In the early morning of the next day, everything seemed to be the same as before, but Lu Xingchuan, who went out and heard the dog barking again, felt indescribably lonely.

He didn't get into the car that had opened the door for him, but approached the courtyard of Qiao's house and asked Liu Yunan, who was watering the flowers, "Auntie, is he better?"

Liu Yunan's face was full of helplessness: "No, he also has a low-grade fever, I just helped him ask for leave from the teacher."

Although he really wanted to accompany the fool Qiao again, Lu Xingchuan had no excuse not to go to class, so he could only say, "Then I'll help him bring his notes and homework after school."

"Oh, yes." Liu Yunan took a step forward and asked, "Why don't you accompany him at night, I have a notice that I have promised a long time ago and I can't go, it is estimated that it will be late at night when I get home, although I can call someone else to help take care of him, but this child is sad in his heart, and he has to be cranky when he stays by himself, so it is better to stay with friends."

"No problem." Lu Xingchuan smiled: "I'll cook for him, Auntie, don't worry."

Liu Yunan liked this very sensible young man very much, so he promised: "Wait until the weekend, take you two to Beidaihe to eat seafood, Qiao Bai has long wanted to go, and it just happened to let him relax."

"Well, thank you, Auntie." Lu Xingchuan looked back at the car: "I have to go, I'm almost late."

"Be careful on the road." Liu Yunan waved his hand and watched him leave.

――

Although Qiao Bai's grades are usually poor, he is rarely absent from school.

His seat was empty that day, and everyone was naturally concerned about inquiring.

Lu Xingchuan, who was not used to gossip, didn't tell the truth, but Ke Yizhu also ran to the door of the errand class with an anxious face and asked: "What's wrong with him, he doesn't answer his mobile phone, he doesn't answer his home phone, even if he is sick, he won't answer the phone?"

"Qiao Bai's Demu was killed by my brother last night." Lu Xingchuan replied expressionlessly, "He's probably not in a good mood."

Ke Yizhu suddenly became angry, grabbed his school uniform and said angrily, "You!"

Lu Xingchuan helped him away and said, "My brother is my brother, I am me, if there is a way to clean him up, I am happy to see it."

Ke Yizhu was really tired of the surname Lu: "Forget it, I'll go see Qiao Bai after school."

"I advise you not to go, he doesn't even see his mother, and when he hears others mention this, he will lose his temper again." Lu Xingchuan didn't want to say more, and after blocking it, he turned around and went back to the class.

"Hey." Ke Yizhu couldn't help but scream, and suddenly felt that Qiao Bai, who was so familiar, seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him, but he was getting closer and closer to this guy.

――

But he said that the poor fool had been lying all day, his eyes were swollen, and his whole body was sore.

When he slipped into the living room and sat in a daze, he didn't expect the part-time worker to open the door and usher in Lu Xingchuan.

Seeing the familiar friend, Qiao Bai was sad again, and flattened his mouth.

Lu Xingchuan put down his schoolbag and smiled: "Still sad? I'm bringing you ice cream."

"I don't want to eat, I don't have an appetite." Qiao Bai had no blood on his face at all, and his voice was hoarse.

Lu Xingchuan didn't expect to hear Silly Qiao say such things in his lifetime, so he sat next to him and said softly, "After my mother died, I was like this for a while."

Qiao Bai couldn't help but raise his slightly swollen eyes when he heard him feel sad.

"Although there is no comparison, I understand that you treat Xiao Demu as if he was a family member, and when he is gone, it is normal for you to be sad." Lu Xingchuan's tone was very gentle: "But life is like this, it always has its length, and it may end in various ways, you always have to learn to accept it."

Hearing this, Qiao Bai hung his long eyelashes and kept silent, and after a while, tears fell again, and the wolf bèi wiped them away: "Then do you miss your mother?"

"I know I shouldn't think about it, but I still think about it every day." Lu Xingchuan replied frankly.

Qiao Bai still couldn't suppress his sadness, but because he was closer to this friend, he gained a faint warmth and comfort.

――

That night, Silly Joe, who cried too much, ate a few mouthfuls of porridge casually, and then fell asleep on the bed groggily.

Lu Xingchuan, who was asked to stay overnight, was a little apprehensive, and after taking a bath, he stood next to him for a while before carefully climbing up.

Qiao Bai was still asleep, his innocent face defenseless.

Lu Xingchuan spread out the pillow, so nervous that his heart was pounding.

Qiao Bai cried too much, his throat was a little inflamed, and he suddenly frowned and coughed in his sleep.

Lu Xingchuan hurried down again and brought a glass of water: "Drink some, you haven't had a hanging needle, you will definitely be short of water."

Qiao Bai opened his eyes in a daze, barely drank a few sips, and then collapsed again.

Lu Xingchuan didn't bother at all, he still felt that he had gone lucky, sat back next to him, turned off the headlights and turned on his mobile phone to look at what food is more suitable for Silly Qiao now.

A few moments passed, and the orange sconces snapped on.

Qiao Bai withdrew his hand, pulled the quilt and said, "Turning off the lights and playing with your mobile phone is not good for your eyes...... You want to be as short-sighted as bamboo......

"Sleep." Lu Xingchuan immediately turned off the screen.

"Thank you for coming with me." Qiao Bai seemed to have a little energy, sniffled and said, "I will always remember the second dog, and I will never raise another dog."

Lu Xingchuan couldn't help but laugh at these childish words.

"Come with me tomorrow to wash some of its photos." Qiao Bai remembered the happy times in the past, and his eyes were still red.

Lu Xingchuan reached out and touched it and stroked his forehead: "Okay, stop crying."

"I didn't have to cry." Qiao Bai shrank his face into the quilt: "Sleep."

Lu Xingchuan tore the quilt away: "Cry, cry, be careful of lack of oxygen."

"I didn't want to cry." Qiao Bai snorted and turned his back to the past.

Lu Xingchuan finally lay down next to him carefully, a little excited and very uneasy.

If the naïve Qiao Bai knew his thoughts, would he still regard himself as a friend?

This question is the biggest mystery faced by sixteen-year-old Lu Xingchuan, and he spent almost his entire youth daring to solve it.

――

In the days since, Qiao Bai is still a little listless, and when he sees someone's puppy on the street, he will lower his head and not speak, but fortunately, he didn't wash his face with tears anymore, and he obediently did what the school asked.

Lu Yuejing, who was punished by his father, came back to pick up the car after half a month, and even kept his promise to bring the latest Xbox and a bag of game disks, threw them into his brother's room, and said nonchalantly: "Here, find a friend in the United States to send it by mail, don't break it, it's not easy to repair."

Lu Xingchuan raised his head from the book, looked back, and showed a faint smile to his brother for the first time: "Thank you."

Lu Yuejing looked at him strangely for a moment, and then disappeared leisurely with the car keys.

There is such a thing as video games, and Lu Xingchuan is never interested.

Without any hesitation, he immediately picked up the big box and the game board, hurried to the courtyard of Qiao's house, and shouted under the window of Silly Qiao, "Qiao Bai!"

The guy quickly showed his head: "What's wrong?"

"Look." Lu Xingchuan lifted the box.

"Ahh Qiao Bai roared, and then rushed downstairs like the New Year: "Ahhhh

"For you." Lu Xingchuan smiled and handed it over.

Qiao Bai begged her mother for a long time, but she didn't want to buy it for herself, and at the moment there was no politeness left, so she instantly hugged her in her arms hard, revealing a big smile: "Xingchuan, you are so good, I love you!"

Lu Xingchuan was stunned, of course he knew that he was joking, but he was still happy that the sunshine finally returned to that cute face: "Then you play, I'll go back to reading."

"Play with me, it's all in English, I can't understand it." Qiao Bai struggled to grip the box, and then freed up his hand to pull his arm: "Oh, you can live in our house in the future, what do you think?"

Lu Xingchuan followed speechlessly, and after a while, he smiled helplessly and didn't answer anything.

24

It is not unreasonable for the ancients to say that adversity can see true feelings.

After these twists and turns together, Qiao Bai unconsciously became inseparable from Lu Xingchuan.

What's more, the two are neighbors and at the same table, so there seems to be no reason to separate.

But in this way, Ke Yizhu naturally didn't feel good in his heart, and sometimes he followed tightly, but he seemed aggressive.

Just like after school on this day, Qiao Bai planned to go home immediately, but he was stopped by him at the door of the class.

Ke Yizhu smiled, "Let's go play game consoles, shall we?"

Qiao Bai is emotional, since Demu's accident, he has not been in the mood to hang out for a long time, and when he heard this, he immediately shook his head and refused: "Forget it, Xingchuan gave me a game console."

"What about eating something delicious? I'd like to buy two comics by the way." Ke Yizhu followed him and refused to give up.

Qiao Bai drooped his eyelids: "I don't want to eat, I don't have anything I want to buy, you go with Dadong."

"When the dog dies, it dies, and don't be sad for too long." Ke Yizhu didn't like pets since he was a child, so he naturally only regarded Demu as a utensil, and didn't think it was too important: "There are still a lot of interesting things in the world."

"Funny fuck." Qiao Bai immediately blinked, and said angrily, "Don't talk about my second dog like this!"

"Hey, I'm wrong, don't be angry." Ke Yizhu, as before, was also full of smiles after being scolded.

But Qiao Bai's expression did not improve, and he strode away with his schoolbag on his back.

Ke Yizhu stood helplessly in place, feeling that he hadn't done anything wrong, so he could only blame Lu Xingchuan on the head - since that guy appeared beside him, Qiao Bai was no longer the same Qiao Bai as before.

――

Although he is jealous and slandered all day long, Lu Xingchuan still lives calmly.

On this day, he went to the entertainment company to practice dance as usual, and when he returned home, it was already late.

"Uncle Wang, have you seen Qiao Bai come back?" He didn't even bother to enter the house, so he shouted through the door.

Uncle Wang, who was teasing the birds in the yard, said casually, "I've been in the house a long time ago, that kid has been very obedient lately."

Lu Xingchuan smiled, took out the commemorative photo album of Demu made by the agent's sister from his schoolbag, hesitated for a moment, and stuffed it into the mailbox of Qiao's house.

Although Silly Joe has been a lot more normal these days, he is so kind, it is impossible for him to forget what happened before for a while.

I'm afraid I'm going to cry again when I see this kind of gift.

I can't tell why, Lu Xingchuan likes to stare at Qiao Bai's eyes, but he can't avoid his tears.

――

Puppies are like children, jubilant and cute.

But the excitement it brings turns into an indescribable desertion in the immediate aftermath of death.

Qiao Bai hid in the house for a while to write homework and play games for a while, feeling that it was boring to do anything, so he suddenly fell on the bed and pretended to be dead.

At this time, he inadvertently turned his head sideways and found that the indicator light of the mobile phone was flashing and prompting.

It's Lu Xingchuan's text message.

The kid left a message saying, "I don't know if you're at home, the dog's photo album is ready, and I've put it in your mailbox."

Seeing this, Qiao Bai immediately sat up and ran out to look for it.

Sure enough, the beautiful commemorative book was lying there obediently.

After Qiao Bai opened it, he saw the video record of Demu from childhood to adulthood through the street lamp, and remembered the happy time he had spent with it, and his eyes couldn't help but redden.

However, on the last page, the dragon and the phoenix danced and landed in Xingchuan's chic handwriting: "I don't know what is in the sky, but I know that there will always be your laughter and joy in the world."

After watching it several times, Qiao Bai's heart was filled with a very precious feeling of being understood and respected.

Since the second dog's accident, many people have told him "just cry and cry", "how can a boy be so fragile", "isn't it just a dog...... Only Lu Xingchuan has always been patiently accompanied, never ridiculed, and even knows what he thinks in his heart.

This kind of specialness can easily become a very important friendship for young people.

――

In order to ease the relationship with Qiao Bai, Ke Yizhu did not use his brains less.

Doesn't that little fool just like dogs? Buying another one and that's all it takes - in the end, accustomed to using money, he decides to do what he says, and soon goes to the housekeeper to find a purebred puppy, and then goes to great lengths to trick Qiao Bai into coming over the weekend.

Qiao Bai finally appeared, and when he entered the door, he asked, "Bamboo, why are you tossing me?" I really have cram school to go to."

"I'll give you a gift." Ke Yizhu was very proud, went upstairs and hugged the basket containing the puppy, and said with a smile, "Look, is it exactly the same as the one you used to have?"

Qiao Bai stared at the dog for a moment, and then his face changed in a blink of an eye: "The second dog is special, I don't raise other dogs, besides, this is a life, why don't you buy it indiscriminately without making a sound?"

"If you raise it, you will have feelings, and you won't be sad if you have a new one." Ke Yizhu felt that he was quite reasonable.

Qiao Bai turned his head and left: "Nosy."

After being rejected by him so coldly, Ke Yizhu was also depressed, and chased after him and said, "Hey, I care about you, look at how much you cry like a bear."

"You don't understand!" Qiao Bai was half angry: "You haven't had a dog, don't comment on me!" Send this dog back quickly, and don't spoil the little animals!"

"Qiao Bai, why are you like this? Do you have an opinion about me?" Ke Yizhu asked.

"Huh?" Qiao Bai's brain was not enough.

"You just like to play with that guy surnamed Lu all day long, don't you believe what he says about me?" Ke Yizhu has been thinking a lot lately, and even began to say nothing: "Just because I didn't accompany you to take the errand class?"

"What do you mean by accompanying me to take the exam, what's wrong with me being a bad student? Do you blame me for the illness of the Hoshikawa junior high school candidate?" Qiao Bai scolded indignantly, "Bamboo, I feel more and more that you are unreasonable!"

――

Because he quarreled with his good friend again, Qiao Bai didn't have the heart to go to cram school again, so he ran to Lu's house and began to complain: "Do you say that Ke Yizhu is too naïve, I simply don't understand his brain circuits!" Ergou is my friend, how can he be replaced casually, and he has to pull everything on you, damn, does he have a crush on you?"

Lu Xingchuan secretly mocked Ke Yizhu's thoughts, but his face was calm: "I care about you somewhat, but I don't know anything, don't care."

"You're more normal." When Qiao Bai saw him, his feelings changed inexplicably.

Lu Xingchuan smiled, went out and brought the cake and said, "Eat it."

Qiao Bai gobbled up and said vaguely, "I didn't go to the make-up class today, my mother has to talk about me, you can teach me."

Lu Xingchuan nodded in agreement.

In fact, he was very grateful to Ke Yizhu for his recklessness, telling him to see clearly the way he got along with Silly Qiao without much effort, there are some landmines between people that must not be touched, and Qiao Bai, who is used to doing whatever he wants, is impossible to accept any imposed emotions, like Ke Yizhu's possessiveness, sooner or later it will bring him uncontrollable sad consequences.