Xingchuan

Although there was expectation, Ling Yi did not make a sound.

The weather has warmed up since the beginning of spring, and such clear nights are perfect for driving around.

The hotel was booked by Li Xingchuan for Zhong Jie, the price is moderate, the location is in the city center, and it is very convenient to go to several major scenic spots.The evening rush hour is still warm, there are still a lot of cars on the road in the urban area, and there are many traffic lights, they stop and go along the way.

Street lights shone into the car from the wide open rear window, and Zhong Jie's simple shadow was folded on the seat, making him look like a honest and honest man.He has been taking pictures, and he may want to go back and show his wife and children.Halfway through, the ringing of the video phone broke the silence in the car.

Zhong Jie looked at the rearview mirror in the middle, and just as he opened his mouth, Li Xingchuan looked at him from the mirror, "It's okay, you take it."

He just pressed the green button.

"Hey--"

I switched from Mandarin to dialect in one mouthful, and some of the words were relatively obscure, but the word "wife" was still easy to understand.

Li Xingchuan slowed down the speed of the car, and drifted with the crowd of vehicles in front and behind.

The wife who was alone at home seemed to have lost something, so she called to force her husband to recall.Zhong Jie turned his wife around on the phone, asking repeatedly: "... Is there any, is there any?"

After a while, there was still nothing there.Holding his forehead, he scolded her in a rough and indulgent tone: "Stupid woman."

Just at a red light, the car stopped slowly, and Li Xingchuan turned to look beside him.

Ling Yi was smiling.

The co-pilot's window was only half down, Ling Yi rested his elbows on the side of the window, propped his cheek on his right hand, leaned his forehead on the upper edge of the glass, and was watching the rear row with interest through the rearview mirror.

While watching, he smiled.

The evening wind is gentle.

He looked at Zhong Jie, and Li Xingchuan looked at him.

The red light turned to green, and Zhong Jie's wife's belongings were finally found.Zhong Jie let out a long sigh of relief, and asked his wife to sleep with the nail clippers around her neck so that she would not find them next time.

Ling Yi finally couldn't help chuckling.Turning his head, Li Xingchuan's gaze went straight into his eyes.That kind of gaze is very calm and tolerant, as if it is deeply embedded in the pupil, and cannot be pulled out easily.

Just as he was about to speak, the car behind suddenly honked desperately.He just turned his eyes away, tilted his body and propped his forehead with his fingers, and a vague smile was reflected on the car window: "Are you still leaving?"

Only then did Li Xingchuan step on the gas pedal.

The night is clear and peaceful.

At the entrance of the hotel, the car stopped steadily, Li Xingchuan went around to pick up the luggage from the trunk, Zhong Jie followed to grab it, "No need, no need, I'll do it myself."

A travel bag is indeed not too heavy, so Li Xingchuan went to the car to get a brand new transportation card, "Tomorrow I have to go to work at my workplace to go through the formalities for resuming work. You can arrange your itinerary yourself. If you need a car, call me directly."

He has a great sense of proportion and knows when to appear and when to disappear.

Zhong Jie took the card, smiled very convinced, and then said to Ling Yi: "Then let's meet at the subway entrance just now tomorrow morning, ten o'clock?"

Ling Yi nodded, "No problem."

Walking to the revolving door, Zhong Jie turned back and waved to them, "See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

His back disappeared into the hotel.Ling Yi stood there for a moment, straightened her back and took a deep breath, "Let's go."

When they got in the car, there were only the two of them left.

"Back to me?"

Once alone, Ling Yi remembered the thing she had noticed before, and lowered her eyes: "Yes."

"Do you need to go home and get something?"

"I won't take it anymore." It's better to hurry up, "The house is in a mess, and there is no place to set foot."

Although the road was quiet, he always turned his head away intentionally or unintentionally.Li Xingchuan sensed it, and while waiting for a long red light, he asked, "What do you want to say?"

Ling Yi paused, then shook his head, "It's nothing."

The wind in early spring made Li Xingchuan half-close his eyes, with a look of appreciating him.Ling Yi felt guilty, and lowered his eyebrows first: "It's really nothing."

After walking another three or four kilometers, the car suddenly broke down. Li Xingchuan immediately turned on the double flashing lights to stop and asked Ling Yi to stand on the sidewalk.

This is not the main road, but there are still cars speeding past from time to time.Ling Yi stared at him from a distance to check the front cover, always feeling a little suspenseful.Looking around, I saw the yellow warning sign under construction not far away, and hurried to get it, but before I sent it, I was stopped by a stern look.

Ling Yi held up the warning sign in his hand, signaling Xing Chuan to come and get it by himself.Li Xingchuan walked over, even his shadow looked tall, his brows were frowned, "Do you know the danger?"

Ling Yi said, "I didn't move."

But inexplicably, I thought of a sentence in my heart: one, two, three, wooden people.

The relationship between a man and a woman in love is always changeable, sometimes like an elder and a child, sometimes like a playmate, sometimes like a teacher and a student, and only a few times like a couple.In front of Li Xingchuan, Ling Yi always looked like a child who didn't grow up, most of the time he was very sensible, but occasionally he was a bit rebellious.

After the inspection was fruitless, Li Xingchuan called the people in the 4S store, and when they arrived, he would hand over the responsibility to them, and he left with Ling Yi.Originally, he wanted to take a taxi, but Ling Yi suggested walking.

Such a night should indeed be gone.

Leaving the bustling streets and brightly lit shopping malls, the two walked for more than half an hour to the moat, and the refreshing river breeze blew on their faces.

Ling Yi put her hands in her coat pockets, lowered her head and thought, why don't you open your mouth at such a good opportunity?

While thinking, he counted the red bricks under his feet.

Inexplicable count a familiar feeling.

It took me a while to remember that the night I saw Xingchuan covering the drunken Siyun with a blanket, he also counted the exact same red bricks when he left alone.

Linjiang is a place full of memories, where the new is stacked with the old, and the good is stacked with the bad. Life is no longer monotonous. Even though it is hard, it is worth touching.

As long as he counted, there was silence around him for a long time.

Looking up again, the townhouses on the other side of the river were lit with oil-colored lamps. Li Xingchuan looked at him with his back to the light, his right hand in his trouser pocket, and there were many subtexts in his eyes.

Reflections of villas and street lamps sway on the river.

The shadows on the ground are still.Ling Yi's foot stopped in the middle of a square brick and did not move.He turned his body around and looked at the people around him from a very close distance: "Don't you have anything to say?"

Night runners passed by the roadside, wearing earphones, and a gust of warm wind passed by.

Li Xingchuan's silhouette was even more profound in the backlight, but his expression was a little puzzled.He looked at Ling Yi, very sincerely: "Say what?"

Ling Yi looked down slowly, pouted at the pocket, "What do you think?"

The stern facial features finally had a reaction other than doubts.Li Xingchuan's chin slightly retracted, and the tendons on both sides of his neck were gently stretched: "How do you know I want to smoke?"

The air freezes for a few seconds.

Ling Yi opened her mouth and looked at him dumbfounded. After watching for a while, she suddenly turned her head, left him and walked forward without looking back.

Li Xingchuan frowned, and chased after him, "Ling Yi—"

Unexpectedly, the more she shouted, the faster Ling Yi walked, and in the end she ran straight away.

"Ling Yi!"

The two ran one by the river and chased the other, and ran into the nearest subway entrance.Before going down the stairs, Li Xingchuan grabbed Ling Yi's waist, and Ling Yi pushed him away sullenly, "You go, don't follow me."

It doesn't look sad, nor angry, but it's an indescribable expression.

Li Xingchuan didn't know that Ling Yi could run so fast. If it wasn't for his strength, he would have been blocked by the subway door that was about to close.

The carriage was full of people, but not many people were standing.Ling Yi fled to the last section as if he was fleeing, and Li Xingchuan chased him from the middle, and saw him panting for breath while pulling the pull ring, and turned his flushed face away as soon as he saw him, pretending to be looking at the road map.

The carriage shook slightly, and the bodies of the two people were close together.

Someone nearby is watching a video, someone is reading a comic book, and someone is dozing off on the armrest.

It was strange enough that two big men were crowded together, and what was even more strange was that no one had spoken yet.Seeing the fine sweat on his forehead, Li Xingchuan silently took out the tissue, Ling Yi only glanced down and then looked away, "I have it."

Li Xingchuan wiped him with the back of his hand, but he did not dodge.It just so happened that the subway stopped at the station, and Ling Yi's body fell to the right due to inertia, and was quickly embraced by an iron arm.

The one who dozed off suddenly woke up, raised his buttocks and jumped out from among them: "Rang Rang, Rang Rang!"

The two separated like lightning.

Li Xingchuan raised his hands in surrender.

The man who ran out of the car came back suddenly, and twisted his neck to look at the two of them just before the door was closed.I always feel as if I just discovered something incredible...

Fortunately, the door was closed after all.

Li Xingchuan: "Sit."

Ling Yi: "Oh."

One stands, one sits, shoe against shoe.

The standing figure is tall, and the light is completely blocked.Ling Yi lowered her eyes and saw the shape of the cigarette case in the pocket of her trousers, her face was burning hot.

Not long after the silence, a deep voice came from above his head: "Ling Yi."

A little hesitant to say something.

Ling Yi's head continued to sink, and he was depressed for a while, then decided to give him another chance, so he hummed.

Li Xingchuan: "We were sitting in the wrong direction."

"..."

"To the next stop—"

"Stop talking, I don't want to hear you talking now."

Ling Yi is rarely so angry.

Li Xingchuan really stopped talking.

He stood upright like a soldier, until a few more people went down one after another, and the entire row in front of him was empty, then he finally ended the abrupt punishment and sat down beside Ling Yi silently.

The two legs wrapped in trousers were bent casually.He took out the cigarette case, with his hands hanging between his legs, playing with it without saying a word, the reflection of his fingers turning the cigarette case on the ground.

He didn't have much to say in the past, but Ling Yi suddenly felt unaccustomed to being completely quiet like this.

There were fewer and fewer people in the car, and finally there were only the two of them left in the whole car.The dispatcher came here on patrol, saw the things in his hand at a glance, and knocked on the handrail with the board in his hand: "Smoking is not allowed in the car."

Li Xingchuan raised his head: "I know."

The dispatcher gave him another warning look before walking away.

Ling Yi sighed inaudibly, but the people around him still heard it.The hand that was turning the cigarette box slowly stopped, and Li Xingchuan asked, "You feel disgusted by my smoking?"

Ling Yi turned her head and looked at him.

Li Xingchuan looked down at his hands: "Give me some time, I will quit as soon as possible."

He has been smoking for five years, and he smoked the most heavily when he was in Yunnan. During his peak period, a pack of Yunyan a day was unstoppable, and he smoked privately even if the army refused to let him. It was only after he adopted Xiaoshu that he gradually restrained himself.I smoke when I wake up, before going to bed, when I’m tired, when I’m relaxing, when I want Ling Yi, and when I don’t want Ling Yi.After a long time, smoking has become a habit, and it is not easy to change it.

Ling Yi didn't need to ask him how he learned to smoke, he knew everything in his heart.

"Okay, you quit smoking, I'll draw." Ling Yi laughed, "When you quit smoking successfully, maybe my illness will be cured, and I can reward you with a portrait painting."

Intentionally an understatement.

Li Xingchuan didn't move his eyes, he pulled his right hand over with his left hand, put it flat on his knee, and pressed it joint by joint.

Ling Yi curled her lips: "Blind people massage."

Li Xingchuan laughed silently.

After another two stops, a few students in school uniforms and a couple came in, chattering and sitting in a row.

Seeing the ring on the girl's hand, Ling Yi paused for a moment before moving away.Li Xingchuan saw that he lowered his head slightly, thinking of something, and then raised his head again, with a contented and peaceful expression.

"What are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing." Ling Yi shook her head, her soft hair gently brushing her forehead.Then he stood up and said, "Let's go, we've already made too many wrong stops."

But Li Xingchuan was still sitting, still holding his hand, looking up at him.

Yes, they took too many wrong stops.

But Li Xingchuan said, "It's the loop."

He looked at the road map opposite in Ling Yi's stunned eyes: "The second phase has been opened to traffic, and now this line is a circle line. We took a detour, but we can still get home."

Ling Yi turned her head and found that what he said was right, so she sat back silently and let him hold her hand.

The people around me came and went, the car was full and empty, and they always sat shoulder to shoulder.

When he was about to arrive at the station, Li Xingchuan's cell phone rang, and it was an unfamiliar landline number.He picked it up, and said with a full voice, "Mr. Li?"

His nerves only slowed down for a second: "Yes."

"Sorry to bother you so late. This is to inform you that the ring has arrived at the store, and you can come and pick it up at any time. Our business hours are—"

Li Xingchuan hung up neatly.

But it was too late.The distance was too close, Ling Yi could hear everything.He opened his mouth slightly, staring at the man beside him.

After a while, Li Xingchuan remained motionless, as if nothing had happened.

Ling Yi withdrew his gaze, and remained silent for a while, then buried his head and covered his face with a smile, he didn't know what he was laughing at, and his shoulders began to shrug.

Li Xingchuan frowned, feeling embarrassed.

When he finally arrived at the station, he got up and walked out of the car, but his pace became slower and slower, waiting for the people behind him.Ling Yi took three steps and two steps to catch up, the smile lines on his face hadn't evened out yet, he just glanced at him and couldn't do it anymore, he clenched his fists and pressed his lips into a smile.

The moon and stars are scarce outside the station, and the new shoots of early spring have already emerged.Li Xingchuan walked on the innermost side of the sidewalk, brushing his shoulders against the bushes protruding from the iron fence of the neighborhood, Ling Yi walked beside him, a little behind.

The willows are dark and the flowers are bright, the peaks and turns are turning, and the one who was so angry just now changed suddenly, the corners of his brows and eyes are full of joy.

After 50 meters, Li Xingchuan passed by several motorcycles parked side by side on the side of the road. Li Xingchuan, who had never said a word, finally stopped, turned around and pinched the back of Ling Yi's neck, with two deep marks on his brows, "The surprise is gone, Are you that happy?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Ling Yi cleared her throat, stared into his eyes and asked for advice, "Then what do you think, what should I do now, I'll pretend I don't know?"

Li Xingchuan turned around and continued walking.

Looking at his broad back, Ling Yi wanted to jump on his back, but she held back after thinking about it.I'm past my age at that time, so it's not appropriate anymore.

Instead, she ran up to him and held him, put her head on his shoulder and asked softly, "Are you angry?"

His hands were clenched as if punished.

The profile of Li Xingchuan's face looked pale at night, but his knuckles were strong.

Ling Yi laughed: "No way, you—"

The lips are blocked.

The cool wind blows and passes through the hair gently, like a lover's kiss.

Both of their hearts were beating hard when they let go.I took so many wrong stops, I didn't expect to have this day to go home together, God has mercy.

Ling Yi's eyes were inexplicably red under Li Xingchuan's gaze, but he tried his best to maintain a smile: "Xingchuan, this can't be a dream."

He is afraid of waking up from the dream, afraid that all perfection will be fleeting.

"I really hope it's a dream."

The wind stopped.

Ling Yi looked at Li Xingchuan in astonishment, seeing him take a deep breath, and then exhale slowly: "During the five years I was separated from you, I often wished that reality was just a dream, and that one day I woke up and you were still by my side. "

Waking up every day, repeating disappointment.

From time to time, there were people and cars passing by, and the sound was far or near. Li Xingchuan looked at the street in the rearview mirror of the motorcycle and said, "Up to now, I also hope that this is a dream. I hope that I can wake up early and go back to five. Years ago, I protected you well."

The hardest thing to get back is time.

After he finished speaking, he shook his head, as if disappointed in himself.

Ling Yi's throat twitched slightly, his heart was warm at one moment, and at the other very agitated. He didn't know what to say, so he could only reach out and hook his neck, and hold his slightly hunched body tightly: "It's okay..."

The voice was very soft, and after he finished speaking, he was afraid that Xingchuan might not understand, so he repeated softly: "It's okay, Xingchuan, it's okay."

it's already over.

Li Xingchuan buried him in his neck and was breathing heavily. After a while, he picked him up and put him on the car seat, forehead to forehead, "Is it really okay?"

Ling Yi hangs her neck: "Yes."

After a moment of silence, she tilted her head and kissed him again: "It's really okay."

In fact, of course there is a relationship, but people have to learn to be content.I went around a lot, thinking that the lost people are still there, that the missed feelings are still there, and they have an eternal shelf life, which is lucky enough.

Li Xingchuan looked at Ling Yi closely.Ling Yi's face was extremely transparent under the night, and he clearly remembered everything, but he didn't care about anything.

I don't know why, I also loved Ling Yi before, but when it comes to his good points, Li Xingchuan can't say anything.It's different now, he finds that Ling Yi is open-minded, tenacious, and talented.

After being stared at by him for a long time, Ling Yi jumped out of the car and turned her face slightly: "Why are you looking at me like that, don't you recognize me?"

Li Xingchuan narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I can't be more familiar."

"Since you are so familiar, what else is there to see?"

He led the people home and didn't continue talking, so Ling Yi didn't ask any further questions.After walking quietly for a while, he suddenly said, "I always want to see you."

Ling Yi turned her head away.

Li Xingchuan looked at him, and slowly said: "You are right beside me, but I always feel that I can't see enough."

Can't get enough.

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