I surrender my foe with a kiss

midsummer

At two o'clock in the afternoon, it is the hottest time of the day.In the police station, the air conditioner was not turned on, the old ceiling fan was humming and spinning, and the noisy cicadas seemed to come in through the windows.Xiao Ci sat on the chair and broke the joints of all ten fingers, and finally waited for the responsible policeman.

The policeman sat on the chair opposite him and pulled out the blue folder.Xiao Ci immediately leaned forward, suppressed his pounding heart, and made his voice sound like an obedient student as much as possible: "Uncle, my brother...has any news?"

The policeman nodded, handed him a glass of warm water, and said, "Don't worry, drink some water."

Xiao Ci took the glass of water in his hand, his shadow was reflected in the slightly rippling water in the paper cup, he couldn't see his blurred face clearly, he didn't know whether the expression on his face was joy or worry.

I don't know if he had a bit of heatstroke on the way here, sweat was dripping on his temples, and his ears were ringing slightly, he raised his head, pulled his Adam's apple up, and took a sip of water with difficulty.

The policeman looked at the expression on his face and crossed his fingers before continuing.

"Your elder brother, Xiao Yan, was abducted 12 years ago. Now that he has grown up, he has changed his name."

Xiao Ci listened, his pupils constricted slightly, "Then...you mean, my brother was found?"

The policeman nodded and said in a deep voice: "We have met your brother. Three days ago, he came to our police station to apply for an ID card. After entering the information, we found that he is the brother you have been looking for."

Xiao Ci listened quietly, without making a sound for a long time, as if he had stopped breathing.Slowly, his fingertips trembled, and his fingers subconsciously stretched forward, as if trying to grab the cuff of the policeman's uniform, or something that didn't exist.He heard his hoarse voice say: "So, you have already met my brother. What does he look like now? Is he fat or strong?" Is there... any disability?

He couldn't say the last sentence.

The policeman patted him on the shoulder and sighed, "Son, you have to be mentally prepared. It has been more than ten years. The time of separation between you and him cannot be easily erased. Maybe, he It's not what you think it is. So..."

"It doesn't matter," Xiao Ci said immediately, his voice trembling, and the blood vessels in his temples were throbbing: "No matter what he is now, he is my brother."

"I can accept it."

The policeman said: "It's good for you to think like this, but we also need to consider his feelings, so we can only tell him slowly about this matter, can you understand?"

Xiao Ci thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Then... can I know who he is, just look at him from a distance."

The policeman looked at the boy's earnest and longing eyes, and his heart was suddenly touched.He exhaled and said, "Well, boy, let's find a way to let him come over this afternoon and leave a gap in the door for you. You can take a look at him in the next room first. Wait until I tell him about this matter." It's almost finished, when the opportunity comes, come out again."

Xiao Ci let out a "huh", and the policeman led him to the next room, the door was slightly opened, which was the gap left for him.

Slowly in the afternoon, the number of people increased, and people kept coming to the police station to handle business and ask for help.The outside door opened and closed, closed and opened again.Xiao Ci sat on the chair, as if his nerves had been wound up.Every time the outside door squeaked, he would immediately go to the crack of the door to take a look.A heart was lifted, and the lift was dropped, and the air-conditioned room was still sweating.

The people who came to handle business were all uncles and aunts, and he had never seen anyone who looked like his elder brother.

By the end, his heart was a little numb with anxiety.At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang softly.

Opened it, and it was a text message sent to him by the police uncle: "Here we come."

Xiao Ci stared at those two words for a long time, and then he came back to his senses, got up from the chair suddenly, and pushed to the door.

The man outside made him feel dazed for a moment.

He thought he was back at the restaurant where he worked.

When he understood, he couldn't say anything.

Outside, a young boy was sitting on a chair with sweat on his forehead and a flustered expression. He asked the police cautiously, "Didn't you say that it takes 60 days to get an ID card? Why did you call me here today?"

"Oh," the policeman smiled and said, "Your information is still missing a bit, please fill out this form." He handed the boy a form.

The boy took the watch, looked sideways, looked at it, and suddenly glanced in Xiao Ci's direction.

Xiao Ci hurriedly hid behind the door panel, his heart was in a mess.

It's him?What is he?Is it really him, or did he happen to be here for business?

But if he just came here to handle business, why did the policeman send him a text message?

Xiao Ci recalled the scenes of getting along with the young boy in the past two months, and for a while, he didn't know what it was like in his heart.

Such a big Guangzhou, such a big China, somehow, he and his brother could meet each other, and even became friends.

However, Xiao Ci never imagined that he was the brother he was looking for.

He hated himself a little, and felt extremely grateful.

The policemen outside were still talking to Xu Cong, but Xiao Ci couldn't hear clearly at all.

Until the policeman got up, said "Okay", and then walked towards him with Xu Cong.

Xiao Ci suddenly became extremely nervous, and he even didn't know how to face it.

Behind the policeman, Xu Cong, who just glanced at him hastily and then lowered his head deeply, did the same.

Apart from shock, no other emotions could be seen on the small face.

The policeman seemed to be aware of the subtle atmosphere, looked at Xiao Ci, then at Xu Cong, and asked, "You... know each other?"

"I don't know." Before Xiao Ci could speak, Xu Cong whispered, and after finishing speaking, his head tied even lower.

Xiao Ci looked at him in astonishment, the expression on his face seemed to be frozen.

Just uttered a syllable, opened his mouth, and couldn't say it anymore.

"If you don't know him, get to know him first." The policeman patted Xu Cong on the shoulder and said, "This is Xiao Ci, your twin brother."

Xu Cong didn't speak.

The room was dead silent.

In the end, Xiao Ci said: "Officer, you have worked hard. I want to have a private word with him...and my brother."

The policeman nodded and watched them leave the police station one after the other.

Outside, the street that had been scorched by the sun for a day exuded steaming heat, and the sun had already slanted westward, stretching the shadows of the two teenagers infinitely between the buildings.Xiao Ci followed Xu Cong from a distance, with his hands in his pockets, his head lowered, stepping on the broken shadows of Xu Cong's branches and leaves.

Even he himself has forgotten that many years ago, this unconscious movement was actually their daily routine together.

And Xu Cong's shadow moved quickly, never stopping for him.

But Xiao Ci at that time couldn't notice these things, he walked step by step, his pace became more and more brisk.He gradually accepted the fact that Xu Cong was his brother.As he walked, he remembered what he had imagined countless times before, the life after finding his brother.He thought again, when he was a child, the time he spent with his brother.Although he had just remembered things at that time, and there are not many memories left until now, he still remembers clearly that his brother was very kind to him and always left the best for him.

As he walked all the way, the awkwardness and discomfort in his heart slowly disappeared.The only thing left is the reunion after a long absence, the joy of finding it again.He felt that even if Xu Cong couldn't accept it for a while, he would get used to it slowly.

After all, they will all study among the flowers, and there is still a long time to belong to him, and they look like a midsummer in the flower city that can't be seen at a glance.

Turning a corner, the shadow under his feet stopped, Xiao Ci raised his head and saw Xu Cong with his back turned to him from a distance, his T-shirt was soaked with sweat due to difficulty walking.

In front of him was a dilapidated migrant building, which Xiao Ci vaguely felt familiar.

Xu Cong finally said, "How long are you going to follow me?"

"What?" Xiao Ci hadn't recovered from the great happiness for a while.

"I said," Xu Cong's voice could not hear emotion, "you don't take what the policeman said seriously, do you?"

It was the first time Xiao Ci faced Xu Cong like this, and he was caught off guard: "But it's true, modern technology can't make mistakes, if you don't believe it, we can..."

"Okay," Xu Cong interrupted him, "I didn't know your situation turned out to be like this. You helped me a lot before, I am very grateful to you, and I will try to repay you. But I can't accept those inexplicable relationships I think, if it were you, I definitely wouldn't want to wake up one day and become someone else's elder brother or someone else's son inexplicably."

Xiao Ci was stunned, unable to utter a single word.

Xiao Ci looked at him, at the young man who still didn't turn his head to look at him, the huge red sun slowly sank, inlaid the young man's thin and stubborn back, slowly, Xiao Ci's vision blurred, seeing I don't know the boy in front of me anymore.

When he saw the boy turn around, his red eyes were full of firmness and determination, even slightly angry: "I have my own home, which is the place where I grew up. I have my own parents, they took me I have been dragging it since I was a child. I don’t know if what the policeman said is true, and I don’t want to know. Because it has nothing to do with me... You, do you understand?"

Xiao Ci didn't make a sound.

He had thought about countless possibilities, but none of them was as calm, indifferent, and watertight as he is now.He even hoped that after his brother heard the news, even if he was shocked, even if he couldn't believe it until he collapsed and yelled, it would be better than the current situation, where he was so calm and rational that he didn't leave him with any hope.

He didn't understand why Xu Cong was like a different person.

He didn't understand, he didn't understand why a person could react like this.

"Let's go," Xu Cong's voice was as cold as winter, "Thank you for taking care of me during this time. In the future, please don't disturb my life again."

The world has been silent for a long time, so quiet that only the buzzing in the ears and the cicadas on the treetops are left.

Xiao Ci finally nodded, and the corner of his mouth twitched with difficulty, "Okay."

After that, he turned around and left, with a heart that was stinging to the extreme, he walked quickly on the road covered with the afterglow of the setting sun, and never looked back.

He kept walking, walking, fast.He didn't know where he was going, nor where he was.His breathing became more and more short, with a screeching brake sound, the speeding car barely stopped in front of him, and the driver rolled down the window and shouted angrily, "Damn you!"

Xiao Ci subconsciously apologized repeatedly, and hurriedly retreated to the side of the road and walked across the overpass instead.When he walked to the middle of the overpass, the round sunset just disappeared at the end of the long street.Xiao Ci clasped his hands on the railing of the bridge, the last ray of sunset on his forehead quietly slipped away, making his figure disappear in the darkness.Xiao Ci looked at the impenetrable high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, and at the continuous flow of people and vehicles under the overpass.Suddenly, he felt that this place was like a huge canyon. He stood in the canyon, with steep cliffs on both sides and a rushing river under his feet.Countless people rush to the sea along the river of fate, chasing the last breath of the setting sun.They are born here, grow up, get married, give birth to children, grow old, die, cry and laugh, make noise, and the time of their lives is fleeting.

Xiao Ci didn't believe in fate, but at that moment, he felt that maybe a person's life has his own destiny.No matter how hard you struggle, you can't escape the established trajectory of fate.Just like a fish in the turbulence of the canyon, it will never be possible to cross the cliff so high into the sky.Just like a big river will eventually flow into the sea, time cannot be turned back. Whether they want to or not, their lives are running towards the end that ends everything, and they will never return.

Those who missed it cannot be recovered, and the shortcomings of the past cannot be made up.

This huge city accommodates the endless life of 2000 million people, but it cannot accommodate a small one who has made mistakes.

Xiao Ci panted slightly, leaning on the handrail of the overpass and slowly fell to the ground.He felt more tired than ever, as if he had exhausted all his strength to dream a sweet dream.With trembling fingers, he took out the yellowed photo from his pocket.The street lights hadn't been turned on yet, and the sky was dim. He lowered his head and got closer to the photo, so close that he seemed to be able to smell a stale smell.He pressed the photo to his cheek and slowly closed his eyes.For a moment, he seemed to feel his mother's gentle touch and his father's mountain-like firm arms. He saw his grandma sitting in the dim light mending clothes for them, turning her head slightly, and holding his little hand, the sleepy toddler was snoring ...

That midsummer, when you close your eyes and have everything, can't go back after all.

He didn't know how long he stayed there, he took out his phone, swiped his fingers unconsciously, and dialed a number.

He only realized that he had called Jiang Chao when he heard the voice from the other side.

As soon as the boy's familiar voice came out, he couldn't hold back almost immediately.

"Come out and play." He forced himself to be calm.

stay with me, okay...

The author has something to say: I used a sentence from "Midsummer" that is not easy to understand~