soft hedgehog

"elder brother……"

Partly because of nervousness and partly because of excitement, Ji Tong's final note trembled like a kite in the wind, and the string was in Liang Yuchen's hands.

The moment before he heard the voice, Liang Yuchen was still smiling, but after seeing the person coming, the ripples of the lake faded away.

He didn't wear glasses, and the pure black oversized clothes fit snugly, holding a pair of dark brown leather gloves that had been taken off in his hands, and paired his trousers with plain non-patterned leather shoes, with a little snow on the toe.

Ji Tong looked at him obsessively, his eyes slowly shifted from the clothes to his face, and found that his brother's facial features were much more serious, probably because he lost weight again.The temperament is already that of a mature man, the youthful air has faded, and there is no tenderness and narrowness when seeing him in the past.

But the face is still the same face, and the person is still the same person.

The two looked at each other with a distance of less than two meters. One was nervous and stiff, and the other was expressionless.

Ji Tong called out again, poking his fingernails into his palm, trying to make himself feel better.

"Why are you here?" Liang Yuchen frowned, and said such a sentence when he opened his mouth.

"I……"

For a moment he was nervous and couldn't answer.

Soon Liang Yuchen recovered from the initial accident and put on a mask for himself.He took off his coat and threw it on the sofa, then turned around and went to the kitchen to pour water for himself, with his back to the living room.

Wu You next to him opened his mouth to look at him and then at Ji Tong, with a dazed expression on his face.

Ji Tong's cheeks flushed all of a sudden, and he stood there extremely embarrassed, his knuckles turning white as he grabbed his trousers, and muttered, "I'll come and see you."

The glass was placed on the cooking table, and pure water flowed into the glass, and the only sound in the room was clearly audible.

Liang Yuchen didn't take a step forward, poured water and didn't drink it, turned around, put his back on the cooking table, and just watched from afar.The setting sun sneaked in from the balcony, and sprinkled the afterglow on his face without permission, so that Ji Tong came all the way to see his facial features clearly.

Everything is strange, everything is alienated.

Liang Yuchen pressed the tie into his suit jacket, and also suppressed a certain emotion.

Ji Tong's blood was coagulated all over his body, but his heart was beating extremely fast, and he wished he could gasp on the spot.Qiangzi calmed down for a moment, then mustered up the courage to take a few steps forward, walked up to his brother and stared up, his right hand moved forward and gently grasped the hem of the suit.

"Brother, I'm Tongtong."

He sought forgiveness in the only way he was good at, and he was used to it long ago.

It's a pity that Liang Yuchen no longer buys it now.He held both sides of the collar of the suit with two hands, stretched the jacket, and easily took off that hand.

Ji Tong's hand slipped down unexpectedly.

Liang Yuchen didn't pay attention, instead he turned to Wu You: "Did you bring him back?"

Seeing his never-before-serious expression, Wu You opened and closed his mouth twice, pointed at Ji Tong with his index finger: "He said he was your friend...it's cold outside..."

"We're not friends."

Their relationship is indeed difficult to use the word friends to define.When Ji Tong heard this sentence, tears filled his eyes immediately, his rabbit-like eyes were drooping and he dare not lift them up, his eyelashes were full of water.

Wu You was stunned for a moment, then muttered in a low voice: "But you know each other, I heard him call your brother."

I also heard Liang Yuchen calling Ji Tong's name in his dream.

He felt that he had done nothing wrong, that he had suffered innocent injustice, and that he should have been praised, but he didn't understand why such a clear-cut attitude came about.

"Yes, but we haven't seen each other for a long time." Liang Yuchen calmly narrated a seemingly insignificant matter.

Ji Tong's tears piled up to the size of soybeans, and a few drops hit the floor one after another, but he tried his best not to make a sound.

Wu You shrugged and walked to the kitchen: "Anyway, knowing is your friend." After finishing speaking, he put the burrito in his hand on a plate, and just about to eat, he raised his head and shouted: "Tongtong?"

He wanted to ask Ji Tong if he would like some tasty burritos.

Ji Tong had no choice but to raise his head when he heard the words, and looked at Wu You with red eyes.

Wu You was taken aback for a moment: "You are crying."

Ji Tong immediately rubbed his eyes randomly with the sleeve of his sweater, shook his head while rubbing, and said in a low voice, "The eyes are not very comfortable."

Liang Yuchen never looked at him.

Wu You put down the plate and pulled his wrist: "Come and eat something, my sister won't be back until late today, you eat her."

"Thank you, but I'm not hungry." Ji Tong immediately refused.

The food Liang Yuchen bought for others, how dare he eat it.

"Really?" Wu You stared at him suspiciously with a fork in his mouth.

"real."

"Okay." Wu You looked at Liang Yuchen again, "I'm going to sing after eating, let him go with you."

"I'll take you there and pick you up later." Liang Yuchen said, "There is nothing important tonight."

Wu You immediately waved the fork: "How can I do that? You have guests, so I can go there by myself by bicycle."

"I--"

Ji Tong opened his mouth, and was about to say that he could just wait at his brother's house alone, but was interrupted by Liang Yuchen who turned around.

"Take a taxi and there is a hotel three kilometers north. My place is simple, so I won't greet you."

Just a few minutes after meeting, Liang Yuchen wanted him to leave before his body hadn't fully warmed up from the wind outside. Before they even discussed what to eat for dinner.Ji Tong couldn't figure it out, and stared blankly at Liang Yuchen, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Even Wu You started to complain: "He is your friend, he came to see you, you want to drive him away?"

Liang Yuchen didn't want to explain, and didn't ask Ji Tong what else to do, he just said: "Pack up your things, I'll take you down."

It seemed that it would be unbearable to spend any more time with him.The atmosphere froze, colder than the ice and snow outside.

After being silent for a long time, Ji Tong turned around and quietly put on his clothes and scarf, and finally put on his big rucksack. Forgot to arrange my brother's slippers neatly.

When he touched the cold copper doorknob, he turned his head and said thank you to Wu You.

Wu You had a regretful expression on her face, but she didn't try to keep her.

He slowly shifted his gaze to Liang Yuchen's face again, his heart was filled with thousands of words, but only one sentence remained in his throat: "Brother, I'll go first...you..."

Nothing else can be said after the word "you".Maybe it's taking care of me, maybe it's hugging me, in short, I can't add a word.

Liang Yuchen said lightly: "Be careful on the road."

He said he was sending someone down, but he refused to even step out of the gate.

Ji Tong walked out, his back was completely blocked by the size of his rucksack, only the large scarf wrapped twice was exposed, and his whole figure was like a hedgehog moving, disappearing step by step into the stairwell.

After the door was closed, Wu You said angrily to Liang Yuchen, "What are you doing, rare Chinese friend."

Liang Yuchen, who had been working all day, seemed to be very tired, and the corners of his eyes and brows were full of exhaustion.

"I won't see you off tonight," he said, "I want to rest."

—

At six o'clock in the evening, Wu You went downstairs with the guitar on his back.

He pushed the bicycle out of the shed, and as soon as he stepped on it, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a person sitting on a park bench with a familiar rucksack beside him.

Hastily stepped over: "Tongtong!"

Ji Tong turned his head to see him, and stood up too, and the two talked through the carved iron fence in the park.

"Why didn't you leave, didn't you have a car?"

It's not easy to take a taxi here in winter.

Ji Tong's skin was white, his eyes were red, and the tip of his nose was also red from the cold. There was some snow falling from the red oak tree on his body, and he looked like a snowman with a small carrot inserted into his face as a nose.

"I'll be leaving in a minute." He mumbled.

"It's so cold here, hurry up and find a hotel." Wu You was worried, "Do you want me to call a taxi for you? I have taxi a on my phone."

"No need," Ji Tong politely declined, "I've written down the number of the taxi company."

"Okay then, I should go too." Wu You hesitated for a while, then turned the front of the car and said, "take care"

Ji Tong said goodbye to him, and sat back on the bench.

After riding a hundred meters forward, Wu You always felt uneasy in his heart. He stopped his feet on the ground and looked back to see that Ji Tong's sitting posture hadn't changed at all.

He took out his mobile phone and texted Liang Yuchen: "Your Chinese friend is sitting in the park before leaving."

Just let him meddle in his own business, who makes Ji Tong a rare Chinese friend.

It's cold and slippery now, and there are not as many people going to the square as in summer.But because of this, no one came to compete with Wu You for business.He has practiced hoould you feel for a few months, and now he can be regarded as a handy housekeeping skill, and he always receives a lot of tips when he sings it out.

He took out his mobile phone to check once after eight o'clock, but Liang Yuchen didn't reply to him.

At 09:30, he rode his bicycle back. He could have gone upstairs directly, but he was still worried, so he deliberately walked around the park.There are no lights in this park at night, and there are only two street lamps far away to barely illuminate it.It was dark and cold beyond the railing, and the old oak tree, which was still fiery red during the day, looked a little ghostly now.

They never come here at night.

Wu You parked the car on the side of the road, leaning on the railing to look inside, vaguely saw Ji Tong still on the bench, and was startled.

Haven't left yet?

He shouted: "Ji Tong, Ji Tong!"

The person sitting on the bench heard the voice and stood up slowly, first stretched his legs, and then turned around and walked over.

Wu You took a closer look, who is it not Ji Tong?

"Why haven't you left yet!" He was anxious and angry.

Ji Tong's lips were purple from the cold, his hands were in the pockets of his down jacket and he didn't take them out, his eyes were swollen and his breath was much weaker: "I'm leaving now."

"What the hell are you waiting for?"

"I……"

Ji Tong pursed his chapped lips, shook his head and said, "Go up, leave me alone, I'll leave soon."

Wu You jumped anxiously on the other side of the railing: "Are you waiting for Yuchen? I'll help you go up and call him, do you have something to say?"

—

Ji Tong was indeed waiting for Liang Yuchen for several hours, not daring to leave.

Liang Yuchen chased him away in the apartment, and he really thought about leaving in a fit of anger.But after traveling thousands of miles for this trip, is it really possible to just take a look and leave?How could he be content?

He also wanted to say sorry to Liang Yuchen, the escaping back then, the ring, and many things were all because of what he did wrong.

He also wanted a hug.

A hug, just a hug, so that he will have the courage to live a few years again.

So he wandered downstairs for a long time, found a park to sit, and sent a message to Liang Yuchen——

"Brother, I'm waiting for you in the park opposite the apartment. I want to say a few words to you. It won't take you too long. I'll leave after I finish."

He was sure that Liang Yuchen would receive it, because Liang Yuchen used this number to contact Zhai Qiuyan.

It's a pity that Liang Yuchen never showed up from daytime to nighttime.The apartment windows were lit, the curtains were closed, and no one in the bedroom had even looked out.

Ji Tong waited until his body became stiff, and there was less and less hope remaining in his heart.

At this moment, Wu You offered to go up and call Liang Yuchen for him. Logically speaking, he should agree without hesitation, but he hesitated when the words came to his lips.Wu You has a close relationship with Liang Yuchen, and Ji Tong always felt a little guilty and guilty for asking him to do this.

Even though Liang Yuchen had lost his love for him long ago, he never dared to be frank with Liang Yuchen. He suddenly appeared in the lives of the two of them like this, he was a completely uninvited guest, and fighting for a few minutes was considered crossing the line.

"No need." Ji Tong said to Wu You, "I've contacted him, and if he doesn't come down later, I'll take a taxi to the hotel."

Seeing his resolute attitude, Wu You couldn't persuade him any more, so he took off the hat on his head and threw it to him from the railing.

"Wear it, it will be warmer."

—

Ji Tong returned to the bench and continued to wait.

He didn't dare to wear the hat, he was afraid that Liang Yuchen would get angry, and he didn't know when Liang Yuchen would come, so he hugged it tightly in his arms.

At ten o'clock in the evening, there was a thick layer of dark clouds in the sky, covering only one corner of the moon.His feet were so cold that he couldn't feel it, so he stood up and walked around the tree twice, and then retracted into the chair to hide from the wind.

Later, not only the feet, but also the hands and face were numb from the cold, no matter how deep I shrank into the down jacket, it would not help.

Ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock.He kept waiting, there was a little snow in the wind, but fortunately there was no rain, Ji Tong thought, otherwise he would be miserable.

Under his gaze, the window belonging to Liang Yuchen had light at first, but after twelve o'clock, it went out at a certain moment.

Then he didn't know anymore.

He felt sleepy, getting sleepier, and cold.After the light was turned off, the breath he was hanging on was relieved. He slowly put down the backpack and used it as a pillow behind his head, curled his legs into the chair, curled up his body, and trembled slightly.

He was really like a homeless man sleeping in the park, he couldn't help laughing, he was dumbfounded after laughing, he could still laugh?

The surrounding area is really quiet, but once in a while, one or two wild cats will come out to frighten the exhausted "vagrants".

Before falling asleep, he tried his best to open his eyes and looked at the sky, thinking, if only there were stars.

Don't be afraid if you have stars.