I slightly suspect that Lin Jiangnan drank alcohol on purpose, just to have an excuse not to drive. But I thought, even if he deliberately couldn't drive a car after drinking, how could he calculate that he couldn't get a taxi, and how could he calculate that I would leave him with a hot brain?

I think too much, I'm a conspiracy theorist.

"Is it cold or not?" I asked him.

"It's not cold, it's just a little hungry, and I didn't eat the staple food."

I went to the kitchen and got a stone bun he had brought with him, and he broke half of it for me. "Are you sleepy?" He asked.

"Okay."

He tugged the quilt at his side, making room for me, "Let's watch a movie together." ”

"Don't look. What time is it? ”

"I don't have to go to work tomorrow." He looked at me blankly, "Look, watch with me for a while, and you can go to sleep when you are sleepy." I've always wanted to watch this movie, but I haven't found anyone to accompany me. ”

"Which one?"

"P.K., an Indian film, called "My God" in Chinese." He opened his phone and searched for it, "I heard it's very beautiful." ”

"It's pretty good." I said, "I've seen it." ”

"That's right, watch it with me for a while, go to sleep when you're sleepy, you know the plot anyway." As he spoke, he turned on the TV and projected the video onto it. I sat on the couch with the half of the stone bun and watched Aamir Khan appear on the screen with a straight eyebrow.

I remember this movie quite clearly.

The day before Christmas last year, I received lanolin from Lin Jiangnan Express, and then I sent him a message with trepidation, hoping that our relationship would remain just at the level of friends. Then the weather was very cloudy that day, and I was not in a good mood, so I stayed in the company and watched a movie under the pretext of working overtime.

It's this "P.K."

The hero of the movie is an alien with a data-like superpower, and he can get the other person's growth file as long as he holds the other person's hand and knows what the other person has experienced. When I watched it, I was envious, and I thought that if only I had this function, then I would go around shaking hands with people, and then I could dominate all kinds of fields.

The plot of the movie advances, and the first key plot arrives, where the hero holds the heroine's hand and tells her past experience. With the heroine's incredible expression, Lin Jiangnan suddenly turned his head to look at me, and then looked at the screen again, and said, "If only I had this ability." ”

"I thought about it when I watched it. If I had this ability, mastering dozens of foreign languages would be a matter of minutes, and it would be easy to be a genius, and it would be enough for the United Nations to meet and ask me to be a translator alone. ”

"That's what you're thinking." Lin Jiangnan smiled slightly after hearing this, "I didn't think so." ”

"What do you think?"

His eyes were still focused on the film, but he said to me, "If only I could know what you've been through in the past." ”

I felt like someone had punched me in the heart, the pain was accompanied by a feeling of suffocation, and the stone bun in my hand was crumpled in half by me.

"Don't make the atmosphere so numb." I say.

He smiled, "No, it's just a different way of saying 'understanding'." ”

"I'll send you a resume when I get back." I pinched the stones that fell on the sofa little by little, and I couldn't help but start to imagine that if someone really had this ability, it would be equivalent to the memory being controlled by someone else. It's a scary thing to think about.

"You say, if someone really has this kind of superpower, can he still read the things that even the other party himself has forgotten?" I asked him.

"Good question." He nodded earnestly, "I'll have to think about it." ”

"Don't be so serious, just ask."

He didn't speak, as if he was really serious about it. My attention returned to the film, and at the end of the film, when the hero told her about the emotional past that made her sad, Lin Jiangnan said, "It depends on the explanation of the concept of 'forgetting'." If it's really something that he forgot, then even if he reads it, the person can't prove that he has superpowers, and the person who forgets it should think he's making it up. ”

"Will you forget so completely?" I shook my head, "It would have to be something unimportant to forget so clean." ”

"To truly forget is to forget even the act of 'forgetting' itself, as if it had never happened at all. In this way, what we can remember is already something that we will not forget, so the experiences that can be read are actually not forgotten. ”

"It's a bit of a twist."

"The act of forgetting something is itself reinforcing the memory of the event, and real forgetting happens unconsciously." He tilted his head and thought about it again, "When someone mentions something and we say, 'If you don't say it, I forgot,' it shouldn't be called really forgetting, right?" ”

"What's that called?"

"Called...... Sealed? Lin Jiangnan tapped his chin with his knuckles, "If you look at everyone's memory as a separate time dimension, events are all nodes on the time axis, if you always remember one thing, it is equivalent to this node being infinitely elongated, and how far you go on this axis it will follow." But if the thing is only awakened when there is an external stimulus, then it is equivalent to creating a new node, and the original one is still in the old position, and it is sealed in that position. It doesn't follow you that doesn't mean it's deleted, it's always there, but it doesn't have an impact on your life. This is probably what we call 'forgetting'. ”

When the movie on TV finished and the upbeat Indian music started, I yawned and tears came out. I'd love to cover up this yawn, but it's too big to be able to do anything about it.

"I tried hard, but I didn't understand."

"You yawned, and then you sealed it in the early morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and you won't think about it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and it won't affect your life, until one day I mentioned it and said, 'Sumi, remember that year on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I stayed at your house for a night, and we watched a movie together and discussed what it means to 'forget', and you yawned a special, very big one', and then your memory was awakened and I remembered it." He explained it to me eloquently. Then he smiled and waved his hand, saying that he was making up concepts so that I didn't care.

The room was dimly lit, with a little smell of roasted wheat flour and the smell of braised beef, his washed face was clean and fresh, and he sat in my quilt of pink cherry balls in a dark green short-sleeved T-shirt, his voice was like a piece of melting chocolate, accompanied by a gentle smile.

At 2:18 a.m. on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, this picture carved a node in my time dimension at this time. I don't know if he'll actually bring up my special, big yawn someday, or if the time I carved out of myself will be sealed here, and I won't be awakened by the outside stimulus. But I'd love to remember it.

I went back to my room and lay down in my bed, thinking that Lin Jiangnan was in the living room across the door, and there was a little throbbing.

I'll admit that it was actually an ambiguous and fluid night. I didn't have a reason to leave Lin Jiangnan, and I didn't imagine or expect anything, I just didn't want him to go.

I don't know what I'm thinking. When I went home on the second day of the Lunar New Year, I clearly told my mother that I had nothing to do with Lin Jiangnan, and we would not be together. It's only been two days.

But I comforted myself that Lin Jiangnan and I really had nothing to do. I just vacated my living room and stayed overnight with a regular friend who didn't want to drink and drive in the bitter cold weather, couldn't get a taxi, and didn't wear autumn pants. I shouldn't have been so myself for this impulse, which was already so cautious and trembling.

I don't know what time I fell asleep, but I do know what time I woke up, because when my mom called me, I was still in a state of confusion and had the feeling of being woken up in the early hours of the morning, but when I looked at my watch, it was almost ten o'clock.

"Why haven't you gotten up yet? What time is it? ”

I felt very irritable and curled up in the quilt, "It's the New Year, I'm fine, what's wrong with sleeping more." ”

"Get up quickly, your dad and I will be here soon."

"Where are you?"

"You! Didn't I tell you that day, your uncle sent seafood from Shandong, and it arrived this morning, so we will send you some quickly. ”

I rubbed my eyes and sat up, leaning against the head of the bed, "You tell me, I'll just drive to get it, you guys are really not tired of this long distance." ”

"What so much nonsense!" My mother was also impatient, "After sending it to you, we will go directly to your aunt's house, and bring one to your aunt." ”

"Oh, good." I hung up the phone, reluctantly tossed around under the covers twice, and then got up. It was already sunny in the living room, I threw my phone on the coffee table, stretched my waist to go to the toilet, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw Lin Jiangnan brushing his teeth with a mouth full of toothpaste.

I was stunned for a moment.

Just like Lin Jiangnan said, the fact that he stayed at my house happened at this point in time yesterday, and I completely sealed it at that moment after sleeping, and did not follow my time to today, and now, my memory is awakened by the stimulation of him, a living person.

"Oh my god!" I felt my blood cold, rushed into the toilet and grabbed his arm, "It's broken!" ”

He spat out the toothpaste foam in his mouth, "Something is broken!" ”

"My life!" I picked up the glass and stuffed it into his hand, "Quick! My mom and dad are coming! ”

"it!" Lin Jiangnan was also shocked, hurriedly rinsed his mouth, wiped his mouth with his backhand, and rushed out of the bathroom with me. At the same time, there was a knock on the door.

It was too late to go out, so I picked up Lin Jiangnan's clothes from the hanger, and pushed him into Xu Yijing's room with him, "Don't make a sound." ”

"Cell phone! My phone! He gestured to the coffee table.

My mom knocked a little harder, and I heard her say to my dad, "This kid can't be asleep again, is he?" Did you bring the keys? ”

I rushed to the living room with a sliding step, picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table, and then rushed back to the door of Xu Yijing's room and handed him the mobile phone, "Bear with me, they won't stay for long." ”

With that, I closed the door to my room.

The moment the door closed, the door opened. My dad came in and saw me, "Huh? Up? Why don't you knock on the door and not open it? ”

"Just came out of the toilet." I steadied myself, took a deep breath, walked back to the living room, and glanced at the coffee table.

Die! That's Lin Jiangnan's mobile phone!