Heart fire

"Hey! Here we come!" Wen Yue seemed to have met a savior, his expression immediately relaxed, and he said "I'll go there first" and ran away with his small bowl in his arms.

Xi Yang looked at his back dumbfoundedly, and asked Huo Ci who was having fun secretly: "Is Officer Huo still alone now?"

"That's right." Huo Ci put one hand on his hip, and rubbed the stiff cervical spine after staying up all night with the other hand: "The friendly army has betrayed, and now I am the only one who can use the body and the mind separately."

"What about you?" He asked Xi Yang. "Long-distance relationship is hard, isn't it?"

Xi Yang looked at the two figures looming in the depths of the flowers, imagining Wen Yue wiping Tu Ke's sweat with a towel while feeding him pecans, and said with a smile: "It's not hard, you can get a nap every month." A phone call or two."

Huo Ci was noncommittal, and asked again: "Come back soon?"

"Well, this month, it depends on how the distribution plan is arranged."

Huo Ci was a little surprised: "Huh? Isn't it already scheduled?"

Xi Yang didn't know how to answer. After all, it was a plan made a long time ago. Judging from Zhou Tong's current situation, no one is sure, and he is sure that the plan will not change.

Criminal investigators are the best at observing words and expressions. Huo Ci stopped asking, picked up the cake on the shelf, turned around and walked out: "I'll go and see if the takeaway has been delivered."

Huo Ci left, and Xi Yang didn't want to stay as a light bulb, so he followed suit.

The dinner was also pre-ordered the day before, and it was said to help Tuke celebrate, but every dish delivered was sour and spicy, which was obviously Wen Yue's favorite.Xiang Yu was the last one to pick up the children from school. He took two bottles of flower carvings from his friends and filled them up for everyone as soon as they were served. He raised his cup and said, "Is everything here? Come, let's toast Xiao Tu, Congratulations to Gao Sheng!"

Tu Ke drank the wine, took a bite of the cold dish that Wen Yue gave him, and said helplessly and disdainfully: "These old guys really think highly of me."

Since he was injured, due to the scar on his face, Xiang Yu rarely laughed like this: "Hahaha, Director Tu, don't be humble."

"Bah." Tu Ke and Xiang Yu had another drink. "What director, it doesn't sound like a good thing, it sounds terrible."

Wen Yue: "..."

Why is my boyfriend scolding himself.

The meal was good, but Tu Ke and Huo Ci suddenly got into the meaningless question of "why there are only winter melons, watermelons and pumpkins, but no pumpkins. Is the pumpkin a zucchini?"Wen Yue ate food and listened obediently, while Xi Yang seemed to be used to it, turning a blind eye and chatting with Xiang Yu who was sitting opposite.

"How is Jiajia's study? The school will start again in September, and she will be in the third grade, right? It's so fast."

"Isn't that right, it's too fast." Xiang Yu peeled a few peanuts, smashed it and smiled: "I got a full score in mathematics in the mid-term exam this semester. I'm going to hold a parent-teacher meeting for her. The teacher and other children's parents They all know what I used to do, they are very enthusiastic about me, and they are not intimidated by my face."

Xi Yang said: "Other students must be very envious of Jiajia having a heroic father."

Xiang Yu was discharged from the army at the beginning of last year and changed jobs. After passing the assessment, he was placed in the Provincial Intermediate People's Court and became an ordinary office worker. Since then, he has lived a nine-to-five life, shopping for vegetables on weekends, and cooking with his children. Plain life.

Not long after he left, a huge geological disaster broke out in a remote area in a neighboring province. Because of his strong command and super long battle in the rescue operation, Tu Ke almost lost his life in his own words. In the end, Yao Hongwei got into the combat training department of the general team by Yao Hongwei, and he will take up his post after this Dragon Boat Festival.

Uncle Fang also left after his service period expired.Before he left, he was uneasy and wanted to confess to Xi Yang, but it was better not to say something because it was too late. Xi Yang didn't let him speak, asked him for a cigarette, and sat with him on the steps outside the cafeteria to finish smoking. Let it go.

For more than a year, Xiang Yu would go back to the camp whenever he was free, and regularly come to the greenhouse to gather with Xi Yang and Tu Ke, and has been paying attention to the situation of the secret service.He asked Xi Yang: "How is the newly appointed Li team? Is it easy to get along with?"

Xi Yang took a sip of his wine, put down his glass and said, "It's pretty good. Pang Hui has adapted well after being promoted."

"That's good, but don't do it again like..."

This conversation successfully attracted Tu Ke's attention. He dropped the boring topic that was halfway through the dispute, and interjected: "The nature of the secret service is different from that of the detachment. What does it mean to have a chief of staff? There is a chief of staff but no political commissar?"

"It should be considered that it is not appropriate for the squadron leader to be directly promoted to the deputy team." Xi Yang understood what Tu Ke meant, but he didn't care about the difference between the two identities of instructor and political commissar. "Pang Hui really needs to practice again."

Huo Ci had official duties and could not drink alcohol. After eating and tasting the cake, he went back first.Xiang Yu took his ride, leaving Xi Yang to help Wen Yue clean up the leftovers on the table.Tu Ke drank a lot, lay drunk on the rattan chair as a shopkeeper, remembering that their little raccoon would cry whenever he mentioned a good friend, and while he was out throwing garbage, Tu Ke hurriedly asked Xi Yang: " When will Zhou Tong come back? It’s been six months and I haven’t received the notice yet?”

How Xi Yang has lived in the past three years, Tu Ke has seen everything in his eyes, so he is more anxious than him.

Xi Yang gave Tu Ke a cup of the brewed scented tea, and lowered his head to blow away the tea leaves floating on the water.

"I don't know, I haven't contacted you for more than half a month."

It's normal that you can't get in touch. Tu Ke asked again: "Did you go to Team Yao to inquire about it? You are only in your twenties, and you are still a non-commissioned officer cadet. You have participated in more than 100 battles and won awards twice. Let this treasure fall into the hands of others?"

Xi Yang didn't answer, and when Wen Yue came back to pack up his things, he got up and said to Tu Ke: "Don't worry, go to rest early, Tu Chu."

Tu Ke: "..."

It was already dark when we returned to the camp, Xi Yang parked the car, separated from Wen Yue downstairs in the dormitory, turned around and walked to the office.

He is used to staying alone in the office for a while before going to bed, reading a few pages of Kennedy's "Do Your Own Job", reading the messages in the memo, or listening to the recordings in the bear, and more often he does nothing, just quietly Thinking about Zhou Tong, reviewing all the memories about him.

Three years ago, after sending Zhou Tong away, there was a newly created private file in the memo, and each item recorded was Zhou Tong's growth trajectory.The test results of the basic theory of military command, the test results of physical fitness and skills, won the scholarship for the first time, was rated as an outstanding student for the first time, won the scientific and technological innovation award in the competition for the first time, assigned an internship for the first time, and served as a policeman for meritorious service , Received awards, did not participate in every detail, but wrote in detail as if they had witnessed it with their own eyes.

Xi Yang thought about what to do if one day he unfortunately died in a certain fire and did not have time to meet Zhou Tong again. He even thought about writing another suicide note, but he couldn't put his pen down. There always seems to be an unquenchable expectation in my heart.

And that's how he got through the long days.

The new partner Li Ang is indeed as he said, he is capable and easy to get along with. He never asks what he does in the office every night, and only once expressed curiosity about the small aluminum box on his desk and the dried flowers inside. .

Xi Yang said that it was a gift from his lover.

At that time Li Ang still asked with a smile, why only give one flower?

Xi Yang then told Li Ang that he said that this one doesn't count, and he will give a whole bunch in the future.

It was almost time to turn off the lights, and Xi Yang habitually kept his footsteps very light, trying not to trigger the voice control sensor in the corridor, and walked up to the third floor by holding the railing of the stairs.

When he stepped on the last step and stepped onto the flat floor, his feet suddenly became soft and soft, with a slight abnormal sound, as if there were carpets, down feathers, fallen leaves soaked by rain, or delicate desires. The dripping petals, the sudden situation and the strange feeling made him startled.

Is it... petals?

Is it a rose?

Yes, it was a rose, and at the same time as he was convinced that what he stepped on was a rose, a strong, intoxicating fragrance also rushed towards his face, surrounding Xi Yang, so strong that he almost couldn't breathe.

how so?His mind suddenly became chaotic, and then became extremely clear.

He stomped his feet violently, and the light tubes above his head suddenly lit up one after another, accompanied by the flying petals, the fragrance overflowed, and a large piece of bright red color hit his field of vision, under his feet, around him, like spreading The woven web caught him as far as he could see, and it was so red that it exploded into the night, making his eyes ache.

Yes......

Don't say it, don't.

Dreams will wake up, and the wishes made will be broken.

So many roses, as many as I have seen in the greenhouse, each blooming just right, each petal is stained with fresh water drops, bunches, bunches, clusters, piled up the whole corridor.Xi Yang took two steps back and leaned against the wall, counting his pounding heartbeat, breathing hard repeatedly, and finally mustered up the courage to walk forward.

He was in a sea of ​​flowers and stopped at the door of the office. Someone followed his footsteps and stopped behind him.

His voice trembled a little.

"Is it the new deputy team?"

"Yes."

"The secret service has not received the transfer order yet."

"I will deliver it myself."

"Why did you arrive so late?"

"The road is long, and I walk too slowly alone."

"It's a waste of so many flowers."

"It depends on who it is for."

"This is an office space, and the influence is not good."

"Ok, I know."

The person behind came a little closer, tilted his head slightly, and leaned close to his ear with a low voice.

"I just came to inform Team Xi that from now on, this office and the people in it are mine, so it doesn't matter."

It was so familiar, so familiar that suddenly, only by relying on his every breath to continue breathing, so familiar that he was wearing a more dignified military uniform than before, handsome and upright without looking back.It's him, it's really him, it's the old him and it's the new him, it can be said, if you turn around now, you can embrace him, hold him forever.

Xi Yang closed his eyes, almost losing the strength to support him.

"Yang Yang." He heard him calling his name, very close, it was no longer a voice that could only be heard in dreams, on the phone, or in memories, separated by a long distance.

He said, turn around, I want to kiss you, I can't wait any longer.