Rebirth Aftec Death

Haagen-Dazs

I had basically screened all the ice creams in the cabinet: Meiji, Cold Stone Creamery, Haagen-Dazs, and Magnum, to prevent overlap with the school canteen and to prevent brands that Li Chishu could recognize from appearing. Even if the brands overlap, they are in different series of packaging.

Otherwise, with this person's personality, he would choose ice cream that he knows within the safety range that he can ensure, so as not to accidentally get too expensive brands.

Sure enough, Li Chishu's eyes walked around the freezer, and after finding that he had never seen a package before, he carefully took the smallest box.

Haagen-Dazs.

There was a low wall made of cement bricks in front of the door, and under the low wall were the vegetables grown by the owner himself. Li Chishu and I sat on the low wall. He was wearing the simplest shorts and canvas shoes. Probably because the ice cream really suited his taste, Li Chishu had a rare leisurely look, scooping the ice cream into his mouth in small mouthfuls, sipping it very slowly, with his legs hanging in the air and shaking from time to time.

I leaned close to his shoulder and asked, "Is it delicious?"

He nodded seriously.

I asked again, "Is it expensive?"

"Not expensive," I said, "Feed me a mouthful."

At this time, I was not in school and there was no one around. Li Chishu did not hesitate to scoop a large spoonful and handed it to my mouth.

After I finished eating, he scooped with a small spoon and asked, "Why did you tie a red scarf on me?"

"..."Li Chishu scooped a big mouthful for me, which made my teeth so cold that I couldn't speak for a long time.

After a while, I said, "Only when you tie a red scarf, you are a child."

Li Chishu said, "But I am not a child even if I tie it."

...

Li Chishu seemed stupid and slow in everything except studying. In the words of ten years later, he was a little allergic to romance.

But his slowness did not seem to be born slow, but the loneliness that spanned most of his life had suppressed his sensitive emotions for too long and too thick, and when it broke out, it was too late for me to save it.

I avoided answering and approached him again: "Feed me another mouthful."

Perhaps he was still not used to such intimacy, so he didn't scoop it for me this time, but just reminded me: "There is exactly the same one in the freezer..."

"Feed me." I gently bumped him with my shoulder, "Feed me, I'll give you two mouthfuls later."

He didn't say anything, lowered his head and scooped another big spoonful for me.

I ate it, looked up at the swallows flying high and low on the roof opposite, and waited for the ice cream to slowly melt in my mouth, and suddenly shouted: "Li Chishu?"

"Hmm?"

I leaned over and kissed him.

With a "clang", the steel spoon in Li Chishu's hand fell to the ground. He seemed to be unable to breathe.

I left his lips as if nothing had happened, turned my head and continued to look at the pair of swallows on the roof, exhaled, and reminded him: "You can breathe, Li Chishu."

He woke up, took a deep breath, jumped to the ground, and bent down to pick up the spoon.

"I... I'll go wash it." Li Chishu had just finished speaking, and before he could straighten his back, the spoon fell from his hand with a "clang".

He picked it up in a panic and rushed to the kitchen without looking back. I looked at his ears, which were red as if they were about to be cooked, and shouted: "Watch out for the bumps!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Chishu had stumbled and the spoon in his hand fell to the ground for the third time.

"..."

I hurried down to see if he had fallen. He picked up the spoon as if he had expected it, and waved his hand behind him: "You... You don't have to come over! I'm fine!"

After that, he ran into the house like a rabbit and disappeared.

It took twenty minutes to wash the spoon. I watched Baiyun coming and going outside. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and decided to see how long this person would drag on.

Unexpectedly, I didn't find anyone in the kitchen.

The kitchen room itself has two doors, one opening outwards and the other breaking through the wall, connecting to the main room. Li Chishu probably ran from that side.

My eyes were fixed on the small steel spoon that he had washed to a shine in the corner of the stove, and I felt extremely helpless.

Li Chishu, where can you hide?

I went upstairs without thinking, but I didn't find anyone there.

Did he really hide?

I was just thinking about it when Jiang Chi called.

When the call was connected, my tone was not good: "What?"

"I'm asking you, you're like a firecracker." Jiang Chi was gloating and wanted to join in the fun, "What are you doing? What's wrong?"

I hung up the phone in a hurry: "Looking for someone, I'll tell you later."

"Looking for someone?" This grandson got more excited when he heard it, "Why? Your wife can't stand the hardship and ran away?"

"Can't stand the hardship?" I laughed sarcastically, "He can't eat his mouth."

As soon as the phone was hung up, I started shouting downstairs: "Li Chishu!"

I thought he wouldn't respond, but I didn't expect the man's echo to come up vaguely from the backyard: "What's wrong?"

I ran downstairs to the backyard and bumped into Li Chishu walking out from the other end of the grape trellis.

He was holding a small wooden stick as thick as his little finger, with a line tied to the other end of the stick, and a strange little thing was caught on the other end of the line.

"What is this?" I asked, "You were playing with this here before?"

He stared at the thing in his hand with his eyes downcast, slowly raised it up and handed it to me, and his other hand unconsciously wiped the pants beside his leg, as if he was very embarrassed: "This... I made it for you."

I took it and looked at it carefully, and asked again: "What is this?"

He became more nervous, wiping his hand on his pants, and finally clenched it, staring at the ground and said: "Kite."

I tilted my head slightly to follow his eyes, and my voice became softer as he followed: "Kite?"

"Yeah." He nodded almost imperceptibly, "My father... taught me when I was a child. You can make... a small kite with paper and paste."

Li Chishu pondered for a few seconds, and then mustered up the courage to continue: "You-I know that you have taken good care of me during this period. I, I am very grateful Thank you, but... I don't know what to give you. You seem to have everything you need, but maybe... what you need is beyond my ability. So I..." He looked up, pointed at the kite, and smiled cautiously and tentatively: "I made a kite for you." Seeing that I didn't say anything, Li Chishu hurriedly added: "This is a little simple. A bigger kite will take a long time to make, and there are not enough things here. If you want it, I will go back and make you a bigger one." I held the small wooden stick and hid it in my arms: "No, I want this one. This one is good." Li Chishu's hand holding the edge of his pants finally relaxed, and he whispered: "That's good." I looked at him: "Nothing else to say?" "Ah?" He clenched his five fingers that had just opened, "Anything else?" Li Chishu couldn't breathe again. I said: "Just now..." He stared at me closely. Li Chishu must be praying in his heart: Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it. But I insisted: "We were sitting in the dam, I--"

"Your mouth fell." Li Chishu suddenly interrupted me.

"Mouth..." I was caught off guard and stunned by this sentence.

He took the opportunity to sneak into the house from beside me: "I'm going to do my homework."

"..."

The wind in the yard came in gusts, rustling the long vines of the grape trellis.

"Mouth fell..." I chewed these words over and over again, and finally looked at the sky and laughed, "Mouth fell..."

Li Chishu, you wait.

You wait for me to fall a few times, and then fall on you and see where you run.

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October 2, sunny

The physics test paper I did today was a bit difficult. The food in the cafeteria is not delicious when the holiday comes. If you go a little later, it will be gone.

A girl came to the class. It turned out that Luo Ke didn't go home either.

She gave me three little bear biscuits, which were filled and very sweet. She also solved the final math problem with me. Thank you Luo Ke.

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October 2, sunny Shen Baoshan (crossed out)

Shen Baoshan accidentally (crossed out)

Shen Baoshan kissed me today.

He might have been a little impulsive, should (crossed out)

He probably didn't mean that, he might (crossed out)

Shen Baoshan might just (crossed out)

He made me a meal today, it seemed to be called black truffle or something (crossed out) (crossed out)

But he (crossed out)

He hugged me accidentally this morning, probably because he was still asleep, he said he would sleep a little longer and fell asleep.

He (crossed out)

He might have used me as a pillow.