Flight of the Bumblebee

"Look what I bought!"

He Qi took out a few packs of fairy sticks and small cylindrical fireworks from his bag, and Xing Yan walked over to take another bag containing drinks and snacks from him, and asked what was in his hand: "What is this?"

"fireworks."

"This is the fireworks?" His eyes seemed to say: This is not the same as the fireworks I expected!

He Qi glanced at him, and pretended to be embarrassed: "I don't know, I haven't seen it before, little country bumpkin..." He put the cylinder of fireworks on the ground, touched his pocket, and found nothing. find something.Then he stood up, walked into the room, took out a lighter from the briefcase that Xing Yan had just put away for him, and lit the fuse on the fireworks.Xing Yan was still holding the two shopping bags he stuffed, and stood there stupidly watching the fuse being ignited, He Qi hurriedly pulled this idiot who didn't know how to escape away from the fireworks tube.

The burning lead hissed, and when it burned down it went silent.Xing Yan wanted to go up to see what happened, but was stopped by He Qi: "Do you want to die? If you take two more steps, the spark will burn your eyebrows!" On the day of sacrifice, I was responsible for lighting that kind of large-scale fireworks, but there was no response after the fuse was burned out, so the distant relative stretched his head over to see if it was a squib. With a sound of "Boom!", the fireworks shot out of the tube, his eyes disappeared, and he was instantly submerged in the sea of ​​flames.He heard many such stories when he was a child, and every time he was terrified.

He Qi thought that in the future, he would tell Xing Yan all the stories that scared him when he was a child, so that he could deeply experience the ghost culture of ancient Chinese villages.

At this moment, the flames sputtered out, He Qi remembered that he didn't turn off the lights, and he was about to run to turn off the lights on the roof when he was stopped by Xing Yan.

The small firework tube can only shoot out a radiant firework a little over one meter high on the spot, and it will gradually go out after a while because the firework burns out.Xing Yan's face was illuminated by the fire, and he smiled involuntarily. He looked very excited: "This...what is this called?"

Why pretend to know it well: "Little Fireworks, what's the matter? Didn't you play it when you were young?"

"No!" He turned around, his eyes sparkling.

"Cut~ no childhood..." He Qi said that deliberately, he broke free from Xing Yan's hand that had been holding him tightly, ran to turn off the light, and took out the bought firework sticks from the bag, like showing off his own toys Showing it in front of Xing Yan, he explained: "This one is called Fairy Wand, and this one is called Hot Wheels. I never remember its name. This one is called... why are you looking at me like that?"

He Qi noticed Xing Yan's eyes, and he asked.

"We haven't eaten yet." Xing Yan lowered his gaze and looked back at him with his head down.

"Oh, I forgot." The feeling of hunger came out, and he said, "Have you cooked?"

Xing Yan turned his neck slightly, motioning him to look back. It turned out that dinner was ready and they had been waiting for him to serve.He Qi noticed that Xing Yan had changed his clothes, which was not the one he wore in the morning.

"Did you take a shower?" he asked.

Xing Yan nodded, he exuded the refreshing smell of shower gel, blowing towards He Qi in the evening wind.

"Are you tired from work?" He Qi can also guess that Xing Yan usually doesn't take a bath so early, he must have sweated a lot after work, so he changed his sweaty clothes early, he is comparable to He Qi's mouth People who are obsessed with cleanliness love cleanliness.

He nodded again.The two remained squatting on the ground, and there were fireworks and firecrackers that children would play in the middle. Others might think it was weird for two adults to do this, but neither of them thought it was anything.

"So tired, are you still in a hurry to make dinner?"

Xing Yan didn't want to admit that he dragged his exhausted body and ran up the long slope. The afterglow of the setting sun made his back feel hot, and all he cared about was making dinner for He Qi.Saying it is like asking for credit, but it happens to be the case.He didn't want He Qi to think that he was useless, but he complained on the first day of work, and everyone wanted to look handsome in front of his sweetheart.

"I……"

I'm not tired, but how tired can I be on the first day of work?From now on, I will do the housework and cook dinner for you. You don't need to worry about it at all.

As soon as he uttered the first word, He Qi's warm hand gently placed on his short cut hair, stroking his slightly long and smoother hair, and said softly: "It's amazing, I'll make dinner for you in the future." , anyway, you get off work early, and the work place is close."

After he finished speaking, he stood up, sat on the stool by himself, picked up the bowl that Xing Yan had given him a long time ago, saw that Xing Yan was still squatting on the spot like a big dog, and couldn't help but yelled: " What are you staring at! Don’t you want to eat dinner? I can eat it alone!” He also made a quick gesture of picking up the rice, as if if Xing Yan didn’t eat, he really wanted to finish all the food on the table by himself.

With his back on his back, Xing Yan sighed secretly, and stood up from the ground in one go. He heard the muscles in his whole body screaming, and the expression on his face twitched a few times.Turning around, he sat across from He Qi with an expressionless expression.

"I'll give you some medicine for bruises later, you're in such a miserable situation." He Qi said with his cheeks stuffed, and mumbled.It turned out that he had found out.

"It doesn't hurt at all." You can see that he is still trying to be brave.

"Then show me how to jump up there." He Qi pointed at the space on one side with his chopsticks.

"..." Xing Yan was speechless.

"Don't worry, I scraped my father's neck when I was in junior high school, and it won't hurt you. Do you know scraping?"

As expected, Xing Yan shook his head blankly.

"Well... you'll know later, but it's not scraping, anyway, I'm very good."

Hearing his shameless boasting and self-selling, Xing Yan bought it very much, and nodded desperately convinced.

He Qi took a few mouthfuls of rice, and suddenly knocked on the bowl with chopsticks, with an expression of wanting to lecture.Xing Yan raised his head buried in the bowl, waiting for his answer.

He had a weird expression, and his tone seemed to have deep meaning: "You...what's the matter with that text message in the morning?"

"Huh?" Xing Yan didn't know what he was referring to, "What's going on?"

He Qi smiled: "Who is the lovely young lady? Is she pretty? How did you talk to her?"

He buried his head back, and said in a sullen tone, "I don't know who you are talking about."

"It's the lady at the cashier who sent text messages for you. Why did you forget it before the day passed? What a bad memory! Tell me, how did you manage to talk to her?"

Seeing his full of interest, Xing Yan felt uncomfortable at all.

Not cute, not pretty, not liking, not remembering.

He really wanted to say that.

Sometimes I think you're really hateful.

He still wants to say that.

Xing Yan's neck was about to fall into the bowl, but he refused to raise his head to look at He Qi to answer, but said in a low voice and unhappy tone: "I don't know how to type Chinese characters, so I asked someone to ask, and I forgot what I looked like." , I don’t know whether it’s fat or thin.”

"Tsk." He Qi smacked his lips in dissatisfaction, "You are so ruthless. Fortunately, I was worried that you would have trouble with your colleagues in the new environment. It's useless to worry about it."

Xing Yan only heard the second half of the sentence: "You worry about me!"

"Aren't you afraid to talk to strangers? Healed without medicine?" He Qi's ironic tone sounded completely kind and kind to him, full of tender care, his hairy short hair popped out of the bowl , happily replied to him: "I'm fine! You don't need to talk to others to move things!"

Even He Qi was surprised: "Why are you so happy for no reason?"

Xing Yan really smiled, and the stupidity on his face spread across the table, making He Qi feel cold behind his back, and kept leaning back, as if he was afraid of being infected by him.

After the meal, it was still Xing Yan who put away the bowl. It seemed that He Qi would not feel sorry for his sore muscles on the first day of work, so Xing Yan moved the table into the house without complaint.The light in the stairwell suddenly turned on, because it was voice-activated, so He Qi heard the footsteps of two people going upstairs, turned his head from the chair, and Niuniu was being led upstairs by her mother.

"Have you eaten yet?" Sister Wang greeted him.

"Eat, have you eaten yet?" He Qi stood up and faced them, just as Xing Yan was coming out of the room.

"Brother Ayan!" Niuniu broke away from her mother's hand and threw herself into Xing Yan's arms, letting him pick her up.Sister Wang smiled gently, and she also held a bag in her hand.

"Are we going to set off fireworks?" Niuniu asked while hugging Xing Yan's neck.

"Let it go, Brother He Qi bought a lot of fireworks."

"My mother bought a lot too."

Before eating, Xing Yan put He Qi's fireworks on the ground into a bag, and put the bag on the wall.He Qi walked over, picked up the bag from the ground, and held it up to Niu Niu: "Look, we have it too."

"Let me see what you bought." Sister Wang took his bag and gave him the one in her hand.She opened the bag and took a look: "It's the same as what I bought!"

He Qi also opened her bag, looked at it and said, "It's really the same..."

They both looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

Sister Wang asked, "Did you buy it at the store that sells stationery and groceries outside the street?"

"You too?"

Sister Wang smiled and said, "It seems to be the only one."

Niuniu got off Xing Yan, ran to He Qi, opened her mother's bag, took out a pack of fairy sticks, and said coquettishly to He Qi, "I want to play with this."

He Qi couldn't bear her cute tone, and said dotingly: "Play this, just play this, just wait a moment!"

He happily put the bag on the ground, took out a lighter from his pocket and lit the fairy stick in Niuniu's hand, a string of dazzling flames emerged from the root, she screamed and waved the fairy stick in her hand, and ran across the roof with.Sister Wang followed her with a worried face, and kept yelling: "Be careful, don't burn your clothes!"

Looking at this scene, He Qi couldn't help laughing.

Xing Yan walked up to him, also holding a fairy wand in his hand. He imitated Niuniu's tone and said to him with a suppressed smile, "I want to play with this too."

He Qi glanced at him in disgust, and planned to hand him the lighter in a vicious voice, leaving Xing Yan alone, but when he saw his smiling face, he obediently lit the fairy stick for him .

Unlike Niuniu, who waved his arms to let the flames draw circles in the air, he stood there quietly, watching the fireworks in his hand gradually go out from Manli's dazzling combustion with a smile.The light of the fire illuminated his face, and also He Qi's.Fireworks are so lonely, only when they are ignited can they have this moment of splendor. Once the firework is burned out, the surroundings will return to darkness, leaving only embers on the ground. When the wind blows, there are no traces left.

When the afterglow of the firework stick in his hand faded, only He Qi noticed the expression on Xing Yan's face for a moment.

It's probably his first time playing this.

Niuniu was running on the roof with the fireworks in her hand. She was so happy today that she didn't even listen to her mother's reprimand.Sister Wang told her not to run so fast and be careful not to get hurt, but she seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with her mother, holding a firework stick and calling Xing Yan's name loudly: "Ayan Ayan! Look, I am a magic princess!"

He Qi put the fireworks tubes that Xing Yan let go before on the ground and returned a few. He asked the others to back out of a circle. Niuniu covered her ears in fear in her mother's arms, and Xing Yan stood aside wondering watch.

He Qi first lit a fairy stick, and then used the fire on the fairy stick to quickly light the fuses on the fireworks tube one by one.After finishing these, He Qi jumped back to Xing Yan's side.The fuse burned extremely fast, and all the fireworks tubes sprayed out yellow flames at the same time, lighting up the dark roof, making a hissing sound, like a campfire, sparks splashed, and the jumping fire light shone on each of them .

The most excited one was Niu Niu. She bounced and clapped her hands on the ground and said to her mother, "Mom, look! It's a star! The star has fallen!"

Her mother handed her two fairy wands, which she waved in her hands, watching the firelight until it faded away.Xing Yan lit a fairy stick for himself again, he seemed to be fascinated by this toy, holding one in each hand, turned to look at He Qi, showing a childish smile.

I can't stand you.

He Qi smiled helplessly.

They quarreled on the roof for a while, until the two bags of fireworks were all lit, the neighbors downstairs yelled and complained, and the fire almost failed to attract the passing police.The two of them stood at the stairs and waved goodbye to Niuniu's mother and daughter. Niuniu leaned on her mother's shoulder and whispered good night to them, and Sister Wang also said goodbye.When the hour hand reached eleven o'clock, Niuniu yawned and fell asleep on her mother's shoulder.

In the lit stairwell, Sister Wang said thank you to them, it was nothing to say thank you so sincerely.Niu Niu was already sound asleep, her mouth was pouting, her small face rested on her mother's thin shoulders, breathing evenly.Sister Wang's attitude was very strange. She raised the corners of her mouth and showed a shallow smile, and said to them: "Thank you for taking care of Niuniu these days. Especially you, Xing Yan. You should be older than me, and I should Call you Brother Ayan." He Qi couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard this sentence, Brother Ayan, he joked: "What are you doing, Miss Wang called you Brother Ayan!" He poked Xing Yan's arm.

"Stop making trouble." Xing Yan shouted in a low voice, but his tone sounded soft, and there was no threat at all.

After Sister Wang left, it was time to go to bed. He Qi lay on the bed and couldn't sleep because of excitement.He turned to Xing Yan, looked at his back and called softly: "Xing Yan!" When he called out for the third time, Xing Yan finally responded: "What's the matter?"

"Turn around first."

He turned around, and He Qi's eyes were shining brightly in the dark room.

"Tell me, how about having Sister Wang and Niuniu come up to have dinner together in the future?" He Qi suggested enthusiastically.

"Are they willing?" Xing Yan's voice was low and full of tiredness.

"Go and ask tomorrow."

"tomorrow is Saturday."

"Do you work on Saturday?"

"There are shifts in the morning and holidays in the afternoon."

"I won't work overtime tomorrow, let them come up for dinner in the afternoon, I'll do it."

"It's been a long time since I ate the food you cooked."

"It's not like you haven't eaten."

"Tomorrow at noon... I'll go to the store to ask when I come back..." Today is really exhausting, Xing Yan's voice is getting lower and lower, and there is no sound at the back.

"I'll pick up Niuniu downstairs in the morning... Are you asleep, Xing Yan?"

"..."

"have you slept?"

"..."

At the third call, there was a faint reply from the opposite bed, and then the night fell silent again.He Qi turned over, stared at the dark tin roof for a while, and then gradually closed his eyes.