memory hole

"Even one detail. Tell me."

Zhong Xian pondered for a moment: "Travel around the world together."

"what?"

"He said 'travel around the world together'. It was probably a wish." Zhong Xian sighed. "Maybe some friend I've been neglecting."

"It's really sad, this friend who has no memory at all." Deng Yi said.

Zhong Xian fell silent.It's not like he wasn't impressed at all.He felt that he would slowly remember things about that person.But an unspeakable fear, accompanied by the awakened memory, invaded his nerves.

"Maybe someone I killed."

he muttered to himself.Little did he realize he had said it.

Until he felt Deng Yi's hand on his shoulder.

Turning his head, their faces were so close, Deng Yi was looking at him with a strange look.

"You killed him?"

"If he is still alive, why is there no trace." Zhong Xian looked at Deng Yi seriously, "If I really killed someone, what would happen to you?"

"Let's make sure it's not your brain."

"Are you going to call the police?"

Deng Yi answered irrelevantly: "First of all, I don't believe what's in your head. It's just a dream."

"Don't run away. What if I'm really a murderer? Will you send me to the police?"

Deng Yi didn't answer.

Zhong Xian closed his eyes: "You said that I can trust you. Even though, every promise is a product of the atmosphere at that time. I still... really want to take it seriously."

"I will not send you to the police." Deng Yi said. "I'll...let you choose."

Zhong Xian opened his eyes. "I trust you once."

They faced each other silently.Although looking at each other, it seems to be looking at a distant place.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhong Xian couldn't help asking, "Are you afraid of paying the price?"

"I've always wanted to ask you, what price will I pay." Deng Yi asked back.

"What price can there be?" Zhong Xian laughed at himself. "I only recognize money."

"nothing else?"

"Yes. It's just some other money." Zhong Xian smiled and turned his back to Deng Yi, not wanting the other party to see his sadness. "My intuition always reminds me not to think of that person. Maybe I forgot on purpose." Zhong Xian said to the curtain, wondering if Deng Yi could understand.

"Is it just some money?" Deng Yi murmured behind him.

"what?"

"The price I have to pay."

"Uh... A person like me, what else can I want besides money. Are you afraid that I will take away your position as heir."

"I don't care about that position. Besides, that position will not be mine." Deng Yi sighed. "Why do you keep reminding people that you are a sucker for profit."

"Because I'm sincere." Zhong Xian said jokingly.

Deng Yi suddenly became excited: "You just want yourself to be that kind of person. You just can't face up to the blows one after another - the disappearance of your father; the death of your mother; the betrayal of your high school girlfriend; being framed; The departure of your best friend..."

Zhong Xian stood up.

Deng Yi insisted on saying, "You think that being a rotten person will save you from pain."

Zhong Xian opened his mouth wide to refute something, but found that he lost his voice.His body fell forward, Deng Yi hurriedly hugged him.It took a while for the bell to strike. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Let's go around the world." Deng Yi murmured.

Lost contact

105

It's a frightening time,

Seeing through the past is like someone using iron fibers to thread together the flesh and blood that he had cut off bit by bit, and put them on the flame to roast.Use those experiences as food to please the viewer's senses.

He didn't really mind Deng Yi uncovering his scars.It is because he has fear.Fear made him docile.

There is another thing, seeping through confusion, that can be used to drive away fear-if you think in another direction, it may prove that someone cares about him very much.

"Only two?" Zhong Xian couldn't help muttering to himself. "Are there only two monitors?"

Deng Yi showed a trace of curiosity.He seemed to want to ask something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Sunday mornings are slow and mellow.They were still on the bed, leisurely and lazy as if nothing had happened.Zhong Xian is still looking forward to a good night's sleep, so that his emotions and intelligence can be restored.With his messy mind now, he couldn't figure it out.

"I can always attract perverted friends who come to watch me... I should be happy." Zhong Xian picked up a pillow.Curled up on the bed, closed his eyes as if he couldn't fall asleep right away.Then he laughed twice, "You came here to investigate Xiao Zhu, but in the end you investigated me who was not missing. Incompetent detective, are you happy to know that my life is worse than you imagined?"

Deng Yi said after a while, "You will be fine."

They were speechless after that, Zhong Xian felt a little drowsy, closed his eyes, soon fell into a dream, and soon woke up, in a daze, he seemed to see Deng Yi lying beside him, with one hand under his right ear, and his eyes were melancholy.

During the day, the sunlight casts a ray of light through the gap between the curtains, and shines on the corner of the bed, changing the angle quietly.Remind them how time flows quietly around them.

No matter what happened, Zhong Xian still felt that no arrangement would be better than the present.

"I remembered you said you never kiss..." After a while, Deng Yi asked softly.

Zhong Xian tried his best to keep his breathing steady.He wanted to answer, but no sound came out.

"If you can let go of the past, be real. I think...Zhao Qi really liked you at the beginning. I know her. She won't treat you as a game...but you missed it. She is getting married, and the wedding ceremony is scheduled In next spring."

"You want to tell me that you are getting married." Zhong Xian also smiled, trying to control his emotions. "Thinking to put shackles on yourself now? It's too early."

Deng Yi was silent for a while, and then he said something in English: "'The new flame may suppress the old flame; The big pain may cause the small paint toreduce.

"A foreign poem again?" Zhong Xian sneered.In fact, he knows this sentence in English.And very familiar.

"amallinhue, all'hues'inhiscontrolling, whichstealsmen'seyesandwomen'ssoulsamazeth...butsincesheprick'dtheeoutforwomen'spleasure, minebethyloveandthylove'suestheirtreasure."

Zhong Xian didn't fully understand this sentence, he praised Deng Yi: "Your pronunciation is very authentic."

"Hmm. You don't understand."

"I see."

"clear?"

"understand what you mean."

"What's the meaning."

"That trick of yours." Zhong Xian laughed again and again. "It's okay. Why don't you just say it directly, I can still understand the last sentence - 'give me love, give joy to women'. You just want to play with me, it's okay, I'll accompany you."

Deng Yi didn't make any excuses.Eyes turned to the ceiling.

106

A month later, in the afternoon, the wind is getting cooler in late autumn.

When the first batch of shipments arrived at the new construction site, Zhong Xian took a special look at them.

A long board truck with a load of 30 tons was parked on the street next to the south gate of the new construction site. There was a lot of mud on the red front of the truck, and the board truck was tightly covered with canvas.When the canvas is opened, beautifully packaged goods, 20 tons of Yijiao mud and 1000 sheets of gypsum boards are neatly arranged on the board.Eurohang came to the construction site with the truck.

Dake has been cleared up and down on the construction site.The cargo started unloading in the morning.

Everything went well.

At noon, Zhong Xian and Ou Hang sat down at a nearby McDonald's.Leaving Dake alone at the construction site to supervise the unloading and signing.

This McDonald's is newly opened near the construction site. The space in the store is very stylish, and there is a decorative tree crown in the middle of the restaurant.There are some white round tables around the canopy.

They sat down at one of the tables, the white bow chairs as comfortable as chaise longues.It was the first time Zhong Xian saw that a McDonald's restaurant could be decorated so emotionally. It must be because of the unique status of this branch.

"What's the matter with you and Dake?" Ou Hang took a sip of McDonald's sweet coffee.

Zhong Xian leaned comfortably in the chair and watched the news on his mobile phone.It took a while to respond. "What?"

"You and Dake. Dake is not as obedient as before. He is much more honest. What happened?"

Zhong Xian stared at the phone: "Has he changed? I don't think so. Maybe there is something wrong with him. Maybe his girlfriend broke up again. Look at the news. Our old customer HT Company is going to go public. Two projects of HQC Group, Wuhan and Guangzhou."

"He is different in front of you." Ou Hang said.

"what?"

Ou Hang put down the coffee cup: "Dake. Actually, I have always wanted to say that I am worried. Between us... the relationship between the three of us is too dishonest, but at least you can't treat me as an outsider, otherwise what should we do. I don't feel safe."

"Oh." Zhong Xian paused for a few seconds, "It's nothing. There was a little friction before. Maybe he still cares about it. It's a trivial matter, and it will get better slowly."

"You found out