hold peck

The Xu family's May Day trip destination is not too far away, it is still in the city, in a manor by the sea.

When this plan was made, the couple had another quarrel, because Liang Yan was worried that Xu Si would not want to go into the water by herself, and Xu Ji'an felt that she was too nervous, so she asked her, "Is it you who is sick?" .

Although Xu Peck didn't witness the verbal fight at home, he could probably guess from the atmosphere after returning home.

Actually, he wasn't going to come back, but Xu Ji'an said that Xu Si would also go this time.

Of course, Xu Peck didn't expect that there was another person besides Xu Si.

"Table table, look at this is fun."

"Xiao Zhuo, I'll eat this for you."

"Table table."

"Table table."

"Table table."

Xu Si sat on the beach chair and looked at the sea and sky in the distance, expressionless.

He felt very annoying, but he couldn't do anything, because Liang Yan definitely didn't know where to watch him secretly.

It was not just their family who came on vacation today, but also several friends and partners of Xu Ji'an's business. Everyone came with their wives and children, smiling and smiling, only Xu Si was depressed.

He didn't want to come at all, if Xu Ji'an hadn't said that Xu Peck would also...

"Table table."

Cheng Jiao came over mysteriously with his hands folded and squatted beside Xu Si, raised his folded palms, and asked him in a breathy tone, "Guess what's inside?"

Xu Si closed his eyes annoyed.

Cheng Jiao was not discouraged: "Guess what, your name is Guess, why don't you like guessing so much, guessing doesn't break the law..."

Xu Si: "Get lost."

Cheng Jiao happily rubbed Xu Si's palm away with his fist, and carefully placed the thing in his hand on it.

"Okay, this is for you, I'll go get you something else."

He did roll away.

His palms were a little itchy, Xu Si lowered his eyelids, looked at the fragile butterfly that had died in his palm, and said nothing.

"Xiao Si."

Behind him was Xu Peck's voice approaching, Xu Si's eyelids twitched, he hid the little butterfly behind him and sat up.

A cup of black tea and milk was handed to him.

"Drink it, I added less sugar." The smile on Xu Peck's lips was faint, but very gentle, as if it had never changed since he was a child.

Xu Si took it without saying a word, and put it directly on the small table next to the beach chair.

But he has changed.

Xu Peck came home last night, and now it's the afternoon of the next day, and Xu Si still hasn't said a word to him.

Xu Peck lowered his eyelids to hide the disappointment in his eyes, his eyes shifted without a trace, and finally landed on the corner of Xu Si's clothes.

"Xiao Si, there is a butterfly behind you."

Xu Si raised his head and looked at him, seemingly stunned for a moment.

"You...are you not afraid anymore?"

It turned out to be the first dialogue coaxed out by the butterfly.

Xu Peck bent his eyes at him: "It's okay."

After all, he has grown up.

The little butterfly caught by Cheng Jiao is very beautiful. The color of its wings is very bright blue with orange red dots. Unable to maintain balance, it failed to fly low on the ground several times.

Maybe it will never fly again.

Just like Xu Si himself.

Xu Peck squatted in front of the butterfly, and somehow conjured a pink paper rose out of nowhere, and stretched it out in front of the butterfly.

Xu Si stared blankly at the insect that walked into the heart of the rose like a moth to a flame.

Cheng Jiao came back humming a song. He was a little surprised to see Xu Peck and the butterfly together, but even more surprised was that Xu Peck stretched out the rose stem towards him.

He also told Cheng Jiao in a warm voice: "Next time you want to give a gift, remember to decorate it first."

Cheng Jiao blinked and took it with a smile: "Thank you brother."

"You play."

Xu Peck smiled, turned and left.

Xu Si was still staring at the rose in a daze.

Cheng Jiao squatted back beside him, the pupils behind the glasses at the bottom of the wine bottle were shining brightly, the corners of his mouth were naturally turned up, bright red and plump like a natural kiss-seeking lip.

He handed the rose and the little butterfly to Xu Si, and said happily, "Borrowing flowers to present Buddha!"

Xu Si picked up the cup of warm black tea and milk and got up to leave.

Cheng Jiao rubbed his nose embarrassingly on the spot, suddenly smiled more happily, got up and chased after him.

"Table table, wait for me."

The group of vacation villas by the seaside of Yancheng has just been built in recent years, and Xu Ji'an has already got one of them with an excellent location before the sale, but it has been put on hold for so many years. come.

The adults drank tea and chatted in the garden, and most of the children went swimming in the sea. Xu Si finally picked a secluded place to rest, but was interrupted repeatedly by Cheng Jiao.

So annoying.

When Xu Ji'an came to pick him up, why did he insist on inviting this guy who was pestering him out of school together.

Xu Si obviously frowned and said "No", but Xu Ji'an looked at his rare expression for a while, and said "No" with a smile.

The psychiatrists thought there was no cure for him, and how could an annoying person be of any help? Xu Ji'an had gone to the doctor indiscriminately.

"Table table."

Cheng Jiao bouncing after him.

Xu Si took a deep breath, ready to speak clearly with him in one breath.

But when he turned his head, he suddenly saw a bear standing in front of him that was as tall as half a person.

"..."

Xu Si silently took a step back.

It was a brown bear doll, wearing a doll dress, with the paper rose stuffed in the pocket, and the butterfly rested quietly on it.

"Little Sisi, guess who I am."

The boy holding the bear behind him pinched his voice and spoke softly.

"..."

Cheng Jiao put his ear sideways to the back of Xiongwa's heart, and after listening for a long time, he didn't wait for Xu Si's response.

The bear is a female bear, Cheng Hao clenched his hands into a fist and squeezed a gentleman's hand on Sister Xiong's chest, and continued to be weird: "I'm lost, Xiao Sisi, can you take me back to your home."

"..."

Still silent, Xu Si must have left already.

Cheng Jiao probed his head, but it was a pity that Sister Xiong was too big, and he couldn't see a single strand of Xu Si's hair when he swayed from side to side.

Well, really gone.

He rubbed the hair on his forehead on Sister Xiong's back, talking to himself to restore the boy's original voice.

"The table is such a difficult table to coax."

"But I like Zhuojiao, and I want to be friends with Zhujiao."

"The sea breeze is so salty."

"Sister Xiong, you are so good at cooking, you can't even seduce boys."

"Where did the table go?"

"I'll heal my emotional wounds before going to him."

He talked a lot, each sentence couldn't be connected into paragraphs, even the butterfly couldn't stand it, spread his wings and flapped, stumbled a few times in the air, and even flapped his wings back into the wind.

When passing by the young man standing quietly opposite Sister Xiong, the butterfly stopped and rubbed against his fingertips, like a silent kiss.

Cheng Jiao was still thinking about it with his eyes closed.

Where he couldn't see, Xu Si's silent eyes were like a pebble floating by an hated little ghost, and ripples circled around.

"Sister, you are so heavy, I can't hold you anymore."

Cheng Jiao sighed, moved his arm up, and grabbed Sister Xiong's neck without any intention of pity.

Xiong came to his arms, and Xu Si stood in front of him.

"Table table."

The glasses that got in the way had been put into his pocket when he picked up Sister Xiong. At this moment, Cheng Jiao looked at him without any cover, and suddenly he bent his eyes, and softly pinched back his weird smiling tone.

"I'm lost, can you take me back to your house?"

The annoying annoying spirit tilted its head slightly, as if patiently waiting for his answer.

Cheng Jiao's eyelids are very thin, even though he wears such exaggerated glasses, the lens does not seem to be deformed at all, and is still nestled in his deep eye sockets obediently.

I don't know how this man was born. It's obvious that from the lips to the eye shape, they are all hooked inwards and outwards, but when you just look at him so quietly, it always makes people feel a little innocent for no reason. Childish.

But I like the table and want to be friends with the table.

The long eyelashes drooped, covering the strange emotion in Xu Si's eyes.

For a moment, he forgot to say "no".

Xu Peck was playing with origami on the balcony on the second floor of the villa.

The rose that He Zhi gave him was given to Xu Si by him. Xu Peck pulled out a stack of absorbent paper in the room, sat on the balcony and basked in the sun, trying to fold one out.

But it's so difficult.

His hand can draw the most precise guide lines, but it can't make the most beautiful creases on the paper.

A table of waste paper, half a flower.

When reaching for the last piece of absorbent paper, Xu Peck finally chose to give up.

Behind the balcony door, Qin Zheng leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, staring at Xu Peck's profile expressionlessly for a while.

The adults kept laughing and urging him to go upstairs to play with Fa Xiao in the same class, as if all the quarrels that happened before were just his own unilateral illusion.

Qin Zheng reluctantly dragged his steps upstairs. Originally, he just wanted to find a random room to play with his mobile phone, but unexpectedly bumped into Xu Peck who was sitting on the balcony and was seriously rubbing the waste paper.

He had never seen this person doing such a nosy thing with such an expression. He was a little surprised. When he realized it again, Xu Peck had put down the last surviving tissue and looked over quietly.

Qin Zheng twitched the corner of his mouth, pushed the door and walked to the balcony, and sat down on the opposite side of Xu Peck.

He is thick-skinned, Xu Peck is not thin, and the laughter of adults can still be heard in the garden downstairs. The two of them sat facing each other, and neither of them felt uncomfortable.

Although the content of the chat does not seem very friendly.

"Qin Zheng."

"I'm not afraid of death, let alone going to jail."

"Don't mess with me."

He hasn't done anything since that incident, and Xu Peck smashed his window first.

Qin Zheng raised his eyelids and stared intently at Xu Peck, who seemed to be in a trance, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, gritted his teeth and called him, "Xu Peck!"

What responded to him was a soft "hmm".

Qin Zheng wanted to curse, hit someone, pinch his chin to make Xu Peck look at him, but in the end he just lowered his eyelids and let go of all his strength.

He said, "I don't know anything about Xu Si."

"..."

Xu Peck looked back at him unexpectedly, but Qin Zheng turned his face away with a cold expression.

Xu Si is half-deaf, but Xu Si is also a child prodigy.

Before Liang Yan married Xu Ji'an and became a full-time wife, she was a well-known middle school teacher. Xu Si never went to kindergarten or preschool since she was a child.

The first time Xu Si went to school, he entered the third grade.

The kids in that class were all older than him, and he didn't know any of them, only a little brother from an uncle's family that he had met.

Xu Si blushed and went to greet him, but the child smiled and pulled off his hearing aid.

That was Qin Zheng's brother.

From then on, Xu Si began to change.

Xu Peck has lived in school since elementary school, and when he comes back every weekend, he is greeted by Xu Si who is becoming more and more silent, Xu Ji'an who is becoming more and more reticent, and Liang Yan who is becoming more and more extreme.

He didn't understand what happened, but he saw the hearing aid that disappeared from Xu Si's ear.

Xu Peck often wanted to help his younger brother, reaching out to give him a hand, but every time Xu Si would silently bypass him.

The most powerless incident happened three years ago, in Xu Si's third year of junior high school, when the teenager was surrounded by strangers in school uniform on the playground, and poured a bucket of cold water from head to toe.

In the cold winter of the ninth month of December, Xu Si sat on the cold basketball court in a thin suit, watching his books being torn to shreds by those people with a blank expression, and then pasted them one by one on his frozen hair. blue face.

For three hours, five hours, or a whole night.

At last those people finally felt cold, pushed him on the ground and kicked him a few times, and left.

Years of inexplicable malice.

And that was just the most ordinary day in these years.

At that time, Xu Si was lying on the ground, looking at the white belly of the sky, wondering what he was thinking.

But in that early morning, after the morning door was opened, Xu Si returned to the dormitory in a state of embarrassment under the silent eyes of everyone, quietly took out the utility knife that had been hidden for a long time, and decided to completely end his ridiculously short life.

After the incident happened, Xu Si dropped out of school and never went to the boarding junior high school again. Later, he directly studied at home and took the senior high school entrance examination, and was arranged by Xu Ji'an to transfer to Xu Peck's high school.

All the people present at the time were arrested and taken to the juvenile detention center, but not long after, Xu Peck saw one of the faces on the street.

But Qin Zheng's elder brother, the culprit of all this, was sent out of the country overnight by his parents on the day Xu Si was hospitalized, and he hasn't come back yet.

Has Xu Ji'an struggled and made trouble for his son?Xu Peck is not very clear.

Anyway, the husband and wife are having a good conversation with Qin Zheng's parents downstairs, and Qin Zheng just sat in front of him at their behest.

I don't understand what the adults are thinking.

I also couldn't figure out what Qin Zheng was thinking.

Xu Peck collected a table of waste papers and slowly stood up.

Qin Zheng looked back at him as if he was about to get up and leave, and couldn't help calling out to Xu Peck again: "I didn't want to do anything, but you always mess with me, I..."

"What did I do to you?" Xu Peck looked back at him, his eyes were cold, as if he was looking at a stranger who couldn't be more familiar.

"Did you misunderstand something. We were never friends."

Even though they grew up together and shared more than one set of toys, after Qin Zheng's brother pushed Xu Si for the first time, everyone in their family was no different from the lunatics on the street in Xu Peck's eyes.

How Qin Zheng suffers, struggles, and rebels has nothing to do with him.

Xu Peck pushed the discarded paper flower in front of him.

"You can treat me like you did before. As long as Xu Si doesn't move, I won't tell anyone."

Qin Zheng stared at him with red eyes, but Xu Zhuo did what he said, turned around and left with his waste paper in his arms.

When the adults in the yard talked about something funny, they burst into joyful laughter.

The veins on Qin Zheng's forehead twitched and twitched, and finally couldn't help it, kicking over the delicately carved iron table in front of him.

The sound of tables and chairs overturning was harsh like an earthquake, but the laughter downstairs only paused for a few seconds before pressing the play button again.