A collection of short stories about Qingshan as snow and yellow

On the day he received the news of Yu Wenzhou's death, Huang Shaotian didn't sleep well at night.

He was awakened by a knocking sound from outside the window.It wasn't rain, the sound of knocking on the glass three times in a row, paused for a moment and then continued, like a polite visitor.

It'd better be a polite bird, Huang Shaotian thought, I live on the sixteenth floor.

As he sat up, the blanket slid from his waist to the floor.Only then did he remember that he was still wearing the clothes he had returned from the airport before, and lay down on the sofa to sleep with his tie loosened. Even if he didn't look in the mirror, he knew that most of his shirts were wrinkled and horrible.Huang Shaotian let his eyes get used to the dim light in the room, walked over slowly and opened the curtains.

Yu Wenzhou's knuckles were still pressed against the glass, looking at him through the window.Although the room was very dark, the night outside almost engulfed his entire figure, only a face that was no different from usual was very clear.

"I'm sure I haven't woken up yet." Huang Shaotian muttered to himself, and closed the curtains with a snap.

As soon as he turned around and walked away a few steps, he heard a loud crash from behind, and the sound of glass shards splashing on the window sill was particularly crisp.Huang Shaotian turned his head, staring dumbfounded at the curtain being parted in the middle. Yu Wenzhou stepped over the broken window frame and walked into the living room calmly.

"Good evening," he said.

Huang Shaotian stared at him for a few seconds: "Are you still alive?"

Yu Wenzhou blinked his eyes, noncommittal to this question.His clothes smelled of the cold, dry night air, and there were no dirt, petals, or visible bruises on his body, but he looked a little strange in the dim light, as if some rays of light passed through him and others No... No matter what, Huang Shaotian said in his heart, he is standing here completely now.Even if it's just a fleeting, fleeting hallucination.

"Come with me, we have to get out from here." Yu Wenzhou walked through the living room familiarly, and picked up the blanket that was spread beside the sofa from the floor.Huang Shaotian looked at him inexplicably: "Get out? Where are you going? What are you doing with the blanket?"

"You might need it, it's going to be cold here at night."

Yu Wenzhou glanced at Huang Shaotian: "Especially you are wearing so little now. Where's your coat?"

"On the hanger in the back room." Huang Shaotian said consciously, and turned back to pull the door leading to the back room, but he didn't touch the doorknob at all.He looked through the light, and found that the place where the door was originally was a flat wall, and a lifelike door panel was painted on it.

This made Huang Shaotian's hair stand on end. There are four doors in the living room, leading to the bedroom, dining room, kitchen and entrance respectively, and now only the door leading to the entrance is still real.He didn't dare to open the door hastily, and had to look back at Yu Wenzhou who was standing by the sofa: "...What the hell is going on?"

"This is not your home, it's just a place similar to it." Yu Wenzhou walked over, rolled the blanket into his arms, reached out and took off his tie, and buttoned the top two buttons of his shirt.After finishing these, he turned the doorknob, and under Huang Shaotian's breathless gaze, he opened the door leading to the entrance.

A gust of cold wind with snowflakes blew in, coating their hair and eyebrows with a layer of frost.

Huang Shaotian walked tremblingly along the icy path for a long time, then turned his head to look at the way they came from.He had honestly wrapped the blanket tightly around him, but it was still terribly cold.

After walking out of his own gate, outside was the snowy countryside, Huang Shaotian's shock at this moment was no better than those children who went through the closet and found themselves in the country of ice and snow.The place he saw himself walking out of was a hut covered with snow, and by comparison, it seemed that the fact that he fell asleep in the warm living room on the sixteenth floor was a complete illusion.

"Is this the world of the dead?" He turned his head and asked Yu Wenzhou, who was standing in the snow in a thin overcoat, looking strangely calm, "We must have taken the wrong script, and we didn't know it was "The Divine Comedy". Or the set of American Gods..."

"It's another world." Yu Wenzhou pulled up the corner of his blanket that was hanging in the snow, "You have to leave before it gets dark, or you'll have to stay here forever."

"It's dark?" Huang Shaotian was taken aback, "But it's not daytime either?"

"It's just at night." Yu Wenzhou pointed to the distant sky, "I'm talking about the kind of situation - complete darkness, no light at all. Let's go, time is running out."

He was the first to walk into the snow, Huang Shaotian hesitated for a moment, but quickly followed.He got used to the weather here a little bit, and couldn't help asking: "So you just fell here before? Why did I also run here, and how did you find me? Are we going north? But now I can't see the stars at all, do you have a compass...I didn't take my mobile phone..."

Yu Wenzhou smiled without saying a word, rummaged through the pocket of his coat, found a bag of roasted chestnuts in sugar, and stuffed one for him.Huang Shaotian chewed, feeling a warm taste spreading from his mouth, and his whole body was not so cold anymore.

The snowy night was not as dark as he had seen from the room before, although the clouds blocked the stars, there was still light surging in the sky.Different shades of blue overlap, periwinkle blue, mint blue, steel blue and cobalt blue, gradually blending into the dome of the long night, and the color is not uniform, more like the washing waves, or the tide Thin and uneven sand after receding.Huang Shaotian looked up there, exclaimed, "Is that the aurora? I've never seen an aurora like this...how should I put it, it's quite beautiful."

"It's a lifeline." Yu Wenzhou said, "Some were swept away by the wave, while others remained."

"So is that a real tide? In the sky?"

"Maybe that's the land and the ocean, and maybe we're walking in the sky." Yu Wenzhou reached out to sweep the snow off his hair, "I know you have a lot of questions, but I can't answer them for you right now. .”

"That's right, I can fill 45 minutes with questions, such as where are you from, where are we going, why are the chestnuts still warm..." Huang Shaotian muttered, "But you won't lie to me anyway. , there’s nothing to worry about, it’s better to enjoy the scenery along the way.”

"Your example is quite good." Yu Wenzhou said, "The chestnuts are still hot because they have not been cooked for a long time, and about where we are going, do you see this path? It is almost at the end."

Huang Shaotian lowered his head, but didn't see any way.The snow covered the ground like the layer of cream on the cake that was flattened by a spatula. Behind them was a line of clear footprints. Apart from that, there was only endless whiteness.

"Wait..." Huang Shaotian turned his head stiffly, "I didn't see the way, and why are there only my footprints behind?"

"We are walking on a dirt path, only here there is no snow." After Yu Wenzhou finished speaking, he also understood, "It seems that the scene we saw was different."

"Hey, then I have to follow you closely, otherwise there is no direction at all." Huang Shaotian breathed into the palm of his hand, "Let me think about it, you actually made a special trip to point out the direction and bring me out of here, right?"

"Basically." Yu Wenzhou asked, "What did you see? I want to confirm whether what we saw is completely different."

"It's just that the sky is very dark, but it's not completely dark. There is something like a blue aurora under the clouds." Huang Shaotian described, "There is snow on all sides, and there are no trees or anything like that. The hut we came out of is very Far behind...strange, have we walked that far?"

"It seems to be the same." Yu Wenzhou nodded, "I just see one more road than you can."

Huang Shaotian stopped suddenly at this moment.He rubbed his eyes: "When did a field appear here? There are so many pits."

Yu Wenzhou also saw this.In the snow field that was empty just now, something like a radish field appeared out of nowhere. The land was exposed from under the snow layer, and some radishes that were about the size of a person and shining with silver light stood upright in the field middle.What's more, there are deep pits among them. Many people in cotton clothes are wielding shovels, digging up soil and pouring them into those pits.

"What are you guys doing?" Huang Shaotian asked the person closest to him.

When the other party raised his head, he realized that it was a very young girl. "We're filling in holes," she said.

Huang Shaotian opened his mouth: "Uh...do you grow radishes?"

"No, no." The girl said, "Here are some holes that are usually dug and never filled. I don't know how many readers have been hurt. So as a punishment, our souls will keep filling holes here."

She grabbed a handful of soil, and Huang Shaotian finally saw clearly that it was soil composed of many, many black square characters, and he could only vaguely make out words like "stalk", "brain hole", "TBC", "full text" from inside. Come.

"Then when are you going to fill in?" Huang Shaotian was dumbfounded.

"Fill in as many pits as you want." The girl sprinkled the soil down again, "Look, the biggest radishes are full-length novels, the not-so-big ones are medium-length and short-length, and the smallest ones are divided into several types, 'Monthly Update' And 'Nian Geng' or something...a radish and a hole."

Huang Shaotian seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand, he was speechless for a while.The girl looked at him, and then at Yu Wenzhou behind him: "Then where did you come from? I don't think you look like people who dig holes and don't fill them. You must have lost your way."

"We are going out from here." Yu Wenzhou said politely, "Do you know where the way out is going?"

"There is a river to the north, just go down by boat." The girl pointed them in the direction, "It will warm up over there, but it's really cold here. I wish you all the best of luck!"

Yu Wenzhou and the two thanked her, and headed north around the turnip fields.Huang Shaotian murmured: "Is the consequence of digging a hole and not filling it so serious, and the soul still wants to shovel carrots here?"

"I don't know too well." Yu Wenzhou thought for a while, "But don't you think they filled it out quite happily?"

Huang Shaotian recalled the other party's expression: "This is really..."

He found that the two people were walking much faster than they realized, as if the ground level under their feet was also receding spontaneously.When they walked a certain distance and looked back, they saw those silver radishes lined up brilliantly in the distance under the night sky, like a group of warriors in armor.

When at last they reached the creek there was a rosy light in the sky.At the same time, it seemed to cut through the clouds that were crowded in the air very gently, allowing more light to fall from there—then they realized that this was not just a metaphor, and golden rain began to fall from the sky, pattering down. Covered the entire land.

Huang Shaotian opened his hand to catch it, the glistening rain fell on his palm, it looked no different from ordinary water again.He felt a faint but real warmth in it.

"I seem to feel more powerful." He said uncertainly, "Could it be..."

"Could it be something?" Yu Wenzhou looked at him.

Huang Shaotian: "Could it be some group skill released by the priest!"

"Maybe." Yu Wenzhou laughed, "Do you want a chestnut?"

Huang Shaotian put aside the question of the rain for the time being, and was fed a chestnut.Yu Wenzhou walked along the empty river, pulled from somewhere, and grabbed a translucent cable——Huang Shaotian widened his eyes, and saw a strangely shaped boat emerging from the air.

"This..." He thought about his words for a long time, but he didn't know how to describe it.The boat in front of him was an arc-shaped hollow semi-cone, which seemed to be made of glass, and the cables looked like plastic; if it wasn't large enough for two people to sit in it, he would have thought that it was a ship Split the two halves of the bottle from the middle, and the cable is no different from the infusion tube.

Yu Wenzhou stepped into the boat steadily, and turned around to pull him up too.Huang Shaotian looked around in surprise, outside the glass bottle-like ship wall, there were light yellow water waves surging: "Is this ship really unsinkable?"

"We shouldn't be that heavy." Yu Wenzhou compared the waterline, "I remember you don't get seasick."

"You won't get dizzy on this kind of boat." Huang Shaotian put his hands on the side of the boat, "Look, we've already started to drift down!"

Transparent bottle boats slide slowly along the current.The dawn of this world has completely risen, and the earth in the morning light is a completely different scene. The green grass on both sides of the river is full of wild flowers, the young leaves of new willows are gently fluttering, and the birds are flapping their wings in the sun. , singing cheerfully: "Ma Geji~ Ma Geji~"

Huang Shaotian: "I always feel that what they sing is not quite right."

"It's pretty nice, isn't it?" Yu Wenzhou closed his eyes leisurely under the sun.Huang Shaotian leaned against him, feeling that the oncoming wind carried the warmth of spring, he smelled the smell of soil and flowers, and there was a...strange, cloyingly sweet smell...

"Look, look," he poked Yu Wenzhou next to him, "It seems that someone is brewing medicine or something on the bank over there, all over the mountains and plains, and do you smell a sweet smell?"

Yu Wenzhou sat up straight and looked over there.The current pushed the boat closer to the shore, and they slung the cable, hooked it to the metal stakes of the pier, and jumped from the boat to the shore.

There are many strange machines on the shore, and countless people operate them.Some are stirring a vat filled with a chocolate-colored solution, some are processing what looks like a honeycomb, and some are pressing down a huge mold over and over again, holding a basin and various products falling from it: round, flower-shaped or Small squares in the shape of book pages are piled up colorfully to form a hill.

Huang Shaotian cautiously leaned over to have a look, and caught the attention of a girl wearing a headscarf.She blinked her eyes, her tone was exactly the same as that of the girls in the radish field: "Are you lost?"

"Hmm... almost." Huang Shaotian realized that the river and their boat had disappeared behind him, "Is this a factory? It feels really fantastic."

"We're making candy." The girl lifted the stick in her hand, and the thick chocolate paste slid down from it, "Chocolate, marshmallow, fruit candy, etc."

"Could it be that you are also working here because of some kind of punishment?" Huang Shaotian hesitated.

The girl sighed: "That's right, this is the consequence of always writing BE."

"What is Guan Yi?" Huang Shaotian was at a loss.

"It's Bad Ending." Yu Wenzhou said later.

"Yeah, I didn't see that you understood." The girl nodded, "Because this kind of thing is very bitter, so as compensation, our souls have to make candy here... until those who are suffering It’s not until you feel the sweetness. Would you like to try a piece?”

She handed him a piece of snow-white candy with a blue heart printed on it.Huang Shaotian turned his head to look at Yu Wenzhou, but he didn't see any objectionable look on his face, such as "you will turn into a pig if you eat the food here", so he thanked him and took it.He broke the candy in half and was about to share it with Yu Wenzhou, but the other party lowered his head and ate it from his hand.

Huang Shaotian was startled, he stuffed his own half of the slice into his mouth and chewed it, it was quite sweet.

"Ah, this is too sweet..." the girl said with her eyes shining, clutching her chest.Huang Shaotian looked at her puzzled, thinking that she wasn't eating sweets either.

"Do you know how to get out?" Yu Wenzhou asked.

"Over there, there is a forest, just go through it." The girl pointed in a direction, "Come on, don't get lost!"

Huang Shaotian smiled and said: "Don't worry, we will always be together!"

After saying goodbye to her, they set off in that direction.On the way, Huang Shaotian was still a little confused: "Why did she look so red when we left? Could it be that it's too hot? But it does seem to be getting hotter."

"Maybe." Yu Wenzhou looked up, "The sun has already reached the middle, and it will soon be the hottest time of the day."

They saw the scenery from spring to midsummer along the way. Some flowers withered, others bloomed more brilliantly, and the colors in the shade of the trees were getting darker and greener.In front of the forest, Yu Wenzhou carefully identified the road, and took his hand: "Follow me, pay attention to your steps."

Huang Shaotian cautiously followed beside him, because in his eyes there were only knee-high grass, and there was no road at all.Yu Wenzhou walked very easily, as if he could find the right direction without any effort.

"You said we have met two groups of people who said their souls work here, is this really the world of the dead?" Huang Shaotian asked, "Even if you can't answer me, you can always tell me what they said is It's not the truth."

"It's true, but this world is not what you imagined." Yu Wenzhou smiled, "Look, we're going to get out of here soon."

The trees in the forest also looked very strange.Their leaves are gradually no longer green, but with blue and white patterns, and there is a subtle smell mixed with the fragrance of the plants. After smelling it for a long time, Huang Shaotian always felt that it was a mixture of alcohol and disinfectant.Before he could ask any more questions, it suddenly became clear to him that in the clearing in the forest, there was a huge house with a roof full of windows under construction, and there were many planks and nail hammers thrown around.He observed carefully and found that the busy people inside were not building houses, but nailing up the windows one by one with battens.

He was almost used to these things, and when he approached, he grabbed a girl and asked, "What punishment did you receive to nail the windows here?"

"It's not nailing the windows, it's closing the windows." The girl with glasses said solemnly, "Because we drag the manuscripts and books so that we can only kneel and spread them, so our souls are here to close all the skylights we opened. "

"..." Huang Shaotian glanced at Yu Wenzhou for help, he understood every word in this sentence, even if they were connected together, they didn't know what it was.Yu Wenzhou spread his hands: "I don't know about that either."

"Anything is fine." Huang Shaotian muttered, and then asked: "Then do you know how to get out?"

"Of course." The girl took off her gloves, "follow the red trees in the forest, you will go all the way to the end of the world, and then you can go out!"

Yu Wenzhou put his hand on Huang Shaotian's shoulder, and pulled in his direction: "Thank you, we will go, I hope you can close the window as soon as possible."

The girl with glasses stammered, "No, you're welcome, this is what I should do... Oh my god, it's so cute! I have a new idea!"

"Dongdongdong, hole you big-headed ghost!" Another girl suddenly appeared beside her, and hit her on the head with a plank in her hand, "When will you be able to close the window again! Give me first Close the window at hand!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Huang Shaotian and the others slipped away silently.

Sure enough, there was a row of red trees in the blue-and-white striped forest. They walked under the trees, and the surrounding temperature began to get lower and lower.Huang Shaotian held the rolled blanket in his hand, and said as he walked: "This world is quite magical. It is winter at night, and the flowers bloom after dawn, and it is midsummer at noon, so now the sun will set, so it will turn into autumn. La?"

"But at sunset, it won't be too long before it gets dark." Yu Wenzhou walked forward among the fallen leaves, "We need to hurry up, this world is about to end..."

Huang Shaotian didn't quite understand what he meant, but he still quickened his pace and followed behind him.I don't know how long it took, the surrounding trees gradually thinned out, and they finally walked out of the forest.

He couldn't help but stop, and turned to look at the way they came from.I didn’t notice it when I was walking inside, but this forest is really tall, and it looks like a cliff from here—the golden and red fallen leaves are falling like rain, like a huge wave that indicates a certain meaning, Come to them.

Huang Shaotian felt his arm being pulled forcefully, and Yu Wenzhou had already dragged him to run: "Go!"

He staggered and followed the other party, and found that his body became heavy at some point.He saw the autumn fields in the distance, the stream shining in the setting sun, but everything was gradually sinking into darkness; he now understood what Yu Wenzhou meant by "complete darkness", this was not the sunset, the whole world was in their Close your eyes slowly.

"Wenzhou," he said out of breath, "I understand, you want me to leave, right? You are already dead, so you don't want me to stay in this dead world..."

He suddenly stopped talking, realizing that he couldn't remember the details of the other party's death at all.He tried his best to recall, but he could only remember that when he woke up in bed, he still remembered the news of the other party's death, but he had no clue why it happened or when it happened.

"You won't stay here." Yu Wenzhou's voice was very determined in the darkness, "Go out, we will meet again."

But we are together now, Huang Shaotian thought blankly.He was almost unable to think, but kept running forward instinctively, and then a light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he suddenly felt courage filled his body, and ran desperately in that direction.

At this moment, Yu Wenzhou suddenly let go of his hand.

Huang Shaotian turned his head in panic, but felt a heavy push from behind, and fell down unsteadily.At the last moment, his eyes were full of rotating images, many of which were familiar to him, and more of which he had never seen before—after all the images disappeared, he saw Yu Wenzhou, who smiled at him and lip-synced Say goodbye.

He fell into a ray of light.

Huang Shaotian opened his eyes in a daze, not knowing where he was for a while.He first saw the dark blue curtains, then the snow-white ceiling, with hanging bottles and infusion tubes on the gleaming silver brackets beside him; he raised his head with difficulty, and found himself lying on the blue and white sheets, with his legs still covered with a red blanket.For some reason, these colors made him feel very familiar.

"He's awake!" someone yelled.Then there was a sound of chaotic footsteps, and several people rushed into the ward.Zheng Xuan said in succession next to him: "You finally woke up, the pressure is huge, we are going to die..."

Huang Shaotian said weakly: "Wait, what's going on with me?"

"You don't remember?" Zheng Xuan's eyes widened. "You had a small car accident and hit your head. I don't know why you haven't woken up. You have been in a coma for almost a day since last night. How do you feel now? ?”

"Fortunately, at least I don't have amnesia." Huang Shaotian muttered, "Excuse me, open the curtains and let me have a look."

Xu Jingxi who was behind ran over and opened the window.The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled into the room along with the evening wind. Huang Shaotian stared blankly for a long time before finally realizing that he had returned to reality.

So I was dreaming, he thought.At this moment, he suddenly understood that it was not the world of the dead, but a dream—someone went to that dream world and brought him back.

"What about Wenzhou?" he asked.

"He fell asleep from exhaustion after sending you here." Zheng Xuan said, "We managed to get him to the next door to rest, and we'll tell him the good news later."

Huang Shaotian blinked: "No, he should already be awake."

As soon as the words were finished, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Yu Wenzhou walked in.The people around the bed made way for him to come straight to Huang Shaotian.

"It's pretty tiring from running, isn't it?" Huang Shaotian looked at him, "I still want to eat candied chestnuts."

Yu Wenzhou showed a puzzled expression, but quickly took out a paper bag from his pocket: "How do you know I bought chestnuts?"

Huang Shaotian squeezed the chestnuts through the paper bag, the chestnuts were already cold.

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember..." He said with a smile, "I'm back."

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