How to be a patron

It took us more than ten days to visit all the big and small scenic spots in Henan.It is the time of summer vacation, and the scenic area is full of crowds, mainly students, adding a bit of noise and vitality to the ancient city.

We were shoulder to shoulder in the bustling crowd, and when we were baked by the hot sun, the sweat on our foreheads flowed down like a water pipe without a switch.

But this is not a hindrance, I followed Gou Meng dazedly, listening to him talk about the long history of this ancient street and alley all the way.

"You know so much." I couldn't help but sigh, for the city I live in, I may not be able to tell a story in every detail.

Standing on the top of Songshan Mountain, he stared at the mountains in the distance, and when he heard me say that, he smiled faintly: "I spent the most memorable years of my life here, how can I not be impressed."

I looked at his broad back and felt that even if I stretched out my hand, I couldn't reach his shadow.

Had a lot of fun, just...

"I'm done washing, you go." Gou Meng came out of the bathroom wiping his hair. He was wearing only a pair of loose shorts, and the water droplets that were too late to wipe off rolled down his muscular upper body and got stuck in his bend. On the elbow, it is still hanging.

This is undoubtedly a delay to me.

I swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, trying not to look anxious, walked up to him slowly, and looked at him: "This is the last night."

"Huh?" He was stunned for a moment, and then he realized, "Yes, I'm going back to Zhengzhou tomorrow. How are you doing? I think I'm quite qualified as a tour guide, right?"

I didn't answer his words: "I've booked a flight home the day after tomorrow."

"Hmm..." He met my gaze with emotions that I couldn't figure out, "You should work hard when you get back. You don't have to care too much about what other people say."

"Mengmeng." I hugged him suddenly.

He was shaken by my hug, and the towel in his hand fell to the ground.

Gou Meng's hands stayed in the air for a moment, and finally put them on my back, and gently hugged me back.

In this posture, I asked him: "What are your plans for the future? Do you want to stay here?"

"I can't say, and I'm not sure."

"If I……"

"Xiaotian," Gou Meng interrupted me, "let go of me, let me tell you the story of my former soldier."

"I don't want to hear it, I just want to know if there is any possibility for us in the future."

"Xiaotian..." Gou Meng put his hands behind his back, trying to break free from me, but he couldn't hold me back, he could only drag me to the bed clumsily, "Listen to me first."

I was dragged and tugged by him and fell to the bed, I could only let go of him discouragedly, and said weakly: "Okay, just tell me."

Gou Meng sighed, and looked at me seriously: "Xiaotian, I only hope that you will not be too disappointed in me after listening to this story."

"No." I said firmly.

He laughed and cried: "I know you really want to know about my past, I guess, you should have asked someone about me. But apart from my military experience, is it true that you can't investigate anything else?"

"Well, yes. They say you have someone above you."

"Ha, that's pretty much the same. If you really use your means to investigate, you can probably find out that I have been in the special forces. If there are many, there will be nothing, because the group of people we entered the final review at that time, in order to implement special forces. Missions, our files have been wiped out, and even a new identity has been forged."

"Well, keep talking." I'm not too surprised that he has been in the special forces, probably because I heard it from my younger sister before.

"At that time, there were about a dozen people who signed up for the undercover mission, but only two people were left after entering the final stage."

"including you?"

"Yes, me, and my good brother. We are all excellent, and the superiors don't know who to choose, so let's train together first."

"Well, then what?"

"To be honest, my physical fitness is better than his, but his brain is smarter than mine. That task requires language learning, but I can't even speak English well."

"So he was chosen in the end?"

Gou Meng shook his head: "That's not all. My cousin is the person in charge of this selection. I joined the army voluntarily, and my family has always opposed it. My parents knew that I joined the special forces, and they were even more angry. No, in the end... In the end they somehow managed to persuade my cousin to let me lose the election. And I, heh, didn't know until my parents arranged a job for me and even sent me a nice car They caused all this."

"and then……?"

When Gou Meng said this, he was already holding his head in his hands, and his words were hopeless: "Don't you understand? Both of us have fought for this mission to the end and put in the same effort. We even confessed our last words to each other. If I die during the mission, the other person will help the other person fulfill his wish. However, in the end, I relied on my family members to become a deserter and let another person die for me."

"Deserter!" he suddenly shouted excitedly, "this is the shame of my life. Now I am safe and enjoy a good life, like an ordinary person, but he doesn't know what the hell in Vietnam or Laos or America risking his life somewhere, dying at any moment, and I may never see him again."

After revealing his heart, he sobbed in pain: "I don't deserve...to be his brother."

I was dumbfounded for a moment, looking at his sad look, I didn't know how to comfort him.

After a while, Gou Meng adjusted his mood and continued: "Xiaotian, I asked my cousin for a chance to make up for my previous cowardice."

I was surprised and said, "Don't you mean..."

Gou Meng looked away and looked at the night scene outside the window: "I also received a mission."

"But... no, you're not all retired from the army."

"Retired from the army? That can be regarded as a cover-up. Like the others, although I lost the election, I still need to help him cover up, and even collect some information intentionally or unintentionally..."

For a while, I was a little incapable of accepting it, and couldn't believe that Gou Meng was about to plunge into a dangerous world that I couldn't even imagine.

"Then...can you tell me what your mission is?"

He shook his head slightly.

I suppressed the shock in my heart and asked him: "After that...do we still have a chance to meet? When will your mission start?"

"I don't know, I've been training since I returned to Henan, maybe it's just recently."

Gou Meng put his arms around my neck and asked me to look at him: "Xiaotian, I don't know if we can meet again, if you see me in the future, just pretend you don't know me."

I hung my head, knowing that this relationship had come to an end.

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Now I have to go to the CP update article (to die)