Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

, into a prone position, buried his head in his arms close to Lin Pai's ear, and rubbed his hair with his side face.

Lin Pai suddenly asked him, "What did he tell you?"

"He said he broke up with Yang Tong, and asked me if I would go to play in the afternoon."

"Then are you going?"

"I said I would accompany the cat downstairs in the afternoon."

Lin Pai half sat up with his arms propped up, turned to him and asked, "Did he believe it?"

"I don't know, maybe I think I'm crazy."

"I think so too..." Lin Pai smiled. He imitated Xu Rui's action just now and scratched the hair on the back of Xu Rui's head. "Your hair seems to grow long. When was the last time you cut it?"

"I don't remember, I want to stay as long as you."

"Didn't you say that your coach won't let you stay too long?"

"who cares."

"Then what if he takes a pair of scissors and cuts your hair?"

"Then I can only run back and cry for you."

"You are so cowardly." Lin Pai smirked and lay down again with his head up. He put an arm across his forehead to block the glare of the sun. They giggled together.

This time Lin Pai really fell into a shallow sleep. He felt that it was spring for a while, and summer for a while...

For a while, I felt that I was lying on a narrow bed in the dormitory of a key high school in the city, anxious about the upcoming mock exam;

After a while, I felt that I was still a child, lying on a comfortable and soft bed at home. At that time, the house was still very lively, and my parents would bring back a lot of special products from outside during the holidays...

Their figures disappeared suddenly. In the dream, he didn't wait for a year and a year. It was just a blink of an eye. He had accepted the fact that the house was no longer lively, and only the back of grandma was busy in the kitchen...

Lin Pai opened his eyes in a jerk, but the glare of the sun made him half close his eyelids again.

He turned his head to adapt to the light, and caught a glimpse of a stack of draft paper, and along the draft paper, he saw Xu Rui's expression in deep thought.

"What are you writing?" Lin Pai leaned over to look at his draft paper.

Xu Rui knelt on the carpet and used his back to create a shadow, where the exercises and draft paper were placed. He replied, "A math problem is round and square. Dong Wenwen seemed to give it to me before the holiday." I told a similar one, but I don't remember it."

Lin Pai glanced at it, lacking interest in the topic, he suddenly lifted a corner of the top draft paper, "I'm more curious about this."

Xu Rui turned the draft paper over, and drew a small portrait with a pencil on the second paper. The strokes were messy and the composition was crooked. It was barely recognizable that the painting was a person sleeping under the sun.

Lin Pai looked down at the patterns on his clothes, then at the paintings, and finally at Xu Rui, "It seems familiar..."

Xu Rui picked up the painting and looked at it for a while, then held it up in the air to compare with Lin Pai, "Isn't it different? Look, if you have a nose and eyes, I even spotted the mole on your neck."

Lin Pai raised his hand to touch the mole on his neck. The mole was so small that he couldn't touch it.

"What's the symbol next to it?" Lin Pai pointed to the two lines next to the portrait. One line only wrote a mathematical symbol "π", and the other line wrote four numbers "0314".

""π" is you, "0314" is also you, look, "Lin Pai"—"

Xu Rui wrote down his name on the draft paper, and then wrote "0" and "π" under the two characters respectively, "The combination of numbers and letters will be the code between us in the future."

Lin Pai took out the pen from Xu Rui's hand and threw it on the blanket next to him. He looked at Xu Rui meaningfully, "Brother Rui, I think... the meaning of this code is not very good..."

"Huh?" Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing with him.

"It's almost ready!" Lin Pai lay on his back, covered his face with one hand, and patted Xu Rui beside him who was laughing forward and backward with the other hand.

Xu Rui pushed the exercises and draft paper aside, took away Lin Pai's hand covering his face, held his face hard, and squeezed the flesh on his face together, "Lin Pai, why didn't I realize that you are so cute before?" , Is this all in Xueba's mind?"

Lin Pai closed his eyes and didn't look at Xu Rui, and shook his head following his shaking from side to side, trying to deny his question.

After a while, Xu Rui let go of Lin Pai, and lay down on the carpet with him to look at the sky. Lin Pai suddenly poked him with his elbow, "Brother Rui, I want to hear about your previous relationship with Fu Yanye and Zhou Ning. thing."

"Before?" Xu Rui thought for a while, "I didn't seem to have much to do before. I went to class, played ball, ate, and copied homework every day. It's been so many years."

"Then before I appeared...you stayed with Fu Yanye every day, but you didn't. Do you have any thoughts about him?"

"That's a long story."

Lin Pai regained his energy. He turned to Xu Rui and looked at him meaningfully, "I'm all ears!"

Xu Rui tilted his head and glanced at him, with a little connivance, he recalled, "It seems that Lao Gao took a group of us to dinner in the first year of high school, oh, Lao Gao scolded me last time. It must be particularly fierce.

It was the first time for everyone to go out to eat with him, no one guarded against his good wine, everyone was drunk to the point of deliriousness..."

"You don't get drunk, messy, messy... right?"

"Don't make trouble..." Xu Rui patted Lin Pai's hand, took it over and put it in the palm of his hand to play with, "I'm relatively sober, Fu Yanye drank upside down, and hung limply on me, and then I realized something was wrong with me."

Lin Pai grabbed Xu Rui's hand in turn and asked, "Didn't you do something to him?"

"Of course not! I don't like him, or I just discovered this suddenly... It's just, it's very sudden."

"Oh...then have you ever been to me?"

Xu Rui turned his head, and they were reflected in each other's pupils, with expectations, desires, anxiety lurking in their eyes... intertwined into a turbulent wave.

After a long time, Lin Pai suddenly turned over and pressed on Xu Rui, and asked again, "Is there any?"

"Yes, many times..." Xu Rui clasped Lin Pai's back and pressed him into his arms.

There was a child downstairs who was setting off firecrackers, and they crackled all the way, Xu Rui hugged him and turned over, but Lin Pai slipped out like a loach.

Lin Pai stood up, patted his clothes, and urged, "Xu Rui, get up quickly! Let's set off the fireworks too!"

Xu Rui was in vain. He lay on the ground for a full minute before being dragged up by Lin Pai.

In winter, there was a breeze blowing against the thin blanket, overturning several pages of draft paper, and came to a portrait with accurate composition and smooth lines.

In the painting is a boy in the uniform of Heshan High School. He stands on the stairs, half in the setting sun and half in the shadows. Next to the painting, two words are neatly written in block letters - "Lin Pai".

49. Chapter 49

"Look at you, I insist on setting off fireworks, let's do it now! The fireworks are ruined, and so are we!"

In the evening, a torrential rain suddenly fell in Heshan Town, where the sky was still clear during the day.

Standing on the school playground, Lin Pai looked up at the sky dejectedly. The heavy rain hit his face one after another, and his broken hair was wetly stuck to his forehead. He raised his hand and wiped his face, feeling as embarrassed as he could be.

Xu Rui stood beside him, holding several tubes of fireworks in his hands, like holding a handful of thin bamboo poles, he also looked up at the sky, just a few drops of rain fell around his eyes, he couldn't move his hands, so he reflexively He narrowed his eyes.

They each opened a palm and put it on top of each other's head to shield the rain. Obviously, this method can only comfort the heart.

There used to be a lot of people on the playground, but Xu Rui was disappointed when he first came here.From this point of view, the current situation is as he wished. When the rainstorm suddenly came, these people ran faster than rabbits, and now there were only two of them left on the playground.

Xu Rui's words smacked of reproach, Lin Pai retorted dissatisfiedly, "I said I would come out to set off fireworks, but I didn't see any objection from you!"

"When did I refuse you what you want to do?"

"Look at yourself, what did I say when I was in the canteen, just buy some fairy wands like them, and you have to buy such a big one!"

Xu Rui turned his head and glanced at the thin bamboo pole-like fireworks tube in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and insisted on his previous statement, "Fairy sticks are soft, they are played by little boys and girls, of course we have to play more Imposing!"

Lin Pai hesitated to speak, he looked around the empty playground, finally looked at Xu Rui, and asked him, "Then what should we do now?"

"Throw away this thing, and then go home and watch the Spring Festival Gala with audiences across the country."

Lin Pai acquiesced to this plan, and they found a trash can behind the playground stands, and threw the fireworks into it.

Their bodies were almost wet, so they were not in a hurry, and walked home in the rain without any haste.

"Lin Pai, look what this is!"

Xu Rui walked two steps slower than him. Hearing the sound, Lin Pai turned around without interest, and suddenly saw a frog with puffed cheeks, staring at him with big eyes.

"Ah-"

Lin Pai exclaimed, and stepped back again and again, but his left foot tripped over his right foot, and he fell directly on the rainy ground.

"Where did you fall?" Xu Rui didn't laugh enough, he quickly threw the frog in his hand aside, and went to help Lin Pai.

"Xu Rui! Are you sick?" Lin Pai pushed Xu Rui away, patted his clothes and stood up. He lowered his head and looked for the culprit frog on the side road, but it was too dark at night, separated by the rain curtain. , everything he saw was a blur.

"Hahaha... I,