There are traces of the galaxy

Li Zhi was awakened by the long-lost practice sound not far away.It was just dawn, and the curtains were somewhat transparent, and the shadowy leaves outside the window could be seen.He got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up. After washing out slowly, he bumped into someone in the corridor.

The lights in the corridor were not turned on, only a little light shone in from the window.Li Zhi approached, and after seeing clearly, he whispered, "Scared me."

The man in front of him was tall, with broad shoulders, leaning on the window sill and smoking a cigarette, "You still startled me." Jiang Yan casually turned his head and glanced at him, then looked away, not at all like being caught by someone. Scared look.

Jiang Yan's hair was wet, and there was a scent of shower gel on his body, as if he had just taken a shower.Li Zhi knew that he should have just come back from his morning run at this time period, so he admired Jiang Yan for this. He got up on time at 05:30 every morning, ran in the morning, read a book, and had breakfast, even during holidays. The rules of life were rigid. Not like normal people.

"When did you come back?" Jiang Yan looked out the window, his eyes seemed to be empty, without focus.

Li Zhi replied sternly: "Last night, after eleven o'clock."

Jiang Yan bit the cigarette in his mouth, nodded, and exhaled a smoke ring, the smoke slowly diffused in the air.

"Has Dai Yueran come back?"

"Yes." Li Zhi was a little surprised that he cared about Dai Yueran, or maybe he just had nothing else to talk about, so he just asked.

That's the end of the topic.Jiang Yan leaned against the wall, narrowing his eyes slightly, "Do you smoke?"

Li Zhi hesitated for a moment: "Let's have one." Early in the morning, it's just good for refreshing.

Jiang Yan shook the cigarette ash, then took a cigarette from the all-black cigarette case and handed it to Li Zhi.He smokes the same brand as before, and the taste has not changed.This place is not far from Russia, and Jiang Yan asked his friends in Moscow to bring him cigarettes. Li Zhi had tasted this brand of cigarettes several times, but he didn’t like it all the time.

After receiving the cigarette, Jiang Yan threw a lighter at him. Li Zhi grabbed it, and the picture in front of him abruptly overlapped with the long-standing memory in his mind.

One day, Dai Yueran rushed over excitedly and told Li Zhi that she saw Jiang Yan smoking in the underground garage, and said that she had caught him, and she must tell Jiang Mingqin about it.Dai Yueran ran to Li Zhi every three days to accuse Jiang Yan of all kinds of bad behavior. The day before yesterday I saw him fighting with others, yesterday I saw him jumping over the wall, and today I saw him hugging a girl.Li Zhi felt that Jiang Yan, who Dai Yueran was emphasizing, and what he saw were completely two people. He didn't understand why she had such hostility towards Jiang Yan. No matter how blood related, they were also brothers and sisters in name, so why bother to be so rigid.He wanted to find a chance to talk to Dai Yueran, but he didn't see her actually complaining, so he gave up in the end.

Later, Li Zhi also bumped into Jiang Yan smoking a cigarette.At that time, he was in the third year of junior high school, and he was picked up by the driver after evening self-study. He was in a bad mood because the physics teacher mentioned Jiang Yan in class.The results of the physics quiz were just released that day. Li Zhi got the first place in the class. After the physics teacher praised him, he praised the students he had taught before. Among them was Jiang Yan, who said that he was the smartest student he had ever taught. You can get the first place with a little learning and little effort.

This is not the first time I heard Jiang Yan mentioned by the teacher. Every teacher who taught him remembers him.When they talk about Jiang Yan, they always look proud, saying how good and smart he is, and at the same time, they inadvertently belittle the efforts of others.

It was winter at that time, and it was very cold. The temperature in the garage was higher than outside, but the surrounding area was very dark. Li Zhi walked to the corner of the stairs in the basement and saw Jiang Yan sitting in the stairwell. He lowered his head and took a breath. Smoke, the red flame in front of the cigarette butt flashes brightly.

Jiang Yan looked up.

Li Zhi looked very bad, and stretched out his hand to Jiang Yan, "Can you give me one?"

"What's wrong? Are you in a bad mood?"

Li Zhi didn't speak, but his eyes were straight, staring at the cigarette in his hand, as if he was about to stare out a gap in the cigarette.

Jiang Yan raised his eyebrows, and asked him with a half-smile, "How old are you, Li Zhi?"

He also said: "Children, don't learn to be bad."

Li Zhi walked around him and went up the stairs without saying a word. After he had gone up two steps, he heard Jiang Yan calling him, "Li Zhi." He stopped and turned around.

"Next." Jiang Yan took out his pocket and threw something at him.

Li Zhi caught it and saw that it was a lighter like an iron block, and it was not warmed up even after a cigarette was in Jiang Yan's pocket.He walked out of the basement, raised his hand, and threw the lighter into the flower bed.

Later, the two were able to sit in the basement and smoke together, and they usually didn't communicate much. The annoyance and fear gradually dissipated. When Li Zhi faced Jiang Yan, he was no longer as restrained as before, but he was not at ease either.Jiang Yan is always an outsider in the eyes of Li Zhi and Dai Yueran, and they are the same for Jiang Yan.

The sound of music interrupted Li Zhi's thoughts, and it was Jiang Yan's cell phone that rang.He didn't avoid Li Zhi, so he just accepted it.

"Mom," Jiang Yan said in a flat tone, neither hot nor cold, "well, yes, it's pretty good, I haven't planned yet, I know, okay."

He paused several times in the middle, quietly listening to the other side, and finally said: "Okay, pay more attention to your body."

Once the phone call is over, the cigarette in Jiang Yan's hand will also be burned out. "Do you have a girlfriend?" He asked suddenly.

"No, what's wrong?"

Jiang Yan frowned and said, "My mother is urging the marriage, it's annoying."

"Really?" Li Zhi couldn't help laughing, "It's not like that."

"Don't laugh at fifty steps, you're almost there." Jiang Yan put out the cigarette on the edge of the window, threw the cigarette butt away, and went back to the room.

Li Zhi had never seen Jiang Yan in distress, and this was the first time.He didn't know Jiang Yan well, he had never met his mother, and he didn't know if he had a girlfriend.I heard Dai Mengting mentioned that he used to study at the University of Political Science and Law. After graduation, he went to work in a certain agency in the city next door. He didn't think that Jiang Yan's conditions would make him unable to find a girlfriend. I'm afraid that most of the girls are chasing after him. .Calculating his age, how old is he? According to Li Zhi, he really won't be urged to marry.

Not long after breakfast, my aunt and Dai Yueran came, and Li Zhi opened the door for them.They were chatting in the living room, and Dai Mengting was sitting on the sofa, wearing an apricot-colored silk dress, and the diamonds on the crimson nails were shining brightly. He was in his 40s and dressed like a girl.She spoke in a soft voice, Dai Yueran coaxed them to be very happy, and the three of them talked happily.

Dai Mengting asked about Dai Yueran's situation at school, and asked her if she was in a relationship.

Dai Yueran looked shy, "No, I have no idea of ​​falling in love now."

Pretend, continue to pretend, Li Zhi sneered in his heart.

"We need to talk about someone closer to home," my aunt said, "Tingzhou is so far away, how can people feel at ease."

Dai Mengting had a face of disapproval: "Oh, the child has his own ideas when he grows up, so don't worry about it so much."

Dai Mengting wanted Li Zhi to come over and chat with them, how did he say that, three women in one drama, he didn't want to get involved, if he couldn't find anything to do, he'd better go back to his room.

"Where is Xiaozhi, are you talking about a girlfriend?" His aunt asked him.

"……No."

Dai Mengting smiled and said: "He doesn't like to tell people anything, he has been like this since he was a child."

Li Zhi took a watering can and went to the yard to water the flowers. All the flowers he raised were still alive and well. It seemed that Dai Yueran didn't lie to him.He watered and loosened the soil one by one, and fiddled with it for a while, then his eyes fell on the canary plant. This rose flower was much bigger and more beautiful than the pot raised in Tingzhou.He took a random photo, sent it to Lin Chaosheng, and then typed: Is this more like a rose?

It was almost noon before I received a reply: it is more like

And one more: do you have canaries at home too?I don't think I saw it before

It was a bit troublesome to explain, but Li Zhi just said: Yes

Lin Chaosheng: If I have the opportunity to go to Linchuan Mountain in the future, I must see it with my own eyes.

...Do you want me to raise another pot?That's troublesome.Li Zhi paused, and replied: No problem

It's not too much trouble to raise potted flowers.

Both uncle and Jiang Mingqin were very busy, and they had time to have dinner together on the second night of the holiday.Uncle's family of three, Jiang Mingqin's family of four, plus Jiang Yan's grandfather, Li Zhi's grandfather, a big family, the face is full of joy and harmony.

Mainly the elders chatting, and Jiang Yan.Li Zhi and Dai Yueran just buried their heads in eating, and occasionally asked them, and they would ask and answer.

Jiang Yan's grandfather and Li Zhi's grandfather were comrades-in-arms when they were young, and then they served in the same military region. They once matched Jiang Mingqin and Dai Mengting, but Lang Wuqing's concubine had no intention of doing it, and no one expected that after going around and going around again... It's done.

In the next few days of vacation, Jiang Yan was haunted, and Dai Yueran basically never stayed at home.Dai Yueran has appointments every day, meeting with classmates and friends, eating, shopping, watching movies, and visiting the large-scale comic exhibition during the National Day, and let Li Zhi never say anything.Dai Yueran also invited him to watch a newly released domestic horror movie, but Li Zhi refused.Domestic horror movies... Forget it, he would rather sleep at home than waste time on it.

Li Zhi has no one to date. One of his good friends in high school is abroad and the other is in Hainan, but neither of them came back.

When I have nothing to do, I look through Moments and see Lin Chaosheng's holiday updates.

10.1: Drive to the beach [-] kilometers away, some sea views, Laojiekou food stalls, some food photos.

10.2: Seaside Music Festival, some videos and photos.

10.3: Location unknown, teaching children to play the piano, video.

10.4: The location is unknown, the auto repair shop repaired the tire, photo.

10.5: Went to Tingdong Flower Market to buy green plants with Tao Chengyu who didn't go home during the holidays. Some silly photos of Tao Chengyu and green plants.

He also sent many photos of fresh green plants to Li Zhi, asking which one was easy to raise, and asked him to help as a consultant.

Li Zhi used to travel in the circle of friends, and never found life boring, but seeing Lin Chaosheng's series of news, he couldn't stay in the compound any longer, and thought he might as well go back to school early to write a thesis.