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At the end of August [-], Guizhou.

It rained continuously.

Yang Jian woke up suddenly, and found that the bus was slowing down, and an unknown high-speed service station was coldly lit on the side of the road, the lights were dimmed by the rain, and the surrounding was still full of snoring.

It was less than two o'clock in the morning.

After sleeping for more than four hours, my hands and feet were icy cold, and the autumn rain in the mountains could freeze my bones even before the season of warm wind.Yang Jian leaned against the car window and took a deep breath. From the corner of his eye, he watched the white area shrunk into a dot, which was washed away by the reflection of water marks. He tried to find the outlines of some distant mountains in the darkness at the corner of the window. Rubbing my eyelids, I still can't see it.

"10 minutes! It won't stop any longer!" The driver turned on the lights, lighting up the interior of the car, and yelled at the same time.From the rear of the car, Yang Jian could hear him smoking a cigarette "tsk tsk". As soon as the window was rolled down, the sound of smacking lips was drowned out by the rain, but the smell of people in the car was still undiminished.Only a few people got out of the car here and there, and the couple sitting next to them looked less than twenty and were discussing something in a low voice. Yang Jian understood a little bit, saying that they would take turns to solve the problem.The woman got up, and the man stayed in his seat, tightly protecting the gift box under the seat behind his heels.

Yang Jian narrowed his eyes for a while, his pocket was shaking non-stop, which annoyed him, so he took it out to look.It's because of the constant news from the work group. At this point, the colleagues hundreds of kilometers away have just passed the examination papers for the start of school, and then sent the previous class away, and began to worry about the new senior year.It would be nice to be able to ask for a three-day leave. Yang Jian said in a nonchalant manner, "It's hard work, I'll go back and join the battle as soon as possible", then copied the focus list listed by the lesson preparation team leader to the memo, and turned off the group message Reminder, open the electronic map.

We have arrived at Yuping, more than 100 kilometers away from our destination.Tongren Bus Station.These five words plus the positioning point covered the entire county, and the signal was not good. When he wanted to zoom in, the picture would freeze.

"The road is slippery in rainy days, and geological disasters occur frequently. Please pay attention to driving safety." This line of reminders is also stuck at the bottom of the map.

The woman sitting next to her came back wrapped in wet clothes, grabbed the man by force, pulled out an umbrella and stuffed it for him. The man let out an "ah" and smiled impatiently. Smiling, the two hands were holding the two ends of the folding umbrella, and somehow they rubbed together.Yang Jian just looked at them from the glass, he couldn't see clearly, and he didn't want to see clearly, but he had to see something with his eyes open.Listening to the sound, the man finally got out of the car. Yang Jian suddenly felt that he really woke up. After thinking about it, he pulled out the earphones from his coat pocket, and didn't bother to untie them. With a mess of lines, he raised the phone in front of him.

He made a call.

The driver coughed loudly, rolled up the window, the sound of rain stopped suddenly, the busy tone in the headset was about to come, and the other side finally connected.

"Doctor Chen, I'm sorry to bother you. My phone is running out of battery. I'm afraid we won't be able to contact you later." Yang Jian lowered his voice, "Oh, you're on duty. Yes, I'm a family member of the patient."

The driver honked the horn.

"It's not his teacher, it's his brother," Yang Jian pressed the window edge with his left hand, and said, "Haha, I didn't tell you clearly last time, I am indeed a teacher, teaching physics in high school."

The woman sitting next to her yelled, "Master, wait another 2 minutes!"

A few complaints overflowed from the pile of awakened passengers.

"Well, I'm going to Tongren soon, and I can reach Dejiang before dawn," Yang Jian stretched his numb knees, trying to straighten his legs, but there was obviously not enough space in the front seat, he lowered his eyes, his eyelashes were dark, suddenly Putting away his absent-mindedness, "Is the person awake?"

The young man hurried into the car with a wet umbrella in his arms, shrank his head and avoided looking all the way, and sat back in his seat by the aisle.

"Okay, I know." Yang Jian said, "Then I will trouble you."

After hanging up the phone, he quickly put the headset, phone and hand back into his pocket.

It’s late summer in Beijing at this time, and the air conditioner has to be turned on to 21 degrees. The jacket I’m wearing has been dug out of the closet this year before it can be dry-cleaned, and it smells like camphor all the way.After another two hours of smoking, Yang Jian arrived in Tongren, a quarter of an hour earlier than expected.He bought a plastic poncho at the gate of the long-distance bus station. When he walked in the dark to a car rental company outside an intersection, his trousers were already wet to his calves, and the denim fabric was soaked heavily, but his lungs were moist and clean.This company only has a facade the size of a public toilet. Fortunately, he made an appointment at a higher price, and someone was waiting for him inside.There were three empty cars parked in the parking lot, and Yang Jian drove away the Toyota SUV with the tallest chassis.

He was going to Dejiang, he was tired, and the road was unfamiliar, and he didn't get on the horse in the middle of the night to practice his driving skills, but this was the only way to take him there.The trains are out of service, all bus trips have been cancelled, that small town can now be called a "disaster area", a mudslide just broke out two days ago, swallowing several villages on the mountainside, and it was also on the news, the number of missing people There are more than two hundred, and about fifty have been found so far.

Li Bai is one of the fiftieths.

The injury was not serious, but he was concussed and comatose, plus several contusions and a slight fracture of his left leg, so he was not sent to the city and stayed in the county hospital.

So Yang Jian needed to go to the county seat to pick him up.

When he received the call, Yang Jian didn't intend to leave.At eight o'clock in the evening, he had just left the staff meeting and received a young teacher commendation award. He had to go to class the next day. He had two classes with 92 students, and only twelve of them remembered their names.The opposite person reported his family name as the rescue team, and wanted to confirm the identity of the rescuer with him. He heard that there was a string of small eyes on his ears, as well as under his brows and lips. He knew it was Li Bai, and hearing the solemn tone, he thought Li Bai had died. Hanging in a place he had never heard of, so it was a farewell after not seeing him for more than a year?

The throat was lifted up in one breath, and jumped into the temple. I heard that the man was still alive, but he was unconscious. Want to let go.

"He has nothing to do with me usually," Yang Jian said, "I can't move away from here, do I have to pick him up now?"

The other party's tone was a little strange: "You mean, you are not familiar with each other?"

Yang Jian said, "Not familiar."

The other party hesitated and said: "The injured patient was washed to the bottom of a ravine and was discovered this morning. He has no documents, and all his financial resources are only a mobile phone stuffed in the innermost layer of his clothes. The phone card has been pulled out. The address book application The chat records and so on are all cleared, there is only one record of failed calls, the time is dialed during the time of being trapped, and your phone number is displayed, so we confirm you as the first contact."

Yang Jian said: "Maybe my mobile phone number is easier to memorize."

He said he didn't believe it, but it was just prevarication. He collapsed on the sofa, ready to hang up the phone and go to sleep.

He knows that Li Bai is very clear, even if he is limped, he can survive by himself when he wakes up.

"Wait a minute, listen to me first. Two minutes after the call failed, the injured patient recorded a voice memo, which lasted two and a half minutes, and named it Mr. Yang wpainu." It is a 2-key keyboard, and we deduce that this string of garbled characters means 'I love you'. Do you know this Teacher Yang?"

Yang Jian stared at the flying insect fluttering under the ceiling.

"We opened it and listened to it several times, but we couldn't figure out what was being said. It was very vague and there were not enough clues," said the other side, "If you know this Teacher Yang, please tell us."

"..." Yang Jian was silent for two seconds.

He said calmly, "I am Teacher Yang."

The opposite seemed to be more embarrassed than him, because the silence was longer.

Yang Jian sat up.

He leaned against the wall, touched the switch with his left hand along the edge of the wall, tapped lightly with two fingers, and the light went out.The flying insect made his eyes dry, and even when he closed his eyes, there was a residual double image.

The receiver began to ask for specific information.

Yang Jian pulled his belt and got up, "My name is Li Bai. Yes, I have either the same surname or those two characters. He was born in 86. He has no congenital diseases and his occupation is...hair stylist. I'll send you his ID number right away." He said, "Can you tell me the exact location of the hospital?"

What Li Bai wanted to say before he died, this aroused Yang Jian's curiosity. Besides, the man was thinking about him when he was about to stop eating. it's here.Changed into clothes suitable for trekking mountains and rivers, went to the academic affairs office to ask for leave with a face, bought a deadly expensive flight ticket, and set off that night with a shoulder bag, from Beijing to Guiyang, then to Tongren, to Dejiang, and into the mountains, His bones were broken by the road. This road was restricted for rescue use only, while the other road was buried by a collapsed mountain. There was nothing but rain in his ears, and the passenger only had a poncho that looked like a plastic bag.On the way to the north, the rain gradually subsided, and the sky behind the distant mountains was no longer black and boundless, and even faintly green. Yang Jian opened the car window halfway, and the rain wrapped in the smell of earth fell on his cheeks, thin and cool, like a kind of active touch.

This kind of Liming is no stranger to him. Yang Jian has been a volunteer teacher for five years. Not long after his sister Yang Yuqiu committed suicide, she was in charge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, English and basketball teaching in a middle school in Liangshan, Sichuan, plus Mandarin as a bonus.During that time, he often suffered from insomnia. The dormitory was right behind the classroom. If it wasn’t too cold, he would climb up to the roof and look at the empty playground and the flagpole of the red flag hanging down. , The stars are dotted heavily, the sky is pressed down very low, the wind and fog condense the world into a piece of dark blue glass, and the sun sinks at the bottom, sitting all night long.

Of course, there are also winding mountain roads like this, where Yang Jian sent a student suffering from acute pneumonia to a clinic in the county. Now this urban off-road vehicle is not as powerful as a pickup truck in the village.Then there is the purchase of teaching aids and snacks for the students. The rest of the time, Yang Jian cannot go to the city.He knew that Li Bai was looking for him all over the world, and he actually found him one time. He heard students from other grades making noise outside in class, and an eye-catching person entered the campus, but Li Bai found Yang Jian's classroom and stopped in the half-open room. At the door, don't take a step forward.

The students of the first and second grades all held their breaths, with round eyes on their little black faces, looking out carefully, Yang Jian didn't stop writing on the blackboard because of this, occasionally he caught a glimpse of Li Bai wrinkled His white T-shirt with the Warriors of Chaos printed on it, the soiled and bruised knees in the ripped denim, the sweaty sideburns, and the tiny bits of metal adorning his face, all sparkling in the high-altitude sun.

Li Bai just stood in the gap between the yellow wall and the red door, not saying a word, not hesitant to speak, just watching intently.He left before the end of get out of class. Yang Jian pressed the teaching ball into the sink and didn't see him turn around for a second.

Later they also talked about this matter, Li Bai said, I want to see with my own eyes if you are still alive.

As expected, the requirements for each other are limited to "alive", and they have always been in such a relationship.Yang Jian puts on the handbrake on the emergency parking belt, plugs in the power bank for the phone that shuts off automatically, waits for it to come back to life, and then waits for the map to load. , casting a giant shadow after another.Will you collapse?Will it wash me to the bottom of the ditch?Thinking this way, Yang Jian went on the road again in Guo Degang's navigation voice.

Li Bai froze on the narrow bed, there was no separate ward, he was lying in the first aid hall, the air was very bad, every breath was strange and damp, surrounded by only a layer of blue curtain, the voices outside the curtain were noisy, finally What stands out is his crying, which is close to the howling of ghosts and wolves of other bed wounded when they are being disinfected.

Yang Jian really came, not only came, but also listened to his last message, not only listened to it, but also played it out.

The man never liked to untie the earphones.

After waking up for less than an hour, Li Bai just wanted to faint again.He retracted his hand back to the quilt, grabbed the sheet with his still-unrecovered fingers, and quietly looked at the side face outside the crack of the curtain. He hadn't had a haircut for at least three months, and it was a little wet, but he didn't stick it to his forehead. Mentally braced, like combing your hair with oil.Yang Jian's hair is so hard, Li Bai is very familiar with it, the dark blue eyes and sharp jaw line have not changed, and the dust of the journey can't hide it.He was fascinated by the sight, and didn't feel the fear of looking at each other until he saw the corner of his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes in panic, the door curtain was pulled open, and Li Bai felt approaching.

There were a few footsteps, it should be that Dr. Chen who has been enthusiastically helping him contact him has left.Is there a sound of breathing?Yang Jian should be looking at him by the bed, those eyes can also breathe.Li Bai tried his best to relax his facial features, and he couldn't be hideous when he was drowsy.

His legs sank, Yang Jian sat down on the edge of the bed, the curtain was not drawn, and the light outside lit Li Bai's eyes red.Now panting is as tiring as doing exercises, I am afraid that I will lose my mind and lose track of the rhythm.Li Bai called himself a fool.When he clearly felt the heat on his cheeks and suspected that he would not be able to hold on, Yang Jian said, "Did you get enough sleep?"

Li Bai remained motionless.

Yang Jian handled his stubborn resistance very skillfully, "If you want to leave, I'll go to register, and I didn't bring a change of clothes, so you can wear a hospital gown," he stood up neatly, "Or if you really don't want to Move, then pretend I'm not here."

Li Bai finally opened his eyes.

Facing Yang Jian's eyes, he looked at him clearly, his eyebrows were still dark, and he couldn't tell if he was impatient.

"...Long time no see." Li Bai said.

Yang Jian didn't answer, turned around and walked outside the curtain.

"Wait," Li Bai pushed himself up on the bed and sat up. When Yang Jian turned his head, he couldn't pick up a few words to say, only his heart was pressed under the flesh and jumped suddenly, "You want to take me away!" ?"

"Whether to rest in Guiyang or return to Beijing with me, you decide." Yang Jian threw the surviving mobile phone together with the sealed bag to Li Bai's hand, "I have limited vacation."

Li Bai was stunned for a moment, still the same, Yang Jian would not change his expressionless stinky face and the subtext of every sentence of "whatever you want", and would not care about the embarrassment between them, just said normally with specific things.So Li Bai believed that there was no need for him to panic.A reunion is no big deal.As if returning to his soul, he picked up the mobile phone with a broken screen mixed with sand, put on his thick skin, and said eagerly: "I can't walk, you can hug me, I'm only over 50 kilograms now."

"I bought a crutch."

Li Bai laughed suddenly, and said with a snort, "No way, you are still angry with me." He slipped his plaster leg with both hands, moved to the side of the bed, looked up at Yang Jian: "Teacher Yang, tell the truth, are you I’m especially afraid that I’m going to die, or you’re missing me a little bit, I just woke up, and I heard from Dr. Chen that you rushed here overnight after receiving a call, and it’s still not dawn yet.”

Yang Jian raised his eyebrows: "Is it interesting? I'm more afraid that I'll be buried in it halfway."

Li Bai was not discouraged, he was still smiling, and hugged the waist in front of him directly. Even with the jacket on, he could still touch his elbows like before.

"Then you don't have anything to ask me?" He pressed his chin under Yang Jian's ribs, "For example, why did I come here?"

Yang Jian took his arms away from his body and asked sincerely: "I want to ask, what are you talking about in that segment recorded by your mobile phone?"

"Ah?" Li Bai froze for a moment, then hurriedly covered it up again, "Actually, I haven't been crying all the time, maybe it's because my mobile phone is stained with muddy water and the radio is blurred." He clenched his fist with a mysterious look on his face, "I don't even think I'm a ghost." I will let you go. If you are a ghost, you will not be able to drive me away."

Yang Jian also laughed, a little tired, and a little bit out of spirits.

"I also said my deposit, bank password, and who owes me money—" Li Bai raised three fingers on his fist.

Yang Jian opened the curtain and walked towards the nurse's station.

"Also, I found that person. He is still doing his job, and he is active in this area of ​​the town. I came all the way here just to find him," Li Bai had completely recovered his composure, slowly and casually Said, continued to fiddle with his fingers, watched Yang Jian turn around, stared into his pupils again, and bit his words bit by bit, "It's that bastard wearing a mask. It's been more than ten years, and he hasn't died yet. I want to go Kill him, and you can avenge your sister."

The author says:

Good evening!I'm back to work!It’s been a long time since I wrote dog blood (?) I’m so excited