grey alley

When Xuesong found Lu Mingzhou, he was leaning against the back of the carriage and smoking.

"What are you thinking about?" Xuesong also put a cigarette in his mouth, and lit it in the sound of a forest leaf swaying.After taking a sip, he squinted at Lu Mingzhou: "Brother Zhou, you don't fall in love with that man in the woods last night, do you?"

Lu Mingzhou shook the cigarette ash, and casually extinguished the cigarette butt, "Did I write this idea on my face?"

"No," Xuesong hesitated, "It's when you ask for someone's contact information..." He scratched his bright gray hair, searching for words in his belly: "It's just... quite abnormal."

Lu Mingzhou smiled, "Am I that hungry?"

He prefers little stars who will come to things, although there was a little impulsiveness last night.But now I feel like that's the case.

Xuesong secretly slandered.When Lin Mizhi said he was going to call Lu Mingzhou out, he didn't expect him to be able to call out. This father had already started to talk about business with his family when they were packing up their things, laughing and laughing, preparing to go to junior high school, smoking, skipping class and fighting in groups. He was nine years old. The difference has almost become an oppressive sense of being separated by a generation, which makes Xuesong always feel that he has an extra father wherever Lu Mingzhou is, although Lu Mingzhou did take care of them before.

Xue Song clicked his tongue very lightly, slightly upset, and found that Lu Mingzhou was looking at him with folded arms, the sunlight above his head was cast through the mottled tree shadows, and his expressionless face was bright and dark under the light.

Xue Song's words twirled on the tip of his tongue, and he blurted out without thinking, "Don't worry about my ass, let me tell you, I'm a straight man."

Lu Mingzhou raised his foot and kicked him: "Get lost."

Xue Song patted off the footprints on her calf, and heard the other party say: "You are about to graduate now, what does your father say?"

There was a trace of indistinct disgust on Xue Song's brows, "How can I say it," he smiled, "Ask me to join the company, help his precious eldest son, and do some chores."

Lu Mingzhou had nothing to say.

"Let's go, Brother Zhou," Xue Song finished smoking a cigarette, "It's time to go back."

Lu Mingzhou glanced at the distant mountains, turned around and left, Lin Mizhi was lying on the back seat with a bewitching posture, and was thrown a pack of cigarettes by Lu Mingzhou, and he felt at ease immediately.

Holding a cigarette, he was melancholy: "Can I see that tractor brother and his cool tractor again?"

Lu Mingzhou turned the steering wheel: "Shut up, if you don't speak, I can let you go home safe and sound."

Lin Mizhi: "...Okay."

The vehicle was bumpy, and after driving for about two hours, it entered the provincial road. Lu Mingzhou looked at the road ahead and suddenly asked, "What's the name of that village?"

"Hmm..." Lin Mizhi was half awake, and was awakened by his words: "What?"

Lu Mingzhou calmly said: "I'm asking, the place we went to last night, the person who helped you, what is the name of the village where he lives?"

Lin Mizhi tasted it for a while, then recalled, "It's called Tian Xincun, the man who saved me last night, his voice sounded quite young. When I went back, I chatted with him, and he said His surname is Pei."

Lu Mingzhou didn't ask this, but he didn't stop him from continuing.

"Isn't it very late last night? After he rescued me, he asked him why he appeared alone in the mountain so late," Lin Mizhi recalled: "He said that his second uncle's farm was nearby, and he saw the place in the mountain. We only came here when there was a fire, because we were afraid that we would cause some problems if we didn’t pay attention to the fire.”

Lu Mingzhou turned on the turn signal to change lanes, and asked casually, "Why didn't we see that farm all the way? Is it because it's not on the way?"

"No, the farm is not in the village. He said it seems to be quite far away from the village. I didn't ask too much, but the location should be hard to find. It's a pity we didn't know in advance." He shook his leg, "otherwise we wouldn't As for sleeping in the wild and having such a mess, I will be your burden."

Lu Mingzhou glanced at him through the rearview mirror, nodded in agreement: "That's the reason."

Lin Mizhi choked up directly.

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It was past two o'clock at night when Pei Xiqing returned to the farm.

He pulled the lamp to turn off the two lanterns at the entrance of the small farm, and went to take a bath in a few remote low rooms behind the bamboo corridor.In the sweltering heat of summer, he directly used cold water to remove all the clothes on his body, and a vague and slender silhouette was reflected in the mirror on the wall.

It was probably because the weather was really too hot. When he walked back all the way, his body was feeling hot and dry. The noisy cicadas at night penetrated the quiet small yard and echoed endlessly above the farm.The extremely disgusting yet inescapable desire. Desire always slowly sweeps up round and round at inopportune times, reminding him of the deformity, ugliness and defects of this body all the time.

Pei Xiqing closed his eyes numbly, his thigh muscles tensed slightly, he raised his hand to scoop up a ladle of cold water, and poured it directly over his head.The needle-like chill soaked through the skin little by little. He looked at the pus-suppressed wound on his palm, as well as the large and small abrasions and thick calluses between the rough finger pads, and curled the corners of his lips in a self-deprecating manner. .

After taking a shower in cold water, Pei Xiqing left the shower room covered in moisture.It's not long since Pei Jiajun's summer vacation, and he's thinking about when to move out and find a temporary job first, so that he doesn't have to go back and face the happy faces of Pei Sanliang's family of three every day. He lay on the mat and slowly fell asleep.

I had been exhausted all day before, and I didn't sleep well at night. I had strange dreams all night, and I woke up the next day with a headache.

Pei Xiqing got up to wash up, and used the pot in the kitchen to make some egg noodles and finished it in a hurry. The second uncle said that there would be guests coming this afternoon, and he had to clean up the small farm before the afternoon.

First, he fed all the free-range chickens in the back mountain and tied them up. He cleaned up the fallen leaves in front of the yard, cleaned up the scene in the yard that hadn’t been visited by people for several days, and placed some pleasing potted plants on the windowsill. Then leave before the afternoon people arrive.

Occasionally, those outsiders would invite some locals to take the lead into the mountains to see the scenery here, and Second Uncle would naturally call him over when needed.

The tractor was thrown directly behind the firewood shed, and it was about to be scrapped anyway, so no one cared about it, so Pei Xiqing walked back directly.For a distance of about five kilometers, he kept swinging his legs, and finally arrived at the village at about one o'clock in the afternoon.

Lin Chunli was probably still taking a nap, and Pei Xiqing did not wake her up lightly. When he returned to his small remote room, he found an extra bag with a box of cherries in it on the table.

He brought it back from outside, and it will be placed in his room. He can't think of anyone else except Pei Jiajun.Pei Xiqing slowly picked up a cherry, his eyes lingered on the plump and shiny skin of the cherry, and saw himself with a sallow face and messy hair in that small piece of smooth reflection.

Like a lost dog.

Lin Chunli just woke up and tied up her thick hair when she saw Pei Xiqing handing over a bag: "Auntie, when I was tidying up the warehouse, I saw a bag of fruit lying there, and it would rot if I didn't eat it. Did Jiajun put it there casually?"

Lin Chunli took it over and opened it to look, and found that it was a box of cherries, "Oh, that's true, why did Jiajun misplace the things he bought? It wouldn't be a pity if he couldn't find them and let them rot." The cherries are not sold well now. Cheap, Lin Chunli took the bag to the kitchen to wash, "Xiqing, when did you come back, why didn't I seem to hear anything?"

Pei Xiqing polished the barbs on a wooden chair, "It's past one o'clock, so I didn't make any noise for fear of disturbing my aunt's sleep."

Lin Chunli smiled, and sat on the sofa with the basin of washed cherries in her arms. Pei Xiqing turned on the TV for her and saw her feeding them one by one, "Jiajun went home yesterday, I'm still asking why you're not here, saying I want to eat your scallion pancakes."

With sandpaper between his fingers, Pei Xiqing stared at the uneven barb, and said slowly, "Next time, isn't Jiajun going on vacation soon?"

"Yes," Lin Chunli stared intently at the male and female protagonists who were biding farewell at the train station on TV, and gradually got into the drama, "I have final exams these two days, and I will be on vacation in a few days."

Pei Xiqing let out an inaudible "Mmm", and turned to go back to the room, when Lin Chunli suddenly stopped him: "Hey, did you see your uncle at the farm today?"

"No."

"Oh, fine, it's okay." Lin Chunli stuffed another cherry into her mouth: "Go back."

Pei Xiqing put down the sandpaper, took out the red lotion and some wound medicine from the cabinet, and dabbed it on the wound with a cotton swab. After sitting by the bed for a long time, he felt a little sleepy, so he lay back on the bed and fell asleep slowly. past.

In the dream, there was a woman crying heartbreakingly, the crying was mixed with crazy laughter, the inexplicable boredom and suffocation slowly wrapped him up like stagnant water, Pei Xiqing almost suffocated himself When he woke up before, he found himself tucked into the quilt on his side, with one hand stuck to his throat. The more tense he was in the dream, the tighter his hand tightened, and this repeated cycle made him unable to breathe in the dream. source.

The breathless feeling in his chest was lingering, Pei Xiqing bit the tip of his tongue hard, and only after he tasted the bloody smell, he slowly let out a mouthful of foul air.

It was almost ten o'clock at 46:[-] p.m., not only was it past dinner time, but Lin Chunli had already fallen asleep.He didn't know that he had slept for so long, the room was dark, and there was no light source in the living room. He went to the living room and opened the refrigerator, and there were a few leftovers from dinner wrapped in plastic wrap.

After making some fried rice with the leftovers, he went back to his room and calculated how much money he had saved over the years.

There is one condition for Pei Sanliang to take him in.

He will be responsible for the lottery money for Pei Jiajun's future marriage. Fortunately, Pei Sanliang gave him a set amount of 20 based on local customs and his own needs.

Five years ago, his family was ruined overnight. Among his father's distant relatives, Pei Sanliang was the only one who was willing to take in him who was only 17 years old at the time, did not know any life skills, and could not support himself. When he was taken to a remote mountain village, he also incurred a debt of 20 yuan.

He needs to pay off this debt before Pei Jiajun becomes an adult, and now he is 21 years old. After paying off this debt, he can be considered to have paid off the favor Pei Sanliang gave him.This was an agreement he had made before he came to their house, in black and white, only he and Pei Sanliang knew about it.

Today, there is still a shortfall of [-]. Pei Jiajun will be an adult after this year.

He needs to advance the schedule of going out to work, and after paying off 20 yuan, he wants to leave here and live alone outside.

The phone on the table turned on, [Brother? 】

Pei Xiqing took a look, and then another message surfaced, 【Did you see the bag I put in your room?Inside are the cherries for you. 】

It was past ten o'clock in the evening, which was the time for Pei Jiajun to finish his evening self-study.

Pei Xiqing slid open the lock screen, and replied 【Yes. 】

[I will be on summer vacation in four days. 】

Pei Xiqing replied: 【I know. 】

The other party over there was typing and displayed for a while, then Pei Jiajun sent a sentence: [Brother, that cherry is quite sweet, have you eaten it? 】

The corners of Pei Xiqing's lips were pursed, and he subconsciously pressed down slightly. He tapped the panel and replied blankly: [It's not delicious, don't buy it for me in the future. 】

There was no movement over there for a long time, and it took about ten minutes before they replied: [Okay. 】

The author has something to say: Good night, Makabaka.

.感谢在2022-02-1521:45:18~2022-02-1622:05:01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: write a bottle to ask the floating life;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!