A corner of ten years

In a hotel in Sendai City, Tao Xiaodong brought A Bao, but Bai Bing gave up taking the camel because of the kindergarten celebration. When a small earthquake happened an hour after they got off the plane, Bai Bing felt that his decision was extremely correct.

Earthquakes are commonplace in Japan. This is just a reminder to them. The TV station immediately released information that a 7.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in the eastern waters of Honshu Island. The Earthquake Warning Center issued a statement: After the 7.0+ magnitude earthquake in the same area, there will be no higher earthquakes, so Citizens please rest assured.

Li Cheng persuaded Tao Xiaodong to go back with Bai Bing first, and leave as soon as he finished his work. Tao Xiaodong stubbornly said no, didn't the alarm be lifted, I will wait for you.

In the end, Li Cheng failed to persuade him. The meeting was well prepared, bargaining, signing of the contract, everything was in order. Tao Xiaodong was in the hotel room, eating the Taiyaki that was brought up, and his limbs were stretched out. On the sheets, oiled hands and biscuit crumbs, why not?This is the guest's privilege. Even if he paints the whole house black and someone else pays for him, Tao Xiaodong laughs when he thinks of this, and he finally returned to the original point after such a big time, but it doesn't matter, he loves it He, he can get everything he wants from him, warmth, money and a lot of love, although sometimes it will be embarrassing to think about it, but this is the best, isn't it?

Zhang Shijie came back from the venue, saw Bai Bing standing in front of the window, stepped forward and hugged him from behind, "What are you thinking?"

Bai Bing leaned back on his chest, closed his eyes and said, "Will I marry you?"

It was obvious that the body of the person behind him stiffened instantly, and he turned around and hugged him with a smile, "What are you thinking, I can't even take a joke."

Seeing Zhang Shijie's obviously relaxed shoulders, Bai Bing felt a faint bitterness in his heart.

This kind of unintentional temptation is the first time. Both parties are sophisticated people, and they are very careful, and they are unwilling to ask the sensitive question first. Bai Bing is desperate this time. He bought several properties in his hometown, kept one for himself, and collected rent for the rest to maintain his future life. All the money he bought for the house was saved in his daily life, the living expenses given by Zhang Shijie, and the gifts he received during festivals , I usually pester Zhang Shijie to buy jewelry and diamonds, and after discounting these properties, there is still a sum of money left, which is enough for him to raise a child and live the rest of his life carefree. , In fact, he called his hometown and asked his parents to pick him up...

Bai Bing looked at himself in the mirror that day, and the fine lines under his eyes were faintly visible. He immediately felt that he couldn't wait any longer. People like him were teenagers before the age of 25, and they became uncles instantly when they turned 25. It takes a moment for a person to grow old, and he has to plan for himself. However, he still has this thought, and he broke it before that. If Zhang Shijie thought about the relationship in the past few years, he might not need him. It took a lot of trouble, if not, it would be like now...

"Let's break up."

The back of the hand around his back tightened, and the person above his head muffled, "Okay."

Bai Bing clings to his chest, it's a tacit understanding cultivated over the years...

Suddenly, the red wine glass on the table fell to the floor and shattered, and then the wall shook, and the "Hymn to Life" and "Great Miffran Mountain" hanging on it slid down the wall one after another ...

Zhang Shijie and Bai Bing glanced at each other, and instantly understood that the earthquake two days ago left a tail behind, and it would be unwise to flee now. They held hands and leaned against a smooth wall while trembling...

Once again, there was a regular, even bigger shaking. There was a "click, click, click" sound from the depths of the wall, and the screaming voices from outside the corridor were suddenly covered up.The weird sound from near to far, from part to whole, converged into a "buzzing" sound...

Zhang Shijie leaned against the wall, holding Bai Bing in one hand, "I'll see if you want to treat me better when I get back."

Bai Bing squeezed Zhang Shijie's hand, and the palm of his hand was sweating, "Can this house really hold up?"

"It should be fine. Let's go outside after a while when it gets better."

Bai Bing replied yes, and he clenched some Zhang Shijie's hands...

At this time, a loud roar, from far to near, suppressed all the crackling sounds of those wooden materials. Zhang Shijie and Bai Bing looked out of the window and saw a transparent water wall more than [-] meters high, roaring towards Coming in this direction...

"Not good! It's a tsunami!"

Zhang Shijie grabbed Bai Bing and ran to the door, but the crossbeam on the door was broken, and the door was stuck in the wall, unable to open. Zhang Shijie kicked it, and a piece of the wall fell down with a "crash", sealing the exit tightly. Strictly speaking, but the roaring water monster approached the window, Zhang Shijie turned around and hugged Bai Bing, who was already stunned and trembling, and protected him in the interlayer between himself and the wall...

The tsunami outside clamored to break through the protective glass, and those shattered pieces of glass and the menacing sea water all rushed towards Zhang Shijie's back...

Tao Xiaodong sat on the sofa with his knees hugged. The power in the hotel was cut off. Ah Bao was circling around the sofa restlessly on the ground. Hold his arm tightly, "What happened outside? There was an earthquake just now."

"Hurry up, let's go outside, it's not safe here..." Li Cheng protected Tao Xiaodong's little head.

Tao Xiaodong put Abao in his backpack and ran out with Li Cheng.

"Where are Xiaobai and Zhang Shijie?"

"They are in a hotel by the sea. There was a slight shake when I came back. It is estimated that there will be a larger earthquake in a while. Let's drive the car to a slightly empty place."

As soon as they came out of the hotel, a group of uplifted land came from far to near like waves, knocking their car upside down. Fortunately, when they fell down, everyone was fine, the cat was fine, and the car was fine. Li Cheng stepped on it. Accelerate, rushed out, the rumbling sound of the earthquake shook the heart of the door, the wild dogs fleeing by the roadside and the frightened crowd made Tao Xiaodong frightened, he turned his head to look at Li Cheng, his resolute side face, staring at the front seriously, He pursed his lips tightly, making Tao Xiaodong feel at ease.

"Tao Xiaodong."

"Ok?"

"I love you."

Tao Xiaodong suddenly felt a little funny and regretful. What was funny was that we had worked so hard to act in order to use the feelings of the other party to plan for the future. However, a catastrophe wiped out all the good, bad, ugly, All the beauty is washed away, and the only thing left is these feelings, which are true and transparent, which can be proved by any test before, but if one of them dies or becomes disabled, the results of those painstaking efforts to verify will become meaningless , He regretted, what he regretted was that the verification process took him so long, the time he had known him was not long, and he wasted those precious time in the cold war, it was really not worth it.

"I love you too, from the bottom of my heart."

……

Li Cheng stopped the car suddenly.

"Get out of the car!"

Tao Xiaodong followed him out of the car without knowing it, and then heard a loud noise behind him.

Li Cheng picked up Tao Xiaodong, who was dazed, and ran upstairs to a nearby residential building.

"It's a tsunami! Let's get out!"

The two ran up desperately, even the calm Li Cheng was in a bit of a panic at this time, Tao Xiaodong followed behind him, he could hear the specific location where the waves broke through the obstacles, 100 meters - 50 meters - 30 meters - 20 meters - 10 meters - 5 meters - 1 meter!

bang——

Li Cheng and Tao Xiaodong stood on the roof, the rolling waves flowed under their feet, and the washed-out houses turned into wooden slats and pieces of plastic flowed down the water...

There are also dozens of local residents on the roof, they hugged each other, prayed and cried softly, for their loved ones and the dead.

Tao Xiaodong's hand unknowingly shook hands with Li Cheng's in this turbulent world.

It rained all night, and when the rescuers arrived, Tao Xiaodong was leaning against Li Cheng's arms and looking at everything around him blankly. His expression, after such a night, seemed to have changed everything.

They followed the victims on the rescue boat, and the people in the boat were crowded together, some with dull expressions and some wailing in pain, Tao Xiaodong and Li Cheng didn't speak much, and every time they thought of a sentence, the other party would know the following.

"noob……"

"Zhang Shijie is there, I hope they have good luck."

"Xun..."

"It shouldn't be a big deal if Tokyo is far away from here."

"..."

Then there was silence.

They were temporarily housed in a gymnasium in a nearby city. The government distributed food and warm cotton clothes. Tao Xiaodong's hand was bruised. Li Cheng took him to bandage it. The hospital was overcrowded, most of them were injured victims. At that time, Li Cheng borrowed a mobile phone to contact Zhang Shijie, and Tao Xiaodong became more and more irritable when he was crowded. At this time, Abao in his backpack suddenly jumped out, dodging left and right flexibly in the crowded corridor and submerged in the crowd. Tao Xiaodong was startled , and then chased after him.

With great difficulty, he pushed his way through the crowd, only to see A Bao lying in the arms of a handsome boy, licking his chin with his tongue, the boy raised his head, and looked at Tao Xiaodong, his expression full of dissatisfaction untie……

At this moment, Li Cheng squeezed out from behind and was taken aback when he saw the boy, "Cheng Lu?"

Tao Xiaodong looked at the person in front of him in astonishment. This person was Cheng Lu. He had never met Cheng Lu, but secretly had countless entanglements with his fate. He looked at him as if he was looking at another self.

Cheng Lu stepped forward, looked at Li Cheng and said, "Maybe you know the whereabouts of Takashi Kitano."

Li Cheng frowned slightly, "He stayed in Xiaosong, which is close to the sea, so the situation may not be optimistic."

Cheng Lu nodded, "I see." Then he looked at A Bao in his arms, and said to Tao Xiaodong, "Can I take him away?"

Tao Xiaodong woke up from the daze, nodded vigorously, "Yeah!"

Cheng Lu smiled, "Thank you."

Tao Xiaodong looked at Cheng Lu's back in a daze, and suddenly shouted loudly at him:

"Tomorrow Xun has a concert in Tokyo, and he can't let you go!"

Cheng Lu stopped in his tracks, turned his head in astonishment, looked at Tao Xiaodong, smiled at him, and then disappeared into the crowd.

Li Cheng stood behind Tao Xiaodong.

"When did you speak for that guy?"

Tao Xiaodong smirked, "Fair competition."

Li Cheng put his hands together on Tao Xiaodong's, and his voice came from one side: "Let's get married and go to Holland."

Tao Xiaodong didn't look back, leaned back on Li Cheng, smiled and closed his eyes.

A small apartment next to a university in Amsterdam, May 2013.

Tao Xiaodong lay back on the chair, put his feet on the table, looked at the thesis request in his hand, and frowned. The polyphonic structure of the antiphonal style, these old men from the liberal arts school really know how to come up with questions, who will tell him it is so complicated? How to write your composition!

He scratched his head and glanced out of the window. The roses on the balcony climbed up to the window along the window sill, glowing red under the sunlight, and in the photo frame at the corner of the table, a dull cat was yawning.

Tao Xiaodong stared at the photo in a daze, and his thoughts drifted back to the catastrophe.

At 2011:3 on March 11, 14, an earthquake measuring 46 on the Richter scale occurred in the international waters of the Western Pacific Ocean, followed by a tsunami as high as 9.0 meters. 23 people were killed and 8133 people were missing. After that, there was a nuclear disaster that shocked the world. Leaked, the blindly obedient people carried salt and kelp home in bags, the Japanese government under the pressure of public opinion in neighboring countries, issued a series of related policies...

For a group of little people like them, that catastrophe easily changed their fate. Some people laughed and cried, and some people cried and laughed. Those false feelings and true intentions seemed precious and pitiful at that moment. Tao Xiaodong thought this was the doom , can't hide...

Suddenly his eyes lit up, he straightened up, turned on the computer, and typed a line of words on the word: ten years a corner.

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