goodbye midsummer

The courses in the third year were not as heavy as the previous two years, and there were only two classes this afternoon. After 10 o'clock, Shen Yi followed the flow of people out of the lecture theater and stood on the stairs to stretch.

Putting a hand on his shoulder: "Shen Yi, are you free on Saturday?"

He turned around and saw Xu Hao, who was in the same class: "What's wrong?"

"Yezi said she wanted to go to the newly opened theme park in the south of the city, and she happened to have four tickets." Xu Hao blinked, "If you won a lottery on Weibo, it's not worth it if you don't go."

Ye Zi is a girl from the Department of Psychology at the same school. She and Xu Hao grew up together and are considered childhood sweethearts.Shen Yi was in the same class as the two of them in high school, so the three of them played together very well.Although Ye Zi was no longer in the same college as them after entering university, Xu Hao and Shen Yi would always bring her along for any fun activities in the department.

Now, she is Xu Hao's girlfriend.

"Theme park? Yes." Shen Yi tidied up his satchel and walked down, "Is it just the three of us?"

Xu Hao smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "It's just the three of us at the moment. If you have a girlfriend, you can bring it here. Two men and two women match each other, and work is not tiring."

The sun was shining brightly, Shen Yi looked at the distant clear sky, and smiled: "I don't have a girlfriend, why don't I take my brother there?"

"Your brother? Where did you get your brother from?" Xu Hao said quickly, and after thinking about it again, she suddenly realized, "Oh, you mean the one brought by your stepmother."

Shen Yi turned around and pretended to punch him: "If Ye Zi thinks there's nothing wrong, I'll ask him when I get back."

"Of course there's nothing wrong with this. But," Xu Hao scratched her head, "I heard from your dormitory that you recently moved back home to take care of your younger brother? What's going on?"

Shen Yi has been living in the student dormitory arranged by the school since he entered university.Although students whose families are also in the city usually choose to live at home instead of living on campus, and Shen Yi’s home is not far from the school, but he prefers to live on campus. Although he will occasionally go home on holidays and weekends, he will not stay every time a long time.

Because Shen Yi seldom mentioned matters about his father and stepmother, and if others did not ask about his own affairs, he would never take the initiative to bring them up.So Xu Hao guessed that his relationship with his parents was not very good.

So Xu Hao was a little surprised to hear that he moved back home this time.

Shen Yi walked into the boulevard, the green leaves covered the bright sun, and the shredded sunlight fell sporadically on his face. He calmly explained: "My dad went to the United States with Aunt Xue, and he refused to follow. Aunt Xue is worried He was alone at home, so he asked me to move home and help take care of him. Anyway, my home is close to the school.”

"Okay, you, a good brother in China, you are not only a brother but also a mother." Xu Hao deliberately bumped into him, "It is so touching that a brother who is not related by blood can take care of him so well."

"Look at what you said, if there is no blood relationship, should I abuse him?"

"No... But, after all, he has replaced your position in the family, don't you feel uncomfortable at all?"

"It's so ugly to say whether to replace or not. Can a unique person like me be replaced casually?"

"Okay, okay, I'm stupid and can't speak. Speaking of which, why doesn't your brother want to go to America?"

"I don't know either. Aunt Xue asked me to persuade him more, but he refused to say anything. Maybe he was reluctant to part with his friends here." Shen Yi said, looking up at the sky, and took a long breath.In autumn, the fresh air entered his lungs.

"Could it be that there is someone I like here, so I don't want to go there." Xu Hao smiled understandingly, "Isn't he only 17 years old, just the age to fall in love."

Shen Yi thought about it seriously: "Maybe it's true. I'll have to ask him when I go back."

On the way home by bicycle, he saw an old lady guarding a fruit stand on the side of the road, and the apples on it were bright red and crystal clear, so he got out of the car and bought a few.

Simply pack it in a plastic bag, tie it to the handlebar, and ride back leisurely all the way.

The setting sun is warm, the breeze is blowing, and it is comfortable and pleasant.

When he rode to the bicycle shed downstairs in the community, he saw Qin Yang looking down at his hands in a daze under the shed, so he called out, "Qin Yang, school is over?"

Qin Yang subconsciously put away his left hand, clenched it into a fist and put it behind his back, watching him without saying a word.

He parked the car and picked up the apple: "You came back earlier than me today."

Qin Yang didn't answer, walked to his left, and silently walked to the elevator with him.Shen Yi was already used to his taciturnity, so he didn't notice anything wrong early on.

After the elevator reached the fifth floor, Shen Yi reached for the key, only to realize that he forgot to bring the key.

"Qin Yang, have you brought the key? Open the door." He was sure that Qin Yang would not forget to bring it, after all, he was a serious and cautious kid.

However, Qin Yang pursed his lips, paused, and then put his left hand into his trouser pocket, and the keys rattled in his hand.When he opened the door, he tried his best to block Shen Yi's sight with his body, but Shen Yi still saw some unusual changes in him: the school uniform shirt was a little wrinkled and stained with some dust.In the sweltering weather like now, he put down the sleeves that were originally rolled up, and the elbows seemed to be scratched, and there were a few dark red marks on the sleeves.

The door opened with a "click", and he was about to enter the room when Shen Yi suddenly grabbed his left hand from behind without saying a word, and he subconsciously frowned.

Shen Yi pulled up his left sleeve, only to see that the skin below the left elbow was scratched, with little blood oozing out, and the palm was the most severely scratched, almost the entire palm was worn out.

"How did you get hurt?"

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Qin Yang had no choice but to tell the truth: "I accidentally fell while riding the bicycle."

"Why didn't you just say it? I'll take you to the hospital." Shen Yi's eyes became sharper rarely.

He lacked confidence: "It's not a serious injury, there's no need... I can just deal with it myself."

"Is it necessary for you to decide? Are you a doctor or a nurse!" Shen Yi's voice also became louder, and he seemed really nervous. "What if I get infected? You want to amputate!"

"It's not that exaggerated." He muttered in a low voice, pulling his hand out of Shen Yi's hand, "I will take good care of the wound."

"Damn brat." Shen Yi grabbed his left hand with his backhand and pulled him out involuntarily, "Follow me to the hospital."

"I've said it's not that serious!" Qin Yang resisted vigorously, pulling on the door frame but refusing to let go, "It's fine if you help me deal with it."

"I—" Shen Yi glanced at the injury on his hand, feeling a little guilty, "What if I don't handle it well..."

Qin Yang saw that he was already shaken, so he said: "It's just a minor injury, just apply some red medicine to disinfect it. You can do it right?"

Shen Yi swallowed, and let go of his hand: "Then I'll try."

Qin Yang's injuries looked a little scary, but they were actually skin traumas.Indeed, as he said, just sterilize and apply some medicine and you'll be fine.

Shen Yi pulled him to the bathroom and helped him wash the wound on his hand under the faucet, because he was worried that the wound would still be covered with sand, so he almost put Qin Yang's hand under his eyelids to check inch by inch to make sure that the sand had been washed away. Dare to enter the next program when it is clean.

He took out the home medicine box, asked Qin Yang to sit down on the sofa in the living room, and then took out a bottle of alcohol.

"I can tell you in advance that this thing is very painful. If you can't stand it and cry later, I will never laugh at you."

"I don't cry."

Having said that, when Shen Yi carefully applied alcohol to the wound with a cotton swab, he still buried his head in a pile of pillows on the sofa in pain.

"Hey, I'll be fine soon." Shen Yi tried his best to speed up the movements of his hands so as not to prolong his torture time.

After the disinfection was finally completed and the ointment was applied, Qin Yang's face was covered with sweat, and his eyes were tearful, Shen Yi couldn't help laughing.

"You look so cute."

"Don't say that!" Qin Yang said, grabbed a pillow with his good right hand and threw it at him.

Shen Yi tilted his head to avoid it, still smiling: "Don't be so angry, be careful not to touch the wound."

Although the wound has been treated briefly, Shen Yi is still worried: "Let's leave it like this for now, and I'll take you to a nearby outpatient clinic tomorrow, in case something goes wrong..."

The owner of the wound seemed very indifferent: "I'll talk about it later. I'm hungry."

Knowing that he couldn't beat him, Shen Yi had no choice but to sigh: "Okay, I'm going to cook."

The two stood up from the sofa together, and for a moment, Shen Yi felt something, and turned to look at Qin Yang: "Have you grown taller again?"

Before he could respond, he reached out and stroked his hair: "I used to be able to see the top of your head, but now that you have grown so tall, I have to look up to see you."

Qin Yang flicked his hand away unhappily: "You are the one who is short."

"Okay, okay, I'm short." Shen Yi sighed, and walked away with a wry smile, "Oh, my brother has grown up, I don't like my brother anymore."

Hearing this, Qin Yang's eyes darkened again: "Shen Yi, can you stop treating me like a younger brother?"

"But you are my younger brother." Shen Yi, who didn't know what was going on, looked back at him, and found that his expression was very serious.The smile became even more bitter, "Okay, since you don't like it, then I won't talk about it in the future."

It seems that I misunderstood again.Qin Yang's heart sank: "I didn't mean that."

"It's okay, I can understand." Shen Yi smiled again, but he was obviously injured.

Qin Yang wanted to explain, but couldn't find any words that could comfort the other party.He could only keep silent and let the misunderstanding continue.

I don't mean that, Shen Yi.

I just don't want you to treat me like a child anymore.

I have grown up, Shen Yi.

I have grown up.

The first time I saw Shen Yi was three years ago.

He just entered the third year of junior high school.That day, his mother went to school to pick him up, urged him to change into formal clothes, and then drove him to a western restaurant.

Seats by the window have a nice view and there are not many people in the restaurant.As they walked in, a middle-aged man stood up from the window seat and waved to them, smiling kindly.

Seeing him, the smile on the mother's face became even brighter.He followed behind his mother and came to the man who was about to become his stepfather.

"My son, Qin Yang. Qin Yang, this is Uncle Shen."

He did the most basic etiquette: he said hello, nodded, and followed his mother to his seat.

There are four seats at the square table, and the seat opposite him is vacant. The uncle surnamed Shen explained to his mother: "Shen Yi has just finished class and may be late. Let's order first."

"We're not hungry, so it doesn't matter if we wait any longer." Probably because she wanted to impress her future stepson, the mother didn't want to rush to order food, "How old is Shen Yi this year?"

"Eighteen this year, just a freshman. His university is nearby, and he will come by himself later." Uncle Shen said and pushed the menu to Qin Yang, "Qin Yang, what do you want to eat, order yourself first .”

She laughed and took the menu: "You are really, he is a child, and he can't understand these."

Qin Yang sat indifferently, not at all intending to participate in the conversation between them.In front of him on the right was a man who was going to be his stepfather, and on his right was his mother, whom he had always been very familiar with but felt strange tonight.

Being with them made him feel very uncomfortable.

Thinking of the future, this man who has nothing to do with him will become his "family", and he feels even more uncomfortable.

The two adults seemed unaware of the sensitive struggle and struggle in his heart at the moment, talking and laughing on their own, like the harmonious couple in the advertisement.

It's unbearable.

Qin Yang sat bored for a while, then made an excuse to go to the bathroom, and quietly walked around to the road outside through the back door.

The western restaurant is built along the river, opposite the road is the endless river.He walked slowly along the sidewalk for a while, and stopped in a place where there were no people.The wind from the river was blowing in front of him, and he leaned on the railing to look at the dark river below and the lights reflected on the river.

He was about to sigh, but not far from his right hand came the sound of someone sighing first: long and heavy.As if full of pain.

He couldn't help but follow the sound and saw a figure in a white shirt leaning against the railing only a few meters away from him, covering his abdomen with one hand, and squatting slightly curled up.

Very painful look.

Although he doesn't like to be nosy, he couldn't help walking over at this moment: "What's wrong with you?"

"No, it's nothing..." The man's voice was visibly trembling, but he still looked up and smiled at him bravely.

Only then did Qin Yang realize that this person was actually not much older than himself, at most seventeen or eighteen years old, his face was pale due to the pain, but his eyebrows and eyes were very delicate.

Unable to leave him alone with this appearance, Qin Yang, who doesn't care about other people's business, had no choice but to propose: "Shall I take you to the hospital?"

I don't know where the perseverance of that person came from, although he was already sweating profusely from the pain, he still shook his head stubbornly: "No, no need... I... I'll just rest like this for a while... Just rest for a while..."

After saying that, he sat down against the railing, bent his legs forward, and buried his head deeply in his knees.

Seeing how persistent he was, Qin Yang had no choice but to squat aside with him, thinking about whether he should call for help.

The evening wind blew across the river, and amidst the sound of running water, Qin Yang heard the sound of his breathing gradually changing from heavy to light, and his body also gradually relaxed, not curled up so tightly.

About 10 minutes later, he slowly raised his head and looked at Qin Yang with a slightly pale face: "I'm sorry to trouble you for so long. I'm fine now, thank you."

"I didn't do anything." Qin Yang stood up in embarrassment, and took two steps back a little later.

"It's a stomach problem, it's an old problem." He might feel the need to explain, and said.Wiping the sweat off his brow, he also stood up while leaning on the railing.

"You should go to the hospital to have a look, it looks serious."

"Yes, later." He smiled again.

Qin Yang looked at his smile, but frowned instead: "You'd better take a rest, your complexion still looks very bad."

"It's okay. It's much better." He continued to smile.

There was nothing in that smile, actually nothing.Qin Yang could tell, and felt uncomfortable because of it.Seeing a person pushing himself so hard, he felt inexplicably angry: "It's uncomfortable if you don't feel comfortable, so what's the point of trying to be brave."

"Huh?" The other party froze for a moment.

"Stop laughing." Qin Yang's tone softened, and he lowered his eyes slightly, "If you don't really want to laugh, then don't laugh."

The habitual smile was still hanging on the corner of his mouth. Faced with this sudden reprimand, the other party seemed a little embarrassed and didn't know how to respond for a while.

Qin Yang also realized that he was inexplicable: "I'm sorry."

The other party was also silent for a while, and then slowly said: "It's okay."

Qin Yang felt that he was even more irritable.

He didn't know why he was so inexplicable.On weekdays, even if he is too lazy to look at his classmates, let alone care about other people's words and deeds.

It's just that today is not an ordinary day. Today, during the meeting with his mother and the so-called "stepfather", the boredom in his heart gradually began to accumulate.

Now, only a flood outlet has been found.

Realize that you shouldn't be so harsh on someone you meet for the first time, and say these inexplicable things.He felt a little guilty for this boy, and his tone softened, and he said again: "I'm sorry."

The boy smiled habitually: "It's okay, I—"

In the middle of the conversation, he suddenly stopped again, stretched out his hand to touch his face, and said belatedly, "Sorry, I seem to be laughing again."

Qin Yang scratched his head, not daring to look at him: "I was the one who said that to you out of nowhere."

He didn't mind, but said instead: "Actually, what you said is also reasonable. Many times I don't want to laugh from the bottom of my heart. I just think that if I smile at certain times, both myself and the other party will feel more relaxed. Unknowingly, I It has become a habit, no matter when you want to laugh or don't want to laugh, you will smile unconsciously."

Hearing his words, Qin Yang felt even more embarrassed, and kept looking down at the ground.

"You seem upset?" the other party said suddenly.

The Jiangfeng blew with a slight fishy smell. Qin Yang didn't want to tell strangers about his affairs, but there was a desire to confide in his heart. After the two desires fought repeatedly, he had no choice but to say: "They are bothering me. Something out of your control."

"Since I can't control myself, I have no choice but to go with the flow. Right?" He turned his head to look at the river, and seemed to have no intention of asking.But there seems to be the same melancholy in the words.

It seemed that this sentence was not only said by him to Qin Yang, but also by himself.

"That's right." Qin Yang sighed for a long time, he didn't intend to continue this topic, so he simply left.

The boy waved to him, still with a faint smile on his face habitually: "If we meet again, I hope your troubles have been resolved."

"When the old ones are settled, there will be new ones."

He laughed: "That's true. Goodbye."

Qin Yang didn't wave to him or say goodbye to him, just turned around and left.

He didn't go back right away, but walked along the river for a while, feeling that the time was almost up, and then slowly walked back to the western restaurant.

He had only left for 10 minutes, and there were more guests in the hall. On the small stage in the corner, a woman in a black dress was playing the violin.

He walked to his seat to Youyang's music, and his mother breathed a sigh of relief when he finally came back: "Xiaoyang, where have you been, we are waiting for you."

He wanted to muddle through without saying a word, but raised his head and glanced at the seat, and was suddenly stunned.

Opposite his seat, sat a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.A white shirt, hair that was blown a little messy by the wind.When the young man saw him, he was surprised for a moment, but soon he showed a bright smile: "You must be Qin Yang. Hello, I'm Shen Yi. We meet again."

A month later, my mother and Uncle Shen got married.