Behind the constructing was a path that was not too broad, with two rows of poplar bushes towering above it. 

Lin Yuyan didn’t should rigorously search for the opposite occasion. When he become a nook, he noticed an aged grandmother wanting up at one of many bushes.

Lin Yuyan walked in direction of her. He adopted her gaze as he raised his head. 

Gu Yaoyang had became a brand new T-shirt, although it was additionally black in coloration. He was sitting on a thick department over ten meters excessive above the bottom. One in every of his legs was bent, and the opposite was left to casually dangle within the air. 

He was biting onto a gauze as he held a frightened yellow cat in his arms. The yellow cat meowed as Gu Yaoyang examined its injured entrance leg earlier than bandaging it. 

Lin Yuyan was surprised at this scene. The sight earlier than him was like a colourful ink portray that he may by no means draw. A blue sky background, surrounded by leaves because the wind blew from the southeast, making the leaves produce a rustling sound because it handed by. 

Grandma Hu was a small lady. She was sporting a cotton shirt as she held her arms up, afraid that the 2 younger ones would fall off the tree, urging them to come back down first, “Come down first, come down right here and let me see its harm. There’s no want to fret, so get down right here first.”

Gu Yaoyang didn’t reply. As a substitute, he evenly glanced at Lin Yuyan. His gaze wasn’t any completely different from regular, however Lin Yuyan was a bit dazed. It’s as if he didn’t know Gu Yaoyang anymore. 

Excluding their first assembly, he by no means noticed Gu Yaoyang as an excellent individual inside his coronary heart. He was a loner, he frolicked with gangsters exterior of the varsity, and he additionally favored to bully folks. Nevertheless it appeared that Gu Yaoyang’s sufferer was solely him. 

Not less than at school, he didn’t see how the opposite occasion handled different folks. 

So, clearly, Lin Yuyan thought that he wasn’t an excellent individual. He even hated him, feared him, needed to keep away from the opposite occasion as a lot as attainable. 

However at this second, he was holding the kitten earlier than putting it on his shoulders. He allowed the frightened kitten to deal with him as an enemy because it scratched and bit him, but nonetheless rescued it down the tree earlier than handing it to Grandmother Hu. 

Grandma Hu checked him over first. She made certain that he didn’t endure any accidents from rescuing the kitten earlier than taking Xiao Huang from him. She coaxed the little kitten whereas repeatedly thanking Gu Yaoyang for his assist. 

Gu Yaoyang patted off the leaves sticking onto his physique and remained silent. He walked to Lin Yuyan and requested, “You haven’t left but?” 

“Ah…” Lin Yuyan got here to his senses and replied, “I used to be about to say goodbye first earlier than leaving.”

Gu Yaoyang nodded, indicating that he understood. 

“I…” Lin Yuyan moved the corners of his mouth as if he needed to say one thing. However simply as his ideas have been on the tip of his tongue, he didn’t know the right way to say it to him. 

He didn’t know Gu Yaoyang that effectively earlier than and appeared to have drawn the improper impression of him inside his thoughts and felt a bit bit responsible about it. However at this second, Grandma Hu went as much as them. She regarded over at him curiously as she requested, ” Who’re you?” 

“Whats up,” Lin Yuyan greeted her politely as he bent right down to the older lady earlier than introducing himself, “My title is Lin Yuyan.” 

The wrinkle on her face appeared to type a smile. The corners of her eyes regarded notably deep as she continued to ask, “Are you Gu Yaoyang’s buddy?”

“No, I’m simply his classmate.”

“Classmate?” Mentioned Grandmother Hu as she thought out loud. She thought for a bit earlier than asking, “Aren’t they the identical?” 

Strictly talking, they aren’t actually the identical… 

However Lin Yuyan understood just a few issues about aged folks since he typically talked to them. In the long run, he adopted the elder’s needs and replied with a ‘sure’

“Good, it’s good to know that Yaoyang has pals now.” Mentioned Grandma Hu as she kindly patted Lin Yuyan’s shoulder earlier than saying to Gu Yaoyang, “I made some pickles just a few days in the past they usually’re all sealed up now. I’ll inform Dongdong to ship them to you on one other day, you must bear in mind to eat them.” 

Pickles? Lin Yuyan remembered the bottles of chili sauce inside Gu Yaoyang’s fridge, was that from Grandma Hu?

Grandma Hu reminded Gu Yaoyang once more, “Don’t all the time go by your self,  you haven’t been going to Xiao Ling’s place lately, and nobody took care of the meal. In case you don’t need to make it your self, simply wait till I’m completed cooking and I’ll inform Dongdong to ship them to you.” 

Gu Yaoyang casually responded with a glance as if he didn’t be aware of what the elder reminded him. 

Grandma Hu helplessly shook her head earlier than leaving after she completed explaining. She in all probability had a nasty leg how she limped as she left. 

“Let’s go?”

“Huh?”

Gu Yaoyang stated, “I’ll take you to the intersection. You’ll be able to’t take a taxi right here.”

“Oh, okay.”

On their method to the intersection, neither of them spoke. 

Lin Yuyan tried to begin a dialog as they walked, “The folks right here appear… to be good folks.”

“Huh?”

Lin Yuyan stated, ” I heard from Zhuo Grasp that this avenue is a bit chaotic.” He requested Gu Yaoyang, “Have you learnt Zhuo Grasp? He’s-“

“Your buddy.” Mentioned Gu Yaoyang as he lit a cigarette. His expression didn’t change as he stated that, however the tone he used when he stated these two phrases appeared a bit odd. 

“Yeah,”  Lin Yuyan didn’t appear to care as he continued, “He advised me that this avenue is sort of harmful nevertheless it appeared like he was not totally right. It’s fairly calm right here and the folks I met have been all fairly good.

For one, Hu Dongdong and Grandma Hu have been each very sort and keen about him. 

Gu Yaoyang requested: “What did he say?”

Lin Yuyan thought for some time earlier than repeating Zhuo Grasp’s phrase’s nearly precisely as he stated it, “I truly didn’t imagine that such a spot nonetheless exists till now the place combating, killing, and arson can occur. Clearly, these sorts of issues would solely seem in movies-” 

However earlier than he completed talking, Gu Yaoyang’s expression abruptly modified. He all of a sudden grabbed his wrist earlier than rapidly working away. He was quick. Gu Yaoyang’s legs have been slender but highly effective on the identical time, similar to a nimble leopard. Lin Yuyan had no thought what was taking place, so he merely adopted behind Gu Yaoyang with some problem. He panted as he requested the opposite occasion, “What- What’s improper?”

Gu Yaoyang didn’t reply, however he solemnly stated, “Don’t look again.”

Don’t- don’t look again?

Lin Yuyan had a nasty feeling for a break up second. May it’s that what Zhuo Grasp stated was… was true? The worry within him practically made his coronary heart bounce out, he carefully adopted Gu Yaoyang, not daring to loosen up his guards for even a second. He didn’t know the way lengthy he had been working, and his coronary heart felt prefer it was about to leap straight out of his chest. He was lastly dragged right into a small alley that might solely accommodate two folks with how slim it was. 

Lin Yuyan was so drained that he nearly immediately sat on the bottom. Simply as he was about to talk, Gu Yaoyang pressed him in opposition to the wall and barely lined his mouth  together with his arms.

Lin Yuyan was a bit scared that they weren’t hiding effectively sufficient, so he tugged Gu Yaoyang’s shirt as if he was asking him, ‘what’s the matter?’

Gu Yaoyang glanced on the entrance of the alley for just a few seconds with out making any actions when he all of a sudden turned his head to face him. He laughed as he whispered to his ear, “He lied to you.”