1

The firewood brothers have a WeChat group, which was built many years ago, and later Fangfang also joined the group as a family member, and the group of five people was very lively at the beginning, but now it is deserted and cannot find the group.

After Li Shu became a soldier, there was basically no speech from him in the group, and I forgot the last time he sent a message. He Li works as a reporter in a small newspaper, and he is very busy, and he rarely chats nonsense, and he only chats with me privately about anything. So the most active people in the group are me, Satisfied and Fangfang, but I really can't stand them showing affection in the group, and I don't bother to deal with them in the end.

The group of "Firewood Brothers" was once again at the top, but it was because Li Shu, who had not heard from him for a long time, broke the peace in the group.

"Go home in a few days and make an appointment!" Li Shu said.

Still typing, the satisfactory news has arrived: "When you come back one day, we will pick you up." ”

Li Shu: "It's just the last time, I'll say it in advance!" ”

Satisfied: "Okay, call us then, and I'll pick you up with Xingyu!" ”

I was too lazy to type, so I went straight to a firecracker expression, and the whole world celebrated.

The next thing in the group is the Doutu Contest, all kinds of emojis fly directly, and I don't know what happened a little later.

Put down the phone, think back to the past, the last time I was with Li Shu was in Listening to Willow in Canyon Village. Li Shu returned all the coins he had saved for more than a year to you in the wishing pool, and I still remember his wish, he said: "The world is impermanent, and I hope that the firewood brothers can reunite again, and no one is missing." ”

No one is missing.

But I never saw any news from He Li in the group.

My friends often ask me when I'm back.

I replied, "She said she would be back before New Year's Day, and it would be soon." ”

Li Xiang said: "When you come back, you finally don't have to defend yourself!" Li Xiang said with that cheap smile.

Satisfied, he said, "It's good to be back!" ”

Fangfang said: "Last time, I heard her come back before New Year's Day, and it is estimated that eight or nine will not leave ten." ”

Sister Lan said: "He Li also said that he came back to me to do his hair, I will wait." ”

The firewood brothers can finally reunite after many years, and none of them are missing.

It seemed that all the signs were heralding a happy ending, but my heart could not settle down. Because He Li has always said that she is so tired recently, and she has hung up on the phone in a hurry, and sometimes she can't be contacted at all. And He Li's return date, I never heard her mention it again.

2

Li Shu arrived as promised.

After receiving Li Shu's itinerary, he arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon, and I drove to the train station early in the morning, leaving Fangfang to prepare dinner alone.

If it weren't for a special day, Fangfang wouldn't be able to cook, and she was also a little lazy. But today is different, today there are friends from afar, and they are very happy. Fangfang and Li Shu have never met, but I don't know how many times I have heard me, He Li and be satisfied, in Fangfang's heart, it is estimated that Li Shu has been a friend.

Satisfaction and I arrived at the drop-off platform at the station, and Li Shu still had to wait a while to get to the station. The sun had already faded halfway into the buildings in the distance, the sky was making a final struggle to keep it as blue as a ticket, the city's streetlights and traffic tracing the streets in the distance, and the breeze was blowing in some direction.

Back to the side of the car, I looked at the city, the lights are three or three stars in twos and threes, suddenly feel so quiet, listen carefully or the bustling city of traffic, think we are used to the hustle and bustle of the city.

I and satisfaction are quite impatient, we always can't wait on weekdays, we can't stand the red light for forty or fifty seconds, we have to skip the opening when watching TV, love someone is always the first to show goodwill, but when we wait for an old friend, we are waiting for him calmly.

The wait is independent of the duration.

Soon, Li Shu's car arrived at the station, and I stared at the exit with satisfaction. After many years, I still remember the tall and honest young man, and I searched for familiar faces in the crowd, already fantasizing about the suddenly wide and determined eyes when we met, and the deep nasolabial folds that grinned against two petals.

Then I really found those eyes, and he searched through the crowd, and finally locked in my direction, and then broke into a smile. Li Shu was already tall, but now he is even more burly, he is wearing a military uniform without epaulettes and collar flowers, his steps are firm, and he is upright and awe-inspiring, which attracts a lot of attention from the crowd.

Li Shu quickened his pace, he dragged the suitcase with one hand, and the girl on the other side. Satisfaction had already rushed up, but I was stunned and slowed down.

I slowed down and focused, wishing what I had just seen wasn't real. But, it's true.

Between Li Shu and the accompanying woman, there was clearly a hand missing. Without Li Shu's hand, his empty left sleeve was tightly clenched in the girl's hand. The girl was clinging to Li Shu, her eyes were full of anxiety and panic, and she supported Li Shu's body from time to time, for fear that he would accidentally lose his balance.

Satisfaction hugged Li Shu, Li Shu hugged Satisfaction with his only right hand, and I also walked up, missing all the excitement and happiness I had imagined before. Li Shu called me with a smile: "Xingyu, I'm back!" ”

"Where's the hand?" That's all I asked him.

Only then did he react, pulled out of Li Shu's arms, looked at the knotted sleeves and said distressedly, "How did you do it?" What about hands? ”

"It's gone." Li Shu said calmly, his eyes were full of tears, and seeing me and his satisfaction distressed, Li Shu smiled and said, "It's okay!" He deliberately dragged the word "thing" for a long time to tell us that he was really fine, and then Li Shu continued: "I changed this one!" Li Shu said and took out a square box from his pocket, and opened it to see that it was a shiny medal.

"You! It's stupid, what's the use of this, I want you to have hands! A satisfied punch hit Li Shu's chest, and a tear still didn't hold back.

Li Shu is indeed very stupid, for the sake of others, not to mention a hand, even his life is also willing to pay, when he was young, he chose to be a soldier and was ready to make sacrifices.

But stupid people are always happy.

"Oops! It's all right! It's not just a medal, it's this! Li Shu comforted me and was satisfied, and said that he smiled and pulled the girl next to him.

"My object!" Li Shu said.

Girl: "Hey! My name is Jasmine! ”

Only then did we shift our attention to the girl on the side, jeans, small padded jacket, she was dressed simply, there was no makeup, her words and deeds were generous, very friendly, even if they met for the first time, there was no sense of distance.

"Hello!" I say.

Jasmine: "If I'm not mistaken, you're Starfield." ”

I nodded.

Jasmine: "I don't know how many times I've heard Li Shu talk about you, then you're satisfied." Jasmine looked satisfied again.

"Yes, yes!" Satisfied wiped a handful of tears and calmed down.

I said, "Alright, alright, let's go back and talk about it, dinner is almost ready." ”

Li Shu: "Okay, let's go!" ”

Satisfied: "Wait, medal, don't stuff it in the box, you have to take it, let others see it." Satisfied, snatched the medal from Li Shu's hand, carefully pinned it to Li Shu's chest, and gently stroked it, it was very precious.

Me: "Yes, yes, yes!" Show it to others. ”

Li Shu: "Hehe, listen to you." ”

Friends who haven't seen each other for many years chatted about each other's experiences along the way, some talking, laughing, and some warm. I and I didn't mention Li Shu's right hand again, Li Shu smiled very really, and he could see that he was very content now.

Li Shu said that his hand was exchanged for the medal and Jasmine, we know that this was never a transaction, the transaction was agreed in advance, and Li Shu's sacrificial hand was his choice, he was ready to have nothing when he made this choice, but the medal and Jasmine were unknown at that time.

Li Shu is lucky, he just confirms the old saying, good people have good rewards. Everything is the best arrangement, in Li Shu's place, he simply feels that it is worth it, and contentment makes him peaceful.

We didn't talk about the matter at hand, we won't say it today, and we won't say it in the future, as long as Li Shu himself doesn't say it. But if one day Li Shu suddenly wants to talk to us, thousands of miles away, I will come to him and listen to him talk about the suffering.

3

Our group chatted and unconsciously arrived at a satisfactory rental house, and Fangfang just finished the last dish of the broth, just in time for dinner.

A large table of dishes, braised pork, fungus roast chicken, steamed black fish, and a few small vegetarian dishes and soup, very hearty, as soon as you enter the door, the fragrance of the room is full, not to mention that the real Fangfang is really powerful.

It's time to eat, and I always feel like I'm missing someone.

I walked to the balcony and made a call to He Li, but I still couldn't get through, and sent a message to her, of course she didn't reply, I had to look out the window at the shining city in a daze.

"Come in and eat!" It was Li Shu, he patted me on the shoulder and said.

"Hmm!" I nodded and sat down with Li Shu.

It's really one less.

The table was full, but there was no wine. Fang Fang knew that none of us could drink, and we were all cowards at the wine table, including Li Shu.

Li Shu silently opened the suitcase and took out a bottle of wine.

"Come on! Drink two with me! Li Shu said.

"Huh?" Satisfied, I was immediately stunned when I heard the drink.

I also immediately persuaded Li Shu: "What amount everyone, you don't know, don't drink it." ”

Li Shu: "Don't say it, I haven't learned anything else in the past few years, and I can drink two glasses of wine, haha." ”

I couldn't resist Li Shu, so I had to drink with him, Li Shu also knew my amount, poured me a small half glass of wine, let me drink some at will, and poured a full glass for himself, which stunned me and satisfaction.

People who can't drink alcohol will never understand how some people can drink so much wine, let alone take a sip of it.

Although Li Shu didn't have a god to operate, he also made a coo in one bite, and I took two random sipes and was already on his head, but he still looked like he had nothing to do.

"Do you regret it?" Slightly drunk, I held Li Shu's drooping sleeve and said.

Li Shu shook his head very sincerely, picked up the wine glass and swallowed the remaining half glass of wine, sighed and said, "He Li also asked me so." ”

"Have you seen her?" I asked in surprise, not only me, but also Satisfied and Fangfang, and suddenly they all stopped eating, and the hut was quiet for a while.

"Yes." Li Shu said: "I didn't plan to tell you, He Li also begged me not to tell you, but she is very difficult and bitter now, you have to help her." ”

"What's wrong with her?" I could feel the panic in my words, and I propped one hand on the table, the other on my satisfied thigh, as anxious as a drunken man on trial waiting for the outcome. He Li said that he would come back soon, but now he can't be contacted, I sent a lot of messages, made a lot of calls, and disappeared like a trace in the world.

"She's addicted to drugs." Li Shu said,

"She's addicted to drugs." Every word was nailed to my heart like a steel nail, hammered to the deepest part of my heart. Before that, I didn't understand why people would say that their hearts hurt, and when they were sad, they would be sad, how could their hearts hurt? Now I finally realize that my heart really hurts.

I could feel my weakness, I got up hard, sat down on the sofa, and continued to listen to Li Shu in a trance. I'm trying to keep myself awake because there's a voice in my head that keeps saying "It's a dream, it's a dream." ”

I also wish it was a dream, but my judgment tells me it wasn't a dream.

"How so?" Fang Fang said.

Li Shu: "At first, a comrade-in-arms from the Ministry of Public Security told me that one of my fellow villagers had taken drugs. ”

"You're not going to be caught, are you?" Satisfied with the worried question.

Li Shu: "No, her situation is quite special, she was in the drug rehabilitation community when I found her. ”

"Do you have her address?" I interrupted Li Shu's words.

Li Shu: "Yes, I'll send it to you." ”

I bought the first train ticket the next day and continued to listen to Li Shu.

Li Shu: "He Li is a reporter in a newspaper and is writing a report about drugs, she went to the drug rehabilitation community to interview some people who are recovering from drugs, and also called on well-wishers in the society to help those who have the heart to change their drug addicts, and it was at that time that she met a girl. ”

Li Shu: "The girl is in her twenties, but she has a history of drug abuse for more than a year, and she has been to a drug rehabilitation center and a drug rehabilitation hospital and finally relapsed. When He Li met her, she was pregnant, her boyfriend was gone, and her family had long ignored her. The girl wanted to get rid of the child, you know what reason, how could such a thing happen, so He Li took care of the girl, and persuaded her not to beat the child, while seeking help from the society. ”

Li Shu poured himself another glass of wine and said: "But some drug addicts have no personality, the girl is soft and weak on the surface, but in fact, she put drugs in He Li's water cup, and took advantage of He Li's inattention to inject drugs into her." ”

When Li Shu said this, I was even more heartbroken, and Fang Fang angrily dropped the bowl.

"And then?" Satisfied ask.

Li Shu: "Later, the girl relapsed into drugs, and she never woke up because of an overdose, and the poor child was stillborn. This incident hit He Li very hard, so she was depressed for a long time, He Li was still blaming herself for not taking good care of the girl, and He Li herself didn't know that she was already addicted to drugs at that time. ”

Li Shu: "When I met He Li, he was rehabilitating in the community, lost a lot of weight, and she didn't look good, and she said she was very difficult. I asked He Li if he had any regrets, and she held my empty sleeve and asked me if I regretted it, and I said I didn't regret it. ”

Speaking of this, Li Shu took a sip of the wine that had just been poured in the cup, he frowned and clicked his mouth and continued: "He Li tugged on my hand sleeve, cried and told me, saying that she regretted it, that the woman and the child had nothing to do with her, that she had told Xingyu to go home, but now it's okay, how can she go back!" ”

Li Shu: "I told He Li that she did the right thing, we won't blame her, and neither will Xingyu." But when I mentioned Star Field, He Li cried even harder. She said that it would be unfair to Starfield to go back like this, and Starfield should have had a better her. ”

"Starfield!" Li Shu called out to me.

Me: "Huh? ”

Li Shu: "She said she loves you." ”

Me: "I've booked a ticket for tomorrow morning, I'll bring her back." ”

Satisfied: "Why don't I join you?" ”

Me: "No, I'll look for you if I need to." ”

After dinner, the original arrangement was that everyone was lively and lively together, I was sorry to say goodbye to everyone to go back to the dormitory to pack up my things, and I was satisfied with the drive back to school, because it was the train early tomorrow morning, so I was satisfied and had to send me to the hotel at the station for the night.

"I'll go first, brother, you just came back, and I originally said that I would take you around with Satisfaction." I said to Li Shu,

"It's okay, understood." Li Shu patted me on the shoulder, he was tall, and the slap on my shoulder was heavy and powerful.

Fangfang: "You must bring He Li back." ”

"Hmm!"

4

The way back to the dormitory is still the old road over the wall, it is already winter, the wall is cold and dry, the face is sore with the wind, the moon is bright and the stars are thin, and the two talking clouds are gently wandering. The moonlight pales the campus, and beyond the walls are neon colors.

I packed all my bags and didn't plan to come back.

Li Xiang was still chatting with the object in the quilt on the upper bunk, and he didn't plan to disturb him, but after thinking about it, he patted him on the head, and I said, "Brother Xiang, I'm leaving, I'm not coming back." ”

Li Xiang shook off my arms and said impatiently: "Let's go, let's go, it's best not to come back, and if you don't release it, it's time to suffocate." "Li Xiang thought I was going out on a date.

"." After scolding, I turned around and left.

When I went out, I heard a "bang" in the dormitory, and a scream, and as soon as I turned around, Li Xiang ran towards me with a limp, and scolded and said, "Fuck! I'm not coming back. ”

"Well, let's hug one!" I say.

Li wanted to give me a bear hug, but I didn't wear any clothes, I don't know if it was cold or it hurt from a fall, and I shivered like a big fool.

Me: "Brother miss, let's go!" ”

Li thought: "Let's go, let's go!" I'm gone too. Li Xiang really left later, he said that it was too lonely for one person to have six beds.

I think when I first arrived in the dormitory, the first person I met was Li Xiang.

I threw my packed luggage over the wall, satisfied to do the answer outside, I climbed the wall with difficulty, there was a burst of jubilation from the campus behind me, I sat on the wall, stared at the bright city in front of me, and quietly listened to the shouts that resounded throughout the campus: "10! ”

“9！”

“8！”

“7！”

“6！”

“5！”

“4！”

“3！”

“2！”

“1！”

"Happy birthday, Xiaomei!"

A group of juniors and sisters stayed awake in the middle of the night to celebrate their little friend's birthday.

This classmate named Xiaomei, it is estimated that your punishment notice will be posted on the school notice tomorrow, so I wish you luck and happiness forever.

Young people cheer tonight, they celebrate their birthdays, they are fearless, they are in the midst of their youth, and they are counting down to my youth. In those countdown ten seconds, the door of my youth slowly closed forever, and it was locked, and there was no wall for me to climb into.

Without looking back, I jumped into the colorful city, and my youth was lost forever in the overgrown darkness of the corner.