journey

In the midst of intense practice and anticipation, Friday came.Early in the morning, the two babies of the Chu family woke up early. Chu Zheng was busy stuffing a change of sports clothes and sneakers into his schoolbag, but Luo Nianli was forced by Chen Shufen to stuff a lot of snacks and a big water bottle.

"Auntie, may I not bring snacks, it's a bit heavy."

Luo Nianli embarrassedly begged Chen Shufen. Chen Shufen was a capable mother, and without saying a word, she took out the bag of dried beef and dried fruits from Luo Nianli's schoolbag and stuffed it directly into Chu Zheng's bag.

"Hey, hey! What are you doing! It's not a spring outing, and besides, I don't eat these."

Chu Zheng shouted in protest.

"Who told you to eat it! Give it to Luo Luo, and I don't know how you guys eat at noon, so give him snacks when you're hungry."

Chu Zheng glanced at Luo Nianli, sighed, and reluctantly stuffed the snacks back into his bag.Luo Nianli looked at Chu Zheng, a little embarrassed.

The two went out after a hasty breakfast. The sports meeting was held at a university in the suburbs. There was a large playground and a circle of audience stands. It was more than enough for elementary and junior high schools to hold together, but it was a bit far away, so most of the children were either dropped off at home or took the bus. The car goes by.Chu Zheng and the others must be the ones who take the bus.At the gate of the compound, Zhuang Yi was standing there with a messenger bag on his back. There was a school uniform inside and a sports coat hanging outside. Luo Nianli was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chu Zheng. The clothes were exactly the same. Chu Zheng was also wearing a school uniform inside. , the outside is a sports coat like Zhuang Yi's.Chu Zheng went over, and put his hand on Zhuang Yi's shoulder as soon as he raised his hand. The two walked and chatted familiarly and intimately, talking and laughing, and Luo Nianli followed behind. The feeling of loneliness and loneliness filled his body. full.He couldn't get in and didn't know what to say, so he followed behind with his schoolbag on his back.After walking for a while, Zhuang Yi remembered that Luo Nianli was still following them, so he quickly turned to look at him, and saw Luo Nianli looking down at the shoes, slowly following them a few meters away.Zhuang Yi hurriedly pushed Chu Zheng, and used his eyes to recognize Luo Nianli behind him. Chu Zheng also had a chat with Zhuang Yi, and because he was more excited about the sports meeting, he forgot that there was a little guy behind him. Now he looks pitiful Luo Nianli hurried over to meet him,

"Luo Luo? What are you thinking. Go, we have to catch the bus."

Chu Zheng came over and said, Luo Nianli didn't show any expression, just nodded, Chu Zheng and Zhuang Yi walked between him on the left and right.Before taking two steps, Luo Nianli suddenly raised his hand, took Chu Zheng's hand, and held it tightly.Chu Zheng looked down, didn't take it seriously, and held Luo Nianli tightly with his larger hand. Luo Nianli felt a warm current coming from the held left hand, flowing all over the place. All over his body, the feeling of coldness and emptiness just now disappeared instantly.He lowered his head and smiled slightly.While talking to Chu Zheng about the sports meeting, Zhuang Yi looked at him holding Luo Nianli's hand, and with just one glance, he felt a little strange, whether it was because of the strange atmosphere or his own heart, or it was strange.

The bus is full of people, not to mention the working time, plus a lot of students in this area. If there is a bump in the crowded bus, it may disintegrate in the next second.Chu Zheng and Zhuang Yi stood around a seat, Luo Nianli stood on Chu Zheng's chest alone, Chu Zheng protected him like an old hen.After one stop, the little girl on the seat got out of the car, Chu Zheng hurriedly pushed Luo Nianli onto it, and after Luo Nianli sat down firmly, the car suddenly braked suddenly, and Zhuang Yi didn't stand still and rushed towards Chu Zheng Just rushed over, Chu Zheng held the railing with one hand, and quickly put the other around Zhuang Yi's waist, hugging him tightly.Zhuang Yi looked up at Chu Zheng,

"It's alright."

Chu Zheng asked, Zhuang Yi hurriedly lowered his head, his face felt hot, Chu Zheng naturally didn't see it, but Luo Nianli, who was sitting below, took a real look at the flushed Zhuang Yi.The driver uncle in front cursed and started the car again, Zhuang Yi hurriedly stood up straight, Chu Zheng took his hand away, directly grasped the railing next to Zhuang Yi, and protected Zhuang Yi in his arms.

"Stand up."

Chu Zheng said.Zhuang Yi nodded, without looking at him, and looked directly out of the window, feeling a little embarrassed.Chu Zheng didn't feel anything, and continued to chat with him about the sports meeting. Zhuang Yi also responded one way or another, and didn't know what he was thinking.Luo Nianli kept watching, and he silently turned his head to look out the window, without saying a word along the way.

For the sports on the track, the morning is usually sprint preliminaries and finals, and the afternoon is long-distance running and relay.All morning, Luo Nianli almost went to the junior high school to watch Chu Zheng's game on the pretext of going to the bathroom.The entire playground was Chu Zheng's home field all morning. He was first in the first final of the preliminaries, first in the 100 meters, and also in the 200 meters. In the 200 meters, he was even three or four meters away from the sports team in the final.The playground was full of girls screaming. After this sports meeting, Chu Zheng won the hearts of countless girls with his ability and good looks. However, the carefree Daxia Chu didn't know it at all. I dumped myself in the pride of the sports team.Zhuang Yi stood at the finish line every time, holding Chu Zheng's clothes in one hand and a water bottle in the other.Every time he passed the finish line, he would habitually give Zhuang Yi a high five and take the water bottle.Luo Nianli secretly watched from a distance, nervous following Chu Zheng's pace, excited as Chu Zheng crossed the finish line, and saddened to see the tacit understanding between him and Zhuang Yi.He felt that he was so contradictory, why did he have such an unhappy feeling, brother Zhuang Yi was so kind to him, and Luo Nianli hated his state today, he didn't know what was wrong with him.

"Why are you here! You didn't watch a game of mine, and you didn't cheer for me!"

Suddenly a roar sounded from behind, which startled Luo Nianli, and when he turned around, it was Gao Wuyang.That's right, the morning is all about sprinting, and Gao Wuyang's event is the same as Chu Zheng's, so the elementary school should be over, Luo Nianli is here with all his heart, so he doesn't know what's going on there.Seeing Gao Wuyang's unhappy face, Luo Nianli smiled at him,

"How is your running, but you don't need to ask the sports team."

"Humph!"

Gao Wuyang glanced at him, turned his head and left, Luo Nianli looked back at Chu Zheng and Zhuang Yi, and then followed Gao Wuyang.

"Who did you come here to see? There is someone you have a crush on."

Gao Wuyang said something strangely.Luo Nianli glanced at him, seeing that he was still unhappy,

"My brother is in the junior high school. He has a game in the morning, so I came over to take a look. I'm sorry I didn't watch your game."

After hearing what Luo Nianli said, Gao Wuyang felt less angry,

"Let's have dinner together at noon, eat enough, and it will be your turn in the afternoon."

Luo Nianli nodded with a smile, saying yes.

The night before, at dinner and before going to bed, Luo Nianli repeated many times that he asked Chu Zheng to come to the playground to cheer him up after he ran 800 meters. People cheering.During the lunch break, Chu Zheng and Zhuang Yi came to look for Luo Nianli, causing many little girls from the primary school to peek excitedly. They each occupied half of the playground, but the girls' gazes were all over the playground. Chu Zheng was so outstanding in the morning, the girls in the primary school also admired him.

"This is your brother?"

Gao Wuyang stood beside Luo Nianli and asked, Luo Nianli nodded in response.Chu Zheng glanced at Gao Wuyang and said:

"You go to eat with your classmates, then we will leave"

After finishing speaking, he patted Luo Nianli's head, then turned and left with Zhuang Yi.Luo Nianli stared blankly at them leaving,

"You don't look like your brother at all, and his surname is Chu, so he was blown up by the junior high school sports team in the morning."

Luo Nianli ignored his previous question and asked directly:

"Why blow up the pot on the sports team?"

Gao Wuyang looked like he didn't want to say anything but couldn't hold it back, Luo Nianli tugged at his sleeves, his eyes were conscious and he quickly said,

"Let's go, let's go eat first and then talk."

"Say it quickly, if you don't tell me, I won't go to dinner with you."

Gao Wuyang scratched his head, looking like an adult,

"Tell your brother to be careful, he has provoked people from the sports team, and I am also from the sports team, so I shouldn't have told you, but I treat you as a buddy, you can remember."

Luo Nianli looked worried, and then said to Gao Wuyang:

"Thank you, let's go eat."

After the lunch break, the afternoon competition will start. The lunch break in elementary school is longer, so the junior high school competition will start first.The first race is 1500 meters.Because it is a long-distance race, there is no preliminaries and finals in 1500. The winner is determined by one round, and there are still many people crowding each other on the starting line.

The gunshots sounded, Zhuang Yi followed the large troops forward at a constant speed, Chu Zheng ran with him on the inside of the playground, cheered him up, and reminded him to adjust his breathing.Luo Nianli sat on the audience stage of the elementary school and watched, imagining that he would run 800 miles later, and Chu Zheng could also accompany him like this.

With the last lap left, Zhuang Yi had already dumped a lot of people, and he was considered the leader. Chu Zheng accelerated to the finish line, ready to wait for Zhuang Yi to arrive.Just as Zhuang Yi was about to speed up, a sports team member suddenly caught up with him. When turning the corner, he stretched out his foot intentionally or unintentionally and tripped Zhuang Yi. Zhuang Yi was about to speed up, but the strong inertia of such a trip made him jump straight away, sideways Roll around a few times, then arch your body and hug your legs.Seeing this, Chu Zheng at the finish line dropped his water bottle and clothes and rushed over. Zhuang Yi's fall immediately became the focus of the entire sports meeting.

Chu Zheng rushed over to half support and half hug Zhuang Yi, only to find that his right leg was covered in blood from knee to calf, and he kept saying that it hurts.Chu Zheng was furious, and immediately got up and rushed to the finish line, looking for the sports team.The person who tripped Zhuang Yi got good grades. He was playing with his teammates at the finish line. A strong force suddenly pulled him, and he was hit hard in the face with a punch. He fell to the ground, and his nose bleeds immediately. down.

"You fucking!"

Chu Zheng looked like he was about to kill someone, and he was about to pounce on him again and teach him a lesson.When he was running towards the finish line, Zhuang Yi quickly grabbed a classmate who came to help him, and told him to stop Chu Zheng quickly.At this moment, the classmate tightly hugged Chu Zheng's waist.Chu Zheng tried his best to break free,

"Let go of me! Damn, come here if you have the ability! You are still not a man if you play such a low-level trick!"

The one who was beaten up didn't get up, but five or six people with good physiques came to him, standing in front of the sportsman who was beaten up, looking like he was looking for trouble, Chu Zheng saw that they were all from the junior sports team, I also played with him for two mornings, it seems that it was intentional.Chu Zheng made a little effort, removed the hand that was blocking him at the waist, twisted his neck and wrist, and was ready to punish them severely.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the elementary school got excited like watching the excitement, only Luo Nianli was going to run there, Gao Wuyang held him tightly,

"Crazy you, you don't even see that your little physique is still alive in the past."

Luo Nianli couldn't listen to him at all, so he had to fight to get past him.However, the fact is that he can't even break free from Gao Wuyang, so he can only be dragged in a hurry.

With so many teachers and students watching, the school leaders would never allow this to happen.Before the battle started, he was dismissed by the dean,

"Chu Zheng, right? You wait for me!"

The leader of the sports team, who looked very horizontal at first glance, pointed to Chu Zheng and said something, then turned his head and left with the people.Chu Zheng had a fierce face, his eyes wished to shoot the opponent, but he was stopped by many people, so he didn't make a move.Zhuang Yi was limping over while being supported by someone, and pulled Chu Zheng,

"Okay, I just broke the skin, it's okay, calm down, don't make trouble."

Chu Zheng turned his head to look at his bent right leg, which dared not touch the ground, with an expression of anger and displeasure. He reached out to take Zhuang Yi's right hand, pushed away the classmates who were supporting him, drove it directly to his neck, and squatted down. In front of so many people on the playground, he hugged Zhuang Yi directly.Zhuang Yi exclaimed in shock, took his right hand and patted his shoulder,

"What are you doing, let me down quickly."

"Wow!!!"

This move caused a commotion among the girls on the playground.

Chu Zheng hugged him expressionlessly and said to the dean:

"Where is the infirmary?"

The dean wanted to say something about decency, but seeing Zhuang Yi's situation, he didn't say anything, and led them to the infirmary.Chu Zheng hugged Zhuang Yi and followed behind, followed by a few students from his own class, and left the playground.

Luo Nianli sat firmly in his seat, witnessing everything, his heart was blocked, sour, quiet and scary.Gao Wuyang said several words to him, and he felt like he couldn't hear anything.

For Luo Nianli's 800 meters, Chu Zheng didn't come to refuel, let alone run with him. Gao Wuyang ran with him the whole way, but Luo Nianli was like a soul out of his body. Wu Yang felt that he was like a doll this afternoon, leading him to report, to the runway, and back to class.

In the infirmary, Zhuang Yi's right calf was wrapped in circles of bandages, as was his left knee, the injury was not serious.He was lying on the bed, and Chu Zheng sat by the bed, speechless for a while, and the other students accompanied him to bandage and then returned to class.

"Ah! Luo Luo still has a match in the afternoon, why don't you hurry over and have a look."

Zhuang Yi suddenly remembered, and pushed Chu Zheng who was in a daze.Chu Zheng was stunned for a moment as if he had come to his senses, and then looked at the watch in the infirmary.

"Forget it, this point is over."

"Well, he's looking forward to your cheering with all his heart."

Chu Zheng looked at Zhuang Yi,

"Go back tonight and apologize to him, you are so hurt, can I let you lie here alone?"

Zhuang Yi felt warm in his heart when he heard that,

"It's just looking scary, it's all skin trauma, it will be fine in a few days."

Chu Zheng didn't speak, Zhuang Yi thought for a while and said seriously:

"You promise me that you are not allowed to fight with those people from the sports team. They love to cause trouble, so don't get involved in it."

"Then I can't promise you. If they want to beat me, they will accompany me. I have long been displeased with their arrogance, and this time it provoked me. If I don't teach them a lesson, I will not be Chu Zheng."

Zhuang Yi sighed, he knew Chu Zheng well, this fight, even if the sports team didn't come looking for it, Chu Zheng would definitely fight it.What's more, those on the sports team didn't seem to be good at first glance, they just hoped that Chu Zheng wouldn't get hurt.

"You have to be a little bit more measured, calm down, and don't overdo it."

Zhuang Yi could only remind him like this, and Chu Zheng nodded to him.

Zhuang Yi's father answered the phone and drove to pick Zhuang Yi home. Chu Zheng was still thinking about Luo Nianli, so he didn't go with him.He returned to the playground, but the sports meeting was over, and there were not many students scattered on the playground. When he walked to the elementary school, there were not many people there. It seemed that they all went home.Chu Zheng was a little worried. It was the first time for Luo Nianli to get out by bus, how would he go back by himself.Chu Zheng hurried to the bus station, but he didn't see Luo Nianli along the way, so he took a chance and went home by car.

He opened the door and glanced, there was no one in the living room, and when he opened the bedroom, there was no one, Chu Zheng was a little panicked.He hurriedly took the key and ran out to the gate of the compound, a sense of tension and fear welled up in his heart, Luo Luo didn't come back, where did he go.Chu Zheng is so old, and there are few things to be afraid of. At this moment, he is really a little scared.He ran to the bus station again and took the bus back to the university on the outskirts of the city. It was already dark, so he ran around in the university and searched for it.When she opened the door again, Chen Shufen had already returned home, and the smell of food wafted out of the kitchen. Chu Zheng hurried in, grabbed his mother and shouted:

"Mom! Luo Luo is gone, I didn't find him, and he didn't come back, so hurry up and call the police!"

His mother was taken aback, the soy sauce on the shovel was thrown all over the ground by him,

"Why are you crazy, you, Luo Luo is back, doing homework in the house."

Chu Zheng was taken aback for a moment, then turned around and ran back to the bedroom, and opened the door suddenly, Luo Nianli was sitting there, writing something in the notebook without raising his head.Chu Zheng seemed to hear his heart fall back to its original position with a "boom" from his mouth.Then an inexplicable anger rose up, he stepped over in two steps and pulled Luo Nianli up, Luo Luo's small body was staggered by him, the table and chair collided and made a lot of noise.

"Where have you been? Do you know how anxious I am not to find you! You don't know that you are waiting for me to go home together!"

Chu Zheng's face was full of anger, and his eyes were bloodshot. Luo Nianli was frightened by such a Chu Zheng. He had never seen Chu Zheng get angry, and Chu Zheng had never been so gentle.

Chu Zheng threw off Luo Nianli's clothes, took a few steps back and forth in the room, came over again and shouted:

"Where did you go! I've been looking for you all afternoon! Why didn't you tell me when you left!"

The roar startled Chen Shufen who was cooking, she quickly put down the shovel and turned off the fire, ran to their bedroom, wiped her hands with an apron, and asked:

"What's the matter, what are you shouting, it scared Luo Luo."

After speaking, he looked at Luo Nianli, Luo Nianli looked at Chu Zheng with a frightened face, motionless as if his soul had come out of his body.Just as Chen Shufen wanted to go over to comfort him, Chu Zheng yelled at her:

"I was the one who was scared! I've been looking for him all afternoon! I thought I lost him! I was looking for him like crazy, you know?!"

After Chu Zheng shouted, he turned around and slammed the door and left the house.Chen Shufen was also yelled at by her son and stood there for several seconds.Then she hurriedly looked at Luo Nianli, and saw little Luoluo, motionless, weeping expressionlessly, neither crying nor fussing, just shedding tears, one drop after another.Chen Shufen hurried over to pick up Luo Nianli and sat on her lap, wiped his face with her sleeve,

"Oh, don't cry baby. What's the matter? I didn't tell my brother if I went home. Look, I scared my brother too. Don't cry, don't cry. My brother is also worried about you, he is afraid to scare you Lost it. It's all right."

Chen Shufen comforted him while wiping his tears.Luo Nianli seemed to have been greatly wronged, tears fell one drop after another, but he didn't make a sound, just stared and shed tears.

In fact, he waited. After the sports meeting, everyone disbanded and went home.Gao Wuyang told him to go, but he didn't go, and sat there waiting for his brother.Later, the teacher said that he had to go home and not stay out too late.Only then did Gao Wuyang go home together. Gao Wuyang saw that he was preoccupied, so he proposed to walk a few stops along the bus route. He didn't want to go home so early, so the two of them chatted and walked together. After several stops, I didn't come back by car until I was tired.