"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane is descending. Please return to your original seat, fasten your seat belt, put away the tray table, and adjust the seat back to the normal position. Please double-check that your personal computer and electronic devices must be turned off or in airplane mode. Please make sure that your carry-on items are properly stored. Later, we will dim the cabin lights. Thank you! ”

My thoughts were interrupted by a gentle female voice on the radio, outside the window has been a place that has been lost for many years, I have imagined countless times when I set foot on this land again what kind of state of mind it will be when I set foot on this land again, sadness, joy or sadness and joy, when I see the familiar and unfamiliar scenes in my memory again, I realize that the mood at this moment does not belong to any kind, but a kind of calmness. There was a rough start here, a little bit of a past that no one else knew, and I was mentally prepared for it when I decided to come back the night before.

"Is it there, wood?"

Hearing the announcement, the girl sitting next to me rubbed her eyes, and there was a hazy sleepiness in her voice.

I glanced back at her and touched her head: "Dead girl, no big or small, call brother!" She slapped my hands away, wrinkled her nose, straightened her messed hair, and began to clean up her things.

My name is Lin Qi, and the girl next to me is Shen Muhan.

Many years ago, in that unusually cold winter, in a strange big house, I met Shen Muhan for the first time - a little girl with pigtails and a floral cotton jacket with snot hanging on the side of her mouth, I was nine years old that year, and Shen Muhan was eight years old. I still vividly remember our first conversation, I told her that I was a two-character forest and a one-character chess, and I would call my brother in the future. At that time, Shen Muhan wiped his nose and said timidly, there are so many woods in your name, you should be called wood.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane has landed at the remote wall airport, the temperature outside is 28 degrees Celsius, the plane is taxiing, for the safety of you and others, please do not stand up or open the luggage compartment just yet......" A sweet female voice came again on the radio.

The moment I stepped off the plane, a slightly stuffy air rushed into my face, mixed with the smell of a long time. It's been eighteen years, and I'm finally back in this place.

Eighteen years ago, Shen Muhan and I were adopted from two different welfare homes, and as in many stories, we didn't remember our parents or know our background.

All the memories are related to the welfare home, and all the memories are not related to the welfare home. The book says that memory is the recognition, retention, and reproduction of things that have been experienced, and that memory is the process of recovering past experiences. Over the years, I have tried countless times to let myself forget those experiences, and when I thought I had succeeded, a piece of news from China made all my efforts go to naught.

Curiosity is like a snake that is about to freeze in the snow and ice, once it is given a hint of warmth, it will instantly show its fangs, maybe not fatal, but enough to make people restless.

Retracted his thoughts and glanced at Shen Muhan next to him, a white T-shirt, light-colored denim shorts and a pair of strappy high-heeled sandals, setting off the tall figure exquisitely, a long black hair hanging quietly behind his back, and a strand of hair on the side of his face was gently floating up by his constantly fanning hands, attracting the attention of many people. Eighteen years in a foreign country have turned this little girl with snot at any time into a slim girl.

Shen Muhan saw me looking at her, stuck out her tongue, and put the backpack in her hand on my shoulder: "Let's go!" It's getting hot!" After that, he pulled my clothes and walked to the arrival hall.

Entering the arrival hall, a familiar figure was leaning against the pillar and playing with his mobile phone with his head down. Simple short hair, black sunglasses, black T-shirt, black camouflage training pants, training boots, looks out of place in the crowd full of shorts and skirts, attracting the attention of many people. The angular face and clear muscle lines continue to attract the girls who pass by. I didn't bother him when I saw him playing with his mobile phone, and I pulled Shen Muhan to stand not far away, I wanted to see when this guy who shouted every day about Shen Muhan would find us.

Just as we were waiting, a girl with a famous brand and exquisite appearance walked up to him: "Little brother, can you make a friend, add a WeChat?" ”

The guy pushed his eyes with his middle finger, and without looking up, he turned the phone screen to the girl, who looked at the wriggling snake on the black and white screen in front of her, and exaggeratedly stamped her feet and shouted, "Wow! Little brother, you have such a personality, and you still have such a retro mobile phone? As soon as he finished speaking, he pointed to the screen of his mobile phone and continued to shout: "Hurry up!" Hurry up! It's going to hit the wall! Oops, dead. After shouting, he looked pitiful.

"Can you be quiet?"

"You give me the phone, and I'll be quiet!"

“3502678。” The girl heard a few numbers and thought for a while, the expression on her face suddenly sank, and she said "Neurotic" and left without looking back.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Muhan couldn't help laughing, I shook my head helplessly, after so many years, this guy is still the same as before, and he hasn't changed at all. Shen Muhan walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "I said crazy, when did you become a psychopath?" The madman smiled and shook his head: "Alas! I'm also forced to be helpless, now girl. Shen Muhan listened to the madman's words, and laughed with a "poof": "You, you deserve to be single!" ”

The madman put away his phone, pretended to have just noticed me, and opened his arms to me: "Welcome home!" As he spoke, he walked over and hugged me, and patted me on the back. I suddenly remembered the number he had just said, and asked, "When did you change the phone?" ”

Li Feng let go of me and shook his head: "Simple child, I have spoken English in vain for so many years. Just as I was about to ask him a few more words, this guy actually pushed me away, turned his head and opened his arms to Shen Muhan.

"Come, Sister Han, hug one!"

Shen Muhan seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of the number, and hid to the side: "Dead pervert, go away, don't come here!" ”

The madman's real name is Li Feng, he is Uncle Li's son, four years older than me, the three of us knew each other when we were children, although Shen Muhan and I were soon sent to the UK, and the madman didn't get along for a long time, but in the middle he went abroad to accompany him for three years, and he was very familiar with each other, and it was inevitable to fight and make trouble when they met. Later, when I returned to China because of joining the army, I had just applied for retirement shortly before I came back, and today I came to the airport to meet us.

The madman took the luggage and pulled it off as he went. When the madman decided to retire, he once sent me a message, the content is not clear, it's not that I have a bad memory, it's really used too much rhetoric and rendering of moaning without disease, I glanced at it at the time, and I didn't look carefully, but now I met and suddenly wanted to know, so I asked a few words.

The madman snorted, saying that he wanted to change his way of life and feel a different life. I don't think he wants to elaborate, so I didn't continue to ask, anyway, there will be a lot of time in the future, and he can't say it himself one day, and I'm afraid that I can't listen to it if I don't want to.

I took my checked luggage and walked out of the arrival hall, and while the madman ran to drive, I stood on the side of the road and looked at the surrounding scenery for a while. After eating too much sauce and cheese, what I miss most is frying and frying, and the most intimate thing about the castle manor is the blue bricks and red tiles.

When I left here as a child, the last place I passed belonged to the city was a dilapidated hut, I tried to find it in the direction of my memory, that place has become a high-rise building, the neon lights on the roof are constantly flashing, and the last piece of blue brick and red tile in my memory has completely disappeared.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him from far and near, and you didn't need to look at it to know that it must be Shen Muhan's girl. When I passed by that hut, there happened to be an old man who walked the streets and alleys selling sugar gourds and pushed a bicycle to sell, Shen Muhan cried greedily, Uncle Li bought several for her to bring, but when she got off the plane abroad, the airport said that the fruit that had not been inspected could not enter the country, and the girl ate it all in one breath in front of others, and her stomach hurt for several days.

"Girl, do you remember the old man who sold sugar gourds? Is that the old man with the sugar gourd who made you cry? ”

Shen Muhan didn't answer, I turned around and saw that there was a strange girl in front of me, looking at me with a curious face, and I was just talking to myself, thinking that I was mentally ill.

There was no shadow of Shen Muhan behind him.