Shocked in late autumn

There are scars all over the white back, including knife wounds, abrasions, and some bruises of different sizes, which can be seen accumulated over time, stabbing Ji Songlin's eye shockingly.

Ever since the accidental meeting in the record store, at some point, Ji Songlin had a figure of a young man in white in his mind. After the night talk on the mountaintop, he even thought over and over again about the little things between the two of them.

On that night when [-] shooting stars flashed across, Ji Songlin knew that anti-drug was not easy, but he had never witnessed it with his own eyes, and he never thought that this moment would make him feel so uncomfortable.

There was an impulse in my heart for no reason, Ji Songlin suddenly turned and walked forward, the footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, Xu Chenyu's long-term professional habits made Xu Chenyu react quickly, he immediately turned around, and when he looked into his eyes, it was Ji Songlin who was approaching late When touching the ruler's cheek, the movement of his hands froze immediately, and he stared at him blankly.

"What's wrong?" Xu Chenyu was wearing a sweater with both hands, and was still mostly naked, he looked at Ji Songlin puzzled.

Dazed, Ji Songlin stretched out his hand and carefully touched the scar on Xu Chenyu's shoulder: "When did you do it? Does it hurt?"

His fingers were ironing his skin with the coolness of late autumn, and Xu Chenyu hissed when he touched him, his face was flushed, and his tongue was tied: "I'm used to it...it doesn't hurt."

It was an old wound, and the medicine didn't help. Ji Songlin stared at the scars intently, not knowing what he was thinking, until he saw Xu Chenyu's earlobes getting redder and redder, he realized that the atmosphere was a little strange.

The behavior of directly getting started without the consent of the person concerned is like a trickster no matter how you look at it.

"Sorry," Ji Songlin turned his back suddenly, no longer looking at him, with a very graceful look: "You put on your clothes first."

The touch of the fingertips seems to be still on Xu Chenyu's shoulders. He is not Liu Xiahui who is restless, and facing Ji Songlin, it is impossible to be indifferent. The ambiguity between the two surfaced, hidden in the temptation, but don't be too anxious Take your time.

Xu Chenyu opened the sweater with both hands, his head poked out from the collar, and he straightened the hem of the clothes. He suddenly felt that the whole body was enveloped by the fragrance of ebony, and after finishing his sleeves, he stretched out his index finger and poked Ji Songlin's back: "Change it!" Now, you can turn around."

The calm person bowed his head in response, adjusted his breathing, and turned his back to him and said, "Well...you sit for a while, I'll go to the kitchen and wash the dishes before I come back."

After finishing speaking, before Xu Chenyu could reply, he trotted out against the corner of the wall, completely opposite to the bold him just now.

This uncomfortable appearance amused Xu Chenyu all at once, he felt itchy in his heart, as if being scratched by a cat's paw, stirring the fluff in the folds of his soul, love is such a grinding thing, it will teach you in a while Bravery can teach people to be timid for a while.

Xu Chenyu stepped back and leaned against the door. He leaned his head on the door and watched Ji Songlin's turning steps disappear into the corridor before turning his eyes away.

Taking advantage of being alone, Xu Chenyu stood up straight and looked around the small room.The furnishings in the room are very quaint. On the right side of the window is a mahogany desk. On it hangs a bookshelf with neatly stacked old tapes. Underneath is a gramophone. It looks older than the one in the record store, with dark red carvings. It has been old, but it has not shed any dust. It can be seen that the owner has taken good care of it. There is a ukulele in the corner and a small Bluetooth speaker.

He walked over and stood in front of the cabinet frame. There was a small photo album, and the yellowed and old shell wrapped Ji Songlin's childhood. He glanced at the door, but no one came yet.

Xu Chenyu held the photo album with both hands, he opened the first page, he was still the baby Ji Songlin, with big and bright eyes, he was wearing an old-fashioned sweater, the collar was fluffy, but his chubby face was so cute , People can't help but want to pinch twice.

Tapping his finger lightly on the photo, Xu Chenyu gestured and touched the baby's face, just as gently as when Ji Songlin touched his shoulder.

Ji Songlin, two or three years old, was standing in the old photo studio, with a beautiful picture of rivers and mountains in the background, a little rustic but very vivid. Xu Chenyu found that there was only one photo for each age group in the album.

Turning another page, Ji Songlin was wearing a blue and white striped school uniform, the hem and cuffs of his clothes were washed white, and his worn trousers were shrunk, exposing his ankles, thinking: "How old is this? What does he look like?" Kind of like going to junior high school."

"That's a picture of a 13-year-old," Ji Songlin's voice suddenly sounded, standing on the threshold: "I'm in the second year of junior high school."

What kind of magic is this, can this person see through his heart?

Xu Chenyu closed the photo album and put his hands behind his back. Since he can see through his mind, he must know what he wants to do. This hut has been with Ji Songlin for more than 20 years. He explored it because he wanted to know his past.

Xu Chenyu cleared his throat, met Ji Songlin's eyes, and said incoherently, "Let's play a game, how about?"

Ji Songlin raised his eyebrows: "What game?"

Putting the photo album back to its original place, Xu Chenyu dragged two small wooden stools and placed them facing each other. He sat on them and motioned for Ji Songlin to sit down too: "You ask me to answer, I'll ask you a question, you can also ask me, no lie....."

Ji Songlin thought about it for a while, found it interesting, and said, "All right, I guarantee it's true."

As the dawn came, the two of them were shrouded in a halo, the wild wind blew the osmanthus trees rattling, and the sparrows perched on the roof were disturbed, the surroundings were clearly noisy, but Ji Songlin felt peaceful, and the fatigue of a sleepless night was also overwhelmed by the sunlight. chased away.

Xu Chenyu tilted his head: "Which school did you study in junior high school?"

Ji Songlin answered quickly: "No.14 middle school in Z city, class of 06."

"Then you count me as a senior, I'm class of 07," Xu Chenyu pursed his lips, "What color do you like?"

Ji Songlin: "White."

"What kind of flower do you like?"

Ji Songlin touched the corner of his mouth with the tip of his tongue: "Shaoyao."

Xu Chenyu wanted to ask again, but was stopped by Ji Songlin, who raised his eyebrows: "Don't be silly, you've already asked me three questions..."

"Okay, it's your turn." The shameless man showed a smiling face, and made a "please" with one hand.

The matter of the scar was still on Ji Songlin's mind, he thought about it, and finally said honestly: "How did you get the injury on the back?"

The person who was still smiling lightly suddenly fell silent. Xu Chenyu stroked his shoulder and neck with his palm, and squeezed his thumb and index finger twice. The faded old memories were pushed away, and he turned a few corners in his mind. He just spoke.

"Remember when I told you that three of my colleagues died in the line of duty?"

"You said, one of them was an undercover agent, and the other disappeared by the river..."

That winter was really cold. It snowed for three or four days in a row, and there was a murderous wind blowing in the frontier. Looking up, it was full of depression and coldness. Xu Chenyu and his colleagues squatted in the snow for two days and two nights. How to rest, drink as little water as possible, and eat dry food when you are hungry.

"The drug dealer is a veteran, selling marijuana. We received information from an informant. He contacted a local businessman to deal face-to-face. After two nights, everyone was a little tired...until six o'clock in the morning The drug dealer just showed up. That time it was Mr. Mei's turn to release the snake, and the drug dealer changed locations seven times. We followed up a small mountain col, but found out that he had been tricked..." Xu Chenyu's voice became hoarse, his expression a little complicated.

Before the story was finished, Ji Songlin waited for a moment and said softly, "I'm listening."

"The other party used the trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and Mei Lao was in danger, so the brigade had to divide the troops into three groups to rush to the rescue." Xu Chenyu smiled a little lazy, but Ji Songlin felt that the smile was more guilt: "I was arranged to go to the three Team, when we reached the front line, the two sides had already opened fire, bullets flew everywhere, we were cut off from the rear, Mei Lao was shot unfortunately, I jumped down the slope, luckily, I saved my life."

There was no ups and downs in the past, and there was no storyteller's eloquent tongue, these words kept his usual style, Xu Chenyu spoke calmly, and Ji Songlin couldn't even feel his emotional ups and downs.

But the content made Ji Songlin shudder. He frowned and asked, "Are there many dangerous situations like this?"

"Before the arrest, an on-the-spot investigation will be conducted to find out the specific location and surrounding environment of the transaction," Xu Chenyu said slowly, "If the information is accurate, it can save a lot of trouble."

Ji Songlin immediately caught something in his words, and asked, "So you have encountered missions with intelligence errors?"

Xu Chenyu nodded and said yes, but he didn't tell the hidden story after all. It was Xu Chenyu's first time participating in an operation. The information given by the informant was that seven people gathered in the house to take drugs.

Before breaking the door and arresting him, Xu Chenyu was highly concentrated. He broke the door, stopped, and shot. He rehearsed it in his mind no less than a million times.There are more than 30 people squatting in the room, most of them are unconscious, and they are enjoying white | powder in high spirits. Fortunately, those people are all drug addicts, and there are no drug dealers......

Ji Songlin's eyes were too naked, the sparrows were chirping outside the house, and the shouts of vendors came from both sides of the street, but he didn't seem to hear it, only Xu Chenyu was left in his eyes, through him, he seemed to see the scenes of swords, lights and swords scene.

Just based on these few words, Ji Songlin can also trace the path he has traveled in his mind. It seems that Jiang Xiuyuan's sentence "for the country and the people" is not just talking.

"Okay, I also answered your three questions, it's my turn," Xu Chenyu said without giving him a chance to ask back, "Next, when is your birthday?"

Ji Songlin originally wanted to say something, but he obeyed the rules of the game, so he had to stop for now. When is his birthday?He thought about it in his mind for a while. In fact, since Zhou Wanqing passed away, Ji Songlin didn't celebrate his birthday very much. He didn't have any special friends, and his relatives only had one grandma. Every year on this day, his grandma would cook him a bowl of longevity noodles. That counts as a celebration.

Ji Songlin bowed his head and thought for a while before realizing that today is his birthday.

"Your birthday is the last day of late autumn." Xu Chenyu looked confused and clicked his tongue: "I just found out now, and I didn't even have time to prepare a gift for you."

"I don't usually celebrate birthdays, and I almost forgot about myself." Ji Songlin shrugged: "Besides, I am such a grown-up, what birthday present do I need?"

"You have to show your gratitude." Xu Chenyu raised his hands and groped around himself to see if there was anything that could be a gift.

Ji Songlin looked at him leisurely, as if to see what interesting things this man could come up with.

After touching his pocket for a long time, it was empty inside. Xu Chenyu looked at the hut, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. He looked to the corner, stood up and walked to the window sill, and hugged the ukulele obliquely. He raised his cheeks and smiled. Little pear dizzy sweet.

"How about this, let me sing you a song."

Ji Songlin simply got up, lit a cigarette, casually leaned against the wardrobe, and smiled so shallowly.

"Well, my pleasure."

Xu Chenyu lowered his head, revealing a white part of the back of his neck. This was the first time Ji Songlin saw him tune the strings. His thumb was stuck in the groove of the piano. He stroked all four strings, tried the notes once, and played the first tune slowly. ring.

The ukulele is light and breezy, full of Hawaiian style. Ji Songlin feels that the tune is very familiar. The beating heart was suddenly burned, as if ten thousand butterflies were dancing in the chest.

"My baby baby, a little sweetness for you,

Let you sleep well tonight,

My little ghost, kid, tease your eyebrows,

make you like this world,

La la la la la my baby,

When you are tired, there is someone to accompany you,

oh my baby

Let you know you are the most beautiful. "

Xu Chenyu lowered his eyes and smiled softly. The smoke curled up and wrapped around Ji Songlin's fingertips. He looked at him from a distance.

The bright singing voice became clean and pure in Xu Chenyu's voice. He hummed softly, and the two shared a rhythm frequency. A pool of ripples.

This was his favorite song when he was young. The adolescent Ji Songlin was cold and aloof. He missed his mother at night and couldn't sleep. He turned on the record player and played this song. He imagined that he was nestled in his mother's arms, and Zhou Wanqing was beside him. Singing in the ear to lull him to sleep.

The vocal line of the singer was very soft. He had never heard such a warm "Baby". Before drinking, Ji Songlin felt dizzy. Maybe it was the sunshine, or maybe the singer's eyes were passionate, and he was full of drunkenness.

This person is very careful, and he noticed everything, which happened to be the way Ji Songlin liked. The butterfly in his chest fluttered away, leaving behind a pool of spring water, which flowed slowly to his limbs.

Dust danced in the light, Ji Songlin lifted his chin slightly, staring at Xu Chenyu's side face with an almost obsessed expression.

At that moment, Zhou Wanqing's voice coincided with Xu Chenyu's in a strange way, and there was an impulse in his body that he had never felt before. He wanted to walk over and ask that person for a hug.

The halo spread at his fingertips, the sound of the ukulele rolled down like pearls, and he was still singing.

"My little devil, little devil, pinch your little face,

Let you like the whole tomorrow,

La la la la la my baby,

Someone misses you when you are alone,

 …”

The fingers suddenly closed the strings, and the tail sound gradually faded away, leaving the courtyard with a thousand sounds of silence.

Xu Chenyu leaned over and put the ukulele back in place. He walked towards Ji Songlin, his eyes became brighter because of the sunlight, and Ji Songlin seemed to see the vast Milky Way.

"Does it sound good?"

With his eyebrows and eyes curved, Ji Songlin seemed to see the sky full of stars, and smiled at the corner of his mouth, as if embracing the spring breeze.

It's amazing.

The morning sun hangs in the sky, the sun jumps down from the eaves, and through the window lattice, it becomes colorful and long. Standing in the backlight, Ji Songlin replied softly: "It sounds good!"

The halo dazzled his eyes, Xu Chenyu gathered his courage, he suddenly opened his arms, embraced Ji Songlin, and whispered in his ear: "Songlin, happy birthday!"

It was a very clean hug, free from any lust, Xu Chenyu was wearing Ji Songlin's clothes, and the same fragrance was floating on their bodies.

Ji Songlin was stunned for a moment, suppressing his beating heart, exhaled warmly, swept across Xu Chenyu's shoulder, and also whispered in his ear: "Birthday gift...how can anyone send a hug?"

"Accept my gift." Xu Chenyu was also a little intoxicated, and he murmured, "I just hug you because I want to hug you."

Hearing this sentence, Ji Songlin's crumbling rationality was like a candle in the wind. The wind blew up in his world, turning day and night upside down.

This is the best birthday present he has ever received: "Dust Island...I have something to say...."

Jingle...jingle.....

The love that was about to come to fruition was interrupted by the ringing of the phone, and every time it appeared, it was very unpleasant.

When the words reached his throat, he could only swallow them, Ji Songlin sighed slowly, and the ringing of the bell became more urgent.

"There may be something urgent, you answer the phone first."

What a great atmosphere, maybe something will happen in the next moment...

Xu Chenyu lowered his arms helplessly, took a step back, took out his mobile phone and put it close to his ear: "Master, tell me."

The person who answered the phone frowned, his face darkened, and he instinctively told Ji Songlin that it was not a good thing.

"What happened?"

Xu Chenyu raised his head with a solemn expression: "The team received the news that Kun Hai will show up in Thailand in three days. My master notified me to set off immediately."

Ji Songlin grabbed the car keys on the table and stood up straight: "Go to the bureau, I'll see you off."

It was nine o'clock, which happened to be the rush hour of traffic. He shook his head and said, "No, in case there is a traffic jam along the way, I will take the subway faster."

"Dust Island..."

Ji Songlin suddenly stopped Xu Chenyu, who was running out, and approached quickly, put a jade object into his palm, with indescribable emotion in his eyes, and finally said: "I'm waiting for you , come back safely."

Xu Chenyu tightened his palms, solemnly as if making an oath: "Okay!"