Banshuharu

Earlier when Xu Xiuyuan said that he was going to rent a house from a friend, Ping Qiu thought it was just one of his plans, but he had already put it into practice behind his back.In the main hall of the house, there are a few reference books that he often uses as a study reference. There are some frozen meats in the refrigerator. There are two dozen aloe vera yoghurts that Xu Xiuyuan usually likes to drink, one of which is half gone. Occasionally come here to rest for a short stay.

However, Ping Qiu knew nothing about it.

It wasn't until this time that Ping Qiu realized that in the past few months, although he and Xu Xiuyuan often met, most of the time Xu Xiuyuan ran to him across half of the city, and Ping Qiu rarely came to him on his own initiative. There are very few of them.Sometimes Xu Xiuyuan asks Pingqiu to come over, but Pingqiu will often decline with the reason of "busy work", coaxing Xu Xiuyuan and the others to meet on weekends and date again at that time.In order to prevent Xu Xiuyuan from getting lost, Pingqiu often hinted shyly that he would go to the convenience store in advance to buy some necessary items.

Thinking back now, these little cleverness that Pingqiu used to be secretly proud of have become iron proof that he has repeatedly ignored Xu Xiuyuan.Pingqiu was extremely ashamed, seeing Xu Xiuyuan's calm and calm face, he felt more and more guilty, maybe at this time Xu Xiuyuan asked him to pluck out his heart again, Pingqiu would be less hesitant and follow suit.

When I was wandering in my mind, I suddenly heard Xu Xiuyuan say: "Go to the police station later, we will call the police."

Pingqiu was dumbfounded: "...I don't want to call the police for now, wait for two days."

"Can you wait for this kind of thing? Wait until you are fully injured before going to the police?" Xu Xiuyuan thought he was absurd, "So you also wanted to wait before, and you didn't want to tell me about being harassed several times, so just treat it as nothing It never happened, and you were willing to tell me about it until today when there was an accident?"

"No," Ping Qiu panicked, "I don't want to call the police because Wei Wei still lives there. She also lives alone. If we call the police, what will those people do if they trouble her? We can't recognize those people, but those people People can recognize me and Wei Wei, if they call the police to provoke them, will Wei Wei be in danger? Even if she has practiced some boxing skills, she is only one person after all, so I don’t trust her.”

"So, you'd rather swallow it yourself?"

"It's not to swallow your anger. Do you still remember that Wei Wei came to see me one night, that is, her parents knew her address, so they came to see her. Later they came a few times, Wei Wei didn't want to see them, so she planned to move .I asked her, it should only be these two days. If I want to call the police, can I wait until she moves away?"

It is said to be a discussion, but actually Ping Qiu has already made his own decision, whether it is considered for Chu Tiwei's safety, or he is cowardly and fearful, Ping Qiu doesn't care about these external and insignificant evaluations.But he didn't want to be misunderstood by Xu Xiuyuan, so he explained repeatedly, but Xu Xiuyuan sneered again and again.

"It's up to you, it's up to you. No matter how worried I am, you think I'm troublesome. For you, you worry about your friends more than you understand my feelings. What else can I say?"

Saying that, Xu Xiuyuan got up, Ping Qiu hurriedly grabbed his arm, and asked him anxiously: "Where are you going?"

Looking at him along his scarred arm, most of Xu Xiuyuan's jealousy suddenly dissipated - Ping Qiu just looked at him like this, afraid that he would get angry or leave.

"Where are you going?" Ping Qiu asked again, his voice lowered unconsciously, "I don't want to make you angry, but I have my own considerations, I hope you can understand... Let's not quarrel, okay?"

After a long time, Xu Xiuyuan said, "I'm going to buy iodophor and band-aids."

There is no medicine preparation at home. Xu Xiuyuan took out a change of clothes for Pingqiu from the closet. They were the simplest solid-color shorts and trousers. He took off his coat and prepared to go to the drugstore. The place is not far away, a few minutes' walk away. .

With a strange place to live, and having just escaped from a dangerous situation, Pingqiu's mood is still terrified.Seeing that Xu Xiuyuan was about to leave, he carried a change of laundry pants and chased after him to the door, repeatedly asking in which direction the pharmacy was located, whether it was far away, and when would you be back, or I would go too.

But Xu Xiuyuan forbids Pingqiu to move around and asks him to stay at home.Seeing him open the door, Ping Qiu's eyes fell on the lock, and he wondered fearfully whether those people would actually be following behind his back, and they were guarding downstairs now, and when Xu Xiuyuan went out, they would come up to pry again. Door.

Feeling extremely frightened by these wild fantasies, Pingqiu listened carefully to the movement outside the door while taking a bath.The water flow of the shower head was swirling slightly, and once he heard the sound, he would immediately press the handle, straighten his shoulders and shoulders, and carefully distinguish the source of the series of movements.After doing this several times, Ping Qiu rushed into the shower indiscriminately, hurriedly returned to the living room with his slippers on, waited for half an hour, but Xu Xiuyuan did not return home for a long time.

Slowly, most of the hair was dry, Pingqiu was still sitting in the living room, staring at the opposite glass in a daze.

Suddenly the door rang, Ping Qiu almost jumped up from the sofa, and saw Xu Xiuyuan coming in with a bag of medicine in one hand, and a plastic bag from a convenience store in the other.Bread and milk in a plastic bag, and a vanilla cone.

Ping Qiu struggled to tear open the package with one hand, while Xu Xiuyuan was lowering his head to help him apply the medicine to the wound on his palm.Seeing this, he freed up a hand to help.Pingqiu always repays kindness, so he generously handed the first bite of the cone to Xu Xiuyuan.

"Ah," Pingqiu opened his mouth to please him, "Take a bite."

"I don't want it." Without raising his head, Xu Xiuyuan used a cotton swab to touch the blood on Pingqiu's palm.

"If you don't eat it, why buy it?"

Xu Xiuyuan looked up at him, the cotton swab still in Pingqiu's palm.There was no smile on his face, and he couldn't even see the slightest bit of anger, but Ping Qiu knew that there was a lot of anger in his heart, but it was suppressed and refused to vent.

Knowing that he was right, Pingqiu was not willing to let Xu Xiuyuan get angry, so he gently advised: "Take a bite, the first one."

"I said I don't want it."

"...Are you still angry? If you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me."

"No."

"Then take care of me."

Xu Xiuyuan ignored him, and Pingqiu moved forward.Xu Xiuyuan turned his face away, and Ping Qiu took two knees next to him, and lightly bumped his shoulder, as if begging for mercy.

"You are angry, can I apologize to you? I can say it as many times as you want. And I didn't promise that you will move here, and there will be no next time. I will be right under your nose. In the future Let you punish me, okay?"

"You think that's what I care about?"

"What's that?" Ping Qiu looked at him and sincerely asked for advice, "If you tell me, I will change it."

Can it be changed?Xu Xiuyuan almost laughed out loud.If Pingqiu can clean up his overflowing sympathy, maybe it is indeed a good thing.But can Pingqiu do it?cannot.He is used to being a clay bodhisattva. He has been in the river for more than 20 years. Everyone wants to cross, and everyone wants to cross. Maybe Xu Xiuyuan should be lucky. Bao, I'm afraid the only way is to let Pingqiu peel off his clay statue first.

Pingqiu is still nagging: "You don't know, Wei Wei is actually very sensitive. Although she can fight and bear, she is only one person after all. She has helped me twice, so I can't hurt her. What's more, this kind of Things can only be said in case, not ten thousand. Although I was unlucky this time, at least there was no major accident, and Wei Wei helped me. I treat her as a younger sister, and I want to protect her—even if I can't help If you are busy, at least you can't make it worse."

"You treat her like a younger sister and want to protect her?" Xu Xiuyuan asked, "What about me, do you care about me?"

"...What do you think?" Ping Qiu suddenly pressed his forehead, straightened his waist slightly, spread his legs, and knelt down beside Xu Xiuyuan.

Xu Xiuyuan was forced to lean back, holding a cotton swab in his hand. To prevent the liquid from getting on his clothes, he could only stretch his hand away. At the same time, he consciously wrapped his other hand around Pingqiu's waist and tightened it slightly. It made Pingqiu's thin and loose T-shirt pinch out his waistline.

Holding Xu Xiuyuan's cheeks in both hands, Ping Qiu moved his lips along his forehead and bridge of nose, followed by Ren Zhong and his lips, and kissed him gently all the way, finally kissed his chin, and pressed against his forehead again.

"Of course I care about you," Ping Qiu looked into his eyes, "Are you still angry?"

Xu Xiuyuan didn't respond, as if he was frozen.Before Ping Qiu could get enough of himself, he said: "A face is swollen like this, how can I not be angry?"

The smile stopped for a moment, Pingqiu blushed with shame and anger, regretting that he forgot that his face was still swollen and ugly, so he immediately raised his arms and crossed them to cover his face.He repeatedly begged: "Don't look at it, it's too ugly."

Xu Xiuyuan smiled when he heard the words, and vented his last bit of anger by patting Pingqiu's upturned buttocks to relieve his anger.

In this way, after going round and round, Ping Qiu still stayed with Xu Xiuyuan.After just a few months, Pingqiu moved back home again, went back and forth for three consecutive days, and finally moved a lot of things.

The number of newly rented houses is not large, but the decoration is complete and the community management is strict. It doesn't look like an ordinary rental house for tenants.Xu Xiuyuan said that this is one of the properties under his friend's name, and he does not rent it out to outsiders, it is regarded as a family home, and it is because Xu Xiuyuan's school is nearby, coupled with the friendship and friendship, that the friend is willing to rent it out at a low price.

As for the friend Xu Xiuyuan often talked about, Ping Qiu also met him soon.

At the end of December, approaching the New Year's Eve, Pingqiu travels between home and work every day, often leaving early and returning late.It was the day before New Year's Eve when I met Zheng Mian. Before entering the elevator, Ping Qiu received a call from Xu Xiuyuan, saying that he would come over at night and introduce a friend to Ping Qiu.Pingqiu jumped up and down, humming a little tune before entering the house, unexpectedly ignoring the lights on in the usually dark house at this time.Suddenly seeing a figure standing in front of the sofa, he was caught off guard, scared out of his wits, and even more dazed when he took a closer look - the figure was imposing, and when he got up, he still had half an apple stuffed in his mouth.

When Xu Xiuyuan came in with his backpack on his shoulders, he saw Pingqiu and Zheng Mian sitting side by side on the sofa in the living room, but there seemed to be an ocean trench between them, and they were both silent.

Introduced by Xu Xiuyuan, Ping Qiu knew that the person in front of him was the landlord friend he often talked about, so he couldn't help feeling embarrassed and apologized for his previous overreaction.

Unlike him, Zheng Mian is very calm, and he guessed his identity as early as when he met him face to face.Zheng Mian regards Xu Xiuyuan as his junior and younger brother, but his partner Ping Qiu is a few years older than Zheng Mian. If Zheng Mian calls him brother, Zheng Mian feels awkward and can't say it; Zheng Mian felt impolite again.Hearing that he was working as a tutor in the remedial class, Zheng Mian simply called him Teacher Ping, but he was embarrassed to call Ping Qiu, who had the nerve to call himself a teacher in front of the two famous school students.

According to Zheng Mian, he and Xu Xiuyuan met through chatting on online forums.At that time, Xu Xiuyuan was only in the third year of junior high school, and it was the time when he was idle and busy looking for self-worth. The two hit it off on the forum. At first, they communicated through the Internet cable. Although they haven't met each other, they know a lot about each other.

"I'm still thinking, he originally decided to volunteer in the south, but he got the notice and he's in Beijing. Could it be for me?" Zheng Mian joked, "I didn't know until later that it turned out that Not for me, but for my house near the school."

While Xu Xiuyuan took the water glass and walked away, Ping Qiu asked Zheng Mian in a low voice: "I heard from Xiu Yuan that he rented this place from you very early, is that true?"

"Yeah, it should be before the college entrance examination. He heard that I had a vacant house near the school, so he asked me to keep it for him. He planned to rent it for a long time."

"Before the college entrance examination, so early?"

"That's why I was surprised. He didn't take the college entrance examination yet. He first considered the problem of renting a house for the university. He didn't know whether he was too confident or too arrogant. But he was helping me. This house was originally my house. My parents are going to sell it, I am reluctant, but my family doesn't need it, once I heard that he has this plan, I begged my father to sue my grandma, and the family agreed."

The original intention was to ask Zheng Mian about the rent. Although Xu Xiuyuan had clearly assured Ping Qiu that the rent here was not much different from his original rent, Ping Qiu was suspicious. He comprehensively referred to the environment of the house and the surrounding infrastructure. Guess, if you don't have two or three times the rent, you will definitely not be able to get it.

But Xu Xiuyuan said that the landlord has a good relationship with him and is willing to accommodate. If Pingqiu still thinks it is too high, he can pay some in advance. Besides, he originally planned to use this room for weekends, so he should have his share.

Ping Qiu had no choice but to believe what he said, but he refused to agree to Xu Xiuyuan's so-called equal sharing between the two, preferring to bear the full amount by himself.Although he doesn't have much ability, Ping Qiu still has his persistence.

The next day, New Year's Eve happened to be Friday.

As soon as the off-duty time came, Pingqiu hurriedly packed up his desk.He started to confirm the placement of each object with his eyes 10 minutes earlier, so he started in an orderly manner.In a few seconds, the desk was tidied up, and the colleague next door was stunned, and asked him if there was something urgent in his hurry.

Ping Qiu was taking the satchel from the back of the chair, he was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and nodded again, saying yes, the family is in a hurry.It's been three or four months since I joined the job, but due to his personality, Pingqiu's relationship with other colleagues is not warm, and he can only occasionally gossip with the female colleague who sits next door.

Colleagues rarely see him expressing his emotions so much, so they are very curious.But when Pingqiu was asked if "family" is the same as "girlfriend", he didn't speak, just laughed.The colleague saw that he didn't want to say anything, and didn't ask any more questions. He just watched him run away, sipping his tea with his head down, and muttered that it was just a New Year's Eve date, and he was so positive.

In a hurry all the way, Pingqiu ran to the subway station.Seeing Xu Xiuyuan standing at the intersection with his head lowered and playing with his mobile phone from a distance, the back of his neck was exposed in the cold air, Ping Qiu ran quickly, supported his arm, put his hand on the back of his neck, and asked him: "Is it cold?" cold?"

Xu Xiuyuan stuffed his mobile phone into his pocket, took Pingqiu's satchel, straightened the loose scarf around his neck, and led him: "It's a bit early today, let's go."

Pingqiu was still rambling: "You should wear more clothes when you go out, don't rely on your youth to look good, it's freezing cold, in case you catch a cold, you have to spend money on medicine and water, if it's more serious, it will be more troublesome ?”

"You think I'm young and good-looking?" A passer-by behind hurriedly got off the elevator, Xu Xiuyuan stepped aside, went up a step, and looked down at Pingqiu.

"...Don't carelessly focus on the key points, okay?"

"Am I wrong, don't you mean that?"

"I mean to let you wear more clothes, don't just look good."

"Doesn't that mean I'm pretty?"

"..." Ping Qiu blushed with anger, he didn't dare to fight on the elevator, and when he stepped on the flat ground, he resentfully shoved Xu Xiuyuan's arm with his fist.Xu Xiuyuan took a step back cooperatively, stretched out his hand to hug Pingqiu with a smile, and apologized to him repeatedly, saying that he would definitely learn from Pingqiu next time, and that as long as it was a sweater or coat that he could wear, he would wrap it around his body as much as possible, and never waste it. Every penny of drug money.

"I don't mean that!" Pingqiu was funny and angry at the same time, being hugged by Xu Xiuyuan and unable to struggle, he secretly stabbed him in the stomach with his elbow, but he was not willing to use force, and asked Xu Xiuyuan to laugh at him. Bully.

Xu Xiuyuan had reserved a seat at the restaurant a week in advance. After all, it was New Year's Eve, and it was a night worth celebrating for young men and women. Therefore, no matter the size of the hotel or restaurant, they launched celebration activities, and some hotels even needed to reserve seats one or two months in advance.Although Ping Qiu blamed Xu Xiuyuan for spending too much money, he liked it in his heart, but Xu Xiuyuan could see it clearly because of his stubbornness.Different from the frugality and simplicity shown on the surface, Pingqiu actually cares about some sense of ceremony unexpectedly.

The reserved restaurant is located in a slightly remote location, and the storefront is small. The store is lit with small warm yellow lights, making it a little dim.There is a bronze stereo speaker in the corner, the customers' chatter and laughter overwhelmed the music, Ping Qiu listened attentively, but he was disappointed by his meager reserve of music theory, he couldn't recognize the genre of the music.

Xu Xiuyuan understood Pingqiu's habit of picking a seat by the window, and it happened that the restaurant reserved a spot for them where they could clearly see the huge display screen in the nearby shopping mall, and Pingqiu said he liked it very much.

The owner of the restaurant is a young woman in her 30s. Ping Qiu just sat down at the table. She showed up, said a few words briefly, and signaled the waiter to turn on the lights slightly.Listening to her talk, Pingqiu realizes that the guests in this restaurant tonight are all acquainted with her, and the teasing or laughing in her words are all jokes among acquaintances.

I never heard of when Xu Xiuyuan had such a friend, Pingqiu asked Xu Xiuyuan, but Xu Xiuyuan smiled and said that he didn't know the female shopkeeper very well, but he was recommended by his roommate once, and the female shopkeeper was very hospitable Yes, the two have exchanged contact information, but that's all.

This reminded Pingqiu of their vacation on the island in the summer, and the female owner of the beer house seemed to be very interested in Xu Xiuyuan.But at that time, his status was different and his thinking was different. He just liked Xu Xiuyuan to make more friends and get in touch with all kinds of men and women.

But today is different, and when he hears that Xu Xiuyuan has other contacts with other people, regardless of gender, Pingqiu will always feel a little uncomfortable.He didn't want to be so preoccupied, and still pretended to be generous on the surface, listening to Xu Xiuyuan recalling the frail past between him and the female shopkeeper.

"I didn't think about this store at the time. I don't know how Lu Zhiyuan got in touch with the boss. She came to me and asked me if I wanted to book a seat for New Year's Eve. If I was in a hurry, I didn't mind that these two seats were the previous couple. If it's free, let me come to her."

"Oh," Ping Qiu replied dryly, and after finishing speaking, he felt that his perfunctory performance was too obvious, so he added, "It's pretty good."

"I thought before, would you find it boring to stay in an ordinary restaurant or hotel? When she suggested that, I remembered that the place is small, and everyone gathers together for dinner, and it looks lively, saying Maybe you'll like it."

"Very good," Ping Qiu paused, "I really like it."

"I still have to thank the boss. If she hadn't asked me in time, maybe we would have missed the last table for two."

"In this way...it's time to thank you."

"Girlfriend Lu Zhiyuan, do you still remember that I was considering whether to book a table. She heard that this restaurant has vacancies, and she said that if I don't plan to make a reservation, I will give them the seat. They made a reservation in the hotel in advance. Today Don't go back to the dormitory at night."

"Yes." Ping Qiu answered perfunctorily.

"It is said that after the countdown to zero, this store still has a special session. It is said to pick people to dance. It seems that there will be prizes for participating. Shall I try it?"

"..." Ping Qiu lowered his head and stirred the ice cube at the bottom of the cup, poked it on the left, it jumped to the right, poked the right, it fled to the left again.Pingqiu was annoyed, and suddenly poked in the middle, this time the ice cube failed to escape, but the straw collapsed.

"Ask you, don't you give me some advice?"

The bottom of his heart was bubbling and bubbling, Pingqiu wished he could poke in it with a straw, to burst those sour-smelling bubbles one by one.

"Why didn't you answer me?" Xu Xiuyuan was still asking.

A sour taste welled up in his throat, and Ping Qiu raised his head to stare at him angrily, but Xu Xiuyuan's original face of questioning turned into mockery, as if he had seen through Ping Qiu's bitterness early on and deliberately wanted to see him make a fool of himself.

It was clear with just one look, and Pingqiu's secret and unspeakable jealousy immediately turned into shame and anger.He muttered, "You did it on purpose?"

"What on purpose?" Xu Xiuyuan pretended not to know, but his eyes were bright, and he saw all of Pingqiu's embarrassment in his eyes.

"You know it very well," Ping Qiu lightly kicked him under the table, "bad heart."

"Where to tease you, it is because you think too much and act in your head."

All his thoughts were seen through by him, Ping Qiu had already fallen to the ground, and he was still stubbornly resisting: "I didn't think too much... I didn't think so much, really."

"Well, say what you want."

The two looked at each other, the sourness in Pingqiu's heart had already turned into bubbles, boiling with gurgles.Perhaps it was the effect of the dim lights in the store that softened Xu Xiuyuan's sharp facial lines, Ping Qiu's heart skipped a beat when he met his gaze, and he fell in love with Xu Xiuyuan's young and handsome almost dizzily.

The atmosphere of the New Year's Eve is strong, the party in the store is lively, and there are noisy surroundings, Ping Qiu has to lean on Xu Xiuyuan's shoulder to talk to him.When the countdown was about to begin, the female shopkeeper came to deliver wine table by table.After handing it over to Xu Xiuyuan's table, she found that the partner sitting opposite him was a man. She was obviously a little surprised, but she still handed the bottle to Ping Qiu and congratulated him: "Happy New Year, smooth love."

Ping Qiu was surprised and didn't know what to say, so he parroted clumsily: "Happy New Year, Lian...everything goes well."

The shopkeeper smiled at him, then blinked at Xu Xiuyuan.As soon as she turned around, the display in the store began to count down.

In the short ten seconds, Pingqiu looked up at the huge display screen outside the window.Xu Xiuyuan suddenly approached and hugged him behind him.In the first second when time entered a new beginning, Ping Qiu turned around and kissed his cheek.

In the new year, when Xu Xiuyuan was busy with the final exams of the first semester of the university, Pingqiu checked the calendar and found that the Spring Festival was coming.The fake watches of the remedial class have been distributed, and Pingqiu calculates that his Spring Festival holiday is neither short nor long. It is only two days shorter than last year's spring break, but this has exceeded Pingqiu's original expectations. satisfy.

Since Ping Qinghong opened up his words in the third year of high school, Ping Qinghong could not feel any affection for his biological son. In the next few years, Ping Qiu almost cut off contact with her, except every birthday and Spring Festival, Ping Qiu He would remit a sum of money for her as a debt repayment, and they never dated again.

Not to mention that last November, Pingqiu had sent the last remittance, and even the debt relationship between them had ended, and one of the necessary items during the Spring Festival was removed. The arrangements for the Spring Festival are getting poorer and poorer, and it looks really bleak.

Xu Xiuyuan had already booked his flight home. Before that, he made up a lie to his family, saying that he was busy with club work at school, but actually he was running between the school and Pingqiu's residence.On the eve of the Spring Festival holiday, the school management was a little lazy, and the dormitory manager was even more talkative. In those few days, Xu Xiuyuan simply stayed here at Pingqiu at night. It was freezing and snowy outside, so they hugged each other and lay in the warm blanket.

In the first two days, Xu Xiuyuan always had endless energy.He seems to like stroking Pingqiu's body very much, from the ankle to the back hip, from the back hip to the shoulder blades, even Ping Qiu's ears and the back of the head are within the scope of his observation, he is like a dedicated doctor, looking through Ping Qiu The whole body, carefully inspecting every detail of his inside and outside.

……

But time is running out, no matter how much you miss him, no matter how reluctant you are, Xu Xiuyuan still leaves.Since he left, Ping Qiu always leaned against the other half of the bed every morning when he was half asleep and half awake. When he leaned against the air, he woke up with a start, only to remember that Xu Xiuyuan had left.

Soon came New Year's Eve, Pingqiu began to be busy early in the morning.At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Tiwei came to the door with an appointment, but she didn't know how to cook. The only thing she learned from living alone for a year was to understand that instant noodles can be boiled as well as soaked.She was chattering about her achievements these days, saying that the surveillance camera that Pingqiu suggested to her to install at the door of her house was really useful, she printed the surveillance camera into a stack of photos, and posted it everywhere in the apartment building, as revenge.

It's just that Pingqiu is busy with work, so he deserves to be perfunctory, seeing her standing in the kitchen, two times they almost bumped into each other, so he told her to sit and play in the living room.Chu Tiwei put on a straight face and refused to agree, so Pingqiu had no choice but to give her the task of choosing vegetables and picking up cakes from a nearby dessert shop.

Busy until the evening, when it was getting dark, Chu Tiwei sat cross-legged in front of the coffee table in the living room, preparing to have dinner, while her eyes were glued to the TV.Ping Qiu came with a soup bowl, his body blocked half of the TV, and she pushed it away anxiously.

When eating, Pingqiu set up his mobile phone by the table, opposite Xu Xiuyuan was wearing a high-necked bottoming shirt, the background was probably outdoors.He said that he volunteered to go out to pick up his grandma, but the old lady refused to come early, and Xu Xiangnan was not allowed to pick him up. In the end, he took an old neighbor in the town for a ride, an electric tricycle, and drove tremblingly to the city. .

Ping Qiu didn't see Xu Xiuyuan's grandmother much, but he also knew that the old lady had a strange temper, just like her daughter Xu Xiangnan.

Following Xu Xiuyuan's footsteps, the camera slowly approached the main entrance of the community. When Ping Qiu took the water glass, in the blink of an eye, the camera suddenly turned again, from the dark background in front to Xu Xiuyuan's chest. Row of round buttons.

Before Ping Qiu asked, Xu Xiuyuan's voice came from afar, and he seemed to be talking to someone.

"Grandma is here?"

"No."

"Then what are you doing here?"

"Blow."

"Mom was looking for you just now."

"Oh."

"When did you start smoking?"

"It's about you?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Then what are you asking?"

"boring."

There was a pause in the conversation, the camera was flipping, light and shadow occasionally passed by, and then it turned into pitch black again, as if Xu Xiuyuan had put his cell phone in his pocket, and his voice was indistinct, Ping Qiu couldn't hear clearly.

Ten minutes ago, Xu Xiangnan was still furious over Xu Ruiyang's disappearance, and dispatched Xu Xiuyuan to search around, but there was no trace of him.In the past two months, Xu Xiangnan suffered from headaches for Xu Ruiyang's "youth disease" which occurred again after a few years, and the mother and son became jealous enemies again.Xu Ruiyang insisted on going his own way, but Xu Xiangnan refused to let go, and the two were at a stalemate.For Xu Xiangnan, her only consolation is her youngest son Xu Xiuyuan who returned home after studying abroad.

And Xu Ruiyang sneaked away, maybe he came out to pick up people as he said, or maybe he just came out to take a breath away from Xu Xiangnan.Xu Xiuyuan stood side by side with him at the gate of the community, one looked east and the other looked west, both of them were silent.

A moment later, a middle-aged couple hurriedly walked to the east of the community.Seeing someone at the door, the husband took a closer look, and suddenly smiled and said, "Ruiyang, it's getting dark today, and the night is so cold, why are you brothers waiting here, waiting for someone?"

"Wait for the old lady." Xu Ruiyang took off the cigarette, carried it behind his back, and answered with a polite smile.

The neighbor couple asked Xu Xiuyuan if he was going home for the holiday this time. The two groups exchanged pleasantries, and the neighbor couple returned home satisfied, and the rest of the brothers continued to wait in the cold wind.

Xu Ruiyang's cigarette had burned to the end, he stuffed the cigarette butt into the cigarette case, held it in the palm of his hand and squeezed it hard, the cigarette case deformed.

Xu Xiuyuan looked down, and suddenly found that he seemed to be playing with a small object in the other hand, turned it over between his fingers, and was held in the palm of Xu Ruiyang again.

"This?" Realizing that Xu Xiuyuan was looking at his palm, Xu Ruiyang generously held it up for him to see. The small ring was hooked on his fingertips, circled around his index finger, slipped down suddenly, and hung on half of his knuckles.

It's a ring.

Xu Ruiyang slowly pushed the ring into his finger, all the way to the root of his finger: "It's been five or six years, I thought it was lost long ago, but I just found out today that it was thrown in the crack of the bed... Who knows, the ring can turn yellow."

Focusing on the slightly raised surface of the ring, Xu Xiuyuan's face remained unchanged: "You have two rings."

"One is ten yuan, and one is hundreds of thousands. I lost the one with hundreds of thousands, but I found the one with ten yuan." Xu Ruiyang sneered.

"Ping Qiu sent you?"

"..."

"No?" Xu Xiuyuan said, "But I remember seeing him wearing it."

Without answering, Xu Ruiyang just stared at him blankly: "Be like a grown man, Xu Xiuyuan, don't always play some little tricks that middle school boys like, and provoking me will make you feel very happy? Don't you do it now? You still like to compete with me in everything? So childish?"

"What's the matter, did what I said embarrass you?" Xu Xiuyuan asked calmly, imitating Xu Ruiyang's tone, "Or, did I embarrass you by mentioning Pingqiu?"

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"I have nothing to say, just to advise you on behalf of my mother, don't look back on the past. Since you want to be a normal person, why do you pretend to be crying because you lose a toy on purpose? Besides, if you want to look back at this time, it may not be Someone will be waiting for you."

Perhaps Xu Xiuyuan was poking his sore foot, but Xu Ruiyang fell silent suddenly, and slowly stroked the edge of the crushed cigarette case with his fingers.After a while, he suddenly turned around without saying a word, and went straight to the direction of home.As he approached the house, he threw the pack of cigarettes in the trash.

However, Xu Xiuyuan stopped at the same spot, and saw the electric tricycle carrying the old lady approaching unsteadily.He took the old lady and smiled at her: "Xu Ruiyang was impatient, so he ran in first."

The old lady shook her head when she heard the words: "That's how he is, so he can't do anything."

This year's New Year's Eve, Pingqiu was accompanied by Chu Tiwei, and watched a movie at home. The New Year's fireworks he saw were two sparklers that Xu Xiuyuan sneaked into the backyard of his home at midnight in the video and lit them.

Xu Xiuyuan returned to Beijing on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and it was still Pingqiu who picked him up.They took advantage of these two rare days off to go skiing.It was the first time for Pingqiu to experience the icy and snowy land in the north. Putting on ski shoes, stepping on a snowboard, and holding a snowball fight, he slid down from a high place along the primary ski trail. He was so excited that he screamed repeatedly.He would also hug Xu Xiuyuan and roll in the snow, his hands and feet were covered in ice and snow and he was unconscious, but Pingqiu was so excited that he seemed to be walking on clouds.

The energy during the day is exhausted, and at night they will also hug and roll, and their bodies will entangle to release heat.

……

Soon, Xu Xiuyuan's second semester officially started, and spring came.Due to the long distance between the unit and the residence, Pingqiu had to spend too much time and energy on the way back and forth every day, and with Xu Xiuyuan knocking on the sidelines, Pingqiu's originally uncertain idea of ​​resignation suddenly took hold, and it became more and more serious. Wang means.

Finally, in April, Ping Qiu made a thorough decision on a seemingly ordinary matter.

On this day, Ping Qiu came into the office with a bunch of printed test papers in his hands, and keenly noticed that other colleagues were abnormal, and seemed to be secretly looking at him.But when he looked back, everyone quickly lowered their heads to do things, pretending that nothing had happened.Ping Qiu felt inexplicable, standing in the middle of the office, the incandescent lamp above his head seemed to fall instantly, covering him in the ground.

Ping Qiu returned to his work place under the watchful eyes of all his colleagues in the office. Just as the seat was opened, a male teacher finally asked without looking at him: "Mr. Ping, are you the last one to leave the office this Wednesday?"

"Yes. What's the matter?" Ping Qiu said.

"When you left, did you see anyone drop something on the ground or on the table?"

"No," Ping Qiu quietly pushed the seat back to its original position, the back of the chair bumped against the edge of the table, making a slight noise, "Did someone lose something?"

"Are you sure you didn't see it?"

"No."

"That's weird, with a watch, can you still run with long legs?" The male teacher was so angry that the female colleague next door frowned and pushed him. He stared and muttered.

Ping Qiu straightened his back slightly, and asked: "If any teacher lost something in the office, you can check the surveillance."

The male colleague snorted: "You don't know that the monitoring in our office is broken these days, and no one has come to fix it yet?"

"So do you think," Ping Qiu quickly interrupted, "I broke the monitor? Or did I stop people from repairing it...or do you want to say that I took the watch?"

"I didn't say that."

"Of course you wouldn't say it, but you did."

"What do you mean?" The male colleague stood up in a huff, and approached in two or three steps, but was blocked by the nearest colleague.He stared at Pingqiu with anger on his face and shouted: "On Wednesday night, you are the only one in the office, and you lost your watch at that time. Who else is there if it's not you? Ah? You want to steal a watch worth thousands of dollars? We had a meeting earlier. He also said that the warehouse keeps throwing things away recently, who in our place often goes to the warehouse to move things? Isn’t it you? You still treat yourself as a quiet and decent person, and your hands and feet are also dirty in the end.”

Pingqiu tried his best to endure the expression on his face: "You accuse me of stealing, that's fine, provided that you have the evidence to accuse me. You accuse me, so you have evidence, no problem, right? Take it out, show it to me, and show it to this room." Everyone in the office is watching."

"You obviously