Suddenly, Ji Linqiu found an excuse to transfer classes with a friend, and drove to Hongcheng in his car alone.
This year, the expressway was newly opened, and it only takes more than an hour to reach the vicinity of the old place, and it takes a short while to turn on the national highway.
He shuttled through the flying leaves and flowers, and he could see a large golden rapeseed field outside the car window, which was picturesque.
It seems like a lifetime away.
Today, he has a free and excellent career, owns his own car and house, and has everything he needs to live and work.
All the depression and depression before meeting Jiang Wang seemed like a short and unpleasant nightmare, and it didn't matter if they were forgotten.
Will forget.
Ji Linqiu murmured his lover's name, stepped on the accelerator and drove faster.
Many images popped up in his mind.
On the day we first met, Xingwang just got his new school uniform, and happily turned around to show him.
The man was standing at the end of the corridor, and he didn't come towards him until the end.
It's like an old acquaintance, but never met.
Peng Xingwang, Jiang Wang.
As soon as the name was changed, many things changed quietly.
Although the new name sounds good, it is exactly the same as the current him, but it is a bit more desolate and alienated, a bit colder.
He left early in the morning and arrived at only 11:20, looking for a place aimlessly, and finally stopped in front of Hongshan Primary School.
Ji Linqiu greeted the guard with the key in his hand, and walked in slowly.
Jiang Wang talked with him about many childhood events.
It's as if everyone had a fierce class teacher in their childhood, and everyone fell off a high slope when riding a bicycle.
It's like everyone met a very warm friend in elementary school, and can't help but buy snacks from the commissary.
One by one, it is all normal to say.
Ji Linqiu walked forward along everything he said to him, his footsteps coincided with the outline of his words, there was no difference.
He couldn't imagine what Jiang Wang would be like after his childhood was over, after leaving him.
Why didn't I go to high school, why did I decide to join the army, and got stuck in the snow several times in the cold and windy north.
He couldn't see his youth in the other end of time, he couldn't see the days they missed, only last year and this moment.
Jiang Wang turned back at a certain moment, and this time he chose to come to Xingwang again, to find him, and to rewrite all the fights between trapped beasts.
It is the weekend now, and many children are laughing and flying kites and playing games on the playground. The gravel track has not been replaced with a plastic track.
Ji Linqiu slowly sat on the stone chair, his throat was dry.
He clearly understood that the current Peng Xingwang and the nine-year-old Jiang Wang are by no means the same child.
Even if he grows up in the future, he will never be the same person.
He felt indescribably distressed.
Once people can feel the deep-seated love and concern, they can let go of a lot suddenly, and shoulder more in an instant.
It was like being hit by fate at a certain second, as if breathing would burn the lungs.
Ji Linqiu took out his mobile phone and checked Jiang Wang's personal homepage again.
The Internet speed of the mobile phone is much slower than that of the computer, and the Internet is not fast. It takes several minutes for the thumbnails in the photo album to appear.
He followed these photos to find the past, to look for places where Jiang Wang had stopped and lingered.
The old city wall, the locust forest, the wasteland that has been dug into mounds by developers, and the dilapidated but smoky alley where Peng Jiahui lived for several years.
Peng Jiahui has moved a long time ago, and even that shantytown is almost demolished now.
Ji Linqiu stopped in front of the fried noodle stall, and the hawker watched and watched, not sure if he wanted to patronize his business.
The phone rang.
"Linqiu?" A man's voice sounded, clear and gentle: "Are you okay?"
"Xiao Fu and the others said that you suddenly asked for leave and left, are you angry?"
Listening to his voice, Ji Linqiu asked for a while, "Do you like fried noodles?"
"Fried noodles?" Jiang Wang laughed: "I like it very much. If you want to eat, I will take you to an old place to eat when I have time. Their noodles are very thin, and I think the taste is better than Yuhan's."
Ji Linqiu looked at the signboard on the hawker's glass cart, and asked, "What kind of food do you eat?"
"I usually add an egg, less bean sprouts and green peppers, or root sausage."
Ji Linqiu nodded, and said to the peddler, "I want thin noodles, add an egg, less bean sprouts and green peppers, and add some sausage."
The peddler hastily agreed, washed his hands and got busy.
Jiang Wang was taken aback when he heard the conversation between them.
"Are you in Hongcheng?"
"Yes." Ji Linqiu said softly: "I just strolled around Hongshan Primary School for a while, and after eating noodles later, I want to sit at the train station for a while."
There was no sound on the other end of the phone.
It wasn't until ten seconds later that Jiang Wang took a deep breath and said, "You wait for me at the gate of the train station."
"It's a bit windy today, do you want me to bring you a coat?"
"I can take my mother's suit," Ji Linqiu smiled relievedly: "Would it be nice if we both wear the same set?"
The man agreed in a low voice.
"Wait for me there, don't run around."
The chow mein was really delicious.
The price is cheap and the oil is not fresh.
It's just this kind of cheap flavor like a night market, which makes people never forget it.
Ji Linqiu seldom eats such greasy food, but for some reason today, he even ate all the side dishes.
He knew that Jiang Wang would not arrive in a while, so he simply parked the car here and walked to the train station alone.
After waiting at the door for a short time, the familiar champagne-colored Audi a4 galloped over and stopped at the door.
The security guard at the train station yelled: "No one parks the car at the gate! Brother! The parking lot is over there!!"
"Immediately, I will go back later!"
Jiang Wang was still wearing the suit for the business meeting, and today he had a greasy hair comb, but when he ran over, he was inexplicably more youthful.
He ran all the way to Ji Linqiu, a little nervous and concerned.
When I really ran in front of him, I only had time to catch my breath, all the words I had planned were blank, and I couldn't say anything.
"What are you in a hurry for?" Ji Linqiu took out a tissue to wipe his sweat, and said with a smile, "Go to the car first."
"Okay, you wait for me here." Jiang Wangding gave him a fixed look, as if he was afraid that he would disappear, and then rushed back to the car.
The security guard hurriedly commanded: "That's right, if we can't make it this time, let's change the ticket."
When Jiang Wang parked the car, Ji Linqiu went to the ticket booth to buy two platform tickets, and waved at Jiang Wang as if he was about to enter a movie theater.
When the latter parked the car and came out, he carried an extra bag for his coat.
The two coats were properly folded and stuck together tightly, intimately.
Jiang Wang took the ticket in his hand, and then
looked at him.
It was as if I had a hunch from the beginning. Jiang Wang always felt that it was impossible to hide this matter from him.
But he has also been afraid many times, just like the dream Ji Linqiu had.
I was afraid that a truck would suddenly hit me when I confessed, and I was afraid that I would fall into the water for no reason.
Although it is unlikely, Jiang Wang has not dared to go swimming in the past two years, and he is always very careful when crossing the road.
Now that he has a home that he cannot lose, he is full of concern and cannot leave easily.
The two didn't have a place of departure, and there was no way to see them off. They walked into the waiting hall together and just sat on a wooden bench and drank soda together.
Although it was a weekend, the waiting room was still packed with people.
The woman with the child was watching the late hour, the old woman was knocking the peanuts she brought in the corner, and several men gathered around to play cards.
Everyone is waiting to leave, or watching someone leave.
When Jiang Wang drank his soda, he was looking at the ticket gate he had walked through.
It was cold that day, but today is actually quite warm.
He even remembered where Ji Linqiu stood back then, and where they met again.
Although the two did not talk, they were always very close.
Shoulder to shoulder, hand to hand, there is some anxiety and joy.
The two moments before and after the secret was suddenly revealed were the happiest moments for both parties.
There is no need to hide any more, no more fear, and there is no second guess from now on.
After Fanta finished drinking half a can, Ji Linqiu looked sideways at him.
"Will you disappear into a bubble like a mermaid?"
I read this book in the bathtub before, and I didn't expect that I would ask such a fantastic question one day.
Jiang Wang raised his head and took a big sip, feeling a little bit risky.
He waited a long time, touching first his face, then his hands.
All beard and all tail, nothing disappeared.
The man laughed out loud.
"Looks like I'm not a mermaid anymore."
Ji Linqiu breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little nervous at the moment.
There were people coming and going in the waiting hall, but he still reached out to hold his wrist, as if afraid that he would disappear suddenly.
The fine texture of the fingertips was branded on his palm, and he could even feel the pulses of both of them beating alive.
Jiang Wang reached out and took his hand instead, not caring if anyone was watching them.
The feeling of being alive has never been stronger.
They are alive, exchanging each other's fiery body temperature, and listening to each other's existence with their heartbeats.
Fingers hold fingers, breath touches breath.
It is that every second is telling endless love.
Jiang Wang turned the two coats out and unfolded them generously.
The first one was for Ji Linqiu to wear, and he was asked to take it off, and the second one was also given to him.
The first one was the clothes he got from his mother during the Chinese New Year last year, and it fit him naturally.
Ji Linqiu put on the second, which was a bit worn out, and found that the sleeves had grown a lot, and the shoulders were indescribably wide.
"The patches are all on the inside, and there is no trace on the outside." Jiang Wang laughed: "It's hard for me, I kept it carefully, lest you see it."
He loved him so much that hiding anything was like having a bone in his throat.
It's fine not to say a lot of things, but if he doesn't say it for a long time, he is afraid that the other party will not know how much he loves him.
Ji Linqiu shook his sleeves twice and laughed, took off his coat again, and put it on Jiang Wang's shoulders solemnly.
"Since I gave it to you, it should be worn by you."
When Jiang Wang looked at him, his eyes were full of tenderness and happiness.
"Okay, leave it to me."
They seem to understand everything when they see each other's eyes without explaining.
Needless to say the antecedents, needless to say those missed and unwilling.
Got it, got it all.