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Chen Shuangshuang did not break his promise. As soon as the bell rang at noon, he pulled Yu Tong straight to the back street. They chose a small restaurant and ordered two bowls of fried noodles. Chen Shuangshuang ate two bites and pointed at the direction at the door for Yu Tong to see quickly.

At noon, the back street was full of people, and at the entrance there were a group of hawkers wearing school uniforms. Yu Tong turned around and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Chen Shuangshuang bit her face and said vaguely: "The tall man opposite and the one with curly hair is Song Huaixin."

Seeing that Yu Tong didn't respond, she sucked the noodles in and started gossiping Song Huaixin. After the gossip, she clicked a few chopsticks and said, "You must not think of whose son Song Huaixin is."

"Who's it?" Yu Tong asked in cooperation.

"Mr. Song from our class." Chen Shuang said while shook his head, and his tone was very regretful. "I really feel sorry for Teacher Song. He has been teaching and educating all his life, but his son is so ignorant. If I were him, I might feel regretful all my life."

Yu Tong didn't answer the conversation, she thought, Chen Shuangshuang didn't understand the word regret.

I remember one year my father went to a poor and backward town to inspect. She was in a critical period of psychological treatment. My father was worried and took her with me.

The town is located on the border, and there is a minefield left by the Anti-Japanese War on the mountain next to it that affected the normal lives of the people. The troops sent documents to organize mine sweeping teams to clear mines.

At that time, I lived in the military camp with my father. Some people chatted and laughed at the first time when they met. When they saw each other, they had lost their arms or legs or turned into a cold black and white photo. The sufferings were hidden behind their young or growing faces, and they were in a bottomless state.

Later she always felt that there was nothing to regret to stand in this sunshine, have a healthy body and a peaceful life.

"Yu Tong, what are you thinking?" Chen Shuangshuang's memories were interrupted.

"Nothing." Yu Tong thought for a while and said jokingly: "I'm thinking that Song Huaixin can catch girls while drinking and grabbing them with one hand."

"Nonsense!" A familiar voice came from behind, and He Junming sat diagonally opposite Yu Tong, "Tongtong, don't you like that one, right?"

Tan Yu followed him and sat next to Yu Tong. Seeing her eating noodles one by one like a cat, she frowned, as if she wanted to scold people.

Yu Tong was a little scared by him. She has rarely argued with others over the years. Her fangs and claws were also hidden very well when she was young. I don’t know why she repeatedly broke her skills when she met her.

After holding it for a while, she finally put down her chopsticks and said hard: "What are you looking at?"

Tan Yu seemed not to see that she was already annoyed, and raised her eyebrows and asked, "Don't eat anymore?"

Yu Tong suppressed his temper, pulled out a piece of paper and wiped his hands slowly. After rubbing, he kneaded it into a ball and threw it into the trash can at his feet, and then he spoke: "I won't eat it anymore."

Tan Yu's eyes swept around the fried noodles with half of the leftover sauce on the table and then returned to Yu Tong, "You'll be hungry if you eat this little."

Yu Tong looked out the window with his eyes, "Do you have anything to do?"

Tan Yu nodded and said yes, then pushed the bowl towards Yu Tong and said calmly: "You eat more."

That's all?

Yu Tong didn't say anything, reached out and pulled another piece of paper and rubbed it twice, kneading it into a ball, and this time he threw it directly into the noodle bowl.

He Junming had been frightened by the sight, and he didn't dare to say anything he made fun of, for fear that his aunt would turn the table up in anger.

Tan Yu smiled and said, "Don't make trouble if you are hungry in the afternoon."

Yu Tong turned to look at Tan Yu, and the moment he looked at each other, Yu Tong had the illusion of being seen through.

She turned her head and said to Chen Shuangshuang: "Didn't you say you want to buy milk tea? Let's go." After that, she got up first and walked out of Tanhui. Chen Shuangshuang hurriedly followed.

He Junming waited for them to leave before he dared to speak: "What did you do when you meet you? Don't you know Tongtong's temper? Didn't you deliberately provoke her?"

As he said that, he patted his chest with lingering fear, "I'm so scared. I didn't dare to persuade him just now, for fear that this aunt would smash the store if she was unhappy."

"She doesn't." Tan Yu's eyes fell on the bowl of fried noodles and said in a low voice.

In the past, Yu Tong could do such a thing, and she would do whatever she wanted. She would cry and laugh whenever she wanted to cry, making noise and willful, but now she doesn't know how to do it anymore.

Tan Yu originally thought that it was normal for her to have not seen each other for seven years, and she became quieter in different growth environments, or she still needed time to get familiar with them slowly, but now it seems that it is not.

Now she may not be happy when she smiles, but she seems to want to tell others that she doesn’t have to worry. She is upset and doesn’t show her face. Most of the time she is silent, restrained and alienated.

Tan Yu had an illusion, as if she had suffered a lot of grievances over the years, which made her put away her sharp claws like a frightened kitten, shrinking herself into a ball and not calling herself easily.

"Why can't it?" He Junming changed his mind and complained to Tan Yu, "What did you say you would mess with her? If you don't eat it, you won't eat it. You know that it's hard to coax her."

"If you don't make trouble, it's even worse." Tan Yu shook his head and said helplessly, "Let's go."

That night, Yu Tong had a dream. In the dream, she returned to the border town. A playful child got into the isolation belt and stepped on a landmine. After a muffled sound, he called me bloody and painful.

Her parents were crying heartbrokenly outside the isolation belt, and the only animal in the village was pulled over to thunder. The cow was human and stepped back with a stubborn head.

People can't hear it clearly, either shouting or crying, only a tear gradually drew from the cow's big and bright eyes was particularly hot.

The picture changed and it was in the local military district general hospital. Yu Tong followed his father to visit the injured soldiers. He was a young lieutenant, with gauze wrapped around his head and eyes still clear. He patted his empty trouser legs and said with a smile: "Didn't scare you, little girl."

After waking up, Yu Tong sat on the bed with her knees in her arms and looked at the dark night outside the window, thinking about those old friends who knew or didn’t know, who passed away or were still alive.

At the beginning, she had resented her father. If he hadn't offended those vicious paths, her mother would not have died.

But after seeing the bloody wound and the hero with tears in her face, she gradually understood the significance of the military uniform on her father.

Don’t marry a child and go to the fire and water, and you will face enemies and seek great harmony. Those who violate our China will be punished even if they are far away.

I didn't sleep well that night. The next day, Yu Tong entered the classroom with the ringtone and didn't have time to eat breakfast. In the second class, I left for morning exercises and slipped out of the playground and walked slowly towards the school supermarket.

There are buns and bread in the supermarket. Yu Tong asked about the filling of the buns and frowned slightly, and finally took a bag of bread to pay.

"Didn't have breakfast?" Tan Yu followed him at some point, and now he stood beside Yu Tong and asked.

Yu Tong looked at him and nodded, swiped the campus card and walked out, tearing open the bag while walking, pinched a small piece and put it in his mouth to chew it slowly.

Tan Yu frowned when he saw it, and reached out to pick up the bag of bread that looked like it was unnutrition and threw it into the trash can beside him, and said, "Come with me."

Yu Tong looked at the trash can and then looked at Tan Yu's back, and finally stomped on his heels.

Tan Yu walked eastward and took two steps back to see if Yu Tong had followed. After he stopped, Yu Tong stopped and deliberately landed behind him for two or three steps, with an unhappy face written on his face.

Tan Yu simply stopped and asked knowingly: "Are you angry?"

Yu Tong forced out a fake smile and said with a tense voice: "No."

Yes, Tan Yu shook his head slightly, and now he still learns to speak out.

But he said, "Okay, I'll take you to have breakfast."

It was not until he was taken to the northwest corner of the school and saw a small cart parked outside through the iron railing that Yu Tong believed that he really brought her over for breakfast.

"Uncle, I have beef with sesame cakes." Tan Yu skillfully bought a sesame cake and handed it to Yu Tong.

Yu Tong took it in a daze and lowered her head and took a bite. The side of the sesame cake was covered with white sesame seeds, and it was cut into pieces. There were no side dishes such as coriander, which were fragrant but not greasy.

She no longer remembers how many years she hadn’t eaten such a sesame cake. When she was a child, there was such a sesame cake shop at the entrance of the alley. When the sesame cakes were released from the pot in the morning, the alley was full of fragrance. Her favorite thing was the sesame cakes with beef.

Tan Yu didn't hear any movement for a long time. When he looked down, he saw her red eyes. This was the second time he saw her crying in the past two days. He had no choice but to do anything at all.

"Tongtong." He whispered to her, "Tell me what happened over the years."

"Do you care about me." Yu Tong glanced at him and choked.

After she finished speaking, she walked forward without looking back. She knew that the temper she had lost in Chao Tanyu these days, and she didn't remember how long it took for her to laugh and scold someone like this.

It is said that people will leave the worst emotions to the people closest to them. Yu Tong wondered a little confusedly if Tan Yu was the person she was closest to in recent years?

"Tongtong." Tan Yu followed her with a long leg, "Can you go and watch the basketball game in the afternoon?"

Yu Tong paused after hearing this, and then said, "Don't listen to He Junming's nonsense. I never drink the water given by girls."

"When you were a child, you drank my water every day and snatched my Wangzai." Yu Tong stopped and refuted him without thinking.

Wang Zai who robbed her? Tan Yu raised his eyebrows. It was clearly because she didn't want to drink and force it to him.

He smiled and did not refute. He spoke a little like giving a furry kitten a hairy kitten, lazy and helpless: "Well, yes, I have never drunk water from other girls except you."

Yu Tong turned his head and looked over. Tan Yuzheng reached out to take a leaf that fell on her shoulder. The sunlight scattered on him through the camphor tree above his head.

The cleanliness of a boy, from facial features to fingers to temperament, can arouse all the girls' worries, like the "pop" sound when lemon ale is opened in summer.

Yu Tong turned around and ran away. He didn't say he wanted to go to the basketball game, nor did he say he couldn't go.

Tan Yu leaned against the camphor tree and looked at Yu Tong's back slowly shaking his head. It was really much harder to serve than seven years ago.

The author has something to say: ps: The clip of the cow wading through thunder and crying in the article was seen in the first episode of the military film "Battle Thunder" (it's also considered a quote, so I mentioned it). I watched this detail for a long time and couldn't forget it. You can also go and see a very good movie.

Let me say a few words off topic. Have you ever had a military dream? Or do you have anything you want to do but has not yet realized it? If you want to, you can talk to you in the comment section and talk to you about my own words tomorrow.
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