14 years time difference

"So getting your ears pierced and learning to smoke are on the same day."

"Yes." Lin Zhique replied.

Du Siren leaned over the railing of the balcony, turned his neck and looked up at her.The night breeze is cool, and from the north-facing balcony of Lu Xiaohua's house, you can see most of the city.All the lights are bright.

"What was the reaction of that aunt seeing you smoking in their yard?"

"Of course I ran to report to my wife immediately. Later, my dad scolded me."

"What about that boy? Did you get together with him afterwards?"

Lin Zhique looked at Du Siren's round eyes earnestly waiting for an answer.

"I've thought about it."

"what?"

"My dad doesn't like him."

"Whatever your father doesn't like, you like."

"Ah."

"Then what is the result of your consideration?"

Lin Zhique opened the bag of Black Devil.She hasn't smoked for a long time.A few years after learning to smoke, Huadong began to implement the anti-smoking regulations. She has no addiction, and she only smokes one when someone offers her.

Dusi lit the fire for her.

She blew smoke over the entire city.

The Dusi people were watching her, she knew it.

She said: "Love is not piercing or smoking."

"Then how many times have you been in love?"

Lin Zhique opened the cigarette case and handed it to Du Siren.

"Here, don't you want to borrow it from me?"

"That's what you stipulated. I didn't say I would borrow it from you."

Lin Zhique glared at her, "Stop talking nonsense."

The Dusi people took one fumblingly.

"Do you want to pay it back?"

"Borrow it first, and calculate it with you later."

Dusi followed her example, and the two leaned on the railing of the balcony to smoke together.

She is a top student who smokes and drinks, and Du Siren is a scumbag who acts bravely. The more she looks at Du Siren, the more she feels that this guy and her come from two worlds.

Du Siren took two puffs cautiously, pursed his lips, and said, "It's sweet."

The cigarette smelled of sweet cream.

In the few years when she first learned to smoke, she bought this brand most often.

Du Siren said: "We will have a graduation performance in a few days, will you come? I'll ask my classmate to help you occupy a seat in the first row."

"Come if you come. If you don't come, you will have to read for a long time." Lin Zhique looked at the night view of the city. "After this scene, don't smoke anymore. Smoking hurts your throat."

"You won't lend it to me?"

"Well, I won't lend it to you."

"I still want to borrow and pay back with you."

"Aren't you going to be a big singer? How can you be a singer if your voice is broken?"

"It's okay not to be a big singer. It's better than a big singer to be with you every day and chat like this."

There was a commotion in the room, and Lu Xiaohua shouted: "It's revealed, it's revealed! Don't talk!"

Lin Zhique spit out a smoke ring, "I'm not free."

Lu Xiaohua turned up the volume of the TV. Standing on the balcony, they could clearly hear the host saying: "Then we will now announce the last one, the number of votes in the [-] digits—the champion of the Guangzhou singing district." Which player will win—”

Du Siren turned sideways and stood facing her.

"Then wait until you are free. Three days, five days, half a year, a year, you can't be free every day, right?"

Lin Zhique unconsciously curled the corners of his mouth and didn't answer a word.

"Lianxi was both a smoker and an alcoholic. As a result, she broke her throat and died very early. I don't want to be like her."

Lianxi is the role played by Du Siren in the play.

"I want to live to be 80 years old. When you are 80 years old, you should be very free. You will become a boring old lady, so you won't have no time to chat with me." Du Si bent a pair of smiling eyes , speaking slowly.

"Who said old ladies are boring?"

Dusi said: "Then let's become old ladies together."

The TV in the room was broadcasting loudly, accompanied by cheers from the whole room and Lu Xiaohua’s screams, the host said: “Let’s congratulate Chen Jia, the 2005 Champion of Love Female Vocals in Guangzhou! At the same time, she is also the first A player who has advanced to the national finals!"

Lin Zhique extinguished the cigarette in the paper cup, turned around and walked into the house, leaving Du Siren behind.

She said: "In my opinion, it's better to be a big singer."

Xu Xinan had never seen such a large room.Entering the door is a small living room first, and there are two arches, one leading to the study, the other leading to the bedroom, and there is a separate toilet in the bedroom.Du Zhian's room is almost as large as most of her home.

She was at school on weekdays, and she didn't have much contact with Du Zhian. Their social circles were different, and their seats were far apart. The only time Du Zhian took the initiative to talk to her was during the school sports meeting. Du Zhian said: Xu Xinan, I heard that you are going to run the women's 800 meters soon?You are amazing.

Suddenly one day, rumors spread in the grade that Du Zhian had a fight with a girl named Lin Zhique from Class 2, and another day later, it was said that Lin Zhique was actually Du Zhian's half-sister.Of course Xu Xinan had heard of these gossip.

Du Zhian looked a little depressed, and didn't really mean to ask her for English homework. After entering the room, he walked around like a headless chicken for a few times, and then seemed to suddenly remember her existence, He walked into the study again, and took down a stack of comic books from the bookcase.

She asked, "Do you read comics?"

Xu Xinan approached and saw that it was a stack of "Doraemon".

Xu Xinan smiled, "You still watch this? Isn't this something children watch?"

"Let me just say, how can a junior high school student read this. My aunt gave it to me. She always treats me like a child, and she is so annoying. Then I will lend you something else to watch."

She reached out and squeezed away a row of translations of world classics with gilded spines on the bookcase, took out a few photo albums hidden behind, and spread them out on the table, including F4, TVXQ, Liming, and some Xu Xinan. The Japanese flower boy with the above name.

"Wow." Xu Xinan pretended to hold the field and moved over.Du Zhian proudly turned pages for her to read, and asked her while turning the page, "Is he handsome?"

"Handsome. Why are you hiding it? Don't your parents let you see it?"

"No! They are so rigid! They say that these things affect my study and my piano practice. My mother also found a tutor and asked her to come to teach me during the summer vacation. It's so annoying."

Xu Xinan looked at Du Zhian sympathetically.It seems that children from rich families are not so easy to be.

While looking at Zhou Yumin in the photo, Du Zhian pretended to be nonchalant and asked her: "Are you familiar with Lin Zhique? I don't think I've seen you talk to each other before."

"We are members of the fan club."

Just met that today.

"What fan meeting?"

Xu Xinan took out Chen Jia's fan badge from his pocket and handed it to Du Zhian.

"Don't you think she's handsome? She's more handsome than these male stars."

"Where is it..." Du Zhian put the badge in his hand and looked at it carefully, "She is quite handsome, and she sings very well, but I don't like it, and she is not a man, why do you pretend to be handsome?"

"Handsomeness is not exclusive to men."

Du Zhian rolled his eyes and couldn't think of any words to refute for a while, but he still insisted: "Girls must look like girls!"

Xu Xinan just smiled and said without arguing with her, "That's fine."

Du Zhian was so bored, he left Xu Xinan aside, and went to read magazines by himself on the bay window.Xu Xinan saw that Du Zhian didn't like her, after all, she was Lin Zhique's "good friend", and she couldn't get along with Du Zhian.

"You just said that the aunt who gave you the manga is the aunt who loves female voices?" She spoke to her.

"Well, have you watched the episode where she competed? Why didn't you support my aunt?" Du Zhian turned his head.

Xu Xinan replied honestly: "Isn't the Jincheng competition area only broadcasting auditions? Has your aunt entered the top ten in the region?"

"...That will happen sooner or later!" She held her chin and pursed her mouth, "I wanted to go to Jincheng to watch my aunt's graduation performance this time, and I promised to give her flowers! Let me go and say they don't have time. It's annoying."

"I'm bored to death" seems to be Du Zhian's mantra.

"I really want to go to Jincheng."

"What are you going to do?"

"I heard that Chen Jia has gone to Jincheng. Go there to prepare for the national competition. I want to see her in person."

Du Zhian sat up.

"Why don't you think of a way to take me to Jincheng?"

Xu Xinan was taken aback by Du Zhian's thoughts, and became a little excited for no reason.She asked, "How? Are you not afraid that your parents will scold you?"

"That's right... They will definitely scold me. However, I have an appointment with my aunt!" Du Zhian went to sit next to her again, "How about we go by plane. Have you applied for an ID card yet? I have my ID card, passport, everything."

"I haven't done it yet. Besides, I heard that air tickets are strictly checked. Will they be sold to minors?"

"Then...take the train?"

Xu Xinan had a flash of inspiration, "I have a cousin who works at the train station. I'll ask him."

Du Zhian nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Then we have an agreement! After you say hello, just send me a text message and tell me the time and place of departure. Don't call! I'm afraid my mother will hear."

Xu Xinan also nodded again and again, "It's done! Then I'll send you a text message, don't reply. I don't have a mobile phone, so I can only use my dad's mobile phone to send it to you."

"Then how should I answer you? Let's agree on a secret code. I received a text message and called your home. If I ask you about your English homework, you can go, but if you ask about your math homework, you just can't. How about it?"

"it is good!"

The two of them made up their minds, completely unaware of how childish the plan was.Xu Xinan wrote down his home phone number in Du Zhian's notebook very seriously.

There was a sound of pattering footsteps outside the door, it was the aunt of Du Zhian's family, calling her mother: "Madam, Madam—"

The footsteps stopped nearby, and then Du Zhian's mother's voice came: "What's wrong?"

The two people in the room all closed their mouths and pricked up their ears at the same time.

"Madam, oh, go and see, Mr. Du's little girl outside, and the little red guy she brought are smoking in the yard together!"

Xu Xinan glanced at Du Zhian.

Du's mother's voice came faintly again: "...When her father comes back, you tell him and let him take care of it."

"I'm afraid that they will flick the soot and scald the flowers and plants in the yard. Every time the old lady comes, those plants are the most important thing! What should I say to my husband, it seems that I am talkative... At a young age... ..."

The voice of speaking became smaller and smaller, and it seemed that Auntie entered the next room with Du Zhian's mother.

Du Zhian cursed angrily: "No tutor!"

That night, Xu Xinan still didn't stay at Du's house for dinner after all. She found an excuse and dragged Zhang Wen away along the way.Zhang Wen was a little confused, and complained to Xu Xinan, saying that he still wanted to try the home-cooked food of the wealthy family.Xu Xinan scolded him: "Why do you bring Lin Zhique to smoke at their house? Their family controls the children so strictly, her father will definitely scold her after a while."

"What does that have to do with staying for dinner? If we don't eat, her father won't scold her?"

"...If it were me, when I was scolded, I would be most afraid of outsiders."

She bid farewell to Zhang Wen and went to the train station to find her cousin.My cousin is the only male in their family's younger generation. He has been doted on since he was a child, and he is very unreliable. After a few words of persuasion from her, he agreed to help her get two train tickets to Jincheng.

She borrowed her cousin's mobile phone and sent a text message to Du Zhi'an: Tomorrow morning at 11:16, the train departs from East China Station, and we will meet at the McDonald's in the Friendship Shopping Mall next to the south square of the station at 10:30.However, we have to sit for [-] hours. My cousin said that he can buy a soft sleeper for us, okay?

After returning home, Xu Xinan was restless for most of the night, until it was nearly 12 o'clock when the phone at home finally rang.

On the other end of the phone, Du Zhian said cautiously: "Xu Xinan, what is the English homework assigned by the teacher?"