Huainan orange

Chapter 17

"You're up, I wanted to call you when I got up in the morning, but I didn't call you anymore because you were too sleepy." Chen Chi said as he walked in.

"Xiaochi, I..." Tang Liwei's words were stuck in his throat.

"Come and eat. I went to the town and bought a lot of food. My aunt made stewed vegetables and grandma brought them back to me. She also bought oranges and apples." Chen Chi didn't look at Tang Li and asked, but said as he walked, "Have you washed your face and brushed your teeth?" When she said this, she turned her head and looked at him.

"Oh, no, I'm going to wash now." Tang Liwei trotted out as if at a loss, and turned back after a while, "Where should I wash my face and brush my teeth?"

When Chen Chi heard him say this, he thought it was funny, and he left without listening to what he said, so he came back obediently and asked him if he would.

Chen Chi looked at him and led him to the place where he washed his face and brushed his teeth. There was no water heater in the countryside, so Chen Chi poured hot water in the washbasin for him and then mixed it with cold water to wash him.

When Tang Liwei finished everything, he saw that Chen Chi had already taken out the things he bought, including fried dough sticks, glutinous rice cakes, and leek oil boxes that he usually ate at home, as well as the pumpkin cake that he didn't know was called hot noodle oil cake. earlier.Chen Chi brought out two bowls of porridge from the kitchen. At that time, he set up firewood to boil it after he got up in the morning. The fire was not completely burnt out when he left. Chen Chi deliberately left a small fire there to cook, and he planned to return from the town. It was just right when it was boiled.

"Eat it, I don't know what you like, so I just listen to grandma and buy some. Deep-fried ones are popular in our town, but buns and steamed buns are not." Chen Chi set up chopsticks and handed a pair to Tang Liwei.

Tang Liwei looked straight at Chen Chi who was speaking, wanted to speak but didn't know how to speak.

"What's wrong?" Chen Chi looked at him strangely.

"No... I just want to say, you won't drive me away." Tang Liwei actually didn't know how to face Chen Chi. I didn't think about how I would face him after expressing my heart.So after taking a nap, he was a little embarrassed, and he was a little at a loss for Chen Chi.

"Huh? Why should I drive you away? You are a guest at my house, so I have to treat you well." Chen Chi looked up at him when he said this, his dark eyes were full of Tang Liwei's shadow, "Besides, didn't you say that we will get along well in the future? Why did you forget it now?" Chen Chi smiled after speaking, he felt that he was a little duplicity, and he obviously resisted Tang Liwei's words of "get along well" ’ But the words changed on the lips.

Hearing what he said, Tang Liwei let go of his reserve. He originally thought that all he had to do was express his thoughts. As for Chen Chi, he would definitely keep him at arm's length or remain lukewarm until graduation and then separate. He was also prepared for a long-term entanglement for this, so he dared to say those words and clarify those thoughts.

Young people's love is always warm and dazzling, like a galloping river, rushing down thousands of miles, making people unable to resist.

"Let's eat. After eating, the two of us will go out to play. We have to study in the afternoon. Didn't you say that high school should hurry up." Chen Chi smiled brightly, and Tang Liwei looked at his smile and couldn't guess what he was thinking. Yes or no.But whether to answer or not is the same for him, he will wait and originally planned to wait.

After breakfast, Chen Chi cleaned the inside and outside of the house a little bit, but Tang Liwei wanted to help but couldn't, so Chen Chi suggested him to sit on the roof for a while, and called him when he finished cleaning.

Tang Liwei agreed, walked halfway up the stairs and turned back, standing at the door to watch Chen Chi cleaning his back.

After Chen Chi finished cleaning, he saw him standing around in the yard. His tall stature was really an eyesore, but he didn't want to say anything, so he just let him go and walked out.

"Xiaochi? Why are you ignoring me?" Tang Liwei asked following his footsteps.

"I think you are thinking, and I have something to do." Chen Chi still walked.

Tang Liwei was stunned.He felt that there was alienation in Chen Chi's words, like saying goodbye, or maybe he was thinking too much, but he began to regret what he couldn't help last night, he should wait.

When Chen Chi returned, seeing that Tang Liwei was still in a daze, he sighed and said to him: "Tang Liwei, come in, I plan to go fishing with you in the pond, but before that, I want to tell you something thing. Come in."

Tang Liwei thought: Look, here it comes, it comes back, after all.When he saw Chen Chi early in the morning, he thought that there was something he didn't understand about Chen Chi's smile. The more they thought about it, the more weird they felt. He guessed that Chen Chi must want to sever ties with him, even though they had nothing to do with him so far.

Tang Liwei followed Chen Chi into the house, and Chen Chi took him into the bedroom.After he went in, he saw Chen Chi standing by the bed, gesturing for a seat.

He had no choice but to sit obediently on the edge of the bed.

"Tang Liwei, do you feel embarrassed?" Chen Chi also sat down and looked straight ahead when he spoke.

"Ah?" Tang Liwei didn't know why.

"I know what you're thinking. I've seen you absent-minded since I came back in the morning. Do you think that I didn't express my position or that the position I expressed was not what you guessed in your heart, so you are at a loss and feel that you have not controlled what you want. The result." Chen Chi looked at him while speaking, and stared straight at Tang Liwei's drooping head, he saw Tang Liwei's temples were neat and beautiful, and couldn't help but want to touch them.

"I don't, I just don't know how to face you..." Tang Liwei raised his head and looked at Chen Chi's eyes. He suddenly felt that Chen Chi's double eyelids were beautiful, but he didn't realize it.

"So I guessed right, Tang Liwei, I can tell you now that I don't want you to be nice to me, but I don't reject your offer to date me, but that's for the future. You also said that you will take an exam Good school, so you have studied sports, let's wait until college to talk about it, if you still think you like me but I don't have anyone I like, I will try. I don't know when I said this sentence today. My parents will look at me like this, but I know it's the result of my thinking last night, and it's also the result of your thinking for a long time. You said it but you didn't know how to end it, so you were impulsive, you didn't think it through, you didn't estimate it Other people's feelings. You and I are both men. I don't know if men and men can be together, and I haven't heard of men and men being together, so I tell you to wait. I don't know until now How to fall in love, so I don't know how to talk to you. But I know that it is the two of us who you said, so I will not escape, I will not escape or cater to, from childhood to grandma Just taught me that nothing is hard, time always takes everything away, including death, so my mom's death and my dad's disappearance were just a thing of the past and now no one is sad anymore. Not even my grandma , look, what is liking someone?" Chen Chi spoke neither fast nor slow, and his voice was soft.Tang Liwei thought it sounded really nice.

"Tang Liwei, you have seen the world and know more than me, that's why you said it so quickly. I want you to think about it carefully and wait until the college entrance examination to decide whether it is good or not. Now we are still good classmates." Chen When Chi said this, he felt nervous for a while. When he said that he and Tang Liwei continued to be classmates, he obviously felt distressed. He didn't know why he felt like this.

Tang Liwei looked at Chen Chi who was talking to him, and felt that he was thinking too much, but he was indeed too right. He was undoubtedly impulsive. This impulsiveness was like slowly burning the wilderness in their hearts, slowly gnawing away at the land. , In the end, the ashes are wiped out, leaving only sadness.He admired Chen Chi's rationality and secretly scolded himself for not being able to bear it, admired his precociousness and hated himself for his lack of consideration.He felt that he was a loser right now, coaxed by his two-year-old child.

"Tang Liwei, I said that I don't hate you, and I even like you a little bit, but it's definitely not the kind of liking you said. For the time being, I can't experience that kind of liking, so let's just be like this, shall we? Still talking about everything, but the focus has to be on learning." Chen Chi felt that with his own cognition, he could only talk up to this point, and then he would repeat it infinitely. He had never talked to anyone like this, even though he was the same age. He has always been the one who is precocious among people, but he also heard the teacher say "precocious and easy to lose". In addition to his family affairs, he has always only studied, but he did not expect to talk so much with Tang Liwei today. Deep down in his heart, he liked Tang Liwei, but he didn't understand, he didn't understand what kind of expression means he liked what a person could do and say, after all, he was still too young.

"Xiao Chi, you are really sensible." Tang Liwei finally agreed to say a word to Chen Chi, "I promise you, we will talk about it after the college entrance examination, but I will always treat you well during this time, so that you can see my sincerity, and I What Tang Liwei said was neither splashing water nor farting, I am a real man, I will make you like me, you wait for me and I will wait for you, let's urge each other together." Tang Liwei said excitedly Chu immediately hugged Chen Chi, Chen Chi was caught off guard and felt very awkward when being hugged, and before he finished the awkwardness, he felt his lips were blocked.

After Tang Liwei left Chen Chi's lips, he stared at Chen Chi with shining eyes. Chen Chi didn't blush, he was just digesting the accident that happened halfway just now.

"Tang Liwei, what I said also includes what you did just now." Chen Chi frowned and looked at the smiling Tang Liwei and said.

"This is the last one." Tang Liwei was so elated that he almost danced like a successful villain.

"You mean what you say." Chen Chi stood up, "Go fishing, you won't learn here anyway. Let you go to the pond to calm down." Chen Chi strode out of the room.

Tang Liwei followed closely, and this time he could feel the feeling of nothingness and lightness from his footsteps.His world suddenly became brighter, and the haze that accompanied a semester and months was suddenly cleared away because of Chen Chi's words, and Chen Chi did not read, guess, or recognize wrongly.He has always been the kid who understands, thinks about others and matures beyond his age.He thought back to his unexpected kiss and his reaction just now, and everything confirmed that he had made the right choice, and Chen Chi, oh no, it was his Xiao Chi who actually liked him, but he didn't quite understand or he In concern.

So the two went to the pond together to prepare for fishing.The water in winter is so clear that you can even see the silt at the bottom of the pond at the shallow edge.Looking at the water like this, Tang Liwei wondered if he could catch fish?

Chen Chi took out the long bamboo that was temporarily used as a fishing rod. After preparing everything, he sprinkled the leftovers in the pond, and then took the fishing rod and line without a hook to catch fish.

Tang Liwei was stunned. Even those who have heard Mr. Jiang fish with a straight hook have never seen anyone who fishes without a hook.

"Xiaochi, can you catch it by fishing like this?" Tang Liwei couldn't believe it.

"I can't catch it, but I prepared it for you. I will try it for a while, and I will catch it for you in a while. I have my own things to do. You are in charge of fishing today." Chen Chi watched as he was thrown into the fish by himself. The fishhook in the water weighs the bamboo.

"..." Tang Liwei was speechless.

But Tang Liwei didn't refuse, and he didn't know how to refuse, or he didn't dare to refuse at all.

Chen Chi sat for a while, warmed by the sun, and wanted to doze off. He got up early in the morning and didn't sleep well at night. He looked at Tang Liwei who was squatting silently, and felt a pang in his heart.Finally, he handed him the fishing rod, said that he would go back, and left without saying when he would come back.

Tang Liwei waited until noon, during which he kept staring at the surface of the water. He knew that there would be no fish to eat the hook, but he still imagined that there would be a miracle.After holding the fishing rod for a while, I couldn't stand it, so I inserted the fishing rod obliquely into the soil, and then sat there and waited.

While waiting, he thought, why did Chen Chi give him a fishing rod without a hook for him to fish, just to pass the time?This is obviously bullying fools.

With the movement of the sun, the winter wind gently hits the face, making people sober and intoxicated.

Tang Liwei sat and thought all morning.At the end when he was about to go back, he suddenly thought that maybe Chen Chi was using a fishing rod without a hook to allude to the relationship between the two of them.Take pains.

He was a little disheartened, like a lifeless winter.Originally, winter is powerful and full of hope, and it breeds the vitality of the whole spring, but at this time, no one will see the hidden mystery behind the cold winter.People will be confused by appearances, some people are smart enough to see through early on, and some people are not smart enough to be confused all the time.

When Tang Liwei was about to reach the yard, he saw smoke coming from the chimney, so he knew that Chen Chi was cooking.Walking into the kitchen, I saw Chen Chi adding firewood, and the firelight reflected his entire face, which was fiery red.

"You're back." Chen Chi smiled and said to him when he saw him.

"Well, is your meal ready?" Tang Liwei asked.

"It will be ready soon, I guess you are hungry, so I made it early on purpose, and it will be ready soon." Chen Chi explained to him.

"Oh..." Tang Liwei didn't know what to say, so he stood in the kitchen and watched resentfully.

He felt that this was really not like his own character. When did Tang Li know how embarrassment was written, but today he actually felt the embarrassment all over his body when he saw Chen Chi.He couldn't describe his feeling and didn't know where to start. He stuffed it into his mouth like grabbing a hot potato and swallowing it whole, but it was too big to bite and he couldn't spit it out.For the first time in his 16 years of life, he felt helpless and sad.

He thought he was so funny, he knew the result but he didn't know how to face it after knowing it, maybe because he was too young and didn't know how to resolve it.After thinking about it, he sighed softly, that sigh was like the helpless sound of a lonely old man who saw through the fickleness of the world.

Chen Chi listened to him sigh and looked for his reputation, and saw him frowning and looking at the ground.The boy's handsome eyebrows twisted together for no reason, showing a little bit of domineering.

"What's the matter? I think it's too boring for me. But the countryside is like this. In winter, everyone is free, and the wheat comes out and waits for the snow. On days when the adults are free, the whole family gathers around the stove to peel peanuts. It's just..." Chen Chi When he said this, he paused, "It's just because I can't farm, and I'm the only one at home."

Tang Liwei knew that Chen Chi thought he was too boring to come here, so he was unhappy, but he was upset because he couldn't get what he asked for?

"No, Xiaochi, I'm thinking, thinking... I'm not bored, I'm just thinking about the past and the future." Tang Liwei didn't know how to answer for a while.

Chen Chi didn't speak anymore.He stepped out of the stove and was busy with the lunch meal, while Tang Liwei watched from the side and was still not invited to help.It was not until Chen Chi called him to eat that he followed Chen Chi's footsteps.

The two still ate without speaking at noon.Tang Liwei looked at Chen Chi every time he took a bite of food, and he remained the same after the last meal.Chen Chi arranged for the two of them to study in the afternoon, and he took out the oranges and apples he brought back from the town in the morning for Tang Liwei to eat.

Tang Liwei didn't bring any books. He figured that he was here to play, and there was no need to continue reading after the semester ended.But Chen Chi asked himself to continue listening and speaking English during the winter vacation.Helpless, Tang Liwei watched Chen Chi study from the sidelines, breaking an orange for him to eat from time to time.

The two studied for an afternoon.Chen Chi saw Tang Liwei sitting next to him without speaking, and when he finished his studies, he looked at him with sad eyes, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"What's wrong with you, won't you lose your soul? I didn't take you to the mass grave." Chen Chi looked at his listless look.

"Well, it fell on you." Tang Liwei always made people feel ashamed when he spoke.

"..." Chen Chi didn't know how to answer.

"Xiaochi, I..." Tang Liwei didn't know how to continue.

"Tang Liwei, you have started to procrastinate, which means that you have regressed, and you will degenerate as you grow older." Chen Chi said.

"Xiaochi..."

"People are looking forward. Let's not talk about the rest. Didn't you tell me before that you want to get into a good school and follow the path you choose?"

"Ah."

"Then why are you depressed this time? You haven't lost anything, but you've gained it." Chen Chi looked at Tang Liwei with a twinkle in his eyes, and he didn't know why he liked talking to Tang Liwei. I started to enjoy discussing things with him.Before he knew it, Tang Liwei had stepped into his 14-year-old life and might continue in the future.

"I'm not depressed." Tang Liwei tried to explain.

"..., I mean, alas!" Chen Chi didn't know what to do when he said that.

"Xiaochi, I've thought about it a lot. I was impulsive, but don't hate to reject me, okay. I'm afraid I won't know what to do if I get rejected by you. I have no experience and you are my only experience." Tang Liwei When he said this, he lowered his head, like a puppy who has made a mistake.

"Tang Liwei, I told you, I didn't refuse you." Chen Chi said.

"Then you..." Tang Liwei raised his head and met Chen Chi's eyes, and saw his complete face inside, which was so deep that people couldn't figure it out.

"I like you too, I don't hate you." Chen Chi said firmly.

"Then you agreed?" A gleam of light flashed in Tang Liwei's eyes, which accompanied his emotional sublimation.

Chen Chi looked at Tang Liwei in front of him, like a child who hasn't eaten candy for a long time, worrying about a sentence that he couldn't see or understand, which he didn't quite understand in his knowledge and age perception.

"Xiaochi, I will always treat you well in the future."

Chen Chi really didn't know how to say it to Tang Liwei. He had heard this sentence several times, but Tang Liwei's behavior really didn't look like a person he could figure out. Maybe he was too young to have insight The ability of the human heart.However, no one has the ability to read people's hearts.