you are with the light

Chen Ke didn't look for Gu Jinbei for a long time afterwards.

Gu Jinbei would still squat outside, sometimes with red and swollen face, sometimes wearing long clothes and trousers in summer, when Chen Ke opened the door, he would raise his head and smile at Chen Ke.

Chen Ke would call him, but it was limited to greeting him. Since that day, the relationship between the two has retreated invisible, as if there was an invisible wall separating them.

Time slips through the fingers, and the summer vacation is coming to an end in a blink of an eye.A few days before he left school, Lu Weijian came to him with an old bicycle that his father eliminated.

"Would you like to try it?" After riding a bicycle around the yard for a few laps, Lu Weijian parked the bicycle in front of Chen Ke gracefully.He originally wanted to put one foot on the ground to be handsome, but this car was tailor-made according to the height of an adult, and his foot hooked in mid-air, but missed.

Lu Weijian turned the car to the side before stepping on the ground, and the whole person also took advantage of the trend.

Chen Ke witnessed the whole process from the side, and felt a little itchy in his heart. Boys of this age can't resist these novelties. He walked over and touched the handlebar: "I'll try."

It was inevitable that there would be some bumps in the first ride. After falling down several times, Chen Ke was finally able to cycle around the yard. Apart from reading, he learned everything else very quickly, and he was able to ride a bicycle with one hand after a while.

Lu Weijian gave a thumbs up: "My Brother Ke deserves to be my Brother Ke."

Chen Ke braked and stopped in front of him: "It's getting dark."

I don’t know who heard the sound of pots and pans colliding, there was the pungent smell of chili peppers, the color of the clouds turned a stale yellow, and the evening wind slowly blew in with today’s residual heat.

Dusk has come.

"My mother won't come home today, and you know my father's craftsmanship, just like a gun." Lu Weijian said, "I'll come to your house, will it work?"

Chen Ke pushed the car to him: "Lock the car first, let's go out to eat."

After leaving the gate, there was a noodle restaurant on the street, and the two finished their dinner at the noodle restaurant.After eating, Lu Weijian asked Chen Ke: "Shall we take a bath by the river?"

This was a secret poke at Chen Ke's sore spot, he frowned unconsciously: "No."

"Then let's go to No. [-] Middle School to have fun." Lu Weijian suggested again, "Go and see our future high school."

"That's your future high school." Chen Ke corrected him, "I guess I'm going to be too tired to go to No. [-] Middle School, so I might as well go to Vocational High School."

"If you want to go to a vocational high school, can your mother agree?" Lu Weijian asked.

"As long as it's reading, she has nothing to say no to." Chen Ke stood up and walked out, "Let's go, don't occupy your seat."

Lu Weijian followed him, still reluctant: "Then, are you going to the No. [-] Middle School?"

"No." Chen Ke stopped outside and watched Lu Weijian come out, "It's too far away, I'm too tired to go back and forth."

"I'll take you by bike." Lu Weijian still wanted to struggle for a while, "Go, go."

But Chen Ke has made up his mind: "I don't trust your technology. Let's go again every day. It's not interesting to go to the dark now."

"Let's do it." Lu Weijian compromised, "Then tomorrow?"

Chen Ke nodded: "Success."

Lu Weijian went to the corridor to take away his bicycle, and when he left, he shouted, "See you at Tianxing Pharmacy at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, don't oversleep!"

Chen Ke nodded and waved to him.Waiting to see him go out the door before going up.

Gu Jinbei sat at the door, poking his fingers back and forth on the ground. When Chen Ke passed by him, he heard him say, "Brother Chen."

Chen Ke stopped and glanced at him.Gu Jinbei raised his finger to his exposed knee: "It hurts."

I fell a few times when I was riding a bike today, and my knee was scratched, and there was some blood, which is also solidified now.

Chen Ke didn't take it seriously, and answered casually: "I was riding a bike and fell off the bike."

He walked to the door of his house and took the keys in his pocket.

Gu Jinbei got up from the ground, walked over and pulled the corner of his clothes: "There is no one in my house, do you want to go to my house?"

Chen Ke turned his head to look at him.

The child's eyes were full of sincerity, and he said seriously: "I can take medicine, and it's very good."

Chen Ke refused without thinking: "No need."

Gu Jinbei still tugged at the hem of his clothes, the eyes looking at him gradually accumulated tears, and there was brilliance flowing in his eyes.

"Go." The child opened his mouth, and tears fell spontaneously.Chen Ke felt a headache, so he could only nod his head: "Okay, okay."

Gu Jinbei's house is very neat and tidy, which surprised Chen Ke a little. He has been to Fu Laoqian's house before, and the mess and mess of his house are still lingering in his memory.

"Did you clean up the house?" Chen Ke asked Gu Jinbei while sitting on the sofa.

Gu Jinbei poured him a glass of water, Da Da Da ran over and handed it to him: "Please drink water."

"Thank you." Chen Ke took the water glass and held it in his hand, but didn't drink it.

Gu Jinbei stood where he was, didn't reply to his words, just looked at the cup in his hand resentfully.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Chen Ke didn't ask any more questions, but seeing that he was still standing there, he asked him what's wrong.

"Drink water." Gu Jinbei said, with a hint of coercion in his tone.

Chen Ke didn't feel very comfortable listening, but still raised his glass and took a sip.Gu Jinbei finally stopped staring at him, and went to the TV counter to look for medicine.

The wound medicine is complete, and Gu Jinbei is also very skillful in giving him the wound medicine. When Chen Ke looked down, he could see Gu Jinbei's smooth and full forehead, slender eyelashes, and tightly pursed lips.

It seems very stubborn.

"Thank you." Chen Ke said.

Gu Jinbei raised his head and grinned at him, his little tiger teeth showing, he looked like a different person from him who seemed a little stubborn just now.

After taking the medicine, Chen Ke couldn't accept his feelings for nothing, so he asked him, "Have you eaten yet?"

Gu Jinbei shook his head.

Chen Ke was silent for a while and said, "Do you have any food at home? I'll make it for you."

Gu Jinbei nodded and counted for him with his fingers: "There are cabbage, green peppers, water spinach, pork, tomatoes, eggs, preserved eggs..."

Chen Ke asked him, "Is there anything you want to eat?"

Gu Jinbei stopped breaking his fingers, he thought about it seriously, and said, "I want to eat meat."

Chen Ke went into the kitchen and made him a plate of fried pork with chili, and another plate of water spinach with minced garlic.Gu Jinbei is very polite, he cooks the rice while he is cooking, and he keeps busy washing vegetables and peeling garlic to help him.

Gu Jinbei only ate one steamed bun this morning, and he is already hungry by now.He took care of two dishes and two bowls of rice, and after a while, he was able to hold on.

At first, Chen Ke thought it was just an ordinary meal, so he said to take him out for a walk.But two dishes and two bowls of rice are too much for an eight-year-old child, so Gu Jinbei squatted on the ground just after he got down the stairs, cold sweat poured out from his forehead in big drops, and went straight to the bed. drip.

Chen Ke also found out that something was wrong, and carried him back to the small clinic opposite.The aunt in the small clinic heard about it and gave him a few digestion tablets, so that Gu Jinbei could swallow it with water.

After taking the medicine, Gu Jinbei slowed down for a while before he got better.Chen Ke was afraid that he was still holding on, so he took him out for a slow walk. The town was very small, and the two walked around in a circle before arriving home.

"Brother Chen." Gu Jinbei asked Chen Ke at the door, "Will you play with me in the future?"

Chen Ke looked at him, wanting to pry open his head to see what was inside.If it were me, after what happened last time, I would never have anything to do with this person again, but this child still insists on Baba coming over, looking humble and easy to bully.

Chen Ke asked him: "What if I still refuse to save you?"

What happened that day was an accident. He originally planned to take Gu Jinbei to a deeper place to make him choke on the water, but the plan couldn't keep up with the change. When he saw Gu Jinbei struggling in the shallow water, he suddenly changed his mind. plan.

Sometimes a difference of thought, the result is not the same.He frantically tried on the verge of crime, but finally stopped at the door and retreated to the safety line.

Gu Jinbei grabbed the hem of his clothes, a little at a loss: "I don't know."

Chen Ke laughed and laughed out loud.

He felt that Gu Jinbei was a little stupid, cute and pathetic.

"But, I like you very much."

Chen Ke's smile froze, the corners of his mouth slowly flattened, and his face was expressionless.

"Because... because you are very good, you gave me a bowl of mixed tofu, you are very good." Gu Jinbei frantically gestured in the air with his hands, his vocabulary is not enough for him to express his feelings, but he Still trying to say it, "You told me not to pick up mung beans, you took me out for a walk, you held my hand, you told me not to be afraid, I was here, I remembered all of these." Gu Jin Bei patted his chest, and finally concluded, "You are the best person I have ever met!"

Chen Ke's expression was complicated, he was a little shy rarely, he looked down at his toes, and his shoes rubbed against the ground a few times.

You are the nicest person I have ever met.

This is such a high praise, Chen Ke has never heard of it before.But that's too much of a misnomer, he's not such a nice guy at all.

"It's all fake." Chen Ke said, "It's a bit naive to judge someone as the best person you have ever met just like this."

Gu Jinbei looked at him blankly.

His heart seemed to have fallen into the water, it was very cold.

"But at your age, there's nothing wrong with being naive." Chen Ke said again, "Will you go out with me tomorrow?"

"Huh?" Gu Jinbei didn't react at first, but when he realized something, his heart that fell into the cold water came back up again. He looked at Chen Ke and smiled.

"Go to No. [-] Middle School." Chen Ke explained, "The best high school in our town."

Gu Jinbei nodded harder than ever: "Yeah."

"Then, see you tomorrow morning." Chen Ke said to Gu Jinbei before entering the door.

Gu Jinbei suffered from insomnia at night.

He lay on the bed tossing and turning, laughing out loud from time to time, but soon he covered his mouth again, revealing only a pair of smiling eyes.

He is very happy, from the bottom of his heart, happy without artificiality or falsehood.

Chen Ke invited him out to play and asked him to meet tomorrow morning, as long as he thought about it, he couldn't sleep because of excitement.

No. [-] middle school, No. [-] middle school, what a magical and beautiful place this is.

Gu Jinbei hid under the quilt and laughed out loud.

He was excited all night, and he didn't feel a little sleepy until it was dawn, but he just closed his eyes, and before he even started dreaming, Xia Yin pushed the door in and woke him up.

Today's Xia Yin is a gentle mother, she gently but firmly called Gu Jinbei up, and then told him to eat the steaming breakfast on the table.

The stepfather sat at the dining table, watching the mother and son laughing.

"The weather is fine today, let's go for a walk as a family."

Gu Jinbei was drinking soy milk, and he choked on hearing the words. He coughed for a long time before recovering.

"Xiaobei, why are you so careless?" Xia Yin gave him a back, and secretly twisted his waist.

"I..." Gu Jinbei frowned, he didn't know whether it was because of the pain or what he said just now, but he didn't know how to say it, and said no, I won't go, I made an appointment with Brother Chen.

He couldn't speak.

"Xiaobei, why don't you answer me?" Xia Yin looked at him with a gentle tone but a persuasive look in her eyes, "Don't you want to?"

"No." Gu Jinbei replied almost reflexively, "I'm very happy, I'm looking forward to it, I want to go even in my dreams..."

No, he is not happy, doesn't look forward to it, and even in his dreams, he doesn't want to be like this!

But he dared not speak.

Xia Yin is like the supreme authority, the supreme emperor, an existence that he has not been able to shake and dare not challenge.

He cannot resist.

"Then, eat quickly, and we'll go out after we're done." Xia Yin said, she hinted at him with her eyes, "Don't eat too slowly."

Chen Ke went to knock on the door next door this morning, but no one came out to answer the door after knocking for a long time.He didn't think much about it at first, and he didn't realize something was wrong until he came back after breakfast and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

No one is home.

He said he was not very clear about his feelings, as if he didn't care, but it was more than that.The feeling of being put down by someone is not pleasant, but the place that the missed appointment occupies in his heart is not important.

Really... not important?

When Chen Ke walked to the Tianxing Pharmacy, he was still thinking that maybe something happened to the child and he had to miss the appointment, which is justifiable.

But if you decide not to go, shouldn't you tell yourself?It's impolite and disrespectful to miss an appointment quietly, isn't it?

But in the blink of an eye, he thought again, maybe the child was beaten by his mother, so badly that it was possible to send him to the hospital.

Thinking of this, he began to worry about Gu Jinbei's situation again.Maybe he was seriously injured, and his white and tender skin was covered with bruises.Gu Jinbei is so weak, as if he could be killed easily.Shouldn't such a fragile thing be held in the palm of your hand and protected?

Chen Ke's heart fluttered because of Gu Jinbei's missed appointment, and when Lu Weijian arrived, he still hadn't shaken off his worst imagination.

"What's wrong with you? You look lost."

"Is there?" Chen Ke rubbed his face, "Maybe, I'm thinking about something."

"What do you think?" Lu Weijian asked a lot.

"It's nothing." Chen Ke couldn't hold back when he saw his bicycle, "Why did you bring the bicycle here?"

"I'll take you." Lu Weijian pointed to the board behind the car and said, "This is fast."

"No." Chen Ke said, "I'll take you."