【Xue Xiao】Prisoner in the deserted city

Xue Yang's voice made Xiao Xingchen wake up like a dream, and knocked him back to the cold reality.

Xiao Xingchen said: "I don't know, maybe I went somewhere to play, I haven't seen it this morning."

Xue Yang looked at Xiao Xingchen, and couldn't help laughing out loud: "Xiao Xingchen, your deceptive appearance is too fake, every part of your body is exposed, you know that."

"If you don't believe it, don't believe it."

Not wanting to confront Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen walked into the room with a flick of his sleeves.Xue Yang followed, walked a few steps quickly and stood in front of him.

Blind, Xiao Xingchen almost bumped into it, staggered and walked to the other side, but was still blocked by him.

Xiao Xingchen stood still, it was almost common for Xue Yang to tease him like this.

Xue Yang put the basket on the ground, ate the remaining cakes in his hand, wiped his mouth, and said, "It's so sweet and delicious. I bought so many. So, where did the little one go?"

Xiao Xingchen said lightly, "I told you I don't know."

"Don't tell me that's right." Xue Yang said, "Very well, then I'll search street by street, house by house, and I can always find it."

As Xue Yang said that, he pushed Xiao Xingchen away and strode out.

Xiao Xingchen subconsciously chased him a few steps and grabbed his arm.

"Xue Yang!"

Xue Yang said, "Why, do you want to go with me?"

Xiao Xingchen's voice was almost pleading: "Just let her go."

Xue Yang's smiling face suddenly sank, and he sneered, "Xiao Xingchen, what do you mean? Are you afraid that I will kill her or something?"

Xiao Xingchen remained in a stalemate, neither answering nor moving. The hand holding Xue Yang's arm increased his strength, and his attitude was firm.

Xue Yang stared at Xiao Xingchen fiercely. Xiao Xingchen looked like he would go out and start a killing spree in Yicheng as soon as he let go.

Xue Yang didn't know if he had that plan, but being dragged like this, he wanted to do it instead.

"It hurts so much." Xue Yang changed into that unscrupulous and lazy voice again.

Xiao Xingchen argued hard: "After all, that child really likes you!"

Xue Yang bared a smile: "Okay, the stinky girl will leave as soon as she leaves, I'm too lazy to look for it. But, you have to promise me one thing."

Xue Yang did whatever came to his mind, he never acted recklessly, and he was willing to ask other people for their opinions, which is really strange.

Xiao Xingchen hesitated, and slowly put down his hands.I wondered uneasily what kind of tricks this person was going to play again.

Xue Yang asked, "Do you know what day it is today?"

Xiao Xingchen remained silent.

"Catch the Lantern Festival!" Xue Yang snapped his fingers, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Let's go out together at night!"

As night falls, the lights are on.

Yicheng is not big, there are not many celebrations, it always seems to be deserted, but the Lantern Festival is an annual event.

It is said that the god of lamps will descend on this day, and every household cannot turn off the lights at night. The lights must be kept on all night, so that the whole year will be prosperous and bright.The market will hold temple fairs, stalls, lantern parades, lantern lighting activities, lantern riddles, etc. The scale is not large, occupying only one street, but it is also rich in tricks.

The streets are full of people.

Xue Yang's long hair was tied up high, and he swayed with his brisk steps.The black close-fitting clothes made him look taller and taller.He raised a candy figurine in his hand and licked it in his mouth. He looked at the stall for a while, and the lantern for a while. He looked like a handsome young man.Pulling Xiao Xingchen to look east and west.

It was the first time Xiao Xingchen was released by Xue Yang in more than a few months.Suddenly coming to the street from the cold Yizhuang, listening to the noise of the crowd, the sound of selling, the sound of celebrations, and the cheers, it seems like a lifetime away.

In previous years, every time this day came, Xiao Xingchen would bring the unnamed boy and A-Qing to the Lantern Festival.At first, the young man put on a disdainful look, as if these were children's playthings, so he didn't want to join in.Xiao Xingchen just laughed, and said that if you don't go, take care of the house, go to bed early, and A-Qing and I will come back later.

The boy couldn't pretend anymore, he jumped up and talked about it, and bought me candy when the time came.

A-Qing just wanted to go with the Taoist priest, but seeing the boy change his mind, she snorted and made a face at him, saying, "You don't want to go, why do you want to go again?"

The young man said: "I'm willing, can I care about you?"

Xue Yang pulled Xiao Xingchen forward with great interest, and said cheerfully, "It's very lively over there, let's go and have a look."

The voice belonging to Xue Yang made Xiao Xingchen feel like he had just woken up from a dream, and he followed Xue Yang numbly and was pulled back and forth by him.

It turned out that we were guessing lantern riddles.Xue Yang was not interested, so he dragged Xiao Xingchen to another place selling food, which was his favorite place.

Xiao Xingchen waited for Xue Yang to pick something.He had a keen sense of hearing, and suddenly he heard Xiao Ning's voice in the crowd, calling for her grandfather to buy candy for her, accompanied by familiar giggles, getting closer and closer.

Xiao Xingchen's whole heart froze at once, Xue Yang was still picking and choosing, as if he didn't notice Xiao Ning's voice.Xiao Xingchen said hastily: "There seems to be a lantern show ahead, let's go and see it."

Xue Yang turned his head and glanced at him in surprise.

Xiao Xingchen has been silent all this time, but now he is willing to talk to him like this, and even make a request. It is really strange that the sun is coming out from the west.

Xue Yang didn't delay any longer, and along with the food he picked out just now, he casually pointed at this and that, asked the boss to wrap it up, and habitually just took it and left.From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at a place not far from Xiao Xingchen, and the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a plausible smile.

Xue Yang was dragged forward by Xiao Xingchen, walked straight, and came to an open space at the corner at the end of the market.Not to mention the lantern show, the noise of crowds is left behind.Xue Yang didn't make any movement, just kept following. If there wasn't a pond in front of him, he wouldn't have stopped.

"So, where is the light show you're talking about?"

Xue Yang looked around and said with a smile.

Xiao Xingchen said, "I seem to... made a mistake."

"I've said it all, your acting skills are terrible."

Xue Yang sneered: "Are you so afraid that I will be bad for that little one?"

His mind was seen through, Xiao Xingchen remained silent.

Xue Yang looked at him for a while, with weird eyes, and then said after a while: "Xiao Xingchen, I told you that stinky girl left and left, and I didn't want to do anything, why don't you believe me."

Xiao Xingchen turned his head away, feeling very tired of Xue Yang's words.

Is there any difference in Xue Yang's eyes between those who deceive him and those who don't?How could it be possible to want him to believe it.

There was nothing to talk about between him and Xue Yang.

Xue Yang was in a stalemate, and suddenly found lotus-shaped lanterns floating in the pond. The lanterns were small and bright, floating lightly on the mirror-like water surface, almost as if they were still.

Xue Yang walked over, squatted down, and looked at the Zhanzhan lantern.The faint lights, together with the moonlight reflected in the water, were reflected in Xue Yang's night-like dark eyes.

"When I was a child, no one took me to this kind of place, and I didn't know where it was held. I always missed it. One year, I managed to catch up with the temple fair. I squeezed into the crowd to watch other children being led by their parents and holding hands. Either there are snacks or candy to eat. I was so greedy, I went to the stall and secretly took a candy. It was really only a small one, and the stall owner found it and beat me up. I endured it, I tried my best not to shed tears. But I still cried, not because of the pain in my body, but because I don’t know when or where the candy fell.”

Xiao Xingchen couldn't help asking, "What happened next?"

"Later?" Xue Yang smiled, with a deep look of hostility in his eyes. "There is no later!"

Xue Yang didn't want to spoil the atmosphere tonight, and covered up what he did "later".But from his voice, Xiao Xingchen could hear the ruthlessness.Just like when this person destroyed Baixue Temple, when he told how to destroy the Chang clan

The world is unfair and people's hearts are not right. There are tens of millions of people in this world who suffer more than Xue Yang, but Xue Yang is the only one who is so twisted.

Xiao Xingchen originally hated his behavior, but perhaps because the moonlight was just right at this time, the lights were leisurely, and this night coincided with today in three years, Xiao Xingchen felt a tinge of sympathy.Listening to him tell his story quietly, as if he was still the teenager who talked at night around the fire.

If Xiao Xingchen didn't know the truth, he wouldn't be able to know what the ruthlessness in his words meant, and he would be able to go forward to comfort him.

Xiao Xingchen had mixed feelings, didn't move, and didn't say anything.

Because he knows deeply that he is not after all.

Without the little girl's running and dancing, Yizhuang returned to a dead silence.The tit-for-tat, embarrassment, hatred, and hatred between the two seemed to be growing and spreading again.

However, Xue Yang turned a blind eye to all of these, and he tried his best to maintain the appearance that everything was fine.Xiao Xingchen hated him, even if he didn't say anything, he could feel the deep disgust towards him.But so what, Xiao Xingchen will not leave anyway, he and he are together after all.If it goes on like this, if it can go on like this, who is to say that this is not true in another sense.

Xue Yang was immersed in this greedy delusion of self-deception and could not extricate himself.He embraces what he thinks is true, and conceals the flaws and fragility deep in his heart.

The summer evening is not so hot, and there is a hint of soft warmth in the wind.The fire-like splendor of the clouds in the sky has faded, and the twilight at night has become gentle and gentle.

This is a partial house, piled with infrequently used tools and waste, and it has not been touched for a long time.

Xue Yang came to look for things. He removed the old stool legs, rotten fabrics, and bottles and jars, and opened the drawer. He wanted to find the small pliers he remembered, and he wanted to drop one of them. The threshold of the block was repaired.

As Xue Yang pulled the drawer, there was a ragged and old creaking sound.There is almost nothing inside, only a half-open rice paper.

Xue Yang was about to close it with a backhand, but he didn't move.He saw words on the rice paper.The character is soft yet firm, upright and delicate yet vigorous, one can tell it was written by Xiao Xingchen at a glance.

Xue Yang took out the rice paper and spread it out on the table.The corners of the paper were a little damaged, it looked very old, but it wasn't that old, otherwise it would have been eaten up by mice long ago.

The surrounding area was abnormally quiet, and the twilight was slightly reflected on the ink stains.

Xue Yang was engrossed in distinguishing words, and he didn't notice anyone passing by.He read:

"Mountains have trees... Xi? Water has... Bihua? What is Bihua? Do you know if you are happy with the king?"

He read it word by word.

There are trees in the mountains, green flowers in the water, you know if you are happy with the king.

Xiao Xingchen stood outside the house, frozen in a daze, his whole body was cold.

He remembered that he had written this long ago.

What kind of mind was that at that time.I don't know when the strange feelings sprouted and grew. Was it when he made him laugh with a wisecrack?Or when you lean on him for warmth and sleep soundly at night?Or when you hugged him and pushed his hand, and the words were not correct?Just like his flustered heart, joyful, tossing, uneasy, afraid of being known, but wanting to speak out.When I was alone, I fiddled with writing and ink, and wrote it down unconsciously.

Xue Yang didn't understand the meaning of the first two sentences, but understood the last one.

He stood there in a daze, with his back to the light, and his face was filled with black shadows.

He finally found Xiao Xingchen standing there and turned around.

He suddenly laughed twice, the laughter was weird and cold.

"What about the bright moon and clear wind, what about the proud snow and frost, what about making friends, it turns out that you have always had such nasty thoughts about Daoist Song!"