An Accident in Broad Daylight

Xu Tangcheng wanted to finish all the doctoral courses in the first year, so there are many courses for this semester.He usually goes home at least once every other week, but after returning this time, he had to stay in school honestly for more than a month.It wasn't until Xu Tangqi's birthday was that he skipped a class and went home.He bought a cake, and went to the cake shop next to No. [-] Middle School to buy the candle that Xu Tangqi liked.

Walking along the path beside the flowers to the cake shop, Xu Tangcheng suddenly saw a boy in school uniform jumping off a high wall.The boy landed on his knees, swayed, stood up, lowered his head and brushed the dust from his cuffs.

Caught off guard, the boy raised his head and looked at Xu Tangcheng.

The school uniform of the third year, a familiar face.

Xu Tangcheng took down the cigarette he had just put into his mouth, looked at him with a half-smile, and glanced at the wall again.

"I..." Yi Zhe murmured, seeing Xu Tangcheng's expression, took a breath of annoyance, "I have a stomachache, go buy some medicine."

As soon as he finished speaking, a schoolbag flew out and smashed on Yi Zhe's shoulder shamelessly.

"Depend on……"

Xu Tangcheng let out a "chi" laugh, and his hand holding the cigarette was trembling slightly.

Yi Zhe bit his lip and lowered his head. Under Xu Tangcheng's eyes, he felt that he was really stupid to the extreme. All he wanted was to get out of here quickly.

"I'll go first, Brother Tang Cheng."

After leaving this sentence, he quickly picked up his schoolbag, stepped over the protective belt, strode to the side of the road, stopped a taxi, and fled.

Seeing his hurried back, Xu Tangcheng shook his head silently and chuckled.

What are you running?He didn't say anything.

He took a few more steps forward, looked up at the place where Yi Zhe just jumped off - it was really not low, at least as far as he was concerned, he was afraid that he would break his leg.

No. [-] Middle School has evening self-study, Xu Tangcheng sent a message to Xu Tangqi, asking her to ask for leave with the teacher, and pick her up before evening self-study.Xu Tangqi happily came out with a small schoolbag on his back, and when he got home, he was even more delighted to see a big cake and a table of vegetables on display.

The family chatted until ten o'clock in the evening. Xu Tangqi said that high school life was very interesting, the classes were not difficult, and he made many new friends.Before going to bed, Xu Tangqi sneaked up in front of Xu Tangcheng, stretched out a finger and asked him if she could eat another piece.

Xu Tangcheng personally cut a very small piece and gave it to Xu Tangqi.Xu Tangqi reluctantly accepted this bit of cake, and did not forget to complain about Xu Tangcheng's fine knife skills.

While eating, he saw Xu Tangcheng cut off another large piece.

"What time do you study in the evening in the third year of high school?"

Xu Tangqi tilted his head and thought for a while: "It's [-]:[-], day students in senior one and sophomore can leave at [-]:[-], boarding students and seniors have to have a small self-study until [-]:[-]."

Xu Tangcheng nodded, carefully put the big piece of cake on a new paper plate, and put the fork in the empty space.

"Go and deliver it to Yi Zhe." He handed the cake to Xu Tangqi, looked at the watch and said to himself, "I should be back now."

Xu Tangqi took small steps, carrying the cake to knock on the opposite door, but there was no movement for a long time.She leaned her ear against the door, it was quiet inside, there was no sound at all.Just as he was about to go back, he just heard the sound of the iron door of the corridor being opened.She moved two steps and waited there for a while, and sure enough, she saw Yi Zhe.

But she was taken aback by him.

Yi Zhe pulled the bandage on his arm as he walked up, thinking that this woman Zhao Weifan was really unreliable, a good hand made her wrap into a big white elbow, an elbow tied with a bow tie.

"Brother Yi Zhe." Xu Tangqi widened his eyes and called softly, "Are you alright?"

Yi Zhe looked up, and the first thing he saw was the strawberry cake that was softly illuminated by the dim light.

This is the first time he eats cake with this kind of little fork.Usually when people celebrate their birthdays, they either don’t eat it, or they just take a small bite symbolically.This time he looked at the cake solemnly for a while, then held the small fork with his uninjured left hand, and ate it clumsily bit by bit, then scraped off the cream on the bottom of the plate, and carefully identified where it was. Raised words.

Hollyland.

On the second day, Yi Zhe dragged his "bowknot elbow" and rode his bicycle around the town for a whole circle, but he walked all over the streets and alleys, but he didn't see the cake shop called "Holly Lay".Later he found out that Xu Tangcheng bought it from Beijing and brought it back.

He used to always feel that there is no difference in where and what he does, but this small piece of cake made him suddenly think that there seems to be something different.

In 2008, Yi Zhe went to Beijing to attend university.His first expense was to buy a small corner of strawberry cake at the "Hollyland" that Xu Tangcheng had been to.

Xu Tangcheng heard Xu Tangqi tell about Yi Zhe's injury, and sighed in his heart, thinking that when he met him today, he should be taken away directly, at least to save him a fight.He always knew that Yi Zhe was not a good student, but he had never fought before, and he couldn't imagine Yi Zhe fighting.It wasn't until he saw Yi Zhe punching someone's face with his bleeding hand that he suddenly felt that this boy couldn't be allowed to go on like this.

One of Xu Tangcheng's friends came back from Yunnan that day. It just so happened that several classmates who had been hanging out with each other happened to be at home on weekends, so they made an appointment to have a get-together.After dinner, a few people rushed to a nearby billiard hall.

On weekend nights, the billiard hall was extremely crowded. The boss took them to the pre-booked tables. Xu Tangcheng turned his eyes around and suddenly saw Yi Zhe.

There were a few underage students over there, with exaggerated hair color, bold clothes, and a few of them were smoking cigarettes.Yi Zhe didn't mix in, but sat in the corner by himself, leaning against the back of the chair and playing PSP.

It's just... Xu Tangcheng squinted his eyes and looked over, and this kid actually smoked.

Yi Zhe occupied both hands, and only squeezed out a puff of smoke from his lips.A girl in black hot pants walked over, smiled and stretched out her hand, but was avoided just when she was about to touch Yi Zhe's smoke.Yi Zhe raised his head, glanced at her indifferently, took down the cigarette from his mouth, and flicked the ash.

It's quite stylish.

Xu Tangcheng, who watched this scene from the sidelines, didn't know what to think. Should he be comforted by the strong aura of his opponent's child, or saddened that he was so young and full of banditry.

With his hands in his pockets, he strolled over leisurely.

"Brother, borrow a fire."

The billiard hall was very noisy, and Yi Zhe could only hear the content of the sentence clearly, but couldn't identify who the owner of the sentence was.He had no objection to this sentence, but was very dissatisfied with the hand on his shoulder.

He freed one hand, impatiently took out the lighter from his trouser pocket, and handed it behind him without looking back.Unexpectedly, the person behind didn't pick it up, and the hand didn't show any intention of letting go.

GAMEOVER.

I couldn't play the game with one hand, and the villain on the screen died tragically.

Yi Zhe's impatience because of the hand resting on him exploded immediately. He stood up abruptly, but when he saw the people behind him, he immediately died down and extinguished the fire.

Yi Zhe was dumb for a moment before calling out, "Brother Tang Cheng."

The cigarette was still in his mouth, and when he said these three words, the half of the cigarette "slapped and fell to the ground, describing it as tragic.

Xu Tangcheng tilted his head lazily, and smiled at him under the shaking chandelier: "You want to hit me?"

Yi Zhe frowned, a little depressed.

"No."

He bent down to pick up the cigarette on the ground, and pressed it out on the small coffee table next to him.The long fingers pinched the cigarette hesitantly for a long time, and even squeezed out the shredded tobacco that hadn't burned yet.

The shredded tobacco was scattered in a mess, which was disturbing to see.

"Borrow a cigarette first, let me see what you smoke."

Yi Zhe didn't act immediately, he looked at Xu Tangcheng who was still smiling, and couldn't figure out what his attitude was now, whether he was unhappy.

A boy who came with him raised his eyebrows and leaned over, glanced at Xu Tangcheng, and asked Yi Zhe, who was looking down vigilantly, "What's wrong?"

"It's none of your business." Yi Zhe pushed him, telling him to do what he should do.Turning around, I realized that the few people who were having fun just now stopped playing, and they all stared at this side coldly, as if they were ready to fight at any time.

Yi Zhe felt even more frustrated.He took a step forward and handed out a pack of cigarettes.

Soft bag Zhonghua.

Xu Tangcheng glanced at it, he was quite particular.

He unceremoniously held the cigarette case in his hand, smoked one from it, and hooked his hand at Yi Zhe, saying concisely: "Fire."

This time, Yi Zhe didn't listen to him - instead of giving Xu Tangcheng the lighter, he leaned over and lit his cigarette.

When Xu Tangcheng lowered his eyes to catch fire, Yi Zhe kept staring at his face.It was the first time that Yi Zhe could even see his eyelashes so clearly.

It's long and nice to watch, especially when you blink.

Yi Zhe didn't realize how low-browed and pleasing he was until Xu Tangcheng waved his hand at him and took away the bag of soft Chinese. Only then did Yi Zhe realize from the astonished eyes of others that he probably didn't look like his big brother just now up.

Xu Tangcheng played with the bag of Zhonghua between his fingers all night, and glanced at Yi Zhe from time to time.Yi Zhe spends most of his time playing games. Occasionally, when he goes on stage to play two strokes, he will always get cheers.

Xu Tangcheng looked sideways, wondering why he felt that Yi Zhe had no sense of existence before.

At eleven o'clock, the number of people in the pool hall did not increase but decreased.When the gate was knocked open, Xu Tangcheng was bending over, aiming at the last black ball on the table.

"Bang", the black ball went into the bag.Before he had time to applaud himself, he heard a burst of exclamation.Turning around again, he was almost completely dumbfounded.

Yi Zhe's shoulders were covered with broken glass, and two groups of people rushed together, shouting and cursing.

No one knows how this chaos started. Everyone only knows that when they came to their senses, several seats had been smashed, broken beer bottles, and red-eyed people were everywhere.

Xu Tangcheng watched helplessly as Yi Zhe knocked over a man with bloody hands, grabbed his collar, and punched him in the face.

This kind of change is unfamiliar to Xu Tangcheng.Violence, ruthlessness, and ruthlessness, no matter what kind, are far from the image in Xu Tangcheng's impression.

Xu Tangcheng immediately took a step, but was stopped by his friends.He patted his friend on the shoulder and said, "There's my neighbor's kid."

And the neighbor's child has red eyes.

He had been watching Xu Tangcheng who was playing billiards just now, and he didn't even hear the sound of the door being knocked open, nor did he hear his companion's reminder.Unprepared, he was stabbed in the shoulder by a beer bottle.

Xu Tangcheng used to hug Yi Zhe's waist and tried to drag him away, but the person in his arms kept trying to break free, until Yi Zhe's elbow hit Xu Tangcheng's eyes, Xu Tangcheng snorted in pain, Yi Zhe finally understood, I am being held by someone.

"What's wrong?" He turned around in panic, and saw that Xu Tangcheng's right eye was shedding tears, which soon turned red.

"I..." He spoke incoherently, and dared not touch Xu Tangcheng's eyes, "Let me see."

Just at this moment, the person the boss was looking for arrived, and a few fierce-looking big men yelled at a group of bastards in the room who were jumping up and down, smashing tables and chairs, and one of them slammed with an iron rod and shouted: "Fuck! Stop it for me! Who the hell will move me again!"

Holding an ice pack, Xu Tangcheng settled the issue of compensation with the boss, and dragged Yi Zhe into his car regardless of his friend's willingness to send them to the hospital.Sitting in the car, Xu Tangcheng threw the ice pack aside, turned on the headlights, and turned the key.

"My home, your home, or the hospital, choose one." Xu Tangcheng looked ahead and added calmly, "But I don't think I or you can handle a shoulder full of glass shards."

Yi Zhe didn't dare to show his anger since he got in the car, and kept looking at Xu Tangcheng's tense jaw from the corner of his eye.But anyone who is not stupid can see that Xu Tangcheng is angry now, no matter how much it is, at least a little bit.This was the first time he saw Xu Tangcheng showing such an angry expression.

"Hospital." Yi Zhe answered quickly.

In the hospital, Xu Tangcheng kept frowning as he watched the doctor clean up Yi Zhe's wound, but Yi Zhe kept looking at Xu Tangcheng secretly.Occasionally, when their eyes meet, Yi Zhe hastily lowered his head guiltily.Every time he lowered his head, he was thinking, why was he so unlucky, obviously he hadn't fought much for a while, but in the end, Xu Tangcheng met him once in a fight, and he caught each one accurately, and this time there was such an exciting one.This nurse also talked a lot, and she kept chanting while cleaning him, such as "Young people, don't be so impulsive", "It will be terrible if there is an accident", "A few days ago, I sent a man who was stabbed in a fight. , he was almost saved, his mother was going to cry to death"...

Without saying a word, Xu Tangcheng's eyebrows were even more raised.Yi Zhe looked at the nurse's mouth opening and closing, feeling ashamed.

Coming out of the hospital, Xu Tangcheng sat in the car with the windows down.He took out his soft bag and asked Yi Zhe, "Smoking?"

Yi Zhe was thinking about how to explain what happened today to Xu Tangcheng, when he heard this, he subconsciously stretched out his hand.

Xu Tangcheng snorted.

Yi Zhe quickly withdrew his hand and shook his head: "No smoking."

Xu Tangcheng got out of the car, stood beside the car and finished smoking one before getting up again.

"Your eyes...you remember to apply it as the doctor said."

Yi Zhe searched for words clumsily, and grabbed a nonsense sentence in his blank mind.

"Ah."

Xu Tangcheng responded, showing no intention of leaving.Yi Zhe secretly clenched his fists and waited quietly for him to speak.

Xu Tangcheng did try to say something, but frankly speaking, he did not have such experience.Both he and Xu Tangqi have been well-behaved and sensible since childhood, and never caused trouble. Among his friends, there is no one who is used to solving problems with fists, so he never persuaded others not to fight all the time.As for Yi Zheyu, he is a neighbor, a younger brother whom he has often seen since he was a child.He is six years older than him, not his elder, nor his relative, nor even a friend.He didn't feel qualified to discipline him, but he didn't want to see such a change again.

"Yizhe."

"Yeah." Yi Zhe replied softly.

"Does it hurt?" Xu Tangcheng asked.

Yi Zhe shook his head: "It doesn't hurt."

Xu Tangcheng put his hands on the steering wheel and turned to look at the people beside him.It was a long time before I spoke again.

"It's the third year of high school, don't you need to study?"

Yi Zhe didn't know what to say.In fact, his grades are not bad?Or did he not like being at school?

Xu Tangcheng didn't wait for an answer, and asked again: "Have you thought about going to university?"

Yi Zhe was taken aback.

University, this is a word that teachers in the third year of high school talk about most often. Even, when they entered the third year of high school, the teacher asked them to write a wish on a leaf-shaped post-it note and stick it on the side wall of the classroom.There is a big tree attached to it, which bears my ambition.

Yi Zhe didn't write or post it, so he was called by the head teacher for a good training.But Yi Zhe was admiring the stupid bird outside the office window the whole time.

"If you don't like here or at home, you can take the exam farther away. Don't you always miss your father and younger brother? Then you can go to Shanghai. If you want to know about various universities and majors, I can tell you Here you go."

Xu Tangcheng finally let go of his tense expression. He looked at the silent and dazed Yi Zhe, reached out, patted his thigh twice, and asked him in a negotiating tone: "There is less than a year left, choose one of your own." Do your favorite major, get admitted to your favorite university, and live your favorite life in the future, isn’t it good?”

like life.

In fact, when Yi Zhe was resting on the desk, he heard the students in the class talk about the university and those various majors-I want to study medicine, but my parents say it is too tiring and hard; I want to study finance because I earn a lot of money; my parents want me to study engineering, because I have skills that no one else can take away...

Other people's lively discussions sometimes give Yi Zhe an illusion - as if everyone is being looked forward to.