catch the dream

The moment Yu Hao opened the door of the rental house, it was as if Yu Hao had withdrawn from a life and returned to the long-lost past.Outside the door is the icy and snowy land of Beijing, and inside the door is the green city of Ying, mixed with the white mist of early winter.Zhou Sheng turned on the light, and the warm light illuminated the two-bedroom rental house.

The dining table, sofa, even the tablecloths and shelf furnishings, everything has never been touched.The coffee pot shelf next to the dining table still retains the appearance it had on the day Yu Hao left - after he left, Fu Liqun and Zhou Sheng didn't make coffee at home, and they just left it there for half a year.

"I'm back." Zhou Sheng said.

"Finally back." Yu Hao had the illusion of returning home from a long journey. There was very little dust in the mountains, and a little cleaning would be enough before the New Year's Eve. Fu Liqun put down his bag and said to Cen Shan, "You go take a bath first?"

Cen Shan said "hmm" and said, "Let's rest for a while."

Most of Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng's clothes are left here. The three of them previously discussed to return the lease after they graduated from senior year. The lease will last until June, so as not to live for a while when they come back to write their graduation thesis.Yu Hao simply cleaned up, while Zhou Sheng went to open the refrigerator to find something to eat.

At three o'clock in the night, Cen Shan moved a chair and sat in the bathroom to bathe Fu Liqun. Cen Shan was dressed, but Fu Liqun let her wipe his back completely naked, and sat with his head bowed, his back to the bathroom door.The bathroom door was opened slightly, and the steam was lingering inside. When Yu Hao passed by, he heard the two talking and thought it was funny. When they were in the dormitory before, the three of them occasionally saw each other without clothes, so it was not unusual.

Yu Hao made four cups of milk powder with hot water, and Zhou Sheng drank it. After a while, the bathroom door was closed, and when Fu Liqun came out again, he was shaved and his hair was wet, and he was blowing Cen Shan's long hair with a hair dryer.Cen Shan changed into Fu Liqun's loose shirt and stood barefoot outside the bathroom.

Fu Liqun also became paler and thinner, but after a dozen treatments, he seemed to have returned to his former schoolboy appearance.After Fu Liqun finished using the bathroom, he whistled to Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng, signaling them to take a shower.

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng were arguing hahaha in the bathroom. Zhou Sheng scratched the back of his hand and elbow a little during the fight, so he stood with his hands raised. Yu Hao was naked, and bent down to rub his ribs and abdominal muscles, rubbing his Zhou Sheng got very itchy, and after a while he pressed Yu Hao again, and Yu Hao cried out in the bathroom.

"Two children." Cen Shan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Don't get too excited." Zhou Sheng said, "I won't be able to sleep later!"

"It's a holiday, and I don't go to work," Yu Hao replied, "You can sleep late. Hey, sister-in-law, your earrings..."

Cen Shan put her hair up today, revealing the earrings around her ears. Every time Yu Hao saw Cen Shan, she would put her long hair down, especially the earrings today.

"That's right." Cen Shan said casually, "Wearing it all the time."

After all the tossing and tossing, it was nearly six o'clock. It was snowing in Ying City, and the floor heating hadn't been turned on for nearly a month. It was cold and damp. Yu Hao hugged Zhou Sheng in the bed to keep warm, but felt that this was the most comfortable place in the world. place.

"You can take seven days off." Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng, "It's so wonderful!"

"If you really want to take a vacation, you can resign or not go to work." Zhou Sheng said.

In Beijing, Lin Ze re-arranged the leave for Yu Hao. Knowing that he was going to prepare his graduation thesis, and Yu Hao hardly took Saturdays and Sundays off in December and January, he let him go for ten days.Of course, I still have to continue to write manuscripts, submit some small interview manuscripts regularly, and it doesn’t matter if the topic is finished, and I also sent him a two-month year-end report.

Zhou Sheng said hello to Beijing. This time, he will deal with school affairs and graduation thesis when he returns home for the New Year. The exact time to go back is yet to be determined.

This long vacation should be their last carefree vacation before they officially leave the campus.Yu Hao didn't get up until the afternoon, checked his and Zhou Sheng's salary cards, and was immediately elated.

There is money again!Yu Hao's monthly salary, manuscript fee, and year-end bonus totaled just over [-] yuan, while Zhou Sheng's monthly bonus totaled [-] yuan.

Fu Liqun's breakfast was on the table, and Cen Shan hadn't gotten up yet.On a rare occasion, Zhou Sheng didn't touch Yu Hao after waking up, but sat in the living room and had a serious and earnest conversation with Fu Liqun.

When Yu Hao came out, the two paused briefly, and Zhou Sheng said, "So everything in the dream is not your hallucination."

Fu Liqun was holding the Golden Crow Wheel in his hand, with a face full of disbelief. After breakfast, Yu Hao pulled up a chair to settle accounts at the dining table, without interrupting their conversation.

"I was thinking about this all the time yesterday." Fu Liqun said, "This is too fucking fantastic."

"At first I thought it would be the same as I did to Ou Qihang." Zhou Sheng snapped his fingers, frowning deeply, "Or I'll let you forget about it. Now it seems that it's even more unsafe."

Yu Hao glanced at Zhou Sheng, and knew that their biggest misjudgment was on Ou Qihang. In order to keep it secret, it caused a more serious leak.If Ou Qihang didn't forcefully erase that memory, then maybe he would cooperate with them and help hide it from Huang Ting...

"I understand." Fu Liqun said, "When will we continue?"

"The second day of junior high school." Zhou Sheng said, "I have to think about some things... My wife, what are you doing?"

Yu Hao was struggling with the calculator, counting the money with an irritable expression, and the sound of "return to zero, return to zero, return to zero, return to zero" revealed that he was quite depressed inside.

"I'm having an AA with Teacher Chen." Yu Hao said madly, "Why does he always drag us to take the business class every time he goes out!!"

Lin Ze reimbursed Yu Hao for air tickets and board and lodging, but following Chen Yekai, the expenses were too much to eat.Yu Hao posted seven or eight thousand in the whole process. Although Chen Yekai didn't say anything, he still had to call him the money.

Fu Liqun said: "For my debts, I will find a job after the Chinese New Year and pay him back slowly."

"I'll pay it back first." Yu Hao said to Fu Liqun, "Just leave it for now."

Zhou Sheng said: "After clearing the accounts at the end of the year, let's celebrate the New Year happily. Don't mention money anymore, I will get a headache if I mention it, Emma."

Cen Shan's lazy voice came from the room, calling Fu Liqun, Fu Liqun got up, pressed Zhou Sheng with a pillow and beat him a few times, then leaned forward and kissed him on the side of his face.

"Hey!" Zhou Sheng shouted angrily.

Fu Liqun came over quickly, and Yu Hao was also kissed by Fu Liqun unexpectedly, and shouted together with Zhou Sheng, Fu Liqun pushed the door open in a gust of wind, and went in to accompany his wife.

"Crazy." Zhou Sheng grabbed a few tissues and wiped his face desperately.

"Hey, why is there still six thousand here?!" Yu Hao discovered the New World, and suddenly remembered that an official account had asked him to make appointments for several manuscripts, and he quickly checked, but he had already forgotten, "Great! great!"

After Yu Hao finished the calculations, the current expenses are all within controllable range, as long as Zhou Sheng doesn't mess around, he can still pay the rent and save some money when he returns to Beijing.He set aside the necessary funds for food and clothing, and decided not to move the reserve funds in the card of the two of them - he bought a 5% wealth management plan. Although Fu Liqun lost 200, he still had [-] million.If money begets money, you can earn [-] yuan a year, which is equivalent to the salary of a college graduate.

A person who finished nine years of compulsory education, plus three years of high school, and then four years of undergraduate studies, and 16 years of hard work, was equivalent to the interest of 200 million yuan in the capital market. Thinking of this, Yu Hao couldn't help but sigh.

"It's enough," Zhou Sheng said, "Don't worry about it. Others have worked for ten years and haven't saved a penny. They haven't graduated yet, so you worry about food every day."

Cen Shan also got up, today is the twenty-seventh year, the four of them went back to school after breakfast, even Xue Long went home.Fu Liqun collected two pieces of clothes, and Yu Hao looked at Li Yangming's bed in the dormitory, and it was clean.

The place where they used to live seems to have passed for a long, long time. Zhou Sheng put away most of the things, and Yu Hao packed the books and prepared to send some of them back to Beijing. The other part will be sold to his juniors when the graduates set up stalls after school starts. them.

"I'm leaving." Yu Hao looked at the dormitory and said, "Suddenly I feel reluctant."

Looking at the dormitory, the three of them all had a thought in their hearts, what is the biggest gain for them from university?Perhaps the best part is getting to know each other.

The next day, the four of them went shopping to buy clothes again. Fu Liqun and Yu Hao each pushed a car, Cen Shan called, Zhou Sheng carefully selected the ingredients, and Yu Hao said, "Don't buy too much, it's a waste."

Zhou Sheng: "It'll be ten days, and it can be finished. Such a large family needs to eat and drink."

Yu Hao laughed, and took the manuscript fee, so Zhou Sheng could do whatever he wanted, since he already had enough living expenses anyway.

Fu Liqun asked: "Master, will you go back to see your parents?"

"Too lazy to ignore them." Zhou Sheng replied, "Just live at home."

Fu Liqun said: "I will take your sister-in-law back to my house tomorrow, and we will spend the New Year's Eve together when I come back."

"Okay." Zhou Sheng said, "I'll cook the New Year's Eve dinner."

Lin Ze sent Yu Hao a bunch of photos of New Year in Beijing and other places, asking him to look at the pictures and talk about it, and publish a special issue of Spring Festival.The huge capital city is almost empty, and the people are running out. Jin Weicheng is on duty in the [-]th and first year of junior high school, and Lin Ze is replaced in the second year of junior high school.

On New Year's Eve, when Zhou Sheng put the dishes on the table, Yu Hao turned on the video, and there were Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang.

"Gong Xi Fa Cai." Ou Qihang said with a smile, "Happy Chinese New Year."

"Happy New Year." Chen Yekai was wearing a new sweater, which was the same brand as Ou Qihang's, and he obviously took Ou Qihang to buy clothes. Ou Qihang turned the video and showed Yu Hao and others to see his mother, and everyone greeted each other.Ou Qihang's mother cooked a New Year's Eve dinner, and Yu Hao suddenly had a feeling that wearing clothes of a certain brand, even though they were not couple outfits, still looked like a gentle boy and a young boy. Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang were indeed very close. take.

Ou Qihang's mother said hello and went back to work in the kitchen.

"Yo!" Zhou Sheng said, "Where did you buy the clothes? Not bad! I want new clothes too!"

"Yo." Fu Liqun said, "You guys are having a good time! What about mine?"

Zhou Sheng: "Why did you buy clothes for Xiao Ou?"

Chen Yekai and Ou Qihang signaled Zhou Sheng not to talk nonsense with their eyes at the same time, but Zhou Sheng said, "Will Kaikai give us red envelopes this year?"

Yu Hao: "The red envelope can't be small."

Chen Yekai said: "Yes yes yes, I'll give it to you on the second day of the new year, see you then..." Then he said to Ou Qihang: "Okay, turn off the video."

Yu Hao said: "I still have nothing to say!"

"Why do you have the heart to close it like this!" Zhou Sheng said, "What are you playing these days?"

Ou Qihang: "Nothing to do, just eat and go shopping, and look around the exhibition."

Chen Yekai was teased by their words all the time, and he signaled Ou Qihang with his eyes not to talk to them, and Ou Qihang turned off the video with a smile.Pour good wine here, clink glasses, and start eating New Year's Eve dinner.

On the first day of the new year, Fu Liqun sent Cen Shan to the high-speed rail station. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng slept all day. Zhou Sheng's hair was messed up, and he was doing real exams for the postgraduate entrance examination at the dining table in his pajamas and slippers.When Fu Liqun came back, he breathed a sigh of relief, lay on the sofa, and read Zhou Sheng's thick book-like real questions.

Yu Hao wrote and drew on the manuscript with a pen, and asked Fu Liqun, "Are you ready to go abroad?"

"You know?" Fu Liqun was surprised, "The sound insulation of this house is not so bad, is it?"

"Here." Zhou Sheng said without raising his head, "Look? Am I right? Go wash the dishes."

Yu Hao had no choice but to say, "Later, admit defeat."

Fu Liqun said: "I went to talk to her father on the fifth day of the new year, please bless me. I'm still a little confused, but I think I can do it."

Zhou Sheng: "What's the next plan?"

Fu Liqun: "I went home a few days ago and discussed it with my family. My dad originally prepared a sum of money to buy me an apartment in Ying City. Now I want to use it to study abroad. Of course, I have to wait for your matter to be over. .”

Yu Hao: "Where?"

Fu Liqun: "Cologne Sports Academy, I miss their graduate students."

"Okay." Zhou Sheng said, "But are you sure studying abroad is more reliable than buying a house?"

Yu Hao: "..."

Fu Liqun: "..."

Of course Fu Liqun knew that Zhou Sheng was happy with him, and said, "I need to apply for a visa first, go out to study a language for a year, and then find a bicycle instructor or something to work part-time. Your sister-in-law said that it's easy to find part-time jobs in sports."

"It's okay for your dad to pay your tuition and living expenses." Zhou Sheng said.

Fu Liqun loosened his fingers and said, "Try to rely on yourself, it's not easy for parents to work all their lives, alas."

"It's fine if you have an idea," Zhou Sheng said.

"I have to pay you back the money slowly." Fu Liqun said.

Zhou Sheng finally raised his head from the set of questions, glanced at Fu Liqun, and said, "Don't worry."

The two ended their conversation about Fu Liqun's future in such a calm manner. Yu Hao got up to wash the dishes. He knew that Fu Liqun hadn't fully recovered from the blow, but in his dream, the sandstorm might have almost disappeared. , the sun will always rise.

Yu Hao started to clean up a lot of dishes from last night, Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, "I'll come as soon as I finish the last three dishes."

Yu Hao: "You review first, I'll wash it."

Immediately after the doorbell rang, Fu Liqun went to open the door, but Ou Qihang and Chen Yekai came early. Yu Hao was unprepared and was taken aback.

"His mother and friends went to Sanya to play." Chen Yekai said.

Ou Qihang took off his shoes at the door: "Anyway, I have nothing to do at home, so I'll come over to see you." As he said, he put his shoes on, Zhou Sheng glanced casually, and said, "Damn, you two still wear yin and yang shoes?"

Ou Qihang said: "I bought it while shopping, Yu Hao, what are you doing?"

Yu Hao: "Guests sit in the living room."

"It's okay, I like to wash dishes," Ou Qihang said, "I do all the dishes in my house..."

Seeing Ou Qihang enter the kitchen, Zhou Sheng immediately threw away the book, and hurried in to look at his own cabbage, so as not to be trampled by other pigs.

"Then I'm going to make coffee." Yu Hao said dumbfounded.

Fu Liqun took out snacks and rice cakes, Zhou Sheng changed his clothes, came out with a cigarette in his mouth, shook the cigarette case, gave Ou Qihang one, and everyone sat at the dining table.Ou Qihang said: "I have a lot of things, I want to ask them clearly, these few days, I have been feeling a bit confused."

Zhou Sheng thought for a while and said, "Today?"

Chen Yekai said, "It's up to you."

Zhou Sheng pondered for a long time, and then said: "Okay, let's do it today." As he spoke, he flicked his thumb, and the Golden Crow Wheel spun and flew over the dining table. Look at Zhou Sheng, then look at Chen Yekai.

Chen Yekai raised his hand, Ou Qihang handed him the Golden Crow Wheel, Chen Yekai handed it to Fu Liqun, Fu Liqun rubbed the Golden Crow Wheel with his thumb, and handed it to Yu Hao, Yu Hao felt that it was the real Golden Crow Wheel, and handed it back to Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng Sheng put it in front of him.

Everyone was waiting for Zhou Sheng to speak. After a long silence, Zhou Sheng was still thinking about it. Ou Qihang broke the silence first and said, "Isn't this the sunbird of Jinsha? Some people call it the sun wheel."

"Yes." Zhou Sheng said, "It's hard for me to explain it to ordinary people, but you should be fine...it allows the two of us, and even everyone sitting here, to connect our minds."

Ou Qihang said, "You can also interfere, I understand."

"You understand what you understand?" Zhou Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Ou Qihang said: "I already knew about this matter once, you have sealed this memory of mine for the sake of secrecy, no wonder I always feel that there are some important things that I can't remember..."

Chen Yekai nodded and said, "Very correct."

Zhou Sheng said, "But it's useless, isn't it?"

Yu Hao observed Ou Qihang's expression, he didn't think Ou Qihang and Huang Ting were in the same group, but there was always a contingency in everything, so he had to be careful to confirm.

Ou Qihang said: "That incident has troubled me for a long time. After I enrolled in Beijing, Brother Ting asked me out several times. I have explained the details..." He looked at Chen Yekai as he spoke.

"Yes." Chen Yekai said, "I will also relay the information to them."

Fu Liqun could roughly guess from the narration that when he came back that day, Zhou Sheng told Fu Liqun everything that happened.

"He took you to receive hypnotherapy?" Fu Liqun said.

"It's not just hypnotherapy?" Ou Qihang said, "We tried almost all methods."

"Why are you so persistent?" Yu Hao was completely at a loss for Ou Qihang.

"A memory disappeared inexplicably like this," Ou Qihang said, "And it's a matter of life and death, aren't you curious?"

Yu Hao said: "It seems that you people with high IQs are like this, you must get to the bottom of everything."

It was the same with Chen Yekai back then. When there was a doubt, they keenly grasped it. They didn't doubt whether they were hallucinations or hallucinations or fantasies, and only believed in the logic behind it all.

"You don't seem to be the one who said it yourself." Zhou Sheng was playing with the Golden Crow Wheel and said with a smile, "How did you guess the identity of the general?"

Yu Hao thought about it, he thought about it countless times before he came to this conclusion.

"Tell me about the specific situation." Chen Yekai said.

Ou Qihang took the Golden Crow Wheel again, looked at it in disbelief, and said, "Later, I went to receive a hypnotherapy from an institution. That was my last hypnotic recall. After that time, I finally remembered the whole process. "

Zhou Sheng said, "Remember everything?"

Ou Qihang said: "This is my deduction. I still don't think of anything now, but I am very sure. During that hypnosis, I told the things you made me forget, and left a record in the institution. Apart from the attending physician, only Huang Ting has read the records. But they didn't tell me what happened, and Huang Ting even lied to me, saying that it's okay to give up, and he doesn't plan to deal with this matter any more recently."

"At the end of this hypnosis, Huang Ting hardly mentioned it anymore." Ou Qihang drank some coffee and said seriously, "So I think he got what he wanted."

Yu Hao thought that it would be really troublesome...

Zhou Sheng said "Yes", Ou Qihang said: "Give me back that memory, why didn't you believe me? What did I do at that time?"

"You didn't do anything." Zhou Sheng said casually, "You are a very good person, but I was too defensive."

Ou Qihang said: "But this is also reasonable. After all, no one wants this kind of secret to spread, especially when we are not familiar with each other at the beginning."

Zhou Sheng smiled and said, "Now we don't know each other very well."

Ou Qihang and everyone laughed.

"Then," Zhou Sheng said, "tell it in your dream, and speak more clearly in your dream, brother, let me borrow your dream."

Fu Liqun replied: "No problem." This was discussed between Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun in advance, so he looked at the crowd and asked, "Which little one will sleep with me?"

Everyone: "..."

Chen Yekai said: "I'm going to sleep on the sofa."

"Are you Gong?" Ou Qihang said.

Fu Liqun: "I'm going to attack."

Ou Qihang said: "All right, I have a black belt in Taekwondo."

"I'm afraid of you!" Fu Liqun brought Ou Qihang into the room.

Yu Hao felt that this scene was really weird, this group of people wanted to sleep in his own home... Zhou Sheng glanced at the time, it was four o'clock in the afternoon.It was a cloudy day outside, so he closed the curtains of the living room and the room one by one.

"Good night." Zhou Sheng put his hand on Fu Liqun's head, then went to press Ou Qihang's forehead, then came out, and pressed Chen Yekai's forehead.

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng lay side by side on the bed, holding hands, and closed their eyes.

The light flickered, and Fu Liqun, Chen Yekai, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Hao appeared in the safe haven of the desert world——it was still this rental house.Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng didn't even change their positions, they were lying on the bed.Chen Yekai woke up from the sofa, sat up, and walked to the dining table.

Everyone seemed to go back to their positions and lie down, and then get up after a few minutes.If Ou Qihang wasn't missing, Yu Hao would hardly be able to tell which is a dream and which is reality.

Chen Yekai also said: "For a moment, I thought I didn't fall asleep."

Fu Liqun said, "Qihang is gone."

"He's in his own world." Zhou Sheng opened the curtains and looked out. Outside the balcony, the wind and sand all over the sky had disappeared, replaced by a shining river of stars in the sky, and the beautiful ancient city in the distance in the quiet night.After leaving the MLM organization, the floaters have all disappeared.In other words, the world of Fu Liqun is no longer as dangerous as before.

"What exactly is this place?" Yu Hao asked Fu Liqun.

"Loulan." Fu Liqun replied, "I used to go to junior high school, go on a first date, and watch a movie with your sister-in-law."

Fu Liqun still remembered that day, the movie theater outside the school was dark and full of mosquitoes. Cen Shan had never seen this kind of movie since she was so old.He hurriedly applied Fengyou essence to Cen Shan, and when he touched her white skin and long legs, in the darkness, he suddenly felt love rushing towards him like a tide.

After Cen Shan grabbed his hand, Fu Liqun held her in his arms and kissed her.He has long forgotten the plot of the movie, but the most profound thing is the magnificent ancient city in the desert.He also called Cen Shan "the beautiful Loulan bride" afterwards.

"I thought that group of mosquitoes were your colleagues." Yu Hao said.

"It's indeed a bit like..." Fu Liqun's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly, "I'm almost tortured to death by them."

Zhou Sheng sat down at the dining table and said, "Call Ou Qihang over, who is responsible for calling him?"

Chen Yekai said: "I haven't tried it yet..."

Zhou Sheng said, "It's like the day you passed through the Golden Crow Wheel and entered Xiaoou's dreamland."

Chen Yekai tried to pull his hand away, and the seal that Ou Qihang gave him appeared in his hand. He looked up at Zhou Sheng, and asked, "And then?"

Golden fire burst out from between Zhou Sheng's fingers, poured into the seal in Chen Yekai's hand, and the seal instantly became brighter. Yu Hao thought to himself, was this the scene when Zhou Sheng summoned himself in Shi Ni's dream for the first time?

Immediately afterwards, the seal turned into dots of light and shattered, and with a loud noise, Ou Qihang appeared out of thin air, bumped into the coffee table and staggered, knocked over the sofa, and almost "rolled" over!

Ou Qihang: "!!!"