14 years time difference

The inn where I stayed was poorly decorated, with two male and female rooms each, and the beds were next to each other, like a Datong shop.There is no toilet in the guest room, Lu Xiaohua pulled Du Siren out of the bed, the two of them wrapped in down jackets, and went out to the toilet trembling.

Right now is the off-season for tourism, there are very few guests staying here, and before midnight, all the lights in the store have been turned off, except for a dumb light in the corridor outside the guest room, which is still flickering.

The bathroom is on the first floor, next to the backyard of the two-story building.Lu Xiaohua came out of the cubicle slowly, and complained in a long voice: "It's so cold here, I don't want to wash my hands—" Du Siren turned on the faucet, grabbed her sleeve, and the water rushed over Her hand was bitingly cold, she screamed softly, and shook her hand tremblingly, water droplets splashed on Dusi's face, the two of them started arguing, and walked through the small door leading to the backyard while arguing, Dusi's Pushing Lu Xiaohua's hand that was about to pluck her hair: "Hey, Director Li is over there."

Lu Xiaohua poked her head, and sure enough, she saw Director Li with his back to them, sitting on a stone bench on the other side of the backyard, with a plywood leg in front of him, his thin back was very lonely in the cold wind.

"Really, what is this disabled person doing here at night?"

Lu Xiaohua rolled her eyeballs, and a ghostly idea came to her mind again. She and Du Siren exchanged a knowing look, and the two quietly approached Director Li along the side wall of the backyard, trying to scare him.

Director Li didn't notice it at all.

He put the phone to his ear.

"Hello, Yang Qing. Well, it's me."

His voice was very low, but the courtyard was silent in the dark night, and Du Siren and Lu Xiaohua could hear it very clearly.

They stopped and looked at each other.

"It's nothing. Today is April Fool's Day. I called to wish you a happy holiday."

His tone was curt and joyless.

"I'm in my hometown, and I went to see Girl Mountain today. Do you remember? When we were in college, I took you to see it."

"Foot? There's nothing wrong with your feet. Don't worry about them. Just take care of yourself. Don't harm other girls."

"Do you still have the face to say that someone is blackmailing you? You didn't do that shameless thing yourself. Would that cousin come to trouble you?"

His volume suddenly rose, and his tone became slightly excited.

"I'm fucking you. Yang Qing, I shouldn't care about you. You deserved it when you were beaten to death."

"Well, yes, I asked for it. I'm rushing to be a bitch. Isn't it just a bitch when I call you? Yang Qing, I'm so fucking tired. Do you know that sometimes I really fucking hate you."

He crouched down, resting his head on his knees.

"Don't look for me in the future. Yes, don't look for me anymore, and I won't look for you either. Did you hear that? What good friends and brothers, I need a good brother for you?"

He turned upside down, said the same sentence several times, and smiled wryly as he spoke.

"Do you care if what I said is true or not? You haven't even paid me for my medical bills. Fine, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, you think that what I said is all fart, and what I said is all April Fool's Day jokes. When I wake up tomorrow, I will Nothing counts..."

It was like arguing with the other end of the phone.

Dusi pulled Lu Xiaohua's sleeves, and the two left quietly, holding their breath all the way without making a sound, and walked lightly up the stairs leading to the second floor.

They returned to the corridor outside the guest room, and the moonlight fell on the floor, divided into grids by the grilles of the wooden windows.They walked to the end of the corridor and leaned against the window with their backs to the moon.

"That Yang Qing, is that the male teacher you told me about falling in love with Lu Shan?"

Du Siren lowered his head, counting the squares of moonlight on the ground, "Yes."

Lu Xiaohua gritted her teeth: "Bastard, chop him up and feed it to the dogs, the dogs think he's rotten."

Du Siren didn't answer, lowered his head in silence for a moment, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Tell me, what's the relationship between Director Li and Yang Qing?"

"Friend? Did he seem to say that just now?"

"...I mean, does Director Li like this Yang Qing?"

"Huh? But they are all..."

Lu Xiaohua swallowed half of what she had said, and fell into silence.

He is obviously so young, it is said that he graduated from the director department of a prestigious school, and his works won international awards when he was in school, but he is willing to guard a small shop on the edge of the city every day, wasting time in the morning and evening.

After a while, Lu Xiaohua asked softly, "Are you sleepy? Chat with me."

"Ah."

The two looked at their toes.

When they came down from the side peak, the sun had already set, and they were entertained by the hotel for a light meal. Xiaoling's parents called in a hurry, and they all forgot what they wanted to tell her parents. The noise made people almost call the police, and the chickens and dogs danced for half the night, so they went back to the room early to rest, and they didn't have a serious chat.

Dusi was wearing canvas shoes on her bare feet. At this moment, the touch on her feet was hard and cold. She suddenly began to imagine that her feet were buried in the cold soil, and gradually took root, and then slowly, she grew into a tree. , Standing in this moonlight forever.

Lu Xiaohua turned around and looked at the solemn snow-capped mountains in the distance outside the window under the moonlight.

"That man, that boy, why did he leave?"

"It's a girl."

"Huh?" Lu Xiaohua turned her head.

The Dusi people said, "She should think she is a girl, right?"

"What about the biological structure? Isn't a person's sex determined by the biological structure at birth?"

"Well, yes. So, when a baby comes to this world, he can't choose anything. He can't choose his parents, he can't choose his gender, appearance, and healthy body, and he can't even choose whether he wants to come or not. Isn't it a little pitiful?"

"Hmm..." Lu Xiaohua pondered. "Then I'm quite lucky. Let me choose again, and I will still be my mother's daughter." She said foolishly again: "My mother is beautiful, and I will follow my mother."

"Then what about those unlucky people? Maybe they feel that their birth was a mistake." The Dusi people looked at the guest room where they lived. "It's also possible that just being alive is already painful. Like that person, she can't even understand why she is a boy."

With a wave of her hand, Lu Xiaohua messed up the score and said, "Why don't there be any distinction between men and women in this world."

"Nonsense, the school arranges a dormitory for you to live with Xu Keng."

"Bah! Then what do you say?"

"I don't know. How about we treat those unlucky people better." The Dusi people whispered, "I can share my luck with her, give her half, [-]%, [-]% Can."

"What? Who?"

"Huh? No, nothing."

"Then tell me, if Director Li likes Yang Qing, is it because a boy likes a boy, or because a girl likes a boy?"

"It's...a person's liking for another person."

Lu Xiaohua laughed.

"nonsense."

Dusi took out his hand from his pocket and rubbed it, "It's so cold, let's go back to sleep."

She shivered and walked back with her legs. After walking a few steps, Lu Xiaohua did not follow.

"Old Du. Miss people."

she called her.It's rare to call her that.

She turned around, "What's wrong?"

Except for the night, there is only the moonlight divided into grids by the window grilles between them.

Lu Xiaohua said: "It's 12 o'clock, April Fool's Day is over."

"Ok?"

"It's nothing. I just wanted to tell you..."

Lu Xiaohua smiled, her signature romantic smile.

"I want to tell you, go to love."

"what?"

"Ah, it's disgusting to say that!" Lu Xiaohua hopped like a bunny in embarrassment, sniffing.

"I want to tell you, go love someone! Anyone can, male or female. If anyone dares to disagree with whom you love, I will not let him go. Or say, or say "" Her eyes rolled wildly, and she looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance embarrassingly, "The person you love doesn't love you, it makes you sad, if you want to cry, I will lend you my shoulder, and then I will accompany you hard Get really drunk."

Du Siren froze in place.

The holiday of lies is over.

Or maybe the world and life itself is like one giant April Fool's lie, and babies are born, put in blue or pink cradles, told who they are and who they should love, and half the class is I picked it up in the trash can, and if I didn’t eat green vegetables, I would be arrested by the police. While growing up, I learned to lie, and I didn’t bring my homework at home. I don’t like that so-and-so.Until one day, the baby finally merged with this lying world, forgot how loudly he cried, and only remembered the cradle he lived in, whether it was blue or pink, and he had to live like that color, like everyone around.

Some people couldn't bear the lie, so they chose to leave.

Lu Xiaohua said: "People from Dusi, no matter what we are or what we become in the future, let's be good friends forever. I won't leave you behind. It's not April Fool's Day anymore, you have to keep your word."

Her eyes are clear and her voice is clear.

Du Siren blinked, "Okay."

She chose to tell Lu Xiaohua a sincere word on April Fool's Day, and Lu Xiaohua chose to answer her after April Fool's Day.

If there is anyone in this world who can resist lies the most, it is the promise, the people who insist on fulfilling the promise, the goodbye that really crosses the mountains and seas after saying goodbye, the hug on the day of goodbye, the holding hands before the deathbed, saying It will be forever to come here.

At that moment, the lies will float away like dark clouds, and people will return to who they are.

Lu Xiaohua said: "The snow mountain is the proof!"

Du Siren replied: "Well, the snow mountain is the proof."