The mountains and rivers are gentle today

"Are you short of money?" Cheng Yanfan took a deep breath calmly, picked up a limp french fries, took a small piece out of his mouth and chewed slowly.

Lin Xiqing shrugged: "Obviously. So if your problem is also about money, it will be difficult for me."

"Don't worry." Cheng Yanfan raised the corner of his mouth, "Even if you are too poor to pay the rent, I won't be out of money. This building belongs to my grandma."

"It's pretty good." Lin Xiqing still laughed out loud even after being complained a little bit, "I really think it's pretty good."

"That's right, and I don't rely on my grandma for spending money." Cheng Yanfan looked at the light tubes installed against the boundary line between the ceiling and the wall. Part of the long white beam of light had already turned black, even if the eyes looked directly at it. I don't feel any pain, "The money my parents gave me is enough to spend."

Lin Xiqing silently stopped chewing, she felt that Cheng Yanfan might have something to say next.

"It's just that no one wants to see me." Cheng Yanfan shrugged in imitation of Lin Xiqing's usual manner, maybe he wanted to imitate Lin Xiqing's calm and relaxed attitude, but the fact is obviously not the case.Lin Xiqing felt that she might cry again.

"Both my parents... remarried." Cheng Yanfan dipped the french fries in the ketchup squeezed on the paper towels, and she didn't know if she could taste the taste, "No matter how often I hang around them , inappropriate."

Lin Xiqing vaguely felt that behind this sentence "inappropriate", many stories were hidden.

"It's okay, it's all over." Lin Xiqing tentatively patted Cheng Yanfan's shoulder twice, "I also came back from City B to City L, and now...it's okay, and you're richer than me, It will be better."

Cheng Yanfan did not respond.

Lin Xiqing decided to break the silence: "Then why...resist dancing?"

"I want to live a more exciting life." Cheng Yanfan finally finished dipping the ketchup on the napkin, "You too, you didn't want to dance at all when you just came here."

"That's right." Lin Xiqing grinned—it seemed a bit deliberate, but Cheng Yanfan probably didn't see it, "Besides, I was a human cub when I first came to L City, and I was not allowed to enter any stimulating places. , If you don’t want to dance, you can only read stupidly every day.”

"So you became the top student on the No. [-] Middle School's honor list?" Cheng Yanfan raised his eyebrows and smiled, it seemed that this was the first time Lin Xiqing saw her smile sincerely today.

"Shut up, what's there to show off as a top student in No. [-] Middle School?" Lin Xiqing pretended to push her, and suddenly felt that he could pick up the topic a little deeper and understand a little bit more, "So, which bar are you in as the atmosphere? Team? I'll go back and find you."

"Track. It's not far from the bar street. It's a new one. The boss just graduated from No. [-] Middle School. I heard that he used to hang out in bars a lot when he was in high school." Cheng Yanfan frowned a little. This was her first time. Once, in such a lighthearted tone, she chatted with an outsider about her new life in L City.

"Then congratulations? I met the specialty of No.[-] Middle School when I just returned to L City—the big bastard." Lin Xiqing joked about No.[-] Middle School every day.

"If you want to come to see me, tell me in advance. I'll tell you that I'm on a shift, and I'm not available every night recently." Cheng Yanfan said.

"Huh? Didn't you leave on time at 08:30 when we rehearsed?" Lin Xiqing wondered.

"Recently I suddenly want to practice dancing, so I don't go every night." Cheng Yanfan said, "But if you go, you won't look like a lost girl, right?"

"You underestimated me." Lin Xiqing rolled his eyes, "I'm still good at fighting."

Lin Xiqing looked into Cheng Yanfan's eyes, and he didn't know whether the reflections in the dark eyes were water or lights.

She was suddenly blessed, put her hands on Cheng Yanfan's shoulders, smiled, and said softly, as if she was singing some kind of spell that would win with one hit: "Go back to City B, Cheng Yanfan. Go back to City B Bar."

Cheng Yanfan laughed: "Is this what you wish for yourself?"

"Yes." Lin Xiqing lowered his head and grinned, "Although I personally don't like tainted milk very much, I still admit it."

The result of talking until dawn on New Year's Eve is that I slept until almost four o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Day-it was four o'clock and I was still not sober.

At least Lin Xiqing was not too willing to get up at four o'clock in the afternoon, and he was all thanks to Xu Lan for being able to get up

——"Are you still sleeping? Do you remember that we are going back to school for evening self-study today?"

After four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Xiqing splashed cold water on her face, and sat down at the desk in the bedroom with the drops of water still dripping from her face—she hadn't finished her New Year's Day homework yet.

Although, most people in her class will go back to school to write slowly on the night of New Year's Day, and most people in their school can't write at all-but she still likes to finish her holiday homework within the scope of the holiday, and then go back to school to brush herself question.

"What is this for?" Cheng Yanfan walked behind Lin Xiqing at some point, and put a cup of cereal in her hand.

"Do your homework." Lin Xiqing picked up the cereal with his left hand, put it to his mouth and took a sip, without stopping with his right hand, he quickly listed the formulas on the calculation paper, and then sketched the options in the exercise book.

The whole process was smooth and smooth, and it was actually so beautiful.

"Quite fast." Cheng Yanfan commented, and helped Lin Xiqing close the door when he went out.

"Lin Xiqing, come out for a while." Less than an hour after the first session of evening self-study, the head teacher Jiang Zhi whispered at the door of the classroom.

"It's rare." Xu Lan tapped Lin Xiqing lightly with his elbow, teasingly, "What did you do?"

Lin Xiqing shook his head and left the classroom in a daze.

In the office, a middle-aged woman was sitting next to Jiang Zhi's seat, her toes kept tapping the ground, she didn't know whether it was anxiety or boredom.

The woman has long hair, no bangs, and her hair is tied low on the back of her head. It can be seen that she was a beauty when she was young. From some angles, Lin Xiqing looks somewhat similar to her.

"Mom." Lin Xiqing shouted.

The woman responded, nodded to Jiang Zhi, put her arm around Lin Xiqing's shoulder, and left the teacher's office full of people.

"Why do I feel that you and your father look more and more like each other?" The woman suddenly said something while going downstairs.

"No, where is it?" Lin Xiqing turned her head away, and her eyes were covered by her bangs that hadn't been cut for a long time.

"Then no." The woman hugged her again, "Mom just asked for leave for you and Mr. Jiang. Let's go out to eat something good tonight."

"I've already had dinner." Lin Xiqing lied, she only ate the cup of cereal Cheng Yanfan gave her after waking up today.

"What to eat?"

"K's note." Lin Xiqing replied.

The woman nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you eat it once in a while. K remembers, I guess it's a relatively clean fast food in the West District, right?"

"It's considered clean in L City."

"Then let's go have a late-night snack. I'll drive back and find it slowly."

Lin Xiqing nodded, regardless of whether the woman saw it or not.

The woman just said to herself: "I really don't have the skills. After so many years, I haven't got you a registered permanent residence in the provincial capital. I can only let you study in L City. But we finally bought a house in the Eastern District. You should go to the Eastern District Go to school, why bother to be so angry in the West District."

The woman glanced at the dilapidated teaching building of the No. [-] Middle School. The iron window in the corridor seemed to be able to fall down at any time and hit everyone's head. She turned her eyes away in disgust.

"It's okay, I'm used to it in No. [-] Middle School." Lin Xiqing helped the woman up, and looked around for the car she was familiar with.

She still didn't put the phrase "I want to spend less of your money" on the surface - even if this is the tacit fact in both mother and daughter's hearts.

They finally found a good-looking noodle shop in the East District, and Lin Xi ordered a bowl of stewed noodles with tomatoes and eggs.

The tomato in the noodles was very beautiful in color, Lin Xiqing somehow remembered that the tomato sauce that Cheng Yanfan squeezed on the paper towel early this morning was also bright red, and she was a little dazed at that moment.

"Qingqing, Mom asked you something." Lin's mother was sitting opposite Lin Xiqing. I don't know how old Lin Xiqing was. Even if Lin Xiqing missed her mother, she refused to look her mother in the eye.

The way her mother looked at her always felt scary to her—not the scary kind with a dangerous nature, but the scary kind as if Lin Xiqing would encounter some natural or man-made disaster at any time and soon die in this world.Lin Xiqing was unwilling to admit that it was some kind of worry, as if she would admit defeat to fate if she admitted it.

So this time, she also pretended to eat noodles with her head down, avoiding her mother's eyes: "Mom, tell me."

"That's... have you received any strange messages recently?"

Lin Xiqing immediately remembered the message "If you don't think about it, you will never forget it" she received that night.

"No." She immediately denied.

Of course she couldn't tell her mother what she had received, otherwise the "eyes that suspected that she would die soon" would become "the eyes that she would die soon".Her mother is already anxious enough to be suspicious every day, there is no need to be more anxious.

What's more, she didn't guess who sent the message