Flowers bloom under the low wall

"Brother Yu," Fatty huddled in the crack of the door, calling Yu Xi in a thief-like manner, "Remember to read WeChat—"

"Yes." Yu Xi agreed as he went downstairs, knowing that Xiaopang probably wanted him to bring something to eat again.

When Yu Xi passed by downstairs, he saw his aunt making a knot, so he sat down beside her and watched her threading.

This town is small, and the people in the town live in the shadow of the trees with ancient things, and the wind will still pass through the yard as it did hundreds of years ago, disturbing the red stripes all over the yard to vibrate.

It was already dark outside, Yu Xi looked at the shadow of the whirling tree in the distance, turned his eyes back, and saw a firefly gently falling in front of him.The light of the fireflies is very weak, like a small lantern.

"Through it in here." Auntie handed two threads to Yu Xi, motioning him to tie a knot. "Did the classmate who came to see you last time know you in the store?"

Yu Xi's hands trembled, and he realized that he had accidentally pinched the firefly to death. The weak light dimmed little by little, and finally turned into an ugly shell.

He hasn't dreamed of Lin Yi for a long time. Firstly, he seems to have gotten used to spending time with him, and secondly, his life has become dull and quiet.

"Pure Love" does activities, adjusts the decorations, changes the decoration style, etc., he can work with everyone, Lin Yi will still joke and make trouble with everyone, he will tease Yu Xi, and bring Let's make fun of Yu Xi together.

Yu Xi still remembers that one evening, Lin Yi brought out a billboard from the store, put it up there, and said that we were inviting customers.

Yu Xi asked him why he didn't just put it there, and sister Yinwan jumped out and said, because they are living billboards, and she also took out the doll suits, a giant cat's paw, and a giant fox's paw.

Boss Zhang said that his daughter knows marketing very well, and old bosses like them no longer understand the minds of young people.Boss Zhang liked Lin Yi very much, and said that he regretted not having a boy to play with, and that having a daughter seemed less lovable than Yu Xi.

Most of the customers who come to the store are girls, and there are also many couples. They like to ask for a group photo of Yu Xi and Lin Yi, so the cat's paw and the fox's paw occupy more than half of the picture. Lin Yi will teach him to answer the customer's words obediently, and then After the guest has left, he will take out the words and make trouble with him.

There are also Uncle Wang and Xiao Wu, they always take special care of Yu Xi, they will ask him if he wants to eat alone or with everyone, and when they hold a celebration banquet, they will specially ask Lin Yi to give Yu Xi a new cake Come over and warn Lin Yi not to bully him.

Sometimes it’s too peaceful and beautiful, and the days slowly climb from one layer of the cake to another. When he climbed to the top layer, he would see two teenagers holding inflatable maces to each other outside the glass window. Pat, the cake shop behind them was dyed golden in the slow-moving sunset.

Everyone seemed to think that Lin Yi and Yu Xi became brothers and sisters for granted, and even Yu Xi felt that everything was too natural, as if everything was so easy except for the drunkenness that night.

So when his aunt sat by the basket and asked him about Lin Yi, Yu Xi felt obstacles and difficulties for the first time.

Yu Xi realizes that the world is the world, and the family is the family. He and Lin Yi are only in a certain corner of the world, and they haven't even touched the edge of home.

Yu Xi threw away the firefly and began to thread the thread slowly. This kind of knot was very complicated, and my aunt's ten fingers were entangled with thread, and she flipped over nimbly.

Yu Xi only has two threads, but he can't make a beautiful knot. He can only pass the threads through the most basic way, and then interweave, but he can't tie a knot, and it will be untied with a light pull.

Yu Xi stared at the two lines for a long time.

"His name is Lin Yi." Yu Xi pinched the two threads, the corners of his eyes moved, "I like him very much."

He spoke very softly, as long as the evening wind blows, the words can slide in front of my aunt along the two parallel lines in Yu Xi's hand like riding a railroad track.

"His kid is a little fussy, I thought you would be bothered," the aunt concentrated on sorting the line, and then smiled softly, "Tell him to come to the house for dinner, don't just break up like this, a person lives a lifetime, there must be one or two A friendship that can be kept in the heart."

Auntie took the two threads out of Yu Xi's hands, and finished the knot after a couple of twists. The knot was delicately tied with white and gray thread, very thin when it was looped, and the end was made of black beads for a loose buckle. .

"When I saw you, I always thought you were young, but in fact you have grown into a big guy." Aunt handed the knot to Yu Xi, "You don't come here often when you go to school, and you will go away when you go to university. , to have a friend is to have a caregiver, this is called worldly wisdom.”

"Like your old uncle and Boss Zhang, when they settled down in other places, they bought the wedding room together." The aunt was about to put away her things, and patted her body to joke, "I think that child is very clever, I guess You can abduct a little girl when you go to college, so you can secretly imitate him."

"Ah."

Yu Xi watched his aunt enter the room with a sad smile, but his phone vibrated suddenly, and he immediately turned it out to check.

[Mine owner]: Come out to play?

Yu Xi stood up and ran upstairs quickly. He ran upstairs with tears in his heart, turned out his coat, took it off, and pulled out the drawer, making a mess of the clothes.

He rummaged through these almost indistinguishable short sleeves. He wanted to find something nice, but none of them looked good. He smiled while searching, and swallowed the soreness in his throat.

"Pfft-"

Yu Xi felt that he was very stupid, he nestled in a ball of clothes and scratched his hair in annoyance, then laughed at himself.

Lin Yi often asked him to go out to play, basically playing ball. When he was free, he would walk along the street with one foot. Yu Xi followed him slowly, looking at Lin Yi's slightly higher shoulders, and There are clothes corners dangling at night.

Sometimes, Yu Xi looked at Lin Yi's hand hanging by his side, and almost touched it, but Lin Yi suddenly turned his head, put his hand in his trouser pocket, and said with a smile, Yu Xi, let's go rowing.

Yu Xi likes that Lin Yi calls him by his first name, also likes that Lin Yi jokingly calls him little brother, and likes that Lin Yi calls himself brother, but he doesn't like that Lin Yi usually talks about "brother" when he is serious.

In that way, it seems that they really become brothers. Yu Xi hoped that "brother" would be the words in the bed, and only Lin Yi and him would call out when they were alone.

When Yu Xi was struggling with his shoes, his phone vibrated again. He frantically went to pick it up, accidentally dropped the phone on the ground, and frantically picked it up.

[Mine owner]: I'm downstairs at your house

[Mine owner]: come down

Yu Xi was stunned for a moment, then ran to the window immediately.

Like lying on the window of the backyard many years ago, he saw the romance under the night sky at a glance. Lin Yi sat on the wall with his back to him, pressing the basketball with one hand, and the shadow of the jujube tree climbed from the corner of the wall to his back. .

When the wind blew gently, the tree shadow turned into a butterfly, flapping its wings on the back of the person he liked, startling the young man, who turned around and chuckled.

Yu Xi didn't think about anything, he ran downstairs quickly, and anxiously tied his shoelaces at the door.

"Go out to play?" Auntie laughed as she passed by.

"Well, Lin Yi is here to look for me," Yu Xi stood up, moved his feet, turned his back to his aunt and grabbed the doorknob, hesitated for a second before asking, "Can I not come back tonight?"

Rao Xiaopang often played with his classmates until the sky was dark, so that he had to sleep in someone else's house, and his aunt agreed, because according to their concept, boys can be raised in the wild.

It's just that Yu Xi is too withdrawn, too well-behaved, even too quiet, and looks too well-behaved. Even if he said this, it sounded like he was saying, I'm going to study outside all night today.

"Are you going to that child's house?" Auntie stood with her basket in her arms, feeling that Yu Xi seemed to be being misled. "It's not good to disturb others casually, does his family know?"

Of course, Lin Yi's family didn't know that there was a kid who wanted to do something to Lin Yi. Yu Xi lowered his eyes, and he gently pressed the doorknob, intending to give up just like that.

"Little Xi," my aunt called out from behind, "If they chase you away, you will come back."

"Understood," Yu Xi chuckled, and squeezed the doorknob, "Can I learn to tie knots tomorrow?" He opened the door and went out without looking back.

My aunt went to the door and closed it, only to find that Yu Xi did not bring the key.

Yu Xi was very nervous and flustered, but he was so happy, he ran through the bushes, turned back, and climbed up the wall humming.

When he was squatting on the top of the wall, his whole body was covered by the branches of the bushes. He heard the beating of his heart and the cries of countless insects, and saw fireflies flying past his eyes, and then through the gaps in the bushes. fly out.

The fireflies flew out from the dark bushes and landed lightly on the back of the boy's head under the wall. The boy stood against the wall a few steps away from where Yu Xi squatted, and the fireflies circled his hair with a faint yellow circle.

Lin Yi held the basketball in one hand and looked down at his phone. He didn't know that Yu Xi was squatting on the wall behind him, that Yu Xi was gently moving his feet in the bushes, moving behind him step by step, and then squatting in the bushes again. Moved.

Yu Xi nestled against the wall in secret joy and excitement, and stretched out a hand to gently touch the back of Lin Yi's head.The low wall was not high, the surroundings were dim, and the street lamps in the distance were faintly glowing. Yu Xi's fingers lightly touched Lin Yi's hair.

The firefly was startled by the gigantic fingers, then slowly climbed up the mountain of meat, resting in the rings of fingerprints, it heard the vibrations in the fingerprints below it, and was separated again. The fleshy magma scalded his butt, and he flew away from the giant finger in anger.

The boy squatting in the bush looked at the boy standing under the wall. All the joy was heard by a firefly, and his beloved would not even hear a hair.

Yu Xi felt itchy in his heart, and carefully traced Lin Yi's hair with his fingers bit by bit.Yu Xi really likes to see Lin Yi anxiously waiting for him, like a cheating mistress pampered and proud, or like a spoiled wild cat, hiding on purpose so that no one will find out.

Yu Xi put his chin on his knees and saw that Lin Yi was reading WeChat. The corner was very dark, and Yu Xi had good eyesight. Yu Xi peeked at every word written by Lin Yi's fingertips.

[input field]

[Why don't you come down? ]

(delete delete)

[Why don't you come down? ]

(delete delete)

[what's wrong? ]

(delete delete)

[Why don't you reply? ]

(delete delete)

[I waited for you a long time]

(delete delete)

[Basketball has been waiting for you for a long time]

(delete delete)

[Brother has been waiting for you for a long time]

(delete delete)

[Brother is waiting for you, okay (love)]

(delete delete)

[Brother is waiting for you, okay]

(delete delete)

[Brother is waiting for you, come down obediently]

(delete delete)

[Brother is waiting for you]

(sending········)

Yu Xi saw that Lin Yi had typed and deleted many times, and finally sorted out the four words, and then hesitatingly sent them out.

Yu Xi crouched in the bushes and sniggered. He felt that it was right for him to have a big temper. A thoughtful person like Lin Yi would take care of his temper, because he was afraid of annoying him and tangled up for a long time, so he spoke to him cautiously.

It feels good to be held in the palm of your hand.

Lin Yi, do you know that I already dare to tell my family that I like you.

It’s just that I dare not tell you or your family.

I'm afraid to say, you flew away like a firefly and never came back.

The author has something to say:

Firefly: My ass! ! ! (milk fierce)