drink moonlight alone

When Zhou Qingyan was walking back with the watermelon in his arms, Zhou Weiyue walked slowly, carrying two bags of the fruit shop owner who couldn't resist stuffing them into his arms, and the heavy apples and oranges fell hesitantly not far behind.

"Grandma Gu passed away from cancer five years ago." After a while, Zhou Weiyue quickened her pace, and silently rushed to Zhou Qingyan's side and walked shoulder to shoulder with him. "Sister Xiaoqiao's matter is a bit complicated. Three years ago, she eloped with an art man and went to the city. For a while, she even lost contact with her family. But half a year later, when she suddenly came back to the island, her parents saw her body black and blue. Yes, after asking, I found out that the man domestically abused her."

"The uncle and aunt next door called him back just to seek justice, but he said in a bloody way that sister Xiao Qiao loves vanity and seeks to climb high. Anyway, she said a lot of ugly things. You are also on the island. You know, the place is small, good and bad things can be spread for thousands of miles, and in the end, the victim is said to be a dissolute and undisciplined woman."

Zhou Weiyue said, her voice slowly lowered: "It's hard to inquire about the details. In the end, both sides suffered losses. Little Qiao's sister's family also moved, and gradually lost contact."

As the words fell, Zhou Qingyan stopped in her tracks, and let out a long sigh of relief: "The secular world always criticizes those who pursue freedom and maintain their own self. It is reasonable to say that women should be confined to the shackles of the family, and men You should be masculine and brave, as if as long as you don’t abide by the unspoken rules of society, you deserve to be criticized, pointed at, and scrutinized with a magnifying glass.”

Trying to find out the slightest bit of injustice, even if it is just a way of life that obeys one's own heart.

"Is this world really safe?" Zhou Weiyue lowered her eyes and asked.

Zhou Qingyan asked back with a smile, "What do you think?"

"I think..." Zhou Weiyue's hands were full, and she could only use the back of her hand to push the mirror frame that had slipped off the tip of her nose back to the bridge of her nose. well."

The dome became obscured at some point, and the clouds and mists, like ink falling on dry paper, couldn't be dizzy and couldn't disperse. They gathered into dense clusters and hung high with distinct color blocks.The cumulonimbus cloud in the sky changed color, a large area of ​​gray and black, and then poured down on the earth in a swift manner. The raindrops fell in a hurry without warning. No one thought that the change of color of the wind and cloud was only in a sudden.

When the raindrops fell on the tip of his nose, Zhou Qingyan hadn't recovered from Zhou Weiyue's words. He wanted to raise his head to see where the coldness came from, but Zhou Weiyue grabbed his wrist at the next moment and pulled him to the side. The pattering rain curtain is running towards the unknown.

"Wait……"

Mostly because she was concerned about Zhou Qingyan's health, Zhou Weiyue ran fast even though her steps were windy.

When rushing forward aimlessly, the surrounding scenery, street, vegetation and shops are blurred like the speed of light. Zhou Qingyan only sees Zhou Weiyue's broad back, and the time when the wind blows to reveal it. Lifting the hem of the T-shirt, revealing the deep and clear sunken spine.Zhou Qingyan hesitated for half a second, thinking that Zhou Weiyue couldn't care about the slight movement behind her, and she felt so deeply Suddenly, he shook Zhou Weiyue's hand back.

Zhou Weiyue did not have any special reaction, he still ran forward on his own.

"Where are we going?" The rain was so noisy that Zhou Qingyan had to raise the volume to ensure that he could be heard before shouting at Zhou Weiyue.

"Hide out of the rain."

I don't know how long the two ran blindly like this. Anyway, before the rain really poured down, they turned into the corner of the street, and after passing through a corner passage, they came to a shrine.Zhou Weiyue pushed open the side door of the shrine familiarly, stepped aside, and entered under the eaves.

The ferns lingering in the cracks of the red wall trembled and trembled when they were hit by the rain, echoing the drips on the eaves and falling to the ground, beating the rainwater in a harmonious rhythm one after another.Many fell into the accumulated puddles, splashing sporadic beads onto the uppers of the two of them. Zhou Qingyan held the watermelon in one hand and propped up his knees with the other, panting heavily with his back arched.

"Are you okay?" Zhou Weiyue bent down worriedly, "I'm sorry bro, did you run too fast? I'm afraid you'll catch a cold in the rain..."

When the breath was smooth and the heartbeat gradually returned to normal, Zhou Qingyan looked sideways at Zhou Weiyue, and raised his hand to stop his unfinished words: "It's okay, as I said, it's not so delicate, asthma has almost recovered in the past few years .”

Zhou Weiyue didn't seem to be dragging him to run [-] meters as fast as he could. He didn't take a breath, and stood upright like a crisp, tender and firm young poplar. Only the center of his eyebrows twisted into small wrinkles. .

Zhou Qingyan said unconvinced: "You are too good at running."

"During my internship, I was able to climb an average of [-] floors a day." Zhou Weiyue laughed noncommittally. He raised his eyes to look at the dark cloud shadow. A voice from the sky said, "Anyway, as long as you have something to do with a doctor, it doesn't matter if you treat people or animals, it's a job that tests physical strength."

"People's teachers are different. We only test how to perform randomly."

"Are you bluffing the students?"

Zhou Qingyan shrugged his shoulders and laughed: "Yes."

The sound of rain hides many disturbing and complicated sounds, such as cicadas and heartbeats.Zhou Qingyan can't help but caress the hand held by Zhou Weiyue. The lingering sense of touch on it is vivid, which is different from Zhou Weiyue's feeling when Zhou Weiyue often grabs his wrist. The palm and the palm are seamlessly embedded together When we were children, each other's temperature, skin, strength, and veins were all clearly visible.

And Zhou Weiyue's calloused thumb pressed against his phalanx, and the tingling sensation caused by inadvertently rubbing her thumb is vivid in my memory.

The first rain in midsummer came suddenly, and the air was full of the grassy smell of a mixture of ozone and damp soil oil, mixed with faint and imperceptible traces of red sandalwood, as abrupt as a funny cartoon character popping out of an ancient book , contradict each other and are not harmonious.Zhou Qingyan said without words, "Is this the first rain this summer?"

Zhou Weiyue said "um", and stretched out her hand to catch the rain: "It hasn't rained for days since the end of spring, so it's very majestic."

Speaking of the continuous rain for days, Zhou Qingyan felt as if it was a lifetime ago.Huang Meiyu is no more continuous than summer rains. From the evening when he landed at the Buddha City Airport to the next day when he returned to the Buddha University to report, the air that day was also the same as today, with the smell of the world mixed with different atmospheres. A touch of nature.Last time it was Begonia with smoke, this time it was water vapor and miscellaneous fragrance, the only thing that was the same was Zhou Weiyue beside him.

They meet again in spring, and they accompany each other in summer. Zhou Qingyan can't help but look forward to the arrival of autumn and winter.

He quietly looked at Zhou Weiyue from the corner of his eye. There were raindrops on his glasses, and the tips of his hair were wet from the rain and stuck to his forehead. He was obviously in a panic, but he still looked calm and relaxed. Calm and calm.Zhou Qingyan consciously watched carefully, but Zhou Weiyue still turned his head to meet his eyes, "The rain should be less after a while."

"How do you know there's such a good place to hide from the rain?" Zhou Qingyan pushed his bangs that were so languid that they could hide his sight, "By the way, where is it?"

"The Kagura Hall of the Iris Shrine."

Zhou Qingyan raised her eyebrows amusedly when she heard the words: "The Iris Shrine where we used to hide and seek when we were young? There was no Kagura Hall before, right?"

"Well, it was expanded ten years ago. Wasn't there only the main hall and the worship hall before?"

The Iris Shrine has a long history. Since the island was built, the ancestors have built it to thank the black kite for its protection.The lack of construction materials on the island made this the only and only shrine with poor equipment. It was not until the 90s that a new worship hall was built next to the main hall for worship. Enter from the main entrance and walk through the long approach, facing the main hall. Next to it is a small worship hall.

When they were young, they were ignorant and didn't know what to respect or taboo. When they were playing peek-a-boo, Zhou Qingyan and Zhou Weiyue always liked to hide in a remote corner of the worship hall.In particular, in the center of the worship hall is a huge "money box", which is so big that it can cover the bodies of two small Doudings.

Only then did Zhou Qingyan realize that the sudden red sandalwood fragrance in the air was probably coming from the incense sticks that were burning all year round in the shrine.

"Give some sesame oil money before you leave." Zhou Qingyan held the watermelon in both hands, raised his head and said to Zhou Weiyue, "When I was young, I often offended the god birds, and today I might bother them to take a nap."

"Okay." Zhou Weiyue whispered with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

The author says:

I have always forgotten to mention that the place names in this article are all fictional except for foreign countries. The shrine is based on the setting of Japanese shrines but has private settings. Don’t go into it when you look at the pictures for fun.