My name is Qi Chunhui, and I am an ordinary sophomore science student in City No. 1 Middle School. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf you pass by an alley on this day in the summer season, you will find a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy standing in front of a dilapidated grocery store, holding a note in his hand, staring straight at the grocery store sign.

That's right, this teenager is me.

I think I'm still honestly sitting in the classroom this morning "relishing" a set of pre-exam mock papers, and I skipped school at noon today, yes, I, truant! And it was all because of that phone call my demon sister gave me after school at noon. My sister gave me an address on the other end of the phone and told me to skip school to find this place right away.

That's right, my own sister actually instigated her own brother to skip school!

As a good student, of course I didn't agree with skipping school, but when my sister threatened me with the right to use wifi during the holidays, I decisively gave in...... So I had no choice but to put on my bag, take a note with the address recorded, and take advantage of the doorman's inattention, quietly climb over the school wall, and skip school.

And when I finally found the place that my sister said, I was stunned. I saw a dilapidated grocery store in front of me, and I was afraid that the decoration of the store was some years old, and when I looked up, the mossy and cracked signboard was crookedly written with a few large characters in unknown paint: "Store Goods Grocery Store".

"This ......" I secretly scolded in my heart, sister, this is not playing with me, right? Asking me to skip school at noon just to find such a dilapidated shop?

"Meow~" At this time, a cat meow interrupted my conjecture, and I came back to my senses only to find that a black and white cat had squatted beside me at some point, and was looking at me with a smile. Looking at it, I couldn't help but think of the text called "Cat" that Lao She learned in elementary school, and the illustration of the cat on it was almost exactly the same as the one in front of me. Huh?! Wait, cats laugh too? I woke up instantly, and when I looked at the cat again, it had already climbed onto the roof of the grocery store and was gone in a few jumps.

I shook my head, pinched my eyebrows hard, sobered myself up, stepped forward, and pushed open the door of the grocery store.

"Squeak-" "Jingle-" The sound of the wooden door rubbing against the ground sounded at the same time as a crisp sound, and I looked up to find the source of the crisp sound, but I saw a strange wind chime: a flat, hollowed out metal five-pointed star horizontally, and a thin line on each of the five corners hung a star-shaped bell of unknown material downward, and the sound came from here and went up along the thin line, but the five thin lines converged on a slightly thicker chain, and there was a metal ring at the top of the chain, It was this ring that hung the entire wind chime on the wall inside the door.

"Welcome." A cold voice sounded, I turned my head to look at the store, the interior of the store was very simple and natural, completely different from the dilapidated outside the door, from the door, several huge wooden shelves in a circle, full of all kinds of strange goods, in the center of a long wooden counter, and the person who had just spoken was standing behind the counter, it was a black-haired and black-eyed young man, dressed in black and white casual clothes, about seventeen or eighteen years old, looking at me with a smile. Behind the boy was a wooden door covered by a curtain, and he didn't know where it led.

And the most eye-catching is the little girl sitting on a wooden round stool on the left side of the counter, she looks like she is eleven or twelve years old, with white and crystal semi-long hair, the ends of the hair are slightly curled outward at the shoulder, she is wearing a milky white dress, the neckline and the corners of the skirt have pink and white lace, and there is an emerald green pattern from the left sleeve to the waist, because the stool is too high, the exposed small half of the tender white calves are dangling there, and her big green eyes are also blinking, looking very delicate and cute. My attention was drawn to her white hair and green eyes.

"It's like a black locust flower, isn't it?" She said as she looked at me with her big eyes that were as clear as spring water.

"Huh?! What the? I was stunned by her question.

I saw her pointing at her hair with her white and slender little fingers, tilting her head slightly, and smiling playfully: "This, you have been staring at it since just now, the color of people's hair is very similar to the flowers of black locust, right?" ”

"Uh...... ......I scratched my head in embarrassment, and replied with a smile, "it's more appropriate to look like a magnolia than a locust flower." ”

"Magnolia... It's Magnolia again......" Hearing my answer, the little girl who was still full of vitality just now somehow wilted, lowered her head, and pouted, not knowing what she was muttering.

"Okay, Xiaohuai, don't worry about this anymore." Seeing this, the young man couldn't help but smile dumbly, walked behind Xiaohuai, stretched out his right hand, and comforted Xiaohuai with doting while stroking Xiaohuai's head.

"Hmm... Brother ......" Xiaohuai raised his head, still with a small mouth, but turned around and threw himself into the boy's arms, hugging the boy tightly and coquettishly.

The young man stroked Xiaohuai's hair, let her be coquettish in his arms, raised his head and smiled apologetically at me: "I'm sorry, this is my sister Xiaohuai, because there is a 'Huai' character in the name, so I stubbornly think that my hair color is the same as Huaihua, and every time she describes her hair like this, others will say that it is more like Magnolia, so she is so entangled in this matter." ”

"That's... Her hair and eyes are ......," I hesitated.

"Ahh This ......" the young man smiled slightly, "This is because Xiaohuai's mother and I are British, and my father is Chinese, Xiaohuai inherited my mother's white hair and green eyes, and I inherited my father's black hair and black eyes." ”

"Oh, that's right." I nodded, and then the boy continued, "Anyway, this guest, I wonder what you came to the shop for?" Anything you see, except for me and Xiaohuai, you can take everything else with you. ”

"Uh... This ...... "I remembered that when I heard that my sister asked me to skip school, I was only thinking about how to get out, and I forgot to ask my sister what she wanted me to do.

In desperation, I had no choice but to tell the truth: "Hmm... It was my sister who got me here, but I was in such a hurry that I forgot to ask her what she wanted me to do..."

"Oh?" The young man raised his eyebrows, as if he was aroused, and asked, "I don't know Sister Ling's name?" "I told him my sister's name.

I saw him smile and say, "It turned out to be her, I don't know if you are..."

"I'm her younger brother, named Qi Chunhui." I replied.

"'Hui'......" the boy muttered.

"Huh?" I wondered.

"No, it's nothing," the young man stroked Xiaohuai's hair in his arms with one hand, and stretched out his other hand and pointed to the wind chime at the door, "Well, that's what your sister asked you to pick up." ”

He didn't use "you" to address me anymore, but "you", which seemed much closer. It must be the work of the old lady, I thought to myself.

"By the way," I asked, looking back as I took the chimes off, "I just took the chimes with me?" Don't you have to pay for it? ”

"No, it's just a favor for your sister, and," the young man's eyes flashed, "I didn't say it was given to you, I just lent it to you temporarily, and I want to pay it back." ”

"So," I smiled sheepishly, "huh? Wait, you mean, this thing was lent to me? "I looked at the wind chime in my hand curiously, and I really couldn't see what I could do with it.

I shook my head and tucked it into my carry-on backpack. "Well, if there's nothing else to do, I'll go back first. Goodbye. I smiled goodbye to the siblings and turned to open the door, wanting to leave.

"When the bell rings, you can hear the whispers of the stars." I turned around and saw that Xiaohuai had turned his head from the boy's arms and was looking at me with a smile.

"yes, I see." I waved goodbye to them.

"Squeak-" As the wooden door slammed, I suddenly remembered where I had seen the young man's smile, and where had I seen him? Then I was shocked.

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