finally felt dizzy, and reached out to grab him: "Okay, don't turn around, you're dizzy."

Yi Zhe's "very good" directly brought Xu Tangcheng into a good mood. When the car started, he accidentally stepped on the accelerator very hard.The aunt who was walking nearby was taken aback and stared at him while waving a cattail fan. Xu Tang immediately reached out to apologize: "I'm sorry, auntie, I'm sorry!"

The car was about to slide out of the compound, when suddenly a figure riding a bicycle bent over and madly appeared in the rearview mirror. Before he could react, Yi Zhe had already chased after him.

He put down the car window: "what's the matter?"

"It's okay." The boy's face was reddish, with thin sweat, he lowered his head with the corners of his mouth raised, and said, "I'm so happy."

Xu Tangcheng laughed.

Turning to look at him, he swallowed his words when his eyes touched the rearview mirror.

In the rearview mirror is a sunset, he is a boy who can hold the sun.