Just after breakfast on the third day of the first lunar month, there was a sound of cars outside the house, and after a while, Xia Zhi walked into the yard with large and small bags of gifts. can make the father and mother very happy, the father who is usually silent also smiled from ear to ear, the joy was revealed on his face, and the mother went directly into the kitchen to cook breakfast for Xia Zhi, for fear of snubbing Xia Zhi; As soon as Kang Kang saw Xia Zhi, he threw himself into his arms, "Uncle, uncle" and kept shouting. Yu Xi was puzzled, Kang Kang was not timid about Xia Zhi at all.

With less noise in the first year of junior high school, Xia Zhi and Yu Xi have more opportunities to be alone. After Kang Kang fell asleep, Yu Xi and Xia Zhi went to the vegetable field by the stream at the foot of the mountain behind the house to pick vegetables. The stream is filled with clear mountain spring water that flows down from the mountain reservoir, and tall reeds cover both sides of the stream. Occasionally, the migratory bird that inhabits it, the white crane, spreads its wings into the air and makes a loud noise. Being in the green mountains and green waters, it is the most suitable time to talk, and the two of them can't help but care about each other.

"My life is uneventful, there's nothing to say. After graduating from school, she got married according to her family's wishes and gave birth to a son. What about you, cousin Chi? I heard that you are now a senior executive of a well-known company in Beijing? ”

"My life is simpler, I joined the company after graduation, but I am not in Beijing now, I transferred to Shanghai half a year ago. Everyone is ordinary and unique, and so are you. I'm curious, who married Yingzi, who is unique in our family? ”

Yu Xi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's just an ordinary person." Cousin Zhi, I also want to ask curiously, why didn't you bring your girlfriend to our house for the New Year? Everyone is looking forward to drinking your wine. ”

"She... She is the only child in the family, so she naturally has to go back to accompany her parents during the Chinese New Year. ”

Yu Xi changed the topic, Xia Zhi flickered, and he didn't want to talk too much about his private affairs. Yu Xi felt that she was a world of difference compared to Xia Zhi, and she was even more disdainful of mentioning her bad things. After a long absence, she and Xia Zhi are a little rusty after all. But her eyes full of thoughts couldn't escape Xia Zhi's eyes.

"Yingzi, I can see that you seem to have a lot on your mind, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you seem to be a lot more distant from me. I haven't had any contact with you all these years, so I don't know anything about you. If you still trust me as you did when you were a child, can you tell me what is on your mind? ”

Yu Xi knew that if she didn't say it, Xia Zhi wouldn't ask her family about her, because relatives would inevitably talk a lot about her. But how can she open her mouth and tell such an excellent Xia Zhi about her unbearable past? But Xia Zhi's warm and expectant eyes made her really unable to refuse.

"Brother, do you see that my face is not very good? It may be because I have been setting off firecrackers day and night for the past few days, and I haven't slept well at night. I don't have anything to do, husbands and wives usually quarrel and have conflicts, and of course we are no exception. ”

Xia Zhi didn't ask anything specific, but Yu Xi mentioned the matter of husband and wife, which made him a little suspicious. But Yu Xi only said a word and brought it lightly, and Xia Zhi didn't want to ask again. The annual leave passed quickly during the visit to relatives and friends. It came solemnly, and passed away quietly, just like that, year after year, full of memories! Old face! The noisy sound of firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve was especially in my ears, and the wanderers who came from afar hurriedly embarked on the road they had come to the New Year.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, my mother, who was always busy with the happy events of her neighbors and relatives, was finally a little free. Yu Xi made up a lie and asked her mother to help her take her for two days, and she took a ride to Xunjiang, a small city hundreds of miles away, to find a place to live.

The town is not big but not small, I ran for most of the day, I was so tired that my heels cramped, and I saw a lot of houses, but I couldn't afford to rent them, or the conditions were too poor. Until the evening, Yu Xi counted the money in his pocket, gritted his teeth, and rented a small apartment that was still clean and hygienic. She doesn't want to rent too shabby and wronged her son!

Hurriedly cleaned up, it was already the beginning of the lights, and the last train home was already in time. The rental house was empty, and in order to save money, Yu Xi and Yi lay on a bed with only a mattress. At one o'clock in the middle of the night, the cold of the spring night still woke her up, and she got up and sat down on the short old sofa beside the bed, ready to sit until dawn.

Flipping through the mobile phone that I hadn't had time to look at for most of the day, there were two missed calls and a text message on it, which were called and sent by Xia Zhi. "Yingzi, I went to Beijing after I came out of home on the fifth day of the new year, and I went to Shanghai yesterday, and I have been too busy to call you. Are you still at your second aunt's house? ”

Xia Zhi's text message made Yu Xi, who was shivering with cold, feel a warm current in his heart, and the cold night no longer seemed to be so cold and unbearable. She forgot for a moment that it was the early hours of the night, so she sent a text message back to Xia Zhi: "Cousin Zhi, thank you for your busy time!" I'm still at home and probably won't be away yet. ”

Less than a minute after the text message was sent, the mobile phone rang, and Xia Zhi actually wrote back to her: "Yingzi, why haven't you slept so late?" You're all right, right? ”

Yu Xi patted his head and said to himself: I was really confused, I forgot that it was the middle of the night and woke up Cousin Zhi. No, didn't Cousin Zhi sleep so late? Is it for work or something else? It seems that the senior executives of well-known companies are not so easy to be!

Yu Xi replied to a text message: "I haven't been with my phone during the day today, and I just woke up and opened my phone to see that you had called me, so I hurriedly replied to you." Woke you up, didn't you? I'm fine, brother, go to sleep, you have to go to work tomorrow. ”

Xia Zhi quickly sent another text message: "It's okay, if you can't sleep, I'll talk to you." ”

If it weren't for the middle of the night, Yu Xi really wanted to talk to Xia Zhi, but she didn't want to delay his work the next day. "Brother, go to sleep, I'm going to sleep too. We'll talk when you have time. ”

"Alright then, have a good dream!" Xia Zhi said.

Closing the phone, Yu Xi was full of thoughts about the scene when Xia Zhi walked to her from the winter sun and greeted her when she was at her uncle's house on the first day of junior high school. Time can change a lot of things, and Xia Zhi has become more and more excellent. Since he went to Beijing to go to college, she hasn't seen him for several years, and Xia Zhi was a young man at that time, and he was already the object of the school's girls, and even some female classmates got close to her in order to get close to Xia Zhi, and asked her to help deliver love letters. At this time, he must have a girlfriend who is as good and beautiful as him lying next to him! Thinking of this, Yu Xi was a little sour. When they were children, they used to be so close and inseparable. Time has already isolated and alienated them before they know it! Each has its own life.

The cold in the early morning was getting heavier and heavier, Yu Xi opened the only cupboard on the wall in the house, found a shabby musty thin quilt inside, wrapped himself around his body and slept on the sofa for two hours.