traces of all things

"Beer, drink, mineral water—"

The beautiful and dignified stewardesses pushed the trolley past. The metal trolley bumped and hoped to pass the feet of countless sleepy tourists.

"Eight-treasure porridge with peanuts and melon seeds—"

Lu Zheng, who was sitting on the side of the aisle, answered subconsciously in a low voice.

"Pfft."

A low laugh came from beside him, and a magazine was put down, revealing Tang Shaoyuan's face wearing glasses. He was well-dressed, and even his coat was folded delicately and hung on his arm. He was stylishly wearing a fine navy blue knitted tie, and his shiny leather shoes looked a bit out of place with the whole carriage.

To what extent?

It can be seen from the eyes of all the uncles and aunts around who are carrying snakeskin bags and cardboard boxes, "Where did this come from?"

"Really, Shao Yuan." Lu Zheng scratched his head a little dumbfounded. He asked Geng Zhizhong for leave this morning to buy a train ticket to Jiang Province. As soon as he arrived at the ticket gate, he saw Tang Shaoyuan carrying a small suitcase Sitting there watching: "What are you doing here?"

"Didn't I say that?" Tang Shaoyuan turned a page of Sudoku in the magazine, raised his eyelids and looked at Lu Zheng calmly, not knowing whether he was shy or calm: "It's been a long time since I had a holiday, and I just heard that Jiang Province's Nice view."

Seeing that he refused to admit it, Lu Zheng smiled helplessly, remembering the promise he made on Daqiu Mountain to accompany him to find his family, his heart warmed instantly: "Tell me earlier, I will buy the plane ticket Oh, how hard it is for you to sit like this."

Tang Shaoyuan pursed his lips and smiled without speaking, and adjusted his glasses.

If you tell the senior brother in advance, what if the senior brother is embarrassed and refuses to be followed?

**

Geng Zhizhong's wife Bi Yun's hometown Jiang Province is very close to Province A, and it takes less than a day to get there by green leather train.For so many years, Lu Zheng had saved up the few broken wages and ran around the country looking for someone. It can be said that he has nothing to do.

It's just that Tang Shaoyuan has thin skin and tender flesh, and Lu Zheng can't help worrying that he won't be able to stand the bumps of the journey.

After all, he is a young master with a private doctor.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glanced at Tang Shaoyuan by the window again.The sunlight poured down from the glass, giving his handsome outline a layer of gold.

Very senior, very domineering president.

In his memory, he found the image of the young master Routuan who was bullied in the small alley, and Lu Zheng silently made a comparison.

Don't blame me, there is no similarity here.

I've only heard about the [-]th transformation of the women's university, but this man's transformation is really scary to death.

The light outside the window gradually dimmed, and soon, a gentle announcement came from the train broadcast, and Jiang Province Chengdong Station arrived.

The green leather train slowly left the station, leaving behind two slender and slightly desolate figures under the dim light of the platform.

It's not a holiday at this time, and Jiang Province's economy is underdeveloped, there are no famous tourist attractions, and it is not a transportation hub like the provincial capital of Province A, so naturally the passenger flow is not large.In addition, the arrival time of this train was not very good, so they were the only two people who got off the train.

"Let's go, Shao Yuan, let's get out of the station first. I have an appointment with the volunteers tomorrow." With only a simple backpack on his back, Lu Zheng took out his phone and searched through it, and found a few nearby places that he had checked in advance. The address of the hotel.

The matter happened urgently, and he went out before he had time to book a place to stay, so he could only check on the road when the signal was good.

After taking only two steps, he suddenly stopped again.

"What's the matter, brother?"

Lu Zheng turned his head to look at Tang Shaoyuan's exquisite and decent clothes, and the small suitcase that looked very foreign at first glance, and suddenly felt a little hesitant.

I always feel that it seems embarrassing to take Shao Yuan to live in such a dilapidated place.

With a slight movement in his mind, as soon as his footsteps turned, Lu Zheng changed direction and walked towards a high-end hotel across the road: "It's okay, let's get a room first."

Open, open, open a room...

Tang Shaoyuan's face turned red.

He heard that Lu Zheng was going to ask for leave in the morning, and when he hurriedly packed his luggage and went out, he didn't have time to think about it!

God, is it going a little too fast?

Can he still sleep at night?

When we got to the front desk, would some staff member say to them with an apologetic face, sorry, our double rooms are fully booked for tonight, only double rooms are available?

The more he thought about it, the more irritated he was, the naked back of Lu Zheng when he changed clothes at his home last time flashed into his mind. Tang Shaoyuan felt his nose itch, so he quickly pinched the wings of his nose.

God, it would be embarrassing to spray a nosebleed at a time like this!

It is a pity that the scene of the idol drama did not happen as Tang Shaoyuan expected.

It's not a tourist city, nor is it a holiday. Where did the overcrowding come from? The staff at the front desk politely registered their identity information and quickly opened a standard room for them.

When the key card swiped open the door and saw two beautiful big beds with a full 1.8 meters in length, Lu Zheng's mood was quite complicated.

Satisfaction again, and blood dripping again.

I am satisfied because I feel that a noble young master like Tang Shaoyuan deserves to sleep on this kind of high-end bed.

bleeding is...

...the room bill that is about to be paid.

But after thinking about it, it is worthwhile to bleed once in a while. After all, it is better to bring Shao Yuan out to live.

Huh?

How do you feel that something is not right?

Putting aside the messy thoughts in his mind, Lu Zheng greeted with a smile on his face: "Come in, you wash first and I wash first?"

**

The third floor of a high-end hotel hung with neon lights, looking down from the glass window is the most prosperous road in the provincial capital of Jiang Province.

The lights are feasting, the traffic is busy, the clothes are fragrant and the temples are shadowed, and the world is drunk.

It's a bit exaggerated, but it's almost midnight now, and the road downstairs does not show signs of sleeping at all. Instead, it is getting more and more lively. Several entertainment venues that look like bars are lit, and there are big signs at the entrance. Loudspeaker, playing some melodious sounds of you love me and I love you.

Coupled with the faint sound of dripping water coming from the hotel room, it is like a small brush made of feathers rubbing against the ear canal.

It is unbearable.

Tang Shaoyuan was wearing long-sleeved trousers and antibacterial pajamas with stripes printed on it. He sat on the bed by the window a little fidgeting, constantly reaching out to touch his pillow cover.

The sound of water stopped.

Brother, is this going to come out?

Why am I so stupid, I know that I might live with my senior brother when I go out, but I still bring such a dirty set of pajamas!

Why don't you bring that black bathrobe, half of your chest can be exposed when you put it on, it looks a whole size stronger than this silly hat pajamas...

The sound of the water stopped for several minutes, why didn't the senior come out?

Will you forget to take your clothes?Wait what if he let me in to deliver his clothes?

Almost replaying the plots of all the idol dramas in his mind, the bathroom door made a crisp sound, and Lu Zheng violently wiped his flat head with a towel and came out.

Short-sleeved trousers, a lot.

Tang Shaoyuan breathed a sigh of relief, but after the relief was over, there was an imperceptible sense of loss in his heart.

"Cough." Lu Zheng pulled off the towel, saw Tang Shaoyuan turned his head and looked at him straight at the speed of light, and couldn't help coughing: "I haven't slept yet."

Tang Shaoyuan shook his head silently, and added after thinking for a few seconds: "Wait for you."

Lu Zheng scratched his head, and was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what was going through his head, and suddenly his face turned red.

One of them was standing, the other was sitting, staring at each other, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

I didn't feel it when I first entered the door. At this time, there were only the two of them in the small confined space. Taking it to the outside room, the air in the whole room became hot, humid and stuffy under Tang Shaoyuan's focused eyes.

The viscous ambiguity spread and flowed in the silence. After the two of them stalemate for a while, Lu Zheng lowered his eyes, and suddenly threw himself on the bed next to the wall, quickly wrapping himself into a ball with the quilt.

"Go to sleep." A muffled voice came from under the quilt: "I have to get up early tomorrow."

Tang Shaoyuan saw that he wrapped himself into a Swiss roll, and he looked silly and cute, so he couldn't help laughing, got up and walked to Lu Zheng's bed, pulling down the quilt gently but firmly: "Senior brother, be good, Don't cover your head with the quilt to sleep, it will be uncomfortable."

A gap was opened in the Swiss roll, revealing Lu Zheng's blushing face.

Tang Shaoyuan saw his eyes flickering, looked left and right but didn't look at himself, suddenly blessed to the heart, couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth, like a warm syrup flowing from his heart, sweet and hot.

It turns out... Brother, he didn't feel nothing.

The smile on his face got bigger, and he boldly rubbed Lu Zheng's hairy little hair, and his fingers stayed on the warm scalp for a while.

Short hair is good, after such a short effort, it has already dried out, soft, warm, and a little prickly.

"Go to sleep, good night." Tang Shaoyuan brushed his ears with his fingers, lowered his head and said softly, "Have a good dream."

**

Early the next morning.

The faint morning light came through the cracks in the curtains, Lu Zheng turned off the vibrating cell phone next to his pillow, and squinted at the time.

It's exactly eight o'clock.

Throwing away the phone and sitting up, Lu Zheng rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Unlike the past when he came out to find someone with so many things on his mind, last night he actually closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep without even having a dream.

Thinking of this, a deep and magnetic "have a good dream" echoed in his ears again, making him blushed uncontrollably.

Turning around, Tang Shaoyuan's bed was empty, even the quilt had been packed.

Just when Lu Zheng was wondering where the others had gone, there was a faint sound at the door, and Tang Shaoyuan came back with a few bags in his hand. Seeing Lu Zheng sitting on the bed in a daze, he smiled again: "Get up!" Is it? I brought some porridge, I was so tired from the train ride yesterday, so I didn’t buy anything too oily.”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help giving a thumbs up to the hotel front desk: "The service of this store is good. I asked them where they can have porridge, and I asked the chef of the restaurant on the second floor to cook one."

As for the enigmatic expression of the little girl at the front desk when he went downstairs to the front desk and asked where to buy some digestible liquid food, he just ignored it.

**

The two had a simple breakfast in the house, then went downstairs to the Jiang province office of "Baby Comes Home".

Those who greeted them were Lu Zheng's acquaintances - Bao Yuanjia who met once in Sichuan Province, Xiao Baojie.

"Meet you again, Lu Zheng!" Miss Xiao Bao still looks so energetic, wearing a red uniform T-shirt, she looks full of energy, seeing that Lu Zheng is accompanied by a tall handsome guy, she can't help asking curiously :"Who is this?"

"This is my good friend, who came with me." Lu Zheng smiled: "Sister Xiaobao, about the information I provided..."

Bao Yuanjia showed a bright smile when he heard this: "Well, I am originally from Jiang Province, so I asked my relatives, friends and other colleagues around me to look for it together, and found a description that was 99% similar to yours. The place."

Tang Shaoyuan noticed that Lu Zheng's hand hanging by his side clenched subconsciously.

He stretched out his hand to embrace Lu Zheng's shoulder, and patted it lightly a few times: "Go and see?"

The minivan was driving quickly on the expressway, and in the passenger seat of the car, Miss Xiaobao was introducing the relevant information of the destination to Lu Zheng: "The place we are going now is Yujia Village in Dashui Township, Quanhe City, Jiang Province, Dashui Township Historically, it was the hardest-hit area for human trafficking in Jiang Province. Dashui Township Central Primary School still maintains a runway with cinders and swings made of tires. Yujia Village has abundant underground water resources, and basically every household has the habit of digging wells in the yard... "

While listening silently, Lu Zheng focused on the scenery outside the window.

Green hills, small rivers, villages, as the car got closer and closer to Yujia Village, dusty memories seemed to open a huge gap, rolling out, every plant, tree, brick and tile seemed to be in his eyes Rewind 25 years, showing what it looked like before the years washed away.

All too familiar, all this.

Although he hadn't entered the village yet, Lu Zheng already had a strong premonition in his heart.

"We made an appointment with the current village branch secretary of Yujia Village. The village branch secretary said that he had just taken office and didn't know much about the past in Yujia Village, but he helped find an aunt who had lived in the village for 40 years. We can check with my aunt."

As soon as Miss Bao finished speaking, the bumpy dirt road came to an end.

Yujia Village has arrived.

Lu Zheng took two deep breaths, jumped out of the back seat of the car, followed by Tang Shaoyuan, the village party secretary seemed to attach great importance to their visit today, and was already waiting at the roadside at the entrance of the village, standing beside him A thin old woman with a somewhat stooped figure, but still in good spirits.

Hearing the sound of the car, the old woman turned her head and saw Lu Zheng walking in the front at a glance, her wrinkled old eyes lit up instantly.

"Is this... Ah Zheng from Shui Sheng's family?" She hurried forward two steps, as if she wanted to see Lu Zheng more clearly.

The moment the long-lost name "Azheng" came to his ears, Lu Zheng suddenly felt a soreness in his eyes, and couldn't help but quickly stepped forward and held the old woman's hand: "Are you...?"

"Hey, you don't even recognize me!" The old woman grinned, revealing her false teeth, "I'm your old Auntie Zhang! I hugged you when I was a child—look at your little appearance, it's not the same as when I was a child." It hasn’t changed! You can tell it at a glance! Why are you alone? Where’s your brother? Isn’t this your brother?”

While speaking, she looked suspiciously at Tang Shaoyuan beside Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng blinked the excited tears from the corners of his eyes, and when he heard this sentence, his heart was poured with cold water: "...my brother? Isn't my brother at home?"

Aunt Zhang was also very confused, she squeezed Lu Zheng's hand and said, "You child, what nonsense are you talking about? Your brother is not with you? Where is your mother Cuiping? When you were young, your mother didn't even say a word, but took you with me. The two brothers ran away, and there was not even a letter in the past twenty years, but don't blame my aunt for talking too much, I really have no conscience... You came back to see... Is your father?"

Lu Zheng felt a little dazed.

He understood every word Aunt Zhang said, but why couldn't he understand it together?

"Then... where's my dad?"

He heard his own voice coming indistinctly.

A cool body suddenly came over, hugged his shoulders and let him lean on his chest, so that he didn't have to embarrass himself because his legs were weak.

It was Tang Shaoyuan.

Just as Lu Zheng wanted to open the corner of his mouth to say thanks, he saw a sympathetic look on the face of Aunt Zhang in front of him.

"Ah...Ah Zheng, sorry." She patted the back of Lu Zheng's hand and sighed, "Your father Shuisheng couldn't bear it, just a few years after you left, he drank paraquat , now there is no one in your house."

The author has something to say:

Hey, the mystery of Brother Lu's life experience has been completely solved.

The two brothers, one is called "A Zheng" and the other is called "A Zhi". Together, they are upright, and they are also a parental heart of brothers, parents, and mothers.