I surrender my foe with a kiss

When Jiang Chao received Xiao Ci's call, outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, street lamps were lighting up one by one.

There was no emotion in the boy's voice, he just said, "Come out and play with me."

Jiang Chao glanced around, guarding his tutor like a thief, and said, "Why don't we play tomorrow, and I'll book a court for you."

Xiao Ci stopped talking.

Only a faint buzzing of insects could be heard.

"Okay, okay," Jiang Chao surrendered, "Where are you, I'll go find you now."

As soon as he hung up the phone, the tutor immediately stepped forward and said, "Master, there are three big problems left."

"Oh, I have something to do right now, so I have to go out immediately." Jiang Chao took off his white shirt and put on a sports T-shirt. The moment his abdominal muscles showed, the tutor was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Chao put on his clothes and went out, the tutor immediately adjusted his glasses to follow, "Hey, master, master."

"Don't follow me," Jiang Chao made a "shh" gesture, "My baby is so short-tempered, I have to coax you quickly. Wait for me to come back here, and I will send [-] yuan to your card an hour."

This trick worked really well, and the tutor sent by my father finally stopped making noise.Jiang Chao put on his sneakers and walked out the door in high spirits.

When Jiang Chao found Xiao Ci, it was already dark.Through the high barbed wire, Jiang Chao saw Xiao Ci sitting alone on the field with his head down, his figure looked very small under the dim street lights.

Cars pass behind, kicking up noise and stagnant water.Jiang Chao looked at Xiao Ci quietly, his heart softened.

He patted the ball and walked to the center of the court, and whistled at Xiao Ci.

Xiao Ci raised his head and looked at him.

For a moment, Jiang Chao read a bit of panic and despair from the young man's eyes.

However, this emotion was so fleeting that Jiang Chao almost thought it was his own illusion.

He watched Xiao Ci stand up, walk towards him, lowered his head, and bumped into his shoulder.

Jiang Chao subconsciously wanted to put his arms around Xiao Ci's shoulders, but before he stretched out his arms, Xiao Ci had already taken the basketball away.Withdraw, take off, the basketball hits the board and goes into the basket, a pretty beautiful three-pointer.

"Okay!" Jiang Chao shouted, turned his hand to catch the bounced basketball, turned around, and took a few steps to run up.When he got under the basket, his calf exerted strength, and his slender figure leaped into the water.The slender fingers just grabbed the basket, and he dunked down, bringing the basketball to a hard smash.

Almost at the same time, Xiao Ci tacitly caught the falling basketball and dribbled it in his hands.Jiang Chao rushed over, squatted down, and opened his arms to stop him.

The basketball court was wet after it rained, and the patches of stagnant water were dark.During the short time they fought, many people surrounded the barbed wire fence, watching the competition between the two teenagers.

"Come on, pass me." Jiang Chao raised an eyebrow at Xiao Ci with a smile.

Xiao Ci's face was solemn, he didn't know what was going on in his heart, and he didn't say a word no matter how teased Jiang Chao was.Just keep playing ball with a sullen head.

When Xiao Ci played the ball, he was really desperate, rushing left and right, rebounding, three-pointers, hollow shots, scoring one after another.Detonated the cheers of the audience again and again.Even Jiang Chao couldn't stop him to some extent.Even if he blocked it hard, he would slam him hard with his body, as if he was venting something.With so much strength, Jiang Chao couldn't help feeling distressed, whether his small body could bear it.

Facing Xiao Ci, Jiang Chao didn't dare to take it seriously with all his strength.The ball was played wave after wave. It was just a court for two people. The fight was fierce but it seemed like a thousand troops.The vigorous and vigorous posture of the two teenagers swaying sweat recklessly made the audience scream again and again.

Jiang Chao looked at Xiao Ci, and noticed that his little face was flushed, from his forehead to the bridge of his nose, covered with beads of sweat, and his thin chest was constantly heaving.It was obvious that the body could not take it anymore, but between the beautiful brows, there was a strong unwillingness to let go no matter what.

Jiang Chao knew that he couldn't let him fight like this.Xiao Ci signaled a truce several times, but turned a deaf ear to it.On the contrary, he charged even more desperately, smashing stably and ruthlessly again and again, using a method that was almost abnormal, torturing his remaining energy.

Jiang Chao finally couldn't bear it anymore. When Xiao Ci bumped into him again, he hugged Xiao Ci by the waist, kicked away the dropped basketball, and refused to let Xiao Ci hit him no matter what.

Xiao Ci couldn't break free, so he slammed his head into Jiang Chao's lower abdomen fiercely, and with both hands he forcefully snapped Jiang Chao's fingers around his waist.Jiang Chao shouted angrily, "Stop beating, rest for a while!"

Xiao Ci remained silent, blushed, clenched into fists, and hammered Jiang Chao hard to lock his arm.

"Let me go!" Xiao Ci finally spoke.

"Don't let go!" Jiang Chao buried his head on his neck and hugged him even tighter, "Don't let go!"

The summer night was unbearably hot, and the two teenagers hugged each other tightly, and they could clearly smell the youthful sweat on each other's bodies.Amid Jiang Chao's heavy breathing, Xiao Ci finally stopped struggling slowly.

In Jiang Chao's arms, his head drooped, like a depressed puppet.

Jiang Chao gradually let go of him, but still held his arm with his big hand, for fear that he would do something else.

Jiang Chao pulled the silent Xiao Ci out. At the gate of the stadium, a large group of people looked at each other in blank dismay, and many of them picked up their mobile phones to take pictures of them.That battle was a bit like an airport besieging fanatic fans of an idol, the flashlight hit the boy's face and kept on shining.

For some reason, Jiang Chao suddenly became angry. He kicked on the barbed wire, and there was a loud buzzing, "Don't shoot your mother!"

Can't you see he's suffering.

A roar frightened many people to put away their mobile phones, and no one dared to block their way.In the darkness, Jiang Chao resolutely grabbed Xiao Ci's hand and led him through the turbulent crowd.

Jiang Chao pulled Xiao Ci and walked on the road, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

"Xiao Chuanzai," pulling Xiao Ci to sit on the bench by the Pearl River, they were silent for a long time, and Jiang Chao finally spoke.

He looked at the young man's silent side in the shadow, feeling unspeakably uncomfortable in his heart, but his voice was unprecedentedly gentle: "What happened? Can you tell me."

Xiao Ci didn't speak.Jiang Chao took his hand again, clasped his five fingers, and gently stroked his soft fingertips.

I don't know how long it took before Xiao Ci murmured in a hoarse voice: "Is there any smoke?"

Jiang Chao subconsciously shoved the cigarette case in his trousers pocket, and said with a smile, "Don't touch that stuff, it's not good for your health."

Xiao Ci didn't speak, but looked up at the sky.

The sky was very low, surrounded by heavy clouds, and not a single star could be seen.

"Jiang Chao, if one day," Xiao Ci blinked his eyes and took a breath, "I...have nothing, you will still..."

Jiang Chao couldn't hear what he said, so he quickly grabbed his shoulders and put him in his arms, "Fool, you still have me."

His voice was deep and magnetic, and when he was not fooling around, he unexpectedly made people feel solid and reliable.It was as if the person who said this was no longer a giggling young man, but an upright man.

Xiao Ci finally looked at Jiang Chao, opened his mouth and said, "But, we will graduate."

Jiang Chaodao: "Then I will go to the same university as you. No matter how bad it is...it is also the same city."

"But you will fall in love in the future, you will have a beautiful girlfriend, and many, many people will love you..." Xiao Ci rolled his Adam's apple, "At that time, we will still..."

Jiang Chao's breathing suddenly tightened for a moment, he grabbed Xiao Ci's hand firmly, looked into his eyes: "What if I said, I don't want to fall in love, but just want to stay with you?"

"..."

Xiao Ci shook his head, "Stop joking."

"I'm serious," Jiang Chao said, "Xiao Ci, I feel very happy every day when I'm with you. When I wake up every morning, when I think of seeing you soon, I feel that the days are full of excitement. "

Xiao Ci lowered his head, was silent for a while, and said in a low voice, "You are saying this now because you haven't met someone you like. When you have someone you like, you won't say that."

"..." Jiang Chao held Xiao Ci's hand tightly, a voice shouted in his heart a thousand times, ten thousand times, but in the end, it was still a little bit short and he couldn't say it out.

The wind rolled the leaves, and the thicker and thicker dark clouds were dyed a layer of purple red by the neon lights of the city.Xiao Ci was sweating just now when he played ball, but now the wind blows and pours into his clothes, he feels a little cold.He said, "Jiang Chao, I'm a little thirsty."

"Then you wait here for me, and I'll buy you water. Sit down obediently and don't go anywhere." Jiang Chao stood up as he spoke, and looked back at Xiao Ci while walking.The boy in the white T-shirt just sat quietly in the night under the cover of the bushes, becoming a faint silhouette under the dim streetlight.

At that time, the signal that the rainstorm was coming became more and more obvious, and it was extremely dark everywhere.And the young man was covered with a faint halo, as if he had become the only light in this dark world.

With difficulty, Jiang Chao withdrew his last gaze on Xiao Ci, turned his head and ran away quickly.

The Huacheng Square at night is huge and empty, the air is full of suffocating moisture, and the cold wind whizzes through the gaps in the skyscrapers.Jiang Chao ran, searched, and panted with his mouth open, but it was very difficult to find a convenience store in this most prosperous area.

He turned on the navigation on his mobile phone, followed the instructions and ran through the museum, children's palace, library, and grand theater, and finally plunged into an open 711.

For some reason, there are so many people today that there is a long queue in front of the cash register, which almost fills the entire store.Jiang Chao picked up the water and stood at the end of the line, his heart pounding.The song played in the store made his ears hurt. He watched the slowly creeping line, and watched the aunt at the head arguing endlessly with the shop assistants. When his temper got up, he wished he could kick over the entire counter.

At least he suppressed it, he waited anxiously in the line, glancing at the situation ahead from time to time.For the rest of the time, he used his mobile phone to dial Xiao Ci, and he didn't answer once, twice, three times... Jiang Chao was sweating, and the unreasonable fear in his heart became thicker and thicker like a black mist.

Finally it was his turn, and after paying the money, Jiang Chao rushed out like an arrow from the string.He spread his long legs and ran hard in the open square.Raindrops began to fall from the sky, and within the dark clouds, there were faint electric lights.The people in the square were in a hurry, and they all walked from the river to the subway entrance in the north, but he was the only one who ran against the flow of people and ran towards the river desperately.

As soon as I rushed to the river, I didn't have time to catch my breath when the big raindrops hit my head and face.Jiang looked to the right, and the bench in the bushes was empty.Jiang Chao's heart skipped a beat, he clenched the water bottle in his hand, walked over, and even checked under the bench and under the bushes.

No - how could there be.

Jiang Chao was completely panicked, he ran along the frighteningly empty river bank, calling Xiao Ci non-stop.Lightning and thunder tore through the night sky of the city, the wind blew the trees along the river uncontrollably, and the torrential rain fell on the head in an instant.Jiang Chao was drenched all over, almost unable to open his eyes, and shouted the boy's name while running in the rain, almost breaking his throat.

The only answer to him was the surging and turbulent river.

For a moment, Jiang Chao was so flustered that his legs and feet were shaking.

He didn't know where he was going to find Xiao Ci, he could only run along the dark river bank, running, shouting and running, desperately running, his long legs stirred up sheets of water, and he didn't dare to stop for a moment.

His eyes were black and purple, his heart was so empty that it was scary, he couldn't help but wonder if the silent back under the street lamp not long ago might be the last time he saw the boy in his life.

Across the heavy rain curtain, in the darkness in the distance, there was a figure swaying faintly.Jiang Chao's eyes lit up as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and he rushed over desperately, grabbing the man's shoulder.

The man was abruptly stopped from running, and turned his head in surprise, but it was not Xiao Ci, but a man in his early twenties.Wearing water-smudged glasses and a formal suit.Apparently it was a white-collar worker working nearby, who had no time to escape after get off work and was soaked by the rain.

Jiang Chao just took a breath and couldn't continue in an instant.

The white collar was held down by the tall young man in front of him, flinched, and subconsciously hid behind his right hand holding something.

Jiang Chao noticed his strangeness, grabbed his wrist, and violently opened his fingers.

What was held tightly in that hand was a mobile phone.

The phone was soaked in rain for a long time, but Jiang Chao could tell at a glance that it was Xiao Ci's phone, which was frequently complained about by the class, and it was the oldest model.

It was also the reason why he changed his ways to buy a new mobile phone for Xiao Ci, but was declined politely in the end.

"Where did it come from?" In the darkness, Jiang Chao's face was covered with water, and his blood-like eyes penetrated like a ghost.

"This, this is my mobile phone..." The white-collar worker lowered his head so low that he couldn't lower it any further.

"Nonsense!" Jiang Chao increased the strength in his hands, trying to control himself so as not to break the opponent's bones. "I'll ask you one last time. If I don't tell the truth, I don't guarantee that I will take your head off."

The white-collar shivered violently, grinning his teeth in pain, and finally said: "Pick, pick..."

"where?!"

"That, over there, on the steps, there are still shoes..." The white-collar pointed in one direction, and a thunderbolt hit Jiang Chao's mind.

With a flying kick, he kicked the white-collar worker into the muddy water, grabbed his phone and rushed over.

It was a section of the river bank without guardrails, and the steps spread into the river water layer by layer.Now that the water has soared, the original eight steps have been submerged to only three.The water of the Pearl River surging in the darkness was endlessly wide, Jiang Chao turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, the light seemed small and dim in the boundless darkness.But still let him see, on the surface of the river, an old sneaker is drifting farther and farther downstream.

Jiang Chao made a phone call, took off his drenched shirt, took a deep breath, and jumped into the river.

With a "plop", water splashed everywhere, and Jiang Chao poked his head out with difficulty, his wet milky chest heaving and heaving under the pressure of the water.

The water was much stronger than he had imagined, and almost as soon as he entered the water, he was pushed downstream.Huge waves slapped on his back, and before he knew it, he had been sucked into the river.But he didn't realize it, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water with a slam.But in less than two seconds, he came out of the water again, panting violently.

He didn't have goggles and couldn't keep his eyes open underwater.

Even if it can be opened, in such deep and cold water, if Xiao Ci really sank to the bottom of the lake, how would he rescue him?

Looking at the boundless river, Jiang Chao heard the sound of rushing water and thunder.Despair was like a boundless darkness, swallowing him from head to toe.

In the roaring river, he swam until his legs became weak and shouted until he was exhausted.

I don't know how long I have been swimming in the water, and I don't know where I have been washed by the water.Turning around, he vaguely saw something floating on the surface of the water in the distance.

He swam over with all his strength, and with the help of a split lightning, he saw the scene in front of him clearly.

The boy he was looking for was currently buried in a tree trunk, floating and sinking with the river.The boy was shirtless, his thin back was red from the cold, and he floated quietly.And that tree trunk has already been mostly submerged by water, and it is in danger of completely sinking at any moment.

Jiang Chaoyou went over, hugged the boy's waist from behind, rested his head on the boy's shoulder, and rubbed his head nostalgicly, letting the violent wind and rain hit his body.

Lost and found, heart empty, brain empty, all that's left is to hold on to this person and never let go.

Ever since he was a child, he has never wanted to cry like this for a moment.

"Xiao Ci," he called, so hoarse that he almost lost his voice.

"Wake up, Xiao Chuanzi," he patted the boy on the back, "Brother will take you home."

He struggled to help the boy onto his back, and the huge pressure made him sink instantly.He couldn't take away Xiao Ci who was in a coma, so he had to put the boy's arm back on the driftwood.

With one hand on the driftwood, he held Xiao Ci half in his arms with the other.The coldness of the river screamed wildly in his bones, he shivered, let the boy's head rest on his strong chest, and hugged the boy a little tighter.

The ups and downs of the river are like a lullaby sung in the dark.Jiang Chao's body was frozen stiff, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the body of the boy in his arms became more and more blurred. Gradually, Jiang Chao closed his eyes...

……

When I woke up again, my ears, nostrils, and throat seemed to be filled with water, causing burning pain.There was a dazzling halo in front of his eyes, and there was a lot of noise around him. Jiang Chao could feel that he was being lifted up hastily.

He sat up with his arms propped up, looked around, and found that he was on a speedboat, surrounded by a vast and stormy water.He recognized that the speedboat belonged to his family, and the people around him were called by the phone call he made before he went into the water.

"Wake up, young master is awake!" It wasn't just whoever yelled first, the people around him breathed a sigh of relief.Jiang Chao grabbed the nearest person and asked, "Where's Xiao Ci?"

The man looked at him and opened his eyes wide, "Young man, you can't move now, the doctor will be here soon, we have to give you..."

"Go away!" Jiang Chao pushed him away, got off the stretcher, and slammed into the speedboat like headless chickens regardless of everyone's dissuasion: "Xiao Ci, where is Xiao Ci?!"

He pushed open the door and entered another cabin. The moment he saw the young man lying in the cabin, soaked all over, a big stone in his heart instantly fell to the ground.

He rushed over, knelt on the ground, and detected Xiao Ci's breath with his hands.

Very weakly, but breathing steadily all the time.

The subordinates came over with a blanket, "Master, put it on quickly, or you'll catch a cold."

Jiang Chao pulled the blanket, supported Xiao Ci's head with his left arm, and let him stand up halfway, and wrapped the teenager's wet body with the blanket with his right hand.

"Get out." Jiang Chao said.

"Master, you..."

"I told you to go out." Jiang Chao growled.

The men had no choice but to close the door and go out for the time being.The room fell silent, the cabin was narrow, the lights were dim, and the cabin was shaking constantly.The wind and rain hit the small window, Jiang Chao hugged Xiao Ci tightly, and refused to let go.

He put his face against Xiao Ci's cold face, rubbed it lightly, and said to himself: "Some people say that you jumped off by yourself. I don't believe it, it's a lie, right?"

"Why did you do such a stupid thing?" Jiang Chao took a deep breath, "Don't you know how much I like you?"

The young man in his arms coughed softly, Jiang Chao shook his arm and shook him, "Wake up, Xiao Chuanzai, wake up."

He shouted outside again: "Where is the doctor? Is the doctor here?"

A tall man in a white coat hurried in, and Jiang Chao wrapped Xiao Ci tightly, not wanting to let even a collarbone be exposed.

After seeing it, the doctor said that thanks to the timely discovery, there is no serious problem so far, but he has a low-grade fever and needs to take medicine.

Jiang Chao nodded, and ordered the doctor to send him away after prescribing the medicine.

I don't know how long it took, Xiao Ci's lips moved, and Jiang Chao immediately moved his ears, and heard him calling: "Mom".

Jiang Chao felt as if someone had stabbed him in the heart.

His eyes were sour, and he finally couldn't bear it anymore, lowered his head, and kissed the boy's soft face again and again.

How could he like someone so much.

A whole year later that day, it was so long that Jiang Chao felt that it was time to talk about this matter, so he half-jokingly asked Xiao Ci, how did you come up with such an idea that day.

Xiao Ci said that, in fact, he didn't think too much about it at the time, and walked to the river in a daze, and went down when his mind got hot.

I regretted it when I got into the water.

After hearing this, Jiang Chao was silent for a while, and said, don't do such stupid things in the future.

He wouldn't tell Xiao Ci that if there was even the slightest mistake in any link that day, both of them would be dead.

The two of them can still sit here and talk about the past, thanks to the one-ten-thousandth of God's blessing.

Xiao Ci looked at Jiang Chao, nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay."

He also wouldn't tell Jiang Chao that the reason why he "got hot" that day was because of a past event.

Under the cloudy sky, the river wind curled his hair, and he looked at the river, so dazed that he couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality.

He thought of his mother who held his hand and refused to close his eyes when he was dying, his father who jumped into the river, and the vicissitudes of his eyes filled with tears when his father walked into the river step by step in the dream.

The man did not shed tears, but he did not go to the sad place.

Three years later, he finally embarked on the same path as his father, on the same section of the river.

It was only at the last moment, when the river water swelled over his waist, overflowed over his chest, sealed his throat and mouth, and the swaying water filled his eyes, he regretted it.

He is sober.

It's just that I don't know if my father regretted it at the moment of death?

There are too many things he can't let go of, there is a sentence, there is a person, he still wants to ask clearly.If he didn't ask clearly, even if he died, he would not be reconciled.

That sentence, as early as that afternoon, when the sun was setting, he should have asked.

He had imagined countless scenes of reunion, but he never imagined that seeing that person again would be in such a cruel way.

A dream that I had for 12 years, the moment I got it, it fell through again.

He wanted to ask that person, do you really...don't remember me at all?