"Look at this!"

Just as I was about to pack my schoolbag and go home, Yirui suddenly ran to me in high spirits.

I looked around and whispered to her, "Hey, there's someone around." ”

"Uh-oh," she seemed to understand at once, "the gardener just gave it to me, you take it first." ”

She handed me a yellowed, crumpled piece of letterhead, and when I unfolded it, I scribbled a few typings with a faint purple ballpoint pen, and for a moment I couldn't make out what was written on it.

"You put it away first, I'll explain to you slowly when I get home, I'll go clean the windowsill first!"

With that, she jumped out - a good girl is good, there is no need to care about the eyes of the people around her, everything is her own way, and she doesn't care how much gossip will be talked about by others when she stays with me.

Tomorrow is October 1, the birthday of the motherland. Even if it is time for us to work hard in the third year of high school, we can still enjoy the seven-day National Day holiday openly.

According to Yirui's meaning, the three of us originally planned to go out together to a good place to relax, but Zhendong couldn't get out, so we could only leave the two of us who were continuing to discuss where to go to let ourselves go. Even though I've been changed a lot by Yirui-san, my nature is ingrained, and it would be great if I could spend seven days this holiday at home, bored in bed, doing my homework or something.

"Little Yirui, how about going shopping together on Monday?"

"Well, yes, yes! When you go out, you'll have to call me!" ”

Can you do this, my Eri-san? I plan to go out for a lap again, and I promise to go out shopping with others, is this still a student who is about to face the first fateful exam in his life, and should be closed at home to study seriously?

"That's right! Don't think I don't know, it's Zhao Yujie's stupid guy who dragged you along, so you didn't have much time to hang out with our sisters before. ”

"That's it! Eh, listen to me, this holiday is the last normal holiday before the exam, you have to seize this opportunity! Don't miss the opportunity, and the loss will not come again. Don't let that stinky boy hold you back! ”

Ay......

Xu Ruirong and several of her sisters never show mercy when they talk. And, having said that, shouldn't it be better to stay at home with me and study in a team to be more conducive to Yirui's development in the near future?

"Hmm......" Yirui continued to wipe the windowsill, "Okay, where are you going, I will be on call!" ”

"Xiao Yirui's clothes are good! Let her pick a few for you when the time comes! ”

"Where there is ......"

I still don't know anything about the world of girls.

I picked up my bag and put it on my back and flipped my chair over to the table.

Outside, she glanced at me through the window, as if she was motioning for me to take care of myself and go home.

I know that since I formed a "study group" during the summer vacation, Yirui has had a rare opportunity to hang out with her best friends. From this point of view, my existence has indeed dragged Yirui's hindquarters to some extent, so that she has always been bound by my side.

So, let Yirui have more time and space for herself!

I nodded to her and left the classroom.

"You're home!"

"What's the situation with you! Why did you get home earlier than me? ”

"Isn't this talking to those girlfriends! Xu Ruirong 'abducted' me into her father's car, and then I hitchhiked back! I always feel that looking at this sentence, I can feel that Yirui on the other side of the screen is still immersed in the pleasure just now.

"By the way, don't you have to play the piano today?"

As soon as the summer vacation ended, I stopped going to the place where Yirui played the piano and did odd jobs. This seems to be the first time since the beginning of the school year that I have asked about Yirui's part-time job again.

"Well, since my junior year of high school, I have a lot less free time, so I only go to that place occasionally on Saturdays and Sundays. In short, it's important to study now! ”

"And what about your pocket money?"

"What else can I do, obediently accept 'their' alms! My mother told me that my studies are important, my body is also important, and I can't say anything about being petty anymore. Please, I'll be able to spare enough time to do some work! ”

"I think so too, so don't be stubborn, read a good book first."

"Hmph, it's as verbose as 'them', annoying!"

Yirui no longer goes to work every night, which should be a good thing for her, after all, the conditions of her family are completely unnecessary for her to come out to work and make money. And in the last year of high school, even a "teenager with autism" like me knew that I had to work hard and try to make more time for my studies. A top student like her, in the eyes of the school, she is a top student who wants to impact the resumption of diplomatic relations in the Northern Qing Dynasty, and more time is particularly important for her.

"Have you made an appointment with them?"

Somehow, even though I wanted to give her more time and space for herself, I unknowingly typed and sent this passage. I want to press "withdraw", but I guess Yirui, who is also staring at the screen and looking at my message, should have seen the content of this message a long time ago.

"It's an appointment!

"Monday: Go shopping, go to the movies, eat good food with them.

"Wednesday: Picking oranges with Xu Ruirong.

"Thursday: ......"

"Picking oranges again?"

Before she could post the rest of "Friday:", I preemptively published my thoughts.

"yes, this time in a different place. What, do you want to join in? ”

"Forget it......"

Seeing this, I couldn't help but think of the fierce and vicious appearance of Xu Ruirong's classmates who stared at me on weekdays, and I couldn't help but shudder - you know, it is more difficult to get along with her than to have a good relationship with the rest of the class at once.

"So, I'm free on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, where do you want to go with me?"

"Forget it, there are still mountains of test papers waiting for us to complete! In the remaining four days, you can take me to your house and do your homework with you......"

"Anyway, your mother trusts me so much, and entrusts you to me to tutor, when the time comes, you have to follow me wherever I want to take you to play!" Between the lines, it seems to hide the evil laughter of Yirui's classmates.

"So, what do you mean by the letter you gave me?"

Presumably, by the time we got to the place just now, Yirui and I had already left behind the letter paper that we passed after school. It wasn't until I was lying on the bed trying to take out a napkin from my pocket to wipe my nose that I remembered the crumpled letter paper.

"Ahh I almost forgot about it! ”

"So, is there any special use for this thing?"

"The gardener gave it to me. I remember the last time we went to his cabin, he said he could help us connect with the people he said had previously had supernatural abilities at this school through the alumni search agency. On this note, the only person who could be contacted was the address of a girl at the time. ”

"Address?"

"Well, because the information that can be used by the alumni search club is also the student files kept in the school, most of the phone numbers and addresses in the student files have been abolished or changed now, and only this one girl still lives at the original address."

"So, what do you mean by giving me this note?"

"This holiday, let's go and visit that senior together!"

It's just October, and the weather is getting cooler. Finally getting rid of the heat of a few weeks ago, it is really comfortable to walk outside and blow the cool autumn breeze.

Yirui has also put on the jacket of the autumn dress, but the lower half of the body is still wearing the original short skirt.

"Anyway, why do you still wear a school uniform when you go out now!"

"It's not looking for old alumni, of course we have to use school uniforms to show our identity."

"Oh, how strange that looks......"

Indeed, there were no other students still wearing their school uniforms along the way—even the students who were making up classes were wearing fancy clothes that they didn't have much chance to wear in a year.

"How long will it take......

"Hurry, hurry."

Although Yirui handed me the letter with the address written on it, she was the one who did her homework in the end. Turning around, I held the "map", but I could only obediently follow behind Yirui.

"Oh, I wouldn't have come out with you if I knew I wouldn't have come out."

"Aren't you all out! Besides, how many times have you said along the way, 'I wouldn't have come out with you if I had known'! Can't you just go out with me? Yi Rui turned around and pouted at me, "If you go on like this, how will you go shopping with your girlfriend in the future!" ”

"What kind of shopping is this......"

"Okay, okay, don't say anything useless, when you come back, can't you make a cake for you?"

"That's pretty much ......"

Although the cake made by Yirui is much better than the cake I ate on my birthday when I was a child, it is still worth looking forward to for a person like me who is used to coarse tea and light rice.

"That's the neighborhood in front of her!"

Walking in from the intersection between the two buildings, it is an old community with a sense of age, which is hidden by the tall buildings.

The brick-made walls are covered with glass ballast without white paint, and this rudimentary anti-theft measure is no longer seen even in a neighborhood like ours. The words "no parking" are still sprayed on many fences, and the word "stop" seems to be the long-abolished two-word simplified word. Walking on the small road covered with potholes and small stones in the community, there are thick wires pulling horizontally and vertically overhead. The original pink wall skin of the building has also peeled off, like dark spots on the skin of the elderly. This kind of scene can still be seen in the main urban area of this kind of rapid urbanization.

"This is it."

On the side of this building is a "D-class dangerous building", the door and windows are blocked with cement, and the words "D-class dangerous building, no entry" are pasted on it. Living on the edge of a dangerous building, I always feel like I'm going to be scared all day long.

"Ding-dong-"

Yirui rang the doorbell of room 50, and a hoarse doorbell rang from inside the room.

"It's coming!"

The door creaked open, and it was opened by a middle-aged woman wearing an apron.

"Hello Auntie, I'm ......"

"Ah, the kids from the high school we went to!"

Auntie should have seen the logo on Yirui's school uniform, and before Yirui introduced herself, she already understood our identity, so it turned out that wearing a school uniform came in handy at this time?

"Eh-" The voice of a middle-aged uncle came from inside the house.

"Zhengde, hurry up and clean the living room!" She shouted into the house, and hurriedly turned to face us, "Ah, you two come in and sit down, look at my foolish ......"

I felt that this aunt was a very warm person, and although we had not yet stated the purpose of our visit, she directly invited us to come in and sit down.

"It's a mess at home, don't you mind!"

"Yujie, have you called Aunt Lu?" Yi Rui leaned over and whispered to me.

"Oh, Auntie is good."

Really, you're not my mother, you're always urging me to do something here and there, I said to myself.

The house is small, and as soon as you walk through the hallway you can see the layout of the whole house - a crowded living room, a narrow kitchen, a bathroom, a closed room and a bedroom. The walls of the living room were littered with large and small boxes, a few pieces of drawing paper spread out on the shabby sofa, and a few large newspapers on the table, on which were scattered with a few jars of paint.

"My husband is a painter." She pointed to the middle-aged man who was sitting on the sofa smiling at us, and said, "Because he has been painting in the living room, the floor, the table, and the wall are full of paint from him. Oh yes, you just call him Uncle Shen. ”

After listening to what she said, he half-covered his face with his hands and said, "You really give me face......

"By the way, Auntie, we are here today to interview you with a few questions."

Can we still call it an "interview"?

"Well, the alumni search club in the school has already sent me a letter."

No wonder she opened the door and saw that we were students of her alma mater, so she pulled us into the room so enthusiastically.

"I knew that I left their home phone in the reply letter last time...... "She said to Uncle Shen on the side, "Look at the house like this, how can it be used to entertain guests!" ”

"Hey, you just don't have to say a word," Uncle Shen spread his hands and stood up from the sofa, "Two, do you want tea?" ”

"The kids shouldn't drink tea, you go to the fridge and get them some juice!"

Uncle Shen gestured "OK" with his hand, and walked towards the kitchen in high spirits. It seems that from his rich expression and energetic mental state just now, Uncle Shen is not some down-and-out man in his aunt's mouth!

"Auntie, in fact, you don't need it! We took the liberty of coming here to really disturb you, and you still entertained us so warmly. Yi Rui spoke first.

"It's okay, if you have any questions, just say it, I still remember a lot of interesting things, Auntie. Uncle Shen is too, he should still remember a lot of interesting things. ”

When adults talk about their student days, their first reaction is "fun things". In my eyes, my school days, especially in recent times, are not fun at all.

"Although I have been away from my alma mater for fourteen years...... she added.

"Thirty-two? Don't look ......" I was just halfway through my mouth when Yirui-san blocked my mouth with her hand. She glared at me fiercely, as if scolding me for not being able to speak, and then smiled embarrassedly and said, "So, Uncle Shen is also an alumnus of his alma mater?" ”

"Well, this guy was obsessed with painting when he was a child, and in the last year of high school, because he didn't study well, he was often kicked out of the house by his parents, and he always came to live with me, but fortunately, my parents were more enlightened at that time, so they reluctantly took in this stinky boy for a night from time to time."

"Don't your parents live here now?"

"Well, I have an older brother, and my brother arranged a suite for both of them to live on the other side of the city. The apartment was intended to sit idle or be sold, but he didn't make much money and had nowhere to live, so he and I stayed here. ”

No wonder, the address recorded in the school's student file still lives Aunt Lu.

"Can't you just stop talking about these old things? I can hear it all in the kitchen. Uncle Shen complained in the kitchen.

Auntie laughed: "Let you be so down, I make more money than you by writing these articles!" ”

"Auntie, then I'll get straight to the point! Do you remember Master Wu in the garden? ”

"Master Wu?" She tilted her head, looking reminiscing.

"Ah, that's the gardener!" Uncle Shen held two glasses of orange juice in front of us, "Please use it slowly, it's not enough to tell you Uncle Shen, and then fill it for you!" ”

She seemed to be awakened and suddenly said, "Oh! It's the weird uncle who has a small cabin in the small forest behind the mountain of the school, and he must be an old man now, right? ”

"Auntie, when you were in school, did you have any supernatural abilities?"

"Ahh When talking about "supernatural abilities", Auntie's expression froze all of a sudden.

"Huh?"

"If you don't say it, I'll forget about it......"

"Hmm, what?" Uncle Shen just shifted his attention from the screen of his phone to our side, "'Supernatural ability'? ”

What's wrong with them? When they heard "supernatural abilities", their expressions seemed a little strange.

"That was when I was seventeen. Do you remember, Zhengde? ”

"Uh-huh, uh-huh......" he nodded.

"I think it started in March or April of that year, when the city was slowly expanding, and there was a field on this side, and one Saturday, when I went out to play in the field, I realized that I could make the rice in the field suddenly ripen.

"I remember that I was running in the field with my bent over the green rice, and when I was tired of running, I wanted to walk back, only to find that the rice behind me was ripe, and all the places I had touched along the way had turned golden. It scared me so much that I sat in the field and got my skirt soaked. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Auntie's mouth.

"And Uncle Shen too," she stretched out her index finger and continued, "Uncle Shen was enjoying the shade under a tree in his hometown, but he became lazy, and the leaves of a tree fell off, almost burying him!" ”

"Hahaha," Uncle Shen laughed, "You remember my affairs quite firmly!" ”

"It turns out that the owners of the supernatural abilities that controlled 'Leaf Fall' and 'Blossom' respectively at that time were the two of you!" Yirui sighed.

"At that time, apart from us, only the gardening master Lao Wu knew about it."

Uncle Shen also immediately participated in the reminiscence, and said, "Well, somehow later, she and I met in the garden. A lot of things happened anyway, but I remember that after graduating from high school, the supernatural ability somehow disappeared. However, I don't know if it's this supernatural ability, or the gardening master Lao Wu, who has made us a pair! ”

"You're too embarrassed to say ......"

"So, after you have this supernatural ability, has anything else happened to you, at school, or at home?"

I felt that I was fascinated by what I heard, and before I knew it, I drank the orange juice on the side, and Uncle Shen immediately brought the juice and filled it for me.

"I remember my junior year of high school, it should be the craziest thing I ever did, at that time, it was said that a flower garden behind us was going to be demolished, and I actually pulled him directly to surround the engineering truck that drove in at night with a wall of leaves, and then I also made this circle full of flowers all night."

"So, what was the result?"

"As a result, fortunately, there was no monitoring in that place at that time, I don't know who did it, and I didn't find out after checking for a long time, and there was nothing wrong with the two of us in the end. But it's ...... them."

"Yes, yes, this place was later converted into a park, which is now Chenghe Park." Uncle Shen added on the side.

In other words, the flower garden has now been almost completely preserved and has become part of the current Chenghe Park. When I was a child, under the guidance of my grandmother, I visited Chenghe Park many times, except for the addition of a new path for tourists to enter and visit, and a fence to prevent tourists from trampling on it, the flower garden itself was basically unharmed.

"Well, I wanted to protect this flower garden at that time, and it was mainly out of my own desire......

As she spoke, the aunt gradually lowered her head.

"Out of your own desires?"

"I love this flower garden very much, because it was opened by an elderly man in our community at that time. During my sophomore year of high school, the family conditions were not very good, and my parents had to quarrel every once in a while, which turned the family upside down, so I would go out for a walk from time to time. ”

"......" Yirui was silent.

"When I found out that there was a flower garden in the field behind our old neighborhood, I would go to visit every time I left home. The old man was also very kind, and sometimes he would let me sit in his grass house in the field, and sometimes I would help him with farm work on a whim. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Auntie's mouth.

"Later, I met Zhengde, and when he was kicked out by his family, I often took him there to play. Summer is coming, lying on the path among the flowers, smelling the fragrance of flowers brought by the warm breeze, that feeling, not to mention how much you enjoy it......"

Uncle Shen also seemed to remember the past during that time, smiled fascinatedly, and said, "She always pulls me to lie on the ground side by side with her, it feels like being in love......"

"Hahaha, didn't you say that one day you will come to this flower garden to paint and paint the whole flower garden and give it to me? As a result, I graduated from high school, and I didn't see you draw for me! Aunt Lu patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Didn't you grow up and paint in Chenghe Park?"

As he spoke, Uncle Shen opened the room with the door closed, took out an oil painting framed by a gilded border, held it up and said, "Look, this is what I painted when I was in my twenties, how about it?" ”

"It's pretty good!"

To tell the truth, Uncle Shen's painting, from a distance, the color is evenly matched, the spatial layout is symmetrical, and the flowers are different in shape and different from each other, and the depictions of each flower are very exquisite.

"That's right, this is a token of our commitment!"

"Personally, I think this guy is really good at drawing, but he just can't compete on a bigger stage and make himself stand taller. Now his paintings are sold as decorative paintings at home, or exhibited in art galleries in the city. ”

"I think that the paintings I draw are appreciated and liked by people who really understand me, and that is the happiest!" Yi Rui said.

"That's it, if you and your son like my paintings, my life is worth it!"

"So, isn't your child here today?" I spoke.

"Well, he was taken to his hometown by his grandmother to play in the past few days. If it were, the house would be even more messy! Uncle Shen replied.

"Where did you just go?" Auntie swallowed and continued, "In short, that flower garden carries my most important good memories at that time! So when I heard that the area was going to be converted into a building, I naturally wanted to protect it desperately. Now that I think about it, what I did at that time was really stupid! ”

"If the current legal construction blocks people's cars, I guess I will have to go to the office for a while!" Uncle Shen added beside him.

"Later ......"

"Ah, it's been so long before I know it!"

Yirui also looked at her watch and said, "I'm sorry to bother you for so long!" It's not too early, so let's go back first! ”

With that, Yirui stood up.

"Why don't you stay for dinner?" Auntie followed and stood up and asked.

"No, this guy has to treat me to cake today!" I said to my aunt.

"You'd better shut up!"

"Hahaha-" Uncle Shen laughed heartily, "It's good to be so young and energetic like you!" ”

"Then let's go first, I'm really bothering you today!"

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll come to us next time I have time!"

"Well, goodbye~" Yirui waved goodbye to her aunt.

"Next time!"

Yirui pinched my arm and whispered, "Say goodbye to them." ”

"Oh, goodbye, Auntie!"

The door closed softly, and all of a sudden there was calm around me. Although I didn't speak at all, I still felt the warmth and joy that I could feel when talking to them. I always feel that even if I live happily like them, it is a very happy thing to be able to have my most beloved person who has been silently supporting and appreciating myself.

"So, do you still want to say things like 'I wouldn't have come out with you if I had known?'"

Yirui twisted my dry, rough face and grimaced at me.

"......" I didn't speak, just smiled involuntarily.

"Seeing that you're so happy, I won't make you a cake to eat!"

After speaking, Yirui ran downstairs.

"Eh, that's not going to work!" I shouted and chased after me.

"Don't drag on my clothes! If you want to eat cake, let go of my collar......"

"Didn't you say you wouldn't give me food!"

"You lazy guy, let me make you food so justifiably!"

"Humph......"