Of Mountains and Rivers

In the early morning, Chu Huan swept the ashes into a pile, stepped on a stool and leaned over the wardrobe to take a look, and found the cold and stiff body of the cat there - it made an exception to go to his bed yesterday. Come out and say goodbye.

Chu Huan rolled his sleeves and lay on the top of the dusty wardrobe for a while, unable to tell what it was like.Suddenly, his mobile phone rang, and he picked it up to see that it was a text message from the nurse: "It's time, come and say goodbye to me."

Chu Huan and the 50-year-old nurse lady had no improper relationship other than employment. This endless information came from Chu Aiguo at first glance, and the old guy stole his phone somehow.

Chu Huan put away his military stabs and guns, changed into black clothes, packed a simple bag, dug out an old shoe box, put the cat in it, and covered its body with paper dust, leaving only a round His head was exposed and buried under the big pine tree downstairs.Then, he pressed down the brim of his hat, stopped a taxi on the side of the road, reported the name of the hospital, leaned on the back of the car seat and closed his eyes to rest.

He is going to visit Chu Aiguo.

Well, the last side.

Chu Aiguo is a strange person. Others say that he looks like Mr. Ma Sanli who talks about cross talk. Many people say that, so Chu Aiguo has become a fan of Mr. Ma. He listens to it with a small radio when he has nothing to do. After a long time, I learned the catchphrase and tone together, and became a superstar face who can pretend to be real when he speaks.

The ward he lived in was a single room. After Chu Huan entered, he closed the door behind his hand and was about to go in when he was stopped by the thin old man on the hospital bed.

Although the old man's voice is hoarse, he has a leisurely and leisurely self-satisfaction: "Hey - wait, where is your suit?"

Chu Huan paused, took out a napkin from his trouser pocket, unfolded it, folded it in two, and took out a steel needle from the cuff, bent it with his bare hands, inserted it into the napkin to fix it, and quickly made a napkin. A simple white flower pinned to the neckline.Facing the window glass, he straightened his black suit jacket, completed the "going to the grave" look, and then walked to the old man's hospital bed.

Chu Huan: "Mr. Chu Aiguo..."

Chu Aiguo's cloudy eyes stared, and for a moment he stared with a frightening spirit: "What expression? You...you give me joy, joy."

Chu Huan looked down at his attire, bent down and said to his adoptive father, "Isn't this just about to die, isn't it a celebration?"

"It's outrageous. I'm happy when I'm alive, and I'm happy when I'm dead." Every time Chu Aiguo took a breath, his chest made a terrible sound, as if his lungs had leaked. In your mind' that set of phrases, wouldn't I become a nail household? Where will I put my daughter-in-law in the future?"

"Your thoughts are really long in the future, and your wife doesn't know which lesbian is in the belly." Chu Huan paused, then compromised, "Then which part are you going to listen to?"

Chu Aiguo: "The part where I choked my love belly to death."

It took Chu Huan half a minute to realize what this "choking love belly" was. He sighed, feeling very melancholy, and tried to reason with Chu Aiguo: "Dad, it's for marriage."

Chu Aiguo was furious when he heard the words, smashed the hospital bed with his skinny fist, and wailed three times, saying, "Isn't this...isn't it because I can't live for a few more minutes? That's, No one cares about it, no one wants to see me anymore, I became that old cabbage gang that rotted in the vegetable field..."

"Well, get married, get married," Chu Huan quickly surrendered, and asked for instructions in a low voice, "Then who do you plan to marry?"

Chu Aiguo: "I plan to marry Hades back to be your stepmother."

Chu Huan was completely overwhelmed by his old father's courage to be a bad face: "Dad, I think you are so energetic that you may not be able to reunite with my stepmother for a while. It means borrowing another 500 years from the sky."

"I call it back to the light." Chu Aiguo glanced at him quietly, "I'll lend you my head."

Chu Huan moved a chair and sat down beside him, and asked softly, "Why can't I borrow it?"

Chu Aiguo laughed like a broken bellows, and raised his sparse eyebrows, vaguely showing a rebelliousness that cannot be taken away by old age and time: "Your father has a lot of non-performing loan records, they are afraid of me. "

Chu Huan stared at him for a while, pondered for a while, and said in a tone of voice: "Mr. Chu Aiguo, may I ask if you came here to accept the sacred dying ceremony under the call of Lord Yan?"

Chu Aiguo responded cooperatively: "Who says it's not?"

Chu Huan: "Would you like to leave this... populous world around you, bid farewell to it, never see it again, no longer miss it, like throwing away a rag, in the days to come, whether it is peace or war, singing and dancing Peaceful or devastated, never think about it again, lose each other and forget each other, until the world also forgets you?"

Chu Aiguo was quite dissatisfied with the emcee who didn't slip away, and scolded: "Do you have any good things to say? Then who the hell would want to?"

Chu Huan said softly with no expression on his face: "Father, I'm afraid it's up to you."

After hearing this, Chu Aiguo was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "That's right—you open my... that bedside table, and there's a box inside, take it out for me."

Chu Huan found the box Mr. Chu Aiguo mentioned, opened it, and saw a platinum ring with a plain ring inside.

Chu Aiguo said: "There are words, have you seen it?"

In the plain circle, there is an unsightly content engraved in artistic characters-"Teasing you".

Chu Huan: "Amusing you?"

Chu Aiguo nodded with difficulty: "Just kidding - let me ask you, you...you have recently, have you felt that way lately?"

Chu Huan: "What kind?"

Chu Aiguo raised his skinny hand and grabbed Chu Huan's wrist: "I have no expectations for anything, no desire for life, I can't seem to be happy at all, my head hurts in a daze, I don't even bother to masturbate..."

Chu Huan pretended to be shocked: "Dad, your head is buried in loess, can you stop being so old and rude?"

Chu Aiguo turned a deaf ear and stared at him with cloudy eyes: "Is there?"

Chu Huan said without batting an eyelid, "Absolutely not."

Chu Aiguo tightened his hands: "Tell the truth."

Chuhuan: "..."

This time, he was silent for a long time, his gaze behind the lens was not clear, but it was very dark and heavy, after a long while, he pulled the corner of his mouth and said frivolously: "Only occasionally, no one masturbates every day, it hurts the body. "

Chu Aiguo let out a long breath: "Once I saw you standing in front of the window, as if you were about to jump off..."

Chu Huan sneered: "Impossible, hitting the ground with 'Pa Ji' will pollute the environment, do I seem to have no sense of public morality?"

Chu Aiguo ignored his joke and stared at him without saying a word. After a long time, Chu Huan finally lost under the old goblin's aggressive gaze, and took the lead to look away, and his smile faded away: "...just that one time. "

Chu Aiguo: "Why didn't you dance afterwards?"

Chu Huan replied: "The 'two ghosts' haven't been caught yet."

Chu Aiguo closed his eyes: "I can still think of this, which means there is still salvation. You...you remember, Huan Zhe, the pillar of the country..."

Chu Huan couldn't bear to interrupt him: "You pull it down quickly, I looked it up in the dictionary, doesn't that thing mean a big wooden pillar?"

"What's wrong with the big wooden pillar? With a circle of mountains and rivers tattooed on your body, you can stand up to the sky." Chu Aiguo glared, "But stand up to the sky... I didn't say that you can stand up to the sky by yourself."

The corners of Chu Huan's eyes twitched slightly: "Dad, you have no place to play with your rogue spirit, so you have to come at me, right?"

Chu Aiguo took a breath, looked at Chu Huan's bag at the door of the ward, his voice trembled slightly, and his breath was like a gossamer: "You bastard, you are really an adulterer...I mean, you have to come out more often to look outside. World, don’t keep thinking about doing your own thing well, it’s just a matter of life and death, no one is putting the burden on your shoulders now, don’t keep digging your own horns, if you really can’t handle it anymore, go to the hospital and start It's not ashamed to take some medicine, don't carry it to your death... huh? I won't be here in the future, no one can control you, oh..."

Chu Huan didn't say a word, it seemed that he had listened to it, and he seemed to have made up his mind to obey and obey.

Chu Aiguo glanced at him with great concern: "Are you going on a long trip?"

Chu Huan nodded: "Well, I'm leaving in a few days, I'll do something first."

"What will you do with your big baby after you leave? Who will you take care of?"

Chu Huan paused: "Big Mi is at the end of her life."

"Hey," Chu Aiguo sighed with emotion, sucking his teeth, "It's not good, it's a sin, a little female cat died for me when I was dying."

Chu Huan looked at his lifeless face, and felt that it was a bit cruel to tell him the truth at this time, so he concealed the fact that Da Mi was a father-in-law, and preserved the old man's romantic fantasies.

The old and the young were silent with each other for a moment, the old man seemed to have run out of strength to yell just now, and he felt that his life was passing by quickly.

The sun came in through the window sills, and it was a sunny day with clear light and shadow, Chu Aiguo said with an air of gossamer: "You... put on the ring."

The first ring he wore in his life came from his bald father. Chu Huan felt that this fact was a bit cruel, but he obediently put it on his middle finger.

The ring fit perfectly, and the words "to play with you" seemed tailor-made for him.

"I'm going to die soon," said the old man, slowly raising his eyes.

At that moment, the old gaze met the young gaze, and the young man's eyes were quiet, and one could not help feeling cold when one glanced into them.

Chu Huan restrained his exhausted body, and responded in a low voice: "En."

Chu Aiguo asked: "Can you live to be seventy or eighty?"

Chu Huan hesitated for a while before replying cautiously: "I will try my best."

Chu Aiguo asked: "What do you do when you encounter difficulties?"

Chu Huan seemed to have listened to this question, and thought about it for a while. Then, a miserly smile appeared on his face: "Just kidding."

"Okay, okay, be good..." Chu Aiguo shook Chu Huan's hand, as if he had exhausted his last strength.

Afterwards, his body froze suddenly, as if his mind was over and he had nothing to worry about, he even said a few "good" words and completely closed his eyes.

Chu Huan held the hand that had just crossed the border between life and death, before it became cold, and closed his eyes. He seemed to hear the sound of the wind blowing into the house from a distance, flickering, and his heart turned gray and frosty and lonely. down.

"Okay," he said to those who were out of hearing, "bye."

He felt a top-heavy emptiness, as if apart from the two arrogant ghosts who had not been arrested and brought to justice, there was only the word "good" falling heavily on him, fixing him to the ground under his feet.