As the parties and implicated persons in the whole kidnapping incident, Xie Jinling, Jian Yi and Shen Xinya all went to the police station to record their statements.

Xu Zhou has reached the age of eighteen, and a sentence is inevitable. Because it has been involved in many criminal cases and even smoked things that shouldn't be smoked, it has been started for at least two years.

As for the few people who have been hanging around with Xu Zhou all this time, they were also arrested and brought to the police station for interrogation. Although the final result has not yet come down, judging from the current situation, it is bound to be punished accordingly.

After recording the statement, when the three of them walked out of the police station, it was completely dark.

There are thin clouds floating in the dark sky. Tonight is a standard crescent moon. The moonlight is still bright and clear, with sporadic spots.

As soon as Shen Xinya came out, she was picked up by worried parents.

Before the parents left, they also thanked Xie Jinling emphatically, and explained very carefully that they would find time to thank Xie Jinling for the many times of helping their daughter.

The police station is about ten kilometers away from Xie Jinling's apartment. Because she didn't want Sister to worry, Xie Jinling didn't tell Sister what happened today.

After watching Shen Xinya leave in her parents' car, he took out his phone and glanced at the time on the screen.

Nine fifteen.

It's a little late.

Jian Yi at the side looked at Xie Jinling beside her. Under the street lamp, some dim light shone on Xie Jinling's face, casting a faint and somewhat hazy shadow on the richly colored painting on his face.

At this moment, Xie Jinling looked extremely quiet, looking at the phone screen with slightly lowered eyes, thick and slender eyelashes pressed against his amber pupils, and the shadows cast by them all revealed a kind of calm and docile feeling.

If it wasn't for seeing Xie Jinling's other side in the utility room, it would be difficult for Jian Yi to compare the two just looking at the current Xie Jinling.

But in fact, no matter in the dim utility room, Xie Jinling's eyes were filled with a faint sense of evil and perverseness. It is still Xie Jinling who is so quiet that people feel a little pure and well-behaved, it is all him, and it all belongs to Xie Jinling herself.

Maybe it's his true character too.

The reason why people feel that there is a difference is just because Xie Jinling made corresponding adjustments and restraints in order to adapt to some specific environments.

"You look at me like this, are you going to see the painted drawing on my face as a flower?" Xie Jinling raised her eyes slightly, and glanced at Jian Yi with a half-smile.

It was this squinting glance that turned his naturally seductive peach eyes into a small hook, and in this inadvertent eye movement, gently hooked Jian Yi's heart.

At this moment, the feeling of rapid heartbeat that Jian Yi felt in the utility room showed signs of recovery again.

His Adam's apple rolled slightly, and it took two seconds before he spoke: "Is the totem on your face related to your clan flower?" This was the first time Jian Yi asked Xie Jinling a question about his origin.

It was also the first time wanted to know the land where Xie Jinling lived since childhood.

He knew that there were many branches in Miaojiang, and each branch had different beliefs. have also heard that some people believe in phoenix, butterfly and maple. Butterflies, in particular, are the most important elements in Hmong embroidery and batik.

Jian Yi could tell from the paint on Xie Jinling's face that it was some kind of totem, but she couldn't identify what it was.

Xie Jinling raised her eyebrows slightly, he did not answer Jian Yi's question, but said slowly: "Jian Yi, you are trying to understand me."

Jian Yi was silent, and there was a complex darkness in her eyes under the light.

Xie Jinling turned to him, with the corners of her lips slightly hooked, and said with a slight smile, "You are so smart, you don't know what this means." There was a bit of ambiguity in his tone.

Jian Yi heard the words, but did not speak. He just stared into Xie Jinling's eyes for a few seconds, and then, in this exchange of eyes, he was the first to stagger his gaze. He turned his gaze to the road ahead with no traffic, "How are you going to go back?"

This road is relatively remote and there are few vehicles. It is not as convenient to take a taxi at this point as other streets. Instead, it will be faster to take a bus.

However, these are not within the scope of Xie Jinling's consideration.

"Someone is coming for me," he said.

"Is that sister of yours?" Jian Yi immediately thought of Shen Yan.

"No, it's my little friend." Xie Jinling put the phone back into the bag, her tone was brisk, obviously the little friend mentioned in her mouth at the moment put him in a good mood.

buddy? Jian Yi paused slightly: "Lin Ye?"

"Well," Xie Jinling nodded slightly: "It's him."

"Then why hasn't he arrived yet?" At this moment, Jian Yi didn't realize that his tone suddenly became cold.

"It should be two minutes." Xie Jinling said truthfully: "He said in WeChat that the transportation this time is relatively slow." After all, this section of road is not allowed to ride modified motorcycles.

"Aren't you going?" Xie Jinling pointed at the bus platform diagonally opposite, and said calmly, "We should wait there for the bus."

"I know." Jian Yi said, but did not leave in a hurry.

At this moment, a bicycle came from not far away and stopped in front of Xie Jinling within a few seconds. Lin Ye stopped the bicycle, took off the bag hanging on the handle, and walked in front of Xie Jinling, "It was more than a minute faster than expected."

Xie Jinling looked at the bag in his hand: "Yunyun honey milk tea?"

Lin Ye chuckled: "Yes, taro ball bobo." He took out the milk tea from the bag and handed it to Xie Jinling, "The temperature is just right for drinking now."

After saying this, Lin Ye glanced at Jian Yi, then turned his gaze back to Xie Jinling: "Let's go, I'll ride you by bicycle." Before he came, he calculated the distance and sent him the apartment address from here to Xie Jinling Over there, it takes about fifteen kilometers to ride, which is not too long.

Xie Jinling simply sat on the back seat of the bicycle, holding the milk tea in one hand, and supporting Lin Ye's waist with the other hand very naturally.

Standing by the side of the road, Jian Yi watched the two people leave, and a flash of emotion flashed in the depths of her dark eyes. For some unknown thought, the hand hanging by his side tightened slightly, and then quickly let go.

When he looked up again, his eyes had regained their calmness.

the other side.

Xie Jinling, who was sitting in the backseat of the Lin Ye bicycle, was eating the taro balls in the milk tea, which were soft and chewy, sweet but not greasy, which put him in a very good mood.

Although the speed of this bicycle is much slower than that of a locomotive, the feeling of moving peacefully under the night wind is a brand new experience for Xie Jinling.

"You seem to really like drinking milk tea." Lin Ye said with a slight smile on his lips, and then he didn't know what he thought of, and he added: "So the pet really follows the owner."

"Huh?" Xie Jinling paused slightly, and was interested in the second half of Lin Ye's words: "How do you say that?"

"Remember when we first met?"

"That alleyway?" Xie Jinling was very impressed by that first meeting. After all, if he hadn't seen Lin Ye, he wouldn't have awakened the memories related to the original book.

Not to mention that he didn't know that he existed, but was just a cannon fodder in the book to promote the emotional development of Gongshou.

In fact, Xie Jinling had always been puzzled, and never understood why Er Goudan would suddenly run out of the car. But at this moment, after hearing Lin Ye mention what happened that night when they first met, Xie Jinling had a vague guess in her heart.

"Did you buy milk tea that day?"

"Well, the one you bought happened to be the one you were drinking." Lin Ye recalled the scene at that time: "After I carried you into the car, when I went back, I found a hole was drilled in the seal on the top of the milk tea. , only about a third of it remains."

There is still one third left?

Xie Jinling wanted to laugh a little, it seems that his Er Goudan is quite polite when drinking other people's milk tea.

But after hearing what Lin Ye said, Xie Jinling understood why Er Goudan still wanted to stick to Lin Ye on the night of the autumn outing. At that time, he only thought that Lin Ye's body temperature was high enough, but now it seems that there should be a reason for the milk tea.

Probably because he drank Lin Ye's milk tea, he felt closer to Lin Ye than to other people: "Er Goudan should like you very much." Xie Jinling's tone had an obvious smile.

Lin Ye pursed his lips. At this moment, he suddenly wanted to ask Xie Jinling, what about you? do you like me.

But in the end, Lin Ye still held back.

Because even if you ask, you will not get the answer you want. In addition to this question itself, perhaps it doesn't make any sense to him and Xie Jinling now.

Thinking of this, Lin Ye suddenly asked: "Xie Jinling, after this semester is over, are you going to leave?"

When he was in the studio, Zhao Yaqian, his teacher, mentioned it. Xie Jinling will only study in Cheng Lin for one semester.

"Yes, after this semester, I will go back to the village."

Hearing Xie Jinling talk about the village, Lin Ye remembered what Xie Jinling said when Zhang Jiayi asked Xie Jinling about the village during the autumn outing, "Is the village you live in hard to find? Can you find it by navigating on the map?"

Xie Jinling said: "Our stockade is in a relatively steep area, and there is no navigation." After he finished speaking, he thought for a while, and then continued: "Are you asking this because you plan to play in the future?"

Lin Ye hummed, he wanted to go to the stockade to find Xie Jinling after graduation and when the future plans were implemented maturely and securely.

Before meeting Xie Jinling, Lin Ye never thought that one day, because he fell in love with a boy, he would start to carefully plan his future.

It's hard to imagine, but in just over three months, Xie Jinling left such a deep and strong impression in his heart.

Faced with Xie Jinling's rhetorical question, Lin Ye actually wanted to tell him that he didn't just plan to play here, but planned to abduct him or stay there with him. But when the words came to his lips, Lin Ye changed his words: "Will you welcome me?"

Xie Jinling replied quickly: "Of course." His clear and pleasant voice quietly spread into Lin Ye's eardrums in the cold and quiet moonlight: "I will draw you a map when the time comes, if you still have With this plan, we can come to the village according to the route on the map."

Lin Ye laughed softly, his dark eyes seemed to be dotted with a layer of starlight, "Okay." At this moment, he seemed to hear some hidden overtones from Xie Jinling's answer.

Xie Jinling is such a sensitive person, and he has not hidden or covered up his approach to Xie Jinling these days, it is impossible for Xie Jinling to not be aware of his affection.

It's hard for Lin Ye not to wonder whether Xie Jinling's words hide a possibility that he wants.

The upward curve of Lin Ye's lips became more and more obvious, and he was riding Xie Jinling on a bicycle. There were very few people on this road, and the night breeze was cool and quiet, and Lin Ye's mood at the moment was also filled with a very strong sense of joy.

This strange joy made him feel as if his entire chest was being soaked by the slowly flowing warm water, so his heart also became soft and moist.

He couldn't help but look back at Xie Jinling in the back seat, his eyes seemed to be in the galaxy: "Then it's a deal."

Xie Jinling hooked her lips, met Shang Lin Ye's gaze, and said with a smile, "Okay."

……………

School starts at the beginning of September and ends at the end of January next year.

In the first half of the semester, there are only a little over four months.

As the end of the period approached, all the students in Cheng Lin entered the intense review stage.

Although Xie Jinling does not have to take the college entrance examination like other students in the class, her overall learning attitude can be regarded as very correct.

When doing the questions, he will ask Jian Yi when he encounters a problem that he doesn't understand. Although Jian Yi's personality is a bit cold, but when speaking on a topic, both the train of thought and the rhythm are easy for people to understand.

Lin Ye is the only art candidate in the class.

In the last month, he came to school very rarely. However, although he came to the school less often, in private, he would send wechat messages to Xie Jinling every day.

Sometimes there is only a simple good morning and good night, and sometimes I send some pictures I drew.

During this period, Lin Ye and Xie Jinling went to the Sixth People's Hospital of the city together several times. Lin Ye went to see his grandfather, and Xie Jinling went to see Director Zhou.

Xie Jinling didn't know if it was because of his women's attire that gave Dean Zhou confidence in living again after seeing his granddaughter. The doctor originally said that it would be a month at most, but miraculously, it was two months later. many months.

When Dean Zhou passed away two days ago, sister Yaxi handed Xie Jinling a bag.In the bag was a letter and a bag of lemon drops.

Sister Yaxi told him that the letter was written by Dean Zhou when he was sober.

Dean Zhou wrote a lot in the letter, and Xie Jinling remembers that passage the most...

………

I have helped many people in my life, and I have also been respected by many people. He taught in the mountains in his early years, and later established a welfare home. Time flies, I have experienced ninety springs and autumns, and I am very satisfied.

When I was in the ward, I was thinking that when a person lives in this life, he should always think about it and look forward to it. Occasionally when I was sober, I would think of the kid Xiao Jin pretending to be Xiaoyan. He dressed up so similarly that when I was in a state of unconsciousness, I took him completely as Xiaoyan.

I appreciate this white lie.

Perhaps this is not a lie to me in that state.

Because that gave me thoughts and hopes, and made me live in a world where she didn't die, and felt that every day was happy.

Even when I wake up, whenever I recall the joy at that time, even if I know it is false, I still feel satisfied.

Life is very long, I face up to the pain and pain of reality, and I am more happy with the beauty created by my sincerity.

…………

As soon as Xie Jinling recalled the contents of this letter, she felt a little sad. Dean Zhou is really different, and he really deserves his respect and love.

The day before the final exam, Lin Ye left the studio early, got on a motorcycle and took Xie Jinling to a beach.

The two stood by the beach and watched the sunset together.

Lin Ye looked at the water below his feet.

The clear sea water reflected the shadows of him and Xie Jinling, and the halo of the setting sun diffused over them. In the shimmering light, the shadows of him and Xie Jinling were very close to each other, as if they were holding hands.

The corners of Lin Ye's lips rose, and he turned his head to look at Xie Jinling who was standing beside him. He watched Xie Jinling's slender eyelashes covered with a layer of warm luster by the halo, and watched the tail of his hair flutter gently under the blowing of the sea breeze.

Out of a very subtle mentality, Lin Ye asked, "Can I touch your hair?" Lin Ye pointed to his shoulder: "It's just your side braid."

Xie Jinling raised her eyebrows: "Don't you know that the braids of Miaojiang people can't be touched casually?" If you touch them, you will have to work as a coolie in his home for three years.

Xie Jinling also said the second half of the sentence.

Lin Ye also raised his eyebrows: "Three years?" It's also possible for a lifetime.