Chapter 775 Cicada Chirping

"Chu Zihang" the girl's voice sounded behind him.

Who is calling him?

"Chu Zihang?" The voice was a little weak and not very real. It was far, far away from my ears, fluttering like catkins.

It was a very familiar voice, but why couldn't he remember the face associated with it?

"Chu Zihang!" She was a little angry, but not jumping up and down, more just complaining.

I'm right here, he thought.

"Chu Zi."

The sudden piercing chirping of cicadas interrupted everything. The black insects flapped their wings and screamed loudly, as if they were crying at the top of their lungs. Dozens of cicadas chirped together, and the cries were drowned out by the wind and rain. everything.

Chu Zihang's raised right hand paused, and the black ink on the tip of the signature pen condensed into tiny origins. The sunlight shined through the plastic transparent pen holder like a kaleidoscope, illuminating the reference bibliography on the wooden table.

Outside the push-type wooden window of the old house, in the shade of the sycamore tree that blocks the sky and the sun, cicadas scream desperately, and beyond the red tile brick wall is the porcelain blue sky with the blazing sun in summer.

The sun shone through the white T-shirt and outlined the boy's well-proportioned body lines. Sweat gathered from the side of his face to his chin and condensed into pen-like water droplets. The cool wind slipped into the house against the roots of the sycamore tree in the yard, blowing The drop of sweat fell down and fell on the reference book, blurring the black writing.

The memory is like a strong wind blowing, a large number of wild horses thundering across the grassland, and like ice water in the scorching sun soaking down the throat and filling the entire brain. The buzzing ears can only hear the chirping of cicadas. The scene in front of Chu Zihang changes from The blur of distortion has been focused on the light brown sycamore leaves outside the window in summer.

"You called me?" Chu Zihang said.

His voice echoed in the empty old house, and for a moment he didn't know who he was asking. After all, in his memory, he was the same person from beginning to end.

"No." But someone actually answered him.

It was a girl's voice, very young, and her voice was reminiscent of the silver wind chimes hanging on the window.

The voice sounded right behind Chu Zihang, very close, which meant that they were in the same space and in the same room.

Chu Zihang looked back and saw that he was sitting on a chair, so he gently held the back of the chair with his right hand and twisted around. The white T-shirt was pressed against his sweaty torso, revealing some healthy flesh color. His eyes also Then it fell to the center of the room.

There was really a girl there, wearing black tight-fitting exercise clothes. She was sitting on the yoga mat and doing the slow disassembly of front handsprings. She was on her toes and touching the ground with her right hand to support her body turn. The black exercise clothes were stretched. It must be close to the lower abdomen and waistline. The sunlight outside the window reflects her silhouette on the wall. Her neck is slender, and her legs are also slender. Every curve is written with youth and beauty, clean and reminiscent of a black swan treading water.

The breeze blew through her neck and lifted up a few strands of hair, which were covered with crystal moist sweat. Her skin was as delicate as a baby hidden under the black tights, just like the soil burying spring buds that have not yet fully gestated.

She was always there, dancing silently without making any sound, until Chu Zihang at the table asked her.

Chu Zihang stared at the girl blankly for a long time, until the girl's movements were completely different from last night, standing tall on the yoga mat, her ponytail hanging behind her back, she looked at the boy strangely and asked, "What's wrong?" "

"No, it's nothing." Chu Zihang realized that it was not polite to stare at the sweating girl, so he turned around and put his eyes on the table again. Reference books were stacked on top of each other. The words were clearly visible on the spine of the book. He looked down at his white T-shirt that had been washed countless times. Hidden underneath was the boy's young, healthy and strong body.

"Can you come over and help me?" the girl said.

Chu Zihang stood up and looked around, and saw that the girl was doing leg presses on the yoga mat. Her two slender legs were in a straight line. Her fat-free thigh muscles were stretched out of the curvature of the hill by the exercise clothes, but there was always a gap between her crotch and the ground. Then some distances can't be perfect.

"Leg press?" Chu Zihang was no stranger to this exercise.

"The school's cheerleading team will have its finals next week. As the captain, I can't slack off compared to the team members!" The girl clenched her fists on the ground and waved.

Chu Zihang walked up behind the girl and gently pressed her waist. He said to himself that all your team members are probably eating ice cream in the CBD area while choosing fashionable sandals and bags. You are probably the only one who is so serious about staying at home. Practice gymnastics.

"Summer vacation is coming soon, isn't your school team going to play in the city competition soon? Do you need our cheerleading team to cheer you up?" The girl asked, looking sideways at Chu Zihang's figure.

"City race?"

"Isn't it?" she asked, "During this period, the boys in the school who like basketball are very excited. Everyone is very optimistic about your school team and think that you are the only face of Shilan out of school. After all, in terms of sports, we are the only Basketball can be compared with other schools.”

Chu Zihang vaguely remembered that this happened, but those memories swirled in his mind, sometimes roaring like a horse, sometimes like the wind, climbing over the hills and hiding behind the back slope of the grassland. In his ears, only the chirping of the cicadas outside the window kept ringing. , the endless ringing is a bit disturbing.

"What time is it now? What are we doing?" he couldn't help asking.

"At 1:30 on Sunday afternoon, we just had Lanzhou Ramen at a noodle shop outside. I complained that the beef was so thin that it was transparent and not enough to eat. You asked the boss to add ten yuan more beef to me, and now you are pressing my legs. Are you suffering from heatstroke?" The girl stopped pressing her legs and turned around neatly to face Chu Zihang, sitting cross-legged and looking up at the boy. The beads of sweat on her neck and cheeks that reflected light could not shine brighter than those black eyes.

"I'm asking about the specific time." Chu Zihang seemed to have noticed something, and looked away from the window to look at the sycamore tree whose branches and leaves were trembling in the wind. There were split light spots between the shades of the trees.

"Do you need to be precise to the year, month and day? Brother Chu, are you afraid of being late for returning to the alien spacecraft?" the girl asked with a squinted smile, her eyebrows and eyes like crescent moons.

"Today is June 2." Chu Zihang's memory suddenly became clearer, and his mouth and nose seemed to be floating out of the water.

"Yes, June 2nd is Children's Day, which is also your birthday. Yesterday we had a BBQ in your yard." The girl stood up and was a little shorter than Chu Zihang, but she still looked tall. , she reached out and touched Chu Zihang's forehead and then her own forehead, "You shouldn't have heat stroke, right? You're just sorting out reference books by the window."

"I remember your name should be" Chu Zihang looked at the girl. After a long time, he said, "Xia Mi."

"Wow, Senior Brother Chu remembered my name. I'm so touched." The girl turned her head and looked at the dull face of the boy in front of her, and said in a tone of not being surprised at all, "Should I feel honored? As someone remembered by Senior Brother Chu, Can I be in the top 10 list of girls in my heart?"

What he said after that was a bit pretentious, but it also highlighted the girl's out-of-the-box character. Chu Zihang stared blankly at the girl named Xia Mi, seemingly still digging out the floating memories in his mind, but for a moment, he felt a cold touch. She pressed it against his cheek, pulling back all his chaotic thoughts, and stared at the girl in front of him again.

"Senior brother, you are eating popsicles. Although you don't have heatstroke, you really look like you are dizzy from the heat. If others find out that you came to my house as a guest and didn't even serve popsicles, I will definitely be scolded to death." Xia Mi put the old popsicles in the plastic bag into Chu Zihang's hand, took two steps back and walked briskly to the refrigerator in the corner, bent down and picked up one for himself, and took it out in his mouth. The shadow moves on the wall as flexibly as a black cat.

Holding the popsicle in hand, Chu Zihang sat back in his chair and turned his head several times to look at the girl who was eating popsicles and practicing on the yoga mat. Before he could speak again, the girl asked first, "Oh, by the way, senior brother, I've always wanted to say , can I ask you a favor?"

"What's going on?" Chu Zihang asked subconsciously.

"Ah, it's nothing serious. You just want to introduce someone to me." The girl who had always been cheerful before suddenly lowered her voice. Although Chu Zihang didn't look at her, her eyesight was a little erratic.

"Who is it?" Chu Zihang couldn't figure out his thoughts for a while, and could only passively follow the girl's topic. The pen spun in his hand, and the light and shadow spun into flowers on the page.

"That's the tall boy who appeared at your birthday party yesterday. He's from the basketball team and is similar to you." Xia Mi tilted her head. When Chu Zihang looked back, he could actually see something unknown on her cheek. Is it the temperature of the sun or the warm red color that emerges due to emotions.

"You're talking about Lin Nian." Chu Zihang almost blurted out the name.

"Yes, Lin Nian, that's the name." Xia Mi suddenly turned to look at Chu Zihang, "Senior brother, can you introduce him to me?"

"Why?" Chu Zihang looked at her and said.

"Do you have to ask such a direct question?" Xia Mi's face turned bitter.

"You like him." Chu Zihang said again, staring at Xia Mi, and his words were to the point.

"Well." Xia Mi couldn't help but cover his heart, "Senior brother, to be honest, you are really too sharp in some places (gossip) to be yourself."

"Why do you like him?" Chu Zihang turned his head slightly and turned back. This topic did not shock him too much, as if this kind of question had not appeared for the first time.

"Is there any reason why you like it?" Xia Mi tilted his head and looked at Chu Zihang's back, "Maybe he looks cool when he rushes to the front and breaks through the defense, and he looks cool when he scores, right?"

Chu Zihang was silent for a moment and said, "His position on the basketball team is a forward. Penetrating and scoring are the center's jobs. He doesn't score often."

"Well, who is the center of the basketball team?"

"it's me."

"Oh, then I guess I saw it wrong. You two look too much alike sometimes." Xia Mi slowly tilted his head and chuckled.

"So you like him because of basketball."

"There are other reasons. For example, he has always been indifferent, doesn't talk to others, and has few friends. Girls all like this kind of cool boy, who kind of feels like Rukawa Kaede."

"Who is Rukawa Kaede?"

"I'll go. Senior brother, you are so good at basketball and you don't know about Rukawa Kaede?"

"Sounds like Japanese." Chu Zihang hesitated, "Comics? I don't read comics. I have mostly watched American cartoons, such as "Shrek."

"I know, I let you off at home yesterday, but not many people saw it. Everyone was rushing to grab the barbecue to eat." Xia Mi lay down and hugged his straight legs.

"How do you want me to introduce it to you?" Chu Zihang said hesitantly, "I have no experience in this area."

"Wow, do you need any experience to introduce a girl?" Xia Mi said with a slight exaggeration, "Don't boys just ignore the process and only think about the result when they hear a beautiful girl is introduced to them?"

"You think you are a beautiful girl." Chu Zihang grasped the key point.

"Senior brother, don't you think I'm beautiful?" Xia Mi didn't hesitate, but asked directly.

"I don't know." Chu Zihang answered in a very standard manner. Not answering some sensitive questions is the best answer.

"It's boring." Xia Mi sighed.

Chu Zihang thought for a moment and asked, "Have you and Lin Nian never spoken?"

"Said."

"Why don't you just introduce yourself."

"There was no chance. The only chance I had to talk to him was when I was drinking water from a thermos cup in gym class. I accidentally burned my mouth and splashed all over him."

"He should take the initiative to send you to the infirmary. This is an opportunity." Even Chu Zihang, who doesn't read comics, can deduce some classic plot developments.

"No, he only chased me and asked me what brand the thermos cup was in one class. He wanted to buy one as a gift for his sister's birthday." Xia Mi took a deep breath and looked at the ceiling in confusion.

"It's indeed what Lin Nian can say." Chu Zihang nodded, and then fell into silence again, "Then he probably doesn't like you."

"What kind of topic terminator are you talking about?" Xia Mi was stunned and stiffly lowered his head to look at the boy's black broken hair, "Are you saying something that a young girl in Huaichun can listen to?"

"He always only contacts people he is willing to contact. If he likes you, you should be friends by then." Chu Zihang said softly.

"Is this true? I fell out of love when I was still secretly in love?" Xia Mi scratched his head and looked confused, "Does he usually talk a lot when he is with you? Senior brother, you seem to understand straight men like him very well .”

"What is a straight man?" Chu Zihang's knowledge blind spot was touched again.

"People who don't understand the style and don't understand the meaning behind the words are called straight men." Xia Mi looked at Chu Zihang with squinted eyes.

"He is very smart. He has always been smart and can understand a lot of potential information." Chu Zihang paused and said.

"Where can you tell?"

"We don't talk on the court, just by making eye contact he knows whether I want him to pass the ball or break through."

"Oh my God." Xia Mi fainted.

"Give up." Chu Zihang glanced at Xia Mi and suggested, "If you pester him, he will only think you are crazy."

"What about lingering longer? Is there any chance that he will also become a psychopath?" Xia Mi's mind was very strange.

Chu Zihang actually thought about this possibility, and then nodded expressionlessly, "It's possible, but it will take a long time."

"Senior brother, can you give me some constructive suggestions to shorten this 'quite a long time'?" Xia Mi raised his right index finger and thumb, pinched the distance and stuck out his tongue.

"So that's why you asked me to help you sort out the reference books today." Chu Zihang turned his head and looked at the books on the table as if he understood something.

"Hehe." Xia Mi smiled, without any shame at being exposed.

"Why do you think I know Lin Nian very well?" Chu Zihang was not angry. He just picked up the pen again and started writing and drawing. The girl who had finished warming up behind him began to dance lightly on the yoga mat.

"Because many people say that you two are very similar, both in personality and ability."

"So you think I know Lin Nian as well as I know myself."

"It's a bit convoluted, but that's probably the truth."

"Then what can I do to help you?" Chu Zihang stopped writing, "In your words, you are now discussing with a straight man how to pursue another straight man."

"Brother, you have really seamlessly integrated into the character. No wonder you always get perfect scores in reading comprehension." Xia Mi admired Chu Zihang for labeling himself as a straight man without any resistance.

"Did I say something wrong?"

"No! Maybe senior brother, you just need to teach me how to chase you?" Xia Mi smiled, "Since you are no different from Lin Nian, maybe I can impress you with the same methods that can impress him."

"I don't know how to impress myself. I have no experience." Chu Zihang answered calmly and truthfully. Many people thought that he was a stone, including himself, who did not deny this. A stone will not analyze itself and think about how to view it. And methods will be pierced by drops of water.

"Why don't we just take our time to find this kind of thing? Senior brother, you are so stupid." The girl laughed, her low voice echoing in the room with a hint of teasing and frivolity.

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Chu Zihang didn't know what to say. The cicadas chirping outside the window became louder and louder. He was quiet for a long time. He turned around and opened his mouth to say something. But at this time, he found that he was facing an empty room. The clock hung on the wall and turned, and the walls were covered with silhouettes of sycamore branches and vines.

"Xia Mi?" Chu Zihang shouted.

No one answered him.

There was no one on the yoga mat in the room, and only his shadow was cast on the ground in the whole room, alone, as if the person 'Xia Mi' had never existed in the world, and all the previous conversations were just his delusions.

The cicadas chirping outside the window became louder and louder.