my wronged bamboo horse

The location of the small sour candy shop is very remote. It is a neighborhood business, without a signboard, and surrounded by alleys. If Zhu Jiajia hadn't led the way, Qi Lin would have Really can't find a place.

Coming out of the shop, Qi Lin sincerely thanked Zhu Jiajia: "I'm sorry to trouble you today."

Zhu Jiajia waved his hand: "You're welcome, it's just a few steps away."

Anyway, after she bowed her head to Qi Lin, she didn't bother to pose in front of him. She went out very freely and didn't put on makeup. It really didn't take much trouble.

She looked at the time, and it was already noon, so she suggested: "You still have a long way to go back to school, why don't you go after eating."

Qi Lin accepted her favor, so he was embarrassed to leave like this, so he nodded: "Then I will treat you."

Zhu Jiajia was not polite on this point. He found a small shop on the side of the road and went in, saying: "I know this piece well, trust me, it's right, don't look at these shops. handed down from generation to generation.”

Qi Lin smiled: "I know."

His eyes moved slightly, as if he remembered something, "Little Jane used to like to look for such small shops everywhere."

Zhu Jiajia: "..."

Speak as you speak, there is no need to show such a gentle expression.

It made her head down and up for a while, and she was dizzy.

The two ordered a few side dishes casually.While waiting for the dishes to arrive, Qi Lin rewrapped the candies he just bought and put them in his schoolbag, so as not to be discovered by Xu Ningjian once he went back.

Zhu Jiajia looked at him hotly, and couldn't help teasing sourly: "You are too kind to Xu Ningjian, what is the relationship between you?"

Qi Lin didn't refute, and it was still the standard answer: "Neighbor."

"Really, is the relationship between neighbors like this these years?" Zhu Jiajia couldn't help but fell into deep thought, and then said angrily, "When I go back, I will educate the younger brother next door. That boy is not good. I ate him two yuan more when I was young." Even the biscuits are in a hurry with me...they are also neighbors, why is there such a big gap!"

Qi Lin smiled faintly: "It's not the same."

Zhu Jiajia thought about it seriously, and agreed: "That's right, my neighbor's face is much worse."

Qi Lin: "..."

He doesn't mean this.

But he didn't go on to explain, and he didn't have to explain to anyone.

Xu Ningjian is naturally good looking, Qi Lin has never seen anyone more beautiful than him.But Qi Lin took such good care of him not because of this.

It's because Xu Ningjian is a very insecure person who needs to be cared for.

When Xu Ningjian was sent to grandma's house, Qi Lin was still a half-grown child and didn't understand many things about adults. He only thought that this child was too beautiful and also too timid.

Qi Lin didn't understand why a father wouldn't like such a well-rounded child, and he didn't understand why Xu Ningjian's father couldn't take the child with him because the Xu family was so rich.

At the beginning, Qi Lin was just reluctant to see such a child alone without a playmate.

Later, Xu Ningjian fell in love with him, and he got used to it, always wearing a small tail wherever he went.

After that, Qi Lin grew up a bit, and gradually learned about some things about the Xu family, but he felt that these things were very unreasonable.

Xu Ningjian was born without a mother. Obviously he was also a victim, but his father blamed him for the pain of his wife's early death.After Xu Ningjian was able to go to kindergarten, he even sent him to his grandmother in his hometown on the grounds that he was too busy with work, and only visited him once in a while.

Qi Lin neither understands nor approves of this approach, but he is only a junior after all, it is impossible to intervene in other people's family affairs, let alone accuse an elder.

Until one time, Xu Ningjian's father suddenly came to him...

Thinking of this, Qi Lin's heart moved suddenly, as if he had caught something, about those things that had puzzled him for many years.

But before he could figure it out, someone bumped his arm.

"Why are you in a daze, eat quickly." Zhu Jiajia said.

Qi Lin came back to his senses, only to realize that the food had already been served, so he had to temporarily put aside those vague thoughts in his mind, was about to eat, paused for a while, but picked up the phone again, and made a call.

Zhu Jiajia frowned when he saw it: "Why do you call after dinner, what's the matter, we can talk about it after dinner."

Qi Lin smiled apologetically: "Xiao Jian is not self-disciplined. I'm not here today. He must not be eating well. I want to remind him."

Why can't I control this broken mouth!

Zhu Jiajia reflected on himself and made a gesture of zipping his mouth.

But no one picked up the phone.Qi Lin waited until it automatically hung up, then took down the phone, and pressed the center of his eyebrows.

Seeing this, Zhu Jiajia understood, and let out a "bad" sound: "Maybe it's just that the mobile phone is not with me, and it's not a big deal. You should eat first."

"Yeah." Qi Lin nodded and sent another message to Xu Ningjian before picking up the chopsticks.

The more Zhu Jiajia looked at it, the more strange it became, and a certain thought in his heart became more and more powerful, and finally he couldn't restrain himself, and asked tentatively: "Well, Qi Lin, do you like Xu Ningjian?"

Qi Lin paused, raised his eyes and looked at her silently, his eyes were a little cold.

The moment Zhu Jiajia opened her mouth, she actually regretted it. The friendship between her and Qi Lin was not enough to ask such a sensitive question.

But the words have already been spoken, and it is too late to take them back.

Fortunately, although Qi Lin didn't answer, he didn't look angry.

Zhu Jiajia was thinking about how to change the subject naturally, but Qi Lin suddenly laughed, with a trace of mockery, and said lightly: "Do you think so?"

Zhu Jiajia was stunned for a moment, a little unsure of what he meant, and said hesitantly, "...One thing, it's a kind of feeling, you understand?"

Qi Lin was noncommittal, just lowered his eyes and continued to eat, and Zhu Jiajia was too embarrassed to continue asking.

The meal was finished without embarrassment.

Before leaving, Zhu Jiajia sincerely expressed his blessings as a classmate: "I believe Xu Ningjian will be very touched when she receives the gift."

Qi Lin smiled indifferently: "Thank you."

He didn't want to impress Xu Ningjian, he just wanted to make Xu Ningjian happy.

Just like what Xu Ningjian did for him before.

Because Xu Ningjian's mother died of an accidental dystocia, his father never celebrated his birthday.

But even so, every time it is Qi Lin's birthday, Xu Ningjian will still happily celebrate his birthday.

Xu Ningjian always started preparing gifts for Qi Lin early on. At first it was a box of high-end biscuits, then a piggy bank made by himself, and when he grew up, it was the first print collection of Qi Lin's favorite book that he had been looking for for a long time. Version.

Qi Lin's parents are ordinary wage earners and usually have to go to work, so after Qi Lin went to school, they gave him some money every day to let him eat out by himself.

Xu Ningjian is not used to outside food, but he always sticks to Qi Lin's side.

It was also from then on that Xu Ningjian became keen on looking for those inconspicuous but delicious small shops.

Opposite their school, there was a restaurant that had been making chicken shredded noodle soup for many years. Qi Lin liked it very much, but after the demolition of the place, the restaurant also moved away.

Qi Lin still remembers that on his birthday that year, Xu Ningjian came to him early in the morning, with his hands behind his back, eyes blinking: "Qi Lin, I didn't prepare a birthday present for you this year, because I was going to invite you out eat."

Qi Lin didn't pay much attention to it, but thought that the neighbor had grown up and finally got tired of the trouble of giving gifts, so he changed to a more simple route.Until Xu Ningjian took him to a shop selling chicken shredded noodle soup, his eyes were full of smiles: "Qi Lin, this shop tastes very similar to the one outside the school, I searched for a long time before I found it."

Qi Lin returned to the dormitory and found that the room was empty, and Xu Ningjian was not there.

He was about to call to find someone again, when he glimpsed a figure on the balcony through the window from the corner of his eye, his brows relaxed, and he walked slowly to the door of the balcony, and was about to call for someone, but he didn't make a sound , the footsteps suddenly stagnated again.

Xu Ningjian turned his back to him, lazily leaning on the railing of the balcony, with one hand propped aside, with a lighted cigarette between his fingers.

Qi Lin's face suddenly sank, he took a deep breath, and suppressed his voice, but first sent a message to Billy Zhang.

Qi Lin: [Do you know where Jane went today?I saw him smoking. 】

Zhang Billy replied quickly: [He wanted to smoke it himself, I swear I really tried my best to stop it! 】

Qi Lin frowned, and before he could ask carefully, the second message followed.

Zhang Billy: [Forget it, it's all my fault, you can kill me. 】

Billy Zhang: [Forget it, I'm going to commit suicide right now. 】

Qi Lin: "..."

The author has something to say:

I haven’t done youth pain literature for many years. After trying it, I finally remembered why I quit this field back then.

And, yes, Qi Lin and Xiao Jian are youth, and Xiao Zhang is pain.