Heart fire

Uncle Tu, a disabled person, was implicated tragically. Not only was he scolded by Yao Hongwei without knowing it, but he was also charged innocently with being disrespectful to the elders and misleading his children. .

The road conditions were not good during rush hour on Friday night, and the car stopped and stopped for a long time before entering the urban area.Zhou Tong and Yao Hongwei had nothing else to say after their fight. They were sitting in the back row not close to each other on the left and right, thinking about how to spread the transfer matter to the other party later. break break break break.

On the way, Yu Di sent a few voice messages and photos, telling Zhou Tong that Xiaobian is fine, the sutured wound is slowly healing, she has been taken home from the pet hospital, and he can eat, drink and sleep, so don't worry.

Yu Di's voice came out for a while when he picked up the receiver.Zhou Tong clicked on the photo, and saw that the shaved bald part of the little flat head was still covered with gauze, wearing an "Elizabeth circle" to prevent scratching, lying on a soft cushion with a depressed expression, reluctantly Take this photo with its temporary owner.

This is probably the best news I have received in a while.Zhou Tong couldn't help bending the corners of his mouth at the photo. Although the movement was small and fast, his neck was stretched out by the staring eyes, and Yao Hongwei, who almost took out a telescope from his arms, grabbed him. .

Zhou Tong didn't notice that two torch-like eyes of an old father were directly hitting the back of his head.He exited the conversation with Yu Di, scrolled down, and clicked into another WeChat group. He hesitated for a long time before looking at the member list with only six people, but his fingers still did not move at the top of the screen.

Looking at the pure white head portrait as simple as himself, he suddenly felt an indescribable strangeness in his heart, as if he had seen with his own eyes that all the fleeting gentle colors on his body were hallucinations, and suddenly wanted to know what was in other people's eyes. What kind of man is he? How much does Yao Hongwei, who loves and admires him so much, know him.

Thinking about it, he unconsciously turned his head, and suddenly met Yao Hongwei who was voyeuristic and guilty all the time.

Zhou Tong: "..."

Yao Hongwei: "..."

Yao Hongwei regained his attitude as a leader and an elder after being dull for a second: "Ahem, how about chatting with your girlfriend?"

Zhou Tong locked the screen and put the phone back in his pocket: "We have already broken up."

Uncle Yao, a middle-aged straight man, lost his love when he heard it?No wonder the mood is wrong.But he lacks basic common sense and empathy for young people's love and love, and he can't even understand his own daughter's thoughts, let alone give Zhou Tong any valuable advice, and he doesn't know how to comfort him, so he just Can skip this topic bluntly, and ask dryly: "Can I drink? Have a drink with me later?"

Zhou Tong took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly, straightened his waist and opened his heavily pressed chest, and put on an expression of talking and laughing freely: "Drink soda, in case there is a police report."

Only then did Yao Hongwei realize that Zhou Tong was a self-disciplined and prudent child like his brother and father, and when he thought of the years after they left, he had lived a difficult life alone and left his hometown to go to school, his nasal cavity instantly became sore uncontrollably, I am even more convinced that my decision is right, and I must do my best to let him have a better future, so that the second half of his life will be smooth and safe.

Yao Hongwei's home is in the family courtyard of the Armed Police Force not far from the Corps, and he lives in the affordable housing that was allocated according to grade when he was just transferred to Beijing.Later, the housing allocation policy was abolished. Most people, including Jiang Xu, used their provident funds to buy commercial housing with a better environment and a larger area. There were also a few who did not move out. Most of them were veterans who had retired from the army. They would always go to the unit at dawn and dusk. Walking birds and playing chess in the small garden between the buildings, gathering in twos and threes, recalling the glorious past.

The driver sent the chief to the door and drove away.Zhou Tong smelled the smell of rice in the corridor, and followed Yao Hongwei into the door. Just after changing his slippers, he heard Aunt Xu's hurried greeting in the kitchen, and then heard the door being opened, and a girl's voice came Complaining behind his back: "It's too congested! Is the meal ready? I'm starving to death!"

Zhou Tong and Yao Hongwei turned their heads at the same time.Just after a traffic jam, Yao Lulu, who was wearing a bank staff uniform in a windbreaker and a dignified low ponytail, was taken aback by two people blocking the door as soon as she stepped in. She glanced at Zhou Tong and asked her dad : "Is there a guest?" Then he looked at Zhou Tong carefully again, and an expression of disbelief quickly appeared on his face: "Zhou...?"

"Is it Little Tongtong?!"

After Yao Hongwei's family left Jiangzhou, no one called Zhou Tong that way anymore.In his memory, Yao Lulu was still the little girl who often came to her brother to do homework and ask him questions.After years of separation and eighteen changes in the female college, Zhou Tong almost didn't recognize her, and she didn't expect that the handsome boy in military uniform in front of her was the one who always pestered Zhou Yi for his textbooks when he was a child, and had to read them hard if he didn't understand. The little one.

When she was a child, Yao Lulu was not outstanding and a little fat, but now she is slim.She is one year younger than Zhou Yi, and because she went to school early, she became classmates with Zhou Yi.Yao Hongwei and Zhou Jian are not at home for 30 days a month, and Aunt Xu often takes her to deliver homemade buns and dumplings to Zhou Jian's house.Zhou Yi is introverted and has a good relationship with Yao Lulu. The two have been in the same class from junior high school to high school. It was not until Yao Hongwei was transferred from work and his family moved that they enlisted in the army and took the college entrance examination, and went to different cities separately.

Yao Lulu was only a freshman when Zhou Yi died.She didn't come to the funeral at that time, and Zhou Tong only heard from Yao Hongwei that she locked herself in her room and cried for a whole night after learning the news.

When she was a child, her concept of gender was vague and she didn't understand aesthetics. After many years, Yao Lulu was a little shy when she met the boy for the first time.On the contrary, Zhou Tong greeted her graciously first, took the bags and bags in her hands and helped her hang them up. After changing her shoes and washing her hands, she went to the kitchen with her to help serve dishes and chopsticks.

Yao Hongwei is busy with work, and the mother and daughter usually have simple meals at home. Today, when she learned that Zhou Tong was coming, Aunt Xu went to buy vegetables temporarily. Huadiao drunk yellow croaker, minced fish three delicacies soup, and rice with soybeans and eggplants, all of which are Jiangzhou specialties that cannot be eaten in Beilin.

After serving the table, she continued to pick up vegetables for Zhou Tong, watched him eat with relish with loving eyes, and said with distress and emotion: "Isn't it good to eat in the army? How can children by the river get used to those steamed buns?" Noodles, come home when you are on holiday, and Auntie will make delicious food for you every day."

Before Zhou Tong could thank him, Yao Hongwei threw a peeled shrimp into his bowl and said with a frown, "The army's food is almost up to the standard of the hotel buffet. What's wrong? Someone complained about it a while ago. He ate so much that he almost broke Secret Service!"

Although the cafeteria was lively, it was different from home. Zhou Tong hadn't eaten in such a warm atmosphere for a long time, so his appetite was twice as big as usual.

Yao Lulu gradually revealed her true nature in the relaxed atmosphere. She grabbed Zhou Tong's bowl and helped him refill his meal, and said to him, "You can eat but still be so thin, unlike me, who get fat even after drinking cold water."

Aunt Xu gave her a disgusted look: "I tell you not to exercise, and you always eat those junk foods."

Yao Lulu made a face at her mother, and Zhou Tong expressed her opinion very sincerely after seeing it: "Sister Lulu is not fat at all."

Girls who love beauty like to hear this kind of truth. Yao Lulu was so happy that she forgot what fat is, and raised her eyebrows and snorted at his parents: "Skinny beauty is not popular now, and people like me who are a bit fleshy are more popular." welcome."

Yao Hongwei didn't bother to talk to him, a careless girl. Aunt Xu continued to concentrate on picking fish and peeling shrimp for Zhou Tong. Zhou Tong ate for a long time, but the vegetables and meat in the bowl were still piled up like a hill.

After dinner, Zhou Tong asked to wash the dishes, but Yao Hongwei didn't stop him, and even drove his daughter, who didn't touch Yang Chunshui, into the kitchen to do the washing together.After closing the door, Zhou Tong washed a basin of cherries and handed them to Yao Lulu, asking her to eat by the sink, then put on an apron and started washing the dishes, chatting with her while washing.

"I remember that sister Lulu is younger than my brother, right? Do you have a boyfriend?"

This question hit Yao Lulu's two sore spots at the same time. One second before, she was being taken care of by this handsome and considerate younger brother who suddenly appeared, but the next second her complexion darkened obviously, and the cherries in her mouth suddenly It also seems to be less sweet.

"Well, one year younger...actually ten months, I'm not in a hurry."

I still remember that the last time I asked directly, Zhuo Qunfang was embarrassed. This time, Zhou Tong learned to be smart, and switched to insinuating ways. While observing Yao Lulu's expression from the corner of his eyes, he pretended to sigh unintentionally: "My brother is only close to you. My friend, if he is still here, maybe you will be together, I have to call you sister-in-law now."

Yao Lulu really fits all the characteristics of a suicide note writer. She has a lively and cheerful personality, and she has also learned dance for a while, because Yao Hongwei has some common topics with Zhou Yi, and she can best understand the hard work of firefighters.Although she is not from Yunling, Aunt Xu is, and the grandparents of her parents, Yao Lulu, still live there, so it is reasonable to take Zhou Yi back to Yunling to meet her family.

Zhou Tong guessed that Yao Lulu would definitely respond when he threw out this sentence.Sure enough, seeing Yao Lulu, who was thinking about something with her head down, suddenly seemed to be greatly stimulated, she suddenly raised her head to look at Zhou Tong, and asked hesitantly: "You...have never known? "

The answer was a bit unexpected, and Zhou Tong was stunned holding the half-washed plate.

"what do you know?"

By the time Zhou Tong realized that the problem might not be as simple as he thought, Yao Lulu had stared at him and thought about it for a long time.She seemed to have experienced a fierce struggle in her heart, and she sighed softly after a long time: "Forget it, you are his younger brother, and he definitely doesn't want to hide it from you, but he didn't have time to tell."

Zhou Tong's mind was completely blank for a moment, and he heard Yao Lulu say: "Your brother... had a partner who was dating before he sacrificed, and he didn't have any friends. Talk to me and ask me what to do."

"At that time, you were still young, and he might not be ready to tell you. I was the only one who knew about this matter. I thought... I thought I could watch them have a happy ending, but I didn't expect ..."

As she spoke, Yao Lulu's eyes turned red.

Yao Lulu was not the one who wrote the suicide note, which made Zhou Tong a little disappointed and regretful, but also full of expectations: "Who is it? What is his name? Where is he? Did he tell you?"

Yao Lulu shook her head helplessly: "No. I only know that your brother likes that person very much, but that person's personality doesn't seem to be very good, very willful and stubborn, so your brother often asks me 'he's angry again, what should I do? Coax him', 'What does he mean by these words, what do you want me to do' and such questions."

Zhou Tong no longer cared about whether his impure purpose would be exposed, and hurriedly asked again: "Is it possible that it is a nurse I met in the hospital, or a female soldier from an art troupe? I heard before. …”

"No." Yao Lulu looked deeply at Zhou Tong and interrupted him with certainty. "No. Uh, the other party is a..."

"It's a boy."

...

Zhou Tong slept in Yao Hongwei's guest room that night.A few hours ago, he accidentally broke a plate and scratched his fingers. Yao Lulu found gauze and liquid medicine to bandage him, and came to check before going to bed to make sure that the wound was not inflamed, and then put a cup of hot milk on him. I looked at him for a long time, hesitating to speak, and finally just said "good night, don't think too much and don't blame your brother, go to bed early", then closed the door and left.

Pillowcases and bedding are newly changed in the afternoon.Zhou Tong spent a sleepless night in the dry smell of the sun, his mind was full of "he is a boy", and Yao Lulu later said "this road is too difficult to walk, it is not easy. He worked so hard, So I'm really, really sad."

The two passages circulated continuously in Zhou Tong's mind until the sky was bright outside the window, and the sound of training could be faintly heard in the distance, and the loud slogans woke him up from the chaotic and complicated emotions.

Zhou Tong lifted the quilt and got up, sat on the bed and stared blankly at the cup of milk with a thick layer of skin on the surface, as if a piece of his heart had been dug out, and his soul became thin, floating in the sweltering heat, helpless. In the flowing air, there is no weight in floating.

He didn't leave in a hurry, and spent another day at Yao Hongwei's house almost in high spirits.On the rare rest day, Yao Hongwei bought vegetables and Aunt Xu cooked, and Yao Lulu cautiously offered to accompany Zhou Tong to go out to watch movies and go shopping, but Zhou Tong refused.He held the instruction manual in his arms and read it all afternoon, then finished his meal without appetite, and only remembered to check his phone when he was about to go to sleep, and found that Wenyue had sent him two messages an hour ago.

"I'm back! I just got my phone, where are you?"

"I'll pull you into the group of the recruit company!"

Zhou Tong didn't want Wen Yue to worry, but when he was about to reply to him, a phone call came in suddenly.

Seeing that it was Xiang Yu, Zhou Tong's eyelids twitched inexplicably, and he quickly pressed the answer button.

It was so late, and Xiang Yu's voice was obviously flustered. After the call was connected, he couldn't wait for Zhou Tong to speak, and asked anxiously: "Do you know where the instructor has gone? He hasn't come back yet, and he didn't explain it. Not registered, I am a little worried."

Zhou Tong turned over and sat up, and quickly confirmed to him: "Have you searched for the dormitory and office?"

Xiang Yu said: "I've looked for it, no, and Deputy Zheng is not here either. It will be a disaster if this is discovered..."

According to regulations, officers cannot take vacations at the same time, and at least one or more leaders must be on standby at all times.The trainer would not do such an unsafe act. Zhou Tong didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly got out of bed and put on his shoes, picked up his coat and walked outside and said, "Teacher Xiang, don't worry, I'll go back now."