Sparkling

Ye Lin bumped around in the dilapidated alley.

This is not a description, he was indeed walking on support while throwing his body on the brick wall with peeling earth crust.

The island is sparsely populated, and I walked hastily through the maze-like alleys for an unknown period of time without meeting a single person.Although even if he met, with Ye Lin's state at this time, his mind was full of panic and he had no time to care about what passers-by would think of him.

When he knocked against the soft dirt wall for the umpteenth time, he finally exhausted his strength and slowly slid down against the wall.Covering the aching stomach with both hands, curled up into a baby position.

There was chaos in my mind, and I don't know how long it took before the pain slowly subsided.

Ye Lin panted, and suddenly raised her head. After the pain subsided like a tide, her body seemed to have regained consciousness other than pain.

He felt a little sticky and a little cold.It should be cold sweat sticking to his clothes, and being blown by the cold wind, he shivered, and his mind became clearer.

want to drink water.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, and found nothing.

The water I bought earlier was lost at some point.Ye Lin swallowed, feeling uncomfortably thirsty.

He spent the whole day looking for water.

He propped himself up against the wall and stood up slowly, looking around, the wordless bible with pictures appeared one after another in his slow-moving head, and the memory seemed to be slowly revived when he was in it.

He remembered that this alley seemed familiar to him, it was an alley he used to play in when he was a child.

It's like walking along this road. Although he can't remember what scenery will be waiting for him at the next intersection, he knows that the next intersection will definitely not be a dead end, and there must be a way to go.

He turned the corner of the alley as if sleepwalking, and when he looked up, he saw an old grocery store, buried at the corner of the dilapidated alley, and the wood on the eaves of the door had dried into half-hanging rotten wood.

This is a grocery store that is very unlike a grocery store.

A very wide and thick glass counter is crowded at its door, blocking the door, making it difficult for people to walk no matter from the left or right.

And this counter occupying the facade is too casual.The gray stains are mottled, and the glass surface is very unclear, which is due to the age, and also because of the infrequent scrubbing, leaving stubborn scars.The commodities underneath are also scattered and staggered.It doesn't look like a store, it looks like a messy counter at home that hasn't been cleaned up.It's hard to believe that the built-in with a layer of dust falling crookedly inside is a commodity for sale.

He remembers this store.

Dad used to come to this grocery store to play mahjong. When he was a child, he would also come to buy snacks after school.

Although the facade of this shop is shabby, in the eyes of Ye Lin when he was a child, it looked like a magical magic house.Although it is small and tattered, no matter what you want, the slow-moving old man of the shopkeeper can take it out, and then a group of children will happily surround the grandpa of the shopkeeper, exchanging coins for the snacks they want.

He stepped forward, and only then did a noisy sound penetrate into his ears.

Speechless, the sound of rubbing mahjong.Twittering, this is what the villagers speaking in their native accents are talking about.He listened casually without thinking, but he couldn't quite understand it.

There are five or six people around the poker table, some of them leave the game and others watch the game.Someone among them noticed Ye Lin, the one who was in the midst of the battle,

"Hey, there's business."

That talent was like waking up from a dream, he turned his head to look at Ye Lin, got up immediately,

"Just do it for me."

After he left these words, Jun pulled his slippers and came over to greet his business.

In my memory, there was always a little old man in the shop, but after more than ten years, the shopkeeper changed to a young man.

Ye Lin thought lightly, with neither sadness nor joy in her heart.

"Get a bottle of water."

"what brand?"

"casual."

The shopkeeper went to the freezer in response, opened the door and took it out smoothly, then turned around and handed it to him.

"Two dollars."

Ye Lin spent quite a lot of money.

Going out in a daze, he didn't know how many belongings he still had on him now, and his sick body was like a heavy iron block, which made his movements slow and somewhat mechanical.

The abnormal movement drew the store manager's strange eyes. He could feel the strange eyes stabbing at him, but he didn't care anymore.

He slowly lowered his head and took out all his pockets, and finally put together two yuan coins on the counter.

He was trying to count the coins together when a hesitant voice from the other side suddenly floated into his ears.

"Are you... Ye Lin?"

He suddenly raised his head when he heard his name.

He's been a little afraid of hearing his own name lately.Because those who would call his name often had cold tones and indifferent eyes.

He looked up following the sound, and suddenly saw the young boss across the cabinet.

An unfamiliar face.

Short trimmed hair, taller than himself, moderate figure, wearing a sea blue sweater, showing a slender neck in winter.

he shook his head,

"sorry, I do not know you."

Immediately afterwards, I wanted to leave, even as if I wanted to escape.

He is afraid to talk to people, especially people he doesn't know.

Being able to speak like a normal person is something he has worked so hard to achieve, but now he doesn't have the strength to maintain his dignity in front of strangers, so he can only run away like a shrinking turtle.

But the person on the opposite side didn't understand his embarrassment and called him persistently.

Ye Lin ignored it and walked straight forward.

He is so self-contained and unlikable.

He kept trying to escape, but a force grabbed his arm, and the warmth felt like an electric shock, which made him almost violently throw away his hand.

The shopkeeper didn't come out. In desperation, he stretched his upper body directly across the wide and thick glass counter and grabbed him abruptly.

"and many more!"

He said behind him, "That's right, you are Ye Lin."

Ye Lin had no choice but to turn around.

"You really, don't know me?"

The shopkeeper's tone was very serious, not like a joke, looking directly at him, and said word by word.

It's weird, sometimes he's terrified of looking straight at people, but other times he's not scared at all.

Ye Lin looked into the shopkeeper's eyes.

His eyes are really beautiful, black and white, very clean, and very quiet, unlike her, Ye Lin thought.He raised his heavy eyelids, thinking that his eyes must be filled with cloudy blood, like a chimpanzee rolling in the mud.

It's just that those eyes swayed slightly, staring at him, making him forget the shame of his own shame for a moment.

"You are...Xu Feng."

His thoughts were captured by those eyes for a moment, drifting to the depths of memory, he almost unconsciously uttered the name.

The person on the opposite side smiled with satisfaction, showing his white and neat teeth.

Unlike his smiling face, Ye Lin looked at him expressionlessly.

Ye Lin subconsciously wanted to respond to Xu Feng with a smiling face in response to the situation, but looking at his face, she couldn't smile so easily, but kept silent, looking at him with eyes with heavy dark circles.

The wordless stare lasted for two or three seconds, until the poker player in the room called Xu Feng impatiently,

"Are you ready? It's been so long to collect money?"

Called back by the sudden sound, Ye Lin seemed to have finally found a reason to get out.

"You are busy, I will go first."

Throwing down these words in a hurry, without even waiting for Xu Feng's response, she gently broke free from the other hand on her wrist, and Ye Lin left in a hurry.

Xu Feng's hand was still in the air, but the person holding it had gone away, turning into a somewhat ridiculous pose.

Ye Lin turned around the corner of the alley and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Xu Feng looked at the empty alley, he didn't have time to say anything, he felt as if he had reunited with Ye Lin just now, and was separated again in a blink of an eye.

Ye Lin felt a little confused.

Originally, the bursts of pain in his stomach and the intermittent headaches had already made him unable to think, but the sudden appearance of Xu Feng stirred up long-standing memories, like moss-covered land being violently turned up, all over the place. Messy.

The stabbing pain that had calmed down a little bit surged again, Ye Lin reluctantly walked a few steps quickly, and finally leaned against the wall of the alley, clutching her stomach.

I want to find a place to hide, to hide in a deep place.

Such thoughts overlapped in his mind, and his mind was like a heavy weight, making him unable to breathe.

Come back home.

I want to go home.

When I can't think of anything, I almost instinctively think like this.Ye Lin gritted her teeth, stumbled and walked towards the path home.

The stone house was the same as it was in memory.

If there is any difference, it's just getting older. Although it is still standing there, it is crumbling like an old man, but Ye Lin doesn't care about that.

This crumbling old house was his last refuge.

Ye Lin almost slammed into the door, he raised his eyes with difficulty, probably because of hypoglycemia, his eyes were dark, and at the end of the darkness was all light, he couldn't see anything clearly.He tried his best to identify it, only to vaguely see an old-fashioned lock lying in front of the double wooden door, which was covered with iron filings. He grabbed it, and his fingers were covered with spider webs.

The house is locked and he has no key.

Ye Lin was in despair.

The despair gushed out almost instantly, making his nose sore and his eyes wet.

He hasn't cried for a long time, sometimes sad, but his eyes are very dry.Feeling the dust and cobwebs on his hands, his eyes, which had been dry for a long time, couldn't help but filled with moist tears.

He recklessly went around to the window next to him, and almost slammed into it with all his strength.

The windows crackled harshly, and the glass shattered.Like a lunatic who lost his mind, Ye Lin scrambled to remove the broken glass stuck in the window frame, using both hands and feet, he crawled in recklessly.

The room was very dark, with only a little light from the sky, but it was just right for Ye Lin.

He didn't even have time to take a look at the home he hadn't seen for a long time, he just wrapped his clothes tightly, and the room was full of dust. In the empty room, he finally got his wish and fell into a coma-like deep sleep regardless.