he is afraid, he pretends

Wu Luming woke up with a severe headache.

He suddenly sat up from the bed, hearing the pattering rain outside the window, and fell asleep for a moment.

I don't know when it rained, at least it didn't happen before Wu Luming went to bed.

He touched the mobile phone beside the bed and checked the time. It was past eleven o'clock at night.

The headache became more and more severe, Wu Luming sat on the bed for a long time, frowning, and finally couldn't stand it anymore and turned on the light in the bedroom.

He turned over and got out of bed, walked to the desk next to the bed, took the tin can at the corner of the desk and opened it, took out a piece of mint hard candy from it and threw it into his mouth.

Then when he was about to close it, he paused, and his eyes fell on the only one in the jar that was different from others.

The mints in the full jar are all in transparent packaging, only that one is wrapped in a dark brown wrapper.

He held the jar for a while, and finally picked out the only one that was different from the jar.

This is the candy Wen Siyuan gave him this morning, a piece of plum candy.

Wu Luming took it to his nose and sniffed it, it was a little sour and a little sweet.

He closed the tin box again, but he didn't put the plum candy back, but turned it in his hand to play with it.

The mints rolled back and forth between the two cheeks, half of which were bitten off by the teeth.

Wu Luming walked to the window, opened it, leaned against the wall and stared out of the window.

The rain outside the window is not heavy, and even the sound of the rain is so soft that you have to listen quietly to hear it clearly.

Wu Luming's room is right on the edge of the community, and all the merchants that are opposite the side door of the community are in sight when leaning against the window.

The lights of several small restaurants are still on at this point, and the sound of wine glasses clinking, chatting, and ordering has been alternating, without stopping.

The pharmacies and 24-hour convenience stores further away are much quieter.

Wu Luming pushed half of the peppermint candy into his cheeks, and bit off the other half bit by bit.

He was playing with the candy in his hand with one hand, while the other hand reached behind his head, gently pressing somewhere on the back of his head.

Half of the candy was wiped out, and suddenly a familiar figure appeared in the field of vision.

Wu Luming watched the man enter the pharmacy, and walked back and forth in front of a row of shelves near the window of the pharmacy, but he didn't come out for a long time.

He slowly bit off the remaining half of the candy, closed the window again in the flickering night, picked up a pair of pants beside the bed, put them on, and walked out the door lightly.

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Xia Xingluo stood in front of the shelf, and the hand holding the children's antipyretic granule kept dripping with cold sweat.

He took a sneak peek at the cashier under the cover of the shelf.

This is not the first time he is standing here looking at the cashier. The man at the cashier was yawning and ignored him a few times before, but this time, I don’t know if it was because he stayed for too long, the man at the cashier felt strange. He met his gaze directly.

The moment Xia Xingluo met his gaze, Xia Xingluo hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and moved his whole body into the shelf with small movements.

When he felt that he could probably block the cashier's view, he gritted his teeth and quickly brought the backpack behind him to his body. Just as he was about to unzip the schoolbag, a hand appeared and pressed it on his schoolbag. .

Xia Xingluo froze all over, and the moment he came to his senses, he was about to push away the hand and run away, when another light voice sounded above his head.

The voice read out the full name of the fever-reducing granules he was holding word by word, and the familiar voice made Xia Xingluo relax a little bit.

He looked up at the person coming.

The young man in front of him was wearing a loose and somewhat crumpled white T-shirt. There was a conspicuous dimple at the corner of his slightly raised mouth, but his smile was full of carelessness.

Just as Xia Xingluo raised his head in a daze for a moment, Wu Luming raised his hand and took away the fever-reducing granules in his hand, then picked up the side of his schoolbag strap, and said, "Put it on your back."

The little boy's skin was so dark that it was completely impossible to tell from his skin color whether he was blushing or not. The only entrance that could judge his emotions was his big black eyes.

At this moment, his eyes were staring at Wu Luming with wide eyes, there was strangeness and fright in his eyes, but more of it was the ruthlessness when he bit Wu Luming that day.

Wu Luming saw that he was not moving, so he didn't say anything more, he let go of his schoolbag strap, took another bag of cooling stickers from the shelf, and went to the door to pay.

After Wu Luming finished paying and the cashier put the things in a bag and handed them to him, Xia Xingluo, who was on full alert, slowly walked towards the door.

Wu Luming didn't look at him, took the bag, opened the door and walked out.

After walking about a dozen steps, there was the sound of hurriedly chasing footsteps behind him.

Xia Xingluo panted and ran to Wu Luming's side, still holding her schoolbag in front of her.

After catching up with Wu Luming, he didn't speak a word, he just stared at Wu Luming with his big eyes, and hurriedly walked forward with Wu Luming.

There was light rain in the sky, Wu Luming walked forward slowly, shaking the plastic bag in his hand gently.

"I used to think about a question," he looked up at the dark sky, "Does every child feel that they are omnipotent?"

Xia Xingluo still didn't speak, and still followed Wu Luming with his schoolbag on his back, staring at him silently.

Wu Luming didn't continue talking, until he reached a fork in the road, he stopped and said, "Where do you live?"

Xia Xingluo obviously hesitated, but in the end he raised his hand and pointed to an old neighborhood.

The old community is just across the street from the community where Wen Siyuan's family is located, but the scene on both sides is completely different.

On one side, dilapidated, low-rise buildings that are ready to be demolished at any time, and on the other side, there are brand-new high-rise buildings.

Wu Luming's eyes fell on the old neighborhood not far away for a moment, and he didn't go any further, but picked up the bag of medicine in his hand and put it in front of Xia Xingluo.

Xia Xingluo seemed to take a shallow breath, raised his head and carefully stared at Wu Luming for a long while before raising his hand to pick up the bag.

And just when his hand was about to touch the bag, Wu Luming's voice sounded again: "I didn't give it to you for nothing, the interest will increase by one yuan a year, and you will have to pay it back later, you understand?"

Xia Xingluo paused while taking the medicine, but quickly took the bag, and put the bag in his schoolbag while nodding.

The rain seems to have a tendency to get heavier.

Wu Luming waved at Xia Xingluo, without saying anything else, motioning him to go back.

Xia Xingluo slowly put the schoolbag on his back, stared at Wu Luming for a long time, and then walked towards the old community.

Before taking two steps, Wu Luming's voice suddenly sounded again: "What's your name?"

Xia Xingluo stopped, turned around and looked at Wu Luming.

He opened his mouth, and it took him a while to say his name softly.

Wu Luming lowered his head and looked directly into Xia Xingluo's eyes.

"You have to know that you are a child, and children can ask adults for help. There are countless ways in this world that allow you to solve problems."

He slowly restrained his casual smile, and a rare seriousness appeared on his face.

"Xia Xingluo, don't let yourself go the wrong way."

The raindrops started to grow bigger visible to the naked eye, Wu Luming waved his hand again, telling Xia Xingluo to go back quickly.

Seeing Xia Xingluo's figure not entering the old residential area, Wu Luming turned around and walked back.

Rainstorms never come without warning.

It was only a 5-minute journey, and when Wu Luming returned to the building, he was drenched to the bone.

Wen Siyuan is indeed like what the little boy next door said, he must go to bed before ten o'clock every night.

Both last night and tonight.

When Wu Luming opened the door, he deliberately relaxed his movements, but as soon as the door was pushed open, the room was full of bright lights.

He remembered clearly that he didn't turn on the living room light when he went out.

But the living room lights were indeed on. Just when he was wondering, the sound of the balcony door being pushed and pulled sounded.

Wu Luming looked towards the place where the sound came from, and met Wen Siyuan who came in from the balcony.

Both were stunned.

Wu Luming was the first to react, entered the room and closed the door, and asked, "Brother Yuan, why are you awake?"

"The rain was so loud that I just remembered that the awning on the balcony hadn't been opened yet."

After Wen Siyuan explained, he glanced at the wet Wu Luming: "What about you?"

"I couldn't sleep well on a rainy day, so I went out for a walk. I didn't expect the rain to suddenly become heavier."

Wu Luming chuckled shyly, grabbed some of his drenched hair, and walked in: "I have to take another shower, Brother Yuan, now... do you want to go back to sleep?"

Wen Siyuan nodded, and when Wu Luming walked by, he asked again: "Can't sleep?"

Wu Luming stopped and responded.

Wen Siyuan said "wait a minute", and suddenly walked towards the coffee table.

He walked to the coffee table, opened the cabinet under the coffee table shortly, and took out a small wooden box from it.

He took the small box and walked back to Wu Luming: "If you still can't fall asleep after taking a shower, you can make a cup of this."

Wu Luming took the wooden box from Wen Siyuan: "What is this?"

"Soothe the nerves tea." Wen Siyuan explained softly, "When I was a graduate student, I took a minor in Chinese medicine. The ingredients in this tea are all picked up by myself from the Chinese medicine store. There will be no side effects. You can open it and have a look."

Wu Luming nodded in novelty, and opened the wooden box as Wen Siyuan said.

There are seven or eight small transparent balls in the wooden box. It can be seen that there are some Chinese medicinal materials in the balls. Even if you don't open it, you can still smell the fragrance of Chinese medicine.

Wen Siyuan walked back to the coffee table, looked at the amount of water in the constant temperature water heater on the coffee table, and saw that there was not much left, so he reconnected the pot to boil it.

When he walked back towards Wu Luming, he found that Wu Luming was lowering his head, flipping the transparent ball out of the wooden box back and forth, watching seriously.

The young man was very wet from top to bottom, and drops of water kept falling from his hair.

Wen Siyuan was about to speak to remind Wu Luming to take a bath first, when his eyes touched a certain place, he froze suddenly.

Wu Luming's hair is not too long, but the hair at the back of his head is longer than ordinary short hair, not to the extent of a wolf's tail, but it can cover almost one-third of the back of his neck on weekdays.

Now that his hair was wet, the hair on the back of his head lost its covering effect, and a scar near the back of his right ear was suddenly exposed to the air.

Even at a distance of three or four steps, Wen Siyuan could see it clearly, and he even felt that the place seemed to be recessed inward.

Just when Wen Siyuan wanted to take a step forward to get a better look, Wu Luming suddenly raised his head, squeezed the transparent ball in his hand and asked him: "Brother Yuan, can this be opened directly, can it be soaked in hot water?"

Wen Siyuan caught Wu Luming's gaze unexpectedly.

There are drops of water on the young man's face, and the dimples on the doll's face are faintly visible. Looking at him, his eyes are bright and clean, and the eyes are full of novelty.

"Yeah." Wen Siyuan had no choice but to withdraw his thoughts temporarily, "Just turn off the hot water."