Two Continents

Early the next morning, Ji Kaifeng was woken up by a hasty phone call to book a plane ticket to Jinchuan City. He put on his clothes and went back to the bedroom. Bai Che had already woken up. Looking out the window.

Ji Kaifeng walked over to help him straighten the messy open collar of his pajamas, and kissed his broken hair on the forehead: "I'm on a business trip, and I'll be back the day after tomorrow, just stay at home and don't go anywhere."

Bai Che was still staring out the window in a daze, with a hoarse voice: "Where can I go?"

Ji Kaifeng pinched the quilt for him and left the bedroom. After preparing the documents for a while, he went out.On today's working day, Xiao Zhao, the company's driver, happened to have no arrangements and came to pick Ji Kaifeng up to the airport.

Xiao Zhao is also a lively young man. Looking at Ji Kaifeng with a disgusted expression, he took out a pack of cigarettes from the car and handed it to him: "Mr. Ji didn't rest well last night? How about some cigarettes?" Smoke?"

Ji Kaifeng politely declined Xiao Zhao's cigarette, only saying that he closed his eyes and rested for a while.Xiao Zhao snorted: "Then you go to sleep for a while, there is a traffic jam right now, and you won't be able to reach the airport in four or ten minutes."

"Yeah." Ji Kaifeng closed his eyes and didn't sleep. He was just thinking about Bai Che's dull look in the morning, and what Bai Che said yesterday that he would never be his brother again.Something important between them was broken and could never be put together again.

Xiao Zhao glanced at Ji Kaifeng in the rearview mirror, Mr. Ji is not the kind of easy talker, the boss seems to be very troubled recently, hey, he should stop hitting the gun.

Properly sending the boss to the airport, Xiao Zhao dragged out the luggage from the trunk and waved his boss smartly, shouting: Boss, safe journey!Have a nice trip!See you back!He ran away in a flash, leaving his boss with a breath of cold wind with car exhaust.

Although it was cold, the flight took off on time without any weather hindrance, Ji Kaifeng looked at the gradually shrinking city from the porthole, and roughly identified a neighborhood in the bay area, where Bai Che was waiting for him to go back at home.

He drew the curtain of the porthole, closed his eyes and couldn't help thinking about Bai Che, the heavy snow on the other side of the ocean that year, and the dim light in the old small corridor after returning to China.

The dim light occupied the most important period of his youth, giving his young soul, which has always been restless, a place to rest.

The light in the depths of the memory went out with the disappearance of the light in the cabin, and the plane was a little bumpy. The flight attendant’s gentle reminder was played on the radio: “Ladies and gentlemen, our plane encountered an unstable flight path during the flight. Affected by airflow, accompanied by some persistent turbulence..."

At this time, the crying of children became louder and louder. Ji Kaifeng glanced at the little boy. He had never cried like this, even when his parents took him to squeeze into the cabin of the ship.

The first half of Ji Kaifeng's childhood can be described in a miserable word. He was also at such an age at that time, and his parents, who had never been sober, took him to smuggle to foreign countries.The cabin was filled with the fishy smell of aquatic products, as well as the sweaty smell of the people smuggling with them, and even a rotten stench.

This smell is still deeply imprinted in Ji Kaifeng's mind, until the fragrance of pine needles in the heavy snow in Yangguo covered his entire childhood, he gradually buried the disgusting smell deep.

The turbulence lasted for a long time and still did not ease. Everyone began to panic. Some people ignored the flight attendant's order and raised the curtains. Ji Kaifeng glanced at the scene outside the diagonal window. They were flying over the mountainous area.

"It's going to crash!" people screamed.The violent weightlessness made Ji Kaifeng cover his mouth. There were noisy instructions on the radio, but no one could calmly listen to what the captain was saying.

Ji Kaifeng only felt that his internal organs were about to be squeezed out of his body, there was a sharp roar in his ears, and blood was about to burst out of his veins. Is he going to die? ...But he hasn't let Bai Che accept him, hasn't made up for the rift between them as planned, Bai Che is still left at home by him...

Unable to think any more, he lost consciousness in severe pain.

The high-altitude mountain peaks are covered with snow all the year round, and the winter in Yanguo is also full of snow.

When Ji Kaifeng barely opened his eyes again, trying to recall everything that happened in his sharp and painful head, he only felt that everything was chaotic.He stood up with difficulty, and found himself lying on a remote street, with snow falling all over the sky under the street lights.

Ji Kaifeng lay down again, closed his eyes, opened them again, and saw the same street lights.He had a vague memory of this street lamp. In his memory, he was beaten badly that day, and when he woke up, it was the same street lamp with the Huron Street nameplate on it.

On that day, if there were no accidents, there would be a little girl screaming in a short while——

"Brother! Someone is lying here! Bleeding!"

A small figure in a red down jacket ran towards Ji Kaifeng. Ji Kaifeng stared blankly at the young Bai Nana. He suddenly lowered his eyes to look down at his body, and was shocked by his equally young body.

A young man came unhurriedly from a distance, leaned over against the light against the streetlight to check his injuries, then took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed an emergency number.

Ji Kaifeng stared at the young Bai Che obsessively, but was suddenly blocked by the young Tang Ai who ran behind Bai Che. Tang Ai lifted Ji Kaifeng up and down to check him up and down like a doll. Ji Kaifeng grinned in pain, And asked him in loose English: "Are you still ok? Where is the injury?"

In his memory, there was no Tang Ai in the first meeting between him and Bai Che, and Bai Che didn't calmly call the police like this young Bai Che that day, without even looking over.

All this made Ji Kaifeng feel strange, as if all his memories were absurd dreams he had after being knocked out by his stepfather, Bai Che?Who is Bai Che?

He pushed Tang Ai away violently, and stared fiercely at the carefree young man.

Coupled with Ji Kaifeng's head was bleeding all over his face, Tang Ai said in surprise: "Hey, this little guy is quite fierce."

Ji Kaifeng only had a thin piece of clothing on his body. Tang Ai was amused by his shivering and fierce appearance. Bai Che turned around to leave after making the phone call. On Bai Che's lap, only Bai Che, a boy with a tall leg, dragged Bai Che down in the snow.

Bai Nana screamed, and Tang Ai hurried up to hug Ji Kaifeng away: "Hey, Ah Che, isn't this your long-lost brother?"

Ji Kaifeng flung Tang Ai away again, his dark eyes fixed on Bai Che, he heard Bai Che sighed, unexpectedly took off his coat and wrapped it around him, and then struggled to break free from his claws With hands and legs entangled like fish, he walked to the car parked on the side of the road in a single clothes.

Bai Nana looked left and right, hesitated for a while and decided to stay beside her Tang Aige to watch Ji Kaifeng curiously.

After a while, the ambulance and the police car arrived at the scene with their alarm bells ringing. Tang Ai, who had just come to study abroad, could not speak English at all. When trying to communicate, Bai Che got out of the car and came towards them.

Bai Che briefly said a few words to the younger brother who went to the police, and a nurse got off the ambulance, checked Ji Kaifeng up and down again, and bandaged him.Under everyone's surprised eyes, Ji Kaifeng could speak English better than Tang Ai.

He lied, and Ji Kaifeng watched the police officer's brother take notes without changing his expression.

The police officer brother believed what he said that he didn't bring his ID, and also believed that he was beaten by a group of gangsters. Ji Kaifeng refused to get into the ambulance.The police cars and ambulances left, leaving only Ji Kaifeng and Tang Ai, the two teenagers, and Bai Nana.

Bai Che turned around to leave again.

Ji Kaifeng hugged Bai Che's leg again.

"...Are you going to freeze me to death?" Bai Che looked down at Ji Kaifeng whose head was wrapped in a bandage, and Ji Kaifeng realized that Bai Che had been standing in the wind and snow for a long time, still wearing only his single clothes.Tang Ai slapped his forehead, took off his own coat and put it on Bai Che: "Hey buddy, I'm sorry, I forgot, you put on mine first."

But Ji Kaifeng didn't want to let go. In his memory, Bai Che carried him into the car and took him home, but this young Bai Che didn't seem to have any intention of doing so.

Seeing the little guy's attitude of not letting go, Bai Che handed Tang Ai the car keys to let Tang Ai drive the car over, then squatted down and picked up Ji Kaifeng and walked towards the car at the same time.

Tang Ai took the key, hugged Bai Nana and pouted at Bai Che: "This kid is relying on you, Ache."

Bai Che's body was very cold from the wind and snow. The little Ji Kaifeng lay on Bai Che's body, put his face on the side of Bai Che's neck, and exhaled hot air.Ji Kaifeng, who was wrapped in a down jacket, was shivering in the cold wind, let alone Bai Che, who only had a T-shirt just now.

Ji Kaifeng wished he could pass the temperature of his body to Bai Che. He really wanted to take off the hated Tang Ai's coat, but he couldn't bear to let Bai Che freeze.

When they got in the car, Bai Che and Tang Ai changed seats, sat in the driver's seat and turned on the air conditioner to increase the temperature. As soon as the heater blew in the car, Ji Kaifeng carefully observed that Bai Che's fingers hanging on the gear next to the steering wheel finally stopped. trembling.

Bai Nana popped her head out from the back seat: "Brother, shall we go home?"

Bai Che gently turned his head to let Bai Nana sit down and fasten her seat belt, and then said to Tang Ai in the passenger seat: "I'm going to delay your time tonight, let's take him to the hospital first."

Ji Kaifeng's heart was clenched when he heard it, what do you mean?Bai Che wants to keep him in the hospital?He suddenly yelled, and the immature childish voice resounded throughout the car: "I won't go!"

Bai Che did not allow him to refute, input the name of the hospital in the navigation, stepped on the gas pedal and flew towards the destination.Tang Ai turned his mind: "I said, Ah Che, should we contact this little guy's parents?"

Ji Kaifeng glared at Tang Ai: "I don't have parents!"

Tang Ai laughed loudly: "Little guy, did you run away from home? It looks like you ran out of anger with your parents. Don't be self-willed, you will know that your parents are always good to you."

Ji Kaifeng snorted coldly in his heart. He knew that Tang Ai had a good family, and he would never understand the misery of having a bastard biological parents like him. His stepfather was also a bastard. This burden is lost.

He stared at Bai Che's eyes in the rearview mirror, met Bai Che's gaze in the rearview mirror for a second, and said dully, "They don't want me anymore." After a pause of two seconds, Ji Kaifeng looked into the rearview mirror. Looking at the mirror, the moment Bai Che looked at the rearview mirror again, he called out in a low voice: "Brother."

Bai Che turned his gaze back to the road ahead and focused on driving, but said lightly, "Go to the hospital first."

The Bluetooth in the car, which had not been turned on just now, happened to be not connected to the Bluetooth of Tang Ai's mobile phone, and a lively chart song with no nutritious lyrics was played, covering up the topic that Ji Kaifeng would continue.

"...Hey, Ache, the bluetooth of your mobile phone is not turned on, it's mine."

"Listen to you."

After filtering out the conversations that made him jealous, Ji Kaifeng turned his head to look at the scenes of cars passing by outside the window, and he was suddenly not sure about Bai Che taking him in.