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Li Fan can probably guess what Hwaseong wants to ask him. Li Fan is not a very stupid person. He knows that he is really paranoid sometimes. go black.

When he first entered high school, Li Fan took advantage of the fact that he came to a new environment, facing all new classmates, and gave himself an order, the content was roughly: don't care about his situation, don't care if you want to, anyway Just pretend to be lively and cheerful, and make friends.

Because, "People who have good friends around them are much happier than those who are surrounded by enemies." The days of being isolated by those around them are really uncomfortable. It is rare to have a new environment, isn't it?

For the past three years, he has been doing this all the time, following his death order, treating everyone well, regardless of whether he has been wronged or not, and he is very satisfied with the current "full house" situation, so, Also plan to stick to it.

But Huacheng asked him this sentence in the dead of night today, which made him doubt himself. Li Fan sneered silently, thinking: "Am I being too cheap?"

He suddenly remembered the words he said to Hwaseong: "Isn't it good to have one more friend?"

"Li Fan?" Hwaseong's low voice pierced through the air again, directly into Li Fan's ears, directly cutting off the progress of Li Fan's thinking about life.

Li Fan let out a "hmm", pulled out his hand from under the quilt, took out the pendant hanging around his neck, lifted it up, and stared at it for a long time. In the void, the shape of the pendant was roughly traced, Li Fan sighed, and finally said: "Huacheng, what is a friend?"

You said it, and I believed it.

Hwaseong's voice was still low, and Hwaseong gave Li Fan the feeling that he was a person who would not change his face even before the collapse of Mount Tai. Li Fan heard Hwaseong say lightly: "In my place, friends are nothing more than me. Treat you with a sincere heart, and hope that you will also show a sincere heart."

Li Fan put the jade ring on his eyes, and through the round hole, he seemed to be able to see the past and the future from the darkness. Huacheng's words kept replaying in his mind, but he just couldn't digest it.

After a while, Li Fan heard Hwaseong go on to say: "If you don't have much sincerity, give one less. Poland said, 'I am a friend to everyone, and I am not a friend to anyone'. I agree."

A friend to everyone, but not a friend to anyone, Li Fan understands what he said.

"Then I am also like this." Li Fan closed his eyes, and the hand holding the pendant fell on the pillow casually, allowing the pendant to slide from his face, cool, and fell to the back of his neck: " That's it from now on... good night."

Li Fan didn't know that Huacheng in the next bed couldn't help but smile: "Well, good night."

Good night, my little fool.

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In the days that followed, Li Fan never took the initiative to find Yang Kuanjin again. After all, Li Fan valued friends and hoped to make more friends, but he also paid attention to the quality of friends. He didn't think credit was too important, but he didn't need friends who could lie.

Yang Kuanjin may have sensed Li Fan's change, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to find someone. The days are like water, and the weather is getting colder. They have nothing to do with each other. This is the first so-called "friend" that Li Fan has neglected in the past three years. .

After class this Friday, Li Fan and Huacheng made an appointment to visit the old man in the bookstore.

The old man's bookstore is very secretive, and he didn't choose a secret place specially, but the outside gradually developed, and the previously lively place was covered layer by layer.

Huacheng took Li Fan through the snack street, the heat condensed with condensation, and there was a curl of water mist floating on every small stall, it was very lively.

They turned several corners, wrapped in the heat from the snack street, and came to a narrow alley. There were few pedestrians here, and the air became colder. The place passed through.

"This is a small road. You can get there quickly. The main road has to make a big bend. The urban planning we are talking about now is all about high-rise buildings outside. This place has been forgotten," Huacheng saw Li Fan following him, Quickly pointing in front of Li Fan: "Be careful with these cement manhole covers, don't step on them."

Only then did Li Fan notice the square manhole cover under his feet. The gap between the manhole covers has been polished over the years, and it is a bit big. You can directly see the sewage in the sewer. The manhole cover is uneven and rickety. High night, you can "kill".

"There are a lot of old houses here, and the alley next door is the one you went to before. There are more small hotels, so you have to take the main road from that side," Hua Cheng waited for Li Fan to catch up, and when the two walked side by side, Hua Cheng Casually said: "But I don't want to take you over there."

Hey, Li Fan thought to himself, Xueba might really have misunderstood something, but forget it, the special explanation turned out to be like a cover-up.

"arrive."

Li Fan followed Hwaseong and stopped, looked up suspiciously, only to find that he had really arrived at a "bookstore". On the dusty plaque, the words "Bookstore" are engraved in small seal characters straight to the point and without affectation.

Walking all the way, there was no sign of a "bookstore" at all. Li Fan looked around, and found that the doors were all closed, the decoration was not very good, and there was not even a small shop. Seemingly reclusive and independent, Li Fan looked at Hwaseong with some doubts.

Huacheng understood what he wanted to ask with just one glance, and said with a smile: "Grandpa told me before that a few years ago, this place was very lively. The closed buildings you see used to be open for business. But then there was no business, so it became a residence.”

"Most of the original sellers have changed their business. If you look at the snack street outside, half of them belong to them."

"Small town!" A muddy old voice came from inside the open bookstore: "Are you outside?"

"It's me, Grandpa, I'll bring my friends to see you." Huacheng shouted into the inside, and stretched his legs and stepped in.

Li Fan followed Hwaseong step by step, and his relaxed mood was suddenly replaced by a trace of nervousness, and he was not to blame. He hadn't visited an "elder" specifically for a long, long time.

"Why are you here again? Didn't you just come here a while ago?" The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, pretending to be stern and speaking to Huacheng. Li Fan clearly saw the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes piled up, and his joy was about to overflow The whole room is full.

Hwaseong may be very used to the old man's way of speaking, and put fresh lilies in the vase on the window sill: "Didn't grandma say that she likes lilies last time, so I brought you a bunch of them, but, The main thing is to bring friends to see, where is grandma?"

"Old woman! The town is here!" The old man shouted in a hoarse voice, then squinted his eyes and looked at Li Fan who was not far from the door, as if he had just discovered that there was someone standing at the door: "Why are you standing there? When you come, find a place to sit!"

The grandfather's familiar "way of hospitality" defeated Li Fan's original nervousness without a trace. Li Fan skillfully showed more than eight teeth to the grandfather: "Hi, Grandpa! My name is Li. Fan, I'm Hwaseong's classmate, just call me Xiaofan!"

When Huacheng came back after planting flowers, seeing Li Fan still standing at the door, he smiled and led Li Fan to sit in the room, and said to the grandfather, "Xiaofan ate grandma's wine glass print last time. Take him to see how beautiful he is who can make such delicious snacks."

Tsk, I didn't expect Xueba's mouth to be sweeter than mine. Wait a minute... Xiaofan?

I don't know why, when Li Fan heard this name from Hwaseong's mouth, his neck felt hot. He coughed a few times, and pretended to wipe it casually on his neck. Sure enough, his palm was icy cold, and the temperature difference was too big. My neck shivered from the cold.

At this time, accompanied by a gentle voice, an old woman came out of the inner hall: "I just made some new cakes here, and they were warmed up just now, Xiaocheng, Xiaofan, come and try them!"

Wearing an apron, the old lady put the plate in her hand on the small round table in the bookstore, squinting her eyes and smiling at Hua Cheng and Li Fan.

Li Fan suddenly realized something, took off his schoolbag, took out two red fine wool scarves from inside, walked over to wrap them around his grandparents with his own hands: "The wine glass prints brought out by Hwaseong last time are really delicious, Grandma's craftsmanship is really good, and grandpa is blessed!"

"The old man has been eating it all his life, so he must be tired of it." The old lady pointed to the cakes on the small round table, and said to Li Fan, "You should eat more if it tastes delicious. The scarf is very warm, and the young man is handsome and kind!"

Before Li Fan said "thank you", he saw the old man coming over in a wheelchair at some point, and ate a piece of rice cake with a toothpick, and said, "Who says you're tired, and you won't get tired of eating it for another 100 years. Also, what's the use of being handsome, back then, the girls chasing me lined up at the entrance of the village, Xiaofan, is there any girl chasing you?"

Granny: "Hey, you old man!"

Li Fan laughed and said, "No, I don't even have a girl chasing me, maybe she's not handsome enough!"

Hearing this, everyone in the room laughed. Li Fan looked at Hwaseong. In the past, he was an ordinary academic bully, but now he was laughing happily, and Li Fan laughed even more.

Just smiling, Li Fan tasted a trace of sourness from the laughter.

In the early winter, the lights of thousands of families are waiting for others, how can there be one for him?

He couldn't help but went up, bent down, gave the old grandma a hug, and buried his head in the old grandma's scarf. The old grandma was probably a little confused by this, and it took a long time to touch Li Fan's cropped head, and asked with concern: "What's the matter kid?"

Li Fan still didn't raise his head, his nose was a little sore now, when he finally calmed down and straightened up, he had put on a big smile: "Haha, I also want to try how warm the scarf is!"

The laughter in the room stopped at some point, Li Fan felt that he had lost his composure after all, and tried hard to make up for it, so he said with a smile: "I know that the old man is going to be jealous, so give him a hug!"

Li Fan bent down and hugged the old man again as he said that. Finally, he kept his usual smile and looked in the direction of Hwaseong: "Try how warm your coat is, too?"

Hwaseong stood up, opened his coat, curled the corners of his mouth, and said softly, "Come on."

Li Fan walked over slowly, stretched out his hand and clasped Hwaseong's waist, buried his head on Hwaseong's shoulder, Hwaseong closed his coat, wrapped Li Fan inside, and wrapped Li Fan's waist with one arm shoulder, and the other hand stroked the back of Li Fan's head.

Hwaseong gently asked on top of Li Fan's head, "Is it still warm?"

Li Fan hesitated for a while, and the word he uttered was steady and long: "Nuan——"

Huacheng and Li Fan ate snacks in the "bookstore", chatted for a while, and helped the grandfather and grandmother clean the house. Don't look at the dusty plaques outside the bookstore. In fact, the inside of the bookstore is very clean. All the books are moved to the low bookshelves, it is estimated that the grandmother often cleans.

Therefore, it didn't take much time to clean up. After a simple dinner, the two of them, the two of them, went about their own business and chatted occasionally, killing the whole night. During the period, Li Fan played a few games of chess with the old man. , Hwaseong took a book at random, and read it quietly beside him.

When leaving, Li Fan stood at the door and asked the old man, "Can I come here often in the future?"

The old man pretended to be very angry, and said with a snort, "Let's go! Don't bother me, one or two, you can't be clean!"

The old lady leaned against the door frame, put her hands on the old man's shoulders casually, and said to Li Fan with a smile: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he really wants you to come and play with him every day!"

Hwaseong and Li Fan waved to them with a smile, and came out of the alley. Hwaseong stopped a taxi for Li Fan. He didn't ask where Li Fan was going, but he still knocked on the window when the car was about to start. , asked Li Fan: "Do you want me to see you?"

Li Fan leaned on the window and said with a smile, "No need, I'm not a little girl, and there's nothing dangerous about it. Thank you for today, Xueba, then I'll go first."

After closing the car window, Li Fan gave the driver an address: "Please take me to the gate of No. [-] Middle School in City A, thank you."