spring.

After the Spring Festival, Qi Ran and Zhou Bing lived in Nan County until the fifth day of the lunar new year, and after eating another meal of dumplings, they both packed up and returned to Chengshan City.

Zhou Bing went to university and still maintained the habit of working part-time during the winter and summer vacations. During the winter vacation, he worked at Si Xiaonian's Flower.coffee, and during the summer vacation he and his brother worked for Si Xiaonian.

Qi Ran and Zhou Bing arrived in the city and went straight to Flower.coffee. Zhou Bing was going to pick up Tang Ming and Si Danian's class, so Qi Ran went to pick Si Xiaonian home.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, there was a lantern show in the city. Si Danian's family of three left early, leaving Si Xiaonian to watch the shop.

As soon as he entered, Qi Ran ran to the coffee machine.With his back to the door, Si Xiaonian could tell that the person behind him was Qi Ran only by the sound of walking and breathing.

Qi Ran grabbed Si Xiaonian's waist with one hand, took off the backpack on his shoulder with the other hand, took out a lunch box from the bag, stretched his head to Si Xiaonian's side and kissed him, saying: "Leave Zhou Biscuit here." , come over to eat dumplings."

Si Xiaonian didn't move, he just turned his head to look at Qi Ran and smiled, then half opened his mouth.

Qi Ran deftly rinsed his hands in the small stream of coffee machine, quickly opened the lunch box and pinched a dumpling into Si Xiaonian's mouth, and touched Si Xiaonian's teeth with his fingertips.

Zhou Bing entered the room and sat on the sofa by the window farthest from the two of them, but couldn't help but want to get closer to the dog food. When he turned around, he saw Si Xiaonian biting his brother's fingertip. His brother was still stupid. The laughing thief sucked his fingers intoxicatedly.

Hey~ I didn't see it.

Qi Ran put his chin on Si Xiaonian's shoulder and asked: "How is it delicious?"

Si Xiaonian's family never makes dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and they order meals from the hotel to deliver to their door during the big festivals.After Si Xiaonian once ate dumplings made with dried sea cucumber, dried shrimps and fresh meat made by Li Jinglan, he ate the dumplings again and lamented that they were not as delicious as Li Jinglan made.Qi Ran remembered this matter, learned from Li Jinglan several times, and after failing for countless times, he finally succeeded in capturing Si Xiaonian's stomach.

Si Xiaonian squinted happily, turned around and pinched one with one hand, and had no time to talk to Qi Ran like "selling himself and boasting".

The two have separated since the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, and they haven't seen each other for seven days. Now that they meet, they can't help but keep looking where they shouldn't be, and want to grab two if they can't help it.

When Zhou Bing glanced over for the third time, Qi Ran's paws were already in Si Xiaonian's sweater.

Zhou Bing roared: "You two have been together for two years, can you restrain yourself!"

"Dingling~Welcome~" The beckoning cat rang at the door.

The three of them looked towards the gate together, Jiao Lei lowered his head and patted the snow on his shoulder, then looked up and glanced at the shop: "It's all here." He thought it was only Si Xiaonian.

Zhou Bing moved her butt uncomfortably, but she was still uncomfortable, so she simply stood up from the sofa.Then he greeted respectfully: "Mr. Jiao, Happy New Year!"

Qi Ran retracted her paws and lay on the front desk, spreading her hands towards Jiao Lei: "Brother Lei, happy new year!"

Jiao Lei's expression remained the same for so many years, there was no excessive emotion, he dug out the four pockets on his body, and finally found a few red envelopes, then went to the sofa and gave Zhoubing one first, saying as a routine : "Grow taller again."

Zhou Bing took a deep breath, her throat was sore because of the blockage. Didn't you discover something new with the words every year? !

Jiao Lei didn't see the fire in Zhou Bing's eyes, walked up to Qi Ran, patted a red envelope in his hand, and asked, "What stuffing?"

Qi Ran turned around and hurriedly took out another lunch box from the bag and handed it to Jiao Lei: "Aunt Li made it, dried sea cucumber, shrimp and fresh meat, try it."

Jiao Lei took the lunch box and pointed to the box in front of Si Xiaonian.

While chewing, Si Xiaonian proudly said: "My family made bird wraps, do you want to try it?"

Jiao Lei, a man who usually has no expression, wants to roll his eyes now.He stuffed the remaining few red envelopes to Si Xiaonian, took the lunch box in Qi Ran's hand and left.

As soon as Jiao Lei turned around here, he turned his head and mouthed to Si Xiaonian, "It's made of big pancakes". Si Xiaonian stopped chewing, lifted his inner pair and looked at the French window.

Zhou Bing sat on the sofa in an awkward straight posture. The posture was very good, but it didn't look very comfortable anywhere.

Jiao Lei sat across from him, opened the lunch box and took a pause, first glanced at the two people beside the coffee machine, the two people met his eyes and quickly lowered their heads, turned around and went about their business, he raised his eyes and glanced at the opposite side Zhou Cake for playing with mobile phones.

The dumplings in the lunch box are ugly in appearance, as if locked in a lunch box and fighting with each other, one by one is worse than the other, but there is nothing like a dumpling.

Jiao Lei ate one. Fortunately, the stuffing hadn't been beaten by gangs, and it tasted very good. He ate a few and took a look at Zhoubing.

There is no silver 300 taels for Zhoubing here, and he raised his voice and said, "Look at me! It's none of my business!" It was also his first time making dumplings.

Jiao Lei: "It's fine if you don't have any vinegar, and you won't even be given a pair of chopsticks."

Zhou Bing got up in a "chuckle", strode to the back, brought back two pairs of chopsticks, stuffed Si Xiaonian with a pair, and Jiao Lei with a pair.After sitting down, he continued to play mobile games awkwardly.

In the past two years, the number of times he and Jiao Lei met, half of his fingers would be wasted.

In his third year of high school, he was busy with the college entrance examination. Even though Jiao Lei was teaching in No. [-] Middle School, they could live as two parallel lines.At that time, he wanted to go to university in Chengshan City, preferably Chengshan University, because only Chengshan University has a major in education.After working hard for a year, I finally passed a line.His head teacher suggested that he apply for the education major of Jinshi University, which is more famous than the education major of Chengshan University. At that time, he was full of enthusiasm to find Jiao Lei, under the guise of "suggestion", and wanted Jiao Lei to give him a "result". .The result is that Jiao Lei's suggestion is also "Tsun City University".

He was getting more and more used to not getting a response.

After Si Xiaonian finished eating the dumplings, he kicked Qi Ran's calf: "Go to see the lamp?" He finished speaking and glanced at the sofa.

Qi Ran understood, put away his dishonest bird paws, and asked: "Will you go to see the lamp? If you don't go, stay and watch the shop."

Zhou Bing casually raised her hand.

Jiao Lei looked at Qi Ran and said, "I just..."

Si Xiaonian was making coffee, turned around to look at Jiao Lei, and said, "Brother Lei, are you going to listen to the clock chime at zero o'clock?"

Jiao Lei froze for a few seconds, then said, "Okay."

Zhou Bing frowned, not understanding what these two people meant, what's so good about a clock chiming.

The four of them sat by the floor-to-ceiling windows and drank the coffee made by Si Xiaonian. The anti-theft shutter door fell, and they walked towards the bus station on snow.The atmosphere of the New Year is still there, it is too difficult to go out and take a taxi, so I simply take the bus.

"squeak squeak..."

The four of them walked side by side, and the eight feet were particularly neatly striding forward "left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right".

Qi Ran walked on the far left, holding Si Xiaonian with his right hand and stuffing his left hand into the pocket of Si Xiaonian's down jacket, and kicking the remaining two hands in his own pockets.Zhou Bing was walking on the far right. He and Jiao Lei had their hands in their respective trouser pockets, as if they had agreed upon an agreement. They were both wearing short down jackets today.

Qi Ran turned to Si Xiaonian, "Do you want to go skiing before school starts?"

Si Xiaonian approached him, and touched Qi Ran's once-strained leg with his knee: "Can it work?"

Qi Ran: "It has to be done, at worst, you slip and I'll watch."

Zhou Bing picked out his ears: "You two bear with it, and if you get tired of going home, I beg you two."

Jiao Lei turned to look at Zhou Cake: "What date does school start?"

Zhou Bing froze with his hand picking his ear, then stuffed it into his trouser pocket, and said stiffly, "The eighth day of the lunar new year." There are still two days left.

Qi Ran said impatiently: "Hurry up, I beg you too."

Zhou Bing stretched his head and looked at Qi Ran: "Is there a brother like you? Who did you tell me about? Why didn't 5000 years of traditional culture cultivate you into a decent brother?"

Qi Ran: "Is there a younger brother like you? Who did you tell about respecting the old and loving the young? Don't talk to me about 5000 years of nine-year compulsory education. I have educated so many outstanding children. How come you are not one of them."

Zhou Bing raised her head and let out a cold snort: "Is there you?"

Qi Ran gave Zhou Bing an embarrassing expression of "Look!", then turned to Si Xiaonian, "Is there me?"

Si Xiaonian held back his six pack abs with a smile, and said without a limit: "It must be."

Zhou Bing's three views were shattered, and he turned his head to ask Jiao Lei, "Is there me?" But seeing Jiao Lei's paralyzed face without squinting, he immediately changed his mouth and said, "I|Day!"

Qi Ran: "Oh, I'll go, I'll bear with you if you're not good, why do you still want to engage in orthopedics?"

Zhou Bing put his hands like an electric fan: "I was wrong! Let me be a person!"

Four people got on the bus bound for the city center. There were few people on the bus, and the four seats in the last row were empty.When Qiran got into the car, he let go of Si Xiaonian's hand, and Si Xiaonian gave Qiran a look that only the two of them could understand.

Just as Qi Ran sat down in the last row on the right side of the window, Si Xiaonian sat down next to Jiao Lei across a seat from him.

Qi Ran: "Si Xiaonian!"

As soon as Jiao Lei sat down, Si Xiaonian turned his head and gave him a "helpless" look.

Qi Ran didn't wait for Si Xiaonian and Jiao Lei to finish their eye contact, grabbed Si Xiaonian's arm and dragged him to sit beside him.

Zhou Bing was the youngest, and was ordered by a group of people to run errands every day. When he swiped his bus card four times and walked back, the situation in the back row was settled, and he sat down between Si Xiaonian and Jiao Lei.

The closer the city center was, the more people there were. Si Xiaonian plugged in an earphone for Qi Ran, and the two leaned together to listen to the music.

Jiao Lei still had that paralyzed expression of "what does the world outside the window have anything to do with me" looking straight ahead.

Every time Zhou Bing gets close to Jiao Lei, she can't sit still. It's not right to say it's awkward, it's not right to say it's uncomfortable. In short, it's very uncomfortable. It always wants to move, look, and say something, but... Who the hell didn't order Little pride.

The proud baker worked straight for a few minutes, but finally he couldn't control his mouth. He quickly glanced at the hard and handsome side face beside him, cleared his throat and said, "Why don't you go to the sports university?" He heard his brother say , The University of Physical Education wanted to hire Jiao Lei as a coach, but Jiao Lei refused at that time.

Jiao Lei fixed his eyes on one point, and said in a low voice: "No reason."

Zhou Bing let out a self-deprecating laugh: "Teacher Jiao, be honest."

Jiao Lei turned his head and stared at Zhou Bing's side face, slowly held his breath, and said honestly, "I don't want to leave."

Zhou Bing feels that the power of the truth is nothing more than that, but it's just a stab in the heart, and it's far from the end of the game.He turned his head and smiled encouragingly: "That's great, everyone be honest."

Jiao Lei's eyes are neither warm nor angry, but they have strength, that kind of strength can penetrate the skin and bones of a person, and the essence of a person locked in perspective.

Zhou Bing looked extremely uncomfortable, turned his head and stared straight ahead: "I said, I don't look like it." Don't look at it.

Jiao Lei turned his head to face out of the window, closed his eyes and said, "It's not like."

He is tall, and the cakes made by his facial features are not as beautiful as Xia Weishen at that time, and they are no longer exquisite.This kid seemed to deliberately make himself so rough, but he looked more comfortable, the sun was still shining, and he was handsome with his own characteristics.It seems that the one who is determined to be handsome is not the same.

This made Jiao Lei even more confused.

The lantern show is crowded with people, it seems that millions of people in this city have gathered for the lantern show.The end of the pedestrian street can't be seen at a glance, and there is a crowd of people in front of each lantern, and it is impossible to squeeze in.

Si Xiaonian regretted it, and Qi Ran regretted it too, this...it's better to go home and have sex, seven days, but they haven't seen each other for seven days.Supplementing enough for seven days may not be enough for one night, so why waste time here.Hey~

The two looked at each other, then turned their heads, and the two had been squeezed apart.

It is rare to have a long distance between people.Zhou Bing turned around and asked the price of the mini palace lantern, and then turned around. None of the three people were there. The circle around him was either uncles or aunts. The younger children were all riding on the necks and shoulders of their fathers or grandpas.

He thought that Jiao Lei was a big man of 193cm after all, so he would be able to find him if he put his feet on it, but he turned 360° like a ballet dancer with his feet on his feet, but he couldn't find anyone.He didn't want to find his brother and Si Xiaonian, the two of them would become a conjoined body after meeting today, and looking for it was just to make things difficult for him.

He thought, forget it, go shopping by yourself.He is a child that everyone hates now, his brother thinks he is an extra-large light bulb, and Jiao Lei thinks he is... Maybe he doesn't have this face, so Jiao Lei wouldn't even look at him.

Zhou Bing raised her hand and touched her face, feeling a little disgusted with it suddenly, but it's pretty handsome after all, isn't it?

He stopped and walked, absent-mindedly mingled with the lively crowd, and he was very alone.There were five or six people behind him, and Jiao Lei followed him not too far away.

Jiao Lei has long hands and long legs, and the distance between the two of them was far away. He squeezed two steps forward sideways, and he could almost walk behind Zhou Bing. The distance was getting closer. He stopped for two seconds, and they could squeeze in between the two of them. Four or five people.

The two of them walked for half a distance. Zhou Bing turned around and entered a milk tea shop. After a while, she came out with a cup of milk tea. , not leaving.While drinking milk tea, he scratched the floor tiles with his fingers.

Jiao Lei stood not far away and kept staring at the side of the milk tea shop door. This kid squatted outside the milk tea shop like a doormat. When the crowd was crowded, he would be knocked twice. Can be less.

After waiting for more than ten minutes without Zhou Bing moving, Jiao Lei walked over.

Zhou Bing drank half of a cup of milk tea. The cup was placed at a fifteen-degree angle between his two feet. His right index finger was seriously scratching something on the floor tiles. He raised his head and stared at it unkindly—damn he didn't see Ye Sangxin!

Uh……

Zhou Bing came back to her senses, and quickly covered the words at her feet with her hands.

Jiao Lei raised his foot and used his toes to push away Zhou Bing's hand covering the floor tiles.

There are three characters written on the floor tiles - please take it away? !

The corners of Jiao Lei's mouth twitched indiscernibly.

Zhou Bing rubbed his nose unnaturally, then grabbed the milk tea and splashed it on the words he had been scribbling for more than ten minutes.The floor tiles are common paving red bricks. It may be easier to carve with a knife. It takes more than ten minutes to draw with your fingernails before you can draw the state of "you can understand what the word is".

Two people, one squatting and the other standing, were embarrassed for more than a minute.

Jiao Lei was tall and big, and the surrounding lights cast his shadow on Zhou Bing. He could only see the top of Zhou Bing's hair clearly. Only when his hands were on the top of Zhou Bing's hair did he realize what he was doing. After being startled for a moment, he rubbed Zhou Bing's head, the stubble was too short and pierced his palms and fingertips, and he put his hands back into his trouser pockets.

Jiao Lei: "Let's go."

Zhou Bing looked up at the person above her and said, "Ah?"

Jiao Lei glanced at the three characters covered in milk tea.

Zhou Bing followed Jiao Lei's line of sight, jumped up immediately, and shouted, "I wrote it for fun!"

Jiao Lei turned around and walked forward: "I didn't see clearly."

Zhou Bing flattened her mouth and let out a low "oh".

At the exit of the Pedestrian Street, Qi Ran and Si Xiaonian each had an ice cream, stomping their feet while shrinking their necks from the cold, while delivering it to their mouths.

Zhou Bing started to laugh from a long distance: "Hahahaha...you two are so cruel, you don't have to worry about freezing ice cream when it's so cold hahahaha..."

Qi Ran raised his foot and kicked, Zhou Bing jumped up faster than a monkey, circling around Si Xiaonian to dodge.Usually, he was used to being protected by Si Xiaonian, and he forgot that he was injured with Si Xiaonian just now, so while he was hiding, Si Xiaonian raised his foot and hooked him, making him throw himself to the ground.Fortunately, Jiao Lei reached out to catch Zhou Bing's face in time, otherwise this handsome guy's handsome face would have been photographed like a big cake, and he would become a veritable cake master.

The four of them crossed the overpass and went to the shopping mall on the other side of the road to listen to the clock chiming at zero o'clock.

On the overpass, someone sang.Si Xiaonian recognized this person at a glance, he had heard this person sing "5 years time" by Noah and Whale.He stopped, and the three people around him also stopped.

Si Xiaonian waited for the singer to finish singing a song, stepped forward and whispered a few words, and then the prelude to "5yearstime" sounded.

Jiao Lei's rock-hard expression finally showed a crack.

Qi Ran and Zhou Bing witnessed a miracle happen.Jiao Lei hummed softly along with the singer, and his singing was even better than that of the opposite singer, his eyes were no longer gloomy and depressed, but became more lively and colorful.Si Xiaonian also sang along, occasionally bouncing up and down naughtily.

Halfway through the song, Qi Ran and Zhou Bing became the background board. Si Xiaonian and Jiao Lei seemed to be the best partners who had worked together countless times. The tune was cheerful and people were also cheerful.

When Qi Ran understood, Zhou Bing also understood.Suddenly, he felt that he would never be able to pry Jiao Lei's heart open in his life.Can't live in it, can't leave it, that's his current state.The tune was no longer cheerful to him, and the sour tune made him uncomfortable. He turned around and was about to leave when he felt his wrist being grasped. Looking back, he saw Jiao Lei with a slightly hesitant expression.

Jiao Lei: "Don't go." His breathing fluctuated, and the white breath he exhaled was full of heat.

One side of Zhou Bing's mouth hooked mechanically, and then fell down. With his wrist, he shook off the hand that was holding him, and strode down the bridge in a fashionable way.

"Ding~ding~ding..." The zero o'clock bell rang suddenly.

All four looked up at the mechanical clock on the roof of the mall.

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