round spring

In 1997, my voice was hoarse in the summer wind, and my heart seemed to be hanging on a kite.

——An Yuan's Diary

"Xiao Yuan'er, go slowly, wait for me." Shen Xingchun still had unfinished steamed stuffed buns in his mouth, with a muffled voice, looking at the door that opened and closed automatically, he picked up the schoolbag on the chair and chased after him. go out.

An Yuan grabbed the schoolbag strap on her shoulder and walked quickly ahead, without any intention of responding.

Shen Xingchun caught up with An Yuan and grabbed his wrist, "I'm not kidding you. It's been a night and you still don't talk to me? That's how the voice change period is. The voice is hoarse and not pleasant to hear. It will be fine after a while. Come on, don't be so sullen, give me a smile."

An Yuan pretended not to hear, went out of the compound gate, turned into the street, and walked on the side of the road with small steps.

He pursed his lips tightly, but didn't speak.

He said last night that he would never speak to Shen Xingchun again.

He is 14 and a half years old now, and his voice is changing, his voice is hoarse and ugly, like a duck.

The reason why he didn't talk to Shen Xingchun was that before going to bed last night, he complained to Shen Xingchun about his new tablemate after changing seats, before he finished speaking, Shen Xingchun started laughing inexplicably.

An Yuan asked him what he was laughing at, Shen Xingchun didn't speak, but just touched the front of his neck, that was where his Adam's apple started to grow, and now it has raised a little curvature.

An Yuan knew that Shen Xingchun was laughing at his voice, so he immediately shut up, turned over, and turned his back to Shen Xingchun.

After that, no matter how Shen Xingchun teased him or apologized, An Yuan only said "I will never talk to you again", and then really stopped talking to Shen Xingchun, and had a cold war with him all night.

I didn't pay attention to him when I was having breakfast in the morning. When grandma talked to him, he just responded with a couple of ums.

Shen Xingchun bumped him with his shoulder while walking: "You little man holds grudges so much, why are you still angry with me?"

No matter what Shen Xingchun said, An Yuan didn't want to say anything, Shen Xingchun directly raised his arms around his neck, and pressed him into his arms, "So angry? Have you never talked to brother for the rest of your life?" ?”

An Yuan turned her face away and looked into the distance, and was led forward by Shen Xingchun.

It's midsummer, the morning sun is already a bit dazzling, the factory chimneys and old red tile houses in the distance are twisted after the heat wave, and the mottled trees and shadows on the road are full of heat.

An Yuan is now in the first semester of junior high school, and his junior high school is closer to Shen Xingchun's high school, just a few steps across the road is Shen Xingchun's school.

When he arrived at the gate of the junior high school, Shen Xingchun held him back and refused to let him in, "If we don't see each other for a day, are you sure you don't want to talk to me?"

Only then An Yuan raised his eyelids, his fingernails were still picking at the protruding part of his schoolbag, and he looked up at Shen Xingchun who was still a head taller than him.

It has been a year and a half. Although he drinks milk every day, he is still much shorter than Shen Xingchun. Although he is also growing, his brother is growing faster. His brother is now 1.8 meters.

An Yuan looked at Shen Xingchun's shoulders that were much wider than before, Xia Tian's thin cloth was against his body, and the muscles on his arms already felt powerful.

An Yuan's gaze moved down, looking at Shen Xingchun's neck bending downwards, the rolling beads of sweat slid over his neck, which was a little darker in the summer, and his Adam's apple, which was already very obvious.

The summer wind blew across his cheeks, An Yuan looked at Shen Xingchun's Adam's apple, and raised his neck towards Shen Xingchun. He moved the root of his tongue, trying to suppress the hoarseness in his throat, but the hoarse voice was particularly obvious in the summer wind. The voice is still not very pleasant.

"Brother, does my Adam's apple look good?"

Shen Xingchun bent down, and in his sight, the baby fat on An Yuan's face had faded a lot, and the cheeks on both sides became slightly angular.

He looked at An Yuan in front of him, unreservedly, bending a white, thin and fragile arc.

The little one is grown up now.

Shen Xingchun raised his hand to touch the inconspicuous bump on his neck, and said, "It's pretty, small, round, and it matches you very well."

An Yuan finally smiled, put his chin down and looked at Shen Xingchun, "Brother's Adam's apple is also very suitable for you, today is Friday, it's my turn to clean up in the evening, you didn't study late today, did you, go to my class and wait for me after school? "

Shen Xingchun pinched An Yuan's slightly flushed cheeks under the sun again, "The little man has such a temper, it's good that he coaxed you for so long."

An Yuan felt the pain of being pinched on his cheek, and turned his eyes away from Shen Xingchun, "I don't need you to coax."

"You don't need me to coax you, you are your own good now?"

"Of course, I'm fine. If I'm really angry, you can't coax me well."

Shen Xingchun smiled, stood up straight, and lifted up the shoulder strap of the schoolbag that slipped from Anyuan's shoulder, "Go in quickly, I'll wait for you after school tonight."

After An Yuan walked into the school gate, she turned her head and shouted at Shen Xingchun's back, "Don't be late."

Shen Xingchun waved his hand at him, "Understood, I will definitely come on time."

An Yuan sat on the seat and did his homework after cleaning the classroom after school at night, waiting for Shen Xingchun to come to him, but when he waited until it was dark,

He finished his homework for the two days weekend in the classroom, all the students in the class left, and Shen Xingchun hadn't come yet.

An Yuan packed her schoolbag, locked the classroom door, and went to the high school opposite.

He often went to high school to look for Shen Xingchun. Many of Shen Xingchun's classmates already knew him. Shen Xingchun's deskmate Yu Yang ran into An Yuan when he was leaving the school with his schoolbag on his back, and called him from afar.

"Xiao Yuan'er, are you here to find your brother?"

An Yuan stood still and replied, "Brother Yang, is my brother still in the classroom?"

"Should be there," Yu Yang glanced back in the direction of the classroom, "He was still there when I came out."

"Do you have evening self-study tonight?" An Yuan asked.

Yu Yang said: "Today is Friday and there is no evening self-study. I am in a hurry to drive home. It is only available from Monday to Thursday. Go to the classroom and have a look, maybe it will be closed soon."

An Yuan nodded, "Then I'll go find my brother first."

An Yuan ran to the row of high school sophomore classrooms, and saw the lights in Shen Xingchun's class from a distance. He went to the window and lay down on the window sill to look in.

The school classrooms are all double-glazed. In order to prevent the cold in winter, the glass is still clean.

The classroom was very empty, and An Yuan saw Shen Xingchun sitting in the last row at a glance, and a girl sitting in Yu Yang's seat.

An Yuan looked at the girl and frowned.

He has basically seen all of Shen Xingchun's classmates, at least he can recognize a familiar face, but the girl sitting next to Shen Xingchun now has no memory of An Yuan, and has never seen him before.

The girl's black and long hair was scattered behind her head, and a strand of hair slipped when she lowered her head. From time to time, she raised her slender fingers to gather the strands of hair that fell on her cheeks, and put them behind her ears again.

The two of them were supposed to be working on a problem, Shen Xingchun moved to the side when the girl brushed her hair, took a pen to write calculations on the paper, and explained to the girl while writing.

An Yuan's brows were tightened even more, and her long eyelashes drooped tremblingly. Thinking of Shen Xingchun's promise to wait for him, but now she reneged on her promise, her jaw clenched in anger.

When the girl combed her hair again, An Yuan pushed open the back door of the classroom. The back door was a bit worn out for a long time. The two people in the back row were cut off.

Shen Xingchun turned his head to look over, and when he saw that it was An Yuan, he curled his lips, pinched the pen in his hand and waved to him: "Xiao Yuan, come here quickly."

With both hands in his pockets, An Yuan quickly walked over two rows of tables and chairs, walked to Shen Xingchun's side and stood beside him, clinging to his arms, leaning half of his body on him, and took out the With his left hand, he touched the bottom of Shen Xingchun's arm, and poked the skin on the inner side of his arm with his nails.

"Shen Xingchun, this is?" the girl looked at An Yuan and asked.

"my brother."

The girl didn't say much, she stood up and cleaned up the test papers on the table, "I have understood, thank you for explaining the questions to me, I didn't hear clearly what the math teacher said during the daytime math class."

Shen Xingchun leaned against An Yuan and said to the girl, "It's okay."

The girl slowly packed her schoolbag and carried it on her back, and after dawdling for a long time, she said to Shen Xingchun: "Then I'll be leaving first, see you next week."

"Okay, see you next week."

After the girl left, Shen Xingchun grabbed An Yuan's wrist with his backhand, "It hurts, stop poking."

He squeezed An Yuan's finger, held it in front of his eyes, and said, "Go home and cut your nails, I'll pack my schoolbag."

Shen Xingchun packed his schoolbag and test papers, An Yuan looked at the figure walking away outside the window and asked, "Who was that just now? Why haven't I seen it before?"

"Today, I transferred a new classmate from Farm High School. I really don't remember the name."

"It's a new transfer today, why are you so enthusiastic about giving lectures?"

Shen Xingchun zipped up his schoolbag, carried the schoolbag on his shoulder with one hand, and led An Yuan out with the other, "The people she came to see me after school were all from the same class, and she was new here, so it's not good to tell me. "

An Yuan put her hands in Shen Xingchun's palms, and walked out beside him, muttering: "You agreed to wait for me in the morning, but I'll wait until it's dark, and you haven't come yet, so you give a lecture , I forgot about Xiaoyuan."

An Yuan's voice became smaller and smaller, and the hoarse voice seemed a little aggrieved.

"I also want to leave early. I have explained a question three times, but I still don't understand it. I am too embarrassed to rush, so I was delayed."

"I can't do it three times, isn't that intentional?" An Yuan said angrily.

"Maybe not," Shen Xingchun said, "Maybe it's just... just don't understand..."

An Yuan suppressed a smile, if the other party was a man, Shen Xingchun would have scolded him long ago, why is he so stupid?

An Yuan remembered that last time he couldn't do a problem, he asked Shen Xingchun to explain it to him several times. In the end, Shen Xingchun was so angry that he directly pushed him down on the schoolbag.

That time, I can't blame An Yuan for being stupid. The scope of the question was beyond the outline, and An Yuan hadn't learned many knowledge points.

"Have you got your monthly exam results?" Shen Xingchun asked.

"It's out, first," An Yuan was a little proud, and stretched out his other hand towards him, facing him, "What about the gift? As promised, there will be a gift first."

Shen Xingchun smiled: "It's not uncommon for you to be the first one. If you come first, you will ask for a gift?"

An Yuan lifted her palms up, "That's for sure, you said before I entered junior high school, as long as you get the first place in the exam, you will get a gift."

"What do you want this time?"

An Yuan thought for a while and then withdrew her hand, "I haven't made up my mind yet, I'll tell you when I'm done."