Plaid shirt and star armor

"I knew you were here."

Cen Jingming turned his head and smiled at the visitor: "Thank you Yu Xiao, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to contact such a private hospital by myself."

"Be polite to me," Yu Xiao said in an unbearable tone, and glanced at him, "How about eating hot pot?"

"Call Xue Chong."

Only then did Yu Xiao show his posture, resting his hands on the crook of his elbow, tapping his fingertips, and said, "You have a problem that I really hate, you know, that is, you are too soft-hearted - there is no need to live so hard from the beginning! Why do you regard other people's choices as your own fault?"

"In this world, everyone has to work hard," Cen Jingming looked at him calmly, "Yu Xiao, you have a strong temper and smooth sailing, so it's hard to understand that there are still many painful pains that will last forever. Of course, anyone who has never experienced it personally , so we can’t talk about absolute empathy... But after seeing it with my own eyes, I always wonder if I can help a little.”

Yu Xiao felt stuck in his throat, and after a long while, he could only sigh, imitating the other party's example and pressing his body against the rusty guardrail.

Cen Jingming was smoking, and there were already a lot of cigarette butts on the concrete platform under the railing, with a piece of flattened tissue paper on it.When he was so distracted, he was still paying attention to the details, and he didn't want to cause any trouble to others, so Cen Jingming deserved to be Cen Jingming, and it was probably easy for him to miss seeing his truly laid-back and fascinated appearance.

This is an abandoned balcony of more than twenty square meters.Soon at six o'clock in the evening, although the days are getting longer in mid-spring, the usual quota is almost exhausted, and the sky is dark blue.The orange-red firework in Cen Jingming's hand trembled, and the dust fell down. In this withered tone, Yu Xiao still felt that he was as moist and bright as the white keys in a row of black keys.

For Yu Qiu's incident, if it were Yu Xiao who saw that there was no way ahead, he would turn around and look for other areas, but Cen Jingming couldn't just watch others being dragged into the abyss of ferocious beasts.

"It's up to you, it's been more than three years, it still hasn't changed," Yu Xiao patted him on the shoulder, and said, "But you have to eat! Let's forget about hot pot, let's go out later and find a place to eat and make a long-term plan. I want Go and contact a few media friends."

"You have to be more careful," Cen Jingming thought about it, and said, "Yu Qiu...is a girl after all."

Yu Xiao smiled wryly: "Is it possible for me not to know about the mob's urination nature? Naturally try to avoid what can be avoided—but, Jing Ming, there are some things she has to face, including you, you all have to be mentally prepared."

Cen Jingming nodded.

"Let's go!" Yu Xiao waved.

Still so busy.This friend of his hates trouble the most, but if he makes a move, he will persevere in helping him to the end.

Cen Jingming narrowed his eyes and smiled. He lowered his hand and let the cigarette burn out slowly. The bracelet Fu Qianshu gave him slid down and hit the iron rod with a crisp bang.His thoughts and affairs today were all messy, and he couldn't even say a few words to the other party properly. I hope he won't be too angry.

Thinking of Fu Qianshu gave him strength.Bracelets, necklaces, rings – it's no wonder people love rings like these.Cen Jingming fiddled with the kapok on the bracelet, let the bracelet wrap around his sleeve, and pushed it inward seven or eight centimeters piece by piece until he couldn't go any further.It was this feeling, like an elastic rubber band, pushed forward slowly and slightly warmly, finally wrapping him firmly.

He took a deep breath, and for a moment, Cen Jingming picked up the rubbish on the stage, held it in his palm, walked back to the aisle, and walked towards Yu Qiu's ward.

+ + +

"Is the socket behind your back?"

The girl sitting on the bed nodded and moved aside. Cen Jingming smiled apologetically, and connected the charging cable to the phone that had automatically turned off.Green bubbles started to pop up in the center of the screen. He thought for a while, and instead of rushing to start it, he put it upside down next to the potted plant on the bedside table.

Cen Jingming pulled the chair over, and Yu Qiu sat upright again. She was making origami cranes out of small colorful pieces of paper, and each time she finished, she put them in a big glass jar.She seemed to be completely immersed in it, but her back was stretched like a string stretched to the sides as far as it could go.Amidst the heaviness in the air, he even had the illusion that he heard a dangerous clang a few times.

He knew that Yu Qiu must have something to say.

"I haven't had time to say thank you to the senior." After a long time, Yu Qiu said.

There used to be a saying that life is like a mustard. Even with the development of modern medicine to the current stage, the human body is still fragile, and when the oil is exhausted, sometimes it may be in a blink of an eye.She was pulled up from the edge, her bones were broken, the scars on her wrists were like deep ravines, wrapped in thick gauze.As soon as Yu Qiu lowered his head, the profile of his face and the hair on his forehead blocked his eyebrows and most of his outline.

She wasn't like that back then.Do your best to stay away from the grill when you have a barbecue, because the heating charcoal fire may damage the contact lenses you wear.Those who don't want to wear frames are said to be dull.Even if the tears are smoked, I will turn my head and wipe them off first, eat small bites of food, and wear a white sweater throughout the whole process and remain spotless. "Trying to maintain the image" is probably the prerogative of the little girl, proud and troubled.

Cen Jingming's Adam's apple twitched.

"I want to thank you too," he said, "How long have we not been in touch, Xiaoqiu?——You are still willing to tell me about the critical moment of life and death. Thank you for your trust."

Yu Qiu's fingers holding the colored paper trembled.

Yu Qiu stopped calling him senior brother from the day when the teacher was not a teacher.Once Cen Jingming went to get the form to be filled.There are no unfinished paintings in the living room, and absolutely no materials in sight that have to mess up the floor every time. "The so-called autumn tiger just makes people feel stuffy and breathless," Qian Zhixi said with a smile, with a natural and friendly expression, but unconsciously put the buttons that were opened below the shoulders through the gap again.

Yu Qiu was wearing long clothes and trousers, wrapped like a pupa.Smiling like a marionette, she felt that two scissors were about to crawl out of Qian Zhixi's eyes and strangle her throat.Yu Qiu scratched at the table with five fingers, as if by doing so, he could push back the unbearable secret that was about to break out of the ground back to the core of the earth.

She once raised a small green plant, and when the sunlight penetrated the window sash and danced on the fat leaves, she felt a short-lived happiness in her heart.It was a high-pitched sound squeezed out of the body with great difficulty.At first Yu Qiu had no idea how much water should be poured, she would often be in a daze, only to find that the excess water overflowed from the bottom of the basin and wet her dress.

One afternoon when the plant withered, Yu Qiu knew that sooner or later he would drown.One more day she lived with the shame burned into her flesh and blood was one day closer to the end.

"Can you do me one last favor, Senior Jingming," she said, "There is a new junior in the studio, and Qian Zhixi broke up with me. I understand that he is repeating his old tricks. Stop with me. I don't want to see other girls make the same mistakes."

Yu Qiu only wished for benevolence and benevolence.

Later she met her boyfriend from that year.The school said it was big or small, and Yu Qiu met him by chance after a year and a half of dumping him.There was a girl next to him who was a little bird, and he carried a shopping bag full of hands, greeted her generously, and then passed her by.Yu Qiu found that she still clearly remembered that when he kissed her forehead, the boy's red ears - if under the bright light, there were even short hairs.

Such minutiae.Like a mothball in a cabinet full of old clothes, it evaporates completely, but the smell is still strong when it is opened one day.It's not that I forgot, it's just that I don't want to recall it.It's a pity that she has already been picked by someone. The fruit is full of worms that bite the bones and suck the marrow, and the thick and smoky juice flows out, waiting to be dried.

The word "love" can be seen everywhere.Anyone who wants to say love.However, before Yu Qiu really understood what it was, the longing dormant in his heart was killed.Died utterly yesterday.

"Senior, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you..." She spoke incoherently, tears streaming down her face, "If I had been braver then, you wouldn't have been excluded and slandered, and Qian Zhixi wouldn't have been able to succeed—— You are so outstanding and talented, you could have continued your studies, became famous, and held your own art exhibition. In the past few years, I didn’t even dare to come and see you. It’s my cowardice, it’s all my fault, I should— "

"Hey, have you heard that Cen is gay!"

"Gay is gay. Could it be that you are still homophobic? Are you living in the last century?"

"Bah! If he hadn't messed around, who cares if he is straight? ——Also, the courtyard has been investigating him for academic misconduct, so there is no suspicion of plagiarism!"

"Fuck, is it real or not? How can this kind of scum survive the research? F University is so casual?"

"Ghost knows!"

……

Cen Jingming closed his eyes, then opened them again.The lights of thousands of houses outside the window, and those voices resounding against the sky, are finally swallowed up in the light at your fingertips.

"It's not your fault." He gave the school girl a warm hug, "Xiaoqiu, how can our world allow those who have been hurt to apologize? - This is wrong and should be corrected. Let's work together, no matter what. Don't give up no matter how difficult it is, okay?"

Yu Qiu trembled all over, unable to speak, but finally raised his head, allowing Cen Jingming to look into her eyes.It was filled with the brightest and most steadfast cluster of fire that had burned in her life.

"Shocked?" Yu Xiao knocked on the door with a puzzled look on his face, "Do you know someone named Fu Qianshu? He called me and asked me if I was your friend, did you know where you were, and did you have any accidents?" , the tone was extremely urgent, I felt like I was about to cry—”

There was a flash of light in Cen Jingming's eyes before he realized it and looked at the black screen of the phone.