Xu Promise asked, "Third brother, is that a book, and what is its name?" ”

"Well, it's called Brilliant Thousand Suns. I can lend you the book if you want to read it. ”

Zhao Shengyuan said seriously: "Third brother, Mr. Qian Zhongshu said that men and women can't borrow books casually. ”

Promise to give him a blank look.

"Who taught you?" Zhao Hongru smiled helplessly.

"Our teacher said that."

"Okay, I'll tell you about it."

That day, Zhao Hongru took them around the entire campus, looking at the majestic beige school building, the standing stone statue of Confucius, the green grass of the football field, and the lover's bridge surrounded by willow trees and lake.

On the way home, Xu Promise said as if he remembered something: "Ah, that story hasn't been told yet, we have come for nothing." ”

When I went back to school, I still had this in mind.

She dreamed that Zhao Hongru was holding a thick book, sitting in front of the window and saying, "Promise, let's continue to tell the story of Mariam and Leila." ”

"Good! What happened to Tariq in the end, and is he dead? ”

"He's dead."

"What about Mariam and Leila?"

"Mariam is dead, Leila is dead, everyone is dead."

Promise woke up in fright.

Later, I dreamed that Zhao Hongru told her this story several times, his white face was still not smiling, and he was still wearing those two sets of clothes, but the ending of that story was different every time, sometimes he said that everyone was destroyed by the war, and sometimes he said that these people were lucky to survive.

She was very puzzled by this, it was just a story that had nothing to do with herself, why did it suddenly reach the point of worrying?

Until one morning, in a daze of sleep, the subconscious suddenly told herself clearly: what she was thinking about was not the character in the story, but the storyteller.

This strange thought really startled her.

Later, Zhao Shengyuan occasionally mentioned Zhao Hongru, and she felt inexplicably empty-hearted. Of course, this situation is relatively rare, Zhao Shengyuan mentioned more of the girls in their class, he said that there are many beautiful girls in their class, but only Yang Yuxi is the best-looking, and no one is as good-looking as her.

"If I told Grandma, you'd look better."

"Wow, you traitor!"

Xu Yue laughed, laughing a little embarrassed, the time when Zhao Shengyuan came to her with a bottle of counterfeit Oronaying in a fart, he looked enthusiastic, and made her mistakenly think that he was hinting at something.

It turned out that he was self-inflicted.

……

After the midterm exam, Zhao Shengyuan and Xu Yu went home together.

They moved two low wooden stools downstairs to blow the wind, and the weather was getting cooler, and any place was suitable for sitting and relaxing. If it was before, they would talk about something without a boundary, and just like that, they already feel very happy.

But this time, they didn't have a very pleasant chat, because Zhao Shengyuan suddenly asked her to go back to the bottle of Oronaying that she gave her before, saying that Yang Yuxi from their class was trying to buy this thing, and he wanted to take this opportunity to send a little heart.

"What is she doing here?"

"I'm going to use it for her mother, but I heard that she hasn't saved enough money, so she promised that you were the best person, and she would be willing to pay it back to me, right?"

Xu Yu couldn't hold back his laughter at the time: "No, this is what I used, and it's a fake, just give it to me, why are you embarrassed to take it to others." ”

"What a fake, it's real!" Zhao Shengyuan glanced at her: "If you don't want it, give it back to me, someone else wants it." ”

Xu Yu stood up with a smile, and immediately went back to take out the bottle of "good things" and sent it back to Zhao Shengyuan, "Hmph, the guy who is heavy on color and light on friends!" ”

She was really a little angry, thinking about their friendship since childhood, it is not as good as a good-looking Yang Yuxi? Of course, it is very likely that she is not angry, but just purely jealous of Yang Yuxi's beauty.

In order to give Zhao Shengyuan a game, she refused to play chess with him and ran to find Zhao Hongru herself. She convinced herself in her heart that Zhao Hongru was a very good big brother, and it was normal for her to look for him, and it was not too much.

When Zhao Hongru saw her, he asked, "Why didn't Shengyuan come?" ”

"We had a fight." She said matter-of-factly.

He laughed, "What a stupid boy." ”

That autumn afternoon, they sat opposite each other on the grass, and Zhao Hongru finally told her the plot of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" completely, and the closer to the end of the story, the less important the ending seemed to become. But she sat quietly beside him, and listened to him speak in a clear, clean voice, that some had died, some had survived, that grief and hesitation were still haunting, and yet that they had regained their happiness in a state of gratitude.

"That's the end of the story." Zhao Hongru looked at her with his eyes and said softly.

A gust of wind swept through their hair, and Promise's face was like a ripe red apple, hot as ever.

As twilight approached, Zhao Hongru accompanied her all the way to the bus stop, slowly moving forward one after the other, just like the summer night on the last day of cram school. Zhao Hongru sent her to the car, and before the car came, he said to her: "Promise, after the story is told, don't worry about it in the future, and study with peace of mind." ”

"Can I still look for you?"

He replied tactfully: "You're just a child, it's not safe to come here." ”

"Are there a lot of bad guys in college?"

"Well, a lot." He said half jokingly, half seriously.

"I'm a freshman in high school this year, third brother." She noticed that her throat was choking.

"You're just a kid." He gently nudged her back, forcing her to keep moving forward.

Promise to get in the car alone, I don't know if it's a delusion, she seems to hear Zhao Hongru say in an inaudible voice behind her: "You're just a child, I shouldn't have other thoughts about you." ”

She went home dejected.

After dinner, Zhao Shengyuan came to the door as if nothing happened, and promised to deliberately turn his back to him and said, "The guy who is heavy on color and light on friends, what are you still looking for me to do!" ”

"Now, I'll give this thing back to you." He shoved a bottle of Oronain back into her hand and said, "It's not kind to take it." ”

"You're going to go back later, you're going to be back later, and I'll be a monkey." I don't want it, take it back, take it back. ”

"Then don't tell me, you go to the third brother!"

"What?"

"Eh, do you think the third brother is interesting to you? Otherwise, how can I be willing to give you such a good thing, I really didn't lie to you, this is a Hong Kong product! ”

"The third brother is really rich." Because of her astonishment, she coldly burst out with an irrelevant sentence.

"Where, the third brother's family is not very good, he doesn't have much money, I heard that this bottle of small things costs most of his savings."

"Then how do you take all the credit for yourself?" Xu Yu wanted to scold Zhao Shengyuan, but found that his tongue trembled a little.

"Hey, it's actually the third brother who won't let me say it." Zhao Shengyuan said with a little confusion on his face: "The third brother said, I can't let you know, he said, you are just a child." ”