camouflage

When the two arrived, Qi Lei and the others had already arranged the picnic tools, drinks, snacks, vegetables and meat, which looked quite similar.

"Hey, who is this?" Shen Mengjie pointed to Shu Xia behind Ji Xi and asked.

"Shu Xia, from our class, we met on the road and came here together." Ji Xi said simply, "Have you all started?"

"That's right, that's right, I haven't even eaten breakfast, how can I bear it?" A girl said while gnawing on a pack of Shaqima.

"Hi, I'm Shu Xia." Shu Xia greeted them from behind.

"Ah, you are the oldest Shu Xia?" Xing Yi pointed at him a little excitedly.

"Ah... yes, you are?" Shu Xia asked in embarrassment.

"Oh, I'm your fan girl, Xing Yi, you can call me Yi Yi, you are so amazing, I admire people who have studied well, and you are so handsome." Xing Yi jumped in front of him , all smiles.

"I'm Mengjie's classmate, and my name is Wang Jingwen."

"..."

Shu Xia could only say "Hello" with a smile, trying to get to know each other, but she didn't remember any names.

Ji Xi pulled him over and walked aside: "I don't even know each other, don't worry about it, you can take what you want to eat yourself."

Shu Xia followed his hand to see a pile of snacks on the floor, a torn convenience bag was used to cover it, and there was no room for a pile on the table.

"Is this a picnic for you? Don't you eat in another place?" Shu Xia's impression of a picnic should be local materials, and they brought their own food for this battle.

"I was going to fish, but that idiot Qi Xin forgot to buy bait." Ji Xi took a bag of potato chips, "Let's go fishing?"

Shu Xia looked around, he didn't know them, and it was awkward to stay here, so she nodded and followed Ji Xi to go fishing.

Qi Xin and the others were playing in the water by the lake, and they had a lot of fun, especially with Tang Jing, who seemed to be friends. If you do me a favor, I will return it to you. As a result, both of them got wet. Fortunately, the weather was fine, otherwise they would catch a cold.

Ji Xi threw the bait to Meng Ke, and said lazily: "I'm too busy, let me warn you first, whoever dares to pour water on me, get ready to rest here today."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Jing poured water all over his head.

"Fuck, if you don't go to the house for a few days, you're going to die today, kid." Ji Xi is a playful person, and he's good at playing, and he immediately joined the battlefield, calling them angry without any politeness.

Shu Xia also knew Meng Ke, and had played games a few times, so she had a little friendship.

He went over to help straighten the line and cast the bait.

There are still quite a lot of fish in Dawanzi Lake, but it is not easy to catch. It may be that they have become fine, and all of them are very thieves.

After all, Shu Xia grew up here. When she was a child, she was naughty and caught it. She didn't catch it with a fishing line, but with a bamboo basket and beat it with electricity.

It’s no longer possible, the government has issued an order to prohibit private fishing, because an old man came to fish at night and was electrocuted to death.

He was very patient, and guarded the bait without moving after throwing it in.

"You know how to fish." Meng Ke didn't talk much, Shu Xia even less, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward. He tried to break the silence, "I can't see it, I always thought you could only study, oh, and play games."

Shu Xia smiled and said, "I'm not a nerd, and fishing isn't too difficult, so it's okay."

"Speaking of which, we have been through troubles together. The last time we fought, I'm sorry that I got you involved." Meng Ke apologized embarrassedly.

"It's all over. Besides, I was at fault. I'm not lucky. You played the game well." He changed the subject and stopped talking about the fight.

"Is it okay, Ji Xi's skills are better, and you have such a good relationship?" Meng Ke asked.

Shu Xia wore her trademark smiling face: "We are friends, after all, we have played games a few times."

"You two have a very good relationship, you go together wherever you go." Shu Xia said.

"Well, the boss is not bad, he is a jerk, but he is still different from us, he looks like he is not from here." They glanced at the few people who were playing in the water, and Ji Xi was holding a bucket with a smile on his face. Splashed directly on Tang Jing and Qi Xin, smiling very proudly.

"When I first met him, he was very prickly and flirtatious. He was wearing clothes that couldn't be bought here, and I didn't know the brand of clothes. He had a face full of disdain and the kind that didn't look good... I don't know how to describe it. eyes."

"Rebellious?" Shu Xia added.

"Yes, that's pretty much what he meant. He beat up the gangsters next to the school in a few days so he wouldn't come to No. [-] Middle School to extort tolls and protection fees. He's very powerful and loyal."

Shu Xia can imagine Ji Xi's appearance, unruly, ignoring people, like a dazzling sun, attracting people's love and hatred.

"But it's good to get familiar with him slowly, he's pretty good."

"Speak ill of me?" Ji Xi rushed over from behind, scaring them almost into the river.

"Boss, I didn't mention you." Meng Ke seemed to have amnesia.

"Okay, give me one, and I'll try it too." He sat down on the ground indifferently, took the fishing rod in Meng Ke's hand, and sat next to Shu Xia.

Meng Ke moved away wisely, and went to play with Qi Xin and the others.

"Don't be restrained, they are all fun." Ji Xi flicked the fishing rod, "I haven't fished before, how can this thing work?"

"Just wait, and pull slowly when the fishing line moves." Shu Xia paused for a while before saying, "I'm not restrained."

He's just used to being half-enthusiastic to everyone, and he doesn't talk much, but he doesn't talk a lot. It's his rule not to embarrass both parties.

"Okay." Ji Xi picked up the fishing rod and wet his clothes with one hand, "Your family...is quite different."

Shu Xia paused: "Yeah." After a while, she looked at the fishing line in the distance, and said calmly, "It's very messy, and Shu Daqing is my father. I don't have any feelings for you. My mother is not in good health."

"The last time you were in the hospital was your mother..." He still remembered Shu Xia standing on the stairs and said his childish words coldly, and now thinking about it, he felt very sorry.

"Well, I'm sick."

"Why doesn't your dad take care of you? You're still a student." Ji Xi regretted it when he asked. From today's contact, he knows that his dad is not a good dad.

Shu Xia was silent for a moment: "He used to...he may have lost hope after losing his job, so he changed, or maybe he is that kind of person himself, who knows? He has long since left us alone."

"That home...it's not home anymore, it's very messy, so you have to stay away from me in the future."

Ji Xi frowned: "I'm not looking for your family, and I'm not friends with your parents, but with you."

"But someone is plotting for you." Shu Xia said, he didn't know what to say about his father's appearance today. with his blood.

Sometimes he is very confused, afraid that he is like Shu Daqing, skinless and shameless to a certain level, grabbing a person is like pulling a life-saving straw, and even dismissing the straw, that kind of shameless, that kind of... Obnoxious look.

Isn't it said that the genes of parents will be engraved on the next generation?if……

"Xueba, why are you so sentimental." Ji Xi smiled lightly, probably understanding what he meant, "I'm not a fool, but if you want to picture me, I can pretend not to see it."

"I warned you because I treated you as...a friend." Shu Xia pursed her lips, "If he finds you, don't be polite to him for my sake. His kind of person... is like a cancer. Just can't get rid of it."

"You want to get rid of that cancer?" Ji Xi asked, the disgust and annoyance on his face when he talked about his father couldn't be disguised at all.

Shu Xia turned her head to stare at him, her eyes were like an abyss, and after a while, he turned back, "It seems that a fish has been hooked, please pull slowly."

Uh uh, Ji Xi frantically pulled up the thread, Shu Xia's eyes just now were a little scary, and he couldn't understand some of them, but... he quite understood.

"Clumsy." Shu Xia took his fishing rod in distaste, and slowly reeled in the line. It looked like a small fish, and there was no sense of gravity when pulling it.

"Tsk, who are you talking about?" Ji Xi took Shu Xia's fishing rod and was very dissatisfied. Since he was young, Ji Xi was not the most powerful, why is he always disgusted by this four-eyed dog?

"What are you talking about?"

Tang Jing ran over and sat next to Ji Xi, put her hands on his shoulders, and looked at the two of them curiously.

"What's your name? I'm Tang Jing, Ji Xi's best friend." He held out his hand to Shu Xia.

Ji Xi knocked off his hand, and glanced at him: "Water all over you, get away."

"Shu Xia." Shu Xia remembered this person. She had seen this person in Ji Xi's circle of friends. She should have a very good relationship. It could be seen that he was from a different place.

The temperament and the feeling of speaking are different from the people here.

"Hello, did you catch a fish?" Seeing Shu Xia reeling in the line, Tang Jing tilted her head curiously. He is a familiar person and can chat with anyone.

When Ji Xi is good, he looks like he can chat with anyone, but it is actually the most difficult to chat with.

"Well, but it's very small." Shu Xia lifted the fishing rod up, and there was a small fish with the length of a middle finger on the hook, "This kind of fish is not easy to take care of."

As he spoke, he put the fish back into the water, and added flatly: "It has to be given a chance to grow up."

When he said this, Ji Xi glanced at him, and always felt that the words meant something. This man looked calm and gentle, but in fact he was very assertive and determined in his bones.

It's not a soft persimmon that people pinch!

"My fishing rod seems to be moving again." Ji Xi was a little excited, feeling that he was possessed by Hermes today, so lucky.

This time Shu Xia didn't help him, he patiently and slowly pulled back, holding his breath nervously, this was the first fish in his life, he had to catch it no matter what.

Luckily, it was a fish that weighed more than a catty. After taking a look, Shu Xia put the bait on the hook and threw it into the lake again.

"Brother Xi is lucky, you can buy a lottery ticket." Tang Jing helped put the fish into the bucket, which was the first good start of the day.

They were a little excited, and Tang Jing couldn't help but snatched his fishing rod, threatening to catch a fish bigger than Ji Xi's.

Fishing is a technical job, but also a psychological job.

It's a test of patience.

What Tang Jing lacks most is patience. He can't do it after sitting for 2 minutes. Although you chat with each other sentence by sentence, his mind is not on talking, and he keeps staring at the fishing line, his eyes are blurred.

"No, I'm so bored, I'm going to play, I'll give it back to you." He threw the fishing rod to Ji Xi and ran to Qi Xin to continue the water fight.

"Damn boy, I'm impatient."

Ji Xi said to him, honestly fishing.

Compared with playing those childish games with them, he prefers to chat with Shu Xia.

You can gradually understand what kind of person he is.

Ji Xi is rarely so curious about a person, Shu Xia is like a magnet, drawing him closer.

He studies well, doesn't talk too much, is very enthusiastic and not a nerd, plays games well, but is a little unreasonable.

Gentle with alienation, I feel that he is quite cold after contact for a long time.

But seeing the situation of his family, the 100 yuan and [-]-word review is fine.

Ji Xi glanced at his profile, he was quiet, he looked different from the people here, like Qi Xin and the others, purely for fun, with some of the temperament here, you can see Qi Xin at a glance Just live in this place.

As for Shu Xia, who looks clean, her words and deeds are very inconsistent with this place.

Not to mention the environment with his family.

Like a pearl in a swamp.

Makes him want to pick it up and wipe it clean to let his brilliant glow shine.

"How long are you going to stay?" Shu Xia asked.

"I don't know, let's go in the afternoon." Ji Xi said uncertainly, they were more casual, and left as soon as they wanted, "Do you have anything to do?"

"Well, I have something to do in the afternoon." Today I have to take Mei Ting to the hospital for an examination. Last time the doctor said that it would be almost a week or two.

He wanted to feel at ease earlier, but it wasn't at all reassuring, he just wanted to know the result.

"what's up?"

Shu Xia paused, "Go and help my mother get the medicine."

"Shouldn't the national day be off, why is it so urgent?"

"Yeah." Shu Xia said, "The hospital will be on holiday tomorrow, so it's just right to go today."

Ji Xi was silent for a moment, he put away the fishing rod, stood up and extended his hand to Shu Xia, "Get up, stop fishing, it's okay after dinner."

Shu Xia looked at him, without reaching out, she got up and patted the ashes on her buttocks, "Almost, the hospital starts work at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Ji Xi withdrew his hand, took out his mobile phone to check the time, it was getting closer, "I'm good at grilling, I'll show you my skills today."

"Really?" Shu Xia smiled, sincerely, "Then I'm lucky today."

"That's right, ordinary people can't taste my skills." He said boldly, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and added: "For the sake of you being my friend, you can do whatever you want."

As soon as Ji Xi took Shu Xia away, Qi Xin and the others also went back with the only fish.

They brought a lot of meat, filled the little tables, and brought beer.

Qi Lei has roasted a lot, and the girls ate very happily.

"You are back, did you catch it?" Shen Mengjie asked.

"Just one." Qi Xin showed them the bucket, and a half-sized fish was swimming leisurely in the bucket, not knowing at all that his life was about to be lost.

"How do you eat one piece?"

"Yes, one bite is not enough for one person."

Qi Xin shouted: "It's good to catch one, you will know how to eat, and you won't be afraid of gaining weight."

For a moment, four pairs of eyes stared at him, while Ji Xi and the others laughed jokingly.

"How can you say that girls are fat? They are the cutest little fairies." Tang Jing helped him smooth things over, her mouth was so sweet that it sounded like both of them would get diabetes.

"That's right, Tang Jing can still talk, you deserve to be single."

"Note lonely life."

Only then did Qi Xin react and immediately apologized with a hippie smile, chasing after Xing and kept saying good things.

Ji Xi dragged Shu Xia to the grill.

"They're really interesting." Shu Xia said.

"Well, it's all funny, what do you like to eat?" Ji Xi pointed to the meat and vegetables on the table.

Shu Xia glanced at it, there are about ten kinds of meat, I don't know what they are, there are fewer vegetables, seven or eight kinds, and the portions are very generous.

"I'm not too picky," he said.

"It doesn't mean that there are still people who don't like it, so tell me, which one doesn't like it?" Ji Xi asked.

"Coriander, the smell is unpleasant, can I roast some corn?" Shu Xia pointed at the tender golden corn.

"Okay, just say what you want."

"Yeah." Shu Xia stood aside and watched him make it. He can cook, but he has never done barbecue, so I don't know how it tastes.

Seeing Ji Xi's flowing water, oiling, seasoning very smoothly, the steel charcoal and gas they brought, it was baked very well.

"Actually, charcoal is the best for grilling, but if conditions don't allow it, we'll just let it go." Ji Xi chatted with Shu Xia while grilling.

Qi Lei glanced at the two of them, wondering when the relationship between the two was so good?

"Let me try." Shu Xia was a little eager to try, it seemed quite simple.

He took an eggplant and was brushing it with oil, when Ji Xi snatched it, "Wait a minute, it will taste better after being cut twice before roasting."

"It's quite professional!" Shu Xia said.

Ji Xi raised his eyebrows in embarrassment: "That's right, I don't even look at who I am."

"Brother Xi." Shu Xia replied.

Ji Xi froze on the spot, he didn't feel anything when others called him Brother Xi, but it was just strange for Shu Xia to call him that.

How would you describe that feeling?Like popcorn that exploded, it bloomed with a bang, and I felt comfortable all over.

"You...why, you call it that, it's weird." He stammered a little, returned the eggplant to him, and turned the corn slowly.

"I heard they all call you that, why can't I call you that?" Shu Xia took it and rinsed it with oil.

"No, it's just... how old are you? Don't take advantage of me." Ji Xi spoke incoherently, increasing his volume to ease his strange thoughts.

"Fuck!" Who is taking advantage of whom?Shu Xia put the eggplant on the grill, "Is this taking advantage of you? You are not a fucking little girl."

It was the first time Ji Xi heard him swearing, it was a little strange, he was immediately distracted, and asked with a corner of his mouth, "I just turned seventeen this year, how about you?"

"I'm...crazy, I still care about my age, I'm sixteen." Shu Xia was annoyed.

"Come on, call again." Ji Xi immediately teased him with a smile.

"……roll."

"You two are so naive!" Qi Lei said at the side.

"We respect the elderly, so we don't care about them." Ji Xi scolded him.

Shu Xia's workmanship is good, the roasted eggplant is very fragrant, it would be great if he could add some pepper, but he can't eat spicy food.

"Here, are you sure you don't want to add spicy? It should be tasteless!" Ji Xi handed him the grilled pork belly and corn.

"It's good like this." Shu Xia tasted the corn, "It's very fragrant and a bit sweet."

"Sweet corn is delicious when eaten raw," Ji Xi said.

"Really?" Shu Xia took a piece of raw corn and handed it to him, "Here, let me see if it's delicious."

"Fuck," Ji Xi chuckled, "I forgot to mention that the corn hasn't been washed, you can eat it yourself."

Shu Xia looked at the corn that she had already gnawed twice, and took another bite, not caring.

"If you don't do anything clean, you won't get sick if you eat it," he said.

"I'll go, Xueba, can you talk about hygiene?" Ji Xi took the corn brush oil, although it hasn't been washed, but the high-temperature disinfection should be fine.

Shu Xia: "If something goes wrong with me, it's because of your deliberate murder."

"I can't afford it, I can't afford it, give it back to me!" Ji Xi made a gesture to grab the corn cobs, but Shu Xia hid him.

"It's going to be mushy." He pointed to the corn cobs that Ji Xi was roasting.

"Brother Xi, do you have ours?"

Shen Mengjie and the others came over, breaking Ji Xi and Shu Xia's nonsense, Shu Xia stood aside, next to Qi Lei, watching the smooth movements of his hands.

"Can I try one?" he asked.

Ji Xi was surrounded by a few girls, and he couldn't move away, otherwise he would absolutely complain that you still have it in your hand!

"Eat whatever you want."

Qi Lei is gentle and refined, his hands seem to be drawing and writing, he bakes slowly, but it smells delicious.

Qi Lei grilled all the fish fillets with peppers, Shu Xia picked the fish fillet with the least amount of peppers, he wiped off the layer of peppers with a napkin, and then mustered up the courage to take a bite.

Very fragrant but very spicy.

Shu Xia doesn't have the habit of wasting, on the contrary he is very frugal.

Enduring the spiciness, I swallowed it in two mouthfuls. Fortunately, I bought water today, otherwise it would be too spicy.

"Why don't I cook non-spicy skewers for you?" Qi Lei didn't expect that he can't eat spicy food so much, it's strange that people in this place can't eat spicy food.

"No need, let me finish eating what I have in hand first." Shu Xia said with a smile, her mouth was dripping blood from the heat.

After eating two mouthfuls of sweet corn, it was not so spicy anymore. Shu Xia stood silently gnawing on the corn, watching Ji Xi who was surrounded, Qi Xin and the others were playing cards, and Liu Yang acted as a waiter to help serve grilled meat and a serving of vegetables nor.

In fact, it's good to go out and play.

If he doesn't come out today, he probably...he should be doing his homework right now, or he just got up, staying in his small room, and no one talks to him.

Shu Daqing and Mei Ting have no education, they don't know anything about what Shu Xia learned, and they can't help them. Other household chores... He just realized that they have no household chores to talk about. They are alone every day, and no one talks.

It's kind of lonely at times.

Thinking of this, he immediately threw out such superfluous and useless thoughts, and climbed over the path he chose.

"Here." Ji Xi took a handful of roasted meat and vegetables and handed them to Shu Xia, "You kitty, you eat so slowly."

Shu Xia looked at the meat and vegetables in his hand: "Why are you roasting so much? What about them?" He pointed to the group of girls.

"There's Qi Lei!" Ji Xi said, "My craftsmanship is not so easy to get."

"Then should I bow three times and kowtow nine times to thank you for your kindness?" Shu Xia said.

Ji Xi showed a smiling face: "No, just finish eating."

"You think I'm a pig! There are so many." Shu Xia looked at the handful in Ji Xi's hand, there were at least twenty skewers, how could he eat it?

"It would be great if you were a pig, so you don't have to speak harshly." Seeing that his hand was empty, Ji Xi helped him to take it, and ate two skewers of Da Da Ya Ji.

"It's tasteless, it's too unpalatable!" He was so disgusted after taking a bite.

Shu Xia laughed at him: "You baked it yourself, and you said it yourself, I don't know anything."

Ji Xi ignored him, this guy was so good that he got cheap, he went to the table next to him and dipped a little chili on the table, took two bottles of AD calcium, inserted a straw and handed it to Shu Xia.

"Thanks, I don't drink drinks." Shu Xia didn't answer, he didn't drink drinks since he was a child, because he didn't have money, and he didn't have boiled water to be healthy.

"I've served you, take a sip, it's delicious." Ji Xi stuffed the straw into his mouth, "You swallowed it, no one wants to drink it."

"You did it on purpose." Shu Xia glared at him angrily, took it in a compromise, sucked it in two sips, and rinsed it with mineral water to get rid of the milky smell.

Ji Xi clicked his tongue lightly, looked at the time, it was almost two o'clock, "What time are you leaving?"

"After eating this skewer, I have to go." He had to go to his mother, and then take the bus to the hospital, and he got off work again when it was late.

Ji Xi: "I'll see you off!"

Shu Xia shook her head: "No need, I'll just go by myself."

Ji Xi approached him and whispered, "Aren't you afraid that they will know where your home is?"

Shu Xia was stunned, and squeezed the baked potatoes in her hands. In fact, this feeling was not very good. He had already arrived at this place. According to the world, he should invite them to his house, even if it was casual, he had to say something. But he couldn't even utter a casual word.

Shu Daqing must be at home right now, if they go, Shu Xia doesn't know what Shu Daqing will say to highlight his ignorance and disgust.

There is also a mouth full of feces saying that he has AIDS, what will everyone think of him, are you thinking that this person must also have AIDS, and you can't get close to him... don't get infected...

At this moment, I suddenly regret coming here. It’s fine if I don’t know these people, so I don’t have to think about it so much.

He lowered his head and said softly, "Thank you."

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