early morning twilight

It was still early before dawn, Si Ye was lying flat on the thick mattress, staring at the dark ceiling.

Nie Yunqing and his brother stretched out four hands from the whirlpool.

He struggled desperately, his body covered in bruises, and he was in a state of distress, but luckily he was not completely swallowed by the whirlpool.

Finally, a dry hand held his wrist tightly.

He had calmed down, but the long night was still hard.

"Brother Jin." He called tentatively.

Decided not to speak out if there was no response.

"Ok?"

"You... haven't slept yet?"

"Ah."

Si Ye swallowed several times in a row, and then mustered up the courage to say: "Brother Jin, can I be next to you?"

"cold?"

"No!" Si Ye was silent for a few seconds, "I am, I just want to be next to you."

Jin Chongshan didn't say yes, nor did he say no.

Si Ye was both embarrassed and a little discouraged.

The rumbling heartbeat covered everything, and he couldn't even tell by hearing whether Jin Chongshan's breathing was as steady as usual.

"Then..." He wanted to say forget it, but suddenly there were rustling sounds in the darkness.

He immediately sat up, only to see Jin Chongshan's back outlined by the dim light coming in from the window.

Jin Chongshan squatted on the stone kang with his back facing him, and was pulling the quilt towards him.

He couldn't see Jin Chongshan's expression, and even his back was hard to tell clearly, like a silent snow mountain under a starry night.

In this unlit Tajik stone house, the only thing that is clear is probably the thought in his heart.

It grows crazily and keeps going.

Just like the wilderness eventually leads to the mountains.

Jin Chongshan pulled back the quilt and stepped on Si Ye's quilt with his heel.

Si Ye quickly got up to help.

Jin Chongshan stepped to the other side of the quilt, one person pushed and the other pulled, and the two quilts quickly joined each other.

Si Ye pulled harder, Jin Zhongshan's mattress had already pressed the edge of his mattress.

He looked at the overlapping patch, which looked like a ravine and a secret that he was about to be unable to hide.

Jin Zhongshan lay down, facing Siye, "Go to sleep."

Si Ye was still kneeling on the quilt, his face burning.

He thought that Jin Chongshan would turn his back on him, at least lying flat.

So how should he lie down?

It might be impolite to turn your back on it.

It was because of him that they moved it over, but instead he showed his back to them?

Lying flat is also weird.He can only look at the ceiling, but Jin Chongshan can look at him.

face to face...

Two men, will they sleep like this?

Jin Chongshan said: "You keep watch for me?"

"Sleep, sleep!" Si Ye immediately got back under the quilt, thinking to fight it out, face to face face to face!

After the sound of pulling the quilt subsided, there was no other sound except breathing.

Si Ye closed his eyes tightly, but he didn't feel sleepy.

Just now he just felt that the long night was unbearable, but now he is so excited that seconds feel like years.

He thought he had pretended to be asleep for a long time, so long that Jin Chongshan had already fallen asleep.

He opened a slit carefully and quietly, and was surprised to find that Jin Chongshan's eyes were open!

Like a thief caught at the scene, he quickly closed his eyes.

But there is still time.

"What are you doing?" Jin Chongshan asked calmly.

Si Ye couldn't pretend anymore, and the villain complained first when he opened his eyes, "Why don't you sleep?"

Still...still staring at me!

"Because you seem to be suffering."

"what?"

"Your heartbeat is fast, your breathing is fast, your eyelids are closed too tightly, and your eyelashes are trembling." Jin Chongshan paused, "You are not feeling well."

day!

Si Ye shouted in his heart, it turned out that he didn't even hide his heartbeat!

Does darkness only work for him?

Are Jin Chongshan's eyes the same as the eagle worshiped by the Tajik people?

"I, it's okay..." He stammered.

Jin Chongshan reached out and patted his quilt, "Lie down for another two hours, and I will take you to the Panlong Ancient Road before sunrise."

Si Ye was puzzled, "Didn't you go there yesterday?"

"go again."

After finishing speaking, Jin Chongshan changed into a lying down position.

Si Ye breathed a sigh of relief, secretly looked at Jin Chongshan for a while, and gradually fell asleep.

But when a person is awake, he can still restrain the desire in his heart.

After falling asleep, it is the subconscious mind that has the final say.

Si Ye felt that he slept for a long time, without nightmares, nor was it blank.

After Nie Yunbin died, he had a sweet dream for the first time.

In the dream, he was attending a Tajik wedding in a village under Tajik County.

Jin Chongshan won the first place in the sheep picking competition, and he finally learned the male eagle dance.

Jin Chongshan came to him on horseback, but was not allowed to approach him.

He waved anxiously, but people booed and offered Jin Zhongshan milk tea.

This milk tea is different from the salty milk tea they usually drink, with thick cream added.

Jin Chongshan gulped down his drink and took his hand.

When Meimeng woke up, it was already a little bright outside.

Si Ye blinked, only to realize that he got under Jin Chongshan's quilt at some point, and was still holding Jin Chongshan's hand.

"...!!!"

I am sorry.

abrupt.

He retreated silently into his quilt, but it was a pity that Jin Chongshan woke up only a little bit.

Gray blue eyes watched him quietly.

There is no impatience of being woken up, nor the displeasure of being occupied by the bedding, nor even the confusion and anger of just waking up.

Si Ye wanted to take advantage of Jin Zhongshan's morning confusion and fool him.

But apparently the plan failed.

...You descendants of the eagle, don't you give the villain some time to prepare?

Fortunately, Jin Chongshan didn't mention the matter of him drilling the quilt, and left the stone kang quickly.

"Get up late, act quickly. If you get late, there will be more tourists."

"Oh, right now!"

It was a little cold in the morning, and Siye put Tumak on again.

When the car reached the foot of Panlong Ancient Road, Jin Zhongshan stopped again.

Si Ye: "...you don't want me to take a photo with that sign again, do you?"

Jin Chongshan unbuttoned his seat belt and pushed open the car door: "You drive."

"what?"

"You will?"

Si Ye knows how to drive, and got his driver's license when he was an adult.

Moreover, although the Panlong Ancient Road looks scary, the road is very flat. As long as you don't drive on it and drive honestly, there will be no problem.

"I will. Brother Jin, where are you going?"

"You drive, I'll run up."

Si Ye was dumbfounded.

run?how to run?

But Jin Chongshan had already run towards the foot of the mountain, he didn't have time to ask any more questions, so he stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the first curve.

Before the first wave of passengers arrived, he was the only car on the entire ancient road.

He drove very carefully, looking in the rearview mirror from time to time, but he couldn't find Jin Chongshan.

No matter how fast a person runs, he cannot catch up with the car.

After a dozen or so corners, Si Ye had calmed down, and his speed increased a little.

But as soon as he reached the top, he had to wait for Jin Chongshan to run up, so he slowed down the speed again.

Unexpectedly, when I reached the top of the mountain, I saw a familiar figure standing on the stone yesterday.

His brother Jin, relying on two legs, is actually faster than him with four wheels? !

The problem is that he didn't see Jin Chongshan at all!

Did this person turn into an eagle and fly up?

The materialist worldview that Si Ye has adhered to for 25 years has produced a slight crack.

"Brother Jin!" He opened his mouth and took a sip of wind, "How did you come up here?"

Jin Chongshan motioned to the right with his chin, "See, there is a road there."

Si Ye saw that it was full of yellow sand, where did the road come from?

"look carefully."

Si Ye covered his browbones with his hands.

Tens of meters away from the countless bends, there seems to be a straight thin line.

It is only as wide as a person's footprint on the raised part of the hillside.

If Jin Chongshan didn't say anything, he wouldn't be able to find out.

And even if Jin Chongshan said that it was a road, it is not actually a real road, at best it is just a road that people keep walking and stepping on.

Jin Chongshan said: "Panlong Ancient Road is now a check-in spot for Internet celebrities, but do you know why it was built in the first place?"

Si Ye looked at the line and shook his head.

"In order to let the people of Waqia Township come out and facilitate their lives."

"With this road, materials can be transported in, and the cattle, sheep and handicrafts can be transported out."

"But in fact, even without it, people rely on their own feet to constantly fight against difficult natural conditions."

"That road is for them to come out step by step."

The nascent sun sheds golden light on that line.

It looks so sharp, like an invincible long sword in the hands of a warrior.

There is no dilemma that cannot be overcome.

There are no mountains that cannot be overcome.

Jin Chongshan's tone changed, adding a trace of familiar frivolity, "You can't drive as fast as I can."

Si Ye was moved, choked by his sudden provocation.

"I wanted to wait for you, I didn't know you had a unique way!"

Jin Chongshan pushed Si Ye on the shoulder.

Si Ye almost lost his footing, "Brother Jin?"

Jin Chongshan put his hands in his jacket pockets, "Compare again. You go that way, I'll drive."

There was an amber light in Siye's eyes.

Going down the mountain, Jin Zhongshan is letting him go.

When the car goes downhill, it will drive more slowly in consideration of safety.

But going down the mountain is naturally not as strenuous as going up the mountain.

"it is good!"

The back collar was caught again, and Si Ye turned around.

Jin Chongshan said: "Don't forget that this is a plateau, you can't run too fast."

When Si Ye stepped on the long and narrow road, his chest seemed to be filled with the wind on the plateau.

All the mud from the past has been blown away, and he is brand new and clean.

As long as he wants, he can fly on this high barren mountain.

He ran towards the ground, and in the corner of his eye was the ancient winding dragon road with thousands of twists and turns.

Right in front of the field of vision, the straight road carries the first wave of passengers from afar.

Jin Zhongshan's SUV was left behind by him.

His freedom is irresistible.

He is about to return to this scorching land from the isolated mountain!

"Hu-hu-"

Si Ye put his hands on his knees, gasping for breath.

The sound of driving came from behind.

The SUV pulls up beside him, the windows lowered, and a thermos sticking out of it.

Restoration equipment came in handy again.

Si Ye took it and poured out a cup of warm salty milk tea.

After gulping it down, I turned around and gazed at the magnificent Panlong Ancient Road, as well as the almost invisible road.

Jin Chongshan didn't bother him.

At this time, the tourist's car was parked across the road.

People happily got out of their cars and went to the sign to take pictures.

One of them shouted, "Dude, are you so early?"

Si Ye turned around and said with a smile, "Yes!"

"Is the mountain beautiful?"

"Beautiful, very spectacular."

"okay--"

Si Ye leaned against the driver's door, his hair was dyed golden by the rising sun.

"Brother Jin, I know why you brought me here again." His voice was so soft that it melted into the wind.

But heavy enough to settle in his own heart.

"If you want to carry heavy luggage, whether you are going in or out, you must build a winding road."

"Those corners are people's struggle."

"But if you let go of the heavy load and travel lightly, it's just a long and thin road, and you can walk out and walk in."

"That straight road is also the struggle of the people."

"Sometimes detours don't have to be taken. Sometimes detours are necessary. It depends on how much weight the person making the choice has."

"Brother Jin, I don't regret the detours I took, because I have a burden that I can't let go of."

As he spoke, Si Ye clenched his fist and thumped his chest.

"The narrow road you took me is here with me."

"In the future, I also want to try to put down the weight and fly freely like an eagle."

The wind passed through the vast wilderness, and there really were eagles flying.

Jin Chongshan smiled softly, "Get in the car."