Fork in the road

It was already a year later when Yu Xian and Bai Xiaoyuan met again.

The two of them are not in a hurry to go somewhere first, because the places that should be on vacation are all on vacation, even if they go to the most prosperous snack street here, they may not be able to fill their stomachs.

The two sat in the familiar McDonald's. Yu Xian saw that Bai Xiaoyuan's expression was no different from usual, so he asked, "How are you at home?"

Bai Xiaoyuan struggled for a while on how to answer this question. Although he also called this place "home" in his mouth, the "home" in his heart was only the house where he and Bai Xinhong lived.

But if the answer is "no", even though the elders here were so angry that they scolded Bai Xinhong and nearly beat her up with a cane, they just stopped talking and hugged her in the end; ", that kind of faint estrangement is always there, after all, when Bai Xinhong left home at first, the two parties must have had resentment, and they have been separated for so long, it is always a little uncomfortable.

Bai Xinhong was just not used to it, but Bai Xiaoyuan was completely facing strangers.Although there is the phrase "blood is thicker than water", it is still somewhat difficult to make Bai Xiaoyuan feel close to all the relatives he meets for the first time.Moreover, the elders here wanted to make up for it. In Bai Xiaoyuan's eyes, it was a kindness that could not be rejected. Although he was a passive recipient, he couldn't control his helpless emotions.

It took some time for Bai Xiaoyuan to accept the sudden addition of such a large group of relatives who had never appeared in his life before.Fortunately, Bai Xinhong didn't make him have to walk more among relatives, but only told him: "Whether you contact this side is your own business. If you don't want to, we won't go back to province K too many times." Opportunity, I don’t have to take you with me when the time comes; if you want, you can go and ask for your cousin’s WeChat ID or something.”

Now there are three more people in Bai Xiaoyuan's WeChat friend list.The uncle's family has two cousins, and the second uncle's family has a cousin.

So Bai Xiaoyuan's final answer was: "It's okay."

Yu Xian raised his eyebrows: "This answer is a typical example of 'perfunctory' - but I know you don't mean it, so it's really okay? Didn't you get beaten?"

"Even if I was beaten, it definitely wasn't me. I didn't know where I was when they had a conflict, so I definitely wouldn't blame me."

"Excuse me? So you're still a little unhappy?"

"It doesn't count. There is no joy, but there is no mutual accusation." Bai Xiaoyuan shook his head and suddenly laughed, "By the way, let me show you the Moments of my cousins. There are photos in it."

Yu Xian took Bai Xiaoyuan's phone, pulled it down little by little, and said while looking at it: "I don't think you have any similarities with your cousin..."

"After all, he is a cousin, not a relative." Bai Xiaoyuan shrugged.

"But you and your cousin really do look alike." Yu Xian thought of Bai Xiaoyuan's women's clothing at that time.

"Thank you." Bai Xiaoyuan rested his chin and wondered if it was because of his motherly looks.

The two discussed where to go at McDonald's for a while, and finally came up with two options rather uninspired: either go to the park or go to the zoo.Bai Xiaoyuan's evaluation of these two places is that one is a place that the elderly love to go to, and the other is a place that elementary school students love to go to.

Yu Xian didn't take it seriously, and asked him: "Then do you want to be an old man or a primary school student?"

"I don't even think about it... I remember there is a large playground here?"

"In winter, the outdoor events will not be opened, and many of them cannot be played."

"Not at all. It doesn't snow here in winter, and there are still many trees that are green—it's not a pine tree, it should be different from our house."

Yu Xian felt that what Bai Xiaoyuan said made sense. After searching the Internet, he found that what Bai Xiaoyuan said was correct. Although many people on the Internet do not recommend visiting in winter, it is true that most of the amusement facilities here are still in operation in winter.

Yu Xian glanced at Bai Xiaoyuan and asked, "Who likes to go to the playground?"

Bai Xiaoyuan thought for a while: "Couples."

Yu Xian himself didn't know why he felt a little nervous after hearing Bai Xiaoyuan's answer, so he could only say expressionlessly: "At least it's better than elementary school students and old people, because the age is closer."

"Do you have any misunderstandings about elementary school students and elderly people? Who said that elementary school students and elderly people don't fall in love?" Bai Xiaoyuan was very happy when he learned that he was going to the playground, and he was also laughing when he talked.

"Even if you are in love, you won't go to the playground to talk. Primary school students under 1.2 meters will just play on the carousel and coffee cups, and the elderly will go to the playground... just watch the performance."

Bai Xiaoyuan nodded: "What you said makes sense." He stood up with a "huh", "So let's go!"

There are not as many tourists in winter as there are in summer, and now that the new year is just over, Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian don't have to stand in long queues to play, and they are quite satisfied.

Both of them are not afraid of heights, nor are they timid. After entering the playground, they thought about how to get excited, so they first went to line up for the roller coaster.Originally, the two of them wanted to be in the first row, but others got ahead of them. Bai Xiaoyuan could only comfort Yu Xian by the way: "It's okay, it's okay, we can do it again later."

This roller coaster is not reversed, so its bumper is not the kind where a single seat is buckled on the shoulders, but two people are pressed on the legs.Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian sat next to each other, holding the horizontal bar in front of them with both hands, muttering, "This simple safety measure... I don't think it will be too exciting."

After a while, Bai Xiaoyuan took back the flag he had set with these words.

Because their upper body is not fixed, the sense of weightlessness when diving is particularly strong.A roller coaster with a bumper buckled on the shoulders, even if the head is down, the sense of weightlessness will not be too strong; and this kind of roller coaster gives people a feeling that they are about to fall or be thrown out when they dive and turn.

Because there were two people together, and the speed was extremely fast when turning, both Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian were thrown heavily on each other several times, and when they came down, their arms were all wooden.The face is also wooden, because it was beaten by the wind.

After Bai Xiaoyuan came down, he rubbed his face and said happily, "It's fun! Let's play again later!"

Yu Xian's performance was much calmer, and he said indifferently, "Okay." He glanced at Bai Xiaoyuan, and then said, "You've always been like this when you ride the roller coaster... um, ah?"

"What's wrong with me? I also made a sound when everyone was yelling, but you, with a slumped face like you're playing on a merry-go-round." Bai Xiaoyuan opened his eyes wide and pretended not to understand.

Yu Xian thought that you made a sound, but it was different from other people's.

When climbing up, Bai Xiaoyuan began to think about things, such as "Will it hurt to blow my face when I go downhill?", and "I want to play with my head down. It seems that it's not really sad here." Anyway, Xu Xu Can't stop chattering.Yu Xian thought that Bai Xiaoyuan was nervous, and he had the idea of ​​watching a good show in his heart, waiting for a while to hear Bai Xiaoyuan scream.

In the end, Bai Xiaoyuan really didn't play his cards according to the routine. When others were screaming when he dived, he laughed wildly there, laughing and shouting: "It's really cold, hahahahaha!"

When turning wildly, they exclaimed back and forth, but Bai Xiaoyuan was still laughing when he bumped into Yu Xian, and said by the way: "Fortunately, neither of us is fat, otherwise we would have to crush the other one." Hahahahaha!"

So it is quite reasonable for Yu Xian to suspect that Bai Xiaoyuan turned on some strange switch.

Bai Xiaoyuan said solemnly: "I have never been to an amusement park before, and I don't know that I have so many conversations when I play. But it is also a good entertainment for you, so don't worry about it haha."

Yu Xian said: "I'm fine, I'm afraid you will scare others."

"I'm not as scary as a roller coaster!" Bai Xiaoyuan smiled and defended, "They're patronizing and shouting, so they don't have the heart to care about me."

"Hmm." Yu Xian shook his head helplessly, "What's next?"

"That one will throw people off! How about it!"

"Okay, okay." Yu Xian followed in Bai Xiaoyuan's footsteps.

It's been a long time since the two of them played so presumptuously. Bai Xiaoyuan looked extremely happy the whole time, and even Yu Xian, who was always indifferent, had a smile on his lips.This day, Yu Xian and Bai Xiaoyuan played all the exciting items in the amusement park. Bai Xiaoyuan kept being screamed and laughed wildly. In the end, Yu Xian didn't know whether to cooperate with the big bear The child laughed twice, and beat him according to his own heart.

Forget it at other times, is it really okay to laugh wildly at the staff who are seriously pretending to be scary after entering the haunted house?In the second half of the haunted house, Yu Xian was ready to twitch the back of Bai Xiaoyuan's head at almost any time to interrupt his laughter.

Bai Xiaoyuan was quite puzzled by this, "At least I made a sound, Xianyu, you go all the way, um, like this." Bai Xiaoyuan made a serious expression, "It feels like you can even go to the United Nations meeting."

"Is it better to have no expression than to smile?" Yu Xian retorted.

"can you?"

"Isn't it?"

Bai Xiaoyuan blinked calmly, "Well, let's go have dinner."

Yu Xian also said calmly: "Okay, what do you want to eat?"

When Yu Xian returned to his great-grandfather's house, it was already dark.

Seeing him coming back, Hu Yue asked, "Did you have fun?"

"Well, I'm very happy."

"Who paid for the dinner?"

"...Bai Xiaoyuan. He said that I did well in the final exam, so he invited me."

Hu Yue immediately frowned, "How long has it been? Why do you still let people treat you? Didn't you bring you a lot of money before you left?"

Yu Xian said weakly: "We both come here in turn, but sometimes we can't remember who paid the bill last time, so we just come here casually. We don't count so clearly, Mom."

"I didn't ask you to settle the matter. I want you to spend more. Xiao Yuan doesn't know how much his monthly living expenses are. Don't let people treat you all the time."

The question that lingered in Yu Xian's heart for a long time appeared again: Who is Hu Yue's real son, he or Bai Xiaoyuan?The answer must not be yourself, right? !

After washing up and lying on the bed, Yu Xian picked up his mobile phone and looked at the photos he took today. There is no one in Bai Xiaoyuan who does not show his teeth.He looked at the photo sent by Bai Xiaoyuan with a smile, and found that he was always smiling in the photo of the other party, and he didn't feel that he was not close at all.

Neither of them like to take selfies. The only group photo they took was in front of the roller coaster with the help of a passer-by. Bai Xiaoyuan put his shoulders on his shoulders, and his smile was so bright that he was a little silly, and he was also smiling, although he did not show it like Bai Xiaoyuan. He has eight teeth, but Yu Xian also feels stupid in himself.

Yu Xian stared at this photo, thinking silently in his heart, those inexplicable feelings and emotions before were really just a momentary illusion, that's right.This friendship is both beautiful and precious, and it will definitely last for a lifetime. I have no reason to think about changing it into something else, no reason at all.

He locked the screen of his phone, paused, and unlocked it again.

He looked at the smiles of the two people on the screen, and finally put the glowing phone upside down by the pillow.