The cold in the north is really cold, and it seems to freeze everything in heaven and earth.

Summer walked slowly on the clean street with her head bowed to the wind, and the hat she wore had a circle of hair, which was swayed from side to side by the wind, and she didn't know where the wind came from, but she felt that the blow on her face hurt like a blade cutting meat.

Walking out of the villa area, the surroundings gradually became lively, and she was not sure if she had chased the person all the way here that night.

Reaching out to stop a taxi, after getting into the car, he found that his face was frozen, took off his glasses covered by white mist, rubbed his face and told the driver his destination.

The car drove for about 30 minutes before finally stopping in front of a first-floor store facing the street, and since there was no plaque, Summer wasn't sure if this was the place she was going.

"Can't be wrong, this is it." The driver said so.

Helpless, I can only pay to get off in the summer.

There were two blank sheets of paper pasted on the two glass doors, and when she got closer, it was an advertisement for recruiting food delivery people, and Summer exhaled softly, the driver didn't lie to her.

After going in to explain her intentions, several people in the house said that they didn't know the person she was looking for.

Summer's heart was half cold, and she was about to leave, when a man with a scruffy beard lying on a rocking chair said to her: "The station of XX Road has been withdrawn, you can go directly to the station of XX Square to find it, not far from here, and it is only 20 to take a taxi." ”

The site in XX Square is much larger than the previous store, the huge plaque is very eye-catching, there is a row of electric cars parked in front of the door, and people in work clothes are constantly coming in and out.

"You're applying for a rider?" A middle-aged man at the bar looked at Xia and asked suspiciously.

"No, do you have a person named Xia Xi here?" Summer rubbed the lenses and shook her head.

The man had seen the summer from head to toe again.

He didn't answer immediately, Xia Xi is mostly working here, that's right, Xia thought to himself, and his heartbeat accelerated.

Summer glanced around the room, and the other people in the room looked at her with all sorts of eyes.

Some people think that she is Xia Xi's girlfriend, and some people think that Xia Xi caused trouble, and the guests came to complain.

"Yes, right?" Summer turned her gaze to the man at the bar, who seemed to be a steward.

"Hmm...... Can I help you? Do you have any opinions about our riders? ”

"No, I'm his sister." Summer said eagerly.

"Sister?" He squinted his eyes at Summer, a look of disbelief.

"That kid has a sister?" A rider sitting by the window playing with his mobile phone walked over and said with some excitement.

"Yes, I didn't lie to you." In desperation, Summer took out his ID card.

The two took turns to take their ID cards and read them.

The man at the bar was suspicious: "They are all surnamed Xia, and they don't necessarily mean brothers and sisters." ”

The rider leaned on the bar and said, "We mingle every day, and I've never heard him say he has any sisters." ”

Summer took out her mobile phone to look through the previous photos of them, and the black and white photos were swiped in turn, and when she saw the photo of her and Cheng Ze in the cafeteria, Summer's hand stopped, and then continued to scroll down.

"Here's our picture." Show them in the summer, it was taken in Xia Xuan's college banquet 5 years ago, the two leaned against the fence of the balcony, with their backs to the blue sky and white clouds behind them, and they were competing with scissor hands.

"Like Xia Xuan." The man at the bar said.

"It's him, this was taken a few years ago, it looks so tender, why don't you call him directly?" The rider asked.

"I ...... I wanted to surprise him, but I didn't tell him and suddenly came to him. "Summer made up a reason, I can't say that my brother ran away from home.

"Huh, Christmas surprise?" This rider looked excited.

"Christmas is over." The man at the bar gave Summer back his phone and asked, "Your sister doesn't have his phone and doesn't know where he lives?" ”

"I can't get through to him, and the rider is busy, so I don't want to delay his work." Summer said.

"Then you can go straight to his house and find him." The man at the bar is still suspicious of Summer's identity.

"He moved, and San'er and I helped him move last week." The rider interjected, "I'll give you the address, but he's probably not home right now, so he's definitely out delivering food." ”

A hanging heart finally fell, and Summer followed him to the table in front of the window, and when Summer turned around, she saw that the man at the bar was still staring at her with suspicion, and she hurriedly turned her face away and sat down.

"That kid never mentioned his family, I asked him several times, but he refused to say, I thought he had no father and no mother." He opened a map, located a place, and showed it to Summer.

"Can you call me, if I can't find this community, or if I'm in the wrong place, I'll call you again." Summer said after writing down the address.

"Yes." The two then exchanged phone calls and added WeChat.

"Also, if he comes back here, please don't tell him, I've been here to look for him." Summer said pleadingly.

"Understood." He readily agreed, "There is a bus stop on the side of the square, take No. 101, about seven or eight stops, and you can get to the gate of the community." ”

The residential areas located on the map are not difficult to find, and each building is marked with a large building number.

Summer stepped out of the elevator and walked straight to the door of a house with a big Santa Claus on the door and a cardboard box full of empty beer bottles and empty cans.

She took a picture and sent it to the rider, and after receiving an affirmative answer, she sat at the door and waited for Xia Xi to come back.

There are four families on this floor, there are not many people at this time, the corridor is quiet and warm, and the summer takes off the down jacket and puts it under the buttocks.

Time passed minute by minute, long and difficult, and every time the elevator runs, it makes the summer tense nerves.

After being disappointed again and again, Summer looked at the time on his phone and comforted himself, "Noon is the busiest time, and he shouldn't come back." ”

During this period, Cheng Ze sent a few messages, asking her if she got up, if she had eaten, and had no intention of replying to him in the summer, just hoping that time would go faster.

She curled up in a ball, imagining how she would greet Xia Xi when she saw her later.

Second brother, long time no see.

It's too raw.

Second brother, why are you hiding here and living alone? Forgot me?

No, if questioned, he will run away as he did that night.

Summer sighed deeply, as if she had sighed all the bitterness and pain of the past few years.

The noon sun shone in and shone on the floor of the narrow corridor, and the summer eyelids gradually sank, and the head hung down on the knees, trying to make up for the sleepiness while forcibly staying awake, pricking up his ears to listen to any sounds that came from the building.

It wasn't until the elevator was running again that the half-asleep state was completely over.

It's not even past 1 o'clock, so it shouldn't be him.

The elevator continues to rise, and it is almost to this level.

Summer felt like the hairs on my body stood up, all my nerves were tense like strings, and my heart seemed to stop beating when the elevator stopped on this floor.

The door opened, and a man wearing a helmet and overalls walked out of the elevator, carrying a square insulated box with the logo of a food delivery app printed on the box.

He looked tired, half-lowered his eyes, and walked towards this side with loose steps, and only a few steps from his own door did he find a thin girl sitting in the doorway.

Summer looked straight at him with her knees in her hands, tears welling up in her eyes, like a lost child who had just found his parents, with joy and resentment.

Xia Xi looked at her for less than 3 seconds, then suddenly threw down the thermos box in his hand and turned around and fled.

Run again!

"Ahh

Xia Xi staggered a few steps to the elevator, clicked the down button with his index finger, and looked at Xia in a panic several times, the elevator rose slowly, seeing that Xia was about to catch up, Xia Xi gave up the elevator in a hurry, ran to the stairs, and stepped down two or three steps.

Xia chased down a few floors, but he didn't see Xia Xi's figure, and the footsteps were getting farther and farther away.

"You big bastard, don't you want to know if I'm doing well, if I've been bullied?"

"Bastard, big bad."

couldn't catch up with Xia Xi, Xia sat down on the steps, hugged the iron railing under the handrail and cried bitterly.

"I almost froze to death to find you."

"How can you leave me twice?"

"Woo-woo-"

A terrible cry echoed through the stairwell, stumbling on Xia Xi's steps.

The sadness in Summer's heart, Xia Xi doubled to receive, turned to look at the gray steps, sighed and slowly walked up, and when he returned to her again, his body was already trembling.

"I'm sorry." Xia Xi squatted down and hugged Xia, stroked her hair, and patted her back, "I'm sorry every day." ”

"Badass."

"I'm sorry."

"How can you do this to me?"

"I'm sorry."

"I miss you so much."

"I'm sorry."

The brother and sister hugged each other, and tears kept pouring out like a faucet that couldn't be turned off.

"Is it cold or not?" After the two calmed down, Xia Xi led Xia Xia into the house, "Come and lie down for a while." ”

There was a futon on the floor, and Summer got into it and looked around the house.

There is almost no furniture in the small one-bedroom room, a refrigerator and a low square table are all there is.

The kitchen trash can is full of instant noodle boxes, and there are several empty beer cans outside the trash can.

"You live here alone?"

"Hmm."

Xia Xi hung his coat on the hook at the door, and went to the kitchen to boil the water that was hot.

"Rented house?"

"My colleague has checked out, and there are a few months left, so I'll stay here for the time being."

After crying, Summer's mood is much better, and those resentments and sorrows seem to have been washed away by tears, and now all that remains is the joy of finding my brother.

There was no electric blanket under the mattress, but the more I lay down, the hotter it became, and when I reached out and touched it in summer, the floor was hot.

"It's geothermal." Xia Xi explained.

"Heating under the floor?" Summer asked.

"Yes." Looking at Xia's surprised expression, Xia Xi smiled lightly, "Is it okay to eat instant noodles at noon?" I'll take you to eat good in the evening. ”

"Okay." Summer yawned, and sleepiness returned.

Xia Xi sat beside her and looked at her face carefully, it was generally unchanged, but her eyes were different, between mature and immature, and there was a stubbornness.

"It's amazing to find this place."

Summer pouted angrily and said silently, "Bastard." ”

Xia Xi chuckled: "Are you sleepy?" ”

Summer shook his head busily: "Don't be sleepy." ”

Xia Xi said: "If you are sleepy, go to sleep, I won't leave." ”

"Really?"

"Really, I'm not leaving." Xia Xi's voice was lazy.

"Brother."

"Huh?"

"Come and sleep with me?"

At this time, the heat was almost whistling.

"I'll ......," Hatsuki pointed to the kitchen.

Unplug the power and the whistle stops immediately.

That "brother" softened Xia Xi's heart, and the missing family affection in the past few years suddenly poured into his body, warmer than the warm sun in winter.

He used all his strength to control himself and not let the tears flow again.