Twilight

Of course Yan Duo was joking, but Huang Wenxuan took it seriously, so much so that at the end of the intermission, before the start of the second half, his teammates surrounded each other to encourage each other, and he deliberately turned his body sideways to avoid Zhou Xu's hand.

After the match, Yan Duo and Gao Duoduo left Gongti with the flow of people, and waited for Huang Wenxuan by the curb last time.

Huang Wenxuan received a message from Yan Duo, saying that at the old place, he packed the changed jersey in his bag, waved goodbye to his teammates, and left in a hurry. Not long after he walked out, a staff member wearing their team uniform walked up to him , Huang Wenxuan remembered that he seemed to be the photographer in the team.

Wu Yan asked with a smile: "Aren't you going back with the team's bus?"

Huang Wenxuan let out a "hmm" and left sideways.

Wu Yan stood at the same spot, looked at his back for a moment, turned around, and saw Zhou Xu and Yang Peng walking back and forth. Win, everyone is very happy.

Zhou Xu patted Wu Yan on the shoulder when he came over, "Brother Wu, did you take two cool close-ups for me tonight?"

Yang Peng said disdainfully: "As far as your master version is concerned, just Xiao Wu's photo is not enough, you have to tell Xiao Wu from the official blog to give you a picture before posting."

Yang Peng poked him on the head, "Get out, no matter how hard I am, I'm better than you."

Wu Yan smiled and said: "There are all photos, I just checked it, it seems that the official blog has been published."

Zhou Xu whistled proudly, and walked away with Yang Peng on his arm, "Thank you."

Wu Yan said, "What are you polite about?"

When Huang Wenxuan found Yan Duo at the old place, he saw that he was instructing Gao Duoduo to run around a flower bed.

"Wait a long time?"

Yan Duo said: "Fortunately, there are a lot of people when the stadium comes out, so I can't walk fast." He took the sports backpack from Huang Wenxuan's hand and stuffed it into the car next to him, "Gao Duoduo is hungry again, you want to eat something What?"

Gao Duoduo heard it from the side, and shouted loudly: "I want to eat mousse cake."

Huang Wenxuan said, "Then let's eat the cake."

Gao Duoduo ran over panting, Yan Duo looked at him and said worriedly: "Look at your sweat, you'd better go home and take a shower first, then I'll order takeaway." Then he took out his phone again.

Gao Duoduo whispered: "You let me run."

Yan Duo said without raising his head: "If you can save two bites, I won't force you to run around."

Gao Duoduo said: "Brother, is it because you have stomach problems that you can't eat fat?"

"Even if I don't have a stomach problem, I won't make myself fat." Yan Duo ordered the cake, put his phone in his pocket, opened the passenger door, and said to Huang Wenxuan, "Get in the car." His voice dropped instantly. several degrees.

Gao Duoduo watched helplessly after Huang Wenxuan got into the passenger driver and his brother closed the car door and went to the driver's side, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Why don't you open the door for me?"

Yan Duo put his hands on the car door, "Then don't go back, just stay here."

Gao Duoduo got into the back row aggrieved, "You discriminate against fat people."

Yan Duo turned back to look at him and said, "I don't discriminate against fat people, I only discriminate against you. You can see for yourself that the back row will almost not be able to accommodate you, and you still don't have the consciousness to shut up."

Yan Duo originally thought that Gao Duoduo was a sensitive child, but after getting along with him this day, he found that his heart was as broad as his body, so he started his mocking mode with confidence.

Huang Wenxuan watched Gao Duoduo being humiliated by his brother, and couldn't help interjecting, "Brother, don't get me wrong, Yan Duo didn't discriminate against you, he only opened the door for me because he is my boyfriend."

Yan Duo backed up the car and said, "Why are you talking to him?"

Gao Duoduo rolled his eyes, "Your boyfriend is jealous, you should pay more attention to him."

The speaker had no intention of listening to the listener, Huang Wenxuan suddenly thought of the picture Yan Duo sent him during the intermission, he looked at Yan Duo's expression with a guilty conscience, "I saw the picture you sent, it happened that the coach was talking about tactics, I I don't have time to reply to you, I..."

Although Yan Duo had watched Huang Wenxuan's shy and uneasy side many times, he still moved his heart the most, "I know."

His eyes were as substantial as they swept across Huang Wenxuan's lips with heat, paused for a while, and then slowly moved down.

Huang Wenxuan felt his blood pressure soar, and talked softly with dry mouth: "I have an old injury on my knee, can I change it..."

Gao Duoduo, a big 250-watt light bulb, refused to pretend to be dead, and wanted to show his presence. He grabbed the front seat, with his head abruptly placed between the two of them, first rolled his eyes at his brother, and then turned around He rolled his eyes at Huang Wenxuan, "Please be a little civic-minded, just fall in love when you are in love, and don't flirt in front of children, okay?"

Yan Duo slapped him on the back of the head, "If you talk too much, I won't give you cake."

Refusing to eat was almost a fatal blow to the foodie Gao Duoduo. He shivered and closed his mouth, shrinking back and forth into the corner as quietly as a chicken.

In the evening, after the two of them washed and lay down, they were about to do something indescribable when Huang Wenxuan's cell phone rang inappropriately.

Huang Wenxuan freed his hand to pick up the phone, the caller was from an unfamiliar number.

A woman with a strong accent: "Hello, are you Xiao Huang? I'm the dean."

Yan Duo couldn't hear what was said on the phone, but saw Huang Wenxuan's expression turned serious, and he listened quietly to the other party for a while, and finally said, "I'll be there tomorrow, I'm sorry."

The air conditioner in the room was turned on very low, Yan Duo felt that Huang Wenxuan's body was a little cold, seeing him put down the phone, he hurriedly pulled him into his arms, "What's wrong?"

"The orphanage is calling, I have to go there tomorrow."

"I go with you."

"it is good."

The next day, Yan Duo left some cash for Gao Duoduo, gave some instructions, and hurried out with Huang Wenxuan. The two of them took an early flight across most of China. When they arrived in Los Angeles, it was already noon, because they had to transfer to a bus It took only 10 minutes to drive, so I had to buy bread and purified water at the terminal and left in a hurry.

As soon as Huang Wenxuan got on the bus, Yang Chu called, "Are you asking for leave?"

"Well, it's a personal matter, I have to leave Tongcheng for two days."

"one person?"

Huang Wenxuan glanced at Yan Duo beside him, "Come with him."

Yang Chu was eating lunch in the cafeteria, and he said absently, "Then when are you coming back? Xu Tie was looking for you just now."

Huang Wenxuan felt a little surprised, and said, "Did you say something?"

Yang Chu said: "I didn't say, the old man's complexion is not very good, or you can call him?"

"it is good."

Seeing that he hung up the phone, Yan Duo handed him a piece of bread, "Colleague?"

"Well, you have met, our team doctor, she said that a Chinese assistant coach is looking for me, and I need to call back." Huang Wenxuan took the bread and took a bite, and opened the phone's address book, only to find an office number. People pick up.

Xu Tie has a lot of experience in the XX team, but because the current coaching staff of the team are all Brazilians, although he has the name of an assistant coach and trains and competes with the team, he does not have much substantive work. He didn't have much interaction.

After thinking about it, he sent a WeChat to Yang Chu, asking her for Xu Tie's private phone number.

Yang Chu quickly called and Huang Wenxuan called.

Hearing that they were talking about the last round of competition, Yan Duo turned his gaze out of the window. The car had already got on the highway, and Los Angeles City was gradually being left behind. The mountains in the distance followed one after another. In the mountain city, the sky was blue and the air was fresh. He silently thought about how long he hadn't been back. At this time of year, the jacarandas in his grandfather's yard were about to fall.

After a bumpy journey, the two finally arrived at the orphanage at dusk. Auntie Zhou, the dean of the orphanage, was a kind-hearted woman. She asked the two to sit down and said in Mandarin, "I have something to do these few days. Not in the orphanage. When I came back yesterday, I heard that two people came to ask about the boy who was adopted by foreigners 20 years ago. Except for you, the rest of the adopted children were girls. I think you are the one they inquired about, so you are called here, maybe those two people know about your parents."

More than two years ago, Huang Wenxuan learned about his life experience from his adoptive mother. He registered information on a family search website and got in touch with the staff of the non-profit organization. After that, he decided to transfer to China. On the eve of returning to China, he contacted Hou Dajun, the original contact person, asked him to help find the orphanage back then. Not long after, he was told that the orphanage no longer existed. After all, after 18 years, the world has changed. Later, Hou Dajun went through many twists and turns based on the information they provided. Only then did I find the welfare home after its name change and relocation, but the staff of the welfare home back then are no longer alive, and the current management personnel only have some incomplete registration information in their hands, and they cannot provide any useful information related to him at all.

After more than two years, things finally made progress. Huang Wenxuan was a little excited, "What kind of people are they? Did they leave a phone call?"

Dean Zhou said: "They are all men. One is in his 30s and speaks with a local accent. He asks more questions. The other one looks older and doesn't talk much. The old Zhang who saw the two of them was driving by himself. It’s here, and the car has a local license plate. I didn’t leave the phone number, and I complained about Lao Zhang yesterday, but since they found this place, they will definitely come again. Don’t worry, just wait.”

In fact, there is not much really useful information, and it can be clearly stated on the phone that there is no need to make this trip, but Huang Wenxuan seemed very excited, and Yan Duo felt that it was worth the trip even if it was for nothing.

After talking about business, Huang Wenxuan took out 3 yuan from his backpack and handed it to Dean Zhou, "When I came in just now, I saw that the skin of the ball the children were playing with was torn. You can buy some toys for them."

Yan Duo probably understood the reason why Dean Zhou insisted on letting Huang Wenxuan come over in person.

Dean Zhou shyly declined for a while, but still accepted, leaving the two of them for dinner, but when they insisted on leaving, she graciously sent them out again.

Because it was too late, there was no bus back to Los Angeles that day, so the two had no choice but to stay in the only hotel in the town. There was a restaurant next to the hotel. The local dishes were very spicy. Chili, less salt.

Although the boss has controlled the amount of cooking than usual, Yan Duo still feels that it is too salty, so he drank water while eating.

After dinner, Huang Wenxuan suggested to take a walk by the river, saying that the scenery there was very nice.

The two walked along the river, and from time to time, children after school chased and ran past them, speaking the local language they could not understand.There are also elderly people leading their grandsons across the road, passing by a stall selling snacks, the grandfather stops to buy a kind of hot cake for the little grandson to eat.The smell of fireworks rushed towards his face, Yan Duo was a little dazed, his eyes kept chasing the old and the young.He remembered his grandfather.

Seeing him stop, Huang Wenxuan thought he didn't eat well just now, and asked, "Do you want to eat? I'll go buy some."

Yan Duo quickly shook his head, "No need."

Huang Wenxuan still ran to buy two yuan.

After walking for a while, the two stopped in front of an ancient ferry. Yan Duo looked at the clear water of a river, and suddenly remembered a sentence from Wang Wei's poem that he read when he was a child. scenery.

The twilight on the Qingjiang River was beautiful, and the two were tired from walking, so they sat down side by side on the bluestone at the ferry.

"Fate is really a wonderful thing." Yan Duo suddenly turned his face and said to Huang Wenxuan beside him.

"I ordered the English version of that book again, and I've finished reading it." Huang Wenxuan thought he remembered Marquez's novel.

"At least before yesterday, we would never have thought that we would be sitting here this evening." Yan Duo realized that he hadn't smoked for several days when he was digging into his trouser pocket, and there was only a lighter in his pocket.

Huang Wenxuan handed over xylitol in time, Yan Duo lowered his head and smiled, poured two pills into his mouth, and played with the lighter in his hand.

The sky was getting dark, and the light of the lighter flickered on and off, shaking Yan Duo's face from light to light, "How much do you remember about being in the orphanage when you were young?" He suddenly felt that the two words he just said were a bit sour, so he transitioned. After a while, the subject was changed.

Huang Wenxuan shook his head and said, "I don't really remember."

"Then have you ever imagined what kind of people your biological parents are?"

Huang Wenxuan's eyes rested on the women washing clothes by the river in the distance for a moment, and then looked at the pedestrians on the street, "I thought about it too, but I can't think of it. I heard that there is a local custom of patriarchalism. Twenty years ago, people here Abandoning a baby girl is a very common thing, but I am a boy, so there is no such possibility. I was abandoned when I was more than three years old. I heard from Dean Zhou that when I arrived at the orphanage, I could already eat by myself, and I didn’t bother People, I have come here at the most difficult time, and besides, I have no disabilities, so I can’t think of any reason why they abandoned me.” He chewed xylitol, quietly looking at the ground under his feet. Jiang Shui was silent for a while, and then said: "If my adoptive parents hadn't adopted me, I would have grown up in an orphanage, and probably wouldn't have read much. When I became an adult, I would go to the county town to find a job, and then never again. Come back... I asked, the life trajectory of the children who come out of that orphanage is roughly the same."

Hearing his voice, Yan Duo became more and more sad, and lightly pressed his hand on his shoulder, "But you are lucky, you were adopted, and your adoptive parents love you very much, and you were sent to play football in a football school since you were young." Since then, I have played for the giants in the First Division, and now I am back in China, and I am back in the orphanage where I stayed, and I have enough ability to thank those who have helped you."

"None of that matter."

The sky is getting darker, here is no better than the feasting and feasting in big cities, and there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the street, Huang Wenxuan suddenly leaned over, hugged Yan Duo, put his mouth against his ear and kissed him lightly, "I just met you It's my greatest luck."

The depression brought about by returning to Los Angeles was swept away at this moment, and Yan Duo suddenly felt that the water on the river in front of him brightened.