The setting sun shone in through the car window, Xiang Cheng was lying on the rear side of the bunk, Chi Xiaoduo made a nest for Sigui and put it in his clothes.
Xiang Cheng: "Why did you bring it up?"
Chi Xiaoduo smiled and said, "Sigui found me right away on the platform, huddled in my hat, it's okay, soft sleepers rarely check this."
Chi Xiaoduo was lying on Xiang Cheng's body, and Xiang Cheng held Chi Xiaoduo in both arms. The two of them faced the car window together, looking at the rolling mountains and rivers outside bathed in the summer twilight.
"What are you thinking?" Xiang Cheng asked following the rickety train.
"Think about my college life." Chi Xiaoduo smiled, "The last time I took the train was four years ago, when I graduated."
"Is going to college fun?"
"Yeah." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Every day when my friend goes to class, he will drive me by bicycle. It would be great if we knew each other earlier, and we can eat the meals you cooked for many years."
Xiang Cheng looked out the window in a daze, and said, "I haven't gone to university, not even elementary school."
"Your handwriting is beautiful." Chi Xiaoduo glanced sideways.
Xiang Cheng said: "My mother taught me how to read and write, and taught me to read. I don't even know pinyin, so I can only type with strokes. In the past, she taught me traditional characters, and then I gradually learned simplified characters."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
"How long have you been teaching?" Chi Xiaoduo asked.
"When I was eight years old, I followed my father to catch...hunting, and I never studied again. I read books by myself." Xiang Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and the red light shone on his handsome eyebrows, blurring a distant memory. dream.
"You are so smart." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I learned all the characters at the age of eight, and I learned so much common sense in life by myself the day after tomorrow."
"I don't understand a lot of knowledge." Xiang Cheng said, "You college students are amazing because of the lack of reading. You can calculate, draw pictures, and understand English, physics, and chemistry. You know so much."
Chi Xiaoduo smiled and said, "Your mother must be smart too. Do you look like your father or your mother?"
"Like my mother." Xiang Cheng pinched Chi Xiaoduo and said, "It was the first time I went out with my father, and she left after returning home."
"Ah." Chi Xiaoduo was surprised, "Did you find her later?"
Xiang Cheng shook his head and said, "I found it, when I was seventeen, but she died too."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo didn't ask any more questions, the sleeper car was very quiet, Chi Xiaoduo's only wish was: no one came over. At dinner time, Chi Xiaoduo bought a boxed lunch and sat down with Xiang Cheng to eat.
The atmosphere suddenly became heavy, and Xiang Cheng also realized it, smiled, and asked, "What about you? When are you going to visit your family?"
"My grandma passed away." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I'll come back to do it when I'm in college. My parents got divorced, my father went to nowhere, and no one can be found. My mother married and went to Taiwan."
Xiang Cheng nodded, and Chi Xiaoduo said: "My dad used to be a fisherman, and he lived in a fishing village in Zhuhai. Later, the economy developed and developed. The family was expropriated by the government, and more than one million yuan was paid for the demolition. One million is a lot, which is equivalent to several million now."
"Huge money." Xiang Cheng said.
"Well." Chi Xiaoduo said, "People suddenly have a sum of money, and it was not long after the reform and opening up. In that era, how could they understand the principle of planning for a rainy day? Right, now everyone has a sense of urgency. Knowing that you need to save money for retirement, a fisherman like my dad always spends it day by day, thinking that more than one million yuan will never be spent in a lifetime."
"What happened next?" Xiang Cheng asked.
"Later he learned badly, and was taught badly by friends in the same situation in the village. The money was too much to spend, and everyone went to gamble, gamble, and he was gone." Chi Xiaoduo ate a few meals, Xiang Cheng got used to eating The dishes he made, this train meal is simply pig food, "My grandma managed to bring him up, and he was finally mad at him, so I lived with my grandma."
"Grandma is still there?" Xiang Cheng asked, "It's not easy for the elderly, so I might just count on you."
"I'm so pissed off." Chi Xiaoduo said, "literally, I'm so pissed off."
Xiang Cheng: "..."
"She heard that my father squandered all the money, and the creditor came to collect the house. He still owed hundreds of thousands, so he hanged himself." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I just hung it on the electric fan. I didn't know anything that day. I heard My mother quarreled with the creditor, my mother left immediately, I was still playing in the room, and when I came out, it smelled so bad, my grandma stuck out her tongue, and I had nightmares for several months."
Xiang Cheng turned on the water and poured some for Chi Xiaoduo to drink.
"If you have money, you don't trust it." Xiang Cheng said, "My dad always said that money is something external to you. It depends on what you want to do. Without an ideal life, you are like a walking dead."
Chi Xiaoduo said: "That's what I said, but the reality is difficult to grasp, and everyone can't escape this circle. Living in the countryside, with green mountains and green waters, there are no worries, and life is not as convenient as a big city."
"If you were asked to live in the countryside, would you go?" Xiang Cheng asked.
"Let's see who." Chi Xiaoduo thought for a while and said, "See what I can find to do. I haven't figured out what to do next. I don't have any friends."
Xiang Cheng looked out the window and said leisurely: "It's good to have the countryside in the countryside. Mountains, rivers, mountain spirits, wild monsters, animals, and nature are all friends of people."
"Do you believe that there are ghosts in the world?" Chi Xiaoduo turned around and asked suddenly, "My grandma said that there are many goblins in the world. They are creatures that originally lived on the earth. .”
"I believe." Xiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "I'm uneducated, and I don't know the scientific principles of ghosts and ghosts, but I believe there are."
"Yeah." Chi Xiaoduo said with a smile, "You used the time we spent studying to walk. You have been to many places, and you must have heard many legends."
Xiang Cheng put away the lunch box and said to Chao Chi Xiaoduo: "I was in Xiangxi once..."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo's face changed suddenly, and his scalp went numb, thinking that I was wrong and shouldn't mention ghosts and spirits, but his fear couldn't suppress his curiosity at all, and he looked forward to Xiang Cheng finishing his sentence.
Xiang Cheng realized it, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, just kidding, I forgot that you are afraid of this."
"No...no." Chi Xiaoduo twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "I'm not actually afraid, really." Xiang Cheng went to throw the lunch box. Sitting on the bunk, Chi Xiaoduo thought of the "Xiangxi Chasing Corpse" that was widely spread in China, and goosebumps suddenly appeared on his back. From chasing corpses to zombies in Cantonese feature films, and then thinking of ghosts, he sat more and more. I can't help but wonder why Xiang Cheng hasn't come back yet!
The door of the sleeper box opened with a clang, Chi Xiaoduo saw a blue-black face, and let out a ghostly scream, scaring everyone inside and outside. Xiang Cheng immediately threw his cigarette butt and rushed in, looked at Chi Xiaoduo, then at a man and a woman outside, the two lovers.
"Are you okay?" Xiang Cheng said.
"No." Chi Xiaoduo said with lingering fear, "I scare myself."
"Are you okay?" The boy reached out and touched Chi Xiaoduo's forehead. Chi Xiaoduo hugged the pillow and collapsed on the bunk to breathe. The girl came in with a smile and said, "Uncomfortable?"
Chi Xiaoduo saw a dead face just now, but he must have thought too much and got scared. After Xiang Cheng came back, he took out the fruit and shared it with the two of them. The boy nodded and thanked him. Chi Xiaoduo hugged the quilt, rubbed against Xiang Cheng, and said, "What did you see in Xiangxi?"
Xiang Cheng: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo said: "Go on, otherwise I will be even more afraid."
"Go to Xiangxi." Xiang Cheng said, "I heard that someone saw a monster in the mountains and ran away quickly, like a savage in Shennongjia."
"Definitely not!" Chi Xiaoduo said.
The couple looked at them curiously, and Chi Xiaoduo said, "Tell me, I won't be afraid anymore."
Xiang Cheng thought for a while and replied, "Yes, get rid of the corpse."
Chi Xiaoduo swished, Mao was about to blow up again, but he was very interested in the couple, and the girl listened carefully.
"Once, I took a ride." Xiang Cheng said, "Walking at night, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the driver turned on the high beam and saw the back of a group of people on the side of the road. They were walking slowly. I Roll down the window, the driver told me to keep quiet, otherwise there will be trouble, this is driving corpses."
Everyone: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo thought of that scene, on the dark road, the car drove past, and the high beams illuminated a group of people walking strangely by the side of the road without looking back, it was simply creepy.
"Isn't it jumping and jumping?" Chi Xiaoduo said.
"Of course not." Xiang Cheng said, "You can bend your knees, and your walking movements are no different from normal people."
"How many people?" Chi Xiaoduo asked curiously.
"Six." Xiang Cheng replied, "The number of dead bodies is no more than ten, three, six, nine, and the dead body will go ahead."
Chi Xiaoduo held the quilt, a bird's head emerged from the quilt, and looked sideways at Xiang Cheng.
The boy smiled, shook his head, and said nothing.
Xiang Cheng said to Chi Xiaoduo: "The driver said, when driving to the countryside, don't stop and don't ask people when you encounter such a team that walks slowly, doesn't look around, doesn't hold anything in their hands, and doesn't talk. Do you need help?"
As soon as Xiang Cheng said it, Chi Xiaoduo became less afraid and asked, "Why do you let them move?"
Xiang Cheng said: "Similar to parasites, Taoism has a saying of 'three corpses', the upper pubic region, the middle pubic region, the lower pubic field, squatting, squatting, and climbing. Putting this parasite on a human body can take advantage of some special dead bodies. The plants are mounted on long bamboo poles and waved back and forth to make the dead bodies move again."
"Can you make them dance?" Chi Xiaoduo said with a smile.
Xiang Cheng thought for a while, and replied: "I haven't tried it, but I can try it when I have a chance."
Chi Xiaoduo said, "What happened next?"
"Later, of course our car drove away." Xiang Cheng said.
Chi Xiaoduo said, "What would happen if the corpse suddenly looked back at you?"
Xiang Cheng: "Don't say that, it's too scary."
Chi Xiaoduo laughed loudly, and said, "Okay, are you kidding me, is it true? Tell me if it's true."
Xiang Cheng said, "I watched it on "Story Club."
Everyone laughed, and Chi Xiaoduo said, "You like watching "Story Club" so much."
"Professional books." Xiang Cheng said casually.
Chi Xiaoduo laughed again.
The boy in the couple said: "When we were interns before, there were often rumors about throwing dead bodies in the morgue. Shall I tell you about it?"
"Shut up, old lady!" the girl said furiously.
"Okay, okay, don't talk." The boy said hurriedly.
Chi Xiaoduo laughed.
"Is it said in "Story Club"?" Chi Xiaoduo jokingly nudged Xiang Cheng with his elbow.
Xiang Cheng didn't speak, but pointed to the pillow, motioning for you to lie down and stop talking.
So this matter was temporarily exposed, and as night fell, Chi Xiaoduo found out the review materials and showed them to Xiang Cheng, Xiang Cheng's expression became very strange.
"Aren't you going to take the national director exam?"
"Where did you find it?"
"Wang Ren borrowed it for me." Chi Xiaoduo said, "There are notes on the attractions."
Xiang Cheng had a horrible expression and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang."
"You're welcome." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Look."
Xiang Cheng: "..."
Xiang Cheng had no choice but to open the review materials and read them on the train. Chi Xiaoduo chatted with the couple in the shop. The boy graduated from Guangzhou, worked as a doctor in Beijing, and returned to Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to take an examination for postgraduates. I happened to have a holiday in June. After the exam, I took my girlfriend and went back to my hometown Luohe to meet my parents. After meeting my parents, I went back to Beijing to work.
Xiang Cheng became dizzy watching it, waved his hand and said, "I won't read it for now, I don't like reading."
Chi Xiaoduo stared at Xiang Cheng, Xiang Cheng had no choice but to watch for a while.
At ten o'clock in the evening, everyone turned off the lights and went to bed. It would take 30 hours to get to Beijing, and the price of a soft sleeper could buy a plane ticket. Chi Xiaoduo thought to himself, why bother? Wouldn't it be better to decide to fly early
But with Xiang Cheng, I was still very happy. Chi Xiaoduo was lying on the lower bunk, and when night fell, everyone was quiet. Thinking of the daytime talking about driving corpses, Chi Xiaoduo felt a little continual fear. The lingering sense of fear after hearing a ghost story is like a toothache, faintly present, unable to catch where, and not knowing when it will strike, but it always makes people feel that the bladder is full.
"Sigui." Chi Xiaoduo carefully touched Sigui's bird head.
Sigui poked her head out of her clothes and gave Chi Xiaoduo a keen look.
Chi Xiaoduo wondered what kind of breed this was? When he was studying, he liked watching birds very much, but he had never seen Sigui like this. It's like an albatross, but it's very small, a miniature variety, with two feathers protruding obliquely from the tail. Chi Xiaoduo is holding its tail with his fingers, trying to turn it over to see if it's male or female, but it's missed. Glared.
Chi Xiaoduo fell asleep with it in his arms, and the train clanged loudly. In the middle of the night, Xiang Cheng leaned out from the upper bunk with difficulty, leaned down with one hand, and pulled the quilt for Chi Xiaoduo.
The train stopped halfway, and the bright yellow lights on the platform shone in. The surroundings were quiet, except for the snoring of the opposite shop, and a dark shadow appeared in the light of the carriage from the gap in the curtains.
Chi Xiaoduo opened his eyes instantly, and saw a silhouette of a human head reflected at the end of the bed, shaking slightly. It was as if someone was on the platform peering in, his head blocking the light coming in from the platform.
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Xiang Cheng didn't fall asleep, his eyes were looking at the ceiling.
Chi Xiaoduo's first reaction was to sit up and turn his head. The moment he turned his head, something seemed to leave quickly outside. Chi Xiaoduo suddenly felt creepy and his heart beat faster. He thought it was the conductor, right? Or is it selling instant noodles on the platform? Scared to death.
Chi Xiaoduo wanted to go to the bathroom. When the train stopped, the door was closed, so she walked out of the box to get some air. When she was standing in the aisle, she saw the male doctor from the opposite shop get on the train.
"You're out." Chi Xiaoduo leaned against the car window, glanced at him, and then looked out the window curiously.
The male doctor gave Chi Xiaoduo a strange look, nodded, and replied, "Yes."
Chi Xiaoduo's eyes dazzled, and on the car window, a green and terrifying face was reflected in the dark night. He almost had a heart attack in an instant, and tried his best to suppress the shouting. The scene was gone in just a second.
what happened? ! Chi Xiaoduo closed his eyes tightly, he must have not woken up... Was it him who was looking in from the car window just now? No... Who did the snoring? ! Is it Xiang Cheng
Chi Xiaoduo felt a chill, did he see a ghost? ! Damn! Chi Xiaoduo was so terrified that suddenly another person appeared in the reflection of the car window.
"Oh—" Chi Xiaoduo yelled.
Xiang Cheng said, "Don't bark."
Chi Xiaoduo was so frightened that his whole body went limp in an instant, leaning against the car window, panting tremblingly.
"What's wrong?" The train started, and the conductor came over and opened the bathroom door.
"It's okay." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I had... a nightmare."
"Keep your voice down," said the conductor.
Chi Xiaoduo went into the bathroom covered in cold sweat, and when he came out, Xiang Cheng smoked at the joint and waved to him.
"What dream did you have?" Xiang Cheng asked, "Your eyes are a little red, let me see."
When Chi Xiaoduo walked over, Xiang Cheng lowered his head, gently opened Chi Xiaoduo's eyelids with his fingers, and stared at his clear pupils.
Chi Xiaoduo blushed and said, "I just woke up and there are..."
"No eye dropsy." Xiang Cheng said, "The eyelashes are very long, like a girl, you are very handsome."
Chi Xiao was so embarrassed, turned his head away slightly, Xiang Cheng patted his arm, and frowned.
"Hey." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Look there, what is that?"
Xiang Cheng: "..."
"What?" Xiang Cheng looked out the car window.
In the wilderness, there was a young man in red standing in front of a dilapidated house facing the railway tracks.
"That kid." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Did you see it? The one in red."
"Hmm." Xiang Cheng frowned, and said, "What else?"
"The house." Chi Xiaoduo said, "The lights are still on."
When the train turned a corner, Xiang Cheng turned his head slightly, closed his eyes, made a seal with his fingers, and opened them suddenly. The pupil shrank slightly, and then a little white light lit up deep in the pupil.
The white light flashed away, and the sky and the earth were instantly reversed like a film, revealing a grave in the wilderness in the distance.
Xiang Cheng: "..."
"A house." Xiang Cheng nodded and replied, "Go to sleep."
Thinking of the male doctor, Chi Xiaoduo felt trembling in his heart, and slept in fear. In the middle of the night, he raised his head again and looked at the opposite bed in fear. The male doctor was sleeping face inward, very quiet.
The phone screen turned on, and Xiang Cheng sent a text message.
[Didn't sleep?]
Chi Xiaoduo looked up at the upper bunk, Xiang Cheng came down lightly and sat down at the end of the bed, Chi Xiaoduo sat up, Xiang Cheng motioned him to lie still, then hugged his feet, through the socks, fingers lightly Press his feet.
It's so comfortable... The strength was just right, Chi Xiaoduo lay down and swiped his phone for a while, and felt that Xiang Cheng had been on this bunk the whole time, and after an unknown amount of time, he fell asleep in a daze.
The next day, when Chi Xiaoduo woke up, he heard Xiang Cheng talking to the girl in the opposite shop.
"You snore while sleeping." Xiang Cheng said.
"Me? I don't snore." The girl said, "Ah Gui snores, right?"
The girl teased her boyfriend, the male doctor smiled and said, "I never snore."
"Here's something." Xiang Cheng opened the notebook, pulled out a piece of yellow paper from inside, and handed it to the girl.
girl:"… "
The faces of the girl and the male doctor changed. The male doctor laughed and said, "Handsome guy, what do you do? Are you a Taoist priest?"
Chi Xiaoduo: "???"
Chi Xiaoduo woke up in an instant, peeking out from under the small table, Xiang Cheng was holding a piece of yellow toilet paper in his hand, the girl and the male doctor looked at each other, it didn't matter whether they answered or not, Xiang Cheng didn't speak, just kept that pose.
The girl leaned forward and took the straw paper.
"Doctors help the world and save people." Xiang Cheng said, "You must be careful and cautious in everything, and this is what you say, so you can do it yourself."
The male doctor's face was not very good-looking, he seemed to want to curse something unclean, but he didn't dare to speak, the train stopped, and the conductor came to inform Luohe that Luohe had arrived, and the girl said, "Thank you." The two got off the train with their luggage.
"What did you give him just now?" Chi Xiaoduo asked in surprise as he lifted the quilt.
Xiang Cheng didn't expect Chi Xiaoduo to wake up, so he glanced at him.
"Phone number." Xiang Cheng replied.
"Why did you give him his phone number?" Chi Xiaoduo asked.
"Tell them to contact us frequently." Xiang Cheng patted Chi Xiaoduo's knee and said, "Are you up? I'll go buy you breakfast."
Chi Xiaoduo was still a little not sober, and always felt that there was something wrong. In his impression, Xiang Cheng never took the initiative to strike up a conversation with anyone. Even going to the canteen to buy cigarettes was just two words: "Hongmei." Then The process of counting money and changing money.
He actually asked a stranger on the train: "Are you snoring while sleeping?"
Chi Xiaoduo remembered that boy's snoring last night, and couldn't help being a little scared, but now it's daytime, the fear has disappeared a little, and no one came up to the opposite bunk.
Chi Xiaoduo thought about it, thinking wildly, and suddenly suspected that Xiang Cheng had a crush on that girl.
"Are you taking the opportunity to hook up with someone?" Chi Xiaoduo said.
"Yeah." Xiang Cheng listened to the song, with a book spread out in front of him, peeling an apple in his hand, and the corner of his mouth slightly curled up.
Um! Um! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ! Ahhh! A volcano erupted in Chi Xiaoduo's heart, and when he wanted to ask again, Xiang Cheng stuffed the apple into Chi Xiaoduo's mouth.
Chi Xiaoduo said: "This is very immoral, okay! He was with her boyfriend!"
"Yes." Xiang Cheng said absently, "Immoral."
Chi Xiaoduo said, "Do you like her?"
"No." Xiang Cheng finally answered positively, "Don't think about it."
Chi Xiaoduo had no choice but to stop asking. Looking at Xiang Cheng's behavior, it seemed that he didn't take that girl seriously. No, since he met Xiang Cheng, he didn't care much about anyone, as if in his world Here, without a friend, everyone is a stranger.
Of course, except for him, Chi Xiaoduo. But Chi Xiaoduo always suspects that he is just treated as a close roommate, someone who lives with him every day, or is taken care of by him as a younger brother. Some straight men have such a temper, behave like they treat good brothers as lovers, and in the end they will go to fall in love by themselves.
What's even more deceitful is that when you are in a relationship, you still want to take your brother with you, and even want to buy a house with your brother after you get married, which is simply incomprehensible. Chi Xiaoduo wondered for a moment whether Xiang Cheng also liked him, but why didn't he confess that he liked him? He made it obvious enough.
What if he is really treated as a younger brother
Chi Xiaoduo thought about it for a long time, feeling sad, sweet, angry, and mad at the same time, his heart turned upside down, and he wanted to grab Xiang Cheng's neck and shake it hard, forcing you to say if you like me or if you like me.
Xiang Cheng: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
"That's right." Chi Xiaoduo said, "You have..."
Chi Xiaoduo almost asked "Do you have someone you like", but they are together every day, Xiang Cheng must know who he likes, of course not, the answer is also no, Chi Xiaoduo turned around wisely Huatou, asked: "Do you plan to start a family and get married?"
"No one wants me." Xiang Cheng said.
"I want you." Chi Xiaoduo said.
"So this isn't with you?" Xiang Cheng looked at the book and said without raising his head.
Chi Xiaoduo laughed, and kicked him again, Xiang Cheng held Chi Xiaoduo's ankle, Chi Xiaoduo couldn't move anymore, Chi Xiaoduo wanted to crawl over to his arms, Xiang Cheng graciously let go Hands, hold him in your arms.
Chi Xiaoduo couldn't help but ask you if there is anyone you like several times, but this is too direct, and the vicious expression of the best friend appeared in his mind: No initiative! anyway! The last sentence has to wait for him to say! You can't say that! Backtracking is not acceptable! We must put an end to backtracking!
So Chi Xiaoduo had no choice but to bear it. It is said that he was too proactive and too concerned about gains and losses. The Phoenix man will not take you seriously in the future, but Xiang Cheng is not a Phoenix man, but according to the logic of his best friend, he has a little bird A man named "Phoenix" is of course a Phoenix man.
Chi Xiaoduo was about to be played to death by himself. While calling his best friend, Xiang Cheng came back from smoking and said, "Get out of the car."