near and far

Le Ming was coughing and waving his hands towards the few people he looked over, and said intermittently: "No, it's okay...cough cough...I'm choking..."

Xin Yao knelt on the high stool at the other end, put his hands on the bar, leaned over to look at Le Mingxin, and said with a smile, "Don't you usually drink?"

Le Mingxin coughed until tears came out, her nose was red, as if she had cried, and she took a sip of warm water: "I seldom drink it."

Xin Yao asked, "Single?"

Le Ming didn't expect the topic to change so suddenly, so he took another sip of warm water and looked up at Xin Yao.

"Well, single."

"Wow," Xin Yao glanced at He Chengan and said, "Our old He is also single."

Kang Chen shouted, "I'm single too."

Xin Yao snorted and said, "I dare not pimp you."

He Chengan didn't say anything, just silently drinking the refilled wine in his glass.Seeing that the atmosphere had cooled down, Xin Yao suggested again: "Hey, I bought fireworks, let's go up to the rooftop and set off the fireworks."

Kang Chen was shocked: "Fireworks? Let's go, I don't want to be stuck on New Year's Eve."

Xin Yao did what he said, carried a few bottles of wine, didn't bother to take a detour, turned out from the bar with hands and feet, and said, "It's just a small firework."

Le Mingxin got off the high stool, couldn't stand firmly, and fell backwards into He Chengan's arms.He Chengan supported the chair behind him with one hand, and Le Mingxin's waist with the other, and said, "Stand firm."

"Thank you..." Le Mingxin felt that he might have drunk too much, his head was swollen, and he felt hot even wearing a black sweater.

Really little fireworks.

Xin Yao excitedly waved the fairy wand that glowed after being lit, and stood beside the railing of the small rooftop, looking at the lights of thousands of houses in the city.The remaining three big men sat on the metal water pipes on the roof, each holding one in his hand, and let the fireworks burn from the beginning to the end.

After one was burned, Le Mingxin stood up, took a new one, squatted down with Xin Yao, and set it against the wind.Xin Yao waved the fireworks in the dark night, and the afterimages left by the firelight formed a pattern. Xin Yao laughed happily and asked Le Mingxin to take a short video for her.Le Mingxin was also having fun while shooting, and shouted: "Sister, did you draw a heart?"

Xin Yao laughed loudly: "It's the butt!"

The two smirked together.

Kang Chen watched the fireworks burnt out, took out a cigarette to light, and handed one to He Chengan, who waved his hand and refused.Seeing that he was looking at the two laughing people, Kang Chen whispered, "No idea?"

The two of them held a bottle of beer each, and they didn't feel cold after drinking a lot.

He Chengan asked doubtfully, "What do you think?"

"You know what you're asking," Kang Chen held the beer bottle, touched the neck of He Chengan's, and said, "He seems to like you a lot."

He Chengan said: "Nothing."

Kang Chen narrowed his eyes and smiled: "How do you know who I'm talking about?"

He Chengan rolled his eyes at him, expressing "childishness", took Kang Chen's lighter, lit a fairy stick, and held it in his hand.Kang Chen said, "Is there really no idea?"

"I have no idea," He Chengan's face was faintly visible under the reflection of the fireworks, "He doesn't like me."

When Le Mingxin turned his head, he happened to see He Chengan throwing the extinguished fireworks sticks into the trash bag, still very accurate.

He unconsciously thought of the physical education class he and He Chengan had cooperated with.

That day, He Chengan was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt with ceremonial clothes. It was spotlessly white, his forearms were strong and beautiful, and there were slightly raised blood vessels on the surface of his skin.He greeted his physical education teacher, stood at the starting place, his legs were slightly apart, his body was lowered, his hands were on his knees, and he looked up at Le Mingxin who was standing on the sidelines with a basketball.

Le Ming understood and threw the ball to He Chengan.

He Chengan caught it steadily, and then dribbled the ball.He lowered the center of gravity of his body, took big strides, dribbled the ball steadily under his hands, and took off easily on the third step. Le Mingxin caught it at the basket.

He Chengan completed the next two layups without any suspense.

After the last shot, he ran back. Who knew that Le Mingxin was so distracted seeing his neat movements, and threw the basketball over again without realizing it was over.He Chengan turned around to catch the ball, and the next test taker came over. He didn't pass the ball to others, but stood on the three-point line as if he was handsome. He took off, exerted force on his wrist, and the basketball passed half of the basketball court. Go through the hoop with unmatched precision.

"Wow." Le Ming opened his eyes wide and exclaimed in a low voice.

There were already girls on the sidelines looking at him and whispering, but He Chengan was still expressionless, showing no complacency at all. He didn't realize that his hair had been shaved off by He Jing before school started. He wanted to pluck his hair, but found nothing.There was a more courageous girl, Fang Ping, who was in the same class. She unscrewed a bottle of mineral water that was so cold that it dripped, and handed it to He Cheng'an.

"I bought an extra bottle." She smiled slightly, neither obsequious nor shy, cute just right.

Who knew that He Cheng'an didn't answer, and walked past her, passed by Le Mingxin, and whispered, "Thank you."

At zero o'clock in the New Year's Eve, the four of them touched the wine bottle as a celebration.

Shao Zhihe's phone call happened at this time.

"Is it gone?"

Kang Chen walked away a few steps, and said uncomfortably, "It's coming soon."

"Have a drink," Shao Zhihe said firmly, "I called a driver for you, and he will be there soon."

"Haven't you come home yet?" Kang Chen asked knowingly, and Shao Zhihe would never let Kang Xiaoqin sleep at home alone in the absence of his aunt.

"Await your return."

Is it simply waiting for you to come back and I will leave when there are people at home, or I want to see you, Shao Zhihe left such an ambiguous sentence and hung up.

He walked over and picked up Xin Yao, who was so drunk that his eyes were shining: "Let's go, let's take you back."

Xin Yao said to the remaining two while walking, "Happy New Year!"

Le Mingxin followed He Chengan downstairs, this is the first time he drank so much alcohol, and it was a mixture of different types. Although he was not so drunk, his feet were fluttering, his blood was hot, and he had to concentrate to take a step. Take a step down the stairs.

He Cheng'an caught the key thrown by Kang Chen, turned off all the lights in the store, and was about to lock the door and leave. When he looked back, he found that Le Mingxin was still sitting stupidly in the dark, sighed, and went to Pat him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go."

Only then did Le Mingxin come back to his senses, stood up in a daze, wiped his face, put on the camel coat, and wrapped the scarf carefully.The two stood outside the door, Le Mingxin saw that He Chengan was wrapping up his big black down again, and was locking the door, he burst out laughing with a "puchi", a little drunk, and dared to pour out any words.

"Your clothes look like those who buy dishes in the alley."

Seeing that he was shy all night, He Chengan didn't expect him to be so lively after a few glasses of wine. He looked down at his down jacket, his head was covered with black lines, and said angrily: "Thank you, then you can do it yourself." Let's go back."

He went out two steps and saw that Le Mingxin didn't keep up. Looking back, he saw Le Mingxin sitting down on the steps of the door, clicking on his mobile phone, not knowing what he was doing.He Chengan turned around and asked, "If you're still not leaving, what are you doing?"

"Why are you back?" Le Ming seemed surprised, and raised his phone to show him, "You're taking a taxi."

He Chengan was really about to lose to him, so he put on his wool hat, muttered "fool" in a low voice, lifted him up again, and said, "This is Chinese New Year's Eve, and it's midnight, why are you taking a taxi?" , let's go."

Le Mingxin obediently stood up and followed, sat down in the co-pilot, buckled up her seat belt, put her hands on her knees, like a primary school student in class, and didn't speak all the way.He Chengan successfully sent Le Mingxin downstairs according to his memory from last time. Le Mingxin wanted to unbuckle his seat belt and get out of the car, but he couldn't press it right. It was He Chengan who stretched out his hand to help him and he succeeded. get off.

Seeing his bewildered face, He Chengan became irritable again for no reason, took off his hat and threw it in the car, locked the car, chased after him in two or three steps, and said, "Which building do you live in, and which floor are you, I'll send you off." You go up."