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Why are there so many tunnels on this road?Sitting on the hard seat between Xichang and Beijing, Li Bai hugged his shriveled travel bag tightly, thinking like this.

Before seeing the sun for a few seconds, the train plunged into a new period of darkness, which was absolute and pure, and it was so densely arranged on his way to the east.In fact, he has gone back and forth in this direction many times, but each time he would stare at the bewilderingly thick black, pondering the same question.

Oh, because there are many mountains, people want to drill mountains.Li Bai figured it out.

But why do people want to drill mountains?It is hard to imagine the hardships in the repair process of this railway.How arrogant and conceited are human beings to fight against the sky and the earth, and to wear these boundless mountains and rivers with small broken tracks like hair strands?

Isn't it like this, he thought again, looking at his blurred face in the glass.Nor is it for conquest.It's just that people have to go back and forth, looking for what they want, seeing who they want to see.

Then he found it, why did he leave again.

Li Bai could no longer ask and answer this question by himself.At that time, he looked at Yang Jian, and Yang Jian also looked at him, and within a few seconds they both looked away, no one was later than the other, what a coincidence.The staring didn't cause any change, he was still standing, quietly, Yang Jian's profile changed to the other side, and it was still profile.

So, sinking, where did it sink to.Compared with the sun exposure, the core of the earth is much hotter.

Li Bai can still fully recall that time when he closes his eyes.Yang Jian's speech speed was much slower than usual, and he smiled occasionally, and when he said certain words, he had to write them on the blackboard, and then tapped the blackboard with his knuckles.He talked to the students about the unit substitution, the pressure difference between the water surface and the water, and where the force to push the hollow ball came from when he pressed it into the water... He compared the radius with his right hand, and drew it with his left hand. Round, there will always be turning around and there will always be a short glance, but he didn't take another look at the door

He seemed to think that enough was enough.Li Bai thought so.

how about you?Li Bai asked himself.

Afterwards Li Bai left. He believed that he should not have been stuck at the barricade for a few minutes.Time passed, slow and slow, the sun was still very hot, and the group of skinny dogs at the gate of the production team on the west side of the school still jumped up when he passed by, and drove him to the river with vigor.This time Li Bai kept his composure, he did not fall onto the small cliff by the side of the road again, he swooped down to the river beach, before he had time to stop and stand still, he bent down and grabbed a handful of gravel, towards the barking rushing people Throw the guy, hit one and hit one.

The big dogs were beaten for a few rounds, and finally left. From time to time, they turned their heads and barked a few times, and then continued to run away.

Li Bai's stones chased them until they could not be touched.

After standing still for a few minutes, Li Bai took a breath, and walked a few steps deeper into the river beach.This section of the river is not dangerous, and the bank is gentle. He squatted down and could touch the overflowing river.Very icy, like freshly melted snow.He washed the dust off his hands, the cuts on his knees, and the sweat on his neck, and sat cross-legged on the gravel, dusting cigarette ash into the folds of his jeans.He sat there until it was getting late.Behind the sandbar not far downstream, between two barrier-like mountain shadows, a red sun was round and crashing down.

If I have a boat, I want to float along this river to the sea, and the mountains and waters will be exhausted. If I have a fishing rod... I will catch a dragon and peel its scales.Li Bai thought so much the moment he stood up.But it was almost too late, too late to do anything.He climbed up the cliff and ran wildly on the mountain road, holding his self-defense knife in his bag with one hand, and was heading towards the direction of the moon.

Before eight o'clock, he had to arrive at the stop where the shuttle bus stopped.He has nowhere else to go.

Li Bai stayed in the county for another two days, wandering around the busiest places every day, from morning till night.He washed himself very clean, pinned up his bangs that were too long, but no one stopped him when they saw his exceptionally clear face, and no one patted him on the shoulder, waiting for him to turn around, Tell him "It's really you".

Waiting without daring to find out the purpose is undoubtedly a waste of time. At the same time, Li Bai is even more afraid that if he stays here any longer, he will never be able to leave.Whether it is resignation or reluctance, it is a vicious dog with sharp teeth, which will get stuck on his ankle and make him lose the ability to leave.On the third day, Li Bai bought the train ticket for that night, and before boarding the bus to Xichang, he threw away all the miscellaneous things he brought out from the set, as did the box with crumbling wheels, leaving only a travel bag that could be carried with him.

He ate a bowl of mutton powder next to the station, and when he boarded the train, he didn't think about anything, he just thought that the dust on the floor of the house should be thick enough to leave shoe prints.

Facts have proved that his prediction was correct. The exposed floor of the basement, which was less than two square meters, was already as dirty as a layer of fluff.The door was closed, the ventilation fan was not turned on, how the dust came in, Li Bai never figured it out, but he had a long memory when he set off a year ago, wrapped the old sheets, and his sofa survived.

Li Bai lay comfortably on it for a few days, doing nothing, and soon began a new job.There is almost no irreplaceable job like running a crew. Although the effect presented on the screen is important, I have never heard of a stylist who can’t make a film without it. Therefore, for part-time workers like Li Bai Said that apart from technology, the most important thing to rely on is interpersonal relationship and word of mouth. If the owner of the last drama can remember you and say hello, then the next drama will come to you.

Is it similar to being an actor?

It seems that I put gold on my face too much.

In short, no matter what, it is lucky for Li Bai to have a job at his door.He doesn't want to stop.When you stop, you will be bored, you will think wildly, you will stay in this underground corner, and mold and mushrooms will grow. You will not feel the wine on your face, and you will not even know whether it is day or night outside.

You will be poor if you stop.Poor, this word is too hateful, it means homeless, involuntary... Li Bai feels sad when he thinks about it.

Even though he made money, put it all in one card, and was no longer poor, he could still feel the fear.

He has no desire to spend money.

Do people only feel rich when they spend money?

But Li Bai didn't want to rent a big house, buy new clothes, or eat delicacies from mountains and seas.He hasn't cooked for several years.He smokes 12 yuan a pack of cigarettes, drinks loose wine, buys a few studs and earrings when he gets tired of wearing them, no matter what material they are made of, strange ones are better, the Daliushu flea market is where he often visits when he is recuperating in Beijing The place.

Once Deng Deng asked him to play, and after a careful diagnosis, he said that the root cause of these symptoms was that he was too easy to support, and this casual thing could be solved.

Dengdeng also strongly recommends Li Bai to buy funds, stocks, or insurance.Said that since he is living a pure and ascetic life now, he should make plans for the future earlier.Especially insurance, such as critical illness insurance, financial insurance, accident insurance, pension insurance... Otherwise, no one will help you when you are about to die.The boss took Deng Deng to participate in the insurance without any hassle, but for Li Bai, these items can be put together for a few years, and the bank card can be emptied.

Besides, what is there to plan for the future?

If he was going to die and Yang Jian was still healthy, he might as well spend the rest of the money to buy for Yang Jian.But that person definitely doesn't want to.

So he said to Deng Deng: "It doesn't matter, just die if you die."

Deng Deng got anxious with him, so he changed his tune again, saying that this is called "letting nature take its course".

Li Bai likes to read "Reader", there are cold jokes, and there are often articles to educate people to be optimistic.If he thinks positively, he feels that it is not that he has nothing to spend money on.

A long time ago, when he first came to Beijing, he had the idea of ​​earning money to open a hair salon, and even pulled out his eyelashes to make a wish.But it’s too far away, and the start-up capital needs to be at least tens of thousands. In the blink of an eye, ten years later, although the tens of thousands rose to 10,000+, 10,000+, he has indeed saved a lot over the years, and one day he will be able to make up enough. Instead, he stopped thinking about it.

Can opening a store bring any change to the day-to-day?

I still smoke the same cigarettes, drink the same wine, live in the same basement, willingly.

Li Bai has long understood this truth.

Now, however, he was lucky enough to find something else to do.He has an extra mobile phone number and an additional address in his hand. Whether he is wandering around or doing special purchases, he will send a few boxes together when he saves enough. Gradually, he seems to be able to feel a little happy because of this.

Several times, he dreamed of the playground, with many children standing on it, forming an endless line, all smiling with their hands behind their backs.Yang Jian was squatting at the head of the team, with a white shirt, black trousers, and wet black hair. He looked like he had just taken a shower, and there were many cardboard boxes piled up beside him. He concentrated on those red faces and smiled.

The wind blowing from him smelled like a tree after the rain.When the torrent rushed over, the sky and the earth suddenly turned upside down, and the tree floated under him, taking Li Bai adrift.

But... by the way, take a shower!How should Yang Jian take a bath over there?Twice, even with mud and chalk in his hands, he was never unkempt.After repeating the dream several times, Li Bai decided that there was some mystery in it, and he had to figure it out, so he finally found a reason to set off to the south again.

However, the calendar is full of work. It seems that his performance on the set of "Thirty Thousand Miles of Wind" last time brought him more business, or Zhu Yantang helped him speak well in Xie's Media, and his work schedule is more than that. Previous years were full.Finally, it is no longer a desolate place where birds and beasts are extinct. Xie's artists travel all over the country, especially those small artists who do not have their own make-up artists. I also met many friends.

People think that he has good aesthetics and hard skills, and he is sullen if he doesn't like gossip. He is simply a model worker who can't be found. He took the initiative to ask for his contact information, and said that he would blow his head to him when he went to Beijing in the future.

Without any suspense, Li Bai was so tired that he kept spinning, and the incoming text messages on his mobile phone were one after another.

In mid-November, someone from the management of the Xie Group called him and asked him if he had any intention of becoming a contracted stylist, and he could also share a one-bedroom dormitory at the Hong Kong and Macau headquarters. Li Bai thought about it and refused. Yes, taking advantage of the five-day gap, board the plane to the southwest.

I couldn't figure out how Yang Jian solved the problem of bathing.

He didn't even catch Yang Jian's eyes, and asked the students. Several children who could speak Mandarin enthusiastically surrounded Li Bai, and rushed to tell him that Teacher Yang was on a business trip to Chengdu for a meeting, and it would take him more than a week.

Li Bai saw the sneakers on their feet, dirt-resistant gray-green, a hundred pairs, from small sizes to large sizes, all sent over, so every child has one.Looks pretty comfortable to wear?I don’t know if your Mr. Yang is wearing new ones. I bought him the latest color of AJ3, the most difficult to buy size 43. I queued up at Sanlitun one day in advance. It’s so handsome. Did he wear it or not?Li Bai thought with a smile, and patted the heads of several children.

What happened after that was very vague. Li Bai went to Shanghai in a daze, and started the job he had been booked for a long time ago.Afterwards, the time continued to pass in such a muddle, [-] passed by quickly, and [-] will also be finished soon.It was March again, and Li Bai suddenly realized that it had been a year since he found Yang Jian for the first time. In total, he went to look for it like a voyeur five times, which is really not much, but time It was so wasted, he was cowardly, he had a lot of worries, he wasn't sure if Yang Jian thought of himself again, and he didn't even understand how the man took a shower.

He lived his life without any sense of reality.

On an extraordinarily sober night, Li Bai did not commit any bad behavior. While nestling on the sofa and eating tomatoes, he made up his mind that he had to make some changes.

Let's start from the most dissatisfied place.

Is it the brain?Since he is already taking the medicine as prescribed by the doctor, there should be no way to get better.That is education?Going to university at my age?No one cares whether the person who makes his own hair understands linear algebra and Marxism. When he comes back from studying, those party A will not remember him.Oh, yes, Li Bai suddenly came up with an idea, and there are teeth!He was neglected since he was a child, and he licked blindly when he changed his teeth, and he couldn't keep up with his nutrition. His teeth grew unevenly, and there were more pointed ones than normal, so that he subconsciously pursed his lips and smiled when taking pictures, so gentle and quiet Quiet, smiling without showing teeth.

Probably no one would like that kind of messy teeth.When biting Yang Jian before, Yang Jian would always pick him up and pry his lips open, tap the tip of his teeth, and say that he was a shark and became a spirit.

Li Bai didn't want to be a shark, and he didn't want to be from the beginning.

At the time, he was thinking that sharks were not good pets.

Now he finally has the chance to change his face.

Hearing that orthodontics are very expensive, Li Bai went to the bank on purpose before looking for a dentist. He stood in front of the ATM machine for a while, and he was shocked by the number on the account—it was already over [-], and he could rent a small one. How many people are invited to buy some equipment in the store to do it by themselves?

The money must be spent quickly.

It took Li Bai more than 2 yuan to pull out two teeth and install metal brackets.The soreness of rectifying Jiali and the ulcers in the mouth caused by the wire grinding are nothing to him, the headache is because of the other bits and pieces in the mouth.When the lip ring and tongue nails collided with the braces, they would often jingle and rattle, which was subtly mixed in his words, and it also stimulated him to drool uncontrollably when he smoked.

Usually, when he speaks a little excitedly, he will subconsciously wipe his mouth and feet, for fear of revealing something that will be seen.

The result is that he becomes more reticent. Except for necessary communication, let alone laughing, Li Bai doesn't even want to open his mouth. When ordering in a fast food restaurant, he chooses to point with his hands.

He began to comfort himself in this way: after a year and a half, he would become another person after taking off his braces.

Fortunately, this kind of hypnosis is effective, and it didn't take long for Li Bai to adapt to the life of a mouthful of steel teeth. Anyway, he usually doesn't eat much, and now he just eats a little less.While running around to work, he began to think about where to go with the remaining tens of thousands of dollars.For some reason, the balance in the account used to be just a figure that seemed to match his five senses to Li Bai, but now, the figure is too large, but it can cause him uneasiness.

Still don't have money.

It's better not to think about whimsical ideas like opening a store.

Let's go do some "ordinary good things".

The original plan was to lay a layer of plastic on the dirt playground of Qinggang Middle School to make it less dusty, but after consulting for a long time, it turned out that his little money might not be enough to buy healthy and safe materials, reliable and willing to run There are basically no businesses going to that place for construction.Li Bai settled for the next best thing, ordered four ping-pong tables and a pair of basketball hoops, and added more than 1000 yuan for shipping, and took them across the mountains to school.

When he received the call saying that it had been delivered, Li Bai was still not relieved.After he was busy for a while, at the beginning of May, he went to the old place again, thinking that seeing is believing.

Unexpectedly, on the bus from the county town to Qinggang, he unexpectedly ran into Yang Jian.

Should it be said that Yuanjia Road is narrow?

At least, if Yang Jian saw him, he should think so.

Li Bai got on the bus early and sat in the back row by the window. Ben was staring at the cracks in the concrete floor in a daze when he suddenly felt something wrong in his ears——Yang Jian got on the bus and stood behind a big lady from the Yi family through the front door. , the man's tall lotus-leaf hat still couldn't block his neckline.

The person talking to him was a young man with half an inch left, a little taller than him, dark and strong.

Li Bai's mind was buzzing, and he immediately shrank down, leaning his head against the back of the chair, and clasped his hands tightly in front of his abdomen.There was a lot of noise in the car, and the two seemed to have finished their conversation. He couldn't tell where they were for a while, until his forehead moved, it was the movement of the back of the seat, and someone leaned forward.

Lifting his eyelids and taking a quick glance, Li Bai saw a sweaty cropped man who spoke standard Mandarin and said, "Mr. Yang, this is the first time I've taken this kind of bus around the mountain!"

Yang Jian, on the other hand, only showed half of the back of his head. He was standing next to the corridor, and seemed to be looking sideways at the man, with a smile in his voice: "The pickup truck in the countryside has been sent to the city for repairs these two days. The school originally wanted me to drive it. Go and pick up Teacher Han."

"Hey, no need, it's enough trouble for you to go all the way to the station to pick me up," the man politely said unskillfully, "Also, just call me Xiao Han, a stunned young man like me who just graduated."

Yang Jian laughed again, and chatted with this little Han from time to time on the road afterwards.Mostly it was Xiao Han who was asking questions, and Yang Jian was responsible for answering, but he was also very good at leading the topic in a comfortable direction, so that the two of them would not be too tired to find something to talk about, or too embarrassed to have nothing to say.And the listener in the corner behind the chair also got a general idea of ​​the situation——Xiao Han is a new support teacher, and he used to study in Beijing, majoring in materials engineering. After graduation, he broke up with his girlfriend, impulsively. After filling out the application, he was admitted by accident. It happened that he hadn't found a job until now, so he thought it was God's will, and he was going to come and exercise.

"I feel like I'm quite immature, and I'll do it as soon as I slap my head," Xiao Han scratched his head and said, "But now that I'm here, I have to change my attitude and take responsibility!"

Li Bai sneered silently, this consciousness is quite high.

"Take it easy." Yang Jian didn't seem to have much hope for him.

"That," Xiao Han said again, hesitating a bit, "My girlfriend and I have also reconciled. She has been transferred to Chengdu for work, and she said she would come to see me. Teacher Yang, do you have a girlfriend?"

"It's not for anything else, I just want to ask, if it's a long-distance relationship...how would you deal with it." He added anxiously.

"Yes." Yang Jian replied like this.

Li Bai's pupils shrank, he leaned closer to the gap between the backs of the two chairs, looked with one eye, wishing he could squeeze his whole face into it.He couldn't see anything clearly, but he could smell a faint smell of washing powder, which was so familiar and hadn't changed for many years. It must have come from the shoulder of Yang Jian's black T-shirt... It felt like leaning on the Same on those shoulders.

Immediately afterwards, he heard Yang Jian say again: "We haven't seen each other for several years."

"Ah?" Xiao Han said in surprise, "Isn't this... breaking up?"

"It's also possible, right?"

"...I'm afraid that if we don't see each other every day, she will treat me coldly and forget about me." Xiao Han gave up investigating this mysterious new colleague, and simply talked about his concerns, "It is said that modern people are forgetful, It's so easy to let someone out of your life!"

Yang Jian didn't say anything more, as if he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Li Bai heard the rubbing sound of the cloth, and when he finished listening, he leaned back on the back of his chair.Xiao Han started calling his girlfriend, and the young girl sitting next to him continued to cast strange glances at Li Bai, but he didn't notice it at all. He rubbed his numb nose, his eyes were still fixed diagonally forward.It was nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun shone in very well, and slowly fell on the top of Yang's hair, making those silvery white strands almost transparent.

forgetful.

The ulcer was worn down by the wire again, Li Bai's brows twitched, and the corners of his eyes were wet.

It's not easy to get this disease.

After driving on the mountain road for more than an hour, when we arrived at Qinggang Township, Li Bai was the last one to get off, and he was still in a daze. He didn't get up until he heard the driver urging him to leave the station in 15 minutes.Most of the remaining passengers were sound asleep, heading further north for townships.

Looking around, there were a bunch of people queuing in front of the luggage compartment, but Yang Jian was not seen. Li Bai jumped off the last step of the bus, lowered his head and shouldered his backpack, and walked around to the shade on the other side.

As soon as he got around the front of the car, he smelled a smell of smoke, and Li Bai suddenly raised his eyes.

In the thin shadows, beside the front tire of the car, Yang Jian was smoking while leaning on the hot iron sheet, watching him quietly.