camouflage

Tang Jing didn't go back with her, and changed trains halfway and went straight home.

Ji Xi sent him into the station, and Qi Xin and the others took the first step.

Tang Jing glanced at them and said with a smile: "I will have less chance to visit you in the future. I have to study hard to prepare for the college entrance examination. I won't come on your birthday. I will send you a present."

"Don't run here from now on, your parents won't tickle you, will they?" Ji Xi hugged him and patted his back, "Study hard."

"You two too." Tang Jing waved her hand, "Don't give it away, I don't like that."

"Tch, let's go then, you can fend for yourself." Ji Xi angrily pulled Shu Xia away.

"You pay attention to safety!" Shu Xia turned her head and said something, but Ji Xi turned her back and went out to get in the car, ignoring Tang Jing behind her.

Shu Xia climbed into the co-pilot and put on her seat belt, "How about we do this? Don't wait for him to get in the car?"

"He doesn't like the whole set, just be casual, come and go easily." Ji Xi started the car and slowly merged into the traffic flow.

"It's so free and easy!" Shu Xia sighed, "When can I just leave?"

"You can do it if you think about it." Ji Xi turned his head and glanced at him, "You are just hard-spoken and soft-hearted, and you are too emotional."

"Aren't you the same?" Shu Xia leaned on the backrest and looked at the traffic in front of her. The holiday was over, and there was a return rush on the road.

"Except for you, I really don't care about feelings." Ji Xi said with a smile, "I'm born weak, I only know how to feel good."

"... Am I one of your favorites?" Shu Xia asked quietly.

"Well, but your shelf life is very long, I don't have enough for a while." Ji Xi said.

Shu Xia: "..."

They quickly followed Qi Xin and the others, settled their lunch in the service area, and shared two people in Ji Xi's car, Qi Xin and Meng Ke, who could quarrel about anything, which was refreshing.

It was Shu Xia, who seemed unable to wake up, fell asleep three times along the way, and Ji Xi's butt was about to be broken, and Tang Jing replaced it when he went, but now he is alone, and his whole body is sore.

Fortunately, no traffic police checked the car, otherwise they would have to go to education.

After going back, a few people exchanged casual greetings and then went home.

Ji Xi dragged Shu Xia to sleep until he woke up naturally.

There were two top students, and the teacher didn't rest during the holidays. He worked overtime to correct the monthly exam papers. The difference between Shu Xia and Ji Xi was fifteen points, which was half of what he expected.

There are very few people in this school who get [-] points in the exam, and the two of them suddenly became a hot topic of discussion. The people in the third class went out and proudly said that they were all in their class, and they were more proud than their own. One is also happy.

Shen Shi was cheerful all day long, and Li Taibai often took care of the two of them, sending them a set of test papers from No. [-] Middle School.

Send out two good seedlings.

As Ji Xi's birthday is getting closer, Shu Xia doesn't have any good ideas in his mind. Ji Xi is going to be an adult, so the gifts must be different and have different meanings.

On the surface, they run together, go to class, finish class, eat, sleep, and privately Shu Xia is almost in a state of desperation, what kind of gift should I give?

Ji Xi has no shortage of things, and he is not capable of producing any good ones. Moreover, he is tired of being together all day, and he rarely even has the chance to think about it.

Qi Xin and the others agreed that they would book the venue, eat, drink, sing, dance, and become one dragon.

Shu Xia was often in a daze in class, thinking about what to give.

"You're in a daze again!" Ji Xi tapped his head, "Is it so difficult to think of a gift?"

"Well, you don't lack anything, what should I give?" Shu Xia doodles on the paper in distress.

"You can do whatever you want." Ji Xi didn't care much about birthdays. In the past, it was nothing more than eating and drinking, and the gifts were bad, so it wasn't interesting.

"That's a coming-of-age ceremony, how can you be casual?" Shu Xia ignored him and continued thinking.

"Tsk, just send you off to me." Ji Xi said with a smile, "Is it hot? Next time you change seats, don't sit here, you're already tanned."

The seat by the window is hot and stuffy. Although the curtains are drawn, the temperature is really high. It is exposed to the sun all afternoon. The fan on the head is useless. I am listless and drowsy in class.

"It's a bit hot, why am I dark?" Shu Xia looked at his arm, but there was no change. He twisted open the thermos and poured out a glass of ice water for him, "Do you want to drink?"

"Well, it's not dark, just to remind you." Ji Xi drank it all in one gulp, glanced at the math teacher Wang Chaojun on the stage, sweating and still talking passionately, holding a book to draw lines on the blackboard, and occasionally took a sip of water Soothe your throat.

"It's so hot today!" He fanned Shu Xia with a fan, feeling his ass was sticky.

"The really hot time hasn't come yet!" Shu Xia pushed her hair back, sweating after sitting for a long time.

"Last year, I almost died of heat here." Ji Xi slumped on the table.

Shu Xia smiled, the county seat is a small basin, and it is close to the city, the temperature is much higher than that in the suburbs, summer is the most difficult.

Especially when I have to work part-time, one summer can be spent twice in the dark.

"What do you want to eat tonight?" Shu Xia asked, the weather is hot recently, and Ji Xi doesn't like big fish or big meat anymore.

"You have a phone." Ji Xi pointed to the cell phone in his drawer, looking sharply at the familiar number, it was Shu Xia's fucking number, although he didn't remember it, but he called this number every day, even a fool would remember it.

Shu Xia took it out to have a look, then hung up.

Mei Ting called every day recently, regardless of the time, he dared not use the vibrate mode, and just muted the volume. Every time he was so annoying that he wanted to join the blacklist, but he couldn't do it. He was afraid that something would happen and he would not receive it for a while.

"What do you want to eat tonight?" Shu Xia asked again, with a hint of irritability.

"Let's have porridge." Ji Xi said, looking at his face, calm down with a little irritability, his brows could not help but frown.

It's like this every time, he gets angry when he picks it up, and annoys him if he doesn't pick it up. Ji Xi doesn't know how to comfort him. After all, he's not his real mother, so he can't empathize with him. Even if he has a bad relationship with his parents, he didn't block him idea.

So he understands Shu Xia's helplessness, and he doesn't understand it either.

If his parents were so unreasonable and outrageous, he would really be directly blacklisted and never get in touch with each other.

"Okay." Shu Xia replied, looked at the blackboard seriously, and dispelled the restlessness in her heart by studying.

When get out of class was over, Shu Xia was lying on the table, looking at Ji Xi, his eyes were full of his shadow, "I want to beat someone up, it's too annoying!"

"Then let's fight?" Ji Xi fanned him.

"I can't beat you." Shu Xia said lazily, her eyes could barely open, "I don't want to fight you either."

"Don't stay up late at night, look at the dark circles under your eyes. Besides, staying up late during the day is not good for your energy." Ji Xi poured him a glass of water. Shu Xia played games and studied until one o'clock every night, and woke up at five o'clock in the morning. Rest for half an hour, less than five hours a day and night.

Living with him is like this, I don't know how it was before.

"I'll be a millionaire soon, so I have to work hard." Shu Xia yawned and drank the water.

"Tsk, how much is the difference?" Ji Xi lay on the table and looked at him, "I'll make it up for you."

"No, I'll earn it myself." Shu Xia immediately refused, his bottom line was to rely on himself, if he couldn't even do this, how could he have the courage to go further?

Ji Xi sighed, "You are stubborn."

Shu Xia didn't speak, closed her eyes, and said after a while: "This is my last pride, don't break it."

"En." Ji Xi responded lightly, looking at Shu Xia's eyelashes, thick and slender, I don't know how they grow, they look good everywhere.

Qi Xin came over with a bluff: "Brother Xi, are you going to the canteen? It's so hot today!" He lifted the hem of his clothes to fan himself, and cut his hair again, shorter than an inch.

"Bring me a bottle of iced Coke, Shu Xia, what do you want?" Ji Xi leaned against the table behind.

"I have nothing to drink." He shook his head.

"Okay, Ake, let's go." Qi Xin rushed out again, and went to the canteen with Meng Ke.

Shu Xia glanced at the back door, the figures of the two of them rushed too fast, leaving only an afterimage and then disappeared, "Is that Meng Ke?"

"Well, I almost didn't recognize it." Ji Xi said with a smile.

Meng Ke also cut a piece of board, which is so different from himself. When I saw it this morning, I almost didn't recognize him. He is so suitable to be a monk.

"Why did everyone cut their hair?" There were not many long-haired boys in the class, Shu Xia muttered while lying on the table, looking up at her own hair, "I want to cut one too, it's too hot."

"No, you are not suitable for board size." Ji Xi said hastily, "If you cut a board size, I'm not pretending not to know you, but I really don't know you."

"Is it so exaggerated?" Shu Xia curled her lips in dissatisfaction. He really couldn't believe it. There is such a big change in one board inch?

"It's not an exaggeration, how about I get a haircut too?" Ji Xi pulled his hair.

"You?" Shu Xia looked around his face, Ji Xi's face was too delicate and aggressive, like a hot fire, it was unforgettable at a glance.

"Why don't you try it?"

"Actually, I did cut it before, it's really handsome!" Ji Xi flipped through the phone's photo album, "I even took a picture of it, let me show you."

Shu Xia leaned over, chuckled lightly, "Forget it, you're still more handsome now."

In the photo, Ji Xi looks like a black guy with a cut-cut head, two marks engraved on it, and earrings. He looks like a little overlord, but his face is too delicate, which feels a bit out of place.

"Tsk, I don't believe in evil anymore." Ji Xi put the phone back into his trouser pocket, looked at Shu Xia, "I'll cut one tomorrow."

"Then I'll cut it too." Shu Xia said.

"No." Ji Xi had a tough attitude.

Shu Xia did not persuade him: "If you can do it, then I can do it too."

"What works, what doesn't work?" Qi Xin rushed back, brought a gust of wind, and smashed a bottle of Coke on the table, "Damn, it's so hot!"

Ji Xi clicked his tongue and looked up at his sweaty face, "Did you get chased by a dog?"

"No, it's too hot, what are you talking about?" Qi Xin leaned against Ji Xi's table and took a sip of Coke.

Ji Xi unscrewed it and poured some into Shu Xia's insulation cover, and pushed it over, "A little bit is okay, right?" Shu Xia doesn't like to drink.

"Yeah." Shu Xia took a sip, looked at Qi Xin, "Do you think Ji Xi is suitable for board size?"

"Damn, you guys want to cut your hair too?" Qi Xin looked at Ji Xi's face in surprise, then at Shu Xia's face, took a sip of Coke, hiccupped, "I think you can try it."

"Don't be like Meng Ke, I almost didn't recognize him." Qi Xin couldn't straighten up with a smile, "I thought I met a Shaolin monk when I came this morning."

"What did he think? Cut it so short?" Ji Xi glanced at Meng Ke who couldn't see anyone.

"The nerve is wrong!" Qi Xin looked at them curiously, "When are you going?"

"Tomorrow, Shu Xia has to go to work tonight, I don't have time." Ji Xi said.

"Call me tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't know you guys next week." Qi Xin smiled like she had epilepsy.

"...Get out!" Ji Xi picked up the book and threw it at it.

Flat-inch hair, tsk tsk, Ji Xi glanced at Shu Xia, "We're not the same, don't dislike anyone!"

"Okay." Shu Xia said with a smile.

In the evening, I cooked a pot of eight-treasure porridge, Shu Xia ate a few mouthfuls and went to work, Ji Xi was ordered to study at home, and I only made a little of the pile of college entrance examination materials.

There are a lot of people in the Internet cafe, because summer is here.

There is an air conditioner inside, and there are many people who come to surf the Internet to use the air conditioner.

Shu Xia worked until two o'clock in the morning before taking a breather. At this time, almost all nights are reserved, and no one will come.

He rubbed his head, leaned on his chair and glanced at the crowd, the keyboard was crackling, and there were a lot of swear words, maybe he was playing a game.

After resting for a few minutes, he stood up and went to Liu Qiang's cubicle.

In the dark, he pressed the switch on the wall to turn on the light. The room was full of debris, except for the bed which was still empty, and other places were full of things.

He looked up at the guitar on the wall, which he hadn't touched in years.

He took it off and opened the zipper, sat on the bed and looked at it carefully. No matter how difficult it was at the beginning, he never thought about selling it, nor did he think about touching it again. He stayed with Liu Qiang all the time. He thought it should be gone long ago. Liu Qiang will help him keep it for so long.

Unscrew the knob, fiddle with a string at will, there is a squeaking sound, fine dust falls under the light, even with the cover to protect it, it is still covered with dust, the tone is different from before, maybe it has not been used for too long, it has no color, Quaint colors.

Shu Xia rubbed casually, adjusted the pitch, and felt unfamiliar. She checked the strings and gears. Fortunately, there was no major problem.

He tried to hook the thread, and made a crisp sound, gradually added a little tune, and slowly got used to it.

In fact, it is still familiar.

It's like learning to drive a car, and you won't forget how to drive it because you haven't touched the car for a long time. It has been imprinted in your bones. It is a skill. The familiar feeling between your fingers and the tingling sensation of your fingers being numb by the strings are like returning to the past. .

He followed Liu Qiang's ass with a guitar on his back every day. He was still too young at that time, and the guitar was almost half his height, but he didn't know what medicine he took wrongly. He just liked it. band.

Later, Liu Qiang was caught by his family, he was beaten up, and he fled rebelliously. Instead of taking him with him, he brought another person who was in the same way with them. Terrible, the fellow fell down the stairs and died.

Shu Xia didn't know him very well, he had only met him a few times, and he was surprised when he heard the news of his death. That fellow with a shawl and long hair and eyes full of melancholy, he sang very well, but it was a pity that he died.

At that time, something happened at home, and Liu Qiang also compromised and stopped making trouble. Their band dream ended without a problem. Their lives were too busy. They hadn’t contacted each other for several years. They only met when they were looking for a job in freshman year of high school. like.

They have all changed.

No one mentioned the past again.

Shu Xia plucked the strings, put the past behind her, it was all over.

A strange, obscure, and untuned melody came from his fingers. He tried to change to another brisk style, but unfortunately it didn't suit him.

Switched to a dull tone again.

He hummed a familiar yet unfamiliar melody softly.

The light in the dark night is on and off, your eyes are full of starlight... The vastness of youth, empty, your embrace, spring grass and warm sun...

……

When I open my eyes, you are beside me...

Ji Xi's face can't get out of his mind, every scene, every frame, is full of his smiling face, no matter if it's wanton, flamboyant, warm, helpless, laughing through tears...all are his shadow , he is like starlight, giving him company and guidance.

The tune is not very familiar, Shu Xia put the guitar back, he hasn't found a more suitable tune yet.

After doing the test papers all night, the time slowly moved to the seven o'clock position, and I got off work!

Liu Qiang was still the little pink electric car, coming with a bun in his mouth.

Shu Xia smiled, Liu Qiang really changed.

"Brother Qiang, good morning!" He greeted with a smile.

"Morning, do you want to eat?" He threw a bun over, "I bought too much, I can't eat it."

"There were quite a lot of people last night, and the drinks are sold out." Shu Xia took a bite, and followed her in to pack her things.

"Really? That's good, I'll give you a salary increase this month." Liu Qiang said with a smile, the matter of selling drinks was brought up by Shu Xia, and if the sale is completed, you will get a dividend.

"Thanks, then I'm leaving." Shu Xia waved her hand and walked out with the bun in her mouth.

"Okay, be careful." Liu Qiang replied.

Shu Xia waved her hand again, and stepped into the alley that was already brightly lit. On a summer morning, the morning light was early, the breakfast shop on the street opened, and the enthusiastic boss greeted her with a few words of buns, steamed buns, soybean milk and fried dough sticks...

He smiled. An ordinary life is also a kind of happiness.

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