River City Story

Judging from the calendar alone, it is already the beginning of autumn, but this week of military training at No. 30 Middle School, the temperature is still hovering around [-]°C.During every break, Lin Yan silently prayed for rain, chattering in a special way.

"What spell are you reciting?" Cai Xusheng took a bottle of nutritional drink and squatted in the shade behind Lin Yan, drinking it desperately.

Lin Yan ignored him, moved two steps to the side, and continued talking to the north.

"Boss Lin is begging for rain!" A white and tender little fat man walked over and said.

"Wow, amazing." Cai Xusheng also turned around and clasped his hands together, imitating Lin Yan begging for rain.

"I really don't understand you..." Xiaopang stretched out his tongue to fan the wind, "If it rains, maybe we have to start classes earlier, or military training is more fun..." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a tall man passing by .

"Are you begging for rain? I'll come too!" The tall one also made a bow to the north.

"Come and come together!"

"Join Boss Lin's ranks!"

"Let it rain... let it rain... I am willing to exchange iced tea with God."

"God doesn't drink iced tea."

In a blink of an eye, 7 or 8 people gathered around and pretended to pray for rain together. The scene was a bit spectacular, and the students passing by saw it and booed happily.Lin Yan wanted to dig a hole right away and bury himself in it, and take Cai Xusheng along with him.

Shen Wei quickly noticed the small group here, she ran over in a hurry, still without saying a word, aimed at the buttocks of several people, raised her long legs and kicked them one by one nimbly, like a martial arts show.Lin Yan was taken aback by this posture, it was the first time he saw such a tough girl, last time when he was kicked in the calf, he didn't realize that Shen Wei was actually quite handsome.Lin Yan felt itchy in his heart. It wasn't a girl who was itching, but he was interested in Taekwondo, but when he thought about his wallet, he immediately stopped the itching.

Seeing that he was about to kick himself, Lin Yan raised his hands above his head and shouted, "Boss Shen, I was wrong!"

Cai Xusheng also raised his hand in imitation: "Boss Shen, I was wrong!"

"...You guys are too cowardly!" Shen Wei flipped the non-existent braids, turned around and ran back to the group of girls.

Lin Yan bent down and bowed: "Yes, yes, what you said is correct. I will fully support your work and send off the Queen Mother Shen." He clenched his fists angrily.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Sheng pushed the two large buckets of mung bean soup into the 6th class with difficulty.

"Boss Lin and Boss Shen are fighting!" Someone shouted.

"Yo! Beautiful!" Zhao Sheng applauded excitedly, "Remember to call me at the opening next time."

"Hahaha!"

"Old class, you are so funny!"

Lin Yan rubbed the tips of his ears, who is fighting with whom?Make enemies for me blindly, there is no humanity at all.

"Boss Lin." Cai Xusheng came over and put his arm on Lin Yan's shoulder, "According to my keen radar and rich experience, 80.00% of Shen Wei is interesting to you."

"Ah?" Lin Yan took a sip of the mung bean soup, "So suddenly, you are a foreign Chinese cabbage, and you know the mainland puppy love market."

Cai Xusheng patted himself on the chest: "What do you know, gossip knows no borders, and besides, I'm not a foreigner. It's normal for me to be in my teens. You can guess it."

"Oh... looks very experienced." Lin Yan turned and walked back to the team.

"The reaction is too flat!"

"Oh!" Lin Yan raised his hand and clapped it twice.

It was probably because Lin Yan and his younger brothers were sincere in their hearts. At noon on the third day after the military training began, the rain that had been begging for several days finally fell on the ground of Yizhong.

"What's the thing here? If you don't know it, you think you know it and put it on a tree to solve your physiological problems..." Lin Yan rubbed his fingertips.

"I don't quite understand, who will solve the physical problems." Cai Xusheng leaned over.

"Got it! It's a cicada, a kind of insect, the kind that makes cicadas—cicadas." Lin Yan imitated two calls for him, "Should you know?"

"You don't speak like a Xicheng person, but I think your voice is very good." Cai Xusheng gave Lin Yan a thumbs up.

This conversation is so stupid.Lin Yan scratched his head and explained: "There are many foreigners living in my house, and... well, it's like this unconsciously." He hesitated for a while and didn't say anything about He Zhengxi.

"Now it may be some other species solving physiological problems, Boss Lin." Cai Xusheng pinched his chin and raised his head to study.

"I guess the rain will get heavier, and it will continue to fall tomorrow. The weather forecast says that it will be cloudy and cloudy, so it's absolutely impossible." Lin Yan ran over to pack his water glass, took out his umbrella to prop it up, and withdrew to the class with the large troops .

"You are amazing, you can even predict the weather." Cai Xusheng was empty-handed, he didn't bring anything.Seeing Lin Yan opened the umbrella, Cai Xusheng took the opportunity to duck in.

Lin Yan raised his hand helplessly and held up his umbrella, "You are the young master, right? You can't trust the weather forecast. Kindergarten children know that."

Cai Xusheng said innocently, "I've never seen the weather forecast, but the umbrella at home is a little more handsome than yours."

"Then I suggest you go home and get an umbrella." Lin Yan stepped forward a few steps faster.

"No, no, your umbrella is the goddess in my heart at the moment!" Cai Xusheng ran over and swore.

When passing by the team of class 7, Sun Linlin waved to Lin Yan in the crowd, but Lin Yan ignored him, holding a Chinese cabbage tail behind his umbrella, and left directly.

"Did that person offend you?" Cai Xusheng asked.

"Well, he is a matchmaker, keen to match people up, it's better to stay away." Lin Yan said coldly.

Cai Xusheng's radar immediately caught the key words, and he asked excitedly: "He introduced you to someone? Wow! I'm excited!"

"What should I say?" Lin Yan glanced at Cai Xusheng, "Although you are not as handsome as I am, you still look like a dog. Don't act like you have excess hormones every day. You look like a girl on the East African prairie. baboon."

"Who did he introduce to you?" Cai Xusheng directly skipped the topic of baboons.

"..."

Lin Yan neatly put away the umbrella at the door of the teaching building, shook off the rain, turned and walked upstairs, ignoring him.

Cai Xusheng clenched his fist alone: ​​"It's okay, I can ask after lunch."

Lin Yan hummed: "I've never seen a person like you who likes to gossip about other people every day, maybe he will be hated by girls."

"I don't like women..." Cai Xusheng followed Lin Yan and said to himself.

Lin Yan said in a loud voice: "A love that crosses races."

"No, of the same race." Cai Xusheng said very frankly, "My favorite person is Li Si, you know him, my brother."

"Ah?!" Lin Yan stopped in surprise, his expression a little rich for a moment, "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

Cai Xusheng raised his hand to signal him to lower the volume: "My friend, even if you really want to fuck now, you can't do it in school. The decibels are too loud."

"Where is your focus! Damn it!" Lin Yan couldn't say any other words for the time being.

"Okay..." Cai Xusheng rubbed his forehead, "You're feeling crazy about the fact that I don't like girls, right?"

Lin Yan nodded frantically, then shook his head quickly.

"I know, I know, you want to say that you don't wear colored glasses." Cai Xusheng worked hard to answer Lin Yan's actions.

"Yes, the answer is correct, plus ten points." Lin Yan slowed down, let out a breath, and then became nervous again, shouting, "Fuck! You are behind my ass every day, don't be interested in me! Let me tell you, you Like this, I see one fights a group!"

Although Cai Xusheng had been crushed countless times by Lin Yan's words in just a few days, but at this moment, he felt that Lin Yan was occasionally quite dull, so he teased:

"You have lost your memory. I just said that I like Li Si."

"I know..." Lin Yan exhaled, and stood in the corner of the stairs seriously thinking for a few seconds, then he stretched out his hand to pick up Cai Xusheng, and hurriedly hid in the men's room.

"I think," Lin Yan pressed Cai Xusheng against the door of the toilet cubicle like an underground gangster, panting heavily, "I think that the fact that you like your brother seems to be more serious than that you like men. "

"You're right, I don't deny it." Cai Xusheng struggled to straighten his back, reached out and pinched Lin Yan's agitated shoulder, "That's why I went to school here." He fixed Lin Yan with his left hand, and started Untie your belt.

"Wait! You're such a hooligan! No matter how long you hold back, you can't find a buddy to vent your anger. Calm down!" Lin Yan felt that in his more than ten years of life, this was the most exciting, nervous and knowledgeable day.

"No." Cai Xusheng smiled, let go of Lin Yan's hand, turned around, and took out his shirt, "Look."

Lin Yan covered his eyes tightly, leaned over in embarrassment, let go of his two fingers, and then blushed, and said in embarrassment: "Your brother did it? Are you violent enough...Although I don't understand how you operate it."

"You are, you are really..."

Cai Xusheng finally saw Lin Yan's extraordinary reflex arc, "It was hit, my mother hit it!"

He rearranged his clothes and leaned against the partition, with a look of disappointment in his eyes, "I thought they would be very open-minded, but I didn't expect it to be unacceptable. I confessed my love to Li Si in his room, and my mother saw it."

"Then your parents beat you up? Then Li Si went to the village to be a cook?"

Cai Xusheng: "Yes, but it's not just because of me that he became a cook. But I can't go to him recently. Li Si asked me to study Chinese culture hard. I must go to university. If possible, I should apply for Chinese language and literature, and straighten my tongue."

"As long as you don't recite pornographic confessions, your tongue will be straight." Lin Yan patted Cai Xusheng on the shoulder, "Everyone has their own troubles."

"You sound like my grandfather." Cai Xusheng said seriously.

"Oh, you are the 108th to say that." Lin Yan smiled.

Then the two suddenly had nothing to talk about, the surroundings were very quiet, and the air seemed to stop flowing strangely. After a while, Lin Yan spoke again:

"So do we have to go out, will someone eavesdrop..."

Cai Xusheng spread his hands innocently: "You dragged me in."

Lin Yan patted his forehead with the palm of his hand: "That's right."

When the two of them walked out, there were already people watching outside, with different expressions.

"Why are they so excited?" Lin Yan lowered his head and washed his hands calmly.

Cai Xusheng replied bluntly: "You are really a miraculous person, sometimes you are very sharp, but sometimes you are too dull."

"I don't really understand. My family is poor and I have little knowledge." Although it was only a few days after school started, the cognition of the relationship between men and women, no, the relationship between men and men, has made rocket-like progress.

"Then I won't talk about it, you can experience it for yourself in the future." Cai Xusheng waved to the crowd, wrapped his arms around Lin Yan's shoulders familiarly, and dragged him away gracefully.

"I don't think you're doing very well. You're studying some idol drama, and you're still waving at people."

Cai Xusheng smiled mysteriously: "You don't understand the point of making girls happy."

Lin Yan shook his head indifferently, stepped into the classroom, walked back to his seat, and took out the schoolbag from the hole in the table.He didn't plan to chat with Cai Xusheng anymore, he might as well do one more English reading question if he had this time.

He Zhengxi stood at the school gate with an umbrella in his hand. After confirming that the daily follower was not there, he began to seriously think about whether he should go home for lunch.

"He Zhengxi!" A clear voice suddenly came from not far away.

"Huh?" He Zhengxi turned around, a girl was looking at him with wet hair.

"You are……?"

The girl feigned anger and said, "Hey, we have been assigned to the same class for several days, but we can't remember the names of our classmates. That's too much."

"Sorry." He Zhengxi thought about it expressionlessly, "So what's your name?"

"My surname is Yang, and my name is Yang Yuxin." The girl pointed to He Zhengxi's umbrella, "Give me half, I didn't bring it."

"Why?" He Zhengxi only held up this umbrella with Lin Yan, and he didn't want to share it with others.

After Yang Yuxin heard this, her face turned red, but she still stared straight at He Zhengxi.

"Okay..." He Zhengxi reluctantly stretched out the umbrella by 1/3, and after not waiting for two seconds, he asked again and again: "Why did you share my umbrella? Why didn't you prepare it yourself? Why didn't your friend?" With you?"

Yang Yuxin was dumbfounded by the question, she turned her face slightly, and He Zhengxi's slightly indifferent expression came into view.

"...I, hey, hold an umbrella with you, not to kill you." Yang Yuxin took two steps back and stepped out of the umbrella, "You go, my house is nearby."

He Zhengxi turned his head and asked, "Why?"

Yang Yuxin stomped his feet and kicked up a small splash of water, "Where did you get so much why?! Let's go!" He turned around and planned to rush into the rain.

"Hey, wait a minute." He Zhengxi called Yang Yuxin to a halt, "Everyone would want to know about those questions, so don't worry about it, just take this umbrella, I'll go to the ramen shop over there , temporarily useless."

"Really?" Yang Yuxin looked at him seriously.

"Take it quickly, if you continue talking, your hair is wet." He Zhengxi stuffed the umbrella into Yang Yuxin's hand, "Remember to return it in the afternoon, it was bought by my brother, so don't throw it away."

"Okay, thank you then!" Yang Yuxin said with a bright smile.

"Yeah." He Zhengxi said goodbye to her, turned around and ran to the ramen restaurant across the road in the rain.

Yang Yuxin supported the black umbrella with a small checkered pattern that He Zhengxi gave her, feeling extremely happy.At this time, several girls came out of the school gate one after another, and they gathered around Yang Yuxin, chatting with each other.

"Successfully got the umbrella of my sweetheart, be happy!"

"That's right, I look forward to holding hands with you next, hehe..."

"Hey, I'm very entangled. If you really succeed, don't limit the number of times he can play."

"Yes, yes, playing is so cool, you have to accompany me when the time comes!"

Surrounded by a few friends, Yang Yuxin went to look forward to being with He Zhengxi. Although she herself hadn't thought about it deeply, she was talked about a lot, and she didn't realize that she was a little swayed.

He Zhengxi looks good, but he keeps a distance from any girls on weekdays, and has never been interested in anything other than playing and studying.If you can become good friends with such a boy, it should be... not bad.

Sitting in the ramen shop, He Zhengxi looked at the rain outside the window, feeling somewhat regretful that he had acted like a hero just now, he was not at all willing to give away the umbrella that Lin Yan specially bought for him.

Ah...depressed...

The more He Zhengxi thought about it, the more he couldn't sit still. He finished a bowl of rice in 5 minutes, paid the bill and hurried to school. Only when he arrived in class did he realize that Yang Yuxin was going home. Lie on the desk and take a nap in the morning.Ten minutes later, he was shaken awake from a drowsy sleep, and what he saw was Yang Yuxin's smiling face.

"Finally opened your eyes, you slept soundly." Yang Yuxin waved his hand in front of He Zhengxi.

"Yeah." He Zhengxi straightened up, "Where's my umbrella?"

Yang Yuxin handed over a small handbag: "It's inside, and there's also a thank you gift."

"It's easy to do, no gift is needed." He Zhengxi took out the umbrella and inspected it intently. When he saw the bare handle, his expression changed, "Where's the small pendant on it?"

"What pendant?" Yang Yuxin took the umbrella and looked around, "I didn't see any pendant."

He Zhengxi pulled the umbrella back from Yang Yuxin's hand, and said in a bad tone, "There was originally a small pendant that simulated a donut."

"You're a boy, if you hang donuts, you throw them away. I'll buy one from the jewelry store outside in the afternoon and give it back to you." Yang Yuxin said without malice, and his appearance was so innocent that people really couldn't bear to say more.

He Zhengxi pinched his thumb silently, sighed secretly, and said, "No need, forget it."

Yang Yuxin pouted and said unhappily: "Why do you always say forget it, I'll buy it for you in the afternoon, it's only a few dollars, it might be accidentally dropped when I opened the umbrella."

He Zhengxi was a little angry, but it was his fault that he didn't blame others, he hadn't thought of taking it down early, and it was easy to throw away that kind of thing.

He said to Yang Yu, "If you say you don't need to buy it, you don't need to buy it. If you buy it, I won't hang up."

"Okay." Yang Yuxin saw that He Zhengxi was not in a good mood, and he couldn't continue to pull him to talk, but he didn't want to give up directly, so he put on a flattering expression, and then said: "Please come on Saturday." You eat a hamburger, and I will accompany you in your crime."

He Zhengxi lowered his head, carefully refolded the umbrella, and replied, "I have something to do on Saturday."

Yang Yuxin: "Are you busy all day?"

He Zhengxi hummed: "Yes."

Yang Yu said unwillingly, "What about Sunday?"

He Zhengxi: "Playing and studying."

"Okay... tell me when you have time." Yang Yuxin looked a little pitiful.

"I'm not free, I'm sorry, I don't go out for anything important." He Zhengxi looked into Yang Yu's expectant eyes, lowered his voice and asked solemnly: "Are you trying to talk to me, we are too young , I don’t like you either, a twisted melon is not sweet, I’ve heard of it.”

Yang Yuxin felt ashamed and angry after hearing He Zhengxi's words. She stood there in a daze for a few seconds, then ran back to her seat with red eyes.

He Zhengxi didn't want to go over to comfort him, and he was even more embarrassed to go over there.Since coming to Xicheng, he has spoken to women too rarely, let alone his female classmates.Apart from daily study and collecting homework, he has almost no communication with the girls in the class.He Zhengxi is not stupid, he knows that Yang Yuxin probably likes him, but He Zhengxi doesn't like Yang Yuxin, this is the first time he encounters such a thing, he can only rely on instinct and what he learned from Lin Yan That bit of so-called experience can be solved.

As a result, it seemed to hurt people's hearts.

"Ah..." He Zhengxi sighed while holding his head.

"What's the matter, Lao He, you have encountered emotional problems. Don't mess with that Yang Yuxin. His brother is a hooligan. Be careful of being beaten up." Feng Xing at the same table came over, "Fortunately, there are not many people in the class at this time. If you are seen , you must be finished."

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't have that much free time." He Zhengxi turned his head and said to him, "Besides, even if I really meet his brother, I'm not afraid. It's so easy to be finished. A society ruled by law, understand."

"Hey, if people want to really punish you, you can't do anything about it." Feng Xing patted He Zhengxi's back affectionately, "As a good buddy from elementary school to junior high school, I understand it very well. Except for your brother, No one can get into your eyes."

"It's fine if you know." He Zhengxi rubbed his eyes, "It's no good, I have to squint for 5 minutes, don't talk to me."

"All right, all right, go to sleep." Feng Xing said.

The school dismissal time of No. 10 Middle School was four or 7 minutes later than that of Experimental Middle School. By the time Lin Yan drove home by bike, it would probably be almost [-] o'clock.

"Brother, I'll make dinner in the future. The bicycle basket doesn't look very strong, so be careful of accidents on the road." He Zhengxi took the lunch box from Lin Yan's hand.The brothers' daily dinner was basically packed and brought back by Lin Yan directly from the school cafeteria.

"That's so troublesome. It's just two lunch boxes. What can happen?" Lin Yan walked over to cheer up the bicycle and said, "If you're going to be hungry, go out and buy a steamed stuffed bun for cushioning. If you're in a hurry, read a book. Play ball. Be a good little boy, don't think about cooking every day."

He Zhengxi curled his lips and said, "You still think about cooking every day. Didn't I just grow up eating your cooking?"

"It's two different things." Lin Yan stroked his sweaty hair to one side, looked at He Zhengxi and said, "Can we be the same? You are my brother, just be my brother well. You can cook occasionally, but there is no need to be my brother." Business."

"Okay, I got it." He Zhengxi squeezed his fingers, went to the car and squatted down, "...Brother, the donut pendant you gave me is lost."

"What donuts?" Lin Yan stood up, washed his hands, and walked back with the scent of soap, "I forgot, when did you get them..."

"It's the second year I've been here. Let's go to the fair. I insist. You bought it." He Zhengxi suddenly grabbed Lin Yan's hand and sniffed it.

"You're not a dog." Lin Yan withdrew his hand, tapped his chin and thought for a while, and suddenly realized, "I remember, the little toy seller next to Lao Lu's clothing stall, right?"

He Zhengxi nodded: "Yes, yes, yes."

Lin Yan pushed He Zhengxi's head, and said with a smile, "It's okay, let's go out together on National Day, and I'll buy you another one."

"Well, it shouldn't be too expensive." He Zhengxi happily grabbed Lin Yan's hand.

"Don't worry, don't expect a huge sum of ten yuan!"