senior [rebirth]

After calming down, I found that August has kicked off for several days.

After realizing that he had less than one month of summer vacation left, Lin Xi studied harder than before.

Time passed day by day, and rushed to August [-]th.

The sun was shining brightly all over the city on this day, and it was strongly announced that the junior high school seniors in No. [-] Middle School had entered the countdown to the last day of summer vacation in the entire middle school era.

Xu Hanlai responded to the call, lifted Liu Hao's quilt early in the morning, threw his schoolbag and clothes on him, and urged people to go home quickly.

Liu Hao was stunned by the morning sun so that he closed his eyes and swayed on the sofa for a long time. The two of them ignited the atmosphere in the living room in one sentence, and made Lin Xi who had just woken up very happy.

Squinting and looking out the window, I found that the sun was really good that day.

At first, Liu Hao still didn't want to go home after saying anything, but Xu Hanlai was also determined not to let him continue to indulge here.

So Liu Hao spent the whole morning in the living room with such difficulty, pestering Lin Xi to beg for mercy, and kept saying that the summer vacation that ended like this was not perfect at all.

It was said that Guo Yu had left, and the stall setting had ended early, and the whole summer vacation had been anticlimactic, which was not at all what he had imagined.

While talking, he also gulped down the cheese chicken made by Lin Xi with the tears of crocodile in his mouth.

In the end, Xu Hanlai personally carried the bag and threw it out the door.

Liu Hao's ability to make a fuss was not built on, he made Xu Hanlai turn around and open the door after a few yells outside the door, and decided to send the Buddha to the west.

Seeing this, Lin Xi, who had been watching the excitement from the sidelines, hurriedly packed up and followed behind, took a few bus stops with the senior, and sent Liu Hao home.

It was also on this day that Lin Xi found out that there was a considerable distance between Liu Hao's family and the senior's family.Taking Mancheng Park as the benchmark, Liu Hao's house is farther away from the senior's house than the senior's house is from Mancheng Park. The latter is a full 25-minute walk, extending all the way to the edge of the city.

This also means that on the first day they opened the stall, Liu Hao pushed the cart and ran such a long distance to deliver the cart, and finally took the cart away at the same distance.

I don't know what the road is like.

The whole city is not big at all, and the park is the city center. With such two distances, after the bus arrives at the station, it is basically counted as the west of the city.

Different from the city center where Mancheng Park belongs, the west of the city is relatively remote. There are few buildings, and the only ones are old. After getting out of the car, Lin Xi followed the two seniors and walked for three to five minutes. Stop outside the courtyard.

This area is old, and it can be seen that it has been a few years. The people living in it are not as pure as in the early days, but the overall atmosphere is not bad.Liu Hao has an outgoing personality and knows a lot of people, so he basically greeted him lively along the way.

Downstairs in his house, at the bottom of the inclined stairs, Lin Xi saw the small cart that had been with them for a month.

The graffiti on it is gone, and the three of them found a place to wash it off together on the day it was returned.Although it looks very different from before, there is still a sense of familiarity.

Lin Xi subconsciously reached out and touched it, and found that the scratches they accidentally made in the rain were still there.

Above the cart are rows of green mailboxes, the doors of which are opened and closed, and the air is filled with a damp smell.

Liu Hao's house lived on the first floor, so when he was at the door of the unit building, he took back his schoolbag and waved at Xu Hanlai and Lin Xi listlessly.He repeated what other people said to him this summer vacation, which made him feel callous, and his voice was weak.

"That's all right, all right, let's send it here, live by myself tonight, I'm sure I can rest assured, after school starts, I'll study hard and improve every day, ah."

The unit building in this area is relatively narrow, and it is difficult to accommodate three adolescent boys at the same time. In addition, Liu Hao and Xu Hanlai are both relatively large, so Lin Xi had to stand a little behind.

In this position, under the cover of the corner of the stairs, Liu Hao at the innermost side could not be seen. Lin Xi had to tilt his head from the side of the senior's arm to barely look at him, and then at the senior in front of him.

Xu Hanlai was wearing gray clothes today. After the bag was taken away by Liu Hao, he naturally put his hands in his pockets, raised his chin and said, "Open the door."

Liu Hao: "?"

He turned around with a disbelief on his face: "No, brother, you still have to watch me enter the house? Well, I'm back, and you won't let me go there. Where else can I go if I don't go home?" of……"

"Who knows, didn't you stay under the bridge for a night before school started last year? Lao Gao finally sent you to school."

Liu Hao opened his mouth: "It was a whim that time, and I didn't come today... No, the problem is that if you supervise me now, I may not come out after a while."

While talking, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Then, since you are so worried about me, brother Han, why don't we go now and go back to your house? I promise not to go under the bridge tonight!"

While talking, he laughed and rubbed his hands to express his expectation.

He smiled brightly at Xu Hanlai, and Xu Hanlai also raised the corners of his lips to smile at him. Lin Xi, who had been tilting his neck beside him, saw that both of them were smiling, and subconsciously grinned together.

Then I saw the senior stretch out his hand to Liu Hao.

Say, "Give me the key."

"Hey, hey, hey! Here, brother, do you really want me to go back with you at night? That's okay, I'll go in and get my school uniform and so on. Let's go. Let's go to school together tomorrow morning..."

Liu Hao laughed so hard that his eyes disappeared. As he talked, seeing Xu Hanlai still stretched out one hand in front of him, he immediately handed over the key graciously.

"We will lock it for you after we leave." Xu Han came to take the key and said.

Liu Hao: "...?"

"Then give the key to Uncle Zhou who is at the opposite door, and let him open it for you tomorrow morning." Xu Hanlai continued.

Liu Hao's face collapsed: "Old Gao even taught you this trick?"

Then he immediately reacted: "No, no, brother, you can't be joking. I was planning to sneak to your door at night. I'll see if you will open the door. What should I do if you do such a thing... Don't look at Xiao Linzi Come and help me!"

While shouting, he reached out to snatch the key from Xu Hanlai's hand, but Xu Hanlai refused to give it to him, and the two fought fiercely.Of course Lin Xi wanted to help, but the space in the corridor was already narrow, and there was no room for Lin Xi to join in when the two waved their hands again.

When he stretched his hand forward, he was slapped directly on the back of his hand.

Just as Liu Hao yelled, "Look at you, look at you, you made me hit Xiaolinzi!", the iron door behind him was suddenly opened from the inside without a sound.

A middle-aged woman raised her head from the crack of the door, frowned and glanced at them, her eyes finally fell on Liu Hao, and said, "Hao Zi is back?"

This middle-aged woman is Liu Hao's eldest aunt. After Lin Xi and Xu Han came to call out with Liu Hao, the aunt responded coldly.

The voice immediately quieted the noisy atmosphere.

Seeing that she seemed to have something to say to Liu Hao, Lin Xi from behind took the initiative to pull the senior and said, "Brother Hao, should the senior and I go back first?"

Liu Hao turned around and said, "Okay."

The face looked obviously much weaker than before.

Xu Han came to think for a while, then returned the key in his hand, and said, "Then let's go first? Call me if you need something."

After Liu Hao turned around and gave him an affirmative answer, Xu Hanlai took Lin Xi to bid farewell to the two people inside.

When I left, I walked the same way as when I came, but without Liu Hao, the whole atmosphere was much quieter.

Lin Xi followed behind Xu Hanlai, his face clearly worried.

He knew something about Liu Hao's family situation from his senior before, and just now he saw Liu Hao's falling mood with his own eyes, so he couldn't help but think about it.

"Does he live alone?" Aunt Liu only opened the door, but Lin Xi was standing at a corner, so she could see the scene behind her.

Brother Hao's house is similar in style to the general old housing area, but it does not have the sense of liveliness that old houses can give people, making people feel empty.If I had to describe it, it might be somewhat similar to the Lin family before Li Rende came.

Xu Hanlai: "Yes."

Lin Xi raised his head.

There is no need to ask about Liu Hao's situation in detail, he can figure it out after thinking about it roughly.

When I only looked at the surface, I thought everyone seemed to be happy and happy, and only he was the one with the worst luck. But after actually understanding it, I found that everyone has their own difficulties.

After lunch, they came out to see off people. The city is so hot in summer. It stands to reason that Lin Xi should be sweating at two o'clock at this moment, but when he left the family courtyard and stood by the roadside, he didn't feel any heat. feel.

Lin Xi thought for a while, lowered his head and stepped on the stones on the ground and said, "Brother Hao may be sad tonight, right?"

He doesn't like separation so much, it's not enough to be happy at home alone, if there are some things that make people feel bad...

Just as Lin Xi thought so, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a person walking out in a hurry on the way they had just come out.He took a closer look and found that it was Liu Hao's aunt.

He walked in a hurry, his face looked a little impatient.

Lin Xi froze for a moment, then turned to look at Xu Hanlai.

There are three-wheelers dragging a cart of fruits to sell, and there are also vendors huddling under a newspaper to avoid the sun.

Lin Xi hesitated for a while, then called out, "...Senior."

Xu Hanlai obviously also saw Liu Hao's aunt, and now he frowned slightly, and lowered his head to glance at Lin Xi.

As if he knew what the child was thinking, he slightly tilted his head in the direction of the road, slightly raised the corners of his lips, and said in a gentle voice, "Go."

Lin Xi burst out laughing, "Hey!"

After everyone left, Liu Hao stayed at home alone for a while.

At first they rushed to Xu Hanlai's house in a swarm, making the latter's house lively and lively, but now they return to their own house and feel deserted.

...But his house has always been deserted.

The family courtyard is a relatively lively area in the west city, and Liu Hao's house is on the first floor, so you can often hear the bells of bicycles coming and going outside, so it's not lonely.

But the sound was in stark contrast to the silence at home.

Liu Hao took a deep breath, threw his schoolbag on the ground, and lay down on the sofa.

He closed his eyes, thought about what his aunt said to him just now, thought about the quiet home, and thought about the hot cheese chicken made by Lin Xi, and then...he seemed to hear There was a rush of footsteps.

Followed by the same urgent doorbell.

He opened his eyes in surprise by the noisy voice in the market, got up suspiciously and went to open the door, only to see Lin Xi's sweaty face appearing at the door.

This child's lung capacity is really poor, and he didn't get much better after the summer vacation. He was out of breath even after running such a distance.

But when he was wiping his sweat in the sunshine outside the unit building, his eyes seemed to be shining with a smile: "Brother, do you want to go climbing? Didn't we agree before? Now there is still time to catch the last bus. "

Xu Hanlai walked into the unit building behind him, looked at Lin Xi with a funny face and said, "It's still early, what are you doing so fast?"

Lin Xi laughed, turned his head to imitate Liu Hao's way of raising his eyebrows before, and said, "Brother, are you going?"