old age

After going home from evening self-study, Ji Kaiyang received a text message from Yi Chen, asking if he could call him.Ji Kaiyang thought for a while and tried to call, but Yi Chen's tone was still very natural, knowing that he didn't talk too much at home, and didn't mention anything about waiting for him all afternoon today.

"Don't come next week, I will call you." Ji Kaiyang couldn't hold back after saying goodbye.

Yi Chen paused for a second, then laughed again, "Then don't forget."

"Can you finish listening..."

"I miss you very much." Yi Chen interrupted him involuntarily, his voice could not be heard clearly through the phone, "Good night."

Yi Chen still waits at the school gate every Sunday afternoon. When the weather is good, he takes a vocabulary book to memorize, and when it rains, he takes an umbrella and waits.Ji Kaiyang was also forced to move the location of his self-study to the attic of the milk tea shop.

It's going to kill me.Ji Kaiyang turned his pen and looked out the window, why is he so stubborn now?

The sky is getting darker and earlier, like thick ink scattered.Ji Kaiyang watched Yi Chen turn and leave again and again, his whole body seemed to blend with Mo Se, into the boundless darkness.

Ji Kaiyang thought that he would become numb after a long time, but he didn't.Cutting the flesh with a sharp knife immediately bleeds, but cutting the flesh with a blunt knife is more painful, seeping out from the bottom of his heart little by little, making him wake up in countless nights, with Yi Chen's lonely and lonely back in front of him.

Such days continued until the end of the period.Students in the third year of high school are already accustomed to the exam, and after the exam, there will be two weeks of make-up classes, so the end of the semester does not seem so special.

But on the first weekend of the winter vacation tuition, Yi Chen didn't show up.

There is no holiday in No. [-] Middle School, or have you finally given up?

Ji Kaiyang remembered calling Yi Chen two days ago. He vaguely mentioned the tutoring arrangement of No. [-] Middle School. It was the same as usual in class, and his tone was the same, not even the concluding remarks.

At three o'clock, Yi Chen still didn't show up. The faint worry in Ji Kaiyang's heart was magnified infinitely in the unconscious waiting. Don't tell me something happened?

Ji Kaiyang's mobile phone was left at home, and he borrowed the mobile phone from the milk tea shop to call Yi Chen, but no one answered.He called Zou Ziheng again to confirm that No. [-] Middle School did not have class this afternoon, and asked Zou Ziheng to contact Yi Chen's roommate, but he heard that he seemed to have asked for leave to go home and did not come to school in the morning.

"Thank you." Ji Kai Yang said.

"Hey." Zou Ziheng hung up the phone and remembered something again, "Well, Yi Chen seems to have failed the final exam."

"Did you fail the exam?"

"Anyway, I didn't see his name in the top [-] of liberal arts on the red list. I don't know if it's not a class."

"Okay, I got it." Ji Kaiyang said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Did you fail the exam?

Ji Kaiyang hung up the phone and tapped the bar with his fingers.His grades have always been stable. Since he transferred to another school, even though he has experienced so many things recently, he has not been greatly affected. The biggest fluctuation is only two or three, but Yi Chen is obviously different.

Reasonable, unexpected.

"Is there anything else you need?" The waiter looked at him. This boy has been here for several weeks, and he always sat in the same place on the second floor. He hardly drank the drinks he ordered. When he arrived, the glass was still full .

Ji Kaiyang pursed his lips and shook his head, "No more, let's pay the bill."

He hasn't been to this community in the west of the city for more than half a year, and the security guards still know him.Seeing him from a distance, he opened the door for him, very considerate.Ji Kaiyang smiled wryly, he didn't have the owner's card in his hand, now it's all right, he doesn't even have the last excuse to leave.

No matter how big the community is, it only takes 10 minutes to move there.

Ji Kaiyang was timid because of his closeness to his hometown, he hesitated at the elevator entrance but couldn't press the up button.

The unit door was pushed open again, and an aunt came in with a plastic bag in her hand.

"Young man, won't you go?"

Ji Kaiyang took a step forward and stopped, "Let's go."

The woman looked at him strangely, pressed the close button and left.Ji Kaiyang remembered that she seemed to have left the building not long ago, maybe to go shopping.He has been lingering here for a quarter of an hour. Except for his appearance and temperament, everything else seems to be suspicious of a crime.

Let's go, keep breaking, and suffer from chaos.Ji Kaiyang meditated silently but couldn't make up his mind, now going upstairs, is he helping him or hurting him?

Ji Kaiyang bit his back molars, and unconsciously clenched a fist with his right hand, the short clipped nails still hurt in his palm.He took a deep breath and was about to leave, when the floor display reached one again, the door opened, and Yi Chen suddenly appeared in front of Ji Kaiyang.

Yi Chen's hair was a little longer, and he looked a little messy. He was holding a schoolbag in his hand, and he was in a hurry, wanting to run out as soon as the door opened.Seeing Ji Kaiyang stopped abruptly in place again.They looked at each other like this, a little confused for a moment.It wasn't until the elevator door slowly began to close again that Yi Chen came back to his senses, hurriedly pressed the door button, and pressed the wrong button again in a panic, and the door was closed just like that.

"Fuck, what!"

When Ji Kaiyang heard him yell in the elevator room, he probably knocked on the door.Then the number on the side monitor stopped at two, and the sound of footsteps came from the safe passage, Ji Kaiyang turned his head, and Yi Chen ran out from inside.

Ji Kaiyang thought he would rush over, so he subconsciously took a step back.Yi Chen paused two steps away from him, and walked over slowly, with a hint of caution.

Yi Chen walked up to Ji Kaiyang, so close that he could feel his breath, and he could see Ji Kaiyang's tall nose bridge and slightly thin lips by lowering his eyelids.

Yi Chen's Adam's apple moved almost imperceptibly, slowly raised his hand, and lightly poked Ji Kaiyang's face.

Ji Kaiyang frowned at his inexplicable movement, but Yi Chen was so immersed in his own emotions that he didn't notice it at all.The corners of his lips curled up a little, and he poked again.

Ji Kaiyang raised his hand to wave him away, but Yi Chen suddenly changed his strategy and hugged him suddenly.

He hugged him very tightly, more like Le.It's already deep winter, and the two of them are not wearing thin clothes. Yi Chen's hugging method is to suppress all the material area.

"Don't make trouble, let go, why are you doing this again."

"No." Yi Chen buried his head in the hollow of his shoulder.

Ji Kaiyang moved, "Hurry up, I'm angry."

"No, you're already angry anyway, and you won't discuss it with me." Yi Chen said hoarsely.

"Someone is here." Ji Kaiyang whispered, and added, "Relax, I'm not angry."

Yi Chen reluctantly let go of his hand, and glanced at the door, "You lied to me again."

Ji Kaiyang moved his arms, "Are you going out just now?"

"I'm going to... No.[-] Middle School." Yi Chen coughed, "I overslept in my afternoon nap."

Ji Kaiyang went to touch his forehead, "Have a cold?"

"No." Yi Chen turned his head and hid to the side.

Ji Kaiyang was annoyed by his hiding, grabbed his shoulders, and slammed against the wall next to him, his right hand was placed between Yi Chen's head and the wall in time to make a crisp sound.He put his left hand on Yi Chen's forehead, and his brows frowned even deeper, "Is this not burning?!"

Yi Chen suppressed his urge to feel his body temperature, and turned his head to the side, "Probably a little."

"Probably?" Ji Kaiyang withdrew his hand, "I really convinced you."

"I don't know." Yi Chen said in a low voice, and immediately fell silent again, trying not to cough up again.

"I don't know if I'm sick or not..."

Seeing that he was about to frown again, Yi Chen hurriedly said, "Are you here to see me?"

The joy on his face was so obvious, Ji Kaiyang felt like being pricked by a needle, most of his anger disappeared, and he was speechless for a while.Fortunately, Yi Chen picked it up again, "Then do you want to go up? There is no one at home."

Ji Kaiyang nodded and pulled his collar higher, "Let's go."

They waited for the elevator to run down, and Yi Chen kept looking at him furtively, and then slowly approached him.There was only such a small amount of ground in front of the elevator, and it was stuck to Ji Kaiyang's body within two steps.Yi Chen waited for two seconds, seeing that he had no intention of objecting, he stretched out his hand and slowly grabbed the corner of his clothes.

In this way, Yi Chen pulled him all the way to the door of the house, refusing to let go even if he was trying to get the key.He opened the door with his left hand, but couldn't insert the keyhole for a long time, Ji Kaiyang simply took it, "Don't hold it, don't run."

Ji Kaiyang was still a little dazed when he just entered the door, the furnishings of the living room haven't changed much, everything is the same as yesterday, and everything is different again.

He took a deep breath calmly, and went to find the thermometer in the medicine box of the cabinet. Yi Chen still followed behind him, "What are you going to do next? Go in and lie down first."

Yi Chen suddenly realized something, looked at him hesitantly, and then went to the bedroom - Ji Kaiyang's original bedroom.

Ji Kaiyang was completely speechless, pressed the center of his eyebrows, rummaged through the medicine box for a while, and took a bag of Pudilan and a Gankang, luckily they were not expired.

The house is still clean, probably because the part-time workers often come to clean it, but it looks much colder than before, with no sense of life, even the bucket of the water dispenser is empty, Ji Kaiyang went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water , holding hands and waiting for the water to boil.A small voice came from the door of the kitchen, and when he turned around, Yi Chen stood at the door with bare feet.Ji Kaiyang's head hurts, "What are you crazy about, if you do this again, I will really leave!"

He pushed Yi Chen back to the bedroom. The air conditioner was on and the bedroom was not too warm. A few books were scattered on the carpet, and there were three quilts on the bed.

"Can't you find a thicker bed?" Yi Chen came one after another in surprise, and Ji Kaiyang scolded him and was speechless.

"I don't know where I put it, I just saw..." Yi Chen came back last night temporarily, turned the dust-covering cloth upside down and used it as a bed sheet, and took a few quilts nearby to make do with it .The air conditioner didn't even install the batteries, and it was taken out of the remote control in the living room just now when Ji Kaiyang was not paying attention.

Yi Chen finished speaking halfway, Ji Kaiyang had already opened the closet and took out a bed of thick cotton wadding from the top floor.

He unfastened the quilt, changed a decent sheet along the way, and tossed the tarpaulin in the washing machine.Zhang Yun usually doesn't ask him to do housework very much, but it will be fine after reading it twice.

"You're so lazy." Ji Kaiyang straightened the bed, "How troublesome is it to change the quilt?"

"I really couldn't find it."

"If you don't find it, you won't ask?"

Yi Chen watched his back and whispered, "Who am I asking?"

Ji Kaiyang stopped patting the quilt, Yi Chen was right, he had no one to ask.Ji Kaiyang had mixed feelings in his heart for a moment, and turned around reluctantly as if nothing had happened, "Okay. Come here and take the temperature, and I'll get you medicine."