First dawn

At noon in early July, Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao left Nanjing together and returned to the dormitory area of ​​the glass factory.In the garbage dump in the factory area, there are beds that have been dismantled into pieces. The texture of mahogany looks very familiar, and it seems to be the one that Qiao Zeyan has been lying on for many years.

In the room at the end of the second floor, there were quite a few people around. Uncles and uncles who were rarely seen on weekdays, as well as Qiao Jue's aunt, all gathered in the narrow kitchen of Qiao's house, discussing something in low voices.Qiao Sui stopped in front of the door of his room, and heard the argument from the diagonally opposite room.

"Dad still has a house, right?" Qiao Xiaomei insisted.

"The house in the glass factory will be demolished later, and there will be compensation." This is the voice of Uncle Qiao Sui.

Xu Hong's voice was clearly raised: "The job in the glass factory belonged to your younger brother. What qualifications do you have, and you still want the house we live in?"

"I'll just ask, just ask." The eldest son felt ashamed, still unwilling.

After many years, so many children of Qiao Zeyan gathered together again immediately after the old man passed away.

Xu Hong's face was a little pale, his eyes were red, and his right hand was clenched into a fist. Qiao Zeyan passed away, but left the mess to everyone. The children who had been neglected for many years gathered together at this moment, and once again mentioned Qiao Zeyan's leftovers. There are not many family property distribution problems.

"Are you back?" Xu Hong caught a glimpse of Qiao Jue in the corridor, and said calmly, "Go to the room and rest."

Qiao Sui understood that even if Xu Hong hated the scene in front of him to the extreme, he would not let him be in such an atmosphere.

Qiao Heng was on the train to his home, but everyone was busy with things right now, and the few people who didn't argue with each other walked out of the house with dissatisfaction on their faces.

"It's not easy to die." Qiao Jue heard Qiao Xiaomei's scolding.

Qiao Jue stopped and turned back, her indifferent gaze swept across Qiao Xiaomei's face, Qiao Xiaomei was obviously taken aback, and suddenly realized that the Qiao Jue in front of her was much taller than her, and was no longer the ignorant child many years ago.

Qiao Xiaomei combed her hair that was about to fall down, and said awkwardly: "How old is Qiao Jue, when is the college entrance examination?"

Qiao Jue closed the door of the room as if he had never heard of it.

Qiao Xiaomei who was outside the house took a deep breath, but no one seemed to answer her, and left after a while.The weather in midsummer is unpredictable, there is a sudden thunder in the clear sky, and it rains.The rainwater hit the dilapidated window sill, and the water splashed, bringing an earthy smell mixed with moss.

Yi Xiao was not in a hurry to leave, she stood up from Qiao Jue's bed and closed the window of Qiao Jue's room.

"They're going to Jinggang." Qiao Jue lay on the bed, stretching out his right hand to block the dazzling lights in front of him.

"Jinggang?" Yi Xiao asked, always feeling that the place name was somewhat familiar.

"The watermelon patch that time." Qiao Jue said.

On a midsummer night, in a watermelon field, Yi Xiao stopped by the dirt road in the countryside. Qiao Jue, who was holding an urn, hurriedly looked up. Under the starry sky of a summer night, the two saw each other's eyes for the first time.

Yi Xiao recalled the scene at that time, the corners of his mouth slightly curved.

Qiao Jue was obviously recalling that time, and asked, "The neighborhood is very remote. What were you doing there at that time?"

Yi Xiao took away Qiao Jue's right hand, looked into Qiao Jue's eyes and said, "At that time, I just came to Lianxing, and I haven't got the keys to the house. My unreliable mother went to the farmhouse near Jinggang. I had to go find him there."

"Sometimes, I thank my unreliable mother for letting me meet you that day, the first day I came to this city." Yi Xiao said.

The rain outside the window was incessant, accompanied by thunder from time to time, but apart from that, the world seemed to be silent.I don't know when it started, the originally noisy and complicated Tongzilou became much quieter, the casino downstairs completely collapsed, and those who were taken away never came back.After Lin Chenghan was hospitalized, Xu Lingyue finally made up her mind to divorce and immediately moved out of the Tongzilou.Grandpa Li next door was picked up by his daughter in May, and he continued to live in another tube building.

Until now, the noisy radio next door has also been completely cut off.Qiao Zeyan, who will never be on stage, was thrown in the corner, and no one cared about him, and he could no longer make harsh and vague rustling sounds. It was like being abandoned in the corner for a while, and those who were abandoned together, and who were about to People forgotten by time.

That was not someone who was very important to him, nor did he give him any warmth.

But when his traces are gradually disappearing in this world, why does he feel empty in his heart?

"Yi Xiao, tell me, why do we live in this world?"

Born in the vast sea of ​​people, mediocre, searching and searching, in the end, it is not just flying dust, scattered into the world, disappearing without a trace.

Before Qiao Jue could sink into deep thought, a slight pain on his cheek took him away from it.Yi Xiao reached out and pinched Qiao Jue's cheek.

"A problem with no result." As if to express her dissatisfaction, Yi Xiao stretched out her other hand, kneaded Qiao Jue's cheek, and smiled at him, "It's not a question that our family Qiao Jue should think about. .”

Qiao Sui: "...Then what should I think about?"

I was a little sad at first, but after being disturbed by Yi Xiao, the low mood disappeared.

"What's in front of me." Yi Xiao let go of his hand and pointed to the corner of the room.

"What's in front of me?" Qiao Sui was puzzled.

In the corner of the room was a basketball, which Qiao Jue bought when he was in junior high school. Later, when he was in high school, he got busy with his studies, so the basketball was put in the corner and never touched again.

"Isn't there a stadium outside?" Yi Xiao turned his eyes to the direction outside the window, "Competition?"

"Such a heavy rain?" Qiao Jue looked at Yi Xiao in disbelief.

"Are you scared?" Yi Xiao provoked, "I don't blame you, I'm the star player of the City No. [-] Middle School team."

"Just blow it." Qiao Jue was also happy, "Believe it or not, I'll beat you up."

Qiao Jue picked up the basketball from the corner. The basketball, which had been useless for a long time, did not deflate at all.

It was really raining, and the two rushed out of the gate of the Tongzilou with the ball in their arms. Under the terrified eyes of the residents downstairs, they rushed towards the old stadium of the glass factory in the rain.

Decayed grass grows wildly, flowers and branches shake wildly, and the rain soaks this former stadium, making it look more and more decadent.

Qiao Jue seemed to see the shadow of 20 years ago.

"Want to win?" Yi Xiao wiped the rainwater off his face. During the heavy rain, water droplets kept falling from his hair.

"What do you want?" Qiao Jue asked casually.

Yi Xiao embraced Qiao Jue's shoulders, and the water drops from his hair and the rain from the sky fell on Qiao Jue's neck. He leaned close to Qiao Jue's ear and whispered something.

Lightning flashed across the sky, and at that moment there was loud thunder, and the rain fell faster and more urgently, but Qiao Jue understood Yi Xiao's words by a strange coincidence.

Qiao Sui: "..."

Even though the rain was slightly cool, the whole body was soaked in rain, but because of the other party's words, I felt the heat flow all over my body concentrated on the cheeks, and then spread to the limbs and bones. I missed the best opportunity and forgot to propose myself to the other party. requirements.

When he came back to his senses, Yi Xiao threw the basketball up, and a game that only belonged to two people in the heavy rain began.

The rain was splashing, no one was around, the basketball hit the fragmented concrete floor, splashing water marks, the heavy rain blurred the vision, but the movement was getting faster and faster, as if you could pass through time and see the basketball from 20 years ago On the field, Qiao Heng, in his 20s, wore a jersey, walked through the crowd, and threw the basketball into the basket from a distance with precision.

Outside the arena not far away, the young Xu Hong was wearing a white floral dress and braided braids, shaking the military water bottle in his hand towards Qiao Heng.

In the heavy rain at this moment, the time that passed by unknowingly merged into one in Qiao Jue's sight.

The basketball flew into the hoop, landed on the ground, and bounced to Qiao Jue's feet.

"Little Qiao, you lost." Yi Xiao walked all the way, awakening Qiao Sui's thoughts.

Qiao Jue was relieved.

"I have lost to you a long time ago, classmate Yi Xiaoxiao." Qiao Jue picked up the basketball from the concrete floor and hugged it into his arms. The hair of the two kept dripping water, and their bodies were covered with muddy water, but they both laughed. happy.

"Then what you promised me just now." Yi Xiao persisted.

Qiao Sui wondered, "What did you just say? The thunder was so loud that I couldn't hear it."

Yi Xiao was furious, and reached out to pinch Qiao Jue's waist: "You bastard!"

The rain was still falling, and a layer of rain and fog formed on the Lian River not far away, blurring the original clear outline of the south and north of the city.

There are many chores in life, going round and round, entangled and sorted out, and finally can wait until one sentence comes to an end

The small vacation in July came to an end soon, and the senior three students officially moved into the dormitory building of the school and officially started their senior three life.

Yi Xiao expressed regret.

On the spur of the moment that day, I didn't want to see Qiao Jue sad, so I dragged Qiao Jue to play a game in the rainstorm. Qiao Jue, who was always in good health due to the fatigue of the journey and the rain, had a fever on the first day after school started. , failed to get up smoothly.

Yi Xiao resolutely stated that without Qiao Jue, the test papers would be boring to make. Using this as a reason, she skipped all the courses on the first day of senior year and took care of Qiao Jue in the dormitory.

In the morning between classes, Yi Xiao, who was buying porridge for Qiao Jue in the cafeteria, met Guo Da, who was buying spicy sticks at the canteen.

"Brother Sui has a fever?" Guo Da yelled, "What's the matter, did he have a fever just after living with you?"

Guo Da's voice was like a bell, which attracted the attention of many people around him.Most of the people in No. [-] Middle School knew Yi Xiao. When they heard Guo Da's words, although they didn't turn their heads immediately, they obviously pricked up their ears.

After Guo Da yelled, he found that his decibels were a bit high. Guo Da reflected on himself and concluded that Yi Xiao is also a pretty good person. Qiao Juan's fever can't be blamed on Yi Xiao.

It's just that I didn't expect that after a few seconds of serious thinking, Yi Xiao on the opposite side put on a serious expression and said very sincerely: "It's my fault."

Guo Da's hair stood on end and he was dumbfounded.

Countless eyes around them focused on the two of them.

Guo Da was dumbfounded.

I always feel something is not right.