green shell

Lu Yi's grades in elementary school were not bad, even considered excellent, but no one praised him except his grandma.

His parents treated him as if he didn't exist, and they didn't care about him. Apart from quarreling and throwing things at home every day, they didn't care if it would scare children under the age of seven.The glass was brittle when it fell on the ground, and the glass shards were scattered all over the place. His parents didn't clean it up.

He nestled in his bedroom without turning on the light, clutching the torn paper in the darkness, weeping silently while trembling because of the movement outside the door.

That day he just learned that he had passed the exam in the second grade, so he returned home with the paper and wanted to call his grandma to tell her, who knew that when he entered the house, he saw his mother trying on clothes.He held the paper in a daze, and his mother caught a glimpse of the score on the paper.

"Tch," she sneered, looking condescendingly at Lu Yi, who was dirty because of being bullied by her classmates: "I'm ashamed to hold the paper in my hand at this point. Lu Chong, look at your good son before taking the exam." I got [-], and I couldn’t even get a perfect score in the elementary school papers.”

"Say it as if having him has nothing to do with you." Lu Yi's father sat on the sofa and watched TV, without even turning his head this way.

"Isn't that an accident?" Lu Yi's mother turned to look over with a sullen face, "You think I want it? I can't divorce you without him!"

"Fucking about divorce again!" Lu Yi's father stood up suddenly, and walked over angrily: "You and that little boy are so high-profile, do you want my face to have no place to put it? You have to make trouble at work to make you feel comfortable." ?!"

"What about you and that woman? You are more high-profile!" Lu Yi's mother directly reached out to push Lu Yi's father: "You still know how to lose face?"

"You...!" Lu Yi's father gritted his teeth and looked at the woman in front of him, unable to get out of his stomach. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Lu Yi who was standing at the door tightly guarding the paper. He sneered and snatched The paper in his hand: "[-]? [-], you have the nerve to take it back! Come back at [-] or [-] o'clock every night, why don't you die on the way? A thing that only costs money, should have strangled you to death in the first place !"

Lu Yi's mother looked at all this indifferently, pushed Lu Yi away expressionlessly, straightened his wrinkled clothes as if nothing had happened, and stood in front of the full-length mirror.

Lu Yi looked at his furious father, not knowing what he did wrong.The highest score in their class is him. There is only one full score in this paper grade, the second is him, and the third is [-] points. Logically speaking, this is already a very good result.

But the man still roared violently, tearing up the paper while cursing.

Seeing the paper being torn off, Lu Yi lost his mind, went up and punched a few times, desperately snatched back the half of the paper with the score, ran into the room, and quickly locked the door.

Father was still banging on the door vigorously, stuffing obscenities into Lu Yi's ears.

After realizing that his hands were shaking, he stared at the shaking doorknob and breathed rapidly, a drop of water fell on his feet, and he realized that he was crying.His whole body was aching, but his heart was very happy.

That was the first time he resisted.

Afterwards, while his parents were asleep, he ran to the station with the shredded papers and the change his grandma gave him last week, and skipped school to grandma's house.

Anyway, he didn't have any friends at school, and the teachers ignored him because of rumors about his family. Only the small yard with hawthorn trees cared about him.

Only one bus was still running in the middle of the night. He stood in the wind and waited for a long time, his hands and feet were frozen stiff, before he arrived by car, got into the alley, and ran to the old house.

"That's why I have a deep obsession with this place." Lu Yi passed by those tears and exclusion, and smiled when he remembered the fragrance from grandma's body after opening the door that day: "Because this place is my former home .”

Of course Xiang Yang knew what Lu Yi omitted. He was also gossiped about because of his parents' divorce when he was in elementary school, and it didn't help to transfer to another school.He looked at Lu Yi distressedly, leaned over and rubbed his face, and kissed him lightly on the corner of his lips: "Now you also have a home."

Lu Yi slightly sideways eyes, stared at Xiang Yang without blinking for a long time before slowly nodding: "Yeah."

"I'll give you a different and happy home." Xiang Yang looked into Lu Yi's eyes seriously: "Just tell me what you want, candied haws, egg custard, I will learn how to make it, and I will make it for you when the time comes. If there are others, I will also learn."

"You want to learn?" Lu Yi leaned over with a smile, and lightly bumped Xiang Yang's forehead with his forehead: "Then what if you get injured? I will feel very distressed."

Xiang Yang stared blankly at Lu Yi, unable to speak.

"Let me do those, I'm familiar with it, and it won't hurt you." Lu Yi retreated a little distance, and gently stroked Xiangyang's soft hair: "You just take care of eating, remember to smile after eating, and treat it as a tip." ,OK?"

The tip of Xiangyang's ear was rubbed by Lu Yi's warm palm, slowly turning red.He looked at Lu Yi and smiled: "Okay."

Lu Yi couldn't hold back his joy, the more he looked at Xiang Yang, the more he liked him, so he just leaned over and grabbed him and kissed him.

In the first [-] years of his life, this small courtyard hid all the sweetness in his life. Even after sinking in the mud in the next few years, these sweetness still shone slightly in his heart.

Then, at the end of the No. 16 year of his life, he encountered another ray of warm sunshine, which gave him care and pulled him out of the mud bit by bit.

"My grandma...has been away for many years, and I couldn't stop her from leaving at that time," Lu Yi hugged Xiangyang, his voice muffled: "But I will stop you, you won't be able to leave for the rest of your life."

"It's up to me to say that," Xiang Yang turned his head and kissed Xia Luyi's ear: "You are the one who will never leave in this life."

Lu Yi buried himself in Xiangyang's shoulder and laughed several times, then hugged Xiangyang tightly: "Whoever leaves first is an idiot."

Xiang Yang laughed all of a sudden, and couldn't stop laughing for a long time: "Okay."

Lu Yi smelled the faint fragrance of flowers and trees on Xiangyang's body, and thought of the warm woody fragrance on grandma's body, and felt that he should be extremely lucky.

He didn't sink all the way down in that silt pit.

Xiang Yang pulled him up.

"Actually, I was quite a shopper when I was young." Lu Yi took Xiangyang to visit all the houses, told him many things about his childhood, and let Xiangyang see a different Lu Yi, and walked to the yard again, Pointing to the hawthorn tree, he laughed: "This tree didn't let me get bald because of its own tenacious life. When I was a child, whenever I saw it bloom, I had to go up and pick a few clusters. I don't know why, maybe it's cheap."

Xiang Yang was happy: "Then you didn't apologize to him?"

"That's right," Lu Yi looked at the tree: "I apologize every year when the hawthorn is ripe, because I always pick a bunch of flowers, and my hawthorn tree always bears fewer fruits than others. Others always make more. The hawthorn grown by my own family is more delicious than the bought ones. I have let this tree grow, and I don’t even want to eat candied haws made from bought hawthorns.”

Xiang Yang thought of the candied haws he bought just now: "Then that just now..."

"It's fine now, I can eat it now," Lu Yi looked at Xiang Yang with a bewildered smile, leaned over and put his arms around his shoulders: "At that time my grandma always gave me the best, of course I don't choose now. "

Xiang Yang looked at Lu Yi for a while, then hugged him stickily again, still humming in his nose.

"What's the matter?" Lu Yi was amused, but he hugged Xiang Yang honestly: "Huh? Xiang Yang? Baby?"

"I always think you should smile more," Xiang Yang rubbed Lu Yi: "You look very pretty when you smile, but you always frown."

Lu Yi's subordinates paused, then lowered his voice: "I love to laugh so much now."

"You are changing," Xiang Yang straightened up and smiled slightly: "I am also changing. We are all changing, which is a good thing."

Lu Yi pinched Xiangyang's ear, nodded and said: "It's a good thing." He paused after speaking, looked at the hawthorn flower on Xiangyang's head hesitantly, took a deep breath, and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to... I'm going to see grandma? I want to tell grandma about you."

"Huh?" Xiang Yang was stunned, and then he reacted and nodded: "Huh. Now?"

"Well," Lu Yi nodded, pulled Xiangyang to stand up, walked out of the old house with the key, and locked the door: "It can be reached directly by bus No. [-], I...have never dared to go there."

"I always feel that my grandma is still there." Lu Yi smiled wryly.

Xiang Yang blinked, didn't speak, reached out to hold Xiang Yang's hand, walked over and hugged him.

Lu Yi chuckled, and patted Xiang Yang on the back: "Let's go."

Perhaps because of the working day, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and there were only a few people in the bus.Lu Yi and Xiang Yang got into the car and sat in the back of the last row.

"Is it raining a bit?" Xiang Yang glanced at the water-stained car windows around him, and asked in a low voice.

Lu Yi also looked over, and finally nodded: "It seems to be, it was drizzle before."

It was the same that day, first it was drizzling, and then it was getting heavier and heavier, making him feel cold all over.

"Those two people are really too much." Lu Yi stared at a crystal raindrop rolling down, and murmured: "During the last summer vacation, my grandma was not very willing to move, and I also felt that something was wrong, so I had no choice but to talk to you." They said it, but instead they locked me at home and didn’t let me go to grandma. Thinking about it now, maybe they were looking for grandma to ask for an old house at that time. That small courtyard was like a pile of money."

There were very few people in the bus, and what Lu Yi said in a low voice would not be heard by others. He looked at the rain and suddenly felt very uncomfortable. He wanted to find someone to talk to, so he told Xiang Yang about this matter that no one knew about. listen.

Xiang Yang listened quietly, and slowly crawled over to take Lu Yi's hand.With the back of the chair in the way, no one can see.

Lu Yi shifted his eyes to Xiangyang's face, smiled briefly at him, and then looked at the wet car window: "It was the same that day, it was freezing cold rain. It was the first Friday of the first week of school, and I didn't know it. My parents skipped school and went to the old house. They wanted to take my grandma to the hospital, but they only saw an empty yard and no one from my grandma. I was glad that they were so busy these days that they didn’t return until late Afterwards, thinking about it, they were probably busy with my grandma's funeral."

The drizzle took away the last bit of late summer warmth.Lu Yi didn't bring an umbrella or a schoolbag, so he jumped out of the low wall while the guard was going to have dinner, and ran to the station.

He hasn't seen his grandma since he was forcibly taken home by his parents in mid-August.During this time, he wanted to go home countless times, but his parents suddenly began to strictly control him, staring at him all the time, not letting him go out, not letting him go to his grandma. Couldn't stay after a week of not answering the phone.He didn't go to eat at noon, and a bunch of junior high school freshmen huddled together and talking loudly made him even more irritable, so he just wandered around the campus by himself, and happened to see no one at the door, and the wall next to him was not that high, so he gritted his teeth and jumped out.

When I really ran out, I found that I didn't have much money on me, and I didn't have my mobile phone in my pocket. I wanted to go back but saw the guard returning to work. I had no choice but to get on the bus and rush to the old house.

The rain started to get heavier, and it could already wet people's clothes.

Lu Yi hid under the tiled roof of the old house to avoid the rain, let the moisture from his clothes seep in slowly, beat on the door anxiously, and shouted "Grandma, grandma", but except for the rain hitting the tiles and him Except for the knocking on the door, nothing happened.

After a while, the door of the empty house next door, which was said to be moved away, was suddenly pushed open with a "creak", interrupting Lu Yi's knocking on the door.

"The courtyard is empty... Lu Yi?" Aunt Zhang came out, half-spoken with sleepy eyes, saw Lu Yi, and instantly woke up: "Why are you here? Didn't you go to the funeral?"

Lu Yi shuddered suddenly because of this sentence, almost lost his tongue, and asked stammeringly, "What funeral? Whose funeral?"

Don't be...don't be!

He was begging in his heart, and seeing Aunt Zhang's incredulous expression, his body turned cold.

But Aunt Zhang couldn't hear his voice, so she continued to open her mouth and said, "...your grandma's, don't you know?"

"Boom—"