No.70 days

Shao Wu still bought postcards on Guanye Street, a set of five, 20 Portuguese coins, and he could choose by himself.There were two little girls who bought postcards with him at the same time. They seemed to be about the same age as Longlong, and they were discussing carefully with their heads down. Guia... Tang Heng waited outside the store with arms folded. Shao Wu first took the St. Paul's and Fisherman's Wharf, but suddenly felt that he was too naive, so he hurriedly took three more, paid and walked out of the store.

"I want to send him one," Shao Wu said, "After all, he is an old classmate, so let's congratulate him."

Tang Heng asked indifferently: "Which ones did you pick?"

"Choose whatever you want." Shao Wu took out the postcard and looked at it with Tang Heng.

The five postcards are the Ruins of St. Paul's, Black Sand Beach, Senado Square, Fisherman's Wharf, and Rose Hall.Tang Heng picked up the postcard of Rose Hall: "Why is this the only one in color?"

"Ah," Shao Wu was taken aback, "I didn't notice..."

"Let's go," Tang Heng returned the postcard to him, "Go and eat something."

The two bought Portuguese tarts on Guanye Street, and had lunch at a nearby Portuguese restaurant.At around two o'clock in the afternoon, when the temperature was at its highest, Shao Wu asked Tang Heng in a sleepy manner, "Why don't you just take me shopping?"

"Okay."

So they didn't go to other attractions, and walked directly from Guanye Street to the Venetian.

The Venetian is not as luxurious as Shao Wu imagined. The dome on the second floor is imitated in the shape of blue sky and white clouds. Unfortunately, the blue is dull, as if a layer of dust has accumulated over time.And the famous indoor artificial canal is even more boring, very narrow and shallow, which is a bit ridiculous.

Tang Heng said: "The Milky Way on the opposite side is more luxurious than here, do you want to see it?" Then he added, "It's just a shopping mall."

Shao Wu shook his head: "No need, I don't buy anything myself."

After buying the perfume and face cream specified by the female colleague, Shao Wu and Tang Heng found a seat and sat down.There are a lot of tourists coming and going, most of them are in groups of three or five, and many of them speak Northeast dialect.Shao Wu listened to them talking as they walked, it was not much cheaper here than in the mainland, oh, the restaurant is really expensive, and the price is not good... There are also many young boys and girls, Tang Heng said, the Venetian is very close to UM and MUST. Near, so there are many students.

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a few minutes, and asked Shao Wu softly, "Are you okay?"

Shao Wu said, "I'm fine."

After a pause, he added: "Really, I... I knew that he was going to get married a long time ago, sooner or later. And I was the one who notified me when I asked him to get married."

"Really not going?"

"No way," Shao Wu lowered his eyes, looking at the paper packaging bag in his hand, "I guess he wouldn't be happy to see me."

Tang Heng didn't answer.

Two more aunts wearing GUCCI scarves passed in front of them. They were the most common costumes for tourists: wearing sneakers, holding a mobile phone in their hands, and a small backpack on their shoulders.The ground under his feet was smooth and flat, and the lights were very bright. Shao Wu suddenly thought of a problem. Here, even if it was dark outside, the tourists would not be able to feel it.

At this moment, he seemed to understand Tang Heng a little bit. Macau was so prosperous that he felt in a trance. He couldn't see people in rags here, and he couldn't see how the sky was slowly getting dark.And he would be here to receive a call from Yang Shuyi?

"Tang Heng," Shao Wu asked, "will you stay in Macau forever?"

Tang Heng turned his face to look at him, then said, "I don't know."

"do not know?"

"When I first came here, I thought I would leave sooner or later," Tang Heng said slowly, "but then I felt that it's not the same? It's just a new city, new people, and it's not fundamentally different from Macau. .”

"There must be a relatively familiar place, such as your hometown?"

"I don't have a hometown," Tang Heng said with a smile, "I've followed adults everywhere since I was a child, and stayed everywhere."

"..."

"Actually, Wuhan should be counted as one. I went to college there for four years—when we were in college, we scolded Wuhan every day, 'the largest county in the country'. I don't know if there is still such a saying."

Shao Wu was about to ask him if you want to go back to Wuhan, so he said firmly:

"But I'm not going back."

After dinner at a tea restaurant, Tang Heng sent Shao Wu to Gongbei Port.After seven o'clock in the evening, it was already dark and the wind was cooling down.Shao Wu was about to enter the immigration hall, Tang Heng said, "Come and play again when you have time."

Shao Wu smiled at him: "No problem."

Anyway, Zhuhai and Macau are so close to each other, Shao Wu doesn't feel sad or reluctant to part with each other soon.He walked forward, and Tang Heng stayed where he was. After walking a few steps, he couldn't help turning his head to look.He saw Tang Heng standing there tall and straight, behind him were continuous shops and lights, as well as pedestrians, in an endless stream.It might be because of Tang Heng's tall stature, but in the evening wind, his figure looked a bit bleak.Shao Wu has an illusion, as if Macau is an isolated island that has been occupied, and he is about to board a ship to land, while Tang Heng is left on the island and cannot go back.

Shao Wu waved vigorously to Tang Heng, and Tang Heng nodded at him.Shao Wu could not see his expression clearly.

On the next day, Shao Wu wrote stroke by stroke on the colorful Rose Hall postcard:

wish:

Happy newlyweds, happy and happy.

Then the bluff was general, and the signature was "Shao Wu".He thought that he really didn't dare to attend Yang Shuyi's wedding, although he had imagined that scene many times - the girl in a white wedding dress, holding Yang Shuyi's hand tenderly, surrounded by flowers, vowing to each other forever.It was enough for him to think about this scene, but he didn't dare to go.

However, he didn't want to make himself too embarrassed, like avoiding Yang Shuyi's wedding like a snake?Not so.So the greeting cards and red envelopes still have to be delivered, and I have agreed with Longlong that she will deliver the greeting cards and red envelopes on her behalf.On the phone, Longlong asked curiously, why don't you just give it to my brother?He sighed and replied, I'm not afraid of your brother, really, your brother, why are you being polite to me?

On the last day of 2015, after taking care of everything, Shao Wu lay on the bed and quietly smoked a whole pack of cigarettes.In the end, his mouth was full of bitterness, and he felt like a balloon, propped up by the gray-blue smoke, his organs and flesh and blood being hollowed out.And this pair of skins propped up by the smoke is painless and itchy. It's just a face that doesn't look like everyone else, with two words written on it: decent.

The time of youth passed by so quickly, Yang Shuyi was about to become someone else's husband, and in the future he would be someone else's father.And what he can offer in the end is something that belongs to an adult, with a strong face.

As for the future?Let it be like this from now on, Yang Shuyi is in Chengdu, he is in Zhuhai, or somewhere else, it doesn't matter.In short, they each live their own lives, have their own births, old ages, illnesses and deaths, and the final contact is probably like it is now-Weibo, Moments, Dianping.That night Shao Wu dreamed of Yang Shuyi, in fact he often dreamed of him, dreamed that he accepted his confession, dreamed that he said he broke up with his girlfriend, dreamed that he hugged him.But this time, what Shao Wu dreamed about was only their high school days. After evening self-study, they bought a bowl of cold cakes from the stall in front of the school, and ate them while walking while holding them in their hands.Yang Shuyi was a little thin in high school. It was winter, and he was wearing that black down jacket with loose zippers. Shao Wu clearly remembered that the down jacket was issued by his father's work unit, and it looked fat on him.They walked slowly along the river without talking. After the cold cakes were finished, Yang Shuyi glanced at him with a playful look, and asked him, "Good students also go to Internet cafes?"

Before he could answer, his eyes flickered and he woke up from the dream.Shao Wu opened his eyes wide in the dark. After a few seconds, he took out his phone and pressed the screen to turn on.

The screen showed January 2016, 1, and the year 1 arrived as promised.

Shao Wu's eyes were squinted by the white light, and he wanted to shut down his phone and continue to sleep, but saw a WeChat message in the upper left corner, hesitated for a second, and clicked on WeChat.

It was around nine o'clock last night, and Zhu Jingjing sent a message:

Are you there?There is something I want to ask you.

Just now I went to the hospital to see my uncle... I met my aunt in the inpatient department. I asked her what was wrong and she didn't say anything... Do you know about her illness?

After 4 minutes, she sent another message:

I met my aunt on the second floor, which seems to be the oncology department.