early morning twilight

Si Ye had the deepest sleep since coming to Xinjiang.

When Shen woke up in the morning, looking at the quilts that had been folded and put away, he thought that what happened last night was just a dream.

He stretched out his hand in a daze, and touched the place where the mattress should have been laid.

It is the temperature of the stone kang, not the body temperature.

So is it really a dream?

He pursed his slightly chapped lips, and gently rubbed his fingertips on his lower lip.

The Pamirs are very dry, and if you don't drink water for a long time, your lips will easily lose their softness.

Jin Chongshan's lips are not as soft as his.

Last night...wasn't a dream.

Because the touch it leaves on the lips doesn't lie.

He did kiss Jin Chongshan, and Jin Chongshan responded to his kiss.

"Snapped--"

Si Ye slapped his forehead, and slowly covered his eyes.

How could a cup of Wusu get him on top, so he sued Bai foolishly?

He wasn't ready at all, and he would talk when he caught someone. What's the difference between this and a merciless scumbag?

No wonder Jin Chongshan felt that he was superficial.

He himself is superficial.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and the sunlight poured in together with the tall figure.

Si Ye was cowardly, and subconsciously wanted to lie back and pretend to be asleep, but it was too late.

"Good morning."

Jin Chongshan held a copper pot containing salty milk tea in one hand, and a plate of naan in the other, and there were two bowls on the plate.

Walking to the table, he laid out the breakfast one by one as if nothing had happened.

Si Ye's heart almost jumped out of his chest, seeing that Jin Zhongshan was calm and breezy, he quickly pretended that nothing happened last night.

"Brother Jin, good morning."

Jin Chongshan raised his head and looked at him with deep meaning.

"...Uh, what?"

"No, just a little curious."

Si Ye was surprised, would Jin Zhongshan be curious too?

After yesterday's nonsense, he is now very cautious, kneeling on the quilt obediently, with his hands still on his knees.

Carefully ask: "Curiosity about what?"

Jin Chongshan's gaze contained a slight smile, "I called you brother yesterday, but when I woke up, I became brother Jin again."

Si Ye straightened his back.

How does this make him answer?

"Go wash up." Jin Zhongshan didn't hold on to it, and said relaxedly: "I got up late today, and I only have a traditional Tajik breakfast, so let's make up for it."

"It's okay, I like salty milk tea!" Si Ye quickly put on his shoes, and ran straight to the bathroom without looking at Jin Chongshan.

If he wasn't in such a hurry at this time, he could probably see Jin Chongshan's slightly raised eyebrows.

It took Si Ye a very long time to wash up this time.

Standing by the sink in the yard and turning on the front-facing camera, one moment picks haircuts, another moment checks whether the teeth are white enough, and whether there is unwashed gum in the corners of the eyes.

It was so long that the lambs next to him gathered around a few and bleated at him.

"Come on, take a picture with my brother."

He squatted down, said "yeah" with his back to the camera, and held his phone far away with the other.

Just as I was about to shoot, I saw a pair of long legs appearing in the camera.

Jin Chongshan squatted behind the sheep, his whole face was in the mirror, and his right hand was facing the camera with a "yeah".

The tips of Si Ye's ears turned red almost immediately, and he clicked several pictures, only one was barely clear.

Jin Chongshan stood up, "The milk tea is getting cold."

"Here we come!" Si Ye followed into the room, picked up the bowl and sighed.

Then he looked at the bowl suspiciously, and then at Jin Chongshan.

"Brother, did you forget to add salt?"

When he first arrived in Ta County, he was not used to it. The milk tea here was actually salted.

But if you drink it every day, you will become addicted.

The milk is freshly squeezed, and the tea is also freshly brewed. The only thing added is salt, which is much healthier than the tens of dollars a cup of mixed milk tea he drank before.

"Yeah." Jin Zhongshan looked over calmly, "Today I added cream."

Si Ye should thank Jin Zhongshan for not saying this while he was drinking.

Otherwise he would have to spray it straight out.

"Milk, milk, cream!"

Jin Chongshan had already started to eat the naan, as calm as if he didn't know what milk tea with cream meant.

Si Ye felt that his surprised appearance was really stupid, so he quickly suppressed his emotions, took a naan, and broke it apart bit by bit.

But today even the naan was against him, it was too hard to break open.

In normal times, he would have long been brother Jin and brother Jin short, and asked Jin Chongshan to help.

Now I am embarrassed.

Jin Chongshan glanced over, without asking, put the broken ones in his bowl, and took the broken ones that were bumpy.

This is already the fourth day they have come to Ta County, plus the day of applying for the permit, five days have passed the seven-day limit.

We will return to Kashgar the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Si Ye thought about going back to apply for a longer border defense permit, but also felt that it would be troublesome for Jin Chongshan to run back and forth.

"Brother, I have a discussion with you." After breakfast, Si Ye said in a business tone when he was wandering around Tal Township without any destination.

Jin Chongshan listened casually, walked under an apricot tree, and waved to him.

A wooden swing is hung under the thick branches, and the rope is hemp rope as thick as an adult's two fingers, which looks simple and reliable.

The last time Si Ye played on a swing was when he was a child, and he was a little awkward when he sat on it.

He is a big man of 1.8 meters, how can he still play with such little girls?

But Jin Chongshan pushed him aside, the wind was filled with the sweet fragrance of ripe apricots, he lifted his legs up, and soon got used to the fact that a 1.8-meter man could swing on a swing.

"What are you discussing?" Jin Chongshan asked.

"My defense certificate expires the day after tomorrow, but I still want to stay in Ta County for a while, and I want to borrow your Buick to drive it. I will come back after I do it."

"No loan."

"..."

Jin Chongshan increased his strength, and the swing became higher and higher.

At first, Si Ye just held two hemp ropes in vain, but now his hands are tightly grasped, for fear of being thrown out.

The wind blows past my ears, and the scenery in front of me changes like a kaleidoscope among blue sky, snow-capped mountains, apricots and brown land.

"Brother, brother!" As soon as he opened his mouth, he was filled with apricot-sweet wind.

Although it was unsuccessful to borrow a car, Si Ye was blindly excited by the excitement of being thrown high and retreating rapidly.

He kept laughing and shouting, "Brother! Let me down! I'm going to fly out! Ah! Brother—"

When he fell again, a pair of strong hands hugged his waist.

His heart seemed to be still beating wildly in the air, and his soul was also in the air, looking down at himself who was hugged by Jin Zhongshan.

He took a quick breath and turned his head in Jin Chongshan's arms, "Brother?"

"I'll go back to Kashgar with you."

"Send me?"

"Ah."

Si Ye was happy, but also felt that he had found extra work for Jin Chongshan, "Actually, I can..."

"The car is not rented to you."

"what?"

Jin Chongshan took a ladder, put a basket on his arm, and climbed to the tree to pick apricots.

"The fee that Xiao Yang transferred to me is only for six days. It starts from the day of departure and ends tomorrow. If you want to drive back, renting a car is another price."

Si Ye was dumbfounded halfway through hearing it, and then realized that Jin Chongshan was teasing him.

"What's the other price?"

"I don't want to rent it anymore. But I can pick it up for free."

Si Ye ran to the bottom of the ladder and looked at Jin Chongshan above.

The tree shadows swayed brightly on their faces.

"Xiao Yang said that you are very casual with guests. It turns out that renting a car is also very capricious. If you don't rent a car, you don't rent it."

Pick up and drop off.

Jin Chongshan picked a big apricot and threw it down.

Si Ye caught it.

"You don't need to wash it, just peel off the skin and eat it."

"Oh."

Si Ye did as he did, it was very sweet, and his hands were sticky with sugar water.

One of the two is under the tree, the other is on the tree, chatting with each other.

Jin Chongshan would drop one of the best ones from time to time, and Siye would just eat it.

He wanted to ask Jin Chongshan a lot of questions, but his mouth was short and his chest was blocked by sweetness, so he couldn't ask anything.

It didn't take long for Jin Chongshan to fill a basket, and took Si Ye to the stream to wash.

The stream is not deep, so put the basket on the pebbles, and the water will automatically flow through the golden apricots, coming from the snow-capped mountains, and gurgling away into the distance.

Si Ye squatted by the stream, his blond hair was as dazzling as the sparkle of the stream.

"Brother, didn't you say you don't need to wash it?"

Jin Chongshan was not guilty, "I lied to you."

Si Ye couldn't hold back, and threw a handful of water towards Jin Chongshan, Jin Chongshan was even more ruthless, standing in the stream by himself, and simply kicked Si Ye.

In the matter of playing with water, the power of the feet is much greater than that of the hands.

Si Ye went back to the village wet and went to play on the swing again, but the wind dried him up in a short time.

Jin Zhongshan brought the freshly squeezed apricot water, which was refreshing and sweet without adding anything but ice cubes.

Si Ye drank two cups one after another, staring at the snow-capped mountains in a daze.

After graduation, he is full of work every day. Although he is doing what he likes, he still feels anxious and lost occasionally.

In just a few days in Ta County, the anxiety was healed and the loss was filled.

He also talked about a love affair.

He thought very foolishly, instead of going back to Chengdu, he would just spend his whole life herding sheep on the Pamirs.

But soon, he shook his head.

Jin Chongshan's return to Kashgar was not just to send Si Ye off, Kashgar also had his business, and fellow villagers who needed to be taken care of from time to time.

He runs several times a month on the Karakoram Highway between Kashgar and Taxian County.

If Si Ye followed Xiao Yang's car, he would have to cross the steep Tasha Ancient Road from Ta'er Township to Shache on the last day, and then return to Kashgar from Shache.

That way you don't have to go back.

But he doesn't care if he stays with Jin Chongshan.

Jin Chongshan will leave as he arranges.

"Do you still want to go back to Ta County?" Jin Chongshan asked.

"Can I still eat yak hotpot?"

Jin Chongshan laughed, "Want to drink bone marrow again?"

"hey-hey."

Jin Chongshan turned at the checkpoint in Taer Township and headed towards Ta County.

There were several baskets of apricots in the back of their car.

Si Ye suddenly said: "But we came to Waqia Township by motorcycle, do we have to change the car to a motorcycle now? But how can Xingzi be brought back to Gulibayi and the others?"

Jin Chongshan said: "On the head."

Si Ye imagined the scene for a while, and was about to take it seriously, only to find that there was an indistinct smile on Jin Chongshan's lips.

He was cheated again!

"If you don't want to push it, let's drive this car back." Jin Chongshan still didn't admit that he lied just now.

No matter how stupid Si Ye was, he would have guessed that this car, like the courtyard in Waqia Township, belonged to Jin Chongshan.

Brother Jin, he has a car and a house in any corner of the Pamirs.

But Jin Chongshan's demeanor is as alien as those cars and houses, as if he is only staying temporarily, without much deep affection, and he can leave at any time.

Is this the natural character of nomadic herdsmen?

Wandering, romantic wandering, everywhere is home, but everywhere is not home.

Si Ye thought, in this case, can I take him away?Even if it's just for a little while.