drink moonlight alone

It turned out that Zhou Qingyan's popsicle won the prize for another one.For this unexpected joy of luck, the two naively struggled for 5 minutes on the question of who will eat, half-pushed and half-hearted, Zhou Qingyan couldn't resist Zhou Weiyue's persistence, Zhou Weiyue couldn't resist Zhou Qingyan's persistence, so they could only take So, ready to go home to coax grandma who might be disappointed when she hears that the blind date has gone bad.

When walking back, the clouds and mist piled up again, thick enough to drip ink, Zhou Weiyue was afraid that the rain would fall as soon as it said, so he had to stop a car with the wind to take them back.

When I got back to my grandma’s house, it was already past time, but grandma was not in the house, she said she was going out to buy something, leaving only a note that was blown to the ground, and sleeping soundly in a corner of the living room , and there are little flowers on the tail beating the floor one by one.Zhou Weiyue had just stuffed some fruit drinks that she bought on the way into the refrigerator, before she straightened up, she heard Zhou Qingyan's calling from the backyard a little ahead, and it seemed ethereal and hazy after a little distance.He hastily responded and followed the voice to the backyard, only to see Zhou Qingyan squatting in a corner of the flower garden with his knees hugged, leaving him with a thin back.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Weiyue imitated his appearance, bent her knees, bent and squatted beside Zhou Qingyan, and asked curiously.

Zhou Qingyan glanced sideways at him, and said with a smile: "Dig a time capsule. Did you forget?"

Zhou Weiyue said "huh" in a low voice, and looked away because there is no silver 300 taels here, "I haven't forgotten."

"Oh, you forgot." Zhou Qingyan wrinkled the tip of her nose at Zhou Weiyue in complete disbelief.After finishing speaking, he didn't say much, and handed the small navy blue shovel to Zhou Weiyue with a smile on his face.

I didn't pay attention at first, but when Zhou Qingyan glanced over, he realized that the handle of the shovel was covered with paint, showing mottled rust. The orange blossom shovel was given to him.But Zhou Weiyue didn't take it, he asked Zhou Qingyan to wait a while, and went back to the house with his slippers on, and when he came back soon, he had two extra sheets of toilet paper in his hand.Zhou Weiyue quickly wrapped the handles of the two shovels with toilet paper to ensure that no rust and mud stains would stick to her hands before starting to move.

Looking back now, they buried the time capsule when they were 45 or [-] years old. After all these years, I don’t know if grandma dug it out unintentionally when digging the soil, or whether their perception of the location was wrong.After digging down for a long time, under the scorching sun, the backs and foreheads of the two of them were dripping with thin sweat. Zhou Qingyan wiped a drop of sweat from his chin and asked, "Are we buried in the earth?" here?"

"I don't know." Zhou Weiyue shrugged, "I just remember it was the innermost part of the tomato field."

"But now grandma doesn't grow tomatoes anymore."

"Dig it, at worst, search the whole place for it, and you will find it."

Zhou Qingyan smiled at him with the corners of her eyes bent: "Grandma will be angry."

"I will never be more angry than you for failing a blind date." Zhou Weiyue replied comfortably.

Zhou Qingyan was irrefutable by his words, frowned and bumped Zhou Weiyue's arm with an elbow in dissatisfaction, "I'm heartbroken."

Digging the soil with a small shovel that is only half the length of the arm is far less efficient than using a big iron to dig the soil, but the two of them are also hunched over, squatting so that their legs are numb and unconscious, and they are still going their own way to stir the loose soil. soil.I don't know how long it's been, maybe it hasn't been a long time, but Zhou Qingyan felt like a year's day, his shovel seemed to touch something buried in the ground, and made a dull "dong" sound as if it had hit something hard.

He turned around in astonishment, and both of them saw unbelievable joy and joy in each other's eyes.They sped up their movements, and when the pile of soil dug up beside them was getting higher and higher, the iron box buried in the years finally showed a small corner to Zhou Qingyan and Zhou Weiyue.Buried is a square box of chocolate biscuits with a long history, made of tin, and the cover is printed with advertisements that were once popular many years ago, but this biscuit is now out of production and can no longer be bought.

Zhou Qingyan brushed off the residual mud on the lid, and carefully twisted the edge of the lid. Years of stains and mud made the joints hard to open. After a loud shock, the lid was lifted.The scattered sundries inside were exposed to the scorching sun and eyes. Zhou Qingyan nervously held the lid of the box and asked, "Shall we watch it here?"

Zhou Weiyue nodded calmly: "Look."

It is true that he is not a person who cares about the sense of ceremony, so Zhou Qingyan was embarrassed to talk about things in ink, so he put the iron cover aside as a base, and then carefully cleaned the inside one by one. The objects are spread out and placed neatly and orderly on top.There are not many things inside, several sheets of paper of different sizes are more than enough to put on a cover as long and wide as a textbook.

Zhou Qingyan took them one by one and looked at them. There was a poster of a star who had retired for a long time and was a smash hit many years ago; there was a game flash card that bought one drink and got one free; The letter—they once squatted under the crabapple tree together, clumsily writing letters to their future selves.

The most eye-catching one is an old photo that is yellowed and the corners are wrinkled. It was left to the four of them by the person in charge of the orphanage when Zhou Weiyue first arrived at their home. It is one of the few so far. A group photo of a family of four.In the photo, the two little babies have not lost their baby fat, and Xiao Zhou Qingyan is the age when others tell him to smile, and he squints his eyes to smile, so that he has the most vivid expression in this photo.The parents are the same as before, smiling lightly and faintly, but the advantage is that the father does not have a stern face. As for Xiao Zhou Weiyue...

"You didn't even smile at that time." Zhou Qingyan reached out her fingertips to caress that expressionless, indifferent and gloomy little face.

"that is because……"

"Reluctant to leave the orphanage?"

"No." Zhou Weiyue retorted subconsciously, and after seeing Zhou Qingyan's probing and astonished gaze, she lowered her eyes as if annoyed at her indiscretion, and said firmly, "I don't like it at all."

"How to say?" Zhou Qingyan became even more curious.

"Children's Welfare Institute, it's called a Children's Welfare Institute, but in fact it's just a collection center for street children. Life there is also quite simple. Children with poor qualifications, dull, and unable to help with chores in the orphanage are just It is served with pickled vegetables and steamed buns; if you are lucky, you can sleep on the floor of the room; if you are unlucky, ten people will be squeezed into a small warehouse; if you are a little good-looking, you will be lovable, and you will be arranged by the dean to choose for rich people It's good to be a child laborer." Zhou Weiyue looked away, looking at the sky and reminiscing about the not-so-good past, her voice became hoarse. "So I……"

The second half of Zhou Weiyue's sentence was hidden in the summer wind blowing through Hetai's hair, and she put Zhou Qingyan on the back of her hand, her palm dripping with sweat, moist and moist.

He tightened his grip, and loosely clasped Zhou Weiyue's knuckles, "You can laugh now."

"What?" Zhou Weiyue was caught off guard by Zhou Qingyan's nonsensical words, and blinked suspiciously.

"At that time, you didn't know what happiness meant, and you didn't dare to laugh, but now you can. You have grown up and left the orphanage; now your name is Zhou Weiyue, and there is a...although it is not very warm, but it is healthy Family." Zhou Qingyan smiled faintly at him, "There is also a brother who loves you very much."