Jian Shuai easily found the wreath shop on the way home.

There is a small white wreath hanging on the corner of the door of the small shop, with a big black word "Dian" written on it. There are several flower baskets filled with small white and yellow flowers beside the door. Two white ribbons hang down from the handle of the flower baskets. , one said to go all the way, and one said the dead rest in peace.

There are several benches in the middle of the small shop, supporting four thin wooden boards. The wooden boards are filled with all kinds of ghost papers, printed in USD/USD/EUR/Yuan, cut into the shape of copper coins with outer circles and inner squares, etc. Gold and silver foils are used to make large ingots, as well as various candles and incense.

The custom in Jian Shuai's hometown is to pay homage to relatives on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is only July and a half.This is his first summer shopping for these.

"Handsome guy, what do you want?" The female owner of the wreath shop had just completed two deals, holding a large ceramic jar, and asked Jian Shuai loudly, "There are suits, 25, 50, 80, 50 and 80 are all It’s printed in color and easy to light, and it’s popular this year.”

"Take two sets of 80." Jian Shuai took a look at this bustling shop, wondering if the other world is also so lively.

"Okay." The female boss swiftly grabbed a few stacks of colored Ming coins on the wooden board, put them in a thick black plastic bag, and handed them over, "I also gave you two more sticks of incense, light it."

"Thank you." Jian Shuai took the plastic bag, took out his phone to scan the QR code to pay, and showed the female boss the payment information on the phone screen.

"Yeah, I received it. Use it well and come back next year, handsome boy."

Jian Shuai hooked a black plastic bag with one finger, and clutched the phone tightly with the other hand in his trouser pocket, his steps became heavy.

After Jian Shuai returned home, he put the plastic bag on the counter in the entrance, pulled on his slippers, took out a carton of milk from the refrigerator, and half-lyed on the sofa.

Jian Shuai didn't live in Xia Yi'an's house for many days. The refrigerator full of Coke was compressed to half, and the other half was filled with milk.

Jian Shuai didn't turn on the light, the outdoor sunlight gradually moved from the middle of the living room to the side, slowly moved out of the living room, and the room became dark.

Xia Yi'an hasn't come home yet.

The meeting time of this group of cadres is too long, did Liu Chuan do it on purpose?

Jian Shuai took out his mobile phone and opened WeChat, tapped the small seal with white characters on a black background, and typed a few words, "Still in a meeting?"

Without waiting for a reply, Jian Shuai exited the WeChat interface and directly dialed the 11-digit phone number.

There are very few people who can remember those 11 numbers now, and Jian Shuai never memorizes his phone number, only Xia Yi'an's is remembered.

"Huh?...I'm almost there, five minutes," Xia Yi'an's panting voice came from the phone, "I'm hanging up."

"Oh." Did Xia Yi'an run back?Panting like that.Jian Shuai pressed his phone, then stood up from the sofa, and turned on the light in the living room.

It was rare for Xia Yi'an to carry his schoolbag behind his back, so he didn't have any free hands, so he carried a large milky white food bag in one hand.

Jian Shuai hurried to the door, took the food bag from Xia Yi'an's hand, and put it on the dining table.

"Brother An, your class leaders have been in meetings for so long?" Jian Shuai took out the packing boxes one by one from the plastic bag, and could smell a very special fragrance through the boxes, "Which restaurant's food is a bit like that of my hometown?" smell."

Xia Yi'an went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of Coke, turned his back to Jian Shuai, raised his head and took a big sip, there was a big sweat stain on his back.

"There's a new private restaurant in Xiangshi on Sanqiaotou," Xia Yi'an stretched out his hand and pulled the T-shirt on his back, turned around and walked out, "Your hometown has shrimp balls, plate eel, drunken shrimp, and apple snails. "

"Sanqiaotou?" Jian Shuai stared, but couldn't find the place name, "Where is Sanqiao?"

"Baidu." Xia Yi'an pulled a piece of clothing off the hanger on the balcony, "I'll take a shower first, sweating all over. If you're hungry, eat first."

"I'll wait for you." Jian Shuai went to the kitchen and brought out two sets of bowls and chopsticks, sat down at the dining table, bowed his head and clicked on the Baidu map.

Baidu map told him that the third bridge is on the third ring road of Wushi City, and Xia Yian's home is on the first ring road.

Before Xia Yi'an finished washing, the doorbell rang.

Jian Shuai looked out through the peephole on the door. It was a takeaway boy in blue overalls. Jian Shuai opened the door.

"Mr. Xia, you ordered takeaway. Please report your mobile phone number." The takeaway boy put a big cardboard box at the door, which looked quite heavy.

"The tail number is 7703, what is this?" Jian Shuai casually said 4 numbers, and these 11 numbers were printed in his mind.

"Beer, 24 cans, please leave a good review if there is no problem. Goodbye!"

Jian Shuai bent down and brought the beer into the room with one hand, and put it beside the dining table.

Really bought wine?What exactly does Xia Yi'an mean?

Jian Shuai was confused.

He felt that he had managed to stand firmly on the ground, but was dragged into the air in an instant, wobbly, not knowing where to put his feet.

Xia Yi'an is still taking a shower, so should I take one too?

Why are you taking a shower?

Why is Xia Yian taking a bath?Xia Yi'an said "sweat all over" by himself, but said nothing else.

Jian Shuai, you have ghosts in your mind, and you are over-interpreting it yourself!

Hmm, overreading.

At this moment, Jian Shuai finally realized that he cared about every word Xia Yi'an said to him.

He propped his elbows on the dining table, pressed his two thumbs hard on his temples, trying to force out the mess in his head.This is of course impossible, at most it just hurts the temple.

The classmate Jian Shuai, who was fearless and fearless, became a coward in front of Xia Yi'an.

The coward took two cans of beer and put them on the table.

Xia Yi'an came out after taking a shower, wearing a gray T-shirt and black sports shorts, with a white towel around his neck, his head tilted to his shoulders, holding the corner of the towel with his slender fingers, wiping his hair and the drops of water around his neck. Peppermint.

With a "poof", Jian Shuai withdrew his gaze from Xia Yi'an, opened his can of beer, and asked him nonsense, "Do you want to open this can of yours?"

"The beer was delivered? Very fast!" Xia Yi'an sat across from Jian Shuai, with the back of his hand on the outside of the packing box, and tested the temperature of the food, "I don't drink alcohol, I drink Coke."

It's not just nonsense.

"You don't drink? Then you buy this big box of beer?" Jian Shuai's hand rested on the tab of another can of beer.

"I bought the wine for you." Xia Yi'an went to the coffee table and brought over the Coke he had just taken a sip of. "Rule [-] of the No. [-] middle school students' rules, don't drink alcohol."

"So much? I can't finish it!" Jian Shuai put two cans of beer in his hand, and threw a drunken shrimp into his mouth. "Besides, I'm also a middle school student, so I have to abide by the student rules."

"I'm not in school now, so I don't have to abide by it." Xia Yi'an said

"That's right, if you're not on campus, you don't have to obey. Here's a can!" Jian Shuai pushed the unopened can of beer in front of Xia Yi'an.

"I'm self-disciplined," Xia Yi'an smiled a little, "I'm not like someone who can't do anything without alcohol..."

"I still..." Jian Shuai raised his neck and drank half a can of beer, "Brother An, have you memorized the more than 4 words of the student code? Do you know what Article [-] is?"

"Article [-]? What is it?" Xia Yi'an put down his chopsticks, shook a plate of eel away, and studied where to start his mouth

"Pretend!" Jian Shuai took out a wet paper towel and wiped his hands carefully, took a plate eel from the vegetable box, folded it from the top, and pulled it down, the whole eel was divided into two sides.

He threw the clean piece of meat into Xia Yi'an's bowl.

Jian Shuai thought about it, and simply cleaned up the whole box of eels, put them in a small pile in the vegetable box, and handed them to Xia Yi'an.

"What are you pretending to be?" Xia Yi'an picked up a piece of eel meat, "I really don't know how to make this stuff, it tastes okay."

"I said you didn't know Article [-] of the Student Regulations. It's just pretending." Jian Shuai reached out and took out a toothpick from the corner of the table, grabbed a snail and waved it in front of Xia Yi'an's eyes, "You definitely don't know this either." Do it, right?"

After finishing speaking, he bowed his head and began to order the Fushou snails.

Xia Yi'an looked at Jian Shuai who was opposite him.

The warm yellow restaurant light streamed down the top of his head, his thick eyelashes fluttered slightly, and a small shadow fell on his cheek.The collar of the school uniform was open, revealing the juvenile's unique protruding collarbone.

The corners of Jian Shuai's slightly raised lips were now pursed into a small straight line, his knuckle fingers were nimbly splitting the snail meat, his serious expression replaced his usual perverseness.

Xia Yi'an raised his head and took a sip of Coke, "I don't want to know the terms that I can't abide by."

"Ah? Are you arrogant, Brother An," Jian Shuai's eyes brightened, and he pushed a box of snail meat in front of Xia Yi'an, "Here, it's done."

"The food from your hometown is very troublesome to eat." Xia Yi'an frowned, "Don't mess with it, eat it by yourself."

"I eat these, and I just peel them with my mouth without using my hands." Jian Shuai picked up a shrimp ball, moved his mouth twice, and spit out a complete orange-red shrimp shell.

Xia Yi'an stared at him, raised his hands and made a fist.

The food in my hometown really suits my appetite. It is true that one side supports the other side.The taste of food is deep in the memory, just need to give a little reminder, the whole body will remind itself where it came from.

It has been two months since Jian Shuai left Xiangshi.Xiangshi, the place where he lived for nearly 17 years.

Although the idea of ​​running away from home has been around for a long time, it is not as easy as it sounds.

The conflict between Jian Shuai and Jian Zhiqiang broke out in the first year of junior high school.

That year, Jian Zhiqiang brought back a woman who was about the same age as his mother, with big eyes, somewhat similar to his mother.

Jian Shuai was no stranger to the fact that he took different women home every once in a while.

But this time is different, Jian Zhiqiang wants to marry this woman.

It doesn't matter if you get married, Jian Shuai didn't hate this woman at first sight.What's more, he can go to school to live and study, and give up this home to them.

Jian Zhiqiang disagreed. He not only asked Jian Shuai to stay at home, but also asked Jian Shuai to call that woman's mother and daughter's sister.

Just marry your wife, I have to make a P response. Is it okay to call the name "Mom" casually?And my sister, my sister is only Jian Dan.

Jian Zhiqiang took the woman and her daughter home.

Jian Shuai had just finished school that day, with his schoolbag still hanging on his shoulders. When he opened the door, he saw the three people sitting comfortably on the sofa, chatting and laughing in a friendly manner.

Jian Shuai was stunned, and the corners of his eyes were hot.In a blink of an eye, I thought I was back a few years ago, when I was wearing a red scarf and carrying a small schoolbag, and I opened the door to see the scene after school.

Jian Zhiqiang stood up, waved and said, "Jian Shuai, come on, let me introduce you formally. These are your mother and sister. We will all be together from now on."

Jian Shuai felt unreasonable.He threw his schoolbag against the wall and kicked over the mahogany coffee table in the living room, in exchange for Jian Zhiqiang's slap.

The 13-year-old Jian Shuai was still very thin, and he staggered for several steps before he could stand still because of the slap.

From this day on, Jian Shuai never spoke to Jian Zhiqiang again.Even though his dad wasn't with that woman afterwards.

During this period, Jian Dan took countless leave of absence, as well as Liu Chuan.The two rushed home from the university, persuaded Jian Shuai and then went to persuade Jian Zhiqiang, but it was completely useless. Their father-son relationship was stable at freezing point.

Taking care of Jian Shuai is also the reason why Jian Dan chose to return to Xiangshi after graduating from university.

Jian Shuai doesn't want to think about these things, and rarely mentions them to others.

This August evening, facing Xia Yian, he drank the beer Xia Yian bought and ate the hometown food that Xia Yian bought after traveling so far, and told him one by one.

Xia Yi'an didn't speak, and slowly ate the eel and apple snails that Jian Shuai had peeled, and listened quietly.

He clenched the hand holding the Coke bottle from time to time, wanting to travel through time, hold that helpless little handsome Jian, give him a hug, and tell him about his loneliness.

Jian Shuai's drinking capacity is not as good as he imagined. He drank 8 cans of beer and became dizzy.

He hung his head, resting his hand on his forehead, covering most of his face, "Brother An, when are we going to burn paper?" He rubbed his eyes, "I miss my mother!"

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