Xia Chang

Liu Xiaobai replied to Zhang Nian's message on the way. He tapped on the screen of his mobile phone, leaned on the back of the bus seat, and said, "I'm on my way."

Nothing can resist the midsummer soaked in the sunset, everything is light like the night breeze; Liu Xiaobai received a call from Yang Lanfang, she said: "Your aunt is here, and Zhanyan is here too. When will you come back? Are there delicious dishes?" of."

"Grandma," Liu Xiaobai replied, blinking his sore eyes after studying, "you don't have to wait for me, I'll be back in a while, you can eat first, I ate a little at school, and I'm not hungry yet."

After answering the phone, Liu Xiaobai fell into deep thought. He was anxious because of the arrival of his aunt Liu Qing. A striped vest is on.

Suddenly Wang Zhanyan knocked on his door.

Liu Xiaobai called "Brother" happily, and he jumped onto Wang Zhanyan's back like a naughty little animal; the two were playmates since childhood, so there was no estrangement after seeing each other for a long time, Wang Zhanyan looked gentle And bright, working for a year, but the face is like a person.

"Come down, ancestor, I have been working all day, and my back hurts." Wang Zhanyan said this, but he still turned around behind Liu Xiaobai's back. He is very tall and always has a pair of thin-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. When he smiles, he is charming. Beautiful in heart and soul.

"Is your work going well recently?"

"I'm transferred. I'm going to the main garden next semester. I'm so busy." Wang Zhanyan checked his tired and red eyes with the reflection of the small mirror on the table, and he said, "What kind of friend is your friend? Is mother's name Xia Honglin?"

Liu Xiaobai nodded and said, "She is your leader now..."

"Yeah, I met that day, she was too gentle, do you understand that kind of gentleness? She is so sensible that you don't think she is a human, but an artificial intelligence. I don't dare to speak. She is quite nice." Yes, but I'll have to get used to it."

Wang Zhanyan is wearing jeans and a striped T-shirt. His skin is not yellowish. It is just the right soft white color. Due to his occupation, he maintains his youthful temperament and can concentrate on everything he does. He is reading the English text on Liu Xiaobai's desk. magazines, without stopping, and calmly said: "I'm going shopping tomorrow, to buy new clothes to wear, you can accompany me, if you accompany me, I'll buy you something you like too."

A few words stuck in Liu Xiaobai's throat, he shook his head after a few seconds and said, "I will ask my classmates to do their homework tomorrow, and I will do it at home."

"Zhang Nian?"

"Yes, yes."

Wang Zhanyan raised his eyes from behind his glasses, looked carefully into Liu Xiaobai's eyes, and then he smiled easily and said, "Okay, study is the most important thing, I'll find someone else."

Liu Xiaobai couldn't see through his cousin's cheerfulness and indifference, and he couldn't see through Liu Qing and Wang Yufeng. Face, sitting in the living room of Liu Xiaobai's house.

Yang Lanfang put the food on the table, steamed Wuchang fish, and the fragrant and sweet mixed grain pork rib soup... She quietly accepted Liu Qing's hysterical complaints, but said nothing.

Liu Xiaobai approached Wang Zhanyan and asked him, "Is aunt's injury serious?"

"I don't know, let her go," Wang Zhanyan turned over a page of the magazine, read with relish, raised his eyelids in the middle, licked the corners of his mouth at Liu Xiaobai, and said, "They have been like this since I was a child. got used to."

"Why not divorce?"

"I only have four words for the two of them," Wang Zhanyan closed the magazine, his face was still relaxed, with a smile like water on his pretty face, and he spoke again, "It's up to you."

Wang Zhanyan has really grown up. I don’t know when he became what he is now. He is indifferent and cheerful, loves to play and laugh, and he shares the rent with others outside after work.

Liu Xiaobai sighed, and heard someone calling him outside. There was a conspicuous abrasion on Liu Qing's cheekbone. She raised her hand to pinch Liu Xiaobai's lukewarm cheek, and said, "The skin is so good."

"No...does it matter if you are hurt? Shall I accompany you to buy some medicine?" Liu Xiaobai gave her a gentle apology, and secretly rubbed his cheeks that were pinched sorely. He took Liu Qing's hand and went to the dining table sat down.

Liu Qing was wearing very thin long-sleeved trousers, her thin hair hung on her shoulders, and she was very thin, so her facial features protruded; after she sat down, Liu Qing said: "I'm going to die now, Wang Yufeng was sent by God in this life Desperate, I will do as he wished!"

Yang Lanfang dragged her feet again. She put the chopsticks away without saying a word.

"Calm down first... Auntie, you know that my grandma has a bad heart, so we can talk slowly," Liu Xiaobai forced himself to hold Liu Qing's thin hand, comforting her, and said, "Let's eat, eat first Let's talk after dinner."

When Liu Qing was impulsive, her eyelids were trembling. She clenched her right hand tightly, punched her thigh in a suppressed manner, and said, "No one surnamed Wang is a good thing."

For a moment, Liu Xiaobai raised his eyes subconsciously. He was meeting Wang Zhanyan's gaze, so he didn't know what expression to make.

Wang Zhanyan stood there, he was tall and elegant, with a pair of beautiful eyes with double eyelids, he was most like an outsider, just looked at Liu Xiaobai, then shrugged his shoulders.

Liu Xiaobai's tasteless dinner ended because of a phone call from Zhang Nian. He hid in the room, so anxious that he didn't even want to turn on the light; in the gray-black space, it seemed that only the voice from the receiver was left. Zhang Nian said: " I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"what……"

"I said yesterday that no one answered today."

Liu Xiaobai took a deep breath, rubbed his eyes, fell down in the middle of the bed, looked at the increasingly blurred ceiling in the dark light, and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Zhang Nian."

There was a brief silence on both ends of the receiver.

While Liu Xiaobai was surprised, he suddenly became slack in explaining the truth, his words were on his lips, but he couldn't utter them.

He thought that sleeping Zhang Nian was waiting for Tengxi.

Zhang Nian's voice was low and steady, and he didn't smile, he said, "It's okay, you just need to get home."

The two made an appointment to meet on Saturday, so there was no need to chat; Liu Xiaobai dangled his feet hanging from the edge of the bed, and took a short rest after the call ended. He closed his eyes, and stopped paying attention to what Liu Qing was talking about in the living room. , Liu Yi and Wang Yanwen hadn't gotten off work yet, Yang Lanfang and Wang Zhanyan had nothing to say and were silent.

The sunset seemed to sink to the bottom of the water, and finally, the city approached the most intense night; when Liu Xiaobai woke up again, he didn't know how long it had passed, and the sound effect of the low battery reminder sounded on his mobile phone. He went to the window and looked at the You can see the lights of cars outside the window.

Wang Yanwen learned about yesterday's incident from Yang Lanfang. She felt uneasy in the morning, and she told Liu Xiaobai several times, saying: "Don't open the door when your aunt comes. Your grandma's sickness is all because of anger... Anyway, it's just a matter of time." Don't open the door, it's only been a few days since the old lady's operation, and she can't afford to worry about it."

"Don't worry, I won't open the door when she comes. I'm so annoyed." Liu Xiaobai was lying sleepily on the bed wearing a tank top and shorts. He wanted to cherish this morning, but suddenly remembered that Zhang Nian was coming soon.

Wang Yanwen got up early to prepare fresh peaches, washed a plate and placed it in the middle of the dining table. She reminded Liu Xiaobai softly once again, and remembered something before going out, so she turned back.

"Take Zhang Nian out to eat something good, don't be afraid to spend money."

"Okay, I got it, Mom." Liu Xiaobai made the last struggle before getting up, buried his head in the quilt, and made a muffled sound.

The willpower in the early morning is sometimes no match for drowsiness. As soon as Liu Xiaobai turned over, he fell into a deep sleep again. Naturally, it was difficult to make up for the sleep he owed after staying up late for five days.

Liu Xiaobai woke up again in a daze, the door of the bedroom was ajar.

He suddenly noticed that in the dark room covered by the curtains, there were two people breathing.