protect you forever

Although it was a funeral event, the surrounding atmosphere was not depressing. The adults chattered about trivial matters, and the children played innocently. They didn’t understand the meaning of the meal, and chased each other away from Li Moze. Pass.

Several people in the crowd were dressed differently than others.

Li Moze raised his eyes and looked at the eye-catching people passing through the crowd. The people who came and went were all dressed in gray or black, and they were wrapped in rough and conspicuous linen, with mourning expressions, as if living in two worlds with everyone.

Although some of the children were not wrapped in sackcloth, they were tied with a hemp rope around their waists.

The second aunt walked towards Li Moyan and his mother, spread out the red strings in her hands, and handed one of them to Li Moze's mother, with sad eyes, "Put it on quickly."

Looking at the red rope, Li Moze didn't feel strange.Every time a similar occasion, there will always be a red string.

Li Moze took the red string and put it on.

The scarlet red string contrasted sharply with the slightly pale skin around it.

The people who came to this funeral banquet were almost adults, and those who had children at home were not taken care of. There were very few frail youngsters like Li Moze.

Li Moze walked to his mother, who was playing mahjong enthusiastically with his second aunt and two relatives whose names he couldn't name.

"Mom, I'm going to play with Fu Gui, and I'll come over after dinner." Li Moze said to his mother who was drawing cards.

She just got a good deck of cards in her hand, and she was in the right mood. She stared at the cards in her hand, and waved her hand impatiently, "Go, don't forget to come back when you eat."

Li Moze left his second uncle's house and headed towards a bamboo forest.The bamboo forest is so densely planted that you can hardly look up at the sky when you look up. The force of the wind makes the bamboo forest make a sound, which is very pleasant in the deep dense forest.

Among the bamboos, some small hillsides stand alone. The hillsides are full of weeds, and there are burnt incense candles that I don’t know how many years ago. It looks desolate and lonely.

In Li Moze's memory, the relatives of these graves did not come to sweep the graves for them, even if it was the first day of the new year or the Qingming Festival.

Fugui was Li Moze's playmate when he was a child, and the influence left in his memory was not pleasant. When he was a child, Fugui was the monkey king of the child, and he took the lead in bullying the shy and introverted Li Moze.When they grew up, they didn't meet each other.

Going to the rich house to play is an excuse to lie to my mother.

Passing through the bamboo forest, climbing over the winding field ridges, I came to a green mountain.Li Moze climbed the mountain familiarly, his breathing gradually became rapid, but his dark eyes lit up.

After climbing up the mountain, he found a piece of wood beside him to scrape off the wet mud on the soles, otherwise walking directly on the weight of the soles would be exhausting and easy to fall.

At the entrance of the mountain stood a young man with a slender and thin body, handsome features, bright eyes, and a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth.Standing there quietly gives people a sense of tranquility.

Li Moze ran forward at a faster pace, stopped in front of the young man, gasped for breath, his chest heaved unsteadily, stared into the other's eyes, and said out of breath, "I thought you were in the house"

Xiao Rui smiled softly, "Didn't you just come back in the first day of junior high school?"

Hearing Xiao Rui's words, Li Moze gasped and controlled his voice not to tremble, "I wouldn't come this year, but my uncle passed away a few days ago. Mom and I came back for the funeral."

Xiao Rui looked at Li Moze's out of breath appearance, took out a clean handkerchief from his bosom and gently wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Moze, you are so tired from climbing a mountain, you should exercise more." The scorching heat in your hand seemed to scald Xiao Rui's heart, and the hand that wiped could not help but tremble.

Li Moze closed his eyes and felt the sweat on his forehead being wiped off, leaving a burst of refreshment, "I stay at school for eight hours a day to study, and I go home after school in the afternoon to have a meal. I go for a run in the evening, and my physical fitness is much better than that of our class." Everyone is nice."

Seeing the person I miss in every possible way closing his eyes in front of him, obediently allowing himself to wipe it off, even Xiao Rui, who is always as gentle as jade and in a calm mood, feels his fingers are hot.After wiping the fingers, I still miss the skin I touched.

"It's not as good as when I was a child." Xiao Rui retorted.When he was a child, he took the little Li Moze to climb trees and run quickly, and ran all over the mountains and plains when he was in the mood, even wolf dogs couldn't arrest him.

Li Moze remained silent. Xiao Rui took him to run all over the mountains when he was a child, but now he sits in the classroom and does his homework all day. Can his physical fitness be the same?

When he was a child, Li Moze was introverted, thin and shy. Other children took the opportunity to bully him, and his only playmate was Xiao Rui.Only Xiao Rui would not bully him, and would play games with him, accompany him to catch fish, touch eels, and tease dogs.

Li Moze had enough rest, his heartbeat calmed down, and he turned his eyes to the direction Xiao Rui was looking at just now.

The terrain of the mountain is very high. At a glance, there are tangled and scattered ridges, a few trees growing on the edge of the cliff swaying in the wind, pink and white wild flowers grow sparsely on the cliff, and even the trail at the entrance of the mountain can be seen.

Li Moze couldn't figure out what was so special here that could attract Xiao Rui to keep staring in this direction.He asked in bewilderment, "Is there anything different here?"

Xiao Rui smiled very gently, looked down the mountain with gentle eyes, and said softly, "For me, I can see the person I want to see from this direction."

Li Moze was puzzled, the mountain was located in a very remote location, and there was often no one in sight for a long time.Looking at the past now, there is still no one.

Unable to understand, Li Moze withdrew his eyes silently, looked around, and found that there were only him and Xiao Rui here, and no one else was seen, "Auntie and the others still haven't come back?"

Xiao Rui looked like he led Li Moze into the house when he was a child, poured a glass of drink and put it in front of Li Moyan, and sat on a chair at random. The wooden chair was a bit old, and the engraved patterns were very delicate.

Li Moze knew that chair. When he was a child, he felt that the chair was very amazing. Every time he came to play with Xiao Rui, he would take a chair.When we met for the first time, Xiao Rui was also sitting in that chair.

Li Moze heard Xiao Rui who was sitting on the chair say, "They changed a good job in another place this year, and they won't be back for the next three or four months."

"Oh." Li Moze nodded, he had never met Xiao Rui's parents.When I came to play with Xiao Rui before, I missed Xiao Rui's parents every time.He played with Xiao Rui, and Xiao Rui's parents were busy outside, so he had never seen Xiao Rui's parents until now.

Xiao Rui stared at Li Moze who was drinking the juice quietly, although Li Moze's face was still pale without much expression.It's only been two months since I saw him, and he's gotten a little fairer and a little taller.

Li Moze was drinking the juice, raised his head and glanced lightly at Xiao Rui, who looked more like his elder brother than Li Lin, with clear eyebrows and a smile.

Xiao Rui returned him a gentle smile.

Li Moze seemed to be encouraged, the conversation box was pried open, and he chattered all the anecdotes that happened in school and his experience when he first entered high school to Xiao Rui.

"The courses in high school are so difficult, and I don't know many questions." Having said this, Li Moze frowned slightly, looking distressed, "But the other students in the class are very relaxed, and I don't usually see them studying or taking exams." With curly hair down, it's all in the [-]s."

Xiao Rui sat aside and listened attentively, as if this was not a complaint, but a beautiful piece of music, reluctant to take his eyes off the chattering person.

Li Moze talked a lot on his own, but when he looked up and saw Xiao Rui just smiled, he lowered his head and hesitated, "Am I being too wordy?"

"I'll take you to see something." After finishing speaking, Xiao Rui got up, took the water glass in Li Moze's hand and put it back on the table, and took Li Moze's hand that was no longer holding the water glass.

Li Moze lowered his head slightly and followed behind, the temperature in his palm was as warm as when he was a child.

When it was dark when he was a child, the mountain was pitch black, and Li Moze, who couldn't see his fingers and couldn't see Xiao Rui, squatted on the ground and wailed helplessly every time.Xiao Rui, who was walking five steps away, couldn't laugh or cry, and wiped his tears helplessly.

Later, every time Xiao Rui took Li Moze out to play, he would definitely hold Li Moze's hand, proving that he was always on his left.

Curiously, Li Moze followed Xiao Rui down the mountain and reached the middle of the mountain. They passed a flat place where weeds were overgrown because no one was weeding. Looking around, isn't this the place they used to play when they were young?

Li Moze knew where Xiao Rui was taking him, and was excited, so he didn't care about Xiao Rui trotting over.

Xiao Rui walked behind, watching the young man running in front of him tenderly, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

The boy ran for a while, turned around, and found that Xiao Rui was still walking leisurely, and shouted eagerly at him, "Xiao Rui, hurry up."

After Li Moyan yelled at him, he ignored Xiao Rui and ran straight towards the tree.

In the distance stands a dwarf tree with luxuriant branches and leaves. The red fruit is wrapped in green leaves, as bright as a ruby ​​soaked in water. Against the backdrop of the surrounding green, it looks independent and eye-catching.

Li Moze stared excitedly at the cherry tree he had planted himself, and reached out to touch the plump and soft fruit, fearing that he would accidentally break it.

After six years, it actually bears fruit.

Ever since he went home to go to school, Li Moze saw this cherry tree every year and could only return to visit the grave on the first day of each year.I can only see it once a year. Every year when Li Moze comes back, he will visit this tree every time.

Seeing it grow taller year after year makes me very happy.

"Xiao Rui, open it and see, it has grown fruit." Li Moze waved vigorously at Xiao Rui, "And the cherry it bears is quite a big one."

Xiao Rui walked over slowly, looked at the growing cherry tree, and said, "It's the first time to bear fruit this year. You only come back on the first day of the new year. I thought you wouldn't see it."

He stared at Li Moze who was happy to touch the tree, and said softly: "Do you remember what you said when you planted trees when you were young?"

Li Moze slowly withdrew his hand, lowered his head and recalled the things in his childhood, the corners of his mouth curled up, "I remember." At that time, he was very afraid that one day Xiao Rui would not play with him and ignore him.So when he planted this cherry tree, he asked Xiao Rui to promise him that they would be together forever.

"Together forever." Li Moze put a cherry into his mouth, the taste matched the beautiful appearance, and the taste was sweet.

Not far away, the corners of the gentle Xiao Rui's mouth were raised, whispering in a low voice, together forever.