??Qi Le closed his eyes and took several deep breaths before suppressing the chaotic emotions in his heart.

??Duan Yuan held Qi Le's shoulder with one hand, and patted his back with the other hand. After his breathing became stable, he asked, "Is it better?"

??Qi Le muffled his head and let out a "hmm".

?? "Will you tell me what's going on?"

??Afraid to stimulate Qi Le's sensitive nerves again, Duan Yu'an spoke in an extremely soft, deep voice.

??Qi Le was disturbed by his cautious question. After a long silence, he nodded.

?? He struggled to find his voice and said, "I don't have a sense of taste."

?? Duan Yuan frowned: "No sense of taste?"

??Qi Le: "To be precise, it should be my sense of taste that is deteriorating."

?? He raised his finger and compared [1], "Now my tongue can only taste bitter... nothing else."

?? This is the first time Qi Le has told this secret to others. Even the deceased grandfather didn't know about his loss of taste.

??After so many years, he thought he could accept this fact calmly.Unexpectedly, the sweetness of the glimpse today brought him back to his original shape.

??Qi Le pulled a wry smile from the corner of his mouth, and said: "The taste that disappears at first is sweet, then sour, and finally salty..."

?? "Only the bitter taste is lingering, and it is becoming more and more sensitive."

?? Duan Yuan recalled the scene when he fed Qi Le medicine in the morning. No wonder he rejected ibuprofen so much, no wonder he reached out to snatch Merrill.

??He felt a little nervous, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why is this happening?"

??Why?

??To be honest, Qi Le himself doesn't remember the reason.

?? Human instinct is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Qi Le has almost forgotten what happened four years ago. He only vaguely remembers that after his mother passed away, he seemed to be seriously ill and lay in the hospital for nearly a week. Just woke up.

?? At that time, after Qi Le woke up in the hospital bed, the first person he saw was grandpa.

??He grew up in Shenzhen and had very few opportunities to meet his grandfather, but in the summer of that year, he saw his grandfather very often.

??Qi Le looked at the gray-haired old man in front of him, and worked hard for a long time before overlapping with the tough and healthy grandfather in his memory.

?? "Grandpa?"

??Due to lying down for too long without drinking water, Qi Le's voice was hoarse and deep, not at all like the clear voice that a 16-year-old boy should have.

??He cleared his throat and felt that his throat hurt badly.

?? Is the kind of pain from the outside to the inside.

??He raised his hand and rubbed his neck, and asked, "What's wrong with me?"

??Grandpa froze for a moment, "You don't remember?"

??Qi Le lowered his eyes, he looked at the needle on the back of his hand, and searched in his mind for the last place where the memory stayed—it was a sea of ​​blood, and the ground was dark red.

?? At the source of the sea of ​​blood lies a woman with disheveled hair, her makeup is as delicate as ever, she is wearing her favorite white silk evening dress, and high heels studded with rhinestones...

"Remember a little." Qi Le put away his memories and said calmly, "Mom committed suicide."

?? In front of his face.

??But the memory about her mother's suicide was in a mess. Qi Le couldn't remember what happened before and after that.

??There is only one terrifying scene in front of me, which will last for a long time.

??so……

?? "Why am I in the hospital?"

??Qi Le asked again.

??Gaiwai's wrinkled hands shook, he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Happy..."

??Qi Le blinked, feeling bored, wanting to evade Grandpa's answer for no reason, he said: "Forget it, I don't want to know anymore."

??Grandpa sighed, as if a stone had been removed: "It's okay if you don't remember... It's okay if you don't remember."

?? "Are you hungry? Grandpa cooked your favorite mung bean porridge today."

??…

?? "That day in the hospital, after I finished eating that bowl of mung bean porridge, I realized that my sense of taste was not right."

??Speaking of the past, Qi Le's tone was very flat, without any emotion.As if those past happened to another person, it didn't matter to him.

?? Duan Yu listened to him quietly, and asked: "It's been so many years, haven't you seen a doctor?"

??Qi Le pressed his knuckles and smiled contemptuously: "I don't like hospitals, and I don't like doctors either."

??Qi Lehuo is so old, and the number of times he went to the hospital can be counted on the fingers. Apart from the occasional fever and hospitalization when he was a child, the last two visits to the hospital were related to death.

?? Once I went to collect my mother's body with my grandfather, and once I went to collect my grandfather with my fourteenth aunt.

?? As for the doctor...

?? "My dad is a psychiatrist."

??Qi Le said lightly: "When I see those in white coats, I will think of him."

??His current attitude towards that person is neither love nor hate.It's a conditioned reflex, and I don't want to touch anything about him.

?? "So, after all these years, I don't like going to the hospital."

??Fortunately, my body is healthy enough. I haven't had a serious illness in the past few years, and I can survive minor ailments by taking some medicine, which saves me the trouble of going to the hospital to see a doctor.

?? Qi Le looked at the remaining tiramisu on the table, and continued, "Anyway, I don't plan to fix the taste."

?? "Just let it take its course."

??Duan Yuan stared at Qi Le's half-closed eyes for a long time, not knowing what to say for a moment.

?? He is not bad at comforting people.

?? But in this situation, he felt that what Qi Le needed was not comfort.

??Duan Yu'an suddenly remembered the proposal made by Little P in the afternoon. He patted Qi Le's shoulder lightly, and asked tentatively: "I'm going to Sichuan the day after tomorrow. Would you like to go with me?"

??Qi Le raised his head blankly: "?"

??His eyes are extremely dark, transparent and bright, and the ends of his eyes are still slightly red because of holding back tears just now.

?? "..."

?? Duan Yu'an's gaze skipped under Qi Le's nose, feeling that his reason was collapsing a little bit.The string in his heart that originally planned to respect all Qi Le's decisions broke with a bang.

?? He gritted his teeth and said: Respect the fart, if he wants to be despicable for a while, he will also take Qi Le away from here.

??The beauty trick is not good, so he will use the bitter trick!

?? Duan Yuan buried his head in Qi Le's shoulder, and said in a sad tone: "You also know that hot pot is everywhere in Sichuan, and it tastes great wherever you go. I..."

?? He greedily took a sip of the faint scent of shower gel on Qi Le's body, and said, "If you can go together, I might not feel so uncomfortable."

?? Qi Le turned his head away and did not speak.

?? Duan Yuan has no shame, and continues to sell miserably: "Don't you also say that I am now at a critical moment?"

?? "And you also saw it yesterday, just a little smell, can make me vomit like that..."

"If I went to Sichuan, wouldn't it be worse for me?"

?? "What should I do if you are not here?"

?? "Didn't you say you want to treat me as a friend?"

??Qi Le was a little confused by him: "Let me think about it."

??Duan Yuan suppressed the corner of his mouth that couldn't help but rubbed his head against Qi Le's shoulder, and muttered: "Don't think about it, just take pity on me, okay?"

??Qi Le: "..."

??He thought of the golden retriever he raised before.

??***

?? The next day, early in the morning.

?? When Aunt Fourteen received a call from her nephew, she was eating sunflower seeds with relatives at home.Her eldest aunt, who was nearly seventy years old, couldn't speak fluently anymore, and she was still graciously introducing her to a blind date.

?? "The man's ex-wife ran away with other men with their children. Although his feet are a little disabled, he is of good character. Yes, he doesn't steal or rob. There are several houses in the west city, and the annual rent is more than a hundred. Ten thousand……"

?? "You are old too, so let's make do with him."

?? "Pick what..."

?? Aunt Fourteen felt her head ache when she heard that, and Qi Le's phone call just saved her from the fire.She threw away the melon seeds in her hand, ran back to the room and locked the door, her ears were instantly clean.

"Hey Ale, what can I do with your Fourteenth Aunt?"

??Qi Le stood in front of the closet, looked at the few pieces of clothes inside, and said, "I want to ask you for help."

??Aunt Fourteen took the phone away and confirmed again that it was her nephew who called, she was a little puzzled: "What's the matter?"

?? "I may have to leave home for a few days, can you come and help me water the flowers when you are free?"

?? Aunt Fourteen understood: "Oh, you want to take that big star to Suozi Island?"

?? "Is he recovering soon?"

Aunt Fourteen used to go to Qi's house frequently, and knew that when Qi Le was helping people with anorexia, in the final stage, they would take the patients to Suozi Island to live for three to five days to experience a completely self-sufficient life.

??Qi Le opened the suitcase and said, "No, I'm going to Sichuan."

?? Aunt Fourteen: "Sichuan? What are you doing there?"

??Qi Le simply explained the reason to her.

?? After hanging up the phone, Aunt Fourteen felt that she was dreaming.

?? In the past few years, she can be said to have watched how this poor nephew locked herself in that small three-story house step by step.

?? Hearing that he said that he was going to another city with others, Aunt Fourteen felt in a trance that "you can see the moonlight when the clouds bloom".

??She was afraid that the phone call was really a dream, so she immediately grabbed the keys and drove to Qi Le's house.

??Qi Le is rarely at home, only the big star is calling in the yard.

?? "Yes, he also went with us..."

?? "How many rooms are booked in the hotel? Pan Haoran, do you deserve a beating for asking this question?"

?? "Okay, let me know before you leave tomorrow."

?? Aunt Fourteen entered the room, and after the big star hung up the phone, she asked uncertainly, "Where's Ah Le?"

?? Duan Yuan: "I went to the small supermarket next door."

?? Aunt Fourteen: "He... really wants to go to Sichuan with you?"

??Duan Yuan poured her a cup of tea in a familiar way, and said, "Well, the flight at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

?? After confirming that it was not a dream but a fact, Aunt Fourteen was even more excited than she could feel it all by herself: "Oh my God, Ah Le is finally willing to leave Shiwei Town."

?? Duan Yuan was puzzled by her words: "Has he never left before?"

?? "Never."

?? Aunt Fourteen was elated: "Going to Flower Street on the first day of junior high school is already the farthest place he has traveled."

?? "Did you know? Ale has been back for three years, and the farthest place he has been to is Suozi Island."

?? Suozi Island is far away, and it takes more than half a day by boat, but it also belongs to the scope of Shiwei Town.

?? "Usually, except for grocery shopping, he basically doesn't even leave the house." Aunt Fourteen picked up the tea, and her satisfaction with Duan Yu'an reached a new level.

?? "How did you convince him to go to Sichuan with you?"

??How to persuade?

?? Shameless to say a word, pretending to be pitiful and persuasive.

?? Duan Yuan explained with a sneer: "It was because I was not well that he came with me."

?? Aunt Fourteen: "???"

?? "For this reason?"

?? Duan Yuan: "Yes."

?? Aunt Fourteen frowned, feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

??Qi Le came in from outside the door just after shopping, and greeted her: "Aunt Fourteen, why are you here?"

??Aunt Fourteen: "Oh, I'll come over and see if you have anything else to tell me."

??Qi Le thought for a while and said, "It's nothing. I've already trimmed the flowers in the yard. Just come and water them every day."

?? "And remember to pick the cucumbers in the vegetable field in the backyard in two days. It will be stale after a long time."

?? "I see that they bear a lot of fruit. You can pick some cucumber seedlings and cook soup."

??…

?? When Aunt Fourteen left her nephew's house, she was still thinking about what Qi Le had said to her, which was illusory and unreal.

??While waiting for the traffic lights, she suddenly realized.

?? She finally knew what was wrong.

?? Her withdrawn, reticent nephew was willing to leave Shiwei Town because of someone else for the first time.

?? It was the same when I told her about her just now. She seemed to be a bit like that sunny boy when we first met four years ago.

?? The author has something to say: kneeling.

?? Only 4 degrees today! 4 degrees!

??Even my refrigerator is 6 degrees Celsius!

?? Should I hide in and keep warm? T^T

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