Counting it, Gu Yantang has not been back to his hometown for almost six years.The memory of six years ago is already blurred, and China's transportation has developed rapidly in the past six years.A journey that used to take twenty hours by train can now be done in three or four hours.

Wen Shu and Gu Yantang changed cars several times.First, I took the high-speed train for two hours from city T to city W, and then took a taxi from city W to county Y for four and 10 minutes.

Then I got off the bus and asked, there was no minibus to Longjiao Town at this station, but it was too cost-effective to take a taxi, so I had to take a taxi to another station. Fortunately, I bought a ticket to Longjiao Town here.

Tickets are not expensive, only more than ten yuan per ticket.Just to wait, Wen Shu saw that he would have to wait another four or ten minutes, so he asked Gu Yantang to accompany him to buy some milk biscuits at the supermarket near the station to take back.

"Who are you buying these for?" Gu Yantang asked.

"You are stupid, you bought it for your aunt."

"I don't know if she's still there."

"You can give it to her daughter when she's gone. Are your grandparents still there?"

Gu Yantang blinked, and replied: "I really don't know. When I was young, I only knew that they lived in the mountains, far away, and I could only see them on a few festivals in a year."

Wen Shu thought, what a remote and impoverished mountainous area does Gu Yantang live in?Didn't it mean the town?

The small supermarket at the station in the county couldn't buy any good things, so Wen Shu randomly bought a box of milk, a box of yogurt, and two boxes of biscuits of a certain brand.

Seeing that Gu Yantang was carrying a heavy backpack, Wen Shu offered to carry the milk.Gu Yantang insisted, so in the end Wen Shu carried two boxes of biscuits, and Gu Yantang carried his backpack and two boxes of milk.

The two of them got into the minibus with these, as if they were visiting relatives.It's just that the clothes they wear don't really look like the locals.

Most of the passengers on the car to such a town are local farmers, very down-to-earth.Some old men left their shirts half-unbuttoned, revealing their tanned skin.

An old man in front of Wen Shu seemed to be over 70 years old, but he looked very strong. There was a long hoe under his legs, and there was a little mud on the hoe.

As soon as he got in the car, he was talking on the phone very loudly. Wen Shu couldn't understand a word of the dialect he spoke, but he couldn't sleep even if he wanted to close his eyes and sleep.Because grandpa's voice is too "deafening".

Gu Yantang looked at him wanting to sleep but couldn't sleep, wanted to laugh very much, and teased him with a smile: "Do you think we are like you coming to the door?"

"What is door-to-door?" Wen Shu asked.

"That's why you went to see your mother-in-law." Gu Yantang laughed.

Wen Shu elbowed his chest to show his retaliation.

Gu Yantang touched his chest with his hand, pretending that it hurts.

All the way around the mountain road, the scenery is particularly beautiful.Anyway, Wen Shu, who couldn't sleep, simply looked at the scenery outside the window, green mountains and green waters, and took a photo with his mobile phone, all of which were as beautiful as oil paintings.

It's just that this road is indeed quite dangerous.The road is not wide, and there is a cliff next to the road, and there is no guardrail. If Wen Shu would not dare to drive, Wen Shu is simply convinced, the drivers in this place are really good.How dare you drive so fast with so many sharp turns!

When turning a corner, Gu Yantang grabbed Wen Shu's hand and comforted him: "It's okay, this road is considered good, the previous road was even worse, they can drive it."

"This road is still good, but the previous road was so bad!"

"The previous roads could not be opened when it rained." Gu Yantang said.

Wen Shu: "..."

When passing a certain mountain, Gu Yantang pointed to a blurry mountain in the distance, and said to Wen Shu, "This is where I used to go to elementary school."

"Then how do you get from home to school?"

"Let's walk. Is it possible to ride a bicycle on this road?"

"How long will it take?"

"If you go fast, it will take two hours. Some classmates' homes are farther away, and they still have to walk for three hours. Before dawn, they have to leave home after five o'clock. I can do it at six o'clock."

Wen Shu: "..."

Wen Shu rubbed Gu Yantang's hand next to him with his hand, and Gu Yantang grabbed his hand and placed it on his lap.Fortunately, the backpacks beside them were very large, blocking the sight of others.

Gu Yantang understood and said: "It seems unbelievable to you, right? The last school was so hard, but I really like going to school, because I don't have to help with farm work, I don't have to cook, and I don't have to be beaten for no reason. ...And because you answered the questions well in class, you can even be praised by the teacher."

"Your teacher must be very proud of being able to train a student like you." Wen Shu praised from the bottom of his heart.

When Gu Yantang was embarrassed, he made a lot of little tricks, either by scratching his hair or his ears.He mentioned a little shyly that his reputation in the village and town was not very good.

Wen Shu pretended not to know and asked "Why?"

Gu Yantang replied solemnly: "I love fighting too much, there are always countless people who can't understand me."

Wen Shu, who grew up in the city since he was a child, even if it was just a small city, if he hadn't come to such a place in person, it would be hard to imagine what kind of environment the children living in the border towns and mountainous areas would be in. grew up.

From this point of view, if the children who grew up in China's first-tier cities and the children who grew up in the poorest mountainous areas of Sichuan and Guizhou live in very different environments, it would be no problem to say that they are two completely different human populations.

Wen Shu suddenly thought of a short science fiction novel he had read recently - "Folding Beijing".

Wen Shu can now imagine how Gu Yantang grew up.Most of the children in schools in these impoverished areas are left-behind children.

Most of the parents are sitting in the lowest jobs in big cities, busy with making a living, and have no time or energy to accompany their children to grow up.The older grandparents can't control the children at all, so the children basically grow up in free-range.

A child who grows up like this is no different from a little wild beast. In school, it is like the law of the jungle in the forest. Whoever has a hard fist will obey.A person like Gu Yantang who has a special experience and is easily hated by others often becomes the target of a crowd.

Wen Shu subconsciously looked at Gu Yantang, and felt that he was wearing a blue shirt, which was also the same as his own, with the top button fastened to the top, looking like a dog.Wen Shu already felt thankful that the child who grew up like this did not grow into an anti-social personality.

Think about it, Wen Shu himself grew up with a golden spoon in his mouth, and he never suffered at all.The only thing that made him depressed for a long time was when he was a teenager, because his sexual orientation brought him huge troubles, and he deeply felt that the world was unfair to him.

At that time Wen Shu thought, there are so many people in this world, why should he be different from others.Why, why?

Thinking about it now, these experiences are nothing compared to what Gu Yantang experienced in just 20 years!

Wen Shu suddenly had an insight into the greatest truth in the world. When a friend complains to you about bad luck, how can you comfort your friend? It’s fine to be worse than your friend.Otherwise, it's okay to say that it's just standing and talking without back pain, and it's fake to death.

Because Gu Yantang has not been back for a long time.So he asked the driver when Longjiao Town would arrive.

The driver was driving the car thinking about something and didn't hear it, but the other passengers heard it and told them loudly that Longjiao Town was coming soon, and it would be just over a hill.

Wen Shu quickly expressed his thanks, thinking that the people in a small place are so warm.

Sure enough, after turning over a hill, the driver slammed on the brakes and stopped beside the post office.

Longjiao Town has finally arrived.

However, the hometown in Gu Yantang's memory is not here yet. Wen Shu followed the direction of his finger, looked at the road with no end in sight, and asked, "How far do we have to go?"

"Not far."

"How long will it take?"

"Four or five minutes."

Wen Shu: "..."

Wen Shu looked up at the venomous sun at three o'clock in the afternoon in August, then at the biscuits in his hands and the milk in Gu Yantang's hands, and scolded himself why he bothered to buy these things, it would be better if he just gave the money ?

But there is no way, there are very few cars going to the village, and there is only one bus a day.They can only go.

Gu Yantang asked him if he couldn't walk anymore?If you can't walk, you can give him something.

Wen Shu waved his hand and went to a small roadside shop in the town to buy two bottles of water. "Let's go. Walk with you on the way home."

Gu Yantang apologized all over his face, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm very tired."

Wen Shu replied against his will this time: "I'm not tired."

After going around half of the village, Wen Shu saw Gu Yantang running towards a house made of mud. Wen Shu knew that he had finally arrived at his childhood home.

Wen Shu swears that this is the first time he has seen a house made of earth with his own eyes.He was surprised that such a house still existed in this world. There must have been no earthquakes in these years.Otherwise it must have collapsed long ago.

Wen Shu also noticed that even in such a village, Gu Yantang's house was definitely one of the most dilapidated.

Wen Shu followed Gu Yantang into the door. A middle-aged woman was sitting on a low stool peeling edamame. The arrival of two unexpected guests made her raise her head curiously.

Wen Shu noticed that her face was actually not too old, only about 50 to [-] years old, but what caught the eye was the gray hair on top of her head, which was almost completely white.

"Auntie!" Gu Yantang called out.

"Ah, it's Xiaotang!" The expression on the woman's face changed from surprise to surprise.

The woman turned her head to look at Wen Shu again, and Wen Shu immediately felt embarrassed. He hadn't thought of asking Gu Yantang what to call his aunt before, after all, the two of them hadn't decided whether to tell her about their relationship.

"Call me aunt!" Gu Yantang turned his head and smiled at Wen Shu.

"Auntie!" Wen Shu also called out.

"Auntie, this is my friend." Gu Yantang pointed at Wen Shu and said.

Wen Shu felt relieved, fortunately he said "friend" instead of "boyfriend".

The aunt first hugged Gu Yantang and cried for a while, and then the two chatted in dialect for a while.Wen Shu could only hear the general idea.It seems that there is an older sister who is studying in the middle school in the town, and two younger siblings are adopted by a distant relative who can't have children because they can't support them.

As the aunt spoke, she wiped away tears very sadly, and Gu Yantang hugged her aunt, also a little choked up.Wen Shu watched from the side, and could only keep handing the tissue to her, and unconsciously his eyes turned red.

But he still noticed that neither of them mentioned the legendary uncle. Wen Shu looked around the empty house and found no one else. Wen Shu guessed, is he really dead?

The aunt cried for a long time, then suddenly remembered something, got up and whispered a few words in dialect to Gu Yantang, and then went out.

After he left, Gu Yantang looked at the dilapidated rural hut, probably recalling all the past, and stared blankly for a while.Wen Shu sat with him for a while.

Until there was a dog barking outside, Wen Shuxun looked up and was almost taken aback.The dog was so excited, as soon as it recognized that Gu Yantang was at home, it immediately threw itself on Gu Yantang, making fun and circling around, almost going crazy with joy.

Gu Yantang was also very happy to go around with it all the time, calling "Xiaohua! Xiaohua!" After half an hour, Xiaohua finally calmed down and began to lie on Gu Yantang's lap to pant, licking Gu Yantang's hand from time to time. .

After calming down, Wen Shu finally saw the whole picture of the little flower. It was indeed a small country dog ​​with a coat of color and flowers. It had yellow fur and a white face. It was a pretty dog. Wen Shu heard I said that those with white hair on their faces are all older dogs.

Gu Yantang patted Xiaohua's head, pointed to Wen Shu and said, "Xiaohua, this is also your master."

The clever little flower immediately barked at Wen Shu twice.

Wen Shu immediately said, "You're so good." He wondered if he didn't have candy on him, and wondered if he could peel a biscuit for the dog to eat.But when I thought that the family hadn't eaten it yet, and it would not be good to unpack it, I had no choice but to give up.

At this time, Gu Yantang's aunt came back with a large piece of meat and a fish in her hands, and Wen Shu knew that she was out shopping for vegetables.

Wen Shu asked in surprise, "It's five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and you can still buy vegetables?"

Gu Yantang took the fish and meat from his aunt, and explained to him: "I didn't buy it, she borrowed it from the village chief's house."

Wen Shu then stopped talking, thinking that his aunt really regarded him as a distinguished guest.

The aunt couldn't understand what Wen Shu said, but she kept smiling at him and made tea for him in an enamel cup.Wen Shu felt that although the family was poor, they couldn't hide the kindness and hospitality in their bones.

Gu Yantang was busy making vegetables in the kitchen, and Wen Shu followed him to watch when he had nothing to do.The stoves of the rural people were still burning firewood. Wen Shu watched Gu Yantang skillfully lit the fire, boiled hot water, and filled it with two thermos bottles, saying that it was for Wen Shu to take a bath.

Wen Shu asked, what about you?Gu Yantang tilted his head and said, let's use cold water.Rural people are not so particular.

Wen Shu thought, Gu Yantang is fine as a big man, is it the same for his aunt and sister?

The aunt was afraid that the food would not be enough, so she killed another chicken. Wen Shu was very moved.

I thought it was chicken, fish, and meat. It is estimated that this family has never eaten so much during the New Year.

Gu Yantang used up all the local ingredients in the countryside this time and cooked a lot of dishes.By the time the eldest sister named Xiaozhen came home from school, there were already several dishes on the table.Braised carp in brown sauce, stir-fried edamame with pork belly, fried bamboo shoots with lean meat, and a big bowl of yellow-orange chicken soup.

The 14-year-old little sister was first shocked when she saw the dishes on the table, then she saw an unfamiliar but very good-looking man standing inside the house, and then Gu Yantang came out of the kitchen.

Gu Yantang was only 14 years old when he ran away from home. Thinking about it, he knew how much he had changed in the past six years. When Xiaozhen finally recognized that this person was really his elder brother who had been missing for many years, she suddenly started wowing. cry!

Xiaozhen was thin, she threw herself into Gu Yantang's arms, hugged Gu Yantang's neck and did not let go, her tears and snot were all on his clothes, and she kept crying: "My mother and I thought you were dead. Why didn't you come back to see us?" Gu Yantang kept wiping away her tears, and said softly, "I'm sorry."

From the intermittent chat between the two siblings, Wen Shu probably pieced together the sequence of events.

It turned out that Gu Yantang did beat his uncle severely back then, but he was not killed, but seriously injured.After spending a lot of medical expenses and lying in bed for two months, he got up again, but his legs and feet were disabled after all.

A year later, after yet another gambling drunk, he was run over and killed in town by a tired truck driver.

But Wen Shu noticed that when the little girl was talking about his father's death, she didn't have any sad expression on her face. Perhaps his father's death meant more of a relief to her.

The little girl hugged Gu Yantang's head and murmured: "Our whole family has never blamed you, why have you been away for so long without even making a phone call?"

"I don't know how to face him." Gu Yantang said.

"Where are you now, I want to go with you." Xiaozhen said again.

Gu Yantang patted Xiaozhen on the head, put her down, and said, "Let's eat first."

In fact, everyone present was growling with hunger, but the dog named Xiaohua was the happiest among them. Gu Yantang threw him a bone with meat from time to time, and its tail was about to wag.

After eating and drinking, my aunt went to wash the dishes. Xiaozhen was obviously a little sleepy because of the long walk on the mountain road, but she still pestered Gu Yantang to ask questions, she couldn't finish talking.Gu Yantang's answer is usually relatively short, and sometimes he will speak to her impatiently, which is very different from when he talked to Wen Shu.

But Wen Shu could still see that the relationship between the two brothers and sisters was actually quite good. If he hadn't known that they were indeed cousins ​​by blood, Wen Shu would have been jealous.

After all, the degree to which this little girl clings to him is even better than that dog named Xiao Hua.

People in the mountains go to bed early, and there is basically no sound at nine o'clock.Xiaozhen originally wanted to sleep with her brother, but Wen Shu was taken aback by this.Not knowing what Gu Yantang said in her sister's ear, Xiaozhen went to sleep with her mother with a face of reluctance.

There are only two sleeping rooms in this house. Wen Shu sweated a lot today and really wanted to take a bath, but he was always wondering where he should do it.Gu Yantang went and brought him a big wooden basin, filled him with cold water, and then poured hot water.

"Just wash here?" Wen Shu asked.

"Yes, there is no shower, please feel wronged."

"how about you?"

"I'll go outside and wash with well water."

"Then I'll wash it with well water too, and leave the hot water for my sister and aunt."

"Don't, it's cold in the mountains at night, you'll catch a cold."

"Do you think I'm not as good as a woman?"

Gu Yantang was stunned for a moment, and said, "No, why would you think that way. They are used to it, so it's fine."

In the end, Wen Shu obediently took a hot bath, let alone soaking in the big tub was quite comfortable, after he finished washing, he wrapped himself in some clothes, and Gu Yantang also finished washing and came back.

The two hugged each other, rubbing each other's ears, and quickly reacted. However, this kind of rural earthen house has no sound insulation at all, and Wen Shu is really embarrassed to let others hear any inappropriate sounds.

However, the feeling of being able to see, touch, but not eat is really not very good for two people.

The two had no choice but to separate a little, holding hands and chatting quietly.

Talking about how each other grew up, Wen Shu talked about his memories of his mother when he was a child, and how his mother taught him how to grow flowers; Gu Yantang talked about how he fought wits and courage with those brats at school, and finally became a child king.

Gu Yantang said that when he went to school, he carried a steel bar in his bag every day, and he didn't take the initiative to provoke, it was just for self-defense.

Wen Shu couldn't help but leaned closer, kissed his forehead and between his brows gently, and said slowly: "Baby, sleep at ease, I will protect you in the future, and you will not be hurt again in the future."

A moment later, in the darkness, Wen Shu felt his lips being kissed fiercely, the kiss was domineering and arrogant, leaving no room for him to breathe, every kiss was a declaration of his strong possession of him want.

However, as the wet liquid dripped onto his face, the kiss gradually became gentle again. He gently sucked every inch of Wen Shu's lips, from the center of the eyebrows to the tip of the nose, and then to the cheeks. Don't be rubbed against his breath and traces.

Until they kissed, the flames of desire between the two died down and ignited again.

Gu Yantang finally felt that he couldn't take it anymore, turned over and sat up, motioned Wen Shu not to talk, and pulled Wen Shu out of the door quietly.

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