Aromatherapy

Li Xinyun stayed in Jiuqiao Town until the end of spring. During this period, Xiaojin left, and Chen Hongting never contacted him again, and there was no one from Chen Hongting around him—maybe, but Li Xinyun never noticed it again. .

On the day when he was about to leave Jiuqiao Town, Li Xinyun went to Chen's house again.

During these days in Jiuqiao Town, Li Xinyun’s lost memory of the 16-year-old gradually began to recover—memory did not flood into his mind all at once. Most of the time, the opportunity was a dream at night, and dreams often There are only close-up shots without cause and effect, and they do not follow a linear time. They often jump repeatedly at various time nodes. Sometimes it is the first encounter, and he hands Chen Hongting a flower; sometimes it is an afternoon, they are together The sun was basking on the terrace; sometimes Chen Hongting gave him a key and told him not to climb over the wall again... These dreams are always covered with a gray filter, like old movies with incomplete plots.

After Li Xinyun woke up, he repainted these fragments little by little, and then these fragments together formed a real, plain and trivial youth film.

Watching these videos, Li Xinyun felt an emotion similar to nostalgia.

Miss... Chen Hongting.

Li Xinyun never thought that one day he would miss Chen Hongting, or maybe he actually missed him all the time, but he never admitted it.

The bitter orange tree in the garden has already bloomed, and Li Xinyun sat under the tree, and there was a bitter fragrance in the wind, which made Li Xinyun recall the dream of last night.

When the flowers were also blooming, he pushed Chen Hongting's wheelchair under the tree, and sat under the tree with him, like the scenes Li Xinyun had dreamed many times, everything was so ordinary, Chen Hongting quietly Reading a book, Li Xinyun sat cross-legged next to him and did his homework.Li Xinyun was not a good student, and he never paid attention to his homework. After he did it for a while, he raised his head to look at Chen Hongting.

Chen Hongting was sitting in a wheelchair, slowly turning the pages of the book. The sunlight passed through the gaps in the leaves, casting spots of light on his fair face. When the breeze blew, the spots of light swayed slightly on his face. Everything was so quiet. It was so quiet that Li Xinyun could hear the sound of Chen Hongting turning the leaves; it was so quiet that Li Xinyun could hear the beating heartbeat in his chest; it was so quiet that Li Xinyun could see clearly how an orange blossom fell from the tree and fell on Chen Hongting's bed book pages at hand.

Li Xinyun couldn't help reaching out his hand to pick up that flower, fearing that this flower would destroy everything that was quiet.So he got up, knelt down beside the wheelchair, and stretched out his hand to the edge of the page, but the slender hand by the page picked up the flowers before Li Xinyun, Li Xinyun hurriedly withdrew his hand and shrank back, his face slightly Turning around, Chen Hongting also raised his face, Li Xinyun only felt that his lips touched something soft, he didn't realize what it was for a while, so he stared at Chen Hongting for a long time.

"Ayun, how long do you want to see me?"

After the voice-changing period, the boy's voice is no longer rough, it has become a little deeper, and it is a bit more mature and magnetic between a boy and an adult. The voice is accompanied by a little provocative smile, Flowing out from those lips that opened and closed together, seemed to be integrated with the gentle wind, and reached Li Xinyun's ears. Li Xinyun realized belatedly that what he just touched was Chen Hongting's lips.

He accidentally kissed Chen Hongting's lips.

But is that a kiss?

Li Xinyun's face instantly seemed to be on fire, burning hot, he stammered and wanted to explain: "I'm sorry, I..."

But before he could finish his words, Chen Hongting bowed his head and approached him, every detail of that beautiful face was magnified in Li Xinyun's eyes, and Li Xinyun lost all language ability.Chen Hongting's slightly cool hands rested on his cheeks, and the flowers pinched by his fingers were squeezed between his cheeks and Chen Hongting's fingertips, and the petals were squeezed out of slightly wet juice, exuding a rich fragrance , into the breath.

Maybe it's because the crushed aroma of bitter orange blossom is intoxicating, or maybe it's because Chen Hongting's eyes are too attractive, Li Xinyun's thoughts are completely emptied for a moment, and Chen Hongting's face gets closer and closer, Until Chen Hongting's lips fell.

a kiss.

A very light but unmistakable kiss, completely different from Li Xinyun's unintentional touch, a substantive kiss, with rotten orange blossoms on the cheeks that were crushed by Chen Hongting's fingertips. The rich aroma makes people feel like falling into the clouds.

Until Chen Hongting let him go, Li Xinyun was still staring at him blankly.

Chen Hongting also looked at him, those eyes in the spring breeze and sunlight poured out the overflowing spring tide.There is no need to explain, nor to conceal, the meaning of this kiss.

Li Xinyun got up in a panic, leaving his workbook and stationery all over the floor, he ran out of the garden hastily like a frightened rabbit, with Chen Hongting calling his name behind him.

"Ayun—"

Li Xinyun suddenly came back to his senses in the memory, and realized that the "Ayun" did not come from his memory, but from reality. He turned his head and saw Chen Hongting standing at the gate of the yard.

Wearing a white shirt, he walked towards Li Xinyun with a smile, overlapping with the boy in his memory, Li Xinyun looked at his face, and seemed to be able to clearly see how the face in memory changed into its current appearance.

"Why are you here?" Li Xinyun turned his gaze back to the bitter orange tree in front of him.

Chen Hongting walked to his side and said softly, "I heard that you are leaving Jiuqiao Town, so... I want to come pick you up."

Li Xinyun didn't ask him where he knew it, and he didn't analyze who would be the one around him these days who wanted to pass the news to Chen Hongting, he just said softly: "Chen Hongting, have you confirmed my answer yet? "

"I'm not sure, on the contrary, I'm very scared..." Chen Hongting sighed, dispersing lightly in the breeze and the fragrance of flowers, "You come back to Jiuqiao Town, I'm afraid you will remember everything, and I'm afraid you won't remember Everything, because I don't know if it will bring you closer to me or further away."

Li Xinyun laughed at himself and said, "I no longer know what you said is true."

"I have said many lies, but one sentence is always true."

"I love you, Ayun." Chen Hongting looked at Li Xinyun, and Li Xinyun also looked at him, looking at the eyes that were the same as when he kissed him under the tree on that day when he was a boy, as if they had passed through many years. Time has never changed, and it is even more enthusiastic.The same spring floods, no need to explain, no need to cover up, just like Li Xinyun knew the meaning of that kiss back then, and also knew the truth of this confession.

Some flowers were blown down and landed on Chen Hongting's shoulders. Li Xinyun looked at the orange blossoms on Chen Hongting's shoulders, just like looking at the orange blossoms that fell on Chen Hongting's hand. He stretched out his hand, I took the flower and held it in my hand, the faint moisture and aroma in my palm seemed to be like the flower that Chen Hongting crushed on my cheek that day. Flowers are different flowers, and people are also different people, but some Thoughts seem to be the same as before, even though Feng Chen has been in Li Xinyun's memory for many years, it still hasn't faded or dissipated.He said: "That day, here, I escaped."

Li Xinyun didn't say when, but both of them knew it well.

The day Chen Hongting kissed Li Xinyun.

Li Xinyun continued: "You know... why did I come to you that night?"

Chen Hongting smiled wryly: "I wish you didn't come to see me that day, in that case, you wouldn't—"

"That day, I have something to tell you." Li Xinyun continued without waiting for Chen Hongting to finish.

That day, Li Xinyun, who ran away in a panic because of Chen Hongting's kiss, tossed and turned for a long time at night. He had obviously left the courtyard and washed his face, but the scent of bitter orange seemed to stubbornly stay on his cheek , as if some kind of mark, lingering in his breath.He kept thinking of Chen Hongting, the smile Chen Hongting showed after he took his flowers for the first time, Chen Hongting allowing him to still use that courtyard as a place for recreation and escape, thinking of Chen Hongting's bitter orange stain The scented kiss reminded of Chen Hongting's disappointed and regretful eyes at the moment when he hurriedly got up and left.

His heart was throbbing, and some urgent longing came to his heart. In the chaos of his mind, he remembered that he had left his homework with Chen Hongting, and he wanted to get it back, and he wanted to talk to Chen Hongting. talk.

But that night, Li Xinyun didn't have time to say those words.

When Li Xinyun climbed over the wall and entered Chen's house, the lights in the house were still on, and the door was also open. He thought it was Chen Hongting who was still awake, but when he entered the door, he saw Chen Hongting who had passed out and was tied up, and An ordinary-looking, short middle-aged man, Li Xinyun will not know his name until many years later - Zhao Tong.

Li Xinyun was going to save people immediately, but he was not Zhao Tong's opponent. During the dispute, Li Xinyun was stabbed severely, causing a scar on his abdomen that lasted for several years.Then Zhao Tong took Chen Hongting to run, but Li Xinyun staggered and chased after him. Perhaps it was the willpower of some desperation, he dragged his bleeding body to catch up with Zhao Tong, and caught Chen Hongting. Hong Ting's hand got him out of Zhao Tong's control, but in the end he lost his strength and fell down the ramp together with Chen Hong Ting. He only felt a pain in the back of his head, which even surpassed the abdominal wound for a moment.

At that time, Chen Hongting also came to his senses, but even so, they still couldn't escape, Li Xinyun was seriously injured, and Chen Hongting's legs and feet were inconvenient, so Zhao Tong quickly chased him again.

Fortunately, the ramp where Li Xinyun and the others fell was near a house. That family had a dog, and when they heard the sound, they barked wildly, so that the dogs of several nearby houses barked together. The house also turned on the lights and came out. Depending on the situation, Zhao Tong hesitated for a moment. While he was hesitating, someone had already come out and discovered the situation here, so Zhao Tong had no choice but to run away resentfully.

The impact on the head and excessive blood loss made Li Xinyun unconscious. He still wanted to say what he wanted to say to Chen Hongting, but he was so tired that he couldn't even open his mouth. He could feel Chen Hongting's hand Panicked and trembling, he pressed his wound and tried to stop the bleeding, when he heard Chen Hongting's trembling lips attached to his ear, his voice seemed to be filled with tears: "Forget all this... Ah Yun, only by forgetting all this can you will be safe."

Li Xinyun couldn't tell whether it was because of Chen Hongting's words or because of the tumor in his brain, so after waking up in the hospital, he really forgot everything, not just everything about that night, but also everything about being 16 years old.He became a young hero who acted bravely when he saw injustice, but the victim concealed who Li Xinyun was saving because of "identity sensitivity", so Li Xinyun didn't even know who he saved, and no one knew. In this way, everything was exposed in a chaotic manner.

And that night, what Li Xinyun had no time to tell Chen Hongting was buried in Li Xinyun's lost 16-year-old time. Now he has finally found this time, and re-delivered the words that he did not say that day after many years. .

"I like you, Chen Hongting."