Tuesday, April 30th.

Labor Day is approaching, and students returning home from vacation crowd at the school gate waiting for the traffic lights, and some of them flow along both sides of the school gate, and the streets are dyed blue and white for a while.

Zhou Li walked slowly along the shade of the sidewalk, dappled with light and shadow all the way, and he was not in a hurry at all.

After walking some distance, he took off his school uniform, put it in his hand, and then involuntarily glanced up at the sky.

Clear and clear, not a single cloud.

Zhou Li lowered his head.

This year's summer is coming a little later.

It's starting to heat up.

Arrived at an intersection, Zhou Li turned his head to observe the traffic on both sides, and there were some students standing beside him, they were discussing where to go all night tonight and some content related to games, the air was wafting with a sweet and elegant fragrance, Zhou Li looked back, only to find that the street trees planted on the side of the road had bloomed, and they were bunches of small white flowers, and the taste was very light.

"It's a locust flower. ”

Acacia is often used as a street tree in northern cities, but not so much in the south, and only a few streets near the school are planted in the city where Zhou Li is located, and most of the rest are ficus microphylla and ginkgo.

It seems to be blooming later this year.

As soon as I walked to the middle of the intersection, a vague ballad suddenly floated in and passed into Zhou Li's ears, and the tune was very good, simple and far-reaching.

It's a pity that there are no lyrics, just humming.

Zhou Li's footsteps did not stop, and at the same time subconsciously raised his head and looked in the direction where the song came from.

I saw a slender figure sitting on the branch of a locust tree, his legs hanging in the air and swaying at will, he was not wearing shoes, his mouth seemed to be holding a locust flower, and he was humming a song in a nasal voice while turning his head to look around, as if he was bored.

He is an extremely handsome teenager.

Zhou Li's gaze turned slightly downward, and when he caught a glimpse of the young man's bare and still dusty feet, he suddenly frowned, and when he moved up again, the young man just turned his head in his direction with nothing to do.

In an instant, eyes meet!

Zhou Li naturally retracted his gaze and looked ahead, pretending not to see anything and continued to walk back.

But the locust tree and the boy were ahead.

Zhou Li tried his best to maintain his demeanor and breathe steadily, and even glanced at the roasted sweet potato stall at the intersection opposite, but Yu Guang told him that the young man was staring at him.

Keep staring, eyes wandering with him.

Zhou Li didn't panic for the time being, the weather has been very warm recently, some people run out to play without shoes and climb the tree to pick locust flowers is not such an outrageous thing, the locust flower itself can be eaten, and it also has a certain medicinal value, some people come to pick it every year.

But then, a sentence sounded in my ears -

"Can you see me?"

The young man removed the acacia flower from his mouth and raised an eyebrow at him, his tone tinged with surprise.

Zhou Li fell on deaf ears.

Wow!

The young man jumped straight down from the tree, obviously barefoot, but he landed silently, and the road was full of pedestrians, and no one looked at him.

After landing, the boy immediately followed Zhou Li, as if he had found a rare prey.

"You can see me, right?"

"You can see me!"

"You just looked at me!" the young man walked barefoot and kept up with Zhou Li.

"Don't pretend, I've seen through you!"

"Hey!

The young man kept walking a little in front of Zhou Li's side, so that it was convenient for him to turn his head to look at Zhou Li's appearance, but Zhou Li always looked at ease, occasionally glancing at the car on the driveway, occasionally glancing at the locust tree full of white flowers on the side of the road, and even occasionally looking in his direction, as if that gaze could see the storefronts on both sides through him.

"Why are you ignoring me?"

"Why?"

"Huh?"

The interval between the young man's inquiries became a little longer, until he closed his mouth and looked at Zhou Li in a daze.

But Zhou Li's face has never changed.

Gradually, the young man's steps slowed down, he lagged behind Zhou Li, his eyes were disappointed, and his voice became smaller and smaller, mixed with loneliness-

"Why ......"

Zhou Li almost didn't hold back.

Ten minutes later, he returned home without incident, and it was not until he reflexively closed the door that he finally breathed a sigh of relief, put his school uniform jacket on the shoe cabinet, and began to change his slippers.

A burst of fragrance came from the kitchen, accompanied by a gentle woman's voice: "Coming back?"

"It's back. ”

"Where's Shuang?"

"I don't know, it's still to come. ”

"I thought you would come back together, the vinegar seems to have run out...... a head poked out of the kitchen, and just happened to catch a glimpse of Zhou Li's change of slippers and get up and breathe a sigh of relief, and the rest of her words swallowed raw, "Wait for Xiaoshuang to come back, and ask him to go to the supermarket opposite to buy a bottle while he hasn't changed his slippers." ”

"I'll go. ”

"No, you can get some rest. ”

"It's fine. ”

"That's hard for you, take the money yourself, remember to buy the water well in Ninghua Mansion. ”

"Oh. ”

So Zhou Li changed into shoes again and went out.

This is an old community, close to Yancheng Middle School, and turning left two hundred meters away is the intersection where Zhou Li met the young man, but he deliberately spared a circle on the way back, and now he has to go out to make him a little worried.

There is still a month to go before the college entrance examination, this time period is very important, and he doesn't want to get into trouble.

The supermarket was opposite the entrance of the community, and Zhou Li walked over calmly and came back with vinegar.

To be safe and sound.

After eating, Zhou Li sat on the sofa and watched the news with Lao Zhou for a while, and then went back to the room to read a book for a while, during which he always recalled the teenager he met in the afternoon.

"Heh~~"

Stretching his waist and yawning, he came back from washing and lay on the bed, and after being distracted for a while, Zhou Li turned off the light.

The room went dark.

The lights of the city are still bright. Zhou Li turned around and lay on his side, looking out through the window, the silhouette of the orange sky and the hillside, the small lattices of the buildings with lights on, the empty roads in the distance, and even the horn of the train, his sleepiness gradually came up, and his eyelids began to fight.

I don't know if he was asleep or not, but suddenly the window of his room seemed to be pushed open by someone—

"Wow~~ Bang!"

Suddenly dispersed Zhou Li's sleepiness!

When he opened his eyes, there was a humanoid silhouette on the square window frame!

This is the twenty-fifth floor!

Zhou Li panicked in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to be very puzzled and looked at the window, and then felt that it should be the noise next door, so he turned over and turned into a flat lying position, ready to continue sleeping.

"I figured it out, you're afraid of me!" the young man's voice sounded again during the day.

"You must be afraid of me. ”

"You think I'm going to hurt you, I'm going to eat people!"

"But in fact, I don't hurt you, I don't eat people, I have never eaten people. ”

“......”

The young man turned his head to look at Zhou Li's reaction, but there was no movement on the bed, which inevitably made him feel disappointed: "You still don't want to pay attention to me...... What I'm saying is true, I know you can hear it, you can see it, I saw it during the day today, and my shadow is reflected in your eyes. ”

Zhou Li lay on the bed and listened quietly.

He believed at least eighty percent of the boy's words, because he had indeed never seen them eat people since he was a child, not once.

But that doesn't mean there won't be trouble getting in touch with them.

At this time, the young man raised his voice slightly: "You speak, you tell me why, I finally met a person who can see me, if you really don't want to see me, as long as you say, I will leave!"

There was silence in the room for a while.

After a while, a sigh rang out.

"Forget it......"

"You're still afraid of me. ”

"Probably...... That's as it should be. ”

"Anyway, I really didn't intend to hurt you, I just haven't seen anyone who can see me and talk to me for too long......" There was an inexplicable melancholy in the voice, "I just want to talk to you more." ”

"I'm leaving. ”

The room was completely silent, and Zhou Li had already opened his eyes.

He didn't look away, and the clean spots on the ceiling proved that the boy had indeed left.

Zhou Li opened his eyes and didn't fall asleep for a long time.