Bamboo horse fell from the sky

Yu Ran's home is in an old community in the south of Qi'an County. The community is located on the street side of the old city. There are very few young people here, and most of the residents are old people and children.

Walking along the street, you can occasionally hear the sound of cards being shuffled in the mahjong parlor or see a few old ladies sitting together and talking and laughing.

The roads here are not clean and tidy, and even the lines on the utility poles look unrepaired.But in fact, maintenance workers have to visit almost once a month to solve the power outage problem in the old city.

Yu Ran came here in his father's car. When passing by the street, his father's new car would occasionally attract the attention of people around him, wondering which family of migrant workers had returned.

He got out of the car and removed two suitcases and a large duffel bag from the trunk of the car.

Yu Jingcheng wanted to help him move in but was stopped by Yu Ran on the way.

"Okay, Comrade Yu Jingcheng, go back quickly, I'm going to start enjoying my happy life of living alone."

The relationship between Yu Ran and his father has always been harmonious, and apart from the relationship between father and son, the two also have a brotherly friendship.

For example, when he skipped class to play games in an Internet cafe in junior high school, his father caught him. The first thing his father did at that time was to drag him off the chair.

The second thing is that he used his number to send a dozen heads to the enemy in front of him.

At that time, he just watched himself being sprayed into a sieve by his teammates.

And that was his first tailwind qualifying after ten consecutive kneelings.Afterburn was so impressed.

"You child." Yu Jingcheng sneered, then waved his hands helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, then I'm leaving, remember to call your father if you need something."

"Okay, goodbye!" Yu Ran waved goodbye to his father, and happily walked inside with his luggage.

As soon as he turned the corner, he saw Shen Chi waiting at the door of his house.

"Shen Chi!" Yu Ran shouted loudly.

Shen Chi immediately raised his head and frowned quickly when he saw his large and small boxes.

He walked over and took more than half of it from Yu Ran: "Why didn't you send me a message?"

"I just got out of the car and only took two steps." Yu Ran pulled the suitcase through the uneven path, and then stood in front of his house.

The muddy ground in front of his house had just been trimmed not long ago, and now it was exuding a faint fragrance of green grass, and the neighbor who had already moved away, the weeds at the door were growing luxuriantly and savagely.

Summer had just begun when he left, but it was already late when he came back.

It's been a long time, but it seems that they just missed a summer.

Yu Ran took out the key and opened the door.

The structure of the house is the same as before, but the inside has been fully renovated, and it looks clean. I don’t know which decoration company his father hired. The quality of work is so high, so it looks like a big difference from the dilapidated home before. don't.

Yu Ran and Shen Chi started packing their luggage. As Yu Ran said earlier, he had brought many things here before, but this time he only brought his own clothes and school supplies.

With Shen Chi here, everything was cleaned up quickly. After the end, they went to the supermarket across the street to buy a few bags of daily necessities.

Yu Ran is living alone for the first time, and she is very excited about the fact that she can control everything freely.

Driven by emotion, he started to consume impulsively.

Shen Chi saw all this in his eyes, and he didn't stop him, he didn't want to disturb Yu Ran's finally getting up, so he only occasionally reminded him a few words.

By the time the last two came out, it was already raining outside.

Yu Ran's mood was not affected by the weather, he took out the umbrella he just bought, and proudly said: "Fortunately I didn't listen to you, otherwise we would have to go in again."

Shen Chi was noncommittal, but he felt that Yu Ran could use him for this kind of thing.

Holding an umbrella, Yu Ran crossed the road side by side with Shen Chi.

The rain was a bit heavy, the ground was slippery, and the vehicles passing by became sparse, and it seemed a little deserted at first glance.

Yu Ran glanced left and right, a bit dazed.

But soon he came back to his senses, and the pace under his feet silently accelerated.

The sky became more and more gloomy, and the dark clouds weighed heavily on the top of the head, like a huge hand covering the sky, making people a little breathless.

The expression on Yu Ran's face became a little ugly, and the tails of the eyes that were raised normally were drooping at the moment, looking a little anxious.

Not long after, the two walked into the community, and the surrounding greenery became thicker, soothing the tense nerves, and the aftermath of smelling the refreshing breath lingering from the tip of the nose, heaved a sigh of relief.

But before he could relax completely, a burst of engine rumble suddenly entered his ears.

He raised his eyes suddenly, and when he walked to the corner, he suddenly saw a bright red motorcycle at the end of his eyes.

He and Shen Chika's position was a little dangerous, and the motorcycle didn't slow down in advance when turning.

"careful!"

Shen Chi suddenly raised his hand to wrap around Yu Ran's waist and retreated hastily.

The car brushed past Yu Mou and drove away without looking back.

If it were the usual lingering flames, they might have already cursed at this moment.But at this moment, being held in Shen Chi's arms, he was so stiff that he couldn't make a sound.

He tried to open his mouth, but only heard the sound of chattering teeth.

The things in his hand were scattered all over the ground, Yu Ran's fingertips trembled, but he was grabbed by someone the next moment.

"It's okay, I'll hold you back." Shen Chi comforted in a low voice, Yu Ran listened to these words, and his stagnant breathing suddenly became smoother.

"I'm fine." Yu Ran wiped his face and rubbed the stiff muscles on his face: "There may be some sequelae, but it's not serious, so don't worry."

Shen Chi squatted down and picked up the things one by one, and when he stood up again, he found that Yu Ran's forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

He was suffocated, and wanted to continue to comfort him, but there was no legitimate reason for the overly intimate anxious concerns stuck in his throat.

He suddenly realized that it might not only be time that stood between him and Yu Ran.

"Let's go." Yu Ran had already collected his emotions, he bent his eyes and raised his lips, and forced himself to speak calmly: "There are still things to be cleaned up later."

The two of them tacitly didn't bring up this matter again afterwards, but the haze it caused tightly shrouded Shen Chi's heart.

He originally thought that the days without lingering fire were the most unbearable, but looking at it now, with people around him, he can only care about it like an ordinary friend without pain or itching——

There was a suffocation in his heart.

Shen Chi sat by the bed, his eyes silently falling on the photo frame on the bedside table.

That was 12-year-old Remnant and 12-year-old him.

In the photo, the smiling Yu Ran raised his arms around his neck, beckoning to the camera.He himself looked at Yu Ran's side face and pursed his lips and smiled.

Yu Ran said that he had to take a photo to commemorate his elementary school graduation. The photographer took a lot of photos, but when he saw this one, he shook his head and said that he didn't look at the camera, so he couldn't take this one.

But he immediately stopped the other party from deleting, saying that this must be printed out.

Because only in this one, he didn't look at the dark camera, but looked at the most dazzling light in his entire 12 years of life.

Now, the 16-year-old Shen Chi outside the photo and the 12-year-old Shen Chi in the photo are looking at the smiling afterburn together, but their mentality is completely different.

The 12-year-old Shen Chi wants to continue walking like this with Yu Ran.

At this moment, 16-year-old Shen Chi was thinking about how to find his way back.

In the afternoon, the weather improved.Yu Ran wandered around the old town by himself for a long time, but he didn't ask Shen Chi to accompany him, after all, he couldn't bother him with everything.

According to the vague impressions in his mind, Yu Ran retrieved many memories.

For example, the narrow crossroads on the west side of the old town was full of breakfast shops, and it was very lively every morning. In the past, he and Shen Chi would come here for breakfast every day.

He still remembered that there was a wonton shop there that was particularly delicious, but it seems that there is no more.

Yu Ran also went to a barber shop to have her hair cut. She cut off the hair that used to hang on the nape of her neck, making her look much refreshed.When Shen Chi saw the afterglow that came back, the first thing he saw was his shortened hairstyle.

Yu Ran stood in front of the door and turned around to meet Shen Chi on the second floor.

Yu Ran looked up at him, and waved at him like he did countless times before.

Shen Chi stared blankly, suddenly felt a little hot in his eyes, and quickly closed the window.

In the past few years, he has looked at the empty house on the opposite side countless times, and imagined in his mind many times the scene of Yu Ran standing in front of the door and waving at him after returning, but now that it suddenly came true, he dare not take a closer look.

Just like a dream held in the palm of the hand, it will disappear when you open your palm, which makes him panic and dare not be alarmed.

Yu Ran was shocked when he saw Shen Chi close the window.

damn...

Is his hairstyle so ugly that Shen Chi can't look straight at it?

He raised his hand blankly and stroked his fluffy hair.

No, he still thinks it looks pretty good.

Monday morning.

The mobile phone beside the pillow vibrated, a white and slender arm poked out from under the quilt, swipe across the screen familiarly to turn off the alarm.

Yu Ran struggled to open his sore eyelids, and squinted to see the time.

At six o'clock in the morning, morning reading will start in half an hour.

......He seems to have forgotten to set an early alarm clock, it is impossible to catch the bus at this time.

Forget it, it's warped.Yu Ran thought expressionlessly.

He yawned lazily, headed dizzily and went to the bathroom, and didn't wake up until cold water poured on his face.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

At this time, there was no one else who could knock on the door except Shen Chi.

With a fluffy mess of hair on his head, Yu Ran opened the door with dim eyes, and the well-dressed Shen Chi and the early morning sunlight crashed into his eyes.

I saw Shen Chi wearing a complete set of school uniform, fair skin, and his whole body was neatly tidied up. If it weren't for the years of coldness that could be vaguely glimpsed between his brows and eyes, he would look like a pure high school boy.

He saw Yu Ran look like he just got up from the bed, raised his eyebrows slightly, and his voice was so clear that there was no hoarseness after getting up: "If you don't leave, you will be late."

Yu Ran made up his mind to skip a section and read it early, he didn't panic at all, he waved his hand and said, "You go first, I'm not in a hurry."

After speaking, he closed the door.

As a professional latecomer, Yu Ran perfectly demonstrated his excellent psychological quality.

After washing up, he put on his school uniform, took another sandwich and warmed it up in the microwave, packed his breakfast, and then went out with his schoolbag.

He stuffed the key into his pocket, walked leisurely, and then turned around and saw a familiar figure.

"...Shen Chi?"

He stared in astonishment at Shen Chi who was sitting on a bicycle not far away, flipping through a book, and raised his voice a lot: "Didn't I tell you to go first? What are you doing here?"

"Come out?" Shen Chi closed the book and threw it into the car basket in front of him. He stepped on the uneven path with his two long legs, and supported the handle of the car with both hands. The dark blood vessels on the back of his white hands were clearly visible.

"Come up."

Yu Yan froze for two seconds, thinking that this person's head was probably run over by a car without his knowing, otherwise Shen Chi would not be so ill.

He muttered: "What are you waiting for me? Aren't you afraid that Fang Xiaoyan will punish you for being late?"

Then he sat on the back seat of the bicycle.

"......what time is it now?"

Shen Chi glanced at the watch on his wrist: "Twenty past six."

Yu Ran pondered for a moment: "Can you rush there within 10 minutes?"

"What do you say?"

Yu Ran's eyelids twitched: "Hey! Let me declare in advance that I want you to leave first."

Shen Chi's voice drifted back with the wind: "Do you see that I blame you?"

The bicycle traveled a short section of uneven trail, then turned into another road.

Yu Ran actually forgot to take a good look at the place where he lived since childhood yesterday.

The Rudbeckia in the simple flower bed is in full bloom, it seems to be exactly the same as the day Yu Ran left, their petals are swaying in the wind, and the stems and branches are close to each other, as if they are whispering.

The playground in the distance was deserted, one of the swings was broken, the ping-pong table that Shen Chi and I used to climb together was still there, and the painted basketball hoop was still standing there silently, silently pouring out the passage of time.

It seems that nothing has changed, and it seems that everything has changed.

Or maybe some things are eternal, but some are sculpted beyond recognition by time.

Yu Ran looked at the trees that were moving back quickly, his mind suddenly became empty, and he unconsciously remembered the past.

When I was a child, Shen Chi always came to knock on the door of his house when I went to school. If the aftermath was not cleaned up after knocking on the door, he would definitely stand at the door and wait for him until he came out.

The morning light is getting brighter, and the surroundings are visibly brightened by the naked eye.The aroma wafting from the breakfast shop on the roadside is still the smell of years ago, and even the action of the proprietress picking up the fine noodles from the pot and shaking the water is exactly the same as before.From time to time, I heard the sound of the rolling shutter door being pulled up, maybe it was time to open the door to welcome guests.

For a moment, Yu Ran even thought that he had returned to four years ago.