South of Chutian

Li Yuechi didn't answer, but walked beside Tang Heng silently, not knowing what he was thinking.The two left the bustling market, walked along the sidewalk, passed Xiaotan Mountain, and came to the head of the Macao-Taipa Bridge.

On the other side is the main island of Macau, where the high-rise casinos are resplendent and arranged in random order, presenting a magnificent scene.Li Yuechi walked in front, and the sea breeze blew the hem of his shirt into a billowing sail.

The Macao-Taipa Bridge is the only bridge among the three bridges connecting the main island and Taipa that can be walked by pedestrians.Tang Heng hesitated for a few seconds, then asked Li Yuechi, "Go up to the bridge and have a look?"

Li Yuechi said: "Let's go."

After nine o'clock in the evening, there were still cars on the bridge, and occasionally night runners passed by on the sidewalk.In fact, this was Tang Heng's first time walking on the bridge. His eyes crossed the dark sea and he could see the Xiwan Bridge in the distance.Tang Heng thought to himself, even the bridges are different. The cross-sea bridge in Macau is pure white, with smooth lines like a piece of light white ribbon.In his impression, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is always blue-gray masonry, and when the train passes by on the lower level, it is rumbling and rumbling, as heavy as a period drama.

Tang Heng approached Li Yuechi and asked him, "What are you thinking?"

Li Yuechi said, "I'm thinking about Macau."

"Macao?"

"Are there beggars here?"

"Yes," Tang Heng smiled, "but I haven't seen it before."

Li Yuechi's voice was muffled: "This is my first visit... Macau is even better than I imagined."

"Where is it?"

"Clean, safe, rich... You must know better than me, Tang Heng."

"That's right," Tang Heng looked sideways at him, "So."

"If we don't meet again, you'll stay here forever, won't you?"

"I do not know."

Li Yuechi seemed to sigh, the wind was too loud, Tang Heng was not sure.Then he saw Li Yuechi smiled at him, it was a guilty smile.

"I won't tell you anything like 'let's forget it' or 'it's better to stay in Macau than go back to Guizhou with me'," he turned to face Tang Heng, and said seriously, "I can only say... I will Try not to make you regret it."

Tang Heng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "If you don't say that, I will go with you."

Li Yuechi said, "I'm serious."

"you……"

"I still don't have much money now, but at most five years—no—three years, I will be richer than now, a lot. When you go back, we will move to Guiyang first. Now I don't have money to buy a house, but within three years I must buy a house in Guiyang," he paused, and added earnestly, "I guess I need a loan."

Tang Heng didn't expect that he had planned so much secretly, and he was stunned.

Li Yuechi continued: "My mother...I called her a few days ago and told her that I will never get married in this life. As for the matter between us, I want to tell her in person, it may take a while...Is that okay? "

Tang Heng was still stunned, and murmured: "Okay."

Li Yuechi nodded solemnly.

He is still like this, unchanged - just like six years ago when he was sitting in a cramped rented house eating a bowl of five yuan fried noodles.Even in the face of five yuan fried noodles, his expression is so serious.He has never been a person who lives easily. He is serious and solemn about everything, perhaps because he knows that everything has a price.

The whistle of the steamboat came intermittently, the lights in the distance were brilliant, and the crescent moon was in the sky, silently fiddled with the tide.

Tang Heng approached him and whispered, "Do you remember what I said before?"

Li Yuechi asked: "Which sentence?"

I love you for free.

It may be because of getting older, or it may be because of the heavy traffic behind him, those three words have become a little embarrassing to say.Tang Heng was quiet for a few seconds, and only said, "It's free."

Li Yuechi's eyes flickered, and Tang Heng felt that his black and white eyes were brighter than all the bright lights behind him.

"I wanted to answer you six years ago—" Li Yuechi said, "Me too."

He lowered his head slightly and touched Tang Heng's lips.

The sea breeze is rustling, like in a dream.

The two went to the supermarket to buy some food, and then went back to school.It was past eleven o'clock on the return trip, and apart from the two of them and the driver, there was only one boy sitting in the front row on the bus.Tang Heng opened the window a little to let the cool night wind blow in.He took out his mobile phone and dialed Director Xu's number.

Although rest days should not talk about work.

"I'm going to resign this week," Tang Heng said to Director Xu, "I'll let you know in advance, so I can go through the formalities quickly."

"That's not so fast! Why are you in a hurry!" Director Xu changed the subject and sighed again, "Sun Jihao is also resigning, do you know? Xiao Tang, actually...you can stay..."

Tang Heng smiled and said, "You still dare to keep me?"

"I didn't dare at first, but I thought about it. Compared with the mess you made in Wuhan, you are still merciful to our subordinates, hey!"

"Thank you for your kindness," Tang Heng lazily grasped Li Yuechi's hand, "My friend has also come to Macau, the one surnamed Li, you have met him. His tourist visa is only valid for seven days, so I have to go through the formalities quickly .”

Director Xu murmured, "Good guy...you're all picking my picks, right? Everyone's gone, how do you arrange classes for next semester..."

Tang Heng hung up the phone, turned around and saw Li Yuechi's eyes were closed, with a faint smile on his lips.Night Breeze lifted his hair back, revealing a clean forehead.It is very rare for him to have such a relaxed and comfortable demeanor, and he is wearing a white shirt again, just like a college student returning from fun.

The bus stopped, and the carriage became quieter, when Tang Heng suddenly heard... a very soft singing voice coming from beside him.

He leaned closer and heard Li Yuechi humming softly.

Humming is "Summer Night Wind".

On Monday, Tang Heng talked with the heads of relevant departments of the school and wrote a fact sheet for what happened in Guizhou.On Tuesday afternoon, Tang Heng met Sun Jihao and Lu Yue.

He didn't expect that the two could still sit together calmly, Sun Jihao was still the same, even his cheeks were rounder.

"Junior brother, you're really good," Sun Jihao said with a smile, "I heard that Han University has been messed up by you, and the former dean has been taken away."

Tang Heng didn't answer his words, but asked lightly: "Have you resigned?"

"Then what else?" Sun Jihao shrugged, "Now the whole Macau knows that I am gay."

"..."

"The two of us have nothing to talk about," Sun Jihao got up and said to Lu Yue, "I'll pick up Keke from school, you two can chat."

He left like this, Tang Heng thought he would scold him a few words, and even fight him.

After all, Sun Jihao's matter was revealed by him.

"He doesn't care anymore," Lu Yue explained softly, "His parents found out about those things and made a big fuss. Now we have severed relations with him. On the school side, we have also finished our work and left."

Tang Heng was surprised: "You also resigned?"

Lu Yue smiled: "Enough of being in this circle. In fact, when I first married him, I knew he didn't like women... He said he just wanted a home, and I wanted it too, so we got together .”

Tang Heng asked in disbelief: "Then are you divorced now?"

"No," Lu Yue said, "Ke Ke is still young, let's talk about the divorce later."

Tang Heng was speechless.He didn't know what the relationship between Sun Jihao and Lu Yue was - they couldn't be husband and wife, so they were friends and relatives?Then why do they want children?

But the relationship between people in this world is full of strange things, he didn't want to ask.

Tang Heng chatted with Lu Yue for a while, and learned that their family of three planned to move to Shenzhen. Sun Jihao's classmate started a company in Shenzhen, and he had invited Sun Jihao to join him long ago.

Since he still had to go to the personnel department to go through the resignation procedures, Tang Heng got up to bid farewell to Lu Yue not long after.This time he didn't call her "Senior Sister", but said: "Then I'm leaving, Lu Yue."

Lu Yue showed a smile: "Have I not said 'thank you' to you yet?"

"Thanks for what?"

"What you did in Wuhan."

"No," Tang Heng turned his back to her, "I should thank you."

On Wednesday and Thursday, Tang Heng went to and fro in various departments of the school. The work efficiency in Macau was really low, but fortunately, the procedures were not so cumbersome.Having said that, Tang Heng was still very tired, and at the same time Li Yuechi was not idle, he packed their luggage at home.

There are not too many furniture and sundries at home, the only headache is the full cabinet full of books.Li Yuechi was afraid that things would go wrong when he moved in a hurry, so he pasted serial numbers on each book, a total of 146 books, and he packed them into cardboard boxes one by one, carefully padded with foam, and sealed tightly.

Friday afternoon was Tang Heng's last class in Macau.

In fact, the college had already found another teacher to take over this class, but Tang Heng had prepared the exam papers in advance, so at the end of the day, Tang Heng still had to draw the key points for the students.

The students naturally heard a lot of gossip. Those who had chosen courses and those who hadn't, all came, staring at Tang Heng with bright eyes, with "teacher, hurry up and break the news" written all over their faces.

However, Tang Heng just flipped through the handouts and told them where they need to review key points.At first there were some students who were absent-minded, but later they all faded away and listened to the lectures honestly. Although Teacher Tang had been away for more than two months, his cruel style remained unchanged. In the end, the student wailed: "Teacher, you can just say which pages are not the key points..."

There are still 5 minutes to get out of class, and the time is just right.Tang Heng closed the handout and turned off the ppt.

He took a deep breath, stood up straight, and said to the students in the audience: "I have delayed the class due to various things this semester, and I would like to apologize to everyone here. I am going through the resignation procedures, and I will not be in Macau in the future." .”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and then immediately became very quiet.

All the students held their breaths.

"Let me make a little digression about my understanding of sociology. From a practical point of view, the major of sociology is not favored like other liberal arts majors. When you go home during the Chinese New Year, your relatives ask you what you study, and you say you study sociology. Learning, they may joke that you will understand after you graduate, go to work and enter the society for a few years, society, what can you learn?"

Tang Heng smiled and continued: "A long time ago, a person told me that he studied sociology to help his hometown get rid of poverty. This is a person with ideals. But I am not. The majors are similar, but my first choice was finance, but I didn’t have enough grades, so I switched to sociology. I don’t think it’s boring, so I’ve been studying it until now. I believe that many students here are the same as me.”

"Students," Tang Heng paused, and said solemnly, "Until this year, I suddenly understood the fascination of sociology. It is different from scientific research. The goal of scientific research is to pursue objective truth. That kind of truth is It is as constant as the law of universal gravitation. The research object of sociology is society, which is changing all the time, and there is no eternal truth in the operation of society. The doctrine you believe in today may be refuted to nothing in ten years. ; the rules that still apply today may be worthless after a sudden accident. So in a sense, doing sociological research is a very difficult business. But, more importantly, it is different from scientific research. Unlike that unilateral pursuit, sociologists can use their research results to change their research objects, that is, to change the society.”

"So sociology is in such a delicate situation: we study this rapidly changing society, and at the same time strive to make our achievements a part of the 'change'. This is destined to be a long and difficult game. It is precisely where the value and fun of sociology lie. I know that only a small number of you will embark on the road of research, but in short, no matter what you do or what I do in the future, we will definitely encounter various This kind of frustration, because people and this society, people and themselves are always in a game."

"I used to be a fragile person, and I paid the price for it. So I hope you will be stronger... Speaking back to my friend, his story is too long and time is limited. I will only say the most critical. In his In his body, he embodies a certain quality that sociological research requires, and I will take this last opportunity to share with everyone."

Tang Heng turned around and wrote four elegant characters on the blackboard——

indomitable.

Love is indomitable.