In 2013

I showed up on the basketball court at six o'clock the next day, our school basketball court was quite large, and the boys were all T-shirts and sweatpants, and I still found Yixu in just a few seconds. I sat down on the steps closest to him playing, and there were a lot of girls there. I used to envy two kinds of girls, the first was waiting for boys in front of the dormitory, and the other was waiting for boys on the side of the court. I finally became one of the people I once envied.

They should have started for a while, and everyone was sweating on their heads. I also watched intently, watching Yi continue to run, take the ball, pass, and throw a few goals. He didn't look this way, and there were girls on the sidelines calling for their sweethearts, cheering. I didn't dare.

Going into halftime, the boys were coming this way. Yi Xu also saw me, he only waved at me and smiled, and continued to dribble and throw the ball alone. Like other girls, I brought a drink. I screamed softly, he didn't hear it, I zoomed up a little more, he caught the ball and looked at me, I held the drink high, he shook his head and said no, and started to dribble and pitch again. After a while, the field started again,

Yi Xu's physical strength is very good, everyone is the only one who did not have a halftime, and his speed and hitting rate are no worse than others. Finally, the game was over, and Yi Xu stood under the basket and waved at me.

"Give me your hand!" He said.

I put my hand out.

"Palm up." He said.

He placed his right hand on top of my palm, rubbed his thumb and forefinger, and a few pieces fell on my hand.

"Is this salt?" I asked in amazement.

"Yes." As if telling a secret, he said mysteriously, "If I keep sweating a lot, I will turn into salt." ”

"You said you were going to give me something yesterday, and you ...... Is this it? ”

"Well, I found out that I have this special ability in elementary school, have you seen anyone else?"

I think this person's thinking is amazing, is it from the same world as me? How many lifetimes do I have to live before I can think of squeezing something out of my finger and giving it to someone else?

"Nope." I shook my head like a rattle, "You didn't even take a break at halftime for this?" ”

"yes!"

"Well, I'...... What should I do...... Eat it now or ...... Bring it back to my mom to stir-fry? ”

He laughed helplessly and slapped my palm. I sighed in annoyance, and then looked at my palm, the salt seemed to be gone, and I looked carefully again, it was really gone!

"What are you doing?" I said anxiously, "I can find a way to save it if I don't eat it!" ”

He was stunned for about five seconds before he cautiously said, "How dirty! ”

I pouted, "This is the first thing you gave me, and I can keep it without eating it!" ”

He looked at me in a daze: "This ...... How do you save this? ”

"Time is too short, I haven't thought of a way yet!"

"Isn't that just right? I solved the problem for you! ”

I was annoyed and said, "This shouldn't be solved this way!" It shouldn't be such a violent way! ”

"I'm giving salt...... You...... When I spoke quietly, others thought I was beating a new adult woman! ”

I was so amused by him that I wanted to laugh, but I was disappointed and said, "You have to make it up to me!" ”

"Okay, how do you compensate?"

"I also want to know if I can rub out the salt, you can find a few hours to exercise with me, I'll try it too."

I had already calculated in my heart, I thought that I must rub out the salt, if I could rub the salt, then I would be the only person Yi Xu knew who could also rub the salt, and the only person who could share this special function with him. It will also become a "common language" for us.

"That's fine!" He readily agreed, "On Friday night, if you have pain after exercising, you can lie down at home and rest directly on the weekend." ”

"It's decided!" I almost stuck out my little thumb to hook him, but I was still embarrassed and took it back.

"It's settled." He smiled and wiped his sweaty face and walked towards the faucet in front of the cafeteria.

I started Thursday and forced myself to eat foods high in salt and drink less water. If you want to make salt between your fingers, it is necessary to have salt in your body, and you must have more salt than the average person, so that you can do things that others can't. Before I met Yi Xu on Friday, I swallowed three spoonfuls of salt raw and swallowed a little bit of water.

I don't do any other sports, so I can only run with me. After running less than 400 meters, he said you were already sweating a lot. I said no, I had to get 800 meters in school exams, and I never had salt in the past. to almost 900 meters, Yi Xu said that it was okay, and the amount of exercise for girls was enough. I said no, I'm not an ordinary girl, I'm a country girl, and this amount of exercise is not enough. When I ran to 1000 meters, Yi Xu said stop and let's try, and I did feel a little exhausted, so I gasped and slowed down.

I kept rubbing my thumb and forefinger, but the temperature was getting higher and higher at the fingertips, and there was no salt at all. I gritted my teeth and ran another fifty meters, tried again, and it still didn't work. I was about to run another 100 meters, but I was stopped by Yi Xu.

"I'll help you." He said.

Then he grabbed my index finger and rubbed my finger with his thumb and forefinger, and soon I could feel tiny grains of salt coming out. Because it was night, there was only the light of the street lamp, and such a small grain of salt could not be seen if you didn't look closely.

I looked at him angrily.

"You're stupid! That's coming out of your own fingers! ”

He knew that his trick had been exposed, and he laughed humbly: "You have discovered this!" ”

I muttered in disappointment, "Looks like I'm like everyone else, I can't get salt!" ”

"It's great that you have this kind of awareness, I thought you were going to run again! I'm tired! ”

"Don't run away. I don't care anymore! I turned my head and said.

"Are you really angry?"

"No, I'm happy."

"Happy? What's the pleasure? ”

I laughed, and the more I laughed, the more I couldn't help it, and finally I had to hold my face: "You just ...... Our first time that ...... Skin-to-skin kiss! ”

I heard him laugh faintly across from him. When I finished running, my body temperature was already rising, and my face was even hotter by talking nonsense. Although the street lights around me were dimly lit, I was still afraid that he would see him blushing, so I could only say, "Can you help me bring the water in my backpack?" ”

I saw him turn and run away between my fingers, and gradually became just a dark shadow. I hurriedly fanned my face with both hands, hoping that the temperature would drop as quickly as possible. Yi Xu needed to cross the entire football field to get our bag, and by the time he returned, I had calmed down a bit. He brought both of our bags. My throat was already burning like fire, so I quickly ripped open my bag, took out a bottle of water, unscrewed it as fast as I could, and drank it with a gurgling voice. I drank half of the bottle in one go, took a breath, and said to Yi Xu: "I also bought you water, you take it yourself!" After saying that, he began to drink again.

When I finished drinking a whole bottle of mineral water, I found Yi Xu grabbing a bag of salt and looking at me. It was the salt I bought when I bought water, and I ate a few spoonfuls raw in order to get enough salt in my body.

What Yi Xu is holding in his hand is the rest. I'm going to take it back and cook it for my mother.

"You're not going to eat raw salt, are you?" He asked me suspiciously.

My face turned red again, my lips moved, and I didn't know what to say, just laughing awkwardly.

"Smashing cups, climbing iron gates, and eating salt, you are really unusual!" He rummaged through my bag incredulously: "Only this one, right?" How much salt did you eat? ”

"Just three spoonfuls!" I showed him the spoon in my bag, "Look, it's such a small spoon." ”

"So small?" His eyes widened: "How long will it take you to get home by car?" ”

"Two hours."

He tossed the salt and spoon back into my bag. I grabbed two bags with one hand and grabbed my arm with the other.

"Let's go to the school building." He said.

I was obediently dragged away by him, it had been dark for a long time, and my heart was bright. Although it's not a hand, there is no "skin kiss", but I'm not so fond of hooliganism, Yi Xu can grab my arm and walk such a long way, and only let go in front of the teaching building, I'm already quite grateful to Dade. He chose the nearest school building, the first floor, and the classroom at the end of the toilet. I sat in a chair and he sat at the table in the front row. He took out the bottle of mineral water I had bought for him in my bag, and took out four bottles from his own bag. One bottle was placed in front of me, and the remaining four bottles were placed in front of me.

"You've got to finish these four bottles." He said.

I think he's making a bit of a fuss, but he's also unusually happy. First, he also prepared mineral water for me. And he prepared four bottles, I only prepared two, and he was more thoughtful than me. Second, he took water from my bag smoothly and didn't think of himself as an outsider at all. Third, he felt a little sorry for me.

But four bottles is a bit much.

"How big is my belly? There's so much water, can't it? I said.

He patiently said, "It's not all at once." You've had a bottle before, and you'll go to the toilet later. Then drink another half bottle, go to the toilet, drink another half bottle, go to the toilet again......"

"What did you say?" I asked him with a grin.

"You've eaten so much salt, you have to find a way to get it out, so you have to drink water."

"Not this! You want me to go to the toilet? I asked happily, unable to contain the joy in my heart.

He flashed his eyes and said, "What's wrong with asking you to go to the bathroom?" ”

"You're urging me to go to the toilet now?" I'd like to be sure again.

"Is there something wrong?" He asked, puzzled.

"Hah!" I slapped the table excitedly, took out my mobile phone from my clothes pocket, and dialed Zhang Hengli's number.

"I'm already very familiar with Yi Xu, he urged me to go to the toilet, did you hear it, go on! Toilet! Place! ”

"Hey." The voice of a middle-aged man came from the earpiece, and when I looked at my phone, it said "Teacher Zhang".

The head teacher of the class.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, I made the wrong call."

"Oh, it's okay, then you go to the bathroom."

"Have a great weekend!" I hung up the phone in a cold sweat.

"You go up too...... Happy going to the toilet. ”

I lay on the table with a flushed face: "Oh no, I made a mistake in front of our homeroom teacher again. ”

"At most, your teacher just smiles like me, it's fine." He laughs.

I explained, "You don't know, since I came to Changsha in the second grade of primary school, I have maintained a very stable exposure, and no teacher has ever noticed me. I was rarely asked questions in class, my studies were stable and average, I was not praised or criticized, I was not outstanding and not the ugliest, I was not eye-catching, and every time I graduated, half of my classmates and teachers did not know that I had existed in this class! But I'm only halfway through this semester, and I've been noticed three times by our homeroom teacher! Once on the first day of school, I was stopped by him after the class meeting, and he told me that as a liberal arts student, I hung up "Marxist Philosophy", which opened up a precedent since the establishment of the department! The second time it was...... It is...... When I was studying "Song of Milan", I had insomnia one night, and I didn't fall asleep until dawn, and I was late when I opened my eyes, so I went to class without folding the quilt. If you don't die, you will be spot-checked, and this class will deduct five points because of my quilt. Teacher Zhang asked why I didn't fold it, and I lied as soon as I was dizzy and said that I had dried the quilt that day, and I just received it and didn't have time to fold it for inspection. Teacher Zhang said that it didn't rain for a day? Today's call is the third time, look at what I said, how embarrassing! But this time it's definitely not my fault, if you want to blame Zhang Hengli, you can only blame Zhang Hengli's bastard, what's wrong with the surname, but the surname is Zhang! It's next to each other in my phone's address book! ”

"There's no shame in that!" He comforted me and said, "It's a little rude at best." If you put an A in front of the name of the person you often contact, they will automatically be ranked first, so that it is easy to find and avoid accidents like today. ”

A warmth hit my heart, and I counted them quickly on my fingers: "I probably only have 15 numbers in my phone, and 5 of them are important." It doesn't seem to make much sense. However, the two surnamed Zhang and Teacher Zhang must be separated! ”

I added the word "Wang Ba" in front of the names of Zhang Hengli and Zhang Yi.

I was pressing my phone, and Yi Xu suddenly began to imitate me: "I am already very familiar with Yi Xu, he urged me to go to the toilet, did you hear it, go to the toilet!" After imitating him, he switched to the normal painting style: "What is the logic in this?" ”

I was amused by him and replied to him: "Zhang Hengli has a problem, he doesn't go to the toilet when he plays games, because he was in the hospital last year, and I sometimes remind him to go to the toilet." I can only say this to him, because I am the most familiar person, and we are friends in the third year of junior high school. I think being able to say this kind of thing is a label between people who know each other very well! This is much more useful than eating and watching movies together, and it seems to have shortened the distance by three years all at once! ”

"I thought we were only a year apart! I didn't expect more than three years. Yi Xu joked.

"Don't listen to Zhang Hengli."

"I'm kidding."

I asked worriedly: "You say, will we really need a year to become mature as Zhang Hengli said?" ”

"So what?"

I can't tell if it's calm or if it's not my business: "What if you don't get acquainted with it for a year?" He asked me, "What do you think will happen?" ”

I picked at the edge of my desk worriedly.

"Will it ...... Break up? ”。

I felt a little pain in my heart when I asked like that. Probably the harder it is to get, the more afraid it is to lose!

"So in a year I might get a text message: I'm going to break up with you because we don't know each other well?"

"I can't." I said, "I'm afraid of you......"

"That's definitely not a reason for me to break up." He said, "You know that children usually start talking when they are about one year old, right? But some children are relatively early, seven months old, and some are quite late, two years old, you can't just because he speaks later than others, and you won't teach him to speak when the time comes, right? Are there ever children who have heard late talk smarter? ”

"Yes." I say.

His voice was as good as the English poem he read that day.

"Everyone is different, there is no need to follow other people's rules, we will have our own pace."

"But I'm afraid that if it goes on like this, you won't want to see me in less than two months." As I said this, I became more and more nervous.

"No...... Yes, yes. ”

"Thank you for answering so hesitantly." I said disappointedly.

Zhang Hengli said that people's usual self-confidence is 1, and when facing someone they like, it is easy to become 0.5. My usual self-confidence is 0.5, and when facing Yi Xu, my self-confidence is like a roller coaster, 1 for a while, 0 for a while.

Yi Xu leaned forward, reached over and patted my arm carefully, and said, "We are not mentally retarded, it may not take 365 days to become familiar, at most 300 days!" ”

I couldn't laugh or cry, and became a little bolder: "Can you tell me why you accepted me?" ”

"Because ......," he said, looking at the desk in front of me, "you like to smash glass so much, if you don't try to stop you, the school windows will be ruined." I'm thinking about public property. ”

I rolled my eyes, eager to rip all the hair off my head. He didn't seem to be able to go in and have a serious conversation, so I had to guide him step by step.

"Do you have a deceased first girlfriend who looks like me?"

"Nope."

"Is there anyone you have lost or never liked that looks like me?"

"Nope."

"Do you have ......?"

"How many Korean dramas have you watched?"

I shook my head and said, "It doesn't necessarily look alike, is there a similar face shape or walking style?" ”

"Nope."

I grabbed the index finger of my left hand with my right hand and asked, "Have you ever made a bet with anyone that you will win with me?" ”

"No, is this a Hong Kong drama?"

I didn't give up: "Are you using me, escaping from who provokes or irritates whom?" ”

"Thai drama!" He said mischievously.

"Then are you just being with me because you have a good heart and pity me?"

"I don't throw money at beggars on the road, how can I throw myself in it because I pity you?"

"There is another possibility!"

"Tell me about it."

I finally looked up and looked him in the eye and asked, "You didn't promise to be with me to celebrate Kaka's birthday and give him good fortune, would you?" ”

"Kaka's birthday?" He asked in surprise, "When is Kaka's birthday?" ”

"April 22nd, the day we went to Zhong Pei's house!"

He was stunned for a long time: "Such a coincidence? But ......"

He spread both arms on his desk, his arms long, sun-kissed wheat-colored skin.

"Boys chasing the ball is different from girls chasing stars!" He said.

"How is it different?"

"We focus on the whole club, not any one person," he said, "such as the establishment of the club, history, honors, records, fixtures, rankings, points, goals and tactics, etc., and when we pay attention to individual players, it is generally like, for example, if the main player is injured, who will be replaced by the coach, will there be any changes in the lineup, who will leave and who will come in at the end of a season, which position we need players with any skills, etc." As for the player's birthday, Captain Maldini, he has been in AC Milan for the past nine years I have been watching the game, and he has always been the captain, I don't even know his birthday! ”

"Nine years?" My heart chuckled, as if someone had struck the bell in my heart: "What year was that?" In what year did you start watching football? ”

"You're not good at math, are you?" He laughed and teased me.

"I didn't get good grades." I'll be honest.

"Ninety-eight years."

"Oh!" I lost my soul and said, "It's only been two months and nine years." ”

"What?"

"Nothing." I suddenly came back to my senses: "No! What's there! I lied to you! Ah! I patted myself on the head and said in annoyance.

He reached out and grabbed my wrist and said, "Don't worry, don't worry! ”

I looked at him gratefully, straightened out my thoughts, and said, "I'm not a native of Changsha, this is not my hometown, my father moved to our family in '96." I didn't mean to lie just now, it was because ...... One of the worst things in my life happened in my hometown. When I was a child, I told two people, one was a third-grade tablemate and the other was a fourth-grade tablemate, but then I found out that they both complained to other classmates that I told people that story when I saw them, and they were annoyed! Actually, I didn't really tell the third person, they were my table mates and my best friends at the time, I thought I told the most important thing in my heart to the closest people, but I was wrong, and then I had a big psychological barrier to telling that story, but fortunately I was reunited with a fellow countryman. “

"Zhang Hengli?"

"It's not. Zhang Hengli is a native of Changsha. ”

"You don't talk to Zhang Hengli either?"

"Zhang Hengli probably knows what's going on, but we don't discuss it in front of him. I'm afraid that he won't be able to empathize with him, and I'm even more afraid that he will empathize with him and feel more sorrowful, he is as simple as a lack of tendons in his head, and he doesn't want to toss him. ”

"Zhang Hengli also knows your fellow countryman?"

"I met Zhang Hengli because of her, and I reunited with her because of Zhang Hengli. They were classmates in primary school, and their relationship was better than that between me and Zhang Hengli. She's a girl. She is more stubborn and refuses to see you for the time being, she has never been interested in making new friends, and hopes that you will understand. Except for me and Zhang Hengli, she didn't have a third friend. ”

It doesn't matter, I understand. He said softly, "I'm not used to making friends with girls. ”

I nodded reassuringly.

"As a child, I learned that the worst stories should be told to the right people at the best time." I raised my right hand: "I swear you must be the right person, but now is not the best time, I hope that when I tell you, the atmosphere is not awkward, cold, and sour." I'm afraid that you won't understand my feelings, and that you feel pressured and responsible to pretend to understand, which would be too ...... I don't know how to explain my appeal, not to share, because it's not a good thing; Nor is it a burden, because if it's pain, why should I bring it to you? I need time, wait until I know you well, and then I will tell you at a time full of confidence. May I? I'll tell you, I swear! ”

"Yes."

I was afraid that he would be unhappy, so I asked, "Do you have any secrets that you don't want to talk about or talk about, tell me now, for the sake of fairness?" ”

He thought for a moment and said, "I grew up in a single-parent family, and it was just me and my mother. ”

"Okay!"

I don't sound like it, he's so sunny, so healthy, and he looks much more complete than my parents. I still pretended to be cheerful and said, "I don't want to ask any questions about your dad." ”

He scraped his chin with the knuckle of his left thumb and said lightly, "It's not that I don't want to say it, I don't know anything about my dad." I don't remember him much, and my mom never mentioned it, all I know is that they divorced a long time ago and never met him. The only time I remember telling my mom when he was in kindergarten was when the teacher taught us what dad was and what mom was, and she said dad was mom's husband and another adult in the family. When I came home from school, I asked my mother, where is your husband? My mom said she was gone. Where did I ask? My mom said, "Why are you asking this?" I said that I was afraid that he would come back suddenly, and there would be many adults in the house suddenly, so annoying! My mother said that I can't bring people home in the future? I said only with children! ”

I listened to the mixed tastes and wanted to laugh, because he had such a character at a young age; But it's very sad, if it weren't for a single-parent family, his personality might be different, and he should be much more naïve, like me and Zhang Hengli. Most of the precocious maturity is a last resort, such as Zhang Yi.

I gave him an Ok gesture. He smiled, glancing at me from time to time, a little deeper than ever. He was willing to exchange things that he did not want to say, and it was such a private matter, that he believed my explanations, forgave me for my delays, and had no reservations about me. I immediately felt that he was right, we have our own rules that are different from others, and the first conversation of other lovers may start with "favorite colors", "favorite movies", "things I want to do with you", and we start with "I can't tell you stories".

How lucky I am that it is not a bet to fall in love with someone before I really know them, and he can agree with me to keep my story, and not think that I am hypocritical, and that I am not out of sight, which is really comparable to the luck of winning the big lottery for me. His charm exceeded my expectations, but what about his feelings for me?

"We seem to be off topic." I pulled the topic back: "Do you remember the first time we met?" ”

"Yes." He looked at me as he spoke.

"Do you remember that MP3?"

"Yes."

"Do you know that I was in Zhong Pei's dormitory that day, and I was there when you were reading poetry?"

"Yes."

"Lie!" I put my two arms across the table, "Then how can you not remember Zhang Hengli?"

He also put his arms across the table, and we held each other fairly.

"I remember him." He said.

"Do you remember him?"

"You bought him cookies and drinks on the night of the MP3, and he went to check out as soon as you left, probably looking for you. On the day of Zhong Pei's dormitory, after I entered the door, you retreated to the corner. ”

A warm current surged through my heart: "Then why did you say you don't remember?" ”

He said reasonably: "He hit me and almost trampled you to the ground!" ”

I couldn't help but laugh. These questions can be summed up in what he means that he likes me too, right? Laughing intoxicated, he asked me, "Don't you go to the toilet yet?" ”