nib boy

Ning Ziyue stood against the wall under the eaves, and the pattering rainwater fell one by one along the corners of the eaves, hitting the bluestone slabs, and sparkling water sprayed out.He looked up and watched the water curtain pave the sky to a frosted gray.

He is now in a remote Jiangnan town, a place he has never been to before.

In order to be liberated from the long and bumpy journey, he took advantage of the interval between train stops in the early morning to resolutely leave the station with luggage containing a few pieces of change of clothes.This decision was arbitrary and inappropriate, and he didn't know he was in Jinxi, Kunshan until he glanced at the sign outside the station inadvertently.

As a native of the north, Ning Ziyue's imagination of Jiangnan water towns has only stayed in the long shot of the universe and geography in TV programs since he was a child.

The mist and rain are empty, like an ink painting scroll slowly unfolding, all inside are black tiles and white walls, pink willows and green.There is no ice and snow, no white-haired hurricane, and passers-by walking on the street have warm eyebrows and a faint bookish atmosphere.

However, at this moment, he was a slightly embarrassed foreigner with soaked clothes, hiding from the rain in the quaint alley paved with blue bricks, and he didn't look awkward at all.One person, one city that should be incompatible, but the outlines of each other were blurred by the rare heavy rain, and gradually merged into one in this long and narrow alley filled with endless silence.

He knew that he hadn't gotten rid of the few people who followed him all the way.This strange city is not the end of the trek, and it will not be able to give him shelter in the end.

From one year to now, he has been wandering outside for two full months.Leaning alone by the table in the bedroom day and night, eyes unfocused, just staring at the ever-changing scenery outside the window, speechless and lost in thought.

He never tried to talk to the passengers around him, and others naturally avoided his cold and alienated appearance.Occasionally, being pestered by extroverted peers had to open up a small chat, and the atmosphere always became cold after a while, so I had to end it early.Later, he learned to be smart and changed his work and rest. After nightfall, he went to sit alone in the aisle all night, and slept with his head covered when the carriage was busy during the day.Thanks to this method, my ears are much quieter.

This seemingly comfortable state of being at a loss is really a long-lost familiarity.

One late night, he was staring at the dark wilderness outside the window in a daze, and the idea of ​​"otherwise, he might as well take another year off from school" suddenly popped into his mind.Anyway, it's not that he hasn't experienced the days of fleeing, he has savings on hand, he has the aggressiveness of a young man, and he also has a heart that is numb to fear.During this period, you can stay in one place first, find some work to do, and then leave by train when you are about to be overtaken by someone, and find another shelter.

The worst result is that he can never go back to the starting point, and can only continue his life of fleeing until Quan Ersi dies.But so what.To be alive by then would be lucky enough, wouldn't it?

However, this time he still couldn't make up his mind.

In the darkness, the smiling faces of several people passed by one after another.Bai Yuze, Xie Zhe, Yao Lu, Lin Ran, Su Yang... Lin Yun.

If he wants to take a break from school for a year to avoid the limelight, from now on, he will have nothing to pay for, and when he goes back, Bai Yuze and the others will already be graduating.From then on, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get back the passionate and frivolous screaming drunkenly under the night sky of falling fireworks.

If he never shows up in the city where he lived for 18 years in his life, eats and sleeps in the wind and sleeps in the open, and makes peace with the situation, he will violate the promise he made to himself after Lin Yun passed away: take good care of Lin Ran on her behalf, and don't let anyone hurt him.However, if Quan'ersi's gang searched for him and found him missing, they would definitely find Lin Ran's house and try every means to force him to reveal his whereabouts.

Before he left, he knew that things might turn out that way, but he still didn't take him with him.He is alone, so it doesn't matter, but Lin Ran still has a pair of parents who have not yet recovered from the grief of losing their beloved daughter.They had grown old overnight because of Lin Yun's early death, and because of this, he could not owe more to this already disabled family.He is responsible for her death.

Say Su Yang again.Although his personality is a bit bad, he feels that he has no right to speak out against others.Because of simplicity, love and hate are clear.It is true that Su Yang is a headache, and it is true that it is worrying.He knew that he didn't reveal his whereabouts on purpose, and he didn't blame him at all. He was only worried that Quan Ersi's group would attack him cruelly.

Counting it carefully, he still has so many unfinished concerns.I feel surprised.

When his father died, when he was only five years old, he had a hard, invulnerable shell wrapped around his body.Over the past ten years, I have been in contact with all kinds of people around me, some of them are hypocritical, and some of them really treat him sincerely.Maybe this description is too much, but Ning Ziyue feels that their essence is actually the same as those travelers who struck up a conversation with him on the train.He doesn't know whether the other party is sincere or not, and he is not enthusiastic about it.

The other party was speechless, and he became even more silent.The other party asked out of curiosity, and he only answered passively.And even if he opened his mouth, he never completely opened the gate in his heart.

...can't be opened.

Passers-by come and go in a hurry, since there is no future intersection with each other, why bother to tell them their past.That doesn't make any sense.

I remember when I first got acquainted with Lin Ran, the other party once commented bluntly that he was really a strange person who was not easy to get close to.Obviously can communicate with people normally, but always digs an insurmountable deep ditch around himself before others come forward.

And after he had been digging ditches in circles around the same spot for so many years, they still walked in.Unknowingly, it penetrated into his heart.

But a friendship like this-let's vaguely define his attitude towards them as friendship-is it really reliable?Can you believe it?Could he give up everything for any of them, even die without hesitation?Do you have such awareness? ...

he does not know.He really doesn't know.

He is not afraid of death, but he has long kept a distance from "trust", which is only a beautiful appearance.

At the beginning, the father betrayed Quan Ersi out of morality, and later he was killed by a friend with strong backing.

The two had lived and died side by side for decades, but they didn't leave any room for each other when they made a move.Desperate.cruelly.decisively.

How similar two things are sometimes love and hate.The conversion between them requires conditions - and infinitely reversible.

It's not like the cold rain in April in front of me.After the cloud falls, it can only choose to shatter on the ground, and then disappear without a sound.After the rain, the sky cleared, and even the traces of what once existed were no longer there.

He looked down at the ripples splashing in the puddles at his feet, and for a long while slightly curled his lips, feeling that it was too hypocritical for a big man's emotions to be easily led away by the weather.

Two hours later, the rain still hasn't stopped.

Ning Ziyue stood under the eaves until his legs were sore and he didn't move like a statue until he was attracted by the cat that leaped lightly from the fence.

It was a very small white cat, the fur on its body was soaked and rolled into a white meat ball.It walked back and forth under the corner tremblingly, turning its head and licking its messy fur intermittently, as if it was also hiding from the rain.After all, it's a cat, so it probably hates getting wet.

Ning Ziyue suddenly regretted that he didn't even have an umbrella by his side.

The kitten that was suddenly picked up let out a low cock, he held it with one hand and brought it close to his chest, and wiped its wet face with the slightly dry corner of his clothes.At first the kitten was a little scared, but later it dared to stare at him with clear and innocent eyes, and even stretched out its wet and hot tongue to lick his fingers over and over again.

The young man looked down at it for a while, then turned his gaze to the gray rain curtain in the distance again, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed inch by inch.

"...You, you can't find a home either."

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Originally, Xie Zhe had been tragically prepared to be subjected to a series of violent VIP services such as smashing bricks, covering sacks, dismembering corpses, and throwing rivers in a dark corner, but a week has passed quietly since that night, and nothing happened. didn't happen.

"Damn it! Is that bastard just playing with me or does he want me to die from a heart attack?!" Xie Tongxi complained angrily. "In order to prevent being attacked, I missed the opportunity to strike up a conversation with many beauties, hey!"

"Sure enough, this is the point of your regret." Hearing this, Leng Shan just complained blankly, then turned around and ignored him.

The days passed peacefully, and after Yuhuan left, Class [-] quickly got a new head teacher.He is an unsmiling physics old man, which makes people feel discouraged just looking at him.

The morning self-studyer Bai Yuze who came to take office was absent-mindedly resting his chin on the English words to be tested in class, while Xie Zhe was sleeping unconscious on the side.The old man made a self-introduction for them for four to 10 minutes & all kinds of three principles and five constants... No, it's repeated orders.

When the old man was almost finished speaking, Xie Zhe woke up faintly. He looked up at the podium in confusion, then turned around and asked in doubt, "Who is this uncle with stretch marks all over his face?"

Bai Yuze held back the pen in his hand, laughing so hard that his whole body trembled.After finally calming down, he stared at his sleepy face with a smile on his face, and when he turned his gaze back, there was only the slightly plump back of the female teacher copying the writing on the blackboard like flowing water.

The one who taught himself how to let go and chase.

In the past that he can no longer remember, how many people left indelible marks in his life like this, but after all, they were irresistibly drowned in the torrent of time.Nothing was left.

During this period, Ning Ziyue still had no news, and Lin Ran tried all means to get in touch with him.Yao Lu would go to the bar every night to exchange news with Gu Mingye as usual, but the progress was not very great.On the other side, Su Yang finally made up his mind to be an undercover agent. Although it will take time to catch the boss by the tail, there is always a chance.

The gears laid out in the plan began to rotate step by step, and there was a slight "click" sound when they were engaged, like a meticulously timed clock.

Intrigue and interests.Hatred and kinship.

After finally meeting in the crowd, will we get separated on the way?Desperately resisting and struggling for each other like now, in fact, I just want to stay by your side for a while.It will be fine in a while.

There will always be countless passing by in life, not every encounter can be condensed into staying together, not every invitation can be transformed into mutual acquaintance.A lifetime is so long and there are so many variables in life, sometimes the person you thought would accompany you forever can only accompany you for a while.

……Hey.Don't lose important people this time.

He heard a small voice in his heart admonishing him so earnestly.

"But ah. Recently, Yao Lu is always very busy. Xie Zhe has to sneak around several times even when he walked back to the dormitory from class. It's really wasted." Bai Yuze sighed in distress.

During the noisy lunch break, the old man went to the physics group for a meeting, and Bai Yuze took the opportunity to move the chair to sit next to the fir tree.It's called a lecture topic, but in fact, the two of them are just chatting with each other.

It was rare for Leng Shan not to be listening to the song, and while checking the questions he had just finished for Bai Yuze, she patiently listened to his chatter, occasionally twitching the corners of her lips slightly to indicate that he was listening. "...There must be something wrong with them, and there is nothing they can do. Also, the condition of this equation is that high temperature is not heating."

"Ah, I made a typo again. I've always memorized this formula."

"Just copy it a few more times." Fir Shan looked down at him lying on the corner of the table seriously changing the pattern, hesitated a little, reached out and turned out the collar that was tucked inside his neck, and then saw that his ears were a little red.

Putting down the pen and pushing the exercise book over as if pretending to be okay, Bai Yuze turned away his face and continued awkwardly: "...so I just said it. I always feel that they have something to hide from me, but they can't ask. After all, no one has the obligation I have to reveal my private affairs for others to see... I just feel a little reconciled."

"...I know you want to do something. But with your relationship, if you can really help, will they be embarrassed to ask?"

Because of this, I don't want you to worry.

Bai Yuze frowned and thought for a while, before laughing. "……makes sense."

The other party was a little speechless, although he was silent, but his lips were drawn obliquely, and his fingertips slowly touched his cool hair - but he couldn't go any further.

At some point between the two of them, a head with an obtrusive smile stuck out, and that person was still holding on to the arm of Fir Tree hanging in mid-air, and greeted his instantly darkened face: "Yo! Questions? It happens that I don’t know how to do a lot of questions, so I’m sorry, please excuse me~~”

Leng Shan and Bai Yuze stared at Xie Zhe, who had just woken up, lifted the chair over energetically, placed it between the two of them with a "Kang Dang", and sat down unceremoniously.He put one hand carelessly on Bai Yuze's lap, turned his face sideways and raised his eyebrows at Fir Shan. "Uh. I didn't bother you, did I?"

... This bastard is simply knowingly committing crimes.

Leng Shan felt the veins on his forehead twitch faintly, but Xie Zhe moved his hand to Bai Yuze's inner thigh while he was too angry to speak, with a calm and composed expression. "What were you talking about just now?...Don't look at me all the time, just pretend that I don't exist, and you continue. I'll just listen to the excitement."

Bai Yuze stared at him warningly, but Xie Zhe kept pretending not to see it.Ever since Bai Yuze revealed to him the matter of being together with Leng Shan, this kid has always had this kind of virtue, and he will get involved in everything.What is it called?Envy, jealousy, emptiness, loneliness and coldness? ?

"Xie Zhe, if you sincerely repent now, I will still create opportunities for you and Xiaoye regardless of the past." He pretended to be Sanzang earnestly.

"Hmph, who wants that kind of woman! If you want to find it, you have to find someone who is naked at the door every day and kneels honestly waiting for me to come home."

"……Doomed lonely life."

The three of them were spreading a strange atmosphere into the barrier they formed when a familiar figure suddenly flashed into the classroom and knocked on the front door perfunctorily, with a tone of impatience due to the chaos in the room. "...I'm looking for Bai Yuze. Are you still alive?"

Bai Yuze immediately got up when he heard the sound, and bared his teeth threateningly in that person's direction. "What are you talking about! I hope you will become a Buddha."

"Haha, am I kidding~ I still count on you to warm the bed at night." Yao Lu smirked and took two steps towards him, ignoring the two murderous sights that were shooting at him and the attention of most people in the class— — Girls especially. "Come out with me, I have something to tell you."

Before leaving, Yao Lu looked back at Xie Zhe and Leng Shan, frowning slightly. "What kind of eyes are you two, don't you worry about the RP of the Lord? Otherwise, if you have nothing to do now, come together if you have nothing to do."

So five minutes later, the four of them stood together in front of the bulletin board outside the building.

"'Top Ten Campus Singer Contest'?" Bai Yuze read the text from beginning to end, his face full of confusion. "It feels so troublesome...primaries, promotions, rematch...do you still have to sing in the finals?"

"That's the process for ordinary students. If you follow the master, you must not take the usual path." Yao Lu responded leisurely. "I promised the minister of literature and art to participate this time. As a condition, I can recommend one or two people to her to advance directly to the finals without multiple selections. Because the promotion competitions are held separately, even if someone parachutes into the finals, they will not be discovered."

"The minister of literature and art you are talking about, could it be the one who tripped you up and made a fool of yourself at the New Year's Eve party last time?" Fir Shan sneered.

Yao Lu gave him a hard look. "I wouldn't use such despicable means! It's her own cerebellar imbalance."

"Anyway, it's enough to fall in front of everyone. She's usually so cold and cold. Hasn't she suffered enough from you?" Xie Zhe narrowed his eyes and smiled lewdly [ummm], not as good as the other party's sentence " Because labor and capital are handsome", he quickly realized: "Ah, Masaka, she is actually an M in the skin of a queen?!..."

"That's enough, I'll crush your thoughts full of pornography and squeeze them out of the chrysanthemum." Yao Lu interrupted him mercilessly in a cold tone——Bai Yuze didn't know what they were reconciling with, In short, everything has been restored inadvertently. "So, are you all interested in this competition?"

"Not at all." Leng Shan first refused indifferently, with an honest and candid expression.

"...a bastard who only knows how to waste his talent. Sooner or later he will be struck by lightning." Although it was expected, Yao Lu still cursed with hatred, looking like a competent master.

Xie Zhe next to him immediately shrugged. "I really want to participate. By the way, I can catch up with girls to improve my return rate or something. I can't help it, my natural conditions don't allow it."

Yao Lu sighed, and finally cast her heavy eyes on Bai Yuze. "...Xiaobai, as the captain, in order to increase the popularity of the band, it is your duty to participate in this competition."

"Wait, I always feel like I'm going to be dragged into the water by you...Let me think again...Think again!!" Bai Yuze was still trying to struggle, but Yao Lu didn't give him a chance to resist, and just left the remaining two people behind. After that, he ran to the office of the Ministry of Literature and Art. "Why are you still hesitating, after passing this village, there will be no such hotel! Kang Mangbei puts his pen to post~!"

Leng Shan and Xie Zhe watched the two of them disappear into the dust rising in the air, and shook their heads in unison.

That kid was still too naive.What is it for the band, what is the duty... That evildoer just wants to embarrass himself with more people to accompany him.

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