Window 2, Seventh Canteen

Jiang Weiwei felt that autumn was the best season in Beijing, with high weather and bright sunshine. It was the most pleasant weather to go shopping, eat snacks, and climb Fragrant Hills.

It's a pity that it has been rainy this year, and it hasn't stopped since autumn.

Jiang Wei sat on the balcony with a cigarette in his mouth, considering whether to return to Yunnan early.

Although the remodeling over there was not over yet, and I couldn't help in the past, staying in Beijing was even more boring, especially when I came back to this house alone, facing an empty room and sleeping on an overly wide bed, it was almost masochistic.

But he couldn't leave the house. Firstly, he was reluctant, and secondly, he still had a glimmer of hope, hoping to wait for the captain to come back by himself one day.

Jiang Wei had already done everything he could to get the captain back home, and now all he had to do was wait for someone to provide clues, or for him to come back by himself.

Before he left Beijing in early summer, he had been busy for half a month. He visited shelters of all sizes and neighborhoods, and handed out leaflets until he was relented. However, except for finding a few tortoiseshell turtles that looked like captains, he didn’t get a single one that was useful. clue.

In the first week after returning from Yunnan, he did the same thing.

Now both the community and the corridors are covered with the captain's ugly face, but half a month has passed, and there will be nothing.

After smoking a cigarette, Jiang Wei turned on the computer to check the air ticket to Dali, hesitated again and again, but finally did not click to confirm, put on an umbrella and went out, went to Zhaolan Courtyard to buy pancakes, and ordered a bottle of old yogurt at the snack shop , sitting under the big umbrella at the door, dazed while hiding from the rain.

The rain didn't stop until the evening. Jiang Wei had five empty bottles in front of him, and he couldn't drink any more. Fortunately, the rain stopped, otherwise he would have to drink enough yogurt for a lifetime.

Jiang Wei took the bottle to pay the bill, and the old man smiled brightly, "It's delicious and I'll come back next time. It doesn't matter if you can't finish the drink and pack it back."

"It's very comfortable to sit here." Jiang Wei gave the money and glanced at the sky. It was time to go back, but he didn't want to go back, so he took out a few leaflets from his bag, "My cat is lost, can I stay here with you?" How about some leaflets?"

"Okay." The old man squinted his eyes and took it, and put it in the cabinet without even looking at it.

Jiang Wei knew that there was no hope, so he left with a smile, but he didn't expect that it was these lists that helped him find the captain.

Three days after I got the news, an unfamiliar number called, saying that there was the whereabouts of the captain. Jiang Wei heard his voice, it was obviously a child in the voice change period, and he preconceived that it was a prank. He didn't believe it at first, but he didn't expect it. , this kid really gave him a useful clue.

The more Jiang Wei listened to the phone, the more excited he became, and he directly asked the child to meet.

The child was younger than expected, and he was only in junior high school. As soon as we met, he ran over with a flyer and said that he saw the flyer when he was doing homework at a classmate's house. home cat.

The classmate the kid was talking about was the grandson of the yogurt seller.

Jiang Wei took a taxi with the boy to the destination. The community was 10 minutes away from the school by car, and it took nearly an hour to walk. Jiang Wei was a little nervous, wondering if the captain would go so far.

As soon as he arrived downstairs, the boy pointed to the window on the second floor, "See? That's the one, lying on the window sill every day. It barked every day when I first came here a few months ago. It doesn't bark much now, but Always lying there looking out, I think he wants to go home."

He couldn't see clearly through the glass, but Jiang Wei still had an intuition that it was the captain.

If he didn't come back, it wasn't that he didn't want to come back, but that he couldn't come back.

Jiang Wei followed the boy up to the second floor, and after knocking on the door, he almost immediately confirmed that the cat was the captain, because his meow was different from other cats, and the tail sound was always short and upward.

It only took a moment to confirm, but it took a lot of work to bring him home, from noon to night.

Jiang Wei bought a new purebred English short for the family, and was finally allowed to enter the door for confirmation.

But Jiang Wei didn't enter the house, but stood at the door and called the captain twice.

As soon as he finished speaking, the captain yelled from afar, and he rushed towards him as if flying, and jumped into his arms, hooking his arms with his claws and refusing to let go.

Jiang Wei flicked his forehead lightly, "See if you dare to run away from home in the future."

It was raining again when we went out, the captain curled up in Jiang Wei's arms and kept licking the back of his hand.

Jiang Weiyi took the captain home on his way, and when he stepped into the house, he felt a sore nose.

Put the captain on his favorite climbing frame, turn around and find his favorite canned food.

He said to himself: "You are back, he is almost there."

With a "meow", the captain jumped from the climbing frame back onto Jiang Wei's shoulder.

Jiang Wei rubbed the captain's belly, "Good boy, let's wait together."

The goodbye to Han Zilu was two months later, longer than Jiang Wei expected, but much shorter than what he worried about.

After working hard for a summer and an autumn, the inn is finally basically tidied up, and it can be opened for business after adding some soft goods.

Jiang Wei didn't tell anyone that he opened an inn by the Erhai Lake.Even when he himself sees the rooms full of design and the yard full of flowers and plants, he often feels that he is dreaming.

After all, four months ago, this place was the most ordinary local dwelling, with small and dilapidated rooms, and overgrown weeds in the courtyard.

He originally thought that this was an impossible task, but he gritted his teeth and persisted, and finally achieved today's results.

From site selection to negotiating with the owner, to signing the contract to renovate the house, including arranging the yard and planting flowers and plants, Jiang Wei participated in every process. It can be said that every brick and tile of this inn has his painstaking efforts in it.

The original intention of building the inn was not because he had any extra interest in this business, but because he remembered a joke made by Han Zilu before leaving Beijing.

He said that he would build a nursing home at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, so that when he gets old, he can face the Erhai Lake and enjoy the warmth of spring and the flowers blooming.

Jiang Wei asked him why it was a nursing home, and he said that some people in this circle will always die alone, so he wants to build a nursing home for gays, so that everyone can at least take care of each other and not be lonely in their old age.

At that time, Jiang Wei only thought that Han Zilu was joking, but when he thought about it later, he understood the uneasiness and fear in these words, and figured out what kind of person Han Zilu was.

He has been living in fear for too long and suppressed it for too long before he lost control later on. It will not happen overnight for him to recover completely, it may take a lifetime.

The best way to convince a person who thinks too much is to prove it to him all his life.

This small town by the Erhai Lake is a suitable place to start a lifetime.

The blue sky, white clouds and bright sunshine on the plateau will one day dispel all shadows and make everything transparent and bright.

When the phone rang, Jiang Wei's heart skipped a few beats.

Han Zilu's number, Doudou's voice, "We'll be there soon! Which inn are you staying at, and what's its name?"

Jiang Wei was busy tidying up the room for the past two days, but forgot to hang up the signboard. He couldn't show the way, so he had to rush out, "Where are you? Wait for me for a while, and I'll pick you up."

Doudou: "Oh, someone can't wait, please comfort him."

Han Zilu's voice came from the phone, with an obvious smile, "Are you okay?"

Jiang Wei scratched his head, "It's good, didn't you just ask yesterday, why did you ask again today?"

Han Zilu: "It's been a long time since I saw you."

Jiang Wei: "Then you didn't come to me earlier."

Han Zilu: "Is it too late now?"

Jiang Wei: "It's not early anyway, the captain almost forgot about you."

Han Zilu was silent for two seconds, "Captain, are you back?" His voice changed slightly, calm after suppressing the excitement.

Jiang Wei grabbed the lazy cat basking in the sun and rubbed his ears.

The captain yawned comfortably and let out a "meow".

Jiang Wei took the captain directly to pick up Han Zilu, and threw the captain over as soon as they met.

I thought Han Zilu would be very happy, but unexpectedly, his expression was a bit complicated, with obvious guilt.

Jiang Wei suddenly felt uneasy, wondering if the captain would bring up any bad memories for Han Zilu.

Even Doudou saw something was wrong, "Hey, what's the matter? Whose cat is this?"

Han Zilu came back to his senses, "My family has been away for a long time, and finally came back."

Doudou opened her mouth wide in surprise, "Ah? You actually have a cat?" He tugged at Erhei, "Can you believe it? Zilu has a pet!"

Jiang Wei led the three people down the slope and onto the only main road in the town, "Let's go first, we'll talk about it when we get to the place."

Doudou was still immersed in the shock of Han Zilu's pets, staring at Jiang Wei: "What did you do to my Zilu? It's a big change. He didn't keep pets before."

Jiang Wei chuckled, "Sit down for a while and talk slowly."

Doudou heard something wrong, "Where are you taking us in a hurry? Could it be that some event was arranged? No way, are you asking for marriage? A big diamond ring?"

Jiang Wei didn't hold back his expression, and glared at Doudou, who covered her mouth in surprise, "It's bad, I'm talking too much, cough cough, the weather is really nice today, hahaha, Zilu, you didn't hear anything Right, um, I didn’t hear that.” Then he pushed Jiang Wei, “You don’t have to worry about it, kid, you don’t have to be afraid that I’ll hook him up if you keep Zilu with me for so long, he’s so good-looking My bf, you have to be a little self-conscious, you have to have a sense of crisis, if you have nothing to do, go and see, Qixing misses you."

Jiang Wei glanced at Han Zilu with an embarrassed expression.

Doudou was trying to observe the two of them, so naturally he would not miss these details, and immediately asked, "You two, isn't it right? Xiao Weiwei, didn't you tell me that Zilu came to my place to study cooking? You lied mine?"

He looked at Han Zilu again, "And you, I think something is wrong with you recently, you really have something to hide from me, right?"

When Jiang Weiyi heard this, he knew that Han Zilu had concealed things from them, so he hurriedly smoothed things over, "Actually..."

Han Zilu interrupted him, "Doudo, Erhei, I'm sorry, I really didn't tell the truth, I came to live with you to detoxify."

"Ah?" Doudou's eyes widened, "God, you went to Yunnan to detoxify, do you know where the big fireworks in our country are produced? But I can't tell, are you okay? Oh my god, why is it so early? explain!"

Han Zilu: "It's just marijuana, quit smoking by the way."

The worry on Doudou's face turned into a weird expression, "You still want to quit marijuana? Who hasn't touched it when you were young, I..." glanced at Erhei, coughed twice and quickly shut up, "Zi Are you two cheating on me together? Did you quarrel? And now you are reconciled?"

Jiang Wei looked at Han Zilu, "Tell me, are you reconciled?"

Han Zilu: "Did we quarrel?"

Jiang Wei laughed, took Han Zilu's hand, and shook it firmly, "Of course not."

There was not a single cloud in the sky, and the whole sky was too blue to be true.

The captain meowed all the way, Doudou kept inquiring about gossip, Erhei stopped by the roadside to pick a cactus, Jiang Wei and Han Zilu just walked forward holding hands, without saying a word.

There are too many things to say, but it seems that there is no need to say anything. The mood at this moment is held in each other's hands, and it is transmitted through body temperature, without any deviation.

The 10-minute journey was like going back through the entire autumn and summer along the time tunnel. Back to the day when the two separated, Jiang Wei asked Han Zilu at the airport, "When will you be back?"

Han Zilu replied: "I don't know, but I will come back after I have fully figured it out. The same thing will not happen again."

Jiang Wei: "Then I'll wait for you, but I'm not allowed to leave when I come back, or I'll lock you up with an iron chain."

Han Zilu: "Alright, then throw the key into the river."

A few months passed in a flash, and I thought that we would be strange when we met again, but now we are together, but it feels like we have never been apart, as if the conversation at the airport was just yesterday.

The two walked into the alley and stopped in front of the wooden door. Han Zilu suddenly asked, "How have you been these past few months? Have you eaten on time?"

Jiang Wei asked without answering, "Aren't you leaving this time?"

Han Zilu smiled, "Is your iron chain ready?"

Jiang Wei: "It's in the room, I'll take you to see it later."

Han Zilu: "What about the key?"

Jiang Wei took out a bunch of keys from his pocket and handed them to Han Zilu. Han Zilu was obviously surprised, "Are you really ready?"

Jiang Wei pointed to the door lock, "It's from here, open the door."

Han Zilu's expression became more puzzled, Jiang Wei supported his hand and unlocked the door together.

Jiang Wei pushed open the heavy wooden door with both hands, "Welcome home."