my summer

This sentence seems to have exhausted all my strength. As soon as I said it, I became a deflated ball, loose and loose, waiting for the fate of the player at any time.

Xia Zhizhi stared at me from the beginning to the end, without saying a word.There were not many emotional changes on his face, and his deep eyes were like a bottomless lake.

We stood face to face in silence, and time slipped away unconsciously.

"Yangyang," he said suddenly, "I...you...can you change..."

"Haha, I'm joking, do you take it seriously?" I interrupted him, forcing myself to smile.

"What?" He froze.

"I said I was just joking," I patted him on the shoulder and said, "I just read on the Internet that today is Kiss Day, if you can find someone to kiss, you will be lucky for a whole year."

I'm also convinced of my nonsense ability, my acting skills... shouldn't be too lame.

"...Do you believe this too?" He frowned slightly, his expression a little complicated.

"Believe it, why don't you believe it, it's fun." I savored the bitterness in my mouth and said it pretending to be relaxed.

After finishing speaking, without waiting for his reaction, he rushed forward and pressed hard on his mouth, and then quickly released it, "Okay, I'm going to be lucky this year, I have to leave beforehand."

I fled.

After getting out of Xia Zhi's sight, he ran wildly and ran to the big lawn behind the library in one breath.

The kiss just now was too short, after running, there was only a vague feeling left, but I can be sure that Xia Zhi's lips are soft and warm.

For a moment, I was smug about my successful sneak attack.But soon I realized that this was our first kiss, it was so hasty and flustered, it was not as beautiful and romantic as depicted in idol dramas.

Immediately afterwards, I fell into disappointment and depression again. Xia Zhi really only regarded me as a brother...but I am more greedy, what should I do if I am not satisfied with being his brother?

I stood on the wide lawn and tried to look up at the sky. The sky was so blue, the clouds were so white, and the sun hurt my eyes a little.I closed my eyes, and felt something slipping out from the corner of my eyes, leaving two wet marks, which were hot and itchy, making people very uncomfortable.

After a few days of desperation, I didn't expect that one of my jokes would actually come true, and good luck found me.

One of our high school seniors temporarily received a foreign group for a two-day tour of C City. He just didn’t have time to take it, so he asked the teacher to find him a helper.The teacher recommended me to him, saying that I had a high score in the CET-[-], good oral English, and familiarity with various scenic spots in the city.

So I cheered up and worked conscientiously as a temporary tour guide for two days. In addition to earning a lot of tour guide fees, I also received tips from international friends.

With the money I earned for the first time in my life, I bought Xia Zhi a Nokia, the same model and color as mine.

"This is for you." I handed the phone to Xia Zhi, "Thanks to you, I really got lucky. I bought this with the money I earned."

He picked up the phone and looked at it, then returned it to me, "You can use this new one yourself, give me the one you are using now."

A familiar scene... I think of the Walkman in high school, and my heart hurts slightly.

"No, you just use this new one. I don't want to change the phone. It's too much trouble." I said, and put the phone back into his hand.

He looked down at his phone, looked up at me for a while, and laughed: "Okay then, I'll treat you to a big meal on the weekend."

Still hot pot.

There are hot pot restaurants in every corner of City C, the prices are high and low, and the environment is uneven. As for the taste, I feel that they are actually the same, except that it is spicy.

This time we went to a relatively well-known chain hot pot restaurant, and we had to queue for nearly two hours to eat.

"Yangyang, slow down, be careful of choking." Xia Zhi said while helping me cook the meat.

I swallowed a big mutton roll with chopsticks in three or two gulps, took a sip of Sprite, and said, "I'm starving to death. If I knew it, I would eat it near the school. The taste is not bad. The key point is that there is no need to queue."

"The store near the school can't compare with this one." He looked back at the people who were still waiting at the door. "It must be reasonable for their business to be good."

"Hot pot tastes the same to me." I continued to eat bitterly.

He put the cooked duck intestines into my bowl, and was about to speak when his cell phone rang.There was a lot of people in the store, he picked up the phone and walked towards the toilet.

I had no choice but to continue to cook and eat by myself.

None of us mentioned that day.Xia Zhi's sneak attack on me was as if it had never happened, and he was still as good to me as ever.I felt depressed, aggrieved, and hesitant, but when I stood in front of him, everything seemed to disappear.I think I will try my best to play the role of my brother well without showing any flaws.

After a long time, until I was full, Xia Zhi walked back with his head down.

"Are you having diarrhea?" I asked in a low voice, "I've cooked a big bowl of food for you, can you still eat it?"

He didn't make a sound, picked up the chopsticks and took two bites slowly, then raised his head and looked at me.His eye circles were red, the hair near his forehead was a little wet, and his expression was very serious.

"What's wrong? What happened?" I asked anxiously.

"My grandfather passed away." He whispered.

My brain buzzed and my heart beat wildly. Grandpa Xia Zhi's kind smile seemed to be just yesterday.

"Ah... grandpa, old man..." I also lowered my voice and said, "You...you are sorry..."

"I'm fine," he said. "Grandpa is also getting old. I heard that he was very peaceful when he left."

"So you want to go home?" I asked.

"Well, I'm going to fly back, I'm afraid I won't be in time for the funeral," he said.

"I'll book a flight ticket online for you when I get back," I said, "You send me your ID number."

"That's fine," he thought for a while, "I'll return the money to you when I come back."

"Let's not talk about money, go back and spend time with grandma, and then burn more incense sticks and paper for grandpa on my behalf." I said.

He gave a low "hmm".

"Also," I squeezed his shoulder, "you have to be strong."

I helped Xia Zhi book the earliest flight, and we arrived at the airport early in the morning by subway. I accompanied him to pick up the ticket and went to the security check entrance to line up.He remained silent all the way, until he was about to pass through the security check, when he turned his head and said to me: "Yangyang, I'm leaving, you should go back to class."

I stepped forward and hugged him, patted the back of his head, and said softly: "Well, don't come back in a hurry after you finish your grandpa's affairs, spend more time with grandma."

"I know," he hugged me back, "I will contact you when I come back."

Watching Xia Zhi disappear, I returned to school the same way.The class was already in the third quarter, and I didn't have much interest in going to the classroom, so I went straight back to the dormitory, lying on the bed alone in a daze.

Although grandpa left by himself when he was old, Xia Zhi must have felt very uncomfortable.After all, he grew up with his grandfather since he was a child, and his relationship with his mother is probably deeper than that with his mother.How could he hold back his tears in front of me? If it was me, I'm afraid I would have hugged him and cried a lot.

Just thinking about it, the phone rang suddenly.I picked it up excitedly, without even seeing the caller ID clearly. When I heard Li Youheng's voice on the other end of the phone, I was suddenly a little surprised and disappointed.

Oh, yes, the summer solstice should not have gotten off the plane at this point, so it is impossible to call me.

"Hello? Zhang Zhuyang? I'm Li Youheng." After all, this was the first time I had a phone call with Li Youheng. At first, I exchanged numbers with him for the convenience of contacting Xia Zhi.

"Well, I know, what's the matter?" I said lightly.

"Xia Zhi has something to do with his family and went home, you know that?" he asked.

"Nonsense, how could I not know?" I said.

"That's right," he seemed to laugh, "Is his new mobile phone a gift from you? It seems to be exactly the same as yours, a couple model?"

"Aren't you in class today?" I said, "You don't care what cellphone other people use when you're so free."

"I'm not free, I just want to invite you to a good place to have fun." He said.

"I'm not free." I refused.

"Don't worry, the summer solstice is not here anyway, you must be bored," he said, "I promise you will fall in love with that place once you go there, really, I won't lie to you."

"Where?" His implication made me a little shaken, God knows why I am like this, everything is as weird as a ghost.

"You'll know when you go, why, don't you have the guts to go?" He deliberately resorted to aggressive tactics.

"Hmph, do I look like such a cowardly person?" I knew it was a trick, but I was willing to fall for it. "What time? Where do we meet?"

The author has something to say: see you the night after tomorrow