South of Chutian

In late April, Li Yuechi saw Tang Heng on TV.He was in Dawu County at that time, and the TV in the guest house was pitifully small, with strange tones and humming noises.It was a variety show on Beijing Satellite TV. Tang Heng and Jiang Ya came on stage as mysterious guests to sing.Tang Heng was wearing a clean white T-shirt, wide jeans, and the black Converse on his feet was bought from him in Creative City.The TV noise was too loud, and Li Yuechi couldn't hear Tang Heng's voice clearly, but he still watched the whole program, 45 minutes.

In fact, Tang Heng only appeared for a few minutes, one song.

After the show ended, Li Yuechi called Tang Heng.Tang Heng didn't answer the first call. After 4 minutes, he answered the second call.

"I fell asleep just now..." Tang Heng said lazily, "How are you doing?"

"Check the supplies in the afternoon and return to Wuhan tomorrow."

"Well, I'll go back the day after tomorrow."

"Don't you mean tomorrow?"

"There is an extra event temporarily, I only found out in the morning, and I haven't had time to tell you - I'm so annoying."

Li Yuechi couldn't help laughing, he could imagine Tang Heng's impatient expression.This young master has never looked at people's faces. Even if he went to Beijing and joined an entertainment company, he still has a virtue that the vice king and I are not afraid of - this is Jiang Ya's original words.

"What activity?"

"A charity party," Tang Heng sighed, "Lin Lang said she managed to get it, and told us to go."

"Go," Li Yuechi said in a low voice, "it's not too late."

"Well, Lin Lang and I have agreed to stay in Wuhan for a few more days this time."

Li Yuechi quickly asked, "How many days?"

"It should be half a month."

"Will it delay your work?"

"What's the delay?" Tang Heng said indifferently, "We, the migrant workers on the 28th line, have to have work to delay if we want to delay."

The two talked about some things, mainly Tang Heng said, and Li Yuechi listened—he said that the work of being an artist is really not done by humans, and he is too tired, but fortunately he has time to record songs in the afternoon; he also said that Zhou Heiya's competition There is no news anymore, I heard that the funds are not in place, and I don't know how much such a bad game can cost...

It wasn't until the door was knocked that Li Yuechi had no choice but to interrupt him: "We are leaving, we will contact you at night."

Tang Heng gave a soft "hmm": "I'm going to the recording studio."

It was Wang Lili who knocked on the door, and Li Yuechi and Tian Xiaoqin called her Sister Wang. "Here, drink it on the road," Wang Lili handed over a bottle of yogurt, "Drink something sour to prevent motion sickness."

The place they are going to is a warehouse a few kilometers away. Last month, Shengke Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. donated a batch of medical equipment to Dawu County through Professor Tang's project. The equipment just arrived in Dawu yesterday.According to Wang Lili, her boss and Professor Tang were college classmates, so the boss entrusted the full authority of the donation to Professor Tang, and only sent her to attend the donation ceremony on behalf of Shengke.

This afternoon, they went to the warehouse to count the number of equipment.Of course, Wang Lili said that this was just a formality, and she had already obtained the list of equipment.Although it was the end of April and everyone on the street was wearing short sleeves, Li Yuechi still shivered as soon as he entered the warehouse.Tian Xiaoqin said softly, "It's a bit cold."

Large and small cardboard boxes were neatly arranged in front of them. Tian Xiaoqin said, "Sister Wang, how much are these worth?"

Wang Lili wrote lightly: "Three hundred thousand!"

Tian Xiaoqin gasped: "It's so precious."

"What is this?" Wang Lili said with a smile, "Our boss said that it is mainly to support Professor Tang's project, just as a favor."

They came and talked to each other, Li Yuechi had already stepped forward and stopped beside the four cardboard boxes placed side by side.On the carton it says: Fiberoptic Bronchoscope

Li Yuechi knew this kind of thing, his father had used it in lung washing operation.That was nine years ago. At that time, his father's pneumoconiosis was not so serious that it was enough to support a lung washing operation. Although it was expensive, the doctor advised them to do it if they could.Later, his father's lung disease gradually deteriorated, and he couldn't even do lung washing.

Looking back now, the doctor's tone of "do it if you can" is actually compassionate.

Li Yuechi stared at the four cardboard boxes, wondering which hospital and which patient they would be sent to?He kind of wanted to take a picture of the cardboard box and send it to Tang Heng by MMS.He is using Tang Heng's old mobile phone now—Tang Heng replaced it with a new one before he went to Beijing, and insisted on giving him the old one. In fact, it is not old at all, and the photos are very clear.I can't tell why, but I really want to tell Tang Heng that I saw my dad use this thing before.Li Yuechi felt that maybe he was a little homesick, and he really missed Tang Heng a little. He didn't feel it before, but now that Tang Heng was not around, he suddenly became hypocritical, and it was easy to miss him.

"OK, that's it," Wang Lili's voice came from the other end of the warehouse, "Xiao Li, let's go back!"

Li Yuechi walked over and saw that Wang Lili and Tian Xiaoqin had already signed the list, so he asked, "Do I want to sign too?"

Wang Lili waved her hand: "It's okay, as long as one of you signs it!"

The next morning, the donation ceremony was held at Dawu County People's Hospital.Due to the arrangement of teaching work, Professor Tang was unable to attend the scene in person, so he recorded the video in advance.The guests and hosts at the scene had a good time and had a good time.

In the afternoon, Li Yuechi and Tian Xiaoqin returned to Wuhan.Professor Tang said that this business trip has worked hard for you, so he generously took out 500 yuan and asked them to go out for dinner.Tian Xiaoqin said timidly, "Teacher, we have our own money, so we don't need you to spend it."Professor Tang directly stuffed the money into her hand, and said boldly, why are you polite to the teacher?

Finally, they went to the Sichuan restaurant next to the school, along with Xu Rong and another senior sister Yansan.After dinner, Xu Rong said she was going to find her boyfriend, took a taxi and left.Li Yuechi, Tian Xiaoqin and senior sister walked back to school together.The two girls were chattering, Li Yuechi lowered his head and texted Tang Heng, Tang Heng shouted tired again, his tone seemed to be coquettish.

At the parting place, Li Yuechi heard the senior sister say to Tian Xiaoqin: "Why don't you change your hairstyle, I think you will look better with short hair."

Tian Xiaoqin seemed to be taken aback for a moment: "Ah, is it?"

"There is a 'Xuanxuan Style' at the east gate, it's very cheap," the senior sister stroked Tian Xiaoqin's braid, and said thoughtfully, "You can try it."

After a long, long time, whenever Li Yuechi recalled this scene, he felt a fine sense of fear like a needle prick.

Two days later, Tang Heng came back.

He went to Beijing to stay for more than half a month this time, and he was obviously thinner. When Li Yuechi hugged him, he felt that his arms were empty.Tang Heng leaned against Li Yuechi as if he had no bones, and said forcefully, "It's because you haven't hugged me for a long time."

His hair has been dyed back to pure black, "Lin Lang said that I am positioned as a pure male college student," Tang Heng said helplessly, "If you have to dye me back to black, don't you look stupid?"

"No, it looks good." Li Yuechi gently wrapped his index finger around his long hair, his hair seemed to be softer than before, I don't know if he did some care.

They were lying on the bed in the rented house. Wuhan was very hot. Tang Heng turned on the air conditioner, wrapped in a quilt, holding Li Yuechi's hand in one hand, and holding the phone in the other.

"Hey uncle, I really won't be coming tonight," Tang Heng said pretendingly, "I'm too busy, I still have work tonight... just making music, you don't know if I tell you... umm, tomorrow Come over for dinner, bye!" He hung up the phone and looked at Li Yuechi with joy: "What shall we have for dinner tonight?"

Li Yuechi couldn't help touching the corner of his mouth: "What do you want to eat?"

"There is a chain restaurant in Beijing called Xibei Youmian Village, Northwestern cuisine, I don't know about Wuhan..." Tang Heng paused before finishing his sentence, as if thinking of something, "Let's go eat Xiaomin food stall."

"Don't you eat Northwest food?"

"No in Wuhan."

Li Yuechi said, "I'll check."

Tang Heng quickly pressed his hand: "I just want to eat Xiaomin's food stall!"

"Isn't that northwest dish quite expensive?"

Tang Heng's expression was a bit tangled. After a while, he said, "Let me pay for the meal. I made money in Beijing, but I haven't handed it in yet."

It was that feeling again, as if the heart was pressed lightly and lightly, it was sore and numb.Li Yuechi looked at Tang Heng and said softly, "Are you still planning to hand it in?"

"Of course, this is our common property?" Tang Heng smiled childishly, "I originally wanted to collect [-] yuan before giving it to you."

"Just take it yourself."

"I took it for two days and it was gone. If you study mathematics, you can manage the money."

As the sun set, the afterglow squeezed in through the small glass and fell between his handsome eyebrows.Li Yuechi was stunned for a moment, then asked him: "Do you have fans now?"

"Yes," Tang Heng said with a smile, "The aunt in our company's canteen really likes me."

"Oh--"

"Isn't it true that you have to eat Auntie's vinegar?"

yes.Li Yuechi said heartily, do you know how good you are?In the future, there will be many, many people who will like you, men, women, young, old, you will definitely have many, many fans, and they may follow your car and pick you up like what is written in the entertainment news stay in the hotel where you live.

And I'm just jealous, I'm jealous of everything that can get close to you, Jiang Ya, Lin Lang, variety show hosts, the audience listening to your singing, even, the sunset at this moment.

Then came the May Day holiday, and Tang Heng's graduation defense was getting closer and closer.In fact, his thesis had already been written, and there was nothing to revise, but he still spent every day in the library, and when Li Yuechi was out of class, he and Li Yuechi would go to the cafeteria for dinner.There were two times when Li Yuechi heard Lin Lang calling Tang Heng, probably urging him to go back to Beijing, but he dismissed them by saying "Sister Lin, I have a problem graduating without finishing my dissertation".

May [-]th——Li Yuechi will never forget this date—he finished Professor Tang’s social survey method, and was about to send a text message to Tang Heng, when he suddenly heard Professor Tang call his name: “Li Yuechi, Tian Xiaoqin, you two stay together. one time."

They followed Professor Tang to the office. On the way, a student greeted Professor Tang, and he responded with a smile. However, as soon as he entered the door, his expression changed suddenly.

"Sit down." Professor Tang sat in his leather office chair, frowning and crossing his fingers, as if very anxious.

After a few minutes like this, the cell phone in his trouser pocket vibrated, and Li Yuechi knew it must be the text message from Tang Heng.He couldn't help but said, "Teacher, you are looking for us...what's the matter?"

Professor Tang raised his face and said solemnly: "I am very willing to trust my students. But... you two went on a business trip to Dawu at the end of April, and it was you and that Miss Wang who checked the amount of donated equipment together, right? ?”

Li Yuechi said, "Yes."

"Now, the data doesn't match," Professor Tang adjusted his glasses. "First, the hospital found that the quantity was incorrect, because there were several equipments that matched, so the quantity should be the same. The hospital called me to ask, and I asked St. The boss of the department—my classmate—they said that the donated equipment at that time was all complete sets.”

Li Yuechi didn't realize it for a while: "Then why is the hospital not complete?"

"This is what I want to ask you," Professor Tang said in a deep voice, "When you went to count the equipment, how did you count it?"