crossing the northern latitude

The sound of their quarreling still woke Shailene upstairs.

Xie Lin was still sleepy when she went downstairs. Seeing a slap on Lu Yan's face, her eyes were red, and most of them woke up from the drowsiness: "Xie Yu! Did you hit him?"

"Look at what he did first."

Xie Yu picked up the mobile phone on the ground and handed it to Xie Lin, "Slapping him would be light."

Xie Lin took it and looked at it, her expression changed instantly.

She stayed for a long time before she said to Lu Yan: "Do you like the children of Uncle Meng's family?"

Lu Yan looked back at her: "Can't you?"

"It's not impossible, it will be very troublesome." Xie Lin frowned, "We don't think it matters, but people may not be able to accept it."

"Even if you can accept it, it won't work." Xie Yu snatched the words, "What do you make Brother Meng think? He's losing face to brother-in-law. Brother Meng is brother-in-law's best friend in his hometown, so he can still recognize him if he makes a fuss. The surname Lu? Lu Yan, aren't your Uncle Meng and the others treating you well enough? How dare you?"

After he finished speaking, Xie Lin replied impatiently: "If it doesn't work, I'll go and apologize."

"Is that a matter of apologizing? I think both of you can't figure it out." Xie Yu started to pat the table again, "Anyone is fine, the Meng family can't provoke it, rabbits don't even eat grass by the side of the nest, so give it to me." Brother-in-law Jide is fine, besides..."

Xie Lin was also angry: "Don't talk about my husband if you come or not, it's very unqualified!"

Lu Yan felt tired after listening for a while, and turned around to leave, but Xie Yu stopped him, picked up the file bag on the chair and threw it to him.

He picked it up and looked at it, and found that it was full of letters written to him by Meng Tunan.

Lu Yan was a little annoyed: "You flipped through my things?!"

"Yes, I searched all over." Xie Yu's tone was still cold, "You tear up all these now, I won't continue to beat you. Pack your things in the afternoon and go to New Zealand tomorrow."

Xie Lin couldn't listen anymore.She hurriedly protected Lu Yan upstairs, hurriedly packed some clothes and things for him, and then took out a few cards and some cash to him: "Your uncle is crazy, go live outside for a few days first, don't worry about it." Take care of him."

Lu Yan opened his mouth to speak, but found that half of his face was numb.Xie Lin looked at him and sighed: "Why do you always have to do difficult things, it will be very tiring."

"He treats me very well, he seems to be better than all of you." Lu Yan replied in a low voice, "I can't help it."

"I actually like Nan Nan too. He has a very sweet mouth." Xie Lin cooperated with him and began to whisper, "Go out and stay for a few days, and I'll talk to your uncle."

When they went downstairs, Lu Yan thought there would be a bloodbath, but Xie Yu didn't come to stop them, but took a lighter and burned Lu Yan's letter without even looking at them.

What Lu Yan hates the most about Xie Yu is the calm and confident expression on his face at the moment.

And the worst thing is that the opponent can always pinch his weakness.

Lu Yan ran over to grab the pile of ashes. Xie Lin felt that she would not be able to save the things, and her son might be beaten even if she quarreled, so she hurriedly pushed him out of the door and confessed:

"Don't go home now, if you really can't go out for a few days, settle down and call me... Don't go in, I can't stop your uncle from beating someone."

With that, she slammed the door shut.

Holding the bag at the door, Lu Yan stepped towards Meng Tunan's house.Habitually wanting to go straight in, after thinking about it, I called Meng Tunan and told him to come down.

The other party seemed to have just woken up not long ago, with messy hair, and yawned.Seeing Lu Yan carrying a bag, half of his face was a little swollen, he was frightened and asked quickly, "Who did it?"

"My uncle knows." Lu Yan said, "My mother asked me to stay for a few days."

Meng Tunan was already taking off his clothes: "Where else is it? Do you still have it?"

"It's gone, I'm fine." Lu Yan felt a little choked up in his speech, "It was the letter you wrote to me that was burned by him, but I didn't snatch it back, so was the leaf..."

"It's gone, it's gone, I'll send it to you later..."

Meng Tunan felt distressed and anxious, so he appeased Guo Yan and quickly went upstairs to collect his things, and slipped away with Lu Yan amidst Gao Hui's series of confessions.

They were silent all the way.Lu Yan's cell phone kept ringing, he ignored it at first, and then turned it off when he couldn't bear it anymore.

There was someone with a child on the bus. After sitting for a while, he probably felt uncomfortable due to motion sickness.

Mengtunan started to get motion sickness after a while.But he thought that Lu Yan didn't often ride in this kind of car, so he probably felt more uncomfortable than himself, so he persuaded him to rest on his shoulders for a while, and leaned against the window to breathe slowly.After a while, I became sleepy, and my head hit the window. It hurt a little, and it was a bit like the rhythm of my heartbeat.

Lu Yan looked at the passing scenery outside the car window.

The sky is bright and the sun is scorching hot, but he always feels that everything in front of him is gray in his eyes, and the destination is more like the end of the world.

After wandering all the way, they arrived at Mojiang, a small county town crossed by the Tropic of Cancer.

This is the place where Lu Yan had planned to come with Meng Tunan a long time ago. They calculated the time. When they come on the summer solstice, they can go to the Tropic of Cancer Sign Garden to watch "Standing without a shadow" and how the sun turns around.

Things at home still affect the mood.After finding the hotel, they went out to eat, and Lu Yan didn't bother to enjoy the local food with Meng Tunan, so he went back to rest after eating wholeheartedly.

After taking a shower, Lu Yan turned on his phone and looked, it was all text messages from Xie Yu and Xie Lin.

Xie Lin first asked where he was, then said that she might be leaving tomorrow, and said to call her back...

Walk?where to?

He called and found it was off.

Look at Xie Yu's text messages again, there are only two text messages, and they are very short.

"I'll give you two days to consider breaking up with him. If not, I'll help you."

"Go home the day after tomorrow."

Tired of watching, Lu Yan turned off the phone again.

After taking a shower, Meng Tunan sat beside Lu Yan and helped him dry his hair, and then helped him apply the half of his slightly swollen face.Looking at each other without words, the journey made them both feel very tired.

Meng Tunan touched his cheek and asked, "Your uncle looks gentle, why is he so serious?"

"He has practiced boxing before." Lu Yan replied, "Can't you tell?"

"...I really can't tell."

That night Lu Yan suffered from insomnia.Meng Tunan also seemed unable to sleep, writhing around beside him.

Lu Yan pushed him and said, "My uncle is ruthless in doing things, and I feel... I can't compete with him."

"Then don't argue with him." Mengtunan comforted, "We don't have the same knowledge as violent sailors."

"I can't hide anyway." Lu Yan said, "I'm mentally prepared."

With this in mind, Meng Tunan thought for a while before expressing his thoughts carefully.

"I used to tell you that it's ignorant to want to go to school in one place, so don't take it to heart." He said, "Now it's like this... Otherwise, you still listen to your uncle to repeat your study for a year? It just so happens that they know it too, so just go Take it as a tactic to slow down the troops, and you also make the transition."

This sentence made Lu Yan find it difficult to understand.

"Transition what?"

"That's it..." Mengtunan paused, "You adjust your mentality, and I will also reflect on my own problems. We will slowly..."

"What can I adjust?" Lu Yan was a little annoyed, "Do you want to kick me away at this time?"

"How is it possible, why do you think so!" Meng Tunan was also anxious, "But you really failed the exam. You dragged me up and fell to the bottom. My conscience is disturbed!"

This kind of subtle comfort and sympathy can be said to be what Lu Yan hates the most at this time.

How can I not understand that it is best for me to go with Xie Yu, whether it is to repeat my studies or go to New Zealand, that is the so-called "correct".But why did he grit his teeth and not let go, let Meng Tunan push himself away?

Waking up is the most painful, but the mistakes they said made Lu Yan feel better.He began to understand Jiang Bo's words, people sometimes torture themselves like this.

Lu Yan was rational at the beginning of this relationship, but now he is emotional, and he always feels like he has been reborn.Too many things happened in the year when he met Meng Tunan, and he felt that he couldn't hold on anymore.

"Repeat your studies carefully, and get admitted to a better school to make them shut up, and I won't bother you." Meng Tunan has already seriously planned, "At that time, you will be my junior, and you will be admitted to a school near our school. Picky eaters probably don’t like dining halls, so we can rent a house together, we’ll go shopping together after class, and I’ll cook..."

"I don't want to repeat it, I feel very tired." Lu Yan replied, "I'm not a genius, I'm just an ordinary person... There's nothing wrong with going to an ordinary school."

Meng Tunan glared at him: "Have you learned to be angry?"

"I'm not angry, it's the truth." Lu Yan turned his face away, "You also said that you shouldn't be unhappy if you did better than you in the exam. I'll just report the city you're going to. Isn't that what you want?"

"The situation is different now, I was..."

"Forget it, stop talking."

Lu Yan suddenly felt that their dispute was absurd, he turned his back, rubbed his face, and sighed.

He suddenly remembered the red maple leaf.Every leaf in this world is so unique that no one can find exactly the same.

They were very absent-minded when they went out to play the next day.

Meng Tunan was not too cold about the Tropic of Cancer sign garden. The weather was hot, and the two of them were still vomiting, and neither of them was in the mood to talk or laugh.They wandered around the park, visiting the Path of the Sun, Gemini Square and the Planetarium.

Lu Yan stopped in front of a sundial, looked at it, and asked Meng Tunan, "Can you read this thing?"

"No." Meng Tunan's attention was attracted by the crowd gathered there, "Let's go over there to see, it seems that there will be that spectacle."

Lu Yan walked over with him.It is true that many people have gathered together, and many of them seem to be a team, carrying things like cameras.

The entire park is divided by a drawn transparent line, which is 23 degrees 26 minutes north latitude.Lu Yan walked two steps along the line, and then looked at the back of Meng Tunan in front of him.

He suddenly remembered that there were very few photos of himself and Meng Tunan, and most of them were big group photos.They seldom take pictures alone, not even a few pictures of each other.

Lu Yan took out his phone and wanted to take a picture of this man's back.

Just after turning on the camera, Xie Yu's call came in immediately.

The first one was hung up by him directly, Lu Yan quickly took a picture, felt a little blurry, so he took another one, Xie Yu just finished taking another call.Lu Yan thought about it, but still accepted it.

The other party asked, "Where are you?"

"Where's my mother? No one answered her phone."

"I sent her back."

Lu Yan let out a breath slowly, closed his eyes and said, "Speak up if you have something to say."

"Have you considered what I said?"

"As I said before, I don't think about it. If you want to repeat it, you can do it yourself."

Xie Yu became angry instantly: "Lu Yan, don't force me to do anything wrong!"

"It's up to you."

Feeling broken, Lu Yan hung up the phone.

He opened the photo album to look again, and found that the one he took before and after was still blurred, and he couldn't tell it was Meng Tunan.

When I looked up again, the man was gone, and I looked around but couldn't see anyone.

Lu Yan looked left and right, and called Meng Tunan, but he didn't get through.He felt that his position was very conspicuous, and Meng Tunan should be able to see it... and he didn't dare to walk around. Lu Yan kept calling Meng Tunan, and then he became a little anxious, and even wanted to yell at the other party here. name.

He looked around in a daze, and actually began to panic, always feeling as if he lost something in an instant.

Then the surrounding crowd became commotion.Someone put a pencil on the ground, took the equipment to shoot wildly, and said loudly: "Look, the pole is gone, and I hope everyone is at the top of the sun!"

The sun began to shine directly on the Tropic of Cancer, turned and moved south.

At the same time, someone hugged Lu Yan from behind.

The heart returned to its place in an instant.

After being relieved, he became angry, Lu Yan tried to break away from the annoying ghost's hand: "Let go."

"Hahaha, are you scared! I've been hiding behind you."

"...You are naive, let me go."

"Are you still angry with me? Why is Bambi always angry with me every day!"

"How dare I."

"Then I won't let you go, just hug you like this for a day."

Lu Yan's tone subconsciously softened: "...Go back and hug again, there are many people here."

"Then turn around and give me a kiss."

"...don't make trouble."

Meng Tunan leaned close to his ear and whispered, "We are standing right where the sun turns around...Let's Bambi turn around too, we want to see my sun turn around."

The moment he turned around was slow to stillness in Meng Tunan's eyes, as if all the beautiful moments of that year had been frozen.

After the sun moved south that day, their lives also began to move on the right track, getting farther and farther away from each other.

The author says:

I promise I'll break the mirror this week