Chasing Summer

Lin Zhexia almost blurted out: You fart!

Who was the one who hit three before.

Who is that person who pretends to be the school bully of Cheng'an?

I didn't see his legs go weak during the fight, but I remember that this man didn't even blink his eyes.

After a while, Lin Zhexia asked, "Are you joking?"

Chi Yao returned her with a half-smile: "You're joking first."

"..."

At this point, Lin Zhexia could only tell the truth: "Actually, I want to get my ears pierced."

Chi Yao's gaze shifted down a few inches, and landed on the girl's small and white ears.

Lin Zhexia's earlobe was clean, nothing.

"But I dare not go alone," Lin Zhexia said again, "I'm afraid of pain."

Chi Yao withdrew that look: "Does Aunt He know?"

Lin Zhexia: "I plan to kill first and then play."

Chi Yao commented on her: "It's quite courageous."

Although he didn't explicitly say that he wanted to accompany her, but during the conversation between the two of them, they had already unknowingly walked towards the commercial street.

Lin Zhexia: "Actually, I'm still in a panic, but I've already made up my mind. If my mother won't let me in today, I'll go to your house to do my homework."

Chi Yao: "You have considered it thoroughly."

Lin Zhexia: "It's okay."

Chi Yao: "You never thought about it, and I might not let you in."

After a while, Lin Zhexia said, "...I have the key."

There are many people on the commodity street after school, all of them are students wearing the school uniform of No. 2 Middle School. Some people are queuing up to buy milk tea, and some are buying some snacks. When Lin Zhexia pulled Chi Yao through the crowd, she vaguely heard someone whispering.

After a whole year of baptism in high school, Lin Zhexia became somewhat immune to these arguments.

After all, as the person who often stands on the edge of the focus, she is also being watched indirectly.

The farther you go into the alley, the fewer people there will be.

The shops inside are not as lively as those outside the street, and many of the shops are empty, with seals on the large glass windows.

After walking for a long time, I saw the jewelry store that Chen Lin mentioned.

The pink signboard reads: "Xinxin Jewelry Store".

The storefront is brightly decorated, and three lines of round and lovely words are written with colored markers on the glass door: necklace, earrings, and pierced ears.

Moreover, this store is well versed in girls' preferences, and there is even an orange cat in the store.

As soon as Lin Zhexia entered, the cat was not afraid of strangers at all, and immediately ran over and rubbed against her school uniform trouser legs.

"..." Lin Zhexia said pleasantly, "Maomao."

Chi Yao, who was following her, carried a bag on one shoulder, also squatted down slowly, and then reached out and pulled the cat's ear.

When Chi Yao and the cat were together, there was a strange harmony.

The weirdness comes from the fact that he doesn't look like the kind of person who likes cats very much.

The cat seemed closer to him. Going around in his hand.

Lin Zhexia was a little upset: "Why does it like you more?"

Chi Yao: "Because it has eyes."

Lin Zhexia: "Maybe—this cat's eyes are not very good."

Chi Yao naturally answered a sentence that only they could understand: "Then how will Xiao Mi explain it?"

Xiao Mi is the cat that Lin Zhexia rescued when she was a child.

In the past, there were often stray cats in the community, and one of them was a skinny stray cat who gave birth at night.

When Lin Zhexia went out early in the morning, she heard a faint cat meowing in the bushes near the building.

She pushed aside the bushes to check, and saw a kitten that was snow-white all over.

"Your Uncle Wei is allergic to cat fur." ​​Seeing that she wanted to keep a cat, Lin He had to persuade her, "I'm afraid there is no way."

She remembered that she said anxiously: "But if you don't care about it, it will die."

Lin He: "Well, let's ask in the community, maybe someone is willing to raise it."

The first thing Lin Zhexia thought of was Chi Yao.

At that time, Chi Yao had just entered junior high school, but he was already very tall.

The boy was also like now, squatting on the edge of the bush, and gently pulled the cat's ears teasingly.

"You can leave it at my house," Chi Yao said when he finally got up, "but you take care of it yourself, and remember to clean my house."

Chi Yao is a little bit obsessed with cleanliness. He really doesn't like cats, which are easy to cause "chaos".

But "Xiao Mi" likes him very much.

However, Xiaomi was weak, and even though Lin Zhexia took good care of her, she still couldn't last a month.

The day Xiaomi left, she cried for a long time.

She finally cried and said to Chi Yao: "I still have a lot to say to it, whether it can't hear it now."

She didn't sleep that night.

Until night, she received a message.

The person who sent the message had a picture of Xiaomi on his head. The moment she clicked on the message, she almost thought it was from Xiaomi.

Lin Zhexia still remembers what was written in that message:

- I heard you still have something to say to me

Immediately afterwards, "Xiao Mi" sent two more sentences.

- say it

-I am listening

Her originally stopped tears flowed out again suddenly, she still felt uncomfortable, as if someone was pinching her heart, but besides the discomfort, it seemed as if a hand had gently patted her head.

She curled up under the quilt and typed a lot.

- I didn't take good care of you, I'm sorry

- you next time

- You will be healthier next time, you will meet a good person, and grow up happily and healthily.

She finally couldn't help but ask.

- did you go to heaven

"Xiao Mi" on the opposite side typed for a while, and finally sent her a word.

-Ok.

…

Lin Zhexia withdrew from the memories about Xiaomi.

She looked at Chi Yao who was teasing the orange cat in the store at this moment, and then thought of Chi Yao who changed his avatar in the middle of the night to comfort her, and rarely spoke back.

never mind.

Whatever he says.

The proprietress looked about 30 years old. When she saw them coming in, she warmly greeted them: "I want to buy something. If you give a gift, you can wrap it for free. There are all kinds of things in the store. You can take a look."

Lin Zhexia took Chi Yao and went to the accessories area first.

Although I have already entered the store, the closer I get, the more scared I become.

She hesitated: "I still dare not."

Chi Yao didn't hesitate at all: "Then let's go."

Lin Zhexia tugged on his sleeve, afraid that he would really leave: "I didn't say no to fighting, I just have to prepare."

Chi Yao: "Piercing your ears, what are you prepared for?"

Lin Zhexia: "It may be very painful."

After finishing speaking, Lin Zhexia guessed what he might say, and added, "Don't say I'm cowardly."

However, she made up too slowly.

Almost at the same time she said it, Chi Yao snorted softly: "Coward."

Lin Zhexia wanted to refute that, in fact, she was not like this before.

Even if she fought with He Yang when she was a child, she would not cry if she was accidentally beaten.

But now, the older he gets, the more hypocritical he becomes.

It may be because, no matter what happens, Chi Yao will always be by her side.

And she can always tell him all about her insignificant little things.

"..."

"Three minutes," Chi Yao looked at the time, "If you're not ready for more than three minutes, don't get ready."

Lin Zhexia let out an "oh".

After she finished "Oh", an idea popped up suddenly.

"Since you don't think it hurts to have your ears pierced."

She looked at him and said, "Then you can fight with me."

The more she talked, the more she felt that this method was feasible.

"I am very scared now, but if someone fights with me, I should not be afraid."

Chi Yao raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her.

Lin Zhexia said slowly: "...It is very courageous for many people to die together."

Chi Yao ignored her at first, but she began to play tricks: "If you don't fight, I will sit in front of the store until dawn. I will be dying in the future. Before I die, I will think about this day. On this day, a certain surname Chi People rejected me mercilessly."

In the end, Chi Yao couldn't stand her because she was too noisy, so he made a deal with her: "I will only fight on one side."

Lin Zhexia thought about it, and it was a little inappropriate for boys to hit both sides, so she nodded: "Yes."

"and also."

He added, "The good thing."

Lin Zhexia didn't realize it: "What's the benefit?"

Chi Yao: "Am I an immortal descending to earth to save sentient beings, and I've suffered this for nothing."

Lin Zexia dawdled, reluctantly said: "My monthly pocket money is two hundred."

"..."

"I can give you one hundred and fifty, and I will save fifty for the rest."

She saw that Chi Yao seemed not very satisfied with this answer.

So he made up his mind to change his words: "Two hundred, I'll give you both, let's do it."

However, Chi Yao didn't buy it: "Who cares about your pocket money?"

"...?"

"How about it," he said, as if he wanted to torture her deliberately, "you call brother, and I'll fight with you."

…

Lin Zhexia was stunned.

Then she thought:

As expected of you.

Chi Yao.

Hitting snakes only hits seven inches.

Cruel and merciless, put people to death.

Lin Zhexia struggled for a while, and finally the idea of ​​piercing her ears prevailed: "Then I have to wait until you finish, in case you don't mean what you say."

After agreeing to have their ears pierced together, Lin Zhexia finally mustered up the courage.

She called the proprietress: "Boss, can you have your ears pierced?"

The proprietress smiled and said, "Okay, sixty ear piercings, do you want it?"

Lin Zhexia pointed at Chi Yao: "I did, but he hit first—he only hit one side."

The proprietress seldom saw boys coming here to have their ears pierced, so she couldn't help but look at the boy more.

The boy was wearing a school uniform, maybe it was her illusion, she always felt that her shop was brightened by that face. At this moment, the boy was accompanying the girl, and there was an obvious difference in height between the two.

"Single side is fine, just pay thirty." She said.

"For boys, choose earrings with a simpler style. How about obsidian earrings? Most boys like to wear this kind of earrings. But he should look good on anything."

Lin Zhexia felt that it was inappropriate.

In the end, she picked out a simple silver cross from the basket of earrings: "This one."

She always felt that Chi Yao was very suitable for wearing silver.

Proud, noble, and cold.

Ear piercing was much easier than Lin Zhexia imagined. The proprietress first fixed the position on Chi Yao's earlobe, and then held a sterilized device, clamped the earlobe, and "clicked" to complete the piercing.

But the simple operation does not mean that there is no visual impact.

Standing beside Chi Yao, Lin Zhexia watched the whole process of his ear piercing up close, and clearly saw how the "click" pierced through the earlobe.

The specific picture is more frightening than imagined.

Lin Zhexia's thought of piercing her ears completely dissipated after the "click".

She is awake.

After the proprietress finished typing one, she looked at Lin Zhexia: "Little girl, you..."

Before the proprietress could finish speaking, Lin Zhexia took a step back, and decisively said to the owner of the jewelry store, "Just hit him, don't hit me."

"...?"

The proprietress took the ear piercing thing and asked, "You don't want to do it anymore?"

Lin Zhexia: "Well, I think I should still listen to my mother."

On the way back, the atmosphere was silent.

The reason for this silence was that she was obviously going to have her ears pierced, but after making an appointment to do it together, she didn't.

Lin Zhexia tricked someone, and felt a little guilty.

The two got off the bus, and she finally broke the silence: "Do your ears still hurt?"

Chi Yao said in a tone that sounded indifferent but clearly said between the lines: "You will know whether it hurts or not after you hit one."

"..."

Lin Zhexia: "I didn't expect things to develop like this."

"Your head," said Chi Yao, "what can you think of."

The two walked from the station to Nanxiang Street.

I spent too much time in the jewelry store, and when I went back, the sky had already darkened a lot.

"But you are not at a loss."

Lin Zhexia explained the reason, "You look good wearing earrings, which enhances your appearance."

Chi Yao was walking in front of her, but stopped after hearing this, turned around, and sneered at her: "So I still have to thank you."

Lin Zhexia boldly continued: "Don't be so polite to me."

She didn't mean to brag when she said this.

Even though she often said that Chi Yao looked just like that, she had to admit that this person was really suitable for wearing earrings.

So suitable... She couldn't help sneaking glances at him several times along the way.

Just now the proprietress told him to have his pierced ears repaired before he could replace the temporary earrings. However, Chi Yao was not afraid of pain at all, and since he only had one side pierced, he thought it was troublesome, so he just replaced it.

At this moment, the boy was standing in front of her, his cold silver earrings made him even more sharp.

Lin Zhexia's gaze fell on his earlobe uncontrollably.

However, Chi Yao's words brought her back to her senses.

"Lin Zhexia, have you forgotten something?"

She knew that Chi Yao was talking about the agreement, so she took out the words she had prepared a long time ago: "I didn't forget, but the agreement was to fight with me, but I didn't fight. Since I didn't have my ears pierced, then Of course what I said before doesn’t count.”

After she finished speaking, Chi Yao bent down and moved closer to her.

Under the illumination of the street lamp, she could see Chi Yao's earrings more clearly.

She could even see the vertical lines on the silver cross.

Then, what she heard was Chi Yao who leaned in front of her and said, "—OK, renege on the debt, right?"

The author has something to say:

Xiao Chi: About accompanying her to get her ears pierced, I was the only one who did it.