[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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Gu Qiaochu looked at the wishing tree in front of him with a rather gentle face, and listened to the chattering discussions of a few juniors next to him, remembering that when he was eight years old, his mother passed by here when he took him home.

The woman with ear-length short hair and a long skirt looked at the big tree in front of her with nostalgia, smiled and smiled at the exceptionally gentle appearance, she pulled the little Gu Qiaochu to win, and talked about the old Gu's father with pride. How the coin was delivered to her.

It just so happened that when Lu Zhiang turned around, he saw Gu Qiaochu's face full of indescribable and somewhat inexplicable smiles. The refreshing young man felt a chill creeping up his back in vain. He grabbed Gu Qiaochu and asked, "Hey, Are you sure?"

The smile on Gu Qiaochu's face hadn't had time to take it back, and he wanted to maintain his glorious (?) image of a senior in front of Fu Xiaosi Cheng Qiqi, so he could only pursed his lips and pretended to be calm, and whispered, "Hmm ...Probably right."

"Wow~" Lu Zhiang couldn't hide the panic on his face, he took two steps back and raised his chin at the other friends, "Did you hear that [Gu Qiaochu] actually believed in these things~"

Gu Qiaochu's face froze, and he wanted to ask what is "that Gu Qiaochu"?He knew that there were some legends about himself in the school, but how outrageous the spread was, that Lu Zhiang could say such words with such an expression.

Seeing that Gu Qiaochu's expression was not good, Li Xia jumped up and patted Lu Zhiang's head, "What are these things!"

After all, you still have to try it.

Lu Zhiang stuffed Gu Qiao with a coin at the beginning of his half-pushing. He thought about it, but he didn't know who he liked.He reviewed his high school life over the past year, and sadly found that he didn't seem to have much communication with other girls except for business.

Thinking of this, Gu Qiaochu panicked a little.

It just so happened that Lu Zhiang would keep wandering in front of his eyes, asking him constantly, "Who do you miss? Tell me, tell me?"

Gu Qiao Chu put his face on Lu Zhiang's shoulder with his left hand, and tossed the coin with his right hand.

Lu Zhiang turned his back to the wishing tree, the moment Gu Qiaochu raised his hand, he quickly pulled Gu Qiaochu's hand from his shoulder.When he turned around, he held his breath unconsciously, and just watched the coin draw a beautiful arc in the air, and then entered.

Lu Zhiang opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.He turned back again and again, looking at Gu Qiaochu's light brown pupils trembling uncontrollably.

The owner of those eyes seemed to be very frightened by this fact. He took a step sideways to take the wrapped coins handed over by the boss, only to find that his left hand was still tightly held by someone.

Gu Qiaochu frowned slightly, and signaled to Lu Zhiang to let go.He watched Lu Zhiang retreat in a panic, but he calmly took the coin and put it in the bag.

"Who are you thinking of?"

"What grade and class are you in?"

"Did you play basketball before, did you happen to throw it in?"

These are what Lu Zhiang wanted to ask, but he saw the two girls asking questions around Gu Qiaochu in surprise, but he seemed to have something stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything, just shy.

Fu Xiaosi glanced at Lu Zhiang with his last sharpness, walked over and patted his friend on the shoulder, "What's the matter? Why did the senior get the coin, and you look like you've lost love?"

When Gu Qiaochu heard this sentence, he looked up at Lu Zhiang coolly, but didn't say anything.

Lu Zhiang was most annoyed by his stinky, indifferent look of not caring about anything, so he could only yell without confidence, "Of course, no matter who he is with, I have lost a girl!"

"No loss." Gu Qiaochu didn't know what was wrong, but stared into Lu Zhiang's eyes seriously and explained.He didn't care about the elementary school boy who was stunned by his words, turned around and patted Li Xia on the shoulder, and said, "Take them to play well, I'm going home to help."

After he finished speaking, he took out two hundred bills from his trouser pocket, ignored Li Xia's refusal, and stuffed them into the other party's hand in a daze, "Be obedient, it will cost money to play with them."

Li Xia finally pursed her lips and smiled, she folded up the banknotes and put them in her pocket, watched Gu Qiaochu greet Fu Xiaosi and Cheng Qiqi, but only nodded to Lu Zhiang before leaving .

She felt strange, strange because of Gu Qiaochu's attitude towards Lu Zhiang.She glanced at Lu Zhiang, the young man pursed his lips and looked at Gu Qiaochu's back without taking his eyes off.

But elsewhere, nothing seems to have changed.The banknotes in her pocket were still slightly warm, she pursed her lips and smiled slightly.

Gu Qiaochu is still the gentle, caring senior. Thank you. To Lixia, who was still young at the time, he was still like a big brother.

She held Cheng Qiqi in one arm, and smiled brightly at the two big boys, "Let's go! Let's continue playing!"

Gu Qiaochu walked home with a dull face, and his mother was in the living room greeting the close relatives who rushed over one after another.He went into the back room to help prepare the fruit plate, and looked up through the window to see Papa Gu who was discussing affairs with his uncle in the yard, "It's Chinese New Year, can't you take a good rest."

He was a little irritable, and also a little uneasy in the face of the unknown, which caused the hoarse himself to be startled when he heard it.

His mother, Xiao Yu, gave him a strange look, handed him a bottle of juice, and patted her son on the shoulder reassuringly, "It's okay, Ah Chu can do what he wants from now on."

"Anything?" Gu Qiaochu laughed softly.

Xiao Yu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, "Anything."

Most of the time, Gu Qiaochu is very grateful to his parents.

They never asked him to be completely outstanding, and they never said they hoped that Gu Qiaochu would inherit the family business in the future, although Dad Gu would definitely feel very uncomfortable if Gu Qiaochu set up his own family.

They always say, "It's okay, Chu. You can do what you want."

"any."

So can anything be forgiven?

Gu Qiaochu suddenly felt that his eyes were burning. He lowered his head and opened his mouth silently, but he didn't say anything.He hooked the corners of his lips, "Don't worry, Mom."

No one asked him anything, but he was Gu Qiaochu.

He is sensible, polite and filial.All he asks of himself is to do his best.

This New Year's Eve, Gu Qiaochu felt a little uncomfortable.

Grandpa Gu was sitting in the courtyard with the elders of the older generation. He was getting older and wanted to light a fire to keep warm.

Xiao Yu clapped her hands as soon as she heard it, and wanted to take a few young children to move firewood and pile it in the yard. Gu Qiaochu smiled helplessly and blocked her mother behind, putting on gloves and following.

A woman smiled at Xiao Yu when she saw it, and couldn't help but praise Gu Qiaochu for being handsome and sensible, and added a sentence at the end, "Qiaochu is so handsome, he must have a girlfriend!"

Xiao Yu smiled and waved her hands, "I don't know yet. Anyway, I don't object to the relationship between junior high school and high school. I'm afraid that the child will be embarrassed to tell us."

After being reminded by others, Xiao Yu suddenly woke up.She seemed to have discovered some terrible secret, and she stared at Gu Qiaochu's face and smiled silently during dinner.

At the beginning, Gu Qiaochu could still act as if he didn't know, but he couldn't hold back his thin-skinned after a few more times, hooked his mother's arm and said in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Yu pondered for a while, then smiled again with crooked eyebrows, and pulled her tall son down to echo, "Is Ah Chu falling in love, I'm sorry to tell my mother?"

Gu Qiaochu was taken aback for a moment, but his back suddenly became stiff.He put his hands into his pockets calmly, confirmed that the coins wrapped in the paper bag were still there, and then he pursed his lips and smiled, "Mom, I'm sensible."

"Yeah." Xiao Yu nodded affirmatively, of course she believed that Gu Qiaochu was measured, "If you want, you can bring her to meet us."

The red flames were jumping, illuminating Gu Qiaochu's face slightly flushed.He stretched out his hands to cover his slightly hot cheeks, and smiled wryly.

Such a clever Gu Qiaochu, at that time, keenly discovered that he was slightly different.

To avoid, to reject, to change.

Thinking this way in his heart, his reason also reminded him like this.But when he opened the door and saw Li Xia standing in front of the house with a bright-eyed boy, he felt that his reason and his heart were crumbling.

"What's the matter, it's so late." He walked into the house with two people, greeted the family members, and took a stool for people to sit in front of the fire.

"That..." Li Xia pointed his fingers a little embarrassedly, "I accidentally took them to play, I missed the last train, my room is not enough..."

"Okay, I understand." Gu Qiaochu rubbed Lixia's short hair with a smile, raised his eyes to look at Lu Zhiang, but greeted him with a wooden face, "Sleep at our house tonight."

Stared at by that cool look, Lu Zhiang's original words got stuck in his throat, making him a little uncomfortable.The sensitive young man noticed the change in Gu Qiaochu, but under that look, he couldn't say a word.

Li Xia grabbed the corner of his clothes and smiled awkwardly at Gu Qiaochu, "Then what, then I'll go back first, my mother is still waiting for me."

"I'll see you off." Gu Qiaochu pressed Lu Zhiang's shoulders who was about to stand up, took the coat from the back of the chair and stood up, "It's too late, you're a girl, I'm not at ease."

"Ah... OK." Li Xia nodded, and walked out behind Gu Qiaochu.

Along the way, Gu Qiaochu didn't speak. He thought about not embarrassing Li Xia, but what he should talk about.He is used to taking care of this little girl to make her study and life go smoothly, but this time he doesn't want to talk.

He stepped on the cobblestone road in Shixian County, and the roadside was slightly reddened by the red lanterns on the side of the road.He didn't smile until he reached the door of the girl's house, "Here we are, let's go in."

"See you."

"Goodbye."

Li Xia stood leaning against the door panel, hearing some footsteps outside the door gradually going away.She shook her head and walked into the house, but in the end she didn't tell Gu Qiaochu that it was Lu Zhiang who asked to live in his house.

Although Fu Xiaosi said that they often slept in the same bed when they were young, but Lu Zhiang said that he didn't want to sleep with him anymore.

Strange, isn't it.