prevailing westerlies

Ten years before and after the second episode

[-].Xinghua District.

While eating French fries, Lu Yi casually inspected every corner of the family courtyard.He is only five years old, but he doesn't think he is a kid. On the contrary, he is different from his height and weight, which is far beyond his peers. He is a superhero by nature. Neighborhood law and order.

At this moment, he is conducting daily inspections.

Then he found some fat little guy hiding at the end of the servant's room.The little fat man was crying furtively.

Lu Yi turned the flashlight to the brightest setting, shone it on the child's face fiercely, and said fiercely, "Who are you! What are you doing!"

The little fat man hiccupped because of his fright, his eyes widened in fear, but he forgot to continue crying for a while, Qi Qi Ai Ai said: "I, my name is Yuanyuan..."

Lu Yi was attracted by his strange blue eyeballs, looked at them curiously for a few seconds, and said with a smirk, "Yuanyuan? You might as well call him Lan Pang. Let me ask you, why are you crying? Don't you cry?" I wiped my tears, and my eyes are blue from crying."

Yuanyuan bit her lips nervously, trying to hold back her tears: "They took my ball away, it was a gift from my mother, I just received it yesterday..." When he said this, his nose was sore up.Mom rarely bought toys for him, and he was taken away by others after only a few minutes of playing.

"The ball?" Lu Yi rubbed his nose, "Tell me who snatched it, and I'll get it back for you. Really, if you dare to play hooligans on my territory, I'll beat him until he can't find him." After finishing speaking, he Feeling that I have used several advanced vocabulary, I can't help feeling proud: "Okay, don't be sad, do you want me to eat French fries?"

Yuanyuan shook her head, and her mother told him not to eat anything given by strangers.He rubbed his eyes and asked with a strong nasal voice: "Will you really help me get the ball back?"

"Of course, I never lie. What's the point of you squatting here? Come and play with me. Ajie and the others will come out after finishing their homework. We can fly kites. You are new to the small courtyard Did you come, why haven't I seen you?"

"I'm not, I... have been at home before." Yuanyuan stood up hesitantly, "You, what's your name?"

Lu Yi saw that although he was chubby, he was a head taller than himself. He guessed that he was very young, so he said confidently: "You can call me Brother Xiaolu. Follow me from now on, and no one will bully you again."

Yuanyuan became one of his little followers in a very ignorant way.

A few days later, the two ran into the "ball robbers", who were three devil kings who were in the fifth grade of elementary school.Lu Yi went up to provoke, injuring one thousand enemies and ten thousand himself.He was beaten out of his senses, and he dragged Yuanyuan to his villa.The three young pioneers cursed a few words indiscriminately and left.

Lu Yi was ashamed and angry.Yuanyuan's face was blurred from crying, while watching the nanny give him the potion with worry, she apologized over and over again: "I, I didn't know they were so powerful..."

Lu Yi originally wanted to call him stupid, but he was out of breath, and he was too embarrassed to provoke him, so he said impatiently: "Okay, don't cry, crying makes me upset. "

The nanny was already familiar with treating the naughty young master's wounds, and put on a band-aid, and she went out with the medicine box.

Lu Yi always remembers to eat but not to play, he became lively again within 2 minutes, and vowed to Yuanyuan: "Look at it, next time I will definitely help you get the ball back."

"I don't want it anymore, you don't want to mess with them anymore."

"No! The more you endure, the more they can bully others. This time they robbed you of the ball, and next time they will rob you of other things."

"But you can't beat them." Lu Yi stared at Yuanyuan, who was too frightened to continue speaking.

Lu Yi dug out his little train from the cabinet: "I can ask someone to help me...don't worry about it, come over and let's play with this. Here, you lay the track."

Yuanyuan had never seen such an exquisite toy before, and his eyes were glued to it all of a sudden, but when he thought that he had been in this scary big house for a long time, he felt a little embarrassed: "Brother Xiaolu, I'm going home. Mom will be anxious if she doesn't see me."

"Your mother is so annoying, she takes care of you every day."

"Don't talk about her like that..."

"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it." Lu Yi pushed the locomotive in disappointment, "Then remember to come to me tomorrow afternoon."

The next day, Yuanyuan saw his long-lost ball.Lu Yi really kept his promise, and somehow got this thing into his hands.There are several more band-aids on his body, but unfortunately, a certain child was so focused on the ball that he didn't notice it at all.

Lu Yi waited for a long time, but before he got the compliment, his face darkened, and he took the ball back into his hand.Yuanyuan raised her head in surprise.

"What are you looking at!" Lu Yi said angrily, "I want to play for a few days, and I will return it to you when I get tired of playing."

Yuanyuan was very reluctant in his heart, but considering the other party's help, he agreed pitifully: "Then don't break it."

"I see." Lu Yi threw the ball to the corner, and pulled Yuanyuan out to meet up with his friends, "We are playing hide-and-seek today, don't be so stupid this time, don't you know you are fat? Such an obvious place."

……

Yuanyuan learned to be good, and hid in the small bungalow in the family courtyard where the old men played cards every day.Of course, such a secret hiding spot was beyond the imagination of a fool like him—he was dragged in by Ajie.The so-called Ajie is a fine boy who plays well with Lu Yi. He thinks that Lu Yi, who is a "ghost", really came here, and he can also use the cover of the fat boy to escape capture.

Thinking of this, Ajie cast his eyes on Yuanyuan, feeling that the other party's blue eyes were wide open, and he looked ignorant and alert, silly and funny. "Hey, little fat man," Ajie whispered to him, "don't be afraid, the little deer won't be able to find this place in a while, he must go to the corridor to search first."

Yuanyuan was still very nervous, and made a silent gesture: "He will hear."

"Impossible." Ajie didn't expect that he would dare to question his own judgment, so he stretched out his hand and squeezed his fleshy face severely.

Yuanyuan took a deep breath in pain and covered her face with tears in her eyes.It's not that he's really so delicate, it's just that he loves to cry naturally, and he will shed tears when his mood fluctuates slightly.Staring at Ajie inexplicably, he couldn't understand why he pinched himself.

Seeing that he refused to show weakness, Ajie, who had always been pampered by his family, also stared back ferociously.

The two were in a stalemate, and suddenly heard a familiar voice from above their heads: "I caught it, what are you doing?"

It's Lu Yi.

Ajie was so frustrated that he was so addicted to bullying that he forgot to hide. "It's nothing, how did you find this place so quickly?" He muttered as he stood up and walked out.

Lu Yi ignored him, and only grabbed Yuanyuan's collar who followed him out. When Ajie was far enough away, he asked quickly, "You had a good time with him."

Yuanyuan looked up at him blankly, wanting to say no, he hated him, but then thought that that guy was Brother Xiaolu's close friend, he didn't want to speak ill of him behind his back, so he kept silent.

This silence made Lu Yi even more annoyed: "Who made him touch your face?!"

"I didn't..." Yuanyuan was frightened by his tone, and the tears she had just suppressed flowed out, "I didn't, you, you often pinch me too..." He felt that he had done nothing wrong, but For some reason, Brother Xiaolu had been losing his temper with him all day long. No matter how dull Yuanyuan was, she still felt wronged. She broke away from Lu Yi's restraint with tears, and walked towards home with blurred vision.

"Where are you going?" Lu Yi easily pressed his shoulder, forcing him to stop.

Yuanyuan twisted violently twice, but couldn't get away, crying more and more, sobbing, "I'll go home, you don't like me, I won't play with you anymore."

Lu Yi was dumbfounded. He always thought that this little fat man would never resist if he was rubbed by others. As long as he gave him a little color, he would definitely correct his mistakes and recognize who is his best quality. backing.

What's the situation now?

"Yuanyuan, hey, it's alright, alright, don't cry, I... I'm teasing you, good boy, really, I'm just scaring you." Lu Yi scratched his hair, "I'll help you I want the ball back, shall we shoot the ball next time?"

Yuanyuan choked, wondering, "Don't you, don't you want to keep it to yourself?"

"No, how can it be done? Isn't this your thing? How can I be so shameless?"

……

Lu Yi tried his best to coax him back.That day, because he only caught one Ajie and one Yuanyuan in the first game, he failed very badly and was forced to be a ghost for the whole game.

[-].Sweet tea bar.

He Yihan put down the Baileys in his cup and rubbed his forehead.

His father's friend, Pascal, a foreign teacher working in No. [-] Middle School of the city, just finished answering the phone, returned to the booth, and said to him apologetically: "Aumaric, something's come up and I have to go home. Isitokaytoleaveyoualone"

He Yihan nodded, stood up and sent him outside the door, watching Pascal take a taxi and leave.He didn't go into the bar again, but went around to the deserted alley and took out a cigarette.

Not long after he returned to the city that carried his childhood, he went to the Xinghua Community, or the former Xinghua Community, but failed to find the person he wanted to see.All traces there have been erased, fortified high-rise office buildings have replaced residential buildings, and orderly commercial streets have replaced small gardens.He Yihan stayed in the cafe at the intersection. Every day, he watched people meticulously check in, work, lunch break, work, and leave work tired and dull. Every day, the person he expected never appeared.As a result, he also gradually felt tired and numb, and the expectation disappeared.

This is a small coastal city with a small population density, but at least there are more than 300 million people.It never occurred to him that he might not be able to find Lu Yi at all.He Yihan couldn't help wondering how he could be so stupid.

What to do now?To collect the student list of all high schools?Taking a puff of cigarette expressionlessly, he suppressed the fear surging up from the bottom of his heart.It doesn't matter, look slowly, you can always find it, Brother Xiaolu likes the sea so much, he can't move to other cities...

While he was thinking wildly in the alley, a hole was suddenly broken in the diagonally opposite wall.It turned out that it was a door, probably connected to the bar, and the disguise was so successful that He Yihan didn't notice it at all.A tall young man walked out of the door, frowning and answering the phone: "Good boy, I'll go back right away..." He saw He Yihan, paused for a moment, as if he didn't expect anyone here—or Masked guests.

Lu Yi was not interested in caring about why the guest was hiding outside the employee passageway smoking, his eyes stayed on the other party for half a second and then moved away.He took out the key and walked quickly to the place where the electric car was parked.

He Yihan was burned by the burning cigarette butt, and only then came back to his senses.He stared blankly at the direction where Lu Yi disappeared, feeling like he was in a dream.God knows how many times he feels like he is in a dream these days, the only difference is that this is no longer a nightmare tonight.

He remembered that those hands, the hands that answered the phone, the hands of the bartender, were so beautiful, so he subconsciously took a few extra glances.But he didn't connect them with Lu Yi at all, how dare he make such a bold and crazy assumption?But the truth is always playing with him.

Lu Yi has hardly changed, he has grown up, but his facial features are still the same as when he was a child.He Yihan was very sure that he would not admit his mistake, but... nothing came out of him, only the sound of his heart beating violently.

After standing stiffly for a moment, He Yihan reached out to take off the mask and wiped the corners of his eyes.He decided to go back to the bar to see if his unfinished drink had been taken away.