Chapter 115 [2 more]
Chapter 115 [2 more]
As soon as these words came out, Ruan Yi stared at the bowls and chopsticks in front of him for a few seconds before stiffly raising his head.
He looked at the person opposite in disbelief and asked, "...what do you mean?"
Ji Hang blinked slowly, raised the mobile phone with the song list page in his hand, and said word by word: "February 18, NO.[-]...People's Square, Hong Kong City..."
Ruan Yi was completely startled, and Ji Hang couldn't say a word with big eyes and small eyes, and suddenly understood what Ji Hang's eyes looked at him just now meant...
Ji Hang and Ruan Yi looked at each other: "Do you still remember my original WeChat avatar?"
After a meal, the two spoke almost simultaneously: "That green firework..."
After speaking, the scene at that time immediately appeared in front of Ruan Yi's eyes.
On February 18, [-], on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, a grand firework that topped the hot search list was set off at the People's Square in Hong Kong City, and the firework had only one color from the beginning to the end.
That is green.
"Were you there at that time..." Ruan Yi looked at Ji Hang with blurred eyes as he muttered, as if he couldn't understand what was happening now.
The incident was too fanciful, and Ji Hang himself stammered several times before he finally smoothed out his tongue: "I had a fight with my family at the time... I was so angry that I refused to celebrate the New Year with them in Canada. I heard that People's Square in Hong Kong City Fireworks are set off every year, and I ran here alone..."
That was the first time he came to China, the first time he stepped into this land connected with his blood.
At that time, Ji Hang was just a stunned young man who had just passed the [-]th threshold, but he skipped two grades in a row in college. It was just a cliché to buy a direct flight back home with his own small coffers, because he disagreed with his family members about his future plans and had conflicts.
After graduating from university, Ji Hang has no intention of studying for a master's degree at all. He even wants to abandon his undergraduate major and go directly to IT across industries. Well, in short, I don’t want to go to the family business for two years and then apply for an MBA, as the family practice has not changed for thousands of years.
It is basically a copy-and-paste product that comes out of the assembly line. Ji Hang really finds it very boring, and he is not happy at all.
After all, he was still young.
Almost as soon as the plane landed that night, Ji Hang ran to the People's Square energetically, huddled with countless people and waited for the opening of the fireworks display.
But in fact, there were still several hours before the fireworks display at that time, Ji Hang saw the crowds of passers-by around him, no matter how bad it was, the passers-by who were walking together, suddenly felt uncomfortable, a glass heart that was already full of trauma directly Broken all over the place.
Xiao Gongju thought to himself, okay, you all have someone to accompany you, and I am the only one in the whole world.
No more fighting, no more robbing, I'll leave the seat to you, I'll find a cool corner by myself.
It was also at that time that Ji Hang already had a deep appreciation of the unbearable temperature and climate in the port city.
He also couldn't understand how he, who came from the upper part of the northern hemisphere, could be jumping in the cold in a small port city.
But under the circumstances at that time, it was difficult to find even a corner where he could fit in. No matter where he went, he could always see people in twos and threes occupying his favorite place.
Looking at the mountain-like sea of people in front of him, Ji Hang had completely lost the enthusiasm he had just come here, and he kept feeling in his heart that there were so many people. There were really many people in Tianchao. From the time he got off the plane today, the people he saw probably almost It was more than all the people he had met in the first half of his life combined.
In the end, he walked around against the cold wind for more than half an hour, and finally managed to find a flower bed slightly away from the People's Square. There was really no condition for him to be particular about it. All the places that can be armed have been taken care of, and the chubby self wrapped in a cotton padded jacket was squatted down in the lee of the flower bed. The hands that took out the earphones from the pockets were shaking, and they were red from the cold, and the edges of the nails could still be seen. Barbs due to dry weather.
Without exposing body parts, the best way to kill time alone is to listen to music.
Although Bluetooth headsets have been on the market for a while, most people still use wired headsets because of their mediocre functions.
At that time, Ji Hang poked at the jack of his mobile phone several times before he managed to insert the earphones. When he was wearing the earphones, his hand would accidentally touch his face with disgust, and he was shocked.
Ji Hang would scan through the randomly pushed songs on the music app almost every day. If it fits his ears, he would give him a love heart for collection. See you next time.
It’s just that Mr. Ji was very strict that day because he didn’t want to take his hands out of his pockets. The songs that he usually listened to were not useful until that night. After listening to the entire push list, there was only the last piece of pure music. In Teacher Ji's eyes, he condescended to take out his hand to send love.
That is, it is not an exaggeration to say that it directly changed Ji Hang's future life.
Ji Hang unlocked the phone screen, and was amused by the title of this pure music song - "Hua Huo が Instant く Night に"
Although he doesn't know Japanese, but these few Chinese are put together, don't say 100%, it must be no problem to guess, but it fits the situation with what he is going to see soon.
After clicking in, Ji Hang unexpectedly found that this song had quite a few comments.
Adhering to the magical logic of taking everything out, then let’s hang out for a while to play with the mobile phone, Ji Hang scrolled through the comments of this song, most of which were special literary words, but he hadn’t passed the second phase of Chinese at that time. Ji Hang watched with relish.
Then soon enough, his attention was drawn to one of the recent comments.
-"'You have to be a calm adult. Don't be emotional, don't miss secretly, don't look back. Live another life of your own. Be obedient, not all fish will live in the same sea. ' Go to bed early every night, don't stay up late, don't think too much."
As a boy who had been obsessed with Haruki Murakami for a long time, Ji Hang recognized at a glance that this sentence came from the idol "Dance!"dance!dance! The most famous sentence in ", but the last sentence "Go to bed early every night, don't stay up late, don't think too much" was added by netizens themselves.
Although Ji Hang doesn't know what this passage has to do with the song, it feels like it fits well with the overall mood of the song, especially since he went to a "foreign country" to celebrate the New Year alone. Now, as soon as the whole atmosphere was heightened, Ji Hang subconsciously clicked on the reply number marked "1" at the bottom of this comment.
- "There are still people I like very much, many unfinished things, and I want to continue to work hard, but I really can't use this passage to hypnotize myself. If someone can read it to me, Thank you"
This is the only time that Ruan Yi has used the Internet to remain anonymous for so many years, to say such blunt words.
That day was Ruan Yi's first Spring Festival after the college entrance examination, and also the first Spring Festival after Zhou Shangqing and Ruan Chengjian's divorce.
Ruan Yi politely declined the strong invitations from the two respectively, and only pushed Ruan Mu out to let them take them away for the festival, hoping to have some private time where they could take off their masks without any scruples.
Frozen three feet does not happen in a day. I don't know when he started to change. It has nothing to do with the confirmed case.
But in fact, Ruan Yi regretted it as soon as he finished posting that paragraph. He felt that he was stupid and a second-year student.
During the time he was struggling with, the countdown bell rang, and the fireworks display outside the floating platform kicked off. Various shades of green fireworks exploded in front of his eyes—it was another new year.
But just when Ruan Yi was about to close the app to take a good look at the fireworks, his private message came to remind him, and it was still a voice message.
Ruan Yi couldn't believe his eyes that someone would actually comply with such a far-fetched request.
When Ji Hang started to read this passage into the voice, the fireworks display had not yet started, and the clock on the top of the square still had a period of time to count down, but the weather was so cold that Ji Hang had to repeat it several times in a row. Restrain your chattering teeth.
When he finally got a voice that he was barely satisfied with, the fireworks in the sky had already set off.
It really happened so suddenly, the two of them were sitting on both sides of the dining table looking at each other from a distance, and they were both a little speechless.
It was Ji Hang's stomach that cried out first to break this strange silence.
"Let's eat the noodles first." Ruan Yi licked his lower lip, "The noodles are lumpy."
In the middle of the night, the two of them were no longer sleepy, Ji Hang wiped his face vigorously, poured himself a full glass of Coke before picking up his chopsticks, holding the bowl and began to eat bitterly.
But Ruan Yi chewed the food in his bowl, but couldn't taste it.
Ever since I met Ji Hang, this recording seemed to have been sealed, and it has been a long, long time since I took the initiative to appear in front of him.
Even though it was only four short years, it seemed like it happened in the previous life. It was young and far away, and it was the most secret and least known thing in their hearts.
It turns out that they had such an indelible intersection at such an early age...
It may sound silly to draw strength from a stranger's voice, but it is indeed the only motivation for Ruan Yi to move on in many cases.
Maybe someone else saw his message and passed it, but if the target is Ji Hang, everything seems to be reasonable.
The storm in Ji Hang's heart still hasn't stopped, he can only divert his attention by eating.
He was holding the face made by Ruan Yi and sucking vigorously, when he heard the person on the other side who had been quiet all of a sudden laugh, very lightly.
Thinking of the voice that he had heard countless times, Ruan Yi suddenly frowned when he looked at the instant noodles in his bowl, and said with a low laugh: "In [-]... In [-], you were already twenty. In the voice-changing period?"
Ji Hang has always known that Ruan Yi's focus is very strange, but he really didn't expect that Ruan Yi would step on his own tail as soon as he came up, almost choking a mouthful of noodles out of his throat, and kept drinking the high-quality milk that Ruan Yi pushed in front of him. Only a glass of Coke in my feet was relieved.
It's just that Ji Hang met Ruan Yi's teasing eyes and was about to refute, so he burped out first.
Ji Hang tried his best to pretend that nothing happened, but before he took a deep breath, he burped loudly again, drinking too much Coke.
For a moment, the heavy atmosphere of reminiscing about the past disappeared, and the two of them leaned on the backs of their chairs and had a good time, especially Ji Hang hiccupping while laughing.
In the past, Ji Hang was often teased by his friends because of the late and long period of the voice change period, which made him once submit an application to his parents, saying that he wanted to go to the hospital to see a doctor, but his opinion was rejected , Said that he made a fuss, it's just that the male duck's voice has been a little longer, and there is no result.
"To be honest, if you hadn't told me now, I really wouldn't be able to match this voice with yours." Ruan Yi raised the corners of his mouth when speaking, "And you skipped two grades in college, really I’ve never seen that the period of voice change is not over even after finishing college.”
Ji Hang scratched the back of his head with a red face, and tried to defend himself: "I'm a conservative development, I use it to grow my brain, you know, look at me now, it shows that all the waiting is worth it!"
Hearing this, Ruan Yi put his face on one hand, raised his eyebrows and said, "Really, I think you just don't want to grow up, and your vocal chords know it when you get emotional."
Ji Hang choked with sobs for a second before biting to death, picking out the argument he thought was unassailable: "Is my voice not good now!"
Ji Hang would never admit it, for a moment he was almost convinced.
But Ruan Yi pondered for a while, pretending to be reluctant to tease: "Well... it's okay."
The little man was so annoyed that he filled himself with a few more cups of fat house happy water, and poured "tons, tons" straight into his stomach.
Just wait until he comes back to his senses, Ruan Yi has already finished eating noodles, and is walking towards the kitchen with a bowl, leaving him only one sentence: "Wash the bowls you eat by yourself, and you will be fined ten for breaking one."
Ji Hang panicked at that moment, picked up the bowl and began to crazily stuff it into his mouth.
Once upon a time, he also naively thought that he could not cook, at least he could help wash the dishes.
But after all, the title of "Life Five" is really not something to brag about. In Ruan Yi's words, Ji Hang is a black hole in the world of rice bugs—you never know how wasteful he is.
Satisfied and ready to go to bed, Ji Hang stretched his arms, and was about to throw himself into bed after their sweet-smelling baby, when Ruan Yi, who was upside down, lifted his foot and stepped on his chest.
Ruan Yi said indifferently: "I advise you to take a bath."
Just when this man was squatting in the kitchen carefully washing the dishes, he had already changed all the sheets and quilt covers.
Take a shower or die.
Ji Hang felt aggrieved, but he didn't dare to make a mistake. Who knows when he will be called back to work in the company. Time is precious. It would be too extravagant to annoy Ruan Yi again and not let him go to bed.
It's just that Ji Hang thought that Ruan Yi should be asleep when he came out of the shower, but when he came back, he found that the person on the bed was still awake, with his back on his side, leaning on the head of the bed. He didn't know what he was doing, so he crawled over to see Only then did I know that Ruan Yi was reaching for something in the second drawer of the bedside table. In front of him was a metal alarm clock with half of its ears painted off. The butt cover was opened, and the batteries inside were scattered outside.
Ji Hang had noticed this alarm clock a long time ago, it had been placed on the bedside before, and from the outside, it looked very old.
Ji Hang stuck to Ruan Yi's back, looked at his pretty face under the small desk lamp and asked, "Why haven't you slept yet, looking for batteries?"
Probably because he just took a shower, Ji Hang's body was very hot, Ruan Yi felt the heat source behind him, and said in a low voice, "Well, I don't know when the battery ran out."
"I can answer this question." Ji Hang grinned, "The last time Brother Cui and I huddled on your bed to sleep, it didn't go away."
Hearing this, Ruan Yi stopped searching for the battery in the drawer, which means that the alarm clock ran out of battery before Ruan Mu and Cui Rang's college entrance examination?
Has he not noticed it for so long, just like the audio hidden in the deepest part of his playlist?
"What's wrong?" Ji Hang quickly noticed Ruan Yi's mistake, and said carefully, "Last time when I was looking for a set, I saw that there is no battery in this drawer."
Regarding the events of the year, Ruan Yi didn't mention it himself, and Ji Hang didn't take the initiative to ask, but he intuitively felt that this alarm clock was related to those things that Ruan Yi was reluctant to talk about.
After listening to Ji Hang's words, Ruan Yi suddenly remembered that since he changed the battery last time, he had forgotten to buy a new battery for backup.
It was just as planned.
Ruan Yi closed the drawer with his backhand, and slowly lay down in Ji Hang's arms.
He quietly looked at the concerned person who was close at hand above his head, and then suddenly asked, "Do you want to go and have a look?"
Ji Hang was stunned for a second, and his brain circuit somehow matched, and he asked in surprise, "Now?"
That night, the two got up directly from the bed without changing their pajamas, and drove from the apartment to the place Ruan Yi wanted to take Ji Hang with their nightgowns on.
It was a mistake, but luckily what I drank just now was Coke, not red wine, otherwise at this time, even if I wanted to find a substitute driver, I couldn't find it.
At 47:[-] in the morning, a black Maybach that almost melted into the night passed a prominent street sign with four big characters on it - "People's Square".
"Our old house is just behind the People's Square, but since my parents divorced, the place has basically been idle, and Xiao Mu and I seldom come back." Ruan Yi focused on the road ahead, with a relaxed tone, "No I know why you're here, but anyway, I wasn't in a good mood that day."
The street in the early morning was very quiet, except for a few rental cars that occasionally passed by them, and the sanitation workers who had already started working, the whole street was empty and deserted.
In the midsummer weather, Ji Hang, who came out of the air-conditioned room, subconsciously folded his arms and tightened the open front of his chest. For a second, he seemed to have returned to that winter night that was so cold that he would never forget it in his life.
Looking at the familiar street scene in front of him, Ji Hang paused, and said dumbly, "I was also in a bad mood that day."
As Ruan Yi's speed slowed down, Ji Hang felt that the building in front of him became more and more familiar. Although the grand occasion that was almost a national carnival that day was gone, it gradually coincided with the appearance in his memory.
So much so that in the end Ji Hang watched Ruan Yi park the car beside the flower bed where he was sheltered that night, and then said to him: "Get out of the car, we're here."
The house is close, and they won't be staying soon, so Ruan Yi simply parked the car in a temporary parking space on the side of the road outside the community, wanting to take a walk.
But almost immediately Ji Hang was dumbfounded, opened the car door and got out, the flower bed was right in front of him, compared to the bare one in winter, now it was green and full of life, as if waving to him, causing Ji Hang to make a fuss Subconsciously, Hang wanted to lift his feet and squat back to the position he squatted before.
Ruan Yi saw that Ji Hang was staring at the flower bed at the foot of his villa, and said, "My house is the one in front of you. It was bought by my grandpa because my grandma loved watching the fireworks in People's Square, so you Did you pass by here?"
Ji Hang was completely shocked by this coincidence: "It's more than just passing by... So the villa behind you is your home..."
As he said that, Ji Hang followed Ruan Yi's line of sight and looked up at the single-family three-story villa in the courtyard wall.
Seeing the protruding place directly above the flower bed, Ji Hangfu was deeply moved, and unconsciously said: "That floating platform..."
Ruan Yi paused, affirming what he was thinking: "Yes, I was there at the time."
It is close to the busy city, but it is better to be quiet in the middle of the noise. This floating platform can be said to be the best place to watch the movie and fireworks festival in People's Square every year.
Although Ruan Yi didn't know how much his grandfather spent to buy this villa, it must be an astronomical figure.
Ruan Yi was immersed in his own thoughts, when Ji Hang stood beside him and muttered again: "Then you should be able to see me from above, I was squatting here all the time..."
"What?" Ruan Yi was stunned, "What do you mean by squatting here..."
"It's just... the meaning of squatting here..." Ji Hang now understands Ruan Yi's mood very well, because he has not recovered from accepting it for so long.
"There were too many people at that time, and I didn't want to squeeze in with them. It took me a long time to find such a deserted place." Ji Hang tried his best to organize his words and explained, "Then when the fireworks show started, if I wanted to squeeze back, it was too late. I can't squeeze back at all..."
Because of the fireworks festival, there are always so many people who gather at the People's Square for the New Year's Eve.
After listening to it, Ruan Yi took a few seconds to find his own voice, his chest was tight and he panicked, hesitatingly said: "Then you sent me the voice... and you also sent it here?"
Ji Hang slid his Adam's apple, and answered with difficulty: "Yes."
At this point, both of them fell silent, looking up at the existence like a castle in the air.
When she spoke again, Ruan Yi's voice became hoarse: "That is to say, in fact, you were the voice that was recorded right under my nose, wasn't it?"
Ji Hang's heart trembled subconsciously, and he replied, "No accident, it should be..."
Ruan Yi's throat was blocked in an instant, and he could fully imagine the scene at that time.
The two of them squatted on the flower bed of the square and looked up at the sky, and the other sat on the floating platform in the room and looked down at the ground.
One wears headphones and mixes in the noisy crowd, while the other plays music publicly and stands on a high platform.
After Ji Hang sent the voice, he received the message, and then the two of them clicked on the audio at the same time to start playing, listening to it from the beginning to the end against the same sky full of green fireworks.
Looking at the plants and trees in front of him that carried their first "encounter", Ji Hang suddenly turned his head as if feeling something.
The person who stood silently behind him turned red at some point, and the smoky gray nightgown on his body made the two of them inexplicably distanced, feeling that Ruan Yi would disappear into the night at any moment.
If one day I can't hold it anymore and stand in front of you with red eyes, don't ask anything, just hug me, whoever you want.
Memories are like tides, as if he heard Ruan Yi's inner monologue hidden in the deepest part of his heart that night, Ji Hang stretched out his arms like he did in his dream before, and clasped the person tightly into his arms without thinking — Body memory without any scientific basis.
Soon, Ji Hang felt a small piece of warm liquid wet his shoulders, but this time, the person in his arms was no longer alienated, and his voice was no longer fragmented.
Ruan Yi raised his hand and wrapped it tightly around Ji Hang's neck, burying himself into his muscular chest with all his heart, as if standing in front of him was a piece of flaming iron that was permanently heated.
Ruan Yi took a deep breath and said, "Thank you."
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