Kawakami Mizuki

The weather was gloomy, and it seemed that it would rain at any time.

Xia Tian stood at the check-in office of the airport, looked down at the time, there was still about half an hour left.

"summer."

He suddenly heard someone calling his name behind him, Xia Tian turned around, but saw Lin Chuyi standing quietly, carrying a very familiar bag in his hand.

"You actually came to see me off." He pretended to be relaxed, but he couldn't make up for the alienation between his words.

Since childhood, Lin Chuyi has always helped him, cared for him, and relieved him.Holding his hand when he fell, comforting him when he was down, he also trusted Lin Chuyi the most and treated her like his own sister.But now, his closest person is going to marry his dearest person...

Maybe he should say congratulations.

"These are all your favorite pastries, you take them." Lin Chuyi handed over the bag with her left hand, Xia Tian lowered her head and didn't take it.

"I'm past the age of eating these sweets, I don't like them now," he said nonchalantly.

Lin Chuyi felt pain in his heart, but there was no expression on his face.After moving her fingers, she immediately suppressed the idea of ​​reaching out and rubbing the top of his hair.She kept her hand half-raised and did not let it go, and tourists coming and going looked at it strangely.

This inconstant situation made Xia Tian feel a little embarrassed, just as he opened his mouth to refuse, he saw Lin Chuyi frowning at him, his eyes were... pleading?Xia Tian's head seemed to explode with a bang.He suddenly remembered that since he was a child, he had begged Lin Chuyi countless times, and she had never refused.But Lin Chuyi begged him for the first time.

He reached out to take the bag and said thank you in a low voice.

This exquisitely crafted paper bag has the logo of "Drinking Water Pavilion" printed on it, and there is a sentence next to it: "If life is just like seeing you first, what is the autumn wind and sad painting fan?"

It's really fitting.

The two remained in a stalemate like this for a while, and when Xia Tian heard the announcement on the radio, he quickly said goodbye to her, saying that his flight had arrived, and then fled away.

Lin Chuyi was left standing alone, without even having time to say goodbye.

Lin Chuyi walked out of the airport slowly, her gaze casually glanced at the glass lens beside her.A middle-aged man wrapped in a yellow windbreaker, holding a newspaper in his hand, seems to be reading today's news with great concentration.

The place where Lin Chuyi lived was not far from here. She found a direction and walked forward slowly.Halfway through the journey, a bean-sized raindrop slammed down hard.

Instantly it rained cats and dogs.

The last rain at the end of summer came quickly and hard. It fell heavily from the sky and hit the concrete slab, splashing blooming water.The raindrops vented crazily, as if they wanted to use up all their energy to enjoy the last carnival.

The rain was so dense that Lin Chuyi couldn't even see the road ahead clearly, as if he was stuck in place.

The door was pushed open, and the middle-aged man in the room sat on a chair, habitually pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, and clasped the table with his fingers.As a superior, he has been giving orders for many years and has accumulated a backlog of control over the overall situation. Even such a small move gives people an invisible sense of oppression.

"Miss Lin left home around [-]:[-] in the morning, passed by a teahouse called "Drinking Pavilion" and bought a bag of pastries, and then went to the airport to see Young Master Xia off, and the two had a conversation." The young man handed over a recording pen, "Then Ms. Lin planned to walk home, but it rained heavily on the way, and she was drenched in the rain for about half an hour before returning home."

"A child's temperament can't make a climate." He habitually pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and sneered disdainfully, "I don't have to follow her from now on, but the third child should keep an eye on me."

"Yes."

Xia Tian walked out of the airport with a heavy suitcase alone, and stood there blankly at the gate of the airport.He looked at the hurried looks of the passers-by, but suddenly became envious.Although they are busy, they have a direction in the end, and he is the only one who wanders alone.

"Where are you going, do you want me to give you a ride?" An honest-looking man waved his hand at him and asked him in a strong dialect.Behind him is a motorcycle with a welded backseat.

Xia Tian, ​​a good student who was told not to take black cars since he was a child, shook his head decisively.

The man obviously didn't give up: "I think you should be a student brother, so I'll charge you less. One hundred, one hundred, how about it? I'm the cheapest here."

Xia Tian was silent.It wasn't because of the price this man offered, but because he suddenly remembered that he didn't know how to get to school from the airport.Some of the other people are picked up by someone; some have booked a taxi with a mobile phone; or there is a long-distance bus station a little farther from here, and you can buy tickets there.But this is the first time for him to walk so far alone, and he doesn't know that he can order a taxi with his mobile phone, let alone that there is a bus stop nearby.Besides, even if he did get to the bus stop, he would not know how to buy a ticket.

He suddenly remembered an old saying: "A thousand days is good at home, but it is difficult to go out half a step."

Because of the word "home", I felt a pain in my heart, and before I could gather any more melancholy, I was interrupted by the soliciting man: "Have you thought about it? Don't dawdle and get in the car."

The man pulled Xia Tian's wrist and was about to stuff people into his dilapidated back seat.At that time, Xia Tian didn't know that there were many small businessmen, just like the man in front of him, who immediately bought and sold by force when they saw the hesitation on the customer's face.He felt his wrist being forcefully pulled away, thinking that he had encountered a human trafficker or something, he was immediately frightened, and struggled in a panic.

In fact, the soliciting man had already made up his mind: the kid in front of him looked like a son who had never traveled far alone.When I thought that the hundred-yuan bill was about to fall into my pocket, I felt so beautiful.There is no reason for a fat sheep not to be slaughtered, how can it let people go?So the men also used a bit of strength.

Xia Tian was even more flustered, he didn't care about it for a while, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Help!"

The man was frightened by the sound of saving lives, and immediately let go of his hand, and explained helplessly: "Don't shout! I didn't do anything!" Xia Tian looked at him in panic, just as he was about to say goodbye again. While arguing a few words, someone came over and pushed him away, took Xia Tian's hand, and Xia Tian got out of the car following his strength.

"Are you all right?" the man who saved him asked with concern, his voice soft.

The man in front of him was very young, no more than 25 or [-], wearing a clean white shirt, his sword-like eyebrows made his star-like eyes even more stern, this handsome face could cause a blush wherever he put it.

"It's okay..." Xia Tian obviously hasn't recovered from what happened just now, thank you na na, "Thank you."

The man's eyes fell on Xia Tian's wrist, and he frowned.Xia Tian was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and she was raised with fine skin and tender flesh. When the man pinched her wrist, five red marks immediately appeared on her wrist.I didn't notice it in a moment of panic just now, but now I look at it carefully and it is extremely hideous.

He looked at the man coldly, and was about to speak, when the man defended himself first, "I didn't do anything! I was just soliciting a client, and he himself agreed just now! You can't blame me!"

After all, he drove away in a hurry.

"Be careful when you go out. I'll take you where you are going."

"I'm sorry to trouble you..." Although he was embarrassed to bother others, Xia Tian, ​​who didn't know how to get to the school, hesitated for a while, and felt that the man in front of him was not a bad person, so he agreed and reported the school address.

The man raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "That's a coincidence, elementary school boy."

"Ah?" Xia Tian looked at him blankly, obviously not yet reacting.

"I'm also a student at this school, currently in graduate school," he explained.

"Is that so..."

The bell rang suddenly, he smiled apologetically at Xia Tian, ​​took out his mobile phone and connected the call.He listened to the dejected complaint on the other end of the phone, answered and hung up the phone.

He smiled gently at Xia Tian: "I have a friend who is coming today, so I drove to pick him up. But he just said that the flight was delayed and might arrive tomorrow. I'll send you back first."

Summer nodded.

In fact, when you are away from home, you shouldn't trust a stranger so easily, let alone take a stranger's car.But Xia Tian went out alone for the first time, and he didn't understand anything. He only felt that the gentle attitude of the person in front of him was reassuring, so he followed.Fortunately, what Xia Tian met was indeed a kind senior.

Thanks to the senior's help, Xia Tian arrived at the school very quickly, and with the help of the senior, he solved all the internal affairs of the dormitory.The senior also left his name and phone number, and told Xia Tian that if he had any troubles, he could ask him for help.Xia Tian repeatedly expressed his gratitude, and after sending the person away, he was about to lie down on the bed for a rest, but saw the bag of pastries that Lin Chuyi had sent quietly on the table.

The scene of the four of them chatting happily together in the drinking water pavilion flashed across his mind: most of the time, he, sister Chuyi and Xiao Linchuan would discuss new desserts or weekly magazines together, with Yi Chuwen on the side Sitting silently, but whenever he turned his head to look at him, he could always see Yi Chuwen looking at him helplessly, his eyes were so gentle that people could not help but sink into them.He blushed slightly and turned back to the camp where the three were discussing, but he was a little absent-minded.

But these will no longer exist...

His eyes suddenly dimmed, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, out of sight and out of mind, and threw the bag of pastries into the trash can.