At the beginning of the seventeen-year-old, Lin Xi ushered in a nightmare, and this nightmare has been with her ever since.

The day I remember was still summer in the city.

She fell asleep because she relied too much on sleeping pills, and her grandmother tried to stop her medicine for a day because she was worried.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but she didn't take medicine that day, and it was really difficult for her to sleep.

She closed the window when she went to bed, and she didn't wear hearing aids, but the sound of cicadas outside the window still made her eardrums hurt. The air conditioner was also working, but she still felt hot and dry, as if hundreds of small insects were gnawing at her bones, causing her to toss and turn to her side, restless.

She didn't dare to turn on the light, for fear that her grandparents would see the light through the crack in the door and worry about her.

She kept her eyes open until two o'clock in the morning, and she couldn't sleep, so she pulled out her phone from under the pillow. She tried to watch some boring and lengthy documentaries and TV series, and for the past hour, she was still in good spirits.

When she opened the WeChat page, she wanted to send a message to her brother, but she thought that her brother couldn't reply, so she gave up the idea. The fingers slid down in boredom and stopped in front of Cheng Si's dialog box. Then he continued to slide down, pausing again as his fingertips brushed over another familiar dialog.

This time the stay was a little long, and the balance in my heart swayed from side to side, tilting repeatedly. In the end, reason fought a losing battle, and she couldn't tell what emotions were at work at that time, forcing her to click into the chat box with Qin Yu.

The content of the last chat between the two is still in front of me, that is, he said that he was out of town this weekend and could not come back. But on Monday, I would pick her up from school on time and bring her back a famous local snack.

Here's how she said yes, and he told him to rest early. That's the end of the chat.

Taking a deep breath, she tapped in the chat box, just a simple sentence, I don't know how many times she deleted it back and forth before sending it out.

"Third brother, when will you return to Beijing tomorrow?"

She didn't expect him to reply immediately, but she was going to wait for him.

Anyway, she was destined to not be able to sleep tonight, she had time.

She remembers very well that she quit WeChat and was about to look at a few words, when the notification bar at the top suddenly popped up with a WeChat message.

At this time, it was just two minutes after she sent the message.

At that time, it was 3:10 a.m.

Third brother: "Landing at about 12 o'clock at noon tomorrow." Can't sleep now? ”

He didn't ask himself why he hadn't slept yet, and he didn't preach.

She stared at the sentence for a long time before replying truthfully.

"Did the third brother wake up by me?"

"A message can disturb me with something. I haven't slept yet. ”

"Are you busy with work?"

"Hmm."

Seeing this word, she continued typing in the dialog box, wanting to end the chat quickly and not disturb him.

But he typed faster, and dared to send it before her: "Is it a convenient call?" ”

She was stunned, "Is there something important to say?" ”

"It's not. Mostly want to hear your voice. ”

"......" she replied with an ellipsis, what she was most nervous about at that time was that when Qin Yu asked herself to speak, she had never been so nervous about the exam.

Third brother: "I haven't seen you for almost two days, don't you want to hear my voice?" ”

As soon as his words jumped out, her heartbeat missed a beat, and then there was a "bang" and a heavy blow.

Her fingers were hovering over the keyboard, and she didn't know which letter to touch for a moment.

After a long pause, she replied, "Yes." ”

One word, it took five minutes.

During the whole process, Qin Yu did not urge, nor did he send other messages to change the topic. He seemed to be particularly persistent in her answers.

Two seconds after the message was sent, "Go wear your hearing aids." ”

The moment she saw these words, she got up from the bed and reached for the hearing aids on the bedside table with the help of the light of her mobile phone.

She admits that she was a bit of a scramble at the time.

It seemed that the hearing aids could not be worn well, and she nervously adjusted them repeatedly. When she was ready, she didn't dare to lie back and sat on the edge of the bed waiting for his call.

Time passed minute by minute, she had never looked forward to a phone call so much, and even wondered why he hadn't called yet, silently urging over and over again.

It was also the first time she discovered that she was such an impatient person.

While spitting, she still wanted to urge him to come in quickly.

Fortunately, he didn't let himself wait too long.

When the phone interface jumped out, she subconsciously wanted to order, but she was afraid that she was too impatient, so she deliberately waited for a while before pressing answer.

She remembered as if it were eighteen seconds, and she had been counting silently.

"Lin Xi, can you hear clearly?"

The familiar voice came to her ears with the faint sound of electricity, and her breathing stagnated for no reason, and she slowed down before humming softly.

The phone was so close to her ear that she could even hear his clear breathing.

"It's not good to take sleeping pills for a long time. Grandma is right, next time grandma prepared a soothing tea to drink obediently. ”

"Hmm."

"I'll buy you some snacks in the morning and I'll go back. I wanted to buy it when I passed by yesterday, but I was afraid that it wouldn't be fresh when I brought it back overnight today. The dim sum should last for a long time, but if you want to bring it to my family Xixi to eat, you can't be sloppy if you are so picky. ”

At that time, Qin Yu really talked a lot.

She had known him for more than ten years, and he rarely said a long sentence in one breath, especially these trivial things that were not worth mentioning.

Later, she realized that it wasn't that he talked more and liked to express.

It was because he knew she didn't want to speak, so he kept talking, trying to wait for her response.

"Did you go to tutoring today?"

"Nope." She cherished words like gold, and the identities of the two suddenly changed that year.

The one who seemed indifferent with less words became her.

"Didn't you go out?"

"Nope."

"Don't you feel bored at home?"

She replied anyway.

If she didn't know the truth, I'm afraid she would think that she didn't want to talk any further.

But Qin Yu knew that even if she repeated this word every time, she was already working hard to respond.

Because her voice was shaking.

"Tomorrow night, we'll go out to eat. You remember to talk to your grandmother in the morning. ”

"Okay."

"Is there anything you'd like to eat?"

He knew that she had a picky mouth, and she had an average appetite when she was sick during that time, and she didn't want to eat a lot of things she liked to eat before.

probably felt that it was too late and didn't want her to be too uncomfortable, so he didn't wait for her to answer, but said intimately: "Don't worry, send me a message when you think of what to eat during the day." ”

He asked her to type back.

"I ...... Eat and eat seafood ......"

Qin Yu was also surprised that she replied suddenly, and about two or three seconds later, she heard his voice with a smile, and responded very gently: "Okay, I'll go eat seafood with Xixi tomorrow." ”

(End of chapter)