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After the winter in Beiyuan came quietly, the days gradually became unbearably long.

Especially the dark night, for people who are used to long-term sunshine like Shi, it seems to be especially difficult.

In mid-to-late October, the entire Beiyuan City began to heat up.At first the temperature was satisfactory, but it wasn't until the first snow in winter, when the temperature plummeted to minus ten degrees, that we really felt the coldness in the north.

What Xie Cheng said when he met him for the first time really came true. After the snow fell, the heating of the entire dormitory area could not keep up with it in time.The room was cold, and even though the windows were tightly closed, it still felt as if there was some place where the wind was leaking.

Getting up in the morning has become particularly difficult. As long as you expose your body a little bit under the quilt, you can feel the pain of the cold.

Unsurprisingly, Shi woke up one morning and sneezed nearly twenty times and came down with a bad cold.

At that time, he suppressed the dizziness and discomfort in his body, and when he came to the classroom with his nose sniffling, Xie Cheng was taken aback.

Xie Cheng looked at the ghost-like Shi Que who covered himself tightly, leaving only his eyes exposed, and asked about his situation with some concern.

But Shi sat down on the seat as if he had lost his soul, took out a large pack of tissues from his schoolbag, wiped his nose fiercely, and replied weakly with his red nose: "Well, you really hit the spot, The dormitory was so cold that I caught a cold.”

Xie Cheng stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, heaved a sigh of relief, "I don't have a fever, how do you feel, are you okay?"

But Shi nodded sullenly, his little face was bloodless, "Well, it's actually nothing serious, it's just a runny nose and a pain in the head."

After a whole class, Shi was not in the mood to listen to the class, drooping his head dejectedly.Fortunately, Xie Cheng was still useful. He helped him take most of the notes, and came to check on him from time to time to see if he was still angry, while regretting why he hadn't persuaded him to move out of the dormitory earlier.

As soon as the get out of class bell rang, Xie Cheng said impatiently: "No, it's not an option for you to stay in the dormitory like this. You can live with me today and wait until you recover from your illness."

"...Is it okay?" Shi Bing blinked his round eyes like a deer, looking very cute, "Don't disturb you and your roommate."

"What are you talking about?" Xie Cheng picked up the scarf that was placed in the table bucket, wrapped his time tightly, and helped him put on the hat of the down jacket, saying seriously, "You've become like this, I won't Take you in, is that still a good brother?"

Shi, however, obviously felt that what Xie Cheng said was quite reasonable, so he didn't say anything else, and obediently picked up his schoolbag, and was dragged out of the classroom by him.

Judging from the current situation, if you don't want to be frozen into a bigger problem, it is indeed a wise way to go to Xie Cheng.It's just that there seems to be a long time before the end of winter, and it's not a long-term thing to always trouble friends.

Shi Shi sighed, and could only look at his eyes first, and walked out from the south gate of the school together with Xie Cheng.

The snow on the road is a little slick, so you need to walk with extreme care.Before that, Shi Bie almost fell several times, so he had to be more cautious.

Not far from the south gate, go west and turn right at the first intersection. There is a small-scale bathing center with a simple neon signboard, which says "Pine Forest Bathhouse".

Shi Ke had never been to this kind of place before, and he didn't know where Xie Cheng lived. Seeing him stop in front of the bathing center, he was a little confused, "Why did you bring me here?"

Xie Cheng had a natural look on his face, "Bring you to where I live."

"...Here?" Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be joking with him, he couldn't accept it for a while, so he couldn't help asking again, "You live here? In the bathing center?"

"It's not the inside, it's the back." Xie Cheng took Shi Que's arm, pointed in the front direction, and said carelessly, "Don't worry, you'll know when you get there."

As Xie Cheng said, he turned to the other side of the street corner and entered an open courtyard.But when I observed it for a while, I found that this place happened to lead to the back door of the bathing center.

There are a few private cars parked sporadically in the small courtyard, and there is an entrance in the innermost part, which leads to the front desk of the bathing center.Connected to the bath hall next to it is a three-story red low building.

Xie Cheng pointed to the building, "That's right there."

But when he was a little curious, he said: "Can people live here? How did you find this kind of place to live?"

Xie Cheng seemed to be very serious today, and patiently explained: "In fact, it is thanks to Luo Wenjiao that I can live in a place so close to the school, which is cheap and has a good environment."

"Luo Wenjiao?" When Shi but heard the name, he couldn't help becoming interested.

"En." Xie Cheng nodded, "The bathroom in front was opened by Luo Wenjiao's second uncle. This small building was originally used as an hourly room for guests, but later found that it was not used most of the time, and the distance was a bit far away. Uncle Luo simply remodeled this place. The first floor was used as a kitchen, the second floor was used by the staff of the bathing center to live with him, and the third floor had a few more rooms rented out to students of University A. Because the scale is small, there are few people. You know, almost all the acquaintances of the basketball team live here, and Uncle Luo usually doesn’t charge us much money, at most, he charges us some food expenses when he is in charge of meals.”

At that time, he suddenly realized, "That's great, don't you all live together in the school team?"

Xie Cheng nodded, "Well, most of them are here. Living together in this way can also cultivate more relationships. Uncle Luo is a very nice person and takes good care of us. I will tell him later that I will let you stay here for a few days. By the way Then ask him if there is any spare space here, if possible, you can just move here and live with us instead of freezing in the dormitory."

But for a moment, he didn't know what to say, so he could only obediently follow Xie Cheng into the small building.

The whole building is not very big, but it is fairly well-arranged.As soon as you enter the first floor, there are four or five long tables in the hall on the left. Several employees in uniform are sitting around and having lunch. Seeing someone come in, they greet Xie Cheng cordially.

Although the nose is not very ventilated, it still smells the tempting aroma of food.

"Aunt Qin—" Xie Cheng asked the middle-aged woman who was serving dinner for everyone, "Is Uncle Luo here?"

Aunt Qin held a large bowl of pork vermicelli in her hand, and said to Xie Cheng with a smile: "Upstairs, I'm on the phone in the room. It's just right for you to go up, tell them to come down for dinner."

Xie Cheng replied with a bright smile, "Okay, got it."

Going up the stairs, before reaching the third floor, you can hear a voice talking.Compared with the first floor, the whole floor is not too open. There are a total of six or seven rooms with anti-theft doors in front and back, plus a public toilet and water room.

The door of a room in the middle was open, and there was a tall, thin middle-aged man leaning against the door, talking to the people in the room.

Xie Cheng came to the front while tugging, smiled at the man and said, "Uncle Luo, why are you here?"

At that time, he looked curiously at the man called "Uncle Luo" for a while, secretly thinking that height is indeed a genetic thing, and Luo Wenjiao's family is probably a tall man inherited from his ancestors.

The man turned around and saw that it was Xie Cheng. He laughed and said boldly: "This is not the meal money you paid me last month. I calculated it. There is still a lot left. I will refund it to you. You came just in time." , Here, your one hundred and fifty."

Xie Cheng held the money from Uncle Luo in his hand, and put it in his pocket without any politeness, and pointed to the one beside him, but said: "Uncle Luo, this is my classmate, who caught a cold in the dormitory." , I'll bring him to live here."

As Xie Cheng said, he poked his probe into the room again, and said to the people inside: "Captain, Da Liu, Brother Chao, it happens that you are all here, I will bring him here to live, do you have any objections?"

A thin boy jumped off the upper bunk bed and walked to the door in two steps. When he looked closer, he said to Xie Cheng in a strange voice: "Hey, this is not the time when we played ball two days ago. That pretty junior who cheered you on off the court."

Shi Que blinked, and hurriedly greeted him: "Hi Senior, my name is Shi Que."

The boy gave an evil laugh, poked himself with his thumb, and introduced, "Liu Zilei." Then he asked Xie Cheng, "Where do you plan to let him sleep? You two share a bed?"

Xie Cheng walked around the room, pointed to the open space next to his single bed in the corner, "Let him sleep on my bed, and I'll sleep on the floor."

But Shi quickly grabbed Xie Cheng's arm and evaded: "No, I'll just sleep on the floor..."

As soon as the words fell, Liu Zilei moved his head, which is not too big to watch the excitement, again, stared at Shi Que's face, squinted his eyes and said with interest: "Why are you blushing, I feel sorry for your good brother Already? Otherwise, it’s fine for the two of you to sleep under the same quilt.”

He didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but after hearing what Liu Zilei said, Shi Que's face burned almost instantly.

Xie Cheng punched him hard, and scolded: "Da Liu, you boy, don't keep making jokes."

Sitting on the single bed by the door, Tang Baiqiao couldn't help standing up, walked over and patted Shijie on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Don't mind, Da Liu didn't target you, he just had a bad mouth and felt that Only if you are okay will you be ridiculed."

"Hey." Liu Zilei circled lazily on the spot, "Old Tang still understands me."

Shi was stunned, but he didn't feel too embarrassed, but felt that Liu Zilei seemed to be a good person, at least he was more talkative than ordinary people.

"Hey..." Liu Zilei stuck his head out on the door frame, suddenly laughed, and said to the people in the room: "My Brother Luo is back too."

When he heard this, he suddenly raised his head and saw Luo Wenjiao who had just come up from the stairs.

He is wearing a royal blue down jacket today, which makes him look particularly eye-catching.He raised his head and looked this way for a while, with a basketball slung between his arms and his body, he walked over with a blank expression on his face.

When passing by the door of Xie Cheng's room, Luo Wenjiao simply nodded to the people in the room, and then called "Second Uncle" to Uncle Luo. He continued walking forward without a pause.

Crisp, indifferent, without the slightest sloppiness.

Xie Cheng seemed to be used to his usual estrangement, so he ignored him, and continued to ask Uncle Luo, "Uncle, do we have any extra beds here for him to live in? He is from the south, and the dormitory is too cold. Can't live."

Uncle Luo thought for a while, his face troubled, "It should be gone now, if it had been earlier, there might still be some beds left." He paused for a moment, glanced at Shi Que, who had a runny nose, and turned to Then he said, "Wen Jiao's house seems to have room, but there are a lot of things piled up all the time, and I don't know if he likes it or not."

When Luo Wenjiao heard this, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and said coldly: "No, I don't like living with other people."

Uncle Luo had an embarrassed smile on his face, apparently he had nothing to do with his nephew who was quite ignorant of the world.

Seeing this, Liu Zilei couldn't help but sighed, patted Shi He's shoulder twice, and comforted him: "It's expected, it's expected. It's actually good for you to lay the floor next to Xie Cheng, and it's not cold. And as long as you Stay in our house for a day, we will never drive you away, you can live in peace, ah."

Shi Shi nodded gratefully, "Thank you, senior."

Liu Zilei let out a chuckle, and said carelessly, "You don't need to be so polite, Xie Cheng, this stinky boy, just calls me Da Liu, you can call me by my name too, and those two in the room..." Liu Zilei As he spoke, he pointed to the people next to him and inside, "Here, Tang Baiqiao, the one inside who is doing homework is called Zhang Chao, he is a senior, and Old Tang and I are only one level older than you, so you don't need to live here." See you outside, we are all brothers."

Shi's ears turned red again, and after saying "yes", there was no more words.

For Shi Que, he has met most of the people here on the basketball court, but he has no further acquaintance with them.But fortunately, whether it is a senior or a peer, he feels that they are quite easy to get along with.

Tang Baiqiao is the captain of the school team, he looks cruel and ruffian, but his temperament is mature and polite.Although Liu Zilei looks nervous, he is also able to control jokes, and has a different kind of intimacy with people.Zhang Chao, who didn't say anything just now, looked at the tall man with a domineering face, but came in when he saw him, and greeted him friendly.

Only Luo Wenjiao, always with an iceberg face that can only be seen from a distance but not approached, walked past Shi Ke silently, not even showing his happiness or anger.

After Xie Cheng put Shi Que on the bed to rest, he helped him fetch some light meals from downstairs, as well as a bowl of hot radish and ginger soup, saying that it could dispel the cold and cure the cold.

Most of the other members of the school team also went downstairs to eat, but when they were in a drowsy sleep, they could vaguely hear the sound of people coming in and out.

In the afternoon class, Shi asked Xie Cheng to ask the teacher for leave, and stayed alone in the room, sleeping until night.

The heating in the room was fully turned on, but I slept very comfortably when I was there.

He seemed to be having a long, vague dream.

In the dream, there was a boy in a blue coat walking alone in the snow.

Lonely and firm.