On September 30, the first monthly examination of the third year of high school came to an end, followed by the seven-day National Day holiday, Dandelion and Chen Yimin had already packed their bags and rushed home immediately after the end of the final English subject. Li Ling didn't want to go back, but after all, he stayed at school for a month, and Jiang Zhiqing also went back to accompany his family, and he was about to add some autumn and winter clothes to the season, so he also went home.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when I got home by bus, and Lin Liangying was not at home, so she must have been playing in the mahjong parlor downstairs.

Li Ling locked the door of the house after taking a shower and slept, and when he slept in a daze, he vaguely heard the sound of the door lock being twisted, did not twist it, and gradually disappeared, and after a while, there was a sound of rustling on the balcony, and soon the sound of turning on the lights came.

Caught off guard, the quilt covering his head was lifted hard, and before Li Ling could react, there was a bang in his ear, and then there was a sizzling sound, and the left side of his face hurt hotly.

"Do you think I won't be able to get in if you lock the door?"

Li Ling's room is connected to the balcony of the next room, and Lin Liangying can climb the window to enter.

"Why are you so cheap? How old are you that you can already seduce people, are you complaining?" Lin Liangying bared his teeth, his eyes were full of flames, and he slapped again.

"I haven't seen it yet, you usually speak loudly and delicately, but you actually dare to speak loudly against the teacher. Why don't you continue to pretend to be weak? It turns out that this is your true face, and you are full of resentment towards me, so you want me to lose face in front of so many people. ”

"If you put more effort into studying, you won't fall from first place to twenty or thirty. ”

"I still remember when you were in the third year of junior high school, when I boiled soup and prepared meals and delivered them to the classroom, I saw you smiling happily at a few male classmates. At the time, I thought it was a trivial matter, and it seemed to be a foreshadowing. Are you afraid that no man will want it? I started being a slut when I was a teenager!"

Lin Liangying scolded so hard that Li Ling covered her ears, but she couldn't resist her loud voice.

"Do you think that boy named Jiang really likes you? Do you think people are talking to you about real feelings? How far will this little white face go with you? If you don't have this face I gave you, he won't even look at you. If you can't walk steadily, learn to be dragged out, are you not afraid of being pregnant, or are you not afraid of being trampled! If you are pregnant, I will see that I will not beat you to death!"

"This kind of little boy is greedy for freshness for a while, and it won't be long before he gets bored with you, and after the spoiling is done, you will wipe your ass and leave, and then you will look back, only crying and regretting!"

"At a young age, do you think that two people are in love when they see each other?

"I don't understand, then do you understand? What kind of love do you and Li Guofu have!" Li Ling finally couldn't help but talk back and looked at each other angrily.

Lin Liangying raised her hand and was about to fan it down, but Li Ling blocked her slap with her arm, and her arm hurt.

"You dare to call your father's name directly!" Lin Liangying was so angry that he was about to smoke in his eyes, "This is to anger the two of us, it's really a sin, my life is so bitter, there is no good thing in this life!"

Li Ling closed his eyes: "Have you finished speaking, I will trouble you to close the door when you go out." ”

Lin Liangying sneered in annoyance: "You think you're cool like this, okay, okay, you continue to pretend to be cool and majestic, I'll see how long you can be majestic." ”

Then she slammed the door and went out, and the door bounced open with the reaction force.

Li Ling completely wrapped himself in the quilt, like a silkworm chrysalis, trembling slightly in the dark.

In the next three days, Li Ling didn't say a word to Lin Liangying. After Lin Liangying cooked the meal, he put it on the table, and Li Ling went to eat it by himself. Since there are only two people, the daily dishes are relatively simple, breakfast and lunch are the same porridge and side dishes, and the general dinner is one meat and one vegetable with old soup, and there is never a shortage of pickled salted olives on the table.

Most of the time, Lin Liangying would study the welfare lottery in front of the TV, calendar, and various brochures during the day and dinner time, and after researching the bets, he would either go for a walk in the park or play mahjong, but sometimes he would play during the day.

On the night of October 3rd, Lin Liangying went downstairs to play mahjong as usual, after she left, Li Ling put on a white dress that she bought after graduating from junior high school but did not wear it, and prepared to go out.

Li Ling's heart instantly cooled, and he called Jiang Zhiqing, who had agreed to meet: "The door outside was locked by my mother, and my key is probably taken away by her, I can't get out, I can't see you." ”

Jiang Zhiqing comforted: "It's okay, don't be sad, I'll accompany you on the phone." ”

Jiang Zhiqing has been listening to Li Ling tell her original plan and her current loneliness, but she can't get rid of her gloomy mood.

About five minutes later, someone suddenly knocked on the door, and then Jiang Zhiqing's "I'm outside the door" came from the mobile phone receiver.

Li Ling opened the wooden door in disbelief, and saw a familiar face through the interval between the hollow tube and the hollow tube.

As if he could guess what Li Ling wanted to ask next, Jiang Zhiqing said: "Because I can't set an exact time to meet, I'm afraid that you will wait for me, so I rode over after eating." Since you can't go down, then I'll come up. ”

"How long have you waited?"

"It's only five minutes. ”

"Liar, don't you usually eat at six o'clock, it's almost eight o'clock now. ”

Jiang Zhiqing's face approached the door: "So you feel better when you see this handsome guy?"

Li Ling smiled: "When did you become so narcissistic?"

"Close your eyes, and you open them again when I make a sound again. ”

Li Ling obediently closed his eyes, and after a while, Jiang Zhiqing sang a birthday song, Li Ling opened his eyes, and saw him holding a chocolate cake about 5 inches, with a burning red candle in the middle.

"Make a wish. ”

Li Ling made three wishes, and then blew out the candle through the door.

"What if I can't eat?"

"I'll buy you another one when I get back to school. ”

"So are you going to eat this yourself?"

"I'll take it back to my two sisters, who have a sweet tooth just like you. ”

Jiang Zhiqing put the cake back in the box, sat back to back with Li Ling on both sides of the door, and gently rubbed Li Ling's fingers through the intervals.

"Zhiqing, thank you, I am very touched. You know what? This is my first birthday cake in 17 years. ”

"I'll buy you a cake every year in the future. ”

"Why don't you ask me what I just wished?"

"If you want to say, nature will tell me. ”

"Forget it, I'm afraid I won't be able to achieve it even more if I say it. ”

The realization of any wish is a luxury, thinking of this, Li Ling was a little depressed, lowered his head and was speechless, Jiang Zhiqing was silent for a while before speaking.

"Lingling, although I have nothing now, I will definitely do my best to give you everything you want in the future. ”

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, it seems extremely distant to say "later", "later" is the glow of the sky, a mirage, a rainbow after the rain, ethereal, and unreachable.

But at the moment, there is such a person who makes you willingly say: "I believe." ”