love letter to summer

"Ye Ji?"

Who is it this time?

Ye Ji methodically took the drink from the shelf, closed the door of the convenience store freezer, and turned around.

The boy in front tilted his neck at a 45-degree angle and looked at him in surprise.

"You are really Ye Ji!"

The boy was very short in stature, the top of his head could only reach Ye Ji's shoulders, but he was quite muscular, and Ye Ji could vaguely see the outline of his muscles even through his clothes.

Ye Ji sized him up for a while, and felt that he looked a lot like a classmate of Xia Tang in high school, but his temperament was completely different.

Ye Ji said uncertainly, "Wei Donglin?"

"You remember me!" The other party smiled and seemed very happy. He raised his hand to stroke the short flat hair and said with a silly smile, "We haven't seen each other since graduation." He thought for a while and said, " It's been more than three years, I didn't expect to meet you here, what a coincidence."

That smirk was still the same as before.

Ye Ji recalled his appearance in high school—short and short, very thin, looking like a bean sprout—he had a nickname back then, bean sprouts.

He only transferred to Ye Ji and Xia Tang's school when he was a sophomore in high school. He heard that he was often bullied in his previous school, but he couldn't bear the bullying later, so he had to transfer.After transferring to the new school, he became Xia Tang's classmate, and then naturally became friends with Xia Tang.Xia Tang was very popular at school, he was often with Xia Tang, so no one bullied him.

Ye Ji still remembered that when a group of people went out to eat at that time, he followed Xia Tang, timidly, like a timid little mouse, always lowering his head, not even daring to look into other people's eyes, He only dared to talk to Xia Tang, so even though he had been an alumnus for two years, Ye Ji only had two or three words with him.

Now, after three years, he is still so short in height, but he looks like he has been reborn, with a radiant look and a smile on his face, and he is no longer that frightened little mouse.

Wei Donglin asked Ye Ji, "Why are you here?"

"Play ball." Ye Ji replied.This Sunday, Ye Ji and his high school classmates went back to the middle school to play basketball.

Ye Ji suddenly remembered that Wei Donglin seemed to live near the school.He looked at Wei Donglin's clothes, he was wearing a baggy T-shirt and cropped pants, and flip-flops with clean edges.There was a light red mark on the back of his right hand, like a rope's strangulation. Ye Ji glanced at his trousers, and there were two thin white hairs sticking to the edge of his right trouser leg.

It seems that he does live nearby, and he should be walking his dog now.

Wei Donglin looked at Ye Ji for a while, then suddenly turned his head and looked around. After looking around for a while, he asked, "Where's Xia Tang, isn't he here?"

Ye Ji shook his head.

Wei Donglin showed a surprised expression, as if he was very surprised that "Xia Tang didn't appear at the same time as Ye Ji".

Ye Ji walked towards the checkout counter and said, "He wants to work."

"Work?" Wei Donglin opened his eyes wide, "Do you want to work on weekends?"

Ye Ji hummed.

"Where does he work?" Wei Donglin continued to ask.

Ye Ji: "Hospital."

"Ah, no wonder." Wei Donglin nodded, "How is he recently? Is he busy?"

He kept asking about Xia Tang, which made Ye Ji feel a little uncomfortable.Ye Ji suddenly didn't want to answer his question at all, he just finished paying, so Ye Ji just walked out of the convenience store, Wei Donglin followed him out.

There was a snow-white Spitz at the door, and as soon as it saw him coming out, it immediately came up to him shaking its head and wagging its tail.Wei Donglin hugged him affectionately, smiled and said to Ye Ji, "This is Xiaohua."

little flower...

Xia Tang had many nicknames when she was in high school, for example, Xia Xiaohua.

Ye Ji glanced expressionlessly at the panting dog with its tongue out.

Wei Donglin stood up, held the leash in his right hand, and led the Spitz.

"Are you going home?" Wei Donglin asked.

Ye Ji: "Yes."

The two walked in the direction of the station, and suddenly fell silent.

Ye Ji had nothing to say to Wei Donglin, and Wei Donglin seemed to have nothing to say to him.The two walked in silence for a while, and the atmosphere was awkward.

After a long time, Wei Donglin finally broke the silence: "Well, not long after I graduated, I accidentally lost my phone, and even lost all your contact information."

He stopped, touched his brow bone with his hand, with an embarrassed expression on his face: "I have always wanted to say thank you to Xia Tang, but I always felt embarrassed and didn't have the guts before, when I finally have the courage to say it I have already lost contact with him, so I am so thankful to meet you today."

Ye Ji looked at him inexplicably: "Thank you Xia Tang?"

Wei Donglin: "You should have heard that when I was studying in my previous school, I was often bullied. Do you know what type of person is most likely to be bullied?"

Ye Ji: "He has physical disabilities, a cowardly personality, and very poor family conditions."

Wei Donglin didn't seem to expect Ye Ji to answer, so he glanced at him in surprise, and Ye Ji said, "Xia Tang told me."

Wei Donglin laughed: "No wonder." He turned and continued walking, saying as he walked, "Unfortunately, I have all three things—short, introverted, single parent and very poor, often without money to eat In school, I was teased a lot, at first it was just teasing, then some boys started hitting me, but they didn't hit me because I did anything wrong, just because they didn't like me, or thought bullying me would make them Show your manliness."

He walked slowly along the path, watching the setting sun falling on the sky in front of him, and the afterglow dyed his cheeks orange-red.

"I had a miserable life in those years, and I went home with injuries every day. Later, my mother arranged for me to transfer schools. At first, I didn't have any hope. I just felt that I was just going to another place and continued to be bullied."

Wei Donglin looked down at the pebbles on the road, and a warm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "On the first day I came to school, when I was sitting alone in a corner in a daze, Xia Tang took the initiative to talk to me and introduced me and his Friends met, and later they often came to play with me, and would take me out to eat with you during lunch break. Because of him, I quickly integrated into the new environment, and I didn’t even go through the transition period, and no one bullied me again. If it wasn't for Xia Tang, I can't imagine how difficult my high school life would be, I will never forget these things, and I am really grateful to him."

Ye Ji knew for the first time that there was such a story between Xia Tang and Wei Donglin.At that time, he only felt that a taciturn and weak guy suddenly appeared beside Xia Tang. Xia Tang took good care of him, and sometimes asked Ye Ji to buy an extra breakfast, and then pretended to buy too much by accident, calling him He came over to eat with him.Xia Tang was very generous and friendly to all his friends, so Ye Ji always only thought that Xia Tang was suffering from a "good person's disease", and did not think otherwise.

Ye Ji understood now that Xia Tang did this because he knew that Wei Donglin had no money to eat.