After winter, the sunshine time shortens suddenly, and when the sun sets, there are already more than ten palm-sized fish in the folded fish bucket.

Facing the golden-red water, the two remained silent.

After a long time, Jiang Lai said, "Come back, we've caught enough."

Bei Xiaowu sorted out his emotions, pursed his lips slightly and smiled, glanced at the fish bucket at his feet and gave a soft "hmm".Well, he still didn't move.

Jiang Lai didn't rush him, and got up alone, and slowly packed his things first.

After he finished everything, Bei Xiaowu really seemed to come back to his senses.He jumped off the stone pier, took the fish bucket from Jiang Lai, and has returned to his sunny youthful appearance.

Jiang Lai smiled and touched Bei Xiaowu's head affectionately.

"go home."

"Well, go home."

Together, the two followed the direction they came from, and passed through the dry reeds back to the bicycle.This time, Jiang Lai took care of the children's emotions, took the initiative to push the car onto the road, and let Bei Xiaowu sit in the back seat.

Bei Xiaowu was not too polite, carrying a fishing gear bag and an empty lunch box bag, a bucket of fish in one hand, and Jiang Lai's down jacket with the other.

The temperature dropped quickly, and the wind was more gentle than it was during the day, which was just a joke.

Jiang Lai was riding his bicycle, and the north wind poured into his collar, shaking again and again.

Bei Xiaowu, who was originally holding the hand on the back of the down jacket, loosened it and moved it upwards, wrapping one arm around Jiang Lai's waist calmly.

Getting along with people is very strange, and crying together seems to be the fastest way to deepen understanding.Because being able to cry for something at the same time at least shows that they have the same understanding of something.

This afternoon is not so much a matter of two teenagers fishing together, but rather a meeting of two rushing rivers.They exchanged their inner feelings and bottom lines with each other, deepened their understanding, and tasted each other's emotions.

Jiang Lai was hugged by Bei Xiaowu, and when his heart warmed up, he pedaled extra hard.When they returned to Shuangjiao Hutong, it was completely dark and the street lamps were all on.

"Come to my house for dinner at night, let my grandma make soup, and ask Aunt Xue to come with me." Bei Xiaowu let go of Jiang Lai's waist and jumped out of the back seat of the car.

Jiang Lai put his legs on the ground, nodded and smiled, "Okay."

The dim street lights in the alley shone down from the top, and the two teenagers bathed in it looked at each other, with more tenderness and love in their eyes.

Footsteps were faintly heard from the depths of the alley, and the two turned their heads to look at the same time, only to see Baixue walking towards them wrapped in a woolen coat and a thick scarf.

"Jiang Lai..." Bai Xue breathed on her hands and quickened her pace.

Jiang Lai pushed Bei Xiaowu to signal him to go into the yard, then stopped and stood there, "Why are you here?"

Bei Xiaowu greeted Bai Xue with a smile, listened to Jiang Lai, and went back first with the fishing gear and fish.

Bai Xue stuffed her hands into her pockets and stomped her feet in the cold, as if she had been outside for a while.

"I sent you a WeChat message for a day, and I didn't see you reply, so I wanted to come over and take a look." Bai Xue's face was frozen, so her smile also hardened.

"Is there something urgent?" Jiang Lai reached out for his phone, playing and crying with the children, he really hadn't checked WeChat that day.

"Ah, no, no, nothing urgent," Bai Xue hesitated, then reached out and tugged at Jiang Lai's handlebar, and said, "Do you have time? Can we sit at the milk tea shop at the entrance of the alley for a while? "

Jiang Lai put his phone back, was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, "Wait for me to get off the car."

Jiang Lai turned around and walked into another door behind him, Bai Xue looked at his figure, and suddenly realized that Jiang Lai and Bei Xiaowu were not blood brothers at all.

She smiled and stomped her feet on the spot. Within a few minutes, Jiang Lai came out of the door and gave Bai Xue a hand warmer.

Bai Xue took it, and gratefully pressed the hand warmer to her frozen cheek.

Jiang Lai smiled and said, "I just glanced at the WeChat you sent, thank you for asking someone to help delete that post."

Bai Xue took a deep breath, pursed her lips, and looked back at Jiang Lai's expression nervously.

Jiang Lai stopped talking, passed her and walked ahead, and the two walked into the milk tea shop at the entrance of the alley after a while.

On winter weekends, there were not as many people as usual, and there was only a couple sitting near the wall in the milk tea shop.

Jiang Lai guessed from the taste of the milk tea that Bai Xue gave her in the past, that she likes the chocolate hazelnut flavor, so she ordered two cups and brought them to the window seat.

After Bai Xue warmed up a bit, she still pursed her lips without saying a word, as if she was considering how to speak.

Jiang Lai took a sip of the hot milk tea and smiled, "Tell me, it's okay, I won't do anything to him either."

"You know?" Bai Xue nervously held the paper cup.

Jiang Lai nodded, with a nonchalant smile on the corners of his eyes and brows, "I guessed it. Although I don't know why he hates me so much, I believe he didn't expect the impact of this kind of post at first."

"I'm sorry," Bai Xue said, "Liu Zhi was not like this before."

Jiang Lai remained silent, intentionally or unintentionally sweeping over Bai Xue's dodging gaze.

"He has encountered a lot of things recently..." Bai Xue's voice was very low, and she had to listen hard to hear it in the small shop where pop music was playing.

"His parents separated two years ago, but they never told him. Until some time ago, he happened to meet his father holding arms with another woman in a shopping mall. He angrily thought it was his father cheating on her. Unexpectedly, the truth was another woman. appearance, and then people become particularly suspicious.”

Although Jiang Lai instinctively felt that he should sympathize with Liu Zhi, who was also from a single-parent family, he couldn't express a trace of forgiveness. He frowned unconsciously and tapped his fingers on the table impatiently.

"Forget it, I don't want to know what happened to him, so I sent that kind of post to vent my anger. Whether you want to tell me this today, or he wants you to tell me this, since the post has been withdrawn, just treat it like me I don't even know."

Bai Xue was silent again, lowered her head and sipped the milk tea in the cup, glanced out of the window inadvertently, and saw a big round face lying on the window, she suddenly screamed in fright.

Everyone in the milk tea shop looked at the window in surprise.Jiang Lai turned his head, and in the winter warmth created by the street lamps, Liu Zhi was standing coldly outside the window, like a black bear tortured by hunger and sleepiness.

One cold and one warm formed a huge contrast, which undoubtedly made Liu Zhibu feel a bit eerie.

"Liu Zhi!" Bai Xue watched the boy turn around slowly outside the window, and hurriedly got up and chased him out.

For some unknown reason, Jiang Lai instinctively went out with Bai Xue.

In the alley, three people are almost the same distance apart.

"Liu Zhi!" Bai Xue shouted again.

"Bai Xue!" Jiang Lai inexplicably felt that the girl was dangerous, so he called her name.

"You!" Liu Zhi turned around, the gentle smile in his eyes was completely gone, replaced by nameless anger.

Like a ignited firecracker, he rushed to Jiang Lai and grabbed the collar of Jiang Lai's down jacket.

"Why can't you stay away from her???" Liu Zhi's excited voice was high and trembling, causing passers-by and the guys chasing him from the milk tea shop to shrink back.

"Hehe." Jiang Lai gave him two dry laughs lightly.

Liu Zhi was completely enraged by Jiang Lai's laughter, he let go of his fists and flew towards Jiang Lai sideways.

Jiang Lai reacted very quickly, not only did he miss the punch, but he quickly reversed the situation and grabbed Liu Zhi's wrist with his backhand.Pulling and pulling, he was confident that Liu Zhi would be injured, or at least dislocated, within a moment.

But at the critical moment, Jiang Lai still let go.After all, Liu Zhi is an art student just like him, and he is a person who relies on his hands to pursue his dreams.

"Liu Zhi, calm down." Bai Xue rushed between the two and faced Liu Zhi trying to stop her.

But Liu Zhi pushed the petite girl away and slapped his chest, "Come on, let's fight in a fair and honest manner."

Jiang Lai knew why Liu Zhi was angry, he glanced at Bai Xue, and understood why Liu Zhi appeared on Gujian Street in the winter night, but calmly shook his head, "You can't beat me, let alone we have nothing to fight for." of."

"There is nothing to fight for?" Liu Zhifang couldn't believe it, his clenched fists were hanging by his side, ready to go, "There is nothing to fight for, why did you transfer to No. [-] Middle School, why did you participate in Teacher Shao's recruitment, why did you always Being treated specially, why are you with her!"

"If you are too small-minded, don't blame God for only rewarding those who are willing to work hard." Jiang Lai returned to Liu Zhi, every word sonorously.

"Ha, haha!" Liu Zhi seemed to have heard an unreasonable joke, "You are a person who got into No. [-] Middle School through connections, are you talking about hard work here? Which one did you get that wasn't because of your family background, calligraphy and painting?" Everyone’s grandson is amazing, right?”

"Touch!" As soon as Liu Zhi finished speaking, he was kicked violently from behind.

Liu Zhi bumped into Jiang Lai's arms unprepared, and Jiang Lai's subordinates pushed him away without any seriousness, only then did he realize that it was Bei Xiaowu who kicked Liu Zhi.

"Is this the person who randomly posted those photos on the Internet?" Bei Xiaowu waited at home for a while and didn't see Jiang Lai and Aunt Xue coming to the house. .

"Hmph, I called for help, right?" Liu Zhi stood firm, relying on his solid weight, he rushed towards Bei Xiaowu.

Bei Xiaowu has been in this alley for a long time, except for Jiang Lai, he has never been afraid of the second person. Without saying a word, he took a step forward and punched Liu Zhi in the stomach, which made the fat man spit acid on the spot.

It was the first time for Jiang Lai to see a child attack with such precision and viciousness, he couldn't help sweating secretly, and stepped forward to wrap his arms around Bei Xiaowu.It seems to protect him from harm, or it seems to be afraid that this little wolf cub will rush out and bite people.

When the fight really started, the spectators didn't want to cause trouble and hurried away, and the milk tea shop also drew half of the curtains as if they hadn't seen it.In the alley, only Baixue sobbed softly.

"Don't do it, don't do it."

At this moment, at the intersection of two alleys, a figure flashed past.Both Jiang Lai and Bei Xiaowu knew that Toad was parading around the streets with his little brother again.

Since some time ago, Toad was injured by someone, this group of people routinely patrolled the Gujian Street every night, one alley after another, and it was bound to avenge Toad's forehead seven centimeters.

Toad also saw Bei Xiaowu who was flopping in Jiang Lai's arms under the street lamp, kicking Liu Zhi with his feet, and the raw face curled up on the ground with his hands covering his stomach.

"Let's go, brothers, let's go and see who is so bold and dares to bully our brothers." Toad moved his shoulder armor and walked towards Jiang Lai and the others with great interest.

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