back edge

On a midsummer night, there was an occasional cool wind blowing by, but Chen Xi, who was standing under the shadow of the street lights, was still sweating.

Sweat slid down his straight jawline, and he wiped it away before it dripped.

Xie Jingnian slowed down when he was about to approach people.

Chen Xi leaned on the motorcycle, turned his head to look at him, his eyes were extraordinarily bright with the light reflected in them.Xie Jingnian couldn't help but wonder how he would be reflected in his pupils.

"Have you eaten yet?" Chen Xi looked at him through the iron fence, staring at him closely, like a cheetah afraid of its prey escaping.

"Eat." Xie Jingnian grabbed the fence with one hand, his heart was racing, and he didn't dare to raise his head to meet people's eyes.

After a very ordinary and boring conversation ended, both of them fell into silence.

Even if he didn't look at Chen Xie, Xie Jingnian could still feel that his sizing eyes were like the scorching sun in the daytime, covering every part of him completely, making his back burst into muddy sweat.

"Look up." Chen Xi said.

Xie Jingnian followed his words and raised his head, meeting Chen Xi's eyes.

Chen Kui approached him, his flowery arm protruded through the gap in the iron fence, his slightly rough thumb slipped over Xie Jingnian's lower lip, his hands were strong, but his voice was low and low like a murmur: "Why is it bleeding again?"

"I……"

The small wound that Chen Xi touched no longer hurts, only the tingling itchiness permeates into the chest layer by layer.Xie Jingnian's voice trembled because of Chen Xiu's sudden intimacy, "I accidentally bit it."

Chen Xi responded in a low voice: "En."

In addition to the training base, this area is covered with continuous woods, and behind the woods is a river that flows through the two provinces.In the quiet environment, Xie Jingnian could hear the rushing water of the river, the wind blowing through the leaves, and the breathing of Chen Xiu.

His palms were wet with sweat again, and the hand holding the fence couldn't help slipping down.

Chen Kui suddenly asked him again if he was smoking.

Xie Jingnian took it for granted that he didn't even think about it, and denied it.

Chen Xi laughed, then poked his hand in again, put his index finger and middle finger together, placed them on his forehead, and hit his head: "Where are you fooling me here?"

"Just half of it." Xie Jingnian held his forehead and couldn't help but argue, "I went to answer your phone call, so I threw it away after a few puffs."

"Ah."

Perhaps Chen Kui was tired from standing, so he went back to lean on the motorcycle.Xie Jingnian's gaze followed him, and he caught a glimpse of a gig bag standing on the ground on the back seat of the motorcycle, which should be a guitar.

Xie Jingnian suddenly realized as if he knew some secret: "Brother Jiu, do you have any activities here?"

"What?" Chen Xi followed his line of sight to see the guitar, paused, nodded again, and answered vaguely.

I can't tell what it's like in my heart.Xie Jingnian didn't know whether he was disappointed because Chen Xi didn't come to see him specially, or whether he should be happy because Chen Xi didn't forget to come to see him when he had an event.

"Brother Rotten, I want to hear you play the guitar." Xie Jingnian held onto the iron fence, sticking his face on it together.

Chen Xi took two steps forward, frowned and pushed him back: "Dirty."

Or that red and white electric guitar.Chen Kui leaned there, plucking the strings with his fingertips, Xie Jingnian was so handsome that his face became hot.

The sound of the electric guitar is very low when it is played unplugged, the cicadas are buzzing, the noise is heavy, and the melody is so faint that it is almost inaudible.

In fact, Xie Jingnian just didn't hear it.He had no idea what Chen Xi was playing, just the fact that Chen Xi was standing here playing the piano for him made him dizzy.

After the song was over, Chen Xi asked him if he heard it clearly.

Xie Jingnian nodded again and again, but was speechless on the question of which piece Chen Xi played next.

"Little idiot." Chen Kui put away the guitar and put it away, "You know how to lie to me, huh?"

Chen Yuxing probably also thought it was silly to play the guitar through a fence.When turning sideways, Xie Jingnian could clearly see that the tips of his ears were quietly turning red, and even the pure black cross on the earlobe seemed to be dyed.

The one-month summer camp is coming to an end, and Xie Jingnian is still immersed in the melody that he didn't hear clearly in the summer night.

After returning to school for two days after the training camp, there will be a provincial competition. Xie Jingnian wanted to stay with Chen Xi for a while after returning, so he studied desperately in the last few days.

He didn't know why, but Chen Xi was particularly concerned about his academic performance.Before I came to the training camp, I mentioned several times about the provincial competition awards.

Xie Jingnian didn't care about that much.Brother Yu wants him to win the prize, so he will.

In the past, when Xie Laosan just let go of him, he had to find a way to make money to fill his stomach.

He went to work as a waiter in the store almost after school.Wait until late at night to go to the Internet cafe to deliver things and water, and stay up until four or five in the morning.Sometimes when there are few people in the Internet cafe, he can still sleep in the private room for an hour or so before going to school.

So Xie Jingnian was especially able to stay up late.He endured it until all five of his roommates were sleeping and snoring, and it was bright outside the window.

Chen Hanlin went to bed early and woke up early. At first he thought that Xie Jingnian got up early in the morning to study secretly, but when he saw the bloodshot eyes and the blue and black eyes, he suddenly understood.

He didn't dare to talk to Xie Jingnian, for fear of disturbing people's thinking, he picked up the cigarette case from the table and ran to the old place.

"I'll go too." Xie Jingnian didn't drink water for about a day and a night, his throat was dry and astringent when he spoke, and his voice was hoarse.

Chen Hanlin was taken aback by his sudden voice, and took a few puffs of cigarettes but did not recover.

Xie Jingnian held a cigarette in one hand, rubbed his temples with the other hand, closed his eyes for a while and then opened them again, his eyeballs were sore and hot.

"Hey." Xie Jingnian touched Chen Hanlin's arm, "I'm sorry."

"What?" Chen Hanlin just slipped away, and was confused by his endless words, "Why are you embarrassed?"

Xie Jingnian took a deep breath, the smoke escaped from his lips, drifted upwards, and dissipated just before hitting the ceiling: "I just scared you."

"Ah, it's okay." Chen Hanlin laughed, "Shall we leave tomorrow morning?"

As soon as Xie Jingnian nodded, Chen Hanlin smiled even more happily: "Finally, I can leave, I've been stuck in this wretched place for a month."

While talking, he muttered in a low voice: "It's a waste of money, so the fuck will suffer."

Xie Jingnian fell asleep all the way on the return bus, and was still dizzy when he left school.

He took out his mobile phone and sent Chen Xi a message, telling him that he had arrived at school and was about to go home.

Chen Xi sent a long voice over.It probably means that the lock at home was broken two days ago, and a new one was replaced, and he couldn't get in the door when he got home.

"You come to the store."

Immediately afterwards, a location was sent - it was Chen Xi's tattoo parlor.

Xie Jingnian pressed his fingers on the small mark vaguely, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.He has been to this place secretly many times, but he has never dared to go in.