The Road Home

Chapter 21: Monuments and Tombstones (3)

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Gui Xiao weighed it several times in his heart, but decided to make it clear that she and Lu Yanchen had been very direct since they were young.

Lu Yanchen was biting his cigarette, and after a while, two words popped up: "Forget it."

"I ask you seriously."

Lu Yanchen borrowed the moonlight to look at her neatly manicured arc-shaped nails, with a smile on his lips, he pulled back his right leg, which was on the railing. Gui Xiao couldn't see his face, so he panicked and pulled him turn his head over.

This action was too sudden, and a plume of smoke that Lu Yanchen didn't have time to exhale fell on her face.

Gui Xiao was so choked by the spiciness that he didn't say a word. Lu Yanchen glared at her, smiled gracefully, smoked half of the cigarette in his hand and threw it on the snow. Blondon hugged quietly for a while in a place where there was no light at all, and it could be seen that it was a stable.

Gui Xiao also hugged him back, and the hot air that came out poured into the gap of his neckline, gentle and hot.

Lu Yanchen lowered his head and leaned against her auricle, sighed slightly, and then said, "It smells of mutton."

Gui Xiao rushed up in embarrassment and pushed him.

In the distance, the good comrade-in-arms comrade who had been waiting for the two of them for a long time, braved a new round of wind and snow to come out to look for them. He was seeing a clip of Lu Yanchen teasing his wife that he had never seen before. It was like seeing the ninth world. Like a miracle, he let out a "Oh" and was amused: "The hero is sad at Beauty Pass, and the road team has opened my eyes today. But the road team, you were making fun of your sister-in-law beside the frozen cow dung pile in our house, I'm really not afraid of hurting my sister-in-law."

Gui Xiao glanced at it, and it turned out that the piles in the fence next to it were covered with grass and cow dung.

In the evening, when they returned to the small yurt where they slept, Lu Yanchen specially added a lot of coal to the iron stove, and it burned a lot more than the night before. , Gui Xiao's breathing was very subtle, but it made him feel like a fog, and he kept closing his eyes, completely awake in the darkness.

"I just dug through your duffel bag..." Gui Xiao asked in a low voice, "How can you lie like this?"

"What did I lie to you about?" He went down and kissed her ear, and then rubbed his lips with the gentleness of repeated rubbing.

"I understand in my heart."

He promised, admitting that something had lied to her for more than ten years.

Gui Xiao's heart fell heavily, thinking it was related to his family.

Unexpectedly, he said: "I was left-handed when I was a child, but my reading was forcibly changed, and my family knew it."

left handed? Gui Xiao's thoughts came to a halt, and after a while, he understood, pushed him in disbelief, and looked at him with a low smile: "I said, how could someone be able to beat me with one left hand..."

The mystery revealed more than ten years later is: Lu Chen is a complete rogue liar, too treacherous...

Gui Xiao couldn't help kicking him fiercely in the quilt, and when he rolled onto him, he punched and bit his teeth, and in the end, he naturally hugged him and rolled to one place. Whether to do it or not, both of them had hot flashes all over their bodies, and they couldn't sleep well. Gui Xiao stretched his legs into the air and wanted to cool off. In the dark night, his long legs were exposed, which was very dazzling.

The double impact of the body and vision turned the alcohol that I drank all night into a mudslide.

What I did last night is vivid in my mind.

I still remember the sticky and slippery feeling of Gui Xiao's sweat on the palm of his hand.

When intoxicated, with the woman you love in her arms, there is nothing you can't do if you close your eyes, but you just can't do it. My father just counted your major crimes, and I wish I could find out all the rotten things that you have been in the army for more than ten years, and make it clear that you are a toad who grew up in the suburban countryside of Beijing and has a chaotic family relationship. Don't think about seeking high-welfare and high-paying jobs through other people's daughters, which will change your life.

He turned his face and hung up the phone, and had a direct relationship with his daughter in the yurt. This is impossible.

At least for now, it can't be done.

Lu Yanchen lowered his eyes, looked at her in the dark room, turned over after a while, got out of bed, and went out again.

The next day, they left the small resort and went to a cemetery.

Lu Yanchen's comrade-in-arms led the way and found a rather ordinary cemetery. When Gui Xiao looked at the name on the tombstone, Lu Yanchen was wiping away the concave strokes with his fingers. "Do you want to find someone to draw red again?" Gui Xiao asked in a low voice.

Lu Yanchen shook his head and smiled.

Those who sacrificed their lives for the country have their own loyal souls on the vast grasslands. Here is a form.

"Who is he? Your comrade-in-arms?"

"One of the first recruits I ever brought."

"How did you sacrifice?"

Lu Yanchen shook his head again, not wanting to talk too much about the dead.

Gui Xiao didn't ask anymore. She was quite afraid to hear a story about a hero. Anyone who became a hero is full of blood and tears. So, of course, the fewer such stories happen, the better. Lu Yanchen seemed to see her thoughts. Basically, people's understanding of them was that they were heroes who sacrificed with real swords and spears.

The comrade-in-arms talked ramble: "He is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, an orphan. He came to us first, and then went to Tibet. The plateau is very damaging to the body, especially the high-intensity training. It didn't take long for him to be in bad condition and he was not rescued. Come here. Before I died, I said that I wanted to be buried in Inner Mongolia, and the Lu team gave the money to buy a cemetery. At that time, I was just leaving the army, so I helped him bring his ashes back to my house, so that I could watch it,” his comrade-in-arms sighed. In a tone, "sister-in-law told you that many people who have come down from the plateau have damaged their hearts and lungs. They are not born and raised, after all."

Gui Xiao understood. She remembered going to Tibet right after graduating from university and chatting with the taxi driver. The driver also said that he was from the mainland and came to make money, but he would not stay for a long time before going back, otherwise it would be really bad for the heart and lungs.

No wonder it took a detour to Xilinhot.

Lu Yanchen felt at ease after seeing it, and left the cemetery to say goodbye to that old comrade in arms. Instead, Gui Xiao naturally went to chat with the people guarding the cemetery, covering everything from the cemetery to the funeral industry in Inner Mongolia.

Before getting in the car, I took out my wallet and took out a bill to settle the money for staying at the resort.

The old comrade-in-arms refused to accept it, and hid around the car. In the end, he couldn't stand the car door on the co-pilot's side. Am I richer than him? Pulling up her sleeves, she showed Gui Xiao the watch on her wrist, but Gui Xiao recognized it. It belonged to Jaeger-LeCoultre. It was the first time she found someone able to show off their wealth in such a cute and direct way. It is rich, and the 'sheep coal rustic' accounts for it all, and last time I came here, I felt that the prices were high."

"That's right," the old comrade-in-arms exhaled, "As a brother, there is no future life in this life, don't be so vulgar, I wish you could live with me for the rest of your life. Of course, that's when you thought you would be a bachelor in the past. After all, I don't think so anymore."

The other party doesn't want to live or die, just say that it is money for marriage.

Lu Yanchen said these words very well, smiled slightly, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said goodbye.

When Lu Yanchen buckled her seat belt, she asked her, "What are you talking about with the cemetery guard?"

"Want to learn about the funeral industry here."

Lu Yanchen glanced at her. If I remember correctly, last time Xiao Cai introduced Gui Xiao as their "colleague", and Xiao Cai was a toothed roller crusher. The last time I went to Erlianhot, there was a batch of goods to be delivered to Outer Mongolia. Go, the first business with Outer Mongolia, I don't worry about it in person.

Gui Xiao smiled and untied the scarf around it: "I'm an investment, I just help my boss to see how to spend money every day. Just last year, the funeral company invested by the boss went public, and just thinking about it, I want to know about it. ."

The constant state of their company is that the big boss will never be seen, and the small boss is the boss who brought her in the consulting company when she first started working, and brought her into the company, so she is very respected. Later, Gui Xiao's performance was good, and he was rewarded by the big boss.

After careful consideration, she kept half of it for herself, and transferred the other part to college classmates who were still in the entrepreneurial period. The condition is that in the future projects this classmate is involved in, she must choose whether to participate in the investment. At that time, the college students were too poor and could not see the future prospects. Suddenly there was a chance to transfer the original equity, and naturally agreed.

After three years, the limited sale period ended, and Gui Xiao made a lot of money by throwing it away, and that classmate was also doing well, and they were making money for her one after another.

So she has two sources of income and life will be easier.

After Lu Yanchen heard her general overview, he smiled.

He thought of that day.

On the day I last saw her before enlisting, she turned around and rode away in the wind.

The rose-pink bicycle was swaying non-stop, as if it would fall down at any time, and the arms were raised to the side of the face. He stepped on the curb and looked at her background while smoking, until he couldn't see anything, and then went along the road to find the bus sign. Unexpectedly, all the station names were unfamiliar. Akatsuki is completely delusional in living in two worlds.

This is the same moment, two worlds.

But he has no regrets. For the past ten years, he has firmly guarded the world that has nothing to do with him, nor does he understand.

Gui Xiao leaned on the back with his left shoulder and looked at the man who was driving.

Facing the scenery outside the window, there is a feeling of "the sky is blue, the wild is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the road in the morning".

The journey to Erlianhot was smooth at first.

When it got dark, the car blew out.

Lu Yanchen parked the car on the side of the road, turned on the signal light, and rummaged through the trunk, but did not find the warning triangle.

"Do you have an umbrella?"

"Have."

"Is it bright?"

"Um... dark red."

Gui Xiao found a small bag of himself in the packed trunk, and took out the umbrella for him. Lu Yanchen was very satisfied that she was a dark red umbrella. , thrown under the umbrella, right as a warning sign. The luggage of the two people piled up on the road. He took the tire wrench and the jack, and the new tire came out, and he changed the tire in a hurry.

Whatever, Gui Xiao was watching intently.

Even when he hooked down to change the tire, he squatted down, his legs were bent, his arms were crossed on his knees, and he leaned in to see. Watching Lu Yanchen align the spare tire with the axle and screw holes, step on the bottom side of the tire with one foot, and tighten the bolts.

"Is there any mystery in stepping on it with your feet?"

Lu Yanchen smiled and did not answer.

"Tell me," Gui Xiao is very eager to learn, "Although my car tires are explosion-proof, if I encounter them in the future, I might as well replace them myself." Lu Yanchen looked at her and went to put down the jack. , in the diagonal order, after tightening each bolt thoroughly before turning the wrench in his hand, he also squatted down: "You don't need to learn."

The moonlight made people's shadows indistinguishable, as if a small pool of ink was under the feet of the two of them.

Gui Xiao moved his feet and leaned forward. Lu Yanchen, who squatted down in front of him and was much taller than her, saw clearly what she was about to do. The corners of his mouth softened and he smiled silently: "What?"

Gui Xiao whispered, "Kiss me."

Lu Yanchen didn't move.

Pretentious. Gui Xiao stretched out his hand depressed and pushed him away lightly, obviously without any strength, but Lu Yanchen fell backwards. The moment he sat on the ground, he grabbed her arm without any pause and brought it to him.

Gui Xiao fell forward and slammed into his shoulder. The moment before his right knee hit the road, he firmly put his palm on it. After buffering, he withdrew his hand and wrapped it around her waist.

This pose-

In broad daylight, no, the night is dark and the wind is high, kneeling and sitting on his waist... Forget it, no one knows them even if they run into a car. Gui Xiao gently put his chin on his shoulder and looked at the boundless darkness in the distance, thinking it was a good hug.

No cars, no buildings, no artificial light sources.

It was so quiet only the sound of the wind.

There was a light click, and after a few seconds, there was another sound. He didn't take the cigarette, but played with a lighter. He hummed a few words, but the words were blurred, and the lyrics could not be heard clearly, but Gui Xiao could tell the difference. It was Cinderella.