South of Chutian

Tang Heng wiped his face in embarrassment, his palms became wet, and when the night wind blew, it was extremely cold.He knew that Li Yuechi's T-shirt was also wet, and the wind was equally cold. Tang Heng wanted to reach out to cover the tears, but Li Yuechi gently brushed them away.

"Did someone tell you something?" His tone was very calm, "Old Ren, or someone else?"

Tang Heng remained silent, stopped choking after a while, and said irrelevantly, "How have you been these past few years?"

"Let's go on like that," Li Yuechi turned around, distanced himself from Tang Heng, "You really want to see it so much, I'll show you."

After he finished speaking, he walked forward. It was so dark that Tang Heng had no choice but to turn on the flashlight of his mobile phone and follow.This place has never been visited during the daytime visit. Although the concrete road is also paved, it is full of potholes and steep slopes, making it extremely difficult to walk.Li Yuechi walked ahead at a neither fast nor slow speed, even without lights.

After walking for about 5 minutes, Li Yuechi stopped and said, "Here we are."

Tang Heng raised his mobile phone, trying to use the light to look at the house in front of him, but Li Yuechi hummed softly.

"Your action is very similar to the action of the protagonist in a ghost movie before he ventured into the abandoned factory," he paused, "but this kind of house is similar to an abandoned factory to you, right?"

Tang Heng's hands froze, and he put away his phone in a panic.

He could hear Li Yuechi's ridicule and dissatisfaction, although he didn't know where this emotion came from.

"Yue Chi..." A slow and hoarse female voice came from the room, "Xiao Di is back?"

"Well, she has something to do with me. Mom, you can sleep."

"Hey, you guys go to bed early too..."

Li Yuechi responded: "Okay—" Then he turned his head and said, "Be gentle when entering the room."

Tang Heng was stunned for two seconds, then asked him: "Is Xiao Di your classmate?" The girl in the pink plaid jacket.

Li Yuechi said, "It's her."

He entered the house first and turned on the light.Tang Heng was still in a daze, thinking confusedly, why is it that Xiao Di often sleeps at Li Yuechi's house?So what is their relationship.I also remembered the shy and expectant expression on Xiao Di's face when he came to pick up Li Yuechi on his electric scooter after the dinner that day.

The next second Tang Heng raised his head, and with the light, he could finally see Li Yuechi's house clearly.

Then he knew that Li Yuechi lied to him again.

The Li family is not a brick house.

If I have to describe it, the wooden wall is a brown darker than pig blood, as if covered with a layer of dirt that cannot be wiped off, so that the couplets written in red and black on the door frame are also dim.Tang Heng stepped over the threshold and entered the house. He saw a bundle of firewood piled up in the corner. The concrete floor was hard and dirty, and his shoes made a soft rustling sound when he stepped on it.

Li Yuechi sat on a long bench, folded his arms, expressionless.Opposite him was a TV - Tang Heng suddenly realized that the quantifier had to use "table" because it was indeed a cube.When was the last time he saw a cube like this?Maybe 20 years ago.

There are two pieces of old bacon hanging on the high beams. I don’t know how many times they have been smoked, and they are completely black, like two pieces of charcoal.

"Is it novel?" Li Yuechi said.

"...Sorry." Tang Heng knew that he was too obvious, but he really couldn't pretend to be "reasonable" in this place.

It shouldn't be like this.He couldn't imagine Li Yuechi growing up in this house.

After being in a daze for a while, Tang Heng asked, "Didn't your house be remodeled?"

"It didn't meet the standards," Li Yuechi said, "because I went to college."

"..."

"My mother also asked me why I didn't have a quota." Li Yuechi smiled, and his tone was flat as if talking about other people's affairs. "Sometimes I think, it would be great if I didn't go to college. Do you know? If I didn't go to college , but go to Guangdong with other people in the village to work in a shoe factory or a plastic factory, and if one or two fingers are injured at work, this quota can be given to my family.”

A gust of wind rushed in, and Li Yuechi said again: "If I hadn't gone to college, I wouldn't have met you."

Tang Heng took a step back, leaning his back against the rough door frame.He had the illusion that the house was crumbling, and so was he.

"You know about my brother, don't you? He was born like that, but he's in good health, so he's lucky." Li Yuechi picked up the water on the table and took a sip. "I didn't mean to lie to you. Just don't want to get in trouble."

"...what's the trouble?"

"You pity me." Li Yuechi suddenly stood up and approached Tang Heng, "It's been six years since you haven't grown at all, and you still can't walk when you see me. You say you are cheap. But I regret it, Tang Heng ——I shouldn't provoke you, I'm just curious."

Tang Heng gasped, unable to speak in a daze, and did not dare to look at his face.

"I'm just wondering if you'll come over as soon as I waved like you did before. Now, can I apologize?" His tone gradually became softer, and he could even be said to be sincere, "I didn't mean to pretend to be pitiful , Of course I didn't want to gain any benefits from you, I was just curious."

"Li Yuechi..." Tang Heng said hoarsely, "I, we..."

"Let's just pretend nothing happened these days."

"Listen to me, Li Yuechi..."

"I told you not to drink alcohol yesterday afternoon, did you drink?"

"No—no drink."

"Okay," Li Yuechi reached out and tugged on the light cord, and the room fell into darkness again, "This is the last step, I promise you."

Tang Heng's eyes widened sharply.

Vision is completely lost.His back was in a dull pain from the door frame, but his lips were trembling slightly.He could feel that Li Yuechi was slowly approaching him, and the next moment, Li Yuechi's fingertips touched his cheek.His fingertips were cold, with rough calluses, and then his palms were also attached, and the strength suddenly increased, and he clamped Tang Heng's chin.

He kissed him hard, dry lips, fierce, like kissing could kill and his goal was to kill him.It hurts too much, but because of the pain, Tang Heng knows that this is not a memory, not a dream, or a distorted hallucination during the onset of the disease.It was true, Li Yuechi was kissing and biting him.This turned out to be true.

Tang Heng didn't know how long it lasted, but his mouth and jaw were numb, and his whole body was empty.It seemed that everything about him was taken away by Li Yuechi when he pulled back.

Li Yuechi patted Tang Heng's face: "It's over."

"……what?"

"All," Li Yuechi said warmly, "Tang Heng, get lost."