Met in early autumn of 2001

On Saturday morning, Xu Yichen got up early.The sun rises, the sky is blue, and there are many mountains behind the school, so the air is particularly clean and refreshing.Xu Yichen came out to brush his teeth, and saw two or three retired old teachers walking in circles on the playground below, leisurely.With a thought, Xu Yichen went back to the house, put away his things, put on his shoes, and locked the door of the hut.

Late autumn in the south is not so cool.

The lunch box was placed on the flag raising platform, Xu Yichen shook his arms and legs, opened his hands and took a few deep breaths of fresh air.After doing these warm-up exercises, he started jogging in circles, nodding and saying hello to those old teachers when he passed by them, in exchange for a kind smile from the old people.

After ten laps, a thin layer of sweat broke out on his body, and Xu Yichen felt refreshed.When he was studying in the past, there was no physical education class in the school, so he didn't like sports very much.During the half semester, every time Xun Lang and his class had physical education class, he would watch them playing with enthusiasm and passion, and he really envied them.

After walking to adjust his breathing and heartbeat, Xu Yichen walked to the flag-raising platform to get a lunch box. It's time to go to the cafeteria to buy breakfast, otherwise it's time to put it away and not sell it.

After buying porridge and side dishes in the cafeteria, Xu Yichen sat down in the empty hall and finished eating before walking out slowly.Looking up and seeing the three empty and quiet teaching buildings beside him, Xu Yichen suddenly thought of Xun Lang. He didn't know what he was doing now, maybe he was lying on his bed and sleeping.

He didn't understand the life that Xun Lang lived. It was as if there was a river between the two of them, and he could only imagine what happened on the other side of the river.Xu Yichen smiled and shook his head, withdrew his thoughts and walked up the stone steps.

Looking down at the steps, Xu Yichen raised his head after stepping onto the flat ground, and saw a person sitting on the doorstep of the canteen, with a schoolbag beside him, that person looked at him with a bright smile on his face.

Xu Yichen opened his mouth in disbelief, and only slowly opened his mouth when the man's smile became brighter: "...Xu Zhengqi?!"

Picking up the backpack and throwing it on his back, Xu Zhengqi laughed and ran over, excitedly lifted Xu Yichen off the ground, and turned around several times.

"Bang thump!!!" With a sound, the lunch box in Xu Yichen's hand was thrown out under the action of centrifugal force, and the lid fell open on the ground.

Xu Yichen was dizzy from being turned, and shouted with a smile: "Lunch box! The lunch box fell to the floor! Xu Zhengqi! The lunch box fell to the floor!"

"Ha!" Panting, Xu Zhengqi put Xu Yichen down, saw that he was dizzy and staggered and wanted to pick up the lunch box, so he tugged him: "Don't move, I'll pick it up!"

Rubbing his temples, it took Xu Yichen a while to recover. Seeing that Xu Zhengqi had picked up the lunch box, he handed it to himself flatteringly: "Fortunately, it didn't break."

Xu Yichen didn't care much about whether it was broken or not, it was an iron box anyway.Xu Zhengqi's unexpected arrival made him very happy, and he smiled and took him to the hut. The room was very small, only two simple wooden beds and a small table.Xu Yichen asked Xu Zhengqi to sit on his bed.

Xu Yichen put away the lunch box, looked at Xu Zhengqi, and said with a smile, "Why is it so black?"

Xu Zhengqi's complexion used to be wheat-colored, and he looked healthy and sunny, but now it is much darker. He is still wearing black clothes and black pants and carrying a black bag. If he sits at the door in the dark at night, Xu Yichen will think that there is nothing wrong with him. people.

Xu Zhengqi pushed up his sleeves, exposing his arms, and stretched out his hand to stroke Xu Yichen's, and Xu Yichen stretched out his hand cooperatively.When the two of them put their arms together, Xu Yichen couldn't help being happy.

Xu Zhengqi pulled down Xu Yichen's sleeves, shook his head and sighed, "Half a month of military training, Hei Cheng won't be able to go back like this."

Xu Yichen held back his smile: "It's pretty good, if it's more black, maybe he will be sent back to South Africa." After he finished speaking, he couldn't help smiling.

Xu Zhengqi said: "If you really want to do that, then you won't be able to see me in the future, and you won't have to cry about what I want?"

"Fuck you, you're probably the one crying!"

Xu Zhengqi smiled and did not refute. He stood up and walked back and forth in the square-inch room, then suddenly stopped and said: "I came back yesterday, and I thought you should come back on Friday, but I didn't expect to go to your house last night. Only when I told you did I know that you didn't go back."

Xu Yichen's smile subsided a little, and he said in a low voice, "I went back last time for the National Day, and this time I won't go back until the end of November." Before Xu Zhengqi could speak, he changed the subject and said, "By the way, what did you do last time?" You didn't come back on National Day, I heard from your uncle that you went to work?"

Xu Zhengqi nodded: "Well, I've just been there for more than a month and I'm coming back, I find it troublesome. And I didn't promise you to come back once in half a semester, so I'm coming back now!"

"Yes, how can you come back before the holiday? Don't you have to go to class?"

"Some of our courses only last half a semester, and we don't have classes after the exam. The remaining three compulsory courses are also relatively concentrated, so I will ask for leave to come back to see you, so that you haven't seen me for too long, and you have forgotten what I look like Sample."

As Xu Zhengqi said, he put his arms around Xu Yichen's shoulders, and smiled at him as if he was wronged, as if Xu Yichen would really forget him.Xu Yichen smiled and pushed his head away, Xu Zhengqi grabbed Xu Yichen's hand, touched it carefully and then looked down, Xu Yichen was about to pull it back, but he said: "Why are there scars on the fingers and the back of the hand? !"

Xu Yichen took his hand back and looked at it carefully. Indeed, there were not so obvious short marks, and there were more on the right hand than on the left.Xu Yichen's hands are very fair, and those short marks are a little lighter than his skin color, so you can't see them unless you look carefully.

"It's nothing, I accidentally scratched the glass on the counter, it's not a big deal." Xu Yichen felt that he was not a woman, so he didn't need to pay so much attention to his appearance, and it didn't matter if he had a few scars on his body.

Xu Zhengqi sighed heavily, and stared at Xu Yichen with a frown.Xu Yichen was afraid that he would say something about sacrifice or not, regret or regret, so he hurriedly stood up and said with a smile: "Have you eaten breakfast? If you haven't eaten, I'll take you to eat outside. The cafeteria is closed. If you eat Alright, then I'll take you around the campus."

Xu Zhengqi: "..."

At noon, Xu Yichen wanted to take Xu Zhengqi out to eat, but Xu Zhengqi insisted on going to the cafeteria, saying that the food sold outside might not be clean.He insisted that Xu Yichen just let him.In the afternoon, Xu Zhengqi suddenly asked Xu Yichen if he wanted to go to the Internet cafe. Seeing that he was in high spirits and that the two of them were bored staying here, Xu Yichen nodded in agreement.

It was the same Internet cafe as last time, there were especially many people on Saturdays and Sundays.Xu Yichen also saw three students from the No. [-] Middle School, all of whom went to the commissary frequently.The three boys didn't react when they saw Xu Yichen, they turned their heads and continued playing their game.

Xu Zhengqi pulled Xu Yichen to sit down, and clicked on a penguin icon on the desktop. Xu Zhengqi tapped nimbly with his fingers. Xu Yichen didn't understand, so he just sat there and watched.A few minutes later, Xu Zhengqi called out dozens of pictures, most of them were landscape pictures, and there were more than a dozen pictures of him and several other boys.

"This is the gate of our school...the teaching building...the dormitory."

"These five are from the same dormitory as me, three are from the north, and one is from the local area. The one who looks a bit like a foreigner is from the Kazakh ethnic group. His words are so funny!"

"A picture of the military training, am I handsome in this outfit!... That's our counselor, weak like a chick, quite annoying!"

Xu Zhengqi pointed at the mouse, smiled and showed Xu Yichen the photos while explaining, Xu Yichen was made to laugh uncontrollably by his narcissism from time to time.After reading the photos, Xu Zhengqi said that he wanted to apply for a massage for Xu Yichen, and Xu Yichen asked curiously, "What is that?"

"Use this. I'll apply for one for you. You add me. If you come to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet in the future, we can chat."

Xu Yichen stopped him and said, "Don't apply for me, I don't know how to come to Internet cafes myself. You give me your school's address, it's better to write a letter."

Xu Zhengqi thought about it too: "Then I'll write you the address of the school when I go back, and you will also write me the address of No. [-] Middle School."

"Row."

After the two made an agreement, Xu Zhengqi said that he would teach Xu Yichen how to play games, one keyboard and four hands, but they worked together tacitly.

After leaving the Internet cafe, Xu Yichen took Xu Zhengqi to the noodle stall, and each of them ordered a bowl of braised egg noodles.It was dark when we got back to No. [-] Middle School.

He boiled two pots of hot water with almost hot water, and after the two of them took a shower, Xu Yichen wanted to wash Xu Zhengqi's clothes by the way, but Xu Zhengqi had to do whatever he wanted to do by himself.

"I'll sleep on this bed!" Xu Zhengqi pointed to the opposite bed and said after returning to the room after drying the clothes.

Xu Yichen spread out the thin quilt and shook his head, "That bed belongs to someone else, you just squeeze with me, you should be able to sleep, luckily it's not summer."

Xu Zhengqi just said that, and when Xu Yichen shook his head, he happily took off his shoes and put them on Xu Yichen's bed, took off his clothes and lay down.Xu Yichen came out after going to the toilet, saw that he was so naked that only his underpants were left, and was taken aback: "You take off so naked, what should you do if it's cold at night?"

Xu Zhengqi turned sideways, patted the bed to signal Xu Yichen to lie down: "If it's cold, I'll sleep with you in my arms."

Xu Yichen turned off the lights and walked over in the dark, lay down and said, "If it's cold, I'll take the quilt away, and you can freeze yourself!"

Xu Zhengqi groaned and moved in to let Xu Yichen fall asleep, one lying on his side and the other lying on his side, Xu Zhengqi told Xu Yichen about his life in another city, rambling on.In the middle of the night, when Xu Yichen was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, Xu Zhengqi smiled lightly, pulled up the thin quilt covering their chests, and closed his eyes to sleep.