Chapter 3 I would have responded to you if I had known

I think of the memories of summer when I was a child, the electric fan that snorted and turned my head, the stickiness of my clothes after sweating, the sweet and pleasant big watermelon, and the teenager running in the night wind.

Xu Zhuoyuan went to his grandmother's house in Y City next door during the summer vacation when he had no homework at the beginning of Xiaoshengchu, he was not a local, and his hometown was a small county town in Y City next door. This time was when Fang Ruo was so old and had been separated from him for the longest time. When Xu Zhuo left, he came downstairs to her house.

"Fang Ruo Fang Ruo, are you at home!" The young man shouted in a hurried voice, Fang Ruo was lying in the room and heard it, but she was still a little angry because of the quarrel they broke up the day before yesterday, she hesitated for a while, but still didn't speak. Wait for him to come up and pull himself to the book city to read books, Fang Ruo thought to himself.

Sitting in the living room, the mother is reading a book on parenting, she has just become pregnant, and it is the most cautious time, so she is resting at home to raise the baby. She heard the movement downstairs, and saw that Fang Ruo in the room did not answer, so she naturally knew that these two people were unhappy because of the matter again. She is an adult, so naturally she can't pretend not to hear it.

She opened the window and said kindly to Xu Zhuoyuan downstairs: "Zhuoyuan, if she is not at home, she will go out to play with a friend this morning." ”

Xu Zhuoyuan saw that the window above was opened, and there was a smile on his face, but when he heard Xiang Ruo's mother say it, he was immediately a little disappointed, so he had to answer twice and turn around and leave.

Fang Ruo heard it clearly in the room, she frowned and then sighed, got up and picked up a book on the shelf, planning to have some fun in the book, she couldn't stand it after reading it for a while, she felt upset, she wanted to talk to Xu Zhuoyuan in her heart, but she felt that she couldn't pull it down.

After lunch, she took the rich man to Xu Zhuoyuan's house, Fang Ruo knocked on the door with some expectation, and her heart became happy, although she hadn't seen him yet, but she seemed to have foreseen that Xu Zhuoyuan couldn't play with her.

After a while, the door opened, and it was Xu Zhuoyuan's mother who opened the door, she was a young and beautiful woman, she was very gentle, and she was the supervisor of a store in a shopping mall near her home on weekdays, she liked Fang Ruo very much, and she was always kind to her. She knew that Fang Ruo's parents had always wanted a boy, and she had also persuaded Fang Ruo's mother many times to figure it out and not take her body seriously in order to give birth to a boy, and also proposed to let Xu Zhuoyuan be their godson, but her parents only waved their hands in a joke.

She pitied Fang Ruo in her heart, knowing that if Fang Ruo's parents gave birth to a boy, they would inevitably neglect her. What a good child, Xu Zhuoyuan's mother couldn't help but pity her a little more when she thought of this.

"If you come, do you want to find Xu Zhuoyuan, he went to his grandmother's house, and he won't be back for a while." Xu Zhuoyuan's mother stroked Xiang Ruo's head and looked at her gently. Xiang Ruo reacted at this time, it turned out that he had gone somewhere else.

"Will you come into Xu Zhuoyuan's room to play?" I still have the tarts I just made, you can take them back and eat them. Xu Zhuoyuan's mother didn't catch the gloom in Fang Ruo's eyes, she said enthusiastically.

"Don't go in, Auntie, he won't let me come back next time." Fang Ruo replied with a well-behaved smile.

Xu Zhuoyuan's mother saw that she was so sensible, and insisted that Fang Ruo take the egg tarts she made home to eat, and by the way, she also stuffed a few bags of snacks for her.

Fang Ruo walked downstairs with her things in her hand, but she felt a little lonely, she regretted that she didn't respond to Xu Zhuoyuan in the morning, she wanted to tell him that she was no longer angry with him, and it was okay to let him go first next time she played Monopoly. Hey, she couldn't help but sigh. When she got home, her mother saw that she was listless, but the words came to her lips but still did not speak.

Day by day, Fang Ruo hadn't seen Xu Zhuoyuan for many days, these days she had collected some fun gadgets, there were TV hero cards he liked, and the whirlwind yo-yo he had always wanted. I don't know if he encountered any fun things at his grandmother's house, got any fun things, and thought of her.

During this time, Xiang Zichen also came to Fang Ruo to play a few times, but they all found that when Xu Zhuoyuan was not there, the usual fun things were not so interesting, and both of them felt very boring. Later, Xiang Zichen's mother enrolled him in a small junior high school adaptation class, and Xiang Zichen went to the tutoring class every day.

Xiang Zichen is naughty and playful on weekdays, but he is not as smart as Xu Zhuoyuan. Xu Zhuoyuan is having fun, and his brain is very bright when he learns. Exams can always make people's eyes shine, usually on behalf of the school to participate in the city's mathematics competitions, he is quick thinking, and quick to respond, and because of the Olympiad Gold Medal on a local TV program, Fang Ruo saw him on the TV look very excited. Xu Zhuoyuan has boasted a lot about this, Fang Ruo is average in mathematics, but he is very talented in learning Chinese and English.

One afternoon, Fang Ruo was holding "Robinson Crusoe" in his room, watching it as if he was fascinated, and there was a noise of cars downstairs.

"Fang Ruo! Fang Ruo! Look what I've brought you back! Xu Zhuoyuan's familiar voice sounded downstairs. Fang Ruo sat up like an electric touch when he heard his voice, hurriedly got up and hit the corner table of the bed without caring about the pain, hurriedly opened the window, and looked down, Xu Zhuoyuan was shaking the bottle in his hand towards Fang Ruo, which seemed to contain the good things he had gotten, and the young man's sunny smile seemed to sweep away all the gloom.

Xu Zhuoyuan urged Fang Ruo to come downstairs to see. Fang Ruo responded with a smile, and ran downstairs in twos and threes.

After not seeing each other for almost two months, Fang Ruo felt that Xu Zhuoyuan seemed to have grown taller, his original fair skin was a little tanned, showing a natural wheat color, and his short hair on weekdays had grown long, and his hair was a little naturally curly. Maybe it's because the weather is too hot, there are some beads of sweat on both sides of his hair, he scratches the bangs on his head indiscriminately, the bangs are naturally piled up, the exposed forehead skin is smooth, the eyebrows are well-proportioned and good-looking, the eyes are clear and bright, and the eyelashes are long, which makes people feel very comfortable.

He was born with excellent bones, and although his face had not yet shed the childlike immaturity, it was already beginning to see the outline. When he spoke, the Adam's apple on his neck was a little obvious, and his voice seemed to have become a little thicker, and Fang Ruo suddenly became a little shy. Seeing Xu Zhuoyuan grinning at her, she was a little embarrassed and didn't speak for a while. Xu Zhuoyuan just wanted to show her what he had gained, but he didn't notice Fang Ruo's little awkwardness, and pulled her to let her quickly look at the things in his hand.

It was a clear glass bottle with a finger-sized cricket with a tawny exterior and a few legs curled up, struggling up and down the glass bottle at the moment, trying to escape from the cage.

"Fang Ruo, let me tell you, there are a lot of these things in my grandmother's house, I play crazy in the fields with my cousin, I often catch them, and when I play with the children next to me, every time my victorious general can get the first place!" Xu Zhuoyuan said excitedly, his face full of pride.

Fang Ruo looked at the radiant expression on his face, happy and felt a little disappointed, she didn't expect him to be so happy there, but she was also curious about what Xu Zhuoyuan said in her heart, and the sudden awkward feeling just now disappeared.

"By the way, I'll give you a good thing!" Xu Zhuoyuan took out a folding fan from his backpack, the fan was a black fan handle, and a landscape ink painting was painted on the fan blade. Fang Ruo looked at it carefully, holding it and couldn't put it down, she had always liked this kind of gadget. Xu Zhuoyuan looked at her eyes and smiled happily.

The two talked for a long time after frolicking, Fang Ruo gave him the cards and yo-yos he had collected, Xu Zhuoyuan was very happy, quickly got them up, played for a while and showed Fang Ruo his yo-yo acrobatics.

After eating, Xiang Zichen heard that Xu Zhuoyuan was back, so he put down his schoolbag and ran over. Xiang Zichen has been really bored in cram school recently, he has no intention of studying, when the teacher lectures, he only feels that he is listening to the heavenly book, every day pinching the time to arrive, running as soon as he gets out of class, always the last to arrive, the first to go.

The teacher of the tutoring class called home and explained to Zichen's mother, but she still couldn't bear to reprimand him after she was done, and she still turned a blind eye to him. In her opinion, her son is already very well-behaved to go to the tutorial class, she doesn't want to put too much pressure on him, and she knows in her heart that her son can't learn anything, but if her son listens a little more one day, then she will be very satisfied.

At Xu Zhuoyuan's house, the three of them finally got together, Xiang Zichen carefully observed the "Changsheng General" brought back by Xu Zhuoyuan, he played and refused to let go, Xu Zhuoyuan gushed about his adventures in the countryside, he went to the toilet for the first time in a simple primitive toilet, his cousin took him to the mountains to pick wild strawberries, he tried to climb to the loquat tree to pick ripe loquats, and the neighbor's children also took them to live and cook.

There, he felt his nature completely unleashed, and although the pimple on his body that had been bitten by poisonous mosquitoes had not disappeared, in his words, he was not happy. After Fang Ruo and Xiang Zichen listened to him, both of them were fascinated and longing, and they seemed to have followed Xu Zhuoyuan to play happily in the countryside.

After returning home, Fang Ruo wanted to put away the things that Xu Zhuoyuan gave her during the day, she opened the fan and looked at it, and found that there was a poem on the fan leaf, which was "Yong Po Fan" by Yang Ling, the author of the Tang Dynasty: The powder fell into the empty bed and was abandoned, and the dust was left behind. First came half, she was overwhelmed, Fang Ruo didn't know what that meant, she thought that Xu Zhuoyuan must have bought it in a small store in the county.

She closed the fan and placed it in place. After washing her hands, she lay down on the bed with peace of mind, she felt very happy at the moment, Xu Zhuoyuan was back, Fang Ruo breathed a sigh of relief, closed her eyes and fell asleep after a while.

Xu Zhuoyuan was so tired today, he was finally able to lie down after a busy day, and the eyebrows that Fang Ruo had talked to Zichen during the day were dancing, and he felt tired at this moment. Leaving the countryside where he had lived for nearly two months, and returning to his familiar home, he suddenly felt a little reluctant in his heart, thinking about it, he closed his eyes in a daze, and fell asleep.