Chapter Twenty-Seven: It's Better to See Each Other Than to Miss
It was almost noon when the truck finally drove into the city. Beichuan bought a military coat from the driver, and advanced money to buy a woolen sweater and a down jacket for Li Zhen nearby.
Li Zhen put it on in the fitting room, and when he came out, he said embarrassedly: "This money...... I may have to pay you back next month. I was going to pay back the money last night...... As a result, I brought a hundred pieces and put them all in my clothes...... I don't know where the road has gone. Now there are only more than forty dollars left......"
Beichuan smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, I'm not in a hurry." Anyway, I have a stipend. โ
Then she handed Li Zhen ten yuan: "If you have a lot of debts, you won't be oppressed, so I'll give you a taxi." I'm guessing you're in a hurry right now. โ
The first time he owed money to a girl, Li Zhen felt like his face was on fire, so he took it and thanked him, turned his head and ran away.
In fact, he was really anxious......
Kematsu learned from Kitagawa that he worked at that barbecue restaurant...... Will you go to him?
With such worries, he ran down the street, causing many people to look at him with a little surprise.
Kitagawa looked at his back, his lips moved, then rubbed his face, and also turned and walked away.
The taxi traveled half of the city and took more than forty minutes. There are always red lights along the way, and the meter keeps jumping. Li Zhen resisted the urge to get out of the car and run away, stretched his neck to look at the long queue of traffic in the distance, and sighed.
It's just in time for the rush hour to get to work, and it's almost urgent.
After making it through, he got out of the car on the side of the street across the street from the barbecue restaurant. First, he glanced around...... Then a sense of loss welled up in my heart.
Among the passers-by who walked or stood in twos and threes, there was no familiar face.
He was stunned, then put his hand in his coat pocket, bowed slightly like an old man, and slowly walked towards the place where he lived.
The early winter noon sun shines on the streets, and the floor tiles are slightly shining. The fallen leaves on both sides of the road kept falling, swirling on the ground, drifting farther away. He walked with his head bowed to the noise of pedestrians and traffic coming from the street, all the way to the front of the barbecue restaurant.
And then......
He froze.
At the doorway with the roller shutter drawn, there was a person huddled against the wall, wearing a long black sรจ down coat, like a chrysalis.
The man seemed to be standing against the wall. When you get tired of standing, you squat down.
In such a cold wind, he seemed to be tired of squatting again, so he leaned his head against the side of the red brick wall, curled up, and fell asleep unconsciously.
The man's long hair fell and covered his face. The black sรจ coat on his body wrapped his slender body, as if the whole person had shrunk into the shadow.
People passing by the door can't help but cast strange glances.
Li Zhen stood there and watched for two seconds, then walked over with stiff steps. Walk up to the chrysalis, crouch down, and cautiously reach out...... Brushed away her long hair.
It was a fair-skinned face that had been red from the cold. The thick eyelashes fluttered like the wings of a restless butterfly; The small nose twitched slightly, as if dreaming of something terrible; Mi Sรจ's lips opened slightly, and she exhaled a vague name - "Li Zhen, ......"
"Whoa." Li Zhen looked at her in a daze for a moment, and then gently agreed. At this opening, his throat shook violently, and the sour emotions rushed into his mind like a river bursting its banks. With this sound, two tears fell on her face, causing her to frown slightly.
"I'm here." He opened his green military coat, leaned over and hugged the slender body in front of him into his arms, and rubbed his eyes fiercely, "I...... Come on. โ
Then he rested his chin on Zhang Kesong's head, whimpered like a wounded beast, and finally cried.
The girl in his arms was quickly awakened by him, and looked up at him after the initial confusion...... Then desperately pushed him out.
However, Li Zhen hugged her and didn't let go, tears poured out big drops, and said vaguely: "It's me...... It's me...... It's ...... me."
So the struggle in his arms suddenly stopped. Zhang Kesong looked at the face in front of him that was covered with tears...... Suddenly realized the fact that Li Zhen in her impression had changed his appearance. Then he raised his fist and hit him in the chest as if he had just woken up from a dream, crying as he cried: "You don't come to me...... You still don't admit it...... You bastard! Li Zhen, you bastard......! โ
So...... Wrapped in a green coat, the two of them squatted in front of the roller shutter door of the barbecue restaurant, hugged each other in the surprised eyes of passers-by, crying and laughing. When they recalled the scene later, their faces felt hot, and then they wanted to laugh. However, when I laughed and laughed, I wanted to cry.
And then ......
Two people walked down the street hand in hand. Ke Song's little hand was put into Li Zhen's pocket, and he held it so tightly that he kept holding out the warm sweat. However, it never let go for a moment, nor did it move. As if afraid that once you let go, the person next to you will be lost again.
They slowly walked from the bustling downtown center to Li Zhen's residence, and along the way Li Zhen whispered about what happened after he died, and the two of them met again what happened after they parted. However, there have been so many things that have happened in the past year, even if Ke Songan listened quietly until he entered the house, he still hadn't finished speaking.
So Li Zhen turned on the air conditioner, spread out the futon, let Ke loose in the quilt, sat beside her, held her hand, and continued to tell her like a story.
When it came to the time when the sun was gradually setting in the west, Ke Song held his eyes and was about to fall asleep several times.
Li Zhen said to her, "You can sleep." When you wake up, I'll tell you again. โ
However, Ke Song firmly grasped his hand and shook his head stubbornly: "No, I have to listen...... Otherwise, it's like a dream. Then her eyes widened again: "Once I'm asleep, you won't run away alone, will you?" โ
Li Zhen smiled and nodded, so her eyes narrowed again.
After arriving at the end, when Li Zhen finished saying the sentence "Then, I saw you at the door of the store", Zhang Kesong finally said "um", and then really fell asleep.
There was only a faint sound of the air conditioner in the room, and it was dark. Li Zhen took advantage of the faint moonlight, reached out and gently touched Ke Song's hair, and then pressed his face to it, hearing the sound of long, even breathing.
He held this position, leaning lightly against her, breathing. I feel that in addition to the fragrance of Komatsu hair, there is also a little bit of a gradually thickened and happy smell in the air.
So he sighed comfortably and went to sleep.
It's the time when thousands of homes are lit up. However, such a cornice-tiled house in the old city was inconspicuously dimmed in the bright and brilliant city lights, as if a world was enclosed with four solid walls.
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