Chasing Summer

After Shen Shanshan looked up at the light bulb, she was even more dizzy: "Do you know why I like him?"

Lin Zhexia asked, "Why?"

Shen Shanshan: "I came here with my dad when I was in junior high school. My parents divorced, so I didn't tell me on purpose, but I know it all. It was raining on the first day of school, and I fell down and stained my new school uniform skirt. .”

"Obviously I knew they were divorced and I never cried, but because of that fall that day, I suddenly didn't hold back. I stood at the school gate and cried like a fool."

When Shen Shanshan said this, her voice paused slightly: "That day, it was Chi Yao who handed me a piece of clothing."

"It's strange. Later I found out that he was a very bad person, but he handed me a piece of clothing that day."

Not surprisingly.

Lin Zhexia said in her heart.

Chi Yao is such a person, even if someone wants to approach him, he will always be rejected.

But if this kind of thing really happens, he won't ignore it.

When Shen Shanshan said this, she began to feel sad again: "It seems that I really drank too much."

She lowered her voice: "otherwise, why do you feel both happy and sad when you think of him?"

Lin Zhexia couldn't express how she felt right now.

She has always known that Chi Yao is famous, and many people have wanted to contact him.

But because this person is too doggy, most girls will change their attitudes drastically: so what if he is handsome, dogs don't want to approach him.

It was the first time, the first time she met this kind of girl who had silently liked Chi Yao for many years.

And this girl is very gentle.

His academic performance is very good, and he even squeezed into the physics competition for Chi Yao, just because he knew he would definitely participate.

Moreover, he silently stayed by his side and won the first place with him.

…

The combination of these things made her feel the weight of Shen Shanshan's "like" for Chi Yao.

It's not like saying "he's so handsome" lightly in the forum, nor is it holding the mobile phone close and saying "can I add a friend", and it's even different from those sneaky glances.

It is a kind of love that can make people move.

Lin Zhexia poured her a glass of water: "Why don't you drink some hot water."

Shen Shanshan took it: "Thank you."

After she took it, she asked again: "Maybe I will be a bit abrupt when I say this, but do you know... What kind of girl does Chi Yao like?"

Lin Zhexia: "..."

Lin Zhexia thought for a long time.

There is no content related to this question in memory, but once, she had a quarrel with Chi Yao and seemed to have mentioned this.

She couldn't remember the specific reason for the quarrel.

She only remembered jumping in front of Chi Yao: "If I find a boyfriend in the future, I'll look for a boy with a tan color, muscular, and gentle personality. Anyway, he's better than you everywhere."

Chi Yao snorted at that time, as if laughing at her daydreaming.

Lin Zhexia became even angrier after being ridiculed: "What do you mean, do you think I won't find a boyfriend in the future?"

…

She finally said to Shen Shanshan: "I don't know about this either."

Shen Shanshan: "Has he never been in love?"

Lin Zhexia shook her head.

Shen Shanshan: "Have you ever liked a girl?"

Lin Zhexia continued to shake her head.

Shen Shanshan continued to ask: "Then...maybe...the boy he likes?"

Lin Zhexia was dumbfounded for a moment: "...he shouldn't be hiding that deep."

Shen Shanshan was also silent.

After the silence, she seemed to muster up a lot of courage and said, "Let me tell you another secret."

"I may have to transfer schools, my dad's job has changed, and I will follow him to other cities to take the college entrance examination. So this physics competition should be the last intersection between me and him."

Lin Zhexia knew the meaning of the phrase "happy and sad".

Shen Shanshan held the water glass and said again: "So, I plan to confess my love to him tomorrow."

At the same time, the door of the private room was opened—

Xu Ting walked in with a smile on Chi Yao's shoulder.

The young man seemed to be covered with a slight chill in the northern night. He held a convenience store plastic bag in one hand, raised the other hand, and brushed Xu Ting's hand on his shoulder mercilessly. go down.

Xu Ting: "Why don't you accompany me out for a while, can you just smile, those who don't know think I'm dragging you out to fight."

Chi Yao still looked like you better get out of here: "If you want to get beaten up, just say so."

Xu Ting: "... Then I don't mean that."

After a while, Chi Yao sat down beside her again.

Lin Zhexia was overwhelmed by the word "confession", and didn't even notice when Chi Yao came back.

Until a hand stretched out from under the table and caught her eyes.

The boy held a lollipop in his slender hands.

"To make up the order," Chi Yao said, "I delivered it."

Lin Zhexia took it, and saw that the lollipop was wrapped in a light yellow coat, and it still tasted like lemon.

Lin Zhexia: "Thank you for giving me the things you sent me."

Chi Yao: "You're welcome."

After Xu Ting and Chi Yao came back, Lao Liu settled the bill, and the group walked back to the hotel along the sea.

Lin Zhexia was worried that Shen Shanshan would fall while walking, so she followed her for a while, but soon found that she had no other symptoms except that she walked a little slower.

Lin Zhexia walked behind the team, slowly unwrapping the candy that Chi Yao gave her just now.

The sea breeze blows in front of me.

Lin Zhexia bit the candy.

It was obviously sugar, but she didn't taste the sweetness, only felt that the sugar was sour and bitter.

"Okay, everyone go back to the room, tired all day, go to bed early."

Before disbanding, Lao Liu waved his hand and said, "Don't rush to get up tomorrow. Let's go back at night. It's rare to come to Haicheng City. You can walk around here during the day. Come and see the sea again." Walk."

Xu Ting continued to be excited, clapped and said, "That's good!"

After Xu Ting clapped his hands, he saw Lin Zhexia with a lollipop in his mouth: "Young Master Lin, what's the matter, you don't look very happy?"

Lin Zhexia was depressed for no reason while holding the candy in her mouth. After a while, she said, "I don't know, maybe I'm too tired."

After finishing speaking, she sent Shen Shanshan back to the room first, and then took out the room card from the satchel.

He kept his head down and walked forward in silence all the way. When he reached the door of the room and was about to open the door with his key card, the door just slammed open, and a hand stretched out from behind. The hand pressed the doorknob and closed the door again.

"Wait a minute."

Chi Yao's voice sounded from behind.

"?"

"Turn around," the voice said again.

Lin Zhexia turned around slowly.

The sugar in her mouth had already melted, leaving only a thin white stick. When she spoke, the stick trembled: "Why close my door."

Chi Yao bent over a little, reached out and touched her forehead.

Then he glanced at her completely scabbed knee.

"The body temperature is normal," Chi Yao withdrew his hand, "Go in."

Lin Zhexia realized that because she said "too tired" just now, Chi Yao was worried that she might catch a cold if she was blown all the way by the sea breeze outside.

"I'm very strong," Lin Zhexia emphasized, holding a thin stick in his mouth, "It's not the same as when someone was blown by the wind and went to the hospital when he was young."

Chi Yao is not as good-tempered as when he tested her body temperature just now.

He directly reached for the room card in her hand, and then swiped the door open: "Three seconds, disappear from my eyes."

"..."

After returning to the room, Lin Zhexia took a shower, and then called Lin He.

"Chi Yao won the first place, congratulations for my mother," Lin He said on the other end of the phone, "You learn from others, don't be rash all day long, and don't focus on your studies."

Lin Zhexia: "Praise him if you praise him, don't hurt me by the way."

Lin He chatted for a few words before changing the subject: "Your Uncle Wei and I are in the prairie. The scenery here is really nice. Have you seen the photo I sent you? Next time I will take you for a stroll..."

Lin Zhexia listened, "Yes" several times.

After hanging up the phone, she found herself lying on the bed and couldn't fall asleep.

The girl was a little shy but mustered up a lot of courage to say the words that still lingered in her ears:

—I plan to confess my love to him tomorrow.

Before Shen Shanshan said these words to her, she never thought that one day Chi Yao would be with someone else.

She picked out the sentence and repeated it in her mind:

Chi Yao.

one day.

And will. others together.

This cognition hit her hard like a nameless monster that had never broken into her world.

She spent too long with Chi Yao.

And for such a long time, there has never been anyone else.

This was the first time she felt that there might be someone else between them.

But why is she sad.

Why do you feel so sad.

A kind of breathless, stuffy and bloated sadness.

Lin Zhexia didn't sleep well that night, when Chi Yao called her the next day and asked her if she would go to see the sea in the afternoon, she answered drowsily.

"Who else is there?" She was a little slow in responding before remembering to ask, "If there is Lao Liu, I won't go, I'm a little afraid of him."

Chi Yao: "What are you afraid of?"

Lin Zhexia: "Because he is the teaching director, students in class seven like me are under psychological pressure, and people in class one like you will not understand."

"..."

Chi Yao reported a series of names.

At the end of the report, Lin Zhexia heard him say the word "Shen", and then got stuck, before pronouncing the person's name: "Shen Shanshan."

Lin Zhexia couldn't help asking: "Are you familiar with her?"

Chi Yao: "?"

Lin Zhexia: "...Oh, because I heard that you are also classmates in junior high school, so I just asked casually."

After speaking, she was a little afraid to hear the answer.

After all, if they participated in the competition together, they would be more or less familiar with the others.

"Forget it, you don't need to answer me," Lin Zhexia said hastily, "I want to get up, so I'll hang up first."

Lao Liu didn't come to the beach with him.

They were the only students from the second middle school who took the car from the hotel to see the sea.

Shen Shanshan is wearing a white skirt today, with her long hair draped over her head, which is much more eye-catching than yesterday when she wore her school uniform for dinner. This skirt suits her very well, making her look more gentle.

Standing beside Chi Yao, she mustered up the courage to say something to him.

Chi Yao also replied to her.

The two stood together, looking very right.

Lin Zhexia was told by Lin He that she didn't look like a girl since she was a child.

It is true that I have been among the boys for many years, and I feel a little restrained in front of this kind of gentle girl in a white skirt.

She glanced at the unisex Taobao T-shirt on her body, and a pair of pants that were very comfortable to wear.

Then, caught off guard, Xu Ting slapped him from behind: "Why didn't Young Master Lin leave?"

Lin Zhexia blurted out: "You don't care about me."

Xu Ting was stunned for a moment: "You have such a hot temper today."

Lin Zhexia quickly adjusted: "I just want to slow down and feel the sea breeze. I think the fast-paced life like now makes people walk too fast, which is not good."

"Take a walk, you have quite a lot of insights."

"One has to be good at thinking."

Xu Ting: "That's right, you need to experience life more. Don't be like those two."

When Xu Ting said "those two", he pointed to Chi Yao and Shen Shanshan who were in front of him: "They're all at the beach, and they're still chatting about yesterday's physics problem."

Lin Zhexia whispered: "...so they were talking about physics problems."

Xu Ting didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"I said," Lin Zhexia raised her voice, "he is indeed more eager to learn than you."

"Come on, that's called self-torture."

Xu Ting's aim has always been to entertain while teaching, "I don't want to continue studying physics after the competition. When it's time to relax, I should relax."

"By the way," Xu Ting changed the subject again, "When we get to the beach later, let's stay away from them first."

Lin Zhexia: "?"

Xu Ting: "I don't know the details, but Shen Shanshan said that she has something to say to Chi Yao alone. Anyway, she asked me like this."

"Could it be a confession," Xu Ting guessed, "Shen Shanshan seems to like Chi Yao quite a bit, and she has something to say alone, tsk, other than confession, she needs to be alone—"

Lin Zhexia knew that Shen Shanshan would confess her love to Chi Yao today.

But I never thought that I would choose the beach, nor did I think it would be now.

She thought it would be in a place with fewer people and more privacy.

Her mind was in a mess, and she ignored Xu Ting, but Xu Ting regarded her as someone who could gossip with her, and kept talking: "Speaking of it, I think they are quite a match, and they both like physics and have a common language Very important."

"Chi Yao doesn't have many members of the opposite **** around him. With his personality, he's just you, but you should be considered a buddy, not a member of the opposite sex. Anyway, Shen Shanshan is one of the rare opposite sexes. At least they are still in the same competition. What about the team—hey, Young Master Lin, why are you walking so fast all of a sudden, wait for me."

Lin Zhexia: "You're a bit annoying, it's affecting my walk."

She didn't want to hear Xu Ting talk.

If there was poison at hand, she would even choose to poison him without hesitation.

After she walked to the beach and found a quiet place to sit down, her mind was still in a mess.

She thought wildly: Has Shen Shanshan confessed her love?

Will the confession... be successful?

Shen Shanshan could impress her last night.

Will Chi Yao be moved in the same way when he confesses his love?

Time passed minute by minute.

Xu Ting searched around before finding her. Just as he sat down beside her, he saw Lin Zhexia standing up abruptly and asked him, "Where is Chi Yao?"

Xu Ting was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the opposite side: "Should be over there with Shen Shanshan..."

As soon as he said the word "ba" in his mouth, Lin Zhexia had already run out.

This beach is very long and divided into several areas. Now it is a small holiday period, and the beach is crowded with tourists.

The scorching sun shone on the sparkling sea, refracting too dazzling light.

Lin Zhexia passed through the bustling crowd and ran towards the opposite beach with difficulty.

She knew she was impulsive.

She doesn't even know what she's doing.

She knew that she should not bother Chi Yao and Shen Shanshan no matter what.

But until this moment, no matter how dull and inexperienced she was, she finally had to admit that she had the most secret thought in her heart, which she had never dared to admit.

There are still many tourists standing in front of her.

A little anxious and flustered, she kept looking for Chi Yao's figure in the crowd.

At this moment, the whole world seemed to be muted.

The wind by the sea, the noise of the crowd, the yelling of vendors—all of these were far away from her.

Only the voice from the bottom of my heart became clearer:

She didn't want Chi Yao to be with someone else.

Lin Zhexia passed through the most densely populated place, and came to a remote and uninhabited corner.

When she found Chi Yao here, Shen Shanshan was no longer by his side.

In the corner of the seaside, only a boy in a black windbreaker was sitting alone on the edge of the beach. He didn't adapt to the crowd, and sat with his legs bent, his back showing a strange feeling. The seawater was blown up by the wind, and there was a "crash" sound on the reef. In the distance, the seawater that had just ebbed was about to rise again.

Chi Yao heard her footsteps, turned his head, and asked her aloud, "What's the matter with you."

Lin Zhexia stopped, panting, looking very embarrassed.

Chi Yao still had the familiar tone: "Are your legs ready? Let's run a marathon by the beach."

"..."

Lin Zhexia didn't answer his question, but instead asked, "Are you sitting here alone?"

Chi Yao said indifferently, "There was another one just now."

"Then... what about her?"

"I think it's noisy, let her look at the sea in another place."

Lin Zhexia knew that Chi Yao would not tell her about Shen Shanshan. After all, a girl muster up the courage to confess her love, which is not something that can be discussed in private.

But she also reacted immediately, and Chi Yao didn't agree.

She was bent over, standing less than five meters away from Chi Yao, her heart beating so violently that she could hardly breathe.

She finally found out that she already had the answer to the question Chen Lin had asked that day.

It's really not like what Chen Lin said, it's not because of growing up, or because he realizes that Chi Yao is a boy.

It's because I like it.

Because it is too familiar, it has been ignored for a long time, it happened quietly, and I liked it without knowing it.

The rapid heartbeat when speaking in the auditorium was not due to nervousness, the red ears when wearing a scarf was not due to the hot breath, and the abnormality on the day of the sports meeting was never due to the sweltering heat.

Lin Zhexia believes that there are countless other moments like this.

Countless moments that had been ignored by her.

Turns out she never understood.

This is like.

The world is spinning at this moment.

In a certain moment, it seems to turn back to the temple surrounded by cigarettes a few days ago, back to the century-old tree, and back to the sentence mentioned by others inadvertently.

— If you like someone, you will definitely find out.

Her affection for Chi Yao didn't come with much fanfare, it was more like the sea water that had gathered bit by bit over the long years, and she didn't realize it until the high tide was about to submerge her silently.