After the rain

The balloon was taken down.

"Thank you brother!" Rourou beamed with joy, jumping on the spot twice in joy.

"You're welcome." Song Qikun made a loop at the end of the balloon string and put it on Rourou's fingers, "Grab it."

Rourou grabbed the balloon tightly, and brought a small pink basket from her little friend. Inside was half a basket of bright red fresh cherries, which were still covered with wet drops of water.

"Brother eats cherries."

Song Qikun took one and said, "There is another brother over there."

——Shen Yan didn't come over, but hid under another tree with milk tea and waited for him to finish.

Rou Rou ran over with the cherries in her hands, her back was cheerful, and her voice was clear and crisp: "Brother, eat cherries!"

The little girl's chubby face was pale and rosy, her eyes were clean and pure, reflecting the shadows of scattered trees and the blue sky and white clouds.

And Shen Yan's expressionless face.

He didn't touch the cherries in the basket, and said softly, "Fatty."

"It's Rourou." The little girl corrected softly.

"Flesh meat."

"Rou Rou."

"Fatty." Shen Yan was extremely stubborn.

The little girl thought to herself why this brother's ears became difficult after not seeing him for a few days, so she signaled him to lower his head with a straight face.

Shen Yan squatted down.

"My name is Xiangrou, I'm Rourou, not Rourou." The little girl said clearly, for fear that he couldn't hear clearly.

Shen Yan: "My name is Shen Yan."

Rou Rou: "I know, brother Shen Yan."

Shen Yan unconsciously lowered her voice, "Rou Rou."

"That's right." Rou Rou frowned, and picked up the petioles of three cherries clustered together, "Eating cherries is so sweet."

"Thank you Rourou." Shen Yan said.

Rourou: "..."

Give me back my cherries!

The angry little girl was coaxed by the milk tea in the end, and she reluctantly accepted the title "Fatty".

The children touched the cat together for a while, then grabbed the balloon and went to play elsewhere.

Song Qikun couldn't laugh or cry, "Why do you call her fleshy?"

"Face." Shen Yan handed him the cherry, "It's fleshy."

"You eat, why do you give it to me?" Song Qikun didn't answer.

"Give you."

Song Qikun squinted his eyes, "I'll eat as soon as you smile."

"..." Shen Yan simply stuffed the cherry into his mouth, "Let's go."

In the evening, Song Qikun and Tang Chen confirmed the departure time tomorrow morning on WeChat, and said that they would add one more person.

Tang Chen: [Who?Liu Xinrong? ]

Song Qikun: [She doesn't have time, she has to catch up with cram school homework on weekends. ]

Tang Chen exaggeratedly sighed: [Scholar is really not a creature that ordinary people like me can imagine! ]

Song Qikun: [If you study hard, you will be a top student. ]

Tang Chen: [You must be honest, do you know that?Just stop praising me, why am I so clueless?Besides, studying is so boring, sitting for a whole day, my eyes are blind, let me study, it is better to help my mother wash two more dishes. ]

Continuing on, Tang Chen might want to talk about his ideals in life again, so Song Qikun had no choice but to bring back the off topic: [It's my new neighbor, named Shen Yan. ]

Tang Chen had already forgotten about it, and was a little confused: [When did you have a new neighbor? ! ]

Song Qikun: "..."

He replied: [It's not important, the important thing is that he will go fishing with us tomorrow. ]

Tang Chen: [That's good to dare to be affectionate, there are more people and more excitement. ]

Song Qikun: [Yes. ]

He planned to vent his breath with Tang Chen first, so as not to be embarrassed when Shen Yan met him, but after thinking about it, forget it.

Sometimes making friends also depends on fate. He said in advance what the other person's temperament is, but it will increase the restraint. It's better to let it go.Besides, he felt that his understanding of Shen Yan was also very shallow, maybe the carefree Tang Chen would suit the other party very well.

After dinner, the two went downstairs to walk the cat again.

Milk tea didn't run away anymore, and it looked like it was too fat to walk, but its tail was raised high, and it was arrogant and arrogant, like a fatuous monarch sweeping the territory.

At this time, the community was getting bustling, the sky was slowly covered by darkness, the street lamps were not very bright, and the balcony lights of each apartment building were also turned on one after another.

A child broke free from his parents' hands and ran to stand in front of the milk tea. His eyes were shining, and his face was full of eagerness to try. He looked back at his parents frequently as if asking for advice.

Milk tea moved its ears, and leaned directly against the child's feet, and let out a soft cry.

Obedient to death.

Song Qikun's heart was almost melted, and he sighed sincerely, "Why is it so obedient?"

"It has always been like this." Shen Yan said.

The milk tea is picked up.

The skinny, two-month-old kitten was scrounging for food next to a litter box.

Several pieces of its messy short hair were bald and scabbed with blood, as if it had been pulled off deliberately.

One leg was limped, and half of the head was cut open.

Shen Yan was just passing by, and there was a slight pause in his footsteps, and the scarred kitten slowly came over and curled up next to his feet.

Shen Yan took it to see a doctor and took good care of it.Fast-forward two years, and the scrawny paper cat became a heavyweight player under the careless feeding of the shit-shoveling officer.

The so-called happy fat.

In fact, Shen Yan didn't understand it all the time. He was hurt like that, but he was not afraid of people at all, and he could hug anyone.

Of course not everyone can hold it.

The children left with their parents, and Milk Tea came back with a mess of hair and asked Song Qikun to straighten it out.

Recently, Song Qikun has almost been in charge of the Shunmao project.

It's not that he doesn't want to let the shit shoveler go, the main reason is that Shen Yan always likes to say things that hurt the cat's heart.

Every time he smoothes the hair of milk tea, he pulls it and says "you are going to be bald". The hair shed can be seen everywhere in the house. Mao Tuan said, "You're going to be bald."

Over time, Milk Tea knew that this sentence was not a good one, and she lost her temper when she heard it.

Song Qikun never said it, and even comforted him by saying that it will be fine after a while, that the hair is too thick to make it look fatter, and that the lost hair can be used as a doll to kill two birds with one stone...

For this kind of self-deception, Shen Yan always turned a blind eye to this kind of self-deception, and when he couldn't bear to listen to it, he said in a bad manner: "It's bald."

So angry that Milk Tea pointed her butt at him.

Halfway through, the milk tea started to scurry around again, Song Qikun had no choice but to follow.

Trotting around half of the neighborhood, Song Qikun slumped on a bench by the side of the road, gasping for breath with a numb face: "Sneaking on me again."

"Meow~"

Milk tea grabbed his trouser legs and climbed up, rubbed against the person, then lay on his legs and did not move.

It was already dark, and the street lamps only illuminated a corner of the place, and the lights outlined a blurry silhouette of a person and a cat.

The night wind was gentle, and the air was filled with the faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus. Shen Yan, who followed slowly, stopped a few steps away and secretly took pictures of this scene.

Just as he put down his phone, Song Qikun over there turned his head and waved to him, "Here!"

Shen Yan raised his phone openly and took another picture.

Song Qikun: "..."

Do you think I'm blind or what?

When someone came over, Song Qikun asked, "What are you filming?"

"landscape."

"Can you show me?"

"No."

"You took me, why can't I see it?"

"...Hand shaking, blurred."

Song Qikun: "..."

8. Fishing

Bicycles pass through the straight road with luxuriant trees, the hustle and bustle of the city gradually fades away, and there are large golden wheat fields on the side. The monsoon blows and the wheat waves are surging.

A blue guide sign was erected at the right front intersection, and Tang Chen was waiting there with his bicycle on his back.

"You two are too slow!"

It takes a long detour from Wanqing Road to Heli Community. Tang Chen thought it was troublesome, so he made an appointment to meet at the entrance of Xinnongzhuang area.

The boy has a tough silhouette, wearing short-sleeved shorts, with a yellowish complexion, and his exposed arms and calf muscles are tight.Wearing a straw hat on his head and a pair of flip-flops on his feet, he looks like a watermelon vendor on the street, very down-to-earth.

Song Qikun squeezed the brakes and stopped in front of him, asking, "Where's your fishing rod?"

Tang Chen flicked Song Qikun's fishing rod tied to the front of the car, and said as a matter of course, "It's fine if you can't carry it."

He looked at Shen Yan in the back seat, grinning and showing his big white teeth: "Hi, Shen Yan. My name is Tang Chen, Chen of the stars and sea."

Shen Yan straightened his baseball cap and said, "Hello."

Going 500 meters from this intersection, the scenery in front of you gradually changed.

The road is winding, and the fish ponds are separated by green fences, there are one or two fish farms with white walls, black tiles and red hangings.

Tang Chen led the way in front, turned around for a long time, and finally stopped at the edge of a fish pond without green nets.

This fish pond is isolated, surrounded by waist-high green grass and low bushes. The side of the fish pond is surrounded by piles of stones of different sizes. One end is connected to a small stream with clear water.

Song Qikun felt that it was unreliable, and his expression was skeptical: "Are you sure it is ownerless?"

"Sure." Tang Chen parked the car, grabbed a piece of grass and bit it in his mouth, stretched his arms and pointed around, with a firm tone: "Look how far around this is, which private fish pond doesn't have a fence? This area is not surrounded! If it is still in such a remote place, there must be no owner!"

Song Qikun: "..."

"Tsk, I can still lie to you!" Tang Chen lifted the plastic bucket containing the fish, "It's all over again, and it's useless to regret it, let's go!"

There were messy footprints on the grass, Tang Chen said: "Look, someone has already taken a step ahead of us!"

He found a wooden stick to test the depth of the water, squatted by the pond and filled a plastic bucket with half a bucket of water, kicked off his flip-flops, rolled up his shorts to the heels of his legs, and was gearing up to go into the water.

Song Qikun: "..."

You agreed to fish, are you here to catch fish? !

The fish pond wasn't very big, and when he stepped into it, it actually reached just above his knees.Tang Chen walked to the center, pointed Jiang Shan with his arms, and said, "I'll touch that