Amorous Short Stories

When Tao Yisu woke up, he was in a mountainous area in Morocco. To be precise, he was in an air-conditioned hut. There are many trees here. Although the weather is hot, it is not stuffy.In fact, Tao Yisu woke up several times in the middle, but the anesthetic was stronger, and Tao Yisu fell asleep again shortly after waking up.

When he woke up, Nian Yao, who was standing at the door leaning against the door frame and looking at his mobile phone, raised his eyebrows: "How is it?"

Tao Yisu felt a little nauseous, took a sip of water and suppressed it: "Where am I? Why? What time is it? I want to go home."

Nian Yao put down his phone and made gestures to comfort him: "Calm down, your stomach is pierced." Tao Yisu glared at him, Nian Yao obviously did not answer his question.

"You are in Morocco, you have to stay here for a while, the fox is looking for you."

"So?" Tao Yisu was puzzled.

Nian Yao pulled up a chair and sat down: "Yan Yuyou is dead."

Tao Yisu lowered his eyes and said nothing.Nian Yao continued: "I don't know if it was done by the fox. Yan Wen came to power, now is a time of tension, and if something happens to you outside the office, things will get out of control. You hide here for a while, let Yan Wen take over there." Take care of the matter." Nian Yao lowered his head to look at his wound, "By the way, your injury is quite serious."

Tao Yisu held back and asked, "How long?"

Nian Yao shrugged, twitched the corner of his mouth, and tried his best to think about the time: "It won't be long, procrastination is not good for Yan Wen."

Tao Yisu looked up at him: "How long?"

Looking at this look, Nian Yao felt that Tao Yisu had really changed: "Half a month? About the same."

Tao Yisu didn't speak.

Nian Yao began to persuade him: "It's only half a month. To be honest, since the end of your third mission, you have been procrastinating for half a month. Why go to India to find the dead body? Ask and ask. I was really in a hurry, so I just passed by. Go find it by yourself, maybe it will be faster." Xiaozhi said with emotion and reason, "I know, you are scared. It's normal, when you go out, follow when you go back , It’s not the same person. I’ve seen people on the battlefield.” Nian Yao stepped back, “You’re in really bad shape, I think you might need to see a psychiatrist. You can also prepare here, right?”

"Never mind your business."

Nian Yao sighed: "Really, I didn't think you could do this job at the beginning, you are too entangled. Really, there are some things you can't take too seriously, and some things are both serious and light. People , come and go..."

Tao Yisu raised his eyes: "Nian Yao."

"Ok?"

"Shut the fuck up."

Nian Yao and Tao Yisu looked at each other for two seconds, and put on a relaxed expression: "Okay, okay. Your gun, your life, your life...so I agree? You stay here for half a month."

Tao Yisu looked at him seriously: "Half a month, if you don't come, I'll go find you."

Nian Yao's expression turned ugly: "I'm just following orders, it's useless for you to threaten me..." Then seeing Tao Yisu's fierce expression, he rolled his eyes and endured, "Okay, I got it."

Tao Yisu went out to see Nian Yao off. When he got in the car, Nian Yao said, "Oh, by the way, you can't leave here. A crowded place is very dangerous. Some people have escaped here before, so there is no shortage of food and water here. There is no problem for half a month, and the toilet is still equipped with a flush toilet, so you will live comfortably. There is a river to the south, with mountains and water, so it is a good place."

Tao Yisu sighed, looked up at the tall tree, the sunlight was scattered by the branches and leaves, and shattered on the ground, the green leaves swayed in the breeze, making a rustling sound.There are intermittent bird calls in the distance, which cannot be heard clearly, but the frequency is very slow, long and comfortable.Tao Yisu nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Also," Nian Yao added at the end, "There is another person here."

"What?" Before Tao Yisu could finish asking, Nian Yao drove away, and waved his hand back outside the window.

Tao Yisu turned around and saw another dilapidated shack about 30 meters away from his room.Tao Yisu thought for a while, then walked over there.The hole in his stomach still hurts so he walks slowly.

The hut has no door and is very small, with a bed, a table, a toilet, and not even a chair.The roof is a tall triangular shape, and two ropes are pulled to hang the clothes to dry.There was a pool of cheesecake on the table, which looked cold.A glass of water, and some lime pens.There is a wall—if the wood stacked together can be called a wall, Tao Yisu is very sure that the wall is leaking—short vertical lines are painted line by line, and if you look closely, it is not full, but the line that is close to the ground Not yet full.In the center of all this, a man was sitting on the bed, holding a gun in his hand, looking up at Tao Yisu.

Tao Yisu subconsciously stretched out his hand, indicating that he did not have a weapon.Only to find that the man didn't even aim the gun at himself, the man was just cleaning the gun, seriously and carefully.It was a shotgun, single-barreled smoothbore, and the whole gun was polished so that it looked like a human being, and could be used as a mirror.

The man had gray hair and looked about 50 to [-] years old. His beard covered most of his face, so his eyes were particularly protruding. His eyes were blue-gray, lifeless and undisciplined, but he was indescribably cruel and ferocious.

Neither of them spoke, they were quiet for a few seconds, and Tao Yisu said, "What should I call you?"

The man answered irrelevantly: "I know who you are."

Tao Yisu pointed to the clothes hanging in the room: "You know you can hang them outside, right?"

The man's posture and eyes remain unchanged: "It doesn't matter."

Tao Yisu nodded, thinking it was better to leave. "Do you need a light?"

"Do not."

Tao Yisu couldn't carry on the conversation, so he nodded and left first.

Tao Yisu didn't sleep well at night. Although he suffered from insomnia and woke up at night from nightmares, now there is a person cleaning his gun day and night 30 meters away, and he always feels unsafe when the door is locked.

After living there for two days, Tao Yisu discovered that this feeling of insecurity was mutual, the man never went out.Tao Yisu has a small kitchen here, but after he comes, that person can no longer cook, so he doesn't eat at all.Tao Yisu observed him for two days, and the man just kept eating cheese cakes with the same glass of water, so the cakes might actually be broken.

So on the second night, Tao Yisu walked into his shed, put a sandwich, a plate of pasta, and a glass of water, and took away his empty plates and glasses.Tao Yisu pointed to the food: "It's all instant food, and it should be easy to eat once it's hot." The man looked up at Tao Yisu, didn't speak, and continued to wipe his gun with his head down.Tao Yisu didn't look at him, turned and left.

All is well, Tao Yisu is waiting for the time to come.He now has a special ability, he can stay in a daze for a long time, there is no TV, radio, books, or any entertainment, Tao Yisu can just sit outside and bask in the sun for a day.Especially when he found a piece of wood behind the house, he started to carve something with it.

He was sitting on a small stool outside and was sharpening the edge of wood with a knife when he heard a voice from the man's hut: "Why are you here?"

Tao Yisu turned his head to take a look, then turned back: "I'm injured."

"where."

"the Philippines."

"...Where did you hurt?"

"There's a hole in the stomach."

"ambush?"

"I'm running away."

"Are you on guard?"

"Ah."

"why?"

"..." Tao Yisu paused, "Look at a bird."

"Your teammates are so pitiful."

Tao Yisu didn't speak.

The shed was also silent for a while, and then the voice rang again: "This must not be easy for you... After all, you shouldn't be here at all."

Tao Yisu put down the things in his hands, turned around, and said in a firm tone, "What?"

"I said," the man looked up at him, "I know who you are."

Tao Yisu tilted his head to look at him: "Are you a fox?"

"Fox? That idiot..." The man sneered and shook his head, "I only know about that... About five or six people know about it."

Tao Yisu looked at him as if he was lying, so he retrieved his wood and knife and continued to sharpen them.

The man stared at Tao Yisu, and smiled cruelly: "Do you hate him? Don't you hate him?"

Tao Yisu became vigilant: "What?"

"Don't you blame him? You don't think, if he doesn't die, you don't have to live for him. Once he dies, how do you live? Do you want to work hard? Do you want to kill? You Why do you do this? Just because he died? You didn’t tell him to die.” The man stared at Tao Yisu aggressively, “How do you get along with yourself? What do you think of yourself, some kind of reptile? Curl up Live by yourself, think about nothing, do nothing, and be responsible for nothing."

Tao Yisu stood up, ready to leave.

"I see." The man's eyes lit up, and he continued, "The point is not what you take yourself, but what you take him. You have to treat him as a god. Only in this way can you dedicate your life to him, and he will not Wrong, he is distant and noble, so you can continue to do it. Otherwise, you have only known him for a few days, how many years will it take to make up for him? He must be a god, otherwise you should hate him. "

Tao Yisu stood where he was, watching the man get excited and throw hurtful words, trying to kill people with words.

Tao Yisu still walked away, he decided to go and see the river that Nian Yao was talking about.

The man watched Tao Yisu go away, lowered his head and continued to wipe his gun vigorously.

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After drinking his own water, the man picked up the lime pen, went to the wall, squatted down, and heavily marked the last line on the wall.Walking back to the bed, he hung his head and was absent-minded. Anxiety and panic struck him, so he had no choice but to pick up the gun and wipe it again.

It was getting dark outside, and Tao Yisu came back.The man watched Tao Yisu walk in, put food for him, changed the water, and turned to leave, but he didn't.He stood still outside the shed, took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked against the door.

The man's room was dark, and he could see the room intermittently with Tao Yisu's smoky light and a bit of moonlight.While the man was eating, Tao Yisu looked outside without saying a word.

"It's not a god." Tao Yisu said after a long time, "I don't regard him as a god. Because I don't believe in gods, and I won't do anything for gods. If there is a god, he should be omniscient, never make mistakes, and never be afraid. He's not, he's just an ordinary person. I don't hate him, and I can't blame him if I want to. I can probably guess what he relied on to survive, but I can't guess what mood he was holding to die. He was in that How lonely and desperate it must have been to choose to die without looking back..."

The man looked at Tao Yisu without speaking.

Tao Yisu turned his face and looked at the vertical road painted on the wall: "Also, you should deal with your own problems first. Shifting the focus to me will not help you."

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Tao Yisu counted the days and was about to leave.

He was ready, he could even enlighten himself.

The idea of ​​"going home" saved Tao Yisu in a sense.

Tao Yisu goes to the river every day.That day when he delivered the bread and water to the hut, the man greeted him for the first time: "Morning." Tao Yisu froze for a moment, then nodded back to him: "Morning." The man even smiled after hearing this.

Tao Yisu glanced at him, smiled back with the corner of his mouth pulled, and went out to the river.

He was standing by the river smoking a cigarette. The sun was good today, and the man seemed to be getting better. Tao Yisu looked at the sparkling water, and his mood became high. He was about to leave soon.

Suddenly, a gunshot came through the woods.Tao Yisu shook his hand.

With just one sound, everything is quiet again, the sound of the wind is still the sound of the wind, and the leaves are still swaying.

Tao Yisu paused, turned his head to look at it, and then turned back to continue smoking.He probably guessed that the days of scratching on the wall and cleaning the gun day after day were not for the sake of killing Tao Yisu.He was just thinking, sure enough, those who give advice to others will find it harder to solve their own problems, and those who decide to die will not hesitate.

When Nian Yao came to pick up Tao Yisu, Tao Yisu was digging a hole.Nian Yao walked into the hut to take a look, then walked away frowning, and made some small calculations, suggesting that he dig the hole himself, so that he would not have to carry the corpse.Tao Yisu nodded in agreement.

"Who is he?" Tao Yisu asked, perhaps engraving a tombstone or something.

"In the past, NT was the second in command in the field." Nian Yao returned to him while shoveling the soil, "The mission two years ago, they were arrested, and his entire team died, and the death was particularly miserable. One of them has turned into water. We don’t know the details. He is the only one who survived. He will die after he comes back. He must be insane. Otherwise, he will be eliminated by the fox sooner or later."

Tao Yisu looked at the densely packed vertical lines on the wall, and the last line was drawn at the last corner of the last row.

Tao Yisu dragged him out, buried him in the pit, and sealed it up.He stood for a while holding the chipped wooden sign, unable to think of what to write, finally stuck the sign on the mound of soil, and left with Nian Yao.