That night, in order to welcome Gu Cheng back to China, the four of them went to the restaurant to eat together.

Originally, the atmosphere was very good, but during the meal, Gu Cheng answered a phone call, and although there were only a few words, it quieted the scene.

"It can't be a call from your girlfriend, right?" Xu Fei likes to joke in private, but he didn't expect to be really blinded by him this time, because Gu Cheng said: "Her name is Xu Qiu, she is my college classmate, and she is also my girlfriend for half a year......"

"Smack." The soup spoon in Yiyi's hand fell into the bowl, the soup splashed, affecting the clothes on her chest, she was wearing a beige long hair tweed today, and she drank hot and sour soup, and at this moment the dark soup was dotted on the beige clothes, and the color was dazzling.

When several people looked over, Yiyi had already cramped up: "I'll go back and change my clothes first, you eat slowly, don't wait for me, you drank a lot of wine just now, I can make tea when I go back and wait for you to come back...... Neodymium"

She spoke very quickly, and spoke at a long time, perhaps not even realizing what she was saying, her eyes staring at the bowl of hot and sour soup on the table, her eyes blinking, as if suppressing something.

"Yiyi-" Ah Sheng saw Yiyi leaving quickly, and hurriedly got up, but Xu Fei grabbed his wrist, he was laughing, but there was no smile in his eyes, he glanced sideways at Gu Cheng: "You go to see her, she has listened to you since she was a child." ”

Gu Cheng raised his eyes, glanced at Xu Fei, and continued to bow his head to drink the hot and sour soup that had been served in advance, then got up, picked up his coat, and left Poo.

After Gu Cheng left, Xu Fei moved to fill Ah Sheng with a bowl of soup, "What are you stunned about, if you don't drink it again, it's time to get cold." ”

Ah Sheng is not stupid, in fact, his heart is like a mirror, there are four people at the dinner table, but there are three people who are treacherous.

Gu Cheng has a girlfriend, Yiyi reacted so much, Xu Fei was calm, and Gu Cheng was calm......

Ah Sheng pulled his lips, relaxed his body, and leaned on the back of the chair: "Actually, you have always known that the person Yiyi likes is my brother!" ”

This is a statement, not a question.

……

Yiyi didn't go home to change clothes, but went to Gu's house, made tea, and looked at the white smoke rising in a trance.

There was a knock at the door, she went to open the door, and when she saw Gu Cheng, she was not surprised, and smiled: "You sit down first, the tea will be boiled immediately." ”

Turning around and walking into the kitchen, Gu Cheng stood in the living room and hesitated for a while, then walked to the kitchen door, looked at Yiyi's back and stopped talking, did not speak, and did not approach.

The first person to break the silence was Yiyi, with his back to Gu Cheng, and Yiyi's voice was very soft: "You know, I will have a calendar hanging in my room for many years, when I was a child, I hoped that I could grow up quickly, and when I grew up, you would not treat me as a sister and a child." Every day after school, I look at my calendar and count how long I have to grow up. But when will it be considered to be grown up? 18th birthday. ”

Yiyi lowered her head and bit her lip, "I confessed to you that day, nervous, uneasy, expectant, and afraid...... Worried that you will take my confession as a burden, ostracize me, stay away from me, I don't want to be a brother and sister with you, so for many years, I have carefully restrained myself. You are going to the United States, I am reluctant, but I forced a smile, the day you left, I sent you to the gate of the hospital, watching your back disappear little by little, I feel that I lost you. I hid in my room that day and cried all day, my parents thought that I was reluctant to give up your good brother, and how did I know that I was reluctant to have a man named Gu Cheng. ”

Speaking of this, Yiyi turned to look at Gu Cheng, looking at his handsome and clean face, frowning slightly, Yiyi smiled bitterly in his heart, he should really only treat her as a sister!

"I was so eager to grow up, but tonight I really wanted to go back to my childhood, when we were very naïve, carefree, just started learning to write, I wrote the number '2', but always wrote it as 'n', my mother taught me for a long time, but I still can't write well, and after the last I got angry, I tore up my homework book, and the pencil was broken, and I cried so much that I felt so stupid. You heard the crying and came to my house to see me and teach me to write. How amazing, my mother taught me so many times, and I couldn't write well, but as soon as you came, you only taught me once, and I wrote correctly......" Yiyi took a deep breath, paused and said: "On the day I went to school, the first time I crossed the street, it was you who took me and Ah Sheng's hands and walked across the road. The second time you crossed the street, you stood behind me and Ah Sheng, escorting us across the street, and the third time ......"

Yiyi smiled, and the smile was accompanied by pain: "These memories are a little old, I thought that with growing up, one day I would blur these memories, but I didn't expect that when I told you this, they were still very clear, I saw the departure of the old time, but I ignored that when it passed by me, it had already been engraved in my mind." ”

Gu Cheng's eyes were very dark and quiet, and he looked at Yiyi so deeply: "Yiyi, anyone's youth is full of helplessness and pain, everyone hopes that life can be simple and happy, but they forget that life is originally to constantly create problems, you are my sister, all your life." ”

"For a lifetime? How long can a person's life be? Yiyi's tone was soft, there was no grievance, no complaints, as if she was back in her childhood, talking to Gu Cheng carefree.

The sound of the kettle in the kitchen is getting louder and louder, and it reaches the ears, like a heart, restless.

Yiyi thought, she should leave, otherwise this kind of bad mood will only make Gu Cheng hate her more and more before all the bad emotions are exposed, she has liked him for so many years, how can she make him hate her?

When she passed by Gu Cheng's side, she said: "Big brother, I should have thought that we grew up together since childhood, if you like me, how can I not feel it?" It's me who thinks love is too simple. ”

Gu Cheng pursed his thin lips and let Yiyi pass by him. He and Yiyi passed by, and there was only such a time.

Yiyi left, the lights in the yard were slightly dim, and when she walked to the bright light, she looked at the shadows on the ground, like clothes poles on the rooftop that no one cleaned up all year round, and the shadows dragged on for a long time, revealing desolation.

……

When Ah Sheng came back, Gu Cheng was taking out the clothes from the suitcase, putting them on the bed, and sorting them out one by one.

The clothes were taken away by Ah Sheng, and she sat on the bed, she said: "It's not folded right, it's easy to fold." ”

Gu Cheng smiled, sat aside, simply let go of the strike, and watched her fold her clothes, she had a pair of skillful hands, and the clothes were folded well, neat and beautiful.

Ah Sheng asked, "Are your parents in good health?" ”

"Okay."

"How are you?"

Gu Cheng smiled: "Okay." ”

Ah Sheng lowered his eyes: "You know, I didn't ask about the body." ”

"......" Gu Cheng quieted down.

After a while, Gu Sheng said: "I'm not a good sister, I'm relatively slow to emotion, and I'm a little hindsight, I don't know what to do, you have always put Yiyi in your heart." ”

"Okay, Ah Sheng, don't say it." Gu Cheng hugged Ah Sheng, rested his chin on her shoulder, and looked at a corner of the room with her in a daze.

Only then did I realize that the Gu family's old house was surprisingly empty at night.

Ah Sheng sighed lightly: "Since you have Yiyi in your heart, why don't you say it?" ”

Gu Cheng said slowly: "Before going abroad, I originally wanted to say something to Yiyi, but she was in high school at that time, and I was worried that she would be distracted; Later, when the college entrance examination was over, I thought I could finally say something to her, Xu Fei said to me, he liked Yiyi for many years......" Gu Cheng was silent for a moment, and then sighed: "We grew up together, we have a deep relationship, Xu Fei is just like my own brother, I can't hurt Xu Fei just to be with Yiyi." ”

Ah Sheng's heart tightened, and he unexpectedly thought of Lu Zichu and Han Yu......

Patting Gu Cheng's hand, he let go of her and helped her put her clothes in the closet together, Ah Sheng said: "Xu Fei just told me that he knew that after the college entrance examination, you want to confess to Yiyi, so he deliberately ......"

Gu Cheng interrupted Ah Sheng's words: "Ah Sheng, if a man is willing to play tricks for women, it can only mean that he really likes her." ”

Even if Yiyi doesn't confess to him, he will return to China to accompany Ah Sheng for the New Year, she is the only one in the family, her parents are worried about her, but she refuses to go to the United States, he can only come back.

He thought that after returning to China, he would get along as usual, and in time, everything would return to the beginning, and there would be no quarrels and estrangements between the four of them, but he never thought that he would mess up.

Now, Ah Sheng asked him rhetorically: "If you love Yiyi, how can you let Xu Qiu take Yiyi's place in your heart?" ”

Gu Cheng looked at Ah Sheng, and after a long time, he finally spoke: "Ah Sheng, the relationship between me and Xu Qiu is not as simple as you think. ”

……

After returning to China, Gu Cheng was very busy, pulling Ah Sheng and his former classmates to meet and visit junior and senior high school teachers together, and the days were very busy, and in a blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

Near noon, the sun was slightly drunk, and Ah Sheng, who unfortunately menstruated, sat on a wicker chair reading a book.

In the room, Xu Fei was helping Gu Cheng paste New Year's paintings, and Yiyi was standing aside with the paste, and the three of them had a clear division of labor.

Ah Sheng leaned back in his chair, listened to the sound of firecrackers in the alley, and gently closed his eyes.

It seems like...... Nothing has changed.