summer

Although he really wanted to find a way to go back, Gu Xiheng was really not familiar with the new school at all.

When the class bell rang, Gu Xiheng sighed, accepted the arrangement of fate, sat down on the steps at the entrance of the gymnasium, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

Do you think he's going to call the head teacher?

No, he turned on Happy Match.

It's late anyway, it doesn't matter if you go or not.Anyway, he is a transfer student, and getting lost is his legitimate reason.

There is a rule in the No. 5 Middle School that if you are more than [-] minutes late, you will be considered absent from class. It is better to have fun.

But when he didn't even play three rounds, Happy Xiaoxiaole turned into Happy Xiaoxiaomi, which made his mood even worse.

"Stupid." Zhao Zhu suddenly opened the glass door of the gymnasium and walked out. I don't know how long he looked inside.

Gu Xiheng was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a person behind him, turned around and found that it was Zhao Zhu, and asked strangely, "Why are you in the gymnasium?"

"Where is my love." Zhao Zhu glanced sideways and begged for the phone, "Give it to me."

I don't know what Zhao Zhu wants to do, but Gu Xiheng handed him the phone without thinking, and Zhao Zhu took the phone and messed up the game interface.

At the entrance of the quiet gymnasium, two teenagers in school uniforms were sitting under the shade of a large tree. The breeze blew the treetops, and spots of light leaked from the ground. Neither of them dared to take a big breath. , It is short of being labeled with literary and artistic labels such as "The Years Are Quiet" and "Youth Fleeting".

However, who would have thought that their background music is actually "good", "excellent" and "unbelievable", which is very impactful in English teaching.

The concluding remark was Zhao Zhu's cursing, which made them return to the friendly Mandarin environment in an instant.

The raccoon on the screen reminded that most of the ice was still unthawed.Gu Xiheng couldn't hold it back, he laughed out loud, and his depressed mood instantly disintegrated: "You're not doing very well either."

Zhao Zhu was unmoved, and quickly restarted the game. As long as his hand speed is fast enough, Gu Xiheng's laughter will not be able to catch up with him.

Zhao Zhu's eyes were fixed on the phone screen, but he didn't realize that Gu Xiheng's gaze was completely on his face.Gu Xiheng's gaze moved down inch by inch from Zhao Zhu's forehead. He has never observed Zhao Zhu's face so closely after being back for so long. He saw his eyelashes trembling slightly with his breathing. His concentration on the game made Zhao Zhu's blink frequency lower. , only that little light flickered in his eyes.

"It's over!" Zhao Yi cheered, as happy as if he had won the world champion of Happy Match, turned his head to meet Gu Xiheng's face and suddenly reacted, but the smile hadn't had time to put it away.

Gu Xiheng met Zhao Zhu's smiling eyes. After coming back for so long, this was the first time he saw Zhao Zhu smiling so happily at him. Gu Xiheng couldn't help being a little bit surprised.

The two looked at each other for half a second, Zhao Zhu looked away awkwardly, threw the phone back into Xi Heng's arms, and said very childishly, "I want to tell the teacher that you skipped class."

Gu Xiheng was stunned for a few seconds, then laughed loudly: "Didn't you skip class too?"

"I'm not a good student, so I'm afraid of my teacher." Zhao Zhu sneered and patted him on the shoulder, "Only a good boy like you cares about criticism and punishment."

This kind of label was put on inexplicably, but Gu Xiheng didn't explain it. He put on the sign and reminded with a kind smile: "Then aren't you afraid that auntie will come to school and pull your ear?"

"You snitch! "Zhao Zhu was furious, completely forgetting that it was his first intention.

It was not the first time Gu Xiheng heard such words, he was used to being automatically classified into the same camp as his teacher, and in his short ten-year student career, he had heard even worse verbal attacks, and he had no fear at all.

Even when he was a child, Zhao Zhu scolded him more than once. The difference is that the former Zhao Zhu was not really angry, and the two were just fighting as usual.Zhao Zhu's temper now is tens of thousands of times more irritable than when he was a child, and Gu Xiheng is also a little uncertain about this attitude.

After dragging on for so many days, Gu Xiheng took advantage of the opportunity to be alone today, and asked the question in his heart for the third time: "Are you unhappy that I come back here to go to school?"

"What can I be happy about?" Zhao Zhu squinted at him, "Young master, who came back from the big city, I don't know you very well."

When Gu Xiheng heard the unexpected answer, he couldn't turn his mind for a while.

"What son?" Gu Xiheng couldn't figure it out, "What are you talking about?"

Zhao Zhu stood up and patted the ashes on his buttocks, "Young master has a bad memory, I'll go first, goodbye!"

Say it and walk away.

Gu Xiheng tilted his head and thought for a while, as if he had missed an episode of the TV series, and couldn't connect to the plot, so he caught up with Zhao Zhu and asked for a spoiler: "'Bye bye', what 'bye bye', if you want to leave, take me with you!"

"Don't follow me! You don't know the way?!" Zhao Zhu turned around and yelled angrily, startling a few resting sparrows in the treetops.

Gu Xiheng once again admitted his road-crazy attributes: "Yes!"

The second time I heard this, I didn't think it was true.

"Ghosts believe you!" Zhao Zhu ran wildly.

Gu Xiheng followed quickly: "Don't curse yourself like this, it's unlucky to be young."

"Bah! You are the ghost!" Zhao Zhu heard that Gu Xiheng was hurting him, and quickly fought back, "You are neither human nor ghost!"

After hearing this sentence, Gu Xiheng still didn't change his face, and even said something that made Zhao Yiyi speechless for a while: "Thank you for complimenting me as an angel."

Zhao Zhu: "..."

I'm not me without you, don't talk nonsense!

When Gu Xiheng said such words, Zhao Zhu's jaw dropped in shock, he didn't care about explaining, he just wanted to leave quickly.

No matter how you look at this situation, it is the same as coming to school in the morning.

The more Zhao Zhu thought about it, the angrier he felt, he felt that he was a bad person, why was he forced into such a cowardly behavior by Gu Xiheng, wouldn't it make others laugh when it was spread out.

But it was impossible for him to beat Gu Xiheng violently.

... aggrieved.

"Do you know where the library is?" Gu Xiheng hasn't forgotten the main reason why he skipped class.

Zhao Zhu stared at him in disbelief: "Are you sick, skipping classes and going to the library to read books is very compelling?"

"No... I'm going to get my textbooks..." Gu Xiheng vaguely guessed something, and asked tentatively: "Do you think I went to a big city and got a bad disease?"

Zhao Zhu never answered Gu Xiheng's questions directly, and this time was no exception.

He is action.

6. Homework pranks

It has been a week since the day we played Happy Matches together, and Gu Xiheng received his textbooks early in the afternoon, and carefully wrote his name on each one.

The deskmate leaned over and opened his title page, amazed: "Are there still people who write their names in textbooks these days?"

"You don't write?" Gu Xiheng asked, "What if I get it wrong with someone?"

The deskmate laughed: "Then I'll make a lot of money! My textbook is brand new. If I exchange it with a top student, wouldn't it be great to get a notebook full of notes?"

Gu Xiheng took back his textbook calmly and straightened it on the desk: "That's why I wrote my name."

He suffered a disadvantage in elementary school. He used to cover the exercise books that came with his textbooks. He was reluctant to write his name on the book, so he wrote his name on the book cover.

One time the team leader checked homework. As usual, he put the homework of Chinese, Mathematics and English in the upper left corner of the desk, and the deskmate in the upper right corner. The homework of the two people was mixed together. The booklet is gone.

The next day, Gu Xiheng searched all the desks and lecterns, asked his deskmate and the group leader three times, and all of them shook their heads and said "I don't know". Gu Xiheng's supporting workbook just disappeared.

After a while, every time the teacher assigns homework related to the workbook, Gu Xiheng will be included in the list of "unfinished homework".Finally one day, Gu Xiheng felt ashamed and took the initiative to go to the office to find a Chinese teacher and asked if there were any extra workbooks, because they were the supporting exercises distributed by the school, and Xinhua Bookstore did not sell them.

But the teacher said that the school didn't have any in stock, and asked Gu Xiheng to find a classmate's workbook to make a photocopy of.

It costs 5 cents for a photocopy outside, and the entire exercise book has 57 pages.Gu Xiheng didn't have that much pocket money, so he couldn't open his mouth to ask his mother for dozens of dollars.He decided to copy by hand.

Gu Xiheng's first "copying homework" in his life began like this.He found a blank loose-leaf book, thinking of copying the topics of the later courses first, so as to complete the homework, and then find time to make up the copying of the topics he had done before.

The students have their own study arrangements, Gu Xiheng dare not borrow them home, and has been looking for students to borrow exercise books between classes to find time to copy a few questions.These days lasted for two weeks, and Gu Xiheng still hadn't finished copying all the 57 pages of the exercise book.

One day Zhao Zhu came to him and looked for him for a long time, and whispered to him in a thief-like way: "Lend me that Chinese intelligence training, hurry up, I'm so late that I haven't written anything in class, and the teacher will collect it in the next class."

Gu Xiheng wondered: "I haven't finished copying..."

"Wow! Do you have a chance to copy?" Zhao Zhu completely misunderstood and waved his hands, "It's okay, I skipped the exercises between classes and came to your class to copy your classmate's."

After the exercise at recess, Gu Xiheng returned to the classroom, Zhao Zhu held the exercise book that Gu Xiheng was at the same table with, his face was almost buried in the pages of the book.

Gu Xiheng patted him on the back: "You will be short-sighted like this!"

"This exercise book seems to be yours..." Zhao Zhu turned to the fifth lesson, pointed to the column of words, "Look at it."

Gu Xiheng only had time to be surprised, "Now we have taught the tenth lesson and you have only managed the fifth lesson." Hearing this, he turned to the title page and saw the name of his deskmate, and was immediately disappointed, "I thought you found my copy. Woolen cloth……"

Zhao Zhu slapped his hand away, and turned back to Lesson [-], "Take a closer look, is it possible that only a fool like you can write this word?"

Gu Xiheng took a closer look. The title required writing ABB-type words. In order to facilitate memory and not repeat them, his habit was to order the colors of the rainbow.

But this coincidence is easy to explain, Gu Xiheng's deskmate occasionally copied his homework.

The same sequence means nothing.

Zhao Zhu took the exercise book to the window, and took advantage of the natural light to see it more clearly, "Look again, is there another exactly the same word under his word?"

Gu Xiheng hadn’t practiced calligraphy with hard-tipped pens at that time, and the handwriting was very small, almost half the size of the print in the exercise book. Because water-based pens were used quickly, he always used ballpoint pens for homework to save money, and only black water-based pens were used for the big exams. Answer questions.And his deskmate has a big font, and likes to use a 0.5 thick-tip water-based pen to write large characters that can't keep horizontal lines, which can just cover Gu Xiheng's ballpoint pen handwriting, which is under the skewed and overlapping strokes that can only be vaguely seen when facing the light scattered traces.

I went through the entire exercise book, and before the sixth lesson, I couldn't see the handwriting of the strokes clearly, just to cover all the original words.

"This kid is out of his mind!" Zhao Zhu slammed the exercise book, remembering that it was Gu Xiheng's exercise book, picked it up and smoothed it carefully.

Gu Xiheng took the exercise book to the office, but the teacher didn't believe this nonsense.

No grown-up would believe that someone stole a classmate's exercise book just to retrace his homework. If you have the time, you might as well copy the answers.

What's more, there is no Gu Xiheng's name in the exercise book.His name disappeared along with the peeled-off book cover.

Zhao Zhu rolled his eyes when he heard the result, and in front of the Chinese teacher in Gu Xiheng's class, took correction fluid to cover up his name in the exercise book, and imitated Gu Xiheng's handwriting to write his name in the blank space next to it, and then Give this exercise book to Gu Xiheng.

This move made the teachers of the two classes very angry.

Gu Xiheng took the exercise book and went to the head teacher to ask for a change of seat, unwilling to sit with that same table again.

Zhao Zhu caught that former classmate at the school gate after school that day, beat him up and snatched his schoolbag, wrote a bunch of 0 points in all his homework books in red pen, and finally did not forget to find Gu Xiheng's seized copybook. Exercise book, go home proudly.

Later, Gu Xiheng didn't bother to exchange with Zhao Zhu again, and the two used each other's exercise books for a semester.When Zhao Zhu met everyone, he said that Gu Xiheng's former deskmate was a thief, and would find fault with him every once in a while.In the end, Gu Xiheng couldn't stand it anymore, and advised Zhao Zhu not to trouble his ex-tablemate anymore, Zhao Zhu listened to it, and then secretly added strokes or bold strokes on that person's test papers on all his papers that scored less than 90 Changed to 90 points or more, it looks extremely rough, and the traces of the changed score can be seen at a glance.

Zhao Zhu said to Gu Xiheng very proudly: "I don't need to do anything now, his parents will definitely beat him up, and he is still suffering."

Zhao Zhuji is talented in bullying.Gu Xiheng knew it a long time ago, but he didn't expect that one day he would experience it himself.

Today, seven years later, Zhao Zhu sat in Gu Xiheng's seat, tore up the entire page of the homework he wrote last night, rolled it up, lit it with a lighter, and lit a cigarette with the flame.

Leave a table of ashes and blank homework books.

Gu Xiheng, who came back from the restroom, was still a little nostalgic for Zhao Zhu's masterpiece.

But there is a lot of time left for him to miss, but very little time left for him to make up his homework.For three consecutive days, Zhao Zhu found an opportunity to restore the homework with one click. Gu Xiheng was a little tired from writing, mainly because his hands were tired.

He decided to have a good talk with Zhao Zhu, but Zhao Zhu was always busy at recess, and Gu Xiheng never saw anyone.

Gu Xiheng had no other choice, so he copied a Shakespeare's love poem, signed Zhao Zhu's name, painted a big heart with a red pen on the envelope, and asked Zhao Zhu's tablemate to "return" to Zhao Zhu with a face full of helplessness.

Zhao Zhu's tablemate was shocked: "He can actually write!"

Gu Xiheng smiled awkwardly but still politely: "Please tell him, if you do 'such a thing' again, I will post it on the bulletin board for display."

Zhao Zhu listened to Gu Xiheng's message, and then read the love letter "planted" by Gu Xiheng, and was so angry that he said incoherently: "I can write ten love letters like this to him!"

Zhao Zhu at the same table: "I wish you a smooth chase."

Zhao Zhu: "???"

7. Unlock

Gu Xiheng thought, with Zhao Zhu's fiery temper, he might find new ideas to punish him in the next few days, so why not find some reason to go up to the fifth floor and talk to Zhao Zhu tonight.

As soon as he left the classroom door, he ran into Zhao Zhuyi leaning on the stairs, looking around with his hands crossed on his chest, as if waiting for someone.

Gu Xiheng wasn't sure if Zhao Zhu and the others were him.

But he was never afraid of being slapped in the face by Zhao Zhu, but he was afraid that Zhao Zhu would ignore him.

Gu Xiheng went through a few simulated conversations in his mind, and after being mentally prepared to make sure everything was safe, he greeted Zhao Zhu and put on a skilled smile: "Wait for me to go home together?" The scene of the patient face yelling at him.

Zhao Zhu took out the love letter from his school uniform pocket, and slapped it on Gu Xiheng's chest, his eyes burning, "I didn't write this!"

Uh... Of course Gu Xiheng knew it wasn't written by Zhao Zhu.

Gu Xiheng caught the love letter that was about to fall from his body, a bit confused about the progress.And Zhao Zhu was still pulling at the collar of his school uniform and yelling loudly: "Speak! Which bastard gave it to you?! How dare you pretend to be me to do such a boring thing, and don't want to kill him?!"

It is estimated that they have been separated for so long that Zhao Zhu could no longer recognize Gu Xiheng's handwriting.

Gu Xiheng held Zhao Zhuqing's bulging fist, and slowly loosened his collar, "Let's talk in another place."

Zhao Zhu glanced around, and the classmates coming and going around him looked at the two of them with surprised and nervous eyes, as if they were afraid that Gu Xiheng would be beaten up by him in the next second.

The two walked all the way to the bicycle shed, Zhao Zhu said again: "It's okay now, tell me, who is that damned?"

Gu Xiheng found his bicycle, turned around while pushing the bicycle and said, "It's me. Otherwise, would you come to me?"

Zhao Yiyi was at a loss for words, and was so angry that he wanted to snatch the love letter back and tear it into pieces.

Gu Xiheng couldn't push the car for a long time, bent down to check whether the lock was fully opened, only to find that the rear wheel of the car was locked by an iron chain, turned to look at Zhao Zhu: "Where's the key?"

Zhao Zhu also saw the big chain and stared at him: "I'm too lazy to do such a thing!!"

Gu Xiheng was full of question marks: "Who else is there? Is there a student in this school who is better at tricking people than you?"

Zhao Zhu squatted down to check the heavy iron chain, and looked up to see the end of Gu Xiheng's bicycle: "You are stupid, this is locked by the school."

Having never heard of this operation, Gu Xiheng asked humbly: "Why did you lock my car?"

"Your car doesn't have a class logo, and the school will treat you as if you parked indiscriminately." Zhao Zhu tapped the fender of the bicycle with his knuckles. "When you enter school, you will write your class and student number here with paint."

Today should be a random inspection by the school.

"How can I unlock it?"

"Write a self-criticism, ask the Academic Affairs Office to open it." Zhao Zhu stood up and patted the ashes on his hands, looked at the sky, with a gloating tone, "But when you finish writing, they will all get off work."

From this point of view, we can only leave the bicycle at school tonight, and we can only ride it away after submitting the inspection tomorrow.

Gu Xiheng thought for a while, "Then I will ask Auntie tonight to let you drive me to school tomorrow."

Zhao Zhu hadn't been happy for a few seconds when he heard such bad news.

"Damn it!" Zhao Zhu was not happy about this. After checking, he found that the iron chain was not tied to the pillar, so he rolled up his sleeves and lifted the rear wheel, "Come on, you lift the front of the car."

Gu Xiheng was even more surprised: "Where are you taking it?"

It's impossible to carry it home like this, right?

Gu Xiheng listened to Zhao Zhu's instructions all the way, turned around two alleys, and came to a car repair shop.There are factories all around here, and there is a scrap yard and a few dilapidated restaurants next to it.

"Brother Hao, cut this lock for me!" Zhao Zhu greeted the young man who was sitting on the bench at the door eating noodles.

Brother Hao glanced at the bicycle they were carrying, "Where did you steal the bicycle? Where's your usual little electric donkey?"

"My car was locked by my mother, and I've been rubbing against Boran's car for the past few days. Cut the nonsense, do I seem to be able to do that kind of sneaky thing?"

"You don't look like you, you are." Brother Hao put down the bowl and ruthlessly dismantled the stage, wiped his hands with a towel hanging on the side, looked Gu Xiheng up and down, and asked him, "Are you being blackmailed or threatened by him, don't Afraid, speak out boldly, Brother Hao will send him to the police station."

"Fuck you!" Zhao Zhu kicked Brother Hao's calf, "Why don't you say that he enslaved me!"

Brother Hao moved his eyes back and forth between the faces of the two of them, and said with a poof: "Is he like this? Threatening you? Can you make up something decent?"

Zhao Zhu put down the bicycle bitterly, and handed brother Hao a cigarette, "Stop talking nonsense, cut off his locks, I'm in a hurry to go home."

Brother Hao took the cigarette, raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead, turned around and took out a pair of large scissors from the tool rack, and frightened Zhao Zhu a few times: "Whether this car is stolen or robbed is none of my business." Ah, you are in charge."

"What's the matter." Zhao Zhu spat, "It's just his bad luck that someone locked the car."

Brother Hao smiled and did not forget to say a few words to him: "Since when have you been so caring? Zhao Xiaozhu also has a day of being helpful. It seems that the sky is going to rain red tonight."

Gu Xiheng was amused by the two talking back and forth, and after a while Brother Hao cut the big iron chain.Gu Xiheng thanked Brother Hao repeatedly and asked about the price of the locks.

"There's no need to charge for such a trivial matter." Brother Hao waved his hand, put away the scissors, and raised one corner of his mouth at him, "I really feel sorry for being indebted to someone, just give me a phone number, and I will take you for a ride when I'm free."

"Don't bring bad students!" Zhao Zhu took out a cigarette case and threw it on the table, which landed perfectly next to Brother Hao's noodle bowl. "This will be the fee."

Zhao Zhu instructed Gu Xiheng to pick up the iron chain, and the two went to the scrap yard to sell the iron chain as scrap iron.Gu Xiheng watched Zhao Zhu counting the money, and then looked at the bicycle that had regained his freedom, and felt it was funny.

The crisis was resolved inexplicably, and even made a small profit.

"Lock the car." Zhao Zhu dragged Gu Xiheng to a noodle restaurant, sat down at a table that looked a little clean, and called the boss to order two bowls of beef noodles.

Gu Xiheng pulled a large section of paper from the paper roll, wiped the oil on the table, and asked casually, "Do you come here often?"

Although it is not far from the school, there are several factories nearby, and the customers are usually workers. I don’t know how Zhao Zhu found this place, and he is so familiar with the owner of the motorcycle repair shop.

Zhao Zhu poured himself a cup of raw land water and drank it all in one gulp, pretending to be fierce: "Not often, only when doing bad things."

This appearance didn't scare anyone, but instead amused Gu Xiheng.Zhao Zhu was particularly depressed. The image of a big boss collapsed in front of Gu Xiheng, and he gradually developed into a comedian.

The beef noodles were served quickly. There were a few thin slices of beef floating in a bowl of handmade noodles. Although there was no name on the menu, there was a lot of water spinach. The beef bone soup accompanied by the aroma of celery was fascinating.

Zhao Zhufeng ate the noodles in a flustered manner, and very naturally took the small amount of beef from Gu Xiheng's bowl and put it into his mouth. Gu Xiheng pretended not to see it, and continued to eat his bowl of "plain noodles".

Fortunately, the beef bone soup is delicious, even without meat, this bowl of noodles can still be delicious.Gu Xiheng wasn't picky eaters at first, and since moving the bicycle just now took a lot of energy, he was also so hungry now that he put a large portion of noodles into his stomach in two or three mouthfuls, and there was not a drop of face soup left.

"Zhao Zhu." Gu Xiheng wiped his mouth clean, and said seriously to Zhao Zhu who was still pouring chili sauce into the soup, "I was notified in mid-August that I would come back to study. My parents are not free, and I am the only one." I came back to go through various procedures. At the beginning, no one could live at home, I lived with my little aunt, and many things had to go on both sides. I didn’t forget you, I didn’t come back on purpose and didn’t contact you.”

The sudden affection made Zhao Zhu, who was distracted while eating, choked on the chili pepper, which caused him to cough repeatedly. He covered his mouth and nose while sucking a tissue.Gu Xiheng hurriedly got up and patted his back for comfort, "Are you okay?"

Zhao Yiyi slapped Gu Xiheng's hand, picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth casually a few times, slapped the money from selling the iron chains on the table, and motioned Gu Xiheng to use the money to pay the bill: "Make up for what's missing."

When Gu Xiheng paid the money and came back, Zhao Zhu smiled wickedly: "You also participated in the distribution of spoils, now you can't go to school and report me!"

"I didn't even intend to report it." Gu Xiheng couldn't keep up with Zhao Zhu's brain circuit, and greeted him, "I'll take you home."

"Get out." Zhao Zhu grabbed the handle of the bike, jumped on the bike and wanted to ride ahead, stepped on the pedals twice, the bike was unmoved, and Zhao Zhu almost fell forward due to inertia.

Gu Xiheng held the car keys and laughed until tears came out, "My car is still locked..."

Feeling ashamed, Zhao Zhu gritted his back molars, "Then why don't you roll over and open the lock?"

In one sentence, Gu Xiheng automatically filtered and only heard "Come and unlock", and sat on the back seat while laughing, with a pair of long legs propped on the ground to maintain balance, and slowly turned the car key.

"when!"

There was a crisp metal collision sound, the lock was unlocked, and the door of someone's heart was also opened.

8. Appetite

The sunset time in early autumn in low-latitude areas was late, and the sky outside was still bright after dinner. Zhao Zhu was still unsatisfied, and rushed Gu Xiheng into the noisy pedestrian street.

The wind blew past my ears, and the sweat from the heat of the noodle soup was blown by the sunny wind, and the feeling of boredom was swept away.

Zhao Zhu stopped at the entrance of a dessert shop. Gu Xiheng looked up and saw the mottled signboard "Old Brand Sweet Soup". He often passed by this shop when he was a child, but he never stepped into the shop.The family seldom lets him eat food from restaurants outside. Gu Xiheng's mother is always busy, but she can always prepare warm meals for him in the kitchen and ask him to eat on time. The food stalls in restaurants outside are not clean , Do not eat indiscriminately.

"What are you doing in a daze, you have to be invited to enter?" Zhao Zhubai glanced at him, left him and his bicycle and entered the shop.

Gu Xiheng moved the bicycle aside and locked it safely after making sure it would not be in the way. When he walked into the store, he found that Zhao Zhu had already ordered two mung bean soups and was beckoning him over.

"Are you packing for uncles and aunts?" Gu Xiheng approached the cashier curiously.

Zhao Zhu and the clerk pointed to Gu Xiheng: "He pays."

The clerk turned to him with a smiling face: "It's 12 yuan in total."

Gu Xiheng took out the money and asked Zhao Zhu: "Did you forget to bring the money today?"

"I didn't forget to bring it." Zhao Zhu opened a chair and sat down, and said like a grandpa, "I just don't want to pay."

"You think you're collecting protection fees." Gu Xiheng sat down opposite him, looked at the environment of the store, and asked casually, "Do you usually come here with Boran?"

"Why did I come with that kid!" Zhao Zhu frowned instantly.

The clerk quickly served two bowls of chilled mung bean soup to the table.Contrary to Gu Xiheng's expectation, Zhao Zhu didn't take out food, but dine-in.

"Can you still eat two bowls?" Gu Xiheng felt a little full after eating a bowl of noodles. Compared with him, Zhao Zhu's appetite was surprisingly good.

Zhao Zhu pushed one of the bowls in front of Gu Xiheng: "This bowl is yours."

"I'm too full, I can't eat..." Gu Xiheng looked at the bowl of fragrant mung bean soup, feeling a little regretful.

"Are you a little girl?" Zhao Zhu was speechless, "Then a bowl of noodles will fill you up, and you lose weight?"

Gu Xiheng rested his chin on one hand, and looked at Zhao Zhu leisurely: "It seems that you don't come with Bo Ran, but you often come with girls. You really know girls."

"Fuck you!" Zhao Zhu gulped down the icy mung bean soup, seeing that Gu Xiheng really didn't eat a bite, the little flame in his heart ignited again, picked up the bowl and pinched Gu Xiheng's chin and poured it in, "Stop pretending!"

Gu Xiheng wanted to speak to dissuade Zhao Zhu, but he was afraid that the mung bean soup would choke the intake pipe, so he could only swallow part of the mung bean soup to reduce the total volume of his face.In the end, he had to reach out and grab the bowl, wipe off the residue on his mouth, and admit defeat: "I'll eat, don't drink it."

The sweet and sticky soup dripped from the chin on the school uniform, and the yellow-brown dots seeped into the white and soft fabric. Zhao Yiyi felt guilty for a moment, but when he saw Gu Xiheng's face, he couldn't get angry at all. , Diluted all apologies.

The two returned home after eating and drinking. Gu Xiheng parked his bicycle and barely walked up to the second floor while leaning against the wall. Zhao Zhu followed behind with a frown, without any sympathy for his little bird stomach: "A big man eats so little Things just hum and chirp, is it embarrassing to throw them away?"

Gu Xiheng's explanation in the beef noodle restaurant can't completely convince Zhao Zhu. In other words, Zhao Zhu still can't understand Gu Xiheng everywhere. The performance of eating together today made Zhao Zhu despise him one more item.

"The mung bean soup is too big..." Gu Xiheng rubbed his stomach and retorted, "It's because you can eat too much..."

Zhao Zhu, who was labeled as "big stomach", was very annoyed: "I'm still growing! What's wrong with eating more! Seeing you like this, I know that you can't grow any longer!"

Gu Xiheng didn't have the energy to continue arguing with him, so he said goodbye to Zhao Zhu and went into the house.No one answered, Zhao Zhu felt that he was agitated in vain, and had the illusion of slapping his palm into the air after accumulating energy for a long time.

When she got home, Zhao Zhu slumped lazily on the sofa, saying that she had eaten outside, and Zhao's mother would nagging, but when she heard that she was going there with Gu Xiheng, the lecture stopped abruptly and replaced it with a question : "Did you pay the bill?"

Zhao Zhu spread his hands together: "He paid for it."

Zhao's mother slapped Zhao Zhu's arm suddenly: "It's outrageous!"

Zhao Zhu withdrew his hand "Aww", dissatisfied: "Why hit me!"

Zhao's mother scolded him: "Hurry up and take a bath! You are covered in sweat, so dirty!"

Zhao Zhu pulled up the neckline and sniffed the inside of the clothes, "It's not manly." But Zhao's mother sent her to the bathroom to rinse.

After Zhao Zhu took a bath, he sat cross-legged on the bed to play mobile games. During the fierce battle, Zhao's mother covered his head with a towel and said, "Zhao Zhu! Dry your hair! The water dripped onto the quilt!"

"Wipe after this game." Zhao Zhu continued to fight without raising his head.

Such an answer was too perfunctory, and Mother Zhao immediately snatched the phone away.

Zhao Zhu, who was interrupted from the game, shouted: "Mom!"

"I'll take this plate of fruit down to Xiheng later, and tell him to come to our house for dinner tomorrow." Zhao's mother put down the freshly cut cantaloupe, Zhao Zhu's eyes lit up and he reached out to grab a piece to satisfy his hunger, and his hand was caught in midair. Take it lightly.

Zhao's mother glared: "Why don't you dry your hair quickly?"

Zhao Zhu muttered, picked up a towel and rubbed it casually on his head a few times, finished it like a task, got out of bed, picked up the plate and went out of the room door, with his back to Zhao's mother, trying to steal a piece while she couldn't see, Zhao's mother's The voice sounded again: "Why don't you wear shoes!"

Although Zhao Zhu is domineering at school, he is the real little brother at home.

Zhao Zhu went back to the bed irritably and put his feet into his slippers, and said in his mouth, "I know, I know, stop shouting, the whole building should hear it."

"What's the matter if you hear it? Do you feel ashamed? If you know how to be ashamed, do better." Mother Zhao added, "If only you could be half as sensible as Xiheng."

Here we go again, someone else's child.

"Then are you half as gentle as his mother?" Zhao Zhu made a face, and quickly slipped away before Zhao's mother picked up the slippers and threw them on.

When Zhao Zhu walked to the second floor, he found that Gu Xiheng hadn't pulled out the key just now, and had rang the doorbell for a long time, and quickly pressed "Ding Dong" into a song, but Gu Xiheng didn't answer the door. He stopped abusing the doorbell button, thinking about whether to go home or open the door to enter , Turning around to leave, I heard a loud noise coming from the room.

9. Appetite

Hearing this sound, Zhao Zhu, who was still hesitating, had an ominous premonition in his heart. He turned the key and opened the anti-theft door regardless of etiquette. Gu Xiheng had never had the habit of locking the inner door since he was a child. But Gu Xiheng just didn't change it.As expected, the inner door was ajar, and it opened with a push.

There is no one in the living room.

Zhao Zhu turned his attention to the second bedroom with the lights on, and thought that the soles of his slippers were dirty after walking the stairs outside, so he threw off his shoes and went into the room barefoot.

In the past, Zhao Zhu often came to Gu Xiheng's room, and sometimes they would take a nap together.There is a vague fragrance here all the year round, Gu Xiheng also has the same smell, it is light and not pungent, but it hooks his sense of smell.

The familiar aroma awakened Zhao Zhu's sensory memory, and when he stepped into Gu Xiheng's room again, he saw the desk lamp lying on the ground and a few scattered small objects, and Gu Xiheng curled up on the floor with a pale face.

"Hey, where did you hit?" Zhao Zhu hurried over to pull Gu Xiheng up, looked up and down but found no bleeding wounds, but Gu Xiheng's face was frighteningly pale, and his lips trembled for a long time, unable to speak.

The more he couldn't get an answer, the more anxious Zhao Zhu became.Gu Xiheng bent over and clutched his shirt tightly, clenching his teeth as if he was enduring something, half of his body weight was hanging on Zhao Zhu's arm that was supporting him, and his whole body was crooked.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhao Zhu asked again.

It took Gu Xiheng a long time to let go of the fingers that were gripping the clothes, put his hand on the upper left abdomen, slowed down his rapid breathing, and said weakly: "...stomach pain."

"Ah?" Zhao Zhu thought he was hit by something or hit the corner of the table with his toes, but he didn't expect the stomach pain to be so painful, which could make Gu Xiheng, who has been wearing a fake smile mask, lose his composure.

Zhao Zhu, who had never been exposed to stomach problems, had no idea about it. Judging from Gu Xiheng's reaction, he could only understand it as "stomach pain with a higher pain level".

He was at a loss, so he could only throw the question back to Gu Xiheng: "Then what should we do?"

"...Do you have any painkillers at home?" Gu Xiheng took a breath and managed to complete a sentence.

Zhao Zhujia rarely prepares painkillers, and this medicine is not included in his family's daily medicine reserve.Seeing that Gu Xiheng looked like he was about to faint from pain, Zhao Zhu could only respond, "Wait for a while!" He half-dragged Gu Xiheng to the bed and let him lie down, grabbed the key again and rushed out the door, almost losing his shoes I forgot to wear them, so I hurried back and put on the slippers.

Zhao Zhu flew to a nearby pharmacy, urging the counter clerk to give him painkillers.The clerk was a young lady. It was strange to see that a student of him came to buy painkillers at night, "What pain do you want?"

"stomachache!"

"Then you can't just take painkillers," the clerk asked again, "Is it chronic or acute?"

Zhao Zhu didn't know whether stomach pain could be divided into chronic and acute, so he bought several medicines recommended by the clerk.When the clerk was checking out, he saw his unreliable way of buying medicines, and repeatedly told him: "If you don't feel relieved after taking the medicine for an hour, go to the hospital and go to the emergency department."

Returning to Gu Xiheng's home with a big bag of medicine, Zhao Zhu grabbed Gu Xiheng to identify which one was symptomatic to him, and finally Gu Xiheng pointed to one of the capsules.

Zhao Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, at least there is a medicine to take.

After feeding Gu Xiheng the medicine, Zhao Zhu carefully set the alarm clock for an hour later.

Stomach pain is not a continuous reaction, but a throbbing pain. Gu Xiheng will not feel as uncomfortable as before after drinking hot water to warm his stomach. He squinted his eyes half-closed to see Zhao Zhu sitting by the bedside and picking up the plate of cantaloupe that had returned to normal temperature to eat.

Zhao Yi noticed Gu Xiheng's gaze while eating, and said provocatively, "Did you see this melon? I won't give it to you if you eat it."

"...How can you eat so well?" Gu Xiheng said helplessly.

"I told you that this is a normal boy's appetite!" Zhao Zhu retorted loudly, "Stomach hurts after eating something, you should reflect on yourself."

"It's because tonight's mung bean soup is too cold..." Gu Xiheng doesn't have much preference for cold drinks. He has never eaten such a large portion of iced mung bean soup, and he also ate hot noodle soup before. Make it like this.

Zhao Zhu immediately fell silent.

So it seemed to be his fault.

Zhao Zhu said angrily after a long while: "Then you should drink more hot water!" After that, he specially added hot water to Gu Xiheng's cup.

Gu Xiheng listened to Zhao Zhu's complaints and complained, and responded one after another. After taking the medicine, he became sleepy and slowly fell into a dream.

He was very happy to meet Zhao Zhujiu again, the familiar feeling at home made him confused for a while, when Gu Xiheng looked up, he found that he was walking in the rain holding his mother's hand.

He wore the little blue rain boots his father gave him on his fifth birthday, and was playing happily in the water. While holding him to prevent him from running out of the umbrella, his mother chattered to him: "Next time Dad comes to visit us." , don't talk nonsense."

Gu Xiheng nodded: "Will Dad come next month?"

"Be good, Dad will come to see you and take you out to play."

"En!" Gu Xiheng clenched his hands tightly, thinking that he must be obedient.The original ten-minute journey disappeared in the blink of an eye, and they walked to the anti-theft door downstairs in an instant.It has only been installed for a few months. In order to realize the real anti-theft function, everyone did not bother to open the door with the key at the beginning.

There was a little boy sitting at the brand-new anti-theft door. Gu Xiheng looked at it, his face was full of childishness, but his eyes were full of disbelief. Isn't this the Zhao Zhu when he was a child.

Five-year-old Zhao Zhu has not yet learned to speak bad words, and when he sees Gu Xiheng's mother, he will sweetly call her "Auntie".Gu Xiheng's mother recognized that this was the child on the fifth floor, and bent down to ask him if he had forgotten his key.

"Father didn't give me food, so I went downstairs to play in the rain." Zhao Zhu said with his head raised.

Gu Xiheng's mother and Zhao's mother would occasionally meet in the market. I heard Zhao's mother mention several times that her child has no appetite to eat because of the hot weather and loves to make trouble. It seems that this time, Zhao's father was completely irritated.

Zhao by half