Brother Chengqing's body fell limply on top of me, and my nose had already started to feel sore.
In fact, no matter who my thoughts fall on, it is not that person after all, right
"But it's not right. Master lied to me... Aren't all the memories I experienced with my uncles? How can I find them? I envy you, very envious... Because I want such a reunion so much, It's a pity that Master took the first step... If I want to meet him again, I have to wait until the next life!" Brother Chengqing was already drunk.
I don't know how to comfort Brother Chengqing. The strong alcohol is burning in my chest, but I just want to drink more.
Sometimes, no wonder there is a special way of expressing the feelings between men, which is to drink in silence with each other. At a certain point, words are useless. A kind of meaning of drinking with you also expresses that we are together through thick and thin. I feel your pain, I am as sad as you are, and I mean to go on with you.
The wine dripped from the corner of my mouth and onto my collar. The burning liquid rolled down from my throat to my chest, to my stomach, to my lower abdomen, and then rushed up to my brain... Brother Chengqing didn't stop me from drinking. , maybe in this lonely and lost time, it is also a kind of comfort to have someone to drink with.
"Chengyi, you said, I can meet Master again, but it's a little later than you, right?" I supported Brother Chengqing and walked toward the house.
The rising smoke has stopped, and the aroma of the food is coming. It seems that the meal is about to start. There is only one thought in my mind, take Brother Chengqing back to eat, let everyone warm him, and face the questions he asked me. , I answered very firmly: "Yes!" As long as he is doing well, everything is right.
"Chengyi, Uncle Jiang said that we are going to be on the run. I just want to spend more time with Master now. It's time to spend more time with me, right?"
"right!"
"Chengyi, after you are on the run, you may not be able to come back. Don't shy away from this. Who can guarantee it? Then tell me, am I right? Spend more time with me, and it doesn't matter if you get drunk, right?"
"right!"
"Chengyi... Isn't it better to die? At least the reunion can come earlier?" Brother Chengqing's voice suddenly became deeper.
"No, Brother Chengqing, everything is fate. We have been together through thick and thin, why are you lonely? You can be envious, but you can't be lonely." I wiped the wine from my mouth, and this time I didn't say the right thing again , through the drunkenness, said what was in his heart.
"Yes, I am senior brother, you are really troublesome, especially Chen Chengyi, you are such a busybody, you are the most troublesome! I have to take care of..." Brother Chengqing began to speak unclearly.
"I am the senior brother!" I jumped to my feet and started to retort.
But Brother Chengqing laughed and pulled me over, put his arms around my neck and said, "I told you I was the senior brother, I am! I am!"
"I am!"
"I am... ."
"Ha ha... ."
Brother Chengqing didn't eat lunch after all, so he fell asleep on the bed. This cold and indifferent guy, this is the first time I've seen him so drunk, but it's okay. If you suppress your worries and don't let them out, you will get internal injuries. of.
In the middle of this, Master and the uncles all went back and forth to see Brother Chengqing several times. Once, I even saw Master Chen wiping Brother Chengqing’s face. I don’t know if it was my imagination, but I saw Master Chen crying. , and my master stood aside, looking out the window at Uncle Li’s grave and not knowing what he was thinking.
But when he walked out, the master said something inexplicably: "It doesn't matter if you are drunk, it is much better than not knowing how to be drunk. Not knowing how to be drunk is scary."
Yeah? Then when Master leaves, wouldn’t it be better for me to get drunk than to not be drunk at all? Maybe so, otherwise, I think I would go crazy.
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I don’t know how many more quiet days there will be in Zhulin Xiaozhu. In short, when Brother Chengqing woke up at night, Master never mentioned leaving, and everyone was calmly doing their own things and chatting. ... It's like a secret that cannot be revealed. Everyone knows it, but they just pretend it doesn't exist.
It was late at night in the blink of an eye. After chatting with my parents and sister for a while, and then preparing to fall asleep, Master came to see me.
"Follow me." Master simply said.
I didn't know what Master was going to do, but I stood up silently, followed Master, and walked away with him.
The night was quiet, Master's back was in front, and I was behind. The road was familiar. Isn't that the shed behind the Bamboo Forest House where I often went to take a bath when I was a child
In fact, we were also looking there. After we walked in, a familiar fragrance rushed into my nose. Looking at the steaming heat, I, who had always told myself not to cry easily, suddenly Eyes red.
This is something I have dreamed about many times. When I was a child, those quiet bathing times night after night, is it really possible now...
"What are you still standing around for? Take off your clothes and go in and take a bath. Junior Brother Chen said your wound has recovered well and it's no longer a problem to soak in the fragrant soup." The master brought a stool and placed it in the familiar big wooden bucket beside.
Of course I was no longer stunned, and quickly took off all my clothes, leaving only a pair of shorts, and jumped into the barrel... The familiar fragrance and familiar warmth suddenly surrounded me. Me, but the familiar refreshing feeling made my whole body relax, and a drowsy feeling surrounded me at the same time. I sighed comfortably.
At this time, the master also lit his dry tobacco, and finally... it finally came together. The aroma of the fragrant soup was mixed with the smell of the dry tobacco leaves. This was the smell of the quietest and warmest night when I was a child. This kind of satisfaction made me My eyes turned red again, and I couldn't help but grab a handful of water and poured two handfuls of water on my face, trying hard to hold back the tears that were rushing up.
"What a fool!" the master cursed, then he held the tobacco pole in his mouth, took a towel, dipped it in water, and began to wipe my body. His voice came from behind me: "I thought this big wooden barrel was useless. , but I didn’t expect it to be very clean and can be used after just scalding it with hot water. Just like when I first returned to Bamboo Forest Village, I thought it must be deserted and overgrown with weeds... In fact, it is still very neat! In the past few years, It should be your parents cleaning it, right?"
I closed my eyes, and my heart was filled with warmth, but I said lazily: "Master, I really don't know this, maybe?"
"Well, that should be it." Master's voice was calm.
We were silent for a while, and he suddenly said: "Chengyi, I have been wandering all my life. When I built this small bamboo forest, I didn't know that I would have such a deep affection for it. Inexplicably, this place has become a place like home. I used to think that the place with my master was my home."
"Master?" I didn't understand why Master suddenly said this, so I couldn't help asking in a low voice.
"When people grow old, they love their homes! I'm just making a metaphor. If one day I grow old and I don't know who I am anymore, and I want to take care of myself here, you have to be by my side." The master suddenly said this, and actually revealed it. Showing incomparable weakness... Master would never be like this!
It felt like the softest place in my heart was stabbed. I couldn't help but said loudly: "Master, what question are you asking! Of course I will provide for you in your old age! When you were young, the place where you had your master was Home, when you are old, of course the place where I am is your home! If you like it, we can stay at the Zhulin Villa. How could you be so old that you don’t know about people? Your family won’t grow old like this.”
Master suddenly stopped wiping me. He was a little stunned, which made me anxious. I was about to ask why, but I felt a pain in my head. It turned out to be Master who had patted me.
"Why are you so excited? I just want to test your filial piety. You brat, I have been worried about you since you were born. It is equivalent to raising you when you were a child! I still want to see if you have filial piety, don't you?" Master said something dissatisfied to me.
I rubbed my aching head and muttered dissatisfiedly: "What about you? If you don't have filial piety, I will look for you all over the world."
"Forget it, let's talk about the rest later. This time, you know that we are going to be on the run, and we don't know if we can come back." Master put a wet and hot towel on my face.
I took off the towel, squeezed out a handful of water, put it on my forehead, leaned against the barrel, and said comfortably: "Whatever, it's not a bad thing to be on the run. It's better to have no one to rely on than to look for you everywhere." I would rather be on the run for the rest of my life."
"It's so simple." The master sat on the stool again and couldn't help but hit me with his cigarette.
I chuckled and said, "Master, how did you know this news?"
"That guy Wu Liyu, do you really think he has been running the business for many years, but he really doesn't have any connections in this organization? It's almost time." The master took a puff of dry smoke, and the thick smoke evaporated with the heat to the roof of the shed. , formed into drops of water, dripping on the ground.
"Then when are we leaving? Who is helping us delay these days?" I have always been curious about this question.
But the master was silent, and suddenly he patted me again and shouted: "Take a good bath, help us, it's hard to say now, at least I will help us openly, I have an idea." !”