youth and time

Originally it was Zhong Chaozhou who went to look for Jiang Yufan, but thinking about Zhong Chaozhou's foot injury, Jiang Yufan went to Zhong Chaozhou's house with a book in the morning.

"Eh? You're here?" Zhong Chaozhou laughed when he saw Jiang Yufan, and sat behind his desk raising his hand, "Quick, quick, I'm getting a headache from this history question, come and help me! "

Jiang Yufan looked around after entering the room, and asked, "Where's Shen Yi'an? Didn't he say that we should do homework together on National Day?"

"Oh, that, it can't be done." Zhong Chaozhou bit his pen and said, "It's the science competition we mentioned during the holiday, the provincial experiment. Lao Shen was selected by the teacher to participate, and he will go after the National Day holiday. Now he's doing competition questions."

Jiang Yufan nodded: "How long?"

Zhong Chaozhou thought for a while: "It's more than a month, and the estimated time to come back is mid-November. Hey, really, it's the basketball game in early November, and I still want to fight with him on the field, but it's gone. "

Jiang Yufan looked down at Zhong Chaozhou's feet, and said, "With your feet, who are you fighting with?"

"Oh, it will be fine by then, don't delay."

"To put it lightly, even if it's over, you still have to take care of it. You made such a fuss yesterday, and you have to take care of it for a longer time."

Zhong Chaozhou smiled and said, "Then why don't you go to the basketball game for me?"

"...don't go."

"why?"

"I won't fight."

"Tch, I don't believe it." Zhong Chaozhou curled his lips, "You also said that you are not good at sports, but you ended up first in the long-distance running and broke the record in the relay race. I believe you."

"........."

Jiang Yufan frowned, and sat down on the chair: "Let's talk later, let's talk about the homework now, which questions can't you?"

Hard-spoken and soft-hearted.

Zhong Chaozhou pursed his lips and smiled, and pushed his homework over.

For the rest of the National Day, Jiang Yufan stayed with Zhong Chaozhou almost all the time, with a lot of homework, and they barely finished their homework until October 10th.

Jiang Yufan packed up his textbooks and homework, and dragged his tired body home. He rubbed his sore neck, and found that Jiang Yuqing's door was wide open, so he went over to take a look curiously.

In the room, there was a large suitcase on the floor, and Jiang Yuqing was putting his folded clothes into the suitcase.

Jiang Yufan froze: "Brother..."

Hearing the sound, Jiang Yuqing raised her head and said with a smile, "Are you back?"

Jiang Yufan looked down at the box on the ground, and said in a low voice, "You want to go?"

"Yeah." The smile on Jiang Yuqing's face also faded a little, "The high-speed train tomorrow morning."

"Oh." Jiang Yufan responded to express his understanding, turned around, and planned to go back to his room, "Then you take your time to clean up, I'll put the books away."

Jiang Yuqing: "..."

Looking at Jiang Yufan's thin back and the closed door, Jiang Yuqing sighed deeply.

The next morning, at ten o'clock, the high-speed rail station.

Jiang Yuqing was standing in the waiting room with his suitcase, talking to the adults in his family. Jiang Huan couldn't bear Jiang Yuqing, so he pulled Jiang Yuqing's sleeve and acted like a baby, wanting him to stay for a few more days.

Jiang Yuqing smiled helplessly, patted Jiang Huan on the head, looked over the crowd, and landed on Jiang Yufan who was huddled in the corner, his eyes darkened.

He put the suitcase aside and walked over quietly.

"Cub." Jiang Yuqing sat down beside Jiang Yufan, stretched out his hand to brush away the broken hair on Jiang Yufan's forehead and temples, and said softly, "Aren't you happy?"

Jiang Yufan pursed his lips, glanced at Jiang Yuqing, stretched out two fingers to grab his sleeve, and said in a low voice, "You're leaving again. I don't want you to leave."

"Silly boy." Jiang Yuqing laughed, and flicked Jiang Yufan's forehead, "It's not like we won't see each other again. We will all come to Yangcheng during the Chinese New Year, and we will accompany you well then."

Jiang Yufan muttered in a low voice: "That will take a long time."

Jiang Yuqing: "..."

Jiang Yuqing sighed softly, took Jiang Yufan into his arms, and kissed him lightly on the top of his head like he was coaxing him to sleep when he was a child: "Be good, be good."

Jiang Yufan didn't say a word, just hugged Jiang Yuqing tightly with open arms, buried his head in his arms and rubbed hard.

"Dear passengers, the high-speed train will depart at 10:6 on October 10th, please check your tickets and get on the train—"

A sweet but emotionless mechanical female voice came to mind in the hall.

The two brothers froze at the same time.

Jiang Yuqing let go of Jiang Yufan slowly, and rubbed his cheek against Jiang Yufan's hair: "Good boy, I should go."

Jiang Yufan stood up and followed Jiang Yuqing step by step towards the ticket gate.

Jiang Yuqing dragged the suitcase, took a deep breath, turned her head, pretended to smile freely, waved her hand, and said, "Stop moving, I'm leaving, goodbye!"

The three adults all smiled, Jiang Huanyi waved goodbye, Jiang Yufan put his hands in his pockets and stared down at the tiled floor of the waiting room without lifting his head or looking at Jiang Yuqing.

After Jiang Yuqing said hello, he turned his head and strode towards the ticket gate. After a while, the tall and handsome figure gradually disappeared from sight.

"Xiaofan." An Ruosu hugged Jiang Yufan into his arms and said in a low voice, "Mom and Dad have to go back to school, so you and your aunt will go home, okay?"

"No need." Jiang Yufan shook his head, "I'll go back by myself. It's not like no one has stayed at home before."

An Ruosu and Jiang Lin looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Jiang Huan knew that Jiang Yufan liked to be alone when he was in a bad mood, so she stretched out her hand to straighten Jiang Yufan's collar, and said, "Then you stay at home alone, we won't disturb you. Call us if you have anything to do ,Um?"

Jiang Yufan nodded and said sullenly, "Okay."

Coming out of the high-speed rail station, Guhuai Lane, the High School Affiliated to Normal University and North Street are not in the same direction. Han Yi and Jiang Huan took a taxi. An Ruosu wanted to send Jiang Yufan back, but Jiang Yufan refused and sat alone. took the bus home.

The scorching sun shone on Jiang Yufan's body, and Jiang Yufan felt hot all over his body. He raised his hand and closed the small curtain hanging on the bus window, barely covering the sun, but it couldn't quell the irritability in his heart.

From the high-speed rail station to Guhuai Lane, it would take at least four or 10 minutes by bus. Adding in the waiting time for the bus, it was almost twelve o'clock when Jiang Yufan got off the bus.

"Jiang Yufan—"

As soon as Jiang Yufan got out of the car, he saw Zhong Chaozhou coming up to meet him. He frowned slightly, and stepped forward to support him in three steps: "Why did you run out again?"

Zhong Chaozhou raised the mobile phone in his hand: "I asked my aunt how you came back, and she said you took the bus, so I will pick you up at the station."

Jiang Yufan took a few glances at Zhong Chaozhou. It was hot today, and Zhong Chaozhou's forehead was covered with fine sweat. The neckline of his T-shirt was soaked with sweat, and the color was much darker than other places. It could be seen that Zhong Chaozhou should be waited for so long.

Jiang Yufan sighed slightly, and slowed down his voice: "I'm not a child, so I don't need someone to pick me up when I take a bus."

Zhong Chaozhou pursed his lips: "I'm afraid you...are in a bad mood."

"what?"

"Didn't your brother go to Ningcheng? You like your brother so much. You must be in a bad mood when he leaves. I'm afraid you're in a bad mood. I'm here to pick you up. I can stay with you for a while longer."

As Zhong Chaozhou said, he took out an Alpine lollipop from his pocket: "Here, I bought it for you, eat it."

Looking at the lollipop, Jiang Yufan held his forehead: "You really treat me like a child, don't you?"

Zhong Chaozhou said with certainty: "Although, this trick is useful."

Jiang Yufan resisted the urge to roll his eyes, tore open the package, and stuffed the lollipop into his mouth.

Zhong Chaozhou smiled: "Let's go, my mother cooked a good meal at home. There are fish and stewed beef ribs. There is not much fat, but most of them are lean meat. Try it?"

Jiang Yufan nodded: "Yes."

Under the sun, the teenagers supported each other and walked forward. The weather was hot, and the teenagers were sweating a lot. Their arms were sticky together. To be fair, it was extremely uncomfortable, but neither of them let go, nor said no. Qing is why.

After eating, Jiang Yufan helped clean up the dishes and was about to go home, but was pulled out by Zhong Chaozhou, who hooked his finger at Jiang Yufan mysteriously: "Come here, let me show you something nice .”

Jiang Yufan: "...What are you doing?"

"Why not, I'll show you something, you'll definitely like it." Zhong Chaozhou said, and pushed him into the room, "Go and see, you won't regret it!"

Jiang Yufan: "..."

Jiang Yufan said he was not interested, but with disgust on his face, he still walked towards Zhong Chaozhou's room.

Zhong Chaozhou's room was still the same as usual, the only difference was that there was more medicated oil for feet on the coffee table.

Jiang Yufan raised his eyebrows: "So what do you want to show me?"

"Here, just wait!" Zhong Chaozhou walked to the bed and lifted his quilt, "Dangdangdangdang~surprise!"

Jiang Yufan was shocked by this inexplicable sense of ritual.

He walked forward slowly, and found that on Zhong Chaozhou's bed, SpongeBob SquarePants, Pai Daxing, Squidward Brother, Mr. Crab, Mr. Rabbit, and Sandy's dolls were lined up, and each doll had a huge and silly smile on its face. , staring at Jiang Yufan with round eyes.

Jiang Yufan was dumbfounded for a moment: "What are you doing...?"

"It's nothing, it's just the first time I saw you at the station, I saw you were wearing SpongeBob SquarePants clothes, I secretly asked your brother last night, do you like SpongeBob SquarePants, your brother said yes, and then this morning I ran to a department store and bought this set of dolls, as a gift from me when we meet again!" Zhong Chaozhou snorted twice, with a gesture of asking for credit, "How about it! Am I Very sweet!"

Jiang Yufan was dumbfounded by Zhong Chaozhou's actions for a moment: "I'm not a girl, why do you buy dolls?"

"It's not only girls who can play with dolls! What's the matter?" Zhong Chaozhou poked his head halfway over, "Don't you like it?"

Jiang Yufan glanced at him: "I like it, thank you."

"Thank you, which one of us is with whom, please be polite!"

Jiang Yufan stood by the bed, stared at the row of dolls for a while, reached out to pick up Pai Daxing's doll, and stuffed it into Zhong Chaozhou's arms: "Here, you take this."

Zhong Chaozhou: "Why?"

Jiang Yufan picked up the SpongeBob SquarePants doll, held it in his arms, leaned against the head of the bed, and said, "SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick are good friends, so I will take SpongeBob SquarePants, and you will take Patrick."

Zhong Chaozhou was taken aback: "Huh?"

"Ah what, if you don't want it, just let it go, I'll give it to Shen Yi'an." As he said, he gestured to take the doll back.

"Oh, no, no, I want it!" Zhong Chaozhou quickly took Jiang Yufan's hand, for fear that he would take Pai Daxing away from his arms, "I am... this is not the first time you have said that in front of me." We are good friends, I... didn't realize it..."

Jiang Yufan didn't know why he did this suddenly, but he didn't dislike that feeling.

Seeing him protecting Pai Daxing like he was protecting food, Jiang Yufan couldn't help laughing out, "Look at how promising you are."

When Jiang Yufan smiled from the bottom of his heart, it was really pretty, like a ray of light, lighting up the whole room.

I don't know when it started, Jiang Yufan's smile became so dazzling in Zhong Chaozhou's eyes, as if everything in the world was inferior to Jiang Yufan's smile.

Zhong Chaozhou was stunned for a moment, and his whole body lost all strength, but his grip on Jiang Yufan's hand became tighter: "You have dimples when you smile."

Jiang Yufan didn't know why he said this suddenly, he smiled for a while, and before he could react, Zhong Chaozhou looked at him and said seriously: "You really look good when you smile, please smile more in the future."

The hand was held in the palm of the boy. I don't know if it was the boy's body temperature or some other reason. Jiang Yufan always felt that the hand he was holding was very hot, very hot. Gradually, he felt his neck and face heat up.

He can't stand the heat.

But he didn't withdraw his hand, but let Zhong Chaozhou hold it.

Jiang Yufan lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Zhong Chaozhou's eager gaze, and after a long silence, he opened his mouth slightly and let out an "um" in his throat.

Jiang Yufan's face and neck were visibly red with the naked eye. Zhong Chaozhou felt that Jiang Yufan, who did not hide his feelings like this, was very cute. Holding his hand, he said in a low voice: "We also have a night market here. School starts tomorrow. Let's go shopping tonight, shall we? There are many delicious foods in the night market, not worse than those in Dongying."

Zhong Chaozhou's approach brought a wave of heat, Jiang Yufan felt his body temperature rising rapidly, he grabbed the SpongeBob SquarePants doll in his hand, and whispered: "Okay."