No.70 days

At the end of 2014, Shao Wu was in Zhuhai.

After coming out to his parents, he couldn't stay in Yongchuan anymore. Shao Wu first went to Guangzhou to teach English in an after-school tutoring institution in Yuexiu District. Two months later, at noon, he received a call from Chen Yimang. .

Chen Yimang's voice was drawn out and hoarse, which sounded a little strange to Shao Wu.

He said: "Come to Zhuhai, I am in Zhuhai now."

From Guangzhou to Zhuhai, the intercity train only takes more than an hour.When Shao Wu dragged his huge 26-inch suitcase out of Zhuhai Station, the scorching sun hit the sky, and the bright yellow sun at noon made him squint his eyes. There were crowds of people, and various accents came from his ears, including Cantonese, There is Northeast dialect, there is Mandarin with sloppy feet... Shao Wu walked a few steps forward with the flow of people, and his arm was suddenly grabbed.

"What are you looking at?" It was Chen Yimang.I haven't seen him for two years, and his Mandarin is already pretty standard.

"...Why are you?" Shao Wu stared at him blankly, "Why are you so thin?"

Chen Yimang was wearing a bulky white T-shirt and denim shorts, revealing his slender limbs.He stood there stiffly, his skin tone darker than before.

It's a bit like a scarecrow in the farmland.

"Is there anyone who is not thin in our line of work?" Chen Yimang also looked at Shao Wu, "What month did you come to Guangzhou?"

"The end of June."

"Tsk," he said, "how can you not get tanned?"

The two had lunch at the nearby underground shopping mall next to Zhuhai Station. The weather was so hot that Shao Wu had no appetite, so he only ordered a bowl of fresh shrimp wontons, while Chen Yimang didn't eat at all, and ordered a cup of Hong Kong-style frozen milk tea. It hasn't been popular all over the country yet, and it seems that everyone doesn't think how high its heat is.

While waiting for the food to be served, the two of you looked at me and I looked at you, unable to speak for a while.

In the past two years, many things have happened.

It wasn't until the waiter brought Chen Yimang's milk tea that he picked up the cup and took a sip, as if he had the courage to talk: "Why did you tell them all of a sudden?"

Shao Wu said, "I can't hide it anymore."

"What did you do?"

"I reported our principal, who is the uncle of the boy who bullied him in high school before..."

"..." Chen Yimang was silent for a few seconds, "You really don't let anyone go."

"No," Shao Wu explained, "it was because the boy's uncle was an official in our school, so the head teacher transferred him to the last row to sit in the 'special seat', so his father went to school to quarrel with the head teacher, and then he Had a big fight with his father, and when his father got angry, he... went to Wenchuan."

When Sichuan and Chongqing people mention the word "Wenchuan", there is no need to say what follows.

Chen Yimang lowered his eyes and stroked the cup with his fingers. After a long while, he sighed: "If you hadn't been able to pass the National People's Congress, I really suspect that you have a brain problem."

Shao Wu smiled: "They all think that there is something wrong with my brain. It is estimated that the principal has not figured out until now why I reported him."

Shrimp wontons were brought up. Shao Wu scooped up one and took a bite. The shrimp tasted very fresh.In Guangzhou, he has become accustomed to chaoshou without chili peppers, and he is also used to calling chaoshou as wonton.

"Then what about you and him?" Chen Yimang continued to ask, "Is it over?"

"Ah."

"why?"

"I strengthened him."

"..."

"Just kidding," Shao Wu said in a low voice, "he volunteered."

Chen Yimang was puzzled: "But since he is willing to sleep with you..."

"That means we can't even be friends."

"……why?"

"Because friends can't go to bed."

"Fart," Chen Yimang rolled his eyes, "Don't you know what a 'pao.you' is?—you can both fuck and be friends."

Shao Wu smiled: "We can't do this...and I don't want to be friends with him either."

Chen Yimang shrugged with a helpless expression.

After Shao Wu finished eating Chao Shou, Chen Yimang took him for a stroll in the underground shopping mall. This shopping mall has a large area, and there are various small shops selling food, A goods, and Macau specialties.Zhuhai Station is adjacent to Gongbei Port, and after passing the port is Macau.

Shao Wu asked Chen Yimang: "Why did you buy a house in Zhuhai?" He knew that Chen Yimang bought a small apartment in Zhuhai with a loan.

"Shanghai and Guangzhou can't even afford it," Chen Yimang said with a smile, "This place is very suitable for living in winter, as Shanghai's winter is too cold."

In fact, in just two years, Shao Wu could clearly feel the changes in Chen Yimang. He was still astonishingly beautiful, but he was no longer so arrogant, like a rebellious teenager who had finally entered the adult world gently.

Chen Yimang took Shao Wu home, along the way were tall palm trees with slender needle-like leaves, swaying gently under the blue sky, Shao Wu thought, it was indeed a subtropical scenery.Chen Yimang looked out the window and said, "This road is called Yingbin Road."

The taxi headed north along Yingbin Road, passed through the tunnel, turned a corner, and stopped at a T-junction nearly half an hour later.Shao Wu got out of the car and looked at his phone. It was 01:30 noon.There were no clouds in the sky, the sun still shot down straight, and the sun seemed to be very close to the ground.Everywhere in this city is clean and brightly illuminated by the sun. Shao Wu inexplicably feels that this is a city without secrets. He came here with nothing, but no one cares.

Chen Yimang's house is located in a newly developed community, on the 16th floor, with two bedrooms and one living room.He took Shao Wu into the room, turned on the air conditioner, and said lazily: "There are sheets and quilts in the cabinet, you can make them yourself."

"Okay," Shao Wu opened the box, squatted on the ground and smiled at him: "Thank you, Yimang."

Chen Yimang nodded, leaning against the wall to watch Shao Wu pack his luggage.

Shaowu's trolley case is large in size, but it doesn't actually hold too many things, a bag of clothes, a bag of daily necessities, and a bag of documents, that's all.Shao Wu took out the three bags and was about to zip them up when Chen Yimang suddenly asked, "What are those?"

"Ok?"

"That bag is small."

"...This," Shao Wu picked up a blue document bag, "a copy of my ID card."

"Oh."

Shao Wu put the file bag back into the mezzanine of the trolley case, and Chen Yimang yawned: "Then pack it up, I'll go to sleep for a while."

"Okay, go to sleep."

"Xiao Shao," Chen Yimang walked over and whispered, "Together?"

Shao Wu knew he was joking, so he said, "Anyway, I don't do 1."

"Damn it," Chen Yimang smiled, "Look at your potential. I'll go back to Shanghai tomorrow, and when I come back, I'll introduce you to a boyfriend."

"Okay."

Chen Yimang smiled again, turned and left.

The room became very quiet, Shao Wu took out the blue file bag again, it was very light, and he opened the zipper.

In the file bag were the package of Copic potato chips and Yang Shuyi's English workbook.He fled from Yongchuan, from a place that was always hot, rainy, and gloomy, to this beautiful seaside city. He didn't know how long he would stay here, or where he would go in the future. He seemed to have become a star Pea, life throws him somewhere at random, and it doesn't matter where that "somewhere" is.

The clothes and trousers in the trolley case were bought in Guangzhou, and of course the daily necessities are the same. The only things he can touch that are related to the past are potato chip bags and notebooks.In the wandering life, they are like a thin rope, connecting him with those past events.

Shao Wu took out his mobile phone and clicked on WeChat.At the wedding of Shen Qi and Wang Yiheng, old classmates created a WeChat group, and later Zhu Jingjing pulled him into the group, and Yang Shuyi was also there.It was the beginning of June at that time, and he and Yang Shuyi hadn't completely finished yet, so he had the cheek to send a friend application, and Yang Shuyi also passed.A few days ago, Longlong sent another friend request, and it turned out that the girl had changed her number.

After arriving in Guangzhou, he developed a new habit, a bit boring, that is, to click on Yang Shuyi's profile picture when he is free, to see if he has posted on Moments.Yang Shuyi's profile picture is a blue-gray river with gravel all over the river bank, as if he was taken casually during a business trip.It's a pity that Yang Shuyi doesn't seem to use WeChat very much, Shao Wu thought, could it be that their institutions don't use WeChat for office work?In short, Yang Shuyi has never posted on Moments.

Shao Wu sat on the ground and opened WeChat in boredom. There was a small red dot in the upper right corner of the word "discovery" at the bottom of the screen.He tapped "Discovery" and suddenly froze.

On the right side of the "Discovery" column, a small portrait was displayed, which turned out to be the blue-gray river.

At this moment, Shao Wu was very hopeless and realized that his heartbeat was heavy.

Click into Moments, and a picture comes into view.

It was Longlong, her mother-in-law and Yang Shuyi. The three of them stood side by side by the stone wall at the entrance of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Longlong made a "V" gesture, and her mother-in-law narrowed her eyes while laughing, while Yang Shuyi just smiled with his arms around her.He was wearing a brown T-shirt and jeans——Shao ​​Wu zoomed in on the picture, and saw the silver button on the waistband of his trousers that he had looked at again and again.

It turned out that he and his mother-in-law sent Longlong to college together.No wonder, Shao Wu remembered that Longlong had just added him on WeChat a few days ago, saying that he had changed his number, did he change to a new one in Beijing?

Shao Wu saved the picture in his phone, belatedly thinking that it has been five years since the end of the college entrance examination, and he has never been to Beijing again. It's not that he can't go, it's just that he doesn't have a reason to go.But now, Yang Shuyi went to Beijing one step ahead of him.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with sending his younger sister to school... But Shao Wu still felt a little unwilling, unreasonably unwilling.Didn't he not go back then?Why are you gone now?He still smiled so softly - if Shao Wu went to Beijing, he must, must not be able to laugh, this city was given up by himself.

Shao Wu pursed his lips and left a message under Yang Shuyi's circle of friends: Is Beijing hot?

He knew that he was very boring, and he regretted it after a few minutes after leaving the message.But he had a little bit of luck in his heart, almost fantasy, maybe Yang Shuyi would reply him, it was hot, hotter than Chongqing—in short, Yang Shuyi would reply something.

However, until late at night, he did not receive any reply after clicking on WeChat many times.