Jiangzhu's Summer

Zhu Jingci pursed his lips in embarrassment, and secretly withdrew his fingers.Jiang Chenyu's "Don't make trouble" seemed to still be in his ears, and the lingering sound made his ears numb.

"Is a mango halberd enough?" Jiang Chenyu was busy treating someone's wound without raising his head.

"Okay," Xu Mumu regained his vitality in an instant, and waved his hands with a smile, "Go ahead, please pretend that I don't exist."

Zhu Jingci: "..." This betrayal is too fast.

After applying cold compresses for a while, the redness on the back of Zhu Jingci's hands almost disappeared. Jiang Chenyu removed the ice cubes, wrapped them in paper towels and put them in the trash can.

After applying ice cubes for a long time, the burned skin felt a little numb.Zhu Jingci tentatively stretched out his finger, wanting to touch it, but Jiang Chenyu grabbed his wrist.

"Don't touch it, it's not clean, go back and disinfect it with iodine." After Jiang Chenyu finished speaking, he was about to let go of his hand, but was pulled by his cuff.

"Then when are you leaving?" the people around asked timidly, the hand holding the cuff didn't dare to use too much force, and only held it weakly.

Jiang Chenyu's pupils were dark and he couldn't see his expression clearly, "Twelfth lunar month is 29."

Oh, today is 28, that's tomorrow, I'm leaving.Thinking about it, Zhu Jingci slowly lowered his hand from Jiang Chenyu's cuff, and raised the corner of his mouth reluctantly, "Then I wish you a good time."

This person didn't say anything, didn't question, didn't try to keep him, and didn't even dare to get angry.It was obvious that his red eyes and his fingers were pulling people's fingers, all expressing "don't go", but he still couldn't say a word.

Why not?Don't want to, or dare not?Do you think it won't come true if you say it, so why don't you mention it?

Jiang Chenyu sighed imperceptibly.Forget it, he thought, always take it one step at a time.

You have to get closer to the cat step by step, dispel its anxiety, and then it can jump into your arms with peace of mind.

He grabbed Zhu Jingci's hand that was about to be put down, raised his head and said to Xu Mumu, "Put on the earphones."

"Okay, you can do whatever you want." Holding the mango halberd, Xu Mumu gestured to continue, quickly took out the earphones and put them on, turned around and began to tease the goldfish in the fish tank.

Zhu Jingci was caught by his fingertips, raised his head, his eyes were wide open, covered with a layer of watery light.

"Is there nothing you want to tell me?" Jiang Chenyu took his hand and clasped his fingers one by one, tightly fitting.

"No, no more." Zhu Jingci lowered his eyes in a panic, not daring to look at the person opposite, for fear of seeing those eyes, he couldn't help but blurt out the words to persuade him to stay.

Jiang Chenyu sighed, looking helpless, pulled him into his arms with a slight force of his arms, "Why didn't you tell me to stay?"

"I can't say it," Zhu Jingci buried his head on Jiang Chenyu's shoulder, shaking his head desperately, with a nasal voice, "You want to be with your family, and you want to be reunited."

"What about you, who are you reuniting with?" Jiang Chenyu felt the warmth on his shoulders. He knew that this person was hiding and crying quietly, but he continued to ask cruelly.

"It's okay with me, I've always been alone, it really doesn't matter." Zhu Jingci buried his head deeper, but the crying in his voice still couldn't hide it.

"But it's okay if I can't."

Jiang Chenyu held Zhu Jingci's shoulder, lifted him up from his shoulder slightly, and made him look up at himself.

"When I'm outside, what I think about is whether you are eating well, taking good care of yourself, whether someone will watch the Spring Festival Gala with you, watch the New Year's Eve with you, and whether someone will put lucky money next to your pillow the next morning."

"I know, words are very brave, you are not afraid of loneliness, you can celebrate the New Year alone," Jiang Chenyu tidied up his messy forehead hair, and wiped his tears gently with a tissue, "But I am afraid, afraid that you will be wronged , I’m afraid that you will feel sad when you celebrate the new year alone.”

"So, don't make decisions on your own just because you think for me. Tell me what you think of. Only after you say it can I know and choose whether to do it or not. This is something I decide, you just tell me What do you want, remember?"

"Yeah!" Zhu Jingci rushed forward and put his arms around Jiang Chenyu's neck, "Why don't you go to Australia? I want you to stay. I want to watch the Spring Festival Gala with you, celebrate New Year's Eve, make dumplings, and want to celebrate the new year." You were the first to see me on the first day of the new year and said happy new year to me."

He lied earlier, he didn't like this family holiday at all.The company of others always reminded him of the fact that he was alone.

He was terrified of spending the Spring Festival alone. Every New Year's Eve, he would think, why should he be alive?Since the new year is hopeless for me, why not just die in this year?

On the first New Year's Eve when he first moved to Mao'er Lane, he went out to buy food and bumped into a drunken gangster at the entrance of the alley.Dressed tightly in winter and with a small body, he was treated as a girl and teased carelessly.

He was forced to the corner of the wall, had no choice but to grit his teeth, picked up half a brick from the wall, and slapped it on the opponent's head.After a scuffle, no one was left behind.The gangster was bluffed by his ferocity, cursed and ran away in a hurry.Standing there, the corner of his mouth was broken, his forehead was also bruised, his arm was injured for some reason, and he was numb from the pain.Unable to stand still, he simply lay down on the snow.

There was softness under his body, and snowflakes rustled in the orange light, falling on the ends of his hair, on his cheeks and between his eyebrows.He didn't feel cold, just lay like this, looking up at the gray sky.It was so cold that even the birds didn't fly over. Looking at it, my eyes were sore, so sore that I wanted to cry.

That's it, just laying down like this, it's clean even if it's buried in the snow, he thought, and slowly closed his eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of treading on the snow broke the silence. From far to near, a pair of boots stopped beside him.He raised his eyes with difficulty, and could vaguely see the outline of a young man.It was too dark, he only noticed those bright eyes.

"What are you doing?" The person came, his voice was clear and pleasant, like the gurgling of a stream.

He was caught off guard and felt ashamed. He could use violence unscrupulously in the face of gangsters, but he didn't know how to deal with such a clean boy.He didn't want to tell this person that I was waiting to die, he was afraid of scaring him.

He blinked, the snow particles on his eyelashes fell, and he opened his mouth slightly, not knowing what to do.

He hesitated, the young man leaned down, the light reflected in his eyes, and a warm smile flashed, "The first time I saw such a big snow, I couldn't help but lie down and roll for a long time."

"So I guess you must be a Southerner like me."

The young man said it frankly, as if lying in the snow is a very common thing, and only those who are ignorant will make a fuss.

"...Well." The two were very close, and Zhu Jingci smelled a vague orange fragrance. He could feel the warm breath on his face when the other person spoke, and his face was already frozen I felt a little feverish in hindsight.

"Get up quickly after playing enough, you will catch a cold if you lie down for a long time, and there will be more chances of snow in the future." The boy stood up, half-bent, and stretched out his hand towards him, naturally wanting to get him off the snow pull up.

By coincidence, Zhu Jingci held that hand.

After the boy pulled him up, he withdrew his hand.It was just a passing contact, but he couldn't help being distracted.

The fingers of that hand were slender, with well-defined joints, dry and warm.At this moment, he didn't want to die anymore, he began to yearn for the warmth of this moment.

"I'm going home," the boy breathed into his palms, rubbed them together, turned his head and waved at him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, his eyes seemed to be full of stars, "Happy New Year."

Years after the farewell, he endured wind, frost, rain and snow, and fate gave him suffering, so he relied on the little sweets he stole in the snowy night for comfort.The only thing holding him back in this world is the boy he met in the snow.

Until that miraculous rainy day, in a quick glance, he suddenly saw those beautiful eyes under the umbrella.Suppressing his beating heart, he greeted the old man, carefully hiding his surprise.After all kinds of hardships, he was finally able to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Jiang Chen thinks that they first met in the rain, got acquainted, and then fell in love.But only Zhu Jingci knows that he likes Jiang Chenyu, and he has engraved it on his heart on a snowy night many years ago.

That snowy night, after Jiang Chenyu left, he limped back into the alley.A beef noodle restaurant in the depths of the alley was still open. Naturally, there were no customers on New Year's Eve. The old man sat on the porch, smoking a cigarette and watching the snow, not knowing what he was thinking.

He ordered a bowl of beef noodles and ate it steaming hot.The old man sat at the door and knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe a few times.I didn't ask him why he went out alone on New Year's Eve, nor did he ask why he rolled and got hurt all over his body.He just pulled out a bottle of medical alcohol from the drawer and threw it at him.

He unscrewed it silently, and poured it directly onto his injured arm.Alcohol dripped on the wound, and he trembled in pain, but he gritted his teeth and kept silent.

When he left, he put the alcohol bottle on the table, passed by the shopkeeper sitting at the door, and thanked him in a low voice.The old man took a puff from his pipe and let out a puff of white smoke leisurely, "Young man, if you want to move forward, there will always be someone waiting for you in front of you!"

Go forward, don't look back, there will be very good people waiting there.

Jiang Chenyu gently stroked Zhu Jingci's back, as if coaxing the cat at home on weekdays, "Okay, I promise you, I won't cry, okay?"

It was only then that Zhu Jingci noticed his gaffe, and hurriedly let go of him, but couldn't help leaning against his arms, holding his fingers.

"However," Jiang Chenyu looked down at the person in his arms, with a hint of cunning in his eyes.Zhu Jingci didn't see it, and opened his eyes a little nervously, "I'm not very good at making dumplings, so I have to trouble you a lot."

"I'll take a glass of water... what the hell!" Xu Mumu turned around and saw the two people leaning together at first sight, followed by Zhu Jingci's red eyes that had obviously just cried.

"You two quarreled?" It didn't look like that either, Zhu Jingci almost sat on Jiang Chenyu's lap.

"I've only turned around for 5 minutes, and you made your wife cry?" Xu Mumu smacked his lips, "That's awesome, Jiang Chenyu."

"No." Zhu Jingci hurriedly explained, "I didn't want him to go to Australia for the New Year, so I cried."

"But Jiang Chenyu didn't go to Australia to celebrate the New Year this year." Xu Mumu looked puzzled, "Didn't he tell you?"

"Ah?" Zhu Jingci turned to look at Jiang Chenyu, who raised his eyebrows with an innocent face.

"Originally, Auntie Bai wanted you to go to Australia with them to celebrate the New Year, but Jiang Chenyu said that he was afraid that you would not get used to it, so he told his uncle and aunt to go and stay with you by himself."

"..." So why did I cry just now.Zhu Jingci turned his head to look at Jiang Chenyu, with condemnation in his eyes.

Jiang Chenyu didn't even look guilty, smiled and pinched his cheeks, "So I tell you, don't make decisions for me. Look, I cried for nothing." While speaking, he asked the waiter to serve another cup of hot honey grapefruit Tea.

After the drink was served, he pushed Zhu Jingci again, "Would you like to drink now, boyfriend?"

Zhu Jingci took the cup and bit the straw resentfully, drinking gurglingly.

"Okay, I was wrong, and I apologize to you." Jiang Chenyu begged for mercy in a soft voice beside him, "You have a cold, and you really can't drink coffee."

After drinking the hot honey citron tea, miraculously, his stomach no longer felt uncomfortable. Zhu Jingci held the cup and lazily leaned on Jiang Chenyu's shoulder, "Then you have to accompany me to buy new year's goods tomorrow to compensate me."

"Okay, it's all up to you, you have the final say." Jiang Chenyu put his hands on his shoulders and wrapped them in his arms.

So you don't care that I'm next to you, do you?Xu Mumu viciously poked the fork into the cake.