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Zhong Xiu was wearing a gray sweater and the black peaked cap that often appeared in the photo, holding a skateboard in one hand, standing at the door of the garage.

He sent a message to Hao Ai: "I'm here."

Hao Ai soon appeared in Zhong Xiu's sight. He noticed that Zhong Xiu was wearing a silver little devil necklace, a black metal earring on his ear, and an ugly Cute little doll pendant.

"Cool."

The Zhong Xiu I saw before, no matter in school or elsewhere, was always dressed as a good student, but today he looks a bit rebellious.

"It has to be cool."

The venue this time was transformed from an abandoned underground garage, and the surrounding walls were covered with colorful street graffiti.

Hao Ai pointed to a large piece of graffiti and said, "I drew this." It was written on his face: I am good, praise me quickly.

Zhong Xiu praised: "Well, it's very beautiful."

He really thinks it looks good, all kinds of bright and dark colors collide randomly, forming a strong visual impact, fancy but not exaggerated.

I didn't expect Hao Ai to have this skill.

There were more people at the scene than Zhong Xiu had imagined. The skateboarding boys and girls formed a loose circle, and inside the circle was the venue for the competition.

Zhong Xiu had never participated in this kind of competition before, and Yangcheng rarely had a skateboard competition with so many people participating.

Hao Ai asked him: "Do you want to participate?"

"I didn't sign up."

"It doesn't matter, the organizer of this competition is Qu Yihang's friend, and he also brought in the sponsorship, so there is still time for on-site registration."

Zhong Xiu shook his head: "Forget it, I'll call you outside."

Skateboard competition is mainly to compare who has more difficult movements and fewer mistakes, and who has more style.The moves are dead, but people are alive, and different people have different styles of doing the same moves.

The score of the basic action only accounts for a part of the evaluation, and the rest is very subjective.

Hao Ai was the second to play. His movements were very difficult and looked thrilling, which made people sweat, but Zhong Xiu knew that he would definitely be able to do this well.

The skateboard flips a circle in mid-air, and then the person lands smoothly with the board.Amidst the whistles and cheers of the crowd, Hao Ai beautifully completed the last movement of turning inside and outside.

But when the sliding speed slowed down and was about to stop, Hao Ai's body shook suddenly, and then the skateboard was thrown out directly, and he fell heavily to the ground.

Zhong Xiu's face changed immediately at the outer circle of the venue, he was the first to rush in, and ran to Hao Ai, trying to help him up, but Hao Ai tried hard to get up, but only gave a painful "hiss" and did not stand up.

Qu Yihang also ran over anxiously: "Ai Ai, how are you doing? Are you okay?"

Hao Ai sat on the ground and said, "It's okay, I'll take it easy."

Qu Yihang was very worried: "Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Hao Ai was afraid of affecting the competition of the people below, so he reluctantly smiled at Qu Yihang: "No, it's okay, it doesn't hurt too much if you don't fall, go get busy, there are so many people waiting I'm looking at you."

Qu Yihang and Zhong Xiu helped him to rest on the chair next to him.

Wrestling on skateboards is normal, even for world champions in skateboarding.Hao Ai often fell. Before he fell, he knew that he had made a mistake in his movement or his center of gravity was unstable, so he would predict it and protect his body parts in advance to avoid falling to the painful place.But Hao Ai tripped over a stone this time, he didn't expect it at all, and the fall was much worse than usual.

Hao Ai turned his head, put his mouth next to Zhong Xiu's ear, and whispered, "Tell Qu Yihang to ask him to check the ground again. I tripped over a small stone on the ground just now."

Zhong Xiu's ears were enveloped by a cloud of warm air, and it was a little itchy. He heard Hao Ai's words clearly, and asked in disbelief, "What did you say?"

Before the competition, the venue will be cleaned up in advance to keep the venue smooth and make sure that there are no obstacles on the ground. This time it is obviously the organizer's mistake.

"Don't be angry, I'm really fine," Hao Ai said, "The main reason is that the organizer has friends from Qu Yihang. It's their first time to hold a competition, and they have no experience. It's difficult for him to speak in front of so many people." Do……"

"I know." Zhong Xiu interrupted him.

Hao Ai is too good at thinking of others, he has to think of others in everything, why?Why did he have to bear the grievances for nothing?

An unknown fire ignited in Zhong Xiu's heart, he felt aggrieved for Hao Ai, but Hao Ai didn't complain about anything.

Hao Ai wanted to stand up, but staggered and almost lost his footing. Zhong Xiu quickly supported his shoulders.

He bent down, before Hao Ai had time to react, Zhong Xiu directly hugged him and said forcefully, "I'll take you to the hospital, you must go."

When going out from the garage door, Hao Ai heard someone around exclaiming: "Fuck, hug the princess."

He was in so much pain that he didn't even have the strength to curse, thinking that his fame would be ruined just like that.

Hao Ai smiled flatteringly and said, "Put me down, it's quite heavy."

Zhong Xiu ignored him, but asked, "Does it hurt?"

"Also..." Hao Ai wanted to say that it was okay, but seeing Zhong Xiu's face was very bad, he quickly changed his mind, "It hurts! It hurts me to death, I feel like I'm broken!"

Zhong Xiu's complexion became even worse: "What nonsense are you talking about? There must be no fracture."

"No, no, no." Hao Ai quickly shut up.

On the way to the hospital by taxi, Qu Yihang called Hao Ai with a very guilty tone: "I can't leave here now, and I will go there as soon as it is over."

Hao Ai said: "You don't need to come, I'm really fine, it's not like I haven't fallen before, how can I be so delicate?"

"When the time comes, tell me how much the medical expenses are, and I'll let the organizer pay. I'm really sorry, Ai Ai, it's my fault, my fault, blame me..."

Hao Ai was still in the mood to joke: "Okay, you can do your work, and I will apologize after you are done, and I will spare you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness." Qu Yihang finally hung up the phone.

Hao Ai came to the familiar hospital again. Zhong Xiu didn't know anything about the basic procedure of seeing a doctor, and he didn't even know how to go to the registration office first to queue up.

Hao Ai explained the detailed process to him, and sighed: "Oh, if you accompany your girlfriend to the hospital to see a doctor in the future, she will definitely be pissed off by you."

"Can't you say something good? Whoever is born will see a doctor."

Hao Ai realized that there was something wrong with what he said, and quickly apologized: "I was wrong and sorry, I shouldn't have cursed your girlfriend."

Zhong Xiu gave him a blank look: "Why are you apologizing to someone who doesn't exist?"

"Not necessarily, as long as you think about it, it's not something you can do at any time."

From the beginning to the present, Zhong Xiu found several love letters on the table, and a girl who knew Hao Ai asked him for Zhong Xiu's contact information.

Zhong Xiu said coldly, "Not interested."

The female doctor wearing a mask saw a familiar person coming in from outside the clinic, and said cheerfully, "It's you again."

Hao Ai scratched his head: "It's me, it's me."

Hao Ai has been here so many times that even the doctor knows him.

"Hey," the doctor examined his injury carefully, and said, "This time it's worse than before, let's take a picture first."

Hao Ai's face was wrinkled, and he asked bitterly: "Sister, how many days will I have to raise this time?"

"One hundred days of injury."

Hao Ai was often injured by falls and had experience in wound recovery. He didn't think it was that serious, "Just scare me."

Zhong Xiu waited with him for a long time. After queuing up to take the film, the doctor took the film and said after seeing it: "At least one month should be taken care of, and less strenuous exercise should be done."

After wrapping up the bandage, the doctor gave Hao Ai some medicines for external application.

There were many taxis parked outside the hospital gate, Zhong Xiu stopped one at random, and sent Hao Ai home, Hao Ai reported the address of Lijing Hua Mansion.

The driver master was a little surprised and said to himself: "Live here."

Hao Ai sat in the car and called his uncle again, "Uncle, I accidentally fell off my skateboard today. After my grandma finishes her physical therapy, you can send her home."

Uncle asked worriedly, "Are you all right?"

"It's the same as before, what can happen, just don't tell my grandma."

"Understood, oh, how many times have I fallen and still not afraid of falling, it hurts so much."

His uncle scolded Hao Ai and told him to take good care of himself, but Hao Ai didn't dare to talk back and kept saying yes.He knew that his uncle was worried about him, and there were only a few people in this world who really cared about him.

Zhong Xiu found that his perception of Hao Ai was a bit biased. He originally thought that Hao Ai was an ordinary student from a poor family who worked and studied, but he did not expect that the house he lived in was much better than his own.

"Sit anywhere."

Zhong Xiu asked: "You are the only one at home?"

Hao Ai thought it was too troublesome to explain, so he said, "Well, this is an idle house of a relative, and I borrowed it."

The decoration of the house is very delicate, all the furniture is like brand new, without traces of use, and Hao Ai's relatives are a little too generous.

There are no usable ingredients in the refrigerator, and there is only a pot of boiled water on the table that my grandma boiled in the morning, which is too shabby.Hao Ai poured Zhong Xiu a glass of water.

Zhong Xiu took the water and asked worriedly, "Can you climb stairs with this leg after school starts?"

"Yes, just keep it for a few days."

Zhong Xiu looked skeptical: "I see Xuan."

"Hey, let's not talk about this, I'm hungry, are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"

Hao Ai held up the phone and handed it to Zhong Xiu. He was amused by the order interface: "I thought you were going to cook for me."

Hao Ai hurriedly said: "I can cook! This time my legs are inconvenient and I will eat takeaway for a while, and I will cook it for you next time you come."

Zhong Xiu said, "Okay."

It was past nine o'clock in the evening after the two of them had finished eating the takeaway. Yang Yingqiong sent Zhong Xiu a WeChat message asking when he would be back, and he typed in a leisurely manner: I'll be back later.

But after playing Zelda with Hao Ai for nearly an hour, he was not ready to go back until Yang Yingqiong urged him again.

Before leaving, Zhong Xiu glanced at the trash can that didn't even have a trash bag, cleaned up the takeaway trash cans, and prepared to take them downstairs together.

Hao Ai stood up and was about to see him off, but he said, "Don't go downstairs, it's inconvenient."

Hao Ai put away the game console and said obediently, "Okay."

Zhong Xiu warned again: "Be careful when you sleep at night, don't press on the wound."

Hao Ai thought he was wordy: "I know, I know."

Zhong Xiu asked Hao Ai to stay in the room, but Hao Ai insisted on sending him to the elevator entrance. When the elevator door opened, Hao Ai waved to him, "Goodbye."

Zhong Xiu walked into the elevator, turned around, paused and said, "Good night."

He stared at Hao Ai without blinking, until he heard him say: "Good night." Then he pressed the close button.

The elevator door closed from both sides little by little, and Hao Ai's face gradually became smaller as the elevator door became narrower and narrower until the elevator door was completely closed. The pretty face with pear dimples completely disappeared before his eyes.

The elevator fell, and Zhong Xiu's heart fell rapidly. He seemed to be possessed, and wanted to take another look at Hao Ai's face.

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