Chapter 1: The Dream of the Mist
"Chen Chengyi?!" In the midst of the uproar, many people were a little puzzled when they heard this name, obviously not knowing who was coming?
But in the midst of all these cacophonies, there were several exclamations.
In the face of these sounds, the people who came didn't seem to care, and the ethereal footsteps that fell to the ground step by step did not stop for a moment, but kept approaching me.
"Boss?" Some people began to ask, that kind of uncertain attitude, as if they didn't dare to do anything to the person who came, and needed the support of an attitude.
I don't understand, why do those arrogant and domineering black-masked people have such an attitude towards a person who comes alone? It seems that they are a little afraid when they don't know each other, is this what the master said about a person's so-called aura?
Chen Chengyi? In my vague consciousness, I still firmly remembered these three words.
These three words seem familiar to me, but in this state of chaos, I can't remember where I heard the name.
However, the name left a very deep impression on my heart, and I felt that something must have happened?
He said he came to pick me up, but I'm already a person who can't be saved, what's the point of him taking me away?
But his footsteps kept approaching me, and at this time, the burly man's cold voice also came, and he said in a low voice: "Get out of the way, you can't afford to mess with this person." β
His attitude determined all the qiΔ, and sure enough, as soon as his words fell, I heard the sound of many people retreating, because they were too impatient, and they seemed to be disorganized.
Is this Chen Chengyi so terrible? Just such a faint appearance, let these people be like this?
However, these questions are indeed a little too difficult for me in this state at this time, I can't think too much about an answer, although my brain seems to be in an abnormal state, but it is only perception, and limited thinking.
I think my body is dead, right? How could it be so cold otherwise?
But at this moment, I felt a pair of warm hands grasp my arm, and then turned my whole body over, and then a bitter thing was stuffed into my mouth, and a pill was stuffed into it.
The pill melted in my mouth, and then gently and slowly slid down my throat as I fell on my back, and I don't know exactly what it did.
But the bitter thing at the base of my tongue has been emitting an indescribable faint heat, which actually makes my body a little warmer.
"There is not much ginseng essence left from the old forests in the northeast, which can be regarded as cheap for you kid." Chen Chengyi seemed to be talking to himself, but there was an indescribable taste of reminiscence in his tone.
It's just a simple sentence, but it seems to contain countless pasts, which makes people curious.
But I don't have any strength to explore this, just because the faint warmth is so addictive, and a trace of warmth is enough to make people let go of all their defenses and choose to fall asleep, I feel like I can't think about anything anymore? But I want to use all my strength to say a word to this Chen Chengyi.
Lao Zhou is still here, before I passed out, he seemed to have a vague consciousness, if I am taken away like this, what will Lao Zhou do?
But even if I used all my strength, I couldn't say these two words, I couldn't even hear what voices were around me, what was being said, my only feeling was that Chen Chengyi seemed to carry me and began to walk around the vibration.
The burly man seemed to be talking to him, what was he saying? I don't know, but the whole person has really fallen into a state of unconsciousness.
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I don't know how long I was silent in the darkness before what I saw before me began to get messy.
I seemed to see me when I was a child, saw me and Zhou Zheng, and Chen Zhong began to approach the sunset that day.
I saw the dazzling lightning that crossed when I first met Xin Yi, and the pair of eyes that were illuminated by Xin Yi's innocent to a little dull.
I saw Master smiling at me, as warm as ever, sitting in front of the long wooden corridor in the main hall of the mountain gate, and began to hum a little song again, already drunk and hazy.
I felt that Brother Zhengchuan was beside me, still lazy, the corners of his mouth were lightly hooked, but his hand was on my head, and he said to me that Master and I were the most important people to him.
These are my most precious scattered memory moments, but they are mixed with a faint blood red color because the picture will suddenly jump, making me feel that I am in the mountains and forests where the night is as cool as water, guarding a bonfire, lonely but not lonely, because I have become used to it.
I seem to be in a hurry, or maybe not in a hurry, but I am used to walking at night in the jungle and between the mountains and forests, and my hand holding the sword is slender and powerful, in fact, how can I be lonely? My sword accompanies me.
The picture was shattered, and I seemed to see that when I came back when I was 15 years old, my mother hugged me tightly and refused to let go, standing next to me, and my father had red eyes.
Zhou Zheng broke into the house and shouted, "Is Ye Zhengling back?" β
"What about Chen Chong?" I turned around and asked, obviously I wanted to laugh, looking at Zhou Zheng, who had grown a lot taller and had a little beard, but he was a little shy and a little stiff when he smiled, but in fact, he was always kind in his heart.
"He's gone to catch fish." Zhou Zheng was also like this, and he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, but he answered me like that.
"Catch fish?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, catch fish, it's getting harder and harder to get wild river fish these days, but that's the only one that's delicious. Chen Chong didn't know where he learned to make boiled fish recently, and said that when you came back, he would make it for you to eat, which scared you. But he can't look down on ordinary fish, so he has to catch river fish himself. Zhou Zheng said to me.
"This kid." My voice was a little out of tune, and I didn't know what kind of emotion I was trying to express.
Zhou Zheng suddenly walked over at this time, patted me on the shoulder all of a sudden, and said: "You are finally back, every time Chen Zhong and I walk together after school, we are always a little lonely." β
"Well, I'm back." My hand also slapped him heavily, and all the strangeness and estrangement had disappeared at this moment, and the intimacy and longing that had been hidden deep in my heart exploded again.
Yes, I'm back, I've grown up, they've grown up, we've not changed.
The picture is shattered again, and in the blink of an eye it is a cold and windy winter.
In this lonely mountain forest, I wore a black cloak with red mottled bloodstains, and walked alone in the wind and snow.
The wind blew tightly, blowing my cloak, but the feeling on my face was numb, and the crushed ice scum hanging on the eyelashes at the corners of my eyebrows turned into water vapor with the bursts of heat I exhaled, and the body was not cold, but the heart was cold, as if I could still remember the vague tragedy in my mind, the thirty or so fallen, messy corpses.
With some suppressed anger in my heart, I squatted down, picked up a puff of snow from the white snow that looked a little bloody in my eyes, put it to my nose and sniffed it, and scolded lightly: "Even if it is food, it is not good to be treated so cruelly." People should also cherish food, right? Sure enough, it's a tyrannical guy who is not very well-behaved and has just come out. β
As I spoke, I touched the sword hanging from my waist, held the hilt of the sword in my hand, threw away the ball of snow that seemed normal in ordinary eyes in my hand, and continued to walk forward in the wind and snow Polluted by a large cloud of blood, the red cloak fluttered in the wind, and my back gradually faded away, as if in the vast snow-white world, a little bright red mark.
Another shattered picture, turned into a point of light and dissipated before my eyes.
And I saw that for the second time in my life, the boiled fish made by Chen Zhong was really delicious, so Zhou Zheng and I were both drunk with this boiled fish.
At the dinner table, Zhou Zheng took out a bag of vacuum-packed things and asked me, "Zhengling, do you remember this?" Wait, we'll use this too. β
Of course I remember, don't you bring it with you every Spring Festival? Zhou Zheng's hometown specialty - brine snake.
I'm glad that the taste of the marinated snake hasn't changed, and neither has the person.
After drinking, Chen Zhong shouted to go to the bamboo forest where we worshipped, the summer dusk was long, it was already more than eight o'clock, but the sky was a gorgeous rose, mixed with brilliant but soft gold.
The three of us walked backwards, and Chen Chongzhou was singing in my ear their non-standard pronunciation of chaotic Cantonese: "Which side is ahead, who accompanies me to break through, there is no guide on the road ahead, if I walk on it, it will be a narrow alley"
In the misty drunken eyes, I also shouted this song, they must teach me to sing.
But there was a figure that suddenly appeared in front of her, with long hair, neat bangs, holding a book in both hands, undulating chest, and a slight gasp, it seemed that she was running in a hurry.
It's still the same pair of eyes, dumbfounded, so all emotions are hidden.
However, has you grown up, so are you starting to be pretty?
"Xinyi." My tongue was a little bigger, but I could still pronounce her name clearly, and I squinted and saw a bright silver light on her chest, the same thing I had with me when I left the station in a hurry.
Her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and suddenly she seemed to be smart, and a lot of emotions were mixed with longing.
I was stunned, but she threw away the book in her hand, rushed over and hugged me, and said, "You're not going to go again, are you?" β
Next to me, Chen Zhong just said the sentence: "Xin Yi, your cram school is over?" Then, he and Zhou Zheng were stunned, and booed together, laughing at me and Xin Yi.
This kind of behavior of a young man is very remarkable.
My face is a little hot, and my heart is a little shy, how can this girl Xin Yi behave like this? But I didn't feel that I had been together for less than a year, and I had been away for five years, what was wrong with such a deep relationship?
Because so do I.
"Will leave, but will not not not come back, will come back often." Still, I replied softly, and I didn't want to push her away.
"That's good." She buried her head and whispered.
The picture shattered again and a voice surged madly in my heart, who am I? Who am I? Ye Zhengling? Or is it the lonely Nie Yan?