casual and fun

After living together with Yang Sile in Shanghai for half a month, Shi Nian finally understood - or rather, remembered the significance of tonight to the former.

Occasionally, Yang Sile came up with inspiration, and a new rhythm pattern and main theme appeared in his mind. His first reaction was: "This style matches Lin Li's voice very well", "Swapping the chord progression to Xie Chen's writing will definitely make it better I'm good", "Brother Nan will definitely like this passage".

One afternoon they were watching TV together, and when changing the channel, the image of beyond flashed, and Yang Sile would beg Fu Yi to tune back and wait for him for 2 minutes, could he listen to the song "Waiting Forever" before switching to the TV series.

Shi Nian saw with his own eyes how awesome the members of Tonight were with his eyes shining brightly, and saw with his own eyes how yearning he was for a band full of vitality, and he felt guilty in his heart.

He is responsible for the bullshit he said.

So he took the initiative to choose gifts for Xie Chen, Lin Li and Chen Nan. Although he still had a vague impression of these people, the only thing he remembered clearly was that Lin Li stood on the stage on the night of the live tonight, hooking Xie Chen. Shen Neck sang, and someone in the audience shouted "Xiao Nannan, I love you", "Senior sister, I love you".

Yang Sile went back to Qingjiang for a break-up meal a few years ago, and brought gifts to Xie Chen and Lin Li along the way, and made a special statement: "My family gave them every year. He has his whole heart, so you mustn't dislike them."

Lin Li didn't have any expectations, so she took it generously and unpacked it on the spot. The result was beyond her expectation: "Damn it! It looks good!"

Yang Sile didn't know the true content of the gift, so he leaned over curiously: "What did he choose?"

Lin Li had a pair of delicate rose-gold earrings lying on her palms, shaped like straps on ballet shoes.

"How did Shi Nian know that I have pierced ears?"

She tried to wear it while asking Yang Sile, but because she couldn't wear earrings at school, the opening of the ear hole was extremely small, so she couldn't poke it in after several attempts.

"I mentioned to him once that you like to buy jewelry and clothes, but he remembered it." Yang Sile replied.

"Thank him for me, I like it very much, I'm not being polite to you." Lin Li temporarily gave up wearing it, and put the earrings back into the flannel box with a happy face.

Yang Sile turned to Xie Chen on the left: "Xie Chen, won't you take it apart and have a look?"

At first, Xie Chen felt that it would be impolite to rush to open the presents at the dinner table, so he said thank you and kept eating the mutton rolls in silence.

Lin Li sarcastically said: "He's afraid that if he doesn't like it, he won't be able to control his facial expressions, so he doesn't dare to tear it apart."

Xie Chen put down his chopsticks, glanced at her coldly, tore off the red sticker on the gift bag, and took out the gift.

"What is what?" Yang Sile asked.

Xie Chen was a little taken aback when he saw it clearly, he didn't expect it to be Shi Meigui's vinyl record.

"... It's a waste of money. I'll listen to it when I get home during the Chinese New Year."

Yang Sile remembered that Shi Nian had complained before that he had bought an LP online, but the seller hadn't delivered it for a long time.He once thought that Shi Nian had bought a certain musician's chamber symphony album and planned to listen to it by himself, and laughed at him for buying an LP but not a record player.

It turned out to be a favor for him.

It was also thanks to Shi Nian that Xie Chen and Lin Li gradually became active after unwrapping the presents.If you don't talk about the band or the past, there are always other topics to talk about.

At the dinner table, no one mentioned Chen Nan's absence. Yang Sile asked Lin Li about her goal for the college entrance examination, and Lin Li replied that she wanted to major in ballet in a comprehensive university.

"What's the difference between professional colleges and Yinzhong? I've had enough of these three years. It's not interesting to be surrounded by dancing people."

Xie Chen yelled at her angrily: "It's like going to a comprehensive university, you can meet as many people from other majors as possible."

Lin Li showed a pair of dimples, and looked at him with a smile: "Some people are not good at social skills, but it doesn't mean that everyone is not good at it."

Xie Chen revealed the root cause of his anger: "Aren't Yang Sile and I the people around you? Are we dancing?"

Yang Sile hurriedly became a civilized counselor: "It's a good thing that Lin Li wants to broaden his horizons, and he didn't deny our intentions."

Xie Chen picked up a piece of frozen tofu from the pot, and stabbed Lin Li in a low voice before putting it into his mouth: "I haven't seen you make many real friends after socializing for three years."

Lin Li smiled, and didn't answer his faults, only chatting with Yang Sile.

She knew that Xie Chen was telling the truth. Except for the members of Tonight, she really didn't have any friends in Yinzhong, and the friendship with the members of the Xiaonei management team was limited to "netizens". real name and class.

But precisely because it was a fact, her words were particularly unpleasant, making it appear that her high school days were so hideous.People are not grass and trees, she will also be sad.

The atmosphere took a turn for the worse, and the band's disbandment in name really harried the harbinger of cutting off their righteousness.Yang Sile thought he organized the party out of good intentions, and he didn't want to see such a result, but he didn't want to meddle too much in the affairs between the two of them.

Father, like son.He is not blind, the conflict between Lin Li and Xie Chen is not just a matter of the band's survival, but something else, indescribable feelings and obstacles hindering it.

There is always a banquet in the world, and it rained heavily outside.

Yang Sile settled the bill and sent a message to Shi Nian who was waiting for him in a nearby cafe.After leaving the store, he said to Xie Chen and Lin Li: "You all have the documents of "Tonight", you can listen to them if you are bored."

Shi Nian bought an umbrella to pick him up.Standing under the eaves of the store entrance, Yang Sile saw him carefully avoiding the loose floor tiles from a distance, but when he looked up and saw himself, he jumped off the sidewalk and ran towards him along the curb, with a splotch blooming at his feet. Blossoming water flowers.

Shi Nian sighed and stood in front of him, first tilting the big umbrella over his head: "Why don't you wait in the store? It's so cold outside, and it's windy today."

Yang Sile walked under the umbrella, wrapped his hands around him and straightened the umbrella: "Stand for a while when you're full, and digest your food. Let's go."

Xie Chen and Lin Li called cars respectively, but they still haven't arrived, so they have to continue to wait here.Shi Nian greeted them and said that there was a car accident at the other end and there was a lot of traffic.

Lin Li felt that Shi Nian had changed a lot, and it was a good kind of change.

"It's okay. Staying in school every day, the cafeteria will open a green passage for us alone, and the dormitory will provide us with electricity alone. I haven't waited for anything for a long time, so just block it." She smiled at Shi Nian, "Thank you, Chief Shi, earrings It's beautiful, I love it."

Xie Chen followed closely behind: "Thank you, I will listen to the record."

Shi Nian didn't know how to respond to the kindness, and got closer to Yang Sile: "You're welcome...but I'm no longer the chief..."

He cleared his throat: "Well... Thank you for taking care of Yang Sile before, then let's go first."

Lin Li snorted: "Why is it so official, are you the captain's official spokesperson?"

Yang Sile hugged Shi Nian: "Lin Li, don't tease him. It's the first time we're in a relationship, and our friends are relatively unfamiliar, isn't it normal!"

Lin Li glanced at him, then at Shi Nian who was in his arms, and sighed softly, "It's a good first time."

She laughed again: "Remember to send me wedding candy when you have something good to do, don't send too much, it's easy to gain weight."

Xie Chen scoffed, "No matter how fat you are, how fat can you be?"

Lin Li ignored them, and waved goodbye to them: "Let's go, if you don't go, I'm going to die of acid."

Yang Sile wasn't that keen on showing off his affection, so he took Shi Nian away without hesitation.

Xie Chen and Lin Li were speechless and had to find something to do.He turned on his mobile phone to check the location, and found that the car he had booked was still parked at the previous intersection and hadn't moved for a long time.

Lin Li looked at the sky for a while, then suddenly called him: "Xie Xiaochen."

Xie Chen hadn't heard this nickname for a long time, and looked at her with inexplicable anxiety, and didn't speak in a hurry.

Lin Li lowered her head, took out the flannel box in her pocket, and stretched it out in front of him: "Will you wear earrings?"

Xie Shen will not.

But he said, "Yes."

"Yes, Xie Xiaochen, it's all right." Lin Li put the box in his palm, "Then help me put it on, and I'll see the effect."

Xie Chen couldn't understand Lin Li's attitude, so he simply didn't speak, took out an earring silently, took a step forward, pretended to be proficient, but fumbled to find the pierced ear.

Lin Li whispered, "Can you see clearly from such a distance? Come here."

Xie Chen paused, and moved his feet a few inches.

"I don't eat people, come here again."

Xie Chen moved a few more inches.

"I won't say the same thing a third time."

Xie Chen: "..."

There was a large table of people in the store after eating, they lifted the plastic curtain and left the store chatting and laughing happily, just in time to squeeze him in front of Lin Li, leaning against her shoulder, so close that he could smell Lin Li's hair when he turned his head. Fragrant.

"Can you see clearly now?"

Xie Chen took a deep breath, held her shoulders, and stared at her ears as if facing a formidable enemy, not daring to look away.

"Yes, don't move."

He saw that Cheng Hui was wearing earrings, but he didn't know the details, anyway, he had to use his hands to find the position by touching the earlobe.

Lin Li's earlobes are the opposite of her figure, they are thick and fleshy, and they are said to be a blessing.Xie Chen was a little distracted, afraid of hurting her, so he deliberately slowed down the process of pushing the ear acupuncture, just like doing an anatomy experiment.

Lin Li seemed to be able to read minds: "My grandma said that the best parts of my body are the earlobes and pear dimples. I have a lucky face, and I am a little lucky star."

In order to send the ear to Xie Chen, she tilted her head and looked at Ma Lu: "But this was all before I was in junior high school. After I was in junior high school, I became very rebellious. My mother often scolded me that I was in the middle of the blessing and didn't know what to do." blessing."

Lin Li felt that the ear needle had passed through the earlobe, so she passed the matching earplug to her left shoulder with her right hand: "The ear needle should go through the hole in the middle, fix it, don't get it reversed."

Xie Shen followed suit.

Lin Li let him grope, and continued to talk to himself: "I don't think I'm happy, at least not as happy as my mother thinks."

She turned around and sent her right ear and the other earring: "I don't have any friends, my grades are bad, my personality sucks, I'm not easy to get along with, and I'm not very popular. Of course, I'm not a victim of campus bullying. I cursed back at me, I looked down on those who arranged me, those who beat me, those who wanted to kill me... I have already sent them to the police, and they were released at the end of last year. Whatever, I don’t really care.”

"I have been in high school for more than two years. The two happiest things are, one is playing the band without telling my parents, and the other is—" She handed the second earplug to Xie Chen, "The second is liking you."

Xie Chen shook his hands, and the earplugs fell to the ground.

Lin Li glanced down at the earplugs, then squinted at him: "Are you that surprised? Isn't it obvious?"

Xie Chen's ears turned red, and he couldn't help but lose his voice—how is this so obvious? !

Finally got the words out of his mouth, Lin Li felt relaxed, looked in the mirror with the phone screen, and asked Xie Chen with a smile on his lips: "Does it look good?"

Xie Shen was in a complicated mood.He wanted to tell Lin Li that he didn't have to put labels on himself, and he also wanted to reason with her about the quarrels that had happened between them, and sort out his favorite past tense, present tense and future tense.

He has so much to say right now.

"Lin Li..."

Lin Li turned cold, and interrupted him sternly: "I only asked you if this pair of earrings look good on me, I didn't ask anything else."

Xie Chen looked at her face for a while, and finally nodded and said: "It looks good."

Lin Li returned to her smile, Li Dio was very sweet: "Thank you, I am not sad, and even a little happy again."

Xie Chen was speechless when the cell phone in his pocket rang.The driver master told him that he was blocked on the main road and couldn't move, even if he received him, he couldn't get out, and asked him if he could cancel the order.

He agreed, and took the opportunity to muster up the courage to ask Lin Li: "Can I go with you later? The driver can't come."

Lin Li smiled and shook her head: "No."

Xie Chen's heartbeat was completely chaotic like raindrops outside the eaves, scrambling to beat on his chest.He had a premonition that Lin Li would also not come again.

"Xie Xiaochen, if we meet in school next semester, let's pretend we don't know each other, just like these three months." Lin Li confirmed his conjecture.

"I know you like me a little bit, but it's a pity we don't have the same fate as Yang Sile and Shi Nian, we don't need each other."

Standing on tiptoe, she calmly pressed a dry kiss on Xie Chen's mouth.

This is where her dimples grow.

Xie Chen could feel the sweetness of the dimple, but only the bitterness like labor pain.He couldn't refute Lin Li's words, and he didn't know what reason to use to keep her.He did "like it a little bit", but judging from the current situation, this "little bit" liking couldn't break Lin Li's desire to leave.

After Lin Li kissed him, she put down her heels, looked at him and smiled brightly: "Your first kiss should still be there, I won't snatch it, you can give it to the girl you really like. The first kiss is very good, I have already earned my blood .”

Xie Chen really didn't know what to say. For the first time in his life, he hated himself for being stupid.

Lin Li tried not to make this farewell look so heavy and sad, and said boldly: "Why, just smile, I haven't seen you laugh much, what a big deal, don't be sad!"

Xie Chen had a forbearing expression on his face, and he didn't smile until the end.

He missed tonight terribly, because at that time each of them made the little band of tonight a top priority.

Seeing that he still didn't smile, Lin Li unexpectedly felt dense pain in his chest.She originally thought that she liked Xie Chen in general, but the reaction now told her that she didn't seem to be.

It's clear that they haven't known each other for long, and haven't experienced any major events together, without you and me exchanging hearts, how could this happen?

Hold.

She was suddenly very angry with herself, and her temples throbbed wildly with anger.

She took off her coat, gritted her teeth and said to Xie Chen, "I'm in a hurry to go home and write the paper, so let's go first. Don't see me again, see you again!"

Before the car arrived in time, she put on her coat and rushed directly into the rain.

Xie Chen watched Lin Li run far away, his gaze extended to the sky, and his mood was empty.He thought, it is obviously not the rainy season in Qingjiang, why is it still raining so hard?

The author says:

When Xie Chen's brother Xie Yan ran away from home in "Moving Chess and Watching Guns", Qingjiang was in the rainy season and it was raining heavily, so he said "still".

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