The shampoo shop looked a little older, the walls were slightly yellowed, and some of the paint had completely peeled off, leaving mottled marks of mold.

It's the first time I've come to a barber shop like this to wash my hair.

Zhang Huaixu and I lay side by side, and there was always a sense of ritual-like weirdness.

"How about the little girl, is the water warm enough?"

During this process, the girl, who was not much older than me, kept asking me all kinds of questions, such as what was the water temperature like, where to go to school, etc.

I wasn't too keen on answering her polite questions, so I just said a few casual words and dealt with it.

"Tony and I are in elementary school, and at your age, you don't go to school for a long time. My family was poor and couldn't afford to go to school, so he and I were thinking about getting a job. But we don't have a diploma, how can a job be so easy to find. ”

The girl named Coco seemed to be a chatterbox, and when she saw that I ignored her, she began to talk to herself.

"We've moved bricks on construction sites, we've begged for food on the streets, we've done all the dirty work....... Later, I found Aunt Yi here, and I settled down a bit. After I made money, my parents took my salary and went to support my brother's education....... Little girl, cherish the time now, in the future, life will not be so easy. ”

She spoke to me in a serious tone as if she had been a person from the past.

When I graduated from college and entered the society, I understood the hardships and hardships involved.

"Little girl, turn your head that way." She said to me when she shampooed the back of my head.

I obediently leaned my head to the right, and at this time, the barber named Tony also happened to ask Zhang Huaixu to lean his head this way.

So, the picture becomes the two of us lying together, looking at each other awkwardly.

The moment our eyes met, we tacitly lowered our heads and wanted to turn our heads back.

"Hey, you two, don't move." The boy named Tony stiffly broke Zhang Huaixu's head.

His face took up almost my entire field of vision, and I could only look at him.

This boy has very good-looking facial features, and even if you look at it closely, it looks good.

Zhang Huaixu still had foam on his head, and his eyes kept drifting around, occasionally drifting back to look at me. I don't know if he was a little nervous, there was a touch of red on his face, and his slightly pale lips were pursed tightly.

I put my hand on my heart and felt my heartbeat.

I think back to the days when I lived with Zhang Huaixu and An Yuqiu. What is this boy really like? Sometimes I think he is particularly difficult to contact, sometimes I think he is very kind, sometimes he has the arrogance of a teenager, sometimes he is mature and gentle like an adult, and he often sees through a lot, but he doesn't say anything.

often skip classes, but do well in exams; When eating steamed buns, they like to use chopsticks to fork it and eat it; I don't like to play basketball, but I run to the basketball court after class.

He's still a guy whose heart flutters when I think about it.

Overall, I think he's a weirdo.

Coco put on my haircut apron and handed me a booklet with photos of various hairstyles from behind me.

"Look at it, girl, what hairstyle do you want to cut? What do you think of me? ”

I glanced at her messy, dyed pink hair, body and mind rejecting.

"No need, just trim your bangs to the eyebrow." I shook my head violently.

"Well, then I'll cut you a little more student." With a few clicks, Coco smoothed the bangs on my forehead.

"Hmm......."

The glare of the fluorescent lamp made my eyes hurt a little, because the bangs grew longer and longer, and I rarely felt such a strong light.

Without the cover of bangs, the world seems to become wider all of a sudden, and turning your head to look at the long alley full of sunlight, the feeling of stretching and being out of sight.

I looked back at Zhang Huaixu, and the thick bangs on his forehead were cut into tiny pieces, revealing two straight eyebrows, and the bangs were the same as mine, with eyebrows. Maybe it's because the barber's skills are not perfect, and the bangs on the forehead look a bit like they have been gnawed by a dog, and they are not very smooth.

He shook his head and looked back at me, smiling gently and looking much more energetic.

I remembered his outfit on the day of the New Year's party, dressed in white and wearing a red belt. When I look back like this, my smile is as quiet and indifferent as moonlight.

"Look, that's what a lad should look like." The proprietress patted Zhang Huaixu's shoulder unceremoniously, "For the sake of you being so handsome, I'll give you a half-fold." Go back to class with your little girlfriend. ”

Zhang Huaixu was nervous and whispered something in the ear of the proprietress.

"I see, hahaha, I really miss my youth........" the proprietress smiled, "Okay, okay, you two little guys, it's time to go back to class." ”

"Let's go." Zhang Huaixu picked up his schoolbag and said lightly.

"Where are you going?"

"Go back to school, you don't want to miss too many classes."

When Zhang Huaixu and I returned to school, it was just in time for the end of the first class, and there were still people standing together in the corridor chatting.

"Hey, look, that boy, he's so handsome."

"That's right, do we have such a number one person in our school?"

I heard the girls passing by all look back at Zhang Huaixu and say the same.

"Wow, Zhang Huaixu, have you taken a class leave to go to South Korea for plastic surgery?" As soon as he entered the door, Hao Jianren put his arms around Zhang Huaixu's neck and rubbed his hair in surprise, "And you, Tan Lige, have you also gone for plastic surgery?" ”

"Get off me." Zhang Huaixu unceremoniously threw Hao Jianren off his back.

"Really, the bad guy even helped you ask for leave with Sayuri, and you treated me like this, bad man." Hao Jianren shook his hand and said with a "hello ruthless" expression.

"Leave?" I asked rhetorically, puzzled.

"Of course, how can you really skip class?"

Well, I thought Zhang Huaixu was the kind of person who didn't blush and heartbeat even when he was a bad boy, but in his bones, he was still a well-behaved and good student.

"That, is Senior Zhang Huaixu here?" At the door stood two girls with delicate voices, both with a shy look on their faces, and their eyes looked softly inside.

"Yo, there are suitors coming so soon." Hao Jianren whistled, sighed, and dragged Zhang Huaixu over to greet them, "Hello, junior sister........."

Zhang Huaixu reluctantly gave him a roll of his eyes. He didn't seem to be very good at dealing with girls, so he quietly put his hands in his trouser pockets and stood behind them, without expression and without speaking.

"Tan Lige, Tan Lige! Someone is looking for it. ”

I heard Gu Cheng calling me at the door.

Leaning out of the door in that direction, I saw Mu Xi standing peacefully at the door of the classroom, waving at me.

Actually, I didn't really want to see him, but in order to avoid too many eyes falling on me, I had to walk out with my head down.

"Senior Muxi, is there something wrong?"

I must have said this with a stinking expression and a cold attitude that rejects people from thousands of miles away.

Mu Xi's smile paused, and he seemed to be a little embarrassed all of a sudden. He was silent for a long time before handing me a book: "This is for you, it's the script for the New Year's Day party, I'll help you bind it into a book........."

"Okay, thanks." I didn't shirk it, and handed the booklet over, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Nope."

"Oh, okay." I turned and walked away.

Mu Xi is a person with a sunny breath on his body, but in my eyes, he is no different from a stranger, even if his feelings for me have changed subtly. In the final analysis, he was the one who started destroying my friendship with An Yuqiu.

I put all the blame on him at the time, and now that I think about it, I also feel that I am being vexatious, that he actually did nothing wrong, and that is so unfair to him.

In the days that followed, Mu Xi often came back to me, sometimes to deliver water, sometimes to send tutoring materials to Sayuri (Sayuri was also the English teacher in their class), although he was not the representative of the English class.

He conveyed certain messages to me in a low-key way. However, such days did not last long, after all, the days of the third year of high school are coming to an end, and there are less than two months to go, and the college entrance examination will officially begin.

For the first major event in life, no one will still have some unimportant things in mind at this juncture.

Hagaoka is in the studio, and he doesn't know what kind of life he lives. Occasionally, she called Ms. Zhang and said that life there was like hell.

"Originally, I thought that art students did not deserve to have white clothes, but later I found out that art students do not deserve to have clothes at all! Any clothes can be dyed colorful. ”

That's what she said.

She still wouldn't give me a call.

I haven't seen Tan Yao since I separated. At the time of parting, his attitude towards me suddenly changed 180 degrees, which made me care about it all the time. I wonder if something happened to him.

I remember that his smile had never been so gentle as it had been that day, and most of the time, he was throwing a sad tantrum at me.

He's such a big man, nothing will happen to him.

Recently, my mother has been sending me less and less money, but the amount is getting higher and higher. On the phone, she simply told me that she had recently taken on several cases from big clients and made a lot of money, and if she was short of money, she could call her secretary. I haven't heard her voice since.

My mother has become a well-known strong woman in the legal profession, but she seems to have become a person I don't know.