whale killer

Chapter 17 The Drowning Bird

Halfway through the first month, the holidays are about to run out, and the weather is showing signs of warming up, but it's not obvious. The average daily climb is half a degree, and the climb is also staggering.The wind is still strong, and the head is covered with face. If you walk outside, you can be stunned to this side, and you can't hold your nose.

Xiang Qifei was cheeky and stayed at Chi Yan's house until school started soon.As soon as Chi Yan was in a hurry, he couldn't get rid of him with a few words, so he could do whatever he liked, as long as he didn't turn the world upside down.And his mother who is far away in Qinhuangdao calls every now and then to ask about the progress, how is it?Can it work?What do you mean girl?After asking, I hurt him a few words by the way.Xiang Qifei continues to fool, there are dramas and dramas, so don't fuck/my heart.

Everything else was calm for the time being, and he even suspected that Chi Yan's concern about Qiu Yiming might just be due to his oversensitivity.During the period, the two contacted several real estate agencies. Qinzheng School was close to the front door, next to the school district, and the land price was high. It was not easy to find a suitable two-bedroom and one living room, usually starting at [-], and the rent could not be negotiated.As Xiang Qifei thought, Chi Yan really didn't have that much cash in his hand. He asked for help or shared rent, but the other party categorically rejected it, and there was no need to discuss it.On the other hand, Chi Yan asked for some urgent work from somewhere. As soon as his arm scabbed, he hurriedly took off the bandage, and ran to rehearsal with the piano on his back, as a temporary outsider for a band's small-scale tour in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei after the next year. Musicians, no one is seen all day long.Even if we met at home, that person would practice in his room whenever he had free time.Xiang Qifei thinks he is living together, but in reality he is a widow. Most of the time, he can only lie on Qin Zheng's desk alone, reading and writing case studies.

Xiang Qifei guessed that Chi Yan might still care about those three words of "disgusting", even if he didn't show it, but he could feel it a little bit, the hole he dug in the wall with all his efforts, and the other party started to go back quietly. Fill it with soil.Calculated from the day after Qin Zheng went back.He thought he was trying to build a bridge between the two, but now it seems that Qin Zheng's every move often affects his relationship with Chi Yan.

Chi Yan didn't allow him to watch the next performance, let alone tell him the time and place.But during this time period, there are only a few bands that are moving, so you can match them with a little care.In Beijing, Xiang Qifei bought tickets secretly. There were more people than expected. The venue was full of enthusiastic young girls. Looking at the overhead screens, they wanted to lift their mobile phones to the sky.The band sang tired and crooked love songs, and Xiang Qifei was standing in the back row. Chi Yan was wearing a baseball cap and couldn't see his face clearly. No one introduced him, and no one in the audience could recognize him.He huddled himself in the shadows, standing further back than Bess.Although Chi Yan himself seemed to be only thinking about getting money for his work and didn't want to stand out, Xiang Qifei still felt uncomfortable.

In just a few years, new bands emerged one after another, and several live houses were opened.Times have changed, people have changed, and things may not be the same as they used to be.What remains the same is that most of the bands that lose money are still losing money, and those that are short-lived are forgotten as soon as they are said to be forgotten.A steady stream of people rushed into this circle, girls with heavy makeup, boys with unkempt hair, the most valuable thing in their bodies is the piano on the back of the drumsticks in their hands, at best, a voice that is not particularly good, their hearts are higher than the sky, and they feel I deserve a small piece of the universe here.

As for Chi Yan, he obviously had such a universe.

After watching half of it, he left the scene and walked two kilometers to Qifei before stopping the car to go home.After wandering on the road for a long time, the wind directly scratched his throat, and he coughed and coughed when he came back, and spread it on the sofa. The thermometer he bought for Qin Zheng came in handy, and he even had a low-grade fever.Wanting to go out to buy medicine, but too lazy to move, he could only send a text message to ask Chi Yan to bring some back after he was busy.

After taking a nap, he was gently patted awake, Xiang Qifei opened his eyes, covered in sweat.Chi Yan squatted in front of him, holding his neck with one hand, holding a water glass with the other hand, stuffed two capsules in his mouth, and sent them down with warm water.Only the dimmest light was turned on, and he was drowsy, and the person in front of him fell into sight, a fluffy silhouette.After Xiang Qifei regained his energy for a while, the medicine took effect and made him feel drowsy, so he wanted to lie down on him, saying he was cold.Chi Yan didn't care about the patient, let him sleep on his pillow, pulled a thin quilt to cover him up to his chin, and looked around the room full of new gadgets, microwave ovens, coasters, breakfast machines, toast, and two boxes of yogurt.Chi Yan patted his forehead and said don't add any more things, do you hear me, and I will move after a while.Ignoring Xiang Qifei, I thought to myself, according to your tricky way of saving, when will you be able to save one, pay three, and intermediary fees?

Anyway, I squeezed into his arms again, my nose was blocked, and I took a few hard breaths, and I could smell a trace of alcohol.

"Have you been drinking?" Xiang Qifei said, glancing at the wall clock, it was not yet twelve o'clock.

"Drink a little."

I didn't come back until early in the morning. Obviously, I had postponed the band dinner after the end, so why did I still drink?Possibly a three-cup penalty for coming back early.Xiang Qifei's happy brain fills in, making an inch of it, and grabs Chi Yan's hand on his forehead to hold it.

"Don't pull." Chi Yan said, feeling uncomfortable being pulled by him, and wanted to pull back.

Xiang Qifei coughed hard, arched his spine, coughed until his heart, liver, spleen and lungs would vomit from his throat, pushed his nose to his face: "Help me, cough, cough, help me to breathe!"

"Are you a little rogue," Chi Yan said, "How can you help me if you grab me?"

After all, he still used the other hand to slap Xiang Qifei awkwardly on the back. Xiang Qifei felt comfortable being patted, and pressed Chi Yan's palm against his chest, "I'm jumping so fast here."

Chi Yan pulled out his hand to poke his head, "Go to the hospital?"

"Don't deliberately pretend that you don't understand," Xiang Qifei curled his lips, afraid that Chi Yan really didn't understand, "It's not that I have a heart arrhythmia because of fever, it's, it means that I like you."

Chi Yan propped his elbows on the soft cushion and looked at Qi Fei for a while, leaning his head, as if looking at himself in the past: "...then it's too easy for you to fall in love with someone."

Xiang Qifei yawned and closed his eyes, since he was stamped a rogue, he would be a rogue to the end.He hugged Chi Yan's arm back again: "I'm too sleepy, if you want to reject me, wait for me to wake up first."

Waking up in Qin Zheng's room the next day, the low-grade fever subsided, and the cough was still there.Get up to boil water, throw the milk bag into the hot water to soak, and swallow two slices of dry bread with cherry sauce.There was no one in the house but him.In the afternoon, I originally contacted the subletter and went to Dongjiaomin Lane to look at the house. It is more than 50 square meters and the monthly rent is [-]. Heating is included but water and electricity are not included. The contract has seven months left.It's much smaller than here, and I don't know if Chi Yan's equipment can fit.Fortunately, it is next to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, so it is absolutely safe.

I wanted to ask him to join me, but now Chi Yanren ran away.Living together these days, Xiang Qifei is getting used to it quickly. Chi Yan has lived by himself for a long time, and he has never had the consciousness to report his itinerary.

After swallowing the bread, I filled another half bag of yogurt. I called Chi Yan, but he didn’t answer. I sent a text message asking him where he was going. He didn’t return until noon. The text box read: In Xiamen, I will return in a few days. I left a spare on the table for you. key.

I have it myself.Xiang Qifei touched his inner pocket, but still took the one in the tray.Coughing again, I thought to myself, why are we two thousand kilometers away in a blink of an eye?There are two possibilities, either to avoid him, or what happened yesterday, I don't want to accept it, and I don't want to refuse it.With a character of non-compliance, I always tend to believe the latter, and after a few more conversations, I discovered that there is a third possibility, which is to make money.

To help someone record an album, let’s talk less for two weeks.Xiang Qifei was wronged, and took two more pills from the table to drink: "I will start school when you come back."

Chi Yan replied to him: "Study hard."

I can only ask Qian Huilai to inspect the house. I am afraid that my voice will not be useful. At least Qian Huilai has been learning to fight for three years, so maybe I can even bargain.

Changing clothes and going out, yesterday's strong wind not only made him sick, but also cleared the sky. Cloud silk was spread on a layer, moving slowly, and the sun was just right.He lowered his head, and there was a bird lying in front of the door, with a gray back and a white belly, the fluff on its chest was knotted, and its claws were raised weirdly.

It was a dead magpie.

Crouching down to look, the eyelids are gray, the feathers are stained with water, and rubbed into mud on the ground, as if drowned.Xiang Qifei was shocked, why did the drowned appear here?He took a picture and planned to send it to Chi Yan to ask if Qiu Yiming was here to play tricks.After thinking about it or giving up, I carried the dead bird on a piece of paper and buried it in the nearby land.Maybe it's a wimpy child from a nearby family, and if Chi Yan sends it to Chi Yan, he will be paranoid, so what if he drives him away when the time comes?Although he couldn't drive him away, it didn't mean that Xiang Qifei liked being pushed out again and again.

Burying the bird wasted time and arrived at Wangfujing subway station 10 minutes later than agreed.During the past few years, Qian Hui negotiated with her family, and in the end each made a concession. She would definitely not study for a double degree, but she also put aside her internship in the law firm and concentrated on preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination next year.No matter how I heard it, I felt that Qian Huilai was at a disadvantage.He actually didn't want to take the exam, and planned to paddle through.Two days ago, I also made a new girlfriend. I met at a reading club. During the Chinese New Year, I was ambiguous. I just confirmed my relationship recently, and I am in a passionate relationship.Although Qian Huilai doesn't have many friends, she has a lot of ex-girlfriends.He was already handsome, and every day he combed his hair so that it was fluffy and neat, his coat was clean and neat, and he hung a well-mannered cashmere scarf.Every time Qian Huilai fell in love with Xiang Qifei, she would never stop talking about it. Since she was a child, she knew how to chase people without a teacher.Or maybe no literary woman can resist being praised with the most appropriate verses when the atmosphere is just right.

One kilometer away from the destination, there were people waiting there, and Xiang Qifei didn't want to hear Qian Huilai's full of romance, so he retorted: "What you said doesn't apply to Chi Yan."

"You are a fictitious target," Qian Huilai said while texting with the target with one hand: "No tricks will work."

The two came out of East Chang'an Avenue one after the other, walked south along Taijichang Street, and passed many former embassies along the way to Dongjiaomin Lane.The house is neither foreign nor modern, but the lanterns are neatly hung, and there are red curtains, so that no German, Italian, or French embassies will escape.

Qian Huilai insisted on turning into the church on the north side of the intersection to take a photo, and Xiang Qifei took him out: "How many years have you been here? Do you have to take a photo today?"

The community is to the west of the intersection, and the aunt who plans to sublet is waiting at the gate of the courtyard.Then go upstairs, open the door and enter the house. The house is a long and thin one, with two bedrooms on the left and right. The living room has no windows, but the master bedroom has excellent lighting and two large windows. The house is on the third floor, and you can just see a few bare flowers in the courtyard. Small pomegranate tree.

Xiang Qifei likes it, Chi Yan always suffers from insomnia, and often seems to live at night, the place where he lives now is a warehouse renovation, only a small window is opened in Qinzheng's room, and Chi Yan doesn't go to that room very often.Even when he was a temporary musician, he chose to stand in the shadow.But Chi Yan, in Xiang Qifei's impression, should be brilliant, he should be independent, stand on stage, do what he wants to do, say what he wants to say, and sing what he wants to sing.

Whether it is the colorful lights on the small stage or the mottled sun shining through the canopy, it should leave a clear outline behind and not blend in with other shadows.Even if the room is really torrential, it should be like the day I first met him, the rainstorm coexisted with the sun.

Even if that small piece of the universe is gone, he should have a beam of light that belongs to him.

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