South of Chutian

The next morning, Tang Heng caught a cold as expected.

When he woke up, his whole body was sore, Li Yuechi sat by the bed, reached out and touched his forehead: "Come on, take the medicine first."

Tang Heng's voice was also hoarse: "What time is it?"

"Eight o'clock, eat before going to sleep."

"It's okay..." Tang Heng sat up slowly, his arms supporting the bed softened, and Li Yuechi quickly picked him up and let him lean on him.

Tang Heng swallowed the pill and leaned against him without moving.

Li Yuechi said in a low voice: "Lie down and sleep well..."

"I can't sleep..." Tang Heng said slowly, "Isn't it a dream?"

Li Yuechi smiled: "Isn't that enough last night?"

"... "

If they haven't gotten back together, perhaps Tang Heng really dared to say "not enough" - Li Yuechi wouldn't do anything to him anyway.But last night...Last night, Li Yuechi acted like he wanted to make up for the debt he owed for six years.

It's like opening a gate to release a flood.

Later, Tang Heng couldn't take it anymore, and begged Li Yuechi in a drowsy manner: "Senior...really, it's too late."

"It's ok..." Li Yuechi kissed his sweaty temple hair, "Good boy..."

Having said that, Li Yuechi stopped after a while and asked Tang Heng if he wanted to continue.

Tang Heng hesitated for half a second, then said hoarsely, "Continue..."

From the moment they were determined to be together, Li Yuechi changed.No, it's not a change, probably, he can finally release the full and real Li Yuechi in front of Tang Heng.

Since they confirmed each other, love each other forever.

Li Yuechi looked at him with gentle eyes, but there was a hint of madness in his movements. In a trance, Tang Heng had the illusion that he was a wooden boat. He lifts and pushes down the spray.Or maybe Li Yuechi finally reveals the totem he has been hiding for many years. He is a person who walked out of Levi Strauss' book, from a melancholic tropic far away from modern civilization, with wild and innocent eyes.

Tang Heng could feel that Li Yuechi finally dared to ask him for it unscrupulously.Is this the strangest love in the world?Others are afraid of not getting enough, they are only afraid that the other party will not dare to ask for it.

So now that Li Yuechi wants it, of course he is willing to give it.

The result was sore back... Li Yuechi got up and walked towards the door, opened the door a narrow crack, Tang Heng heard him whisper, "He hasn't gotten up yet..."

"Is he okay?!" Jiang Ya worried, with a bit of guilt at the same time, "Then what...did I stimulate him last night? Hey, I really don't know he is standing behind...or, Or take him to see the doctor I said?"

Li Yuechi said something, but Tang Heng didn't hear clearly, and then Jiang Ya yelled again: "No! I don't worry! I'll see how he is—"

"I'm fine..." Tang Heng said lazily.

"Son!" However, Jiang Ya had already rushed into the room, "You're fine—you, what is this?"

He stared at the red mark on Tang Heng's neck with a dazed look on his face.

Tang Heng closed his eyes too lazy to look at him: "Haven't you seen it?"

A few seconds later, Jiang Ya cursed "fuck" in a low voice, turned to look at Li Yuechi: "Didn't you say yesterday that you two are friends now?!"

"Yesterday was yesterday..." Li Yuechi said calmly, "Today is not..."

"Then you guys now..."

"Can't you tell who you're dating?" Tang Heng's brain ached from his yelling, "Get out and wait, I'll be fine later."

Jiang Ya walked away step by step, looking back with regret, as if she was regretting that she slipped away early last night.

Tang Heng rubbed the center of his brows, got up and said, "I won't sleep anymore..."

Li Yuechi came over and touched his forehead with his forehead to make sure he didn't have a fever.

"Does it hurt?"

"It's okay, but the nose is a bit blocked."

"Let's go out in the afternoon and sleep more..." Li Yuechi took off his coat while talking, "I bought a few buns, and we will sleep together after eating."

For a few seconds, Tang Heng wasn't sure what kind of sleeping method he said "sleeping together".

Fortunately, when they lay down again, Li Yuechi just kissed Tang Heng's lips.

Tang Heng pushed him and said vaguely, "Be careful not to infect you with the cold."

Li Yuechi leaned over and kissed again, with a smile: "It's okay, now pass it back."

This afternoon, Tang Heng asked Li Yuechi for his phone back.

He knew that he would have to face some things sooner or later, and turning off the phone was purely helpless to escape, but at this moment he seemed to suddenly have strength.No matter how bad it turned out, he was sure he was not alone in this world.

Li Yuechi faced all this with him.

The phone turned on, and then froze for more than ten seconds.

WeChat, text messages, emails, missed calls... one after another, pouring in continuously.Tang Heng simply put the phone upside down on the table. Half a minute later, he took a deep breath and picked up the phone.

There were 47 missed calls from Fu Liling.

Followed by Jiang Ya's 19 phone calls.

Director Xu's 8 phone calls.

Tang Guomu... Tang Guomu only fought twice, once when he was on the high-speed rail, and once after nine o'clock last night.Tang Heng said calmly, "Bao Lei must have gone to look for him."

"What if he calls again?"

"Leave him alone for now..." Tang Heng dragged Tang Guomu into the blacklist neatly, "Who is next?"

Li Yuechi was about to speak when there was a knock on the door.

Jiang Ya walked in, held up her mobile phone and said, "An Yun is back..."

At 02:30 in the afternoon, a group of three people took Line 21008 to Optics Valley.When Tang Heng left Wuhan, Optics Valley was still a dilapidated suburb, with no subway.And now, this place has become the most famous high-tech park in Wuhan. Tang Heng took a real estate advertisement, and saw that it said: Study in Hongshan famous school, sitting on the scenery of East Lake, Guanggu Huating for sale starting at [-] yuan/㎡Jiang Ya tsk tsk Said: "The houses in Guanggu are sold so expensive? Can my house in Huquan be sold for several million?"

Tang Heng was stunned for a moment: "You haven't sold that duplex yet?"

"Yeah, I wanted to deal with it before, but there are too many things, and I am too lazy to go back to China."

"You do have a lot."

Tang Heng remembered that in Jiang Ya's duplex apartment, there were only two cloakrooms, filled with all kinds of trendy brands.There is also a musical instrument room on the first floor, which is dedicated to Jiang Ya's drum kit. In my impression, there are at least three sets.There is a set of long and wide sofas in the living room. At that time, the three of them often watched movies at Jiang Ya's house, and slept on the sofa randomly when they were sleepy.

Jiang Ya said: "Come on, it's all your stuff, okay?"

"Us?" Tang Heng didn't understand, "Me and An Yun?"

"You and Li Yuechi! You rented that shabby house, and all the messy things in it were put in my place—"

Tang Heng stopped abruptly.

He first looked at Li Yuechi, who lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Then he looked at Jiang Ya: "What do you mean?"

"Uh..." Jiang Ya suddenly realized something and stuttered, "You, you don't know?"

"Our things are all at your house?"

"That's right...it's not...that Li Yuechi told me at the time."

Tang Heng settled down: "When?"

Jiang Ya whispered: "He did the data analysis for my graduation thesis, and An Yun gave me the file bag... There was a note in it, saying, tell me to find time to move the things out of the rental house , nothing will fall."

Tang Heng felt that his heart had been severely punched.

"I thought you knew..." Jiang Ya continued, "After all, there are still your things in it. I just moved it away. Didn't you find it?"

Tang Heng was silent, and after a long while, he let out a silent breath.

"I didn't find out..." Tang Heng said in a low voice, "After that day, I never went back."

"When?"

"The day he stabbed Tang Guomu."

Jiang Ya didn't speak this time.

"Am I useless? I didn't even dare to go back and take a look. It wasn't until 16 when I checked with google?map that I found out that it had been demolished. If I went back to Wuhan earlier, maybe I could still... "

"Don't think about it..." Li Yuechi interrupted him, "It's all over..."

"Do you know when it was dismantled?"

"January 16, 11."

At that time Li Yuechi had already been released from prison.

A certain premonition suddenly rose in Tang Heng's heart.

They stood on the street of Optics Valley, surrounded by heavy traffic, and the soft sound of the piano came from the western restaurant beside them.Tang Heng's ears were filled with the sound of bricks and stones crashing to the ground.

It was the shattering of glass that they polished clean as new.

It was the sound of the iron ladder they had stepped on countless times breaking.

It was the sound of the screws turning as they tightened.

Yes……

Tang Heng said tremblingly, "Did you go back on the day of the demolition?"

It was clearly a question sentence, but he used a declarative tone, as if he already had an answer.

A few seconds later, Li Yuechi nodded slightly.

Although he had already guessed it, when Li Yuechi admitted it himself, Tang Heng still felt like his breathing was stagnant.He didn't know what kind of mood Li Yuechi was feeling at that time, seeing the house where they lived in ruins.

At that time, Li Yuechi had just been released from prison, and all his life of the previous 20 years was forfeited.

Did he feel any regrets?

At that time, they had been separated for nearly five years, and they both thought that they would never see each other again for the rest of their lives.

Did he miss those years?

Just imagining the dusty, dark scene already made Tang Heng feel heartbroken.It is hard to guess how Li Yuechi, who witnessed all that with his own eyes, survived.Is it a paradox—how can he muster all his courage to meet a picture that makes him despair?

"Tang Heng..."

Li Yuechi took a step forward, forcefully broke his clenched fist, and squeezed his hand.

"Listen to me, don't think about it..." Li Yuechi stared at him with firm eyes, "In the future, we will have a new home."

The author says:

Note: Levi Strauss "The Melancholic Tropics"