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Because of the little "interlude" just now, the rest of the meal was extremely silent between the two of them.

Lu Ping wanted to bring up the topic several times, but as soon as he thought about it, he was so embarrassed that his brain was starved of oxygen, so he could only look away quickly, and he didn't have the courage to say a word to Shen Yuze at all.

His thinking line is like this: If you want to speak - you have to look directly into Shen Yuze's eyes - you will see Shen Yuze's nose - you will pay attention to his lips - you will think of Wen...

stop!stop! !stop! ! !

In order to avoid this embarrassment, Lu Ping could only bury his head in eating the sweet and sour fried cake in front of him.

In the end, more than half of this heavy plate of fried cakes went into Lu Ping's stomach, which made him slump on the chair, stretching his neck to hiccup.

Now he is neither a little mouse nor a little penguin, he has become a big white goose singing to the sky.

Shen Yuze was really funny seeing him like this, and offered to propose: "Would you like to walk along the road?"

Lu Ping: "Is it possible? What about the car?"

"It's okay, the car is parked here, and when we're done shopping, we'll call the driver to pick us up."

Lu Ping touched his swollen stomach, suspecting that he might vomit it if he got in the car directly, so he agreed to Shen Yuze's proposal, and the two walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley.

This is an old residential area, the streets and alleys extend in all directions, except for boys and girls in school uniforms, they are social animals who have just got off work.The two of them didn't have any goals, they walked aimlessly along the streets and alleys, occasionally came across interesting shops, and went in for a stroll.

Before eating, Shen Yuze left his tie and suit jacket in the car ahead of time. Now he only wears a shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his arms. The top two buttons are not fastened. The night wind blows and the collar of the shirt is blown by the wind. Blowing away, the Adam's apple looms.He was tall, with broad shoulders, and his mature attire gave him a deceptively adult appearance.

When they passed by the alley, Lu Ping noticed that several female students in school uniforms were blushing and whispering, and the female white-collar workers who had just got off work cast amazed glances at Shen Yuze...

Those eyes were all focused on Shen Yuze, he didn't seem to notice it, only Lu Ping noticed it, and a strange sour feeling rose in his heart.

The boy stopped suddenly, grabbed Shen Yuze, turned around and turned into a small shop next to him.

The door of the shop closed behind them, cutting off the sight of the girls behind them who were eager to strike up a conversation.

Lu Ping didn't look at the signboard before entering the door, but just found a shop at random, only to find out after entering the door that it was actually an old-fashioned sweet water shop.

Unlike the bright and spacious milk tea shops that are now decorated all over the street, this sweet water shop has an old interior, with wooden tables and chairs, and water signs hanging on the wall.Seeing customers coming to the door, the boss, who was doing weight-loss exercises on his mobile phone, turned his eyes to them, and asked while dancing, "Little classmate, what do you eat?"

Lu Ping thought for a while: "Is there any peach juice?"

The boss replied: "Today is too late, there is only one bowl of peach syrup left."

Lu Ping rubbed his stomach, thinking that he could share a bowl with Shen Yuze: "It's okay, just one bowl, with milk."

Boss: "Okay, do you want eggs?"

"No, how much is it?" Lu Ping took out his mobile phone and prepared to pay the bill.

Boss: "Fifteen."

"Ten... what?? Fifteen?" Lu Ping was shocked, "It was only three or five yuan before!"

While wheezing and dancing weight loss exercises, the boss reasoned with him: "Student, how long ago are you talking about? That kind of walking around the streets has no cost, and the rent here is very expensive!" The boss turned his gaze to Shen Yuze behind him said, "Are you his brother? Since you are working, don't let your brother pay for it. Now it costs more than 20 yuan to buy a cup of milk tea. My milk and peach syrup are real ingredients. Do you think 15 yuan is expensive?"

Lu Ping didn't let Shen Yuze interrupt at all, he didn't want to be taken advantage of: "Then I don't want milk, so give me a bowl of brown sugar...Since it's the last bowl, you can make it cheaper."

After some haggling between the two, the boss finally agreed to give Lu Ping all the peach juice at the bottom of the pot at the price of eight yuan a bowl.

"Little guy really knows how to bargain..." the boss muttered as he went to the back kitchen, and after a while, he brought out a disposable plastic bowl, which was full of the sweet soup called "Peach Jelly" .

It is very viscous, translucent beige in color, raisins and goji berries are sprinkled in the soup, and some invisible brown jelly things sink to the bottom of the bowl. With a spoonful of brown sugar before serving, it looks like It's like something that kids will love.

Lu Ping took a small disposable spoon and complained in a low voice: "I never thought that a bowl of peach syrup used to cost [-] yuan, but now it sells for [-] yuan!"

Shen Yuze said: "I didn't expect that you have eaten so much for dinner, and you can still continue to eat."

"It's different!" Lu Ping corrected him seriously, "Dinner is dinner, and peach syrup is peach syrup!"

Shen Yuze: "What exactly is peach syrup?"

"Hey, don't you eat this in the north?" Lu Ping was a little surprised. He stirred the plastic bowl with a spoon and fished out the brown gelatinous substance at the bottom of the bowl. Where there is a crack in the trunk, this kind of thing will grow. The old man said that it is the tears of peach blossoms, so peach juice is also called peach blossom tears."

"What peach blossom tears?" Shen Yuze reacted, "This is the resin secreted by peach trees. We call it 'peach gum' over there."

"Almost, almost." Lu Pinghun didn't care, "When I was a child, I often saw the kind of hawkers walking around the streets. There was a large stainless steel bucket tied to each side of the back seat of the bicycle, covered with a quilt, and filled with milk and peach syrup. Put brown sugar and peach syrup on one side. At that time, a bowl of brown sugar cost three yuan, and a bowl of milk cost five yuan..."

This group of seven or eight-year-old little Wusun, after school early every day, sweats profusely in the alley, and when they hear the hawker's yelling "Peach Jelly - Selling Peach Jelly -", they immediately turn back home like their mothers Acting like a baby and begging for money, I went to buy a bowl of ice-cold peach syrup; if it was winter, the hawker would sell hot peach syrup, and everyone held it in their hands and was reluctant to drink it.

The hawkers don't come every day, and in the days when they can't wait for the hawkers, they will also pick peach syrup from the mountains.Peach jelly only appears after the rain, and it looks like mushrooms. However, wild mushrooms cannot be eaten casually, but peach jelly can be picked.

Peach pulp is sticky when it hangs on the branches, and children will stick to their fingers when they pick it with their hands.The freshly picked peach syrup is like coffee-flavored sugar candy, which can only be stored after being washed and dried.But now the wild peach trees are almost extinct, and the remaining peach trees are either surrounded by orchards, or they are only varieties of flowers... If it wasn’t for this small shop on the side of the road this time, Lu Ping would have Can't remember the taste of peach syrup.

After listening to his introduction, Shen Yuze also became interested in this dessert.

Or to be more precise - he became interested in Lu Ping's childhood.

He wants to know the story of Lu Ping when he was a child, and wants to know every bit of what happened to Lu Ping in the first 16 years he missed.

It's a pity that time can't be turned back, he can only use this small bowl of peach syrup to imagine the appearance of that little boy playing in the alley with his shirtless.

Shen Yuze took a mouthful with a spoon and put it in his mouth.The peach syrup is soft and smooth, the goji berries and raisins are chewy, and it is served with thick brown sugar. This bowl is lively and sweet, and it is indeed the taste that children like.

However, Shen Yuze doesn't like to eat too sweet things, so after a little taste, he pushed back to the land.

The spoon Shen Yuze had already used, Lu Ping asked the boss, "Please give us another spoon."

The boss hummed to the aerobics video, but pretended not to hear it when he heard it.

Please, two people eat a bowl of eight yuan peach syrup, and you want him to give you an extra spoon?The little guy thinks so beautifully!

Lu Ping: "..."

Forget it, since he and Shen Yuze are both boys, it's no big deal to share the same spoon... right?

With Shen Yuze's body temperature still on the handle of the spoon, Lu Ping put a spoonful into his mouth.He swallowed the first sip of peach juice, but he didn't taste any taste. It was obviously something he wanted to eat, but his mind was full of thoughts: Is he and Shen Yuze an indirect kiss?Doesn't count?Doesn't count?Doesn't count?

With a guilty conscience, he quietly raised his head to look at Shen Yuze, but just happened to meet a pair of quiet eyes.

It turned out that Shen Yuze had been watching him.

Lu Ping bit the spoon and asked vaguely, "What do you see me doing?"

Shen Yuze smiled: "I just want to see if your stomach has the limit. You couldn't walk just now, but now you can still stuff such a big bowl."

"I'm still growing." Lu Ping said, "Eat a lot to grow taller."

"How tall do you want to be?"

"At least... taller than you!" Of course Lu Ping dreamed to be a big one!

"Then you have to work harder." Shen Yuze reminded him 'kindly', "When the family doctor checked me a few days ago, he measured my height, and I grew by another centimeter. Now I am 1.8 meters tall. Seven. By the way, how tall are you?"

Lu Ping: "...a little shorter than you."

"A little?" Picked up the words.

Lu Ping emphasized his tone: "Well, a little."

——On self-deception, Lu Ping has never lost.

He was a bit regretful that he didn't spend an extra five yuan to buy milk peach syrup just now. Milk can grow taller. Maybe he drank a bowl of milk peach syrup today and opened his eyes tomorrow to grow three centimeters taller!

When the brown sugar peach syrup on the table reached the second half of the bowl, Lu Ping couldn't eat anymore, but he couldn't bear to waste the food, so he could only slow down and chat with Shen Yuze while slowly stirring.

He looked at Shen Yuze: "Actually, I originally thought that you might not be able to win this competition."

Shen Yuze: "You don't trust me so much?"

"It's not that I don't trust you," Lu Ping said, "it's because of Wang Shiya." The more he said, the more angry he became, and the anger that had been suppressed in the afternoon came out again, "How could she be the judge of this competition? And her Scoring, it looks like it’s deliberately messing with you! You don’t know, after the first round of the competition, the audience is full of boos. They all say that there is a shady scene in the competition, and Wang Shiya deliberately lowered the scores of other players in order to give you a high score. !"

His voice gradually increased, and the boss who was doing weight-loss exercises was affected by him, and impatiently turned up the volume of the phone a few more steps.

The Tianshui store is surrounded by the dynamic slogan "one two one" for aerobics, with old tables and chairs and benches and half-eaten brown sugar peach syrup, which is old and fashionable, full of a strange sense of fusion.

Shen Yuze was not disturbed by the weird atmosphere, he looked at the boy in front of him who was so angry that his brows were knotted, and said in a calm tone, "With her ability, she can only resort to such means."

He didn't tell Lu Ping about Wang Shiya's pregnancy. Lu Ping, a child with a harmonious family, shouldn't be allowed to know about the dirty things of the Shen family, it will only pollute Lu Ping's ears.

Lu Ping still wanted to complain about his friend: "Why does she insist on getting in front of you? Regardless of her...what problems there are between her and your father and your mother, that is their business, and the three of them figured it out. That's enough, what is she doing to bother you?"

Look, Lu Ping can understand such a simple truth, but none of the three parties can understand it.

"Maybe it's because she's not good at thinking." Shen Yuze shook his head, "You know, the reason why I was delayed when I came out today was because she stopped me and told me that she wanted to support my debut."

Lu Ping: "???" He was shocked, his hands shook, the spoon fell to the ground, and the remaining peach gum in the bowl seemed to be unnecessary. "Is it the 'debut' I thought?"

"Well. She has a media company and cooperates with some artist management companies. She said that with my image and background, it would be easy to go that way."

"........." Lu Ping really didn't know how to evaluate it.

He wanted to laugh at Wang Shiya's brain, but he looked at Shen Yuze who was sitting opposite him, and suddenly the appearance of Shen Yuze standing under the spotlight during today's speech contest appeared in his mind.During those few minutes, everyone's eyes were chasing and entangled with him, but he raised his head calmly, accepting those scorching looks.If there is one person in this world who can have the adoration of everyone in the world, why can't it be Shen Yuze?

Lu Ping murmured: "Actually, it would be great if you really become a big star in the future." Even if this is the case, the distance between him and Shen Yuze will grow further. "Then I can show off to others in the future, saying that I once sat at the same table with a big star."

"Sorry, your wish is about to come true." Shen Yuze blinked at him, "If I were to become a star, I would definitely be busy all day long and have no private space, no vacation, no gathering with friends, The reporter came to interview me and asked me: 'Can you recall your high school life? Tell me about your best friend in high school?' I can only say: 'I'm sorry, I'm too busy, I have forgotten the names of my high school classmates It's...'"

"Hey!" Lu Ping glared at him, "You said that I was your harbor on stage this afternoon?"

"Is there? Sorry, I'm too busy, I've forgotten."

Lu Ping: "..." Damn, why didn't I realize that Shen Yuze had such a naive side before?

The two laughed for a while, and Shen Yuze asked him, "Have you thought about what you want to do in the future?"

High school can be said to be the most important part of every student's life, not only because they are in adolescence at the age of seventeen or eighteen, but also because they are about to usher in the college entrance examination that is related to their lives.During breaks, occasionally students will discuss their future volunteering.

"The future..." Lu Ping read these two words.He had discussed this matter with his family members before, and his relatives talked a lot. Some said that if he was asked to study a small language, he would go abroad to work and earn a lot of money;Every time Lu Ping heard these voices, he responded perfunctorily, because for him, no matter what major he chooses or what job he does in the future, it is too far away from his real dream.

Lu Ping whispered: "I can tell you what I want to do in the future, but you can't laugh at me."

Shen Yuze became curious: "Tell me."

"You swear first."

"I swear." Shen Yuze said solemnly, "No matter what Lu Ping's future dream is, I will not laugh at him. Even if he says he wants to be an alien, I will encourage him."

Lu Ping was amused by him: "Compared with being an alien, my dream is not that complicated."

The boy shyly said: "I want to open a snack bar, the kind that is a chain. I just sell... just sell our local specialty food in Jiaojiang. In the morning, I sell embedded cakes, cake tubes and rice balls, and at noon I make wheat shrimp and ginger. Soup noodles can be used as dinner at night, and you can also sell night market snacks such as soaked shrimp and small intestine rolls. I want to open snack bars all over the country, just like the salted duck in Jinling, Malatang in Sichuan Province, and Jincheng’s Pancake fruit...I want everyone to know that although Jiaojiang is an inconspicuous city, its food is delicious, and everyone is welcome to taste it."

When he said these words, Lu Ping's eyes were shining brightly, with the light that Shen Yuze likes to see most.

The kind of light that is full of dreams and looks forward to the future.

This kind of light has always existed, and it shone brightly in the depths of Lu Ping's soul, seemingly as weak as a firefly, but at certain times, it would be as bright as a scorching sun.

"Of course, I know how difficult it will be to achieve this. You have seen the situation in my family. I have been pushing a tricycle to 'fight guerrillas' without the first start-up capital; I don't know about Nuojiji's food. Can outsiders get used to it; but..." Lu Ping's voice became soft but firm, his fingers unconsciously rubbed the corner of the transparent bowl, and said word by word, "But, whether it is ten years or twenty years, It’s still 20 years, I believe that as long as I don’t give up on this dream, the dream will not give up on me.”

He is only 17 years old, and he still has countless time in the future to touch his dream.Starting from a tricycle that walks the streets and alleys, he will deliver the cakes that he grew up with since he was a child to more people.He hopes that wanderers in Jiaojiang can taste the familiar taste of his hometown; he hopes that people from other provinces who have never been to Jiaojiang will become curious about this city because of a small cake.

His dream is big, he wants to wrap the whole world with cakes.His dream is very small, it started with a white and tender large dumpling.

This is the first time Lu Ping talked about the future with his friends, and he kept this bold idea in his heart all the time.Only in front of Shen Yuze can he speak such unrealistic big words.

He looked at Shen Yuze nervously, he was afraid of seeing a little disapproval expression on the other person's face, he was afraid of hearing Shen Yuze say "you have to be pragmatic" or "your idea is very interesting, but I suggest...", but None of those——In the dim sweet water shop, Shen Yuze looked at him tenderly.

Under those gazes, Lu Ping's apprehension and tension suddenly disappeared, and he seemed to be injected with a force.

Shen Yuze stretched out his hand, crossed most of the table, and covered the back of Lu Ping's hand, gently stroking his palm with his fingertips.

"Pingping, your dream will definitely come true." Shen Yuze looked into his eyes and paused every word, "It doesn't matter if it takes ten years, 20 years, or 30 years...don't worry, I will be by your side."

……

When Lu Ping got home, it was already very late at night.

The car stopped at the entrance of Lu's alley, the street lights in the alley were broken, Shen Yuze was worried, and accompanied Lu Ping through this dark path.

When it was delivered to the door of Lu's house, the two of them stood under the porch light outside the door and looked at each other, neither of them was willing to say goodbye.

The night wind suddenly picked up, Lu Ping made up his mind, and urged Shen Yuze: "You go, it's too cold."

Shen Yuze shook his head: "You go in first, I see you go in before leaving."

"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm standing at the door of my house, can I still lose it? But you, there are no street lights on this road, you walk alone in such a dark alley, be careful of falling."

"I'm not alone." Shen Yuze pointed to the night sky and said, "I have the moon."

The moon is shining brightly overhead.The moon was covered by the clouds just now, but now the clouds have dispersed, and the moonlight is shining down gently, falling on the shoulders of the teenagers.

The alley is not quiet.In the hazy moonlight, the sound of the TV came from an unknown house in the alley, and a romantic comedy was being staged.

Shen Yuze remembered something: "By the way, I forgot to give you this thing."

Before Lu Ping could react, a heavy, sharp-edged object suddenly appeared in his hand. He took a look under the moonlight, and unexpectedly found that what he was holding in his hand was actually a glass trophy for a speech contest!

Lu Ping was surprised: "Why did you give it to me?"

"It was originally intended to be played for you..." Shen Yuze whispered.

"What did you say? I didn't catch it."

"I said," Shen Yuze changed his excuse, "I have no place to put it in my house, I see there is room on your bookcase, keep it for me."

Lu Ping: "???" What kind of strange speech is this, Shen Yuze's high-rise apartment has more than 200 square meters, where can't he fit this glass trophy?

However, Lu Ping really liked it.The glass trophy has a unique shape, like a handicraft. The full name of the competition is engraved in the center of the trophy, and Shen Yuze's name is on the base.Such a commemorative thing is placed on the bookcase, and Lu Ping will be able to think of this extraordinary day just by looking at it in the future.

"But, you gave me this thing, and I don't have an equivalent gift to give you." Lu Ping insisted on the principle of fairness, thinking that if he took something from Shen Yuze, he would give him back a souvenir of the same weight.

"You can owe it first."

"Why is it 'owed first' again?" Lu Ping always felt that since he and Shen Yuze met, he seemed to have been in debt to him, sometimes it was favors, sometimes it was things, and he couldn't figure it out.

Shen Yuze smiled lightly, and said with deep meaning: "It's okay, if you owe it, you will owe it, if you owe too much...you can 'zero deposit and withdrawal'."

Lu Ping: "?"

Why can't he understand?

The two of them said "you go first" and "no, you go first" at the gate of Lu's house for a while, and finally Shen Yuze compromised and walked towards the entrance of the alley step by step.

Under the gaze of the moonlight, the boy's shadow cast an ambiguous shadow on the ground. Lu Ping looked and looked, and he didn't feel relieved until the figure boarded the car at the entrance of the alley.

Lu Ping carefully held the trophy in one hand, and pushed open the courtyard gate with the other.

It is very late now, my sister is asleep, and my mother is also resting to catch up with the market tomorrow morning.Lu's father hadn't slept soundly. Hearing the movement at the gate, he came out with his clothes on.

"Pingping, are you back?"

"Dad, are you still up?"

"You haven't come back yet, how can Dad sleep soundly?" Lu's father walked towards the courtyard door with his slippers on, and locked the courtyard door with his son. "Xiao Shen sent you back?"

Lu Ping: "Well. I wanted to take the bus back, but he said it was too late, so he asked the driver to take me back."

"It's so troublesome..." Papa Lu yawned, and murmured, "Xiao Shen is a friend who really has nothing to say, Pingping, you can't let down such a good friend."

Lu Ping nodded heavily.

Dad went to bed, Lu Ping was afraid of waking up the others, changed his slippers, and tiptoed back to the bedroom on the second floor.

The first thing Lu Ping did when he returned to the room was to carefully put the trophy in his arms on the bookshelf.At the beginning, he put the trophies on the same layer as those Legos of the motherland, and he felt that they did not fit well, so he had to remove the Legos; but if there was only one trophy on the first floor, it seemed empty. Take the group photo of the two on the bedside table and put it next to the trophy.

In the photo, the two teenagers smile side by side, with the light from the desk lamp reflected by the glass trophy beside them.

Lu Ping took two steps back, admiring and admiring.He repeatedly adjusted the position of the photo and the trophy, for fear that there would be some imperfections.

After finishing all this, he raised his phone to the bookcase and took a photo.

He lay on his back on the bed, resting his head on his head with one hand, and swiping the screen of his phone with the other, zooming in and out of the photos.

Can't get enough of it.

Too many things happened today, and too many memories were left.Shen Yuze won the championship under the attention of everyone. They went to eat delicious sweet and sour fried cakes. Lu Ping confessed his dream for the first time...

The piles are connected together, converging into one sound after another.

"Everyone travels their whole life...Fortunately, I've found mine."

"Little Penguin, I'll pull you up."

"Pingping, don't make trouble."

"Whether it takes ten years, 20 years, or 30 years, don't worry, I will be by your side."

"I'm not alone, I have the moon."

And these voices finally merged with my father's words - "Pingping, you can't let down such a good friend."

Yes, Lu Ping, you can't let down such a good friend.

The boy turned over on the bed and finally made up his mind.

He clicked on the partner icon on the desktop and entered the backstage of @fake-diamond's account.

This time, without any hesitation, he decisively clicked the button——

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