petition to god

005

Two years later—

On a scorching summer day, there was a long queue in front of the vending machine in the middle of the platform, and the canned drinks were brought out in the air-conditioning. Nan Xi lowered his head and swallowed half of the bottle, and wiped the corner of his lower lip with the back of his hand.

Hooking her index finger upwards, Nan Xi pulled the other bottle away with one hand and handed it to Ran Yao.

The heat was steaming all around, and the rails were covered with a layer of bright gold. Cicada, who was hiding on the boxwood tree, let out a drawn-out cry. Nan Xi's school uniform was soaked with sweat, and he rolled up the hem of his short-sleeved shirt to his armpit , showing his thin waist and abdomen, Ran Yao who was sitting at the back seemed to be stung by something, quickly looked away, touched the back of his neck unnaturally, paused for a while, and looked over again.

The figure against the light is clear and handsome, exuding a vigorous and bright youthful spirit.

The drink in her hand had long lost its coolness, and Ran Yao took a sip, only sweetness remained.

The tram was about to enter the station, when the radio rang, Ran Yao shuddered violently, swallowed a little hastily, accidentally choked, covered his mouth and coughed uncontrollably.

Nan Xi turned around and asked, "Are you still drinking?" Seeing that Ran Yao blushed and shook his head, he took back the drink and drank it clean. He squeezed the can with five fingers together, a standard parabola, and threw it into the trash can.

The wheels made a harsh friction sound on the track, the tram door opened, and the two sweaty people stepped into the cold compartment, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.There are not many passengers at this station in Liangxian Village, there are vacancies, Nan Xi found a place near the door, and sat down shoulder to shoulder with Ran Yao.

Putting the schoolbag in front of her, she swayed left and right with the train. Not long after, she felt drowsy. Ran Yao squinted her eyes, tilted her head, and fell asleep on Nan Xi's shoulder.

The moving train plunged into the long darkness of the tunnel, Ran Yao's head gradually lowered to Nan Xi's chest, Nan Xi raised his hand, and pressed his fingertips against his white forehead, supporting him to sleep all the way.

Obviously they are still as close as before, obviously Nan Xi's nerves are always on her, and she is under his care all the time, obviously they live in a dormitory at school, and when they go home they share a bedroom, or even share the same bed.As the train pulled into the station, Ran Yao opened his eyes and looked down at the hands they held together unconsciously. His raised eyelashes touched his bangs, and even his eyelids were itchy. flushed.

He doesn't want to go back to school.

I got off the tram, changed to a bus, and the last stop happened to be at the gate of Qinghe County No. [-] Middle School.They sat back and forth on this route fifty or sixty times, from the first day to the third day of junior high school, until grandma needed crutches to stand up straight, Ran Yao turned her head to look at the school gate that was getting closer and closer to them, Looking past the end of his eyes, Nan Xi was holding a textbook in his hand, and was reviewing his homework with his left knee resting on the back of the front seat. He was concentrating, but he was in a lazy state.

In Qinghe No. [-] Middle School, Ran Yao's identity is Nan Xi's younger brother.This identity was recognized by the teacher for two years, and called by the classmates for two years, and finally stamped in Nan Xi's heart subtly and logically. He always called Ran Yao "brother" from time to time. Whenever at this time, Ran Yao could From his eyes, he saw a kind of comfort and pride as an elder brother.

Therefore, "care" is an increasingly intimate ambiguity in the heart of 16-year-old Ran Yao, but in Nan Xi's heart, it is the duty and duty of brothers.

"Nan Xi, we're here." The raised elbow lightly touched Nan Xi's right rib, with little strength, but the other party frowned, and ran Yao immediately retracted his arm in fright with an impatient expression.

Nan Xi's reaction always made Ran Yao sensitive and suspicious. He didn't know when he started to be cautious, for fear that if something was not done well, the most important position in Nan Xi's heart would be taken and replaced by "others". His stupid, stupid and poor "brother".

Nan Xi put away the textbook, pressed her ribs twice, turned her head and asked, "It hurts, why are you using so much force?"

Ran Yao looked at him blankly, curled his five fingers into his cuffs, even in the midsummer of August, he always liked to wear a school uniform jacket.Nan Xi's eyes moved away from Ran Yao's eyes, and slid to his neck, where there was a small bead of sweat, he naturally reached out to wipe it off for him, and raised his eyebrows out of the window: "Let's go. "

Compared with the city's key middle schools, Qinghe No. [-] Middle School has a relatively small school area, and its teachers are not superior. The only thing that students from other schools yearn for is a good learning environment.

The lush boulevard winds and turns, connecting teaching buildings, cafeterias and dormitories. Every two steps along the way, you can see a bench on which students are sitting for morning reading, writing or memorizing.When he first came to this school, Ran Yao felt that the living atmosphere of Qinghe County and Liangxian Village were somewhat similar, but within two days, he was disappointed.

There are too many people here.

There are also many children in Liangxian Primary School, but each classroom is only as big as his and Nan Xi's bedroom. There are twelve students crammed into them. They are all children from rural peasant families. Those who are particularly naughty just sneak out of school after class to play alone. Nao, there are always vacancies around Nanxi's seat.Every time Ran Yao looked at Nan Xi, he would always meet his gaze, and the other party would point to one of the seats with a smile, tilt his head and say to Ran Yao, "Not yet."

It’s different here. The classroom is twice as spacious as that of Liangxian Elementary School. The seven rows of desks are at an arm’s length from each other. After the class bell rings, the classroom is more lively than the morning market in Liangxian Village. There are noises, discussions, and desk pulling The noise of chairs came and went, endlessly.

Ran Yao was always half a beat behind others. He sat in the third seat in the row by the window, and Nan Xi sat in the last row in the second row by the wall, almost a diagonal line. When he put down his pen and closed the book and turned around , the seats around Nanxi were already full of men and women.

When I first entered junior high school, due to the unfamiliar environment and most of the children were at an ignorant and unknown age, "older" was easily equated with "reliable" and became the only criterion for unconditional trust in a person.They went to school two years later than other children, and Nan Xi was one year older than Ran Yao, so the teacher directly appointed Nan Xi as the class monitor, easily spreading his "sense of responsibility" from one person, one family, to the entire class.

It was obviously the first time to meet these people, and the teacher-student and classmate relationship was no more than three years old. Ran Yao didn't understand why Nanxi could treat other people as seriously and caringly as she did herself.

Some people forgot to bring their textbooks and pencil cases, Nanxi would let them use their own; some people didn’t eat in the cafeteria, he would go to the canteen to buy them water and bread; some people were injured, he would send them to the infirmary; some people escaped On duty, Nan Xi never gets annoyed, and will consciously clean up the class for them...

For two years, Nan Xi has always cared about the students in this class in every possible way. He is always surrounded by all kinds of people. Ran Yao can't get in, so he can only wait. walk to his side.

"What are you thinking?" It was Nan Xi's voice. Ran Yao came back to his senses and looked at him without answering.

"I called you twice." Nan Xi said with a smile, the dormitory building was close at hand, "Help me get my luggage up."

Ran Yao nodded, and took the two backpacks from Nan Xi's hands: "Going to play basketball again?"

"Yeah." Under the school uniform was a black vest that had been changed at home a long time ago. Nan Xi jumped on the spot twice, flexing her wrists and ankles, with a kind of excitement and anticipation that Ran Yao didn't understand, "Today and the headquarters The seniors of the high school basketball team played a friendly game."

"That's why you told grandma to go back to school two days earlier?" Ran Yao lowered her head to look at Nan Xi's straight calves and lean muscles.

"Well, oh yes, I'm sorry." Nan Xi stepped forward, rubbed Ran Yao's bangs away, revealing a beautiful hairline, and touched it with his forehead, "I promised to accompany you to watch the annual fireworks show , As a result, I was delayed by something, so I didn’t make it, and I will make up for it in the next year, okay?”

Ran Yao gave a soft "um" and asked cautiously, "Can I watch you play in a while?"

"Do you still need to ask this kind of question?" Nan Xi bent his index finger and stroked the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile, "Come anytime, I can perform better if you are here."

Nan Xi ran away and disappeared on the second fork in the boulevard.Ran Yao stood there in a daze, waiting for the heat on his forehead to dissipate, he suddenly smiled, looking into the distance with a moment of sadness in his eyes.

next year?He picked up Nanxi's schoolbag and hugged it tightly.

You seemed to say the same thing last year.

In the four-person dormitory, only Nan Xi and Ran Yao lived.Qinghe No. [-] Middle School is located in the center of Qinghe County. Most of the students living in the county choose to go to school, and few of them live in accommodation.Ran Yao pushed open the dormitory door, walked in, and put down her schoolbag. Nan Xi's bed was a mess, and her own bed sheets hadn't been changed since last semester, because this bed hadn't been slept on much.

Touching his head against Nan Xi's pillow, the familiar smell made him feel drowsy, and the sun warmed the bedding, like Nan Xi's embrace.Ran Yao kicked off his shoes and wrapped Nan Xi's quilt tightly like a silkworm chrysalis. How long has it been since he hugged himself? When was the last time he hugged him? With their gradually decreasing physical contact, they had their own social circle, and he was busy working in this circle all day long, paying less and less attention to Ran Yao.

The curtains were blown by the summer wind, the bright light shone on Ran Yao's side face, the door slammed, and the noisy noise from the corridor slipped into the room, and soon became inaudible again.Ran Yao's consciousness was a little fuzzy, half asleep and half awake, he could feel someone sitting on the bed, and woke up a second after his eyes were gently covered by a big wet hand.

"Are you back?" His voice was hoarse and gentle, like a window screen floating behind Nan Xi.

"Yeah." Nan Xi withdrew his hand, took out the odds and ends in his pants pocket and threw them on the table.

Probably because he thought about the matter of "hugging or not" for too long before going to bed, and because he was so full of sleep that he became courageous for no reason, Ran Yao put his arms around Nan Xi's neck, pressing his sleepy eyes on his wet basketball uniform, He seemed to rub it twice.

"What's wrong?" Nan Xi patted him on the back, "Did you have a nightmare?"

"Are you angry?" Ran Yao buried her face in his chest, "I overslept and didn't watch you play."

"A little bit." Judging from the tone, it was clear that she was teasing him, Nan Xi laughed, and the hot breath of her breath clung to Ran Yao's ears.

Ran Yao leaned on him: "Do I have to make up for you?"

Nan Xi scratched his itchy chin rubbed by Ran Yao's hair: "Am I that stingy?"

Ran Yao tightened his arms: "Can't you be more stingy?"

The time of the hug was prolonged by silence, until Nan Xi felt a little uncomfortable, he leaned back and ended the excessive intimacy between the two.He scratched his ears, rubbed the dirty dust on the back of his hands, and said calmly, "Come with me tomorrow to see someone."

Just as Ran Yao was about to respond, he caught sight of a bright color out of the corner of his eye, causing him to squint. His focused gaze fell on a pink envelope on the table.Due to the distance, Ran Yao couldn't read the handwriting on the envelope clearly, but the huge heart painted with a red pen hurt his nerves so badly that Nan Xi went to the bathroom to take a bath with a basin in his hand. He didn't dare to ask who the person he was going to meet was.

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