back edge

There is a corridor leading to the canteen between Building A and Building B of No. [-] Middle School.

There are pure white walls on both sides of the corridor, which have already been messed up by various footprints and graffiti.Although there are windows here, they are not very useful, and there is not much light through them.

Jia Feichen thought about it for two years and couldn't figure out why the school had to hang a notice board in such a dark, dirty place with no lights.

The bulletin board usually has no sense of existence except to inform who smokes and who dyes their hair, but today it is particularly abnormal. It is full of people, and it is difficult to walk.

"Hey, don't step on my shoes!" Jia Feichen was wearing the newly bought limited-edition sneakers, and was stepped on several times by others, his heart throbbing with pain.

The unlucky day started when he couldn't eat breakfast - he wanted to go to the canteen to buy some bread, but he was stuck here for a long time, and when the bell was about to ring, Jia Feichen was still struggling to get out.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a familiar name popping out from the mouths of the onlookers, and he changed direction and continued to struggle in an instant.

"Brothers, what are you looking at?" Jia Feichen managed to squeeze into the front row, and asked a random person wearing a high school uniform.

The crowd was noisy, and every word could be heard echoing in the closed corridor, like the rippled water surface, making people's ears numb.

The boy turned around and searched for several times before he recognized who was talking to him.

He sized Jia Feichen's eyes before replying loudly: "Do you know Xie Jingnian? We were in the top ten in the second grade, and we were reported for cheating in the preliminary exam!"

Chen Kui nestled on the short sofa in the teacher's office, his long legs stretched out just enough to touch the legs of Ji Heyi's desk.

On the desk is a pot of spider plants raised by Ji Heyi, growing gratifyingly.The emerald green branches almost hang down to the ground, leaning softly at Chen Shi's feet.

Xie Jingnian stood beside Chen Kui, his neck became sore after bowing his head for a long time, and his eyes were dazed by the intricately patterned tiles.But now he can only stare at his toes, listening to Ji He's nearly half-hour educational criticism to Chen Xi.

"Xiao Xie is a good boy, I believe he will never make such a mistake again in the future."

Ji Heyi's nagging finally came to an end, Xie Jingnian couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and quietly raised his eyes to see Chen Xi's expression.

It just so happened that Chen Xi also looked over, and their eyes met.Xie Jingnian was very guilty, and raised his breath of relief again.

"Then I have nothing else to do, so I'll take him back first." Chen Xi looked away, stood up and shook hands with Ji Heyi, "Teacher, I'm sorry."

"No trouble." Ji Heyi bid farewell to the two, before he remembered to ask, "By the way, Xiao Xie, why haven't I heard you mention that you have an older brother before, is it relative?"

Chen Xi picked up the helmet from the sofa, and responded with a smile: "Yes, dear."

During this time, the students are in class, and there is no one in the corridor.When Chen Kui walked, his footsteps were very light, and the heavy soles of his boots only made a slight sound when he stepped on the tiled floor.

The morning sun illuminates the corridor brightly, and the shadows are long.Xie Jingnian followed behind Chen Xi, stepped step by step on the shadow he cast, and didn't pay attention to the road, directly bumping into Chen Xi's back.

Chen Xie took Xie Jingnian's schoolbag shoulder strap and led him to his side, raised his eyelids to look at him, his eyes seemed to ask if you are an idiot.

But Chen Xi probably wouldn't say this to him, it was purely Xie Jingnian's thinking there.

From the time he came out of school until he put in the keys of the motorcycle, Chen Kui didn't talk much to Xie Jingnian, and he pursed his lips fiercely.

"Brother Rotten... are you angry?"

Xie Jingnian hadn't seen Chen Xi angry yet, but his intuition told him that Chen Xi was like this because of today's incident.

The helmet that was about to be put on was put down again.Chen Xi walked to the fence outside the school and sat down. He was not in a hurry to leave, and said calmly, "What kind of anger am I?"

Xie Jingnian curled his lips, sat down next to him, and stubbornly killed what he had just decided in his heart: "You are just angry."

The strong smell of tobacco drifted into Xie Jingnian's nose, making his palms itch.

In fact, he thought that cheating might be discovered, but it was another matter for him to accept it.Whether it's the whispered discussions of the teachers in the office, Ji Heyi's deep and lengthy conversation, or Chen Xi's attitude at this time, these affect him all the time and make people irritated.

He can ignore other people's opinions, but he can't ignore Chen Shi's opinions.This is a thorn, which can stab his heart severely anytime and anywhere.

Xie Jingnian couldn't hold back, and reached out to button the corner of the cigarette case protruding from the pocket of Chen Kui's leather coat.

People didn't agree, so he couldn't take it out directly, scratching like a kitten, and asked weakly and without confidence: "Brother Rotten, give me one."

"When I was your age, I also liked to smoke." Chen Xi said this sentence without end, and waited for a long time without further words.

Xie Jingnian asked: "And then?"

Chen Kui pinched his cigarette, looked at him and smiled: "Then I have been smoking until now, and I can't quit."

It was only after the words were finished that Xie Jingnian came to his senses, and quickly stopped Chen Xi from throwing the cigarette butt, almost snatching the cigarette butt in his hand.

Chen Kui was taken aback by him, took Xie Jingnian's hand, forcefully opened his fingers, rubbed his fingertips on the white and tender skin covered with dense palm lines, and reprimanded: "Why are you snatching cigarette butts, you have to scald a hole ?”

The flush spread upward along Xie Jingnian's ears.His brain was blank, only the warmth from Chen Xi's touch on his palm just now, there was no pain from being burned, but a numbness all the way to the apex of his heart, which lingered for a long time.

Xie Jingnian felt a little pity looking at the cigarette butts that fell on the ground, and apologized in a muffled voice: "I made a mistake, Brother Jiu."

No response was received, Xie Jingnian looked up at Chen Xi, and found that he was frowning tightly again.

Xie Jingnian thought that Chen Xi was still blaming him for grabbing cigarette butts, so he continued to apologize sincerely: "I really know that I made a mistake, Brother Yu, I won't do it next time."

"none of your business."

Chen Xi came back to his senses, deliberately stayed away from him, moved under the tree and lit a cigarette again.

Xie Jingnian sat there without moving. He saw that just as Chen Xi took a puff, a middle-aged man in uniform came out from the guard at the school gate, and walked straight towards Chen Xi. His voice was so loud that he could hear it clearly. Chu: "Young man! No smoking at the gate of the school!"

Probably because he didn't expect this to happen, Chen Xi was stunned for a moment, and he extinguished the cigarette under the guard's close-up death gaze.

When he walked back, Xie Jingnian was already laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten up.Because it is very rare to have the opportunity to see Chen Xi make an embarrassment.

Of course, the consequence of gloating is the torment caused by side effects.

Xie Jingnian lay curled up on the sofa, with a smile in his eyes, but he said aggrievedly: "Brother Rotten, my stomach hurts."

Chen Xi was ruthless and unmoved: "Get up and eat."

Xie Jingnian turned over and put his face on the side of the sofa back, wanting to lie still for a while.Unexpectedly, Chen Xi didn't give him a chance at all, and dragged him from the sofa to the dining room.

After not eating it for a while, Xie Jingnian felt that Chen Xi's craftsmanship had improved, and the oatmeal with milk was more delicious than the ones he bought outside.

"It's not enough to eat and there's still in the pot." Chen Xi didn't know what he was busy with, so he came over and poured himself a bowl of porridge when he was almost finished eating, and sat down opposite Xie Jingnian.

In fact, Xie Jingnian really panicked when Ji Heyi said he wanted to find his parents at the beginning of the day. When he called Chen Xi, his heart was beating like he was on a roller coaster - even though he hadn't been on a roller coaster yet.

He wanted Chen Xi to come, but he didn't want him to come.

Xie Jingnian looked at Chen Xi, and wanted to ask him what he thought of him.Cheating on exams, being talked to by parents, no matter how you look at it, it is extremely bad.

In the end, I still didn't ask the exit.All the embarrassment was crushed and melted into silence, and he swallowed the white porridge into his throat.

The two arrived at the practice room before nine o'clock.

Zhou Yantong came early, and sat on the small bed to greet the two of them. When his eyes fell on Xie Jingnian, he was a little surprised: "My brother is on vacation today?"

"...Hmm." Under Chen Xi's gaze, Xie Jingnian bit his head and lied.

Fortunately, Chen Xi didn't expose him, he took a few more glances at him and went to arrange the instruments.

"By the way, I almost forgot," Zhou Yan said, "Zhou Zhou said that he would perform in the next city next month, and asked us to go."

Chen Xi didn't care much, saying that he knew about it a long time ago and got a few tickets.

Zhou Yantong frowned immediately after hearing this, and made a voice call to Zhou Zhou on the spot, ready to ask why she didn't tell him first, but Chen Xi.

The call was quickly connected, but judging from Zhou Yantong's expression, the person opposite was obviously not the one he was looking for: "Qian Ke? What did Zhou Zhou do?"

I don't know what he said, but when Zhou Yantong hung up the phone, his complexion was very bad, red and white.

Chen Xi knew what was going on, and scolded with a smile: "You deserve to be scolded."

"No, what does their quarrel have to do with me?" Zhou Yan was so angry that he didn't even want his mobile phone, and threw it on the small bed with a dull sound, "Then why doesn't Qian Ke scold you?"

Chen Xi ignored Zhou Yantong's exasperated accusation, picked up the red and white guitar that had been placed in the corner, and said, "Think for yourself."

Xie Jingnian saw Chen Xiu play this guitar twice.The first time was in the Weibo video, and the other time was the performance at the Pub-BarLiveHouse bar.

After seeing it up close, I found that the red part of this guitar also has a signature of Tita band, but it is not particularly conspicuous on the dark red piano board.

No wonder Chen Yu and Zhou Yantong sold the autographed acoustic guitar so happily at that time.

Chen Kui connected the electric guitar to the speaker, greeted Xie Jingnian, and motioned for him to play.

The touch of the fingertips on the strings is slightly cool.The strings of electric guitars are softer than those of acoustic guitars. Xie Jingnian fiddled with them casually, and the piercing sound came out from the speaker, like glass pieces being scratched on a blackboard, and the long, sharp sound was mixed with some electronic sounds. Thanks to Xie Jingnian, he didn't dare to make any further moves.

"Brother, are you trying to murder us?" Zhou Yantong covered his ears, presumably because he didn't want to be tortured again, and hid outside under the pretext of smoking.

Xie Jingnian is not a person who likes to blush, but ever since he met Chen Xie, he always felt that the base of his ears and cheeks were extremely hot.

Glancing at the corner of Chen Xi's raised mouth, Xie Jingnian immediately guessed that he did it on purpose, just wanting to see him make a fool of himself.