Kawakami Mizuki

I woke up hungry the next day with a bursting headache before realizing that I fell asleep with wet hair last night.

Yi Linchuan put rice to cook in the pot, and lay dizzy on the sofa in the living room.By the time he sat up in shock when he smelled a smell of paste, it was too late to rescue him.

Looking helplessly at the black bottom of the pot, Yi Linchuan had no choice but to comfort himself: I'm going out anyway, so let's just go out and eat.After hesitating at the door, he turned and went back to the room, and pulled out a black hair tie from under the cabinet.

This is a headband with very simple colors and styles, but there are exquisite flowing cloud patterns embroidered on both sides, hidden among the black colors.

I went out yesterday, and my hair was flying everywhere. After learning from the pain, I still feel that I need to tie my hair.After scrambling to gather his hair and tie it loosely behind his neck with a hair tie, Yi Linchuan took the key and went out.

Last week, his editor told him that a cosplay of one of his articles will be published and will be performed at the comic exhibition.After asking about the location, he found that it was quite close and decided to go, but he planned to go alone, so he excused himself on the pretext that he had something to do.In fact, he still likes this little girl who works hard, but he is always used to being alone.

I bought a ticket at the door and entered the venue smoothly. Yi Linchuan ate milk and bread while walking.After walking a few steps, I heard the screams of girls and the voices asking for a photo mixed together. When I turned my head, I saw a crowd of people crowded around the stage. On the stage was a man with long flowing hair and a dark The red costume robe is particularly eye-catching.

After admiring it from a distance, Yi Linchuan checked the time. The performance of the stage play hadn't started yet, so he walked to the public bench not far away and sat down under the tree.Since it is summer, the sun after ten o'clock is also quite hot.It's just because everyone is busy taking pictures, buying peripherals, etc., so the bench in this position is a bit empty.

"Um...can I take a photo with you?" A pretty girl trotted over, wearing a familiar school cos outfit, looking at him sincerely with big round eyes, and asked in a soft voice.In fact, many people have already noticed this handsome guy with long hair sitting on the bench, taking pictures with his mobile phone, but Yi Linchuan didn't notice it.

Yi Linchuan didn't like to take pictures, and used to avoid them unconsciously when the class took group photos.The only thing that can't escape is the graduation photo.He skipped class that day and didn't come to school.The enthusiastic classmate abruptly posted the photo on his ID. He looked out of place on the p, floating like a ghost, he could only be grateful on the face, but sad in his heart.

When he met such an innocent and lovely child, he didn't want her to be sad.So he said to her in the most gentle tone, "I'm sorry."

Hearing this, the child in front of him waved his hands quickly, "No, no, it's me who should say I'm sorry, I was the one who was rude."

She has an apologetic face, and the way she talks in a hurry is very cute.Yi Linchuan had a good impression of this child, and when he was about to say something to smooth things over, he heard a very familiar voice.

"Qingqing?" The man, with the panic still on his face, walked towards the child in big strides.

"Eh? I'm here!" Ye Qingqing responded, and immediately turned to face Ye Ming who was running towards her.

"Where did you go? You won't be seen for a while, do you know how hard it is to get lost among so many people?!" When she saw Ye Qingqing, the anxiety in her heart dissipated, but the anger also followed. come.He knocked Ye Qingqing's head hard.But seeing Ye Qingqing's aggrieved expression covering her head, she couldn't get angry at all.He reached out and rubbed her head.

"Can you call my cell phone?"

"What's more, your phone is in your backpack!" Ye Ming said angrily.

Apparently, there was nothing behind Ye Qingqing, but Ye Ming had a small pink bag hanging on her body.

"Uh... alright, I won't get lost next time." In order to prevent Ye Ming from going on, she cleverly changed the subject, "I'll show you a super super good-looking coser! I just wanted to take a photo with him I just walked two steps faster."

Of course Ye Ming knew that the little sister was changing the subject, and planned to just greet the cosplayer and take Ye Qingqing away.Just now when I was looking for someone, I didn't pay attention to what the person next to Ye Qingqing looked like, but now I took a closer look and found that the person sitting in front of me was still an acquaintance.

"What a coincidence."

"Well, what a coincidence." When Ye Ming called Ye Qingqing, Yi Linchuan's nerves tensed up, and he could only act as nonchalantly as he could on the surface, but he raised his heart.

In fact, the two of them didn't know how to continue after these two sentences. Fortunately, Ye Qingqing smoothed things over so that the embarrassing atmosphere did not spread.

"Huh? Bro, do you know him?" Ye Qingqing asked in surprise.

"Yeah. I went late yesterday. Fortunately, he called the teacher, so I went in." Ye Ming had a calm expression when he spoke, but Yi Linchuan had mixed feelings in his heart. It seems that Ye Ming really didn't recognize him. come out.

"So you are alumni?" Ye Qingqing blinked her eyes in surprise and called out what a coincidence, and then said to Yi Linchuan, "If I had known that I would see you yesterday, big brother, I would have followed!"

Relying on her brother's relationship, Ye Qingqing suddenly felt that Yi Linchuan was much closer, and she said the words like beans pouring out of a pot: "Big brother, what role do you cosplay? Long hair and a shirt? And This hairband is so pretty."

Ye Qingqing's sweet "big brother" can be said to be invincible, but now Yi Linchuan's heart is tense, and he didn't pay attention to it at all, but when he heard Ye Qingqing's question, he immediately realized that after asking this, should he ask? Something else, for example, name.

He had no choice but to look at Ye Qingqing, "I just saw a boy in the same costume as you, are you going to play a cosplay?"

"That's right, my cosplay drama is called "Once Upon a Time"!" Ye Qingqing is not stupid, she sensed that Yi Linchuan was avoiding the topic, and thought he was embarrassed, so she told Yi Linchuan about her cosplay drama. show candor.

Yi Linchuan said softly, "So, it seems that it's almost time for you to play?"

"Ah?" Ye Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then she took out her mobile phone from the bag on Ye Ming's body and checked the time, only to realize that it was a little late, and she suddenly panicked, "I almost forgot about this I have to go back soon!" Ye Qingqing turned around anxiously, but turned her head again, and waved to Yi Linchuan, "My name is Ye Qingqing, see you next time!"

Ye Qingqing left in a hurry, this time she didn't forget to grab Ye Ming's hand.

Yi Linchuan looked at Ye Ming's going figure, and he didn't look back once.

It seems that I really forgot.

Not in the mood to watch a cosplay, Yi Linchuan looked at Ye Ming and the others who were far away, sat on the bench for a while, then turned around and left.

Why do you always remember the past? Maybe it's just because the old man was there.

In fact, he didn't see the boy who was dressed like Ye Qingqing.It's just that the editor sent him a picture of the pre-arranged cos school uniform before he recognized it. At that time, the editor also enthusiastically told him the performance time of the stage play "The Ancients Are There".

He stretched out his hand, there were light blue blood vessels faintly on the back of the overly pale hand, which looked even sicker under the sun.Recalling Ye Ming holding Ye Qingqing's hand, Ye Qingqing had a natural and happy smile on her healthy and rosy face, her forehead was slightly sweaty, and the beads of sweat shone finely under the sunlight.

They are no longer the teenagers whose world is so small that there is only each other. They walked on the sidewalk very early, and they have walked a long distance until now.

On the way home, Yi Linchuan was lost in thought.Suddenly felt a slight itching on the side of the neck, and raised his hand to scratch it, but touched the scattered hair.He hastily reached out and stroked the hair behind him.The loose hair swayed slightly with his movements, but the headband that was tied this morning was gone.

Why was he so careless... Yi Linchuan blamed himself in his heart, hesitating whether to go back to look for it, but he didn't want to run into Ye Ming and the others again, so he went straight home in the end.

On the way, I bought some vegetables and went back to cook.He washed the pork ribs, corn, radish, and mushrooms and put them in the pot. He turned on his phone to check the time, but unexpectedly saw an unfamiliar number.

It was called more than ten minutes ago. Calculating the time, he should be on his way home at that time.Because his cell phone was always on silent, he didn't notice anyone calling at all.

Yi Linchuan hesitated to call back, the phone was connected instantly, and a familiar voice came, "Hello?"

This sound was like thunder on the ground, and it shocked Yi Linchuan all of a sudden.

How did Ye Ming have his phone number?

"Linchuan?" After waiting for a long while without replying, the other person was a little impatient, "I picked up your hair tie at the manga exhibition, do you come to me and take it back or should I send it to you?"

The moment his name was called, his breath was suffocated.

Does Ye Ming know? !

His heart seemed to be tightly grasped, and all kinds of chaotic emotions surged, he opened his mouth but made no sound.In a panic, he wanted to hang up the phone directly, because he really didn't have the courage to face Ye Ming, even if it was through the phone, and across such a long distance.But he was reluctant, after such a long time, they finally met each other but they were afraid and flinched, but they still couldn't hide it from their hearts, even they were so greedy for his voice.

"Linchuan? Still there?"

"Ah... yes." He hesitated to respond but didn't know what to say.And, how on earth did he know?

"Give me the address, and I'll send it to you." The voice on the other side seemed a little impatient, and said bluntly.

"Ah, don't bother you, I..." Yi Linchuan sensitively captured the emotion in the other party's tone, and at the same time he was a little disappointed, he vaguely heard Ye Qingqing's voice, "I'll give you that hairband, or I'll throw it away." Can."

"...I'll make an appointment to pay you back when I'm free, so I'll hang up first." The person on the other side paused for a few seconds, then hung up the phone hastily.

In fact, Ye Ming's impatience was not aimed at Yi Linchuan.

Ye Ming stood, holding the phone in one hand, and pushing away Ye Qingqing's hand that wanted to get the phone.

Ye Qingqing was not tall enough, so she tiptoed and wobbled trying to get the phone, but she was ruthlessly suppressed every time, and finally she could only stare helplessly at the hung up phone, like a deflated ball, limp Slumped on the sofa.

"Brother! Why don't you listen to me? I want to talk to him too!"

Ye Ming looked at this little sister who didn't understand the situation at all, and sighed, "Didn't you say you'd go back after finishing the comic show? I'll go book tickets for you now?"

"Brother! I don't want to go back so soon." Ye Qingqing pursed her lips and stared at Ye Ming unwillingly, as if she was being bullied.

"But it's up to you. School is about to start, right?" Ye Ming rubbed Ye Qingqing's hair, her well-combed twin ponytails suddenly became messy, and a few dull hairs stood on end.

"But I don't want to go back so early, and, moreover... I still want to see that big brother again." Ye Qingqing lowered her head with a depressed expression.Most importantly, she hasn't finished her vacation homework yet...

"Just met once, and you've been thinking about him all the time, maybe you've fallen in love with him?" Ye Ming took off the rubber rope hanging from Ye Qingqing's hair, smoothed out her hair, and tied it up gently.

He also remembered that this morning, he sent Ye Qingqing back to the backstage, and then watched Ye Qingqing return to the bench after she took the stage.At that time, Yi Linchuan was sitting on the bench in a daze, staring blankly at the front, wondering what he was thinking.His headband had been loosened, hanging in his hair, and when he got up, it naturally slid down on the chair.And he just walked forward with his head down, unaware that he had lost anything.

Ye Ming took two steps closer to the bench, picked up the hair tie, but didn't immediately go to find Yi Linchuan to return it.After all, after so many years of waiting, he is not in a hurry for this moment.

"Brother, what are you talking about?! I don't know what you've been thinking about all day long." Looking at Ye Qingqing's slightly red face, Ye Ming asked in surprise, "Is it true that I have hit the mark?"

"Nonsense! I just... think he is so gentle, and I just want to get close to him and make friends with him." Ye Qingqing blushed pretty, and hurriedly defended, but recalled Yi Linchuan's gentle smile, and couldn't help but She followed with a smile, and the braided hair swayed on her back, "Besides, I think that big brother must already have someone he likes!"

"Oh? How do you know that?" Ye Ming grabbed Ye Qingqing's hair and played with it between her fingers.

"Intuition!" Ye Qingqing said these two words confidently, but began to analyze, "When he is sitting alone, he looks very lonely, and his eyes are very gentle..." After talking for a while He also felt that his reason was not reliable, so he simply said, "It's just my intuition anyway, believe it or not."

"Everything you say is right, I believe everything." Ye Ming teased the little sister for a while, and then changed the subject with a smile: "Actually, I don't want you to go, go back obediently, and come back next time, okay?"

"Don't treat me like a child." Ye Qingqing lowered her head depressedly, knowing in her heart that it was time to go back, she reluctantly compromised, and said sullenly, "Go and book tickets, I'm asleep." After finishing speaking, He waved his hands listlessly, and walked back to the bedroom dejectedly.

On the other side, Yi Linchuan stared blankly at the darkened phone screen, his thoughts drifted back to the long past, until he smelled a smell... a smell? !

Yi Linchuan suddenly looked at the soup being boiled, the bottom of the pot had been steamed dry, and it was making a scorching sound of "sizzling".Yi Linchuan immediately turned off the switch, and then vaguely remembered that he was absent-minded when adding water, and accidentally knocked over the soy sauce bottle on the side, causing the soy sauce to splash everywhere. He hastily turned off the switch of the water, and then took a mop to clean it up.After tidying up, I put it directly on the gas stove to cook in a daze, and turned the fire to the maximum... Now that I think about it, the water added at that time might not even be enough for a bowl.

Yi Linchuan sighed involuntarily, the part of the pork rib sticking to the pot was burnt, and the middle of the biggest rib was still blood red...

Yi Linchuan, who was quite desperate for his cooking skills, finally decided to go out to eat.

When I went downstairs, I heard ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing incessantly in the corridor.Yi Linchuan, who was in a bad mood, was a little irritable, cursing inwardly at any idiot who can't connect to the phone, until he walked out of the stairs, he still felt the ringing sound followed him, and suddenly thought of something...

Yi Linchuan took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, and as expected, the caller ID flashed and clamored for his existence.

A certain idiot: ...

Because of the call from Ye Ming just now, Yi Linchuan canceled the long-used silent mode, but he has been too lazy to change the ringtone of his mobile phone since he bought it, so now he still uses the unrecognizable default ringtone, which caused him I didn't realize it was my cell phone ringtone at all.

He pressed the on button, and his head, which was still in a muddy state, was immediately woken up by the roar.

"Great! I saw a good-looking coser at the manga exhibition!!!"

This volume...

Yi Linchuan took the phone a little farther away, recalled the man in the dark red ancient style suit, and understood, after all, he was surrounded by the crowd as soon as he came in, and it was hard not to pay attention.

"You called me to share your impressions of a one-day trip for nympho?" Yi Linchuan's words were extremely weak due to the obvious sense of hunger, and he couldn't even arouse the interest of molesting the editor.

"Um, no. I'm just so excited that I can't restrain myself..."

Listening to a series of idioms popping up, Yi Linchuan said a little speechlessly, "Is there nothing else I should hang up first?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Actually, I called you to ask you out and sign the copyright of "Back then."

"Back then" is the abbreviation of "Once Upon a Time", I missed Ye Ming very much at that time, so I wrote such an article.He broke up the things between Ye Ming and Ye Ming, and carefully spliced ​​them together to form another story.The person in the story who was based on Ye Ming never came back.In the end, "The Year" ended with badending, which caused the readers to cry.

"Isn't it okay to sign online?" As a lazy person who maxed out his home attributes, he naturally felt that the less he went out, the better.

"It's not impossible, but it's not very good..." The editor on the other side of the phone made up nonsense without blushing or panting. She just can't do it with her family!Thinking about the other editors, I don't know how many times I have had face-to-face with the author, but Yi Linchuan always said that something was inconvenient, hmph, did you think she didn't know this was an excuse?There is no new reason for lying.

As a little transparent, Yi Linchuan, after all, signed the copyright for the first time, and was completely unfamiliar with these methods, so he was easily hooked.

"Okay, then what time do you say?"

"Will you be free tomorrow?"

"Have."

"That's fine, let's do it tomorrow. Make an appointment at the Die Lian Hua coffee shop next to the airport at [-] o'clock in the evening. Is there a problem?"

"No."

"That's settled then."

The editor on the other end of the phone looked at the darkened phone screen speechlessly, thinking, should I hang up so fast!However, Yi Linchuan's willingness to agree so readily was somewhat beyond her expectations.

She actually came with the company this time, and the hotel booked by the company is next to the airport, very remote.When she said the location, she was ready to be rejected, but unexpectedly she agreed with a big gulp.

Are you too lazy to choose a location, or do you live far away, or even nearby?

She looked at the dimmed screen, thoughtful.

It was late at night, and Yi Linchuan was lying on the bed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.His thoughts were twisted into a mess by Ye Ming's phone call during the day.He doesn't care about things, throwing things is his specialty.His calling card has been lost along with the phone countless times.How did Ye Ming know her phone number?

When did Ye Ming know that he belonged to Yi Linchuan?Didn't...know it a long time ago?So, what does he think of him?At the gate of the campus yesterday, he didn't expose him, but watched him act, did you think he was ridiculous?

Ye Ming, Ye Ming...

Yi Linchuan whispered his name in his heart.

Falling into a dream at dawn.

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Linchuan: Ah!The headband is missing Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

Ye Ming: Is that very important? (hides the hand holding the headband behind his back)

Linchuan: emmm... this is passed down to me by an old lady, it can clear away heat, detoxify, activate blood, remove blood stasis, nourish blood, moisten dryness and cure all diseases...

Ye Ming: ...

Ye Qingqing: What about taking pictures for me?

Ye Ming (didn't shoot because he went to see someone): ...

Ye Qingqing: QAQ

So the next chapter recalls killing QAQ