squirrel

They were almost rushed all the way through the door by the ringing of the phone.Before I opened the door, I heard the phone ringing in the living room, but when I entered the room, the other end still hadn't hung up. "What the hell is it..." Gao Liyuan complained with a smile, walked over to pick it up, but his expression changed after he responded, "What?!"

"I see. Well, there's a train tonight, and I'll be right here."

Gao Liyuan put down the phone and went back to the bedroom, took out a luggage bag and some clothes from the cabinet, and packed them in a hurry.Squirrel also guessed that something important had happened, and wanted to go up to help, but was stopped by Gao Liyuan shaking his head, so he could only ask: "What's wrong?"

"My house...is the Uncle Song that my mother mentioned last time. I don't know if you still remember him. He passed away." Gao Liyuan said without stopping his movements, "I still have to go. "

He quickly packed a pack of simple luggage. There is no bus at the moment, but there is a train that departs from the provincial capital at night, stops here, and arrives home in the middle of the night. It was the one he used to take when he was in the provincial team. of.

Gao Liyuan estimated the time spent on the road in his heart, and suddenly heard the squirrel saying, "I'll go with you too!"

He couldn't help turning his head to look at the squirrel.

The redness and swelling from being fanned on the face by someone the day before yesterday hadn't completely disappeared, and today, after running around for a whole day, the squirrel's face has almost turned black and red. Even Gao Liyuan, who has always been insensitive to appearance, has to admit that now This face is really ugly.

But at this moment, the owner of this clown face was looking at him without blinking his eyes. Under the black pupils, concern and worry were emerging without any concealment, which he had never dared to expect before.

Gao Liyuan stared into those eyes, and suddenly felt that his whole body was submerged in the cool river water, and he could see the golden water floating on the river surface by squinting his eyes.

"It's okay," he said, and his tone had subconsciously slowed down a bit. "You take good care of my house. I'll be back in a week at most—I'll call you in advance, ah."

When he said that, of course the squirrel didn't insist on following him.After all, the relationship between the two cannot be known to Gao Liyuan's family. In the eyes of Gao's mother, Squirrel is just the younger brother of Gao Liyuan's friend's family. It is too strange to come back together.

But after making sense of this point, Squirrel still insisted on sending Gao Liyuan to the train station, even bought a platform ticket, and watched people get on the train all the way.The train only stopped here for a short 3 minutes, before Gao Liyuan had time to put down his luggage and beckon to the squirrel, the train let out a long whistle and slowly drove out of the platform.

The squirrel stretched out his hand even in the sound of the whistle, and waved vigorously at Gao Liyuan.

The uncle sitting next to Gao Liyuan also noticed the squirrel, and asked with a smile: "Is that your brother? The relationship is so good."

Gao Liyuan nodded casually as a response, and looked at the squirrel standing under the pale light of the platform.When the train started, he didn't run after the train like the heroine in the TV series, but Gao Liyuan could see his gaze following his window until they both disappeared into the night.

This home, really is a full seven days.

Squirrel is still his security guard, but whenever he is not on duty at night, he will live with Gao Liyuan and look after his house.The people in the same dormitory naturally discovered this change within two times. A group of people tried their best to talk to each other several times, but the squirrel seemed to be determined after eating a weight, and refused to eat oil and salt.

So in the end, this group of people came to a conclusion: this kid might be taken care of by a rich woman.

The squirrel had a poker face at that time, and when he thought about it again after returning to Gao Liyuan's house after changing shifts at night, the more he thought about it, the more he found it funny. He tossed and turned on the bed of a certain rich woman for a long time, and did not fall asleep until midnight inside.But the dream was like someone's revenge. The first thing Squirrel got up the next day was to wash the clothes. Halfway through the soap, he couldn't help but give his middle finger to himself in the mirror.

Gao Liyuan called on the night of the sixth day, his voice was a little hoarse, but he was still full of energy.Hearing the squirrel's "Hello", there seemed to be a light laugh: "Mingyue?"

"Who else can I be?"

Gao Liyuan has always refused to answer the squirrel's intentional talk back, and simply asked: "How are you doing these days? I'll be back tomorrow night."

"What time is it?"

Squirrel asked a question without even thinking about it. After speaking, he remembered the dream of the previous night, and suddenly felt a small fire in his heart, and then said dryly: "I will change shifts at ten o'clock tomorrow. You come back."

"It should be at ten o'clock. You don't need to pick it up. Maybe it will be around the same time as you." Gao Liyuan responded warmly, and suddenly moved the microphone away, as if shouting to the person in the next room, "Got it!"

"My mother told me to come over and hang up first." He only had time to say this, and he didn't forget to add a sentence, "Go to bed early."

Of course the squirrel didn't get a good rest.He had to change shifts at 10 o'clock the next morning, and the community was still four or ten minutes away by car. When he arrived at the place, there were one after another of small things, which made him uncomfortable even taking a nap.When he left home at ten o'clock in the evening, Squirrel was so tired that he didn't even want to turn on the TV. He lay sprawled on the sofa, waiting for Gao Liyuan to come back.

The phone rang suddenly and harshly.

He was afraid that the other end was calling to find Gao Liyuan, so he hesitated for a long time, but the ringtone never rang, just like the call that urged Gao Liyuan to go home a week ago.The squirrel only felt its right eyelid twitch, but it still dragged its feet up, and picked up the receiver: "Hello?"

"Are you Jiang Mingyue?" A voice came from the other end of the phone, "There was a car accident on Gao Liyuan Road and he died."

"impossible!"

The squirrel roared subconsciously, and suddenly shivered, breaking free from the short dream.Probably because of the bad sleeping position, half of his body was numb from the pressure, and his brain was also drowsy. He stared at the wall clock for a long time and couldn't tell which was the hour hand.

It so happened that the time jumped to the hour, and the old wall clock rang on the spot, a full twelve times.The squirrel dragged its numb leg and moved to the balcony. The family area was already very quiet, and there were no pedestrians on the road.

Gao Liyuan hasn't come back yet.

That nightmare resurfaced in his mind again. Squirrel knew that he was worrying unfoundedly, but bit his lip and turned on the TV.During this period of time, both CCTV and Provincial TV were rebroadcasting some irrelevant programs, and occasionally a real-time message would slide down below, and there were no such words as "car accident" or "wreck".

But why hasn't Gao Liyuan come back now?

He also thought of Gao's mother who had visited before, and remembered the story of Gao Liyuan's father that he had occasionally heard a few words about during the chat, and suddenly worried whether it was Gao Liyuan's family who forced him to marry and left him behind.I would have followed him that day if I had known earlier——Song Shuming felt that he was extremely ridiculous now, but he still couldn't help thinking that even if it was inconvenient to follow him home, he could still be by the train station like Gao Liyuan accompanied him to Songning Waiting for him to come back together in the guest house.

The squirrel simply opened the door, walked to the door, and sat down on the steps.Through the window at the corner of the stairs, you can see the dark blue night sky outside.He suddenly remembered the two stars he saw through the hole in the awning when he first arrived at Brother Tang's place, but now that the sky was vast, he suddenly couldn't find his own star.

Footsteps suddenly came from downstairs.

The squirrel immediately threw the stars and holes out of the Milky Way. He wanted to welcome the downstairs, but he was afraid that Gao Liyuan would not be there, so he took a funny posture of stretching his neck and buttocks while sitting on the stairs obediently, holding his breath Listen to the footsteps.The first floor, the second floor, the third floor... Finally, the voice came out of the shadow of the third floor accompanied by a tall figure. When he looked up and saw the person on the stairs, he was taken aback: "Mingyue?"

He opened his mouth and finally said, "You're back."

"I'm back, the train was delayed, it arrived more than an hour late, and the bus is gone." Gao Liyuan said, without asking why the squirrel was waiting here, but just walked up the steps with the luggage bag in one hand, and put the empty The other hand was passed to him, "Let's go, go home."

After Gao Liyuan entered the door, he turned on the hot water to take a bath. The squirrel nestled on the sofa and listened to the sound of the water. His heart, which had gradually calmed down from the panic, suddenly began to throb again. This time, it was more distracted.He stood up, walked to the bathroom door, and opened the door. Gao Liyuan was standing under the shower with his back facing the door, washing his hair. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he thought something was wrong, and asked with his eyes closed: "What's wrong?"

This sentence suddenly gave Squirrel inexplicable courage, he didn't answer, closed the door with his backhand, and leaned forward, like he did after he was drunk that day, grabbed Gao Liyuan's arm, and put his head on his shoulder.

"You didn't tell me the train was late."

What he said sounded like unreasonable trouble, and Gao Liyuan also laughed: "What did I tell you on the train? Come on, don't stand here, your clothes are all wet."

Of course the squirrel couldn't just leave like that.He stretched out his hand like a ghost, around Gao Liyuan's waist, and leaned towards a certain part of Gao Liyuan who was still sleeping—just like what the other party did to him in the dream that day.

"Ming Yue!" The contact was only for a moment, and Gao Liyuan quickly grabbed his hand.The man finally turned around, frowned slightly and looked down at him, "Don't make trouble."

"I didn't make a fuss."

Not to be outdone, he frowned and stared back.He knew what Gao Liyuan was worried about, and he also knew that if he didn't take a step forward, Gao Liyuan would still stand where he was, leaving enough time for himself—even if he chose to retreat in the end.

"Gao Liyuan." The squirrel called his name, "I've thought about it a long time ago."

The water in the shower was still falling continuously, swirling and flowing away from the floor drain, leaving only steaming mist that filled the room.The squirrel suddenly heard Gao Liyuan's sigh, and then that man stepped forward and hugged him in his arms.

"I see."

The sound of running water suddenly disappeared, but the fog became thicker, blocking out all insignificant things.In this fog, the squirrel clung to Gao Liyuan tightly, feeling as if too many things had been stuffed into his heart, sore and swollen, but it made him extremely happy.

Autumn is here in the blink of an eye.

Gao Liyuan put away the floor fan, and took out a slightly thicker quilt from the cabinet, and put it on after drying in the sun for a day, and it seemed to be still warm at night.As soon as the squirrel lay in it, it felt so comfortable that it didn't want to open its eyes, but it refused to let others go. It grabbed Gao Liyuan's hand and asked him to press his head: "I've been reading for a day, and I feel dizzy."

"It's only been a few days? I really should let you go to the graduating class of No. [-] Middle School to see it."

Having said that, Gao Liyuan put more strength in his hand and rubbed the squirrel's head for a while.The squirrel was waited on for a long time, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Gao Liyuan's serious eyes. He couldn't help but leaned closer, and set the fire on both of them.

When the skin was touching, he heard Gao Liyuan asking in his ear: "Didn't you feel dizzy?"

"It's said on TV that exercise can help repair mental fatigue." He raised his eyebrows and deliberately gnawed on the tip of Gao Liyuan's nose, the smile in his eyes was about to overflow.

"Damn."

Gao Liyuan said that in half a year, when the business he partnered with Li Chuanqiu was on the right track, he would be able to quit his job as a teacher in the Fifth Middle School.The office is in the provincial capital, and the schools there are better. If there is no accident, they should spend the summer in the provincial capital next year.

Squirrel is all for it, of course.A few days ago, he followed Gao Liyuan to the provincial capital once, and he felt new about many things.What's more, the city where Shuzi went to university is closer to the provincial capital, far away from Qian Laoer's gang of enemies and close to his brothers. For Squirrel, it is simply killing two birds with one stone.

"But the summer in the provincial capital is even hotter." Gao Liyuan said, smoothed the squirrel's forehead hair, and asked him with a smile, "Can you bear it?"

Of course he hates summer in the city - there are people smelling of sweat, there are scorching exhaust fumes from cars, the concrete road is exposed to the scorching sun for a day, and it gets worse at night, and all the accumulated heat is vomited on the passing pedestrians.

But what does it matter.

"Isn't it because you're here?"

The squirrel rested its head on Gao Liyuan's shoulder, squinted its eyes and looked at the window.The night breeze came slowly, blowing the curtains up, creating a gap, from which you can see the clear and bright starry sky outside.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he suddenly felt that he saw the two tadpole-like stars back then, side by side, surrounded by twinkling stars, year after year, following the rotation of the sky.

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