Black Heart Tangyuan Edible Guide

Chapter 21 Power Outage

Cheng Du felt that the child was not in a good mood recently and always liked to hide from him, so he couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

Another day after school, the study group went to Tan Yuan's house as usual.

A few people were about to cross the road when Fang Zhimo suddenly said, "I'm not going today, sorry, let's go first."

"What's the matter? Today, my mother said, I want to make your favorite yogurt stuffed glutinous rice balls! Are you really not coming?"

Seeing the child walking further and further away, Tan Yuan's voice became louder and louder.

The child paused slightly under his feet, and quickly walked away at a faster pace.

Cheng Du frowned, pushed his glasses, and chased after him.

"Hey, you're not going either?"

Tan Yuan yelled for a long time to no avail, and muttered, "What are these two doing?"

What's the matter—angry?

It doesn't make sense.

It seems that I didn't provoke him.

While eating, Cheng Du observed the child, and found that this guy was staring at his rice bowl the whole time without even making eye contact.

"……I'm stuffed."

The child stood up and took his own bowl to the kitchen to wash, without even looking at the bowl and chopsticks in front of Cheng Du.

"..."

Cheng Du felt more and more wrong, cleared the table and followed the kitchen.

"Are...are you angry?"

Cheng Du put the bowl and chopsticks in the sink and asked tentatively.

"No."

Fang Zhimo replied with a muffled voice.

He glanced at the bowls and chopsticks Cheng Du put into the sink, hesitated for a while, then quickly reached out to stack them with his own, and then turned on the water heater.

With a soft sound, hot water soon flowed out of the faucet.

Few people used water heaters in those days, so we know that the Mo family used them early.Since the water heater was installed at home, it is very convenient to wash dishes, take a bath, etc., but the disadvantage is——

Without warning, the room suddenly went dark, and all household appliances were turned off.

Looking outside, not only Fang Zhimo's building, but the entire courtyard was pitch black.

Cheng Du: "..."

Fang Zhimo: "..."

Cheng Du: "The power is cut off."

Fang Zhimo: "Yes."

Cheng Du: "I haven't done my homework yet."

Fang Zhimo: "Yes."

Cheng Du: "Then do it at my house?"

Fang Zhimo: "...um."

Looking up, it was a mess of darkness.

Neither of them moved.

Fang Zhimo: "...I'll go find a flashlight."

Finding the flashlight is easy, but it is quite difficult to go across the living room to the study. Fang Xiaomo, whose eyes were darkened, had to stretch out both hands, holding onto the wall and groping.

Before he could touch the study, the phone in the living room rang suddenly.

"I'll pick it up."

The two children said at the same time.

"then you go."

At the same time again.

Then both of them stopped moving at the same time.

"..."

The phone was still ringing, like a death call.

Fang Zhimo: "Let me take it, I'm familiar with it."

Cheng Du: "Well, then you slow down."

Fang Zhimo estimated the terrain in the living room, first bypassed the half-moon door, then the mother's flower stand, and a little further there was a coffee table in the middle, and a sofa on the side, and the phone was placed...

"!"

The legs of the coffee table were in the shape of a protruding flower. Fang Zhimo walked in a hurry, hooked his foot on the legs of the coffee table, and fell down with a snap, falling right into the gap between the coffee table and the sofa.

That's because he was too small at that time, if he fell like this now, no matter what, he wouldn't be able to fall into such a small crack.

"what happened?"

Hearing this, Cheng Du knew that he probably fell, so he took two steps in. He was about to say why he was so careless, but he also kicked the coffee table with a bang and jumped forward.

"what!"

The call was not answered, and the two children fell off their backs.

"I'm sorry, sorry, are you okay?"

Cheng Du groped for the edge of the sofa and got up, groping to help Fang Zhimo.

"It's okay..."

Fang Zhimo pushed Cheng Du's hand away, turned over with grinning teeth, sat up and said, "I said, can you see it or not? Bolingueer (knee) is hitting my waist and eyes." , Hey, this quasi-boss..."

Cheng Du was taken aback by this Beijing-flavored gibberish, and then burst out laughing.When Fang Zhimo heard him laugh, he couldn't help laughing too.

How long have these conflicts been going on between the two of you?

Now, as soon as this nonsense came out, the tense atmosphere between the two of them suddenly melted away, and if they wanted to go back to it, they would definitely not be able to get up again.

The two laughed for a while and finally calmed down. They could feel each other's breath in the darkness, but couldn't see each other's expression. The atmosphere gradually became a little weird.

"Xueba, this seems to be the first time I've seen you smile, right? I always thought you were...serious." Fang Zhimo broke the silence first.

"Really?" Cheng Du thought for a while, then said with a smile, "So you always like to tease me?"

Fang Zhimo: "..."

After being embarrassed for a while, Fang Zhimo whispered, "You can see it."

Cheng Du thought it was funny, and said, "Of course I can see it, but I'm looking with four eyes."

"Pfft... Xueba, your jokes are quite funny," Fang Zhimo said, "It's a pity I can't see your expression now."

Cheng Du played with him for a while, and felt that his eyes were slowly adapting to the darkness, and gradually he could see some blurry things.He groped and sat on the sofa, and the other party Zhimo said: "Get up quickly, the ground is cold."

Fang Zhimo hummed: "Give me a hand."

Cheng Du didn't think much, and pulled Fang Zhimo back to the sofa.

In the darkness, the two couldn't see each other clearly, but relaxed instead.

Fang Zhimo pondered silently for a while, then suddenly said, "Xueba, I want to ask you something."

Cheng Du was still immersed in joy, and said with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Fang Zhimo opened his mouth and hesitated again, until Cheng Du inexplicably asked: "Huh?"

Fang Zhimo cheered up, and said vigorously: "That day, why didn't you let me rescue Tan Xiaobo? If... I mean, if, if the old class didn't come at that time, can you imagine the consequences?"

Fang Zhimo has always been brooding, not only because of being underestimated, but he always feels that something is wrong. The events of that day are flashing in front of his eyes like a movie, which makes him feel uneasy all the time, like a glow on his back. .

In fact, Cheng Du has always had lingering fears. After that incident, he has been feeling down these days, but he didn't expect Fang Zhimo to be entangled in this.

Cheng Du sighed, closed his eyes and recalled the situation that day.After a long time, he opened his mouth and said: "Actually, I really didn't think about it that much at the time, and I didn't have time to think about it. At that time, I only thought about protecting you no matter what... I admit that if something happened to Tan Xiaobo, I would regret it for the rest of my life." , but if you join me, I..."

Cheng Du stopped suddenly when he said this, and Fang Zhimo heard the trembling sound in his words, and the apex of his heart also trembled.

This matter was a matter of life and death. Although no one mentioned it after the incident, I still couldn't get over it in my heart.

Cheng Du took a deep breath, as long as he recalled the scene at that time, he would unconsciously grasp the soles of his feet.

"I know, my reaction may be a little too much, even a little selfish... But Fang Zhimo, I really can't watch you die."

don't want you to die.

This is Cheng Du's heartfelt voice.

It's not that Cheng Du can watch Tan Xiaobo die, but the fact is that in the chaos at that time, between Tan Xiaobo and Fang Zhimo, he had already made his own choice.

Cruel, but true.

"……sorry."

As Cheng Du was talking, he realized that his speech was incoherent and his logic was confused. In the end, he could only lower his head and speak softly.

Hearing what Cheng Du said, Fang Zhimo's eyes suddenly turned red for some reason.

He seemed to hear the sound of ice breaking from a corner of his heart.

"……fine."

Fang Zhimo took a deep breath and said without thinking.

Cheng Du's guilt from that day still remained in his heart, and when he suddenly heard the sound that he was fine, he burst into tears.

He turned his head, looked at the shadowy silhouette in the darkness, and said sorry again.

"...I'm sorry." Cheng Du said, "I'm really... sorry."

Fang Zhimo was already in tears.

He stretched out his hand, groped in the dark, and gently embraced Cheng Du's shoulder: "It's okay, it's okay. It's not your fault, you don't need to blame yourself. I'm fine, Tan Xiaobo is fine, this is already the greatest luck It's okay, don't cry."

Sometimes words are weak.

Sometimes, the comfort of others will have the opposite effect.

Cheng Du didn't want to cry in front of people, but when Fang Zhimo said this, he felt relieved for some reason, and tears fell.

"Sorry……"

The two of them were originally unobtrusive people, but a power outage shattered their fragile hearts.

The crying was suppressed and forbeared at first, and gradually turned into intermittent sobbing, then evolved into two people sobbing with their own concerns, and finally wept loudly as if they had found a resonance.

After all, they are two children, no matter how strong they are, how far can they support them.

While crying, Cheng Du took advantage of the dispute with his father a few days ago, while Fang Zhimo digressed to the grievance and neglect he had been receiving all along.

The two children hugged each other and cried in the dark, performing so hoarsely and heartily that when the headlights in the living room suddenly came on, both of them were completely—— dazed.

The author has something to say:

Cheng Xiaodu: The most important thing between men is not to have laughed together, but to have cried together, right?

Fang Xiaomo: Cough cough, I didn't cry tonight (laughing face.jpg

Cheng Xiaodu thought in his heart: (You men are all big pigs, when the lights are dark, you hold me in your arms and swear to each other, and when the lights are on, you turn your face and deny people. I will never trust men again!! T^T)

PS: Elementary school is about to enter the countdown~ Let's count down together~