Let go of the past

After the rain, the sun was shining brightly. After days of heavy rain washed the artificial turf and rubber track on the playground, the dew evaporated and rose, and there was a fresh smell of plastic.

In the last quarter of the afternoon, I caught up with Class [-] and [-] of Senior High School, which happened to be physical education class. On the basketball court not far away, Li Ru, a vigorous figure, jumped up to make a three-pointer, and the orange ball slid a smooth and graceful arc in the air. Grabbed the edge of the rim and hit the backboard before ejecting, and the landing provoked a wave of gloating boos.

"..." Li Ru wiped the sweat off his forehead, and yelled at his teammates in a rough voice: "Stop fighting, take a break."

On the lawn at the edge of the court, Bai Lisheng was sitting on the floor with a book in his hand. The sunlight outlined a smooth golden edge along his slender and fair neckline. Two or three meters away behind him, a group of female classmates gathered together and chatted. , all eyes were projected on Bai Lisheng's slightly arched back, his eyes were eager and obsessed.

Li Ru ran over sweating profusely, waved at the group of girls like chasing chickens, and passed a fierce look, but it backfired, and a burst of frantic and excited screams arose.Li Ru was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes angrily, turned around and sat down next to Bai Lisheng, grabbed the mineral water on the grass and drank it up, and after putting it down, cursed depressedly and irritably: "Fuck. "

Bai Lisheng turned a deaf ear to it, and kept his eyes on the shadows of swords and swords between the lines in the book, his expression quite indifferent.

"Hey, Xiaobai," Li Ru couldn't help but bumped his shoulder, and said angrily, "Is there something wrong with Ji Bing's mind?"

Bai Lisheng didn't move his eyes, reached out to turn a page of the book, and asked indifferently, "What?"

"He and Li Ziqing." Li Ru threw the mineral water into the air and caught it again, with an extremely puzzled look on his face: "What's going on?"

"If you really want to know, just ask him himself."

"..." Li Ru resentfully said, "I have to avoid him recently."

Bai Lisheng refused to comment, and after a brief silence for a few seconds, he spoke again: "Sit farther away."

"what happened?"

"A smell of sweat."

"..." Li Ru was completely sad, and with a look of grief and indignation, he complained: "One by one, why don't you wear crotch pants to play big?"

"Don't worry about it, forget it."

Li Ru: "..."

"Li Ru!" This side was immersed in the sadness of reminiscing about the past, but the protagonist of the topic appeared unexpectedly, and the group of female students gathered together screamed ecstatically, Li Ru Then he watched Ji Bing and Li Ziqing walking side by side in horror, with a terrified expression on his face that the end of the world was coming.

He stood up and wiped the unnecessary dust on his trousers, his eyes swept over Li Ziqing's face, and fell on Ji Bing's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. Ask: "What... why?"

Ji Bing stopped in front of him, looked at the other party's expression with great interest, and smiled lightly: "Why do you look like a guilty conscience?"

Li Ru's eyes wandered: "No..."

Ji Bing turned to Li Ziqing, "What do you think?"

Li Ru's hair stood up all over, and he stared at Li Ziqing as if he was watching a ghost.

Li Ziqing exchanged glances with him, then turned to Ji Bing and said, "It's okay, his usual expression is like this."

Ji Bingsha nodded thoughtfully, then changed the topic, and said slowly to Li Ru: "Li Ziqing said that there is some misunderstanding and prejudice between the two of you, I want to be a peacemaker, will you give me face?"

"I didn't say that." Li Ziqing interjected dryly.

Ji Bing glanced at him sideways, his face showed no displeasure at being hastily interrupted, Li Ru saw Ji Bing's focus and earnest gaze on Li Ziqing in his eyes, the WTF in his heart swiped the screen again, and finally endured Can't help asking: "Ji Bing, what's the matter with him? When did you get on so well?"

"Friend." Ji Bing replied almost without hesitation, but after thinking for a moment, he added: "A very close friend."

In Li Ru's case, the friends who are very close are probably to the extent of playing together in crotch pants. Hearing Ji Bing say this, it is even more unbelievable: "...intimate?" His face instantly showed hatred for taking away friends, and he said indignantly: "Closer than me and Xiaobai?"

"There is no comparison."

Li Ru's expression softened a little, revealing that we are indeed different.

But Ji Bing said again: "If you really want to talk, you two are close."

Li Ru: "!!!???"

Li Ziqing couldn't listen to it anymore. Li Rugang is a straight man and probably can't understand the inner world of gays. Ji Bing intended to draw Li Ziqing closer to his friends, but he explained it vaguely and ambiguously, which made it even more annoying. hate.

"Li Ru," Li Ziqing looked sincere and solemn, and said to the gloomy Li Ru, "We may have had some prejudices before, but now that we are both Ji Bing's friends, in order not to make things difficult for him, can we let go of our knots?" Get rid of the grievances, even if you can't be friends, at least don't make the relationship so stiff, can you?"

Li Ru was caught off guard by Li Ziqing's unsolicited overtures, his eyes dangled blankly from the faces of the two people in front of him, and he didn't respond for a long time.

Ji Bing lifted his chin and urged him: "Hurry up, I'm waiting for your answer."

Li Ru: "..." Damn, this isn't a show of favor, it's simply forcing prostitutes for good.

Under the pressure of Ji Bing and Li Ziqing's two gazes, one cold and one hot, Li Ru brushed his hair, let out an angry oh, and continued: "Okay, no problem."

"As expected of my good brother." Ji Bing stretched out his hand with a smile, and patted Li Ru's shoulder heavily.

Watching Ji Bing and Li Ziqing leave the playground, Li Ru sat back beside Bai Lisheng without a word, the mineral water bottle in his hand was creaking, and after holding back for a long time, he said, "I really saw a ghost."

"I said it a long time ago," Bai Lisheng closed the book and said slowly, "Don't ask for trouble."

Li Ru was incredulous: "You have already seen that the relationship between the two of them is unusual?"

"Before you."

"When did it start?"

Bai Lisheng thought for a while, "During the sports meeting last semester."

"???" Li Ru's eyes widened: "Does Li Ziqing know some magic tricks to deceive people?"

Bai Lisheng smiled lightly, but continued, "Li Ziqing is indeed a pretty good person."

Li Ru: "..." Crazy, crazy, all my friends were instigated by the enemy, damn it, even I didn't escape.

Li Ziqing and Ji Bing walked out of the playground together. He looked back at Li Ru's depressed back on the lawn in the distance, and couldn't help but say, "I have two questions."

Ji Bing was in a good mood, with an expression of willingness to hear about it.

"Why is Li Ru so afraid of you?"

Ji Bing raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, his eyes gradually lost in memories, but he said disapprovingly, "Probably because I have saved his life."

Li Ziqing's eyes were three points suspicious and seven points surprised, "What kind of life-saving grace?"

The two walked out of the gate of the playground, walked through a small flower bed, and walked towards the canteen behind the teaching building, while listening to Ji Bing's story about the past.

"One year during the summer vacation in elementary school, Li Ru and Xiao Bai came to my house to play. The adults were too busy to supervise us, so the three of us sneaked away to play in the outdoor swimming pool. Li Ru liked to play tricks when he was a child, and Xiao Bai was not good at swimming at that time. He insisted on trying to lure him into the deep water area, so I pulled Xiaobai, but Li Ru slipped in instead. He was thrashing about in the water, watching me call for help, until he almost sank When it was bottom, I swam over to rescue him."

"...Why didn't you go to rescue him right away?" Li Ziqing couldn't understand for a while.

Ji Bing glanced at him and explained with a smile: "When people's lives are threatened, they will explode with strength several times greater than usual. The desire to survive will make people lose their reason and judgment. We were both physically similar at the time, and we were both It's a child, and there is no adult to help, if we rush into the water to save each other when our strength is balanced, I am afraid that both of us will be buried in the swimming pool that year."

"...Then Li Ru, does he know that you have thought so carefully?"

Ji Bing spread his hands: "Then I don't know."

"So, at the moment when Li Ru was on the verge of death, he watched helplessly as his partner stood by with cold eyes, but there was no way to save him." Li Ziqing stood in Li Ru's perspective and said with lingering fear: "Even if you still put He was rescued, but deep down in his heart, he will have an uncontrollable fear of you, right?"

The two of them stepped up the steps of the canteen together and stood at the door without going in. After listening to Li Ziqing's analysis, Ji Bing suddenly realized, "You make a lot of sense." He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled calmly: "But it is true. I saved him."

Li Ziqing didn't know how to go on for a while, and thought about his words in his heart, and said slowly: "Li Ru can still be friends with you now, it is really courageous."

"So," Ji Bing followed his words: "Your relationship with Li Ru should not be so tense in the future. Although he has no brains, he still has fists."

"This is my second question." Li Ziqing looked at Ji Bing with some puzzlement and asked, "Why do you want me to have a better relationship with Li Ru, can't it be enough if I don't get along with him? "

A group of boys from another class appeared not far away, and they heard their exaggerated national curses and dirty jokes from a long distance away. They were going to head towards the canteen, but the leader peeped at the door from a long distance away. Ji Bing's eyes dimmed, and he turned around and gestured to the people around him, and the group of people turned around and walked away. Although their movements were chic, they looked more like they were deliberately avoiding Ji Bing.

Ji Bing looked away from the group of people, watching Li Ziqing answer his question: "With Li Ru here, no one will trouble you."

Li Ziqing was a little speechless: "Isn't it because Li Ru is the one who will trouble me?"

"Isn't that great?" Ji Bing said, "Now you two have turned enemies into friends, and you don't have to worry about someone picking on you anymore."

Li Ziqing still shook his head incomprehensibly, turned around and walked to the canteen, Ji Bing followed behind him, staring at his back, his eyes instantly became deep and dark.

"Here." Li Ziqing stood in front of the counter, turned around and threw a bottle of water to Ji Bing, watching him reach out to catch it, but he seemed to remember something, and suddenly smiled.

"Do you still remember?" He smiled and said to Ji Bing, "During the military training last year, you were also here, and suddenly threw me a bottle of water."

Ji Bing raised his eyebrows, pretending to recall, and said slowly, "Oh, I seem to have an impression."

"At that time, Xie Jiaqi was standing next to you."

Ji Bing: "...You have a pretty good memory."

Li Ziqing gave him a sly smile, then walked out of the canteen together, and walked along the cement road towards the cafeteria.The afterglow of the setting sun splashed down and landed on the shoulders of the two, stretching their backs to a long distance. Looking from a distance, a pair of shadows seemed to be holding hands firmly.

"Li Ziqing," Ji Bing looked at the red clouds in the sky, his eyes were long and distant, and his voice became ethereal and distorted in an instant: "You have to take good care of yourself."

"What?" Li Ziqing was holding up the bottle to drink water, and his hearing was temporarily weakened. He put down the bottle, with water in his mouth, his cheeks were bulging like a little hamster, and his face was full of question marks.

Ji Bing looked at him steadfastly, then suddenly stretched out his hand to pinch his small earlobe, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, let's go eat."

"Why do you tell me to take care of myself?"

Ji Bing: "..."

Li Ziqing looked at him, with unspoken emotions hidden in his eyes: "Why?"

"You just post it as if I feel something." Ji Bing's expression was calm.

Li Ziqing withdrew his gaze and looked at the concrete road silently. The two walked side by side in silence for a short distance. Li Ziqing spoke again, his voice weak, as if deliberately controlling his emotions: "Ji Bing, if you are ready Go and tell me."

After a while, I heard Ji Bing reply in a deep voice, one word: "Yes."