Chapter 04 Crisis from blood relatives 1
"Three wishes?"
Xiao Luonan's eyes passed through the top of my head and looked into the distance, as if he had penetrated through the long time and returned to the time when we first met.
"How could I not remember! That was the first time I met you." Xiao Luonan smiled, his eyes calm, blending into the afternoon time in the alley, as beautiful as a painting, "Yining, do you remember? It was also here, in this alley. You saved me."
"Yeah, of course I remember." He said that, and I seemed to go back to the past, "Xiao Luonan, I remember when I first met you, you were still a gangster."
"I am still a small gangster now." Xiao Luonan lowered his head and smiled lightly, with undisguised self-mockery on his lips, "As the only son of a boss who dominates a street, I am destined to be a gangster forever."
"Is there any hooligans as good as you, as handsome, and as motivated?" I rolled my eyes at him, but couldn't help sighing for the loneliness in his eyes. "Besides, even if you are a hooligans, you are the leader of the hooligans. Xiao Luonan, don't be so self-deprecating. You don't know how much those crazy girls in school like you! You are agile, evil, and cold, and you keep to yourself. You can always be in the top three in the grade without attending classes. You are so impressive!"
I counted Xiao Luonan's features on my fingers, and I almost praised him to the point of being the best.
"Xiao Luonan, your fan base and popularity index in school are not much worse than Wei Jimo's."
"I don't care about those." Xiao Luonan curled his lips, looking nonchalant and as if he didn't care about anything.
Just like when I first met him...
It was the same when I first met him. The heavy rain forced me into this alley to take shelter, but I accidentally saw Xiao Luonan being beaten by a group of hooligans in the heavy rain.
At that time, Xiao Luonan was even more fierce, cruel and cold than he is now.
A group of teenagers who were much older than him stopped him alone. He was injured, fell, and got up again and again. He was injured, fell, and got up again. Xiao Luonan was like a lonely and fierce little beast, never compromising. Every time he was knocked down, he would injure someone on the other side.
I don't know whose blood it was that dyed his T-shirt red, but it was instantly washed clean by the heavy rain, then dyed it red again, and then washed clean again.
The boy in the rain was as pale as a piece of paper, perhaps because he was too cold or because he lost too much blood .
There were several times when I thought he would never get up again, seeing him staggering. But every time, he stood up tenaciously again, beyond my expectation.
I have never seen anyone more cruel than him.
Be cruel to others! Be even crueler to yourself!
So at that moment, I forgot about being afraid, forgot my father's warning, and forgot that this was a bloody and violent fight that might very likely hurt an innocent person like me.
"Come to think of it, why were you so fearless of death back then?" I looked up and looked at Xiao Luonan beside me.
"Probably, because there's nothing worth caring about." A breeze blew by, blowing away the leaves on the trees, which floated down and landed on Xiao Luonan's shoulders.
The boy in the sunshine smiled calmly, as if it was just someone else's story.
There is nothing worth caring about anymore, so you are not even afraid of death?
I suddenly couldn't believe it. What happened to Xiao Luonan that made him so indifferent to life and death at such a young age? And what made him grow up so quickly from a rebellious, fighting, truant, and stubborn "troublemaker" who ranked last in the class and was almost given up by the teacher to a brave, responsible, and excellent student in such a short period of time?
Although he still skipped classes frequently and still got into fights occasionally, Xiao Luonan's transformation was undoubtedly huge.
Especially when he was admitted to "Jinse School" with excellent results, almost all the teachers and classmates in the school were shocked.
Even I didn't expect that I would become classmates with Xiao Luonan again, just like I didn't expect that the unintentional action back then would lead to an everlasting bond between Xiao Luonan and me.
Xiao Luonan is a sentimental person.
My father always said that I was impulsive and liked to stand up for the weak, which caused me a lot of trouble.
This is indeed the case.
For a long time, if Xiao Luonan hadn't stood firmly behind me, acted as my umbrella, and stepped forward to help me solve problems at critical moments, I would definitely have gotten into a lot of trouble.
At first, I felt sorry for always causing trouble for him, but he always smiled and said it was nothing.
If I talked too much, he would frown and pretend to be vicious and say to me: "I still owe you a favor for saving my life. You and I have settled accounts so clearly, do you want me to give you my life too?"
So later on, I stopped saying polite words to him.
I also began to learn to control my impulsive personality.
Although my father said that it is difficult to change one's nature, I didn't get into any big trouble after all, did I?
So I never used any of the three wishes Xiao Luonan made for me. In fact, I had almost forgotten them.
Unexpectedly, today, because of that damn Wei Jimo, the old matter was brought up again.
"Do you remember this?" Xiao Luonan took out something from his tight sweatshirt and stroked it carefully with a tender look in his eyes.
"Why... do you still keep this?"
It was a fine silver chain, and what was hung on it was not an exquisite pendant, but a somewhat worn whistle.
"I thought you had thrown it away a long time ago."
"How could I throw it away! Come to think of it, you used this to save me back then." It was as if what he was holding in his hand was not a broken whistle, but a priceless treasure. Xiao Luonan's movements were so pious that I felt a little embarrassed.
"This is just a police whistle that my father gave me that he no longer used. When I was a child, I always played with it as a toy."
"It's a toy to you, but it's a priceless treasure to me." Xiao Luonan looked at me with a burning gaze, and in his narrow black eyes there was a deep light that I couldn't see. "Do you know? When you took this whistle and used a trick to scare away those little hooligans and appeared in front of me, I thought I met an angel..."
Angel……
Ahhh, Xiao Luonan, you are too sentimental!
I seemed to see myself standing on auspicious clouds, with a halo above my head, and a pair of invisible wings on my body... Suddenly, I felt light and fluttery.
"Although I was reluctant, I was saved by a little girl who was smaller than me, but at that time I really wanted to repay you. Money or something else is fine. I thought you saved my father's only son, he would not be too stingy." Xiao Luonan closed his eyes slightly, as if he was trapped in distant and long memories, "but I didn't expect that you didn't care at all and turned around and left. At that time, I thought, this girl is so cool!"
"Well, don't expect anything in return for a favor! This is what my father always taught me." I smiled awkwardly and decided not to tell Xiao Luonan even if I was beaten to death. In fact, I was just scared at that time, afraid that those little hooligans would come back.
"So I told myself, I will remember this favor." Xiao Luonan seemed not to notice the embarrassment in my eyes and spoke to himself.
"I made three wishes to you. I promised you that no matter what you asked me to do, I would do it even if it meant going through fire and water. Over the past few years, I have been waiting for you to come to me and fulfill your promise. But you seemed to have forgotten. I know you don't care, but I never thought that one day, you would use these three wishes on someone else!"
Slowly pulling his hand back from mine, Xiao Luonan's eyes were as calm as a pool of stagnant water, but his movements were so firm that I couldn't hold him back even if I used all my hidden strength.
Xiao Luonan was smiling, but he was so distant from me that he seemed a million miles away. I suddenly felt panicky, afraid that I lose Xiao Luonan as a friend.
"No, Xiao Luonan...it's not what you think...I cherish the three promises you made, I just..."
I tried to explain, but my words came out incoherent.
"So, do you still want to use this promise now?" Xiao Luonan suddenly interrupted me, his gaze was hotter than the July sun.
"I……"
I wanted to shake my head and say to Xiao Luonan, I don't need it anymore, I'm cancelling this promise, Xiao Luonan, don't be angry. But for some reason, when I thought of Wei Jimo's lonely figure on the old street of the old city and on the rooftop of the teaching building, I couldn't say the words that came to my lips.
"Okay, don't worry. I will do what you said. Don't worry!" His long and curly eyelashes drooped slightly, covering all the light in his eyes.
Xiao Luonan turned around resolutely, leaving me with his cold back.
The breeze blows by, like someone's sigh, silent and breathless...
