smoke like fire

I met Zhao Kuanyi at the bus stop sign on a short road from my home.

Zhao Kuanyi went to an American school, so he didn't need to wear a uniform. His clothes were more modest than his friends from the same school around him.It was still a little different, he had grown taller again, but he seemed to be a little thinner, with a pointed chin.Next to him was a girl with long hair.It's so cold, she wears a very short skirt.The two stood and chatted.After entering high school, Zhao Kuanyi and I didn't meet each other on weekdays. Although we lived close together, we almost never met on the road. We were pleasantly surprised and called him out.

Zhao Kuanyi stopped talking and turned to look: "Cheng Jingcheng?"

The girl next to him also turned her head.I just found out that her facial features are a little deep, her skin is white, and her temperament is mature.She opened her big eyes and looked at me.I still walked forward and said, "Why are you here?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "School is over."

After five o'clock, I said, "Don't you finish class at 03:30?"

Zhao Kuanyi didn't answer, he just pointed to the girl beside him,

Introduce me: "Natasha."

Natasha raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Hi."

I also smiled and said, "Hi."

She spoke English: "Are you from our school?"

I was wearing my high school uniform, obviously not.she asked again.I said: "No."

Zhao Kuanyi said: "He is from the attached middle school."

Natasha nodded and asked my name: "Get to know me, I'll go play with you later."

Before I could speak, Zhao Kuanyi said, "Don't go, their school is very strict."

I retorted in Chinese: "Our school spirit is very free."

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Oh."

I said, "Are you going home?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "Almost."

Natasha looked at him: "Are you going home?"

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Yes."

Natasha pouted slightly.She glanced at me, then at Zhao Kuanyi, said, "Goodbye!", then turned and left.

I said, "Does she live nearby?"

Zhao Kuanyi shrugged, he said, "Are you going back too?"

I nod.He stepped forward, and I followed suit.I said, "The one just now, her hair is red."

Zhao Kuanyi said, "Her mother is Russian."

I nodded, walked a few steps, and asked him, "Are you classmates?"

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Yes."

I felt that he seemed not interested in this topic, so he didn't ask again.I said, "We are about to take the exam. Is your school taking the exam?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "There's a lot of homework."

I said, "We also have homework."

Zhao Kuanyi said, "When will you take the exam?"

I said, "At the end of the month. What's wrong?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "Our school has an event on Saturday, which is open to the public. Are you coming?"

I remembered that when school was over, the second-year seniors of the club specially came to remind me about the group outing on Saturday.I looked at Zhao Kuanyi, and he looked at him too, waiting for my answer.I said, "What time does it start?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "I'll tell you again."

I nodded.

Walked to the community building where he lived.He said: "That's right, otherwise you can take it away by the way, I have finished reading that book."

I can't remember which book I borrowed from him.But I haven't been to his house for a long time.I thought for a while and said, "Okay."

Zhao Kuan's IKEA is on the sixteenth floor.After taking the elevator upstairs, he opened the door by himself. It was quiet and there was no light inside.He turned on the light.He let me in and closed the door behind.I said, "Aunt Zhang is not here?"

Aunt Zhang is a helper hired by Zhao Kuanyi's mother.Zhao Kuanyi changed out his shoes and found a pair of slippers for me: "It doesn't look like they are here."

I changed up and followed behind him: "Where's Auntie?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "Maybe I'm going to play cards."

I hesitated and didn't ask him where his stepfather was.The decoration style of his house is completely different from mine. Everywhere is exquisite, and every vase has a bit of history, and it is his mother's collection.He opened the door of his room and called me back, "Come in."

I walked over.Zhao Kuanyi took down a red book from the bookshelf, and he handed it to me. When I saw the title, I remembered it.He has borrowed this book for at least a year, a mystery novel.I said, "You just finished watching it now? What do you think?"

Zhao Kuanyi said, "Not much."

He sat down in front of the TV and turned it on.The TV screen is blue and there are no programs.Some lines are connected to the front end, which is connected to an electric game device.He dragged a large box and lowered his head to pick out the game cartridges.I looked at it and said, "If you want to play the video, then I'm leaving."

Zhao Kuanyi looked up and said, "Don't you want to play?"

I looked at him for a moment and said, "I can't stay too long."

Zhao Kuanyi said, "I'll call for you."

I said, "I think I've done it myself."

Zhao Kuanyi said: "The phone is in the tea room instead." But he stood up again: "Forget it, I'll take you there."

His mother set up a tea room in another room of the house. It was a small room, like a small living room, but it looked more casual and comfortable than the living room.The telephone sits on a tall, narrow carved table.I picked up the phone and dialed the number, but no one answered for a long time.I looked at Zhao Kuanyi, who sat on the sofa, picked up a deck of playing cards on the coffee table, shuffled the cards casually, and repeated several times.He lowered his eyes slightly and looked calm.His hair was a little long, and he wore locks behind his ears.

Someone came to answer the phone, it was Miss Xu.She said that her parents were talking and it was inconvenient to come and listen.I asked her to convey that I would be late and cut off.I put down the microphone, Zhao Kuanyi turned to look."I could have installed a telephone in the room," he said.

I said, "Why don't you pretend?"

Zhao Kuanyi shuffled the cards, he said: "Uncle felt bad. Then I felt bad too. If someone calls, I can't pretend I'm not at home."

I walked over, sat down next to him, and accused him: "Then I called my aunt last time to say that you were not there, you were just pretending."

Looking at Zhao Kuanyi, he raised his eyebrows: "Which time did I not answer your call?"

I shrugged.He hummed, and fiddled with the playing cards in his hand again.I glanced at him: "You haven't cut your hair yet?"

Zhao Kuanyi said: "I will go next week."

I said, "Why wait until next week?"

Zhao Kuanyi only said, "How about dyeing your hair?"

I was taken aback and said, "Is your mother agreeing?"

Zhao Kuanyi seemed to take it lightly: "She also dyes her hair." After a pause, she continued: "Grandpa and grandma may not like it. I will go back to eat at the end of the next year, and I will dye it after I go there. They will go to France to visit my aunt."

No wonder he won't cut his hair until next week.I said, "If my hair was as long as yours, I would have been punished by the instructor long ago."

Zhao Kuanyi looked at me and said, "You are not short enough."

I touched the back of my head, and my fingers were itchy.Said: "Short enough."

Zhao Kuanyi reshuffled the playing cards, cut them in half, and put them in front of me: "Draw one."

I did so, a seven of diamonds.He said, "Don't tell me the suit."

He wants me to put it back.He shuffled the cards again, put the half of the deck on the table, and revealed the top card.I widened my eyes, the seven of diamonds just now.I said, "How did you do that?"

Zhao Kuanyi smiled and said nothing.He reached out and messed up the playing cards, stood up: "Go and play video games."

I also stood up and followed him back to his room.We played Sonic.During this time, his mother, Ms. Zhao, called and came back. She really went to play cards. She said that Aunt Zhang had some business to ask for leave, and his stepfather also had an engagement, so he would not go back too early in the evening.

Then I really had to go home."I'll go downstairs with you," he said.

I thought about it and said, "Do you want to come to my house for dinner?"

Zhao Kuanyi looked at me and said, "Your father is not at home?"

I said, "I think he should go out by now."

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Oh?"

I don't want him to know that my parents always quarrel when they meet recently, and my father often doesn't come back late at night.I said, "I called back just now, and my mother said he was going to a social meeting."

Zhao Kuanyi nodded.I looked at him: "Do you want to come?"

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Otherwise Auntie will be shocked, you should call back and talk about it."

I borrowed the phone again to call home.This time my mother picked it up, knowing that Zhao Kuanyi was going, she was very welcome.As for the father, he really went out again.I said to Zhao Kuanyi, "Okay, let's go."

Zhao Kuanyi said: "Yes."

Back at my house, my mother asked sister Xu to cook more.At the dinner table, she frequently talked to Zhao Kuanyi and asked him many things about the school.Zhao Kuanyi looked impatient.My mother picked up some dishes for him a few times. I looked at his appearance and stopped him aloud.The phone rang, and Sister Xu answered it, and called her mother to listen.While his mother was walking away, Zhao Kuanyi put the two dishes in his bowl into my bowl.

He said, "Eat it quickly."

I said, "You don't eat preserved eggs?"

He shook his head: "It stinks."

I said, "You don't even want to eat fried chicken?"

He said, "I'm getting old."

I said, "Picky eater."

He urged me to eat it again.I glanced at him angrily, but he laughed.There was nothing I could do, so I sighed and ate for him.

Tanabata extra episode follow-up

Two weeks later, when we went out to meet on Saturday, Zhao Kuanyi had his hair cut, but the color did not change.He went to the hair salon last Sunday afternoon, and he had already chosen the color.He said, "Almost."

I asked him, "What color did you choose?"

Zhao Kuanyi seemed to think about it and said, "Flax green."

I can't imagine what color that is.Can't even imagine what that color looks like on his head.I said, "Why is it not stained?"

His grandmother accompanied him and stopped him.He said: "Grandma doesn't agree." He also asked the hairdresser to trim his hair more.He raised his hand to caress the neck that was no longer covered by hair, "It's too short, it's so cold."

I looked at his appearance, he was not short compared to the people of the same age around me.I said, "You stayed too long before."

Zhao Kuanyi wrapped the scarf around his neck: "It's so cold."

I didn't take it seriously: "How can it be so cold."

Zhao Kuanyi stretched out his hands and put his palms on my cheeks: "My hands are so cold."

I stopped and just looked at him.He smiled, covered my face again, and then let go.He said: "How is it? Is it cool?"

I vaguely turned my eyes away and said, "Scared me, it's freezing to death."

He laughed.He said, "Let's not watch the movie now, I want to buy gloves."

I watched him put his hands in his pockets.