Summer in Hagawa

Just as Ye Chuan walked out of the teaching building with his schoolbag on his back, he heard someone yelling his name in the small playground not far away.Ye Chuan squinted his eyes and looked over, a tall and thin boy was running towards him with sweat on his head.Behind them was a group of boys and girls yelling and shouting around the small playground. It seemed that the basketball team was playing a practice game.

"Chuan'er, are you okay?" The boy stopped in front of him panting, "I just heard from Qiangzi and the others that you were hit by a basketball just now?"

"It's okay." Ye Chuan unconsciously turned his head to avoid his sight.He had looked in the mirror in the infirmary just now, and if his bangs were drooping, the bluish bruise above his eyebrows would not be particularly noticeable.However, he still feels very dizzy and a little nauseous until now.The doctor said it was a mild concussion and he needed to rest well.

The boy pulled him to sit down on the edge of the flower bed, looked at his hair carefully, and cursed in a low voice: "Which bastard is so black? Let me find out and tear him up."

The arrogant tone overlapped perfectly with the young man deep in his memory who always smiled brightly.Ye Chuan couldn't help laughing, but there was a very subtle feeling in his heart.

The boy's name is Shao Kai, and he is his younger brother.Before Ye Chuan's parents had an accident, the two had always been neighbors.Even though he was later adopted by the Ye family, the two kept in touch with each other, and later entered the city's No. [-] Middle School together. Although one was in a key class and the other was in an ordinary class, their friendship with each other was still closer than that of other students. .

"It's already stupid enough," Shao Kai touched his forehead carefully, and sighed regretfully, "This is great, I'm completely demented."

Ye Chuan kicked him unceremoniously, "You're the one with the dementia."

"I'm serious." Shao Kai kicked the gravel beside the flower bed, his eyes slightly worried, "I found out when I just came back from the provincial competition. He has a gloomy face. Especially when he saw me, his eyes...like seeing a ghost. It took me a long time to think about it, but I didn’t find any difference when I looked in the mirror. He was still as handsome as before the game, but he was a little darker. .”

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Ye Chuan smiled uncomfortably.

"Really, really," Shao Kai patted him on the shoulder, "I just went out to play for two weeks, what happened?"

"It's nothing, my parents' memorial day..." Ye Chuan sighed as he spoke.It's not that you can't believe the buddies who grew up together, even if he is willing to say it, who would believe the word of resurrection from the dead?However, a perfunctory answer made Ye Chuan suddenly inexplicably startled.He suddenly remembered that in the year before his death, he and Li had a lot of quarrels and got drunk every day, but he didn't expect to come back to visit his parents' graves.

Ye Chuan clenched his fists tightly, his heart ached like twists.

Ever since the accidental coma in early May, Ye Chuan felt that there were more fragmentary memories in his mind, which belonged to the memories that Ye Chuan would have only a few years later.Sometimes it's at home, with Li Xingxing and the two of them getting tired of each other, and sometimes it's in the office building, surrounded by office workers in suits and leather shoes.Of course, Li's whereabouts are the most frequent, the way he was sitting across the dining table eating, the way he came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, the way he was lying on the bed with his arms full and his face full...

It wasn't until today's physical education class that he was hit on the head by a basketball and was sent to the infirmary in a daze that those flying memories finally became coherent.

"I'm sorry." Shao Kai patted him on the shoulder, "I didn't expect..."

"Aren't you guys, what are you talking about?" Ye Chuan interrupted him.

Shao Kai laughed immediately, "We are buddies for life."

Ye Chuan also smiled, it was a wry smile.He clearly remembered that on that summer night, Shao Kai blocked him in the bar when he was half drunk, swayed him by his collar, scolded him for not being up to date, and forced him to break up with Li Xingxing.He looked at Shao Kai's eyes that were flushed with anger, but he couldn't say the word. In the end, he just watched him say, "I, Shao Kai, are not as useless as you." , and then slam the door and leave.

That was the last time he saw Shao Kai.A few days later, in the wee hours of the morning, when he was drunk and walking through the back alley of the bar, he met two drug addicts who came out to rob. in the alley.Until then, he knew very well in his heart that Shao Kai would still come back to him after he was overwhelmed, would point to his nose and scold him for not being up to date, would drag him under the faucet to wash himself clean, then put on his suit and force him to Let him go back to work...

Ye Chuan felt his eyes a little sour.Looking at the young man with a bright smile in front of him, he suddenly recalled a detail that he had always ignored: At that time, his phone number had been blackmailed by Li's whereabouts, and he had broken up with the Ye family long ago, and his relationship with his colleagues was far away. After all the calculations, only Shao Kai would recognize the corpse...

"Potian, it's so hot." Shao Kai wiped the sweat from his forehead, then turned to ask him, "What are your plans for the summer vacation?"

Ye Chuan's heart was shocked again.Summer vacation, how could he forget this year's summer vacation?His second brother Ye Shifei brought Li's whereabouts to City B for vacation for the first time.It was in the garden of Ye's family that he saw that handsome and domineering young man for the first time, and then he was led his eyes away for no reason, and finally couldn't extricate himself...

"Chuan'er?" Shao Kai bumped into his shoulder, "What are you thinking? Your eyes are straight."

"It's nothing." Ye Chuan lowered his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.A scene that meant a lot to him might be nothing to that person, and if he tried to say something, it would be just the beginning of his troubles.

"I made an agreement with my second uncle, I will work as a waiter in his shop during the holidays, and earn some pocket money by the way." When he talked about his summer vacation arrangements, Shao Kai beamed with joy.Ye Chuan vaguely remembered that he had a second uncle who opened a coffee shop, and for a while he would often bring him some weird little desserts.Especially the signature fruit pie in the store, with some spices added in it, Ye Chuan still remembers the cool and sweet taste.

Ye Chuan's heart skipped a beat, "Oh, can I go?"

"What are you going to do?" Shao Kai was puzzled, "You don't need the pocket money. Those who carry the dishes and wash the dishes are all manual labor."

"Staying at home all the time is meaningless." Ye Chuan said vaguely.

"Oh." Shao Kai didn't know where he was going, with a clear expression on his face, "My second uncle's problem is not big. But, I'm serious, it's all about serving people, I'm really afraid You can't do it."

Shao Kai always thought he was squeamish, Ye Chuan knew it.But hearing him say that in person, I still feel awkward.

"What are you talking about? I don't know how to do any work. When I lived with my grandma, I did all the housework." After his parents died in a car accident, eight-year-old Ye Chuan was sent to his grandma's house for two years. After Grandma Ye died of illness, he was taken to the Ye family by Ye Ningde.Counting, Ye Ningde can be regarded as Ye Chuan's uncle's generation, but the relationship is really not that far away.

"Sorry, I forgot." Shao Kai scratched his head embarrassingly, "If you want to go, just go, just to be with me."

Ye Chuan nodded.In any case, he absolutely cannot stay in Ye's house this summer vacation.Even though he regained his young life, he still couldn't face the scars left by those two people.The pain had already exceeded what he could bear.

"Then it's a deal." Not wanting to think about it, Ye Chuan almost jumped up hastily, "I'll move in with you when the time comes."

"Are you going back now?"

"Uncle Ye called and asked the driver to pick me up." Ye Chuan knew that this was just an excuse, but today he remembered too much of the past and had a severe headache.He needs time and a quiet place to digest the information slowly.

When they walked out of the school gate, the Ye family's car was already waiting on the side of the road, and Ye Ningde's assistant was standing beside the car.Seeing him coming out, Assistant Chen hurried up to meet him, and asked with great concern, "I heard you were injured? Mr. Ye has already contacted Director Zhao. I'll send you there for a checkup first."

Ye Chuan waved his hand, "The doctor said it would be good to take a rest. Thank you, Assistant Chen."

"Then I'll take you home first." Assistant Chen nodded, "Call me if you feel uncomfortable."

In my memory, Assistant Chen is a serious, almost indifferent young man, unsmiling and orderly.Ye Chuan has always been a little afraid of him.However, he has been wandering around for so many years, looking at him now, he only feels at ease and calm.Ye Chuan couldn't help feeling a little puzzled, why did he think he was scary back then?

After sending Ye Chuan back to Ye's house, Assistant Chen left after a few instructions.Ye Chuan pushed open the tall carved iron gate in front of him, feeling in a daze.

At this time, even if the housing prices in N City have not yet risen, the scale of Ye's house is still impressive.The upper and lower three-storey villas, with white walls and red tiles, set off the surrounding green lawn, which naturally exudes a kind of elegant and atmospheric beauty.Ye Chuan involuntarily looked to the right side of the courtyard, at the end of the path, under the wisteria trellis, at a certain moment soon, he saw the whereabouts of young Li for the first time.

At that time, his second brother Ye Shifei was standing beside Li Xingzong, patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Come on, let me introduce you to my brother, how is he, isn't he pretty?"

He no longer remembered how Li Xingxing answered.He only remembered that at that time, he seemed to have suddenly fallen into a ball of fire, the intense heartbeat made his chest ache, and it was even difficult to breathe.Such a sudden and strong impact made him ignore many things, such as Ye Shifei who was always with him.

When I was in the middle of the game, I just felt so painful that I didn’t want to live. Looking back after a long time and the gap between life and death, I only felt embarrassed.

Ye Chuan said to himself: I will never let this happen again.