Continuously

Everything is getting better.

At least Yao An thought so.

In addition to being scolded by the coach for swimming for 50 seconds in the first 37-meter freestyle test.

Anyway, he took every swim seriously as skipping class, even if it cost him 7000 meters.

His shoulders hurt from time to time, but it's okay to get over it. The medicine Yao Jianqi bought him is very effective, and occasionally he asks Yao Jianqi to help paste a few.

Yao Jianqi's fever was also completely cured, the illness seemed to have taken away some kind of heaviness in his body, when he laughed, there was indeed a lightness.

The only aftereffect seems to be that he has lost some weight again.

It made him appear taller.

Yao Jianqi's explanation for this is very simple, two words: "Take a stick."

Alright, alright, Yao An thought, just treat his knowledge as growing up.

All in all, as he said at the beginning, everything is getting better, like a wine barrel, it is easy for people to become sloppy when immersed in such a slightly drunk atmosphere.

So when Yao Jianqi came home late for the first time, Yao An didn't pay much attention to it.

"Going to the studio." Yao Jianqi replied at that time.

This answer is pretty versatile, especially if it's used sporadically at just the right interval.

Occasionally, meaning at least no more than twice a week.

Yao Jianqi has said it four times this week.

He told different people, the first time was Yao An, the second time was Yao Xinping, since Yao An often came home very late after starting self-study this week, the third and fourth time was Yu Wan.

"See Chi." When he was leaning against the door frame to change his sneakers with dirty laces, Yu Wan came to him, "It doesn't work that way."

At that moment, Yao Jianqi felt for a long time that there was a certain string of codes between them that no one else knew about.

"Don't do impulsive things." Yu Wan looked at him deeply, holding his shoulder, "Leave everything to mom, okay?"

Yao Jianqi looked at her, and couldn't remember the last time they looked at each other so seriously.

Maybe it was the first time he uttered a syllable that started with an "m", maybe it was a high fever, maybe it was when he decided never to look at her that way again.

"I used to," Yao Jianqi said calmly, as if describing an unrelated event, "I gave myself to you."

Yu Wan was stunned, unable to speak for several times.

Yao Jianqi brushed off her hands on her shoulders, like dusting off a layer of dust.

Yao An reached into the gap between the iron bars and opened the gate, cursing and walking in.

On the bus back, someone gnawed garlic all the way.In a confined space, this kind of experience made him want to die.

When they arrived in the courtyard, they found that the door was open, and Yu Wan was standing inside the door with his back turned to him.

"Auntie?" Yao An stepped forward and called out.

Yu Wan's figure paused, and she seemed to quickly wipe it on her face, then turned her head: "Xiao'an is back."

There was no flaw in her smiling face, Yao An saw a pair of shoes on the carpet.

"Seeing that Qi is upstairs, your father hasn't come back yet." Yu Wan said again.

No one was seen on the second floor, so Yao An put down his schoolbag and climbed up to the attic, glanced through the crack of the bedroom door, feeling empty, then turned and opened the study door.

The moment he came in, Yao Jianqi closed a webpage.

"The content must be very exciting." Yao An rubbed his chin with a teasing expression.

Yao Jianqi turned off the phone calmly: "You thought I was you."

"Hey." Yao An stepped forward and gently strangled his neck with his arms, "Say it again."

Yao Jianqi didn't resist at all, rolled up Yao An's sleeve and smelled it, and asked, "Did you eat garlic?"

"No!" As soon as Yao An mentioned this, he felt bitter and bitter. He told the whole story, and was interrupted twice by Yao Jianqi's laughter.

"My mother, that's the kind of environment," Yao An described painfully, "There are so many people, and the air conditioner is turned on, it's almost fermented on the spot, you understand?"

"I don't want to understand." Yao Jianqi smiled sullenly.

"Brother Gaiming will show you how to experience it."

"No."

The two quarreled for a while, and Yao An didn't remember what he wanted to ask at the beginning until Yao Xinping returned home and Yu Wan called them downstairs for dinner.

"Did you quarrel with your aunt?"

To his surprise, Yao Jianqi didn't deny it, but said, "That's right."

"Why?" Yao An stopped under a decorative painting at the corner of the second and third floors. The pattern resembled one of the Rorschach inkblot tests. He said that it looked like two pink birds climbing from a volcano to a snow peak. Lizards, Yao Jianqi said, are like fish lungs.

"Now I feel more and more that what you said is more correct." Yao Jianqi stood on the higher stairs, level with him.

"What?" Yao An didn't respond.

Yao Jianqi watched him quietly: "Have you ever been defeated by something?"

Even almost destroyed.

Yao An frowned, he subconsciously felt that this was not just a simple question, but he didn't ask for confirmation.

He could only truthfully say: "Come close, but no."

Yao Jianqi seemed to understand without having to delve into it. He gave him a look of relief and said, "At least you are lucky."

After saying this, Yao Jianqi went downstairs, leaving no room for him to question.

Yao An regretted it very much.At the first moment, he didn't understand what Yao Jianqi was talking about, just like he didn't realize the precariousness behind Yao Jianqi's cheerfulness these days.

He should ask why "at least", and he should hold on to the reason why Yao Jianqi and Yu Wan quarreled. In this way, maybe he can know even a little bit of Yao Jianqi's past that he never opened up to him.

Most of all he wished that he had turned that computer back on, before the records were deleted.In this way, he will see a photography website called "LostFeasts", and the chief photographer's name is Lin Shuchen.

Then he will know at once all that he just wanted to explore.

Instead of waiting until Yao Jianqi disappeared.