winter past

Lin Midong fell asleep for a while, and when he woke up, the people next to him were sleeping.He stroked his hair and called softly: "Xiaozhi?"

She was so small that she was wrapped in a quilt, curled up in a corner of the big bed, and didn't move.He slept soundly.Lin Midong moved closer and touched the corner of his torn, red and swollen mouth, so small that he still didn't wake up.Lin Midong tiptoed off the bed, picked up a pair of black trousers on the floor, put them on, and walked around to the edge of the bed on the other side.He took out two band-aids from his trousers pocket, sat cross-legged on the ground, brushed his hair as small as his forehead, and looked at him.There was an obvious scratch on Xiao Zhi's brow bone, Lin Midong carefully pasted a band-aid on the wound, and then he put another band-aid on the corner of Xiao Zhi's broken mouth.

Xiaozhi's Adam's apple slid up and down, and a vague syllable came out of his mouth. With his eyes still closed, his lips squirmed, and he asked, "What time is it?"

Lin Midong looked at his watch and said, "It's still early."

"I'm leaving." Xiao Zhi said.

Lin Midong said: "You are late and you left early."

Xiaozhi laughed, and then gasped.Lin Midong kissed his eyelids, rolled on the bed as small as a "big" shape, turned his back to the ceiling, and said lazily, "Why, can't you?"

Lin Midong looked at his left hand: "Your nail is broken."

Xiao Zhi muttered: "I have to go..."

Lin Midong said, "You can't be a security guard, are you? Is it time to be on duty?"

He was so small that he laughed loudly: "Almost." He gasped again, straightened up like a carp, sat up from the bed, his eyes widened, he patted his cheeks twice, and reached for the cigarettes and lighter on the bedside table.Xiao Zhi's face rubbed against Lin Midong's hair, he hugged his hair and sniffed it vigorously, lit a cigarette with his arms around his neck, and said, "What about you? What are you doing?"

Lin Mindong let him hold her and said, "I am a forensic doctor."

Xiao Zhi laughed again, and laughed loudly, Lin Midong raised his head from his wrist, and saw Xiao Zhi holding a cigarette in his mouth and touching the bandage on the corner of his mouth, smiling, but frowning tightly, looking like Somewhat funny.It was too dark in the room, he couldn't see his eyes clearly, he only saw bits and pieces of light in his eyes.

Lin Midong said, "Could you change to a room with a window next time?"

Xiao Zhi patted the wall behind the bed: "You don't like Santorini?"

Lin Midong glanced at the wallpaper of the buildings with blue roofs and white walls that occupied the entire wall, and asked, "Do you like it?"

"Greek?"

"Aegean Sea?"

"I haven't been there." Xiao Zhi shrugged, sitting on the bed and smoking.He took another breath and said, "You smell a little like formalin."

"Then do you want to go?" Lin Midong asked, turned his face and sniffed his arm: "Really?" He smiled: "I bathe many times a day, you can still smell it? "

Xiao Zhi asked him: "Are you still listening to love songs duet?"

Lin Midong scratched the bridge of his nose, waved his hands, very helpless: "She misplaced it."

He said: "I want to order Zhou Xuan's "Flowers and Full Moon"."

"The "Angel on the Road"?"

"That's right, there is also "Singer Girl at the End of the World"."

Looking at him with raised eyebrows: "So old-fashioned?"

"I heard it in a movie." Lin Midong sat on the bed and took out a bunch of keys from his pants pocket.There is a nail clipper hanging on the key.He held Xiao Zhi's left hand, crossed his legs, and put his left hand on his knee.

Xiao Zhi asked: "What movie?"

"Can not remember."

"How did you sing?"

Lin Midong said, "I'm not very good at singing."

Xiaozhi laughed dryly twice, and said, "Okay, I'll finish laughing first, and I promise I won't laugh again when you sing."

Lin Midong cut his nails, and he trimmed his missing index finger nails very evenly.As small as a pair of hands with thin palms, slightly rough to the touch, long fingers, and inconspicuous joints.Lin Midong hummed softly.

"I don't remember the lyrics." Lin Midong said.

He continued humming softly.

Xiao Zhi suddenly asked him: "Do you want to go to the movies together next time?"

Lin Midong raised his eyes to look at him, and avoided his gaze, saying, "Forget it."

"The movie theater doesn't seem to be open so late." Lin Midong said, "An earlier time, are you free?"

As small as pulling out his hand, he got out of bed, stepped on the carpet, and stepped into a triangular yellow light falling on the ground."I'll take a shower," he said.

Behind one leg of the triangle is a room with the door ajar.It's a bathroom.It was as small as walking in, and soon, there was the sound of rushing water inside.

Lin Midong put the nails he had cut earlier into his hands and threw them into the trash can.He looked at the cake gift box on a desk and asked loudly, "Do you want to eat?"

Xiaozhi didn't answer, so he also entered the bathroom, put down the toilet lid, sat on the toilet and looked at Xiaozhi who was showering in the glass shower room, and asked again: "Do you want to eat the cake you asked me to bring?"

As small as washing her hair with her eyes closed, she asked, "What time is it?"

"Or are you a policeman, rushing to be on duty?"

As small as laughing silently, the water vapor was dense, blurring the glass and blurring his appearance.Moisture floated out of the shower room and slowly climbed onto the half-length mirror behind the sink.Lin Midong was facing the mirror, and he found that his appearance was gradually blurred.He seems to be an abstract painting composed of two color blocks, one light and one dark.

He looked at the color blocks and said, "The kind of cream you mentioned is very hard, it's hard to buy now."

Xiaozhi said, "It smells like childhood."

The sound of the water suddenly stopped, and Lin Midong heard his heart beating loudly, he said, "I don't know why, it's very easy to be with you."

He touched his fingers, and then looked at Xiaozhi. Through a layer of glass and a layer of water vapor, he also seemed to be composed of color blocks, all of which were indistinguishable, but very bright color blocks.

Lin Midong let out a long sigh of relief: "Some things that make me very nervous, I don't think it's a big deal."

"Oh, you like me." Xiaozhi opened the glass door and walked out of the shower.He has short hair, a high nose bridge, and soft earlobes covered with drops of water.The bandage got wet and became very dark in color.He was covered in drops of water.His eyes and hair appear darker.He had a beige scar across his chest and a rough stitch mark on his left arm.His skin is very white.He changed from a few color blocks to many sharp lines.

"No, you're not a policeman. The policeman runs outside every day. The sun must have been burned to black charcoal by now." Lin Midong guessed, "Are you a nightclub security guard?"

"Is it okay if I don't get tanned?" Xiaozhi took a towel to wipe his hair and body, wrapped his lower body, walked out barefoot, and said, "I take a milk bath every day."

"Wear slippers." Lin Midong said.

"No." Xiao Zhi said.He took the cake gift box on the table, sat down on the bed, turned on the TV, opened the cake box, grabbed the cake with his bare hands, and opened his mouth to bite.

Lin Midong was still sitting in the bathroom, leaning over to look at him, overjoyed: "Are you a primitive?"

Xiaozhi opened his mouth full of cream cake to him, looked around, found a remote control, licked his fingers, turned up the volume, sat in front of the TV and continued to eat cake.

There was an advertisement on TV, and he watched it attentively.

"I'll bring you butterfly cakes next time." Lin Midong said.

"No, I want to eat egg tarts, especially sweet ones."

"Kentucky Fried Chicken?"

"The pie crust kind."

"Ah, the Hong Kong style."

There was still an advertisement on the TV. There was an advertisement for laundry soap. The whole family was happy and happy, laughing and talking, so small that they were so fascinated by the TV. The fluorescent lights from the TV were all on his body. From time to time, the toes of the foot rub against the instep of the left foot.

Lin Midong came out, wiped his mouth with his hand, raised his face to look at him, grabbed his hand, and sucked the cream on his finger.Lin Midong said, "Oh, you like me."

As small as rolling his eyes, he threw away the cake box, stood up, knelt on the bed with one foot, held Lin Midong's face in his arms, kissed him on the forehead, and rubbed his chest again. After a few strokes, he wiped all the cream on his mouth and hands.

"It's so dirty." Lin Midong said.

He patted his butt, untied the bath towel, picked up the light-colored jeans, short-sleeved T-shirt, and white socks on the floor, put them on one by one, found a pair of sneakers under the desk, and sat on the floor to wear them.Lin Midong sat on the bed and watched TV.He asked him, "Are you leaving?"

"Don't order such a corny song next time."

"I bought movie tickets to tell you."

"casual."

"Look at anything casually?"

"Whatever." Xiaozhi tied his shoelaces, got up and walked towards a closed door.

Lin Midong yawned, looked at Xiao Zhi's back, and said, "Why don't I go first next time?"

Xiaozhi looked back at him, smiled and made a "please" gesture.Lin Midong also laughed, picked up the bath towel that was thrown on the bed, wiped the cream on his body and face, lay down, watched TV, and fell asleep.

He vaguely remembered that "A Chinese Ghost Story" was broadcast on TV later, and he vaguely heard someone reciting poems.The chanting seems to be: "Ten miles of Pinghu is full of frost, and every inch of blue silk is worrying about the new year..."

It seems tender and sweet, and it seems eerie.

Lin Midong was very hungry when he woke up again, took a shower, got dressed, and went downstairs.The receptionist on the first floor was sleeping on the counter, so he went straight out, through an iron gate, and walked towards the only street lamp standing on the small road under his feet.A convenience supermarket next to the street lamp was still lit.

When passing by an alley, Lin Midong heard someone talking, he looked in from the intersection, it was a very narrow alley, the night was dark, it was hung high, the light box of "Aegean Sea Hotel" was in the damp A gleam of light casts down the alleyway.A young woman with long hair was circling and prowling in the light.Her arms were covered with scratches, and even the skin was torn and bleeding.Her calf was speckled with mud.

Lin Midong hid in the dark and watched her.She seemed to be waiting for someone, sometimes looking at the entrance of the alley, and sometimes looking in the direction of the Aegean Sea Hotel.The woman was still very nervous, clutching the phone in one hand, scratching her hair with the other hand from time to time, scratching her arm a few times, muttering: "Why don't you come, why don't you come..."

Her hair was disheveled, matted into locks, it seemed, from greasyness, or perhaps from sweat.

The air pressure was low and stuffy, and it could rain at any moment.

After muttering to herself for a while, the woman slapped her stomach twice and began to gnaw her fingernails.

Lin Midong found a stone on the ground, and when the long-haired woman turned around again, he stooped and turned into the alley with light steps.The woman's back was still facing him, Lin Midong quickly walked behind the woman, raised his arm, aimed the stone in his hand at the back of her head and smashed it down.The woman fainted.

He hugged the woman, put one arm around her waist, and walked out of the alley with his arms around her.