daytime firefly

Xu Zhi had an inexplicable feeling, if it wasn't for the pain that kept him awake, he would probably have thought that he was having a dream with thousands of turns.

When Zhou Jianming stopped slowly, Xu Zhi arched his chest unconsciously, put the back of his head against the pillow, raised his chin, and inadvertently passed his Adam's apple to Zhou Jianming's mouth. Leaving, leaving Xu Zhi empty for a while.

"Don't go yet."

The words were urgent, Xu Zhi hugged him indiscriminately, buried his face in his neck with his eyes closed, and murmured, "Don't go yet."

Zhou Jianming's heart softened completely. He turned over in his arms and let Xu Zhiban lie in his arms. After a long time, he asked, "What are those medicines?"

Xu Zhi didn't move, he knew that Zhou Jianming was looking at the medicine box on the counter, it was prepared for him by Bai Shengnan, different pills were packed in a medicine box with many grids, so that Xu Zhi would not remember which medicine was What's the name, I just know that I can't sleep, take a piece of white, palpitations, take a piece of yellow, and headache, take a capsule.

To cover it up, Xu Zhi joked about her way of doing it, but it still had some effect after all.

"I didn't sleep well, Dr. Bai prescribed sleeping pills."

After Zhou Jianming listened, he turned his gaze back to Xu Zhi's forehead, "Follow me back to Puyun Society for a few days."

Xu Zhi opened his eyes and looked up at him, "Do you really want to go back?"

"Xiaowei wants to kowtow to grandpa."

These words made Xu Zhi silent for a while. The body under the thin blanket was glued to Zhou Jianming's. He felt that it was not enough, so he raised his leg and wrapped it around, "Then go back together."

It was a week after the official departure back to Daliang Mountain. During this time, Xu Zhi learned that Liang An was in custody, and there was still some time before he would go to court.

Zhou Jianming picked up Zhou Xiaowei from the hospital, but instead of going directly to Xu Zhi's house, he went to a red brick house in the eastern suburbs first.

The old lady had just returned after closing the stall, when she saw the two people talking at the door, her eyes suddenly turned bitter.

The old lady saw many things in her eyes. She saw that Zhou Jianming used to look for people day and night, and when he was hungry and delirious, he still used the little money in his hand to print missing person notices. He was bullied and humiliated. Alive, exercising from dawn to dusk, stuffing sandbags made of sand with sacks by myself, breaking one after another, running around the wild lake behind before dawn, and almost drowning when I fainted by the water. In [-], and even today, the child is still the same, stuck in the swamp, heavy with mud.

People can't be so close to each other by nature. In this life, I have never seen anything like strong winds and waves. A hungry yellow-faced and emaciated mad dog can be kicked away. The old lady thought distractedly, but that is a good dog.

"This is a peace talisman," the old lady put a folded talisman in Zhou Xiaowei's hand, "There are few people in the temple today, and I sat with my teacher and father for a long time. This talisman passed his hand, so wear it carefully." on."

The nutritional injections during this time have taken effect, Zhou Xiaowei is a little rounder than when she first escaped, but she is still not very good at talking, she only knows that she is holding the peace talisman tightly in her hand, her eyes are turning red.

A few days later, Xu Zhi sat in Grandpa Zhou Jianming's yard. In early May, it was as cold as winter in the mountains. He met some students on the second day after he came. He heard that he was coming, so he came to see him specially. His, those were all Zhou Jianming's attendants when he was a child. Presumably one of them must have put a dead snake under the bed for him, but it's meaningless to pursue this matter of old sesame seeds and rotten millet. After all, someone got married. , the children started to walk.

In the evening, Zhou Jianming lit a fire in the yard and roasted the local chickens brought by those people during the day. The fireworks flickered, and Xu Zhi looked at the person sitting opposite him on the ponytail and asked, "Your sister, you have never been here before." ?”

"Go back, I'll leave after two days," Zhou Jianming said, "I'm afraid I've forgotten what Grandpa looks like."

A trace of sadness passed by Xu Zhi's chest. Zhou Xiaowei was sitting in the main room at the moment. On the table was a bowl of brown sugar eggs that Zhou Jianming had laid down for her. She seemed to be eating, but she didn't seem to have any appetite.

Snapped.

The fire reached the bamboo joints, and there was a loud explosion. Zhou Xiaowei looked out, and Xu Zhi smiled at her in relief, "Why didn't you tell me about your looking for your sister early in the morning?"

Xu Zhi asked lightly, afraid that Zhou Jianming might misunderstand that he was blaming him.

Zhou Jianming turned the chicken over, put it back on the pony and sat down, and said, "It has nothing to do with you."

"I really think it's okay," Xu Zhi said, "It's okay if you use me, Zhou Jianming, you're only in your early twenties, why do you feel ten years older than me?"

Zhou Jianming looked at him, and heard him say, "The heart is the size of a fist, put all these things in it, can you bear it?"

After hearing this, Zhou Jianming seemed to be in a better mood. He picked off a piece of the half-roasted chicken with a knife, then got up and went to Xu Zhi's side, and fed the meat to his mouth.

Xu Zhi smelled really fragrant, and put Zhou Jianming's fingers into his mouth together. Zhou Jianming didn't move, and his fingertips pressed his lower teeth, "I also hope that I'm ten years older than you, so ten years ago, I didn't ask you Angie, what's the matter?"

"Don't you care?"

Xu Zhi inexplicably remembered what Zhou Jianming said a long time ago, and said, "Could it be that you have been eating old vinegar?"

"..." Zhou Jianming pinched his chin smoothly, "When did we separate?"

Out of curiosity, Xu Zhi raised his eyebrows and thought about it, "We broke up not long after returning to Jiangbei. He wants to go abroad for further study, and I'm not going anywhere."

Zhou Jianming didn't talk anymore, and reached out to take care of the firewood. Xu Zhi was not cold anymore, but Zhou Jianming squatted in front of him like this, and Xu Zhi couldn't help but slipped off the pony, stuck to his back, and leaned on his back.

Once it was dark in the mountains, unless there was an open flame, it would take a long time for the eyes to adapt to the extreme darkness. Xu Zhi looked out from his shoulder and waited for a while before seeing the deeper outline of the opposite mountain, "Did you not be afraid when you were young?" ? This mountain looks scary."

Zhou Jianming raised his head, stared into the distance, and told him, "It's very safe. Grandpa said that after living in the mountains for a long time, it's not the people who guard the mountains, but the mountains guard the people."

"What else did Grandpa say?"

"Also, give me fifty sheep and go to the city to exchange you."

Xu Zhi couldn't hold back, and snorted, "Am I worth your sheep's money?"

"..." Zhou Jianming was silent, "Donkeys can't be sold. That donkey has been with my grandpa all his life."

Xu Zhi's heart was blocked again, "Your grandfather, what's wrong with you?"

"It's not a disease. The police from the county came to return my parents' belongings and told him that my little sister was missing. Grandpa couldn't stand it. He didn't come up in one breath. I lost my breath when I carried it to the entrance of the village."

He spoke quickly and calmly, only the loneliness in his eyes poured into the darkness in the distance, Xu Zhi couldn't help but hugged him even tighter, but at that moment, Zhou Jianming just turned his head, and his breath hit the top of his head , "There are stars, can you see them?"

Xu Zhi raised his body slightly, looked at the sky, it was still pitch black, and was about to reason with him, when he saw a few stars flickering occasionally, and after looking longer, he found that those stars would still move, Xu Zhi murmured, "Here Why are there fireflies?"

"There will be one after the stream at the entrance of the village," Zhou Jianming said, "I don't call it a firefly, but when I walk on the mountain road at night and meet a group of them, I call them a lamp hook."

"Is it really possible for someone to take it home?"

Zhou Jianming didn't comment, stretched out his hand to pick off the meaty roast chicken, put it into the cleaned porcelain basin beside him, held Xu Zhi's elbow, helped him back to the pony and sat down, put the knife in his hand Pass it to him, "I'll get some water, you take a shower after eating."

Xu Zhi hummed, watched him go in, and watched him bring Xiaowei into the back room, and came out after a while, the fire was still crackling, and the scattered sparks flickered together with the fireflies in the distance , Xu Zhi was chewing a piece of meat, feeling that the mountain was much more comfortable than the city.