traces of all things

One autumn 25 years ago.

"The weather was very good that day, and the autumn air was crisp. I ran for a long time in the rain the day before, and I had a fever the next day. My mother was very anxious, so she rolled out a bicycle and wanted to take me to get an injection."

Tang Shaoyuan lay quietly on Lu Zheng's body and listened.

"My younger brother Ah Zhi is the most clingy to me. When he saw that I was going to leave, he became anxious. He insisted on taking him with me, so my mother took him. One of us sat on the horizontal bar and the other sat in the back seat." , went to the clinic along a road with fields on both sides, and then my mother seemed to see someone on the road and stopped. My mum's hair dragged her into the roadside fields and she couldn't speak, just ahh."

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng paused slightly, and Tang Shaoyuan touched his head subconsciously, and panted, "...don't say you're sad."

"It's nothing." Lu Zheng lifted him up, smiled and shook his head: "It's all over... I can't remember what happened after that, I just remember being hit on the forehead, and then passed out , Then I seemed to hear the sound of a train, and when I woke up next time, I had already been sent to the hospital by the police.”

"25 years..." Lu Zheng looked up at the dark blue sky and sighed: "I haven't found it yet. Last time I asked you about the ice powder, I thought I had eaten it before, so I guessed if I would." He is from Sichuan Province, but I went to Sichuan Province to check, but there was no result."

Tang Shaoyuan on his back hugged his neck tightly, and then Lu Zheng felt something cool and soft rub against his neck twice.

"I'll look for it with you." He said in a muffled voice, "China is so big, we will definitely find it."

Lu Zheng couldn't help laughing, feeling that Tang Shaoyuan's rubbing against him was a bit childish, which made him pop out of his bad memories instantly.

"It's you." Lu Zheng asked him. Although Tang Shaoyuan is big, he really doesn't have a lot of flesh on his body. It doesn't take much effort for him to carry it on his back. He is a little worried: "How is the injury on the leg? I still feel it now ?"

Tang Shaoyuan moved obediently after hearing this, and found that his toes still felt a little sporadic, and said, "It's not bad, it's not a big problem."

"That's right, you big-headed ghost." When Lu Zheng heard that he was so strong, he wanted to beat him up: "Stupid or not, what kind of gun did you rush over to block me, thinking you were Huang Jiguang?"

Tang Shaoyuan knew that he wasn't really angry, so he lightly rubbed his face against Lu Zheng's neck twice, and whispered in his low and gentle voice, "I told you, I will protect you. "

Lu Zheng was speechless for a moment.

His heart was sore and soft, and that strange but slightly sweet feeling came again, Lu Zheng endured and endured, and still hesitatingly opened his mouth.

"Shao Yuan, I've always been a little curious."

Speaking of this, Tang Shaoyuan felt that Lu Zheng's arm holding his leg tightened suddenly.

After a subtle pause for a second, Lu Zheng asked the second half of the sentence.

"You...why are you so nice to me?"

Tang Shaoyuan remained silent.

Lu Zheng was a little shy, seeing that Tang Shaoyuan had stopped talking, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Could it be that I am being sentimental?

He shook his head and shook off all the messy things in his head. At this moment, a somewhat helpless and wistful chuckle suddenly came from his ear.

"Senior brother..." Tang Shaoyuan slowly whispered in his ear, and the hot air sprayed on his auricle, making it itchy.

"You really don't remember me?"

**

In June, it was the afternoon when the sun was scorching hot. Tang Shaoyuan shuffled out of the High School Attached to Provincial A Normal University, kicking the pebbles in front of him in a depressed mood.

"1, 2, 1, 2, 1..."

The little stone bounced and rolled a few times, and fell into the sewer when he said "2".

Thinking of the meaning of "2", Tang Shaoyuan couldn't help scratching the little curly hair all over his head in distress, and touched his still slightly round belly.

How to do it?He tried his best to lose weight, but now he has only lost about [-] catties, and he still looks fleshy, not handsome enough... With this appearance, he is even embarrassed to stand in front of that person.

But he has already finished the college entrance examination, and in the future, except for receiving the admission notice once, maybe their future lives will never have any intersection...

While worrying, Tang Shaoyuan had already turned into a small alley.

Going out of this alley is a main road. Recently, he walks home every day in order to exercise.

Anyway, this house is in the school district, very close to their school.

"Hey, who is this? Our good student Xiaopangdun is here, what a coincidence." A rough voice sounded, and Tang Shaoyuan was startled. When he looked up, he found two more people in front of him, one fat and one thin. One is tall and the other is short, with a sloppy look, wearing a school uniform that doesn't know where it came from, but just looking at their fierce faces, they really don't match up with students.

Tang Shaoyuan recognized them.

These are two little hooligans who often move around the school. It is estimated that he is always alone and has been following him twice. He even reported to the police for this, but nothing happened afterwards.Later, when he heard that these two people had changed positions, Tang Shaoyuan also let go of his heart and continued to go to and from school honestly.

Unexpectedly, they came back again.

Tang Shaoyuan pretended to be calm and squeezed his fingers tightly. In fact, he was a little scared, but he also knew that the more panicked he acted, the more he wanted these two little bastards. Unfortunately, he was in a particularly bad mood today and didn't Don't want to do that.

"I have 500 yuan on me today, you take it away."

While talking, he took out his wallet, took out all the money in it and handed it to the two of them, then carefully folded the wallet and put it back in his trouser pocket.

His father had never given him anything, and after remarrying, he even found it troublesome to give him more charity.However, he has never been short-changed financially. He has no concept of money, and he doesn't think it is such a precious thing.

It may be that his overly calm appearance poked the lung tubes of the two of them. The tall fat man and the short and thin man looked at each other and smiled evilly. The two had a tacit understanding. Kicked down, another held him down and mercilessly ripped his wallet out of his trouser pocket.

Tang Shaoyuan's heart tightened for a moment, and he rushed forward to grab it with a stern voice: "Give it back to me!"

The short and thin man dodged it flexibly: "Why didn't you be a good student today? Good boys can't fight—let me see what good things you have in your wallet, such a baby—ouch!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was punched on the cheek by Tang Shaoyuan, who broke free from the shackles, and let go with a cry of pain.

Tang Shaoyuan quickly picked up the wallet that fell on the ground, and ran towards the other end of the small alley.

"Want to run?!"

Although the tall fat man had a decent size, he was big after all, so he chased after him in a few steps, and knocked Tang Shaoyuan to the ground by pulling Tang Shaoyuan's school uniform.

Tang Shaoyuan felt a tingling pain in the palm of his hand, feeling that it should have been scratched on the ground.

"Little bastard sees that I won't deal with you——oops!"

"Ouch!"

As soon as the tall fat man finished yelling, the short and thin man yelled again, and the two of them can form an Ouch combination.

Tang Shaoyuan tightly closed his eyes, but the severe pain he expected did not come.

He quietly opened his eyes a crack.

There was a slender figure in the small alley, with a small cut, a white T-shirt, black trousers, white calves exposed, a pair of sneakers on his feet, and flexible movements. It seemed that he had rich fighting experience, not Lu Zheng.

Those few strokes of Lu Zheng were all taught by the old Lutou who has worked as a front-line criminal policeman for most of his life. He himself has always liked to dance with guns and clubs since he was a child. The three-legged cat skills of those two young men were comparable, and they subdued the short and thin man in a short while, and overturned the tall and fat man along the way, beating them both to flee.

Tang Shaoyuan covered his head, stared blankly at what happened in front of him, and suddenly slapped himself hard.

At this time, Lu Zheng had just chased those two little bastards away, and before he had time to ask about the situation, he saw the bullied curly-eyed little meatball stretch out a white and fat slap to him.

Lu Zheng: ... EXOME?

"Brother, are you okay?" He scratched his head, and extended his hand to the little meatball in glasses in a friendly manner: "Why are you beating yourself?"

Tang Shaoyuan looked at the slender hand in front of him, and his whole body trembled with excitement.

No... not dreaming!

it is true!

Lu Zheng saw the little meat ball in front of him as if he suddenly understood, and stared blankly at himself, there were crystal tears in his eyes through the lens, he couldn't help crying and laughing, he bent down and grabbed the little meat ball's hands Pulling him up from the ground, he first patted the dust stuck behind him, then picked up his palm to look carefully, and gently blew on the scratches.

The warm breath brushed over the sensitive palm, Tang Shaoyuan couldn't help shrinking his fingers, his face flushed red.

"Eh? Did you drop that wallet?" Lu Zheng's sharp eyes saw a gray men's wallet lying on the ground behind Tang Shaoyuan, so he bent down and reached out to help him pick it up.

Unexpectedly, this little goose-like little meat ball suddenly became flexible, as if afraid of something, he ran up to pick up the wallet and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

……

Kind of embarrassing.

Tang Shaoyuan stood there stiffly, not knowing what to do.

He really wasn't afraid that Lu Zheng would rob him of his money, it was just...afraid that he would see what was in his wallet...

However, he messed it up, so rushing to pick it up, it seems so petty, so narrow-minded, so distrustful of others...

Tang Shaoyuan's face turned blue with remorse, and he hung himself up and beat him violently for an hour in his heart.

Lu Zheng tilted his head to look at him, but suddenly smiled brightly, with deep dimples on his face, and spread his hands out in a friendly way: "Don't be afraid, buddy, I'm not a bad person, I'm just a student from the High School Attached to Normal University over there .”

After that, he looked at the school uniform on Tang Shaoyuan, and added thoughtfully: "I didn't wear a school uniform today because I just finished the college entrance examination, here."

While talking, he fumbled in his trouser pocket, raised his hand and snapped his fingers with sparkling eyes, a small round object suddenly appeared between his fingers, and he stretched out his hand in front of him: "I The - school badge!"

ok so cute...

Tang Shaoyuan looked at his shining round eyes and smiling face, a boy's heart began to throb in his chest, and he felt a little ecstatic.

"You...you are not...a bad person." He murmured dreamily, "You are...the best person."

Lu Zheng: "...(⊙o⊙)?"