three years old

Coming out of the training ground, Xing Cheng immediately saw that the car He Qing was driving was the Mercedes-Benz Big G he had seen on the street before, and recalled the scene of meeting Ying and Brother Chen for the first time in his mind.

The idea that popped up in his mind at that time has not been forgotten until now, and he will definitely realize it.

After finally meeting Ying Yuchen's classmate, congratulations are naturally inevitable without a meal of gossip.

He learned that many girls like Ying Yuchen, but after everyone thinks it's not bad, he can't help but sigh, who is this fascination with?

He Qing also only wears a sweater in winter, the scarf around her neck is messy, and her nose is red from the cold, "Ying Yuchen, you see that people are younger than you, and they are so much taller than you. You are from the north. No shame."

Ying Yuchen was told all the way from the time they left the training hall, covered their faces and shouted: "The height I should have grown has been grown on my brother!"

He Qing stared, and slapped him on the back of the head: "Don't let your brother take the blame!"

"Forget it, you go to eat first,"

He Qing ignored Ying Yuchen, who was holding his head full of aggrieved face, and fumbled for the car keys in his pocket, "I haven't told your brother yet when I go out."

He couldn't find the key after groping for a long time, so he reached out to take out Ying Yuchen's pocket, and when he did so, Ying Yuchen was shocked: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, just call my brother and ask him to eat by himself at noon. Let's go play..."

He Qing smiled happily, and reached out to pinch Yuchen's face: "Do you understand what Bao Nuansi said? I can't live without your brother."

He glanced at Ning Xi and Xing Cheng who were standing on the side, and saw that the two children were still leaning together to keep warm, the taller one put his hand into the collar of the shorter one, and almost didn't get a slap in return. I can't help but sigh, young is good.

Although He Qing didn't consider that he was only ten days older than Ning Xi at all.

He Qing took out the key and opened the car door. Xing Cheng and Ning Xi just stood by the side of the road and watched Ying Yuchen open and close the car door for his sister-in-law.

He Qing stepped on the brakes and turned on the gas, and lowered the window: "Ying and Chen, which three places are you not allowed to go alone?"

Ying Yuchen's throat choked, and he said honestly: "The bar, the bathing center, the Jingang Circuit."

He Qing asked again: "Where have you gone?"

Ying and Chen replied obediently: "I can't find a partner, I can't find my way through navigation, I fail every year, I get scolded every month, and my tire blows out every day."

"appropriate!"

Satisfied with the congratulations, he took a cigarette in his mouth, raised his eyebrows and looked at Xing Cheng and Ning Xi, his eyes lingered for a while, and then let the cigarette go to Xing Cheng, but Ying and Chen interrupted in an unpleasant way: "Sister-in-law, Xing Cheng does not smoke, Ning Xi does.”

These two students, He Qing had heard a little bit about it, but they didn't expect the top students to smoke, and the ones who were almost studying did not smoke. Thinking of their excellent grades, poor grades and many bad habits when they were studying, they felt a little ashamed.

"If you two have anything to do in Beijing in the future, just tell Ying Yuchen." He Qing went to fasten his seat belt. "Then I'll go back first. His brother is still waiting for me at home."

"OK, thank you,"

Xingcheng was still a little unaccustomed to shouting "sister-in-law", but he should follow Ying and Chen and shout, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

Ning Xi also obediently followed, He Qing was very happy, he felt that Ning Xi looked the most pleasing to the eye, much more pleasing to the eye than Ying Yuchen and Xing Cheng, two naughty kids!

It was the first time for him to meet Xingcheng, but after listening to Ying and Chen talking about it many times, it is estimated that this kid's experience of violating discipline in high school can compete with himself back then.

The accelerator roared, Ying Yuchen watched the car drive away, put it down in a dangling breath, and patted his chest: "I was scared to death, I also said to take you two to the bathing center to relax in the afternoon..."

"Come on, I have training this afternoon,"

Xing Cheng held Ning Xi's hand with one hand without hesitation, looked at Ying Yuchen, "Hurry up, it's too late."

The three of them ran to the restaurant in front of the school to have a hard meal, and Ning Xi ate in silence. Hearing them sing and talk about some interesting things that happened around him in the past half a year since he left, it made me want to laugh, and I didn't want to stop. As in the past, he loves to hold back, and smiles with his eyes bent, making Xing Cheng stunned for a while.

After the farewell, Xingcheng returned to the team training as usual in the afternoon, his eyes glanced at the auditorium from time to time, but he didn't see the person he wanted to see.

Ning Xi had to go to the hospital when he was free, and he was busy until ninety o'clock in the evening before coming back, and then he went home and lay down by the window to write in his notebooks, which were the notebooks he wrote in Beijing, all of which were the gist of the college entrance examination for Xing Cheng.

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In fact, after flipping through, there are comments on every two pages, all of which are words of encouragement.

When Xing Cheng got this book, he was very excited, but he still pretended to be cool and went home. At night, when Ning Xi fell asleep, he went upstairs to light up the night battle and brushed a paper in one breath. Then check it against your notebook.

The handwriting written by Ning Xi is small and neat, and it is left under a historical analysis question: After reading this page, turn to page No. 30.

Xing Cheng pinched the pages of the book to turn to the fourth page of No. 30, and saw a small word at the footer of the page: idiot.

Now let him do a question and read a book like an adventure, the interest came, it was the first time he wrote so obediently until the early morning, fell asleep on the table, or Dad got up in the middle of the night to see that the lights in his room were not turned off, Only then came in to wake him up, washed up and went to bed to rest.

The [-]th day of the Chinese New Year comes very quickly. There is a habit of going to temple fairs here, and a grand festival park is also located in the city center. The school team had a half-day holiday on the day of the school team. After training at noon, everyone went home for the festival. .

He has been training hard lately, his body is weak, and he is afraid of the cold. As soon as he leaves the training ground, he puts on a thick padded jacket and makes phone calls while running.

After a phone call, Ning Xi said over there, I'm with your parents.

Said that Xing Cheng's parents bought some supplies and fruits, and went to the hospital with Ning Xi, and they are still there at the moment, ready to come back.

But at this moment, Ning Xi was standing in the ward, hiding his hands under the cover of his coat, and pinching his palms turned red, he was too uncomfortable.

He is very clear about his mother's neighborhood relationship, and now Xing Cheng's mother puts a lot of things on the side of the hospital bed, and the aunt happily dismantles them, and her mother half-opens her eyes on the hospital bed, raises her arms, and wants to go to the hospital. Hold Ning Xi's hand.

He took a deep breath, walked over slowly, squatted down to the side of the hospital bed, and held it back.

"Ning Xi and Xing Cheng's mother watched him grow up, and our family will help take care of him in the future, so you can rest assured that he will live in peace and recuperate."

The voice of Xing Cheng's father was very soft and heavy, enough to hit Ning Xi's eardrum, and it seemed to be erratic, which made him feel unbelievable.

Xing Cheng's mother didn't dress up much today, she put her coat on her body, put her hands on Ning Xi's shoulders, and said with a smile: "Yes, you should take good care of your body. Good health is more important than anything else. Your son is so promising. You Let’s have fun in the future.”

The mood in the ward was gloomy enough that no amount of optimism seemed to help.

Ning Xi was caught in the middle, standing upright, with mixed feelings in her heart, she was speechless for a while.

In fact, how is his mother's situation? Everyone present should be very clear in their hearts. After taking care of him for so long, he and his mother still rarely talk. It's not because of grudges...

It's because they haven't participated in each other's lives much in the first place.

It seems that since he was a teenager, Ning Xi has lived as a separate individual. It was not until the day when his fingers intertwined with Xing Cheng that his cold heart regained its warmth.

That day Xingcheng didn't go to the hospital to accompany him, but went home first, cooked four bowls of glutinous rice balls according to his parents' instructions, and waited honestly for his parents to bring his brother home.

It was almost ninety o'clock in the evening when his parents brought Ning Xi back home.

Dad took off the coat and handed it to Mom, Ning Xi went to take the pockets and handbags from Mom, hung them on the hanger, took off the scarf, Mom took them and folded them for him, and tied them to the closet doorknob...

Xingcheng’s house is decorated in a Chinese style, the carved lanterns are brightly lit, the TV is on, and the Lantern Festival is broadcasting. On the white jade table are four bowls of glutinous rice balls stuffed with sesame seeds, which are soft, glutinous and sweet, and the soup bowls are still steaming.

The moment Xing Cheng looked at his father and his mother and entered the dining room with Ning Xi, he felt as if they were supposed to be a family.

Greeting the two children to take their seats, Xing Cheng's mother tied her apron and went into the kitchen to cook a few dishes, and Xing Cheng brought out Gu Xiaojiu for his father to fill up. .

When the meal officially started, the glutinous rice balls were almost cold, and Ning Xi picked them up one by one to change the heat, sitting a little nervously.

After the family of four were all seated, Xing Cheng reached out from under the table and squeezed his brother's palm.

He was afraid that he would be nervous, and also afraid that he would think too much.

For the two bowls of glutinous rice balls that Ning Xi put in, Xing Cheng's parents didn't touch half of them, they were still in the bowl intact, Xing Cheng found it halfway through eating, and raised his head to see his parents.

Ning Xi's mind was so delicate, she had already noticed it a long time ago, she opened her mouth, her throat seemed to be stuck by something, and Xing Cheng gently squeezed his hand again.

So cool.

"Ning Xi."

Xing Cheng's father suddenly spoke out, breaking the suffocating silence at the dinner table.

He had already had a few glasses of rice wine, and he passed it over with the porcelain cup in his hand, pouring another glass swiftly.

Closing his eyes, he tried his best to suppress a sigh in his throat, raised his head, and looked at Ning Xi who was sitting next to his son with a gaze that Ning Xi could not describe clearly after many years.

"From now on, we will be a family."

As soon as he finished speaking, a tear from Xing Cheng's mother fell into the soup bowl.

The water surface in the bowl was rippling, reflecting the headlights in the dining room shaking in it.

Xing Cheng quickly raised his hand, pulled the paper and handed it over, and shouted hoarsely: "Mom."

Ning Xi closed her eyes, not knowing where she got the courage that night, she followed suit and called "Mom".

Even if he didn't know it at the time, after he embarked on the journey back to Beijing to study again, his daily life became reading in the morning, training in the afternoon, going to the hospital in the evening, and doing questions in the early morning at night.

Until the turn of spring and summer, one month before the college entrance examination, the basketball bag was still carried on the back, and some of the fruits in the hand rolled down to the feet. There were no aunts, no doctors, and no one else in the ward. , only Xing Cheng and Ning Xi's mother.

Xing Cheng knelt in front of the hospital bed like Ning Xi did on the eve of his departure for Beijing.

The evening sunset outside the window was very beautiful, red, orange, yellow and purple, intertwined like smoke, covering the night of the city, allowing the last ray of light to be lit by the afterglow of the setting sun.

A corner of the curtain in the ward was blown, and neither of them said anything more.

The woman on the bed had disheveled temple hair, her energy was much better, her breathing was still weak and shallow, her eyes were fixed on herself, and countless childhood memories of this mother emerged in Xing Cheng's mind, fragmented and unbearable.

After the Lantern Festival, the third year of high school officially started.

As soon as school was over, Xing Cheng ran into the community, and before he went upstairs, he lay down by the window of Ning Xi's bedroom and threw things into it.

Ning Xi was sitting there writing, when she raised her eyes, she saw a school uniform keychain thrown on the table, she just wanted to stretch her neck to have a look, when she popped out of the window, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Take it and tie it to yours." key."

"Isn't this the key chain of our school uniform?" Ning Xi held it and looked at it for a long time, and still liked it.

"Yes, I'm about to graduate. This thing sells very well in various schools. Every school is different. I asked Ren Mei to bring two, and you take one."

"Boring is not boring."

Ning Xi said so, but he still took his own key and went out to lock it, and when he was done, he was snatched by Xing Cheng to look at it, which made him laugh.

Xing Cheng is like this, no matter how he pretends to be calm occasionally, he still looks like a big boy in front of him.

He suddenly remembered that they had just finished the Chinese exam during the diagnostic exam at the start of school today, so he asked, "How do you feel about the exam in the morning?"

"The title of the composition this time is "Discovering Beauty from Life", and I wrote it very well at the beginning."

"How did you write it?"

After Ning Xi finished speaking, Xing Cheng looked at the window and wanted to lean in on his elbows, but Ning Xi stretched out his hand and hit him: "Go to the front door!"

Xingcheng held back his hand and didn't dare to force it, but he still kept talking: "My brother's surname is Ning, his single name is Xi, he lives in Qingyang District, Chengdu City, No. 1 in Chinese Department of Stone, and is known as the principal of a beautiful elementary school by people in the world. Clothes look thin, undressed, like basketball, love to ride..."

Ning Xi wanted to reach out and pull a strand of his hair down his mouth to shut him up, "You really wrote that?"

Hearing Ning Xi's question, he didn't speak, looked around and saw no one was there, lifted the curtain and jumped in through the window.

Pulling the curtains, Xing Cheng aimed at his brother's lips and bit them, panting and said, "I even dare to write that in the college entrance examination!"

Ning Xi knew how tyrannical he was, and allowed him to kiss him randomly, rolling his eyes and scolding: "Your literary talent..."

Pull it down.

Years passed quickly, and Ning Xi had to go back to school a few days early because of the study project. After buying the train ticket, she went to pick up the ticket and carried it with her, as if looking at the paper to be at ease.

He and Xingcheng spent a few nights driving two shared bicycles, riding all the way from the south gate of Chengdu to the west gate, and then wobbling back by bus.

The two thought of the pink sky in high school together, and made a wish to see it again.

After the Spring Festival, people began to get busy. Walking in the downtown area, crowds came one after another. They were squeezed in the crowd, their shoulders kept bumping and separating, and they were still holding hands, never letting go from the beginning to the end.

At night, the street lights on Binjiang East Road were turned on again. Ning Xi rode a bicycle and sped past. Looking at the ginkgo leaves that had fallen all over the ground on both sides of the city road, she counted one piece, two pieces, three pieces, four pieces, and arrived at the gate of Shizhong. , From the pile of younger brothers and sisters in elementary school, look for his most eye-catching performance.

On the morning of Ning Xi's departure, Xing Cheng had to study and couldn't take it off, so he got up early in the morning and went into Ning Xi's bedroom, took a bath together, made love, and fell asleep again when tired.

The whole body was tossed to the point of falling apart, Ning Xi couldn't hold on anymore, she closed her eyes and fell into Xing Cheng's arms.

His breath was long and gentle... like the spring breeze blowing on the Funan River.

Xingcheng couldn't sleep all night, sitting in front of the table, staring at Ning Xi until it was dawn and the school training team blew the horn again, then he slowly got up and tidied up slowly...

Then slowly, bid farewell to Ning Xi who was sleeping.

That afternoon, the Chengdu East Railway Station was still overcrowded, just like the day Ning Xi came here. Everyone didn't know anyone, but they were all chasing in the same direction.

Holding the ticket in his hand, he bid farewell to his parents who came to see him off, and then swiped his ID card to enter the customs.

The journey was long and the scenery outside the window was changing. Ning Xi was about to open her schoolbag to read a book, but found a letter sealed in a big red envelope in her schoolbag.

Seal it with a paper clip and pin a ginkgo leaf.

It was a large sheet of A4 printing paper, with black characters on a white background, without traces of modification, marked and highlighted with a red pen.

Thinking about it, Xing Cheng should have copied it and compared it with a ruler. There is no horizontal line, and it is not crooked.

Xing Cheng is not a person of great literary talent, and he always likes to talk nonsense, but most of his words are sincere, and every sentence is truthful, all from his heart, and there is no half-hearted falsehood.

Ning Xi remembered that when he first received a letter from Xing Cheng, it was still popular to write on letterheads and stickers at that time, and what Xing Cheng wrote was the strategy of Yu-Gi-Oh!

At that time, Xingcheng was only nine years old, and the first sentence he said was "It's nice to read the letter like looking at me", Ning Xi taught him with a dark face, "Seeing the letter is like meeting me, everything is fine".

Although he has grown up, Ning Xi still doesn't expect Xingcheng to be able to write an opening chapter like "Zhan Xinjia", but when he saw the first line clearly, his heart still beat a little.

It's a heartbeat.