Boiling point

It wasn't until Li Yanqi stood up, grabbed his coat and said that he was going to work, that He Xin moved the stool away.

"He Xin, are you leaving too?" Liao Mei yelled at him.

"Yeah." He Xin dusted off her clothes, "Go get some fresh air, I'm too full."

"Be careful on the road." Struggle looked at him, "Thank you for the gift."

"You're welcome." He Xin took two steps, then turned around and smiled, stretched out her fist to touch him, "You should also be careful all the way."

That counts as farewell.

He Xin went down the stairs and saw Li Yanqi waiting for the car at the door, he walked over, leaned on the railing beside him and said, "Where are you going to work?"

Li Yanqi watched him take out two coins from his pocket, the meaning was quite obvious.But he wasn't sure if He Xin's going to the place where he worked would just open the door to a new world.

He Xin looked at Li Yanqi who was tilting his face, didn't notice the hesitation in his eyes, stretched his legs and took a step beside him, "The car is coming."

Li Yanqi sighed, followed him into the car, and He Xin closed his eyes to rest along the way, he didn't find time to tell the other party where he was working.

He Xin drank a lot, but not to the point of being drunk, just slightly tipsy. Seeing Li Yanqi push open the door of the bar, she wasn't too surprised, but thought it was incredible that he would come to work in such a mixed place, but in the blink of an eye I just figured it out, the money given in bars must be more than in restaurants.

The name of the bar is Whirlpool. It is very literary and artistic. It is not dark and noisy like ordinary bars.

There are not many people here, it is quite quiet, and the atmosphere is suitable for having a drink, chatting with friends and couples.

Li Yanqi went all the way to the bar in silence, put on his overalls, then glanced at He Xin who was sitting across from him playing with his mobile phone, and stuffed a few candies into his hand.

He Xin raised her head and squinted her eyes, "You give me candy when I come to the bar?"

Li Yanqi wiped the glass, "You are underage."

He Xin said, "Come on, you haven't made it either..."

Li Yanqi covered his mouth abruptly, He Xin glanced at the waiter who was chatting with him, and reacted, he hissed in understanding.

Li Yanqi lowered his voice and said, "I told them I'm 22."

He Xin smiled, "Brother Ta, you are my big brother."

Li Yanqi smiled at his teasing, handed over to the waiter who was changing shifts, and after delivering a few tables of drinks, he saw He Xin sitting on the bar counter in a daze, with candy wrappers beside the table, holding a bottle of wine in his hand, mouth With a cigarette in his mouth, his long legs, which had nowhere to rest, were slightly on the ground, and his posture was loose and casual, revealing a sense of laziness.

Li Yanqi walked back with an empty tray in his hand. There was a man behind He Xin who had been staring at him for more than ten minutes. It seemed that he wanted to strike up a conversation.

He Xin pointed to the little vest that outlines his figure with broad shoulders and narrow waist, "It's kind of like that."

"Are you handsome?" Li Yanqi took out a small bow tie from his pocket, put it on the collar of his shirt, looked at He Xin and said, "I have to work until twelve o'clock today, are you not sleepy here?"

"I'll leave on my own when I'm bored." He Xin smiled indifferently, and asked when Li Yanqi was helpless, "Why don't you have a woman here?"

Li Yanqi poured a glass of wine and asked him to look around the small booths. The dim lights were ambiguous and charming. This was the usual atmosphere of the bar. He Xin didn't think there was anything special until he saw two men coming from They stood up in their seats, hugged each other for a while, and then turned their faces to kiss each other.

He Xin's shocked expression made Li Yanqi want to laugh, but he held back.

"It's gay here, why would there be a woman?"

He Xin was stunned for a long time before turning his face around, but the wonderful expression on his face had disappeared. He raised his head and took a sip of his wine, and didn't speak for a long time.

Li Yanqi was not sure what he was thinking, whether he was disgusted or frightened.

"You..." Li Yan paused, and brought him another bottle of wine from the bar, "Do you want more?"

He Xin hummed, and it took a long time to speak before she said, "I've been to bars many times, but this is the first time for a gay bar."

Li Yanqi said, "I'm scared to death, I feel like you are looking at me right now."

He Xin looked around at the men huddled together, stuffed a piece of lemon candy into his mouth, touched the tip of his nose and said, "It's okay, isn't it a place for everyone to have fun, men and women, men and Men are all the same, there is no difference."

Li Yanqi looked at him silently, "Don't you think..."

"Disgusting, or weird?" He Xin took his words, "No, I was just a little shocked, and I didn't feel any discomfort."

Li Yanqi smiled, "Then your acceptance is very high."

He Xin asked him back, "Could it be unacceptable for you to work here?"

"Of course not." Li Yanqi replied ambiguously, "It's good to work here, with a lot of money, and you can think deeply about certain issues."

He Xin took a sip of wine, propped his head on his hands, and gave him a sideways glance, "Hurry up and go to work, I'll drink by myself and listen to some songs."

"Yeah." Li Yanqi walked two steps and then turned back to remind him friendly, "Later, if a man wants to have a drink with you, change the number and make an appointment with you, what will you do?"

"Beat him outside your work area." He Xin thought for a while, but decided to use a simpler and more brutal method. He took out the mask from his pocket and put it on, then put the hoodie on his head, and sealed himself off. Strictly.

Li Yanqi gave him a thumbs up, "I accept."

But what he didn't expect was that He Xin's aura of refusal was too strong, and those men who wanted to ask him out for a drink usually just glanced at him secretly, and then they didn't have anything to say when they were addicted to their eyes.

Li Yanqi worked for more than two hours, but no one dared to sit next to He Xin.

He didn't expect He Xin to calmly accept the setting of this place as a gay bar, without showing any dislike. Li Yanqi's mind flashed the idea of ​​whether he also likes boys, but he quickly rejected it. , He Xin's previous surprise didn't seem to be feigned, it's just that he is such a person who lives a free and easy life. It doesn't matter to him whether others are gay or not.

To him, it's just a normal bar, a place where people drink.

Really cool lemon essence, Li Yanqi smiled.

After eleven o'clock, the bar became lively. There was a small screen in the center of the stage. Behind the screen, several singers took turns playing guitar and singing. He Xin wanted to come over to chat with Li Yanqi, but the other party was too busy. There was no one there, so he had to eat the dessert on his plate alone, drink a few glasses of wine, hum a few tunes, and find some fun in the waning drunkenness.

The bartender at the bar looked at him several times, and couldn't figure out whether this person came to the bar to have fun or to relax, because he had such a good-looking face.

Li Yanqi who didn't know when came over took the wine bottle from his hand, bent down to look at his face, "Are you drunk?"

"No." He Xin said lazily, and looked up at him, "Just now I heard someone say that you can play drums?"

Li Yanqi was stunned for a moment, "Beat me casually."

"When will you call me?"

Before Li Yanqi could speak, he saw He Xin jump off the chair and pointed to the piano on the other side, "I'll play a song for you, and let me tell you, I play the piano very well."

This is obviously drunk, how could the sober He Xin be so excited?

Li Yanqi couldn't stop him, the other party had already stood behind the screen, the piano here hadn't been played for a long time, He Xin lifted the piano stand and made a harsh creaking sound.

He adjusted the tone for a while, and pressed the first syllable of the piano keys. Li Yanqi felt that the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and any noise disappeared.

He knew that He Xin could play the piano, but he didn't know that he could play it so well.

The song is very soothing. If you listen carefully, it is a song with a sad atmosphere, which does not fit He Xin's personality.

Li Yanqi put down the cup in his hand, walked to the right side of the screen and looked at him.

He Xin tapped the piano keys with her slender fingers, and pressed down with her eyes closed. The movements were sometimes light and sometimes heavy, but the melody that came out was very pleasant.

This whole song gives people the feeling that they don't care about style, and they don't care about the difficulty of skills. They just want to play a song.

The dim yellow light shone on his masked face, and his straight nose bridge and drooping eyes could be vaguely seen.

He is not the same kind of handsome as the usual He Xin.

But really handsome.

After a song was finished, He Xin lay on the piano, possibly rolling around the keys with her face. The piano made a strange musical sound. Li Yanqi walked up to him and pulled him down. Him, "Are you awesome?"

"Very awesome." Li Yanqi applauded, "What song did you play?"

"1943." He Xin said, "My own song."

Li Yanqi didn't expect that he could compose the music himself, and it was so beautiful, so he smiled and gave him an admiring look.

"What does the title of the song mean?"

He Xin turned to look at him, "After I went to the bathroom at 43:1943 in the evening, a melody suddenly flashed, so it was called [-]."

Li Yanqi laughed, "Sure enough, he is a bohemian music master."

He Xin pointed to the drum set, "Don't forget, you owe me a song." After speaking, he leaned his head against the wall, closed his eyes, and exhaled lightly.

"You still say you're not drunk?" Li Yanqi looked at him, "Go sleep on the sofa over there."

"Not drunk." He Xin opened her eyes, "I can play another song for you."

He wasn't drunk yet, Li Yanqi grabbed him, forced him to the sofa closest to him, poured a glass of sober lemon tea, then cleaned up the bar, ready to tell the boss early to leave work.

The boss was drinking with someone, and when he saw Li Yanqi coming, he took out 500 yuan from his pocket and handed it to him.

"Tip for tonight."

Li Yanqi didn't understand, the boss said with a smile, "The boy who came with you asked me how much you paid for a night of work. I said it was more than 200 yuan. He used the kind of "You are really worse than Zhou Paipai." "Looked at me, and then bargained with me, asking if he can give you more money for playing the piano, 200 yuan is not enough to fill the teeth, do you know how much he opened his mouth? Playing a song for [-] yuan, he Think I’m stupid, but he’s really funny, he’s so drunk that he doesn’t forget to ask for benefits for you.” The boss winked at Li Yanqi, “Hey, you care so much about you, your boyfriend?”

Li Yanqi suddenly looked up at him, his reaction was a little big, the cup in his hand almost fell to the ground.

"Haha, it's just a joke." The boss patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be so nervous, get off work and go home early."

When Li Yanqi dragged He Xin out of the bar, it was already very cold outside.

He Xin didn't feel that she was drunk, and she didn't need his help out of face, so Li Yanqi had no choice but to withdraw her hand, and only tugged him when he shook him twice.

It was a little far away from home, and they couldn't get a taxi at once, so they walked a certain distance along the path.

He Xin didn't speak the whole time, nor did she get drunk, she walked very quietly.

He stopped suddenly at a deserted intersection, turned around and spread his hands towards Li Yanqi.

"Drink water?" Li Yanqi took out a coin and wanted to go to the supermarket to buy him a bottle of water.

He Xin shook her head and said, "Sugar."

Li Yanqi couldn't laugh or cry, digging out for a long time, finally dug out the last mint candy, and threw it into his hand.

He Xin put the sugar in her mouth, chewed it up brutally and swallowed it, squinted her eyes slightly drunk, and shook her hand at him again.

"It's really out of sugar." Li Yanqi clicked his tongue, "Why are you so childish, Master He."

He Xin waved his hands more widely. Li Yanqi couldn't understand his sign language, so he took two steps and walked to his side, trying to coax Li An patiently, "Go home first, I'll give it to you when I get home." Lemon candy, okay?"

He Xin's long legs were bent, and her fingertips hooked in front of his eyes twice.

This pair of hands has slender fingers and distinct phalanges, which reminded Li Yanqi of how he played the piano. He didn't know what He Xin wanted to do, but stared at these hands, which inexplicably disturbed him. Li Yanqi The action was one step faster than the brain, and he stepped forward and grabbed his hand.

The body temperature of the people who had drunk was very high, and He Xin's palm was also very hot.

Li Yanqi grabbed his fingers, as if frozen, and didn't realize what he had done for a long time.

Then his hand slid down, touching the veins on the back of the opponent's hand, the calluses on the palm, and the scar on the thumb.He drank a lot of wine and was slightly drunk. He Xin had a faint smell of alcohol and cigarettes, which made him stunned.

"Did it come from you?" He Xin's voice was very hoarse, as if reverberation had been added in the open place, and 360 five-degree surround sound rang in Li Yanqi's ears.

"Little gourd, you tied it while I was asleep in the car, right?" He Xin shook his hand again, breathing into his palm, Li Yanqi realized that he was still holding his hand , let go immediately.

His palms were a little sweaty, and he rubbed his pants.

"It's the same as the gourd my grandma gave me when I was young, but it was dropped by my mother." He Xin spoke clearly, not as if he was drunk, but his expression was slightly drunk, "It seemed that he crushed it with his feet at the end gone."

He Xin said slowly, "I picked them up one by one, but they still didn't stick together." He touched the little gourd, "It's cute, isn't it? What a pity to drop it."

Li Yanqi said, "Well, but what I gave you is just an ordinary gourd, it doesn't cost much."

He Xin rolled up her sleeves and exposed her wrists, pointed at the red rope with a fierce expression, "How ordinary is it?"

"It's very common everywhere." Li Yanqi smiled, but when he thought that He Xin liked the 20-yuan gourd that he could buy in any temple so much, it was because he once owned it and was maliciously discarded. Suddenly he choked up.

The two of them didn't talk anymore, and after a long time, He Xin finally said, "The things I like are fucking extraordinary."

"It's not ordinary." Li Yanqi stretched out his hand to tie his rope a little tighter, "There is only one extraordinary in the whole world, so you keep it well, and if you lose it, it will never be there again."

"Mine." He Xin pointed to the red rope, swayed on the spot twice, leaned over to his ear, and exhaled very lightly, with a slightly drunken tone.

"I'll tell you a secret, shhh, let me tell you, 1943 is the first time I've played it to someone else today, and Wu Rui hasn't even heard it."

Li Yanqi asked, "Who is Wu Rui?"

He Xin said, "I'm ferromagnetic."

Li Yanqi turned his head to look at him, then pointed to himself, "Am I more fertile than you?"

He Xin glanced at him lightly, but didn't answer. He raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were really beautiful, as if he could speak.

Li Yanqi suddenly felt a dry itching in his throat, and then the itching spread all over his body, penetrated into the pores, and made him feel hot all over.

The car he called arrived at the destination, the siren interrupted the scene where they were standing and filming the silent film, the driver was a warm-hearted driver, and asked Li Yanqi if he needed help?

Li Yanqi patted He Xin and said that he was going to leave. He Xin stood up straight, walked a certain distance stubbornly, then fell to the ground with a thud, stretched out her long legs, and hugged the ground in a line.

That pose was like an idiot, but it was also a little cute.

After all, such a He Xin can't be seen when she is awake.

He quickly took out his phone and took a photo.

The driver felt that these two young people were of a high level. One was in a daze and had no distracting thoughts all the way, completely forgetting himself;

Are the children so fresh and refined after going to the bar now?

The night in late autumn was already very cold. Li Yanqi touched He Xin twice but failed to find the key, so he took He Xin to his home. Li An was already asleep. He really has a cleanliness habit and can't bear someone who smells like alcohol to sleep on his bed, so he had to temporarily settle He Xin on the wooden chair.

"Too small!" He Xin yelled suddenly.

Li Yanqi said, "Shh, take a rest and go take a shower and sleep on the bed, be quiet now."

He Xin looked at him and said oh.

Li Yanqi went in to wash his face, and when he came out, He Xin had already fallen asleep, with half of his face buried in his arms, and he was in a deep sleep.

After calling several times to no avail, Li Yanqi straightened up and sighed, his eyes fell on the USB flash drive beside him.

He Xin occupied too much space for sleeping, which almost prevented him from looking at the computer. Li Yanqi's hand holding the mouse had to carefully walk around him. s hair.

It was especially like a hug from behind. After the moment when he nervously shook his hand just now, Li Yanqi felt that his level of shamelessness had improved by leaps and bounds. After hesitating for a second, he covered it up again.However, while the person in front of him was drunk and fell asleep and peeked at his composition, if he was discovered, it would not be described as embarrassing.

So after Li Yanqi opened the scanned file, he could read ten lines at a glance.

He Xin's composition is half-narrative and half-lyrical, so it can't be regarded as particularly in line with the standards of the composition of the exam, but it is better in combining her own situation and describing it very realistically.

——I came to Nanxi by accident. When I came here, I was in the mood to get out at any time if I was not happy with the reading. I regarded this place as a temporary habitat, not a safe haven.

So that week I visited all the places of interest here, the legendary quiet and simple temples, the courtyards with small bridges and flowing water, and the quaint small streets, and I felt that they were broken, boring, and boring.

I can't find any reason to convince myself that this is a beautiful city and a place worth staying.

Until one day I came here and saw a lighthouse in the overgrown grass.

It is very old, the lights are not too bright, barely maintain a little light, at three o'clock in the morning, the whole world is dark, but it is still on.

This light source shone on me very faintly and persistently.

I stand on the top and look at the world.

I think, staying beside it, maybe I am still so small, but at least I am no longer alone.

........

He Xin's writing is very abstract, and the lighthouse may be just an insinuation, expressing a certain emotion in his heart, but he can understand his confusion at the time, his panic and loneliness, and understand how he waited when the lights were brightly lit in Wanjia. What does it feel like to be in the dark.

Li Yanqi noticed that He Xin turned over, he didn't dare to move, exhaled lightly, and continued to look up at the screen.

At the end, He Xin wrote: Have you ever seen the most beautiful sunrise?I have.

It is a sunrise full of "stories". It symbolizes a person jumping up from the struggle, a person who has fallen countless times and finally sees the dawn, and it symbolizes saying goodbye to the night and embracing the expectation of tomorrow, although it is only a day Moments, but it has a chewable name called "Breaking Dawn".

Oh, and this was inspired by my buddy watching the sunrise with me.

Don't guess who he is, he's not as handsome as me anyway.

But he's cooler than me, honestly.

Li Yanqi laughed, and Wang Meiren gave him 58 points at the end, which is completely beside the point, okay?

But it's pretty good.

Good.

Freehand style of writing, chic and self-contained style of He Xin.

Li Yanqi turned off the computer and put his hand in his pocket, but he didn't touch the small stone.

He froze for a moment, only to remember that he had thrown it away at the door of the house just now when he was upset.

He didn't know why he threw it away, but he knew that it was crazy to rush to the door of the house at three o'clock in the middle of the night to find that unattractive stone with a hole in it among a pile of broken stones.

He also knew that he was not born to be so calm, but at a certain moment when he was not calm, he just happened to be so neurotic.

It took half an hour to find the stone, Li Yanqi squatted on the ground and sighed, while thinking how ugly it was, he carefully held it in his palm.