Ant Paradise

Even though he hadn't done anything all morning, Shi Le felt very tired. There was a door behind him, and there was the sound of shower water, like a heavy rain. He slowly squatted down against the door, with mints in one hand, In one hand is a box of ants.He wanted to see what day of the week it was, the summer vacation was so dark that he didn't know when, when to eat, to do homework, to sleep, since when he saw Jiale, how long he had known him, and what a good day today was.

Just an ordinary day in thousands of days, cloudy and heavy rain.

He was pulled into an unknown vortex, his brain was throbbing with pain, he couldn't figure out the reason why Jiale was so kind to him, or why he was so kind to everyone in the first place, or it might be because of Shili, A kind of care for his friend's younger brother. He thinks a lot about everyone and everything, and everyone treats him carefully. Even Mrs. Tang also cares about other people's opinions.

Jiale is different, what is the difference, Shile can't tell the general idea, only that he has a pair of very bright eyes, when he speaks or laughs, the light around him fills up.

"What are you squatting here for?" Jiale came out wiping his hair, and saw him huddled in a small ball at the door.Shile stood up holding the things, and he put a mint candy in his mouth, "I'll leave when the rain subsides, otherwise the bath will be for nothing." They went back to Shile's room and put the candy and the box on the table. On the windowsill, gather together to watch the ants.

The ants managed to crawl from one end to the other. Jiale turned the box upside down viciously, and they fell back to the original place. He laughed and ate a candy.Shile straightened the box, and Jiale pushed the candy to his side, one or two. The candy was almost finished, and the mint smell was strong. He took a breath of the air conditioner's cold air until it cooled down to his throat.

"Thank you." Shi Le lay beside him, fiddling with a piece of candy, "How can I thank you?" After a while, he said, "I want you a painting." "What painting?" Shi Le sat up straight and asked him.

"Any kind of drawing is fine, but the one you sketched that day is very good." He was talking about the one on the draft paper on the first day, which had long been thrown away as waste paper.Shi Le took the Water Margin book, "Choose one, I'll draw on a blank sheet of paper." Jiale touched the stack of pages, picked a random one, it was full of words, and did not turn over a few more pages, then It is Lu Zhishen's chapter of pulling out the weeping willow.

He sat at the table and spread out a new piece of paper, and Jiale was chewing candy next to him. Shile became nervous. He felt that the refill of the automatic lead had just been used up. In the past, he could copy the questions casually. At this moment, I don’t know whether to draw the tree or the person first, but Jiale is watching from the side, so he can only draw a horizontal line first.

When Shile draws, he is always very focused. He doesn't speak for a long time. He lowers his head and turns his eyes that are not very flexible. He either looks at the painting or writes. His ears are very good. Jiale heard his mother say that , people's earlobe hides blessings, Shile's earlobes are raised, and he is blessed.

"It's done." He turned his head and glanced at the picture on the book again, and Jiale came closer, "That's it!" Shile shook off the eraser, and pinched the two corners of the paper with his fingers, for fear that the drawing just drawn would be blurred. A good pen line was handed to him like a pennant. Jiale took it and looked at it carefully under the lamp, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Shi Le stood stiffly, rubbing his hands and said, "The tree is crooked for me." "The trees are all uprooted, how can they not be crooked." He glanced out the window when the rain stopped, "I'm going back." After taking the box, "I put the ants out when the weather was fine. I don't have a big box to keep them." Jiale took the box, turned it out of the window, opened the box, and the ants ran away in the grass.

"That. I want to keep this box." Jiale turned his head and spread his hands, "Is this? Why do you want to come here?" He didn't say why, just said, "I will keep it well." Shile He took it with both hands, squeezed the candy box in his hand, Jiale took the painting, looked at him, "I will keep it well." He held the painting carefully to his chest, "Also, you promised me to take good care of it." Have a meal."

Shi Le nodded vigorously and watched him go from the window.When Jiale returned, the corners of the painting were still rolled up. He took the book and flattened it, and finally put it in a photo frame, which was placed on the bedside table that Shile did not have.