In March, the weather began to warm up, and the roads were lined with grass. Today, Jiang Yang, as usual, accompanied Gu Ling to the school gate, and then the two said goodbye to each other happily.

Before school at noon, Jiang Yang asked Chen Yue to leave first. "Or I'll wait for you." He said.

"No, no," Jiang Yang hurriedly shook his hand. "I'm not going back at noon tonight."

"Why?"

"Eat outside."

"Eating out?"

"Yes."

Chen Yue picked up her schoolbag in confusion, "Are you alone?" ”

"No, there are others."

"Uh-oh." Chen Yue nodded, took a step and stopped, hesitating to ask who it was. Jiang Yang saw his turned face, walked up to him, and pushed him, "Let's go." ”

"Okay."

He wasn't lying, his plan was indeed to find a restaurant on the side of the street to have a meal. He had three people with him, three friends who had helped him.

They were walking down the streets looking for a place to eat. Xiao Yu Lei put one hand on Jiang Yang's shoulder, "Jiang Yang, you are really good, invite us to dinner again." He laughs.

"It's because of brotherhood that I want to invite you even more, are you right Yuan Tang?" Jiang Yang also answered with a smile.

"Haha, it's not, we have to get this brother, we have to get it." Yuan Tang laughed loudly, and his two hands spread back excitedly, patting Jiang Yang and Cheng Peng's backs.

They didn't pay attention to it, stopped under a simple noodle shop sign, and walked in. Jiang Yang invited each of them to eat a bowl of beef noodles, and halfway through the meal, he ordered two more wontons. Several people ate and laughed, and Xiao Yu Lei praised him greatly for Jiangyang inviting them to dinner. He shook his head modestly.

"Where are you going in a moment?" When he was about to finish lunch, Cheng Peng asked.

Several people looked down and thought about it. "Go to the Internet, are you going?" Xiao Yu Lei asked Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang shook his head, he wanted to refuse, but he felt that it was difficult to refuse, "Okay, I'll go." He agreed. The three friends dropped the dishes and walked outside the door to wait for him. He paid the bill, the boss looked for change, he looked at the finished dinner table, settled the account, and nodded slightly.

He did this just out of gratitude, but, unexpectedly, gradually he also integrated into their ranks. He once wondered if he would be called a thug if he continued like this. He tried to distinguish his relationship with them, he just wanted to be their ordinary friend, not to make them feel that he wanted to be like them, a powerful and superior person. So, he was always on the alert. Whether they asked him to skip class during school or they invited him to stay with them after school. He resolutely and irrevocably refused. Despite refusal, Xiao Yu Lei and Yuan Tang, as well as the dissatisfied helpers, all glared at him seriously. But he was unwavering and sure that he was right. Although his grades were not very good, his moral education class was not bad, and he enjoyed listening to the examples and stories told by the kind class teacher in class, which were always useful at this time.

On a special Saturday, the school arranged for students to come and watch a movie. The homeroom teacher told everyone in advance on Friday that everyone in the class had to come that day. She tapped the whip on the lectern and said it to the students in the audience, and her attitude was very serious, but there was no compulsion in her tone. Two fun-loving neighbors who had nothing to do and didn't want to miss this opportunity, so they decided to check it out. Before going out in the morning, under the questioning of his mother, Jiang Yang explained the matter to his mother. The funny show immediately aroused Xiao Ai, who was brushing his teeth in the kitchen, "I'm going too!" I'm going too! She shouted, bothering to put down her toothbrush, and strode out and ran to her brother, "Can you take me with you?" I want to go too. ”

"Yes." Jiang Yang immediately agreed. The mother beside her frowned, stared at her daughter and said, "Xiao Ai, don't go with you, do your homework at home on Saturday." ”

"I'll write in the afternoon."

"Good boy, stay home." The mother took Xiao Ai's hand. Xiao Ai pouted and said coquettishly, "Hmm-huh? Mom..."

Mother ignored her. Jiang Yang stood there neutral and remained silent.

"Mom, I can't finish all my homework in the afternoon." Xiao Ai's two big watery eyes looked at her mother pitifully, shook her mother's arm, and begged her again.

It makes sense for her to insist like this, if it were her father, she would have obediently turned around and walked away. She knew that her mother was a good mother who was gentle and understanding, and she knew that she would be able to impress her. The mother let go of her wrist. Jiang Yang pushed the cart and walked out of the door with his sister.

"Jiangyang, you have to slow down on the road," the mother greeted the child with concern.

"Well, I got it, Mom." Jiang Yang reassured his mother, parked the car on the side of the road at the entrance of the alley, and walked into the open door of the neighbor. "Xiao Ai, you wait for me, I'll call Chen Yue." Xiao Ai nodded.

Gu Ling also has to go to school on Saturday, but she is not participating in recreational activities, for the sake of intense tutoring, she does not have much time to rest throughout the week, and she has very little time to walk around her home, let alone go out to play. Three children stood on the side of the road, waiting for her.

"Oh! Sister Ling. Xiao Ai jumped out of the back seat and ran excitedly to greet Gu Ling. The two girls looked at each other, arm in arm, and talked enthusiastically.

The girls walked out onto the highway chatting. Gu Ling simply greeted Chen Yue good morning, and then asked Xiao Ai, "Why are you here too?" ”

"Go to the movies."

"Are you all together?"

"Hmm."

"Jiang Yang, are you going too?"

"Well, our school organized it, Chen Yue and I want to take a look, isn't it? My sister is also coming, so I have to let her come. ”

And they said their own goodbyes, and departed.

Along the way, the two girls told a lot of interesting things about the campus. Sent Gu Ling to get out of the car in No. 4 Middle School, and everyone waved goodbye together. The three children continued to drive forward, rounding into a neighborhood.

"It's... This is your school, right? The bicycle passed through the school gate, and Xiao Ai asked loudly.

"Yes, big or not?" Chen Yue answered.

"I can't see it yet, but it seems to be quite small."

"Look."

While speaking, the bike has already ridden to the section where it has stopped. They got out of the car and the two boys locked the rear tires. Immediately after, they walked side by side to the school building.

The film was shown in a draped classroom, with no desks, only chairs. They found three seats to sit together, not too early, but certainly not too late, a large white prologue hung on the wall, unlit. A middle-aged man in a cloth hat stood on the only desk in the classroom, his hands held high, studying the buttons under the camera. With everything ready, he jumped down against the corner of the table and moved the obtrusive table to the wall. Students from all levels of the class walked in noisily. At this point, the seats were already full, and the late students had to stand awkwardly. The teacher helped them get chairs in other classrooms in a timely manner to ensure that every child could sit down. The man in the gray cloth hat walked up to the teacher in charge, said a few words, and with permission, he held the remote control and pointed at the camera on the ceiling, the blue light flashed, and the voice of the movie rang out. The front and back doors of the classrooms were closed, and the curtains were tightly blocking the morning sun, and even though it was daytime, the classrooms were as dark as evening. Halfway through the movie, everyone started to discuss. Xiao Ai couldn't sit still at this time, she glanced at her brother to the right, and then glanced at Chen Yue to the left. Both watched very carefully. Her eyes unnaturally followed Chen Yue's eyes—face, collar, waist—until one of his hands on the edge of the chair stopped. She was a little nervous, and reached out and touched the back of Chen Yue's hand. "Huh? Xiao Ai? Chen Yue lowered her head and looked at her strangely. Yes? It's okay, it's okay. Xiao Ai said in a panic, her face flushed slightly, she felt short of breath, and expressing her admiration was always exciting and exciting. Chen Yue raised her head again. She didn't stop there, and in a burst of excitement, she touched the back of his hand again, and then quickly took her hand back, looking at Chen Yue, wanting to know his reaction. But Chen Yue's eyes are still in the plot of the movie. To say that he was unaware of her actions is unlikely. He felt the touch, but didn't bother to ask her why she did it. He must have felt very embarrassed to do that, too.

He didn't look at her again, and she felt a little sad, so she went back to watch the movie. But after not looking at it for a while, she became impetuous. "Oops, my pee is so swollen and I want to go to the bathroom." Xiao Ai shouted at the two boys beside him.

"Then go ahead, I think the teachers won't disagree with the toilet." Jiang Yang looked at the back door and said.

"I can't find the toilet."

"It's in the hallway."

"No, I can't find it." Xiao Ai stood up impatiently and turned to face Chen Yue, "Chen Yue," she said, "You go with me." ”

Chen Yue paused in surprise. The girl who asked for her had already walked out through the crowd, and he had to follow.

"Which way?" Out of the classroom door, Xiao Ai immediately asked.

"This way."

Outside the toilet, Chen Yue stood by the wall and waited for her. Suddenly, I heard Xiao Ai's voice from inside, "Hey-you didn't leave, did you?" ”

"Well, I didn't go. Waiting for you to go back with you. ”

"Thank you, I'll solve it now, wait for me."

"Okay."

When Xiao Ai walked out, she smiled at Chen Yue. The two children rushed back side by side, and neither said anything on the way.

Back in her seat, Chen Yue plunged into watching a movie. Xiao Ai immediately asked, "Can you teach me homework this afternoon?" ”

"Of course." Chen Yue agreed.

Xiao Ai turned his head to look at his brother again, and his brother was focused on motionless. She wondered, what kind of movie would it be? It fascinates two boys so much. She tried to figure it out, steadied herself, and looked up with them. The movie is about the life and various setbacks of a family in the 70s. The mother, who is also the wife of the father of the child, was on the way back from buying eggs at a vegetable market, and fell in an accident, and the eggs in the basket fell out. The accident directly contributed to the turning point in the division of their poor family, when the child's mother separated from her husband and the child who had just entered childhood. At this point, most of the story is between the father and the child, the child has no financial conditions to study, and the father and son make a living by picking up scraps everywhere, and they encounter social pressure from time to time during the period. As the film begins to move to the climax, the three children engage in a rich discussion of its story. The mother of the child who was far away was not so ruthless as to forget that she still had a child. At the edge of a river, father and son are holding branches in their hands and trying to get rid of discarded plastic bottles from the water. At this time, a car stopped on the lawn ramp by the pond and honked its horn. The father and the child looked back together. Two people got out of the car, an acquaintance and a stranger. When the father watched the child being taken away by two people and got into the car. The child has a comfortable new home, but he has not forgotten his kind father. At night, he stood on the balcony of the building, looking out the window at the pouring rain, and tears could not help but flow down until he cried. The scene suddenly shifts to a softly lit bedroom. The child's mother slept next to her new husband, and she faintly heard the child's voice outside the house. She sat up from the bed, put on her slippers, and draped a coat over her. Turning on the light in the living room and walking through the living room, her child was standing just outside the corridor of the balcony. "Baby, you're going to catch a cold, come in and sleep." Mother said. The child was still crying, and his mother's words did not comfort him, but made him feel sad and made him miss his father even more. "Daddy at this time... Daddy at this time—" the child cried and whimpered, "he must still be picking up garbage on the road." His throat choked, and he opened the balcony window and cried out into the black, damp street in the distance - Daddy! Then, in the depths of the darkness, patches of memories of him with his father emerged.

Okay, that's all for the story in the movie, after all, it's a different story now, let's go back to the three children.

All the students who watched the film seriously were moved by the development of the story. The same was true of the three children, who were all crying. The crying in the movie continued, Jiang Yang couldn't stand it anymore, lowered his head, and couldn't help but raise a hand and wipe the tears on his cheeks with his sleeve. "Oh!" Jiang Yang muttered to himself in surprise, "I'm crying? At the same time, he noticed that his sister was also crying, "Xiao Ai? ”

"Huh?"

"Ah, Xiao Ai, you're crying too."

Xiao Ai blew her nose, her eyes moved away from the screen, and slowly recovered from the sad plot, and when she looked at Chen Yue, the result was not what she expected. "Chen Yue, you're crying too."

Chen Yue noticed that someone was calling him, and finally lowered his head, "Yes." He responded. Xiao Ai stared straight at him, and he cried quite sadly.

"I want to go out and breathe." Jiang Yang said.

"Don't worry, the movie should be over soon." Xiao Ai turned his head and said.

"Okay." When Jiang Yang wiped his tears on his face again, he felt that someone was poking him in the back. He turned around, a dark face leaning against him. "Jiang Yang, come here." The man said.

"Why are you here too?"

"Come out and say."

Jiang Yang stood up, Xiao Ai stopped him, and he explained that he would come when he went.

"I didn't expect you to come on Saturday." Jiang Yang said to Xiao Yu Lei.

"I'm bored, I've just arrived."

"Just here?" Jiang Yang poked through the door, "But the movie seems to be about to end." ”

"Out of the way, out of the way, I want to ask you." Xiao Yu Lei leaned over to him, pointed to one of the backs in the classroom and asked, "Who is she?" You seem to know her, it's your girlfriend? ”

"The one sitting next to me?"

"Hmm."

"It's not."

"Oh?" Xiao Yu Lei asked unexpectedly, "Who is that?" ”

"My sister."

"Sister?"

"My sister."

After listening, Xiao Yu Lei laughed meaningfully, turned around and turned around in a circle. "Jiang Yang," he pulled Jiang Yang's arm and asked with a smile, "help me." ”

"What can I help you?"

"Help me get her."

Jiang Yang tilted his head in confusion, and when he saw Xiao Yu Lei smiling and making a gesture at him, he immediately understood.

"This, this, this." Jiang Yang smiled bitterly with difficulty, "How can I help this?" ”

"You're her brother, you can definitely help, my brother won't help me, right?"

"What do you want me to help you?" He asked, almost casually.

"Tell me first, which class is she in?"

"It's a shame she's not in this school."

"Not at this school?"

"I said forget it." Jiang Yang replied, "She's still in her second year of junior high school." ”

"Which school?"

"Four."

Xiao Yu Lei nodded thoughtfully, and then said, "Yes." ”

"Okay?" Jiang Yang asked strangely, "What can be?" ”

"Your sister is beautiful."

"Oh! I know, you don't have to say that I know, you don't like my sister, do you? ”

"That's it."

Jiang Yang stopped talking, but Xiao Yu Lei still had something to say, "Brother is willing to help, in a word." ”

He hesitated, obviously he shouldn't have done the favor, but he replied, "Yes." ”

"Okay, you go over now, talk to your sister, and say that your classmates are coming, and want to see you."

"Xiao Ai, one of my classmates said he wanted to meet you." Jiang Yang returned to his sister and sat down, and said.

Xiao Ai blinked in confusion, turned his head and said, "What did you just say?" ”

"I have classmates who want to meet you."

Little Ai Dong looked west, "Where is it?" She asked.

"You wait." Jiang Yang raised his arm and beckoned to the door.

"Hello."

"Hello." Xiao Ai echoed the boy and smiled.

"Can you tell me what's your name?"

"Jiang Xiaoai."

"Jiang-Xiao-Ai," Xiao Yu Lei repeated, "Your name is very good." ”

Xiao Ai smiled politely, and then she raised her head and continued to watch the movie. However, the new friend clearly felt that there was still too much more to say to her.

"Jiang Xiaoai," Xiao Yu Lei bent down, put his two arms on his legs and shouted softly.

Xiao Ai turned around.

"I heard your brother say that you are in the fourth middle school."

"yes, yes."

"Second year of junior high school."

"Yes."

"How old are you this year?"

“16。”

Jiang Yang sat in the middle of the two talking. He heard that Xiao Yu Lei was trying to increase their intimacy with each other by chatting with his sister more, so he relied on that voice with an extremely ambiguous taste. He felt he should leave. "Let's go." Jiang Yang stood up. "What are you going to do?" Xiao Ai followed and asked him.

"Don't you do it." Jiang Yang replied, walked in front of Xiao Ai, and sat with Chen Yue. But in Xiao Ai's opinion, did her brother deliberately walk away because he wanted her to talk face-to-face with this newcomer? She looked at the face of the boy in front of her, so cute.

The movie on the screen has ended, and the cast is being shown. The students left their seats in turn. Jiang Yang sat beside Chen Yue, "Oh, the movie is over, why are you still crying?" He looked at Chen Yue in surprise and said.

Chen Yue stared blankly at the seat in front of her, tears still streaming down. "Okay, okay, Chen Yue." Jiang Yang patted him on the back, comforting, but did not forget to listen to the conversation next to him.

Xiao Yu Lei sat in the seat behind Jiang Yang's departure, and he asked Xiao Ai, "Are you willing to be friends with me?" ”

Little Ai pondered. If it were normal times, in the class, if a classmate asked her like this, she would not hesitate to say yes. But now it sounds strange and malicious on such an occasion.

"Okay." Xiao Ai replied.

"Yikes! Are you sure? Xiao Yu Lei happily chopped off the floor, "I guess you won't be so ruthless." ”

Xiao Ai smiled slightly. The boy continued to talk, and she agreed. It wasn't until Xiao Ai noticed movement on the left hand side that Chen Yue and her brother stood up. She quickly stood up as well. "The... It's time to go home. She said to the boy.

"yes, yes, the movie is over."

Jiang Yang and Chen Yue walked ahead, and the new boy still followed Xiao Ai. "Are you going to separate when you just become friends?" Xiao Yu Lei strode to catch up with Xiao Ai. "Can I talk to you a little longer?" As he descended the stairs, he caught up with Xiao Ai.

"I'm sorry, my brother, they're waiting for me."

"It's okay, just for a while."

Xiao Ai did not agree, and continued to walk down step by step.

Rejected by the girl, Xiao Yu Lei did not give up, he hurriedly went downstairs side by side with the girl. "Jiang Xiaoai," he shouted.

"What?"

"Did you watch that movie? Very touching. ”

"Well, very touching."

"Yes, yes, I share your opinion, and it's very touching indeed. So how did you come up with the idea of coming to our school to watch a movie, oh yes, how did I forget, it was your brother Jiang Yang who introduced you. Xiao Yu Lei paused and continued: "Do you know that your brother and I are both high school classmates and elementary school classmates? ”

"I don't know."

"It's really a coincidence, do you say it's a coincidence?"

"Oh, that's a coincidence."

"yes, it's not easy to meet your elementary school classmates in a high school."

"It's not easy."

"Your brother has been in a lot of trouble at school recently, and I helped him solve it, did he tell you?"

"No, what's the trouble?"

"A problem that he can't solve alone."

Xiao Yu Lei waited for her to continue his words, but she didn't. "Why are you going down the stairs so fast, slow down." Xiao Yu Lei urged. The girl did not listen to him, and he felt a little dissatisfied.

After going downstairs, Xiao Ai hurriedly walked through the hall of the teaching building and ran out. "Brother—brother." She shouted continuously. Xiao Yu Lei also ran with his legs spread and chased the girl on the main road of the campus.

"Why are you walking so fast?" Coming to the path where the bicycle was parked, Xiao Ai stared at his brother and Chen Yue sternly.

"I thought you still had something to talk about."

Xiao Yu Lei chased after him, "Are you leaving?" ”

Jiang Yang didn't answer, and neither did Chen Yue, they knew that Xiao Ai should answer. "Go home." Xiao Ai said calmly, and then sat down in Chen Yue's back seat. In the face of the girl's insistent refusal and avoidance, Xiao Yu Lei had already prepared himself for this. He hoped that she could at least say goodbye to him, but he was wrong, and it was Jiang Yang who said goodbye to him.

"I suppose you'll have time to come out tomorrow and Sunday, right?" Xiao Yu Lei chased after the two bicycles and asked Xiao Ai, who was sitting in the back seat.

"I'm afraid I don't have time."

"Then at least there will be time later."

The girl's face kept looking at the road ahead, and she never answered him again. The bicycle flew out of the school gate, and Xiao Yu Lei stopped and took a breath, "What a disappointment," he complained to himself.

On the way home, Xiao Ai finally breathed a sigh of relief, and she realized that the boy must be trying to please her, to get close to her. "Who's that man?" Xiao Ai asked.

"Classmates."

"Okay."

Jiang Yang braked slightly, side by side with his sister, "How is it?" He asked.

"How's that?"

"That classmate of mine."

Xiao Ai shook his head, "Not good." ”

"Haha," Jiang Yang smiled, "It's a good thing you didn't say that to his face." ”

"Cut—"

Passing by No. 4 Middle School, Jiangyang stopped the car. Chen Yue also stopped.

"I'll go see the time." Jiang Yang said, leaning his bicycle on the side of the road and running into the small shop on the side of the road. He asked the time, walked out, and waved at Chen Yue and his sister - "You guys go back first." ”。

"Where are you going, brother?" Xiao Ai asked.

Jiang Yang pushed the car to the crosswalk of the highway.

"He must be going to pick up Gu Ling." Chen Yue replied.

"I see." Xiao Ai came to his senses smartly, "Then let's go back first, shall we?" ”

Without her brother by her side and another bicycle by her side, Xiao Ai felt a little unnatural. Along the way, Chen Yue didn't talk to her, she remained silent, and so did him. Something suddenly occurred to her mind. The boy who had been chasing her in the school yard just now, and the boy's words and actions were already very obvious. Chen Yue stayed aside and didn't say a word.

"You're coming to my house in the afternoon, aren't you?" In the alley home, Chen Yue pushed the cart and asked.

"Well, the homework on Saturdays and Sundays hasn't been moved yet." Xiao Ai replied.

When the two walked to the door, Chen Yue said, "If you don't want to write, give me your homework and I'll write it for you." ”

"Ahh

"Okay."

Xiao Ai stood on the road, waiting for Chen Yue to push the car into the house. "Afternoon." She shouted.

"Hmm." Chen Yue stopped the car and walked outside the door, "If you have a lot of homework, you can come after eating at noon." ”

"Okay." Xiao Ai said with a smile. Then she leaned in and looked him deeply into his eyes, and she was a little flustered. She thought as his two skinny hands were now in front of her. After being chased by the strange boy, she couldn't help but try boldly, say what she didn't dare to say now, and complete the action that she didn't finish when she watched a movie in the classroom.

Facing Xiao Ai's gaze, Chen Yue took a step back shyly, "Then I'll go home." He said.

"Uh-huh, I'm home too." Xiao Ai said, but she still stood outside the door and watched him, watching his back disappear from the courtyard. Just when the figure was halfway gone, the figure suddenly froze. Chen Yue looked back, and as he expected, Xiao Ai was still standing there. At this time, the two stared at each other for a long time. He waited for her, and she waited for him. They're fighting the same way – waiting for you to go first. For two minutes, they all stood there dumbfounded. In the end, Chen Yue broke this struggle, and he returned to the door. Her heart beat as he approached her.

"Why are you still standing outside? Let's go back. Chen Yue said as she walked over.

"Thank you..."Xiao Ai paused, "Thank you for your concern!" She said aloud and ran away quickly. She quickly slipped into the house and said hello to her mother, who was sitting in the yard peeling soybeans. Walking into the bedroom, she jumped onto the edge of the bed, giggling happily, and a string of thoughts came to her mind. Although she was still disappointed that Chen Yue didn't mention why the strange boy was looking for her, she had put the unpleasant thing behind her. He remembered her request clearly. Now, she's sure he cares about her.