gentle collapse

Chen Wei stood at the door and said, "I knocked on the door, maybe you didn't hear it."

I asked him, "What are you doing here?"

"I'll come and see you... you guys." He put down the fruit in his hand and asked me standing at the door, "Have you not had lunch yet? Zhang Ran is heating things for you in the kitchen."

I nodded, put the suitcase on the head of the bed, and dragged a chair for him.Not long after Chen Weicai sat down, a person jumped down from the window.Chen Wei looked up and watched He Yuchen walking towards him, I sat next to Zheng Yi, and Zheng Yi looked at each other.

Zheng Yi was a little confused, so he asked me: "Does your house really not consider installing a security fence?"

Now it's too late for An... Zhang Ran will bring in the dishes directly after heating them up, and the scene will inevitably become more chaotic at that time.I could have gone out without getting involved, but Zheng Yi is still lying here. I want to stay here and let him lie down with peace of mind.Moving around will also pull the wound, right?

I sighed and asked He Yuchen: "Didn't you just come here this morning?"

"I saw Chen Wei at the intersection of the street, and I followed him."

Chen Wei sat, frowning and looking at him: "Didn't you never want to see me before?"

He Yuchen's tone was a little furious: "Who dares to see you, you kicked down the door of my house twice. Your imagination has broken through the sky again, insisting that I am Zhang Ran, lying on my bed in the middle of the night pretending to be a dead body... ..."

Zhang Ran who just opened the door was stunned for a moment, walked towards me, and put down the bowls and chopsticks.

"Nothing happened between me and him, really... The shortest distance between us is half a meter." Finally, Chen Wei couldn't sit still anymore, and jumped up and grabbed Zhang Ran's hand.He Yuchen also hurriedly explained: "This kid is very afraid of death. I took a brick and smashed it away for him. If he dares to touch you...not...that's it... dare to touch your body, he won't be able to get out alive. room."

Zhang Ran didn't know whether he listened or not, so he pushed Chen Wei's hand down: "It's good to have no physical contact, let alone Lin An is still here."

Zheng Yi picked up the bowl and started to plan the rice, and said happily while eating: "What's the situation? A room full of big men...what are they talking about?" I gave Zheng Yi a large chopsticks of vegetables, and he buried his head in the food , showing two eyes, and then couldn't help laughing again, I almost wanted to press him into the quilt.

I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles... The embarrassment was eating away at me bit by bit. I looked at Zhang Ran's face and thought: It would be great if my brother was here.The current situation is really too chaotic. Chen Wei is Chen Wei who was reborn after death several years later. He Yuchen is in Zhang Ran's body, and 15-year-old Zhang Ran is living in my brother's body.Everyone in this triangle relationship is trying to find the correct solution in an obviously dislocated situation.

In this room, only Zheng Yi and I are outsiders, ordinary aborigines who have nothing to do with time travel.

"What's going on?" Zheng Yi finally noticed something strange and asked me in a low voice.

I said to the three of them, "Why don't Zheng Yi and I go out first, and it's hard for you to talk about some things in front of the two of us."

"There's nothing hard to say." The person Chen Wei was talking to was obviously He Yuchen, "I don't care how you know about Zhang Ran and I, anyway, we are in love with each other, and you don't even feel that Are you redundant?"

"Of course I'm redundant." He Yuchen has been watching Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran doesn't know him at all. They shook hands for the first time just a few hours ago. Does Zhang Ran remember? Hard to say his name.

As an outsider, maybe I can see it more clearly than they do.But I don't know what love is, I have never been in love, and no one loves me.I can't yet imagine why anyone would die or live for love.I only know that at this moment, Zhang Ran's heart must be very difficult.

Zhang Ran said, "He Yuchen, I like Chen Wei."

And He Yuchen replied: "I know."

"I've loved him since I was little."

"I know."

"Even I don't know why I like him."

He Yuchen said with certainty: "But I know."

Zhang Ran said helplessly, "You know everything."

"Because I love you."

Chen Wei couldn't speak, and his expression changed from unconcealed happiness to worry.Zheng Yi couldn't close his mouth, and he said, "They are all men..." I covered Zheng Yi's mouth, and the hot breath from Zheng Yi's mouth reached my hand, and he was panting a bit.Not to mention Zheng Yi, even I, who had known everything for a long time, was shocked when I heard this sentence.

Feeling Zheng Yi's breathing slowly calm down, I let go of my hand, picked up the bowl, and picked up the vegetables.Zheng Yi stared at me for a while, then continued to move his chopsticks.

"You all go, I'm now..." Zhang Ran's voice trembled.Chen Wei went to hold him again, and he took Chen Wei to the window in this posture, and then turned his head to look at He Yuchen.After they both went out, Zhang Ran closed the window and drew the curtains.

I asked him, "Do you find it hard to choose?"

Zhang Ran shook his head: "I just want you to have a quiet meal. There is no question of whether to choose or not. I can say that what He Yuchen fell in love with was a phantom, and that phantom was temporarily carved into my image , He longs for someone to treat him so well, longs to love and be loved, that's why he is attracted to a person in a book, this is what I feel."

Who is not longing to love and be loved?Chen Wei may not be able to escape this cliché.

Zheng Yi chatted with Zhang Ran in a low voice with full of doubts.I went out and closed the door, washed the dishes, and saw my dad cleaning the motorcycle in the open space outside, with a bucket of muddy water standing beside him.I found a bundle of hoses in the kitchen locker, connected them to the faucet, threw them out the window, went out to get the rag from my dad, and said to him, "Dad, you go to the kitchen to control the water. Slowly switch, I'm going to wash the car."

He was standing in the kitchen, smoking a cigarette and looking at me.

After I finished washing, I went out and found the supermarket where I used to work.The manager told me they didn't need a cashier anymore and asked if I could drive, I don't have a driver's license.There is a promotional activity outside the supermarket, and it is full of girls, but boxes of instant noodles and drinks are piled up high, and the tables are lined up in a row, which is the kind of thick wooden table, maybe they will need a person who does manual labor.I chatted with the little girl standing on the outermost side, and when I got a call from the person in charge, he told me to wait for him to have an interview.After waiting for a few hours, it was almost dark, and he came to organize people to pack up the things. I carried almost all the heavy things into the car.He decided to keep me, the promotion work is only for one week, and the salary is closed every day.

When I got home, the living room light was off.I drank the cold water on the coffee table in the dark, and turned on the small light.I took off my shoes, sat on the sofa, pressed my arms a few times, and rested my head on it. I still felt the back of the wooden sofa hurt my head.

He held the back of my head with one hand and made my head stand up. He pressed my shoulder a few times and asked me if I was working hard.

His hand was so warm and soft that it almost made me feel drowsy.I shook my head and leaned against him.

who is he?I stood up in shock and woke up suddenly.

Zhang Ran sat up and raised his head and asked me: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing...why don't you go to sleep? You and Zheng Yi can squeeze into a room tonight. There are still two quilts at home. I can sleep in the living room with a simple spread."

He said: "You and your classmate sleep in a room, and you can still chat. I'll just go and squeeze with Dad."

dad?

"Lin An, look what I bought for you?" He stood up, lowered his eyelids with a smile, bent down and took out a black camera bag from under the coffee table, he took out a SLR from it, and handed it to me, "I wanted to I will give it to you after your college entrance examination..."

I took the SLR over and held it, staring at him.

He came over and looked at my red hands from carrying the box and said, "You've grown up."

I shook my head in denial: "I have always wanted to rely on others, and occasionally I said something responsible, but it was all empty words. The kind of growth that buys a piece of clothing for the family and thinks about washing the dishes is not growth at all."

"Recognizing the immaturity of your behavior is part of growing up."

I shook my head stubbornly: "No. I don't want to realize this, I want you back. I just want you to come back."

"I'm back." He walked towards me with a smile, and pulled me to sit on the sofa.He turned on the TV, held my shoulder and talked to me.

I clearly know that this is false, whether it is a dream or imagination, anyway, all this is impossible and unreasonable.But the more outrageously fake it is, the more it contradicts reality, the more attractive it is. I held his hand and almost didn't want to wake up.His fingers are warm, as is his body.

He asked me why I didn't try DSLR.

I'm not very good at using it, so I studied it for a while, and just pressed a few times and took a few photos.I used to want a SLR very much. When I was walking on the road, if I came across a picture I wanted to keep, I would take a picture.I aimed at my brother and pressed the shutter.

He smiled helplessly, and let me hug him like an octopus, and he laughed at me like a little kid.I sat down properly and watched TV with him. I pointed to the TV and kept looking for topics to chat with him.After chatting for a long time, he picked up the camera and flipped through the photos. I leaned over and saw a distorted face on the screen.

In the camera, my brother is frowning, his mouth is open, and he seems to be talking, his face is too close to the camera, and the photo is out of focus and deformed, full of anxiety.I raised my head and looked at him suspiciously, and his expression turned out to be the same as in the photo. He said, "Lin An, don't scare me. You didn't turn on the TV at all, why do you keep asking me to watch it... How did you start from the black TV?" What do you see on the screen?"

I silently moved back and asked tentatively, "Zhang Ran?"

He replied: "Well..."

I suddenly realized that my wrist was being held by someone. Looking back, it was Zheng Yi who said to Zhang Ran: "Maybe he heard that this thing was left to him by his brother. His head is confused. It's okay."

"Yeah, he's confused." That was my dad's voice.

I asked: "Camera, my brother left it for me? Hasn't my brother been away for many days?"

My dad said: "Didn't I say it again? He bought it in installments. This month's bill was not paid. The bank detected that the assets in his account had been transferred to you, so it sent a reminder. Come here. I handed over the money and looked around for the camera, which I found in a metal box under my desk."

That aluminum box is my data repository.In order to deal with sudden crossing situations, everyone will store their identity certificates, asset disposal intentions and a series of materials in a specific and confidential place, and then share them with their immediate family members.Then when one of them travels through time, the immediate family members can use these things to dispose of the assets of the person being traversed.

"Why did you put all those materials in such a simple box? Put it in a safe, you know?" My dad said sternly, "I thought you two brothers' materials were put together, why? They didn't even say hello to me..."

"Okay." I nodded in agreement.After sitting for a while, I got up and went to the study alone with the camera, and squatted down on the chair.

I don't want anything anymore, those bright futures I dreamed of are nothing, and if he doesn't come back, nothing means anything.