almost lonely

Chapter 14

Let it be a dog, pretending to be casual: "Did your father do it before?" Ning Juechen froze for a moment, turned his head and looked at him in confusion.

Xu Ye rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "Then what, Jue Lan mentioned it to me a little bit." Ning Juechen nodded and said nothing.Xu Ye frowned, and his tone became serious: "Didn't you tell your family?" "Family?" "It's Aunt Chen and Uncle Lu..." "There is nothing to say, everyone is dead. "Ning Juechen didn't have any expression on his face, Xu Ye couldn't guess what kind of mood he said this sentence.

The text message rang suddenly, Ning Juechen rushed the foam on his hand, Xu Ye put his hand into his school uniform pocket: "Let me help you." Xu Ye knew this phone, it was the one Lu Juelan used in junior high school, outside A layer of paint has been worn off, it looks old, and the screen is not very sensitive.

Xu Ye pressed several times before clicking on the text message, it was from Lu Juelan: [You can reply now. ] Ning Juechen stacked the bowls and sauce dishes one by one and put them in the draining basket: "Is it my brother's?" Uncle Lu, Xu Ye himself, and one with a number but no name, Xu Ye guessed it might be Chen Yuhong.

There was Xu Ye's phone number in this phone, but Ning Juechen changed Lu Juelan's saved "Xu Ye" to "Brother Ye".

When he was leaving, the old lady stuffed a lunch box into his hand: "Take it, two dumplings, let mom cook them for you tomorrow morning, and have them for breakfast." Ning Juechen took it and said thank you, not daring to call grandma.

Xu Ye sent Ning Juechen out and walked with him for a while. It was probably the first time that Ning Juechen had the idea of ​​"I don't want Xu Ye and Lu Juelan to meet". He stopped at the turning intersection and said, "There are street lights ahead. , you go back, I'll go by myself." Xu Ye didn't insist, and took out a crumpled piece of letter paper from his school uniform pocket: "Give it to your brother for me."

Ning Juechen took it, but didn't dare to open it up and didn't dare to ask more questions, instead he reluctantly raised his eyes to peek at Xu Ye's face. "Why do you look like that? It's not a love letter. You wrote the review for your brother. He kept procrastinating and refusing to write about the fight in physical education class that day. Feng Feng will be mad at him."

Xu Ye raised his hand and stroked Ning Juechen's hair that was blown tousled by the wind. It felt really good. It was as obedient and soft as the poor little tortoiseshell cat at the entrance of the alley.Ning Juechen didn't hide, and let him rub his hair into a mess: "Brother Yi." "Huh?" "It's just...thank you."

I know this dumpling meal isn't for me, but still, thank you.

Ning Juechen folded the self-examination and put it in his schoolbag, and walked along the long Baile Lane towards his home.I ate too much in a hurry just now, and my stomach started to throb and hurt again, it was so uncomfortable.Ning Juechen stood against the electric pole for a while, pressing his stomach. He didn't want to spit out today's dumplings. He didn't know when he could come to Xu Yi's house again next time, and he didn't know when he could eat Xu Ye's grandma again. Cooked the meal.

This stop dragged on for a while, and when Ning Juechen arrived at the door, Lu Juelan was already waiting impatiently: "Why did you come from there? I have been waiting for you for a long time." Ning Juechen apologized to him in a low voice habitually. Juechen caught a glimpse of the familiar lunch box in his hand, his expression changed several times, and finally froze in surprise: "Did you go to Xu Yi's house?"

Ning Juechen still maintained a stiff posture of apologizing, and lowered his head too much, as if he was bowing.

Later Ning Juechen often thought: Xu Ye was the one who came to recruit him time and time again in the beginning, why did Xu Ye come to recruit him?

——The rubber man has no life and no heart, and can be rubbed and squeezed by others without resistance or pain.But people can't do it, their bodies will be hurt, and their hearts will ache.

11 I am not I did not

From the dumpling that day, the relationship between Ning Juechen and Xu Ye became inexplicably close.Ning Juechen could feel that Lu Juelan didn't like him getting too close to Xu Ye, and he didn't dare to intervene between them.So when Lu Juelan was around, Ning Juechen kept his presence as low as possible as before.

After school, the two often run into each other. Ning Juechen was ordered to die by Lu Juelan not to go home early, and Xu Ye was abandoned by Lu Juelan's serious relatives and friends. In a sense, the two are in the same boat.

After school that day, Xu Ye invited the third-year sports students to play a basketball game together, and it was almost seven o'clock when they left school.Since winter has entered, the sky has gotten darker and earlier. It was already dark after school at 05:30, and it was already dark at this point.Baile Lane is an old street, and there is only such a street lamp a long way away. It is dark and a bit scary when you look into it.

Xu Ye was used to riding fast, so he couldn't see the road ahead clearly, and almost hit something dark and unknown on the ground.He stopped abruptly, and saw a man in the uniform of No. [-] High School squatting in front by the streetlight. ——Coincidentally, it was Ning Juechen.

Ning Juechen didn't have any thick clothes for the cold, so he wore several thin sweaters under the school uniform, wrapped in layers like bamboo shoots, and when he squatted down, the school uniform was dragged under his buttocks, and he huddled there with his schoolbag on his back A small mass, like a ball.

Xu Ye rang the car bell: "What are you doing?" Ning Juechen was startled by him, and turned to look at him, his eyes sparkling in the darkness: "Wait for my brother to come home." Xu Ye kicked the brace away Put the bicycle on the tripod and park it by the wall: "I know, I said, what are you squatting here for?"

Ning Juechen pointed to the black commercial vehicle in front of him: "There's a cat underneath." "Cat?" Xu Ye walked over and squatted beside him, leaning on the front of the car and bending over to look inside, "No." Ning Juechen kneeled Kneeling on the ground and looking inside: "Yes, I watched it go in."

Xu Ye grabbed the loose fabric on the back waist of his school uniform and lifted him up: "Don't lie down on the ground, is it cold?" "I really saw it go in!" Ning Juechen's tone was a little anxious, as if afraid of Xu Ye Drag does not believe him.Xu Ye took out a ham sausage from the side pocket of his schoolbag and handed it to him: "Here."

The two huddled together and squatted down again, trying to lure the cat out with food. Ning Juechen held the ham sausage with the wrapper peeled off, and his hands were sore.Xu Ye was tired from waiting, and yawned leisurely: "I think you should eat it by yourself." He thought to himself that he was feeding the cat anyway, so it didn't make any difference.

Ning Juechen tugged on his sleeve to prevent him from standing up: "Brother Ye, did you hear the cat meowing?" "No." "Yes, listen carefully, very quietly." "I didn't hear... "Huh, you're not listening at all!" "..." Xu Ye was shocked by him, this kid is getting better and better, and he has learned to tease others.

The two of them squatted there until their legs became numb, and finally a small black paw protruded from under the car, and then a fluffy head.Xu Ye stretched out his hand to pick it up and put it on the side of the open space, and took a closer look under the dim light. It turned out to be the lame tortoiseshell. It was much bigger than before, but it still looked skinny and pitiful.

Ning Juechen broke the ham sausage into small pieces and put them together for the cat to eat: "Its leg was injured." "It used to be like this." "Ah, have you seen it?" Turn around the trash can." Xu Ye pinched the cat's ears, and said to himself that I have not only seen it, but I have compared you to it in my heart several times. ——Looking at it this way, one person and one cat together are surprisingly harmonious.

Ning Juechen hugged his knees and looked down at the back of the cat's head: "No wonder they are so thin." "Actually, some of them are also fat. Didn't it have a broken leg? It can't compete with other cats, so it can't eat." Xu Yi said When he was very gentle, Ning Juechen couldn't help turning his head to look at him.

Xu Ye lowered his eyes, his eyelashes were thick and long, and against the light, they looked like fluffy golden balls.Ning Juechen thought of his two favorite sentences when watching "Snow Country" before: "The woman seems to have half-opened black eyes. But, when I took a closer look, it turned out that they were her eyelashes.", "Her thick closed eyes Eyelashes, which look like half-closed black eyes.”*

This is about Juzi, and Ning Juechen immediately thought of Xu Ye when he saw it.Xu Ye always likes to joke that he is pretty and that he looks like a girl, but Ning Juechen actually thinks Xu Ye is pretty, especially those eyes.When he copied these two sentences in his diary, his mind was full of Xu Ye's brows and eyes.

"Why are you in a daze!" Xu Ye elbowed Ning Juechen, pulling him out of his wild thoughts.Ning Juechen stretched out his fingers and lightly touched the kitten's narrow back: "What about it?" "Can you take it home?" Ning Juechen paused and shook his head.

"Then you can feed it when you see it. You can't help it fight and grab food for it. Everyone has a life, and a cat has a life." Ning Juechen didn't speak, the skinny The cat quickly finished eating the sausage, circled around Ning Juechen's feet and then limped away.

Xu Ye looked at the disappointed expression on Ning Juechen's face, and instantly imagined the appearance of a lame kitten sitting on the lid of the trash can in the cold wind, hungry and shivering, and the words just now seemed to have changed slightly.

It is said that the speaker has no intention of listening, but Xu Ye was afraid that Ning Juechen would substitute himself, so he changed the subject bluntly: "By the way, please do me a favor." Ning Juechen raised his head to look at Xu Ye, he I couldn't think of anything Xu Ye could need his help for.

Ning Juechen turned pale after hearing Xu Ye's words: "No, I won't go." "What are you afraid of? I'll call Jue Lan out for lunch at noon tomorrow, and then you go to him to find the car keys."

"I dare not steal his keys." "What is stealing? He is so precious to his car. I said several times to install a brake and he didn't listen."