Apex sand

After exiting the high-speed rail station, Lin Xie and Yu Wanzhou got into the car that picked them up side by side. Yu Wanzhou looked out the window at the already unfamiliar scenery, and felt a little too close to home.

That day, Lin Xie told him about the demolition of Qingshan Village. He lost his composure on the spot and broke a cup. If Lin Xie hadn't moved him quickly and hugged him aside, the hot water in that cup would probably have spilled all over him. .

It took him a while to accept the fact that his self-built two-story building would no longer exist, and then he decided to go back to Qingshan Village. Packing up things was secondary, he had to relocate his parents' graves.

Yu Wanzhou has not been back here for ten years. The great changes that have taken place in the past ten years make him feel lost. This feeling is especially severe on the way from the station to Qingshan Village. He actually doesn’t know the way home anymore. The road has disappeared, replaced by the newly built route, which is wide, smooth and unfamiliar.

The station was a little far from the village, and it took them almost an hour to reach their destination.

The car stopped in front of Yu Wanzhou's house, and the two of them felt nostalgic when they got off the station.

Aunt Zhou was watching TV at home, when she heard the movement outside the door, she looked out curiously, frowning and wondering who these two familiar young people were.

Yu Wanzhou saw Aunt Zhou with half of her body exposed at a glance, her eyes turned red suddenly, she sniffed and smiled, "Aunt Zhou."

Lin Xie also found Aunt Zhou after hearing him call out, and called out.

Aunt Zhou thought for a while, and asked hesitantly, "Nao Nao? Xiao Xie?"

"It's us."

"Ouch!" Aunt Zhou straightened up after hearing the words, walked quickly in front of the two of them, raised her head and patted Yu Wanzhou's arm lovingly, then turned her head to look at Lin Xie, and said with emotion: "It's so big. "

Aunt Zhou knew that there was no one in Yu Wanzhou's house, so she didn't ask him why he never came back in the past ten years. She just asked him if he was doing well outside and whether he was being bullied.

Yu Wanzhou smiled and told Aunt Zhou that she had been doing well, while sneaking a sideways glance at Lin Xie.

Lin Xie felt guilty, touched his nose and dared not speak.

After chatting with Aunt Zhou for a while, they sent her home and opened the door of Yu's house with the key left by Aunt Zhou.

Because someone has been cleaning it, even though no one lives in Yu’s house, it is considered clean, and everything looks like it was ten years ago. The first floor is the living room, the bedroom of Yu’s father and Yu’s mother, the bathroom and the kitchen, and the second floor has the same layout. However, the original location of the kitchen was Yu Wanzhou's study.

Yu Wanzhou opened all the front and rear doors for ventilation, and planned to go to his parents' bedroom first to see what else he needed to take away. He had already packed up the important things when he left last time, and now he just wanted to see what was there. omit.

Lin Xie helped him rummage through all the drawers and cabinets, and finally found a photo among a mess of manuals and bookshelves. It was a group photo of Yu Wanzhou's family of three when he was [-] days old.

The photo is a little yellowed, and there are some moldy spots, but Yixi can see how tender the young couple looked at the child in their arms.

Yu Wanzhou rubbed her parents' faces in the photo with her fingers, with a look of nostalgia on her face, Lin Xie didn't disturb him, but just accompanied him quietly.

It didn't take long for Yu Wanzhou to pack up her mood and put away the photos, and motioned Lin Xie to go upstairs with him.

There are two bookshelves and a desk in the study room. Except for the extracurricular books bought by Yu Wanzhou on the bookshelves, they are all his teaching aids from elementary school to high school. One of the great illusions in life is that when entering a higher school, I always feel that the previous books may be sent to school. However, the facts always prove that these books are really only used for occupying space, except for giving to relatives, friends, and children in the lower grades for preview or selling scraps.

Yu Wanzhou looked at the two shelves full of books and felt in her heart that the quality of the bookshelves was so good that they hadn't collapsed yet. At the same time, she thought that she would have to ask Aunt Zhou if she had the phone number of someone who collected waste.

Yu Wanzhou's study is not just for Yu Wanzhou's use alone, so he naturally wouldn't put important things here. After a cursory look around, the two of them went to Yu Wanzhou's bedroom.

The bedroom faces south, and the curtains are drawn, making it a bit dark. Yu Wanzhou walked to the window and opened the curtains, and the bedroom was suddenly brightened.

Lin Xie looked around and found that there was not much difference from before he left. There was a table, a wardrobe, an old-fashioned TV and a long TV cabinet. What was left was a single bed and a bedside table , all the wooden furniture was made by the carpenters of the village, with only a simple layer of varnish, the shape is extremely old, but it is more durable.

The Yu family’s house has no special decoration. It looks like it was built, and it looks like it afterward. There is only a bare fluorescent lamp on the roof, and the four walls are still the original white cement. The wallpaper, and even the paint that Yu Wanzhou scribbled on the wall when she was a child are still there. Lin Xie still remembers the situation where Yu Wanzhou was pressed on his leg and spanked by Yu's father because of this.

Yu Wanzhou lifted the cloth covering the bed and packed up the few booklets scattered on the bed. Lin Xie was a little surprised and asked curiously: "What are these?"

Yu Wanzhou grabbed something and wiped off the thin dust on the TV cabinet, sat on it, and handed the things in her hand to Lin Xie: "Look for yourself."

Lin Xie took the opportunity to sit next to him, and opened the things Yu Wanzhou gave him.

The first one is a thin photo album, and the photos in it are without exception a group photo of Lin Xie and Yu Wanzhou. I would like to see the final pampering beyond words.

Although it was just the kind of petting for his younger brother at the time, it was enough to make Lin Xie feel regretful.

"If I had known that we could be together now, I should have taken you back as a child bride."

Yu Wanzhou kicked him in disgust, breaking his fantasy: "Stop dreaming, if you really do that, let's see if my dad doesn't break your leg."

Lin Xie put his arms around his shoulders, carefully looked at the young Yu Wanzhou, and changed the subject: "Your facial features haven't changed much from when you were a child, but..." Lin Xie couldn't help laughing: "The skin color has changed a lot. "

One is so dark that he can meet his African brothers, and the other has smooth milky white skin. Lin Xie really can't imagine how Yu Wanzhou got such a tan back then, and made himself mistakenly think that it was his original skin. His skin color, the fair skin he had when he was a child, were all his illusions.

After reading the photo album, Lin Xie carefully put it aside, not wanting to drop it, then unfolded the piece of paper under the photo album, glanced at it twice, and his face became a little indescribable: "Love letter?"

Yu Wanzhou nodded indifferently: "It was written by my classmates."

Lin Xie glanced at the inscription with a complicated expression, and frowned: "Boy?"

Yu Wanzhou nodded again, and pursed her lips tightly: "He secretly stuffed it in my schoolbag, but I didn't open the schoolbag because I was busy playing during the holidays, and my mother who wanted to wash the schoolbag for me saw it in the end."

"Afterwards, they asked me about my sexual orientation, and said that I could find a girlfriend after I graduated. I knew I was gay a long time ago. At that time, I thought that I would come out of the closet sooner or later, so I should just say it out loud. Finally. …”

In the end, there was a big fight, and Yu Wanzhou didn't even see the last side of his parents.

Lin Xie hugged him tightly, not knowing how to comfort him.

Yu Wanzhou thinks more clearly than him about some things. He didn't blame himself for the death of his parents, but he just felt regretful. When he was a child, he thought that when he grew up, he would go to a big city to buy a big house for his parents. , took them on tours, and the last one didn't come true.

Holding back the tears, Yu Wanzhou patted Lin Xie's arm to make him let go: "Do you want to watch the rest?"

Lin Xie briefly glanced at the cover, feeling like a diary, so he didn't open it: "Diary?"

Yu Wanzhou shook her legs, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "It's a love letter, it was written before." But none of them were sent out.

Lin Xie thought of something, his eyes widened in surprise, and his nose was a little sore, he turned to a page and it was written for himself.

The young Yu Wanzhou's writing skills are still a little immature, in order to appear to pay attention to the correctness of every stroke, every line is full of ignorant and pure love for Lin Xie.

Lin Xie sighed in his heart, how much he missed.

They also found some old photos, certificates, decorations that Yu Wanzhou used to like very much, etc., and picked them up to take them all to City A. There was nothing to clean up furniture and the like, and they sold them as scraps.

Yu Wanzhou's house hadn't been lived in for ten years, so naturally they didn't have any clean bedding, so the two went to Grandpa Lin Xie's house after finishing packing and locking the door, and rested there at night.

After taking a shower and drying their hair, the two of them lay side by side on the bed. The bed was a single bed, and it was tricky to sleep side by side. Lin Xie simply turned his body sideways and hugged Yu Wanzhou in his arms, only then did he feel more comfortable.

Just when he was about to sleep or not, Yu Wanzhou suddenly said, "The last sentence my dad said to me was don't go home until you get rid of the problem of liking men. It should be his last words."

Lin Xie woke up instantly when he heard the words. He couldn't see Yu Wanzhou's expression clearly when the light was turned off, but he could feel that he was very unhappy, so he stroked his back and kissed his forehead, and comforted him in a gentle voice: "Uncle loves you very much, so You can take this as he was too angry to say anything, he and his aunt must miss you very much."

Yu Wanzhou didn't know if he was comforted enough, and he didn't respond. It was a long time later in the darkness that he heard a low "Yeah."