Chapter 1: Gifts
In 2009, there are still many countries on the earth that are at war, Somali piracy is still rampant, a black man named Obama became the president of the United States, a French plane disappeared with 228 people on board, the CCTV building in Beijing caught fire but it was not the famous "big pants" that burned, and after 494 days of flight, Chang'e-1 completed its final mission of self-destruction by hitting the moon.
Yi Xuejia was lying bored on the sofa, licking the ice cream in her hand, and the host on the TV news was saying, "The situation in the world is still volatile," while her phone vibrated violently on the coffee table.
Open the flip cover, the screen is a group photo of Yi Xuejia and the teenagers and girls wearing the same high school uniforms huddled together, although the resolution is only two hundred, but the fluctuating youthful atmosphere on the six blurred faces is almost breaking out of the screen.
Yi Xuejia has five good friends, from the day they met in kindergarten, she really didn't expect that no matter how turbulent the world is, how many presidents the United States has changed, how many artificial satellites have been on the moon, the six of them have been together for the past ten years.
"Hello? Yo, Mr. Ke. She swallowed the last bite of ice cream, threw the popsicle in her hand far into the trash before answering the phone, and asked in a flirtatious tone, "What are you doing, what are you going to do?" Chagang? Play? What to play, it's hot, I'm too lazy to move, you guys go. ”
The person in the microphone was still gushing "don't, don't", and she had already hung up the phone and tossed it aside.
"Who?" The voice of her mother, Lin Biguang, came from the master bedroom, and she was taking a nap half-asleep.
"Ke Yufei, tell me to go out to play-" Yi Xuejia collapsed motionless in the sofa, using the remote control to change the channel.
Faint nagging: "Don't go? It's not good to go, it's too hot outside, beware of heat stroke. ”
"I know." Yi Xuejia stretched her neck to look in the direction of the bedroom, her mother didn't come out, so she stood up carefully and approached the refrigerator, although the family clearly stipulated one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but she didn't honestly abide by it, and secretly finished eating the popsicle and wrapped the package in a paper towel and threw it in the trash, so that no one would go through the evidence of this crime.
Before opening the refrigerator door, a woman's hysterical screams came from outside the window, Yi Xuejia immediately turned around and ran towards the door, Lin Biguang asked again, and raised his voice: "Hey, didn't you say you wouldn't go?" ”
"The Nono family is arguing again!" Yi Xuejia responded while putting on his shoes.
"Oh, go ahead." Lin Biguang's accustomed tone.
This piece of eight-storey, unified appearance of dense residential buildings called "Happy Nanli Community", the building age is 20 years, there was no name before, and then the concept of fashionable property was given a name, and street signs were installed. Yi Xuejia's family of three lives on the fifth floor of Building 13, and her best friend Zhou Linuo lives on the eighth floor of Building 12 next to her.
Rushing into the unit door of Building 12, Yi Xuejia ran to Zhou Linuo's house step by step, and her mother Zhou Shuguang's roar became clearer and clearer: "Then what do you think of me-ah-ah-am I your slave, do I owe you-ah-why are you pointing fingers-I am Nuonuo's mother, I am for her-what have you done-"
Between each half sentence, there was a high-decibel scream, accompanied by the sound of some objects smashing.
Coming to the fifth floor, Yi Xuejia met Yuchen pushing open the door of his house, and the two looked at each other for a moment, he was a little hesitant, and then smiled shyly and gently, "You're here?" Then I won't go up. ”
"Let's go up together." Yi Xuejia said indifferently.
Yuchen shook his head, "Let's gather downstairs later, did Ke Feifei look for you?" ”
"Okay then." Yi Xuejia continued to run upstairs.
Yuchen stood in place and waited for a while, until he heard Yi Xuejia's knock on the door, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked downstairs with confidence.
"Auntie, Auntie?" Yi Xuejia kept banging on the door vigorously, because the noise inside was very loud, she had to shout louder and louder, "Auntie! Me, Jiajia! Open the door! ”
The room was silent for half a second, and then the door was opened, and Zhou Shuguang appeared with a naked face and unkempt, but because she was a beautiful skeleton, she still looked very amorous, "Jiajia, come to find Nuno?" She let Yi Xuejia enter the door and pointed to the bedroom.
"Who's coming?" Ren Meimei got up from the sofa in the living room, and there was a broken glass fruit bowl scattered on the floor, and apples, melon seeds, peanuts, and some tissues, but he seemed to ignore all this, "Jiajia, oh? Come to play with our family Nono? ”
He greeted Yi Xuejia, his face still had scratches left by his nails, and his collar was pulled crooked, but his tall figure of 1.85 meters, with that vicissitudes of life but well-defined face, although he was a little embarrassed, he was still dignified.
Zhou Shuguang, who broke his right leg when he was young, limped to the kitchen, and asked without looking back, "What should you eat?" Drink water? At the end, she added, "It's cool and white, we don't have soda in our house." There was a sour self-deprecation in his tone.
"No, Auntie, my mother asked me to come to Nuno, can I stay at our house for dinner?" Yi Xuejia asked as he walked in the direction of the bedroom.
"Eat, send her back before eight o'clock."
"Okay!" The door was open, and Yi Xuejia saw Zhou Linuo sitting on the bed reading a book.
Zhou Linuo was wearing a lake-blue cotton skirt, revealing two snow-white legs, and the pair of white socks on her feet were slightly yellowed because they had been washed many times, so that she lost to her complexion, she was too white, and she was covered with a layer of halo under the light, as if the only place with pigment on her body was the long black hair that hung down.
Noticing Yi Xuejia's presence, Zhou Linuo turned his face to look at her, "Huh? ”
She looks like an elegant princess everywhere and everywhere, and sets off Yi Xuejia, who is full of rough and short hair, like a little second in a teahouse.
"Hehe...... Yi Xuejia rubbed his nose with his hand a little confused, "Have you finished reading?" Mr. Ke and a few of them were waiting for us downstairs. ”
Zhou Linuo closed the book and beckoned to her, so Yi Xuejia pasted it like a puppy, she took out a tissue, and gently wiped off the ice cream sticky from the corner of her mouth for her.
Her casual action made Yi Xuejia's heart beat like an adolescent boy, and there was a very smelly fragrance of shower gel mixed with skin care milk, which made her shrink her neck back, ashamed to remember that she hadn't taken a shower for two days.
The sound of a chair being pushed to the ground, outside the house, Zhou Shuguang and Ren Meimei quarreled again.
Zhou Linuo got down from the bed and smoothed the folds of her skirt, "Let's go." ”