hold you in my arms

On the way back, Lizhi said cheerfully, "I'll take you to eat delicious food."

"What to eat?" Although Jiang Nie felt that it was getting late, he couldn't help but have something to eat.

"You'll know when you get there." Li Zhi made a fool of herself, she felt that Jiang Nie must have never been to this kind of place.

Li Zhi got out of the car one stop ahead of time with Jiang Nie, and the two came to a small alley.The more Jiang Nie walked, the more strange he felt, the place became darker and darker, and gradually the surroundings were pitch black, with low brick walls and dilapidated residential buildings rising up.

The light from overhead was dim, and Nirvana was frightened. What is this for?She tightly clutched Lizhi's arm, almost hanging on her body.

Lizhi looked down at Jiang Nie, leaning against her with her little head covered with black hair, and could even feel her hot breath through her shirt.Lizhi couldn't help but feel her heart beat faster.

"Are you afraid too?" Jiang Nie's head happened to be very close to her heart, and when he heard the bang bang bang, he thought that Lizhi was also afraid.

"No."

Of course it's not because of fear, it's because of you.

"Then..." Just as Jiang Nie was about to ask her why her heart was beating so fast, she was attracted by the light in front of her.

Turning this corner, there is an old-fashioned residential building complex. There are many stalls around the residential building, and the old high-wattage lights are shining.Once the simple shed is set up, you can set up a stall to sell things.

Lizhi led Jiang Nie directly to a stall. The stall owner was very old and his movements were slow, but this still didn't stop people from coming to eat at his stall. The small tables in front of the stall were almost full of people.

"Grandpa, as usual, two servings!" Li Zhi found a seat and Jiang Nie sat down, then shouted to the stall owner, holding out two fingers.It seems that she is an old acquaintance here.

"Lichi is here!" A voice that sounded no longer young but powerful came through the crowd.

"Yes!" Lychee replied, showing off. "I even brought someone here!"

"Very good, ha!" The voice sounded a little happy.

"Do you often come here to eat?" Jiang Nie looked around, there were all kinds of people, those in suits and leather shoes, unkempt, gorgeous, and plain-faced, these people were all Jiang Nie had never had close contact with.

"Well, my family lives in that building," Lizhi pointed to a building in the residential buildings across the street. "It's an old neighborhood."

"What is this for?" Jiang Nie looked at the big pot in front of the stall owner, steaming and steaming up, and a pair of old rough hands were stirring with a large spoon.

"Noodles," Lizhi replied, after thinking about it, it wasn't all noodles, "There are also pancakes, meatballs, and so on."

"En." Jiang Nie nodded, seeing that the old stall owner had already arrived with noodles.Peeling off the mist, this is an old man with slack and dark skin but still strong. He is wearing coarse clothes and a yellowed white apron full of oil stains. A pair of old hands put two bowls of noodles firmly on the In front of the two girls.

"Aren't you alone today? The little girl is beautiful." The old stall owner put down, wiped his hands with the white towel around his neck, his wrinkled face was squeezed together by a smile, and squinted his eyes to look at Jiang Nie.

"Yeah." Lizhi blinked and nodded with a smile.

"Eat well, both of you, call me if you need anything." The old stall owner no longer bothered the two of them, he saw the clean little girl brought by Lizhi.

As the old stall owner walked away with healthy steps, Jiang Nie looked down at the bowl of noodles in front of him. In the clear white noodle soup lay a ball of noodles neatly, dotted with scallions.Jiang Nie hadn't eaten such a thing for a long time, and he really had a huge appetite hooked up, and he picked up a piece of noodles and ate it in his mouth, um~~satisfied.

"You guys are very familiar." Jiang Nie asked.

"Well, I have been eating here since I was very young. At that time, this place was still very prosperous." Lizhi looked around, seeing the sparsely lit buildings around her, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Jiang Nie didn't speak, just looked at Lizhi quietly, what was this girl thinking, the corners of her mouth curled down, looking up at the sky.Lizhi recalled when she was a child, groups of children ran around chasing boys on this road, sat under a big tree and played house as a father, and rolled in the mud with boys; Look at the clouds floating below, and when it rains, step on the water in the puddle to play.But, because of that incident, everything changed...

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that the lychee didn't move for a long time, Jiang Nie, who didn't know how to comfort others, put the chopsticks on the lychee bowl.

"No, I don't want to, eat." Jiang Nie's voice brought back the litchi in the memory.

"Your basketball team is going to the finals, isn't it?" Jiang Nie wanted to find a topic to divert Lizhi's depressed mood.

"That's right, I will go to the city center gymnasium to compete next Friday." Li Zhi swallowed the noodles and answered vaguely.

"Will you go?" Jiang Nie asked.

"Of course, I'm the main force!" Lizhi raised her arm, showing off her muscles.

"Then you have to work hard." Looking at Lizhi, Jiang Nie let out a little smile, and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Of course my dream is to fight all the way up and become the champion." Speaking of this, Lizhi's eyes sparkled.Jiang Nie felt that Lizhi really liked basketball, and the smile on his face couldn't fool anyone, "Come on."

"Of course! Of course!" Li Zhi was so excited that she wished she could go to the competition now.

"When did you start playing basketball?" Jiang Nie was a little curious.

Lizhi tilted her head and thought about it, "Well—— from a young age, I played with my brother when I was young, and when I watched him fight, I followed suit."

"Do you have an older brother?" Jiang Nie asked Lizhi.

"Yes, very annoying brother." Li Zhi thought for a while, and felt that the word annoying was very suitable for her brother.

"I also want to have an older brother." With an older brother, maybe someone will replace her hard work and face Dugu with her.

Li Zhi saw a trace of envy flashing in Jiang Nie's eyes, "Then, my brother is your brother."

Jiang Nie didn't say anything else, and quietly ate the noodles. It would be great if my brother would let me.

Lizhi swallowed a big mouthful of noodles and had a flash of inspiration. "Will you come and see me play basketball?"

Jiang Nie bit off the noodles and swallowed them before replying, "Yes, all of us in charge will go that day."

Li Zhi was very happy when she heard the first half of the sentence, but she was a little disappointed when she heard that she was there because of work.Anyway, it's good that she can go.

Jiang Nie lowered her head and continued to eat her noodles, eating one to the end before picking up another, one by one, slowly, without rushing.As for the lychee, he gulped down the noodles and drank the soup, and the bottom of the bowl was gone. When he looked up, he had only eaten half of it.

Lizhi put down the bowl, stared at Jiang Nie, and picked up the noodles with her small mouth, one after another.It was the first time for Lizhi to see someone eating like this, and she felt that Jiang Nie's cute and cute appearance really tickled her heart.

Jiang Nie raised his head, just met Jiang Nie's eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly avoided, throwing the lychee bowl away, it was empty.She won't just keep looking at me after eating. "you?"

"Hey." Li Zhi smiled embarrassedly, being discovered.

"I'm full, let's go." Jiang Nie was also quite helpless, and he was embarrassed to say anything, but it was still embarrassing to be stared at by others for eating.

Lizhi stacked the two bowls together and sent them to the old stall owner, and the two chatted for a while.Jiang Nie watched from a distance, the old stall owner said something, which made Lizhi grin, Jiang Nie felt that he envied this girl, but he couldn't say what he envied her for a while.

Lizhi didn't want to keep Jiang Nie waiting for a long time, and ended the joke with the old stall owner.Seeing Lizhi walking this way, Jiang Nie turned around and picked up his schoolbag, picked up Lizhi's schoolbag, and smiled involuntarily.

"Bring this little girl next time!" The old stall owner called with a loud voice.

"Understood!" Lizhi turned around and waved to the old stall owner.

"Let's go." Lizhi stood behind Jiang Nie and poked her head over.The hot air sprayed on Jiang Nie's ears and neck, itchy and weird.The alarm bell was ringing in Jiang Nie's mind, and he kept repeating this sentence in his mind: alarm, alarm, too close to a dangerous person, alarm, alarm...Jiang Nie stood there until he was pulled away by Lizhi.

On the way home, the conversation between the two of them was very simple. Li Zhi talked to Jiang Nie without saying a word, and the two walked to the gate of Jiang Nie's house.

I saw the uncle sticking his head out from the duty room, staring at the litchi, as if he wanted to eat her.Not to be outdone, Lizhi stared back. "I won't send you in. I almost got into a fight with this person this morning."

"Ah?!" Amazement was written on Jiang Nie's face.

"I want to go in and look for you, but he won't let me!" Li Zhi gave the uncle a vicious look.

The uncle poked his head out from the duty room, pointed at Lizhi's nose, and began to scold, "You man, are you allowed to enter this community! You are not the owner, so if I ask you which building you go to, you don't tell me. Let you in!"

"Hehe." Li Zhi spat at him unconvinced.

Seeing that Grandpa's face became ugly, Jiang Nie quickly said, "I'm sorry, Grandpa, I think she must have been frozen and wanted to go to my house to warm up, so she wanted to go in. It wasn't on purpose. Is it?"

Jiang Nie winked at Li Zhi, Li Zhi knew that he was right about this matter, and he didn't want to hit someone in front of Jiang Nie, "Yes—" Li Zhi dragged his long voice, and said reluctantly.

The uncle snorted coldly, turned his head back, and stared straight at Lizhi.

The corners of Jiang Nie's lips drooped, "What's going on?"

Seeing this, Lizhi muttered in a low voice. "Who knows that your community does not allow outsiders to enter, so I will..."

"Did you wait a long time this morning?" Jiang Nie asked with a relaxed expression.

Lizhi waved her hand and said, "Fortunately, I just don't know when you will come out, and you will arrive early."

"I leave the house at 6 o'clock every day, so don't come too early." Jiang Nie sighed, it was her own fault.

"But I don't know if you are on time." Lizhi said aggrievedly.

"If I leave early, I will call you." Jiang Nie thought for a while, then took out her mobile phone, "Mobile phone number."

Lizhi's eyes are shining, her heart is full of joy, her... her... her... mobile phone number! "Wait a minute" Li Zhi began to frantically look for the phone, finally found the phone from under the bag, and handed it to Jiang Nie.

"You can tell me your mobile phone number, and I'll call you." Jiang Nie said while typing in her mobile phone number.

"Yes." Li Zhi scratched her head, thinking that she was really happy and silly.

Jiang Nie returned the phone to Li Zhi, "Don't do this next time."

Lizhi nodded, took the phone, and called Jiang Nie. "Ring~ring~" Nie's cell phone vibrated, an unfamiliar number, Jiang Nie looked at Li Zhi who was dialing the number on the phone, and swiped the screen of the phone.

"Hi." Jiang Nie said softly.

Lizhi heard this response from the phone, the sound was so close and so far away.The person in front of him, fingers running through the loose hair, the phone is next to the ear.She watched herself quietly, and Lizhi felt that this moment was extremely beautiful.

Jiang Nie hung up the phone and waved to Lizhi. "I am leaving."

Lizhi also waved to Jiang Nie, watching Jiang Nie's figure gradually disappear, and then looked at Jiang Nie's mobile phone number, typed the word Jiang Nie seriously on the phone, and disappeared into the night on a bicycle.