Chapter 13: The World Without You

The New Year is always so lively, whether it is a big city or a small mountain village, it presents a prosperous scene, Yu Zixiao looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, no one is not walking with his family, this is a different New Year for him.

's mother passed away when Yu Zixiao was very young, and in Yu Zixiao's heart, the so-called mother may be the person he has only seen in photos, the home where there is only an indifferent father, and he can't think about it.

"Give me a spicy chicken thigh burger." Lin Yu said to Yu Zixiao, who was working at the front desk.

"Why do you eat fried food again? Are you really not afraid of gaining weight? ”

"If you want to take care of it, you better work hard, I'm still waiting for you to pay back."

Lin Yu can come here every day to talk to Yu Zixiao, which is the happiest thing for him every day.

Bell bell bell! Whenever a customer comes in, the bell hanging on the glass door of the burger restaurant will ring, and Yu Zixiao will always raise his head to welcome the customer at this time.

"Welcome!" Yu Zixiao put on a fake smile that he had been practicing for the past few days, but soon this smile froze on his face.

"If you don't come back for the New Year, you're amazing!"

Ye Mengning was wearing an army-green tweed coat with a thick scarf around his neck. Yu Zixiao still remembered that Ye Mengning took him to the street to buy it during the Chinese New Year last year.

"A glass of Coke and half a fried chicken, right?" Yu Zixiao clearly remembered this girl's eating hobby.

Seeing that Yu Zixiao didn't react to her appearance, Ye Mengning found a place by the window with understanding, and she saw a lot of couples holding hands shopping outside the window, and she couldn't help but think of how she used to pull Yu Zixiao every New Year.

It was slowly getting dark, and the work of the hamburger restaurant was coming to an end, but Yu Zixiao refused to get off work until he dragged it out.

"How long have I been here? You don't want to ignore me? ”

"What do you need me to do with you? After ignoring you, will you come to me again to make those unreasonable demands? Yu Zixiao looked a little angry.

"The last time you went back to school, I said that I wouldn't force you......" Ye Mengning's tone suddenly stopped being strong, she slowly leaned against Yu Zixiao's side, "I will go abroad after the New Year, I know you don't want to go with me, I just want you to go home quickly and reconcile with your father now, isn't it good to be in the provincial capital?" Do you have to stay in a place like this? ”

"If you had told me that three months ago, I would definitely go back......" Yu Zixiao had a reason why he didn't want to go back.

"So what do you do? Have been working or studying? ”

"My cousin will come back after the New Year, and you don't have to worry about the rest." Yu Zixiao patted Ye Mengning's head slightly: "Go back quickly, there will be no car in a while." ”

"I told my family that I wouldn't go back tonight."

"Not going back? So where do you live? ”

"I'll live wherever you live." Ye Mengning used all his strength to hold Yu Zixiao's arm.

Yu Zixiao didn't think much about it, they grew up together since childhood, and Yu Zixiao has always regarded her as his sister.

Yu Zixiao still lived in the dormitory of the school, he vacated his bed to Ye Mengning, and spread the down jacket on the ground and started the floor.

"I'll take you to the station early tomorrow morning." Maybe it was because he learned the news that Ye Mengning was about to leave, and Yu Zixiao suddenly felt a little reluctant to this girl who grew up with him.

"Your father said that you would naturally go back when you ran out of money, but I waited so long and didn't see you go back, so I came here to find you myself."

"I knew he thought so, but I didn't go back, as if I couldn't live without his money." Yu Zixiao was a little angry when he thought of his father's indifferent and arrogant image, "When you go back, tell him that I'm doing well here." ”

Under the dim light of the bedroom, Yu Zixiao took a breath of hot air into his hands, the last severe cold was not completely healed, and the cold from the ground suddenly penetrated his whole body, and the old wounds on his feet hurt.

"Go to bed, it's so cold on the ground." Ye Mengning stretched out her hand from the bed and prepared to pull Yu Zixiao.

"No, no, no, no! It's not like a kid again. Yu Zixiao subconsciously moved his body farther away.

"What are you afraid of? And no one could see it. I believe in you, are you still afraid of me? Ye Mengning said helplessly.

The cold of winter nights was always so unforgiving, and after a while, Yu Zixiao sneezed several times, and a thick layer of fog condensed on the glass of the bedroom.

“…… You go inside. The experience of catching a cold in the days of the final exam made Yu Zixiao choose to compromise in the face of this cold winter night.

Ye Mengning lifted the quilt and motioned for Yu Zixiao to cover it, and Yu Zixiao immediately stuffed the quilt under Ye Mengning: "I'll cover this." Yu Zixiao folded his down jacket and Ye Mengning's coat together.

"Will you miss me when I'm gone?" Ye Mengning pressed her forehead tightly against Yu Zixiao's back, which was her favorite posture before.

"Needless to say, of course not!"

"So ruthless?" Ye Mengning was so angry that he pulled Yu Zixiao's ears fiercely.

"If I don't leave, how about I transfer to your current school?"

"Don't, don't! Don't! Yu Zixiao was so frightened that he quickly turned over.

He and Ye Mengning's eyes happened to meet each other, and the two of them covered their faces with quilts, and Yu Zixiao felt shy for the first time because of Ye Mengning.

"Let's go to bed early......" Yu Zixiao hoped that the night would pass quickly, but he wanted to stay a little longer.

Yu Zixiao didn't know when he fell asleep, he only remembered that he thought about a lot of things, what would he be like now if he had promised Ye Mengning to study abroad together, what would it be like if he hadn't come to Qingling High School, he listened to the sound of heavy rain outside the window beating on the branches, smelled the smell of dirt coming in through the crack in the door and slowly fell asleep.

"Yu Zixiao! Didn't you say you would accompany me to buy something today? How can you not afford it? I'm coming in! ”

Yu Zixiao was woken up by a hurried knock on the door, and Ye Mengning on the side was still sleeping with his head covered: "It's over!" Yesterday, I promised Lin Yu to accompany her shopping! ”

Yu Zixiao wrapped his clothes tightly and was about to open the door, he just put his hand on the door lock and stopped, Yu Zixiao looked back at Ye Mengning, who was still asleep: If this is seen, how can it be!

"I heard you inside, and if you don't open the door, I'll open it myself." When Yu Zixiao was hospitalized, he took He Yukun's bedroom key to Ye Mengning, and the friction sound between the key and the keyhole was still harsh today, and Yu Zixiao felt that he was about to suffocate.

"Who's out there!? Don't know what's sleeping inside? Ye Mengning's wake up was super angry, if Yu Zixiao woke Ye Mengning up before, he wouldn't have been slapped a few times.

Lin Yu turned the key's hand, paused slightly, and immediately pushed the door open.

"It turned out to be the woman who pulled the lassa, and you came early in the morning to disturb our sleep." Ye Mengning saw that it was Lin Yu who immediately returned to her usual arrogant tone in front of people, and she deliberately ripped off some of her loose clothes so that Lin Yu could see her exposed shoulders.

"Lin Yu, don't get me wrong, I'll tell you well, yesterday...... That..."Yu Zixiao didn't know what he wanted to say when he was nervous.

Lin Yu was a little dazed, all kinds of pictures of herself and Yu Zixiao kept appearing in her head, and she felt that the heart she had finally let go of was locked up again.

"Why explain?" Yu Zixiao didn't know how to pick up Lin Yu's words.

"Because of me, that, Ye Mengning and I are ........." Yu Zixiao didn't know why he wanted to explain.

"I'll just pretend that I didn't see anything, and you don't have to explain anything to me, because we don't have any special relationship that you need to explain to me." Lin Yu looked unusually calm when she said this, she gently put the breakfast in her hand on the ground and turned her head away. Yu Zixiao found that she had no reason to stay.

As soon as Yu Zixiao wanted to go out to chase Lin Yu, he was stopped by Ye Mengning: "Didn't you say that you wanted to send me to the station?" If you don't send me, I'll stay with you for another night, anyway, I'm going abroad, and you'll have time to explain to her later, won't you? ”

Yu Zixiao looked at the umbrella and a bag of breakfast placed at the door and sighed: "Then I'll send you to the station first......"

In fact, Lin Yu didn't run far, she just hid downstairs in the dormitory, when she watched Ye Mengning take Yu Zixiao's hand and walk out of the school together, tears mixed with the cold rain slipped down her cheeks, she bit her hand tightly into a fist, so as not to let herself cry.

Lightning kept streaking across the sky, and the rumbling thunder seemed to be about to tear a big hole in the gray sky with the lightning. Lin Yu didn't want to see Yu Zixiao standing with the other girls at all, but she couldn't help but keep following them: why did he look so happy...... Didn't he scold that girl for me before...... No wonder he wouldn't tell me who he liked before...... It turns out that I have always been self-inflicted......

"The car is coming, you get in the car." Yu Zixiao just wants to find Lin Yu as soon as possible now.

"Can't wait to find that girl?" Ye Mengning noticed that Lin Yu was right behind them.

"In that situation just now, everyone will misunderstand, I have to explain it to her well." Yu Zixiao tried to take Ye Mengning's hand away from him.

"You like her?" Ye Mengning's tone sounded a little bad.

"Yes." Yu Zixiao didn't want to hide anything from Ye Mengning, after all, she was about to leave this country, maybe he would make Ye Mengning die to himself if he said this.

"Oh, I see, can you fulfill my little request before I go."

Yu Zixiao originally thought that Ye Mengning would be very angry when she heard her answer, but she didn't expect that she looked a little happy.

"Hmm... What are the requirements? ”

"Passengers heading to the provincial capital at nine o'clock, please note that the B521 bus you are taking is about to depart......" Although it was separated by the flowing crowd coming and going, Lin Yu still saw the picture of Ye Mengning standing on tiptoe and kissing Yu Zixiao, she covered her mouth that was about to cry, and tears couldn't stop flowing out of her widened eyes, Lin Yu hurriedly wiped it around her eyes with completely soaked clothes......

Until the start of school, Yu Zixiao did not see Lin Yu again.