youth and time

The summer sky is like the face of the monkey grandson, even when it is near the end of August, it will change as soon as it is said.

Yangcheng has been clear and cloudless since July. Until the end of August, Yangcheng finally ushered in the third rain this summer.

Probably because it hasn't rained for more than a month or almost two months. This time, the rain is fierce, and the black clouds are overwhelming the city, just like the end of the world.

It has been raining continuously for several hours, and the sky is covered with dark clouds. The dark and thick clouds firmly block the sun's light and the last ray of the sun, and the whole world is plunged into darkness.

"Boom--"

There was a muffled sound in the air, and the thunder led another wave of dark clouds to hit the sky above Yangcheng. A flash of lightning flashed, tearing a crack in the air, and a flash of white light was reflected on the ground, becoming the sky in Yangcheng. only natural light

——Yangcheng is about to usher in a new rain attack.

Jiang Yufan was half-kneeling on the small sofa, and pushed open the window to see the situation outside the house. As soon as he opened the window, the bean-sized raindrops were carried by the wind and poured into the house, and Jiang Yufan was full of it when it came up. Face.

Jiang Yufan closed his eyes, quickly closed the window, and wiped his face vigorously.

Jiang Yufan looked up at the clock on the wall, it was already past seven o'clock, and the rain started to fall after four o'clock.

Jiang Yufan looked out the window worriedly.

I don’t know how long this rain will last. Today, the High School Affiliated to Normal University is closed and there is no need for classes, but Jiang Lin and An Ruosu, as the leaders of the graduating grade, still have to go to school to attend various meetings today. They should be home by now, but Because of the rain, I was trapped at school.

School will start soon, and Jiang Yufan’s homework has already been finished. Now that it’s raining so heavily, the raindrops are pattering on the glass windows, and everyone’s heart flustered. On the Internet, randomly open an APP on the phone, don't look at anything, just refresh and refresh blindly.

Suddenly, the phone froze briefly, and then the call interface flashed.

It was Zhong Chaozhou calling.

Jiang Yufan answered the phone: "What's wrong?"

The background sound from Zhong Chaozhou's side sounded very messy, but the sound of the rain hitting the umbrella could be heard clearly, and Zhong Chaozhou shouted at the top of his voice, "Hey! Jiang Yufan! Open the door!"

"..." Jiang Yufan was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, picked up the umbrella in the small bucket by the door, opened it and ran into the yard.

"Why are you here?" When the two returned to the house, Jiang Yufan casually threw the umbrella back into the bucket and asked.

Zhong Chaozhou patted the wet area caused by the tilt of the umbrella just now, and said, "You...you can change your clothes with that set, and stay at my house tonight."

"doing what?"

"What do you think? It's raining so hard, you're the only one in your house, what if something happens to you? Stay at my house for one night, and you can have someone to take care of you."

"No." Jiang Yufan resolutely refused, "I have to wait for my parents to come back."

"Weather forecast, it is predicted that it will rain all night. I don't know when your parents will come back."

"Then I have to..."

The phone ringing interrupted Jiang Yufan's words, it was Jiang Lin calling.

"Hey, Dad!"

"Xiaofan." Jiang Lin's side sounded very quiet, probably staying in the office, "I just called your Aunt Chen, you should go to Xiaozhou's house to stay for the night first."

Jiang Yufan frowned: "Aren't you coming back?"

"I guess it's difficult." Jiang Lin looked at the school campus worriedly, "The attached middle school is low-lying and it's raining too much. There is already water at the school gate, and the water level of the lake inside the school is also rising. I don't know what will happen."

"Ah? Then you..."

"Don't worry about us! We can just spend the night at school. The forecast will stop the rain tomorrow, and we will go home then. You go to Xiaozhou's house to stay for the night first, be obedient."

The word "obedient" stroked Jiang Yufan's hair, and he nodded: "...Okay."

Jiang Yufan hung up the phone, picked up his schoolbag, and stuffed two books into it: "Okay, let's go."

"You don't take your clothes?"

"I just took a shower this morning after running in the morning."

"Where's the pajamas?"

Jiang Yufan never brings his pajamas with him when he stays at other people's houses. He always wears home clothes, because he feels that pajamas can only be felt in his own home, and it always feels weird to wear them in other people's houses. He pointed to the home clothes on his body: "This will do."

Now Zhong Chaozhou only wanted to take Jiang Yufan back to his home, and he didn't care so much: "That's fine, let's go quickly."

Zhong Chaozhou’s family is also Zhong Yang’s couple, Grandpa Zhong and Zhong Chaozhou, and other relatives in the family live in other places, and they usually don’t spend the night with relatives, so most of the unused rooms of Zhong Chaozhou’s house are used as warehouses to store various things. There were a few guest rooms left, but the environment was mediocre, and Chen Jin was also worried that something would go wrong with Jiang Yufan alone, so he simply let Jiang Yufan stay in Zhong Chaozhou's house overnight.

A long sofa in Zhong Chaozhou’s house is foldable. When folded, it becomes a sofa, and when unfolded, it can be used as a bed. Even though the bed board is a bit hard, it can still be used for sleeping. Just lay a few more layers of cushions on it.

Zhong Chaozhou took out a quilt, a pillow, and a few cushions from the cabinet, threw them on the sofa bed, pinched his waist, and said, "Go to bed, I'll sleep here."

"No need." Jiang Yufan threw his schoolbag on the sofa bed, signaling to Zhong Chaozhou that the land belongs to him, "I'll just sleep here, you go to bed."

"That won't work, it's too hard here, the bed is soft, it's comfortable to sleep on, you go."

Jiang Yufan licked his lips: "Do you think I'm being polite to you?"

"..." Zhong Chaozhou looked at Jiang Yufan's eyes, and always felt that if he disagreed, he could punch his face in the next second, "Okay, I'll sleep on the bed."

Jiang Yufan shook a cushion and was about to make the bed. Zhong Chaozhou wanted to help, but thinking of his poor housekeeping ability, he gave up and sat on the bed watching Jiang Yufan skillfully make the bed.

Fortunately, Chen Jin was not here.

Zhong Chaozhou only had this idea now, otherwise Chen Jin would have to see it, and he would have to say that he doesn't know how to do this or that, and he would just sit at home and wait to die.

Speaking of "other people's children", Zhong Chaozhou felt that Jiang Yufan was definitely a typical example.

When Jiang Yufan made the bed, Jiang Huan happened to call to ask about the situation.

Jiang Yufan simply said a few words to Jiang Huan and hung up the phone.

"Here, watermelon." A fork with a piece of watermelon on it appeared in front of him, Zhong Chaozhou said vaguely with watermelon in his mouth, "My mother just sent it, eat some."

"Oh, thank you." Jiang Yufan took the fork and put the watermelon into his mouth.

After a lot of tossing like this, it is already past eight o'clock, and the rain outside the house is a little lighter than before, but it is still falling heavily.

Jiang Yufan sighed, closed the book, and looked out the window with worried eyes.

"What's the matter? Worried about your parents?" Zhong Chaozhou asked after noticing Jiang Yufan's abnormality.

Jiang Yufan nodded: "Yes."

"Oh! Thinking too much! It's okay!" Zhong Chaozhou turned over and got out of bed, walked over a few steps, and sat cross-legged on the sofa bed, "Now the rain is getting lighter and smaller, and it will stop soon, and a school as big as the High School Affiliated to Normal University , the flood control measures will not be so bad.”

"I know. But...the high school attached to the Normal University was flooded once." Jiang Yufan sighed and said in a low voice.

That happened a few years ago. At that time, Jiang Yufan was only in the second year of junior high school. In the summer vacation of that year, it rained heavily in Yangcheng, and it rained for several days without stopping. It was flooded, and the library and the teaching building were flooded. The school's drainage measures and flood control system could not stop the heavy rain, so much rainfall. It was at the end of July, and the school's graduating class had not yet During the class, no casualties were caused, only economic losses were caused, but that time, it also left a deep and terrifying impression on all the teachers and students of the High School Attached to Normal University.

Zhong Chaozhou had also heard about that incident, and he scratched his head: "Well, let's chat for a while and think of something else happy. There's watermelon, let's talk while eating."

Jiang Yufan ate another piece of watermelon, puffed his cheeks, and asked, "What is happiness?"

"Just think about something that makes you feel happy when you think about it now."

Jiang Yufan tilted his head seriously and thought for a while, then said, "Well...school will start soon, and I've finished my homework."

Zhong Chaozhou: "..."

Zhong Chaozhou lowered his head, wiped his face vigorously, raised his head again, and said, "Brother, you're killing Tian'er right now."

"..." Jiang Yufan's expression was innocent, "Then... is there anything else to be happy about?"

"Yes! There are a lot!" Zhong Chaozhou patted his thigh, stretched out a hand, and counted on his fingers, "Think about it, the games you play, the delicious food you eat, and some things you meet Interesting things and interesting people are fine! Think again...forget it, don't think about it, let me talk about my business."

"No, thank you for comforting me." Jiang Yufan interrupted him, opened the book and continued reading, "But I'm not interested in chatting with you right now."

"Then you are interested in reading, right?" Zhong Chaozhou glanced at the title of the book, ""Pride and Prejudice"? Go down? Can you understand what the book is talking about?"

Jiang Yufan raised his head helplessly: "Then what do you want to do?"

"Let's chat for a while! Otherwise, you do your thing and I do mine, how boring! Chat for a while!"

"I don't have fun, I don't play games, I don't have anything to talk about."

"That's okay! Let's not talk about that! Let's talk about you!"

"What do I have to talk about?"

"Yes! There are many things to talk about! For example..." Zhong Chaozhou thought for a while, "You look so good-looking, how many girls like you? Has anyone ever recognized you as a girl?"

Jiang Yufan looked at Zhong Chaozhou with a mentally retarded look, opened his lips slightly, and said three words coldly: "Are you sick?"

"I'm serious! You are really good-looking, as delicate as a girl, has no one ever regarded you as a girl?"

Jiang Yufan didn't want to answer this question.

Because the answer is yes, and a lot.

When Jiang Yufan was in junior high school at the High School Attached to Normal University, the school uniforms for boys and girls in the High School Attached to Normal University were the same, unlike some schools where boys and girls have the same uniforms but different colors, nor like the Seventh Middle School where both boys and girls have uniforms Different, you can tell whether it is a boy or a girl by looking at the style.

The school uniforms of the High School Attached to Normal University do not have any difference in style or color, only the size. At that time, Jiang Yufan was younger than now, and his hair was short, a little shorter than that of ordinary girls, and longer than that of ordinary boys. One point, I really looked like a girl at the time. When I was in junior high school, I was still wearing my own clothes. When the head teacher was doing the roll call, he pointed at the face and the "male" in the gender column after the name. After reading the words for a long time, I suspected that the school had made a low-level mistake and mistyped the gender of the person, but after listening to the voice and looking at the clothes he was wearing, he was indeed a boy, so he dubiously asked people to sit down .

This misunderstanding has been increasing since the first day of junior high school, and even in high school, some people will still regard Jiang Yufan as a girl, if only by the face.

With this face, people who like him can fill the playground of the High School Affiliated to Normal University, and there are men and women, it can be said that men and women can take it all.

"Wow—" Zhong Chaozhou opened his mouth wide and exclaimed in admiration.

"Wow what?" Jiang Yufan rolled his eyes, then asked seriously, "Do I really look like a girl?"

"Hmm..." Zhong Chaozhou's expression was more serious than Jiang Yufan's. He thought about it carefully, stared at Jiang Yufan carefully for a while, and said, "Actually, you are still young now, maybe when you grow up Yes, after years of polishing and precipitation, she doesn't look so... like a girl."

Saying this is like not saying it.

Jiang Yufan curled his lips and touched his face.

"What? Do you care?"

"Otherwise?" Jiang Yufan asked back, "Do you like being recognized as a girl?"

Zhong Chaozhou shrank his neck: "I don't want to."

"That's fine."

Zhong Chaozhou shrugged, unexpectedly, Jiang Yufan cared so much about his face.

"Okay then, let's change the subject." Zhong Chaozhou smiled, "It's still early, let's continue spraying!"