"Xie Jin wake up, Xie Jin..."

Consciousness gradually woke up with a call, Xie Jin opened his eyes that were outrageously heavy, and a ray of golden sunlight hit his face, warm and smelling good.

"Are you up? Xiaoye is here, waiting for you in the hall." The woman's gentle face broke into his sight, and Xie Jin's eyes widened involuntarily when he saw her face clearly.

"...Mom? Why are you still alive...uh!"

The words he said subconsciously just blurted out, the woman's slap fell on top of his head instantly: "What are you talking about, little bastard, you don't expect me to order when you have nightmares, get up quickly!"

Holding his head aching from his mother's "love care", Xie Jin got out of bed ignorantly at the woman's urging, and his figure was reflected in the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the room.

The short one was wearing only a fat and big sleeveless vest, which was a little too long, and it looked like a slightly shorter dress on him.

The hair that had just woken up was a little messy, but because it wasn't very long, the ends of the hair were only slightly raised, and beneath that was a face with some baby fat.

Xie Jin finally rubbed his rather round face at the somewhat unfamiliar self in the mirror. It seemed that something was not right. He always felt that he had forgotten something, but he really couldn't remember it.

The woman behind him who was still making the bed was in a daze when she saw him, and the eyebrows on her beautiful face twitched again, "Why don't you wash your face soon? Xiaoye has been waiting for so long, you're going to be careful with the old lady cutting you."

Xie Jin hurriedly responded. He knew too well that his mother just seemed to be very gentle. Once she made her angry, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After changing clothes in a hurry, he dragged his shoes and trotted out of the room. As he walked through the small but cozy living room, he saw a boy of his own age sitting there, holding a half-eaten watermelon in his hand. .

"You finally got up, lazy Xie Jin." The boy also saw Xie Jin, he watched Xie Jin running towards him apologetically, and pouted in dissatisfaction, "I thought you were going to let me dove again."

"I'm sorry, I seem to have had a very long nightmare just now, how long have you been here?" Xie Jin looked at the boy in front of him with watermelon juice on his mouth, and laughed twice.

This stinky boy with a face pretending to be a mature adult is the bamboo horse Ji Xiangye who has played since he was a child.

"I don't know, start at least half an hour?" Ji Xiangye threw the melon rind in his hand into the trash can, he took out the paper from the tissue box on the coffee table, wiped his hands, and continued to tease Xie Jin, "Look at you, don't you just do it? Are you having a nightmare, why are you still crying?"

Eh, who cried?

Xie Jin was stunned for a moment. He raised his fleshy little hand and touched his cheek, which was soaked with tears at some point. He stood behind the sofa at a loss, looking at Ji Xiangye's slightly exaggerated expression. laugh at yourself.

"Auntie, auntie come to see Xie Jin cry, haha!" Ji Xiangye's loud voice soon attracted the woman who was still cleaning up the bedroom, and she also looked around Xie Jin as if she had seen something rare.

"Why did you cry so well? Did Ultraman never beat a monster in his dream, or did he get a full score and was trained again?" The woman raised her chin and squatted down beside Xie Jin. Xie Jin fled in panic.

"I remembered, did you dream that I was dead just now?"

Xie Jin was stunned for a moment. The hair on his forehead soaked in sweat blocked most of his eyes. He shook his head suddenly, then plunged into the woman's arms and buried his face in her warm neck.

"I don't know, I...I can't remember."

Whether it was the woman he hugged or Ji Xiangye who was laughing at the side, neither of them seemed to expect Xie Jin to have such a reaction. They thought that Xie Jin would refute with a blushing face as usual, but because of his stupid mouth, he had to. admit.

But this time Xie Jin didn't. He was like a restless and rambunctious little beast, instinctively seeking the protection and body temperature of his mother, and it seemed that he was really scared.

"...Okay, mom is here, don't be afraid." The woman put away her joking tone, and patted Xie Jin's back lightly with her hand, as if coaxing him when he was a child, and said softly, "Dreams are the opposite, we are not afraid. "

"Yeah Xie Jin, my mother also said that dreams are the opposite, don't you think we can stand here just fine?" Ji Xiangye stepped forward with a pouted mouth, and he gently took Xie Jinchui's hand on the woman's back, " I don't laugh at you anymore, my aunt and I are with you."

Xie Jin didn't respond, he just followed his heart and hugged the woman, and at the same time tightened Ji Xiangye's hand that was holding him.

"Okay, if you don't set off, you'll be late?" The woman slapped Xie Jin on the back again and gently pushed him out of her arms, "Ouch, the phone rang, it was your teacher who came to urge him."

She got up and went around to the other side of the sofa to get the receiver of the landline, but Ji Xiangye didn't let go of Xie Jin's hand, he looked at Xie Jin's eyes with sparkling teardrops, and asked in a low voice, "Why do you still love to cry like you were when you were young? Like a little girl."

"I'm not a little girl." Xie Jin defended with a nasal voice. He stared at the hand Ji Xiangye held with him, and whispered, "I, I'm going to wash my face, I'm going to be late."

He trotted to the bathroom to wash his face, and heard the woman urging across the door: "Son, hurry up, Mr. Yang said that the two of you won't be here. If you don't rush over, the other students will go first."

"It'll be right now!" Xie Jin hurriedly ended the battle. When he wiped his face and walked out of the bathroom, the woman was already waiting for him at the door with a kettle and a box of iced watermelons in her hands.

"Don't run wild in the hot weather, here is the mung bean soup boiled at noon, you two will drink it when you are thirsty. I just said hello to your fat uncle downstairs. He happened to be going to the building materials market and took you there along the way. "

The woman's nagging instructions kept pouring into her ears, but Xie Jin didn't feel the noise. He obediently carried the kettle on his back, took the box of iced watermelons from her hand, and said goodbye to the woman before going out: "Mom, I'm going out. ."

"This child, hurry up." The woman's smiling face responded to him. After Xie Jin put on his shoes, he looked back at the woman. She was wearing an old-fashioned floral dress and was standing there looking at him.

For some reason, there is always a feeling of reluctance, which is inexplicable, as if he will never see a woman when he walks out of the house now, which makes him inexplicably uneasy.

Xie Jin pursed his lips. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Ji Xiangye saw his abnormal movement and tugged at the hem of his clothes.

"Let's go, it's not that I'm not going home." Ji Xiangye grabbed Xie Jin's hand again, and he smiled at the woman, "Auntie, we're going out, thank you for the mung bean soup and iced watermelon!"

Being dragged out the door by Ji Xiangye, the two trot downstairs all the way, and the neighbor's fat uncle was sitting in his little gold cup, which he didn't know the number of hands, whistling at the two of them.

"Thank you, Uncle Fat." Ji Xiangye pushed Xie Jin into the van and urged, "Sit in, the door on the right side of Uncle Fat is broken, have you forgotten?"

"You kid, Renpizui is not far behind." The fat uncle pinched off the burnt cigarette. After he threw the cigarette butt out of the window, he looked at Xie Jin in the rearview mirror, "What's wrong with Xiao Jin today, why is he so depressed?"

"He, I had a nightmare just now...Why are you covering my mouth!" Ji Xiangye swayed from side to side to avoid Xie Jin's outstretched hand, "Xie Jin just had a nightmare and cried!"

"I, I didn't cry!" Xie Jin retorted loudly, but his flushed face and stammering words indirectly made his rebuttal self-defeating.

"Crying? What's so embarrassing about this? You are just a little older. When you grow up to be a man like Fat Uncle, you won't cry anymore because of nightmares."

Uncle Fat laughed heartily. When he looked at the rearview mirror again, he found that Xie Jin and Ji Xiangye who were sitting in the back row had strange expressions. He felt strange and asked them, "Why, look at this kind of eyes I?"

"I don't want to be like a fat uncle when I grow up." Ji Xiangye made an arc with his hands in front of his belly, and then imitated the fat uncle to straighten his belly. "My mother said that if you are too fat, you will get three highs, which is unhealthy. "

"Hey, you stinky boy, we got off the car in a while and we have to talk."

Xie Jin watched the two of them talking, with a faint smile on his face. don't know why he hasn't felt this way for a long time. This most ordinary daily life can make him laugh.

The van stopped in front of the newly built aquarium, and Uncle Fat finally didn't get out of the car and told Ji Xiangye that he had to rush to the building materials market to choose materials to make furniture for his soon-to-be married son.

Xie Jin and Ji Xiangye followed outside the aquarium waiting for their teacher to check tickets and enter the venue. The sweltering weather was cut off by the blue world the moment they entered the aquarium.

"Wow, so many fish!"

Too late to sigh too much, the two of them were taken to the main force by the teacher-today is the group visit day organized by the school, and the blue in sight dilutes the dullness and irritability of summer, and brings freshness to everyone present.

Since there were only students and teachers leading the team on the visit day, and students were not allowed to move freely, Xie Jin and Ji Xiangye walked at the end of the team, watching the fish and eating ice-cold watermelon leisurely.

"It's a dolphin, Xie Jin, I really want to jump in and swim with them." Ji Xiangye was lying on the half glass, and he teased the dolphins in the pool with the watermelon in his hand, "Would you like to eat it?"

"Are they really free?"

Xie Jin's dull voice came from behind him. Ji Xiangye looked back and saw that Xie Jin's eyes were a little dazed, so he stared blankly at the dolphin swimming back and forth in the semi-enclosed pool and asked questions.

"Being locked up here and being scrutinized by people every day, and being forced to learn difficult movements for a bite of food, they originally belonged to the ocean, didn't they?"

"What's the matter with you, you suddenly said such profound words." Ji Xiangye stuffed the watermelon into his mouth and looked at Xie Jin inexplicably, "It's not like you, have you seen something strange recently? ?"

He walked to Xie Jin's side, raised his hand and pressed the back of his hand to Xie Jin's forehead like an adult, "It seems to be about the same temperature as mine, are you alright?"

Yeah, what am I talking about?

Xie Jin was a little stunned. Those words just now seemed to have not been thought through by him, so he just blurted out subconsciously.

It's as if... another person lives in him, another person with a different mind.

"You don't know. When you fainted when you encountered something dirty, it scared me to death. Are you alright? Did you see something again?"

Ji Xiangye's words brought back bad memories of Xie Jin, he shook his head, grabbed the boy's hand and replied in a muffled voice, "It's okay, Aye, let's go."

Ji Duan: Damn, I also want to pinch Uncle Xie's face when he was young