It is the sun, it is new life
Song Shuyang got up on time at eight o'clock, dressed and washed, and appeared at the school gate at nine o'clock with a small schoolbag on his back. Jin Zhou was already waiting for him in the car.
Song Shuyang opened the passenger door and got in, issuing his first oral instruction of the day: "Why do you always dress so provocatively?"
"Why am I so flirty again?" Jin Zhou shook his clothes. "Isn't it just ordinary jeans and a pullover?"
Song Shuyang glanced at his collarbone calmly and said, "I noticed that you particularly like wearing this kind of top with a large neckline." If he moved a little, he could see the top of his shoulders. I wonder who he is trying to seduce.
"This kind of clothing is comfortable and doesn't pinch your neck. If you like it, I'll give you two."
"No, no, I'm a pure and honest person."
Song Shuyang waved his hand. Actually, it was because Jin Zhou was wearing off-shoulder clothes, and if he put them on, his chest would be exposed. He was not that fashionable yet.
While driving, his attention was completely focused on that area, and his eyes couldn't help but glance inside, almost squinting.
"Can you please be more restrained?" Jin Zhou stared intently at the road. "I have the feeling you're going to take advantage of me."
"Go away, who is seducing you?" Song Shuyang finally withdrew his gaze.
He clearly emphasized the word "who", but Jin Zhou narrowed his eyes, "Then who do you want to seduce?"
"...Can you please drive properly and stop talking so much?"
Song Shuyang crossed his arms in front of his chest and became distracted after being seriously angry for less than a minute.
He wondered if Jin Zhou had also remembered the "drifting appointment" that they had forgotten for a long time.
The reason why Jin Zhou was named Jin Zhou was because when he was born, someone calculated the five elements and said that he lacked water, so he was given the character "Zhou". His mother was still not reassured, so she added a nickname "Miao Miao". Little did she know that everything has its limits, and he almost died because of the character "water".
At that time, he was in the third grade of junior high school. His body had not yet been fully adjusted. He was thin and shriveled. When he stood next to Song Shuyang, who was in elementary school, you could not tell there was much age difference between them. In addition, his facial features had not yet fully developed, and there was a sense of fragility on his pale face that was difficult to tell whether he was male or female. This kind of appearance would often be described as "feminine" by boys of the same age.
Jin Zhou's low social desire was misunderstood by them as being withdrawn. In the first and second year of junior high school, they only talked about him in private, but in the third year, relying on the fact that they were about to go to higher education, the group of boys gradually became bolder and escalated their verbal bullying of him into actual actions.
Desks being scribbled on, exercise books being stepped on with black footprints, and full-mark answer sheets being "accidentally" torn were all common occurrences for fifteen-year-old Jin Zhou. He didn't care and never made a fuss. The only person in the world who could truly make him angry was the overly aggressive little bastard at home.
But one time when the little bastard was accompanying Song Nian to pick him up from school, he had a fight with two boys in his class, just because he saw them holding Jin Zhou's answer sheet and making fun of his high-scoring composition for its corny wording and sentence structure.
Song Shuyang kicked and bit like a mad dog, snatched the answer sheet and held it tightly in his hand, crying and sternly saying, "No one can bully Jin Zhou except me!"
Jin Zhou looked at his cowardly and fierce appearance and laughed out loud without any conscience.
Adolescent boys all hold grudges, and revenge follows.
It was the last autumn outing of the third year of junior high school. The location was a forest world, and one of the activities was rafting. Jin Zhou was a bit afraid of water, but he was too lazy to explain it to the teacher. He figured it would be over in a moment, so he just had to endure it.
Who knew that human nature could be so evil? In order to avenge the punishment of being detained for the fight last time, the two boys deliberately rammed Jin Zhou's boat, capsizing the entire boat. He also fell into the water, struggling and choking on water several times.
The water where the school takes students to play is not very deep. Even if someone who can't swim falls in, they can still struggle to sit up. It is because of this that they dare to do whatever they want.
Seeing Jin Zhou in such a state of disgrace, they were delighted, as if they had gotten their revenge. They called him handsome and popular with girls! They called him androgynous! They called him excellent in grades... But when the man in the water stopped moving, they became afraid.
"Is Jin Zhou...dead?"
The crystal clear water was tinged with diluted red. It was because Jin Zhou had hit his forehead on a sharp rock on the shore while struggling. The wound was only two centimeters away from his temple!
Then, a serious illness occurred.
An accidental fall into the water triggered all the complications. He started to have a fever, and it lasted for endlessly. He had a fever for four whole months and was barely conscious. When he finally woke up, he started coughing, coughing heart-wrenchingly, as if he wanted to vomit out his lungs.
Song Shuyang was terrified. He didn't dare cry in front of Jin Zhou. He could only ask Song Nian in private, panicked over and over again: "Is Jin Zhou going to die?"
Song Nian cried even harder than him, "No, Yangyang, no, brother suffered so much when he was a child, God won't be willing to take him away."
In fact, Jin Zhou never told them that there were several times when he closed his eyes and really felt that he was dead, but when the sun rose the next day, accompanied by severe pain and itching in his lungs, he opened his eyes in despair again, welcoming a new day of pain.
He thought about asking Song Nian to leave him alone and let him die peacefully in the hospital. The air in the operating room smelled terrible, and he didn't want to smell it again.
But he thought of Song Shuyang.
Thinking that he had just lost his father and grandparents, and was about to lose his brother, and that Jiang City had finally had a heavy snowfall, and no one could accompany him to build the carrot snowman he had been longing for, he would definitely cry until his nose turned red, even redder than the snowman's carrot nose.
So he didn't want to die. If possible, he wanted to stay with Song Shuyang longer, long enough for the two of them to leave the world one after the other and be reincarnated together. Maybe they would have a chance to become twin brothers, closer than ordinary brothers, and he would be the older brother.
In this way, Jin Zhou survived, and this time when he opened his eyes, he was not faced with despair.
It is the sun, it is new life.
But no one expected that it was Jin Zhou who fell into the water, it was Jin Zhou who almost died, but it was Song Shuyang who left a shadow on the water.
There was a small green river behind Qingmei Lane, which was the only way for Song Shuyang to go to school. From one day on, he began to have frequent nightmares. He cried and screamed in his sleep until his pillow was soaked, and he kept asking for help: "Save Jin Zhou... Jin Zhou is going to fall into the river..."
Even if Song Nian took him to see a doctor, it would be useless. He was so stubborn that he believed that the river would swallow Jin Zhou.
That day, Song Nian went out to buy groceries. Jin Zhou dragged his still-ill-recovered body downstairs and walked into his room. When he saw his face that was so thin that there was almost no flesh left, tears immediately fell from his eyes.
He had never shed a tear when his body was in the most pain, but now he cried for no apparent reason.
As soon as he started crying, Song Shuyang started crying too. He hugged his neck and hung on him tightly, saying, "I will never call you Miaomiao again. It was this name that ruined him."
Jin Zhou wiped his tears, held his little face and said, "Zizi, teach me how to swim."
Strictly speaking, most of Jin Zhou's swimming skills were taught by his coach, but he would still jokingly call Song Shuyang "Master" and look at the smug smile on his face.
In order to prove to Song Shuyang that he was not cursed by his name, Jin Zhou proposed to go rafting together on the third anniversary of his fall into the water to completely overcome the fear in their hearts. Later, this became an unspoken annual commemorative activity for the two. Until Song Shuyang was seventeen years old, Jin Zhou began to deliberately maintain a sense of boundaries.
"It's been ten years." It was obvious that Jin Zhou was thinking the same thing as him.
Song Shuyang suddenly frowned and began the interrogation, which was ten years late: "Tell me the truth, did you really not intend to survive at that time?"
Jin Zhou didn't want to lie to him, "A little bit, right? How did you know?"
"I saw the box under your bed. I opened it when you weren't paying attention."
There weren't many things inside, just all the treasures that Jin Zhou cherished: a plastic ring, a wrinkled Chinese language answer sheet, a jade dragon pendant left to him by his mother, a bank card where Song Nian had saved all of Jin Jia's living expenses, and a suicide note.
"I didn't read that book," Song Shuyang said in a muffled voice, "I was afraid that if I ripped it up I wouldn't be able to glue it back together and you'd find out."
"So you want to know what I wrote?"
Song Shuyang bit his lower lip, showing his displeasure. "Don't talk about this. It's unlucky to talk about this while driving."
After experiencing several separations and deaths, he has become very sensitive to unlucky things.
But Jin Zhou smiled softly, "Let me say it, that's all I have to say."
"Just one sentence. If you say more, I'll bite you to death."
He lied to Song Shuyang, but in fact, it was just one sentence in total.
Dear Aunt Song:
"I've had a very unfortunate life for the past ten years. I think it was all to save my luck to be able to come to your house. Now I have no regrets. I'm just worried that no one will play with Song Shuyang in the future. I didn't spend the living expenses my father gave you. Buy Song Shuyang a computer; he's wanted one for a long time."
Jin Zhou's last work.
"Did you really write that?" Song Shuyang's eyes widened. "I don't believe it. You made it up on the spur of the moment to trick me. Are you trying to move me to tears so you can achieve your ulterior motives?"
Jin Zhou honestly admitted: "Yeah, I made it up."
"That's what I was saying. I don't remember us being so close when we were kids."
Jin Zhou raised the corners of his lips and said nothing more.
There were many people coming to raft on the weekend, and the line was quite long. Song Shuyang walked over and found Xiaobai waving at him. She and Jiang Ying were almost in line, and he wanted to call them over. Song Shuyang wrinkled his nose, his conscience blaming him fiercely, "It's not good to cut in line, right?"
Jin Zhou said "it's okay" and pulled them from the front of the line to the back, forcing them to line up with him from the beginning.
Jiang Ying cursed at him, her eyes almost rolling to the back of her head.
Jin Zhou was thick-skinned and pretended not to hear. After pretending to be deaf and blind for half an hour, he finally got his turn.
The kayak is for two people, one sitting upright and the other sitting backwards. Jin Zhou took the initiative to sit backwards.
Song Shuyang expressed doubt: "Can you do it?"
Jin Zhou: "Asking this kind of question to a man who is pursuing you is no different from provocation."
Song Shuyang was stunned and almost forgot that this was the current relationship between him and Jin Zhou.
Jin Zhou rarely emphasized it, and most of the time he was still mean to him, which made him always think that things between them were still the same as when they were kids.
"Why are you daydreaming? We're about to leave, hurry up."
When Song Shuyang came to his senses, the kayak was already flowing with the water, and the rushing stream hit Jin Zhou's back. From his perspective, it seemed like Jin Zhou was moving away from him in the water.
That fear of losing him came back.
Song Shuyang reached out to grab him, but a big wave came and pushed Jiang Ying and the others' kayak towards him. A sharp scream was heard behind him. He turned around and saw that the kayak was out of control and was coming towards him. He subconsciously wanted to protect Jin Zhou, but the world was spinning around and when he came to his senses, Jin Zhou was gone.
He panicked and shouted underwater: "Jin Zhou!!!"
There was no response.
He was so scared that tears came out of his eyes. He called Jin Zhou's name over and over again until he felt a force wrapped around his waist and he was pulled into the water by something like a water ghost.
He was so frightened that he forgot to hold his breath and nearly choked on water. At this critical moment, a hand gently pinched his nose and breathed into his mouth.
Song Shuyang finally calmed down and saw clearly the lunatic who dragged him into this.
He was still smiling, and that enchanting face looked even more breathtaking underwater.
Jin Zhou held him and floated to the surface, only to receive a slap filled with anger and without any restraint in the face.
"You are sick!"
This time her tone was completely different from her usual coquettish one, she was really furious.
Jin Zhou still looked at him and smiled, as if he had lost his mind. He grabbed his wrist and pulled it in front of him, rubbing his face that was hurt in his palm, and then tilted his head to place a light kiss on it, "Zizi, you look so beautiful when you're wet."
Song Shuyang was almost mad with anger. He raised his hand to slap him, but when he saw the unconcealable look of attachment under Jin Zhou's long eyelashes soaked in water, he could no longer bring himself to do it.
Jin Zhou kissed his cold fingertips and whispered, "Look, even if I fall into the water, I can swim out by myself, and even take the opportunity to hurt someone else."
"Song Shuyang, it's not that easy for me to die, and I don't want to die. I want to keep this life and fall in love with you." He blinked innocently.
Song Shuyang was made angry, amused and want to cry by him. For a moment, he couldn't figure out who was the troublesome kid.
Jin Zhou smoothed his messy hair and said, "Okay, let's go to the shore. Don't catch a cold."
"Can you please stop talking like I was the one going crazy?"
Jin Zhou raised his lips into a sly smile, "No, I'll let them think it was you who pulled me into the water."
"Jin Zhou! You are sick!!!"
Well, this time I'm acting like a spoiled child.
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