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At about 11:30, Yang Jian rode a three-wheeled motorcycle in the rubble-filled wasteland on one side of the bungalow. In the truck was a bundle of double-layer glass panels, several tools such as welding torches and chainsaws, and a large number of tools such as hollow There are metal parts such as steel rods and load-bearing nails, and a folding ladder is placed under the tricycle seat where the feet step.

The load capacity of this small car made one suspect that it would be crushed and shut down halfway, but Yang Jian drove it with a rumbling sound, freely drilled among the stone piles, and finally stopped in front of Li Bai's door full of dust.

"It'll be ready soon!" Li Bai was still cooking, the gas tank was placed outside the door, and a simple stove hole was installed on the top, and the pot on top was his kitchen. Half squatting and flipping the spatula, "What time did you leave?"

"It's not dawn yet." Yang Jian walked past him, and drank up the glass of water placed on the window sill to bask in the sun as soon as he entered the room.

"Hey," Li Bai probed by the door, "It hasn't soaked yet, you don't think it's too hot!"

Yang Jian looked at the curled tea leaves at the bottom of the cup, it was black and green, and he knew it wasn't good tea just by tasting it, but Li Bai really put in a lot of it, covering the entire bottom of the cup.He picked up the thermos bottle from the corner and filled the cup again. Yang Jian got out of the room and said, "It's better to die of thirst than not drinking any water all morning."

Li Bai saw that he was still breathing after being burned, so he lowered his head and pursed his lips into a smile.Three dishes were fried, cucumber diced chicken, garlic cabbage, and tomato scrambled eggs. There is no refrigerator at home, and Li Bai went to the vegetable market to buy the dishes.

To a certain extent, Yang Jian is the same as him. He has no tools at home, and the ladder and electric drill are also borrowed from the building materials market, and they have to be returned when they are used up.This made Li Bai admire. Although they were worn out, they were not worthless after all. The boss really assured Yang Jian that he lent them to him so generously without even detaining his student ID card.It can only be said that Yang Jian has specialties in attracting people's likes and bloggers' trust?After the meal, Li Bai put the washed bowls and chopsticks in a big iron pot and carried them back from the water room. He looked at the man who climbed up to the roof to measure the size from a distance, and imagined his appearance when he announced his home in front of the boss to explain his intentions.

In Li Bai's prediction, it would take at least a day or two to repair the roof, but Yang Jian actually said that he planned to spend only one afternoon. As for the reason, he felt comfortable sleeping at home.Li Bai was skeptical and a little frustrated, but there was nothing he could do. He pulled him to help. When Yang Jian was building the skeleton on the ladder, he would press the steel rods underneath;The gap was about five square meters in size, and the two of them covered it with a glass shed that covered half of the roof.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening.

"The sun can see through to the bottom." Li Bai cleaned up the slag of building materials that fell in the house, and said with his head up, "It used to be only a small window the size of a palm, but now the lighting can finally be better."

"That's why we need to use glass." Yang Jian sat on the small bench beside the bed, was a little too tired to move, so he lit a cigarette to refresh himself, staring at the light bulb in the center of the ceiling in a daze.

"Is it strong?" Li Bai took out the trash, then stood in front of him and asked, "Will it collapse again someday?"

"No, double-layer high-strength glass can block hail, unless there is a meteorite. The theoretical risk is that it may leak after a long time." Yang Jian leaned on the mattress behind him, "Who knows that the house will be demolished in a few years Don’t take it apart, let’s talk about it when it’s leaked.”

Li Bai smiled, Yang Jian looked at it quite openly, but when he looked back at himself, he suddenly felt that there was really nothing to worry about.If there is another snowfall, he can still see the whiteness that is suppressed at the bottom, through the very faint sunlight, just like being at the bottom of a frozen lake.He sat down on the edge of the bed next to Yang Jian, and said, "How much did you pay for these?"

Yang Jian raised his face and said seriously: "What about labor costs?"

He almost fell into Li Bai's hands, or leaned against his knees and thighs. Li Bai lowered his eyes and stiffened his neck stupidly. He could even see the red blood in the inner corner of his eyes clearly. He raised his voice and said: "Then, how much does it cost in total?"

"Haha," Yang Jian stood up suddenly, not feeling tired at all, and rubbed Li Bai's head with his hand that had never held a cigarette, "Let's talk about it when you find a job."

"Tomorrow will be the first day you owe money, and there will be no interest, but you have to listen to me. Help me return the car and things in the morning. I have already written the address and put it under the electric drill," Yang Jian left after speaking. When he got to the door, "I'm going home first, you pack up what you want to bring before coming here."

He grabbed the doorknob, only to find that the door couldn't be pushed open.

He looked back at Li Bai.

"...I just came back from taking out the trash and locked it out of the habit." Li Bai squeezed the key in his coat pocket, gathered strength on his knees, but couldn't stand up, "The lock on this door is broken, you can only use it with a keyhole." the one."

Yang Jian didn't answer, and put out the cigarette butt on the door frame, which meant that he was waiting for Li Bai to come and open the door.

"Why don't you go back tonight? You still have to run to catch the last bus. You can squeeze me to sleep on the floor if you're afraid." Li Bai said again, asking a little eagerly, "Let's return the car together tomorrow, and then go over together, okay?"

"Why?" Yang Jian smiled, "You don't want to sleep alone?"

"No!" Li Bai said immediately, his face was very hot, and he knew that his face was blushing. Looking at Yang Jian, he also knew that the man was waiting for him to explain why, but he just couldn't say a word. Come out, because he doesn't understand himself, and he's in that state of uncontrollable behavior again, just constantly, constantly thinking, as long as I hold this key, this person will not go away.can stay with me.

"Hurry up, be obedient when you owe money." Yang Jian knocked on the door.

"Isn't it starting from tomorrow?" Li Bai said eagerly, as if he was trying his best, he just didn't move.

Yang Jian waited for him for another half a minute, but he didn't get angry. He just let out a "tsk", opened the sliding window next to him, put his hands on it, and turned directly out of the small window. His movements were so neat that even a long down jacket Not hooked by the catch on the window sill.Li Bai heard the sound of him falling to the ground, muffled, as if he had stepped on the snow piled outside the house, his body stiffened for a few seconds, Li Bai ran over and leaned out the window to look, the wall under the window was indeed in a mess, and Yang Jian was carrying a The schoolbag is running wildly and has already run away.

Seventeen past ten.Li Bai looked at his watch that was two minutes fast, closed the window, and sat back on the bench beside the bed.The last bus to Zhongguancun is at 2:10, and he wondered if he could catch it, he thought silently.The smell of smoke hadn't dissipated yet, and Yang Jian's lighter had still left on the bed, but Li Bai was indeed the only one left in the room.He hesitated for a while, and finally put it next to his pillow, took cold boiled water, took antipyretics, washed up, and then opened the outdated English newspaper for middle school students bought at a discount at the newsstand, and read it for a while, half understanding, and soon fell asleep.

In the afternoon of the next day, when Li Bai carried his meager luggage, a bag of apples and three catties of pig's feet snapped up at the supermarket, he climbed up the nine floors and knocked on the door of Yang's house, it was Yang Yuqiu who opened the door.

"You're exhausted, Xiaobai, come in quickly." She put on a mask and wore messy plastic hair curlers, beckoning Yang to come over and pick up things.Yang Jian's hair is also quite messy, with one corner sticking up from the curls, and the high collar of the black sweater has not been adjusted, and the hair on the back of the neck is pushed up. His eyes are lazy, as if he just woke up.

He took the luggage and trotters from Li Bai, walked first to his bedroom, then to the refrigerator in the kitchen, and settled them down one by one. Li Bai followed behind him with the bag of red Fuji in his arms.

"I returned everything. The boss is very nice and said that if there is a quality problem in the future, he will replace it for me."

"Ah."

After closing the refrigerator door, Li Bai took out the fruit-green lighter from his pocket, lowered his head and said, "I'll give it back to you."

Yang Jian raised his eyebrows, and took the "goose feather" that was sent away from thousands of miles away.To be honest, he still has a bunch of them in his drawer, but he said "thank you".

He goes to his bedroom.

Li Bai continued to follow behind him, saying to him, "I'm sorry last night."

"It's okay, I caught up with the car later," Yang Jian said simply, "Okay, don't be unhappy, we live in the same room during this time, we have to live in harmony."

"Didn't I sleep on the sofa?"

"I have a hammock, and a 1.5-meter-wide wooden bed." Yang cut his body, held Li Bai's shoulders on both sides, and dragged him to visit in front of him. "Which one do you choose?"

After all, it is a child's heart, and Li Bai didn't bother to observe words and expressions, and asked Yang Jian which one do you like to sleep on? He couldn't move his eyes when he saw the hammock. He wraps it tightly.He kicked off the slippers decisively, threw himself on them with a pounce.

Yang Jian said OK, helped him carry the luggage under the hammock, then rubbed the back of his head and walked outside the house, "Sister, wash me an apple!"

"Wait a minute," Li Bai called him, shaking a carrot pillow in his arms, "You have some self-made rolls. Does the pinch on the top of your head often fail to hold down, so you can only wash it?"

Yang Jian turned around and nodded.

"I have a solution, just let me do it." Li Bai hurriedly jumped down, the hammock bounced, and he almost fell to the ground.

He soon discovered that this was not an accidental embarrassment. Sleeping on such a bed and rocking it was really fun, but for a clumsy unskilled worker like him, there seemed to be a lot of potential risks.Be careful not to mention it every time you go up and down, this hammock is more difficult to deal with than Yang's hard and thick hair. On the third night he slept, he didn't know whether he was rolling too hard in his dream or touched some switch. The shawl closed his mouth directly, and wrapped him up with the quilt and pillow, only revealing a waist and a hand next to his waist.

If he had been taller and stronger, he might not have been able to cover it, but Li Bai was a bean sprout, so it was good, he looked like a silkworm chrysalis, but he was awakened from boredom, and Ye Gong became terrified.

"Brother...brother!" he called softly, "help me!"

After yelling for about 2 minutes, the light flicked on and shone into the eyes through the orange tarpaulin. The sound of reassuring footsteps came to him, and Li Bai stopped twisting.

"You're so stupid." Yang Jian said helplessly, patted the back of his exposed hand to comfort him, lowered the height of the hammock, and peeled off his weirdly shaped rice dumpling.

Lifting his eyes and seeing those tired eyes, Li Bai felt a great grievance inexplicably.The day before yesterday, he used it as a baby's hammock, and now he doesn't want to sleep anymore. He wanted to squeeze with Yang Jian, but the man didn't feel disgusted, and let him hug the quilt and curl up next to him.When he woke up the next day, he still didn't feel disgusted. Except that Yang Jian would occasionally squeeze Li Bai to the side of the bed when he was fast asleep, making him almost roll off the bed.

Before New Year's Eve, Yang Yuqiu went to the nearby morning market twice to buy New Year's goods, and he asked Li Bai to accompany him to pick radishes and vegetables, and then watched people kill chickens and fish.Li Bai still maintains self-awareness, always looking for opportunities to pay with his own change, and every time he goes out, he will use the splint he brought to make different beautiful hairstyles for his sister.They also went shopping in Wangfujing, and they all put on their favorite clothes, only Yang Jian was still in a hoodie and jeans, and he lacked interest.He usually stays at home and can’t walk a hundred steps a day. It seems that a year of study and part-time work has exhausted his energy. If he relaxes a bit, he can no longer lift his energy. He is forced to accompany him to the shopping mall. He is mainly responsible for carrying bags for his sister. And ask the three of them to eat ice cream.Yang Yuqiu said that buying summer clothes in winter is cheap, so he bought three brand-name dresses for himself at half the price, and picked out an off-white down jacket that was only [-]% off. He insisted on giving it to Li Bai as a gift, but Yang Jian didn't care. , I only bought two books for myself when I passed the Xidan Book Building.

Li Bai found out that the two siblings spent money completely separately.The three of them ate out together, and they didn't let him pay, and the two invited them in turn.

He also looked at the covers of Yang Jian's two books, one about integrated circuit design and the other about software programming. CD.

After returning home, Yang Jian really started to teach himself. The first thing he opened was the software. He crackled at the old computer in the bedroom every day without any other distractions. Duty, Yang Jian only stayed in the living room for more than ten minutes, ate two pieces of oranges, and watched a piece of Feng Gong's sketch.

"It's boring." Li Bai came into the house to deliver dumplings and asked him why he didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala, Yang Jian replied like this.

"You love studying too much, you've been sitting here for a whole day," Li Bai put the vinegar dish next to the mouse pad, "Don't you major in physics?"

"I can't find a job in optical physics, and the computer will be the focus in the next ten years." Yang Jian sketched the book without squinting. "Learn a little during the winter vacation, and you can ask the teachers in the Department of Soft Microelectronics when you start school."

Li Bai was in awe.

He went back to the sofa and watched two or three sketches, five or six songs and dances, and when he went to collect the dishes, Yang Jian had already eaten the dozen or so mutton dumplings cleanly, and fell asleep lying on the desk.Li Bai approached on tiptoe, put a coat on him, and picked up the dishes. At this moment, the computer went into sleep mode, and the Windows logo flashed on the black screen and moved around the four corners of the screen.

Thinking that he was in a small Internet cafe, with such a computer and system, only diving in the Internet chat room, or wandering around in the messy forum, Li Bai couldn't help sighing that the top students are more handsome.He moved out of the bedroom, looked back, and was about to share his feelings with Yang Yuqiu, but saw the door was open, and a well-dressed man was standing on the floor mat, stepping on a pair of brand new cotton slippers, and Yang Yuqiu stood up. , just put his leather shoes neatly.

"Come on, let me introduce you," she said generously, pinning her hair behind her ears, "This is my youngest brother, just call him Xiaobai, Xiaobai, this is Brother Gao, my friend."

Li Bai shook hands with that person a little cautiously. He hadn't done such a formal way of greeting a few times.

The man wore a few rings on his hands, including gold and jade, and his skin was rough and hard to hold. He was very kind, "Where's brother Yang?" , he began to look around again.

"He's asleep, don't worry about him." Yang Yuqiu said, and then the two of them entered the room dedicated to the gods and closed the door.

Li Bai ran back to the bedroom, only to see that Yang Jian had already woken up, staring straight at the sleeping computer, with his hands folded on the edge of the table.Seeing him entering the room, Yang Jian didn't say much, and didn't go out to say hello, but asked Li Bai to turn off the TV, leave a small light outside, and then come back and close the door to sleep.

"I haven't brushed my teeth, and you haven't—"

Yang Jian took a long breath, left the bedroom, and finished washing with him quietly and quickly.Before falling asleep, Li Bai listened to the sound of fireworks and firecrackers outside the house, as well as the slight breathing by his side, and always felt that this person was in a bad mood, the kind of irritability he had never seen before.

Sure enough, the next morning, before eight o'clock, he was woken up by Yang Jian fiercely, "I'm going out today," Yang Jian leaned over the head of the bed, and frowned against his messy hair Looking at him, "Hurry up if you want to come with me."

"Where are you going?" Li Bai rubbed his eyes, still a little sleepy.

Yang Jian didn't answer, he lifted up his T-shirt and began to change clothes. Li Bai suddenly became alert, got up and began to put on his pants.When he stepped on his slippers and followed Yang Jian out of the bedroom, he saw the door of the master bedroom across the corridor.

Usually Yang Yuqiu would leave a gap, saying that he was afraid of boredom, and he would have nightmares at night when he locked it tightly.

Now there was a deafening snoring from the closed door.

Li Bai subconsciously turned his head to look, and the pair of leather shoes were still neatly placed in the entrance hall.