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The singing downstairs lingered, and the unique immature voice of children made the already cheerful melody more lively.

Zhuang Yan wanted to take the listener away, but was stopped by Lin Ruoping.

"Aunt Lin, don't worry, I'll go with Chu Chen and promise to bring Tingting back in its entirety," said solemnly.

"No way." Lin Ruoping said, "There will be a competition the day after tomorrow. It's hard to listen to singing. You have to train hard, or you won't be able to keep up at all when you come back."

"Mother Lin..." Ting Ting grabbed the hem of Zhuang Yan's trousers and muttered, "I want to go."

Lin Ruoping wondered: "Otherwise, why don't you go in two days, after the competition is over?"

Ting Ting lowered his head, like a discouraged little ball, pinched his face solemnly, thought for a moment, and said, "Aunt Lin, isn't Chu Chen good at singing? Let him teach you how to sing whenever you have a chance on the way." Just a few words, I have to go back to my hometown in two days, and the vacation will be over when I come back, next time I will have a vacation of more than ten days."

"It's okay, Aunt Lin," Chu Chen said, "I'll teach him when I come back tonight."

Lin Ruoping finally let her go, and she simply ignored the safety issue after a few instructions, and Little Carrot became excited visibly to the naked eye.

Walking out of Osmanthus Alley, Zhuang Yan found out the taxi app and was about to call a taxi, but was stopped by Chu Chen, "Take the bus, it takes more than 20 minutes, it's not too far."

Zhuang Yan glanced at the back of Chu Chen's slender hand pressed on his mobile phone, and then went to look at the stop sign. Seeing that there were only ten or so stops, he didn't insist. He just smiled lightly as if thinking of something: "Aunt Lin said Do you also participate in that singing competition?"

He gloated and said, "Don't deny it. Aunt Lin already told me that Fang Wenqi also betrayed you. No wonder your computer freezes when you ask me, tsk tsk."

Chu Chen was stunned for a moment, then gave him a casual look, then pulled Ting Ting towards the platform, "The bus is coming, get on the bus."

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Getting off the crowded bus, Zhuang Yan went straight to the convenience store on the side of the road to buy a bottle of mineral water, and drank most of the bottle without being out of breath.

"Fuck, fuck!" He held up the corner of his clothes and blew wildly at the air conditioner in the store, "Are people taking the bus in summer? I'll forget it if it's too hot!"

"General buses have air conditioners." Chu Chen handed him a wet towel and explained, "It is estimated that the air conditioner in this bus is broken."

"Are you serious?" Zhuang Yan wiped off his sweat, "It's not a success, I rely on this luck, so many trains, but I ran into the one with the broken air conditioner, it was crowded and hot."

Young master Zhuang has never squeezed a bus since he was born. In his impression, he was the most rebellious period in middle school. He advocated "going to the masses" with a few friends and refused to pick up and take the subway for a few days. How old can't occupy a seat, and end up with sore legs while standing.

Lingshan is a famous scenic spot for building a city. During the National Day, there are many tourists, most of whom come here for the wild monkeys on the mountain.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, the concrete dam outside the scenic spot was full of people. Zhuang Yan and Chu Chen blocked Ting Ting in the middle and waited in line for more than ten minutes before buying tickets to enter the mountain.

Lingshan tickets are cheap, five yuan a ticket, not divided into adult tickets and child tickets, and you can go to the ticket office to take a photo of tourists for free with the ticket stub.

Zhuang Yan didn't have the habit of taking pictures, and Chu Chen didn't even have it. He was very interested in hearing it, and dragged them to the place where the pictures were taken to watch.

The person who took the photo was a young man, posing quite well, there was only a click, and he didn't care whether the other person's pose was in a good position, or whether the eyes were open or closed. Anyway, the photo has already been taken, whether it is beautiful or ugly depends on luck.

Except for some forest trees and a small artificial lake at the foot of the mountain, there is no special scenery at first glance. The eyes are green and the air is fresh.

There are a lot of shouting vendors at the entrance of the mountain, some selling snacks and fruits, some wearing headbands selling souvenirs and gadgets, some wearing fancy clothes to take pictures of customers, some tourists stop to ask, some people make a detour, and the flow of people is bustling Talking and laughing, full of hustle and bustle.

Walking forward, there are people holding their mobile phones to take pictures all the way. There are many tourists from other places during the holidays. They laugh and speak some languages ​​that others don’t understand. It sounds a little nervous, and they don’t pay attention to what is around them. Chu Chen didn't let go of his hand.

Chu Chen sensed his little fear and patted him reassuringly.

"Baby, do you want to take a picture? Take a picture with Brother Chuchen, okay, and show it to Mama Lin when you go back?" Zhuang Yan also quickly saw that he was tense, took out his phone and turned on the camera, trying to divert his attention .

"No." Ting Ting shook his head in resistance, grabbed Chu Chen's hand and carefully looked around.

Zhuang Yan coaxed a few more words, Ting Ting still shook his head, and only squeezed his hand, as if expressing apology for rejecting his request.

Solemnly patted his head, lost his temper completely, leaned his body and murmured to Chu Chen in a low voice: "What's the matter with him? Don't try to hide it from me. After these two days, I can see that he doesn't He loves to talk to other children, even if he speaks, he can pronounce words slower than ordinary people, I don't believe there is nothing wrong with this."

Time is slipping forward, and the fog in the morning tends to disappear gradually. Chu Shen tightened his hat tightly, stared at the hair on the top of his head and remained silent for a while, then said: "I don't know the specific situation, listen to it. She was picked up by Aunt Lin when she was more than three years old, and it has always been like this." Having said this, Chu Chen was inexplicably irritable.

In fact, he is not willing to bring the affairs of the orphanage to outsiders. Even though others already know those things well, he has his firm persistence and fragile dignity that he wants to protect.

"Haven't you been to the hospital?" Zhuang Yan asked.

Chu Chen's eyes were calm, and his tone was neither salty nor dull: "I've been to several clinics. In such places, the documents are not necessarily complete. The doctors have no authority, and they can't solve anything except extorting money."

Zhuang Yan blinked vigorously, turned his head to stare at the fine sweat on the bridge of Chu Chen's nose, and was suddenly speechless.

He actually felt a little blocked.It's not like the usual uncomfortable feeling of being in a bad mood, but a superficial, unpredictable sense of powerlessness.

Forget it in the past. In the past, he and Chu Chen didn't get along very well. Although they didn't hate each other, the relationship was indeed bad. What happened to Chu Chen's personal life had nothing to do with him in the final analysis.

But who would have thought that it had only been so long before he and Chu Chen became "friends" in a literal sense.He can make appointments to go out to play, and most of the time he will answer when he asks questions. He is no longer the "invisible person" in Chu Chen's eyes.

Two people who are in parallel, once they have a clear relationship, they can no longer be passers-by in each other's world. There are countless threads, and one of them will always be entangled.

And as the relationship changed, he found himself becoming cautious.After refraining from his initial unscrupulousness, he seemed to be particularly concerned about Chu Chen's emotions.

It's so weird.

However, even though he cared, he was helpless. The relationship was not that good, so he had no position.

There are several roads up the mountain, because with children, they gave up the challenging stairs and chose a relatively flat road.Listen to looking around all the way, eyes from curious anticipation to listless.

"We've been walking for a long time." Zhuang Yan looked back, "Why didn't we see a monkey?"

He has been here for two years to build the city, and the most fortunate places to visit are Internet cafes or restaurants. He has only heard of Lingshan but has never been to it. Fortunately, there are so many people now that he will not get lost if he follows a large army.

"The monkey in Lingshan is halfway up." Chu Chen wiped his sweat with a wet towel, "We just came in."

"Oh." Zhuang Yan watched as Chu Chen changed into a new wet towel to wipe his sweat, and the brim of his hat was lowered lower and lower.

At this time, the clouds had not completely dissipated, and the sun was not strong, but the heat was gradually rising. He hesitated for a moment, and took out the white jar from his trouser pocket.

"Spray some." Seeing Chu Chen's blank face, he explained: "This is sunscreen spray, my sister's, she said the effect is good, I reckon if you always wear a mask when you go out, you will die of heat or suffocate sooner or later. Do you want to try it and see if it works?"

Chu Chen immediately agreed, and he carefully read the instructions on the jar before asking, "How to use it?"

Zhuang Yan took the jar back, and looked at the body of the jar. It was all in English, and he didn't know whether Chu Chen understood it or not.

He slapped the bottom of the bottle vigorously twice, "I probably know."

He saw Zhuang Yuan sprayed once, and pressed a button to spray wildly on her face and body.He held the can and studied it for a few seconds, found the button on the top of the can, then pointed the spout at Chu Chen and said, "Close your eyes, and I'll start spraying when I say three two one."

Chu Chen closed his eyes suspiciously, and then he heard Zhuang Yan shout "three", and the next second he heard a "poof", and a pungent cooling sensation poured over his head.

"Ah!" Tingting yelled while covering his mouth.

"Oh my god..." Surprised and sighed around.

Chu Chen slowly opened his eyes, took out his phone and looked, good guy, he almost didn't see where his eyes were.

His face was covered with unknown white foam, dripping small drops of water, which smelled sour and pungent. Fortunately, the passing tourists didn't stay long, looked at him in surprise and left.

Yan Yan looked at his failed masterpiece in disbelief, stuck out his tongue in shame, and blinked in an attempt to be good.

Chu Chen didn't like this, and looked at him with a straight face.

At this moment, two girls dressed as students came in from behind, and one of the short-haired girls smiled openly: "Hahaha handsome guy, that's not how sunscreen is used!"

"You have to shake it well before using it." Another girl with a high ponytail shook the spray, sprayed some white foam on her forearm, and rubbed it well, "It's like this."

After observing solemnly and earnestly for a while, he poked Chu Chen's shoulder with his finger, and grinned with small white teeth: "Are you still spraying?"

Chu Chen hummed and ignored him.

"Can I spray?" Ting Ting raised his head and stretched out his thin arms: "Brother Xueqiu, I want to spray too."

The kid has big eyes, and he is cute when he rolls around. The two girls wanted to hug him excitedly, but Ting Ting flinched away.

Solemnly and kindly, he hugged him in his arms, sprayed some white foam, and wiped it on his arms.

"I'm sorry, our children are afraid of strangers." He said to the two girls.

"It's okay." The short-haired girl focused her eyes on Zhuang Yan's face, and excitedly pulled the other girl, and when Chu Chen wiped her face clean, the two of them screamed excitedly again.