A single tree does not make a forest

Lin Song took Chen Si to hide outside the window of the Internet cafe.Song Beiqi went in and said a few words to the network administrator, then walked to the window, slightly lifted the thick dark blue curtain, the scene where Zhang Xu was playing a game and there was a girl lying on his body happened to fall completely on Chen Si in the eyes.

Someone next to him asked: "Brother Xu, don't you want to go see that girl Chen Si?"

"There's nothing to watch." Zhang Xu stared at the screen without moving, and said, "Let her blow on the cold wind to wake herself up."

Chen Si and Lin Song didn't hear these words, but Song Beiqi heard them clearly.

Outside the window, Chen Si covered his mouth and turned around to run away. Lin Song looked at Song Beiqi through the dirty glass and chased after him.Song Beiqi looked at Zhang Xu not far away, and sat down in front of a computer.

The group of people who were together dispersed one by one. Zhang Xu was walking on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. When passing by an alley, someone inside suddenly called him: "Zhang Xu."

He thought he had heard it wrong, and the voice called out again.

He put out the cigarette butt on the wall and cursed: "Who the hell is pretending to be a ghost?"

Taking two steps closer, he saw a tall boy standing upright in front of him through the light outside, and seemed to be wearing a school uniform.

He chuckled lightly: "What's the matter? Are you looking for trouble and finding me on your uncle's head? Don't ask me who I am? Borrow money to spend or start a fight?"

The other party's voice was calm, even gentle. He put down his schoolbag and threw it against the wall, and asked him, "Did you forget something today?"

Zhang Xu frowned and took two steps forward: "You're fucking trying to find fault, right?"

As soon as the words fell, the person on the opposite side had already swung a punch, and the two of them started fighting with bare hands.

Lin Song was worried after sending Chen Si home, and turned his head to walk towards the Internet cafe. Just passing by the alley, he heard the sound of hand-to-hand combat, mixed with a few groans.As if he had a premonition in his heart, he shouted inside: "Song Beiqi!"

There seemed to be a pause inside. Lin Song rushed in and vaguely saw Song Beiqi holding Zhang Xu on the ground, shaking his fists, exuding a strange aura.

Zhang Xu on the ground seemed to be completely suppressed, and he only knew to hide.Lin Song went over and grabbed Song Beiqi's hand: "Don't hit me, don't hit me!"

While persuading him, he stretched out his leg and kicked Zhang Xu on the ground.

Song Beiqi lightly let go of the hand holding his collar, and his tone remained steady: "Do you know where I went wrong?"

Zhang Xu flinched, not daring to speak, Song Beiqi continued: "I don't care about the so-called relationship between you, I don't understand. But first, you shouldn't irresponsibly say that you want to take her away, ruin her She has a future; second, since you said you should take her away, you shouldn't break your promise. Although it is the best result if you don't take her away, I hate people like you who don't mean anything. "

These words didn't matter to Zhang Xu, but the phrase "I hate people who don't talk too much" hit Lin Song's heart all of a sudden, and his heart tightened, thinking: Sure enough, he still holds grudges.

After Song Beiqi said this, he got up and left. After walking a few steps, Zhang Xu climbed up along the wall: "If you have the ability, wait for me tomorrow!"

Song Beiqi chuckled and turned to look at him.Zhang Xu took a few steps back reflexively, and heard him still say softly: "You try."

Walking to a brighter place, Lin Song wanted to take a closer look at Song Beiqi's injury, but the light was dim and he was a little nearsighted, so he moved closer.

Song Beiqi felt that he could almost feel his breath.

At the same moment, Lin Song was thinking: Oh my god, why are the eyelashes so long?

Song Beiqi wanted to back away, but couldn't move until Lin Song reached out to touch the corner of his mouth.He shrank back a bit, Lin Song thought that he had hurt him, so he quickly took a step back, standing by the side as if he was at a loss, after a while he said: "You said just now that you hate people who don't talk .”

Looking at Song Beiqi's quiet face, Lin Song continued to ask with difficulty, "Did you also hate me?"

At eight or nine, it's cool to be able to claim who your "best friend" is, like having a relationship like that is growing up.Even later, every time I think about it, I can't wait to bury my head in the sand, so as to pretend that the person who said those words was not me.

But at an age of lawlessness, such a vague sense of fate related to time, and the vaguely similar connection with the adult world, all surprised children.

It was at such an age that Song Beiqi and Lin Song were partners who went up mountains and rivers to smash glass and pick other people’s fruit. One was noisy and the other was quiet. The one was hot and the other was cold. It was Luohua Elementary School that gave all the teachers a headache. A pair of Great Demon Kings.

It seems that they have been with each other as long as they can remember.

All stability ends in the second semester of the third grade.

One day, Lin Ruiqiang had dinner with his colleagues in the unit. He seemed to have heard something about education investment at the dinner table. When he came back, he said to Lin Song: "If you get in the top three in the class this semester, I will transfer you to Xianshui. primary school."

At that time, Xianshui Primary School was the best school in Xianshui City, located in Lin County.

Lin Song excitedly told Song Beiqi the news, and said that the only regret was that the two of them would not be able to go to and from school together in the future.Song Beiqi didn't say anything after listening, and that semester Lin Song really got the second place in the exam, of course Song Beiqi was still the first.

Lin Song, who had been crazy for a summer vacation, was taken to Luohua Primary School to register and report after school started. It was too late when he realized that something was wrong and started crying.Lin Ruiqiang has said it so many times seriously, Lin Song thought that transferring to another school was a certainty, but he was just forgotten by the head of the family in an instant.

Lin Song did not see Song Beiqi.

Grandma came to the house at night, and when they were chatting, they mentioned that Song Beiqi was going to transfer to Xianshui Primary School, but his father refused to let him. Said to go to Xianshui Primary School.

Song Wanqin was surprised: "Why do you go to Xianshui Primary School? The child's grades are so good, it's almost the same in any school. Then? Did you go?"

Grandma nodded: "Go."

After that, Lin Song never saw Song Beiqi again.

Luohua Town is such a place, it is very big for the little Lin Song, so big that he has never seen Song Beiqi even though he is in the same town.But it is so small, so small that the people in the south of the town and the people in the north of the town might be in-laws, but it is so, Song Beiqi has never met Lin Song.

Who is hiding from whom?have no idea.

No one is hiding from anyone.

Then when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he heard from his grandmother that Song Beiqi's family had moved to the provincial capital.Those gossips and sour or salty words can't flow into the children's ears, Lin Song just thinks that they will never see each other again.

Even if I don't see him, I don't know what expression to use to face him.

He couldn't face Song Beiqi, and he couldn't face himself who unintentionally changed Song Beiqi's life.

Song Beiqi didn't know that Lin Song had gone back and forth in his memory, he just listened to Lin Song's question and didn't speak for a long time.Lin Song was uneasy, and finally waited until he said: "It is true that I blamed you, but I didn't hate it."

Lin Song lowered his head in aggrieved manner, Song Beiqi suddenly stretched out his hand to embrace him, it was a comforting hug between brothers: "It's just because I can't go to and from school with you, I blame you, it has nothing to do with other things, not to mention my family also died later. Moving away is just parting from you two years ago."

He let go of him and said with a smile: "Anyway, we are friends again now, aren't we?"

Lin Song was speechless, turned his head to look at the colorful lanterns hanging on the tree not far away, frowned after thinking for a while and said in a reprimanding tone, "Why didn't you wait for me to fight?"

Song Beiqi rarely showed an embarrassing gesture, he explained in a low voice: "I didn't want to call, I just wanted to tell him to stay away from Chen Si, and the fight broke out without saying a few words."

Lin Song looked at him in disbelief, and he said, "Look at me, I don't want to be detained for probation. Who knows that he is so ungrateful, a person like me who doesn't fight very much is afraid of me after a few punches." gone."

"But what if he comes to trouble you again? Or to trouble Chen Si again?"

"He didn't dare." Song Beiqi's tone was firm, "Chen Si should know what he should do next, we just need to remind Mr. Liu secretly, Mr. Liu is very strict."

"What about you?" Lin Song almost suspected that his mind was full of bean soup and rice. After such a commotion today, that Zhang Xu is a well-known gangster, so it's no wonder he couldn't find a group of people to seek revenge.

"Me." Song Beiqi smiled, "What am I afraid of if I'm thick-skinned? Why don't you protect me if you're worried?"

Lin Song put his arms around his neck and said briskly, "Okay! I'll cover you!"

His biggest advantage is probably that he has a big heart and never cares about what will happen tomorrow.Song Beiqi thought, this is definitely not because he thinks today's sunny day is a continuation for granted, but because he believes that everything is natural, and it doesn't matter whether it will be wind or rain tomorrow, as long as it comes.

In the darkness, he raised a shallow smile.

After saying goodbye to Lin Song at the fork in the road, Song Beiqi didn't go home right away, he turned around and turned to a small road, and arrived at a music bar in the business district.

At that time, apart from Internet cafes everywhere in Luohua, there were only a handful of entertainment venues, and every entertainment venue had an inexplicable relationship with the underworld.

Song Beiqi walked through the bright and dark lights to find an office familiarly, knocked on the door, and there was a steady "please come in" from inside, and he gently pushed the door open.

Seeing him, the young man sitting behind the desk hurriedly stood up: "Xiao Qi, sit down quickly."

"I won't be sitting, Brother Wen." Song Beiqi said politely, "I just came to thank you, I'm really sorry, but I have to trouble you with my affairs, if you need me, please feel free to let me know. "

He knew that this was an exaggeration, because in fact he couldn't do anything except his not-so-hard fist, but he had to say something.

Hearing what he said, Brother Wen quickly waved his hand: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, and I just thought I could do something for you. You are a stubborn kid, and you never come to us. We don't dare to rush to the door. It's hard. Come on once, it's such a trivial matter, it has nothing to do with yourself."

"No." Song Beiqi smiled decently, "Although it's just a phone call to Brother Wen, it's already a big deal to me."

Brother Wen was stunned: "Boss said your business is my business, Xiao Qi should not see outsiders in the future."

Song Beiqi said politely: "Thank you Brother Wen, then I'll go back first, and I ask Brother Wen to be merciful, I have already taught him a lesson myself, just let him know what to do and what not to do."

Brother Wen had noticed the wound on the corner of his mouth a long time ago, but he didn't dare to ask.

Song Beiqi just asked him to find someone to ask Zhang Xu to go to the Internet cafe today, and he also reminded him that no one else should intervene in the matter after this, and wait for his news.Therefore, brother Wen didn't know about the fact that he was fighting with Zhang Xu in the alley today, otherwise he wouldn't have let him fight alone.

Hearing what Song Beiqi said now, he could only nod his head and watch him leave.

Song Beiqi returned to his so-called home on the old street, and all the lights inside had been extinguished.

No one ever cared whether he was hungry or not, and no one cared about when he would come back and sleep, whether he would have conflicts with his classmates, or how much he scored in the exam. They only cared about whether the money transferred to the account every month was still the same many.

He didn't care about the injury on his body at all, but he was afraid of waking up others, so he took a combat shower lightly, and then returned to his small attic.

He sat on the bed expressionlessly—because the attic was too narrow, he couldn't put the chair down after putting the desk.

It was almost eleven o'clock at night, he took out his homework in his schoolbag, stared at the tiled roofs of other people's houses outside the attic for a while, then took out a notebook from the cabinet under the desk, opened it to reveal the A piece of crumpled and unfolded paper, on which was written a sentence in flamboyant handwriting: "No, even if there is, I have to protect you."

Another day goes by, when will feathers get hard?