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"I had a dream," Li Bai thought for a while, and wrote earnestly, "We lost our way in the mountains, that is, the mountain behind the school. A thick layer of fog pressed down close to the ground and completely covered us. The leaves on the trees were all black."

"Then a fairy flew over, all white and with eyebrows the color of gold. She asked us to grab the feathers from her wings and took us away."

After editing, I clicked send, and with a "hoo", the green bubble popped out.Waking up early in the morning, Yang Jian was nowhere to be seen. Li Bai got out of bed by himself. Since he didn’t bring any luggage, he was still wearing that man’s clothes from top to bottom. He was squatting in the shadow of the small eaves outside the door with the uppers of his canvas shoes Li, holding the phone with both hands, sent this text message.

The next step is to turn forward, and he read and reread the few conversations in the past few days.

In fact, it was not too early, three quarters of an hour after eight o'clock, and it was already the third day, Yang Jian was not here, he had something to do.On the first day, I was quite flustered. The sun was high, and he touched it in a half-dream, and there was nothing next to him. It felt a bit like shooting a horror movie-the protagonist was splashed with cold water, and found that the cars and BMWs were all hallucinations. In the cellar, you can only eat the fishy soil to satisfy your hunger.Li Bai was most afraid of leaving without saying goodbye.I'm also afraid of the confusion that I can't tell the truth from the illusion.With his eyes wide open, he walked around the campus several times, walking fast, poking his head over every room he passed.

As a result, apart from a few children running wildly, he only met the female teacher surnamed Xu, who was chopping feed for chickens at the door of the small mud room on the east side of the school building.

There are sixteen in total, all of which are one-year-old hens. The principal brought the teachers to raise them at their own expense. Basically, they lay an egg a day, which can provide nutrition for the students.

At that time, Li Bai's tense shoulders and neck were relaxed. For a while, his bones were a little numb, and he felt that he had returned to the world again.

He remembered very clearly that the day before, after the tide-like dawn, Yang Jian led him around the palm-sized school, and that was how he introduced these chicks.

Yang Jian also picked out an egg from the haystack, wiped it with the corner of his clothes, put it into Li Bai's hands, and showed it to him with Yu Wen, as if Li Bai had also become a kid chasing after him and calling him teacher, And this little white thing is a novelty toy.

Just as she was in a daze, Xu Li noticed the footsteps stopped far away on the weeds, and raised her face, "Hello," she said, "Can you find Teacher Yang?"

Li Bai nodded.

Xu Li used her shoulders to pin the broken hair that covered her eyes behind her ears, and continued to chop up the corn and wild vegetables, and said, "He's not here, he went into the city before dawn."

Li Bai said "Oh" and wanted to say thank you, but he didn't say anything.This girl was already familiar to him, but if he really met, she was introduced by Yang Jian yesterday, no, it should be a woman, she is half a year older than Yang Jian.After having dinner together, she seemed to regard Li Bai as someone she knew, but Li Bai didn't. He didn't want to know her, didn't want to become familiar with her. In fact, any friendship outside of work would make Li Bai feel uncomfortable, so he just wanted to If he hides far away, no one should be too idle to see him.

Especially a woman who has a good relationship with Yang Jian and looks very smart.

Li Bai thought they were the most terrifying creatures in the world, and it was best to keep them at a respectful distance.

Back in Yang Jian's room, Li Bai picked up his mobile phone which had been left beside his pillow, charged it up and turned it on, only to find that the person had left him a message.In the early six o'clock, five words, "I'll be back later".Li Bai typed and deleted the line, changed it to "OK, be careful" and sent it out.It was too brief and too raw, but Li Bai couldn't do anything about it for a while. In a sense, he was indeed a novice.Since he found the contact information on the admissions leaflet, that string of numbers has been lying in his address book for so long, so long, but since those five words just now, it has been connected with his own mobile phone number.

Two-way, brand new, or Yang Jian's initiative, contact.

But if I keep replying to the message bombardment, I will scare people away, right?Where are you, what did you do, if there is, can you take me next time.Yang Jian told him not to ask three questions at a time, like an interrogation.Then I don't have to do a hundred thousand whys, it's okay, it's very simple, Li Bai thought silently, getting along with people... There must be a sense of distance and a sense of proportion.Those airport books he bought on the way to work were written like this.Lying down on the single bed, with his hands folded in front of his stomach, he looked at the moldy wooden ceiling and began to giggle for no reason.

There are so many happy things, he should be satisfied.It was also here before going to bed yesterday, neither of them felt sleepy, Yang Jian stroked his ribs from behind, counted them one by one, and suddenly asked him: "What's your phone number now?"

Like they just met.

"It's still the original one," Li Bai covered the back of his hand with his palm, "159—"

"I see." Yang Jian didn't let him continue, his forehead was pressed against the back of his neck, breathing evenly.It took a while for Li Bai to confirm that the man had fallen asleep.

It turned out to be a reunion after a long absence.

Li Bai didn't continue to think about it, the sweet sourness from last night came back and surrounded him again.Listening to the neighing of cicadas outside the window, he could feel that time was passing, and he didn't have much time.The thumb flicked on the phone, and there were always two bubbles on the screen, one green and one white. It was true that everything was difficult at the beginning, and it was also true that he would become so stupid when he returned to Yang Jian.I don't know how many sentences and pages can be added to these dialogues at the end?

He returned to Yang Jian's side.

Still a little unfair.An hourglass is placed in front of you, telling you that the countdown has begun, you just wait.At this time, God mercifully brought up a plate of good food, and you are the hungriest person in the world. Unfortunately, the hourglass is always covered with a black cloth, so that you don't know how long you can stay on this table.

One bite, one less bite, but it counts as a bite.After all, no one will give up the taste of good food.

That day Li Bai kept the door closed to avoid any chance encounters, until Yang Jian came back in the evening and brought him dinner.It is the noodles mixed with sesame paste in the county town, and the tuotou meat in the countryside. They are all celebrating the Torch Festival. This kind of grand food suddenly becomes ubiquitous.Yang Jian also brought back a few bowls for the students. A dozen or so children who couldn't stay at home stood in line at the door of the dormitory.

Most of the children seemed a little timid. Although their eyes could not be stopped straightened, they still quietly and obediently waited for the teacher sitting on the horse at the door, waiting for him to use a knife to poke the boiled meat sprinkled with chili and salt in the classroom. The paper cups were full, and each cup was handed to them to celebrate their lively and grand festival.

And Li Bai was sitting in the room, biting the tips of disposable chopsticks smelling of sesame paste, looking out from the narrow door frame, what he saw was Yang Jian's black back and the sky above his head.The smell of burning pine is still wafting in the wind, and there are broken voices from the riverside, and the sky seems to be illuminated red by torches.

Li Bai thought of a word, Jintai Xizhao, which is the place name of Beijing. In the CBD area, he always thought this word was very beautiful. He took Line [-] to go to the home of a little star who rented a house there to have hair done for him, and he also saw it a few times. The setting sun over there was sometimes gray and sometimes colorful, but I never figured out where Jintai was.

But now...he seems to have seen it.

Li Bai suddenly became extremely determined, got up from the desk, walked to the door, leaned against the door frame with his pockets in his pocket, and watched the students gobble up together with Yang Jian.

"What does that mean?" he asked about the phrase he had just heard, imitating, "Zi Mogni."

Yang Jian looked up at him, "Good luck."

Li Bai smiled, and asked again: "What about 'Kashasha'?"

"Thank you!" Several children said in unison.

Yang Jian also laughed.

After the students finished eating, he took the pottery bowls to the water room to wash, but Li Bai ran back to the house to get a clean lunch box, and after a few steps, he caught up and said "Kashasha" to him, which means I was fed too, so let me wash the dishes; later, when I arrived at the rocky beach by the river, weaving between the dazzling torches and the men and women singing and dancing, Yang Jian asked Li Bai to watch his bag carefully, grabbed his wrist, and took He walked to a place where there were fewer people, with his head bowed, his face hidden in the flames, and he still said "Kashasha", which meant that I would be lost without you.

Just like Yang Jian taught him to learn English at the beginning, Li Bai, as soon as he reads a word, he immediately puts it to use, with a kind of inexplicable joy, and his own set of ideographic rules, non-stop. To speak.

It's always Yang Jian, and only Yang Jian can understand.

The second day when Yang Jian disappeared, Li Bai lived a little more fulfillingly.He still couldn't send the text message "Where are you going? What are you doing?", and he didn't spend all his time struggling. He went out and helped the life teacher with sleeves to do things for the children. Had lunch.There are braised eggplant and scrambled eggs with cabbage and ham sausage, served with steamed soft potatoes.

Stir-frying the vegetables in the big pot is very refreshing. With Li Bai's arm strength, he can even shake the spoon a little bit, but after all, he hasn't been in the kitchen for several years, so he still doesn't have much confidence in his heart.Fortunately, the children ate very deliciously. Li Bai looked at them and tasted a few more chopsticks. It seemed that they were not as dull as when they tasted salty and light before serving the pot.

Still wanting to make dinner, Li Bai thought up the recipe, and walked a section of the mountain road to the township government to buy pork and carrots.However, just as he and his life teacher peeled half of the pots of corn, Li Bai suddenly stood up, without saying a word, and went back to the dormitory with arms folded.He knew that this kind of behavior was very weird and easy to cause misunderstandings, but he couldn't help it.His stomach hurts so badly, the kind of intense pain that penetrates into the blood vessels and seems to stir up all the internal organs, so that he can only lie still.

Explaining this to strangers is exhausting.

It's funny to think about it. In the past, he felt pain every now and then. He always thought that drinking and not eating hurt his stomach. It turned out that he lacked common sense and couldn't tell the location of the stomach and liver.

Li Bai soon fell into a coma.He dreamed that something was multiplying infinitely in his stomach, expanding rapidly, and was about to burst his belly. The doctor helped him take it out, and it turned out to be a black-skinned egg.

When he woke up, it was dusk again. Yang Jian was travel-laden and had just entered the room, "Teacher Fu told me. Are you feeling unwell?"

Li Bai wanted to sit up, but as soon as he propped himself up, he lay down again, looked at Yang Jian in a daze, and asked, "What did she tell you?"

"She said you were pale, she knocked on the door and saw you fell asleep."

"...I dreamed that I gave birth to an egg." Li Bai smiled, with a sickly blush on his cheekbone, "It hurts so much."

Yang Jian walked to the bed, kept silent, lowered his eyes and lowered his hands, and gently touched his face covered with cold sweat.

Not only did he learn a new language from cats and tigers, but Yang Jian could also understand Li Bai's dreams and everything he said.There is no doubt about it.On the third day, when he replied to Li Bai, he didn't wonder what other beauty the fairy had besides white and golden, but asked, "Where did she take us?"

"I don't know, we haven't landed all the time," Li Bai kept deleting, deleting, and modifying. He made too many typos. He just started using the 26 key recently, and he was still a little unaccustomed. "I insist on grabbing the same wing as you...you Frowning at me, as if I thought I would fall, but we were flying so fast! We could see the mountains far below, and the fog had cleared."

At noon, Yang Jian returned: "Haha."

Li Bai put down the spatula and sweated profusely to unlock the phone. When he saw these two words, he immediately became angry.What did the busy man do?This line of words popped up in the input box again, and was deleted again. In fact, he always felt that he could guess a little bit about the reason why Yang Jian went to the city frequently... But he didn't dare to think about it deeper and farther. up.

So it's normal not to dare to ask?

I put down my phone and went back to cooking. This time I made Mao Xue Wang Da Luan Stew and Tomato Tofu. The children liked it very much.However, the main event was still to come. After the meal, Li Bai sat back on the threshold. After a few days of heavy rain, the clouds were cleared, and the sun was scorching. He fanned himself with the advertisement list he took at the market in the morning, and cut Yang's hair again: "Come back early at night, I bought hairtail, but it will melt after a while."

Immediately afterwards came another one: "Just buy a little, and secretly make it for you."

It seems that there will be no reply for a while.

Li Bai was so bored that he lit a cigarette and held it between his fingers. He would only take a puff when the sparks flickered and were about to disappear into a wisp of white smoke.Another student was peeking at him. The class hadn't started yet. Most of them were spending their time on the playground two rows away. Only occasionally a few ran back to the dormitory, hiding behind the edge of the wall to observe quietly. As soon as Li Bai raised his head, those little black faces changed their expressions and ran away in a hurry.

Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case, Li Bai thought, I don't look extremely vicious, I don't even have anyone who takes the initiative to talk to me.What's more, he had slept so deeply for the past three days, as if he had been sleepy for 800 years. He had to sleep next to Yang Bao in a narrow and small bed. As a result, he left every morning, and he felt a little No, soberness is always one step late.

He didn't want to ask, really not, he just thought he should at least open his eyes and say "be careful on the road", at least he should watch Yang Jian sitting on the edge of the bed in the blue dawn, at a place so close to him, Ann Quietly button up a few buttons, or pull down the hem of the T-shirt to cover the lines on the back waist and scars.

He was thinking about Yang Jian again, and when the man saw the hairtail, he replied "OK", which caused him to still think about it when he was packing the hairtail.Soon the fish was bored, and Li Bai didn't want to be idle, so he rolled out the noodles and chopped the stuffing. He set up a small table outside the kitchen, sat beside him with a mat, and started making dumplings.Green pepper and egg stuffing, with sesame oil, and the fresh dried shrimp he bought this morning, it smells very delicious. The life teacher is still rolling the dough in the kitchen, and some students are peeping. This time there is only one, hiding in a tree. Behind the old tree, a head appeared.

"Qu Biri," Li Bai waved to him, "Come here."

The child seemed to be frightened, and stood out from behind the tree in a daze, but his feet were nailed still.

"Come here," Li Bai squinted his smiling face, and said loudly, "Look at what's delicious to eat today!"

In the end, the series of footsteps ran towards him obediently, and stopped beside him after a step away.

"...Mr. Li," Qu Biri said timidly. In his impression, he was fifteen or sixteen years old, but he was only in the second grade of junior high school. He was also much shorter than the children of the same age in the city, and he didn't have the sophistication. "You know, my name."

Li Bai was looking up at him, almost choking.teacher.Li Bai often heard this title, from various people, such as colleagues in the same make-up group, or apprentices he had taken before, and those young artists also called it when they were in a good mood, such as Zhu Yantang... These two words were put on him This kind of occupation is cheap. Now, after listening to the Yi kid pronounce it in Chinese, he suddenly realized that this is the same word as the one used to address Yang Jian.

"Teacher Yang pointed it out to me, and I even read your summer homework," Li Bai exhaled, and said, "But I don't know how to do those physics problems, so don't call me a teacher."

"What do you call that?" Qu Biri bit his lip and asked with his head tilted.

"Do you think Teacher Yang is more like a father or a brother?" Li Bai asked back.

"Brother." Qu Biri said without hesitation, "Teacher Yang is not married yet."

"...Then you can just call me brother." Li Bai said as gently as possible, he really didn't expect that there would be a day when Yang Jian would be a brother to so many people.

At least it's better than being a dad.

Unexpectedly, Qu Biri looked worried, and said again: "We all want to see Teacher Yang and Teacher Xu get married."

This time Li Bai couldn't hold back, turned his head and coughed violently into the open space for a while. After he calmed down, he turned around, lowered his head and continued to wrap the dumplings, pretending to ask casually, "Why do you want to watch?"

Qu Biri blinked his eyes, as if this was a strange question that didn't need to be answered, "Because they match well, Mr. Yang is handsome and cool, and Mr. Xu is very beautiful and gentle. They go to the beauty pageant at the Torch Festival, and they can win."

can i winProbably not, Li Bai thought, I heard that we should choose vigorous and healthy ones.

Although it was a childish speech, he could not deny that what Qu Biri said was quite reasonable.Li Bai thought about how many women look like, and stood beside Yang Jian, and now it seems that the female teacher who named him a sweet fruit can fit in that empty seat.

"But Teacher Yang won't get married. He also told us that this is a person's freedom, and we don't want to force ourselves because of any other people's reasons. We will regret it for the rest of our lives," Qu Biri said squatting Going down, put your hands on your knees, refraining from touching the white-faced bamboo drawer, your eyes are shining, "Dumplings! I've eaten them twice."

He actually saw that Li Bai's eyes were red.

Hearing that Li Bai was quiet for a while, he said, "I'll pack more."

There are about [-] students plus teachers, and the dough is not big enough to make at least [-] dumplings.Li Bai is going to pack six hundred.The life teacher took the newcomer Xiao Han to clean the classroom, and he was left alone. No matter how nimble his fingers were, he was ready to spend the whole afternoon on it.The cooked octopus has cooled down, no longer fragrant, and the sun is gradually sinking, but Qu Biri still stays beside him staring intently, neither talking nor playing with other children, just waiting for the dumplings to be put on the tray When it is full, help him carry the drawer into the kitchen, and dutifully bring out a new one.

"Aren't you all afraid of me?" Li Bai said suddenly when he counted to 490 nine.

"Hmm..." Qu Biri scratched his head, "I'm not afraid."

"Really?"

"En!" Qu Biri knelt down, nodded, "We know, you are that friend."

"friend?"

"Stationery, food, basketball... other teachers said that it was given by Teacher Yang's friend, and he himself said so," Qu Biri said, "And you have visited Teacher Yang secretly many times, and now Live with him."

Li Bai closed his mouth and determined not to ask any more questions. He blushed and was a little annoyed——Yang Jian actually called him a "friend"?It would be much better to describe him as a guilty enemy!That's at least special.But now, in the eyes of these children, he also seems to be special, so what will it be like in Yang Jian's eyes.

560.When Qu Biri brought the empty drawer over, Li Bai looked up and saw a red sun hanging upright behind the flagpole, and with the sun on his back, a person was walking on the playground, coming from the school gate. , parallel to the school building, go in the direction of the kitchen.

Li Bai's breathing stopped for two seconds.

It seemed that there was a call, but the man stopped halfway, raised his left hand and stood under the red flag to answer the call. A black shadow was half a playground away from Li Bai.

"Teacher Fu is in the kitchen, and Qu Biri came back excitedly," she said, ready to cook! "

Li Bai said "Mmm", looked away from the silhouette, put a newly wrapped dumpling on the diabolo drawer, and asked softly, "Do you like Teacher Yang?"

Qu Biri was puzzled and said, "I like it."

"Why do you like it? Tell me more specifically." Li Bai poured a few drops of water on the dumpling wrappers to make them round, and asked seriously.

"Because he is our role model! He is very smart..." Qu Biri also thought about it seriously, "I have never seen anyone who is smarter than him, and he is also very kind to us, mending our clothes, cooking for us, and he also treats us well. Make a big bucket and dry the water for us to take a bath."

I also used the simple solar water heater two days ago, Li Bai thought silently, there are five in total, it seems really difficult to make.

"And Mr. Yang is very brave. Those bullies don't dare to provoke him. My lord, they don't want their children to go to school. They say that the subsidy is not enough, and they go to the village to make trouble. Every time it is Mr. Yang to settle it," Qu Biri snapped his fingers, "These few days Many children go to school every year."

"By the way, what's more, Mr. Yang is very interesting, very interesting! We always can't understand what he said," he smiled. "He also planted a large field on the mountain, which is so beautiful, it's sunflowers! He took us Get rid of the weeds, and tell us to fry melon seeds for us in autumn."

Li Bai seemed to be engrossed in listening, and after a long silence, he handed Qu Biri a small ball of moist objects, and pointed behind him, "If you like it, you have to express it! Say you pinched it yourself."

Qu Biri lowered his head, in the palm of his hand was a flower made of dumpling skin, a big round disc with finely divided petals, it was made with only one hand and a scraper, it looked like that.Then he looked back blankly, and he ran over quickly.

Li Bai watched with great interest, seeing how Yang Jian was entangled by the child, and while answering the phone, he seemed to have finally caught the white-faced sunflower and put it away properly. In short, Qu Biri began to run back contentedly up.

"I said it was from you!" Qu Biri flew by, and it turned out that the destination was the steaming kitchen.

Li Bai lowered his head, facing the remaining pile of dumpling wrappers, 560 one, 560 two... What he wants to finish in the end, it seems like a countdown.He didn't want to stare at that shadow any more.Just now Yang Jian seemed to be watching Qu Biri off, but up to now, he still hasn't turned away.This made Li Bai have to think that he was actually looking at himself.

They always seem to be like this, facing each other across the sunshine at the door of the classroom, across the shadow of the bus, across the playground, across mountains, rivers, lakes and seas... across the Milky Way.

They were all people who said they would never see each other again, and who broke the promise.

Li Bai's cell phone was lying on the ground and it rang.Li Bai smacked his flour-covered and dust-covered hands away, and picked them up to answer the call.

"I really came back before dinner time." He smiled, "Miss my braised octopus?"

"Thank you for the flowers." Yang Jian answered irrelevantly, with a hoarse voice. He probably talked a lot this day, and he didn't drink water for a long time.

"Haha, what about the ones you planted?" Li Bai tried to continue to relax, he looked at the black blurry shadow, which had appeared countless times in his dreams, and it was the abyss that caused him to fall countless times...I can't do it , he stood up, "Qu Bi Ri said there is a big piece of flowers already blooming, I want to go and see."

"Before you leave." Yang Jian said.

"Walk?"

"I can't delay any longer, I will honestly go back to Beijing to see a doctor."

"I don't want to go! Can you stop saying this suddenly," Li Bai blurted out, and without thinking about anything, he started running like Qu Biri. He was out of breath very quickly, and the wind blew by his ears. , "Just, I mean, a little later, okay?"

The tone is still relaxed.Can't he have to die here, in front of others, and expect Yang Jian to weep bitterly and bury him richly?That kind of behavior is worse than a dying old cat.

However, Yang Jian seemed to be smiling. His shoulders, side of his face, and flying hair were covered with a layer of golden red thin shadow by the setting sun, which became clear in his eyes as Li Bai approached.He was no longer pitch black, and was almost overwhelmed by the grand orange-red sun behind him.Li Bai stopped and saw his face, really smiling.He said the words Li Bai was looking forward to and afraid of so lightly and naturally, and he could hear them through the receiver and directly in front of him.

"The application was approved just now, let's go together."