When I got back to my room, all sounds were shut out. Fang Qiuheng loudly reprimands, Shi Shanshan on the side of the comfort of the small meaning words, completely hear.

Mrs Zou knocked on the door and asked if she was ok.

Qi Huan barefoot squatted on the stool, his hands across the knee in a daze, a long time before returning to the sentence: "I am all right, Aunts Zou you busy."

There was no book open on the desk. Her eyes wandered and she did not know what she was reading.

Pick up the phone to dial a familiar number, and wait for a long time. So long that the dialing stops and nobody picks up.

She tried again, but it didn't work.

Again, busy.

After a while, my phone vibrates and I get a text message:

The table is not convenient in the middle of a business conversation.

She read it twice, bowed her head and rested her forehead on her knees.

Sitting motionless for a long time, Qi Huan put down his legs, some numb. She found another number in the phone logs, looked at it for about 10 seconds, then called.

I'm halfway there. I got it.

Slightly undulating breath, a little magnetic.

"Hello."

"......" Qi Huan scratched her fingers on the table in a low voice. "Chen Rang."

"Why?"

She heard him drinking, voices, walking and running, the tread of the shoe on the gravel.

"Are you home?" She asked.

He said, "Playing basketball."

"With Zuo Junho?"

"Well."

Qi Huan pulled the corners of his mouth, "So ah."

He said nothing.

It was quiet for a while and no one made a sound.

Qi Huan suddenly opened his mouth: "Do you also think I am very bored."

Chen rang silent. There was no answer for a long time.

"I'm going to hang up if you don't talk." "She whispered.

The hours ticked away slowly and slowly.

She breathed, her throat burning.

The phone moves down against the cheek.

"... No."

The receiver was a little farther away from her ear, but she could hear it.

Clear as day.

Chen let the tone is very dull, shallow a few words, do not listen to the slightest ups and downs.

But it made her eyes hot and her nose sour, like the taste of lemon.

"Chen Jean." Qi huan said, "I wonder if I can come to you."

There is a low howling wind.

He didn't say yes or no.

There was a pause, and then she heard him speak.

"No. 75 huining Road, next to the basketball court."

.

There is a street lamp at a distance from the side of the court, far from the ground, the light falls to the bottom, the brightness decreases, becomes faint.

Qihuan took a taxi there, stepped into the court and listened to a group of people chatting to a single dribble rhythm.

"Ah, Qi Huan... ?"

Zuo Junhao and people talking, the first to notice her, a zheng.

Qi Huan pursed his lips, like a smile and not like a smile, say hello. In a bad mood, out of his usual mood and his gags.

"Who is it?

Vocational school questions.

Zuo Junhao did not answer, looking at her, "how did you come, you..." Voice pause, look at Chen Rang on the court, a little hesitant.

Chen rang stopped shooting, slowed his hand, slapped the ball and stood there, his eyes calm.

Like she was waiting for her.

Qi Huan walked straight past without talking to anyone else, nor did she say much to Zuo Junhao.

"That girl and Brother Jean... ?"

See her move toward Chen let, flank several can't help asking.

Season ice mystery: "you look like what situation."

"We're not you. How do we know?"

"Guess."

"What a guess! Several people kick him and Zuo Junhao's toes, "what situation, never seen before."

Season ice handle a stall: "we also don't know."

"I'll go, it won't be any fun..."

"No." Zuo Junhao opened his mouth, and Ji Bing looked at each other, are helpless, "we really do not know."

They didn't see qi Huan until she came. God knows what they're doing.

In the stadium.

When they came to Chen Rang, Qi Huan suddenly didn't know what to say.

Out looking for him, and then what? She didn't think. I'm just bored. I don't want to be at home anymore.

Chen lowered his eyes and peered at her.

The ball didn't stop in his hand, and he slapped it twice and flicked it to her.

Qi Huan retreated a step, subconsciously catch. Look up.

"Fight or not." He asked.

There was a collective pause. His tone was calm and unhurried, as if it were a casual remark.

She nodded without thinking.

Two men hit a ball on the spot. Of course, Qi Huan was no match for Chen Rang. He did not play rigorously or formally, but he also showed no intention of letting go.

The ball was in Qi Huan's hands, and as soon as Chen Rang was in front of her, he would intercept her as she went around him.

Qi Huan played basketball with Zhuang Mu and Yan Shulong, but the girls couldn't really mix with the boys. When they wanted to play seriously, she had to watch. Only in fun would they take her on.

Last year more, now qi Huan is too lazy to join in when they play ball.

You're not a rookie. That little bit of knowledge doesn't help. Chen let grab Qi Huan's ball like fun, casual things.

Every time he gets to the basket, he intercepts the ball and either dribbles cleanly to the other side of the court or shoots from far away.

Qi Huan is an unyielding temper, and the more energetic she is, the more reluctant she is to give up easily. One ball taken, two ball taken, three, four, five... Ten times, she ran up and down the court, sweating all over her forehead.

Guan Siyu coaxed his girlfriend to return to the sidelines, and saw more individuals on the field, or a woman, suddenly surprised.

"Who ah this is, face so big, let elder brother also accompany play ball?"

"You don't."

Zuo Junhao several stared at the field, even ridicule he jumped.

"I certainly know I don't know, you are not nonsense yao, know ME to still ask." Guan sat down with a smile.

Lo for a while, his face twist ba rise: "let elder brother why, make the person a girl do not have the slightest return hand room."

No one answered the question.

Qi Huan and Chen Rang continue to play.

She could not remember how many times the ball in her hands was robbed by Chen Rang, a puff of air accumulated in her chest, more and more unable to resist.

Another time, Chen took the ball from her and tried to go around her, but whether she was too concerned or not, she caught up with him, blocking the way before he could, and slapping the ball into her hands.

It didn't just hit him. It hit his hand.

Her strength is a little too big, "pop", together with the sound of the ball, the back of his hand is red.

Qi Huan did not care, carried the ball two steps on the shot, hard to throw the ball to the place.

She did it with brute force, as if she wanted to unleash all her strength.

"Kuang -"

It shook the rim, it shook the eardrums.

No.

The trembling eardrum slowly recovered. Qi Huan dropped his head, sweat slipped down, and slightly raised his head to pant.

The ball falls back to the ground, bounces freely, and finally rolls.

"Happy."

After standing for a while, she heard Chen Rang's voice and turned around.

He didn't know when to come back and throw her a bottle of water.

She catches it, relaxes, rises and falls a little.

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He said, "Go home when you're done."

Much of the depression in his chest went away with the hit to the basket.

Qi Huan wiped the sweat from her forehead and said nothing. She looked up at him and tried to speak, but she did not.

After a long time, she recovered and said, "I'm going back."

Did not twist open the mineral water, she took it in hand, chong Zuo Junhao and Season ice nodded, walked toward the intersection.

I was almost out of the shadow of the street lamp at the back of the stadium when FOOTSTEPS were heard behind me.

She looked back for a moment, "You... ?"

Chen Rang put on his coat, hand in pocket, is the first time when the ba slightly lifted and always loose appearance.

"Go."

Just one word.

He did not wait for her, but passed her and went on.

She immediately followed.

Out of the court, to the roadside, Chen Rang stopped a taxi, Qi Huan leng followed into the seat.

"The address," he said.

"What?"

"Your house."

She understood and called the driver.

The door closed and Qi Huan stared at him. "We..."

He pulled out his phone to play. "Don't talk to me."

"Why..."

"Tired of playing."

"......"

Qi Huan wanted to ask. He asked what was going on, why he was playing with her, and there were more questions than he could explain.

Because he said, "Don't talk to him." It's all in my stomach.

As we drove along, the scenery became more and more familiar. The driver stopped at the intersection she used every day.

Chen Rang did not look up, playing the game, "you can go down."

"So where are you going, home?" JiHuan asked.

"Or what?" It seemed to him that she was asking an idiotic question.

She oh sound, no more nonsense, obediently get off. Wave goodbye to him before closing the door and turning back toward the house.

This area is all single-family buildings, environmental security is first-class.

Qi Huan entered the gate, looking back, the taxi was still parked there.

Farther on, as she neared the door of her house, she heard the engine start and the wheels grind slowly away.

The sound dwindled away.

...

Qi Huan returned to the room, received a short message. Not Chen Rang, but Zuo Junhao.

Sister ah, did you get home.

She was editing the text to go back, when he quickly sent another:

I see you go out with Chen Rang, his temper must have left you at the intersection is not it?

After a pause, she deleted the edited content and pressed the word "no". Without waiting for a word to be finished, Zuo Junhao came back again:

I've seen it hundreds of times.

"Ah."

Where are you, we come to send you back, big night you a female.

Her hand stopped.

Outside the window, it was dark, dark, but I could see glimmers of light in the clouds.

For a long time, Qi Huan went back to the past:

Thank you. But no, I'm home now.

Chen Rang didn't leave her anywhere.

Fifteen minutes taxi from the basketball court on that side to this side.

He accompanied her through a small section of The town, from random streets to her front door.

Unbearably sarcastic, and even consistently unwilling to say more than a few words. Waiting at the intersection with the taxi, making sure she walked in the door and was safe.

Qi Huan and Chen let alone eat this thing, one of the people know she does not know, to Yan Shulong they, she did not hide from the beginning.

Zhuang Mu is not happy, of course, will not take the initiative to chat with her, but Yan Shulong, the eight trigram factor can not control the whole body, big break to ask east ask west.

As usual, she still had the heart to break off some words with him, but she was in a bad mood after returning home from the meal, and Qi Huan did not want to mention it.

Headache is Zhang Youyu heart, really asked her the silly question, Qi Huan did not know what to "teach", had to use some usually turn over the magazine to see the content of the answer, finally cope with the past.

It's been a long week, just like any other. She stopped by in between classes to watch Chen let them play ball games and talk to them.

It was Sunday again, one morning, Yan Shulong was planning where to play in the afternoon and evening without classes. Qi Huan was too lazy to think about these problems and gave himself the runaround.

A group of people out of school to separate each home, did not discuss a result, about the afternoon to meet again.

Aunts Zou is a very good cook, especially practiced a few qi Huan love dishes, very good. As soon as I entered the door, I smelled the fragrance floating out, and my mood was not good or bad because of hunger, adding a gleam of anticipation.

"Aunt Zou, what will we eat today? I......"

Qi huan shuffled in her slippers, the soles rattling on the wooden floor, her smile frozen as she saw the people sitting in the dining room.

"Huanhuan, you... Back."

Shi Shanshan sat at the white marble dining table and greeted her, her smile flickering with a brief hint of formality.

"There you are again." Qi Huan leaned against the dining-room door frame.

"Qi Huan! Next second, the tone that square qiu heng scolds comes as expected, she carry dish dish come out -- of course not her stir - fried, she never ten fingers do not touch yangchun water -- stand in kitchen doorway, displeased frown: "Shan Shan comes home to eat a meal, you again say what!"

"What can I say?"

Qi Huan lazy smile.

Shi Shan shan stood up, want to come over to pull qihuan, moved the arm or stand in situ.

"It's time for dinner. Come and sit down." She said.

Her voice was warm and soft, similar to Jimo's, but Qi Huan never felt bored listening to her.

Aunt Zou came out of the kitchen, also carrying a dish of food in hand, saw Qi Huan standing there, paused for a moment, quickly put it down, said: "the girl wants to eat anything, I will do..."

The square qiu heng put dish in the hand on the table, interrupt: "return do what, so many dishes not enough?"

Aunt Zou wiped her hands on her apron and stopped awkwardly.

With a smile, Qi Huan stood there, scanning the five dishes and soup on the table, her eyes undisturbed.

"I don't eat leeks."

"Sour and sweet dishes do not touch."

"I don't like duck either."

A few casual words, casual tone, attitude more indifferent.

Fang Qiuheng changed facial expression slightly however, because she is so careless look in the eyes and these a few words.

"You..."

"I know." Qi Huan chuckles, "Yes, I am picky about food. I know what you want to say."

She looked away dully.

"You eat slowly and enjoy yourselves."

He stopped talking to them and shuffled back into his slippers.

Backside Fang Qiu heng says what she has not listened to. Shi Shanshan soft weak voice mixed with them, and aunts Zou in advising what.

Qi Huan entered the bedroom, the door closed a little heavy.

He lay down on the bed, looked up at the ceiling, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and closed his eyes without a word.

It wasn't the first day she didn't eat anything, nor was it the first day Shi shanshan's taste was the opposite of hers. She said those words, not against anyone, not deliberately to trouble, just the truth.

And the fact is, that full table of dishes, all is Shi Shanshan love to eat.

None of them are to her liking.

...

I had a short sleep, more than ten minutes. Aunts Zou knocked at the door to ask her to have lunch, Qi Huan nong should two sentences, did not go out.

Yan Shulong and Zhuang Mu send her a message, ask her when to go out.

Qi Huan was unimpressed and replied:

You go, I'm too lazy to go.

Go out from the room, Shi Shan shan is still in. He came round the corner, as if to call Qi Huan, a few steps away from the long term Ai ai.

Qi Huan passes shi Shan shan side, do not look at her one eye, the slightest superfluous vision did not give her.

"Huanhuan......"

She stood in Qi Huan's way.

Qi Huan not bear: "get out of the way, nothing don't bother."

"You did not eat lunch, hungry for a long time is not good for the stomach, or to eat a little."

Qi Huan was too lazy to talk and walked around.

"I know you're not happy to see me." Shi Shan shan still block her, "but qiu Heng aunt calls me to just want to make the home a bit more lively, you..."

"At home? You are not polite."

"I..."

"Your mother is dying in a hospital bed, and you still have the mood to chat with other people's mothers to relieve boredom. In that respect I am inferior to you."

Light floating word, say shi Shan shan face fierce change.

Qi Huan peered at her, laughing playfully: "True filial piety."

No longer waste time, Qi Huan received the expression, over her walk.

"-- you'd better take it, I won't take it."

.

Qi Huan, holding a cup of warm milk tea, strolled through the streets aimlessly.

Did not go to find Yan Shulong and Zhuang Mu, she really did not play the mood. Wandering along the street at will, tired on the stone bench on the side of the street to sit down to rest, while away, an afternoon kung fu did not last long.

Although I filled my stomach with snacks, I was hungry in the evening.

Qi Huan was looking for a place to eat when she saw a familiar figure in front of her.

Thinking it was an illusion, she squinted at it carefully for a long time, made sure she was right, and immediately ran over with a smile.

"Chen make -"

Chen Rang stood by the roadside and turned his head to look at her.

"Chen make Chen make Chen!

Qi Huan rushed to his side and smiled back, "What a coincidence! Where are you going?"

Chen Rang answered calmly, "No."

"I am bored dead, just meet you, go shopping together?"

"No shopping."

"Have you eaten, gone to dinner?"

"No."

'Oh, why?

He looked at the lights across the zebra crossing without turning his eyes. "Home."

The light turned green, Chen Rang tibu.

Qi Huan followed.

Across the street, after a few steps, he stopped.

"What are you following me for?

She had good reason: "It's on my way."

Chen Rang said nothing more.

Qi Huan did not speak all the way, but looked at him occasionally.

He is tall and straight, and looks good in blue and white. She does not like the school uniform in one very much originally, after seeing him to wear, inexplicable feel that body grabs an eye color, unexpectedly good-looking.

As frigid as he was, the rigorous side seemed to be only reflected in the aspects related to grades and INTELLIGENCE, as I had seen many times before when I asked him questions.

The rest of the time, there is something unspeakable about rascal.

Like now.

His hand was in his pocket, his gait was casual, his eyes were scanty, and he looked particularly loose.

The facial features are pretty like painting, but the handsome face is clear and cold, the corners of the eyes and eyebrows and some calm and impatient.

Nothing seems to matter.

Qi Huan was slow and slightly behind him.

His gaze rested on his wrist.

Not too thin, steady and powerful, holding a pen can write a Juan Yi font.

His wrists would look really, really good in red.

Focus on wandering, when he stopped Qi Huan also do not know, a lifted eyes, people will bump into his half body.

"- er.

She staggered back half a step. "I'm sorry."

Chen rang glanced at her, unable to discern emotion, and had only two words: "Red light."

Qi Huan touched her nose. Face hit his arm. It didn't hurt.

After a pause, she looked up: "What kind of bath lotion do you use?"

"No idea."

"Wow."

She was a little distant from him, still vaguely smelling the end of her nose that had just hit him.

Qi Huan sniffed and moved closer to him, smiling and looking up.

"You smell good, Chen Rang." Her eyes were bulging and her eyebrows were bent. "It smells delicious."

Chen Rang stared ahead, his eyelids quivering.

.

Walking small dozens of minutes, Chen Rang suddenly stopped at a crossroads.

Qi Huan wondered why and asked, "What's wrong?"

He was speechless. "I'm home. Don't follow me anymore."

Look up, imperceptibly already in a single-family villa area, each house around each tall courtyard, scattered at random intervals.

"Are you home? Qi Huan leng, unexpectedly did not continue to entwine, "that you go back."

She smiled and waved her hand briskly at him. "Bye."

Chen frowned and said nothing and moved forward.

He gradually far away, Qi Huan standing in situ did not follow up, did not immediately leave.

The setting sun stretched her shadow thin.

Watching him enter the house, completely cut off his figure in the line of sight, she casually pushed the back of her head, before turning to take a big step.

...

The house was silent, the door closing behind me with a slow, muffled sound.

Chen Rang shuffled upstairs in his slippers. The light on the second floor was brighter than that on the downstairs.

He poured a glass of water and carried it back to his room.

Open communication software, mobile phone vibration, several people shout about playing games.

Chen rang nothing, put down the cup will also join.

Twenty minutes for a fast round, thirty minutes for a slow one. Chen makes playing games as fast and precise as doing homework, with no extra operations.

Hit three in a row. Look up. It's dark outside.

Chen let sit by the head of a bed, do not plan to play again, edit the message in the dialog box, "do not play" three words have not been sent out, suddenly join the individual.

"Hey, can you hear me?"

The chat box exploded.

Fuck! The noise is so loud that I'm scared to death.

Zuo Junhao you have a problem, open voice what to do!

...

Chen let the expression flatly, point fork is about to exit, and listen to the voice of The Left Junhao said: "don't noisy don't noisy, with qi huan on, I pull her in."

A group of people paused and began to question Zuo Junhao, and the screen brushed faster:

You dog!

I go, you hospitality, all let you sell.

Did Qi Huan come? Qi Huan ah you listen to my advice, hurry away from this scum a little bit, he is definitely not good heart.

If you want to play games, call me and I will take you...

Zuo Junhao did not speak, soon, the voice rustle several times, another account came in.

"Hello?" Qi Huan fresh voice sounded, "can you hear?"

The screen went "audible", "audible".

Zuo junhao said, "She doesn't know how to play. Wait and follow my lead."

The remark caused everyone to scold him.

Chen Rang has not spoken, typed three words did not send out.

Zuo Junhao blurted out a bunch of nonsense and thought of something: "Where's Chen Rang?"

Chen Rang pressed the corner of her lower lip. Her fingers, which had been lying in the upper right corner of the screen for a long time, were about to press the fork when a fresh female voice rang out: "Chen Rang? Is he there?"

Her background sounds a little loud, not indoors, but on the street, I think.

This sentence was only a few seconds, no one else noticed, but Chen Rang listened.

Everyone you and I typed back to Qihuan:

Of course I am. How can we play games without Brother Jean?

Let elder brother technology 6 have to fly, less he also play what.

That is, Qihuan you don't be zuo Junhao this dog things cheated, you call let elder brother take you on the line, away from him that scum point!

What they said behind them, Chen Rang did not look down and sent out the sentence "not to play".

Click the next fork to exit the game, the same moment, Qi Huan said a word, background sound mixed in the back, is very familiar sound, very familiar place.

Chen rang frowned more and more.

Sipping his lips for a few seconds, he grabbed his discarded coat and got up and left the house.

It was dark outside and the streetlights were on.

Two turns and three blocks away, less than a ten-minute walk away, you can hear the sound of people coming and going along the gourmet street, filling the air with the smell of food.

Chen Rang strolled through the crowd against the street and stopped before long.

At the end of the street, near a circle of large flowers, there qi Huan sat, facing the street on the right, directly in front of the pancake store.

The dark sky overhead was full of stars, and row upon row of shops lit up the whole street.

In the noisy crowd, warm light, attractive fragrance and lively atmosphere blend together.

She sat idly and quietly playing games.

All alone.

.

Qi Huan, as a newcomer, got their utmost protection. This one hit very happy, happy to swing legs.

Zuo junhao sent a voice message: "Play again?"

She was about to say "yes" when the light went down for the most part.

"What are you doing here?

Look up suddenly shocked, hand on the voice recording key, because there is no sound for a few seconds, the operation failure function actively jump off.

"... Let Chen?"

She blinked, looked left, then right for a moment. "Why are you here?"

His lips were restless, but his eyes were fixed on her.

"It's not ten minutes from my house. I should ask you that."

He was impatient on his lips, but his eyes were fixed on her.

"It's less than ten minutes away from my house. I should ask you this."