I still don't want to go to school today

After hanging up the phone, he sat in the living room for a while.When the TV was on Record, he sat down and watched an ape move from branch to branch.

His mother was on the balcony, and finally calmed down and discussed business with his aunt.Grandma listened for a while, but came out because she couldn't hear clearly, and sat on the sofa with him.

Grandma said loudly: "I went to Master Jingwu again last time and asked him to count your marriage. You know Master Jingwu, right? The one who named you when you were young."

Fu Luojia: "... I remember, but it's a bit early for marriage, isn't it?"

Most of Fu Luojia's relatives have no religious beliefs. For some reason, one of them accidentally missed his grandmother, so his grandmother ran to believe in Buddhism—a very superficial kind of belief, no copying scriptures, no fasting, and the same teachings I don't know, all related activities are carried out through this master Jingwu: buying incense, buying consecrated Buddha beads and Buddha statues, etc. - now it seems that there is also fortune-telling.

"Why is it early? You are seventeen years old, and your grandfather married me when he was seventeen!"

Fu Luojia: "..."

"Mofu Luojia is still young, don't tell him these inexplicable things! He still has to study and go to university, don't show him your feudal superstition!" His mother yelled at the living room.

Grandma kept silent, and Fu Luojia picked up a peach from the fruit plate and began to peel it.It may be because no one has eaten it for too long, and the skin is dry and wrinkled. "Do you eat?"

Grandma stared at the peach skin hanging down to his wrist, and after a while she seemed to muster up her courage and quickly said to him: "Remember, the one with the mole on the earlobe is your perfect match!"

"I see." Fu Luojia answered casually with lowered eyes.

After a while, the aunt came out expressionlessly, and his mother followed her with frowning eyebrows.

"Qingqing, are you eating here this afternoon?" Grandma asked his mother, who turned to Fu Luojia and asked, "Are you eating here?"

Emotionally speaking, grandma's cooking skills are much better than his mother's, so it's better to stay, but intellectually speaking, his mother has already said "I want to buy beef for him to stew". suitable.

"Don't bother, let's go back and eat."

After coming out of the grandfather's house, his mother went straight to the vegetable market, and he followed closely behind.When he came out of a butcher shop, he had a bag containing a whole piece of sirloin in his hand.

When his mother was negotiating with a boss selling green onions, his phone turned on.

He answered the phone, "Hello?"

"...my phone is out of battery, this is Du Ran's call."

There was something wrong with the quality of the bag, the brisket's blood dripped onto his calf, and he shivered from the ice. "Ah... are you finished?"

"It's not over. There's still a while, do you want to come? I'll pick you up."

"Now?" Fu Luojia looked at his mother's back and clutched the bag tightly.Several advertising lights selling sauces flickered around him, and there was a fresh and sweet smell of peaches in the air.

"Just for a while, there is still a cake that has not been cut. After cutting it, everyone will be dispersed. You can still go home to catch up with dinner. Where are you now?"

……

After running from the red and green vegetable market to the dark road, Fu Luojia began to adjust his breathing.

Fu Luojia thought, in the end he was finally able to simply ignore the fucking reaction—"Why are you going at this time?" Eager to respond to guilt.

He didn't know what he was thinking at first, but when he walked through a pedestrian street and saw Xu Zhijian straddling the Mermanton on one leg, he felt like he had surfaced after a long dive , the wind that brings the coolness of summer night rushes head-on-the messy rhythm finally becomes gentle and appropriate.

He felt relaxed, even happy.

"I'm really sorry, this afternoon..." Fu Luojia paused, "Wait a minute, have you drunk?" He could smell the faint smell of alcohol.

When he got closer, he also noticed that Xu Zhibian's face was slightly pink, and his eyes were also a little red. "They ordered drinks."

"wine?"

Xu Zhibian smiled brightly. "Pineapple beer."

Fu Luojia couldn't help laughing because of this smile, "Really. Then I will ride this time?"

Xu Zhibian shook his head, "I rode by myself when I came here, besides, you don't know the place."

Fu Luojia sat on the back seat and asked again: "Why are you laughing all the time?"

Xu Zhibian: "Because you are a little different today."

Fu Luojia: "What's wrong?"

Xu Zhibian: "Are you happy?"

Fu Luojia: "..."

Xu Zhibian: "Because I came to pick you up?"

Fu Luojia: "...you are very different today."

Xu Zhibian: "That's right, because I drank alcohol." His ending sound was slightly smiling, "I drank pineapple fruit beer."

Xu Zhibian parked the car outside a coffee shop.

In this county, all places that can serve tea must be equipped with organic hemp.This coffee shop is no exception, and you can hear the loud sound of mahjong when passing through the corridor. "Aren't you in Huangge? Why did you change here?"

"Huangge's stall is gone, but there's a continuation stall here."

As soon as the box door was opened, air-conditioning came out.A large cake box sits in the middle.

For a moment, Fu Luojia thought that there was no one in this box, so he felt strangely nervous.

"Xiao Jian is here!" A woman stood up on the sofa. She couldn't tell her age, but her smile was very lively. "The classmate you said you were looking for is this handsome guy?"

"Have you ordered the ice cream hot pot?" Xu Zhibian spoke in a very casual manner, from which Fu Luojia guessed that this should be a relative of the same generation as his sister.

"Order, let them deliver to the box directly." The woman looked at him, "Hey, this classmate looks familiar, has he been to our house before?"

Xu Zhibian looked over with great interest, "Have you been here?"

Fu Luojia was at a loss, "...I don't know."

Xu Zhibian smiled, "I should have been here, if you remember him."

"I'm Xiaojian's sister-in-law." She patted Fu Luojia on the shoulder, "You can just call me sister-in-law. You are a good friend of Xiaojian, and he is very happy that you came to celebrate his birthday with him."

"Hello, my name is Fu Luojia." It is impossible to say that it is not a surprise. Hearing what his sister-in-law meant——

"Hello, Xiaojia!" She stroked Fu Luojia's hair again, "—Xiao Jian used to celebrate his birthday alone, and I was busy with his uncle, so I didn't spend much time with him. I didn't expect this year This time he told us a long time ago that he would invite a friend, and his uncle and I were looking forward to it. I am relieved when you come, you must have fun, tell me if you need anything, and I will go out first. "

After she closed the door, Fu Luojia still didn't recover.

"My sister-in-law has shares in this coffee shop." Xu Zhijian tore open the packaging bag of the dinner plate with his mouth, "She is going to be busy for a while, you go and cut the cake."

The cake is made of matcha mousse, there is no writing on it, and there are many chocolate decorations.Fu Luojia took the table knife and hung over the grove surrounded by dark chocolate, not knowing where to start. "Have you noticed..."

"Huh?" Xu Zhijian reached out and took down a road sign and put it in his mouth.

"There are only two of us, how should we divide?" Fu Luojia put down the knife.

Xu Zhibian: "...you can save some for my sister-in-law, but she is losing weight recently. Or just eat it with a fork?"

Fu Luojia thought for a while and picked up the knife again. "Cut them next to each other, anyway, you won't be able to finish them all."

Xu Zhijian pulled out another one from the fence.Fu Luojia looked at him, "Are you seventeen this year?"

"Three years old."

"..."

"Actually the same age as you. You have eaten my birthday cake before."

"Really." Fu Luojia cut a piece of cake, "Why does your sister-in-law say that you spend your birthday alone every year? Isn't there a party?"

"I didn't tell her that."

They didn't speak for a while, Fu Luojia pondered for a moment and then spoke again: "Happy birthday."

"You said it. Your memory is really bad." Xu Zhibian's eyes were bent above a white cloud-shaped cream flower.

Fu Luojia looked away, "I thought you didn't hear, you hang up too fast."

"I recorded a video when they just got together." Xu Zhijian took out his phone, "It's very lively, do you want to watch it?"

When the video was clicked, there was a lot of noise. Many people were talking at the same time, and someone could be vaguely heard singing, and occasionally there was the sound of glasses clinking.The position of the lens should be a bit off-the videographer seems to be sitting in the corner of the sofa-the karaoke stand in the picture is a white spot, and lights of various colors sweep across the distance in front, giving a few blurred Color the face.

Fu Luojia looked at it quietly for a while, and accidentally turned his head to find that Xu Zhiyan was not looking at the phone screen.

"...Who is here?"

Xu Zhibian seemed to have just come back to his senses, "Ah... I don't know——Du Ran should have come, and there are a few in his class. I drank alcohol, and my hands were shaking when I took pictures, so the effect may not be very good..."

"Are you a bad drinker?"

"I don't know. Someone handed me a glass and I drank it. He told me it was pineapple beer."

"Who?"

Xu Zhibian blinked. "have no idea."

The video went forward for a while, and Fu Luojia noticed a somewhat familiar person in white clothes, who should be a girl by appearance.She seems to be ordering songs at the karaoke station.Fu Luojia turned up the volume a bit, and the music sounded clearer among the noisy voices.

Her voice barely made it through the speakers.Fu Luojia raised his eyes and asked Xu Zhijian, "Is this Meng Yue?"

"I don't know . . . maybe I saw her there."

Fu Luojia was silent. The evaluation of "bad memory" had already been used by Xu Zhibian, and he couldn't find any other alternative words for a while.

The ice cream fondue was served after a while, it was smaller than Fu Luojia imagined, but the portion was still very good.After digging a spoonful of each color, Fu Luojia couldn't eat it anymore, and Xu Zhijian couldn't eat it after a while.

"It's not as delicious as I expected." Xu Zhibian picked it up, found a bucket and threw it into it.

More than half have never even been touched.

Xu Zhibian looked at the birthday cake.Fu Luojia said, "There are too many cakes left, otherwise you..."

"This taste is okay, take it back if you can't finish it."

Just as Fu Luojia breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Zhijian said again, "I'll give it to Hei Mi tomorrow."

Fu Luojia: "...is it a cat?"

"It's a German shepherd."