An Accident in Broad Daylight

When answering Xu Tangqi, his tone was calm, but in fact he was far from being as calm as he appeared.Xu Tangqi suffers from asthma. Once she catches a cold and gets sick, the situation may be much worse than ordinary people. Even when Xu Tangxi was a child, the most serious cold put her in the intensive care unit. This is why the family members are concerned about her body. Be extra careful.He looked at the down jacket in the bag, wondering if it was a coincidence, or luckily he bought Yi Zhe a piece of clothing.

Regardless of the size of the holiday, the first middle school is scheduled to start on the evening of the last day of the holiday, and students must arrive at school before evening self-study.Xu Tangcheng didn't drive back, but Xu Tangqi was very happy. He called his classmate to make an appointment and left the house early.

Zhou Hui looked at Xu Tangqi's back and shook her head, and said to Xu Tangcheng: "If you don't see her off, she will be having fun. How many times have you said to walk carefully, but I just can't remember."

Father Xu on the side smoothed things over like an old man: "Oh, it's not that exaggerated. At her level, it's okay to jump a little bit."

"Why is it all right, the doctor said..."

"The doctor said you can't do strenuous exercise, it depends on your own physical condition," Xu Yueliang continued, "Then you can't keep her from moving all day, right? The child doesn't panic, and moving appropriately is also harmful to the body. OK."

Zhou Huiyi seemed to be careful, and out of protection for her daughter, she wished to hold her in his hands and protect her every day, but Xu Yueliang felt that sometimes she was simply worrying too much, which backfired.Although it was all out of kindness to the child, the two of them still bickered about Xu Tangqi's body from time to time over the years.

"I'm taking care of it, then don't let me take care of it, and don't tell me that your back leg hurts."

"Oh, you are being unreasonable, why are you talking about me again..."

Cheng Xu just peeled an orange and handed it in his hand, not knowing who to give it to.Xu Tangcheng walked over to pick half of it, and shook his head at Cheng Xu who was looking at him seriously, telling him that this is normal and don't worry.

He looked at the watch on the wall. At 6:20, he put on his down jacket and opened the door.

Yi Zhe was rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home looking for keys, when he was anxious, he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "Can't find it again?"

Looking back, he saw Xu Tangcheng standing leaning against the door frame.The light in the corridor was very dim, and half of Xu Tangcheng's body was still covered by the darkness.

"Brother Tang Cheng." He called.

Xu Tangcheng nodded: "Can't you keep the key in one place?"

Yi Zhe moved his lips, not knowing what to say.He didn't have this habit himself, and he didn't want to throw it away on purpose, but he just didn't know when and where he threw it casually, like selective amnesia, and he completely lost the memory of the key after entering the door.

"Can I go in?"

Yi Zhe nodded.

The overall appearance of the living room is exactly the same as the part that Xu Tangcheng saw from the door. Women's clothes are scattered on the sofa, and high-heeled shoes are lying on the ground in every corner. There are no green plants to purify the air, no humidifier, and even The wall clock of the house has long been stopped at that moment for an unknown amount of time.

Xu Tangcheng turned his head at another angle, and saw a bucket of instant noodles on the messy dining table.

Xu Tangcheng's sudden arrival made Yi Zhe feel a little overwhelmed, and because of the chaotic home, he felt embarrassment mixed with shame.He always exposed his bad side to Xu Tangcheng time and time again.He quickly swept all the clothes on a sofa to his arms, threw them to the toilet, and closed the door, feeling that his face suddenly became hot.

"Brother Tang Cheng," he pointed to the sofa unnaturally, "sit."

Seeing his dodging expression, Xu Tangcheng smiled, and put the bag in his hand on the ground: "Stop sitting, let's find the key for you."

The smell of instant noodles is still in the air, not completely dissipated.Looking at Xu Tangcheng's actions, Yi Zhe wished he could break a bottle of air freshener now to completely cover the unpleasant smell of instant noodles.

After all, it was someone else's house, and Xu Tangcheng couldn't find the clothes on the sofa and carpet, so he only searched for the TV cabinet and coffee table.It stands to reason that a key would not disappear, but the two of them couldn't find it after searching for a long time.Xu Tangcheng finally experienced the difficulty of Yi Zhe's daily training before going out. He turned the paper box in his hand upside down, and after confirming that it was empty, he put it back in its original place, and adjusted it to a comfortable angle by the way.With his arms resting on his knees for a while, he turned around and touched Yi Zhe, who was facing away from him, and asked, "Shouldn't the first thing you do every day when you come in the door be to hide the keys first?"

As he spoke, Xu Tangcheng casually picked up the teapot that was placed aside.

It was just an investigation without hope and distraction, but I didn't expect that a key that was shining was lying on the small piece of glass that had just been exposed.

Xu Tangcheng was stunned, and turned his wrist to see the shape of the teapot base.

"You are really..." He lowered his head with a smile, "You are highly skilled."

The area of ​​the bottom of the teapot is not large, and the concave curvature is not large, but if the key is placed a little bit off, the teapot cannot stand firmly.

Yi Zhe stood aside, holding a sofa cushion that had been torn apart in one corner and looked withered. He saw Xu Tangcheng stand up and stretch out a hand towards him.

The key was icy cold when it fell into his hand, together with what he accidentally touched, and the temperature of Xu Tangcheng's hand.It was also cold.

When he came back to his senses holding the key, Xu Tangcheng had already taken two steps back and bent over to tamper with the big bag he brought.

Very slightly, Yi Zhe frowned.

The heating at home is not good, especially the living room and the second bedroom, which can only be a little warmer than Yi Zhe's hands at most.Of course Xiang Xiyi doesn't care about the lack of heating, Yi Zhe doesn't understand and doesn't care.But now, he suddenly felt that he should fix the heating.

Yi Zhe threw the cushion in his hand onto the sofa again. The cushion bounced twice, and he leaned there crookedly, a little embarrassed.

"My house is a bit cold." He cleared his throat, "Brother Tang Cheng, if you're okay, go back quickly."

"Is this driving me away?" Xu Tangcheng smiled and asked him as he straightened up.

"I'm not." Yi Zhe spoke clumsily, and even his explanation was limited to this pale subjective negation.

"Accompany Cheng Xu to buy clothes. When I saw this, I thought it was suitable for you, so I bought it." Xu Tangcheng unzipped the clothes, clasped his shoulders with both hands, and shook twice in the air, "Being pressed for a long time Yes, it hasn’t been puffed up yet. Forget it, try the size first, I’m not sure which size you should wear, and if it doesn’t fit, I’ll change it.”

As Xu Tangcheng spoke, he had already stopped in front of Yi Zhe.He handed the clothes to him, but no one answered.Seeing that there was no expression on his face, Xu Tangcheng just looked at the dress motionlessly, and asked hesitantly: "Don't you like the style? It's okay, you can change it..."

"No."

Yi Zhe raised his hand, grabbed the sleeve of his clothes, held it weakly as if he didn't dare to use force, and then let go.

"nice."

The down jacket fits well, the shoulder line matches well, and the looseness of the school uniform is just right.Like looking at Xu Tangqi's new clothes, Xu Tangcheng grabbed Yi Zhe's arm and turned him around to see if there was anything inappropriate.

"The sleeves of this one seem to be designed a little too long, but it's still warm. I wanted to buy you a pair of gloves, but the ones I saw today are really ugly. I guess you wouldn't want to wear them if I bought them for you. .” After seeing everything up and down, he raised his head and asked Yi Zhe, “What do you think? Do you want to look in the mirror?”

"No need," Yi Zhe was silent for a while, then looked down, "I think it's fine."

"Then don't change it," Xu Tangcheng decided, "I'll cut the label for you, and you can wear it to school later, to cool down tonight."

To cut the label, but did not find the scissors.Yi Zhe tossed about in the living room for a while in a thick down jacket, but still had no idea, so he turned to Xu Tangcheng and said, "I have nail clippers in my room."

Xu Tangcheng nodded, watched him walk towards the bedroom, and pushed open the door.

For some unknown reason, he followed a few steps to the door.

The arrangement of items in this bedroom is in the same line as the living room, except that there are not so many clothes.Xu Tangcheng walked a few more steps in and arrived at Yi Zhe's desk.What he didn't expect was that there were many test papers and exercises on Yi Zhe's desk, and most of them had traces of past work.His eyes scanned the thin corner of the paper, on which was a rectangular grid, listing names and grades.

Yi Zhe still lowered his head, Xu Tangcheng made his own decision and stretched out his hand to pull out the piece of paper.

26th place.

"Improved so much?" Xu Tangcheng was surprised, smiled and tilted his head to look at the people beside him, "It's amazing."

Yi Zhe watched, but didn't speak.The report card with many edges was pinched in Xu Tangcheng's hand, and the line of numbers printed on it belonged to him was being scanned by his eyes.

I don't know if everyone has this kind of experience, holding back all their energy, exerting all their strength, tossing and turning like stars and moons, as if just to change such an ordinary compliment and such a calm look for someone else.It's like a concubine laughing while riding a red dust, but the billowing dust and the galloping horse are all my own experience.

"It's a bit biased, but it's not great..." Xu Tangcheng said after thinking, "Chinese is still a little bit worse. I think the lowest score of the top 20 people is 118, and the highest score is 137. You are 102, which is a little bit worse."

"Well, I used to be even worse at Chinese, and my classmates helped me make up for it."

As Yi Zhe said, his hands were still rummaging through the drawer, but his eyes were always paying attention to Xu Tangcheng's expression.

"Which part of Chinese is low?"

Yi Zhe lowered his head and pushed the drawer: "Composition, I can't write, and I can't understand reading comprehension."

He shouldn't have laughed, but Xu Tangcheng still laughed.Also, looking at Yi Zhe like this, he is not a person who can write high school essays according to the template, and the deep meaning of the sentences in the reading comprehension is even more likely to be disgusted by him.

The nail clippers were still not found, Yi Zhe patted his head in frustration, he clearly remembered that he put them on the table after using them last time.

"Okay." Seeing that he still wanted to look, Xu Tangcheng quickly interrupted, "If you keep looking, the evening self-study at No. [-] Middle School will be over. Hey, what are you doing!"

Seeing that he couldn't find the scissors or the nail clippers, Yi Zhe tried his best to pull the tag string away.As soon as he tried hard, he was stopped by Xu Tangcheng.

"Don't pull, hold your hand." Xu Tangcheng frowned and pulled his hand away. He saw that it was already stretched red, "What are you in a hurry, just find a lighter and boil it. You must have it, right?"

This has.

Yi Zhe reached into his trouser pocket with the hand that was not held by Xu Tangcheng, and took out a lighter.Xu Tangcheng took it, slid the zipper end to Yi Zhe's chest, and with a "da" sound, a cluster of flames came out.

The flames jumped, approached the thread, and engraved a pair of eyes.

It was obviously just a small flame, but Yi Zhe seemed to feel its heat from such a distance, and it was wave after wave, warming his breath.

Throughout the evening self-study, his mind was filled with the image of Xu Tangcheng when he lowered his head and burned the label for him.When Zhao Ruofan came to collect his homework, he saw him constantly scratching C2H4 on a physics paper.

After watching Yi Zhe for a while without any response, Zhao Ruofan suddenly lowered his head and put his face in front of Yi Zhe.

"Damn it," Yi Zhe threw the pen away and backed up in fright, "You scared me to death."

"Dude, are you in love?"

As soon as Zhao Ruofan said this, Yi Zhe's eyes froze.For the next time, he didn't respond to Zhao Ruofan's question at all, frowning, he kept looking at the back of the head of the person in front of him in a daze.In the end, Zhao Ruofan was so angry that he put away the papers filled with C2H4 on his desk, and said harshly to him: "Wait for Lao Zheng to deal with you!"

Zhao Ruofan took a few steps forward, still feeling puzzled, walked back with a pile of papers in his arms, ponytail swinging, and slapped Yi Zhe on the back with all his strength: "Crazy, you still wear clothes in the room." Down jacket, it's hot to death!"

Yi Zhe's reaction was very strong, he jumped up, and said "fuck", then leaned his shoulders and looked behind hard, and before he could see clearly, he yelled at Zhao Ruofan's back: " Didn't you just finish copying the questions on the blackboard! Have you washed your hands!"

Zhao Ruofan didn't even turn his head, and walked away in a jolt.

Yi Zhe insisted on wearing a down jacket all night, and when it was the last night of self-study, he was so hot that he was so hot that his deskmate blushed when he saw him, so he didn't dare to say that you should take off your clothes. Turning the corner, he asked him, "Are you hot?"

"Not hot." Yi Zhe glanced at him, then ignored him.After a while, he suddenly leaned back again and looked into the inside of his desk.

"You put the down jacket in the table?"

"Ah." The deskmate didn't understand the meaning of this question.

The desks are all made of wood, so it's inevitable that there are some raised wood splinters, and Yi Zhe thought what to do if it got scratched.He looked around and found a large paper bag containing clothes under someone's feet.

"Why don't you get a bag?"

The deskmate took a look, pursed his lips, and whispered, "Girls only use bags..."

Yi Zhe thought about where to put the clothes many times, and decided to bring the big bag there tomorrow.

He was in a good mood that day, and after evening self-study, he rode his bicycle around the small town several times.When he went to the slope again, he also put on his hat. Although the weather forecast said that the temperature would drop sharply, he didn't feel cold at all. He only felt that the sky was full of stars in the winter night, and the moon was also bright. like a lamp.

On the way home, there was no one there, so Yi Zhe stopped the car and went upstairs in three steps at a time.When you want to open the door with a key, you see a key chain hanging on the doorknob.

She looks like a little girl, with red hair and very big round eyes.

Yi Zhe didn't take it off in a hurry, but squatted down first, and looked at the key chain carefully.

He thought about it for a long time, and felt that this style could only be Xu Tangqi, thinking of asking her if he met her tomorrow, but when he took off the key chain, he had a thought and took out his phone.

It's 11:[-], probably not asleep yet.

He pressed a key on the keyboard with one fingertip, and sent a message with other thoughts.

"There is a key chain on my door, did Tang Qi give it to me?"

Squeeze the phone and let it roll back and forth between your fingers several times.

What he answered was not a short message, but a ringtone that was not yet familiar, which turned on the voice-activated light that had just been dimmed while waiting.

"Going back now?"

When the phone was connected, Xu Tangcheng spoke first.

"Well, you haven't slept yet?"

Xu Tangcheng said that he was just about to go to bed, and asked him if the key chain looked good.

"Looks good, did Tang Qi give it to me?"

Xu Tangcheng said, "I gave it."

"You?" Yi Zhe looked at the things in his hand in disbelief.

Xu Tangcheng smiled over there: "Why, can't I give it?"

"No," Yi Zhe touched the little girl's red hair with his hand, "it's a bit...too girly."

"Yes, I think so too. But I searched for a long time at home, but I couldn't find the key chain. It seems that this was bought by Tang Qi before. You can make do with it. At least it is tied to the key. It is easier to find it." Xu Tangcheng probably agreed. I thought it was funny for Yi Zhe to take such a key chain, and he was laughing while talking, "It's actually quite cute, how beautiful it is, if someone asks you, just say it was given by your girlfriend."

If Zhao Ruofan's "love" at night just made him stunned for a while, Xu Tangcheng's "girlfriend" completely stunned him.

He tried his best to pull back his thoughts, so that he could barely make out Xu Tangcheng's next words.

"Do you know what cartoon character she is?"

Yi Zhe shook his head, and quickly added to the empty corridor: "I don't know."

"The Powerpuff Girls." Xu Tangcheng should be in a particularly good mood, and introduced him in detail, "Your name is Huahua, there is a yellow one called Bubbles, and a green one, I forgot what they were called. I was dragged by Tang Qi to watch it for quite a while..."

The earpiece can make people's voice sound better. Even after many years, Yi Zhe has learned communication and knows that signal transmission needs to go through a series of processes such as modulation, frequency conversion, filtering, demodulation, etc., which will cause distortion and will be Noise is mixed in the transmission, he still insists on thinking so.

Probably because science gives people rational thinking, while emotion gives people irrational obsession and loneliness.

He was holding the Powerpuff Girls, leaning against the closed door.The lights in the corridor dimmed, and then turned on again while he was talking, dimmed again, brightened again.From time to time, he clearly remembered that at the beginning of the phone call, he didn't say, "Brother Tang Cheng".