When Xie Yuan got off work, he turned his head three times a step, and Yu Zhou glanced at him. Seeing Yu Zhou's eyes, he immediately put all his thoughts aside.He was actually a little frightened towards Yu Zhou, and he didn't dare to take half a step over the thunder pool.Yu Zhou doesn't talk much and looks casual, but he is a person with a clear bottom line.

Yu Zhou carried his backpack, stepped onto the bicycle, and rode very fast.There were no cars on the road, so he walked straight to the south of the city and turned into a small road.The street lamps on both sides of the path are very old, only a few light bulbs are left to barely support it, and it is bright and dark under the feet.

This small road leads to an old residential area, which is not the case when it is said to be a residential area. Most of the old buildings have been demolished at this moment, and only this one is left standing, although it is trembling, surrounded by construction sites in all directions.Yu Zhou pushed the bicycle into the corridor, found a corner and locked it.

He walked to the fifth floor and knocked on the door of 501.The paint on the anti-theft door was a little peeling, and it was aligned left and right, with a pair of dusty Spring Festival couplets pasted on it.An elderly woman opened the door, and she looked up and down Yu Zhou impatiently, her eyes wished to peel off Yu Zhou's skin, pull out his bones and look at them all.

Yu Zhou stood at the door without moving, and did not respond to the woman's scrutiny. He said simply, "I called you an hour ago."

The woman was interrupted from looking at Yu Zhou, she didn't care much, she said casually: "Okay, after paying the money, I will take you to your residence."

The woman let go of the doorknob and welcomed Yu Zhou into the room.Yu Zhou signed a contract with only one piece of paper, and when he went out again, his pockets were cleaner than his face.The woman took him to the door of room 502 next door. She opened the door with the key and said to Yu Zhou without raising her head, "I will give you the key later. There are six people living in this room. You bring your own quilt. There are in the bed room."

The two entered the house, the woman wrinkled her nose, kicked aside the things that were in the way of the door, and turned on the light in the living room with a snap.It was at this time that Yu Zhou saw the whole picture of the house. The room with one living room and one bedroom was completely opened up, the walls were removed, and old sheets were used as partitions to divide the whole living room into seven or eight small spaces.

Yu Zhou's so-called six roommates slept like dead pigs. The white light bulbs on their heads did not hinder their performance, and they still snored continuously.The woman tripped over her shoes on the ground, muttered something, and kicked them aside.And the owner of the shoe was ignorant, and a foot was exposed from under the torn bed sheet.

Yu Zhou only glanced at it, and turned his head with no expression on his face.

Walking to the end of the living room, the woman lifted the bed sheet and said to Yu Zhou, "Here it is, here is the key. There is no access control here, so you can come back whenever you like."

After the woman left, Yu Zhou closed the curtain again, trapping the single bed and himself in a small world.There was a mattress on the single bed, and Yu Zhou took Xialiang quilt out of his backpack.After a while, the woman turned off the light in the living room, and he tidied up the single bed as if blind, and went back.

The single bed trembled slightly and held on.

In a short time, he could find the cheapest rental house here, and it was not far from the school.He thought bitterly, this is cheaper than his last rental house, just looking for a place to stay.

Yu Zhou took out his mobile phone from his pocket. In the dark, his mobile phone screen shone brightly, illuminating his face.He paused with his fingers, then quickly turned to the text message box, and read the text message Hou Xiaoyan sent him again.He only watched it once with extreme restraint, and then turned off the phone.

He used the backpack behind his head as a pillow, and neither the annoying snoring nor the hard mattress under him could stop Yu Zhou.He fell asleep quickly, having been pulled into a patch of sunlight.

His eyes fixed on the sun, he found the direction of the sun, the light was shining on him, very warm.Suddenly his arm was gently tugged, and the young man beside him smiled slightly at him, and time became a vortex behind the young man.

Yu Zhou was startled, he looked at the young man, a little speechless.

Seeing him in a daze, the young man grabbed his arm and ran towards the small road beside the wide road. He said to Yu Zhou mysteriously, "I discovered a secret, come with me."

Yu Zhou didn't take his eyes off the boy for a moment, and Yu Zhou asked for a while, "Do you recognize me?"

Hou Xiaoyan gave him a funny look, and asked, "Are you confused in your dreams?"

Yu Zhou raised the corner of his mouth, yes, I was dreaming and confused.Otherwise, how could he have met Hou Xiaoyan from six years ago, and they are now walking on the path of the south gate, everything that happened now is fake.

But even so, Yu Zhou couldn't stop his addiction.They ran for a long time, bypassing the wooden bridge and cabins at the south gate, Yu Zhou couldn't help asking him, "What's the secret?"

Hou Xiaoyan pulled him around the cabin and walked up to the hill.There are several poplar trees planted on the small hill during the Arbor Day of the students in the past few years.Hou Xiaoyan pulled him under one of the poplar trees, he knelt down and dug out a small wooden box from under the poplar tree.

Yu Zhou was next to him, Hou Xiaoyan stuffed the wooden box into Yu Zhou's hand, and said, "Have you heard the story of the magic lamp?"

Hou Xiaoyan looked at Yu Zhou seriously, Hou Xiaoyan was still a boy, his eyes were very bright back then, when he looked at you, his eyes were full of stars, and he still had a handful of spring water.The wind blew the broken hair on his forehead, Hou Xiaoyan ignored it, and he continued: "The magic lamp can grant you a wish, just write a note and put it inside, anything can come true."

The wind and the boy's soft voice came over.Yu Zhou leaned against the softness. He remembered this scene in their second year of junior high school.Yu Zhou pursed his lips and said, "How could the lamp god be in the wooden box?"

Hou Xiao said seriously: "The lamp god also wants to go to the village to do as the Romans do. When we arrived at the south gate, we didn't find any oil lamps, so we had to find a wooden box to shelter in."

As he spoke, Hou Xiaoyan handed Yu Zhou a piece of paper and a pen, and said, "Each of us has one wish."

Yu Zhou turned his head to look at the boy, and took a while to take the things in his hand.Hou Xiaoyan leaned against the tree, and wrote down his wish on the paper stroke by stroke, and solemnly wrote a period.

Yu Zhou couldn't help but asked, "Hou Xiaoyan, what is your wish?"

Hou Xiaoyan folded the note, and when Yu Zhou asked him, he immediately raised his head, laughed and said, "Then let's exchange."

Yu Zhou unfolded the note without hesitation, and Hou Xiaoyan lowered his head to read it. When he raised his head, Yu Zhou's heart couldn't help contracting violently, and Yu Zhou almost couldn't breathe.Immediately, he saw the time behind Hou Xiaoyan, and they swooped forward, engulfing the young man who was smiling at him in one fell swoop.

Yu Zhou stood up abruptly. There was no one under the poplar tree except him, and the sky was dark. He called Hou Xiaoyan's name, but the only answer was an empty echo.

He looked down and saw the wooden box in his hand, which contained Hou Xiaoyan's wish.

Hou Xiaoyan disappeared again.

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