Jiang Zhongzi

I don't know how my uncle got along with the two of them back then, Yan Xiao thought.But the similar age allowed him to relieve a little awkwardness in his heart, and soon got along with this group of classmates who were actually ten years older than him, among them Gu Shengzhi and him were the most congenial, and the two of them hung shoulder to shoulder all day long Hang out together, even skip school together.

Every time Xiao Chengyi told them not to play truant, he was ignored. Seeing Yan Xiao and Gu Shengzhi playing together, he felt a slight discomfort.Gu Shengzhi is his friend, and Yan Xiao is also his friend, but after the two of them met, he seemed to have no friends.One afternoon when the two were going to play truant again, Xiao Chengyi stopped them.

"Sir, you won't send you to catch us, will you?" Gu Shengzhi glanced at Yan Xiao, and was about to run away in a while.

"No," Xiao Chengyi looked at them, "I'll go too."

There is a waterfall nearby, and one of the upstream sections of the river is very shallow, and the sand and stones in the river are clearly visible, and you can even step on it to walk to the opposite bank.Gu Shengzhi walked in the front. He stepped on the stone and found that the river was rushing straight up. He crossed to the other side and looked there but saw nothing.When Xiao Chengyi walked over, he accidentally dropped the bell that he was carrying with him, and before he could fish it, a gust of more turbulent river rushed by and swept the bell away.

Seeing that the flood was coming, Xiao Chengyi was still standing motionless in the middle of the river, Gu Shengzhi ran to the bank and tried to drag him into the river.

"Don't move!" Yan Xiao was walking behind and still some distance away from them. When he saw the surging river in the distance, he told Gu Shengzhi not to go there. Without even thinking about it, he flew directly to Xiao Chengyi's side and hugged him to the other side.

Xiao Chengyi wanted to rush downstream, but was stopped by Gu Shengzhi: "Why don't you know how to swim? Are you going to die!"

"That bell was left to me by my mother." As soon as Xiao Cheng wanted to break free from Gu Shengzhi, the two of them kept tugging, and they were about to fight.

When they found that Yan Xiao was gone, Yan Xiao had already flown to the bottom of the waterfall, he jumped into the water holding his breath, and swam to the depths of the pool.

Yan Xiao appeared in front of them again, drenched all over, with strands of hair sticking to his face, and said guiltily, "I'm sorry, I didn't find it."

Xiao Cheng only had time to see Yan Xiao's figure jumping off the waterfall, and suddenly felt a sense of suspension, as if his heart also jumped down with Yan Xiao, and he whispered: "It's good that you're fine."

"I lied to you!" Yan Xiao smiled, took out the bell and shook it in front of Xiao Chengyi's eyes.

"Don't do this in the future." Xiao Chengyi took the bell and put it away.

"I can't die again," Yan Xiao didn't care, and when he saw two people staring at him seriously at the same time, he quickly changed his words, "Okay, it won't happen in the future, we will go back to a higher place later."

Yan Xiao thought it was natural to be presumptuous in his dreams, and he didn't care if he was blown by the wind, but in the end he got a cold for the first time, which was really miserable.Even he himself couldn't explain why he got a cold in the dream, let alone explain to Xiao Chengyi why he insisted that he wouldn't get sick even though he was drenched and blown by the wind.

He thought that with Xiao Chengyi's family background, he must live a life of wearing clothes, reaching out for food, and opening his mouth, and he would not be able to take care of others, but he didn't expect that Xiao Chengyi was taking care of him when he was drowsy and unable to move.

"Why are you so proficient." He asked in a daze.

Xiao Chengyi's hand paused, and after putting the bowl away, he said, "I used to take care of my mother when she was sick."

"sorry."

"Don't talk about it, drink the medicine."

Apart from being sick, Yan Xiao had a great time here, but he felt a little sorry for forcing Xiao Cheng to play truant with them as soon as he came here.So many times, Yan Xiao realized that he had been in the dream for a whole month, and he was quite happy to leave this month.

In the evening after returning from school, Xiao Chengyi said that he wanted to buy some paper and pens, Yan Xiao immediately said that he would also buy some, and it would be no problem to bring a copy for him by the way.It was dark and it was convenient for him to fly to his destination, and he quickly bought it and left it near the yard, fearing that Xiao Chengyi would suspect his identity or catch him, so every time he bought something, he had to find a place nearby to kill time.He squatted to organize his things, and a dim shadow beside him became more obvious under the moonlight. He turned around resignedly, and Xiao Chengyi caught him.

Yan Xiao followed behind Xiao Chengyi, just like he used to be waiting for the training behind the master, and he felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles after entering the room and sitting down.What made him even more uncomfortable was the piece of talisman at the door, and the headache that was worse than when he was seriously ill before did not stop.

"Why did you come here, and what is your identity?" Xiao Chengyi asked.

With a stick in his throat, Yan Xiao held back for a long time before he could say the word "I".

"Why did you do these things to me?" Xiao Chengyi asked again.

Finally, there was a question that Yan Xiao could answer, and he explained: "This is something I can do, in fact..."

Xiao Cheng looked at him expressionlessly, with a kind of indifference in his eyes: "No one would do so many things for someone they just met for no reason, unless it was profitable."

"You misunderstood me!" Yan Xiao said eagerly, "I didn't do this for the money of the house, although it was at the beginning, but now I am sincere..."

He froze on the spot as if struck by lightning, half of what he wanted to say was "Take you as my friend", but he just realized suddenly, why did he regard Xiao Chengyi as a friend?Why not avoid this person when entering the dream state?

His mind was like a net, his body seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't speak a word.

"Sincerely what? Is sincerely treating me as a friend," Xiao Chengyi smiled softly, "Do you still like me?"

Whether it was in a dream or in reality, it was the first time for Yan Xiao to see Xiao Chengyi's smile like this, just like a feather floating lightly and delicately on the calm lake, causing ripples.He stood there as if he was tightly entangled by the net in his mind, and his eyes fell on that person without moving a bit until he realized what he was doing.

"I don't know!" Yan Xiao ran out of the house in a hurry, running all the way without a destination, and stopped by the stream.

Just now, he was panicked like a bereaved dog, and ran away like a defeated bandit. He took up the stream again and slapped it on his face as before. For a while, two people, dream and reality, kept appearing in his mind. One asked him if he liked him, The other admitted he was wrong but did kiss him.He asked himself if he could leave the dream, and if he couldn't, where could he go?The answer is no escape.

At this time, Yan Xiao finally realized that what he had to face now was the problem when he was stunned for the first time just now—why did he insist on approaching Xiao Chengyi in this dream, when he could choose any place to go, Do you have to treat him as a friend?

The more Yan Xiao thought about it, the less he dared to think about it, so he simply lay down by the stream to sleep, and slept until the next morning.In the academy, books were already placed on his seat, and Xiao Chengyi, who was sitting next to him, hadn't said a word from the beginning to the end of the day, and his eyes were blue and gray.

When Yan Xiao just ran out, he even wanted to catch the person back directly, instead of sitting there watching the person run away after hearing "I don't know".But yesterday he dreamed of Yan Xiao, as if in the three thousand worlds, only dreams can get what he wants.

Seeing that the two of them didn't say a word, Gu Shengzhi had no choice but to walk among them and say some witty words to ease the atmosphere, and finally heaved a sigh of relief after parting from them at the intersection.

The next day, Yan Xiao asked Gu Shengzhi: "Do you know of any quick way to get money? The kind that can get money immediately."

Gu Shengzhi said: "I see that there is a shortage of people at the pier by the river, why don't you try it? It's just a bit tiring."

"Then I'm leaving." Yan Xiao jumped out of the window, playing truant again logically.

He changed into coarse clothes and went to the pier to move things, and slept in the Datong shop all night. After paying off the money he earned at noon, he returned to the residence to clean up, bought two jars of wine, and planned to have a drink with Xiao Cheng. The words are sincere.

Xu Shi and his brothers and sisters, as well as his uncles and his master are all interested in wine. Over the years, Yan Xiao has regarded wine as an important tool for communicating feelings.He didn't even knock on the door, he suppressed his headache and went straight into Xiao Chengyi's room, with a stiff smile: "Come, have a drink or two?"

Yan Xiao began to talk about his experience in Yiyun, replacing it with "I have a friend" throughout the story, and Xiao Chengyi occasionally responded with "um", without drinking or talking.After drinking three pots, the other party didn't say more than one word at most, so Yan Xiao had to resort to the lowest level of tricks.

"You can't drink, can you?" Yan Xiao stood up, stretched his arms and moved his legs, to show that he was still stable after drinking three pots in a row.

After saying this, he saw that the person in front of him seemed to come to life in an instant, and he picked up the flagon and filled it up: "Who said that?"

After taking a sip of wine, Xiao Chengyi's face turned red. Seeing his appearance, Yan Xiao was secretly surprised at how bad this man's drinking capacity was.Now that they are of the same age, Yan Xiaodue and Xiao Cheng are not as cautious as in Mengmeng when they dragged Xiao Cheng back and forth, so he leaned over to him and teased: "Is it enough to have a drink?"

When Xiao Cheng saw Yan Xiao drinking three pots in a row and still talking and laughing with him without changing his face, he was very unconvinced. Before Yan Xiao could react, he took the wine pot and drank directly to his mouth, and then leaned back.Even though he knew he was in a dream, Yan Xiao was still afraid that he would kowtow, so he quickly put his arms around his shoulders.Xiao Cheng fell backwards very violently, Yan Xiao didn't use too much force, and ended up being brought down on the bed by him.

Yan Xiao was a little embarrassed for a moment, trying to get up in a hurry, but Xiao Chengyi put his arms around his neck, trying to see his face clearly.

"Yan Xiao?" Xiao Cheng called him tentatively.

In front of Xiao Chengyi, Yan Xiao was stunned many times, this time he was stunned again, recalling the scene where Xiao Chengyi hugged him and kissed him outside the dream that day.This time Xiao Chengyi hugged him again, the difference was that it was in a dream, he also called his name and did not recognize the wrong person.

A thought suddenly appeared in Yan Xiao's mind - does this mean that Xiao Chengyi in the dream likes him?As soon as the thought came up, he couldn't go back. He warned himself that he was in a dream, and he would never come back out of the dream, but he still couldn't help thinking about it.He wanted to just stay with this person in this unexpected dreamland without any outside interference. Xiao Chengyi didn't know his uncle here, and he wouldn't mistake him, and his hands were clean and never stained with anything. human blood.

"Xiao Chengyi, I really do." Yan Xiao took a deep breath, "I really like you."