It's been seven years, and Qi Zhengzhe has never mentioned it to me in his heart.

"Do you have to say it?" I think it's time to talk to Qi Zhengzhe. As soon as today is over, I will go to the provincial capital to study at the civil affairs school.

"Definitely."

"Then I'll tell you. Since I was born, there has been a person named Zheng Qihang who appeared in my life as an elder brother, and it was not until I was twelve years old that he walked out of my life circle. ”

"So that's your childhood sweetheart?"

"yes. It's been eight years since he left me when I was nine years old. Do you know? He's a year younger than you. ”

"Two years older than you." Qi Zhengzhe's wine was already half awake. Or, he didn't drink much at all.

"Yes."

"Why did he leave you? Since it appears in your life, it should always be by your side. Is it also to flee? But even if you flee, you should flee with you. Qi Zhengzhe almost said to himself.

"He's not fleeing. He was back in the city. ”

"Back to the city?"

"He kept telling me he wasn't going back to the city. He didn't want to be a city man, he wanted to stay with me forever, but in the end he went back to the city with his parents. ”

"What's back to the city?"

"He said that he would come to see me after the New Year, and he would come to see me during the summer vacation at the latest, but he didn't come after the New Year, and I waited at the entrance of the village almost every day during the summer vacation, but I couldn't wait for him to come."

"You haven't explained to me what it means to go back to the city."

"I'm really sad. Why does my brother speak and not count? It must be that my brother can't come because of something, my brother must not want to come, I comforted myself so much in my heart, but when I pinned my hopes on the next vacation, my father had an accident. ”

"Something happened to your father? Is it Uncle Hao? What happened to Uncle Hao? ”

"Ah," I came back to my senses, "no, no, something happened to my mother." I misremember. ”

"Look at you, your face is full of tears. You, I guess you've been through a lot between you. Qi Zhengzhe said.

"yes, we've been through a lot." I was immersed in the memories of the past, "and it wasn't your average experience. Like we grew up together, went to school together, played games together, and all that, it's too ordinary, can you believe it? I have experienced life and death with Brother Qihang. ”

"What? Experienced life and death? Qi Zhengzhe was extremely surprised. The red on his face had faded somewhat.

"Look at the meat ring on my hand," I said, holding out my right hand.

"I've noticed it for a long time, and I've always been curious, but I want to ask but I'm afraid to ask, I'm afraid you care." Qi Zhengzhe said.

"Because, in your opinion, this is a flaw. But to me, it's not a flaw, it's a sign. It's not innate. ”

"A sign?"

"Yes, it's a sign of our mutual promise." I told Qi Zhengzhe the details of Brother He being forced to go up the Tiger Slope and the Optimus Stone Pillar.

"Never leave and never give up, and always be together." Qi Zhengzhe muttered to himself.

"Yes, never leave and never give up, and always be together. When the Optimus Stone Pillar split in half, it was extremely strange that these eight words flashed in the middle of the half of the stone wall, and then we found that each of us had an extra flesh ring on each finger, one with a bulge and one with a notch. It is in this context that we make a promise: never leave us, never abandon you, and never be together. ”

"That's—it's not life and death."

"Because we trespassed on Tiger Slope, the villagers wanted to sink us in the pond."

"Sunken Pond?"

"yes, tie us up and sink us into the pond at the entrance of the village."

"Is it so ruthless?" Qi Zhengzhe's eyes widened.

"Yes. The whole village beat gongs and drums to sink us in the pond. Heaven and earth are also worshiped in front of the sinking pond. Just when everyone was about to sink us into the pond, it was God who helped us, and a thunderbolt chopped the man who was about to push us into the pond to death. ”

"Ahh After a long time, Qi Zhengzhe said: "I finally know why you are obsessed with Zheng Qihang. ”

"Because he almost became a part of my life."

"Hehe," Qi Zhengzhe almost smiled bitterly, "Qiqi, please tell me, what should I do?" ”

"I'm sorry."

"No, you have nothing to be sorry for. I've always been self-inflicted. Qi Zhengzhe held his head with both hands.

"I'm really sorry."

"I just want to know what I'm going to do next."

"You'll find the other half that truly belongs to you. There are a lot of girls who want to be your other half. ”

"I hope so." Qi Zhengzhe turned and left. His steps were slow and heavy.

The next day, I originally arranged for Qi Zhengzhe to send me to the provincial civil affairs school, but Qi Zhengzhe suddenly fell ill and couldn't send me there, so my father had to send me there in person.

The Provincial Civil Affairs School was built on the shore of Qingshan Lake, although the school is small, but the planning is orderly, the layout is reasonable, I like it as soon as I enter the school.

Overall, brother, the three years of secondary school are the happiest three years I have ever had. Almost none of the classmates I got along with had ever experienced the hardships of life and didn't know the dangers of the world, so they were exceptionally simple and kind.

Among them, I'm kind of old-fashioned. But I'm also very happy. There is no pressure to study professionally, and a bright future seems to be waiting for us.

What's more, the tuition is paid for school, there are subsidies for meals, and I can even save some money to buy a birthday gift for my father. It was a carefree time.

Those boys and girls are in the budding period of youth, crazy for love and tears, every day you live and die, and I am extremely calm. They literally saw me like a nun.

Yes, how many boys have expressed their infatuation with me to me, but I have never been indifferent. In their opinion, if it weren't for something psychologically wrong, how could I be so indifferent at this age when the flowers of love are blooming everywhere?

But they don't know how fanatical my heart is. I miss my brother more and more. I always imagine my brother's face, always scribble on the drawing book, sketch my brother's appearance, but I am always dissatisfied.

After so many years, I am even worried that my brother and I may not recognize each other. I'm even more worried that maybe my brother has completely forgotten about me, a little country girl.

However, after all, it was the first time to leave my father, the first time I left "home", and no matter how comfortable school life was, I still missed my father and "home" very much for a while at first.

So two months later, probably in mid-November, I took two days off and went back to Qijiatun.

I "bled out" the money I had saved up and bought a gift for everyone in the "family".

Sitting on the bus back to Qijiatun, I was very excited, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I imagined the surprise on everyone's faces when they received me and the joy they looked when they received my gifts.

Of course, what excites me the most is Qi Zhengzhe. Brother, for more than two months, it is against his heart to say that he does not miss Qi Zhengzhe at all. He had too much influence on me in the seven years before and after. Anyway, he's the closest person I've ever been, and he's the most caring person my peers.

To put it bluntly, if I don't know my brother, if I don't have a past of more than ten years with my brother, or if I don't have a relationship with my brother, Qi Zhengzhe should be the best choice for my life partner.

Although Qi Zhengzhe did not graduate from primary school, although I was admitted to the technical secondary school and was a person who ate imperial food, I didn't feel that he was unworthy of me at all, and I didn't feel that he was inferior to me at all.

However, the strange thing is that I haven't heard anything about Qi Zhengzhe for more than two months.

I thought Qi Zhengzhe would find a school to come and see me. It's not that I expect him to make a special trip from Qijiatun to the Provincial Civil Affairs School to see me, but I think he will stop by to see me.

You must know that Qi Zhengzhe will come to the provincial capital in about twenty days - of course, it is to buy. He came to the provincial capital to buy goods, and it should be reasonable for him to meet me at the provincial civil affairs school by the way (even if he didn't stop by the way).

However, in such a long time, he has probably been to the provincial capital four or five times, and he has never come to see me once.

Why don't I find it strange?

I imagined the scene of Qi Zhengzhe and me meeting. He's a blushing guy. I haven't seen him for such a long time, and I should be blushing when I suddenly appear in front of him.

Also, this is the first time I have bought a gift for Qi Zhengzhe.

Until then, it had been him who had given me gifts. Every year he gives two or three gifts, although the vast majority of them are school supplies. He is a must-have for birthdays.

I still pressed the summer clothes given by Qi Zhengzhe that year at the bottom of the box.

I took a tricycle to the front of the "Jeongcheol Wholesale Department" store.

The door of the store was open, and Qi Zhengzhe sat inside to guard the store. The two wooden stools used to place the steamers are still in place. It's ten o'clock in the morning, not the time to sell steamed buns, so the stool is empty.

How familiar everything is.

Before the car stopped, I shouted: "Qi Zhengzhe, Qi Zhengzhe!" ”

Qi Zhengzhe heard my call and looked at me, not to mention blushing, and there was no smile of surprise.

I called again, Qi Zhengzhe reluctantly answered, and sat motionless in his place.

I'm wondering. This is also too far from what I imagined.

I put the gift in front of Qi Zhengzhe, "What's wrong with you?" Hao Junqi is back! ”

Qi Zhengzhe raised his eyes and glanced at me, his eyelids drooped again, but he still didn't say anything.

However, I was already frightened by Qi Zhengzhe's appearance. Will this be Qi Zhengzhe? How can you be so skinny?

"What's wrong with you? Are you seriously ill? Is something big going on in the family? I said.

"Do you need to care about that?" Qi Zhengzhe even seemed to be "thin" in his voice.

"What do you say? You wouldn't be really sick the day I went to school, would you? I thought ......"

"Why do you think so?"

"I thought I told you about my past, and you were so sad that you didn't want to get up."

"Do you think there's anything else possible?"

"What?" I was really taken aback.

However, no matter how I communicated with Qi Zhengzhe next, he remained silent.

I left the Jeongcheol Wholesale Department with a sense of humor.