Asahi

Zheng Qing's secret base is a hill with a school built on it.

In elementary school, there are no classes on weekends, and the school is quiet.A small elementary school was built at the foot of the mountain. When they walked up, they could see the gray-black hard stone runway and the white-painted walls of the school.

Helianci had never seen this kind of runway before. He stared down the mountainside several times and asked Zheng Qing next to him.

"Isn't this rubber?"

Zheng Qing didn't understand at first, He Lianci pointed it out to him, and he smiled when he saw it: "You mean the elementary school playground? No, it's not so good... It's all gravel that was flattened with a road roller, and stepped on it And small particles."

"No pinching?" He Lianci frowned.

"Don't you have shoes?" Zheng Qing seemed to be used to it: "The stones left on the road are very broken, and it doesn't feel like stepping on them through the soles of the shoes. It's easy to get dust when running."

Seeing that He Lianci was still incomprehensible, he added with a smile: "Really, I went to elementary school here, my junior high school was in the town, and I went to the city for high school."

"This kind of playground is usually good for running, but the physical education teacher let us play by ourselves when the wind blows up the dust. I remember once I was naughty with some boys. I don't remember what I did. The teacher punished us on the track. Doing push-ups... I cried as soon as I pushed my hands up, it was too painful, and I couldn't get up. After thinking about it, the teacher probably didn't intend to let us do it, but to teach us a lesson."

He Lianci listened quietly at the side, what Zheng Qing said was a bit like what he would only read in those kind of country novels.Coupled with the nostalgic smile on his face when he was telling the story, it made people feel relaxed and simple.

It is a past that is worth remembering when you listen to it.

"Isn't that how you went to primary school?" Zheng Qing asked after finishing speaking.

"No, I went to a private elementary school." He Lianci said honestly: "The tuition fee is [-] yuan a year, and the interest classes to be taken are different every semester. Painting, chess, taekwondo...whatever."

"Tsk tsk."

Zheng Qing made a sour voice in coordination, and said with emotion: "Then there must be twelve gates? How much do you remember now?"

He Lianci said calmly: "Taekwondo."

Zheng Qing waited, but before the next sentence, he burst out laughing.

He Lianci showed a bit of helplessness in his laughter, like adding or explaining: "It's useless to learn so much if you don't learn well."

"That's true." Zheng Qing's eyes were still bent, and he said, "Just learn what our little crane likes the most."

He Lianci was silent for some reason in his sight, and said after two seconds: "I don't like fighting very much, it's just useful."

And pretentious.

Zheng Qing nodded at everything he said, and said, "Xiaohe is right."

The school is getting smaller and smaller in sight, and they are getting higher and higher. Zheng Qing's secret base was discovered when he was in elementary school and his companions went to explore the back mountain - there was an abandoned cabin near the top of the mountain.

There are mountains first, and schools later.I don't know what the mountain was used for in the first place, maybe the log cabin was left by a former forest ranger, or maybe it was built by villagers to hunt.In short, the age is too long, and the real owner can no longer be traced back.

The wood used for the wooden house should be very good. After all these years, it is dilapidated but not rotten.There is a dense layer of dust, but once the creaking wooden door is closed, it is still a closed space that can shelter from wind and rain.

At that time, Zheng Qing and his companions were excited for a while because they found the wooden house, but they forgot about it with time.It wasn't until he entered junior high school and was really enlightened psychologically that he picked up this place from his memories.

Zheng Qing took the lead and led the Crane Temple to the open space in front of the wooden house, and opened his arms with his back to the wooden house.

He smiled and said to Helian Temple: "Welcome to my secret base."

The wooden house now looks brand new, the roof and walls have been strengthened, and the inside has been cleaned.The creepers that came around from the tree trunk touched the eaves and densely woven the wall.It's cold now, and some of it is dry, like some sort of characteristic postmodern decor.

Crane Temple looked at the wooden house, and the wooden door was still locked after being repaired.He raised his eyebrows and asked, "You built this?"

"No." Zheng Qing shook his head, turned around and opened the lock, and said, "But all the things you are about to see are the same as me, and I slowly stocked them in."

He hooked the key ring with his fingers and shook it, and pushed open the door of the wooden house: "Please come in."

The Crane Temple was aroused, and he walked in cooperatively, and bowed his head when entering the door.

The wooden house is not big, about the size of Zheng Qing's bedroom.There is no bed inside, a tatami-like thing is spread on the floor, a little higher than the ground, and blankets that look soft and warm are piled on it.

There are also two futons thrown beside them, which should be used for sitting or putting feet on them.There is a table with a round wooden stool, a small barbecue grill under the table, and two cases of beer in the corner of the wooden house.

There are two paintings nailed to the wall, the brushstrokes are very immature.Crane Temple thought it was Xiaobei's handwriting, but Zheng Qing said that it was drawn in his primary school art class, and he still had to pass [-] points.

In addition, there are small felts for decoration. Two rows of storage boxes are nailed under the felts. Helian Temple saw two glass wine glasses and several bags of spices.There was even a box of condoms.

Noticing that the sight of He Lianci became subtle, Zheng Qing took a look and raised his hand to explain: "I didn't bring anyone here to mess with it, I used it myself."

He said, "It's a secret base."

He Lianci wanted to ask why did you bring me here, but the words lingered in his mouth before he bit them down.He looked around for a week, and finally sat down on the tatami mat. When he fell, he bounced up. After careful observation, he found that it was a soft mattress covered with a sheet.

"Ancestor." Zheng Qing yelled, sat down on the futon beside him, raised his hand and patted the long legs supported by Helian Temple: "I don't even dare to toss up in my pants."

He Lianci was taken aback, originally wanted to stand up, but changed his mind after seeing Zheng Qing's expression.Said: "Then I took off my pants?"

Zheng Qing was smiling, and her eyes were relaxed, even happy.He didn't really mind this little thing, or maybe he tolerated the overstepping of Helian Temple.

"Don't." Zheng Qing said, "If you take off your pants, will I be able to take them off?"

He Lianci also laughed and said, "You can take it off if you want, and I will satisfy other ideas too."

Zheng Qing stroked Helian Temple's calf up and down: "Young man, you're magnificent."

He Lianci pretended to be modest: "You are the boss, I should."

The two looked at each other, Zheng Qing bent his eyes and pointed him with his fingers.

It's about a 10-minute walk from Zheng Qing's house. They came out after eating the noodles made by Zheng's mother. It was about four o'clock at that time.Now that I climbed up the mountain and spent a while in the wooden house, the sky outside has already darkened, a few lonely stars have come out, and the time on my phone is about to jump to five o'clock.

Zheng Qing said, "If you're hungry, you can pull out the grill and let's get something."

Before going out, Zheng Qing prepared a big bag of things, mostly snacks, a few eggs and a box of frozen small yellow croakers.

He Lianci nodded and said, "I'm still full."

Everything was fine, Zheng Qing dug out a box of playing cards before the sky completely darkened, and the two of them played the disabled version of Dou Di Zhu for an hour.

There was almost no light in the house without turning on the lights, and the wooden house was not connected to water and electricity. Zheng Qing lit two candles on the table and covered them with lampshades.In addition, he brought a small night light in the shape of a dolphin to lead the Helian Temple out the door.

He Lianci was in charge of taking the two futons, and he was instructed to put the futons in front of the wooden house one by one, and the night light was placed between them.

Sitting in such a position can lean against the wall of the wooden house, Zheng Qing went in and pulled out a case of beer, as well as snacks.

"Xiaohe." Zheng Qing said after sitting down: "Look at the stars, and chat with me. Okay?"

He Lianci smiled and nodded: "Sounds good."

He leaned back and leaned his head against the wall of the wooden house, so that he could just see the sky shrouded in darkness. There is less smog in City Z, and the countryside is cleaner. The night seems to have been wiped by a cloth, and the sky is full of stars, as if someone is holding a diamond and throwing them casually, shining in the sky wantonly.

Helian Temple has actually been to a certain observatory, seen with the naked eye, and with astronomical telescopes.But at that time, it was a little different from now. There was less novelty and more suppleness and calmness like flowing hot spring water.

"Does it look good?" Zheng Qing asked.

Crane Temple nodded.

"Originally, I should introduce something to you." Zheng Qing looked at the sky and said, "What is the seat, what is the Big Dipper, etc., I can't figure it out."

"I figured it out, I can explain it to you." He Lianci answered.

Zheng Qing glanced at him in surprise, jokingly said that he also learned it in an interest class in a private elementary school, and then took the initiative to cut off the conversation and raised his hand.

"Next time, tell me next time...Actually, I haven't finished what I just said."

Zheng Qing turned to face Helian Temple, and curled the corners of his lips: "I can't introduce those, so I will introduce myself to you."

His profile was very warm and moist under the illumination of the night light, and He Lianci's mind flickered for a rare moment, and he had already responded when he came back to his senses.

Zheng Qing seemed very happy to hear that he agreed, and opened a bottle of beer himself.

"This secret base was discovered by me when I was in elementary school, and it really came in handy in junior high school."

He started with this wooden house and introduced his own story: "Because in junior high school I found that I am different from others. Others like to be next to little girls, but I like to be next to little boys."

"At that time, there were not many channels for obtaining knowledge, and there was no computer or smart phone at home. Panicked, I came here every day to escape reality, and I cleaned out the garbage bit by bit... Looking at it now Very good, right?"

"It was only when I was in high school that I realized that I am gay. When I went to college, I saw more of the world and met more people like me. It was my first time going to gay."

"My boyfriend also talked about it. How can I say it all the way, anyway, I have confirmed that I can't treat women."

When He Lianci heard this, Xiao Bei's face appeared in his mind.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Qing said: "You see, the environment here is very good, and the people are very nice. But it's just conservative. I know my parents will never accept it. Before they urged the marriage, I found someone to marry in person. The other party has Girlfriend, bring it for me to see."

"but……"

Zheng Qing suddenly took a deep breath: "Maybe they broke up, or something, she was very depressed during that time. I took care of her for a while, and one day she suddenly told me that either we should live like this, I Tell her not to joke."

Zheng Qing said: "It turned out she wasn't joking."

"Later, maybe I was drunk. And..."

He Lianci watched Zheng Qing's hesitant expression, and guessed that the truth he wanted to say was "she drugged me", and heard that Zheng Qing skipped this section and continued.

"In short, we spent the night in a daze. I had Xiao Bei that time. I couldn't accept it at all at the time. After she found out that she was pregnant, she left and brought Xiao Bei back to me after she was born."

"We tried to be a family of three for several months. I couldn't help it, and she gave up. She broke up."

"I asked for Xiaobei on my own initiative. I didn't really have any feelings for her at first. I just thought that my parents would not force me to remarry if I had this child."

"I'm pretty selfish, right? I'm timid, and I haven't come out to my parents yet." Zheng Qing emptied a can of beer, smiled and raised the empty can to Helian Temple, with slight sadness in his eyes.Road to Helian Temple.

"Xiaohe, I yearn for you. Really, I yearn for your youth, free and easy, and bravery."