Flight of the Bumblebee

He Qi pushed the trolley and put the toothbrush and other toiletries into the shopping cart.

Xing Yan obediently followed behind him, feeling uncomfortable all over.He is not used to appearing in large shopping places. Although there are few people in the supermarket at this point, when there are strangers around him, Xing Yan will unconsciously move closer to He Qi.

He Qi muttered what he wanted to buy on the list, put the instant noodles into the car, focused on the products on the shelf, and didn't notice Xing Yan's expression at all.When he came to the place where the slippers were sold, He Qi asked him: "What size shoes do you wear?" Xing Yan was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting He Qi to talk to him suddenly at this time, he thought for a while, and shook it mechanically Shake your head.

He Qi sighed, picked out a pair of slippers from the wall, and told him to try it.Xing Yan took off the original pair of slippers that squeezed his feet, and the insteps actually started to break. He put his feet in, and it was a little crowded, and it was a size smaller.He Qi squatted down to hang up the new product, took a pair of the same style and a slightly larger size, put it directly into the shopping cart, pushed it and left.

Xing Yan put on his shoes, at this moment his feet began to ache a little, He Qi had already pushed the cart far away, he jumped and jumped all the way to reach He Qi's side.

He Qi turned his head and suddenly spoke to him: "Do you still remember that I said I have something to tell you?" Xing Yan thought about it, He Qi said such a sentence before taking a bath, and he didn't mention it after waiting for a long time. I thought I forgot, but I didn't expect him to remember.Seeing Xing Yan nodded, he continued: "There is something I want to ask you, but I'm too embarrassed to ask it. It was originally your own privacy, but since you live here, I think I should also find out, so as not to be confused in the future. Something unpleasant happened."

His tone can be big or small, before he asked the question, Xing Yan was terrified, with a flustered face, and those who didn't know thought he was a prisoner who had done something wrong and was waiting to be sentenced.He Qi scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "You don't have to be so nervous, I'm just asking." Looking at Xing Yan's still uneasy expression, he continued to explain: "Let me declare first that there is absolutely no discrimination or other I just want to ask you...that—" He lowered his tone several tens of decibels, and Xing Yan had to lower his head to hear what he said clearly.

"That... are you a woman?"

As if a bolt of lightning exploded on his head, Xing Yan looked at He Qi in shock.

He Qi explained again: "It's...the kind of person who looks like a man on the outside, but a woman on the inside..."

Xing Yan didn't understand what he meant, he frowned and said to him seriously: "I'm a man."

"Male... a man?" He Qi blinked, as if he was relieved, and suddenly forgot where he was, and his voice couldn't help but amplified: "It's the kind of man who likes girls!"

The people around them were all attracted by the sudden sound, and looked at them silently.

Xing Yan lowered his head and said in a very soft voice: "I don't know..."

But He Ji didn't hear this sentence, he was feeling annoyed by the commotion he inadvertently caused just now, and hurriedly pushed the trolley away from the sight of the crowd.He took out his phone and checked the time. It was 04:30. No wonder there were more people in the supermarket.

They swept the remaining things into the car as quickly as possible, checked out in a hurry, and each walked out of the air-conditioned supermarket with a full shopping bag.He Qi checked the list. He bought all the ingredients for dinner and daily necessities, and there was nothing missing.Very good, the money he saved after so much hard work in the past few months has almost been spent, and now he is a big pauper, fortunately he will be paid in two days, otherwise he can only follow Xing Yan to the streets to beg for food.

Because it was the weekend, there were more people on the street than usual in the evening, and even street vendors came out early.When there were too many people, Xing Yan felt uncomfortable all over. He lowered his head, his chest was swollen and he couldn't breathe, and even the road under his feet seemed to be more uneven than usual. Every step he took seemed to be stepping on a distorted and messy stave. .It seemed that everyone passing by was looking at him and laughing at him.Xing Yan really wants to make himself smaller, and then smaller, so small that he becomes dust, a microbe invisible to the naked eye...

"Come here and try on this dress." A familiar voice woke him up from the mist.Xing Yan raised his head suddenly, He Qi put the shopping bag on the ground, and was seriously struggling with which one to choose with two T-shirts in his hand. Seeing that Xing Yan was still standing there stupidly, he exclaimed: "Silly What are you doing standing there? The clothes are bought for you, not for me, do you want me to try them on for you?"

He took the bag and walked over quickly, He Qi grabbed the collar of the clothes with both hands and compared it to him, and then chose a few at random, and then bargained with the seller like an old lady.The elder sister who set up a street stall was pestered by him. It was probably the first time she met a man who was so good at bargaining. After a few rounds, she compromised and sold them at a relatively low price.

After taking the clothes and leaving, He Qi was not satisfied, and complained to Xing Yan with a look of disgust: "The price of this clothes could have been lower, but she refused to sell it to me, there is no way." Xing Yan listened to the point of agreement Nodding, pretending to understand.

After walking a few steps, He Qi stopped suddenly, squatted on the ground and took out the slippers from the bag, bit the plastic thread tied on them with his teeth, and placed Xie Yan at Xing Yan's feet.

"Forgot to give you these," he said, "Throw away the pair on your feet."

Xing Yan obediently put on new shoes, which fit just right.He Qi trotted and threw the old slippers he had replaced into the nearest trash can. When he came back, he was attracted by the lychee stand on the ground. Xing Yan was still waiting here. Fortunately, he jumped into the crowd Holding a plastic bag in his hand, Li picked up the lychees.

Xing Yan picked up the shopping bag he dropped from the ground, and walked unsteadily behind He Qi.He picked out a big bag of juicy ones, paid for them, and just stood up from the ground, almost bumping his head into Xing Yan's chin.He Qi took Xing Yan and walked two steps aside, reached out and took out a rosy lychee from the bag, peeled it off and put it in his mouth.

"Sweet?"

Xing Yan couldn't move his hands free, his mouth was stuffed with lychees and he couldn't speak, so he could only nod his head.Seeing his eyes light up after eating, He Qi knew that the taste would not be much worse, so he peeled one and put it in his mouth.

For some reason, he was in an extremely good mood, which he hadn't felt in a long time.The last time I was happy was at school. They had a pillow fight with their neighbors in the dormitory. In the end, one of them was punished.Obviously not long after graduation, the student days seem to be a thing of the last century.

He also bought a few bottles of beer. Xing Yan carried the two full shopping bags, and he didn't take them back. He held the beer bag in one hand, and peeled the lychees in the other hand. The lychee shells he threw were all on the way. .

There was a chihuahua standing under the window of a certain house, barking crazily. He Qi explained to Xing Yan: "That's the landlord's dog. It barks at passers-by at the window every day. I don't know if it's crazy." When he said this, his eyes were smiling, but when Xing Yan looked at him, he felt embarrassed again, "I don't mean anything else, I mean his dog... It looks pitiful anyway." He walked two quick steps forward, then turned around and pointed to the earthen stove built by someone nearby and said to Xing Yan: "One evening, at this time today, I passed by here and saw blood all over the place. Do you know what this stove is for?"

Horror stories always start like this. How could he intentionally whet Xing Yan's appetite, and he did not disgrace his mission: "What...what are you doing..."

All of a sudden, the sounds of wind, birds, and insects hiding in the dark rushed towards him from all directions, and the sun on the Nagasaka gradually dimmed.

Xing Yan swallowed nervously, and unconsciously moved away from the stove.

He Qi said: "I saw a bloody, skinned dog lying in boiling hot water."

The ghost story turned into a horror story, but it was still scary. Xing Yan imagined the scene, and the cold air climbed up from the bottom of his feet. It is obviously summer now.

"I walked from other places for the entire two months after that." He pointed in another direction and said with a wry smile, "It's so disgusting, I had a nightmare for a week."

Xing Yan walked towards him, "Then don't leave here, let's leave here quickly."

He Qi chuckled: "You really believe it?"

Xing Yan was stunned.

"No way! Do you really believe it?" He Qi looked at him in disbelief.

"You... Do you still have a reason to lie to me?" Xing Yan stared at him with wide eyes, as naive as he could be.

He Qi curled his lips and turned around, took out a lychee from the bag and peeled it off, and said to Xing Yan who was following up as he walked, "I didn't say that I lied to you, but the nightmare I had for a week was fake. .” He casually threw the shells on the ground. Fortunately, there are no three bags in front of the door in the residential area, otherwise, if you throw garbage in front of other people’s houses, your head will be blown off.

They passed a family's yard, and there was a barking sound of a large dog inside, which was very scary, as if they were coming towards their footsteps through a wall.Xing Yan hurriedly followed, pretending to chat casually: "There are so many dogs around here, hehe..."

He Qi replied to him: "You should be glad you didn't walk here before, otherwise what hit you on the head would not be a stick, and you would have bitten out the rabies." But then he was puzzled again: "That's not right, you wandered so After so many years, how can you still be afraid of dogs, where is your dog-beating stick?"

Xing Yan was embarrassed, and said: "I have been afraid of dogs since I was a child. When I hear a dog barking nearby, I usually don't stay for a long time."

"What if you fell asleep?"

"I won't sleep very hard."

"Oh."

The topic can't go on here, He Qi has already chatted to death.

But he remembered that when he went out this morning, Xing Yan sat in the corner and fell asleep, and the sound of washing was next to him. He didn't wake up.

When the anti-theft door was opened, the setting sun behind him had completely set, the bloody sunset covered the sky, and the stairwell was completely in the night.The security door closed and their footsteps woke the lights in the stairwell.He Qi walked briskly in front, and Xing Yan followed behind with two bags, lifting them up from time to time, causing several deep dents on his fingers.

He Qi ran one floor further than him, poked his head out in the echoing stairwell, and said to him from top to bottom: "Go back and cook some food for you."

Suddenly the two bags were not heavy at all.