"During the day, there are times when the sun rises and when it sinks. Life is the same, there are days and nights, but there are no regular sunrises and sunsets like the real sun. Some people live in the sun all their lives, while others have to live in the dark of the night. What people are afraid of is that the sun that has always existed will not rise again, and they are afraid that the light that originally shone on their bodies will disappear.

Never have I ever lived under the sun.

There is no sun in my sky, it is always night. But it's not dark, because something takes the place of the sun. It's not as bright as the sun, but it's enough for me. With this light, I was able to turn night into day. ”

This passage is from Keigo Higashino's "White Night Walking".

It was Yukiho Nishimoto who said it.

In this long night, when I saw this girl like an onion and fade away the aura wrapped in the surface layer by layer, revealing her most true face, Zhang Yunqi couldn't help but think of this sentence, yes, Nishimoto Yukiho lives in a dark night without the sun, but she has Ryoji Kirihara who is wise and evil in the fifth grade of elementary school, what about the first time?

In the past ten years, how did I survive in such a poor, dirty, and violent family environment, and how did I maintain the innocence and kindness in my heart?

Zhang Yunqi doesn't know, and he doesn't want to ask, the girl is so sad, those unhappy, difficult, painful, unbearable, desperate, there is no need to dig deeper, look at it a little, and then find a way to solve it, maybe it's because of his psychological age, after going through too much, he feels that he can't die if he urines it, no matter how big the hurdle is, it's just now, and it's just a if he gets through it.

So, the most important thing is to be happy right now.

Therefore, Zhang Yunqi and Chujian listened to the birthday song, and saw that under the poignant moonlight, tears were sliding down on the white transparent little face of Chujian, so he asked with a smile: "Are you still sad in your heart on such an important day?" ”

"No, Yunqi. ”

"Then you're so good-looking, can you laugh?"

When she first saw it, she pursed her lips and smiled, and after a while, she whispered to Zhang Yunqi, "Thank you, Yunqi." ”

Zhang Yunqi stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on her little face, looked into her eyes and said with a smile: "Thank you, silly girl, happy sixteenth birthday." ”

Hatsumi pursed his lips and smiled softly, buried his head in his chest, listened to the powerful heartbeat, smelled the faint smell of his body, and under the faint moonlight, that little face was as poignant as snow.

Since she was sensible, this is the first time in her memory that someone has given her a birthday. The children of poor families can't pay attention to it, let alone others, and even she herself doesn't remember that today is her 16th birthday, maybe because she has never had a birthday, so she has never realized what a big deal is about having a birthday.

Until this moment, I didn't know for the first time that there was such a person, how happy it was to be with me to celebrate my birthday together, and I also knew that I couldn't forget today in my life, I couldn't forget this moment, and I couldn't forget the sixteenth birthday that this mature and determined boy spent holding himself.

Time is quiet, the moonlight is like washing, there is starlight sprinkled on the green grass, Zhang Yunqi hugged the slender and soft girl, smelled a faint girl's fragrance, but his heart was clear, and he didn't know how long it took before he smiled and said, "It's late, I'll send you home, okay?"

Hatsumi nodded and hummed softly.

The two of them walked back along the same road together, the road was not far, and they arrived at the door of Hatsumi's house in a few minutes.

Zhang Yunqi jumped on his bicycle and waved his hand to Chujian and said, "Rest early, I have to go to class tomorrow." ”

Hatsumi nodded: "Okay, Yunqi, it's late, pay attention to safety on the road." ”

Zhang Yunqi said with a smile, and then under the gaze of the first sight, he stepped on the pedal and disappeared into the night.

He came to the exit of the slum in Hongshan Lane, parked at the intersection, walked to a public telephone booth next to it, picked up the microphone and asked the worker station to send a message to Wang Guibing's BP machine, but then he thought about it, it was two o'clock in the morning and more in the middle of the night, and normal people should be asleep, so he called the convenience store near Wang Guibing's house.

The phone rang for a long time before the other party answered, and asked in a daze, "Who?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "Zhang Yunqi, brother Zhang Qiulan, the one who often calls your convenience store, I will find Wang Guibing, who lives in the canning factory staff area, please call him." ”

When the convenience store owner heard that it was Zhang Yunqi, he was not impatient, when Zhang Qiulan first took over the Tetris handheld machine, she had to use the phone of this convenience store to reconcile accounts with Zhang Yunqi every day, and she didn't know how much she earned for him every month, and Wang Guibing also used his phone to contact Zhang Yunqi, so he yawned and said: "Then you wait, I'll call him, if he is not there, he won't call back." ”

Zhang Yunqi said thank you.

That's the way it is in this era, without a mobile phone, it's really inconvenient to find someone to go around.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yunqi waited in the phone booth for more than ten minutes before the phone rang, and he immediately picked up the microphone and asked, "Is it Wang Guibing?"

Wang Guibing's voice sounded on the other end: "Yes, Brother Yun, what's the matter with looking for me so late?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "I'm at the entrance of Hongshan Lane in Nancheng now, you bring two people over immediately, hurry up, there is a small matter to deal with." ”

Wang Guibing immediately understood what the little things Zhang Yunqi said, under normal circumstances, Zhang Yunqi would not call him. It was the first time I had come to him so late.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yunqi raised his hand and looked at the time, it was almost three o'clock in the morning, the moonlight was very thick, the weather was cold, and there was no one on the road.

After smoking three cigarettes, a speeding motorcycle suddenly flew on this silent and unmanned road, and it wandered around for a while before it came to a stop before Zhang Yun got up.

"Brother Yun. Wang Guibing shouted, and then jumped out of the car with two young people, these two young people saw Zhang Yunqi at Wang Guibing's house during the Chinese New Year this year, he looked like he was in his early twenties, his hair was very long, and the expression on his face could be seen at a glance that he was a prodigal person in society.

After getting out of the car, Wang Guibing patted the shoulders of the two young people, and introduced Zhang Yunqi: "Ma Shi, Xiao Wu, these two are good brothers with me, playing from childhood to adulthood, this is Brother Zhang Yunqi, your name is Brother Yun." ”

"Brother Yun is good. ”

The two young men were very respectful in front of Zhang Yunqi, maybe they knew something from Wang Guibing, but when a few people older than him opened their mouths and shut up to call Brother Yun, Zhang Yunqi was quite awkward in his heart, he was not used to this set of young people in society, but he also knew that sometimes this also represented the status of the two parties and the intimacy of the relationship.

Zhang Yunqi got up and said, "Let's go, make me someone." ”