SAYE

When Pan Zhi's phone call came, Jiang Cheng was still asleep as if he was about to hibernate. The phone sang for a long time before he answered the phone in a daze: "...Huh?"

"Fuck, I knew it," Pan Zhi said, "open your dog eyes to see what time it is."

"It's four o'clock?" Jiang Cheng woke up, and held the phone up to his face to check the time, but his eyes were still blurry.

"It's 03:30!" Pan Zhi said, "I knew you would be like this, so I called you in advance."

"In time," Jiang Cheng sat up, "I'll wait for you at the exit of the station."

"Which exit?" Pan Zhi asked.

"There's only one exit in total." Jiang Cheng glanced out the window. Through the window that was so dirty that it looked like frosted glass, he could see that the weather was fine today, and it was shining golden. "Hang it up."

After putting on his clothes and getting out of bed, he felt much more comfortable, except that he didn't get enough sleep, the uncomfortable feeling yesterday that he was so upset that everyone wanted to grab him and beat him up was gone.

Calculating the time, I have been sleeping since yesterday afternoon until now, it has been a whole day, and I feel a little fluttering when I walk.

Li Baoguo was not at home, and he didn't know where he had gone.

Jiang Cheng felt that this "home" was quite miraculous. When his mother was about to retire, Li Baoguo rushed over several times even though he didn't want to meet him.

Now that people have come over, Li Baoguo is no longer in the state of begging for nothing and wanting to take his son back.

As for the legendary one brother and one sister, they haven't seen each other for two days.

Jiang Cheng had no interest in his new "home", nor did he have any expectations, but whenever he opened his eyes every day, he was alone in this lifeless room, and it still didn't feel good.

If this house wasn't a building, he would have thought it was a century-old house, inside and outside the house, there was a sense of decay everywhere.

This was also the reason why he didn't want Pan Zhi to live here. Compared with the exquisite and clean room with the piano, Pan Zhi had to howl for two or three days.

In fact, even if he didn't receive a family to live in, just the appearance of the east station, it is estimated that Pan Zhihao will be able to stay for a while.

"Fuck," Pan Zhi was dragging a big suitcase and carrying a big bag, and he was emotional the moment he met him, "I can't accept this place!"

"Then you go back," Jiang Cheng pointed to the ticket office at the station, "Hurry up, buy a ticket."

"Brotherhood!" Pan Zhi said, "I dragged a bunch of things all the way to see you! Shouldn't you be moved!"

"I'm so touched," Jiang Cheng said.

Pan Zhi stared at him, and after a while he opened his arms: "I really miss you a little bit."

Jiang Cheng went over to give him a hug: "I don't care about it."

"Do you know why you only have me as your friend?" Pan Zhi let go of him.

"I know," Jiang Cheng nodded, "You two."

He has quite a few friends, but they are all dispensable ones. They hang out together, hang out together, hang out with each other when it comes to small things, and scatter when big things happen.

Only Pan Zhi, although he only knew each other in the third year of junior high school and was in the same class in high school, and it has not been three years, but he is iron.

The only thing he missed after coming to this small broken city was Pan Zhi.

"Master, do you know the place?" Pan Zhi asked as soon as he got into the taxi.

"Can you not recognize me?" The driver said with a smile, "Our hotel is the best here."

"You're pretty picky." Jiang Cheng glanced at him.

"Do you need to choose? The room in his house is the most expensive." Pan Zhi took out a lighter from his pocket for a long time and put it in his hand. "Do you like it?"

Jiang Cheng looked at the lighter, the style he liked, bare and without any decorations, only two letters were engraved on the bottom, he leaned closer and stared at it: "What is it engraved on? Police?"

"J, C, your initials," Pan Zhi said, "cool."

"...that's really cool," Jiang Cheng put the lighter in his pocket, "How many days are you staying?"

"Two days," Pan Zhi sighed, "school is about to start."

"Why are you sighing at the beginning of school?" Jiang Cheng said.

"It's annoying, class exams, homework papers," Pan Zhi frowned, "I don't have to work hard to learn anything like you, and I won't sigh if I don't go to class and get in the top ten."

"Who says I don't take too much effort?" Jiang Cheng gave him a sideways glance, "It's not like you didn't know when I was revising all night."

"It's useless if I stay up for ten nights," Pan Zhila sighed again, "Damn it, I know why I miss you so much. Once you leave, no one will show me the answer to the exam!"

"Let's drop out of school." Jiang Cheng said.

"What about human nature?" Pan Zhi glared at him.

Jiang Cheng smiled and said nothing.

Pan Zhi was not satisfied with this small city, but he was satisfied with the hotel. He went into the room, checked the bed, toilet and bathroom: "It's okay."

"Let's go eat something." Jiang Cheng looked at the time, "Go eat barbecue?"

"Well," Pan Zhi opened the suitcase, "I have other presents for you."

"Huh?" Jiang Cheng sat by the bed and responded.

"Guess first?" Pan Zhi reached into the box and took a look.

Jiang Cheng glanced into the box, and found that the box was full of all kinds of food in packages of various sizes, and there was nothing else to put in this situation.

"Whistle," he said.

"Damn," Pan Zhi smiled, and took out a long black leather case from the bottom, "Is it too easy to guess, or are we too close?"

"It's so easy to guess." Jiang Cheng took the case, pulled out the black whistle and looked at it, "It's pretty good."

"Susac, D," Pan Zhi said, "I bought it right, right? Is it the same as your previous one?"

"Yes," Jiang Cheng casually blew twice, "Thank you."

"Don't smash it anymore, this is a gift from me." Pan Zhi said.

"Yes." Jiang Cheng put the whistle away.

In fact, he doesn't have the habit of smashing things when he gets angry. After all, he is a person who has been educated to "restrain" for more than ten years, so he can fight and beat people, but he rarely smashes things.

The last time I smashed the whistle, it was just that I really had no place to spread the fire, and I couldn't go up and fight with my father.

Not going back tonight, he hesitated whether to send a text message to Li Baoguo or make a call, and finally chose the phone, and it took Li Baoguo a long time to answer the phone: "Hello!"

He knew he was playing cards when he heard the sound. Jiang Cheng was a little speechless. He didn't know if his mother knew about Li Baoguo's habit, but...maybe it's not a big deal compared to the family atmosphere that was ruined because of his own existence. thing.

"I have a classmate who came to see me. I won't be going back tonight. I'm in the hotel." Jiang Cheng said.

"Is there a classmate coming?" Li Baoguo coughed a few times, "Then you go play with your classmate, why are you calling, I thought there was something wrong."

"...Then I'll hang up." Jiang Cheng said.

Over there, Li Baoguo didn't say anything, just hung up the phone.

"You dad," Pan Zhi looked at him, "what kind of person are you?"

"I don't know, smoking, coughing, snoring, playing cards." Jiang Cheng summed it up.

"You smoke too, cough...who hasn't coughed before..." Pan Zhi tried to analyze, "Huh..."

"Is it annoying?" Jiang Cheng interrupted him.

"Barbecue." Pan Zhi waved his hand.

Barbecue meat was actually nothing special, but Pan Zhi enjoyed it very much, but Jiang Cheng himself was not able to eat it yesterday, after all, he was just recovering from a serious illness.

But when he came out of the barbecue shop, he still felt that he was holding on.

"You're in a bad mood," Pan Zhi said, "The pork belly is pretty good today, but you only ate a little..."

"Good eyesight." Jiang Cheng nodded. Although he wasn't in a bad mood so bad that he couldn't eat, he didn't want Pan Zhi to know that he had a fever and vomited yesterday.

"Let's take a walk for a while," Pan Zhi rubbed his stomach, "Is there anything interesting here?"

"No," Jiang Cheng said, and after thinking about it, he added, "I don't know."

"Hey, where is your new school?" Pan Zhi said suddenly, "Go and see?"

"Now?" Jiang Cheng tugged at his collar, "Not going."

"Then tomorrow, since it's a holiday anyway, and there's no one around, let's go see what the school looks like." Pan Zhi put his arm on his shoulder, "Didn't you go and see it when you went through the formalities?"

"Don't you know if I went to see?" Jiang Cheng was a little annoyed.

"Oh yes, you just came." Pan Zhi smiled.

The new life and the new environment made people upset, but Pan Zhi still brought him some comfort. In the unknown and strangeness, there was finally a familiar person by his side.

Jiang Cheng didn't sleep much all night. He chatted with Pan Zhi, but he couldn't remember what they talked about. Anyway, it was the same as when they sat and chatted on the edge of the playground before. The important thing is to have someone who can talk to yourself like this.

The two of them were confused for a while when it was almost dawn, and they were woken up by the horn of the big truck downstairs at eight o'clock.

"Fuck, isn't this the urban area?" Pan Zhi hugged the quilt, "How come the big goods can be driven downstairs to the hotel?"

"I don't know." Jiang Cheng closed his eyes.

"I have breakfast, can I bring it over now?" Pan Zhi asked him.

"Whatever," Jiang Cheng said, "Are you asleep?"

"Maybe fell asleep," Pan Zhi said with a smile, "What are your plans for today?"

"Let's go to the school for a while," Jiang Cheng said, "and then check to see if there's anything to play here, but it's probably impossible to play in winter."

"It's okay, I'm a person who pays attention to spiritual enjoyment," Pan Zhi said, "I'm here to see you, and it's fine to see you."

"If I'm going to sleep in a while, you can sit on the side with a stool and watch." Jiang Cheng said.

"Hey," Pan Zhi leaned over and stared at him for a while, "Have you not talked much in the past two days?"

"What's wrong?" Jiang Cheng yawned.

"This time I saw you talking more than before, are you holding back?" Pan Zhi asked.

"...Maybe." Jiang Cheng thought for a while, and it was true, there was nothing to say and no one to say.

Looking at the map, the school he transferred to was not too far away from Li Baoguo. As for what kind of school it was, Jiang Cheng hadn't checked it out, and he wasn't interested in inquiring about it.

The high school transfer procedures were very troublesome. From the moment his mother and father persevered in going through the procedures, he basically lost interest in everything, and he couldn't even arouse interest in fighting.

It was as if something had been sucked out of his body, and he was like a puddle of mud, finding a suitable depression to lie on his stomach to finish the job.

After Pan Zhi checked the route, he took him to the bus.

"You know, what you see on the bus is the most authentic temperament of a city." Pan Zhi said.

"Yes." Jiang Cheng glanced at him.

"Is this statement particularly philosophical?" Pan Zhi asked with some complacency.

"Yeah." Jiang Cheng continued to look at him.

Pan Zhi stared at him and looked at each other for a while: "Oh, you said that."

Jiang Cheng shook hands with him.

There are not many people in the car, and travel in small cities is obviously much easier. There is no crowding, no messy hair, no situation of being unable to squeeze into the car, and no situation of being squeezed out of the car.

"This car is much more comfortable than ours." Pan Zhi expressed his satisfaction when he got out of the car, and looked at the map on his mobile phone. "No. 500 Middle School, walk another [-] meters and turn around the intersection."

"Probably not allowed in." Jiang Cheng tugged on his collar.

"Then take a look outside and look around. From now on, your main range of activities will be here." Pan Zhi pressed his phone on him.

"What?" Jiang Cheng glanced at him.

"Take a photo," Pan Zhi said, "Yu Xin knew I was coming, so she cried and knelt and begged me to take a recent photo of you for her. I think it's hard to say no to a girl..."

"I'll give you the money." Jiang Cheng said.

"Yes." Pan Zhi nodded seriously.

Jiang Cheng looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "Shameless."

"Are you two really finished? I still think she's pretty good." Pan Zhi took two more pictures of him with his mobile phone.

"It's not interesting." Jiang Cheng said.

"Is it because she's a woman, so it's boring." Pan Zhi continued to point his phone at him like an interview.

Jiang Cheng glanced at him and didn't speak.

"I think it's better to find a girlfriend or a woman, and it's hard to find a man. The general environment is still not good," Pan Zhi put away his phone, "Don't be confused by the rotten women on the Internet. These people go to the three-dimensional Once you sprinkle it, it's gone."

"Actually, you haven't spoken for a long time, right?" Jiang Cheng said.

"I haven't talked much since I didn't see you on vacation," Pan Zhi scratched his chest, "I've been holding back from A to B."

"I'll give you a set of underwear before you go back." Jiang Cheng said.

"Here we are," Pan Zhi pointed forward, "The No. [-] Middle School...is pretty big, bigger than our school."

The school gate was open, and when they walked in, the guard glanced at them and said nothing.

"No matter?" Pan Zhi said.

"It doesn't matter if you're still upset?" Jiang Cheng squinted at him, "Is it cheap?"

"Turn around." Pan Zhi stretched his waist with a wave of his arms.

"Also..." Jiang Cheng looked around, "It's pretty big."

"That's right, our school is very expensive in the city center, and we can't expand it if we want to," Pan Zhi said. "This school is so cool, and the playground must be huge...Will you see the stadium?"

"En." Jiang Cheng responded.

He and Pan Zhi were probably most concerned about the stadium. It turned out that the school only had a few indoor basketball courts, and the football field was shoveled to make room for the teaching building. Although they didn't play football, they felt suffocated.

In contrast, the venue of this No. [-] middle school is much more comfortable.

There is a football field, and there are still a group of people playing on the field in such a cold day.

There are two outdoor basketball courts next to it, and there are also volleyball courts.

"There are indoor ones, go in and have a look?" Pan Zhi touched him with his arm.

Jiang Cheng's depression over the past few days has been significantly relieved by the campus of No. [-] Middle School. Compared with Li Baoguo's home and Li Baoguo's street, this spacious venue makes him seem to be able to finally breathe smoothly. pleasure.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and after letting it out, he patted Pan Zhi on the shoulder: "Look."

The indoor court is not too big, but there are volleyball, badminton and basketball courts, but they need to be used overlappingly.

There were people on both basketball courts, and when they saw someone coming in, they all looked over.

Pan Zhi stopped walking, Jiang Cheng ignored these gazes, put his hands in his pockets, walked slowly to a few chairs by the side of the venue and sat down.

He hasn't played for a long time, and he intends to watch others play for fun.

The people on the court looked at them for a while and then continued to play.

"Are you training for the school team?" Pan Zhi sat beside him and asked.

"No way," Jiang Cheng said, "Enthusiast level."

"Do you want to go up and play?" Pan Zhi said with a smile, "We cooperate."

Jiang Cheng stretched out his feet in front of him and shook them. Today he was wearing a pair of casual shoes.

"Hey," Pan Zhi leaned back, resting his head on his arms, "I don't know when we will be able to play together."

"Don't change the style, you don't suit this one," Jiang Cheng said, and someone on the court made a beautiful three-pointer, and he shouted in a low voice, "Strike."

The man glanced at him, smiled and cupped his fists at him.

Although he didn't play, the feeling of sitting on the sidelines with Pan Zhi and watching people play still gave him a short period of peace, cutting out all the upset and irritable plots.

As long as you don't think about Pan Zhi leaving tomorrow, he will return to his gray life.

He stared intently at the people on the field, and he didn't notice when someone came in again in the field, until several people on the field stopped and looked at the door with indescribable expressions on their faces. , he came back to his senses.

"How do you feel that there is something to watch?" Pan Zhi whispered excitedly beside him.

"What..." Jiang Cheng turned his head to look over, and was taken aback, "A play?"

One, two, three, four, five, six, six people came in.

Jiang Cheng felt that he was so surprised that his back molars almost flashed.

No, yes, okay, birds, four, and behind him is the one who bought water and charged him money, and Gu Fei, who was wearing a baseball cap, walked at the end, and the cap covered the windy notes on his head.

Jiang Cheng somewhat admired his ability to memorize faces, he could memorize all these faces when he was dizzy with fever.

In a strange city, a strange school, meeting six strangers he had seen at the same time, it was really a miracle.

Jiang Cheng felt that he was probably infected by Pan Zhi, and watched them slowly walk over with a mood of anticipating the opening of the big show.

It looked like they were here to play basketball. Gu Fei was wearing sweatpants and basketball shoes, and one of them was holding a ball in his hand.

"Da Fei?" Someone on the field spoke.

"Ah." Gu Fei responded.

"What are you here for?" the man asked.

"Come play." Gu Fei said, his tone was very calm, without any smell of gunpowder.

"...All up?" The man hesitated and asked again.

"The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled can't go." Gu Fei took off his coat after finishing speaking, and when he turned his head and wanted to throw it over to the chair, he caught sight of Jiang Cheng sitting on the chair, choked on his saliva, and stared. He coughed for a long time.

Jiang Cheng put away the expression of "wanting to watch a good show, but it ended before it started, so disappointed" on his face: "What a coincidence."

"Good morning." Gu Fei said.

"Are they together?" the people on the field asked.

"No." Jiang Cheng replied.

Gu Fei and the others left three of them ready to play, and the other three came and sat next to Jiang Cheng and Pan Zhi.

The person who collected the money sat down next to Jiang Cheng, and stretched out his hand to him: "My name is Li Yan."

"Jiang Cheng," Jiang Cheng patted his hand, then pointed to Pan Zhi, "my buddy Pan Zhi."

"Both from No. [-] High School?" Li Yan sized them up, "I haven't seen you before."

"In the future," Jiang Cheng didn't want to explain too much, "Are you all from No. [-] Middle School?"

The other two people behind laughed, perhaps not on purpose, but there was habitual mockery in their voices, Li Yan turned to look at them: "Do we look like students?"

"Who knows," Jiang Cheng was a little annoyed, "I don't have the habit of just staring at people when I catch them."

Li Yan's expression turned a little ugly, he turned his head to look at the people on the court, and ignored him.

The people behind probably didn't feel the atmosphere between them, someone said: "Da Fei is a sophomore in high school."

"Oh." Jiang Cheng replied.

What a coincidence.