Boiling point

"Snacks, instant noodles, ice cream, do you need anything?" The flight attendant pushed the car all the way through the compartment, and there was no one in the back row, so she went to the front seat and stopped to ask again.

A boy wearing earphones raised his head and hissed with his fingers on his lips.

Only then did she realize that another boy was resting on the other's shoulder. The man was tall, his head was bent on his shoulder, and most of his body was twisted. The posture looked uncomfortable, but he slept soundly.

The boy who was awake whispered, "No need, thank you."

The flight attendant saw him move his legs inward, and carefully made way for the cart.

Li Yanqi put down the phone after reporting the situation to Uncle Zhao, turned his head to glance at the sleeping He Xin, moved his shoulders slightly, leaned back and closed his eyes.

It is now 11:30, and there are still 10 minutes before arriving at Nanxi.

Today, he ran around all day and went to many places. He Xin didn't sleep for the past two days, and walked around the streets and alleys with him.

After getting off the train at Anyuan Railway Station, they first went to the basement shared by his father and found the worker who anonymously sent him a letter, and heard him tell a few sad stories about his father before his death, his illness, his His regrets, his guilt and his humblest wish at the end of his life, he hoped that his son would never know of his death, and just remember that his dad was a bastard, rotted somewhere in the world.

The man narrated a peaceful story in a calm tone, there was no exaggerated sadness, and there was no deep pain worth crying out for. Li Yanqi listened to all this quietly, and learned that he was buried in a suburban cemetery, Then he said thanks and left.

They then went to the cemetery. It was raining lightly in Anyuan today, adding to the sadness of parting.There were a lot of people visiting relatives in the cemetery, and there was a strong smell of burning paper money. After Li Yanqi discussed the relocation with the cemetery management staff, he was taken to his father's original tomb.

The name on the tombstone is Li Dan. He Xin said that he probably used a pseudonym because he was afraid of being caught, but that was only one of the reasons. Li Yanqi thought that the main reason why he changed his name to Shan was because his mother was called Shan Tian. Rui it.

He felt a little funny, but also a little bitter.

It is always when people die that they regret the absurd things they did in the past, cherish everything they have now, and realize that the most important thing is right in front of them.

But there is no way back.

Li Yanqi knelt down and kowtowed a few times, then cleaned up the weeds around the cemetery, and finally borrowed a pack of cigarettes from He Xin, lit them and placed them in front of the tombstone as a sacrificial offering. Xin left.

A temple was built next to the cemetery, and it was named Yuchan with a nice name.Many people would stop by to pray after the sacrifice. Li Yanqi and He Xin followed the crowd up the mountain, and after a long queue, it was their turn to draw lots.

After paying for some incense, the master gave them two wishing sticks. What Li Yanqi got was peace and joy, and what He Xin got was wealth. They both thought that the other's lottery was more suitable for them. Under the guidance, they kowtowed to the Bodhisattva twice solemnly, and exchanged signatures with each other.

When they came out of the temple, the rain stopped, and they walked on the somewhat damp stone road, overlooking the mountain.

The sunset glow is very beautiful, reflected in the lush forests, you can breathe in the air mixed with the fragrance of earth after the rain when you close your eyes, and there are crowds of people underneath, everyone is as small as an ant.Li Yanqi thought, there are too many reasons to hate his father, but in this quiet and beautiful moment, everything is worth being forgiven.

So, forget it.

When his ashes arrived at Nanxi, he was buried with his mother under his real name, which was the last thing he did for him.

From now on, Li Yanqi will no longer live in the shadow of Li Jiming, he will have his own life.

The train jolted, and He Xin's head slid down involuntarily. Li Yanqi gently dragged it with his hands, but the other party still woke up.

"Fuck." He Xin's voice was very hoarse, he sat up straight and rubbed his neck and asked, "Are you there yet?"

Li Yanqi looked at his watch, "There are still 15 minutes, do you continue to sleep?"

"Don't sleep anymore." He Xin stretched out her arms, touched her face and said, "Did I hit my face? Why is it so painful?"

Li Yanqi noticed a long red mark on his right cheek, pointed to the zipper on his shoulder, and smiled at him.

He Xin scratched at her hair, still feeling sleepy, squinting her eyes at the culprit for more than a minute, and had the illusion that she would pounce on it and bite it to pieces in the next second.

It was already 12:30 when they got off the train station and took a taxi home. Li An was half asleep and half awake. In a daze, he felt someone kissed his forehead. He mumbled subconsciously, "Brother."

Li Yanqi tucked his quilt, sat on the edge of his bed and watched him for a long time, then said softly, "Brother loves you very much."

Li An snored a little, and did not forget to answer, "I love my brother too, my favorite."

When He Xin returned to the room, taking advantage of the smell of Li Yanqi before it disappeared, she threw herself on the bed and went to sleep. The effect of the sleeping pill lasted for a long time. She had no dreams all night and slept very comfortably until the next morning when he was caught. The foreign object on his wrist woke him up.

Sitting up from the bed and turning on the light, He Xin glanced at a hanging rope hidden under his watch. The little gourd on the rope looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere not long ago.

A small wooden gourd, a piece of red string, looks like a very new pendant, He Xin stared at it for a while, and always felt that the tip of the small gourd was glowing with Buddha's light.

Wait, Buddha Light?

He Xin suddenly thought of something, squinted his eyes and clicked his tongue, then turned the lighter in his hand.

Little sample, it's quite hidden.

Li Yanqi went out early in the morning, He Xin didn't find him, but he found his own breakfast, a stack of omelets and chocolate batter, which was very in line with his salty and sweet personality.

Uncle Zhao also cooked him an extra boiled egg and put it aside.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhao."

Uncle Zhao waved his hand, "Don't thank me, this is what Xiao'an couldn't eat, and you are the one who picks up the leak."

He Xin didn't care, peeled an egg, took two bites and asked, "Where's Li Yanqi?"

Uncle Zhao cleaned up the desks and chairs beside him and said, "I went to school. He said that I missed a lot of homework, so I have to go to school early to make up."

"The spirit of Xueba shines on the land of China." He Xin wiped the yolk crumbs from the corner of her mouth, and applauded without distraction.

On the way to school, he ran into Xu Lan. As soon as he saw He Xin, he rushed up and put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Did you see Li Yanqi? Did you see him?"

"No." He Xin asked, "What happened to him?"

Xu Lan stroked her chin and said, "He won't be in the classroom, I believe he will go directly to the Procuratorate."

Only then did He Xin realize that today is the day when Fei Jin's father will appear in court again.

Xu Lan took out a box of milk from his pocket and handed it to He Xin, "My brother received evidence from an anonymous person yesterday. I took a peek at it, and it seemed to be the surveillance video of the corridor at the scene of the crime. It was a bit long ago. , Many of the pictures are quite blurry, but it can be seen that it is the three of them, my brother immediately gave it to Prosecutor Qin after watching it, and if I can't think of anything unexpected, his father will definitely reduce his sentence for a few more years."

He Xin glanced at him, "Do you think it was sent by Li Yanqi?"

Xu Lan said, "I don't know, but I feel like there is no one else but him."

Chatting and chatting, they walked to the classroom. When He Xin entered the door, he found that Li Yanqi was writing the test paper with his head down. It was so disturbing, so I took out the book and put it on the table, and squinted it for a while.

After the two math classes were over, Li Yanqi came back from his state of concentrating on his study, looked down at the message from Xu Chenyan, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

——Fei Jin's father's sentence was commuted, and he was sentenced to three years for accidental manslaughter. I asked Qin Jian to tell the news of your father's death in court. Don't worry, there is no problem, and you will not be implicated.

He Xin stared at his no longer tense shoulders for a while, then poked his back and asked, "Is there a result in the case of Papa Fei Jin?"

Li Yanqi looked at him with an expression of "Are you a detective?"

"Is it serious?" He Xin lay on the table and smiled, "How is it? Has the sentence been commuted?"

Li Yanqi turned around to look at him, and nodded for a while.

He Xin didn't say anything, he could understand Li Yanqi's current mood, this matter had oppressed him for so many years, and now he was finally able to completely let go.

"The evidence you sent?"

The way Li Yanqi stared wide-eyed was a bit funny, and He Xin felt that it was pretty awesome to make him show such an expression, who prided himself on being calm.

"is not it?"

"Yeah." Li Yanqi's voice was still a little surprised, he coughed and said, "It's something from my dad's letter, I haven't opened it to read it, I really didn't want to care about it before."

He Xin asked, "Then why did you change your mind now?"

Li Yanqi sighed, "Aren't I going to start again? Then I have to throw away everything in the past without any grievances. Going to Anyuan to get my dad's ashes is the first step, and this is the second step."

He Xin gave him a thumbs up, and praised from the bottom of her heart, "Honestly, you are so cool."

Li Yanqi smiled in disbelief, "I thought you would think that my behavior of secretly sending evidence and not throwing it out in court is very dishonest, especially cowardly and cowardly."

He Xin raised his chin, "Have you watched TV? Every time in criminal investigation dramas, the mysterious and righteous third party usually chooses to do what he thinks is right in silence, and goes to court stupidly, only to be discovered by the villain Immediately after that, I will destroy your corpse and wipe out all traces." He tapped the table with his fingertips, "Anyway, the result is good, so what does it matter if you don't show up?"

Li Yanqi looked at him in silence for a moment, lowered his head and hooked the corners of his mouth. Recently, He Xin has always been saying golden sentences, and he can be comforted by just saying that. He is not a master who has been enlightened. Mysterious.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqi glanced at He Xin's wrist again, and saw a small section of red rope exposed. There was a feeling of suppressed joy breaking through the soil and jumping up a floor. Li Yanqi touched his chest and thought, The word "good mood" is really very abstract, and it will fly to him in a flash at an uncertain time.

The next class was Chinese class. The test papers for the in-class quiz were handed out that day. Most of the students in the class got good grades. No. 1 was Li Yanqi, who deducted a few points for composition and reading comprehension, and everything else was correct.

After Mr. Wang Lichun praised him, he immediately praised another classmate.

No one expected that the highest score in this composition would be He Xin.

For the 60-point composition question, he scored 58 points, plus all the multiple-choice questions in the front were correct, and he didn't write a single question in the latter question, which happened to be squeezed into the passing score line.

He Xin confessed to the drifting Wang Meiren very honestly, "I copied all the multiple-choice questions from Li Yanqi."

Wang Meiren opened her mouth and silently swallowed the next compliment.

After the test papers were handed out, He Xin looked at the rosy [-]-point score and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. He hadn't gotten a passing test paper for a long time. Wang Meiren's gratified face on the stage, the students around were shocked and stunned He looked in his eyes, as if his grades had rewritten some history. He would not be happy and proud of scoring ninety points, but this feeling was indeed fresh and not bad.

After class, everyone rushed over to admire He Xin's masterpiece. They wondered if Beauty Wang gave her 54 points extra for her beauty, but it was impossible after thinking about it. After all, Li Yanqi's composition score before was the highest. Only she scored [-] points.

Everyone was very curious. There were all those who teamed up to steal the test papers. Of course, in the end, He Xin kicked them out without exception. He would be more gentle with girls.

Although Li Yanqi did not participate in their activities, his curiosity was also aroused.

When school was over in the afternoon, he went to Wang Meiren's office. The teacher's computer had backup materials for excellent essays. Li Yanqi took advantage of the fact that he didn't come to class for the past two days and wanted to copy the courseware, and successfully copied He Xin's essay. copied to the U disk.

When he saw the scanned document, he heard his heart beat faster. Although He Xin's word was so ugly that he had to read it several times to recognize the original, but his title was written neatly, and the word "Lighthouse" was clear. before his eyes.

The so-called guilty conscience is like this. Li Yanqi almost threw the phone out the moment the phone rang.

Quickly restrained his face and calmed down, he heard the sound of strenuous effort, the other party seemed to be running, panting heavily.

"Hey."

"Li, Li, Li, Li Yanqi." After struggling to stop, exhaled a few breaths, and remained silent for a while, he mustered up the courage to say loudly into the receiver, "Thank you!"

Li Yanqi held the phone very close, and his eardrums ruptured. This was the first time he heard someone talking at such a loud volume.

"Huh?" He rubbed his earlobe, pretending to be puzzled, "Why are you thanking me?"

"It's nothing." Seeing that he didn't want to admit it, he didn't insist on asking anymore, "May I treat you to dinner tonight? Well... He Xin is also going, and I have an appointment with him, as well as Liao Mei, he I can't get through the phone, can you help me find him?" He laughed awkwardly, "Ah, I haven't asked if you are free yet."

Li Yanqi has to go to work at night, and the time is tight. He just wanted to refuse, but he heard Li Yan added with some expectation, "Can you come?"

Li Yanqi sighed, smiled, "Send me the address."

I was stunned for a moment, hung up the phone immediately, and sent him an address message without punctuation within a minute, and I could see that I was very excited.

Li Yanqi went to pick up Li An from a small school, and originally wanted to take him with him, but after thinking about it, with Liao Mei around, he might have to drink again, so he didn't let the little guy touch it, and let him have a drink last time , clamoring for a drink all day long.

Uncle Zhao said that it happened that he was going to attend a class reunion at night, and it would be easier to get back his money by taking Li An to eat and drink together.

When Li Yanqi tidied up the room and threw the clothes into the washing machine, he took out the USB flash drive in his pocket, weighed it in his hand for a while, and held back his curiosity, forcing it to put it on the table.

For some reason, he was a little nervous.

Probably because he saw the title of He Xin's composition was a lighthouse, subconsciously thought that the lighthouse was the lighthouse where they stayed together all night.

In addition to the lighthouse, there is dawn and sunrise.

What was that night like in He Xin's memory?

Is it nice and boring or just as normal as any other day?

He was undeniably eager to know the answer.

I took the trouble to book a small restaurant, in an intricate alley, the name is very popular, there are [-] restaurants in ten streets named this, Ah Qiang Restaurant.

Of course, the locals will be able to find the real Ah Qiang from a crowd of Ah Qiang very quickly, but not necessarily rich and handsome from other places. When Li Yanqi opened the door, he found a group of people crowded in a small box and handed He Xin their mobile phones one by one. WeChat.

"what happened?"

When Liao Mei saw the person coming, he let out a sigh, "Brother Ta, you came just in time, and He Xin got lost, ouch, this is so funny! Such a big man hahahahaha." After being glared at by Li Yanqi, he touched He touched the tip of his nose and coughed, "Why don't you go outside and look for it, Brother Ta? We have to rely on magic skills to get out of it."

The box is a bit small, and the boys are not short, so there is no place to rest their legs after finally sitting down.

Fei Jin said embarrassedly, "I would have booked a big box if I had known."

Li Yanqi said, "It's okay, you sit down, I'll go out to find him, let's order first."

Struggle smiled, "I'm sorry to trouble you, I've already ordered the dishes, you can order what you want."

"No need." After Li Yanqi finished speaking, he closed the door, walked a few steps and then turned back and said, "Order a lemon salmon."

He Xin hailed a stupid car and almost drove him into the river according to his address. In the end, the driver insisted that it was nearby, but the store had changed the door and couldn't find it all at once, so he asked him to get out of the car and ask for directions.

He Xin walked along the ancient street with seven turns and turns, and finally got lost in a broken building with a similar structure, and couldn't get back to the original place no matter how much she went around.

I had to call for help, but was laughed at by Liao Mei.

He Xin was standing in front of a tube building, opposite to the lakeside. In the evening, a strong wind blew up, blowing his head and face, causing his head to hurt a bit. He Xin pulled the zipper of his coat to the top, and turned up his collar, barely covering his face. half face.

Li Yanqi called and asked where he was.

"There is a lake, and there is a tube building across the lake. Let me look at the house number..." He Xin took two steps and glanced back, "Luo, No. 122 Luoshui Road, I'm at the door."

Li Yanqi froze for a moment, and didn't reply for a long time.

"Hello—" He Xin tapped her phone.

Li Yanqi's footsteps rang in his ears, and slowly turned into running, "It's easy to get lost there, don't wander around, I'll come to find you right away, there are about 3 minutes left."

He Xin put her hands back into her pockets, "Hurry up, I'm about to freeze into polio."

"Ah."

Li Yanqi came in two minutes and 20 seconds. At that time, He Xin was leaning against the wall with his back to smoke a cigarette, holding a half-drunk bottle of Coke in the other hand, stretching out a few fingers to pull him. The wind blows Messy short hair.

Li Yanqi walked behind him and patted his right shoulder.

He Xin was probably in a daze, and turned her head abruptly.

Li Yanqi blocked it with his arm.

"What are you doing?" He Xin asked.

Li Yanqi said, "I thought you were going to splash me with a Coke."

He Xin threw the Coke into the trash can, "As for me? What if you throw me in this corner and sell me?"

"The face is as big as a basin, He Changlegs." Li Yanqi walked behind him as he spoke, and stared at Tongzilou intently.

"Aren't you going?"

Li Yanqi reached out and touched the small wall covered with moss, and looked back at him, "Are you really a detective?"

"What the hell?" He Xin clicked his tongue.

"You step on the point of getting lost too accurately." Li Yanqi pointed to the wall and smiled nostalgicly, "This used to be my home, and I grew up here. Look, there is still me here." name."

"What?" He Xin looked at him in astonishment. He subconsciously wanted to say that it was just such a broken building. He just pronounced the p syllable, and then changed his words abruptly, "Such a quaint building."

Li Yanqi smiled and said nothing.

He Xin walked to him and looked at the wall. There were many children's graffiti on the wall, as well as words carved in stone. There were about a dozen families in a tube building, and the words were densely carved, but He Xin found that the most On the piece above, there is only one name, Li Yanqi.

"Because I'm tall, no one can write like this." Li Yanqi explained.

He Xin turned her head to look at him, with a look of disbelief.

Li Yanqi leaned against the wall, lowered his eyelashes slightly, and said with a smile in his voice, "Well, actually, no one played with me when I was young, so I am the boss in this land."

There is nothing else on the wall, it's all the names he wrote boringly, and at such a young age, he can write such beautiful characters. He Xin feels that he is not as good-looking now as the characters he wrote when he was a kid.

He stepped forward and stared carefully for a while, and saw a line of small characters through the gap.

I really want to grow up quickly.

It took He Xin a lot of effort to understand what was written, and when she looked up at Li Yanqi's smile, her heart suddenly felt a little sour.

He can imagine how lonely Li Yanqi was when he was a child, carving his name on the wall over and over again, pretending not to care about anything, watching others laughing and playing, every name, every scratch, every gully on the wall , are all a portrayal of his mood at that time. He longed for friends and a warm home, but these thoughts hidden deep in his heart were only known by the mottled moss on the wall.

"Leave." Li Yanqi tugged at him, "Try to ask me if I disappeared with you."

He Xin didn't follow, he turned around and went to the lawn, picked a small stone, squatted on the ground to grind it, then stood up and carved a line next to Li Yanqi's name.

——He Xin came here for a visit.

He threw the stone, turned around and smiled at Li Yanqi.