South of Chutian

At the end of May [-], Tang Heng came to Shijiang County, Tongren, Guizhou for the second time.

The last time he came here was two months ago, and Tang Heng remembered that he vomited on Li Yuechi that night... This was already embarrassing enough, but Li Yuechi taunted him again, and he wanted to flee back to Macau overnight.

In the past two months only, he was going to live here for a long time.

Stepping on the thick stone slab again, there is a feeling of a world away.

Li Yuechi's residence in the county is very small, it is an old unit of about [-] square meters, half of which is used as a warehouse for Wang Di's clothing store, and half of which is lived by Li Yuechi.Now that there is an extra Tang Heng, it is natural to rent another new house.Tang Heng said that it would be better to buy one in the county seat, and it would be convenient for your mother and brother to settle down. Oh, it seems that you have to buy two sets—there is a new building by the river, Tang Heng thinks it is not bad, and even selected the door Two households opposite the door.

Li Yuechi was silent for a few seconds, then whispered, "I don't have that much money."

Tang Heng said: "I have it." And the houses in this small county are really cheap.

"You keep your money—"

"Li Yuechi," Tang Heng pinched his chin, feeling like those big-bellied moneylords in movies, "We agreed before."

Li Yuechi pretended to be stupid and said, "What did you say?"

"I'll spend money for you, you can't refuse."

"That's not the way of flowering," Li Yuechi smiled, and said seriously, "I won't let you stay here forever, so there's no need to buy a house. And you've only been working for two years, how much money can you save?"

"Do you know how much my monthly salary is in Macau?"

"How much?" Li Yuechi paused, "I heard that the salaries of university teachers are not particularly high."

"It's really not that high in the mainland, but in Macau, it's [-] Portuguese dollars a month."

Li Yuechi's expression froze: "...[-]?"

"Well," Tang Heng continued to touch his chin, "It's about 5 yuan, and I got a full scholarship for my Ph.D. degree, so I saved some, and the money my mother gave me at that time..."

Li Yuechi turned his head silently, as if he suddenly lost the motivation to fight.

Tang Heng said, "Senior, what's the matter?"

Li Yuechi said: "I am so poor by myself."

Tang Heng laughed out loud.

The two discussed it, but in the end they still didn't buy a house.After all, they will indeed not stay in Shijiang County in the future, and it is really not necessary to buy a house just for a short-term settlement.Li Yuechi wanted to rent a house at the Linhe real estate, but was also stopped by Tang Heng.

They rented a house on the street next to the store. The old house smelled musty, but fortunately it had a spacious balcony.

Tongren often rains in summer.Tang Heng bought some green radish from Taobao. This kind of plant likes shade and humidity, so it is suitable to put on the north-facing balcony.It didn't take long for green vines to wrap around the iron railings of the balcony.Tang Heng bought two more rocking chairs. When Li Yuechi came back from the store at night, he would pack Tang Heng's favorite mutton powder. After eating and drinking, the two of them lay down on the chairs and chatted, rocking and shaking, and the tight conversation became one At this moment, Li Yuechi stood up and touched Tang Heng's face: "Go to bed when you're sleepy." Tang Heng squinted his eyes and didn't move, Li Yuechi smiled and leaned over to carry him into the bedroom.

Of course, Tang Heng stayed in Li Yuechi's shop more often.

His reappearance in Shijiang really made the leaders of the county a little nervous, for fear that he was here to cause trouble again.However, the leaders were surprised to find that Mr. Tang really seemed to be on vacation this time, after they had almost checked their mouths one by one.

Look at him, he resigned from his job in Macau, and avoided talking about things in Wuhan. After sitting in Li Yuechi's store, he actually worked as a customer service for his Taobao store.

When a certain leader came to "visit", the old god Tang Heng said: "I see everything now. Have you heard that poem? It was written by Su Shi, alas! The misty rain in Lushan, Zhejiang Chao, I can’t wait until I arrive. If I arrive, there’s nothing wrong with it, the misty rain in Lushan Mountain and the tide in Zhejiang. Now I really feel that those fame and fortune are all an illusion..."

Although the leader didn't know what the poem meant, he could understand Tang Heng's words, so he smiled and said, "Then you are only here for vacation this time?"

"That's right," Tang Heng said, "Shijiang's air is good, and my senior is here again, come and play with him."

"Great, great..." The leader picked up the small leather bag and was about to leave.

"Hey, Section Chief Wang," Tang Heng called him, "We have a new five-flavored beef jerky, do you want to try it?"

In the end, everyone who came to "visit" Tang Heng bought a bunch of beef jerky from Li Yuechi's shop, and the monthly turnover doubled directly.

Tang Heng rested his chin on Li Yuechi's shoulder and asked with a smile, "Senior, am I serious?"

Li Yuechi was a little helpless, but said softly: "Well, it's amazing."

On the weekend, Li Yuechi took Tang Heng back to Banxi Village.

His mother didn't know about the relationship between the two, Li Yuechi only told her that he and Tang Heng were very good friends.Every time before going back, Tang Heng would receive a lot of couriers, and then take them to the village all at once.Li Yuechi's house gradually changed. At first, new lights were installed, and the room was much brighter and more spacious than before.Later, new plumbing, new appliances, and new furniture were replaced.Later, Tang Heng talked to Li Yuechi's younger brother.

Li Yuechi's younger brother is called Li Yuepeng. He looks seventy percent similar to Li Yuechi, but he is a little fatter and looks a bit naive.Tang Heng said to him: "I am your brother's friend." He looked at Tang Heng slowly, as if recalling something.After a while, Li Yuepeng said vaguely in Guizhou dialect: "You are the one with the mobile phone."

Tang Heng didn't understand, and asked him, "What mobile phone?"

"My brother's...mobile phone."

"Have you seen me on your brother's phone?"

Li Yuepeng stayed for a moment, then nodded.

Tang Heng told Li Yuechi about it.Li Yuechi didn't say anything.Tang Heng asked again and again, but Li Yuechi had no choice but to hand Tang Heng the old mobile phone.That's right, it was the Samsung that Tang Heng gave to Li Yuechi six years ago.The text messages he sent to Li Yuechi were all lying in the inbox. When I opened them, they were always very long. Tang Heng said in a daze, "I talked a lot back then."

Li Yuechi continued the second half of the sentence softly: "To save phone charges."

When Tang Heng clicked on the phone's photo album, his fingertips trembled slightly.

The first photo that came into view was taken on April 2012, 4. It was the back view of him dragging the box.Tang Heng thought for a while, probably it was taken when Li Yuechi picked him up at Tianhe Airport when he flew back to Wuhan from Beijing.

Looking back, the time of the photos is getting earlier and earlier, but without exception, they are all about him, or are related to him.When he was asleep, when he was eating hot dry noodles with his head down, when he was leaning on the bed with his feet up and reading a book, his guitar, his navy blue coat, and the ends of his orange-red hair.

Tang Heng rubbed his nose, returned the phone to Li Yuechi, and asked him, "Do you want to take pictures now?"

Li Yuechi smiled and said, "Let's go somewhere."

Sitting in the back seat, Tang Heng stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around Li Yuechi's waist. The motorcycle buzzed and the mountain wind blew past his ears. Tang Heng pressed his face against Li Yuechi's back.

Through the thin T-shirt, he could touch Li Yuechi's tight muscles and hard bones.Li Yuechi was still skinny, Tang Heng secretly made up his mind to make him fatter in the future.

The motorcycle went around several bends, the mountain road was winding, and the wind was full of the unique and fresh plant smell in midsummer.

Li Yuechi took Tang Heng to a small hillside.The stream is gurgling, and the sunlight falls on the water through the gaps in the branches and leaves, making the ripples become shiny.The two found a stone and sat with their shoulders touching each other.It was very quiet all around, only the wind blowing the leaves made a slight sound.

Tang Heng tilted his head, leaned against Li Yuechi as if he had no bones, and asked him, "Do you come here often?"

"Come here to endorse in high school."

"one person?"

"if not?"

Tang Heng said with satisfaction: "Very good."

Li Yuechi smiled, and put his arms around Tang Heng's waist.It seemed as if there were only the two of them left in the world, and they sat there relatively silently for a while, when Li Yuechi suddenly asked Tang Heng, "Why don't you wear that brand?"

"Which one?"

"The one you like very much, here," Li Yuechi touched his chest, "has a red heart."

"Rei Kawakubo."

"Ah."

"You used to be young, and you always wear formal clothes after going to work."

"You can wear it when you're not working."

"A T-shirt is several thousand yuan," Tang Heng shook his head and said, "It's not necessary."

Indeed, on the one hand, the reason is that Tang Heng himself has passed the age of wearing trendy cards, and he is a teacher. It would be too embarrassing if he clashed with students in class.However, another reason he didn't tell Li Yuechi was that during the six years they were separated, whenever he happened to bump into the red heart logo, he would always think of the night when they first met.

What he wore that night was Rei Kawakubo's white t-shirt, and later he regarded this brand of clothes as a lucky shirt, and later... Tang Heng thought it was worth not to mention it.

Li Yuechi said softly, "You look good in that."

Tang Heng joked, "I look good in anything."

"I had a dream before," Li Yuechi said seriously, "I dreamed that I brought you back, right here, um... the dream was also summer, you were wearing that brand of white t-shirt, sit by the river and sing.”

"When was the dream?"

"A long time ago."

Tang Heng was silent for a moment, then suddenly reached out his hand to take out his pocket. He remembered that he put the pen in his pocket after helping Li Yuechi check the bill yesterday... Sure enough, he took out a red carbon pen from his pocket.

Red.Just right.

Tang Heng lowered his head and scribbled a love heart on his chest with a carbon pen: "Is this okay?"

Li Yuechi laughed, "Okay."

Then he looked at Tang Heng calmly, as if he already knew what he was waiting for.

Tang Heng moved his lips, feeling his throat itchy, perhaps because of nervousness.

"It might be out of tune..." Tang Heng said, "It's been a long time since I sang."

"Just the two of us," Li Yuechi blinked at him, "I won't tell anyone."

"Then I'll sing "South"..."

"Ah."

In the past, he always sang "South" in Wuhan, but in fact, this song is about his memories after leaving Wuhan.At this moment, he was in Guizhou, which seemed appropriate at last.

Fortunately, when he recalled those years along the tone, the people in the memory were by his side.

"It's always wet in there, it's always squishy in there. It's always a lot of little things in there, it's always red and blue in there..." Out of tune?have no idea.Forget it, it would be nice to be able to sing, and he thought he would never be able to sing again.

Tang Heng was singing engrossed, when a series of bells rang suddenly.

The singing was interrupted, Li Yuechi frowned.Seeing the word "Jiang Ya" on the screen, Tang Heng answered the phone very unhappily: "What's wrong?"

"Son!!!" Jiang Ya broke his voice, "Tang Guomu has been officially arrested!!!"

The author says:

Yuechi GG's dream guides the way at the end of Chapter 83