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More than mere impressions, Li Bai has already met his name. The archaeological boy who sips Beijing movies and has always been called a brother and brother with Yang Jian is called Zhao Weizong. His personality and appearance belong to the sunny and cheerful one. very sweet.This is not nonsense, because in Li Bai's eyes, everyone's smile is different, for example, he thinks his smile is always stiff, and because of his bad teeth, he always subconsciously purses his lips, making him appear even more insincere.

It's also like Yang Jian's smile, which is also very different from Zhao's bright smile. It always makes people feel careless, as if thinking about other things, and it's not surprising that his face immediately turns cold.

But then again, since Zhao Weizong and Yang Jian have known each other since junior high school, the relationship between them has not faded after such a long time. According to Li Bai's logic, the two must have something in common and can understand each other.

His understanding of Zhao Weizong is relatively limited. According to what is known so far, the commonality between these two people is probably limited to... being generous, having many friends and being popular.

There is also a relatively strong peach blossom luck.

Needless to say, Yang Jian's peach blossoms, as for the other... yes, Li Bai also knows that the classmate Yang Jian mentioned before "who made Yang Yuqiu's heart secretly because of saving her halfway" is none other than this Xiao Zhao.

So it's a special gift for birthdays, right?

Li Bai looked at the paper bag in his hand, suppressed his curiosity to open it again, cleared his throat, and knocked on the big red door of the courtyard in front of him.

Before ten o'clock in the morning, the alley is full of sunshine. From time to time, there are bicycles swaying from the entrance of the alley to the waist of the alley, avoiding the toddlers strolling on the road, and the old man sitting under the locust tree in sweatshirt and shaking the cattail leaf fan. There was a lot of noise.The commotion on the locust tree was even louder, the cicadas were shouting loudly with gongs and drums, the sound was quite uniform, but the small courtyard beside the locust tree was still completely silent.

No one is there?Li Bai moved his ears away from the door, knocked twice, and called out loudly: "Hi, is this the Zhao family?"

The old lady in the floral skirt behind him answered for him: "It's the old Zhao's house!"

Li Bai looked back at her, then continued to pat the door, "Is anyone there?"He only felt safe when he heard the old lady muttering "Young people are not polite these days" and walking away with a garbage bag.Originally, he didn't expect to be regarded as a polite and elegant person, but this kind of situation where he had to make a sound to be noticed was what he hated the most.

Fortunately, after persevering in patting for a while, there was finally some movement in the door, "Who are you looking for? My father and mother have both gone to the hospital. We will talk about it in the afternoon." A little girl poked her head out and saw that she was herding sheep at home during the summer vacation. He probably just got up from the bed, his shoulder-length hair was disheveled, a little rough and yellowish, and the striped pajamas with Mickey Mouse printed on his body hadn't changed.

"Is Zhao Weizong here?" Li Bai lifted the paper bag in his hand, "I have something for him."

"You are my brother's classmate? No, I know everyone who is familiar with him," the little girl rolled her eyes, and her round face with a little baby fat also showed cunning, "Oh, you are doing sales Yes, or is it the North Korean spy they said? Go away and send it off!"

"I'm running errands for someone," Li Bai said helplessly, "A man named Yang Yuqiu asked me to give this to him."

Unexpectedly, as soon as she heard the name of this person, the little girl's expression became even more strange, and she insisted on snatching the paper bag into her hands, yelling: "Show me first!" I bumped into her, because I felt that once I touched this person, I would start screaming. Now that everyone is watching, don't really treat him as a spy and get him into the situation again.After finally snatching it back, Li Bai hurriedly took a step back, hugged the thing tightly in his arms, and glared at the girl: "I have to hand it over to your brother face to face, it's a birthday present!"

"Why can't I accept the birthday present?" The girl pinched her waist and stretched her neck, "If you don't check it first, what if you send a bomb to my brother?"

"Where's your brother?"

"Go back and tell Sister Yang that my brother has a date. Although the date is nowhere to be found, my brother just likes him. He is in love with each other. No matter how much she flirts with my mother, she will have nothing to do with it." The door is about to close, "You let her die as soon as possible!"

Li Baixin said that these love and hatred have nothing to do with me. If it was really a bomb, I would have to give it out quickly. He raised his hand to hold the door, and the girl closed the door at the same time, and his finger was pinched, which hurt a little .

The wood of the door panel was rough, and those barbs still rubbed thin blood channels on the skin.

The little girl panicked, and immediately opened the door again, "Are you all right?" She wanted to grab Li Bai's hand.

Li Bai immediately retracted his hand, took another half step, and raised his chin at her: "Is your brother here?"

"He... went out in the morning, and he doesn't usually live here," the little girl finally softened her attitude a little. "Today, I have an appointment to go home for dinner. It's his birthday. He should come back at two or three o'clock in the afternoon to help with cooking. It's time for dinner."

Li Bai glanced at his watch, there were still more than four hours.He glanced at the girl who was waiting for his reaction with round eyes, then turned and left.

Moved the rest day to this day, and Li Bai had already deducted 50 yuan from his salary. Now that the work has not been done, it is not worthwhile to run around.Dongcheng District is an unfamiliar place, so he hooked the paper bag on his little finger and dangled with himself, walked out of Fangjia Hutong, bought a potato shredded pancake with grilled sausage on the side of the road, and ate it while walking recklessly.

Passing by several alley entrances, several high walls shaded by big trees, and a vermilion drum tower, he walked to a large lake. Li Bai likes the shade of the tree.He finished eating his cakes in front of the trash can, and then sat on a clean stone pier in the shade, surrounded by uncles who brought their own ponytails to fish. The paper bag was held in his arms, and the phone sat very safely under his buttocks.He quickly closed his eyelids, people, cars, magpies and water... The world is still making strange sounds, but Li Bai has drifted away, and he doesn't know when he fell asleep.

He was woken up later.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Luo Ping'an's big face was in front of him, he took off his sunglasses and asked, "Why are you sleeping here? Are you finally homeless?"

Li Bai rubbed his eyes and looked at the dial. At 23:[-], he can leave.It was only when he got up that he realized that he had been curled up on the stone for so long, and every joint seemed uncomfortable. He looked around with a sore back and a sore back. The old Sijiu city in the afternoon had a hazy texture, and the light was fluffy, like a newly developed film. Sleepy Eye finally recognized the direction, and he began to return the same way.

"Where's your brother?" Luo Pingan followed him two steps and asked again.

"I don't know." Li Bai prevaricated casually.

"What's the fun thing in your hand?" Luo Ping'an called several flower shirts in the same company to wait on the spot holding the bicycle, but still didn't let him go, "Hold it like a bear."

"I don't know." The breeze was blowing, and Li Bai burst into tears as soon as he yawned. He thought it was wise for Yang Jian to never take a nap. Every time he woke up at this o'clock, he would be so sleepy that he doubted whether he could sleep in the afternoon or at night. Lose self-care ability.

"Hey, where are you going? I'll give you a ride, go home and tell your brother to invite me to dinner next time."

"I don't know." Li Bai still said that, looking at Luo Ping'an's newly permed hair, sympathizing with the hairdresser's failure in his heart.No matter what he says here, he doesn’t ask questions, and he clearly refuses to communicate. Luo Ping’an scolded, and took his flirtatious friends to pedal away. Li Bai also happily walked to the road, and turned according to his memory in the morning. After a few bends, I came back under the elm tree in Fangjia Hutong.

It was the round-faced girl who ran over to open the door. When she saw Li Bai, she turned around and yelled, "Brother—I'm looking for you!"

Li Bai didn't cross the threshold, but tiptoed to look into the courtyard. There was a shed in the east corner, which looked old, but still kept the lush vines firmly.Inside the green shade were a few iron pots and piles of unfinished vegetables. There was no one sitting on the bench, but voices came from the room, as if they were arguing.

The little girl was in a hurry, and she yelled again before someone answered her. It sounded like a middle-aged woman: "Zhao Chusheng, you are everywhere, and you will be a sophomore soon, go back to your room and do your homework!"

There was also a figure emerging from the dark doorway, and quickly approached the door.It was indeed that Zhao Weizong, wearing a purple round neck and short sleeves, but he looked quite refreshing.Li Bai met him a few times before, and last year when the weather was very cold, Yang Jian took him there to give him a warmth. The specific content of the warmth was - he came to help people cut their hair, he moved the scissors, and Yang Jian was right next to him Look with your hands behind your back and say something like "cutting the hair cuts the care".

I especially remember that at that moment, Zhao Weizong seemed to have been hit by some kind of huge blow, and his whole body was broken, with a kind of nervous sensitivity.

Now his complexion and spirit seem to have recovered, but his face was still dark one second, and he smiled like a flower and said "Hello" the next second, which still made Li Bai feel that his old wounds hadn't healed yet. good.

"Yang Yuqiu is sick, please ask me to give this to you," Li Bai handed out the paper bag with both hands, and said as if reciting lines, "Happy 21st birthday to you."

Zhao Weizong looked a little surprised, or rather embarrassed, he held the paper bag but did not open it, "Thank you, thank her for me when you go back, I'll accept it." After thinking for a while, he returned the bag again. In Li Bai's hand, "But I can't accept this."

That Zhao Chutai applauded immediately: "I knew it, brother, you are awesome!"

Zhao Weizong looked at Li Bai with a sincere expression: "It's too precious, I have to trouble you to take it back to your sister."

Li Bai tilted his head, "Aren't you going to take it apart and have a look?"

"Need not."

"Then how do you know how valuable it is?"

"It's not the value of the money," said Zhao Weizong, "it's other aspects. In short, I shouldn't accept it."

Li Bai couldn't help being disappointed, he had actually been waiting for him to open it, so that he could take a look at what was wrapped in the rather heavy kraft paper, and then compare it with the bag of gifts that Yang Yuqiu gave to Yang. Let's see which one is better.Now it seems that this is not going to work, Li Bai feels more and more that the 50 yuan deducted today is not worth it, and he is about to leave as in the morning, but Zhao Weizong seems to have suddenly remembered something, and said to wait a moment , and then held the phone, looked down and looked.

"There will be a class reunion in a while," he explained, "Yang Jian is not in the same high school class as me, but a group of people are very familiar with each other. I'll find out the address, and you can go back and ask your brother if he has time to visit." Two eyes."

"Okay." Li Bai replied, he really couldn't move anymore.

"Didn't you buy the train ticket in the morning?" Zhao Chutai asked suddenly, "Didn't you say that you will leave for Qinghai tomorrow?"

"It's still early for the party, and I'll probably be back by then," Zhao Weizong smiled, still lowering his head and not taking his eyes off, "You can hear me arguing with Mom."

"It's too far away, brother, do you have enough money? I also saved some New Year's money..."

"Don't worry, little girl." Zhao Weizong still smiled.

"Then can you really find brother Chunshui? Is he still there? Could it be that you won't come back on time if you find it?" Zhao Chutai lowered his voice and asked carefully.

"Who knows, I just want to see what keeps him there. It's fine if I can't find anyone..." Li Bai listened carefully to the words, and also carefully observed the expression of the person in front of him.He sees bitterness.Unwilling to mix.spring water?Meng Chunshui, he also thought of it together, a tall and thin handsome guy who is white and clean, always looks out of the sky, doesn't talk much, he is a classmate of the same department as Yang Jian, but the relationship seems to be closer to Zhao Weizong, almost Every time he met, he saw these two people mixed together, of course, this was in the past.He had indeed not seen this "Chunshui" show his face for a long time.

It seems to be gone, disappeared, could it be from last fall?The last whereabouts appeared in Qinghai?Maybe it's the high-achieving students of Peking University School of Physics who dropped out of school to herd sheep?So exaggerated, worthy of the newspaper.Anyway, Zhao Weizong is as out of his mind now as he was in late autumn.

In just a few seconds, Li Bai put together these impression fragments into some shapes, and Zhao Weizong finally found the text message, "August 23 at seven o'clock in the evening," he looked up at Li Bai, smiling apologetically, "Xidan Hanguang Remember to tell your brother to make time for the skating rink on the basement floor of the department store. Yang Jian likes skating, so definitely come."

A few minutes later, Li Bai walked to the entrance of the alley where he came, passing by Piaoxiang's burrito stand, and saw that the boss who was in charge of the spoon was replaced by the lady boss.He was a little wilted by the sun, shook the bag of "hot potatoes" in his hand, and hung up the phone for Yang Jian.

After 19 seconds, or twenty, Li Bai counted down, and the call was connected.

At the first sentence, he asked Yang Jian: "Brother, that Zhao Weizong, is he gay?"