Yan Ran wanted to go to the airport to pick up Xiao Zichong, but he didn't have a car, so he had to take a taxi to pick him up. If he took a taxi, Xiao Zichong might have to wait there for nothing when he arrived. After comprehensive consideration , Yan Ran had no choice but to say to Xiao Zichong, "You can take a taxi to my house, okay?"

Xiao Zichong naturally wouldn't refuse, he originally wanted to go to Yan Ran's house to see him, everything else was trivial.

Yan Ran sent Xiao Zichong the location of his home on WeChat, and when Xiao Zichong got on the taxi, Yan Ran asked him, "What do you want to eat? There are a lot of food around my house, hot pot? Skewers? Bobo chicken? There are also Chaoshan beef hot pot, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Northeast cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Korean barbecue, Japanese cuisine..."

Xiao Zichong could hear the nervousness in Yan Ran's tone of pretending to be calm, so he said, "I've already eaten the plane meal, and I don't really want to eat these things. Can I go to your house for some porridge?"

As soon as Yan Ran called Xiao Zichong, his mind was basically muddled, and he didn't find the inconsistency in Xiao Zichong's words at all. Xiao Zichong originally came to ask him out for dinner, but now he said that he wanted to hang out at Yan Ran's house casually. Isn't it strange to have some porridge?

But Yan Ran didn't think about this strangeness at all, instead he was excited and moved, thinking that Xiao Zichong is coming to my house, oh my god, he actually wants to come to my house.

Yan Ran immediately said, "Okay, I'll cook some porridge for you. You want vegetable porridge, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, millet porridge, or egg porridge..."

Xiao Zichong "..."

Xiao Zichong remembered that Yan Ran didn't know how to cook so many kinds of porridge in the past, did he actually develop his cooking skills?But considering Yan Ran's character of always being gentle and caring for others, it is very reasonable for him to learn cooking skills to take care of the family because he has a girlfriend.

Xiao Zichong suddenly became less happy, and felt depressed for a while, he said, "Is there no one else in your family now?"

If Yan Ran's girlfriend or fiancée lived with him, then Xiao Zichong would not want to go to Yan Ran's house. He still doesn't have the sense and mood to face Yan Ran's other half normally.

Yan Ran didn't think about it that much, he thought that Xiao Zichong was referring to him or he was still renting with someone else, or maybe his parents were here.

The last time Yan Ran and Xiao Zichong had a dinner date in City S, Yan Ran was still renting a house with two other people. Xiao Zichong didn't mind at that time, but if he was with his parents, Yan Ran would naturally know , Xiao Zichong doesn't like his parents very much, and there's nothing he can do about it. In the past, his father and Xiao Zichong's mother had a competitive relationship. If the elders are unhappy, the relationship between the children will hardly not be affected.

Yan Ran said, "Did I forget to tell you, I live alone now. This is a new house my parents bought for me. They only have time to visit on weekends, and they don't usually come."

Xiao Zichong was relieved when he heard that he lived alone.

Xiao Zichong said, "Just white rice porridge will do."

Yan Ran said, "Okay then. We have our company's new product at home, which is authentic Harbin new rice, and it's good for making porridge." He bought several hundred catties of the company's new rice before, and gave some to his uncles, aunts and other relatives. When my parents drove to S City, they also let the two take some away, and I only kept a little bit, because he seldom cooks at home.

Yan Ran hurried to cook the rice porridge with the rice cooker, and checked the house again. This is a house with three bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen and one bathroom. Yan Ran only has one day off on weekends every week. He also has to work overtime, but as long as he is on vacation, he will clean up, so the house is actually quite clean and tidy, but thinking that Xiao Zichong used to be a bit of a clean freak, and worried that he would dislike him, Yan Ran hurried to clean the bathroom again again.

As soon as the bathroom was cleaned, the phone rang again. It was Xiao Zichong who took a taxi to the gate of the community.

Yan Ran was wearing pajamas, and it was too late to change, so he took the keys and ran out of the house to pick up Xiao Zichong at the gate of the community.

Xiao Zichong didn't think too much about the winter cold in City S, he only wore a shirt and a thin woolen vest, and a thin windbreaker outside. Standing at the gate of the ventilation area, the cold wind greeted him, He immediately felt the cruelty of the cold air in S City.

Yan Ran ran over, and when he saw him, Xiao Zichong couldn't help but feel something, so he pulled Xiao Zichong's small suitcase.

Yan Ran didn't wear a coat and was too cold, so he sniffed and called him in a panic, "Let's go!"

Xiao Zichong "..."

She had no romantic feelings at all, and was taken home by Yan Ran.

After entering the house, Yan Ran asked Xiao Zichong to sit on the sofa by himself, and he ran into the kitchen to see if the porridge was ready, but the porridge was not ready.

When Yan Ran lived by himself, he was reluctant to turn on the air conditioner at home, because Xiao Zichong was coming, and he just turned on the air conditioner.

Xiao Zichong saw that Yan Ran was like a busy honey worker bee. After he was stunned for a moment, he almost recovered the feeling of getting along with Yan Ran when he was a child, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Xiao Zichong lost his aura of male god Gao Leng, and looked at the living room of Yan Ran's house. The second-hand house bought by Yan Ran's house, the original owner of this house was just for general decoration, and Yan Ran did not buy the house again. To renovate it, I just put a wallpaper and bought some furniture. It looks very simple and simple, but it is very clean and tidy. Because it has no characteristics, I can't see that it has any feeling that Yan Ran has.

Xiao Zichong went to the kitchen wearing slippers. Yan Ran was stirring the porridge in the rice cooker. When he turned his head and saw Xiao Zichong standing at the door of the kitchen, he was startled, a little embarrassed, and said, "There are probably 10 minutes left." That's good."

Xiao Zichong's restless, sad, and even jealous heart of a certain woman was soothed for a while. While looking at Yan Ran calmly, he smiled softly, "It's okay, I'm not in a hurry to eat."

Don't look at Xiao Zichong acting very gentle, but Yan Ran, an emotional creature with a very strong sixth sense, has already noticed the hidden momentum and scrutiny under Xiao Zichong's gentle appearance, as if he was facing a sudden escape. Like the big boss of the company who came to the department to talk to him, Yan Ran felt nervous and excited and had to use his brain to guess the purpose of the other party.

Yan Ran and Xiao Zichong have rarely seen each other since they went to college.

When Yan Ran was in his third year of high school, Xiao Zichong had already gone to Beijing to attend university.

At that time, Yan Ran felt that his father used disgraceful means to punish Xiao Zichong's mother, and within three years she could neither be promoted nor promoted to a position. Yan Ran felt very ashamed and felt ashamed to face Xiao Zichong and Xiao Zichong's parents, so he doesn't talk to his parents at home, and he doesn't contact Xiao Zichong outside.

And Xiao Zichong was just entering school at that time, and he naturally felt novelty about everything when he first entered the university, and he was under a lot of academic pressure. He not only took the second college, but also joined the tutor's research group to do projects, and joined the club to do club work. In addition, After that, I applied for an exchange program abroad, and my daily schedule was so full that I didn't have much time to contact Yan Ran.

Of course, at the very beginning, he did vent his anger on Yan Ran, but the time for venting his anger was only more than ten days, and then he felt that he was wrong, and felt ashamed of it. At home, he also thought about having a good talk with Yan Ran, But at that time, Yan Ran was in the third year of high school, so he had to study hard and not allow himself to make him feel ups and downs. At that time, his mother had been ill for a long time. After his mother recovered from her illness, the family arranged another trip abroad. I should have a good talk with Yan Ran about this matter and put it down.He didn't talk to Yan Ran until he went to college.

When Xiao Zichong was in his sophomore year and Yan Ran was in his freshman year, there was a big earthquake in his hometown. When he got the news, Xiao Zichong was participating in an event at K City University. He hurriedly called home, but at that time the communication Has been cut off, can not get through the phone.He called Yan Ran's cell phone to ask about the situation. This was the first time he contacted Yan Ran.

Yan Ran didn't tell Xiao Zichong his mobile phone number in City S, but Xiao Zichong always has various ways to know everything about him, so the mobile phone number is naturally not a problem.

Yan Ran’s university was also strongly affected by the earthquake. That day, when he was studying in the teaching building, he felt the strong earthquake suddenly. Everything was shaking violently. He felt that the building would collapse in an instant. He never He ran out of the teaching building and called home in a panic, but he couldn't get through. He called his relatives at home again, because everyone was calling, so no one could get through. He was so anxious that he wanted to take a taxi to his uncle's house, but because there were too many cars on the road, there were traffic jams everywhere, so he had to go back to school. Fortunately, after more than two hours, he got in touch with most of his relatives' homes.

In the constant aftershocks, when they learned the magnitude of the earthquake, where the epicenter was, and what the epicenter might be like, almost everyone was strangled by great sadness.

In the city where Yan Ran’s hometown is located, because it was close to the epicenter, a county was severely affected. On the afternoon of the earthquake, his second uncle was ordered to take people to rescue the disaster. His father and Xiao Zichong’s mother also entered the earthquake that night. I went to check the situation in the hardest-hit areas. His mother and Xiao Zichong's father were busy organizing the transfer of students because they were in the education system. Everyone was very busy. Fortunately, no one died in the earthquake at that time, but they kept The coming aftershocks put everyone in the quake zone in great danger.Yan Ran was terrified all the time.

Grandma Yan was frightened at the time of the earthquake, but she was very stubborn afterwards. The county town of Yan’s hometown was very close to the epicenter, so the disaster was particularly severe. Landslides caused countless houses to collapse. Many people died in the earthquake, and communication and transportation were cut off. Under such circumstances, Grandma Yan wanted to go back to Yan’s hometown to check the situation, at least to see if the cemetery of the old Yan’s family was destroyed. She said that she closed her eyes and dreamed that her ancestors and Grandpa Yan Ran were dead outside.

During this period, even the living are in danger, but grandma is thinking about the dead, but everyone in the family is doing disaster relief, and it is difficult to communicate after entering the disaster area. There is no one to take care of this old man. It was only then that the old man was prevented from running back to the county seat by himself.

After Yan Ran learned of the situation, he was entrusted by his uncle who was going to organize disaster relief the next day, and went back to the city late that night to carry his grandmother out of the city, which had been in the strong aftershocks, because the roads were all blocked. In the later period, private vehicles were not allowed to enter. Aunt Du was concerned about her hometown, and relatives and family members died in her hometown, so she left Yan Ran's house and returned to her hometown.Yan Ran had to forcefully bring grandma back to her uncle's house in S City alone.At that time, except for him, everyone else in the family went to rescue the disaster. He was completely helpless. In addition, his school had a large number of students in the province, and many classmates suffered from this natural disaster. People in the village were in panic, and some students ran back to their homes in the disaster area to check the situation. After leaving school, the situation was unknown. No one could tell Yan Ran's panic and pain. Every day, he was afraid that his family members would die during the disaster relief process.

Xiao Zichong himself failed to contact his parents. Although he took the initiative to contact Yan Ran, he also failed to get through to Yan Ran's phone.

In the middle of the night, he received a call from his father. His father said that none of the relatives in the family died in the earthquake. His mother went to the disaster area for disaster relief. Going to live in Hainan... I described the situation of my relatives at home. Xiao's father is very busy, and communication is inconvenient. He said that it will delay other people's communication for too long, so Xiao Zichong who wants to go home must not go home and cause trouble. Then hung up the phone.

Xiao Zichong was very anxious, and finally got through to Yan Ran's phone call the next afternoon.

Yan Ran hadn’t slept for dozens of hours at the time, and he took his grandma to his uncle’s house, but S city was still affected by aftershocks every day, and people in the city were in panic, so his aunt was going to send grandma to Hangzhou, and originally wanted Yan Ran to go with her Hangzhou, but Yan Ran refused.He is the deputy monitor of the class. He sent his grandma to his uncle's house, and he went back to school. The school has already reacted by this time and has a whole set of plans to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake.According to the requirements of the school, Yan Ran has to cooperate with the counselor to count and manage each student, and does not allow the incompetent students to return to their hometown in the disaster area.Of course, these students are not idle, and later they organized students to carry out disaster relief. Some of them went to the less severely affected areas for disaster relief, and some went to airports and other places to deal with logistical affairs. very busy.

Yan Ran was so busy that the sky was dark, but he was not so scared. The first time he received the call from Xiao Zichong, Xiao Zichong didn't speak first, but for some reason, Yan Ran listened to the very light breath coming from the other side of the phone. With a clear voice, he had a tacit understanding, so he called out the name "Xiao Zichong?"

Xiao Zichong's heart settled down, "Yan Ran, are you okay?"

Yan Ran thought that I was not well at all, I was afraid and tired, but she said, "I'm fine, and my family is fine for the time being. How is your family? Have you contacted your parents? My mother said that your mother and I Dad has gone into the mountains."

At this time, it is impossible to exchange heartfelt feelings. Xiao Zichong said, "I got in touch with my dad. He told me about the situation at home and said that there are no casualties in my home. It's just that the furniture and things in the house were damaged by the earthquake." It collapsed, and the house also had cracks. My house is on the top floor, and it has been raining and leaking recently, so I can’t live in it. He told me not to go home.”

Yan Ran knew that many people who were in other places ran home, so he quickly said, "Mr. Xiao is right. You must not come back recently. It won't help you at all, but it will cause a lot of trouble. The government and many people have nothing to do. Disaster relief experience, there are people and cars everywhere, it’s extremely chaotic. It’s useless to come back alone, but you have to eat and drink.”

Xiao Zichong also realized the problem, and asked, "Where are you? Are you in City S or City?"

Yan Ran: "I'm at a school in City S. I went back to the city last night to pick up my grandma. I won't be going back to the city anytime soon, and I won't be able to help if I go back. Our school is organizing disaster relief within its capacity. We must organize People are moving supplies, and I'll be there soon. Don't worry, this kind of natural disaster, worrying is useless, just do your own thing well."

After hanging up the phone with Yan Ran, Xiao Zichong realized that Yan Ran had grown into an adult who could take care of things by himself in the two years since he was separated from him. In fact, Yan Ran has always been very good. Do something better than yourself.

For a period of time after that, Xiao Zichong would call Yan Ran every day, and each time he only talked for a minute or two. Xiao Zichong didn't talk about his own situation, but asked about Yan Ran's situation, and Yan Ran also reported the good news. Don't report any worries. Later, both of them entered the final exam stage, so they stopped calling.

After another period of time, about a month or so, Xiao Zichong's mother, Wu Lan, returned to the city from the disaster area, and was able to talk with Xiao Zichong on the phone, and then told Xiao Zichong, "When Yan Ran's second uncle was doing disaster relief, Sacrifice."

Xiao Zichong was very surprised because Yan Ran didn't tell him about it.In Xiao Zichong's heart, Yan Ran's second uncle is probably one of Yan Ran's most respected elders. Anyway, Yan Ran rarely talks about his father, but often talks about his second uncle.

Yan Ran must be very sad.

Wu Lan said, "I was buried by falling rocks during the aftershocks. Alas. When the aftershocks came, I saw the rocks falling down, and everyone ran to higher places. Unless you are lucky, no one can run. Those The young soldier doll is younger than you. He has nothing to eat. He is still doing disaster relief work. He just dug out some rocks. After the aftershock came, he was buried again. He didn’t have any tears when he cried, what a pity..."

In Wu Lan's words, in the face of such a natural disaster, one person's death doesn't seem so unacceptable.She said that she was in the disaster area, and she always knew that she might also be buried under the stone, and human power could not resist.

Xiao Zichong felt heartbroken when he heard it, and thought again, Yan Ran didn't tell me about his second uncle, such a big thing, so sad, he didn't want to tell me?Is I just a very ordinary friend in his heart?

Xiao Zichong was in pain for Yan Ran, and at the same time mourned for himself.

He found that as time passed and he and Yan Ran separated, both of them became people with other circles of friends, and the other party was just a "friend from high school", that's all.

Of course, such tiny personal feelings are nothing compared to the disasters his mother talked about.

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