He Xuchunqiu

At the end of March, City B had already started to be so hot that it made people's minds messy, but they didn't expect that the temperature in April would drop sharply within a few days after the sun came out.

There are a total of three days off before and after the Ching Ming Festival. Whoever has no time to go home can only continue activities within the boundaries of the campus as usual.

On the day of Ching Ming Festival, it suddenly snowed in City B.

The sky over the entire city of B was dim at dawn and dusk. This snow came silently, with a sad chill, as if it had replaced the dense drizzle in the south to extinguish the busy streets.

Who just sent his winter clothes home two days ago, and now he can only wear a thin long-sleeved sweater to go between the dormitory and the cafeteria to cool down. Besides, the area beyond the jurisdiction of the quilt has become a barren place in the distance land.

In the dormitory, there are only two outsiders, Lu Ze and himself, who talk more than before: "Is it still snowing?"

Lu Ze put down his phone, went to the window and opened a visible gap in the warm yellow curtain. Outside the window was snowflakes, which made someone's knees ache a bit bitingly.

"Hey, there's a lot of snow during the Qingming Festival. The north is real. It's snowing even if it doesn't rain enough." Lu Ze watched the snow scene outside the window for a while, then let go of his hands and went back to the chair to sit down.

"Today is Qingming?" How can anyone belatedly realize the special meaning of today.

"That's right! Otherwise, why is the school on holiday? What's going on with you these days? Something's not right since you came back from April Fool's Day... Could it be that you were tricked into being a fool?" Lu Ze quickly swipe his finger on the phone screen , I don't know what I touched, the sound of vibration is very clear.

Lu Ze's unintentional question brought up a certain memory of someone that cannot be shared with outsiders. The protagonist of the incident could only refute with red ears: "It's okay, I'm fine, but when it's cold, I get sleepy."

"Oh, then catch up on your sleep these two days." Lu Ze didn't care too much about anyone's reaction, but added after playing the game for a while, "I'm going out with Bi Sheng this afternoon, what do you want to buy?" Is it? I can help bring it back."

"No, thank you." After He Xu finished speaking, he turned to face the wall and stopped talking.

Lu Ze checked the time, put on his coat, carefully closed the door, and hurried to Bi Sheng who was standing downstairs earlier.

"Why so long?" Bi Sheng was holding a big black umbrella with thirteen bones, and moved the umbrella over when he saw Lu Ze going downstairs.

The umbrella surface has been covered with a thin layer of snow, separated by an umbrella, there are two completely different atmospheres of black and white.

"He is alone in the dormitory, I chatted with him for a while." Lu Ze looked up at the dormitory building with a complicated expression.

Bi Sheng also knew some things about He Heren, except for what Lu Ze told him, he learned more from other sources.In Bi Sheng's view, He Heren is a person covered in scabs, and he cannot try his best to convey kindness to him like Lu Ze, and can only protect his sweetheart in front of him to avoid the harm he guessed.

"Let's go." Bi Sheng brushed away the snowflakes from Lu Ze's hair, his voice unconsciously gentle.

On the other end, He Xu didn't fall asleep, but sent a message to Xu Ran with his mobile phone.

"Are you free in the afternoon?" He Xu buried half of his face in the quilt, staring intently at the phone screen.

"Yes! What's the matter? Did you miss me again?" Xu Ran replied almost instantly, and the question of who missed who could be said to be clear at a glance.

"Will you go for a walk with me?" He opened the map search engine after sending this sentence, and began to search for the location of the cemetery in City B.

"Okay! When?" Xu Ran didn't forget to put on a small expression after typing these words, looking very happy.

"Is it okay now?" He Shiren had already got out of bed.

"Okay, I'll come downstairs to your dormitory right away." Xu Ran immediately agreed.

Ten minutes later, Xu Ran appeared in front of someone with a coat in his arms, and asked him to put on the coat with an expression of "I knew it" on his face: "It's so cold today, do you want to piss me off by wearing such a light coat?"

He Xu borrowed the coat silently to put it on, and his body seemed to be covered with Xu Ran's warmth: "Thank you, Xu Ran."

Xu Ran thought that this time was just someone's whim's suggestion, but he didn't expect that from the beginning to the end, someone made no secret of his purpose, calculated the route, transportation, and time, and finally arrived at a cemetery.

"Why are you here?" Xu Ran followed someone to buy a bunch of chrysanthemums, and walked up the artificially repaired passage.

He Xu looked while walking, as if he was looking for something, and ignored what Xu Ran said.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, whoever stopped in front of a tablet without words that had not yet been bought, Xu Ran also stopped.

The snow in the sky seemed to be falling more heavily. He Xu stood blankly in front of the tomb, his eyes were so fierce that they were about to cut through the stone tablet for a moment, but his eyes soon filled with tears.

"Can you tell me again what the person on the German phone said?" He He put the chrysanthemum in front of the empty monument without a name, and turned to ask Xu Ran.

"Okay." Xu Ran suddenly understood who was worshiping whom, and then put the chrysanthemum in front of the monument.

"...He said that he loves Song Xingyu very much and has been working hard to make money..." Xu Ran still didn't tell him that the man was actually using work to escape reality.

"...he has been single for so many years just to wait for Song Xingyu to find him..." Xu Ran couldn't forget the man telling himself in tears that he still found a woman to marry due to family pressure, but he still secretly changed the story The direction of the relationship, so that it can give anyone the courage to accept this kind of feeling.

One after another, the snow covered the heads and shoulders of the two, as if they had reached someone else's white head in this simple story.

"It's over?" He stood for a long time before realizing that Xu Ran had finished all the words he had heard, "Then let me tell you what Song Xingyu told me."

"When I knew him, he wasn't called by that name. His name was 'Number 8'." After He Xuren said a few words, he laughed first, "How is it? Isn't it cool, like Agent 007?"

"Well, it's very cool." Xu Ran held someone's hand worriedly, and was surprised that his hand was frighteningly cold.

"It was a bit impolite for me to meet him for the first time, because I was lying down, and I didn't even show him my eyes." When anyone thought of what he was going to say next, his body muscles still trembled slightly, "After all, just now After being shocked by the electric shock, my mind is still not clear."

There are still many people who come to visit the grave in the cemetery. Parents and children, brothers and sisters, old friends and close friends, everyone plays thousands of roles.

Who is different? He and No. 8 are just strangers who just met by chance. He even learned the name "Song Xingyu" from other people.

In such an unknown cage, there is always a sense of security with someone who dances together.How could anyone ever even hope that one day, when they escaped that cage together, Number 8 would tell himself his name.

But he didn't.

At the moment when he found out that No. 8 had died, how could anyone's hatred be greater than fear? I have left an unforgettable shadow in my life.

But in the end, how can anyone find that these hatreds are far less than their gratitude to him, and even now, it is difficult to find even traces of his existence in this world.

The snow was still falling tirelessly, some of the snow on He Xuren's head was melted by the heat, the rest was brushed away by Xu Ran, and ground into muddy water by his feet.

"...Then I came out, and as soon as I got home, I ate shortbread that I couldn't even eat on my birthday. It was so sweet!" He Xuren laughed and cried, his voice trying to be hoarse and cheerful.

Xu Ran didn't care if there were other people in the cemetery, but he hugged the person who was trapped in the memory forcefully in his arms, almost wanting to rub him into his flesh and blood.

"Xu Ran, I'm really happy because I have you." He Xuren said this sullenly, and then hugged Xu Ran back.

Because of you, I was able to step out of the darkness and break free from the shackles.Thank you for giving me the motivation to exist freely, so that I can leave traces in your heart.