After eating, because it was not far from home, the four of them wandered back to the community one after the other, Yi Xuejia and Zhou Linuo walked in front of them, and Ke Yufei walked behind with a book in his hand and a drink and snack in his hand.

"Hey, what's your progress with Lao Yi?" Ke Yufei asked Yuchen gossipingly.

"What progress do you want? The feelings are deeper. He smiled and replied, "I went from being a good brother to being a super good brother?" ”

Ke Feifei didn't really care about this issue, he just couldn't wait to bring out his own words: "I held hands with her." ”

After Yuchen was stunned, he deliberately asked: "And Yi Xuejia?" ”

"Nono." Ke Feifei rolled his eyes.

Yuchen said lightly, "Oh." "Yes.

"You don't believe me?" Ke Yufei was in a hurry, this "date" wanted to ask him about his biggest gain, which was to touch Zhou Linuo's hand while he was in a hurry, it was not his intention, he was really anxious at the time, but rounding it up and saying that it was holding hands was not a lie, he thought so anyway, "I really took it, her hand is small and soft-"

Yuchen scrambled to speak: "The bones are as thin as chopsticks, right?" ”

"Ah, yes. Ay? It's not you—" Ke Fei was stunned, "how do you know?" ”

Yuchen didn't speak, just hooked the corner of his mouth to reveal an unfathomable evil smile.

Coming to the bottom of the 12th building, Yuchen reached out and took a bag of books in Ke Yufei's hand and said, "Take it." ”

"What are you doing?" Ke Feifei didn't react.

"Didn't you buy it for Zhou Linuo?" Yuchen shook the plastic bag with sugar in his other hand, "I'll send it to her, you forgot that we live in the same building?" His last sentence was deliberately elongated, and he said it meaningfully.

"Tsk." Ke Feifei reluctantly watched him follow Zhou Linuo away with two handbags, and he suddenly remembered, "Gather tomorrow morning, don't forget, we have to play the next round of lottery games." ”

"Can't get up—" Yi Xuejia replied without looking back.

Ke Feifei shouted: "A genuine game disc, just pick it-"

Yi Xuejia then raised his hand and made an "OK" gesture.

Not long after the separation, Yi Xuejia went home and took a cold shower and just lay down to catch up on the afternoon sleep, when he received a text message from Zhou Linuo, "Can I come over?" Then she replied, "Come." Then he went downstairs.

Although it is only a few steps away, Yi Xuejia also greets her as usual, she always worries about letting Zhou Linuo be alone, as if the two of them have been inseparable since she was a child, because her mother Yang Biguang once held her hand and said: "Look, Nuonuo is really like a doll, you have to take care of her, don't let her be taken away by the bad guys." ”

So Yi Xuejia tried her best to keep Zhou Linuo in her field of vision, every time she saw a young girl being abducted in the news, or killed less than 500 meters away from her home, she would make up what happened to Zhou Linuo, and then break out in a cold sweat.

"Quarrel again?" Yi Xuejia led Zhou Linuo upstairs.

"Hmm." Zhou Linuo nodded, "It's not because of the things that Ke Yufei bought, I said no." ”

Yi Xuejia can already imagine the content of the quarrel, Zhou Shuguang thinks that it is natural for a boy to buy a gift for Zhou Linuo, while Ren Meimei thinks that the property of the opposite sex cannot be accepted, and maybe he scolded very ugly words, such as "prostitute".

Zhou Linuo, who was pinned on infinite hopes, was controlled by his mother from the beginning of his sensibility so that there was almost no room for breathing, Zhou Shuguang asked Zhou Linuo to do the decathlon, but their family was poor and couldn't afford any juvenile class, so Zhou Shuguang took different men home every once in a while to be Zhou Linuo's private school teacher.

They are piano teachers, painting teachers, dance teachers and English teachers, Zhou Linuo's electronic organs, painting tools, dancing shoes, teaching CDs and laptops are all given by different male teachers, listening to Zhou Shuguang said, these men are her friends, although the neighborhood does not think so, and Zhou Linuo's father Ren America does not think so, Dad often quarrels with his mother about this, but Zhou Shuguang's voice is louder, she scolds and gossips are ordinary people, with dirty thoughts and fart, they are soul friends with her, It's a confidant.

Thanks to the teachings of these male teachers, Zhou Linuo has become well-versed and knowledgeable at a young age, and the increasingly fierce war between her parents has become an endless source of conversation in the community.

After entering the door, Zhou Linuo went straight to Yi Xuejia's bedroom to flip through the books, while Yi Xuejia was lying on the sofa and turning on the TV to take a nap. ”

Lin Biguang's attitude was as natural as seeing her daughter, she shook the plastic bag in her hand and said, "Nuonuo, it just so happened that I bought corn and ate boiled corn at night?" Stir-fry some greens? and scrambled eggs with tomatoes. ”

"Okay, I'll wash the vegetables for you?" Zhou Linuo greeted him.

"Hey, no, you're an artist." Lin Biguang dodged and rushed at Yi Xuejia on the sofa, "Hey! What are you doing there? Slacker, didn't you see that both of my hands were occupied? ”

Yi Xuejia stood up procrastinatingly, shook his hands to pick up the bag, and said, "I am also a painting hand." ”

"Just your ghost." Lin Biguang said disgustedly.

"Cut." Yi Xuejia took the dish and walked to the kitchen.

Zhou Linuo then returned to the bedroom, when she was with the Yi family, it was her most relaxed moment, she could be lazy or greedy, and even her back didn't have to be tense all the time, it was her most precious space to breathe.

When it was time for dinner, Yi Chengcheng also came back, and Nuo Nuo was helping to put the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table, and said to him, "Hello uncle." ”

"Yo, it's Nuno, I said, how bright are the lights in this room today-" Yi Chengcheng raised a hand to cover his eyes and said, "It's shining." ”

Yi Xuejia came out with seaweed tofu soup and asked Yi honestly: "Boss Yi, aren't you resting today?" Where did you go to make money? ”

Yi honestly wiped his eyes, "Hey, why is it dark again?" ”

Zhou Linuo was amused, and Yi Xuejia said to him loudly: "I see that your presbyopia has to be operated." ”

"Do you know to come back?" Lin Biguang came out of the kitchen with shredded green pepper meat and gathered three dishes and one soup on the table, "How much did you lose?" Is this still our house? ”

Yi Xuejia sat down and picked up the rice bowl, and asked Yi Cheng dissatisfiedly: "Are you playing cards again?" ”

"Lose? Feng Shui takes turns, come to my house today. Yi Chengcheng also sat down, triumphantly took out five hundred-yuan bills from his arms and threw them on the table, "How about it?" I earn so much in one afternoon, you calculate, if I earn this amount every day for a month, how much will I get a month? Rich. ”

"Come on." Lin Biguang put the cut corn in a bowl and put it in front of Zhou Linuo's eyes, and taught her husband a lesson while eating vegetables, "Did you get back the 2,000 you lost last month?" ”

Yi Chengcheng skipped the topic with a smiling face, "Eat and eat, Nuo Nuo, you eat more, look at your thinness, the whole is only half, no, a third of us Jiajia." ”

Yi Xuejia stopped doing it, and replied: "Boss Yi, if you don't look at your belly, cut it off and weigh it, maybe it's as heavy as a nuonuo." ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Lin Biguang answered, "Where can Nuo Nuo be so greasy?" ”

This home-cooked meal was eaten in the Yi family's gossip and jokes, although Zhou Linuo was engraved with the reflexive diet habit by Zhou Shuguang in his bones, but at this table, he always ate more than usual, because no one would criticize her and no one would quarrel with chopsticks, and the food cooked by Aunt Lin Biguang was so delicious, she envied all aspects of Yi Xuejia, tracing back to the source, or because she had a good mother.

After eating, Yi Xuejia pulled Zhou Linuo as usual and said, "Go to the roof of your house." ”

The roof of the residential building in the Xingfu Nanli community is jointly responsible for the top two households of each building, the stairs leading to the roof are equipped with iron doors, locks, and two keys, and the two families on the eighth floor each hold one, usually not locked, so that the neighbors can go to the roof to dry clothes, dry radishes, grapefruit peels, and some people will build a small cave to smoke sausages and dried fish.

In the middle of summer, people who don't want to turn on the air conditioner at home and spend electricity will bring a mattress or bamboo stool to the roof to enjoy the shade.

"I can't see any stars now." Yi Xuejia sat on the ground, raised his head and sighed at the night sky.

Once Yi Xuejia and Zhou Linuo sat on the asphalt floor with all kinds of strange smoky smells, and saw the dreamlike galaxy, which was a scene they could never forget in their lives, the stars and clouds were intertwined in the purple night, competing to twinkle, like a concert of nature, they were too young at the time, and now when they recall it, they can't help but suspect that it was a beautiful dream.

Zhou Linuo said: "It doesn't matter, when we grow up, we can go to Norway to see the aurora." ”

"Norway?" Yi Xuejia came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream, "You also want to go abroad?" ”

Zhou Linuo looked at her suspiciously.

"Today, Yuchen also said that he would go abroad."

Hearing her say this, Zhou Linuo's eyes showed some appreciation.

Yi Xuejia asked: "So you want to go to a foreign university?" ”

Zhou Linuo smiled and said patiently as if explaining to a child: "Impossible, there is no money, if there is, my mother will be willing, she will send me to France to study ballet, to Italy to study opera, and now her dream is that I can be admitted to a film school in Beijing and let me learn acting." ”

"You're going to be a star?" Yi Xuejia said excitedly, "Suitable! ”

Zhou Linuo's hand was on Yi Xuejia's bare knee, pressed her bent leg down, shook her head and said: "I want to learn financial management and foreign trade, and do that kind of 'trapeze' work in the future, and go to every corner of the earth." ”

"I don't understand, but it's cool." Yi Xuejia bent her legs again, because she was 1.72 meters tall, a pair of long legs often felt nowhere to put it, a slender and thin body, wearing short-sleeved shorts, walking on the street was often mistaken for a boy, and in school, she was regarded as a beautiful young senior by the senior who didn't know her.

"Just think about it, my mother won't agree." Zhou Linuo smiled bitterly.

Yi Xuejia suddenly turned his face sideways, dragged his chin, frowned, and looked bitter and hateful.

"Why?" Zhou Linuo felt strange, and also bent her legs to hit Yi Xuejia's knees with her knees, she is one meter six or eight tall, and she is also a very tall girl from the national average height, but Zhou Shuguang insisted that she must grow to more than one meter seven.

"I'm so stupid." Yi Xuejia said seriously, "I'm thinking about what to do? I won't be able to get into the university you get into. ”

Zhou Linuo smiled, rubbed Yi Xuejia's knees lovingly, and said softly, "Fool." ”

"Don't worry, you can go wherever you want, you can go, the incense beads are too small, there is nothing here, not worthy of you, don't worry about me, I'll find a way anyway." Yi Xuejia held Zhou Linuo's hand and made a promise, "No matter where you are going in the future, I have to follow anyway, and I can't let you go alone." ”

Zhou Linuo raised her hand and hooked Yi Xuejia's chin to force her to raise her head to look at herself, and said lightly: "Don't be stupid, think about yourself, where do you want to go?" What do you want to do? There's no need to think about where I'm going or what I'm going to do, because we're separate individuals and we can't be together forever. ”

Yi Xuejia bit her lower lip aggrievedly, "Why did Yuchen say that, and you said that too?" Are you now growing up to be your own individuals? Looking down on a kid like me? Don't you have to reach out to your parents for pocket money? ”

"In a hurry?" Zhou Linuo poked Yi Xuejia's cheek with his fingertips dotingly, "You always have to grow up, no one can escape, and your parents will be old, in the end, we all come alone and go alone." ”

"Phew! Bah! Childlike words. Yi Xuejia fanned the wind vigorously in front of Zhou Linuo's eyes with his hand, as if he was about to fan away the unlucky string of characters, and his mouth hurriedly spit out words, "Are you alone now?" No, will you be alone in the future? Definitely not. Because you have me with you, you will also have a husband, and people who like you will line up from this building all the way to the Xiangzhu Bridge - ah, no wonder everyone has to fall in love when they grow up. She slapped her thigh with a sudden realization, "If you become a lover, you won't be separated, and you can sleep in a quilt at night." ”

"This head." Zhou Linuo pushed her head, "If you are married, you can still get divorced." ”

"So what is the purpose of falling in love?" Yi Xuejia asked confusedly, "It's not to be together forever, is it to kiss?" ”

"For possession." Zhou Linuo said, "Falling in love is tantamount to declaring sovereignty, I don't like the attitude of taking each other as property, so I don't want to fall in love or get married, I never thought about being possessed by anyone, I only belong to myself." ”

"Good, good! I will accompany you not to fall in love or get married, it will be good for the two of us to be companions in the future, I can belong to you, but you don't have to belong to me, anyway, I don't hate you for directing me. Yi Xuejia turned his whole body to the side, and suddenly complained angrily to Zhou Linuo very closely, "It's really unfair to think about it like this, if you like someone, you have to kiss her, why do you have to be a lover?" Friends can't do it? I like you so much, one day in the future, a stinky boy will jump out and kiss you, but I can't grow up with you? Why? ”

"If you care so much—" Zhou Linuo said with a smile, "then kiss it." ”

"Huh?"

Without waiting for Yi Xuejia to react, Zhou Linuo put it on her mouth and kissed it gently.