Except for a Hengjiang River that runs through the city from west to east, the west of Hengjiang City is a hilly area, of which Mount Liming is the most prominent. It is said that every time the day and night alternate, when the morning sun falls from the sky, the first rays of sunlight will fall on the top of Mount Liming In the world, it is the starting point of the recovery of all things after the long night, and it is also the corner of the world favored by the gods.

On Liming Mountain, the first ray of morning light on the first day of the new year is the cleanest. It is said that if you bathe in it, everything will go smoothly in the New Year and all your wishes will come true.

It was Xi Ye who pulled his car to the foot of Liming Mountain. It was already past twelve o'clock when he arrived, and the whole mountain looked like a giant beast dormant in the dark.

Xi Ye said: "Tomorrow morning, Daming'en Temple on the top of the mountain will usher in the New Year's sacrifice. From four or five o'clock in the morning, there will be many people on the mountain. It's impossible to grab the first incense."

"so?"

Ji Yanli said that this has nothing to do with me, and I don’t want to be the first. Besides, the sun shines on the earth 24 hours a day, and the light travels in a straight line. It doesn’t matter where it shines. It’s mainly related to the rotation of the earth.

"So we might as well start climbing the mountain now while there are few people." Xi Ye opened the car door, and the bleak cold wind poured into the car instantly. He pointed to the dark mountain and said, "We can climb to the top of the mountain at dawn."

"Don't go!" Ji Yanli resolutely huddled together, "I'm an old man, and you are still young, so you can't torment the old man like this. Besides, staying up here in the middle of the night to climb mountains? Are you crazy? What if you fall down? What if you catch a cold? What if you step on the ground? What if you roll down the mountain? What if there are poisonous insects and snakes?"

"The snakes are hibernating." Xi Ye showed a disgusted expression of whether you are uneducated, "Besides, I will pull you."

"You're pulling me..." Ji Yanli shuddered, stretched out his head and pushed his glasses, looked at the mountain, and shook his head vigorously, "No."

Xi Ye shrugged indifferently, closed the car door, put his elbow on the car window and said, "Okay, Master Xiaolin, please send the senior home, and I will go up the mountain by myself."

"What?" Ji Yanli stretched out his hand from the car window, clung to him tightly, "You want to climb the mountain by yourself? Are you alone?!"

"Ah."

"Xi Ye!" Ji Yanli withdrew his hand, pushed open the car door and rushed out, "Don't mess around."

Xi Ye strode into the night without looking back: "Aren't you going back?"

Ji Yanli followed closely behind: "...I'll be with you."

"Aren't you sleepy?"

"...Suddenly I am not sleepy again."

"You still say you miss me? I haven't seen you for a week, so you can't wait to get rid of me, right? You almost forgot about me, right? Are you happy that I'm not here? You want to sleep when you see me. Do I look like sleeping pills or talk to hypnotize me?" ah……"

Ji Yanli suddenly stepped on the ground, but was supported by Xi Ye's counterattack, the speed was so fast that he seemed to expect him to step on the ground.

Xi Ye clicked his tongue: "Senior, watch the way."

"I can see it!" Ji Yanli said angrily.

The stone steps up the mountain are rugged and uneven, and each step is high or low, wide or narrow. It was so dark that he couldn't see his feet clearly. When the wind blew, the shadows of the trees all over the mountain shook as if the mountain itself was shaking. , I feel like the world is spinning in a blink of an eye.

Xi Ye said, "Do you want me to hold it?"

"I don't need..." Before Ji Yanli finished speaking, he stumbled on a tree root across the stone steps and crashed into Xi Ye's arms.

Xi Ye said slowly, "You want me to hug you?"

Ji Yanli: "..."

In the end, Ji Yanli still compromised, he couldn't help but babbled about how dangerous it was when he saw it, and if he was not careful, he would roll down the mountain in a muddle like I did just now, and he would die a miserable death, at the same time he had no choice but to hold Xi tightly wild hands.

Xi Ye said that was great, then we two would die together, and as he spoke, he felt Ji Yanli fall down with a thud, and lifted him up again.

This picture is like carrying the overalls of a child who can't walk. When the child stumbles when he takes a step, the adult will follow and carry it all the time, as easy as carrying a bag.

Xi Ye: "When are you going to go? Shall I carry you?"

Unconvinced, Ji Yanli raised his head and said, "I have hands and feet, why should you carry them..."

Before he could recite the words, he stepped on the ground and was scooped up by Xi Ye again.

Xi Ye put him on the ground lightly as if amused: "You really can't see? Is my myopia getting worse?"

"It's normal to not be able to see, okay? Not everyone is a bat, and not everyone is an all-around Olympian like you." Ji Yanli was short of breath.

Clouds and mist covered the bright moon in the sky, and the surroundings became even darker. He could only make out the outline of Xi Ye vaguely, and felt that he was beside him. He couldn't even see Xi Ye's face clearly, but he could still feel that he was smiling!

Xi Ye smiled lazily: "But I think you can see clearly, as if you are shining."

Ji Yanli: "There are no fluorescent substances in my body."

"Really, the white shimmer is as beautiful as fog." Xi Ye vowed, and quickly helped him up again.

"...It's not scientific at all..." Ji Yanli was tired after all, and supported Xi Ye's forearm to rest.

The sound of Omega's slight panting was very clear at night, and the thin sweat dripped on his white forehead, and was blown away by the cold wind from above.

Xi Ye took off his coat and put it on him, buttoned it one by one, turned up his collar to block the wind, and said in a low voice: "But, unreasonable things will happen. When it happens, it happens. Existence is reasonable... Senior, will you accept your fate?"

The cold wind howls recklessly on the barren mountains at night, the mountains are vast, the shadows of trees are scattered, the dead branches and leaves are swaying, and the swaying shadows are as gloomy and cold as thousands of ghosts.

Ji Yanli climbed painfully, his nose turned red from the cold, and his face lost consciousness. The cold wind poured in from his nasal cavity, as if his internal organs were frozen, and he couldn't help wondering what he was doing here.

... He was so out of his mind that he was worried that Xi Ye would roll down the mountain. Now it seems that Xi Ye used an aggressive method to deceive children, and he was fooled foolishly. Even if someone really rolled down the mountain, it was himself.

Tomorrow's social news headlines will be Ji Yanli's tragic death at the foot of the mountain, and the caller is the surviving Xi Ye, who has even figured out how to compose the photo.

But he crawled and crawled, inexplicably having a little fun.

In the dark, he couldn't see the way clearly, so he simply took a bold step forward, if this step was solid, he would go up a step, if he missed it, Xi Ye would immediately stop him.

Xi Ye climbed up next to him, step by step, stepping on the same rhythm as his steps, and the footsteps echoed regularly on the towering stone steps, it was not scary even though it was dark, and it was not scary even though it was severe winter and the twelfth lunar month. cold.

He gradually broke out in hot sweat, and felt his heart beating in his chest for a long time, becoming more and more powerful, as if the long-forgotten silence in his chest was burning again, getting brighter and hotter, until it "stinged" There was a sound of sparks jumping up, and the bright flames jumped suddenly.

He hasn't done such an outrageous thing for a long time. On New Year's Eve, he went to the wilderness to climb mountains in the dark against the biting cold wind. A crazy thing that can't be done if there is less than half a bottle of Erguotou.

But he was extremely happy and relaxed, as if all his troubles were left at the bottom of the mountain, he walked more briskly, more freely, more happily.

Don't think about anything, just grab Xi Ye's hand and go up the mountain vigorously.

He won't fall because Xi Ye is there.

Ji Yihe always joked that his elder brother was a living old cadre wearing a red armband and holding his hands behind his back, but his youthful spirit was just buried in a deep place, he just didn't dare to do it, he couldn't do it, so he lied to himself, saying that I didn't want to.

Dimly, he suddenly seemed to have returned to his childhood, to a childhood that he could no longer remember clearly. At that time, his mother would comfort him when he made a mistake, and his father would end up with him when he made a mistake.His reliance is still there, and he is not someone else's reliance.

He is still a Ji Yanli who can make mistakes, so he doesn't have to stick to the rules everywhere, and he doesn't have to kill the only "should do" and dare not relax all the time.

He can make mistakes, Ji Yanli suddenly thought.

Because Xi Ye will always hold him.

The two of them climbed all the way until dawn. The Liming Mountain is not too high, but it is also the highest peak in the whole mountainous area because it is short. Otherwise, there would be no talk of the first ray of morning light.

Near the top of the mountain is a large platform for rest, and there is a small shop that is closed and not yet open.

Ji Yanli sat on the stone bench to catch his breath, and saw Xi Ye fiddled with it somehow, opened the window lightly, and turned into the small shop through the window.

Ji Yanli: "?"

Ji Yanli hurriedly stood up, ran over, and leaned against the window: "How did you get in? How did you pry the window open? God, Xi Ye, please don't tell me you're stealing!"

Xi Ye's voice came from a distance in the dark warehouse: "I'll find you something to eat, instant noodles? There's hot water here, and you don't like spicy food, how about the tomato beef brisket noodles?"

Ji Yanli yelled for help in his heart, his knees were weak from exhaustion, and he couldn't get in after several attempts: "Come out quickly! Xi Ye! I'm really angry."

Xi Ye's figure suddenly appeared from the window, illuminating his smiling face with the thin light of the day.

He came out quickly, tilted his head, and pecked lightly on Ji Yanli's mouth.

Ji Yanli: "..."

Ji Yanli pursed his lips, his face was as hot as a fever, he almost passed out without breathing, but he looked firmly into Xi Ye's eyes: "Xi Ye, don't play tricks, absolutely don't steal anything."

"I gave the money, put it on the table, and gave it a hundred."

Ji Yanli choked up suddenly, lowered his head, looked at the things in his hand, two packs of instant noodles, plus ham.

Ji Yanli's style of painting changed suddenly, and his voice became higher. He pushed Xi Ye and said, "I just took this little?! Isn't that a loss? Go back quickly, and get enough for a hundred things!!"

Xi Ye sighed, followed him, and scratched his head as he walked in: "...senior, you are really strict."

At five o'clock in the morning, in front of the railing of the highest peak of Liming Mountain, the light of the sky has stretched into a bright diffuse line, and the thin clouds rolled into undulating light-colored sea waves.

Just now, he kept his head down and climbed in the dark, but he didn’t realize how high he had climbed. At this time, the dawn was about to break. Looking down from the top of the mountain, he could have a panoramic view of the whole Hengjiang City, and the Hengjiang River flowed like a light-colored jade belt. The sleeping city is divided into two, the street lights in the streets and alleys have not been extinguished, and the faint white light is scattered in the gray buildings like broken jade.

The air at high places is fresh and transparent, and the low places are filled with the smell of the New Year when firecrackers and fireworks have been burned out.

Ji Yanli and Xi Ye were sitting next to each other on the top of the mountain, holding a bucket of instant noodles, surrounded by steaming heat and white mist.

Here is tomato beef brisket, and there is Sichuan-flavored spicy, instant noodles, all internal organs are warm, the heating whitened Ji Yanli's lenses, and his frozen face became moist and soft again.

"Senior, have you made up your wish?" Xi Ye asked.

"Think about it."

"tell me the story."

Ji Yanli shook his head: "It won't work if you say it."

Xi Ye said softly, "God can't hear it, but I can hear it."

Ji Yanli's heart trembled suddenly.

He looked up at Xi Ye, all the words he had been keeping silent in his heart were stuck in his chest.

He said he likes bookstores, Xi Ye opened a bookstore, he said he liked gold, Xi Ye opened a gold store, he wanted to reconcile with Yihe, Xi Ye really thought of a way, he said he wanted his mother not to forget him, Xi Ye Ye Ye took the doctor to see Xie Anzhi quietly.

Every word he said seemed to be very important, because at some point, every word became a reality.

At that time, when he saw the words Zhishuzhai, he thought it was his father's spirit in heaven, but people die like a lamp goes out, and no soul remains in the world through the ages.

"And you," Ji Yanli asked softly, "what is your wish?"

The first red sun of the new year finally peeked out from the horizon, the red brilliance spread across the sky instantly, the red gold and rose-colored clouds blended together, the sky brightened in an instant, and the whistling mountain wind blew from the valley to the mountain peak .

Xi Ye looked at him in the wind, his face was covered with a layer of red-gold light, scorching like the scorching sun.

Xi Ye smiled and said, "I hope all your wishes will come true."

When the doorbell rang, Ji Yanli no longer knew what year it was.

After watching the sunrise, he and Xi Ye didn't get home until nearly nine o'clock in the morning. Xi Ye was so sleepy that he collapsed on the sofa when he entered the door.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, the two fell asleep like this until the doorbell rang for about ten minutes.

Xi Ye closed his eyes in the living room, turned over and buried his face in the sofa, shouting: "Ji Yanli!"

Ji Yanli hummed, slowly got up, put on his slippers in a daze, rubbed his eyes and opened the door.

Outside the door were Fatty and Wen Yu, both in new clothes and beaming.

Wearing gray pajamas, Ji Yanli stared at the two sleepily, stunned for a while, and apologized, "I'm sorry, I haven't woken up yet."

He completely forgot about it. Every first day of the new year, the fat man was worried that he would be alone at home with his sister, so he would come to visit him with food and fruit, eat some snacks along the way, and complain loudly while watching the rebroadcast of the Spring Festival Gala.

Fatty and Wen Yu have been neighbors since they were young, and they have been classmates since kindergarten, so they stop by each other every year.

Wen Yu poked the fat man's fat belly with his elbow angrily: "I'm telling you, Ji Yanli is still sleeping, so you have to ring the doorbell to wake him up!"

The fat man yelled wronged: "It's twelve o'clock, how could I know he didn't wake up, he told me last night that he was designated to be at home, and I can't be blamed for everything because the fat man has a big head, right?"

"It's my fault. I overslept and forgot to turn on the alarm," Ji Yanli begged, and then said, "We folded paper lanterns and gold ingots at home. Wait a minute. I'll get them. Come in and sit down." ?”

Fatty and Wen Yu just stepped through the door.

I saw a murderous person sitting on the sofa.

Xi Ye's hair was disheveled, and he was so angry that he looked like he was about to kill someone. He raised his upper body stiffly, and without opening his eyes, he slammed the pillow on the fat man's face with precision.

"□□Mom, it's early in the morning." Xi Ye slightly opened his eyes, revealing narrow black pupils. The air pressure around Alpha was as low as freezing point, as if he was about to draw his sword and explode in the next second.

A deep and forceful sound came from Xi Ye's throat: "Get lost."

After Xi Ye finished speaking, he fell down on his back as if the electricity had run out.

Fatty: "..."

Wen Yu: "..."

The fat man whispered, "I seem to know him."

Wen Yu gently: "Me too."

Ji Yanli walked back from the balcony with a string of little red lanterns in one hand, and saw the two petrified by the table, and followed their eyes to see the person on the sofa. Xi Ye was covering his head with a coat, and his legs were still growing , hanging outside the handrail.

Ji Yanli said indifferently: "Did Xi Ye speak just now?"

The two stared at the extremely calm Ji Yanli in shock.

Wen Yu complained quietly: "Am I broken in love?"

Fatty's pupils trembled: "Are you living together???"

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