Kawakami Mizuki

"Tell me, why do you have to follow?" Ye Ming felt a little headache when he saw this little sister who was blinking innocent eyes.After all, I haven't been back for many years, and I'm not familiar with the place. I'm really afraid that something will happen to this younger sister who likes to wander around and often gets lost.

"I want to go and see domestic comic exhibitions." Ye Qingqing knew that sooner or later she would not be able to hide it from her brother, so she simply showed her cards, and then hung on her brother with a smile, "Brother is the best, I must agree, right?"

"Manga Exhibition? Do you have tickets? Do you know the way?" Ye Ming looked at the little sister suspiciously. Looking at her like this, she might have planned it long ago.

Sure enough, I heard Ye Qingqing quickly answer: "It's been ready for a long time!" Then I heard her chatting all the way from the comic show to making friends with netizens to cosplaying an article with netizens, even the cosplay clothes All ready.Ye Ming looked at Ye Qingqing suspiciously, "You prepared it in such detail yourself?"

"I'm already 16 years old, I've grown up a long time ago!" Ye Qingqing, who felt that she was being treated like a child, suddenly exploded, widened her big dark eyes, raised her right hand and clenched her fist, and punched hard Ye Ming's right arm.

"Auntie bought it for you, right?" Ye Ming grabbed Ye Qingqing's small fist, hugged her in her arms and sat down.

Ye Qingqing, who was exposed, was not embarrassed, poked Ye Ming and accused: "My sister is the best to me. And you, you are not good to me at all, and I am not even allowed to go to the comic exhibition!"

Ye Ming messed up her hair amusedly and angrily, "When did I say that you are not allowed to go? Little heartless guy, do I usually treat you badly? I just remember how kind sister is to you?"

Ye Qingqing blinked her eyes, realizing that her brother had agreed to take her to the manga exhibition, her eyes crooked with a smile, "Brother is the best!"

After getting off the plane, Ye Ming was in a trance for a moment.He thought he would never come back in this life.

"elder brother?"

"Huh?" Called back to his senses by this call, Ye Ming looked down at Ye Qingqing and stroked the top of her hair, "What's wrong?"

"What are we going to do now?" Ye Qingqing looked around curiously and asked.

He held Ye Qingqing's hand tightly because he was afraid of getting lost. Ye Ming looked around for a week, walked to the nearest coffee shop, and answered her question: "I have already called someone just now, we just need to wait now. gone."

Sparse customers in twos and threes in the store are whispering to each other, and the darker layout design inexplicably makes people relax.

"Who to call?"

"When our family moved to the United States, we left in a hurry. We didn't have time to deal with the ancestral house, so we entrusted the house to the aunt at home and gave them the key to let their family live in. We will come back to deal with it when we have time, but we didn't expect this to happen. It's been so many years. You were only two years old back then, so you must have no memory. And I left here after finishing my second year of junior high school for academic reasons, and I just called that aunt."

Ye Qingqing really didn't remember it at all, she just nodded obediently.

Ye Ming chose a peripheral location, and the remaining faint warm sunlight in the evening slanted through the glass wall and reflected on the corner of the table.He ordered a milkshake for Ye Qingqing, while he sat aside, his eyes fell on the streets where pedestrians were hurrying.

"Brother, don't you want something to drink?"

"I don't drink coffee." Ye Ming turned his head and glanced at the quick-drinking milkshake in Ye Qingqing's hand, then turned his head back again.

Not far from the glass, a young man who had not completely faded his jerky face got out of the taxi with some frizz, took out the mobile phone in his pocket and pressed it a few times.

Ye Ming withdrew his gaze and saw the mobile phone on the table that had not been retracted, and the screen lit up all of a sudden.

"Let's go, the person who picks us up is here."

The two met the young man smoothly, and he showed a shy smile and introduced himself.Ye Ming guessed that he was the son of his aunt from the beginning, so he was not too surprised when he found out, but just nodded politely: "My name is Ye Ming, and she is my younger sister Ye Qingqing."

His gaze turned to Ye Qingqing, this pink and tender girl looked up at him, her smooth double ponytails hanging below her shoulders, and a pair of dark brown eyes sparkling.He praised: "What a cute little sister."

These words made Ye Qingqing pouted dissatisfiedly: "I'm not young anymore." But this behavior made her more childish and cute, making people want to treat her like a little sister.

He comforted Ye Qingqing with a smile, and greeted the two to get into the car. After the three of them sat down firmly, the taxi drove back in the direction it came from.

After a while, the young man's phone rang. He had just hung up after negotiating with someone on the phone, when the caller rang again.

After answering the phone again, he turned around and smiled at the brothers and sisters, and took the initiative to mention: "Tomorrow, the junior high school alma mater celebration, many students will go back to visit the teacher, I am one of the organizers of our class, they called me just now to confirm the list. "

"Big brother, which junior high school did you go to?" Ye Qingqing interjected curiously.

The young man who was sweetened by the phrase "big brother" replied cheerfully, "I am a graduate of Qingyuan Middle School."

Ye Qingqing was a little surprised, "Isn't that the same junior high school as my brother's?"

Ye Ming smiled and said, "What a coincidence."

"Brother Ye and I are still alumni. I don't know what year Brother Ye is?" The young man also looked at Ye Ming in surprise, and then remembered that he was preparing for the school celebration, so he asked enthusiastically, "Are you coming tomorrow?"

Faced with the young man's enthusiastic gaze, Ye Ming couldn't easily refuse, so he had to tell him that he was a graduate of Class [-] and Class [-].

The young man enthusiastically gave Ye Ming the phone number of the contact person in Ye Ming's class. Ye Ming glanced at the string of numbers on the note, and did not refuse or agree to anything. He just smiled and stuffed the note into his trouser pocket.

After getting off the car, the aunt who had been waiting at home warmly welcomed them into the house. Everyone had a lively dinner. The aunt chattered about the things about Ye Ming and Ye Qingqing when they were young, and Ye Ming responded to each other from time to time. Ye Qingqing sat obediently and listened.After the meal, the aunt arranged for Ye Ming and Qingqing to stay in an empty room, and told them to go to bed early.

Ye Qingqing, who was exhausted all day, threw herself on the bed, rolled over, hugged the quilt and looked at Ye Ming who was on the other bed, and asked, "Brother, don't you call? Are you going back to your alma mater tomorrow? "

"No." Ye Ming sat on the bed leaning against the headboard, reading a book in his hand, and replied without raising his head.

"Why don't you come back? If it were me, I would definitely look forward to it."

Ye Ming didn't answer, just turned a page and continued to read.Ye Qingqing, however, was relentless and kept entangled in this problem.Ye Ming was so entangled that he couldn't do anything, so he had no choice but to say: "I will fight, I will fight now, that's fine."

Ye Ming dialed the number on the note, and heard a ringtone with some noise.The call was connected quickly, and a rough voice came into my ears.

"Hello? Who is it?"

Ye Ming vaguely recalled that this seemed to be the squad leader back then. The two used to be familiar, but now they couldn't remember their names.After all, time separates not only distance, but also people's hearts.

"I'm Ye Ming, tomorrow..." He gave his name dryly but didn't know how to continue.

Fortunately, the other party was impatient, so he quickly followed Ye Ming's words.

"It turned out to be you kid. I haven't contacted you for so many years and I don't know how to call back! I don't know if I change my phone! Our class has an appointment to come tomorrow, so remember not to be late."

That's right, after he said this, Ye Ming remembered that before he went abroad, his class held a party for him as a farewell party for him.The more everyone played, the more noisy the atmosphere became. A few boys made a fuss and decided to go back to school for the 40th anniversary celebration.Everyone was having a good time, and they never noticed that there was one person missing during the banquet.

And Ye Ming, who had been silently watching that person, had already noticed when he quietly retreated to the edge of the crowd and turned to leave.

But Ye Ming, as the protagonist, couldn't get away for a while, so he could only continue to laugh and laugh with everyone, and comfort a few sentimental girls who were crying, and the others were almost gone.Finally, I went around and found the absent person under the tree on the side of the restaurant.

It was already late at that time, and the dark blue color infiltrated the entire sky, making it look extraordinarily profound and peaceful.

"Even if you escaped from my farewell banquet, you are not afraid that I will beat you?" Even though he said so, Ye Ming's eyes fell on the young man very tenderly.

"I don't like lively scenes, you know." The boy replied casually, leaning on the tree lazily.

"Don't lean on the tree, what if there are insects and ants?" Ye Ming frowned and pulled the boy away, seeing that he left the tree obediently, and then said, "Just now people in the class said that we will gather again for the 40th anniversary celebration. .”

"I heard it. The squad leader's voice is too loud." The young man spread his hands helplessly, "I probably heard it across the street."

"Will you be back then?" Ye Ming patted the young man's back carefully, and sighed when he saw that the white shirt had been rubbed black.

"It doesn't matter if you come back or not?" The young man answered absently, his eyes casually wandered around the street scene not far away, and finally settled on Ye Ming.

"What are you talking about? Let's come back together at that time." Ye Ming took the boy's hand and was about to leave here. When he heard what the boy said, he knocked on the boy's head, regretted it immediately, and touched the boy's soft black skin soothingly. hair.

"Hello? Ye Ming? What are you in a daze for? Remember to arrive on time at six o'clock tomorrow afternoon, you know?"

The voice from the phone brought back Ye Ming's wandering thoughts.

"Linchuan...Is Yi Linchuan coming?"

"Eh? You ask me? Don't you have the best relationship with him? I was thinking of asking you to call him over just now. This kid, who has the same virtue as you, hasn't heard from him for so many years..."

Seeing that the other party was about to start a long speech, Ye Ming hurriedly interrupted him, "I see, I will come tomorrow."

"Then you inform Linchuan and ask him to come too."

"I..." Ye Ming paused, "I don't have his contact information either."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Ming was fascinated by the memories just now. At that time, how did Yi Linchuan answer?

"With you, wherever you go is the same."

According to what he knew about the surprisingly lazy boy, he probably wouldn't go back.

Ye Ming showed a smile, that's good, so as not to be embarrassed.

Ye Qingqing who was at the side saw her brother smiling, so she also laughed happily.

Ye Ming looked sideways at Ye Qingqing's innocent smile for a while, and then said, "Lights out, go to sleep."

He couldn't explain to Ye Qingqing why he didn't want to go back to school, or he didn't understand Ye Qingqing.After all, she was still too young, and she simply used her own thoughts to speculate on other people's thoughts.But the relationship between people is not as simple and direct as Ye Qingqing thinks.