tall rose

The day before the new semester, Xia Zang was awakened by a tentative knock on the door.

Thanks to his narrow living room with one bedroom and one living room, he rubbed his eyes and got out of bed before taking two steps to the door.

But he didn't think about why someone would come here, and the anti-theft door was unscrewed by "squeak".

The moment he saw Yang Sheng, the coolness of the floor permeated his whole body through the soles of his feet.

Xia Zang lowered his head, only to realize that he forgot to put on his shoes.

"Good morning." Yang Sheng was carrying a black backpack and a down bag with one hand, and there was still a little sweat on his forehead, "I'm here to disturb you."

"Come in, don't stick it on the door." Xia Zang glanced at him up and down, took the down bag, and turned around to look for his own slippers.

Yang Sheng responded obediently: "Oh, then do I need to change my shoes?"

"It's on the shelf, take it yourself." Xia Zang put the down bag in the corner, lowered his head and swept his slippers at the foot of the bed.

"Bang", the door was closed.

Xia Zang put on his slippers and looked back. Yang Sheng had already walked over slowly, holding the backpack strap with both hands and retreating.

"Am I that scary?" Xia Zang asked, with a sense of humor, but there was no expression on his face.

On the contrary, Yang Sheng smiled calmly and said, "No, I'm just... conditioned reflex."

"Put the backpack on the chair over there, and then go to the bathroom to take a shower." Xia Zang glanced at the sweat dripping from his temples, "I'm going out to buy breakfast, remember to wash up quickly, and open the door for me later."

"Oh." Yang Sheng did as he said, unzipped the zipper after unloading the burden, and searched for a change of clothes, "Are you just getting up, bro?"

"I didn't get up, I was woken up by you." Xia Zang yawned, "Also, don't call me brother, we are the same age."

"You're two months older than me." Yang Sheng shrunk his neck, and said awkwardly, "I think it's disrespectful to call you by your first name."

Xia Zang laughed: "As you wish."

He kicked on a pair of slippers and walked towards the door, when Yang Sheng called out to him: "Brother, are you going out like this?"

"Well, there are acquaintances downstairs anyway." Xia Zang waved his hand back, and opened the door again, "I'll give you 10 minutes to lock me out, so don't even think about it."

Just as Yang Sheng was about to reply, the door was closed behind his back.

The relationship between Yang Sheng and Xia Zang is delicate, probably because they are stepbrothers on the same household registration book.

Yang Sheng's mother married Xia Zang's father, and they had a younger sister when they were 12 years old.

After entering high school, Xia Zang moved out on the grounds that he did not want to trouble his family and rented a house by himself.

Yang Sheng was also afraid of bothering his family. He lived in the school until he entered the third year of high school. In order to have a cleaner learning environment, he asked his stepfather and mother to rent a house by himself.

In the summer vacation before the third year of high school, he wandered around the school when he had free time, looking for houses with suitable prices.

It would be great to be able to live alone, but the rent given by the landlords is not so good. He is just a student, and he is embarrassed to spend too much money at home without much financial resources.

Feeling dizzy from walking around in the sun, Yang Sheng found a shady place to sit down, blowing the cool breeze from the entrance of the community.

The buildings on both sides extend, and the entrance of the community is a slender narrow pipe. Yang Sheng recalled the "narrow pipe effect" in the geography exercise book, the cool wind blowing not only mixed with the fragrance of the grass and trees outside, but also the ink of knowledge.

Really, learning to learn to be stupid, when a figure blocked his eyes, he still raised his head and looked silly at him.

Seeing the visitor clearly, the smile on the corner of Yang Sheng's mouth froze, and he almost jumped up on the spot: "Brother...Brother!"

It was Xia Zang, his stepbrother with the same household registration.

"Why are you here?" Xia Zang lowered his eyes and frowned.

"I'm here to look for a house." Yang Sheng got up quickly, and looked down at Xia Zang's shadow halfway into the sun, "I plan to rent it next semester. I didn't expect such a coincidence. Brother, you are also in this community."

That's right, even though Xia Zang has been living here for two years, Yang Sheng still doesn't know where he lives.

"Yeah." Xia Zang snorted perfunctorily, "Then did you find the right one?"

"After looking around, it's too expensive." Yang Sheng said shyly, "I plan to rest for a while, and then go to another community."

Xia Zang turned sideways, and when Yang Sheng raised his head, he could only see his clear profile.

"Come and sit at my place, it's too hot right now." Xia Zang said, and turned around when he remembered something, "But you still have to go with me to the canteen."

"Oh." Yang Sheng answered the question consciously, "Why are you going to the canteen?"

"Buy a Coke." Xia Zang said.

They walked down the narrow corridor one after the other, each holding a can of ice-cola with drops of water dangling from it.

Yang Sheng couldn't find Huatou, so he could only count the steps by himself, and endured this silent and embarrassing journey.

On the seventh floor, I climbed hundreds of steps unconsciously.

At first I still remembered how many there were, but Xia Zang turned his head again and my mind went blank.

"Brother..." Yang Sheng flinched, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing." Xia Zang turned his head back, "See if you're lost."

Xia Zang's residence is at the end of the corridor, and the anti-theft door is thick and solid.

Unscrew it with a key, and the soft sunlight inside shines through. With an area of ​​[-] to [-] square meters, there is a narrow hallway surrounded by shoe racks when you enter the door. You can look sideways at the kitchen counter, but there are only two stoves and a sink. The cupboard is closed under the kitchen counter. When looking towards the balcony, one can see a foldable low table and two square stools; then there is a soft couch, which can be slept on by two people, and the opposite wall is made of fabric wardrobe and wooden boards Bookshelves; a T-shirt or two dangled from chains across the balcony roof.

Simple and simple, you can see all the furnishings in the house at a glance.

Xia Zang stretched out his hand and pressed the switch on the wall, "Squeaky!" A cool breeze came from above his head.

Yang Sheng looked up and saw an old-fashioned ceiling fan with three oil-green leaves.

"There's no air conditioner, so you'll just get off." Xia Zang said, changing his shoes with a tap, and then unzipping the ring of the Coke can.

"Stinging", it sounds strange to Jieshu.

Yang Sheng smiled: "It's already very cool."

Although it is only [-] to [-] square meters, there is a separate bathroom and balcony, and Xia Zang doesn't have much to put. After sitting down with a Coke can in his arms, Yang Sheng feels that the surrounding area is very empty.

No problem for one more person.

Yang Sheng thought about it just like that, but when he returned to Shang Xia Zang's expressionless face, he still pushed back his thoughts in fear.

"The rent of my house has increased, and the landlord said that next month, I will have to pay 1000 yuan a month." Xia Zang said casually while drinking Coke, "I am also looking for someone to share the rent recently."

So Xia Zang has studied psychology?Yang Sheng blinked and blurted out, "Brother, I'll share the rent with you!"

It's five hundred per person, which is better than the seven or eight hundred outside, which is less than this area.

"Well, then you should get ready when school starts." Xia Zang said, and agreed lightly.

Even though the relationship was delicate and often embarrassing in the cold, Yang Sheng and Xia Zang made an appointment to rent together smoothly, and when they went back to talk to their stepfather and mother, they all nodded in relief.

"Your brother is finally looking like a big brother now." The stepfather sighed, "I just don't know when that brat will come back."

Yang Sheng just nodded and didn't answer the words, this was not something he could answer.

He and Xia Zang are in different classes at the same school, one majors in literature and the other in science, so the chances of encountering each other at school are small, at most they live together at night, and they only live in the third year of high school, no matter how embarrassing they are, it is not hard to get over it.

What's more, it's not that he and Xia Zang have never lived under the same roof, and they have practiced how to treat each other like guests for several years.

Hence, now Yang Sheng is standing under the shower in the rental house, closing his eyes and enjoying the hot water pouring on his head.

I belatedly remembered that I seemed to have used the wrong way of respecting each other as a guest, and I had to be punished again when my Chinese teacher found out.

After knowing it later, Xia Zang seemed to have set the time for him to take a bath, so he couldn't enjoy it anymore.

Putting the clothes on in two or three strokes, Yang Sheng pulled off a towel to cover his head.

As soon as he stepped out of the bathroom, there was a sound at the door.

Just in time, Yang Sheng wiped his hair while taking a few steps to unscrew the anti-theft door.

Xia Zang held the steamed stuffed bun in one hand and soy milk in the other, "Take it."

Instructing Yang Sheng to eat first, Xia Zang locked himself in the bathroom to wash.

Speaking of which, he is not a person who likes to get along with others, that's why he left that home after he entered high school, and tried not to go back as much as possible under the pretext of being busy with his studies.

But it wasn't because of Yang Sheng's stepbrother that he left, Xia Zang didn't have any objections to him.

Brothers in trouble, why bother to embarrass each other, besides, Yang Sheng is not an annoying brother.

The same is true of the landlord, who is sure that he is used to this place and is unwilling to change the place, raising the price wantonly.

Yang Sheng sent him to his door, which can be regarded as helping him solve this difficult matter, not to mention that it is better than going to the street to find Zhang San and Li Siqiang.

With the experience of living together for one, two, three, four years, Xia Zang thought, it would be easy for him to survive in just the third year of high school.

Walking out of the bathroom and back to the low table, Yang Sheng put on a blue checkered towel, held the bun in both hands and bit it one bite at a time, like a little hamster hiding pine nuts and corn kernels under sawdust.

Both cheeks are bulging.

"I wrote a co-tenancy policy, I'll give it to you later, see what else needs to be added." Xia Zang took his breakfast and slowly unfolded the plastic bag.

Yang Sheng swallowed the food with difficulty, the vegetable leaves were still hanging from the corner of his mouth, but his round eyes like black grapes did not blink, "You can just write, I have no objection."

"The rent is four for me and six for you." Xia Zang avoided the black grape, and took a bite of the slightly cold bun skin.

"Well, that's my point of view, the rent is [-]-[-]." Yang Sheng said hesitantly.

Xia Zang smiled lightly, and asked, "Why are you suddenly not living in the dormitory?"

"I had a conflict with my roommate." Yang Sheng's little hamster stuffed the remaining bun skin into his mouth and said vaguely.

"I don't believe it." Xia Zang said, "You don't look like a troublemaker."

"Alright then." Yang Sheng swallowed the bun, "Because I want a better learning environment."

Thinking of the cold and damp dormitory environment at school, Xia Zang nodded, reluctantly believing it.

In the third year of high school, the intensity of study has increased, which requires a better external environment.

"Since you don't plan to read it, I'll verbally tell you a few key points." Xia Zang stretched out his hand and pulled over his share of soy milk, "Health care will be done in turn, starting tomorrow; go to bed at twelve o'clock at the latest every night, and don't sleep at night. You are allowed to memorize and recite; three meals a day are provided by yourself, and I do not include meals; rent, water and electricity are all [-]-[-]."

Yang Sheng nodded his head, "Yeah, where do I sleep, bro?"

Xia Zang opened the soy milk cup, raised his eyes and said as it should, "Sleep on the bed."

Yang Sheng was choked and coughed violently.

"Are you okay?" Xia Zang asked.

"It's okay, it's okay." Yang Sheng waved his hand, picked up the soy milk and drank it vigorously.

The author has something to say:

Recently, I have been sorting out my brain and thinking, and I want to switch to writing something with a plot flow, but the book "Chengjiang Into the Sea" is really too difficult to read.

Just put some things you are good at for the time being.

I've been really sad lately, I feel like I'm caught in a kind of conflict, and I don't know anything.

The plot is stretched, and the emotion is sprinkled with industrial saccharine...

If I had known earlier, I would not have finished "Taming Is Complete", so I would have dragged on a few more chapters, so that I could make more complaints about Han Cheng to ease my heart attack.

Han Cheng: Dare I still have this role?

Anyone who is destined to see the new article, please criticize and advise, you can talk about the writing and plot, and wake me up, thank you all.