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The entire Ronghua Island was shrouded in a dark curtain of rain. Coming up from the pier, Gu Min turned to look at the dark sky behind him, where a bigger rain was brewing.It was no longer as lively as it was on a sunny day. There were no people around fifty steps along the mountain road. He took the umbrella from Liang An's house. He held it and walked up to the hotel on the mountain step by step.

The Internet cafe became a good place to go when it rained. He passed by the one he had been to before, and through the blurred glass windows wetted by rain, he could see faces shrouded in bluish fluorescent light.

"Huh—" Gu Ming lay on the bed, turned his head to look at the open window, the window screen was blown by the rain and wind, and it rose and fell irregularly, "Fortunately, it didn't rain the past two days." He "sighed" The window glass was pulled shut with a sound, and the rain fell on the glass, blurring the outside and making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Getting into bed and lying down, Gu Ming thought about Liang An's appearance at the pier when he was sent to board the boat. The sky was dark, the rain curtain and umbrella covered most of the people, and the diesel engine squeaked, and Liang An was on the pier in an instant. His figure became smaller and gradually turned into a blurred black spot. Parting was already sad, and it was even more sad on such a rainy day. Before falling asleep in a daze, he thought, tomorrow will be sunny.

Gu Ming slept for a long time this time, from four in the afternoon to eight in the evening, when he woke up his body was light, as if he was about to float out of the window.Opening the window, the rain outside stopped. Human voices mixed with the sounds of insects in the woods after the rain, and spread into the ears from far to near. He shook his head, opened all the window panes, yawned, and walked away. into the bathroom.

The wound on the foot was drenched all the way by the rain, and it was not disinfected in time after arriving at the hotel. Now it started to hurt. Gu Ming wrapped a band-aid, walked to the hotel carport step by step, picked up the rented bicycle, and took it away after eating. It is okay.

The island's characteristic seafood hot pot starts at 15:[-] p.m. All seafood comes from Guangcun, such as abalone, sea prawns, crabs, clams, conch, scallops...all are fresh, and the seawater tank is filled with oxygen.The business was booming, and Gu Min had to wait for [-] minutes for a seat. The soup base was a clear soup pot. In addition to the special seafood in the store, he also ordered a portion of tripe, yellow throat, and bullfrog, and a cup of lettuce.

It’s not exciting to eat hot pot alone. When the dishes come up, the pot is opened, and you just go in. In addition to the fresh ingredients, what makes Gu Min think it’s okay is the mushroom beef sauce in the dipping sauce. It’s very fragrant and doesn’t have many annoying chili seeds In short, it was a satisfying dinner. Of course, he also took a few photos and sent them to Liang An, but he didn't get a reply.

……

"Hello." Gu Ming raised his head to look at the sun, squinted his eyes half-closed, brushed two handfuls of wet hair with his palms, and determined who was calling him, "Mom, what's the matter?" After two nights and one day of rain, Ronghua Island finally cleared up. , Come here, how can you not go diving? He had just landed, and before he had time to change his clothes, he received a call from Gu's mother.

"Where did you go to play? I didn't see you in the store." Gu's mother, surnamed Lin, single character Yan, is a 55-year-old woman who loves playing mahjong and has a side job urging Gu Min to get married.

"I went to Ronghua Island to play, didn't I tell Uncle Lin?" Gu Min coughed twice and sniffed, unable to tell if he was playing stupid.

"Tch!" Lin Yan booed him, annoyed, "When will you come back? Have a meal with mom on the day you come back?"

Gu Ming smiled, and asked her back, "It's so good, why do you suddenly want to eat with me?" Lin Yan became angry when he heard his smile, "It's so good? How long has it been since you had dinner with grandma?"

"If you don't want grandma to take care of you, just get married. If you get married and let your wife take care of you, it will save me trouble." She snorted, "Do you think I want to have dinner with you? I don't know how to play mahjong when I have time." Win money."

"Okay, okay, I want to have dinner with grandma, okay? When will I go back... Well, I will arrive tomorrow evening." Looking at the sea in the distance, he smiled and asked: "Is the card luck good recently? I listen to you, Did you lose money again?"

Lin Yan didn't speak, and said falteringly: "I haven't lost much. You win or lose in mahjong. How can you win all the time?" Gu Ming didn't believe it, so he took the opportunity to persuade her, "People say that children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and sisters and sisters are all married. Now that you have a child, why don’t you catch me.” He lowered his voice, sounding very believable, “It’s just that you always worry about my affairs, and you lose money easily when you are unhappy, people say you love to laugh Girls are not too unlucky, there is a reason for that.”

"Fuck!" Lin Yan became angry when he heard him say this, "How old is your mother? What kind of girl is she? I don't want to be a girl, I want to be a grandma. Aunt Liu, who is the same age as you, has two It's a child." She said sadly, "You don't even want to meet girls, how can anyone talk to you as friends?"

"Oh ho ho ho, look at you." Gu Ming was most afraid that she would be sad, "Okay, let's not talk about it, you decide where to eat." Suddenly he remembered something, "You won't take the opportunity to arrange a blind date Bar?"

"Arrange a ghost!" Lin Yan scolded him, "I'll pick you up at the station when the time comes, so I can go to some Ronghua Island to play, and come back like a black ghost."

"That's good." Gu Ming smiled at her, "Then see you tomorrow, Mom."

……

Gu Ming has a good sense of direction, and this is only the second trip here, and he can almost remember the signs on the way back.Cars were not allowed to come up at the exit of the station, so Lin Yan had to wait for him at the exit. She couldn't believe her eyes, and it was not until Gu Ming waved to her that she came back to her senses.

After driving the car to a small road and stopped, she gave Gu Min a pat before she took a good look at her son's face and arms, "Damn it, you're sunbathing outside 24 hours a day, it's so dark! No sunscreen Paint it?"

Gu Ming looked at himself in the mirror, "It's okay, it's not so dark, it's about the same as before." Just after finishing speaking, Lin Yan took another slap, and Lin Yan stared at his shoes, "There are still feet, why? Huh? There was a pause when I came over."

"This." Gu Ming lowered his head and smiled, "I cut a stone and put a Band-Aid on it. It hurts a bit when I walk." Lin Yan sighed, a little helpless, "Where to eat? I'm a little hungry, Mom. "

Lin Yan drove the car off the alley and waited for the traffic lights, "There's a Japanese grocery store by the side of Chunying Square, it hasn't been open for a long time, your Aunt Liu has been there last time, and she said it's not bad." She turned to look at him, " Clean it up, it looks so listless."

Gu Ming leaned on the co-pilot's seat, originally idle, but after listening to her, he became alert, but his face was still calm: "It's just a meal, what energy do you need?"

Sure enough, 25 minutes later, this vigilance was fulfilled. Gu Min looked at the two people in front of him—a woman about the same age as Lin Yan and a young girl, and smiled slightly, "Hi, you." But in his heart, hehe , was fooled by Grandma again.

He has his own house to live in. Usually, Lin Yan can only raid hot pot restaurants if he wants to see him, but it is impossible to persuade him to go on a blind date. With her petite figure and her age, she can't even push a 1.8-meter Gu Huan, here he was madly dissing Grandma in his heart, while Lin Yan had already told the introducer and the girl about Gu Huan's situation, and expressed dissatisfaction and apology for his attire.

In the eyes of the introducer, the matter of the Gu family was considered a special situation. The son refused to go on a blind date, and the mother frantically urged the marriage. If she hadn't known Lin Yan well, she would have ignored it. She was asking for trouble.

Gu Ming didn't want to return, he still had to be polite, the introducer answered whatever he asked, everything was easy to talk, it can be said that he didn't want to embarrass the other party, he said whatever he could, after the meal, He also drove them back home one by one.

Gu Huan did not have the bad temper of his sister. Ever since his father left, he had never lost his temper with Lin Yan once. He sent the girl home safely. He got into the co-pilot while Lin Yan was still standing outside the car. He hooked his lips and leaned against the car window, "Sister Yan, come up yet, I'm going home to get something." He used this address to show that he was not angry, and he knew that his mother was actually very fragile. Yes, I will get timid if I do something that makes my child angry.

"Don't do this in the future, look at what clothes your son is wearing, it's so shabby." Lin Yan was driving, and Gu Ming muttered next to her, "The girls will feel uncomfortable."

"I'll tell you carefully, will you come?" Lin Yan said in a low voice, she turned her head and glanced at her son, "You always refuse to promise grandma...you don't want to get married right away when you see her." It's not over, Gu Ming didn't pick up on it, of course he knew why he refused to go on a blind date, he likes men, this is a dead end that he can't tell Lin Yan yet.

"What are you going home to take?"

"Some old stuff, I suddenly thought of it, so I went back and looked for it."

The car keys were thrown on the table, Lin Yan turned and went into the kitchen, and yelled at Gu Ming who entered the room, "Will you make some honey water?" No one answered, she took the honey jar and walked to the door of the kitchen, "Gu Min obliterate!"

When she roared, a reluctant voice came out of the room: "Well, good!" Lin Yan sighed, poured honey into the cup, and said to herself: "I'm so used to him, I might as well go and beat him if I have this skill." Mahjong, really..."

Holding a cup in his left hand, drinking by himself in the right, Lin Yan leaned against the door, Gu Min bent over and retreated from the bottom of the bed, pushed a cobweb from a corner, dragged out a box, the dust vibrated with the box When it fell and blew it everywhere, Lin Yan coughed twice and waved them away, "Drink the honey water first."

Gu Ming clapped his hands, sat on the bed, took the honey water and drank most of it in one gulp, panted, "I almost couldn't find it." Lin Yan frowned and looked at the spider web on his head, and took out two pieces of paper, "Wipe Wipe, I’m still sitting on the bed when my body is dirty.” Glancing at the box on the ground, “What’s inside?”

Gu Min smiled, "Amma forgot what I brought back?" He returned to Lin Yan when he was 24 years old. When he just graduated, he told his mother that he would never come back to this small city. Years later, I didn't say anything clearly and came back.

"It's very good, why dig it out?" This is the old house of the Gu family. Gu Ming bought a house and moved out. Many things are newly bought, and almost all the old things are left here. They are sealed in a big box and put everything away. It's under the bed.

Gu Ming rolled his eyes, finished drinking the honey water, and looked at Lin Yan, "Didn't Grandma ask me why I went to Ronghua Island?" Lin Yan curled her lips, "What are you going to do?"

"Playing is secondary. The most important thing is to meet an old friend over there." Gu Ming lay down on the bed, "So I stayed there for a few days."

"See Jiaxing?" Among Gu Min's friends, Lin Yan only knew Cao Jiaxing. Gu Ming sat up from the bed, "It's not him, a high school classmate."

Lin Yan got excited, her eyes lit up, and she stared at him, "Male or female?" Gu Min smiled, "Male."

"Tch." Lin Yanbai glanced at him, took the cup on the table and wanted to go out, "Are you sleeping here tonight?" "Yes." Gu Ming pointed to the box on the ground, "The things inside need to be tidied up. Take it away tomorrow." "As you like."

The mouth of the box has been sealed for several years, and the dust ran in from the cut surface of the tape. It was very easy to tear, and it was not tightly closed. All the things in the house, the tape he pasted six years ago, he tore off again six years later.

He moved out of the school dormitory in his senior year and shared it with Liang An.The relationship between the two of them developed so naturally. From friends to lovers, from kissing to sleeping, they got along just like that. Gu Min had never gotten along with anyone so smoothly since he was a child. He naturally found that Liang An liked him because of his personality and hobbies. He naturally wanted this love.

The cardboard rubbed against each other, making a scuffing sound. There were so many things that got into my eyes. Gu Min didn't know what to look for. The weather in this city was too humid, and a musty smell came over my face. Things from six years ago seemed to be plated in the old days. There is a layer of old shadows on it, and it feels very strange when you turn it over. Books, mugs with slits, toothbrushes that have been opened... They collide with each other, and they make a clanking sound. Many Gu Min forget when and in which supermarket they bought them. I'm back.

Why did he come back, just because staying there, he felt bored.