South of Chutian

This vomit can be described as flowing clouds and flowing water, swallowing mountains and rivers, and during those chaotic seconds, Tang Heng suspected that his stomach was also twisted into twists and rushed out.

Manager Qi turned pale with shock: "Teacher Tang!!!" He rushed over like a layup in three steps, and grabbed Tang Heng's shoulder: "Teacher Tang? Are you okay, Teacher Tang?!" Sun Jihao also hurriedly Leaning over: "Brother?"

Tang Heng bowed his waist and vomited wildly, and at the same time waved his hands at them, meaning to stay away from me.However, Manager Qi probably interpreted it as "I'm about to die", so his voice trembled: "Xiao Li, hurry up—call 120! Teacher Tang is rebellious!"

Sun Jihao was calmer: "It's not like that, it was fine just now..."

The students also ran out of the store when they heard the noise, but Sun Jihao drove them back: "Don't surround yourself here! It will affect the ventilation!" He leaned over and asked Tang Heng, "Brother, do you want to go to the hospital?"

Tang Heng supported his knees and said hoarsely, "I'm fine, don't call an ambulance." After speaking, he started vomiting again, and after a while, he barely stopped.

In fact, it lasted nearly half a minute.

But Tang Heng was sure that he hadn't been in such a mess for many, many years.

The originally crisp white shirt was already wrinkled, and because of his cold sweat, it stuck to his skin sticky.He vomited sourly, tears flowed sideways, and a few strands of hair were wet and pressed against his eyelids, and he couldn't help how embarrassing he was at the moment.

Fortunately, after throwing up the whole thing, my stomach felt a lot better.Tang Heng said hoarsely: "I'm fine, give me a bottle of mineral water."

Manager Qi hurriedly offered mineral water, but he didn't know where it came from.

Tang Heng supported the wall with one hand, and rinsed his mouth with water.Manager Qi and Sun Jihao watched helplessly, and after a few seconds, Sun Jihao suddenly said, "Hey! I see, did you drink too much at night?"

Manager Qi: "Teacher Tang, did you drink?"

"I drank some white water. At that time, I saw that he was fine. Hey, junior brother, you said you couldn't drink it. I'll stop it for you!" Sun Jihao shook his head and said to himself, "Some people are In this way, drinking doesn’t look good, and it’s hard to tell if you’re drunk or not.”

After hearing this, Manager Qi raised his voice exaggeratedly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tang, our place is poor, haha, you can't stop drinking!"

Tang Heng finally stood up straight, his voice still hoarse: "Go in and have a look, I'm here...for a while, don't worry about me."

"Hey, yes, take your time here," Sun Jihao looked at Manager Qi, "Let's go in."

"Mr. Tang, you..." Manager Qi was obviously not at ease, turned his head, and suddenly remembered something, "Xiao Li, do you know Mr. Tang?"

Sure enough, he heard their conversation, so Sun Jihao must have heard it too, but he didn't have time to ask.

Tang Heng turned his back to Li Yuechi, and didn't even dare to turn around. He felt his bones tighten suddenly and made a trembling sound.

Li Yuechi smiled and said, "Yes, Teacher Tang and I." He paused for a moment, and his tone became more serious as if on purpose, "We are classmates in college, and I didn't expect to meet here."

"Yes," Tang Heng turned around, still not looking at his face, "I didn't expect that."

"Are you -- alumni?" Manager Qi widened his eyes and said excitedly, "What a coincidence! Then stay with Teacher Tang for a while!"

Sun Jihao stood aside, raising his eyebrows in surprise.

Li Yuechi responded happily: "No problem."

Manager Qi and Sun Jihao entered the small shop, the alley became quiet, only Tang Heng and Li Yuechi were left.In just a few seconds, the messy air and light seemed to be taken away in an instant, and the surroundings were full of silence and darkness.

Tang Heng was still looking at the ground, without raising his eyes, but he knew that Li Yuechi was looking at him.

The gap between them seems to be filled with some kind of transparent jelly, which is so squeezed that the limbs cannot move, and only the sight can travel through it.Tang Heng thought in a daze, they haven't seen each other for six years.

Li Yuechi chuckled suddenly, then raised his legs and walked towards Tang Heng. After only four steps, his thin and long shadow overlapped with Tang Heng's shadow into the same gray, as if extremely intimate.

"Mr. Tang," he lowered his voice with a bit of playfulness, "I disgust you like this?"

Tang Heng didn't answer, he just felt a thorn in his back.He didn't want to explain that I was motion sick, even though Li Yuechi was very clear about his motion sickness six years ago.This situation made Tang Heng unable to say anything, but felt like a dream.He knew that Li Yuechi's hometown was in Shijiang County, Tongren—but how could it be such a coincidence?

Li Yuechi smiled and asked again: "What are you doing here?" His tone was as if they were really just old classmates who hadn't seen each other for many years.

Tang Heng squeezed out two words: "Work."

Li Yuechi said "Oh", paused, and learned what Manager Qi said: "Our place is poor, it's really hard work."

Poor mountains and bad waters?Tang Heng clearly remembered that he kept saying that he would take you back to my house in the future, it was very cool in the mountains in summer...

Tang Heng was speechless and lowered his eyes.After struggling for a moment, I forced myself to ask: "Do you have a cigarette?" It's better to smoke a cigarette than to stand like this.

Li Yuechi asked: "Do you smoke?" He stopped laughing this time.

"I feel sick to my stomach." Tang Heng said.

"Is it comfortable to smoke?"

"Ah."

"When did you start smoking?"

"I forgot," Tang Heng suddenly became irritable, "Do you have any? Give me one."

Li Yuechi put his left hand into his pants pocket: "Huangguoshu or Hongtashan?"

"Hongta Mountain."

"None."

"..."

Tang Heng choked for a moment, and asked him, "Don't you smoke?"

"Quit," Li Yuechi stretched out his hand from his pocket, his palm was empty, "There is no need to smoke in it, so I quit."

For a moment, Tang Heng fell silent.

The night wind rushed towards him like a basin of ice water, causing him to shiver inconspicuously.He couldn't help raising his face slowly, his eyes climbed inch by inch, from the tip of Li Yuechi's white sneakers to his sharp jaw.Finally, reach his face.

It was a face that was hard for anyone not to take a second look at.

In many, many late nights six years ago, he used his moist and hot palms to caress this face heavily. It should be made from the tail tips of wild horses in the northern wilderness, dipped in the thickest and bottomless pen. The scorched ink, once lifted and paused, the black eyelashes, the straight bridge of the nose, and the slightly depressed corners of the lips were outlined with fine brushwork.The face he had looked at and touched countless times.

six years no see.

Li Yuechi met Tang Heng's gaze and said flatly, "I came out the year before last."

"The year before last... when?" He remembered that Li Yuechi's sentence was four years and nine months.

"The winter before last," Li Yuechi said, "behaved well, and my sentence was reduced by two months."

"..."

So that's four years and seven months.Tang Heng moved his lips, unable to speak.He didn't know what to say or what to say—could he congratulate him on "freedom again" or "reformed well"?

In the end, I had no choice but to turn my gaze to the small shop in front of me and ask him, "You opened it with your girlfriend?" Manager Qi said just now that Li Yuechi went to find his girlfriend.

Li Yuechi also looked away from Tang Heng's face, turned his head to look at the shop's signboard, and said flatly: "Yes."

Tang Heng said, "It's pretty good."

Li Yuechi didn't respond.

At this time, the laughter of the students came from the small shop, which was noisy.Then I heard Sun Jihao's loud and loud voice: "Have you finished shopping yet? Ready to go back!"

Immediately came Manager Qi's voice: "Then I'll ask the driver to pick us up!"

The stagnant air seemed to be flowing again, and Tang Heng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, unable to express how he felt.

Li Yuechi turned his head, as if he wanted to say something, Tang Heng rushed ahead of him and said, "I have work these days, if I'm free, I'll treat you to a drink." After hesitating for a second, he added, "Call me too your girlfriend."

Li Yuechi stared at him, and suddenly showed a cold smile: "You've already vomited, how dare you drink?"

"It's not because of drinking—"

"You still want to call my girlfriend, why," he said in a low voice, "do you want to confirm whether I like women or not?"

Tang Heng's whole body was nailed in place by his words.

"No need," Tang Heng said word by word, "You like women, I know." I knew it six years ago.

Li Yuechi had no expression on his face, put his left hand into his pocket again, and unexpectedly took out a small white cigarette case.He handed the cigarette case in front of Tang Heng, and said coldly: "I don't smoke Huangguoshu and Hongtashan anymore, this one, you can take it if you want."

Sun Jihao's voice came from the store again: "Don't smudge your ink, let's go."

Subconsciously, Tang Heng grabbed the cigarette case and stuffed it into his pocket, moving so quickly that he felt a little embarrassed for no reason.

Li Yuechi turned and walked into the shop without saying a word.Tang Heng heard him greet them warmly: "Teachers, do you want to eat anything? We are doing activities now..."

On the return trip, Tang Heng was sitting in the co-pilot. He felt much more comfortable after vomiting. He rolled down the car window and let the night wind blow the hair on his forehead.

Sun Jihao and Manager Qi sat in the back chatting, and Manager Qi asked: "Mr. Sun, what do you think of our beef jerky? Now that the output has increased, I heard that they still want to sell it to Macau."

Sun Jihao laughed and said: "It's pretty good, and the packaging is also good, but...the taste in Macau is milder, so I probably can't eat this kind of spicy food."

"There's the original one, the one that's not spicy, you haven't tasted the original one just now?" Manager Qi said immediately, "I'll ask Xiao Li to bring some over tomorrow, everyone should try it."

"No, it's not suitable," Sun Jihao rebuffed, and then said, "That store is also doing well. The boss—Xiao Li, right—is he still running an online store? I see a lot of them piled up in the house. Carton."

"Yes, Xiao Li is a famous..." Manager Qi paused, "A famous college student."

"Is he a college student returning to his hometown to start a business?"

"Well, what about this?" Manager Qi said vaguely, "It counts."

Tang Heng didn't speak, just listened silently.He knew that Manager Qi probably had some scruples—indeed, no one would have guessed that he and the small boss in this remote small town were college classmates.Since there is such a relationship, it must be that Manager Qi is not sure whether he knows about Li Yuechi's imprisonment, so he dare not say anything more.

Sun Jihao didn't know anything, and asked carelessly: "Junior Brother, you and that Boss Li, have you known each other for a long time?"

"Well, we met when I was an undergraduate," Tang Heng said lightly, "but I'm not familiar."

Sun Jihao naturally thought that Tang Heng and Li Yuechi were undergraduate classmates, and said with emotion: "It's not easy for him to come back to start a business after graduating from your school."

"Yes," Tang Heng said, "it's not easy."

Manager Qi responded repeatedly: "Xiao Li is very capable—the Taobao store has opened, and people from Chongqing have come to order from him. Now the goods in the factory are not only sold in supermarkets, but also sold here. Talented students It's really different."

Yes, top student.Tang Heng answered in his heart, it's a pity that he is a high-achieving student who has been in prison.Otherwise, with Li Yuechi's pride and arrogance, how could he be willing to return to this small town and be a small boss who has both ways?

In fact, in the past few years, he occasionally thought, what will Li Yuechi do after he is released from prison?Maybe it's better to go to the big city?I didn't expect to meet him here.

After a few words, the car stopped at the entrance of the hotel.The students went back to their rooms. Manager Qi exchanged greetings with them and left.It was past 10:30 at this time, and the huge hotel was silent. Tang Heng and Sun Jihao walked out of the elevator, and their figures were faintly reflected on the marble floor.

Sun Jihao yawned and asked lazily, "Junior brother, have you been to Guizhou before?"

Tang Heng was silent, thinking that he had heard that sentence too—"I didn't expect you to come to Guizhou again." Li Yuechi's gloomy face appeared in front of his eyes again.

"I came here once, in Guiyang." Tang Heng said softly.

"Oh, are you going on a trip?"

"Go to the funeral."

Sun Jihao stopped in his tracks: "...what?"

"I talked to a person before, from Guizhou," Tang Heng said with a blank expression, "then he died, and I went to pay his respects."

"..."

After a long while, Sun Jihao patted Tang Heng's shoulder, and said dryly, "It's all over, junior brother, this... you, my condolences."

Tang Heng nodded: "Well, I'm fine."

As if to escape from this embarrassing situation, Sun Jihao gave Tang Heng medicine for motion sickness, and quickly swiped his card to enter the house.Tang Heng was the only one left in the corridor. He reached out to take out his room key card, and when he poked a sharp edge with his fingertips, it was the cigarette case.

The small white cigarette case reads: SevenStars

Tang Heng lifted the lid, and there were only two cigarettes inside, which were long and thin.

Seven Star women's cigarettes.Tang Heng knew that Li Yuechi would not buy this kind of cigarettes.Six years ago, what Li Yuechi smoked most often was the [-] yuan [-] pack of Huangguoshu, and occasionally the [-] yuan [-] pack of soft pack Hongtashan.At that time, he was still singing in the band, so he didn't smoke to protect his voice, but he liked to snatch Li Yuechi's cigarettes for a couple of puffs, and then intentionally left a ring of bite marks on the filter.

Li Yuechi would look at him helplessly and smile.

Tang Heng suddenly tightened his palms, squeezed the white cigarette case tightly, and squeezed it flat.After a few seconds, he let go of his hand in vain, and let out a long breath.

This is Li Yuechi's girlfriend's cigarette.