Sharp first test

Ten minutes later Ming Xu came back with two bags of snacks and a can of beer.

Yang Shiqing took the bag and took a look. There were BBQ, Mala Tang, and fried chicken wings.All of a sudden the appetite came up.

Mingxu went to the living room and turned on the TV, put the beer, quilt, and toilet paper on the tea table.Yang Shiqing took a few bowls and put the food away.

There is a reality show on TV.Celebrities wear exaggerated makeup and ask people for a hug on the street.Yang Shiqing was not interested in TV shows, so after eating a skewer, he suddenly remembered something, and asked Mingxu, "Hey, do you have any homework?"

"Huh?" Ming Xu took a sip of beer.

"I'm going back to school tomorrow."

"I finished writing at school yesterday."

"Oh..." Yang Shiqing thought it was true.

Mingxu turned to look at him: "I played games all day today, are you going to make up your homework later?"

"We do have homework, but I—" Yang Shiqing stretched his waist, then popped open a can of beer, "I never do homework during holidays. Saturdays are supposed to be used for rest."

The sound of the program kept coming from the TV, and Mingxu on the side seemed to be watching the reality show seriously.Maybe it was because he was full, Yang Shiqing always felt a little lazy, so he slumped on the sofa and drank beer leisurely, occasionally with a fried potato.

While drinking, Yang Shiqing suddenly felt dizzy.

The sound of the TV continued, and no one spoke for a long time. There was only the crackling sound of someone chewing something in the air, as well as the noisy murmur of the neighbors next door.

Yang Shiqing rubbed his eyes, and when he took another sip of beer, he felt his face was burning.

Mingxu suddenly smiled: "Don't you like beer?"

Yang Shiqing shook his head, then nodded again.

Mingxu smiled: "What does that mean?"

Yang Shiqing also smiled: "When I graduated from junior high school, I drank wine for the first time. It was fruit beer, and the alcohol content was not too high. But in that atmosphere, it felt like drinking some fine wine. I couldn't help but feel excited. gone."

Mingxu hesitated for a while, put down the beer can, and said with a light smile: "Yang Shiqing, you... finally got into this high school——I'm really happy for you."

Yang Shiqing was startled, and the hand holding the beer can trembled slightly.

It turned out that he still remembered.

But pretending to be careless, he replied: "My brother was studying at this school. Now I also come here to study—isn't it normal?"

"……Um."

"What about you?"

Mingxu looked up at him.

"I mean," Yang Shiqing's eyes were still on the TV, "where did you study in high school?"

"The high school attached to the city next door." Mingxu replied, "It's not a very good school. If you talk about the rate of teachers' qualifications, it's better here."

"Oh," Yang Shiqing bit the straw, "I see."

So I stopped talking.

Alcohol paralysis made Yang Shiqing's consciousness a little fuzzy, and the memories of the past slowly floated in his mind like bubble stars.Looking at Mingxu's face, Yang Shiqing suddenly recalled with emotion that long, long ago, they used to sit on the sofa together like this, eating snacks and watching TV.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, so long that Yang Shiqing was about to leave the sofa and go to the toilet to have a urinate - a deep and familiar voice suddenly came from the other end of the sofa, echoing directly in Yang Shiqing's ears through the obstacles of the air:

"Yang Shiqing, are you still angry with me?"

Yang Shiqing looked at him dimly, and Ming Xu was also looking at Yang Shiqing.

Mingxu's cheeks were a little flushed, and the expression on his face seemed not very good, "Yang Shiqing..." Then he took a deep breath and finished the sentence, "You are still angry that I didn't celebrate your birthday as planned, and chose to celebrate your birthday on that day Leave without saying goodbye?"

This topic finally came to the fore.

Yang Shiqing had a feeling of suffocation for a moment.

Yang Shiqing raised the corner of his mouth and shook his head: "How many years ago, I have long forgotten."

"No." Mingxu looked straight into his eyes, apology and temptation intertwined in his eyes, "I know you didn't."

Both of them were a little drunk.

Yang Shiqing looked at Mingxu: "Yes, I haven't forgotten."

Ming Xu looked away.

Yang Shiqing and Mingxu have known each other since they were seven years old. They have been friends since childhood. They are neighbors and more like brothers. They used to hold a lot of weight in each other's hearts. They were so good that they shared whatever they had. All together.In the heart of the young Yang Shiqing, Ming Xu used to be a partner closer than his elder brother.

It's just that the accident came too suddenly, and the ending of the couple was not so satisfactory.Eight years ago, Mingxu's family left without saying goodbye, which made Yang Shiqing still unable to let go.

"Actually, it's been so long, no matter how big the matter is, it's almost gone." Yang Shiqing said, "I've stopped being angry with you a long time ago, and I've forgiven you a long time ago. I mean it. It's just... I just want to know why."

"At that time, I always regarded you as my brother. When you lived next door to my house, I went to school and played with you every day." Yang Shiqing suddenly felt wronged, and sighed, "I was still a little fart at that time." Girl, I was just purely being nice to you, but you didn't even tell me you were leaving."

Mingxu didn't speak.

"Two months before you left, you suddenly and inexplicably started to alienate me, and fought against me with the bully little fat man in the class. At that time, I couldn't get over the hurdle in my heart. I always thought that you betrayed me and took refuge in that arm. What a rough villain." The more Yang Shiqing talked, the more he let go of the restraint, and through the drunkenness, the suppressed questions in his heart flew out of his mouth, "I have always wanted to ask you, Ming Xu, we have already made an appointment to spend together On my 10th birthday, I saved my pocket money for several months just to treat you to a fried egg tart. But when I brought two bags of fried chicken to your house, the landlady told me You moved in the morning. But why?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Shiqing immediately regretted it.Originally, when he knew about Mingxu's coming back, he tacitly agreed in his heart not to mention the past, forget about the past, for the present Mingxu, it's best to get along well, if they can't get along peacefully, just respect each other.

Originally thought so.

Mingxu's voice trembled a little: "I don't know...I'm sorry..."

Hearing what he said, Yang Shiqing suddenly got a little angry, and the temperature rose sharply under the catalysis of alcohol, "It's not that you can't be friends if you move. Even if you move without saying anything, I will send you many letters and postcards every day." , but you didn’t reply to one of them.” Yang Shiqing sniffed, “Damn it! I always thought you hated me.”

Mingxu stood up abruptly: "I didn't!"

"Why is that?" Yang Shiqing was hot-headed, and asked with a single muscle, "Why?"

There is a strong alcohol smell in the air, but it seems to be mixed with the salty smell of sweat.The summer night air is dry and thick.

"At that time, my self-esteem was too strong, and I couldn't speak out honestly. During that time... a lot happened at home." Mingxu lowered his head, raised it again after a while, and looked at Yang Shiqing, "But now I can face up to It's over, I want to tell you."

Yang Shiqing was stunned, and Ming Xu continued: "Yang Shiqing, in fact, my dad had a car accident eight years ago on the way to deliver goods... the rescue failed that day and passed away. I always said to the outside world that my parents divorced, but in fact my mom is Widowed."

Yang Shiqing paused.

"After my father passed away, the family had no source of income and no support. My mother and I did not live well at my grandpa's house. We had to temporarily move to my grandma's house in the countryside... When I was young, I took parting too seriously, thinking that A farewell is forever." Ming Xu looked at him, "I received all the postcards you sent me afterwards. But I didn't know how to reply, so I put them all in a drawer and locked them up. Slowly, you didn't Send something over."

Yang Shiqing was stunned for a while, and his head was in a mess.All kinds of emotions were involved, and the headache came up with the feeling of nausea after drinking.

Mingxu continued: "Until I knew that I had a chance to come back here, I never thought we would meet again. Yang Shiqing, I have never hated you. In my heart, we have always been friends. Even brothers. If possible, I I want to apologize to you personally."

Yang Shiqing was very upset, moved his lips, and was about to say something, but before he could say anything, his nose suddenly felt a little sore.

Apologies are no longer important.

Yang Shiqing never thought that one day they would meet again.A misunderstanding in childhood caused a pair of good friends to miss it, and the reunion eight years later is like an unspeakable but predestined fate.

Yang Shiqing thought to herself that I must be quite drunk, otherwise why would she think so?It was crazy tonight.

Both of them got drunk tonight.

Mingxu watched Yang Shiqing's expression, his tense eyes gradually softened with the subtle changes in Yang Shiqing's eyes.Yang Shiqing raised the corners of his mouth and smiled at Ming Xu, as if a ray of gentle sunlight shone in.

After ten years of friendship, there is actually no need for extra words between them.

Lying on the sofa, Mingxu suddenly smiled: "Now you have really changed a lot... your temper has become more docile, and your cooking skills... are much better than I imagined. The first time I saw you, you almost Scared me."

"Scared you?" Yang Shiqing turned over on the sofa, accidentally tripped over the soda can with his foot, and thumped on the tiled floor.Yang Shiqing didn't pay much attention, and asked lazily, "Why?"

"Your skin was dark when you were a child, but now it's quite white. Your eyes don't seem to be so big when you were a child... Anyway, it has changed a lot. It's almost unrecognizable."

After being praised, Yang Shiqing felt sweet in her heart: "Hahaha, isn't it. I think you look similar to when you were a child, and your living habits haven't changed much. It's just - um, the game is so good! It really broke me cognition!"

Ming Xu raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Do you still like Chen Mei?"

"Huh?" Yang Shiqing murmured in a daze, hugging the pillow, "Chen Mei? Who is it?"

"The girl you've been chasing since elementary school."

"Oh!" Yang Shiqing remembered after saying this, "What's more, you teamed up with that little fat man to punish me, exposed me in front of that little girl, and hit me on the head with a ball! I was a bad temper back then. My primary school student, blah blah like a little tyrannosaurus all day long, you know how angry I will be, and you deliberately pick on me!"

Mingxu laughed: "I'm sorry, I won't do it next time."

Yang Shiqing turned over in anger to vent his anger.

"What about after that?" Ming Xu lay on the sofa with his head propped on his hands, looking at Yang Shiqing, "You and Chen Mei, you..."

"How long ago did it happen. What is the result?" Yang Shiqing shook his head a few times, "I haven't contacted her since I graduated from elementary school. I didn't see her at the party one year after graduation."

"And after that?"

"After that?" Yang Shiqing held his chin and thought for a while, "In the second year of junior high school, I liked Banhua in our class. That little girl was really pretty~ It's a pity that people look down on me. My unrequited love will soon end gone."

Ming Xu hummed, and Yang Shiqing immediately rushed over and asked, "What about you? Is there a girl you're looking for?"

Mingxu answered honestly: "No."

"Never?"

"No."

Yang Shiqing cast suspicious eyes, Mingxu just smiled, got up and put the trash in the trash can.

Yang Shiqing said again: "Ming Xu, I actually feel a little sorry for you."

"Ok?"

"What happened in your family... As a friend, I should have been with you through the difficulties... As long as you need it, you know that I will do my best to help you."

Mingxu smiled.

"Mingxu," Yang Shiqing sat up from the sofa, looked at Mingxu, with pleading and expectation in his eyes, "from now on, we will not talk about the past. Whether it is suffering or grievance, everything Become a past tense. In the days to come, we will still be friends and be honest with each other, okay?"

Ming Xu turned around and nodded seriously: "Okay, I promise you."

Yang Shiqing also laughed, innocently and ignorantly.

Ming Xu turned around, brushed his pensive fingers over the marble slab on the table, and when he turned around to say something, he found that Yang Shiqing had already fallen asleep on the sofa with a pillow in his arms.

Probably he was really tired.

Ming Xu's expression softened, his smile stayed for three seconds, and he didn't speak.