The Swan Bay Murders

It is very gratifying to me that Jiang Luo can express his thoughts.

He is so restrained that he doesn't even want to express his wishes. I don't know if it's because of his original personality or because he doesn't trust us, but it's more likely that he doesn't want to burden us.

We stood at the northernmost point of the "false", and Jiang Luo was stunned.

The air here is very good, but the temperature is really too low. We all wrapped ourselves into round dumplings, but our cheeks still hurt from the cold.

The nagging tour guide kept saying, "You basically won't be able to see the Northern Lights at this time, and I'll get you two of my business cards when I go back later. Come during the summer solstice and stay a little longer, sure. can meet."

I don't want to talk to the tour guide, I have a grudge against him for deceiving us.

Jiang Luo was still walking forward slowly, bypassing the stele and looking into the distance.

I was diagonally behind him and could only see his profile.

His preoccupied appearance made my heart heavy.

He should be thinking about Berlin, after all, it should be the two of them standing here.

Or maybe, if they come together, they will be lucky enough to see the Northern Lights, and they should be very happy.

I didn't dare to think about it any longer. There were photos of Berlin stuffed in my chest pocket, which felt faintly hot.

Jiang Luo turned around suddenly, I couldn't see his expression clearly against the light.

He said to me: "Brother, let's do it again at the summer solstice."

I think I will agree to whatever Li Jiangluo asks for.

"Okay." I smiled at him, not sure if he could see it or not.

Jiang Luo and I didn't bother to take pictures, only the tour guide kept asking: "It's hard to come here once, don't you really want to take a photo to commemorate it? I'll take it for you, you go and stand up!"

I am a little helpless, I really can't stand such noisy people.

Jiang Luo probably thought the same as me, and didn't want to waste any time talking with him, so he resigned himself to his fate and stood in front of the stele.

"You two..." The tour guide said to us dissatisfiedly holding my mobile phone, "Come closer, like two guards."

I was a little impatient, but Jiang Luo smiled.

He glanced at me and slowly leaned over, so I had no choice but to lean towards him and stood in the middle together.

"You blocked the words on the stele!"

The tour guide was still dissatisfied, so he pulled the two of us into a pose and said, "Don't move! Don't move!"

I really regret standing here. Who would have imagined that two people like Jiang Luo and I would stretch out one arm and compare our hearts together like a fool.

I don't know what his expression is, anyway, my expression is not very good.

I finally took a photo that the tour guide was satisfied with. I put away my phone and walked back without even looking at it.

Jiang Luo followed me, followed by the tour guide who was still chattering.

Come back next time, we probably won't look for him again.

Meeting my parents at the farmhouse, they had a chicken meal at someone's house, and we were both hungry.

I found that during this period of time, my parents were really in a better mood and their appetite improved a lot.

This is pretty good, at least I don't have to sleep all night for fear that something will happen to my family.

We stayed in a winery at night and asked for a big family room, which could just sleep four people, but the embarrassing thing is that both rooms have big beds, so my parents naturally want to sleep together, and Jiang and I Luo was a little embarrassed.

If it's two straight men, it doesn't matter how they sleep, but our sexual orientation and identity relationship are bound to make sleeping difficult.

"Uncles and aunts can sleep in this room, and I will go to the other room with my brother." Jiang Luo seemed to have a plan in mind, and called me to go to the inner room with the luggage.

I followed him, and my mother frowned at me when I turned around.

I waved my hand to signal her not to worry.

Any worries are unnecessary, Jiang Luo and I are not the kind of casual people.

I thought he had some good way to make us sleep comfortably without embarrassment, but when he entered the door, he said, "Brother, I'll sleep on the floor tonight, just take off one of the mattresses on the bed."

Naturally, I would not agree. If I want to sleep on the floor, I will sleep on the floor.

"No." I grabbed his wrist and said, "It's cold here, you can't sleep on the floor, I don't sleep, and you are not allowed to sleep, just one night, you sleep on the bed, isn't there a sofa here. "

As I said that, I took off my heavy coat and threw it on the sofa: "The sofa is quite soft. How did you find this winery? It should have the best conditions here, right?"

Li Jiangluo looked at me for a while, then spread the sheets and said, "I checked on the Internet before, and the accommodation in this place is very cheap. Most of them are farmhouses and youth hostels. In fact, we planned to live in youth hostels at the beginning."

I knew who he was referring to by "we", and he was also taken aback for a moment, and we didn't mention that person very tacitly.

"I remembered this one when I was researching it. It is indeed the best here." Jiang Luo said, "This bar opens at ten o'clock in the evening. Do you want to go and have a look?"

I am a person who rarely goes to bars, unless I am entertaining, I will not easily join in the fun.

I didn't expect Jiang Luo to be interested in bars, so, is it true that people are not judged by their appearance?

"I thought you were someone who never went to bars." I laughed at him.

He was a little embarrassed, rubbed his nose and said, "I really haven't been there much, but I just think it's boring to do this sitting."

It's really boring. There is not even a TV in this room, and I didn't bring a laptop, because I heard that the signal here is not very good, so I thought it would be better to just return to nature.

But when I came, I realized that those people were talking nonsense.

"That's right." I stood up and stretched my waist. I was really exhausted today. "Take a shower first, and I will buy you a drink tonight."

There is only one bathroom in the entire suite, and we took turns to take a shower after our parents finished washing and went to bed.

It is really a pleasure to take a hot bath in this kind of icy and snowy place.

After washing and going out, Jiang Luo had already changed his clothes and dried his hair.

He first handed me a dry towel to dry my hair, then stood there with a hair dryer and looked at me.

"Are you going to blow-dry my hair yourself?" I deliberately teased him.

It was indeed just a joke, but he didn't expect him to drop the hair dryer on the ground in a panic.

His appearance is so funny, this is really the first time I have seen Li Jiangluo like this.

Finally, when I packed up, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.

The two of us went out lightly, for fear of waking up our parents.

The winery's self-operated bar is open underground, and they can come in and out freely with their room cards. It is said that it is not open to the public and only accepts tenants.

This is also good, not so mixed.

The two of us sat down in a corner and ordered a bottle of whiskey. I fumbled in my pockets and realized I had forgotten to take out my cigarettes.

"Here." Li Jiangluo suddenly touched the cigarette, not my pack, but the same brand.

Now I am very suspicious that Li Jiangluo didn't smoke at all before, and only started after he left Berlin. Thinking about it this way, I brought his addiction to cigarettes, because I gave him the first cigarette.

Each of us was holding a glass of wine, and the other was smoking a cigarette.

The loud music made everyone shout when they spoke.

The two of us hadn't communicated for a long time, and each of us let go.

I suddenly discovered that the bar is actually a good place to think, because in this environment, everyone is busy socializing and having fun, and they don't care whether you have something on your mind or not.

I was thinking about random things, from me and Berlin fighting with someone in kindergarten, to the photo of him wearing a bachelor's uniform in his graduation book, to the photo of him and Li Jiangluo, and finally, there was only one picture in my mind The cold and expressionless face belonged to Li Jiangluo.

When Berlin just passed away, Jiang Luo was silent and expressionless every day. Those who didn't know thought he was a depression patient.

At that time, I almost thought he was ill. Looking at the people around me now, he must have worked very hard to get rid of that haze.

I turned around and took a look at him.

He was staring at the cigarette butts. We agreed to quit smoking together, but neither of us quit.

Smoking is very similar to love. Once you fall in love, it is not so easy to give up.

It can relieve your fatigue, and it can also cause you damage. If you want to shake it off, you need to shed a layer of skin.

I took the glass and lightly touched the wine glass in his hand.

Startled, he turned around and looked at me.

I lifted the glass up, signaling him to drink.

They looked at each other and smiled, each took a sip.

The difference is that I am familiar with the alcoholic properties of whiskey, so I only drank it slowly, but Jiang Luo drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, which made me grab his glass in a hurry.

"You can't drink this wine like this!" I put the glass on the table in front of me and gave him something to eat.

He pursed his lips and lowered his head, the magic lights of the bar dyed him colorful and unreal.

I stood up and he looked up at me.

Squeezed out the cigarette in his hand, and pulled him up. With a blank face, he asked me loudly: "What's wrong?"

I put my arms around his neck and led him forward.

On our side, go straight ahead and then turn right to the dance floor, where demons are dancing wildly.

In front of those demons and goblins is a stage, and at the moment there is a man with his hair shaved into a yin and yang face dancing.

"Go dance!" I yelled in his ear.

He panicked and tried to evade again and again, but I refused to let go.

I don't know how to dance, but I just feel that I should forget everything in this place, forget who I am, why I came here, and let go of all the good and bad at this moment.

We've had it so hard, it's not a bad thing to have a chance to let off steam.

When I got to the edge of the dance floor, I also felt embarrassed, but I still pulled Jiang Luo to sway to the music. I approached him, leaned into his ear, and said loudly: "Anyway, no one knows us, let's have a good time!"

He grabbed the hem of my shirt and seemed very disturbed.

I took his hand smoothly, cheered and shouted together with the people, jumping and making noise.

At this moment, I feel that I am probably really crazy. I don't have the stable appearance that a young entrepreneur should have.

Seriously though, when I came out of the dance floor, I was sweating profusely, and so was Jiang Luo, and we held hands together, laughing uncontrollably.