Picking Up Stars - Chapter 68

[Chapter 68]

After two years, the mottled walls of the old house saw the old friends who left one after another.

That New Year’s Eve two years ago was the last time they got together. It has been witnessing parting since that day.

The money Zhou Siming owes Han Xiaogong has not been repaid, but he doesn’t look the same as before. The hostility and resentment between his brows and eyes were not so heavy, and although he was still unpleasant, he did look much more peaceful. Qin Fang saw him once at school last year. They met face to face and no one said a word. Zhou Siming nodded to Qin Fang as a greeting.

Han Xiaogong’s hair has grown a lot compared to last winter, but it hasn’t grown back to how long it used to be, but it’s finally not half length or short. He’s always been like that, what he’s been through and what’s on his mind, you can’t see it from his face.

Xingyan –

Xingyan has become the most.

Qin Fang saw Xing Yan at the funeral home for the first time. In order to wait for them, Si Tu spent a day in the ice coffin of the funeral home. It was freezing cold in that room. Xing Yan was the last to come back, and he was the furthest away. Qin Fang was sitting on the chair with his head down, his elbows resting on his legs. He had hardly slept the night before, his head hurt so much, and he was dizzy.

He heard someone come in and stop in front of the ice coffin. There are incense and statues there.

He didn’t look up, he’d heard such a voice too many times. Everyone will stand there for a while when they go out and come in again, standing there for a long time, standing there, people are empty and their thoughts are drained. In the photo, Si Tu is still smiling, with a thin stripe at the corner of his eyes. He smiles too much, and his skin has memories.

Qin Fang buried his head between his hands and held his heavy head with his hands. It seemed like a hammer had been chiseled twice from time to time, and his nerves were tense and occasionally throbbing in pain.

In a trance, the footsteps stopped in front of him, Qin Fang didn’t look up, he was not very conscious at that time. It wasn’t until there was clothes on him that Qin Fang slowly raised his head and glanced at each other –

they looked at each other through the air, one looked up and squinted, and the other lowered his eyes and looked deep.

Later, Xing Yan squatted down and asked him softly, “What’s the matter with you?”

Qin Fang was only completely awake at this time, and his half-awake brain had been foggy. He immediately sat up straight, his clothes slipped off, Qin Fang picked it up with his hands, cleared his throat and said, “You’re back?

” Are you uncomfortable?”

“It’s okay.” Qin Fang licked his dry lips and patted the seat next to him, “Sit.”

Xing Yan just took off his coat and gave him a thin T-shirt. shirt. Qin Fang gave him the clothes and said, “Wear it, I’m not cold.” ” Let’s put

it on.” Xing Yan’s voice was low, “You look very bad.”

Good for greetings.

Xingyan’s hair was shaved and turned into an inch head again. Still thin, with deep brows and eyes. But his temperament has changed, and he is no longer the arrogant young man who used to be very distant at a glance.

He looks more mature – he’s grown up.

Qin Fang didn’t know if he had changed or how much he had changed compared to two years ago. People can’t see themselves clearly.

The next morning they were buried, and they didn’t leave at night.

Go out to have a quick meal, and then continue to come back and sit. Xing Yan wanted Qin Fang to go back to rest, but Qin Fang refused. The two of them didn’t say a few words, it was not a suitable occasion for chatting, and they were not in the mood. Xingyan went out to buy medicine. He didn’t know what happened to Qin Fang, so he bought cold medicine, antipyretic, antipyretic. When he came back, he handed it to Qin Fang with water and let him eat it according to the symptoms.

Qin Fang took it and ate it. He was still wearing Xingyan’s coat. Although they didn’t talk much, they didn’t get too distant. No politeness and fake politeness, no need.

This is the last night they can stay with Si Tu. Si Tu doesn’t want to say goodbye and hates sadness. So no one cried, Zhou Siming’s eyes were red, and he sat silently staring at the portrait.

Each of them is silent, they haven’t seen each other for a long time, but the tacit understanding and familiarity engraved in their bones and blood, greetings and greetings are avoided, they seem to have never been separated.

Si Tu had prepared a cemetery for himself a long time ago and placed him properly, which was their last trip to send him.

“Are you feeling better now? You don’t need to cough anymore.” Han Xiaogong stood in front of his monument, looking at the photos on the monument, and talking to him, “You are really a joke, my brother caught a cold and didn’t take it. I can’t even say it, it’s too disheartening.”

Han Xiaogong was a little tired after standing all morning, and now he just sat directly on the ground, and Qin Fang also sat down. Later, Xing Yan and Zhou Siming also sat down. There were quite a few people in a narrow place, even Gong Qi.

“We’ve been together longer than they did, and I was the last to leave.” Han Xiaogong smiled lightly, “If I knew in advance that you were so good, I would have left two years later, but I guess that’s what you actually want. I’ll never see you again, so don’t say goodbye, right, brother?”

Zhou Siming scolded in a low voice behind.

Si Tu guessed right, they all hated him, at least Zhou Siming’s hatred was written on his face. He hates Si Tu for leaving, and hates him for not saying anything in advance. Si Tu is too free and easy, he wants those who stay to be free and easy.

Saying goodbye is too ceremonial. After saying goodbye, watching death come before your eyes. This picture allows the living to remember for a lifetime. So Si Tu didn’t give everyone a chance to say goodbye, except Gong Qi, he had done everything he could to protect a girl’s emotions.

They are not lovers who are separated from life and death. It has only been a dull company in the past few years. Most of the time, he is also an ex-boyfriend. He fulfilled Gong Qi’s desire to accompany him, and Gong Qi also fulfilled his reluctance.

“He gave me all the money. With me, I plan to go out every year to see the child and do some charity for him.” Gong Qi’s voice has been hoarse these days, but now she is talking softly and not crying,” he said. None of you want it, some don’t, and some have higher self-esteem than the sky.”

“He said that the house is left to you, as long as it is not demolished, it will stay there forever. If it is demolished in the future, you will divide it up, keep it if you want, donate it if you don’t want it.”

“Nothing else, he said. I don’t like sadness.”

He really didn’t like sadness, and he didn’t like watching people cry.

They sat in front of the monument with him for an afternoon. Before Si Tu asked everything to be simple, and the custom after that was not to be done any more. Don’t be so ceremonial. It’s fine when he goes far away.

When I returned to the old house from the cemetery, nothing had changed here. The flowers in the courtyard are blooming very well, and the creeping tiger crawled lushly on the courtyard wall beside the flowerbed, full of life.

Zhou Siming stood at the gate of the courtyard, looked here and there, suddenly lowered his head and turned to go out, only to return after a while.

Gong Qi didn’t come, only the four of them were left here.

Qin Fang didn’t change his clothes, he went to sleep immediately when he came back, and remembered to take medicine for himself before going to bed. He fell into a deep sleep almost as soon as he fell on the bed, still wrapped in Xing Yan’s coat, breathing thick and heavy.

This night, I slept so deeply that I didn’t even have a dream.

When I woke up, I was blinded for a while, the sky was already dark, and I looked at the room in front of me with the light coming in from the window, I couldn’t tell whether it was a reality or a dream. It took me a long time to wake up with my eyes open, remembering the dream-like things that happened in the past few days.

He just lost a friend. He came to this small building again.

And… Xingyan is back.

Qin Fang took out his phone and glanced at the time, it was half past three. He sat up and coughed twice.

Someone walked in from the door, and saw him sitting in surprise, paused for a moment, and then asked him, “Awake?”

Qin Fang said “um” and asked him, “Where did you go so late?

” I’ll wash my face.” Xing Yan said.

Qin Fang looked at the other bed, and the cloth covering the bed had not been lifted.

“Is it still burning?” Xing Yan asked him.

Qin Fang touched his forehead and said, “No more burning.”

He asked Xing Yan, “How did you know I was burning?”

“I can tell.” Xing Yan lifted the cloth on his bed, sat on the bed, and asked Qin Fang , “Hungry? Do you want to eat?”

Qin Fang shook his head, cleared his throat and said, “I’m not hungry.”

They shared a room in the dark, which can relieve stiffness and embarrassment, but it was not dark in this room. Can’t see things clearly. Moonlight is bright.

The two sat on each other’s beds, sometimes looking at each other, and sometimes looking away at the walls.

Later, Qin put down the bed and went to the toilet. Xing Yan said, “Don’t take a bath… You are sweating a lot.”

Qin Fang was stunned for a while, then nodded: “I’ll… go to the toilet.”

Xing Yan cleared Clearing his throat, he said, “Yeah.”

There was a new unpacked towel and toothbrush on the sink, probably from Xing Yan. Qin Fang took it apart and used it. The facial cleanser was made by Si Tu. After washing, he felt much more comfortable, and his mind was also refreshed.

In fact, he really wanted to take a shower. If it wasn’t for the conversation with Xing Yan just now, he probably would have taken a shower now.

I haven’t changed my clothes in the past few days, and I’ve been sweating a lot. I didn’t feel it just now, but now I’m starting to feel uncomfortable. Qin Fang hesitated for a while, but finally boiled the water and tested the water temperature.

Someone knocked on the door of the bathroom, Qin Fang turned off the water, opened the door, and Xing Yan was at the door.

“I’m about to stink.” Qin Fang said, “I’d better wash one.”

Xing Yan helped him turn on the light in silence. The old house had no heater and no Yuba. Xing Yan put the clothes in his hands on the shelf and whispered: “The clothes are here, you wash them and change them. The water temperature… turn up a little.”

After he finished speaking, he went out and closed the door with his backhand.

The stack of clothes was new, with a new pair of underwear in between.

The water fell from the top of the head, the steam was dense, and the dim light in the bathroom made people feel like they were soaked in hot water. It was warm and tingling.

Qin Fang leaned his back against the wall, and the tiles felt a little slippery and cool against him. He tilted his head slightly, the back of his head against the wall.

When Xing Yan turned around in silence just now, Qin Fang found that he seemed to have grown taller again. His pursed lips and tensed chin were both familiar and unfamiliar when he looked from the back.

When he returned to his room after taking a shower, Xing Yan was still sitting on the bed, in the same posture as before.

Qin Fang asked him, “Why didn’t you sleep?”

“I’m not sleepy.” Xing Yan said to him, “Go to sleep.”

“Well.” Qin Fang returned to the bed, and then lay down. His sheets and quilts have been changed. If it wasn’t for the different textures, Qin Fang might not have found them at all. He didn’t pay attention to what the sheets looked like before going to bed.

In fact, Qin Fang was still tired and a little sleepy, but he couldn’t fall back asleep. He lay quietly, and Xing Yan also lay down with his clothes on.

For a long time there was no sound in the room, not even the sound of breathing.

Only Qin Fang turned over from time to time. Once, after turning over, he couldn’t help coughing twice, his voice was very low, and he closed his mouth and pressed the cough into his throat.

– “Can’t sleep?”

Xing Yan asked.

Qin Fang said “um”.

Xing Yan sat up:

“Not comfortable?” Qin Fang blinked in the dark and said, “No.”

Xing Yan put on his shoes, walked out, and said softly, “You sleep.”

[End of This Chapter]