Catch the wind

After Gu Xiongfei arrived in Tianjin, he directly entered the concession.

Ye Xueshan fell asleep all the way, the car stopped, he was still nestled in Gu Xiongfei's arms and refused to wake up.Gu Xiongfei knew that no matter how he recovered, he would not be able to compare with normal people of the same age. Logically speaking, it is more appropriate to keep him at home; but the two have been inseparable for five years. Gu Xiongfei is worried about leaving him alone in Beiping, and would rather worry about it take him.

After getting off the car, he entered the hotel, because the room was already booked, so Gu Xiongfei led the sleepwalking Ye Xueshan directly to the elevator upstairs.Ye Xueshan was sleepy all the time, until he entered the guest room, and then he woke up a little.Searching and walking into the bathroom, he stood in front of the toilet and unbuttoned his pants, and at the same time asked loudly, "Brother, shall we sleep here tonight?"

Then amidst the sound of peeing, he heard Gu Xiongfei's answer: "You sleep by yourself, brother has something else to do."

Ye Xueshan was pissing so hard that he shuddered involuntarily: "Do you want to go?"

Gu Xiongfei paced back and forth in the room thoughtfully: "Yes, go out to meet a friend, and I'll be back soon."

Gu Xiongfei ordered a meal for Ye Xueshan, and gave him a few serious instructions. Seeing that Ye Xueshan agreed in earnest, he turned around and went downstairs.

The fat man was standing at the door of the hotel. When he saw him coming out, he opened the rear door for him ahead of time.Gu Xiongfei walked closer and slowed down, obviously hesitating.But after a brief hesitation, he gave up and got into the car anyway.

When the fat man sat in the passenger seat, the driver started the car and drove into the night.

In a small mansion in the concession, Gu Xiongfei saw the elusive General Duan.

Ever since the government moved to Nanjing, General Duan had lost his power, and went from being half-employed to completely unemployed.Gu Xiongfei didn't know how much pain unemployment was for General Duan. Anyway, he remembered that General Duan five years ago was still an ordinary-looking half-old man, but seeing him now, General Duan was already old with silver hair.The silver hair is back to silver, and the eyebrows and beard are still black. At first glance, black and white are distinct, which is almost scary.

The young master of the Duan family was by his side, but he didn't change much, only a little richer than five years ago.He greeted Gu Xiongfei with a happy face and held Gu Xiongfei's hand. He said with a smile without saying polite words: "Hi! Why did you come back?"

Gu Xiongfei shook his hand, then bowed to General Duan: "Uncle, long time no see, how are you?"

General Duan smiled slightly: "It's okay." Then he looked Gu Xiongfei up and down, and said, "Why does Xiongfei seem to have become taller?"

The young master of the Duan family sneered: "Father, how old is he, and he still grows tall? Besides, can he stand up to grow? No matter how tall he is, he will be able to support the beams of the house."

Gu Xiongfei could not help but gradually relax after hearing the other party's laughter and familiar gossip: "Uncle, I may be fat."

General Duan shook his head again and again: "You don't want to be fat, if you become fat...it's hard to handle."

Gu Xiongfei couldn't help smiling, knowing what General Duan meant.When Mr. Gu was in his 40s, he gained weight once, and he became so fat that he had to take a convertible car when he went out. He suffered a lot before he lost weight.General Duan knew his details too well, so he knew that once he got fat, it would be difficult to deal with.

Looking around at the furnishings, Gu Xiongfei began to get to the point: "Why did uncle move to live here?"

General Duan smiled and paced the ground with his hands behind his back.There must be a reason why I came to Tianjin from Beiping for no reason, and lived in the foreign concessions in a hidden way.But he talked about him as if he was doing Tai Chi, and he refused to speak directly.He didn't answer, and Gu Xiongfei didn't ask questions, just chatting along his words.At the end of the chat, the three of them entered the restaurant for supper, and General Duan seemed to have no intention of asking, "Have you visited Shen's house?"

Gu Xiongfei immediately shook his head: "The war broke out as soon as we arrived in Beiping, and I have no chance to visit Uncle Shen."

General Duan nodded and remained silent.

Although Gu Xiongfei didn't care about world affairs in the past few years, he also saw that General Duan was about to move around, and he was not stable.He returned to the hotel before dawn, and went directly to bed with a lot of worries.He is a young and mature person, and he has been favored by his uncles since he was a child, and everyone sees him as a good man.This was originally a wishful thing, but in this very autumn, he would rather his uncles not to support him.

Ye Xueshan lay beside him, soundly asleep.Gu Xiongfei gently pulled him towards him, and then groped under the blanket to hold his hand.Ye Xueshan was raised by him to be soft and clean, a lovely waste.With a sudden kick, Ye Xueshan snorted as if startled.Gu Xiongfei quickly raised his hand and patted him on the back, he let out a long breath, his tense body slowly relaxed, and continued to sleep peacefully in Gu Xiongfei's arms.

Gu Xiongfei couldn't sleep, he thought he had to go to Shen Mansion tomorrow.He has kept in touch with the Shen family for five years.General Shen's official career is not smooth, his body is getting weaker and weaker, and he is in a very depressed state.Since he came back, he should see his old man first.If General Duan Duan really made a move, then he couldn't neglect General Shen, otherwise he would be easily misunderstood by the Shen family as a wolf-hearted and stalking.

In the early morning of the next day, Gu Xiongfei took Ye Xueshan down to the restaurant on the first floor to have breakfast.In summer, the weather is mostly cool in the morning and evening. Gu Xiongfei knew that Ye Xueshan would not just sit in the room for a whole day, so he simply took him out of the hotel and walked around the nearby streets.While walking, Gu Xiongfei drew a boundary for Ye Xueshan: "When the elder brother is away, you are only allowed to go to that intersection. If you go further and get lost, then the elder brother has no choice but to let you go."

Ye Xueshan turned to look at him with a smile, knowing that he was trying to scare her.

Gu Xiongfei took him back to the hotel and gave him another 20 yuan, which was enough for him to go downstairs to eat and drink tea by himself.Seeing that it was not too early, he asked the hotel waiter to rent a car and went out to the Shen mansion alone.

Once Gu Xiongfei left, Ye Xueshan was free.The sky is clear outside, the downstairs of the hotel is adjacent to the bustling street, even with the windows closed, the noise of people and cars can still be heard.Ye Xueshan sat on the bed and flipped through a few pages of the pictorial. The pictorial had been with him for too long, and the corners of the pictorial were already frayed.Turning to the end in a dull manner, he stared at a hippo for a while, and then decided to go out for a stroll.

He remembered Gu Xiongfei's threat, so he didn't go far, just wandered around the hotel.Walking along the street not far away, there is a small park, which was originally a place for British people to gather and entertain, but now it is neglected and has lost the standard of a park, but the flowers and trees are verdant, and the benches installed at the beginning are still there.Ye Xueshan bought a very hard ice cream cone in a roadside coffee shop, then walked into the shade of the park by himself, found a bench and sat down.Looking up from his position, he could see the towering spire of the hotel, so he licked the ice cream bit by bit, feeling very at ease.

A pair of female students dressed in western clothes walked over hand in hand, they were all pretty and pretty.Ye Xueshan straightened his eyes, and his eyes followed his steps.The female student saw that he was dressed as a serious gentleman, but sitting on the bench licking ice cream and looking at the woman, she didn't dare to stop, and hurriedly ran away.Ye Xueshan was very happy when he saw the beautiful big girl, and waited for the way to come, thinking that the big girls would appear one after another.Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time this time, he only waited for two young people, one tall and one short.Both of them have pretty faces, the tall one wears satin trousers and jacket, and the short one wears a short-sleeved shirt.Ye Xueshan stared blankly for a moment, then suddenly shuddered, and found that the short sleeves of the short man were empty, and an arm was actually missing.

He felt the horror instinctively, but because he had never seen it before, he stared blankly.The short man noticed his gaze, and immediately stared: "What are you looking at?"

He was stunned, unable to speak while holding the ice cream.And the short man got angry, stepped forward and asked again: "What's the matter? Haven't you seen it?"

He leaned back to hide, but he didn't expect that the other party would come straight in front of him.At this moment, the tall young man who had been silent beside him suddenly said, "Ninth brother, don't be angry, I know this man. You leave yours, he has some problems."

The short man called "Ninth Brother" turned around and saw the tall man raised his hand and tapped on his temple, he understood.And the tall man said again: "Ninth brother, you go first, I have something to do staying here."

The young "Ninth Brother" left alone. The tall young man bent down with his hands on his knees, and looked into Ye Xueshan's eyes with his probe: "Master, do you know me?"

Ye Xueshan looked at him inexplicably, and saw that he had a fair melon-seeded face, sculpted eyebrows, handsome eyes and a high nose bridge. He was a very delicate young man.Shaking his head blankly, he asked honestly, "Who are you?"

The pretty face in front of him had a half-smile, and said clearly: "My surname is Ruan, and my name is Anan."

Ye Xueshan continued to shake his head: "I don't know."

Anan straightened up and sat down beside him.Turning to stare at him, Anan said, "I saved you just now, how can you thank me?"

Ye Xueshan thought for a while, and admitted that what the other party said made sense.The weird man with one arm missing was indeed persuaded by Anan, and he should thank Anan.Reaching out his hand to take out 20 yuan from his trouser pocket, he turned sideways and put all the bills on the bench.Slowly counting out five yuan and putting it back into his trouser pocket, he grabbed the rest of the money and handed it all to Anan: "Thank you."

Anan smiled, shaking his head while laughing: "I don't want money, I have money."

Ye Xueshan looked at him ignorantly, and at the same time stretched out his hand to maintain the posture of sending money.After a while, he withdrew his hand in vain, but passed out the ice cream in the other hand.

The ice cream was frozen hard, and he slowly licked it into a round shape.Anan lowered his eyes and raised his hand to take the ice cream.After sending it to his mouth and taking a big bite, he chewed slowly in the bone-chilling chill, and the diamond ring on his finger shone in the sunlight.

He started looking for Ye Xueshan a year ago. At that time, he had just settled down in the concession, and he felt that he was very promising and extraordinary.However, after searching for a long time, he heard that Ye Xueshan was taken to Japan by Gu Xiongfei.

He often travels to Manchuria and often deals with Japanese people, so he doesn't think Japan is a distant place in his heart.But can you really go to Japan to find someone?No, he doesn't have the skills and time.Just now, when he and his friends were walking along the tree-lined path, he suddenly saw Ye Xueshan sitting on a bench under a green tree. Everything around him fell into silence and bleakness for a moment, only a few rays of bright sunlight shot down through the branches and leaves, specially for illuminating Ye Xueshan was alone.

He didn't know how long he had been absent-minded, but when he woke up, his friend had already frightened Ye Xueshan.

Putting the last bit of egg roll into his mouth, he went to look at Ye Xueshan again.He remembered that Ye Xueshan was ten years older than him, counting his age, he was already in his thirties, but now that they met face to face, he found that Ye Xueshan was younger than he remembered.

However, Ye Xueshan stood up suddenly and said to him: "Wait a minute, I will be back soon."

Anan sat on the bench and waited for 10 minutes.At the time when he was anxious, Ye Xueshan finally appeared.

Ye Xueshan trotted back with four ice cream cones in his hands.Sitting down beside Anan, he said sincerely, "Eat, eat slowly."