Hu Meizi

57.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Sun Du and Xie Tang arrived at the resort in Nanshan. They climbed two mountains and walked to the resort on foot.

At noon, both of them eat their own biscuits and mineral water.Xie Tang ate the compressed biscuits used for mountaineering and trekking. He stood beside the tree trunk, ate the biscuits in his hands calmly with no expression on his face, and then took a sip of water.And Sun Du was sitting on a rock, eating shallot-flavored soda crackers.There is no way, Sun Du still likes things with a little taste.

Of course, no matter what kind of biscuit, it is still tasteless to eat for lunch.

Fortunately, the two of them arrived at the resort and could have a good meal in the evening.

They did not enter the resort through the main entrance, but through a small door on the side, without disturbing any staff.

As soon as Sun Du followed Xie Tang to the room, he couldn't wait to throw his backpack in the direction of the sofa, holding his underwear and some repairing cream, and rushed to the bathroom.He is covered in sweat now, and his face is red from the sun after several hours on the mountain road. If he doesn't rescue him, let alone whether he will turn black, he will definitely peel off a layer of skin tomorrow.

Xie Tang didn't stop him either, he put both his and Sun Du's bags on the sofa in the room, and half knelt on the ground to take out the things in his bags and tidy them up.There was already the sound of rustling water in the toilet. After Xie Tang packed his things, he looked at Sun Du's bag.

Compared to Xie Tang's mountaineering bag, what Sun Du carried on his back looked like a schoolbag, not big, and there should only be a change of clothes in it.Because all the bottles and cans that Sun Du brought out were in Xie Tang's big bag.Just now Xie Tang sorted them out and put them neatly on the dressing table in the room for him in order of size.

Xie Tang looked at the toilet diagonally in front of him, there was a splashing sound of water, and Sun Du inside was happily taking a shower, and he would definitely not be able to come out for a while.

Xie Tang sat on the sofa and thought for a while, then wiped his hands with a wet tissue on the coffee table, turned sideways and opened Sun Du's bag, took out the clothes inside one by one, and prepared to tidy them up.

When Sun Du came out wearing a bath towel, Xie Tang had already carried his clothes and went into another bathroom.

Sun Du sat on the sofa and wiped his hair, thinking about tidying up his things, but he lowered his head to look through his bag, only to find that the things in his bag had been tidied up.

He got up and walked to the dressing table, and saw his bottles and cans standing obediently on the stage from left to right, from big to small, like a neatly formed army.

Sun Du felt happy all of a sudden, and couldn't help laughing.I thought it would be fun for Xie Tang to place things. The distance between the front, back, left, and right sides of each skin care product seemed to be measured with a ruler, and they were almost exactly the same. However, the dozen or so bottles and cans were just displayed by him in a grand manner.

Xie Tang is not like Sun Du, he has to touch and fiddle for a long time.He took a fighting shower and changed his clothes, then came out and sat on the desk, put on his glasses, and read a book.On weekends, he actually seldom read documents, but mainly read books and magazines.

Xie Tang raised his head from time to time to look at Sun Du who was wiping east and west in front of the dressing table. Now he no longer felt strange. He classified Sun Du's incomprehensible behavior as a kind of Hou Qun's anxiety. .

Xie Tang raised his glasses and continued to read with his head down calmly.

After Sun Du and Xie Tang had a good meal in the room and took a rest, they went to the hot spring in the courtyard.

At first, Sun Du thought that he would go to the hot spring center of this resort hotel, but Xie Tang stopped him and pointed to the back of the room. Sun Du walked over and found that there was a large courtyard behind the big room, and inside the courtyard Just a hot spring.

When Sun Du and Xie Tang went to the hot spring, it was already around 19 o'clock in the evening.

It is the time when the cicadas sing the loudest.

"Ah—so comfortable..." Sun Du soaked himself in the hot spring and couldn't help sighing.

After climbing the mountain for almost half a day, with tight calves, sore shoulders and slightly trembling arms, after submerging in the hot spring, I felt instantly relieved of pressure, and my fatigue and sense of weight were swept away. In the hot spring pool, Only lightness remains.

Xie Tang entered the pool, his brows and eyes stretched a little, and he also showed a slightly relaxed expression.It seemed he was just as comfortable.

Sun Du and Xie Tang soaked in a private hot spring.When this resort was built in the early years, Xie Tang invested in it, and he didn't have any requirements, but left a private pool for himself only for his use.When he was in City C, he often read books and soaked in hot springs in the resort on weekends to waste time.

Sun Du was the first outsider he brought over—everyone other than himself was called an outsider.

Xie Tang looked at Sun Du and looked around curiously. The hot spring is a nearly round pool surrounded by smooth black stones. People who soak in hot springs sit and lean.The hot spring is connected to the courtyard of the house by a small road paved with blue stones. Neatly repaired clumps of Pittosporum are planted beside the road, and small beige flowers can often be seen among the oily green leaves.

There seems to be a little problem with the small lights in the bushes, flickering once and for all, from time to time.Walking along the path, within a few steps, you arrive at the courtyard verandah paved with dark red sunken wood.There are still a few trees planted beside the verandah, which should be magnolias. Now that autumn comes, there are only leaves. If spring comes, you should still see thick white flowers one by one.

"Xie Tang, when did you climb the mountain for the first time?" The hot spring pool was so big, but Sun Du leaned towards Xie Tang's side, sticking to sit next to him.

Xie Tang let him go and did not stop him from approaching.He thought for a while and replied, "10 years old."

"10 years old?" Sun Du looked at Xie Tang in surprise, "Climbing the wild mountains, are you alone?"

Xie Tang nodded.

He soaked in the hot spring without wearing anything, and in the clear hot spring water, his bronze-colored, muscular body could be clearly seen.

Sun Du gently touched the position of Xie Tang's left shoulder blade.There was a deep scar there, he saw it once when he couldn't help but wanted to scratch Xie Tang's back.

That scar was very deep, not a so-called scar with only a little trace.Even if you touch it now, there is still a bumpy feeling, as if you only need to pull hard, the blood under the scar will spurt out.

"You told me last time that you left it when you climbed the mountain." Sun Du withdrew his hand, and turned to hold Xie Tang's right hand that was hanging on the right side of his body in a regular manner. Second-rate?"

Xie Tang nodded expressionlessly.

Sun Du frowned, he looked into Xie Tang's eyes, "Why did you want to climb a mountain alone when you were 10 years old?"

He originally wanted to ask if Natalie and her family would care?Later, when I thought about Xie Tang's rather complicated family relationship, I finally didn't ask.

Xie Tang turned his head slightly and looked at Sun Du.

The lights in the hot spring were not on, only the warm shimmering light on the hot spring water made Sun Du's dark brown eyes brighten up, as bright as the stars in the starry sky behind him.

Xie Tang's thoughts wandered for a moment, and he didn't answer Sun Du's question immediately.

He himself was actually thinking about the past.He can't remember many things in the past.Xie Tang has only an extremely dull impression of his childhood and his mother, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a symbol.

They are black and white distorted people or things, talking to Xie Tang with their chaotic faces.Before Xie Tang could react, he left quickly, like a silk thread being pulled, bit by bit, peeled off in front of Xie Tang.

"Maybe he wants to escape." Xie Tang said with rare uncertainty, his perennially slack face also showed a hint of doubt, as if wondering why he said such an answer.

escape?

Escape, this word has never appeared in Xie Tang's life dictionary.

Sun Du's eyes flickered, he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.He just shook Xie Tan's hand vigorously, rubbed over to half hug him, and leaned lightly on Xie Tan's shoulder.

The white-skinned, thin-skinned and tender-skinned Sun Du stuck to the bronze-colored Xie Tang, and the color contrast was obvious.

"It's normal," Sun Du said, "When I climbed the mountain by myself for the first time, I also wanted to escape."

"Because a lot of things happened, and I can't stop them. I'm inside, and I can't even control my own destiny, and I don't have the right to refuse others to control my destiny." Sun Du said vaguely, and then he laughed at himself , "But it's almost the same as saying it's self-inflicted."

He looked at Xie Tang, "When I climbed up the mountain for the first time, I wanted to jump off."

Xie Tang didn't interrupt him, and listened to Sun Du quietly as before, he still had a calm and indifferent expression, neither stunned nor worried.

"But when I stood on the top of the mountain, there was a vast and pitch-black area everywhere. There was no light, no insects, and the air on the top of the mountain was very thin and choking. I looked around, and suddenly I figured it out. "Sun Du said with a faint smile.

He said with some nostalgia, "No matter what, I don't want to die when the summer cicadas have not crowed. I said to myself."

He looked up at Xie Tang, "Then I sat on the mountain for a long time, and the wind blew against me all night, and then I went down the mountain."

The 21-year-old Sun Du was wandering on the top of the mountain, surrounded by a silent darkness, only the stars above his head were shining.But he was pressed down and kept his head down for too long, and he forgot to look up for a long time.

Fortunately, he chose to go down the mountain road.

Xie Tang looked at him quietly, opened his mouth and said, "I have already forgotten why I went to climb a mountain when I was 10 years old,"

He said, "I just remember, I went up the mountain, fell from a slope, and the stone fell. I was in pain, but I still wanted to go to the top of the mountain."

"I walked for a long time, and then I reached the top of the mountain," Xie Tang said flatly, with no emotion in his eyes, "The mountain is very quiet, there is no noise."

He thought for a while, and then described, "It is a vast world, with many stars, and they are shining."

The 10-year-old Xie Tang is surrounded by the vast expanse, and feels unprecedentedly serene.

At that moment, he melted into the mountain.He is grass, wood, stone, mountain wind, peak rock, and a bug with a lifespan of only one day.

The 10-year-old Xie Tang sat blankly on the top of the mountain until he fell asleep, was found by the Bute family, and was sent to a private hospital.

It is amazing that after many years, Xie Tang has forgotten many unimportant things, but he still remembers the tranquility and peace he felt when he was 10 years old sitting on the top of the mountain.

Sun Du stopped talking, he retreated back and leaned quietly on Xie Tang's body, half hugging him, and did not make any other movements.

The gurgling water in the hot spring pool caressed the two of them, and their shadows were elongated by the dim light, as if they had merged into one.