heartbeat out of control

14 years ago, Yu Xuan was seven years old and Xiao Le was 15 years old.

Autumn in Los Angeles is particularly fragrant. Osmanthus trees are planted for a hundred miles, and they start to emit fragrance sporadically in August. In September and October, the fragrance is even stronger, like a girl in autumn knocking over a perfume bottle.

Xiao Le frowned and pushed his bicycle out of the school gate. He hated sweets, and the smell of sweet-scented osmanthus was extremely sweet, probably because Yu Xuan always ate sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in front of him. Hungry to him.

Smelling sweet-scented osmanthus can remind you of that greasy dessert.

Jiang Ning walked beside him, a petite person who was a head shorter than him, with a gentle and peaceful face, "It's the season of sweet-scented osmanthus blooming again."

"Hmm." Xiao Le's tone was not warm. His hair was long, his eyes were covered by his thin bangs, his washed blue denim jacket was draped over his shoulders, and his sharp eyebrows and eyes were slightly indifferent.

It doesn't look easy to get along with.

Jiang Ning didn't mind. Xiao Le has always been like this. He is indifferent to everyone, but he is an exception. Xiao Le has long legs and big strides. Shall I talk about the math again?"

"Didn't you tell me?"

"I don't understand."

"Why are you like Yu Xuan? You can't say it no matter how many times you say it." Xiao Le frowned, looking at the sky, it seemed that it was going to rain, and when he sent Yu Xuan to school in the morning, he didn't take an umbrella for him. He should know how to be with others go back.

"Is it okay?" Jiang Ning begged.

Xiao Le gave an expressionless "hmm", which was considered to be his agreement.

The rim of the bicycle rotates and drives the chain, making a creaking sound of gears snapping together. The front tire is flat and the air core has been pulled out.

When he walked to the corner of the T-shaped intersection, he met Xiao Pangshan, who was in the same class as Yu Xuan, and was sipping ice cream with gusto.

Xiao Le stopped him, "Little fat man, has Yu Xuan gone back?"

Xiaopangshan turned his head in fright, and the ice cream fell on the ground on the spot. He felt so distressed that he wanted to cry. He had just eaten half of it, but he was afraid of Xiao Le, so he didn't dare to pick it up. Push, pushed into the tree pit."

Xiao Le was two taller than him, staring at him with heavy eyes: "Did you push it?"

Xiaopangshan shook his head wildly, his three-tiered chin trembled, and when he spoke in a hurry, he became quick: "It's not me! It's a fifth-grade student. They asked Yu Xuan for money, but if Yu Xuan didn't give it, they pushed him into the pit. He was still crying at the bottom of the pit when I left." After speaking, he looked down at the ice cream on the ground.

Xiao Le's heart dropped, without saying a word, he left his bicycle and Jiang Ning, turned around and ran towards Yu Xuan's school.

He knew that part of the road, and it had been repaired for two months. Many deep pits were dug on both sides of the road for planting trees. It is said that work stopped because of lack of funds and no money to buy saplings.

It had only rained in the past two days, and there was quite a lot of yellow mud in the ditch. When he passed there in the morning, he reminded Taixuan not to fall into it.

Yu Xuan said brazenly, "I'm so smart that I won't fall into it."

Dark clouds weighed heavily in mid-air, Xiao Le ran all the way over, the veins on his forehead were throbbing, and he didn't see anyone, so he yelled a few times at the potholed yellow mud from a distance: "Yu Xuan!"

Two small hands covered in yellow mud slowly emerged from a pit in the middle, and Yu Xuan's already weeping voice came out of the pit: "Brother... I am here..."

Seeing Xiao Le's appearance, Yu Xuan couldn't help but burst the tears that he had just dried up, his bright eyes were red, and Bai Shengsheng's little face was covered with mud marks and two tear marks.

"Brother, I can't come up..."

The tree pit was higher than Yu Xuan's, so it's no wonder he couldn't climb up. Fortunately, the water inside was not too deep, only reaching his knees.

Xiao Le knelt on one knee in the mud, reached out and grabbed the two raised icy little hands, and slowly pulled the child out of the puddle.

After reaching the flat ground, Yu Xuantou tightly grasped Xiao Le's hand, thinking of the situation when he fell into it just now, he was so wronged that the golden beans fell straight: "I drank the muddy water."

Xiao Le's expression was not very gentle, and there was even suppressed anger in his tone, "Is money that important? You just need to give it to him."

Yu Xuan was taken aback, sucked his nose and let go of his hands, thinking that he was being rejected, because his hands were covered with yellow mud, Xiao Le has a cleanliness habit, usually he has to take a bath without dust on his body to sleep in the same bed with him .

Now he's just a little dirty kid.

"But that's what I saved to buy you a gift." The child's voice was very soft, his muddy face was wrinkled, and his voice and expression were both aggrieved.

Xiao Le met those black and round bright eyes, and was stunned for a moment, but finally said nothing, the end of his eyes curved downwards in a gentle arc.

He squatted in front of Yu Xuan, took out a tissue from his backpack to wipe the mud on Yu Xuan's face, there were two scratched red marks on his forehead, fortunately he was wearing thick clothes, and there were no other injuries.

Yu Xuan fell into the puddle with his whole body, and his clothes were half wet.

I have to go back and change quickly.

Xiao Le turned his back to Yu Xuan, softened his tone slightly, "Come up."

"Dirty." Yu Xuan shook his head and refused.

Xiao Le glanced at the mud all over his body, and kept his posture unchanged. It seemed that his patience was not enough, and he said "come up" again.Yu Xuan proficiently lay on the ground, and it was not the first time that Xiao Le carried him on his back.

"Brother, you're so kind." Yu Xuan sniffed and clasped his hands tightly. This is the person who cares about him the most in this world and treats him best. Everyone else is not as good as him.

okay?Xiao Le only felt that the hands around his neck were wrapped too tightly, so tight that he couldn't breathe smoothly.Others said that he looked indifferent when he was silent, and sounded ruthless when he spoke, but they still didn't understand why this cheap little brother liked to cling to him so much.

Obviously he is not good to him, and sometimes he even finds it annoying when he quarrels.

Xiao Le walked back with Yu Xuan on his back, halfway there it started to rain, the rain was heavy, and the wind was also strong, the reeds on the side of the road were blown crooked and swayed all over the ground.

Yu Xuan shivered from the cold.

He was soaked through, and there was no point hiding from the rain, so he had to go back quickly.

Xiao Le put the denim jacket on Xuan's head, and with his back on his back, he quickened his pace, facing the wind and the rain.

On his back, Yu Xuan slowly pulled the coat over Xiao Le's head and covered the top of his head with his small hands, keeping his two heads tightly together.

"Do not bother me."

"No, I have to take care of you."

***

The next day Yu Xuan was called out by his classmates as soon as school was over, "Yu Xuan, someone is looking for you outside."

The people looking for him were the two fifth-grade students who pushed him into the pit yesterday. They were two heads taller than him. Yu Xuan was a little afraid of them, so he couldn't help taking two steps back, and whispered timidly: "I, I have no money... ..."

Unexpectedly, those two classmates bowed to him more than ninety degrees in unison, and said in unison: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't push you, and I will never dare again in the future."

The two left after apologizing. Yu Xuan packed up his homework and prepared to go home. He was in a good mood and hummed happily. Xiao Le said that he would come and wait for him to go home today.

Xiao Le must have made the two of them apologize, his brother is really amazing.

Opposite the entrance of Yuxuan School is the Osmanthus Garden. There are various snack stalls at the school entrance, such as marshmallows, osmanthus cakes, ice cream, and hollow confits covered in syrup. Just looking at them can make your teeth so sweet. The vendors wait with smiles on their faces. Patronized by children after school.

Xiao Le sat on the back seat of the bicycle and looked down at his mobile phone. His black sweater collar was turned up to cover his nose to block the scent and sweetness of osmanthus wafting in the air, and he propped one foot on the curb.

"elder brother--"

Xiao Le raised his head, and a ball of white glutinous rice balls rushed towards him, with a clear and soft voice, wearing a fluffy jacket and fluffy trousers, afraid that he might catch a cold last night, Chen Yalan dressed him thickly.Waking up late again in the morning, there was no time to change clothes, Xiao Le was impatient to leave, and Yu Xuan went to school in his pajamas.

Yu Xuan quickly climbed onto the back seat of the bicycle, staring eagerly at the cotton candy stand with big eyes, Xiao Le turned to look at him: "Want to eat?"

"No, I just think it looks nice when it's soft."

Xiao Le snorted, "Don't you just dress like a cotton candy yourself, what's so nice about it?"

Yu Xuan looked at his clothes and curled his lips. Several classmates already laughed at him today.

In the end, Xiao Le still bought a white cotton candy for Yu Xuan. Yu Xuan originally wanted to choose blue ones, but Xiao Le said that the colored ones had pigments.

Yu Xuan dangled his short legs in the back seat, eating happily. The white cotton candy was as soft and sweet as the white clouds in the sky.

"Brother, do you want to eat? I can share a bite with you."

"Do not want to."

When passing through the muddy field, Yu Xuan saw two people in the tree pit from a distance. They were the two classmates who pushed him yesterday and apologized today. The mud pit reached half of their waists, and they looked quite embarrassed. He looked at Xiao Le aggrievedly.

Yu Xuan couldn't help laughing: "Brother, they fell in too."

Xiao Le made a vague "hmm".

Xiao Le didn't stop his bicycle, didn't look at them, and rode directly in front of them.Yu Xuan bit off a large piece of marshmallow, rolled it into his mouth, and watched them get farther and farther away, turning into two unlucky black spots. Thinking of his fear yesterday, he couldn't help but soften his heart, "Brother, don't save them ?"

"They can make it."

"Then why don't they come up?"

"Maybe I want to play with mud."

"Oh." Yu Xuan curled the corner of his mouth, today he finally knew what a strong backing is.

He happily ate the last bite of marshmallow, leaving only a bare bamboo stick hidden in his schoolbag.Xiao Le told him to eat all the candy before he got home, otherwise he would go back and be scolded.

It's okay for him to be scolded, but his brother can't be scolded.

The author says:

Xuan: Another day being covered by my brother, happy~

The next chapter is a side story after growing up, which is also Xiao Le's perspective