The wind on the hillside among the villages is mixed with a strong coolness and wanders in the night.

Lin Ji lay beside a pile of firewood in a certain family's house, looking up at the soft and boundless night.Although the whole body is dark, there are still a few lone stars shining alone above the head.

There was the sound of footsteps stepping on fallen leaves, rustling, very obvious on the quiet hillside. When Lin Ji turned his head, he saw a vague shadow slowly approaching from behind.

"Why did you come out?"

"It's too hot by the oven."

The low-temperature weather in November made this answer sound unreliable, but Lin Ji didn't dwell on it, but leaned back, put his hands behind his back, and took a deep breath of the cold air.

"What are you doing sitting here? There's dust everywhere." Even though Ming Han said so, he bent over and sat beside him.

"Anyway, someone will do my laundry."

"..." As soon as this matter was mentioned, Ming Han still felt a little fever on the back of his neck.

Turning his head to look at the person beside him, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of silver-gray light, which made the already prominent facial features more refined.

"You seem," he recalled what happened just now, and after hesitating for a moment, he still chose to ask, "you are afraid of fire."

Lin Ji paused for a moment, then returned to normal in an instant, and asked with a gentle smile, "Why is this tone, is it strange to be afraid of fire?"

"Well, a little bit." Ming Han nodded, adjusted his angle of view slightly, and put his eyes on the deep and distant night among the stars.

It wasn't the first time he saw Lin Ji like this. Before the summer vacation, when the two of them passed by the school gate bookstore, it happened once, and he saw the fear and anxiety of that person with his own eyes.

Because I don't know why, I always want to learn more, but I am afraid that I will unintentionally uncover the scars that I didn't want to show others like that time.

"I always thought you were fearless, so I was surprised. It turns out that you are also afraid."

Oh, fearless.

Lin Ji raised the corners of his mouth in an unclear mood, and leaned back, pressing the dry grass under his back to make a slight rattling sound.

"How can a living person have no fear and no weakness?"

Looking from the small hillside, the moonlight tonight is cold and dim, not as silvery as the last time the two looked at the moon together.

Such a quiet night seems to have a kind of charm, which can settle all the hustle and bustle and distracting thoughts, and calm down to think about things that you don't want to think of and mention during the day.

After being quiet for a while, Lin Ji spoke in a deep voice, and said a few words that he had been unwilling to face or talk about in detail for a long time: "Do you know about the Linxi arson case?"

When Ming Han heard the sound, his back suddenly trembled.

In today's Internet age, the speed and breadth of information dissemination far exceed people's imagination.

Cases involving human life are often heard even in the ends of the earth, not to mention that Yundao and Linxi originally belonged to the same province.

But what makes Ming Han uneasy is not the case itself, but the relationship between this case and Lin Ji.

Linxi City, fire, mother's inheritance... These combinations of words were brought up at this time, and he could even guess seven or eight out of ten of them.

What Minghan was afraid of was the heart-wrenching and suffocating experience that the star-like boy was about to tell.

"I saw it on the news."

Lin Ji took a deep breath and let it out slowly before speaking.

"Before the case in Linxi, there were still two fuses, one was the high-ranking official's downfall case, and the other was the engineering murder case..."

The young man spoke indifferently about the details that were not reported in the news.

These three cases are intertwined. Due to a long chain of officials' corruption | accepting bribes and other dereliction of duty, there was a problem with an important local project in Linxi and human lives were involved.After that, there was an even more appalling act. The family members of the victimized workers actually set fire to the villa in the early morning to vent their anger, accidentally burning to death the family members of the officials involved.

"In these incidents, the highest-ranking corrupt official sentenced to life was my father, and the family members of the officials killed by arson were my mother."

"At that time, my grandmother happened to be seriously ill, and because she couldn't bear the blow, she also passed away."

Three rings in a row, he completely lost his entire family.

No matter how calm the narrator's tone was, Ming Han could feel the despair and helplessness hidden under the stagnant water.All of these things happened within a month.

How much energy does a person have to withstand these blows at the same time.

When he turned to Lin Ji with a complicated mood, the things in his pupils were boiling hot, but Ming Han didn't notice it himself, and the way he looked at this person could no longer be fierce and cold.

"Then... what about you at that time?" How did you survive?

After being shocked, Ming Han once again looked at the people around him with deep eyes.

Although I know that the opportunity for the stars to fall to me must be very special, but now it seems that it is really too painful, almost like a knife in my heart.

"After months of cyber violence and the eyes of my relatives, I couldn't bear all kinds of pressure from the outside world, so I chose to be a deserter, gave up the college entrance examination and went abroad. And I spent a long time abroad. In time, people live in the same way as ghosts and ghosts.”

Those days were like nightmares.

Hunger strike, drunkenness, I don’t know how many late nights and early mornings were spent in hysteria, and every night I tortured myself until I was exhausted and fell down in a strange and cold bar or on the street.

The consequences of these indulgences are weight loss, increased chills, and stomach problems.

Lin Ji's tone remained unchanged, and he lightly skipped the pain that he would never forget.

In the end, he just said: "After that, I'm back."

"On the night when I finally had the courage to come back, I bought a ticket at random, got off at a random stop, and then met you on Yundao."

"Meet me?" Ming Han was taken aback, and then recalled in his mind that there was indeed a person in a mess who met him one night.

"Well, there is a guy with murderous eyes leaning against the wall and asking me impatiently, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

When Lin Ji spoke, he even imitated Ming Han's eyes a little bit, but unfortunately, his Qingxi-like eyes could never learn the rebelliousness and withdrawnness in those long and narrow black eyes at that time.

"Are you slandering me in disguise?" Ming Han glanced at the impersonation of the people around him who were getting more and more slanted, and immediately stopped.

"How is it possible." Lin Ji couldn't help laughing out loud, completely freed from the negative emotions just now, and added a sentence with a calm smile: "Actually, you have helped me a lot."

Ming Han shook his head, "Those are just trivial things in life, and they cannot be compared with the courage you once had."

Lin Ji disagreed, but he didn't say anything, just smiled with his eyes closed.

In the past, he longed for countless times to be able to speak about the past so calmly.

I even imagined such a scene: maybe it is the time when success and fame add glory to the body; maybe it is the time when the four generations live together with gray hair; maybe it is the time when the world is dying without any worries...

But when this day really came, it was just an ordinary autumn night half a year later, he was talking side by side with the person he liked.

It's so simple.

Lin Ji turned to Ming Han, only carefully looking at the corners of his clear eyes and brows.

However, without you, it would be impossible for me to live so peacefully and carefree in Yundao.

You said that you don't like to accept help from others, but you always help others unconsciously.

You may not have felt the purest kindness, but you are used to conveying the brightest and warmest.

You really didn't help me, but when you were struggling, you gave me what you could, everything, gentleness.

Lin Ji kept looking at the person across from him flustered, even when he wanted to avoid looking away, he chuckled mischievously and leaned back on the haystack.

Although Ming Han's expression didn't stir up any waves, there was an inexplicable panic in his heart in that pure but warm eyes.It wasn't until I heard the familiar laughter that I recovered from it.

"Can you lean on me?" Lin Ji asked suddenly.

"En." Probably because he felt that he really needed some comfort, Ming Han responded readily.

The night was lonely again for a while, Lin Ji turned sideways slightly, and naturally rested his head on the shoulder of the person beside him, just like he did earlier on the bus.

His voice sounded again in the darkness: "Ming Han, in a sense, I was born at the peak."

"But the apex will not be the end. No one can change the existing things, but the future can be chosen by oneself.

"What I want is very clear, start here and go to a wider place."

When Lin Ji fell on Ming Han's shoulder and said these words, he couldn't see the gray-blue light in his eyes, but felt the thrilling trembling from his body.

"Although it is impossible for ordinary people to have no distracting thoughts, I still thought that I should just focus on moving forward, and I don't have so much time to look back."

"Until one day when I saw something clearly, I suddenly wanted to thank you for making me feel that this year was actually not that difficult."

"Me too." Ming Han replied in a deep voice, "It's you who made me feel that I have a goal to pursue."

The autumn wind is cold, but at this moment, it seems that there are other things that make people more energetic.

At the most embarrassing and lonely time, Lin Ji met Ming Han, who was also in a difficult situation, and they blew out a candle together at midnight when their birthdays were handover.

But maybe at that moment, they reignited together.

"Go back?"

As the night grew colder, after the two of them watched the beautiful stars side by side for a while, Lin Ji stood up and stretched his body.

"Well, it's windy." Ming Han also got up and patted the grass clippings on his body, and walked towards the place under the hillside where there were lights, "Go back and eat."

Looking at the swaying figure in front, like a wolf cub, Lin Ji followed behind with his arms folded and eyebrows raised.

The network management is not easy to make fun of, when should this kid know that he can no longer hide.

Sneering and shouting at him: "Hey, slow down, I'm night blind."

The people in front really stopped when they heard the sound, paused for two seconds, looked up at the sky, and suddenly came another question: "Lin Ji, do you want to watch the sunrise on the sea together?"

"Just the two of us?"

"Just the two of us, but if you're cold..."

Lin Ji smiled, and ran forward with long legs to catch up, "I'm not cold at all."

The author has something to say: The paper is short and the love is long while living in the words.

A certain day of a certain year.

Mumu Yuqi wrote two sentences on the sticky note.

I wanted to give it to someone, but in the end I gave it up because I felt awkward, and stuffed it into a thick and seldom-read book.

It is a certain year, a certain month and a certain day.

While cleaning the house, someone accidentally knocked over a bookshelf.

The books were scattered all over the place, and a piece of yellowed paper floated out from nowhere, with words written in a familiar handwriting on it.

I am naturally afraid of the cold,

I don't like the rain and snow that alternate between early spring and winter morning wind and night.

Only when I meet Ming Han,

It is the warmth that I have never changed in the four seasons of the year.

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