migratory birds do not return

The three words "Du Baigong", once like an indelible flame that could not be erased no matter what, took root firmly in the lonely lamp of Hou Xiao's memory①, allowing him to touch those unattractive things while stepping on broken gravel. When the facts are true, it will not end up in a dismal end.

So after dryly reading those three words from a manuscript, Hou Xiao lowered his eyelids and stopped talking. The atmosphere between them seemed to be covered with a layer of frost suddenly, and the temperature dropped below the iceberg. Coolness spread everywhere.

When Hou Xiao returned to school, he accidentally got the books left by Du Baigong from Lao Bai. Every book was well preserved, with no folded corners, and the notes in the book were neat and clean. It was more neat than he imagined, as if he had practiced seriously.

He spent half the night flipping through each book, and in the last book he saw a folded paper.The front of the paper is a sketch. The long branches are intertwined, almost covering the windows of the teaching building. A blurred figure is reflected on the window glass. Through the window, you can see the neatly arranged classrooms. The solid wooden table and chairs are neatly arranged, and Hou Xiao is sitting on the table with a camera in his hand, and the camera is aimed at the playground not far away.

"Can you take pictures?" Hou Xiao held the camera in his hand, raised his hand and shook it in front of Du Baigong.

Du Baigong shrugged: "No, but I can draw a little bit. What's wrong?"

"Ah, if only you could take pictures. I always take pictures of other people, and no one has taken pictures of me. I really want to know how I look in other people's cameras."

He was photographing his classmates who had been with him day and night for three years, and Du Baigong recorded his appearance at that time in another way.

Am I like this in your eyes?

In the darkness with only the sound of wind and breathing, Hou Xiao suddenly noticed that his eye sockets became moist.He squatted down by the desk with the paper in his arms, and the emotions in his heart kept surging, as if they were about to overflow.And he put a locked door on them, surrounded them, surrounded them in darkness, and saw no light.

"Why do you..." Du Baigong broke the silence.He raised his hand and gestured at Hou Xiao, showing an inconspicuous smile, "Have you grown your hair?"

Hou Xiao stretched out his hand to pull his hair, and said flatly, "This one, I'm too lazy to cut it."

Since the official start of the second semester of the third year of high school, he has been in a state of absolutely not doing non-scheduled tasks. On the surface, he seems to be concerned, but in fact he is a capitalized lazy person.I usually wear school uniforms properly, and when I'm on vacation, I just change those sets in turn, and put all other clothes in the bottom of the box, and don't touch them.

Hou Yu urged him to get his hair cut several times, but he also didn't take action because he didn't want to take a fifteen-minute car ride to the shampoo shop. I was tied up in danger and hid in my T-shirt and school uniform jacket until graduation, when I finally saw the light of day.

On the other hand, Du Baigong, he has a neat short haircut, and there are patterns on the cuffs of his white shirt. At first glance, he is not the type of popular online shopping like Hou Xiao. He is wearing a pair of camel-colored trousers, black sneakers, and the camera is hanging on the Although a large part of the body was wet on the chest, it was not as exaggerated as Hou Xiao.

Hou Xiao's voice fell, and neither of them spoke again for a short time. The sound of rain and fog became the best atmosphere enhancers.

Half a minute later, Du Baigong finally jumped up as if he had just woken up from a dream, and dragged Hou Xiao into the pavilion. Seeing that he was completely soaked, he scratched his hair in annoyance, and smiled embarrassedly: "I shouldn't have troubled you just now, why don't you go to my place to change your clothes later, my school is nearby."

When Du Baigong spoke, his voice was very gentle, with just the right amount of smile, which added to his amiable look. When listening to the sound, he subconsciously pursed his lower lip, and took in the trailing sound, but it was as if he had landed on the ground. Beads, knocking on Hou Xiao's heart - this is obviously different from the way he spoke when he was in the harbor before, it always feels less easy-going and more law-abiding.

Hou Xiao raised his eyelids, trying to shake his head to decline Du Baigong's kindness.He had to find the school today, otherwise, if he stayed outside, he didn't even know that it would take him years to find the school in the deep mountains and old forests.

As if sensing that Hou Xiao would refuse, Du Baigong suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on his shoulder. Hou Xiao's movements were caught by him, and he looked at him with some doubts.Du Baigong stared into his eyes, and breathed out some white mist when he spoke: "Do you want to catch a cold?"

Du Baigong has lost a lot of weight, and his standing posture is no longer as lazily as before, but it looks like a standard standing posture after training.The arm is half a circle thinner than before. Hou Xiao remembers that he could not hold it completely when he used to hold it with his hands, but now he can hold it more than a circle by visual inspection.

Hou Xiao's gaze fell on the wrist that was pressing on his shoulder, he tugged the strap of the mountaineering bag twice, and sighed in compromise, all his temper was shattered by Du Baigong's concern. "Fine."

The one who came to pick up Du Baigong was his roommate, who went to Gong University a little later, a typical example of a scumbag counterattacking to become a schoolmaster.

"I came here by car, but I didn't get a taxi." Lin Yuanliu threw an umbrella to Du Baigong, and said hello to Hou Xiao, "You two should share one car. There are many cars passing by our school. I guess we can wait for a while." arrive."

Du Baigong opened his umbrella and walked up to Hou Xiao's side.Hou Xiao felt uncomfortable for a moment, and soon recovered. After all, this was not the first time they shared an umbrella, even though it was the first time after their reunion.

It was only when he got closer that he could smell a very faint smell of medicine beside Du Baigong, and the smell of smoke that he had worked so hard to leave before was gone at all now.

Hou Xiao's Adam's apple rolled, he spread his palms on his legs and wiped it twice, and asked, "Aren't you smoking now?"

"Ah?" Du Baigong was a little dazed, and it took two seconds for him to react. He lowered his head and smiled slightly, "No, I quit. Actually, it's not a big addiction."

Hou Xiao groaned, shrank his arms twice and didn't ask anything else.The train arrived as soon as they arrived at the station. There was no one on board, but many seats had accumulated water. Lin Yuanliu said a few words in dissatisfaction, and stood by the window holding the handle.Hou Xiao and Du Baigong were sitting in the front seat together, and when the car door opened, a gust of cold air would blow on their faces.

"Hou Xiao, right? Don't mind, we'll be there in three or four stops. If it's cold, you can wear a coat or something." Lin Yuanliu turned to look at them, "It's quite cold here in autumn."

"I get motion sickness from the back of the bus, so I can only sit here." Du Baigong explained, "Are you cold? Get in?"

"No...I'm not afraid of the cold." Hou Xiao waved his hand.It is really nothing to him to change the cold wind normally, but now he is almost drenched all over, and the coldness crawls to the marrow of his bones when the wind blows, and his legs and feet wish they were frozen.

I don't know what kind of face it is, because I once said that I am not afraid of the cold, Hou Xiao doesn't want to admit that he is not very cold now.He put his hands in his sleeves, turned his face to the window, and held a bulging hiking bag in his arms. Lin Yuanliu turned his head from time to time to chat with them.

Chongda is much more beautiful than the promotional videos on the Internet. Lin Yuanliu knew him very well with the uncle who sat on the first floor of the dormitory, and led Hou Xiao in without much trouble.

Their dormitory is a two-person system, and each room has its own separate bathroom.It's much better than living together with a dozen people in high school and using the water card to use the public bathhouse.

"You brought a change of clothes in your bag. I have disposable toiletries here. If you don't want to use what's in it, you can use this." Du Baigong handed him a bag with one hand, and hung the camera on the back of the chair .

"Thank you."

"Don't be so polite." Du Baigong took the camera out of the waterproof bag, "Okay, let's go."

"Is he your old classmate from high school?" After Hou Xiao entered the bathroom, Lin Yuanliu finally asked, "Student from which school?"

"He's from the harbor, he's joined the photography club." Du Baigong adjusted the camera and deleted two of the photos he just took. "Look at the way your eyes are shining. Even if you ask him for it, he may not give it to you."

"The photography club in Haigang is famous, isn't it? The photos taken by almost every member are very attractive. You said that the night market is mysterious again. It's okay for me to ask him for a photo."

"He might have deleted them all." Du Baigong paused, "If you want a photo of the night market, find a photo online to prove that I didn't lie to you, just do it."

"How can I do that!" Lin Yuanliu twitched his lips, "It's so untrue on the Internet, I bet you my food expenses for half a month."

Du Baigong didn't speak any more, bent down and put the camera into the cabinet.The rain outside had lightened a lot, and there was a layer of fog on the window panes.He let out a breath, rubbed his hands, sat down by the bed, and played with his phone as if to pass the time.

Until now, his social software account is the newly registered one.The original number was added to the class group, and many students were added. Seriously speaking, he was absent in the second half of the semester, so I felt a little sorry in my heart, and I didn't want to face those who cared about him and asked him when he would come back. If he didn't want to, he changed his number as if to escape, even though the news accumulated in the old number, he didn't click on it to take a look.

The sound of running water in the bathroom stopped shortly after, and when Hou Xiao came out, Lin Yuanliu was no longer there, and Du Baigong was lying on the table taking a nap.

His summer vacation is not much better than the vacation before the college entrance examination. He was dragged away like a donkey. It was a relief to come to school early. When it rained, I felt drowsy like a tidal wave, and my upper and lower eyelids were so sticky that I couldn't open them.

Hou Xiao stood behind him without disturbing him.He knows that Du Baigong is a light sleeper. He usually rests in the dormitory, and he always wakes up several times in the middle of the night. They are all woken up by the movement of endorsing books and doing questions for other students. These actions of his will not be discovered.

He picked up his hiking bag.He said goodbye softly, turned around and opened the door to go out.When closing the door, he moved as lightly as possible, minimized the sound of the door lock being stuck, and left with his bag after making sure that no one in the room was woken up.

The navigation was unreliable, and it took Hou Xiao a long time to find a bus stop that stopped the bus he wanted to take.It was also his luck that when he first arrived, a car came and stopped slowly. There were only three people in the car and the driver.

Hou Xiao threw the coin and walked to the last row to sit down, remembering that his aunt said that he would ship his other things, and he hadn't given her the detailed address until now, which probably made people worry again.

There was another bag containing the changed wet clothes in the bag. Hou Xiao struggled to find his mobile phone in the bag and sent a message to his aunt.

QQ was automatically opened by the background, and he was about to close it and exit, when he caught a glimpse of the words "Special Concern" on the notification bar from the corner of his eye.

Hou Xiao paused, and entered the group message in a hurry.Du Baigong sent a message a few minutes ago, because he was already a fraud, many people jumped out and frantically swiped the news, Du Baigong didn't reply quickly, but he answered patiently one by one.

Hou Xiao slowly flipped through the unread messages, and saw that the person with a white picture appeared in the chat several times, pressed his finger on the input field, and only typed a punctuation mark for a long time.

- Daxia Bai also said that you are in Chongda, so you and Hou Xiao are in the same city.

-Chongda and Laohou are a bit far away, there is a □□ station, but if you have time, you can also go there for a stroll, Laohou's school has a beautiful scenery, and you will definitely relax.

Du Baigong: "Where is he?"

Hou Xiao thumped in his heart, wishing he could go through the screen and drag Bai Song out and beat him to death.Why is this guy so obsessed with mentioning this?

Fortunately, Bai Song seemed to have gone offline suddenly and did not reply, and Du Baigong's question was also overwhelmed by other overwhelming news.

There were few people in the school, and it was not the official start time. When Hou Xiao arrived, he almost thought that he had gone to the wrong place, like a tourist area.

He was looking for the person in the guard room to ask the way, but the person seemed to be in a hurry to do something, so he just hurriedly pointed him in an unclear direction and left with his things in his hands, his heart was very big.Hou Xiao couldn't help it, so he had to walk around the school by himself, and walked to the side of the small leaf bushes several times.

Fortunately, there were people in the office on the first floor of the dormitory building. Hou Xiao pulled down his collar and explained his purpose to the people.After completing some formalities, she led Hou Xiao to the door of a dormitory, put the key in his hand, and waved away.

It seems that the staff of this school are quite casual.Hou Xiao slandered while opening the door. The dormitory was unexpectedly clean and tidy. It was a combination of the upper bed and the lower desk. There were four beds in total, one of which was already filled with things.

Hou Xiao picked the one in the corner and put it down. The mountaineering bag has a large capacity and contains a lot of things. It took him a lot of time to just take them out one by one.

There was a slight sound of footsteps in the corridor, and when Hou Xiao turned his head, he caught sight of the person who opened the door and came in, both of them were taken aback.

"I..." Ruan Tang opened his mouth, and closed the door behind his back, "What a coincidence, I can meet you here."

"I haven't heard from you for a long time, and I didn't expect you to become roommates." Hou Xiao stood leaning against the desk, "You're doing well. Didn't you say that you will never be in the same school as me?"

Ruan Tang curled his lips, stooped to find his wallet in the cabinet and stuffed it into his pocket, then turned to ask him, "Don't stab me around the corner. Are you going out to eat? I'm treating you."

They found a restaurant, located in a dark alley, the red brick walls were covered with various small advertisements, and there was a thick sour smell floating in the air, strangely, when When Hou Xiao walked to the door of the restaurant, he couldn't smell those smells anymore.

The air conditioner was turned on in the restaurant, and the heating was blowing loudly. The heating effect was many times better than the air conditioner in their school.Ruan Tang seemed to be a regular customer, and he reported a list of dishes without even taking the menu, and waited for the waiter to finish memorizing them before asking for Hou Xiao's opinion.

"casual."

Ruan Tang then added another side dish of porridge, pulled out a chair and sat down. "I just didn't perform well. My mother was very desperate at first and wanted me to repeat it. Later, I thought about it. The school is small, and I thought I couldn't meet anyone I knew."

"My family is fine." Hou Xiao picked up the water glass and put it to his lips, "They may all... have no way to speak cruelly of me."

Ruan Tang was breathing into the palm of his hand, but when he heard this, he paused, not knowing what to do next.Although he has been with Hou Xiao for a long time, it was after all when he was young and ignorant. He only heard a little about the situation in Hou Xiao's family, and he was not very clear about the specific situation, so he had to turn around hastily at the moment. Topics, try to talk about some cheerful content.

The store serves food very quickly, and the tables are filled to the brim in no time.Ruan Tang pulled his chopsticks, picked up a potato and threw it into his mouth: "I heard that the school's photography club is good, do you want to join?"

"I don't know." Hou Xiao lowered his eyelids, and somehow remembered Du Baigong when he was holding the camera.He has become very proficient in his old age, and he has probably shot many times. When did it happen?Is it summer vacation?

"If you have time, you can consult it. I heard it's okay...ah, is that Du Baigong?" Ruan Tang suddenly stopped talking, put down his chopsticks and pointed to the glass door not far away.

Du Baigong was talking to Lin Yuanliu, but he turned around when he heard the sound.Hou Xiao clenched the tableware in his hand, the cold touch was like clusters of sparks, crackling and crackling, burning the accumulated emotions in his heart.

Ruan Tang probably didn't regard Du Baigong as an outsider, and he didn't take a break from others, so he sold Hou Xiao out in one breath.

Hou Xiao sat on the side with his head propped up and sipped the drink in the glass silently, and didn't bother to answer Ruan Tang's conversation. He only gave him a supercilious look when the guy who sold his teammates and didn't know it turned his head, and then listened and listened He couldn't bear it himself, and turned his head to stare at the shoe prints in the corner.

As expected of Ruan Tang's background in literature and history, he told stories so vividly that if it wasn't for public places, Hou Xiao would have applauded him and yelled at him again.

How did he come here to eat, what school did he study at, how did he meet Hou Xiao, what happened to Hou Xiao—all kinds of things, Du Baigong understood clearly in just a few words .He nodded, feeling that he could pack up his things and change the subject, so he pushed Lin Yuanliu twice to order.

Lin Yuanliu glanced at the dishes on the table, twitched the corners of his mouth twice, and reluctantly ordered two after-dinner refreshments for him.

"That's all right, you eat, I'm going back to school, I'm too sleepy." Ruan Tang stood up, "Hou Xiao, are you going back?"

"Sleep after eating." Hou Xiao replied angrily, glanced at Du Baigong from the corner of his eye, sighed secretly, and refused, "I'll sit for a while, you can go."

As soon as Ruan Tang left, less than a minute after Lin Yuanliu left his seat, Du Baigong stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Hou Xiao. Hou Xiao had no choice but to raise his head and meet his eyes. "Du Baigong, are you bored?"

"That's the right tone. I'm not used to you being so polite before." Du Baigong smiled, "Your school is good, the photography club is very famous, and you often hold photography exhibitions jointly with other schools, but because you don't have the name of your school , so not many people know about it.”

"That idiot Ruan Tang didn't even realize what you said, so he revealed all my details."

"You can't say that. I'm concerned about my friends. It's not a cliché."

"Don't you have any ideas in your mind? You..." Hou Xiao suddenly realized Du Baigong's words just now, he pursed his lower lip in an unhappy mood, and tapped his fingers on the table lightly, "My friend."

His emotion was very light, but it was still caught in Du Baigong's ears.Du Baigong hesitated to say something, but was interrupted by Lin Yuanliu who came back with something.

As night fell, Ruan Tang was already fast asleep, so Hou Xiao didn't turn on the lights. He groped his way to the balcony. The lights on the tall buildings were not very bright, which made him miss the night market in the harbor. .

The bustling and noisy night market was not very special to Hou Xiao at first, but he did not expect that at a certain point in time, its status in his heart would undergo a drastic change, and its value would suddenly increase by several values.

After finishing the meal and leaving, Du Baigong grabbed him and exchanged contact information. Eleven monotonous numbers were lying in the contact list. Hou Xiao put this number on the top and then canceled it. Go down and turn off your phone.

He took out the earphones and put them on. There was always a single piece of pure music in the loop, and the whole song was only the sound of the rolling waves. Hou Xiao would listen to it when he was insomnia. But now he discovered to his great surprise that this song accompanied him. A lullaby for the whole summer vacation has no effect.

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[Note]: Adapted from "You leave memories like flames, and you leave me in the lonely lamp of memory." - Tagore "The Gardener Collection"

It's finally vacation again! ! !Spinning and jumping with my eyes closed! !