Chapter 37 Chapter 36 A Little Street After the Rain

Yanxi's "Chaoyang" is over. Then he sealed it up in the small attic on the top floor. "What are you doing, suppressing evil?" Ah Heng smiled. Yan Xi doesn't care: "That painting is very strange, it seems to be off topic." At that time, Xinke Xiao Hui was sleeping on Ah Heng's slippers, and the sun was shining brightly. The so-called small ash is a very small ball, curled up like a towel.It likes Yan Xi very much, and always sneaks into the boy's bedroom. When he wakes up early in the morning, he always looks at such a bunch of ugly little things, then stiffens and screams, wishing to tear down the entire roof .

And then, Xiao Hui, who looks like a small towel, will be thrown out with tears in his eyes while the Braised Pork Rice gloated. Crack, lock the door. "Aheng, take care of your dog!" Ah Heng sighed, and picked up Xiao Hui: "He doesn't like you, and he always likes to move forward, alas, stupid dog..." A few days had passed since Yanxi's birthday, when Ah Heng came home, Siwan said: "Ah Heng, you were too rude to Aunt Lin that day." Ah Heng squinted his eyes and said in a daze, "What did I say?" Siwan smiled: "It's not good to say nothing. Don't you think the hostility towards her is too obvious?"

Ah Heng pretended to be stupid: "I can't speak Mandarin well, and I'm afraid of offending Aunt Lin." "Aheng, you always say that your Mandarin is not good when the situation is not good for you." Siwan smiled, peeled the apple in her hand and handed it to Aheng, "You may not know, Grandpa's former subordinates, who left their jobs to engage in business, most of the property and the Lu family... are inextricably linked, Uncle Lu got sick and passed away early, and now Aunt Lin is in charge of the Lu family..." This is said in a subtle and clear enough way.She only thought about her grandfather being upright and upright all his life, but she still couldn't avoid these thoughts.But, as long as you are a human being, how can you not have any desires?What's more, grandpa still has to take care of where the Wen family will go after a hundred years.

Ah Heng held the apple and nodded slightly. "Compared to Er Er, you are more suitable to be the Wen family's daughter." Siwan's tone was calm. This... is it because she accepts something that is not clean enough to be obedient?Is it a compliment or dislike? Seeing Aheng thinking for a long time, Siwan was afraid that she would realize something too much, so she said with a smile: "You can't get along with her, just keep in touch with her less in the future. Aunt Lin is busy with her affairs, so she didn't have much contact with us in the first place. .” "What will Er Er do?" Ah Heng was thinking in his heart, but he didn't think about it, and read out the words.

"What?" Siwan was surprised. "For those who don't like it." Siwan looked at Ah Heng, a little uncomfortable: "Er, if you don't like it, you will show it clearly." "Oh." Obviously, do you like her and Yanxi? She has never understood why Er'er hates Yan Xi so much, just like, she doesn't know why Yan Xi is always accommodating to Er'er to the point of pampering her. In August, Rao is in the north, and the rain is also very abundant. On that day, it was hot and dry in the evening, but it changed in a blink of an eye, with dark clouds, strong winds, and not long after, it was pouring down with rain.

Ah Heng went to the bookstore to buy review materials, and when he saw some interesting novels, he flipped through them.When I raised my head again, the scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows had changed. The raindrops fell and flowed into streams, and the outside of the window was completely dark. This place is so remote, there are not many taxis, let alone rainy days. Nerve, how to go back... Look at the time, it's just seven o'clock, still early.When she came out, she had already prepared dinner, and she should be fine when she goes back later, at least Yan Xi won't be hungry.

Ah Heng thought for a while, picked up the book just now and continued to read, and decided to wait until the rain stopped before going back. There is Michael Jackson's You Are Not Alone in the bookstore, and Ah Heng hums a few words along with him, feeling very comfortable. Heavy rain, the smell of books, love songs, what kind of loneliness can make people feel more comfortable than now?Hehe, it would be great if there was Biluochun in a purple sand pot, she has already been spoiled by the good tea left by Grandpa Yan.That guy Yanxi is probably playing games again, isn't he afraid of myopia just because he has big eyes?

Occasionally, she would be startled by the thunder, and when she raised her eyes, there was a downward trend outside the window. The similar situation repeated several times, the night was completely dark, Ah Heng frowned faintly, a little miscalculated. After waiting for a long time, the clock on the wall of the bookstore struck eleven. "Boss, is there a hotel near here?" She settled the bill and asked the bookstore owner. boom!There was a loud bang behind him. Startled, Ah Heng turned around, only to see a boy covered in rain.Under his feet was an umbrella that had been dropped to vent his anger.

"Yan Xi?" Ah Heng was confused. Why is this guy staring so big? Who messed with him again? "Ah, Yanxi, are the ribs made tonight too salty?" She blurted out, a little guilty.I was in a hurry to come out in the evening. When I was cooking, the heat didn't seem to be very good. He stared at her coldly, the rain kept dripping down his black hair, the pink T-shirt on his body was stained dark and light by the rain, the white canvas shoes were splashed with mud, and he held a handful of clean clothes tightly in his arms. Umbrella, looks very funny. Yan Xi turned around and said flatly: "Go home." But she didn't look at her, but handed her the clean umbrella in her hand, bent down and silently picked up the muddy umbrella that had just fallen angrily.

Ah Heng followed behind him, quietly staring at the boy's somewhat lonely back, and said, "Yanxi." Yan Xi didn't look back: "Shh——" He was in front, she was behind, silent, walking in the rain. Ah Heng lowered his head and only looked at Yanxi's canvas shoes, which were so white that she had been brushing them for a long time.Why do you wear it when you know it's raining? She even clearly remembered what Yan Xi said when she thought the color of the shoes was monotonous and wanted to add some paint: "Yan Xi, these are the shoes I've been brushing for a long time, you know?"

After brushing for a long time, it was really hard to restore the original. She sighed slightly.She keeps restoring everything in his life, and he keeps disrupting it. With her usual personality, how long can she hold back... Eyes full of rain, ears full of the sound of rain, clamoring for many things in life, tempted to come and want to release, after all, push back little by little, carefully seal up. When they got home, with the help of the street lamp at the door, Yanxi wiped the electronic surface of his left wrist blurred in the rain with his right hand, stared at it for a few seconds, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay." "Huh?" Ah Heng frowned at him. "It's not twelve o'clock." Yan Xi whispered, with innocence in her eyes. He stretched out his hand, roughly wiped it on his pants, stared wide-eyed, and patted her head earnestly, fiercely: "Aheng, Cinderella must go home before twelve o'clock, do you understand?" "Why?" She smiled and took his hand gently. There is only a six centimeter gap between her and him. "Tch, didn't the Brothers Grimm say that if you don't come home at twelve o'clock in the evening, you will turn from a princess into a soot-covered girl?" He raised his voice, his voice full of righteous anger. "I became a soot-smeared girl because of a bossy stepmother, not because of the change of time." A Heng smiled, rubbed his eyes that were a little sore in the rain, and opened the door. Yan Xi sneered: "If I were a stepmother, then you should learn to be Cinderella's vicious sister. Because no stepmother would run for four fucking hours in the rain to find a girl covered in soot .” With a malicious tone on purpose, he put away his umbrella and changed his shoes, and walked straight to the bathroom. Ah Heng relaxed, sighed, gently rested his head on the snow-white wall, and closed his eyes.After a while, he slowly maintained a smile. When he walked to the restaurant, Ah Heng found that the food on the table had not been touched. Yanxi smelled the aroma of food when she came out of the shower. Ah Heng was sitting in the dining room, saw him coming out, and greeted him with a smile: "Yanxi, eat." Yan Xi's complexion was not very good, but he didn't say anything. He sat down, dug out rice and ribs, and stuffed his mouth full.Although there has been no expression, but there is not a single grain of rice left. In the end, he purposely wiped his mouth with the cuff of Ah Heng's pajamas he had just washed, gave Ah Heng a childish look, turned around and went upstairs. Ah Heng laughed for a long time, lying on the table almost gasped, but after he calmed down, he became dazed again, not knowing what he was laughing just now. In the early hours of the morning, the thunder boomed and was deafening.Ah Heng fell into a drowsy sleep, but subconsciously remembered something, and woke up from the dream. He opened the door and walked to the door of the next room. After hesitating for a long time, Ah Heng gently pushed the door open.Grandpa Yan once asked her, if possible, not to leave Yanxi alone in a dark room on a rainy day. "Yanxi?" She walked over, and the bed was just flat. Looking around, she walked to the corner with some hesitation. In the dark night, it was just a mass of darkness, staying there quietly, without any movement, even burying itself with the sheets strangely. Ah Heng stretched out his hand and gently lifted the quilt. The boy was sitting in the corner, with his arms around his knees, his feet were bare, and his eyes were tightly closed. "Yanxi?" She squatted gently beside him, not sure if the boy accidentally fell asleep here. He didn't move at all, and his breathing was still faint, with a faint sense of existence. She stretched out her hand, and cautiously reached over, halfway, she was gently held by a slightly cold hand.He opened his eyes. That was the first time Ah Heng saw that expression in Yan Xi's eyes. Emptiness, pain, despair, and endless tearing black holes. Looking at her with those eyes, he tried hard to restore his usual gentleness and arrogance, but when he saw her eyes, tears welled up in an instant. "Aheng, you must go home before twelve o'clock next time, do you understand?" He choked up, childishly inexplicable. Ah Heng looked at him quietly. "Huh?" He looked at her seriously, seriously wanting to hear her say hello. The boy's black hair was completely drenched with sweat at some point. In Ah Heng's eyes was the gentleness accumulated by mountains and rivers, she stretched out her hand suddenly, hugged him fiercely, buried his eyes on her shoulders, and said calmly: "It's no big deal, Yanxi, there is no big deal in this world of." "It doesn't matter how dirty it is." She heard the great pain suppressed in his throat, and read the words clearly, "It's no big deal if I'm here in this world." She knew that Yanxi could understand. Even if she didn't know what happened two years ago, but no matter what, he couldn't look back, even if the wound would ooze blood, he could only look forward. "But, Ah Heng, one day, you will leave me too." He was at a loss, but his tears burned someone's shoulder. Ah Heng stared at the corner of the wall in the darkness, not knowing what kind of words could have powerful comforting power. "Aheng, you don't even know that you will leave me." He said with mockery, "But look, I know, I can even predict this." "If I leave, can't you try to keep me?" Yan Xi smiled bitterly: "Cinderella's stepmother is only Cinderella's, but not her two older sisters." To keep him, how could he be willing to do so. "Yanxi, I don't like... crystal shoes." She sighed with a smile, and opened her hands lightly, but she didn't dare to turn her head. Whether it's being Cinderella or the vicious sister, she doesn't like that flimsy, foot-grinding thing. "Yanxi, if I leave, I will say sorry to you." Ah Heng thought for a while, then frowned and came to a conclusion. "Aheng, when I said 'I'm sorry' for the first time, the person I thought would never leave me in this life left me." Yan Xi raised her head and fell on the textured floor. "So, 'thank you for looking after'?" She was still facing the wall. "The first time I said 'thank you', I felt like I almost disappeared from this world." Ah Heng put his hands on his neck, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with a smile: "When I left, it must be because someone who was thousands of times better than Wen Heng was by your side; or, I By your side, you still feel lonely, so my departure will only be a relief to you." She said: "Yanxi, when I was four years old, my father asked me to buy salt alone. At that time, I also felt that the world was very scary, surrounded by people I didn't know, and adults spit loudly, and I also I could be trembling for a long time. Later, when I was jealous, I was able to drink all the way home, and I still felt that the journey was too short. Yanxi, fear is an instinct of human beings, but when you are more afraid, you find that there is nothing in this world anymore. fear." Yan Xi held her hand and found that there were large and small calluses on those hands.Gently placing it on his face, he murmured in a low voice: "Ah Heng, we all owe you too much. Before paying it off, I will try my best to restrain myself and not to..." He put the quilt on the two of them alone, swept away the gloom just now, smiled lightly, and confessed to himself: "A Heng, you will grow up eventually, and you will eventually understand what to do is the right thing to do." And I, although I don't know when to stop growing, will also rejoice when I am forgotten by you.