Chasing Summer

Lin Zhexia felt as if she had been poisoned and dumb.

After Chi Yao finished speaking, she couldn't hold back a word for a long time.

Normally Chi Yao said one sentence, and she could reply ten, but now she couldn't reply one.

Lin He and Wei Ping were focusing on watching TV and didn't pay attention to their side.

The lively voice of the Spring Festival Gala came from the TV, overshadowing the voices of her and Chi Yao.

After a long while, Lin Zhexia lowered her head and swiped her phone.

In fact, no one sent her a message, but she didn't know why she was in a strange state of wanting to escape by swiping her phone.

Looking for trouble, she went to chat with Chen Lin and Tang Shuxuan unilaterally.

- Have you watched the Spring Festival Gala?

- This year's Spring Festival Gala is quite funny

-[smiling]

No one answered her.

She continued to swipe her contact list blindly.

Coincidentally, He Yang just sent a few messages.

Da Zhuang: ddd

Da Zhuang: Are you at home?

Lin Zhexia replied: in

Da Zhuang: My Brother Yao is here too?

Lin Zhexia continued to reply: yes

Da Zhuang: ...

Da Zhuang: I can’t come out to set off fireworks, my dad bought a lot

Da Zhuang: Also, can you not reply word by word, you and Chi Yao stay together all day, learn what he can't do, learn all his stinky problems.

Lin Zhexia moved her fingers: oh

Da Zhuang: ...

Da Zhuang: You two don’t come, I will set off the fireworks by myself

After chatting with He Yang.

Lin Zhexia found a new topic, cleared her throat, and finally managed to choke out a sentence: "Cough, what, He Yang told us to set off the fireworks."

When she and Chi Yao went out, several fireworks had already been set off outside.

From time to time, a few groups of rising fireworks flashed in the dark night sky, and they exploded in the air with a "pop".

Seeing them coming, He Yang greeted them, "Come here, we're going to release it soon, who wants to order?"

Lin Zhexia ran over: "I, I, I, I want something."

She took the lighter and carefully squatted beside the box of fireworks.

In fact, she was a little scared.

But thinking of Chi Yao standing behind her, that little bit of fear was nothing.

She pressed the lighter, and the fuse sizzled and ignited.

She was about to stand up and back up, but at almost the same time, she felt a light force behind her that was also taking her back—it was Chi Yao's hand on her hat.

three.

two.

one.

Fireworks shot high into the sky.

Lin Zhexia's emotions came and went quickly, she looked at the rising fireworks in the night sky, and she had already forgotten the inexplicable embarrassment just now.

As in previous years, she said to Chi Yao: "Happy New Year—"

The jacket Chi Yao was wearing was black.

At night, it almost blends with the surrounding blackness, the only difference is that at a certain moment, the side face lit up by fireworks.

He let go of the hand holding her hat, and returned to her: "Happy New Year."

After the Spring Festival, the winter vacation hastily ended.

On the first day of school, the first thing students in the class do when they arrive at school is to make up their homework for the holiday.

Because of this unspoken thing, as soon as the school gate opened, most of the students in Class Seven arrived.

When Lin Zhexia entered the class, it was the first time that the class was so lively.

Tang Shuxuan and Chen Lin got together and were chatting about what happened during the holiday.

Seeing her enter the class, he waved to her enthusiastically: "Long time no see—and, happy new year—!"

"Happy New Year." Lin Zhexia also replied.

After she put down her schoolbag, she asked again, "What are you talking about?"

Chen Lin said, "Talk about my brother."

When Lin Zhexia heard the word "brother", she almost threw out the pencil case she just took out: "..."

Chen Lin looked sideways: "What's wrong with you."

Lin Zhexia: "It's nothing, I'm just a little surprised that you have a brother."

"My brother is ten years older than me, and they both work. They are not usually in Lianyun City," Chen Lin said, "so we are actually not very familiar with each other."

Lin Zhexia silently put the pencil case on the desk: "So that's how it is."

She was calm on the surface, and shouted in her heart:

It's all because of Chi Yao's sudden words that day.

It made her almost overreact today.

She spent many Spring Festivals with Chi Yao.

But never this time, so...

So…

She thought for a long time, but found that she couldn't find the right words to describe it.

never mind.

Lin Zhexia stopped thinking about the Chinese New Year. She was sorting out her homework while listening to Tang Shuxuan's speech.

Tang Shuxuan lowered her voice: "Do you know that there is a couple in our class who started talking during the holidays."

"I know," Chen Lin said, "It's too obvious. Last semester, I thought they were wrong."

Tang Shuxuan shrugged, losing the desire to share gossip: "Okay, then I don't need to mention the name."

Only Lin Zhexia was confused: "Huh?"

"Who? Who and who?"

She asked again, "Why is it so obvious, why didn't I know."

Tang Shuxuan secretly pointed to her: "It's just who and who in the group next door, didn't you see it?"

Lin Zhexia followed Tang Shuxuan's fingers and saw a female classmate wearing glasses, and her math class representative.

Both of them looked very shy, and the math class representative was standing next to the girl, talking to her a little bit shyly while scratching her hair.

Lin Zhexia realized later: "Are they actually talking, falling in love?"

Chen Lin couldn't help but said: "Actually, I wanted to say it a long time ago. Your reflex arc in this regard is really long."

Tang Shuxuan also said, "Yes."

Lin Zhexia: "..."

Chen Lin said again: "Besides, falling in love is not a big deal. When I was in junior high school, there were classmates who secretly talked with each other in the class. Although the talk was like playing house, didn't you have it in your previous class?"

Lin Zhexia shook her head: "No, the girls' school I attended in junior high school, there are no boys in the school."

The only boy she has come into contact with these years.

It is the group of Nanxiang Street, regardless of gender, who are like buddies.

Led by Chi Yao.

Back in junior high school, everyone would hook up and go to Internet cafes to play games together, but she didn't like to play their games, even if she followed, she would just stay by and watch TV dramas.

So she knows less about emotional matters than girls of the same age.

Even as little as ignorance and lack.

Tang Shuxuan understood: "It turns out that you went to a girls' school before, so it's no wonder."

She patted her chest again: "It's okay, you can come to me for emotional problems in the future, I am an emotional expert in class seven."

Lin Zhexia looked at her: "Have you been in love many times?"

Tang Shuxuan: "No."

"...?"

"But people who have no experience in dating," Tang Shuxuan said confidently, "only like to give advice everywhere."

After adapting to high school life, the first semester of high school passed quickly.

Unknowingly, their freshmen officially entered the second year of high school.

It's summer again.

Compared with the childishness and novelty when we first entered school, everyone in the second year of high school seems to have become more like a real high school student.

That kind of greenness and immaturity faded away invisible.

Stepping into the age of seventeen, everyone begins to grow up in the direction of "adults" quietly.

Lin Zhexia found that she gradually began to pursue "independence" and "autonomy".

In the process of getting along with Lin He, she began to need more right to speak.

Sometimes Lin He might just say a few more words, "The weather hasn't fully warmed up yet, you only wear a shirt like this, and you will learn to be cold in the evening."

Lin Zhexia, who was usually obedient, rarely showed an unknown stubbornness: "Mom, I'm not cold."

as well as.

When Lin He was exhorting and exhorting about something.

She would suddenly say, "I know, I can handle my own affairs well."

Lin He sometimes felt that she was disobedient.

Wei Ping will come out to smooth things over: "It's normal for a child to have his own thoughts when he's grown up. Don't be angry with the child."

But between her and Chi Yao, it's still the same.

The idea of ​​wanting to be an "adult" seems to be invalid in front of him.

As long as she gets together with Chi Yao, she will turn back into that very childish Lin Zhexia in minutes.

This morning, several people went to the bus station to wait for the bus as usual.

The familiar chirping of cicadas returned to my ears, and the weather was so hot that even the wind seemed to be still.

Lin Zhexia suddenly said, "Chi Yao, do you believe in fate?"

Chi Yao didn't know what she was doing again.

Lin Zhexia: "I just learned a little bit of fortune-telling recently. Stretch out your hand and I'll do the math for you."

Chi Yao was wearing a very thin dress with the collar of his school uniform slightly open, making him very conspicuous in the crowd.

Chi Yao: "You went out today and didn't take your medicine?"

Lin Zhexia shot back: "You didn't take the medicine."

The two quarreled a few times over the topic of whether to take the medicine or not.

He Yang took two steps back to the side, and the two distanced themselves.

He said silently: I don't know these two people. Don't know each other, don't know each other well, are not friends.

Not long after the start of the second year of high school, an unexpected incident happened.

One day between classes, Chen Lin kept asking her, "Do you feel that I have changed today?"

Lin Zhexia looked at her for a long time, but couldn't see anything, she could only say: "You are very beautiful today."

Chen Lin: "To be more specific, where is my beauty?"

Lin Zhexia: "You are beautiful everywhere, so it is difficult for me to be specific."

Chen Lin gave up and confessed directly: "Look at my ears."

Only then did Lin Zhexia notice that Chen Lin was wearing a pair of small stud earrings. Her pierced ears were probably just pierced, and they were still red. She had bangs, and the bangs on both sides of her ears covered them, so she didn't look like that. obvious.

Lin Zhexia was a little surprised: "Have you got your ears pierced?"

"Will the school allow it?" she said again, "Will Lao Xu arrest you?"

Chen Lin: "No, we are not so strict. Shuxuan beat her very early, and no teacher told her. And even if someone said, just take off the earrings and replace them with transparent ear sticks. out."

Lin Zhexia nodded: "So that's the case."

Chen Lin urged: "Do you want to hit one too?"

She went on to say: "I took this taxi near the school, that is, the commercial street turned into it. There is a jewelry store in the alley, and many people go there to get their ears pierced."

Lin Zhexia was a little eager to try.

Girls always have a magical yearning for ear piercing in adolescence.

Perhaps it is the love of beauty that is at work.

Maybe he wanted to do some innocuous but rebellious things behind his parents' backs.

Or maybe it's because "adults" wear earrings.

"I thought about getting my ears pierced," Lin Zexia said, "I wanted to do it when I was in junior high school, but my mother wouldn't let me."

"She said if I dare to fight."

Lin Zhexia said slowly, "She broke my leg."

Chen Lin: "It's not a big deal to hit it secretly. My mother wouldn't let it. I didn't say anything when I hit it."

The class bell rings.

This topic stopped here.

But when Lin Zhexia was in class, he still lost his mind for a while.

She was a little moved by Chen Lin's words, and she actually started thinking about getting her ears pierced behind Lin He's back.

But compared to being discovered by Lin He, she was more afraid of another point.

- Ear piercing will hurt.

"It doesn't hurt." Tang Shuxuan also joined the topic after school.

She assured her: "I've called twice, but I don't feel anything, don't worry."

Lin Zhexia: "But after all, it has to pass through the ears..."

Chen Lin: "It really doesn't hurt, so don't worry."

She really wants to go.

But she really didn't dare.

After school, she and Chi Yao walked side by side to the station. She walked slowly, and her eyes drifted to the commercial street halfway.

Chi Yao felt that her speed was getting slower and slower, and reminded: "You might as well climb to the station."

Lin Zhexia: "..."

The next second, Chi Yao said again: "Tell me, what do you want to buy."

Lin Zhexia still wanted to retreat a bit: "There is nothing I want to buy."

"There's nothing to buy," he said. "You keep staring across the way."

Lin Zhexia finally plucked up the courage: "Actually... Actually, I have an appointment with someone. After school, I am going to fight in the alley of the commercial street. You have to go with me and appreciate my heroic appearance during the fight."

Chi Yao: "Oh."

He didn't react too much to Lin Zhexia's casual words.

Lin Zhexia: "Is that how you react?"

"You want me to admire—"

As she wished, Chi Yao changed her response: "I'm still afraid that I won't be able to beat him, so I want my brother to help you."

…

The dead call jumped up and attacked her again.

Is this title unbearable?

Lin Zhexia wanted to ask him now, and it was not easy to offend him, so she could only pretend not to hear, and asked again: "So are you willing to go with me?"

The reply she got was three words.

"I don't want to."

"…reason?"

"I'm afraid," Chi Yao said the most outrageous words in the most outrageous tone while looking at the face that looked very difficult to provoke, and there seemed to be a group of younger brothers behind him, "I saw others fight and their legs were weak."