Boiling point

After Li Yanqi fell asleep that night, he had a chaotic dream all night. When he woke up, his body was heavy, as if he had fought for no reason, and it was difficult to lift his arms. It disappeared in an instant.

The rain outside was still falling, and the rain water hit the trees, making a rustling sound.

Autumn is coming.

After Li Yanqi's eyes were blank for a few minutes, he touched the phone on the bedside table and saw that He Xin had sent him a message at 02:30 last night.

It's a transfer red envelope of 1 yuan, and there is a voice message below.

——The rest of the money will be used as food refills, Nanny Tag, please continue to work hard.

He Xin's voice was deliberately lowered, with a slightly hoarse magnetic tone, which was similar to his usual swearing tone.Li Yanqi took the money, held the phone in his hand, looked at the ceiling and smiled, and replied, "Good lemon essence, yes lemon essence."

Li An woke up rubbing his eyes, climbed onto Li Yanqi's bed and said, "Good morning, brother."

Li Yanqi bent down and kissed him.

In the morning, he asked for leave and hurriedly took Li An to the school to report. The little guy said "I don't want to go to school, I hate Sun Xiaoxiong", but the moment he saw his classmates, his eyes lit up instantly, shining with excitement.Li Yanqi talked with the teacher for a long time, and left after explaining all the precautions.

It was lunch break at school, and He Xin and Xu Lan were playing on the basketball court. There was a familiar guy beside him, Feng Binrui from Class Six.

"Li Yanqi!" Xu Lan threw a ball to He Xin, and shouted loudly at him, "Come or not, we just happen to be 3v3!"

He Xin took the ball and twirled the ball with his fingertips, playing a very deliberate handsome.

Li Yanqi walked towards them holding an umbrella, Xu Lan did not wait for him to nod, he had already started to line up, He Xin threw a bottle of water to him, "Is Little Milk Bubble crying?"

Li Yanqi smiled and said, "Brother, don't leave one second, and Sun Xiaoxiong, I'm back at the next second! Kakaka! It's the best of the show."

He Xin curled the corner of her mouth slightly, and saw that the other party was holding a box of lemon panna cotta in his hand.

"For me?"

Li Yanqi shook his head and said, "I want to eat myself."

"Oh." He Xin rubbed the water from her hair, took two steps back, turned around and gave him a heavy ball.

Li Yanqi was splashed with water and looked at him in shock.

He Xin asked again, "Is it for me?"

Li Yanqi suppressed his voice and spoke quickly, "It's for you, it's for you, I went around twenty alleys to buy it, in order to repay your life-saving grace, is that enough?"

He Xin threw a ball towards the basket, and didn't say he was dissatisfied. After playing for a while, he turned to look at him, "Do you want to play?"

Li Yanqi originally wanted to go back to sleep for a while before the lunch break was over, but they dragged him to play for half an hour, saying that he wanted to start training early and cultivate tacit understanding. To his surprise, Feng Binrui from class six One of the players this time, I don't know if he came here to continue to compete with He Xin.

This game was played very happily, and finally the class bell rang, and a group of talents rushed into the classroom. When Feng Binrui passed by their Class [-] classroom, he stuffed a bottle of lemon-flavored pulse into He Xin's arms.

Li Yanqi glanced at him, "He actually became your fanboy?"

He Xin turned away the water bottle and took a sip, "What, are you jealous? The status of the most handsome brother Ta in the school is not guaranteed."

For the first time, Li Yanqi did not refute. He turned his head to look at He Xin's short hair that was wet by the rain.

Li Yanqi patted him on the shoulder, "He's quite handsome."

He Xin scooped up a spoonful of lemon panna cotta, squinted her eyes and looked back at him, "Do you want to brag about business?"

Li Yanqi had a subtle premonition, just as he was about to say that he didn't need it, he heard He Xin say his shocking line, "You're pretty, too, prettier than a little girl."

"..." Li Yanqi opened his mouth a few times to say something to redeem his handsome rather than beautiful personal inner, but he choked on the wind in his mouth, so that he hiccupped until the beginning of class.

He Xin turned her face to the wall, and smiled uncontrollably.

There are three history classes and geography classes in the afternoon. The teachers are two young girls who have just graduated. Their voices are very soft, and the whole process has a hypnotic effect. Mixed with the sound of rain outside the window, they can sleep to the end in darkness.

He Xin's arms were a little sore and numb from sleep, she turned her face and continued to close her eyes to rest her mind, but after being interrupted, she didn't feel much sleepy anymore, as soon as she raised her eyes, she could see a clump of clean and shiny black hair on the back of Li Yanqi's neck, running down her spine , the back line from the waist to the waist has a rigidity that is different from that of a teenager, but the arc of stretching the head up is very smooth and beautiful.

When He Xin was shooting magazines, he met many boys who could be described as beautiful.Either bewitching or charming, pure or sexy, with exquisite proportions of facial features and slender arms and legs, standing with him looks very cute.

But Li Yanqi obviously does not belong to this group. His appearance does not match with softness, and his figure is not petite. He can't pretend to be cute and cute. He often has a serious face of "I am a good student, don't disturb my study". , in fact, he is stubborn and hard in his bones, and his aura is evenly matched with his own. If the two of them go all out to fight, he can't win at all. For a person like him, it's too much to use the word beautiful to describe him.

But He Xin thought for a whole day and still couldn't figure out why her first reaction when she saw him smiling yesterday was that she was pretty.

Then there are no words other than beautiful.

It seems that his language proficiency is indeed too low. The only words to praise people are handsome and beautiful.

He Xin remembered that Feng Binrui had a sudden brain twitch and offered him attention, but she didn't dare to look at him the whole time, so she frowned and clicked his tongue.

I'm afraid he's not sick.

Li Yanqi was still reading during get out of class. In order to work part-time to earn money at night, during every break when he slept leisurely, this man wrote and calculated problems every time he saw the stitches, living like a desperate Saburo.He Xin was a little bored, looked around the class for a week, and found that she didn't come to class today.

I went to the toilet outside, and met Liao Mei who was hiding in the toilet with some boys and smoking.

He Xin asked him, "Did Fei Jin come yesterday?"

Liao Mei took a deep breath, rubbed his head and said, "Didn't come, it seems, he is staying at home with his mother these days, after all, the case is going to be retried."

"Oh, that's it." The conversation didn't continue, He Xin was silent for a while, took out a cigarette and leaned over to beckon him to borrow a fire.

"Don't you always keep your lighter in your hand?" Liao Mei asked, lighting it up.

It's okay if he didn't mention it, but when he mentioned it, He Xin realized that in the past, he smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, but now he only smoked a pack in three or four days, and some of them were because he smoked a few puffs and found it boring to throw away.

"Your uncle is a good student." He Xin sprayed a smoke ring at him, "Nephew learn a little bit."

"How long are you going to talk about my grandma admitting the wrong person?" Liao Mei asked, dusting off the cigarette, "Is my brother Ta still doing his homework?"

He Xin said, "Yeah, Realm is very selfless. I hit him and he didn't even look up."

Liao Mei sighed, "I guess he is releasing pressure. He has been under a lot of psychological pressure these days, so don't recruit him. But to be honest, since you came, I found that Brother Ta laughed a lot."

He Xin put her hands back into her pockets, "He used to cry when he saw you."

Liao Mei pulled his face, "He used to smile like this, it's so fake, staying with us is like cutting out pictures."

He Xin smiled and said nothing. The class bell rang instantly, and a group of people rushed back in a hurry. Only He Xin stepped on the bell and walked into the classroom generously under the eyes of the teacher.

This self-study class, the classroom is very quiet, the whole process is full of the sound of writing questions, Li Yanqi sits on the podium to supervise, holding a pen to recite the key points, He Xin wants to sneak out for a walk, just walked to the back At the door, Li Yanqi cleared his throat and called his name.

He Xin walked up to him and knocked on the podium table.

"No, there are still 10 minutes until get out of class ends." Li Yan said without raising his head.

He Xin laughed and said, "You who used to sneak away often, you have no right to keep me away."

Li Yanqi looked up at him, "If you have the ability, try to get a double percentile in the exam."

He Xin paused, then thought of another trick and said, "Brother Lemon Jing, did you call me that yesterday?"

Li Yanqi covered his fists and coughed, but did not answer.

He Xin said, "I'm older than you, it's normal for you to call me brother, but..."

Li Yanqi turned the pen around, followed the words, and teased, "Who is older than me?"

He Xin kept her hands resting on the table and looked at Li Yanqi in shock, who had turned the topic of skipping classes to something inappropriate for children. She took a second to say, "Tomorrow the number one news on our school forum is, absolutely nothing. Thinking that under the serious appearance of a 17-year-old boy, there is actually this kind of person!"

Li Yanqi said, "It's just stating the facts."

He Xin stared at him for a while, narrowed her eyes and said with a smile, "Well, it's very courageous to dare to challenge authority."

Li Yanqi suddenly thought of something, and relaxed the control on him, "Are you just wandering around? Or did you make an appointment to play golf?"

He Xin replied, "Walking on the street, it's the same wherever you go."

Li Yanqi took off his glasses and wiped them with his cuff, "Then can you pick up Li An for me? They should be out of school."

He Xin made an ok gesture, picked up her schoolbag and prepared to leave, walked two steps and turned back, "Give me two candies, what if the little milk foam cries?"

Li Yanqi took out the toffee that he always carried with him from his pocket, and put it in He Xin's palm.

It was only when He Xin ran downstairs that she spread her palms and looked at it. There was a lemon candy sandwiched among the four white rabbit toffees.

He removed the candy wrapper and put one in his mouth. It was a bit sticky and a little sour. It didn't look like a high-end candy at first glance, but it was delicious after a long time.

After class, Li Yanqi hurriedly packed up his things and rushed to the part-time job site. He was a little distracted by not coming to class for the past two days. .

It was still too easy to be influenced, Li Yanqi shook his head, and eliminated the distracting thoughts in his mind together with the letter he received last night.

Walking to the bus stop, he saw Jiang Zhiming standing with a cigarette in his mouth and the group of hooligans who often went to his house to ask for debts.

With a bully posture of "open your dog eyes to see clearly, I'm here to provoke you", stare at Li Yanqi closely.

Sure enough, Jiang Zhiming walked up to him within a minute, holding an old IOU in his hand, the handwriting was familiar to him.

"I didn't expect to find this thing in my dad's usury reminder. We are very destined."

Li Yanqi sideways avoided him, smiled calmly, "The black and white words are not my name, you are looking for the wrong person."

Jiang Zhiming groaned, "It's clean."

Li Yanqi didn't speak, he reached into his trouser pocket and took out a coin, and was about to get in the car, when the two people behind Jiang Zhiming pulled him back and looked at him fiercely.

"Tsk, don't be so cruel." Jiang Zhiming said, "I didn't intend to trouble you today, I just wanted to let you know."

Li Yanqi looked up at him and clenched his fists.

"I'm talking about you, about the trouble, the court will be held in a few days, and the law will naturally stand on the side of our victim's family to deal with you. I don't need to block you here openly."

Li Yanqi frowned and said, "In this case, let's stop talking nonsense."

Jiang Zhiming's expression changed suddenly, and he pointed at the lame men behind him, "I didn't see He Xin today, I heard that you two live together, right?" There was a disgusting look in his smile Meaning, I don’t know what kind of filthy thoughts I want to poke, "Since we live together, it’s easy to handle. He hurt so many brothers in our family, and he fucked me before. If he doesn’t say "I, Jiang Zhiming" in this tone Come and write, so I want you to tell He Xin that if you are a man, you can compete with us in Xitan."

Li Yanqi shook off him and walked straight forward.

"You know where Xitan is. His little motorcycle looks expensive. I wonder if he can go all out to compare with us?"

Li Yanqi paused, controlled his emotions, took a deep breath, turned around and said, "Why drag another person into the water, I and the Fei Jin family owe you what year have you not paid it?"

Jiang Zhiming waved his hand and said, "It has nothing to do with my brother's affairs. I simply dislike him and want to see him being crushed by me and unable to be arrogant."

Li Yanqi sneered and said, "If you really want to fight He Xin so much, why don't you go directly to him? I believe that with He Xin's character, she will accept your challenge in an upright manner, and not only the ten people behind you One, twenty are the same. But you chose to come to me, provoking him so indirectly and tactfully, do you really want to compete with him? Or is it to anger me, so as to achieve the psychological suppression of the two of us? "

Jiang Zhiming stared at him intently for a while, his expression cracked, and for a moment, he pressed his palm and stretched out his arm, blocking Li Yanqi's way.

"I've already told you what to say, what else can I say, but I think you don't really want me to take the initiative to tell He Xin about this, after all, he will definitely agree after listening to it, after all, Xitan is a very interesting place .”

Li Yanqi suppressed his emotions, didn't hit him, but just folded his hand on his shoulder, Jiang Zhiming fucked, and turned to stare at him fiercely.

"Don't mess with him, and don't mess with me either."

Jiang Zhiming's face turned pale from the pain, but his mouth was still smug, "Then I can only mess with your brother."

Li Yanqi pushed his hand back hard, and the men behind him rushed up to hold his shoulders, Li Yanqi picked up a wooden stick on the ground, and slammed it hard on the wall.

"Jiang Zhiming, if you dare to touch my brother, I will never let you go."

With the help of a group of people, Jiang Zhiming broke free from Li Yanqi's restraint. He moved his cramped arm twice, kicked the wall and said, "Then please tell He Xin, see you in Xitan the day after tomorrow .”

Li Yanqi got on the bus, still tightly clutching the half of the wooden stick he broke, until the driver master watched him for a long time, he finally recovered, and threw the things into the trash can on the side .

Li Yanqi opened the window, and a damp wind blew outside, mixed with rain, hitting his face coldly.

After passing the evening rush hour, the bus drove very fast in order to arrive at the stop on time, and the surrounding trees and houses kept retreating. After staring at it for a long time, Li Yanqi felt a little dizzy. He closed his eyes and opened them again, and saw a faint yellow light , deep in the end, far away from him.

He Xin's phone call happened at this time.

"I brought the little milk foam home safely."

Li Yanqi hummed, "Thank you."

"Oh, it's okay, are you at work?" He Xin hugged the little guy on his lap and stroked his hair.

Li Yanqi said, "Not yet, there is a traffic jam on the way to work."

The driver glanced back at him sharply.

Li Yanqi lowered his eyelashes, and lied nonchalantly, "It's very congested today, Bailun Street is blocked from the end of the street to the intersection."

The driver glanced suspiciously at the next bus stop, which was Bai Lun Street.

He Xin chatted with him casually, Uncle Zhao was about to serve dinner, and when he was about to hang up, Li Yanqi called him back.

"Ok?"

"Are your hands ready?"

He Xin looked down at his hand, the bones were red, he played basketball too much today, and the wound burst again.

"Fine, what's wrong?"

Li Yanqi was silent for a while, but not for long.

"It's okay, I just want to tell you, the medicine box is in the third drawer of my writing desk, don't forget to change your medicine if you are idle and bored."

Little Naipao added from the side, "That's right, brother is right, the wound will heal faster by changing the dressing more often."

Li Yanqi smiled and said, "Then did you take the medicine obediently?"

Li An silently zippered his mouth shut, "Let's talk, Brother Lemon Jing has a lot to say to you."

He Xin clicked his tongue, clasped his soft little hand, held him in his arms, and made a fuss for a while.

Li Yanqi could hear Li An giggling, and he could feel that Li An really liked Brother Lemon Jing very much, even more than Sister Liao.

"Hey, I hung up the phone." He Xin said, "It's time for dinner."

"Yeah." Li Yanqi said, "Do your homework after eating."

He Xin tapped the receiver twice, "Aren't you trying to annoy me by asking me if my hand is okay and asking me to do my homework?"

Li Yanqi smiled, then changed his words, "After eating, be happy and do your homework seriously."

"I'll go to your uncle." He Xin put down the phone resolutely, and returned a message to him after a long time, "Did something happen to you?"

The sky was much darker, Li Yanqi put the phone in his pocket, turned his eyes back from the window, feeling irritable for no reason.

This irritability comes precisely from some unknown uneasiness in the heart.

He didn't know what Jiang Zhiming was going to do, and he didn't know what he was going to do.

Survival has made him mature and made him stronger than his peers. In the past seven years, he has bumped into countless south walls and fallen countless somersaults. These pains, and calmly take this as a warning.

He has been polished by life into warm water that can never boil, quiet and resigned to fate.

I thought I would never have impulsive moments again, but for no reason because of He Xin's words, I had the idea of ​​going all out and fighting.

He couldn't figure out why this idea took root, whether it had been rooted for a long time or was a sudden inspiration.

He just doesn't want to go on like this anymore, he really wants to change.

Taking even a small step forward, he can crawl towards the light in the dark tunnel.