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It was a morning when the sky was high and the clouds were clear to see the sunflowers, but the two of them had to return in vain—the land was sorted out by Yang Jian himself. It is said that it is halfway up the mountain, next to the orange grove of someone else’s house , and the village at the foot of the mountain is connected by a small road that is only big enough for a pickup truck.Although walking is rough at ordinary times, it is also considered convenient.As a result, this time, just halfway through the climb, we ran into a roadblock, "The mountain ahead has collapsed, and no traffic is allowed." There is such a red-and-white sign in the middle of the road.

No need to think about it, I knew that this road was probably washed away by the heavy rain a few days ago, but the two of them were still not reconciled, they insisted on bypassing the signboard, and wanted to go a little higher.The mud along the road was getting heavier and heavier, and I finally got a closer look. Large pieces of earth and rocks peeled off from the side of the mountain, mixed with tree roots and broken logs, and the lowest point was two or three meters high, blocking the entire road. .

"Why don't you try walking from below?" Li Bai pointed to the other side of the original mountain road. There are still some intact forests there, the canopy of which reaches the height of the road. If you climb down along the trunk, you may be able to step on the ground and walk the road Tong Tong, "You can also climb over it directly, it's just a slope, just climb over it!" He rolled up his trouser legs, eager to try the piled up red soil.

Yang Jian turned around and left.

"You're going to sink in," he said, "or get pushed down the hill by a sliding rock."

On the way back, he also told Li Bai a few stories, saying that the mountains here are big, the soil is pine, and the slope drops greatly. It is not uncommon for a small stone to affect the whole body, and it is not uncommon for the off-road vehicle to go missing.

I don't know if it's true or not after saying so much, but at least it shocked Li Bai.Obediently next to Yang Jian, he followed the footsteps when he came, not daring to step on it, for fear of running into a "trap" and taking Yang Jian into it.

I just couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Then the sunflower fields are also destroyed?"

"Maybe." Yang Jian was absent-minded.

"It's a pity... Maybe all the flowers have been knocked off," Li Bai pointed to the sky, "It rains every day, is it bothering you?"

Yang Jian squinted his eyes, looking like he couldn't help laughing.

It seems that planting flowers is unintentional, and he obviously doesn't want to be the one who sees the sunflowers blooming.

The date of leaving school for application is August 21st, and Yang Jian has to stay for a few more days because there are still some things in the school that have not been finished in time.Handing over the teaching content to the new teacher Han is one aspect, and taking the students back to school takes up a bigger part of the workload.The young teacher divided into two groups, Xu Li led Xiao Han to approach on foot, and Yang Jian drove a borrowed pickup up the mountain to cross the bridge to approach the farther.

He has long been familiar with these roads, and there are a few new students and a few old students behind each fork waiting for him to find, and he knows it in his heart.He also brought a pendant, which was body-sized and not very noisy. Sometimes he sat in the co-pilot and dozed off, and sometimes he stayed in the back of the car to watch the sky while blowing the wind.

A cardboard box was dismantled and placed underneath. Li Bai didn’t know how to sit. He would often lie down after sitting for a while. Yang Jian could see his crooked sitting posture in the rearview mirror, or his hands raised high to grab the air. .When I finally reached the place and stopped the car, I saw the man jump down with a "huh", pretending to rub his tailbone that was numb by the mountain road, pretending to be natural.

The reason why Li Bai must follow him as a pendant is that he said that the people here are tough, and bringing more of himself can give Yang Jian more momentum. However, after a few days, he climbed up the bald mountain, dived into the deep valley, and saw the village hidden in it. , but didn't meet a person holding a machete who didn't welcome them in.You can always see women working in the fields, or sitting on the side of the road with swaddling babies in their arms, staring at them with empty eyes, hesitantly and naively; With their heads down, or with pipes in their ears, they all fell into a deep sleep.

They are not too young, and this kind of village is always quiet and empty, and young people are not there. The most energetic are those half-grown children with mud on their trousers. He stood up, as if he had been looking forward to the visitor for a long time.

There are many children called "teacher", and the shy ones are silent, but they have to be tightly surrounded by the outer circle.

But Yang Jian could only take away his own students.

He shuttled between the mud walls and broken wooden doors, skillfully looking for people according to the list, and drove away the dog that bit Li Bai's heel.The found students followed behind the two, gradually forming a chain.From time to time, some parents couldn't pay the money, took off the old bacon under the beams, and took out a basket of eggs from under the bed. If they wanted to pay the bill, Yang Jian would tell them that the state had paid the tuition fees for compulsory education, and the children would eat. You can live with the school, or you can owe it first, and then make up for it after the bursary is approved.

Just let your kids come to school.

However, more often than not, such visits do not touch the parents at all. Either they say that the parents have gone out to work and haven’t come back for a long time, or they simply lower their heads and keep silent. The children’s reactions are nothing more than these.Faced with this situation, Yang Jian was still not in a hurry. He asked someone to take him to the village branch to register, saying that so-and-so's son and daughter were taken away by Qinggang Middle School, and he signed many documents. A bunch of students were sent to the car bucket without landing.

Strangely enough, it seemed that once they climbed into the car, the demons and ghosts would be thrown away, and the dense fog and poisonous miasma in the forest would be cleared away. Sitting around Li Bai in the cart, they asked a lot of questions, and it was okay if they didn't get an answer. They sang songs happily.

Li Bai thought silently, being a student is indeed a very good thing.

On the night when the last list was drawn, Li Bai called Teacher Yang on the bed, asking if I was particularly bad.

Yang Jian held his Adam's apple in his mouth and said, really.

There are so many of them who need you, and I snatched you away from them.Li Bai hugged his shoulders tightly.

Yang Jian nibbled on the sharp Adam's apple, still saying, is that so.

This was the expected answer, Li Bai's eyes were out of focus from the lingering shaking, but he smiled quietly.Teacher Yang, Yang Jian.You are not ready to give me an answer.You never liked giving people answers.I also know that even without me, you will still leave sooner or later.

In fact, at a similarly barren age, Li Bai also hoped that such a teacher would come to him, or a master, he was not so greedy, he had to sit in the classroom.He just wanted someone older and reliable who could see his scars and teach him to heal them.But if he really met those normal children with sparkling eyes in the car, now it seems, will it be lucky or unlucky?

It is cruel and a curse to see someone who is too dazzling and never forget it.Because separation seems to be inevitable forever, and no one will give away every minute and every second to anyone.If you can accept it, you can live well, if you can't accept it, you won't die.

But Yang Jian was originally his.

He should have taken Yang Jian away, he didn't need to see him off, it was unfair for him to separate from Yang Jian.

Li Bai just thought about it in his heart so that he would not be corrected.

I didn't have much luggage, but Yang Jian's single suitcase was still not enough. On August 20th, Li Bai took the bus into the county and bought a bigger one.When I came back, the sun was just right in the afternoon, and about [-] students and several teachers gathered on the playground, sitting cross-legged, and those around them were singing under the flagpole.Holding a guitar, strumming is also simple, singing Dou Wei's song, Black Dream, the third song, "And You".

Li Bai immediately ran close with the box and the cardboard box, and then stopped suddenly outside the circle. Behind a little girl who was crying, he sat down quietly.

It seems that they all know that Yang Jian is leaving.Even the life teacher and Xu Li's eyes were red.

This song is obviously not lyrical, the melody is a bit sleepy, it is difficult to sing, and you need to lower your voice very low, but it is a must-play song for Yang Jian in KTV. No one can sing along with him, and no one Dare to cut his song.

But when did you learn to play the guitar?I still know a little bit all the time, but we don't have a piano, so I haven't played it for me.Li Bai couldn't take his eyes off it.

When Yang Jian sang, he lowered his head, facing the wooden yellow surface of the piano, he didn't look at anyone, only the spring breeze was blowing on his face.After singing, he stood up and bowed, and returned the piano to Xiao Han.

Li Bai started to applaud.

Yang Jian looked at him and said, "Thank you for the show you gave me just now."

This is probably the finale of the farewell party. Those children who put on clean school uniforms and carefully dressed themselves began to applaud Li Bai with swollen eyes. Xu Li glanced at Li Bai, and the red eye sockets finally slipped away. The next two lines of tears.And Li Bai stood up, walked towards the ping-pong table and greeted with a smile: "Don't cry, I bought a big cake in the county town, blow out a candle and make a wish, see you later!"

After he finished speaking, he put the box that he had been carrying for fear of being broken all the way on the table, and some students followed him, and when he lifted the lid, Li Bai took a deep breath like them.

The almond slices were not scattered too much, and there were more than a dozen cream pies on the round surface, supporting more than a dozen strawberries, none of which fell off, and even the right-angled edges of the cake were not dented.

Li Bai pursed his lips. Amid all the salivating eyes, he watched Yang Jian being surrounded and walking towards him.

"Come, come, let Teacher Yang do the cutting!" Xu Li clapped his hands.

Dozens of students obediently began to clap their hands and beat the beat.Swallowing and spitting quietly.The old principal and life teacher, they were all among the students, laughing without fighting or snatching, Yang Jian also laughed, standing beside Li Bai, when he took out the lighter from his trouser pocket, he squeezed his hand calmly .

Then, just as a candle was plugged in and before it had time to light it, Yang Jian was suddenly pushed face down by someone.

"Surprise——" Xiao Han laughed, let go of his hands from his shoulders, and started clapping, but he didn't know when the rhythm of those choruses had stopped, and the playground was dead silent, only his solitary applause echoed.

Xiao Han's smile froze on his lips, and his hands stopped stupidly.

Yang Jian straightened up silently, and he just realized in time that the pressure wasn't too deep, only the tip of his nose, lips, forehead and a little bit of hair were covered with cream.The plump and soft balls hung harmoniously on his face, he smiled at Xiao Han, and then walked straight away, "I'll wash it up, you eat first, the cream is easy to melt."

Xiao Han wanted to chase after him, but found that the one who had been staring at him with creepy eyes took a step ahead of him.

Li Bai found Yang Jian in the water room.

The man didn't rush to clean, but leaned against the edge of the sink, smoking a cigarette.

"The surname Han is sick," Li Bai approached, "The cake is ruined!"

"Does he know how to joke? He thinks he's very humorous! Pressing his neck and shoulders will be annoying." He turned on another faucet and washed his hands. "Do you think you're going to leave and don't bother with him?" , then I will care about it, I care about it! I will wash you first."

"I really don't like being pressed." Yang Jian said.

"Don't smoke, and don't be angry," Li Bai said irritably, climbed onto Yang Jian's shoulder, and went to pick the cigarette between his fingers, "What's the point of smoking a dull cigarette alone, let's go out and beat him up."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was suddenly pinned down on the back of his neck.Yang Jian held the cigarette high in one hand, and put his other hand around him, before aligning his mouth, kissed hastily, not allowing him to speak.

But he kissed the cream all over his face, rubbing it sticky and sticky between the skins of the two of them, and the smoke, sweetness, and unbridled gnawing that existed between the lips and teeth, now melted between the lips and teeth between.

"What's the matter?" Li Bai asked.A kiss made him bow his head and his neck was burned red.

Yang Jian just laughed and didn't answer.

"Take it out on me when you're annoyed," Li Bai bit the tip of his nose, "Is it fun to kiss me?"

Yang Jian still smiled silently.

"What were you thinking just now?" Li Bai scraped off a finger of cream from his face, put it in his mouth and sucked it, then raised his eyes quietly.

"I'm thinking there's a lot of water these days," Yang Jian finally said again, "We can go by boat."

Three days later, in the hospital lobby in Beijing, Li Bai squatted in a corner with severe pain in his abdomen, and could still clearly recall the kiss, as well as the Jinsha River, the boatman, and the bow of the boat that broke through the waves the next day.

There were only the two of them on the electric boat with two rows of seats, and the sun was like fish scales, spreading among the green mountain gorge. He and Yang Jian talked about the earthquake in [-], saying that he was terrified at the time and even went to the disaster area to do After two months of volunteering, there were still aftershocks after the shock. Fortunately, I didn't see him among the injured. He said that he later met that civil servant "sister" named "Xiaomi" in Daliushu Ghost City, and had a drink together. Only then did I realize that that person worked in the education system, and the address of several districts and counties in Liangshan was obtained from her.

In short, on the way to leave, Li Bai explained the way he found from beginning to end, while Yang Jian listened intently. After listening, he opened his backpack and took out a long waist knife with a Yi nationality carving on the handle. Wen, he turned his backhand and threw it directly in and out of the boat.Quickly and neatly, the river was smashed into a small hole, which was immediately filled by Jiang Tao, and they drove away quickly, and a bright yellow suddenly appeared between the collapsed faces of the green hills on the bank.

Not far below Minghuang, just passing by is Qinggang Middle School.

Early in the morning, he ran upstream to look for a pier to board a boat, and now he drifted back. Li Bai grabbed Yang Jian's cuff, and Yang Jian leaned over to his side, and held his head next to him, also watching.

The sunflowers did bloom, and they were so big.

It was not destroyed by the heavy rain, and it appeared in their eyes belatedly.

That bright yellow is really a beautiful color, and Li Bai can see it even with his eyes closed.That color can even overshadow the pain, making him feel like he is in a field of flowers that he has never set foot on.

It was like having a dream that often lasted for days in a few minutes.

"Is it Li Bai?"

A clear and cold voice came from above his head, which cut off his dream.Li Bai raised his eyes to look, and when he was right for a while, he became anxious, and saw clearly that he was a young doctor, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, tall, with a high nose bridge, and a hairstyle that had been carefully done but neglected. yellowing.

People are also very pale, surprisingly white.

"Hello, I am." Li Bai said cautiously.

"Hello, my surname is Fang, and I will probably be your attending physician next time," the man spoke quickly, stretching out his right hand towards him, as if to pull him up, "Yang Jian has already told you Well, sign up today, and we'll have an inspection right away."

Li Bai supported the wall to stop himself, squinted his eyes, and saw the doctor Fang's breastplate pinned to the front pocket of his white coat.I could see the words "Department of Oncology" and "Deputy Chief Physician", as well as the name of this person, Fang Zhaozhi.

But he looks so young.

Li Bai has watched a lot of domestic eight o'clock medical dramas sporadically, and he knows that the title of "deputy director" is not so easy to get.

Also, Li Bai was a little dizzy again, what the hell is Yang Jian doing after returning to Beijing?That's the most important thing, right?Not only did Yang Jian send him to see a doctor in Xiehe Hospital, which is hard to find, how could he let the doctor come downstairs to pick him up in person?

In short, it must have taken a lot of effort, so I must not mess around and behave like a qualified patient.

"Thank you." Li Bai smiled and shook hands with Fang Zhaozhi who was looking him up and down.

He didn't want to look at each other, but he was also looking at them, using his hands.That hand was cold, but the skin was as delicate as a woman's. It's not an exaggeration—at least this Dr. Fang is definitely not the kind of person who usually needs to do rough work by himself.With rosy white hands, just hold a pen and a lancet.

"Where's Yang Jian?" Fang Zhaozhi looked around.

I went to get hot water for me, because I really wanted to drink when I was in pain just now, Li Bai thought, but I don't want to tell you.

"Hey, isn't it coming?" Fang Zhaozhi lifted it up and let go of his hand.

Li Bai followed his line of sight and looked back, only to see Yang Jian holding a white paper cup, pushing in from the dark crowd of registered people.As he approached, he handed the hot water to Li Bai, looked at Fang Zhaozhi and said, "You've found it quite accurately."

"Light yellow sweater and blue jeans, thin, about 1.7 meters, handsome young boy, this is easy to find, and those nails you mentioned," the man said like a cannonball, and suddenly became quiet again, slightly wrinkled Eyebrows fixed on Yang Jian's face, he said after a while, "Long time no see."

Yang Jian smiled and said, "Seven or eight years."

Fang Zhaozhi was stunned, shook hands with Yang Jian, shook hands twice and did not let go, and suddenly smiled brightly: "Brother, you really haven't changed much."