camouflage

Ji Xi originally planned to go back to sleep, but seeing the drunk people, he shook his head, took a sip of the beer bottle, and stared at the gray sky in a daze.

Last night, I got into trouble while playing games.

Meng Ke and Qi Lei.

The two of them cheated each other in the game as if they had eaten a drug, and Ji Xi and the others, who suffered innocently, looked at them as undercover agents sent by the enemy to cheat their teammates on parallel imports.

I didn't eat chicken, but I was full of fire.

Only after hearing Qi Xin's gossip did he know that they were chasing the same person, and no one was convinced.

Then they came here and had a very clean fight.

The barren mountains and wild ridges, the electric towers that the birds don't shit on, have been abandoned.

It was Ji Xi's first time here, and he didn't see it clearly at night, but now he can see it clearly.

The tall electric tower was cut off in the middle, surrounded by bare hills, with several high-voltage wires wrapped around it, and there was a checkpoint next to it.

It is said that the land was occupied by the construction of the expressway, so this place was abolished.

It has become a leisure place, where you can fight and have a barbecue or something. It should be pretty good.

He dropped the can of beer on the floor with a bang, and it was mixed with dozens of others, and it was hard to tell which one he just threw in.

Meng Ke and Qi Lei had a fight, and now they leaned against each other and fell asleep again.

Qi Xin leaned against him, sleeping like a pig.

Liu Yang sent the two girls home last night, but he failed to witness this childish fight. The brain circuit of the boys is really strange.

He looked at Meng Ke as if it was Lin Qianqian's fault, and Qi Lei wasn't very angry either, the two just had a fight without any rules.

Save face?

Ji Xi didn't quite understand, he used to love to fight, no matter whether it was intentional or unintentional, as long as he was provoked, it would be resolved with a fight.

Enough support.

After a long absence for a few days, half of the sun appeared. Ji Xi pushed Qi Xin's head and said calmly, "It's on fire."

"Ah? Where?" Qi Xin got up and looked left and right, and opened his mouth to look at him stupidly, drooling out.

Tsk, what a mess!

Ji Xi didn't look at it, but looked at the horizon formed by the distant mountains and the sun, an orange patch, as beautiful as Shu Xia's sleeping face.

"Brother Xi, are we... still here?" Qi Xin got up and patted the grass clippings on his body, "What's the matter?"

Ji Xi looked at him: "How would I know? He dragged me to blow the cold wind like a madman."

"It's not Ah Ke, Sanshi is too, he is not sensible at such an age." Qi Xin walked over and kicked the two people who seemed to be reconciled.

"Get up, it's on fire!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't care whether they were awake or not, and walked over to sit next to Ji Xi.

"Oh!" he sighed.

"Sick?" Ji Xi glanced at him, "Why are you sighing?"

"I just think it's quite boring, do we look like crazy?" Qi Xin looked at him in confusion, "Look, Shu Xia is still working hard after studying so well, but I, the bottom of the class, came here... ...Watching fights, you think I'm bored?"

"Are you enlightened? Are you going to study hard?" Ji Xi laughed at him.

"No, it's just that my brain is convulsed, and I just feel quite confused." Qi Xin was rarely depressed, "Ah Ke wants to learn a craft, San Shi has found a girlfriend, Liu Yang is also busy with other things, you and Shu Xia I won’t talk about it, it looks like I’m not someone who will stay here for the rest of my life, and I don’t know anything, and I don’t know what to do in the future.”

"Hey, don't you want to be a pilot? No matter how bad it is, there is still your father's grocery store!" Ji Xi slapped him, "Don't worry about it!"

"Pilot is just a dream, and I didn't think about it." Qi Xin said, "Besides, my dad's dilapidated shop may close down before I graduate, and the second generation of my shop will directly become the poor second generation."

"Pfft ha ha ha, you still don't know yourself enough!" Ji Xi said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Qi Xin said furiously, "You mean I'm a poor second generation right now?"

"No." Ji Xi shook his head, "You can't graduate!"

"Fuck!"

"Ji Xi, if one day I jump into the river, it will be because of long-term campus bullying and mental torture, and you are the culprit!" He pointed to the two people who were still sleeping behind.

"There are also them, leading the elementary school students badly."

"Are you still young?" Ji Xi curled his lips, grabbed an empty beer and smashed it on his forehead, "You are a primary school student, so a top student is one who has not graduated from kindergarten."

"Hey, no." Qi Xin poked him on the shoulder, "What's the matter with you and Shu Xia? When did the relationship get so good?"

"None of your business!" Ji Xi pushed him away, stood up and stretched, "It's time to go back!"

"Is there something wrong with you two?" Qi Xin glanced at him, and kicked the two people on the ground mercilessly.

"It's a big deal!" Ji Xi said.

He patted the ashes and grass clippings on his body, but couldn't get them off. He wrinkled his face and said, "Tsk, look, my clothes are all ruined!"

The white clothes couldn't stand being dirty, and the slightest traces were obvious, not to mention the mud and grass scum all over the body, as if thrown into a dog's kennel and turned around.

"Fuck! My neck is twisted!" Qi Lei got up and rubbed his neck, frowning.

Ji Xi glanced at him and walked in front, "Who is to blame?"

Qi Xin carried Meng Ke away, muttering: "Your uncle, why is it so heavy? You must have grown up eating shit!"

"You're the one who eats shit!" Meng Ke's legs were so numb that they hopped down the hill on one leg, "Damn, what stupid thing did I do last night?"

"There are so many stupid things you do!"

"for example?"

"Does eating shit count?"

"Fuck off!"

"Then I let go?"

"If you dare to let it go, I'll tell you about your dear dog!"

"Meng Ke, you fucking crawl back by yourself, I won't serve you anymore!"

"..."

Ji Xi and Qi Lei walked in front, hearing their stupid words, they couldn't help laughing.

"The friends you make are really special!" Qi Lei said.

"Are you praising yourself?" Ji Xi stuffed his hands into his clothes bag, "shameless!"

"To be honest, Qi Xin, who is not stupid, Meng Ke, who is blindfolded, a student master who is super good at studying, and a brain who is in love, all work together!" Qi Lei said with a smile, "plus Come to me, a well-educated young man with profound knowledge, enough to fight landlords for two tables."

"Tsk tsk, your skin is thicker than mine!" Ji Xi walked slowly, kicking a stone on the side of the road as if itchy, "But it's really good to know you, it's not so boring."

"When are you leaving?" Qi Lei suddenly asked.

Ji Xi froze for a moment, kicked the stones under his feet and smashed them into the withered weeds, "Of course the college entrance examination is over!"

"You really think so?" Qi Lei somewhat disapproved, "You know the level of No. [-] Middle School. When it comes to the college entrance examination, do you still have the strength to take it?"

"Where does gold not shine?" Ji Xi boasted, "Even if I am in the mud, that is the most beautiful grass!"

"You are awesome!"

"This is powerful!" Ji Xi said with a smile.

Qi Lei didn't refute him: "It's up to you, just don't regret it!"

"I won't regret it!" Ji Xi looked into the distance, there was another person with him, why should he regret it?

They parted ways amidst the quarrel between Qi Xin and Meng Ke, and Ji Xi walked slowly through the streets and alleys. It is also miraculous that he can now know where the alleys were that he could not figure out with his eyes closed.

He went to the breakfast shop to buy porridge and steamed buns. There were not many people in the morning, maybe it was winter, and everyone didn't want to leave the warm bed.

He went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables again.

He doesn't know how to buy vegetables, and he doesn't even know where the door of the vegetable market is. Although he said that he was buying vegetables and Shu Xia was cooking, he was very nervous, and almost all of them were bought by Shu Xia. He would pick him up by bike at most .

Only then did Ji Xi realize that he seemed to be another burden for Shu Xia. He was short of money, so he said nothing like he was bored, letting him eat and drink for nothing.

Really...do you like him that much?

He was in a very happy mood and asked for directions. He walked all the way and asked all the way, and finally wandered to the vegetable market.

Messy, smelly.

It was his first feeling.

Noisy voices, chaotic streets, vegetable leaves all over the floor, thumping roosters, passers-by with baskets on their backs...everything is incredible!

Dressed in white, he looked like an alien, standing in the crowd and couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north.

So sorry!

He came and came, and he couldn't return empty-handed. He looked around, squeezed through the crowd, and went to the tall building. In his impression, the vegetable sellers should be in a planned area, neat and dry. Clean, not this kind of scene where there is time to squeeze there.

He went to a store with a store, looked at the meat to buy, and went there wherever there was meat.

When he finally wandered around and felt it, his hands were already full.

He looked at chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, sixty-year-old cabbage, and a few small cabbages with a guilty conscience. He didn't seem very kind, and bought a lot of vegetarian dishes for Shu Xia. Most of them he didn't know, and he bought them when they looked green.

After he walked around for an unknown number of times, he finally arrived at the entrance of the vegetable market.

My hand is almost broken!

Finally, I realized that it was not easy for Shu Xia!

I finally know the reason why the mother is not a housewife!

Laziness broke out, he stood on the side of the road waiting for a taxi, the vegetable market was very crowded, and there was no taxi after waiting for half a day, but the motorcycle driver next to him kept asking him where he was going, from 20 yuan at the beginning to [-] yuan now, let him Some can't laugh or cry.

"Uncle, I won't sit here, don't ask any more!" He said helplessly.

"Hey, you can't even take a taxi! There are so many people here, taxis generally don't go this way, ours is very fast, five yuan, see if it works, it can't be lower." The uncle began to pull Business.

"Uncle, my friend will come to pick me up." Ji Xi smiled helplessly, and opened the taxi app. If there is no taxi, there is still Didi!

"Okay, there are guests at home, and you have bought so many dishes. Look at you, and you are still a student?"

"My boy is about the same age as you, but he is not as handsome as you. He is very skinny, and he doesn't even study at school!"

"You young men..."

"..."

Ji Xi nodded with a smile, and didn't even hear what he said clearly.

In Xiaopo County, even taking a taxi is slow as a snail. Looking at the car that will arrive in 13 minutes on the software, Ji Xi is calculating that he can still listen to this uncle's nagging before bursting out.

"Where does the young man study?" the uncle asked.

"It's the nearest one." Ji Xi didn't know which one was the nearest one, so he made up nonsense.

"No. [-] middle school! My kid is also in No. [-] middle school. Hey, are you in the second or third year of high school?"

"Second year in high school." Ji Xi said with a smile, he could guess right even if he silently complained about nonsense!

"My family is also a sophomore in high school. You may still know each other. Do you know my son Jiang Lin?"

"Jiang Lin?" Ji Xi looked at him in surprise.

"Well, Jiang Lin, I forgot how many classes I've been in." The uncle said with a silly smile.

"Class two and three in high school, I know him." Ji Xi said, "He's very gentle and serious about his studies. The teacher often praises him." Except for being nosy, everything else is pretty good.

"Really?" said the uncle, "That kid is just a bastard, how can he get praise from the teacher?"

"Ah? Then...maybe it's a mistake, the same name?" Ji Xi's impression of Jiang Lin is a gentle nerd, how can he be confused with a bastard?

But isn't Shu Xia like this?

On the surface, he is a well-behaved and clever student bully, who knew he could still play games, go to Internet cafes, and fight!

It's unbelievable!

Everyone is more or less pretending, like him, he is just a scumbag, and Shu Xia is just a loveless and strong little milk dog.

"That... are you Shu Xia's classmate?"

Ji Xi turned to look at the interrogator, and lamented that today is not a good time to go out, because he met Shu Xia's mother.

"Hello, auntie, I'm Shu Xia's classmate." It's still his boyfriend, Ji Xi didn't dare to say, but just replied politely.

"I just looked familiar, how is Xiao Xia?" she asked.

Carrying a basket on his back, with his back bent, and his face full of haggardness, Ji Xi didn't have any good looks towards her, but now he can't help it.

"Auntie, he is very nice and studies hard. Are you here to sell vegetables today?" Ji Xi asked.

"Well, the family needs to eat and drink, and his father is like that, how can he live without making some money?" Mei Ting sighed.

Ji Xi felt sorry for her, but he didn't want to have too much contact with her. This person is too scary to be crazy.

Silent people are the scariest, because they don't know when they will explode.

"How is uncle?" he asked.

"Hey, I don't know if I can get through this year. Are you here to buy vegetables?" She looked at the vegetables at his feet.

"Ah?" Ji Xi nodded as if he had come to his senses, "Ah, just buy some, that... what's wrong with Uncle?"

Mei Ting: "I'm sick, I can't get out of bed."

"Didn't you send him to the hospital?" Ji Xi regretted it after asking. There seemed to be no cure for that disease.

"It can't be cured, why waste money?" Mei Ting looked at him, "When you meet Xiao Xia, tell me that his father is dying, tell him to go home, huh?"

Ji Xi was a little taken aback, nodded his head twice, not knowing what to say.

His three views have collapsed. What do you mean by not being cured and wasting money?

Even if it can't be cured, it's okay to go to the hospital to reduce the pain!How can it be a waste of money?

Tell Shu Xia to go home?What can I do when I go back?

Doesn't this add to his burden?

However, that person is his father, should I say it?

His thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of his mobile phone, which was from the driver.

"Aunt... Auntie, my car is here, so we won't talk, we will talk next time when we have a chance." Ji Xi waved his hand and picked up the vegetables at his feet, "Master, I'm at the entrance of the vegetable market, in white clothes... "

"Student, remember to tell Xiao Xia for me." Mei Ting shouted.

Ji Xi waved his hand, not sure if he heard it or not.

Mei Ting watched him get into a small black car and drive away, looking hopelessly until the car was nowhere to be seen.

She turned and went to the bus station to wait for the bus.

Ji Xi heaved a sigh of relief and slumped in the back seat.

Shu Xia should know about this, right?Still don't know?

Then should he say it?

If he finds out and mentions it again, isn't it just rubbing salt on the wound?

Don't say, what if he doesn't know and misses it?

Ji Xi got into trouble, scratched his hair in distress, and grabbed the side of the front seat with one hand, "Master, stop at the breakfast shop in front, I'll do some shopping."

"Okay." The driver was a talkative middle-aged man, and pulled over with the lights on.

Ji Xi went down to buy porridge, steamed buns, and dry noodles. I don't know which one Shu Xia likes.

When he arrived at the door of Shu Xia's house, he didn't bother to come up with a result. He put the vegetables on the ground and knocked on the door with his hands free. He could have used his feet, but it doesn't matter.

He knocked twice, and the door opened.

"Did you fall asleep or did I disturb you?" he asked.

Shu Xia grabbed her hair and shook her head to let him in.

After one night, the arrogant hair came down again, obediently drooping over the eyebrows, "Why do you buy so many?"

"Eat!" Ji Xi handed him the porridge and steamed buns, then turned to pick up the vegetables on the ground, "There are also noodles, which one do you want?"

"It's all right, do you want to help?" Shu Xia made a seat for him, and glanced at the porridge, mung bean porridge.

"It's okay, it's not heavy." Ji Xi closed the door with his foot. The room was too small and he couldn't turn around. He put the dishes on the table, "If you can't finish eating, just take it to my place. You can do it when you have time."

"Why do I feel like a nanny?" Shu Xia stuffed a steamed bun into her mouth, and lifted the porridge to the small desk. His new furniture, the bed desk, was very convenient.

"Because you're virtuous!" Ji Xi said, "Give me one, I'm exhausted, and grocery shopping is really not something people do."

Shu Xia stuffed a small steamed bun into his mouth, took one for herself, looked at him and said, "Excuse me, God, what can you do?"

"Fuck you!" Ji Xi stared at him.

"Ahem..." Shu Xia swallowed the bun stuck in her throat, "Can you talk properly?"

"No, haven't you kissed today?" He moved his left cheek closer, "Come, one over here."

"roll!"

"Tsk, if it's not the mountain, I'll go to the mountain." Saying that, she kissed Shu Xia on the face.

He sat down on the bed, picked up the test paper on the bed, and said, "Are you still in the first middle school? Are you not tired!"

"It's okay, we're almost done, do you want some water?" Shu Xia poured a glass of boiling water, the kettle that was given away for free is of good quality, and it hasn't gone wrong for so long.

"Not thirsty." Ji Xi put down the test paper and patted the side, "Come, sit here, I have something to tell you."

Shu Xia looked at him with wide eyes, it seemed that he really wanted to say something, so he moved over and sat down.

"Here we haven't kissed yet!" Ji Xi held his face in his hands and smacked loudly.

"Are you finished?" Shu Xia wiped her wet cheeks, "I have something to talk about."

"That..." Ji Xi looked at him before continuing, "I met your mother today, at the vegetable market..." Sure enough, Shu Xia's face changed.

"She said, your father...will die soon." Ji Xi put his arms around his shoulders, "Do you want to go and see?"

Shu Xia didn't show much surprise, and asked him in a muffled voice, "Am I unfilial?"

"He's sick and dying, so I don't want to go to see him. He doesn't look like a son." Shu Xia was a little annoyed, "But I just don't want to go. When he got into trouble before, I wished he could die sooner." , and now I'm really dying, and I feel...very sad!"

"I'll be with you, whether you want to go or not, I'll be with you." Ji Xi patted him on the shoulder.

Shu Xia took a mouthful of the steamed stuffed bun, as if angry, "I went to see what I can do, I'm not a doctor."

Ji Xi couldn't understand his embarrassment, he had never encountered it before.All empathy is a lie, and only through personal experience can you experience the feeling that goes deep into the bone marrow.

All he can do is stay with him.

"What do you want to eat, I'll do it." Shu Xia asked.

"What's the rush?" Ji Xi grabbed him, "It's still early, aren't you sleepy?"

"I just want to find something to do, I don't want to just sit." Shu Xia turned and buried herself in Ji Xi's arms, "I'm sleepy, but I can't fall asleep."

"I called last night. Mei Ting said that he was dying. I don't know what to do. What should Mei Ting do? A lot of problems came to me, and I didn't know how to solve them."

Ji Xi patted him on the back, "Go and have a look, even if you can't do anything, you'll know just by looking at it, you might as well go and see him in person if you're just thinking here, and you'll know what to do after watching him go. "

"But... I'm afraid." Shu Xia muffled, "If he leaves, what will Mei Ting do?"

This is the last thing Shu Xia wants to think about. Mei Ting has a place to rely on when Shu Daqing is alive. Although he is a bastard, he is her husband after all. If he dies, Mei Ting will be left with him, what should he do?

"I'm very afraid of her. I'm scared even when I look at her. I don't know when I will lose my mind when I use caring words. I'm afraid of walking their way."

"It's okay, I'll be here in the future!" Ji Xi kissed him on the forehead, "Doesn't she have savings? She can still go and work, and when you earn money, give her some money so that you don't have to live on. You have to think about it too." Think to yourself, you are only 17 years old, you are not yet an adult!"

"Is this okay?" Shu Xia asked.

"Tsk, it's fine if Brother Xi says yes." Ji Xi flicked his forehead, "Now, go to sleep, it's time to rest!"

Ji Xi dragged him into bed familiarly, "Let me tell you, I didn't sleep all night, Meng Ke and Qi Lei took the wrong medicine, went to the mountain to fight, drank all night, I'm going to be so sleepy."

"Fight?" Shu Xia was hugged by him, breathing hard, he moved, "Why fight? Relax, I'm going to suffocate."

Ji Xi moved, kicked the test paper on the quilt, and leaned against the window, leaving room for Shu Xia, this bed is too small!

"It's not because of a girl, the second term is here, just Lin Qianqian, remember?" Ji Xi pulled the quilt up to cover Shu Xia, "They actually like the same girl, and that boy Meng Ke failed in his confession. I haven't come to my senses, the girl I like is getting along with my brother, do you think he is depressed?"

"Is it serious?" Shu Xia asked.

"It's okay, just play casually, Meng Ke doesn't seem to insist on her, maybe it's a matter of face." Ji Xi shrank into Shu Xia's neck, "Don't talk about them, I'm sleepy, sleep well!"

Ji Xi fell asleep quickly, he was really sleepy, he thought he would fall asleep after sending the message, but he didn't expect to go to the mountain to fight.

Shu Xia closed her eyes, the last thought in her mind was to visit Shu Daqing after the final exam.

In the quiet room, there are two shallow breathing sounds, the music box is lying quietly beside the pillow, and the little white rabbit is still gnawing carrots.

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