goodbye midsummer

When the sports meeting ended, it was already sunset.The sunset was burning in the sky, and under the half-dark sky, students and parents left the campus one after another.

Shen Yi and Qin Yang helped clean up the place and left late.When I walked out of the school gate, the street lights on both sides of the road were already on.A few evening stars flickered in the sky that had not yet completely darkened. There were few pedestrians on the road, and they walked side by side on the downward slope.

The evening wind blew their slightly sweaty hair, Shen Yi turned his head and glanced at Qin Yang, who had been silent all the time, and said leisurely, "Let's go out to eat tonight, I don't want to cook."

"Ah."

"Is there anything you want to eat?"

"It's all right." Qin Yang's mood was not too high, and his voice was low.

Seeing this, Shen Yi poked him in the waist: "Are you so unhappy that the two of you didn't take the first place?"

"Just tired."

Shen Yi smiled again and stretched out his hands to pinch his face: "Young people can exercise a little bit, they can't be so hopeless."

Qin Yang knocked off his hand in dissatisfaction: "You just exercised a little bit, I've been running all day."

"Okay, okay, let me treat you to a big meal."

"Is your feast at the level of Sha County snacks?"

"Hey, don't tear me down like this—"

In the road ahead, a middle-aged man came out from the darkness. Shen Yi and Qin Yang, who were fighting, glanced at him and were stunned for an instant.

The man was wearing a wrinkled coat and a black peaked cap on his head. He walked towards them with a slightly stooped look, and his face had vicissitudes that did not match his age.He glanced at Shen Yi first, then turned his attention to Qin Yang, took off the hat on his head, held it nervously in his hands, and walked up to them timidly.

Qin Yang looked at the man, and finally there was some fluctuation on his usually expressionless face: "Dad."

However, Shen Yi quietly pulled Qin Yang behind him, and he turned half sideways to block between the father and son, looking at the man with vigilance: "Uncle Qin, why are you here?"

That was Qin Yang's biological father—Qin Kai.She divorced Aunt Xue six years ago.

Shen Yi still remembers the first time he saw him, and that scene was not very pleasant.

When Aunt Xue first got married, Shen Yi heard from her father the reason why she and her ex-husband, Qin Yang's father, divorced.

It is said that Qin Kai likes to gamble, and every time he loses in gambling, he gets drunk, and even beats people when the situation is serious.Aunt Xue had been beaten several times before she divorced him, and the two often quarreled, and the marriage had long since cracked.But what really made her decide to divorce that man was when he sent Qin Yang, who was in elementary school at that time, to the hospital.

"Going to the hospital?" Shen Yi heard this at the time and couldn't help asking his father, "Is it serious?"

"I heard there was a scar." The father sighed with a cigarette in his hand, "on the back."

Shen Yi was silent and didn't ask any more questions.

At that time, he and Qin Yang were not familiar. He usually lived in school, and only occasionally went home on weekends. When they met at home, they were like strangers: they nodded and said a few polite words, and there was no deeper intersection.

He didn't have much interest in this kid who was in junior high school.

To put it bluntly, they are strangers living under the same roof.

That weekend, when he went home to collect his documents, there was no one at home.Just as he was arranging the drawers at the bedroom table, Qin Yang came back.

Seeing him suddenly appearing at home, Qin Yang seemed a little surprised, but he didn't say anything, nodded silently, and went back to his room.

That kid, seems to be the unsociable type.

I often just look at you quietly, as if I have something to say, but I don't say it.Let the other person feel anxious.

Shen Yi didn't intend to talk to him at first, he found out his pass and passport and put them in his backpack, and he planned to go back to school.

But the room next door was quiet and there was no sound at all.He came to the corridor with some curiosity, and looked from the open door opposite.

Qin Yang stood with his back to the door, changing clothes.When he took off his sweat-soaked T-shirt, he revealed a thin back, a scar nearly ten centimeters long, diagonally printed between his butterfly bones.

Shen Yi stared blankly at the scar, speechless.

He remembered what his father once said: "I heard that there is a scar. On the back."

Fortunately, Qin Yang didn't realize his existence. After changing his clothes, he sat silently at the table and started doing his homework.

It was at that moment that Shen Yicai had the idea of ​​knowing Qin Yang for the first time.At least, talk to him.He cannot be allowed to wander alone in this strange home without knowing what to do.

But he didn't know what to say to the other party. When he knocked on the door, he said without thinking: "Do you have double-sided tape?"

Qin Yang was really stunned, looked at him in surprise, and shook his head.

Where are the scissors?What about glue?No matter what he asked, Qin Yang would just shake his head like a tumbler.

Shen also knew that the child was used to being silent and tried not to respond with words.

For some reason, his pity for Qin Yang deepened.

"Why didn't I say a word to me? Don't you hate me?" He asked directly.

He shook his head unchanged for thousands of years.

Communication is so poor.Shen Yi could only helplessly scratch his hair, sighed again, and was about to leave the room when suddenly there was a loud sound of doors opening and closing outside, followed by quarrels in the hall.

Aunt Xue and Uncle Yi started arguing.

The two of them were in the room, listening to the growing argument outside.Shen Yi glanced at Qin Yang inadvertently, only to see that his face was a little pale, and he clenched his hands subconsciously.

It may be thinking of something from the past: the constant quarrel between mother and biological father.

The quarrel outside became more and more out of control. When the glass shattered with a "pop", Shen Yi noticed that Qin Yang's body trembled.

"Will they fight?" When he asked, a look of helplessness flashed across his face.The shadow of the past flashed in his eyes again.

His appearance is really pitiful, and Shen Yi couldn't help but patted his head: "Don't worry, my dad doesn't beat women. If he really hits Aunt Xue, I will rush out with you and beat him up."

Seeing that he was very disturbed, Shen Yi simply closed the door to isolate the noise of the quarrel behind the door, pulled him to the floor next to the bed and sat down, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, plugged in the earphones, and handed one of the earphones to Qin Yang : "Go on. Okay, now, what song do you want to hear?"

On that autumn day, for the first time in his life, Shen Yi wanted to protect someone so much.

As an older brother, to protect that younger brother with a different surname and no blood relationship.

The first time I saw Qin Kai was half a year after Aunt Xue got married, and it was winter.

He owed a lot of gambling debts, and the year was approaching, and the creditors came to pursue them one after another. He was so forced that he had no choice but to find the Shen family through some means. I hope that Aunt Xue can forget about the old relationship and lend him some money temporarily. Turn around some time.

On the day he found him, the adults at home were not there, only Shen Yi and Qin Yang who were at home during the winter vacation.

At that time, the relationship between Qin Yang and Shen Yi had improved a lot. Although Qin Yang still didn't talk much, he had obviously let go of his guard and was able to get along with Shen Yi like ordinary friends.

Qin Kai's visit was unexpected for both of them.

Although it was repeatedly stated that the two elders in the family were not there, Qin Kai still did not give up and rushed in abruptly.Knowing that he was here to borrow money, Qin Yang's face was very bad, his words became a little gunpowder, and then turned into a physical conflict.

The moment Qin Kaiyang was about to fight, Shen Yi pulled Qin Yang behind him.

"I've already called the police." He raised the phone in his hand and looked at Qin Kai with a stern look, "This is not your home, and I won't let you do whatever you want."

"That's my son!" Qin Kai pointed at Qin Yang angrily, "It's none of your business if I discipline my son!"

He also shouted: "This is my home! He is my younger brother! You are not qualified to discipline him here!"

It was all three years ago.

But it's not really a pleasant memory.Now after such a long time, when I saw Qin Kai again, there was no hostility in his body, more of a kind of abjection.

But Shen Yi still stood between him and Qin Yang, in a protective posture.

But this time, Qin Yang patted Shen Yi on the back: "It's okay, I'm already this old, can he beat me again?"

As he spoke, he walked up to Qin Kai and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

Qin Kai held the hat in embarrassment, and looked at Qin Yang with flickering eyes: "I... come to see you. I heard that your mother has moved to the United States, and you live alone now?"

Qin Yang watched him calmly: "I live with Shen Yi now."

Qin Kai glanced at Shen Yi, forced a smile: "Really, really trouble you, take care of Xiaoyang."

"No trouble. Qin Yang is my younger brother." Shen Yi's tone was rarely tough.

As if he didn't have anything to say, the man swallowed and said to Qin Yang: "I...go to another place, and I may not be back in the past few years. I just came to tell you, don't look for me."

After a pause, he said again: "Qin Yang, when you grow up, you have to take good care of your mother. I am useless and always make her suffer... You have to treat her well and don't make her angry... I used to treat you It's not good, you have to forgive Dad. Take care."

He raised his right hand tremblingly, as if he wanted to pat Qin Yang's shoulder, but just halfway, he lowered it without confidence.

"I'm leaving. Take care."

He turned around and left slowly with his back bent. Qin Yang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly called out to his back: "Dad!"

He stopped.

"Stop betting."

He didn't turn around, but seemed to nod.

"Stop drinking, too."

He waved his hand to show he heard it.

"Take good care of yourself."

He raised his hand, as if wiping his eyes.Then he turned his head and smiled at Qin Yang, and waved his hands in a big way.