This summer vacation in April has been quite fulfilling.

When my grandmother was picking up garbage, she happened to meet a kind person, and the man gave her a way to go to someone else's house to collect some old newspapers and books, and he gave her a certain percentage as a reward. Grandma did a little math and felt that it was much more cost-effective than her picking up garbage, so she agreed. Tell April about this, April was worried, she felt that her grandmother was too old to do this job, and after thinking about it, she volunteered to go with her grandmother.

Grandma Lin thought that April was not too young, and it was time for her to go out to practice, so the grandparents and grandchildren set off on the borrowed dilapidated tricycle.

It was the height of summer, the sun was hot and hot, and April's pale face was tanned red, and it hurt hotly. Those people looked at April and Grandma Lin's old and young, and they would always sell them old books at a very low price, and when they got acquainted with each other, they would occasionally give them some water and biscuits.

However, this year's summer was much hotter than usual, and after my grandmother couldn't bear the heat stroke at home, she came out alone in April. At first, I had little strength, and when I rode a tricycle, I would always ride one step and three steps back, but after getting used to it, I got used to it. It's just that April has a stupid mouth, and she won't say some sweet words to make adults happy, and some people pity her but won't do anything substantial.

On this day, when April was pushing the tricycle home, she suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and cold sweat broke out all over her body. The dizziness in her mind became stronger and stronger, April only felt that her eyes were black, and she had only one thought in her heart at that time, she must not faint.

Just when she couldn't hold on, an old voice suddenly came from beside her, "Little girl, are you okay?" ”

April barely opened her sweat-soaked eyes and turned her head to look at him in a daze. Although her mind was clouded at this moment, she could still see the worry and kindness conveyed in the old man's cloudy eyes. She trembled her lips and tried to say that she was fine, but the weakness of her body prevented her from saying anything.

In the last vision, it was the old man's outstretched hand, which was thin and exposed.

April was woken up by the smell of flowers, and her nose was itchy and she couldn't help coughing.

"Huh." The strange and familiar laughter came, and April was startled, and subconsciously opened her eyes to look at the past. What caught the eye was the young man's thick black eyebrows that flew diagonally into the sideburns, and underneath them were those obsidian-like shining eyes. The girl blinked in confusion and shrugged her nose, the soft touch of the tip of her nose attracted her attention, and her eyes swept away, and the touch was a fragrant lily.

White petals, flawless fragrance.

"Ah Li, you're messing around again." An elderly man walked in at the door, glanced at the young man with a disapproving look, and then looked at April with a smile and asked kindly, "Little girl, are you feeling better?" ”

April had a little impression of him, and when she was about to faint, it was the old man who held her up. She realized that it was this old man who saved her, smiled at him gratefully, and whispered a little shy thanks: "Thank you, grandpa, I am much better now." ”

Someone who had been ignored unhappily took back the flowers, and the lack of interest casually inserted them into the vase placed on the windowsill.

"It's okay." The old man nodded, his gaze turned to Xiao Li, and his eyes were a little stern, "Ah Li, your classmate is not feeling well, and you are still teasing her, what is it like." ”

The young man pursed his lips a little aggrieved, and secretly looked at the old man, but saw that the other party still didn't intend to let him go, so he had to collapse his shoulders in frustration, turn his head to April, and say sullenly: "I'm sorry, I was joking just now." ”

The girl looked at him with some surprise when she heard this, and stammered back, "No...... It's okay. ”

Xiao Li looked at the old man indifferently when he heard it, and there was a great sense of 'Look, we are just joking, just your old thoughts'.

Grandpa Xiao just stopped, "Ah Li, since your classmate is here, you can treat her well, remember, don't bully other little girls." ”

"Grandpa, how could I bully her." The boy felt a little wronged.

The old man snorted deliberately, and then said to April in a kind tone: "You have a good rest first, and let Ah Li send you back later." ”

"No need."

"It must be, Ah Li is alive and □□ Yi, and he is not as good as you in some places." As he spoke, he shook his head, clasped his hands behind his back, and paced out slowly.

For a while, only April and Xiao Li looked at each other in the room, and the atmosphere instantly cooled down.

"That's ...... today. I'm sorry for you. April got off to an awkward start, trying to break the strange atmosphere.

"Don't bother, my grandfather got you back."

"Oh." April nodded.

Nothing to say for a while.

After a while, the young man hesitated and said, "Do you want to drink water?" ”

April swallowed and shook her head.

When Xiao Li saw it, he cut it and muttered, "What are you polite?" With that, he turned and went out. Soon after, he returned, with a cold drink in his hand.

"Here you go."

April took it in a daze, the cold touch in her hand seemed to penetrate into her body, and you can imagine how comfortable it would be to drink it. It's just that in front of the young man in front of her, she was a little embarrassed to open the bottle cap, and for a while the drink was in her hand and it was not a no-drink.

The two looked at each other, but Xiao Li was the first to laugh, took the drink from April's hand, helped her open the bottle cap, and then handed it over, and said slowly: "Drink." ”

April blushed, took it, and whispered, "Thank you." ”

This is the first time I have seen April's panicked appearance, Xiao Li found it interesting, touched his chin and watched her finish her drink, his voice changed, and he asked with a smile: "Why haven't you seen you for a month, you have become African." ”

April's face turned even redder, but fortunately her complexion concealed it, and she put the rest of her drink on the bedside table, rubbed her hands a little crampedly, and replied, "Exposed to the sun." ”

Xiao Li may have realized something, was silent for a moment, and said softly: "I didn't expect you to ......" so difficult.

As if knowing what he was going to say, April pursed her lips, "Don't you know, my family is very poor." ”

"I'm sorry." The boy thought that he had offended the girl's self-esteem and apologized in a low voice.

"It's okay." April felt that the teenager was a little strange, and said sorry at every turn, which made her quite unaccustomed.

This time, Xiao Li was even more convinced that she was pretending to be strong, and the guilt deepened, he looked at April without saying anything, and suddenly had an idea, "April, don't you want to collect old books and waste newspapers, I have a way." He smiled mysteriously and hurried out.

April didn't know what he could do, but at three o'clock in the afternoon, when she saw the empty tricycle filled with stacks of neatly bundled books and newspapers, her heart was sour, and she was very moved. The boy ran over sweating profusely, and the dust mixed with sweat left marks on his face, which looked particularly funny. He smiled proudly, and did not forget to pull up his bangs handsomely, as if to say, "How is it, I'm amazing." ”

April nodded dumbly, pointed to the full books and notebooks behind him, and said confusedly, "How did you do that." ”

Summer is so hot, some families don't want to go out in the sun even if they have old books at home, and it is good to be able to collect half of today's results in April.

The boy smiled mysteriously, "This area is a place where some elderly people live, and they are usually used to ordering newspapers and reading books to kill time, so you have come to the right place, the most important thing here is books and newspapers." ”

"Then how did they agree to sell." The girl was puzzled.

"It's nice to have a sweeter mouth, praise them more, and pat them more." Xiao Li grinned.

April snorted, and suddenly remembered that she hadn't given the money yet, but the old books and old newspapers were tied together, and she didn't know how to weigh and count the money. She hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth and asked, "Xiao Li, do you know where these books are?" ”

The young man shook his head innocently, "I can't tell the difference, it's already so much for this one to collect a little and that to collect a little, what's wrong?" ”

"I haven't paid yet." April swallowed bitterly authentic.

"So that's it." Xiao Li shook his hand and said, "Those old grandfathers and grandmothers said that they don't want money, they will give it to you." ”

April was stunned, walked over to pick up the scale, untied the tied string, and weighed the pounds in batches. She was very thin, her arms were thin and only wrapped in a layer of skin, and the long sleeves she wore before could not be seen, but now that it was hot, the half of her arms exposed in short sleeves were slender and long, especially conspicuous in the sun.

It was past the hottest momentum, but it was so hot that she would sweat at the slightest movement. Xiao Li looked at her self-care actions, digested it for a long time, and suddenly came back to her senses, stepped forward a few big steps and grabbed her arm, twisted her eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'll look at how much these books weigh and calculate how much it will cost." April back.

Xiao Li was a little angry, and his voice couldn't help but be a little heavy: "Don't you understand people's words, I said I don't want money." ”

April was taken aback.

The boy was born with a tall horse with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but at this time, he twisted his eyebrows with a dark face, and released a strong evil aura all over his body, which was quite a bit of the posture of a hellish Yama. He felt that Lin April was a little ignorant, his brain was twisted and stubborn, and he couldn't turn a corner at all, and besides, he had been busy for a while before he had put out the results, and now they were all messed up by her, which made him feel that his kindness was not rewarded.

April was silent for a second and looked him head-on, "I'm sorry, I know you're kind, but I don't want others to sympathize with me." Her solemnity was almost word-for-word.

Xiao Li sneered and asked rhetorically: "Why do you think they are willing to give you these things, it's not that you are pitiful." ”

April did not answer.

Xiao Li let go of the hand holding her arm, looked at her with an unbelievable gaze, and squeezed out some words from his mouth, "I really don't understand how your brain circuits are structured, why do you want to push away the kindness of others, just for your poor self-esteem?" ”

The two men confronted each other under the sun, sweat dripping down, and no one could convince anyone.

Eventually, April relented, re-tying the rope she had cut and carefully stacking the books. From beginning to end, Xiao Li stood aside with a bystander attitude, quietly watching her every move, and at the end, he asked, "Think clearly?" ”

April patted the thick book, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, then straightened up and looked back at him, "You're right, you can't even solve your own food and clothing to have any self-esteem." Laughing self-deprecatingly, he continued: "However, there are some principled things that I will not compromise. After saying that, she took out a few bits and pieces of paper money from her pocket, took Xiao Li's hand, and put the money in his palm.

The boy was stunned, he didn't understand what the girl meant for a while, he looked up and saw himself reflected in the girl's clear eyes.

"I know you mean well, it's just that I don't like to get something for nothing." The girl whispered, "That would make me give myself an excuse to be lazy." ”

"Huh?" Xiao was puzzled.

April smiled faintly, pulled out his palm, and stroked the corners of his somewhat wrinkled clothes, "It's my luck that others pity themselves, if I pity myself, then I can't be saved." Anyway thank you today, if it weren't for meeting you and your grandfather, I would probably be very wolf. ”

Her smile is shallow, free and indifferent, with resignation and self-deprecation for her own exit.

The memory of that day Xiao Li can't remember clearly, and sometimes he wonders if it's his dream, but the girl's smile lingers in her mind for a long time, and it lasts for a long time.

It wasn't until many years later, when the girl in his memory and the figure of the weathered woman in front of him coincided, he suddenly found that after so many years, they were all changing, only this woman was still alive at the beginning, and she was still so stubborn, it seemed that as long as she decided on one thing, she would go all the way to the dark.