Saturday arrived as scheduled, and Wang Yuxian, Fang Chengyu, and Song Yuan took a bus to the west of the city.

This book city Wang Yuxian came for the first time, and it was really more magnificent than any bookstore she had seen before. Song Yuan was familiar with this place, and when he entered, he ran to a corner covered with a blue-gray carpet, a small area dedicated to books that had been opened for customers to read for free.

Song Yuan picked out a stack of books and put them in front of them, saying that these were all books he had read and thought they were worth reading. Wang Yuxian and Fang Chengyun also sat down, and each opened a copy at random to read.

Song Yuan and Wang Yuxian looked at the book quietly, only Fang Chengyun was absent-minded, and there were many small movements, scribbling and writing for a while, and fanning the wind with a notebook for a while. In fact, the air conditioner was turned on in the room, and it was very cool, but he couldn't calm down.

Wang Yuxian looked funny, thinking that people who don't like to read are like this.

Of course, she couldn't concentrate 100%, Song Yuan, who was sitting opposite her, always distracted her, and she couldn't help but be a nymphomaniac.

Before I knew it, it was half past four, and Wang Yuxian said, "It's not early, let's go back to school." ”

"You go over there and wait for me for a while." Song Yuan said as he picked up his schoolbag, got up and walked towards the bookshelf.

Fang Chengyun also got up, and by the way, he pulled Wang Yuxian and said, "Let's go, I'll pour you a glass of juice to drink." ”

"Okay. But Song Yuan, does he want to buy books? ”

"Probably, let's go, let's finish drinking and go back to school quickly." He tugged her again.

Wang Yuxian followed him.

"Hey, how is it mango juice, forget it, you should drink it yourself." She said that she went back to the place just now to get her schoolbag, and she wanted to take advantage of Song Yuan's inattention and sneak a few glances at him.

"Eh, why are you in such trouble!" Like a reckless child, Fang Cheng rushed over and squatted down in front of her, handed over a glass of water and frowned: "Oh, boiled water, it's always okay, right?" ”

He always didn't pay much attention to the difference between men and women, squatting in front of her, just looking at her at such a close distance, and not ready to get up for a long time, which made Wang Yuxian feel uncomfortable, and pushed him hard without thinking about it, "Hey, stay away from me, don't let Song Yuan see the misunderstanding." ”

In an instant, boiling water splashed on his arm, and the skin did not blister, but only showed a hideous purple red.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, you wait, I'll find your second aunt right away."

"No, it's fine." He grabbed her and smiled reluctantly.

"Fang Carrier......" She looked at him and said with difficulty: "You know...... I only like Song Yuan alone. ”

"I know." His eyes were slightly red, but he didn't say anything else.

Maybe Fang Chengyun is not a person with a small belly, after that day, he still often interacts with her, and he still talks and laughs when he plays together, but when Song Yuan is present, he will pay attention to proportions and carefully keep an appropriate distance from her, this cautious appearance makes Wang Yuxian uneasy. She wished he was cold and detached from her, turning a blind eye to her, so that she might feel less guilty.

The days passed unhurriedly, and seeing that the college entrance examination was approaching, Wang Yuxian was under a lot of pressure, and she didn't have the heart to celebrate her birthday.

That night, as usual, after self-study, Fang Cheng came down to her and gave her a wooden box wrapped in lilac leather paper.

"Thank you, Fang Cheng." She didn't reach out to take the gift, but frowned slightly: "However, you make it very difficult for me to do this." ”

He looked calm and smiled like a child: "Okay, I know, you accept this time, and you won't give it away in the future, it's okay, right?" It's not worth a few dollars, you can take it with confidence. ”

"Words count!"

"Alright!" He asked again: "Which school are you going to apply for in the college entrance examination?" ”

This stalker, hey!

Wang Yuxian sighed silently, and still told the truth, but she didn't ask him back, and showed that she didn't care about him, as if only in this way could she make all this clean and decisive, without leaving a trace of cruelty.

The gift was kept in the closet by her, never opened, and forgotten over time.

In September, Wang Yuxian went to a university in Guangdong as she wished, and Song Yuan also went to Guangdong. In the eyes of outsiders, their relationship is similar to that of a couple, only the parties know that this "almost" relationship may last forever, or it may be suddenly broken at some point.

After going to college, she often inexplicably remembered Fang Chengyun who squatted in front of her with a glass of boiled water and looked at her, his flat head that could see his blue and white scalp, his straightforward smile after his carelessness, and his eyes that suddenly lit up in the dark corners of the playground.

During this period, Fang Chengcheng has been absent, and I heard that he went to BJ to study journalism and communication.

Wang Yuxian half-jokingly complained to Song Yuan: "Fang Chengyun really has no conscience, and he didn't even have a word of mouth when he went to BJ." ”

After countless times he nagged him, Song Yuan looked out the window and said quietly, "He, he's really a good person...... Yuxian, maybe there are some things that I should have told you earlier. ”

He talked about the past.

Fang Chengyun and Song Yuan met by chance in a physical education class in their first year of high school, because they were on the same level with each other's skills, they often met to compete, and soon became good partners on the court and good brothers in life.

The only time he turned his face was after a basketball game, Fang Chengcheng specially went to the subway entrance to buy two boxes of mineral water and came back, and distributed a bottle to each of the students who played ball. At that time, Song Yuan's face turned pale, and he secretly asked him why he went to the subway to buy it in the school commissary, and whether he deliberately wanted to embarrass him.

Fang Chengyun looked puzzled, but he still patiently explained, saying that he just sympathized with the stall owner and had no malicious intent.

Song Yuan's face softened slightly, and then he confessed that the stall owner was his father. Because of his illness, his father's IQ is incomparable with that of normal people, and he has irregular seizures, so he has no ability to make ends meet, and the family relies on the help of his grandparents and sister-in-law. Song Yuan hadn't seen his mother since he was sensible, and he didn't know where she was. As a result, he lived a humble life and had a stronger self-esteem than the average person.

Fang Chengyun didn't dare to blatantly buy a lot of water from Song Yuan's father, so he could only buy two or three bottles from time to time, and make a modest contribution.

Sometimes Fang Chengyun would also think, is it right to be so self-righteous as he wants to help Song Yuan? It wasn't until later that I noticed that Wang Yuxian was also a frequent visitor here, this unsmiling girl, every time she faced the stall owner's constant thanks, she always seemed cramped and uneasy, and she looked very interesting, and he remembered this girl for no reason.

Later, she tried to find out about her class, and heard that others were playing tricks on her, so she had to use this old trick to try to get her attention.

"I see." She smiled.

"Do you remember one time when we went to the book city in the west of the city, when the carrier was pulling and pulling at you in vain, and then my hand was burned."

"yes, yes."

"At that time, I was secretly stuffing a book into my bag...... I like to read, so Fang Chengyun asked me to go to his second aunt's book city to read, and every time I went, I would steal a book...... I don't have any money, and I've been doing the bastard thing of stealing chickens and dogs, and I didn't know until a long time ago that he and his second aunt had known about it for a long time, but they never said anything about it...... Every time I stole a copy, he had to pay it back for me afterwards, but he never mentioned it to me once, because he was afraid that it would embarrass me if he told me the truth. He was afraid that I would steal it somewhere else, so he repeatedly told me that if I wanted to read a book, I would just go to his second aunt to read it. Until that time, in order to stop you from witnessing me stealing books, he pulled and pulled at you, and finally burned his hand...... For the first time, I really hated what I had done. ”

"That's right...... I see. She found herself unable to laugh anymore.

She ran back to the dormitory, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets of the gifts he had given, and opened them with a slight tremble, the wooden box was filled with emerald green mineral water bottle caps, and counted carefully, there were 99 in total.

There was a note at the bottom of the box, and the familiar handwriting came into view: "Wang Yuxian, if I once made myself smart in order to protect someone's dignity, it was not only because he was my good friend, but also because he was the person you liked." ”

"These mineral waters are lucky mineral waters, it made me meet an ordinary and warm girl, so I kept them day by day. There are 198 bottle caps, half for you and half for me. Don't throw it away, haha! ”

"In the future, if you don't hate me, I'll go wherever you go. If I embarrass you, then I will automatically stay away from you...... You go south, and I go north. ”。

She looked at the words repeatedly, laughed, and cried again.