Rebirth Aftec Death

Flying a kite

In the next two days, Li Chishu and I occasionally exchanged cooking. Because of the puppy, he began to be willing to spend some of his extra study time to accompany Potato - even though he was too nervous about studying, and the lack of this time would not have any impact on his grades, but after all, this was an honor that even I had not received much.

Clothes are not as good as new, and people are not as good as dogs.

Despite this, Li Chishu still showed an unconcealable loss in the two days before the end of the holiday. I scratched his ears and cheeks at him for half a night when he was asleep, but I couldn't figure out the reason. The only possibility is that he didn't want to leave this place -

I have a very sharp intuition, or this intuition comes from my understanding of his nature over the years. I think Li Chishu believes from the bottom of his heart that my intersection with him will end completely with the end of the short holiday.

In his opinion, my intimacy with him these days is just a compensation for asking him to accompany me to live in the countryside, not from my heart.

He doesn't believe that Shen Baoshan, who is so different from him, has an extraordinary feeling for him.

On the evening of the 6th, he sat on the low wall again. The smell of the earth and plants mixed with the evening breeze, blowing his oversized T-shirt like a flag. Li Chishu stared at the crimson sunset on the roof without saying a word: maybe he was thinking about how an ice cream-flavored kiss could be inserted into the ordinary compensation, or whether ordinary classmates could blow each other's heads and hug each other appropriately, or maybe he was puzzled about the whispers in his sleep when I hugged him from behind that morning, why it was so smooth and natural.

I made Li Chishu's brain, which had never been rested, even busier.

After feeding the potatoes, I walked out of the backyard, habitually put my hands in my trouser pockets, leaned against the old wooden door and shouted to him: "Li Chishu."

He moved his eyes slowly and blankly down, through the dam and focused on my face: "...Hmm?"

I asked him: "Do you want to fly a kite?"

"Fly a kite?" He looked around in the distance on both sides, "Where is the kite here?"

"Didn't you make one for me?"

He looked embarrassed and uneasy again, and explained to me slowly and seriously: "That... can only be held in the hand to play, it's not easy to fly."

I walked towards him step by step: "Then go find an easy one to fly."

——

Li Chi When Shu sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, he hadn't reacted yet: "Where are we going?"

I buckled his helmet: "Go to town and buy a kite."

"Buy a kite?" Although Li Chishu had a lot of questions, his hands were very conscious. As soon as I sat on him, he grabbed my clothes on both sides. "It's October now, are there kites?" I started the motorcycle: "Can't there be kites in October?"

His voice was mixed in the engine sound: "I thought kites were only flown in spring."

I thought of something, and asked him when I drove out of the motorcycle: "With your dad?"

He nodded, his helmet lightly bumped against mine, and whispered: "And mom."

No wonder. As a left-behind child, Li Chishu had a time limit for flying kites every year. His parents could only stay at home with him during the short period of spring after New Year's Eve throughout the year, so in his memory, even kites have a flowering period.

I tilted my head and smiled at him: "Then you can just treat me as spring."

We were lucky. The nearby town was an ancient town under development, and there were many tourists coming from time to time, so the closer it got to night, the more lively it was. Otherwise, many shops in ordinary towns would have to close at five or six o'clock.

I found a small shop that looked like it was run by a local. When the boss heard that I wanted a kite, he turned around and went to the warehouse on the second floor. He really found a bunch of kites from the unsold goods from last year.

There is a very wide small square on the edge of the ancient town, with a runway and lawn next to it. There is also a flag-raising platform under the fence, which is said to be the site of the primary school before development.

At this moment, the setting sun was full of the hill, and tourists were sitting in groups of three or two. The kite in Li Chishu's hand was very large, with fluttering ribbons and highly saturated colors. The more I led him to the lawn, the more people looked over.

He obviously became uncomfortable. If I hadn't pushed him, he would have walked backwards: "Why don't we go to another place..."

"What are you afraid of?" I said, "Aren't I with you?"

In the end, Li Chishu stood at the edge of the lawn, holding the kite and the spool and looking at me helplessly.

"Can't fly it?" I asked.

He lowered his head and grabbed the ribbon at the tail of the kite. He didn't dare to look up and look at me: "I haven't flown it for more than ten years. I don't know how to fly it."

"I don't know how to fly it either." I took the kite from him and left the spool to him. "I heard that the kite should be flown against the wind. Let's try it together."

Because Shen Baoshan was "not very good" like him, Li Chishu seemed to relax a little. When I ran forward with the kite held high, he concentrated on waiting for my order, and his heart and eyes were all on the kite to be released.

I felt the wind coming, and I had been running with this thing for a long time. As long as Li Chishu let go of the rope in the opposite direction, it would not be a problem to fly.

"Li Chishu!" I turned around and called him, "Run!" He turned the spool obediently and ran in the opposite direction of me. I let go of the kite when the time was right. The kite swayed in the air and flew higher with the wind. Li Chishu had already run a long way. He looked back from time to time and saw that the kite had completely flown up. He slowed down and waited for me to pass by. "What are you laughing at?" I asked as I walked to his side. Li Chishu almost didn't know how to put his neck down. His eyes were so happy that they curved: "It turns out that you can really fly a kite now." "Not now." I took his spool and let it out for him, retorting seriously. Li Chishu was stunned: "Huh?" "Only in spring." I said, "I am spring." He was stunned. "Of course," I looked up at the kite that had become a small black dot in the distance, and then said, "If you want, I can also be summer, autumn, and winter. I can be all year round." I didn't look at Li Chishu because he was still staring at me. If I looked back, he would immediately hide away.

After a while, he turned his face away and whispered in a way that he thought I couldn't hear him: "Actually, you can be Shen Baoshan."

I pretended not to hear him and asked him: "Do you want to drink water?"

Li Chishu said: "Okay."

He took the spool and waited for me to buy water.

At the moment I turned around, I finally couldn't help laughing. It turned out that my ideas were so similar and coincident with Li Chishu's.

Shen Baoshan was willing to become spring, summer, autumn and winter, but Li Chishu just wanted to be Li Chishu.

——

It was around eight or nine o'clock in the evening when we finished collecting the kites and were ready to go home. Our motorcycle stopped halfway through the mountain road. The blockade that had not appeared in the afternoon appeared in the dark night. I took a look with my mobile phone. The road ahead was dug into a muddy quagmire in just a few hours.

There was no choice but to stop the car and take the small road back.

The weather has been fine these days, so the narrow path in the countryside is not difficult to walk on. The difficult part is the ridge in front of the path: there is only a muddy path, which is at most as wide as a 16-inch computer, and at most one person can pass through. There are paddy fields on both sides, and if you are not careful, your legs will be covered with mud.

Li Chishu held the kite and dared not take a step: "How can I walk here?"

"Go ahead." I used my mobile phone to illuminate him from behind, "Anyway, no matter how you walk, Shen Baoshan is behind you."

I put my arm around his shoulder: "Don't be afraid, Li Chishu, keep going."

You have to walk even if you don't want to.

Even at this point, Li Chishu was unwilling to leave the kite, and walked cautiously like walking on a balance beam with his arms open.

I walked more steadily than him, so I quickly stretched out my forearm to catch him before Li Chishu lost his footing. This time I had to use force, my whole arm and palm tightly clamped his waist, I could even feel the number of Li Chishu's ribs under the thin layer of fabric at the base of my thumb.

And he had no time to be nervous about it.

Li Chishu's breathing was heavy and panicked, and I could only hear his rapid breathing in the field where insects chirped one after another.

"Afraid?" I knocked on his shoulder and asked. He hesitated for a few seconds before telling the truth: "A little. I... my balance is not very good."

No wonder he refused to walk on the iron chain bridge with me before.

I stepped into the paddy field on his right, and my ankle was quickly submerged in the sticky wet soil. This way, I could keep pace with Li Chishu and reach out to support him.

Li Chishu was caught by my arm, and he was hesitant to say: "You... shoes..."

"Jiang Chi's, it's okay." I held him forward and said, "Go home quickly."

Shoes can be bought again, but my wife can't stand falling. Three thousand yuan for a new model is nothing, Li Chishu is priceless.

—— Isn't this enough to make him devoted to me?

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October 6, sunny

School is finally about to start. The cafeteria can have more dishes tomorrow afternoon.

I will see Shen Baoshan tomorrow night.

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October 6, sunny

I will go back tomorrow. Shen Baoshan will probably not look for me again after I go back.

This is the first time I don’t want to go back to school.

But today was very good, just like spring. Shen Baoshan can even make people happy when he says goodbye.

I flew a kite with him. The way back was blocked. He went to the fields to accompany me. Now he is brushing shoes downstairs.

I said I would brush them for him, and he asked me to stay upstairs.

After flying the kite, I also had an ice cream cone bought by Shen Baoshan.

The crispy roll under the ice cream cone is delicious. Shen Baoshan also gave me his.

Shen Baoshan is very good. I like spring.