Sioux City.

I leaned back on a recliner in the courtyard of a private house, looking at the blue sky above me, and my mind was calm.

A month ago, I would never have imagined that I would follow Sheng Shiyao and Cheng Xiao to this small city in the south of the Yangtze River, stay in their houses, and get to know the people around them. After parting ways with Xu Jiu when they left the canyon together, Zhang Ji and Liang Zheng worked together to solve the Baiyu case and the missing person case, and there were many follow-up things, and they also returned to their base camps. Only the madman had nothing to do, and followed Su Cheng all the way "without abandoning", and also abducted the man named Aman.

It's just that Cheng Xiao's family has limited housing, so I can place them without superfluity. So the madman rented a room next to Cheng Xiao's shop, and in his words, he swore to protect me.

At first, I would talk to him about feelings, and I had the idea of convincing him, and after a few exchanges, I would stop thinking about it. Because I found that the most difficult thing in the world is to communicate with a madman, basically I don't talk to him on the same channel, I say this, he says that, and I am always annoyed and funny.

In just one month, the time seems to have been stretched for a long time, so long that some things and some people sink into the bottom of their hearts and no longer think about it. And Cheng Xiao and I have become friends who talk about everything, and she told me a lot of embarrassing and even fantastical experiences, which Sheng Shiyao has never been absent from.

At that time, she invited me to join her, and the reason was Sheng Shiyao. She said, Sheng Shiyao is my mentor or friend, if I don't have a place to go, then go with them. It seems that I really don't have a suitable place to go, the position of the police station in Zhuzhen seems to be very far away, and even the rented house, when I simply cleaned up when I left, I found that there was not much I could take with me. A year in Bamboo Town, people are there, not in the heart.

Cheng Xiao said that she used to be in a place called Jingzhou, which was also such a compound and such a recliner, and she was in a daze for several months. She said that she developed this habit later, and she would find it very interesting to lie down and look up at the sky covered by most of the roof tiles. At first, I couldn't understand her feelings, but after listening to her story, I understood.

There is a kind of love called Sheng Shiyao and Cheng Xiao.

I don't know how to describe Sheng Shiyao...... Emotion, in fact, I feel that the word "emotion" is not suitable. He was the only one who had come into contact with the innocent age of my life before I was changed, and he had a deep connection to ...... Bleeding his blood. This origin extends to the back, and I have benefited a lot from the bone shrinking technique, and this blood has made me even more desperate. To be specific, it is a sense of attachment to relatives. I haven't had much contact with him this month, but listening to him once in a while, I feel very settled, as if the voice has a kind of soothing magic.

This day the madman came to say goodbye to me. He looked at me with vicissitudes of life and said, "Little box, I can't accompany you with your third brother." I waited for him to do the following, but I heard him say, "Now you should ask me why." ”

I smiled and said, "Why can't you accompany me?" ”

He looked up at the sky and said with emotion: "Gathering and dispersing in a hurry, every parting is for a better encounter." ”

I frowned, "Speak human." ”

In an instant, he changed his face and asked me with a smile: "Do you think I'm special in literature?" ”

I nodded reluctantly, but he raised his eyebrows and said, "Then wait, brother will give you another literary ......" Two heavy coughs came from behind, and the cold and expressionless Ah Man walked into the courtyard, and he glanced at this side very lightly, "Okay?" ”

The madman turned around and waved his hand, complaining: "Don't rush, you can't say goodbye to the little box." Seeing that he was about to look up at the sky again, I hurriedly stopped: "It's okay, you just say it directly." The madman was stunned, "Are you sure?" I nodded vigorously, very sure, and then he said in a muffled voice: "It's not that Xiao Jiu has something to summon, Aman, this barbarian refuses to stay here, I'm afraid that he will go back and get lost, so I can only take it with me." ”

The madman is unaware, and I, a person who is facing Ah Man, can see it clearly, and his eyes are cold and heavy. secretly sweated for the madman, but said, "Okay, I know, you can go back." ”

The madman was very unhappy: "Why don't you keep it?" I smiled and replied, "Just come back when you're done." That face immediately rained and sunny, and smiled, and seemed to be shy: "I knew that the little box would be reluctant to me." ”

The corners of my mouth twitched, watching the madman reluctantly walk out of the courtyard gate step by step, just sighed lightly, the sudden madman popped up at the courtyard gate, and shouted loudly: "By the way, you have to remember the little box, I am actually a literary and artistic youth." ”

“......”

The fate between people is really delicate, take the madman and Na Aman as an example, the two have different personalities and can get along in harmony. However, I think that it is more accurate to say that Ah Man was abducted by a madman than that Xu Jiu arranged for Ah Man to watch the madman here. Don't look at Ah Man, he almost didn't speak, but the wisdom in his eyes couldn't be hidden.

The madman was gone, and he should have felt relaxed without the noise in his ears, but when he really lost the noise that was always in his ears, he found that the whole space was quiet and scary. Sometimes I even hope that the birds flying in the sky will stop, even if I just stand, and it is difficult to sleep at night, and I can't hope for a dream or anything.

I stayed up all night, and I smiled wryly and thought that if the madman knew that I was like this after he was gone, he would be happy.

I felt the loneliness.

The sky outside the window was dark and hollow, and I didn't look at the time, just about four or five o'clock. Since I woke up and got up, I had nowhere to go, so I was going to go to the courtyard to lie on a chaise longue and see if there were stars at night. The days of idleness are about the end of it.

When I opened the door, there were two days inside and outside, and the winter in Jiangnan was also so cold. I put up the collar of my down jacket, pulled the zipper to the top, put on my hat again, put my hands in my pockets and stepped out of the door, and when I turned around and closed the door, I subconsciously drifted to the innermost part of the corridor, where Sheng Shiyao and Cheng Xiao lived.

There was a shallow light coming out of the crack in the door at the bottom, and the heart said that they also woke up so early? I didn't think much about turning around and walking towards the staircase, when my feet were about to step down the stairs, I suddenly paused, turned my head slowly, and stared at the faint light again.

Whether it was a ghost that sent the gods to a bad place, or a tendon in my brain twitched, I just wanted to listen to their voices at that moment, to hear their happiness with each other, to comfort my barren loneliness.

Put the footsteps to the lightest, step by step close to the door, when I heard the faint voice coming, my nerves suddenly tensed, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly, it turned out that being a thief was in such a mood. And I, on the other hand, am the thief who eavesdrops on other people's happiness.

Listening carefully, the soft female voice was Cheng Xiao speaking: "Yao, aren't you worried?" After a few seconds of silence, she said, "It's not okay to go on like this, she does this every day, it's really like me at that time." ”

My heart moved, Cheng Xiao was talking about me? I was slightly surprised, I originally wanted to hear the gossip of their husband and wife, but I didn't expect to hear me mentioned. This made me hesitate to leave or not.

But a deep voice came: "She's not you, and you're not her." ”

"But if she knew......"

"Xiaoxiao," Sheng Shiyao said loudly to stop Cheng Xiao's words, "Don't you understand the truth that destiny is difficult to violate?" ”

"Destiny? What is Destiny? I don't believe a word. Cheng Xiao suddenly roared angrily, startling me who was eavesdropping outside the door, and I didn't quite understand why she suddenly had such a bad temper. I have never heard her speak in such a sarcastic tone: "At the beginning, we experienced life and death parting because of these two words, and a sentence of heavenly calamity made us fall into the opposite side of the Yellow Spring and did not meet, but these are just the manipulation of the gods and ghosts, you sacrificed so much for me, and almost lost our souls." Do you want to watch Xia Zhu lie silently in that courtyard all day long like a lost soul, and then can't sleep at night? ”

Sheng Shiyao said lightly: "Xiaoxiao, you are too emotional. ”

Listening to me, I want to knock on the door, Cheng Xiao is good to me, I know in my heart, but I don't have to quarrel early in the morning for my business. But when he raised his hand and didn't knock on the door, he heard Cheng Xiao's extremely desolate voice: "Am I emotional?" Sheng Shiyao, didn't you see your own shadow in her and Chu Gaocheng. When I look at her every day, I see that I was at that time, and I used to spend long days and nights in despair like her. Moreover, that's all it takes, in case that Chu Gaocheng never goes back in the future, and Xia Zhu learns that he has never forgotten, how do you want her to live? You said that you thought she was the little girl you met that year, do you want to watch her end up like this? Don't ask for the same life, but ask for the same death, she will ask for death! ”

I felt a white light streak through it, and ten thousand arrows shot into my brain and turned blank. When the body slumped and slammed into the door, there was no control at all, and there was a loud bang on the door, and the sound of words in the door stopped, and then the footsteps came and the door was opened, and I fell into the warm embrace, looking up into Cheng Xiao's eyes blankly, grabbing her arms and gritting her teeth and asking, "What did you say?" ”

It took only five seconds for those eyes to go from surprise to pity, and those five seconds made me fall from the ground to the cliff. Cheng Xiao stretched out his hand to hug me, but I dodged sideways and fell to the ground in embarrassment. "Xia Zhu ......" She leaned over in panic to pull me, but she heard a deep voice rise up: "Xiaoxiao, you go out first." ”

Cheng Xiao's figure froze, and he hesitantly turned his head to look over there, "Ah Yao, Xia Zhu ...... her"

"I know."

In the end, Cheng Xiao's outstretched hand tapped me on the shoulder twice, straightened up and walked out of the door, and gently closed the door, and a low voice came in from the outside: "I'm downstairs." ”<