Chapter Twenty-Nine: Spring Cold

When I was in elementary school, there was a summer vacation when the TV station hit "Huanzhu Gege", and I stayed in the countryside to escape the summer, and I was free from my mother's supervision, and I could enjoy the benefit of sitting with my grandparents and watching one or two episodes every night. At that time, whenever the queen mother appeared, grandma would always slap the table a few times with the big pu fan in her hand, and sigh hatefully, "Oh, how can there be such a ruthless bad woman!" After that, she turned her head and looked at me with a solemn expression: "Ranran, you have to guard against such bad women when you grow up, don't be bullied by others!" I nodded confusedly, stretched my neck close to the TV, and carefully distinguished the appearance of these "bad women".

But in the end, I didn't come up with any fame, so I hastily came to a conclusion - the so-called bad women, all of them are beautiful, they always have a sneer on their lips, and their eyes are fierce and scary.

For a while, I used this standard to define the bad women around me, the nature teacher with rimless glasses, the nurse who gave me two injections in the emergency department of the county hospital, and the young woman who loved to wear a red tweed coat next door to my uncle's house.

Now, I secretly looked at Yao Chunhe, who was sitting opposite me, and these people appeared in front of me again, and their vague shadows in my memory slowly coincided with the face in front of me, beautiful in appearance, and dim in smile.

It's just that I didn't find the expected viciousness and ruthlessness in her eyes when she looked at Qi Li, but on the contrary, they were full of smiles, but I couldn't hide a little playfulness and disdain.

It is an excellent scenery here, especially in the middle of spring, the peach and willow green rolls in the mountains are wrapped in a few vermilion pavilions, the wind rises and the long forest brings a burst of rustling and rustling sounds, and then dotted with some birdsong, even if the greasy rough man who only loves to drink and rub mahjong comes, he will not help but search his intestines and tumble out a few verses that fit the situation.

It's just that at this moment in the cold winter wax moon, the depressed scene of the withering trees outside the pavilion and the low-pressure atmosphere of frost in the pavilion echo each other, and the two people in front of them seem to be the feud between the cliff and the sword in the martial arts drama, and they have to be pinched up in the next second.

I'm starting to regret it a little - this kind of scene is not much more interesting than watching the Spring Festival Gala five or six times!

"It's been a long time, Yao Chun and ......" Qi Li next to her opened her mouth first, she straightened up, changed her easy-going and intimate appearance in the past, and put her left hand on her right wrist and folded it on her knee.

"Wow......" The person on the other side lowered his head and chuckled: "This kind of greeting is a bit redundant for a relationship like ours." With that, she tilted her head slightly and looked at me with interest: "What do you say?"

My brain was rapidly simulating a hundred scenes in which they were carelessly arguing, and I was suddenly named by Yao Chunhe, just like stealing a small place in class but being picked up by the teacher to answer a question, my mind collapsed for a while, and a layer of fine and dense sweat rose in my palms. "Off...... Relationship?

I secretly wondered in my heart, did she already know that her and Lin Suhao's secret was discovered by us?

But that night, we were sitting in the barbecue restaurant, and her eyesight was too good through the curling smoke from the barbecue and a road covered with neon stars!

"Sure enough. Yao Chunhe looked at me with a smile, but said to Qi Li: "Qi Li, it seems that you have a good life in high school, at least get rid of me, get rid of us, get rid of those who know your past well." It's better for you to make more friends like this. ”

With that, she withdrew her gaze from me, and the smile in her eyes gradually solidified into an inch of sharp indifference in the cold wind passing through the hall, "Lest you live like you did in junior high school, like a dog covered in carrion, and everyone who passes by you covers their noses and avoids you." ”

I clearly felt that Qi Li beside me seemed to be instantly passed through my body by electricity, and I was slightly stunned. In the afterglow, her hands folded on her knees slowly clenched into fists, and her knuckles turned slightly white from the exertion.

I suddenly felt a wave of anger in my heart, even more so than when the little boy at the back table had secretly cut my braids. In the light of the calcium carbide fire, the face in front of him quickly overlapped and merged with the appearance of those bad women in his mind, and he was tightly sealed. Barely thinking or calculating, I stood up and wanted to rush to the other side and peel off the mask of the bad woman on her face.

Almost at the same time, the hand beside me grabbed me, and there was a chill in my wrist. The hand strained slightly, and I sat back down.

"There's nothing to hide from my past, and I don't bother to hide it. Even though I used to be like a dog that everyone hated, there was always someone who regarded me as their most important friend. Qi Li paused, raised his head to meet Yao Chunhe's gaze, "I once hurt you, even if it wasn't because of me, now I will give you a belated apology." Therefore, even if he retaliates against me, there is no need to use and play with other people's feelings, not to mention, he has nothing to do with this grudge. ”

The strength in his wrist gradually disappeared, and the coldness gradually faded. I suppressed the fire surging in my chest, and complained in my heart, if all the grievances in this world can be exchanged for winning respect, and all compromises can be exchanged for laughter and hatred, where will there be so much resentment and hatred.

Sure enough, Qi Li's kind words were still like a speck of floating dust in this cold spring material, falling in front of Yao Chunhe, not painful or itchy, and he couldn't even induce a sneeze. Yao Chunhe stood up and symbolically patted the dust on his side: "Revenge on you? Qi Li, you can't help but look down on yourself too much." ”

After saying that, she stood up, hooked the corners of her mouth again, tilted her head and looked at Qi Li: "As for using and playing, there is no way to talk about it." How do you know I don't really like it? You and your dad owe me, and you don't need to apologize. She paused and smiled at us, "In the same way, I won't be half sorry for you in the future." ”

It wasn't until the pink in the afterglow completely disappeared at the end of the dusty stone slab path that I gradually woke up from the great chaos of resentment, bewilderment, and incomprehension. An idea unconsciously flooded my mind, and it gradually became clear from vagueness.

I frowned and turned to Qi Li, and asked tentatively, "She...... It won't be ......"

The remaining half of the sentence was stuck in my throat like a tiny fishbone, and it was not appropriate to swallow or cough it out. For a moment I couldn't find the right words. You can't say, "Is she the girl who said your dad was a murderer?"

I swallowed and spat, and let my words melt away in the cold of spring, and I sank into a great silence that was the color of the gray sky.

After a while, Qi Li moved his lips slightly, as if he heard the question in my heart, nodded slightly, clasped his hands, and his half-red and half-white nails sank deep into the back of his hand.

"That's right, she's that person. ”