crush again

The village is built at the foot of the mountain, the bamboo buildings meander up the mountain along the slope, and the golden corners are shining.The towering old trees look like a forest of cold green. Occasionally, white birds pass by with their branches in their hands, leaving a string of crisp chimes like wind chimes.

Other than that, everything was quiet.

The hostess wore colorful long skirts and led the guests to climb the mountain slowly, introducing the history and customs of the Dai people all the way to the center of the village - the Buddhist temple.

"In our place, when little boys are about eight years old, they will be sent to Buddhist temples to become monks." The hostess clasped her hands together, "They usually go to school, and come back to become monks during the holidays."

The woman who was following the man raised her hand to cover the sun, and said with a smile, "All become monks?"

The hostess also smiled and said: "Yes, but after a few years of monks, you will return to vulgarity. The Dai language is passed on from male to female, and the Great Buddha will teach them Dai language and history books. Are guests going to read and lecture?"

The man shook his head, "No."

Originally, the woman was quite interested in what the little monk looked like, but after hearing such a utterance, she immediately said nothing, and just followed everyone back to the bamboo building.

Going up a narrow wooden staircase on the side, the hostess turned her face and said, "Today, some guests came to my house, and they learned weaving from my grandmother. After you see them , put your hands together, and just say 'Sao Duoli'..."

As soon as he went upstairs, laughter came out.A few people put on their shoe covers, and saw a few Dai girls in the corridor surrounding a young man of the Han nationality. While watching him bury his head in buttoning the top of a silver belt, they covered their mouths and kept laughing muffled.

When they saw the hostess came, they hurriedly left Huo Yang, stood aside in a respectful manner, and called something in Dai language.

The hostess returned the salute, and nodded the young man's clumsy movement with her chin, "Here, when looking for friends in the future, you can't find such a friend."

"Hey, I really have nothing to do..." Huo Yang raised his head, just in time to see Ye Lang take off his sunglasses and pin them on his collar.

He rolled his eyes, stepped forward suddenly, shook off the silver belt in his hand, and strangled it around Ye Lang's waist involuntarily.

"I beat it myself," Huo Yang put on the buckle without raising his head, "Sterling silver. You can test poison with this thing, serve it on a table, and the poison will immediately appear when you whip it down."

Ye Lang caught a glimpse of the girls giggling, even the hostess couldn't help laughing.The latter received his gaze and explained: "In our Dai nationality, the man must make a set of sterling silver jewelry and tableware for the woman before marriage. The silver belt is the most essential, and the woman does not take it off after giving birth. .This 'Mao Duoli' is also a Han nationality, he lives in our house and learns his skills from an old silver maker."

Huo Yang successfully put on his belt, took a step back, and sized Ye Lang up, "I'm not good at learning, so I gave you a thick one. Be good, I'll give you a thick one after we get married."

"..." Ye Lang tugged at the rusty belt, the pattern on it was very delicate and the silver threads were bright.Just paired with his sportswear, the effect is touching.

And it's too thick, "...are you going to marry some wild animal, like an elephant?"

"I can't put that belt on, I can only fasten it." Huo Yang said, and a girl behind him said something quickly in Dai, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

He looked back at them, and spread his hands innocently, "They said they would be together for a hundred years."

The sun is shining brightly in the corridor, and the wind leaves are rustling.Ye Lang raised his hand to cover his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, and looked at the person in front of him.

When Huo Yang smiled, he still saw his teeth but couldn't see his eyes. It was just that he was suntanned, and his white teeth were extraordinarily bright.I don't know if it's because of the sunlight, but his whole body is covered with a layer of gold, and even his eyelashes are fluffy and shiny.

The woman who had been following behind muttered in a low voice, "The smile is too low."

Ye Lang couldn't untie the buckle, so he introduced it to Huo Yang, "Guan Yi, my assistant. Xiao Chen and Zhao Peng are my drivers."

"Hello, hello, I'm Mr. Ye's old classmate." Huo Yang shook hands with them, and then stretched Ye Lang's neck, "Come here, let's meet privately for a while."

"Oh." Ye Lang replied, and then he dragged him down the bamboo building.This kid seemed to be afraid that he would run away halfway, so he tightened his grip very tightly. The stairs were steep, and he staggered several times and almost fell headlong.

The two men, who were not ordinary drivers at first glance, saw that the visitor was not friendly, and just wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Assistant Guan with a wave of his hand.

"Is Xishuangbanna fun?" Huo Yang turned to ask him.

Mr. Ye, who managed to stand still, quickly picked up the mobile phone on the ground as soon as he landed.He looked up at Huo Yang, "...it's okay, it's just hot."

"It's quite hot." Huo Yang nodded, his tone was very calm, "Is it fun to follow me?"

"..." Ye Lang replied cautiously, "a little...tired."

"It's okay to be tired, I did it on purpose." Huo Yang glanced up and down at him, with no expression of joy or anger, "Have you followed my Weibo?"

"Yeah." Ye Lang smiled.

He seldom smiled in the past, unless Huo Yang made some big joke again, but it was not such a smile with crooked eyes.After meeting each other without saying a few words, Huo Yang just made such a smile, and he couldn't express his anger immediately.

For two whole weeks, he must have been looking for him from one village to another. He didn't even want to know if Huo Yang had left, so he stubbornly searched here.

In the past ten years, Huo Yang thought about reuniting after a long absence many times, whether he would punch him first or give him a hug first, every time he thought about it, his teeth were itchy and his heart was sore.

This multiple-choice question, now he knows the answer.

"...Come here." Huo Yang looked at him for a while, stretched out his arm, and hugged Ye Lang's shoulder roughly.

He often thinks of this man.Those memories are not black and white silent films, but colorful and warm: the coolness of eye drops, the smell of bread, the smell of disinfectant in the hospital.And the face in his memory is always vivid, the tip of the nose glistening with sweat, the eyelashes drooping; when he stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, his sickly pale lips.

What kind of feeling this is, he can't tell.Those memories came alive bit by bit, vividly, as if yesterday.

When he was thousands of miles away from Ye Lang, he didn't think of him very much; but when Ye Lang stood in front of him, he slowly realized that that kind of missing was like a world away.

A glass of wine in the spring breeze of peaches and plums back then is now a lamp for ten years of night rain in the rivers and lakes.

"I've been looking for it for two weeks." Ye Lang raised his hand, gently pressed the back of his head, and sighed, "You can really trouble people."

"Haven't you been to a class reunion?" Huo Yang's eyes were a little hot, so he buried his head on the side of his neck, not knowing what emotion caused it, he opened his mouth and bit Ye Lang, "Damn it, you didn't go there once! "

"Hey." Ye Lang paused, "You belong to..."

Huo Yang thought he was going to say "dog", but he didn't expect him to say: "...is it gay?"

Huo Yang, "..."

He couldn't continue to be sensational, pushed away people and scolded: "What's wrong with being gay? Exploding your ass?"

"I'm a little scared." Ye Lang rolled his eyes again.

Huo Yang stared at him for a long time, and decided not to be poor with him, "Why did you come to me suddenly? It took so many years to realize that you miss me?"

"Yeah." Ye Lang nodded with a straight face.

"..." Huo Yang pointed at him, "Do you know the word 'use' written on your face? Are you here to ask me for help?"

With his hands behind his back, Ye Lang looked at the sky, the ground, and his watch, and then said boldly, "I want to find you something."

Half an hour later, Huo Yang packed his luggage and loaded it into Ye Lang's RV.This car looks even more cool from a close-up than from a distance. He has long wanted to get his hands on it, and is salivating at the turbo-like folding canopy on top.

With a "bang", the automatic car door slid open, Ye Lang stepped into the car with one leg, and glanced at him, "Come up."

"Here we come!" Huo Yang turned around and jumped into the car.

Assistant Guan sat in the front single seat, and he and Ye Lang sat in the back seat.The distance between the seats is very wide, Huo Yang sat on the bus for more than a month, and now he can finally stretch his legs, feeling extremely comfortable.

Ye Lang took two bottles of mineral water from the small refrigerator next to him and threw one bottle to him.Huo Yang took a big sip of water and turned his head, "Are you interested in gambling with stones?"

"Yeah." Ye Lang leaned back lazily, with his arms on the armrest, "We're going to Ruili."

"Oh, it's very famous there." Huo Yang thought for a while, "Ruili is at the border port, and a lot of Burmese wool flows in every year. For this kind of stuff, you have to look at the route and how many hands it goes through, because many experts will go upstream to adjust the goods. , Take away the good things. You don’t need money, why don’t you go directly to Myanmar…”

"I'm just going to take a look." Ye Lang said lightly.

"Wealthy people, do your best." Huo Yang sighed, "Let me tell you first, I don't know much about jade appraisal, so don't ask me, I can only be a half-baked translator for you."

"So cautious?" Ye Lang propped his forehead and smiled, "Don't worry, I won't call you if something happens."

Huo Yang has been fooling around for these years, and he has become a genius. Now that Ye Lang teased him, he cleared his throat and quietly squeezed past him, "I'm afraid of being poor. A local rich friend like Mr. I don’t want to lose any of them.”

"You go to the trunk and calm down, okay?"

"No." Huo Yang continued to squeeze him, with half of his body on top of him.Ye Lang's temper seems to have improved a lot, and he didn't throw him as trash like before, but just silently looked at the car window and looked into the distance.

Assistant Guan had just finished discussing the route with the driver. When he turned around, he saw Mr. Ye sitting in a corner of the back seat. play with his phone.

While playing, the young man muttered, "I'll play a dress-up game for you... Oh, is your account linked?"

Mr. Ye: "It's tied."

"Very good." The young man stared at the screen happily, "I've been fascinated by that ninety-dollar game for a long time, and that photography app set, come here, give it to a friend... Let's add a friend. Your WeChat is in where?……"

Assistant Guan turned his head numbly.

From Xishuangbanna to Ruili, during this day and night, Huo Yang harassed Ye Lang if he had nothing to do. He wanted to make up for the ten-year loss in one breath, and even took a selfie while he was asleep.

He first praised the angle he found in his heart, and posted it on Weibo without any color or beauty, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice himself to set off Mr. Ye.Huo Yang thought in his heart that he must remind Ye Lang to check Weibo tomorrow, and thinking about his reaction, he grinned horribly in the dark.

It's a pity that the two drivers were very dedicated and took turns. They arrived in Ruili the next day.

Huo Yang has never been here, but a big V blogger who followed this line wrote a travel note about gambling stones.He wanted to take it out and read it, but found that Ye Lang and his group had a very clear purpose, got out of the car, and went straight to the rough stone market in Xiangjie.

I also observed the crazy material grabbing scene up close.

"These packers are Burmese," Huo Yang actually had to rely on Ye Lang to introduce him. "Ruili is only a few hundred meters away from Myanmar. The Burmese government does not prohibit the free trade of local rough stones, so they just come here to smuggle them."

Huo Yang looked at the large yellow leather bags pulled by those trucks, which were full of heavy stones. Many people immediately ran over to such trucks when they saw such trucks.When the owner came down, there were already crowds around the car.

"What are they robbing? It's not that they don't sell."

Ye Lang said: "The government is tightening the export of rough jadeite, but Myanmar has 95% of the world's high-quality jadeite resources. If they don't grab it, they won't be able to buy it..."

At this time, Assistant Guan walked over with an iPad, and there were three or four drone aerial images on it. She pointed out one of them, "Mr. Ye, look."

Ye Lang looked down, "Huh?", then raised his head, "Which one is it?"

Assistant Guan pointed to a drone flying silently in the southeast corner, "That one."

Before Huo Yang realized what they were doing, Ye Lang took the iPad, said "Xiao Chen is driving" without looking back, and strode towards the southeast corner.

The southeast corner is the exit of the rough stone market, bustling with people.Huo Yang followed him for a long time until he stopped suddenly, but he didn't find anything wrong.

Ye Lang stared in a certain direction for a while.Then the drones landed one by one, and at this time their RV also drove over, but the driver was not Xiao Chen, but the driver Zhao.Assistant Guan ran over quickly, "I've already sent Brother Chen the license plate number, and he said he's already followed, let's hurry up too."

Huo Yang didn't talk too much from the beginning to the end, but just followed them.Looking at the iPad in Ye Lang's hand, he suddenly thought that they seem...seem to be looking for someone.

He came to Ruili with a clear purpose, found the market in Jiegao, and used aerial photography. Now Xiao Chen has already "followed" someone.

Ye Lang came to Yunnan for no reason, what is he doing?