drink moonlight alone

It took more than ten minutes for the heavy rain like a rock to gradually thin out. After the clusters of soot and ash clouds dispersed, the tile-blue sky hidden behind was barely exposed.Light rain won't get in the way, so Zhou Qingyan and Zhou Weiyue decided to walk back to grandma's house under the drizzle.Before leaving, fulfilling what they said earlier, the two walked along the canopy corridor to the entrance of the hall of worship. Except for the festival days, there will be crowds of people gathered here, and the shrine only has the manager on weekdays.

When the long-haired clergyman in a plain robe passed by the two, he met his eyes and smiled friendly and politely, without asking them where they came from.

On the sandalwood beams and pillars at the entrance, there are three gold-plated characters of "Kite Bedroom". The plaque, which has been in disrepair for a long time, has a small crack, but the end of the crack happens to be submerged in the character "Gong", making it difficult to see from a distance. , as if the suffix is ​​lengthened due to poor penhandling, it appears nondescript.Zhou Qingyan looked up and looked away, Zhou Weiyue had already stepped up the steps first, standing in front of the ocher three-strand braided rope tied with a bell.

When the change was put into the cash box, there was a sound of "Ding Ling Dang Clang", which was clear and clear, but when it fell to the bottom, it made a dull and heavy "click".After ringing the bell, he straightened his back and bowed, and then pressed his palms together. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Zhou Weiyue doing the same movements in sync with him. Zhou Qingyan closed his eyes and said silently in his heart, "Please forgive me for disturbing you." Excuse me" and straightened up.

"Brother." Zhou Weiyue called out suddenly with a smile.

Zhou Qingyan picked up the watermelon that had just been placed on the ground, covered with a plastic bag, and raised his eyelids in doubt: "Huh?"

"Speaking of the shrine, you have come with Brother Yan more often than with me."

Brother Yan, full name Yan Ruoguang.This name has sunk into the river of memory for a long, long time in the boundless years of more than twenty years.

Before going to preschool, Zhou Qingyan will still spend most of her time in Yuan Island with her parents, nothing else. For scientific researchers, it is busy and endless all year round. Parents can accompany one or two The month seems to be a luxury.At that time, Zhou Weiyue was not yet adopted by his parents, he was alone, and his only playmate was Yan Ruoguang, who was exactly like him and would appear on the island in summer.

Until now, Zhou Qingyan didn't know where his childhood playmate came from.

Xiaodouding's friendship has never had a whole story, and they played together for no reason. Yan Ruoguang likes to ask Zhou Qingyan to go to the shrine, because the elder sister of the administrator there always sees that they are cute and puts a lot of them in their arms. Crystal Candy.Later, when the years changed and Zhou Weiyue was added to Zhou Qingyan's side, Yan Ruoguang still liked to play with Zhou Qingyan as always, but he regarded Zhou Weiyue as a thorn in his side, and he would never say a word if he could ignore it.When I was a child, I always thought this was inexplicable, but I didn’t realize it until I grew up. This is probably the legendary "my good friend has other friends, and I am no longer his only friend". This kind of sour Be jealous.

Zhou Weiyue clings to Zhou Qingyan, and Zhou Qingyan relies on Zhou Weiyue. When they get each other, it seems like they can't tolerate other people. Later, Yan Ruoguang gave up "competing" with Zhou Weiyue. Every summer, the three little bean dings get together, and they just get together. Go to the shrine.

Looking back today, if these childhood anecdotes could not be thought about, they would have been covered with a layer of veil, and I couldn't figure it out clearly in the clouds.

During the summer vacation of the third year of junior high school, Yan Ruoguang said that he would never come back to the island again, and that he would live with his biological mother in other cities.After more than ten years of getting along, the friendship between the three has been deeply rooted, Zhou Qingyan was quite reluctant to let go, and even boasted that as long as he came back to Yuan Island, he would definitely be here.With hindsight, this has become a misty word.Maybe Yan Ruoguang has been back in the past 12 years, and Zhou Qingyan has no way of knowing, and there is nowhere to ask.

"Why did you mention him all of a sudden?" Zhou Qingyan regained consciousness from the memory, and squinted at Zhou Weiyue with a half-smile.

"Nothing, just a sudden thought."

Talking about the old man will inevitably increase his nostalgia, he couldn't help asking casually, "Have you seen him when you came back to the island these years?"

"No." Zhou Weiyue picked up the plastic bag at her feet, took a few steps to the bottom of the steps, turned her head again, and added, "Brother Yan doesn't like me in the first place, and you are not on the island. , even if you see it, there is no need to get together."

It seems that the knife holder is always unaware of the sharp blade in his hand, but can stab the weak point with incomparable precision.

Zhou Weiyue always said unintentional words, but they happened to stab at the most difficult hurdle in Zhou Qingyan's heart.He always felt guilty for leaving countless times, even though Zhou Weiyue never mentioned it positively, and never complained and confided since returning to each other.It was wrong for Zhou Qingyan to leave, he knew it very well, Zhou Weiyue didn't know his own mind, didn't know his entanglement and cowardice, for Zhou Weiyue, he was just a little girl who was inexplicably abandoned without doing anything. It's just poor.

Can't leave anymore.After returning to Zhou Weiyue's side this time, Zhou Qingyan made up his mind that no matter whether he confesses in the end, no matter what kind of relationship they will become, he will stay by Zhou Weiyue's side. A man in the palace; if he dies alone, then he will be by his side to the death.

Love has always been like this. It makes people lose themselves and go crazy. Ordinary people suffer from their own hardships, but they also enjoy their own happiness.

When I got back to grandma’s house, it was almost west, and the first rain in summer was very aggressive, but it didn’t bring the expected coolness. Instead, it mixed with the stuffy air and became an unbearably hot and humid air current.The three-fold distant mountains hold the sunset, and there are wisps of cirrus clouds, which smear the orange-yellow and crimson twilight in the sky. When I walked to the door, I happened to meet a bird standing upright on a telephone pole, waiting to return home. The black kite, after a long hoarse cry, flapped its wings and plunged into the dome without looking back.

Pushing open the gate, what greeted them was Xiao Hua's vigorous barking just like earlier.

"Grandma! We're back." Holding a round and crisp green watermelon in her arms, Zhou Qingyan followed Zhou Weiyue into the door.

"It's raining outside, are you not drenched in the rain?" Grandma walked out of the kitchen in a hurry, took the watermelon from Zhou Qingyan's arms, and looked at him up and down, "Oh, it really is raining!" Is it raining? My hair is all wet."

"No, just a little bit, it's okay."

"You'll always say it's okay!"

"Really." Zhou Qingyan looked helplessly at Zhou Weiyue, who was standing outside, squatting in front of the refrigerator, taking out oranges and apples from a plastic bag and putting them in, and smiled. I went to hide from the rain."

But grandma still looked at him suspiciously, Zhou Qingyan could only yell at Zhou Weiyue: "Isn't it! Weiyue!"

From the kitchen, Zhou Weiyue said "yes" in a bright and vigorous voice.

"You're a big-headed ghost, so you just rely on yourself as the elder brother to let Weiyue cover you everywhere." Grandma shrugged her loose eyelids, and waved her hand at Zhou Qingyan noncommittally, "Your room is for you

After tidying up, go to take a shower and change clothes, and we can eat in a while. "

The room where the two used to sleep together was the room facing the southeast outside the living room. When the sun rises, the first ray of sunlight can often see the first ray of sunlight slipping into the house through the cracks in the window.I haven't seen her for a long time, but everything is preserved as it was before leaving this room for the last time in Zhou Qingyan's memory.Little Douding, who knew nothing when he was a child, would roll on the floor no matter how big the bed was given. Later, the room was replaced with a low wooden bed frame, and the mattress was covered with patchwork seams made of many colorful rags. The patchwork quilt was made of cotton, and the cotton wool was scattered over the years, and it was obviously collapsed when it was laid flat.

The wardrobe is still the beech wardrobe, occupying a corner of the room, facing the bathroom, so that Zhou Qingyan could not help but see the distorted scale lines when he got out of the shower. Clear and clear, there are a total of sixteen lines of zeros and zeros. The black marker on the left side writes "Zhou Qingyan is seven years old" crookedly. It can't be called neat, but at any rate it wrote the five characters "Zhou Weiyue is six years old" completely and without mistakes.

With a smile in his mouth, Zhou Qingyan couldn't help stretching out his hand, caressing the marks on his head carefully.