At the dinner table, Gu Ling explained to his parents that he had gone to the same school, and by the way, he hoped that he would like to go again in the afternoon. After a long discussion, her parents agreed to her. She was overjoyed.

After lunch, Gu Ling was reading on the desk in his room. After a while, she looked up and smiled shyly as she remembered the morning trip with her friends, especially the moments in the gazebo. She closed the book, completely unprepared to read it again. At that moment, the door opened, and my mother walked in, carrying a cake box. "I'll go to the same school in the afternoon and give this to her." Mother said.

"Huh? Still want to send something? ”

"For the Chinese New Year, it's not like you go to someone's house and don't send anything, just send something, but you must send it."

"Deliver a cake?"

"Yes, put it here." The mother put the cake box on the chair next to her daughter's bed and walked out of the room.

She didn't know what to do, such a big box of cakes was too hindering to going out in the afternoon. But she had to take it with her and leave the house. At two o'clock, she greeted her mother and went out smoothly. On the way to the intersection, she held the cake in her hands and looked at the beautifully packaged cardboard box. She thought it was a birthday cake entirely, and the more she looked at it, the more it looked like it had been sent by a relative.

"Oh! Sister Ling, what did you bring here? As soon as Xiao Ai saw Gu Ling, she hugged her hands and took the cake in her hand.

"For you." Gu Ling also hugged Xiao Ai and replied with a smile.

"Give it to us? Why? Xiao Ai asked again.

"New Year's Day, of course I want to give something to mean."

"Sister Ling, you are really thoughtful."

Xiao Ai held the cake high and carefully inspected the exquisite golden-green patterns on the cake box, it was the first time she had seen such a dazzling packaging box.

The boys didn't hide their curiosity and leaned their heads over.

"Put the cake in the car." Jiang Yang proposed.

"No, it's too big, you have to hold it in your hand." Xiao Ai shouted.

"Sister, I'm sorry for you." Jiang Yang continued, "Chen Yue, take the badminton down and let Gu Ling help you get it." ”

They followed the same route as in the morning, came to the gymnasium, entered the quiet yard, and parked the car aside.

"What about the cake?" After getting out of the car, Xiao Ai asked.

"No one thinks of stealing during the Chinese New Year, does they?" Gu Ling said.

"No, just put it in the back seat." Jiang Yang said. Everyone thinks so, but in fact, they are not sure that no one will take such a conspicuous lure.

In the afternoon, there were more people who came to play chess, all in their fifties. On the first floor, it looks more like a place for adults to relax. They took the stairs to the second floor and found the vacant space. Jiang Yang opened the zipper of the bag and took out the badminton racket, and suddenly remembered something and forgot it.

"Chen Yue, we forgot that we didn't buy a badminton racket, only one pair."

"Oops! I forgot about it, and I said I would buy another pair. Chen Yue slapped her head heavily and said.

Gu Ling answered, "Why don't you buy it now." ”

"Hmm." Jiang Yang handed Chen Yue a pair of rackets in his hand, and then said, "You guys play first, I'll go buy badminton." ”

"Let's go together."

"Yes, let's go together." Xiao Ai also said immediately.

"Okay, let's go out and buy it together."

They went to the nearest supermarket, and each of them paid for a new pair of badminton rackets and three balls, Jiang Yang took out two new ones and gave Chen Yue one. They ran back to the second floor of the gymnasium and played on the court with excitement, shouting and shouting all that was expressed in their voices was crazy joy. Eventually, they scurried around and became a doubles mode. For a long time, they didn't feel tired. In this cold winter, they took off their gloves and the girls untied their scarves. Everyone's whole body was hot. The pleasure of exercise is such a wonderful force that they lose track of time. When the girls were really out of breath, Xiao Ai waved the racket in his hand, "Oh - rest for a while, it's too hot." She said as she pulled the scarf off her shoulder.

"I'm going to rest too." Gu Ling also put down the racket and said.

The two girls walked to the window, opened the second-floor window, felt the coolness of the cold, and breathed heavily. And the boys followed their example and walked to the window next to them. When Xiao Ai felt that the wind was blowing a little cold, he raised his racket and pointed to the staircase, "Go to the third floor and have a good rest, there are chairs on it." ”

They walked up to the third-floor lounge area, found a long row of chairs, and sat down in order. I was finally able to take a good rest. Tired, they leaned back in their chairs with their heads half-open and breathed deeply. Gu Ling was the first to sit upright and looked at the furniture on the third floor. Strangely, there were only four of them in the entire room. There is also a row of benches opposite, and there is a log table and four stools in a little place inside. All that remains are the sketches on the walls and the two shelves plastered with leaflets standing in the doorway.

Gu Ling looked cautiously towards Jiang Yang. He was still leaning his head back, his eyes closed, as if sleeping. One hand rested calmly on his lap, and the other hand was placed behind Chen Yue's shoulder, who also closed his eyes. This twilight reminded her of the plot of which anime.

"Shhhh

"Shh Ai did the same, putting her finger to her lips.

"Xiao Ai, let's go buy a few bottles of water, shall we?" Gu Ling whispered.

"Okay." Xiao Ai agreed.

They put their scarves and badminton rackets aside and stood up cautiously.

"Let's go."

The two of them gently nodded to the ground and went downstairs. Out of the gate, they found pure water in the supermarket where they had bought badminton before. When they held the bottle of purified water in the palm of their hand, they immediately regretted that it was too cold to drink in winter.

"Oh! If you give them a drink, will it have a stomach problem? Gu Ling said.

"Let's put it back."

They put the pure water back in its place. I left the supermarket without buying anything. On the way back to the gymnasium, they talked about the boys again. It wasn't until they entered the gate of the gymnasium that Gu Ling accidentally saw the box of cakes given to them on the bicycle on the side of the road.

"Ah, Xiao Ai." Gu Ling stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"Can you eat in the lounge? I was thinking that I didn't get the water, so I might as well bring back something to eat. ”

"Yes."

"Then let's bring the cake."

Xiao Ai happily agreed, taking the cake from the bike. As they walked up the stairs on the third floor, they deliberately slowed down. The boys' eyes were still closed. Because of the comfort brought by the quiet, they even fell asleep.

"Tap." Xiao Ai put the cake box on the round table inside, and Gu Ling reminded.

"When are you going to call them over?" The two sat opposite each other, and Xiao Ai asked Gu Ling.

"In a moment."

After a while, Gu Ling looked at his watch. "Let's open the cake." She said to Xiao Ai.

The two of them unpacked the box.

"Wow!" Xiao Ai's eyes widened excitedly, looking at the various shapes and words made of cream, which were beautiful, and the cream was engraved with jam: Happy Birthday.

"Let's wake them up, Ai."

"yes, okay." Xiao Ai and Gu Ling walked up to the boys together. "Brother!" Xiao Ai shouted. "Brother!" She shouted again. Jiang Yang's eyelids moved slightly. Gu Ling gently patted Chen Yue's shoulder beside him, and Chen Yue woke up.

"Get up, Gu Ling is going to run away with someone else." Xiao Ai naughtily approached Jiang Yang's ear and said.

Jiang Yang suddenly opened his eyes, and his sister's face appeared in front of him. "Say what?" He exclaimed angrily.

Xiao Ai hurriedly ran to Gu Ling's side, "Look, as soon as he mentions you, he is in good spirits." She laughs.

Gu Ling looked at Jiang Yang, who had just woken up, and then hurriedly pulled Xiao Ai to the table and sat down.

"Come here, eat cake." Xiao Ai shouted. The two boys walked over puzzled.

"It's your birthday today?" Jiang Yang immediately asked.

"No, it's not."

"But this is undoubtedly a birthday cake."

"Who knows, it was sent by relatives during the Chinese New Year."

Xiao Ai hit Jiang Yang's arm with his arm, "Brother talks a lot, it doesn't matter if it's a birthday or not, just eat it." She interrupted her brother.

"Well, if you can eat it, you know how to eat it."

"Humph! I love to eat. ”

"Okay - eat and eat. Fat to death you. ”

Gu Ling and Chen Yue on the side couldn't help but laugh when they heard their awkward trouble. They tore the box of the cake into four and used it as a tray for the cake. Joy was triggered, and they cut the cake and feasted on it with joy, despite the little foam on their mouths. They forget all their worries and talk and laugh wildly. It looks like a family of brothers and sisters coming together to celebrate their long-lost reunion.

"Alright, finish eating." The cake was empty, Jiang Yang said.

"It's delicious." Xiao Ai screamed excitedly, completely undereating.

"Oh! Chen Yue, look at your mouth, there is too much cream. Gu Ling pointed to Chen Yue's mouth with one hand, covered his chest with the other, and laughed bursts of laughter.

"Really?" Chen Yue also looked at Gu Ling, and suddenly clutched her chest and laughed, "But look at you again, you are the same, you are more stained than me." ”

"Oops, brother, you're talking more."

"Oh, sister, look at you. Haha..."

"Haha..."

They looked at each other, laughing and crying, and at last they couldn't breathe, and they all laughed and bent over. Fortunately, the person in charge of the gymnasium came up and stopped them, telling them to be a little quieter.

After eating the cake, the four of them cleaned up the table. They took away what belonged to them from the chairs, and everyone went downstairs together. Gu Ling looked at the time and said that it was not early.

Sending Gu Ling to the intersection in front of the house, it was just after 5 o'clock, and it was not dark yet.

"I'll go back first." After Gu Ling got out of the car, he said goodbye to the three of them.

"Can you come out and play again?" Jiang Yang immediately stopped her and asked.

"Which day?"

"You say."

"Uh..."Gu Ling hesitated and said, "School is about to start, so let's rest more at home." ”

Jiang Yang wanted to continue to ask her, hoping to come out to play again before school started, but he thought about it and shouldn't disturb her, so he said, "Well, then let's have a good rest." ”

"What about you?"

"If you don't come out, I won't come out."

The two paused and waved at each other. Xiao Ai and Chen Yue also raised their arms to say goodbye to her.

In the morning, Jiang Yang was still in the bed, and the sound of his parents came from the yard. My father worked on the assembly line in a production plant, and today was the eighth day of the new year, and he just went to work. Soon after, my father finished breakfast and stepped on his bicycle and went out, "Slow down on the road." His mother's last advice woke Jiang Yang up, he opened his eyes and looked up at the sky outside the window, then looked at the alarm clock on the table, and turned his head to continue sleeping. Unexpectedly, my sister had already gotten up at this time and was talking to her mother in the kitchen. After returning to quiet, Xiao Ai stood outside his door and knocked on it. The door was unlocked, and there was a second knock, "Come in." ”

"Woke you up?" After my sister entered the door, she asked with concern.

"Nope."

Xiao Ai sat on his bed, his face sticking up from under the sheets, and he looked strangely at his sister. She was eating porridge with chopsticks in her hand.

"When will my brother get up?" Seeing that his brother looked over, Xiao Ai asked.

"Wait until dawn."

"Well, then I won't disturb your sleep." The younger sister stood up very obediently, but she wanted her brother to chat with her, so she was reluctant to leave, and sat back on the edge of the bed, closer to the head of her brother's bed.

Jiang Yang didn't mean to ask her to leave, "It's okay." He said, "You woke up so early." ”

"Well, I can't sleep."

"On such a cold day, you can't sleep, I remember you are very bed-ridden."

"I dreamed last night."

"Oh?!" This is a coincidence, Jiang Yang put the pillow up and rested his head on it. "I dreamed last night, too." He said in surprise.

"It's normal for brother and sister to be of the same mind. But dreaming is not a good thing, I didn't fall asleep at night and woke up very early in the morning. ”

"Well, you might be suffering from insomnia."

"Maybe yes, but I'm not sleepy now, I don't know why."

Jiang Yang turned away from this unanswered topic and asked, "What is Mom doing?" ”

"In the kitchen."

"Dad went to work?"

"Hmm."

Xiao Ai waited for his brother to continue to say something, but he didn't continue. "Brother?"

"Huh?"

"Shall we go to Chen Yue's house today?"

"It shouldn't be—you won't follow me to Chen Yue's house again today, right?" Jiang Yang asked with a smile.

Xiao Ai held the bottom of the bowl with her right hand holding chopsticks, and slapped the sheet with her left hand continuously.

"Don't fight, don't fight, go with you, it's not okay to go with you." As he spoke, Jiang Yang sat at the head of the bed with his waist propped up, no sleep.

"I just can't figure out some homework, I want him to teach me by the way, brother, don't get me wrong." Xiao Ai said seriously.

"Okay, huh? You reminded me that I seem to have homework too. ”

"Brother still does homework?"

"I'll have to see when I wake up."

"Then let's go to Chen Yue's house in the morning."

"When I get up, I'll go after eating."

My sister left with the dishes and chopsticks.

"Hello Auntie!" The brother and sister stood in front of the courtyard gate of Chen Yue's house and politely greeted their mother who came to open the door.

When the two entered the house, Chen Yue was still washing dishes in the kitchen, but he immediately noticed that they were coming, quickly washed the dishes under his hands, and ran to the living room.

The mother poured hot water for the two guests. "Thank you." Then the mother said a few words to the two of them, and went about her housework.

"Your dad also goes to work today?" As soon as her mother left, Jiang Yang asked Chen Yue.

"Yes, my mom is going to work soon, half past eight." Chen Yue replied. He stood beside Xiao Ai, flipping through a workbook she handed her. Xiao Ai immediately asked: "Chen Yue, I can't write a few questions here, you can teach me." ”

"Okay." Chen Yue agreed. Then they went into the study together. Jiang Yang followed behind, but Chen Yue's mother came over to stop him at this time and asked about his parents: What has your father been doing lately? What is your mom doing? Did you all go to work? He told his mother everything truthfully. He was talking with Chen Yue's mother in the living room, and Xiao Ai was sitting on Chen Yue's desk and chair at this time, and Chen Yue also moved a bench to sit on the side and teach her the topic. For the knowledge of junior high school, he can be regarded as a piece of cake, and any problem that Xiao Ai does not understand will be solved by him. Xiao Ai was very happy, Chen Yue asked her to write whatever she wanted, and she didn't hesitate.

"Chen Yue, I'm going to work." The mother opened the door and greeted her son.

"Well, mom stay safe."

Jiang Yang came in with the door opened by his mother. Seeing them sitting next to each other and discussing, it was clear that he was superfluous. He stood across the table and looked at them. Wait for them. There were so many more questions than he could have imagined, "Oh my God! Sister, didn't you tell me that my homework was finished? He said to Xiao Ai complainingly.

"I've written everything I can write, and the rest can't be written."

Jiang Yang took the world famous book that he had just finished reading the first page of the last time, walked to Chen Yue's bed and sat down, and continued to read. As he turned the page, he looked up at the two people sitting in front of him, and saw that their heads were almost touching.

After about an hour, Xiao Ai put down his pen and wanted to take a break. Jiang Yang immediately threw away the book and stood up. "Let's go play ball in the yard."

"Okay." The three of them left the room and happily played badminton in the courtyard.

During the winter vacation after that, Xiao Ai came to Chen Yue's house every morning and afternoon to ask Chen Yue to teach her homework. There were a few times when she didn't even invite her brother, and went to Chen Yue's house alone with her homework book. Chen Yue was very patient to help her answer any questions, and in less than a week, her winter vacation homework was easily completed.

"Thank you." After finishing the final question, Xiao Ai thanked happily.

"It's okay, isn't there anything else that won't?"

"No, it's all done!"

"That's good."

Xiao Ai stood up, took the homework in the palm of his hand, and asked, "What about you?" You've finished your homework, right? ”

"I've already written it, very few." Chen Yue said, looking for it from the books stacked on the table, "Look, that's all there is to it." Xiao Ai put down the homework in his hand and flipped up the homework book he handed over. That's not as much as yours. Chen Yue said with a wry smile.

"I really wish there was less homework, your school has always assigned so little homework?"

"I don't have any homework at all."

"Okay."

The two gave each other a look, dropped their homework, and ran to the yard to play.