Chasing Summer

After Chi Yao finished renting the house, the winter vacation was ushered in.

Chi Hanshan and Bai Qin are both in Beijing, so he will naturally have to return to Beijing this time for the holiday.

Lin Zhexia was not used to it, after all, the two of them used to spend years together in Nanxiang Street.

"Why," Chi Yao saw her drooping mouth, "I don't want to leave."

"A little."

Lin Zhexia stretched out her hand and gestured, "But only a little bit."

But Chi Yaoneng spent the New Year with her uncle and aunt, and she felt happy for him again: "I will call you, on New Year's day, at midnight."

When she said this, she rolled her eyes and smiled.

It was the same as every time I spent Chinese New Year with him before.

"it is good."

"You want to watch the year with me." Lin Zhexia said aggressively.

Chi Yao still said "OK".

Before parting at the station, the two of them stuck together and talked for a while. He Yang dragged his luggage and stood beside them waiting for them: "Have you finished speaking? .”

"The holidays are only a few days away, so what?"

"If you insist on doing this, you want me to stand by and wait, have you considered me?"

Chi Yao seemed to think what he said was ridiculous, put away Lin Zhexia's look that you were right in everything, and raised his eyelids slightly: "Consider what you are doing."

He Yang: "..."

He Yang: "How can we say that we are also good brothers."

"I am a person," Chi Yao admitted confidently, "I forget friends when I see sex."

He Jiji cast his eyes slowly on Lin Zhexia, as if saying silently, "You just take care of him".

At this moment, Lin Zhexia showed the characteristics of male and female friends who are consistent with each other. She said slowly: "I'm sorry, I am too."

He Yang closed his eyes.

Desperate.

"Cut it off," he said mournfully, "I don't want to be friends with either of you."

Lin Zhexia and He Yang returned to the community with their suitcases.

As soon as she got out of the elevator, she bumped into Wei Ping who was pasting up Spring Festival couplets.

Wei Ping: "Come back, put your things away, I'll carry them in for you."

Lin Zhexia handed him the bag in his hand, and introduced: "Some local... specialties in Lianyun, although I don't know why as a local, I want to buy some local specialties, maybe because it is more likely to go home for the New Year atmosphere."

Wei Ping approved her solemnly: "Your thinking makes sense."

Lin Zhexia: "Yes."

Wei Ping: "It's just Chinese New Year, so it's good to have a taste of local specialties."

Lin Zhexia: "I think so too."

This conversation was heard by Lin He at the door. Lin He was busy tidying up Lin Zhexia's bedroom. It had been unoccupied for a long time, and the sheets and quilts had to be replaced with new ones. Her voice came from afar: "It's a head—Qian There are too many and no place to spend, right? Chi Yao didn’t stop you from buying some local specialties.”

Lin Zhexia: "..."

After living under Lin He's hands for so many years, she was already immune to Lin He's scolding.

It's still cold this winter.

There is snow and frost hanging outside, and red ribbons.

On New Year's Day, Lin Zhexia began to prepare red envelopes for others.

"I'm still a child," she protested before wrapping up the red envelope, "...Aren't college students students?"

"Are you embarrassed?" Lin He asked her back.

"I'm sorry."

But no matter what she said, she still made a few red envelopes for the other children who were coming to visit later.

The first person to come this day was the little brother who came to their house to pay New Year's greetings. The boy has grown a lot, and the first thing he said when he entered the door was, "Where's your brother, isn't he home today?"

Lin Zhexia knelt down and stuffed the toffee and the red envelope into his hand: "Happy New Year, but that's not my brother."

The boy said, "Thank you, sister," and then asked, "It's not your brother, it's yours."

"He's my sister's boyfriend."

The word is obviously out of line for a boy his age: "What do you mean by boyfriend?"

Lin Zhexia thought for a while: "Boyfriend means...a person who my sister likes very much and wants to be with him all the time."

The little boy said "Oh": "Then I also have a girlfriend."

Lin Zhexia: "Who is your girlfriend?"

Little boy: "Iron Man."

"..."

"Iron Man is not your girlfriend."

"Why not? I like him very much, and I really want to be with him forever."

Lin Zhexia let out a sigh of relief, and decided not to continue chatting with him on such an over-the-top topic: "How did you do in the final exam? How many points?"

This time he obviously did not do well in the exam.

Unlike the previous two years, he no longer took the initiative to blew his grades.

The little boy took the initiative to end the topic: "The chat is over, thank you sister for the red envelope, I have to rush to the next one."

"..."

After the little boy left, Lin Zhexia slumped on the sofa and sent messages to Chi Yao to complain.

- just last time, do you remember

- I said you're not my brother, you're my boyfriend

-At the end of the chat, he said Iron Man was his girlfriend

-…

-never mind

- he's just a kid

Chi Yao came back very quickly, probably being greeted by his parents as well.

-Tell him that not everyone grows up to have a girlfriend

Lin Zhexia replied with six points: …

Fortunately, the person has left.

Fortunately, this year's Chinese New Year, he is not here.

Otherwise, he might say nonsense to these children.

After a while, Lin Zhexia went to the kitchen to help Lin He cut the fruit. After cutting the fruit, he poked Chi Yao again: What are you doing?

"What are you doing" between lovers is about equal to "I miss you".

It is rare for the two to be separated, and Lin Zhexia said this sentence more frequently today.

- Reciprocity

- I'm telling the kid next to me that I have a girlfriend

Lin Zhexia made up the picture: What do people say?

- she said 'I didn't ask you again'

- 'There's something wrong with you'.

Lin Zhexia leaned against the kitchen door and suddenly laughed.

It seems that falling in love will make people do a lot of childish things that they would not do normally, such as she explaining to a little boy what a boyfriend is, for example, a person like him who has always been indifferent to children will take the initiative to talk to others Talked to, but was still disgusted.

After dark, the walking relatives all dispersed, and the Spring Festival Gala came to an end and entered the countdown stage.

While the hostess on TV shouted "Are you ready to countdown to the new year with us—" at the same time, Chi Yao made a video call to her.

The first thing that appeared in the video was not his face, but a pitch blackness. Just when Lin Zhexia wanted to ask, "Why can't I see you?", there was a flash of light in the pitch blackness, and then, countless fireworks shot up. high altitude.

"Coward," his voice came through the video, "watching the fireworks."

Lin Zhexia didn't buy fireworks this year, and the people who used to set off fireworks with her are gone, so she doesn't have the heart to go out to set off by herself. And this year, fireworks are banned in some areas of Lianyun, so it is rare to be quiet outside.

Beijing is really quite different from here.

The whole city is empty and vast, and the dialects spoken by the people around are also quite different from Lianyun's.

After a while, after the fireworks were over, she saw Chi Yao's face in the video.

"Have you had your hair cut?" Lin Zhexia asked, "It looks a little shorter."

Chi Yao let out a "hmm".

Then he continued talking to her: "Have you collected the New Year's money?"

In the video, Lin Zhexia did not respond for a long time.

She suddenly became a little stiff, she seemed restless, and the smile on her face became awkward.

Chi Yao realized something later, so he tilted his head slightly, and as expected, he saw the faces of Chi Hanshan and Bai Qin leaning towards the screen of the phone.

Chi Hanshan: "Don't be so stingy, let me and your mother take a look."

Chi Yao: "..."

Lin Zhexia made some adjustments before timidly raising her hand to greet them: "Hi, Uncle and Auntie."

Bai Qin's face was still the same as in memory. The woman had been in the mall for many years, showing a sense of shrewdness. Obviously, her facial features hadn't changed in any way, but at this moment, the shrewdness faded a lot, and a soft feeling appeared.

As she said hello, she wondered how she looked today.

Just now the sitting posture was fairly correct.

As for the hair, it's been laid out on the sofa for so long, so it's not messed up.

…

It wasn't until Chi Yao went to a place where no one was around with her phone in her hand to continue talking to her that she came back to her senses: "They don't dislike me, right? Was my behavior embarrassing just now?"

Chi Yao: "No, they like you very much. I like you too."

At the end, the two said to each other almost at the same time: "Happy New Year."

She hung up the phone, only to realize that she hadn't answered Chi Yao's question about New Year's money just now.

She didn't receive lucky money at all this year.

Originally, this was a small thing that was not worth mentioning.

But she can "make trouble for no reason" to Chi Yao and express her grievances.

She was only halfway through her protest against the New Year's money, and before she could fully edit and post the paragraph in her hand, the phone vibrated lightly.

["Boyfriend" transfers money to you. ]

Lin Zhexia deleted what she wanted to say word by word, and finally sent a question mark.

Boyfriend: New Year's money found this year

Boyfriend: hand it in

Boyfriend: Anyway, the salary will have to be handed in in the future, so let's practice it in advance.

After the new year, the holidays seem longer.

Lin Zhexia, Tang Shuxuan, and Chen Lin made an appointment to get together. At first they talked about what happened in school, why Tang Shuxuan had a suitor recently, Chen Lin almost failed at the end of the semester, and they talked about Lin Zhexia Before she could say anything, the cell phone beside her rang first.

"Who is it?" Chen Lin asked.

Lin Zhexia didn't even look at it: "Chi Yao."

Then she took two bites of the cake in front of her, and then unlocked the phone in front of them.

Tang Shuxuan and Chen Lin were caught off guard and saw the note [boyfriend].

Tang Shuxuan: "..."

Chen Lin: "..."

"No." After a long time, Tang Shuxuan recovered her voice, "Are you two really talking? Were you joking?"

"..."

Lin Zhexia: "Who would make fun of this?"

Tang Shuxuan: "It's mainly you and Chi Yao..."

Tang Shuxuan said, "How could it be possible to be together", but she suddenly, when a certain point turned around, she suddenly thought, why it is impossible for them to be together.

The two of them are the closest people to each other in this world.

After dating Tang Shuxuan and Chen Lin, the vacation became even longer.

After she finished her vacation homework, she remembered the message Chi Yao sent during dinner that day, saying that she had returned to school early.

So Lin Zhexia lay at home for a few days, but couldn't hold back anymore, and discussed with Lin He: "Mom, I'm planning to go back to school. I don't have much to do here, and it's annoying to see me all day, how about me?" Give you back your cleanliness, I'll go back to school first."

Lin He: "I think you think I'm annoying, you think I'm always nagging you at home."

Lin Zhexia: "...you can understand it this way."

Lin He gave her a white look, but he didn't stop him: "If you want to go back, go back first, you have nothing to do if you stay at home every day."

Lin Zhexia originally thought that when Chi Yao said that she was "back to school", she subconsciously assumed that the school dormitory could now be moved in, so she packed up her things and bought a bus ticket back to Lian University. However, when she dragged her suitcase and walked to the door of the women's dormitory, she was a little dumbfounded when she saw the tightly wrapped iron chains and the lock hanging on the door.

"Auntie," she stopped and asked when she saw the cleaning person nearby, "Is the dormitory closed?"

The aunt glanced at her: "Girl, you won't be allowed in until it's time to go back to school."

"..."

Lin Zhexia dragged the suitcase, squatted at the door of the girls' dormitory with the keychain in his hand, and took out his mobile phone to send a message to Chi Yao.

- are you really back at school

Chi Yao replied her with a "?".

Lin Zhexia typed: Is the door of your boys' dormitory open...

She didn't send it out, but looked down at the keys in her hand, saw one of them, and then realized: he has a place to live, and he doesn't need to live in a dormitory.

"I'm at the door of the girls' dormitory now," Lin Zhexia finally pressed the voice button and said word by word, "You may have to come and pick me up."

Half an hour later, Lin Zhexia stood at the door of his rented house.

Chi Yao carried her suitcase and pushed open the door: "Why don't you go in."

Lin Zhexia dawdled: "Oh."

The house that Chi Yao rented was one bedroom and one living room, with only one bedroom. The decoration was bright and clean. Walking in from the door was the entrance.

In her previous conception, she would occasionally come to his house to sit for a while as before.

Now she moved in by accident, and had to live until the start of school, which was completely beyond her expectations.

After entering the house, she took out the things in the suitcase: "Is there still room in your closet?"

"Have."

Lin Zhexia started to move the clothes in her suitcase, and she carried a few coats over first.

When she turned back again, she saw Chi Yao squatting beside her suitcase, trying to help, his hand turned over a sweater that was folded on top, and was about to pick it up together with the clothes underneath.

"Wait," Lin Zhexia wanted to rush over, but there was still some distance from the suitcase, so she could only blushed and shouted, "...don't take that."

But she spoke too late.

Because Chi Yao paused his hands, and touched something on the next floor.

very soft.

It has lace trim.

There are also thin straps.

He had picked it up with his fingers, and the underwear was immediately exposed to the air. It was white, very simple and plain.

It looked a lot like the one he had accidentally hooked on in the kitchen.

Lin Zhexia walked over, squatted on the other side of the suitcase, grabbed the underwear and put it under the sweater, and said to himself, "You didn't see anything."

"I'm not blind."

Chi Yao seemed to find it interesting, pinched his knuckles, and lazily commented: "...It's pretty cute."

…

Lin Zhexia's face turned red.

He wanted to say small.