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The last summer vacation before the college entrance examination is coming, accompanied by the noisy chirping of cicadas, all the students in the classroom feel restless like grass growing in their hearts.

It was said to be a self-study class, but Ji Heyi didn't care much about discipline, and sat leisurely on the podium drinking chrysanthemum tea.

Xie Jingnian was sitting under the fan, his body was covered with sweat, and when the wind blows again, he faintly seemed to be about to catch a cold.

Feeling dizzy and feeling uncomfortable all over, but all he thinks about is old.

When he was drying his hair that day, he kept looking at Chen Shi in the mirror——

Chen Xi's eyes were fixed on him, and it seemed that there were countless pity and love in it, wrapping him so softly, it made his heart flutter.

Xie Jingnian didn't dare to think about it.He was afraid that it was all his own illusion.

From then on, for a long time, this illusion haunted his dreams every night, making it difficult for him to fall asleep.

Jia Feichen's hand was in the desk, and he was using Zhao Yun to punish the ruler in the Canyon of Kings. He took a moment to look at Xie Jingnian: "What's wrong with Mr. Xie?"

The people around Xie Jingnian were all under the influence of Chen Hanlin at some point, and they all called Mr. Xie one by one.Jia Feichen relied on himself to sit at the same table with Xie Jingnian, the closest one was his favorite.

Xie Jingnian ignored him.

"Are you wearing too many clothes?" Jia Feichen saw Xie Jingnian rubbing his head, thinking he was in a panic, "I haven't seen you showing your arms in a while, your clothes are welded to you. Or what?" Yes, you are embarrassed, afraid of people watching?"

Ever since Jia Feichen became obsessed with games, he has sharpened his mouth to a higher level, and now he can even compare with Zhuang Jie.

"No, I'm just a little sleepy." Xie Jingnian lay on his arms and turned his back to Jia Feichen, "You don't care how much I wear?"

A reminder of the hero's death came from the ear.Jia Feichen put down his phone, leaned over and complained in a low voice: "Why are you like this? I don't care about you, I'm afraid you'll make things worse for me again."

Xie Jingnian sat up and looked at him, and nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's right. I'm sick, and I want to suffocate myself to death with my school uniform jacket."

Before Jia Feichen could utter another word, Xie Jingnian took off his coat in a hurry, revealing his arm covered with two plasters.

It had long been expected that Jia Feichen would ask why the plaster was put on, so Xie Jingnian took out the excuses he had prepared in advance and prevaricated indiscriminately.

Peachy CD has been particularly active since it recruited keyboardist Xiaomo.Recently, I accepted another livehouse performance, and I plan to play with Xie Jingnian.

Although Yao Xi said that he was looking for him because Chen Xi didn't have time to go, how could Xie Jingnian not think that Chen Xi wanted him to go on purpose.

The Livehouse performance was just two weeks before Xie Jingnian's summer vacation.Because he won the first prize in the provincial competition before, the school gave him permission to waive the final exam this semester.

Xie Jingnian and Yao Xi had already set a date for rehearsal, and they came to the practice room early before the appointed time.

Peachy CD's practice room is in the basement of a record store.The dark descending passage is located in the alley next to the record store, except for a small area where the sun shines, there is no light. Xie Jingnian can only fumble downstairs with the flashlight of his mobile phone.

The wooden stairs were probably in disrepair, and they creaked when stepped on, and even a piece of wood broke directly under his feet, making him almost fall down the stairs when he stepped on the air.

Xie Jingnian's heartbeat was so fast that even in the cool underground it made him break out in a cold sweat.

Especially when he arrived at the practice room like a big adventure, Yao Xi lightly dropped a sentence that there is a down elevator in the record store.

Xie Jingnian put down his guitar and lay paralyzed on the small sofa for a long time, unable to recover.

The relationship between Yao Xi and Qian Ke has never shy away from others.At this time, Yao Xi was sitting in Qian Ke's arms, pestering her to see which female anchors a certain voice in the phone was following.

"Didn't watch." Qian Ke had no choice but to be robbed of her phone, and hugged Yao Xi's thin waist with her hands empty.

Even Yao Xi can wear suspender skirts in winter, let alone summer.She was sitting in Qian Ke's arms, wearing very short hot pants and a tube top that could hardly cover anything. When she moved occasionally, her fair skin would make people's eyes hot.

Xie Jingnian just glanced at it and didn't dare to look at it again, his gaze could only wander around the room in embarrassment.

By the time the keyboard player Xiao Mo came late, it was already lunch time.A few people had a meal at the Malatang next door to the record store, and went back to rehearse until the evening.

Chen Xi's tattoo parlor has the same number of customers regardless of morning or evening.When Xie Jingnian entered the room, he saw several people sitting scattered upstairs and downstairs.

Chen Xi was probably busy and didn't notice him coming in.A gentle-looking strange man reclined on the sofa downstairs, with a lazy posture, and greeted him in a familiar tone: "Chen Xi is busy, can you sit down for a while?"

As he spoke, he straightened up and patted the vacant sofa seat beside him, with a frivolous look that was completely different from his appearance.

The man seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about Xie Jingnian, and he kept trying to talk to him since he sat down.For a while, he asked his age, and for a while he asked where he went to school, and he chatted about everything.

Hearing his tone, Xie Jingnian thought that he was very familiar with Chen Xi, and he was too embarrassed to leave immediately, so he could only bite the bullet and answer.

"Come here." Standing in the attic on the second floor, Chen Kui leaned on the fence with his two flower arms, looking down against the light, his tone was a little tough.

The man thought that Chen Xi was talking to him, so he stood up and straightened his clothes: "It's coming to me so soon?"

Just as he was about to lift his feet up the stairs, he heard Chen Xi say again: "Come here."

This time the tone was more serious.

Xie Jingnian and Chen Xi met their gazes, and the first reaction was that Chen Xi was probably a little angry, but he didn't know the reason, so he could only skip the man by three steps and run up to the second floor in two steps.

Before Chen Kui finished his work, he pulled out a plastic stool from under the workbench for him to sit beside.

Xie Jingnian has always thought that Chen Xi's appearance when he was serious was particularly attractive.Whether it's playing the guitar, singing, or getting tattoos.

When the humming sound of the machine suddenly stopped, Chen Xi lowered his head to change the paint, and said indifferently, "Stop interacting with him."

Xie Jingnian was completely confused.

who is he?Probably the strange man downstairs.But the two of them just exchanged a few words, it can't really be called communication.And isn't that man Chen Xi's friend?

Xie Jingnian didn't ask these words, just nodded obediently and said: "I see, Brother Jiu."

The livehouse of Peachy CD is in this city.

On the day of the performance, Xie Jingnian hurried out, wearing only black half-sleeves and shorts, with two plasters sticking crookedly on one arm.

Chen Kui held his slender forearm and rubbed it, and asked him, "Covered?"

"Ah."

Xie Jingnian waited for Chen Xi to let him go, then withdrew his hand, couldn't help but touched the place that Chen Xi touched just now - there was an ugly centipede-like scar hidden under the two flesh-colored plasters.

Chen Kui sized him up again, took off the decorative necklace from his neck and put it on for Xie Jingnian: "Go."

After thinking about it, Xie Jingnian told him to be careful when he walked out.

The scene of the Livehouse was still crowded. Xie Jingnian was sitting on the stage tuning the electric guitar, and suddenly felt the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrate twice.

He took it out and saw that it was news from Jia Feichen.He sent a photo of Xie Jingnian sitting on the stage.

Followed by another message.

"Do you think this person looks like you?"

Xie Jingnian looked up, and it took him a long time to see Fu Xue who was submerged in the crowd.

So he returned a voice message to Jia Feichen: "You idiot, that's me."

Immediately afterwards, under Jia Feichen's confused gaze, Xie Jingnian gave him the middle finger from a distance on the stage.

Just by the shape of his mouth, Jia Feichen must have uttered a foul language, and he hurriedly dragged Fu Xue to mutter something.

Yao Xi's performance style is particularly psychedelic, not only when listening to it off stage, even Xie Jingnian felt like he was about to fall into it on stage.

When he stepped down from the stage, he was light and in a daze.

It wasn't until I saw a series of "fucking shit" sent by Jia Feichen's WeChat that I realized it.

The three of them agreed to meet at the entrance of the shopping mall. As soon as Jia Feichen came over, he punched Xie Jingnian: "You can do it, you, we will not tell you this!"

Fu Xue followed Jia Feichen and kept secretly looking at Xie Jingnian, also surprised by his appearance.

"I didn't want to hide it from you either." Xie Jingnian said while clutching his sore arm.

"Fart, go ahead!" Obviously, Jia Feichen was greatly stimulated, and he was so excited, "If Xue'er hadn't said that she wanted to see the show, I would have caught you!"

Xie Jingnian couldn't say no to him, so he was forced to take out the red and white electric guitar from his piano bag and hold it in his arms, and pose for a photo with the two of them.

Xie Jingnian laughed so hard that his face froze, and there were many passers-by who stopped to watch.Seeing that he was holding a guitar in his hand, he probably regarded him as a starlet, and some even came over to ask him for an autograph.

After finally getting rid of the onlookers and Jia Feichen, Xie Jingnian walked out of the shopping mall only to find that the sky was dark and it was raining continuously.

The phone in my hand suddenly rang.

At this time, the first thing he thought of was Chen Xi.Fortunately, he was not asked to pick it up, otherwise brother Jiu would probably have been poured with him too.

When the phone was answered, it was a strange woman's voice.

Perhaps the signal was not very good in rainy days, Xie Jingnian could only understand a few words intermittently.

Xie Chongguo, city hospital, critically ill——

Xie Chongguo?

Xie Jingnian has not heard Xie Laosan's real name for many years.

It took him nearly 2 minutes to reflect on what the call contained.

Xie Lao San is critically ill.