Xie Lulin didn't remember when he met Lin Shuang, it seemed like a long, long time ago, so long that he barely remembered what she looked like, and he seemed to have been with her for as long as he could remember.

The earliest memories he remembered were her little red face and the somewhat whitish floral shirt, and it was a hot summer evening, and the sun was about to set.

He followed his mother to Lin Shuang's house.

The two adults chatted passionately together, and he went out boredly to go outside to play, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly saw a little girl sitting next to the huge gardenia tree outside the door.

The gardenias bloomed just right, a large patch of pure white and pure white, each one seemed to have just bloomed and was still stained with morning dew, and it could almost shine in the sunset.

A few thin white gardenia petals fell on the ground.

His gaze followed Gardenia to the little girl sitting next to him, who seemed to be as big as him, and the small mass sat solemnly on a stool, with a small four-legged table in front of her.

She couldn't even reach the table, but her expression was so serious that it almost made him laugh, and she lowered her head solemnly and didn't know what she was writing.

Or rather, it's a drawing.

Her eyes are very beautiful, little Xie Lulin doesn't know what words to use to describe him, he only knows that he is very beautiful, he likes it very much, her face is flushed, and she has a beautiful gardenia tied to her pigtails.

The sun shines on her face through the gardenia tree, and there are mottled shadows swaying on her face, and it is as quiet as a beautiful girl in a painting.

For many years after that, every time he saw a gardenia, Xie Lulin would always think of Lin Shuang and her beautiful eyes. remembered her serious appearance.

He paused in his footsteps and walked over.

The little Lin Shuang didn't notice him, she was still in that posture, lowering her head and drawing something seriously, Xie Lulin curiously leaned over and took a look.

He froze.

Although he didn't know what she was drawing, and it didn't seem to be very good-looking, he knew that he couldn't even draw circles at that time.

"You're so beautiful," he said, true.

It's no wonder that he shouldn't have said the second half of the sentence, "The duck you drew is so beautiful, it's the same as the real thing."

Lin Shuang was taken aback by him, blushed with joy after listening to his first half of the sentence, and then pulled down his face very angrily after listening to him finish the second half of the sentence, "This is a bird"

Afraid that Xie Lulin wouldn't understand, she repeated it again. "Birds. Do you know? It's the birds that fly in the sky, not the ducks."

Lin Shuang snorted and ignored Xie Lulin, packed up her books and moved the stool away, her small body moved the stool step by step to the door, and it was very funny.

Xie Lulin touched his nose and went up to help her, but at first Lin Shuang was still cold to him. However, children are always angry for a long time.

Since then, they have become inseparable friends.

They go to school together and leave school together. Write homework together and watch TV together. Let's play together at Xie Lulin's house today, and go to Lin Shuang's house together tomorrow.

After going back and forth, Xie Lulin also knew that Lin Shuang's mother was a little short-tempered, and whenever something was wrong, she would take a broom and chase Lin Shuang behind.

At one point, he couldn't remember even holding a shovel or something, but he remembered that he had just come out of the house and wanted to go to Lin Shuang's house to play with her. happened to run into Lin Shuang, who was crying hoarsely.

She wiped her tears and hurried behind him.

Her little hands were dirty, tears and snot, and she clutched at his clothes, but he didn't have time to dislike them.

Xie Lulin now thinks about how ridiculous she was when she was a child, Lin Shuang's mother looked very fierce but loved her very much, she was just scaring her, and she never really did it hard.

And he actually opened his hands like a silly boy to protect Lin Shuang behind him, he was like a warrior protecting his princess, holding his head high and looking directly into Lin Ma's eyes.

"You can't wear frost," he remembered, he seemed to say at the time.

He also turned back to Lin Shuang very decently and said, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

A sense of accomplishment swelled in his heart to fight side by side with Lin Shuang, and then he saw Lin Shuang's mother burst out laughing.

Maybe because he was very heroic this time, Lin Shuang's relationship with him became better and better, and even he pouted her greedily to steal the neighbor's peas, and she followed.

Xie Lulin always remembered that day.

He and Lin Shuang laughed presumptuously in the green field, but he didn't want to be caught by the master's family, he saw that the situation was not good, grabbed the small Lin Shuang and ran to the ridge.

The aunt next door chased after him angrily, he grabbed Lin Shuang's hand and ran home quickly, and then tied the door.

Nervously waited for a long time to make sure that the aunt did not chase after me and then breathed a sigh of relief, the two of you look at me, I look at you, laughed loudly.

Only then did I feel safe to start peeling peas and eating them.

But he didn't want this matter to be revealed soon, and the two of them were beaten that night and cried wolf and promised not to steal again.

Now Xie Lulin occasionally thinks of this incident and smiles from the bottom of her heart, maybe Lin Shuang doesn't remember it anymore, maybe this kind of thing is too disgraceful, she doesn't want to remember.

But he really hadn't laughed like that since then. So if Lin Shuang doesn't want to remember, let him remember it for her.

Xie Lulin smiled bitterly, fortunately, she is living a good life now, there are no illnesses and no disasters, and she and Shen Muhan have a happy family and no regrets.

He once said that he would always protect her, so he would take it as a joke from his childhood.

Xie Lulin looked around, it was all scenery that he was not familiar with, this strange city did not have the acacia flowers he missed, and there was no person he was thinking about.

He paused and took out a photo from the drawer, in which the little girl had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, holding a large bouquet of white locust flowers and smiling more delicately than flowers.

It's her, but it's not all her.

Xie Lulin caressed the photo that had faded a little, he took it for her with his own hands, and the locust flowers in her hand were also picked by him for her.

He also changed his number over the years, and they hardly saw each other again, and on several occasions he couldn't help but secretly dial her number, and then when the phone rang and heard her voice, he hung up the phone in a panic.

I'm also afraid that she will call back, if she calls back, he won't be able to answer, what to say if she does, how to say it.

But she didn't call back once.

Xie Lulin knew that she was a little rough in this regard, she would not find that these numbers were exactly the same number, and she would not remember that they were called by the same person.

But he forgot that Lin Shuang wouldn't answer strange calls at all.

Xie Lulin sighed and carefully put the photo back in the drawer, and he leaned back in his chair for a long time.

In fact, he just wanted to ask her if she was doing well.

I just wanted to tell her if I could take a photo and send it to him if I saw Huaihua again.

But he never dared to say it.

He was afraid that she would know that he was still thinking about her for so many years, and that would make him feel very embarrassed, and he couldn't say these things, he couldn't say them, he didn't have to say them. (To be continued.) )