I'm in Delingha tonight

Standing outside the glass door for a while, Chi Nian changed to sitting on a stone pier and waited for Xi Shan.His bag was next to his side, and he drank a third of the mineral water in the side pocket, and his drowsiness began to gradually rise.

I couldn't sleep well before, but after I got to know Xi Shan, I always felt that I didn't get enough sleep.Because he is indeed the most relaxed when facing Xi Shan, without any pressure, as if the other party is his brother, his tree hole, who can listen to him tolerantly.

Deducting that intangible favor, Chi Nian would also like Xi Shan very much as a friend.

And even turned back to pick him up...

In fact, Xi Shan can simply ignore it and let him suffer on his own.But if this is the case, he will go to print the boarding pass again, and then shatter the dream without any nostalgia, and get on the plane.

Chi Nian thought to himself with a little joy, he bet that Xi Shan is a gentle and responsible person, and he won.

The familiar Wrangler appeared in the field of vision. After stopping, the window of the co-pilot slowly lowered. Xi Shan, wearing sunglasses, hooked his finger at him.He didn't say a word, but he looked calm and not impatient at all, so Chi Nian almost happily opened the car door and sat down in the old seat.

While lowering his head to fasten his seat belt, Xi Shan stepped on the gas pedal, and the off-road vehicle started. Because of inertia, Chi Nian's spine hit the back of the seat heavily, causing him pain, and his fingers were almost pinched.

He endured the discomfort and buckled up his seat belt, glaring at Xi Shan as if nothing.

It seems that Xi Shan only played a trick with him, deliberately making Chi Nian pay a small price for "turning back to pick him up by himself".

The bitterness of parting just now turned into a dramatic curtain call. Xi Shan smiled, and without looking at Chi Nian, he said directly: "You are so stupid, how can you buy the wrong date?"

"I don't know, maybe I lost my mind at the time."

He admitted his mistakes too quickly, and Xi Shan was speechless for a moment: "...you don't need to say that about yourself."

Chi Nian grabbed the backpack strap tightly, and began to look for remedies on his own: "Why don't I buy a ticket for the same time tomorrow, although it's a bit more expensive... After checking today, I can still buy it."

"How much?" Xi Shan asked him.

Chi Nian took out his mobile phone to confirm: "More than 1000 points, if you stop by today to grab a special ticket, maybe you can still—"

Xi Shan sneered: "One hundred and eight plus machine construction fuel is only more than 200, and if it is gone, it will be gone. It is not worth spending this money... What if you buy the wrong one again?"

Chi Nian made a gesture to hit him.

Xi Shan quickly changed his words: "The connecting flight is the morning of the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Hmm...nine o'clock." Chi Nian had a headache, "So I will go back to Xining tomorrow no matter what."

Impulsiveness is on the one hand, and on the other hand, Chi Nian has an inexplicable sense of uneasiness that such things will always happen.Perhaps it was because he really didn't want to leave Xishan voluntarily, and used the air ticket as his final bottom line, or maybe he left time for himself in Delingha, so there was room for regret and change of decision.

If he was really afraid of missing the flight and not being able to catch the plane, he would already be sitting in the cabin instead of the off-road vehicle.

After a short silence, Xi Shan said again: "Fortunately, you reserved your ticket for a day, otherwise it would be a disaster—how about it, I will drive back to Xining tomorrow, and I will pick you up by the way."

"By the way?" Chi Nian was secretly happy again, and pretended to evade, "You didn't intend to go so fast, uncle is still in the hospital, isn't that bad?"

Xi Shan said seriously: "Well, you're right, otherwise you'd better take the train by yourself."

Chi Nian: "..."

Xi Shan patted the steering wheel, and couldn't hold back his laughter anymore: "Are you pretending to be a fart with me here? Chi Nian? It's all over, and I'm still wondering if I have enough time. Oh, he just fell After a while, I can be discharged from the hospital and go home to recuperate in the next two days. If it doesn’t help, my aunt will come back tonight. There is someone to take care of her, so don’t worry about it.”

Chi Nian turned his head away angrily, pretending to look at the rapidly retreating poplar trees outside the window.

"Hey, are you angry?" Xi Shan pushed him, "Don't be angry, let's just make a deal, okay? You and I will switch driving tomorrow, or you will really get tired after driving [-] kilometers alone."

The temperature of his palm made Chi Nian's heart soften, and he let out an "um" in his nasal cavity, and said inaudibly, "Thank you."

"Thanks for what?"

"Thank you for letting me go." Chi Nian said, "I actually know you're not in a hurry."

Xi Shan didn't express his opinion on this, and said after a while: "If you really treat me as a friend, don't thank me. And you have to leave sooner or later. Now that you have a companion, what does it matter if it is a few days earlier? "

Chi Nian is not so guilty.

He recalled Xi Shan's words, and vaguely realized that the other party put himself in the position of "friend" and "companion", and later realized that there seemed to be a little different chemical reaction between them-this was still the cold face who didn't want to Do you know a beautiful girl who has traveled most of Qinghai and Xishan in Gansu by herself?

Chi Nian immediately felt that he was a little more approachable, as if he allowed himself to be a little more presumptuous.

Whether intentional or not, things happen anyway.Chi Nian was free for half a day in Delingha, and the afternoon sun was strong, so of course he refused to go out, so he simply hid in the hotel with Xi Shan for an afternoon nap.

The sun is westward, go out to look for food.

After dinner, Xi Shan suggested walking around, and Chi Nian followed him.Cross the street, walk along the Bayin River for a while, and see the corner of the cornice pavilion.

Unlike modern architecture, it can't be said that it was copied from any dynasty.Chi Nian was still carefully identifying the architectural style, and Xi Shan next to him took out his mobile phone to take a picture, and showed him the place name plate hanging at the door:

Haizi Poetry Exhibition Hall.

In the evening, the wheat is swaying in the wind, and the tall Kunlun jade is engraved with lines of bloody poetry.The unique roughness of the Northwest is embellished by poetry, and suddenly becomes lingering, like the greenery suddenly appearing in the desert.

When Chi Nian saw the third stele, Xi Shan's cell phone rang again hastily.

He gestured to Chi Nian apologetically and mouthed: "Aunt."

Chi Nian smiled and motioned him to go quickly.

Xi Shan walked two steps around to a poplar tree, he turned his head in a strange way.In front of the Kunlun jade, Chi Nian looked very small, Xi Shan looked at him a few more times, a little lost in thought, but had to concentrate on the phone.

The phone call was not long, but the matter was urgent.After Xi Shan returned, his brows were frowned: "I'm sorry, my aunt is back, I have to go and accompany their elders for a while. You can walk around here casually, if you are really bored, go back to the hotel first, and rest early today... I also want to Tell them to leave tomorrow."

Speaking of handing the room card to Chi Nian, he seemed worried and asked one more question: "Is there any problem?"

"No problem." Chi Nian asked him to hurry to work, "I can't get lost, there is a map in my phone, and if it doesn't work, I will take a taxi. This is not the wilderness."

Xi Shan laughed at him, and hurriedly stopped a taxi and left.

Chi Nian watched his back, and the sign on the top of the taxi changed from "Empty" to "Access".It drove towards the direction where the setting sun fell into the valley, and there was a tall building standing there, and the big screen was already lit.

The promotional videos and advertisements played alternately, Chi Nian turned around and continued to study the poems engraved on Kunlun Jade.

It turns out that Haizi wrote the poem here.

Since then, Delingha has become very soft in his heart, not only because of "taking dreams as horses", it is clearly in the hinterland of the plateau, and it is also suitable to match "facing the sea, spring is warm and flowers are blooming".

The hospital was not as difficult as imagined, Xi Shan and his uncle and aunt really got closer this time.It may be because they are old and their children are not around, and they feel kind when they see any junior—even if Xi Shan was never treated in his mother's natal family—or it may be because Xi Shan paid for the medical expenses.

My uncle's leg is fine, and he will be discharged from the hospital after a few more days.When Xi Shan finished peeling an apple, he mentioned to them that he would leave Delingha tomorrow, and they accepted it calmly.

This blood relationship is as thin as the oxygen on the plateau. To uncle and aunt, Xi Shan is at best a relative who once stayed for a summer vacation and now has a close relationship with him occasionally. Shan is "the child born of my sister and a wild man".

So if you stay for a long time, you will inevitably have difficulty breathing.

After he informed himself of the arrangements for these two days, he left the hospital with chest tightness and shortness of breath, wandered around aimlessly, and walked back to the Bayin River without knowing it.

The river formed by the mountain snow water feeds the soil and water. In summer, standing still by the river, you can still feel the coolness of the melting snow.Outside the plateau, he was still fighting against the high temperature of the dog days, but Xi Shan felt cold here.

Forget it, Xi Shan thought to himself, it is better to have less contact with them in the future.

The growth environment, culture, and concept are all too different.My uncle is still very concerned about my mother's choice back then, and when I mention it, I don't look good. This time I asked how my mother was doing, but Xi Shan didn't dare to tell the truth, thinking that he was going to talk about a lot of trivial matters The old things, make yourself upset.

It would be better if we didn't miss each other before.

Xi Shan took two steps and didn't tie his hair up, so the half-length curly hair was blown by the wind and covered his face.He lit a cigarette, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Chi Nian: "Go back to the hotel?"

Chi: No, I’m still strolling by the river [showing teeth]

"I'm also by the Bayin River, I didn't see you." After inputting, Xi Shan was surrounded by loss for some reason, deleted only the first half of the sentence, rewrote "Where are you", and finally deleted it.

This sentence sounds like it has been abandoned, no one is looking for it, so I have to go to the door and find a kind person to take it in.

He doesn't have to be accompanied by someone to survive, hasn't he been here for several years? ——Lonely therapy, Zhu Yiming joked so, unless he is seriously ill, maybe he will have no accidents in his life.

No one can intervene in his private space.

The Bayin River is quite long, with neon signs standing beside the river, and colorful lights illuminate the shadows in the river into colors.

When Xi Shan raised his head, the iconic Ferris wheel stood quietly not far away.Now the night is falling, but it is not yet late at night, the voices in the ears are mixed with the sound of running water, the pedestrians on the road are relaxing in small groups, the traffic is busy, and the tired tourists and the leisurely locals can be distinguished at a glance.

Xi Shan didn't know which type he was. Although he wasn't tired, he definitely didn't belong to this place.

He is adrift, where does he belong?

He didn't reply to Chi Nian anymore, Xi Shan walked forward, leaving himself a goal: the Bayin Riverside where people come and go, there is no positioning and landmarks to guide him, he tried to find Chi Nian.

Searching, this is his wandering instinct.