Lofty future

I have to say, I'm a person who always has a keen intuition about particular things, and that intuition is usually accurate.

Every April 16st, I will go back to NO.[-] of Guxu Road.

At first I thought I was here to pay homage to Xiang Meifang, because she plunged into the Yangcheng River on this day many years ago and never got up again.But in the past two or three years, I have had other insights.

Maybe I just get used to going home to check it out?Even if that home has long been occupied by one of Xiang Meifang's brothers; or maybe I'm here to reminisce about my youth, after all I've spent it here before.

Business as usual this year.When I drove to the intersection of Guxu Road, I saw the traffic police blocked the road. The roadblock sign said it was "temporarily closed for some reason" and motor vehicles were not allowed to enter.

Guxu Road is a small alley, and there are several similar streets and alleys in it.These streets and alleys and a group of old houses that are nearly a hundred years old together constitute a small historical attraction in this urban area.

The niche is because the local tourism department did not push it, and it seems that there is no official intention to build it.Personally, I am glad that I like this status quo very much. It is nice that it can be quiet and beautiful, and it is only for people who are destined to meet each other.

I do know, however, that there are occasional visits on purpose.

This place is full of taste and maintains the original ecology. Over the past few years, crews often come here, and I have seen it several times.Generally, small production crews just come and go quietly, and the traffic police will be dispatched only when there is a big cost and big production, and put up a sign of "Temporarily Closed for Reason".

No way, I had to walk in.

"Anyone here to film again?" I casually greeted the traffic police on the side of the road, "Is there a big star this time?"

"Yes, this time it's a big star director. I heard that the big star is from Yangcheng!"

The intuition came at this time.A cognition, a thought, it falls into the mind before its track can be discerned.

It told me that the person inside might be Chi Xue.

I have to say, more than any other mood, the hope that this intuition will come true occupies an absolute proportion in my heart.I don't dare to say it to others, but I dare to admit it to myself - I have always wanted to see Chi Xue again.

Strictly speaking, maybe this thought at the moment is not an intuition, but more like my expectation.From the first time I saw Guxu Road being discovered by the crew, I have fantasized about whether Chi Xue will come back here one day to film.

How beautiful it is here, doesn't he miss it?

The more times I think about it, the more I feel that he will come one day.Sometimes I even ask myself if I'm hanging around here just to wait for him.

Based on this kind of psychology and state of mind, it is even more difficult for me to attribute the thought just now to intuition. I met groups of people on the way in and didn't pay much attention, as if I could deny something by doing so.

I went all the way to NO.16, but I didn't really see the people who were shooting.

NO.16 is not much different from other houses nearby. They are all single-family old houses with their own walls, gates, side doors, and yards.The doors are closed tightly, and you can only look outside.

Standing opposite the house, you can see the second floor.More than ten years ago, the window sill of the room where Chi Xue and I lived was open, and there were no flowers growing on it like we did when we were young, only a pair of sneakers were placed to dry.

But the acacia tree in the yard has grown very tall, and the branches can reach the window. If the current owner of the room—should be a little boy who should be called my cousin in name—has an aesthetic sense, he should like it. Those few branches.

In summer, when the trees are in bloom, it must be beautiful to look out of the window.

Oh, by the way, Chi Xue planted that tree for me back then, but unfortunately neither of us waited for it to bloom.That kid is cheap.

Because of the road closure, the whole street has been very quiet.I stood on the side of the road opposite No.16 and smoked two cigarettes. I thought wildly about what I saw for a quarter of an hour. Chi Xue was always in my mind, and it was all about my childhood.

People say that blood is thicker than water, and relatives will always be relatives, so they will miss each other wherever they go.But what kind of relatives are Chi Xue and I?At most, there is a fate under the same roof.

This fate depends entirely on Xiang Meifang's inexplicable kindness.

I was born in the hospital where she worked. Because hepatitis B was detected at birth, I weighed more than four catties, and was immediately abandoned.She didn't want to get married at that time, so she took me home to stop my parents from saying "who will take care of you when you get old".

She picked up Chi Xue from the street, a homeless orphan who stole her wallet.When I was a thief, it was dirty and dark, and I took it home to take a bath and cut my hair. In a blink of an eye, I became a beautiful child who could not be picked out in a radius of ten miles.She said that she couldn't bear to see such a beautiful child wandering around, and the police couldn't find where he came from, so she adopted him.

We just became half-brothers with different fathers and different mothers. Blood is not thicker than water, and we have no reason to be separated and miss each other.

Thinking about these past events in my mind, commemorating Xiang Meifang seemed to become a secondary matter. I couldn't find the tranquility I wanted in the past, so I hurriedly ended this year's ceremony and went back home.

Going out along the original road, this time I saw the filming in a fork in the road.A few student-looking girls at the alleyway pointed to the high-hanging camera and whispered, their voices could not contain their excitement.

I involuntarily slowed down and listened carefully, and caught a name that has become popular recently, and it was indeed a big star—it turned out that it was not the person I thought.

This was relieved, and I immediately left without hesitation and quickened my pace.When I got back to the intersection, the previous traffic policeman still recognized me, maybe it was too boring to keep the road closed, so he chatted with me.

"Have you seen any big stars?"

"I didn't see it, but I heard it." I replied with a smile.

Before the words were finished, one of the traffic policemen pointed to the main road outside and said excitedly: "Yo, yo, the big star is here, over there! I must help my daughter get an autograph today... Where's the pen? The pen!"

His colleague handed over the pen, and he started waving at the big car that turned into Guxu Road.

"This car belongs to a big star. His daughter likes him very much. He has been on guard for the past two days and hasn't found a chance to sign it. He is so anxious." A colleague explained to me.

Before I had time to sigh why there are so many big stars in the crew, the big touring car stopped in front of us.

It was very surprising that my self-confessed keen intuition couldn't keep up with the speed of the door opening in front of me at this moment.It was literally ripped from the inside.Almost at the same time, a person suddenly leaned out half of his body and met me face to face.

"Xiang Cheng!"

It's really Chi Xue.I thought about it in my head, and forgot to react for a while.When I came back to my senses, he had already got out of the nanny's car, and he was standing in front of me, even if someone in the car called him, he didn't care.

"I'm Chi Xue!"

Of course I know you are Chi Xue, everyone in the whole country knows you are Chi Xue, but why are you really Chi Xue?

I was away for a while, and I didn't notice whether the comrades in the traffic police got their signatures successfully, nor did I notice other people and things around me.Chi Xue stood in front of me for a while, and covered me beside me for a while.I took a look quietly, and he wasn't taller than me, so why did I feel that my whole body was covered by him?

"...Are you here to find me? Get in the car, I'll finish filming soon today, let's have dinner together."

When I fully recovered my consciousness, my wrist was grabbed by Chi Xue.He didn't need to grab it too hard, his fingers were very slender, seeming to be a little longer than when he was a child, and he could barely wrap them around me completely.

I still can't figure out how I feel, everything is much more complicated than I imagined, and the impact is so great that I can't think and feel it.I am afraid that the true will and ideas will be delayed.

"I'm not here to look for you", "I'm here to look for you", I'm afraid it's wrong to say either sentence.I just nodded and got into the big car with him.

"I didn't expect to meet you right on the set." When Chi Xue said this, we were already sitting in a private room of a restaurant, five hours after our previous encounter.

Five hours is indeed a very short period of time for him to shoot.In addition to the formal filming, the work during this period also included makeup, lectures, and review and rehearsal of some martial arts moves.

It was the first time I saw someone filming, and that person was him.

He looked so strange under the camera, like someone I didn't know at all.However, I gradually found the once-familiar shadow in this strange Chi Xue, and finally when the two overlapped, I fully realized that I really met him again.

The Chi Xue in front of me is really the Chi Xue I know.

"You didn't actually come to see me, did you?" Seeing that I hadn't answered, he put down his chopsticks and looked at me with hesitation in his eyes, "Do you still don't want to see me at all?"

Hearing this question, my heart trembled indescribably.A little hurt, a little angry.But these are big in the heart, but too small in the mouth.They are all grown-ups, it would be hypocritical to talk about the angry words of childhood.

"It's nothing, who wouldn't want to see you now, you are a big star! I didn't expect to meet you like this, I was a little confused." I stared straight into his eyes to make myself look sincere, " It's great, you are so promising now, it was right for you to choose to leave."

"Xiang Cheng, in fact, I've always wanted to come back to see you, I've always wanted to." He pulled the chair and sat closer to me, and immediately a faint scent of perfume penetrated into my nostrils.

In the past few hours, even his delicate appearance that exudes the breath of another world in every strand of his hair did not make me care about our sense of distance, but at this moment, this scent of perfume seemed to wake me up suddenly.

I have never used these things, and I am an ordinary person; but he is already a big star with every inch of his body carefully crafted.

Uncomfortable, I leaned back and tried to keep the physical distance between each other, but I tried to maintain a decent smile on my face: "It must not be easy for you to work hard for so many years. It is human nature to want to go home, and Fang's mother often misses you .”

"What about you? Don't you miss me? Have you thought about asking me to go home?" He didn't seem to notice my retreat, and leaned forward.

A pair of dark colored contact lenses were still attached to his eyeballs, making his eyes look deep and dark.

"I...I thought about it, of course, you are..."

"You lied." He interrupted me with a firm tone.

"..."

I suddenly have nothing to say.In fact, I don't want to say much at all.

Over the years, my resentment for his leaving has never completely dissipated, and then I added the anger that he never came back, so that the question of whether I want him to go home or not has no definite, one-way direction. s answer.

The only thing that is clear is that we can no longer be close brothers.

The silence lasted for a while, and finally he sighed almost inaudibly, and let me sit back.

After a while, the topic started again, talking about today's encounter and his work.He also asked me about my situation, and I had nothing to say, so I told him dryly that I was running a bookstore, and I didn't know when it would close down.

All in all, thank goodness the atmosphere is finally normal and harmonious, just like the kind of good reunion people imagine.

The author says:

si, this was supposed to be updated in April, but the timer was clearly set, and after clicking OK, I don’t know where the click went, so it was sent out. (Sorrowful.jpg)