spoiled boy best life
Chapter 81 A Tale of Two Cities
Mu Ran stayed with Yu Ran for a week in Boston, and took a flight back to China the day before the end of the holiday.
Life has returned to the way it was at the beginning, with one person going to work and the other going to school.Due to the time difference, the two of them had irregular schedules, so they could only chat a few words at random, and video regularly for half an hour every day.
After October, Boston completed the transition from autumn to winter almost overnight. The temperature plummeted, and Yu Ran, who was afraid of the cold, put on a down jacket early.
One late night in November, the first snow fell in Boston.The goose feather snow fell silently in the quiet night, and instantly decorated the whole of Boston into a world of ice and snow.
Yu Ran saw the scene the next morning. He was a little excited when he saw the street that was much more desolate than usual. He couldn't wait to get dressed and went downstairs. He took a few photos of the street dotted with heavy snow, and then packed them and sent them to Mu Ran.
[Boston is snowing in circles jg]
There was an immediate reply.
[Be careful when you go out, don’t slip and fall, and wear more clothes, you will catch a cold easily in winter, I’m not by your side and take good care of yourself. 】
Yu Ran could almost imagine how serious Mu Ran's expression would be when he typed this sentence again, his heart warmed up, he bit his glove and typed a line with his red fingertips.
[Got it~ I miss you dear jg]
Mu Ran also replied with a kiss emoji.
Yu Ran walked carefully on the icy road with her schoolbag on her back, and went to school while typing and chatting with Mu Ran.It usually takes 5 minutes to walk to the distance, but today it took a full 15 minutes. When he stepped into the school gate, there were only 5 minutes left before class.Yu Ran had no choice but to temporarily suspend chatting, put away her phone and rushed to the classroom.
Usually Yu Ran is very serious in class and rarely misses the point, but today he is frequently distracted. There are several times when the teacher did not hear his name, and it was only when his classmates reminded him that he suddenly regained his focus.
The white guy next to him came over one after another, poked Yu Ran's arm, and whispered to him while the professor on the podium was turning around.
"Hey yu, what's the matter with you today? Are you sick?"
The speaker was Dowles, a native of Chicago, and one of Yu Ran's few foreign friends in this school.
Seeing Dawles' worried expression, he shook his head and whispered, "No, I just thought about other things just now."
"What are you thinking about?"
This time Yu Ran didn't answer him, and stared out of the window with his chin propped in a daze.
Dawles scratched his head, shrugged deflatedly and left him alone.
Yu Ran was stunned for a whole class, and only withdrew his thoughts after class was over.
Dawles waited aside, and the two made an appointment to have a meal at noon.Yu Ran didn't want him to wait too long, so he casually put the computer and books together and threw them into the schoolbag.Unexpectedly, as soon as I picked up the schoolbag, a stack of photos slipped from it and scattered on the ground.
"ohygog!" Dawles exclaimed, then squatted down to help him check.
The two quickly picked up a dozen photos.Dawles looked at the pile of snow photos and was puzzled: "What are you doing with so many snow photos?"
Yu Ran carefully wiped off the stains on the photo, lowered his head and replied softly: "Someone gave it to me."
"Take it with you when you go abroad. It seems that you like this gift very much."
"Well," Yu Ran nodded, with a smile on his face, "This gift is very important to me."
Dawles asked expectantly, "Can you show me?"
Yu Ran readily handed him the photo.
Sitting next to him, Dawles looked at one by one, snorted, and asked him: "The location in the photo seems to be an American city, right?"
"Yes, it was taken by my friend when he was studying in the United States."
"That friend of yours must think highly of you," Dowles asserted.
"how do you know?"
"These were not taken in the same place," he explained, breaking the pictures into piles,
"These are taken in Detroit, these are in New York, these are in Boston, and there are also my hometown Chicago, and the places in the photos are all famous snow-seeing places. Your friend went around to take these photos. One lap, it must have taken a long time."
"That's it." Yu Ran was slightly taken aback. He didn't know much about the United States, so he naturally didn't know where these photos were taken. He thought they were just taken by Mu Ran when it was snowing in New York, but he didn't know that he would do it for himself. A word of innocence, I ran so many places just to take a few snowy photos for myself.
Dawles rummaged through the pile of photos for a while, and suddenly held up a photo and exclaimed: "This photo was taken near my house!"
"What?" Yu Ran leaned over to look, and saw that the picture on the photo was an empty snowy field surrounded by low bungalows. At the top of the photo was a church with a big tree beside it. The leaves are still tender green, the only color in this white world.
Dawles pointed to the church and said: "This church is a landmark of our place. It seems to have a name. It is called the top ten snow-watching holy places in Chicago. In winter, many people come here to take pictures. I didn't expect you Friends went too."
Yu Ran quietly looked at the white and flawless snow in the photo without speaking for a long time, as if thinking of something, with a nostalgic expression.
At this time, Dawles suddenly thought of an interesting thing, and couldn't help laughing: "I remember ten years ago, an Asian came to take pictures, and my house is the house on the right." He pointed to the lower right corner of the photo showing corner house.
Yu Ran, an Asian, turned his head and looked over.
Dawles continued: "It was already ten years ago. In fact, I don't remember it very well. I just remember that the man drove over by himself at that time and stood across the street and took several photos. After the photo was taken, he I walked in suddenly and stepped on a few footprints in the snow. I was standing by the window on the second floor of my house, and I could just see his trajectory. At first I thought he was walking around, but later I realized that he seemed to be He was writing something, but I don’t know the characters of your Asian countries, so I don’t know what he wrote. After the man stepped on it, he took a photo and left.”
Yu Ran had a vague premonition in his heart, and he asked Erles, "Do you remember what that person looks like?"
Dawles raised his head and thought for a while: "I don't remember, I didn't see it clearly at the time, but I saw a side face, but he should be quite handsome and tall."
Yu Ran was discouraged.
Dowles asked him, "Do you think that man is your friend?"
"I'm not sure, I'm just curious." Yu Ran said.
Dawles hummed, studied the photo again, looked at it for a while and said in surprise: "Maybe that person is really your friend."
"Why do you say that?" Yu Ran rekindled hope because of a word from his friend.
Pointing to the big tree next to the church, Dawles said: "That man came at a special time, because just the day before, the branches of the tree in front of the church were broken by snow. Look at your friend's There are also very new creases in this photo, and the snow on the ground also has traces of branches being dragged, maybe that person is really your friend."
Yu Ran's heart moved: "Then, do you still have an impression of what kind of handwriting he wrote at that time?"
Dawles smiled bitterly: "Even if I have an impression, I can't say it." Seeing Yu Ran disappointed again, he smiled triumphantly, "However, I thought it was interesting and took a few photos, and the words in the photos are very clear. "
Yu Ran felt that the ups and downs of this mood were more exciting than riding a roller coaster.
Dawles smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "I have saved those photos in my computer. If you want to see them, I will send them back to you later."
Yu Ran nodded vigorously.
In order to be able to see the photos as soon as possible, Yu Ran canceled all the big meals, and took Dows to lunch in the restaurant and went back to their respective homes.
Soon, Dowles sent all those photos in a package by e-mail.
Yu Ran downloaded the file and opened it with anticipation and nervousness.But when I actually saw those photos, I was shocked.
It is exactly the same as the one in his hand, the only difference is that in the one he sees now, there is a young man standing on the wide snow field. Although there is only a side face left for the camera, he still recognizes it at a glance. That was Mu Ran, a young Mu Ran who was around 20 years old.In the photo, Mu Ran walked on the ground with his head down, with deep and shallow footprints behind him.
Dawles took [-] or [-] photos, almost capturing the entire trajectory of Mu Ran's movement, so Yu Ran looked at each one as if he had witnessed his entire creative process and those chaotic scenes with his own eyes. The footprints are gradually integrated into a word.
When a complete "Ran" character appeared in front of his eyes, Yu Ran's heart was pounding, and the emotion in his heart was indescribable.He saw Mu Ran looking at the word under his feet again after finishing it, with an infinitely gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he could feel his love through the screen.
His eyes were sore, he blinked, the corners of his eyes were hot, and his nose was also a little stuffy.He sniffed, took out his phone from his pocket, clicked on Mu Ran's chat interface, typed a line of words, but paused when he clicked send, thought about it and deleted each word one by one.
He imported those photos into his mobile phone and created a special folder with no name but a heart.He looked at those photos carefully over and over again, and he never seemed to get tired of looking at them.
Another week later, Yu Ran asked the school for a week off and bought a bus ticket to Chicago.
When he arrived in Chicago, because of the online guidance of Dawles' live map, he successfully found Dawles' home and temporarily rented him.
Dawles has two older sisters who have both married and moved out, leaving only a pair of elderly parents at home.They were very happy with Yu Ran's arrival, so they prepared a table of sumptuous food for him that night, and arranged him in the youngest son's room at night, and specially changed the quilt cover and sheets, in case he might not be used to sleeping.
Although Dawles' parents were a little too enthusiastic, Yu Ran didn't hate her, and she had a good night's sleep in a strange bed.
That night, there was a heavy snowfall in Chicago. After one night, the snow was much thicker than when it came.
Yu Ran put on a mask, hat and gloves, and went out with a camera after all the equipment was complete.
The snow had already covered the calves, and Yu Ran's feet were deep and the other shallow, walking slowly in the white space.
When he thought that Mu Ran had written his name step by step where he was standing now, his heart was bubbling with happiness, even though his face was sore from the cold, he couldn't help but want to laugh.Thinking of Mu Ran's serious expression at that time, he also dragged his heavy steps.First, there is a heart, because he can't see it, so he doesn't know whether the heart is drawn to a standard.Then he stepped into love again, first an r, then an a, and finally an n.He wanted to write Chinese, but there were too many strokes and the workload was too large, so he could only simplify the task.
He is 25 years old, writing down his lover's name in the snow is already very childish for him, and it doesn't mean much to him and Mu Ran.But he felt that this was a proof of Mu Ran's feelings for him, and he should show something in return.Thinking of this, he immediately lost his psychological burden, put all his shyness and embarrassment behind him, climbed up and down on the opposite side with his hands and feet, took off his gloves, and raised his camera.
"Crack-"
At 08:30 in the morning, Mu Ran got up.Usually, the first thing he does after waking up is to turn on his phone to see if Yu Ran has sent him a message, and if he doesn't, he will take the initiative to send a video invitation to him.
It's the same today, he opened the message while brushing his teeth, his eyes were slightly curved, and there was a smile in his eyes.He clicked on it, and the first thing he saw was a photo, and then he clicked on the big picture. The familiar scene in the photo almost made him think that Yu Ran had discovered his photo in the dictionary, but soon he came back. It was found that the words on the ground were different.
A long and narrow love heart, inside are three English letters, which are the pinyin of "Ran".
A trace of surprise flashed across his eyes, and he slid down to read the text again.
[Mr. Mu, good morning.It's snowing in Chicago, come watch the snow with me! 】
【Thank you for everything you have done for me in the past 20 years with this picture. 】
【fro: Yu Ran, who loves you the most in the world】
Chapter 82: Watermelon Basketball, Chocolate and You in Summer Vacation ([-]) (Mu Ran’s Perspective)
13:25
The plane arrives at D City Airport.
As soon as Mu Ran got out of the gate, he heard a clear male voice.
"Aran, here, here!"
Following the voice, I saw a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old waving his hands exaggeratedly, with a sunny smile on his young and handsome face.There were two adults standing beside him, their appearances were similar to those of the boy, and they both smiled and waved to him.
Infected, Mu Ran twitched the corner of his mouth lightly, dragging his luggage and walked over quickly.
"Godfather and godmother, Ah Heng." Mu Ran greeted them one by one.
"Xiao Ran, thank you for your hard work." The young woman touched his head, "You are hungry, godfather has already booked a restaurant, and we can eat later."
The man next to her nodded, took the suitcase in Mu Ran's hand, and said as he walked out: "This meal will be regarded as your godfather and godmother."
"Thank you godfather and godmother." Mu Ran walked out of the airport after the two of them.
The young man walked side by side with him, jumping up and down in various ways restlessly, talking non-stop, and seemed very happy for Mu Ran's arrival.
Mu Ran didn't feel impatient either, she kept listening quietly and would respond with a few words from time to time.
Later, Sun Mingyu couldn't bear it first, and patted the back of his son's head lightly before getting into the car: "Yu Heng, please calm down! Xiaoran is already tired after sitting on the plane for so long, don't use your nonsense to influence him." he!"
Yu Heng pursed his mouth aggrievedly, dared not to speak out, climbed into the back seat of the car with hands and feet together, and muttered dissatisfiedly in the corner: "That's nonsense, I haven't seen you for so long, I have a lot to say to Aran You said it! Also, it doesn’t take three hours to fly from city A to city D, and you’ll be tired anywhere! He’s not a cute little girl, I think he’s very alert.”
Sun Mingyu rolled his eyes at his son: "Even if you are in good spirits, no one wants to listen to your nonsense!"
"Hmph! State officials are only allowed to set fires and the common people are not allowed to light lamps. In ancient times, Mom, you are a fatuous and selfish emperor." Yu Heng poked his neck back.
Sun Mingyu's eyes widened: "Yu Heng, your skin is itchy, how dare you say that about your mother."
"Obviously you did it first!" Yu Heng didn't flinch.
Seeing that the mother and son were about to turn from a verbal argument to a physical fight, Yu Jianbai hurried out to be a peacemaker.
"Okay, okay, you all don't say a few words, okay, Xiao Ran is still here, I don't feel ashamed." After finishing speaking, he criticized Yu Heng emphatically, "Also, Yu Heng, dare to talk to me like this next time You don’t need your mother to do what mom says, I’ll beat your ass until it blooms, you know that?”
Yu Heng didn't dare to talk back anymore, he just kept moaning, aggrieved and angry.
Yu Jianbai said to Mu Ran again: "Xiao Ran, I'm letting you see a joke. Don't worry about these two people. Ah Heng is in the rebellious period, and he scolds every day."
Mu Ran shook his head and said he didn't care.In fact, he was very happy watching from the sidelines. After all, he had known this family for more than ten years, and they were all his family members. How could he think it was a joke.
Yu Jianbai, who comforted the quarrelsome mother and son, started the car and took his family to the restaurant they had booked early in the morning.
The four of them returned to their home in City D after lunch.
Yu Heng carried his friend's suitcase into his room, and shouted loudly at Mu Ran in the living room: "Ah Ran, you can sleep with me during this time, the guest room has no air conditioner, it's so hot at night that it can kill you. "
"Oh, yes." Mu Ran readily agreed.
The two of them are family friends, and he and Yu Heng are the same age. They grew up together, and their relationship is a bit better than that of brothers. It is very common for them to share a bed.
Yu Heng took out the clothes from Mu Ran's box and hung them in his closet. After hanging them out, he complained dissatisfiedly: "It's fine to wear my clothes, why do you bring so many?" Also often change clothes.
Mu Ran sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, and said with a smile: "I despise your clothes, they are too ugly."
"Your sister!" Yu Heng casually grabbed a peach and threw it over.
Mu Ran reached out to catch it and bit off
After taking a sip, the sweet juice overflowed his mouth, and he nodded in satisfaction.
"You all bully me! I provoked someone!" Yu Heng sat down next to him, his hands crossed his chest and his face puffed up with anger.
Sun Mingyu brought out a plate of desserts from the kitchen: "Xiao Ran, this is the double skin milk that godmother specially made for you. It's been in the refrigerator all morning, and it's just right to eat while it's cold."
"Thank godmother." Mu Ran stuffed the leftover half of a peach into Yu Heng's mouth, took a cup of Shuangpi Nai and ate it himself.
Yu Heng took the peach, jumped up, pointed at Mu Ran and yelled, "Your sister's Mu Ran, give me what I've eaten, treat me like a trash can!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw his mother looking at him with a sullen face.
"Yu Heng, if you dare to let me hear you swearing again, I'll just throw away all your tools!"
The sweetheart turned into a hostage, and Yu Heng lost his arrogance all of a sudden. He sat back on the sofa like a little daughter-in-law, took a bite of the intact half peach, and mumbled while chewing: "You're smart, you haven't eaten it before." I don’t want to eat your saliva if you stuffed it to me.”
"I'm still reluctant to give it to you." Mu Ran choked back.
Yu Heng was so angry that his lungs hurt, he gritted his teeth and said, "I regret letting you come to my house, you should go home quickly, you are not welcome in my house!"
Mu Ran shrugged and said with a smile, "I'm going to disappoint you. I'll stay at your house for another two months. Take it easy."
Yu Heng: ...
Mu Ran came to live with Yu's family.He will spend a long summer vacation in this strange city, at the house of his godfather and mother whom he is familiar with.
Mu Ran's parents run an entertainment company and are well-known in the industry, so they are usually very busy and have no time to care about him.Mu Ran was basically brought up by the nanny at home, and his parents were only responsible for giving him pocket money that he couldn't spend every month, but even so, his relationship with his parents was still very good.
As the child grew up, the couple gradually realized that they had missed their child's childhood, and felt more and more indebted to their son, so they decided to take advantage of this summer vacation to spend two months at home with their son.Unexpectedly, on the eve of the holiday, the European branch made a mistake and suffered heavy losses. The couple had to rush to Europe overnight, and the plan to accompany their son was also canceled.
Fortunately, Mu Ran has long been used to the parents of his trapeze couple, and he was not too disappointed with their relapse, so he just said "I see".
But even so, the couple still felt guilty for their son, and felt bad for his son staying at home alone. After thinking about it, they entrusted their son to their good friends Yu Jianbai and his wife.
They are very relieved to put their son in the Yu family and have Yu Heng as their company, and doing so can somewhat make up for the regret of not being able to accompany their son.
So, as soon as the holiday was over, Mu Ran took the suitcase and boarded the flight to City D alone, and began a long life of borrowing.
Life in the Yu family is generally quite comfortable.
Both Yu Jianbai and Sun Mingyu are very gentle people. They are open-minded and do what they want, and they don’t have too many requirements for their sons. The education policy is to let them grow freely. As long as they don’t grow crooked, they can grow vertically or horizontally. There are no so-called house rules at home.And all this is also related to the couple's career.Both of them are freelancers, Yu Jianbai is an oil painter, and Sun Mingyu is a writer. Artists are somewhat casual, so they pay more attention to the personality development of their children.
Therefore, while other peers of the same age are carrying their schoolbags and going to various training classes, Yu Heng can stay in the air-conditioned room, play games and sleep comfortably.Mu Ran also played games and slept together.
Although Yu Jianbai and Sun Mingyu don't have to go to the office to work, they basically stay in their studios during the day to create, so no one cares about them at all.
After the two brothers had been so decadent for a week, Mu Ran couldn't take it anymore.
The air conditioner in the room was humming, delivering cold air dutifully.
Mu Ran threw the game controller and lay down on the bed: "No, I feel sick when I see the controller now."
"The handle is so cute, why would you vomit?" Yu Heng sat cross-legged on the ground with
A popsicle, with fingers crackling on the handle.
Mu Ran kicked him on the back: "Change another project tomorrow, I don't want to play games anymore. Also, you can't stay at home for two months, you still have to go out."
"It's so hot outside, you'll be dried out in the sun when you go out." Yu Heng snorted as he sucked on the popsicle.
Mu Ran kicked him again: "Otaku has no future. I have read the weather forecast. It will be cloudy tomorrow, and the temperature will drop a few degrees. Let's go out and play some football. I haven't exercised for too long. I feel like I'm going to die." Rusty."
Yu Heng was busy playing games and didn't answer.Mu Ran kicked him vigorously: "Did you hear that!"
"I heard it, I heard it," Yu Heng said impatiently, "If tomorrow is really cloudy like you said, we will go to play golf, don't bother me now, I'm going to die!"
Mu Ran originally wanted Yu Heng's nod, but now that he had achieved his goal, he didn't bother to pay attention to him. He plugged the earphones into his phone and fell asleep listening to the song.
The next day, it was really cloudy, and the temperature dropped a few degrees. Although it was still hot, at least it was no longer as hot as it was a few days ago, like being locked in a steamer. From time to time, there would be a small wind blowing on the face It's quite comfortable.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, the two changed into sportswear, put on sneakers, and went out with a basketball in their arms.
There is a basketball court in the community, but the equipment is a bit worn out, and there are old men and women around who come out to enjoy the shade. They don't want to be judged by these gossip old people, so they go to a small park across the street.
There was no one in the park, and it was quiet, which just satisfied the two brothers' wish for peace.
Although one of these two is a young man from a wealthy family, and the other is from an artistic family, they have good motor nerves. They are very good at no matter what sports they are in, and their basketball skills are even better.
It's just a two-person basketball game, but it's also very exciting.One dodges one interception, one slams one dunk and one dunks the cap, the unyielding momentum is unclear, so people would think that there is some deep hatred between the two.
The sound of the basketball hitting the ground all afternoon, the two of them played tirelessly until the sunset.
The dim afterglow elongated the figures of the two of them.The basketball fell from the basket again, but this time no one picked it up again, only to see it bounce off the ground a few times and then slowly roll to the outside of the court.
The two brothers were sweating profusely, and their clothes were also wet. They were sitting back to back on the ground to rest.
Yu Heng lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped the sweat from the corners of his eyes, panting and said, "It's been a long time since I played so happily, it's cool!"
"Then continue tomorrow?" Mu Ran took the opportunity.
"Okay!" Yu Heng agreed without thinking.
Mu Ran smiled, looked at his watch, it was already five o'clock, and when he was about to get up, he felt that someone was staring at them somewhere, and looked around, but he didn't see any suspicious people except the residential buildings.
"what happened?"
"It's nothing." Mu Ran shook his head, stood up and patted his pants and said, "Take the basketball home."
"Oh." Yu Heng ran to pick up the ball.The basketball was falling on the corner of a residential building. After picking it up, he subconsciously glanced in through the window, but the room was quiet and the owner seemed not at home, so he didn't stay long, and soon left with the basketball in his arms. .
After they left the stadium, a small furry head popped out of the window that Yu Heng had glanced at.A child about four years old appeared by the window, with a white and round face, like a peeled hard-boiled egg, a pair of black grape-like eyes, big and bright, reflecting the reflections of Mu Ran and Yu Heng. His back, his eyelashes flicker like a small fan, cute like a porcelain doll.
The child stared at the direction they were leaving, with a pair of chubby hands tightly grasping the railing of the anti-theft window, his little brows were tightly furrowed, his little pursed mouth kept wriggling, and he didn't know what he was talking to himself.
Chapter 83: Watermelon, basketball, chocolate and you during the five summer vacations (Part [-]) (Mu Ran’s perspective)
The next day, the two came to the small park across the street with the basketball in their arms.
It's just that today's temperature is high again. With a high temperature of more than 30 degrees, the whole city is like a big steamer, stuffy and hot, making people breathless.Yu Heng couldn't take it anymore after beating for an hour, his body seemed to have been washed with water, not a single spot was dry.He threw the basketball away, hid in the shade with his last breath, and lay motionless on the bench.
Mu Ran supported his knees with his hands, the sweat on his head fell down, and evaporated as soon as he touched the ground.The temperature seemed to melt his bones, and he had no strength in his whole body. Every step was like stepping on cotton, and he couldn't exert any strength.
He slowly moved to Yu Heng's side, and kicked the man who was pretending to be dead on the bench with his toe.
"You can't do it after only playing for an hour? Yu Heng, why are you so weak?" Mu Ran sarcastically said condescendingly.
Yu Heng didn't even have the strength to raise his hand, so he could only raise his eyelids symbolically: "Get out, I can't do it because the weather is too hot, okay?"
Mu Ran wiped his sweat with his collar, but didn't refute.
"Do you still fight?" he asked.
"Stop playing, say nothing. We are also mentally ill when we go out to play in this hot weather." Yu Heng sat up with his arms propped up, regretting to death, "You said that eating watermelon while blowing on the air conditioner at home Good! How good! Why on earth did I come out to play after listening to your nonsense!"
Mu Ran didn't have the extra strength to argue with him, he waved his hands feebly, dragged his sore legs and walked out of the field, and said as he walked, "I'll go pick up the ball, I'll go back after I pick it up."
The ball was thrown quite far by Yu Heng, and it probably took a while to go back and forth. Yu Heng lay down again thinking about it, ready to rest for a while.
Mu Ran searched for a while before finding the basketball by the flower bed.One side of the flower bed is connected to the basketball court and the other side is the residential building. The basketball is in the open space between the flower bed and the residential building. To pick up the ball, you can only drill in.
Mu Ran walked in carefully through the flowers with a slightly larger gap, picked up the basketball and patted the dirt on the surface, and was about to walk back, when he stood up, he saw a small head wobbling in the window in front of him, Tilting his head and blinking, he looked at himself.
The child appeared quietly, even if Mu Ran was brave enough, his heart skipped a beat. He patted his heart that was beating too fast, and looked helplessly at the child in the window.
"Little guy, what are you doing here?"
The child stretched out his chubby finger, pointed at the ball in his hand, and said timidly: "Look at the brothers playing the ball." The child's unique baby voice is innocent and cute, and it immediately captures the desire to have someone The heart of Mu Ran, the only son of his younger siblings.He took a few steps closer, gently pinched the child's soft and slippery face, and said with a smile, "This is not a ball, it's a basketball. My brothers are playing basketball."
The child has only touched a ball and has no concept of basketball. He thought it was a ball when he saw a round one, so he wrinkled his fleshy face in confusion when he heard what Mu Ran said, obviously he couldn't understand this sentence.
Mu Ran looked amused and pulled his little nose again. He wrinkled his nose whenever he touched a child, not to mention how cute he was.He immediately became interested, stepped on the basketball, and chatted with the child with his face pressed against the anti-theft window.
"Little guy, where's your family?" The window sill was only at the height of Mu Ran's chest, so he easily scanned the children's house, and found that their house was quiet and the lights were all turned off, as if the child was alone at home.
"Family?" The child tilted his head, his big eyes full of puzzlement.
Mu Ran had no choice but to simplify the question: "Where's your mother? Isn't she at home?"
The child understood it this time, shook his head, pouted and said sullenly, "Mom hasn't come back yet."
"Are you home alone?"
The kid nods.
Mu Ran lamented in his heart that the child's parents were too big-hearted. What if something happened to such a young child at home alone?
Thinking of this, he was even more worried and left like this, and simply chatted with him for a while.
"What's your name?"
"Le Xiaoyu." Another childish answer.
"Your name is Le Xiaoyu. It's a nice name." Mu Ran fished in his trouser pocket for a long time, and finally took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, and waved it in front of his eyes, "Brother, can I treat you to some candy?"
The child's eyes immediately lit up when he heard Tang Tang, and he nodded hurriedly.
Mu Ran tore off the package, stretched it in from the railing, and fed it into the child's mouth. When he retracted, his fingertips touched the child's mouth. It was soft and hot, like a piece, and it felt great to the touch.
The chocolate is a bit big, and it's hard for a child to chew it whole. The cheeks are bulging, but they are still jumping happily, the eyes are bent into small crescents, and the expression is indescribably vivid.Mu Ran couldn't help but also rolled his eyes.After he finished eating, he took out a few more dollars and said, "Brother, there are a lot more here, and I'll give you all of these."
The child jumped even more happily, and stretched out his chubby hand to grab it, but Mu Ran withdrew his hand and said, "A child can only eat one piece of candy a day, and if he eats too much, his teeth will be broken. From now on, my brother will come to look for it every day." You, can I give you one piece a day?"
"Will my brother come tomorrow?" the child asked.
"Yes, brother will come tomorrow, and at this time, brother will come here to look for you."
"Okay then." The child didn't ask for any more candy after getting the promise.
Mu Ran was so engrossed in chatting with the child that he completely forgot about Yu Heng, so Yu Heng fell asleep and he was still talking and laughing with the child through the window.
When Yu Heng came to find them, the two were pulling the hook, and faintly heard the child say softly: "Brother, don't lie to me."
"Okay, I won't lie to you." Mu Ran also agreed dotingly, and that gentle tone gave Yu Heng a goosebump.
He got into the flowers and walked behind Mu Ran.The child was still smiling, but when he saw Yu Heng, he stopped smiling immediately, and huddled by the window and looked at him timidly.
"Who is this kid?" Yu Heng asked Mu Ran.
"Le Xiaoyu, I just met him. His mother went out and left him at home alone. I looked cute and played with him for a while." After explaining, Mu Ran patted the child's head and comforted him softly, "Xiaoyu don't Afraid, this brother is my friend, not a bad person, come to say hello."
Under Mu Ran's encouraging eyes, the child whispered, "Hello, brother."
Yu Heng was also an only child who desperately wanted a younger sibling, and it was no surprise that he failed to escape the cute attack of the child, so he immediately softened his tone and put on a smile as gentle as possible: "Hi Xiao Yu."
There was a sound of opening the door, and the child turned his head to take a look, his smile disappeared immediately, and he looked at the two older brothers and said sullenly, "Mom is back."
Now that the parents are back, it's not good for the two of them to stay here anymore, so let's say goodbye to the children first.
The child stepped on the small bench, grabbed the railing with both hands, watched them leave, and shouted behind them: "I will come tomorrow."
Mu Ran turned around and nodded at him.
Only then did the child leave the window contentedly.
On the other end, Yu Heng asked Mu Ran: "Are you coming tomorrow?"
Mu Ran nodded: "Well, I promised him that I will go every day in the future and give him candy."
Yu Heng squinted at him: "The tricks are fine, and you know how to seduce with sugar."
Mu Ran smiled: "Who made this kid so cute, I couldn't help but want to tease him."
Yu Heng agreed: "It's really cute, if that's the case, then I'll come tomorrow too."
"Aren't you afraid of the heat?" Mu Ran glanced at him, "I heard it will be hotter tomorrow, aren't you afraid of being dried?"
"It's okay, these are small scenes, and children are more important, and we have already promised children, so we can't miss the appointment." Yu Heng said in a high-sounding manner.
Mu Ran scolded lightly: "This is my agreement with him, what's your business?"
Yu Heng embraced his shoulders, and said with a cheeky look like two brothers, "Your affairs are mine, so why do brothers share with each other?"
"Show face!" Mu Ran was speechless.
Life has returned to the way it was at the beginning, with one person going to work and the other going to school.Due to the time difference, the two of them had irregular schedules, so they could only chat a few words at random, and video regularly for half an hour every day.
After October, Boston completed the transition from autumn to winter almost overnight. The temperature plummeted, and Yu Ran, who was afraid of the cold, put on a down jacket early.
One late night in November, the first snow fell in Boston.The goose feather snow fell silently in the quiet night, and instantly decorated the whole of Boston into a world of ice and snow.
Yu Ran saw the scene the next morning. He was a little excited when he saw the street that was much more desolate than usual. He couldn't wait to get dressed and went downstairs. He took a few photos of the street dotted with heavy snow, and then packed them and sent them to Mu Ran.
[Boston is snowing in circles jg]
There was an immediate reply.
[Be careful when you go out, don’t slip and fall, and wear more clothes, you will catch a cold easily in winter, I’m not by your side and take good care of yourself. 】
Yu Ran could almost imagine how serious Mu Ran's expression would be when he typed this sentence again, his heart warmed up, he bit his glove and typed a line with his red fingertips.
[Got it~ I miss you dear jg]
Mu Ran also replied with a kiss emoji.
Yu Ran walked carefully on the icy road with her schoolbag on her back, and went to school while typing and chatting with Mu Ran.It usually takes 5 minutes to walk to the distance, but today it took a full 15 minutes. When he stepped into the school gate, there were only 5 minutes left before class.Yu Ran had no choice but to temporarily suspend chatting, put away her phone and rushed to the classroom.
Usually Yu Ran is very serious in class and rarely misses the point, but today he is frequently distracted. There are several times when the teacher did not hear his name, and it was only when his classmates reminded him that he suddenly regained his focus.
The white guy next to him came over one after another, poked Yu Ran's arm, and whispered to him while the professor on the podium was turning around.
"Hey yu, what's the matter with you today? Are you sick?"
The speaker was Dowles, a native of Chicago, and one of Yu Ran's few foreign friends in this school.
Seeing Dawles' worried expression, he shook his head and whispered, "No, I just thought about other things just now."
"What are you thinking about?"
This time Yu Ran didn't answer him, and stared out of the window with his chin propped in a daze.
Dawles scratched his head, shrugged deflatedly and left him alone.
Yu Ran was stunned for a whole class, and only withdrew his thoughts after class was over.
Dawles waited aside, and the two made an appointment to have a meal at noon.Yu Ran didn't want him to wait too long, so he casually put the computer and books together and threw them into the schoolbag.Unexpectedly, as soon as I picked up the schoolbag, a stack of photos slipped from it and scattered on the ground.
"ohygog!" Dawles exclaimed, then squatted down to help him check.
The two quickly picked up a dozen photos.Dawles looked at the pile of snow photos and was puzzled: "What are you doing with so many snow photos?"
Yu Ran carefully wiped off the stains on the photo, lowered his head and replied softly: "Someone gave it to me."
"Take it with you when you go abroad. It seems that you like this gift very much."
"Well," Yu Ran nodded, with a smile on his face, "This gift is very important to me."
Dawles asked expectantly, "Can you show me?"
Yu Ran readily handed him the photo.
Sitting next to him, Dawles looked at one by one, snorted, and asked him: "The location in the photo seems to be an American city, right?"
"Yes, it was taken by my friend when he was studying in the United States."
"That friend of yours must think highly of you," Dowles asserted.
"how do you know?"
"These were not taken in the same place," he explained, breaking the pictures into piles,
"These are taken in Detroit, these are in New York, these are in Boston, and there are also my hometown Chicago, and the places in the photos are all famous snow-seeing places. Your friend went around to take these photos. One lap, it must have taken a long time."
"That's it." Yu Ran was slightly taken aback. He didn't know much about the United States, so he naturally didn't know where these photos were taken. He thought they were just taken by Mu Ran when it was snowing in New York, but he didn't know that he would do it for himself. A word of innocence, I ran so many places just to take a few snowy photos for myself.
Dawles rummaged through the pile of photos for a while, and suddenly held up a photo and exclaimed: "This photo was taken near my house!"
"What?" Yu Ran leaned over to look, and saw that the picture on the photo was an empty snowy field surrounded by low bungalows. At the top of the photo was a church with a big tree beside it. The leaves are still tender green, the only color in this white world.
Dawles pointed to the church and said: "This church is a landmark of our place. It seems to have a name. It is called the top ten snow-watching holy places in Chicago. In winter, many people come here to take pictures. I didn't expect you Friends went too."
Yu Ran quietly looked at the white and flawless snow in the photo without speaking for a long time, as if thinking of something, with a nostalgic expression.
At this time, Dawles suddenly thought of an interesting thing, and couldn't help laughing: "I remember ten years ago, an Asian came to take pictures, and my house is the house on the right." He pointed to the lower right corner of the photo showing corner house.
Yu Ran, an Asian, turned his head and looked over.
Dawles continued: "It was already ten years ago. In fact, I don't remember it very well. I just remember that the man drove over by himself at that time and stood across the street and took several photos. After the photo was taken, he I walked in suddenly and stepped on a few footprints in the snow. I was standing by the window on the second floor of my house, and I could just see his trajectory. At first I thought he was walking around, but later I realized that he seemed to be He was writing something, but I don’t know the characters of your Asian countries, so I don’t know what he wrote. After the man stepped on it, he took a photo and left.”
Yu Ran had a vague premonition in his heart, and he asked Erles, "Do you remember what that person looks like?"
Dawles raised his head and thought for a while: "I don't remember, I didn't see it clearly at the time, but I saw a side face, but he should be quite handsome and tall."
Yu Ran was discouraged.
Dowles asked him, "Do you think that man is your friend?"
"I'm not sure, I'm just curious." Yu Ran said.
Dawles hummed, studied the photo again, looked at it for a while and said in surprise: "Maybe that person is really your friend."
"Why do you say that?" Yu Ran rekindled hope because of a word from his friend.
Pointing to the big tree next to the church, Dawles said: "That man came at a special time, because just the day before, the branches of the tree in front of the church were broken by snow. Look at your friend's There are also very new creases in this photo, and the snow on the ground also has traces of branches being dragged, maybe that person is really your friend."
Yu Ran's heart moved: "Then, do you still have an impression of what kind of handwriting he wrote at that time?"
Dawles smiled bitterly: "Even if I have an impression, I can't say it." Seeing Yu Ran disappointed again, he smiled triumphantly, "However, I thought it was interesting and took a few photos, and the words in the photos are very clear. "
Yu Ran felt that the ups and downs of this mood were more exciting than riding a roller coaster.
Dawles smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "I have saved those photos in my computer. If you want to see them, I will send them back to you later."
Yu Ran nodded vigorously.
In order to be able to see the photos as soon as possible, Yu Ran canceled all the big meals, and took Dows to lunch in the restaurant and went back to their respective homes.
Soon, Dowles sent all those photos in a package by e-mail.
Yu Ran downloaded the file and opened it with anticipation and nervousness.But when I actually saw those photos, I was shocked.
It is exactly the same as the one in his hand, the only difference is that in the one he sees now, there is a young man standing on the wide snow field. Although there is only a side face left for the camera, he still recognizes it at a glance. That was Mu Ran, a young Mu Ran who was around 20 years old.In the photo, Mu Ran walked on the ground with his head down, with deep and shallow footprints behind him.
Dawles took [-] or [-] photos, almost capturing the entire trajectory of Mu Ran's movement, so Yu Ran looked at each one as if he had witnessed his entire creative process and those chaotic scenes with his own eyes. The footprints are gradually integrated into a word.
When a complete "Ran" character appeared in front of his eyes, Yu Ran's heart was pounding, and the emotion in his heart was indescribable.He saw Mu Ran looking at the word under his feet again after finishing it, with an infinitely gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he could feel his love through the screen.
His eyes were sore, he blinked, the corners of his eyes were hot, and his nose was also a little stuffy.He sniffed, took out his phone from his pocket, clicked on Mu Ran's chat interface, typed a line of words, but paused when he clicked send, thought about it and deleted each word one by one.
He imported those photos into his mobile phone and created a special folder with no name but a heart.He looked at those photos carefully over and over again, and he never seemed to get tired of looking at them.
Another week later, Yu Ran asked the school for a week off and bought a bus ticket to Chicago.
When he arrived in Chicago, because of the online guidance of Dawles' live map, he successfully found Dawles' home and temporarily rented him.
Dawles has two older sisters who have both married and moved out, leaving only a pair of elderly parents at home.They were very happy with Yu Ran's arrival, so they prepared a table of sumptuous food for him that night, and arranged him in the youngest son's room at night, and specially changed the quilt cover and sheets, in case he might not be used to sleeping.
Although Dawles' parents were a little too enthusiastic, Yu Ran didn't hate her, and she had a good night's sleep in a strange bed.
That night, there was a heavy snowfall in Chicago. After one night, the snow was much thicker than when it came.
Yu Ran put on a mask, hat and gloves, and went out with a camera after all the equipment was complete.
The snow had already covered the calves, and Yu Ran's feet were deep and the other shallow, walking slowly in the white space.
When he thought that Mu Ran had written his name step by step where he was standing now, his heart was bubbling with happiness, even though his face was sore from the cold, he couldn't help but want to laugh.Thinking of Mu Ran's serious expression at that time, he also dragged his heavy steps.First, there is a heart, because he can't see it, so he doesn't know whether the heart is drawn to a standard.Then he stepped into love again, first an r, then an a, and finally an n.He wanted to write Chinese, but there were too many strokes and the workload was too large, so he could only simplify the task.
He is 25 years old, writing down his lover's name in the snow is already very childish for him, and it doesn't mean much to him and Mu Ran.But he felt that this was a proof of Mu Ran's feelings for him, and he should show something in return.Thinking of this, he immediately lost his psychological burden, put all his shyness and embarrassment behind him, climbed up and down on the opposite side with his hands and feet, took off his gloves, and raised his camera.
"Crack-"
At 08:30 in the morning, Mu Ran got up.Usually, the first thing he does after waking up is to turn on his phone to see if Yu Ran has sent him a message, and if he doesn't, he will take the initiative to send a video invitation to him.
It's the same today, he opened the message while brushing his teeth, his eyes were slightly curved, and there was a smile in his eyes.He clicked on it, and the first thing he saw was a photo, and then he clicked on the big picture. The familiar scene in the photo almost made him think that Yu Ran had discovered his photo in the dictionary, but soon he came back. It was found that the words on the ground were different.
A long and narrow love heart, inside are three English letters, which are the pinyin of "Ran".
A trace of surprise flashed across his eyes, and he slid down to read the text again.
[Mr. Mu, good morning.It's snowing in Chicago, come watch the snow with me! 】
【Thank you for everything you have done for me in the past 20 years with this picture. 】
【fro: Yu Ran, who loves you the most in the world】
Chapter 82: Watermelon Basketball, Chocolate and You in Summer Vacation ([-]) (Mu Ran’s Perspective)
13:25
The plane arrives at D City Airport.
As soon as Mu Ran got out of the gate, he heard a clear male voice.
"Aran, here, here!"
Following the voice, I saw a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old waving his hands exaggeratedly, with a sunny smile on his young and handsome face.There were two adults standing beside him, their appearances were similar to those of the boy, and they both smiled and waved to him.
Infected, Mu Ran twitched the corner of his mouth lightly, dragging his luggage and walked over quickly.
"Godfather and godmother, Ah Heng." Mu Ran greeted them one by one.
"Xiao Ran, thank you for your hard work." The young woman touched his head, "You are hungry, godfather has already booked a restaurant, and we can eat later."
The man next to her nodded, took the suitcase in Mu Ran's hand, and said as he walked out: "This meal will be regarded as your godfather and godmother."
"Thank you godfather and godmother." Mu Ran walked out of the airport after the two of them.
The young man walked side by side with him, jumping up and down in various ways restlessly, talking non-stop, and seemed very happy for Mu Ran's arrival.
Mu Ran didn't feel impatient either, she kept listening quietly and would respond with a few words from time to time.
Later, Sun Mingyu couldn't bear it first, and patted the back of his son's head lightly before getting into the car: "Yu Heng, please calm down! Xiaoran is already tired after sitting on the plane for so long, don't use your nonsense to influence him." he!"
Yu Heng pursed his mouth aggrievedly, dared not to speak out, climbed into the back seat of the car with hands and feet together, and muttered dissatisfiedly in the corner: "That's nonsense, I haven't seen you for so long, I have a lot to say to Aran You said it! Also, it doesn’t take three hours to fly from city A to city D, and you’ll be tired anywhere! He’s not a cute little girl, I think he’s very alert.”
Sun Mingyu rolled his eyes at his son: "Even if you are in good spirits, no one wants to listen to your nonsense!"
"Hmph! State officials are only allowed to set fires and the common people are not allowed to light lamps. In ancient times, Mom, you are a fatuous and selfish emperor." Yu Heng poked his neck back.
Sun Mingyu's eyes widened: "Yu Heng, your skin is itchy, how dare you say that about your mother."
"Obviously you did it first!" Yu Heng didn't flinch.
Seeing that the mother and son were about to turn from a verbal argument to a physical fight, Yu Jianbai hurried out to be a peacemaker.
"Okay, okay, you all don't say a few words, okay, Xiao Ran is still here, I don't feel ashamed." After finishing speaking, he criticized Yu Heng emphatically, "Also, Yu Heng, dare to talk to me like this next time You don’t need your mother to do what mom says, I’ll beat your ass until it blooms, you know that?”
Yu Heng didn't dare to talk back anymore, he just kept moaning, aggrieved and angry.
Yu Jianbai said to Mu Ran again: "Xiao Ran, I'm letting you see a joke. Don't worry about these two people. Ah Heng is in the rebellious period, and he scolds every day."
Mu Ran shook his head and said he didn't care.In fact, he was very happy watching from the sidelines. After all, he had known this family for more than ten years, and they were all his family members. How could he think it was a joke.
Yu Jianbai, who comforted the quarrelsome mother and son, started the car and took his family to the restaurant they had booked early in the morning.
The four of them returned to their home in City D after lunch.
Yu Heng carried his friend's suitcase into his room, and shouted loudly at Mu Ran in the living room: "Ah Ran, you can sleep with me during this time, the guest room has no air conditioner, it's so hot at night that it can kill you. "
"Oh, yes." Mu Ran readily agreed.
The two of them are family friends, and he and Yu Heng are the same age. They grew up together, and their relationship is a bit better than that of brothers. It is very common for them to share a bed.
Yu Heng took out the clothes from Mu Ran's box and hung them in his closet. After hanging them out, he complained dissatisfiedly: "It's fine to wear my clothes, why do you bring so many?" Also often change clothes.
Mu Ran sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, and said with a smile: "I despise your clothes, they are too ugly."
"Your sister!" Yu Heng casually grabbed a peach and threw it over.
Mu Ran reached out to catch it and bit off
After taking a sip, the sweet juice overflowed his mouth, and he nodded in satisfaction.
"You all bully me! I provoked someone!" Yu Heng sat down next to him, his hands crossed his chest and his face puffed up with anger.
Sun Mingyu brought out a plate of desserts from the kitchen: "Xiao Ran, this is the double skin milk that godmother specially made for you. It's been in the refrigerator all morning, and it's just right to eat while it's cold."
"Thank godmother." Mu Ran stuffed the leftover half of a peach into Yu Heng's mouth, took a cup of Shuangpi Nai and ate it himself.
Yu Heng took the peach, jumped up, pointed at Mu Ran and yelled, "Your sister's Mu Ran, give me what I've eaten, treat me like a trash can!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw his mother looking at him with a sullen face.
"Yu Heng, if you dare to let me hear you swearing again, I'll just throw away all your tools!"
The sweetheart turned into a hostage, and Yu Heng lost his arrogance all of a sudden. He sat back on the sofa like a little daughter-in-law, took a bite of the intact half peach, and mumbled while chewing: "You're smart, you haven't eaten it before." I don’t want to eat your saliva if you stuffed it to me.”
"I'm still reluctant to give it to you." Mu Ran choked back.
Yu Heng was so angry that his lungs hurt, he gritted his teeth and said, "I regret letting you come to my house, you should go home quickly, you are not welcome in my house!"
Mu Ran shrugged and said with a smile, "I'm going to disappoint you. I'll stay at your house for another two months. Take it easy."
Yu Heng: ...
Mu Ran came to live with Yu's family.He will spend a long summer vacation in this strange city, at the house of his godfather and mother whom he is familiar with.
Mu Ran's parents run an entertainment company and are well-known in the industry, so they are usually very busy and have no time to care about him.Mu Ran was basically brought up by the nanny at home, and his parents were only responsible for giving him pocket money that he couldn't spend every month, but even so, his relationship with his parents was still very good.
As the child grew up, the couple gradually realized that they had missed their child's childhood, and felt more and more indebted to their son, so they decided to take advantage of this summer vacation to spend two months at home with their son.Unexpectedly, on the eve of the holiday, the European branch made a mistake and suffered heavy losses. The couple had to rush to Europe overnight, and the plan to accompany their son was also canceled.
Fortunately, Mu Ran has long been used to the parents of his trapeze couple, and he was not too disappointed with their relapse, so he just said "I see".
But even so, the couple still felt guilty for their son, and felt bad for his son staying at home alone. After thinking about it, they entrusted their son to their good friends Yu Jianbai and his wife.
They are very relieved to put their son in the Yu family and have Yu Heng as their company, and doing so can somewhat make up for the regret of not being able to accompany their son.
So, as soon as the holiday was over, Mu Ran took the suitcase and boarded the flight to City D alone, and began a long life of borrowing.
Life in the Yu family is generally quite comfortable.
Both Yu Jianbai and Sun Mingyu are very gentle people. They are open-minded and do what they want, and they don’t have too many requirements for their sons. The education policy is to let them grow freely. As long as they don’t grow crooked, they can grow vertically or horizontally. There are no so-called house rules at home.And all this is also related to the couple's career.Both of them are freelancers, Yu Jianbai is an oil painter, and Sun Mingyu is a writer. Artists are somewhat casual, so they pay more attention to the personality development of their children.
Therefore, while other peers of the same age are carrying their schoolbags and going to various training classes, Yu Heng can stay in the air-conditioned room, play games and sleep comfortably.Mu Ran also played games and slept together.
Although Yu Jianbai and Sun Mingyu don't have to go to the office to work, they basically stay in their studios during the day to create, so no one cares about them at all.
After the two brothers had been so decadent for a week, Mu Ran couldn't take it anymore.
The air conditioner in the room was humming, delivering cold air dutifully.
Mu Ran threw the game controller and lay down on the bed: "No, I feel sick when I see the controller now."
"The handle is so cute, why would you vomit?" Yu Heng sat cross-legged on the ground with
A popsicle, with fingers crackling on the handle.
Mu Ran kicked him on the back: "Change another project tomorrow, I don't want to play games anymore. Also, you can't stay at home for two months, you still have to go out."
"It's so hot outside, you'll be dried out in the sun when you go out." Yu Heng snorted as he sucked on the popsicle.
Mu Ran kicked him again: "Otaku has no future. I have read the weather forecast. It will be cloudy tomorrow, and the temperature will drop a few degrees. Let's go out and play some football. I haven't exercised for too long. I feel like I'm going to die." Rusty."
Yu Heng was busy playing games and didn't answer.Mu Ran kicked him vigorously: "Did you hear that!"
"I heard it, I heard it," Yu Heng said impatiently, "If tomorrow is really cloudy like you said, we will go to play golf, don't bother me now, I'm going to die!"
Mu Ran originally wanted Yu Heng's nod, but now that he had achieved his goal, he didn't bother to pay attention to him. He plugged the earphones into his phone and fell asleep listening to the song.
The next day, it was really cloudy, and the temperature dropped a few degrees. Although it was still hot, at least it was no longer as hot as it was a few days ago, like being locked in a steamer. From time to time, there would be a small wind blowing on the face It's quite comfortable.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, the two changed into sportswear, put on sneakers, and went out with a basketball in their arms.
There is a basketball court in the community, but the equipment is a bit worn out, and there are old men and women around who come out to enjoy the shade. They don't want to be judged by these gossip old people, so they go to a small park across the street.
There was no one in the park, and it was quiet, which just satisfied the two brothers' wish for peace.
Although one of these two is a young man from a wealthy family, and the other is from an artistic family, they have good motor nerves. They are very good at no matter what sports they are in, and their basketball skills are even better.
It's just a two-person basketball game, but it's also very exciting.One dodges one interception, one slams one dunk and one dunks the cap, the unyielding momentum is unclear, so people would think that there is some deep hatred between the two.
The sound of the basketball hitting the ground all afternoon, the two of them played tirelessly until the sunset.
The dim afterglow elongated the figures of the two of them.The basketball fell from the basket again, but this time no one picked it up again, only to see it bounce off the ground a few times and then slowly roll to the outside of the court.
The two brothers were sweating profusely, and their clothes were also wet. They were sitting back to back on the ground to rest.
Yu Heng lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped the sweat from the corners of his eyes, panting and said, "It's been a long time since I played so happily, it's cool!"
"Then continue tomorrow?" Mu Ran took the opportunity.
"Okay!" Yu Heng agreed without thinking.
Mu Ran smiled, looked at his watch, it was already five o'clock, and when he was about to get up, he felt that someone was staring at them somewhere, and looked around, but he didn't see any suspicious people except the residential buildings.
"what happened?"
"It's nothing." Mu Ran shook his head, stood up and patted his pants and said, "Take the basketball home."
"Oh." Yu Heng ran to pick up the ball.The basketball was falling on the corner of a residential building. After picking it up, he subconsciously glanced in through the window, but the room was quiet and the owner seemed not at home, so he didn't stay long, and soon left with the basketball in his arms. .
After they left the stadium, a small furry head popped out of the window that Yu Heng had glanced at.A child about four years old appeared by the window, with a white and round face, like a peeled hard-boiled egg, a pair of black grape-like eyes, big and bright, reflecting the reflections of Mu Ran and Yu Heng. His back, his eyelashes flicker like a small fan, cute like a porcelain doll.
The child stared at the direction they were leaving, with a pair of chubby hands tightly grasping the railing of the anti-theft window, his little brows were tightly furrowed, his little pursed mouth kept wriggling, and he didn't know what he was talking to himself.
Chapter 83: Watermelon, basketball, chocolate and you during the five summer vacations (Part [-]) (Mu Ran’s perspective)
The next day, the two came to the small park across the street with the basketball in their arms.
It's just that today's temperature is high again. With a high temperature of more than 30 degrees, the whole city is like a big steamer, stuffy and hot, making people breathless.Yu Heng couldn't take it anymore after beating for an hour, his body seemed to have been washed with water, not a single spot was dry.He threw the basketball away, hid in the shade with his last breath, and lay motionless on the bench.
Mu Ran supported his knees with his hands, the sweat on his head fell down, and evaporated as soon as he touched the ground.The temperature seemed to melt his bones, and he had no strength in his whole body. Every step was like stepping on cotton, and he couldn't exert any strength.
He slowly moved to Yu Heng's side, and kicked the man who was pretending to be dead on the bench with his toe.
"You can't do it after only playing for an hour? Yu Heng, why are you so weak?" Mu Ran sarcastically said condescendingly.
Yu Heng didn't even have the strength to raise his hand, so he could only raise his eyelids symbolically: "Get out, I can't do it because the weather is too hot, okay?"
Mu Ran wiped his sweat with his collar, but didn't refute.
"Do you still fight?" he asked.
"Stop playing, say nothing. We are also mentally ill when we go out to play in this hot weather." Yu Heng sat up with his arms propped up, regretting to death, "You said that eating watermelon while blowing on the air conditioner at home Good! How good! Why on earth did I come out to play after listening to your nonsense!"
Mu Ran didn't have the extra strength to argue with him, he waved his hands feebly, dragged his sore legs and walked out of the field, and said as he walked, "I'll go pick up the ball, I'll go back after I pick it up."
The ball was thrown quite far by Yu Heng, and it probably took a while to go back and forth. Yu Heng lay down again thinking about it, ready to rest for a while.
Mu Ran searched for a while before finding the basketball by the flower bed.One side of the flower bed is connected to the basketball court and the other side is the residential building. The basketball is in the open space between the flower bed and the residential building. To pick up the ball, you can only drill in.
Mu Ran walked in carefully through the flowers with a slightly larger gap, picked up the basketball and patted the dirt on the surface, and was about to walk back, when he stood up, he saw a small head wobbling in the window in front of him, Tilting his head and blinking, he looked at himself.
The child appeared quietly, even if Mu Ran was brave enough, his heart skipped a beat. He patted his heart that was beating too fast, and looked helplessly at the child in the window.
"Little guy, what are you doing here?"
The child stretched out his chubby finger, pointed at the ball in his hand, and said timidly: "Look at the brothers playing the ball." The child's unique baby voice is innocent and cute, and it immediately captures the desire to have someone The heart of Mu Ran, the only son of his younger siblings.He took a few steps closer, gently pinched the child's soft and slippery face, and said with a smile, "This is not a ball, it's a basketball. My brothers are playing basketball."
The child has only touched a ball and has no concept of basketball. He thought it was a ball when he saw a round one, so he wrinkled his fleshy face in confusion when he heard what Mu Ran said, obviously he couldn't understand this sentence.
Mu Ran looked amused and pulled his little nose again. He wrinkled his nose whenever he touched a child, not to mention how cute he was.He immediately became interested, stepped on the basketball, and chatted with the child with his face pressed against the anti-theft window.
"Little guy, where's your family?" The window sill was only at the height of Mu Ran's chest, so he easily scanned the children's house, and found that their house was quiet and the lights were all turned off, as if the child was alone at home.
"Family?" The child tilted his head, his big eyes full of puzzlement.
Mu Ran had no choice but to simplify the question: "Where's your mother? Isn't she at home?"
The child understood it this time, shook his head, pouted and said sullenly, "Mom hasn't come back yet."
"Are you home alone?"
The kid nods.
Mu Ran lamented in his heart that the child's parents were too big-hearted. What if something happened to such a young child at home alone?
Thinking of this, he was even more worried and left like this, and simply chatted with him for a while.
"What's your name?"
"Le Xiaoyu." Another childish answer.
"Your name is Le Xiaoyu. It's a nice name." Mu Ran fished in his trouser pocket for a long time, and finally took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, and waved it in front of his eyes, "Brother, can I treat you to some candy?"
The child's eyes immediately lit up when he heard Tang Tang, and he nodded hurriedly.
Mu Ran tore off the package, stretched it in from the railing, and fed it into the child's mouth. When he retracted, his fingertips touched the child's mouth. It was soft and hot, like a piece, and it felt great to the touch.
The chocolate is a bit big, and it's hard for a child to chew it whole. The cheeks are bulging, but they are still jumping happily, the eyes are bent into small crescents, and the expression is indescribably vivid.Mu Ran couldn't help but also rolled his eyes.After he finished eating, he took out a few more dollars and said, "Brother, there are a lot more here, and I'll give you all of these."
The child jumped even more happily, and stretched out his chubby hand to grab it, but Mu Ran withdrew his hand and said, "A child can only eat one piece of candy a day, and if he eats too much, his teeth will be broken. From now on, my brother will come to look for it every day." You, can I give you one piece a day?"
"Will my brother come tomorrow?" the child asked.
"Yes, brother will come tomorrow, and at this time, brother will come here to look for you."
"Okay then." The child didn't ask for any more candy after getting the promise.
Mu Ran was so engrossed in chatting with the child that he completely forgot about Yu Heng, so Yu Heng fell asleep and he was still talking and laughing with the child through the window.
When Yu Heng came to find them, the two were pulling the hook, and faintly heard the child say softly: "Brother, don't lie to me."
"Okay, I won't lie to you." Mu Ran also agreed dotingly, and that gentle tone gave Yu Heng a goosebump.
He got into the flowers and walked behind Mu Ran.The child was still smiling, but when he saw Yu Heng, he stopped smiling immediately, and huddled by the window and looked at him timidly.
"Who is this kid?" Yu Heng asked Mu Ran.
"Le Xiaoyu, I just met him. His mother went out and left him at home alone. I looked cute and played with him for a while." After explaining, Mu Ran patted the child's head and comforted him softly, "Xiaoyu don't Afraid, this brother is my friend, not a bad person, come to say hello."
Under Mu Ran's encouraging eyes, the child whispered, "Hello, brother."
Yu Heng was also an only child who desperately wanted a younger sibling, and it was no surprise that he failed to escape the cute attack of the child, so he immediately softened his tone and put on a smile as gentle as possible: "Hi Xiao Yu."
There was a sound of opening the door, and the child turned his head to take a look, his smile disappeared immediately, and he looked at the two older brothers and said sullenly, "Mom is back."
Now that the parents are back, it's not good for the two of them to stay here anymore, so let's say goodbye to the children first.
The child stepped on the small bench, grabbed the railing with both hands, watched them leave, and shouted behind them: "I will come tomorrow."
Mu Ran turned around and nodded at him.
Only then did the child leave the window contentedly.
On the other end, Yu Heng asked Mu Ran: "Are you coming tomorrow?"
Mu Ran nodded: "Well, I promised him that I will go every day in the future and give him candy."
Yu Heng squinted at him: "The tricks are fine, and you know how to seduce with sugar."
Mu Ran smiled: "Who made this kid so cute, I couldn't help but want to tease him."
Yu Heng agreed: "It's really cute, if that's the case, then I'll come tomorrow too."
"Aren't you afraid of the heat?" Mu Ran glanced at him, "I heard it will be hotter tomorrow, aren't you afraid of being dried?"
"It's okay, these are small scenes, and children are more important, and we have already promised children, so we can't miss the appointment." Yu Heng said in a high-sounding manner.
Mu Ran scolded lightly: "This is my agreement with him, what's your business?"
Yu Heng embraced his shoulders, and said with a cheeky look like two brothers, "Your affairs are mine, so why do brothers share with each other?"
"Show face!" Mu Ran was speechless.
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