First dawn

The husky fell to the ground, whimpering.

"What's wrong with this dog?" Another firework exploded in the air, reflecting Yi Xiao's bewildered expression.

"Oops!" Qiao Jue suddenly remembered something he had forgotten, and the fireworks in his hand burned out. He quickly dropped the handle of the fireworks and ran towards the dog.

The wailing sound continued, Qiao Jue followed the sound by the light of the fireworks, and found the black and white Erha on the roof of the building. After observing for a while, he carefully moved Erha's feet off the ground. The whole dog was hugged aside.

Xuxu immediately stopped howling, and as soon as the four corners hit the ground, she stupidly stepped towards the place just now.

"Hey..." The corners of Qiao Jue's mouth twitched, and he quickly pulled on the leash to pull the dog away.

"Little Qiao, what's the situation." Yi Xiao held the unburned fireworks in his hand and walked all the way to Qiao Sui's direction.

"It's nothing." Qiao Jue shook his head, "I forgot that there are cacti upstairs. It doesn't matter if we wear shoes, but the dog can't."

"Cactus?" Yi Xiao asked suspiciously, with a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

Qiao Jue didn't notice him, and pointed at Yi Xiao's feet: "That's it."

Yi Xiao lowered her head, and there was a black cactus covered with spikes lying on the ground.

At this time, Yi Xiao's first thought was not that cactus could grow on the roof of the building, but——

Why does this cactus look so familiar? How does it look like the one next to his computer, wearing a Barbie skirt and caring for it every day, eating nutrient soil and drinking nutrient solution.

"Little Qiao." Yi Xiao's voice was tinged with resentment.

"Ok?"

"You gave me this thing when I was born?"

Qiao Jue: "..." It's over, it's revealed.

"It's so heartless, why don't you give me a five-three set!" Yi Xiao said angrily.

"Then let's give it to Wusan next year." Qiao Jue said with a smile.

"You're too embarrassed to laugh!"

The two chased on the roof of the broken building, stepped on the weeds and gravel, and left the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the whole city behind.

The two stopped fighting at the railing, Yi Xiaosong let go of Qiao Jue's collar, and saw the amazement in Qiao Jue's gaze, so he followed Qiao Jue's gaze and looked into the distance, You Long A piece of Kongming lanterns rose in the direction of the park, and the warm orange light group flew slowly towards them by the wind in the sky.

On the dilapidated roof, overgrown with weeds, beside the crumbling railing, Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao looked up at the same time to see the group of Kongming lanterns rising in the sky.

"Little Qiao, it's beautiful."

They saw the most beautiful sky on New Year's Eve in this dilapidated building forgotten by the city.

"One semester goes by really quickly." The lights are like fireflies, forming a long river in the night sky. Yi Xiao looked up and saw the lights still rising in the distance.

It was really fast, Qiao Sui secretly sighed.

On the second bridge at the end of summer, Qiao Jue would never have imagined that the person whom he secretly scolded for being an asshole at that time had become best friends with him now, nor would he have imagined that in August, beside the watermelon field, he would be frightened into panic by himself. And the person who ran away would fight with him, walk the dog with him in the days to come, and even drive him on a locomotive through the streets and alleys of Lianxing during countless busy school breaks.

Through the thousands of stars on the zenith, Yi Xiao seems to see that the past few months have merged into the long river of the sky, and he can read one by one wherever he can see.

In the warm September sunset, a clean young man in a white shirt waved to him on the opposite side of Changhe Road. From then on, in his world, the Chu River settled in the Han Dynasty and took shape, completely separating the past from the present.

At that time on the third bridge in the night, he was chasing the dog, and bumped into the clear eyes of the man under the starry sky at the end of summer. In the bungalow area north of the bridge, in the depth of the winding, stood a tube building , obviously dilapidated and even crumbling, but it added a lot more than his cold room.The English text and mathematics company next to the bed, the entire wall of awards, and the ringtone of Doraemon in the morning, together with the city, have long been engraved in his heart.

In the afternoon of October, the three rounds, holding pots and pans, jingled the car bell all the way, and it seemed that the end was not over yet.The fight in front of the Tongzilou, the ruthlessness of the awl piercing the palm, and Qiao Sui's restrained fragility, when they fell into his eyes, made him want to protect even if he tore open the wound in the past.

In November's mid-term seat selection, he did not hesitate to get closer to that person. There seemed to be sunshine on the other person, as if he was close, and he could dispel all the darkness in his heart.The cactus in December, the right answer after the end of January, February, March, I want to go on like this.

It was as if, he hoped that there would be that person in his life from now on.

It's like, he...

……

The two stayed on the roof for a long time. When they returned to the second floor, it was nearly nine o'clock in the evening. Qiao Heng's two brothers seemed to have come. He opened the door of his room, and there were two boxes of gifts on the table.Qiao Jue glanced at the gift he brought, it seemed to be a health care product produced by an unknown manufacturer, and the shelf life on the box had passed for a long time, Qiao Jue smiled indifferently, and Yi Xiao obviously saw it too.

"What guest?" Yi Xiao pointed in the direction of the kitchen.

"My two uncles." Qiao Jue shoved the gift box under the bed in disgust, "It happens every year, and someone else probably brought it to them."

"They have a bad relationship?"

Qiao Jue smiled and said, "Did you see it?"

"Yeah." Yi Xiao nodded, "There is no lively atmosphere in the kitchen."

"When the house was divided five years ago, they even used a knife." Qiao Jue took off his smoky down jacket and put it on the back of the chair, recalling, "I was still in elementary school at that time, and my dad was in the middle of the night. When I heard about it, I rushed over to fight."

"and after?"

"Then it was a complete quarrel, and the children didn't communicate with each other. They were like enemies when they met, let alone having a meal together during the Chinese New Year." Qiao Jue opened the bedside table, took out a pack of buttered melon seeds and handed it to her. Yi Xiao, "The house is allotted, and the old man has no one to ask for it. He left it at Tongzilou, and followed us to fend for ourselves."

"It's okay not to get together, it's not interesting."

Yi Xiao stopped unpacking the snacks. To a certain extent, Qiao Jue, like him, was trapped in the deep net and struggled.There was a fierce quarrel from the kitchen, and there were endless curses from the next room, mixed with Xu Hong's sharp voice, followed by the sound of a wooden door slamming.

The two looked at each other, and at the same time saw the same pity in each other's eyes, and laughed at the same time as if they were self-deprecating.

This is the case for the poor or the world. The family and friendship that have been maintained for most of their lives, in the end, are not worth a thin piece of inheritance.

"It's New Year's Eve, let me tell you this." Qiao Jue patted Erha's head, checked its dog's paw, and could no longer see the wound, "The pet shop is closed on the first day of junior high school, and you still bring Xuxu with you on the second day of junior high school." Go and see, it looks a little limp to me."

"This year is really good." Yi Xiao said suddenly.

"what?"

"It's nothing." Yi Xiao smiled contentedly.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Sui closed his eyes gently in a place where he could not see, trying to hide the overflowing smile.

The liveliness of New Year’s Eve gradually fades away, the night obscures the outline of everything, blurs the treetops outside the window, and only waits for the sound of firecrackers in the early morning of the first day of the new year to mark the dawn of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

……

After the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the second semester of the second year of high school kicked off.

On the first day after registration, the toilets and stairs of the teaching building are full of people who make up for winter vacation homework.

At the beginning of the semester, they reselected their seats based on their final grades. Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao were still at the same table, and the positions of the two groups remained unchanged.Guo Da in the back row was squatting on the ground, howling, and frantically copying the winter vacation homework of Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao.

Qiao Jue's desk was full of English homework handed in by his classmates. According to Zheng Yu's practice, the homework during the holidays was checked by the class representative.

"Yu Yifei, it's fine if you don't write. If you glue more than ten pages together, do you think Li Yuting is demented?" Yi Xiao flew homework with one hand, thick English homework, and scratched the heads of many people , and landed firmly on the desk in the front row of Yifei.

"Class representative, please do me a favor. If you don't tell me, Li Yuting won't know." Yu Yifei begged.

"Dreaming." Yi Xiao snorted coldly, while concentrating on helping Qiao Jue with the winter vacation homework in the class, while throwing back the unqualified homework.

"Zhang Rui, how many pages have you torn, and the homework is empty!"

"Teacher Yi, what's the matter with you?" Qiao Jue held Yi Xiao, the corner of his mouth twitched, and pointed to Yi Xiao's own English homework. bills.

Miserable.

"Are you trying to bribe me or the English teacher..."

"English teacher."

"You think I'll let you go?"

"No, 100 yuan can't bribe you, you need to use better things to bribe Xiao Qiao."

"..."

In Zheng Yu's math class, Qiao Jue listened carefully to the class and took notes, while Yi Xiao lowered his head and played with his mobile phone seriously.

Lianxing No. [-] Middle School's top post on the post bar, [Things that have to be said - the daily life of two big bosses in class seven]

Probably because of the start of the new semester, the poster started to update the story of Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao again. Yi Xiao watched it with great interest while holding her mobile phone. Did she even follow a comment to urge the poster to update.

Qiao Jue beat Yi Xiao with his arm, but there was no response.

Qiao Sui: "..."

Qiao Jue stomped on Yi Xiao hard, and Yi Xiao raised his head, with a smile that hadn't faded from the corner of his mouth.

Qiao Jue was very puzzled to see what he was so happy about, but he still didn't forget the important thing at this time: "The teacher asked you to go up and do the questions."

At this time, Zheng Yu's face was already darkened.

"Come here, come here." Yi Xiao stuffed the phone into the desk, pushed away the chair and walked towards the podium.

The phone turned upside down was covered by the books on the desk, revealing a corner.

Lianxing No. [-] Middle School posted it?Qiao Jue's gaze scanned Yi Xiao's phone screen, and Yi Xiao was fascinated by what was on the post bar.

On the other side, Yi Xiao, who didn't attend the class at all, finished writing the questions at the blackboard, sat back in his seat, held his mobile phone and continued to giggle.

Qiao Jue: "..." He must see what's on the post bar!