lion in august

New York, which was still in winter time, soon became dark, and the skyline seemed to be blurred with orange and black paint overturned.The neon lights came on one after another, and the high-rise buildings that were originally only black silhouettes were instantly decorated with warm lights. The Empire State Building decorated with red, blue, and white colors stood in a patchwork of brightness.

New York is a city that never sleeps. In the bright night scene, every beating light spot and every dazzling light trace is like an endless stream of fresh life struggling to move and survive.

Yan Banxia cleaned up, washed her hands, and sat down in front of the French window in the living room. She hugged her curled up legs with both hands, and rested her chin on her knees.

The continuous stream not far from the window is like the flickering stars in the night sky, and it seems to be the rhythm of struggling to breathe in a predicament.

Yan Banxia recalled inappropriately when she first came to New York, she forgot who said to her: If you love someone, send this person to New York, because New York has the most extravagant enjoyment, but if you hate A person, and send this person to New York, because New York still has the most indifferent world.

New York has many people and many cars, but there is not much human touch.

Living, studying, and working in a busy big city, Yan Banxia was overwhelmed early on. In order to survive, and to prevent others from looking down on her, she held her breath and just kept going. , she may not be the best, but she will never be the worst.

The soul that has been living in the semi-basement suddenly awakened. I realized that the air on the roof is much better than that in the semi-basement. I can no longer deceive myself. Stereotyped, dirty, muddy water, but somehow escaped from the bottomless pit that felt suffocating.

Yan Banxia was finally able to move out alone.

Yan Banxia took a picture of the night scene downstairs with her mobile phone, and sent it to Moments after color-grading. There was no accompanying text, but the obvious contrast between the night and the light was enough to explain her pursuit and desire for a new life.

Si Nanxing praised her almost instantly, which made Yan Banxia wonder if Si Nanxing was doing nothing in the opposite room, just holding a mobile phone, staring at Moments, and then picked the first time to give her likes, just to Respond to her.

Can this be unreasonable? The two had just finished their quarrel, and Si Nanxing immediately liked her when she posted it on her Moments. Are you going to join in the fun at the fair?

However, Yan Banxia, ​​who was hungry, quickly suppressed this slight stomachache.

The partner will never fill the refrigerator with food and deliver it. The apartment is only a few subway stops away from Korea Street. It happened that Banxia missed Korean barbecue. She washed her face and put away her sad sister Lin. Wow, pack up and get ready to go out.

Unexpectedly, when he opened the door, he saw Si Nanxing standing outside the door in a very responsive manner.

Si Nanxing was holding a bowl of rice noodles. Although it was covered with plastic wrap, the steam was steaming upwards so that the plastic wrap was covered with water droplets.

Yan Banxia twitched the corners of her mouth triumphantly, this is not a problem for a new glasses changer, judging from the color of the soup, the topping of the rice noodles, and the shape of the rice noodles, she is already very sure that it is a A bowl of rice noodles with beef brisket topped with green vegetables and a fried poached egg.

Yan Banxia felt her hungry stomach twitch several times in protest.

Now is the rush hour, it may take an hour to take a few subway stations, and the waiter in the restaurant often arranges to wait endlessly when going to eat alone, because the restaurant gives priority to welcoming a group of people to eat, and one person is sure Not worth the consumption of a group of people.

Yan Banxia weighed it over and over again, but she couldn't bear the protest of her stomach. Between the beef brisket rice noodles that looked delicious and the Korean barbecue that she might not be able to eat, she resolutely chose the former.

"Xiaxia... Banxia, ​​I think you may be hungry, so I made you a bowl of beef brisket rice noodles. I remember you used to... no, no, I won't mention the past, but you should still like beef brisket rice noodles, right?" ?”

Si Nanxing's cautious probing undoubtedly hurt Yan Banxia's heart, the title changed, and his tone was extremely humble.

With short hands to hold people and a soft mouth to eat people, Yan Banxia is a very coaxable person. As a noodle lover, she really only needs a bowl of steaming and delicious noodles to coax her back, even if It's just simple noodles with soy sauce, as long as it tastes good, her anger can be relieved.

To put it bluntly, he is a foodie.

"When did you learn to cook?"

"It's not difficult. I tried to cook with girls...with classmates in college."

Si Nanxing changed his words in an instant, and Yan Banxia knew that she was actually going to say "girlfriend", she didn't feel bad, after all, it was all in the past, whether she was angry or curious, it was useless to ask, She also didn't have the proper status to understand Si Nanxing's love life.

Yan Banxia recorded her fingerprints, closed the door, stepped forward to take the beef brisket and rice noodles, and lifted her chin to the door of Si Nanxing's apartment.

"Are you going home with me?"

"I just came to your house to eat a bowl of rice noodles, not to go home with you. After all, I want to eat rice noodles made by you. I can't be cold-faced at you anymore."

Si Nanxing raised his hand uneasily, and said, "Xia... Pinellia, let me come, the rice noodles are hot, I'm afraid I'll burn you."

Yan Banxia is still more used to Si Nanxing calling herself "Xia Xia", so the habit is a terrifying existence.

"It doesn't matter if you call me Xiaxia." Yan Banxia said as he lifted the plastic wrap, deliberately teasing her, "I know that the rice noodles are hot and covered with plastic wrap. If the plastic wrap is heated, it will have plasticizers and will be poisoned. Hey, is that why you don't want to see me?"

Si Nanxing didn't answer, Yan Banxia turned his head strangely, seeing her standing there dejectedly, he didn't feel any good in his heart.

The advantage of the mouth is to get it, but it only hurts the enemy one thousand and hurts the eight hundred. Yan Banxia does not deny that Si Nanxing's words and deeds and all emotional changes still affect her heart.

Si Nanxing was happy, Yan Banxia wanted to tease her, and when Sinanxing was uncomfortable, Yan Banxia would also feel uncomfortable.

"Okay, just to tease you." Yan Banxia stood at the door holding the rice noodles, his eyes rolled around, looking for a suitable place to sit down. "My clothes are out today and they are dirty, why don't I sit on the floor?"

Later, Yan Banxia discovered that Si Nanxing had laid a carpet around the small coffee table in the living room.

Yan Banxia slandered helplessly in her heart, Si Nanxing must have lived a too particular life, how much extra time and energy would it take to clean this small round carpet.

Anyway, Yan Banxia, ​​who is a clean freak, doesn't understand why she puts such fluffy and dusty furniture in her home.

Si Nanxing had good eyesight, she noticed that Yan Banxia was looking at the carpet with distaste, and she was already planning to throw the carpet away when she took out the trash tonight.

"Sit on the carpet and eat the rice noodles on the small tea table."

When Yan Banxia heard this, she felt uncomfortable. She didn't dislike the fluffy carpet that might be covered with a lot of dust. She just thought that her clothes were dirty from the perspective of cleanliness. After she sat on the carpet, Si Nanxing What a struggle to clean the carpet.

"It's fine, it's a new one, not dirty."

With that said, Si Nanxing put the beef brisket rice noodles in Guoyan Banxia's hand on the small coffee table, went into the kitchen and took out a pair of chopsticks.

Yan Banxia whispered: "It's only a new one, it's not good to be dirty by me..." She curled her lips and stood awkwardly at the door, still not wanting to sit on the carpet.

"It's okay, it's not dirty, don't be afraid that your clothes will get dirty, I'll throw the carpet away tonight."

"Huh? You have too much money?"

Si Nanxing came over and circled Yan Banxia's wrist, took her to the carpet, pressed her shoulders, and told her to sit down obediently.

"If you don't like it, I won't keep it."

Yan Banxia said quietly: "I still don't like you, why do you still keep yourself."

"Except for me." Si Nanxing tapped the small coffee table lightly with his fingers, indicating that the rice noodles should be eaten while they are still hot. "Don't forget, you said that I belong to you, so naturally I can't decide whether to stay or not, but are you willing not to keep me?"

Yan Banxia snorted a mouthful of rice noodles, and before he could say "delicious", he was swallowed by Si Nanxing's confident speech.

"Eat slowly." Si Nanxing swept her back and said slowly, "In the winter of the third year of junior high school, on the day of the monthly exam and the English exam, you hugged me and said, I am yours, or your exclusive pillow."

It seems that there is such a thing.

"Since you mentioned the pillow, Mr. Cat's pillow, do you still keep it?"

Yan Banxia immediately choked on the rice noodles, she covered her heart, covered her mouth with the inside of her elbow and coughed violently.

Si Nanxing wanted to know which pot should not be turned on? Before she went out last Saturday, she went back and kissed the eyes of Mr. Cat's pillow, but she didn't want to tell Si Nanxing about such a shameful thing, lest Si Nanxing think she was right. She has nothing left.

...But she did have more feelings for Si Nanxing.

The small sparks are only short of starting a prairie fire. Perhaps, as long as they burn enthusiastically, they may be able to erase the gap between the two, and once again polish the lonely starry sky that has been dim for the past six years.

After all, Xing Xing fell into Xia Tian's arms, Xing Xing did not escape, and Xia Tian did not return Xing Xing.

"Why are you in such a hurry to eat, come on, don't cover your mouth, look up and let me wipe the soup from the corner of your mouth for you, what is my relationship with you, why are you so polite in front of me?"

Yan Banxia waved her hand, thinking that there is a fart of soup. She covered her mouth with the inside of her elbow just now, and even if there was soup, it was wiped away by the long-sleeved sweater. She didn't want Si Nanxing to have a chance to follow She got close, her eyes wandered around, and finally locked on a decoration of the TV cabinet.

"Hey, you have good taste." His throat was hoarse after coughing, Yan Banxia took a sip of soup, cleared his throat, and continued, "The decoration of your hourglass is quite beautiful."

The six-inch-high hourglass is a transparent glass bottle filled with light brown fine sand. It was bought by Si Nanxing's brother-in-law. Her brother-in-law said that she often lost her mind when designing, so she bought an hourglass to remind her when she was distracted. Don't go too far.

When Si Nanxing took the hourglass, she helplessly spread her hands to her brother-in-law. She didn't want to talk about it. She was distracted when she made the design because she was thinking about Yan Banxia. At that time, there was a vast Atlantic Ocean, so she would naturally miss her. She lives now. At the opposite door, if she has time to distract herself, she might as well knock on the opposite door to find Yan Banxia.

"Don't change the subject for me." Si Nanxing pulled her hand away a little rudely, pinching her chin to force her to look up.

Yan Banxia glared at her unhappily, and said angrily, "Where is the soup? Can you change your domineering temper, huh? Hey, Si Nanxing, I said, back then I When I was young, I thought it was so romantic to be controlled by you domineeringly, but I am almost 24 now, and you are more than a month younger than me. We are separate individuals and free, and you are not mine. Who, you don't have the right to control me anymore, do you? If you keep yelling at me, I really think you're annoying, understand."

"Don't swear." Si Nanxing was indifferent to Yan Banxia's words, and reached out and tapped the tip of her nose dotingly. "And who did you learn your accent from? How can you, a southerner, speak so fluently?"

"I'm talking for nothing, right?" Yan Ban Xiapi smiled, and coldly gave Si Nan Xing a sharp eye knife. "You don't care who I learned my accent from. Aren't you a southerner? You can't change your accent too much, so you are allowed to say it's okay, and I'm not allowed to say it's okay? Let me tell you, you are just Xuzhou officials set fire to it and forbade the people to light lamps.

Si Nanxing was addicted and scratched Yan Banxia's chin.When she was in high school, she liked to scratch Yan Banxia's chin very much, like scratching a cat every day, the more she scratched, the more addicted she became. "Hey, Xia Xia, tell me something about popsicles?"

"Say your sister!"

"I only have an older sister, and I don't have any cousins, because I am the youngest among my family's peers."

"Si Nanxing, did your family ever tell you that you are annoying!"

Si Nanxing frowned, and said awkwardly: "Of course not. But if Xia Xia regards herself as my family, then there is."

Si Nanxing got cheap and acted like a good boy, he continued to approach Yan Banxia with a smile, and put his arms around her, just like the posture of the two hugging each other tightly in high school, Si Nanxing rested his head on Yan Banxia's shoulder, slowly The warm breath that spewed out lingered in her ears, a little itchy.

It's also a little throbbing.

Yan Banxia hadn't had such direct physical contact with anyone for a long time, and she froze for a moment. Her obsession with cleanliness made her want to push Si Nanxing away, but the warmth of the long-lost reunion made her reluctant to push Si Nanxing away, and her hands and feet didn't listen at all. The brain is calling, because the brain is also thinking about whether to push it away.

Seeing Yan Banxia being hugged by her obediently, Si Nanxing surged up with indescribable courage. While pressing Yan Banxia's back with her hand to prevent her from moving, she took Yan Banxia's hand , with a ring behind his back.

During the Lunar New Year seven years ago, Yan Banxia wrote on Weibo, "Warmth is by my side". Seven years later, she just passed New Year's Day, and her warmth and her little sun seemed to have stepped through East Eighth District and West Fifth District. Despite the time difference, she crossed the vast and deep blue Atlantic Ocean, and came to her again with a vibrant fragrance.

It seems to be gurgling and bubbling cola, which makes people unbearable, and it seems to be corn sticks with no expiration date, which makes people ponder.

It seems that the fireworks in the starry sky that night came across, once again bringing a winter limit of love, but this time the winter limit may be extended indefinitely, forever, until the death of life.

"Xia Xia, I want to solemnly apologize to you. It was I who liked you first seven years ago, so I deliberately flirted with you, making you think that you broke me, and felt guilty about me, and had to accept my liking for you. Six years ago, I kept you cold and forced you to break up first. I was afraid that I would become a burden and concern for you to study abroad. I hope you can study hard without any worries, because you deserve a better future. But I regret it, I shouldn't let you go. In the past six years, I feel so stupid that as long as I keep falling in love, you will come back one day to eat my jealousy, and then I can start again with you."

Si Nanxing held Yan Banxia's hands that wanted to beat her, put them to his mouth, and kissed him reverently over and over again.

"But you didn't come back, it's okay, I'm here to find you. You may not believe it, and you don't have to believe it, but I have to make it clear that I haven't kissed those girlfriends, let alone sent any anniversary gifts. I I don’t like them at all, I’m just trying to annoy you, cooking together is already my bottom line, and I just thought that if I learned how to cook, I could cook delicious food for you in different ways.”

The sense of alienation built up for six years was gradually disintegrated by the warm little sun.

"Xia Xia, let me chase you one more time, okay?"