Heart fire

Three days later, Zheng Jiang's body was cremated in the city's funeral home. The funeral declared that everything would be kept simple according to "the wishes of his family," with no ceremony or mourning. Ordinary citizens who had saved their lives and properties came to bid him farewell, praying with tears in his eyes for a good journey.

One of the few elegiac couplets in the auditorium was written by Yao Hongwei himself.

"Turn grief into strength, and write the Spring and Autumn Annals following the will." Tu Ke stopped in front of him, and after reading it in a low voice, he smiled helplessly: "Vice Yao, it's better not to write."

"If it's me, I'll write him a 'timely encouragement, time waits for no one'."

Xi Yang didn't comment on Tu Ke's verbal elegiac couplet, put down the flowers and walked to Zheng Jiang's wife, and saluted her solemnly.

"Condolences."

The woman in black looked thin and haggard. Although her appearance was not outstanding, she still showed a dignified manner and good upbringing in her gestures. She bowed to Xi Yang and said softly: "Thank you for not caring about my husband. What he did, brought him out of the fire."

"Life is bad." As soon as he left the auditorium, Tu Ke unbuttoned two buttons of his military coat, moved his cervical spine, and looked up at the cloudy sky. "This sky-breaking sky, can it still be sunny?"

Xi Yang didn't answer the following questions, but asked with some surprise: "Do you still believe in fate?"

Tu Ke put his hands in his pockets, and instead of taking the clean road, he stepped on the snow that had been swept by others: "It's hard to say, maybe I'm old, so I have to believe it."

After he stepped on it enough, the two walked side by side to the parking lot in the distance.Xi Yang opened the door and sat in the cab, started the engine and started to heat up the car. Tu Ke stomped his feet outside, got into the co-pilot, rubbed his hands and said to him: "Zheng Weiwei was arrested, yesterday, at the airport, should I just want to come back and have a look at him, he's kind of like a brother and sister."

"The two of them are orphans. It's not surprising that they depended on each other since they were young." Xi Yang took out his mobile phone, clicked on the photo sent by Zhou Tong in WeChat, and typed a reply after carefully looking at it.

Yang: The office environment is quite good, why are you unhappy?

The last one is a selfie of Zhou Tong. The background seems to be a boring and lengthy meeting. He is sitting in the most inconspicuous corner behind the round table, with a notebook and a white porcelain teacup in front of him, and his chin resting on his arm. Looking at the front camera, he made a coquettish expression, handsome, naughty and cute.

Xi Yang's gaze rested on his face, and the end of his eyes drooped down gently.

After a few seconds, a new message pops up in the dialog box.

Puppy: Is it over with you?I miss you so much.

Yang: Well, it's over.

Yang: I miss you too.

Xi Yang couldn't type fast, and after posting two in a row, he thought about it, and carefully selected for a while from the emoji library that came with WeChat, which he had never used before, and chose one [Sun] to send to Zhou Tong.

As long as there is Zhou Tong, it doesn't matter if the weather is sunny or not.

Tu Ke glanced at Xi Yang incomprehensibly, shook the goose bumps on his body, and continued: "If he hadn't been replaced by an imposter, he should have been the number one scholar in the province back then, went to the best university, and studied the best major. "

"I can't accept it if it's the other way around. It's a pity that with his death, there is no possibility of the truth of this matter being revealed."

Xi Yang put down his phone and said: "It's not easy for a pair of orphans to survive. They have no background and no support, so what can they use to fight against the power. Fate is actually quite fair, and it has given him other opportunities, but unfortunately he finally still I made the wrong choice." Speaking of these, he couldn't help but think of Zhou Tong and Zhou Yi. "Not everyone knows how to be grateful and cherish."

Tu Ke shrugged noncommittally.

"How is the lecture team?" Xi Yang didn't want to talk about Zheng Jiang anymore, so he changed the subject. "Auntie okay?"

Tu Ke leaned back, closed his eyes and collapsed into an old man on the seat: "Shuanggui, it's closed, my mother calls Huo Ci every day and asks him to help find news from Bureau Huo, it's so annoying."

"What is there to inquire about? At least ten years, at most no period, how can anyone dare to take care of him after you hand in that recording? Except for that Tao thing, I haven't found it yet, and I have explained everything else."

Speaking of this, Tu Ke sat up suddenly, and asked curiously: "Where did you get that button bug? I saw it in Huo Bureau's office yesterday. It's so realistic."

Xi Yang put the button in the recording bear, Zhou Tong brought it to Yao Hongwei, and Yao Hongwei handed it over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Xi Yang once thought that these evidences would never be handed over. During those days when he was threatened, monitored, and full of misunderstandings and estrangements with Zhou Tong, he once thought about compromising and giving up for the sake of his family. Eyes, let Zheng Jiang pour dirty water on himself, as he wished, be a silent scapegoat.

If Zheng Jiang hadn't died, if Zhou Tong hadn't been there, he might have made the same wrong choice today.

He lost his innocence, and lost his lover again.

It was still Zhou Tong, it was his temperature, his tolerance and persistence, the few words he left in the memo, and the biscuits and candies that appeared in the locker every night woke him up and made him remember How important self-esteem and self-love are, it gave him the courage to take the initiative to save Zhou Tong, face the past and put all his eggs in one basket.

He thought, my Tongtong is an angel.

The car was almost hot, Xi Yang put it in gear, released the clutch and stepped on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel to drive the car out of the parking space, and said to Tu Ke irrelevantly: "Inquire if you can, go back and see her, don't let her alone People are thinking wildly."

Tu Ke rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "I want to go to you, you just ask, Huo Ci's two hundred and five will definitely not refuse, immediately change the name to Bao inquire."

Knowing that persuasion was useless, Xi Yang turned up the temperature of the air conditioner a little and said with a smile, "It's not convenient for me."

Tu Ke is not stupid, he has already seen that there is something wrong between Xi Yang and Zhou Tong, but he is too lazy to ask more questions, but now he suddenly became interested, squinted his eyes and asked knowingly: "Why is it inconvenient?" ? I really think the two of you are quite suitable. Look around us, is there anyone who is more handsome than him and has better conditions than him in all aspects?"

The acting skills were too bad, Xi Yang shook his head helplessly, and decided to chat with him for the sake of his bad mood recently.

"Yes, Zhou Tong is not bad."

"Yo yo yo? Team Xi is going too far, do you have the awareness to be a leader? Why are you still eating grass by the side of the nest and playing tricks on your little brother?" Tu Ke kept tsk-tsk.

Xi Yang didn't answer, but instead asked him: "Little brother is good, Team Tu should know better than me, right?"

Tu Ke: "..."

You can guess the expression of this childish ghost at the moment without looking at it, guilty, nervous, and trying to pretend to be calm.Xi Yang suppressed a smile, and asked again solemnly: "Wen Yue has asked for leave again, and he always suffers from low back pain at a young age. I want to take him to the hospital sometime, what do you think?"

Tu Ke: "..."

"After all, he is your apprentice. If you don't have time, leave it to me." Xi Yang turned around, drove the car on the road opposite to Grandma Tu's house, and observed the rear from the rearview mirror. "I see that he doesn't understand anything, and I don't know if it's the waist or something else. If it doesn't work, just do a full-body examination."

Tu Ke: "..."

Check out a hammer.

Why?Why does this person turn bad when they fall in love?Why are there no examples of this kind of behavior in those love strategies on the Internet?Tu Ke was full of question marks and could not attack. It took him a long time to shrink his chin into his collar, wrinkled his thick eyebrows, and said impatiently in a muffled voice: "Okay, I see, next time I will take him to practice boxing and I will pay more attention." .”

Is this an admission of defeat?It's rare to catch his pigtails, so Xi Yang didn't plan to let it go: "You have to pay attention, the training should be methodical, step by step. Tell me what you let him practice? Let me analyze it for you. If the arrangement is unscientific, it is easy to get hurt."

"The aerobic time should not be too long. The range of some movements should be adjusted according to his physical condition, and he should not force it."

"Also, help him stretch after training, don't leave him alone after teaching, irresponsible..."

"...Fuck me." A few minutes later, Tu Ke finally couldn't listen any longer, grabbed his hair irritably, interrupted Xi Yang unbearably, and shouted at him: "I got it! Be lighter next time! The time should be shorter! Don’t come twice! Don’t hurt him and don’t let him cry! Coax him when you’re done! Okay?”

Now Xi Yang finally laughed out loud.

What love is incompetent, it's just that you haven't met the right person.

"Well, it's good to know. Don't bully him, such a simple heart can't mend if it's broken."

...

The car was so warm that people were drowsy. Tu Ke, who was the anti-general, lost his temper and tilted his head and stopped talking. After a while, his breath became heavy and he fell asleep without knowing it.

He seemed to be exhausted. He must have been exhausted recently and hadn't had a good rest. After waiting for the red light, Xi Yang turned down the collar that blocked his chin, pulled out the phone from his hand, and glanced at the lock screen wallpaper. I went to the little raccoon squatting by the river to wash things, turned it off and put it aside.

When he woke up again, Xi Yang had already driven the car outside the gate of Tu Ke's community.

Tu Ke: "..."

"Wrong, my home is not here."

Xi Yang pushed him out of the car with his eyes.

Tu Ke began to cheat: "It's time, I'm going back to water the flowers."

Xi Yang continued to express his attitude with his eyes: I'm pouring your head.

"My grandma arranged a blind date for me, and I have to go..."

"Go back and have a look." Xi Yang was too lazy to listen to Tu Ke's nonsense, he pushed the lock, turned around and picked up a bag of fruit prepared in advance from the back seat, and stuffed it into his arms. "Time waits for no one, you have to learn to express some things, don't always hide them in your heart. I know you love Auntie, take good care of her, and cherish your family."

It was windy outside, and Tu Ke reluctantly got out of the car with the fruit. He stood on the side of the road and watched Xi Yang lower the window while gritting his teeth.

Tu Sansui tilted his head, and only gave Xi Yang half of an overly handsome face: "I won't answer, let's talk next Monday."

Xi Yang had already received Tu Ke's reinstatement notice, and immediately expressed his objection: "No, I have to come back on Friday, and I have something to go out on weekends, so there must be no one in the team."

Tu Ke only turned his eyes around: "Tch, whoever you lied to, what can you do."

Xi Yang smiled slightly: "I have to pay the final payment for the new house on Saturday morning, and I have an appointment with the decoration designer in the afternoon. After talking, I will take our family Zhou Tong to a date. I probably won't go back at night."

"..." Tu Ke walked away as soon as he heard it, and waved his hands behind him without looking back: "Fuck, I can't stand it, get out of here."

Originally planning to ask Huo Ci to accompany him back on the weekend, Tu Ke tried his best to convince the security guard that he was really a resident here, let alone a liar pretending to be a soldier.After entering the door, he went upstairs cursing, stood at the door of the house hesitating for a long time, and then rang the doorbell.

Haven't been back for several years?Tu Ke himself couldn't remember.The furnishing of the home is still the same as in memory, with carpets on the floor and tapestries on the walls. The two clocks are exactly the same, but with a difference of two hours. The clocks are placed side by side on one side of the TV, and two photo frames are placed on the other side. , One is a wedding photo of his parents, and the other is a group photo of two young people when they went to the countryside.

When her son came back suddenly, Mother Tu was both surprised and uncontrollably happy. She panicked like a woman who didn't understand anything. After welcoming Tu Ke in, she hurriedly hid in the bathroom, adjusted her scarf to cover her haggard face, and went to the kitchen He dug out the tea leaves for entertaining guests, and quickly made a pot of milk tea for Tu Ke, which he loved most when he was a child.

The two hands holding the cup trembled unconsciously.Tu Ke was also very awkward, took a sip regardless of whether it was hot or not, put the cup on the coffee table after drinking it, and said to Tu's mother after a long silence: "Well, don't call Huo Ci, my What, ask when you have time."

Sitting on the sofa opposite Tu Ke, Tu's mother nodded cautiously: "Well, Mom understands."

"Hmm." Tu Ke didn't know what to say. "That's okay, I'll go first. There is no man at home. If you need anything, just send me a message."

In the end, he got up, racked his brains and said one more sentence as comfort: "Don't think too much."

Seeing that Tu Ke was about to leave, Tu's mother clutched the hem of her clothes tightly and couldn't help calling his nickname in Tajik.

"Son... can you stay with your mother?"

Tu Ke faltered and turned his back to her: "The road is slippery in winter, it's inconvenient for grandma to go out, I have to go back."

Mother Tu stood up, and wanted to grab her son's hand several times but didn't dare to touch him, so she lowered her head, let go of her clenched lips, and took a deep breath.

"Stay a little longer, okay? Don't you always want to know why I am with Jiang Xu? Let me tell you."

The heating in the house is very good, but the cup of milk tea still cooled down quickly, and a thick layer of milk skin formed on the surface of the brown milk.Tu Ke took off his coat, sat on the sofa and listened to Tu's mother saying: "These things should have been told to you a long time ago, but you love your father so much, I don't want to destroy his image in your mind."

Tu Ke turned his head to one side with some resistance, and endured it without opening his mouth to refute.

"I was only 17 when I met them. Jiang Xu is not very talkative, but he is very smart and capable. He can learn Tajik faster than Tu Fei. He will copy some small poems for me and give them to me when no one is around. Tell a lot of interesting stories, accompany me to herd the sheep and listen to my singing, and like to eat the 'Arzik' I fried."

"I miss him at that time."

Recalling her first love, Tu's mother showed a girlish look on her face.

"Tajiks and Han people do not marry. I had already made plans to elope with him. I didn't expect that he would be brought back to Beilin by his family through connections, and he took the college entrance examination and entered the military academy."

"Before he left, he said that he would come to pick me up, saying that he would give me a good life only when he became famous, but in the age without mobile phones, airplanes and the Internet, I could only stand at the foot of the mountain and guard the grassland and sheep. I will never see him again in this lifetime."

"Your father is also very good to me. He is a very good person. After Jiang Xu left, he told me that he also liked me very much, but I didn't feel that way towards him. I only regarded him as a big brother. Not wary either."

Tu Ke suddenly didn't want to continue listening.

But Tu's mother didn't hesitate anymore, and directly told him an unbearable truth: "I was under pressure and waited from the age of 17 to 22. I waited until I completely gave up. Later, one day, the family hosted the garrison who helped repair the house. , your dad drank a lot and couldn't control himself... But I don't blame him for a long time, he took good care of us."

"Later we had you. I was the youngest daughter in the family. Your grandfather loved me very much and beat me, but Islam forbids abortion. He had no choice but to hold a wedding ceremony for us before my belly grew. "

"Tiam." Mother Tu looked up, and there were tears flickering in her gray eyes, which were exactly the same as Tu Ke's. "My son, my eyes, I'm sorry."