timeless

Chapter 30 Extra Story: Indus Rain (2)
"Are you so hungry?" The tablemate was obviously disgusted with You Ye.

"How is it possible?" Xia Zhize sorted out the messy textbooks on the table, "Did you forget that Qi Xian sent me to school every morning? Follow him, how could I have no food?"

The tablemate made an expression of "you can do it" and asked a more practical question: "Then why don't you stay with Qi Xian? I've only been with You Ye for less than five days, and I feel sorry for you." tired."

Xia Zhize had an expression of "you are kidding me": "Qi Xian and I? How is that possible? We... are buddies."

She looked at the same table with her eyes, but at this moment she seemed to have lost her previous vigor and vigor, and there was obviously a little more anxiety: "Didn't he have a girlfriend?"

For Xia Zhize, no matter how Qi Xian falls in love, he will eventually return to her.Just like every time she falls in love with others, no matter what, when she turns around, she can always see Qi Xian standing behind and looking at her, so she doesn't worry at all.However, this time, Xia Zhize really felt the existence of the "crisis".

Everything is because of that girl named Jiang Wei.

Xia Zhize began to secretly pay attention to the girl named Jiang Wei, and would often "unintentionally" pass her by.The two are obviously completely opposite, no matter what, they have nothing to do with each other, but at this time they are inexplicably hooked up because of the same boy, as if they have some kind of relationship.No matter what, I have to compete secretly in my heart. I know that this is a naive approach, but I still leave behind my mature pretense and engage in these rivalries that I can't understand.

The other party's innocent face didn't know what was going on in his heart at all, and he didn't even know about Xia Zhize's hostility.

but--

"I just can't help but secretly compete with you in my heart."

At this time, the two were looking at each other, and even their eyes were completely opposite.Jiang Wei's eyes were always gentle but cold, but Xia Zhize's eyes showed a trace of hostility that even she didn't notice.

From this moment on, or in other words, the boundaries and definitions should have been drawn long ago.

These two people—

Destined to be the enemy.

It wasn't until a hint of doubt gradually appeared in the other party's eyes that Xia Zhize took a step back: "It might be presumptuous to ask you out suddenly."

"fine."

In fact, Xia Zhize didn't care about those rumors that were created out of nothing, and didn't bother to care about them.But at this moment, she suddenly wanted to use this rumor that was not very beneficial to her to blackmail the other party.That is to say, if the other party has heard of her exaggerated rumors, then they must also know that none of the boys who are familiar with Xia Zhize can escape her grasp.

At this moment, she was like a child with a guilty conscience. When facing a powerful enemy that she couldn't predict, she suddenly piled up an unpredictable sense of crisis and fear in her heart.He obviously lacks confidence, but he wants to pretend to be strong in front of the other party, so as to cover up his guilty conscience.I tried my best to stand up straight, keep my chest up and my stomach in, but no matter what, I felt that I was shorter than others.She can only use the little tricks that girls are used to, trying to use misunderstandings to subdue her rival in love.

Or in other words, from this moment on, she has enclosed herself in a suffocating and strange circle that she cannot get out of.

"I want you to know one thing——Qi Xian, it's mine." She seemed to hear what she was saying in her heart, but the words on her lips changed to, "He's pretty bad, I Not referring to the inside, but the superficial behavior, which makes people feel that this guy is really... oh, how should I put it, frivolous? I have known him for so many years... But to be honest, he is actually very good, really, you want Be nice to him..."

Why the duplicity?

[Fives]
"It's finally here!" Someone shouted, Xia Zhize turned his head in a daze, and saw the boys and girls trotting over here holding hands.

They were holding hands, and they didn't let go even if they ran embarrassingly.

Qi Xian, who had just arrived at the place, was immediately accused by many students of "emphasizing sex and despising friends, so that a group of people waited for a long time under the scorching sun". Qi Xian smiled, but still did not let go of the other one in his hand. hands, looked around and said, "Where's Ozawa?"

"I seem to be a little unhappy there." A classmate immediately pointed out, "Boy, you blame your sex and despise friends, so we have to look at your best friend while waiting for you."

Turning his gaze to Xia Zhize's side, the boy finally let go of his other hand, and stepped forward a few steps: "Are you angry?"

Xia Zhize's gaze stayed on his face for a moment: "No, how could I be angry with you? Let's go, everyone is waiting."

"Yeah." Qi Xian, who didn't notice the girl's strangeness, turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by the girl behind him, "ah, wait a minute."

Qi Xian turned around, and the girl handed over a beautiful box: "Birthday gift."

"Huh? Thank you." The boy took the box, but instead of opening the box to see what incredible things she sent, he turned around and held Jiang Wei's hand, " let's go."

I did not see it.

Because I have been holding my girlfriend by the hand, I didn't see the girl's expression at this moment.

After walking a few steps and finding that Xia Zhize didn't follow, Qi Xian had to stop and turn back to call the stunned girl: "Follow up, idiot."

"Huh? Oh." The girl who had been identified as "a mind-wandering without a brain" came back to her senses and followed.

Don't think about it.

Don't think about them.

But no matter what, I can’t stop thinking about the doraemon pendant that I saw on the boy’s phone just now, which is exactly the same as that of the girl standing next to him. When one of the pendants was hung on the boy's mobile phone, the other party looked at him with an idiot expression, and refused with "how can a boy hang such a sissy thing", and finally agreed to hang it on the schoolbag after a long time of hard work.Now, at the request of another girl, another "younger and more girly" Doraemon pendant is hung on the phone.

Mingming once vowed to himself that "I will never be overwhelmed by love and leave you alone".

Obviously said something like "this is something that little girls hang up".

He also clearly knows that friendship and such unreliable guarantees are not worth mentioning in front of love.

All kinds of worries and guarantees in the past, what should be realized have not been realized, but what should have happened still happened.

For some reason, I suddenly remembered the old days.

Both parents are busy with their careers, so they are often away from home.Most of the time, Xia Zhize and Qi Xian spent time alone in each other's home.

Although there have been jokes in the past that "it's not good for a lonely man and a widow to live in the same room", but more often, girls are sitting on the sofa watching TV with dolls that boys have always regarded as children with immature cerebellums. while wearing an apron, the image of a good man clanging in the kitchen.After the meal was cooked, Qi Xian brought out the steaming food, and the two of them went to wash the dishes together after the meal.

Ordinary and simple life.Boys once joked that they were "like a newlywed couple", but the result was a girl who directly poured dishwater over her head: "Who is married to you!"

Xia Zhize, who was sitting alone in the corner of the sofa, was biting the straw of Coke, and turned his head to look at the eye-catching couple among the lively crowd.

A boy handed the microphone to Qi Xian with a playful smile, and motioned him to go up and sing a duet with Jiang Wei.At first the boy also declined a little, but under the pushing and shoving of the crowd, he finally took the microphone and stood in front of the girl holding the girl's hand, with a smile on his face.

It is "Little Dimple" by JJ Lin, a typical love song suitable for couples to sing in duet.

The box was pitch black, only the screen was shining brightly, illuminating the young and beautiful smiling faces of the boy and the girl beside him.The gentle singing sounded along with the rhythm and filled the entire box, and the noisy people quieted down like a tacit understanding, and they clapped their hands lightly with the rhythm of the boys and girls.

Their singing pierced through Xia Zhize's brain like a thousand-decibel noise, and even the eardrums ached from the stimulation.

What a familiar scene.

Xia Zhize suddenly remembered that in the past, he was the one who pushed the microphone to the front to sing with Qi Xian every time.But now, the heroine has changed to someone else, Jiang Wei with long black hair and indifferent eyes.

The boy who has always been regarded as an "inseparable girlfriend" finally has someone he likes, and he should also step down from the position of the heroine's stand-in.

Thinking back to those years, it’s not like everyone made jokes like “Secret love is very popular” and “You guys are childhood sweethearts anyway”, but why was it that everyone was able to gossip safely under the eyes of gossip? After singing the phrase "Your favorite piece, someday I will exist" to the boy, what I got was also a smile of encouragement and praise from the boy.

Looking up slightly, the smiling boy and the girl with long black hair just happened to look at each other, and at the same time sang the phrase "You don't know how important you are to me, it's just right that my life is complete with you".

Why does it have to be love to be complete?
So what was the friendship that was more important than anything before that?
Suddenly feel a little uncomfortable.

I don't know if it was because the above scene was too dazzling, or because I was a little dissatisfied with the imminent change of the most important position in my best friend's heart.

At this point, after the whole song was sung, someone finally remembered the existence of Xia Zhize, the substitute of the outdated heroine: "Ah, it used to be that Ozawa and Qi Xian sang together. Now Qi Xian has made a girlfriend." My friend, I almost forgot my best friend."

Xia Zhize was startled by these words, raised his head, and met Qi Xian's gaze.

Lowering their eyes slightly, it was they who were still holding hands.

The students around all remembered this "convention" and coaxed Qi Xian to sing a chorus with Xia Zhize. Qi Xian also let go of the girl's hand and walked towards Xia Zhize.

Xia Zhize lowered his head.

Breathe for a moment.

He raised his head, with a bright smile still on his face: "Forget what I say."

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In fact, if Qi Xian could directly open the gift box that Xia Zhize handed him, he would have found that what was inside was not the same "dolls", "stickers", "post-it notes" and "KFC coupons" as before. Such useless and brainless stuff.

It was almost the pocket money saved by tightening the belt to exchange for the latest game console that the boy has always wanted lying quietly in the box.

"Why do these words sound so bitter." Qi Xian stretched out his hand and placed it firmly in front of the girl, "It's as if I have a wife and forget you."

Xia Zhize hesitated for a moment, but finally laughed out: "You bastard, the water spilled by your married best friend, when did you learn to make fun of me? Let's forget it, it's your birthday today, stay with me Girlfriend."

The boy hesitated for a moment, and finally withdrew his hand: "Okay then, take your time and enjoy yourself."

When walking away, Xia Zhize still vaguely heard Jiang Wei's voice "Leave Miss Xiaoze aside and play by yourself", and the boy's answer "It's okay, she can entertain herself by leaving her alone in the corner" .

The voice gradually faded away, and finally buried in the noisy noise and the heart-piercing singing of others.

The lingering noise still lingered in my ears, and it was still lingering.

Just ignore her.

sour?

That's right, Xia Zhize is indeed the kind of person who can entertain herself even in a corner alone, and never has to worry that she will be bored.

So ignore her.

The corners of the girl's mouth slightly curled into a smile that was not a smile, and the outline of her thin and thin body could hardly be seen in the dark corner, as if she said softly: "Yes, as expected, only you know me best." The person next to her immediately Asked: "What? What are you talking about? It's too noisy to hear!"

The girl smiled slightly and shook her head, her eyes turned away from the most dazzling couple in the center of the crowd in the distance, and landed on the Coke can in her hand: "Nothing."

I didn't say anything.

You didn't hear anything either.

The heart seems to be thrown into the sea and soaked for three days and three nights, and then salvaged and laid flat on the shore. After drying, the layers of folds are like sea waves.

But if it was in the past, it would never have been reduced to the point where there was almost "nothing to say".

If I still have the energy to recall the past, maybe I won't be as sad as I am now, and I may still laugh out loud.

But maybe it will be more sad.

Like the evening of Xia Zhize's 15th birthday, Qi Xian held his hand and dragged him to the sycamore tree in the backyard in a daze, watching the boy squat down and carve "Qi Zhize" on the wall stroke by stroke. Xian and Xia Zhize will never be separated."

At that time, Xia Zhize stood aside and watched the boy carve these words on the tree, laughing so hard.

The boy who always disdained this kind of hypocrisy but still said on the girl's 15th birthday, "Temporarily replace your future boyfriend to do this kind of Qiong Yao trick, don't be too touched" will never know, at that time The concentrated appearance of him squatting and carving on the wall and the light red halo covering him made him look holy like an angel.

If you still have the courage to pull back the tape of memory a little--

On her 17th birthday half a month ago, Xia Zhize sneaked under the sycamore tree alone to see the words Qi Xian carved on it a year ago, but was frustrated to find that the original words carved by someone The naughty child scratched the mess with a hard object, and could only touch a little dent with his finger.

Xia Zhize, who was deeply shocked, complained about this matter to the boy after returning home, but the answer he got was: "How can something that is carved on it casually stay for a long time?"

Randomly engraved on...

How could it be possible to stay for a long time?
Is that so...

So before that, did the "Together forever" engraved on the wall with me have a shelf life?

So in the end, Xia Zhize and Qi Xian will still be separated, right?

When he was 15 years old, Qi Xian sat under the sycamore tree where their names were engraved, and read a poem to Xia Zhize.

Xia Zhize always remembered that it was Wen Tingyun's "Geng Lou Zi".

Jade burner incense, red candle tears, partly illuminates the autumn thoughts of the painting hall.

The eyebrows are thin, the temples are cloudy, and the night is long and the pillow is cold.

The sycamore tree, the three more rains, the unreasonable separation is bitter.

A leaf, a sound, the sky drops to the bright.

We are just childhood sweethearts.This relationship can never be broken.

(End of this chapter)