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Standing in the elevator of the hospital, the lights are pale, the inner walls on all sides seem to be wet, and water can seep from the corners, and the size of the patient's pants is too big. A kind of numb cold poured out on Li Bai's legs, but it was especially warm when he went up.Yang Jian's jacket was heavy, draped over him, like a windbreaker that could cover his buttocks, the smell of smoke was so faint that he could hardly be smelled, only a camphor smell wrapped him up and intertwined with his breathing.

This made Li Bai feel safe, like hiding in Yang Jian's wardrobe.The whole body was crowded, there was a hospital bed between him and Yang Jian, and the old man lying on it was weakly moaning and foaming at the mouth, Li Bai had had enough coughing against the wall, and looked sideways, Yang Jian was also looking at the sick man, He showed no expression, and the corners of his eyes were cloudy and difficult to distinguish, but after watching for a while, Li Bai's heartbeat gradually returned to normal.

After telling his murder plan, he observed Yang Jian all the time.It's so strange, Yang Jian only showed a little surprise at the moment when he opened the curtain and looked back at him at the beginning, as for confusion, disdain, objection...all of these were absent from the beginning to the end.

When he said that he had found a photo of that person with "Trump", the specific location of that person's "dojo", and the villagers in the nearby villages who had been "taught" and "cleaned" by that person, Yang Jian He listened quite carefully.

I didn't think he was unreasonable.

But it was also extremely calm, as if listening to a strange rural story that had nothing to do with him.

Now the elevator door opened and closed, and finally arrived at the basement floor they were going to, and finally there were only the two of them left.Yang Jian went out first, pressed the elevator door, and watched Li Bai come out bouncing on crutches.

"...I'm still not used to it." Li Bai was embarrassed by him.

Yang Jian didn't make a sound, and let go of his hand, and the elevator door slowly closed behind the two of them, also cutting off the lighting inside the elevator.The lighting tubes in this parking lot are sparsely installed and dim. Li Bai's wounds in the inner corners of his eyes were cleaned and antibiotic ointment was applied. Under this brightness, the parking spaces and aisles can only be vaguely discerned.Yang Jian walked in front of Li Bai, seeming quite sure about where he was going to find a car, but the sound of "duk-duk" when the crutches touched the ground rang in the silence, and Li Bai was flustered, even his own cough could make him feel sick. His nerves were tense, he just wanted to follow closely in this gloomy area, "Has the rain stopped outside? If it pours in, will this place be flooded?" He was looking for words again.

"It's possible." Yang Jian said.

Li Bai jumped over a speed bump and almost tripped.He can't fully put his weight on the two aluminum alloy sticks under his armpits.And he thought that the person in front of him still wouldn't talk to him, but the answer was so straightforward, which made him really start to fear that if he didn't pay attention, a flood covered in sand would rush in and wrap around his feet again like a python. up.This time, only the one on the right can only touch the ground, and it must be even more difficult to beat.

But I heard Yang Jian say again: "The hospital is not close to Wujiang River, there is a mountain across, not for the time being."

The pace also slowed down a bit, Li Bai jumped a few times vigorously, and finally caught up.

As soon as he approached, he wanted to hit Yang Jian, and there was nothing he could do if he was suspected of pushing an inch. This was like a habitual movement, and even his muscles had memory.He wanted to at least touch his sleeve, or pretend to bump his shoulder inadvertently, but he was not confident in his crutch skills, and was afraid that he would poke someone with a stagger, so he could only stare at the ground with his head down, dizzy. Yes, the nasal voice is also a bit muffled: "Are you cold?"

After waiting for a long time, there was no response, and he said again: "The medical expenses... the wallet is also gone, and I will return it to you after I have reissued the documents and cards."

"..." Yang Jian glanced at him and began to stare straight ahead.

Li Bai still didn't give up: "By the way, there is a breakfast shop near the hospital that sells camellia oleifera. I ate it two days ago and it was very good. Camellia oleifera is boiled with glutinous rice, sesame, bacon, tea, peanuts, etc. It goes with their glutinous rice cakes. Very fragrant. It's almost morning, are you hungry?"

A car drove past, knocked over a few manhole covers, and fell into a parking space not far away, and then several figures came out in a hurry, some were carried on their backs, and some were yelling in tears.Yang Jian didn't look over there either. He carried the backpack with one hand, took out a bunch of keys from it, and stopped in front of a Toyota SUV.

He suddenly asked: "How are you going to kill?"

The footsteps stopped, but there was no crutches. Li Bai managed to stabilize his center of gravity and took another step back.

"Huh?" he said.

Turning his face halfway, and eye to eye with Yang Jian, his head was in a daze, he wanted to cough again, but he closed his mouth, he felt that he should have learned to make as little noise as possible when he didn't think about it, "That's right, With a knife," he finally said, his voice hoarse, as if he was blocked from lungs to throat after a while without coughing, "I wanted to find a high place to push him down, but I might not be able to do it. Killing people Son... don't challenge yourself in terms of method."

After speaking, he smiled.

Whether he was laughing at himself or not, Li Bai himself couldn't tell clearly, he just heard the breath he exhaled when he laughed, a very faint sound, which was indeed very strange.

But Yang Jian also smiled, lowered his head slightly, and leaned towards him, suddenly there was a kind of intimacy and focus that was enough to make Li Bai delusional, "There are many methods, and using a knife is the worst."

"I'm not afraid of leaving evidence, and I'm not afraid of being ugly." Li Bai clenched his cuffs tightly and suppressed his voice, "I just want him to die."

"now?"

"Now—" Li Bai looked down at the cast around his left leg.

It is definitely impossible to kill.

Yang Jian didn't seem to be waiting for an answer. He pressed the key, and the snow-white headlights turned on. He walked to the side of the car and opened the door for Li Bai.

Li Bai jumped very fast this time, and put his two crutches aside, and handed over his free hand, "Help me up, okay?"

Yang Jian didn't touch that hand, but hugged Li Bai's armpit and directly stuffed him into the co-pilot's seat. Fortunately, the off-road vehicle has a high chassis, so it's not too difficult to do so.Stowing his waist, Yang Jian bent his body very low, making Li Bai blushed and shrunk his neck, so naturally the door frame couldn't hit his head.When he was stable, he was about to back out, the car door was closed immediately, and his hand was grabbed suddenly, "You should wear it, their hospital gown is made of old cotton cloth, which is quite thick," Li Bai said, dazed He let go of his hand and began to concentrate on tossing the clothes. The contusion on the shoulder and arm was still throbbing, and he took off a sleeve with great effort, and then he could only get stuck there without embarrassment, "Mr. Yang, help me... ..."

He coughed as soon as he opened his mouth, and the cough became more and more severe, and he had to stop speaking. No matter how he looked at it, he was so anxious that he was about to cry.

Li Bai is most afraid of making a fool of himself in front of Yang Jian. He is unwilling to make a fool of himself, big or small, but he always does this kind of thing.

Yang Jian sighed, picked up the cuff he had taken off, and straightened it. He was indeed helping him, but he held his sore arm and helped him put the clothes back on.This time, he even closed the zipper. Yang Jian squatted there, looked at Li Bai's face, and helped him straighten the messy collar of the hospital gown, covering the collarbone and the scars that were painted with purple lotion, and then The zipper goes all the way to wrap it all up.

"You have a fever, do you know?" Standing up straight, the end of the chain slipped from his fingers, Yang Jian lowered his hands.

Li Bai couldn't see the expression of the man above the door frame, he sniffed and hid his hands in his cuffs.

"It's not like I don't feel it." Yang Jian asked back when he went around to sit in the driver's seat and started the engine.The crutches were lying on the back seat, and the lights in the car turned on again, and he looked at Li Bai brightly.

"..." Li Bai grabbed the hand on the steering wheel and pressed it to his forehead.

"I just don't feel anything." He said softly, his eyes flickered, his hand was on the back of Yang Jian's hand, and his pulse was beating under his fingertips.

It's all hot.

Does Yang Jian feel that the palms and backs of the hands are hot?

But seeing Yang Jian still looked normal, his gaze fell on his face frankly, he took out his hand, leaned over to help him fasten his seat belt, "The last test was 38 degrees five, I read your medical records Watch." He said, fastened his own, held the steering wheel firmly, and the car climbed out of the dark mezzanine following two beams of snow-white xenon lights.

When Li Bai saw the blue light coming from the exit, it was already dawn.

A small open-air parking space in front of the hospital building has been closed for a few days. The water has accumulated to the knees of pedestrians. A car has stalled at the entrance. Even the ambulance is blocked behind. Seven or eight people stand in the car tail, trying to push it through the gate.Li Bai didn't know if he could sit back and relax in the car he was sitting in. He yawned and wanted to sleep, and told Yang Jian in a daze, what a coincidence, the car he bought was the same model, an old model, even the color They all coincide. He said that the performance of this car is actually very average, and it is really cheap and not good, so it is not such a pity to scrap it.

Yang Jian's driving was much more careful than before. He put on his glasses and concentrated on looking at the world behind the windshield wipers. Sometimes Li Bai felt that he didn't listen to what he said at all, so he didn't bother others with his nonsense.Under the effects of drugs and fatigue, the drowsiness is still sweeping over, but even if there is only a little sobriety left, he can still think clearly, no matter where he goes next, Yang Jian will help him to some extent, such as finding him a place to live, borrowing He spends some money, and maybe he will take him to buy medicine, find a place that is not as short of medicine as the emergency hospital, and cure his dizziness.But more, Li Bai didn't dare to think about where Yang Jian would go.

That person has a hurdle he hasn't been able to cross until now, he knows, and he sees that he has it too.I thought this trip could be dug up, but the continuous heavy rain casually washed away this hope. Li Bai stared at the dim streetlights under the gray sky and the veins of rainwater flowing from the car glass, feeling a little desperate. Unlucky, but also lethargic doze off.

"Where are we going?" he asked.

Then he couldn't keep his eyes open, and fell asleep frowning.

Yang Jian took him to the shopping area in the center of the county. The Wujiang River broke its embankment four days ago. This place is not within the affected area, but there is a narrow river next to it. Once the river swells, the situation is not much better.But Yang Jian was very persistent about it, and it was still raining heavily. He carried Li Bai out of the car, gave him a cane, and helped him hold an umbrella. shopping mall.Many stores were closed, but luckily the door of the pharmacy was open. Half of them took traditional Chinese medicine and the other half western medicine. They took ibuprofen and licorice tablets and some anti-inflammatory external medicines, and the two stood side by side at the front desk to check out.The boss also complained to them, saying that the flood at night destroyed his several 10 yuan of medicinal materials.Yang Jian sincerely expressed his regret and concern, while Li Bai stood aside and witnessed how he chatted with the boss in a few words, and then asked about the cause and effect of this mountain torrent and mudslide, which mountain and which ditch erupted from Yes, where the disaster is serious and where it is relatively peaceful in this county.

"It's August 27th now." After buying mineral water and waiting for Li Bai to drink the medicine under the warm air-conditioning at the entrance of the supermarket, Yang Jian looked at the phone calendar, "When did you encounter the mudslide?"

"In the early morning of the 24th," Li Bai recalled, "it was probably after two o'clock at night."

"The day when it rained the most." Yang Jian put the mobile phone and the plastic bag containing the medicine back into the bag.

"I fell asleep, but I woke up when I dreamed of you," Li Bai drank a bottle of water in one breath, wiped the corners of his mouth on his shoulders, "otherwise I would have died in the car, and it rolled down as soon as I ran out. explode."

Yang Jian straightened his hem, put his hand in, stuck two pieces of baby warmers on his waist, pinched one in his own hand, then took the plastic bag with "Century Hualian" on it, and walked towards the escalator go.Perhaps because Li Bai Jinji felt that it was dangerous to be independent, he changed the road halfway and took a straight elevator. The two came to the second floor of the small shopping mall. When they came across the first mobile phone store, which sold both Huawei and Apple, he walked in.

"Do you have an iPhone 7128G? It's silver." He still remembered the model number of Li Bai's phone.

However, there was only iPhone X128G, and he still bought it. By the way, he bought a mobile phone card and put it in directly, using his own ID card. "You can use it for the next two days. After you have reissued your ID, you can change your number back." He put the phone in Li Bai's coat pocket, which was his jacket.

Li Bai saw the price of the mobile phone from the counter, and silently added the medical expenses, afraid that he would forget it.He was taken to buy clothes by Yang Jian again. The men's clothing was on the fourth floor, and he waited for a long time for a straight elevator. Li Bai stood with one leg against the wall and almost set up his phone—at least he logged into Alipay with his account and password. Although I have always been inexplicably afraid of the legendary online fraud, so I didn't tie up my bank card, but there are still more than 2 in Yu'e Bao.

Enough to give Yang Jian [-] transfers.

830929, half of the six-digit password was entered, and Yang Jian suddenly heard: "I gave you the phone."

Li Bai raised his eyes, a little caught off guard.

Yang Jian walked into the elevator under his gaze, turned around and pressed the edge of the door, and also pressed to the floor, and said: "You don't need to pay me for the medical expenses."

Li Bai hugged his crutches and jumped in quickly, "Why?"

Yang Jian pinched the bridge of his nose.

Li Bai's expression was really waiting for his answer.

"Because you have been miserable recently," Yang Jian said without changing his face, watching the number rise, "I am overflowing with responsibility and overflowing with sympathy."

Li Bai opened his mouth and hesitated to speak, he vaguely felt that this was an angry word...it didn't look like Yang Jian anymore, was he still angry?This man is really vengeful.For some reason, he wanted to cry and laugh at the same time because of that icy expression, and most wanted to throw away the two crutches under his armpits and use his free arms to hug Yang Jian.However, he arrived four floors before he could act, and as soon as the door opened, the stale smell of a clothing store that was not doing well in business came over his face.

There is not much room for choice, at least in Li Bai's view, more than half of this layer is clothes worn by people in their 50s.He found Levi's in a corner. He casually took two T-shirts and a pair of baggy jeans.Passing by an underwear seller, he secretly glanced at Yang Jian's waistline, and bought two sizes of underwear.Passing Armani next to the escalator, he walked in again, because he couldn't find a more eye-catching brand after looking for a long time.Probably because no one cares about it for too long, the clerk dozed off on the counter. Li Bai picked out a crab shell blue jacket with a stand-up collar and handed it to Yang Jian. She just woke up and ran over to check the size.

"This one is suitable," Li Bai looked at Yang Jian, "185/96A."

Yang Jian also looked back at him, took the jacket quietly, and took a picture in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror.

"It's really suitable!" The clerk said pleasantly, "This is our new style for early autumn. Look at the photos of the models hanging in the window. Does the effect look similar? Sir, you look so handsome in this one. Yes, it means handsome and stylish! Especially the shoulders, you can’t wear this dress with slippery shoulders, only your right-angled shoulders can hold it up, like that one, that one..."

Yang Jian seemed uncomfortable being praised.

Li Bai leaned on his crutches and smiled.

"Get me a new one," he said to the clerk.

Finally came the order, and it was so easy to spend thousands of dollars. The clerk was naturally very active. While she was rummaging in the warehouse, Li Bai looked at himself in the mirror.Except for those bruises and wounds, his face is really pale and dull, and the hospital gown on his body and his hair that has not been washed for a few days are also extremely dirty.Out of season.He remembered the word again.In the past, with his appearance, he would never have dared to walk into a shopping mall counter, even a supermarket, just like when he was beaten with a bruised nose, a swollen face, and cracked lips, he would not have dared to walk through the rice fields where fish were raised, to find Other children in the village fumbled with shrimps and fishes.But now that he's walked in, isn't that what it looks like.So what?He just didn't want to return the coat he was wearing, but he also wanted to keep Yang Jian, who was only wearing a thin shirt, warm in this heavy rainy day.

Yang Jian had already taken off the sample and hung it on the hanger, "Why?" He also asked the same question as he did just now.

"Because I like you." Li Bai said.

"I like you, Teacher Yang." He emphasized loudly.

In the mirror, he saw the imperceptible flicker in those eyes——Yang Jian seemed to be choked, and there was nothing he could do with him; He went to the counter to pay.

After eating the thick soup and spicy oil in the Shuicheng mutton noodles downstairs, the two set out on the road again, carefully driving to the northwest of the city where the disaster was less serious.The rain gradually subsided, the overcast clouds showed a faint white light, and there was a slight stance of clearing up, but the situation of water accumulation on the ground still did not improve. It was lucky that the road did not stop.

Li Bai saw the words of the hotel on Yang Jian's mobile phone navigation, and finally Yang Jian did take him to the hotel.The room has already been reserved, and there is a standard room with two beds. I don’t know when I booked it, and I don’t know that Yang Jian actually issued him a temporary identity certificate in the temporary police station specially set up by the hospital for the disaster. In his current "three-no state", he really might not be able to have a house to live in.The sourness in Li Bai's heart was growing wildly again. When he was sitting on the toilet with a towel wrapped around his shoulders and asked to wash his hair, the sourness directly spread from his heart to his eyes.

Yang Jian inserted his five fingers into his hair, massaged his scalp with his fingertips, rubbed his temples, and rubbed his ears with a few small holes left. He washed slowly and carefully.

Li Bai cried silently. He started to hold back as early as in the hospital. He was always like this, collapsed and depressed. Now he thought of the cigarette case left in the car. The odds and ends in the cigarette case were his most precious. They were so useless that he couldn't keep them, but he also saw the water on the ground become clear from silt, and Yang Jian's trousers were wet into dark colors. There is nothing to worry about anymore. "You should wash it too." Amidst the heat and the sound of water, he cried secretly, and when he took the damp clothes from Yang Jian's hands, his face was also lowered.

Now that it was wet, he simply washed it in the sink, using the face soap prepared by the hotel.I twisted the clothes to about the same size, and only dared to cry when I laid them on the dressing table to dry. My eyes became more swollen, and the wound on my forehead was also hideous. Li Bai felt more and more ugly, and didn't want to look in the mirror anymore, so he stretched his legs and hurt them. Sitting stiffly, stretching out his trouser legs, he used a hair dryer to heat the fabric.But the hair dryer was too noisy, Yang Jian just noticed when he walked behind him wiping his hair after washing.

"Just let it dry for a while." Yang Kuai moved close to his ear to let him hear clearly, and didn't bother with his tears.

"It's too wet to wear." Li Bai tucked his chin, as if the breath in his ear was hotter than the hot wind, making him dare not even move.

Yang Jian didn't say any more, and let him blow it inch by inch, turning on the air conditioner to 28 degrees.The drizzle of the partition glass can also penetrate the cold air into the bones of a person. Both of them only have underwear to wear, and he himself feels a little cold, let alone Li Bai, who is seriously ill.He touched his forehead and the fever did not subside, and Li Bai was still blowing, so he half-sat on the edge of the makeup table, held up Li Bai's chin and applied medicine to his face.It's a bit funny to look at the table with your neck stuck up for fear of blowing up your clothes. After painting the arms, shoulders, back and knees, and checking them one by one, Yang Jian is in a good mood. He grabbed his watch from the sink and lay down on the bed.

"Teacher Yang?" After a while, Li Bai seemed to be calling him.

"That... Teacher Yang, I finished the clothes. You should also blow dry your hair." Li Bai turned down the air volume and stared back at him.

Yang Jian glanced at the dial, put it on the bedside table casually, and refused to get up: "I slept for eight hours in the last three days."

This is a fact. After the basic test, he was exhausted from the flight from the plane to the bus to the self-driving car. He was exhausted by the winding mountain road. He really didn't want to hear the disadvantages of waiting for the wet hair to dry naturally by the professional hair stylist and himself.So Yang Jian pulled up the quilt to cover his face.However, the hair dryer just stopped without making any sound. Li Bai came over and sat on the edge of the bed opposite, looking at Yang Jian's hand hanging on the side of the bed outside the quilt.It is the right hand, the thumb cannot be bent, only the fingertips are exposed.

Do you still want to blow?Li Bai didn't even want to care about his own hair anymore, he had to delay everything, he just wanted to hold Yang Jian's hand now.Hold it, and hold it after going to bed—he asked Yang Jian if he could also stay on this bed, but Yang Jian just said "Yes", and then Li Bai dragged one leg and lay down next to him, making this The little bed was turned upside down, and he didn't make any more movement.Li Bai breathed calmly, pulled down the quilt a little, put one hand on Yang Jian's waist, and sniffed quietly.The wet hair on the back of the neck and the stiff back are all the overly strong fragrance of hotel toiletries, but there is something else, which is hard to describe.

It was these "unspeakable" that told Li Bai that what he was resting on with his scalding forehead was nothing but Yang Jian, and it seemed that nothing had happened for more than a year, even if all this was hazy like an illusion, even if it would stop sooner or later. Well, Yang Jian may leave tomorrow, and the one who is with him now, and the one who is silently clinging to him is still Yang Jian.

The soreness and chill caused by the high fever in the skin were gradually relieved. After a while, Li Bai was stupefied enough and saw enough of the rain and fog outside the window from the corner of his eye. profile.Already asleep, Yang Jian stretched his brows and eyes, and slept soundly, but still likes to fold his arms and curl up his body, like a child who is freezing in the middle of the night but doesn't know how to pull the quilt for himself.

Li Bai fell back on the pillow and hugged him into his arms.

Sleep fell quickly, and it was rare for Li Bai not to have a dream, and he didn't have a headache. Simple rest was like a blessing from God to him. When he woke up, he met Yang Jian's eyes. The man had fully recovered. , it was getting late.

Li Bai shuddered, and only then realized that his injured leg was resting on Yang Jian's side. For some reason, they had already turned into lying face to face.

The man's bones were very hard, and the breasts on the inner thighs were pressing on his crotch, which hurt a little.

But it's not just this that's hurting him... can't it?But it seems to be true.Or maybe not dreaming is an illusion, but this dream is too real.It should be a dream, it is very real, but it will not become a real dream after all, just like Yang Jian smiling at him in the co-pilot and asking if he is tired... That kind of smile makes him feel that Yang Jian will To cut is to kiss yourself.Now, will there be a kiss, or will it fall apart as soon as you grab it, you will know it when you touch it.Li Bai's breathing became a little heavy, and he stretched his hand from Yang Jian's shoulder into the quilt, and touched under his lower abdomen, but it didn't disappear, and even became more real, "Teacher Yang," he said with blinking eyelashes , "You are hard."