let him land

After a few days, Xie Chuan heard a lot of rumors about Zhuo Lidong in the office: Sichuanese, graduated from a prestigious school, handsome and rich... Xie Chuan thought to himself, I know that Zhuo Lidong is handsome, but graduated from a prestigious school——Zhuo Lidong Didn't Lidong have poor grades back then?Why is it a prestigious school?To be honest, when he was adolescence, he always thought that Zhuo Lidong would join the underworld in the near future.He will never forget the fight in the second year of junior high school. In order to protect the harassed classmate, Zhuo Lidong led a dozen boys and a dozen boys from other schools to fight each other. Xie Chuan stood in the distance and looked at Zhuo Li. Dong was also beaten by others with his fists and feet, and his light blue school uniform was stained with blood and mud.Xie Chuan could never forget how frightened he was at that moment.

But he didn't want to, when Zhuo Lidong was fighting for a girl, he didn't want to rush up and fight with him.

"Xiao Xie," the voice of a colleague brought Xie Chuan back to reality, "Have you filled out the approval form given to you yesterday?"

"Oh... I'm filling it out," Xie Chuan said, "I'll send it to you in the afternoon."

"Okay, don't forget, Director Cheng will be there tomorrow."

"okay."

Filling out forms, paying accounts, writing speeches to leaders...the daily work is similar, neither easy nor tiring.

On Friday afternoon, Xie Chuan sent Zhuo Lidong a WeChat message: Lidong, shall we have lunch together tomorrow?Okay, let me treat you.

When the other party didn't reply, Xie Chuan put down his phone and continued to fill out the report. The Excel form was colorful and colorful, which made him a little tired.

It wasn't until Xie Chuan came home from get off work and lay on the sofa watching the live broadcast of Glory of Kings after dinner that Zhuo Lidong returned a voice.Xie Chuan clicked on it, and heard his drunken voice: "Chuan Chuan, I want to eat old Yong Chuan!"

Xie Chuan didn't click on this voice a second time, he stared at Zhuo Lidong's profile picture for a long time.

——Old Yongchuan, it is no longer open.

Xie Chuan and Zhuo Lidong grew up in the family courtyard. The full name of the family courtyard is the Sichuan 51 Project Department Family Hospital.Sichuan is a place name. 51 Engineering Office is the name of the engineering team.In the 70s, this engineering team from Sichuan came to Gancheng due to coal mining and took root here.It is a pity that they did not dig out coal in Gancheng, so they could only switch to the construction industry.

Most of the engineering team are from Sichuan. They come from various places in Sichuan. When recruiting workers, they came to Gancheng thousands of miles away with the engineering team.

Luzhou, Yibin, Chongqing (Chongqing was not directly under the central government at that time), Panzhihua... Of course, there were also people from Guizhou, Yunnan, and Hunan in the engineering team...

People in Sichuan love to eat and know how to eat, but they are often not used to the food in the north.So some people from Sichuan opened restaurants in Gancheng, Yibin people, red pepper Sichuan cuisine, old Yongchuan... These large and small restaurants are all opened around the family courtyard, and the Gancheng dialect is heard when walking on the street. When you enter the hotel, what you hear is Sichuan dialect, as if you have come to another world.Among them, Lao Yongchuan is the one with the best taste and the most affordable. Although the area of ​​the back kitchen is only less than [-] square meters, and there is no private room, there are more than ten plastic square tables.When there are many guests during the New Year and holidays, the people at the two tables next to each other are almost back-to-back.

Xie Chuan remembered that at that time Zhuo Lidong loved to eat old Yongchuan's roasted white.Burning white, the method is similar to pickled meat with preserved vegetables, but instead of preserved vegetables, sprouts from Sichuan are used as the bottom dish. Sometimes there are no sprouts, so potherb mustard is used instead.Lao Yongchuan's roasted pork chops are very thinly sliced, [-]% fat and [-]% thin, and the chopsticks will be broken when they are squeezed hard.Carefully pick up a piece of meat, dip it in a circle of salty soup, then wrap it with a handful of chopped sprouts, put it in your mouth, the fat meat will melt in your mouth, and the lean meat will be soft and rotten.After eating the meat, mix the remaining soup and sprouts into the rice, and the grains of white rice are soaked and shiny.

At that time, Zhuo Lidong's father was out of town contracting projects for business, while Zhuo Lidong and his mother stayed in Gancheng.His mother is a person who doesn't do much housework, and cooks perfunctorily, often only cooking rice, and then stocking up a lot of canned fish and fermented bean curd bought in supermarkets at home.Zhuo Lidong didn't like to eat at home, so he often invited Xie Chuan to eat with him at Lao Yongchuan, since he had a lot of pocket money anyway.

Yes, that's right, at that time Zhuo Lidong always treated guests, Xie Chuan was really embarrassed, so he said, how about I help you take the school uniform jacket back and wash it?Zhuo Lidong's mother played cards in the mahjong parlor every day, so naturally she didn't care whether her son's clothes were dirty or not.And adolescent boys don't care much about it.Over time, Zhuo Lidong's school uniform smelled a little heavy of sweat.Zhuo Lidong simply took off the school uniform, and said carelessly: "Great, then wash it for me!"

That was the first time Xie Chuan washed Zhuo Lidong's clothes.At that time, he was 14 years old and his love affair had just begun, and he realized that Zhuo Lidong treated him differently.While his parents were not at home, he secretly washed Zhuo Lidong's school uniform jacket, hand washed, soaped and rubbed carefully, cuffs, elbows, neckline.Rubbing and rubbing my face was a little hot, I felt like a girl in ancient times who stayed at home, embroidered and weaved for the man she had a crush on, and stayed in her boudoir.

With the first time, there will be the second time and the third time.Later, Zhuo Lidong also gave Xie Chuan the changed school uniform and pants.After the trousers were washed and dried, Xie Chuan gently pinched the trousers, and it became hard.

The phone made a "ding" sound, and Xie Chuan shivered.He was pulled out of his memories, and seeing that it was Zhuo Lidong who sent the message, he suddenly felt ashamed.In fact, Xie Chuan justified himself, I really haven't thought about these things for a long time.

Another voice, still drunk: "Chuan Chuan, go eat Lao Yong Chuan! May I treat you?"

Really drunk.

However, Xie Chuan sent back a voice by accident: "Then do you want me to help you do the laundry?"

Zhuo Lidong: "Okay!"

Xie Chuan was stunned for a long time and did not reply.

The next day is Saturday.At noon, Zhuo Lidong called. As soon as he got through, he smiled and said, "I drank too much last night. Hey, the leader here can really drink."

Xie Chuan complimented: "Your company is a big company, they must show that they value it."

Zhuo Lidong: "Go to Lao Yongchuan for dinner tonight?"

Xie Chuan: "Uh..."

Zhuo Lidong smiled again: "It's settled, I'll treat you."

Xie Chuan's face became hot, and he thought that he had listened to last night's speech.

"Lidong," Xie Chuan could only tell the truth, "Old Yongchuan is no longer open."

The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, and then asked: "When?" After asking, I might feel that the tone was too serious, and then smiled and said, "The business is so good, why is it not open?"

"...In the second year after you returned to Sichuan, Aunt Cai was diagnosed with breast cancer, so she stopped the operation." Aunt Cai is the boss of the old Yongchuan, an aunt who wears skirts all year round, it is said that it is to cover her bowed legs.

"Oh...then Aunt Cai..."

"Not long after the cancer was detected, I left." Xie Chuan remembered that they used to eat in Laoyongchuan, and Aunt Cai would always ask the chef to add more meat to them. She said that children need to eat to grow up.

Zhuo Lidong was silent for a few more seconds, then sighed softly: "Then I'll come back after dinner later, I want to take a walk in the yard, and then we go out to eat at night?"

Xie Chuan said, "Okay, call me when you get to the gate."

Ten minutes later, Xie Chuan saw Zhuo Lidong.It was already a little cold in Gancheng in October, when Xie Chuan saw Zhuo Lidong get off the taxi, his eyebrows twitched.

Zhuo Lidong was wearing a pair of light beige suit pants, and his upper body was a simple black jacket with a stand-up collar. His arms were open, revealing the pure white shirt inside.The outfit was handsome enough—and formal enough.

"Xie Chuan." Zhuo Lidong walked towards Xie Chuan.

Xie Chuan said, "It's really handsome."

Zhuo Lidong shrugged with a smile, "I've been wearing this outfit for several days, and I haven't found a dry cleaner near the hotel yet."

Xie Chuan: "I should wear something more formal. It feels like the leader is here for inspection." After finishing speaking, he regretted it, feeling that he was too mean.Zhuo Lidong is now an executive of a big company, powerful, rich, young and handsome, a proper winner in life - if he is willing to go back to this old family courtyard to take a look, isn't it condescending?

However, Zhuo Lidong grabbed Xie Chuan's shoulders and complained like a good buddy: "I can't say enough about you, I can't say enough about you all the time—oh, I really haven't been back for a long time."

Xie Chuan was taken aback by his sudden movement, and was in a trance for a moment.From elementary school to junior high school, Zhuo Lidong always carried him to and from school together, just because they were good brothers.It wasn't until the second year of junior high that Xie Chuan found out that he fell in love with Zhuo Lidong, and when Zhuo Lidong embraced him again, he avoided him with a guilty conscience.

As soon as he entered the gate of the family courtyard, Zhuo Lidong stopped in his tracks.

"The road has widened," he said.

Xie Chuan nodded: "Well, five or six years ago, the courtyard changed a lot." The main road of the family courtyard was directly opposite the gate, and two neat rows of holly were planted on both sides of the main road at that time.Holly, as the name suggests, also has green leaves in winter.In the bleak northern winter, the two rows of holly are almost the only green plants that can be seen.

When Xie Chuan and Zhuo Lidong were young, they often went to play with holly leaves. The small green leaves seemed to be endless, and they were always so dense.

The holly was pulled out, and the soil where the holly was planted turned into a cement road, and the road was indeed much wider.

Zhuo Lidong said again: "The vegetable garden is gone."

At that time, on the left side of the main road, there was a small piece of dirt surrounded by holly within a few steps of entering the door. The lame uncle who was on guard in the security room at the door was planting vegetables in it.It was said that his lameness was caused by a work-related injury, so the engineering team arranged for him to come to the security room to make shifts.Xie Chuan's father used earthworms as fish food when fishing, and he took Xie Chuan and Zhuo Lidong to dig earthworms in the vegetable garden.

"How did uncle get away?" Zhuo Lidong asked suddenly.

Xie Chuan's heart skipped a beat, and he turned to look at Zhuo Lidong.

Zhuo Lidong's eyes fell on the flat concrete floor: "I remember when I was in elementary school, my uncle went to dig earthworms in that vegetable field."

Xie Chuan said in a low voice, "He and my mother had a car accident and left together."