Days of Love with Tyrannosaurus Rex

In the early morning of the next day, before the investigation team started to work, Eli packed all his and Noah’s belongings in that old car, and left the city carrying the rising sun. A small town with too many memories.

Noah has been very quiet, with his whole face stuck to the car window, watching the two-story building disappearing from his sight bit by bit without blinking, but rarely crying, He even reached out to touch the restless Alice in the cage, and then turned on the car music.

He played the theme song from the movie "The Little Prince".

Eli glanced at his side profile quietly, Noah's eyes were lowered, and the long eyelashes cast a butterfly-like shadow on his lower eyelid.He patted his shoulder with one free hand, and Noah turned his head towards Eli, showing the dimples on his cheeks, and patted his chest: "It's okay, after all, I want to be with Eli forever." together."

"Do you know how far forever is?" Eli said jokingly.

Noah pursed his lips unconvinced, thought for a while, and then said, "Forever is like walking as far as the moon, I know."

This answer made Eli couldn't help but think of the story about the big rabbit and the little rabbit. He lowered his voice and asked again: "Then Noah wants to go to the moon with me?"

"The moon is not good at all, it's bare, there is no forest, and there is no stream, I'm just a metaphor..." Noah paused for a while, "But if Eli wants to go, I can go with you."

Eli laughed.

"Noah said that he wanted to be with me forever, like walking as far as the moon," Eli's drawn out voice, seeing Noah's nervous expression in the rearview mirror, "then I also want to be with Noah forever." Together, it's like walking to the moon and back so far."

Noah's face slowly turned red.

He grabbed the hem of his clothes, stared at the side of Eli's driving face without blinking, gasped for a while, and then murmured: "Liar...I've read that story, Eli Just trying to talk like a big rabbit, isn't it?"

The smile on Eli's face became more and more unbearable. Although it was such a sad thing to move, it became warmer for some reason.He said: "If you don't believe it, forget it."

Noah immediately pressed his thigh, leaned towards him, raised his voice and said, "I believe it! Eli, say it again."

The steering wheel shook from side to side, the car turned and turned, and almost fell into the field.Eli freed one hand to push him back to the co-pilot, and said with a smile: "Sit down, driving is very dangerous, pay attention to safety...Of course you can only say it once if it's important, if Noah didn't hear clearly, Then I won't say anything."

Noah let out an "oh", sat back in the cab, stared at Eli for a while, then laughed foolishly, and leaned towards the corner of Eli's mouth with lightning speed and kissed: " I hear you, Eli can't play tricks."

Eli touched the place where he was kissed, and remembered every bit of him and Noah in the "dinosour" bar, and still has an incredible feeling.From the moment he took out that dirty dinosaur egg in the creek, his life began to undergo earth-shaking changes bit by bit, as if something was pushing him forward.

"Noah, do you still remember the pink lace dress you had when you were a child? I didn't throw any of them away, and I brought them all on purpose. You must look better now."

"I don't want to wear skirts! That's for girls. Eli used to bully me."

"Who said boys can wear skirts too."

"I read in a book..."

"That's too one-sided in the book. I'll show you a picture of you wearing a skirt when you were a child later. It's so cute."

"Then why doesn't Eli wear a dress? I want to see Eli in a dress too."

"Me? I can't..."

……

Before getting on the expressway, Eli parked the car in front of a bare hill. This place was neither an inhabited village nor a famous scenic spot, and it was not even called arable land. Weeds were overgrown and it was very desolate.Eli brought a bouquet of flowers from the back seat, and Noah was always concerned about this bouquet when he went out, because Eli went to the garden to pick it himself.

"Are we going to live here?" Noah followed and got out of the car.

"How come?" Eli stroked his hair, "I want to take Noah to meet someone."

Noah observed Eli's emotions, and for some reason, he was a little inexplicably nervous.

The two chatted while climbing to the top of the mountain.It was originally a barren mountain, but in late autumn, it became even more desolate. You can't even see a small green bud, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves. After walking for a long time, I didn't meet a small animal.

Eli's wounds were still not fully healed, and he walked slowly, out of breath, and his forehead was soon covered with thin sweat.Noah worriedly wanted to carry him, but Eli shook his head, held his hand, forced himself to climb to the top of the mountain, and then sat on the strange-shaped rock for a while.

"There's no one here," Noah said. "Who does Eli want to take me to?"

Eli patted the dust off his body, and led Noah to the other side of the mountain.After turning over the small slope, suddenly, a large golden sunflower was reflected in my tired eyes.The bleak wind in late autumn blew through, blowing out continuous ripples on this golden ocean. Eli took a deep breath and smelled the unique smell of sunflowers when they ripen.

"It's a flower with edible seeds," Eli said. "It keeps its flower disk facing the sun, so humans call it a sunflower."

"It's so beautiful." Noah exclaimed.

Eli pulled him through the lush sunflower fields, and the stems and leaves that had begun to dry surrounded them, looking around, as if hiding a whispering flower elf inside.Noah held Eli's hand tightly, and couldn't help asking, "Where are we going?"

As soon as the words fell, the dense sunflower stems and leaves came to an end, and a small open space appeared in the flourishing flower field. There was an old wooden house that looked crumbling, and there was a small tombstone beside it. Moss grew on the tombstone, and the moss was covered with grass The dry autumn day dries up and looks like a dead bug carcass from a distance.

Eli put the flowers in front of the grave, then sat down against the stele panting, and tore off the dried moss.Noah saw the words "Jeremy Cotter" engraved on the unremarkable tablet, followed by a series of numbers that looked like years, months, and days.He bent down and saw a small epitaph in the far corner.

"Forever to the sun." Noah read out gently.

Eli cleaned up the dead flowers left over from last time, and said, "This is my father."

"Eh?" Noah gave him a surprised look, "Is it here?"

"People who have passed away will be buried in the ground, leaving only a tablet and a sentence to record their life," Eli said, "If one day I die too..."

Noah covered his next words, eyes wide open, looking very angry:

"Eli also said he would be with me forever!"

Eli made two "woo hoots" and pinched Noah's face like a counterattack.The two stared at each other for a moment, then let go at the same time.

Eli breathed a sigh of relief, turned to face the tombstone, patted Noah's back, and said, "Dad, last time Uncle Isaac told you that I secretly raised a Tyrannosaurus rex at home, and brought that dragon here today." Let me show you how it looks, doesn't it look good?"

Noah set his sights on the stele again, looked at it for a while, then knelt down on one knee, brushed off the blown sunflower petals in front of the stele, followed Eli's example, and said somewhat cautiously: "Dad, my name is Noah."

Eli laughed out loud, Noah turned around and looked at him with some doubts.

"You keep calling me Dad, but if you really want to talk about it, you should be called Grandpa."

Noah froze for a while, then frowned, as if to refute him.Eli didn't give him a chance to refute. He hugged Noah's shoulders like a good buddy, and chanted towards the tombstone naturally: "When I picked him up in the stream in the bar, I thought about raising him a little bit." I will put him back in the forest when he is older, but now that I have raised him to such a large size, he has gone through too many twists and turns, and he is like a relative to me—after you passed away, he made me realize again for the first time The concept of home."

"Well, I don't want to say these sensational things to you. You always told me not to get too close to dinosaurs, and now he has become a human, so I brought him here to show you. We are moving, but you Don't worry, Noah and I are on good terms, and I will come back to see you often in the future..."

Noah suddenly grabbed Eli's hand firmly.

"Hey, you hurt me."

There was some water in his eyes, and he didn't cry when he moved. In front of Eli's father's grave, this guy had a red nose for no reason.Eli wanted to take his hand out, but he refused, and solemnly bowed a long bow in front of the tomb. This time, he finally didn't call his father foolishly this time. It was the first time Long Shengli used "" Mr." This honorific title: "Mr. Cotter, thank you, I will protect Eli well."

"Isn't it me protecting you?" Eli pinched the tip of his reddened nose, "Why are you crying again?"

"I didn't cry," Noah sniffed, and protested unconvincingly, "I'm just, I'm just happy, I don't know why..."

"The longer you grow, the more stupid you become." Eli said, but couldn't help but smile on the corner of his mouth.

Just in time for the sun to rise slowly from the east, the golden sunflower field here was dyed with golden paint, and even Eli and Noah became golden. The wind blew through the flower field, and the sunflowers were all Xi Suosuo, as if someone was answering them.

The two sat quietly in front of Eli's father's grave for a while. Eli was injured and couldn't do physical labor. Noah took care of the entire sunflower field by himself, and took out a broom from the hut , I carefully swept the edge of the tomb inch by inch.No one was sad or sad, and they both talked and basked in the sun in a light mood, as if Mr. Cotter was just sleeping under the ground.

When I went back at noon, Eli's wound was very painful, Noah carried him on his back, and bowed in front of the grave again.The wind with the scent of sunflowers blows them, sends them off, and bids them farewell.

Eli lay on Noah's back, unknowingly, the egg he picked up already had such a broad and solid back.He put his chin on Noah's shoulder and asked in his ear:

"Noah, why did you cover my mouth before?"

Noah muttered in a low voice, "I don't want to hear Eli say he's dead, Eli wants to be with me forever."

"Don't be afraid of death, all living things will be born, old, sick and die, I am the same, and you are the same."

"It's not like that," Noah retorted seriously, "I'm only afraid of losing Eli."

As if to prove what he said, Noah stepped over a sharp stone, turned his head sideways, and touched Eli's lips on his shoulder.