The warm scene of embracing didn't last long. After two or three seconds, I covered my nose, bent down, and sneezed seven or eight times in a row.

Zhong Linyun stood there at a loss, until I pointed to the cigarette in his hand and explained the situation inarticulately, he suddenly realized, pressed the cigarette against the wall, and extinguished it.

After the smoke went out for a while, I regained my composure, straightened up, rubbed the tip of my red nose, and started to shoot questions like cannonballs at Zhong Linyun.

"Why are you here?", "How long do you want to stay here? Do you want to come back to high school?", "Why don't you tell me when you come back..."

I have a lot of questions, one after another, I hardly give Zhong Linyun time to answer, and I don't need Zhong Linyun's answer, I just vent my inner excitement.

Zhong Linyun opened his mouth at first and answered a few simple sentences, but then he gave up and just stood there with a small smile, watching me go crazy in front of him.

When I was tired of speaking, shut my mouth, replaced words with warm eyes, and continued to express my inner feelings, Zhong Linyun finally found a chance to speak.

"Are you still dancing?" he asked.

"Yeah." I said, "I'm preparing for an art exam."

"I remember you didn't like dancing very much before." Zhong Linyun said.

Thinking back to when I was a child, because I hated the dance class, I was even crying in front of Zhong Linyun, and I couldn't hold back.

"Ah...that was when I was a child..." I rubbed my head, "It's different now, my grades are mediocre, if I want to focus, I can only take the path of an art student."

"The important point." Zhong Linyun grasped the important point, he smiled slightly, "Congratulations."

"I haven't taken the exam yet." I said, "Congratulations."

"In advance." Zhong Linyun still cherishes words like gold, and I have regained some familiarity from this point.He said with certainty, "You'll be fine."

"Thank you." I accepted my thanks in advance, smiling until I lost my eyes, "When I pass the exam, it won't be too late for you to come and congratulate me again."

Zhong Linyun didn't answer, just pursed his lips and smiled.

I was too excited at the time, and I didn't perceive anything special from his smile.

"What about you?" I patted Zhong Linyun on the shoulder, where are you going to take the exam.

"Oh..." Zhong Linyun's eyes flickered briefly, he lowered his eyes, looked at me, and said, "It's not decided yet."

"No way, the deadline for volunteering will be in two days." I was surprised, "You study so well, you must be able to get the key points."

"Elementary school grades don't count." Zhong Linyun smiled.

"The grades in junior high school must be good. You are so serious. It looks like a sculpture. It's strange if the grades are poor." I said.

"It's average." Zhong Linyun said.

He said that it is average, so the probability is very good.

I was happy again, raised my head and asked.

"So where do you want to take the test? Is it in our city? Will it be the same as mine?"

"It's really not decided yet." Zhong Linyun laughed again, he laughed a lot today.After three years of absence, he seems to have finally learned to smile.

"I'll tell you when it's settled."

"What?" I muttered, "There is no score at all, so please leave me a contact information."

"Actually..." Zhong Linyun paused for a moment, revealing some complicated subtleties, "I lost my mobile phone a few days ago, and I haven't looked for a chance to buy it again."

"So you just wander around the streets without any contact information?" I asked in surprise, "In case your parents need something..."

In the middle of the sentence, I remembered the situation at Zhong Linyun's family, and I could barely stop.

Of course it was still a bit late.

I glanced at Zhong Linyun in embarrassment, and said with some guilt, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Fortunately, Zhong Linyun didn't care very much, and generously forgave my slip of the tongue.

"Anyway." I took out my pen, flipped through my schoolbag twice, and was annoyed to find that it was filled with exercise clothes and dancing shoes, and there was no paper.

"Give me a hand." I could only turn my bag up and said to Zhong Linyun.

Zhong Linyun didn't know why, but he obediently stretched out his hand and spread it out to me.

His hands were also drawn like his own, and the joints became distinct. The blue blood vessels on the exposed forearm looked thin and strong.

The first time I saw his outstretched hand, the knuckles were covered with brightly colored blood scabs, and the nails were not too round, and they were faintly damaged.

I froze for a second, then forced myself to ignore these, swallowing my doubts.

I pressed down the signature pen and wrote the phone number on the palm of his hand.

"Okay." Satisfied, I put the pen back into the bag, "This is my mobile phone number, you can call me if you have anything to do, of course...it's okay if you have nothing to do.

I lowered my head to zip up my schoolbag, while Zhong Linyun tilted his head slightly and looked at the number for a long time.

"Are you leaving?" Finally, he looked up and asked me.

"Yeah." I nodded, "I'm going to have a meal now, if my dad doesn't urge me, I'll go back to the dance studio to practice for a while."

"Very hard." Zhong Linyun said.

"If you don't work hard, you won't learn!" I threw my schoolbag behind me and said, "Would you like to have dinner together?"

"I've eaten." Zhong Linyun refused.

"Hmm..." I hesitated for a while, and said, "Or is there anything you want to visit, I'll walk with you?"

"What about your meal?" Zhong Linyun reminded.

"Stop eating." I shrugged, "Just treat it as losing weight."

"It will cause hypoglycemia." Zhong Linyun smiled again, he raised his hand slightly, and patted me on the shoulder, "Go."

I was not very happy to separate from Zhong Linyun as soon as I met him, but thinking about it, I have already given him the contact information, and it will not be difficult to meet in the future.So I put my heart down and made a decision.

"Then I'll go first." I walked out of the alley and stepped into the bustling street.

It was completely dark at this moment, and the clouds gathered and shrouded the visible overhead.The neon lights come on, propping up a low sky for pedestrians.

"It seems to be raining." I muttered, raised my eyes and asked Zhong Linyun, "Have you brought an umbrella?"

"No, I'll be indoors in a while, it doesn't matter." Zhong Linyun replied to me, "Go quickly, it will be too late."

"Oh." I agreed twice, took a few steps outside, turned around again, and waved vigorously at Zhong Linyun.

"Remember to call me." I amplified my voice and shouted at him.

Zhong Linyun didn't reply, just waved at me too.

He seemed to be smiling again, but it was a little far away, and I couldn't see clearly, so I couldn't be sure.

Zhong Linyun stood at the intersection of the street and the alley, the bustling and lonely intersection.The light board of the Internet cafe above his head flashed twice, and it lit up, red and green, foggy and festive.

From the moment I parted from him, the clouds sighed slightly and began to rain down.The fine raindrops fell, illuminated by gaudy lights into countless silver needles, which were densely laid down...

Zhong Linyun stood in the colorful raindrops and was trapped in the mist of water.

I waved my hands vigorously with him twice, then turned my head and ran towards the red light sign of the target fast food restaurant.

Zhong Linyun was still standing there.

I left him in the rain and fog at the red-green transition.

After recalling, I opened my eyes wide, staring at the few fine cracks on the ceiling of the rental house.

Has Zhong Linyun quit smoking since then?

At that meeting, I didn't feel it at the time, but in retrospect, Zhong Linyun's shirt, neck, and hair were full of cigarette smell, and his whole body seemed to be rolled out of an ashtray.

I also have friends who are heavy smokers, and most of them smell the same as Zhong Linyun at that time.

But they will smell more of alcohol.

It is said that there is no distinction between tobacco and alcohol, and it is easy to get addicted to the second when indulging in one.

Zhong Linyun did not.

I put my hand on my navel, in a standard ceremonial gesture of grasping a bouquet of white flowers for burial.

In my impression, Zhong Linyun is rarely obsessed with anything.

I have never seen him drink alcohol, never played games, and it is even more impossible to bet because of his father.

The only one who was addicted to cigarettes for a short time and quit.

This man is amazing.

After getting to know Zhong Linyun for nearly ten years, I do not know how many times I express this emotion.

Nothing greedy, nothing addicted, nothing like.

Is this a good thing?

I blink twice.

It's a good thing... right?

If it wasn't for an unlucky father, with Zhong Linyun's extremely self-disciplined personality, no matter what, he would be able to compete in those top universities.

But without that cheap father, Zhong Linyun might not have become what he is now.

Silent, shadowy, inaccessible...

He will go to school normally, develop interpersonal relationships normally, and develop a puppy love friendship with a little girl or boy normally.

So fine.

I think.

At least in this way, when I leaned over to kiss him, he would definitely accept it, or push it away.

It's not like it is now, stalemate, not going up or down, even the gods can't figure it out, faltering and saying that they don't understand what's going on between the two of us.

The pillow was a bit high, and I moved my head uncomfortably to find a relatively comfortable position.

"I."

I stared at the crack and made a wish without taking my eyes off it.

"I hope Zhong Linyun likes me like he likes cigarettes."

"Even if it's quitting, it's short-lived, unreliable, and unhealthy."

"I also hope that for a moment, or a few moments, I can be intimately bonded to Zhong Linyun like tobacco shreds, and wrap him around him quietly and without gaps."

"In this way, every passer-by who smells the strong smell of cigarettes on his body will smile knowingly and express such emotion..."

"'Ah, boy, I really like smoking.'"

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