warm hearts

"You... where have you been, and you don't turn on your phone?" The irritability that had almost rushed out of the top of his head disappeared in an instant when he saw Ji Xiaomin's usual expression, Gao Xu stepped in front of him in two steps , but the tone of the question was not the same as when he entered the door just now, but he still dragged the end of the complaint with some dissatisfaction.

Ji Xiaomin looked blank, took out his phone and looked at it, and then suddenly realized: "Oh, the battery is out."

Gao Xu lost his temper by him, but he felt depressed in his heart. His expression and behavior resembled the widely circulated "I'm going to make trouble" emoticon pack, his body was almost twice as wide as Ji Xiaomin's, shaking from side to side Express dissatisfaction: "I've been looking for you for a long time! I went to your house and found that the car was gone. I thought something happened to you! I was scared to death!"

Ji Xiaomin originally pretended to have some emotions in his heart, but he couldn't help laughing when he made a fuss, his eyes were almost bent into two slits, and the eyelashes were clearly covered. cute.

"Aren't I here? Where can I go?" His voice was calm, with a slight softness. Even though there were no special ups and downs, it still gave people a sense of comfort and comfort.

Gao Xu didn't know whether he was seduced by the vision or let the hearing go along. After carefully looking up and down Ji Xiaomin, he raised his hand and scratched his head. The long ending also no longer contained complaints: "Bai Sen told me that you had sex with someone, and I thought you had a fight with someone."

Hearing this, Ji Xiaomin laughed again: "How can I fight with people, I am such a gentle person." While speaking, his eyes turned, and he turned his attention to the Harley, his eyes blinked a few times very frequently, very slightly Take a breath.

"What's wrong with this car?" Gao Xu followed his gaze and looked back at him. Although he was a little unclear, he was keenly aware of his emotional fluctuations.

"It's nothing." Ji Xiaomin shook his head, then raised his brows slightly when looking at him again, "Let's just put it here - don't you want the treasure of the whole store?"

"Hey!" Gao Xu sighed, "That can really be used as a signboard, but don't you use a car?"

"Motorcycles are restricted during the day - I didn't ride much in the first place." Ji Xiaomin lowered his eyelids, as if some emotion that had been thrown away had been rediscovered, and the remaining smile on his face was buried.

Gao Xu stared at him for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say: "What's not happy... why don't you tell me to make me happy~"

[When I first met Ji Xiaomin, he gave me the feeling that he was calm and peaceful, and he didn’t even have big emotional ups and downs. Although he was very mean and catchy when joking, but most of the time Just smile and go.He also seems to deal with negative emotions in such a way that I once felt that he would not be angry no matter what.However, after I was drunk and sent him home that time, I gradually discovered that he was actually uncomfortable, and sometimes the calmer he looked, the greater the fluctuations in his heart; but he never wanted his negative emotions to affect others. So he will habitually keep them in his heart and slowly digest them, just like he can swallow them abruptly even when he yawns at people.

His personality is indeed easier to get close to than others, but after getting along for a long time, he feels alienated instead.That day when I was driving around the city and suburbs looking for him, but I couldn’t think of any other place for him to go besides home, this sense of alienation was like the aquatic plants that usually hide under the water in the dry season. The surface of the water usually suddenly becomes clear.And when I went back to the car dealership, I saw clearly again the emotion on his face that he deliberately wanted to hide and digest alone, and my heart was suddenly overgrown with weeds as if entering the dry season.I suddenly had a very strong desire to explore his mind, to share his happy or unhappy, positive or negative emotions, to let him open his mouth to tell me what happened to him, or just... ...yawned furiously in front of me.

——Gao Xu]

Of course Ji Xiaomin knew that Gao Xu was joking, he just wanted to start a topic in a way that would not be awkward for everyone, and asked him a question that he thought might be a bit out of bounds.But Gao Xu didn't know that Ji Xiaomin actually didn't mind, and was even a little happy, because for a long time, there were many people around him who were accustomed to his quietness and peace, and few people noticed that he actually had indigestible emotions and strong emotions. wish to express.

So when Gao Xu held his breath, nervously pretended to be relaxed, and said to Ji Xiaomin, "What's wrong...it's better to say it...", Ji Xiaomin's eye circles were actually a little hot.Some strong emotions quickly gathered in his chest at that moment, reminding him of the day when his Harley was detained in the outskirts of the city, he saw a few blood stains on Gao Xu's knuckles under the streetlight in that alley.

Ji Xiaomin attributed them to gratitude, touch, and other small feelings that he still couldn't explain clearly, and he used to press them back to the bottom of his heart with one breath, and at the same time, he also erased what he might have felt from his eyes or other things. Where did the traces leak out.He pursed his lower lip, looked sideways at Gao Xu, his dark eyes quivered slightly under the shadow of his eyelashes: "Want to hear a story? Drink or light a cigarette?"

Gao Xu felt relieved when he said a word, he raised his wrist to look at his watch, and then he grabbed Ji Xiaomin's shoulder: "What kind of wine to drink, let's eat first, it's easy to get drunk when you're in a bad mood, and you don't say anything when you're drunk. Will ask for water."

"Why aren't you happy to pour me a glass of water?"

"Happy, happy, willing to do anything—hey, what do we eat?"

As a result, the two searched and discussed for a long time, and finally drank the wine.Two cans of beer, paired with two barbecued pork waists, after eating, each of them lit a cigarette, and walked along the street to Ji Xiaomin's house.

At first, Ji Xiaomin saw Gao Xu go to the car to get his backpack, and he laughed and said, "Are you going to listen to stories all night?" Who knew that the chat would be endless.

But of course he is not always the only one telling the story. After all, everyone has a past. Although the naivety of children, the frivolity of teenagers and the confusion of youth are different experiences, they are more or less similar.The two of them smelled of alcohol and blew the night wind all the way, and when they arrived at Ji Xiaomin's house, they sat on the ground and lay down on the bed casually, just like this ten years later, they blended each other's laughter and sentimentality.

When his mouth was dry and his throat was itchy, Gao Xu took advantage of Ji Xiaomin's spare time to get up to stew water to make tea, and cleaned himself up after drinking, it was past 04:30.

Ji Xiaomin turned over and fell asleep, and gave up half of the bed to Gao Xu: "When will the door open tomorrow?"

"It's already today~" Gao Xu squinted his already narrow eyes, and set the alarm with difficulty, "10:30——My first customer made an appointment at 10:30."

On top of the beer, they only had more than five hours of sleep. When they got up in the morning, their faces were as white as paper, their eyes were bloodshot, and they were indescribably haggard.After drinking a bowl of wontons for breakfast, and buying coffee at the street corner, the two of them took a bus that was rarely crowded on weekends, and it was exactly 10:30 when they arrived at the dealership.

The customer was a few minutes late, and when he entered the store, Ji Xiaomin had just turned on all the tool lights in the display area, and was just taking a feather duster and dusting around.Seeing someone coming in, he greeted him with a smile, and Gao Xu had already gone up to greet him.

The car dealership built a booth on the side facing the street, which had been vacant for more than half a year, because Gao Xu and Bai Sen couldn't make up their minds about what kind of car to use as their treasure.At the moment, Ji Xiaomin's modified Harley is parked inside. Although the spotlights are not turned on, the white and bright sunlight in midsummer shines in from the slanted grille roof and falls on the black car body. Looking from the direction of the counter, it looks pretty good. Divide the meaning of hand-painted.

Ji Xiaomin sat sideways at the counter, with one hand resting on the side of his head, watching the scene quietly, and suddenly the state of Gao Xu posting on Moments in the early morning of a week ago appeared in his mind. "Dreams come true." He muttered in his mouth, savoring these simple four words back and forth in his mind carefully.

He thought of Fa Xiao who came from S City on the morning high-speed train yesterday to ask him to "think again"—that old friend Wang Ze who both agreed with him to study abroad and tried his best to help him implement his work after returning home. When he was 17 years old, he pestered his neighbor's eldest brother to take them for a ride on a motorcycle, and described to him the beauty of wandering around the world with one person and one car.

He thought of Wang Ke—the little Douding who was sent abroad when he was a child, hugged Wang Ze's thigh at the airport and cried and shouted not to be separated from his brother. Concentrate on studying every vers and different flow he likes or prefers more, and be his rapper wholeheartedly.

He thought of Bai Sen—this boy he was not very familiar with, two or three days ago, when he came to the dealership, he devoted himself to asking him about the impact of different types of engines and different shapes of fenders on the power of motorcycles Yesterday, when it was getting late, he suddenly ran over to say hello to him and said that he would not be coming today and was going to a neighboring city to sign up for the new thirteen provinces' basketball league.

He thought of Gao Xu, last night after he asked the question "Now you are so busy with the car dealership, do you still dance?", he replied without hesitation: "Dance, of course, go if you have the chance."

He felt that he was sitting in this garage now, listening to the intermittent sound of renovation coming from the half of the store over there, and looking at the two Harleys who had been reassembled piece by piece in the window in front of him, he suddenly felt these four words. There is a real resonance.

[Dreams come true.

——Ji Xiaomin]