Drifting

Cheng Sidu gave Siying and Tan Qing a porcelain bowl each, and took out a large can of homemade yellow peaches from the refrigerator, which was slightly frosted, and then carefully used the yellow peaches like children in the kindergarten class who were distributing soup. Put the chopsticks into the bowl.

Siying was not happy: "I am five yuan, he is six yuan."

Sidu was quite embarrassed: "Why are you so fussy?" He added another piece to Siying.

The little girl was so happy, she held the bowl and ate the peaches with a spoon.

When Tan Qing ate, he didn't say anything, he was almost silent, and after eating, he was dragged to watch cartoons.

Sidu could tell that Tan Qing didn't like these children's things, but he did have an almost gentle patience with children.

So later he fantasized about Tan Qing who was his father.

Tan Qing and Sidu coaxed Siying to sleep, and the two went downstairs one after the other.The corridor was narrow, Sidu walked a little slowly while holding on to the wall with one hand.

"Hey, do you listen to tapes?" Sidu asked in a low voice, "I have quite a few tapes. Maybe there are some singers you like."

Tan Qing was noncommittal, as if tacitly acquiescing, followed Sidu to the compartment on the first floor.The cubicle is very small, a common rural brick house with a ceiling of only 1.8 meters, and Tan Qing had to bend over to get in.

There is a bamboo bed in the room, covered with cotton pads, and covered with a dark mat. It seems that people occasionally sleep here.There is a table next to it, on which is a black semi-old tape recorder, and a pile of tapes next to it.

Tan Qing flipped through the pages, he didn't listen to songs, and he didn't know any singers, so he just let Sidu play them casually.

Two fledgling teenagers huddled together on a bed, listening to a song quietly.Sidu listened for a while, changed a tape, and said, this is Faye Wong, this is Zhou Huimin, this is Wu Bai, and this is Kuang Meiyun.

"I like this song."

Sidu lay on the bed relaxedly, and then hummed softly: "When I met you for the first time, no one had daydreams, the sunset like poetry, the sunset like wine... I can't hide this love, it's my affection as deep as the sea... "

The young man speaks poor Cantonese, his words are blurred, his words fluctuate from light to heavy, like babbling in a dream.

Later, Tan Qing heard this song in a lover's car, and he asked her: "What's the name of this song?"

"Favorite."

Tan Qing downloaded it to her phone and listened to Zhou Huimin singing.

The tide ebbs and flows, the moon is cold, windy and frosty.

He remembered the heavy rain on the construction site that year.

Tan Qing realized very early on that Cheng Sidu had too much sympathy.

He didn't reach his meal order for a week in a row, so Cheng Sidu left him a week's worth of meals.

He took off his helmet, covered in sweat and water from the shower, and ate in silence.

Sometimes Cheng Sidu is there, sometimes not.

Tan Qing was preparing to go to the construction site that day, dragging a shovel and walking on the gravel road, when he heard the foreman, Cheng Sidu's father, ask who could drive an electric tricycle, and sent Cheng Sidu to the county school to get the admission notice.

"Tan Qing!" Cheng Sidu looked at him directly among the group of people, called him to stop, and asked loudly with a smile, "Do you know how to drive an electric three-wheeler?"

Tan Qing looked back at him, her eyes were dark, she took off her hat with one hand, revealing her messy black hair, and replied: "Yes."

Tan Qing took the key, straddled his long legs, and sat on the driver's seat. His whole body was shining under the light. He turned the handle of the car, turned his face and said, "Come up."

Cheng Sidu tried to persuade his follower Siying to go back, saying he would buy her sugar buns, and finally got three rounds.

Tan Qing's two arms holding the dragon's head were slightly tanned, like quicksand alchemy, he didn't look back: "Where did you get in the exam?"

"What! What did you say?" Sidu couldn't hear clearly, only the noisy engine sound of the electric three-wheeled engine was in his ears, so he naturally sat on the side behind Tan Qingzheng, leaned very close, and breathed lightly. On the back of Tan Qing's neck.

"I asked, where did you go in the exam?"

"Hangzhou, study medicine!"

Sidu was very happy, with a faint smile on his brows and eyes.

"Save the dying and heal the wounded." Tan chuckled lightly.

After a while, Cheng Sidu pressed against his ear, as if he wanted to avoid the humming of the cicadas and the sound of the three rounds, "You can go to university by yourself as an adult, so come to Hangzhou too!"

Tan Qing didn't answer him, but just smiled inexplicably.

Cheng Sidu showed him the way, but he pointed the wrong way, and the two circled around the paddy field in midsummer. They broke down once in the middle of the three rounds, and Tan Qing kicked it twice to repair it. The little leather train drove to the county seat.

Cheng Sidu went to school to receive the notice, and chatted with the head teacher for a while.

The class teacher finally said to him: "Sidu, go to your bright future."

At that moment, Cheng Sidu felt like crying.

Cheng Sidu kept thinking of two names, his hometown and Hangzhou. Will he come back?Maybe not, will you stay in Hangzhou?maybe.

Sidu carefully held the notice in his arms in a daze, walked through the familiar corridor, passed the wisteria trellis, and ran all the way out of his white ivory tower.

Cheng Sidu went out, did not see Tan Qing at a glance, searched around, and found that Tan Qing had parked the tricycle under a big camphor tree, got out of the car by himself, squatted on the side of the road, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth , Eyes, eyebrows, and even the whole face seemed to melt in the light, with a very indifferent and lonely comfort.

"Why did you come here?" Sidu stared at the cigarette in his mouth.

"The guard won't let me park the three rounds there." Tan Qing took the cigarette from her lips, stuffed it into her deep trouser pocket, and twitched the corner of her mouth lightly, "Your school is very strict... A good school is different."

Sidu didn't answer Tan Qing's words, "Oh. It's nothing. The rate of 75% is not very good."

Tan Qing raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, and confirmed from Sidu's expression that this was indeed what he had in mind, and he did not pretend to be modest, nor did he show any coyness at all.

Tan Qing glanced at him again, "Eat popsicles?"

Sidu's brows and eyes jumped, and he said brightly: "Eat."

"What to eat?" Tan Qing walked to the freezer of a nearby small shop, "You pick it yourself."

Sidu picked out a three-color cup, and Tan Qing had already settled the bill when he turned around. After taking back the change and counting it, he remembered something important: "Bring one for your sister too?"

"Take the popsicles back? Wouldn't it melt on the way?"

"Yes." Tan lightly smiled.

Reciprocating courtesy, Sidu invited him to eat grilled skewers, and introduced him eagerly: "This shop is very different. It's not fried skewers, but grilled skewers. It's grilled with red willow wood. It's the only one in the county. You can eat it. I think lamb skewers are the best!"

Cheng Sidu ate the mutton skewers sprinkled with spicy peppers, he hissed and his cheeks were flushed, it was obvious that he was too spicy.

Tan Qing laughed at him: "If you can't eat spicy food, why not order it spicy?"

Cheng Sidu bulged his cheeks: "What! No way!"

After eating, Cheng Sidu wanted to pay, Tan Qing rushed to pay, the boss was in a dilemma, Tan Qing said again: "I am his brother, I will pay."

The boss took Tan Qing's money.

On the way back, Cheng Sidu kept playing this sentence on loop in his mind, I am his brother.

He doesn't have an older brother, and he still acts as Siying's older brother.But when he heard this sentence, he felt inexplicably happy, as if he had something to rely on.

He regards him as an elder brother, and he has a kind of self-care intimacy in his heart, so before taking a bath at night, he watched Tan Qing come out holding the washbasin from a distance, and he chased after him with the washbasin in his arms.

"Go take a bath?" Sidu smiled, still not breathing well.

"Hmm." Tan glanced at him lightly, "What about you?"

"Yes, early today."

Tan Qing didn't speak.He somewhat didn't want Cheng Sidu to appear in the public bathroom at this point.

After entering the bathroom, a group of old men were already taking a shower shirtless.Seeing Tan Qing coming in with a smile on his face, seeing Cheng Sidu coming in, his eyes became more silent.

There are no cubicles, just an open shower in the center.

Tan Qing pushed him to the farthest corner, and put the two washbasins on the ground with a bang.

"Wash quickly." Tan Qing said in a cold tone.

Cheng Sidu obediently took off his T-shirt, then his shorts and underwear, and stood with his back to everyone, holding the faucet with his thin white hands, and the young man's body was so slender that he couldn't distinguish between male and female.

Tan Qing stood in front of him, he was tall and strong, with a broad frame, completely covering Cheng Sidu.

Cheng Sidu was still taking a slow shower, and asked Tan Qing intimately in a low voice, "What does your shower gel smell like?"

Tan lightly frowned, staring at Cheng Sidu's round buttocks, "Lemon."

"Oh." Cheng Sidu kneaded the shower gel with a bath ball, wiped it on his body, and accumulated a thick foam, "Mine smells like milk. Does it smell good?"

Fragrant ass.

Tan Qing turned his eyes away: "Hurry up and finish."

Cheng Sidu pouted: "It's almost too soon, don't rush me."