Cross the sea

He Zhen and Li Chengyun were lying on the bed, the TV was still on, the blurred light made Li Chengyun's facial features look deeper, He Zhen turned his face, and looked at Li Chengyun's face without any scruples, until Li Chengyun raised his hand to cover his face.

"What do you want?"

Through the hot and dry skin, He Zhen heard Li Chengyun asking him in a low voice.

"Want to kiss."

The people in front of him were silent for a while, and He Zhen felt someone approaching slightly, but he didn't do anything.

"He Zhen, are you crazy about men?"

Li Chengyun's tone was not soft, he looked down at the corner of He Zhen's pursed mouth, paused for a while and put down his hand, "I'm asking you what you want to do for a while."

He Zhen blinked and looked up at him with an innocent expression, so Li Chengyun lowered his head and touched He Zhen's lips perfunctorily: "If you don't say anything, I'll go back to school."

In fact, He Zhen didn't want to go anywhere. Being able to lie on the same bed with Li Chengyun was already an illusion come true. He Zhen never thought that anything could be better than now, but because Li Chengyun asked, he quickly replied: "Let's go out for a stroll."

Because it was still raining outside, Li Chengyun asked He Zhen to wait outside when he walked out of the lobby. He walked back to the front desk, leaned down and said a few words to the girl sitting inside, the girl laughed quickly, turned around and took a Handing the long black umbrella to Li Chengyun, He Zhen watched Li Chengyun walk through the revolving glass door and opened the umbrella beside him.

He Zhen moved closer to Li Chengyun, Li Chengyun turned his head to look at him, paused for a few seconds and then walked down the steps.

Even though he was close enough to Li Chengyun, the rain still soaked most of his shoulders, the air was filled with sticky moisture, and the wet cloth was clinging to the skin, like hands touching the body.

He Zhen turned his head to look at Li Chengyun's side face. Within a few seconds, Li Chengyun squinted: "What are you looking at?"

He Zhen pursed his lips and said with a smile, "I've done everything, so I won't let you take a look."

"You have taken a good look."

Li Chengyun pushed his face straight with the back of his hand holding the umbrella, and the umbrella surface slanted towards him along the width, and large drops of rain fell at his feet.

Passing through a large palm grove with no one there, at the end of which there are flickering cyan fragments, He Zhen and Li Chengyun stood on the steps, asking in a low voice if everyone doesn’t like the sea anymore after autumn.

"Only crazy people will come to see the sea in such a heavy rain."

Li Chengyun put away his umbrella and stuck it in the sand. The rain quickly wet his dry top, and the clear rain left patches of dark water stains on his body.

He Zhen tacitly said nothing, he looked down at the water-soaked sand grains, sticking together in groups, the shapes and colors were not very good-looking.

He Zhen squatted down, stretched out his hand and fiddled with the sand twice, and said with a smile, "This looks like shit."

Li Chengyun didn't answer, He Zhen only heard a light laughter from above his head.

The frothy sea waves rushed towards the gravel, and He Zhen unscrupulously stirred the sand with his hands, and his clean fingers soon turned brown. Li Chengyun stood by his side without saying a word, most of the Watching the sea all the time, occasionally taking a few seconds to look down at Hezhen's black hair wet by water.

After playing with the sand enough, He Zhen finally stood up, turned his head to look at Li Chengyun with his hands spread out in the sand, Li Chengyun took a small step back, and held an umbrella between the two of them: "Wash your hands."

He Zhen didn't know why he was so courageous in Li Chengyun's heart, even if he asked him to lick his hands clean, he would not dare to wipe Li Chengyun's body.

He Zhen pursed his lips, walked down the steps, trotted all the way to the beach, bent over to wash his hands clean and then folded back, the price he paid was stepping on the muddy soles of his shoes on the concrete road.

It rained a lot, Li Chengyun didn't open an umbrella anymore, and when he was going back, he passed by a coconut cart that was going to close the stall. coconut.

Everything is very, very good, so good that the next second after drinking the coconut, Hezhen will praise how sweet it is, and then kiss Li Chengyun greedily.

It's a pity that God didn't open his eyes, and the plot of the story began to go downhill in an instant.

Before the straw could be inserted, Hezhen's phone rang. He didn't want to answer it at first, but when he saw the caller ID on the screen, he quickly pressed the answer button.

"You're not in the dormitory."

The voice of the person on the other side was so small that he had to press the earpiece tightly to his ear to hear it.

"outside."

He Zhen raised his eyes to look at Li Chengyun who was standing in front of him expressionlessly holding a coconut, smiled and said, "We are outside with Li Chengyun."

An Qianqiu was silent for a while, instead of scolding him, she smiled and congratulated him for getting what he wanted.

He Zhen's smile cooled down, and he pressed against the receiver, pausing for a while before asking her what's the matter in a low voice.

"It's alright."

An Qianqiu laughed on the other end of the phone, but He Zhen didn't make a sound. Under the background sound of rain hitting the glass window, He Zhen heard An Qianqiu let out a long breath.

"It's An Baosheng who died."

An Qianqiu's voice was very low, and she sighed lightly on the other side: "If I knew you were so happy today, I wouldn't have called you, bad luck."

He Zhen didn't know whether to comfort or remain silent first, and after waiting for a while, he asked, "What's going on?"

"Sudden death from a heart attack while drinking."

An Qianqiu's voice was farther away, "He has been taken to the hospital. He has not canceled his military registration yet. If there are no other problems in the forensic investigation, he will notify me to pick up the body."

Apart from An Qianqiu, probably no one would have thought that the delirious man who was drinking in the yard all year round was a non-commissioned officer, even He Zhen almost forgot.

When he saw An Qianqiu for the first time, An Baosheng was carrying her on his shoulders, holding a yam wrapped in honey-colored syrup in his hand, and An Baosheng was carrying her around the yard.

In my impression, An Baosheng is tall and unsmiling. He only smiles when he goes home to buy vegetables and chats with his neighbors about his wife and daughter. An Baosheng is the person closest to his father in Hezhen's heart, until the woman in the apron disappeared. An Baosheng bought several cartons of beer from the small supermarket at the intersection, and never left the door behind closed doors.

An Qianqiu no longer bought sugar yams, she stood by the window and looked out, the smoke in her hand made her eyes red, she cursed in a low voice, then turned her head and smiled at him and said: "Now you Don't be jealous of me."

The rain stopped, and five colors of oil paint shone on the surface of the puddles on the ground. Li Chengyun raised his hand and touched the back of his hand. He Zhen regained his composure. He cleared his throat and asked An Qianqiu: "Are you home now?"

"Yes."

An Qianqiu said, "I will guard the house until the corpse returns."

Li Chengyun stopped a car on the side of the road. After Hezhen reported the address, he stopped talking. Li Chengyun was also very quiet. He sat beside him with a coconut that he hadn't had time to drink, and occasionally gave directions to the driver.

The destination arrived soon, and Hezhen got out of the car. Before saying how to leave Li Chengyun, Li Chengyun leaned on the car door to look at him, and asked, "Do you want me to stay?"

He Zhen couldn't speak, so Li Chengyun stood still until he nodded mechanically, then Li Chengyun closed the car door and walked to him with a coconut.

When pushing open the door painted with mottled red paint, countless images flashed through He Zhen's mind, but there was no An Qianqiu standing in the yard holding several beer bottles, then turned to look at him, and asked him with a smile: What do you think? How come so soon.

He Zhen also laughed, and the hand hanging by his side couldn't help shaking.

He followed An Qianqiu to pile up the wine bottles in the corner, the height of which was almost higher than the white wall. An Qianqiu looked up, her long hair loosely braided around her waist, until the door was knocked, and An Qianqiu returned to normal.

It is always wrong to leave the corpse at home. People from the neighborhood committee called An Baosheng's former comrades-in-arms to help with the funeral. When talking about the cremation, An Qianqiu turned to look at Hezhen, and finally chose the calm one. Li Chengyun: "You take him back first."

Across the gray sky, Li Chengyun nodded slightly.

Same as when he came, Li Chengyun walked beside him holding a coconut and an umbrella, walking neither fast nor slow, always half body longer than Hezhen.

"I was very jealous of An Qianqiu when I was a child."

He Zhen spoke suddenly, his voice was soft as if he was talking to himself.

"Her parents are the kind I want most. I think she has everything, and she always forces me to see his father's medals. I don't want to see them at all."

"I can't remember whether I was so vicious when I was a child that I cursed her to God, but now she really seems to have nothing."

Li Chengyun's footsteps stopped, he turned around, and glanced at He Zhen's eye circles that were beginning to turn red.

"You take yourself too seriously. God doesn't have so much time to fulfill your vicious wishes."

Li Chengyun walked over, took out the straw in his pocket, tore off the plastic wrap and inserted it in.

He took He Zhen's cold hand, stopped for a while and stuffed the coconut into his arms, "Drink what I want to buy."

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