The moment he opened the door of the rental house, Yu Hao seemed to have withdrawn from a life and returned to the long-lost past. Outside the door is the ice and snow of Beijing, and inside the door is the city of Ying, which is full of green plants, and the breath of the white fog in early winter. Zhou Sheng turned on the lights, and the warm light illuminated the two-bedroom, one-bedroom rental house.
The dining table, the sofa, even the tablecloths and the shelving, nothing has ever been touched. The shelf next to the dining table where the coffee pot was placed was still the same as the day Yu Hao left—after he left, neither Fu Liqun nor Zhou Sheng were at home making coffee, so they left it for half a year.
"I'm back." Zhou Sheng said.
"I'm finally back." Yu Hao had the illusion of returning home from a long trip. There was very little dust in the mountains. It was enough to clean up a little before the New Year's Eve. Fu Liqun put down his bag and said to Cen Shan, "Are you going to take a shower first?"
Cen Shan said "um" and said, "Let's rest for a while."
Most of Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng's clothes were kept here. Previously, the three of them had negotiated to cancel the lease after graduation. The lease lasted until June, so that they would not have to live for a while when they came back to write their graduation thesis. Yu Hao simply tidied up, while Zhou Sheng went to open the refrigerator to find something to eat.
At three o'clock in the night, Cen Shan moved a chair and sat in the bathroom to bathe Fu Liqun. Cen Shan put on clothes, but Fu Liqun was naked and let her wipe her back. She sat with her head down, her back to the bathroom door. The bathroom door was cracked open, and the steam was lingering inside. Yu Hao heard the two talking when he was passing by. He just thought it was funny. When they were in the bedroom before, the three of them had occasionally seen each other without clothes, so it wasn't unusual.
Yu Hao made four cups of milk powder with hot water, and Zhou Sheng drank it. The bathroom door was closed after a while. When Fu Liqun came out again, his beard was shaved and his hair was wet. He used a hairdryer to blow Cen Shan's long hair. Cen Shan changed into Fu Liqun's oversized shirt and stood barefoot outside the bathroom.
Fu Liqun was also a lot paler and thinner, but after a dozen of himself, he seemed to have returned to his former school grass appearance. After Fu Liqun finished using the bathroom, he whistled at Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng, motioning them to wash up.
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng were fighting hahaha in the bathroom. When Zhou Sheng was fighting, the back of his hand and elbow were scratched a little, so he stood with his hands raised. Zhou Sheng was very itchy, and after a while, he pressed Yu Hao again, and Yu Hao cried out in the bathroom.
"Two children." Cen Shan couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry.
"Don't get too excited." Zhou Sheng said, "I won't be able to fall asleep later!"
"It's a holiday, and I'm not going to work again," Yu Hao replied, "You can sleep in. Hey, sister-in-law, you earrings..."
Today, Cen Shan put her hair up, revealing the ear studs beside her ears. Every time Yu Hao saw Cen Shan, her long hair was put down. Today, the ear studs are especially clear.
"Yes." Cen Shan said casually, "I wear it all the time."
It was nearly six o'clock after all the tossing, and it was snowing in Yingshi, and the floor heating had not been turned on for nearly a month. place.
"You can take seven days off." Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng, "It's wonderful!"
"If you really want to take a vacation, you can resign or not go to work." Zhou Sheng said.
In Beijing, Lin Ze re-arranged Yu Hao's vacation, knowing that he was preparing for his graduation thesis, and Yu Hao hardly had a Saturday or Sunday off in December and January, so he let him go for ten days. Of course, the manuscript still has to be written, and some small interview manuscripts are regularly submitted. It doesn't matter if the topic is made, and the year-end is sent to him for two months.
Zhou Sheng said hello to Beijing. This time he went home for the New Year's party to deal with school matters and graduation thesis. The specific time to return is to be determined.
This long vacation should be their last carefree vacation before they officially leave the campus. Yu Hao didn't wake up until noon, checked his and Zhou Sheng's salary cards, and was instantly elated.
Money again! Yu Hao's monthly salary, manuscript fees, and year-end bonus were in the early 20,000s, while Zhou Sheng plus the January bonus was 30,000.
The breakfast that Fu Liqun bought was placed on the table, before Cen Shan got up. After waking up, Zhou Sheng rarely touched Yu Hao, but sat in the living room and had a serious and serious conversation with Fu Liqun.
When Yu Hao came out, the two stopped briefly, and Zhou Sheng said, "So everything in the dream is not your hallucination."
Fu Liqun held the Golden Crow Wheel in his hand, his face full of disbelief. After breakfast, Yu Hao pulled up a chair to settle accounts at the dining table, without interrupting their conversation.
"I've been thinking about this yesterday." Fu Liqun said, "This is too fucking fantastic."
"At first I thought it was the same as Ou Qihang," Zhou Sheng snapped his fingers and frowned deeply, "Either I'll let you forget, now it seems even more unsafe."
Yu Hao glanced at Zhou Sheng and knew that their biggest misjudgment was Ou Qihang. In order to keep it secret, it caused even more serious leaks. If Ou Qihang's memory is not forcibly erased, then maybe he will cooperate with them and help hide from Huang Ting...
"I understand." Fu Liqun said, "When will we continue?"
"Second year of junior high." Zhou Sheng said, "I have to think about some things... Wife, what are you doing?"
Yu Hao was struggling with the calculator, counting money with an irritable expression, the sound of "return to zero, return to zero, return to return, return to zero" revealed that he was quite depressed.
"I'm AA with Mr. Chen." Yu Hao said frantically, "Why does he have to take us to the business class every time he goes out!!"
Lin Ze provided Yu Hao with airfare and room and board reimbursement, but he followed Chen Yekai, the cost was too much. Yu Hao posted seven or eight thousand in the whole process. Although Chen Yekai didn't say anything, he still had to call him the money.
Fu Liqun said: "I will count my debts. After the New Year, I will find a job and pay him back slowly."
"I'll pay it back first." Yu Hao said to Fu Liqun, "Don't worry about it for now."
Zhou Sheng said: "After clearing the accounts at the end of the year, let's all have a happy New Year. Don't mention the money thing again, my head hurts when I mention it, Emma."
Cen Shan's lazy voice came from the room, calling Fu Liqun, Fu Liqun got up, pressed Zhou Sheng with the pillow a few times, and then leaned in and kissed him on the side of the face.
"Hey!" Zhou Sheng shouted angrily.
Fu Liqun came over quickly, and Yu Hao was kissed by Fu Liqun unexpectedly. He shouted with Zhou Sheng, and Fu Liqun pushed the door in a gust of wind and went in to accompany his wife.
"Crazy." Zhou Sheng grabbed a few tissues and wiped his face desperately.
"Hey, how come there are still 6,000 here?!" Yu Hao discovered the new continent, and suddenly remembered that a public account had asked him to make an appointment several times before, and he quickly checked it, and sure enough, he had already forgotten about it, "That's great! great!"
After Yu Hao settled the bill, the expenses were all under control. As long as Zhou Sheng didn't mess around, he could still pay the rent and save some money when he returned to Beijing. He set aside the necessary funds for food and clothing, and decided to leave the reserves in the cards of the two of them untouched. He bought a 5% wealth management plan. Although Fu Liqun lost 100,000, he still had 2 million. Money begets money, and can earn 100,000 yuan a year, which is equivalent to the salary of an undergraduate graduate.
A person, after nine years of compulsory education plus three years of high school, four more years of undergraduate studies, sixteen years of cold window, in the end, is equivalent to the interest generated by the two million in the capital market. Thinking of this, Yu Hao couldn't help but sigh. .
"Enough," Zhou Sheng said, "don't worry, others have worked for ten years, and they haven't saved a penny. You haven't graduated yet, so you worry about eating every day."
Cen Shan also got up. Today is the twenty-seventh year. After breakfast, the four of them went back to school, and even Xue Long went home. Fu Liqun put away two pieces of clothes, Yu Hao looked at Li Yangming's bed in the dormitory, it was clean.
It seems like a long, long time has passed since the place where they once lived. Zhou Sheng packed most of the things away, and Yu Hao packed the books and prepared to send some of the books back to Beijing, and the other part would be sold to the juniors when the graduates set up their stalls after school started. them.
"I'm leaving." Yu Hao looked at the dormitory and said, "Suddenly I'm a little reluctant."
The three of them looked at the dormitory, and a thought emerged in their hearts, what is the biggest gain for them from the university? Perhaps the best part is getting to know each other.
The next day, the four of them went out shopping again to buy clothes. Fu Liqun and Yu Hao each pushed a car, Cen Shan called, Zhou Sheng carefully selected the ingredients, and Yu Hao said, "Don't buy too much, it's a waste."
Zhou Sheng: "I live for ten days. If it's finished, such a large family needs to eat and drink."
Yu Hao laughed, and took the writing fee, let Zhou Sheng take it as he liked, anyway, the living expenses were already enough.
Fu Liqun asked, "Young master, will you go back to see your parents?"
"I'm too lazy to kill them." Zhou Sheng replied, "Just live at home."
Fu Liqun said, "I'll take your sister-in-law back to my house tomorrow, and we'll be with you when we come back in New Year's Eve."
"Okay." Zhou Sheng said, "I'll cook the New Year's Eve dinner."
Lin Ze sent Yu Hao a bunch of photos of the New Year in Beijing and other places, and asked him to look at the photos and talk about it. The huge capital is almost empty, and people are running out. Jin Weicheng is on duty in the 30th and the first day of the first year, and Lin Ze is on the second day of the first year.
On New Year's Eve, when Zhou Sheng brought the dishes to the table, Yu Hao opened a video with Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang over there.
"Gong Xi Fa Cai." Ou Qihang said with a smile, "Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year." Chen Yekai was wearing a new sweater of the same brand as Ou Qihang. Obviously, he also brought Ou Qihang to buy clothes. Ou Qihang turned the video and let Yu Hao and the others watch his mother, and everyone greeted each other. Ou Qihang's mother made a New Year's Eve dinner, and Yu Hao suddenly had a feeling that wearing a brand of clothes, although it was not a couple's outfit, it always seemed to have a gentle atmosphere of a big boy and a young boy. Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang were indeed very friendly. take.
Ou Qihang's mother said hello and went to work in the kitchen again.
"Yo!" Zhou Sheng said, "Where did you buy the clothes? Not bad! I want new clothes too!"
"Yo." Fu Liqun said, "You guys are having a good time! What about mine?"
Zhou Sheng: "Why did you buy clothes for Xiaoou?"
Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang gestured to Zhou Sheng not to talk nonsense at the same time, but Zhou Sheng said, "Will Kaikai give us a red envelope this year?"
Yu Hao: "The red envelope can't be small."
Chen Yekai said, "Yes, yes, I'll give it to you on the second day of the new year, see you then..." Then he said to Ou Qihang, "Okay, let's close the video."
Yu Hao said, "I still have something to say!"
"Why do you have the heart to shut it down like this!" Zhou Sheng said, "What are you guys doing these days?"
Ou Qihang: "I don't have anything to do, just eat and stroll around, and look around at the exhibition."
Chen Yekai was always teased by their words, and gestured to Ou Qihang with his eyes, don't tell them, Ou Qihang closed the video with a smile. Pour good wine here, clink glasses, and start the New Year's Eve dinner.
On the first day of the new year, Fu Liqun sent Cen Shan to the high-speed rail station. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng slept all day. Zhou Sheng's hair was messy, and he was wearing pajamas and slippers at the table to do the real exam questions. When Fu Liqun came back, he sighed and lay on the sofa, reading Zhou Sheng's thick book of real questions.
Yu Hao used a pen to write and draw on the manuscript, and asked Fu Liqun, "Are you ready to go abroad?"
"You know?" Fu Liqun was surprised, "Is the soundproofing of this house not that bad?"
"Well." Zhou Sheng said without raising his head, "Look? Am I right? Go wash the dishes."
Yu Hao was helpless and said, "After a while, I will admit defeat."
Fu Liqun said, "I'll go talk to her dad on the fifth day of the new year, bless me. I'm still a little confused, but I think I can do it."
Zhou Sheng: "What do you plan to do next?"
Fu Liqun: "I went home a few days ago and discussed it with my family. My dad had prepared a sum of money and planned to buy a suite for me in Ying City. Now I want to use it to study abroad. ."
Yu Hao: "Where?"
Fu Liqun: "Cologne Institute of Physical Education, I miss their graduate students."
"Okay." Zhou Sheng said, "But are you sure that studying abroad is more reliable than buying a house?"
Yu Hao: "..."
Fu Liqun: "..."
Of course, Fu Liqun knew that Zhou Sheng was happy to find him, and said, "You have to apply for a visa first, go out to study languages for a year, then find a bicycle coach or something, and work part-time. Your sister-in-law said that it is good to find a part-time job in sports there."
"It's okay for your father to pay you tuition and living expenses." Zhou Sheng said.
Fu Liqun loosened his fingers and said, "Try to rely on yourself, it's not easy for parents to work their whole lives, alas."
"Just have an idea." Zhou Sheng said.
"The money has to be paid back to you later." Fu Liqun said.
Zhou Sheng finally looked up from the question set, glanced at Fu Liqun, and said, "Don't worry."
The two of them ended the conversation about Fu Liqun's future in such a light-hearted manner. Yu Hao got up to wash the dishes. He knew that Fu Liqun had not fully recovered from the blow, but in his dream, the sandstorm might have disappeared. , the sun will always rise.
Yu Hao started to clean up the pile of dishes from last night, Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, "I'll come after I finish the last three dishes."
Yu Hao: "Review first, I'll wash."
Immediately the doorbell rang, Fu Liqun went to open the door, but Ou Qihang and Chen Yekai came early, Yu Hao was unprepared, and was taken aback.
"His mother and friends went to Sanya to play." Chen Yekai said.
Ou Qihang took off his shoes at the door: "I don't have anything to do at home anyway, so I'll come and see you guys." As he put the shoes on, Zhou Sheng glanced at them casually and said, "Damn, you two still wear Yin-yang shoes?"
Ou Qihang said, "I bought it while shopping, Yu Hao, what are you doing?"
Yu Hao: "The guests go to the living room to sit."
"It's okay, I like to wash dishes," Ou Qihang said, "I wash all the dishes in my house..."
When Zhou Sheng saw Ou Qihang enter the kitchen, he immediately threw the book, and quickly came in to watch his own cabbage, and beware of being messed up by pigs from other homes.
"Then I'm going to make coffee." Yu Hao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Fu Liqun took out snacks and rice cakes, Zhou Sheng changed his clothes, came out with a cigarette in his mouth, shook the cigarette case, and gave one to Ou Qihang, and everyone sat at the dining table. Ou Qihang said, "I have a lot of things to ask. I've been feeling a little confused these past few days."
Zhou Sheng thought about it and said, "Today?"
Chen Yekai said, "It's up to you."
Zhou Sheng pondered for a long time, and then said: "Okay, let's go today." With a flick of his thumb, the Golden Crow Wheel swirled and flew over the dining table. Look at Zhou Sheng, then look at Chen Yekai.
Chen Yekai raised his hand, Ou Qihang handed the Golden Crow Wheel to him, Chen Yekai handed it to Fu Liqun, Fu Liqun rubbed the Golden Crow Wheel with his thumb, and handed it to Yu Hao, Yu Hao felt that it was the real Golden Crow Wheel, and then handed it back to Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng, and Zhou Sheng. l put it in front of you.
Everyone waited for Zhou Sheng to speak. After a long silence, Zhou Sheng was still thinking about it. Ou Qihang was the first to break the silence and said, "Isn't this Jinsha's sunbird? Some people call it the sun wheel."
"Yes." Zhou Sheng said, "It's hard for me to explain it to ordinary people, but you should be fine... It allows us, and even everyone sitting here, to have our thoughts."
Ou Qihang said: "You can also interfere, I understand."
"You understand what you understand?" Zhou Sheng was dumbfounded.
Ou Qihang said: "I already knew about this once. You sealed this memory of me for the sake of confidentiality. No wonder I always feel that there is something important that I can't remember..."
Chen Yekai nodded and said, "Very correct."
Zhou Sheng said, "But it's useless, isn't it?"
Yu Hao observed Ou Qihang's expression, he didn't think Ou Qihang and Huang Ting were in the same group, but there was always a contingency in everything, and it had to be confirmed carefully.
Ou Qihang said: "That incident has troubled me for quite a long time. After I started school in Beijing, Brother Ting made an appointment with me several times. I have already explained the specific process..." He looked at Chen Yekai.
"Yes." Chen Yekai said, "I also relayed it to them."
Fu Liqun could roughly guess from the description that when he came back that day, Zhou Sheng told Fu Liqun exactly what happened.
"Did he take you to receive hypnotherapy?" Fu Liqun asked.
"More than hypnotherapy?" Ou Qihang said, "We tried almost every method."
"Why are you so persistent?" Yu Hao had no choice but to take Ou Qihang.
"A memory disappeared inexplicably like this," Ou Qihang said, "and it's a matter of life and death, aren't you curious at all?"
Yu Hao said, "It seems like all of you people with high IQs are like this. You must get to the bottom of everything."
It was the same with Chen Yekai back then. When there was a doubt, they held on to it keenly. They didn't doubt whether they had auditory hallucinations, vision hallucinations, or fantasies. They only believed in the logic behind it all.
"You don't seem to be saying it yourself." Zhou Sheng played with the Golden Crow Wheel in his hand and laughed, "How did you guess the identity of the general?"
Yu Hao thought about it too. Back then, he thought about it countless times before he came to this conclusion.
"Tell me about the specific situation." Chen Yekai said.
Ou Qihang took the Golden Crow Wheel again, looked at it in disbelief, and said, "Later, I went to receive hypnotherapy in an institution. That was my last hypnotic memory, and after that time, I finally remembered the whole process. "
Zhou Sheng said: "Remember all?"
Ou Qihang said: "This is my inference, I still don't remember anything, but I am very sure that in that hypnosis, I said what you guys made me forget, and left a record in the institution, Except for the attending physician, only Huang Ting has seen the records. But they didn't tell me what happened, and Huang Ting lied to me, saying that it was okay to give up, he doesn't plan to talk about it any more recently."
"At the end of this hypnosis, Huang Ting hardly mentioned it anymore," Ou Qihang said seriously after drinking some coffee, "So I think he got what he wanted."
Yu Hao thought to himself that would be really troublesome...
Zhou Sheng said "um", and Ou Qihang said, "Give me back that memory, why don't you believe me? What did I do at that time?"
"You didn't do anything." Zhou Sheng said casually, "You are a very good person, but I am too defensive."
Ou Qihang said: "But this is also reasonable. After all, no one wants this kind of secret to spread, especially when we are not familiar with each other at the beginning."
Zhou Sheng smiled and said, "We don't know each other very well now."
Ou Qihang and everyone laughed.
"Then," Zhou Sheng said, "Tell me in the dream, make it more clear in the dream, brother, use your dream for a while."
Fu Liqun replied, "No problem." This was discussed by Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun in advance, so he looked at the crowd and asked, "Which little baby sleeps with me?"
Everyone: "… "
Chen Yekai said, "I'll go to sleep on the sofa."
"Are you attacking?" Ou Qihang said.
Fu Liqun: "I made a big attack."
Ou Qihang said: "Okay, I'm a black belt in Taekwondo."
"I'm afraid of you!" Fu Liqun led Ou Qihang into the room.
Yu Hao thought this scene was really weird. These people were going to sleep in their own house... Zhou Sheng glanced at the time, it was four o'clock in the afternoon. It was a cloudy day outside, and he pulled the curtains of the living room and the room one by one.
"Good night." Zhou Sheng put his hand on Fu Liqun's head, then pressed Ou Qihang's forehead, then came out and pressed Chen Yekai's forehead.
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng lay side by side on the bed, holding hands and closing their eyes.
The light flickered, and Fu Liqun, Chen Yekai, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Hao appeared in a safe haven in the desert world—this was the rental house. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng didn't even change their positions, they were lying on the bed. Chen Yekai woke up from the sofa, sat up, and walked to the dining table.
It's as if everyone went back to their positions to lie down and get up a few minutes later. If it wasn't for the lack of Ou Qihang, Yu Hao would hardly be able to tell which was a dream and which was reality.
Chen Yekai also said, "For a moment, I thought I didn't fall asleep."
Fu Liqun said, "Qihang is gone."
"He's in his own world." Zhou Sheng opened the curtains and looked out. Outside the balcony, the wind and sand in the sky had all disappeared. Instead, there was a shining galaxy in the sky and the beautiful ancient city in the quiet night in the distance. After leaving the MLM organization, the floaters have all disappeared. That is to say, in the world of Fourier Qun now, it will no longer be as dangerous as before.
"What exactly is this place?" Yu Hao asked Fu Liqun.
"Loulan." Fu Liqun replied, "I was in junior high school, it was my first date, and I watched a movie with your sister-in-law."
Fu Liqun still remembered that day, the cinema outside the school was dark and there were many mosquitoes. Cen Shan had never seen such a movie when she was so old. He patronized and hurriedly applied wind oil to Cen Shan, and when he touched her white skin and long legs, in this darkness, he suddenly felt love coming towards him like a tide.
Later, Cen Shan grabbed his hand, and Fu Liqun took her in his arms and kissed her. He had long forgotten the plot of the movie, but the most profound thing was the magnificent ancient city in the desert. Later, he also called Cen Shan "the beautiful Loulan bride".
"I thought that group of mosquitoes were your colleagues." Yu Hao said.
"It's a bit like..." Fu Liqun's mouth twitched, helplessly said, "I was almost tortured to death by them."
Zhou Sheng sat down at the dining table and said, "Call Ou Qihang over, who is responsible for calling him?"
Chen Yekai said, "I haven't tried it yet..."
Zhou Sheng said, "It's like the day you passed through the Golden Crow Wheel and entered Xiaoou's Dreamland."
Chen Yekai tried to pull his hand away, and the seal Ou Qihang gave him appeared in his hand. He looked up at Zhou Sheng and asked, "And then?"
The golden fire burst out between Zhou Sheng's fingers and injected into the seal in Chen Yekai's hand, and the seal instantly became brighter. Yu Hao thought to himself, was this the first time Zhou Sheng summoned himself in Shi Ni's dream
Immediately afterwards, the seal turned into a light spot and shattered, and with a loud noise, Ou Qihang appeared out of thin air, stumbled on the coffee table, knocked over the sofa, and almost rolled over!
Ou Qihang: "!!!"