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Seeing the two of them staring blankly, she greeted again with a smile: "Sit down first!" After saying that, she put her coat on the back of the dining chair, then walked to the closed room, and closed the door, leaving a room half a person wide. narrow slit.

Standing at Li Bai's angle, he could see the dim red light reflected by the candles swaying inconspicuously on the wall, and there were also illusory figures moving. It looked like Yang Yuqiu was tending the shrine.

And Yang Jian was obviously used to this, so he sat down silently nearby, bit open the beer bottle, and took two sips from the mouth of the bottle.What was left for Li Bai was the chair covered with a coat, and the scent of flowers wafted from behind him, which should be perfume.This made him dare not sit on the back of the chair, carefully straightened his waist, and kept a certain distance. He asked Yang Jian: "I have cooked a lot of rice, do you want to get a pair of bowls and chopsticks for my sister?"

"She diets to lose weight at night." Yang Jian served himself soup.

"Oh." Li Bai nodded, picked up the bowl, and couldn't help turning his head to look at it. He saw Yang Yuqiu push the door out, closed the mysterious wooden door again, and walked to the dining table.

Standing beside Li Bai, she supported the sharp corner of the back of his chair with one hand. The scent suddenly became stronger, and it also mixed with the smell of burning incense candles. Her peach eyes revealed sparkling surprise, "You cooked the dishes." Yes? It’s the first time Yang Jian brings college classmates here, there seems to be fruit in the refrigerator, I’ll wash some, you don’t have to restrain yourself and eat well.”

Seeing that the person on the opposite side didn't intend to help introduce, it seemed that he hadn't mentioned his appearance in front of Yang Yuqiu recently, so he had to report his family name: "That... sister, I'm not a classmate," he put down the bowl again, raised his face Looking at Yang Yuqiu's crooked smiling eyes, "Do you still remember that Li Bai in the village?"

Yang Yuqiu blinked, and the dark orange eye shadow shone slightly, and before the smile spread from the corner of her mouth, she realized, "Xiaobai!" She called out very enthusiastically, and touched the top of Li Bai's head, "Remember, of course Remember, we were still discussing when we would go back to find you! How many years have we not seen each other, and how tall are you?"

Li Bai was deeply skeptical about the previous sentence.

But he still smiled at Yang Yuqiu, stood up obediently, and asked Yang Yuqiu to compare his height, "I went to Peking University to look for my brother, and I really found him. Two years ago I—"

He briefly talked about what happened in recent years, and Yang Yuqiu expressed a lot of interest in it. Although Yang Jian didn't interrupt, he went to his bedroom and moved the chair in front of the desk for her to sit on.Sure enough, Yang Yuqiu didn't move her chopsticks, she washed a box of small tomatoes that were about to wilt, and she only ate three or four.

Seemingly touched, she asked Li Bai with red eyes: "It doesn't matter about work, where do you live recently? Do you have a place to go?"

Li Bai swallowed the shredded potato and said, "The rent at Shijingshan is one hundred a month."

"That's okay," Yang Yuqiu heaved a sigh of relief, "Yang Jian is also on vacation, so he will take us there tomorrow for a visit."

"There's nothing to see, just the small single room I live in." Li Bai smiled dryly. "Next to it is the factory of Shougang. There is smoke and blackness every day, and the traffic is not very convenient."

"Take a taxi, my sister treats guests," Yang Yuqiu shook out a thin cigarette from a bright red cigarette case, and asked Li Bai with eyes. The matchheads were crushed into powder, "You're going to be young soon, have all your part-time jobs stopped?" She asked Yang Jian again.

"I don't care," Yang Jian said, "It's my sister, I'm sorry you still have to go there, it's a bit domineering."

Yang Yuqiu stepped on his slippers under the table: "Hey, I haven't seen you for more than a month, come up and talk back to me."

"Tell the truth." Yang Jian shrugged.

Yang Yuqiu didn't insist anymore, she stirred the chicken soup with a spoon, and helped the two of them turn over the meat. After a moment of silence, she said again: "Shijingshan doesn't make a lot of money in hairdressing, just like you said, The surroundings are either factories or suburbs, the traffic is not good, and people don’t pay attention to them. Workers and so on can be solved by buying a razor themselves. Who would go to a barber shop to have their hair dyed and dyed? You can’t make money if you find a job. Let me tell you that you should move here, there are a lot of white-collar workers and students, and the environment must be more comfortable than there, you are small, and there is no room at home."

Li Bai almost thought he heard it wrong, is this inviting him to live with him?Sleep on the couch?He would be willing to pay the rent and do the cleaning if he could.He quietly looked at Yang Jian, but Yang Jian just drank as usual, and there was no attitude at all from that face.

After careful consideration, when the rice bowl bottomed out, Li Bai ate the last few grains of rice, put down his chopsticks, turned around slightly, and sat upright facing Yang Yuqiu: "I think it's better to forget it, sister, I know you are doing it for my own good, but I still want to try it myself to see how far I can go without relying on others," he said, rubbing his cheeks and smiling innocently, "Besides, I still want to rent cheaply for half a year, and if I cancel the lease, I will have to pay liquidated damages .”

"Oh, you have no one to love you since you were a child, and you raised yourself too alone," Yang Yuqiu sighed, his eyebrows and eyes curved gently, "It's okay, we have to celebrate the Spring Festival together, right? Stay here for a few more days, every year Yang Jian Staying at home for a long time during the holidays will quarrel with me all day long, and the older I get, the more irritable I will be, this time with my younger brother, let's see if he still bullies me."

"The eyes of the masses are discerning," Yang Jian smiled with his chin propped up, "It will be clear at a glance who is the one who needs solidarity."

What he said was full of confidence, and it seemed to be very reasonable. At least in Li Bai's view, those who were asked to wash all the over-dug pans and wipe the table and mop the kitchen after meals were the real oppressed.While Yang Jian was humming and working hard, Li Bai was dragged to the sofa by Yang Yuqiu to reminisce about the past. Gradually, they talked about the village they used to have and their father who stayed in the village.

"I don't know," Li Bai said simply, "I never went back."

"So do we." Yang Yuqiu looked thoughtfully at Ruby Lin who was crying so hard on the TV screen.She had already replaced Yang Jian's economic news with love and rain. She also put on a silver-gray turtleneck cashmere sweater with rhinestones and a plush pajamas in bright red and purple colors, and took two makeup remover wipes. She was wiping her lips, "The contact is also broken, there is no news at all. It has been ten years."

Li Bai looked down at his knees, gulped down the cold Ginger Coke, and stopped talking.If Yang Yuqiu offered to go home and have a look together during the Chinese New Year, he would definitely refuse.Yang Yuqiu was in his teens when he left, and Yang Jian was not even ten years old at the time. After that, Li Bai was alone, not even a companion to divert firepower. Sometimes he thought viciously, this is all wrong, It's unfair, why was he the only one left, until the end of the summer when he was 12 years old, he finally seized the opportunity and was able to walk away by himself.

To this day, he still feels that the suffering he suffered on that land must be heavier and denser than that of the siblings.He would never go back and look at it again.

However, Yang Yuqiu didn't hold on to the past any longer, and patted the back of his hand, with a little redness that hadn't been removed and smudged around his lips, and chatted with him about the fashionable women's hairstyles in Nanjing.

After Yang Jian came to the living room after washing, he wiped the back of his hands on his jeans and watched Gu Juji frowning on TV. Li Bai stood up and picked up his cotton-padded jacket from the corner of the sofa, "I'll go back first, the car will be ready later." Gone."

"Pack up your things, hurry up and come over tomorrow," Yang Yuqiu stuffed him with antipyretics, "Accompany my sister to buy some new year's goods. Feed the two young men, buy more meat this time."

Li Bai agreed with a "hey" and sneaked a look at Yang Jian, only to see that the man had gone back to his bedroom and came out after waiting for half a minute. He was wearing a long black down jacket and a dark red backpack on his shoulders. The one he was carrying for the exam this afternoon was already stuffed.

"I'll see you off." He stepped on his short boots, passed his arm over Li Bai, and took down the key hanging beside the round mirror at the door.

The two walked down the nine floors without saying a word.

"Why don't you agree?" Yang Jian pushed the bicycle blocking the way at the door of the unit, "My sister asked you to live with me."

"I don't think you are very willing." Li Bai replied honestly.

Yang Jian smiled and did not deny it.

"I myself don't feel very comfortable living here," Li Bai squeezed the medicine box in his pocket, "You usually live in a dormitory, and it's inconvenient for me and my sister to be together. You go home and live. If you quarrel with me and start to bother me, you will be fine in the future." Don’t talk to me anymore, I’ll be unaccompanied in Beijing, it’s not worth it.”

After finishing speaking, he didn't know what Yang Jian was thinking, whether he agreed with his reasoning, and admitted that he would bother him.I saw the man groping in the bicycle shed for a while, and the key chain also jingled. About a minute later, with the faint light of the house on the first floor a few meters away, he turned on a 1 bicycle and dusted it casually. After dusting off the dust, he got on the car seat and turned around to wave to Li Bai, "Let's go!"

"Going to the station?" Li Bai raised his steps.

Yang Jian stepped on the pedal directly, and began to ride forward. Because the speed was too slow, he swayed on the half-frozen snow, but he still had to free his right hand, raised it up and snapped his fingers, as if He rang the bell and called Li Bai specifically.Li Bai also hurriedly chased after him like a puppy, shouting "slow down", for fear that he might slip by himself.

After catching up, the two of them also reached the stairs at the entrance of the family area. Li Bai grabbed the iron ring of the back seat and jumped up vigorously. He began to pant, but Yang Jian didn't slow down at all, the wheels ran over the steps, and just bumped to the ground.

With a total of seven blows, Li Bai felt that his ass was about to break into seven petals, or that the old car would break down halfway, but he found that he couldn't stop laughing at all.

"Brother, Yang Jian, brother!" He sucked his nose against the wind and let go of his voice, "You're crazy!"

"Let's have fun!" Yang Jian rode even faster.

Riding through the narrow road in the residential area, the deserted food street behind a hospital, and drilling through the door for a few months, I came to a straight road. Others were frozen at home, and each road belonged to only the two of them.

At the bus station, the corners of Li Bai's mouth hurt, and the cold wind in his nose made him unconscious, but he was still very happy, and the dizziness caused by the fever disappeared.He jumped down from the back seat, put his hands behind his back, and bowed jokingly to Yang Jian, "Thank you for your hard work, bye."

But Yang Jian only cared about locking the bike, breaking off the frozen rubber lock, he fixed the bike on the pole at the farthest side of the shelter, "What are you praying for?" As he spoke, he patted off the rust on his fingertips.

"You're not going back?" Li Bai was greatly surprised, "You're waiting for the bus too? Are you going to my place?"

"Nonsense." Yang Jian kicked away the snow at his feet.

"What are you going to do?" Li Bai tilted his head with a dazed expression.

"Don't you sleep in an open-air bungalow and look up at the starry sky now?" Yang Jian looked at him and said, "I'll go and see. What if a heavy snow falls tonight and you are buried the next day?"

Li Bai is still a little ambiguous about the meaning of this. Is Yang Jian going to help him sweep the snow, or is he going to help him repair it?The maintenance team will pay 800 yuan for the work. Can he repair it well?But no matter what, even if Yang Jian just went over to have a look and spend the night with him in the cold, Li Bai would be happy.

They squeezed into the bus occupied by overtime workers together, and found the seats together, until there were only a few passengers left in the bus.Li Bai leaned on Yang Jian's shoulder and squinted for a while, then went to play with the soft fur collar of his down jacket, circling his fingers and letting go, making it itchy.In the past, Li Bai could only pinch secretly while no one was staring at him in the mall, but now he can rub it unscrupulously. He likes this kind of touch very much. However, whether he is sleeping or moving around, Yang Jian basically looks out of the window, Li Bai gets I don't know what he is thinking, but I can only see the ends of his slightly curled eyelashes, and occasionally the lighting is right, and I can see his thin lips, a mole on the upper left cheek, and quiet eyes on the glass.

Nearing 11:30, the two wandered to the station, walked along Badachu Road for a while, and arrived at Li Bai's residence.

The room was at the end of a row of small bungalows, and the word "demolition" on the wall had been there for some years. Li Bai still felt shabby when the incident came to an end, but all he could do was turn on the stove to its fullest, and then walk to the other side of the bungalow. The public water room at one end provides hot water for washing.

Yang Jian didn't mean to dislike him, he looked under the big hole in the roof for a long time, and praised him for tidying up the house very neatly.That night, both of them slept in their clothes, squeezed together on the single bed in the corner, with Li Bai inside and Yang Jian outside, listening to the cold wind blowing like it was blowing by their ears.Until Li Bai was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes anymore, Yang Jian didn't turn off the light, and didn't lie down, but sat there with a pencil end in his mouth, holding a notebook, silently looking at the hole in the ceiling, drawing some pictures from time to time. The pen seems to have reached some kind of spiritual communication with that pitch black.

The next morning, Li Bai's alarm clock did not ring, causing him to wake up after nine o'clock.When he woke up, his waist was sore and his back was sore, because he was too shy to move around, and Yang Jian was not by his side, only the book was on his side of the pillow.I used to use pens, but last night I drew a few sketches with fresh pencil handwriting, which filled two pages.

There is also a line of high-spirited characters circled out:

make me lunch.