Flight of the Bumblebee

Early the next morning, he got up from the bed in the hotel room, and the wind that had been blowing all night finally subsided.Looking down from the open window, He Qi saw that the street was in a mess, the stagnant water hadn't receded, and everyone was walking in the water with their trouser legs rolled up.The cleaner got up earlier than everyone else and had been working for several hours, carrying the fallen branches onto the car one by one.

It must have been very windy last night.

It's over, his house!

He Qi hurriedly packed his things, and stuffed his phone into his bag without even unplugging the charging cable.When checking out at the counter, the disaster situation after the typhoon was playing on the TV.He Qi stood still and looked up for a while, saying that there was a man who was bringing in a signboard that he had forgotten to clean up at the door of his shop, but a piece of iron flew over and chopped off his head and died on the spot.He Qi felt panicked from the bottom of his heart after hearing this, and left the hotel in a hurry.

He also followed the example of others and rolled up his trouser legs.But because he was wearing tight pants, he could barely pull them down to the calf, so He Qi gritted his teeth and walked into the yellow stagnant water.

Fortunately, the place where he lives is on a higher terrain, and there will be no stagnant water when he walks to the long slope.

He Qi went back to his room, opened the door and took a look inside, it was really a tragedy.

The slippers on the ground were scattered, the wooden folding bed against the wall was soaked and discolored, and the plastic bags were covered with glistening water stains.If he hadn't had the foresight to wrap important furniture in plastic bags, his house would now be a crystal palace.

Looking at the tragic situation in the house, He Qi rolled his eyes upwards.Rolling his eyes, he discovered something extraordinary again.He Qi looked intently——

A corner of the iron sheet of the tin house was turned upwards, leaking a big hole. As if the gloomy sky was mocking him, a few drops of cold water fell and hit his face.

If the roof hadn't been strengthened a few days ago, the murderous piece of iron might have flown out of him.Thinking of this makes me shudder.

He didn't rush to remove the plastic, but climbed up to the roof with a small hammer, knocked out the restless piece of iron, pressed it with a board, and blocked the hole.He jumped off the roof. There was water on the floor and he almost slipped. He supported it with his hands and managed to stabilize himself.

Then it's time to work.

He Qi removed the plastic bags from the wrapped furniture one by one, cleaned up the remaining water in the house, and put the slippers at the door one by one.When he touched Xing Yan's pair, his hand hesitated for a moment, and then he threw the shoes into the rubbish dump beside him neatly.

Time to get ready, pack up and go home.

He took a shower, changed into clean clothes, lay down on a bed that was tightly covered, and was not exposed to water, closed the door, and wanted to sleep, but found that he couldn't.He turned on the computer and wanted to find a movie, but when he saw the elongated title, he lost interest.After putting the computer in the bag, He Qi remembered that his mobile phone was not turned on.He took out his mobile phone from his bag, it was still morning, and while waiting for it to turn on, someone knocked on his door outside.

He Qi put the phone on the bed that was in the boot screen, and asked loudly: "Who?"

No one answered.

He stood up from the bed and walked to the door, when the phone kept ringing text messages.

He glanced back, instead of going to pick up his phone, he opened the door.

Xing Yan stood outside.

The lit phone screen was flooded with text messages and missed calls from unmarked numbers.

"Is Ayan with you?"

"Please contact me when it is turned on."

"Please contact me as soon as you get home. I'm his brother Shi Leping."

"Ayan disappeared from the hotel for twelve hours. If you have any news about him, or know where he is, please contact me as soon as possible."

"Why are you here?" He Qi looked at Xing Yan who was standing outside the door, staggering, and asked in a rough voice.

His head was broken, there was no dry place on his body, and his hair was messed up, the same as when we first met.After He Qi opened the door and saw his appearance, he was very shocked, and looked at him like a ghost.

Xing Yan looked down at him.He walked a long way, in the heavy rain, and risked his life before he came to this house.But seeing He Qi, he couldn't say anything.As if all the strength in his body had been drained, he put his hands on the door frame so as not to fall in front of He Qi.

He Qi couldn't believe his eyes now, Xing Yan looked like he had just gone through a [-]-mile long march, some parts of his body were even bruised and swollen, and he was very weak.

But he didn't want to compromise, if Xing Yan came to beg him to stay.

"You go back." He said coldly: "Your brother must be looking for you crazy now."

Xing Yan lowered his head and did not speak. He exhausted his last ounce of strength to support the wall, and raised his legs to step into the threshold. This is the place where he lived for several months before, but this time he was rejected.He Qi grabbed the door panel and got stuck in the middle to stop him.

"You can't come in, Xing Yan." He said sadly: "I can't let you in anymore. I will call later and ask your brother to pick you up. Please stand outside the door and don't run around." He Qi When he said the last sentence, he dared not look at Xing Yan with guilt, and he was also afraid that seeing his appearance again, his heart would soften for a while, and he could not make a real decision.

Xing Yan has never heard him say "please" to himself, so polite, so alienated, as if he and him are two strangers.

He opened and closed his lips hard, and said in a low voice: "Just because I like you, are you going to drive me out?" There was despair and sadness in his tone.

He Qi lowered his head, and said, "It's not because of this... I'm leaving, I'm leaving this city, and I can't stay here anymore. Xing Yan, can you understand?"

Xing Yan desperately suppressed his feelings, and asked him softly, almost begging: "Can't you take me away too?"

He Qi laughed dryly twice, and said, "Are you going to rely on me for the rest of your life? Don't."

"But I like you...what should I do?" He choked up, tears streaming down his face.

He Qi grabbed the door panel without even realizing it. The veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and his knuckles were turning white.To Xing Yan, he felt very angry, it was an indisputable anger of mourning his misfortune and angering him.After hearing this sentence, especially after seeing Xing Yan crying weakly again, he finally couldn't control his emotions, and roared in grief and indignation: "I just saved your life at the beginning, and you were begging for nothing. Haunting me! Your brother has come to the door, can't you follow him? Why are you still pestering me? I have nothing to do with you, but I happened to meet on the road, saved you, and took you in For a while, what's there to like? You follow me, what benefits do I have? Don't you think these few months are not enough to hurt me? I really want me to tell you to get out!"

None of the words that came out of his mouth passed through his head, they were just his momentary words of anger, and none of them were sincere.

After He Qi yelled, even he was surprised.It's not that he didn't say bad things to Xing Yan, but they were just verbal curses, and Xing Yan wouldn't take it to heart.But this time, Xing Yan's face turned pale when he heard this sentence. He looked at him in disbelief, his body shook violently, let go of his hand, and took a step back.

It was as if his soul had left his body.

He Qi has never seen him so heartbroken. Even Xing Yan, who was determined to end his life on the Baishui Bridge, is much better than now by comparison.

"I understand." He said lightly.

The damn rain started to fall again, and behind Xing Yan, like a broken bead curtain in the sky, the raindrops smashed onto the ground one by one.

"I see..." He repeated in a murmur, taking another step back as the rain hit him.Xing Yan turned around and ran, his footsteps were so fast that he couldn't hold him back.He stood at the door for a while, then turned and went back into the house.

He won't chase him out, it's of course best for Xing Yan to figure it out, even if he can't figure it out now, there's still a lot of time left for him to think about it slowly.

Who can love whom for a lifetime?

He Qi sat back on the bed, thinking of Xing Yan's expression just now, he couldn't help hugging his head.At this moment, the phone rang, and Shi Leping finally got through to He Qi.

"Hey……"

Before he could ask who it was, there was a series of anxious questions over there.

"Is Ayan with you? Have you returned home? Did Ayan look for you?"

He Qi said calmly: "He is with me, but he just left, what do you have..."

"Stop him!" Shi Leping yelled on the phone: "He can't run around on the street alone now!"

He Qi felt strange, he asked: "What happened? What happened to Xing Yan?"

There was the sound of running on the phone, and Shi Leping panted and said, "Last night, he ran out of the hotel and probably walked on the main road all night. Now his spirit is very unstable. I'm afraid something will happen. You must Help me stop him! Please, what a shame!"

He Qi stood up from the bed all of a sudden, he asked in surprise: "You said that he walked all the way from the hotel to me last night?"

Shi Leping said uncertainly: "I think so."

He froze, without waiting for Shi Leping to say anything, He Qi threw the phone on the bed and ran out.

That person is crazy!He is absolutely crazy!

It rained so much last night, and the wind blew for so long, and someone had his head smashed by a piece of iron in this typhoon. He actually walked all the way from tens of kilometers away!

What are you drawing?

He is sick!

He Qi ran down the stairs in a hurry, just in time to see Xing Yan leaning on the wall, step by step, walking down the steps with difficulty.He didn't wait for He Qi to catch up, but purely because he had spent all his energy fighting the typhoon all night, and what supported him to get here was only a belief, but this belief had just been shattered by He Qi, and he again Without the strength to leave, he moved forward while wiping away his tears, looking pitifully like a dry and emaciated old wolf whose hind legs were broken by a hunter, crawling on the ground and dragging a long bloodstain, struggling to survive.

He Qi looked at his back and couldn't bear to go forward. With tears in his eyes, he looked at him sadly.

It wasn't supposed to be like this.

In He Qi's expectation, the two of them would wave goodbye in the sunset and wish each other a bright future.Like every pair of close friends, at the station, at the airport, or in a crowded place, they give the most reluctant hug, and finally hold back tears and say goodbye with a smile.

He was the person who didn't want to hurt Xing Yan the last, but he also became the person who hurt him the most.

He Qi never thought about how much Xing Yan could like him when he said he liked him.Is it the kind of love you have a crush on at the same table in elementary school?Is it the kind of unspoken liking for female colleagues in the office?Is it the kind of love that flew across the galaxy to meet him?

Going through the eye of a typhoon that occurs once in 50 years, how far this kind of love has reached, there is no way to make an estimate in my heart.

He slowed down, moving inch by inch behind him.

Xing Yan stopped, he heard footsteps, and then rushed out from the stairs without looking back, so fast that he was a different person from just now.

He Qi involuntarily chased him down, and tightly grasped his hand before the stairs.

The unexpected rain fell on them, and the tears on He Qi's face were washed away.

"Where are you going?" All the voices seemed to be covered by the sound of rain, and he yelled at Xing Yan's back with all his strength.

Xing Yan didn't say a word, just drooped his head, stood motionless, no matter how he pulled him, he would not move.

Seeing that he was stubbornly unwilling to turn around, He Qi had no choice but to threaten him: "Either you come up with me now, or never speak again!"

Because he kept his mouth wide open, he kept spitting out rainwater.Xing Yan finally turned around, those wet eyes like a puppy were looking at him sadly and complainingly.

He Qi shouted, "Don't look at me like that!"

Xing Yan asked him loudly: "Didn't you tell me to get out?"

"Then you have to spend time to get out!" He Qi suddenly realized that this is not even an excuse at all, and he said, "Your brother called me to stop you!"

Xing Yan looked at him, suddenly held his hand, put it on his forehead, and wept with his back arched in the rain: "I have so many things to tell you, so many..."

He Qi was silent for a long time before he said to Xing Yan: "Don't let others worry about you anymore! Xing Yan, you are 27 years old, not two years old."

But Xing Yan didn't seem to hear his words, and begged in a low voice: "Give me a little more time... Please... give me a little more time, how can I..."

Shi Leping arrived in Wang Sheng's car.

When the wind was weak in the early morning, Shi Leping came out to look for someone. Wang Sheng was with him all the time, and even the driver, Xiao Li, was not on vacation.Early this morning, they came downstairs to He Qi's house and asked the people living here to open the anti-theft door.Going up to see that the gate is locked, and Xing Yan and He Qi are not there, Wang Sheng said to look around, maybe Xing Yan has already come to the surrounding area, but he hasn't come here yet.They searched one by one along the highway, but neither pair of eyes saw Xing Yan's shadow wandering in the street like a ghost. They didn't come in a hurry until He Qi answered the phone.

Wang Sheng took a black umbrella, got down from the driver's seat, and helped Shi Leping open the car door.When he kept looking up at the roof rushing up, Wang Sheng grabbed him from behind.

"Don't go," he said.

Shi Leping showed puzzled eyes, but seeing Wang Sheng's unusually serious expression, his flustered heart gradually suppressed, and he asked, "Why?"

Wang Sheng's eyes looked elsewhere, and then quickly put them on him, he said: "Give them a little time, A Yan must have a lot to say to him."

Shi Leping was silent, he felt that what Wang Sheng said was quite right.

After hesitating for a while in the rain, Shi Leping finally gave up his plan to go upstairs.

They returned to the car, the wipers were working monotonously, and the two of them hadn't spoken a word since they entered.

Wait for the time to pass quietly, at the end or at the beginning, there will be an answer.