Chapter 24
Chapter 24
It has rained several times in Chongzhou in recent days, the cold air is filled with light water vapor, and thin hoarfrost also appeared on the windows.
The sky was getting dark, and the continuous sound of rain made Ke Yue frown. Friday is the activity day of Xin Chen and his club. It seems that the rain will not stop for a while.So he went to the bathroom and took out the umbrella, planning to pick him up.
Just as he put on his coat, Pei Ruoqian opened the door and walked in.His eyes swept over Ke Yue, and he asked casually, "It's raining heavily outside, are you still going out?"
"Go pick up Xin Chen." When Ke Yue passed by him, he saw Pei Ruoqian staring at him with a vague smile, and Ke Yue was surprised, "What's wrong?"
"I found that the relationship between you two is really good." Pei Ruoqian sat on the chair, looked at Ke Yue and said leisurely.
He said this sentence once before, but Ke Yue still didn't take it seriously, and replied jokingly, "I have a good relationship with other people."
"You are very kind to him," Pei Ruoqian seemed very interested in talking to Ke Yue today, "I'm so envious."
Ke Yue smiled, "What's there to envy, isn't there a lot of people who treat you well, Qin Yang is very good."
Ke Yue's words made Pei Ruoqian's face darken, but he quickly recovered, "It's different, you see, when you are sick, you take care of him and cover the windows for him, and you stay with him even if he doesn't sleep at night, right?" Pei Ruoqian envied Exclaimed, "That's great."
Something was not right, Ke Yue subconsciously glanced at Pei Ruoqian, the other's tone made him feel deliberate and exaggerated.Moreover, Pei Ruoqian also knew that Xin Chen couldn't sleep at night, which meant that some words and actions between himself and Xin Chen might be completely seen by this person.Feeling suddenly uncomfortable, Ke Yue glanced at the time and said that it would be too late, he said hello to Pei Ruoqian, and hurried out the door.
The cold air outside made Ke Yue's head clear, and his breathing began to become smoother. As expected, it was uncomfortable to stay with that guy.
Due to the rain, Xin Chen's practice was carried out in the gymnasium.When Ke Yue got there, the club activities were almost over.
Seeing Xin Chen's surprised eyes and the smile on his face when he ran towards him, his mood changed for no reason. "I'll take you home, Chen Chen."
Xin Chen saw that he wasn't wet, so he said, "I can just run for a few steps in this kind of rain. It's too cold, so don't toss back and forth next time."
"Oh, you're so lenient," Ke Yue put an umbrella between the two of them, and said to him with a smile, "Let's go."
In the pattering rain, the two chatted all the way while walking. At first, Ke Yue wanted to tell him about Pei Ruoqian, but later he decided to forget it. The relationship between them has nothing to do with other people.
Back in the dormitory, Pei Ruoqian glanced at them, Ke Yue subconsciously became more vigilant, but the other party's behavior was the same as before, so normal that Ke Yue felt that the previous conversation between the two seemed to be imagined by him.
The next day was Saturday, and as usual, it was the day when the students went home. Ke Yue looked at Xin Chen who was packing up and lamented how boring he was at home on weekends. The two old people at home would go out to draw pictures with others and sing Quite frankly, the old lady is busy with her studies and studio, so she has less time to go home, so it's boring to be alone.
Xin Chen turned to look at him, "Come to my house to play, Xuxu and I have nothing to do."
Did you hear me right?Ke Yue stared at him blankly, and Xin Chen was amused, "You are stupid, you haven't answered me yet."
"...Is it okay?" Ke Yue was a little uncertain. When we parted at the playground last time, Xin Chen also said to let me go to his house, but Xuxu's reaction couldn't be ignored. Did she not like others going to her house? .
Ke Yue hesitated a little.
"Of course." Xin Chen was surprised by his reaction, and suddenly seemed to understand, and explained, "It's okay, Uncle Xi doesn't come back very often. My mother always said that I can't make friends. Maybe she can do it when she sees you." Be happy."
Ke Yue felt relieved, "Then I'll find you in the afternoon."
After the appointment, the two said goodbye to each other.As a result, Ke Yue was dumbfounded when he got home, and Ke Ting swaggered on the sofa and greeted him.
"I thought you wouldn't come back this week," Ke Yue sat beside her, "I even made an appointment with my friend to go to his house."
"You actually abandoned me. Fortunately, I brought you delicious food." Ke Ting snorted, "I want to eat them all."
Ke Yue hurried to curry favor with her, "I'm wrong sister, you haven't come back for two weeks, okay, grandparents also go out to play during the day, I'm bored at home alone."
Leaving Ke Yue a sideways look, Ke Ting said, "Then I'm back today, where are you going and take me with you."
Ke Yue was speechless, "This...isn't very good."
"What's wrong?" Ke Ting suddenly grabbed Ke Yue's shoulder and shook it like chicken blood, "You have a girlfriend? Is it convenient to take me on a date?"
What and what, no wonder I went to study design, this kind of imaginative study of other things is useless.
Seeing that Ke Yue didn't deny it, Ke Ting became even more excited, "Dating is not allowed in high school! I haven't talked about it yet, and you dare to take the lead from me! No matter what, I must go to see your girlfriend."
Granny Ke who came down from the second floor heard it, and hurriedly said, "Xiaoyue has a girlfriend? You can't fall in love early. How can you ask grandma to explain to your parents?"
Ke Yue knew that it was useless to justify at this moment, and the two ladies on the opposite side did not give him any chance to speak at all. While they were chattering and relaxing their vigilance, Ke Yue took the opportunity to sneak away and ran to the table to see Ke Ting Bring something delicious.
But just looking at him makes him despair, it's all sugar!And all kinds of cakes, not his love at all.
"Sister, why are there sugar and cakes?" Ke Yue asked Ke Ting dissatisfiedly holding the bag.
"Don't you dare try it? I made it with Zhang Xiaobai and the others." Ke Ting walked up to him and began to introduce, "This is vanilla milk candy, and rose milk candy. Caramel raspberry is I made it myself, eat it and tell me what I think. The lava cake was made by Zhang Xiaobai, so I don’t recommend you to eat it.”
"You actually started to learn how to make these things?" Ke Yue looked at the beautifully colored candies under the transparent sugar paper in amazement, "Is it really not life-threatening to eat them?"
"Let's beat you up." Ke Ting smiled, "Freshman freshmen created a club to make some snacks and candies. We tried it out of curiosity, and you bring some to your dormitory classmates."
Ke Yue sighed that his sister finally had the signs of virtuousness, it was not easy.Thinking that Xuxu might like these things, he happened to be going to Xin Chen's place in the afternoon, so he packed some separately and planned to take them there.
Ke Ting looked at him and shook her head, "Tsk tsk tsk, you said you don't have a girlfriend, who are you bringing it to?"
"It's my roommate's sister. If I fall in love, I will definitely tell you."
"So it's my roommate," Ke Ting cut, peeled off a candy and started eating, "I'll tell you sooner."
"Did you give me a chance to speak?" Ke Yue despised her.
In the afternoon, Ke Yue found Xin Chen's community based on his memory. Standing downstairs, he was a little unsure whether it was the fifth floor or the sixth floor?
Taking out his mobile phone to make a call, Ke Yue suddenly realized that he didn't have Xin Chen's number at all.It's no wonder that the school doesn't allow the use of mobile phones, and the two of them usually stay together every day, and they don't even think about it.But now I am in trouble, what floor is it? . .It is on the right side next to the leisure plaza, if I remember correctly, it should be on the sixth floor.
After a while, Ke Yue stood at the door of Room [-], raised his hand to knock on the door, but hesitated for a while.Who cares, at worst, make a mistake and go to the fifth floor.
As soon as his finger joints touched the iron door, the sudden sound of a heavy object falling inside the door covered his knocking sound. Even through such a thick iron door, a hysterical voice still vaguely fell into Ke Yue's ears Then came the screams and cries of children.
The time period of 02:30, the lunch break of the lunch break, and the going out of the house, these sounds are very discordant.
Ke Yue was thankful that his knock on the door was relatively quiet and did not disturb the people in the room. When he heard inside, it was the parents teaching the children, and he was obviously in a bad mood.
It should be the fifth floor. He had just walked a few steps when the door of [-] was suddenly opened from the inside. The crying sound became clear, and a young woman pulled something out.
Ke Yue heard the child inside shouting: Mom, I don't want to go.He turned his head and took a look. When he saw the crying child, Ke Yue was completely stunned. It turned out to be Xuxu.
Xuxu also saw Ke Yue, her face was full of disbelief and horror, and the woman who was pulling Xuxu also looked towards Ke Yue.
With just one glance, Ke Yue knew who she was, because she had a face very similar to Xin Chen.
The crying stopped abruptly, and the young woman grabbed Xuxu's hand and walked downstairs without even closing the door.At the corner of the stairs, Xuxu kept looking at Ke Yue, her face was covered with wet tears, the fingerprints of her palms were faintly visible, and her hair was a little messy.
Ke Yue's heartbeat started to speed up, and before he knew it, his fingers were clenched into fists until they were no longer in sight.
Stiffly, he raised his head and glanced at the half-open door. He didn't know what to do at the moment, his mind was in chaos, would Xin Chen want to see him?But I was very worried about him.
Then, completely following instinct, Ke Yue pushed open the door and saw Xin Chen sitting on the floor of the living room. He buried his head in his knees and crossed his hands, as if he was using this curled up posture to protect him. Own.
Ke Yue sat down beside him, calling his name softly.
Xin Chen's fingers moved, and small scratches fell on his jet-black hair as he raised his head.He looked at Ke Yue and forced a smile.
Ke Yue saw the scratched wound on his forehead, a red spot with little drops of blood.
"It's so bad that you saw such a thing..." His voice was low, Ke Yue could hardly hear him, and his whole body looked tired and fragile.
Things that I don't want to be discovered by others, things that I don't want to mention, seem to be living cautiously in the dark, but suddenly exposed to the sun, caught off guard and embarrassed.
Ke Yue held his hand, looked at the scar on his forehead, felt the secret and continuous pain in his heart, he found that he couldn't say any words of comfort, and the feeling of anxiety made him even more uncomfortable.
His fingers wanted to touch the wound, but it trembled slightly, unable to do anything.
"Ke Yue?" Xin Chen's voice was blank, and his expression was like the despair and struggle of a drowning person desperately looking for a chance of survival.He was like a shell that was forcibly opened, revealing the soft and vulnerable inside, as well as the ugly and painful grain of sand.
Wanted to free him from the fear of deep water, wanted to help him drive away that tormenting grain of sand.
Ke Yue hugged him slowly, "I'm here." He said softly.
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