Cappuccino Rhapsody

In S city in 1991, at the end of the alley of the old alley, some white paint graffiti was randomly painted on the gray-white buildings, the brand-new swing tied to the old locust tree at the door swayed up and down, and the sound of children playing and playing From one end of the alley to the other end of the alley.

Ling Jiangyuan was sitting at his red-painted wooden table, holding a pen in one hand, but looking at the old locust tree outside.

He was fascinated, until the little girl tapped the glass lightly with her fisted hand, and looked over to meet the sound, Bai Ying grinned with big white teeth and said, "Jiang Yuan, come out to play!"

Ling Jiangyuan rubbed his pen in embarrassment, and said, "I can't get out."

"Why can't you come out?!" Bai Ying said, "Aunt Jiang is not at home!"

"She locked the door." Ling Jiangyuan said, "I don't have the key."

Bai Ying foolishly bit her finger and said, "Ah, why did Aunt Jiang lock the door? Why didn't she let you out to play?"

This question was also the one I most wanted to ask Jiang Rong when I was a child.

He is different from everyone in this alley. He has no time to play, only endless homework and endless playing of the piano. Even though the summer heat makes him sweat all over his body and wet his clothes, he still can't stop.

This continues day after day, year after year.

In the evening, it was raining in the alley, and Bai Ying was called home by Uncle Yin to have dinner. The heavy rain caused the leaves of the pagoda tree to fall one by one. Jiang Rong also returned home with a tattered handbag and cooked in the kitchen. meal.Ling Jiangyuan secretly put down his pen, went out, and quietly sat on the swing amidst the thunder and raindrops.

He swayed gently, smiling contentedly and rolled his eyes.

Until Jiang Rong opened the door and saw him, she tore him off the swing and sent him back to study.

At ten o'clock in the evening, when the rainstorm stopped, Ling Jiangyuan woke up startled in his sleep. He heard the sound of arguing outside the window, the woman's shrill cry and the man's roar like a bell. Ling Jiangyuan got up from the bed in fear, wrapped in thin A summer quilt, seeing the moonlight pouring down and illuminating the whole alley.

The locust tree has been washed by the heavy rain, and the leaves are bright, shaking its branches.

But his swing was no longer there.

It was dismantled and thrown on the ground like an unwanted rag doll.

Bai Ying stood aside and cried, "My swing! Aunt Jiang is a bad aunt!"

Jiang Rong stepped hard on the swing with her high-heeled feet, Baiying's grandfather scolded the shrew, and Uncle Yin stood aside to fight, causing the whole alley to quarrel.

"What about playing with a child! I won't kill you!" The local dialect of S City caught my ears, but it made Jiang Rong go crazy. She picked up the broken swing on the ground and threw it on the locust tree. Throwing it, a large piece of leaves fell.

The leaves fell pattering down, as if a heavy rain had started again, and the thunder sounded little by little, and the sound gradually expanded in Ling Jiangyuan's ears, deafening.

Ling Jiangyuan suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness.

There was a flash of white light, he turned his head sideways, and saw the whole city suddenly lit up, and then, a muffled thunder sounded.

It's raining.

Ling Jiangyuan stood up, not to close the window, but stood on the balcony and lit a cigarette.

The pattering raindrops fell, like the small alleys of that year.

Later, the swing was changed to the yard of Bai Ying's house, and Uncle Yin helped her make a new one, but it was no longer the old one.

After Jiang Rong went to work the next day, Ling Jiangyuan opened the window, and could see the swing was reinstalled, but no children came to play on the swing again.

The children in the whole alley love to go to Baiying's house to play, and Ling Jiangyuan's only fun is also deprived. He can no longer see the children playing on the swing outside when he is doing homework.

His life seemed to have been fixed by Jiang Rong on a certain track since that moment, and he could only keep walking along this track without looking back.

But sometimes he also wants to go off the rails.But I can't do without it.

Jiang Rong loves him, and Ling Jiangyuan has always known it.

But her love is different from everyone else, and Ling Jiangyuan also knows it.

Ling Jiangyuan sat on the deck chair on the balcony, took out his mobile phone and played the song he recorded on Sheshan, turned the volume up to the loudest, and could faintly hear the very subtle breathing of Qi Xu, in this endless late night, it seemed Fill the hole in Ling Jiangyuan's heart a little bit.

He closed his eyes and let the smoke in his mouth continue to spread and burn to the end.

Until the silence and calm were broken by the sudden ringtone, Ling Jiangyuan lowered his head and glanced, it was an unfamiliar number.

He hesitated for a moment, and pressed the connection button. There was a faint sound of breathing, but no one spoke.

But for some reason, Ling Jiangyuan knew so clearly that the person calling was Qi Xu.

Ling Jiangyuan waited for a long time, but Qi Xu didn't speak.

Ling Jiangyuan sighed, and finally revealed the other party's identity: "Qi Xu?"

What greeted him was the "beep" sound of hanging up the phone.Ling Jiangyuan smiled helplessly, and dialed back, but it showed that the phone was turned off.

What a little fool.

Ling Jiangyuan stared at the strange number on the phone, and kept guessing in his mind, wondering who this number belongs to, is it his roommate?How does Qi Xu get along with his roommates?

Because of these strange thoughts in his mind, Ling Jiangyuan's suppressed emotions finally diluted a little.

He fell asleep on the balcony in a daze.

Qi Xu felt that he must be crazy.

Because only a crazy person would still be thinking about that person after he finished speaking cruelly.After Qi Xu turned off his roommate's cell phone, he sat on the bed silently for a long time.

The classmate in the opposite shop stood up and said in a daze, "Are you still asleep?"

"Well," Qi Xu nodded, "It's raining outside."

The classmate muttered a few words, then fell asleep again, but Qi Xu woke up, thinking that the sound of the rain on the other end of the phone was so clear just now, as if it was right next to his ears—that idiot Ling Jiangyuan wouldn't be blowing the wind on the balcony.I haven't had a cold yet.

Qi Xu moved his butt, and sighed resignedly.

Forget it.

Anyway, there was no quarrel this afternoon, and it wasn’t fun, so I went over to take a look and try to have a good time——

Thinking of this, Qi Xu quickly put on his pants, buckled his belt, and rushed out.

When Qi Xu came out, he forgot to bring an umbrella, and was drenched all the way, entered the living room and pressed the switch, only to find that there was no one in the living room.He tiptoedly glanced at the bedroom, but there was no one there.Qi Xu thought for a while, then pushed open the balcony door, and sure enough, he found some idiot lying on the recliner, still asleep.

Maybe it was a little cold, his body curled up into a ball, and the side of his face even turned red.

Qi Xu patted his head, he really had a fever.Qi Xu cursed a few words in his heart, he didn't bother to quarrel, so he stretched out his hand and hugged the other party.

When Ling Jiangyuan was touched by the cold and wet touch, he suddenly woke up, and was stunned for a moment when he saw Qi Xu: "...Xiao Xu?"

"Are you stupid/B!" Qi Xu scolded mercilessly, "It's so cold and still falling asleep outside, touching my head by myself, it looks like something is burning."

Ling Jiangyuan struggled to get off Qi Xu's body, sat on the sofa for a while, looked at Qi Xu's back looking for medicine, and realized that the other party's body was completely wet: "Did you shower?"

Qi Xu didn't speak.

"Go take a shower." Ling Jiangyuan forcefully said, "I'll get the medicine myself."

Qi Xu ignored him at all, pulled out all the drawers, took out the medicine, stuffed it into Ling Jiangyuan's mouth rudely, handed him a glass of water, and said coldly, "Drink."

He still looks angry.

Ling Jiangyuan let out a "hey", thinking that Qi Xu like this is very cute, so he took a medicine obediently, and said, "Go take a bath quickly." The hot water entered the belly, it was so warm that even the heart changed. It was warm.

Only then did Qi Xu casually take a piece of clothing into the bathroom, Ling Jiangyuan heaved a sigh of relief and closed his eyes.

When Ling Jiangyuan woke up in the middle of the night, the fever had subsided. He felt that something was pressing on his stomach. He panicked and opened his eyes. Qi Xu hugged him sideways, with his head resting on Qi Xu's arm. .

Ling Jiangyuan paused, then stretched out his arms to hug Qi Xu.Qi Xu seemed to realize something in his sleep, and hugged him a little tighter, muttering something in his mouth.

Ling Jiangyuan leaned closer to listen, and heard Qi Xu say: "It's not hot anymore..."

Qi Xu opened his eyes, his arms were empty and there was no one there.

He touched his head and patted it lightly a few times before he fully woke up.There was a piece of paper on the bedside table, which was left by Ling Jiangyuan.

"I have something to do at school, I'll take care of it. There is still porridge simmering in the kitchen, remember to drink it."

Qi Xu went to the kitchen and turned off the fire, brushed his teeth in a daze, and was stunned for a moment when he saw himself in the mirror.The clothes and trousers he took casually last night were all Ling Jiangyuan's, and the hem of the trousers was a bit long, which was a bit sloppy.

After finishing the porridge, Qi Xu felt completely awake.

The doorbell rang at this time.

Qi Xu opened the door: "I forgot to bring the key—" the words stopped, Qi Xu stood up straight, and looked at the woman in front of him.

Qi Roujun handed him the bag in his hand, walked a few steps forward, and said, "Do you have any shoes for me?"

"Wear mine." Qi Xu kicked out his shoes and put on Ling Jiangyuan's, "I wear Ling Jiangyuan's."

Qi Roujun's movements froze for a moment, but soon he let out an "um" and walked out pretending to be natural.

"Why are you here?" Qi Xu asked her.

Qi Roujun said: "Why do you say I'm here? The teacher called and said that you didn't go to school and there was no one in the dormitory. I told him that you were sick last night and I picked you up overnight. Of course I have to come over today to see what's going on. what's the situation."

Qi Xu: "Oh, have you eaten yet?"

"No." Qi Roujun looked around, not letting go of any corner.

Qi Xu said: "Then sit down, I'll serve you some porridge. It should still be hot." He went into the kitchen as he spoke, and left Qi Roujun alone.

When he came out, Qi Xu glanced at the living room first, but didn't see anyone, so he turned his head to look for Mr. Qi Rou, and finally saw Mr. Qi Rou at the door of the bedroom.

Qi Xu and Ling Jiangyuan were the only two people in the family, and they never had any scruples.

The bed hadn't been made yet, and the two pillows were next to each other. Qi Roujun turned his head and glanced at him, scanning from top to bottom, and said with sharp eyes: "The clothes are not your own."

"Yeah." Qi Xuhun didn't care, "Ling Jiangyuan's."

Qi Roujun said with certainty: "You two slept together yesterday."

Qi Xu didn't hide it: "Yes."

Qi Roujun trembled all over, took a deep breath, but still couldn't hide the slight tremor in her voice, she said word by word: "Xiao Xu, what are you doing?"