Rising like the sun

On the morning of Qingming Festival, Meng Sheng and Lin Zhiye found out that their mothers were buried in the same cemetery.Father Meng drove the family and Lin Zhiye to the cemetery in the leaky Santana.Lin Zhiye bought two bouquets of white chrysanthemums at a nearby flower shop and presented one in front of Meng Sheng's mother's tomb. Before leaving, he found that Meng's father had taken out a fragrant elbow.

It turned out that this was the scent that permeated the car.In addition, there are preserved eggs mixed with shallot tofu, braised lion head, spicy chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork, white rice...

After paying homage to his mother, Meng Xing asked his family to go back first, while he went to find Lin Zhiye according to his WeChat location, and saw him sitting under a pine tree with a bouquet of white chrysanthemums in his arms.

Meng Sheng walked up to him, leaned against the tree and hiccupped.It suddenly occurred to him that the tree he was leaning against might be Lin Zhiye's mother... As far as he knew, this cemetery had a similar business, burying the ashes under the tree to nourish the earth, called green burial.

Thinking of this, Meng Sheng immediately stood up straight, took two steps back and bowed deeply to the pine tree, "Hello, Aunt Ye, I'm Meng Sheng."

Seeing his movements from the corner of the eye, Lin Zhiye smiled, "What are you doing? My mother is not buried here."

"Ah, I'm sorry I'm sorry."

Looking at Meng Shengyou's mouth, Lin Zhiye handed out a tissue, "Did you eat all those things?"

"Well, there is nothing left. Those are all my mother's favorite food. She is very good at eating. Every year on Qingming Festival and her death day, we come to eat with her. Sometimes I miss her, and I will buy a family bucket. Sit on the ground, chat and eat."

Lin Zhiye nodded slightly, "It's a very special way."

"What are you waiting for?"

"Look at that." Lin Zhiye motioned Meng Xing to look at a cemetery tens of meters ahead obliquely. A man was sitting in front of the tombstone with his back to them, most of his body was covered by other tombstones.

"Uncle Lin?"

"...I can't bear to appear in front of my mother's grave with him at the same time."

Meng Sheng didn't know how long Father Lin had been sitting. He lowered his head and remained motionless, as if he was asleep.

"Do you think he is crying?" Lin Zhiye asked.

"Probably, go and have a look and you'll know."

"I'll go there after he's gone." Lin Zhiye shook his head stubbornly.

"Then I'll take a look for you... Take a look from afar."

Meng Sheng went around in a big circle, and deliberately didn't speak when he came back.Sure enough, Lin Zhiye couldn't help asking, "What is he doing?"

"I've been muttering about something... Maybe I'm chatting, maybe I'm chanting scriptures."

"How can he recite scriptures?" Lin Zhiye sneered.

"That's talking to your mother."

"……Maybe."

Father Lin sat for more than 2 hours.Meng Xing went to buy fruit outside the cemetery, and when he came back, he was standing unsteadily, probably because he had been sitting for too long and got up too violently.What did he say?Probably only his wife knew.

After his father had disappeared, Lin Zhiye walked to his mother's tombstone, and placed the white chrysanthemum beside a big bouquet of purple flowers.

"What kind of flower is this?" Meng Xing asked, placing apples and bananas next to the bouquet, and piled the apples into a pyramid shape.

"Forget me not."

"What does it mean?"

"...I don't know, you can check it yourself."

Lin Zhiye raised his hand, slowly stroking the tombstone in front of him, and traced the indented lettering with his fingertips.The tombstone was spotlessly clean, probably freshly wiped.

"The night rain in Bashan raises the autumn pond?" Meng Xing asked softly, afraid of disturbing this peerless beauty.Ye Qiuchi, the name is the same as her person, like a painting.

"That's right, you reacted very quickly this time."

"I have memorized it in junior high school, hehe. "Night Rain Sends North", Tang, Li Shangyin——"

Lin Zhiye stopped Meng Sheng who was about to start reciting poems, looked down at the large handful of forget-me-nots, picked it up, "It's almost noon, let's go back."

Meng Sheng thought he was going to take the flowers back for viewing, but just after leaving the cemetery, he threw them into the trash can.

"It's a bit of a waste."

"What right does he have to say that?" Lin Zhiye said coldly.

"What did you say?"

"Didn't you check?"

Meng Sheng said "oh", took out his mobile phone to check what the forget-me-not stood for, and looked back at the dirty trash can after a while.

Inside blooms "Eternal Love".

"Mengmeng seems to be scared out of mental illness by your cat."

Lin Zhiye complained to Li Yu while cleaning the hamster cage.Lin Mengmeng was huddled in the nest, with only one head exposed, gnawing on things with dull eyes.

Li Yu snorted, "It has to get used to the pressure its ancestors faced."

"If you followed the laws of nature, your fat cat would have been eliminated long ago. It's too fat to run, and it doesn't work to be cute in the world of the jungle. How are you and Li Xin?"

"The guy who doesn't eat oil and salt... I'm about to give up." Li Yu looked up from the phone and saw Meng Sheng was secretly wiping tears.He's rewatching one of his favorite movies, "Forrest Gump," in which Forrest Gump chats with his seriously ill mother.

"I can't persuade him either," Lin Zhiye gently stroked Lin Mengmeng's head, and pushed back the big head that raised its claws eagerly, "How about locking you two in the dark room in the gymnasium? The atmosphere there is very good...”

"He will keep a safe distance from me, and give me a moral lesson by the way."

Li Yu was looking at clothes online.When spring came, he felt that he was short of long-sleeved T-shirts and sweaters, so he habitually clicked on Armani, which he often shopped around. Then he remembered that he was "bankrupt", and the money in his card was only enough to buy a sleeve.He exited silently, and casually found a cheap brand to browse.

"Why don't you go home..." Li Yu glanced at the big head who was circling around Lin Zhiye.Even it suffers, the cat litter and rations have dropped several grades, but the waistline has become more and more impressive.

Going home now means giving up.He didn't believe that Li Xin was just passing by... Even if he was, he wanted to grab her by force.However, confidence has become as pitiful as the money in a bank card.

At nearly 11:2, Meng Xing went out, planning to take the night bus every half an hour to pick up Li Yu, and this time Lin Zhiye followed.There were only two passengers on the bus, so they boldly held hands and let go only after arriving at the bustling Bar Street.

"I usually sit here and wait for him." Meng Sheng took Lin Zhiye and sat down on a bench in front of a closed restaurant, pointing to a bar called "Su Ye" across the road, "Brother Yu is there Performing arts... Poor, handsome rich man, came out to sell and sing. Hey? Why does he look a bit like Yiping..."

Among the feasting and feasting, they were probably the two most sober people on the street.The "Lanshan" shop that Lin Zhiye and Zhao Haocheng visited together is not far away.

"Have you ever gone in?" Lin Zhiye asked.

"No, I just poked my head at the door. It's too noisy, like the whole city crowded into a vegetable market."

According to the scumbag, before his mother's accident, he was drunk in a certain bar on this street. Lin Zhiye stared at the bright neon lights of the shops and thought in a daze, and felt Meng Sheng stood up beside him.

I saw him walking quickly to a man who was about to get into the car about 10 meters away, said something with a serious face, and then walked back quickly.

"What's wrong?" Lin Zhiye asked.

"I told him, if you drink and drive, your wife will remarry." Meng Sheng smiled honestly, "You can tell that he has been drinking, and his face looks like a monkey's butt."

Lin Zhiye cast an extremely gentle gaze, which made Meng Sheng a little at a loss.

"What's wrong? Look at me like this..."

"Let's go in and wait for Li Yu."

"Let's just say, you can't drink."

Lin Zhiye took the lead in pushing open the inconspicuous door of "Overnight", and was instantly swallowed by the exuberant atmosphere inside.There are 2 floors here, most of the seats are concentrated on the second floor, and the first floor is the dance floor and stage, as well as a small number of booths around it.

Meng Xing didn't know whether to cover his ears or his eyes. The high-decibel music and blurred lights almost made him deaf and blind.The first time I went to a bar was in a hot spring hotel. Compared with this place, it is as quiet as a virgin.

"It turns out that Li Yu is such a performer!" Lin Zhiye shouted to Meng Xing with a smile, and pulled him to the dance floor.

"I didn't expect it either! I really should let Teacher Li come to visit!"

Li Yuzheng was shirtless, singing "Flammable and Explosive" on the stage, and from time to time he would wink at the audience, the confused light shone on his white and pink skin, it was extremely wild and ambiguous .

Everyone around them was shaking their heads, and Meng Sheng almost suspected that they had taken drugs.

"Why are they all men! Could it be the underworld or a certain construction site booked out?"

Lin Zhiye waved to Li Yu on the stage, and then said, "You really didn't see that this is gay, did you?"

"Fuck..." Meng Xing looked around and met a bearded muscular man wearing a mesh vest.The man's chest hair was protruding from the mesh, which made Meng Sheng itchy all over.

The strong man smiled charmingly, Meng Sheng turned his head hastily, and found that many people around him were looking at Lin Zhiye with ambiguous eyes.

Meng Sheng immediately put his arm on his shoulders to declare his sovereignty, and at the same time said loudly: "This is too dangerous, I have to persuade Li Yu to change jobs."

"There is no danger, except that the atmosphere is a little ambiguous, nothing."

"Well, I don't know if I'm prematurely aging or too traditional."

"Flammable and Explosive" was Li Yu's last song. Just as he was about to step down, another guest gave him wine.A dozen beers, each with a small roll of hundred-dollar bills stuck in it.

Without saying a word, Li Yu blew a kiss to the guest, sat on the edge of the stage and started blowing the whole bottle.The wine spilled from the corner of his mouth, flowed down his chin, over his white chest and abdomen, and wet the waistband of his trousers.After drinking, he staggered and disappeared beside the stage.

Lin Zhiye frowned, "Drinking like this often will cause problems."

"No way, he said he was upset," Meng Xing glanced at his phone, "He said he was going to vomit for a while, and we will meet at the door in 10 minutes."

The decibels of the music were lowered, and a guy with a head like a feather duster came on stage, "gentlemanandgentleman, let's start the most explosive and fun part! Everyone knows that today's theme is kissing night!"

There was a fiery cheer all around.

"Yezi, let's withdraw! I guess this event is a blind date, it's too unhygienic."

"Look at what it is." Lin Zhiye pulled Meng Sheng.

The host then introduced that Meng Xing's guess was pretty close.On the dance floor, two people surrounded by a halo want to kiss, probably imitating the kissing game in the NBA.

Before he could react, a pink heart-shaped aperture began to shake.Meng Xing turned his head and found that the strong man with the chest hair sticking out of the vest was close to him, with an ambiguous smile on the corner of his mouth and a wink.

"My mother..." Meng Sheng wanted to cry, but he dragged Lin Zhiye through the crowd and slowly retreated to the edge of the dance floor.

The first couple who were trapped had already finished kissing amid the cheers, and the pink heart-shaped halo shook again. With the host's broken voice, "Stop!" All the men's eyes focused on Meng Sheng and Lin Zhi. On Ye's body, there was an envious exclamation in his mouth.

Meng Sheng was still in a daze, but the self-proclaimed "conservative" Lin Zhiye was already driven by the warm atmosphere, and even hugged his neck and kissed him.The first time they kissed in full view, it was quite exciting. They kissed together like crazy, and they didn't separate until the next lucky couple had finished kissing.

Meng Sheng was agitated and shy, "Yezi, you're a bit quick to get emotional. If you join an MLM organization and you'll be brainwashed for a day, that's even more exciting than that."

Lin Zhiye returned to his aloof look, took Meng Sheng's hand and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

Like a secret agent protecting the president, Meng Sheng hurried away protecting his overly flamboyant leaves. He glanced back and received countless envious and jealous eyes, as well as... the winks from the bearded and strong man.

Meng Xing thought with satisfaction: Even if he stood with Lin Zhiye, who would make everyone mediocre in a second, there would still be people who would take a fancy to him.