Chapter 19

That morning, after Ning Xi pinched his face and pushed upstairs, Ning Xi squatted on the ground in the living room alone, dragged the ashtray over, poured some water on it, and lit a cigarette.

Ning Xi envies the most.

Maybe sometimes this is the case. The more you have something you lack in, the more you will be able to make yourself more and more moved.

After staying up all night, Ning Xi fell down before the first class even started. After sleeping for two classes, he felt cold when he touched his forehead, and it was a little hot.

Ning Xi walked around the corridor of the second year of high school to the chemistry laboratory, chose a small passage and went down the stairs, and headed straight to the school clinic. He had 500 yuan left on his mother, and the medicine alone cost 50 yuan.

I took the medicine and drank it. Ning Xi took the temperature and took it 38 degrees. Fortunately, I could continue to attend class.

Ning Xi was still drowsy when he returned to the classroom. He greeted the head teacher and fell asleep on the table with his coat in his arms.

The wind blew in outside, making one of his ears cold.

After a night of sleep, my coat turned into two pieces. Ning Xi didn't need to guess the smell of sports perfume. When I turned around, I saw that the trademark collar in the school uniform said "XC".

Most of the habit of boys and girls scribbling on school uniforms cannot be changed. I still remember that in junior high school, another public middle school in the district where I was studying, there was a big scorpion on the back of the school uniform. I also thought it was very cool, tall and smooth, swaying, with a touch of hair, and the school grass.

Ning Xi asked him why he was drawing a crab and told everyone that you are domineering?

Xingcheng looked disbelief and a little doubted his skills in using his imperial painter.

Brother, this is a scorpion. Do you know that Scorpio? Aren’t you a Scorpio?

Within a few days, the rumors about Xingcheng and their school came to Ning Xi's ears. It is estimated that the girls who were secretly in love with Xingcheng in their school were Scorpios and would be excited for several days.

The school grass carried a totem of love on her back and was domineering for several days. The more she looked, the more she felt like a crab was painted on her back. So she changed her mind and became a new person. She bought a new school uniform. She was brave and wrote "11.12" directly on the back.

So much so that later, Xingcheng learned guitar in the third year of junior high school, and held his arms upstairs and played cotton on his feet every day, and opened his mouth: "You were the first snowfall that year, and you were later than before. You parked at the second car at the entrance of the community..."

Ning Xi was reading a book below, and his head was too big. He didn't want to care about the Qingyang District Xiaodaolang upstairs, so he went up and knocked on the door.

Go out and get out.

Two or three days after the fight on Yulin Road, the school concentrated on ideological work for several boys fighting at the barbecue stall, educated them for a few days, and also went to the Academic Affairs Office for a few days.

Xingcheng was the leader in this matter, and the school gave a warning. Cheng Xiyu's parents also went to the school several times. After these troubles, Xingcheng's warning was also erased.

After scanning the Academic Affairs Office for a week, Xingcheng's training time every afternoon was temporarily occupied. After class, he took a broom and followed a series of people from the school team, all of whom were holding brooms and dustpans, saying that he wanted to help.

Xingcheng nodded his head. There were twelve people who couldn't go to train. He followed their brothers and others to sweep the floor. Isn't it obvious that he was looking for scolding?

After finally dissuading the girls, Xingcheng walked around with a broom like a golden cudgel. While humming a song in a low voice, he directed the team members to remove the garbage. He was so busy that he was sweating, but he was still happy.

After cleaning for a few days, I occasionally met his brother. Xingcheng immediately stood up straight, hid the broom behind him, and nodded as if he was standing guard: "Brother!"

Ning Xi stood still. He originally took a detour to see his younger brother today, and he was holding a book in his hand: "It's very diligent."

Xingcheng didn't realize that Ning Xi was praising him or hurting him. Just as he was about to say a few words, he saw Ning Xi carry a bag, rushing in front of him, and said lightly: "Hold it."

Subconsciously, Xingcheng looked down at the bag. The boss had a NIKE logo, which contained a brand new set of knee pads and ankle pads. The arm guards were almost the same as the sleeves, and they were fully armed.

This is at least three or four hundred, right?

Xingcheng was a little confused, and then he heard Ning Xi say seriously: "No matter whether it is on the court or on the fight, don't be hurt anymore."

A group of young boys in the school team standing next to him were blown up, looking at the bag of items with a jealousy. Never heard of any equipment that was exploding in the fight?

As soon as Ning Xi left, Xingcheng was not polite, so he posted it directly on WeChat Moments to show off and took a photo. The accompanying text was simple and clear: Ning Xi gave it to him.

I also posted it in the school team and put on my body and took several buyers' shows. It was so bad that a few little boys in the school team yelled heart-wrenchingly in the WeChat group, Brother Xi, I want it too!!!

Xingcheng answered voice one by one with his mobile phone. No, it’s impossible, let’s go aside and dream!

Are you his brother?

As soon as he got home in the evening, Xingcheng tried all the equipment, stood in front of the dressing mirror for a long time, wearing the jersey, his mind was filled with his brother's words.

Don't get hurt anymore.

I was in high school early. Xingcheng wanted to wait for Ning Xi today, but he really ran to the playground with the ball in his arms. The grass was covered with his butt. Fortunately, it was dry winter in Chengdu recently, and it hadn't rained much, so it was done.

He took off his schoolbag and put it under his body, and he felt quite comfortable. Anyway, there were not many textbooks inside, which was very soft.

He told his brother at noon that it was not conducive to rest if he left the third year of high school too late. If you were tormenting like this, we would have to break your switch in the second year of high school. Ning Xi glanced at him. What does it have to do with you? Why join in the fun?

Xingcheng found a legitimate reason, isn’t we the one who suffers in the next session?

On a winter night in Chengdu, the lights shining in the sky reflected a purple-red color, and the stars draped over the night sky, looming, as if the night was not that cold.

Xingcheng lay on the grass, starry sky full of eyes. The lights in the senior high school classroom above the teaching building were still on. Ying Hechen, who was lying down next to him, was drinking soda. The two boys were lying side by side, covered with coats and legs raised, and toasting each other.

Ying and Chen were stabbed and came back and rested and didn't run to the stadium. His grades were pretty good, and his family was not under pressure. His brother couldn't take care of it at school. When he heard Xingcheng say he was drinking soda in the playground and didn't even take his schoolbag, he ran away from the evening self-study and rushed down.

For this reason, he bought an extra can, opened it with one hand, and handed it to Ying Yuchen. The latter smiled and bumped into the air with great pride: "Thank you, brother!"

Xingcheng didn't have the nerve to ask more about his brother's affairs. He took care of Ying Yuchen's wounds and gave up. He said that if he was late after school, he would let Ying Yuchen go with him and Ning Xi, so he would be safer.

It is not a big deal to tell me that his brother sent someone to pick him up.

Xingcheng heard Ying talk to me about his situation, why did he come to Chengdu when he was studying well in Beijing, what kind of person is his brother? What kind of person is he?

"Hey, stop talking about me, you're discouraged. Let's talk about you?"

After drinking more than half of the soda, Ying Yuchen still had a red pomegranate smell in his mouth. He asked him with a smile: "Xingcheng, are you really not going to be a sports student? You are tall enough and you can barely get into a sports student..."

Xingcheng also swallowed, and the carbonated leap made his tongue feel very happy: "No, I have to see where my brother goes to study first."

Ying slapped his thighs and said, "Hey, I'm damn... you two are too sticky! No, you're too sticky to him."

Xingcheng smiled and held the can and clinked the cup with Ying Hechen: "I am the only brother, so don't you stick tighter?"

"I don't know if my intuition is wrong. I always feel that you and your brother are not that good!"

Ying Yuchen couldn't hold it anymore and asked straightforwardly.

He didn't even have a chance to breathe, and Xingcheng admitted it generously: "I like my brother, who shaved his head and escaped class, learned guitar, climbed over the wall and jumped off the building for him..."

He almost jumped up from the grass directly, Ying pulled a few grasses with me and threw them at Xingcheng: "Fuck me, I just think something is right!"

I was so worried that even the can of the red pomegranate soda was deformed. Ying and Chen pulled out his soft hair, supported his hands behind him, holding the can pull ring in his mouth, and murmured: "My brother has not been able to tell a man's clarity recently. It's really... You said you don't want a large piece of girls, so how difficult it will be to leave in the future?"

Xingcheng sighed, opened his eyes and began to count the stars above the playground. He counted the seventh one, his eyes were a little blurred, and he said, "There is no choice, no one can replace him, so I have to hug him tightly."

Ying Yuchen thought for a while and felt that Ning Xi's behavior was quite different, so he asked him: "Do your brother like you?"

As soon as he asked this question, Xingcheng didn't know where he got the courage. He stared at the bright lights in the window of the senior high school classroom, and nodded as if the stars in the sky were reflected.

"like."

After school last night, he brought two bags of instant noodles and two eggs to Ningxi's house to cook.

As soon as the kitchen lights lit up, the fire tongue on the stove almost drifted Xingcheng's pair of sword eyebrows into a dagger.

Ning Xi couldn't bear it anymore, so he drove Xingcheng out of the kitchen, beat two eggs, cooked them so spicy that they were all given to Xingcheng.

Xingcheng stirred it with the chopsticks a few times: "Damn, brother, why do you have two eggs?"

Ning Xi held the bowl and didn't sit and ate. He didn't even bother to lift his eyelids and replied coldly: "Double yolk eggs."

Farting, his brother didn't eat it at all. Xingcheng quickly swept away the noodles, went to the convenience store to buy two eggs, and forced his brother to add another bowl of boiled eggs.

When his brother lowered his head to mix the noodles, Xingcheng reached out and pinched his brother's face, and said viciously, if there is one of me, then there must be one of yours.

The person behind me rushed to wash dishes, thinking about his past in the kitchen, and thought for a long time.

When he returned to his room at night, he gritted his teeth and did the test until 1:30 in the morning. He wrote a historical paper that he couldn't understand the most. He memorized the timeline for a long time and ate all the notebook Ning Xi gave him...

He gave Ning Xi the electric water bag. He trembled all the time to warm the bed at night. He told Ning Xi that he had two, one on top and one on the bottom. He was so hot that he sweated at night, so he always kicked one out, leaving it for a waste.

I won't go to the school team tomorrow, right?

But playing basketball also feels very essential...

But it’s really a fool to play again. The grades are a big difference from the second-tier line. They are in the second year of high school. Not long after, do you really not plan to chase his brother in terms of grades?

Xingcheng thinks there is something that is right. When I was a student, love did not necessarily affect learning, but unrequited love would definitely affect learning.

This Friday is the winter solstice. Ning Xi’s mother called Ning Xi for the first time and said that she would ask Ning Xi to go to the high-tech zone after school. She set up a mutton soup pot at home. It happened to be after school on Friday, so she came to have some.

Ning Xi held his cell phone and his nose was a little sore. It was not because his mother told him to have dinner. He just felt that his mother didn't remember that she only had Sundays for the weekend in her senior year. This year, she still did this year.

He ignored the monthly exam results and occasionally greeted him in life. Ning Xi was neither salty nor light on the surface, but only he knew how much he cherished his mother's phone call in his heart.

During the winter solstice last year, he was also forgotten. At noon, he ran to the school to have a meal of mutton soup. He vomited when he returned to school. He didn't go to eat at night, so he watched Xingcheng standing at the door of the classroom and was anxious.

What Ning Xi didn't expect was that because he hadn't eaten, Xingcheng escaped from evening study and went to the playground to climb over the wall to buy mutton soup. As soon as he rode on the wall, he turned around and saw the principal squatting under the wall, holding a flashlight in his hand.

The group of buddies who were helping his school team were still eager to try on the other end of the wall, pulling their necks and shouting: "Xingcheng! Can you go down!"

Xingcheng rode on the wall, looked at the principal here, and then looked at the buddies standing there. He closed his eyes in despair and made a boo gesture to his buddies.

Ren Mei jumped: "Now I know you're scared?"

Xingcheng sneered, laughing in his heart, you can try it.

Ren Mei jumped up to the wall in a few seconds and rode, and became dumbfounded as soon as she got up. The two boys stared at the principal under the wall. The principal asked with a smile: "I'm well-trained, where are you going?"

Xingcheng was also straightforward: "I'm hungry when I buy mutton soup."

Because of this, Xingcheng's father pressed Xingcheng's head that night and forced him to eat mutton soup for two hours at home. The class teacher who visited the house was stunned.
To be continued...